Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 10.75" x 7.25", 104 pp, illustrated, in orignal red and grey cloth. Fine copy, with Verne Howard Mountaineering Books label on rear pastedown. Dust jacket has just a touch of shallow..... Item #22336
London: Richard Bentley, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes, pp. xiv, 416, with lithographed frontispiece and 2 folding maps (all backed on linen); vii, 350, with linen-backed frontispiece. In a later simple blue loth binding. Both volumes well rubbed at the corners, evidence of removal of an ink..... Item #22807
London: Methuen, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 390 pp, with index, half-tone and photogravure illustrations from photographs by the author and by Arthur E. Lightbody and Stuart Vines, folding panorama, 2 folding maps. Bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering, image of a condor on upper board. Upper..... Item #22265
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1900. Hardcover. Very good. New Edition, revised and annotated by Coolidge. pp xxxviii, 572 pp, with illustrations, index, 5 folding maps (2 in rear pocket). Original publisher's cloth, top edge gilt. A very good copy with some fraying to cloth at corners, minor foxing to..... Item #22760
San Francisco: Wood, Alley & Co., 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Title continues: With Descriptions of Scenes As Viewed By The Pioneers, The First American Argonauts of California; The Bear Flag; The Discovery of Gold; The Progress of Population and Agriculture; The Mexican Grants; The Principal Murders; Incidents of..... Item #21394
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology Volume 7. Three volume set, complete. 11.75" x 9.25", 1373 pp, in original wrappers, with illustrations, bibliography, maps. Mild warp to Volume I, otherwise a very nice set, with no markings and minimal wear. A...... Item #23122
New York: Wm. C. Martin, 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 6 x 4 inches, pp viii, [1], 10-71, [1] (errata), in publisher's green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Moderate foxing throughout, frontis portrait of the author lacking, but still a good of a scarce book. The Appendix is titled..... Item #21029
New York: American Bison Society, 1934. Softcover. Very good. Revised and enlarged edition (first published in 1927). 10" x 7", 66 pp, illustrated, in original stapled wrappers. Minor cover soiling, else fine. "Cowboy, conservationist, and curator Martin S. Garretson was widely considered one of the foremost experts on the natural..... Item #22537
Los Angeles: Printed by Santos Printing Shop for Ing. Luis R,. Goldbaum, 1924. Softcover. Very good. 7 x 4.5 inches, 213 pp, side-stapled wrappers, with map of Mexican mining centers on rear wrapper. Dampstain to first three leaves, staples rusted, otherwise very good. The author, Luis (also Louis) R. Goldbaum..... Item #21019
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes, 6.75 x 10.25 inches, pp xii, 375; xiv, 377-777. Indexed, illustrated with photographs and line drawings, color frontispiece in each volume. A highly detailed work with separate chapters on opossum, bears, racoons, ring-tailed cats, martens, fisher, weasels..... Item #22529
Philadelphia: Indian Rights Association, 1902. Softcover. Very good. 27 pp, stapled binding. No. 61, Second series. Some small chips at edges, internally clean. The Indian Rights Association was formed in 1882 by white reformers who hoped to influence public sentiment and Congressional action regarding to the civil rights and education..... Item #21915
Boston: Abel Tompkins, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 171 pp + [4] pp publisher's ads, with frontis portrait of the author. Original black cloth with blind-stamped decoration and image of a ship on each board. Complete but well worn; spine slant, corners rubbed through, small losses of cloth at head..... Item #21267
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated, c. 1843. From the tenth London edition, revised and corrected. xii, 392 pp + [10] pp publisher's ads. Text printed in double columns. Quarter red leather over marbled boards. Leather scuffed, rubbed through at corners. Owner's signature dated 1850 on front free endpaper..... Item #13125
Mexico: Fondo Pagliai, 1973. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, 133 pp, illustrated with maps and facsimiles. One of 1000 copies printed, this one unnumbered. Bound in full leather with gilt lettering on spine. Extremities rubbed, a few scuff marks to the leather; binding sound, text clean. Previous owner's name on front..... Item #17707
Paris: Amable Auroy, 1688. Second edition (first published 1683, this edition differs just slightly, with minor adjustments to wording and typography). Two parts in one, pp. 312, 107. No map. A very good copy in an attractive binding of speckled calf and marbled boards, with marbled endpapers, gilt spine in..... Item #22437
Hardcover. Very good. Black leather album containing 54 tissue-guarded leaves of watercolor paper, of which 43 have been used. 10 x 12 inches, stamped in gilt on the front "Sketches on the Nile / Alan Hinch / 1938." Leather scuffed, cloth tape reinforcement to inner hinges, all else very good..... Item #21433
London: John Murray, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. New edition, carefully revised and condensed. (First published 1854). A good or better set in original cloth bindings with attractive decoration in gilt. Some scattered foxing, front hinge weak on Volume I. Hooker (1817-1911) served as assistant surgeon and botanist on James..... Item #22330
New York: Charles Scribner's sons, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp xix, 366, + 4 (ads). Extensively illustrated with photographs (some colored), 2 maps. Red cloth w/gilt lettering, top edge gilt, mounted illustration of bighorn sheep. Most of rear free endpaper lacking, lower corners bumped, otherwise sound and clean..... Item #22491
London: Chapman and Hall, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First English edition. xvi, 520 pp with illustrations, index, folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped and rubbed, mild wear to bottom edge. Hourst explored the Niger from Timbuktu to the sea on behalf of the French..... Item #12969
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp xii, 228 + ads, with illustrations, folding maps of Mammoth and Wyandot. Original embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped, minor soiling on back cover, original owner's inscription ("D.W. Garrigues, Bot. 12/4/85 at Luray Caverns, Luray..... Item #20615
2000. Hardcover. Very Good. University of San Diego Master's Thesis. 8.5 x 11 inches, bound in blue buckram, vii, 141 pp + notes, with maps, illustrations, bibliography. A few pencil annotations, all else very good. Includes chapters on the Historiography of Women and Power in Alta California, California Indian Women..... Item #3220
Seven signed manuscript letters on United States Internal Revenue letterhead, each on on a single sheet, ranging in length from approximately 50 to 100 words. Old folding creases, minor spotting; very good. The Internal Revenue Service was created in 1862, when an income tax was enacted to help fund the..... Item #20048
Tokyo: Bungeishunju, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. 10" x 12", 90 (nearly all photographs), [14] pp, extensively illustrated in full color. Slight bump to foot of spine, else a fine copy in like dust jacket, with the original pictorial slipcase, which shows moderate..... Item #22768
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. xxiii, 940, + ads, with many plates (including one folding panorama), portraits, and five folding maps. Plates are from photos by the author and drawings by R.W. Macbeth, Clifford Carleton, Harry C. Edwards, E.F.W. Frohawk. Original blue..... Item #20473
Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1823. Hardcover. Very good. Two text volumes, no atlas. 8vo, pp 503, 442, xcviii (including Astronomical and Meterological Record and Vocabularies of Indian Languages), in contemporary full calf bindings with red and black spine labels. Both volumes show some old pale dampstaining, but still..... Item #23024
