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CALIFORNIA VIRTUAL BOOK FAIR 2021 an illustrated e-catalogue Donald A. Heald | Rare Books Donald A. Heald | Rare Books CALIFORNIA VIRTUAL BOOK FAIR 2021 an illustrated e-catalogue Just click the title of each item in this illustrated list and follow the link to a full description and images on our website. Questions? Contact us or email [email protected]. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss A M E R I C A N A DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss ANSEL ADAMS CLICK THE MARY HUNTER AUSTIN TITLE Taos Pueblo. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. Folio (17 x 12 1/2 inches). [6] preliminary pages followed by [14]pp. of text. 12 original mounted photographs, printed on Dessonville paper by Ansel Adams, various sizes to 9 x 6 1/2 inches, each with a corresponding caption leaf. Publisher's tan morocco backed orange cloth, spine with raised bands in six compartments, marbled endpapers. Housed in a custom mor- occo backed slipcase. From an edition of 108 numbered copies signed by the author and the photographer, containing magnificent photographs by Ansel Adams. (#36374) $ 80,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss AMERICAN REVOLUTION GERVASE BUSHE Case of Great-Britain and America, addressed to the King and both Houses of Parliament ... Third Edition. Dublin: James Williams, 1769. 8vo. [4], 43, [1]pp. Half-title. Uncut. Original stitched blue paper wrappers. A pro-American pamphlet advocating self-government: a lovely uncut exam- ple in original wrappers. (#35376) $ 1,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss CALIFORNIA HERBERT O. LANG, compiler A History of Tuolumne County, California. Compiled from the Most Authentic Records. San Francisco: B. F. Alley, 1882. xi, 509, 48pp., plus woodcut frontispiece and eleven other woodcut portraits. Later half calf and con- temporary sheep, gilt morocco spine label, edges sprinkled brown. Ownership inscription on front endpaper recto, scattered manuscript notations in pencil (several on portraits). Final contents page tipped in. A rare history of Tuolumne County, California, covering a variety of topics. (#31379) $ 1,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss ROBERT BENJAMIN HART [Collection of five original watercolors of Pima Indians and their lands in Aravaipa Canyon, Arizona, made by Forty-niner Robert Hart on his journey to the California gold fields]. [Aravaipa Canyon, AZ]: late July 1849]. Five original watercolors on card stock, detailed below. Each matted and housed in a red morocco backed box. An extraordinary group of watercolors made by a Virginian travelling the Southern Route to the California gold fields in 1849, among the earliest illustrations depicting the Pima Indians of southern Arizona, and showing their lands in the Aravaipa canyons. (#27856) $ 17,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss FERDINAND V. HAYDEN ANDREW JOSEPH RUSSELL Sun Pictures of Rocky Moun- tain Scenery, With a Descrip- tion of the Geographical and Geological Features, and Some Account of the Re- sources of the Great West; Containing Thirty Photogra- phic Views Along the Line of the Pacific Rail Road, From Omaha to Sacramento. New York: Julius Bien, 1870. Large 4to (12 x 9 1/2 inches). viii, 150pp. Half-title. Thirty mounted albumen photographs. Contemporary three-quarter green morocco over green cloth, spine gilt, edges gilt. A classic photographically illustrated book on the American West, with albu- men photographs by A. J. Russell. (#27937) $ 15,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss OVERTON JOHNSON WILLIAM H. WINTER Route Across the Rocky Mountains, with a description of Oregon and California: their geographical features, their resources, soil, climate, productions. Lafayette, In.: John B. Semans, printer, 1846. Octavo. 152pp. Original green drab boards with cloth spine. Cloth worn, hinges cracked but solid. Corners worn. Bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary ink inscription on front flyleaf. Some light foxing. In a red half morocco and cloth slipcase and chemise, spine gilt. A very rare key overland guide. (#31373) $ 20,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss MICHAEL KRAFFT The American Distiller, or, the theory and practice of distilling, according to the latest discoveries and improvements, including the most approved methods of constructing stills, and of rectification. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1804. 8vo (8 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches). [4], [1-9], 10-151, [22], 152-219pp. 2 folding plates. Includes errata leaf. Original full calf, spine flat with red morocco lettering piece, neat repairs to hinges. Within modern full morocco box. The first book on distilling in America. (#39487) $ 12,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss ALFRED EDWARD MATHEWS Gems of Rocky Mountain Scenery, Containing Views Along and Near the Union Pacific Rail- road. New York: Published by the Author, 1869. Small folio (13 x 10 1/4 inches). 20 tinted lithographed plates after Mathews. Pub- lisher's purple cloth, covers decoratively blocked in blind, upper cover with a central stamp in gilt, expertly rebacked to style. A rare work by an important western artist, with among the first illustrations of the Rocky Mountains made available to the public. (#31318) $ 17,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss SAMUEL A. MITCHELL A Route-Book, Adapted to Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic; Comprising Tables of the Principal Rail-Road, Steam-Boat and Stage Routes, Throughout the United States. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846. 16mo. 46pp. plus large folding map, 25 x 34 1/4 inches, with full period color. Original blindstamped and gilt purple morocco, with original clasp. Second edition, after the first of 1843, of this rare pocket map of North America, showing the United States west to Texas, Indian Territory, and Dakota Territory (i.e. 19° longitude west of Washington, D.C.). (#31381) $ 4,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss NATHANIEL MORTON New England's Memorial: Or, a brief Relation of the most Memorable and Remarkable Passages of the Providence, of God, manifested to the Planters of New-England in America. Newport: S. Southwick, 1772. 8vo. viii, 208, [8]pp. List of subscribers in the rear. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind, spine with raised bands, upper cover detached, later red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: T. K. Thomas (early signatures); Society of May- flowers Descendants in Massachusetts (bookplate). A New England cornerstone: the first comprehensive history of Plymouth colony. (#35264) $ 850. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss JOHN WILLIAM MURPHY Outlaws of the Fox River Country. Story of the Whiteford and Spencer Tragedies, the Assassination of Judge Richardson, the Execution of John Baird, and the Mobbing of W.J. Young: criminal career of Frank Lane, the pseudo detective; Laura Sprouse and her lovers, and her Ohio rival; the Kansas Ex- pedition after John B. Glenn; the raid on St. Fran- cisville; Robbery of the Luray postoffice; confessions of Brady and Marmaduke; a Clark County cam- paign. Hannibal, MO: Hannibal Printing Company, 1882. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches). 138pp. 7 full-page black and white illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Housed in cloth box. A very fine copy of this rare account of illegal acts in Missouri, Iowa, and Ohio in the 1860s and 70s, with illustrations of the crime scenes and perpetrators' portraits. (#39488) $ 3,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss [THOMAS PAINE] R. WATSON An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine ... Second Philadelphia Edition. Philadelphia: James Carey, 1796. 8vo. 80pp. Disbound. Watson's response to Thomas Paine's "The Age of Reason, Part II." (#36523) $ 100. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss CADWALADER RINGGOLD, surveyor Chart of the Bay of San Pablo Straits of Carquines and part of the Bay of San Francisco California by ... Ringgold assisited by Simon F. Blunt ... Projected, constructed & drawn by Fred. D. Stuart ... assisted by A.H. Campbell. Washington, D.C.: [circa 1850]. Lithographic map, by C.B. Graham from Ringgold's survey. Sheet size: 31 1/8 x 21 5/16 inches. In good condition, on later backing paper with a number of small re- paired marginal tears. Rare unfolded thick paper issue of this important early chart of San Francisco bay and its environs by the 'Gold Rush Surveyor' (A.F. Houston). (#19121) $ 1,200. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss SAMUEL ROBINSON A Catalogue of American Minerals, with Their Localities: Including All which are Known to Exist in the United States an British Provinces, and Having the Towns, Counties, and Districts in Each State and Province Arranged Alphabetically. With an Appendix, Containing Additional Localities and a Tabular View. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, and Co., 1825. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches). vi, 316pp. Original publisher's cloth-backed boards, morocco lettering piece. First edition of an important early American mineralogical work. (#39282) $ 450. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss WILLIAM ROGERS An Oration, delivered July 4, 1789, at the Presbyterian Church in Arch Street, Philadelphia ... Published at the Request of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. Philadelphia: T. Dobson, 1789. 8vo (7 13/16 x 4 13/16 inches). 32pp. Later wrappers. (#36527) $ 400. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss RUFUS B. SAGE Scenes In The Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, Califor- nia, New