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New York: The Heritage Press, 1965 Introduction by John Gassner. Illustrated by Fredrik Matheson. Printed boards with brown cloth spine, lettered in gilt. Spine faded, else a fine copy in slipcase. Some fading to slipcase. Sandglass pamphlet laid in.. Illus. by Matheson, Fredrik.

Oakland: Biobooks, 1944 Limited to 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Signed by the publisher, Joseph A. Sullivan. Foreword by Sullivan. 188pp. Illustrated with plates and a large folding map. Cloth-backed red boards, paper spine label. Slight fading to top edge of boards, else a very fine copy. Ide was the first to raise the Bear Flag over Sonoma. Reprinted from the rare first edition of 1880. [Zamorano Eighty: 45, note]..

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1950 First edition. One of 950 numbered copies. Printed by Taylor & Taylor. Small 4to. xiv, 48pp. 6 plates from photographs, 6 woodblock engravings plus cover decoration by Mallette Dean. Decorated red cloth, gilt. Slight darkening to inner front hinge. A fine copy. Account of the birthplace of Junipero Serra in Majorca, Spain, gifted to the City of San Francisco in 1932. The woodcuts are by Mallette Dean; the photographs show interior shots of the house..

London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1898 Illustrated in color and black & white by Arthur Rackham. Original gilt-lettered and printed green cloth. Rubbing to the extremities, chips to the spine ends, and small chips to the front endpaper. A very good copy..

Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Inc., 1966 Facsimile edition. Limited to 1500 copies. xiii [1] 529pp. Frontispiece, 7 plates, folding map, text illustrations. Illustrations by F. Colburn Clarke, initials and tailpieces by Thompson Willing. Gilt-lettered gray cloth. A very fine copy with dust jacket. A history of the Salt Lake Trail prior to the building of the railroad. Covers the trappers and traders, scouts, Indians, the emigrants along the trail to the California Gold Rush, etc., etc.. Illus. by Clarke, F. Colburn.

London: Collins, 1978 First edition. Octavo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Very minor shelfwear, else a fine copy in price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. The story of Captain Cook's famous Third Voayge. .

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1975 First American edition. Red cloth. Some fading and rubbing to dust jacket, else a fine copy. A collection of 15 short detective stories featuring the character, Sir John Appleby, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police..

San Francisco: Privately printed for a. Lincoln Brown, M.D., 1955 One of 100 copies beautifully printed by the Grabhorn Press. Small folio. 28pp. Opening initials on title and first page of text stamped in gold, designed by Mary Grabhorn. Handset Lutetia type on English handmade paper. White parchment-style boards, dark red spine label, gilt. Covers slightly soiled, else a fine copy. This satirical essay was originally delivered by the author at the Mid-winter Dinner of the Aesculapian Club in 1947 and first published privately in the Club's Aesculapian Bulletin. Irving was a William Lambert Richardson Professor of Obstetrics Emeritus. [Grabhorn: 570]..

New York: The Heritage Press, 1969 Introduction by Angel Flores. Illustrated by Lima de Freitas. Black cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt. Slight rubbing to spine, else a fine copy in slipcase. Sandglass pamphlet laid in.. Illus. by Freitas, Lima de.

New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897 2 volumes. Pp. xvi, 389 + xvi, 391. Frontispiece in each volume, 27 plates from drawings, engravings and photographs, printed tissue guards. Maroon cloth, covers and spines decoratively stamped in gilt, top edges gilt. A very fine and bright set. "Tacoma edition" of this classic account of the first American attempt at settlement on the Pacific Coast, 1811, including the earliest extended relation of Wilson P. Hunt's overland expedition from St. Louis to that settlement. Includes drawings by R. F. Zogbaum, plus the intricate gilt cover design by famous book designer and artist Margaret Armstrong, with her initials printed in gilt at lower corner of front covers. "This book has been reprinted so many times as to almost defy description... however, several specific editions deserve mention. In 1895, G. P. Putnam's Sons issued a handsome two-volume edition bound in gilt-decorated red cloth, referred to as the Tacoma Edition..."… Read More

San Mateo: The Greenwood Press, 1941 Number 101 of 250 copies designed, printed, and entirely handset by Jack W. Stauffacher. 12mo. [8], 83pp. 3 text illustrations by Frank Stauffacher. Handset type by Jack Stauffacher. Course beige cloth, printed paper spine label. A very fine copy with printed dust jacket (jacket spine faded and with two small spots). The first book from the Greenwood Press. Jack Stauffacher started his Press in San Mateo. In 1947 he moved to San Francisco to join the colony of printers established there. In 1955 he went to Europe where for three years he studied typography, mainly in Italy. On his return he accepted a post at the Laboratory Press, founded by Porter Garnett at Carnegie Tech., Pittsburgh. [Magee, Fine Printing and Bookbinding from San Francisco and its Environs: 53; Stauffacher, A Typographic Journey: p.13, 28, and 245]..

London: John Murray, 1822 2 volumes. First British edition. Second issue of volume II with the text finishing on p.404. Contemporary three-quarter dark green calf, marbled boards. Covers a bit rubbed, some edge wear, especially at corners. Overall, an attractive, clean set. This first British edition was published simultaneously with the American edition, but contains five further sketches. Both volumes are complete with type setting "A" as per BAL. [BAL: 10110]..

London: Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1949 First edition. Hudson's Bay Record Society, Volume XII. Printed for subscribers only in a limited edition. Edited and with an introduction by E. E. Rich and A. M. Johnson. Pp. cv, 352, x. Three plates and 16 text illustrations, most printed in red and black. Appendices, index. Blue cloth, gilt. Spine ever so slightly faded, but a very fine, uncut copy. Isham's observations are not primarily concerned with the fur trade, but provide a mine of interesting information on anthropology and natural history. Includes a long section reproducing an Indian/English vocabulary, written in 1743..