PETER POND: FUR TRADER & EXPLORER.
New Haven. Yale Univ. Library, 1955. One of 550 copies. First edition. 12mo.103pp. Near fine in original glassine. Slipcase and facsimile map. More
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THE PLAINS & THE ROCKIES: A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EXPLORATION, ADVENTURE, AND TRAVEL IN THE AMERICAN WEST, 1800-1865.; Revised, enlarged, and edited by Robert H. Becker.
San Francisco: John Howell -- Books, 1982. Thick 4to. 745 pp. Illustrated with title page reproductions. Rust cloth, gilt title on spine. Fine. Fourth edition. The standard bibliography for travel in the American West and especially valuable for its descriptions of all the publications relating to the Lewis & Clark expedition. More
Speech of Mr. Walker, of Mississippi: Delivered in the United States Senate, May 20 and 21, in Secret Session on the Treaty for the Reannexation of Texas (The injunction of secrecy removed).
Washington, (DC): Printed at the Globe Office, 1844. First edition. 8vo. 20 pp. [printed double-column]. Passionate voice for annexation and the expansion of slavery. Disbound pamphlet. More
TACOMA: GATEWAY TO RANIER NATIONAL PARK AND CAMP LEWIS, AMERICA'S GREATEST PERMANENT ARMY CANTONMENT [caption title].
Tacoma, WA: Tacoma Commercial Club and Chamber of Commerce, (1919). Oblong double-folio sheet folded to narrow 8vo. Recto in six panels of promotional information about the city above a panorama (4 x 30 inches) of the Tacoma skyline "showing part of wholesale and retail district from the waterfront"; verso prints... More
SPEECH OF HON. RICHARD H. WEIGHTMAN, OF NEW MEXICO, DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MARCH 15, 1852, VINDICATORY OF THE COURSE OF GOVERNOR JAMES S. CALHOUN, OF NEW MEXICO, AND OF THE CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE OF THAT COUNTRY; AND IN ILLUSTRATION THEREOF AND INCIDENTAL THERETO; EXPOSING THE CHARACTER OF THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT, WHICH HARASSED, OPPRESSED, AND PLUNDERED THE PEOPLE OF NEW MEXICO, AND THE MACHINATIONS OF THE AMERICAN AND FOREIGN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY TO STIR UP THE NEW MEXICANS, BY FALSE REPRESENTATIONS AND PROMISES, TO TREASON AND REBELLION AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES...
Washington, (DC): Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1852. 8vo. 29 pp. [printed double-column]. Disbound pamphlet; trimmed close at the fore-edge, taking a letter or two in most lines. First edition. Howes W-223. Eberstadt 134, 482: "Weightman's tract, containing some 25,000 words, presents his interpretation of all Southwestern troubles of... More
INDEX OF GENERAL COURT-MARTIAL ORDERS. [ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, 1873.]
[Adjutant General’s Office, 1873]. 12mo. [each case individually paginated]. A record of 62 court-martial orders for the year 1873, with a 2 pp. index, and brief synopses of the cases. Brevet Lt-Col. George Henry Weeks' copy, as Assistant Quartermaster, U.S. Army; Weeks (1834-1905), a West Point graduate, served in the... More
Padre Junipero Serra and the Mission Church of San Carlos del Carmelo
San Francisco: P.E. Dougherty & Co., steam printers, 1884. First edition. 12mo. 32 pp. Howes W-366. Rocq 5609. Original tan wrappers (a little discolored), stapled. Very good. More
W.R. WILLIAMS' NEW INSTRUCTION BOOK, GIVING FULL AND COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING THE PERFECTION TAILOR SYSTEM OF DRESS CUTTING.; Consisting of perfection tailor body system, perfection tailor sleeve rule, and perfection tailor skirt rule.
Lawrence, Kansas: W.R. Williams, Proprietor and Manufacturer [Lawrence, Kan.: Journal Print], 1888. Revised edition (first published 1879). 8vo. 32 pp. Illustrated with one plate and 11 diagrams; illustration of the "Perfection Tailor System of Dress Cutting" on the front wrapper, advertisement for tracing wheels, tape measures, etc., on the rear... More
EVENTS IN INDIAN HISTORY, BEGINNING WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS, AND EARLY SETTLEMENTS IN NORTH AMERICA, AND EMBRACING CONCISE BIOGRAPHIES OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEFS AND HEAD-SACHEMS OF THE DIFFERENT INDIAN TRIBES, WITH NARRATIVES AND CAPTIVITIES ... ALSO AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE STATISTICS OF THE POPULATION OF THE U. STATES, AND AN INDIAN VOCABULARY.
Philadelphia , PA: G. Hills & Co. 1842. Second edition (originally published Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1841). 8vo. 633 pp. 8 folding plates (several repaired on verso). Rebound in green cloth, leather spine label; foxed, but a very good copy. More
CATALOGUE: FIFTEENTH ANNUAL SALE, SCOTCH SHORT-HORN CATTLE FROM ANOKA HERD.
Waukesha, WI: Anoka Farms, 1916. Oblong 4to. (2), (45) pp. Illustrated. Original printed grey wrappers (a little faded), stapled. A very good copy. Auction catalogue with 45 full-page illustrated descriptions of the individual animals to be sold. Scarce; not on OCLC. More
THROUGH PICTURESQUE WISCONSIN [cover title].
(Chicago: Printed by Poole Bros. for the Chicago and North-Western Railway, c1900). Oblong 4to folded to narrow 8vo. 20 pp. Illustrated, maps on verso of front and rear wrappers. Original color illustrated grey wrappers, stapled. Very good. Promotional for the North-Western line from Chicago, through Wisconsin, to Minneapolis or Duluth... More
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA: CITY AND COUNTY.
(San Diego, CA: Press of Frye, Garrett & Smith for the San Diego Board of Supervisors), nd (1905). Second edition. Oblong 8vo. 11 pp. 20 plates of views, most with multiple images, map. A promotional (first issued in 1904). Uncommon; OCLC: Canadian Centre for Architecture, Columbia, San Diego, Smithsonian, State... More
Rand McNally & Co.'s Indexed County and Township Pocket Map and Shippers' Guide of Wyoming, Accompanied by a New and Original Compilation and Ready Reference Index; Showing in Detail the Entire Railroad System … and Accurately Locating All Cities, Towns, Post Offices, Railroad Stations, Villages, Counties, Islands, Lakes, Rivers, etc. Population according to the latest official census.
Chicago & NY: Rand, McNally, (c1914). 12mo. 19, (3) pp. Large folding map, in color: The Rand-McNally New Commercial Atlas Map of Wyoming. OCLC locates several editions of this map and accompaniment, starting in 1885 and including one copy of this 1914 issue (New York Public). Original printed tan wrappers... More
PROFESSOR GEORGE DAVIDSON: A SKETCH OF OUR MOST PROMINENT PACIFIC COAST SCIENTIST [caption title].
(San Francisco, CA): 1885. First separate edition, an offprint from "Mining and Scientific Press." 12mo. 14 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Davidson (1825-1911) who worked with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey for 40 years, most of that time on the Pacific Coast, 1850-1855 and 1867-1885. Cover title: "Brief Sketch of... More
CHARLES M. RUSSELL, THE COWBOY ARTIST: A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pasadena, CA: Trail's End Publishing Co. (c1948). 8vo. 218, (1) pp. Illustrated, plates, title page facsimiles. Burgundy cloth, gilt spine title. Very good copy. First edition, 1/500 copies. Descriptive bibliography of books illustrated by Russell. More
HORSE, FOOT, AND DRAGOONS SKETCHES OF ARMY LIFE AT HOME AND ABROAD.; Illustrated by author
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. 8vo.176pp. With frontispiece on Indian paper proof. Illus. Original blue gilt pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. “Zogbaum was willing to get off the beaten track and undergo rigors of life on the trail... as a result secured material of more than of ordinary interest”... More