[Californiana / Advertising]

ALs From The CALIFORNIA FARMER And JOURNAL Of USEFUL SCIENCES to "Mes[r]s Merriam" Regarding Advertising. April 4, 1871

San Francisco: , 1871. Light blue wove paper. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Single sheet folded once. Body of text to first page only; brief note to last page. 8-7/8" x 5-1/2". Modest wear to edges; two fold lines. Text written in a hasty and somewhat careless hand, affecting overall legibility somewhat. Withal, a VG example. An MS letter from a Warren & Co. representative (signed only "Warren & Co.") to "Mes[r]s Merriam" detailing advertising rates, etc. with a brief explanatory note at rear: "Warren the Cal Farmer M[rc?] 4, 1871"; the date heading the letter has been corrected from March to April 4. We find an advertisement for Webster's Unabridged Dictionary in the May 18, 1871 issue of the California Farmer, and speculate that the Merriam gentlemen in question were George and Charles Merriam, the dictionary's publishers at that time. The letter writer attempts to persuade Merriam to "advertise with us permanently as our paper Circulates to all the Colleges, Seminaries, &c" and offers terms for an extended three-month plan at $30 for a quarter-column ad, with extra leeway in terms of payment "if you give in to us steadily." Additional, the price is in "Gold -- That is California Currency." The pitch doesn't seem to have worked, as we find no further advertisements for Webster's or any other Merriam in the issues of the Farmer immediately following the May ad.

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Book number: 41562

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Keywords: California

Senate Document. Mr. Morgan. - Committee on Indian Affairs

Report No. 281 [to Accompany S. 1548.] In the Senate of the United States. 52d Congress. 1st Session

Washington, D. C.: United States Senate, 1892. 1st printing (presumed). Lacking wrappers, if so issued, and appears disbound from larger volume. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 66 pp. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". POS to title page, smattering of foxing and toning throughout. An About VG copy.

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Book number: 37242

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[Event Menu - Agriculture(?)]

LAS ROBLES THIRD ANNUAL RE-UNION.; Breakfast. July 23, 1899

(n.p.): , 1899. 1st Printing. Red card stock, self wrappers, black lettering, now housed in a mylar sleeve. Printed bifolium. Small illustration of a bull head to head of upper wrapper. 7" x 4-1/2". A VG+ copy. Some rubbing to corners, otherwise clean and bright.

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Book number: 47175

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Ainsworth, Ed

CALIFORNIA JUBILEE. Nuggets from Many HIdden Veins

Culver City, California: Murray & Gee, Inc, 1948. 1st Edition. Linen cloth binding with black stamped lettering. Dust jacket. 272 pp. Cocked, average wear. Very Good. Jacket with some edge chipping, bit of soiling, repaired tear along rear fold, Very Good.

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Book number: 50572

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Aitken, W. Frances. Lincoln, Abraham - Subject

The BOY'S LIFE Of GREATHEART LINCOLN The Martyr President

London: S. W. Partridge & Co. Ltc. 8 & 9 Paternoster Row, (n. d.). Ca 1915. Cf. Monaghan 1902n. Original publisher's pictorial cloth. 320, 32 pp. 32 page publisher catalogue at rear. Color frontispiece. 8 inserted b/w plates. Crown 8vo. Square & tight. Cloth colors & gilt still vibrant. Bookplate removed from front paste-down. Paper age-toned. Withal, a pleasing VG+ copy.

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Book number: 5172.1

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[Promotional Souvenir Photograph Album]

SCENIC MOUNT LOWE

(n. p.): , (n. d.). Ca late 1890s. Black cloth album, with silver stamped title lettering to front board. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 12 ll of grey mounting paper. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs. Oblong format. 5-11/16" x 7-11/16". Photographs: 3-1/8" x 4". Album with some general edge wear & soiling. Overall, VG. Photographs: some fading, VG.

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Book number: 37521

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Alexander, B. S.; Lightner, C. W.

REPORT Of The COMMISSIONERS Appointed to Examine the HARBOR Of SANTA CRUZ And SALINAS SLOUGH, in the Bay of Monterey

[Sacramento]: D. W. Gelwicks, State Printer, 1870. 1st printing. OCLC shows just one institutional holding, the Huntington. Disbound. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 7, [1 (blank)] pp. Folding frontispiece of Santa Cruz Harbor. P. 5 a profile view of a proposed breakwater. 8vo. 3-3/4" x 5-3/4". Age-toning. Paper flaw to right margin of second leaf, resulting in loss of a couple printed letters. A VG copy.

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Book number: 39633

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Allen, Benjamin Shannon - Editor

CALIFORNIA. From 1769 to 1909. An Illustrated History. Volume II. Issued in Commemoration of the Portola Festival.; With Special Writers from All the Leading San Francisco Papers

(n. p.): , 1910. 1st edition (Cowan IV, 6). Brown imitation-leather cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board. Patterned-paper eps. 90 pp. 180 b/w photographic-style portraits, protected by silk-moire tissue guards. 14" x 11". Minor extremity wear & some unobtrusive spotting to boards. A VG copy.

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Book number: 32463

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[Allen, Ethan. 1738 - 1789]. Holbrook, Stewart H[all. 1893 - 1964]

ETHAN ALLEN

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1940. 1st edition. PRESENTATION copy, with warm 1940 inscription from Holbrook as "Green Mountain Hols", with full signature underneath, to close Seattle-based friends Jim & Theresa Stevens. Blue cloth binding. Yellow dust jacket. viii, [2], 283, [3 (blank)] pp (including Index). 8vo. VG (bump to top of front board/bookplate)/Gd (edgewear/tape repaired tear to front panel).

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Book number: 34587

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[Almanac]

The MASSACHUSETTS REGISTER And UNITED STATES CALENDAR; For the Year of Our Lord 1809, the Thirty-Third of American Independence.; Containing Civil, Judicial, Ecclesiastical, and Military Lists, in Massachusetts; Associations, and Corporate Institutions, for Literary, Agricultural, and Charitable Purposes. A List of Post-Towns in Massachusetts, with the Names of the Post-Masters. Also, Catalogues of the Officers of the General Government ..

Boston: Published by John West & Co. and Manning & Loring, 1808. 1st thus (American Imprints 15557; Drake 3707). Period plain grey paper wrappers. 215 pp (including Index). 12mo, signed in 6s. 5-5/8" x 3-3/8". Overall Abt VG - VG (some wear to extremities/rear wrapper beginning to detach/period pos).

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Book number: 26821

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Alton, Edmund

AMONG The LAW-MAKERS

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. 1st edition. Original publisher's blue decorative cloth. xiv, 308, [4] pp. Adverts last 4 pages. Illustrated. 8vo. VG+ (sq & tight/bright gilt/period poi to ffep).

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Book number: 28538

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Alvin, Rev. Paul W.

ALs To LT. MURRAY SANDS MARVIN From REV. PAUL W. ALVIN

Worcester, Mass: , 1945. 1st Printing. SIGNED. White paper, loose leaf, typed in black ink, signed in black ink, now housed in a mylar sleeve. Broadside. 11" x 8-1/2". A VG copy. Folded/creased twice, age toning to leaf, chipping and small tears to edges, large chip to lower corner, large tear from edge to middle (through the word "companion"), all still legible, overall bright. Paul Alvin had a companion that he bought along with him on his lecture circuits, his name was Herman Beck. He used Herman as a "horrid example of the RAVAGES OF DRINK". He eventually passed away and Paul was writing Murray Marvin to see if he "would accompany [him] on [his] Spring Tour to take poor Herman's place. Overall a strange letter from a prominent lecturer of the temperance movement!.

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Book number: 46557

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Keywords: Americana Potpourri

[Americana]

The DELAWARE & MARYLAND FARMERS' ALMANAC for the Year 1842: Being Second After Bissextile or Leap Year

Philadelphia: Published by J. M'Dowell, 37, Market Street, 1841. 1st printing thus (Drake 12221). Printed self wrappers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Unpaginated, though 36 pages. Adverts last 2 pages, the last of which is for the publisher, M'Dowell, who offers "Cheap Books & Stationery." T.p. vignette of a ship, "Delaware". P. 2, an anatomical print of Man's Body, as governed by astronomical signs. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 4-7/8". General wear & soiling, with front wrapper having a piece lacking from the right edge & a couple tears. A few leaves with closed tears from the right side. A Good copy. OCLC records just two holding institutions for this year: AAS & NYHS.

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Book number: 44759

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[Americana]

The FLATELY BOOK And Recently Discovered Vatican Manuscripts Concerning America as Early as the Tenth Century.; Documents Now Published for the First Time, Which Establish Beyond Controversy the Claim that North America was Settled by Norsement Five Hundred Years Before the Time of Columbus

London: Pubished by the Norrcena Society, 1908. Original decorative green cloth. 176 pp. Fasimile reproductions of the original documents. 4to. Nr Fine (pos to ffep upper left/offset from newspaper clipping to pp 4 & 5).

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[Kissam Family - Americana]

RECEIPTS FOR ESTATE OF CORNELIUS DURYEA

Brooklyn, NY; Jamaica, L.I.: , 1886. Full calf with brown-stamped borders to upper and lower boards, gilt-stamped, red calf label to backstrip. Approx. 126 ll. of ms receipts, many tipped in. Oblong format 5- " x 7 ¼". Some minor rubbing to extremities but otherwise VG+. Cornelius Duryea and his seven daughters are part of the sixth generation of the Kissam family. The Kissams were early settlers on the North Side of Long Island and are fortunate to have had a detailed genealogy produced by Edward Kissam in 1892 which dates back to 1644. The family history is preserved by the Huntington Historical Society and many historic sites in Long Island can be traced back to the family. This receipt book chronicles 25 years of the proceeds of the estate of the late Cornelius Duryea after his death at age 74 in 1861. Most of his substantial estate was left to his wife and daughters. It is possible based on these documents that Edward Kissam’s genealogy mistakenly names a Wm. Wheeler as the husband of Josephine Duryea, who’s married name here appears to be Woolley (KISSAM 107). Signatures and receipts attributed to the following parties: Josephine H Woolley, Caroline H Cornell (daughter), Phebe K Leech (daughter), Sarah Anne Van Duyn, Sarah A Thorne (daughter), A[braham]. P. Leech (executor, Seth Chapman also executor), Thomas Bradlee, Samuel Smith, Ezra W. Conklin, Deborah P. Cornell/Rhodes (daughter), [Deborah] Jane Duryea (wife/executor), John Gacy (tax collector of Town & School), IRS Receipt/Tax Receipts, Receipt from James Hall Monumental Works, Cornelius Duryea Chapman (grandson).

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Book number: 47661

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