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The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California; [Reprint from 1861 American edition][One of an informal series of Classic Commentaries on America's Past]. Richard F. Burton.

The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California; [Reprint from 1861 American edition][One of an informal series of Classic Commentaries on America's Past]

Burton, Richard F.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf/Borzoi Edition, 1963. Near Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket First Edition. [9.5x6.5in]; xliv, [2], 654 pp., i-xxii, index, [2] colophon, frontispiece of Salt Lake City, three maps on one page, 17 illustrations from 1861 edition, appendices and index; Azure blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on... Item #13544 More

Price: $40.00

Echoes of the Past About California [Bidwell] and In Camp and Cabin [Steele]; [The Lakeside Classics] [Memoirs of General John Bidwell and Reverend John Steele]. Milo Quaife, Ed.

Echoes of the Past About California [Bidwell] and In Camp and Cabin [Steele]; [The Lakeside Classics] [Memoirs of General John Bidwell and Reverend John Steele]

Quaife, Milo [Ed]

Chicago: The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1928. Near Fine. First Edition. [6.75x4.75in]; xxii, 377 pp., frontispiece illustration of Mormon Bar with tissue guard, fold out map of Mining District, 1851, introduction, index; Maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, gilt device and borders on front... Item #13543 More

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The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 And Its Publications 1844-1874; [Annotated Bibliography] [Reprint of 1942 New York Public Library publication of the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of February 1940 and January, July and October 1941, with additions and corrections]. Daniel C. Haskell.

The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 And Its Publications 1844-1874; [Annotated Bibliography] [Reprint of 1942 New York Public Library publication of the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of February 1940 and January, July and October 1941, with additions and corrections]

Haskell, Daniel C.

New York: Greenwood Press, 1968. Near Fine. First Edition. [10.25x7.25in]; xii, 188 pp., frontispiece of Charles Wilkes, four illustrations, appendix, index; Dark brown cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, all edges trimmed; minimal shelf wear, typical binding excess glue stains along front and back end paper hinges. The United... Item #13425 More

Price: $60.00

Kingdom of the Saints; The Story of Brigham Young and the Mormons. Ray B. Jr West.

Kingdom of the Saints; The Story of Brigham Young and the Mormons

West, Ray B. Jr.

New York: The Viking Press, 1957. Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition. [8.5x6in]; xxii, 389 pp., 21 illustrations and images, bibliography and index; Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, map of Mormon trails and landmarks on end papers, all edges trimed; Minor shelf wear, dusty and... Item #13420 More

Price: $25.00

Josiah Belden; 1841 California Overland Pioneer: His Memoir and Early Letters. Doyce B. Jr Nunis.

Josiah Belden; 1841 California Overland Pioneer: His Memoir and Early Letters

Nunis, Doyce B. Jr.

Georgetown, CA: The Talisman Press, 1962. Near Fine in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition. [9.5x6.5in];150 pp., [1] colophon, three half tone images, bibliography and index; Light gray cloth covers with black lettering on salmon paper spine label, map of 1841 overland route on gray end papers, all edges trimmed; Slight... Item #13419 More

Price: $25.00

Sutter; The Man and His Empire. James Peter Zollinger.

Sutter; The Man and His Empire

Zollinger, James Peter

New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition. [8.75x6in]; xv, [2], 374 pp., frontispiece of Sutter, 13 illustrations, sources and index; Yellow cloth cover with dark blue ink lettering and rule on spine, top edge stained light tan speckles, all edges trimmed; Minor shelf... Item #13417 More

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J. Ross Browne: Confidential Agent in Old California. Richard H. Dillion.

J. Ross Browne: Confidential Agent in Old California

Dillion, Richard H.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition. [9.25x6.25in]; xix, 218 pp., [1] colophon, 16 illustrations and images, index; Brown cloth covers with gilt and black ink lettering on spine in dark brown field, tope edge yellow ink stain, all edges trimmed; minimal... Item #13416 More

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My Life among the Savage Nations of New Spain; Written in the year A.D. 1644 and entitled "Triumphs of our Saintly Faith Among Peoples the Most Varvarous and Savage of the New Orb". Translated in condensed form by Tomas Antonio Robertson, native of the Rio Furete (Gran Rio de Zauque) of the former Province of Sinaloa, Mexico. Andres Perez de Ribas.

My Life among the Savage Nations of New Spain; Written in the year A.D. 1644 and entitled "Triumphs of our Saintly Faith Among Peoples the Most Varvarous and Savage of the New Orb". Translated in condensed form by Tomas Antonio Robertson, native of the Rio Furete (Gran Rio de Zauque) of the former Province of Sinaloa, Mexico.

Perez de Ribas, Andres

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. Near Fine in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition. [10.5x7.25in]; xvi, 256 pp., 4 maps and 49 black and white illustrations, index; Burgundy cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine and gilt cross on front, tan end papers, all edges trimmed; Burnt orange dust... Item #13409 More

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Wah-To-Yah & the Taos Trail; [With an Introduction by Carl I. Wheat and Illustrations from blocks designed and cut by Mallette Dean][from 1936 Grabhorn 3rd volume of the Third Series of Rare Americana]. Lewis H. Garrard.

Wah-To-Yah & the Taos Trail; [With an Introduction by Carl I. Wheat and Illustrations from blocks designed and cut by Mallette Dean][from 1936 Grabhorn 3rd volume of the Third Series of Rare Americana]

Garrard, Lewis H.

Palo Alto, CA: American West Publishing Company, 1968. Near Fine in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition. Mallette Dean. [9.75x6.75in]; [4], [10] introduction, 289 pp., 25 chapter heading illustrations by Mallette Dean; Brown linen cloth covers with black lettering and designed rules on spine, illustration on front of horse and rider... Item #13408 More

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The Butterfield Overland Mail; Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage [September, 1858]. Lyle H. Wright, Eds Josephine M. Bynum.

The Butterfield Overland Mail; Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage [September, 1858]

Ormsby, Waterman L. [ Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum, Eds.]

San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1954. Near Fine in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition, 2nd Printing. [9.25x6.25in]; xv, 179 pp., frontispiece fold out facsimile of Special Instructions and Schedule of Overland Mail Company, index; Tan linen cloth covers with black ink lettering on spine, map of mail route on... Item #13407 More

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The First Forty-Niner; and the Story of the Golden Tea-Caddy. James A. B. Scherer.

The First Forty-Niner; and the Story of the Golden Tea-Caddy

Scherer, James A. B.

New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1925. Near Fine in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition. [5.25x7.75”];127 pp., six plates of images and illustrations including frontispiece; Half mustard cloth with light brown/black marble paper boards, dark brown lettering and device on spine; Some shelf wear to edges and bumped corners, slightly..... Item #13406 More

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Ho for California; Women's Overland Diaries from the Huntington Library. Sandra L. Myres, Ed.

Ho for California; Women's Overland Diaries from the Huntington Library

Myres, Sandra L. [Ed.]

San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1980. Fine in Fine dust-jacket First Edition. 8vo [9.25x6.5in]; xv, 314 pp., 13 illustrations [five by J. Goldsborough Bruff] and facsimiles, introduction, bibliography and index; Light linen cloth covers with brown ink lettering on spine, light brown paper with overland route maps on front and... Item #13404 More

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The Madams of San Francisco; An Irreverent History of the City by the Golden Gate. Curt Gentry.

The Madams of San Francisco; An Irreverent History of the City by the Golden Gate

Gentry, Curt

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition. [ ]; xii, 323 pp., bibliography; Lime green cloth covers with halfback black spine with gilt lettering, red end papers, all edges trimmed; Minimal shelf wear to edges and corners, spine sunned; Mustard and red... Item #13403 More

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Souvenir of Panama and the Canal. I. L. Maduro's Souvenir Store.

Souvenir of Panama and the Canal

I. L. Maduro's Souvenir Store

Panama: I. L. Maduro's Souvenir Store, c1915. Very Good. First Edition. Oblong [8.25x10.25in]; 64 pp., unpaginated, 76 captioned black and white images, map of canal route; Tan paper wraps with black and red lettering on front and color illustration of a ship passing through the Culebra Cut with Panama seal... Item #13401 More

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A Brief History of Angels Camp; "Home of The Jumping Frog" Edward Leonard.

A Brief History of Angels Camp; "Home of The Jumping Frog"

Leonard, Edward

Murphys, CA: Old Timer's Museum, 1973. Very Good. First Edition. [9x6in]; 40 pp., many images in text; Lime green paper wrappers with black lettering and design on front, two staple binding; Age toning of spine and edges. Item #13398 More

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Sea Routes to the Gold Fields; The Migration by Water to California in 1849-1852. Oscar Lewis.

Sea Routes to the Gold Fields; The Migration by Water to California in 1849-1852

Lewis, Oscar

New York: Alfred A. Knopf [Borzoi Books], 1949. Near Fine in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition. [8.5x6in]; Blue-gray linen cloth covers with gilt lettering, sextant, and rules on spine, blind embossed sextant and divider on front and publisher logo on back, top edge light yellow dye, fore edge untrimmed; Mustard... Item #13396 More

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Digging for Gold Without a Shovel; The letters of Daniel Wadsworth Coit | From Mexico City to San Francisco 1848- 1851. George P. Hammond.

Digging for Gold Without a Shovel; The letters of Daniel Wadsworth Coit | From Mexico City to San Francisco 1848- 1851

Hammond, George P.

Denver: Old West Publishing Company, 1967. Near Fine. First Edition. Limited to 1250 [13x9.25in]; 116 pp., 16 pencil illustrations, index, extensive introduction by Hammond; Red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, black ink illustration of San Francisco street; minimal shelf wear to bottom edges. [Kurutz 142]. Daniel Wadsworth Coit... Item #13392 More

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Sir George Simpson; Overseas Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company | A Pen Picture of a Man of Action. Arthur S. Morton.

Sir George Simpson; Overseas Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company | A Pen Picture of a Man of Action

Morton, Arthur S.

Canada: Binfords-Mort for The Oregon Historical Society, 1944. Near Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket First Edition. [9.5x6.25in]; xii, 310 pp., frontispiece of Simpson, five plates of illustrations, bibliography, notes and index; Red cloth covers with black lettering on spine, Canada map on end papers, all edges trimmed; minor small dents... Item #13391 More

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The Kilgore Journal; Of an Overland Journey to California in the Year 1850. William H. Kilgore, Ed. Joyce Rockwood Muench.

The Kilgore Journal; Of an Overland Journey to California in the Year 1850

Kilgore, William H. [Joyce Rockwood Muench, Ed.]

New York: Hastings House, 1949. Near Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket First Edition. Limited #237 of 1,000 [9.5x6.25in]; 63 pp., [1] colophon, facsimile page of Kilgore journal, Brown paper covers with inset and paste down cream label of red border and black lettering on front and spine, top edge stained... Item #13390 More

Price: $45.00

Hudson's Bay to Haro Strait; Books on Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest | A Collectors' Guide. G. J. Kim Whale.

Hudson's Bay to Haro Strait; Books on Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest | A Collectors' Guide

Whale, G. J. Kim

Victoria, BC: Rockland Books, 1998. Fine. First Edition. Limited # 331 of 500 [9.25x6.5in]; [5], 316 pp., xii, 1754 entries, Bibliography and Principal References, index; Dark burgundy cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine, gilt illustration of buffalo in circle, all edges trimmed;. Item #13389 More

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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California; Illustrated Containing a History of this important section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of Many of its Pioneers, and also of Prominent Citizens of To-day [Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World]. Lewis Publishing Company.

A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California; Illustrated Containing a History of this important section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of Many of its Pioneers, and also of Prominent Citizens of To-day [Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World]

Lewis Publishing Company

Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1891. Very Good. First Edition. 4to [11.75x9.75in]; vii, [1], 10- 637 pp., [1], frontispiece steel engraving of John Bidwell, 15 of 16 plates with tissue guard of illustrations and portraits; Original blind stamped brown morocco beveled boards with gilt lettering and illustration of orchard and... Item #13388 More

Price: $175.00

The Gold Rush Letters of J. D. B. Stillman; With an Introduction by Kenneth Johnson. J. D. B. Stillman.

The Gold Rush Letters of J. D. B. Stillman; With an Introduction by Kenneth Johnson

Stillman, J. D. B.

Palo Alto, CA: Lewis Osborne, 1967. Fine in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition. [limited to 2,350] [7.5x10.75”]; 75 pp., [2] illustrations narrative and colophon, 24 halftones and line drawings in text of various artists from Bancroft Library collections; Light beige buckram cloth on covers with gilt lettering on spine and... Item #13387 More

Price: $50.00

A Tour on the Prairies; By the Author of "The Sketch-Book" [From the Library of W. J. Holliday]. Washington Irving.

A Tour on the Prairies; By the Author of "The Sketch-Book" [From the Library of W. J. Holliday]

Irving, Washington

London: John Murray, 1835. Very Good. First Edition. 12mo [7.5x5in]; [i-ii, missing series general title, "Miscellanies", and imprint], [iii] title, [iv] blank, [v]-xiii, [xiv] blank, [1]- 335 pp., [336] colophon; 3/4 leather binding over dark gray cloth with gilt lettering on black label with gilt rules and device on spine... Item #13382 More

Price: $240.00

California Mining Town Newspapers, 1850-1880; [A Bibliography}. Helen S. Giffen.

California Mining Town Newspapers, 1850-1880; [A Bibliography}

Giffen, Helen S.

Van Nuys, CA: J. E. Reynolds, 1954. Near Fine. First Edition. , Limited to 400 copies [8.25x5.5in]; xv, 17-102 pp., eight facsimile images of front pages, index listing of mining town newspapers, list of mining town editors; Dark maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine; Slight wear to corners. Item #13380 More

Price: $40.00

Catalogue of the Printed Books and Pamphlets in the Library of the Royal Microscopical Society; [copy of E. Carleton Hood, Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory of Northwestern University, Chicago]. Royal Microscopical Society, Clarence Tierney, Librarian.

Catalogue of the Printed Books and Pamphlets in the Library of the Royal Microscopical Society; [copy of E. Carleton Hood, Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory of Northwestern University, Chicago]

Royal Microscopical Society [Tierney, Clarence, Librarian]

London: William Clowes & Sons, Limited, 1929. Near Fine. First Edition. [9.5x6in]; vii, 177 pp., [3] advertisements; Dark blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, all edges trimmed; Minor wear to covers and corners, London bookseller stamp on front end paper, ink stamp of E. Carleton Hood, Assistant Researcher... Item #13379 More

Price: $45.00

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