CALIFORNIA from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
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[Bill-Poster's Dream] with advertisements for "Quick Passage to Australia!!" and "To California via the Overland Route"
by [Australia; California; New York City] Derby, C. H.
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- Used
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- 1866
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$2,750.00
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New York: Lith. of Chas. Hart, 99 Fulton Street, 1866. A rare print illustrating a New York City street scene. A bill poster sleeping in the lower right leaning against a street lamp; and young woman adjusting her shoes on the left. On a wall stating "Post No Bills" there is a panoply of handbills. The handbills are a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Photos of Destruction from San Francisco earthquake
by [San Francisco; Earthquake]
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- Used - Otherwise very good condition
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- 1906
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$145.00
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San Francisco, 1906. Otherwise very good condition. Two silvertone photos of street scenes after the 1906 earthquake and subsequent fire. Both show crumbled and fire scorched buildings.
One is labeled "3 Fairmont Hotel". Handwritten text on verso, "Nob Hill - California St. showing entrance to Colton residence formerly home of Collin P. Huntington. Opposite were the home… Read more about this item Item Price
$145.00
Karte zur Ubersicht der Verbreitung der Indianer-Stamme in Californien, map
by Powers, Stephen
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- Used - Fine
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- 1879
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- Maps
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$125.00
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Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen, 1879. Maps. Fine. Plate 13. German map of California, Crescent City to Tia Juana and Arizona City. With names of Indian tribes printed above their geographic territory, Sho-Sho' Ni, Yo-Kuts, Mut-Sun, Mai-Du, Yu-Ki, Win-Tun and more. Notation in key translates to 'Names are those of the most important Indian tribes.'
Stephen Powers [1840-1904] was… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
American West Travel Photo Album, Colorado to California to Mexico, 1907
by [Photographs] Erbin, Henry, Jr.
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- Used - Very good overall
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- 1907
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- Cloth
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$500.00
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1907. Cloth. Very good overall. 101 vernacular snapshots capturing a 1907 family tour to San Francisco (after the earthquake), Catalina Island, beaches, ostrich farm, Redwood National Park, El Capitan, Yosemite Park, Four Corners, Mesa Verde National Park, Pikes Peak Cog Railway, and Tijuana, Mexico.
The first two images are of the San Francisco post earthquake views, wonderful… Read more about this item Item Price
$500.00
Osborn Summer Vacation photo album, including Palm Beach, Cuba, Mexico, and Arizona
by Osborn, William Church [1862-1951]
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- Used - Very good overall
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- 1909
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$450.00
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1909. Hardcover. Very good overall. In between the Osborn Family's multiple trips to Wyoming and the Adirondacks (1908, 1910,1915) they made a trip in March of 1909 to Palm Beach, Cuba, Mexico, Arizona.
Album begins with 10 silvertone photos of Palm Beach and The Breakers plus 1 postcard. 2 shots of a family member jumping in the… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
Geography. 'The Earth is divided into Realmes'
by [California; World Map] Blome, Richard
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- 1686
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$450.00
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London, 1686. A copper engraved map by Richard Blome [1635-1705] a publisher and cartographer. This is the title page for Blome's famous works on the science of Geography, which includes a double hemisphere World map with California shown as an island.
The surrounding oval contains engravings showing how the land is measured and divided; 'The Earth is divided… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
Makers of Northern California, Press Reference
by Sacramento Union
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- Used - Otherwise very good condition
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- First printing
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- 1917
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$375.00
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Sacramento, Ca: Sacramento Union, 1917. First printing. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. Filled with biographies of noteworthy male and female attorneys, bankers, philanthropists, agriculturists and orchardists of Northern California. See the illustration for the people who are included.
Small 4to, 75 portraits and text, unpaginated, endpapers slt. spotted. Maroon rippled cloth boards in a 'loose-leaf' style… Read more about this item Item Price
$375.00
Long Beach, California printed color post cards
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- 1923
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- Postcards
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$100.00
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1923. Postcards. Eleven split back color postcards all featuring Long Beach, CA, from 4 different manufacturers-
M. Kashower Company: Sunset on the Pacific, Long Beach, Calif.; Hotel Virginia, Long Beach, Calif.; The Boardwalk, West Seaside, Long Beach, (copyrighted by W.M. Sargent).; An Everyday Beach Scene, Long Beach;
California Postcard Co.: The Pike, Long Beach, California; The… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
Miner's Brand; California Gold Miner, puzzle
by [California; Mining]
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- Used - Otherwise very good condition
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- 1880
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$175.00
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1880. Otherwise very good condition. Collectible advertising puzzle for the Colton Packing Co. in Colton, California. An image of a gold miner with pickax and rifle looking up at a winged cherub holding bunches of grapes, with log cabin & mountains in the distance. 18 color cardboard pieces complete, 9x7 1/2", some minor marks, 1/2" corner of image… Read more about this item Item Price
$175.00
Los Angeles. Photogravure view
by Hill, Thomas
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- Used - Very good condition
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- First printing
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- 1880
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$75.00
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New York, 1880. First printing. Print. Very good condition. A view of Los Angeles from a hill top overlooking the Los Angeles River. The caption that accompanied this print was "Los Angeles, new and old, dense and straggling, growing out over a hundred hills, presents a shifting and bewildering panorama." Thomas Hill was an English painter noted for… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
San Simeon, Private Mailing Cards
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1902
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$75.00
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San Francisco: P.A. Hearst, 1902. Very good condition. A set of four private mailing cards picturing different images of the Hearst home 'San Simeon', in b&w. Verso has 'Private Mailing Card" printed and space for address and stamp. 5 3/8 x 3 1/4" Item Price
$75.00
Studies in Eucalyptus
by Graves, W. E.
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- Used - Very good overall
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- 1910
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- Pamphlet
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$225.00
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St. Louis, MO: Eucalyptus Timber Corp., 1910. Pamphlet. Very good overall. A promotional publication of the Eucalyptus Timber Corporation of St. Louis, touting the commercial advantages of Eucalyptus groves. Page 5 quotes "$2500 planted today in Eucalyptus, under proper care and management, will produce $25,000 every ten years the rest of your life and that of your children… Read more about this item Item Price
$225.00
An Excerpt from Mass Reasoning. Read Inside about Purple Revolutionists
by Maus, Frank
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1925
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- Pamphlet
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$275.00
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San Francisco: John S. Rubio, 1925. Pamphlet. Very good condition. Author of "Essays on Racialism and on Mass Mind". A scarce pamphlet on conspiracy theory of the 1920s. Interesting cover graphics. The pamphlet discusses "black listed" workers and the fake tuberculosis epidemic of dairy cows in California. 12mo, 10pp, one chip at top margin not affecting text. Only… Read more about this item Item Price
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Geography Anatomiz'd: Or, The Geographical Grammar. Being a Short and Exact Analysis of the whole Body of Geography After a New and Curious Method, Comprehending, I. A General View of the Terraqueous Globe. Etc., etc. II. A particular View of the Terraqueous Globe. Etc., etc. Collected from the Best Authors, and Illustrated with divers Maps
by Gordon, Pat
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- Used - Otherwise very good condition
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- Fourteenth Edition, Corrected, and somewhat Enlarged; and a Set
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- 1735
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$750.00
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London: J. J. and P. Knapton, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth, et al., 1735. Fourteenth Edition, Corrected, and somewhat Enlarged; and a Set of New Maps, by Mr. Senex. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. A popular English pocket geography, first published in 1693, this edition with new maps by John Senex. The world map shows California as an island;… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
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Mrs. [Henry] Lepska Miller, manuscript card and water color of Big Sur
by Miller, Lepska, wife of Henry Miller
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1952
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$175.00
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1952. Very good condition. Lepska was author Henry Miller's third wife, married 1944 and divorced 1952. Her note is addressed to Mr. Paquette thanking him for a check sent and a promise to return with an inscribed memento from husband, Henry Miller as additional thanks. Henry had already left for Big Sur, and Lefska was soon to follow.… Read more about this item Item Price
$175.00
The X - B Boys. Real photograph trade card
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- Used - Very good overall
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- 1940
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$65.00
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Los Angeles, 1940. Very good overall. Real photograph of 3 musicians in Western garb, captioned Rusty, Dusty & Cactus in the image, and with a greeting printed in white, "The X - B Boys, with best wishes from National Pure Drinking Water". Photo credit printed at lower right, "Salb Foto".
6 x 4 1/2". Few remnants of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Carte de la Californie et des Pays Nord Ouest separes de l'Asie par le detroit d'Anian, extraite de deux cartes publiees au commencement du 17e. siecle / Par le S. Robert de Vaugondy Geog. ord. du Roi du feu Roi de Pologne Duc de Lorraine et de Bar et de l'Academie royale des Sciences et Belles-lettres de Nanci, et censeur royal 1772
by Vaugondy, Robert de Didier
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1779
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- Maps
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$275.00
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Paris, 1779. Maps. Very good condition. A map of comparative cartography of the West coast of North America, from the Straits of Anian to Cabo San Lucas and the southern tip of Baja California. Extracted from two maps, reportedly done by Vischer in 1612 and 1641, with information derived from earlier mapmakers. Both maps showing the fictitious Strait… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rubber Bathing Suit, California. Signed fashion photograph
by [Photography] Dahl-Wolfe, Louise
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1938
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$4,500.00
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1938. Very good condition. Iconic gelatin silver photograph by one of the foremost American photographers, Louise Dahl Wolfe, signed in pencil on the verso. The b&w photograph depicts a woman in an elegant cut out one piece rubber bathing suit and bathing cap reclining on a California beach. Natural light creates strong diagonal shadows from the large rocks… Read more about this item Item Price
$4,500.00
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Poems
by Harte, Bret
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- Used - Very good overall
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- First edition
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- 1871
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$50.00
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Boston: James R. Osgood, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. First edition, second printing. Includes 'The Ballad of the Emeu', written in praise of the Australian bird while Harte was working in San Francisco as a compositor, and associating with the group of writers who worked on the literary newspaper, 'The Californian'.
Small 8vo, 152pp. In… Read more about this item Item Price
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La Reina: Los Angeles in Three Centuries
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- Used - Very good overall
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- Fourth edition
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- 1931
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- Paperback
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$40.00
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Los Angeles: Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, 1931. Fourth edition. Paperback. Very good overall. A volume originally published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the former Security Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles, February 11, 1889. Historic description of Los Angeles from its early days as a Spanish province to the late 1920's,… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
