![Alameda [manuscript title]. Louis Alexander Booksin](/pictures/thumb/McBRB786.JPG?v=1577113985)
[Alameda, Ca.]: 1880. Pencil drawing on a sheet 9.75 x 13 inches. Negligible wear. Signed and dated by the artist. Accomplished pencil sketch of a barn in a pastoral setting, drawn by Louis Alexander Booksin. Booksin (1858-1948) was a California artist who settled in the San Jose area. The present..... More
Oakland: Elliott & Co., 1885. Large lithograph with contemporary color, 22 x 28.25 inches. A couple of short closed tears at edges. Light tanning and an occasional fox mark. An attractive and scarce bird's-eye view of Santa Rosa, California, drawn and published by Wallace William Elliot of San Francisco and..... More
New York: Grolier Club, 1915. xxi,120,[1]pp. Small folio. Original blue boards with linen spine, gilt leather label. Spine worn, label chipped, moderately dampstained. Light wear to boards and corners. Mostly clean internally, with some light foxing to gutter of first few leaves and some very faint dampstaining to edges of..... More
![Two Vernacular Sketchbooks by California Artist Lewis Carleton Ryan]. Lewis Carleton Ryan](/pictures/thumb/McBRB798_01.JPG?v=1569499956)
[Various places in California: 1952 & 1957]. Two spiralbound notebooks. [56]; [48]pp. Original cardboard covers with contemporary manuscript annotation. Light wear at edges. Light tanning and dust soiling internally. Two sketchbooks filled with original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings by Southern California artist Lewis Carleton Ryan during the 1950s. Ryan was..... More
Brooklyn: Douglass Howell, 1958. [20] leaves, comprised of a title page, eighteen plates, and colophon leaf. Publisher’s brown morocco, gilt, in the original slipcase. Negligible wear. Copy one of sixty, signed by the artist. This handsome little book is comprised of a letterpress title page and colophon, as well as..... More
New York: Baker, Godwin & Co., 1853. 16pp. Original printed wrappers, rear cover lacking. Contemporary ownership inscription on front cover. Lightly creased, some light foxing and soiling. Description of William H. Powell’s famous painting of De Soto from the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, published in conjunction with the completion of the..... More