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Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a Senate resolution of March 2, 1877, a copy of the final report of the operations of the troops in the Modoc country, by General Alvan Gillem (1877)
by General Alvan Gillem
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- 1st ed.
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- 1877
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- Stitched wrappers
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 184.84
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First edition, 18 pp. 8vo, stitched wrappers; disbound from a larger volume of serial publications; lacking any wrappers if issued.
Special Session, March 5, 1877. Senate. Ex. Doc. No. 1.
A detailed account of the fighting between the Modoc Indians and US troops in Northern California during the first half of 1873, following the alleged murder of unarmed peace commissioners… Read more about this item Item Price
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LOCAL TALES AND HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
by Bailey, Henry D. B.
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- 1st ed.
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- 1874
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 130.07
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NY: Fishkill Standard. Good. 1874. 1st ed.. 8vo, dark brown cloth, gilt titles on spine. Photographic frontis piece portrait of Bailey tipped in, 431 pages. Slavery, Freedom, and Ghosts in the Hudson River Valley - a mixture of fact and fab le. Good. Rubbed at top bottom of spine, corners; bits of newspap er residue on back cover.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 130.07
Early Cemeteries of the City of Los Angeles - Los Angeles Miscell any #2
by Carpenter, Edwin
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- 1st ed.
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- 1973
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 116.38
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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop. 1973. 1st ed.. 1st ed., limited to 300 copies. 8vo, illustrated boards, 48 pp. Illustrated with contemporary photographs and graphics - LA cemet eries up to the year 1885. Fine, without d/w -- as issued. . Item Price
SGD 116.38
An Artist Records the California Missions.
by FORD, Henry Chapman
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- Near Fine
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- 1st edition
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- 1989
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 102.69
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The Book Club of California, San Francisco. New. 1989. 1st edition. First edition; one of 450 copies. Edited with an Introduction by Norman Neuerberg. xl, 100 [1] pp. Oblong folio, cloth-backed deco rated paper-covered boards with printed paper label on spine, in publisher's plain white wrapper. Illustrations & plates from sket ches & paintings by Ford, a few… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 102.69
A History of THE ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL From Its Establishment in 18 63 to December, 1876; and of The Island of Rock Island, The Site of The Arsenal, From 1804 to 1863. ORDNANCE MEMORANDA NO. 20.
by Flagler, Maj. D.W.
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- 1877
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 376.53
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Washington: Government Printing Office. 1877. 1st ed., 485 pp., plus 13 fold-out plates, one photographic plate , and a fold-out frontispiece. Rebound in maroon cloth. Text bloc k is clean and tight with no foxing. One of the plates is split i n half but intact. some of the other plates have small tears or s tains, but not affecting… Read more about this item Item Price
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PICTURES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF BRIGHAM YOUNG AND HIS WIVES
by Crockwell. James H.
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- 1st edition
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- 1900
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 102.69
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Salt Lake Cit: James H. Crockwell. Good. 1900. 1st edition. 12mo, violet wraps tied with red ribbon. 40pp + photographs + 4p ads, Undated but circa 1900. "A true and correct statement of the birth, life and death of President Brigham Young, second Preside nt of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. And brief biographies… Read more about this item Item Price
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AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE Volume 8 January-June 1913
by AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE
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- 1st edition
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- 1913
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- Black cloth
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 171.15
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NY: AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE . Good. Black cloth. 1913. 1st edition. 1st ed.,8vo, black cloth. 684 pp. Articles, photographs, diagrams , and advertisements for city planners and municipal managers and buyers. Hundreds of b/w photos depiciting architecture, roads, a nd vehicles. . with its paper seal affixed inside front panel; also ex libris Al fred F. Rosenheim, with his… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 171.15
California Gold. Important Official Report In The New York Tribune for December 8, 1848
by [California / Gold Rush] Colonel Richard B. Mason
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- Used - Very good
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- 1st ed
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- 1848
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- Newspaper
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 308.07
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NY: The New York Tribune . Very good. 1848. 1st ed. California Gold. Important Official Report. In The New York Tribune for December 8, 1848, published by Horace Greeley and Thomas McElrath.
Original elephant folio newspaper, 4pp. complete, the report on p. 3. Colonel Richard B. Masonâs famous report of his trip to newly discovered placers. It ranks… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 308.07
AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE Volume 43 Jul-Dec 1930
by AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE
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- 1st edition
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- 1930
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- Black cloth
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 171.15
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NY: AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE CORP. Good. Black cloth. 1930. 1st edition. Six issues of approx. 200 pages each. . h. Approx. 1200 pp. Articles, photographs, diagrams, and advertis ements for city planners and municipal managers and buyers. Hundr eds of b/w photos depiciting architecture, roads, and vehicles. . Condition: Good; text block is very good, clean and tight. Covers… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lincoln in the Political Circus
by Gernon, Blaine Brooks
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- 1936
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 75.31
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Chicago: The Black Cat Press. 1936. 1st ed., in d/w, limited to 1000 copies. A critical study of Abra ham Lincoln's political relationships, with previously unpublishe d election materials. Some light soiling along top edge and penc il erasures on ffep where a price was apparently removed, otherwi se a fine copy. Dustjacket is fair only with several large… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 75.31
AFFAIRS IN OREGON. Letter from the Secretary of War Communicating .Correspondence with General Harney, Relating to Affairs in the D epartment of Oregon
by Harney, Brig. General William S.
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- 1st edition
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- 1860
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 205.38
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House of Represedntatives, HED 65, 36-1. Fair. 1860. 1st edition. 8vo, 269 pp. Lacking original wrappers -- but complete. A clean, tight copy with some light toning to the first twenty pages. Pra ctically no foxing. A collection of data and correspondence conc erning San Juan Island; details the claims of British subjects an d developments in… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 205.38
Your Dead Cease to Love You / A Speech by Chief Noah Sealth Deliv ered in 1854
by Sealth, Chief Noah
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- 1976
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 102.69
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Sacramento CA: Press of Arden Park. 1976. Handset and printed in black and peacock blue ink with Indian mot if illustrations. 16mo, beige cloth, 16 pp. Limited to 120 copi es signed by the printer, Bud Westreich. Fine . Item Price
SGD 102.69
Preliminary Specifications for the Lockheed Model 49 Long-Range S ub-Stratosphere Transport Airplanes. Confidential Report No. 1536 , Sept 13, 1939. [Original report; not a photocopy or pdf]
by [Aviation] Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
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- 1939
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 1,026.90
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Burbank: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Very good. 1939. Title Page: âPreliminary Detail Specification for the Lockheed â49â [Model 49-47] Submitted Under Information for Approval o f Design - [Copy No] 14â ##### . in custom two-hole binder. 30 pp., consisting of 23 mimeographed pages of specifications, printed one side only and 7 photostatic plan sheets including 2… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 1,026.90
Texas Argonauts Isaac H. Duval and the California Gold Rush
by Dillon, Richard H.
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- New
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- Near fine
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- 1st edition
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- 2987
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 89.00
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The Book Club of California. New. 2987. 1st edition. 1st ed., oblong 4to, 10 x 13 inches. 199 pp. Limited to 450 copie s. With color illustrations by Charles Shaw, appendix, footnotes, bibliography, index and endpaper maps. Original prospectus laid in. . uarter natural linen, illustrated paper over boards, printed pape r spine label, maps in end-leaves,… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 89.00
The Fremont Cannon / High Up and Far Back / Unravelling the Puzzl e of the brass conon abandoned in 1844 and never recovered from C alifornia's Sierra Nevada
by Lewis, Ernest Allen
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- 1981
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 89.00
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Glendale CA: Arthur H. Clark Company. 1981. 1st ed. "The Fremont Cannon" is Volumn 11 in the Frontier Militar y Series. This book covers J.J. Fremont's attempt to bring a bras s cannon from the Mississippi River to California. The effort fai led and the cannon has been lost to history. The prevalent theori es at that the cannon was… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 89.00
The Sleepy Lagoon Case
by Welles, Orson
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Sacramento, California, USA
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SGD 82.15
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1st ed., second printing with the original 5c price at the bottom of the cover. Covers age-toned with a couple of light stains. Pa per cover pulling from one of the staples, but still intact. Penc il erasures on back cover and one interior page. . Item Price
SGD 82.15