6 x 9 inches, approx. 150 pp, illustrated, bound in green cloth. A few pages have light pencil marginalia, one page with a short tear, slight cover soiling; very good. An interesting collection of articles on preservation of the redwoods published by John C. Merriam (founder of the Save the... Item #20448
Sacramento: State Office, 1887. Softcover. Good. Second edition. 8vo, 24 pp, including a full-page map. Original printed wrappers have several small chips and tears, pamphlet has an old vertical folding crease and a quarter-inch in the front wrap that also affects the first three leaves, text has occasional foxing. First... Item #20149
[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
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
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
Boston: Boston Chemical Printing Company. Undated, but ca. 1835. Handkerchief printed in black on white cotton. 10.25 x 11.25 inches. Text in three columns, decorative border, small illustration at the head of each column. A very good example, with some scattered foxing. Technological developments of the early nineteenth century made... Item #20039
[1855]. Softcover. Very good. Folio, 7 pp, printed on blue paper in two unsewn (unbound) gatherings. Minor handling wear; near fine. The Rogue River Indians were not a single tribe, but a conglomeration of several groups living in the Rogue River Valley of southwestern Oregon. This treaty was concluded by... Item #20479
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes in the rarest binding state (without Burton’s name or FRGS on the spines), but with a “second edition” slug on the title pages. This state was apparently unknown to Penzer and was probably the result of an attempt to boost sales..... Item #13920
[Washington]: [1848]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Senate Executive Document No. 23, 30th Congress, 1st Session. 132 pp + folding map and 24 plates. Modern buckram binding with leather spine label; original wrappers not bound in (although, according to the Streeter catalogue (168) some copies were issued without wrappers). This... Item #16526
Sacramento: State Office, 1881. 72 pp, illustrated with small wood engravings, in original lavender printed wrappers. Some chipping to spine, old tears and tape repairs to back wrapper, else very good. Matthew Cooke was in the business of manufacturing fruit boxes in the 1870s when California’s apple crop was devastated... Item #20560
Cincinnati: Derby, Bradley & Co., 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. viii, 13-260, [3] (ads). Contemporary brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Bookplate and bookseller's label on front free endpaper, mild to moderate foxing throughout; else clean and sound. Very good. An "extended edition" of Hall's Statistics of... Item #14810
Rampart, AK: 1901. Softcover. Very good-. 11.5 x 15 inches. Four-page newspaper insert dated September 1, 1901, promoting mining and investment opportunities in Rampart, presumably distributed with a regular issue of the weekly Alaska Forum. Rampart City was founded in 1897 as a supply point for gold placer mines south... Item #20407
Salem, MA: Newcomb and Gauss, Printers, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 251 pp, with frontispiece and many sketches by the author (which are rather amateurish, but charming). Mild marginal dampstain to the first few pages, boards a bit scuffed, rubbed at corners and spine ends. The author joined the... Item #12740
London: T.Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto. pp. ix, [3], 632, with 8 plates (including frontispiece), five of which are hand-colored. Recent full calf with new endpapers, original red spine label preserved, three armorial ink stamps on the top edge of the text block. Tissue... Item #15505
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1836. Hardcover. Good+. Second edition, revised (first published 1835). 119 pp, with index, two plates, and a large folding panorama of the mountain. Ex-library, with discard markings, in a modern red buckram binding. Inscribed on the original front endpaper "To Dr. Neill, with much respect... Item #13030
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 493 pp, illustrated, in publisher's plum cloth, sunned to brown at the spine. Wear to edges of boards. Binding sound, contents clean, other than the author's name being written in ink under "A Haole" on the title page and... Item #20528
[Washington]: 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 35th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 124. 87 pp, with large folding map in rear pocket covering. Modern blue buckram with gilt title on spine. Old archival tape repair to final two leaves at gutter; map has one old... Item #16534
Dallas: Hargreaves Printing Co., 1908. First Edition. 249 pp, in original red pictorial boards. Rubbing to corners and spine ends, one small spot on front board, ownership signature dated 1905 on front free endpaper. Binding has some play, but is sound overall. Very good. According to the introduction, Hilory Bedford... Item #20421
London: Chapman and Hall, 1869. First Edition. Two volumes, pp lxv, 236; vii, 322, complete with 20 colored lithograph plates, 3 botanical plates, woodcuts in the text, a colored folding map and a colored plate with three small maps. An attractive set, recased, with new endpapers but original cloth binding... Item #16422
Nueva York: Polhemus y Compania, 1901. First Edition. Title continues: Tomadas, por parte de México, Bajo la Dirección del Ingeniero Jacobo Blanco, Jefe de la Sección Mexicana de la Comisión Internacional de Limites que Restablecio los Monumentos en Anos de 1892 a 1895. 11 x 14 inches, oblong, in original..... Item #20564
Louisville, KY: Morton & Griswold, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4.25 x 7.25 inches, pp xii, [9]-101.Original purple cloth with black leather spine, title stamped in gilt on upper board. Some pale staining to boards, interior very clean. All six original plates present, but folding map supplied in facsimile. Variously... Item #20259
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
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869. First Edition. Two volumes. 8vo, pp xii, 443; viii, 478, [2] (ads), each with engraved frontispiece and title page vignette. Publisher's green cloth ruled in blind on the boards. Not first issue, but also not matching Penzer's description of the second issue binding, and with no... Item #17523
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Two volumes, 8vo, in original cloth, complete with large folding map, frontispiece in each volume, and 25 other lithographed plates (10 folding). Spines toned, with chipping to cloth at ends, and a horizontal closed tear across to the spine cloth on each... Item #19334
London: Edward Stanford, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xiv, 214 pp, with colored folding map (of the Provine of Victoria) and two color plates, but no ads. Rebound in cloth-backed marbled boards with leather spine label. Embossed library stamp on title page; no other libraray markings. Leather corners rubbed, some... Item #19772
