Two volumes, half-calf & green cloth, marbled end papers. 1360pp. (Volume 1 goes to page 744; Volume 2 is pg. 745-1360). All edges gilt. Volume 1 is splitting along the front hinge, both volumes show wear to edges and tips, but covers are all sound; in general a very good set. Map and many illustrations, mostly with tissue guards intact. This is a heavy set which will incur extra postage costs. View More...
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Bloomington: Pantagraph Printing, 1896. First edition.
Seller ID: 57067
Grey cloth designed in black, lettered in gilt on the front cover. Olive green coated end papers. Illustrated. Some small stains to spine and edges of covers, quite a bright very good copy in general. View More...
4to. Dark green cloth, stamped in blind, front cover lettered in gilt. Green end papers. Minor wear to spine ends, a clean very good copy. View More...
Original tan decorative wrappers, designed and lettered in black. 565pp. plus two leaves of ads at the rear. Later sticker of Henry J. Wehman, Song and Book Publisher, covering the imprint on the title page. Modest edge wear, ownership signature on upper front wrapper and fly leaf, a clean very good copy. Advert for Sohmer Pianos on the back cover. Pgs 557 - 565 print an Appendix dated 1888, laying out the various party platforms for that year, for the Democratic, Republican, and Prohibition Parties. WorldCat cites this edition, and another published in Troy the same year (556 pp., so without... View More...
[Berkeley]: Printed by Nancy Menken at the South Hall Press, Winter, 1975. A single leaf, 8 x 11 inches, cream stock printed in black. Fine condition. A small broadside printing of a short prose passage by Chase, chronicler of the California wilderness, who died in 1923. View More...
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Morristown, N.J.: Vogt Bros., (1895). Second Edition.
Seller ID: 55442
Blue cloth designed and lettered in gilt. Olive end papers. Frontispiece & several illustrations. Nicks to upper edge of cloth, a bit of rubbing, generally a clean very good copy. The first edition appeared in 1893; this second edition is revised and expanded, with more illustrations. Biographical writings and samples from the works of many writers associated with Morristown. View More...
This is a collection of twelve colored plates, eight uncolored plates, and one folding plan, all from Volume One of the 1857 boundary survey by Emory. Art is by Arthur Schott. The Color plates are lithographed by Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York. Uncolored plates engraved by Smillie, Dougal, and others. Condition is very good, some short marginal tears in some leaves, foxing to some of the color plates, no significant damage. The color plates are: Noco-Shimatt-Tash-Tanaki Grizzly Bear Seminole Chief // Falls of the Rio Salado // Lipan - Warrior // Pimo Women // Papagos // Co-Co-Pas ... View More...
[California?], 1960. An 8-page booklet, stapled. Some creases, otherwise very good. A short anecdotal history of this august organization, written in a humorous and peculiar style. Reference is made to the bibulous beginnings of the group, but the author notes that in its modern incarnation it is less of a drinking society, and more of a historical one. View More...
Stiff 2-tone decorative wrappers designed and lettered in red. A little edge wear, sunning to fore-edge, a very good copy. "With Typographical Specimen Pages of the Report of Count Rezanov of His Voyage to Nueva California in 1806". 16pp., some specimen pages from this private press book, published by Russell in 1927: Langsdorff's Narrative of the Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806. The cover title includes: The Romance of Hispanic California. View More...
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Topeka-Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Company, 1924. First edition.
Seller ID: 57070
Two Volumes. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, marbled end papers and page edges. Many illustrations. Ownership name in pen on early leaves, spines a bit faded, a clean very good set. This is a heavy set which will require extra postage. View More...
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Los Angeles: Cas. W. Palm Co., 1894. First edition.
Seller ID: 56700
478pp. Small 8vo. Full leather, spine lettered in gilt on a black label. Upper cover nearly loose, spine worn and only part of lower label intact, some scribbling on first few leaves, very good otherwise. Ownership signature of H.G.W. Dinkelspiel on inner covers (presumably Henry George Washington Dinkelspiel, Lawyer, California Legislature 1890-98). Not common in the first edition; a second edition was published in 1899. View More...
A single sheet leaflet measuring 14 x 21.5 cm. Printed in red & black. Fine condition. Prints extracts from two letters dated May 1, 1875 and Jan. 29, 1876, from C.P. Huntington to [David Douty] Colton, relating to John King Luttrell and an upcoming election. This relates to political corruption in California; Huntington was one of the "Big Four" who financed and built the Central Pacific Railroad. Scarce, WorldCat records only two copies in institutions. View More...
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899. Original brown printed wrappers. 38 pages. Office of Naval Intelligence. War Notes No. III. Information From Abroad. Some chipping along spine, small sticker on front cover, a clean very good copy otherwise. Several maps and illustrations throughout. A second part was separately published, but is not present here. View More...
An offprint in original tan printed wrappers. 8 pages paginated [727] - 732. About fine condition. A foot note on the first page states: "A letter from Dr. Francis Lieber, to a member of the New York Constitutional Convention, revised with additions by the author." A scarce offprint. View More...
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Chicago: Historic Prints & Poster Stamps, 1941.
Seller ID: 55534
Pictorial self-wrappers, stapled. 20pp. Sheet of 30 adhesive stamps laid in. Tiny tear at the base of the spine, one stamp a bit damaged from sticking to an adjacent one, fine otherwise. In the original envelope from Lincoln Memorial Univeristy (postage removed), and accompanied by the cover letter from the Lincoln Memorial University, dated 1941. The stamps reproduce the Meserve photographs of Lincoln. View More...
University of California, [1902]. A single leaf 10 x 26 inches, once folded to make a booklet hinged at the top. Cover in color, with the University of California crest in gold. A page of text, and one of Dramatis Personae; the back cover is a stylized monogram. Short tears to edges, splitting horizontally across the middle, but still intact. The program for the 1902 festivities, the granting of diplomas. View More...
Original brown pictorial wrappers, designed and lettered in black. Frontispiece, 35 inserted plates (two are ads), and a large folding map/plan of the city. 15 leaves of ads on yellow paper at the beginning, another 7 at the end; the inner covers are both also ads on yellow paper. Some chipping at spine ends and folds, a few bent page corners towards the end, a very good copy. A popular New York guide first published in 1859; this 1881 edition in wrappers is scarce. The large folding map [27.5 x 15.5 inches] is in excellent condition. View More...
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Hanover: Printed at the Dartmouth Press, 1874.
Seller ID: 55305
Original white wrappers, title in black on front cover. [74]pp. Slight damage to upper spine, fine otherwise. The membership list extends from 1787 through 1874. The list or Orators and Poets includes Oliver W. Holmes. View More...
San Francisco: F.F. Partridge Print, 1910. Pale yellow wrappers printed in black. Paginated [49] through [82]. This is an offprint from the Transactions and Proceedings of The Royal Geographical Society of the Pacific. Vol. VI, Part II. Series II. One bruise to the lower back cover, but a fine copy. View More...
Mallet Creek, O.: J.R. Holcomb & Co., 1878. 40 pages. Original salmon printed wrappers. Some edge wear, wrappers spotted, about very good. Some pencil notes within. A scarce Ohio imprint. View More...
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