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[San Francisco]: Rhe Caqlifornia Society of Etchers, 1926. Original engraving of a man, a woman and a tree all fused together. Presumably a play on the Adam and Eve motif but entitled "Bound" by the artist. Pencil signed by Nahl in lower right and also signed in the plate. Sight size of 8 x 10 inches. A strong impression. Matted and glazed in the original frame bearing the original printed exhibition sticker that reads :The California Society of Etchers. Associate Membership, Prize Etching, 1926, by Perham W. Nahl, Professor of the Department of Art, University of California." Frame and mat a bit aged but etching is bright and strong.Perhan W. Nahl was the nephew of famed early California artist Charles Nahl. Perham Wilhelm Nahl was born to Annie (née Sweeny) and Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl in San Francisco, California. By the mid-1870s the extended Nahl family had moved to the nearby island town of Alameda, where Perham first studied drawing and painting with both his father and his uncle, the fine… Read More

[Seattle]: Great Northern Railway Company, (1915). First edition. Oblong quarto (12 x 9 1/2 inches). Complete with eighteen tipped-in Albertype images of scenes along the route - Pioneer Square; Mountains at Scenic Hot Springs, Washington: [Train] Entrance to Horseshoe Tunnel; Cascade Tunnel; Tumwater Canyon; Wenatchee Apple Orchard; Lower Falls, Spokane River; Kootenai Falls near Libby, Montana; Through Bad Rock Canyon near Columbia, Montana; Belton Chalets; Morning Eagle Falls and Tricks Falls, Glacier National Park; Auto Road in Swift Current Valley [with the autos on the dirt road]; Climbing Blackfoot Glacier [showing two climbers]; Glacier Park Hotel [then new]; Annual Pow-Wow of Blackfeet Indians [showing numerous mounted Indians near a teepee]; A North Dakota Grain Field; Oriental Crossing Stone Arch Bridge; Minneapolis. Mounted on rectos only and with a title page leaf and a leaf of plate descriptions at tear. Publisher's string-tied printed brown wrappers. Some light spine erosion but a very… Read More

Tacoma: Stanley Bell Ptg. Co., [ca. 1915]. First edition. 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches (but issued foled in the middle). [12] pp. with a mpa dn numerous photographic illustrations. Publisher's color pictorial wrappers. Excellent.A promotional pamphlet about touring Mt. Rainier National Park and its convenient proximity to the city of Tacoma, Washington. There are photographic illustrations throughout but the two-page centerfold entitles "The Glorious Automobile Highway; Tacoma to Ranier National Park bears 20 photographic vignettes of scenes along the way.

[Washington: Senate], 1953. First edition. Octavo. 405, (3) pp. Disbound. First signature coming loose but still attached. Mainly reports by United States Indian Agents. Very good.

San Francisco: Pacific Ship Repair Inc. [Pier 25], 1949-50. Oblong folio album of twenty-two original photographs. Each 13 x 10 inches and backed on thick paper. Original plastic spiral binding. A very good copy.This album documents the work done by the employees of Pacific Ship Repair to convert the U.S. Navy ship General G. C. Morton to a Military Sea Transportation Service vessel. The album shows workers rehabing all parts of the ship. USS General C. G. Morton (AP-138) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Charles Gould Morton. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General C. G. Morton in 1946. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS General C. G. Morton. She was activated again for the Korean War and received three battle stars for service in that campaign. She was finally scraped in 1980.

Boston: Allyn and Bacon, (1889). Small quarto. [8] pp. of text and 50 pre-printed bifolios for collectors to form their own herbariums. Publisher’s half green cloth over printed green boards. original ties on three sides. A very good and attractive copy.Nelson, a professor of biology at Ohio Wesleyan University, published this how to and blank book to encourage botanical collects and they were sold all over the country. Judging from the locations mentioned the compiler of this one was from New Hampshire. The textual material contains much info on the collecting of plants, the pressing of plants and a section on how to mount the plants there is also a glossary of botanical terms and an index leaf with 50 spaces of inclusions. The bifoliums themselves are quite elegantly printed; the specimens are mounted to the opening page. The information asks an awful lot from the student or collector; there are 28 fields to be filled out (e.g. Family-Name-Locality-Plant-Root-Stem; Branches, etc).. Whoever… Read More

Baltimore: Published by the Trustees, 1973. First edition. Folio. 108 pp. of text plus 243 full page plates and eight color plates within the text (A-H). Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. A very attractive copy.

Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1970. First edition. One of 1500 copies. Oblong quarto. xii, 92 pp. with numerous illustrations (some in color). Publisher's black cloth over gray cloth, silver spine lettering, black endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy.

Newark, NV, 1884. Bifolio (4 pp.) autograph letter, signed by Robinson, dated Nov. 19th, 1884 and sent from Newark, Nevada. This letter written from Robinson to Yerington is quite legible and speaks mainly of the election betrayal of A. C. Cleaveland. In it Robinson states that, although A. C. Cleaveland was the person who nominated him and counseled him to make his headquarters in Hamilton, he lost the election through the duplicitous nature of Cleveland. E.g.: "He may tell you that I am not a friend of the Local Roads but if he says so he tells an infamous lie." On lined paper. Excellent condition.All three individuals mentioned in this letter are quite well known in Nevada history. H. M. Yerrington [sic], namesake of the town of Yerington in Lyon County, Nevada: "In 1863 H. M. Yerington came to Carson City and became one of its most prosperous business men. Among his earliest work was the construction of the Merrimac mill for the rushing of Comstock ore, the first mill in the state of that… Read More

[San Francisco], 1917. First edition. Octavo. [6], 111, [3] pp. plus 16 tipped-in photographs. Publisher's quarter mottled vellum over beveled brown boards. bookplate of Newhall Family (as always). An excellent copy.Biography and memorial in honor of Edwin White Newhall (1856-1915), son of Henry Mayo Newhall and Sarah Ann White, who was born and lived in San Francisco, California. He married Fannie Silliman Hall (1858- 1881) in 1880, and Virginia Whiting (b.1857) in 1882. Includes some family history, and genealogy of descendants and ancestors, 1630 to 1915. Also includes three photographs of his San Francisco residences (Pacific Ave., Van Ness Ave., and Beale St.) and two of his yacht Virginia.The Newhall Land and Farming Company was incorporated on July 1, 1883, by the five sons of Henry Newhall (William, Edwin, Henry, Walter, and George), from a businessman who had purchased a number of former Mexican land grants. Henry Newhall had died the previous year and had instructed his sons not to sell… Read More

Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1929. First edition. Tall octavo (10 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches; 263 x 181 mm). 139 pp. With sixteen plates and one folding map, a facsimile of Ord's Survey. Original blue-green cloth, side title stamped in gilt, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Signed by Los Angeles bibliophile and Zamorano Club founder Arthur Ellis on the front pastedown. A near-fine copy.

Bakersfield: Joe K. Acklin, July 9, 1874. First edition. Bifolio (4 pp.; 21 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches). A very good copy.Information and ads for early Kern County.

Kaweah: Burnette G. Haskell, April 4, 1891. First edition. Bifolio (4 pp.; 16 1/4 x 11 inches). Minor wear to edges but a very good copy."Influenced by Grodlund and other prominent writers, a group of Bay Area residents, lead by the labor activists, organized the Kaweah Co-Operative Commonwealth (the Kaweah Colony). Its purpose was to patent the newly opened timbered resources of eastern Tulare County and use the timber as the basis for a new society. Eastern Tulare was largely inaccessible and thus of little interest to commercial timber interests. The participants applied for 53 patents covering 12,000 acres of land surrounding the forks of the Kaweah River. The Land Patent Office, suspicious of recent fraudulent patent activity in Humboldt County, was slow to process the claims. Assuming success, and perhaps encouraged by the land agents to move forward, the Kaweah Commonwealth was launched without the patents. Funds were not only raised by the participants as part of a buy-in, but also from… Read More

[San Francisco]: N.p., 1902. Original brown morocco containing containing a three-page calligraphic certificate of appreciation on board for Medal of Honor winner Oscar F. Long. A portion reads, We the undersigned officers and employees of the States Army Transport Service who have had the honor of serving under you since the inauguration of the Service on April 1, 1899, desire to express our sincere congratulations on your promotion to a higher office... The certificate is signed by 25 separate individuals above their job title. It was given as a gift to Long on March 1, 1902 and printed by Carl Eisenschimel. On the front cover is a hand-colored portrait of long surrounded by a brass and enamel oval frame with a gilt floral border. Spine professionally repaired. Very handsome.Oscar F. Long graduated from West Point in 1872 and immediately stationed out West. There, he actively participated with General Nelson Miles in pursuit of Chief Joseph. He earned the Medal of Honor for his efforts in the… Read More

Meadville: Keystone, [ca. 1910]. These seem to be part of a Keystone series but information is hard to obtain so we will just present the titles. All are 4 x 3 3/4 inches, in very good condition and with printed captions;Titles are; 12812. Junction of Colorado and San Juan Rivers, Canal Route, Nicaragua, C.A.; 12889. Government Railway Station, Granada, Nicaragua; 12833. San Carlos and San Juan River, Nicaragua, C.A.; 12856. The Smoking Terror, "Momotombo" Volcano, Nicaragua. C.A. ; 12844; Using Nature's Own Tub and Washboards on Lake Nicaragua, Granada, C,A,; 12842. Good Friday Celebration, Franciscan Church and Monastery, Nicaragua C.A.; 12840. In Old Grenada by the Lake. Its Tiled Roofs and Low-arched Corridors, Nicaragua C.A.; 12857. Dome and Turret Crowned Cathedral Roof and Three of the "Volcanic Marvels"; 12858; O'er Floral and Sculptured Adornments Towers the Historic Cathedral, Leon, Nicaragua, C.A.; 12845; Landing on Beautiful Lake Nicaragua, Granada, Nicaragua, C.A.; 12850. An… Read More

(Fort Collis): Old Army Press, (1999). First edition. One of 250 copies signed by the author. Octavo. xii, 407, [1] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Publisher's blue cloth over white cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy.

London: William Pickering, 1838. First limited edition (one of 250 copies). Octavo. xv, [q], lxxvii, [1], [2, errata and blank], 150, 6 [publisher's ads] pp. Publisher's diaper-grain burgundy cloth, printed paper spine label. Two contemporary presentations (one of which is a donation inscription to the Library of St. Michael's College), paper spine label faded to the point of illegibility) A very clean and crisp copy in the original binding.The ramifications off this planned marriage were of great significance for numerous reasons, The most important being that the marriage was part of broader attempts to secure peace between the two countries, which were often in conflict during the Hundred Years' War. But they continue to the present day as primary sources like Beckington's account are crucial for historians to understand the events of the past. They provide a firsthand perspective and details that might not be available in other records.

London: Charles Knight & Co., 1846. First edition. Small octavo. 226 pp. with a frontispiece of the mouth of the Columbia River, a folding map of the Pacific Northwest and a single page map of Vancouver's Island.A fine overview of Oregon in the 1840s. "In addition to presenting the British arguments in the Oregon Controversy, Nicolay describes in detail the early settlement of the Pacific Northwest and the rise and development of the fur trade. He takes freely from the printed primary sources, such as Ross Cox, Fremont, and others" (Wagner-Camp).[Bound, as issued, with (and preceding the above)]TRAILL, Catharine Parr. Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America to Which is Appended an Account of the Country of the Oregon. London: Charles Knight & Co., 1846.Second edition. Small octavo. 243, [1] pp. With twelve illustrations including the frontispiece of Peter, the Chief."Traill's best-known book had its… Read More

London: Vincent Stuart, 1953-57. Five octavo volumes. The first three are third impressions (1957) and the last two are first edition (1955 & 1956). The first three have dust jackets with some wear. Vol. 4 with a bit of bubbling to front. In each volume the previous owner has written her name and the volume number. Aside from that, a very clean set.

Hartford: H. Huntington, Jr., 1839. Third edition. Two volumes in one. 369, [3, blanks], 230 pp. With the three engraved plates but lacking the two maps. Publisher's full sheepskin, spine with gilt lettering and decoration, boards stamped in a curling pattern. Some light foxing and toning. Leather a bit rubbed but still tight and sturdy in the original leather. A very good copy.