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New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1947 Revised American edition. With portrait, four facsimiles and charts. Appendices, index. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Spine slightly faded, minor rubbing to corners and spine. A fine copy..
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Trollope: A Commentary
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California Wine Country: Interior Design, Architecture & Style
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San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997 Square quarto. 204pp. Index. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Alan Weintraub. Forward by Robert Mondavi. Green cloth. A very fine copy in very fine pictorial dust jacket. Devotwe to the Wine Country lifestyle and interiors, over 200 photographs shot year-round reveal the glory of these unique and beautiful homes. .
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Quoth the Maven
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New York: Random House, 1993 First edition. Illustrations by Keith Bendis. Index. Half cloth brown binding with gilt lettering. Pictorial dust jacket. A very fine copy. A collection from the author's New York Times Magazine column, "On Language.". Illus. by Bendis, Keith.
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The Memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy Duc de Saint-Simon, Covering the Years 1691-1723
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New York: The Heritage Press, 1959 Selected, translated & edited by Desmond Flower. Full page color illustrations throughout. "Genealogical Table of the Bourbon Family" laid in. Red cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt. Spine darkened, else a fine copy in faded slipcase. Sandglass pamphlet laid in..
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A Forest World
by Salten, Felix
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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1942 First edition. 274pp. Illustrations by Bob Kuhn. Green cloth. Short tear to bottom edge of jacket, but a fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. The story of the stag, Tambo and his faithful Debina, two new main characters of the forest, by the author of Bambi..
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Selected Letters About Lower California
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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1971 First English translation. One of 600 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. Translated and Annotated by Ernest J. Burrus, S. J. 279pp. Frontis, six plates. Bibliography, index. Dark blue cloth, gilt. A few minor pencil check marks in blank border, Light rubbing to spine ends. A fine copy. The Italian Jesuit Salvatierra established Loreto, the first permanent mission and town in Baja California. He worked from 1697 to 1717 to consolidate the missions of Baja. The selection offered here includes letters and reports written to benefactors and colleagues during those years. Baja California Travels Series, No. 25..
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Love Song to the Plains
by Sandoz, Mari
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961 First edition. Signed by the author on half title. xi, [1], 303pp. Chapter head line illustrations and folding map by Bryan Forsyth, index. Brown cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. The author combines a comprehensive knowledge of the Plains with the ability to bring this region vividly to life: the vast land of grass and sky, sudden blizzards and sunbaked earth, home of the Indian and buffalo; the earliest explorers and fur trappers, etc..
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Slogum House
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1937 First edition. 400pp. Green cloth lettered in yellow. Covers soiled and spoted, spine darkened. Spine ends worn. A good copy without dust jacket. The author's first novel about the sandhills and cattle country of Nebraska in the early 1900's..
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Sioux Arrows and Bullets
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San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1969 Octavo. 171pp. Brown cloth in wood grain pattern, lettered and decorated in black. A very fine copy in price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. During the height of the Civil War, 2600 Sioux Warriors went on a rampage. Fifty thousand settlers fled and demanded protection, The Ninth Regiment Minnesota Volunteers were diverted to join Col. Sibley's campaign against Sioux Chief Little Crow.This is the account of that campaign, documented by official reports written by the officers..
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The First Spanish Entry into San Francisco Bay, 1775. The Original Narrative, hitherto Unpublished, by Fr. Vicente Maria...
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San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1971 First edition. Printed in a limited edition by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Edited by John Galvin. [8],130pp. Frontis, 5 plates, 1 folding map, text facsimiles of maps and documents. Blue cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with light blue printed dust jacket. A facsimile of the Santa Maria journal, which had been lost for over a century, with an English translation, illustrated with watercolors and a drawing by Louis Choris. Includes three documents relating to Juan Manuel de Ayala's first survey of San Francisco Bay in 1775..
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The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936 First edition. Small octavo. Green cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed with minor wear to corners and ends of spine. A very good copy in chipped dust jacket. The memoir of this famous philosophy professor..
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Wonders of the Arctic World: A History of all the Researches and Discoveries in the Frozen Regions of the North Together with The Polaris Expedition by William H. Cunnington
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Philadelphia: John E. Potter, 1873 Small octavo. 651, [8, ads]pp. Two frontis portraits, 35 plates, single-page map, text illustrations. Brown cloth. Contemporary owner's dated signature (1884). Portions of text block age-toned sporadically throughout, as is common for this title. Some light rubbing to spine ends and outer hinge, a few spots to fore-edge of front cover. A very good, clean, and tight copy. A fairly comprehensive work on the various polar expeditions and of the personalities involved: Frobisher, Hudson, Baffin, Behring, Cook, Ross, Franklin, Kane, Hall, et al. Also includes a history of the Polaris Expedition under Captain C. F. Hall..
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Mastercraftsmen of Ancient Peru
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New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1968 First edition. A fine copy with dust jacket. An examination of Incan craftwork..
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Ancient Peruvian Ceramics: The Nathan Cummings Collection
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Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1966 First edition. Drawings and photos by Milton F. Sonday, Jr, William F Pons, and William E Lyall. A fine copy with dust jacket..
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The Life and Career of Tiburcio Vasquez the California Stage Robber.
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Oakland: Biobooks, 1944 Second edition, first published in 1875. One of 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. SIGNED by Joseph A. Sullivan of Biobooks. Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. 91pp. Frontispiece, 3 plates (1 folding). Title decorations in red; opening initial in red on a yellow background. Handset Garamond type. Red cloth-backed green marbled boards, paper spine label printed in red. Spine slightly darkened, neat owner's name in ink on end. A fine copy. A reprint of the original 1875 edition, with a good bio-bibliographical introduction by the publisher. [Grabhorn: 404; Howes I: S-129; Howes II: S-131; Rocq: 7029; Six-Guns: 884]..
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Stones of Silence : Journeys in the Himalaya
by Schaller, George B.
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1980 Large octavo. Color photographs, black & white drawings. Tan boards, brown cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine. A very fine copy in very lightly worn pictorial dust jacket. . Illus. by Pruchnik, Jean (illustrator).
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A Forest of Kings. The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya.
by SCHELE, Linda and David Freidel.
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New York: William Morrow & Co. Inc., 1990 First edition. 542pp. Illustrated throughout with over 250 text drawings and photographs (33 in color), maps, etc. Glossary of Gods and icons, extensive notes, bibliography, index. Cloth-backed boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A good, scholarly study. "The story of Maya kingship, from the beginning of its institution and the first great pyramid builders two thousand years ago to the decline of the Maya civilization and its destruction by the Spanish." .
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Visions of Ancient America.
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New York: Rizolli, 1990 First edition. Introduction by Ricardo Legorreta. Square quarto. 216pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Schezen, map endpapers. Bibliography. Black cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful black & white photographs of historic sites of pre-Columbian cultures including Altar de Sacrificios, Chichen Itza, Copan, Edzna, et al. .
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Journey Through the Rocky Mountains and the Humboldt Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959 First English translation. Translated from the German and Edited by Thomas N. Bonner. 114pp. Drawings and maps by Joe Beeler. A very fine copy with dust jacket. Schiel served with the Gunnison Expedition sent out in 1853 to explore the possibilities of a railroad route to the Pacific. Fate allowed him to escape the massacre of Gunnison's command and he continued the remainder of the expedition under the command of Lieutenant Beckwith, wintering with the Mormons at Salt Lake City and reaching the coast the following year..
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Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals. Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics & Antiques throughout Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Austria and Germany from the year 1869-1885
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London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1911 2 volumes. First edition. Edited by Her Son, Montague J. Guest. Annotations by Egan Mew. Thick royal octavo. Pp. xl, [2], 503 + xiii, [3], 542 plus upwards of 100 plates showing hundreds of items, including 8 plates in color and one in photogravure. Index. Dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spines and front covers, pictorial elements in white, top edges gilt. Light extremity rubbing, two corners jammed, short half inch tear to upper front hinge of volume II. A very good set. These two volumes give a fascinating account of the journeys of Lady Charlotte Schreiber in her indefatigable search for ceramics and other objects for over 15 years in the late 19th Century. The English portion of her collection, consisting of 2,000 pieces, was presented to the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert) where it is known as the "Schreiber Collection." Lady Charlotte was a remarkable woman. She was first married to Sir John Guest, who owned the steel…
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