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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
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
70653A holographic diary and journal written in 1914 by a young California woman from Rio Bravo California a former settlement in Kern County along the Santa Fe railroad near Bakersfield. The 50-page journal begins on January 30 1914 with its author 15-year-old Rosy Luella Thomas writing about her daily activities. The entries run through February 14 and center on going to school playing with friends and doing odd chores around the property where she lives with her sister and aunt. February 2 1914: "Monday I got up at seven o' clock. We were hurrying around so as not to be late for school. Then we went out and brushed and harnessed the horse. Â After breakfast we got ready and went to school. But we were around 10 minutes late. We got home late from school and we had to get in wood and get supper and we went to bed about half past eight." Following the diary entries is a 30-page original story Thomas titled "Rosilie and Her Dog" about a young girl who becomes lost on her way home from school and misses her parents and her dog whose name is Sleipnir presumably named after the eight-legged horse of Odin in Norse mythology. In the story the young woman was eight years old when she stumbled into a mountain cottage fell asleep and was later awoken by the owner of the house George who was so taken with her beauty he never wanted her to leave. She lived with him in chaste domestic bliss for several years until she grew into a young woman. In time Rosilie was reunited with her dog and her parents who instantly took a liking to George so they all moved to her parents' house and later to the city. "They had many happy hours talking together of how they met and the little old cabin" she wrote at the conclusion of her story. "Sleipnir was still living and was lying on the hearth rug in a beautiful house. In their old age when they would talk of the little brown cottage way up in the hills George would sing to Rosalie 'Your hair was then a golden but now a silver hew and we have lived together all these years we two.'" According to ancestry records it appears Rosy's father William died in 1909 and her mother Dovie who subsequently remarried and had two more children died in 1912. By the time of the writing of this journal and story Rosy was an orphan. Just a year later at the age of 16 she married John Duns a man 10 years her senior who worked in the oil fields around Bakersfield. They had two children and Rosy died in 1938. Written on ruled line paper and hand stitched into tan paper wraps with the words "A Young Girl's Diary" handwritten in the cover. The covers are worn a bit stained and edgeworn and the contents are overall in very good condition. unknown books
1876223044San Francisco 1876. 1876. Thin 8vo. 63 pages. Original green/gray wrappers stamped in black. Fine. No signatures or bookplates. The defendants included Leland Stanford Collis P. Huntington Mark Hopkins Charles Crocker Wells Fargo & Co. and various other railroad companies. Rocq 11164. Not is Cowan. Soft cover. [San Francisco, 1876]. paperback books
1923958Los Angeles: Franklin P. Borgnis 1923. Very good. Folding map 9.5 x 11.75 inches. Original printed wrappers. Very light wear to wraps. A couple of small separations along fold lines. A small but attractive double-sided folding map that depicts the street layout of Pasadena as well as well as the major motor routes in the Los Angeles region. The map of Pasadena is quite detailed and delineates the principal roads of the city in red. It also provides a street index to the right of the map. The other side of the sheet prints a "Motor and Relief Map of Southern California" which provides a bird's-eye view of the region south of the San Gabriel Mountains as well as two small insets of the routes from San Diego to Los Angeles and Los Angeles to San Francisco. The map was distributed as a promotional by local branches of the Pacific-Southwest Trust & Savings Bank. We locate only one copy at the Pasadena Public Library. Franklin P. Borgnis unknown books
1907309Monrovia Ca: Press of the Monrovia News 1907. Very good. 24pp. Original printed wrappers. Light edge wear to wraps. Light tanning occasional foxing. Scarce illustrated promotional for the community of Monrovia California just east of Pasadena. The booklet contains numerous photographic illustrations of nearby natural sights and town architecture as well as street scenes featuring early automobiles. Several leaves of text expound on the advantages of the town -- "Schools unexcelled anywhere. Churches of all leading denominations. No Saloons." OCLC locates five copies at Berkeley Azusa Pacific UCLA the California State Library and Yale. Press of the Monrovia News unknown books
1907683San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company 1907. Near fine. 24pp. Original pictorial wrappers stapled. Minor wear. Booklet promoting the Southern Pacific Railway and highlights along its route. With a map and numerous images of the handsome Southern California scenery. Southern Pacific Company unknown books
73807Original mortgage document made between Robert P. Chase and inventor Egbert Putnam Judson on August 1 1856 for the purchase of "that certain parcel of land situated in the city of San Francisco near the Mission Dolores . commencing at a point on the south west side of Valencia street sixty five feet from the corner of Sparks and Valencia streets running thence northerly on Valencia street sixty-five feet thence westerly and parallel with Sparks street five hundred sixty feet to Guerrero street - thence southerly on the line of Guerrero street sixty five feet thence easterly parallel with Sparks street one hundred and sixty five feet to the place of beginning being the same premises known as the San Francisco Chemical Works." The initial agreement was for the sum of $2500; however a holographic addenda on the verso dated September 20 1858 and signed by both Judson and Chase records an outstanding balance of $3275.<br/><br/>Printed on one quarter of a 16 ½ x 13 ½" sheet which folds to roughly 3 ½" x 8 ¼". In addition to holographic addenda a blue paper onlay signed by notary Charles Halsey appears on the verso along with a holographic notation by George F. Kohler Deputy County Controller. The document is creased from prior folds with some minor soiling to two outer panels.<br/><br/>A native of Syracuse New York Egbert Putnam Judson 1812-93 traveled to San Francisco in 1850 to try his luck in the mines. He is said to have founded the first assay works in San Francisco in 1852 and was a principal organizer of the San Francisco Chemical Works later Judson & Sheppard. His interest in the manufacture of acids led to experiments with explosives and in August 1867 three pounds of dynamite were made at his plant and used in a trial blast of boulders. This was the first instance of the manufacture and use of dynamite in the United States after the invention of that explosive by Alfred Nobel in 1866. The trial was so successful that it led to the formation of the Giant Powder Company the same month.<br/><br/>Judson a director of the Giant company continued to operate the San Francisco Chemical Works which supplied acid to the Giant company and soon thereafter formed the Judson Powder Company in Kenvil New Jersey. On June 3 1873 he patented his "Giant Powder No. 2" patent no. 139468 which was manufactured successfully by both companies. Essentially the first high explosive blasting powder to supplant gunpowder "Giant powder" was for a long time a synonym for dynamite in the United States. Judson was the first to meet the need for an explosive which though powerful would be more "gentle" in action than a blasting powder producing a heaving rather than a shattering effect. Later in 1882 he founded the Judson Manufacturing Co. building bridges and structural steel with machine shops foundry and pattern shops and bolt and nut shops. The company had operations in Emeryville and Oakland California respectively. unknown books
1906253099Portland Or: E.A. Thomson 1906. Almost all pages containing a full-page caricature of a particular person. 302pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original leatherette gilt. Binding a bit rubbed especially along the spine and the edges. Very clean internally. Very good overall. Green folding cloth case gilt leather label. Almost all pages containing a full-page caricature of a particular person. 302pp. 1 vols. 4to. A marvelous collection of caricatures of turn of the century California notables mostly politicians lawyers bankers businessmen and railroad magnates. Most are San Franciscans but others pictured are from Los Angeles Oakland Sacramento and Stockton. The illustrations were done by twenty-two different artists. A great collection of portraits of men once famed now diminished in memory. Cowan p.101 E.A. Thomson unknown books
1855WRCAM50101Sacramento 1855. xv1326pp. plus folding table. Modern buckram gilt leather labels. Minor soiling library shelf label on spine. Faint library ink stamp and embossed blindstamp on titlepage paper remnants on titlepage minor foxing. Very good. An early volume of session laws printed in Sacramento in 1855 and comprising the session laws for the sixth California legislature. The folding table compiles state Treasury receipts from January 1 through June 1854. Many laws relating to Gold Rush activities. Rare with only five copies in OCLC. OCLC 80461435. hardcover books
1874WRCAM48099Oakland 1874. Handbill 8 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches printed on yellow paper. Old light folds else fine. Scarce handbill advertising a night's entertainment at the Dietz Opera House the first theatre in Oakland located at the corner of Webster and 12th Streets. Shows began there around 1874 and continued until 1905 and the theatre hosted stars such as Buffalo Bill and Sarah Bernhardt. Along with McDonough & Earnshaw's Royal Marionettes and the Christy Minstrels part three of the night's entertainment is a performance called "Sports of the Fantoccini" composed of Chinese bell ringers and "Brigham Young and Family." In an 1896 SAN FRANCISCO CALL article about theatrical manager Mark Thall he claims to have been present for McDonough and Earnshaw shows at the theatre "with the first company that opened the old Dietz Opera- house" a date he places at 1870. But since shows did not begin at the Dietz until around 1874 we place the printing of this broadside at that date. unknown books
194954150Los Angeles CA: Yosemite Park and Curry Co. 1949. First edition a promotional for the hotel. 8vo. 12 pp. Illustrations from photographs scenery of Yosemite interiors of the lodge and outdoor activities. Seven menus for meals served during the week 15 - 21 February 1949 all save one illustrated from a photograph by Ansel Adams are laid in each 8vo 2 pages menu and a description of some aspect of Yosemite the Adams photograph illustrating the front cover. We were unable to locate the promotional on OCLC. Printed cream wrappers. Fine. 1256. <br/><br/> Yosemite Park and Curry Co.) unknown books
18931038San Francisco: George Spaulding & Co 1893. About very good. 90pp. Original printed wrappers stapled. Front cover detached a bit chipped. Light toning to first and last leaves. Minor scattered foxing. "This annotation of the General Street Law as amended in 1889 1891 and 1893 attempts only to clarify the text where that is not perfectly clear or where the meaning has ben disputed and has received judicial settlement." A work concerned with laws governing the maintenance repair grading beautification and laying out of streets and roadways in California. This cataloguer's favorite law contained herein is "An Act to provide for the planting maintenance and care of shade trees upon streets.and of hedges upon the lines thereof; also for the eradication of certain weeds within city limits." Scarce. Eight copies located in OCLC all in California libraries. George Spaulding & Co unknown books
1906957Chicago: Hollister Brothers 1906. Very good. 12pp. plus two small folding pamphlets and response card. Original printed wrappers stapled. Light wear to wraps. Scarce illustrated promotional material for the early 20th-century mining claims of the Great Gold Belt Mining Company in San Bernardino County that extend "an invitation to assist in the development of a mining property of rare merit." Great Gold Belt was headquartered in Los Angeles and Cleveland Ohio. The pamphlet is illustrated with several maps and photographic reproductions of the claims; the text provides the usual information about the ore already discovered development plans and costs of investment and touts the proximity of the claims to proven mines in southwestern Nevada. Two smaller folding pamphlets provide an encapsulation of facts concerning the project and several ominous testimonials about missed opportunities and a subscription response card is also included. A nice group quite attractively produced. Not in OCLC. Hollister Brothers unknown books
18881045San Francisco: Crocker & Co 1888. Good. 4pp. on a folded sheet. Several small tears light wear. A neat 1888 advertisement and map for four-day excursions to Yosemite from San Francisco via Southern Pacific rail. The interior map depicts Southern Pacific lines from the Bay Area to destinations throughout Central California and as far as Reno Nevada. The final page prints a time table and itinerary for the round trip from San Francisco that includes overnight travel by rail as far as Raymond and thence through Wawona Yosemite and Mariposa by state coach and carriage. Ephemeral; not in OCLC. Crocker & Co unknown books
19251523Sacramento: California State Printing Office 1925. Good plus. 32pp. Oblong octavo. Original brown printed wrappers stapled. Light soiling lightly dampstained along lower edge of text and rear cover. Pamphlet published by the Harbor Commission on the construction of an underground motorway beneath the Ferry Building designed to alleviate traffic and congestion in that busy section of San Francisco. The work includes a history and description of the Ferry Building and the harbor area as well as information on San Francisco's prominence in the shipping industry. An illustration shows the tunnel running beneath the street with a cross section and diagram. Work began in December 1923. We locate a handful of copies in OCLC almost entirely in California libraries. California State Printing Office unknown books
19221051Los Angeles: California Corrugated Culvert Company 1922. About very good. 44pp. plus folding plate. Original pictorial wrappers stapled. Spine reinforced with cloth tape; Light oxidation and loosening around staples. Light wear and dust soiling to wraps; Light toning internally. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on title page. A detailed and mathematically elaborate promotional for irrigation construction by the California Corrugated Culvert Company. The booklet chiefly advertises various types of "Armco" flumes manufactured by the company and includes numerous photographic reproductions illustrations and blueprints as well as complex tables and mathematical formulae that testify to the safe quick and efficient movement of water by these structures. The complexity of some of the math printed here suggests that the pamphlet was aimed at engineers and other highly-educated employees of irrigation projects in California. OCLC locates five copies in U.S. institutions. California Corrugated Culvert Company unknown books
19381721Los Angeles 1938. Very good. 18pp. Narrow 12mo. Original gilt wrappers stapled. Light wear. Promotional brochure for the Regina Winery in Etiwanda California operated by the Ellena Brothers. Established in 1906 by Claudio Ellena a descendant of an Italian winemaking family. Claudio's sons eventually took over the business marketing their wine under the brand Regina Queen of Wines. The vineyard primarily produced sparkling and dessert wines and also operated a vinegar plant. The present work showcases wine labels as well as a sparkling wine dispenser so you can pour bottles of champagne "on tap." The brochure gives a history of the family and vineyards and strives to "acquaint you more fully with the many ways to really enjoy the goodness of fine wines without the burden of responsibility of minute details or formality." It also includes recipes for several champagne cocktails. books
185335557San Francisco: Printed for the Academy by F. A. Bonnard 1853. 1st printing Cowan II p. 93; Greenwood 379. Printed self-wrappers sewn. Age-toning to paper. Stain to top margin. A VG copy. 8 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>Per Cowan "The first announcement of the Academy other than in the press." Printed for the Academy by F. A. Bonnard unknown books
195816592San Francisco: Book Club of California 1958. A beautiful book appropriately designed and printed at the Grabhorn Press. A combination lively history of the Club and detailed bibliography of the first 100 books published by the Club narrated by David Magee renowned California author and rare book dealer. Many sample pages from the books have been reproduced in full color for this edition. Quarter bound in rough linen with sides covered in a paper with an overall leaf pattern superimposed on a wood-grained background. xxviii 80 pages. Prospectus laid in. Fine condition. Book Club of California unknown books
1996183221Los Angeles CA: African Studies Center/ University of California 1996. Softcover. VG- light shelfwear to wraps. 34 separate volumes bound in color illustrated wraps. Volumes range from January 1978 through Autum of 1996. Each volume is approx 100 pages and illustrated in bw and color. Contains the following issues: January 1978 April 1978 November 1980 February 1981 May 1981 August 1981 November 1981 February 1982 May 1982 August 1982 November 1983 February 1984 May 1984 August 1984 Novemeber 1984 February 1985 May 1985 August 1985 November 1985 February 1986 May 1986 August 1986 January 1991 April 1991 July 1991 October 1991 Winter 1995 Spring 1995 Summer 1995 Autumn 1995 Winter 1996 Spring 1996 Summer 1996 and Autumn 1996. African Studies Center/ University of California unknown books
19212222331<p>First edition. Thin octavo. Original red cloth with black lettering. No dust jacket. This scarce supplement which was prepared to list all cattle brands recorded with the State of California between 1918 and January 1921 with a detailed index. Good few stains. 135 pages.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>G. H. Hecke Director. James B. Newsom Secretary.</b></p><p><b>Tipped in is a 1 page TLS June 14 1949 from E. Clyde Harris to Pasadena bookseller Charles P. Yale stating the book is out of print.</b></p><p><b>Provenance: Collection of Rosario Curletti Santa Barbara.</b></p><p><b>Not located in Rampaging Herd.</b></p> California State Printing Office hardcover books
1851248351San Francisco: Eugene Casserly State Printer 1851. 1865 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Modern half morocco and marbled boards spine gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown. Titlepage a bit foxed occasional tanning very good. 1865 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. An absolutely massive record of the second session of the California state legislature held in the first half of 1851. A tremendous amount of legislative activity is recorded reflecting the task of creating a civic apparatus for the newly-admitted state. Thankfully there is an extensive index. Included is the annual message from California's first governor Peter Burnett who resigned just a few days later. "Of great historical value in understanding the difficulties in the formation of the state" - Norris catalogue. Norris catalogue 1907 Eugene Casserly, State Printer unknown books
1875697San Francisco: Bell & Company 1875. 4to. broadside. 275 x 115 mm. 10 7/8  x 4 inches.  Caption and verse within an ornamental border. Upper right corner and right edge ragged though with still a good margin otherwise very good.   Rare song sheet written in eight stanzas each with eight lines separated by a chorus. "There was in Eighteen seventy-five/ In Mining Stocks a panic/ The banker rushed around like mad/ Like demons quite satanic/ And holders of the 'Orphic' stock/ Had looks so pale and blank sirs/ Despair seized men with money in the California Bank sirs."  Bell & Company was a general publisher of songs and ballads as well as booksellers stationers and periodical agents. Not cited in NUC. OCLC turns up copies at UC Davis Yale UT Austin. Bell & Company unknown books
