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VOGUE HOMMES-N°122-SEPTEMBRE 1989-TIMOTHY DALTON
268 PAGES-21,5 CM X 28,5 CM-EN COUVERTURE "TIMOTHY DALTON OO7 PRESENTE SES JAMES BOND GIRLS" GROS PLAN COULEURS, PHOTO KEITH HAMSHERE-ANDY WARHOL COUPS DE PIED POSTHUMES-L'AME DE WIFREDO LAM, 1P, 2 ILL-GRUAU POUR PUBLICITE DORMEUIL-CALIFORNIA FOLLIES LES ALLUMES DE LA COTE OUEST-TONS D'ISLANDE VESTES AU NATUREL, MODE-BRILLANT, LE GRIS, MODE-TIMOTHY DALTON-ENCHERES, LA GUERRE DES MARTEAUX-PETER GALLAGHER SA MODE DECONTRACTEE AU QUOTIDIEN-AVANT SCENE LE RETOUR DES RONDES SONNE CELUI DES DECOLLETES, CINDY CRAWFORD-TOUJOURS CLASSIQUE, LE TWEED, MODE-L'AUTOMNE, CAS PARKAS, MODE-JOHNNY HALLYDAY POUR PUBLICITE WESTERN PASSION-
Référence libraire : ABE-1569876984634
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"Lanham"; Dickson, John; Cronstedt, Count Nills; Truscott, Charles; Digby, Bassett; Weddall, A.; Albert, Captain M.H.; Verrill, A.Hyatt; Denys, Courteney; Grimshaw, Beatrice; Smith, L. Marsden; Richards, Kenneth F.
The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, January [Jan.] 1924, Vol. LII, No. 309: To Afghanistan in Disguise
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part I - the story of a British officer's remarkable exploit - a journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives as one of themselves; Two Wanderers in the Faroes - John Dickson's account of the wild nature and unsophisticated people - article with excellent photos; "Grip" and I - Count Nils Cronstedt saved a doomed thoroughbred bull-terrier which proceeded to save him on several occasions during his stay in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; The "High-Jackers" - an audacious gang of murderous bank robbers terrorize the Canadian prairies, beginning in Moosomin, SK and ending in Pipestone, MB; The Islands of the Mammoths - a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia is the world's best hunting ground for the tusks and bones of the prehistoric mammoth - article with photos; The Three Angleteers - Part III - The troubles and adventures of three bored young men who leave England to travel in Europe; With Canoe and Camera - Capt. M.H. Albert explored Northern Ontario and Quebec to photograph wild animals - article with photos; The Mystery of Diablo Canon - The adventures of Senor Torres, a Captain of Rurales - the famous mounted police of Mexico; Two photos of two-room house built in the trunk of an immense California redwood; The Terror of Rampur - two hunters undertake to kill a murderous tiger in India; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part I - Photo-illustrated article by Beatrice Grimshaw describing her trip up the Sepik river in New Guinea, where she met the local native peoples - who were none-too friendly; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part IV - A small English expedition sets out to explore the mighty Amazon forests and study their local peoples; Some Sensational Prison Escapes - Carl Otto and Jack Foster bust loose from Folsom Prison; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
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( California)
California Welcomes You
Los Angeles. Al Malaikah Temple. 1923. Art Deco pictorial wrappers. Oblong 8vo. Profusely illustrated with colour and duotone full page plates of early Southern California. A beautiful collection of 1920 era Southern California photographs. Some chipping to covers else Near Fine. Al Malaikah Temple. unknown
Référence libraire : 3144
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(ABE REUF, CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT).
Cover Title In the Supreme Court State of California in the Matter of the Application of Abraham Ruef for a writ of Habeas Corpus criminal no. 1400 : memorandum supporting proposition that section 1129 of the penal code denying bail in bailable cases
No Place: no publisher. Good. 1907. Softcover. 24 pp.; 4to; original printed stapled gray wrappers. Moderate tanning at edges; strip of heavier tanning across lower back cover; half-inch closed tear rear cover leading edge; light tanning to front endpaper. . [no publisher] paperback
Référence libraire : 8756
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(Amador County, California)
HISTORY OF AMADOR COUNTY CALIFORNIA WITH ILLUSTRATIONS & BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ITS PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS.
Oakland: Thompson & West 1881. Modern facsimile reprint of the original 1881 edition reproduced by California Traveler. Pages 344 pp.4to Brown cloth binding stamped in gilt. Modern facsimile reprint of the original 1881 edition reproduced by California Traveler. Black and white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name else fine as issued without dust jacket. Oakland: Thompson & West (1881.) hardcover
Référence libraire : 6524
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(AMERIKA). (CALIFORNIA). (SAN FRANCISCO).
San Francisco im November 1848.
Hildburghausen. Uten Ã¥r. 1859-63. Originalt stÃ¥lstikk fra “Meyers Universumâ€. Motivets størrelse : 16 cm X 102 cm. Tysk. unknown
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(AMERIKA). (CALIFORNIA). (SAN FRANCISCO).
San Francisco.
Hildburghausen. 1859-63. Originalt stÃ¥lstikk fra “Meyers Universumâ€. Motivets størrelse : 16 cm X 11 cm. Tysk. unknown
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(Baja California)
Recepción hecha en Toluca al Illmo. y Rmo. Sr. D. fray Ramón M. de San José obispo "in partibus" de eumenia y vicario apostólico de la Baja California
Mexico: Imprenta de la "Voz de México" 1874. 77 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later quarter calf marbled boards. Minor stain to title page else About Fine. 77 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. OLC 1 copy UCSD. OLC 1 copy UCSD <br/><br/> Imprenta de la "Voz de México" hardcover
Référence libraire : 226651
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(BEUYS). RIVERSIDE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Some Artists For Example Joseph Beuys Mutiples Drawings Videotapes May 15-June 15
Riverside: n.d. 4to. unpaginated. b/w illus. wrs. sunned edges. Exhibition Catalogue. Soft cover. Very Good. Riverside: n.d. Paperback
Référence libraire : AVEmeRIV21
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(Big Game Industry) Investment Auditors of California
Report on Horne Zoological Corporation
Los Angeles 1929. 100 pp of typed documents and an additional 50 album leaves mounted with approximately 50 photographs various sizes and processes and various documents. Folio. Limp leatherette with title and recipient name stamped in gilt to upper cover. Large black quarter morocco clamshell box gilt. 100 pp of typed documents and an additional 50 album leaves mounted with approximately 50 photographs various sizes and processes and various documents. Folio. "It is proposed that a COMPLETE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS be opened to the public on a fifty cent admission basis which is to be properly laid out as an attractive Zoological and Botanical Garden with the finest and largest private collection of animals birds and reptiles to be seen anywhere on the continent."<br /> <br /> The advent of the motion picture industry in California had many wide-ranging ramifications on the business world and one was that it created a new market for firms who traditionally supplied animals to circuses and zoos both public and private owned by the likes of William Randolph Hearst. <br /> <br /> This archive is a report by the Investment Auditors of California for the Horne Corporation that was looking to expand by establishing a zoological garden in the environs of Los Angeles. The Horne Corporation was the largest and most successful of its type at the time apparently the only company in the US that could completely outfit a circus with both animals and show equipment. They were to purchase the Los Angeles Zoological Garden and Jungle Studio for $250000 and thereby sought to provide a similarly complete service to the film studios with both animals and suitable locations for film sets.<br /> <br /> The head of the company I.S. Horne for whom this report was compiled commenced trading in animals from Kansas City MO around 1914. The range of animals at the their disposal included big game birds reptiles and many of the documents concern the prospect of importing reindeer from Alaska.<br /> <br /> The material is held in a presentation album and includes the certificate of incorporation in Wilmington Delaware May 13 1929 as well as the by-laws of the corporation minutes of the first meeting the proposal for Los Angeles Zoological Garden and Jungle Studio and a balance sheet. At this stage the company had total assets of $57700 & liabilities of $625388.46; an enumeration of the various animals in inventory including wildebeest sables leopard lynx Rhodesian baboons bushbaby and a large aardvark.<br /> <br /> Of real interest are the plans for the park including artist's impressions which would be furnished with circus attractions "Monkey Island" jungle setting for motion pictures and an acknowledgment that "before the introduction of the motion picture industry the art of showmanship was not quite so highly developed as it is today." In fact one of the first pictures they supplied animals for was - appropriately enough - Trader Horn which was nominated for the 1931 Academy Award for Best Picture. <br /> <br /> On a more practical level there is a "Descriptive Classification of Principal Commercial Wild Animals" which lists 340 different animals in some details. There is also an account of hunting wild animals in East Africa as well as a section on animals that have been trained to hunt by man. Furthermore there is also much correspondence which provides much insight into the game industry its clients and the prospects for its future.<br /> <br /> Horne's venture subsequently became known as the World Jungle Compound in Thousand Oaks California eventually being acquired by 20th Century Fox studios. This archive is a record of a new phase of the entertainment industry. unknown
Référence libraire : 302295
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(Book Club of California). Dodoens, Rembert With a short essay by Carey S Bliss
A LEAF FROM THE 1583 REMBERT DODOENS HERBAL PRINTED BY CHRISTOPHER PLANTIN.
San Francisco: Book Club of California 1977. Limited edition. Hardcover. Like new in plain paper jacket. Folio 14 x 9.5 inches white cloth with gilt spine title title and portrait of Dodoens printed in olive green on front board; 288 pp. profusely illustrated with reproductions from old engravings original leaf from the 1583 edition tipped-in. <br/><br/>Leaf page 827/828 measures 13.75 x 8.5 inches and contains on recto descriptions of "Malo Armeniaca" apricot with engraved illustration and "Amygdalus" almond with engraved illustration following on verso. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom in an edition of 385 copies. Book Club of California hardcover
Référence libraire : 22378
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(Book Club of California). Dodoens, Rembert With a short essay by Carey S Bliss
A LEAF FROM THE 1583 REMBERT DODOENS HERBAL PRINTED BY CHRISTOPHER PLANTIN.
San Francisco: Book Club of California 1977. Limited edition. Hardcover. Like new in plain paper jacket. Folio 14 x 9.5 inches white cloth with gilt spine title title and portrait of Dodoens printed in olive green on front board; 288 pp. profusely illustrated with reproductions from old engravings original leaf from the 1583 edition tipped-in. <br/><br/>Leaf page 827/828 measures 13.75 x 8.5 inches and contains on recto descriptions of "Alnus" alder with engraved illustration and "Betula" birch and "Acer" Maple with engraved illustration following on verso. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom in an edition of 385 copies. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Book Club of California hardcover
Référence libraire : 20801
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(Book Club of California) Magee, David
The Hundredth Book A Bibliography of the Books Published by the Book Club of California
San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California 1958. First edition one of 400 copies printed. Illustrated. 80 pp. 1 vols. Folio 14 x 10. tan linen spine paper label and decorated boards. Fine. First edition one of 400 copies printed. Illustrated. 80 pp. 1 vols. Folio 14 x 10. Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California unknown
Référence libraire : 43824
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(Book Club of California) Harlan, Robert D
The Two Hundredth Book A Bibliography of the Books Published by the Book Club of California 1958-1993
San Francisco: Book Club of California 1993. One of 500 copies. 5 facsimile title pages color plate. x 2 62 pp. 1 vols. Folio 14 x 10. Original tan linen spine paper label and decorated boards. Fine. One of 500 copies. 5 facsimile title pages color plate. x 2 62 pp. 1 vols. Folio 14 x 10. <br/><br/> Book Club of California hardcover
Référence libraire : 43823
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(CAIZZI Ivo) -
Guida a Los Angeles per gli uomini d'affari.
Milano, Corriere della Sera, 1984, 16mo brossura editoriale con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. 114 con illustrazioni n.t. (Supplemento a Il Mondo 21/1984)
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(CALIFORNIA: POLITICS)
1860 ALS from Henry Innes Thornton Jr.
Downieville CA: N.p 1860. Original 4-page letter from H. I. Thornton Jr. to his mother and dated August 3rd of 1860. Contemporary lined blue paper with each page measuring 7 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches. Written in a very legible hand. Expected fold-lines and one short marginal tear else and excellent letter filled with California politics before the Civil War.Harry I. Thornton Jr. was born and raised in Alabama in a highly distinguished family; his father was Alabama Supreme Court Judge and his uncle John J. Crittenden of Kentucky was a United States Senator for four terms. Harry Jr. came to California in 1854 and immediately took up his law practice in Nevada City. Soon thereafter he moved to Downieville in Sierra County. He was enormously popular and in 1857 was elected District Attorney. As his popularity grew he was soon induced into running for State Senator. He did and won. This letter is to his mother telling of his political wishes and hesitations. He tells her that the incumbent Kirkpatrick has endorsed him and that he thinks winning the elections is an actual possibility. He writes - "All considered I am wavering. I will leave the matter open until the / comes in from Washoe which will be next week. it is more likely I will be lured off by the trumpet call of this war into the Constitutional Rights of the States and the People of the States against the dangerous sectional doctrines of Douglass-ism and Republicanism." He also writes much about the Platform of John Breckinridge for President. In a lighter vein he writes - "A burglar entered my room and stole my watch and $.50 from my pocket. I awoke and flushed the felon and gave chase had no forearm or could have shot him and have finally lost my pet my old companion." Thornton did win the election.When the Civil War broke out Thornton gave a famous speech on the Senate floor in Sacramento defending the South. Along with many other Democrats in office at that time he quit his position after his speech and left for the South to join the Confederacy. He was promoted rapidly eventually making the rank of Colonel. After the war he removed to Nevada and teamed up with John Garber to form the most powerful law firm in the state. N.p unknown
Référence libraire : 74708
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(California)
48 Photographic Lantern Views of The San Francisco Earthquake box title
Np 1906. 48 views on 12 glass lantern slides each slide measuring approx. 1-7/8 x 7 inches. 7-1/2 x 2-1/4 x 1-1/2 inches overall. Housed in the original white box with title as above and with listing of each numbered view. Splits to the box the slides in very good condition. 48 views on 12 glass lantern slides each slide measuring approx. 1-7/8 x 7 inches. 7-1/2 x 2-1/4 x 1-1/2 inches overall. unknown
Référence libraire : 325294
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(CALIFORNIA: AUTOMOBILES)
A Caped Woman Standing in Front of a ca. 1925 Cole Automobile at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco.
San Francisco: Wyland Stanley c. 1955. Original silver gelatin print made by Wyland Stanley from the negative of ca. 1925. 16 3/4 x 13 1/4 and mounted to board with a typed caption. A fine & rich image. Wyland Stanley d. 1994 was a San Francisco collector of negatives and photographic printer. During the 1950s he made prints of historic photos by Isaiah Taber Carleton Watkins Bradley & Rulofson Edweard Muybridge as well these prints of vintage cars from original negatives of pictures taken in the 1920s. The Bancroft has a large collection 328 of Wyland Stanley historic prints. Many of Stanley's photographs are currently available from stock houses but this one was actually printed by Stanley the owner of the negative in the mid 1950s. The captions were written by Stanley and are often humorous. Wyland Stanley unknown
Référence libraire : 71371
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(California Veterinary Medical Assn).
A Caring Profession. Signed limited edition.
Sacramento.: California Veterinary Medical Association. 2003. Stated first edition. . Gilt decorated hard cover. Leather bound. Fine owner name on end paper copy. . Folio. . Illustrated in black white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Limited edition of 100 copies number 072. Signed by Chairman and President. California Veterinary Medical Association. hardcover
Référence libraire : 235027
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(CALIFORNIA: GLASS LANTERN SLIDES)
A Collection of 45 Captioned Glass Lantern Slides.
New York: T. H. McCallister Company ca. 1905. This is a lovely set of glass slides; 45 in total and including 10 hand-colored. The subject of almost all of them are horticultural and the local is from La Jolla to Redlands to Pasadena. These are most definitely not the record of a family . Avenues of Eucalyptus; vacation. There are no people shown but great care is shown in identifying the plants and their locations. More than likely these were put together for a lecture on the Botany of Southern California. Almost all have manuscript captions. But the deciding factor is the fact that two of the magic lantern slides have captions within the negative a strong argument for a public lecture.Common titles are; An avenue of Eucalyptus; Banana Tree is Pasadena; 10000 acre orange grove; Olive trees Old Mission Inn; Ophir Roses Pasadena; Geraniums; Arroyo Seco; Tomato plants appearing about 10 ft tall; Calla Lily Field color; Vineyard color; Ostriches color; Hydrangeas with a bearded supervisor. 1905 is a bit past the big booster time so these were likely for educational purposes. Edifying the public on the grandeur of California T. H. McCallister Company unknown
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(CALIFORNIA: PLANT SPECIMENS)
A Collection of Thirty-Eight Native Plant Specimens.
Santa Cruz: N.p. 1953. Ruth Monsen an elementary school teacher and high school librarian in San Jose assembled this attractive gathering of specimens in the early fifties probably as a teaching tool for her students. There are thirty-eight specimens all of plants native to the hills around San Jose and Santa Cruz. Each one is tape-mounted on a thick piece of paper 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches and housed in a protective sleeve. Each specimen with a separate page of manuscript description in ink by Monsen housed in the sleeve as well. The descriptions are quite detailed: e.g. "Mountain Mahogany; Cercocarpus betuloides. Rose Family Rosaceae. Collected on a hillside wooded in the foothills west of the Stevens Creek Dam on April 25 1953. Found in middle and high elevations in the mountains. Simple leaves. No petals. Stamens numerous. Calyx-tube slender and stalk-like. Shrub or small tree. Leaves serrate above the middle". All housed in a plain box of like dimensions. A wonderful and attractive presentation unusual in that none of the specimens have come off their mounts nor have any been crushed or broken. N.p. unknown
Référence libraire : 71168
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(California County Histories)
A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF MERCED STANISLAUS CALAVERAS TUOLUMNE AND MARIPOSA CALIFORNIA.
Modesto: McHenry Museum 1980. Facsimile reprint of the 1892 Lewis edition with added index of names. Pages 408 pp index.4to. Black cloth. Facsimile reprint of the 1892 Lewis edition with added index of names. Black & white illustrations throughout. In fine condition. Modesto: McHenry Museum 1980. hardcover
Référence libraire : 3079
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(California Mining) Pique, Edward
A Practical Treatise on the Chemistry of Gold Silver Quicksilver and Lead tracing the crude ores from the Mines through the Various Mechanical and Metallurgic Elaborations until the Pure Metal is Obtained. Collected from the best Sources and his own Practical Experience. A useful Book for Every Californian and particularly for Miners Assayers etc.
San Francisco: Towne & Bacon Book and Job Printers 1860. First edition. Woodcut illustrations. Pp. 133. 1 vols. 12mo. Disbound some light marginal soiling else a very good copy with the signature of M. Standish of Boston on the endpaper. First edition. Woodcut illustrations. Pp. 133. 1 vols. 12mo. Towne & Bacon, Book and Job Printers unknown
Référence libraire : 27304
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(CALIFORNIA: MAPS)
A Travel Package from AAA.
Los Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California ca. 1940. A fine grouping of 14 pre-freeway California maps from the Automobile Club of Southern California. Housed in the original box given to the subscriber when he received them at his local office one end missing but attractive nonetheless. A few slight separation fold splits but overall in very good condition with the majority appearing to have never been opened.Maps are; Eastern Section of Los Angeles; Central Section of Los Angeles; Southern Section of Los Angeles; San Fernando Valley Section of Los Angeles; Orange County; Metropolitan Los Angeles; Imperial County; San Diego County; Kern County; San Luis Obispo County; Tulare County; Ventura County; Riverside County; California. Automobile Club of Southern California unknown
Référence libraire : 71435
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(California) Brunings, Dr John D
Album of Original Vernacular Photographs of Deer Hunts at Happy Camp and Horse Springs Modoc County 1925-26
Modoc County California 1926. 107 photographs most 3-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches but others ranging from 2-3/4 x 2 inches to 10 x 8 inches mounted to eleven card-stock leaves. About one-third of the photographs with manuscript captions in the lower margin or typed captions in the image. 1 vols. Oblong 11 x 14 inches. Contemporary three-quarter leather and patterned paper photo album string-tied. Boards quite rubbed and worn. The photographs in quite nice condition. Very good overall. 107 photographs most 3-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches but others ranging from 2-3/4 x 2 inches to 10 x 8 inches mounted to eleven card-stock leaves. About one-third of the photographs with manuscript captions in the lower margin or typed captions in the image. 1 vols. Oblong 11 x 14 inches. An evocative portrait of deer hunting and other outdoor activities in northern California in the mid-1920s. Many of the activities depicted took place in Modoc County in the far northeast of the state while other camps were made in Shasta National Forest. The album bears the ownership signature of Dr. John H. Brunings on the front pastedown. In a newspaper clipping affixed to one of the album leaves Brunings of San Francisco is identified as a "well known sportsman." Among those depicted in the album is a favored hunting partner of Bruning's Dr. L.N. Briones also of San Francisco.<br /> Much of the album depicts hunters in the field with numerous recent kills and trophies showing the deer field-dressed in place hanging from trees and camp poles draped over car hoods or horses or antlers affixed to other camp structures or car hoods 45 total photographs; duck hunters with daily kills some showing dozens 12; the deer hunters in the field or in camp 17; hunters in the field with a beautiful setter and shotguns 9; a hunter with recently killed rabbits 1; views of the hunting grounds in the Modoc County mountains 7; miscellaneous images of Dr. Brunings mostly with friends in the outdoors 13; Brunings in the U.S. Navy in China 1; view of main street in Adin California 1; and an image of a "pinto" deer a buck with distinct white patches killed by Brunings near Gualala California 1 photograph the 10 x 8 print.<br /> Typed captions appear either in the image or in the margins of twenty photographs mostly from Happy Camp and Horse Springs nineteen others have ink captions in the margins. The captions note locations as well as the names of many of those depicted. unknown
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(California)
Appendix to Senate Journal. Seventh Session 1856. Several Reports Bound Together Including Annual Report of the Controller of State.
Sacramento: Jsmes Allen State Printer. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary half leather with marbled boards black and red spine labels. Various reports foldout charts with individual pagination. One interesting title--Annual Reports of the Officers of the Insane Asylum of the State of california for the year 1855. Also includes Report of a Survey of a portion of the Eastern Boundary of California. Mild wear scattered foxing. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall . Jsmes Allen, State Printer hardcover
Référence libraire : 54886
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(CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN ARCHIVE)
Archive of Young Republicans of California Documents from the 1950s
Archive. 11 pieces. 1956-1957. California. An archive of several GOP pieces addressed to Ken Ladd President of the Young Republicans of San Joaquin County. It includes two typed letters signed by Governor Goodwin J. Knight as well as a typed letter signed by United States Senator Thomas H. Kuchel. There is also a letter from Lieutenant Governor Harold J. Powers and a signed photograph from Lieutenant Governor Bob Finch. The grouping also contains two typewritten documents; one lists the delegation from the San Joaquin County Young Republicans who will attend the State Young Republicans Convention and the other has the by-laws of the Young Republicans of San Joaquin County. There are also a couple of form letters with GOP content unknown
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(California) [Peck, George W]
Aurifodina; or Adventures in the Gold Region. By Cantell A. Bigly
New York: Baker and Scribner 1849. First edition. 1034pp. 12mo. Contemporary drab paper boards a bit worn and stained. Text block toned. Contemporary Terre-Haute Indiana bookseller ticket on the front endpaper A. Child. First edition. 1034pp. 12mo. The first edition of what is generally regarded as the first American novel relating to the California Gold Rush written by Peck under the pseudonym Cantell A. Bigly Can tell a big lie.<br /> <br /> Aurifodina however is of further interest as science fiction for its utilization of the lost race motif. Soon after making his fortune in the known gold fields the protagonist treks east attempting to reach Santa Fe but instead comes upon the valley of Aurifodina. Therein live a highly civilized people and gold is as common as mud and steel is the great rarity. The major portion of the narrative is occupied with contrasting the superior ways of the enlightened Aurifodinians with those of the outside world. The protagonist marries and lives a contented life until one day while he is ascending in an observation balloon an anchor line breaks and he is carried east until he is finally downed near the Big Licks of Kentucky. As much as he wishes to return to Aurifodina the prospect of an overland trek is too great for him and he consoles himself with putting down his narrative for the enlightenment of others. Wright I:2030; Cowan p.477; Baird & Greenwood 1995; Kurutz 490a Baker and Scribner unknown
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(California) Hart, L O
Autograph letter signed from a California gold miner
Nevada City CA 1851. 3pp. folded sheet blue paper. Usual folds some staining two sheets separated small hole affecting a few letters. 3pp. folded sheet blue paper. Writing in 1851 from Nevada City at the time California's most important mining town in the leading gold mining county this letter written by L. O. Hart to his aunt and uncle opens with the familiar prose on not having received letters and fearful that his previous letter not receive before turning to his life in the mines: "My health at present is none of the best but I live in hopes. I have not done any work of moment for 5 or 6 week past and for a week past I have been confined to my cabin though today I feel better by considerable. We have had no rain yet though for weeks it has been predicted that it will rain next week. If anything the weather is warmer than last August for we cannot keep our butter from melting put it where we will and fix it how we may." The letter continues by discussing costs of commodies: "California has much improved in living since I have been here. Now one can enjoy some of the luxuries of home and better preserve his health. Provisions are considerable cheaper than they were one year ago. Then it cost $1.50 cents per day to live upon pork beans and potatoes but now our cost daily is not far from 75 cts and we have flour potatoes butter pork tea coffee and chocolate and fresh beef once a day broought to us at 20 cts per lb. Potatoes sell from 8 to 12 dollars per bushel. Clothing is actually sold lower here than at home. Boots & shoes sell for 2 & 3 dollars per pair."<br /> <br /> The letter continues on Monday morning extolling the virtues of the weather and fauna of California though critical and rascist concerning the region's Native Americans: ". Now that I am somewhat used to I think this climate is unsurpassable. We have an atmosphere healthy clear dry & transparent. Persons can talk 1/2 a mile apart with ease & from the tops of hills we can see what appear to be snow capped mountains some 25 or 30 miles distant but which are in reality 3 & 4 times that distance from us. We never have either frost or dew & from April until December it is but seldom that a cloud can be seen but the whole summer long a clear sun hot dry & parching generally speaking all are very healthy. The only killing disease of the country being the Erysipelas which generally proves fatal . The wild game of the country consists of wolves black bears grizzly bears wildcats deer squirrels turtle doves wild ducks & geese elks & Indians of which the latter is by far the most despicable looking quadruped I ever saw. They are thieving revengful lazy specimens of humanity. At present they are all around us but are perfectly quiet."<br /> <br /> The letter closes with an update on his successes and failures in the mines: "I have made about two thousand dollars this summer and out of that have lost twelve hundred so that I have for my summers work about eight hundred doll. I should not have said work for it has been all speculating &c. It takes a litter experience to handle all of the ropes & I can plainly see where I missed it but 'live and learn' I've got to. So I take it all as a matter of course & try again. And I am going to keep trying until I get $10000 doll then I shall come home sure . Tell all the cousins I'll bring them home something shiney one of these days . unknown
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(CALIFORNIA: MAP)
Automobile Road Map of Owens Valley: Resort Lakes Fishing Streams Camp Locations Trails and Peaks.
Los Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California 1932. Original ACSC folding map printed on one side only but for the title panel. 35 x 9 1/2 inches. Very good. Automobile Club of Southern California unknown
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(California)
Big Meadows - Feather River - Reno - Tahoe - 1916. Cover titlePhotograph Album
N.p. California and Nevada 1916. With 29 mounted photographs most neatly captioned in ink on 18 leaves 922 snapshots and 6 4 x 6 inches one printed photo postcard and a folding "Map of the Feather River Highway" on onion skin paper laid in. 8 pp. typescript titled Vacation 1916 rectos only. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Brown cloth with string ties. Binding worn; first leaf of typescript torn along gutter no loss old repairs on verso of map. Very good. Black cloth clamshell box. With 29 mounted photographs most neatly captioned in ink on 18 leaves 922 snapshots and 6 4 x 6 inches one printed photo postcard and a folding "Map of the Feather River Highway" on onion skin paper laid in. 8 pp. typescript titled Vacation 1916 rectos only. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Nice photograph album and narrative account of an early automobile camping and trout fishing trip in and around Big Meadow and Lake Almanor. The party of three "Russell Homer and I" possibly "Super Shot Margie" who appears in several of the photographs left on the Benicia ferry on 22 July and spent the next two weeks around Gold Lake Long Lake Reno and Lake Tahoe talking to oldtime prospectors camping dancing fishing and visiting the sights. With photographs of trout fishing their camps swimming and boating an old miner's cabin and a few scenes in the snow. A nice record of a trip through an area that retains its appeal for vacationers a century later.<br /> <br /> AN ATTRACTIVE CALIFORNIA ALBUM. unknown
Référence libraire : 314050
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(CALIFORNIA: BIG SUR)
Big Sur Lodge on the Famous Carmel-San Simeon Highway No. 1.
Carmel: Big Sur Lodge ca. 1942. First edition of this eight-panel brochure. 25 x 3 inches folded: 6 1/4 x 3 inches. All photographic illustrations tinted in blue. OCLC only locates one copy Bancroft. Fine condition.A wonderful presentation of the Big Sur region prior to the Jack Kerouac and Henry Miller age. A nicely done distance map occupies three of the panels showing the entire West Coast. The remain panels have photographic illustrations of the Lodge and its grounds local attractions and the recreations available near the Lodge. There is also much ballyhoo about the The Carmel-San Simeon Highway also known as the Roosevelt Highway as it had recently been completed 1937. It took 16 years to finish this 100-mile stretch of highway and anyone who has traversed it knows why.The state of California acquired the land in 1933 from the original homesteaders and created Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park in the Pfeiffer family's honor. The Civilian Conservation Corps built the lodge and surrounding facilities between 1933 and 1941. The Lodge is still administered by the state. Big Sur Lodge unknown
Référence libraire : 76767
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(CALIFORNIA).
Botica General de los Remedios Esperimentados Sonoma 1838. Translation by Maria Lopez de Lowter; Introduction by Viola Lockhart Warren
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press For the Friends of the UCLA Library. Good. 1954. Softcover. 26 pp.; 8vo; printed stapled blue wrappers. Scuff to front cover; stip of light tanning across front endpaper; ownership ticket of Ed Ainsworth affixed to lower edge inside front cover. The Botica General . . . was one of twelve twelve books printed by the Zamorano press during its twelve years of service to the Mexican Government. . The Ward Ritchie Press For the Friends of the UCLA Library paperback
Référence libraire : 8753
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(CALIFORNIA: MINING)
California Mining Journal. Vo. 16 No. 2. Kern County Miners Call for help!.
Auburn: J. P. Hall 1946. First edition of the October 1946 issue published monthly. Quarto. 32 pp. illustrated and with ads. Publisher's printed yellow wrappers Short split at upperr joint but a very clean and sturdy copy.The main story is the anger over the governments preemptory declaration of mines that have been worked for a number of years as "Non-Mineral." to quote from the front cover-"Owners of and Estimated 6000 Claims Developing and Producing Mines are losing their holding to the U.S. Navy without benefit of Engineering and Legal Help Many are being ordered to Relinquish Their Rights for Nothing on Interior Department Engineers' reports that said Claims are "Non-Mineral." Or as it is more succinctly put in the headline for the main article "A Sin! A Crime!! A Damnable Outrage!!!." It seems most of the mines affected were near Randsburg and those mines were still producing. A government order was issued at the end of WWII to close down the gold mines as they were not considered an essential wartime industry. Another reason was the decline in the value of gold. J. P. Hall unknown
Référence libraire : 76114
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(CALIFORNIA)
California: Nature's Masterpiece.
Los Angeles: National Mortgage Company of California 1923. First edition. Quarto. 48 pp. with artistic photographic illustrations on every page. Publisher's blue wrappers. front cover with a gilt frame surrounding the title in gilt. An excellent copy. Only 4 copies recorded by OCLC.Presentation inscription from "Geo. S. Walker". Walker was for twelve years the state Building & Loan Commissioner before becoming the president of the National Mortgage Company of California. A rather elaborate piece of boosterism. As it was issued by a mortgage company instead of a special interest it covers every aspect of the new California life-style. National Mortgage Company of California unknown
Référence libraire : 75464
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(CALIFORNIA: TRANSPORTATION)
California the Eden of the Earth.
Los Angeles: Benton Publishing Co. 1927. First edition Narrow octavo. 20 pp. with with color illustrations on nearly every page. Publisher's pictorial wrappers with a color image of a tour bus on the cover. In the original envelope which has "A Bit of California Color" printed on it. An excellent copy. No copies located by OCLC.The subtitle on the front cover is "See California First.' At first glance one would think this a pamphlet for the Golden State Royal Blue Line of buses a relatively new phenomenon. But as one reads further it is obvious that this is a piece of boosterism for the State in general as it covers nearly everything and in printed in exceedingly small type using blue ink. I think the real reason for it's publication unknown to the internet or to OCLC is to be found on the inner rear page. There we see a colorful cluster of purple grapes and the following ad; "The World's Only Deluxe All-Color Book in Multi-process Art Engravings: "California the Wonderland and Garden of the World" published by the very same Benton Publishing Company. Mechanical color printing was a very new thing in 1927 Prior to this a printer had to use lithos or engravings. "Initially some black and white halftones were enhanced with synthetically applied color. By the 1920s improvements in mechanical color separation techniques and the growth of magazine publishing made it possible for some titles to afford full-color pictures and black text to be printed together on sheetfed letterpress systems" Multimediaman June 2016. In truth the color in the publication is well less than sterling and this leads one to suspect that the Benton Publishing Company offered to print this at a discount for the State in order to try out their new printing process. Many of the illustrations are positively strange and feel off-register as they were likely struggling to master this new technology. Benton Publishing Co. unknown
Référence libraire : 75587
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(CALIFORNIA)
California Souvenir Playing Cards.
Los Angeles: M. Reider 1912. Complete deck of 52 playing cards each with a captioned photographic scene on the face and a poinsettia and mission bell on the back card edges gilt. In the original two-part red box with gilt lettering. Box has some expected wear. Cards are beautiful.All fifty-two of the cards bear different photographic images of places of interest in California and include; Soldier's Home near Santa Monica Cawston Ostrich Farm Rubidoux Summer Riverside Casino and Beach Santa Cruz Stanford University the Pinnacles near Soledad Arlington Hotel Santa Barbara etc. Joker and ad card present. Original revenue stamp present. M. Reider unknown
Référence libraire : 72138
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(California)
Californie. Illustration pour L'Exposition de Paris 1900. In English French and German
Paris: Draeger Frères 1900. Fourth edition. Illustrated throughout. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 10 3/4 x 7 inches. Decorative brown wrappers. Very good with 2 minor chips. Fourth edition. Illustrated throughout. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 10 3/4 x 7 inches. Draeger Frères unknown
Référence libraire : 217082
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(CALIFORNIA: AUTOMOBILES)
Chauffeur and His Woman Passenger in a c. 1925 Nash 2-Door Sedan at the Aquatic Park in San Francisco.
San Francisco: Wyland Stanley c. 1955. Original silver gelatin print made by Wyland Stanley from the negative of ca. 1925. 16 3/4 x 13 1/4 and mounted to board with a typed caption. A fine & rich image. Wyland Stanley d. 1994 was a San Francisco collector of negatives and photographic printer. During the 1950s he made prints of historic photos by Isaiah Taber Carleton Watkins Bradley & Rulofson Edweard Muybridge as well these prints of vintage cars from original negatives of pictures taken in the 1920s. The Bancroft has a large collection 328 of Wyland Stanley historic prints. Many of Stanley's photographs are currently available from stock houses but this one was actually printed by Stanley the owner of the negative in the mid 1950s. The captions were written by Stanley and are often humorous. Wyland Stanley unknown
Référence libraire : 71362
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(California)
Collection of 22 California broadside song sheets
San Francisco: Bell & Company General Publlisher of Songs & Ballads no. 639 Kearny St 1870. Approx. 10 x 4 inches each. Various conditions generally very good. Approx. 10 x 4 inches each. Includes: You Never Miss de Lager till de Keg runs Dry Since Terry First Joined the Gang Tommy Make Room for your Uncle First She Would and Then She Wouldn't When Silver Locks Replace the Gold Sally Green and more. Among the songs are those sung by the San Francisco Minstrels Mackin & Wilson Tony Pastor Ned Barry Ella Wesner etc. Bell & Company, General Publlisher of Songs & Ballads no. 639 Kearny St unknown
Référence libraire : 332662
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(California)
Collection of 14 broadside songsheets
San Francisco: T.C. Boyd Montgomery Street 1870. Approx. 10x4 inches. Several with woodcut illustrations. Various conditions. Generally very good. Approx. 10x4 inches. Several with woodcut illustrations. Includes: The Doony Song re: the April 1867 victory of American Californian boxer Tom Chandler over British boxer Dooney Harris Great Prize Fight between Lazarus and Peter Daly "I do not Want to be drowned" re: Burning of the steamship Golden Gate near Manzanillo July 27 1862 Sally Come Up Yes I Would the War Were Over Or Any Other Man and more. T.C. Boyd, Montgomery Street unknown
Référence libraire : 332661
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(CALIFORNIA -- Map)
County Map of California
New York: S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. 1860. Folio 12" X 15¼" image area 10½" X 13½". Hand colored. Very good. Light age toning. Bold bright map of the 31st state from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World Plans of Cities Etc." Small inset at lower left contains "San Francisco and Vicinity" while large inset at upper right contains "Map of the Settlements in the Great Salt Lake Country Utah." Superbly colored with fine decorative border. S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. unknown
Référence libraire : 46868
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(California) [Harris, Kate]
Death of a California Adventurer
Olneyville RI: John W. Lewis 1850. 1p. 8 stanzas printed in two columns. 7-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches. Very minor edge chipping. 1p. 8 stanzas printed in two columns. 7-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches. Scarce songsheet. The text below the the title continues: "The following lines were suggested by hearing an extract of a letter from Captain Chace giving an acount of the sickness and death of his late brother-in-law MR. Brown Owen who died on his passage to California." The lyrics to the popular song were written by Kate Harris of Pascoag R.I. and published in the New England Diadem and Rhode Island Temperance Pledge on 9 Feb. 1850. Eberstadt 134-119 John W. Lewis unknown
Référence libraire : 354196
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(California Democratic Convention)
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. Masonic Music Hall. Thursday September 3 1908 2 P.M. Stockton California.
Stockton: Stockton Mail 1908. Pages 19 pages.5� x 5.5�. Paperbound. Illustrated w/ fold out photographs by Logan. Street map of Stockton on back cover. Lists of delegates and committee members. Fold out partly torn along hinge were attached inside back cover else in very good condition. Very scarce. Stockton: (Stockton Mail) 1908. unknown
Référence libraire : 641
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(California) Weller, Mr
Drop Title: Remarks of Hon. Mr. Weller of California on the Mexican Boundary Commission-The River and harbour Bill-The Fugitive Slave Law and California Land Titles. Delivered in the Senate of the United States
Washington D.C.: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office 1852. 8 pp. 1 vols. Removed. 8 pp. 1 vols. Printed at the Congressional Globe Office] unknown
Référence libraire : 218651
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(CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH)
During The Gold Rush A Sacramento Bank Promises Payment In Gold Dust
CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH. DS. 1pg. July 22 1850. Sacramento City California Territory. A demand note signed Barton Lee as a banker. The partially-printed note entitles the bearer to two hundred dollars plus 5% interest payable in gold dust one month hence. Barton Lee and Baker & Company was a popular Sacramento bank. California would become a state seven weeks later on September 9 1850. This interesting piece of California Gold Rush memorabilia is in very good condition with light wear. unknown
Référence libraire : 5391
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(California) Fricke, John William
Feather River Fishing Photograph Album and Scrapbook
California 1928. 131 mounted black and white photographs and more than 75 items of typescript and printed ephemera inserted. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Black card wrappers string tied. A few photographs or items of ephemera perished generally very good. Black cloth clamshell box with printed lbel. 131 mounted black and white photographs and more than 75 items of typescript and printed ephemera inserted. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Nicely illustrated photograph album and scrapbook of the convivial businessman J.W. Fricke of San Francisco who fished for rainbow trout from his cabin on the Feather River in the California Sierras. The album includes Fricke's fishing licenre is a calligraphic page for the "Golden Feather Cabeen and Some Famous Fishermen Who Visit There" naming on successive pages Frank F. Weber C.W. Callender J.H. Vogt Edwin D. Weary whose typed verses in praise of the Feather River are included and E.R. Billet who also typed some verses sometimes with notes in white ink. Photographs are often dated and captioned chiefly 1919-1923 and show views of stream interiors of the cabin the friends bathing scenes and the fishing. There are also a few photos recording a trip to the Père Raquette river in Michigan and a newspaper account of fishing the Rogue River in Oregon; and some printed verses in praise of Fricke's hospitality dated 1928.<br /> <br /> A PLEASING GLIMPSE OF WESTERN ANGLING IN THE 1920s. unknown
Référence libraire : 314049
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(CALIFORNIA; DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES)
Floods of December 1955 in California.
Sacramento: Department of Public Works 1956. First edition. Quarto. Text with various paginations and with 25 folding maps and graphs in the rear many in color. Publisher's quarter cloth tape spine over photographically illustrated wrappers. Tape at base of spine peeling away and a magic marker covering of something on the front wrappers but a complete and solid copyRecord-breaking floods occurred in California the western parts of Nevada Oregon and Idaho and scattered basins in southern Washington during the last part of December 1955 and in January 1956. "Gum Tree Levee on the Feather River in Sutter County collapsed sending a 21-foot wall of water into Yuba City. In the darkness of the night the town would go into complete chaos with families fleeing from their homes to escape the deadly flood. n the end 40000 people would evacuate the surrounding area with over 600 needing to be rescued by boat or helicopter and 38 people dying in the floodwater. It was a devastating natural disaster and a strong lesson for the area that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers calls “the most prone to intense flooding of any river valley in the United States.â€The storm that caused the rise in waters in Northern California was one for the ages. A bombardment of precipitation slammed the entire west coast with Shasta County receiving 15.34 inches in just 24 hours on December 20th. A statewide disaster was declared with the storm resulting in 74 deaths and $200 million in economic losses" Active Norcal 2023. Department of Public Works hardcover
Référence libraire : 76326
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(CALIFORNIA: LONG BEACH)
From the Earthquale Zone in Long Beach California.
Long Beach: Green's Inc. 1933. First edition of this earthquake souvenir. 6 x 4 inches. 16 pp. almost entirely of photographic illustrations of the damage caused by this 1933 quake. Publisher's light tan mailing wrappers with the tile and a photographic illustrations of the first responders captioned "The Situation Is in Good Hands> Stamped and send to Mr. & Mrs. LaPierre Peck of Yakima WA. Wonderful condition.The 1933 Long Beach earthquake took place on March 10 at 5:54 P.M. PST south of downtown Los Angeles. The epicenter was offshore southeast of Long Beach California on the Newport–Inglewood Fault. The earthquake had a magnitude estimated at 6.4 Mw and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII Severe. Damage to buildings was widespread throughout Southern California. 115 to 120 fatalities and an estimated forty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted. The majority of the fatalities resulted from people running out of buildings exposing themselves to the falling debris. A great deal of the damage was focused on Long Beach and this quake was a wake-up call for local governments to institute new construction guidelines. Green's Inc. unknown
Référence libraire : 74409
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(CALIFORNIA GOLD REGION)
Geologic Atlas of the United States Gold Rush Regions; Seven Folios.
Washington: United States Geological Survey 1894-1900. First edition of all seven folios. 21 2/4 x 18 1/2 inches each. Folio 3 Placerville. 3 maps. 1894. Folio 5 Sacramento. 2 maps. 1894. Folio 29 Nevada City Special. 9 maps. 1896. Folio 41 Sonora. 4 maps. 14x4" portion of rear wrapper torn off affecting lettering on inside rear wrapper; plates and text fine. 1897. Folio 51 Big Trees. 3 maps & 1 plate reproducing 5 photographs. 1898. Folio 63 Mother Lode District. 8 maps. 1900. Folio 66 Colfax. 3 maps. 1900. All in original printed wrappers and cloth spines. Cursive stamp of Chas. S. Sawyer to each volume. Bit of soiling ad corner wear but altogether a very good collection of this attractive group of atlases. United States Geological Survey hardcover
Référence libraire : 71028
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