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BLOTTER / TRADE CARD. "First Immigrant Train"

Bank of California · 1840 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

[San Francisco]: , (n. d.). White card printed in blue and black ink. Black and white reproduction of a wood engraving of the travelers from Missouri on their way to the West. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8". A VG+ card. In the autumn of 1840 more than 500 people in Missouri signed a pledge f...

BLOTTER / TRADE CARD. "Transportation Over the Sierra: 1860 - 1869"

Bank of California · 0 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

[San Francisco]: , (n. d.). White card printed in black and lime green. Reproduced b/w photographic image of covered wagons journeying to the Washoe Mines. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8". A VG card (light wear to edges). "The outfit compirsed the Teamster, his assistant, the 'Swamper', six s...

BLOTTER / TRADE CARD. "East Side of Montgomery Street North from California 1856."

Bank of California · 1853 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

[San Francisco]: , (n. d.). White card printed in dark blue and brown. Tinted brown reproduced photographic image of Montgomery Street. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8". A VG+ card. "According to a city directory of that year, the following represent a few of the occupants of buildings on the ...

BLOTTER / TRADE CARD. "Taking Possession of Yerba Buena"

Bank of California · 0 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

[San Francisco]: , (n. d.). White card, printed in blue & red. Blue tinted reproduced wood engraved image of the plaza at Yerba Buena, as well a reproduction of a duergerotype image of Captain John B. Montgomery. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8". A VG+ card.

BLOTTER / TRADE CARD. "Fort Ross 1812"

Bank of California · 0 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

[San Francisco]: , (n. d.). White card, printed in black. Yellow tinted reproduced wood engraved image of the fort. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8". A VG+ card.

BLOTTER / TRADE CARD. "The First Custom House"

Bank of California · 1844 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

[San Francisco]: , (n. d.). White card printed in dark green. Tinted green reproduced wood engraved image of the custom house. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8". Prior owner initials in top right corner. A VG+ card. The first custom house in San Francisco was built in 1844 at the behest of the ...

BLOTTER / TRADE CARD. "San Francisco Blues"

Bank of California · 1850 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

[San Francisco]: , (n. d.). Reproduced woodcut image of the Blues, ca 1850s. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8". VG+. The San Francisco Blues were one of five military companies organized in San Francisco in the '50s. 'The Blues' were so called because of the brillian blue of their dress uniforms.

BLOTTER / TRADE CARD. "Benicia - U. S. Military Post"

Bank of California · 1850 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

[San Francisco]: , (n. d.). Pinted in blue ink. Image of Bencia, ca 1850s, with drawing of Arsenal to right of image. 3-7/8" x 8-7/8". VG+.

G. B. DANIELS GRAND MARSHALL. July 4th, 1895. Oakland, Cal

[Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Ribbon]. Daniels, G. B. · 1895 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$247.50 (€224.55 | £187.31 | ¥39,527)

: , 1895. Ribbon mounted in dark wood shadow box frame. Red, white & blue vertically striped, with flag motif cross-member, accented by gold cloth medallion & gold fringe tassels. Gold fringe at bottom. Title imprinted in gilt. Ribbon: 11-1/4" x 2-1/2". Ribbon show aging, with...

RECOLLECTIONS Of OLD TIMES In CALIFORNIA or, California Life in 1843. Keepsake #22

Thomes, W[illiam] H[enry 1824 - 1895] · 1974 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1974. 1st edition thus. Yellow printed paper wrappers. 29, [5] pp (including Checklist of Publications). Illustrated with 8 plates (some color). 8vo. Nr Fine.

PICTURESQUE OAKLAND. 1889

[Oakland California Ephemera]. Miller, Joaquin [1837 - 1913] - Contributor · 1889 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$302.50 (€274.45 | £228.93 | ¥48,311)

San Francisco: Henry K. Knapp, Publisher, 1889. Printed stiff card stock covers, with cord tie. 1st printing (Rocq 850). Cf. BAL 13870 ["Not Seen"], for Miller's poem, where BAL states, "Text not found elsewhere save as a song..". 5 ll of text, printed recto only, the last lea...

"Rich Relations by Mrs. Abdy", "Schloss Hainfeld; or a Winter in Lower Styria by Captain Basil Hall", "Want by Dryden", "Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time by Sir N. W. Wraxall", "Sonnets by Wordsworth & H. Coleridge", "The Crusaders Part II by Thomas Keightley", & "Dryburgh Abbey; The Burial Place of Sir Walter Scott by C. Swain" [as published in] The SELECT CIRCULATING LIBRARY. Containing the Best Popular Literature, Including Memoirs, Biography, Novels, Tales, Travels, Voyages, &c. Part II - 1836

Mrs. Abdy, Captain Basil Hall, Dryden, Sir N. W. Wraxall, [William] Wordsworth & H. Coleridge, Thomas Keightley, C. Swain - Contributors · 1836 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$165.00 (€149.70 | £124.87 | ¥26,352)

Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie, 1836. 1st edition. Period maroon half-sheep over green marbled paper covered boards. [6], 416, [2 (blank)] pp. 11-1/4" x 9-1/4". Average wear to binding, edges rubbed. Wear and light soiling to endpapers and pastedowns, ffep ...

"Intelligence in Card Playing by Sir Walter Scott", "Journal of a West India Proprietor, kept during a residence in the Island of Jamaica by the late Matthew Gregory Lewis", "To T. L. H---, six years old, during a sickness by Leigh Hunt", "Ascent of Mount Etna by Sidney L. Johnson", & "Helen, a Tale by Maria Edgeworth" [as published in] The SELECT CIRCULATING LIBRARY. Containing the Best Popular Literature, Including Memoirs, Biography, Novels, Tales, Travels, Voyages, &c. Volume III, Part I - 1834

Hunt, Leigh, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Walter Scott, Sidney L. Johnson, Maria Edgeworth, Thomas Haynes Bayley - Contributors · 1834 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$137.50 (€124.75 | £104.06 | ¥21,960)

Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie, 1834. 1st edition. Period maroon half-sheep over green marbled paper covered boards. [4], 416, [2 (blank)] pp. 11-1/4" x 9-1/4". Rubbing and wear to binding, chipping to spine edges. Pencil markings to front and rear pastedow...

"Six Months in America by Godfrey T. Vigne", "Klosterheim, or The Masque by the English Opium Eater", "The Hill and the Valley. A Politico-economical Tale by Harriet Martineau", "Travels in Peru... by Edmond Temple", "Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers by C. Mac Farlane", & "Sonnet on Sir Walter Scott's leaving Abbotsford for Naples by William Wordsworth" [as published in] The SELECT CIRCULATING LIBRARY. Containing the Best Popular Literature, Including Memoirs, Biography, Novels, Tales, Travels, Voyages, &c. Vol. I.

Waldie, Adam - Publisher. Martineau, Harriet, Godfrey T. Vigne, Richard Phillips, Edmond Temple, Lieutenant Colonel Batty, William Wordsworth, [Ebenezer Elliott] - Contributors · 1833 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$137.50 (€124.75 | £104.06 | ¥21,960)

Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie, No. 6 North Eighth Street, 1833. Period maroon half-sheep over grey cloth covered boards. [4], 424, [2 (blank)] pp. Text triple column. 4to. 11-1/4" x 9-1/4". Wear to boards, rubbing to edges. Front board starting to detach, ...

EAST OAKLAND And FRUIT VALE. A Land of Health and Homes. Alameda County California

[Promotional Pamphlet] · 1888 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$247.50 (€224.55 | £187.31 | ¥39,527)

San Francisco: Issued by East Oakland Improvement Association. Printed by H. S. Crocker & Co, 1888. 1st printing (Rocq 775). OCLC records 7 holding institutions. Original publisher's pink paper wrappers, stapled, printed in dark brown ink. 30, [2] pp. Illustrated from b/w phot...

CERAMIC STRATIGRAPHY At CERRO De Las MESAS VERACRUZ, MEXICO. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 141

Drucker, Philip · 1943 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1943. 1st edition. Green printed paper wrappers. viii, 95, [1 (blank)] pp. B/w photographic images on inserted plates in rear, folding map before p. 1. 9-1/8" x 5-7/8". Average wear to wrappers and textblock, sunning to spine and edges. ...

The CONTEMPORARY CULTURE Of The CAHITA INDIANS. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 142

Beals, Ralph L. · 1945 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1945. 1st edition. Green printed paper wrappers. xii, 244 pp. Inserted plates of b/w photographic images in rear. 9" x 5-3/4". Creasing and wear to wrappers, cunning to spine and light chipping to edges. Ex- library with the usual markin...

ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS NUMBERS 27 - 32. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 136

[Smithsonian Collective Publication] · 1943 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$24.75 (€22.45 | £18.73 | ¥3,953)

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1943. 1st edition. Grey printed paper wrappers. viii, 375, [1 (blank)] pp. Intratextual b/w illustrations, inserted plates of b/w photographic images. 9-1/8" x 5-7/8". Light creasing and wear to wrappers, sunning to spine. Ex- library wi...

SIX FLAGS MAGIC MOUNTAIN. "We're Building a Better Mountain"

[Airlines Travel Poster] · 1980 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$82.50 (€74.85 | £62.44 | ¥13,176)

(n. p.): (Six Flags Parks), (n. d.). 1st printing, ca. 1980s. Broadside. Large collage (27-1/4" x 17-1/4") of colorful illustrations detailing a family enjoying the divers activities offered at Magic Mountain (including a rollercoaster, banjo, ice cream, dance show, carousel, ...

CIVIL REPORT Of MAJOR GENERAL LEONARD WOOD, MILITARY GOVERNOR Of CUBA; For the Period from December 20th, 1899 to December 31st 1900. Nine Volumes Out of a Twelve Volume Set. Vols: I, II, III, IV, V, IX, X, XI, & XII

[Cuba, Military Governor Headquarters]. Wood, Leonard [1860 - 1927]. Major William M[urray]. Black [1855 - 1933], Leopoldo Cancio [1851 - 1927], Major W[illiam]. C[rawford]. Gorgas [1854 - 1920], Diego Tamayo, Jose R. Villalon - Contributors · 1901 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$1,045.00 (€948.10 | £790.85 | ¥166,893)

(Washington): (Government Printing Office), (n. d.). 1st edition (presumed). [ca. 1901]. Black leather boards, gilt stamped lettering to spine. Boards stamped in blind. Glossy marbled endpapers. Individual volumes, divers paginations within each volume. Many inserted plates of...