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Humboldt, California
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1853. George Gibbs traveled to northwestern California in 1851 on an expedition to negotiate treaties with Indian tribes along the rapidly developing Pacific Coast. He arrived in Humboldt County on September 9 and stayed several weeks. He sketched two canoes on Humboldt Bay, with the settlement called Humboldt (just north of present-day King Salmon) visible in the background. This scene was sketched by Gibbs, then redrawn by the artist Seth Eastman for inclusion in Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's Historical and Statistical Information Regarding the History, Conditions, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1853]. ISBN: 281AIB1021321.
A large-margined copy (12-1/2 by 9-1/2 inches); with modern handcolor.
Book ID: 94740More details Price: $125.00 -
Scene on the Klamath Rivers, Humboldt Co., California
Arcata, CA: A. W. Ericson, (n.d. but ca. 1890). View of the river with town in the background. ISBN: 281AIB0098836.
9 by 7 inch photograph on a 14 by 11 inch mount. Printed title on the mount in san serif typeface; no mark on back; probably a ca. 1920 print of an earlier image.
Book ID: 49973More details Price: $125.00 -
American Places
First Edition
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1981. 224 pages. 10-3/4 by 12-3/8 inches. Essays on the human and natural histories of the United States, ranging from Maine to the plains and the Rockies to the Pacific Northwest. Illustrated with 96 color photo reproductions by nature photographer Eliot Porter. ISBN: 9780525053903.
First edition (first printing). Spotted at the edges, thus a near fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to a fellow writer: "For Howard Lachtman, from his friend / Wallace Stegner." A large, heavy book.
Book ID: 178547More details Price: $125.00 -
Houses & letters: A heritage in architecture & calligraphy
Bond Wheelwright Co, 1977. ISBN: 9780870271830.
Very Good
Book ID: 16858More details Price: $100.00 -
[Group of Trees Near Fort Gaston Buildings on Hoopa Valley Reservation (Humboldt State University caption)]
Very good. Medium contrast image; mount with a few small stains and two pin holes in the corners. Dated based on mount legend type style (Palmquist logo style I).
Book ID: 200594More details Price: $95.00 -
The Morphology of the Hupa Language (American Archaeology and Ethnology, Volume 3)
First Edition
Berkeley: University of California Publications, 1905. 344 pages. A study of the Native American language of the tribe in Humboldt County, California. ISBN: B0006AE3R0.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy; no dust jacket. An ex-library copy, with typical markings. Rebound with printed paper label on the spine.
Book ID: 49983More details Price: $93.75 -
Book with Handpainted Cover
Ferndale, CA: 1980s?. Hobart Brown (1934-2007) was the glorious founder of the Kinetic Sculpture Race in Humboldt County (and now in other locations as well). At his gallery in Ferndale, California, he made welded brass sculptures and marvellous Rube Goldberg-esque vehicles. This book comes from his studio library, which was dispersed after his death. ISBN: 281AIB1040992.
This book is The World of Henri Rousseau (1982). Brown has removed the dust jacket and on the cloth cover he has painted in black and white, the Kinetic eagle as well as the caption, "For Hobart Gift From Ann--Wonderful Ann." With the Hobart Galleries stamp: "If this item is in your collection, you are a crook."
Book ID: 206925More details Price: $85.00 -
Book with Handpainted Cover
Ferndale, CA: 1980s?. Hobart Brown (1934-2007) was the glorious founder of the Kinetic Sculpture Race in Humboldt County (and now in other locations as well). At his gallery in Ferndale, California, he made welded brass sculptures and marvellous Rube Goldberg-esque vehicles. This book comes from his studio library, which was dispersed after his death. ISBN: 281AIB1040992.
This book is Van Gogh: A Retrospective (1986). Brown has removed the dust jacket and on the cloth cover he has painted in black and white, the Kinetic eagle and "Hobart Galleries." With the Hobart Galleries stamp: "If this item is in your collection, you are a crook."
Book ID: 206927More details Price: $85.00 -
Souvenir of Humboldt County: Being a Frank, Fair, and Accurate Exposition, Pictorially and Otherwise, of the Resources, Industries and Possibilities of this Magnificent Section of California
Eureka, CA: Times Publishing Company, 1902. 192 pages. Oblong, 11-1/2 by 8 inches. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photograph reproductions. ISBN: 281AIB0023453.
Very Good
Book ID: 227186More details Price: $85.00 -
Arcata Photo Album
. ISBN: 281AIB1015606.
Very Good
Book ID: 71961More details Price: $75.00 -
The Humboldt Bay Region: A Study in the American Colonization of California.
Los Angeles: The California State Historical Association, 1929. 346 pages. One of the key works on Humboldt County history. ISBN: B0000EEKF8.
Near Fine
Book ID: 263308More details Price: $75.00 -
The Humboldt Bay Region: A Study in the American Colonization of California.
Los Angeles: The California State Historical Association, 1929. 346 pages. One of the key works on Humboldt County history. ISBN: B0000EEKF8.
Very Good
Book ID: 248281More details Price: $75.00 -
Hoopa Valley Wagon Road, California. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting an Estimate from the Secretary of the Interior of an Appropriation for the Construction of a Wagon Road from the Hoopa Valley Agency to the Southern Boundary of the Hoopa Valley Reservation, California
First Edition
Washington, D.C: House of Representatives, 1887. 4 pages. Folding map, Map of Route from Arcata to Hoopa Valley Agency, Cal., present. 18 x 9.5 inches. ISBN: 281AIB1025716.
First edition (first printing). Extracted and stapled. Map near fine.
Book ID: 114381More details Price: $75.00 -
Life and Culture of the Hupa
First Edition
Berkeley: The University Press, 19032. 88 pages with folding map and 29 B/W photographic plates separated with captioned wax paper guard. ISBN: 281AIB1050075.
First edition (first printing). Very good in original printed wrappers. Covers are worn and chipped at the edges. Spine has been reinforced with white tape extending onto covers. Title page has library label removed with significant damage to 'Contents' and 'List of Plates' lists. Plates and text are very good.
Book ID: 266280More details Price: $75.00 -
Sail and Steam on the Northern California Coast 1850-1900
First Edition
San Francisco: National Maritime Museum Association, 1983. 351 pages, including the index. A compilation of new accounts of ships that were built or plied the waters of Northern California. ISBN: 9780960518203.
Inscribed by the author on half-title page. A very good copy in a good dust jacket. Some spotting with loss of color to portions of spine and upper covers. Clear tape repair of torn rear dust jacket. Still a nice copy.
Book ID: 260877More details Price: $60.00 -
Humboldt Wild
Pratt Mtn. Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780979819612.
A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A new copy.
Book ID: 224351More details Price: $59.99 -
The North Fork of the Smith River: A Whitewater Photo Guidebook
Eugene, Oregon: Andrew Coit, 2012. ISBN: 281AIB0094628.
Very Good
Book ID: 49046More details Price: $55.00 -
The Quest for Qual-a-Wa-Loo (Humboldt Bay)--a Collection of Diaries and Historical Notes Pertaining to the Early Discoveries of the Area Now Known As Humboldt County, California
San Francisco: (the authors), 1943. 190 pages. "Adventures of the rugged pioneers who fought their way against hostile Indians, through forbidding forests, over high mountains, to the Discovery of Humboldt Bay, California 1850 from the land side" -- from the jacket cover. ISBN: B00EWH2HE4.
Very Good
Book ID: 263672More details Price: $50.00 -
The Quest for Qual-a-Wa-Loo (Humboldt Bay)--a Collection of Diaries and Historical Notes Pertaining to the Early Discoveries of the Area Now Known As Humboldt County, California
San Francisco: (the authors), 1943. 190 pages. "Adventures of the rugged pioneers who fought their way against hostile Indians, through forbidding forests, over high mountains, to the Discovery of Humboldt Bay, California 1850 from the land side" -- from the jacket cover. ISBN: B00EWH2HE4.
Very Good
Book ID: 260863More details Price: $50.00 -
The Hupa White Deerskin Dance. University of California Publication in American Archaeology and Ethnology Vol. 35, No. 8.
First Edition
Berkeley: University of California, 1940. Pp. [iv], 103-134, plus four plates (reproducing 12 photographs). An account of the 1935 and 1937 dances. The White Deerskin Dance is the Hupa tribe's world renewal ceremony. Despite some fits and starts in the early twentieth century, when federal influence over the tribe was greatest, the dance has been continuously celebrated up to the present day. ISBN: B00BYJ8A94.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Small, light stains to cover.
Book ID: 52682More details Price: $50.00