Washington: Gales & Seaton, Printers, 1845. First edition, Senate issue. Hardcover. Contemporary half tan calf and marbled boards, gilt spine label, octavo (6 x 9.25 inches), 693pp. 22 lithograph plates, including 13 views, 5 plates of fossils, and 4 botanical plates. 4 maps bound in, including 2 folding maps. Large..... More

Munich: Dr. C Wolf & Sohn, 1922. Limited edition. Hardcover. (40) pp., 4 full-page woodcut illustrations, 12mo, vellum spine and decorative boards. Text in Latin and German. Facsimile of the 1493 Basil edition of the Latin translation of Columbus' 1493 letter to the Spanish court of Ferdinand and Isabella announcing..... More

Los Angeles: B. R. Baumgardt, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. [16], 17-313 pp., frontispiece portrait of the author, 7 full-page illustrations; small octavo, later green buckram. Inscribed on front blank leaf "With best wishes of the author. David Augustus Shaw." First-person account of the overland route from the mid0west to the..... More

Boston: Published by the Author, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. 156 pp., small quarto, original blue cloth with title stamped in silver. Apparently a Swedenborgian Gospel Harmony. Last page contains a list of Swedenborg's books. Scarce. More

Salem, MA: Parker Brothers, Inc., no date (1926?). Second edition ? 100 playing cards with game instructions in original 2-piece, 2 compartment tray box with color printed lid. Automotive card game for 2 players or 2 teams competing in a 50 mile race. Originally published in 1925 by the Wallie..... More

New York: Appleton, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 402 pp., 3 folding maps, 34 illustrations, octavo, original red cloth with gilt title and ornaments. A close analysis of the amenities of Southern California as distinct from the northern part of the state. Maps include a Climate Map of Southern California..... More

London: Macmillan, 1890. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small octavo, original dark green cloth richly gilt, xxxv, 305 pp., 6 pp publisher adverts at rear, profusely illustrated from line drawings by Hugh Thomson. More

(Oakland: Howell-North Books, 1942). First edition, signed, limited. Hardcover. xvi, 764 pp., 21 maps (8 folding), dozens of illustrations; folio (12.5 x 10 inches), original blue cloth with gilt spine. An unique history of mostly Northern California, primarily sourced from contemporary newspaper articles and letters. Compiler Mae Helene Bacon Boggs..... More

Anchorage: Ken Wray's Print Shop, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, octavo, original blue cloth, [10], 466; [4], 467-1092 pp., profusely illustrated with color frontispiece in each volume, hundreds of b/w photo reproductions, jackets. An astounding collection of images of the Alaska Railroad from its earliest days through 1964. More

Boulder: Shambhala, (1977). "First complete paperback edition" Paperback. 2 volumes, original pictorial wrappers, 9.25 x 6 inches. Reprint of the 1962 University Books edition. More

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1972). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original black cloth, xvi, 248 pp., frontispiece and 36 full=page illustrations, 3 maps, jacket. Review copy with publisher's review slip laid in. An exhaustive biography of the famed former slave turned mountain man James Pierson Beckwourth (1798-1866). More

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1964. First edition. Hardcover. xvi, 453 pp.; octavo, original blue cloth with gilt title, jacket. Publisher's printed corrigenda slip tipped in at page 1. Text in Greek with extensive commentary in English. More

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 106 pp., 11 illustrations on colored stock, 11 tipped-in facsimiles; octavo, linen spine with printed paper title label, decorative boards. 475 copies printed by Adrian Wilson. More