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Aqueduct Empire, A Guide to Water in California, Its Turbulent History and Its Management Today
by Cooper, Erwin
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- very good
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- 1968
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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NZ$67.29
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Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 439 pp + folding map, with illustrations, bibliography, index. Slight rubbubg to extremities, else fine. Dust jacket has some chipping along the top edge. Discusses water in the history of California agriculture and mining; early use of water by exploiters and planners; development of control districts… Read more about this item Item Price
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War for the Colorado River, Volume One, The California-Arizona Controversy, Volume Two, Above Lee's Ferry
by Terrell, John Upton
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- very good
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- First Edition
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- 1965
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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NZ$50.47
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Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Western Lands and Waters Series, IV. Volume One: 325 pp, with map frontispiece, appendices, references, index. Volume Two: 323 pp, with map frontispiece, appendices, references, index. Both volumes in fine condition; dust jackets have short closed tears. "These volumes present the many events of this latter-day battle… Read more about this item Item Price
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Informe on the New Province of California 1702
by Hammond, George P. (translator and editor); Piccolo, Francisco Maria, S.J.
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- 1967
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1967. Hardcover. Fine. Baja California Travels Series #10. 77 pp, with illustrations (facsimiles), folding map in rear pocket. Fine copy in original brown` cloth, with clear mylar jacket. One of 600 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in Pasadena. Item Price
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The Natural & Human History of Baja California from Manuscripts by Jesuit Missionaries
by Aschmann, Homer
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- 1966
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NZ$142.99
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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1966. Hardcover. Fine. Baja California Travels Series #7. 100 pp, illustrated with maps and facsimiles. Fine copy in original grey cloth, with clear mylar jacket. One of 600 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in Pasadena. Item Price
NZ$142.99
![Journey of James H. Bull Baja California, October 1843 to January 1844 [With announcement and prospectus laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/783/996/1602996783.0.m.jpg)
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Journey of James H. Bull Baja California, October 1843 to January 1844 [With announcement and prospectus laid in]
by Nunis, Doyce B., Jr. (Editor)
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- 1965
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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NZ$92.52
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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1965. Hardcover. Fine. Baja California Travels Series #1. 56pp, with folding map in rear pocket. Fine copy in original green cloth, with clear mylar jacket. One of 500 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in Pasadena. Laid in are a 4-page preliminary announcement of the Baja California Travels Series printed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lower California Frontier, Articles from the San Diego Union 1870
by Shipek, Florence C. (editor)
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- 1965
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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1965. Hardcover. Fine. Baja California Travels Series #2. 71 pp, with folding map ("Map of Lower California Frontier, 1860-1870") at the back. Fine copy in original beige cloth, with clear mylar jacket. One of 600 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in Pasadena. Includes an introduction and 9 articles from… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Rush of '89. The Baja California Gold Fever & Captain James Edward Friend's Letters from the Santa Clara Mines
by Lingenfelter, Richard E.
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- 1967
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1967. Hardcover. Fine. Baja California Travels Series #8. 66 pp, with illustrations, folding map in rear pocket. Fine copy in original yellow cloth, with clear mylar jacket. One of 600 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in Pasadena. Item Price
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The Missions and Missionaries of Baja California
by Weber, Francis J.
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- 1968
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1968. Hardcover. Fine. Baja California Travels Series #11. 92 pp, with illustrations, real color photo frontispiece, folding map in rear pocket. Fine copy in original purple cloth, with clear mylar jacket. One of 600 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in Pasadena. Item Price
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Hotel Potter - Santa Barbara, California
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- 1910
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- Softcover
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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NZ$378.50
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San Francisco: Designed & Executed under the Direction of James King Steele, 1910. Softcover. Very good. Scarce, nicely designed promotional booklet for the Potter Hotel (as it is usually called, as opposed to Hotel Potter, as it appears here) and Potter Country Club in Santa Barbara. 9.25" x 6", 24 unnumbered pages, extensively illustrated from photographs. Not dated,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The First American Vessel in California, Monterey in 1796
by Wagner, Henry R.
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- First Edition
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- 1954
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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NZ$58.88
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Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Early California Travels Series XX. One of 325 copies printed by Caroline Anderson, Los Angeles. 7.5" x 5", xi, 113 pp, illustrated, in cloth-backed illustrated boards with mounted paper spine label. One corner slightly rubbed, else fine. Account of the California stay of the "Otter," a northwest trader… Read more about this item Item Price
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Voyage of the Venus: Sojourn in California, Excerpt from Voyage autour du monde sur la fregate Venus pendant les annees 1836-1839
by Abel du Petit-Thouars; Charles N. Rudkin (Translator)
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- 1956
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Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Early California Travels Series XXXV. Printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press, Los Angeles. 7.5" x 5", 33 pp, in cloth-backed patterened boards with mounted spine label. Mild wear to edges, binding sound, text clean. The text describes the California portion of Abel du Petit-Thouars'… Read more about this item Item Price
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Glances into California
by Colton, Walter; Corle, Edwin (Introduction)
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- First Edition
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- 1955
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Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Early California Travels Series XXIX. Printed in an edition of 250 copies at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. xxv, 43 pp, in green cloth board with mounted paper spine label. Slight rupping to corrners, else fine. Corle's Introduction is followed by the text of chapter fourteen of Colton's Deck… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913, Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark
by Newmark, Harris; Newmark, Maurice H. (ed); Newmark, Marco R. (ed); Robinson, W.W. (Introduction)
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- 1970
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NZ$109.34
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Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Facsimile reprint of the fourth edition (revised and augmented, with introduction and notes by Robinson). xxxv, 744 pp, with illustrations, appendices, index. Very slight ripple to a small section of cloth on the front board, else a fine copy in dust jacket with some rubbing, chipping to spine… Read more about this item Item Price
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Redlands, 'Twixt Mountains, Desert, and the Sea
by Truesdail. Roger W.; McDaniel, Bruce W.
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- 1927
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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NZ$210.27
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Redlands, CA: Citrograph Printing Company, 1927. Hardcover. Near fine. 9 x 12 inches, 73 pp. in original embossed cloth boards. Minor wear to spine ends, lower corners bumped, internals sound and clean. A one-page Foreword is followed by approximately 125 captioned half-tone photographic illustrations printed in sepia. Most 4.5 x 6.75 inches, but a few are full page.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ranchos of California, A List of Spanish Concessions 1775-1822 and Mexico Grants 1822-1846
by Cowan, Robert G.
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- 1977
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Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint of the 1956 edition. 151 pp, with index, map endpapers. Fine copy. No dust jacket. Includes names and brief descriptions of ranchos along with lists of unnamed ranchos, grantees, claimants, counties, grant dates, and governors. Item Price
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Shasta, The Keystone of California Scenery
by E. McD. Johnstone
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- First Edition
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- 1887
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NZ$252.33
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San Mateo, CA: Matthews Northrup Co., Buffalo, Lithographers, 1887. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 8.5" x 7", [484] pp, in illustrated linen-backed paper wrappers. Contents very good, but with considerable soiling to rear wrapper, so only good overall. An uncommon and beautifully illustrated (by the author) promotional work on the attractions of Mount Shasta and the surrounding area, including… Read more about this item Item Price
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First from the Gulf to the Pacific. The Diary of the Kino-Atondo Peninsular Expedition, December 15, 1684-Jaunary 13, 1685
by Mathes, W. Michael (Transcription, Translation, Editor)
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- 1969
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1969. Hardcover. Fine. Baja California Travels Series #16. 60 pp, with illustrations, folding map. Fine copy in original green cloth, with clear mylar jacket. Item Price
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California as a Health Resort
by Sanders, F.C.S.
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- First Edition
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- 1916
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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NZ$336.44
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San Francisco: Bolte and Braden, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 299 pp, with numerous illustrations from photographs, in original pictorial boards with interesting faux-hinge design. Rubbing to edges, small splits starting at joints, dent to top edge of rear board, contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper. Otherwise unmarked, clean and sound. Sanders was a British physician… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Sketch of the Settlement and Exploration of Lower California
by J Ross Browne; Taylor, Alexander Smith; Scammon, Charles Melville; Hawks, J.D., etal
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- 1869
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San Francisco: H.H.Bancroft and Company, 1869. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, 200 pp, in original brown pebbled cloth with title stamped in gilt on front board. Ex-library, with call number on spine, lacking front free endpaper. Binding sound, text clean. A scarce edition of this compilation, which was also published in the same year by Appleton as the second part… Read more about this item Item Price
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California of the South, Its Physical Geography, Climate, Resources, Routes to Travel, and Health-Resorts, Being a Complete Guide-Book to Southern California
by Lindley, Walter; Widney, J.P.
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- First Edition
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- 1888
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- Hardcover
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New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. viii, 377 pp + 3 folding maps (two in color), publisher's catalogue, with 32 illustrations, frontispiece. Red cloth with decoration in gilt and black. Spine sunned, some pale water stains on cover. two previous owners' bookplates on front pastedown, one map with a small repair on the… Read more about this item Item Price
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