[Los Angeles]: 1966. 1st printing. Newspaper format: 39, [1] pp. 5 columns. Text in English. Filled with adverts from local businesses, many, if not most, by Japanese firms. Illustrated with drawings & b/w photographic images. 17" x 11-3/4". Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. As noted, a rare..... More
San Francisco: W. W. Elliot, Lith. 1888. Later facsimile? Single sheet, mounted to heavier stock. Center view of Placerville, surrounded by 24 vignettes of divers Placerville buildings & structures. Includes Index to 30 Points of Interest; View of "Placerville, 1851, reproduced from early sketch" in center, under main View. In..... More
![Item #46318 MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL. 23rd St. Q & R Sacramento 1895 [caption title]....](https://tavbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46318.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1543516265)
[Sacramento]: 1898. Frame: 10-1/4" x 12-5/8". Photograph: 6-1/8" x 8-1/4". Housed in an old, faded black wood frame. "The Sisters of Mercy broke ground on Sacramento's first private hospital, Mater Misericordiae (Latin for "Mother of Mercy") in the mid-1890s. The hospital was one of the most modern and best equipped..... More
San Francisco: Published by H. W. Faust, (1892). 12th Edition. Relief shown by hachures. Depicts drainage, rancho and tract names, block numbers, radial distances from Ferry Building, railroads and street railways, selected public buildings, etc. Adverts in margins. Printed in sepia. 26" x 32". Map mounted at some past juncture..... More
San Francisco: 1898. 1st printing. [2], 13, [1 (blank)] pp. Unopened. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-5/16". Printed self-wrappers, sewn. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. OCLC records 6 institutional holdings. More
Sausalito, CA: Windgate Press, (1993). 1st printing. 4 pages of explanatory text. A suite of 25 reproduction images, all captioned, of period black & white photographic images documenting divers aspects of 19th C. San Francisco. 1 folding panorama. Folio. 14-1/4" x 18". Black cloth portfolio, in faux leather style. Black..... More
Los Angeles: Santa Barbara Directory Co., (1943). 1st printing of this year (Rocq 13470). 580, [38 (Telephone directory)] pp. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4". Maroon cloth spine over printed yellow cloth boards. Edges with printed adverts. More
Los Angeles: Printed at the Abbey San Encino at Garvanza Oldtown, by Clyde Browne, Master Printer. 1928. 1st Edition, "for Private Distribution" 47, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with 3 b/w half-tone portraits. 8vo.10-1/8" x 6-5/8". Original marooon cloth spine over drab boards printed in red. More
Los Angeles: Santa Barbara Directory Co., (1942). 1st printing of this year (Rocq 13470). 675 pp (includes rear paste-down). Index at rear. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4". Maroon cloth spine over printed green cloth boards. Edges with printed adverts. More
Los Angeles: Santa Barbara Directory Co., (1945). 1st printing of this year (Rocq 13470). 646, [42 (Telephone directory)] pp. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Maroon cloth spine over printed green cloth boards. Edges with printed adverts. More
San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co., (n. d.). Ca late 1860s. Two albumen photographs, mounted side-by-side, domed tops. Oblong format: 3-3/8" x 6-7/8". Orange colored mount, printed at bottom & both edges, slightly rounded edges. Verso with Houseworth 1867 PIE medallion imprint. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve... More
San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co., (n. d.). Ca mid-to-late 1870s. Two albumen photographs, mounted side-by-side, domed tops. Oblong format: 3-3/8" x 7". Orange colored mount, printed at bottom & both edges, slightly rounded edges. Verso blank. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co., (n. d.). Ca mid-to-late 1870s. Two albumen photographs, mounted side-by-side, domed tops. Oblong format: 3-3/8" x 7". Orange colored mount, printed at bottom & both edges, slightly rounded edges. Verso blank. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co., (n. d.). Ca mid-to-late 1870s. Two albumen photographs, mounted side-by-side, domed tops. Oblong format: 3-1/2" x 7". Orange colored mount, printed at bottom & both edges, slightly rounded edges. Verso blank. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
San Francisco: (1971). SIGNED by the artist, with © 1971 noted. Broadside, possibly a reproduction of an earlier issue, printed in red ink on a 'burnt sienna' paper. Central drawing of a bacchanalian nature, showing 7 elves about a large wooden table, drinking, eating, smoking & otherwise cavorting in a...... More
San Francisco: Published by Fred B. Bain Inc, (1920). 1st printing (presumed). Single sheet of stiff stock, folded 3x for 6 panels, printed both sides, with map side have a rivet-mounted 6-7/8" central pointer as the "Patent Indicatior". 4 outer panels with Street names corresponding to pointer segments. One outer..... More
[Oakland]: Frederick M. Husted, Publisher. Printed at the Oakland Enquirer Office. [1902]. 1st edition (Rocq 719). 157, [3] pp. 18 pages of adverts at rear, including 2 seating charts for the MacDonough Theatre. Main text printed letterpress on stiff paper stock, with t.p. & Introduction printed in red & black..... More
Oakland, Calif: Oakland Blue Book Company, Publishers. Issued from the Press of the Oakland Enquirer. [1903]. 1st edition. Not found in Rocq, nor on OCLC. [3] - 163, [5] pp. Includes 2 seating charts for the MacDonough Theatre at rear. Printed on blue paper. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's..... More
Los Angeles: Published by the Security-First National Bank, (1930). 1st printing (Kruska & Robinston 229; Rocq 13618). 112 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. White paper covers printed in orange & black. Original mailing envelope. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
Sacramento: (n. d.). Ca 1890. Image depicts a 2 story home, complete with picket fence, and the 6 person Huelsman family posing on the steps & front yard. A horse in buggy stand in the road in front of the house. Photograph: 4-1/2" x 7-5/8". Mount: 5-1/4" x 8-3/8". Stiff-stock..... More
[San Francisco ?]: 1885. Single sheet. Extracted leaf [p. 8] from a magazine or jounal [Hutchings?]. 9-1/8" x 5-9/16". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Surrounding the image of the bank are 3 captions, one in each margin. From left to right: "The Oldest Chartered Commercial Bank on the..... More
San Francisco: J. D. Robertson, Publisher, 1888. 1st Printing. Broadside, printed in 5 columns. Three columns down the center describing District and Precinct Boundaries & Polling Places: "Open from 6 A.M. to 7 P.M." The two outer columns list the candidates for various political offices. 22-1/2" x 16". Shrink-wrapped over..... More
San Francisco / Sacramento: Henry G. Langley & Samuel A. Mathews / James Queen, 1857. 1st edition (Cowan, p 610; Greenwood CALIF IMPRINTS 882; Sabin 10044). viii, 384 pp. Preliminary 4 pp are adverts at front, as are pp. 353 - 384. 12mo. 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". Period maroon quarter leather..... More
San Francisco: W. A. Woodward & Co., [1898]. 1st printing. 8 pp. 6-3/4" x 5". Printed self wrappers, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. An anonymous publication commenting, mostly unfavorably, on the two Democratic candidates for US Congress, James H. Barry and Superior Court Judge William T. Wallace in..... More
Chico: Chico Record Print, (n. d.). 1st printing, ca 1903 (Rocq 1378). Unpaginated, though 44 pages. Illustrated throughout, primarily from photographs. Map, last page. Oblong format: 5" x 6-7/8". Original publisher's off-white paper wrappers, with gold printing, rules. Stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Published by the Chico..... More
