Seventy-five Years in California: A History of Events and Life in California: Personal, Political and Military; Under the Mexican Regime; During the Quasi-Military Government of the Territory by the United States, and after the admission of the State fo the Union [Limited Grangerized "El Dorado Edition" signed by Editor and Publisher]
- SIGNED
- San Francisco: John Howell, 1929
San Francisco: John Howell, 1929. Very Good. San Francisco: John Howell, 1929. First Thus, Limited Issue of 55 extra-illustrated copies signed by the editor and publisher; this being #50; inscription to added title page from publisher John Howell signed "Uncle John." Small quarto. 422pp. Illustrations, some color. Extra-illustrated material included, complete, and highlighted below. Tan cloth over green paper-covered boards with paper title label to spine; illustrated endpapers. Lacks dust jacket. Boards show edgewear with light staining. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good example, though the extra material included is what makes this copy particularly special. A few highlights:
- "Proclamation by the Mayor" broadside from E.E. Schmitz and printed by Altvater Print. Order from the San Francisco mayor in the immediate aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake declaring that "officers have been authorized by me to KILL any and all persons found engaged in Looting or in the Commission of any other Crime."
- Stock certificate from the notorious Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Co. of Gold Hill, NV, December 18, 1884. Also a canceled check drawn from the Imperial Silver Mining Co., Agency of the Bank of California, Virginia, Nevada, May 3, 1876.
- Songsheet for the popular song "Lotta Lee" published by Bell & Company, ca. 1870s.
- Three cancelled checks; one from D.O. Mills & Co., Bankers and made out to Levi Strauss and Co. for $500. Two other checks signed by James G. Fair and John W. Mackay, respectively, members of the famous "Bonanza Kings" or "Bonanza Firm" with one check dated the year before the four Irish-Americans would hit the mother lode and become known as the Silver Kings.
- Issue of the Sacramento Daily Union August 27, 1859
- "Speech of Mr. [Daniel S.] Dickinson, of New York, on Establishing a Government for California. Delivered in the Senate in the United States, February 28, 1849." Printed by Towers. 16pp. Lengthy speech by the Senator on the formation of California as a state with an extended discourse on slavery and its history and role in American society.
A rich collection of California material, neatly packaged in the San Diego merchant's memoir, itself an illuminating and detail-rich history of the period.
ADAMS 659 and GRAFF 1020 (citing "Sixty Years" edition); HOWES D136.
- "Proclamation by the Mayor" broadside from E.E. Schmitz and printed by Altvater Print. Order from the San Francisco mayor in the immediate aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake declaring that "officers have been authorized by me to KILL any and all persons found engaged in Looting or in the Commission of any other Crime."
- Stock certificate from the notorious Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Co. of Gold Hill, NV, December 18, 1884. Also a canceled check drawn from the Imperial Silver Mining Co., Agency of the Bank of California, Virginia, Nevada, May 3, 1876.
- Songsheet for the popular song "Lotta Lee" published by Bell & Company, ca. 1870s.
- Three cancelled checks; one from D.O. Mills & Co., Bankers and made out to Levi Strauss and Co. for $500. Two other checks signed by James G. Fair and John W. Mackay, respectively, members of the famous "Bonanza Kings" or "Bonanza Firm" with one check dated the year before the four Irish-Americans would hit the mother lode and become known as the Silver Kings.
- Issue of the Sacramento Daily Union August 27, 1859
- "Speech of Mr. [Daniel S.] Dickinson, of New York, on Establishing a Government for California. Delivered in the Senate in the United States, February 28, 1849." Printed by Towers. 16pp. Lengthy speech by the Senator on the formation of California as a state with an extended discourse on slavery and its history and role in American society.
A rich collection of California material, neatly packaged in the San Diego merchant's memoir, itself an illuminating and detail-rich history of the period.
ADAMS 659 and GRAFF 1020 (citing "Sixty Years" edition); HOWES D136.