San Francisco: [printed by Louis Roesch], 1899. Hardcover. 8vo. (iv),450,(ii),xlviii pp. Contemporary half leather. Spine in 5 compartments with raised bands; gilt titles; pebble-grain maroon cloth boards; marbled endpapers. Three folding maps; two-sided frontispiece; illustrated chiefly with b&w photographs; text illustrations; folding charts. Published by the California Miner's Association for..... More
Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 2010. Limited edition. Fine. 8vo. 169,(3)pp. Publisher's black cloth with titles in red and gilt. Illustrated in black and white and with eight color plates tipped-in. At last a companion volume to the venerable Zamorano 80, this one with 120 titles covering the period from..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2012. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. Floral cloth spine, printed paper spine label, paper over boards, printed label on the upper board. Illustrated endpapers. One of 425 copies printed at The Artichoke Press, Mountain View. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1942). First edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. xix,(1),631pp. Beige buckram, spine printed in black and gilt. Illustrated with 200 illustrations including 10 in full color. A fine copy with only a trace of wear. Inscribed in 1942 at length on the front free endpaper by..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. First edition. Very good. 12mo. Brown cloth, gilt spine title. Harper's Family Library No. 106. Second issue with the dot over the eye missing and broken type on page 9. Spine tips worn but a very good copy of this iconic work. Contemporary..... More
Not Published, (1880). First edition. Hardcover. Original cloth, gilt title. Cloth sunned to tan on spine, slight fading at top of front cover; waterspot. Born in Connecticut, Stephen Johnson Field was practicing law in New York when word of the Gold Rush arrived. He sailed to California in 1849, crossing..... More
Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2005. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thick large 4to. 746pp. Tan cloth, silver spine title. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is fine as well. This is the most comprehensive edition of documents related to Coronado's reconnaissance of the American Southwest available. It is a...... More
(Oakland): Peter Koch, 1984. Limited edition. Stiff card. Tall thin folio, 9½ by 19½ inches. Title and vignette on the first page. The back page is an essay by Glenn E. Humphreys. The inner pages contain the text of a letter from Ellery ordering books in 1856, and a list describing..... More
NY and Los Angeles: Angelina Book Concern, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece and 22 illustrations. Original cloth gilt title and vignette. Translated by Julius Behnke, Professor of Modern Languages, Occidental College, Los Angeles. With his printed photograph tipped-in, and his presentation inscription: 'Yours for progress / without end..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1964. Wraps. Single sheet folded to make four pages 9 by 12 inches. Illustration tipped onto the first page shows a 1684 frontispiece. One page of text announcing the move of the David Magee Book Shop from Post Street to Cow Hollow, "once a rural and..... More
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company, (1907). Frontispiece by Galen J. Parrett. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. vi, (2),54, (2)pp. One of 1000 unnumbered copies finely printed on Fabriano handmade paper. Introduction by Geraldine Bonner. Bound in full calf. The spine in 5 compartments with raised band,s gilt; the boards decorated..... More
Columbus, Ohio: Ward Bros. c. 1887. Early Edition. Hardcover. 12pp. text and single foldout plate. Text pages measure 4-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches. The plate, when extended measures 5-1/2 by 63 inches. Original red cloth, intricately embossed on the upper board. Binding has wear at edges and a stain on the..... More
Madrid: Viuda de Manuel Fernandez, 1757. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. Small 4tos. (24),240; (8),564; (8),436. Four folding copperplate maps: Vol. 1 contains the Mapa de la California, y su Costa Oriental Nuevamente Descubierta, based on Padre Kino's revolutionary map. Vol. 3 contains three maps: Seno de California; Carta de..... More
San Francisco: P. J. Thomas, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Bright blue cloth, gilt title, gilt vignette on upper board, repeated in blind on the rear board. Two novellas of historical fiction: the first involves a man wrongfully accused of murder, set in San Francisco and in Virginia City;..... More
