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"The Lion of the Vigilantes": William T. Coleman and the Life of Old San Francisco

Scherer, James A.B.

Indianapolis`: Bobbs-Merrill, (1939). Original cloth, fine in dust jacket. ... more info

Price: $50.00

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A Cannoneer in Navajo Country. Journal of Private Josiah M. Rice, 1851.: Edited by Richard H. Dillon

Rice, Josiah M.

Denver: Old West Publishing Company / Fred A. Rosenstock, 1970. Boards, fine in dust jacket. Limited to 1500 copies. ... more info

Price: $25.00

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A Facsimile Edition of California's First Book Reglamento Provicional: Printed at Monterey in 1834 by Agustin V. Zamorano. Translation by Ramon Ruiz and Theresa Vigil. A note on the printing by George L. Harding

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1954. Cloth, spine slightly faded, else fine. Facsimile in back cover pocket. One of 400 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. ... more info

Price: $40.00

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A French journalist in the California gold rush.: The letters of Etienne Derbec. Edited by A.P. Nasatir.

Derbec, Etienne.

Georgetown, Calif. : The Talisman Press, 1964. Cloth, fine in lightly worn dust jacket. First edition, one of 750 copies. ... more info

Price: $75.00

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A Handbook of the Trees of California.

Eastwood, Alice.

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1905. 80 pp., plus 57 plates. Publisher's brown cloth, spine gilt, original front and back wrappers bound in (front now detached). Bookplate and blindstamps of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Rare. The last book printed at the pioneer San Francisco printing firm of Edward Bosqui before the fire of April 1906 destroyed their plant. ... more info

Price: $1,250.00

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A Journal of Ramblings through the High Sierra of California by the University Excursion Party.

Le Conte, Joseph.

San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1930. Cloth backed boards, spine label, fine copy. One of 1500 printed by Taylor and Taylor. ... more info

Price: $125.00

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A Journey to California.

Bidwell, John.

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1937. Original cloth backed boards, fine in dust jacket. ... more info

Price: $100.00

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A Lady's Visit to California 1853.

Pfeiffer, Ida.

Oakland: Biobooks, 1950. Cloth, spine slightly faded, else fine. One of 500 printed at The Black Vine Press. Kurutz 501h. ... more info

Price: $35.00

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A Landsman's Voyage to California.: Being the account, compiled from letters and the journal of Joseph Kendall, of the voyage 'round the Horn of the Bark Canton from New York Harbor to San Francisco Bay in the year 1849

Kendall, Joseph.

San Francisco: Privately published, 1935. Cloth backed boards, fine. One of 200 copies printed by Taylor & Taylor. Presentation card from the publisher affixed to front endpaper. Kurutz 373. ... more info

Price: $150.00

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A Letter from Brigadier General Stephen W. Kearney, San Diego, Upper California, January Thirtieth 1847.

Kearney, Stephen W.

Carmel: Thomas W. Norris, 1950. 8 pp. Wrappers, fine. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. ... more info

Price: $20.00

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A Map of California Showing its Delineation at Various Periods.: With an explanation compiled from various sources by Duncan H. Olmsted

Olmsted, Duncan H.

San Francisco: (1966). Wrappers, one of 225 copies. Fine ... more info

Price: $25.00

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A Navajo Sketch Book by Don Perceval with a descriptive text by Clay Lockett.

Perceval, Don; Lockett, Clay.

Flagstaff, Ariz.: Northland Press, 1962. Cloth. Fine, in trifle used dust jacket. ... more info

Price: $35.00

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A Report Upon the Boreal Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California.

Smiley, Frank Jason.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1921. Wrappers, faded and with some coffee colored dampstaing on the back cover, and endpaper. Otherwise very nice. ... more info

Price: $30.00

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A Sojourn in California by the King's Orphan: Travels and Sketches of G.M. Waseurtz of Sandels, a Swedish Gentleman who Visited California in 1841-1843.

Waseurtz, G.M.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California and the Society of California Pioneers, 1945. Cloth backed boards, corners slightly bumped. One of 300 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. G.B. 417. ... more info

Price: $125.00

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A Treasury of Western Folklore. Foreword by Bernard DeVoto.

Botkin, B.A. (ed.).

New York: Crown, (1951). Cloth, fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Signed by the editor. ... more info

Price: $75.00

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A Western Panorama 1849-1875. The travels, writings and influence of J. Ross Browne on the Pacific Coast, and in Texas, Nevada, Arizona and Baja California, as the first Mining Commissioner and Minister to China.

Goodman, David Michael.

Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1966. Original red cloth, fine copy. ... more info

Price: $50.00

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