Los Angeles: Western Litho, [1923]. [74]pp. Oblong quarto [23 cm x 30 cm] Color illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Los Angeles area view book that contain 67 full-page captioned views of attractions, sites, and city scenes. Work opens with a four page description of the Al Malaikah's Los Angeles Temple and..... More
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. First Edition. 2 volumes. 472, 452pp. Octavos [22.5 cm] Contemporary 1/2 leather over marbled boards with the titles gilt stamped on the backstrip. Marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Both volumes very good. Exterior hinge of volume one's front board splitting. All three fold-outs are..... More
San Francisco: 1884. 40pp. Octavo [22 cm] Previously bound with stab holes at spine. Very good. California land promotion with sections titled: 'Description of San Luis Obispo County' - 'The Sacramento Valley and Tributary Country' - 'Amador County' - 'Butte County' - 'Colusa County' - 'El Dorado County' - 'Lake..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880. First Edition. 448pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Green cloth with gilt titles and designs and the front board and backstrip. New endsheets and pastedowns. Very good. Small library stamp on the title page and the final page of text. Small deaccession stamp on the..... More
Sacramento: California Alaska-Yukon Exposition Commission, 1909. 172pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with nice color illustrated panels laid over. Very good. Bookplate on the front free endsheet. Work touting the Golden State that was produced for the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exhibition that was held in Seattle in 1909. Printed by..... More
Santa Ana, CA: The Fine Arts Press, 1937. First Edition. 2 volume set. 273, 352pp. Quarto [25.5 cm] 1/2 brown leather over brown boards with the titles gilt stamped on the backstrips. Near fine. Translated, edited, and annotated by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur. Foreword by Frederick Webb Hodge. The author of..... More
Berkeley, CA: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1966. First Edition. 118pp. Folio [36 cm] Full green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine. The discovery of gold on the American River, east of Sacramento, on January 24, 1848, caused Stockton to transform from a small settlement..... More
San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1919. 372pp. Quarto [26 cm] 1/4 brown cloth over gray boards with a paper label on the backstrip. Very good. Minor wear to boards with the front hinge starting. Fold-out present at the rear with a closed tear. Complete with all ten colored tipped in..... More
Sacramento, CA: State Office, James J. Ayers, 1886. First Editions. 2 volume set. 662, 672pp. Octavos [23 cm] Brown cloth with the titles gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Both volumes about very good. Crown of volume 1 is bumped with a short tear to the head of..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California [Grabhorn Press], 1950. First Edition. 154pp. Folio [31 cm] 1/2 Red leather over decorative paper boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine. Prospectus laid in. Printed in an edition of 375 copies by the Grabhorn Press. Major scholarly work that..... More
San Francisco: Sunset Photo-Engraving Company, (c.1902). 33 Magic Lantern Slides. Silver gelatin glass positives [8 cm x 10.5 cm] / [3" x 4"] Typed and manuscript labels. Five images cracked through the center. - Orange Groves - Onion Fields, San Joaquin - Cabbage Fields, San Joaquin - Knocking Almonds -..... More
San Francisco: Stone Educational Company, 1898. First Edition. 67pp. Octavos [20.5 cm] Gray cloth with red and black stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Better than very good. Abbreviated edition of Hittell's four volume work, which Cowan stated was "the best history of California within reasonable proportions." Howes..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. First Edition. 490+[4]pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Gray cloth with the title on the front board and backstrip and gilt flowers on the front board. Floral endsheets and pastedowns. About very good. Backstrip faded with subtle rubbing to boards. Contemporary gift inscription on the front free endsheet..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1911. 547pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Light blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Desert scene and title gilt stamped on the front board. Very good. Gentle age toning to the backstrip. Short gift inscription, dated the year of publication, in ink on..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [Plantin Press], 1967. 1/450. Folio [37 cm] Gray cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Prospectus laid in. This edition was limited to 450 copies and printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at their Plantin Press..... More
Sacramento, CA: J.D. Young, Supt. State Printing, 1888. First Edition. 96pp. Octavo [23 cm] Black pebbled cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Color lithograph frontispiece present. About very good. Minor wear to boards. Stamp on front pastedown. In the 1880s citrus was the dominant crop in..... More
New York: Readex Microprint Corporation, 1966. 498pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Grained burgundy buckram with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip and front board. Near fine. Facsimile printing of the classic travel narrative that describes in highly dramatic fashion the adventures and misadventures of a California-bound emigrant party of 49ers..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1944. First Edition. 337pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red cloth with the title stamped in black on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Faint offsetting to pastedowns and endsheets from former jacket protecter. This work provides an historical and cultural background for the prewar..... More
Chicago: Belford-Clarke Co., Publishers, 1890. 253pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Tan beveled boards with the title and author gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. About very good. Corners of boards gently bumped and rubbed. Library bookplate on the front pastedown. Lacks the rear free endsheet. Blind ownership embossment on..... More
[San Diego]: Home Federal Savings and Loan Association, 1973. Map [95 cm x 62 cm] / [37.5" x 24.5"] printed in vibrant color. Slight discoloration to the upper right corner, otherwise bright and nice. Killer pictorial map of California. More
Mexico City: Don Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros, 1786. 344pp. Small quarto [20 cm] Full period leather with gilt stamped bands, author, and partial title on the backstrip. Very good. Gentle overall wear. p. 39/40 damaged at the fore-edge affecting some text - facsimile of 39/40 laid in after. Folding-map..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. First Edition. 227pp. Quarto [31 cm] Tan beveled cloth boards with the title on the front board and backstrip. Near fine in a very good jacket, that has a few small chips. Housed in the original slipcase that shows minor wear..... More
Los Angeles: Pierce & McConnell, (c.1893). Boudoir cabinet card. Albumen photograph [19 cm x 11.5 cm] / [7.5 " x 4.5"] on a black 'Pierce & McConnell' mount [21.5 cm x 13.5 cm] / [8.5" x 5.25"]. Gray back with a lengthy printed description of Southern California (from the Chamber..... More
Topeka, KS: 1901. First Edition. 627pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Pictorial stamping to front board and backstrip. Near fine. 'Map Showing Lines of the Great Overland Stage Route, The Santa Fe Trail, Butterfield Overland Dispatch, Mormon Route of..... More
Los Angeles: Western Litho, [1919]. [78]pp. Oblong quarto [23 cm x 30 cm] Yapp style color illustrated wrappers. Very good. Fore edge of wrappers bumped. Minor overall wear. Los Angeles area view book that contains 60 pages of captioned views of attractions, sites, and city scenes. Opening of work contains..... More