Search Results: Titles starting with C from William Reese Company

Cincinnati: G.W. Lashe, 1880. 400pp. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Cloth sunned, especially on spine. Worn at spine ends and corners. One leaf with a long, closed tear, else quite clean internally. About very good. Babb was a Presbyterian clergyman who published some 400 letters in the JOURNAL AND MESSENGER in the 1870s. This volume is a selection of dozens of his Christian epistles

Portland: C.H. McIsaac & Co., 1885.. 3-234pp. plus four colored advertisement leaves interspersed throughout. Lacking pp.1- 2 (front board and pastedown) and 235 (rear pastedown) due to rebinding. Occasional pencil notations throughout (see below). Modern half burgundy buckram and tan cloth boards, spine gilt. Occasional faint tanning, otherwise near fine. Without the advertising text on the original front board and pastedowns. A rare and early Seattle residential and commercial directory produced just a few years before Washington statehood. The contents of the directory can be summed up by the subtitle, which reads: "An alphabetically arranged list of business firms, farmers and private citizens - a classified list of all trades, professions, and pursuits - a miscellaneous directory, city and county officers, terms of court, public and private schools, churches, banks, incorporated institutions, secret and benevolent societies, etc., etc." In this particular copy, a former owner has noted in pencil… Read More

Philadelphia: Published by Mathew Care, 1809. viii,136pp. plus six engraved plates. 12mo. Original plain paper boards. Boards rubbed and edgeworn, spine rubbed and chipped. Tanned, some foxing. Two early plates and three early text leaves stained. Good. Prints humorous works by Pindar, Freneau, Ladd, Swift, Dibdin, Pitt, and others. One of the earliest printed collections of American humor, and scarce. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 17136

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1868.. [4]pp. plus forty-eight engraved plates. Oblong octavo. Original green cloth, gilt- stamped cover. Front hinge starting. Internally bright and clean. Very good. The third furniture pattern book published in America, issued simultaneously with another Baird title, GOTHIC ALBUM FOR FURNITURE MAKERS. It was preceded by books called THE CABINET-MAKER'S ASSISTANT, published in 1840 and 1842. Depicted are a variety of bed stands, bureaus, wardrobes, tables, bookcases, and more, in a Renaissance Revival style. They are patterned after mid-19th- century French designs. All early American furniture books are rare.

Greenfield, Ma, 1825.. 108pp. Publisher's advertisements on rear board. 16mo. Original printed paper-covered boards. Moderate staining to boards, minor chipping to spine ends, minor edge wear. Moderate scattered foxing. Very good, and wholly unsophisticated. Untrimmed. The first American printing of the first American furniture finisher's manual, reprinted from the original British edition by G.A. Siddons. "A new edition, with considerable additions. Including an appendix containing several valuable tables." Clear and concise instructions are given for dying and staining woods, making glue, making and applying varnish, polishing, japanning, cleaning woods and metals, and much more. For example, to make furniture oil "Take linseed oil, put it in a glazed pipkin, with as much alkanet root as it will cover; let it boil gently, and you will find it become of a strong red color: let it cool, and it will be fit for use." Six tables in the appendix provide assistance for figuring lengths and weights, and an… Read More

London, 1900. [1],lii,[1],180,[1]pp. Original red cloth, gilt stamped. Hinges cracking, light wear to corners and spine ends. Bookplate of bookseller William Wreden on front pastedown, printed review slip on rear pastedown, autograph letter and several clippings laid in. Light tanning. Good plus. First edition of Winship's bibliography on printed works relating to the explorations of the Cabots. With an interesting letter by Winship laid in

San Francisco, 1892. 251pp. Illus. Original front wrapper. Wrapper chipped, detached, and spotted. Else good. A vivid account of lawlessness in this refuge for bad hombres in the Santa Cruz valley. After the town was torn asunder by riots, the residents who remained mobile removed to Nogales, where, according to Ramon Adams, they "could keep one foot on the bar-rail and the other on the boundary line." ADAMS SIX-GUNS 296 ("rare"). HOWES B845, "aa."

Washington, 1915. Four volumes. Thick quartos. Original red cloth, spines stamped in gilt. Lightly shelfworn. Old minor stain in upper outer corner of first leaves of first volume, else internally very clean and tight. A very good set. Untrimmed and unopened. A very useful source, recording thousands of letters between Washington and his officers during the American Revolution, as well as those with French auxiliaries, British officers, and foreign agents. The fourth volume is an extensive index

San Francisco, 1875. 41pp. Original printed wrappers. Chipped, else good. An early history of the missions of California and the life there as observed in the 1870s. EBERSTADT 132:138. COWAN, p.295.

San Marino, 1942. 32pp. Boards. Front joint split, spine holding by rear joint only. Good. Reprint of the only known copy.

London, 1865. Twelve issues, with three plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Modern calf, gilt spine label. Spine extremities slightly worn, spine label chipped. Light foxing and tanning. Nearly very good. "Tallack travelled from San Francisco to San Diego, and then by stage through the Southwest to the western terminus of the railroad at Syracuse, Missouri, nearly one hundred miles west of Saint Louis" - Wagner- Camp. Printed in a periodical containing several travel accounts, including a narrative to the gold fields in British Columbia, called "To Cariboo and Back," and a description of Native American life in Oregon. Tallack's narrative is contained in four of the twelve issues bound in this volume. WAGNER-CAMP 425.

Zurich, 1898. 318pp. Portrait. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers chipped around the edges, heavily chipped along the spine. Very clean internally. Very good. Lienhard came to California in 1846, and was one of John Sutter's most trusted employees. His narrative gives valuable information on the region and life there before and immediately after the 1848 discovery of gold, as well as his impressions of the changes wrought by the discovery. "In his recollections, he tells about the discovery of gold, its effect on Sutter, and his work in the mines in the summer of 1848" - Kurutz. HOWES L352. MINTZ 293 (ref). FLAKE 4922. DECKER 50:148. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 127. KURUTZ 399a.

Base, 1871. [4],426,[2]pp. Contemporary half cloth over cloth. Spine sunned. A very good, tight copy. The author travelled through Panama to San Francisco and visited gold hill, Dutch Flat, Virginia City, and Mexico in the 1860s, with descriptions of life in the mines and the areas traversed. Scarce. HOWES H570. COWAN, p.287

New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1849.. 137pp. plus [6]pp. of advertisements. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers nearly detached and soiled, heavily worn and scuffed, especially near the spine, where they are almost completely effaced. Titlepage a bit dusty, but generally quite clean internally. A decent copy, lacking the large folding map. According to Wheat, "One of the best of the early books on California printed for gold seekers." Robinson, who had produced a book on the Mexican-American War shortly before, drew on both official and unofficial sources for this book. Kurutz calls this work "a fine anthology of several of the earliest reports of the gold discovery, conditions in California, history of the region, and ways to reach the diggings." Among the sources drawn on are reports by Mason, Fremont, Larkin, Emory, and Kearny, as well as newspaper accounts. Robinson discusses several routes to California, recommending the northern Overland Trail as the best. The map, lacking from this copy, is… Read More

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. x,[64]pp. plus facsimiles and color plates. Quarto. Original cloth backed paper boards. Fine. In plain dust wrapper. One of 550 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Eyewitness accounts of happenings in California during that crucial period in its history, at the close of the Mexican-American War. Notes and introduction by Oscar Lewis.

New York, 1875. 255pp. Map. Illus. Original gilt cloth. Near fine. Later edition. First published, in parts only, in HARPER'S MAGAZINE, and for the first time in book form in 1872, this was one of the most popular travel books written about California, and appeared in many editions in America and Britain. "Mr. Nordhoff's descriptions of the natural attractions of California were considered the best of their time, and much esteemed" - Cowan. Also includes a description of Utah and the state of Mormonism. COWAN, p.455. FLAKE 5861. ROCQ 17051. TRAIN TO PLANE 9. ZAMORANO SELECT 80 (first ed)

Madison, Wi, 1931. xix,212pp. plus illus. Portrait. Cloth. Fine. Fairchild went to California in 1849 at the opening of the gold rush, and remained there for six years. A native of Wisconsin, he later became a notable figure in the Civil War. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 70. MINTZ 146. KURUTZ 228.

New York, 1853. 224pp. plus twelve plates including frontis. Original gilt cloth. Cloth sunned, bit frayed at extremities, scattered foxing (quite heavy at times). A good, sound copy. Later issue, styled "fourth thousand" on the titlepage. Howes states: "Number of plates vary in copies of all issued but 48 is the proper complement." A vivid narrative of California mining life, published at the height of the gold fever, and particularly valuable for the attractive, accurate illustrations drawn by Cooper and lithographed by Cameron. Peters remarks, "Cooper has left us a pungent, graphic record of the long trip to and from the gold fields, of the young cities he found mushrooming there, of booming San Francisco and Sacramento, of the lovely vestiges of the mission-founding padres in early California, and of the actual life of the forty-niners, with its flavor of roughing it, humor, hope, and all the luring magic of the yellow streak." Cameron, the brilliant hunchback lithographer who was addicted to… Read More

New York: Stringer and Townsen, 1849. 137pp. plus [6]pp. of advertisements. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers nearly detached and soiled, heavily worn and scuffed, especially near the spine, where they are almost completely effaced. Titlepage a bit dusty, but generally quite clean internally. A decent copy, lacking the large folding map. According to Wheat, "One of the best of the early books on California printed for gold seekers." Robinson, who had produced a book on the Mexican-American War shortly before, drew on both official and unofficial sources for this book. Kurutz calls this work "a fine anthology of several of the earliest reports of the gold discovery, conditions in California, history of the region, and ways to reach the diggings." Among the sources drawn on are reports by Mason, Fremont, Larkin, Emory, and Kearny, as well as newspaper accounts. Robinson discusses several routes to California, recommending the northern Overland Trail as the best. The map, lacking from this copy, is… Read More

Garden Cit, 1935. [2],227pp. plus plates and facsimiles (some in color). Half title. Large, thick quarto. Original cloth. Near fine. Lacks dust jacket. In slipcase. From an edition limited to 501 copies, of which 451 were for sale. Chronicles the development of lithography in California. An excellent reference. HOWES P258, "aa." ZAMORANO SELECT 86.