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The First American Vessel in California, Monterey in 1796
by Wagner, Henry R.
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- 1954
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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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- 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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$65.00
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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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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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- 1887
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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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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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The Filibusters of 1890. The Captain John F. Janes and Lower California Newspaper Reports and the Walter G. Smith Manuscript
by Hager, Anna Marie (Editor)
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- 1968
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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1968. Hardcover. Fine. Baja California Travels Series #14. 85 pp, with bibliography, color frontispiece. Near fine, with just a touch of wear to the spine ends. Item Price
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California as a Health Resort
by Sanders, F.C.S.
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- 1916
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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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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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Font's Complete Diary: A Chronicle of the Founding of San Francisco
by Bolton, Herbert Eugene (Editor)
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- First Edition
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- 1931
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xix, 552 pp, with illustrations, folding map, in publisher's blue cloth. Slight fraying to spine ends, owner's signature across top edge of text block, else fine. Describes the itinerary, natural resouces and features of the country, Indians, Spanish outposts, and all the gossip of the trail. Howes… Read more about this item Item Price
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Juan Maria de Salvatierra of the Company of Jesus; Missionary in the Province of New Spain, and Apostolic Conqueror of the Californias
by Venegas, Miguel; Wilbur, Marguerite Eyer (Translator and Editor)
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- 1929
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Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Volume V of Spain in the West, A Series of Original Documents from Foreign Archives. 350 pp, frontispiece portrait, and other illustrations including early maps of California, facsimiles of documents. In publisher's original dark red cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Minor rubbing to extremities, else fine.… Read more about this item Item Price
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California Romantic and Beautiful
by James, George Wharton
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- 1914
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Boston: The Page Company, 1914. Hardcover. Very good. Second impression, November 1914. A volume in the See America First series. Title continues: The History of it Old Missions and of its Indians, A Survey of its Climate, Topography, Deserts, Mountains, Rivers, Valleys, Islands and Coast Line. A Description of its Recreations and Festivals, a Review of its Industries,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Cattle Drives of Joseph E. Pleasants from Baja, California in 1867 and 1868
by Meadows, Don (editor)
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- 1965
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[Los Angeles]: Dawson's Book Shop, 1965. Hardcover. Fine. Baja California Travel Series #3. One of 600 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in Pasadena. 35 pp, illustrated. Fine copy in original brown cloth boards. Item Price
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Masterkey Volume 60, Numbers 2 & 3, Summer / Fall 1986, California's Mexican Heritage
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- 1986
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$20.00
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Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1986. Softcover. Fine. 56 pp, with illustrations, maps, in original illustrated wrappers. Fine copy. Includes articles on Alta California During the Mission Period, Rancho Life in Alta California, Mexican Americans in Twentieth-Century California; the Barroization of Nineteenth Century Mexican Californians: From Landowners to Laborers. Item Price
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Fresno. Fresno County, California
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Los Angeles: Pacific Folder Co. Softcover. Very good. Small illustrated cardstock folder containing 11 accordion-folded panels, all but one printed on both sides. Includes 17 halftone illustrations from photographs and four panels of text. Folded size 3 1/8 x 4 1/4 inches. Advertising on the back cover for Fresno Agricultural Works, sellers of "implements and pumping plants, scrapers… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Golden West: Souvenir Respectfully Dedicated to the Native Sons and Native Daughters of the State. Primitive Years in California
by Forbes, J. Alexander
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- 1919
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$75.00
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1919. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 103 pp, illustrated. Small stain at top margin of front wrapper, slight wear at corners, binding tight, text clean. "Forbes was at one time keeper of the Spanish and Mexican Archives of the U.S. Surveyor General, and out of his broad knowledge of Spanish California, compiled this interesting survey of the missions… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Chino 1887-1962 [Cover title: Chino Valley, Where Everything Grows]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/154/813/1546813154.0.m.jpg)
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Chino 1887-1962 [Cover title: Chino Valley, Where Everything Grows]
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Softcover. Near fine. No publication given, but a note at the back indicates the book was "sponsored by the East Side Thimble Club." 6 x 9 inches, unpaginated, but ca. 60 pp, with photographic illustrations. Minor wear to the cheerful pictorial wrappers, internals fine. An interesting compilation of short articles on various aspects of Chino's history, including pioneer… Read more about this item Item Price
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