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Austin: Pemberton Press, 1967. Broadside edition. One of 135 signed and numbered copies. Quarto. xix [1] 299, [3] pp. plus numerous illustrations. With a folder containing an original broadside dated April 13, 1839 and bearing an original proclamation by the Mexican government under the direction of President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Publisher's quarter red morocco over red cloth, gilt spine lettering, black endpapers, matching publisher's slipcase. A very good copy.
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The Eagle: The Autobiography of Santa Anna.
by (TEXAS) CRAWFORD, Ann Fears [editor]
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Early California Travels Series: A Chronological Summary, Index and Descriptive List.
by RUDKIN, Charles N.
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Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1961. First edition. One of 250 copies printed by Paul Bailey at his Westernlore Press. Small octavo. vii, [3], 178, [4, errata and colphon] pp. Color frontispiece. Publisher's gray cloth with red gilt spine label. Small snag to spine else a beautiful copy.
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Early Days in Yosemite.
by CLARK, Galen
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Los Angeles: Docter Press, 1964. First book edition. One of 70 numbered copies. Small octavo. ix, [1], 10, [1], [1, colophon printed in red and black] pp. Title page with a woodcut device in red of an early stagecoach. Publisher's tan linen over marbled boards, printed paper spine label. Slightly cocked. Near fine.Printed by the Docters on their Albion Press (and on Rives Paper) in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Yosemite for distribution to their friends. This booklet reproduces an article “A Plea for Yosemite” that was originally written around 1907 by Galen Clark, Yosemite Park’s first Guardian. It describes early tourism in Yosemite and changes in management Clark felt was needed for Yosemite Valley.
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Early Days in the Forest Service. Vols. 1-3.
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Missoula: Department of Agriculture; Forest Service, 1944-1962. First edition. Three quarto volumes. 218; 83; 295, [3] pp. All volumes with numerous photographic illustrations. Publisher's printed green wrappers, each with a photographic illustration on the cover. Slight sunning to edges and the first volume with a small and inoffensive spot on front. A very good copy of this scarce item.From the Foreword in Vol. 1;"A few of us were talking one day of the yarns we had heard told around campfires by the older men in the Service -some of them hair-raising, some tragic, some ludicrous, some sad. And we agreed that steps should be taken to preserve these stories of the early days. Our historical records were made up mainly of dusty odds and ends from old files -unpeopled, factual writings and statistics. We felt that these records, to be of lasting value, should be humanized, and that the stories of the oldtimers were what we needed to provide life and interest. And so I sent out a letter to the folks…
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Early Mining Excitements East of Yosemite.
by RUSSELL, Carl P.
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San Francisco: Reprinted from Sierra Clu Bulletin, 1928. First separate edition. Octavo. [20] pp. with five full page illustrations (4 photographic and one map of mining spots). Publisher's printed beige wrappers. Tip os spine slightly bumped and some minor wear along spine. A very good copy.Discusses the mining towns of Lundy, Tioga and Bodie.
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Early Nevada: The Period of Exploration 1776-1848. Inscribed.
by FLETCHER, F. N.
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Reno: [The author], 1929. First edition. Inscribed by Fletcher on the front blank. Small octavo. [3], iii, 183, [1. blank] pp. plus a pristine fold=out map of the state tipped on to rear pastedown and a topographical map of the state near the beginning. An excellent copy.Fletcher starts with the Spanish exploration of the state and goes through Jedediah Smith, the Hudson's Bay Company, the Bonneville-Walker expedition, the Bartleson-Bidwell party and John C. Fremont.
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Early Printing in California from Its Beginning in the Mexican Territory to Statehood, September 9, 1850.
by FAHEY, Herbert
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San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1956. First edition. One of 400 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Folio. ix, [1], 141, [1] pp. Numerous full page facsimiles of title pages for pioneer publications in California. Publisher's quarter black cloth over green cloth, red morocco gilt spine label. Minor sunning to label, else a near fine copy.
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Eaton Land & Cattle Co. Permission Grants to Fish.
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(Bishop, CA): Eaton Land and Cattle Co., 1920s. One printed permission slipped, with blanks to be filled in manuscript, and a Eaton Land and Cattle Company envelope with 2 cent postage preprinted. Excellent condition.In many ways Frederick Eaton was the man responsible for the growth of Los Angeles into a mega-city. In the early part of the 20th century, Eaton and William Mulholland hit on a scheme to buy all the water rights on the Owens River in the Eastern Sierra thereby ensuring Los Angeles with the water necessary for expansion. Thet accomplished this by buying all the property along the river. In doing so Eaton, a wealthy man who had once been the mayor of Los Angeles, acquired for his own purposes a large piece of land in the Long Valley of Mono County which he called the Eaton Land & Cattle Company. The following from an Eaton family member - "The [Eaton] family issued permits for those wanting to fish on Eaton property in Long Valley-it was also to prevent the Los Angeles Department of…
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Eberle Economic Service; Weekly Letters and Supplements. Volume VI, 1929.
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Los Angeles: Eberle Economic Services, Inc., 1929. First edition. All 52 issues for 1929 present. With separate title page and index leaves. Each issue generally four pages but the whole year is consecutively paginated (310 pp.). Numerous graphs and charts. In the publisher's faux black leather three-ring binder with "Eberle Economic Service" on front in gilt. Last page a bit dirty else fine.An important but scarce publication dealing with all manner of financial, real estate, manufacturing and agricultural news for the Southern California region. A bit like the Wall Street Journal for Los Angeles. Although this is the year of the Great Stock Market Crash scant mention of it is made herein. Also included are 18 issues for 1927 and 18 issues for 1928.
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Ecclesiasticus: Or, The Wisdom Of Jesus The Son Of Sirach. With Illustrations by Violet Brunton and an Introduction by C. Lewis Hind.
by BRUNTON, Violet [illustrator]
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London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1927. First Brunton edition. Tall octavo. xviii, 164, [2] pp. plus 16 full page color plates after Brunton, each with captioned tissue guard. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, front cover with large gilt design of a dragon after Brunton, top edge gilt, remainder uncut. Owner's signature on front pastedown. Some toning to front endpapers, some soling to spine but otherwise a clean and handsome copy.
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Echoes from the Orient; A Broad Theological Outline of Theosophical Principles. Point Loma Edition.
by (THEOSOPHY) JUDGE, William Q.
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Point Loma [CA]: The Theosophical Publishing Company, 1906. First American edition. The first edition of this book was published in 1890 by Anne Besante, arch-rival of Katherine Tingley, who ran the American school of theosophy in opulent glory on a bluff near San Diego. But much like the Anglicans borrowing form the Roman Catholics, some books are so important that they transcend rivalries. Octavo. [2] 64, [8, ads for Tingley's publications] pp. Publisher gray wrappers with black lettering. Spine professionally restored, small chips to bottom corner and a couple of more along the rear wrapper's fore-edge.Petrovna Blavatsky, Henry S. Olcott, and William O. Judge were the founders od The Theosophical Society in New York City in 1875"Echoes from the Orient was written by Mr. Judge (1890) as a series of papers for a well-known periodical. The author wrote under the name of "Occultus," as it was intended that his personality should be hidden until the series was completed. The value of these papers…
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An Eclectic Sammelband of Nine Publications Bound for Zoe Thomson With Many of Them Inscribed to Her.
by (THOMSON, Zoe)
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London: Various Publishers, 1851-87. Zoe Thomson was the daughter of James Henry & Rhalou Skene. Her father was an author, traveller and British Consul at Aleppo from March 1855 to 1880. He published one book; "Anadol: the Last Home of the Faithful and The Frontier Lands of the Christian and the Turk, Comprising Travel in the Regions of the Lower Danube in 1850 and 1851." She married William Thomson in 1855, the same year he became a provost at Oxford. William Thompson had a variety of interests aside from theology. He was made fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Geographical Society. He also wrote a very popular Outline of the Laws of Thought (1842). In December 1861 he became Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, and within a year he was elevated to Archbishop of York. First editions. Nine publications in one octavo volume. At the beginning there is a typed general title “Pamphlets Presented by Their Authors to Zoe Thomson". Modern half calf with gilt spine lettering and decoration. They are…
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Ed Borein's West.
by SPAULDING, Edward S.
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Santa Barbara: (Edward Borein Memorial), (1952). Vacquero Edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Quarto. [6], 10 pp. plus about 100 leaves of Borein sketches. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, front cover with a Borein stagecoach, pictorial endpapers. A very fresh and cle3an copy.
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Ed Quigley, Western Artist.
by GOHS, Carl
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(Portland, OR): (Geneva Hale Quigley), (1975). First edition. Large quarto. 168 pp. Numerous illustrations of the artist's work, many in color. Publisher's morocco-grain cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Quigley and with a pen sketch of two wild horses. Slightest wave to bottom edge, else a beautiful copy.
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Edward S. Curtis; One Hundred Masterworks.
by CARDOZO, Christopher
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New York: Delmonico Books, (2015). First edition. One of 175 numbered copies signed by the author and each with custom-produced photographic print in the front pocket. Quarto. 184 pp. with Curtis illustrations throughout. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and a laid-down Curtis photographic illustration on the front, burgundy endpapers, matching slipcase. As new and with the author's presentation card."This exquisite new edition showcases Edward Curtis’ most compelling and important works as well as many of his most iconic and rarely seen images. Due to the extraordinary quality of this edition’s images, Curtis’ artistry and mastery of photographic mediums is seen as never before outside museum exhibitions.One Hundred Masterworks was one of the most widely heralded and sumptuously created photography books of 2016. The Deluxe Slipcase Edition of One Hundred Masterworks, created exclusively in Italy, features a luxury cloth cover with a hand-inset image. It is housed in a…
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Edweard Muybridge; Yosemite Photographs, 1872.
by MUYBRIDGE, Edweard [photographer]
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Chicago/Yosemite: Chicago Albumen Works/Yosemite Natural History Association., 1977. First edition. One of about 50 sets, signed by the publisher and the facilitator. Copy #22. Originally 300 sets were planned but the production costs were so horrendous that this publication nearly put Chicago Albumen Works out of business and they called it quits at 50 sets. Ten gold-toned mammoth albumen prints made from Muybridge's negatives: 29 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches. Accompanying booklet with two essays. Housed in the original canvas clamshell case with morocco gilt lettering label to front. Trifling bit of wear to the box but overall an excellent copy.
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Edwin Janss: Marine Portfolio II-Seventeen Color Studies From the Eastern & Western Pacific: the Galapagos Islands: the Revillagigedo Islands: the Gulf of California: the Palau Islands: the Channel Islands.
by JANSS, Edwin [photographer]
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Los Angeles: Natural History Museum, 1973. First edition. Folio (13 3/5 x 15 1/2 inches. Complete with 4 pp. of text and all 17 stiff archival sheets, each bearing a 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inch type-C color photographic print accomplished by Wallace MacGalliard of Los Angeles. Each print initialed and numbered by the photographer. In the original brown cloth portfolio with gilt cover cover lettering. The whole in the publisher's dark brown slipcase (minor wear). An excellent copy.
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Edwin White Newhall; Born 7 May 1856, Died 28 October 1915.
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[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…
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The Effects of Nuclear Weapons [complete with Nuclear Effects Computer in the rear pocket].
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Washington : United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1964. Second printing of revised edition, Octavo. xvi, 730 pp, plus the. Nuclear Effects Computer in the rear pocket. Publisher's buff wrappers with lettering in blue. Very good."When "The Effects of Atomic Weapons" was published in 1950, the explosive energy yields of the fission bombs available at that time were equivalent to some thousands of tons (i.e., kilotons) of TNT. With the development of thermonuclear(fusion) weapons, having energy yields in the range of millions of tons (i.e., megatons) of TNT, a new presentation, entitled "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons," was issued in 1957. A completely revised edition was published in 1962 and this was reprinted with a few changes early in 1964" (Preface to Third edition). A highly technical book, it is much sought after by preppers as it contains the round, plastic “nuclear effects computer,” similar to a slide rule, that allows you to calculate the maximum overpressures, wind speeds, and…
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Eight Bears: A Biography of E.W. Deming 1860-1942..
by LAMB, Thomas G.
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Oklahoma City: Griffin Books, (1978). First edition. Quarto. xiv, 145, [1] pp. Illustrated. Publisher's brown fabricoid with with beige and red cover and spine lettering, brown endpapers, dust jacket with professionally applied think strip to protect edges. An excellent copy of this definitive study of E. W. Deming.
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