Baltimore: The Author by Henry Taylor, 1855. First Edition. Cloth. (XII) 14-300 pages. Blind-stamped brown cloth. Gold spine titling, including illustration of gold miner. 7" x 4 1/4". Per Cowan p. 274: "An entertaining book. One chapter is closed with the charming remark that 'It is my unbiased opinion that..... More
London: The Argonaut House, 1930. First Thus. (xiv) 142 (1) pages (Many unopened) Illustrated with a folding map, folding frontispiece and five additional illustrations. Translated from the Spanish and with an Introduction by Cecil Jane. 8" x 10 1/4". Vellum backed orange cloth with gilt titling. Index. Orange ribbon marker..... More
Cambridge, Maryland: Cornell Maritime Press, 1957. First Edition. Cloth. (xv) 195 pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Map endpapers (San Francisco Bay). Profusely illustrated, primarily from vintage black and white photographs. Red cloth. 8 1/2" x 11". A complete maritme history of San Francisco Bay and its many vessels by Professor Kemble..... More
San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1927. First English Language Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. (xiv) 158 (1) pages. SIGNED by Thomas C. Russell in ink on the limitation page. Blue dust jacket with spine title label. Printer's foreword. "An English Translation Revised, with the Teutonisms of the Original Hispaniolized, Russianized, or Anglicized..... More
San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1920. First English language edition. Cloth-backed illustrated Boards. (xii) 120 (1) pages. SIGNED by Thomas C. Russell in ink on the limitation page. (NOTE: After Mr. Russell's death, a San Francisco bookseller bought all of Mr. Russell's leaves, bound them, and had the bookseller's clerks..... More
