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162pp. 35 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1991Q-0500276463Thames & Hudson 1991-10-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Thames & Hudson paperback
Pages 418-528. Features: The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - Part VI; How Mohammedans Pray - photo-illustrated article; The Pirate of "The Ghost" - a stowaway saves a blockade-runner; Where Beasts are Baptized - astonishing ceremonies in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; The Story of an Alpine Adventure - Miss A.E. Metcalfe and Miss M. Cartwright take a wrong turn in the Swiss mountains; A Race up Mont Blanc, by Samuel Turner (with is photo); Fascinated by a Snake - photo-illustrated tale from Australia; Congo Money - fascinating photo-illustrated article showing grass mats, cowrie shells, beads, etc.; Bob Mansell's Lion; Run Amok - Borneo tale by E.W. Barrant (with his photo); Floating Church on the Seine - article with nice photos; Strangest Horse Race on Earth - the 'Palio' of Sienna - article with great photos; Gun Robbers of Fyzabad - tale related by veteran Michael Lynch, with his photo; The Havoc Wrought by One Man - Chinaman Gong Ung Chung blows up powder magazine at the Western Fuse Works in Oakland, California - article with photos; The Wreck of the "General Grant" - a desert island experience; Illustrations of the curious "Knapp" roller-boat; Photo of William Laurens and the boat he lived in for years; Photo of a bag of 369 caribou in Newfoundland; and more. Front cover missing. Back cover loose but present. Above-average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Pages 73-136. Features: Cover illustration of carved panel from 1600's oak chest; Needlework portrait of George Washington; Accent on Washingtoniana - The Yale-de Lancey Kountze Collection at Mount Vernon; Burnap Collection of English Pottery - Part 1; Seventeenth-century Window Lights; Antiques in California - a Record of a Loan Exhibition; A Note on Emanuel Leutze; A Battle Painting; American Silver Tongs - from the collection of Francis M. Rosenfeld; A Cross-Section of Valentineship, 1946, 1846, 1746; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Covers loose but present. Above-average wear. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy. Magazine
1990x-0313268894Praeger Pub Text 1990. Hardcover. New. 305 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. Praeger Pub Text hardcover
2000Q-0764913999Pomegranate 2000-11-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Pomegranate paperback
198637813La Paz 1986. Paperback. Good. Mixed paginations facsimiles wrps 4to. La Paz paperback
198960-00650Mexicali Cortez Hermanos Editores 1989-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Mexicali, Cortez Hermanos Editores paperback
198937786Mexicali Cortez Hermanos Editores 1989. Paperback. Good. 252p. wrps. Mexicali, Cortez Hermanos Editores paperback
0366014285.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0366062808.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1391548558.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
198837784Mexicali 1988. Paperback. Good. 3 vols. vp tables wrps 4to. With annexes of statistics and public works. Mexicali paperback
1870WRCAM44211Magdalena Bay Lower California 1870. 4pp. on a folded folio sheet including a map on the final page. Small tape repair in fore-edge of first leaf. A bit of offsetting from the masthead and the map. Near fine. In a half morocco and cloth folding case spine gilt. The second and final issue of this scarce Baja California newspaper of which only two issues were ever published. Meant to be published weekly the first issue was dated Oct. 12 1870 and was followed by the present number. It was published by the "exploring and colonizing expedition of the Lower California Co. at the projected City of Cortez Magdalena Bay Lower California." The map shows the California coast from San Francisco south to the tip of Baja with steamship routes and the location of Magdalena Bay. The text records the comings and goings of steamships improvements taking place at the colony advantages available to settlers testimonials as to the veracity of the text advertisements and an ad promising free land to the first 1000 colonists. "A curious Baja California item.quite typical of a great deal of promotional literature and ephemera which appeared during the 1870's and 1880's" - Barrett. BARRETT 1525. hardcover books
9554TIJUANAASS 1967. GOOD-VERY GOOD. TIJUANA,ASS, 1967 unknown books
112 pages. Features: The Hodding Carters - Working for decades in the intransigent heartland of the South, they dedicated themselves and their newspaper to exposing the cruelties and injustice around them and reaffirming the basic goodness of the South they loved - article with photos (including cover); New Battles Over School Budgets - landmark California decisioin affecting John Serrano; Ten Days That Shook Me Up in Russia - the tormented world of Soviet dissidents; "Dewar's Profiles" features David O. Hill, Wildlife Conservationist of New York City; Swept Away - people continue to build along coastal areas despite terrible storms and the damage they cause; Poirot's First Case - Agatha Christie describes how she created her first detective story, and her grandest sleuth, while surrounded by poisons; Fantastic two-page centerfold ad for Jovan fragrances; Photos of Nubby Knits; Throwing a Curve - John Saladino designed this curved apartment; Sexy color-photo ad for luxurious silk bikini panties by Macy's; A Mess of Mopeds; Toyota Celica ad on back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Mayor John Lindsay - Once hailed as an urban messiah, now blamed for the city's financial collapse; Vladimir Horowitz - No other artist produces such music; Ethiopia is convulsed by revolution and beset on three sides by enemy forces - article with color photos; Fantastic one-page color-photo ad for Rose Marie Reid swimwear shows two beauties in the sand with background lad staring lustily; Problems of a Problem Solver - Jimmy Carter at the end of his first year as President; California's contribution to Interior Design - with Michael Taylor and Mimi London; Keeping Fit in California; Color photos of Women's fashions designed by Dennis Goldsmith, Jean D'Alessio, and Mimi Fayazi; and more. 80 pages. Excellent color and black and white photo reproductions including fabulous fashion ads, and more. School stamp upon front cover and first page. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Parte prima: Roy di California - Parte seconda: Fantasmi del passato - Parte terza: Sotto la chioma dei meli 1 31x23 cm., legatura in mezza tela, sopraccoperta con disegni originali d'ambiente del racconto, pp. 87 (2), illustrata con disegni originali, bicolore, relativi alla storia, prima edizione, in italiano, piccoli segni del tempo e d'uso, buon esemplare. Firma e data manoscritte con 'cartolina artistica' auguri Natale 1963
n.p. Illustrated with 13 full page plates of various towns in California. The original pencil sketches are in the possession of the Bancroft Library, University of California. Though the originals were not signed nor dated, they were probably from the 1850's. Oblong folio. 440 x 285 mm. Original cloth spine over marbled covered cloth boards. Edges chipped and soiled. Small loss at head and tail of spine. Gilt lettered spine label, loss at each end. Joints worn with some loss. Edition limited to only 300 copies. Plates fine. Magee 446. The towns illustrated are: Folsom; Benicia; Vallejo & Mare Island; Martinez; Alviso; Santa Cruz; San Juan Bautista; Monterey; San Luis Obispo; Santa Barbara; San Bernardino; Los Angeles; and San Diego. W38
403p. illus. At head of title: Lower California: A Cruise Hardcover Very good condition
Seven quarto volumes in blind-stamped brown-maroon ornamental cloth, gilt titles; b&w illustrations (maps, plans) throughout; 24 cm; approx 600-700 pages per volume. Title pages states 1890; copyright page states 1889. Presumably the lmost comprehensivehistory of California in of its time and for many years thereafter. Early California History. Gold Rush. Western Americana / **A large, heavy set. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Please inquire.**
pp. 117-170, 36 figs., tabs. (partly fold.), refs. 4to. Offprint, orig. wrs. - Includes consideration of foraminiferal faunas.
Map of the county issued by the Bank of America. Includes vital statistics and points of interest. Back side provides a short history of the county and details of the bank. Average wear and soiling. Short openings to periphery. 21.5" x 16.75". Map
186541489San Francisco: The Bank of California 1865. Buff paper printed in grey and black ink handwritten in brown and red ink. Moderate wear to paper age-toning rubbing and creasing. Ink slightly fading. Withal a VG example. Single sheet printed recto only. Orange George Washington 2 cent stamp to left-hand corner. Oblong format: 4" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/>"Received from Geo. Howes & Co Twelve Hundred & Twenty 79/11 Dollars the same being for our telegraphic order this date on our New York Office to pay Henry J. Hallet from Howes US Gold coin Eleven Hundred Seventy Seven 50/100 Dollars." Total is $1220.79 - quite a large sum in 1865! The Bank of California was opened in San Francisco on July 4 1864 just a year before this note was printed. It was the first commercial bank in the Western United States the second-richest bank in the nation getting all the West Coast wealthy patrons it wanted and considered instrumental in the development of the American West. The Bank stood at the corner of California and Sansome streets in San Francisco and was said to be "one of the handsomest structures on the coast." At the heigh of the BofCA's power owner Ralston and his "Ring" as his associates were known were able to exert monopolistic influence over sections of commerce and industry in San Francisco and in Virginia City. The Bank of California unknown books
40197San Francisco n. d. A VG card. White card printed in dark blue ink. One photographic reproduction and one wood engraving reproduction both tinted brown of the Merchants Exchange building and of the corner of Battery and Washington Streets. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8. <br/><br/>"The sketch at left appeared in the May 23 1857 issue of Ballou's Pictorial Magazine published in Boston Mass. with this description: 'A splendid building which in some respects has not its equal on the Atlantic seaboard and which affords emphatic evidence of the progress of art in the empire of gold so lately added to our domain.'" unknown books
