Herbert Priestly (12 results)

Soft Cover. Very Good. Soft Cover. in Publications of the Academy of Pacific Coast History, Vol. 3, No. 2. Frontis facsimile plate of Fages' diary. Covers show moderate wear and soiling, edge wear, 1" closed tear at front bottom center edge, mild loss to front bottom right corner. Some pages remain uncut. Loss to upper right corner of a few pages; otherwise interior is clean, crisp, tight & bright, unmarked. 101 pp. Approx. 6.5" x 9.75". Carefully shipped in secure parcel. Ask all questions; glad to respond.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. LIMITED EDITION. Thin 4to. LIMITED EDITION, one of 650 copies. Some bowing to boards. Mild horizontal crease to fore-margin of front 3 blanks. A little darkening to edges of leaves. Toning to margins of d.j., light edgewear. Bright copy. VG/VG.

215 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth. First edition. Ex-library copy with blind-embossed circular stamp on title page and last leaf of text; pocket removed from rear pastedown, and call number sticker removed from base of spine. Tight and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book has a slightly shaken spine with light wear to the edges and corners. The title page has a large jagged tears that looks like it was repaired at some point by a previous owner. Aside from the items listed, this is a very good copy that remains well-bound with bright pages that are crisp and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 24.5 x 16 cm, 293-372 pp., large folding map attached to first page, indexpages 366-372 loose, original gray printed wrappers separated from text block but very good, mostly uncut.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 409 pp., index, photographs, illustrations, facsimile documents, pictorial end papers. Not x-library! A fine, tight unblemished, unmarked copy in a bright near fine dust jacket. This first volume, which opens the twelve volume series, traces Spanish, French, and Dutch beginnings in North America. Interesting historical reading. COLLECTOR QUALITY.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. SOFT COVER IN VERY GOOD CONDITION,WITTEN FOR THE VICEROY IN 1775.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 124.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. 29.5 x 20 cm., ix, 48 pp., printed on hand made rag paper, printed black and white decorations, First in this form. A unique copy of the first 1842 copy is in the Bancroft Library Cowan p.51, Howes B433 Original deed for the sale of Bidwell's estate bound into front hinge, decorated by Lawrence Haste, book plate of Ernest P. Hockenbeamer [Howes B 433]: "First published narrative of an overland trip to California made with the purpose of settling. Only known copy of the original edition has no title page and may have been so issued. Though Bidwell dates his journal 1842, it may not have been printed until 1843 or 1844.".

VG/none. First edition. X-lib from Univ of Wyoming. One of 500 numbered copies printed. This is number 445. A study of Spanish imperial strategy. 215 pp.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. Benito, Eduardo Garcia (cover); Libiszewski, Herbert Berthold (Libis); Beaton, Cecil; Altman (illustrator). First Edition. Gorgeous iconic Benito cover art depicts Aphrodite rising from the sea. The 76 pages include provide a broad sampling of content on beauty, fashion, society, and variety, plus the usual profusion of wonderful ads. Pages 36-37 contain a wonderful color illustration by Libis of four black housemaids happily hanging a yard full of fashionable laundry to dry in the sunny breeze. Above-average wear. Front cover is missing numerous peripheral chips and is loose but present. Back cover almost loose. Bottom corner of pages 19/20 (6" x 4") removed. A marvelous, albeit well-travelled, vintage issue.

PRIESTLEY, Herbert Ingram. Jose de Galvez, Visitor-General of New Spain (1765-1771). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1916. 1st ed. xiv, 449 pp. Portrait frontis., illus, maps, folding map. Orig. cloth. Minor wear to spine ends, else a very good or better copy. Biography of the Spanish lawyer and colonial official.