New Orleans, LA: Polyanthos, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. xiv, 380 pp, illustrated with portraits. Clean and tightly bound. No dust jacket. Inscribed by Northrop in Spanish on verso front endpaper. A valuable source for early California genealogy, and for historians seeking to understand the complex interrelationships among early California families..... Item #21200
![Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850, Volume II [SIGNED]. Marie E. Northrop](/pictures/thumb/21200_0001.jpg?v=1594996205)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing (first published 1927), inscribed by James on the front free endpaper in 1932. xii, 242 pp, with illustrations by the author. Bookplate of the inscribee, Helen Hull Monnette (daughter of Bank of America founder Orra Eugene Monnette), on front..... Item #21199
![Cow Country [SIGNED]. Will James](/pictures/thumb/21199_0001.jpg?v=1594963325)
London: G. Foucher & Sons, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 7.5 x 4.75 inches, 32 pp + 8 pages of ads. Original red cloth; no dust jacket. Early price ink-stamped on title page, else fine. Foucher was a French-born violin-maker who lived in London. He was also the author..... Item #21198
Minneapolis, MN: Brooks Press, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. 283 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations, index. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering. Slight rubbing to extremities, lowers corner bumped; text clean, binding tight. A compilation of poems, stories, and essays intended to instill pride and a sense of their own history..... Item #21197
Apia: Samoa Printing & Publishing, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. 189 pp, with index, illustrated map endpapers. Mild spine slant, lightly rubbed corners, light offsetting to endpapers. No dust jacket. An examination of Samoan culture and custom including chapters on organization in Samoan society, the Malaga, welcome ceremony, a Samoan village..... Item #21196
London: Richard Bentley, 1846. Hardcover. Near fine. 7.75 in., 330 pp, with engraved frontis portrait of Munden. Nicely bound in 3/4 green leather and marbled boards, spine gilt, with five raised bands. One tiny scuff to upper spine and a touch of rubbing to the corners, else a fine copy..... Item #21194
Trenton: James Oram, 1811. Hardcover. Fair. Early edition (believed to have appeared first in 1807). 106 pp., ca. 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Fair condition only. Includes the complete text, but lacks endpapers, part of the title page, and the rear board, and the front board is only hanging on by..... Item #21193
Boston: James R, Osgood and Company, 1872. Softcover. Very good. 5 x 3.5 inches, 64 pp, with fine folding map by Louis Prang, in original printed wrappers. Cover has some mild creasing, one small ink stain, and one closed tear; interally clean and sound. Very good. The map, credited "L..... Item #21191
New York: By the Author, 1913. Softcover. Very good. 24 pp, in original printed wrappers. Some dust soiling and old pencil erasures visible on front cover, internally clean and sound. Short biography of the author's ancestor, Nathaniel Merriman, who was born ca. 1613 in England and arrived in Boston in..... Item #21189
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Second edition, revised by P.M. Fraser. Two volumes in original green cloth, illustrated with b/w plates, indexed. A few corners lightly bumped, else a fine set in very nice dust jackets with some very minor creasing. Item #21188
![The Social & Economic History of the Roman Empire [Two-Volume Set]. M. Rostovtzeff](/pictures/thumb/21188.jpg?v=1594795088)
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. "From the corrected sheets of the first edition." Three volumes in original green cloth, illustrated with b/w plates, indexed. Minor rubbing to extremities, offsetting from the dust jacket flaps to the endpapers; else a fine set. Dust..... Item #21187
![The Social & Economic History of the Hellenistic World [Three-Volume Set]. M. Rostovtzeff](/pictures/thumb/21187_1.jpg?v=1594795084)
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1949. Hardcover. Near fine. Second edition, later printing. Dated 1948 on title page, but 1949 on copyright page. xvi, 450 pp, indexed. Previous owner's name and address stamped on front free endpaper, one small pale spot on front cover, otherwise unmarked; clean and sound, with..... Item #21186
Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers No. 37. Trade paperback, 116 pp, ca. 8.5 x 11 inches. As new. On place names of the Cahuilla Indians. Item #21185
Baltimore: Christian & Fleet, Printers, 1885. Softcover. Very good. 15-page pamphlet in original printed wrappers. Partial split at spine, chip to one corner of front wrapper, otherwise very good. The author was Secretary of the State Tax Commission of Maryland and was also a member of the Baltimore City Tax..... Item #21184
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1955. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Early printing (dust jacket priced at $3.95). 190 pp. A very good copy in riginal cloth-backed decorated boards. Upper corners, bumped, gift inscription on front pastedown. Otherwise minimal wear. Dust jacket has some minor..... Item #21182
New York: Norton, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. 218 pp, illustrated with b/w photographs.Mild rubbing to corners and spine ends, previous owner's name/address stamp and brief gift inscription on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is price-clipped, and front panel has been torn and inexpertly..... Item #21181
Acapulco: H. Ayuntamiento Constitucional de Acapulco, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 355 pp + 4 (bibliography), with many illustrations (somewhat crudely reproduced) and maps, in original illustrated wrappers. Light handling wear, light toning to wrappers; text clean. Text in Spanish. Item #21180
Carte de visite photograph of Frances Coryell (here spelled Coryel), "a Hindoo girl buried alive by her heathen parents," sold to raise funds for the Women's Foreign Missionary Society. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was a Protestant woman's missionary organization founded by Methodists in Boston in 1869. The story of..... Item #21179
Jerusalem: Government Printer, 1947. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 59 pp, stapled wrappers. Light abrasion to front cover, upper corner bumped, owner's initials in ink on title page, otherwise unmarked. Chapter I (the first 25 pages) offers "an historical summary of the principal political events in Palestine since 1st January..... Item #21178
Tel Aviv: New Zionist Organisation in Palestine, 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 29 pp, stapled wrappers. Pages and edges of wrappers lightly toned, one short tear to back wrapper, small ink stamp on front. Verbatim record of evidence given by Vladomir Jabotinsky before the Peel Commission. According to the..... Item #21175
Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, 1918. Softcover. Good. USDA Bulletin No. 719. August 29, 1918. 15 pp, with 2 maps, one photographic illustration. Foxing, general cover wear; good. Interesting content on how "women whose homes are on the farms are taking advantage of the improvement in means of..... Item #21170
Washington: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1865. Very good. Single leaf, 5 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches, possibly originally issued with two leaves, the second being blank. 1.5 pages of text, signed in print by Lincoln, William Seward, and E.D. Townsend. Faint folding creases; near fine. Issued March 11, 1865..... Item #21167
Hartfort, CT: Hartford Police Mutual Aid Association, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Title continues: With reminiscences of the past, including some notes of important cases. 167 pp + 54 pages of ads, illustrated with photographs and many portraits. Original green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Boards show old insect damage..... Item #21163
Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO), 1974. Good. Two-page circular (both sides of single sheet measuring 8.5 x 10 inches) dated 27 April 1974. Creasing, toning, one small hole at lower margin. Good. Published two days after the military coup in Portugal known as the "Carnation Revolution," this statement reaffirms the organization's..... Item #21155
St. Louis: A.R. Fleming & Co., 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 220 pp, with frontis portrait of the author. A very good copy in original cloth, with mild rubbing to corners and spine ends. Inscribed on the front flyleaf "Presented by the author Mrs. Louisa Harris." Women first entered..... Item #21154
![Behind the Scenes; or Nine Years at the Four Courts of Saint Louis [Signed]. Louisa Harris](/pictures/thumb/21154.jpg?v=1593490355)
