Softcover. Very good. 7" x 11" strong-tied photograph album containing 35 snapshots (3.5" x 5") corner-mounted one per page, rectos only. A small album without captions, but with good documentary content. The first two images are a nice Juneau street scene and a shot of the Alaska Air Transport Terminal..... Item #22421
Hartford: E.T. Pease & Co., 1854. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Pamphlet, 51 pp, sewn binding, original printed wrappers. Some paper loss to spine and at corners, binding tight, text clean. On March 2, 1854, a recently installed 50-horsepower steam boiler exploded at the railroad-car factory Fales & Gray Car..... Item #21005
Very good. 5" x 7" photograph on an 8" x 10" mount, showing a booth--likely at an agricultural fair--promoting the packaging and marketing services of the Raisin City Packing & Vending Co. of Fresno. Accompanied by the business card of company president J.H. Caesar, with a signed note on the..... Item #22110
Sacramento: A.J. Johnston & Co., 1890. First separate edition. 6.5" x 4.75", 47 pp, in original printed wrappers. Small chip at upper corner of front wrapper, some loss to backstrip, else fine. Originally published serially in the 1860s, in the California magazine Themis, Edwards' diary describes the first recorded cattle..... Item #22534
Twenty-seven (27) 8” x 10” photographs showcasing high-end vehicles for rent from the Iowa Garage in Pasadana, California, owned by former race car mechanic Eugene Lajunie (b. 1885). Each photo is accompanied by a typed caption giving the model number, color, some specifications, and the price per day to rent..... Item #20563
Newark, NJ: The Consolidated Illustrating Co., [1896]. 7.5 x 10.5 inches (oblong), original embossed wrappers. xix, 208 pp, with many illustrations from photographs. Front wrapper detached, wrappers have some some staining, chipping to spine; good. An elaborate and relatively uncommon promotional that--in addition to general text on the advantages of..... Item #21495
Philadelphia: J.H. Johnson. Broadside. Very good. Song sheet, 6 x 9.5 in., with wood engraved vignette of a bearded man (king?) removing the hat of a supplicant, decorative border. Undated, possibly late 1850s. Light foxing. A song descrying the ineffectiveness of Philadelphia's city council and the overzealous use of the..... Item #20742
Advertising handbill, approximately 8.5 x 5.5 inches, illustrated with a wonderful (or not, depending on your point of view) image of "A Flea Magnified." Some staining, old folding creases. Joseph Fusch trademarked his Eureka Insect Exterminator--guaranteed to kill fleas, flies, mosquitoes, bed bugs, ants , moths, lice, and cockroaches without..... Item #21613
Wausau, WI: G.D. Jones Land Co., [1914]. Large folding brochure printed in black and green, with plat map on one side and extensive text on the other. 9"x 5" when folded; unfolds to 18" x 20". Fair to good condition only: rumpled and has staining, small amount of text obscured..... Item #21481
[Kansas City]: T.J. Green & Co. Undated, likely early 20th century. Four cards measuring approximately 2.5 x 4.5 inches, each advertising a differrent residential development in Kansas City: Eaton Place, Forest Park, Melba Park, and Chesterfield Each card has brief promotional text ("fine residence lots," "magnificent view, every lot 2..... Item #21482
Hemet Land Company, 1902. Softcover. Very good. 7.5 x 4 inches, 39 pp, with many illustrations from photographs and a folding map titled "Lands of the Hemet Land Co. Situated in Sections...Riverside Co. Cal." Light handling wear, some chipping to edge of last page, some loosening at staples; very good..... Item #21756
London: Oxford University Press, 1967-1982. Softcover. Very good. Consecutive run of 12 volumes. One volume with tape repair to spine, others with minor chipping, but overall very good. Due to size, shipping cost will be higher than standard for priority or international orders. Published since 1929, the Himalayan Journal offers..... Item #22628
Hardcover. Very good. Bound manuscript, 9 x 7 inches, in contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards with gilt title and floral decorations on spine. [335] pp, with several charts (two folding) and 86 meticulously drawn illustrations in black ink, as well as a few unfinished pencil drawings. No author name or..... Item #21590
Milwaukee: Geo. Brunder, [1883]. Softcover. Good. 13 cm (ca. 5"), pp 110 , [2] (index); original sewn wrappers, with decorative initials and wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Final leaf (index of songs) and back cover are damaged, with some loss, chipping to corners of front cover; otherwise very good. An uncommon..... Item #21644
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. viii, 366 pp, with 19 steel-engraved plates (portraits and views of the authors' homes), 14 wood-engraved vignettes (of which 7 are printed in color), and 16 facsimiles. A handsome copy in publisher's full morocco with stamped decoration and raised bands..... Item #21559
Undated, likely mid-1970s. 34 x 25-inch map showing hundreds of small lots for sale in this subdivision in Weed, near Mount Shasta in Siskyou County. Folding creases, one split along a fold, a few minor notations; very good. Development at Lake Shastina began in 1968 and focused on enticing well-heeled..... Item #21486
Very good. 24" x 17" engraving by Hezekiah Wright Smith (1828-1889) after a painting by Thomas Hicks (1823-1890), matted and mounted on cardboard backing (total dimensions 26.5" x 19"). Printed below image on left: Painted by T. Hicks. N. A.", and on right: "Engraved by H. Wright Smith." Dated to..... Item #22370
[Germantown, PA]: [Germantown Print Works]. Textile. Good. An appealing illustrated broadside on cloth bearing a very early appearance of the famous "I cannot tell a lie" cherry tree story. Collins (Threads of History) says it was printed by the Germantown Print Works in Pennsylvania, ca. 1806. The story itself, which..... Item #20532
Near fine. Undated manuscript document in which Thomas Lewis (1720-1800), Justice of the Peace for Burke County, Georgia, certifies that Ezekiel Airidge "has take the Oath of allegiance to the State and is thereby intitled to all the Benefits & Priviliges of a free Citizen of the same." Lewis was..... Item #22007
Los Angeles: Touring Bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California, 1931. Softcover. Very good. 4.5" x 8", 31 pp, in original stapled wrappers. Light soiling to front cover, otherwise clean and sound. Very good. The Automobile Club of Southern California, founded in 1900, was one of the nation's first..... Item #22090
Accordion-style lacquer album in wooden boards, 5.5" x 7.5", with 108 images mounted on both sides of 24 panels. Image size ranges from 2.25" x 2.25" to 4.25" x 6". One board damaged (see images), photos generally very good, though with varying degrees of contrast. This fascinating album was compiled..... Item #22079
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
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 144 pp, with folding map and more than 50 illustrations from photographs. Original blue cloth. Binding sound and contents clean, boards lightly bumped at the corners. Signature on front pastedown of Peg Gould, wife of Lawrence M. Gould, who was..... Item #22018
Pomona: California State Polytechnic Institute, [1985]. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 8.5 x 8.5 inches, 32 pp, in original stapled wrappers. Corners lightly bumped, minor shelfwear. Inscribed on the title page "To Sonya in appreciation, Cordially, Dione Neutra, X-mas 1985." Richard Neutra (1892-1970) was one of the most influential architects..... Item #21850
Cincinnati: Feicke-Desch Printing Co. Softcover. Very good. Undated, ca. 1912. Oblong 8-1/4 x 5-1/2" brown paper wraps printed in black and copper gilt, with a photo-gravure lozenge depicting the Covington suspension bridge tipped onto the upper wrap; [64} pp, each illustrated with a photograph colored in blue (imitating cyanotype) in..... Item #20300
