London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1875. First Edition. xviii, 385 pp, with 5 folding maps and 9 wood-engraved plates, in original decorative green cloth. Near fine, with rubbing to corners. Small bookseller's label (B. Westermann & Co.) on front pastedown, contemporary ownership signature on half-title. An account of travel and..... Item #22757
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
New York: Cramoisy Press, 1863. xiv, [2],43 pp, in original plain wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn along spine and edges. Unopened, rear wrapper chipped, old bookworm or insect damage affecting margin only of last 5 leaves; very good overall. One of the earliest editions of this dictionary, which was reprinted many..... Item #20649
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
Pasadena, CA: Radiant Life Press, 1917. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo, pp. 48 + 7 b/w plates, in original stapled pictorial wrappers. Some chipping and tiny tears to wrappers;contents clean. James first saw Captain, a performing horse owned by W.A. Sigsbee of Chicago, at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San..... Item #18962
Boston: The Page Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 371 pp, with index and 56 plates, of which 8 are in color. Spine lettering faded, otherwise the lovely pictorial cloth binding is well preserved. Binding tight, text clean. One of five titles James contributed to The Page Company's See..... Item #22359
[Palo Alto, CA]: Dramatists' Alliance of Stanford University, 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 106 pp, ca. 8.5 x 11 inches, original illustrated wrappers. Moderate handling wear, including creasing to cover resulting from a binding error; very good. Second volume in the Coester Series of Translations from the drama of..... Item #20734
London: Macmillan, 1881. Hardcover. Near fine. 5" x 7", xi, 245 pp, with 12 color plates and additional illustrations in the text. Attractive full-red leather prize binding, with spine in six compartments tooled in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Inscribed "J. Royden, Classics, Class I, Yarlet, Christmas 1884" on the..... Item #14264
![Item #14264 Glaucus: Or, The Wonders of the Shore [The Works of Charles Kingsley Volume V]....](/pictures/thumb/14264.jpg?v=1474055546)
Boston: George A. Chapman, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 132 pp, in original plain brown cloth. Some chips in cloth at spine, front board just holding on, moderate foxing throughout. Small label "Coll. Immac. Conc. S.J." on front pastedown. A scarce account by the last man jailed in the..... Item #18533
