Search Results: Titles starting with C from Chanticleer Books

London: B.T. Batsford, 1897. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very good. Folio (14.5 x 10 inches), publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt, (6), 24 pp. + 123 engraved plates. Rebacked, preserving original spine, occasional light foxing, nick to edge of first index page. Batsford's 1897 facsimile of the important 1794 third edition of Hepplewhite's catalogue of designs. Scarce.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, (1974). Second printing of the Third Revised Edition. Small defect to front inner hinge, else a very good copy, book and dustjacket are clean and only lightly worn. No previous owner markings. Original black cloth, large octavo (7.25 x 10.5 inches), pp xxi, 416. Color frontispiece map, 4 b/w maps The standard reference to California place names.

San Francisco: Privately Printed at the Grabhorn Press, 1954. Limited edition of 150 copes. Some wear to corners, spine label slightly darkened, else near fine. Original mustard cloth and marbled boards, quarto, xxviii, (49) pp., frontispiece coat-of-arms, 5 plates from photographs, folding map. Main text was self-published in Rochester in 1851. Subtitle to the original edition reads: "Being a Description of a Tour by the Overland Route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains Across the Continent of North America: Giving an Account of the Great Desert Basin, Boiling Springs, and many other Natural Curiosities, Emigrant Sufferings, Fraudulent Speculations, Descriptions of Soil, Gold Region, Mining, etc. Also, the Society of California, Indian traits, and Journey Home across the Isthmus." This new edition adds family background and historical notes. Grabhorn Press Bibliography 553.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2006. First edition. Paperback. Fine. xvii, [1], 38 pp., illustrated, oblong printed wrappers. With envelope containing 9 original bookplates laid in Printed by Peter Rutledge Koch.

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1949. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Original printed wrappers, pp.1-94. Illustrated. A trove of scholarly articles of California historical interest.

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1940. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Original printed wrappers, 193-288 pp. Illustrated A trove of scholarly articles of California historical interest, including Erwin Gudde's translation of Edward Vischer's First Visit to California.

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1952. First edition. Very good; quite clean and unworn. Original printed wrappers, pp. 1-94. Illustrated. A trove of scholarly articles of California historical interest.

Sacramento: W. W. Shannon, Superintendent of State Printing, 1907. Light wear to covers, endpapers foxed, else fine. Original blue cloth with gilt titles, octavo, 846 pp. 7 double-page colored maps, many full page plates from photographs, 2 color plates. The California Blue Books were issued biennially and contained complete rosters of state and local officials, statistics on communtities, political histories of the state, counties, departments, etc.

Sacramento: Solomon Alter, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Original burgundy cloth with gilt spine title, octavo, 261 pp. 6 engraved plates by Charles Nahl printed on colored paper. Spine moderately faded, spotting to endpapers, bottom corner of first table of contents page creased, still about very good. The lectures are in the form of an allegorical narrative apparently modeled after Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" but set in various mining region locales. The author was a clergyman who arrived in California in 1849. He is called the founder of the Congregational church in California and was the pastor of the First Church of Christ in Sacramento. The 6 plates by Charles Christian Nahl (1818-1878) are among the earliest California work of the German artist who also came to the gold country in 1849. After failing as a miner (he bought a salted mine at Rough and Ready Camp on the Yuba River), he opened an art studio in Sacramento. He moved on to San Francisco in 1852 after the Sacramento… Read More

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1945. First edition. Minor edgewear and some fading to wrappers, but overall very good; quite clean and unworn. 4 volumes, original printed wrappers, 384 pp. Illustrated A trove of scholarly articles of California historical interest.

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1950. First edition. Very good; quite clean and unworn. Original printed wrappers, 94 pp. Illustrated. A trove of scholarly articles of California historical interest.

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1951. First edition. Very good; quite clean and unworn. Original printed wrappers, pp. 289-382. Illustrated. A trove of scholarly articles of California historical interest.

Sacramento: A. J. Johnston, Superintendent of State Printing, 1893. Spot of white residue on front cover, light wear to cover cloth, short tear to maps at lower fold outside image area, else near fine. Original blue cloth with gilt titles, octavo, 331 pp. Many full page plates from photographs, many engraved plates, 2 folding maps printed in colors. The California Blue Books were issued biennially and contained complete rosters of state and local officials, statistics on communtities, political histories of the state, counties, departments, etc. One of the state maps shows counties and congressional districts, the other shows counties and assembly districts. This a presentation copy inscribed and signed by Secretary of State E. G. Waite to Geo. F. Brommer.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892. First edition. Some rubbing to covers, old private library stamps to title pages, else very good. 222 pp., 25 plates, including 7 chromolithographs, 11 from photos, 7 engraved; ctavo, origianl burgundy cloth with gilt spine titles, An important work on a pest devasting to the vineyards of California and throughout the southwest. The vine disease caused by the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa was discovered by plant pathologist Newton B. Pierce (1856-1916) and is now officially known as Pierce's Diseaase. Scarce. Amerine & Borg 2621; Gabler II 34000

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1947. First edition. Very good. Original printed wrappers, pp. 193-288. Illustrated A trove of scholarly articles of California historical interest.

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1950. First edition. Very good; quite clean and unworn. Original printed wrappers, pp. 193-286. Illustrated. A trove of scholarly articles of California historical interest.

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1949. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Original printed wrappers, pp. 97-190. Illustrated. A trove of scholarly articles of California historical interest.

San Francisco: Albert Dressler, 1936. First edition. Paperback. Fine. [16] pp., original printed wrappers, 9 x 6 inches. Illustrated. Brief biography of the French artist and 49er Ernest Narjot (1826-1898). Edition of 150 numbered copies, this #115.

San Francisco: Press of Barry & Baird, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Bumping to lower corners, some wear to spine ends, crease and short tear to title page and facing blank leaf, still quite clean and presentable and near very good.. Original burgundy cloth with title and cover ornament in gilt, octavo, 471 pp. Anthology represents more than 100 contributors, including H. H. Bancroft, Ina Coolbrith, Bret Harte, Charles Warren Stoddard, John C. Fremont, Leland Stanford, et al. This the copy of Dr. Enoch H. Pardee (1929-1896), Republican mayor of Oakland (1876-78), he also served in both the State Senate and House of Representatives. His son George Pardee was also an Oakland mayor (1893-95) before becoming California's first native-born governor in 1902. Signed in pencil on front free endpaper "E. H. Pardee, MD, Oakland California, 1880

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1944. First edition. Very good. Original printed wrappers, pp. 1-96. Illustrated A trove of scholarly articles of California historical interest