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Rare Books
Rare Books
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
First alternate title at head of map; second alternate title from cover. Includes a claim to South Victoria based on 1841 Ross Expedition. Lots of detail on potential emigration to various sites including California and Texas. Submaps: Mountain and Rivers of the World. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: Evans, Henry Smith 98463.
98463
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Manuscripts
This manuscript is a collection of documents and transcriptions of receipts of proceeds from taxes and duties on imports and exports, collected by the Spanish government, in New Spain (Mexico), from 1560 to 1570. Someone named "de Cardenas," who is the "fiscal de Su majestad" (loosely translated as lawyer for the crown) is mentioned on the cover. The cover is loose. The manuscript has paper repairs and insect damage with some loss of text.
mssHM 83977
Visual Materials
"20M-854 Printed in U.S.A."--printer's note, back cover, bottom, small type. "Pomona travel agency... Pomona, California" ; "DEC 11 1954"--stamped, blue ink, back cover. Advertisement of passenger cruises on cargo-passenger ships from the East Coast of the U.S.A. to Hawaii; including itineraries, fares, general information, list of destinations, and agent contacts.
ephJHK 00598
Visual Materials
Image of a map centered on the continents of North and South America showing the Great Rock Island railroad route of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and related steamship lines to Europe and Asia, with a second map, above, of the railroad route from San Francisco, California, to Chicago, Illinois, and mileage statistics printed in right margin; map verso contains panels with fold-up map covers, promotional descriptions and timetables of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, with a vignette of a railroad bridge over the Mississippi River connecting Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa, and a vignette of the exterior of the Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago.
priJLC_TRAN_001187
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Visual Materials
Kashnor notes, "Shows the routes up the North-West coast of California, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska. Issued soon after Alaska was ceded to the United States." Also shows the route of the Investigator, first transit of the Northwest Passage. FRAGILE, open carefully. Kashnor dates as ca. 1869. Submaps: Central Europe; Southeastern Australia; Eastern Canada; Panama; Delta of the Nile; Cape Colony or Natal; Indian Empire. Sales sticker (lower center) Edward Stanford, 26 & 27, Cockspur St. Charing Cross, S.W. Wholesale and Retail Mapseller. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Lithography.
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