1924. Suffolk Engr. Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1924. Photogravure, 21.75 x 17.5 inches. § A fine image from Curtis's The North American Indian, a portrait of a young woman of the Cahuilla tribe, from the deserts of Southern California, plate 522 from Volume 15 (1926). The North American Indian remains one the..... More
1923. Suffolk Engr. Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1923. Photogravure, 21.8 x 17.8 inches. § A beautiful image showing a Klamath man hunting from a dugout canoe, Plate 458 from Volume 13 (1923) of Curtis's The North American Indian. The Klamath people are from the inland region of Northern California and Southern..... More
1887. New York: Harper's Weekly, April 30, 1887. Wood engraving, 15.6 x 10.75 inches, hand-colored, matted to 25.25 x 20 inches. § An attractive hand-colored print showing a well-dressed crowd taking the air above Cliff House in San Francisco. The image shows the first house built on the site..... More
1878. New York: Harper's Weekly, October 5, 1878. Engraving, 20 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches, hand-colored. Edges toned, otherwise an attractive print. § A crowded and interesting scene showing European and Chinese workers crushing the grape harvest with bare feet and with a hand-cranked press. The illustrator, Paul Frenzeny (c.1940s-1902)..... More
![Wak-Tae-Geli, A Sioux Warrior [Tableau 8 ]. Karl Bodmer](/pictures/thumb/123257.jpg?v=1589903582)
1839. London: Ackermann & Co. 1839. Aquatint engraving with contemporary hand-coloring, 24.6 x 18 inches, with blindstamp "C.Bodmer/Direct". Fine condition. § First edition, an illustration from the celebrated book, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, by Maximilian, Prince of Wied, Germany, after Bodmer's watercolors. Prince Maximilian was a German..... More
1920. San Marino, CA: c. 1920. Black and white photograph, 13.5 x 10.5 inches. Signed in ink in bottom right corner by Curtis. § A fine portrait of Henry E. Huntington in front of the bronze doors of the library building on his estate in San Marino, California. In the..... More
1874. San Francisco: John H. Carmany and Co.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. 4to, pp. 319, [1], v (index); lithographic frontispiece of a whaling scene in the California lagoon, 26 lithograph plates (6 double-p. all of whales ) by Britton & Rey, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text..... More
1946. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1946. 8vo, 38, (31) pp. frontispiece and feather decorations in green and brown, designed by Mallette Dean. Original patterned paper boards and white cloth, backstrip with printed title. Ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, backstrip slightly faded, else very good... More
1912. San Francisco: S. J. Clarke Co, 1912. 2 vols., 4to, 969 pp. Profusely illustrated with portraits, plates from historical photographs, etc. Original half dark green morocco, green pebbled cloth boards, gilt spines, a near-fine set usually found with serious wear. § Copy #322 of a limited edition, with certificate..... More
1855. New York: Appleton, 1855. 8vo, 824 pp, frontispiece view of Montgomery Street, 6 engraved plates, numerous text illustrations, large folding map of California and the Southwest. Original dark green hardgrain morocco, covers lettered in gilt, some rubbing to joints, a bit worn but internally good. § First edition of..... More
1721. London: Jacob Tonson, 1721. Four vols. 4to., a poor set lacking the portait frontispiece in vol. 1 and with sections of text bound up from different copies for no apparent reason. Crudely rebacked. Bookplates. § A working set for reading or to practice binding on. Textually complete. More
1844. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, MDCCCXLIV (1844). Two vols., 8vo., 8, xvi, 250; iv, 275 pp. Original blind-stamped slate green vertically ribbed publishers cloth with title in gilt to backstrip. Housed in blue cloth slipcase with blue morocco backstrip and title stamped in gilt. Head and tail of backstrip..... More
!["Lake Tahoe" [and] "Mount Tamalpais and Red Porch". [Two plates from Picturesque America]....](/pictures/thumb/108158_1.jpg?v=1589906822)
1872. New York: D. Appleton & Co., [circa 1872]. Two leaves, 9 1/2 x 11 3/8”, hand-colored engravings 6 1/4 x 9”, text to verso, mounted; very good. § Two mounted plates from Picturesque America: “Mount Tamalpais and Red Porch,” by Robert Swain Gifford (1840-1905), and “Lake Tahoe,” by Thomas..... More
1959. Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1959. Small 4to, [66] pp. With designs by Mallette Dean. Original cloth-backed decorated paper boards, dust-jacket, very good. Prospectus inserted. § One of 200 copies with hand-colored marginal decorations by Mallette Dean and a frontispiece reproduction of a daguerreotype of John Charles Duchow and his..... More
![Florilège catholique]. Botany Eccentrica, Anon](/pictures/thumb/123238_1.jpg?v=1589307060)
1809. [France?: c. 1809-1820]. 8vo, 36 leaves, printed rectos only, illustrated. Brown pebbled cloth, rebacked, leather backstrip with raised bands, gilt-stamped bees and the binder's title "Florilége" [sic] in the compartments, green coated endpapers. Cloth considerably stained, backstrip rubbed, pages lightly toned and foxed, but sound overall. § A curious..... More
1968. NY: Grossman, 1968. 8vo, original blue paper-covered boards, slipcase. Very good. § Facsimile trade reprint of the original edition which was issued in an edition limited to 100 copies, with a print signed by Baskin at the front. This edition was unlimited but nicely produced by Meriden Gravure... More
1926. London: Noel Douglas, 1926. 8vo, 70pp.Original paper over boards with title on spine. Very good, with spine a touch darkened and light dusting to original cream boards, and slight spotting to endpapers. § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. “The original..... More
1949. Seattle: Silver Quoin Press, 1949. Sm. slim 4to, [12]pp. Title-page within a red border. Original blue paper wrappers, as new. § No limitation stated, doubtless printed in a tiny edition. Unrecorded by Bentley, not noted in the Blake Archive. These were the first four poems in Blake's first book..... More
1951. New York: Beechhurst Press, [1955] Small 4to, 116 text, errata, 100 facsimile pp. Original full orange hardgrain morocco stamped in gilt, joints slightly scuffed, very good. § 2500 copies printed. Facsimile of the Rinder copy, a black-and-white version, published to accompany the Stirling colored copy. This appears to be..... More
1971. Brown UP: 1971. 4to, xiv, 82pp. original cloth, dust-jacket. As new. § Fine reproduction of the NYPL copy with a foreword by David Erdman. Bentley, Blake Books, 27: “The bibliographical details are novel and important.”. More
1972. London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1972. 8vo, xv, [1], 944 pp. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. As new. § Last printing of the Keynes version first published in 1925 and this edition edited from the 1957 edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 370H. More
1962. San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1962. 101pp. Frontis, 6 plates, map; index. Pictorial tan cloth stamped in white and red, gilt-lettered spine. A very good copy. § First edition, limited to 750 copies beautifully printed by Lawton Kennedy and inscribed in ink by "Warren and Anoitnette" to Nini..... More
1947. New York: Doubleday, 1947. Thick 8vo, xv, 518pp. With 8 illustrations and pictorial endpapers. Original dark green cloth, dust-jacket. § First edition, a standard and well-written account of the early days of San Francisco "rich with adventure and spiced with anecdote" (blurb). More
1871. London: John Camden Hotten, 74 & 75, Piccadilly. N.D. [1871] Slim 12mo, two integral advertisement leaves at front, five at back, the outermost serving as paste-downs; half-title not called for; integral frontispiece, title-page vignette, and numerous illustrations in text; verso of last text leaf blank but for printer's imprint..... More
1871. London: John Camden Hotten, [1871]. 12mo, 215, [34, ads]pp., illustrated. Original printed wrappers rather worn. § Very scarce in original wrappers. BAL 7427. Possibly the Jennie Crocker Henderson copy with annotation in pencil JCH and number 1561 (she had a huge Harte collection). Manuscript note in pencil at front..... More
