Authors starting with V from Dawson's Book Shop

Havilah Press, Emeryville, 2002. Limited edition: 150. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, xx, 21 pages, boards with cloth spine, Facsimile reprint of a scarce 1871 pamphlet containing an account of Van Schaack's trip to Yosemite. With a foreword by James B. Snyder. ... more information

Buchdruckerei Gebr. Mann und der Graphischen Anstalt Ganymed, Berlin, 1932. First Edition, Limited edition: One of 500 copies. Fine: light rubbing to photogravure illustration on front cover. 13 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches, portfolio consisting of pictorial boards with cloth spine and flaps (new cloth preserving original boards), 16 pages of text bound in printed wrappers, together with 32 photogravure illustrations, each mounted on a sheet of heavy paper (each mount is numbered and fitted with a tissue guard), h... more information

Edward Dunigan & Brother (James B. Kirker), New York, 1857. Second Edition. Very good: foxing to preliminary and final blanks, light offset to lithographed plates (unguarded) from text. 6 1/4 x 4 inches, 450 pages, elaborately gold-stamped black morocco, all edges gilt, expertly rebacked retaining original spine, The work is primarily in the Abnaki tongue. In English are the first title page, the first dedication, the Preface, the errata, and "Rules for Reading the Language of the Abnaki Indians... more information

Bedford Arts, San Francisco, (1990 ). 12 x 9 3/4 inches, 271 pages, cloth. ... more information

R. Baldwin, London, 1759. Very good. 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches, 64 pages, modern cloth with leather spine labels, blank leaves added at rear to fill out binding, The pagination runs from [281] to 344; in addition to pagination are 2 engraved plans (not related to California). The Vizcaino material is on pages [283]-286. These extracts from Vizcaino's account of his 1602 voyage to Monterey are taken from the Appendix to Venegas' "Natural and Civil History of California, " published in London... more information