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White quarto, open strip binding, 225 p, b&w maps ; 28 cm. Gold mines and mining -- California. || Scarce; only 4 holdings. || Copy or Reprint?
Oblong folio in green DJ; xii, 183 p, b&w illus (some color) ; 24 x 32 cm. Clubs -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Quarto in orange polished cloth with black text and graphic (peace symbol with hand peace sign in center); 64p, chiefly b&w white photos. Numerous hand-written inscriptions as usual. Scarce. 1972 Berkeley High School Yearbook. Lots of great photos of the era!
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Pages 90-176 plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Features: In a Submarine in War-Time - Perils and harships; Billy the Kid - Photo-illustrated article on his demise at the hand of Sheriff P.F. Garrett; The Valley of Wonders - The first description and photos ever published of Red Rock Canyon in Southern California; Photo of ostrich-powered cart in Pasadena, California - the ostrich is named 'Black Diamond' and is worth $2k!; The Golden Image; In Quest of Cannibals - part 2 - Exploration and adventure in New Guinea - with interesting photos; Brief photo-illustrated article of an Indian juggler who lifts heavy weights with his eyelids; Snipe-Hunting; A Sapper's Night Out; On Foot Through South America - part 1 - Author tramped the entire terrible length of the Andes, a feat probably never accomplished before - with nice photos; On the Trail of the Big Black Elk - Hunting adventure in the Umpqua Mountains of Oregon; My South African Adventures - part 4 - In Search of Kruger's Millions; Cutting Ships in Halves - Photo-illustrated article on how a difficult transport problem was solved; Desert Flying - part 2 - The difficulties of flying over Sinai, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Persia; The Saving of Freddie Wilson - The incredible story of how Negro woman Agnes Henderson witnessed the Mexican murder of an American couple, saved their son, and took him to Tampico to return him to his relatives; African Snakes. Unmarked with average wear. Covers detached as one but present. A worthy copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
In 4° (22x17 cm); (24 compresa antiporta incisa), 504, (100) pp. e 45 c. di tav. fuori testo (delle quali 3 tavole fuori testo e 42 c. di tav. geografiche più volte ripiegate). Legatura coeva in piena pergamena rigida con titolo impresso in oro al dorso. Tagli leggermente spruzzati. Titolo impresso in oro entro cornice dorata al dorso. Qualche fioritura sparsa dovuta alla qualità della carta utilizzata per questa edizione e tipica di tutti gli esemplari ma nel nostro esemplare molto meno marcate del solito, sempre leggeri e senza pagine brunite. Nel complesso esemplare in buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione. Quarta edizione, completa della celebre mappa dell'America che presenta la California ancora come un'isola, della più importante opera geografica del seicento, considerata la prima vera opera di geografia moderna. Questa quarta edizione, rispetto alla precedente del 1667, presenta due carte in più. L'opera presentata rappresenta il capolavoro del celeberrimo storico e geografo tedesco, Filippo Cluverio (nome italianizzato di Philipp Clüver o Klüver, Danzica, 1580 – Leida, 31 dicembre 1622) considerato il fondatore della geografia storica moderna. Nato a Danzica nel 1580, allora provincia della Polonia, viaggiò fin da piccolo attraverso la Germania e la Polonia, imparando anche la lingua polacca e risiedendo per un certo periodo presso la corte di Sigismondo III Vasa re di Polonia. In questi anni il padre lo introduce agli studi scientifici. Iniziati gli studi giuridici a Leida. Pur seguendo gli studi giuridici, ben presto si appassionò alla geografia e alla storia imparata attraverso l'insegnamento di Giuseppe Giusto Scaligero, comprendendo come le due discipline fossero profondamente legate. Nei primi anni a Leida gli studi di Philipp furono sostenuti dal padre che era Münzmeister di Danzica ma una volta che il figlio decise di seguire le proprie passioni per la geografia e la storia, il padre gli tagliò i fondi. Lasciata Leida, il giovane Cluver viaggiò attraverso l'Ungheria fino alla Boemia dove si arruolò nell'esercito e dove rimase per diversi anni prestando il servizio militare. E' di questi anni una sua traduzione della difesa del barone Popel Lobkowitz incarcerato in seguito al conflitto religioso fra protestanti e cattolici. Questo scritto gli creò problemi una volta rientrato a Leida quando le autorità imperiali gli comminarono alcune sanzioni che però riuscì ad evitare grazie all'intervento di alcuni suoi influenti amici nell'Università di Leida che riuscirono anche, nel 1616 a fargli riconoscere una pensione regolare dalla stessa Università che gli assegnò anche diversi compiti presso la sua biblioteca, sfruttando le conoscenze antiquarie di Cluver. La sua opera è considerata di basilare importanza per gli studi storici e geografici in quanto essa rappresenta il primo studio generale della geografia dell'antichità fino ai suoi giorni, basato non solo su fonti letterarie classiche, ma e questo è stato il suo contributo principale, integrato da ampi viaggi e ispezioni locali per cercare conferma nelle fonti antiche, non più prese come autorità assolute. La sua prima opera, uscita nel 1611, fu un dotto studio riguardanti le parti inferiori del Reno e dei suoi abitanti tribali in epoca romana dal titolo “Commentarius de tribes Rheni alveis, et ostiis; item. De Quinque populis quondam accolis; scilicet de Toxandris, Batavis, Caninefatibus, Frisiis, ac Marsacis”. A lui si devono anche altre opere storico-geografiche come “Germaniae antiquae libri tres di Clüver” (Leida, 1616) che riprende studi di Tacito e da altri autori latini, un volume sulle antichità della Sicilia, con note sulla Sardegna e la Corsica dal titolo “Sicilia Antiqua cum minoribus insulis”, pubblicato a Leida da Louis Elsevier nel 1619. La sua “Introductio in universam geographiam”in sei parte, venne pubblicata per la prima volta, solo postuma nel 1624 ed è considerata la prima opera geografica moderna completa, divenendo uno dei manuale geografici standard per tutto il seicento ed il settecento. Clüver fu anche prolifico scrittore di argomenti matematici e teologici. È ricordato da collezionisti e storici della cartografia, anche per la sua edizione della “Geographia” di Tolomeo (basata sull'edizione di Mercatore del 1578) e per atlanti in miniatura ristampati per gran parte del XVII secolo. Molte delle sue mappe furono incise per lui da Petrus Bertius. Quarta edizione, non comune e ancor meno meno comune, completa ed in queste buone condizioni di conservazione. Rif. Bibl.: IT\ICCU\BVEE\038333.
219p. + Plus frontis. Full page illustration by John T. McCutcheon. 8vo. Original printed wraps, worn. Original blue paper dust wraps, worn. "Eleventh edition" printed on front cover. HUMOR 1
pp. xiii, 331. Floral endpapers. 8vo. Original full tan cloth binding, decorated and lettered in red. Hardbound. Third Edition. A very good copy. Especially interesting are Codman's impressions of Utah, Mormonism, and California. AMERICANA BOX 5
Large oblong quarto in white illus wraps; 96 pages : illustrations (b&w photos); 22 x 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-94) and index. Signed by author on title page. Wonderful phtoographs from Richmond's rich and varied past, including Botts Flying Machine. || Richmond (Calif.) -- History. California -- Richmond.
PML Ed. - 1994 - In-4 - Cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette, illustrés en couleurs - Très nombreuses illustrations en couleurs dans le texte et HT, certaines PP et doubles pages - 400 pages - Très bel exemplaire, comme neuf Sommaire : La Nouvelle-Angleterre - Les Etats du Centre atlantique - Le Sud - Le Middle West et les plaines - Le Sud-Ouest et la Californie du Sud - Le Nord-Ouest et la Californie du Nord - L'Alaska et les îles Hawaï
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to upper edge, mainly at top of spine. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 107pp. Guide to the Californian Nature Reserve and ski resort. Very scarce book in the UK.
4to, pages not numbered, colour illustrations throughout. eng
32 pages. Features: Tour of Distant Lands via Camera; The Cause of Nervous Breakdown; Socialism through the Eyes of the Churchman; What Books are Worthwhile - and Why?; The Scientist is the Most Effectual Agent for Democracy, Says Edwin E. Slosson; Certain Fundamental Safeguards are still needed in Our Cort-Martial System, so says a former Sergeant Major of the American Expeditionary Forces; The Scholar Analyzes the different Versions of the New Testament; Henry Ford's Page - prosperity has not arrived until the last family enjoys it; Editorials - Senate-nominee William S. Vare, Gertrude Ederle is the first woman ever to swim the English Channel, Rapid decline in prestige of Premier Baldwin, interfering in Mexican affairs; The Old-Time Revival - Is it good enough for us?; The Cry of the Crippled Children - is greater than that about which a Barrett Browning wrote; Lower California - Land of Mystery - Where American Filibusters once sought to establish a republic; The Truth About France - Lesson of Touraine and the Woolen Stocking; If Shakespeare Came to London - would he be able to find may of his old haunts?; The Lure of Lofty Places - There are thrills on the mountain tops and fascination in finding them - article with photos of/on Mount Rainier, Washington; Barefoot Dave - Son of Nature, Mute Throreau of the Woods - David Dugden of Les Cheneaux Islands; Child Welfare and Conscience - Judge Franklin Chase Hoyt sits in the world's largest juvenile court; Chats with office callers - drunks in Montreal, Schools taking on more and more responsibility for child-rearing, Dr. George Byron Gordon, labor strife on the streets of New York; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - Great Britain's financial problems, Citrate acid in drinks makes us thirsty, forged manuscripts of famous authors, Lots of gangsters being killed in Chicago; Briefly told. Photos of unusual trees of the world; Soiling to front cover near spine. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Book shows light wear to covers only, sunning to spine, age-toning at endpapers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Book concerns the history of Pope & Talbot, Inc., the longest existing shipping company on the west coast, based in Port Gamble, Washington. Founded in 1849 to meet the transport needs of the gold rush in San Francisco, California, includes photographs, illustrations, index, fold-out genealogy chart of the Pope and Talbot families in America, bibliography, preface by Charles Wheeler, executive vice president. 480 pages
pp. xvi, 413. Illustrated with drawings. Inked ownership of Martha H. Melhado. Small 4to. Original full black cloth binding, lettered and decorated in gild gold. Original priced dust jacket, slightly soiled. Signed by the author. First Edition. Limited to only 2,000 copies. Hardbound. Very good. W10
529p., illus. Story of an American Eden, Napa Valley, California Hardcover Very good condition good
529pp. 24 Hardcover Very good condition good
32 pages. Features: Harry M. Moore, 1909-1979 - he was the personification of the true Franklin spirit; New England Get-Together at Stockbridge, MA.; Midwest Spring Meet; The 26th Trek; List of Trekkers Attending 26th Annual Trek; List of Franklins at the 1979 Trek; Scenic Norway - photos from member Knut Erik Bjerkeseth; To The 1979 Westrek and Home Again, by William H. Schemal, M.D.; Two-pages of reproduced pages of vintage brochure for "The Cotay Car"; Connecticutt to California in a 135 Victoria Brougham, by John F. Bergmann. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent issue. Book
105p, illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Cambridge, The Riverside Press, 1952. 4to.; 5 hs.; 213 pp. Ilustraciones del autor entre el texto. Encuadernación original en tela estampada. El autor, oiriginario de San Francisco y conocido como "El Niño de California", fue Viceconsul norteamericano en Sevilla, Málaga y Barcelona entre 1943 y 1946. Torero él mismo, fue amigo de Belmonte y en el presente libro noveló el último dia de la vida de Manolete.
120 pages. Haunting black and white photos. "The stubborn fact is, our fellow Japanese American citizens lost their liberty simply and only because of their ancestry." - former Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark. Usual library markings. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear, small tears, and ink mark to cover. Remainder mark. 78 pages. 10 7/8"w x 8 7/8"h. Stated First Edition.
Pages 63-124. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Nice photo ad for the Boston & Maine Railroad inside front cover; Jefferson, N.H. - great feature article with many photos; Lovers' Leap - an aboriginal legend of southern New Hampshire ; New Hampshire Men of Mark, III - William Henry Sawyer - feature article with photos; After the storm (poem); To my friend (poem); In loneliness (poem); The Vaughans - A California Idyl (continued); Mount Moosilauke's bird inhabitants; Withered violets (poem); The tunnel-seat and the window-seat; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Quarto in illus., maps (some color); 248 p., 29 cm. Scarce. Contents: The port landscape and the city -- Commerce -- The Board of State Harbor Commissioners -- Ships, rails, and trucks -- Tenants and workers -- Engineering -- Architecture and planning -- Epilogue : the Port since 1969 -- Catalogue [of sites and structures] -- Appendix : the Chief Engineer and the Engineering Department.
193-288, [166] ads, pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Printed upon glossy stock. The many pages of ads include an abundance of nostalgic photos and illustrations. Features: The Residence of A.L.Garford, Esq., Oak Knoll, Pasadena, California - Marston & Van Pelt, Architects; Hilgard Hall, University of California - John Galen Howard, Architect; Suggestions and Models for Architectural Rendering - The Lithograpic Work of David Roberts, 1796-1864; English Architectural Decoration - Part X; The Artistic Treatment of Concrete Surfaces; Workingmen's Houses in Italy - Part II; Portfolio of Current Architecture;The Architect's Library; Notes and Comments. Unmarked with average wear. Covers loosening. Binding intact. Two small binding holes near spine. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
97-192, [106] ads, pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Printed upon glossy stock. The many pages of ads include an abundance of nostalgic photos and illustrations. Features: The Residence of Major J.H.H. Peshine, Santa Barbara, California - Myron Hunt, Architect; War Memorials; Housing Project Schedules; The Government's Housing at Bridgeport; Profiles and Materials; Modern Industrial Plants - Part IV; Some Doorways of Older New York; Portfolio of Current Architecture; Architect's Library; Notes and Comments. Heavy external wear. Faint library stamp atop front cover. Covers loose but present. Binding intact. Two small binding holes near spine. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book