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Hanford, California: Valley Rail Press, 1988 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second edition. Quarto. vi, 254pp. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs, maps, facsimiles, rosters, etc. 2 folding maps in rear envelope. Appendices, bibliography. Yellow pictorial boards. Slight rubbing to foot of spine and lower edge of boards, else a fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Recaptures some of the interesting history of the Santa Fe Railway and its predecessor, the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad, in the great Central Valley of California. includes over 450 historical photographs..

San Jose: The Junior League, 1975 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. 192pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs, maps, line drawings. Index. Gray cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A good history, profusely illustrated, of the historically significant structures in the Santa Clara Valley. Includes the areas of Palo Alto and Stanford, Mountain View and Sunnyvale, Los Altos, Alviso and Milpitas, Santa Clara, Saratoga and Cupertino, Los Gatos and Campbell, San Jose, New Almaden, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, etc. Chapter supplements prepared by the Junior League cover an additional 350 structures described in brief listings..

Berkeley: The Friends of The Bancroft Library, 1967 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Edited by George Koenig. Foreword by J.S. Holliday. 67pp. Portrait, facsimile; illustrations of Death Valley from photographs by Ansel Adams. Folding route map by Robert Becker. A fine copy. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Nusbaumer, unlike most gold-seekers, traveled an unknown trail to California and, along with his fellow travelers, found himself lost. He was with Manly and the group that attempted the "short-cut" through the desert that, because of their experience, became known as Death Valley. This is the first time that Nusbaumer's firsthand, on-the-spot account has been published. It is the only extant journal carried out of Death Valley on the epic trek. His diary provides an important complement to Manly's better-known reminiscence, Death Valley in '49. "Nusbaumer's diary provides the only firsthand account of the party." (Mintz). [Kurutz: 470;… Leer más

Toronto: Railfare Enterprises, 1998 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition, fifth printing. Quarto. 304pp. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs, reproductions, facsimiles, maps, etc. Bibliography, index. Maroon cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A profusely illustrated account with 460 photographs, illustrations and historic documents, the majority of which have not before been published..

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. x, 278pp. Well-illustrated with maps and charts, statistical graphs, photographs. Notes, appendices, bibliography, index. Brown cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. The dwindling Tulare Lake lies in the southern San Joaquin Valley of California midway between the Los Angeles Basin and San Francisco Bay, and from the foothills of the Sierra to the Coast Range. Now, it is no longer recognizable as a region. The Tulare Lake Basin once supported the densest non-agricultural population in North America, the Yokut people. Now, it is dominated by large-scale corporate farming. This is the complete story. Much of the Yokut Indians. The appendices list native plants and animals..

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1945 Book. Illus. by Angelo, Valenti. Fine. Hardcover. One of 1500 numbered copies printed under the supervision of A. G. H and signed by the designer/illustrator below the colophon. Translated by Herbert Grimsditch. 16mo. xi, 135pp. Sixteen full-page miniature illustrations by Valenti Angelo, heightened in gold by hand. Hand-set type. Full rust morocco stamped in gilt with an arabesque pattern. Lacking slipcase. A fine and clean copy. William Beckford's Arabian Nights-inspired fantasia was first published in 1786. This translation by Herbert Grimsditch was first published in 1929 for the Nonesuch Press. This edition includes the same introduction by Grimsditch..

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Black cloth. Dust jacket worn along upper and lower edges. A fine copy..

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1992 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited first edition, signed by the author. Published by the Franklin Library exclusively for subscribers of "The Signed First Edition Society." Bound in red leather, lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. A very fine, as new copy. An extremely handsome edition of this modern classic..

London: Methuen & Co., 1929 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First book edition. Small octavo. xiv, [2], 136pp. plus 8 page publisher's catalogue. Illustrated with 79 text figures and photographs. Blind and gilt-stamped light blue cloth. A fine copy. A classic work on mine safety related to ventilation and air flow, first presented as a short series of lectures delivered in the University of London (Royal School of Mines) in 1927. Chapters cover purpose and cost of mine ventilation; methods of ascertaining natural ventilating pressure; leakage in ventilation systems; size and power of a fan for a given duty; fan inlets, casings, etc.; Parker's pressure-quantity curves; the air-screw fan; underground ventilators; air velocity, and more..

New York: Thomas Barrington, 1887 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Very scarce. 72pp. Numerous facsimiles, portraits, wood-engraved illustrations, cuts of fire engines, numerous ads, etc. Dark green pictorial cloth stamped in black and gold, all edges gilt. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners. A fine copy. Presents a record of this association's excursion from New York to San Francisco. Includes a list of the officers of the association, an itinerary of activities while in San Francisco, a condensed history of important events in the New York Volunteer Fire Department, illustrations of old time fire scenes and equipment, etc. Provides a complete description of fire engine No. 1 of the Phoenix Hose Co. Other chapters cover The Firemen's Ball Committee; The Firemen's Monument; Veteran Firemen's Home; Charter of the Veteran Firemen's Home Association; The Seventh Regiment Band (with portraits and biographical sketches of the Band memebers); Miscellaneous notes about past… Leer más

Philadelphia: David McKay Co., 1929 Book. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. Fine. Hardcover. First American trade edition. Quarto. 9½ x 7¼ inches. 232pp. plus 12 full-page plates in color and 22 black & white drawings, gray and white pictorial endpapers. Dark gray-blue cloth, gilt lettering and illustration on cover, top edges gilt. The slightest of rubbing to foot of spine, near owner's name and address on end. A very fine and bright copy. The classic Goldsmith novel depicting the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar. Beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham, the premier British illustrator of the late 19th - early 20th century, focusing on the illustration of classic children's literature and fairy tales. [Latimore and Haskell: p. 65]..

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Cloth. Spine faded, else a very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket..

New York: Fairfax Press, 1991 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket..

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Biographical introduction by J.V. Beckett. Quarto. 207pp. Illustrated throughout with 150 black & white and 8 color photographs. Extensive notes, bibliography and index. Blue cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Hugh Lowther, fifth Earl of Lonsdale, was one of the wealthiest and most public members of the British aristocracy. In 1888 he headed for the North American Arctic and Subarctic, encouraged to travel by numerous scandals arising at home from his lifestyle. This handsome book publishes his journals and correspondence of that year and catalogues the amazing and very important collection of native artifacts that he brought home with him. Lonsdale recorded his immediate impressions and observations of the country and the inhabitants he met, including Indians, Eskimos, white traders, and missionaries..

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by Richard W. Etulain. xvii, 272pp. Numerous photographic portraits. Publisher's cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A thorough portrait of the feared contemporary of Geronimo. The Apache chief Victorio was a steadfast champion of his people. The author expands our understanding of his role in the Apache Wars and also reconstructs Victorio's life beyond the military conflicts, interpreting his character and actions from his childhood, as a warrior chief and as the whites viewed him..

San Francisco: James H. Barry, 1887 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition with the 1887 date on the title-page and the 1890 date on the cover. The first edition is very scarce. 12mo. 57pp. Original printed pink wrappers. Slight chipping to head of spine, front wrapper faded near spine. A near fine copy. The author was a non sympathizer, and "his book is written from the point of view of the 'Law and Order' faction" (Cowan). Included at the beginning is a roster of the members of the Committee. [Cowan I: p.165; Cowan II: p.464; Howes I: O-84; Howes II: O-87; Rocq: 10749]..

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 4to. Illustrated with 3 fold-out duotone maps. Red boards. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. A fine copy with dust jacket..

New York: The Heritage Press, 1951 Book. Illus. by Moyers, William. Fine. Hardcover. Introduction by Struthers Burt. Illustrations by William Moyers. Beige cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt. Spine darkened and heavily rubbed. A very good copy in slipcase. Slipcase faded and lightly worn. Sandglass pamphlet laid in..

New York: Rizolli, 1990 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Ricardo Legorreta. Square quarto. 216pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Schezen, map endpapers. Bibliography. Black cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful black & white photographs of historic sites of pre-Columbian cultures including Altar de Sacrificios, Chichen Itza, Copan, Edzna, et al..

Silverado: Bohemian Grove, 1946 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First seperate edition. Translated from the French by Charles Franklin Carter. 14, [2]pp. Printed in red and black. Red wrappers printed in white. Minor creasing to upper front corner, else a fine copy. Although not indicated, limited to 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Details this French seaman's visit to the Russian settlement at Fort Ross in Bodega, California [Grabhorn: 426]..