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London: A. Brown and Sons, 1915 First edition. Introduction by Frank Falkner; supplementary chapter by T. Sheppard. Small folio. xlvi, 240pp. 270 half-tone photographic plates in sepia, 10 color plates (illustrating over 700 examples). Original brick cloth, gilt-lettered spine, gilt lettering and pictorial device on front cover. Light wear to spine ends, corners and lower edge of boards, stains from dried flowers to rear endpapers, two leaves with slight crunching to border near fore-edge. A very good copy.... more information

Charleston: Garnier & Company, 1969 An unabridged republication limited to 500 copies. Illustrated with numerous black & white plates. There is a small smudge to the rear lower corner, corners lightly bumped, else a fine copy. A history of drawing in America. . ... more information

New York: A Main Street Press Book Published By Mayflower Books, Inc., 1979 First edition. Softcover. 160pp. Bibliogrpahy, index. Black & white photogrpahs throughout. Stiff pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. Available for the forst time in book form - the best informations on early American silversmiths, their objects, and their marks from the authoritative pages of "The Magazine Antiques". . ... more information

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1978 10 numbers. Illustrations from reproductions of stock certificates. A fine set in half leather slipcase. Printed at the Feathered Serpent Press. A keepsake from the Book Club of California.. ... more information

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1966 9 numbers. 9 illustrations in color. A fine set in half leather slipcase. Printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem. A keepsake from the Book Club of California.. ... more information

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1970 First edition. Quarto. 288pp. Biblipography, index. Illustrated with black & white photographs throughout. A very fine copy in very lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. A catalog of the most significant pieces of silver hollowware made by Connecticut silversmiths between the years 1700 and 1840. Also illustrated representative flatware and artistically interesting less common pieces such as swords and Masonic jewels. With an annotated index of... more information

Chicago: The Lakeside Press; R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1942 12mo. 315pp. Index. Maroon cloth. Spine faded, else a fine copy. The Lakeside Classics series was started in 1903 by Thomas E. Donnelley, then president of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company and son of the founder. The basic format of the Lakeside Classics has remained the same for more than 100 years, testifying to the sound design of the first volume. Each 25 years the cover material is changed and type style adjusted to keep pace with... more information

San Francisco: Cross and Brandt, 1954 First edition. One of 500 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. 302pp. Frontis, plates, illustrations, facsimiles, folding map. Bibliography and index. Remnants from removed bookplate, else a fine and clean copy. California's first hotel, the Portsmouth House, San Francisco's other hostelries, San Jose's earliest inns, Santa Clara's Frémont House, Sutter's Fort, etc., etc.. ... more information

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956 First edition. Limited to 400 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press. Folio. ix, 142pp. Frontis portrait, 16 plates after title-pages, and newspapers. Green and black two-tone cloth, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Spine lightly bowed, else a fine copy. An important and scholarly study on printing in California from the beginning as a Mexican Territory to statehood (1850). Includes a bibliography of imprints, list of newspapers, list of presses, and bibl... more information

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955 First edition. xvi, [2], 301pp. Black cloth stamped in red and gilt on spine. A fine copy with the printed dust jacket (jacket spine a bit faded). Third in the author's works, here documenting global catastrophes in prehistoric and historical times, caused by forces outside the Earth.. ... more information

Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2007 First edition. Signed by the author. 128pp. Profusely illustrated. Stiff pictorial wrappers. New. A well-illustrated history. The terminus of the first overland immigrant pack train destined for California was John Marsh's adobe in Brentwood, East Contra Costa County. Since 1841 this part of the county has been a grain and fruit basket to the world, a recreational playground for resort living, and a home for health and family life. Its wheat was exported for brewing ... more information

San Francisco, 1966 First edition. ix, 128pp. Light rubbing to extremities, else a ffine copy. Mostly autobiographical writings of this San Francisco attorney, business man and civic leader.. ... more information

New York: The Viking Press, 1952 First edition, first issue. Green cloth. Dust jacket spine slightly darkened and lightly chipped at the ends. Previous owner's signautre on front endpaper. A fine copy.. ... more information

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1905 First edition. Quarto. 413 [7]pp. 49 photographic plates, 10 maps (some folding), including 3 folding maps in rear pocket. Rebound in gilt-lettered brown cloth. Wormhole to center of last 10 leaves, folding maps in pocket also show 1-inch wormhole, else a nice copy. This work covers articles on areal geology of the district by Arthur Keith (topography, geology, etc.) and economic geology by Boutwell. Boutwell's contribution (most of the book) includes history... more information

New York: Random House Inc, 1991 Octavo. Black cloth-backed green paper boards with silver lettering on cover and spine. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. . ... more information

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1963 First edition. . x, 262pp. Map endpapers, numerous photographs; index. Brown and cream cloth. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. McDougall left his Ontario home in 1873 and became a trader on the Fort Carlton Trail, and then a merchant in Edmonton, beginning in 1879. He witnessed the Indians selling their lands to the Crown; the hamlet of Edmonton by-passed by the railroad; the second Riel Rebellion; the Edmonton boom during the Klondike rush; its decline resulti... more information

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912 First edition. 312pp. Frontis portrait plus 17 illustrations, mostly after period lithographs. Original dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Minor rubbing to corners and spine ends, else a fine copy. Very scarce. Presentation inscription, signed by Beale's son, Truxtun Beale (Edward Fitzgerald Beale's mother's maiden name was Emily Truxtun). Truxtun Beale was a well-known lawyer, U.S. Minister to Persia, and later to Greece, and a delegate to the Republica... more information

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1978 First edition. Oblong folio. 306pp. Profusely illustrated with color and black & white plates (some folding, some tipped in). Dark green cloth, decorated in gilt. Pictorial dust jacket. Slight foxing to first blank front endpaper. Left edge of front jacket slightly faded. A fine copy. A look at the life of Edward Hopper and a showcasing of his artwork.. Illus. by Hopper, Edward. ... more information

Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1980. First edition. Quarto. A fine copy with dust jacket. An overview of ancient Egyptian art. 80B. ... more information

Berne: Kummerly and Frey, [1962]. First American edition. Quarto. A fine copy with dust jacket. A study of the history and culture of Egypt. 80A. ... more information