Search Results: Authors starting with O from Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA

New York: Reprinted from the Peoria Register, 1914. First separated edition. Octavo. 19, [1] pp. Publisher's printed gray wrappers. Very good. Obadiah Oakley was part of the group of overland immigrants commanded by Farnham.

New York: A. Witteman, 1894. First edition under this title. Small oblong octavo. [4, title and text] and 20 full page photographic illustrations. All printed on rectos only and all captioned. Publisher's stiff cream wrappers stamped in a snakeskin pattern, string-tied in the Japanese manner, gilt cover lettering. A bit of soiling from being handled but overall a wonder, bright and clean copy. OCLC only locates 2 copies.

Philadelphia: Wm. M. Bradley & Bro., 1887. First edition. Fine hand colored fold out map (23 x 15 inches) attached to publisher's printed salmon wrappers (4 x 7 inches). Wrappers a bit faded but map is fine.The map identifies cities, towns, rivers, lakes, railroads, and settlements in Ohio. Bradley Atlas maps are readily available but these pocket maps are somewhat scarce. OCLC only finds his pocket maps of Massachusetts., Illinois, and Alaska.

[Coalinga]: n.p., [ca. 1930]. This small gathering belonged to Stanley Siegfus, a mining consultant, geologist, and engineer whose papers are held at the Huntington Library. It includes:Four panoramic silver gelatin photographs (10 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches) of Big Tar Canyon, an oil producing region in the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga. In the original envelope from R. W. Richards of the USGSSixteen (3 duplicates) original photographs of the oil business in the Tupman oil field.A typed letter signed from R.W. Richards to Stanley Siegfus. It discusses the Big Tar Canyon as well as other oil fields (Garza Creek, McAdam's well). Written on USGS letterhead and dated June 7, 1933. Oil field photographs from the Tupman lease in Kern County, CA—acquired in 1920 by the Standard Oil Company. Images include oil derricks, rigs, company buildings views of the fields etc.

[Sacramento]: Department of Pubic Works, 1934. First edition, Oblong folio (13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches). 13 leaves, blue line maps and others printed on rectos only. Original brad-bound clue cloth with a window near the same to dispay the engineers name. Old small stain in upper corner, ese very good.This set of blueprints was only for 3 miles of the highway, from East Carpinteria along Rancho El Ricon along Casitas Creek to just past the West Casitas Pass. It includes detailed delineation of the planned highway, a public works project during the Great Depression, with elevations, etc., and designs for culverts, guard rails, supports, drains, etc. Formerly belonged to W. J. Calvin, with pencil note in the margin of the first leaf “ Please return W. J. Calvin, Resident Engineer. P.O. Box 'P' Carpinteria, Calif." Calvin worked in the area for more than thirty years. There are occasional pencil notes, diagrams, etc. on the plans, apparently by Calvin.The western terminus of Highway 150 is at US 101… Read More

Santa Ynez: Alamar Media, (2003). First edition. Quarto. 137, [1] pp. Color illustrations throughout. Publisher's back cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine.Chuck DeHaan is a accomplished rodeo rider, rancher, and cutting horse trainer as well as being an artist of the American West. probably best known for his paintings of horses, DeHaan has won numerous awards. In 1986/7 DeHaan seved as Texas State Artist.

Adyar [India]: The Theosophical Publishing House, (1954-1974}. Various printings but all published by the Theosophical Publishing House. Small octavos. Publishers cloth of different hues. Final volume with a dust jacket. Very clean and tidy and not unattractive.'Henry Steel Olcott (August 2, 1832 – February 17, 1907) was an agriculturist, American military officer, journalist, lawyer, and co-founder of the Theosophical Society. He held the title of President-Founder of the Society from 1875 till his death in 1907. He was the first well-known American of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. During his presidency he helped to restore Buddhism in South Asia, and established schools for children of Buddhist and Hindu families, among many other notable achievements.It is believed Olcott will be remembered in the future not so much for his leadership of the Theosophical Society as for his public espousal of Buddhism in 1880 in Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon). His action on… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. First edition. Tall octavo. xii, 390, [2, publisher's ads] pp. plus numerous full page plates. Contemporary polished calf, spine densely gilt in compartments and with gilt lettering, gilt board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, Lower hinges starting but a very attractive copy.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901. First edition of Water-Supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey No. 46. Octavo. 57, [1] pp. including numerous photographic illustrations and a color map of the Upper Kern River by Olmsted. Publishers printed terra-cotta wrappers. Erosion to loweer spine and two stamps on front werapper else a very good copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958-63-69. Listening Point. New York, 1958. Fine in fine dust jacket (unclipped).Runes of the North. New York, 1963. Fine in fine dust jacket (unclipped).Open Horizons, New York, 1969. Fine in fine dust jacket (unclipped).Sigurd earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1920. He returned briefly in 1922 for graduate work in geology, and earned a master’s degree in animal ecology from the University of Illinois in 1932. Meanwhile, in 1921 he married Elizabeth Dorothy Uhrenholdt. He spent the next 20 years teaching until he became a full-time writer and professional conservationist. Ely, a small city in northern Wisconsin where he had last taught, remained Sigurd’s home for the rest of his life. An iron-mining town on the Vermilion Range, it was located at the edge of several million acres of lake land wilderness in the United States and Canada known as the Quetico-Superior. Sigurd traveled and guided there for many years, and grew… Read More

Los Angeles: The author, 1955. First edition. Small octavo. [8], 33, [1] pp. Four full page photographic illustrations out of pagination. Publisher's brown cloth with printed paper cover and spine label. Spine lightly sunned but a very good copy.Inscribed by Stuart O'Melveny on the front blank. Printed from a talk given to the the Sunset Club. Stuart O'Melveny was the son of one of the founders of the venerable LA law firm of O'Melveny & Myers and here reflects on the San Gabriel Valley of the late 1800s.

Balboa, CA, 1938. An original photograph album belonging to Tommy Mary Louis Cuthill of Orange County, California. Oblong quarto bearing 37 original photographs of Margie and Tommy and their adventures in California. Original string tied cloth boards. The album starts of with a number of photos of them shore fishing from Balboa Island and from there to Sequoia National Park, up to Marysville to see grandma, a time in Squaw Valley. Finally to Lake Almanor, Big Pines and Lake Arrowhead. A number of pictures show their automobile and they were an attractive couple.

Boston: Oregon State Board of Immigration, 1876. First edition. Octavo. 44, [1, State Board of Immigration as[, [1, Union & Central Pacific ad] pp. plus two folding maps (Western Oregon & Routes from Atlantic Ports to Oregon). Disbound but clean.Portland had created the Board of Statistics, Immigration and Labor Exchange in 1869.28 The Oregon State Board of Immigration was organized in 1874 and this was their first publication. There were bureaus in Portland and Boston, the port of entry and a commercial center, to disseminate information about the Oregon country. Booklets were printed in German, Norwegian and Swedish as well as in English, and notices appeared in European newspapers. Oregon remains underpopulated to this day.

Salem, Oregon: F.C. Baker, State Printer, 1888. First edition. Folio. 100 pp. printed in columns. Map not present. Publisher's printed buff wrappers. Wrappers with a clear protective coating done some while ago, chip to state emblem on lower title page, minor edge chipping to wrappers. Printed on wood pulp paper. A tight, clean and serviceable copy.

Salem: Murray Wade, 1922. First edition of the first number of a proposed issuance of numbers relating to the early history of Oregon. It is also regular Vol. 6, No. 3. Octavo. 32 pages with illustrations and local business ads throughout. Publisher's printed brpwn wrappers, Very good condition.THis issue is devoted solely to local history. Articles include; Baseball in the Seventies [1870s]; Memories of Salem by renowned artist Clyde Leon Keller; Salem Memories by Charles B. Moores; Early Theatrical History of Salem, etc. The publisher, Murray Wade, was an editorial cartoonist for newspapers in Portland and San Francisco. His most popular work was a series of caricatures of Oregon legislators. He also worked for Variety magazine.

Ashland: Daily Tidings Press, [ca. 1925]. First edition. Octavo (9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches). ]32] pp. with a photographic illustration on every page. Publisher's pictorial brown wrappers with a front cover design in red, green and black of a cabin in a forest. Very good condition.A promotional pamphlet stating the glories of Jackson County, Oregon. Jackson County is at the very southernmost part of the state and includes the cities of Medford and Ashland. Climate, timber, fruit growing, mining, daitying, etc., are all discussed. One item of note is the photograph of the private lodge of Jessie Winburn. Winburn was a New York advertising millionaire who picked up and moved to the Ashland watershed in 1922. "Winburn’s former wife claimed he fled New York to avoid paying her alimony. Winburn bought a place in the middle of the Ashland watershed, with a cabin named “Sap and Salt in the Woods,” complete with swimming pool and cattle. That got him accused of contaminating Ashland’s drinking water… Read More

Chicago: Chapman Publishing, 1903. First edition. Thick octavo. 1563, [1] pp. Numerous full page portraits. Beautifully bound in recent full crushed tan morocco with olive and burgundy morocco lettering labels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Mild sunning to spine, else a wonderful copy of this Oregon mug book detailing the lives of prominent citizens in the Willamette Valley.

Salem, Oregon: Mart. V. Brown, State Printer, 1878. First edition. Octavo. 43, [1], 12 pp. Nicely bound in quarter gray cloth over marbled boards, black morocco gilt spine label. Very good.Much on the Nez Pierce Indians and the Council at Umatilla. Stephen Fowler Chadwick was a Democrat politician who served as Governor of Oregon from 1877 to 1878. Governor Chadwick was the first person to obtain the governorship by way of the state's Line of Succession. Only three copies located by OCLC.

Roseburg OR: Roseburg Plaindealer Book and Job Printing House, 1879. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's self-wrappers with the title page being the cover; [12] pages as follows – title page w/ blank verso, 8 pages of text, blank inside back cover and cover; bound with string. Paper discolored and brittle with age; lower right corners creased on first six pages; front cover title page shows chipping along left side and corner creases; back cover is separated from pamphlet and is missing a piece of lower left corner. Previous owner stated that the piece was removed from an album, which probably resulted in the separation of the back cover from the rest of the pamphlet. Extremely rare with only one copy found in an OCLC search (Yale) which indicates their copy has [10] pages. Not in Smith. The author, Binger Hermann (1843-1926), came to Oregon with his parents in 1859. The family settled in Myrtle Point, Coos County, Oregon. As a young man Binger Hermann taught school; studied law and was… Read More

V.p.: V.p., [ca. 1910-15]. Thirty-nine (39) vintage postcards and photo by Ezra Meeker (1830-1928) who was an American (Washington State) Pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man and later became an influential advocate for its preservation. Cards measure 5.5 in. x 3.5 in. - 6.5 in. and are color, black and white and silver print. One is plate signed and titled 'The Alamo' 1911. #2 of the cards are corner mounted into a contemporary string-tied flexible cloth album with gilt cover lettering. Four are vertical shots and are just laid in (including one of Ezra in his buckskins and cradling his rifle. Two more are fold-out and one shows Ezra at Columbus Circle, NY and in the other he is raising the flag at Shoshone Falls. Two of the cards show Ezra at the fields of Dominguez Hill in historic Rancho San Pedro, the first air meet in the United States.Ezra Meeker was a pioneer of Washington Territory. He came across the Oregon Trail with his wife and infant child in 1852. In… Read More