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186647975Marysville CA 1866. Printed both sides now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. Modest wear. A VG copy of a rare survivor. Printed receipt: "Recieved of the Oregon Stage Co." Oblong format: 3-1/16" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/>Per the OSU website we find "The Oregon Stage Coach Company owned by Henry W. Corbett ran a major stagecoach route between California and Oregon during the mid-1800s." Here offered a Company pay receipt to one "C. B. Fowler" Agent "Thirty" Dollars in full payment "for Carrying mail from Station to Central House & back for Month of August 1866." unknown books
189824068Placerville California: Pocahontas Mine 1898. Typed letter on the Pocahontas Mine letterhead dated Jan. 19th 1898 to the Norwalk Iron Works Company of South Norwalk Conn. asking for compressor parts & catalog; the mine was using the Norwalk equipment at the time; approx. 8 1/2"x 11" size; old fold lines; light wear; in very good condition. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Pocahontas Mine Paperback books
189522156Los Angeles California: Society Sons of the Revolution 1895. 12 pages; giving a history of the formation of the Society from the economically-rocky start of 1893 when the certificate of incorporation was dated '.but it had been issued a month before the financial panic of June which caused the suspension of many banks in Los Angeles and the embarrassment of nearly all the commercial centers of the State.not until late in October that confidence was restored in our moneyed institutions."; and defining the strict standards by which membership is proven and maintained; noting also an innovative "no other State Society has a similar provision" Article of their Constitution providing for the ancestral history of a wife's family; and information regarding the society records library & its genealogical & research holdings artworks and objects prizes awarded to students for essays on Patrick Henry and efforts regarding the national archives of the American Revolution; approx. 7"x 10 1/4" size; original printed paper wraps with illustration of Sons seal; printed in dark blue ink on cream stock; front cover very chipped at all edges no text loss both covers detached text disbound; old discoloration at bottom of pages; in good condition; with C. 1919 4-sided Board of Trustees brochure giving particulars of the Society noting amendments made to its constitution and by-laws establishing the Board & its duties to the membership; with recommendations for various endowments that can be established by contributors - building maintenance library museum fund publications more - and the form in which it is proper to make a bequest; at the time Orra Eugene Monnette was President of the Board; specific examples are given of members and their proposed donations - collections life insurance policies antiques paintings and notes that the Society is ".united for Americanism and established for true patriotism"; 6" x 9"; printed dark blue on cream stock original illustrated printed wraps; some wear and soil old fold lines; in good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Society Sons of the Revolution Paperback books
1870WRCAM44211Magdalena Bay Lower California 1870. 4pp. on a folded folio sheet including a map on the final page. Small tape repair in fore-edge of first leaf. A bit of offsetting from the masthead and the map. Near fine. In a half morocco and cloth folding case spine gilt. The second and final issue of this scarce Baja California newspaper of which only two issues were ever published. Meant to be published weekly the first issue was dated Oct. 12 1870 and was followed by the present number. It was published by the "exploring and colonizing expedition of the Lower California Co. at the projected City of Cortez Magdalena Bay Lower California." The map shows the California coast from San Francisco south to the tip of Baja with steamship routes and the location of Magdalena Bay. The text records the comings and goings of steamships improvements taking place at the colony advantages available to settlers testimonials as to the veracity of the text advertisements and an ad promising free land to the first 1000 colonists. "A curious Baja California item.quite typical of a great deal of promotional literature and ephemera which appeared during the 1870's and 1880's" - Barrett. BARRETT 1525. hardcover books
186541489San Francisco: The Bank of California 1865. Buff paper printed in grey and black ink handwritten in brown and red ink. Moderate wear to paper age-toning rubbing and creasing. Ink slightly fading. Withal a VG example. Single sheet printed recto only. Orange George Washington 2 cent stamp to left-hand corner. Oblong format: 4" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/>"Received from Geo. Howes & Co Twelve Hundred & Twenty 79/11 Dollars the same being for our telegraphic order this date on our New York Office to pay Henry J. Hallet from Howes US Gold coin Eleven Hundred Seventy Seven 50/100 Dollars." Total is $1220.79 - quite a large sum in 1865! The Bank of California was opened in San Francisco on July 4 1864 just a year before this note was printed. It was the first commercial bank in the Western United States the second-richest bank in the nation getting all the West Coast wealthy patrons it wanted and considered instrumental in the development of the American West. The Bank stood at the corner of California and Sansome streets in San Francisco and was said to be "one of the handsomest structures on the coast." At the heigh of the BofCA's power owner Ralston and his "Ring" as his associates were known were able to exert monopolistic influence over sections of commerce and industry in San Francisco and in Virginia City. The Bank of California unknown books
18906029101890 1890. Photograph is by Wm. Wax/Universal Art Studio on heavy weight stock and is on the original photographer's mount with bevelled edge. Image is 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" on mount 9 3/4" x 6 7/8"; Fine fresh. Great outdoor shot of ten unidentified men in baseball attire together with their manager dressed in coat and tie. With catcher's gear ball and 2 bats in foreground. Six players holding their gloves. Columbia is located in Tuolumne County. Hardcover. Fine. 1890 hardcover books
188842812n. p. 1888. 1st Printing. Offwhite paper black printing. Horizontal split between two lines of text repaired with clear tape to verso. Very minor loss to descenders else text undamaged. Minor foxing and soiling short closed tear to edge. Good condition only. Broadside printed recto only. Masthead-style wood engraving of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton who would go on to win the presidential election that year. 11-5/8" x 5" <br/><br/>Berkeley Precinct No. 1 republican ticket for the 1888 election. Included among the 27 candidates are: State Senator W. E. Dargie; Chief Justice Supreme Court W. H. Beatty; and Representative in Congress Joseph McKenna. unknown books
188934051Sacramento: Young 1889. First Edition. 283pp. illustwo schools as frontis. Orignal gold stamped cloth upper edge of front cover shows some wear Not in Cowan Young hardcover books
1859298771859. The bindings are generally tight with some inner hinges reinforced. Binding styles and paginations vary: some legal buckram others sheep; some with morocco spine labels others issued without spine labels. Several volumes include folding tables. The majority have the usual institutional marks which are rarely obtrusive. Occasional text spotting and light wear but generally clean and Very Good.<br/><br/> The stated printing locations are San Jose and San Francisco for the first two Sessions but these were actually printed in New York. The third and fourth Sessions were printed in San Francisco the others in Sacramento. <br/> These volumes present the earliest legal history of the State of California. The First Session includes not only the Statutes enacted but the Treaty of Peace with Mexico and documents supplementary thereto the 1849 California Constitution the U.S. Constitution with amendments and other foundation enactments. Joint Resolutions Index Table of Contents for each Session are printed along with the Laws. The 1852 and 1853 volumes are evidently rare. The Statutes deal with all the significant events of that interesting ten-year period: the settlement of the State the development of infrastructure and unfolding of commercial life the multiple social and political institutions the Gold Rush immigration the political strife that engulfed the Nation and all other aspects of early Statehood. <br/>FIRST EDITIONS. Greenwood 167 note. Cowan California 610. Wagner California Imprints 147 149 150. unknown books
185329832Sacramento CA: G.K. Fitch & Co. and V.E. Geiger & Co. State Printers 1853. 7 1 blank pp. Stitched a couple of binder holes in blank inner margin. Small hole in blank portion of first leaf. Signed in type at end by S.C. Hastings Attorney General. Good. <br/><br/> A report on the estate of William A. Leidesdorff; tax litigation against non-resident owners of vessels in California; a suit for recovery of Beach and Water property in the City of San Francisco; and matters relating to criminal procedure. G.K. Fitch & Co. and V.E. Geiger & Co., State Printers unknown books
1881303899Sacramento State Office J.D. Young 1881. 1881. Tall thin 8vo. Original black pebbled cloth stamped in gilt on the upper front cover. Very good. 43 pages. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Sacramento, State Office, J.D. Young, 1881. hardcover books
1882WRCAM44230San Francisco 1882. 2093pp. printed in double columns. Original pictorial wrappers bound into original green cloth gilt. Cloth a bit shelfworn. Quite clean internally. Very good overall. An informative collection of articles about the counties of California geared toward the prospective emigrant including articles on various agricultural subjects. First published in 1881 this popular now scarce text went through five editions in the course of a decade. COWAN p.92. hardcover books
18481411530th Cong. 1st Sess.: HR817. 1848. 39pp Disbound scattered foxing. Good. On claims arising from Fremont's military operations in California. HR817. unknown books
1894301293San Francisco Cal. Passenger Department of the Southern Pacific Company ca. 1894. 1894. 8vo 6 1/8" x 9". Illustrated with halftones from b/w photographs; map. 4 page preface. Original white wrappers printed in black light soiling; two chips on spine; back panel with short tear; pages 66-68 with tear to text. Very good. 104 pages original white wrappers. No signatures or bookplates. Includes a photo on page 50 of Half Dome Cloud's Rest and Mount Watkins Yosemite Valley. Printed by H.S. Crocker Co. San Francisco. Not located in Rocq. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. San Francisco, Cal., Passenger Department of the Southern Pacific Company [ca. 1894]. paperback books
1900217082Paris: Draeger Frères 1900. Fourth edition. Illustrated throughout. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 10 3/4 x 7 inches. Decorative brown wrappers. Very good with 2 minor chips. Fourth edition. Illustrated throughout. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 10 3/4 x 7 inches. Draeger Frères unknown books
1870WRCAM52754Placerville Ca 1870. 48 leaves plus six stubs. Oblong quarto. Original half sheep and paper boards. Front board detached stitching perishing. Boards rubbed edges and corners worn. An 1870s receipt book for cemetery plots in Placerville California. The burial ground belonged to the Morning Star Lodge founded in the town at the height of the Gold Rush in 1854. The blank printed forms all provide a "Certificate of Purchase for Lot in the Union Cemetery Placerville.belonging to said Lodge according to the Plat of Survey made by D.B. Merry and the said Lot is hereby granted to him subject to the rules of said Lodge now in force or that may hereafter be adopted for the government of the same." This particular lodge was and still is associated with the International Order of Odd Fellows which established a number of groups in California during the Gold Rush. hardcover books
1890WRCAM30587San Francisco 1890. 16pp. each with one photographic illustration and caption. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Old vertical crease through center staples rusted one leaf loose old ownership stamp on rear wrapper some photographs slightly marred. Good. A nice collection of detailed photographs of the Royal Mines Consolidated Company distributed as a promotion. Photographs include shots of miners mining equipment shafts and mining towns. Such mining ephemera is quite rare. unknown books
1897WRCAM55055San Francisco and Sonoma County Ca. 1897. 276pp. comprised of 52 printed pages with the remainder being diary space completed in manuscript irregularly filled out. Narrow 12mo. Limp brown wallet-style leather diary with flap and elastic closure loop a.e.g. Some wear and loss to leather at flap folds text block starting to crack minor tanning to paper. Overall very good. A very readable daybook from an unidentified young man living in Northern California in the late 1800s. Our unidentified diarist is laconic - he provides an entry for 216 days in 1897 with daily entries from January 1 to June 11 then more sporadically after that - and many entries are a variation on "Worked. Fine weather." But some days he is more forthcoming and describes trips to the Sutro baths; attending balls at Pioneer Hall and Foresters Hall; contracting a case of the mumps; starting and then quitting night school; and the night Bob Fitzsimmons knocked out "Gentleman Jim" Corbett. He mentions friends his work in a store in the city unloading fruit in particular bananas watermelon and Japanese oranges traveling to Berkeley and Oakland and the plowing and planting he does at home possibly in Sonoma County. Of particular interest is his entry for July 26 in which he writes "Great excitement about the Klondike every body crazy to go." And not long after he mentions that two of his friends have bought tickets and are headed to Alaska. One entry notes a trip made by three friends to Yosemite. In the front pocket of the diary is a check dated August 3 1896 to the Sacramento textile shop Wasserman Davis & Co. signed by J.W. Kasebery although no connection has been made between Kasebery and the diarist. <br> <br> Excelsior Diaries came into fashion in the late 19th century providing an almanac of sorts customized to various regions and then a half page space for brief daily reflections. In this case the stock pages include a calendar for 1897; routes of travel distances rates etc. from San Francisco; tide tables for San Francisco San Pedro Astoria and Port Townsend; postage rates; weights and measures; and varied trivia. <br> <br> A interesting perspective on 1897 in the Bay Area. hardcover books
1828WRCAM43468Mexico 1828. Broadside 16 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches. Old folds. Slight wear and a few closed tears at edges. Very good. In a half morocco and marbled boards folding box spine gilt. A scarce broadside enumerating the number of troops and officers which were needed for posts in California. The various posts are listed including San Francisco Monterrey Santa Barbara San Diego and Loreto as well as frontier forces. The number of soldiers called for at each is given as well as physicians and surgeons inspectors etc. The annual budgets for the forces are also provided. Signed in print at the end: "F. Castro." This broadside is sometimes found with an accompanying printed circular announcement not present here. hardcover books
1869WRCAM48138San Francisco: Fred'k MacCrellish & Co. 1869. 12pp. printed in double columns plus 4pp. of advertisements and advertisements wrappers. Original printed green wrappers. Two vertical creases small chips in edges of wrappers. Stitching loosening. Very good. A scarce pamphlet inducing working men and women to come to California where jobs are promised to be plentiful and the living good. Two pages of text list scores of occupations the number of workers desired in each the pay and the slots already filled. Other tables provide statistics on the cost of living in California. Women are encouraged to come as are unskilled laborers and there is information on education resources in the state and the potential for farmers. The California Labor Exchange was established in April 1868 to provide "poor people residents of the State and immigrants with employment." They boast that in their first eight months of operation they found employment for upwards of 12000 people. The advertisements are for some of the most prominent and influential businesses in California at the time including the Pacific Mail Steamship Company Wells Fargo the ALTA CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER and the Bank of California. Scarce; OCLC locates a total of eight copies. COWAN p.201. SABIN 10003. OCLC 19381623 228682803. Fred'k MacCrellish & Co. unknown books
1879WRCAM16848Sacramento 1879. 267pp. plus two folding tables. Original cloth. Extremities bit rubbed else a very good copy. Includes semi-annual reports of each commercial and savings bank in California with an index. Folding tables contain abstracts of the same reports. hardcover books
1876100100Pamphlet 8vo original pink printed wrappers wrapper title 10 pp. Slight fading to wrapper margins normal modest aging; near fine. Despite the very cumbersome title this is a very rare pamphlet dealing with the sale and disposition of land in Southern California. The work contends that legitimate settlers were cheated out of their homes by frauds that were committed by a few men who “have sought to acquire vast tracts of land illegally and wickedly for speculative purposes.†This represents a significant part of the land problems which plagued the settlement of Los Angeles. unknown books
1876WRCAM44135No place but probably Washington 1876. 10pp. Original printed blue wrappers. Fine. A relatively scarce collection of documents protesting the Department of the Interior's decision to overrule the California initiative to limit land sales to 320 acres per person. The federal government is accused of bending to the will of monopolists. Included is the decision of the Secretary of the Interior resolutions and acts passed by the California legislature the protest of the state land commission and a "petition of a thousand citizens of Los Angeles Valley." Though assembled by attorneys in Los Angeles it seems that this pamphlet was meant to be distributed to legislators in Washington DC hence our attribution of the place of publication. COWAN p.221. unknown books
1876WRCAM44135ANo place but probably Washington 1876. 10pp. Original printed blue wrappers. Light wear to lower outer page edges. Near fine. A relatively scarce collection of documents protesting the Department of the Interior's decision to overrule the California initiative to limit land sales to 320 acres per person. The federal government is accused of bending to the will of monopolists. Included is the decision of the Secretary of the Interior resolutions and acts passed by the California legislature the protest of the state land commission and a "petition of a thousand citizens of Los Angeles Valley." Though assembled by attorneys in Los Angeles it seems that this pamphlet was meant to be distributed to legislators in Washington D.C. hence our attribution of the place of publication. COWAN p.221. unknown books
1871WRCAM45708San Francisco: Alta California Book and Job Printing House 1871. 304pp. plus folding map and six of seven lithographic plates. Lacks the folding view of "Calistoga Springs in 1871." Titlepage printed in red and green. Original limp purple cloth stamped in gilt and blind white cloth backstrip. Cloth sunned rear cover repaired with tape at upper edge. Two small chips in titlepage else quite clean internally. Very good. A scarce illustrated pamphlet promoting the lovely Napa Valley community of Calistoga and its healing springs. "Justly called the Saratoga of the Pacific Calistoga has been a renowned resort for over a hundred years. This guide proudly describes the numerous advantages and beauties of the northern section of the Napa Valley. Originally settled by Sam Brannan Calistoga provides the visitor with natural mud baths geysers mineral baths the grape cure and the famous 'air and sun' cure to this day" - Howell. The map shows routes to Calistoga Springs from various places throughout California. The attractive plates like the map lithographed by Britton & Rey show various views of Calistoga including the railroad depot Mount St. Helena vineyards the swimming baths and Wapoo Indians. <br> <br> We can locate only two copies of this attractive work offered for sale in the past thirty-five years one copy at auction in 1991 and the copy offered by Warren Howell in his Catalogue 50. Two copies were offered by the Holmes Book Company as part of the Norris Collection in 1948 one with the folding view of "Calistoga Springs in 1871" priced $5 and one without priced $3. The present copy lacks the folding view. A scarce promotional with early and attractive views of this Napa Valley landmark. ROCQ 5876. COWAN p.102. HOWELL 50:345. NORRIS CATALOGUE 501 3666. Alta California Book and Job Printing House hardcover books
