Pacific Slope Railroads, from 1854 to 1900.
Seattle: Superior Publishing, 1959. Many Illus. 4to, gray cloth, cloth lightly soiled. Seattle: Superior Publishing, (1959). More
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Private Gold Coinage of California, 1849-55, Its History and Its Issues.
Stackpole. Many black & white plates. 110pp., slim small 4to, black cloth n.p., (Stackpole, 1970). Reprint of the original 1913 edition. Near Fine. More
El Atlas Abreviado, o Compendiosa Geographia del Mundo Antiguo, y Nuevo.
Antwerp: Henrico y Cornelio Verdussen, 1709. 42 maps with original hand color, including elaborate "Plani-Spherium Coeleste." Colored frontispiece (split along right margin of plate). 232 pages, slight water staining on lower right of pages. 12mo, original brown calf (corners rubbed), tan leather label. Antwerp: Henrico y Cornelio Verdussen, 1709. Third edition. Very good (+). This very rare pocket atlas describes the world at the end of the 17th century. Published in the former Spanish Netherland by the Catholic cleric Don..... More
Hearst Castle: San Simeon.
New York: Harrison House, 1981. Heavily illustrated in color and black and white. 240 pages, 4to, yellowish cloth, d.w. New York: Harrison House, (1981). Reprint. Spine ends a bit bumped and rear hinge re-enforced, still about very good. More
The Great Houses of San Francisco.
200 illus., 8 in color. square 8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Arch Cape, (1987). vg. More
California Jubilee.
Nuggets from Many Hidden Veins. 8vo, cloth. Culver City, CA, 1948. More
Stanford; From the Foothills to the Bay.
many color and b/w illus. 4to, cloth, d.w. Stanford: Stanford Alumni Assoc., (1980). vg. More
El Alisal; Where History Lingers
Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1994. Illus. 8vo, pr. wrs. Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, (1994). Near Fine Biography of Charles Fletcher Lummis and his home. More
California; An Intimate History.
New York: Harper, 1914. Illus. 8vo, original red cloth, spine sunned and lightly dampstained, ex-lib, corners bumped. New York: Harper, 1914. More
Golden Gate Country.
8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y., (1945). More
My San Francisco; A Wayward Biography.
illus. 8vo, cloth; (spine ends slightly worn). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1946). More
The Lands of the Sun
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. Illus. xiii, 214pp. 8vo, blue cloth, lightly soiled and slightly chipped d.w., pencil notations on margin of last text page and last blank page. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. On California. The Sierra Edition. More
Bancroft's Tourist Guide. The Geysers. San Francisco and Around the Bay, (North.)
San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft, 1871. 227pp. 79pp. of ads, 2 plates. 18mo, modern green cloth, part of original back and front wrs. preserved on covers. San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft, 1871. First Edition. More
History of California, 1542 - 1890.
Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, 1963. Illustrated with maps. 7 volumes. Thick 8vos, original buckram, d.w. (d.w. torn on back portion of volume I, d.w. lightly soiled on volume I, otherwise very good). Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, (1963-1970). The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, volumes XVIII-XXIV. Facsimile edition of the first American edition. "Colossal co-operative undertaking; nothing approaching it has ever been attempted in this country." Howes B-91. More
Big Dreams: Into the Heart of California
New York: Pantheon, 1994. 546 pages, thick 8vo, green cloth-backed boards, d.w.; dust wrapper a little dusty. New York: Pantheon Books, (1994). A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. More
Dreamers Of The Valley; A Portrait of the Napa Valley.
8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Scribner, (1995). vg. More
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 564 illustrations, with 402 in full color. 352pp. Thick 4to, pictorial boads, d.w. Berkeley: University of California Press, (2000). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. With essays by Stephanie Barron, Sher Bernstein, Michael Dear, Howard N. Fox, and Richard Rodriguez. More
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 564 illustrations, with 402 in full color. 352pp. Thick 4to, pictorial boads, d.w. Berkeley: University of California Press, (2000). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. With essays by Stephanie Barron, Sher Bernstein, Michael Dear, Howard N. Fox, and Richard Rodriguez. More
Notes of a Tour in Mexico and California
New York: Privately Printed, 1887. viii, 167pp. 12mo, rebound in modern blue cloth, leather label, with green cloth from original front cover mounted on front cover, some margins lightly soiled, otherwise very good. New York: Burr Printing House, 1887. First Edition Printed for private distribution.The first hundred pages are of a tour in Mexico. Author also visited San Francisco, the Napa Valley, Monterey, and Salt Lake City. More
American Ecclesiastes; The Stories of James Pattie
San Diego: Harcourt, 1984. Illus. 8vo, 1/2 brown cloth, d.w. chipped. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1984). More
A Sketch of the Life of Com. Robert F. Stockton
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856. With an Appendix, Comprising His Correspondence with the Navy Department respecting His Conquest of California...Together with His Speeches in the Senate of the United States, and His Political Letters. Frontis. 131pp. + 2pp. of publisher's ads. 8vo, rebound in modern 3/4 brown morocco, back cover lightly soiled on cloth, scattered light foxing including Frontis. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856. First Edition. Howes B-259. Sabin 91904. More
Beautiful California.
304 illus., some in color. 4to, cloth, d.w. Menlo Park, 1963. More
Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Peformed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom...in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28.
A New Edition. 3 maps, 2 folding, 1 double-page. 23 plates, 4 of which are lithographs and double-page. 2 vols. 8vo, modern 3/4 calf, gilt spines; (head of spine of volume I worn and calf covers rubbed, back corner of volume II lightly worn, otherwise very good). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. Second Octavo Edition. Internally a bright and tight copy. "Beechey account includes details on the Bounty mutiny taken from the narrative of John Adams, the last..... More
The First Baby in Camp; A Full Account of the Scenes and Adventures during the Pioneer Days of `49
Salt Lake City: Rancher Publishing, 1893. 68pp. + 1 page of a publisher's ad. 12mo, original pink pr. wrs., spine expertly rebacked in new maroon cloth, back wrapper and a few pages lightly soiled, tear in back wrapper expertly repaired, back wrapper lightly creased, some pages at end lightly creased in upper right corner margin. Salt Lake City: Rancher Publishing, 1893. First Edition Pages 14-66 are on staging in 1849 in California including the Pony Express. "Pictures 22 x 28..... More
From Kapuvar to California, 1893; Travel Letters of Baron Gustav von Berg.
Ed. by Henry Miller Madden. illus. 73pp. 4to, 1/2 cloth. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1979. vg One of 500 copies. More