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18502853N.p. possibly Marysville: R.A. Eddy 1850. Very good. Single folded quarto sheet on blue wove paper with a large engraved street scene on one page a later pencil drawing of a floral embellishment on an interior page with the remainder blank. Slightly trimmed with minor loss to sky section minor creasing and dust soiling a handful of short repaired closed edge tears. An unusually obscure Gold Rush-era pictorial letter sheet featuring a detailed scene of a crowded Marysville plaza before the city caught fire on August 30 1851. The work was produced by Marysville bookseller and stationer R.A. Eddy and depicts a busy scene in Marysville with horses wagons and people carrying bundles in the foreground and the buildings of the frontier town in the background. The buildings are identified from right to left as follows: Stage Yuba House Magnolia El Dorado Exchange Eddy Book the publisher Sites Jones Shafer St. Louis Hotel Bartlett. This scene was also issued under a slightly different title View from the North Side of the Plaza Marysville. Both titles appear to be very rare with one copy of the alternate title in OCLC at Yale and two others per Baird at the British Library and in a private collection; the only two copies of the present work we could locate reside in a scrapbook at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and in the de Young Collection at the Society of California Pioneers.<br /> Baird 280a. Clifford 290. R.A. Eddy unknown
1871125391New York: Published at the Office of The Golden Age 1871. First edition of Tilton's biography of American suffragette Victoria Woodhull published shortly before she became the first woman to campaign for President of the United States. 12 mo original wrappers stitched as issued publisher's advertisement at rear. In very good condition. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. Victoria Woodhull first made her reputation as a supporter of free love by which she meant the freedom to marry divorce and bear children without social restriction or government interference and as one of the only female newspaper publishers Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly with her sister Tennessee Claflin. She soon became an activist for women's rights and labor reforms and in a pivotal 1871 speech argued that the 14th and 15th amendments already covered women's suffrage. She decided to run for president in 1872 backed by the Equal Rights Party whose convention nominated Frederick Douglass for Vice President although he did not participate in the convention or acknowledge the nomination. While she obviously lost--and indeed could not have won constitutionally due to her age--Woodhull became one of the most powerful women's rights advocates of her day. This contemporary biography was written by Theodore Tilton a close friend of many within the movement. In 1872 Tilton confided in Elizabeth Cady Stanton that his wife was having an affair with Henry Ward Beecher. Tilton sued Beecher for alienation of affection and a salacious trial commenced. Woodhull abandoned her friendship to splash the scandal across the pages of Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly. Woodhull was arrested for obscenity and then acquitted--events that gave rise to the Comstock Laws of 1873 arguably the nation's most powerful and successful attempt at censorship. Woodhull emerged from the debacle with fewer friends--Susan B. Anthony for example disagreed with her behavior entirely--but nevertheless managed to retain her reputation as a leading supporter of women's rights and as an early American female politician. Published at the Office of The Golden Age hardcover books
185940582San Francisco: Printed by Towne & Bacon 1859. 1st printing thus. Not in Greenwood CALIFORNIA IMPRINTS. OCLC records 3 institutional holdings curiously enough none in Calfornia. Printed salmon-colored paper wrappers sewn. Evidence of prior binding in a larger volume. A VG copy. 15 1 pp. 8vo. 8-3/16" x 5-5/16" <br/><br/>University of the Pacific was established by pioneer Methodist ministers in Santa Clara in July 1851 as California's first chartered institution of higher learning. Initially named California Wesleyan College it petitioned the state to change its name to University of the Pacific one month after it was chartered. Pacific provided the West Coast with its first medical school in 1858 which later became part of Stanford and today is California Pacific Medical Center. This one of the medical schools first publications. UoP website. Rare. Printed by Towne & Bacon unknown books
1887WRCAM43216Berkeley 1887. 33pp. Original printed pink wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled and worn early ownership signature on front wrapper. Faint vertical fold. Final two leaves chipped in lower outer corner not affecting text. Very good. An early carto-bibliography. The maps are listed chronologically by region. Issued as a supplement to the Report of the Secretary of the Board of Regents. COWAN p.651. unknown books
190034834San Francisco: A.M. Robertson 1901 ©1900. 12mo 19 cm 7.25". Frontis. 2 ff. 227 1 pp. <br><br>Not many student publications are listed in the Bibliography of American Literature but this one is. And that is because the lead-off entry in this anthology of stories is Frank Norris' "Travis Hallett's Half-back." Norris 18701902 was class of '94.<br>Â Â Â Â => It may interest the reader to know that half of the writings in this volume are by women.<br>Â Â Â Â Sole edition. The volume was a fund-raising effort: "The principal reason that these stories have been gathered together and given to the public is to start a fund wherewith to erect a fountain on the Campus of the University of California to be in harmony with the great Hearst architectural plan."<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt with title and a scene of a rolling hill with trees on it. Binding signed "Kales. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â BAL 15035. Binding as above: gilt a little rubbed or dulled. Overall very good. A.M. Robertson hardcover books
1876487151876. CALIFORNIA. TWO YEARS IN CALIFORNIA. By Mary Cone. With illustrations. Chicago: S.C. Griggs and Co. 1876. First edition. 12mo. red decorated cloth spine in gilt. Illustrated with double page map and 16 plates as issued. A very good copy that shows some light wear at the crown and slight rubbing at the extremities. Front hinge starting. unknown books
184054539New York: Harper and Brothers 1840. First Edition. Generally accepted second printing lacking the dot over the "i" in the copyright notice and with the broken running head on p.9. 12mo 15.5cm. In original brown publisher's cloth BAL binding A stamped in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; 1-3 4-483pp. A desirable copy in the original binding with a two-inch crack to the front joint chips to head and tail and gentle rubbing to boards; text mildly foxed; nonetheless stable and upright: Very Good. <br /> <br /> #106 of the Harpers' Family Library. With contemporary ex-libris of Elizabeth Dodge and later gift inscription dated 1900. A memoir of Dana's time trading hides along the coast of California in the 1830s. Immediately popular the work had a wide influence on American seafaring literature including the work of Herman Melville and is a rare and rich account of California before the Gold Rush ANB Zamorano 80. BAL 4434. ZAMORANO 80 #26. COWAN p. 156. SABIN 18448. GROLIER AMERICAN 100 #46. Cf. GRAFF 998. Harper and Brothers unknown
1880List2900Los Angeles California 1880. Two photographs measuring approximately 4 ½ x 7 ½ inches. Pasadena Historical Society stamps verso. One with manuscript caption verso including “Mtn Home of John Brown’s Sons Located just south of Brown’s Peak between Millards Cañon arroyo secoâ€. Wrinkling and marginal tearing with some missing corners. One photograph with tape residue. Very good. Owen Brown 1824–1889 and Jason Brown 1823–1912 were two of abolitionist John Brown’s twenty children. Owen Brown participated in both the Pottawatomie massacre and the Harpers Ferry raid. Following the unsuccessful raid he led the party of escapees to Pennsylvania. He lived in Put-in-Bay Ohio until 1885 when he joined his brother Jason—who was not involved in his father’s activities—in Pasadena. The two lived in poverty in mountain cabins several miles outside the city; offered here are two photographs of the brothers standing outside their cabins. In their time in Pasadena they were described as eccentric and hermetic but were liked and respected by those in town. Several obituaries of Owen Brown describe how witnessing the growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the region the brothers hired two Chinese men from the area to work for them “for the sake of the principle although they had no need†of the workers.1 One of these laborers may be the third man standing behind Jason Brown in the photograph where the brothers are astride donkeys.<br /> <br /> Of interest to scholars of the Brown family and their legacy.<br /> <br /> 1 “The Late Owen Brown. The Peculiar Life of the Son of the Abolitionist Ends in California.†Indianapolis Journal January 13 1889 8. unknown
18998240San Francisco: The Trustees of the Phoebe A. Hearst Architectural Plan. Good. 1899. Softcover. Oblong 4to. 10 x 14 inches. 152pp.; original printed wrappers stabbed & tied at inner margin. Profusely illustrated with photographic plates drawings and plans including a portrait of Mrs. Hearst portraits of the six members of the jury 3 shots of the jury deliberating on the site. Covers soiled; corners chipped with closed tear to cover foot of spine and a triangular 1" piece out bottom edge. A record of the Hearst competition for the Berkeley campus reproducing 110 drawings and giving an historical account of the competition the final programme the report of the jury the secretarys report etc. Reproduces a series of drawings by the winner Benard; also second prize by Howells Stokes and Hornbostel third prize by Despradelle and Codman fourth prize by Howard and Cauldwell fifth prize by Lord Hewitt and Hull and a series of other deigns by Whitney Warren Herr Rudolph Dick J. H. Freedlander and others. The Memoral Stadium Promotional booklet is unpaginated 12 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches decorative wrappers stabbed & tied at spine; includes architectural renderings of the stadium letters from Stadium Committee members The Architectural Plan Financial Plan photo illustrations of athletes from California. . The Trustees of the Phoebe A. Hearst Architectural Plan paperback
1890CAT01851890. 9 ½ x 7 inch photographs on 11 x 13 mounts. Very Good. The first photograph captures a bearded man atop a stump peering in the forest with sunlight pouring through a stand of redwoods. The second shows redwood rounds loaded on a train car with "Exelsior Redwood Co. Eureka Cal." etched into the negative. All of the train workers are posed for the photograph along with several men and a young girl in the background. A well-preserved pair of images in very good condition with good contrast and some wear and toning to mounts. unknown books
1890CAT01851890. 9 ½ x 7 inch photographs on 11 x 13 mounts. Very Good. The first photograph captures a bearded man atop a stump peering in the forest with sunlight pouring through a stand of redwoods. The second shows redwood rounds loaded on a train car with “Exelsior Redwood Co. Eureka Cal.†etched into the negative. All of the train workers are posed for the photograph along with several men and a young girl in the background. A well-preserved pair of images in very good condition with good contrast and some wear and toning to mounts. unknown
1871List2932Oakland and San Francisco California 1871. One four-page letter measuring 5 x 8 inches; one five-page letter measuring 6 ¼ x 8 inches; one photograph measuring 4 ½ x 2 ¾ inches. With envelopes. Near fine. Two letters from Alice C. Lantelle in San Francisco and “Mamie†in Oakland to their cousins Lizzie and Lottie Hubbard in Boston in late 1871 discussing school and family matters in the young state. The photograph shows several generations of family posing in front of a house. Mamie’s letter contains an interesting description of the origins of the name of Oakland’s Mount George:<br /> <br /> “there is one hill with a winding road which goes up to the top this is called mount George because there is an old hunter that lives up there whose name is George and he dresses in skins of animals he lives on quail and animals which he carries to market and sells; this mountain is covered with whortleberries in the summer seasonâ€. unknown
188633955Sacramento: Ayers 1886. First Edition. 150pp. Original front wrapper chipped. Lacks rear wrapper Ayers unknown books
1888WRCAM44040Tulare Ca.: Tulare Board of Trade 1888. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Three horizontal folds. A few small closed tears in the edges. Very good. An early and rare promotional for Tulare County California located just south of Fresno. The county was then - and is still now - an important agricultural region recognition of which can be found in the title of this work. The agricultural potential of the county is stressed with descriptions of soil climate and irrigation methods. "First class land" is described as almost a "drug on the market" due to its plentifulness. The final page contains listings by land merchant Samuel Richardson who was selling lots from twenty to eight hundred acres in size. Not in Rocq. OCLC locates only a single copy at the California State Library. Rare. OCLC 58948234. Tulare Board of Trade unknown books
1838RF1306<p><b>Missionary Work Among the Indians in Alta California and the Early Explorers A Rare Cuban Imprint </b></p><p>2 volumes. 8vo. 12 245 1; 8 327 1 pages.Unmatched contemporary tree calf and 1/2 calf inked ownership stamps on title page and final leaf of Volume I.</p><p>A work on papal indulgences by a former Mexican missionary written at the convent of San Francisco de la Habana. Near the end of Volume II are several chapters devoted to missionary work among the Indians including a section titled "<i>De las misiones de la Nueva-California . . . Descripcion de la California"</i> pages 256-265 which gives a short history of missionaries in Alta California and the early explorers such as Vancouver and La Perouse. </p><p>Palau 40643.</p><p>#WorldCat: 6 copies: 3 in CA 1 CT 1 IL 1 PA<b><br /></b></p> Imprenta Fraternal
188540240N. P.: Privately printed n. d. ca 1885. 1885. First edition. 2 3/4" x 4 1/4" full color advertising card. Message reads "Home Industry." Pacific Stove & Iron Works Co. Manufacturers of the Rose Camelia and Lily Ranges With Phoenix Patent Fuel Saving Grates 939 Market Street S. F. Verso is unprinted. Fine. Privately printed, n. d. (ca 1885). unknown
1866226801866 Sacramento, O. M. Clayes, state printer.CA: 1866.IN8;reliure demi basane à coins,414p.,une charniere en partie fendue,texte bon
19002146Philadelphia 1900. Good plus. 593pp. plus folding map. 12mo. Original yellow printed wrappers. Spine and lower corners chipped; faint contemporary ink stamp on rear wrapper. Quarter-size chip to upper corner of first leaf slightly affecting frontispiece image. Light toning and dust soiling. Scarce itinerary and program for a six-week tour of California and Mexico by rail operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Their dedicated "Mexico and California Special" sleeper train departed Philadelphia on February 12 1900 after receiving passengers from across the Northeast arriving on specially organized parlor cars and returned on March 29. The train took passengers to San Antonio where they boarded Southern Pacific service for three weeks in Mexico before rejoining the original train in Los Angeles on March 5 for the tour of California. The present pamphlet contains a detailed description of the train and its amenities a daily itinerary of activities and information on points of interest at each stop on the tour. Illustrated throughout with photographic images and with a large folding map delineating the entire route at the rear. We locate copies at three institutions -- Northwestern Berkeley and SMU. unknown
1880ZB326371Washington: GPO 1880. 13 pp issued a 46th Congress 2d Session HR 634; light general age toning tied into self wrappers; mostly concerned with Point San Jose or Black Point on San Francisco Bay and the strength of the military's claim to the land. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Washington: GPO, unknown
1887248542New York & San Diego: International Company of Mexico 1887. Five photographically-reproduced illustrations and two maps. Printed on a sheet of green paper measuring 351â„4 x 161â„2 inches folding into twenty-four panels. In a half morocco and cloth folding box spine gilt. Two ink stamps of U.S. Geological Survey Library on front panel. A bit of wear at the edges and folds. One panel with a neat closed tear halfway across but with no loss. Overall very good. Five photographically-reproduced illustrations and two maps. Printed on a sheet of green paper measuring 351â„4 x 161â„2 inches folding into twenty-four panels. A fact-filled promotional encouraging emigration to and investment in Baja California. The International Land Company of Mexico issued several similar pamphlets on Baja in the mid-to-late 1880s see Barrett 1303-1307 but the present example is the most elaborate in format having been printed on a single large sheet folded into twenty-four panels with text printed in varying orientations. The agricultural opportunities are described at great length as are the qualities of the city of Ensenada. The illustrations show orange groves oaks banana plants and olive trees and the map shows the Peninsula down to the twenty-eighth parallel. One paragraph discusses the fine quality honey produced in the region. Scarce. Barrett 1306 International Company of Mexico unknown books
1887248542New York & San Diego: International Company of Mexico 1887. Five photographically-reproduced illustrations and two maps. Printed on a sheet of green paper measuring 351â„4 x 161â„2 inches folding into twenty-four panels. In a half morocco and cloth folding box spine gilt. Two ink stamps of U.S. Geological Survey Library on front panel. A bit of wear at the edges and folds. One panel with a neat closed tear halfway across but with no loss. Overall very good. Five photographically-reproduced illustrations and two maps. Printed on a sheet of green paper measuring 351â„4 x 161â„2 inches folding into twenty-four panels. A fact-filled promotional encouraging emigration to and investment in Baja California. The International Land Company of Mexico issued several similar pamphlets on Baja in the mid-to-late 1880s see Barrett 1303-1307 but the present example is the most elaborate in format having been printed on a single large sheet folded into twenty-four panels with text printed in varying orientations. The agricultural opportunities are described at great length as are the qualities of the city of Ensenada. The illustrations show orange groves oaks banana plants and olive trees and the map shows the Peninsula down to the twenty-eighth parallel. One paragraph discusses the fine quality honey produced in the region. Scarce. Barrett 1306 International Company of Mexico unknown
188676564San Diego California: The International Company of Mexico 1886. Wraps. Octavo: 22 2 p. with 6 black-and-white photographic illustrations and 3 maps: one of Colony Carlos Pacheco Ensenada a map of the United States showing the "Lands of The International Company of Mexico Lower California" and a detailed rendering of Baja California. Original printed blue paper wrappers bound with two staples. The contents are a little toned. The ink signature of B.A. Cecil Stephens a member of the Historical Society of Southern California in the 1890s as well as a principal in a syndicate interested in water flow in the lower Colorado River appears along the top edge of the front panel. Some minor toning and wear along the extremities of the wrappers with a stain to the rear panel; else very good. Barrett 1305 and 1306 although neither is this issue with the "Francis Valentine & Co. Printers San Francisco Cal." imprint at the bottom of the front panel.<br /> <br /> Extols the virtues of Baja California for agriculture mining and manufacturing. Includes statements from persons who have been on the company lands conditions prices and other information for colonists. The final leaf features a rendering fot the company office located at the corner of Sixth and F Streets in San Diego. The International Company of Mexico unknown
187976513Bodie: V.p. 1879-1882. Bodie Evening Miner. Two Issues; August 1st and September 19 1882. The first Bodie Evening Miner was published on May 9 1882.Bodie Morning News. June 5 1879.Each a bifolio 4 pp. and all three in very nice condition.The town of Bodie was the location of the first lucrative gold strike in Eastern California. Word spread quickly and by 1879 there was a boom town largely preserved today of around 10000 souls. In 1881 the Bodie and Benton Railway was built and used to haul lumber and other goods from the Bodie mines to the saw mill by Mono Lake. But the writing was on the wall by that time as wall and a mere decade later it was largely deserted. More than $38000000 in gild and silver was taken ut of Bodie and surrounds. It is probably the most visited ghost town in the American West. V.p. unknown
188441011copies made in Seville: Establecimiento Tipografico y Litografico "El Porvenir 1884. Folio 31 cm 12.5". 1 2 3 pp. <br><br>Each facsimile has this note on it: "Photographed from the original preserved in the 'Archivo General de Indias' de Sevilla under Royal Order dated Madrid December 26th 1883 for Aldoph Sutro Esq. of San Francisco California" and the typographic imprint above.<br>Â Â Â Â One is a letter of Junipero Serra dated Monterey 7 October 1779 reporting that he has made a copy of Fr. Crespi's diary and is sending it via the ship that has just arrived; a second Serra letter dated Monterey 9 September 1779 reports on the various missions and states that he hopes to establish one in San Francisco. The third letter is by Sebastian Vizcaino dated Monterey 8 December 1602 reporting on his voyage of discovery along the California coast.<br>Â Â Â Â The facsimiles are on laid paper and in sepia ink and are great replicas of the originals with a great backstory as to their creation.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Adolph Sutro; later for sale by E. B. Sterling Historical Print Seller Trenton NJ 18511925. Overall very good: Some age stains one corner repaired some dust-soiling. In a light paper folder with E.B. Sterling's faint rubber-stamp. Establecimiento Tipografico y Litografico "El Porvenir unknown books
19002050Oroville Ca 1900. Very good. Three letters 13pp. total on seven lined sheets. Previously folded. Minor wear and toning. An engaging group of three letters from a mining engineer named Jack in Oroville California to his partner and perhaps brother Eric that discuss the development of their investments in an area that saw a rapid growth in dredge mining around the turn of the 20th century. Our correspondent was working out a new mechanical process for gold mining on a promising site. However his partner and addressee had given power of attorney to an investor named Wyckoff who is described as "a snoty little devil" who "knows no more about a mine or my affairs than a jack rabbit" but was starving the operation of cash while delivering a steady stream of insults. At one point Wyckoff "Left me without cash for ten days when we had nothing but potatoes to feed in the camp." The dastardly money man is also suspected of trying to steal the proprietary process which had already yielded fruit in Mexico. If that weren't bad enough the author was in poor health -- passing blood suffering from continuous headaches and feeling faint. And yet as with any mining venture a fortune was just around the corner: "I will make you money in the mine and prove the process so we can get bigger mines. Everybody is gold-crazy over here." Good content concerning a region of California that saw significant commercial mining development during the late-19th and early 20th centuries. unknown
