Antiquarian & Rare Books

Rules and Regulations of the Transportation Department. Salt Lake City: 1907. 6.75 inches, sextodecimo. Brown cloth over limp boards, gilt-titled front board, red-tinted edges. A fourth line below “Lines East of Sparks,” reading “Union Pacific Railroad Co. (Lines West of Green River),” is overstamped in solid gilt, faintly legible through wear. Pp. [1-4], 5-147. Tipped-in amendment notices: full pages dated 1911 and 1912, and several smaller undated slips. Color-printed semaphore and signal diagrams throughout; several printed forms in text.

Operating rules for the Southern Pacific’s lines east of Sparks, across Nevada, issued just three years after Sparks was founded.

Los Angeles: The First National Bank of Los Angeles et. al., 1925. Single sheet, printed both sides, folding into original pictorial wrappers. Opened: 19 x 24 inches; Wrappers: 3.75 x 6.75 inches. Front wrapper with a decorative pictorial map of California south of the Bay Area titled "Serving the Pacific-Southwest." Interior with a "City Limits of Los Angeles" map, copyrighted 1922 by Pacific-Southwest Trust & Savings Bank. Rear wrapper printed with a directory of Pacific-Southwest Trust & Savings Bank branches across California, plus Los Angeles branch locations.

A well-preserved and rare example of 1920s Southern California bank-issued promotional cartography — jointly produced by three affiliated Los Angeles financial institutions to advertise their statewide branch network while encouraging automobile tourism, offering a detailed snapshot of the Los Angeles street grid and regional motor routes at the height of the city's 1920s growth.

OCLC 743300749

Selections from the Book of Mormon in the Deseret Alphabet. New York: Russell Bros, 1869. 9 inches, octavo. Publisher's quarter dark blue (nearly black) leather, spine blind-stamped with gilt title and gilt beehive, over pale blue paper-covered boards. Front cover printed with beehive vignette and engraving of the Salt Lake Temple within an ornamental border, rear cover unprinted. [8], 116pp. Two blank leaves each, front and rear. Key to the Deseret Alphabet facing title. Collating complete.

Part I of the Book of Mormon (Nephi through Words of Mormon), in Brigham Young's phonetic Deseret Alphabet, one of only four 19th century books printed in the alphabet. The cover depicts the Salt Lake Temple complete with its six spires, though construction, begun in 1853, would not finish until 1893.

Flake-Draper 608

Reno, Nevada: Division of Animal Industry, State Department of Agriculture Printed by A. Carlisle & Co. of Nevada, [1936]. 8.75 x 4 inches, octavo. Brown cardstock covers, cloth spine. 171 pp, 35 pp.

A pre-war matched pair from Nevada's official livestock brand book series. Each entry names an individual brand owner by county alongside their registered mark, making this a primary source for Nevada ranching and family-history research. Pre-WWII editions such as this 1936/1938 pairing are notably scarce.

Constancy Amid Change. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1944. 9.5 inches, octavo. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt titling to front cover and spine. 211 pp.

Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to notable Utah family.

San Francisco: C. P. Heininger, Publisher, 1871. 7.5 inches, duodecimo. Cream cloth boards, elaborately gilt-decorated front panel with floral motifs and a sailing-ship vignette, gilt-lettered "San Francisco, Cal." Rear board embossed with the California state seal. Folding panoramic view bound at the front; a central fold-out section of approximately 15 pages, single-sided, primarily depicting San Francisco architecture and landmarks, extending to nearly 6.5 feet when fully unfolded; and a bound text section of 30 pages at the rear.

Predating the 1906 earthquake and fire that destroyed many of the buildings depicted within. Heininger's view-books are rare survivors of the city's pre-earthquake streetscape and architecture, published in several variant printings through the 1880s and 90s — this is among the earlier examples.

Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion. Sacramento: State Office, J. D. Young, Supt. State Printing, 1890. 9.25 inches, octavo. Original black pebbled cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 887 pp.

The definitive muster roll of California's Civil War soldiers, compiled by the state's own Adjutant General; an essential reference for Western theater genealogy and California military history.

California Woman's Divorce Archive. Alameda, California: 1891–1910. Four items as described.

A decree resting on extreme cruelty allowed the court to divide the effects as it saw just — and here it gave Bertha Weiss the land, the chattels, and custody of the children outright. What the cruelty was, these documents do not say. What they do record is that her husband never appeared to contest it. Surviving collections documenting the woman's side of such a case rarely surface.

Omega Nu Journal. San Francisco: Omega Nu Sorority (Press of Latham & Swallow), 1920. 10.25 inches, quarto. Original pictorial wrappers printed in light green, dark green, and yellow, depicting a stylized woman between trees. String-bound. 52 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographic chapter member rosters and hand-drawn sketches; includes several full-page comics.

This journal preserves period photographic member rosters and original artwork from a century-old women's charitable and social organization with rare Nevada chapter representation.

To San Francisco and Back. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n. d. [1878]. 7.25 inches, duodecimo. Green cloth, bevelled boards, gilt title to spine and front cover. 2 p.l., 220pp, plus 4pp publisher's advertisements. Illustrated throughout.

The work's most substantial content falls in chapters IX–X, "The Mormon City" and "Salt Lake City," recounting Jones's 1870 visit, largely devoted to his views on Mormon polygamy. Additional chapters on San Francisco, Yosemite, and Post Civil War "Negro Labour" in the South.

Flake 4496 · OCLC 6141782

New Overland Guide to the Pacific Coast. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, 1888. 8.5 inches, octavo. Original pictorial stiff paper wrappers, printed in red, black, and tan with illustrated vignette to front cover. 212, [6]pp of advertisements. Includes folding map.

Railroad travel guide to the American Southwest and Pacific Coast during the Gilded Age

The Land of Little Rain. Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, n.d., ca. 1917 or later. 7 inches, duodecimo. Mint green cloth, pictorial dark green design to front board and title to spine. In original printed brown paper dust jacket, advertising Austin's title The Ford which was published in 1917. xi + 281 pp.

These charming sketches of the desert and semi-desert country comprising the Owens Valley and the approaches to the great sink of Death Valley have become practically a classic (Zamorano Eighty)

The Compiled Laws of Nevada. Carson City, Nevada: State Printing, 1900. 10.25 inches, quarto. Full contemporary legal leather, red and black lettering pieces to spine. 1075 pp.

One of the foundational codifications of Nevada statutory law.

The Comstock Club. Salt Lake City, Utah: Tribune Job Printing Company, 1891. 9 inches, octavo. Blue cloth, gilt titles to front board and spine, black Greek-key border to boards. Patterned endpapers. 312 pp. (of 314 pp.).

A fictional account of miners on the Comstock Lode, drawn from Goodwin's years as editor of the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.

Paher 711

San Francisco: 1855-1862. 7 inches, duodecimo. Full period black straight-grain leather, gilt six-pointed star to front cover within gilt-ruled border; gilt-ruled border to rear cover. Spine in five compartments, gilt tent motif, gilt title and dates, gilt rules. Speckled edges. 372pp. continuously paginated, plus a 30-page digest at rear. Most sessions illustrated with the Grand Encampment seal; one additional in-text illustration. Officer/membership tables present in most years. Volume title page at front.

Documents the founding decade of Patriarchal Odd Fellowship in California

Utah Territory Supreme Court Reports. San Francisco and Chicago: A.L. Bancroft & Company and Callaghan and Company, 1877, 1881. 9¼ inches, octavo. Full contemporary legal leather, gilt-lettered red and black morocco spine labels. Vol. I: 417pp. Vol. II: 657pp.

The foundational published case law of the Utah Territorial Supreme Court

OCLC 83750479

New Mexico. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Bureau of Immigration / New Mexican Printing Company, 1894. 9¼ inches, octavo. Original pictorial stiff paper wrappers, printed in black with illustrated vignette to front cover. 344pp. Illustrated profusely from photographs, including frontispiece, some plates sepia tinted, with woodcuts in text. Includes folding map of New Mexico at rear.

Excellent primary information on early inhabitants, towns, railroads, and economic endeavors.

Life Among The Piutes. Boston: Printed for the Author; for sale by Cupples, Upham & Co., 1883. 7½ inches, duodecimo. Publisher's green cloth, black-stamped greek-key border to boards, gilt title to spine. 268 pp.

The first autobiography published in English by a Native American woman, and the first instance of a Native American woman securing U.S. copyright registration.

Graff 1950 · Paher 888 · Rader 1927 · Smith 1766

Ten Years in Nevada. Buffalo: Baker, Jones & Co., 1880. 9 1/4 inches, octavo. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, gilt floral medallion to upper board, decorative blind-stamped border to boards. Marbled edges. 343 pp. Frontispiece portrait and two additional portraits.

Firsthand memoir of a woman's decade in post-Civil War Virginia City, offering candid observations of Nevada mining society, and daily life on the Pacific Coast.

Howes I M-417 · Paher 1249