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1866587Fairplay Ca 1866. Very good. 2pp. on a small bifolium. Previously folded. Light creasing and dust soiling. A brief but interesting letter about developments in the Brownsville mining district of California southeast of Oroville in 1866: "I am on my way to Paradise Valley Arizona where I have been ordered to a new camp to be established there by the government having received my commission. I have not been unsuccessful in Brownsville having discovered the north extension of the richest mine there to which a road is just built. The ledge is 2ft wide and very rich with free gold. I have to build 200 feet of road to intersect with the new one." The recipient G.W. Swan was a geologist who made several contributions to the early collections of the State Museum of California. The writer M.H. Kolloch resists identification but was clearly a colleague of Swan either a fellow geologist or a mine surveyor or engineer. unknown books
1851476391851. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning especially along fold-line. Penmanship clear & easily read. Bifolium i.e. 4 pages of lined paper 23 lines per page ~ 10 words per line ~ 900 words. 9-3/4" x 7-5/8" <br/><br/>While no year is written on the ALs itself we posit 1851 as the Maritime Heritage website shows the only visit to San Francisco by the Washington was July 21 1851 arriving from Baltimore per a newspaper entry in the Daily Alta. That said per a online perpetual calender March 14th came on a Tuesday in 1852 not 1851. We lean towards 1851 as the actual year this letter was written. And this historic letter is replete with interesting content written by a man bound for the promised land of California. Chamberlin is from Boston writing a newsy letter his sister posted from the Harbor of Pernambuco Brazil March 14 where the ship in taking on supplies including coal. He describes the voyage thus far the expense of the company that sent him and the trip ahead around the Horn expecting to arrive in California in about 30 days. He describes conditions aboard the ship the places he has visited the people he has met in Brazil his own experiences with the heat and fever and more. Letters from this era are apprearing ever more infrequently on the market. unknown books
185246494Vassalboro Maine 1852. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Fold lines. Age-toning along some exterior folds. Red sealing wax remnants. Penciled "Grandma Keith" above address. Very Good. Biofolium of blue paper with 2-1/3 pages of manuscript writing containing 2 letters 53 8 lines ~660 100 words respectively. One panel hand addressed to South Braintree Mass with stamped No. Vassalboro ME postmark Mar 15 & "Paid 3" circular stamp. Unfolded: 9-3/4" x 7-5/8". Folded: 3" x 4-3/8" <br/><br/>Ms Keith begins as most mothers do. relating her regrets for not writing sooner followed by health news of divers relations. Page 2 starts with the news that "There is a great many men in this region gone to California it is thought Maine must suffer a good deal in consequence of so many of her Citizens going to that Country the loss of the men is not all the State is injured by having so much money carried out of it. Since the sufferings of those gone there have been made known & likewise how small the chance of making money enough to fetch them back even many who were calculating to go have given it up at least for the present." The second letter by Keith to affirm to Miss Marcy that she wishes good relations between the two of them expressing appreciation of the "complimentary manner in which you mentioned my son." An intimate look at the allure of California's the 1850s myth tempered with the reality relayed back by some of those who succumbed. unknown books
1849WRCAM49949New York 1849. 1p. of a bifolium docketed on verso of second bifolium leaf. Mailing folds slight edge discoloration else fine. An intriguing note regarding life insurance for a forty-niner traveling to California in 1849 with Henry Webb and John Woodhouse Audubon. The note reads: "Langdon H. Havens wants a life insurance permit for California to go over the Overland Route in company with persons bearing dispatches from our Government in a Company of 100 or more. He wants to leave for Washington immediately." Perhaps the twenty-six-year- old Haven sometimes spelled Havens originally intended to join a safe government- sponsored expedition from Washington but he was in fact among the 100 Forty-Niners who embarked on a famously ill-fated overland expedition led by Army Colonel Henry Webb with John Woodhouse Audubon son of the famous ornithologist as his second in command which left New York on February 8. <br> <br> The company proceeded by ship train stagecoach and riverboat to New Orleans and from there by steamer across the Gulf of Mexico to the mouth of the Rio Grande where they arrived on March 13 - an odd overland route dictated by Webb a veteran of the Mexican-American War. There disaster struck. A dozen men died of cholera the company's money was stolen and leadership conflict led Webb to leave the company with a dozen followers. Some of the remaining stalwarts including Haven followed Audubon onward trekking for seven months through Mexico and Arizona the survivors finally reaching San Diego in November. Some then took a boat to San Francisco; others continued overland to the gold fields. As meticulously recorded by Audubon a naturalist and painter in his own right the entire venture has gone down in history as "one of the most poorly-planned" Forty-Niner expeditions "on record." Haven though nearly dying en route was one of the fortunate few who "made it to California." An appealing note dated in the famous year of the California Gold Rush that eerily anticipates the dangers inherent in overland travel in America in the 19th century. unknown books
1920002340Los Angeles: Touring Bureau Route and Map Service Automobile Club of Southern California 1920. First Edition. Very good. Two maps n. d. 1920; 10 1/2 x 3 3/4; beige card stock printed in black; small creases to corners; a minor spot to lower margin of one of the maps; very good condition. Early 20th century road maps they detailed the routes from Truckee by Lake Tahoe north to Clio Plumas County. It also showed rivers terrain elevations hotels and gas stations and so on. Not in OCLC; not in the trade as of December 2018. Touring Bureau Route and Map Service, Automobile Club of Southern California unknown books
1919MXG514-2Los Angeles:: Prepared by the Route Department of the Automobile Club of Southern California 1919. Second Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Folded Map. 9 5/8 x 3 5/8 inches. Open to 14 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches 4 panels each side. Scale is approximately 1:150000. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights distances in miles along routes between different cities noted in circles and squares Map Number 322 dated 8-2-16 E. J. B. but copyrighted 1919 on front panel; text clean unmarked light toning. Very Good. This is an early Automobile Club of Southern California map showing automobile roads from Santa Cruz to San Jose via California Redwood Park. Prepared by the Route Department of the Automobile Club of Southern California, paperback books
193027048New York Kansas City Montreal: California Perfume Company Inc 1930. Wraps. Very Good. Not paginated. 76 pages. 10 x 7 inches. Two post screw binder with leatherette covers. "AVON" stylized logo on front cover. Full color advertisements for products throughout. Designed as a distributor trade catalog. Wraps. No date but we believe it pre-dates the 1934 catalog found in the Hagley archives. The prices are just a bit cheaper and the lack images of the Good Housekeeping seal found below the 1934 catalog products. California Perfume Company, Inc unknown books
44421Bakersfield CA n. d. Circa 1950s. White paper with brightly colored illustration by Cal Williams printed to front. Faint soiling; short split to foot of fold. Very Good. Bifolium. Menu printed to inner pages. 11-3/8" x 8" <br/><br/> unknown books
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
186738094Nevada i.e. Nevada City California: Daily Gazette Book and Job Office 1867. 8vo. vi 6 424pp. Tipped-in ad slip between pages 184 and 185. Contemporary purple morocco<br/> <br/>Provenance: E.G. Waite of Gregory & Waite Grocers Nevada City bookplate name in gilt on upper cover<br/> <br/>The first Nevada County directory the first history of the county as a whole and the first book printed in Nevada County.<br/> <br/>First edition of this "notable compendium of early source material similar in import to the county histories of Thompson and West" Wheat. The work also includes sketches of the towns and mining camps a directory of the residents including their occupations as well as statistics of mining and other resources and a plethora of fascinating advertisements. Bean's history and directory is quite scarce and contains a great wealth of early material on this vitally important mining region. A substantial essay is given over to mining gold from quartz deposits which as the author notes has been the subject of numerous false starts. "Bean's history and directory is by far the best-known of all California directories. One of the great 'standard' county histories it is in the minds of many collectors dealers historians and libraries one of the most valuable - content wise - of all directories published in the United States" Quebedeaux.<br/> <br/>Cowan II p 170; Graff 219; Howes B-278; Wheat Books 13; Quebedeaux 36; Streeter Sale 2913. Daily Gazette Book and Job Office unknown books
1902WRCAM45110Washington 1902. 61pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly discolored. Three hole-punched in left margin. Very good. Scarce printing of the United States government's brief in the long-running lawsuit with Mexico over the disposition of the "Pious Fund." The fund was originally established as a charity for the continuation of Jesuit missionary work in California. The resolution of this lawsuit finally brought the issue which began in the 1840s to a close. This was the first case to be arbitrated by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. unknown books
38221San Francisco: Bell & Company General Publishers of Songs and Ballads No. 639 Kearny Street n. d. 1st printing ca 1870s. Not in Wolf 15 holdings on OCLC. Light wear to paper chipping around edges. Top edge creased. An About VG example. Single sheet printed recto only. 4 verses each of 12 lines. No music. Typographical decorative border unsigned. 12-3/4" x 4-3/8" <br/><br/> Bell & Company, General Publishers of Songs and Ballads, No. 639 Kearny Street unknown books
193339327Berkeley: Directory Publishing Co. 1933. 1st printing Rocq 29. Yellow paper wrappers printed in blue. Wear to wrappers with clear tape reinforcement along spine. 1st leaf lacks lower 2". A Good copy only. 2 96 54 pp. 4 inserted advert leaves. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/>OCLC records just 2 institutional holdings; Rocq adds a 3rd. [Directory Publishing Co.] unknown books
196943202Berkeley: Thomas Klaber 1969. Single tabloid issue. On newsprint 4pp. Horizontal folds as issued; mild toning to newsprint; Very Good. Inaugural issue of this highly ephemeral underground newspaper published by disaffected staffers of the Berkeley Barb. Only three issues were published all between June 1 - July 4 1969; each issue bore alternate titles on opposite sides of the paper - "Berkeley Peoples Paper" on one side "Berkeley Fascist" on the other - with satirical content all designed more or less to lampoon the culture around The Berkeley Barb at this time the Bay Area's indeed the country's largest-circulation underground paper arranged more or less to match. Articles are unattributed but the masthead of the July 4 1969 issue listed among the paper's staff Allan Coult and K<br/>aren Lance Klaber's future spouse and long-time publisher of the East Bay Monthly both of whom had direct ties to the Barb. The entire staff appears to have had a running grudge with the Barb's publisher Max Scherr a notoriously tight-fisted employer whose allegedly vast personal income is a subject of speculation in the first issue's lead editorial titled "Fascist Supremacy." This grudge would eventually culminate in the entire Barb staff walking out in protest founding their own underground paper The Berkeley Tribe which quickly challenged and eventually surpassed the Barb for the position of the Bay Area's leading underground. People's Paper thus comprises an important chapter in the momentous Barb / Tribe split but it is practically unknown with only four physical holdings noted in OCLC none of which appear to hold more than a single issue. Thomas Klaber unknown books
39913Berkeley CA: Berkeley Women's City Club n. d. 1st edition presumed. Ca. 1934 date taken from OCLC. Yellow color printed & patterned paper wrappers. Moderate wear to wrappers chip to front fore-edge black stain to front wrapper. Otherwise a VG example. 285 7 advert & index pp. B/w illustration of the city club designed by Julia Morgan advertisements scattered throughout. 9" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/>"The Purpose of the Berkeley Women's City Club in Compiling this Book was to give an Opportunity to its Members to Exchange their Favorite and Tried Recipes rather than to Make a Comprehensive Cook Book." Rare in the trade. Berkeley Women's City Club 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
1903302715Nevada City California 1903. 1903. A list of receipts from January 5 1903 to July 6 1903 for water licenses taxes misc. labor with a further list of disbursements. 1 page. 8 1/2" x 11". Very good. The Bill head lists city trustees and city officials. No Binding. Very Good. Nevada City, California, 1903. 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
40203San Francisco n. d. A VG card. White card printed in black and orange ink. Black and white photographic reproduction of an image of Battery Street on a bright day. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8" <br/><br/>"Battery Street was thus named to commemorate the Battery erected at Clark's Point which was near the intersection of Broadway shown in the distance. The Battery constructed by Lieut. Misroon in 1846 consisted of five guns i.e. two brass pieces from the old Spanish Fort two from Sonoma and one brass twelve-pounder dug up at the Presidio where it had been buried." unknown books
40103San Francisco n. d. VG. Pinted in blue ink. Image of Bencia ca 1850s with drawing of Arsenal to right of image. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8" <br/><br/> unknown books
40210San Francisco n. d. A VG card. White card printed with black and pink ink. B/w photographic reproduction of California Street from Kearny and a cable car picking up passengers. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8" <br/><br/>"Transportation was always a problem in San Francisco. Note the oval cobble-stone paving of street. These stones were wear proof though hard on horses' hoofs and the springless drays they pubbled. Traffic over a cobbled street was not quiet but not one thought of noise abatement those days." unknown books
40208San Francisco n. d. A VG card. White card printed in dark blue ink. Blue and white photographic reproductions. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8" <br/><br/>"The building erected in 1866 by the Bank of California at the northwest corner of California and Sansome streets is shown in these photos. In an early day periodical it was referred to as 'A handsome stone building designed after classical models. the San Franciscan is prone to point to it as an illustration of the rapid development of the city'." unknown books
40189San Francisco n. d. A VG card. White card printed in dark blue and brown. Tinted brown reproduced photographic image of Montgomery Street. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8" <br/><br/>"According to a city directory of that year the following represent a few of the occupants of buildings on the east side of Montgomery St. shown in photo. In the Express Building on the corner at right erected by Samuel Brannan in 1853 were Dr. David Burbank dentist at No. 125 who 'manufactured and inserted artificial teeth'." unknown books
40191San Francisco n. d. A VG card. White card printed in blue and black ink. Black and white reproduction of a wood engraving of the travelers from Missouri on their way to the West. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8" <br/><br/>In the autumn of 1840 more than 500 people in Missouri signed a pledge for a trip accross the plains and to be ready to start in May 1841. In the end only a group of 48 men & 15 women and children from Kansas New York and Arkansas made the trip and arrived at the foot of Mount Diablo on November 4th. unknown books
40113San Francisco n. d. A VG card. White card printed in black. Yellow tinted reproduced wood engraved image of the fort. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8" <br/><br/> unknown books
