Category: Americana

A Faithful Translation of the Papers Respecting the Grant Made by Governor Alvarado to John A. Sutter

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Sacramento, Sacramento Book Collectors Club : 1942

Seller ID: m221017d

Condition: Good

1st ed., limited to 80 copies. 8vo, mauve boards, linen backed. Xxi, 16 pp. The first publication of the club. Photographic map frontispiece of New Helvetia. Introduction by Neal Harlow.CONDITION: Good. A clean, bright copy overall. Front hinge lightly cracked after the FEP; rear hinge just starting. End papers toned; ½"x 2" peel lower front pastedown where a label was apparently removed. 1x1" stain lower front board, a label appears to have been removed. Lacking the printed paper label on the spine. A 5x8 printed sheet showing the charter members of the Sacramento Book Collectors Club is ...
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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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First International Rocket Mail U.S.A. - Mexico July 2, 1936

By: Rumbel, Oliver

Price: $135.00

Publisher: The Rocket Mail Society : 1956

Seller ID: k190114c

1st ed. 4to, illustrated red cloth. No. 265 of a limited edition of 500 copies. 64 pp. Loyal Service Post 37, the American Legion post in McAllen, Texas wanted their mortgage paid off in time for dedication ceremonies that were scheduled for July 2nd 1936. Money was tight, and ideas were in short supply. But the Post Commander's 16-year old son had one. The boy had two hobbies: rocketry and stamp collecting. Combining the two, he came up with the idea of Rocket Mail and with Mexico just across the river the word INTERNATIONAL was also apropos. He convinced his father that First Day of Issue ...
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Your Dead Cease to Love You / A Speech by Chief Noah Sealth Delivered in 1854

By: Sealth, Chief Noah

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Sacramento CA, Press of Arden Park : 1976

Seller ID: 07154

Handset and printed in black and peacock blue ink with Indian motif illustrations. 16mo, beige cloth, 16 pp. Limited to 120 copies signed by the printer, Bud Westreich. Fine
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Image for California, Union, and Freedom / Speech of William H. Seward, on the Admission of California.<br/>Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 11, 1850

California, Union, and Freedom / Speech of William H. Seward, on the Admission of California.
Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 11, 1850

By: Seward, William

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Washington, Buell & Blanchard : 1850

Seller ID: k221017a

Condition: Good

1st ed. 8vo, 16 pp., Disbound from a larger volume; no outer wrappers. Seward's first address to the Senate was one of his most influential orations and immediately established him as a national antislavery leader. He acknowledged that the Constitution's framers had recognized slavery's existence and protected it where it existed, but the new territory was governed by a "higher law than the Constitution" -- a moral law established by "the Creator of the universe." Opposing all legislative compromise as "radically wrong and essentially vicious," Seward demanded the unconditional admission of Ca...
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A View of the Town and Castle of St. Augustine, and the English Camp Before it June 20 1740

By: Thomas Silver

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Gentleman's Magazine, London, : 1740

Seller ID: k190220d

Condition: Good

B/w copper plate engraving; Image size 6-3/8”x 12-3/4” plus margins to 8”x12-3/4”. The view depicts the British siege under General Oglethorpe, on St. Augustine [Spanish Florida]. This siege failed and the British troops retreated back to Georgia. A lettered key identifies the positions, identifies the ships and gives a general history of the battle. Good condition with several light folds and creases, several small edge-nicks, some browning to lower third..
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The Sleepy Lagoon Case

By: Welles, Orson

Price: $60.00

Seller ID: 040314

1st ed., second printing with the original 5c price at the bottom of the cover. Covers age-toned with a couple of light stains. Paper cover pulling from one of the staples, but still intact. Pencil erasures on back cover and one interior page.
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Image for Preliminary Specifications for the Lockheed Model 49 Long-Range Sub-Stratosphere Transport Airplanes. Confidential Report No. 1536, Sept 13, 1939. [Original report; not a photocopy or pdf]

Preliminary Specifications for the Lockheed Model 49 Long-Range Sub-Stratosphere Transport Airplanes. Confidential Report No. 1536, Sept 13, 1939. [Original report; not a photocopy or pdf]

By: [Aviation] Lockheed Aircraft Corporation

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Burbank, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation : 1939

Seller ID: k190114a

Condition: Very good

Title Page: “Preliminary Detail Specification for the Lockheed ‘49’ [Model 49-47] Submitted Under Information for Approval of Design - [Copy No] 14” ##### 8-1/2”x11” loose-leaf pages 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 foldout plans of the cabin layout -- plus From the foreword: “This detailed specification overs the general requirements and design of the Lockheed ‘49’, a long range, substratosphere, day or night transport airplane. …Upon the negotiation of a contract for thi...
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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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“California Gold. Important Official Report.” In The New York Tribune for December 8, 1848

By: [California / Gold Rush] Colonel Richard B. Mason

Price: $225.00

Publisher: NY, The New York Tribune : 1848

Seller ID: k201010g

Condition: Very good

“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. Mason’s famous report of his trip to newly discovered placers. It ranks as one of the most important eyewitness accounts of the Gold Rush.” (Kurutz 105) “One day Mr. Marshall, as he was walking own the race to this deposit of mud, observed some glittering particles at its upper edge…” [from the Report). This issue was printed just three days after the “Message from t...
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ALS to [Judge] J. R. Lewis re his invitation to attend a Washington D.C. political event in support President Lincoln. Sept 20, 1863

By: [Civil War] Maj. Gen. Samuel Ryan Curtis

Price: $350.00

Publisher: : 1863

Seller ID: k210408b

Condition: Near Fine

ALS to [Judge] J. R. Lewis re his invitation to attend a Washington D.C. political event in support President Lincoln. Sept 20, 1863, 7.5x10". "Our soldiers in the field will look with great anxiety at the endorsement which their friends give at the ballot box, when I and confident Iowa will heartily respond favorably to their cause. /// Hoping that you will cast a united vote for the Union ticket and thereby convince the rebels that we of Iowa stand firmly in favor of our cause and country." Samuel Ryan Curtis [1805-1866] was the most successful union general west of the Mississippi, rememb...
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Hand-colored Map of Arkansas Surveying District, 1840

By: [Maps] David Fulton Surveyor Public Land

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Printed by W.J. Stone etc. Wash. for 28th Congress 2d Sess. : 1840

Seller ID: k210726b

Condition: Very good

Surveyors Office Little Rock 30th Sept. 1840David Fulton Surveyor Public LandPrinted by W.J. Stone etc. Wash. for 28th Congress 2d Sess.This is the scarce, annotated version of the map of the Arkansas Surveying District "shewing the extent of public surveys in said district on the 30th September, 1840." Unlike other versions of this map that have appeared, this hand-colored version indicates by color the finished, unfinished, and relinquished townships and lines "the field notes of which have been sent to the General Land Office." The map also depicts the Arkansas and other Rivers, Choctaw a...
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An Epistle and Testimony from the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in New-York, by adjournments, from the twenty-sixth of the fifth month, to the second of the sixth month, inclusive, 1828.

By: [Quakers; Society of Friends]

Price: $175.00

Publisher: NY, Mahlon Day : 1828

Seller ID: k200225f

Condition: Good

12mo, original wrappers. 24 pp. Author(s) not identified but with printed signatures at the end of Samuel Parsons and Anne Mott, clerks. The narration begins with a description of the "spirit of unbelief and libertinism, which has long been secretly insinuating itself amongst us." Followed by an account of how "separatists" disrupted the Society's daily business in New York. [In an 1824 epistle, preacher Elias Hicks argued that the most important principle of worship was obedience to the Inner Light, which he considered more authoritative than the Bible. By 1827, Philadelphia Quakers had spl...
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Report of the California Land Commissioners to the Legislature of the State of California

By: [San Francisco] B.B. Redding, State printer

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Sacramento, B.B. Redding, State printer : 1855

Seller ID: k210219a

Condition: Good+

9 pp. (8¾x5¾"), previously bound. First Edition.#####Document 9, 1855. Report on the sale of the interest of the State of California in the property within the water line in front of San Francisco [known as water lots]. The sales occurred between September 1853 and October 1854. The appendices list the blocks and properties, the buyers, the dates, and the prices for sales and for re-sales, and a summary of the revenue by sale date. OCLC lists only the three copies at the Huntington Library, Harvard Law School, and Saint Patrick's Seminary & University.#####CONDITION: Good+. Light wear and tone...
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Charter, By-Laws, &C. Of The Fire Department, In Worcester (Mass.)

By: [Worcester Mass]

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Worcester: Mirick and Bartlett Printers : 1838

Seller ID: s210825b

Condition: Near Fine

Charter, By-Laws, &C. Of The Fire Department, In Worcester (Mass.)Worcester: Mirick and Bartlett Printers, 1838. [2] 3-20 [4] pp. 3-5/8x5-3/4", original stitched blue wrappers. This booklet contains the Act of Incorporation, Statutory extract, by-laws, amendments of 1837, a list of the Board of Engineers, list of apparatus, and blank certification of membership. [Apparently, new firefighters would receive this little booklet upon membership.] #####CONDITION: A bright, near fine copy with just a hint of light foxing/toning to extremities, very light wear to covers. Tiny nicks at spine ends, b...
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Category: Americana