Item . Venegas’s Noticia de la California (), “the foundation of a library of Californiana” (Cowan), with Consag’s map which conclusively ended the classic cartographic myth that California was an island. A Complete Collection of The Zamorano A Selection of Distinguished California Books Made by Members of the Zamorano Club Formed by DANIEL G. VOLKMANN JR. [e\ AUCTION Wednesday, February , , .. The Joseph & Mildred Rolph Moore Gallery at The Society of California Pioneers Fourth Street (at the corner of Folsom Street) San Francisco, California Dorothy Sloan–Rare Books, Inc. .. Dorothy Sloan–Rare Books, Inc. Box Austin, Texas - Phone -- Fax -- E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.sloanrarebooks.com Catalogue Editor-in-Chief: Jasmine Star Photography by Eric Beggs, with the assistance of Anthony Sloan Design and typesetting by Bradley Hutchinson at Digital Letterpress, Austin, Texas Printed by the Studley Press in Dalton, Massachusetts Catalogue descriptions by Anthony Sloan & Dorothy Sloan (assisted by Peter L. Oliver, Jasmine Star & Jason Star) Historical essays by Gary F. Kurutz & Dr. W. Michael Mathes AUCTION TWELVE Wednesday, February , , p.m. EXHIBITION Tuesday, February , , a.m. to p.m. Wednesday, February , , a.m. to p.m. AUCTION CATALOGUE TWELVE Copyright , Gary F. Kurutz, Dr. W. Michael Mathes & Dorothy Sloan–Rare Books, Inc. Price: . plus applicable sales tax Dorothy Sloan, Texas State Auctioneers License # IMPORTANT NOTICE Please note that all lots are sold subject to our Conditions of Sale and Limited Warranty, as set forth at the back of this catalogue. As stated in the Conditions of Sale, all lots are sold on an “as is” basis. Prospective bidders should review the Conditions of Sale and Limited Warranty. All bidders must register. Seating at the auction will be limited (due to San Francisco city code, space limitations, and our desire to support a non profit historical society). Only registered bidders may attend the live auction. Please phone, fax, or e-mail for a seating reservation if you plan to attend the live auction. We will be pleased to execute your live phone bids or confirmed absentee bids without charge and without responsibility for errors and subject to the Conditons of Sale and Limited Warranty as set forth at the back of this catalogue. TABLE OF CONTENTS [e\ A Few Words about the Volkmann Collection vii The Zamorano xi Catalogue Arrangement xii Acknowledgements xiii The Daniel G. Volkmann Jr. Collection of The Zamorano References Cited California Colonial Bibliography by W. Michael Mathes Index Conditions of Sale & Limited Warranty v A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE VOLKMANN COLLECTION S was born in the town of Tehama on the Sacramento River in Northern BCalifornia. Her father Andrew Simpson had come across the plains from Pennsylvania in the s and bought ranch land on the banks of the Sacramento River outside of town. He married Emma Allen Owen, born in Mariposa, California, in .The Simpson home and ranch are shown in a lithographic view in The History of Tehama County, Elliot and Moore, Publishers, . Beatrice Simpson Volkmann Andrew and Emma’s only daughter was sent to Berkeley to board at the Anna Head School. On the death of her father, her mother moved to Oakland, and Beatrice attended the Universi- ty of California. At the end of her sophomore year she was invited to accompany her close friend and Anna Head School classmate Else Schilling and the Schilling family to Europe. The trip last- ed several months, and on her return she did not go back to the University. In , she married Daniel G. Volkmann whose grandfather William Daegener was the Wells Fargo Agent in Columbia, California, in the middle of the gold country, from to .A fire destroyed much of the town in , including the company building. Daegener rebuilt a new two-story brick building with the family quarters over the office. That Wells Fargo building still stands today in Columbia, now a California State Park. Volkmann’s father, George F. Volkmann, arrived in San Francisco from Bremen, Germany, in and went to work for the coffeehouse of Folger, Schilling & Co. In ,August Schilling and Volkmann left the firm to found A. Schilling & Co. with Volkmann as one-third owner, later revised to equal ownership. The company sold coffee, tea, baking powder, mustard, and spices. vii The second premises the company occupied were at Market Street. Note the -foot pole at curbside with a copper kettle mounted on top from which steam poured out of the spout (see photo). In , the firm erected factory and office buildings at the southeast corner of Second and Folsom Streets on a lot feet square. On April , , the entire plant was destroyed by the earthquake and fire; it was rebuilt the following year at the same location (see engraving). Today the site is occu- pied by a large, high-rise office building. In , the Volkmann family bought out the Schilling interests and continued the business until ,when it was sold to McCormick & Co. of Baltimore. A. Schilling & Company at Market Street. Beatrice Volkmann, with the history of her own family and her husband’s family in California, enjoyed reading about the history of the state. She first bought Grabhorn Press books that were reprints of early California stories and histories. The family pediatrician was Dr. George D. Lyman, author of John Marsh Pioneer: Saga of the Comstock Lode and other books about California. As a good friend and mentor he advised her as she collected and read Californiana over the years. On her death in , her library was appraised by Warren Howell at ,..The most valu- able book was Louis Choris’s Voyage Autour du Monde, valued at ,.Fourteen Zamorano first edi- tions were included. Her daughter, Virginia Volkmann Bosche, took a few books that interested her, and her son, Daniel G. Volkmann Jr., inherited the remainder. As an architect, the Grabhorn items particularly interested him because of their handsome design. Over the years, A. Schilling & Co. had commissioned a few of the Grabhorn imprints about the company. And Beatrice Volkmann commissioned the Grabhorns to print a limited fine edition in of a short piece about the founders of the family business by Robert O’Brien, Two Young Men from Bremen, soon after its publi- cation in the San Francisco Chronicle. Dan Volkmann’s wife, Marvin Johnson Volkmann, who died in , was also from a pioneer California family. Her great-great-grandfather, John Conness, emigrated from Ireland to the United States in and arrived in California in .A few years later he was elected United States Senator from California and served from to . Mount Conness in Yosemite National Park is named for him. viii Marvin Volkmann’s grandfather, C. R. Johnson, founded the Union Lumber Company in Fort Bragg, California, in . It was the second-largest producer of redwood lumber in the state for many years. Her father, Otis R. Johnson, and brother, C. Russell Johnson, were successive com- pany presidents until the company was sold in . Dan Volkmann at first bought a few Grabhorns from David Magee and Warren Howell. Later some of the first editions that had been reprinted by the Grabhorns came to auction and were purchased. As his interests grew and became more varied, so did the library.After twenty-nine Daniel G. Volkmann Jr. years there were some eighteen hundred volumes, including seventy-five Zamorano first editions. The Volkmann Grabhorn Press collection is among the most complete anywhere. Among the many books illustrated by Valenti Angelo there are three copies, all different, of The Book of Ruth, which Angelo illustrated for the Grabhorn Press. The collection is not restricted to the fine print- ing of the Grabhorn Press alone. A collection of the exquisite imprints of the Allen Press is com- plete. The handsome publications of the Book Club of California are well represented, as are outstanding examples from other California fine presses. A recent acquisition is the magnificent two-volume Holy Bible, with initial letters designed by Sumner Stone and printed at San Fran- cisco’s Arion Press. First editions of California classics include fine copies of the best works of a wide variety of authors: Robinson Jeffers’s The Women at Point Sur; John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath; John Linville Hall’s Journal of the Hartford and Union Mining & Trading Company, ;The Yosemite Book; and early San Francisco directories. Selected works by Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Austin, Jack London, John Muir, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Frank Norris are also represented. Maps in the collection include Jackson’s Map of the Mining Districts of California; T. H . Jefferson’s maps of the route to California; Cooke & LeCount’s map of San Francisco; Colton’s Map of the United States showing the Gold Regions in California; Quirot Co’s map of San Francisco, ; and Herman Moll’s large color map of North America showing Califor- nia as an island, . ix In , five of the most rare Zamorano books were purchased at auction. Shortly thereafter it was discovered that Zamorano title #,T.J.Farnham’s History of California, was a second edi- tion. After several years of search a very fine copy of the first edition of the Farnham was bought from a private collector, which completed the Zamorano collection now offered at auction. Mr. Volkmann is a member of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, a member and past director of the Book Club of California, a member of the Grolier Club, past president of the Gleason Library Associates of the University of San Francisco, and presently serves on the Council of the Friends of the Bancroft Library. A. Schilling & Company as it appeared in . THE ZAMORANO 80 Zamorano Club published The Zamorano :A Selection of Distinguished California Books IMade by Members of the Zamorano Club.