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John Howell for Books
Californiana, Including Santa Barbara and Yosemite
February 2023John Howell for Books
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This list contains 50 items from the personal library of Dennis Kruska, long-
time collector and author on the subjects of Western Americana, including
Yosemite, California Big Trees, and Santa Barbara.John Howell for Books 3
1 APOSTOL, Jane (1922-2016). The Historical Society of Southern California: A
Centennial History, 1891-1991. Los Angeles, CA: The Historical Society of Southern
California, 1991. 4to. 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches. xii, 170, [2] pp. Half-title, large title page vignette of
El Alisal in terra cotta ink, text highlighted in terra cotta, illustrated throughout in black-and-white,
index; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped cream-colored cloth, black cloth slip case; binding square
and tight. SIGNED by Janes Apostle and Ward Ritchie. GIL123-001. Fine.
$ 100
LIMITED EDITION of 1,000 copies, this is one of 100 in special binding and slipcase
SIGNED by Apostol and Ward Ritchie, the designer. This volume discusses the ups
and downs of the first historical society founded within the state of California.
Although it focuses on the southern portion of the state.
2 [Catalina Island] Wilmington Transportation Company and Santa Catalina
Island Company. Catalina Island. California’s Magic Isle. In All the World No Trip Like
This [Cover Title]. (Los Angeles: Wilmington Transportation Company and Santa
Catalina Island Company, 1924). Brochure. Single sheet of paper printed on both sides, folded
7 times. 9 x inches. Closed. 9 x 32 inches fully opened to 16 panels. drawings, half-tone
photographic illustrations, 2 maps, hotel rates; text clean, unmarked. Light foxing at the bottom of
the 1st panel, a couple of small holes at the folds. KD123-005. Very Good.
$ 50
Promotional brochure for Catalina Island, including photographs illustrations of its
major attractions, and drawings of activities one could enjoy on the island. The first
map is a thumb-mail showing the route from downtown Los Angeles to the Catalina
Terminal and on to the island. The second map is “A Bird’s-eye view of Avalon and
adjacent attractions,” and covers 6 panels. Santa Catalina Island is located about 29
miles south-southwest of Long Beach, California. Its modern development was
jumpstarted in 1891 when the sons of Pineas Banning bought island. The Banning
brothers sold the island in 1919 when chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr.
purchased shares from the Bannings. Subsequently, Wrigley invested millions in
needed infrastructure and sought to buy out every share-holder until he owned
controlling interest in the Santa Catalina Island Company. See: Wikipedia. Worldcat
has this title, but as the title was frequently reused, Worldcat does not have sufficient
granularity to determine how many copies of this 1924 brochure are in institutions.
3 [Catalina Island] Santa Catalina Island Company and Wilmington
Transportation Company. Santa Catalina Island: Time Table - Fares - General Information
[Cover Title]. Los Angeles, CA: Santa Catalina Island Company and Wilmington
Transportation Company, 1933. Brochure. 8 7/8 x 4 inches, closed. Unpaginated. [12] pp.
Covers with double-page 4-color illustration of the Avalon Casino, ship, seaplane, with mountains in
the background, tables of fares and time tables, half-tone photographic illustrations, 3 maps
(including a double-page map of the entire island (with an inset map of major Los Angeles
highways, the last page is a large advert for Catalina Scrip; text clean, unmarked. Self-wraps, stapled;
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crease to upper right corner, rubber stamp of Security First National Bank on front cover.
KD123-004. Very Good.
$ 25
Contains everything one needs to know to plan a trip to Catalina Island for
recreational activities during the 1933 tourist season. Nice maps. Worldcat records 6
editions with this title, which was frequently re-used during the 1930s.
4 [Catalina Island] Wilmington Transportation Company. Santa Catalina Island:
Time Table - Fares - General Information [Cover Title]. Los Angeles, CA: Wilmington
Transportation Company, 1935. Brochure. Single sheet printed on both sides. 9 1/8 x 4 inches,
closed. Opens to: 9 1/8 x 16 inches. Folded twice, 8 panels. Closed the covers have a 3-color
illustrations, internally the are half-tone illustrations of ships, airplanes and hotels, drawings of
outdoor activities, vital statistics for transportation to the island along with rates for
accommodations; text clean, unmarked. KD123-003. Fine.
$ 25
Contains everything one needs to know to make their way to Catalina Island for
recreational activities during the 1935 tourist season. Worldcat records 6 editions with
this title, which was frequently re-used during the 1930s.
5 [Cook Book] Ladies of the St. Francis Street Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. Gulf City Cook Book, Compiled by The Ladies of the St. Francis Street Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. Dayton, OH: United Brethren Publishing House, 1878. 8vo. 8 x
5 3/8 inches. 252, [ads, 20] pp. Alphabetical list of contributors, several sections of the text contains
red-ruled un-numbered leaves for personal note taking, index; ads at the end of the text; occasional
pencil marginalia or underlining, several pages of the blank ruled pages are filled in by a previous
owner. Blind- and gilt-stamped brown cloth; binding tight, upper corner severely bumped, corners
showing, spine ends frayed, covers soiled, inner hinges cracked. KD123-029. Good.
$ 2,500
FIRST EDITION of the first appearance of a recipe for Jambalaya in a cook book. The
Wikipedia article “Jambalaya” notes appearances in 1837 in Leis amours de Vanus: vo,
Lou paysan oou théâtré, written in Provencal. The earliest appearance of the word in
print in English occurs in the May 1849 issue of the American Agriculturalist, although
his is not a true Jambalaya recipe, but rather a recipe for Hopping Johnny. The first
appearance in a cook book is here in the Gulf City Cook Book, the recipe called “Jam
Bolaya.” Jambalaya originated as a folk dish and is appreciated for being cheap, filling,
and full of flavor. It is also very versatile, so it can be easily adapted to make use of
whatever ingredients happen to be lying around. The origins of the dish are not
known for sure, but the most commonly held beliefs is that it was the result of a
variety of ethnicities mixing in the port of New Orleans, with Spanish, French,
African, Native American and Caribbean cooking styles and ingredients. The Gulf
City Cook Book is representative of the diet, economic situation, and some of the
traditions of Mobile’s upper-middle class the the end of the 1870s. Personal remains
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from a previous owner in this volume includes 1) handwritten recipe for Strawberry
Shortcake on a slip of paper laid in; 2) a printed advert for Charles B. Knox gelatins
and preservatives; 3) handwritten recipe for Ginger Cake; 4) “To Keep Eggs” full
page or red-ruled inter-leaved page handwritten notes to preserve and prepare eggs; 5)
handwritten notes “Drink Water Plentifully;” “To Clean Willow Furniture;” and
“Horseradish” fills a page of red-ruled interleaved note paper; 7) page and a half of
red-ruled interleaved page on a variety of subjects; 8) Full-page of interleaved, red-
ruled paper with 3 columns “Easy of Digestion;” “Moderately Easy;” and Hard to
Digest.” 9) Gems of the Month listed on inter-leaved page with a printed recipe for
“Furniture Polish”. 15 copies Worldcat.
6 Currier & Ives. Looking Down the Yo-Semite. New York, NY: Currier & Ives, No
Date. Hand-colored lithograph broadside. Sheet measures 11 x 14 7/8 inches. Image measures 8
1/2 x 13 3/4 inches. Hinge mounted on stiff board 14 1/4 x 19 inches. Stiff board hinged to the
backing board with 9 1/2 x 13-inch window to display the print. Mountains in the far distance with a
meandering river emerging from a forested landscape with trees and river rocks in the foreground;
the image with some minor toning and one large spot of toning just above the mountains in the far
background, margins with toning, edge brittle, toning and spotting to the blank verso. KD123-043.
Very Good.
$ 2,500
FIRST EDITION. One of six views of Yosemite published by Currier and Ives in the
1860s. “Currier and Ives was a New York City printmaking business that operated
between 1835 and 1907. Founded by Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888), the company
designed and sold inexpensive, black-and-white or hand-colored lithographic works
based on news events, views of popular culture and Americana. Advertising itself as
‘the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints,’ the corporate name was
changed in 1857 to ‘Currier and Ives’ with the addition of James Merritt Ives
(1824-1895).” Wikipedia. “Human habitation in the Sierra Nevada region of
California reaches back 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. Historically attested Native
American populations, include the Sierra Miwok, Mono and Paiute. The band of
Ahwahnechee lived in Yosemite Valley in the mid-nineteenth century. After the
California Gold Rush, tensions between Anglo settlers and Native American led the
Mariposa War. California state military forces burned the tribe’s villages, destroyed
their food stores, killed the chief ’s sons, and force the tribe out of Yosemite. New
reports in the east made the scenic beauty of the Sierra Nevada common currency in
the eastern United States. Currier and Ives picked up on the publicity concentrated on
the area to produce a number of Yosemite lithographs, along with images of every
aspect of American life, including themes of hunting, fishing, whaling, city life, real
scenes, historical scenes, clipper ships, yachts, steamships. Small works sold for five to
twenty cents each, and large works sold for $1 to $3 apiece. The firm marketed their
products through pushcart vendors, peddlers, and book stores, as well as their shop in
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New York City at 152 Nassau Street. See: Wikipedia. REFERENCES: Conningham,
Currier & Ives: An Illustrated Checklist, No. 6520; Gale Research Company, Currier and
Ives, No. 4084. Not in Worldcat or Library of Congress.
7 Currier & Ives. Yo-semite Falls. California. New York, NY: Currier & Ives, No Date.
Hand-colored lithograph broadside. Sheet measures 11 7/8 x 16 inches. Images measures 8 1/2 x 12
1/2 inches. The image with some light toning; the larger sheet has toning, and the extremities with
brittleness and chipping, toning to the blank verso, with pencil notations. KD123-042. Very Good.
$ 2,500
FIRST EDITION. This is one of 6 Yosemite images produced by Currier and Ives from
1860 to 1875 [check]. It shows tall mountains the background, with a river flowing
from the middle distance to the foreground. 2 deer graze in the left foreground.
“Currier and Ives was a New York City printmaking business that operated between
1835 and 1907. The firm was founded by Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888); the company
designed and sold inexpensive, hand painted lithographic works based on news
events, views of popular culture, and Americana in general. Advertising itself as ‘the
Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular prints,’ the corporate name was changed
in 1857 to Currier and Ives with the addition of James Merritt Ives (1824-1895).”
Wikipedia (with some edits). REFERENCES: Conningham, Currier & Ives: An Illustrated
Checklist, No. 6829; Gale Research, Currier and Ives, No. 7384. Library of Congress has
a colored copy of this print.
8 EMORY, William Hemsley (1811-1887). Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, From
Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas, Del
Norte, and Gila Rivers. Washington, DC: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848.
At Head of Title: Senate, 30th Congress, 1st Session, Executive, No. 7. 8vo. 9 x 5 3/4
inches. 416 pp. 1 - 16 in eights. 4 figures, 44 lithographic plates (of 64), appendices present data in
tabular form; LACKS the folding map at the rear, text unmarked, foxed and toned. Ribbed brown
cloth, printed paper spine label; binding square, corners showing, spine ends frayed, spine label
chipped, inner hinges cracked. KD123-031. Sold AS IS.
$ 100
FIRST EDITION. “Emory’s report contains numerous folding maps of the areas
described, and 64 lithograph plates of views and of botanical and natural history
subjects. It is source material for the South-west and the Mexican border. A library of
Western Americana is incomplete without it.” Zamorano 80. With the outbreak of the
Mexican-American War, William Emory was assigned to General Stephen Watts
Kearny’s Army of the West to secure New Mexico and California for the United
States. When published in 1848, Emory’s detailed journal of the march from the Rio
Grande, across the Gila River to the mouther of the Colorado River, and to the
Pacific Coast at San Diego became an important guide book for the southern route to
Southern California. “It is considered one of the important chronicles and
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descriptions of the historic Southwest.” Wikipedia. REFERENCES: Storm, Graff
Collection, No. 1249; Howes, U.S.iana, No145; Sabin, Biblioteca Americana, No. 22536;
Wagner, The Plains and the Rockies, No. 148; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, No.
544; Zamorano 80, No. 33.
9 FARQUHAR, Francis Peloubet (1887-1974). History of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley
and Los Angeles: University of California Press, in Collaboration with The Sierra
Club, 1965. Large 8vo. 10 1/2 x 7 inches. (xvi), 262 pp. Half-title, color frontispiece, title-page
vignette in gray, maps, black-and-white illustrations throughout, index; text clean, unmarked. Blue
cloth with white illustration on front cover, spine titled in gilt, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding
square and tight, jacket with wear and small tears at extremities. KD123-027. Very Good.
$ 45
FIRST EDITION. This mountaineering classic was the first to synthesize into a single,
meeting narrative all o the varied aspects of human endeavor related to the history of
the Sierra Nevada. Thoroughly illustrated with photographs, drawings, and maps, the
book continues to be indispensable for any love of the high country. Francis P.
Farquhar was a renowned mountaineer, former president of the Sierra Cub, and
author of several guidebooks to the Sierra Nevada.
10 FISKE, George (1835-1918). El Capitan. [Yosemite Valley, CA]: George Fiske, No
Date. Large format silver gelatin print, 13 1/2 x 10 inches mounted on stiff board measuring 17 x
14 inches. Signed by Fiske in the negative; photograph faded. Mount is toned and chipped especially
at the extremities, pencil notations and rubber stamps on the verso. KD123-046. Good.
$ 150
George Fiske was an American landscape photographer. Fiske worked for San
Francisco photographers Charles L. Weed (1824-1903), Carleton E. Watkins
(1829-1916), and Thomas Houseworth (1828-1915). After a spell when Fiske and his
wife Myra lived in Yosemite Valley (1879-1881), they returned to San Francisco for a
year. Fiske was given permission by the Yosemite Valley Commissioners to build a
home and darkroom within the Valley in 1883. He spent the rest of his life living year-
round in the Valley making photographs. The Sentinel of Yosemite newspaper published
a four-column advertisement listing the numbers and titles of “Fiske’s Views of
Yosemite and Big Trees” in 1885. Typically, Fiske wrote his name in the negative,
sometimes with a type font, but more often using india ink. Most of the negatives
were numbered also in the negative. This view appears in the list as “El Capitan. From
Milton Road.” He numbered two similar images 411 and 412. The number on this
print is not legible. Sanborn, Vail, and Co., served as Fiske’s agents in San Francisco
and Los Angeles. Fiske “produced two series of views for sale in the Valley and, at
least for a while, in Los Angeles and San Francisco: one series of 11” x 14” prints and
a smaller one in the boudoir style introduced by Carleton Watkins in the late 1870s
which measured slightly larger than 4” x 7”. The larger series, which amounts to just
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over 100 different images, is inconsistent in quality and plagued with technical
difficulties - both in equipment and printing.” Hickman and Pitts, pp. 47-48.
REFERENCE: Hickman and Pitts, George Fiske: Yosemite Photographer, p. 52-53 and
passim.
11 FISKE, George (1835-1918). Three Brothers. [Yosemite Valley, CA]: George Fiske,
No Date [but later than 1885?]. Large format silver albumen print, 10 x 13 1/2 inches mounted
on stiff board measuring 17 x 14 inches. Signed by Fiske in the negative in the lower right-hand
corner and number 918 in the lower left corner; photograph faded. Mount is toned, soiled, and
chipped especially at the extremities, pencil notations and rubber stamps on the verso. KD123-047.
Good.
$ 150
Fiske numbered his photographs of Yosemite in two series: Winter Views and
Summer Views. His advertisement in the Sentinel of Yosemite newspaper from 1885
only goes up to 743, so this cataloger is making a leap and is guessing that this Winter
View of the Three Brothers was taken after 1885. REFERENCE: Hickman and Pitts,
George Fiske: Yosemite Photographer, p. 52-53 and passim.
12 FISKE, George (1835-1918). Bridal Veil Falls. [Yosemite Valley, CA]: George Fiske,
No Date [but later than 1885?]. Large format silver albumen print, 13 1/2 x 10 inches mounted
on stiff board measuring 17 x 14 inches. Signed by Fiske in the negative, numbered 1014;
photograph faded. Mount is toned and chipped especially at the extremities, pencil notations and
rubber stamps on the verso. KD123-048. Good.
$ 150
Fiske numbered his photographs of Yosemite in two series: Winter Views and
Summer Views. His advertisement in the Sentinel of Yosemite newspaper from 1885
only goes up to 743, so this cataloger is making a leap and is guessing that this
Summer View of the Bridal Veil Falls was taken after 1885. REFERENCE: Hickman
and Pitts, George Fiske: Yosemite Photographer, p. 52-53 and passim.
13 [Howard Hughes] KNEE, Ernest (1907-1982). [Howard Hughes sitting in the
cockpit of the second FX-11 prototype, propellers spinning]. No Place: No Publisher, [April 4,
1947]. Silver Gelatin print on Kodak paper. 11 x 14 inches. Howard Hughes sitting in the cockpit
of the FX-11 prototype. KD123-44. Fine.
$ 150
The XF-11 was a prototype military reconnaissance aircraft designed and flown by
Howard Hughes and built by Hughes Aircraft for the Unites State Army Air Forces.
100 F-11s were ordered in 1943 but the program was delayed beyond the end of
World War II, rendering the aircraft surplus. The production contract was canceled,
and only two prototypes and a static test mockup were complete. The first XF-11
flight took place in 1946. Hughes piloted the aircraft, which crashed in Beverly Hills;
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that prototype was destroyed in the incident. The second prototype was flown in 1947
without incident at Muroc Dry Lake. The second prototype was used briefly for
testing before being stricken from inventory in 1949. Other aircraft manufacturers
provided planes that fit the military’s requirements at a better price. Ernest Knee was
born in Montreal Canada and migrated to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1931. Knee’s
photographs of New Mexico are found frequently in the market. During World War
II, Knee moved to California and worked for Howard Hughes, creating a
photography department for the aviation entrepreneur. PROVENANCE: Dennis
Kruska, whose father was an engineer at Hughes Aircraft. This photograph was given
to Kruska, senior, as being a member of the Hughes Aircraft team. Knee is best-
known for his New Mexico photographs; Knee’s photography for Hughes Aircraft
Company is scarce as being produced privately for the corporation. REFERENCE:
University of Nevada, Las Vegas holds 5 Knee images of FX-11 airplanes. See:
Worldcat.
14 [Japan] Underwood & Underwood (34 cards), plus 1 stereograph by Keystone
View Company. 35 Stereographs of Japan. New York, NY, London, UK, Toronto,
Canada, Ottawa, Kansas: Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, 1904; Meadville, PA,
New York, NY, Chicago, IL, London, UK: Keystone View Company, No Date. 2 side-
by-side images of a travel scene, mounted on stiff cards. The cards measure 3 1/2 x 7 inches.
Images with publication information and a caption describing the scenes on the rectos, 33 of these
cards have extensive explanatory text of the scenes on the verso, 2 cards with blank versos; a few
cads with foxing or soiling on the images and/or the verso, but most in Very Good or better
condition. KD123-049. Very Good.
$ 125
Underwood & Underwood was an early producer and distributor of stereoscopic and
other photographic images and later was a pioneer in the field of news bureau
photography. The company was founded in 1881 by Elmer Underwood (1859-1947
and Bert Elias Underwood (1862-1943). The company began in Ottawa Kansas, but
moved first to Baltimore and then to New York City in 1891. They were the largest
publisher of stereo views in the world, producing 10 million views a year. In 1891
Bert learned how to operate a camera; by 1897, the company had a number of full-the
staff and freelance photographers. Underwood & Underwood was publishing 25, 000
stenographs a day by 1901. Around 1900, Underwood & Underwood introduced
boxed sets, with specific themes, such as education and religion, and travel sets
depicting popular tourist areas of the world. 3 of the cards offered here are from
Underwood & Underwoods Notes of Travel Series 8 and 9. The cards have captions on
the recto under the images, and the verso has more extensive descriptions of each
scene. Items included here are: Notes of Travel 8, numbers 15, 16, 18, 32, 42, 43, 48, 50,
55, 61, 63, 73, 75, 98. Notes of Travel 9, numbers 7, 9, 12, 20, 23, 27, 29, 0, 49, 5, 56, 60,
64, 65, 66, 78, 82, and 89. The two Underwood & Underwood cards here without
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commentary on the verso (which also excludes the series number are: “Fishing in an
arm of the Lake - looking west across Lake Biwa, Japan; and Number 10, “East over
Mississippi Bay, where Perry cam (1854) opening Japan to the World - near
Yokohama.” Finally, the Keystone View Company card is captioned 14812T “Beloved
of Artists and Poets - Snow-capped Fuji, the Sacred Mountain of Japan.” The
Keystone stereo view numbering system when the number ends with a T is part of a
Keystone Tour of the World set. REFERENCES: Wikipedia articles about the companies;
Smithsonian Institution Volunteer Transcription page set of Underwood &
Underwood Stereographs of Japan (they have the card Number 10, “East over
Mississippi Bay.” A number of other institutional websites document the Underwood
& Underwood company and the boxed sets sold.
15 [La Jolla] La Valencia Hotel. In La Jolla Summer and Winter Merge. La Valencia
Hotel [Cover Title]. La Jolla, CA: La Valencia Hotel, No. Date [circa 1930]. Brochure.
Single Broadsheet, 8 3/4 x 4 inches closed. Folded twice, opens to six panels (front and back),
measures 8 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches opened. Illustrated with drawings of the hotel (interior and exterior)
and 5 half-tone photographic images of the scenery around La Jolla; text clean, unmarked, except
rubber stamp of the “Information Desk, Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles” on the front
panel. SCARCE in commerce and only 2 copies listed for Worldcat. KD123-020. Very Good.
$ 25
“La Valencia Hotel in La Jolla, California, known also as “The Pink Lady of La Jolla,”
is a hotel built in the 1920s in a Spanish colonial revival style that is known for views
of La Jolla Cove, and its historic associations with early 20th century Hollywood
glamor. Founded as Los Apartmentos de Sevilla, it changed to its current name in 1928,
two years after it opened. It was an original member of the Historic Hotels of
America (1989), and has been expanded from the original, and remodeled and
modernized throughout its history. It currently serves as a full-service lodging and
hospitality venues with historic status.” Wikipedia. 2 copies Worldcat.
16 [Long Beach, CA] Title Guarantee and Trust Company. Land Titles in Long
Beach: A Calendar of Events That Made a City. Los Angeles, CA: Title Guarantee and
Trust Company, 1935. Pamphlet. 7 x 5 1/2 inches. Unpaginated. [8] pp. Chronology of events
leading to the creation of the city of Long Beach, CA, 1 map; text clean, unmarked, but the outer
margins of the pages are toned. Printed wrappers, wrappers, stapled; binding square and tight,
toning to the extremities. KD123-022. Very Good.
$ 15
Prepared by William Wilcox Robinson (1891-1972) wrote many pamphlets, articles,
and books on Southern California history. Robinson worked as a professional
property title researcher for the Title Guarantee (later named Insurance) and Trust
Company in Los Angeles. He later became Vice President of the company. He
developed an extensive knowledge of local history and land development; this
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knowledge is reflected in this series of Land Title pamphlets, which later developed
into the books Ranchos Become Cities (1939); Land in California (1948); and Los Angeles, A
Profile (1968). 38 copies Worldcat.
17 MUIR, John (1838-1914). The Yosemite. New York, NY: The Century Co., 1912.
8vo. 8 5/16 x 5 3/4 inches. x, 284 pp. Half-title, photographic frontispiece in black-and-white of
Yosemite Fall, title-page vignette, 32 black-and-white photographic plates, 3 folding maps, tables in
the appendices, index; text unmarked, light foxing throughout. Dark green cloth, multi-colored
illustration on the front cover highlighted in gilt, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt; binding square and
tight, lightly rubbed. KD123-032. Very Good.
$ 300
FIRST EDITION. “In the spring of 1869, John Muir was looking for means of support
to fund his explorations of California’s Central Valley region. A ranch owner offered
him a job herding sheep in the Sierra Nevada. As he explored the reopen, he jotted
down his keen observations of the scenic countryside, and he eventually became a
guide for some of Yosemite’s most famous visitors, including Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Muir documented these experiences in The Yosemite, first published in 1912. It is at
once a vivid, accurate description of the land and a passionate homage to nature.”
From the blurb for the current Modern Library Paperback Classic edition currently in
print. This classic account of Muir’s life and philosophy of Yosemite Valley has been
in print for over 100 years; Worldcat records 73 editions, let along counting all the
copies in institutional settings.
18 Pasadena Chamber of Commerce. Pasadena: California at its Best! [Pasadena, CA:
Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, No. Date [but 1940 or later]. Brochure. 9 x 1/8 inches
closed. Opens to 9 x 16 1/4 inches. 16 pp. Illustrated throughout with half-tone photographic
images, drawings, 1 map; text clean, unmarked. Self-wraps, color drawing on the covers, 4 sheets
folded 3 times, stapled; binding square and tight. KD123-019. Fine.
$ 25
Pasadena promotional brochure with many contemporary photographs. Library
catalogers on Worldcat guesstimate the date of publication from 1931 to 1942, all
with question marks by the date indicating the date as undetermined. Nice color
illustration on the front covers has be repurposed as a poster available online. Arroyo
Seco Parkway, “mostly opened in 1940” (Wikipedia) is represented in the half-tone
photographs. Worldcat records 4 copies.
19 [Railroads] Reading Railway System. Interesting Places on the Reading.
[Philadelphia, PA: Reading Company, No Date [circa 1935?]. Brochure. 8 x 4 1/2 inches.
Single sheet of paper, printed on both sides. Opens to 8 x 35 1/2 inches. 7 folds, 16 panels. Covers
with handsome drawings of Liberty Hall and a locomotive, half-tone photographic illustrations
throughout, drawings, text highlights the charms of cities served by the Reading Railway system,
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including Philadelphia, Seashore Resorts, Valley Forge, Gettysburg, and Wernersville; text clean,
unmarked. KD123-014. Very Good.
$ 20
“The Reading Company was a Philadelphia-headquartered railroad that provided
passenger and commercial rail transport in eastern Pennsylvania and neighboring
states that operated from 1924 until its acquisition by Contrail in 1976.” Wikipedia.
Not in Worldcat.
20 [Railroads] Great Northern Railroad. East on the Empire Builder. (Minneapolis,
MN): Great Northern Railroad, No Date (but circa 1939, based on the form number
[6022 4-39] printed on the last page. Brochure. 9 x 4 inches. Single sheet of paper printed on
both sides, 9 x 31 1/2 inches. Illustrated with half-tone photographic images, drawings, and
lithographic images, 2 maps; text clean, unmarked. KD123-015. Fine.
$ 20
Images of the places visited when one travelled from California via the Empire
Builder - the Evergreen Route. “The Great Northern Railway was an American Class
I Railroad. Running from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, it was the
creation of 19th-century railroad entrepreneur James J. Hil and was developed from
the Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad. The Great Northern’s route was the northernmost
transcontinental railroad route in the U.S.” Wikipedia. Did not find a record of this
publication in Worldcat.
21 [Railroads] Southern Pacific Company. Your Daylight Trip. Morning Daylight. [San
Francisco, CA]: Southern Pacific Company, No Date [but 1940s, based on Armed
Forces and War Industries notification]. Brochure. 6 x 3 1/2 inches. Single sheet of paper
printed on both sides, folded 4 times, 10 panels, measures 6 x 17 1/2 inches. Half-tone image of a
locomotive on front panel, map of stops between San Francisco and Los Angeles, one side with a
time-table only, text also includes information on amenities one might expect on the Morning
Daylight route; text clean, unmarked. mild use wear at extremities. KD123-021. Very Good.
$ 15
“The Southern Pacific was an American Class I railroad network that existed from
1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States. The system was
operated by various companies under the names Southern Pacific Railroad, Southern
Pacific Company and Southern Pacific Transportation Company. The original
Southern Pacific began in 1865 as a land hold company. The last incarnation of the
Southern Pacific, the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, was founded in 1969
and assumed control of the Southern Pacific system. The Southern Pacific
Transportation Company was acquired in 1996 by the Union Pacific Corporation and
merged with their Union Pacific Railroad.” Wikipedia. Worldcat records 3 copies
dated between 1938 and 1952 [with question marks].
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22 Ramona Pageant Association. The Story of Ramona Pageant. Hemet, CA: Ramona
Pageant Association, 1931. Brochure. 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches. Single sheet of paper printed on
both sides, opens to 6 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches, folded twice, 6 panels. 5 half-tone photographic
illustrations, map, printed in red and brown inks, including some nice decorative borders, includes
“Ticket Information” and a form to use to order tickets; text clean, unmarked. KD123-017. Fine.
$ 20
Some nice images of performers in costume - Zorro, anyone? “The Ramona Pageant
is an outdoor play staged annually in Hemet, California since 1923. It is based on the
1884 novel Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson,” who is credited as the playwright. Today,
it goes by the name “The Ramona Outdoor Play.” See: Wikipedia.
23 Riverside County Chamber of Commerce. Riverside County, Its Hotels and Resorts
[Cover Title]. Riverside, CA: Riverside County Chamber of Commerce, No Date
[circa 1930]. Brochure. 8 7/8 x 4 inches. Unpaginated. [20] pp. Covers with drawings and half-tone
illustrations, half-tone illustrations throughout, extensive text on the first 4 pages, extensively
illustrated with half-tone illustrations throughout; text clean, unmarked. 5 sheets of paper printed on
both sides, stapled; binding square and tight. KD123-018. Fine.
$ 20
Description of hotels, health resorts, and new home locations in Riverside County,
California. 11 copies Worldcat.
24 [San Diego] Cabrillo Celebration. Cabrillo Celebration, San Diego, California.
September 27th, 28th and 29th, 189 of the Three Hundred and Fifty-Second Anniversary of the
Discovery of San Diego Harbor by Don Juan Cabrillo. On the 28th Day of September, 1542.
(San Diego, CA): Cabrillo Celebration Committee, 1894). 8vo. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches.
Unpaginated. [44] pp. Text includes advertisements for local businesses and national products, and
Republican and Democratic state party tickets; text clean, unmarked. Pictorial wrappers, stabbed and
stitched with string; binding square and tight, some insect damage to the covers (but not too
offensive), light crease at the middle of the top edge, runs down about half the length of the
pamphlet. KD123-001. Very Good.
$ 125
FIRST EDITION. Scarce in the marketplaces. After a booming economy in the 1880s,
San Diego experienced a significant economic downturn. “In January 1892, as an
effort to assist in San Diego economic recovery, Walter G. Smith, the then editor of
The Sun, urged city father to promote the area by holding a celebration. The event
would commemorate navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo-d discovery of San Diego
Bay three hundred fifty years before on September 28, 1542. The celebration would
afford citizens the opportunity of acquainting visitors with the city’s attributes.” “San
Diego’s First Cabrillo Celebration, 1892,” online at the San Diego History Center.
With Mayor Mathew Sherman’s support the idea caught on and many of the movers
and shakers of San Diego participated, bringing together professional news people,
members of the diplomatic services, the judiciary, the army and navy, distinguished
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foreigners, and officials from state and local government. The event was a success and
continues through to 2022. REFERENCE: “San Diego’s First Cabrillo Celebration,
1892, online resource at the San Diego History Center. 6 copies Worldcat.
25 [Santa Barbara] JACKSON, Abraham Willard (b. 1842). A Sketch of Santa
Barbara, Cal. Santa Barbara, CA: H. A. C. McPhail, Bookseller and Stationer, [circa
1885]. Oblong 12mo. 3 1/4 x 5 inches. 13 images on 12 leaves presented in an accordion-fold
format. 4 pages of text, including title page, 2 pages of explanatory text, and an advert for H. A. C.
McPhail mounted to rear paste-down. KD123-028. SCARCE. Very Good.
$ 200
FIRST EDITION. This is an accordion-fold souvenir book, with 17 images engraved
after photographs. Abraham Willard Jackson was born in Portland, Maine and
graduated from Colby College in 1869. Jackson was a Unitarian pastor in Santa
Barbara, CA from April 1881 to March 1889. McPhail’s Book Store opened in 1877
and operated at State Street just above Ortega, when the shop closed in 1905. This is a
souvenir accordion-fold book; it was published in New York by Adolph Wittemann,
circa 1886. Wittemann Brothers was founded in 1876 and produced art lithographs,
early trade cards, postcards, and albums. Their lithographs were produced for a variety
of industries throughout the United States. 1 copy Worldcat, Bancroft Library; 1 sold
record found. PBA offered copies thrice between 2014 and 2016, but their estimates
were too high, left unsold.
26 [Santa Barbara Aviation] 15 Silver Albumen Photographs. N.P.: N.P., No Date [but
circa 1910 - 1916]. 2 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Black-and-white photographs taken by an amateur
photographer; in general the images are clear, but the photographs of people are not adequate to
identify individuals, 2 of the images of airships in flight have been torn to the margin when the
prints were removed from a scrap book, others with residue on the verso of thick black paper upon
which the photographs had been mounted. KD123-035. Sold AS IS.
$ 350
These unrecorded photographs were in a photo album that belonged to Clifton F.
Smith (1920-1999), noted Santa Barbara collector whose ephemera collection formed
the basis of Kruska and Robinson’s A Collection of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and
Ventura Pamphlets & Ephemera. The photographer is now unknown, but to this
observer, the photographs would appear to be taken at Southern California venues
between 1910 and 1916. First is an image of Lincoln Beachey (1887-1915) in his
“airship,” the rudder of which is festooned with the number “2” as it was when
Beachey participated in the Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominquez in
1910. See: waterandpower.org/museum/Aviation_in_Early_LA.html. 13 of the
images were taken in January 1911, when Didier Masson (1886-1950) and Louis
Paulhan (1883-1963) came to Santa Barbara for an early flying exhibition based at
Hope Ranch. These images include pictures of push planes flown by the two French
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pilots at the invitation of Milo Potter (1854-1925), the owner of the Potter Hotel. See:
“Photographs Illustrating Masson’s Flight Over City and Sea, of His Start and
Himself,” in Santa Barbara The Morning Press, Tuesday January 3, 1911, page 1; and
Marshall Bond, “Aviation at Hope Ranch,” in Noticas: Quarterly Bulletin of the Santa
Barbara Historical Society, Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 1961, p. 2. Finally, included is an image
of The Loughead (Lockheed) Model G, approaching the ramp built by the City of
Santa Barbara in June 1916 to accommodate the seaplane developed by the Loughead
brothers. The Model G was Lockheed’s first aircraft. See: Brian Burd, Noticias: Journal
of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, Vol. LIII, No., pp. 125-144.
27 [Santa Barbara Hostelry] Blank Hotel Room Card. (Santa Barbara): N. P., No Date.
Broadside. 15 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches. [1] pp. Marginal insect damage. KD123-036. Very Good.
$ 125
The center of the card is headlined: “Notice to Guests” which lays out state law
punishing those who do not pay their hotel bills and a paragraph “Lien for Charges.”
This section also has a space for the inn-keeper to write “Rate on this room - Single
____ Double _____.” The blanks are left blank. Local establishments recorded or
recommended to visitors include Saint Paul Dye Works, established 1904; Johnston’s
Cafeteria 916 State Street; Elizabeth Kirby Beauty Salon, 1021 State Street; Girsh
Optical Co; the Italian Store, 10 East Cota Street. A few non-local businesses are
included, such as the Hotel Cecil in Los Angeles and Hotel Hoover, in Ventura. In all,
15 California businesses are listed.
28 [Santa Barbara] LUMMIS, Charles Fletcher (1859-1928). Stand Fast Santa
Barbara! Save the Centuried Romance of Old California in This, Its Last and Most Romantic
Stronghold. Santa Barbara, CA: Community Arts Association, 1923. Pamphlet. 6 7/8 x 4
1/2 inches. 17 pp. 2 drawings; text clean, unmarked. Printed wrappers, stapled; binding square and
tight. KD123-026. Fine.
$ 35
Uncommon reprint from The Santa Barbara Morning Press, 1923. The text is a “sermon”
given by Charles Lummis May 6, 1923 at Gaviota Pass in which he urges the people
of Santa Barbara to preserve the nature and romance of their beautiful region.
REFERENCE: Kruska and Robinson, A Collection, No. 242. Uncommon in the
marketplaces. 36 copies Worldcat.
29 [Santa Barbara] Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce, et al. Santa Barbara
County California. (Santa Barbara, CA: [Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce?]: circa
1924 [per the precipitation charts on the last page of text]. Large Brochure. 9 x 4 inches
closed. (24) pp. Headings and drawings throughout the text printed in blue, half-tone photographic
illustrations throughout, maps, ten-year climatological chart; text clean, unmarked. Self-wraps, 6
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sheets of paper printed on both sides, stapled, lovely 2-panel color illustration on the covers; binding
square and tight. KD123-013. Fine.
$ 35
FIRST EDITION. This promotional brochure lists 7 Chambers of Commerce and
Men’s Clubs throughout the county, including Carpinteria, Guadalupe, Lompoc, Los
Alamos, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria and Solvang. REFERENCE: Kruska and Robinson,
A Collection, No. 290. Worldcat records 1 copy at the Huntington Library.
30 [Santa Barbara] Haley Produce Market. [Spanish-Language Broadside]. [Santa
Barbara, CA]: Haley Produce Market, No. Date [but circa 1926 or 7]. Framed Broadside.
14 3/4 x 10 7/8 inches. Frame measures 17 x 13 inches. Top half of the broadside touts the savings
to be had shopping at Haley Produce Market, the bottom half of the broadside lists particular
products and prices paid; paper brown, but I can’t tell if this is toning or the original newsprint used
was this tan color to begin with, some folds to the paper that have been pressed by the glazing in the
frame. KD123-50. Very Good.
$ 150
Haley Produce Market occupied the premises of 434 E. Haley, in Santa Barbara at the
corner of Haley and Olive Streets. The Market was operated by Manuel Jimenez
between 1925 and 1927, based on city directories and local newspapers. The phone
number recorded on this broadside, 4333, was no longer assigned to any business or
household after 1928. During the 1930s, the population of Santa Barbara was more
than 30,000 souls; the city was served by approximately 130 grocery stores, 80 to 90%
of which were neighborhood markets such as the Haley Produce Market. The markets
came and went with economic trends and as these mostly family-owned businesses
closed when family members decided to retire. This broadside includes prices for such
products as flour, beans, milk, cheese, garbanzos, and more. Haley Produce Market
reached out to its Spanish-speaking neighbors, letting them know where to purchase
staples at the best prices in their neighborhood. However, Manuel Jimenez advertised
in both Spanish and English: See: the Santa Barbara Daily News, 13 May, 1927. From
Clif Smith’s private collection. REFERENCE: Beresford, “Santa Barbara Grocers,” in
Noticias: Quarterly Magazine of the Santa Barbara Historical Society, Vol. XLIX, No. 4., Vol.
L, No. 1, Winter 2003 / Spring 2004, pages 1-47. Unrecorded.
31 [Santa Barbara] McISAAC, Colin H. Santa Barbara Mission: Early Days in
California. With Revisions by Rev. Augustine Hobrecht, O. F. M. Santa Barbara, CA: The
Schauer Printing Studio, Inc., 1929. 8vo. 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches. 35, [1 blank] pp. Title page
vignette of the mission facade, Black-and-white half-tone photographs, drawings, index of names,
list of missions; text clean, unmarked. Illustrated wraps, including half-tone images inside the covers,
stapled; binding square and tight; light soiling to covers. KD123-0. Very Good.
$ 50
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This is the fourth edition listed in Kruska and Robinson. Originally published in
1917. “The text revisions are minor from the 1923 and 1926 editions, but there is a
new two-page article on ‘Restoration after Earthquake.’ Quite a few new photographic
views are used that were not in the 1923 edition, and these have been credited to Fr.
Zephyrin Engelhardt (taken from his book, Santa Barbara Mission) and to J. W. Collinge
of Santa Barbara. The design of the wrappers and the size of the book has changed.
Later revisions follow.” Kruska and Robinson. REFERENCE: Kruska and Robinson, A
Collection of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura Pamphlets & Ephemera, No. 252.
Worldcat only shows one copy for this particular, 1929, edition, in Australia.
32 [Santa Barbara] Santa Barbara County Chamber of Commerce. Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara County Chamber of Commerce, No Date [but circa
mid-1940s based on the brochure’s claim that the population at the time of
publication was 38,338]. Brochure. 9 x 4 inches. Single sheet of paper printed both sides, folded
thrice, opens to 9 x 16 inches, 8 panels. Closed the covers have a 2-panel color illustration by Amado
Gonzalez, numerous black-and-white half-tone photographic illustrations, color map of the
highways from San Francisco to Los Angeles; text clean, unmarked, some light soiling and toning to
the cover. KD123-012. Very Good.
$ 30
Promotional brochure of the Santa Barbara County Chamber of Commerce touts the
year-round outdoor activities available to the visitor. Describes how to get to Santa
Barbara, listing in transportation carriers that will bring one to the county, including
airlines that service the county. Illustrator: Amado Gonzalez (1913-2007) was born in
Guadalajara Mexico. He immigrated to San Francisco in 1927. Gonzalez studied at the
California School of Fine Arts and had a long career as a muralist and portrait painter.
From 1934 to 1938, he worked throughout California as a muralist for the WPA. In
the 1960s and 70s, Gonzalez worked with the California Wine Advisory Board to
create posters promoting California wine. Not in Kruska and Robinson or Worldcat.
33 [Solvang, CA] Brock-Higgins Studio. Solvang Cal. Garden of the Santa Ynez. Santa
Barbara, CA: Brock-Higgins Studio, No Date [but after 1925]. Real Photo mounted on
bifold. Bifold measures 3 x 7 inches closed; photo measures 2 x 6 inches. Photograph of a man
standing on a country road under a canopy of oak with a rural valley opening in the background, the
photograph with a printed Art Nouveau border with caption, bifold with blind-stamp of Brock-
Higgins, Santa Barbara and crest; photo lightly faded, small pencil notation on last leaf of bifold.
KD123-037. Very Good.
$ 100
This photograph depicts a man on a road standing under an old oak tree. The inside
of the bifold has a blind stamp: “Brock-Higgins, Santa Barbara.” William Warren
Higgins (1856-1930) worked as a photographer in Santa Barbara as early as 1897.
Higgins and John Brock were brothers-in-law. Higgins was from Ireland, moved to
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Canada, and was invited by his brother-in-law to join him in Los Angeles where John
A. Brock and Company operated out of 431 Spring Street. The move to Santa
Barbara is shrouded in mystery, but it is known that Brock-Higgins in Santa Barbara
operated from 1907 to 1926. “Higgins placed hundreds of different views of Santa
Barbara on photo postcards. His subjects reflected the entire community. He
photographed buildings and private homes, both interior and exterior; individuals and
groups in clubs and fraternal organizations, hotels scenic views, local Chinese children
in traditional costume; and roads and driveways. Higgins may also have produced the
only complete photographic postcard set of views of all the local elementary schools.
Most of his cards feature a brief title across the bottom followed by ‘Brock-Higgins.’
Never is Higgins’ name separate from the ‘Brock-Higgins” designation.” Burd.
During the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake, the Brock-Higgins glass plates that had
rested upon open shelves found themselves shattered upon the studio floor. After the
quake, Higgins set up a studio in the garden of the family home, where he produced
beautiful hand-tinted photos that were sold affixed to folded blank message cards and
sold with envelopes. Burd has written an excellent article on early postcard
photographers based in Santa Barbara using contemporary newspaper articles and
family oral interviews; however, this image of Solvang is not really a postcard per se.
This is a rare image captured by William Warren Higgins, who in this instance has
ventured beyond the city of Santa Barbara to document rural life in the northern
parts of Santa Barbara County. REFERENCE: Brian Burd, “Santa Barbara Postcard
Photography,” in Noticias: Quarterly Magazine of the Santa Barbara Historical Society, Vol.
XLIX, No. 2., Summer 2003, pages 16-47.
34 TABER, Isaiah West (1830-1912). The Bridal Veil Falls, 900 feet, Yosemite, Cal.,
Taber Photo, San Francisco, A 9. Photograph. 12 x 9 1/4 inches. Mounted on 20 x 16 inch
stiff board with a window frame attached by tape to the back mount, the photo bears a printed
caption and photographer’s number on the bottom margin; edges frayed, toned. KD123-039. Very
Good.
$ 400
Bridal Veil Fall is one of the most prominent waterfalls in the Yosemite Valley. The
waterfall is 617 feet high and flows year round. Isaiah Taber first visited California in
1850, working 4 years as a miner and farmer. He returned to California in 1864 to
work with photographers Bradley and Rulofson, working in their studio until 1871.
“Taber established the “Taber Gallery” an No. 12 Montgomery Street in 1872. His
highly successful business was well-known for portraiture and a vast stock of
California and Western views - many of which were the unacknowledged works of
other photographers. … Taber’s career ended in 1906 when his entire collection of
glass plates, view negatives and portraits on glass were destroyed in the San Francisco
earthquake and fire.” Finding aid to Miscellaneous Views of California taken by I. W.
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Taber, circa 1890-1899, at the Bancroft Library. The Getty Research Institute states
that “After the American photographer Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) went
bankrupt in 1873-1874, Taber acquired and printed Watkins’ old negatives taken
between 1861 and 1873, mostly views of Yosemite National Park, California.”
35 TABER, Isaiah West (1830-1912). Cap of Liberty, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite, Cal.,
Taber Photo, San Francisco, B 379. Photograph. 7 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches. Mounted on 14 x 11-
inch stiff board with a window frame attached by tape to the back mount, The photo bears a printed
caption and photographer’s number on the bottom margin; some minor toning to the outer margins
of the print. KD123-040. Fine.
$ 250
Liberty Cap is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, California. The geological
feature lies at the extreme northwestern margin of Little Yosemite Valley. It lies
adjacent to the north to the north of Nevada Fall, on the John Muir Trail. It rises
1,700 feet from the base of Nevada Fall to a peak elevation of 7,080 feet.
36 TABER, Isaiah West (1830-1912). The Vernal and Nevada Falls, From Glacier Point,
Yosemite, Cal. Taber Photo, San Francisco, B 436. Photograph. 4 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches.
Mounted on 11 x 13 7/8-inch stiff board with a window frame attached by tape to the back mount,
The photo bears a printed caption and photographer’s number on the bottom margin, some foxing
in the image. KD123-041. Fine.
$ 250
Vernal Fall and Nevada Fall are cascades that succeed one another along the Merced
River in Yosemite National Park. Both are clearly visible from a distance; this image
was taken from Glacier Point, a viewpoint above Yosemite Valley. It is located on the
south wall of Yosemite Valley at an elevation of 7,214 feet above Curry Village.
Between 1872 and 1967, it was the site of the Yosemite Firefall.
37 TURRILL, Charles Beebe (1854-1927). Catalogue of the Products of California,
Exhibited by The Southern Pacific Company, at the North, Central and South American
Exposition New Orleans. New Orleans, LA: W. B. Stansbury & Co., 1886. 8vo. 6 3/4 x 4
3/8 inches. 298 pp. Floor plan of the States Exhibits Building, interesting woodcut tailpieces, 18
pages of ads at the rear are often illustrated and with typical nineteenth-century typographic
elements; text clean, unmarked, paper lightly toned. Printed wrappers; binding square and tight,
some chips at extremities. KD123-030. Very Good.
$ 75
FIRST EDITION. Charles Beebe Turrill was the Commissioner for California and
Agent in Charge of the Southern Pacific Exhibit at the North, Central and South
American Exposition in New Orleans, November 10th, 1885 to April 1st, 1886. He
was an amateur photographer and collected extensively “to preserve the history of
California for the accuracy of historic records.” Here he coordinates the contributions
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of the 38 states that contributed to the Exposition. Worldcat shows 102 copies for 4
editions, but these include ebooks and microforms.
38 [Yosemite] LESTER, John Erastus (1840-1900). The Yo-Semite, Its History, Its
Scenery, Its Development. Providence, RI: Printed for the Author, 1873. 8vo. 10 1/4 x 6 1/4
inches. [ii], 40 pp. Unopened; text clean, unmarked. Printed wrappers; binding square and tight,
soiling and toning to covers. KD123-025. Very Good.
$ 250
FIRST EDITION. “This paper was read before the Rhode Island Historical society on
December 17, 1872 by Lester, a prominent Providence lawyer, at the request of
friends. Lester’s interest in the topic was spurred by a trip to Yosemite Valley and the
Mariposa and Tuolumne big tree groves in June 1872 for health reasons. REFERENCE:
Currey & Kruska, Bibliography of Yosemite, No. 236; Farquhar, Yosemite, the Big Trees and
the High Sierra, No. 13.
39 [Yosemite] CRANE, C., illustrator. “The Valley of the Yosemite” hand-colored
wood engraving. Extract from: David J. Williams, editor, America Illustrated, New York:
Arundel Printing and Publishing Co., 1879. Hand-colored wood engraving, signed in the
plate “C. Crane, 1874.” Image measures 6 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches. The plate measures 9 1/4 x 11 5/8
inches. Mounted on blank stiff board with tape, a second stiff board with a window with a clear
plastic protective sheet; minor soiling to margins of the plate, the matting material also soiled.
KD123-038. Very Good.
$ 45
Not a first edition. David Williams’ America Illustrated was in print for many years and
was also handled by many different publishers. I was unable to identify the illustrator,
C. Crane. The image was created in 1874, but difficult to identify the precise edition
of America Illustrated this image was removed from. A pencil notation on the backing
mount indicates an 1879 edition. Williams’ America Illustrated was a popular illustrated
book showing many points of interest throughout the United States.
40 [Yosemite] BUCKLEY, James Monroe (1836-1920). Two Weeks in The Yosemite
and Vicinity. New York, NY: Phillips & Hunt; Cincinnati, OH: Walden & Stowe, 1883.
Series: Home College Series, No. 48. 8vo. 7 3/16 x 4 7/8 inches. 36 pp. Text unmarked, there is an
aggressive spot of foxing in the lower margin of a few pages. Printed wrappers, illustrations of
Yosemite inside front and rear covers. KD123-034. Very Good.
$ 150
REPRINT. James Monroe Buckley was a Methodist minister, doctor, author, and editor
of the Christian Advocate. “Buckley and his party spent nearly three weeks of the
summer of 1871 visiting Yosemite Valley and the Calaveras and Mariposa groves. He
was a keen observer and his descriptions of the Coulterville Trail and the pioneer
hotels are quite entertaining. In addition to visiting the main points in the valley,
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Buckley, in the company of a Scot named Maxwell, ascended North Dome and
Liberty Cap. On another excursion the two cited from Little Yosemite Valley to within
600 feet of the summit of Mount Starr King. The same afternoon they hiked to
Glacier Point and attempted a night descent to the valley floor via a gully which now
part of the Ledge Trail. Finding descent dangerous, they returned to the point and
walked eight miles to Peregoy’s Hotel. The next day they hiked back to Glacier Point,
climber Sentinel Dome, and returned to the valley via Sentinel Canyon.” Currey and
Kruska. There was a 1873 issue of this text in the Young People’s Half Hour Series.
REFERENCE: Currey & Kruska, Yosemite Bibliography, No 26. Worldcat records 76
copies, including modern facsimiles, ebooks, microforms, etc.
41 [Yosemite] Yosemite National Park Co. Yosemite: A Winter Resort. (Los Angeles
and San Francisco, CA): Yosemite National Park Company, 1921. Brochure. Single sheet
printed on both sides. 9 x 4 inches closed. Opens to 9 x 23 3/4 inches. 5 folds, 12 panels. 2 maps,
half-tone photographic images, some stunning illustrations of outdoor scenes and activities in
Yosemite; text unmarked, some orange-ink bleed-through on pages 3-4, but not offensive. Dog-ear
at page 6, weakening at folds, with 1/4-inch tear and dog-ears at fold between pages 4-5.
KD123-016. Good.
$ 20
The early twentieth century saw the rise of automobile traffic, the construction of a
train line to El Portal; development of new roads and hotels; the increased popularity
of camping, hiking and other outdoor pursuits; and a rapid increase in park visitation.
This brochure portrays these trends in and around the park, along with early auto
stages, train travel, and activities enjoyed by visitors in the early 1920s. Worldcat shows
1 copy at UC Berkeley.
42 [Yosemite] Yosemite Lodge, Yosemite National Park. Roadmap to Yosemite
[Cover Title]. Yosemite National Park, CA: Yosemite Lodge, Yosemite National Park,
1922. Folding Map. Single Sheet printed on both sides. 9 x 4 inches closed. Open to 18 x 24 inches.
6 folds resulting in 2 panels. Large map takes up an entire side of the sheet, is a map of California’s
Central Valley with Quincy and Corning to the north, and Bakersfield to the south with 10 inset
maps of Yosemite Valley and various areas including Sacramento, Lake Tahoe & Vicinity,
Bakersfield, etc. Map compiled by Park Map Company of Los Angeles. The other side of the sheet
with 12 panels, 2 of which are color cover artwork, the ten numbered panels with extensive text,
half-tone photographic illustration of Yosemite, and 2 maps; text clean, unmarked; toning, light
soiling to covers “1922” penciled on front cover, bump to tail of panel 8. KD123-023. Very Good.
$ 45
Printed by Carl A. Bundy Quill and Press, Los Angeles, 1922. I am a bit confused by
this brochure. Yosemite has numerous “Lodges”, all with different names. “Yosemite
Lodge” in this brochure is described thus: “A charming colony of redwood cabins
being grouped around a community center including office, dining-room, lounge,
writing-room, dance pavilion, tennis court, swimming pool and children’s playground.
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