Washington DC: U. S. War Department, 1855. First Edition. This is an original MAP entitled "FROM SAN FRANCISCO BAY TO THE PLAINS OF LOS ANGELES. From the "Explorations and Surveys for a Rail Road Route From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean / War Department". The explorations and surveys..... More
San Francisco: William P. Wreden, 1968. First Edition. Pictorial boards. 55 pp. Illustrated with highly stylized line drawings by Patricia Oberhaus. Typographic design by Jack Werner Stauffacher, at the Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Set in Monotype Baskerville and Walbaum types; binding by the Schuberth Bookbindery. Limited to 540 unnumbered copies..... More
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1951. First Edition. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. (xv) 107 pp. Illustrated. One of 250 un-numbered limited copies. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. 6 1/2" x 10". A collection of 49er R. R. Taylor's well-written letters to his wife concerning his journey from Massachusetts in 1849 to San..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1923. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. 221 pp. Illustrated. List of Mining Companies. Bibliography. Cloth-backed boards. 10" x 7". Sans dust jacket. From the Preface: "This is the story of the companies of adventurers who left Massachusetts for California to acquire wealth and assist in building a...... More
Oakland: Biobooks, 1955. First Thus. Cloth. (x) 44 (4) pp. Edition limited to 500 un-nimbered copies. "First California Edition", printed by Times-Star Press, Alameda, California. California Relations Series, 39. Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. After the rare 1851 edition in the Huntington Library. Brown cloth; gilt front cover titling. 6..... More
Salt Lake City: The Caramon Press, 1990. First Edition. Cloth. (xiii) 74 (2) pp. #103 of a limited edition of 274 copies. Foreword by Robert Greenwood of the Talisman Press. Title Index.Tan textured cloth; gilt spine titling. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". Sans dust jacket. A well-written and useful descriptive..... More
Los Angeles: B. R. Baumgardt & Co., 1900. First Edition. Original Cloth. 313 pages. SIGNED by author in ink on the front free endpaper, "Compliments of the author / D A Shaw". Frontis portrait from photograph of author Shaw. Illustrated with frontis and 7 halftones (listed). Maroon cloth with gilt..... More
Haverford, PA: Headframe Publishing Company, 1978. First Thus. Leather-backed Marbled Boards. 81 pages. Illustrated. Limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is #68. Folding vintage map of California and the Routes to it. Leather-backed marbled paper covered boards. Prologue and Epilogue by Franz R. Dykstra. Designed and printed by..... More
New York: The McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First Edition. Cloth. (15) 331 (1) pp. Illustrated dust jacket, with $6.95 price. Illustrated, including maps of The Moromon Trail. Index. Purple cloth.6 1/4" x 9 1/4". One of The American Trail Series, edited by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Per the jacket blurb..... More
Oakland: DeWitt & Snelling, 1913. First Edition. Original wraps. 48 pp. Frontispiece portrait of author from a photograph. Printed wrappers. 6" x9". In a custom board folder. Author Wooley travelled overland from Vermont to California in the Gold Rush. In San Francisco, he became a member of the Vigilance Committee..... More
