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77435Campaign materials for the U.S. Presidential run of John George Schmitz 1930-2001 the ultra right-wing California Congressman whose career ended when it was revealed he had an extra-marital affair and fathered two children with one of his former college students. Schmitz also held the dubious distinction of being the father of teacher Mary Kay Letourneau 1962-2020 convicted in 1997 of child sexual abuse for having an affair with her sixth-grade student whom she later married.<br /> <br /> Schmitz was notable for his extreme right-wing sympathies and for his slurs against African Americans Asian Americans Latinos women Jewish people and the LGBTQ plus community. He was a leader of the John Birch Society which ultimately expelled him for extremist rhetoric. In 1972 he was the candidate for President of the United States of the American Independent Party later known as the American Party.<br /> <br /> His political career began in 1964 when he was elected as a Republican to the California State Senate; he was reelected in 1966. He was then elected to the United States Congress in 1970 representing Newport Beach's 35th District for a single term. After losing his congressional reelection bid in the June 1972 primary Schmitz was nominated to run for President by the American Independent Party. Although unsuccessful he and running mate Tom Anderson received more than one million votes.<br /> <br /> This collection includes six broadsides promoting Schmitz's 1972 presidential campaign. Five are 8 ½" x 14" and one is 10" x 14". One poster complains of the lack of news coverage of his candidacy: "What is the news media afraid of Why don't they want to hear what he has to say" In another Schmitz compared himself to George Wallace and bashed his opponent Richard Nixon's policies: "Your vote for Nixon has brought you busing 25% increase in the national debt 23% increase in major crimes continued war in Viet Nam decline in military morale and preparedness."<br /> <br /> After losing Schmitz returned to the Republican Party and ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1976. He served again in the California State Senate from 1978 to 1982 but lost a reelection bid after admitting to an affair and fathering two children whom he never helped raise or support. unknown
194063406Los Angeles CA: Automobile Club of Southern California 1940. 8vo. 16 pp unpaginated. w/ illustrations maps photo illustrations. Self-printed softcovers w/ pen & ink wraparound cover art sketch of Memorial Coliseum slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition of this Automobile Club of Southern California promotion for Exposition Park in Los Angeles touting the amenities the importance of the Memorial Coliseum for football games historical legacy from the 1932 Olympics along with the Olympic swimming pools rose gardens illuminated fountain Armory and Museum. The emphasis with the maps and brochure are to emphasize the ease of reaching the venues via car the plentiful parking and the importance of the State Exposition Building. No copies in Worldcat. [Automobile Club of Southern California], paperback
190261266Los Angeles CA: Printed and published by B.R. Baumgardt & Co. 1902. Oblong 12mo. 47 leaves unnumbered. including photo frontisp. 45 photo plates. Embossed & illustrated pictorial softcovers raised silver lettering & border minor chipping to fore-edges slight creasing still VG copy. First edition of this excellent photographic tour through California prior to the 1906 Earthquake & fire including views of San Francisco City Hall Ferry Building and the Cliff House along with a photo of Victoriano and his wife of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians the Mojave desert the esplanade in Santa Barbara President McKinley and his wife at the Los Angeles Fiesta del Flores and the elaborate Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition in 1901. Printed and published by B.R. Baumgardt & Co., paperback
194754033Los Angeles CA: Farmers Market Gilmore 1947. Oblong 8vo. 9 x 6.25 in. 52 pp unpaginated. Colour and black & white photos throughout double-page colour centerforld pictorial map by Alex Perez. Colour-illustrated caricature softcovers of patrons in the Farmers market wraparound cover art by Perez designed w/ fold over flap and mailing address slot on back cover for 4 cents postage minor shelfwear VG copy. First edition of this wonderfully printed post-World War II brochure on the beloved Farmers Market and all of its amenities including the restaurants butcher shops bookstores and nearby racetrack for Midget Car and dirt track racing. Cross was best known for his commercial photography in Los Angeles especially his architectural images. Farmers Market, Gilmore, paperback
1890List2833Shasta County and Siskiyou County 1890. Fifteen photographs approximately 4 ½ x 7 ½ inches. Each mounted on heavy cardboard backing approximately 5 ½ x 8 ½ inches which is mounted on heavy cardboard of approximately 8 x 10 ½ inches. Unknown if photographs are stamped verso due to mounting. Some with recent captions on the largest mount; some captions likely incorrect see description. Fine contrast overall fine condition. Raper James Waters 1856–1937 was a professional photographer from Sacramento California. He was first active as a photographer in Gold Hill Nevada in the 1880s. Following this he returned to California and had studios in Berkeley and San Francisco between the late 1880s and mid-1920s. Offered here is a collection of fifteen of Waters’ photographs from around Mount Shasta likely from the late 1880s or 1890s.<br /> <br /> The photographs are mainly from places in Siskiyou County where Mount Shasta is located including shots of the towns of Sisson now Mount Shasta and Dunsmuir Sisson and Dunsmuir are on the Siskiyou Trail an ancient Native American footpath running from the San Francisco area to Portland Oregon. The Central Pacific Railroad Company completed a train line along the Siskiyou Trail in 1887; one shot from an unknown location shows railroad tracks rounding a curve among felled trees. Just outside of Dunsmuir is the Shasta Springs resort mislabeled here as Shasta Bottling Works famous for its springwater – the fountains of water in the photograph are from pressurized pipes coming from the springs.<br /> <br /> Other captioned photographs show Castle Crags hikers summiting Mount Shasta Mossbrae Falls and Castle Lake mislabeled as Crystal Lake. Photographs also show campers with their tent small houses a canoe on a lake and snowy winter scenes. Overall a striking set of photographs. unknown
1962mon0003635793Huntington Library 1962T. hardcover. Good. 0.7000 9.0000 5.9000. Huntington Library, hardcover
193157622Berkeley: Stohl Printing Company 1931. Original printing. Paperback. Very good. 13pp. Octavo 23 cm Salmon printed wrappers with minor soiling to the front wrap. This work contains a history of Mormons in California with an emphasis on the San Francisco Stake and the surrounding Bay Area stakes. Local advertising scattered throughout. Stohl Printing Company paperback
187689067Chicago: Jansen McClurg & Co 1876. First American Edition. First printing. First published a year earlier in London under the variant title "First Fam'lies in the Sierras." 12mo. Publisher's blind-stamped maroon cloth titled in gilt on spine; iv5-258pp. Board corners slightly pushed; mild sunning to spine still a tight lightly worn Near Fine copy with spine gilt remaining bright and legible. According to Blanck this edition is "much revised" from the 1875 London edition; it would be re-issued by McClurg with further revisions in 1881 with the title The Danites in the Sierras. BAL 13765. WRIGHT III:1739. BAIRD 1750. Jansen, McClurg & Co unknown
194563927Los Angeles CA: Forbidden Palace New Chinatown 447-451 Gin Ling Way ca. 1945. 4to. 7.25 x 11 in. 4 pp unpaginated. printed in red & black on coated paper stock self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers front cover art idyllic image of traditional Chinese restaurant NF copy. First edition thus of this beautifully printed menu for the storied Chinese-American restaurant after being moved from its original location for the demolition and construction of Union Station and the surrounding area. The new restaurant served as the press reception location for the reopening of “New Chinatown†in 1939 and through World War II was a very popular reasonably priced eatery and night club for the Wartime military personnel. Their cocktails list was extensive and even served the Chinese liqueurs Ng Gar Pai & Mui Kwe Lu. No copies in Worldcat; 1 copy held by The Huntington Library. Forbidden Palace, [New Chinatown, 447-451 Gin Ling Way], paperback
190056795Los Angeles CA: Land of Sunshine Publishing Co. Inc. 121 1/2 So. Broadway Sept.-Oct. 1900. 8vo. 10 213-309 29 pp. With numerous text illustrations decorated initials photo illustrations plates. Illustrated printed softcovers yapp edges chipping head & foot of spine some scuffing edgewear still G copy. First edition scarce magazine edited by Lummis. Of particular interest this issue features the first installment of the translation into English of the 1630 Spanish original of Fray Alonso de Benavides to Fray Juan de Santander detailing the early missionary efforts amongst the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. The translation was executed by Emma Ayer 1845-1932 whose husband Edward E. Ayer 1841-1927 was noted bibliophile and collector whose 50000 piece library were absorbed into the Newberry Library. See: Harriet & Seymour Koenig The Puebloans and the Settled Spaniards The Benavides Era 1626-1630 In: Acculturation in the Navajo Eden: New Mexico 1550-1750 2005 pp. 116-118. Land of Sunshine Publishing Co., Inc., 121 1/2 So. Broadway, paperback
193453037Pasadena CA: The Star News -- The Post January 1 1934. 4to. 40 pp unpaginated. Photo-illustrated throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art printed in silver metallic ink green & pink of peacock w/ ship motif colour illustrations on rear of Hotel Vista del Arroyo and The Huntington Hotel and the rail trip to Mt. Lowe minor dustsoiling slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition of this lavishly illustrated souvenir program for the 1934 Tournament of Roses parade events and the Rose Bowl which featured Columbia winning over Stanford by a score of 7-0 in a sloppy mud bowl of a game. The Star News -- The Post, paperback
19054170N.p. possibly Fresno 1905. Very good. Broadside 13 x 5 inches. A few small nicks to edges minor even toning old horizontal folds. Lecture location stamp added in bottom margin reading "Southport Monday Eve. Aug 28th K.P. Hall." An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising a magic lantern presentation aimed at promoting land in Fresno and King counties "for sale in ten acre tracts or larger at from $25 to $35 per acre including perpetual water right. Yearly water rental 62 1/2 cents per acre -- the cheapest water in California. If you are thinking of moving you should not miss this lecture. If you are satisfied to stay where you are come anyhow and see the pictures and learn something about California." The Golden State was the site of not one but two Rancho Laguna de Tache land grants. One was granted by the Mexican governor Pio Pico in 1846 to Manuel Castro and included land along the north bank of Kings River for over twenty miles. The other Rancho Laguna de Tache was claimed to have been given to Joseph Yves Limantour by the Mexican governor Manuel Micheltorena in 1843. The latter grant which was along the south bank of Kings River was not honored by the Land Commission after the cession of California to the United States. The broadside then most likely relates to the sale of Castro's 48000-plus acre Rancho Laguna de Tache tract north of the Kings River. Castro sold his land grant to Jeremiah Clark in 1866. Clark's wife Charlotte had her husband declared mentally incompetent and eventually was allowed to sell the land to Charles A. Laton and Llewellyn A. Nares the namesakes of the present-day towns of Laton and Lanare.<br /> <br /> The location of the lecture was a Knights of Pythias Hall in Southport though the exact location of Southport is unclear. From the text of the broadside it is not out of the realm of possibility that the developers of the Laguna de Tache Grant tract were marketing their efforts outside California. We could locate no other copies of this informative broadside. However a map at the California Historical Society of the Laguna de Tache Grant showing a portion subdivided into lots surveyed and platted by order of Nares and Saunders managers that was drawn in 1904 by H.L. Ward of Laton California helps place the present broadside in its proper context. The involvement of Nares in subdividing the Laguna de Tache tract in 1904 jibes with our proposed date for the broadside as August 28 was a Monday in 1905. unknown
000011652n.p.: Published exclusively for The Interstate Company n.d. Wraps. Very Good. Oblong 8vo. 29.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 3 a full-page map 25 plates. Tan wrappers printed in black and gold with a color illustration inset on the front decorations in gold and black. Staple-bound with ties. Price of $1.50 on the title page. Consisting of twenty-five beautiful colored illustrations of the most interesting views seen along the route this includes the inset and twenty-four mounted illustrations between the wraps. The full-page map depicts the Western Pacific Railroad and the connections between this railroad and the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Moderate edge wear and two small damp spots to the front wrapper does not contain the publisher's informational sheet. Published exclusively for The Interstate Company unknown
195179273Los Angeles 1951. The 24-page original typescript includes 16 tipped-in original black-and-white photographs two elevation charts and a map.<br /> <br /> Arnold was hired by Jack Leland to study reports and maps of the Mecca Hills Anticline and conduct a field inspection providing his opinion of the oil and gas possibilities of the rock formations. On page three of the report underlined in red is his comment: “This structure is ideal for oil and gas accumulation.†He further states: “from the evidence it is clear that oil exists in the general area of the north end of the Imperial Valley.â€<br /> <br /> The Mecca Hills Anticline is now in a protected reserve. Established in 1994 the U.S. Bureau of Land Management manages the 26356-acre Mecca Hills Wilderness. The area includes narrow steep-walled canyons that create a natural maze within the badlands. Uniquely faulted and folded geologic formations are the result of activity on the local sections of the San Andreas Fault making the Mecca Hills one of the more unusual geological sites of this kind. Located in Riverside County Mecca is a desert community on the north shore of the Salton Sea in the Eastern Coachella Valley and is surrounded by agricultural land with a population of approximately 8000 residents.<br /> <br /> Bound with brads in black leatherette wrappers. The contents are a little toned and the photographs once affixed with glue are now loose but all present. unknown
192651802Glendale CA: Glendale Merchants Assoc. 1926. Folio. 56 pp. Over 100 black & white photo illustrations text illustrations illustrated ads decorated borders 1 colour illustration as tail-piece at rear of work. Gray-green textured softcovers black raised lettering & illustration on front cover chipping foot of spine minor splitting at foot of spine still G copy stapled as issued. First edition of this lavishly illustrated and scarce land promotion for Glendale California during the Roaring 20s. This work offers a excellent photographic description at one of the early suburbs of Pasadena with photo images of Fremont & Nibley Parks the Southern Pacific Railroad Station Tuesday Afternoon Club House and more. Of particular interest are the excellent illustrated ads showing the electrical appliances available from J.A. Newton Electric Co. in Glendale window and floor displays at Cornwell & Kelty Hardware Sporting Goods and Paints Window Displays floor displays and delivery trucks for the Wilson-Bell Hardware Company homes built by Nelson Bros. and Chrylser automobiles sold by the Glendale Motor Car Co. Inc. Worldcat locates 5 copies. Glendale Merchants Assoc., paperback
1850List1929California 1850. With thirteen letters most multi-page written from Monterey in 1850 a 7 pp facsimile transcription of a 1834 Mexican land grant on cloth measuring 11 x 14 inches and and eleven page document on paper in Spanish relating to a Monterey land grant transcribing an 1841 document. Letters heavily worn with some loss at margins but mostly legible land grant in good to very good condition transcribed document in Spanish in fair condition with water damage to margins. Fair. An interesting archive of 1850s-era material relating to the life and career of the surveyor Edward Williams which recently surfaced in the central mother lode region. The group includes his personal letters from the California Gold Rush as well as well two interesting documents form his work for the Surveyor General J.W. Mandeville in 1858 where he transcribed two Mexican land grants. <br /> <br /> Lt. Edward Williams was a member of Company E New York Volunteers under Capt. Nelson Taylor. He came to California around 1847 and found employment as a deputy surveyor later working for the Office of the Surveyor General of the Unites States for California. In 1858 Surveyor General J.W. Mandeville commissioned a report on Mexican-era California Land Grants. Mandeville had Williams copy the original documents exactly - inclusive of an ink copy on linen that is an "exact tracing" of the original documents starting with 1834 up through about 1840. These "copies" were submitted to the Surveyor General in 1858 for use in the report. Williams continued the title work by copying other documents from about 1841 though this time not as a tracing but hand copied on the usual blue paper of the 1850s.<br /> <br /> The documents illustrate the length officials went to while they investigated Mexican Land Grant titles to California properties in the 1850s. The process was difficult and involved two distinctly separate cultures and legal systems that clearly conflicted. The Mexican Government granted rights for these large land parcels in California to various people but clearly stated they could not sell parts of the property. The wording was used many times in litigation of the period in both defense of the land grants and in opposition to how the land grants were handled. The issues were actually quite simple in that the Mexican legal standards for land grants was far different from those in the United States and the two differing forms of written land ownership and use clashed. <br /> <br /> These documents reflect a parcel of land granted to Francisco Mesa at "Corral de Tierra" a large parcel in Monterrey County California. Mesa had requested land for "his personal use and that of his family." In the Grant the title papers reflect "while the land is under Francisco's possession it cannot be divided mortgaged or a levy placed on it nor handed down." These original documents help illustrate the complex story of Mexican Land Grants in California. <br /> <br /> Also included are thirteen letters from Ed aka "Ned" to various family members primarily his mother and sister Alice and vice versa. About half are from Ed the other half are written to him. The dates of the letters are; 1850: February 10th April 15th April 16th April 28th June 10th July 30th October 11th and November 17th and 1851: September 9th. One undated letter with heavy loss is written from Panama. The letters are generally readable but the condition far from perfect with water stains throughout and chips abundant along edges and significant textual loss. The letters are generally at least two pages sometimes four or more inclusive of writing in the crossed line custom to save paper. Most are datelined at Monterrey where he discusses the people the customs setting and more. <br /> <br /> Despite the condition flaws there is much to be gleaned from his correspondence. In his April 15 1850 letter . he describes his trip to San Juan Bautista from Monterrey in detail while he was on his way to San Francisco. Williams writes of his great pleasure on tasting cooked beef by the Indians that he found was the best he ever tasted as they camped on the way to San Jose with the ultimate goal Mission Dolores in San Francisco: “this the beef they put on the embers of the fire and broiled it - I never tasted anything like it before so tender so juicy…†One of his first notes on San Francisco: "There are regular streets filled with all kinds of sorts of stores… The shipping covers the water as far as you can see. And those nearest the shore are converted into store houses the rigging being taken down and the and holes cut in the sides for doors.The best houses in town are occupied by gamblers . a large saloon filled with tables on which are played all kinds of games of chance - at some of the tables are displayed immense amounts of coin and gold in lumps worth from 1 to 5000 dollars which some poor infatuated fool of a miner has at some time lost to them."<br /> In his letter of April 16th he discusses both his difficulties with women in California and his lack of fitting in back east: “The Spanish Girls are very nice and all that sort of thing but the trouble is to find one that is educated. I can’t bear an uneducated wom an and I think I shall have to come to N.Y. and bring one out here… I know one or two in N.Y. but I don’t believe they would have such an uncouth specimen of an ‘hombre’ as me…†In his next letter he describes Carmel in detail. He states: “I haven’t been to the mines nor have I any inclination to go†though he intends to settle in California permanently. In his next letter he discusses the people he’s met and how he detests the anglophone community there: “How do I like the People Those of Spanish whom I call my friends I love with all my soul - there is not much society except among them… the Eng. and Am. population I detest from the bottom of my heart. This may sound strange but you will know the por que when you arrive.†He then praises the climate and scenery of Monterey. One letter written from Panama which has unfortunately sustained heavy losses at margins offers some details of the trip on the Chagres River. The replies to Williams from his family offer details on life in New York and are similarly compromised in condition but overall there is enough to glean from the group to provide a detailed example of family correspondence from the period. <br /> <br /> Overall a very interesting and unusual archive of a young professional who moved to California during the Gold Rush period and rejected the Anglophone mining community with particular interest to historians of Monterey and of the systems of land grants that shaped Mexican and American land policy in the nineteenth century. unknown
192558106Los Angeles CA: Petroleum World Publishing Co. 626 So. Spring St. June-July Sept. 1925. Three vols. 4to. 124; 120; 124 pp. With 100’s of photo illustrations text illustrations diagrams illustrated ads some in colour w/ 1 large folding map of Baldwin Hills Oil Field sized 17.5 x 19.5 in. Photo-illustrated colour and black & white softcovers photo cover art of oil derricks and McDonald equipment Hughes Tool Co. ads on back covers some edgewear minor chipping head & foot of spine minor wear to fore-edges still VG set. First editions of these very scarce issues of this noted California oil industry trade magazine filled with articles and advertisements for oil derricks oil drilling equipment addressing oil drill and oil rigger safety issues oil fires and more. Ads for truck companies such as White International Harvester & Herbert Chandler along with oil pumps gasoline service station pumps and more fill the pages. Of additional interest are the several articles directed towards the fallout from the Teapot Dome Scanda the Panamerican Oil Co. Doheny Fall & Sinclair and court decision analyses. The large folding map of the Baldwin Hills Oil Field by Walker Clute and Samuel Perry is quite scarce not only offering a plat map of oil leases and lease holders in the record breaking oil field but coupled with an article touting the Inglewood Oil Field. At the time Southern California was producing one-quarter of the World’s oil supply. Petroleum World Publishing Co., 626 So. Spring St., paperback
1870List807San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Co 1870. Hand colored printed invitation 4 ¾ x 7 inches folded. Very Good. A scarce printed invitation to the Masquerade at San Francisco’s Lick House held in 1870 and according to contemporary accounts one of the major events of the holiday season in the city. The hotel built on the corner of Sutter Street and Montgomery was one of the finest in the city before its destruction in the 1906 fire. A very good copy bright with a partial tear at the fold and some wrinkling to lower margin. A.L. Bancroft and Co unknown
193563338Los Angeles: Southland Publishing Co. May 1935. 8vo. 48 pp unpaginated. Photo-illustrated title numerous photo plates illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers wraparound colour cover art of Griffith Observatory by William Bollons 1911-1946 a commercial artist living in Los Angeles during the Great Depression and later an advertising sign painter artist for A.G. Ramsay Sign Co. in Portland OR slight soiling minor spotting still VG copy. First edition 1st printing of this informative and well-illustrated work detailing the popular attraction and observatory built by the Works Progress Administration during the depths of the Great Depression and designed by John C. Austin based on sketches by Russell Porter. The observatory featured a Foucault pendulum Zeiss Refracting Telescope a triple-beam Coelostat solat telescope splendid Zeiss planetarium projector a significant meteorite collection and well-executed murals by WPA Artists. Southland Publishing Co., paperback
19165576San Francisco: George Lanson 1916. About very good. 272xxxi pp. Original printed wrappers. Chipping to corners and spine ends light wear. Front inner hinge reinforced. Minor wear and soiling internally. A brief history and directory for the French in California complete with illustrations advertisements and a wide array of information. The directory contents focus on northern California with listings for San Francisco Oakland and San Jose. The closing section is comprised of biographical sketches of local notable California Frenchmen. Scarce with three copies in OCLC located at California Historical Society the Autry Museum and the University of Utah. George Lanson unknown
18965088Alameda Ca 1896. Very good. Handbill 8.5 x 5.25 inches. Old folds minor wear. An apparently unrecorded resolution involving the first ballot measure calling for women's suffrage in California in the waning years of the 19th century. Here the Alameda County Political Equality Society calls for two representatives to be present at each polling place in the county to ensure that votes are "properly canvassed and returned." Particularly at issue was Amendment No. 6 in the election "extending the right to women to vote." A printed note at the bottom of the document states that the resolution was "Passed by the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County at their regular meeting November 2nd 1896." The prospect of calling for representatives to monitor polling places indicates the political unrest brought forth during the suffrage movement. Of particular interest on this handbill are the vote tallies handwritten on the verso beginning with the county or precinct totals for President and including numerous other state and local races; for example William McKinley received 116 votes to W.J. Bryan's 34. The handwritten tallies do not include totals for the Women's Suffrage Amendment but it was ultimately defeated statewide by a healthy margin of about 27000 votes. The present handbill provides a unique record of a failed attempt in California to secure for women the right to vote at the close of the 19th century. It would take another fifteen years for women to achieve the franchise right when a similar amendment to the California Constitution narrowly passed by just over 3500 votes in 1911. unknown
191462436Eden CA: Stocks & Holland Abstract Co. Dec. 28 1914. One oblong atlas folio map sized 25 x 14.75 in. copy requested by order of the Superior Coart of Alameda County on silver gelatin paper fold creases edgewear 1 tract coloured in on Park Side Drive minor thumbing edgewear some rubbing still VG. Early camera ready copy of the Hayward Home Farm Tract Subdivision No. 1 prepared in Dec. 1914 to record the plats of Hamilton Heimann Wooley and Cook on Park Side Drive at the edge of the real estate development. Eden Township created from the Rancho San Lorenzo and Rancho San Leandro included the present-day cities of Hayward and San Leandro. No copies in Worldcat. Stocks & Holland Abstract Co., unknown
19282443San Francisco and Los Angeles: The Heald-Menerey Company 1928. Very good. Large color map measuring 44 x 64 inches cut into eight sections and folded into book form. Original black limp textured cloth yapp edges titled in pale yellow on front cover. Moderate edge wear titles on front cover almost completely worn away. Internally clean. A rare portable version of the large and impressive Heald-Menerey's Geographical Commercial and Recreational Map of California produced in the late-1920s. According to the sheet of instructions bound before the map: "The first of its kind ever devised for desk home or automobile use. It consists of the California Survey 44 x 64 inches in size cut into eight strips and folded to make a book of 64 pages. Page No. 1 is the extreme northwest corner of our Survey and page No. 64 is the extreme southwest corner." The instructions proceed to inform the user on how to locate points on the map given its form as a book. The verso of the instructions page is a county index keyed to the pages of the map. The cover title begins "California Survey" but the remainder is rubbed beyond readability.<br /> <br /> The map was produced by the Schmidt Lithograph Company of San Francisco. The legend of the map contains symbols representing roads trails railroads streams springs swamps aqueducts lighthouses county and state boundary lines national forests mountain peaks township and range lines base and meridian lines and more. There are also two inset maps - one showing San Francisco and vicinity and the other Los Angeles and its immediate surroundings. OCLC records just a handful of copies of this book-form map published between 1928 and 1933. The Heald-Menerey Company unknown
197362725Berkeley CA: Howell-North Books 1973. 4to. 298 pp. Colour frontisp. 480 text illustraations diagrams. Pale yellow-coloured cloth black lettering front cover & spine map endpapers w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by Paul Francis Twine minor rubbing edgewear still NF/VG copy. First edition of this lavishly illustrated history of the 68-mile Hetch Hetchy Railroad which aided in the massive 20 year construction of the Hetch Hetchy dam projects for supplying water to San Francisco with a total cost exceeding $ 100 million. Howell-North Books, hardcover
192563373Los Angeles CA: Hill Publishing Co. 623 S. Flower St. 1925. 8vo. 4 x 7.5 in. which folds out into 27.25 x 21.5 in. double-sided map in red & black of Los Angeles & Vicinity preserved in the original pocket-map folder printed in blue & orange on tan paper stock minor edgewear rubbing slight dustsoiling minor closed tears at some folds a few w/ former neat repairs still a G copy. First edition thus of this rare Borgnis map for Los Angeles on recto insert maps on verso for Hollywood & Beverly Hills to Santa Monica-Venice; San Pedro & Wilmington Motor Routes Los Angeles & Vicinity San Fernando Valley and another of the Los Angeles Theatre & Shopping District. Borgnis 1875-1933 was a German-American US Navy veteran Chicago draughtsman and cartographer who following World War I settled in Los Angeles where he produced a wide range of maps for Chambers of Commerce publisher’s and oil companies. Worldcat locates 1 copy Stanford w/o printed cover. Hill Publishing Co., 623 S. Flower St., unknown
