![Vistas de Santa Rosa [cover title]. California](/pictures/thumb/McBRB808_01.JPG?v=1567080719)
Los Angeles: M. Rieder, [ca. 1915]. Eighteen views on recto and verso of nine panels, folded accordion style. Original purple printed wrappers. Minor fading and wear. Rare viewbook of Santa Rosa, California, comprised of eighteen halftone images of the area. Views include the Stone Depot at Kenwood, the “Old Adobe”..... More
![Map of the Town of Felton [caption title]. California, Cartography](/pictures/thumb/McBRB366.JPG?v=1551727904)
[Felton: ca. 1918?]. Folded blueprint map, 21 x 15.5 inches. Patch of dampstaining at center left, slightly affecting image. Light wear and a few small separations along fold lines. Contemporary manuscript annotations. A unique blueprint map of Felton, California, north of Santa Cruz, that depicts lots in the main area..... More
Diablo, Ca. Easton & Ward, 1923. 89pp. Oblong octavo. Original blue cloth, front board gilt lettered. Hinges cracking; spine rubbed; corners worn. Light dust soiling internally. A scarce and fabulously illustrated promotional for the cattle being raised at the Blackhawk Ranch, south of Mt. Diablo, California, in 1923. The ranch..... More
![Autograph Letter, Signed, by M.H. Kolloch Regarding an 1866 California Gold Discovery]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB587.JPG?v=1564256386)
Fairplay, Ca. October 14, 1866. [2]pp., on a small bifolium. Previously folded. Light creasing and dust soiling. A brief but interesting letter about developments in the Brownsville mining district of California, southeast of Oroville, in 1866: "I am on my way to Paradise Valley Arizona, where I have been ordered..... More
San Francisco: P.J. Thomas, 1893. 34,[2]pp. 12mo. Original green printed wrappers. Minor wear. San Francisco's Iroquois Club was one of several founded in the early 1880s around the country. Like Tammany Hall, the Club was designed to promote Democrats and policies favorable to them, although unlike Tammany, it had neither..... More
[Sacramento. 1965]. Large folding map, 28 x 32 inches. Very minor wear at a few folds. With original mailing envelope, somewhat worn and foxed. A surprisingly scarce map of the construction of Oroville dam and surrounding area in California. The dam is of recent fame for nearly failing in February..... More
San Francisco: Bunker & Hiester, 1877. xxiii,[1],184pp. plus three maps (one folding). Original yellow printed wrappers. Some light wear and soiling, minor chipping to spine ends. Internally clean. Work on the election law of California, covering a broad range of material from the Constitution of the United States to information..... More
![The Knight's Templar Grand Entree March [cover title]. Henry Marsh](/pictures/thumb/McBRB234_01.JPG?v=1548095262)
San Francisco: Henry Marsh, 1883. [4]pp. Folio. Original blue printed wrappers over stiff color lithographed wrappers, stitched as issued. Light wear and dust soiling to outer wraps, some splitting at spine, but solid. Very short closed tear at foot of front internal wrapper. Internally clean. An elaborately illustrated and scarce..... More
![Union and Central Pacific Railroad Line Via Omaha or Kansas City to San Francisco [cover title]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1399_01.jpg?v=1592052008)
Omaha: Republican Print, [1883]. 64pp., plus folding map. 12mo. Original pictorial wrappers. Light wear and soiling to wraps, a few cracks and small chips along spine. Light, even tanning, but otherwise internally clean. A scarce informational and promotional pamphlet for the services of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads..... More
Tonopah, Nv. December 7 - 15, 1907. Ten letters, totaling 85pp. Mostly octavo sheets. Old fold lines, minor wear. Most with original envelope. With modern typed transcripts. Series of letters written by mining engineer and surveyor William Shockley to his fiancee, May Bradford, over the course of the week following..... More