Pacific Slope Railroads, from 1854 to 1900.
Seattle: Superior Publishing, 1959. Many Illus. 4to, gray cloth, cloth lightly soiled. Seattle: Superior Publishing, (1959). More
CALIFORNIA
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. Chip to left margin of map 33. 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..... 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
Empire of Deceit
Garden City: Doubleday, 1985. 377 pages. 8vo, green cloth-backed boards, d.w. (edgeworn and toned, inked at rear flap). Garden City: Doubleday, 1985. First Edition. Cloth worn at head and tail, still internally clean and tight. Very good in a good dust wrapper. More
The Chumash Indians of Southern California
Banning: Malki Museum, 1968. Illustrated. 15 pages, thin 12mo, pictorial wrappers; residue of price sticker on front cover, minor bumping to lower corner. Banning: Malki Museum Press, (1968). A very good(+) copy. Malki Museum Brochure No. 4. 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
Asher and Adams' California & Nevada. North Portion. Asher and Adams' California & Nevada. South Portion.
New York: Asher & Adams, 1872. Set of 2 Maps. Lithograph original hand coloring. Each sheet measures 17 1/2 x 24". This interesting pair of maps depict the States of California and Nevada divided on two separate sheets. With special focus on the developing railroad systems, the maps show early counties not yet present, including Orange, Riverside and Imperial. Early railroad lines, including the Napa Valley and the California Pacific Railroad, the Bloomfield Railroad, the Visalia Railroad, the Stockton Railroad..... 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
Pacific Coast from Point Pinos to Bodega Head California; San Francisco Bay Area
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866. Map. Uncolored lithograph. Sheet measures 41.75" x 30.5". This exceptional sea chart issued by the United States Coast Survey in 1866 beautifully depicts the San Francisco Bay. The chart extends from Point Pinos and Monterey Bay northward to Bodega Bay and includes the whole of San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay. Offers inland detail along the coast and details the city of San Francisco. Oakland, Napa, Petaluma, Brooklyn, Union City, Vallejo, Redwood City, Alviso..... More
Reconnaissance of the Western Coast of the United States from San Francisco to San Diego
U.S. Coast Survey, 1853. Sea chart. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 22.75" x 22.75". Great sea chart of the coast of California. Includes various data such as "General Sailing Directions from San Francisco to San Diego", topographical views of the coast line and notes on the tides. Some discoloration along folds, otherwise in very good condition. Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an incredibly prolific surveyor, who worked as the superintendent of the United States Coast Survey from 1843 to 1865. Over..... More
Architecture of the California Missions
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1958. Illustrated in black and white. 196 pages. 4to, brown cloth. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1958. A very good copy-- sunned boards. Ex libris. With gift inscription on front endpaper. 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