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CIVIL WAR ERA & WASHINGTON TERRITORY WOMEN'S MS

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64385 [COMMONPLACE AUTOGRAPH BOOK -- WASHINGTON TERRITORY WOMAN].[JONES HAWTHORNE [HATHORNE], Mary].
The gem album: [a charming Civil War Era and later Washington Territorial autograph souvenir album compiled by a young New England woman from Maine, and later Seattle pioneer, as well as wife to, Willard Campbell Hawthorne, early Seattle builder, and City Councilor to the nascent frontier settlement].
$650

Exceptional copy most often heavily degraded.

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Winslow Anderson, M.D.
Mineral Springs and Health Resorts of California
$200

California mountains guide with small maps

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John Powell
Wonders of the Sierra Nevada and Coast Range 1881
$475

Mill Valley California land development map

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La Verne Heights. Mill Valley Marin county land map
$375

Bodie phone message San Francisco Quake

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Bridgeport Bodie Mono lake etc phone message form to Lundy lake with news on quake 1906
$125

EARLY PEBBLE BEACH BIRDS-EYE MAP

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Monterey Peninsula Country Club; Del Monte Properties Company; W.H. Bull & R.V. Carey (illustrators)
Monterey Peninsula Country Club: 1600 Acres of Forest & Sea Shore / Map of Pebble Beach, California
$300

Memories of an Arizona Judge 1932 with Scarce DJ

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Richard Sloan
Memories of an Arizona Judge, Stanford Press 1932 Rare w/Original DJ
$150
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c.1931 Wooden Money Tenino Washington Chamber Commerce Pamphlet
$300
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1890s Victorian Bear Hunting Party Men Women w/ Rifles Photo
$450

A Treat for Librarians! Weed bio and chronology

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Dennis Kruska
Charles Leander Weed California's Peripatetic Photographer (Just Published!!!)
$150

Yosemite Architectural Watercolors

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Art Zendarski
Yosemite Lodge proposed renovation watercolor renderings 2004
$350

DONNER PARTY ACCOUNT, SPECIALLY BOUND COPY

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Virginia Reed Murphy
Across the Plains in the Donner Party, "This edition is limited to 1400 copies" on preliminary leaf, to which is tipped a slip "Binding of This Copy as No. 1401 Was Specially Authorized."
$250

Rare Weed of San Francisco 1st. bastion of wealth

Charles Leander Weed
# 60. South Park
$400

Very Rare Muybridge of Yosemite Native Village

Edweard Muybridge
The Deserted Village
$1,000

California Gold Rush Commission merchant flyer

Polhemus & Griswold
1851 San Francisco Commission merchant flyer
SOLD

2 San Francisco 1906 earthquake & fire photos

Page, Bacon & Co.
Dolores & Market refugee camp with smoking ruins & Presidio Camp
SOLD

Rare 1850 San Francisco Bank checks

Page, Bacon & Co.
1850 bank draft
$50 $100 or less

The only miniature Yosemite Book! Limited to 200.

Junipero Serra Press
Yosemite
$50 $100 or less

2 pre-earthquake Images of San Francisco Chinatown

Taber
Alley in Chinatown & The Chinese quarter
SOLD

2 Taber boudoir images of San Francisco

Isaiah West Taber
Golden Gate Park & Steamer Ferry Piedmont
$50 $100 or less

Photograph of Alcatraz Island circa 1890

Alcatraz from Ferry Boat
SOLD

Art quality Monterey photos by William K. Vickery

William Kingston Vickery
Santa Barbara Mission & Old Custom House
$100 $100 or less

A stunning view of Gold Run and its flume

Carleton Watkins
#55. Flume and Railroad at Gold Run
SOLD

Los Angeles Stereographer Western Mono Basketmaker

C. C. Pierce
Mono Basket weaver
$350

A Rare stereo view by an uncommon photographer

Andrew Price
Indians in Devil's Canyon
SOLD

Signed, Limited edition from the Artemisia Bindery

Idah Meacham Strobridge
The Land of Purple Shadows
$150

Rare fine Alfred Hart Stereo view of Alta, Ca.

Alfred A. Hart
#67 Alta from the South
$550

Rae First issue C. L. Weed 1859 San Francisco

Charles Leander Weed
#42. The Heads. Entrance to the Bay of San Francisco
$750

1857 Hutchings Magazine San Francisco Fire Dept.

J. M. Hutchings
Hutchings California Magazine No. 14, August, 1857
$100 $100 or less

100 Book Club of California News-letters 1947-2017

The Book Club of Califirnia
The Book Club of California Quarterly News-Letter
SOLD

1905 Photo San Francisco Outer Fillmore St.

1905 Photograph of Fillmore Street San Francisco
SOLD

AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL TO ALASKA

64802 [ALASKA -- AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL]. GREENWOOD, Amy.
Rolling North: [an American family pioneers up the Alcan highway]. Illustrations by Lombard Jones.
SOLD

FOOD & DRINK -- DAIRY CO-OP PHOTO

63182 [DAIRY -- ARCHITECTURE]. [WICKS, John E. (Architect). & SCHMAND, Charles C.]
[One large studio silver gelatin photograph of the Lower Columbia Cooperative Dairy Association building on 9th Street in downtown Astoria, OR with dairy coop members and workers spread, out before the building in the fore-ground].
$100 $100 or less

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES COOKERY

63445 [FOOD & DRINK -- NATIVE AMERICANS]. [SOCKPICK EVANS, L Muktoya (Sec). & BINGHAM, I. B. (Eds.)]
Eskimo cook book. Prepared by students of Shishmaref Day School. . . .
SOLD

AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL

64648 [AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL -- WESTERN AMERICANA & MEXICO]. SCOTT, J.[ohn] H.[utchison] MacCallum.
Beaten tracks.
$75 $100 or less

CHINESE-AMERICAN RESTAURANT HONOLULU MENU

64749 [CHINESE-AMERICAN MENU -- HAWAII]. [CHONG, Lee Wong (Owner).]
Lan Ting Chop Suey House: master of Chinese cuisine. . . .
$100 $100 or less

MID-CENTURY FABRIC SWIMWEAR SAMPLES

64739 [FASHION -- JANTZEN KNITWEAR FABRIC SAMPLES].
Calico-knit; Jersey Knit; Gay Daisy Print on rich Satin (Acetate Lastex); Reversible Double Dots; Jantzen-exclusive Lady Bug print on fine Sanforized Cotton; Sunny lions; A suggestion of the Southland, in “New Orleans Grill” stripe; Carefree butterflies on Cotton; Far Eastern fantasy in rich Sari print; Applique floral design; Exotic “Persian Gold” print; Good-looking “Mosaic” print on cotton;
$475

Rare Early Lawrence & Houseworth Trade Card

Lawrence & Houseworth
Illustrated 1962 trade card
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Rare 1880 Remanence's of N. California signed

W. C. Bartlett
A Breeze From the Woods
$100 $100 or less

PRINTING & TYPOGRAPHY SPECIMEN BOOK

64757 [PRINTING & TYPOGRAPHY -- PACIFIC NORTHWEST]. [SNEDDON, John Raymond “Ray”].
Type styles available at Portland Linotyping Company typographers. . . Linotype, Monotype, Hand Type, Ludlow.
$350

JAPANESE-AMERICANS & INTERNMENT REFERENCE

64703 [JAPANESE-AMERICANS -- JAPANESE INTERNMENT]. [HIGASHI, Roy].
Japanese-Americans of the Mid-Columbia area and their relatives.
$375

TEXAS & MEXICO TRAVEL SOUVENIR BOOK

64702 [TEXAS -- TRAVEL]. KLINE, Arthur A.[aron].
El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.
SOLD

Four Beadle’s Frontier Series illustrated

Beadle’s Frontier Series: Four Novels
$65 $100 or less

Society Blue. Book California

Our Society Blue Book 1893 1894 California
$245

1849 California Goldrush letter

J R Atwood
October 1849 letter with vivid detailed descriptions of life and place
$1,300

ASTRONAUT JOHN GLENN AT SEATTLE WORLD'S FAIR 1962

64539 [SPACE PROGRAM -- SEATTLE WORLD’S FAIR]. GLENN, John H.
Second National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space Banquet, Olympic Hotel, May 10, 1962 [Menu & Program]; Astronaut John H. Glenn orbits the Earth for America, February 20, 1962;, Steps to the Moon. . . . [poster/map].
$850

Rare 1896 Sierra Club Map of the Sierra Nevada

J. N. Le Conte
Map of the Central Portion of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite Valley
$1,500

RARE M. M. Hazeltine image of Paiute Laundress

Martin Mason Hazeltine
Paiute Laundress.
$650

A Rare stereo card of the 'Blue Canyon Depot'.

John James Reilly
197 Blue Canyon Fire Train
$300

ORIGINAL ARTIST'S RENDERING UP STREAMLINER DEPOT

64694 [RAILROAD -- ART DECO STREAMLINE ARCHITECTURE].
Union Pacific passenger and freight station, Nyassa, Oregon [Original watercolour architectural elevation rendering of the proposed famed stationary streamliner brick clad Art Deco depot designed by, the UPRR Engineering Department to be their most modern depot with styling mimicking the shape of the latest streamliner Diesel-electric express trains such as the City of Portland].
$650

Extremely Rare 1871 Yosemite Guidebook

J. D. Whitney
The Yosemite Guide-Book
SOLD

California Lettersheet Jackson

Gold Rush View Jackson, The Gate and Butte City Lettersheet
$925

Oklahoma and Indian territory

Oklahoma and Indian Territory letterhead archive
$850

CONSTRUCTION OF THE PORT OF ASTORIA ALBUM

64620 [WESTERN AMERICANA -- ASTORIA, OREGON PHOTO ALBUM]. CLARK, William Warren [Contractor].
[An historic souvenir photo album featuring 124 original silver gelatin photographs meticulously documenting the transformation of the Port of Astoria into a major deepwater shipping terminal,, featuring expanded piers and waterfront pilings, construction of the massive municipal seawall, dockside warehouses, and the tremendous 1.2 million-bushel bulk grain elevator just prior to WW I].
$2,250

LOGGING IN 1890's WASHINGTON

64625 [LOGGING -- WASHINGTON].
Diameter 10 feet. Falling timber at Yakima L.[umber] Co.; Yakima L.[umber] Co. [Two exceptional large albumen photographs capturing two loggers standing on springboards 10 feet above the ground, working with double-handed crosscut saw, and logger below with axe; while the other shows oxen team hauling large log into the sawmill].
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PHOTO ALBUM FOR BUILDING KANSAS CITY & MINNEAPOLIS

64693 [ARCHITECTURE -- KANSAS CITY, MO, MINNEAPOLIS, MN & TEXAS CONSTRUCTION ALBUM]. CLARK, Orville.
[An excellent souvenir photo album visually recording the variety of projects overseen by Clark at the end of the Roaring 20’s into the New Deal undertakings in the Great Depression. These include the, Armour-Swift-Burlington (ASB) Bridge for the Wabash Railroad into Kansas City, MO; and nearly half of the album devoted to erecting the iconic Minneapolis, Minnesota Sabo Post Office.
$1,750

EXTRAORDINARY WASHINGTON TERRITORY PHOTO ALBUM

64727 [WESTERN AMERICANA -- WASHINGTON TERRITORY ALBUM]. [GAMBLE, Andrew Wallace (Photographer).]
Washington Territory scenery, Vol. IV, January 1, 1886 to January 1, 1888. [An historic photo album featuring 48 original boudoir-sized albumen photographs shot and all carefully annotated in 1886-87, with 36 depicting an extended trip by Gamble to visit his relative David Gamble, an itinerant preacher in Waitsburg, Washington Territory, and the remainder on his hometown of Sidney, Ohio].
SOLD

Gold Rush River Steamer document

Steamer Henry Clay San Francisco Bay 1854 business document
$475

Rocky Mountains chromolithograph

The Rocky Mountains Albert Bierstadt
$9,500

Rare Chromolithographic Print from Bellingham, WA

Pierce, B.W.
The Fairhaven [Hotel]--Fairhaven, (Bellingham) Washington Chromolithographic Poster
$1,200

Instant Collection of California Mission Photos

Collection of About 100 Photos of California Missions and Ephemera 1906-1950
$100 $100 or less

Mormon Controversy

Brigham Young; Emeline A. Young; George Q. Cannon
Brigham Young's Will [with] Fraud on the Will
$1,000
1890s Native & Asian American Integrated Western Couple Photo
$1,600

Rare Hutchings "In The Heart" signed

James Mason Hutchings
In the Heart of the Sierras
$150

John Muir. 3 magazine articles, 1872,1890, 1890.

John Muir
The Yosemite Valley in Flood, The Treasures of Yosemite, The features of the proposed Yosemite National Park.
$75 $100 or less

STEAM THROUGH THE COLUMBIA GORGE

Gifford, Benjamin A. (1859–1936), photographer
Original photographic print: The Chicago Special of the O.R. & N. Columbia River Gorge, Oregon, 1901., An original 1901 photographic view of the Chicago Special rounding a Columbia River Gorge curve, with steam locomotive No. 131, basalt cliffs, and trackside spectators.
$165

Great Falls, MT Illustrated Promo Booklet, 1909

Robert J. Horton, et al
The Booster / Published in the Interests of the City of Great Falls, Cascade County and all Montana, 1909, Describing the Advantages and Opportunities of Great Falls and the Country Surrounding, and Containing Many Beautiful Half Tones, Together with Valuable Information, Facts and Figures
SOLD

INSCRIBED IN 1883 BY MONTANAN PIONEER CATTLEMAN

W. W. Wylie
Yellowstone National Park; or, The Great American Wonderland: A Complete Description of All the Wonders of the Park, Together with Distances, Altitudes, and Such Other Information..., First Edition
SOLD

A LUSTY, PICARESQUE NOVEL OF OLD WYOMING

Roy Chanslor
The Ballad of Cat Ballou, First Edition
SOLD

1 of 25 most important Yosemite Books, signed!

Laffayette Bunnell
Discovery of the Yo Semite
$350

(DISCOUNTED) 1870 Guide. Farquhar Yosemite 25

Josiah Dwight Whitney
The Yosemite Guide-Book
$450

SPECIAL EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

Michael Connelly
Angels Flight, Special SIGNED Limited First Edition, one of only 300 copies
$400

A Rare Classic 1907 San Francisco Expose

Gelette Burgess
The Heart Line
$300

McTeague Rare Zamoramo 80

Frank Norris
McTeague, a Story of San Francisco
SOLD

Near fine Zamorano 80

Helen Hunt Jackson
Ramona
SOLD

Scarce 1909 Montana Publication re Its Resources

J. H. Hall, Commissioner
Montana, 1909 Publication Extolling Montana's Resources and Opportunities for Growth, in General and County by County
$125

Bell Ranch as I Knew It - New Mexico Signed Copy

George F Ellis
(New Mexico) Bell Ranch as I Knew It, 1972 Signed by Artist Robert Lougheed
SOLD

Southern Express Co

Southern Express Co Money Envelope
$75 $100 or less

Revenue Stamped Check Signed by Stagecoach King

Ben Holladay, President of O&C RR Co
U.S. Revenue Stamped Check from Oregon &California Rail Road Co in the Amount of $3,323 signed by Ben Holladay in 1870, Payable to and Endorsed by George W. Weidler
$80 $100 or less

Colorado Springs, a Resort & Health Area, 1892

George Rex Buckman
Colorado Springs, Colorado. At the Foot of Pike's Peak. Its Manifold Attractions as A Health Resort, A Scenic Center and A Residence City..., 1892, Together with a Collection of Medical Facts Concerning Colorado Springs
$55 $100 or less

Three Early Western Stereoviews by WE. H. Jackson

William Henry Jackson
Three Early Stereoviews by Jackson of Scenery in the Western U.S., Taken Between 1869-1878, Two of Scenery Along the Union Pacific Railroad and One of Rocky Mountain Scenery
$75 $100 or less

EXPLORING THE WONDERS OF GRAND CANYON COUNTRY

Julius F. Stone
Canyon Country: The Romance of a Drop of Water and a Grain of Sand, First Edition
$400

WHIMSICAL PORTRAIT OF JAZZ AGE SAN FRANCISCO

Harrison Godwin
Map of San Francisco Showing Principal Streets and Places of Interest
$3,000

Twenty-Mule Teams and Borax Wagons

Pacific Coast Borax Company
1910 & 1912 - Two lettersheets featuring illustrations of Death Valley's famous Borax-Hauling Twenty-Mule Teams
$100 $100 or less

1883 - Texas Land Transfer on Surveyor Letterhead

Will. H. Bonnell
1883 - Land Transfer certification on the illustrated letterhead used by the "District and County Surveyor for Bexar County" in San Antonio, Texas
$100 $100 or less

The Wisconsin Band's Trip to the Rose Bowl

Wally Degner
1959-1960 – Archive of material related to the University of Wisconsin Marching Band's trip to and participation in the 1960 Rose Bowl festivities
$750

Santa Fe Railway Southwestern Travel Brochures

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
1940s – 1950s – Five Santa Fe Railway brochures advertising travel in the Southwest
SOLD

Santa Fe Railroad Tower Worker Photographs

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
1940s – Two photographs showing a dispatcher and lettermen at work from inside a railroad tower and central traffic control office
$200