"Wild West Wonders" Premier Live Auction (2025 August)

E.D. Farnsworth & Son of No. 219 Sansome Street, San Francisco published this 1881 advertising calendar for the German Fire Insurance Company. A...

This lot holds three books belonging to navigator John Thomas employed by the Union Oil Company. Dobie's Modern Navigation is a spiral bound boo...

A collection of periodicals from "The Summer of Love" and beyond. Some of these items were on loan to the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco,...

Lot of 15. Covers time period roughly from the Gold Rush to Civil War-era. 1) 9 Declaratory Statements for Cases where the Land is not subject to Priv

Lot of 26. Three covers " Commercial Hotel, The Potter, The Arlington Hotels. 23 stereopticon slides of " Mission and it's gardens...

Lot of 4. 1) Before the White Man Came by Charles S. Graves, 1934 hardcover signed by the author. 99 pp. Rare. Inscribed to Charles Pendleton. 2) Rhym

26 x 17" cloth broadside advertising the 1897 sale of the estate of John Grunewald near Pleasant Grove on the Sacramento Road, Sutter County, C...

Fantastic! This was before the railroad was completed from Truckee to Tahoe City, so transportation was via wagon on the Lake Tahoe Stage Line. Truck

Lot of 7, all different. Truckee, like nearby Tahoe, is tough to get material from. Includes: Truckee Lumber Co. (3 different, 1886-1891); Pacific Lum

This "Fremont's First and Second Expeditions 1844-3-4" by Fremont and printed in 1845 includes a very rare foldout panorama map, new H...

First edition. No map. 693 pp. This report guided thousands of overland immigrants to the Oregon and California regions (pre Gold Rush). It was more t

Pile of issued of the Boston Museum newspaper from 1849 and 1850 with thrilling news of the California Gold Rush that changed the world. Post it note

Hardbound, 212 page volume published in 1965 by Howell-North Books of Berkeley. Like new condition! "The California Star," Yerba Buena an...

An exceptional rarity, and one of only a handful or two of original California works published with twenty four (24) original albumen prints inside th

Lot of 9. Includes: 5 postcards (Main Street, Watsonville; Big Trees, Santa Cruz; Carmel Mission, Monterey; Santa Clara Street, San Jose; and San Carl

Lot of over 50 items. Includes: Mt. Lowe (10 postcards); San Diego (7 postcards); Catalina (1890s photo and 2 postcards); Los Angeles area postcards (

This book: "California's Best: Art and Antiques" by Brad and Brian Whithrell covers a number of collectibles from the state of Califor...

January 10 to November 11, 1928 diary on a desktop calendar. Playing in and losing an unspecific sporting game, notes on track and field competition,

CAL 316387. 4.5 x 13" Missing registration tag. Unknown date. The California DMV used 6 numbers starting in 1941 thru 1955, when they added a l...

Excellent early oil field panoramic photo with horse-drawn wagon, oil derricks, and oil tanks in view. Reverse has pen notation that this is Ventura,