Titles starting with M from Argonaut Book Shop

Antwerp, 1598 Plate size: 35.7 x 48.7 cm. (approx. 14 x 19 inches). Ample margins. Original full coloring in pink, yellow, green, and blue. Two ornate cartouches; three sailing ships, stipple-engraved seas. A very fine and strong impression. First state of this important map, from the French edition of 1598. This map, drawn by the Portuguese Jesuit Luiz Teixeira (based on unknown sources), was the first printed map of Japan to appear in a western atlas. It shows all of Japan, part of Korea and part of Chin... more information

Washington: Lithographed by E. Weber & Co., Baltimore, 1850 First edition, House issue. 16½ x 19½ inches. Lithographed. Minor creases where originally folded; short tear to left edge, light and quite minor damp stain to right edge, professionally backed. Overall, a fine and attractive copy. This famous map was first published in a larger format in Geographical Memoir upon Upper California, in illustration of his map of Oregon and California, published for the Senate in 1848. Offered here i... more information

Milwaukee: American Publishing Co., 1890 Original bird's-eye-view two-stone lithograph. 26¼ x 39½ inches. Framed and glazed. A very fine example. A large and magnificent two-stone lithograph of Helena, Montana with streets named and all the buildings shown in perspective. Printed in black and shades of gray. There are seventeen inset views of outlying subdivisions, and specific buildings including the East Side additions of Lenox and Corbin, the Northern Pacific Railroad repair shops and r... more information

New York: Julius Bien, Lithographer, 1873 Second issue of this extremely scarce and important two-part map of San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area, first issued in 1867. . Large folding topographical map in two sections, each section measuring 56 x 85.5 cm. Hand colored in outline. Each section folded and loosely housed in the original gilt-lettered dark green cloth folder with cloth tie strings. Mild wear to cloth folder, ties lacking. One map section with two breaks at junction of folds, and 4 inch ... more information

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1839 First edition. Lithographed map, hand-colored in outline 37 x 49 cm. plus borders. Short, three-inch tear to left edge, else a fine, clean copy. This map was especially made by John Arrowsmith for insertion in Alexander Forbes' California: A History of Upper and Lower California (London, 1839). All of Upper and Lower California, as well as Texas, are shown, from Guatemala and Panama south of Mexico to Port Bodega and Cape Mendocino just below what was then Mexico'... more information

New York: Doubleday, 1964 First edition. Signed by the author. xii, 323pp. Bibliography. Two-tone cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. One hundred years of the city's history, seen through the rise and fall of the parlor house. Covers the Gold Rush era through 1949.. ... more information

Susanville: Lahontan Images, 1995 272pp. Wrappers. Fine copy. Pioneer woman to California from Boston in the 1850's In Columbia and Inskip and various Gold Camps. Started the Steward House Hotel in Susanville and eventually, with fourth husband, the Greeno Cattle Ranch. Known as the "Matriarch Cattle Queen of Long Valley.". ... more information

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1979 First American edition. Quarto. Illustrated with more than 350 color and black & white photographs, drawings, and paintings. White cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. A fine copy with lightly faded pictorial dust jacket. Margot Fonteyn shares her personal vision of the history of dance. . ... more information

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1985 First American edition. Translated by Alastair Hamilton. Brown cloth-backed boards, lettered in gilt. Small stain to cover. A fine copy in dust jacket.. ... more information

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., (1975). First edition. 4to. Illustrated with drawings by Eileen Kramer. Red cloth. Very light chipping to the spine-head of dust jacket. A fine copy. (upstairs).. ... more information

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc, 1976 Quarto. 225pp. Index. Illustrated with more than 150 black & white photographs, 48 scaled plans and diagrams, and 32 color plates. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A fine copy in lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Complete instructions and scaled plans are provided for building twelve minature rooms, vignettes, cycloramas, and dioramas, as well as their furnishings: an Art Deco clubroom, an Art Nouveau bedroom, a private theatre, a turn-of-the centu... more information

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1928 First edition. 391pp. Frontis portrait, 32 illustrations and facsimiles. Bibliography, index. Dark green cloth, gilt. Light wear to foot of spine and lower corners, damp stain to gutter of last ten leaves. A very good copy with worn and soiled pictorial dust jacket. An accurate biography of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, a legend in his own lifetime: Pony Express Rider, Military Scout, Buffalo Hunter, Indian Fighter, Congressional Medal Of Honor Recipient, t... more information

New York: American Heritage, 1985 Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white plates. Bibliography, notes, index. Two-toned cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Minor foxing beginning to form on covers, else a fine copy in pictorial dust jacket.. ... more information

San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1960 First edition. Quarto. 96pp. Frontis map, 18 plates (2 colored), 2 folding tables. Gilt-lettered and decorated tan cloth. A very fine copy. Limited to 1,000 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. The scientific expedition of Alejandro Malaspina "was probably Spain's greatest exploratory contribution to the age of enlightenment," and the September, 1791 visit to California resulted in one of the earliest and best descriptions of the province's ... more information

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1953 First edition. Scarce thus. 311pp. Illustrations from photographs. Cloth-backed decorated boards, silver-lettered spine. Some staining to extreme lower edge of endpapers, else a fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Biography of this well-known San Francisco black woman. Mary Ellen Pleasant came to San Francisco about 1849, ran a boardinghouse, and supposedly a bawdy house, and used her money to aid runaway slaves and other oppressed people of her race. In time she bec... more information

San Francisco: Harr Wagner, 1927 First edition. 406pp. Tinted frontis portrait, 19 plates, 2 tipped-in color illustrations. Index. Green cloth, gilt. Minor damp stain to foot of spine, light offsetting to front endpaper. A near fine copy. Biography of Frémont, based on original source material supplied by Wagner; Bashford did the actual writing. The included illustrations are from old photographs, prints and portraits; the two color illustrations are after paintings. Signature on inner cover of Helen... more information

New York: Macmillan, 1936 First edition. SIGNED by the author. xii, 397 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, appendix, index. Slight glue remnant from bookplate. A fine copy. Biography of William Chapman Ralston, San Francisco's international banker, builder, etc., etc. One of the better biographies of Ralston.. ... more information

Palm Springs: ETC Publications, 1978 First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with 8 color plates of paintings by Hilton, some black & white photographs of Hilton and his family and friends. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. A fine copy in slightly worn pictoral dust jacket. A biography of John W. Hilton, "Dean of American Desert Painters," featuring his artwork.. ... more information

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1992 Limited first edition, SIGNED by the author. Published by the Franklin Library exclusively for subscribers of "The Signed First Edition Society." Bound in black leather, lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Very small marking to edge of front cover, else a very fine copy. An extremely handsome edition of this modern classic.. ... more information

New York: Pantheon Books, 1969 First American edition. Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate. Blue cloth-backed boards. Top corners slightly bumped, slight fading along extreme edges of covers, spine a bit cocked. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. Part of the Martin Beck series of crime novels.. ... more information