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185654886Sacramento: Jsmes Allen State Printer. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary half leather with marbled boards black and red spine labels. Various reports foldout charts with individual pagination. One interesting title--Annual Reports of the Officers of the Insane Asylum of the State of california for the year 1855. Also includes Report of a Survey of a portion of the Eastern Boundary of California. Mild wear scattered foxing. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall . Jsmes Allen, State Printer hardcover
858Archive. 11 pieces. 1956-1957. California. An archive of several GOP pieces addressed to Ken Ladd President of the Young Republicans of San Joaquin County. It includes two typed letters signed by Governor Goodwin J. Knight as well as a typed letter signed by United States Senator Thomas H. Kuchel. There is also a letter from Lieutenant Governor Harold J. Powers and a signed photograph from Lieutenant Governor Bob Finch. The grouping also contains two typewritten documents; one lists the delegation from the San Joaquin County Young Republicans who will attend the State Young Republicans Convention and the other has the by-laws of the Young Republicans of San Joaquin County. There are also a couple of form letters with GOP content unknown
1849378089New York: Baker and Scribner 1849. First edition. 1034pp. 12mo. Contemporary drab paper boards a bit worn and stained. Text block toned. Contemporary Terre-Haute Indiana bookseller ticket on the front endpaper A. Child. First edition. 1034pp. 12mo. The first edition of what is generally regarded as the first American novel relating to the California Gold Rush written by Peck under the pseudonym Cantell A. Bigly Can tell a big lie.<br /> <br /> Aurifodina however is of further interest as science fiction for its utilization of the lost race motif. Soon after making his fortune in the known gold fields the protagonist treks east attempting to reach Santa Fe but instead comes upon the valley of Aurifodina. Therein live a highly civilized people and gold is as common as mud and steel is the great rarity. The major portion of the narrative is occupied with contrasting the superior ways of the enlightened Aurifodinians with those of the outside world. The protagonist marries and lives a contented life until one day while he is ascending in an observation balloon an anchor line breaks and he is carried east until he is finally downed near the Big Licks of Kentucky. As much as he wishes to return to Aurifodina the prospect of an overland trek is too great for him and he consoles himself with putting down his narrative for the enlightenment of others. Wright I:2030; Cowan p.477; Baird & Greenwood 1995; Kurutz 490a Baker and Scribner unknown
1851376875Nevada City CA 1851. 3pp. folded sheet blue paper. Usual folds some staining two sheets separated small hole affecting a few letters. 3pp. folded sheet blue paper. Writing in 1851 from Nevada City at the time California's most important mining town in the leading gold mining county this letter written by L. O. Hart to his aunt and uncle opens with the familiar prose on not having received letters and fearful that his previous letter not receive before turning to his life in the mines: "My health at present is none of the best but I live in hopes. I have not done any work of moment for 5 or 6 week past and for a week past I have been confined to my cabin though today I feel better by considerable. We have had no rain yet though for weeks it has been predicted that it will rain next week. If anything the weather is warmer than last August for we cannot keep our butter from melting put it where we will and fix it how we may." The letter continues by discussing costs of commodies: "California has much improved in living since I have been here. Now one can enjoy some of the luxuries of home and better preserve his health. Provisions are considerable cheaper than they were one year ago. Then it cost $1.50 cents per day to live upon pork beans and potatoes but now our cost daily is not far from 75 cts and we have flour potatoes butter pork tea coffee and chocolate and fresh beef once a day broought to us at 20 cts per lb. Potatoes sell from 8 to 12 dollars per bushel. Clothing is actually sold lower here than at home. Boots & shoes sell for 2 & 3 dollars per pair."<br /> <br /> The letter continues on Monday morning extolling the virtues of the weather and fauna of California though critical and rascist concerning the region's Native Americans: ". Now that I am somewhat used to I think this climate is unsurpassable. We have an atmosphere healthy clear dry & transparent. Persons can talk 1/2 a mile apart with ease & from the tops of hills we can see what appear to be snow capped mountains some 25 or 30 miles distant but which are in reality 3 & 4 times that distance from us. We never have either frost or dew & from April until December it is but seldom that a cloud can be seen but the whole summer long a clear sun hot dry & parching generally speaking all are very healthy. The only killing disease of the country being the Erysipelas which generally proves fatal . The wild game of the country consists of wolves black bears grizzly bears wildcats deer squirrels turtle doves wild ducks & geese elks & Indians of which the latter is by far the most despicable looking quadruped I ever saw. They are thieving revengful lazy specimens of humanity. At present they are all around us but are perfectly quiet."<br /> <br /> The letter closes with an update on his successes and failures in the mines: "I have made about two thousand dollars this summer and out of that have lost twelve hundred so that I have for my summers work about eight hundred doll. I should not have said work for it has been all speculating &c. It takes a litter experience to handle all of the ropes & I can plainly see where I missed it but 'live and learn' I've got to. So I take it all as a matter of course & try again. And I am going to keep trying until I get $10000 doll then I shall come home sure . Tell all the cousins I'll bring them home something shiney one of these days . unknown
193275158Los Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California 1932. Original ACSC folding map printed on one side only but for the title panel. 35 x 9 1/2 inches. Very good. Automobile Club of Southern California unknown
1916314050N.p. California and Nevada 1916. With 29 mounted photographs most neatly captioned in ink on 18 leaves 922 snapshots and 6 4 x 6 inches one printed photo postcard and a folding "Map of the Feather River Highway" on onion skin paper laid in. 8 pp. typescript titled Vacation 1916 rectos only. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Brown cloth with string ties. Binding worn; first leaf of typescript torn along gutter no loss old repairs on verso of map. Very good. Black cloth clamshell box. With 29 mounted photographs most neatly captioned in ink on 18 leaves 922 snapshots and 6 4 x 6 inches one printed photo postcard and a folding "Map of the Feather River Highway" on onion skin paper laid in. 8 pp. typescript titled Vacation 1916 rectos only. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Nice photograph album and narrative account of an early automobile camping and trout fishing trip in and around Big Meadow and Lake Almanor. The party of three "Russell Homer and I" possibly "Super Shot Margie" who appears in several of the photographs left on the Benicia ferry on 22 July and spent the next two weeks around Gold Lake Long Lake Reno and Lake Tahoe talking to oldtime prospectors camping dancing fishing and visiting the sights. With photographs of trout fishing their camps swimming and boating an old miner's cabin and a few scenes in the snow. A nice record of a trip through an area that retains its appeal for vacationers a century later.<br /> <br /> AN ATTRACTIVE CALIFORNIA ALBUM. unknown
194276767Carmel: Big Sur Lodge ca. 1942. First edition of this eight-panel brochure. 25 x 3 inches folded: 6 1/4 x 3 inches. All photographic illustrations tinted in blue. OCLC only locates one copy Bancroft. Fine condition.A wonderful presentation of the Big Sur region prior to the Jack Kerouac and Henry Miller age. A nicely done distance map occupies three of the panels showing the entire West Coast. The remain panels have photographic illustrations of the Lodge and its grounds local attractions and the recreations available near the Lodge. There is also much ballyhoo about the The Carmel-San Simeon Highway also known as the Roosevelt Highway as it had recently been completed 1937. It took 16 years to finish this 100-mile stretch of highway and anyone who has traversed it knows why.The state of California acquired the land in 1933 from the original homesteaders and created Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park in the Pfeiffer family's honor. The Civilian Conservation Corps built the lodge and surrounding facilities between 1933 and 1941. The Lodge is still administered by the state. Big Sur Lodge unknown
19548753Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press For the Friends of the UCLA Library. Good. 1954. Softcover. 26 pp.; 8vo; printed stapled blue wrappers. Scuff to front cover; stip of light tanning across front endpaper; ownership ticket of Ed Ainsworth affixed to lower edge inside front cover. The Botica General . . . was one of twelve twelve books printed by the Zamorano press during its twelve years of service to the Mexican Government. . The Ward Ritchie Press For the Friends of the UCLA Library paperback
194676114Auburn: J. P. Hall 1946. First edition of the October 1946 issue published monthly. Quarto. 32 pp. illustrated and with ads. Publisher's printed yellow wrappers Short split at upperr joint but a very clean and sturdy copy.The main story is the anger over the governments preemptory declaration of mines that have been worked for a number of years as "Non-Mineral." to quote from the front cover-"Owners of and Estimated 6000 Claims Developing and Producing Mines are losing their holding to the U.S. Navy without benefit of Engineering and Legal Help Many are being ordered to Relinquish Their Rights for Nothing on Interior Department Engineers' reports that said Claims are "Non-Mineral." Or as it is more succinctly put in the headline for the main article "A Sin! A Crime!! A Damnable Outrage!!!." It seems most of the mines affected were near Randsburg and those mines were still producing. A government order was issued at the end of WWII to close down the gold mines as they were not considered an essential wartime industry. Another reason was the decline in the value of gold. J. P. Hall unknown
192375464Los Angeles: National Mortgage Company of California 1923. First edition. Quarto. 48 pp. with artistic photographic illustrations on every page. Publisher's blue wrappers. front cover with a gilt frame surrounding the title in gilt. An excellent copy. Only 4 copies recorded by OCLC.Presentation inscription from "Geo. S. Walker". Walker was for twelve years the state Building & Loan Commissioner before becoming the president of the National Mortgage Company of California. A rather elaborate piece of boosterism. As it was issued by a mortgage company instead of a special interest it covers every aspect of the new California life-style. National Mortgage Company of California unknown
192775587Los Angeles: Benton Publishing Co. 1927. First edition Narrow octavo. 20 pp. with with color illustrations on nearly every page. Publisher's pictorial wrappers with a color image of a tour bus on the cover. In the original envelope which has "A Bit of California Color" printed on it. An excellent copy. No copies located by OCLC.The subtitle on the front cover is "See California First.' At first glance one would think this a pamphlet for the Golden State Royal Blue Line of buses a relatively new phenomenon. But as one reads further it is obvious that this is a piece of boosterism for the State in general as it covers nearly everything and in printed in exceedingly small type using blue ink. I think the real reason for it's publication unknown to the internet or to OCLC is to be found on the inner rear page. There we see a colorful cluster of purple grapes and the following ad; "The World's Only Deluxe All-Color Book in Multi-process Art Engravings: "California the Wonderland and Garden of the World" published by the very same Benton Publishing Company. Mechanical color printing was a very new thing in 1927 Prior to this a printer had to use lithos or engravings. "Initially some black and white halftones were enhanced with synthetically applied color. By the 1920s improvements in mechanical color separation techniques and the growth of magazine publishing made it possible for some titles to afford full-color pictures and black text to be printed together on sheetfed letterpress systems" Multimediaman June 2016. In truth the color in the publication is well less than sterling and this leads one to suspect that the Benton Publishing Company offered to print this at a discount for the State in order to try out their new printing process. Many of the illustrations are positively strange and feel off-register as they were likely struggling to master this new technology. Benton Publishing Co. unknown
191272138Los Angeles: M. Reider 1912. Complete deck of 52 playing cards each with a captioned photographic scene on the face and a poinsettia and mission bell on the back card edges gilt. In the original two-part red box with gilt lettering. Box has some expected wear. Cards are beautiful.All fifty-two of the cards bear different photographic images of places of interest in California and include; Soldier's Home near Santa Monica Cawston Ostrich Farm Rubidoux Summer Riverside Casino and Beach Santa Cruz Stanford University the Pinnacles near Soledad Arlington Hotel Santa Barbara etc. Joker and ad card present. Original revenue stamp present. M. Reider unknown
1900217082Paris: Draeger Frères 1900. Fourth edition. Illustrated throughout. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 10 3/4 x 7 inches. Decorative brown wrappers. Very good with 2 minor chips. Fourth edition. Illustrated throughout. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 10 3/4 x 7 inches. Draeger Frères unknown
195571362San Francisco: Wyland Stanley c. 1955. Original silver gelatin print made by Wyland Stanley from the negative of ca. 1925. 16 3/4 x 13 1/4 and mounted to board with a typed caption. A fine & rich image. Wyland Stanley d. 1994 was a San Francisco collector of negatives and photographic printer. During the 1950s he made prints of historic photos by Isaiah Taber Carleton Watkins Bradley & Rulofson Edweard Muybridge as well these prints of vintage cars from original negatives of pictures taken in the 1920s. The Bancroft has a large collection 328 of Wyland Stanley historic prints. Many of Stanley's photographs are currently available from stock houses but this one was actually printed by Stanley the owner of the negative in the mid 1950s. The captions were written by Stanley and are often humorous. Wyland Stanley unknown
1870332662San Francisco: Bell & Company General Publlisher of Songs & Ballads no. 639 Kearny St 1870. Approx. 10 x 4 inches each. Various conditions generally very good. Approx. 10 x 4 inches each. Includes: You Never Miss de Lager till de Keg runs Dry Since Terry First Joined the Gang Tommy Make Room for your Uncle First She Would and Then She Wouldn't When Silver Locks Replace the Gold Sally Green and more. Among the songs are those sung by the San Francisco Minstrels Mackin & Wilson Tony Pastor Ned Barry Ella Wesner etc. Bell & Company, General Publlisher of Songs & Ballads no. 639 Kearny St unknown
1870332661San Francisco: T.C. Boyd Montgomery Street 1870. Approx. 10x4 inches. Several with woodcut illustrations. Various conditions. Generally very good. Approx. 10x4 inches. Several with woodcut illustrations. Includes: The Doony Song re: the April 1867 victory of American Californian boxer Tom Chandler over British boxer Dooney Harris Great Prize Fight between Lazarus and Peter Daly "I do not Want to be drowned" re: Burning of the steamship Golden Gate near Manzanillo July 27 1862 Sally Come Up Yes I Would the War Were Over Or Any Other Man and more. T.C. Boyd, Montgomery Street unknown
186046868New York: S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. 1860. Folio 12" X 15¼" image area 10½" X 13½". Hand colored. Very good. Light age toning. Bold bright map of the 31st state from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World Plans of Cities Etc." Small inset at lower left contains "San Francisco and Vicinity" while large inset at upper right contains "Map of the Settlements in the Great Salt Lake Country Utah." Superbly colored with fine decorative border. S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. unknown
1850354196Olneyville RI: John W. Lewis 1850. 1p. 8 stanzas printed in two columns. 7-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches. Very minor edge chipping. 1p. 8 stanzas printed in two columns. 7-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches. Scarce songsheet. The text below the the title continues: "The following lines were suggested by hearing an extract of a letter from Captain Chace giving an acount of the sickness and death of his late brother-in-law MR. Brown Owen who died on his passage to California." The lyrics to the popular song were written by Kate Harris of Pascoag R.I. and published in the New England Diadem and Rhode Island Temperance Pledge on 9 Feb. 1850. Eberstadt 134-119 John W. Lewis unknown
641Stockton: Stockton Mail 1908. Pages 19 pages.5� x 5.5�. Paperbound. Illustrated w/ fold out photographs by Logan. Street map of Stockton on back cover. Lists of delegates and committee members. Fold out partly torn along hinge were attached inside back cover else in very good condition. Very scarce. Stockton: (Stockton Mail) 1908. unknown
1852218651Washington D.C.: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office 1852. 8 pp. 1 vols. Removed. 8 pp. 1 vols. Printed at the Congressional Globe Office] unknown
5391CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH. DS. 1pg. July 22 1850. Sacramento City California Territory. A demand note signed Barton Lee as a banker. The partially-printed note entitles the bearer to two hundred dollars plus 5% interest payable in gold dust one month hence. Barton Lee and Baker & Company was a popular Sacramento bank. California would become a state seven weeks later on September 9 1850. This interesting piece of California Gold Rush memorabilia is in very good condition with light wear. unknown
1928314049California 1928. 131 mounted black and white photographs and more than 75 items of typescript and printed ephemera inserted. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Black card wrappers string tied. A few photographs or items of ephemera perished generally very good. Black cloth clamshell box with printed lbel. 131 mounted black and white photographs and more than 75 items of typescript and printed ephemera inserted. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Nicely illustrated photograph album and scrapbook of the convivial businessman J.W. Fricke of San Francisco who fished for rainbow trout from his cabin on the Feather River in the California Sierras. The album includes Fricke's fishing licenre is a calligraphic page for the "Golden Feather Cabeen and Some Famous Fishermen Who Visit There" naming on successive pages Frank F. Weber C.W. Callender J.H. Vogt Edwin D. Weary whose typed verses in praise of the Feather River are included and E.R. Billet who also typed some verses sometimes with notes in white ink. Photographs are often dated and captioned chiefly 1919-1923 and show views of stream interiors of the cabin the friends bathing scenes and the fishing. There are also a few photos recording a trip to the Père Raquette river in Michigan and a newspaper account of fishing the Rogue River in Oregon; and some printed verses in praise of Fricke's hospitality dated 1928.<br /> <br /> A PLEASING GLIMPSE OF WESTERN ANGLING IN THE 1920s. unknown
195676326Sacramento: Department of Public Works 1956. First edition. Quarto. Text with various paginations and with 25 folding maps and graphs in the rear many in color. Publisher's quarter cloth tape spine over photographically illustrated wrappers. Tape at base of spine peeling away and a magic marker covering of something on the front wrappers but a complete and solid copyRecord-breaking floods occurred in California the western parts of Nevada Oregon and Idaho and scattered basins in southern Washington during the last part of December 1955 and in January 1956. "Gum Tree Levee on the Feather River in Sutter County collapsed sending a 21-foot wall of water into Yuba City. In the darkness of the night the town would go into complete chaos with families fleeing from their homes to escape the deadly flood. n the end 40000 people would evacuate the surrounding area with over 600 needing to be rescued by boat or helicopter and 38 people dying in the floodwater. It was a devastating natural disaster and a strong lesson for the area that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers calls “the most prone to intense flooding of any river valley in the United States.â€The storm that caused the rise in waters in Northern California was one for the ages. A bombardment of precipitation slammed the entire west coast with Shasta County receiving 15.34 inches in just 24 hours on December 20th. A statewide disaster was declared with the storm resulting in 74 deaths and $200 million in economic losses" Active Norcal 2023. Department of Public Works hardcover
193374409Long Beach: Green's Inc. 1933. First edition of this earthquake souvenir. 6 x 4 inches. 16 pp. almost entirely of photographic illustrations of the damage caused by this 1933 quake. Publisher's light tan mailing wrappers with the tile and a photographic illustrations of the first responders captioned "The Situation Is in Good Hands> Stamped and send to Mr. & Mrs. LaPierre Peck of Yakima WA. Wonderful condition.The 1933 Long Beach earthquake took place on March 10 at 5:54 P.M. PST south of downtown Los Angeles. The epicenter was offshore southeast of Long Beach California on the Newport–Inglewood Fault. The earthquake had a magnitude estimated at 6.4 Mw and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII Severe. Damage to buildings was widespread throughout Southern California. 115 to 120 fatalities and an estimated forty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted. The majority of the fatalities resulted from people running out of buildings exposing themselves to the falling debris. A great deal of the damage was focused on Long Beach and this quake was a wake-up call for local governments to institute new construction guidelines. Green's Inc. unknown
189471028Washington: United States Geological Survey 1894-1900. First edition of all seven folios. 21 2/4 x 18 1/2 inches each. Folio 3 Placerville. 3 maps. 1894. Folio 5 Sacramento. 2 maps. 1894. Folio 29 Nevada City Special. 9 maps. 1896. Folio 41 Sonora. 4 maps. 14x4" portion of rear wrapper torn off affecting lettering on inside rear wrapper; plates and text fine. 1897. Folio 51 Big Trees. 3 maps & 1 plate reproducing 5 photographs. 1898. Folio 63 Mother Lode District. 8 maps. 1900. Folio 66 Colfax. 3 maps. 1900. All in original printed wrappers and cloth spines. Cursive stamp of Chas. S. Sawyer to each volume. Bit of soiling ad corner wear but altogether a very good collection of this attractive group of atlases. United States Geological Survey hardcover
