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San Francisco: Trees Company Press Book. Fine. Hardcover. Third edition. Quarto. Softcover. 195pp . Appendices, bibliography, index. Illustrated through with photographs, maps, drawings. A guidebook and history of Native Americans in California. 990.

London: A. Brown and Sons, 1915 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Frank Falkner; supplementary chapter by T. Sheppard. Small folio. xlvi, 240pp. 270 half-tone photographic plates in sepia, 10 color plates (illustrating over 700 examples). Original brick cloth, gilt-lettered spine, gilt lettering and pictorial device on front cover. Light wear to spine ends, corners and lower edge of boards, stains from dried flowers to rear endpapers, two leaves with slight crunching to border near fore-edge. A very good copy. A detailed, fully illustrated, account of this important collection. Each section of this fine work is prefaced by a short introduction; the text, which includes brief descriptions of each piece, is arranged so as to be directly opposite the corresponding illustrations. Important and sought-after..

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1961 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition, second printing (the first printing was published a month earlier and immediately went out of print). Foreword by Jack Schaefer. xiii, [3], 287pp. Illustrations by Mac Schweitzer. Notes, bibliography, index. A very fine and bright copy with perfect dust jacket. A documented biography of this big game hunter, author-lecturer, founder of Garden City, Kansas, first man to cross a buffalo with a cow known as a " Cattalo," etc..

New York: Halcyon House, 1925 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. 205 reproductions and diagrams including 12 in full color. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine slightly faded. Covers rubbed. Previous owner's signature on endpaper. A very good copy. A complete guide to different types of China..

Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 1957 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Edited by C. Gregory Crampton. Pp. [6], vii, [1], 168. Mounted frontispiece portrait, folding map. Bibliography and index. Rust cloth, gilt. A fine copy. An important Gold Rush diary being the record of Eccleston's experiences in the Southern mines during 1850-51. He joined the Mariposa Battalion, explored the Yosemite with the Savage-Bunnell party, the Big Trees, and the Sierra between the main forks of the Merced and San Joaquin rivers. "In 1851, Eccleston returned to the mines called 'Cayote Mess' on the San Joaquin River near Fine Gold Gulch. He continued his diary... and described in some detail his mining activities, amount earned, and expenses incurred" (Kurutz). [Kurutz: 215; Rocq: 5103]..

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1950 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Quite scarce. One of 750 copies printed at The Westgate Press. Edited by George P. Hammond and Edward H. Howes. 256pp. Frontis, 2 folding maps. Rust cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket spine slightly faded). An account of a 19 year old traveling from Texas to California in the year 1849. Eccleston was a New Yorker who joined a California company (the Frémont Association) that decided to go to Galveston, Texas by sea and then take the southwestern trail to California. Despite his youth, Eccleston was a keen observer and a compulsive recorder leaving us with a vivid picture of life on the trail. His journal was of special value for the historian because it established a new date for the opening of the Tucson cutoff to wagon traffic. "As the editors point out, the party charted new ground by opening wagon travel over the Tucson Cutoff or Apache Pass Trail. From… Leer más

Boston: Christian Scientists' Publishing Co. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First facsimile edition. A facsimile edition of the first sixteen issues of this landmark periodical, published and edited by the founder of the Christian Science movement. This facsimile printing was produced because of the demand for copies of the Journal. In the 1880's there were but a few hundred Christian Scientists. In the 1950's there were several hundred thousand, and the demand for copies increased proportionally. The original printing of the Journal is excessively rare. Mary Baker Glover Eddy (1821-1910) advocated Christian Science as a spiritual practical solution to health and moral issues. Her Journal was "An Independent Family Paper, to Promote Health and Morals." It included instructive articles and verified reports of Christian healing. Each issue also contained questions and answers about Christian Science, book reviews, interviews, poems, and a worldwide directory of Christian Science… Leer más

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1932 Book. Fine. Hardcover. One of 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. 48pp. Colored facsimile from an 1837 lithograph of San Francisco. Cloth-backed marbled boards, paper labels on spine and front cover. Fore-edges of endpapers with offsetting. A fine copy. Treasurer of the Willamette Cattle Company, Edwards arrived in San Francisco on February 29, 1837. He had originally come to Oregon in 1833 with Captain Wyeth's party. This day-by-day narrative ends on September 18, somewhere near Mt. Shasta, as the company attempts to reach the Willamette Valley with 729 head of cattle. His account of the six months spent in the San Francisco Bay Area is among the most important early descriptions. Also considered one of the first western cattle accounts. [Grabhorn: 172]..

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1969 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by Russ Leadabrand. Pp. xiv, 306. Tan cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with publisher's slipcase. One of the best. An annotated bibliography of more than 2000 titles along with a condensed gathering of approximately 150 journals and diaries recounting the early Southern California desert crossings. This work is considered the standard reference and the most complete bibliography on books about California deserts..

Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1962 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 600 copies. Presentation inscription, SIGNED by the author to fellow author, W. W. Robinson. 128pp. Illustrated. Blind embossed cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A review of 25 key books of Western Americana the author would retain in his library if he were forced to dispose of the rest. Scholarly discussion of each of the selections. Also mentions about 200 outstanding books on Southwest deserts. [Edwards Enduring Desert: p.72]..

Boston: Printed and sold by D. Henchman, 1749 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition of this prime Americana classic, Brainerd had remarkable success with numerous Indian tribes, and left us a diary account that is unequalled. Pp. [2], xii, [18, list of subscribers], 316, [2, ads]. Somewhat later half morocco and marbled boards. Contemporary owner's signature (John Fullerton) to top border of Preface. Upper outer hinges starting, text browned, spotted and stained, upper corner of title leaf repaired with some loss. A very good copy. This work presents a biography of the famed Indian missionary adapted from his own diary, by the renowned New England divine, Jonathan Edwards. Expelled from Yale for sympathizing with the Whitefield revival and for remarking that a college tutor had "no more grace than this chair," Brainerd was nevertheless successful as a missionary to various Indian tribes in the Massachusetts/New York border region and in New Jersey. He died at the age of twenty-nine… Leer más

Seattle: The Alice Harriman Company, 1909 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. 349pp. Frontispiece, 20 plates, folding map; appendices, index. Blue cloth, gilt. Light spotting on upper front cover, else a fine and clean copy. An important work on this Oregon missionary and statesman. Eells, who earlier was one of the major proponents of the Whitman Saved Oregon theory, eventually accepted the conclusions of Bourne & Marshall and was more objective in this study. [Smith: 2763; Soliday I: 779]..

Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1998 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Presentation inscription, SIGNED by the author. [10], 289pp. Illustrated from photographs. Notes, sources, index. Black cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Story of William Bowers Bourn I and his son and successor, William Bowers Bourn II, among the wealthiest and most powerful of the Bonanza Kings in San Francisco..

San Francisco: Division of Mines, 1949 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First printing. Issued as a supplement to the California Journal of Mines and Geology. 128pp. llustrated throughout from old prints, drawings, photographs and facsimiles. Later blue cloth binding, original printed wrappers bound in. A fine copy. A collection of contemporary pictures and text on gold mining in California. Well-illustrated, including reproductions of rare daguerreotypes and ambrotypes taken in the diggings..

San Francisco: Division of Mines, 1949 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First separate edition. Issued as a supplement to the California Journal of Mines and Geology. 128pp. Profusely illustrated from old prints, drawings and photographs; facsimiles. Original semi-stiff printed wrappers, with an elephant and the title on front cover. A fine copy. A collection of contemporary pictures and text on gold mining in California. Includes reproductions of rare daguerreotypes and ambrotypes taken at the diggings. A wealth of information!.

New York: Hastings House, 1961 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Signed by the author/illustrator on the title page. Introduction by Ramon F. Adams. 184pp. Illustrated throughout by the author. Bibliography and index. Publisher's brown cloth. Previous owner's ink name on inner cover, else a very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (very minor chipping to head of spine). An excellent account of how America moved, before the automobile. A fairly thorough history of the accoutrements of overland wagon travel. Text and numerous illustrations showing the wagons they used: Conestoga, Concord, Buckboards, Surreys, Borax wagons, Escort wagons, Army wagons, Ox Carts, etc., and the horses, mules, and oxen used, what wagons hauled, how the horses and mules were packed, saddles and bridles used, etc. All profusely illustrated by Nick Eggenhofer. This book is quite scarce and sought after, especially in this nice condition and with the signature..

San Francisco: Sunset Magazine Homeseekers' Bureau, 1913 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Small, thin 8vo. 32pp. Numerous photographs, 2 maps. Color pictorial wrappers. Light rubbing to spine, else a fine copy. A small, well-illustrated promotional for the county. Covers the natural history of the area, water, farms, timber, grazing, advantages of the county, mines and mining, agricultural products, mineral springs and summer resorts, climate, schools, etc..

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Large quarto. Revised and Expanded Edition. 55 color plates, 192 black & white illustrations. Decorated red cloth. Minor watermarks to bottom of front cover, internally clean and beautiful. A fine copy in torn and worn pictorial dust jacket..

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1958 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First special edition with extra colophon leaf signed by the author. A fine copy bound in blue-backed red cloth. Dust jacket chipped with minor damp stain on rear. A re-examination of the factors which brought about the Civil War and theories of how it could have been prevented..

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1978 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Additional texts by William S. Lieberman and Riva Castleman. Square quarto. 232pp. Hundreds of illustrations; photographs of the paintings, sculptures, drawings, and cutouts, many in full color. Cream colored cloth with gilt-lettering on the spine. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. The dust jacket is slightly faded along the spine, else fine..