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Three California Schoolhouse Maps with Oak Map Case: Lentell's Map of California, 1894 / Denny's Official Map of the County of Humboldt California, 1911 / J. N. Lentell Map of Eureka Humboldt County, Cal., 1904
Oak case in nearly fine condition. Several screw holes to rear panel for mounting. Eye hook latches on sides secure door when closed. **Please contact the store for shipping options**
Book ID: 261966More details Price: $5,000.00 -
Distance Table 6. Book of Maps [Cover Title]
First Edition
(N. Pl. but San Francisco): Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, 1967. 33 maps. 23 x 17-1/4 inches. Table of Contents divided into: Sectional Maps (4); Metropolitan Area Maps (3); Composite Map (1); Zone Maps: San Francisco Area (12 ), Los Angeles Area ((6), San Diego Area (2); and Extended Area Maps (5). Scarce, WorldCat locates 3 copies. ISBN: 281AIB1049007.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in 4-bolted quarter cloth over paper-covered boards as issued, paste-down cover label on front board. Covers with some mild soiling and scuffing. Maps are near fine.
Book ID: 264467More details Price: $1,000.00 -
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Noticia de la California y de su conquista temporal y espiritual hasta el tiempo presente. Sacada de la historia manuscrita, formada en Mexico ano de 1739 [3 volumes]
Mexico: L. Alvarez y Alvarez de la Cadena [Editorial Layac], 1943-1944. Three volumes. 169, 348, 255 pages, plus six folding maps (2 in vol. 2 and 4 in volume 3). A reprint of the 1757 original, newly typeset with decorative chapter headings. Volume 3 includes texts by Andres Marcos Burriel, Sebastian Vizcaino, and Ferdinand Konsag, as did the original. An attractive and scarce reprint of a hard-to-obtain Zamorano 80 title (no. 78), published during the Second World War, with maps not included in the original. The book mostly relates to Baja California. ISBN: 281AIB1030883.
Spotting to spine of volume two; one map with a tear in the margin, repaired on the verso (back) with tape. A nice set, seldom encountered. [JSP01]
Book ID: 139981More details Price: $400.00 -
California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State
First Edition
Clovis, California: Word Dancer Press, (1998). 1676 pages. ISBN: 9781884995149.
First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in illustrated covers. No dust jacket.
Book ID: 260886More details Price: $400.00 -
Looters of the Public Domain... Embracing a Complete Exposure of the Fraudulent System of Acquiring Titles to the Public Lands of the United States
First Edition
First edition (first printing). Rear hinge cracked, front hinge starting, cloth worn at base of spine, thus good only, but believe it or not, better than usual for this title. [JSP01]
Book ID: 67814More details Price: $325.00 -
In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: A Story of Two Girls in Indian Country in 1908-1909
First Edition
Vantage Press, 1957. 313 pages. In 1908 two New York women (who were also life partners) set off for the Karuk tribe in far Northern California acting as Federal Field Agents. Their mission to bring Native Americans into the 20th Century would forever change their lives. ISBN: 281AIB0094989.
Stated first edition. Gray cloth covers with black lettering to spine. Binding tight. Some offsetting to endpapers. Contents fine. In a dust jacket with light scuffing to the covers and short tears to the spine ends.
Book ID: 49108More details Price: $250.00 -
Before the Gringo Came
First Edition
New York: J. Selwin Tait & sons, 1894. 306 pages plus ads. Eleven stories of old California. Atherton included many of these stories in her Zamorano 80 collection published a few years later, The Splendid Idle Forties. ISBN: B0006AEBA4.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in the publisher's gray cloth. One ad page at rear. A particularly nice copy of a less-than-common book.
Book ID: 198508More details Price: $250.00 -
Davis' Commercial Encyclopedia of the Pacific Southwest: California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona
Berkeley, CA: Ellis A. Davis, 1911. ISBN: 281AIB0134875.
Very Good
Book ID: 61053More details Price: $250.00 -
In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: A Story of Two Girls in Indian Country in 1908-1909
First Edition
Vantage Press, 1957. 313 pages. In 1908 two New York women (who were also life partners) set off for the Karuk tribe in far Northern California acting as Federal Field Agents. Their mission to bring Native Americans into the 20th Century would forever change their lives. ISBN: 281AIB0094989.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a dust jacket with uneven fading and creased tears to the cover, and toning to the folds and edges. Former owner's name on front pastedown.
Book ID: 168023More details Price: $200.00 -
Seeking the Golden Fleece; A Record of Pioneer Life in California: To Which Is Annexed Footprints of Early Navigators, Other Than Spanish, in California; with An Account of the Voyage of the Schooner Dolphin
First Edition
San Francisco: A. Roman and Co, 1877. 352 pages. Frontispiece plus three plates. ISBN: B004XUBD04.
First edition (first printing). Purple spine faded to brown; rebacked, with the original spine laid down; endpapers renewed.
Book ID: 49098More details Price: $200.00 -
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History of the State of California and Biographical Record of Coast Counties, California: An Historical Study of the State's Marvelous Growth from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [Preface dated December 1904]
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Co, 1904. 1500 pages. A history of California with biographies of leading citizens with photographic reproductions of many of them. ISBN: 281AIB1039399.
Very Good
Book ID: 200002More details Price: $200.00 -
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Denver, the Man: The Life, Letters and Public Papers of the Lawyer, Soldier and Statesman [Autograph edition]
First Edition
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy, no dust jacket. A bit of wear to the spine ends and small scuffs to the rear cover. Signed letter by Denver in printed envelope affixed to front free endpaper. The letter in this copy was written in 1870 regarding a land patent in Santa Cruz, California. At the time the letter was written, Denver was an attorney in private practice in Washington, DC.
Book ID: 16874More details Price: $175.00 -
In Remembrance Joseph Henry Jackson
First Edition
[San Francisco]: The Book Club of California, 1955. A single sheet folded to make four pages; printed on one page only. A short memorial resolution adopted by the club after Jackson's death. Reportedly (per OCLC) only of 20 copies printed by the Allen Press. Paper watermarked Richard de Bas. The Allens printed a book for the club in 1952 on de Bas's paper. ISBN: 281AIB1021988.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 97339More details Price: $156.25 -
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875. 308 pages. This is a geological history of the Sierras and recounts King's experiences as a mountain climber and a member of the Whitney expedition. A classic of mountaineering that stands out for having been so well written. Folded map opposite title page. Howes K-148. ISBN: 281AIB1047266.
Later edition. A very good copy in marbled paper over boards and leather covers with gold lettering and decorations on spine. 5 bands on spine. Mild wear to edges and corners. TEG
Book ID: 260946More details Price: $125.00 -
Davis' Commercial Encyclopedia of the Pacific Southwest: California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona
Berekely, CA: Ellis A. Davis, 1914. ISBN: 281AIB0134883.
Very Good
Book ID: 61052More details Price: $125.00 -
Passing Farms, Enduring Values: California's Santa Clara Valley
First Edition
Los Altos: William Kaufmann, Inc, 1984. 240 pages followed by an index. Oblong, 11-1/4 by 9-1/4 inches. Foreward by Wallace Stegner. The agricultural history of today's Silicon Valley. Profusely illustrated, mostly in black-and-white. ISBN: 9780865760455.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Signed by the author. Spotting to page block and inside jacket flap, jacket corners a bit worn. Book has gentle bend. From the collection of Stegner scholar and collector Maurice Dunbar, with Dunbar's bookplate on the front pastedown. Photo of Stegner tipped in on the at the Foreword, with Dunbar's neat hand-written caption, dated February 19, 1989. Signed by Stegner on the final Foreward page. Colberg B146.
Book ID: 178528More details Price: $106.25 -
Spanish Colonial or Adobe Architecture of California 1800-1850
First Edition
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, Inc, (1931). 110 pages. The book presents a full descrition of the Monterey-type house and demonstrates that the style was not Spanish but an adaptation of the mission architecture by New England pioneers on the coast. Well illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates and drawings. ISBN: 281AIB1047222.
Signed by the authors on front pastedown and dated June 7, 1931. A very good copy in orange cloth with slight edge wear. Newspaper notice pasted on front free endpaper. Dust jacket poor with edge and corner chips, large chip missing from upper front cover, not affecting title, and portions of spine missing.
Book ID: 260888More details Price: $100.00 -
A Journey to California With Observatiuons about the Country, Climate and The Route to this Country
First Edition
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1937. 48 pages. Day-by-day record of the journey from May 18, 1841, to November 6, 1841. ISBN: B00085UR78.
Signed by John Henry Nash and Herbert Ingram Priestly on front pastedown. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Bancroft Library bookplate on front pastedown with withdrawal stamp.
Book ID: 260770More details Price: $100.00 -
California and Californians. (Four Volume Set)
First Edition
San Francisco: The Lewis Publishing Co, 1932. Four Volume Set: 569, 590, 580, 579 pages. Volume I: The Hispanic Period; Volume II: California: An American Commonwealth; Volume III & IV: Biographies, with B/W illustrations, many with tissue guards. ISBN: B0008743JE.
First edition (first printing). Very good copies uniformly bound in brown embossed illustrated covers. Marbled page edges. Decorated endpapers. Edge and corner wear. Bottom spine edges worn.
Book ID: 265021More details Price: $80.00 -
Spanish Colonial or Adobe Architecture of California 1800-1850
First Edition
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, Inc, (1931). 110 pages. The book presents a full descrition of the Monterey-type house and demonstrates that the style was not Spanish but an adaptation of the mission architecture by New England pioneers on the coast. Well illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates and drawings. ISBN: 281AIB1047222.
Signed by the authors on front pastedown. A very good copy in orange cloth covers with black lettering. Spine slightly faded. No dust jacket.
Book ID: 261040More details Price: $80.00
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