San Leandro, CA: City of San Leandro, 1971. Softcover. Very Good. 39 pp, with illustrations, subscription form, in original illustrated wrappers. Very light handling wear, internally clean and sound. A compilation of "San Leandro Recollections" articles assembled to celebrate the city's 99th anniversary. (Item #1327)
Centennial Historical Committee, 1969. Softcover. Very Good. 20 pp, with many illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Minimal handling wear, else fine.. A brief history of the community of San Juan Bautista (San Benito County, CA), established by Spanish Missionaries in 1797.0. (Item #1324)
Very good. Nineteen original black and white photographs, each measuring 4 x 5 inches (including white border), and each with a handwritten caption on the back identifying the location. All are clear and in very good condition. Fourteen images are of Long Beach locations (e.g., Lynwood Theatre, Bank of America... (Item #19748)
San Francisco: John Berggruen Gallery, 1997. Softcover. Near fine. Exhibition catalogue. 8.5 x 11 inches, 27 pp, with 12 color illustrations. Very light shelf wear to wrappers; contents clean. Includes work by Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, David Park, and Paul Wonner. (Item #1426)
Bishop, CA: Inyo County Board of Supervisors, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. 95 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs, maps. Pictorial boards show light wear to edges, name on front free endpaper, light spotting to edges; text clean and sound. No dust jacket. Well illustrated centennial history of Inyo County, California/. (Item #2056)
Washington: U.S. Geological Survey, 1907. Very good. 10.25 x 13.25 inches, printed in black and red. Map showing San Francisco following the Earthquake and Fire of 1906, showing the boundary of the burned area, as well as the "district covered largely by brick structures" and identifying 48 individual structures. Originally... (Item #19515)
San Francisco: Frank Eastman, 1859-1873. Hardcover. Good. Seven volumes bound together. Three-quarter maroon leather over cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Moderate external wear, including staining, chipping to leather and cloth, mild bow to boards. Dampstain to margin of somepages (text unaffected), some damage to endpapers. Binding sound... (Item #2462)
![Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of the State of California, at the Sixth, Seventh, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth Annual Convocation[s], Held at the Masonic Hall, in the City of Sacramento and San Francisco](/pictures/thumb/2462_1.JPG?v=1493850434)
Undated and uncredited albumen photograph (image size 4.75" x 7.75"), identified in a handwritten caption on the mount as Forest City, a town in Sierra County, California, where gold was discovered in 1852. Slight fading and spotting, crack in the glass negative appearing in lower left, but still a clear... (Item #19245)
New York: C.S. Hammond & Co., 1906. Softcover. Good. 7.25 x 10 inches, oblong. Unpaginated, approximately 35 pp, with illustrations from photographs, map. Paper over spine partially split (but holding), shelf wear and short tears to wrappers; contents clean. One page of German text (titled "Ruin yund neues Leben") on... (Item #1353)
San Leandro, CA: City of San Leandro, 1970. Softcover. Very good. 16 pp, with illustrations, subscription form laid in, in original illustrated wrappers. One of two staples in binding missing, light handling wear to wrappers; contents clean. Periodical created as part of the city's Centennial celebration. Main article in this... (Item #1322)
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1920. Softcover. Very Good. pp. 47-69, with b/w illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Light handling wear and soiling to wrappers; else clean and sound. College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 325, September, 1920. A report on the ongoing research and experiments... (Item #1406)
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. pp. 125-218 + ads. Original printed wrappers, stamped "Property of the Mountaineers" on front cover and first page. Otherwise unmarked, clean and sound, with some chipping and tiny tears at the edges. Articles include "Tehepite Valley" (Muir); "Scrambles About Yosemite"... (Item #14775)
![Sierra Club Bulletin Vol. IX, No. 3, January 1914 [with much on Yosemite]. William Frederic Bade, John Muir, Joseph Le Conte, F. E. Matthes, Marion Randall Parsons, Lena Redington, Willis Linn Jepson, A. Martha Walker.](/pictures/thumb/14775.JPG?v=1474055701)
Santa Barbara, CA: Wallace Hebberd, 1927. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 499 pp + [16] (illustrations), indexed. Foreword by Aurthur M. Ellis, illustrations by James S. Bodrero. Firrst printing of the second edition (first published 1881). Original gilt-decorated green cloth. Spine lettering a bit dulled, brief... (Item #19669)
![Reminiscences of a Ranger, Early Times in Southern California [with prospectus]. Horace Bell.](/pictures/thumb/19669_1.JPG?v=1527814116)
Softcover. Very Good. 8.5 x 11 inches, 37 pp, with many illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Light shelf wear to wrappers, name written inside front cover, text clean, binding tight. (Item #3114)
1919. Softcover. Very Good. 22 pp, in original wrappers. Light handling wear to wrappers, old horizontal crease; contents clean and sound. Text of the resolution of a lawsuit grought by the United States Govenment over oil-bearing lands in California granted to Southern Pacific Railroad. The Government argued that Southern Pacific... (Item #1495)
Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1911. Softcover. Fine. 19 pp, in original printed wrappers. As new. Text is in English and Spanish. It is widely believed that the 1772 expedition made by Fages was the first inland exploration between Monterey and San Francisco Bay, but this diary is evidence of... (Item #20152)
Banning, CA: Malki Museum Press, 1978. Hardcover. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Classics in California Anthropology 3, reprinted from the edition published by the Fine Arts Press, Santa Ana, in 1933. 9 x 12 inches, 247 pp, with 11 illustrations and maps, annotations, bibliography. Original brown cloth. Minimal... (Item #15770)
Los Angeles: World's Fair Association and Bureau of Information Print, 1893. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 112 pp, with numerous ads for local businesses and illustrations from photographs, double-page map as frontispiece. Lovely pictorial wrappers show light soiling; spine paper chipped at head and foot. Internally clean, binding tight. A.... (Item #19947)
Western Historical Association, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Volume I ONLY. 602 pp, illustrated. Original blue pebbled cloth boards have a few white paint splatters, spine is lightly sunned. Internally very clean and sound. This volume includes the full history of each county, including chapters on local organizations, churches... (Item #19689)
San Francisco: Powell Publishing, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. 465 pp + illustrations, with facsimile autographs of California pioneers, frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, bibliography, index. Part of the series "California," edited by John Russell McCarthy. Light wear to boards, light sunning to spine, internals clean and sound. No dust jacket. "I have... (Item #276)
Los Angeles: Round Table West, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 192 pp, indexed and extensively illustrated in black and white. Slight rubbing to gold cloth boards, but still a fine copy. Inscribed on the title page "To ____: Please enjoy! Warm regards, Margaret B." Laid in are a folded brochure... (Item #13859)
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. Blue cloth boards stamped on the spine in gilt; no dust jacket... (Item #18544)
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. A fine copy bound in 3/4 red leather and marbled boards; signed by... (Item #17389)
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1862. First American Edition. Hardcover. good. 8vo, xii, [4], 574+ [2] ads. Illustrated with engravings; 3 maps on one folding sheet. Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine darkened, fraying to spine ends, corners rubbed, front hinge partially cracked. Embossed library stamp on a.... (Item #13758)
San Francisco: Society of California Pioneers, 1924. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 45 pp, w/3 illustrations. Original stapled wrappers are sunned and lightly soiled, and "The Rush of '49" (the title of the issue's main article) has been written across the top of the front cover in pencil. Contents clean... (Item #14557)
