Smithers Adelaide (9 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. (1936), 260pp, illus., corners bumped, some wear to cover, a few pgs w/ turned corners, a few margin notes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; Seventh Printing. Binding sound and tight with slight tilt. Spine has some darkening. Some foxing to endpapers. Pages clean and unmarked. No DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 233 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. No DJ. Ex Vallejo Public Library non-circulating book. Usual library markings. Light library wear. Illustrated with pull out maps. One of 750 copies. From the preface: The 3 documents presented in this book are evidences of historic change from military to civil law. They relate to California as, at first, an Indian land to be brought within the grasp of Spain, then a Territory of the Republic of Mexico -and, later still, an American state.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. xi, 2fl, 80 pp., illustrated with frontispiece, 3 facsimile text reproductions, 2 folding maps; octavo, original red cloth. The documents translated here are: "Rules and Regulations for the Presidios on the Frontier Line of New Spain, Ordered by King Carlos III in a Decree of September 10, 1772"; "Speech of Carlos Antonio Carrillo in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, Requesting Adequate Courts for the Administration of Justice in Alta California, 1831"; "Decree of President Santa Anna of Mexico, May 22, 1834, Establishing Circuit Tribunals and District Courts.".…

Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Very good. Minor wear on spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Rare copy of this 1925 Spanish grammar book. Army green buckram cover with black stamped titling on cover and spine. Spine is somewhat faded, but title is still readable. Two brown little spots on front end papers that depict Radical Changing Verbs. Interior is clean and devoid of writing. (PM) "S"eymour.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition, one of 750 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. Front colophon on copyright page: "750 copies, designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy." Original publisher' red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Offset illustration of Lady Justice on front cover. 7 1/4" x 10 1/2." Eighty pages, complete. Four illustrations in black-and-white and color (mostly in black-and-white), complete. Two black-and-white maps (one of which is a folding map) in the back, complete. Illustrations and maps named under List of Illustrations. Some leaves unopened. Pages and covers are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Sharp, unbumped corners. Pages lightly age-toned. A Fine copy. A collection of three reprinted historical documents, translated into English from the Spanish, relating to the establishment of law in early California when it was controlled by Spain and Mexico. The following are the three documents: "Rules and Regulations for the Presidios on the Frontier Line of New Spain, Ordered by King Carlos III in a Decree of September 10, 1772," "Speech of Carlos Antonio Carrillo in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, Requesting Adequate Courts for the Administration of Justice in Alta California, 1831," and "Decree of President Santa Anna of Mexico, May 22, 1834 Establishing Circuit Tribunals and District Courts." Two Appendices in the back comprise "Select Articles of a Decree of the Spanish Cortes, of October 9, 1812, concerning the Constitutional Magistrates of the Towns" and "Articles of the Mexican Law of May 20, 1826, concerning Circuit Courts and District Judges." Translated from the Spanish by Adelaide Smithers. Edited by John Galvin.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Translated from the original Spanish, this volume presents 3 key documents in the history of jurisprudence in California through three eras: as Indian land conquered by Spain (1772), as a Mexican territory (1831), & as an American state (1834). In 80 pages (some uncut), with a pristine, never opened, 5-section foldout map from 1771 (recreated in 1952) bound in rear. Limited to 750 copies, this is a FIRST EDITION from 1963. Hardcover book has salmon cloth-covered boards lettered in bright gilt to spine, blind-stamped statue of Justice to front. Clear, thick acetate cover serves as DJ. Condition is Fine: exceptionally clean & bright & unmarked save for very faint spot to title page & following dedication page, mild toning to endpapers. Corners crisp. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Pacific time (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.…

Translated ed. Hardback large quarto, two dustjackets (one paper, one clear plastic), very good condition (in good dustjacket), blue cloth boards, gilt title cloth cover & jacket, frontispiece, maps, colour illustrations, fore-edge pages untrimmed (roughly cut), edges paper jacket chipped (spine & title faded, closed tears), top corners plastic jacket few small tears. Heavy (1.1 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 130 pp. Father Santa Maria's journal of 1775, a record of a participant in the first Spanish voyage of exploration into San Francisco Bay, has only recently been located. It contains four contemporary maps and six illustrations in full colour from the brush and pencil of Louis Choris who was at San Francisco in 1816. There is a glossary, references and an index at the rear of the book. (Parallel text in Spanish and English. Limited edition, 5000 copies.). …