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. (Item #1324)
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)
Very good. No publication information given, but copyrighted 1913, and apparently originally included in the Perfection Block and Street Guide of San Francisco (1914). 22.5 x 28 inches. A scarce, detailed map of the city of San Francisco, with each block numbered and cemeteries, parks, reserviors and other features identified... (Item #19520)
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)
San Francisco: Mariposa Grant, Inc. Softcover. Good+. Undated, c. 1915. [12] pp, with illustrations from photographs, map. Old library blindstamp and ink accession number on front cover, otherwise unmarked, with old folding creases. Scarce investment prospectus for gold mining and farming property in Mariposa County, CA. The new owners denounce... (Item #19445)
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)
Bishop, CA: Chalfant Press, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 84 pp, with illustrations from photographs and line drawings. Slight wear to edges, very light spotting to top and fore-edge; else clean and sound. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear. Number 20 of an edition of... (Item #2173)
![An Unnatural History of Death Valley, With Reflections on the Valley's Varmints, Virgins, Vandals and Visionaries [SIGNED]. Paul Bailey, Billy Bender, Illustrator.](/pictures/thumb/2173.JPG?v=1491699150)
Death Valley, CA: Death Valley '49ers, 1962. Softcover. Very Good. 39 pp, with illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Minimal handling wear, light sunning to spine; else clean and sound. Signed by Ardis Manly Walker on title page. (Item #2336)
![Searles Lake Borax 1862-1962, The Centennial of the John W. Searles Borax Discovery [SIGNED]. L. Burr Belden, Ardis Manly Walker.](/pictures/thumb/2336.JPG?v=1491003729)
New York: Vantage Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 97 pp, with maps and illustrations. Spotting to top edge; else clean and sound. Dust jacket has some creases and short tears and is lightly sunned at the spine. From the dust jacket: "This... (Item #1367)
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)
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)
Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 1933. Softcover. Very Good. 23 pp + illustrations from photographs, folding map. Light shelf wear to wrappers; contents clean and sound. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Occasional Papers Number 2. On the geology of San Miguel Island, including details of... (Item #2205)
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)
Bakersfield, CA: Cardon House, 1963. Softcover. Near fine. 78 pp, with illustrations, map, in orignal stapled wrappers. "A Pre-Centennial Publication In Limited Edition." Wrappers show slight wear; contents clean and sound. A history of early Kern County including details of daily life, gold mines, agriculture, roads, food prices, first elections... (Item #15001)
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)
