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Berkeley: Friends of The Bancroft Library, 1971 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Printed by Lawton Kennedy. Introduction and Notes by Ferol Egan. [6], 37pp. Large folding color facsimile map, notes, index. Stiff gray wrappers printed in red. Printed throughout in red and black. Spine and upper edge of rear cover faded, else a fine copy. Account of California's inland-delta country during the early 1840's. The large folding facsimile map (in color) portrays the Sacramento Valley and delineates Sutter's land as well as various Ranchos..

New York: Facts On File New York: Facts On File, 1992 Book. Illus. by Dominco, Terry [photographer]. Fine. Hardcover. Quarto. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of beautiful color photographs by Terry Dominco. Bibliography and index. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. An illustrated look at the nature of Borneo..

Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, 1958 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Jacket and book handsomely designed by Merle Armitage who provided the foreword titled, A Point of Departure. 245pp. plus 16 photographic plates. Yellow decorated cloth stamped in red. A very fine copy with decorated dust jacket. The story of W. F. Williams, Indian trader, his wife and family, together with their experiences at the Navajo reservation and the Red Lake Trading Post in Arizona (1914-1929), as told by Williams' daughter..

Denver: Sage Books, 1966 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Large 8vo. 437pp. Profusely illustrated throughout with portraits, plates, facsimiles, maps, etc. Appendices, index. Tan cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A portion of the book is devoted to the part played by the Nebraska Stock Growers Association during the last 80 years. Appendices include a roster of Association members..

San Francisco: S. J. Clarke Co., 1912 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 2 volumes. First edition. Number 599 of a limited edition, issued to Geo. A. Schastey of San Francisco (well-known architect and interior design). Signed by Young on limitation/ownership page (sometimes lacking). Large quarto. 969pp. Profusely illustrated with portraits, plates from historical photographs, etc. Original three-quarter dark brown morocco, green pebbled cloth boards, gilt spines. A bit of rubbing to spine ends and corners of volume II, one lower corner just showing. Overall, a fine set usually found with serious edge wear. This is one of the standard histories of San Francisco and provides a very comprehensive history from the early Spanish influx to the achievements of San Francisco after the fire and earthquake of 1906. Schastey, from New York, graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1891 and returned to New York to begin his architecture practice working for William Baumgartner. In 1907… Ler mais

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. xii, 196pp. Illustrated with 6 color photographs, 23 black & white illustrations, double-page map. Extensive notes, bibliography and index. Black cloth. A fine copy with slightly rubbed dust jacket. Covers the years, after 1860, of the great Bonanza strikes and of the men and the evolution of the machinery they used: the double-jack, hand steel, Bickford fuse, wire rope, steam engine, etc. The major strikes included Henry Wickenburg's Vulture Mine in Arizona Territory; the hard-rock gold strike in the desert Southwest; Ed Schieffelin's discovery of vast silver deposits in Tombstone, Arizona; The Tonopah-Goldfield strike in Nevada, etc..