[Buenos Aires]: 1939. [22] leaves, with twenty-one original photographs, each 7 x 9 inches, plus interleaved plastic guards. Oblong folio. Spiral wire bound, plastic and synthetic boards with decorative wire edges. Light wear and soiling at boards edges. Occasional light soiling internally. Photos crisp and clean, mounted directly to leaves..... More
San Francisco: Norman Pierce Company, 1905. [16]pp. Small quarto. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Old vertical fold. Minor wear at edges. Scattered contemporary ink annotations. Light tanning and dust soiling. Scarce and well-illustrated promotional for Phoenix and Maricopa County, Arizona, in the first decade of the 20th century. The text presents..... More
![Advantages of Incorporating Under the Laws of Arizona [cover title]. Arizona, Business](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1457_01.jpg?v=1599052565)
Phoenix: 1904. [24]pp. 24mo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Small portion excised from first leaf. Light toning. Unrecorded promotional for the Stoddard Incorporating Company of Phoenix, Arizona, founded by Isaac T. Stoddard, the former Territorial Secretary of Arizona, who, "continues to do most of the incorporating business of the Territory." Stoddard..... More
Pittsburgh: 1836-1841. [48]pp. Large folio. Contemporary half reverse-calf and blue paper boards. Wear to corners and spine ends, boards soiled. Leaves reinforced at gutter margin with tape, some light soiling. In a clear and legible hand. This ledger records the register and pay information for approximately thirty-five men who worked..... More
Fort Worth: Published for the Author, 1900. 486,xxxvii,[1]pp. plus frontispiece. Illustrated throughout. Original dark blue cloth, gilt. Light wear and soiling to cloth. Text clean. A comprehensive work on the Texas angora goat industry, illustrated with numerous handsome halftones of various goats. With discussions on the goat's production for both..... More
San Francisco: 1917. Sheet map, 28 x 22.75 inches. Folded. Somewhat rumpled; a few small chips at edges, not affecting text of map image. Several scattered patches of staining. A scarce real estate map of Berkeley, California, printed for and distributed by local agents Mason-McDuffie Company in 1917. Blocks are..... More
![Street Map, City of Belmont, California [caption title]. California](/pictures/thumb/McBRB665.JPG?v=1564256225)
[Belmont, Ca. 1947]. Sheet map, 11.25 x 15.25 inches. Previously folded. Light wear at folds. Light tanning. Scarce post-World War II street map of Belmont, California, south of San Francisco. The map depicts the layout of the area between San Mateo, San Carlos, and Hidden Canyon Park, and was issued..... More
Los Angeles: 1935. Folding map, approximately 18 x 20 inches. Minimal wear at folds. Minor toning and dust soiling. A detailed 1935 map of Los Angeles, provided as a promotional item by Bekins Van & Storage Co., which had moving offices and storage facilities across California during the Depression. The..... More
![Great Belt Gold Mining Company of Los Angeles, California [caption title]. California, Mining](/pictures/thumb/McBRB957.JPG?v=1586532667)
Chicago: Hollister Brothers, 1906. 12pp., plus two small folding pamphlets and response card. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear to wraps. Scarce, illustrated promotional material for the early 20th-century mining claims of the Great Gold Belt Mining Company in San Bernardino County that extend "an invitation to assist in the..... 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
![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
Porterville: Chamber of Commerce, [1914]. [32]pp. Original printed pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Promotional booklet for the small town of Porterville, California, located about halfway between Fresno and Bakersfield. Published by the city Chamber of Commerce, this work touts the amenities and prosperities of Porterville, including its agriculture..... More
Whittier: Board of Trade, 1906. 16pp. Oblong octavo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light soiling and wear. Published less than twenty years after Whittier was founded by Quakers, this promotional work proudly proclaims that "there is now town of its size that will rank higher in intelligence, morality, and progressiveness." Just..... More
Madera, Ca. [ca. 1890s]. Broadside, 16.5 x 9.5 inches. Horizontal fold at center. A few very short closed tears at top edge. Even tanning; a couple of faint fox marks. A scarce broadside advertisement for a land sale north of Fresno during the late 19th century. The Bank of Madera..... More
[Monterey, Ca. ca. 1900s]. Large blueprint map, 52.5 x 65 inches. Light wear and occasional creasing. Several closed tear repaired on verso. Right edge trimmed, slightly affecting image and text. A rare and giant cadastral map showing new subdivisions east of downtown Monterey, in what are now the Del Monte..... 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
![384 Acre Tract Devonshire Properties San Mateo County San Carlos, California [caption title]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB503.JPG?v=1556627145)
San Francisco. [1946]. Printed map, 12.75 x 21.25 inches. Previously folded. Very light wear. A scarce, post-World War II cadastral map that depicts lots in subdivisions of San Carlos, California, north of Redwood City. The developer of these "Devonshire Properties," Clyde Menke, was involved in several legal disputes over the..... More
[San Francisco? 1919]. Folded map, 21 x 28 inches. Promotional text printed on verso. Minor wear. Map highlighting lots in the city Pacific Grove, on the Monterey peninsula, owned by the Del Monte Properties Co. and to be sold by auctioneers Barry & Austin with no reserve. The text printed..... More
Los Angeles: California Corrugated Culvert Company, 1922. 44pp., plus folding plate. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Spine reinforced with cloth tape; Light oxidation and loosening around staples. Light wear and dust soiling to wraps; Light toning internally. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on title page. A detailed and mathematically elaborate promotional for..... More
![Five Large Blueprints of Early Depression-Era Weber Dam Modifications]. California, Weber Creek Dam](/pictures/thumb/McBRB651_01.JPG?v=1558540543)
Placerville, Ca. 1929. Five blueprints, measuring from approximately 24 x 34 to 29 x 41 inches. Tipped onto modern cardboard backing at left edge, overlaid with brown paper. Light wear, a couple of archival repairs at edges. Contemporary blind stamps. A group five large and fascinating blueprints that delineate proposed..... More
![The Hospitality of Wines [cover title]. California, Wine](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1721_01.jpg?v=1605707522)
[Los Angeles?]: 1938. 18pp. Narrow 12mo. Original gilt wrappers, stapled. Light wear. Promotional brochure for the Regina Winery in Etiwanda, California, operated by the Ellena Brothers. Established in 1906 by Claudio Ellena, a descendant of an Italian winemaking family. Claudio's sons eventually took over the business, marketing their wine under..... More
Kansas City, Mo. Breeders Printing Company, [1920?]. Poster, 38 x 25 inches. Folds into a folio brochure in eight panels, printed in three colors. Separations at folds, repaired with tape on verso. Two small losses at center fold. Minor wear at edges. Large poster for the sale of fifty-two head..... More
Filadelfia: Imprenta de Guillermo Stavely, 1830. 59pp. Stitched as issued. Some light soiling and foxing. On the 16th of May 1826, Don Pablo Obregón, envoy to the United States on behalf of the Republic of Mexico, signed a contract with Samuel Chew for the construction and outfitting of a war..... More
Washington, D.C. 1939. [5],238pp. Folio. Original dark green printed covers. Light wear to covers. Internally clean. A rare typed and extensively illustrated manual for automobile mechanics belonging to the Civilian Conservation Corps. This work, according to the title page, was revised and corrected from an edition originally published in 1937..... More
Denver: Ballenger & Richards, [1898]. 12,[9]-1407,[1]pp. Lacks pp.1393-1394. Thick octavo. Original printed cloth boards; spine perished, boards detached. Corners worn, cloth lightly soiled. Last few leaves loose. Ex-library Newark Free Public Library (withdrawn) with bookplate and ink stamps. Text clean. Massive city directory for Denver, published by the prolific firm..... More