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)
Sacramento, CA: California State Printing Office, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi, 340 pp, with illustrations, index. Light shelf wear, including bumped corners, pen markings to rear free endpaper; text clean. Includes small images of thousands of brands that were then registered and legal in the State of California. Also shows... (Item #2972)
![Cattle Brands 1926 [California Brand Book]](/pictures/thumb/2972_0001.jpg?v=1528850378)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. Hardcover. Near fine. California Centennial Edition (following a two-volume edition published in 1944). 794 pp, with index, illustrations from sketches by the author, color frontispiece. Foreword by F. W. Hodge. Near fine copy with some rubbing to the base of the spine; no dust... (Item #19664)
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)
