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Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$312.50
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6
  • Author
    Adams, Frank
  • Headline
    California: Irrigation Resources. 17 vols.
  • Publisher
    GPO
  • Date Published
    1913
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
46
  • Author
    Atherton, Faxon Dean.
  • Headline
    California Diary of Faxon Dean Atherton
  • Publisher
    California Historical Society
  • Date Published
    1964
Estimate$10 - $100
Sold for$37.50
StatusSold
49
  • Author
    Audubon, John W[oodhouse]
  • Headline
    Audubon's Western Journal: 1849-1850. 1905.
  • Publisher
    Arthur H. Clark Co.
  • Date Published
    1906
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$150
StatusSold
60
  • Author
    Bolton, Herbert Eugene
  • Headline
    Bolton: Anza's California Expeditions
  • Publisher
    University of California Press
  • Date Published
    1930
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$468.75
StatusSold
63
  • Author
    Borthwick, J[ohn] D[avid]
  • Headline
    Borthwick: Three Years in California. 1857
  • Publisher
    William Blackwood
  • Date Published
    1857
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$562.50
StatusSold
65
  • Author
    Browne, J. Ross
  • Headline
    Browne: Crusoe's Island. 1864
  • Publisher
    Harper & Brothers
  • Date Published
    1864
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
70
  • Heading
    (California & Arizona)
  • Headline
    History/travels in California/Arizona. 5 vols.
  • Date Published
    Various dates
Estimate$250 - $350
Sold for$162.50
StatusSold
Estimate$150 - $250
StatusUnsold
73
  • Heading
    (California - History)
  • Headline
    California. 5 vols.
  • Date Published
    Various dates
Estimate$150 - $250
Sold for$100
StatusSold
76
  • Heading
    (California - Oil Fields)
  • Headline
    Oil Fields of California
  • Publisher
    Barlow & Hill
  • Date Published
    1904
Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
Sold for$687.50
StatusSold
77
  • Heading
    (California - Petaluma)
  • Headline
    Real Estate Bargains in Sonoma County 1915
  • Publisher
    J.W. Horn Co.
  • Date Published
    c.1915
Estimate$250 - $350
StatusUnsold
81
  • Heading
    (California - San Francisco)
  • Headline
    San Francisco; documents from Custom House and Mercantile Library Association
  • Date Published
    1864;1873
Estimate$100 - $150
StatusUnsold
82
  • Heading
    (California - Toulumne County Water Company)
  • Headline
    Tuolumne County Water Company Stock
  • Date Published
    1852-[1855]
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
83
  • Heading
    (Mexican-American War, California Gold Rush)
  • Headline
    1888 Mexican War veterans newspaper recalls Donner Party, Gold Rush
  • Publisher
    A.M.Kenaday
  • Date Published
    1888
Estimate$100 - $150
StatusUnsold
84
  • Heading
    (California Ephemera)
  • Headline
    California Ephemera 1850-78
  • Date Published
    1850-1878
Estimate$150 - $250
StatusUnsold
85
  • Heading
    (California Gold Rush - 1850 letter from a miner near Coloma and Sacramento)
  • Author
    James W. Taylor
  • Headline
    California Gold Rush, 1850 – Long letter from a miner near Sacramento and Coloma
  • Date Published
    1850
Estimate$500 - $700
Sold for$625
StatusSold
86
  • Heading
    (California Gold Rush - 1852 San Francisco Prices Current and Shipping List)
  • Headline
    1852 San Francisco Prices Current and Shipping List
  • Date Published
    1852
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$175
StatusSold
88
  • Heading
    (California Gold Rush)
  • Headline
    California Gold Rush. 5 vols.
  • Date Published
    Various dates
Estimate$150 - $250
Sold for$112.50
StatusSold
93
  • Heading
    (California Missions)
  • Headline
    Junipero Serra, missionaries in California. 3 vols.
  • Date Published
    Various dates
Estimate$120 - $180
Sold for$75
StatusSold
94
  • Heading
    (California)
  • Headline
    Biographies/journals of early settlers in California. 4 vols.
  • Date Published
    Various dates
Estimate$120 - $180
Sold for$75
StatusSold
95
  • Heading
    (California)
  • Headline
    Journals from early California. 5 vols.
  • Date Published
    Various dates
Estimate$150 - $250
Sold for$200
StatusSold
96
  • Heading
    (California)
  • Headline
    Letters and correspondences - settlers of California. 5 vols.
  • Date Published
    Various dates
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$162.50
StatusSold
99
  • Heading
    (California)
  • Headline
    Pictorial history, architecture of California. 4 vols.
  • Date Published
    Various dates
Estimate$100 - $150
Sold for$125
StatusSold
100
  • Heading
    (California)
  • Headline
    Broadside description of the Great Seal of California
  • Date Published
    [c.1885]
Estimate$150 - $250
Sold for$100
StatusSold
101
  • Heading
    (California)
  • Author
    McKenney, L.M., compiler
  • Headline
    McKenney's business directory of California 1882
  • Publisher
    H.S. Crocker & Co.
  • Date Published
    1882
Estimate$120 - $180
Sold for$137.50
StatusSold
102
  • Heading
    (California)
  • Author
    Sanders, James A.
  • Headline
    Invitation to Ball in Woodside, Cal. c.1865
  • Date Published
    No date
Estimate$10 - $100
StatusUnsold
106
  • Author
    Carr, John
  • Headline
    Carr: Pioneer Days in California
  • Publisher
    Times Publishing
  • Date Published
    1891
Estimate$100 - $150
Sold for$62.50
StatusSold
125
  • Heading
    (Contra Costa County)
  • Headline
    Contrac Costa County Recorder's Fee Book
  • Date Published
    1909, 1915
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
128
  • Author
    Cowan, Robert Ernest and Robert Grannis
  • Headline
    Cowan's Bibliography of Books on California
  • Publisher
    John Henry Nash
  • Date Published
    1933
Estimate$150 - $250
Sold for$112.50
StatusSold
136
  • Author
    DeGroot, Henry
  • Headline
    DeGroot: Recollections of California Mining Life
  • Publisher
    Dewey & Co.
  • Date Published
    1884
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
Sold for$1,250
StatusSold
142
  • Author
    Dunbar, Edward E.
  • Headline
    Dunbar: The Romance of the Age
  • Publisher
    D. Appleton & Company
  • Date Published
    1867
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
148
  • Author
    Evans, Albert S., Col.
  • Headline
    Evans: A La California
  • Publisher
    A.L. Bancroft
  • Date Published
    1873
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$212.50
StatusSold
151
  • Author
    Farnham, T[homas] J[efferson]
  • Headline
    Farnham's California & Oregon pictorial ed. 1849
  • Publisher
    Nafis & Cornish
  • Date Published
    1849
Estimate$250 - $350
Sold for$237.50
StatusSold
152
  • Author
    Ferguson, Charles D.
  • Headline
    Ferguson: The Experiences of a Forty-niner
  • Publisher
    Williams Pub. Co.
  • Date Published
    1888
Estimate$120 - $180
StatusUnsold
153
  • Heading
    (Fine Press Books)
  • Headline
    Book Club of California\Grabhorn Press. 8 vols.
  • Publisher
    Book Club of California/Grabhorn Press
  • Date Published
    Various dates
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$200
StatusSold
182
  • Author
    Harlan, Jacob Wright
  • Headline
    Harlan: California '46 to '88
  • Publisher
    The Bancroft Company
  • Date Published
    1888
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$162.50
StatusSold
185
  • Author
    Haskins, C[harles] W[arren]
  • Headline
    Haskins: The Argonauts of California
  • Publisher
    Fords, Howard & Hulbert
  • Date Published
    1890
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
190
  • Author
    Hittell, Theodore H.
  • Headline
    Hittell's History of California
  • Publisher
    Pacific Press / N.J. Stone
  • Date Published
    1885 & 1898
Estimate$700 - $1,000
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
191
  • Author
    Hoppe, J[anus] & A[dolph] Erman
  • Headline
    Hoppe. Californiens Gegenwart und Zukunft. 1849.
  • Publisher
    G. Reimer
  • Date Published
    1849
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
192
  • Heading
    (International Typographical Union)
  • Headline
    International Typographical Union, 57th convention - San Francisco
  • Date Published
    1911
Estimate$100 - $150
StatusUnsold
204
  • Author
    Kimball, Charles P.
  • Headline
    Reprint of the first San Francisco directory
  • Publisher
    Journal of Commerce Press
  • Date Published
    1850, [but c.1890]
Estimate$120 - $180
Sold for$75
StatusSold
205
  • Author
    Kimball, Charles P.
  • Headline
    Earlier reprint of the first San Francisco directory
  • Publisher
    Journal of Commerce Press
  • Date Published
    1850, [but c. 1870]
Estimate$150 - $250
Sold for$100
StatusSold
211
  • Author
    Leeper, David Rohrer
  • Headline
    Leeper: The Argonauts of 'Forty-Nine
  • Publisher
    J. B. Stoll
  • Date Published
    1894
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$150
StatusSold
216
  • Author
    Lloyd, B[enjamin] E.
  • Headline
    Lights and Shades of San Francisco 1876
  • Publisher
    A.L. Bancroft
  • Date Published
    1876
Estimate$100 - $150
Sold for$62.50
StatusSold
219
  • Heading
    (Los Angeles County)
  • Headline
    Illustrated History of Los Angeles County
  • Publisher
    Lewis Publishing Company
  • Date Published
    1889
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$250
StatusSold
220
  • Heading
    (Los Angeles)
  • Headline
    Jonathan Club of Los Angeles
  • Publisher
    [W.P. Jeffries Co.]
  • Date Published
    1906
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
221
  • Author
    Loyal, C. [pseud. of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton]
  • Headline
    First novel in English by a Mexican American Woman
  • Publisher
    Samuel Carson & Co.
  • Date Published
    1885
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
226
  • Heading
    (Marin County - Mt. Tamalpais Railway)
  • Headline
    Mt. Tamalpais Railroad 1920
  • Publisher
    Hadley
  • Date Published
    c.1919
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$375
StatusSold
238
  • Heading
    (Muir, John – 1904 broadside)
  • Author
    Muir, John
  • Headline
    John Muir broadside, 1904
  • Publisher
    Paul Elder & Co.
  • Date Published
    June 1904
Estimate$100 - $150
StatusUnsold
242
  • Heading
    (Napa)
  • Headline
    Rancho Chimiles Abstract of Title
  • Publisher
    Napa County Abstract Company
  • Date Published
    1914
Estimate$150 - $250
StatusUnsold
Estimate$600 - $900
StatusUnsold
255
  • Heading
    (Oregon gold miner from Angels Camp)
  • Author
    Francis Gordon Jackson
  • Headline
    1896 letter, Oregon gold miner from Angels Camp
  • Date Published
    1896
Estimate$150 - $200
StatusUnsold
257
  • Heading
    (Pacific Coast Directory)
  • Author
    McKenney, L.M., compiler
  • Headline
    Pacifc Coast Directory 1883-4
  • Publisher
    L.M. McKenney & Co., Publishers
  • Date Published
    December, 1882
Estimate$100 - $150
Sold for$75
StatusSold
261
  • Author
    Palóu, Fray Francisco
  • Headline
    Palóu: Historical Memoirs of New California. 4 vols.
  • Publisher
    University of California Press
  • Date Published
    1926
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$375
StatusSold
267
  • Author
    Peters, Harry T.
  • Headline
    Peters: California on Stone
  • Publisher
    Doubleday, Doran
  • Date Published
    1935
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$343.75
StatusSold
276
  • Author
    Powell, H.M.T.
  • Headline
    Powell: The Santa Fé Trail to California
  • Publisher
    The Book Club of California
  • Date Published
    [1931]
Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
Sold for$625
StatusSold
284
  • Heading
    (Ralston, William C. & Faxon Dean Atherton)
  • Author
    Ralston, William C.
  • Headline
    Letter from W.C. Ralston to F.D. Atherton
  • Date Published
    Thursday Morning [August 1874]
Estimate$10 - $100
StatusUnsold
286
  • Author
    Rezanov, Nikolai Petrovich
  • Headline
    Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806
  • Publisher
    Thomas C. Russell
  • Date Published
    1926
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
288
  • Author
    Robeson, G.M. and C.H. Davis, editors
  • Headline
    Narrative of the North Polar Expedition. U. S. Ship Polaris
  • Publisher
    Government Printing Office
  • Date Published
    1876
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$250
StatusSold
293
  • Author
    Saint-Amant, M. De
  • Headline
    Saint-Amant: Californie, l'Orégon. 1854.
  • Publisher
    Librarie L. Maison
  • Date Published
    1854
Estimate$250 - $350
Sold for$162.50
StatusSold
294
  • Heading
    (San Francisco - Parking)
  • Headline
    Nob Hill Parking Survey - San Francisco Department of Public Works
  • Publisher
    Department of Public Works
  • Date Published
    November 1953
Estimate$100 - $150
StatusUnsold
296
  • Heading
    (San Francisco)
  • Headline
    San Francisco Midwinter Expo View Book 1894
  • Publisher
    American Souvenir & Advertising Company
  • Date Published
    1894
Estimate$10 - $100
Sold for$75
StatusSold
301
  • Heading
    (California - San Francisco)
  • Author
    Templeton Crocker (book) and Joseph Redding (music)
  • Headline
    Bohemian Club, 1925 San Francisco ‘Chinese’-French opera
  • Date Published
    1925
Estimate$100 - $150
StatusUnsold
305
  • Author
    Scammon, L[aurence] N.
  • Headline
    Spanish Missions California by Scammon
  • Publisher
    Jean Chambers Moore
  • Date Published
    1926
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$437.50
StatusSold
306
  • Author
    Schaeffer, L[uther] M.
  • Headline
    Schaeffer: Sketches of Travels. 1st Ed.
  • Publisher
    James Egbert
  • Date Published
    1860
Estimate$150 - $250
Sold for$100
StatusSold
310
  • Author
    Shaw, D[avid A[ugustus]
  • Headline
    Shaw: Eldorado or California
  • Publisher
    B. R. Baumgardt & Co.
  • Date Published
    1900
Estimate$10 - $100
StatusUnsold
312
  • Author
    Smith, C[harles] W.
  • Headline
    Smith: Journal of a Trip to California - 1850
  • Publisher
    Cadmus Book Shop
  • Date Published
    [1920]
Estimate$120 - $180
StatusUnsold
324
  • Author
    Swasey, W[illiam] F.
  • Headline
    Swasey: Early Days and Men of California
  • Publisher
    Pacific Press
  • Date Published
    [1891]
Estimate$600 - $900
Sold for$937.50
StatusSold
334
  • Heading
    (Union Pacific Railroad)
  • Headline
    The Pacific Railroad Acts of Congress 1868
  • Publisher
    Gibson Brothers
  • Date Published
    1868
Estimate$120 - $180
Sold for$75
StatusSold
335
  • Author
    Upham, Samuel C.
  • Headline
    Upham: Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn,
  • Publisher
    Published by the author
  • Date Published
    1878
Estimate$250 - $350
Sold for$212.50
StatusSold
337
  • Author
    Wakeman, Edgar
  • Headline
    Wakeman: The Log of an Ancient Mariner
  • Publisher
    A.L. Bancroft
  • Date Published
    1878
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
346
  • Author
    Whitney, J.[osiah] D.
  • Headline
    Whitney: Auriferous Gravels, Sierra Nevada - California
  • Publisher
    University Press, John Wilson & Son
  • Date Published
    1880
Estimate$800 - $1,200
Sold for$593.75
StatusSold
349
  • Author
    Woods, Daniel B.
  • Headline
    Woods: Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings
  • Publisher
    Harper & Brothers
  • Date Published
    1851
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
356
  • Heading
    (1869 –San Francisco merchant’s defense of “imported” Chinese labor)
  • Author
    Charles Wolcott Brooks
  • Headline
    San Francisco merchant’s 1869 defense of “imported” Chinese labor
  • Publisher
    A. Roman & Co.
  • Date Published
    1869
Estimate$100 - $150
StatusUnsold
383
  • Heading
    (1942 Santa Anita Pacemaker, rare mimeographed newsletter, Japanese-American “Assembly Center” at Los Angeles racetrack)
  • Headline
    Rare newsletter for Japanese-American “Assembly Center” at Los Angeles racetrack
  • Date Published
    1942
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$250
StatusSold
425
  • Heading
    (Africa - Liberia)
  • Author
    Ellis, Rev. H.W.
  • Headline
    Letter from missionary in Liberia 1850
  • Date Published
    March 18, 1850
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
426
  • Heading
    (Africa - Liberia)
  • Headline
    Three pamphlets on Liberia and Western Africa
  • Date Published
    Various dates
Estimate$150 - $250
StatusUnsold
428
  • Heading
    (Africa - Liberia)
  • Author
    Starr, Frederick (editor)
  • Headline
    Expedition to the interior of Liberia
  • Publisher
    College of West Africa Press
  • Date Published
    1912
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
429
  • Heading
    (Africa)
  • Author
    Parke, Thos. Heazle
  • Headline
    Parke's Experiences in search of Emin Pasha
  • Publisher
    Charles Scribner's Sons
  • Date Published
    1891
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
431
  • Heading
    (Alaska)
  • Headline
    Alaska, gold - two volumes.
  • Date Published
    Various dates
Estimate$150 - $250
Sold for$125
StatusSold
432
  • Author
    Amundsen, Roald
  • Headline
    Roald Amundsen My Life as an Explorer signed
  • Publisher
    Doubleday, Page & Company
  • Date Published
    1927
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$875
StatusSold
433
  • Heading
    (Arctic)
  • Author
    Parry, William Edward & Edward Sabine, editors
  • Headline
    Parry & Men in Arctic Winter
  • Publisher
    John Murray
  • Date Published
    1821
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
434
  • Heading
    (Arctic)
  • Author
    [Sabine, Edward]
  • Headline
    The North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle
  • Publisher
    John Murray
  • Date Published
    1821
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
435
  • Heading
    (Argonaut Press)
  • Author
    Dampier, William
  • Headline
    Voyages and Discoveries, William Dampier
  • Publisher
    The Argonaut Press
  • Date Published
    1931
Estimate$100 - $150
StatusUnsold
436
  • Heading
    (Argonaut Press)
  • Author
    Drake, Sir Francis
  • Headline
    The World Encompassed and Analogous Contemporary Documents Concerning Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation of the World
  • Publisher
    The Argonaut Press
  • Date Published
    1926
Estimate$100 - $150
StatusUnsold
437
  • Heading
    (Argonaut Press)
  • Author
    Relegh, Sir Walter
  • Headline
    Sir Walter Ralegh's discovery of Guinea, Argonaut Press
  • Publisher
    The Argonaut Press
  • Date Published
    1928
Estimate$100 - $150
StatusUnsold
438
  • Author
    Back, Captain [George]
  • Headline
    Back's Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition
  • Publisher
    E.L. Carey & A. Hart
  • Date Published
    1836
Estimate$250 - $350
Sold for$162.50
StatusSold
439
  • Author
    Baker, Samuel White
  • Headline
    Albert N'Yanza by Samuel Baker, 2 vols 1866
  • Publisher
    Macmillan
  • Date Published
    1866
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$562.50
StatusSold
440
  • Author
    Baker, Samuel White
  • Headline
    Samuel Baker Suppresses African Slavery 1874
  • Publisher
    Macmillan
  • Date Published
    1874
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$375
StatusSold
Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
Sold for$625
StatusSold
442
  • Author
    Bernacchi, Louis
  • Headline
    Bernacchi The South Polar Regions
  • Publisher
    Bluntisham Books
  • Date Published
    1991
Estimate$100 - $150
Sold for$62.50
StatusSold
444
  • Author
    Brissot de Warville, J.P.
  • Headline
    Nouveau Voyage dans les Etats-Unis 1791
  • Publisher
    Buisson
  • Date Published
    1791
Estimate$400 - $700
StatusUnsold
445
  • Author
    Broughton, William Robert
  • Headline
    Broughton explores the north Pacific
  • Publisher
    Im Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs
  • Date Published
    1805
Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
StatusUnsold
447
  • Author
    Carrieres, A.C. de la
  • Headline
    Carrieres: Voyage aux Pays Auriferes
  • Publisher
    A. Courcier
  • Date Published
    [c.1855]
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
448
  • Author
    Catherwood, F[rederick]
  • Headline
    Catherwood's Views of Ancient Monuments
  • Publisher
    Editora del Surieste
  • Date Published
    1984
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
StatusUnsold
455
  • Heading
    (China – Journal of Doctor’s Voyage and Reception)
  • Author
    Green, Dr. John Plimpton
  • Date Published
    1843
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
Sold for$4,375
StatusSold
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