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New York: D'Avignon, 323 Broadway Black & white facsimile lithograph. 17½ x 25 inches, including borders. Very fine. Facsimile of one of the earliest California views, produced from the original in the Oakland Museum. The original bird's-eye-view is very rare. The lithographic artist of this image was Charles Gildemeister, active c.1850 to 1858. Peters states, "On October 19, 1842, the surrender of Monterey was demanded by Commodore Thomas C. Jones, commander of the Pacific Fleet. The American flag flew over the plaza for several days before Jones realized his mistake, lowered the flag, and withdrew. One of Jones' officers made a sketch of Monterey at this time, which was later lithographed and sent to Thomas Larkin, an American of some importance then living in Monterey. This was undoubtedly the D'Avignon lithograph". Peters notes that D'Avignon was at the 323 Broadway address in 1849. It is probable that Peters examined a variant of this lithograph as his… Read More

Lodi, Califonira: Chas. H. Gordon, 1879 Printed broadside, 17x10 inches. Backed with linen. Printed in 4 columns. Some creasing where folded, else a fine copy. Printed in Lodi, California in April, 1879. This scarce broadside, with extensive text, appeals to the Grand Lodge of California for reinstatement in the Masonic Order. Gordon was expelled c.1873 for accusing a fellow Mason of burning his house to the ground. His appeal in this printed broadside tells his side of the entire story. "One of the broadest principles underlying the superstructure of speculative Freemasonry, is the claim which it assumes of meting out justice to every member of the fraternity… but there are isolated cases where the gravest acts of injustice have been perpetrated under the cloak of Masonry; and I regret to assert that for years it has been my misfortune to be a sufferer in such a case…" As Leon Whitsell states in his important work, One Hundred Years of Freemasonry in California… "…a… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1965 First edition. xii, [2], 404pp. plus index. Extensive notes. 24 historic photographs, folding map. Two-tone cloth. A very fine and bright copy with decorated dust jacket. Excellent history from the Spanish influx and American pioneers to the 1960's, emphasizing the evolution of Western traits and institutions..

Philadelphia: David McKay Company, Inc., 1944 Fourth edition. Octavo. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Map endpapers, bibliography, index. Red cloth with black printing on spine. Edges worn, spine faded, no dust jacket. A good copy. .

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938 First edition. Number 74 of 950 copies printed at the Derrydale Press by Eugene V. Connett. 12mo. Pp. [12], 144. Illustrated by Paul Brown. Publisher's three-quarter red leatherette, gilt, label on front cover. A very fine copy. Poetry of the fox, hound, and the hunt, with wonderful detailed line drawings by Paul Brown..

Los Angeles, California: Southwest Museum, 1962 First edition. SIGNED and dated by the artist. Introduction by Carl Schaefer Dentzel, Director of the Southwest Museum. Thin quarto. 55pp. Illustrated throughout with drawings and sketches by DeGrazia; double-page facsimile map. Dark blue stiff wrapper lettered in gilt. Spine faded, else a fine copy. A catalogue for the exhibit at the Southwest Museum of DeGrazia's paintings depicting dramatic episodes in the life of Kino, commemorating the 250th anniversary of Father Kino's death. Sections within the catalogue include Padre Nuestro by DeGrazia; Ted DeGrazia, Master of Fantasy by Thomas Hart Benton; Kino-DeGrazia by Raymond Carlson; DeGrazia the Artist. An Evaluation by Carl Dentzel; and My Friend, Ted DeGrazia by western artist, Ross Santee. Kino's famous map of 1705 is depicted, showing California as a peninsula..

Tokyo: Toto Bunka Co., Ltd., 1952 First rdition. Folio. Illustrated with 50 full page illustrations, some in color. Second in a series of 6 volumes on Japanese Art. With an essay on the History of Jaspanese Printing, from 1334 to 1867, by Ichitaro Kondo. With glossary and index of artists. Gray-green cloth with printing in brown, red and white. Top edge of front cover lightly faded, else a fine copy in worn and chipped dust jacket..

New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1958 First American edition. Large octavo. Photography by J. Allan Cash. 40 color photographs. Very slightly faded blue cloth with lightly worn dust jacket. A fine copy. Full page color photographs of various sites in London with accompanying text. Part of the Heritage Colour Books series..

New York: Viking, 1958 First edition. 206pp. Illustrated from paintings by Beatien Yazz. Half cloth and boards. Bookplate. A fine copy with spine-darkened pictorial dust jacket. Story of the return to his homeland of Jimmy Toddy whose Indian name was Beatien Yazz, and his attempts to a more simple way of life. Illustrated with reproductions in color of this Indian artist's paintings.. Illus. by Yazz, Beatien.

New York: Thomas E. Crowell Co., 1974 First edition. xiv, 194pp. illustrated with 35 reproductions in color and black & white. Bibliography, index. White cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Bingham (1811-1879) was one of the first Americans to paint his world as it really was, the frontier of nineteenth-century America, focusing on Missouri and its river towns: Trappers, traders, and other pioneers..

Eureka: Interface California Corporation, 1978 First edition. Small folio. [10], 188pp. Frontis portrait, profusely illustrated with color and black & white plates and numerous reproductions within text. Catalog Raisonnée, index. Gray cloth, gilt. Previous owner's inscription, else a very fine copy with faded and lightly chipped dust jacket. An important monograph and catalogue raisonnée on this northern California painter, primarily a portraitist of the local Pomo Indians. The catalogue includes black & white thumbnails of well over 600 of Hudson's paintings, indicating title, date, size, collection, etc..

Ukiah: Sun House Guild, 1978 First edition. Small folio. [10], 188pp. Frontis portrait, profusely illustrated with color and black & white plates and numerous reproductions within text. Catalog Raisonnée, index. Gray cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with faded and lightly chipped dust jacket. An important monograph and catalogue raisonnée on this northern California painter, primarily a portraitist of the local Pomo Indians. The catalogue includes black & white thumbnails of well over 600 of Hudson's paintings, indicating title, date, size, collection, etc..

London: The Phaidon Press Ltd., 1950 First complete edition. 4to. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white plates, some full page. Edges and spine-ends are rubbed, else a fine copy..

San Francisco: Cardinell Vincent Company, 1915 Original photograph. 8x10 inches. A fine copy. An original silver-print photograph of the Palace of Fine Arts, produced by the Cardinell Vincent Company, the official photographer for the Panama Pacific International Exposition. With the Cardinell Vincent Co. embossed logo in the lower corner. Shows the primary domed portion of the Palace with the surrounding lagoon. .

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1965 12 numbers. 12 tipped-in plates (1 folding, 5 in color), plus a laid-in facsimile ticket. Number one is lightly soiled, else a fine set. Printed by Andrew Hoyem. A keepsake from the Book Club of California..

London: Wm. Cobbett, 1828 First separate edition in one volume and first with this exact title. Small octavo. xviii, 332pp. Original cloth spine, printed paper label, gray boards. Boards quite worn at corners, paper spine label worn and rubbed, some internal foxing (first five leaves only). A very good copy, complete. Scorching polemic by the great English radical [formerly a conservative], William Cobbett. The work was first published between 1810 and 1815 in "The Political Register" and then in a two-volume edition in 1815. Cobbett issued this edition himself in 1828..

New York: Harmony Books, 1980 First edition. Illustrated and with ads. Printed wrappers. Very slight creases to spine and edge of front cover, showing book has been previously read. A very fine copy. The first in a series of paperback price guides, focusing on those printed in 1939-1959 and alphabatized by publisher..

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930 First edition. Small quarto (9¼x6¼ inches). Pp. xvii, [1], 358. Illustrated with 215 plates and illustrations including folding frontis facsimile. Index. Full brown cloth with gilt-lettered red leather spine label, top edges gilt. Bookplate on inner cover. Fore-edge of folding frontis a little crunched, but a very fine and bright copy with fine printed dust jacket. A beautiful copy of a book often found less than fine. Often the leather spine label is faded or chipped, the jacket seriously toned, etc. Our copy is nice! An important work! This is a more comprehensive and greatly extended treatment of his earlier work, Old Papermaking (1923)..

Fort Collins, Colorado: The Old Army Press, 1975 First edition. Introduction by the Editor. Preface by Col. George S. Pappas. 287pp. Illustrations by Lorence Bjorklund. Index. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Selected articles on the Indian Wars of the West presented by participants at the annual meetings of this veteran's organization from 1917 through 1941: The Battle of the Rosebud; The Sioux War of 1876 (by Charles King); The Geronimo Campaign; The Surrender of Geronimo (by Gatewood); Nez Pearce War; the Modoc War, etc..

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909 First separate edition, reprinted from the report of the National Conservation Commission, February, 1909. Bulletin 394 of the U.S.G.S. 214pp. Twelve plates including photographs, charts, 2 folding maps; 2 figures. Index. Gray wrappers printed in black. Slight damage to small section of lower edge of title page, light wear to foot of spine. A fine copy. Good articles, particularly on the petroleum resources of the United States by David Day and on the mineral resources of Alaska (by Brooks). Also includes articles on the coal fields of the U.S., natural gas resources, resources of peat, iron ores, and of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc. The folding maps include the known mineral resources of Alaska..