3. ADAMS, Ansel. Sierra Nevada and the John Muir Trail. Berkeley: Archetype Press, 1938. Signed twice by Adams. First and only edition, limited edition (500 copies) of one of the rarest and finest of Adams’s photography books. ($3,000-6,000)        More>>

4. [ADAMS, Ansel]. ALINDER, James (editor). Ansel Adams 1902-1984. [Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984]. ($20-40)        More>>

5. Artistic Homes of California.... San Francisco, [1888 or after]. 50 artotypes of architecture. Very rare. ($1,500-3,000)        More>>

6. AUGER, Édouard. Voyage en Californie.... Paris, 1854. Original wrappers. First edition. Cowan I, p. 9. Cowan II, p. 23. Hill 38. Howes A393. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 24. Monaghan 118. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 7. ($200-400)         More>>

7. AUGER, Édouard. Voyage en Californie.... Paris, 1854. First edition, second issue of preceding. ($100-200)         More>>

8. AUSTIN, Mary. California: The Land of the Sun.... London, [1914]. Very fine in a lovely binding. First edition. Cowan I, p. 23. ($150-300)        More>>

9. BAKER & BARBER. Sacramento Illustrated. Sacramento: Barber & Baker, 1855. 33 wood engravings. Original pictorial upper wrapper. First edition, second issue, of the first illustrated history of Sacramento. Cowan I, pp. 11-12: “Contains 32 of the earliest views of Sacramento...excessively rare.” Greenwood 547: “Earliest views of Sacramento.” Howes B127. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 35b. ($1,500-3,000)        More>>      

10. [BAKER, S. F.(attributed)]. Outline History of an Expedition to California: Containing the Fate of the Get All You Can Mining Association. Designed and Engraved by XOX. New York, 1849. Mordant illustrations of the Gold Rush. Original pictorial wrappers. First edition. Cowan II, p. 466. Howes B50. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 474: “This satirical series of cartoons begins with this vivid warning: ‘The Devil encircles California...and from his magic pipe sends forth his emissaries to fill the place with bait.’” ($3,000-6,000)         More>>       

11. BARTLETT, John R. Personal Narrative.... New York, 1854. Numerous plates, illustrations, and map. 2 vols. in one, rebound in green morocco. First edition. Basic Texas Books 12. Graff 198: “An essential book for the Southwest.” Plains & Rockies IV:234:1. Wheat, TMW 798; Gold Region 252. ($500-1,000)        More>>

12. BELCHER, Edward. Narrative of a Voyage around the World.... London: Henry Colburn, 1843. Engraved plates and maps. 2 vols., 8vo, contemporary three-quarter leather. First edition. Cowan I, p. 15. Cowan II, p. 44. Ferguson 3564. Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 1377. Hill 102. Howes B318. Lada-Mocarski 117. During his visit to California, Belcher stopped at San Francisco and San Diego. ($750-1,500)        More>>

13. BIDWELL, John. Echoes of the Past.... Chico, [1914]. 16mo, original wrappers. First separate edition. Cowan II, p. 52. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains & Rockies 35. Graff 292. Howes B432. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 55. Paher, Nevada 127. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 16. ($100-300)        More>>

14. BOGGS, Mae Hèléne Bacon. My Playhouse Was a Concord Coach. [Oakland, 1942]. Profusely illustrated. Folio, original buckram. First edition. Adams, Guns 234. Dykes, Rare Western Outlaw Books 29. Howes B570. ($200-400)        More>>

15. BONNER, T. D. (editor). The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth. New York, 1856. Illustrated. 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Cowan II, p. 41. Graff 347: “A classic of pioneer days in the West.” Howes B601. Plains & Rockies IV:272:1. Rittenhouse 72. ($300-600)        More>>

16. BROWNE, J[ohn] Ross. Resources of the Pacific Slope.... New York, 1869. First trade edition, revised and expanded. Barrett 373. Cowan I, p. 27. Cowan II, p. 79n. ($100-300)        More>>

17. BUNNELL, Lafayette Houghton. Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian War of 1851.... Chicago, [1880]. Map and illustrations. 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Cowan II, p. 29. Currey & Kruska 27. Farquhar 15a. Howes B954. ($100-300)        More>>

18. BUNNELL, Lafayette Houghton. Discovery of the Yosemite.... Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, [1880]. 8vo, original cloth. Author’s presentation inscription. Second edition of preceding, revised. ($100-200)        More>>

19. BURNEY, James. A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean.... London, 1803-1817. 40 engraved plates and maps. 5 vols. in four, 4to, contemporary three-quarter calf. First edition. Cowan II, p. 86: “Many of the early voyages to California, and the adjacent coast, would be nearly inaccessible were they not herein collected.” Ferguson 372. Hill 221. Howes B1002. Mathes, California Colonial Bibliography 72. Strathern 80. ($10,000-20,000)        More>>

20. CALIFORNIA. ALTA CALIFORNIA. [Broadside commencing]: En el Puerto de Monterrey de la Alta California...La Alta California se declara independiente de Mejico mientras tanto no restablesca el sistema Federal que se adopto el ano de 1824.... [Monterrey: Santiago Aguilar, 1836]. First edition. Cowan, Spanish Press, p. 16. Fahey 22 (locating only this and the Bancroft copy). Greenwood 23. Harding 22. Libros Californianos, p. 26. Streeter Sale 2482 (this copy). The printer of this broadside was California’s second printer. The declaration of independence states that Alta California will be an independent state until the central government of Mexico is reformed. ($7,500-15,000)        More>>

21. CALIFORNIA. ALTA CALIFORNIA. [Broadside commencing]: El Comandante General de la Alta California. Calyfornyos: El gobierno frances que mas de un año...ha declarado la guerra.... [Sonoma, June 12, 1839]. Large and fine woodcut of Mexican eagle at top, ink manuscript rubric of Vallejo. First printing of one of two known copies of this specimen of early California printing on Zamorano’s press at Sonoma by an unknown printer. Cowan, Spanish Press, p. 26. Fahey 53. Greenwood 54. Harding 53. Vallejo orders the populace to unite to resist French aggressions in the wake of the Pastry War. ($4,000-8,000)        More>>

22. CALIFORNIA (Territory). GOVERNOR (Bennet Riley). Proclamation to the People of the District of San Francisco. [San Francisco or Monterey, California, 1849]. Broadside. Provenance: Grabhorn-Streeter-Howell. First printing. Fahey 119. Greenwood 121 (locating only this and the Bancroft copy). Streeter Sale 2556 (this copy). Wagner, California Imprints 32. Riley, acting as military governor of California, denounces an illegal “Legislative Assembly of the District of San Francisco,” stating that they have usurped powers reserved to the U.S. government. ($3,000-6,000)        More>>

23. CALIFORNIA (State). Constitution of the State of California. San Francisco: Printed at the Office of the Alta California, 1849. First edition in book form, first issue of the constitution under which California entered the Union, and one of the early books printed in San Francisco. Cowan I, p. 34. Cowan II, p. 140. Fahey 127. Graff 539. Greenwood 124. Jones, Adventures in Americana 245. Libros Californianos, p. 19. Wagner, California Imprints 37. ($2,000-4,000)        More>>

24. [CALIFORNIA]. The California Star. Yerba Buena [San Francisco], vol. 1, no. 9, March 6, 1847. Small folio. First edition of a very early issue of San Francisco’s first newspaper, edited by Samuel Brannan. Fahey, p. 134. Kemble, p. 276. Kurutz & Mathes, The Forgotten War, p. 127. Contains details relating to the transition of California from Mexican to U.S. rule. ($750-1,500)        More>>

25. [CALIFORNIA]. The California Star. San Francisco, vol. 1, no. 34, August 28, 1847. First edition of a very early issue of San Francisco’s first newspaper, edited by Samuel Brannan. Fahey, p. 134. Kemble, p. 276. Kurutz & Mathes, The Forgotten War, p. 127. Very early detailed report and statistics concerning San Francisco, along with Mexican-American War news. ($900-1,800)        More>>

26. [CALIFORNIA]. The Californian. Monterey, vol. 1, no. 32, March 27, 1847. First printing of the first California newspaper. Fahey, p. 134. Cf. Graff 550. Greenwood 99. Cf. Wagner, California Imprints 1. Early report on the Donner party. ($600-1,200)        More>>

27. [CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH]. For San Francisco, via Chagres. 30^th June. The New and Splendid Steamship Crescent City. 1500 tons burthen.... New York: G. F. Nesbitt, [ca. 1848]. Illustrated advertisement. Howell 50, California 101 (this copy): “Exceedingly rare, probably unique.” Haskins, Argonauts, lists several arrivals of this ship in California. ($3,000-6,000)        More>>

28. [CALIFORNIA PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS]. Album containing 18 lithographed letter sheets, mostly by Britton & Rey, “The Currier & Ives of the West” (Peters). A well-rounded gathering, including an early street map of San Francisco, two rare double-sheet bird’s-eye views of San Francisco, mining towns (including some first or early views of those towns), mining operations, gambling, Chinese miners, life in the mines, and Gold Rush humor. Fine to very fine. (1) Map of San Francisco; Baird 149; (2) Bird’s Eye View Of San Francisco...1852; Baird 12; (3) San Francisco Upper California; variant of Baird 252; (4) San Francisco; Baird 233; (5) City Hall, San-Francisco Cal.; Baird 30; (6) View of the Plaza of San-Francisco, on the 4^th. of July 1851; variant of Baird 313b; (7) Mission Dolores; Baird 173; (8) Springfield, Tuolumne County; Baird 257; (9) Sonora from the North...1853; Baird 257; (10) Placerville; variant of Baird 202; (11) Mariposa City; Baird 151; (12) The Miners; Baird 157; (13) The Miners; Baird 158. (14) Celestial Empire in California; Baird 26; (15) Gambling in the Mines; Baird 86; (16) Miners at Work with Long Toms; Baird 159; (17) Bar Room in The Mines; Baird 7; (18) The Mining Business in Four Pictures; Baird 171. ($7,500-15,000)        More>>

29. [CALIFORNIA PICTORIAL LETTER SHEET]. Capt. Sutter’s account of the first discovery of the Gold...1854. Lithograph. Baird 22. A key Gold Rush letter sheet. ($300-600)        More>>

30. [CALIFORNIA PICTORIAL LETTER SHEET]. City of San Francisco.... Metal engraving. Baird 31. An important letter sheet for its early view of San Francisco and because it is one of the earliest letter sheets—issued before February 9, 1850, and possibly in late 1849. ($400-800)        More>>

31. [CALIFORNIA PICTORIAL LETTER SHEET]. Fort Vigilant....Constitution and Address of the Vigilance Committee...1856. Baird 83. ($400-800)        More>>

32. [CALIFORNIA PICTORIAL LETTER SHEET]. San Francisco Past and Present...1854. Wood engraving. Baird 251. Documents the tremendous growth of San Francisco in the early 1850s. ($500-1,000)        More>>

33. CARRILLO, Carlos Antonio. Exposición que el diputado de la Alta California...pidiendo se establezcan...los tribunales competentes para su administracion de justicia. Mexico, 1831. 8vo, later protective decorative wrappers. First edition. Doheny Sale 200 (this copy). Libros Californianos, pp. 21 & 28: “Only two copies are known to us of this early attempt by a native Californian to convince the Mexican Congress to give Alta California more independence through having its own judiciary.” ($5,000-10,000)        More>>

34. CATLIN, George. Salesman’s dummy for Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians.... Philadelphia, 1860. See Plains & Rockies IV:84:20. ($500-1,000)        More>>

35. CHAPPE D’AUTEROCHE, Jean. Voyage en Californie.... Paris, 1772. Copper-engraved plates and map. 4to, contemporary calf. First edition of one of the earliest scientific expeditions to California. Cowan I, p. 46. Cowan II, p. 114. Hill 278. Howes C299. Mathes, California Colonial Bibliography 61. Wagner, Spanish Southwest 158. ($2,000-4,000)        More>>

36. CHAPPE D’AUTEROCHE, Jean. A Voyage to California.... London, 1778. Copper-engraved map. First English edition of preceding. ($600-1,200)        More>>

37. CHAVANNES DE LA GIRAUDIÈRE, H. de. Les Petits Voyageurs en Californie. Tours: A^d Mame, 1853. Chromolithographs. 8vo, original cloth stamped in gilt and colors. First edition. Cowan II, p. 837. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 125. Gold Rush juvenile. ($500-1,000)        More>>

38. CHERRY, Edgar & Sons. Redwood and Lumbering in California Forests. San Francisco, 1881. 24 mounted albumen prints. 4to, original cloth. First edition. Cowan I, p. 186. Cowan II, p. 525. Kurutz, California Books Illustrated with Original Photographs 1856-1890 #7. An important work on the technical, practical, and business matters associated with the logging industry. ($3,000-6,000)        More>>

39. CHEVALIER, Michel. Les Mines d’Or de la Californie. [Paris: Journal des Débates, 1849]. 8vo, contemporary sheep over marbled boards. Author’s copy with his bookplate. ($2,500-5,000)        More>>

40. CHORIS, Louis. Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde.... Paris, 1820, 1822. Lithographed and engraved plates, charts, map. Folio, new sympathetic calf over contemporary marbled boards. A splendid copy, handsomely bound. First edition, first issue (both 1820 and 1822 title pages present), all plates colored (only 50 copies issued in this preferred state). Cowan I, p.47. Cf. Cowan II, p. 123. Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 541: “Spectacular and early lithographically illustrated travel account that has always been considered one of the most beautiful and important colorplate books of the Northern Pacific. It contains more early views of Hawaii, Alaska, and California than any other work of the period.” Hill I, pp. 51-52: “One of the most beautiful books of travel in existence. Lada-Mocarski 84. ($100,000-150,000)        More>>

41. CLARKE, A. B. Travels in Mexico and California.... Boston, 1852. 12mo, original wrappers. First edition. Cowan I, p. 48. Cowan II, p. 128. Doheny Sale 203 (this copy). Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 49. Graff 746. Howell 50:376A: “First printed description of the route north from Camargo, Mexico, through Chihuahua and Sonora to the Gila River of Arizona.” Howes C451. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 138. Plains & Rockies IV:210. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 41. ($1,200-2,400)        More>>

42. CLAVIGERO, D. Francesco Saverio. Storia della California.... Venice, 1789. Copper-engraved map (based on Kino). 2 vols. in one, 8vo, three-quarter parchment paper over marbled boards. First edition of the second published history of California. Cowan I, p. 49. Cowan II, p. 129. Graff 747. Hill 307: “One of the rarest primary sources on the history of Baja California.” Howes C465. Mathes, California Colonial Bibliography 66. Wagner, CNW 716; Spanish Southwest 172. ($2,000-4,000)        More>>

43. COKE, Henry J. A Ride over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California.... London, 1852. 8vo, later tan calf over marbled boards. First edition. Cowan I, p. 50. Cowan II, p. 134. Flake 2449. Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 1852. Graff 796. Hill 330. Howes C547. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 144. Plains & Rockies IV:211. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 44. ($300-600)        More>>

44. COLTON, Walter. Deck and Port.... New York, 1850. Tinted lithographed plates. 8vo, original cloth. First edition, second issue. Cowan I, p. 52. Cowan II, p. 137. Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 1769. Hill 340. Howes C624. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 150b. ($100-200)        More>>

45. COOKE, Edward. A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World.... London, 1712. Copper-engraved maps (one showing California as an island). 2 vols., 8vo, contemporary calf. Second edition of vol. 1; first edition of vol. 2 (preferred edition, expanded to 2 vols.). Cowan I, pp. 54-55. Cowan II, p. 141. European Americana 712/42. Hill 372. Howes C733. Mathes, California Colonial Bibliography 30. Wagner, CNW 499. Cf. Wagner, Spanish Southwest 77. ($3,000-6,000)        More>>

46. COOKE, P. St. G. The Conquest of New Mexico and California.... New York, 1878. Map. 12mo, original cloth. Littell copy. First edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp. 54-55. Flake 2499. Graff 869. Howes C728. Kurutz & Mathes, The Forgotten War, pp. 130-131: “Cooke commanded the Mormon Battalion, and his narrative covers the final stages of the conquest of California.... Cooke was highly critical of Frémont.” Plains & Rockies IV:165n. Wheat, TMW 505. ($150-300)        More>>

47. COTTEAU, Edmond. Six mille lieues en soixante jours.... Auxerre, 1887. Map. 8vo, original wrappers bound into modern cloth over marbled boards. Author’s signed presentation copy. Little known, and rare. First edition. ($500-1,000)        More>>

48. CRONISE, T. F. The Natural Wealth of California.... San Francisco, 1868. Plates. 8vo, original cloth. First edition, the preferred issue, with plates. BAL 7243. Cowan I, p. 60. Cowan II, pp. 150-151: “The best and most reliable work of the time.” Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp. 62-63. ($150-300)        More>>

49. DAMON, Samuel C. A Trip from the Sandwich Islands to Lower Oregon, and Upper California.... Honolulu: Printed at the Polynesian Office, 1849. 4to, later morocco over cloth. Very scarce. First edition, second issue, consisting of the original sheets published in the regular issues of The Friend (Honolulu) vol. 7, nos. 6-12, Sept. 1 through Dec. 20, 1849, with an added title page. Cowan I, pp. 61-62. Cowan II, p. 155. Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 1726. Graff 994. Hill 413. Howes D44. Littell 244: “One of the rarest and most important of California items.” ($1,500-3,000)        More>>

50. DAWSON, W. L. The Birds of California.... San Diego, etc., 1923. Profusely illustrated (including photogravures). 4 vols., 4to, original three-quarter morocco over cloth. First edition, the limited De Luxe Santa Barbara edition (#42 of 100 copies), signed by author, and in the special binding. Ayer, p. 162. Nissen, Birds 225. ($750-1,500)        More>>

51. DELANO, A. Life on the Plains and among the Diggings.... Auburn & Buffalo, 1854. Engraved plates and illustrations. 8vo, original cloth. First edition, first issue. Cowan I, p. 65. Cowan II, p. 163. Graff 1042. Howes D230. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 177a: “One of the great classics of the Overland Trail.” Plains & Rockies IV:238:1. ($250-500)        More>>

52. [DELANO, A]. A Live Woman in the Mines...By “Old Block”.... New York, [1857]. 12mo, original wrappers. First edition, first issue (imprint without price). Cowan II, p. 163. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 178a. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 57n. ($50-100)        More>>

53. [DELANO, A.]. The Miner’s Progress.... Sacramento: Published at the Daily Union Office, 1853. Engraved text illustrations by Charles Nahl. 8vo, disbound. First edition of classic Gold Rush humor; author’s first separate publication; second publication with Charles Nahl artwork. Cowan II, p. 163. Greenwood 382. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 179. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 57n. ($400-800)        More>>

54. [DELAVAN, James]. Notes on California and the Placers.... New York, 1850. 2 lithographed plates. 8vo, original brown printed wrappers. First edition. Cowan I, p. 66. Cowan II, p. 164. Graff 1044. Howes D237. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 183a: “One of the most spirited accounts of the journey to California and life in the mines.” Libros Californianos, p. 26. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 58. ($4,000-8,000)        More>>

55. DIETRICH, Dr. [Leopold W.] (attributed). The German Emigrants; or, Frederick Wohlgemuth’s Voyage to California.... Guben, [ca. 1852]. Hand-colored lithographed plates with gesso highlighting. 12mo, original decorated boards. First edition. Cowan II, p. 169. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 194a. ($300-600)        More>>

56. [DIRECTORY: NEVADA COUNTY]. BEAN, Edwin F. Bean’s History and Directory of Nevada County, California.... Nevada City, 1867. 8vo, original leather over pictorial boards. First edition, first directory printed in Nevada County and an early imprint for Nevada City. Cowan II, p. 170. Graff 219. Howes B278. Quebedeaux 36: “By far, the best-known of all California directories. One of the great ‘standard’ county histories...one of the most valuable—content-wise—of all the directories published in the United States.” Wheat, Books of the Gold Rush 13: “Notable compendium of early source material.” ($2,000-4,000)        More>>

57. [DIRECTORY: SAN FRANCISCO]. CAMPBELL & HOOGS (publishers). Campbell & Hoogs’ Directory for February, 1850.... [San Francisco: Faulkner & Allen, 1850]. Folio pamphlet. This sparse ephemeron is a rare survival. First issue. Fahey 152. Graff 565. Greenwood 194. Quebedeaux 71: “Extremely rare. First directory, of any kind, for San Francisco.... The February 15, 1850, issue of Campbell & Hoog’s is still the first directory of any sort, not only for San Francisco, but for California as a whole—unknown to the bibliographers until the Graff and Streeter copies came to light.” Streeter Sale 2625 (this copy). ($5,000-10,000)       More>>

58. [DIRECTORY: SAN FRANCISCO]. Register of First-Class Business Houses in San Francisco. October, 1852. San Francisco: F. A. Bonnard, 1852. 4to, original sheep over cloth. First edition. Cowan II, p. 173. Greenwood 350. One of the most typographically interesting of early San Francisco imprints. ($4,000-8,000)        More>>       

59. [DIRECTORY: SAN FRANCISCO]. LECOUNT & STRONG. LeCount & Strong’s San Francisco City Directory for the Year 1854.... San Francisco, 1854. 8vo, original sheep over printed boards. First edition. Cowan I, p. 70. Cowan II, 172. Greenwood 506. Quebedeaux 68: “Rare.” ($1,500-3,000)        More>>

60. [DIRECTORY: SAN FRANCISCO]. LANGLEY, Henry G. (compiler). The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing September, 1861.... San Francisco, 1861. Lithographed map. 8vo, original sheep over printed boards. First edition. Greenwood 1540. ($750-1,500)        More>>

61. [DIRECTORY: SAN FRANCISCO]. LANGLEY, Henry G. (compiler). The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing April, 1876.... San Francisco, 1876. 8vo, original sheep over printed boards. First edition. Cf. Cowan I, p. 70. Cf. Cowan II, p. 172. ($300-600)        More>>

62. [DIRECTORY: SAN FRANCISCO]. HOAG, C. C. (editor & publisher). Our Society Blue Book: San Francisco Blue Book.... San Francisco, 1930. 8vo, original cloth. ($100-200)        More>>

63. [DIRECTORY: TRUCKEE BASIN]. IRONS, C. D. (editor & compiler). W. F. Edwards’ Tourists’ Guide and Directory of the Truckee Basin. Truckee, 1883. Plates. 12mo, original cloth. First edition. Howes E73. Paher, Nevada 539. Quebedeaux 38. ($1,000-2,000)        More>>

64. [DIRECTORY: TUOLUMNE COUNTY]. HECKENDORN & WILSON (compilers). Miners & Business Men’s Directory. For the Year Commencing January 1st, 1856.... Columbia, 1856. 8vo, original wrappers. First edition of an important gold region business directory. Cowan II, p. 174. Graff 1844. Greenwood 693. Howes H389. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 324. Norris 3967: “Excessively rare.... Most of these places have long since disappeared leaving no record other than herein contained.” Quebedeaux 122. ($10,000-20,000)       More>>

65. DOWNIE, William. Hunting for Gold.... San Francisco, 1893. Illustrated. 8vo, original cloth. First edition, mixed issue. Cowan I, p. 71. Cowan II, p. 179. Graff 1143. Howes D448. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 203. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 64: “One of the more important volumes of Gold Rush reminiscence, by the discoverer of the rich diggings at Downieville.” ($300-600)       More>>

66. DU PONT, S. F. Official Dispatches and Letters of Rear Admiral Du Pont, U. S. Navy. 1846-48. 1861-63. Wilmington, 1883. 8vo, original cloth. Rare, privately printed account. First edition, limited edition (50 copies). Cowan II, p. 843. Howes D589. Kurutz & Mathes, The Forgotten War, p. 133. Nevins, Civil War Books I:223. Du Pont commanded the Cyane off the California coast during the Mexican-American War and was instrumental in securing the Californias under U.S. control. ($1,200-2,400)       More>>

67. DUFLOT DE MOFRAS, Eugène. Exploration du territoire de l’Orégon, des Californies et de la mer Vermeille.... Paris, 1844. Plates and maps. Atlas + 2 vols. of text, contemporary half calf. First edition of “one of the great books of the West Coast” (Graff 1169). Cowan I, p. 74: “The atlas [is] superior to any other issued within that decade [and] this work was presumed to be a continuation of Humboldt’s description of the same region.” Cowan II, p. 186. Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 1461: “A rare and important work on California and Oregon.” Harlow, Maps of San Francisco Bay 26n, 28, 29; Maps of the Pueblo Lands of San Diego 14. Howes D542. Lada-Mocarski 120. Libros Californianos, p. 25. Wheat, Gold Region 19: TMW 474 & II, pp. 185-86: “De Mofras’ map was a landmark.” Zamorano 80 #30. ($20,000-40,000)        More>>

68. DUPETIT-THOUARS, A. A. Voyage Autour du Monde.... Paris, 1840-1844 & 1855. Numerous plates and maps. 4 atlases + 10 vols. text. Contemporary boards skillfully rebacked in calf. Magnificent set. First edition. Bagnall 1750. Fine Bird Books (1990), p. 131. Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 1198, 1333, 1526, 1586, 1588 & 2132. Hill 518: “One of the most important and complete records of the Mexican period in California.” Howes P267. Nissen, BBI 561; IVB 281; ZBI 1211. The Atlas Pittoresque contains some of the finest lithographs of the nineteenth century, with views and scenes of San Francisco Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Honolulu, Mexico, Sydney, Lima, and other ports. ($50,000-100,000)        More>>

69. ECKFELDT, J. & W. Du Bois. New Varieties of Gold and Silver Coins.... Philadelphia, 1850. Engraved frontispiece, plate of California and Mormon coins, and actual gold samples. 12mo, original red paper boards gilt. First edition. Cowan I, p. 76. Cowan II, p. 191. Doheny Sale 219 (this copy). Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 217a. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 67: “Actual samples of California ‘grain’ and ‘bar’ gold, and reproductions of privately minted 1849 gold coins of California and of the Mormons in Utah render this little book an extraordinary and colorful contemporary souvenir of the Gold Rush.” ($5,000-10,000)        More>>

70. EDWARDS, P. L. California in 1837.... Sacramento, 1890. 12mo, original wrappers. Littell copy. First edition. Adams, Herd 747. Cowan I, p. 82: “Apparently limited to a small edition, as the work is rarely seen.” Cowan II, p. 192. Graff 1216. Howes E66. Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, p. 18. Reese, Six Score 36: “Narrative of the first recorded cattle drive in California. ($500-1,000)        More>>

71. [ELLIOT, G. H.]. The Presidio of San Francisco: Concepcion de Arguello. [Washington, 1874]. 12mo, original cloth rebacked in black leather. Very rare. Second separate edition. BAL 7272. Cowan I, p. 77: “Having been privately printed, this is one of the scarcest works relating to San Francisco.” Cowan II, p. 194. Howes E97. ($1,000-2,000)        More>>

72. ENGELHARDT, Zephyrin. The Franciscans in California. Harbor Springs, 1897. Plates and map. 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Cowan I, p. 79: “The most complete work upon the colonization and evangelization of California by the Franciscans.” Cowan II, p. 196. Graff 1250. Howes E153. ($100-200)        More>>

73. FARQUHAR, F. P. Exploration of the Sierra Nevada. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1925. Photographic plates. 8vo, original wrappers. Author’s signed presentation copy with corrections. First separate edition, one of 70 author’s copies from an offprint edition of 275. Cowan II, p. 204. Neate, Mountaineering and Its Literature 252. ($150-300)        More>>

74. [FERNÁNDEZ DE NAVARRETE, Martín]. Relación del viage hecho por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el año de 1792.... Madrid, 1802. Engraved plates (2 aquatint) and maps. Text and atlas, 8vo and folio, mid-twentieth-century sheep. The fine Doheny copy. First edition. California 49: Forty-Nine Maps 19. Cowan II, p. 198. Doheny Sale 221 (this copy). Graff 1262: “Most important account of the exploration of the Far Northwest coast by the Spanish.” Harlow, Maps of the Pueblo Lands of San Diego 1602-1864 #11. Howes G18 (“dd”). Lada-Mocarski 56: “Unsurpassed in importance.” Libros Californianos, pp. 16 & 24. Mathes, California Colonial Bibliography 71. Medina, HSA 5934. Wagner, CNW 861 & pp. 225-233, 252-254. ($15,000-30,000)        More>>

75. FERRY, Hypolite. Description de la Nouvelle Californie.... Paris, 1850. Plates and maps. 12mo, contemporary calf over boards. Second edition (Cowan notes that two editions came out in 1851 and they are identical in content). Cowan I, p. 84: “The most complete and extensive work descriptive of California published in France at this time.” Cowan II, p. 207. Howes F101. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 236a. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 75n; Gold Region 155 & 156. ($400-800)        More>>

76. FIELD, Stephen J. Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California.... [San Francisco? 1880?]. 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Cowan I, pp. 84-85. Cowan II, p. 108. Graff 1315. Howes F117. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 237b. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 76. ($150-300)        More>>

77. FISKE, George. Album of Yosemite photographs. 47 mounted numbered, signed albumen photographs, in album, 1880-1890s. Fiske’s ticket on verso of last card. Handsome album by the first photographer to live full-time in the Yosemite Valley. ($3,000-6,000)        More>>       

78. [FLEMING, G. A.]. California: Its Past History; Its Present Position; Its Future Prospects.... London, 1850. Engraved title page, 2 engraved plates, map (all vividly hand-colored and with gesso highlights). 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Flake 1085. Graff 1347. Howes F178. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 242: “The hand-colored plates are of exceptional quality and the engraved frontispiece is one of the glories of Gold Rush literature.” Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 4; Gold Region 144. ($1,500-3,000)        More>>

79. FOSTER, G. G. The Gold Regions of California. New York, 1848. Map. 8vo, original wrappers printed in gold. First edition. Cowan II, p. 219. Graff 1387. Howes F287. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 250a: “A useful anthology of some of the earliest reports of the gold discovery.” Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 77: “One of the earliest [maps] to mention the ‘Gold Region.’” Wheat, Gold Region 39. ($2,000-4,000)        More>>

80. FOSTER, G. G. The Gold Regions of California.... New York, 1848. Map. 8vo, original wrappers bound in sheep. First edition, varies slightly from preceding. ($1,500-3,000)        More>>

81. FRÉMONT, John C. Geographical Memoir upon Upper California, in Illustration of His Map of Oregon and California. Washington: HR5, 1849. Map. 8vo, recent cloth. First edition, House issue, but with the preferred Senate version of Preuss’s map. California 49: Forty-Nine Maps of California 48. Cohen, Mapping the West, pp. 152-153. Cowan II, p. 223n. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 256b. Paher, Nevada 637. Plains & Rockies IV:150:2. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 78; TMW III, 559 & pp. 55-62: “The one great general map of 1848 was that of Fremont and Preuss.” ($750-1,500)        More>>

82. FRÉMONT, John C. & Jessie Benton. Memoirs of My Life...Vol. 1 (all published). Chicago & New York, 1887. Plates (some by Darley), maps. 4to, original sheep. First edition, in special binding and printed on better paper. Cowan I, p. 91. Cowan II, pp. 224-225. Howes F367. Paher, Nevada 638. Rittenhouse 228. ($250-500)        More>>

83. FRÉMONT, John C. & Jessie Benton Frémont. Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains.... London, 1846. Plates and map. First English edition, unrecorded issue, similar to Plains & Rockies IV:115:6, but with 2 additional plates. Howes F370. Wheat, Gold Region 22n; TMW 481n & II, p. 184. Zamorano 80 #39. ($250-500)        More>>

84. FRIGNET, Ernest. La Californie.... Paris, 1867. Map. 8vo, original wrappers. Second edition (the first edition, published the previous year, did not contain the map). Cowan I, p. 92n. Cowan II, p. 225. Howes F385. Monaghan 710. ($150-300)        More>>

85. FRINK, Margaret A. Journal of the Adventures of a Party of California Gold-Seekers.... [Oakland, 1897]. Portraits. 12mo, original cloth. Rare, privately printed account. First edition, limited edition (50 copies printed). Cowan II, p. 225. Graff 1445. Howes F388. Kurutz, California Gold Rush 258a. ($1,000-2,000)        More>>

86. GARRARD, Lewis H. Wah-To-Yah, and the Taos Trail.... Cincinnati & New York, 1850. 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Flake 3509. Graff 1513. Howes G70. Plains & Rockies IV:182. Rittenhouse 236: “One of the great classics not only on the Trail but of the entire Southwest.” ($1,200-2,400)        More>>

87. GAY, F. A. Sketches of California.... [New York, 1848]. 8vo, original wrappers. Rare. First edition. Cowan I, p. 94. Cowan II, pp. 230-231. Graff 1525. ($750-1,500)        More>>

88. GEORGE, Henry. Progress and Poverty.... San Francisco, 1879. 8vo, original purple pebble cloth. First edition, limited edition (200 copies). Adams, Radical Literature in America, p. 54. Cowan I, p. 95. Cowan II, p. 233. Grolier American Hundred 81. Howes G106: “Significant American contribution to economic and sociological thought.” ($1,000-2,000)        More>>

89. GERSTÄCKER, F. W. Scènes de la Vie Californienne. Geneva, 1859. 6 India-proof mounted etched plates. 8vo, original cloth. First edition in French. Cowan I, p. 96. Cowan II, p. 234. Graff 1541. Hill 696: “Charming western scenes.” Howes G135. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 266b. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 81n. ($200-400)        More>>

90. GIFFORD, C. B. & L. Nagel. San Francisco, 1862. From Russian Hill... [label title]: Panoramic View of San Francisco. Lithographed panorama on tinted ground (31.9 x 270.5 cm; 12-1/2 x 106-1/2 inches) folded into contemporary cloth covers, with broadside: Historical Sketch of California. First edition, first state. Baird & Evans 38a. Peters, America on Stone, p. 195 & 291: “Very rare.” Reps, Views and Viewmakers of America 290 & p. 178: “Gifford’s finest and most ambitious view.” ($15,000-25,000)        More>>

91. GLEESON, W. History of the Catholic Church in California. San Francisco, 1872-1871. Plates, map. 2 vols. in one, later three-quarter tan calf. First edition. Cowan I, p. 97: “This work, largely esteemed, is rare, having suffered a destructive fire at the publishers.” Cowan II, p. 239. Howes G204. ($400-800)        More>>

92. GREGG, Josiah. Commerce of the Prairies.... New York, 1844. Engraved plates and maps. 2 vols., 12mo, original cloth. First edition, first issue. Bennett, American Book Collecting, p. 91: “A key book of obvious importance.” Flake 3716. Graff 1659. Howes G401. Plains & Rockies IV:108:1. Rittenhouse 255. Streeter, Texas, p. 328 (citing the book as one of the most important for a Texas collection) & 1502. Wheat, TMW 482 & I, p. 186: “A cartographic landmark.” ($1,500-3,000)        More>>

93. GREGORY, J. W. Gregory’s Guide for California Travellers.... New York & St. Louis, 1850. 8vo, modern boards. First edition of a rare early guide for California travelers. Cowan I, pp. 99-100. Cowan II, pp. 249-250. Howes G407. Jones 254. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 294a. ($1,200-2,400)        More>>

94. GREGORY’S EXPRESS. Gregory’s Express Pocket Letter Book.... San Francisco, 1851. 24mo, original coated wrappers printed in gold. Unused, as issued. Exceptionally fine. ($400-800)        More>>

95. GREGORY’S EXPRESS. [GOLD RUSH LETTER]. REED, James M. ALs to his wife and sons, Todd’s Valley California, near the American River, April 1, 1855. 14 pp. in Gregory’s Express Pocket Letter Book. Reed outlines a microcosm of difficulties miners faced and the hopes that they held for striking gold. ($500-1,000)        More>>

96. [GUZMÁN, J. M.]. Breve noticia que da al Supremo Gobierno, del actual estado del territorio de la Alta California.... Mexico, 1833. Table. 8vo, plain paper wrappers. First edition. Cowan II, p. 154. Doheny Sale 200 (this copy). Graff 1696. Libros Californianos, p. 15. ($500-1,000)        More>>

97. HAKLUYT, Richard. The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation.... London, 1589. Lacks map. Folio, contemporary calf. First edition, second issue, with Drake insert. Arents (Add) 95. Church 139. European Americana 589/31. Grolier English Hundred 14. Mathes, California Colonial Bibliography 3. Printing and the Mind of Man 105. STC 12625. Wagner, Spanish Southwest 9 (Drake insert). ($8,000-16,000)        More>>

98. HALLEY, William. The Centennial Year Book of Alameda County.... Oakland, 1876. Plates. 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Cowan I, p. 103. Cowan II, p. 260. ($150-300)        More>>

99. HARLOW, A. F.. Old Waybills: The Romance of the Express Companies. New York & London, 1934. Plates + extra-illustrated with 11 printed ephemera related to California express companies. 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Adams, Guns 924. Howes H201. ($100-300)        More>>

100. HARTE, Bret. The Pliocene Skull.... Washington, 1871. Entirely lithographed, with comical illustrations of California gold miner and humorous verse. 4to, original cloth over paper boards, a.e.g. First edition (Kozlay’s B). BAL 7424. Bennett, p. 134. Cowan II, p. 268. ($150-300)        More>>

101. HARTE, Bret. The Queen of the Pirate Isle...Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.... London, [1886?]. Chromolithographed text illustrations. 8vo, original cloth. First edition. BAL 7337. Harte wrote this work after he moved to London, but it is set in California. ($100-300)        More>>

102. HARTFORD UNION MINING & TRADING COMPANY. Journal of the Hartford Union Mining and Trading Company.... Printed by J. L. Hall, on Board the Henry Lee, 1849. 32 pp. 12mo, original stitching. Presentation from Hall: “Presented to E. A. Upton by Mr. Hall in Rio de Janeiro—April 1849.” Exceedingly rare—only known copy of this 32-page issue. First edition, first issue of the account usually considered the first, and best, printed narrative of an expedition by sea to the gold regions, printed aboard ship. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 305a. Vail, Gold Fever, pp. 25-27 (this copy). ($10,000-20,000)        More>>

103. HARTFORD UNION MINING & TRADING COMPANY. Journal of the Hartford Union Mining and Trading Company.... Printed by J. L. Hall on Board the Henry Lee [and San Francisco harbor], 1849. 88 pp. (pp. 9-20 in facsimile but with pp. 41-44 in duplicate). 8vo, disbound sheets. Ultra rare—only a handful of copies of the 88-page issues have survived. First edition, third issue (with corrected title page and the last few pages typeset in San Francisco harbor). Cowan I, p. 102. Cowan II, p. 259. Fahey 124. Greenwood 131. Howes W202. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 305a. Libros Californianos, p. 23. Vail, Gold Fever, pp. 25-27. Wagner, California Imprints 84. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 88. John B. Goodman, in Book Club of California, California Printing...1838-1890 I:5: “The first sea journal of the ’49 California Argonauts to be published...largely printed during the long voyage round the stormy Cape Horn from New York to San Francisco.... Today it is one of the keystones, and among the rarest, of all western books. Despite its humble appearance, just to handle this hallowed journal and scan its pages is a riveting experience.” ($10,000-20,000)        More>>

104. HARTFORD UNION MINING & TRADING COMPANY. Around the Horn in ’49.... [Wethersfield, 1898]. Plates. 8vo, original cloth. Presentation copy. Second edition, with the added 96-page appendix; first illustrated edition. Cowan I, pp. 102-103. Cowan II, p. 259. Howes W202. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 305b. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 88n. ($200-400)        More>>

105. [HAVEN, Emily B. N.]. “All’s Not Gold That Glitters”; or, The Young Californian. By Cousin Alice. New York, 1853. Chromolithographed title, plates. 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Cowan II, pp. 145-146. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 321a. Gold Rush juvenile. ($50-100)        More>>

106. HEAP, G. H. Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California.... Philadelphia, 1854. Tinted lithographed plates, map in photofacsimile. 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Cowan I, p. 107. Cowan II, p. 273. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp. 110-111: “The earliest published account of Death Valley.” Graff 1837. Paher 747. Plains & Rockies IV:235. Rittenhouse 290. Includes camel experiment. ($400-800)        More>>

107. HITTELL, John S. A History of the City of San Francisco and Incidentally of the State of California. San Francisco, 1878. 8vo, original cloth. Author’s presentation copy. First edition. Cowan I, p. 111: “The most reliable and standard authority that has yet appeared upon the period it includes.” Cowan II, p. 283. Howes H539. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 99. ($150-300)