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1890WRCAM46178Fresno Ca.: William Harvey 1890. Tinted map 32 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches. Text on verso. Minor edge wear. Some small neat splits at cross-folds five-inch closed separation along one fold with no loss. Very good. An elaborate and handsome map and promotional for agricultural land in Fresno California. The map was lithographed by the notable San Francisco firm of H.S. Crocker & Company. The map shows several "colonies" or "tracts" in a wide area of Fresno and what is most notable about it is the small amount of land still available for sale. Most of the lots shown had been sold and the owners' names are identified. Real estate agent William Harvey however still had thirty-two lots available in the South Washington Colony with terms as follows: "sold in 20-acre tracts all the ditches constructed by the owner conveying water to the highest point in every 20-acre lot; price $100 per acre. Terms one-fourth cash; balance any time within four years with interest at the rate of 8 per cent." The lower portion of the map is taken up with advertisements for a variety of local businesses including banks and agricultural concerns. The verso of the map contains text in six columns headlined "Fresno Raisin District of California!" and is a lengthy promotional for the lands and their excellent properties for planting vineyards and engaging in raisin production. <br> <br> OCLC locates three copies: at California State University Fresno; the Bancroft Library; and Yale. A scarce California map and agricultural promotional. OCLC 24032427 58875969. William Harvey unknown books
1899List805Los Angeles and Vicinity 1899. Oblong quarto green cloth 11 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches with 98 photographs. Very Good. Frances Coulter the daughter of a department store magnate in turn-of-the-century Los Angeles was a socialite who regularly made the society pages of Los Angeles newspapers. The collection of photographs here - preserved in their original oblong green cloth album - give a candid look at upper class California in the 1890s. The bulk of the images show Frances and her friends in varied scenes of society gaiety: dressed formally on the beaches staging goofy scenes including a mock proposal drinking from a water hose and many scenes involving costumes and umbrellas. Some of the photographs interestingly were taken with a Kodak No. 2 camera which was in production until 1895 producing distinct circular images. Some of the scenes show the beaches of Santa Monica. Overall the collection offers an uncommon look into Los Angeles at the end of the 1890s when the city had only 100000 residents. Frances's father B.F. Coulter was a minister from Kentucky and some of the photographs show the Coulters at home. A very good collection images with slight fading album with a slightly musty odor but overall well preserved. books
1952WRCAM56683N.p. likely Sacramento 1952. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph 8 x 33 3/4 inches. Short closed tear and mild crease near upper left corner slight silvering to image. Still in very good condition. A handsome group photograph memorializing the attendees of the 1952 annual conference of the Northern California Young Buddhist League. The photograph depicts over 200 finely-dressed Japanese-American men and women and even a few Anglo Americans organized by region which are indicated by printed signs. The delegates to the conference came from Lodi Placer Marysville Sacramento Delta Stockton and Florin. A sign hanging on a building behind the delegates reads "Greetings Busseis" a general term for Buddhist youth. <br> <br> Interestingly 1952 was the year that several chapters of Young Buddhists and other Japanese American mutual aid societies and support groups successfully implemented several changes to Japanese immigration policies brought about by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 the McCarran-Walter Act. While this law still provided for some discriminatory policies it also allowed a new path to citizenship for most Asian Americans. Groups such as the Northern California Young Buddhist League helped many Japanese-American Issei attain citizenship previously forbidden by U.S. immigration law. <br> <br> A rare image with no copies reported in OCLC. unknown 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
18861931San Francisco 1886. Good. Chromolithograph 19.75 x 25.5 inches. Backed on archival card. Light soiling and wear several closed tears resolved by backing. Slight losses at two corners. A handsome view of the Palace Hotel issued with the Christmas number of the San Francisco Newsletter in 1886. The lithograph depicts the building in a central vignette surrounded by scenes of the interior spaces. These include the lobby the courtyard corridor dining room the sixth floor conservatory and a view from the roof overlooking the Bay. The Palace Hotel was constructed in 1875 and boasted 775 rooms making it the largest hotel in the Western United States; it was likewise the tallest building in San Francisco for at least a decade. The Palace was gutted by fire in the 1906 earthquake but was rebuilt in 1909 and is still a landmark building today. We find one listing in OCLC for this item as a separate piece at Stanford University. unknown books
1848WRCAM46345Washington 1848. 14pp. Folio. Stitched as issued. A few minor edge tears. Near fine. In a large red cloth folder gilt leather label. Slip bill for the 1st Session of the 30th Congress concerning land claims in the newly acquired territories of California and New Mexico. At the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 the territories of California and New Mexico passed to the control of the United States. Many people held legal title to land under Mexican administration and needed to reestablish their title under the new regime. This bill is the initial attempt to create a mechanism for establishing these claims presented by the Committee on Public Lands. As with all slip bills it is printed with each line numbered and spaced to provide room for correction and commentary. Such bills are rarer than the final form since only enough copies were made as needed for members of Congress. hardcover books
1890CAT01851890. 9 ½ x 7 inch photographs on 11 x 13 mounts. Very Good. The first photograph captures a bearded man atop a stump peering in the forest with sunlight pouring through a stand of redwoods. The second shows redwood rounds loaded on a train car with "Exelsior Redwood Co. Eureka Cal." etched into the negative. All of the train workers are posed for the photograph along with several men and a young girl in the background. A well-preserved pair of images in very good condition with good contrast and some wear and toning to mounts. unknown books
1889WRCAM54905San Francisco: Printed by Wm. C. Brown 1889. 65411pp. including one chromolithographic advertisement plus three colored folding maps and four photographic plates of ships. Original brown cloth gilt title on front board within gilt border. Minor wear and soiling corners lightly bumped and worn front hinge a bit weak. Small ink stamp on blank facing first text leaf. Clean closed five-inch tear to map of San Diego Bay. The second edition greatly enlarged and improved over an edition published in 1886. This scarce guide to West Coast ports was produced by J.D. Spreckels & Bros. a major firm of commercial merchants and shippers on the Pacific Coast. Judging from the elaborate binding and production it was likely issued in a small edition for presentation to current and potential clients. The text gives much useful information on the ports of San Francisco San Diego Portland Puget Sound Vancouver Island and Honolulu including customs house rules rates for towing dockage pilotage and stevedores as well as the qualities of the ports and cities and other services provided. <br> <br> There are three attractive folding colored maps which illustrate San Francisco Harbor the piers of the city of San Francisco and San Diego Bay respectively. The photographic plates show ships operated by Spreckels' firms. One of the ads at the rear is an attractive chromolithographic notice for the Oceanic Steamship Company founded by John D. Spreckels which made runs from San Francisco to Hawaii New Zealand and Australia. <br> <br> The present copy has a small ink stamp on a front blank reading: "Barque Ingrid Captain Albert Andersen." The barque Ingrid was a Norwegian cargo ship active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Little is known of the ship's captain Albert Andersen unless this is the same Albert Andersen noted as a Norwegian steamship engineer in early April 1912 when he boarded as a 3rd Class passenger on the ill-fated Titanic. He died in the famous shipwreck and was buried in Nova Scotia after his body was recovered by the Mackay Bennett. <br> <br> John D. Spreckels was prominent in San Diego affairs helping to develop Coronado Island as well as the city's railroad and ports. The Spreckels family were also well-known philanthropists but perhaps best-known in California as manufacturers of sugar from beets and whose factories had the unfortunate side effect of imparting unpleasant odors upon many a small town. <br> <br> The Spreckels company issued a similarly titled work in 1886 covering only San Francisco with twenty pages of text and a map. Not in Cowan or Forbes. ROCQ 12268. OCLC 25581519. Printed by Wm. C. Brown hardcover books
186549015San Francisco: Lawrence & Houseworth Opticians Importers of Stereoscopic Goods Etc. Etc. 377 & 319 Montgomery Street 1865. Ca 1865. Cf. Palmquist p. 59. Yellow colored mount square corners with publisher imprint to right end; series name "California" to left; typeset printed label as scene caption affixed under right view. Photographer imprint to verso center. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Only very modest wear & soiling from handling. Very slight bow to card. Images clear & sharp with the right slightly darker. Very Good. Square separate images. 3-1/4" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>Donner Lake is a freshwater lake in NE California on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada and about 20 miles NW of Lake Tahoe. The lake is located in the town of Truckee and which may be viewed from the nearby Donner Pass. Both the lake and the pass were named after the ill-fated Donner Party which wintered involuntarily and tragically near the lake in 1846 approximately 19-20 years before this image was taken. <br /> <br />Per Palmquist LAWRENCE & HOUSEWORTH p. 59 "Dating clues suggest that these views were produced during the period 1864 - March 1865." Per Mautz "The firm produced many of the best of the early stereoviews of California." p. 145. <br /> <br />An uncommon early L & H California view with no listings for same found on OCLC at the time of cataloguing. Lawrence & Houseworth, Opticians, Importers of Stereoscopic Goods, Etc., Etc. 377 & 319 Montgomery Street unknown books
1923805San Francisco: J.P. Chadwick 1923. Very good. 128pp. plus folding map 14 x 16.5 inches. Narrow octavo. Original printed wrappers stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Slight chipping to first and last few leaves text lightly tanned. Directory and street guide for San Francisco designed to help navigate the city's streetcar lines. "Containing all streets hotels apartments buildings banks churches consulates railroad and steamship agents; city and auto road maps. Clubs theatres hospitals places of interest pier directory." The information is all keyed to the various streetcar lines indicating which lines are most convenient to which hotels etc. With information on all the major sights and municipal attractions as well as hotels banks theatres etc. A listing of the routes of each streetcar line occupies the final two pages. The map shows the city and county of San Francisco with the streetcar lines demarcated in red. A rare survival -- we find one copy of this edition in OCLC at the Milwaukee County Library with one or two copies of other editions located at UC Berkeley the New York Public Library California Historical and the Marin County Library. J.P. Chadwick unknown books
189954675New York.: Doubleday & McClure. First Edition. 1899. 442 pages 4 unnumbered pages 8 x 5 1/4 inches red cloth-covered boards with silver embossed decorative front cover and spine. Light fading to spine and extremities hinges a little loose and slightest tilt to spine previous owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper. First edition. . Doubleday & McClure. hardcover books
141916009JUnion Hill / Grass Valley California 1914-1915. Original hardcover ledger 11.5†x 8†bound in half leather with gilt stamping over light brown corduroy metal spine with locking mechanism no key marbled paper pastedowns and gilt embossed leather alphabet tabs on front page edges. 168 pages of handwritten text showing detailed internal records from the historic Union Hill Mining Company that had offices in both Grass Valley and San Francisco. Union Hill is adjacent to Grass Valley. Detailed information for 1914-1915 including operating expenses profit and loss income expenses production vendors payroll cash bullion production tungsten production names vouchers insurance and marketing. Entries include operating expenses for the South Idaho Mine and names of the local companies they did business with such as Grass Valley Hardware Empire Mining Company Nevada County Narrow Gauge R. R. Company and Thomas Diggs Company an entry for Augustus D. Cox who was the Mine supervisor to very specific mining operating expenses for example: “Shaft Above 600’ Level†“Shaft Below 600’ Level†“Storage Dam 600’ Level†with expenses for mining tools hoisting compressing fire protection etc. A rare and unique Gold Country artifact this original handwritten Ledger offers compelling insight into an historic Mother Lode gold mine. The corduroy covers have some staining the rear leather corner has a corner chip the rear spine fold has a two inch half oval chip revealing the board beneath the front hinge is split and the metal spine has some rust internally the ink stamp of the Union Hill Mining Company on the front endpaper. Gold was discovered at Union Hill in 1854 the first recorded claim was in 1866 as Union Hill Gold Quartz Mine and Mining Stock Certificates for Union Hill Mining Company exist from the 1860’s. Although very profitable it appears Union Hill Mine opened & closed changed ownership &/or operators several times from the 1870’s until purchased by Idaho-Maryland Mines Company around 1920. In 2016 this historic mine was purchased by a gold mining company with plans to restart operations in the unexplored areas below the Idaho-Maryland Mine Property. hardcover books
185249636Franklin N.H.: Published by Peobody & Daniell 1852. 1st printing of this issue Wheat Maps of the Gold Rush 212. Cf Drake 4698 for the 1797 first edition. Printed self-wrappers stitched by owner with hanging cord to top left corner of text. Publisher advert to rear wrapper. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Expected age-toning extremity wear & foxing. Trimmed lower corner of text-block. Overall a respectable all-original VG copy of this rare survivor. 48 pp including wrappers untrimmed. CA descriptive text p. 39 providing details on local gold rush municipalities: San Francisco "principal port of entry" Sacramento City "near the celebrated Sutter's Fort where the first discoveries of gold in California were made" Stockton "third city of note in the state . it is the great depot for all the southern mines" Vallejo "capital of the state" Benicia "navy station and arsenal here" San Jose "a very beautiful and desirable place of residence" Mayrsville "a place of growing importance" & Mariposa City "it was near this place that the first vein mine was opened and machinery put up for crushing the ore.". Front wrapper with pastoral oval woodcut. Other cuts throughout text. Map p. 38 depicting San Luis Obispo to the south to Shasta in the north; the CA coast with San Francisco in the center to the west and east to Calveras 42.5W from Washington. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>Leavitt begain publishing his almanack in 1797 and in this issue's introductory remarks he states "Within a few past years the tide of emigration has been so great from the New England States to the shores of the Pacific that at the present time there is scarcely a family in our midst but what is represented by some one or more of its members or relatives in the golden region. We have judged it not inappropriate to insert in this number of the Almanac a new correct and reliable map of California drawn and engraved expressly for this work showing the principal cities and towns distances between which may be found by the scale on the map and trust it may be of service to many." <br /> <br />A map infrequently seen on the commercial market with the last auction appearance per ABPC coming in 1996 with RBH recording just one prior occurence: 1959. Published by Peobody & Daniell unknown books
185249402Boston: Edward Livermore 5 Cornhill 1852. 1st printing of this issue Wheat Maps of the Gold Rush 212. Cf Drake 4698 for the 1797 first edition. Printed self-wrappers stitched with hanging cord to top left corner of text. Publisher advert to rear wrapper. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Expected age-toning & foxing. Two small semi-circular pieces from top edge of front wrapper. 3 stab holes along spine. Some slightly dog-earred leaves at bottom. Overall a respectable all-original VG copy of this rare survivor. 48 pp including wrappers untrimmed. CA descriptive text p. 39 providing details on local gold rush municipalities: San Francisco "principal port of entry" Sacramento City "near the celebrated Sutter's Fort where the first discoveries of gold in California were made" Stockton "third city of note in the state . it is the great depot for all the southern mines" Vallejo "capital of the state" Benicia "navy station and arsenal here" San Jose "a very beautiful and desirable place of residence" Mayrsville "a place of growing importance" & Mariposa City "it was near this place that the first vein mine was opened and machinery put up for crushing the ore.". Front wrapper with pastoral oval woodcut. Other cuts throughout text. Map p. 38 depicting San Luis Obispo to the south to Shasta in the north; the CA coast with San Francisco in the center to the west and east to Calveras 42.5W from Washington. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>Leavitt begain publishing his almanack in 1797 and in this issue's introductory remarks he states "Within a few past years the tide of emigration has been so great from the New England States to the shores of the Pacific that at the present time there is scarcely a family in our midst but what is represented by some one or more of its members or relatives in the golden region. We have judged it not inappropriate to insert in this number of the Almanac a new correct and reliable map of California drawn and engraved expressly for this work showing the principal cities and towns distances between which may be found by the scale on the map and trust it may be of service to many." <br /> <br />A map infrequently seen on the commercial market with the last auction appearance per ABPC coming in 1996 with RBH recording just one prior occurence: 1959. Edward Livermore, 5 Cornhill unknown books
191228122San Francisco: Mason-McDuffie Company General Agents circa 1912 1912. This is the smaller of two versions of this map; this one was most likely for pocket or portable use; the other larger version for display on a wall. OCLC records one copy of this version CHS and two of the larger version Bancroft and UC Davis. A few pencil notations probably by a realtor or planner; creased with some minor wear; a little browning at the edges; in very good condition. Cadastral real estate map 29.2 x 27.4 cm gray and green color outlining. A rare real estate map of the residential neighborhood of St. Francis Wood in its infancy across Portola Avenue from the West Portal neighborhood in San Francisco's Sunset District. San Francisco west of the Twin Peaks hills was mostly undeveloped by 1915 but a tunnel that would connect by train this remote part of the city with the neighborhoods closer to downtown was under construction and developers knew that once that was completed the areas west of Twin Peaks would be ripe for development. The San Francisco firm of Mason-McDuffie engaged the services of the Olmsted Brothers of Brookline Mass and famed California architect John Galen Howard to plan and design what would become one of San Francisco's most elegant residential neighborhoods. From the inception all utility lines were to be underground no apartment buildings were allowed and there were restrictions on the design and quality of construction. Several other important Bay Area architects became involved including Henry Gutterson a protégé of Bernard Maybeck. <br/><br/> San Francisco: Mason-McDuffie Company, General Agents, [circa 1912] unknown books
186228065San Francisco: Printed & Published by Chas. F. Robbins 1862. Lithography of George H. Baker 1862. First edition "2nd Thousand" printed above the title. OCLC records two copies HEH & BYU. Paper a little browned and chipped at the edges; very good copy. Rare. Folio color-lithographed pictorial cover and three pages of music. ¶ A song by San Francisco poet journalist and chronicler Franklin Soulé 1810-1882 about the rescue of a little girl Addie Manchester from the burning wreck of the Steamship Golden Gate which sank in flames off the coast of Mexico on July 27 1862; over 200 people died. When the survivors returned to San Francisco the story of the rescue became an overnight legend and Franklin Soulé further memorialized it with this song. Soulé has a permanent place in California history as one of the compilers of the famous Annals of San Francisco 1855. He was also a newspaper editor and a popular occasional poet and orator for the California Society of Pioneers among other organizations. <br/><br/> San Francisco: Printed & Published by Chas. F. Robbins, 1862. Lithography of George H. Baker unknown books
19401443San Francisco: Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co 1940. Very good. 36pp. Original printed wrappers stapled. Light wear and soiling. Internally clean. A rare issue of this San Francisco phone directory published by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company for the local Chinese community printed almost entirely in Chinese aside from the front cover which also bears the title in Chinese. The directory served the large but still somewhat isolated Chinese populations in the Bay Area this issue with listings for both San Francisco and Oakland. We locate copies at Yale UC Berkeley and UC Davis. Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co books
19381208San Francisco 1938. Very good plus. 34pp. Original green printed wrappers stapled. Ink stamp on front cover later paper label at top of spine. Minor wear and soiling internally clean. A rare issue of this San Francisco phone directory published by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company for the local Chinese community printed almost entirely in Chinese aside from the front cover which also bears the title in Chinese. The directory served the large but still somewhat isolated Chinese populations in the Bay Area this issue with listings for both San Francisco and Oakland. We locate copies of this issue at Berkeley and Yale. unknown books
1851561471851. Together 186 books. 48 linear feet of shelf space. Together 186 books. 48 linear feet of shelf space. California. Laws of the State of California and Code Amendments. Various printers 1851 1854-55 1857-1908 1910 to 19452d through 56th session in 60 books. Sessions 1947 to 1949 1951 to 1969 1970 V.2 to 1995 in 125 books. Together 185 books. Forty-eight 48 linear feet of shelf space. 1852-1915 volumes: Contemporary law calf red and black lettering pieces to spines. Worn boards detached from several volumes some spines mended with tape backstrips lacking from a few volumes; 1851 1866 1867 1869 1870 1889 and 1917-1995 volumes: Buckram with red and black lettering pieces light to moderate shelfwear and soiling. Occasional brief annotations to early volumes interior otherwise clean. Ex-law office library of Heller Ehrman LLP. Stamps to edges and preliminaries. Several early volumes to 1915 have owner signature of Emanuel S. Heller many spines have his owner label a few have owner markings of Sidney M. Ehrman annotations to pre-1905 volumes are in Heller's hand. $950. A set of California session laws as issued but lacking volumes for sessions 1849 1850 1852 1853 1856 1909 and 1950. unknown books
1852WRCAM50098San Jose & San Francisco 1852. 558; 314pp. with three-page errata bound into the first volume. Modern buckram gilt leather labels. Minor shelf wear and soiling slight chipping to labels. Faint ink library stamps and embossed blindstamps on titlepages a few signatures tanned in first volume occasional contemporary ink marginalia in second volume minor foxing. Very good. Two of the earliest imprints in the state of California and two of the first three publications of laws printed in the state constituting the laws for the second and third sessions of the California legislature. The first STATUTES of 1850 was actually printed in New York and the 1851 STATUTES is one of two printings in that year with an edition also printed in San Francisco. The laws instituted here are commensurate with those of a fledgling state with additional provisions covering mining as California was in the grips of the Gold Rush at this time. "The second STATUTES is as rare as the first which was published in San Jose actually New York 1850" - Decker. Rare with only two and three copies in OCLC respectively. DECKER 50:62. CLIFFORD 12a 12b. MIDLAND NOTES 59:98. OCLC 77805265 65114630 166509049. 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
19081268San Francisco: Punnett Brothers 1908. About very good. Folding map 28.5 x 20.25 inches. Three short separations along folds; one small area of loss not in map area. Faint foxing at left edge; light tanning. A rare 1908 map of San Francisco San Mateo and the surrounding Bay Area by late 19th- and early 20th-century California cartographers Punnett Brothers. The upper portion of the map depicts the Bay with San Francisco and San Mateo County outlined in pink and pale green respectively. The lower half of the map consists of the southern half of San Mateo County and the area below the bay much of which makes up today's Silicon Valley. Most of this section of the map as well as the areas east of Berkeley Oakland and San Lorenzo are platted. The map is also marked with significant geographical features as well as roads and railways and shows the locations of the many ranchos still extant in the region during this period. An interesting and attractive land map for the Bay Area and the surrounding region during the early 1900s. We locate only one copy at Berkeley. Punnett Brothers unknown books
195047835Los Angeles: Helen of California 1950. 4to 42 leaves mostly printed on rectos only on various color paper each with a fashion design by "Helen" and each with accompanying text; full-page "fabric story" incorporporating a printed tree on which are applied various cool woolen samples in the shape of hearts and a bow-tie 1 thumnail-size sample missing; one mounted illustration within a hand-applied frame and another cut-out possibly not original mimicking one of the designs; comb-bound in original green suede textured wrappers printed in red and accompanied by 3 sample cards of "color harmonies" with 12 14 and 18 mounted color samples of woolen yarn; all in all very good. Wonderful fashion catalogue filled with designs by "Helen of California" and based on the 14th century designs of Marco Polo. The designer details how her Fall 1950 Marco Polo fashions emphasize the Basic Dress Plus with her designs accentuating a slim straight silhouette while highlighting ajn Oriental line inthe shoulder a mandarin collar pagoda peplum Hindu sari and other elements borrowed from descriptions of costume made by Marco Polo. These include fashions in wool such as the Aladdin a worsted wool spiked with silk jacquard taffeta dress; the Siamese Dancer dress of worsted wool crepe with long and pointed sleeves a stiletto slim skirt and turned-back shoulder flanges; the Saracen a long side-swept silhouette one-piece with a velvet hat and many others. Gudgell worked as a fashion and costume designer in L.A. in the 1930s moved to Minneapolis during World War II and then returned to the L.A. area. Her "Helen of California" label was popular until the endof the 1950s. The color wool yarn sample cards and harmony chart offer an excellent example of the color palate balance intended. <br/><br/> Helen of California unknown books
1904725San Francisco: Edward Denny & Co 1904. Very good. Folding map 26.5 x 17 inches. Original printed wrappers. Some wear and creasing to wrappers. Light dust soiling and scattered faint foxing. A rare pocket map of Lake County California published by Edward Denny in 1904. The map is printed in blue ink and is divided into townships with Guenoc and Gallayomi Ranchos identified near the foot of the map area and major roads through the county delineated. Clear Lake the county's namesake is prominently depicted at center and numerous springs are located and named in its vicinity. The present edition of this map is the first with revised editions published in 1907 and 1910. All are quite rare but the 1904 edition is particularly so with only one copy located by OCLC at the Bancroft Library. Edward Denny & Co 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
