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

Waterloo, Ia. [ca. 1925?]. Folding map, 11.5 x 17.5 inches, in a printed card cover, 6.25 x 4.75 inches. Light wear and soiling to covers. Map with slight separation at corner folds, lightly toned. A map of the roads in Iowa, prepared by the state Highway Commission. The map is..... More

Los Angeles: [ca. 1910]. Plat map, approximately 14 x inches. Folded, a couple of short separations and minor losses along or near folds. A few nicks at edges. Light, even tanning. Printed on thin paper. Ephemeral real estate map and advertisement for the Riverside Orange Heights Tract, located north of..... More

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1904. Folding map, approximately 21 x 27.5 inches. Original, wallet-style printed wrappers. Light wear to wraps; a few short separations along fold lines. Light tanning. Uncommon cartographic promotional for this early 20th-century mining company with operations near Cananea and Magdalena in the Northern Mexican state of Sonora..... More

[Ashland? ca. 1900]. Thirteen silver gelatin photos, each 3.5 x 5.5 inches, mounted inside front cover and on six black paper leaves. Oblong octavo. Original card covers tied with ribbon, front cover with oval cutout. Ribbon mostly perished, minor wear to covers. Images clean and sharp. Lovely vernacular album with..... More

[Petaluma: 1861-1863]. Three pocket diaries, totaling about 450pp., approximately 28,000 words. 12mo. Lacking covers, endpapers and stitching intact; contemporary ownership notations to endleaves. "Daily Pocket Remembrancers" for the year, with two or three daily entries per page. Light tanning, occasional foxing and ink offsetting internally. In a neat, legible hand..... More

New Braunfels, Tx. 1902. [32]pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stitched. Light wear and dust soiling to wraps. Light toning internally. Scarce, first edition of this early 20th-century promotional for New Braunfels, Texas, and the businesses operated there by the Landa Estate. By the end of the 19th century, the Landa family..... More

Lewiston, Id. Lewiston Commercial Club, [1926?]. [8]pp. Quarto. Original printed self-wrappers, stapled. Previously folded, short separation along old fold at edge of first leaf. Light tanning, scattered foxing. A scarce promotional for agriculture in Central Idaho and Southeaster Washington, "Written for the Lewiston, Idaho, Commercial Club, by Oliver M. Osborne..... More

[Gilroy]: Telegram Print, [ca. 1920s]. [11]pp. Small quarto, unfolded. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear to wraps. Light tanning and minor soiling internally. Some minor creasing to leaves; closed tears, one about two inches, at two fore-edges. Unrecorded promotional pamphlet for the California town of Gilroy, located east of Santa..... More

Milwaukee: 1883. Chromolithograph, 16 x 19.75 inches. Lightly backed, repairs to small losses at edges and corners. Lower edge with several closed tears, not affecting image; paper a bit crisp. Later color added to flags. Chromolithograph depicting the public execution of thirty-eight Dakota Indians following the end of the Dakota..... More

Brooklyn: Albertype Co., [ca. 1890?]. [16] leaves, including folding panorama. Original pictorial wrappers. Previously string-tied, now loose. Light wear to wraps. Short tear to panorama, repaired with tape on blank verso. Very light tanning internally. Scarce and attractive promotional for the town of Ventura, California, at the end of the..... More

Wolf Point, Mt. Wolf Point Commercial Club, [1930]. Broadside, 22 x 15 inches. Old folds, minor separation at center fold. A few small tears at right edge. Light wear. Broadside advertising the Fourth of July celebrations of Wolf Point, Montana, a small town on the northeastern side of the state..... More

Oakland: R.L. Bond & Sons, 1917. Folding map, 18 x 29.5 inches. Original printed card wrappers. Light wear along edges and spine. Light wear and dust soiling along map folds. Map printed on coated paper, and tipped into wraps in reverse. A somewhat crude, unrecorded mileage map for driving destinations..... More