London: Times Books, 2005. Hardcover. Eleventh edition, elephant folio size, 420 pp. Atlases have fascinated people for centuries, tracking in a visual manner the changing political boundaries and, hence, acting as markers of history. This volume replete with colour plates, as well as sections on "The World Today", "Mapping the..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California (printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem), 1969. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, oblong elephant folio size, [178] pp. The Book Club of California publication number 133, being a sequel to Robert Becker's earlier club publication of 1964 (no. 118). This..... More
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, printed by The Grabhorn Press, 1964. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, folio size, [122] pp., with original sales correspondence slipped in. In 1961 the U.S. District Court in San Francisco decided to place a large collection of diseños (sketches presented to..... More
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Denver, Colorado: The Clason Map Co., 1907. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 16 pp. Third edition, 1907, of an early road map of Nevada and Southeastern California; according to OCLC/WorldCat, there are only 6 institutional holdings. The Clason Map Company, founded at the turn of the last century, was the first to..... More
New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856. Hardcover. 16mo, 137pp. Joseph Hutchins Colton (1800-1893) founded the mapmaking company known as "J.H. Colton and Company", known internationally and highly regarded for the quality of their maps, which were printed using engraved steel plates and often hand-coloured, recognizable for their decorative borders..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 83 of 375 copies, folio size, [186] pp., signed by Neal Harlow and printer Grant Dahlstrom, sample leaf and prospectus slipped in. A companion volume to author Neal Harlow's "Maps of San Francisco Bay", and to W. W. Robinson's "Maps..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem, 1972. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, folio size, [155] pp., with original sales invoice. The Book Club of California's 141st publication, and its Christmas book for 1972. The curious misconception that California was..... More
Paris: Librairie Hachette & Cie, 1872. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 334 pp., in French. The "Bibliotheque Rose Illustree" edition, originally published in 1868, and praised as one of the best illustrated books on West Africa. In 1863, General Faidherbe, governor of Sudan, commissioned his adjudicator Eugene Abdon Mage (1837-1869) for an..... More
San Francisco: California Historical Society (printed by Lawton Kennedy), 1954. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 530 copies, elephant folio size, 92 pp., with prospectus. Jedediah Smith (1799-1831) was the most widely traveled Western explorer and accomplished cartographer of his era. In this authoritative volume, presented by two noted historians of..... More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1870. Hardcover. Elephant folio size, 102 pp. Large (elephant folio) atlas published in 1870, the year after the completion of the transcontinental railroad. With over 60 maps mostly of the countries of the world, but also with some others such as one of the ancient..... More
Miami, FL: Real Estate Data, Inc., 1980. Softcover. Oblong atlas folio size, 581 pp., 17th Edition. While the western portion of Contra Costa County, California was fully developed by 1960, primarily due to industrial development during World War II, the central and eastern portions are now far different from how..... More