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Tokyo: Toto Bunka Co., Ltd., 1952 First rdition. Folio. Illustrated with 50 full page illustrations, some in color. Second in a series of 6 volumes on Japanese Art. With an essay on the History of Jaspanese Printing, from 1334 to 1867, by Ichitaro Kondo. With glossary and index of artists. Gray-green cloth with printing in brown, red and white. Top edge of front cover lightly faded, else a fine copy in worn and chipped dust jacket..

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1947 First book edition. 56pp. Frontispiece, 15 plates, text illustrations. Gilt-lettered red cloth. A fine copy. The three articles included are: "Sutter's Sawmill," by Aubrey Neasham, "Archaeological Investigation of Sutter Sawmill Site in 1947," by Robert F. Heizer, and "Artifacts from the Excavation of Sutter's Sawmill, 1947," by Franklin Fenenga. With an introduction by Joseph R. Knowland..

London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, 1653 First edition. Octavo. 19x15 cm. Pp. 2629 - 2644. Two folded sections, uncut. Complete issue. Two library stamps. A very good copy. Very rare! Complete issue of this newsletter, or magazine (Issue No. 165). "From Thursday, August 4 to Thursday August 11, 1653." Mercurius Politicus was a newsletter published weekly from June, 1650 until the English Restoration in May, 1660. Under the editorship of Marchamont Nedham, it supported the republican governments. This was Nedham's most significant enterprise, which he used as a platform for the Commonwealth regime. The newsletter began in June, 1650 and settled into a serious vein as a voice of the republican movement of the day. The newsletter continued for the next decade, the term of the Commonwealth era, under alternative titles like the Public Intelligence or Public Intelligencer. In 1655 the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, rewarded Nedham with an official post, so that Nedham was then perceived as a… Read More

New York: Dorset Press, 1972 First edition. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A collection of accounts from the journals of famous Antarctic explorers as James Cook, Richard E Byrd, Edmund Hillary and others..

San Francisco: Sierra Club Book, 1980 First edition. Illustrated with color photographs by the author.Blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket with very mior wear to edges of spine. The narrative of the author's third trip beyond Cape Horn..

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003 Black & white photographic illustrations. Gray cloth with silver lettering to spine. A fine copy. Included as a free bonus is Little Blue Book No. 1498, "Missouri University Sex Questionnaire and Its Significance," by L.M. Birkhead..

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928 2 volumes. First edition. ix, 344 + viii, 345-738 pp. Frontis portrait in each volume, 62 plates; appendix and index. Errata slip tipped-in. Gilt-lettered navy blue cloth. A fine set. An excellent biography of Frémont, based primarily upon original sources. It covers his entire career while providing a picture of America in the first half of the nineteenth century. It also gives a portrait of Jessie Benton Frémont and her influence on her husband's successes. [Graff: 2986; Howes I: N-64; Howes II: N-64]..

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1939 First edition. xiv, [2], 649pp. 16 illustrations and 9 maps; appendices, bibliographical notes, index. Blue cloth lettered in gilt. A fine copy. A distinguished biography in which the author skillfully weaves the two elements that made Frémont the man he was, "sometimes succeeding so dazzlingly and at other times failing so abysmally." This work is not simply an abridged version of his earlier two-volume work published in 1928. As Nevins states in his preface, "This volume is essentially a new life of John Charles Frémont. It is new in much of its materials, embodying fresh research by myself, and the results of a decade of work..." The appendices include "Frémont's Children," "Corruption in St. Louis, 1861," and "E. M. Kern's Letter.".

Philadelphia and London: Lippincott, 1925 First edition. Quarto. xvii, [1], 379pp. Profusely illustrated with a color frontispiece, photographic illustrations and line drawings. Navy blue cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. A superior copy, very fine and bright with printed dust jacket. A classic work on the subject. Perhaps the most comprehensive and scholarly work on the architecture of California's Spanish period, with more than 240 photographs, line drawings, plans, etc. Newcomb was a professor of the history of architecture at the University of Illinois and spent many years researching this book..

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963 First edition. 175pp. 87 black & white photographs. A fine copy with chipped dust jacket. The scarce biography of Ansel Adams, covering the period 1902-1938. Text by Newhall and from the correspondence between Adams and the great names of photography..

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1960 First edition. Foreword by Ansel Adams. Folio. 96pp. 50 black & white photographs by Wright plus a portrait by Ansel Adams. Brown cloth lettered in silver. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Wright's philosophy that man's spiritual horizon can be expanded by his contact with nature, shown by his beautiful photographs and poetry. A Sierra Club "format" book..

Novato: Presidio Press, 1991 Cloth. Very fine with pictorial dust jacket..

New York: Winchester Press, 1975 First edition. Octavo. 245pp. Appendix, index. Numerous photogrpahs throughout. Red paper boards with black lettering on spine. A fine copy with fine dust jacket. The first book on the subject of hunting game with sidearms..

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton, 2000 First ediiton. Two-tone boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket..

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1986 First edition. Limited to 500 copies printed by William Henry Powers and Wesley B. Tanner. Compiled and Annotated by Jesse S. Crisler. 238pp. Woodcut portrait, reproduction, portraits, plates; appendix and bibliography. Red cloth-backed decorated boards, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. This work is an expansion of the pioneering Letters of Frank Norris, edited by Franklin Walker and published in 1956. Includes 124 letters and fragments (26 never before published) spanning eleven years and documenting Norris' thoughts and personality as he developed into a successful author at the turn of the century. This work includes corrections and amendments to Walker's 1956 study, and thus provides a "new edition" with selective but quite thorough re-editing, expanded notes, corrected commentary, and additional data. Includes annotations for people, places, and events mentioned by Norris, an appendix of forty-one inscriptions by Norris, and… Read More

Berkeley: Charles G. Norris, 1936 First edition. One of 100 copies printed for Charles G. Norris by Wilder & Ellen Bentley. [2], 46pp. Cloth-backed blue boards, printed paper cover label. Some darkening to extremities of covers and spine. Overall, a fine copy. Scarce. A collection of dedications (many in verse) written by Norris for her different publications. A previous owner has (very discreetly) noted that one dedication is to the author's beloved younger brother, and another addressed to "C.G.N." was to her husband, Charles G. Norris..

Santa Cruz, California: Western Tanager Press, 1991 First edition. Edited by Doyce B. Nunis. x, 294pp. plus 32 pages of portraits and illustrations from trail drawings. Bibliography, index. Blue cloth, gilt. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. This work includes all the known firsthand accounts of the 1841 emigration from Missouri to California, plus drawings by emigrant Nicholas Point, S. J..

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1973 First edition. Foreword by Mrs. Fletcher Bowron. Thick 4to. xvii [1] 501 pp. Author and subject indexes. Title printed in red and black. Original cloth. Endpapers renewed. Very minor wear to lower corners. A fine copy. A comprehensive bibliography of 20th century Los Angeles. The work is divided into subject headings and subheadings. As an example, "Traffic" is divided into 7 subheadings. Includes nearly 10,000 entries, many annotated, a complete author index and subject index..

Berkeley: The Friends of The Bancroft Library, 1967 First edition. Edited by George Koenig. Foreword by J.S. Holliday. 67pp. Portrait, facsimile; illustrations of Death Valley from photographs by Ansel Adams. Folding route map by Robert Becker. A fine copy. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Nusbaumer, unlike most gold-seekers, traveled an unknown trail to California and, along with his fellow travelers, found himself lost. He was with Manly and the group that attempted the "short-cut" through the desert that, because of their experience, became known as Death Valley. This is the first time that Nusbaumer's firsthand, on-the-spot account has been published. It is the only extant journal carried out of Death Valley on the epic trek. His diary provides an important complement to Manly's better-known reminiscence, Death Valley in '49. "Nusbaumer's diary provides the only firsthand account of the party…" (Mintz). [Kurutz: 470; Mintz: 349]..

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Stackpole Company, 1958 Quarto. 250pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. Illustrated with numerous black & white photographs. Inscribed, signed and dated by the author. Dark green cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover. Light foxing to edges and forst few pages, else a fine copy. .