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1914166896Oakland Cal.: Printed by Kelley-Davis Co. 1914. Promotional brochure "designed by J. J. Rhea Oakland Cal." 32 panels 48x82 cm 19x32 inches folded to 24x10.5 cm 9 14 x 4 inches. Most of the verso comprises a large colored birdseye view of Alameda County engraved by the Sierra Art & Engraving Co. The map is surrounded by color photographs and related text with additional color photographs and text on recto. Issued for the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition. Not in Rocq 1970. Rumsey #1784. Light wear along edges a couple of short splits at fold intersections a very good copy of a stunning production. #166896 Printed by Kelley-Davis Co. unknown books
1862700941862. Spanish-Language Edition of the 1862 California Session Laws California. Splivalo Augusto D. Translator. Las Leyes de California Dadas Durante la Sesion Decimatercia de la Legislatura 1862; Que Principio el Lunes Dia Seis de Enero Y Finalizo el Jueves Die Quinca de Mayo. Sacramento: Benj. P. Avery 1862. xxxv 445 1 40 pp. Three folding tables. Octavo 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Later library cloth red and black calf lettering pieces and paper shelf label to spine endpapers added. Light shelfwear and soiling light rubbing to lettering pieces faint stain to foot of spine. Moderate toning to text light edgewear and a few minor tears to tables library stamps to title page a few library markings to verso. $450. Only edition in Spanish. California session laws were issued in English and Spanish editions from the first session 1849 to the fourteenth session 1863. Spanish-language editions are scarce. OCLC locates 6 copies of the 1862 volume 2 in law libraries University of Michigan University of Minnesota. Babbitt Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 23. unknown books
186670879San Francisco CA: Lawrence & Houseworth 1866. Photograph. Near Fine. Lawrence & Houseworth unknown
188810048Sacramento Cal: State Office: J.D. Young Supt. State Printing 1888. Slim octavo 23 x 15 cm 96 pages. Illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece and wood engravings throughout. Several errata have been overprinted in purple ink rubber stamp. FIRST EDITION. Byron Martin Lelong 1856-1901 was the Secretary of California's State Board of Horticulture and amongst a generation of farmer-scholars working and publishing in California in the 1880s and 90s. Others included Thomas Garey and William Andrew Spaulding and in a different way Santa Rosa's Luther Burbank the great seedsman. Lelong's published work focused on citrus as well as prunes figs and walnuts. This treatise is mostly a technical manual on the best varieties of oranges and other citrus to plant in California as well as a guide for how to care for them. It also includes recipes for lemon pie orange souffle and citron cake. Illustrations show the physical differences in each variety of citrus including one of the cross section of a "Pumpel-mouse". Boards lightly scuffed with soiling to margins and fading to spine. Corners bumped and gently rubbed with boards bowing out at fore-edge. Rippling to endsheets with page margins lightly toned. Title page offset by frontis. Text has overprinted errata in blue to correct spellings to a few pages. In publisher's dark blue pebble-grained cloth lettered in gilt. Overall very good or better. Presentation slip tipped in at first free endsheet presented by Ellwood Cooper the then-president of California's Board of Horticulture. Zamorano Select 65. State Office: J.D. Young, Supt. State Printing hardcover
195057732San Jose California:Monarch Match Co.: Monarch Match Co. no date ca. 1950. publisher's coil-bound printed boards as issued. Some light use to boards; a few inoffensive spots to contents; very attractive. Folio. The Monarch Match Co. was in business 1946-1966. This catalogue contains 49 leaves of sample custom advertising matchbook covers plus price lists designs for political campaigns fraternal matches stock cuts etc. Monarch Match Co., hardcover
1970141060San Francisco: University of California Berkley Museum 1970. Original poster for one of the most important events in the Bay Area of California in 1970 a performance by Steve Reich to celebrate the opening of the UC Berkeley Art Museum. With a striking triangular design mounted as issued with a label on the verso crediting the Richell Gallery of Houston Texas for the archival framing. <br/><br/>The museum was founded in 1963 after a donation was made to the university from artist and teacher Hans Hofmann of forty-five paintings plus $250000. A competition to design the building was announced in 1964 and the museum opened in 1970. In 1966 the Pacific Film Archive was founded and began screenings in 1966. Today the museum continues to be a great success and operates under the name of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive or BAM/PFA. <br/><br/>The performance for the opening included four early works by Reich: "Four Organs" "My Name Is" "Piano Phase" and "Phase Patterns." The event marked an important moment in San Francisco Bay Area new music history with the triumphant return to the East Bay by Reich who studied at Mills College with Luciano Berio and who performed the 1964 world premiere of Terry Riley's now-legendary work "In C" at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. <br/><br/>Three sided poster each side measuring 26.3 inches mounted as issued. Unexamined out of frame no glass. Some fading and minor spotting to the recto Very Good overall. University of California Berkley Museum unknown books
1938WRCLIT76065Oakland: Sponsored by Alameda County Library 1938. Three volumes. 4x447447a; 2376376a- b; 2306 leaves. Quarto. Uniform slightly later green cloth. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Near fine with the bookplate in each volume of California bookman William Wreden. The first component of this massive and pioneering project "produced on a Works Progress Administration Project - Administration Project 165-03-7308 - Area Serial 0803-1008. Work Project 6463." Several subsequent components were issued including CRITICISM OF CALIFORNIA LITERATURE 2 vols 1940 and BIOGRAPHIES OF CALIFORNIA AUTHORS 2 vols 1942. As might be expected well-represented in OCLC institutional holdings; however this work is rather uncommon in commerce. While noting its occasional errors and omissions Baird & Greenwood acknowledge the significance of this early effort toward the compiling of their 1971 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY . noting their reliance on Hinkel's own annotated set see p.xi of their work. OCLC: 3450358. Sponsored by Alameda County Library hardcover books
LPZ1703_07an Francisco ohne Jahresangabe aber um 1910. Quart. Goldgepr. flexibles Ganzleinen gering berieben und bestossen. Titelblatt 56 unpaginierte S. mit fast durchgehend ganzseitigen Illustrationen nach Photographien 1 Bl. Impressum. Mglw. fehlt das erste unbedruckte Vorsatzblatt. Insgesamt gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Äußerst seltene und imposant illustrierte deutschsprachige Firmenschrift für uns nicht weiter nachweisbar. Eine vergleichbare englischsprachige Schrift listet Margaret Miller Rocq in ihrer Kalifornien-Bibliographie # 8745 aber selbst diese englische Ausgabe ist via worldcat nur in drei Exemplaren nachweisbar eine vermutlich ebenfalls gleichartige jedoch französischsprachige Ausgabe sogar nur in einem Exemplar Bayreuth. Die Abbildungen zeigen den gesamte Herstellungsprozess der Hölzer vom noch unberührten Baum in den Kalifornischen Wäldern über das Fällen Zerlegen den Transport durch teils extrem unwegsames Gelände z.B. via Eisenbahn über ein Gefälle von 87% ! die Lagerung und anschließende Veredelung zu Furnieren etc. bis schließlich hin zu einigen Endprodukten. - Beiligen zwei Blatt mit ausführlichen deutschsprachigen Angaben zu lieferbaren Konfektionen und Verwendungsmöglichkeiten von Weißtanne und Kalifornischer Incense Zeder diese jeweils mit dem Briefkopf der Firma ein Blatt etwas knickspurig. Äußerst seltene und imposant illustrierte deutschsprachige Firmenschrift für uns nicht weiter nachweisbar. Eine vergleichbare englischsprachige Schrift listet Margaret Miller Rocq in ihrer Kalifornien-Bibliographie # 8745 aber selbst diese englische Ausgabe ist via worldcat nur in drei Exemplaren nachweisbar eine vermutlich ebenfalls gleichartige jedoch französischsprachige Ausgabe sogar nur in einem Exemplar Bayreuth. Die Abbildungen zeigen den gesamte Herstellungsprozess der Hölzer vom noch unberührten Baum in den Kalifornischen Wäldern über das Fällen Zerlegen den Transport durch teils extrem unwegsames Gelände z.B. via Eisenbahn über ein Gefälle von 87% ! die Lagerung und anschließende Veredelung zu Furnieren etc. bis schließlich hin zu einigen Endprodukten. - Beiligen zwei Blatt mit ausführlichen deutschsprachigen Angaben zu lieferbaren Konfektionen und Verwendungsmöglichkeiten von Weißtanne und Kalifornischer Incense Zeder diese jeweils mit dem Briefkopf der Firma ein Blatt etwas knickspurig. Äußerst seltene und imposant illustrierte deutschsprachige Firmenschrift für uns nicht weiter nachweisbar. Eine vergleichbare englischsprachige Schrift listet Margaret Miller Rocq in ihrer Kalifornien-Bibliographie # 8745 aber selbst diese englische Ausgabe ist via worldcat nur in drei Exemplaren nachweisbar eine vermutlich ebenfalls gleichartige jedoch französischsprachige Ausgabe sogar nur in einem Exemplar Bayreuth. Die Abbildungen zeigen den gesamte Herstellungsprozess der Hölzer vom noch unberührten Baum in den Kalifornischen Wäldern über das Fällen Zerlegen den Transport durch teils extrem unwegsames Gelände z.B. via Eisenbahn über ein Gefälle von 87% ! die Lagerung und anschließende Veredelung zu Furnieren etc. bis schließlich hin zu einigen Endprodukten. - Beiligen zwei Blatt mit ausführlichen deutschsprachigen Angaben zu lieferbaren Konfektionen und Verwendungsmöglichkeiten von Weißtanne und Kalifornischer Incense Zeder diese jeweils mit dem Briefkopf der Firma ein Blatt etwas knickspurig. an Francisco, ohne Jahresangabe, aber um 1910. unknown
45187San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co n. d. Ca mid-to-late 1870s. Orange colored mount printed at bottom & both edges slightly rounded edges. Verso blank. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest wear & soiling. Small abrasion under printed caption. Photographs with a bit of aging at top. About Very Good. Two albumen photographs mounted side-by-side domed tops. Oblong format: 3-3/8" x 7" <br/><br/> Thomas Houseworth & Co unknown books
1922ZB382788Claremont: California Bureau of Juvenile Research 1922-31. volumes 7 9-11 13-15 complete volumes ex library mostly bound some external soiling and chipping else good-very good PRICE IS FOR THE LOT!. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Claremont: California Bureau of Juvenile Research unknown
1854000463Placerville California: Hutchings 1854. First Edition. . No Binding. Very Good . C Nahl. An informative and wonderfully pictorial Letter Sheet of the California Indians in a period of decline and stress who's customs and daily habits of dress gathering transportation and entertainment were little studied or understood. Hutchings letter Sheet as well as other letter sheets of the period were intended to be sent to loved ones in the east where they informed the rest of the world what and how the native Californian lived. Thankfully we have Hutchiings rendering today to aid our renewed interest in our native state. This copy with light creases and small spotting otherwise a near fine copy in blue wove unrestored and with no tears chips or holes. A single sheet with no signs of a blank folding leaf having been removed or ever present. <br/> <br/> Hutchings unknown
197462757Encino CA: Twentieth Century Motor Car Corp. 1974. 4to. Approx. 125 leaves sections numbered separately. w/ large folding diagrams two-colour plates colour plate of proposed dealership signs illustrations of the Dale. Simulated brown calf gilt lettering & stamping on front cover minor rubbing edgewear still a VG copy together with dealership promotional artwork for XXth Century Motor concept cars 1 8 x 10 dealership photo business cards sales agreement and clippings pencil manuscript salesman notes on ffep. letterhead flyleaf. First edition of this scarce dealer promotional sales book together with dealer photograph of the Dale and proposed expanded line-up concept cars -- evidence of one of the most creative cons carried out in southern California during the 1970’s. This 3-wheeled streamline car was conceived during the oil embargo by Dale Clifft in his garage using a 305cc Honda Super Hawk engine forks & brakes from another motorcycle and Naugahyde interior licensed as a “motorcycle†and promoted by the creative Geraldine Carmichael a.k.a. Jerry Dean Michael a transgender con artist and star of “Unsolved Mysteries.†The Dale was reputed to get 70 mpg absorb more impact than a Cadillac without damage and bullet-proof windows with the production models supposedly powered by an 850cc BMW motorcycle engine. The showroom prototype was roped off from potential clients because the wheels were nailed on and the whole scam came apart when The California Corporation Commission began investigating a stock run-up and Car & Driver exposed it as a “scam†with a Briggs & Stratton lawnmower motor. Three Dales -- apparently the only ones ever made -- survive today with one in the Smith Collection Museum of American Speed another in the Petersen in Los Angeles and the third privately owned. Worldcat locates 1 copy of dealer book & photo Northwestern no copies of the Concept Car promotional flyers; See: Torchinsky Murder Transsexuals and The Price is Right: The Story of the Dale Car Hoax 2013; Coop The Transgender Con-Artist and her Multi-Million Dollar 3-Wheeled Car Scheme Roads & Rides 2018. Twentieth Century Motor Car Corp., unknown
1870WRCAM52754Placerville Ca 1870. 48 leaves plus six stubs. Oblong quarto. Original half sheep and paper boards. Front board detached stitching perishing. Boards rubbed edges and corners worn. An 1870s receipt book for cemetery plots in Placerville California. The burial ground belonged to the Morning Star Lodge founded in the town at the height of the Gold Rush in 1854. The blank printed forms all provide a "Certificate of Purchase for Lot in the Union Cemetery Placerville.belonging to said Lodge according to the Plat of Survey made by D.B. Merry and the said Lot is hereby granted to him subject to the rules of said Lodge now in force or that may hereafter be adopted for the government of the same." This particular lodge was and still is associated with the International Order of Odd Fellows which established a number of groups in California during the Gold Rush. hardcover books
197093659Berkeley: Art Museum University of California 1970. Loose leaf. Folding portfolio case about good to acceptable. Please refer to photos. Mounted photos loose "leaves" are all in fine condition. Folding case would benefit from professional restoration. Small folio of 18 photographs and text mounted on thick cardboard labeled A-X some single-sided; chiefly b&w illustrations in string-tied white printed & folding portfolio; 31 x 23 cm. All eighteen cardboard 'leaves' present. Rare. This is copy 34 of a limited editon of 100 signed by Pomodoro on bottom of first image. see photos. The catalogue text appears on verso of illustrations A-F; the bibliography on versos of illus. H and I. // Metal sculpture. Pomodoro Arnaldo 1926- Sculptor. Exhibition Catalog. Exhibition Catalogs. Exhibition catalogs. Catalogues d'exposition. Title from portfolio. Exhibit held at the University of California Art Museum Berkeley and others. Art Museum, University of California unknown
1955207031955. Unidentified press photographers San Quentin Prison textile mill photographs 1955 document penal labor practices within California's mid-twentieth-century prison system supporting research into carceral industry state-managed labor and the economic functions of incarceration. The images provide direct visual evidence of organized industrial production carried out by incarcerated individuals illustrating how prison labor was structured as a coordinated manufacturing operation. Produced for press circulation the photographs also reflect how such systems were publicly presented emphasizing productivity order and institutional control within one of the largest penal facilities in the United States.<br /> Three black-and-white silver gelatin press photographs each measuring approximately 9 x 7 inches depicting interior views of the textile mill at San Quentin State Prison. One photograph shows rows of prisoners seated at sewing machines arranged in long lines within a large workshop space engaged in garment production; the caption notes that operations include "pattern making cutting and a final pressing of the finished garments." Two additional images document earlier stages of textile production including the processing of cotton into cloth and wide-angle views of the factory floor populated by large groups of inmates working at machinery. Captions describe "600 prisoners" employed in the mill producing "approximately 10000 yards of cloth a day" and specify that "prisoners do all the actual work in the mill with supervision by prison staff personnel." The images consistently emphasize scale mechanization and regimented labor activity.<br /> Produced during a period when prison labor was an established component of state correctional systems the photographs provide insight into how incarcerated populations were integrated into industrial production under institutional oversight. The documented scale of output and organization of labor situates San Quentin within broader national practices of prison industry while the press captions frame this labor in terms of efficiency and output. Light handling wear consistent with press use; images retain strong clarity and contrast. Overall in very good condition. unknown
Two leather volumes with engraved borders to boards, AEG, marbled endpapers, gilt to front boards and spines, raised bands, x, 708; 680 pages, b&w illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm. California -- San Francisco Bay Area, History, Biography. || Includes loose b&w plate to volume II.
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1931ZB351547Claremont: California Bureau of Juvenile Research 1931. volumes 15-20 complete original paper wrappers some external soiling and chipping else good-very good PRICE IS FOR THE LOT!. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Claremont: California Bureau of Juvenile Research unknown
2000Star-9783540651499Springer 2000. Hardcover. New. Springer hardcover
2000Star-9783540651499Springer 2000. Hardcover. New. Springer hardcover
Outer dimensions: 21.75" x 14.5". Counties individually colored. Clean and unmarked with light wear. An attractive vintage copy. Bonus: includes separate extensive list of California counties and cities/towns, complete with their (1889) populations. Book
186018399Paris Dentu 1860 XXXIII 432 + 1 carte + VII + 544 pp Dos avec manque important pour le premier volume,moindre pour le second, quelques mouillures claires au second volume, surtout sur les planches , 10 planches hors texte dont 2 frontispices
12mo [18.5 x 12 cm]; x, [ii], 84, 74A-84A, 85-138, v [index], [i, ad] pp, irregular pagination but complete with chapter IX, with pages numbered 74A to 84A. original pictorial printed heavy paper wraps, chipped at spine ends & small chip to rear cover edge, front cover and endpaper with moderate foxing, touch of foxing on some other leaves, but clean, very good copy. A picture of this book is available upon r Hill p. 65: 'English firms fitted out the schooner Columbia for the fur trade between the northwest coast of America and China. Peter Corney sailed as first lieutenant on this voyage which lasted more than four years. The ship was finally purchased by King Kamehameha of Hawaii. The voyage provides much interesting information concerning Hawaii and the abortive Russian settlement on Kauai. Howes 785 describes the work as 'very rare'. The title continues: 'Early Account of Kamehameha's Realm; Manners and Customs of the People, etc, and Sketch of a Cruise in the Service of the Independents of South America in 1819, with a Preface and Appendix of Valuable Confirmatory Letters Prepared by Prof. W. D. Alexander'
188676564San Diego California: The International Company of Mexico 1886. Wraps. Octavo: 22 2 p. with 6 black-and-white photographic illustrations and 3 maps: one of Colony Carlos Pacheco Ensenada a map of the United States showing the "Lands of The International Company of Mexico Lower California" and a detailed rendering of Baja California. Original printed blue paper wrappers bound with two staples. The contents are a little toned. The ink signature of B.A. Cecil Stephens a member of the Historical Society of Southern California in the 1890s as well as a principal in a syndicate interested in water flow in the lower Colorado River appears along the top edge of the front panel. Some minor toning and wear along the extremities of the wrappers with a stain to the rear panel; else very good. Barrett 1305 and 1306 although neither is this issue with the "Francis Valentine & Co. Printers San Francisco Cal." imprint at the bottom of the front panel.<br /> <br /> Extols the virtues of Baja California for agriculture mining and manufacturing. Includes statements from persons who have been on the company lands conditions prices and other information for colonists. The final leaf features a rendering fot the company office located at the corner of Sixth and F Streets in San Diego. The International Company of Mexico unknown
77019New York: W. E. Webb; San Diego California: Geo. H. Sisson; London: Captain Francis Pavy; no date circa 1886. Single sheet folded 35 ¾" x 16 ¾" unfolded each page 9 ½" x 6". 24 p. with 6 black-and-white halftone photographs and 2 maps. The text is clean and unmarked. Tiny nicks at the folds with a pencil notation to the front panel and a few small tape mends; otherwise very good. Barrett 1306.<br /> <br /> Promotional piece encouraging emigration to Baja California with descriptions of the agricultural opportunities and the city of Ensenada. George H. Sisson was an American mining engineer and entrepreneur who purchased a large land concession in Baja California on July 24 1884 with Luis Huller. This concession extended between 29 degrees north and 32 degrees 42 minutes north and included Cedros Island. Additional purchases extended their holdings to 13325630 acres. In 1885 Sisson and Huller formed the International Company of Mexico in Hartford Connecticut with Sisson as general manager. The business was sold to the British Mexican Land and Colonization Company in 1888. These land holdings were emblematic of the problems in land distribution during the Portiriato 1876-1911; related lawsuits continued for years afterward. unknown
