Seattle: Superior Publishing, 1959. Many Illus. 4to, gray cloth, cloth lightly soiled. Seattle: Superior Publishing, (1959). More

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

Nuggets from Many Hidden Veins. 8vo, cloth. Culver City, CA, 1948. More

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

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

8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y., (1945). More

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

Survey of the Coast of the United States, 1853. Sea chart. Engraving. Image measures 14.25 x 16.5". Nice early sea chart of part of the coast of Southern California which includes a plan of Santa Barbara, mission and an inset bird's eye view. Soundings in feet and detailed sailing instructions including to avoiding the thick kelp in winter. Lovely elevation details included with this small chart. Splitting apart along margins of original folds but no tape or repairs. Alexander Dallas..... More

U.S. Coast Survey, 1854. Lithograph with hand coloring. Sheet measures 24.25" x 22.5". Left margin is trimmed just beyond the border of the neat line. Shows some wear along original fold lines. 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. More

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

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

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

illus. square 8vo, boards, d.w.; (boards spotted, d.w. sunned). Doublday, (1951). Juvenile Edition. More