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ORIGINAL 1865 First Edition, 498pp. Report on the first systematic survey of the geology of the state of California. Historic document suitable for a library archive, bespoke gift, or investment.This classic work presents the results of the comprehensive investigations of California geology. Clarence King was a member of the Geologic Corps under Whitney's direction as State Geologist. The full-page woodcut plates show scenery in the Sierras and Yosemite. The plates were made from drawings by Whitney and C. F. Hoffman, and from Yosemite photographs by Carleton Watkins. The Yosemite illustrations are some of the earliest published views of the future National Park. Chap. 1: Introduction.Chap. 2: The Monte Diablo Range.Chap. 3: The Peninsula of San Francisco.Chap. 4: The Coast Ranges North.Chap. 5: The Coast Ranges South.Chap. 6: The Coast Ranges from the Vicinity of Los Angeles South.Chap. 7: The Region between Cañada de Las Uvas and Soledad Pass..PART II: Geology of the Sierra Nevada.Chap.… Read More

10" by 12" hardcover. Undated but looks like early 20th Century edition. Original pictorial covers with green cloth spine. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white drawings. A nice early-edition illustrated children's book, suitable as a bespoke gift or investment."Sir John Tenniel(28 February 1820 – 25 February 1914)[1] was an English illustrator, graphichumorist and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19thcentury. He was knighted for artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel isremembered mainly as the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine forover 50 years and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventuresin Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There(1871).
Despite the thousandsof political cartoons and hundreds of illustrative works attributed to him,much of Tenniel's fame stems from his illustrations for Alice. Tenniel drew 92drawings for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland… Read More

1922, Stories from Hans Andersen, with Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. First trade edition. Published by Hodder & Stoughton: New York & London, 250 pp., 11" by 9" (4to). Brown cloth boards with embossed gilt lettering and pictorial on cover and spine. Color tipped-in plates by Dulac.
First edition, with Dulac's classic illustrations, make this
one of art literature's most sought-after volumes, with some condition issues (see below). VG copies of this book run several multiples of the price here.
Condition is Fair. Bumped corners and wear to edges of boards. Frayed hinges, but binding is still sound. Pages are clean and bright. Plates on p. 89 and 95 are missing; others are crisp and clean.
About the Stories: "Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes and translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of… Read More