![Vistas de Redondo [cover title]. California](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1415_01.jpg?v=1596891294)
Los Angeles: M. Rieder, 1905. [18]pp., accordion folded in nine panels. Original brown printed wrappers. Text separated from wrappers. Some light wear and soiling. Promotional viewbook for Redondo Beach featuring images of the beach, street scenes, the wharf and fishing activities, and a four-panel panoramic view of "Hotel Redondo -..... More
[Boston?]: 1900. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Quarto. Previously folded. Light wear along old folds and a couple of short closed tears at lower edge. Rare illustrated prospectus for the potentially fraudulent Bernalillo Oil Company, based in Boston and San Diego at the turn of the 20th century. The text promises..... More
![Pencil Sketch after Britton & Rey California Pictorial Letter Sheet]. California, Pictorial...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1475.jpg?v=1612531147)
[Medway, Ma.? ca. 1850s]. Pencil sketch on heavy paper, with faint tempera highlights. Image measuring 7.5 x 11.5 inches on a sheet 8.25 x 13 inches. Light dust soiling and faint foxing. Evenly tanned. A skilled contemporary pencil sketch after a classic California Gold Rush pictorial letter sheet by San..... More
![Illustrated Salinas City, Monterey County, Cal. [cover title]. California, Promotional Literature](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1231.JPG?v=1586348227)
Salinas CIty: Wyatt & Rodgers, 1897. [46]pp. Oblong 12mo. Original tan printed wrappers. Light soiling and wear. Contemporary ownership inscriptions inside front cover. Minor soiling internally. Promotional souvenir of Salinas City, California, providing a brief history and overview of the climate, but primarily an illustrated work depicting local houses and..... More
![Archive of Military Papers from the Career of Sheldon A. Keeny]. Sheldon A. Keeny](/pictures/thumb/1384.jpg?v=1599741546)
[New York, California, and Connecticut: 1864-1920]. Approximately sixty documents, as well as two small notebooks and three photographs. Mostly folio, with a few postcards and four larger vellum enlistment documents. Some light wear but generally clean and legible. Small archive of papers relating to the military career of Sheldon A...... More
San Francisco: 1887. 66,[8]pp., including numerous in-text or full page illustrations and eight photolithographed plates, plus large folding map. Folio. Original pictorial wrappers. Wraps with some soiling, wear at edges; front wrap with a few signs of biopredation; two small chips to rear wrapper; spine perishing at extremities. Minor worming..... More