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189547619Littleton N. H.: B. W. Kilburn Photographer & Publisher 1895. Now housed in an archival sleeve. Some modest wear & soiling to card with a few smudges to the verso. Top of images a bit faded aspects of the town itself quite sharp. A VG example. Albumen stereo image of San Rafael from an elevated perspective mounted to peach-colored card stock. Lettering in black ink. Verso with publisher imprint. Oblong format: 3-1/2" x 7". Concave. Rounded corners. <br/><br/>San Rafael was incorporated in 1874 and is named after the Archangel Raphael the Angel of Healing. B. W. Kilburn, Photographer & Publisher unknown books
18891461Penryn Ca 1889. About very good. Broadside 9 x 6.75 inches. Trimmed unevenly corners clipped lightly tanned. Contemporary pencil notation at bottom of sheet. Broadside advertising a reward for the arrest of Henry Kaiser for the abduction of Miss Amy Douglas taken from the little town of Penryn in Placer County on Sunday June 2 1889. Kaiser is described as "aged 47 years height about 5 ft. 10 1-2 inches brown hair blue eyes brown light moustache cut square slightly stooped shouldered plays violin carried with him a violin and black satchel." Miss Douglas is described as well: "aged 14 years about 5 ft. 1 1-2 or 2 in. high large blue eyes light hair wears it in a braid and cut short in front and banged very awkward cannot read or write." The reward is offered by a J.H. Frost and a pencil note seems to indicate that he was a real estate and insurance agent. A newspaper article from the San Francisco Chronicle of June 24 1889 relates that the two eloped. Kaiser was a divorcé and the son of a well-known winemaker in the area. The two were located in Portland Oregon having unsuccessfully tried to gain a marriage license due to Amy's young age. Another article indicates that Amy fled cruelty at home her father having consented to her marrying Kaiser when she turned sixteen. In any case Kaiser was discharged from criminal prosecution having been found to have acted honorable with regards to the girl. An interesting story and the broadside is unrecorded. unknown books
189344953San Francisco Ca: Thomas Houseworth & Co 1893. Orange stiff-stock card mount. Rounded corners. Light wear to edges of mount. Photograph clear & sharp. VG. One photograph with the two views dome top captions printed in black. 3-1/2" x 7" <br/><br/>Images show Montgomery St. from the vantage point of a south-facing balcony. Thomas Houseworth & Co unknown books
1855007164Sacramento California 1855. Two manuscript letters in ink both on ruled paper with folding creases the 1855 letter 8" x 12 1/2" with single spaced writing both sides approx. 500 words. The 1856 letter 15" x 10" folded in half to make 4 pp. approx. 300 words with small blindstamp top left corner depicting an eagle. The earlier letter is headed "September 18th 1855 Naperville Dupage County Illinois" and ends "Michael direct your letters Nevada County Nevada post office California". George writes to his brother Michael in Naperville that he has "seen a good dele sins i rote you they last letter" including a hundred "inshins" and some "Buffellow". He adds that "we had good luck all they way of may we left Council Bluff" and that he is not home sick yet. He then talks of the gold mines river mining what they are paying and the cost of things such as board "from five to ten dollars a week" "Beaf" "wors 15 to 20 cents" and "potato" "4 cent per pound". He adds that he intends to have some gold before he comes home and that "girls are not so plenty here as they are in state". He closes by asking his brother to write him and to remain at home in Illinois to care for their parents. The 1856 letter headed Sacramento august 3th 1856 informs his brother that he is well and "down to Sacramento now" working on a farm feeding a "schrasing" thrashing machine and that "they times is verry hard in California now". He adds that he had some money "stole" while he was in the mountains but since coming down into the valley he was making money and will send some home soon. The letter ends with George wishing to see them all soon and that he is not home sick. The third page of the letter bears a drawing of a wing or leaf eleven smaller versions of the same image interspersed on page 2. A fascinating testimonial on California during the gold rush written in a strong hand and in a wonderful vernacular style by a good observer. . HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Manuscript. Very Good. books
188934051Sacramento: Young 1889. First Edition. 283pp. illustwo schools as frontis. Orignal gold stamped cloth upper edge of front cover shows some wear Not in Cowan Young hardcover books
189824068Placerville California: Pocahontas Mine 1898. Typed letter on the Pocahontas Mine letterhead dated Jan. 19th 1898 to the Norwalk Iron Works Company of South Norwalk Conn. asking for compressor parts & catalog; the mine was using the Norwalk equipment at the time; approx. 8 1/2"x 11" size; old fold lines; light wear; in very good condition. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Pocahontas Mine Paperback books
189344484Meadville Pa: Keystone View Company 1893. Pale peach stiff-stock card mount. Rounded corners. Light wear to mount. Photograph clear & sharp. Verso with "Marilyn Blaisdall" neatly inked to one edge along with a few other penciled prior owner annotations. VG. One photograph with the two views dome top. Verso with 10 lines of printed text describing Chinatown "Here 40000 Chinamen are huddled together in quarters which would not accommodate one fifth that number of Americans." 3-1/2" x 7" <br/><br/>Image shows the Sing Fat Bazaar building to the right. Keystone View Company unknown 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
1899WRCLIT83220London & New York: John Lane the Bodley Head 1899. Slate blue cloth ruled and lettered in gray t.e.g. others untrimmed. Portrait. Bookplate. Moderately shaken and rubbed 1899 San Francisco ownership inscription on half-title; just a sound copy. First edition. "The daughter of a wealthy San Francisco pioneer a victim of her own impulsiveness and indiscretion meets her downfall through drink" - Baird & Greenwood. BAIRD & GREENWOOD 104. WRIGHT III:156. John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover books
1899WRCLIT83219London & New York: John Lane the Bodley Head 1899. Slate blue cloth ruled and lettered in gray t.e.g. others untrimmed. Portrait. Bookplate. Very slightly shaken but a very good copy. First edition. "The daughter of a wealthy San Francisco pioneer a victim of her own impulsiveness and indiscretion meets her downfall through drink" - Baird & Greenwood. BAIRD & GREENWOOD 104. WRIGHT III:156. John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover books
188231379San Francisco: B. F. Alley 1882. xi 509 48pp. plus woodcut frontispiece and eleven other woodcut portraits. Later half calf and contemporary sheep gilt morocco spine label edges sprinkled brown. Ownership inscription on front endpaper recto scattered manuscript notations in pencil several on portraits. Final contents page tipped in.<br/> <br/>A rare history of Tuolumne County California covering a variety of topics.<br/> <br/>It recounts the foundation of its towns by miners arriving from the East in the summer of 1848 at the beginning of the California Gold Rush and contains a chronology of important events and a section of biographies for significant county figures. The volume also provides lurid accounts of various crimes committed including lynchings robberies and murders as well as of natural disasters and mining accidents. A significant portion of the book is dedicated to the county's mining history and its geology as well as its the promotion of its agricultural resources. Includes a portrait and brief biography of Samuel Clemens Mark Twain who spent time around the mines in California as a reporter during the Civil War and apparently stayed in Tuolumne County during the winter of 1864-65 where he wrote "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." "One of the rarest of all California histories. with only a few copies in existence" - Norris.<br/> <br/>Adams Six-Guns 2248; California Local History 15345; Cowan II p. 646; Howes l71 "b"; Norris Catalogue 3968. B. F. Alley unknown books
1883166754San Francisco: A. Roman 1883. 17x12 cm pp. i-ix x-xv xvi 17 18-216 217-219: ads 220: blank flyleaves at front and rear inserted frontispiece original red cloth front panel stamped in black and gold spine panel stamped in gold rear panel stamped in blind floral patterned endpapers. Second edition enlarged. A new edition of A YOUTH'S HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF ITS DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME San Francisco: A. Roman & Company 1867. The 1867 edition is uncommon. "Among the earliest schoolbooks relating exclusively to California. The author Louise Palmer Heaven wrote a number of children's books under different pseudonyms" Howell. Heaven was a popular contributor to OVERLAND MONTHLY and the author of "indifferent novels" Walker San Francisco's Literary Frontier whose best known work is CHATA AND CHINITA 1889 a novel set in Mexico. Cowan 1933 p. 456. Sabin 55495. California news agent's stamp on the front and rear flyleaves. Cloth worn at edges a sound good copy. A nice copy overall. #166754 A. Roman unknown books
186027304San Francisco: Towne & Bacon Book and Job Printers 1860. First edition. Woodcut illustrations. Pp. 133. 1 vols. 12mo. Disbound some light marginal soiling else a very good copy with the signature of M. Standish of Boston on the endpaper. First edition. Woodcut illustrations. Pp. 133. 1 vols. 12mo. California Gold Silver Lead &c. Towne & Bacon, Book and Job Printers unknown books
189846853San Francisco: W. A. Woodward & Co 1898. 1st printing. Printed self wrappers now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. Faint horizontal fold line. Very Good. 8 pp. 6-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>An anonymous publication commenting mostly unfavorably on the two Democratic candidates for US Congress James H. Barry and Superior Court Judge William T. Wallace in San Francisco. Wallace was a former California Supreme Court judge and the sitting Superior Court Judge. Apparently he lost the election and was appointed San Francisco's Police Commissioner. Barry owned the Star newspaper and was a tireless campaigner against corruption and for electoral reform. Barry's papers are at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley BANC MSS 96/186 c. A rare publication documenting the political atmosphere of this election. No copies listed on OCLC. W. A. Woodward & Co unknown books
1873WRCLIT75391San Francisco: Bell & Company No. 639 Kearney Street 1873. Narrow quarto broadside 26 x 11 cm. Text printed within ornamental border. Horizontal fold otherwise near fine. This printing of the lyrics notes that the music not printed here "may be obtained at Gray's Music Store." OCLC: 438159594. Bell & Company, No. 639 Kearney Street unknown books
1896225006Bosotn Raymond & Whitcomb 1896. 1896. Small oblong 8vo 5 1/2" x 4 1/4". 10 full page illustrations of hotels etc. 69 pages covers. A tight fresh copy. No signatures or bookplates. Printed by American Printing and Engraving Boston. Includes information on Mt. Lowe Pasadena Santa Barbara etc. Soft cover. Bosotn, Raymond & Whitcomb, 1896. paperback books
185148953Logtown Eldorado County California 1851. SIGNED by McKemson at conclusion. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Bit of age toning. Fold-lines. Later pencil annotation at top noting location of Logtown. Very Good. Single sheet 25 lines of mss ~ 7 words per line ~ 175 words. 2 sums penned to right of sheet. Docket summary to verso. All writing clear & sharp entirely legible. 9-5/8" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/>An interesting & information-laden letter detailing the contractual & financial agreements between two individuals engaged in mining along with sums paid for divers aspects of same to wit: "to John and Peter for pork" .75 "balance on beef to the butcher down Town" 4.15 and "balance on account with King" 9.86. We note athat the value of labor is recognized e.g. "it was agreed by J. S. Bigalow and I that as George was sick most of the time that the cooking that he did should pay his part of the living for which our bebts were principally contracted." <br /> <br />A nice primary source ADs documenting divers aspects of mine life amongs those so practiciing. unknown books
1895196425No place Sacramento.: No publisher State Printing Office. 1895. Hardcover black cloth gilt cover title no spine title. . Very good upper corner bumped “Treasurer's Office†inked on bottom edge. 22.8x14.5 cm. . A compilation of all the acts passed by the California state legislature in 1895 bound without a title page or other preliminaries. No publisher (State Printing Office). hardcover books
1890813Madera Ca 1890. Very good. Broadside 16.5 x 9.5 inches. Horizontal fold at center. A few very short closed tears at top edge. Even tanning; a couple of faint fox marks. A scarce broadside advertisement for a land sale north of Fresno during the late 19th century. The Bank of Madera went into liquidation in 1897. Pacific Bank to whom the local bank owed a good deal of money apparently took control of its real estate assets and promoted their fire sale via this illustrated broadside. The advertisement contains a plat map and table of available lots and states that "This land is situated about 2 1/2 miles southwest of the town of Madera is all under irrigation and is as good soil and there is in the County of Madera." Additional text promotes other available lots and emphasizes the low prices for which all are available. The sale was placed in the hands of the local attorney Robert Hargrove who according to a contemporary state report on recent bank failures was also one of the principal shareholders and president of the bank. We locate only one copy of this broadside at Berkeley. unknown books
1890WRCAM44132Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company 1890. 898pp. plus thirty-five photographic plates. Thick quarto. Original pictorial pigskin stamped in gilt and blind spine gilt a.e.g. Some minor scuffing and wear to the binding. Very clean internally. Very good overall. A massive history of southern California encompassing San Diego San Bernardino Los Angeles and Orange counties as well as Baja California. Individual communities are discussed as are agricultural development and infrastructure. The history is followed by hundreds of biographical sketches of notable citizens. A very useful historical record of southern California in the late nineteenth century. The Lewis Publishing Company unknown books
185329832Sacramento CA: G.K. Fitch & Co. and V.E. Geiger & Co. State Printers 1853. 7 1 blank pp. Stitched a couple of binder holes in blank inner margin. Small hole in blank portion of first leaf. Signed in type at end by S.C. Hastings Attorney General. Good. <br/><br/> A report on the estate of William A. Leidesdorff; tax litigation against non-resident owners of vessels in California; a suit for recovery of Beach and Water property in the City of San Francisco; and matters relating to criminal procedure. G.K. Fitch & Co. and V.E. Geiger & Co., State Printers unknown books
1881303899Sacramento State Office J.D. Young 1881. 1881. Tall thin 8vo. Original black pebbled cloth stamped in gilt on the upper front cover. Very good. 43 pages. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Sacramento, State Office, J.D. Young, 1881. hardcover books
1855WRCAM28275Sacramento: B.B. Redding 1855. 98pp. Later green cloth. Slightly bowed small dampstain along fore-edge affecting all leaves. Overall still very good. Marlette's report includes primarily an account of the Northern Boundary Survey extending as far north as Pilot Knob. He also offers strong criticism on the quality of California mapping sums up the status of various rail lines through the state and encourages the development of a county road system. This is the last time the report of the Surveyor-General appeared as an annual report henceforth being published biannually. NUC 0039424. B.B. Redding hardcover books
1883WRCAM448311883. Oil on canvas 18 x 26 inches on original wooden stretcher with letters in lower margin after the lithographed view of the same title published by Bosqui. Very good. "Edward Bosqui was born in 1833 in Montreal of French descent. When he was about seventeen years old he decided to go to California. He went by way of Panama where like a good many others who headed for the Gold Rush in those days he became stranded. He worked his way up through Mexico a hazardous trip but young Bosqui survived the many hardships.He arrived in San Francisco in the latter part of 1850 and his first job was as cashier of the first bank to be established there. Afterwards he served as General Fremont's secretary. He first went into the printing business in 1859 at Clay and Leidesdorff Streets and stayed at that location for thirty-nine years. Bosqui did bookbinding as well as printing and lithography.He printed the EVENING BULLETIN in the early days of its existence and did a great deal of commercial label work" - Peters. <br> <br> The Arctic Oil Works was established on a Bay side pier between 17th and 16th streets in 1883 to produce refined oils from seals whales and elephant seals. Soon after opening it became the largest oil refinery on the West Coast. In 1902 the oil works became incorporated as part of Standard Oil. <br> <br> The painting is quite similar to the scarce lithographed view produced by Bosqui although more Impressionistic in style and without quite as much detail. The spelling mistakes in the address of the works "Potrcro" instead of Potrero and in the address of the offices "ZB" instead of 28 further suggest this painting to be after the lithographed view. The painting however shows considerable age is on the original stretcher and dates from the late 19th century. PETERS CALIFORNIA ON STONE pp.60-61. J. Russell Harper EARLY PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS IN CANADA p.39. unknown books
1900WRCAM55762San Francisco & Chicago: California Photogravure Co. 1900. Twelve parts. 24pp. plus 130 photogravures on 109 leaves. Folio. Original green cloth-backed textured burgundy leatherette wrappers foredges reinforced with same green cloth gilt title on front wrapper. Minor wear to upper or lower edges of a few volumes. Occasional light offsetting to margins images not affected. Bindings very good; plates near fine. A wonderful complete set of the "Art Work" series for Southern California with many striking views from Santa Barbara to San Diego and from the beaches to the Inland Empire. It is a marvelous record of Los Angeles and numerous small communities during an important period in the area's development. <br> <br> Like many sets in this series the majority of plates depict recently constructed civic buildings such as schools churches hospitals etc. as well as landscaped public spaces and expanding agricultural scenes. Although citrus farming was already a major industry and immigration was booming these scenes show Southern California "before": before the movie industry the freeways etc. Notable in this collection are lovely photogravure images of the State Normal School Los Angeles in 1919 it became the southern branch of the University of California; the College of Liberal Arts building "Old College" at the University of Southern California; the A.K. Smiley Public Library in Redlands; the Los Angeles County Court House the first building built as a courthouse in L.A.; and shots of several streets in and around downtown Los Angeles including tree-lined Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood - then still a dirt road. A brief text authored and signed in facsimile by Lou V. Chapin promotes Southern California as a land happily blending a modern and industrialized region with lush parks and gardens abundant agriculture and long beaches but it's the exquisite images that close the deal. <br> <br> This set has only appeared once at auction in recent years and is scarce in the trade. OCLC lists seventeen copies the majority held by California institutions. A fantastic visual record of California's "Southland" on the cusp of a boom in growth. OCLC 20876322 13326640. California Photogravure Co. hardcover books
