Search Results: Titles starting with P from Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA

Oakland: E. S. Dennison, (1888). First edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. Title page, (26) leaves of tinted lithographs from photos and 12 pp. of text explaining the pictures. Publisher's rust cloth with an elaborate design of a miner and the Cliff House, gilt cover lettering. Gilt a bit faded and very minor wear to extremities but overall a very attractive copy.There are 46 images which are discussed in the text at the rear; Last Spike, Sacramento capitol, Yosemite, Chinese buildings, Cliff House, Hotel Del Monte, etc.

[Bremerton, WA]: N.p., 1929-1937. Original oblong folio album (13 x 10 1/2 inches) of black faux morocco containing approximately 325 photographs and real photo postcards showing the mountaineering adventures and other outdoor activities of Bremerton, Washington residents Helen M. Newcomb and Augustus (Gus) H. Hudson. Photos in the album range in size, with the largest number being 3.25" x 5.5", but also including ca. 10 large-format images or multi-photo panoramas. Some photos are detached and laid into the album. Most of the photographs are captioned and the captions get longer towards the end. There are some sections that have group captions as well. A fascinating album detailing various ascents in the US and Canada.Helen and Gus were active members of The Mountaineers (a Seattle-based outdoors club founded in 1906) who spent much of their leisure time hiking and climbing. Dating when the album begins in 1929, the pair were married in November, 1934. Most of the album covers the time prior to… Read More

New York: J. W. Bowman, 1882-83. Octavo. 372, [6, index and ads] pp. Numerous engravings throughout (some full-page). Publisher's flexible maroon cloth, gilt cover lettering. Lettering faded, both hinges reinforced with patterned tape. Overall, a clean and tight copy.

San Francisco: Ira G. Hoitt, (1893). First edition. Twelvemo. 230 pp. Map not present. Publisher's green cloth with gilt cover lettering along with a gilt Knight Templar on front and a gilt scroll on rear, ads as endpapers. Mild extremity wear. A very good copy.Of interest mainly for the full page ads; Taber, Arpad Harazsthy, The Glenwood (with Frank A. Miller as proprietor), Will & Finck (knives), Palace Hotel, Bradley & Rulofson's (photography), Graham Paper, etc. On p 110 is a "Map Showing route of South Pacific Coast Railroad San Jose, Big Trees and Santa Cruz."

Omaha: Union Pacific, 1925. First edition. Octavo. 48 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs and with three full page maps at rear. Publisher's stiff green wrappers with raised gilt lettering on front cover as well as a pictorial vignette of Multnomah Falls in red, green and gilt. An excellent, unmarred copy.

San Francisco: Pacific Gas and Electric Company, 1916-17. A complete year; May of 1916 to June of 1917, 12 issues, Octavos. Contiguously numbered from p.1 to p. 466, plus some roman numeral pages in each issue for ads. An abundance of maps, charts and photographs illustrations. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering. All issues with their colorful wrappers bound in. An excellent little gathering.There cab be no progress without electricity so these magazines chart, in a very realistic manner, the growth of the state of California. The very fist article is a history of the union Iron Works of San Francisco (with a full page illustration of the foundry) but most of the articles are more area specific. Such articles as - ; Modernizing the San Jose Gas Works; An old-Established California Industry-the Judson Manufacturing Company; The San Francisco Dairy Company; Raising Lake Spaulding Dam; Our Pit River Project; The Rebuilding of he Sonoma County Gas Properties; Pacific Service at the Oakland Kinema… Read More

(Santa Fe): Academy Guild Press, (1964). First edition. Deluxe issue (so stamped and with Merle Armitage's initials penned in by himself on the copyright page). One of 1500 copies. Inscribed by Armitage on the cactus page: "Dr. and Mrs. Selinger (Jerry and Ethel), 1965. Remembering our pleasant meeting in Arizona, Merle Armitage". Octavo. 99 ll., with text on versos and American Indian designs on rectos plus four inserted sheets of blue paper bearing drawings by Edward O'Brien. Publisher's light brown cloth with red and black lettering, decorative endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. Light dust soiling on rear flap else a beautiful and very fresh copy.

Paris: Librairie Gründ, 1949. First edition. One of 3000 numbered copies. Octavo. 299, [3] pp. Microphotograhic images on every page. Publisher's black cloth. An exceptionally clean copy.

Sea Breezee, FL: N.p, [1912]. Original silver gelatin photograph measuring 9 1/4 x 3 inches. Caption within the plate read "Hotel Clarendon Clarendon Airship Photo by LeSesne." In it we can see the hotel with the pusher biplane in front of it on the sand with people and cars surrounding it. Ruth Law was the pilot. Old crease (hard to see). Framed and glazed. Very good.Ruth Law enrolled in Burgess Flying School in Boston in late June of 1912 and made her first solo flight on August 1st. After receiving her pilot's license she took a job with the Clarendon Hotel for the Winter of 1912. There she made daily exhibition flights and carried tourists for brief flights. By the summer of 1913 she had her own plane and signed up for the same kind of employment at a Newport Rhode Island resort. The photographer, Richard LeSesne, was mainly noted for his photography of land speed record attempts on Daytona Beach, Florida, in the 1920s and 1930s (although he was active as early as 1897).

Powell [WY]: Southern Montana Oil Company., 1917. Original silver gelatin photograph measuring measuring 39 x 10 inches, caption in the plate in white. Small stain to the blank upper margin else very good.First of all we have to love this photograph for having a man with his arms outspread placed in the very middle of the image. It bespeaks a person very exalted to be present in a deserted and beautiful landscape. Southern Montana Oil Company incorporated on October 30, 1916, and had established offices in Missoula, Montana, by 1917. All of its directors came from Anaconda, a region known for its copper deposits. The directors (I.W. Walker, A.F. Mavity, R.A. Cobban, F. Shannon, and T.P. Stewart) decided to pursue petroleum riches in southern Wyoming.By April 1917, the new exploration company was drilling wells in the Elk Basin oilfield, which crosses the state line between Carbon County (Montana) and Park County (Wyoming). The giant Elk Basin field has a dramatic history of its own, as noted in… Read More

Pine Ridge: N.p., [ca. 1895]. Original albumen photograph measuring 23 3/4 x 9 inches pn contemporary mat with one inch larger margins. Some speckling and dulling but a very unusual image.The image shows 11 cowboys leading a large herd of cattle on the South Dakota plains. No photographer credit given. From the estate of the Henry Dawson Jr.. Henry "Hal" Americus Dawson (b 1856, d 1937 he arrived at Pine Ridge in 1885, he received a license to operate a trading post on the Pine Ridge reservation in 1890, one year after the massacre at Wounded Knee). He learned the language and customs of the Oglala, who named him “Pasu Hanska,” or Long Nose. Among his good friends were the moderate leaders American Horse and Young Man Afraid of His Horses. By family attribution Hal is in the photograph.

Caernarvon: H. Humphries, 1852. Second edition, revised. Octavo 11. [1, ads] ] pp. plus the large folding panorama bound in at the beginning. Publisher's blue printed wrappers. Spine starting, minor dust soiling. Very good.The panorama is formed of twelve panels and each notable location in the Eyri Hills is described underneath. Although protected as the Eyri National Park in Wales the area is still redolent with history. A few examples of historical and mythological sites in the Eyri Hills;Yr Wyddfa's name likely comes from the word 'Gwyddfa', another word for 'grave' or 'burial-ground'. The summit of Yr Wyddfa is said to be where the medieval Welsh king Rhita Gawr was buried after a fierce battle with King Arthur. The medieval masterpiece, the Mabinogi, is one of Britain's earliest examples of prose. Some of the best-known stories of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi are set within the National Park's boundaries, including 'Branwen ferch Llyr' and 'Math fab Mathonwy'. One of our favorite… Read More

Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, (1962). First edition. Quarto. 120 pp. with numerous illustrations of Russell's famous illustrated letters. Publisher's photographic boards, black spine lettering, light brown endpapers. Lower part of spine bumped with resulting crack (not affecting integrity). A very good copy in the original mylar.Inscribed by Amon Carter Jr to 'Clint McGlamery, a good Texas confederate'.

Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1849. First edition. Octavo. 32 pp. Publisher's printed buff wrapper. Rear wrapper absent, small chip at top corner of front wrapper and small ink squiggle on front. A very good copy.Printed the same year as the California Gold Rush, this little pamphlet discusses California's new found wealth and its war with Mexico. Howes H-227

San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1900. First edition. 128 pp. Publisher's light brown cloth with gilt spine lettering (a tad dulled). A very good copySigned by Berkeley professor off the time, A. E, Chandler. John Downey Works, a Senator from California; born near Rising Sun, Ohio County, Ind., March 29, 1847; attended private schools; during the Civil War served in the Tenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, of the Union Army; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced practice in Vevay, Ind.; member, State house of representatives 1878-1880; moved to San Diego, Calif., in 1883 and continued the practice of law; judge of the superior court of San Diego County 1886-1887; associate justice of the supreme court of California 1888-1891; moved to Los Angeles in 1896; president of the city council of Los Angeles 1910; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1917; was not a candidate for renomination; chairman, Committee on… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First edition. Octavo. xv, [1], 398, xxiii, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated and with the folding map as the frontispiece. Publisher's aqua cloth with blue spine and cover lettering, original dust jacket with minor edge wear. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. A very satisfying copy; clean and in a custom case.

Columbia [PA]: N.p., [ca. 1925). These records were kept by Jacob Bowers (1888-1972?) of Columbia, PA. Contents include 11 pigeon pedigree sheets; 3 letters to Bowers dated 1924-45; an American Pigeon Racing Union diploma from 1926; and other clippings and notes. Some fold rears and a few ships but a nice assemblage.Though it has all but disappeared, pegeon racing used to be an immensely populat in the early 20th century. Pigeon racing has been described as the "sport with a single starting gate and a thousand finish lines." Cmpeting birds are taken from their lofts and must race home. The time taken and distance are recorded and the fastest bird is declared the winner. Races are generally between 100 kilometres (62 mi) and 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) in distance. In the United States flights of up to 1,800 kilometres (1,100 mi) have been recordedProvided it survives the many hazards associated with racing, a single pigeon could compete from about six months of age and still be in competition at… Read More

[New York]: Privately Printed, 1912. First edition of the first annual publication from this Club. One of 100 copies printed at the Riverside Press, Octavo. vii, [3], 117, [5] pp. plus 10 full page and finely executed illustrations. Publisher's quarter parchment over brown boards, morocco gilt spine label. Light wear to extremities and morocco label with some edge wear. A very clean and handsome copy.The Hobby Club was established in New York City in 1908 as an exclusive gentleman's club for people with an amateur's hobby or special interest. The original number of members could not be more than 50 men. In effect, this was an opportunity to showcase their special "cabinet of curiosities" and special collections of armour, coins, precious stones and Incunable to the other members at their annual dinners.According to its constitution, "This Club shall be called THE HOBBY CLUB. The object of the Club shall be to encourage the collection of literary, artistic and scientific works; to aid in the… Read More

Oxford: Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1820. Octavo. 278, [1, Praesentandi], [1] pp. Contemporary calf, gilt-ruled covers, smooth spine with empty gilt compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, brown endpapers, edges marbled. Some light wear to extremities but a very good copy.

Toronto: Champlain Society, 1947. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Large octavo. lii, 277, [3], xv [ads and subscriber's list], [1] pp. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt spine lettering and device, top edge gilt, remainder uncut. Some minor thumb-soiling to cloth and owner's discreet signature but overall a very fresh copy.This work is better known by it's spine title: 'Simpson's 1828 Journey to the Columbia'. "Sir George Simpson, 1792?-1860, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada (1821-56). In 1820 he was sent by the Hudson's Bay Company to Canada, where he took charge of the important Athabaska fur district. Appointed (1821) governor of the northern department of the company (with which the North West Company was merged that year), he became governor of the northern department of the united company and later was made governor of Rupert's Land and general superintendent of the company in North America. Simpson encouraged exploration of his vast realm; his cousin Thomas Simpson… Read More