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[CALIFORNIA - MINING] [STECH, Baron Ferdinand]

[Original Autograph Letter to an Agent of a Potential Buyer for a Mining Property in California, Urging Him to Make up His Mind and Complete the Negotiations Because the Repairs of Machinery Need to Be Done and the Mine Needs to be Pumped before the Winter Rains].

San Francisco: California: 21 September 1872.

Price: $950.00

[CALIFORNIA - SACRAMENTO] ALLISON, William P.

[Original Autograph Letter Written by a Young Gold Miner in Sacramento City, Telling the Latest News from the Gold Mines and Mentioning the Latest Cholera Epidemic in the City].

Sacramento City: 14 September 1852.

Price: $950.00

[CALIFORNIA] BUNZO, MAEKAWA AND SAKAI, JUNZO]

海外異聞 [Kaigai Ibun - Ichi Mei Amerika Shinwa: A Strange Tale from Overseas, or a New Account of America]

Tokyo: Seifuen Juō, Kaei kōin, [1854].

Price: $6,500.00

[CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO BAY – EARLY YACHTING] [OGDEN, Richard Livingston] (1822-1900), Commodore

[A Manuscript Journal, Describing Voyages of the Pleasure Yachts “Restless” and “Peerless” in the San Francisco Bay in the 1860s and 1870s, Illustrated with an Ink Drawing Showing Ogden Hunting from the board of “Restless,” and Several Contemporary Newspaper Clippings about “Restless” and “Peerless;” The Journal is Titled:] A Concise and Condensed History of the Goings & Comings & Voyages of the Sloop Yacht "Restless" by a reliable not contraband but highly respectable gentleman slightly tinctured with a fondness for salt water, a piscatorial weakness and the pursuit of ducks under difficulties. The schooner “Peerless” appears upon the surface of events and the water…

Ca. 1870s.

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[CALIFORNIA – EL CAMINO REAL & AUTOMOBILES]

[Album with 133 Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken During an Automobile Trip in Southern California in the 1910s, Titled:] Along the El Camino Real

Ca. 1910s.

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[CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, UTAH & COLORADO - RAILWAYS]

[Album of Sixty-Seven Gelatin Silver Photographs of a Railroad Trip through California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado, Showing Monterey, San Francisco, Auburn, Ogden, Salt Lake City, Engines and Trains, a “Railroad Camp,” a Train Wreck, a Female “Fellow Passenger,” etc.]

ca. 1900.

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[RUSSIAN AMERICAN COMPANY IN ALASKA, CALIFORNIA & HAWAII]

Materyaly dlya Istorii Russkikh Zaseleniy po Beregam Vostochnogo Okeana: Prilozheniye k Morskomu Sborniku: Vyp. 1-4 [Materials for the History of Russian Settlements on the Shores of the Eastern Ocean/ Supplements to Morskoy Sbornik. Parts 1-4]

Saint Petersburg: Naval Typ. 1861.

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[RUSSIAN AMERICAN COMPANY – ALASKA & CALIFORNIA] ZAVALISHIN, Dmitry Irinarkhovich (1804-1893)

Rossiisko-Amerikanskaya Kompaniya [The Russian American Company]

Moscow: University Typ. 1865.

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