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San Francisco California Local HistoryABAA

WOOD ENGRAVING. The Pacific Bank of San Francisco is an Unlimited Bank. Jan. 1st 1885

188549506San Francisco 1885. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. Some chips to margins with 2 horizontal fold-lines. Very Good. Single sheet. Extracted leaf p. 8 from a magazine or jounal Hutchings. 9-1/8" x 5-9/16" Surrounding the image of the bank are 3 captions one in each margin. From left to right: "The Oldest Chartered Commercial Bank on the Pacific Coast N. W. Cor. of Pine and Sansome Sts."; "View Looking Westward and up Pine Street the Wall Street of San Francisco." & "The Pacific Bank is most Conveniently Locacted in the Centre of the Financial District of San Francisco." unknown books

Tavistock Books, ABAA · États-Unis15,00 $US≈ 12,69 €

California. TheatreABAA

Wigwam Theatre. Meyer Bros. Proprietors. Monday March 11 1889. Read Reflect and Remember! An Extraordinary Array of Talent! caption title

18891212San Francisco: Theatrical Publishing Co 1889. Very good. Broadside 17 x 6 inches. Previously folded. Small closed tear at top edge. Even tanning. An attractive broadside advertisement for entertainments at a downtown San Francisco theater in 1889. The Wigwam Theater was built in 1884 on the corner of Stockton and Geary Streets as a headquarters and event space for the presidential campaign of the Blaine and Logan Republican ticket. After Blaine lost the election to Grover Cleveland the Republican party leased the brick and sheet iron building to an Austrian immigrant named Gustav Walter who operated it first as a beer hall and then turned it into a venue for variety and vaudeville acts in the late 1880s. The present broadside promotes a slate of acts to be performed on March 11 1889 that range from vaudevillians and sketch comedians to acrobats and prestidigitators. With three lively woodcuts of actors and printed in a variety of types. We locate a portfolio of promotional material for the Wigwam at the Bancroft Library but no other records. Theatrical Publishing Co unknown books

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis600,00 $US≈ 507,66 €

[California – Eureka – Humboldt County – Maritime History] Various AuthorsBiblio.com

Wharfage Account Ledger for Humboldt Bay Eureka California 1868–1873

1873List2825Eureka California 1873. Single 5 ½ x 12 inch ledger book with five small pages of notes and one short letter. Forty-two pages of the ledger filled out with many more blank. Some damage to spine on exterior otherwise very good to excellent. Offered here is a wharfage fee account ledger from Eureka California with dates between 1868 and 1873. The first Euro-American settlement at what is now Eureka on the Humboldt Bay was founded in 1850. It became a hub for bringing supplies to the Trinity Klamath and Salmon River mines both by water and over land and a major lumber manufacturing town with seven sawmills by 1858.1 Lumber vessels sent lumber down the Pacific coast as far as Chile. By the 1860s and 70s Eureka’s main exports were lumber and produce including pork and seafood via sailing vessels and there was also regular steamer service taking people and goods between there and San Francisco. Wharfage would have been paid at the port at Eureka for loading or unloading cargo; the ledger tracks ship names alongside either the names of men who loaded the cargo or the cargo type quantities and prices. 1 Owen Cochran Coy The Humboldt Bay Region 1850–1875 California State Historical Association 1929. unknown

Auger Down Books · États-Unis2 500,00 $US≈ 2 115,25 €

From the Estate of Robert Bobby Palazzo Westlake Village CaliforniaABAA

WESTERN TRADE TOKEN COLLECTION WITH ADDITIONAL EXONUMIA. . . . Good for a loaf of bread a game of pool half-pint of cream or a roll in the hay

1900009672Collection of forty-eight western tokens plus other exonumia composed mostly of merchant "good for" tokens several Pony Express commemorative 'so-called-dollars' a tool-check and a 'dog house' license. These were issued at various locales mostly in Nevada with a couple from California. The tokens were identified by Palazzo John Schilling or Holabird Auctions. Palazzo's old and badly worn cardboard mounts have been replaced with new Lighthouse coin 'flips' and the original information has been transferred. Mixed condition; some near mint and others well-worn as is common with many tokens. One of the images at the link displays a list of all the tokens which will also be provided in hard copy. Trade tokens were a form of unofficial 'minor coinage' made from base metals such as brass copper nickel or aluminum and usually cast as circular disks but occasionally as octagons triangles or in scalloped shapes. They seldom if ever had a value of more than a dollar. Trade tokens sometimes referred to as "Good Fors" because they were usually stamped "Good for" followed by a product service or monetary value first appeared in the United States during the late 1700s and it's been suggested that George Washington used a trade token to attend Bill Rickett's Philadelphia Circus in 1793. Often like some of the tokens in this lot they were issued to be exchanged for a specific product or service such as a loaf of bread game of pool meal hotel room or brothel visit. In the western states company stores and independent businesses made frequent use of tokens in mining towns and camps where coinage was often scarce. As an added incentive for businesses they could only be redeemed at the place of issue and with little if any law enforcement they were a safe substitute for gold and silver. Also if the tokens were never redeemed business owners pocketed a little extra profit. The towns and cities represented in this collection include Aztec Blair Carson City Crystal Duckwater East Ely Elko Fairview Goldfield Los Angeles McGill Mound Hill Reno Tonopah Tuscarora and Winnemucca. Today some of these places are ghost towns. The lot includes tokens distributed by the American Borax Company general stores drug stores tobacco stores billiard parlors hotels and saloon/brothels. Four of the most interesting tokens in this lot are Two different tokens from Goldfield Nevada's most famous saloon The Northern. One of these tokens was originally bimetallic with an aluminum ring around a copper or brass disc. The disc is missing on this token just as it is on almost all the others that have survived. Tex Rickard and his silent partners Wyatt and Virgil Earp opened The Northern in 1905 and Wyatt briefly managed the establishment during its first year of operation. In time Rickard became a very successful fight promoter; he promoted the championship fight between James J. Jeffries and Jack Johnson. He later used his fortune to build the third iteration of Madison Square Garden--which lasted from 1925 to 1968. During his Garden's second year of operation Rickard formed a professional hockey team to play there Tex's Rangers known today as the New York Rangers. A 12Â½ cent token for the Red Top Bar one of Goldfield's notorious brothels. Two 5-cent tokens from the Jeffries & Kipper Billiard Parlor and Gentlemen's CafÃ© in Los Angeles which the two men opened in partnership in 1907. Kipper was a frustrated boxer who eventually became the manager of the Los Angeles Coliseum. Jeffries was the legendary Heavy Weight Champion James J. Jeffries who was lured back into the ring for a $1 million payday in today's dollars six years and an additional 110 pounds after he retired as the "Great White Hope" to fight the then-current champion Jack Johnson. For additional information about trade tokens see Rulau's Standard Catalog of United States Trade Tokens 1700 to 1900 Ascarza's "Mine Tales: Trade tokens were used widely but are rare today" in the 9 Dec 2013 issue of the Arizona Daily Star and "John Bill Ricketts and the Ricketts Circus" at Circuses and Sideshows online. A fascinating physical record of commerce in the boomtowns of the American West. Recent auction results found at Worthpoint suggest the total value of this lot to be just under $1600. books

Read 'Em Again Books & Paper · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

California BankingABAA

Wells Fargo Navada sic National Bank Box 151 Wells Fargo & Co text on key tag

1898252146San Francisco 1898. Original brass skeleton-style key 13â„4 inches in length attached by a small chain to a 4 x 13â„4 inch brass tag. Expected wear rubbing and discoloration. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding case spine gilt. Apparently an original brass key for box 151 of the Navada National Bank of San Francisco.Â The bank was founded in January 1898 and this key would seem to be contemporaneous with its opening.Â A nice piece of San Francisco and Wells Fargo financial realia. unknown books

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis300,00 $US≈ 253,83 €

California Wells Fargo and CompanyABAA

Wells Fargo & Co.'s Express. 1882 Directory of Chinese Business Houses

1882319779San Francisco: Britton a& Rey 1882. 146pp. text in English and Chinese. Original half green cloth and pictorial orange paper boards with a lithographic vignette of a dragon and harbor. Boards rubbed paper discolored and scraped along outer edge of front board discolored along outer edge of rear board. Cloth torn at lower spine hinges cracked but holding by cloth. Several instances of Wells Fargo & Co.'s Express red-ink stamp with text in English and Chinese characters. Old tideline along outer edge of many leaves. Very good. 146pp. text in English and Chinese. Rare Directory of Chinese Businesses in the West Published in the Year of the Exclusion Act. The third and last in a series of directories of Chinese businesses published by Wells Fargo this edition issued in the year of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 which prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the United States. This edition is more than half again as long as the 1878 edition which has only 86pp. The first edition of 1873 is only nine pages in length. Attractively printed by the firm of Britton & Rey the leading lithographers in San Francisco the text is in English and Chinese characters and lists hundreds of Chinese-owned businesses in San Francisco Oakland Sacramento San Jose Stockton Marysville and Los Angeles many of those businesses on a street called "Negro Alley"; as well as Portland Oregon; Virginia City Nevada; Victoria British Columbia; and Denver. The directory not only demonstrates the expansive reach of Chinese communities in the West but also how their businesses were tied to the ever-expanding Wells Fargo Company. Several pages in this copy are stamped with a bilingual logotype: "Ship Money and Goods by Wells Fargo & Co's Express." The name and address of each merchant is given and in many cases the nature of the business is listed as well. San Francisco businesses take up more than half the text but it is notable to see the wide variety of business ventures undertaken by Chinese in the American West. Among these are laundries merchants druggists cigar factories "slipper" and shoe factories ladies' underwear tailors restaurants doctors Chinese and Japanese imports boarding houses barbers morticians butchers general merchandise jewelers and more. Among the more interesting businesses are employment offices a clam dealer pawn broker junk dealers and opium dealers. The smaller and more remote towns - such as Marysville Portland and Virginia City do not give business types as often and Chinese consulates and missions are also listed. "Very rare" - Quebedeaux who notes two copies in private collections one of which may be the present copy formerly in the McClatchy family collection and apparently formerly owned by Western historian and novelist Stuart Lake. OCLC locates five copies at the California Historical Society the Autry Museum the Bancroft Library the Library of Congress and the Huntington Library. Rocq adds the copy at the Wells Fargo library in San Francisco and there is also a copy at Yale. Cowan P.175 Note. Cowan Chinese Question 472. Rocq 12764. Quebedeaux 101 Britton a& Rey unknown books

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis13 500,00 $US≈ 11 422,35 €

(California Banking)Biblio.com

Wells Fargo Nevada sic National Bank Box 151 Wells Fargo & Co text on key tag

1898252146San Francisco 1898. Original brass skeleton-style key 13â„4 inches in length attached by a small chain to a 4 x 13â„4 inch brass tag. Expected wear rubbing and discoloration. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding case spine gilt. Apparently an original brass key for box 151 of the Nevada National Bank of San Francisco. The bank was founded in January 1898 and this key would seem to be contemporaneous with its opening. A nice piece of San Francisco and Wells Fargo financial relic. unknown

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis300,00 $US≈ 253,83 €

C Graham, Director of Color of the California Midwinter FairBiblio.com

Water Color Sketches of The White City and The Sunset City Parts One & Two

189423022San Francisco: Published exclusively by 1894. First Edition. Oblong 8vo 8 1/2" x 11 1/2". Full-page chromolithographs with titles 7 in Part One and 8 in Part Two. Original linen-backed chromolithograph stiff covers string-tied. Part One Cover has pulled out from the ties and the first two plates are partially pulled out; remnants of small labels on upper front corner of each cover; light general wear; the plates are clean; a very good and scarce set. Although the title references the two World Fairs - White City and Sunset City - the 15 stunning chromolithographic illustrations capture the architectural splendor and festive allure of the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition only. The string ties are tight; however it's possible that Sunset City plates could have been removed. Part One includes: Looking South from Wooded Island; The Yerkes Telescope; Looking East in the Grand Court; the Gilded Entrance to the Transporation Building; the Viking; Interior of Electrical Building; Moonlight on the Lagoons; Part Two includes: Art Palace at Night; The Caravels and La Rabida; Old Vienna; Along the Plaisance; The Silver Statue Montana Exhibit; Old Liberty Bell; Cairo Street; At Night in the Grand Court. The artist Charles Graham 1852-1911 was a self-taught American illustrator painter and lithographer whose vivid watercolors and sketches immortalized the grandeur of late 19th-century World's Fairs earning him acclaim as a chronicler of American progress and spectacle. The high spot in his life came with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago where he was appointed official artist. Published exclusively by unknown

Carpe Diem Fine Books · États-Unis473,00 $US≈ 400,21 €

California Club, compiled by theBiblio.com

War Poems 1898

1898551980San Francisco: The Murdock Press 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrations by W.H. Bull and Gordon Ross. Octavo. Cloth with applied printed purple paper on front pastedown some spotting and modest staining on the rear board near very good. Anthology of poems by American poets commemorating the Spanish-American War. The Murdock Press hardcover

Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA · États-Unis100,00 $US≈ 84,61 €

[Chine ; Japon ; Californie] Beauvoir, Ludovic Hébert, marquis deLivre Rare Book

Voyage autour du monde : Pékin, Yeddo, San Francisco / par le comte de Beauvoir

187457670Paris, E. Plon et Cie 1874 In-16 11 x 17 cm. Reliure de l’époque demi-basane noire, dos lisse, roulettes, filets, auteur et titre dorés, 359 pp., 4 cartes et 15 gravures-photographies par Deschamps. Rousseurs soutenues, coiffes et coins légèrement frottés.

Librairie de l'Avenue · Saint-Ouen, France89,00 €

Duhaut-Cilly A.Livre Rare Book

Voyage autour du monde principalement à la Californie et aux îles Sandwich pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829 volume deux.

1835bn1889A Paris, chez Arthus Bertrand, libraire, rue Hautefeuille, n°23, Saint-Servan, imprimerie de J.-M. Lebien, rue des Bas-Sablons, Saint-Servan, chez D. Lemarchand, libraire Relié 1835 Un volume relié, in-8° demi-basane, reliure établie à la fin du XX° siècle, couverture en partie conservée, premier plat et quatrième plat, le dos n'a pas pu être sauvé semble-t-il, complet des deux planches présentent dans ce second volume : Vue de l'établissement russe de la Bodega, a la côte de la nouvelle Albion en 1828, Vue du port et de la vallèe de l'Anaroura dans l'ile de Waho. Faux-titre, gravure, titre, puis 438 pages, une feuille d'errata. Ouvrage rarissime, le CCFR ne référence que 3 exemplaires complets qui sont respectivement à Nantes, Bordeaux et Saint-Malo. D'autres exemplaires du volume 1 sont dans quelques bibliothèques. Un libraire américain prétend qu'il ne reste que 12 exemplaires complet dans le monde. Exemplaire relié (sauvé) par un amateur qui habitait le long de la Rance, à quelques encablures de Saint-Malo et donc de Saint-Servan ville où le livre a été publié ; quelques rousseurs, une mouillure en début d'ouvrage jusqu'à la page 60 environ, des rousseurs importantes en fin d'ouvrage dans la table des matières, sinon intérieur frais. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.

Abraxas-Libris · Bécherel, France1 500,00 €

REMY JulesLivre Rare Book

Voyage Au Pays Des Mormons

186018399Paris Dentu 1860 XXXIII 432 + 1 carte + VII + 544 pp Dos avec manque important pour le premier volume,moindre pour le second, quelques mouillures claires au second volume, surtout sur les planches , 10 planches hors texte dont 2 frontispices

Librairie Le Cosmographe · Clohars Fouesnant, France350,00 €

VANCOUVER George.Livre Rare Book

Voyage de découvertes, à l’océan Pacifique nord, et autour du monde, entrepris par ordre de sa majesté Britannique, exécuté, pendant les années 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 et 1795, par le capitaine George Vancouver. Traduit de l’Anglais par P.F. Henry. ATLAS Seul.

1802PHO-2092Paris, Didot jeune, an X (1802), ATLAS in-8(190x130mm), basane époque, dos lisse orné, manque au dos, brunissures en début et fin d’ouvrage, mouillure claire, légères rousseurs. ATLAS seul de l’édition in-8. Complet de ses 18 planches et 8 cartes dépliantes, De la bibliothèque de Joseph de Lazerme avec son ex-libris et timbre sec

Librairie Voyage et Exploration · Cerny, France650,00 €

Whymper FrédérickLivre Rare Book

Voyages et aventures dans la Colombie anglaise : L'île Vancouver, l'Alaska et la Californie

1880vj1254Librairie Hachette et Cie Bibliothèque des écoles et des familles Relié 1880 In-8 (14 x 22 cm), reliure pleine toile, dos lisse, 192 pages, gravures en noir in et hors texte ; dos insolé, quelques traces de décoloration aux plats, des rousseurs à l'intérieur, par ailleurs assez bon état général. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.

Abraxas-Libris · Bécherel, France25,00 €

CaliforniaABAA

VISTAS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. A GUIDE TO THE LAND OF SUNSHINE AND FLOWERS

1893WRCAM43213San Francisco 1893. 47pp. Illustrated with halftones. Oblong 12mo. Original printed stiff-paper wrappers string-tied. Some offsetting on the rear wrapper. Near fine. Early promotional guide to Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Includes photographs of the Hollenbeck and other prominent buildings of the day also photos of the missions Catalina Island Santa Monica Riverside etc. The Hollenbeck Company a major Los Angeles area developer was one of the driving forces behind the issuance of this guide. ROCQ 2965. unknown books

William Reese Company · États-Unis225,00 $US≈ 190,37 €

CaliforniaABAA

Vistas de Pasadena California Crown of the Valley cover title

19001416Los Angeles: M. Rieder 1900. About very good. 20pp. accordion folded in ten panels. Original purple printed wrappers. Light wear and fading to covers. Worn at folds some light soiling. Handsome promotional viewbook for Pasadena featuring numerous illustrations of the city. Views include Hotel Raymond Hotel Green Marengo Avenue the Rose Bowl Parade East Colorado Street the Cawston Ostrich Farm and a four-panel panoramic view of the city. This copy is stamped in gilt on the front cover with a local distributor's stamp indicating it was offered compliments of Sun Drug Company. We locate one copy of this work at UCLA. M. Rieder unknown books

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis400,00 $US≈ 338,44 €

[California]Biblio.com

Vistas de Stockton cover title

19004901Los Angeles: M. Rieder 1900. Good. 18pp. accordion folded into nine panels. Spine splitting; light wear and soiling to wraps. Separations beginning along accordion folds. Light toning and dust soiling internally. Handsome promotional viewbook for early 20th-century Stockton featuring numerous views of the city. The work includes shots of local architecture municipal buildings agriculture industry and a four-panel panoramic view of the city. Part of a series of California city viewbooks published by M. Rieder under the title "Vistas de." all scarce. OCLC locates three copies of the present work at Yale SMU and the California Historical Society. M. Rieder unknown

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis350,00 $US≈ 296,14 €

WHITTIER CALIFORNIAABAA

Vintage Original Sepia Photograph

19002262431900. of J. M. Crook's ranch. Two men with plow four horses two women and a child in front of the ranch house with barn to the side. Note the large avocado tree. Photograph is by C.M. Balding Whittier California; 7" x 4 1/4" on heavy mount 10 1/8" x 8"; very good ca. 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. hardcover books

Houle Rare Books & Autographs · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

BASEBALL. COLUMBIA CALIFORNIAABAA

Vintage Original Photograph of the Columbia California baseball team

18906029101890 1890. Photograph is by Wm. Wax/Universal Art Studio on heavy weight stock and is on the original photographer's mount with bevelled edge. Image is 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" on mount 9 3/4" x 6 7/8"; Fine fresh. Great outdoor shot of ten unidentified men in baseball attire together with their manager dressed in coat and tie. With catcher's gear ball and 2 bats in foreground. Six players holding their gloves. Columbia is located in Tuolumne County. Hardcover. Fine. 1890 hardcover books

Houle Rare Books & Autographs · États-Unis600,00 $US≈ 507,66 €

[BASEBALL]. COLUMBIA, CALIFORNIABiblio.com

Vintage Original Photograph of the Columbia California baseball team

Houle Rare Books & Autographs · États-Unis600,00 $US≈ 507,66 €

[WHITTIER, CALIFORNIA]Biblio.com

Vintage Original Sepia Photograph

Houle Rare Books & Autographs · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

California Local History. Phares Morris. E. ArtistABAA

VIEWS TAKEN On CHRISTMAS DAY 1887 At OROVILLE CAL. of First Butte County Citrus Fair

188746777Oroville 1887. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Image clear & sharp minor soiling to mount edges. Very Good. Cabinet card b/w albumen photograph with printed caption underneath. Card verso annotated in ink "J. Wood's display of preserved fruit." Oblong format: 5-1/4" x 8-3/8" While CSU Chico has a number of these images most are from the second fair 1888 and this one we are unable to find in an institutional setting. Especially uncommon with the mss annotation identifying the pictured display. According to Mautz Phares pursued photography in Oroville from 1884 - 1915 this then an early image from his career. unknown books

Tavistock Books, ABAA · États-Unis325,00 $US≈ 274,98 €

[California - Lettersheets - Marysville Fire of 1851]Biblio.com

View of the Conflagration of Marysville On the Night of August 30th 1851. Three Entire Squares Consumed - Loss Estimated $500000

1851List1611Marysville: R.A. Eddy 1851. First Edition. Lithograph by Justh Quirot & Co. Illustration measuring 7 x 10 ½ inches on folded sheet measuring 8 ½ x 10 ⅞ folded. Fine condition. Fine. A striking lettersheet illustration of the conflagration in Marysville in 1851 which according to the city of Marysville originated at a Chinese bath house on High St. An uncommon illustration the only record appearing in the trade in 2008. Baird 289. R.A. Eddy unknown

Auger Down Books · États-Unis950,00 $US≈ 803,80 €