Category: States, Cities, Counties

Manual of the Corporation [Common Council] of the City of New York, for 1866

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Edmund Jones & Co., NY : 1866

Seller ID: k200329a

Condition: Very good

1st ed., 12mo.. [xvi], 820 pp. Color chromolith title page and 12 city views [4 folding] plus dozens of b/w engravings, 2 folding maps, 2 folding charts, 2 folding signature facsimiles. Rebound in modern tan library binding. The "Manuals of the Corporation" [contain extensive historical and contemporary records of New York City and are an indispensable source of early New York City history. Valentine (1801-1869) served as the Deputy to the Clerk of the Common Council for thirty-seven years. He published these books annually between 1841-1866; they include detailed information on the meeti...
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Bancroft's] Hand-book Almanac for the Pacific States: An Official Register and Business Directory of the States and Territories of California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho and Arizona; and the Colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, for the Year 1864

By: Knight, William H.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: San Francisco, H.H. Bancroft and Company : 1864

Seller ID: m210411a

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good-

4.25" x 6.5", [4] advts. pp 440 + [9] (advts), with additional advertising printed on endpapers. Third and final year of publication for this short-lived series. Includes considerable detail on each state or territory's government (listing elected and appointed officials at the state and county levels), post offices, courts, justices of the peace, schools, banks, churches and ministers, etc. Includes a 14-page narrative section by Alexander B. Taylor describing the "History and Present Condition of the Indian Tribes of California" which does not appear in the 1862 or 1863 editions. Sabin 3143;...
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Sacramento City and County Directory, 1869

By: Robert E. Draper

Price: $525.00

Publisher: Sacramento, H.S. Crocker & Co, Steam Printers and Stationers : 1869

Seller ID: k181231h

Condition: Fair

Sacramento: H.S. Crocker & Co, Steam Printers and Stationers. 1869. 1st ed.. 8vo, cardboard covers with advtg, 275 pp. . list of Post Offices on the Pacific Coast, Money Order Offices, General Directory, City Business Directory, State Offices, Sacramento City Government, County Directory, local history and statistics, hundreds of advts. Ex Libris William Neely Johnson, with his signature on p 13. Johnson was Secretary of Californiaâs Board of Land Commissioners, was the Stateâ's second appointed State Librarian [an interim appointment for 4 months in 1870], and brother of Gov. John Neely Johns...
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History of Sacramento County California- With Biographical Sketches of The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth and Development From the Early Days to the Present

By: Willis, William L.

Price: $115.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Historic Record Company : 1913

Seller ID: cb201123e

Binding: 3/4 leather, marbled boards

Condition: Fair

Thick 4to, 3/4 brown leather, marbled boards. 1056 pp. Willis moved from the east coast to Sacramento county in 1871, where he engaged in farming near Elk Grove, and teaching, until 1892. He then became a member of the editorial staff of the Record-Union, and continued the association for thirteen years. In 1879 he was tendered an appointment on the county board of education, of which he remained a member for twenty-three years. CONDITION: FAIR. A clean, tight copy internally. Covers well worn with substantial rubbing to edges, corners, and spine. Front board nearly detached. Owner’s i...
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Image for “An Arabic Pompeii. Historic Discovery in Andalusia, Dec. 1910. “An Arabic Pompeii. Historic Discovery in Andalusia, Dec. 1910. [Medina Azzahra]

“An Arabic Pompeii. Historic Discovery in Andalusia, Dec. 1910. “An Arabic Pompeii. Historic Discovery in Andalusia, Dec. 1910. [Medina Azzahra]

By: [Anon.] Manuscript

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Andalusia, n.p. : 1911

Seller ID: k210331e

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Handwritten notebook --author(s) unknown, comprising 22 pages on the above subject and 29 pp. on “Pyrolatry or Fire-Worship”.#####The article “An Arabic Pompeii [Medina Azzahra] documents part of a trip by the correspondents to Spain to trace the roots of Arabic art and architecture for a proposed book. While there, they heard rumors of the excavation of an early Arabic site. This site and its contents were kept secret by the Spanish government, and the writers of this journal detail how they stumbled upon the site, the problems they had in visiting, and the denial of permission to photograp...
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60 Roanoke Virginia Billheads, 1915-1919

By: [Billheads]

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Roanoke VA, : 1915

Seller ID: k210408g

Condition: Near Fine

Collection includes 60 individual billheads from 37 different suppliers to the families of Dr. Joseph A. Gale and pharmacist Paul. P. Hunter, Roanoake Virginia. Clothing, Bicycles, Hardware, Ostrich Feathers, autos and parts, groceries, photography – and one for artwork sold to Gale by bookseller John Rosenbach

Condition: Good to Fine.
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Max Reinhardt And His Salzburg A Portfolio Of Twenty Drawings

By: [Max Reinhardt] Sayler, Lucie R

Price: $450.00

Publisher: New York, Brentano's : 1905

Seller ID: k200312h

Condition: Good

Folio, cloth backed portfolio. Limited to 259 signed copies, 250 of which for sale. This copy no. 109. A memoir of Salzburg, told through twenty large b/w lithographs by Lucie Sayler. One page intro by theater and film producer Reinhardt, signed at bottom. He is regarded as one of the most prominent directors of German-language theatre in the early 20th century. Also signed by the artist Lucie Sayler. Title page browned from flap transfer with numerous edge tears; plates near fine overall -- but several with minor edge-nicks, several with light soiling at bottom edge; others with some damp-s...
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Category: States, Cities, Counties

Manual of the Corporation [Common Council] of the City of New York, for 1866

Bancroft's] Hand-book Almanac for the Pacific States: An Official Register and Business Directory of the States and Territories of California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho and Arizona; and the Colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, for the Year 1864

Sacramento City and County Directory, 1869

History of Sacramento County California- With Biographical Sketches of The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth and Development From the Early Days to the Present

“An Arabic Pompeii. Historic Discovery in Andalusia, Dec. 1910. “An Arabic Pompeii. Historic Discovery in Andalusia, Dec. 1910. [Medina Azzahra]

60 Roanoke Virginia Billheads, 1915-1919

Max Reinhardt And His Salzburg A Portfolio Of Twenty Drawings