New York: n.d. [1896]. Broadside 12 x 18”, color lithograph, text in black. Upper left corner is chipped, some small tears and foxing to outer margins; good. § Original print, shows an artist painting a life size woman on a large canvas. LOC 2015647299. More
London: Printed by John Baskett, 1741. Folio, general title with coat of arms, drop-head title on following leaf with decorative initial letter, pp. [1], verso blank, 683 - 688, black letter, disbound. In a brown cloth folding case. § An act by the British Parliament to further control business practices..... More
San Francisco: Schmidt Label & Litho Co., The Wasp, Aug. 15, 1885 Folio 13 3/4 x20 1/4”, pp. 7-10, two-page color lithograph 11 1/2 x 18 1/8”, text to verso. small tear along center fold, chipping and foxing to edges; very good. § From the original edition of this issue..... More
[San Francisco]: The Book Club of California, 2009. 8.5”x10” portfolio, containing 1 introductory bifold, and 14 bifolds with facsimiles of illustrations in color as well as black & white, along with book descriptions. Top right corner of introductory bifold creased, else near fine. § First edition thus. An interesting and..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1932. 8vo, 205 pp. Folding frontispiece map of Kentucky. Signed by the illustrator, Arvilla Parker. Tan boards with red map decoration and gilt lettering to covers, paper label to backstrip. Stain to foot of backstrip and lower edge of boards, neat owner's name on front..... More
n.d. Photograph, 8 x 10”, b&w on glossy paper, colophon to verso printed in black and red; very good. § Printed from a negative made from the original image, with a quote from Scientific American, 1862. More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1960. 8vo, 48pp. In cream-colored wrappers with printers' logos in red, title in black. Covers lightly soiled, spine sunned. Very good. § First edition. "An exhibit of representative examples from the collections of members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco held in the Palace of..... More
London: J. Debrett, 1784. Slim 8vo, 31, [1, publisher's ads] pp. Unopened and untrimmed; stitched as issued. Wrappers toned, dealer marks on upper wrapper, else fine. § First edition. Clinton's vindication of his expenditures of public money while in command of the British army during the American Revolution. Howes C494..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co,, [circa 1853-55]. 9 x 12 1/4” engraving, with title information printed to lower margin. Mounted, minor foxing outside of plate margins to edges; very good. § Illustration from Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States. Part 5..... More
Cambridge: Hilliard, Metcalf, and Company, 1827. 8vo, 67 pp. Modern decorative wrappers with handwritten label on upper wrapper. Occasional foxing, toned; very good. § "An important review of unfavorable published accounts on the American Protestant mission in Hawaii... The author was one of the principal founders and the corresponding secretary..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1955. 8vo, [32]pp. Original tan printed wrappers. Title printed in red and black, with a foreword by David Magee. New members cards for both Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs for 1957 laid in. Very good. § Limited edition. More
[New York]: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1881. 8vo., xii, 242 pp., five chromolithographic plates and numerous uncolored engravings in the text. Original green cloth, stamped in burgundy ink, gilt title to upper board, some fraying to the edges of the boards; very good. Contemporary bookseller’s label and later ownership signature on..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1871. 8vo, 23 pp., 8 woodcut illustrations including frontis. Half green morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt title to backstrip, top edge gilt, original wrappers bound in. Very good copy. Bookplate of George Goodrich. § First edition, first issue. John Hay (1838-1905) was the 37th..... More
Portland: F. W. Baltes and Company, 1905. 8vo, 136 pp. Frontispiece and 27 drawings in black and white and one black and white photograph of Bodie, California. Original gray printed wrappers. Wrappers browned with some small chips, backstrip splitting at foot. § First printed in 1900 -- this copy signed..... More
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San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1979 [to 1980]. 4to, (6), 560, (21) pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Blue cloth with red gilt-lettered label. A very good, clean copy. § Five parts in one. The monumental five-part, priced catalogue of 1665 items relating to California history and literature owned..... More
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1836. 8vo, 3 vols: [2], viii, xi-xvi (as issued), 317,[1], [2, ads]; ix, [1], 320; vii, [1], 294 pp. Half-title in first volume. Original cloth backed boards, printed labels. Early signature of A. Leapingwell on each front pastedown and shelving numbers in ink on..... More
New York: Johnson and Ward, 1862. Large 4to, 18 1/2 x 15 ins., 99 text pages + plates. With 58 hand-colored maps (28 are double-page) by Johnson and Ward; 2 hand-colored plates, including chart of the rivers & mountains (double-page) and a time diagram; 6 hand-colored charts on 3 pages..... More
Cincinnati: Bangs and Company, 1856. 8vo, 332 pp. Frontis. and 7 plates. Original green cloth, a version of the frontis. stamped in gilt on upper board and in blind on lower board. Backstrip sunned, a few spots on the upper board, foxing throughout, new endpapers. Author identified in pencil on..... More
Boston: Fowle and Capen, 1842. 8vo, iv, 390 pp. Old half calf, marbled boards, joints cracked, text block sound but quite foxed, especially at the front and back. Inscribed by the author and with the later signature of Mary C. Chapman on front pastedown. § Volume 4 of this series;..... More
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839. 3 vols. 12mo: (4), 321; (4), 319; (4), 312 pp. Original quarter cloth and plain boards, printed paper backstrip labels. Bindings moderately worn and faded, labels chipped with loss, hinges cracked but holding. A complete, unsophisticated set, good plus, with the bookplate..... More
Oakland, California: Biobooks, 1946. Small 4to, ix, 205pp, 2 folding plates in black and white in rear pocket affixed to rear pastedown. Original quarter black faux morocco, with red faux morocco boards, stamped in gilt to top board and backstrip, untrimmed; illustrated by means of decorative initials printed in black..... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1847 [pictorial title dated 1848]. Sm. 8vo (18.7 x 13.5 cm), [i-ii] iii-vii [1, blank], 9-204 pp., wood-engraved frontispiece, title, and plate, folded lithograph map (see below). Original marbled boards, green cloth backstrip, fragment of a manuscript label remaining, boards a little rubbed, light foxing, very..... More
New York: 1912. Elephant folio chromolithograph print, 34 1/4 x 25", plus margins. In fine condition, beautifully and archivally framed. § A magnificent print, published by the American Lithography Company of New York City in an edition of 2,500 copies. Graham Arader notes of it: "At the time, Moran was..... More
![Item #108158 "Lake Tahoe" [and] "Mount Tamalpais and Red Porch". [Two plates from Picturesque...](https://johnwindle.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/108158.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687537224)
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 Moran..... More
Berkeley: The Friends Of The Bancroft Library / University Of California, 1965. 8vo, xiii, 119pp. plus frontispiece and 9 plates in black and white and 1 in color. Original red cloth stamped in gilt to backstrip, with gilt decoration to top board (Hammond’s initials as he wrote them), untrimmed; frontispiece..... More
