Treasures from Pacific Shores: Numismatics, Mining, & Americana

Rarely does an original western banking archive come out of the woodwork, and one has here. Not only that, it is an important "first" as w...

4 hardcovers.The Spectacular San Franciscans by Altrocchi. San Francisco 1846-1856 by Lotchin. The San Francisco Earthquake by Witts. Belle Starr by R

Hardcover with dustjacket. 1939 185pp. Impressions of Golden Gate Expo of 1939. Date: Location: San Francisco, California HWAC# 73006

1) City Comptroller's Office pictorial warrant issued for $250 in 1854 to H.W. Seale for grading and planking Beale Street. Signed by comptrolle...

1) i/u Pope Expanding Bit Co. to FH Gould 1912 #224. 2) i/void Noyo Land and Cattle Co. to HM Cochran #9 1 share. Date: Location: San Francisco, C

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Soft cover booklet, From Salt Lake City, Along the line of Western Pacific Railway, Feather River Canon Route, To San Francisco Bay. Approx 25 chromo

1) c. late 1880s Stereoview by A.J. McDonald, San Francisco. Nice view of observatory buildings on the hill. According to Mautz, McDonald partnered wi

New York Tribune, April 6, 1875 long article on page 2 reporting the hanging of the "eminent bandit" Vasquez at San Jose, California. The ...

One First Mortgage Six Per Cent Sinking Fund Forty Year Gold Bond. No. 1516, $500. Signed by President Brown. Ornate green border with allegorical vig

Receipt for $2.00 . Alexander & Banning, Forwarders, San Pedro, CA August 1,1854. Date: 1854 Location: San Pedro, California HWAC# 63431

Pictorial Receipt for cash paid $52.32. 8.5" x 4.5" Date: 1865 Location: San Pedro, California HWAC# 63436

Red cloisoine poinsetta on top of the Santa Barbara Mission with a bell at the bottom. Lodge 613 of the B.P.O.E. Bell dated 1909. Five inches long, pi

Hardcover 1939 496pp plus index, many pictorial plates. Date: Location: Santa Barbara, California HWAC# 73007

Aprrox 50 postcards including 10 RPC's-Persian Hotel and Biltmore, 5 each. 2 cabinet cards by SB photographers-man portrait by Cook, baby portr...

Rare Gold Rush COD. Manuscript Shasta (over printed Sacramento City), Feb. 12, 1854. King D. Keithly has deposited in the Sacramento City Bank at Shas

Mott School District. $500 #2 i/c 1889. Top creasing and small seam tear. Date: Location: Siskiyou, California HWAC# 65071

Rare!! H.A. Lockhart has purchased a liquor license good for 3 months. Dated Jan. 10th, 1853. 5.5 x 8" Folds and creases. Soiling on reverse. ...

Approx 15 items. 1897 San Bernardino Tax Bill. Pictorial billheads-Pacific Tent and Awning, Donahoo, Emmons Hardware. Letterheads from Los Angeles, Ne

Paasdena (7 pcs, mostly 1890s); Terminal Island (2, 1926 letters); Los Angeles (22, best is 1888 Canada Dairy, c1888-c1900) Date: Location: Calif

Approx 13 items. c. 1940 color Knott's Berry Farm brochure. Cardboard folding map of Los Angeles with stains, 1951 rainfall chart of Los Angeles...

Hardback books (2) City-Makers, Remi A. Nadeau, The Men who transformed Los Angeles from Village to Metropolis During the First Great Boom 1868-1876;

1903 edition. Softcover, approx 30 b/w So. Cal. photos-Santa Barbara, Mt. Lowe, Figueroa St. etc. Cover edges have signs of wear. Date: Location:

23 page bound booklet by M. Rieder 1903 with colored views of Southern California. Illustrations of East Lake Park in LA, oranges, Mammouth Wharf, Old

1) River Lodge, Lake Havasu Sportsman's Club. 2) Cloudburst on Clientele Creek. 3) Deck on the Salton Sea, Frashers Foto. 4) Date garden in Coa...

3 hardcovers-History of Los Angeles, City County, Vol. 1 and 2 by Spalding. Softcover Panorama-A picture history of Southern California by Title Insu

A Step Back in Time by Santa Cruz Island Foundation. Santa Barbara's Royal Rancho by Tomkins. Santa Cruz Island by Clark. Date: Location: Ca...

One of the first public wine companies. Incorporated in the days of the nascent California wine industry in 1872. Four unissued certificates. Very rar

Incorporated April 24, 1866. Dateline Suisun City, Solano Co., May 4th, 1877. No. 94, issued for one share to J. Frank & Co. Signed by president...

1857 Warrant in the amount of $105.78 to Sutter County Auditor. Good condition. Plastic protective cover. 8" x 3.75". Date: 1857 Locatio...

US Flag, Sutterville, Sacramento Co., Cal. 1.75" x 3', diagonal crease, adhesive on rear. Date: Location: Sutterville, California HWAC#...

Postcard shows the W.L. Co. Factory. Produced by Fidler Photo. Postmarked February 1914. Date: Location: Weed, California HWAC# 63844

Phineas Banning who was a commissioned merchant who was responsible for the development of the Wilmington Harbor in the 1850's bringing the tran...

New York tribune 8.27.1875 with long article on Yosemite, unauthored, but listed as a "special Correspondent.". Excellent expose on the Yo...

Lot of 4 different. None have the publisher identified. Similar views of the hotel with Sentinel Rock in the background. Please inspect. (Prag Collect

Lot of 28. This is a really nice set of "later" stereoviews (i.e. not 1860s-80s). Includes: a set of 11 cards from a family vacation (1920...

Lot of three stereoviews (4" x 7") from John S. Moulton (Salem, Massachusetts). Best card is No.35 view of Hutchings' Hotel with Senti...

Three different rare stereoviews by John P. Soule (Boston) c.1870 of Lamon's Cabin in Yosemite. 1) No. 1245: Close-up exterior view with three m...

RPC of Martin Itjen and his street car, Skagway, AK. Booklet of California's Twentieth Century School-Agriculture, mechanic, household arts. Fre...

1919 Rand McNally Indexed Pocket Map and Auto Road Guide, California. 89 pp plus advertisements. c. 1920's Rand McNally Indexed Pocket Map, Tour...

1) Double Truck, multi color California,/Nevada map South portion California. Asher & Adams. Nye and Lincoln Counties, Nevada. 17.5" x 24&...

Map of Public Surveys in California to accompany Report Surveyor Gen. Signed by Surveyor General of California. Gray ink on cream color paper. Slight

Double truck map of California. PP 102-103. Multicolor, Nevada and Oregon on reverse. 14.5" x 22". Date: Location: California HWAC# 5...

Old Map of California General Map of Explorations & Surveys, shows lower California, part of the Sonora Desert, the Colorado Desert, shows porti...

Rand McNally Pocket Map and Shippers' Guide of California with detached covers. Additional old California map with many tears. fragile. Please i...

Old maps-Pasadena, Los Angeles, Feather River, San Diego, Riverside, Tuolumne, San Francisco, East Bay, So. Cal Sunshine Empire Date: Location: Ca

Small card from Mrs. John Steele, San Andreas, Cal. Larger pictorial card from Mrs. A. Horstmann, Dealer in Fashionable Cloaks and Suits, Stockton, Ca

4 Billheads from California. 1) San Joaquin County, 1864 to W. B. Stamper(?) for services as County Assessor 2) Receipt for State & County Taxes...

Hardback book, with plastic jacket, excellent condition. A Yankee in Mexican California, Abel Stearns, 1798-1848 By Doris Marion Wright. pp. 144, 6.5

1 gold brooch pins, one reading "Olive Caplinger/Big Oak/Rebekah Lodge #259/December 6, 1922/California 760" it has "50" on it l...