[Los Angeles]: Howells & Howells, Engineers, 1925. iv,120pp., plus twenty-two blueline plates and three large folding maps. Typescript copy bound into limp imitation leather covers, front cover gilt lettered, paper spine label. Light wear at edges. Even tanning and scattered light foxing. An extensive and significant mid-1920s report on water..... More
San Francisco: 1862-1863. Six issues, each 8pp. Folio, on single folded sheets of newsprint. One issue separated along spine, minor foxing, creasing, and edge wear. A small collection of early issues of a notable scientific journal published in San Francisco beginning in 1860; the present issues were all issued during..... More
Mexico City: Juan Aguilar Vera, 1910. 139pp., plus two folding maps. In Spanish. Oblong folio. Publisher's brown wrappers, gilt titles on front cover. Minor edge wear. An elaborately-produced photographically-illustrated work documenting irrigation and drinking water distribution efforts in Mexico City in September 1910. The work is comprised of twenty-five pages..... More
Cleveland: Clark-Britton Printing Co., [1890]. [36]pp. Oblong small folio. Embossed and printed wrappers, rivet bound at gutter margin. Light wear to wraps. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Minor dust soiling and dampstaining; occasional faint foxing. An attractive and well-produced photographic promotional for the Short Electric Railway Company of..... More
[San Francisco and Los Angeles: The Heald-Menerey Company, ca. 1928]. Large color map, measuring 44 x 64 inches, cut into eight sections and folded into book form. Original black limp textured cloth, yapp edges, titled in pale yellow on front cover. Moderate edge wear, titles on front cover almost completely..... More