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19233144Los Angeles. Al Malaikah Temple. 1923. Art Deco pictorial wrappers. Oblong 8vo. Profusely illustrated with colour and duotone full page plates of early Southern California. A beautiful collection of 1920 era Southern California photographs. Some chipping to covers else Near Fine. Al Malaikah Temple. unknown
19078756No Place: no publisher. Good. 1907. Softcover. 24 pp.; 4to; original printed stapled gray wrappers. Moderate tanning at edges; strip of heavier tanning across lower back cover; half-inch closed tear rear cover leading edge; light tanning to front endpaper. . [no publisher] paperback
1929302295Los Angeles 1929. 100 pp of typed documents and an additional 50 album leaves mounted with approximately 50 photographs various sizes and processes and various documents. Folio. Limp leatherette with title and recipient name stamped in gilt to upper cover. Large black quarter morocco clamshell box gilt. 100 pp of typed documents and an additional 50 album leaves mounted with approximately 50 photographs various sizes and processes and various documents. Folio. "It is proposed that a COMPLETE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS be opened to the public on a fifty cent admission basis which is to be properly laid out as an attractive Zoological and Botanical Garden with the finest and largest private collection of animals birds and reptiles to be seen anywhere on the continent."<br /> <br /> The advent of the motion picture industry in California had many wide-ranging ramifications on the business world and one was that it created a new market for firms who traditionally supplied animals to circuses and zoos both public and private owned by the likes of William Randolph Hearst. <br /> <br /> This archive is a report by the Investment Auditors of California for the Horne Corporation that was looking to expand by establishing a zoological garden in the environs of Los Angeles. The Horne Corporation was the largest and most successful of its type at the time apparently the only company in the US that could completely outfit a circus with both animals and show equipment. They were to purchase the Los Angeles Zoological Garden and Jungle Studio for $250000 and thereby sought to provide a similarly complete service to the film studios with both animals and suitable locations for film sets.<br /> <br /> The head of the company I.S. Horne for whom this report was compiled commenced trading in animals from Kansas City MO around 1914. The range of animals at the their disposal included big game birds reptiles and many of the documents concern the prospect of importing reindeer from Alaska.<br /> <br /> The material is held in a presentation album and includes the certificate of incorporation in Wilmington Delaware May 13 1929 as well as the by-laws of the corporation minutes of the first meeting the proposal for Los Angeles Zoological Garden and Jungle Studio and a balance sheet. At this stage the company had total assets of $57700 & liabilities of $625388.46; an enumeration of the various animals in inventory including wildebeest sables leopard lynx Rhodesian baboons bushbaby and a large aardvark.<br /> <br /> Of real interest are the plans for the park including artist's impressions which would be furnished with circus attractions "Monkey Island" jungle setting for motion pictures and an acknowledgment that "before the introduction of the motion picture industry the art of showmanship was not quite so highly developed as it is today." In fact one of the first pictures they supplied animals for was - appropriately enough - Trader Horn which was nominated for the 1931 Academy Award for Best Picture. <br /> <br /> On a more practical level there is a "Descriptive Classification of Principal Commercial Wild Animals" which lists 340 different animals in some details. There is also an account of hunting wild animals in East Africa as well as a section on animals that have been trained to hunt by man. Furthermore there is also much correspondence which provides much insight into the game industry its clients and the prospects for its future.<br /> <br /> Horne's venture subsequently became known as the World Jungle Compound in Thousand Oaks California eventually being acquired by 20th Century Fox studios. This archive is a record of a new phase of the entertainment industry. unknown
197722378San Francisco: Book Club of California 1977. Limited edition. Hardcover. Like new in plain paper jacket. Folio 14 x 9.5 inches white cloth with gilt spine title title and portrait of Dodoens printed in olive green on front board; 288 pp. profusely illustrated with reproductions from old engravings original leaf from the 1583 edition tipped-in. <br/><br/>Leaf page 827/828 measures 13.75 x 8.5 inches and contains on recto descriptions of "Malo Armeniaca" apricot with engraved illustration and "Amygdalus" almond with engraved illustration following on verso. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom in an edition of 385 copies. Book Club of California hardcover
197720801San Francisco: Book Club of California 1977. Limited edition. Hardcover. Like new in plain paper jacket. Folio 14 x 9.5 inches white cloth with gilt spine title title and portrait of Dodoens printed in olive green on front board; 288 pp. profusely illustrated with reproductions from old engravings original leaf from the 1583 edition tipped-in. <br/><br/>Leaf page 827/828 measures 13.75 x 8.5 inches and contains on recto descriptions of "Alnus" alder with engraved illustration and "Betula" birch and "Acer" Maple with engraved illustration following on verso. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom in an edition of 385 copies. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Book Club of California hardcover
195843824San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California 1958. First edition one of 400 copies printed. Illustrated. 80 pp. 1 vols. Folio 14 x 10. tan linen spine paper label and decorated boards. Fine. First edition one of 400 copies printed. Illustrated. 80 pp. 1 vols. Folio 14 x 10. Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California unknown
199343823San Francisco: Book Club of California 1993. One of 500 copies. 5 facsimile title pages color plate. x 2 62 pp. 1 vols. Folio 14 x 10. Original tan linen spine paper label and decorated boards. Fine. One of 500 copies. 5 facsimile title pages color plate. x 2 62 pp. 1 vols. Folio 14 x 10. <br/><br/> Book Club of California hardcover
1906325294Np 1906. 48 views on 12 glass lantern slides each slide measuring approx. 1-7/8 x 7 inches. 7-1/2 x 2-1/4 x 1-1/2 inches overall. Housed in the original white box with title as above and with listing of each numbered view. Splits to the box the slides in very good condition. 48 views on 12 glass lantern slides each slide measuring approx. 1-7/8 x 7 inches. 7-1/2 x 2-1/4 x 1-1/2 inches overall. unknown
195571371San Francisco: Wyland Stanley c. 1955. Original silver gelatin print made by Wyland Stanley from the negative of ca. 1925. 16 3/4 x 13 1/4 and mounted to board with a typed caption. A fine & rich image. Wyland Stanley d. 1994 was a San Francisco collector of negatives and photographic printer. During the 1950s he made prints of historic photos by Isaiah Taber Carleton Watkins Bradley & Rulofson Edweard Muybridge as well these prints of vintage cars from original negatives of pictures taken in the 1920s. The Bancroft has a large collection 328 of Wyland Stanley historic prints. Many of Stanley's photographs are currently available from stock houses but this one was actually printed by Stanley the owner of the negative in the mid 1950s. The captions were written by Stanley and are often humorous. Wyland Stanley unknown
190575148New York: T. H. McCallister Company ca. 1905. This is a lovely set of glass slides; 45 in total and including 10 hand-colored. The subject of almost all of them are horticultural and the local is from La Jolla to Redlands to Pasadena. These are most definitely not the record of a family . Avenues of Eucalyptus; vacation. There are no people shown but great care is shown in identifying the plants and their locations. More than likely these were put together for a lecture on the Botany of Southern California. Almost all have manuscript captions. But the deciding factor is the fact that two of the magic lantern slides have captions within the negative a strong argument for a public lecture.Common titles are; An avenue of Eucalyptus; Banana Tree is Pasadena; 10000 acre orange grove; Olive trees Old Mission Inn; Ophir Roses Pasadena; Geraniums; Arroyo Seco; Tomato plants appearing about 10 ft tall; Calla Lily Field color; Vineyard color; Ostriches color; Hydrangeas with a bearded supervisor. 1905 is a bit past the big booster time so these were likely for educational purposes. Edifying the public on the grandeur of California T. H. McCallister Company unknown
195371168Santa Cruz: N.p. 1953. Ruth Monsen an elementary school teacher and high school librarian in San Jose assembled this attractive gathering of specimens in the early fifties probably as a teaching tool for her students. There are thirty-eight specimens all of plants native to the hills around San Jose and Santa Cruz. Each one is tape-mounted on a thick piece of paper 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches and housed in a protective sleeve. Each specimen with a separate page of manuscript description in ink by Monsen housed in the sleeve as well. The descriptions are quite detailed: e.g. "Mountain Mahogany; Cercocarpus betuloides. Rose Family Rosaceae. Collected on a hillside wooded in the foothills west of the Stevens Creek Dam on April 25 1953. Found in middle and high elevations in the mountains. Simple leaves. No petals. Stamens numerous. Calyx-tube slender and stalk-like. Shrub or small tree. Leaves serrate above the middle". All housed in a plain box of like dimensions. A wonderful and attractive presentation unusual in that none of the specimens have come off their mounts nor have any been crushed or broken. N.p. unknown
194071435Los Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California ca. 1940. A fine grouping of 14 pre-freeway California maps from the Automobile Club of Southern California. Housed in the original box given to the subscriber when he received them at his local office one end missing but attractive nonetheless. A few slight separation fold splits but overall in very good condition with the majority appearing to have never been opened.Maps are; Eastern Section of Los Angeles; Central Section of Los Angeles; Southern Section of Los Angeles; San Fernando Valley Section of Los Angeles; Orange County; Metropolitan Los Angeles; Imperial County; San Diego County; Kern County; San Luis Obispo County; Tulare County; Ventura County; Riverside County; California. Automobile Club of Southern California unknown
1926321837Modoc County California 1926. 107 photographs most 3-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches but others ranging from 2-3/4 x 2 inches to 10 x 8 inches mounted to eleven card-stock leaves. About one-third of the photographs with manuscript captions in the lower margin or typed captions in the image. 1 vols. Oblong 11 x 14 inches. Contemporary three-quarter leather and patterned paper photo album string-tied. Boards quite rubbed and worn. The photographs in quite nice condition. Very good overall. 107 photographs most 3-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches but others ranging from 2-3/4 x 2 inches to 10 x 8 inches mounted to eleven card-stock leaves. About one-third of the photographs with manuscript captions in the lower margin or typed captions in the image. 1 vols. Oblong 11 x 14 inches. An evocative portrait of deer hunting and other outdoor activities in northern California in the mid-1920s. Many of the activities depicted took place in Modoc County in the far northeast of the state while other camps were made in Shasta National Forest. The album bears the ownership signature of Dr. John H. Brunings on the front pastedown. In a newspaper clipping affixed to one of the album leaves Brunings of San Francisco is identified as a "well known sportsman." Among those depicted in the album is a favored hunting partner of Bruning's Dr. L.N. Briones also of San Francisco.<br /> Much of the album depicts hunters in the field with numerous recent kills and trophies showing the deer field-dressed in place hanging from trees and camp poles draped over car hoods or horses or antlers affixed to other camp structures or car hoods 45 total photographs; duck hunters with daily kills some showing dozens 12; the deer hunters in the field or in camp 17; hunters in the field with a beautiful setter and shotguns 9; a hunter with recently killed rabbits 1; views of the hunting grounds in the Modoc County mountains 7; miscellaneous images of Dr. Brunings mostly with friends in the outdoors 13; Brunings in the U.S. Navy in China 1; view of main street in Adin California 1; and an image of a "pinto" deer a buck with distinct white patches killed by Brunings near Gualala California 1 photograph the 10 x 8 print.<br /> Typed captions appear either in the image or in the margins of twenty photographs mostly from Happy Camp and Horse Springs nineteen others have ink captions in the margins. The captions note locations as well as the names of many of those depicted. unknown
193275158Los Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California 1932. Original ACSC folding map printed on one side only but for the title panel. 35 x 9 1/2 inches. Very good. Automobile Club of Southern California unknown
1916314050N.p. California and Nevada 1916. With 29 mounted photographs most neatly captioned in ink on 18 leaves 922 snapshots and 6 4 x 6 inches one printed photo postcard and a folding "Map of the Feather River Highway" on onion skin paper laid in. 8 pp. typescript titled Vacation 1916 rectos only. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Brown cloth with string ties. Binding worn; first leaf of typescript torn along gutter no loss old repairs on verso of map. Very good. Black cloth clamshell box. With 29 mounted photographs most neatly captioned in ink on 18 leaves 922 snapshots and 6 4 x 6 inches one printed photo postcard and a folding "Map of the Feather River Highway" on onion skin paper laid in. 8 pp. typescript titled Vacation 1916 rectos only. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Nice photograph album and narrative account of an early automobile camping and trout fishing trip in and around Big Meadow and Lake Almanor. The party of three "Russell Homer and I" possibly "Super Shot Margie" who appears in several of the photographs left on the Benicia ferry on 22 July and spent the next two weeks around Gold Lake Long Lake Reno and Lake Tahoe talking to oldtime prospectors camping dancing fishing and visiting the sights. With photographs of trout fishing their camps swimming and boating an old miner's cabin and a few scenes in the snow. A nice record of a trip through an area that retains its appeal for vacationers a century later.<br /> <br /> AN ATTRACTIVE CALIFORNIA ALBUM. unknown
194276767Carmel: Big Sur Lodge ca. 1942. First edition of this eight-panel brochure. 25 x 3 inches folded: 6 1/4 x 3 inches. All photographic illustrations tinted in blue. OCLC only locates one copy Bancroft. Fine condition.A wonderful presentation of the Big Sur region prior to the Jack Kerouac and Henry Miller age. A nicely done distance map occupies three of the panels showing the entire West Coast. The remain panels have photographic illustrations of the Lodge and its grounds local attractions and the recreations available near the Lodge. There is also much ballyhoo about the The Carmel-San Simeon Highway also known as the Roosevelt Highway as it had recently been completed 1937. It took 16 years to finish this 100-mile stretch of highway and anyone who has traversed it knows why.The state of California acquired the land in 1933 from the original homesteaders and created Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park in the Pfeiffer family's honor. The Civilian Conservation Corps built the lodge and surrounding facilities between 1933 and 1941. The Lodge is still administered by the state. Big Sur Lodge unknown
19548753Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press For the Friends of the UCLA Library. Good. 1954. Softcover. 26 pp.; 8vo; printed stapled blue wrappers. Scuff to front cover; stip of light tanning across front endpaper; ownership ticket of Ed Ainsworth affixed to lower edge inside front cover. The Botica General . . . was one of twelve twelve books printed by the Zamorano press during its twelve years of service to the Mexican Government. . The Ward Ritchie Press For the Friends of the UCLA Library paperback
194676114Auburn: J. P. Hall 1946. First edition of the October 1946 issue published monthly. Quarto. 32 pp. illustrated and with ads. Publisher's printed yellow wrappers Short split at upperr joint but a very clean and sturdy copy.The main story is the anger over the governments preemptory declaration of mines that have been worked for a number of years as "Non-Mineral." to quote from the front cover-"Owners of and Estimated 6000 Claims Developing and Producing Mines are losing their holding to the U.S. Navy without benefit of Engineering and Legal Help Many are being ordered to Relinquish Their Rights for Nothing on Interior Department Engineers' reports that said Claims are "Non-Mineral." Or as it is more succinctly put in the headline for the main article "A Sin! A Crime!! A Damnable Outrage!!!." It seems most of the mines affected were near Randsburg and those mines were still producing. A government order was issued at the end of WWII to close down the gold mines as they were not considered an essential wartime industry. Another reason was the decline in the value of gold. J. P. Hall unknown
192375464Los Angeles: National Mortgage Company of California 1923. First edition. Quarto. 48 pp. with artistic photographic illustrations on every page. Publisher's blue wrappers. front cover with a gilt frame surrounding the title in gilt. An excellent copy. Only 4 copies recorded by OCLC.Presentation inscription from "Geo. S. Walker". Walker was for twelve years the state Building & Loan Commissioner before becoming the president of the National Mortgage Company of California. A rather elaborate piece of boosterism. As it was issued by a mortgage company instead of a special interest it covers every aspect of the new California life-style. National Mortgage Company of California unknown
192775587Los Angeles: Benton Publishing Co. 1927. First edition Narrow octavo. 20 pp. with with color illustrations on nearly every page. Publisher's pictorial wrappers with a color image of a tour bus on the cover. In the original envelope which has "A Bit of California Color" printed on it. An excellent copy. No copies located by OCLC.The subtitle on the front cover is "See California First.' At first glance one would think this a pamphlet for the Golden State Royal Blue Line of buses a relatively new phenomenon. But as one reads further it is obvious that this is a piece of boosterism for the State in general as it covers nearly everything and in printed in exceedingly small type using blue ink. I think the real reason for it's publication unknown to the internet or to OCLC is to be found on the inner rear page. There we see a colorful cluster of purple grapes and the following ad; "The World's Only Deluxe All-Color Book in Multi-process Art Engravings: "California the Wonderland and Garden of the World" published by the very same Benton Publishing Company. Mechanical color printing was a very new thing in 1927 Prior to this a printer had to use lithos or engravings. "Initially some black and white halftones were enhanced with synthetically applied color. By the 1920s improvements in mechanical color separation techniques and the growth of magazine publishing made it possible for some titles to afford full-color pictures and black text to be printed together on sheetfed letterpress systems" Multimediaman June 2016. In truth the color in the publication is well less than sterling and this leads one to suspect that the Benton Publishing Company offered to print this at a discount for the State in order to try out their new printing process. Many of the illustrations are positively strange and feel off-register as they were likely struggling to master this new technology. Benton Publishing Co. unknown
191272138Los Angeles: M. Reider 1912. Complete deck of 52 playing cards each with a captioned photographic scene on the face and a poinsettia and mission bell on the back card edges gilt. In the original two-part red box with gilt lettering. Box has some expected wear. Cards are beautiful.All fifty-two of the cards bear different photographic images of places of interest in California and include; Soldier's Home near Santa Monica Cawston Ostrich Farm Rubidoux Summer Riverside Casino and Beach Santa Cruz Stanford University the Pinnacles near Soledad Arlington Hotel Santa Barbara etc. Joker and ad card present. Original revenue stamp present. M. Reider unknown
195571362San Francisco: Wyland Stanley c. 1955. Original silver gelatin print made by Wyland Stanley from the negative of ca. 1925. 16 3/4 x 13 1/4 and mounted to board with a typed caption. A fine & rich image. Wyland Stanley d. 1994 was a San Francisco collector of negatives and photographic printer. During the 1950s he made prints of historic photos by Isaiah Taber Carleton Watkins Bradley & Rulofson Edweard Muybridge as well these prints of vintage cars from original negatives of pictures taken in the 1920s. The Bancroft has a large collection 328 of Wyland Stanley historic prints. Many of Stanley's photographs are currently available from stock houses but this one was actually printed by Stanley the owner of the negative in the mid 1950s. The captions were written by Stanley and are often humorous. Wyland Stanley unknown
1928314049California 1928. 131 mounted black and white photographs and more than 75 items of typescript and printed ephemera inserted. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Black card wrappers string tied. A few photographs or items of ephemera perished generally very good. Black cloth clamshell box with printed lbel. 131 mounted black and white photographs and more than 75 items of typescript and printed ephemera inserted. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Nicely illustrated photograph album and scrapbook of the convivial businessman J.W. Fricke of San Francisco who fished for rainbow trout from his cabin on the Feather River in the California Sierras. The album includes Fricke's fishing licenre is a calligraphic page for the "Golden Feather Cabeen and Some Famous Fishermen Who Visit There" naming on successive pages Frank F. Weber C.W. Callender J.H. Vogt Edwin D. Weary whose typed verses in praise of the Feather River are included and E.R. Billet who also typed some verses sometimes with notes in white ink. Photographs are often dated and captioned chiefly 1919-1923 and show views of stream interiors of the cabin the friends bathing scenes and the fishing. There are also a few photos recording a trip to the Père Raquette river in Michigan and a newspaper account of fishing the Rogue River in Oregon; and some printed verses in praise of Fricke's hospitality dated 1928.<br /> <br /> A PLEASING GLIMPSE OF WESTERN ANGLING IN THE 1920s. unknown
195676326Sacramento: Department of Public Works 1956. First edition. Quarto. Text with various paginations and with 25 folding maps and graphs in the rear many in color. Publisher's quarter cloth tape spine over photographically illustrated wrappers. Tape at base of spine peeling away and a magic marker covering of something on the front wrappers but a complete and solid copyRecord-breaking floods occurred in California the western parts of Nevada Oregon and Idaho and scattered basins in southern Washington during the last part of December 1955 and in January 1956. "Gum Tree Levee on the Feather River in Sutter County collapsed sending a 21-foot wall of water into Yuba City. In the darkness of the night the town would go into complete chaos with families fleeing from their homes to escape the deadly flood. n the end 40000 people would evacuate the surrounding area with over 600 needing to be rescued by boat or helicopter and 38 people dying in the floodwater. It was a devastating natural disaster and a strong lesson for the area that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers calls “the most prone to intense flooding of any river valley in the United States.â€The storm that caused the rise in waters in Northern California was one for the ages. A bombardment of precipitation slammed the entire west coast with Shasta County receiving 15.34 inches in just 24 hours on December 20th. A statewide disaster was declared with the storm resulting in 74 deaths and $200 million in economic losses" Active Norcal 2023. Department of Public Works hardcover
193374409Long Beach: Green's Inc. 1933. First edition of this earthquake souvenir. 6 x 4 inches. 16 pp. almost entirely of photographic illustrations of the damage caused by this 1933 quake. Publisher's light tan mailing wrappers with the tile and a photographic illustrations of the first responders captioned "The Situation Is in Good Hands> Stamped and send to Mr. & Mrs. LaPierre Peck of Yakima WA. Wonderful condition.The 1933 Long Beach earthquake took place on March 10 at 5:54 P.M. PST south of downtown Los Angeles. The epicenter was offshore southeast of Long Beach California on the Newport–Inglewood Fault. The earthquake had a magnitude estimated at 6.4 Mw and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII Severe. Damage to buildings was widespread throughout Southern California. 115 to 120 fatalities and an estimated forty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted. The majority of the fatalities resulted from people running out of buildings exposing themselves to the falling debris. A great deal of the damage was focused on Long Beach and this quake was a wake-up call for local governments to institute new construction guidelines. Green's Inc. unknown
