New York: American Geographical Society; 1930; First Edition Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wraps. The booklet & 2 large folding color maps are laid into a gray stiff paper folding sleeve, which in turn is housed in a gray cloth covered slipcase titled in gilt within a black rectangle... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California; 1997; First Edition limited to 350, designed and printed by Patrick Reagh [8.25x11”]; Blue-gray printed patterned paper on boards with red cloth half-title, cream paper label with black lettering and blue design, light green illustration of ships at anchor [Likely Yerba Buena] on... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California; 1987; First Edition limited to 450 [9.5x13.5”]; Beige half cloth with tan paper over boards, blue lettering and illustration of traveler with blue borders on front, tan paper label with black lettering on spine, map of route to California on endpapers; Plain white... More
London: Smith, Elder & Co.; 1913; Second Edition, two volume set [6.75x9.25”]; Dark blue cloth covers with blind stamped borders and gilt lettering on front and spine with gilt rule, top edge gilt with other edges uncut; Vol. I [2] xxvi, 633 pp., folding map with tipped in explanatory note... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co.; 1894; Second Edition [6.5x8.5”]; Forest green cloth with embossed blind stamped patterns and beveled edges, black endpapers, gilt lettering on spine; [3] 240 pp. [1] map, tissue covered frontispiece and 20 photograph plates, numerous photos in text; Minor shelf wear with small dents in front... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf; 1926; First Edition [reprint of original 1599 edition][7x8.5”]; Black and half mustard yellow cloth covers with black lettering and ship image on spine paper label, illustrated black and tan endpapers; xxiv 293 pp. [1], eight tipped in pen and ink illustrations on tan paper, many... More
Santa Ana, CA: The Fine Arts Press; 1936; First Edition [reprint from 1848 edition][Vol. One of the Calafia Series][7x10”]; Light brown morocco boards with embossed blind stamp of covered wagon on front, leather spine with gilt lettering; [1] xxiv [1]map 481 pp. [3]; Minor shelf wear to edges, spine dulled... More
New York: Cornish, Lamport & Co.; 1852; Later Edition [without map][6.25x9”]; Blind stamped designs embossed on leather with gilt stamped lettering and illustrations on spine, marbled cut edges, and light green patterns bordering advertisements on both front and rear endpapers; iv [5]6-514, Frontispiece of Pyramid Lake, Oregon and 52 engravings;... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California; 1946; First Edition limited to 300 [5.5x8.5”]; Cream and green shades cover with geometric patterns and feathers, title printed in light brown ink on vellum backstrip spine; [5] 6-38 pp. [30] Facsimile [2], frontispiece and other illustrations by Mallette Dean, sepia toned facsimile... More
Philadelphia: By the Author; 1878; First edition [6.25x9.25”]; Maroon pebbled cloth boards beveled with black ruled edges gilt lettering and illustration of grizzly bear on front and spine, dark brown endpapers, red dyed text block cut edges, bookplate of Eva Scott Fenyes de Csokaly and John Patrick Ford; xxii [23]... More
Baltimore: For the Author by Henry Taylor; 1855; First edition [5x7.75”]; Dark brown cloth blind stamped decorations on front and rear covers with gilt lettering and pictorial of miner and pickax on spine; [3] xii [1] 14-300 pp. [3]; Shelf wear to all edges and corners bumped, small piece missing... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press; 1949; First Edition [5.75x8.75”]; Pale yellow binding with yellow lettering on red decorative field, map of central California on front and back endpapers; Dark red dust jacket with illustration of miner and yellow lettering in black field on cover and spine and other yellow and... More
San Francisco. 1982; 1982; Forth edition [enlarged and revised from 1921 (Wagner), 1937 and 1953 (Camp) editions] [7.25x10.5”]; Maroon buckram covers with gilt lettering on spine; xx, 745 pp., original prospectus tipped in; Minor shelf wear and rubbing on covers, spine sunned and gilt lettering faded, no prior owner markings... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California; 1997; First edition limited to 1000 [7.5x10.75”]; Dark blue cloth board with gilt device on front and gilt lettering on black field on spine; Plain paper dust wrapper; xxvii,771 pp.; Overall condition is Fine with no noticeable shelf wear or prior owner markings... More
Los Angeles, CA, 1964; First edition [Combined four volumes in one] [1933] [6x8.75”]; Three-quarter forest green buckram over patterned paper boards with black lettering on tan paper label on spine; v, [1]337+[2][339]-704+[4]705-825+[4][827]-926 pp. 4 vols.; Minor shelf wear, some soiling to edges and spotting on top text block. No prior... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903: First Edition [reprint of Senate document #74] [7.5x10.75”]; Maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine; 439 pp.; Shelf wear to top and bottom of covers and spine, corners bumped and front hinge loose; Text block leaves unopened, includes works in both English and Spanish... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press; 1933; First Edition in two volumes 1851 [Number 5, Rare America Series] and 1852 [Number 6, Rare American Series] [6x9”]; Gray-blue paper boards with dark blue lettering and line designs, dark blue half cloth on covers and spine with paste on paper label with black... More
London: Author, Chatto and Windus; 1951; Library Edition with corrections and postscript [1948] in one volume [first published in 1922] [6.25x9”]; Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on cover and spine with fore and bottom edges uncut; Cream dust jacket with black lettering and color illustration of Antarctic landscape with... More
![A Journal of Ramblings through the High Sierra of California; By the University Excursion Party [1870]. Joseph Le Conte, Ed Francis Farquhar.](/pictures/thumb/13024_6.jpg?v=1453852590)
San Francisco: The Sierra Club; 1930; First Edition, Limited to 1500 copies [reprint of 1875 edition] [printed by Taylor & Taylor ] [6x8.5”]; Blue-gray paper boards with light tan cloth spine and paper label, fore and bottom edges untrimmed; plain paper dust jacket with repeat of label printed on spine... More
London: William Heinemann; 1909; First Edition in two volumes [7.75x10.25”]; Rebound in dark blue cloth with original binding and spine attached, silver letters and image of three explorers and flag on front and gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt and other edges uncut; Vol I -xlviii, 371 pp., Vol... More
London: William Heinemann; 1919; First Edition [November] [6.25x10”]; Dark blue cloth covers with silver lettering on spine and front, illustration of Endurance on front [from Hurley photograph on p. 45] and spine, blind stamped Publisher colophon on rear cover, top edge blue; xxi, [1], 376 pp., Frontispiece Colored photograph with... More
Stanford, CA: James Ladd Delkin; 1947; First Edition, California Centennial Classic [5.5x8.25”]; Dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine; Pale yellow dust jacket with pale blue map illustration on front, brown lettering on front and spine, brown lettering and illustration on back; xxiii, [1], 192 pp. [1], frontispiece map... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press; 1949; First Edition [facsimile of 1850 edition] [5.75x8.5”]; Mustard yellow cloth covers with dark brown lettering and illustrations of cowboy and miner on front and spine; light tourquise dust jacket with dark brown lettering on field of pale yellow and illustrations of house and individuals... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company; 1901; Fifth Edition [8x10”]; Light blue cloth covers with white letters, embossed illustration of ice field, land and ship surrounding paper image of the Snow Baby on front cover; 84 pp. on heavy coated paper with frontispiece and many other black/white images throughout; Shelf... More
![Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827; [Including and account of the progress of a detachment to the eastward by John Richardson]. John Franklin.](/pictures/thumb/13012.jpg?v=1453852628)
London: John Murray; 1828; First Edition [8.75x10.5”]; 20th Century Brown Half-calf with marbled boards, raised ribbed spine with gilt lettering on field of red and devices; [1], xxiv, [xxi]-xxiv, 320 pp., clvii [appendices], [1], [errata], 31 plates, including frontispiece, of illustrations by George Back and E, N, Kendall engraved by... More