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1894 - 1911. Oak map case, 70 by 10-1/4 by 4-1/2 inches. Case mounts to the wall; hinged door opens to hang down and reveal 3 maps on tin rollers. A fourth roller is empty.

Map 1: Lentell's New Railroad, Township & Educational Map of the State of California compiled from the latest official & authentic sources, adapted for use in institutions of learning, business offices, libraries, etc. 1894. 69-3/4 by 62-3/4 inches. Color map with multiple insets and informational tables. OCLC lists one holding at UCLA. Mounted on cloth with tears to the bottom edge in need of repair.

Map 2: Denny's Official Map of the County of Humboldt California showing Township Sections and Property Ownerships compiled from official surveys, Records and Private data, 1911. Edward Denny & Co. San Francisco. 54-1/4 by 72-1/2 inches. Mounted on thin cloth. Inset of Eureka and Humboldt Bay, and inset of California showing counties. Shows Indian Allotments (Dawes Act). With Historical and Descriptive two-column text. Very nice condition. 5-1/4-inch uneven toning along bottom edge. No holdings listed in OCLC.

Map 3: J. N. Lentell Map of Eureka Humboldt County, Cal. 1904. 54 by 57-1/4. One map on four sheets mounted to a cloth backing on tin rollers. Probably made from an earlier map; printed cancels cover the year and several ownership blocks. Showing block and lot numbers. Earliest printing of this map on OCLC is 1888. Lentell was an engineer. 2-inch hole at bottom of map (but not through cloth backing) at border not affecting text. Vertical seam a bit off on top half. ISBN: 281AIB1047404.

Berkeley, CA: Campus Friends of SNCC, [1966]. 2 pages (single sheet, printed both sides). 8-1/2 by 11 inches. In 1966, Stokely Carmichael, a leader and later head of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, set up the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO), in rural Alabama. The group organized the black residents of an overwhelmingly African American region of the state to secure voting rights and elected offices. By state law, the LCFO was required to adopt an emblem. They chose the black panther to contrast with the ruling Democratic Party's white rooster.

This flyer announces an organizational meeting to support the LCFO, emphasizing its informal name, the "Black Panther Party." Huey Newton and Bobby Seale formed their Black Panther Party three months later, on October 15, 1966. Rare with no copies in OCLC (although copies are in the Litwack collection at Yale and the Yuen archive at UC Berkeley). This is one of the first uses of the black panther as a political symbol in the San Francisco Bay Area and directly connects the (mostly white) local SNCC organization with the origins of the Black Power movement. ISBN: 281AIB1021042.

New York: Tennant and Ward, 1900 - 1904. The first 65 issues of the monthly photography magazine that began publication in 1899. Ten leather bound volumes containing six issues each bound without original covers or ads, and five volumes in original printed blue wrappers. Leather volumes 4-3/4 by 7-3/4 inches; paper volumes 5 by 8 inches. Each issued covered a single topic; topics here include Modern Lenses, Flowers and Trees, Home Portraiture, Vacation Photography, The Darkroom, Landscape Photography, and Aerial Photographs. According to camerapedia.wiki: "Due to popular demand many issue numbers were reprinted a number of times and some issue numbers were rewritten and reissued to bring them up to date while they remained in print." The leather-bound volumes are early reprints. Illustrated in black-and-white from drawings, diagrams and photographs. The leather volumes are stamped on the spine with out-of-sequence volume numbers unrelated to the magazine issues which otherwise appear in order. Leather Volume I includes Magazines Volume 1, Nos. 1-6. Leather Volume II includes Magazine Volume 1, Nos. 7-12. Leather Volume III includes Magazine Volume II, Nos. 13-18. Leather Volume IV includes Magazine Volume II, Nos. 19-24. Leather Volume V includes Magazine Volume III, Nos. 25-30. Leather Volume II, Part 2 includes Magazine Volume III, Nos. 31-36. Leather Volume IV, Part 1 includes Magazine Volume IV, Nos. 37-42. Leather Volume IV, Part 2 includes Magazine Volume IV, Nos. 43-48. Leather Volume V, Part 1 includes Magazine Volume V, Nos. 49-54. Leather Volume V Part 2 includes Magazine Volume V, Nos. 55-60. Each paperback volume published separately with original covers and ads, Volumes VI, Nos. 61-65. ISBN: 281AIB1044303.

1862. The collection consists of portraits of all 30 members of the Washington College Class of 1862 (see the Biographical and Historical Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College, pages 395-399). The CDVs are all signed or inscribed, and were presented to classmate T. Milton Todd, who became a doctor in California, which is probably how they ended up on the West Coast. An image of his portrait is attached. Twenty-seven of 30 portraits are full-length poses taken in the same room, which has distinctive carpeting. The other three are head-and-shoulder's portraits. Most of the CDVs have small notations at the top reading "Todd", which suggests that a set was made for each member. Accompanying the 30 CDVs of the Class of 1862, are 8 CDVs of members of other classes from the 1860s; 7 of them are taken in the same room as the class of 1862. We could not immediately identify four additional CDVs, but as three were taken in the same room, they are also probably Washington College students or staff. All four unidentified CVDs are signed, so further research may yield a positive identification. ISBN: 281AIB1017519.

Paris: Imprimerie royale (volume 3: Imprimerie nationale), 1840-1852. The first Western and second-ever publication of the great Kashmiri historical epic, the Rajatarangini, written by the Brahmin Kalhana in the middle of the 12th century. A very scarce and attractive complete set of the first printing of this edition. Three volumes: [vi] xxiv, 584; [iv] 640; [iv] xvi, 723. Published as part of the series Memoires; textes orientaux et traductions publies par la Societe asiatique de Paris. Individual volume titles as follow: Volume 1. Texte sanscrit des six premiers livres et notes [Sanskrit text and notes on the first six books]. Volume 2. Traduction; esquisse geographique et ethnographique du Kachmir ancien et moderne; examen critique des six primiers livres [Translation with geographic and ethnographic sketch of ancient and modern Kashmir, with a critique of the first six books]. Volume 3: Traduction, e claircissements historiques et chronologiques relatifs aux septieme et huitieme livres [Translation and historical and chronological explanation of the seventh and eighth books]. The northern Indian realm of Kashmir was an important center of Hinduism and later of Buddhism, and both subjects are treated in the Rajatarangini, making it an important source for the study of the history of the two religions. The original text of the Rajatarangini consists of eight books. The first three books trace the history of Kashmir from the legendary the times of the Hindu deity Krishna to the ninth century. In the remaining five books, Kalhana recounts the history from the Utpala dynasty (beginning in 855 a.d.) to Kalhana's own time. As an innovative historian, Kalhana drew upon written records, oral histories of the royal courts, and historical inscriptions carved on temples and statues. In the mid-1830s, the Calcutta Baptist Mission Press undertook a project to print the ancient Sanskrit epics for the first time, including an edition of the first six books of the Rajatarangini. Anthony Troyer, a British captain with a talent for languages, acquired a copy of the Calcutta edition and returned with it to Europe in 1835. Over the next five years, he corrected that edition and then reprinted it in Sanskrit with copious notes in French, which were published as volume one of this edition. Troyer's second volume included a translation of the first six books into French (apparently the first European translation of Kalhana's history). He had planned to provide a translation of books seven and eight at the same time, but the manuscript he requested from India went missing and other events conspired to delay publication until 1852. Volume three, which, due to the delay, is often missing from the set, is entirely devoted to a French translation of the final two books of Kalhana's text. ISBN: B00404S3OW.

(Colorado Springs): Gauntlet Press, 2008. 287 pages. Edited by Donn Albright. Masks was a novel Bradbury worked on in the last 1940s and early 1950s and then abandoned. He submitted a portion of the novel as part of a grant application; that draft forms the basis of this edition, with Albright editing together various fragments of surviving drafts. This collection also includes six short stories written at the same time but never before published: “Walker in the Night”, “The Drothldo”, “The Dancing Magician” (aka “Gallagher the Great”), “In the Eye of the Beholder”, “The Face of Natalie”, and “They Never Got Mad.”

This lettered edition includes an alternate draft of “Walker in the Night” and another previously unpublished story fragment, "A Study in Bronze." There are surprisingly few library holdings, with just 6 libraries listed on OCLC. The edition was limited to 552 copies, all signed by Bradbury. ISBN: 281AIB1040011.