VIEWS OF COLUMBIA RIVER, PUGET SOUND AND ALASKA
Columbus, OH: Ward Brothers, n.d. [@1890]. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorative green cloth, bound accordion style, 5" x 6". Illustrated with 46 views on 14 pages.
Western Americana
VOX CLAMANTIS IN DESERTO
Santa Fe: Rydal Press, 1989. First Edition. Wraps. One of 250 copies, this unnumbered. Unopened and never bound, present here in loose signatures, one of apparently only 5 copies thus. Posthumously published musings by the Thoreau of the American West. The introduction to this personal selection of journal entries was.....
THE RAMPAGING HERD. A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Men and Events in the Cattle Industry
Cleveland: John T. Zubal, Inc., (1982). Reprint. Hardcover. Green cloth; xix, 463 pages including index. Reprint of the 1959 First Edtion. An indispensable bibliography on the American cowboy.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARIZONA
(Mansfield Centre): (M. Martino), [1999]. Reprint. Octavo. 432 pages. This is an expanded edition of the bibliography of Arizona books compiled in 1900 by J.A. Monk and revised in 1908. It is a complete record to date of the Munk Library of Arizoniana, the pioneer collection of literature dealing with.....
CATALOGUE OF EARLY BOOKS ON MUSIC (Before 1800) Supplement (Books Acquired by the Library 1913-1942) With a List of Books on Music in Chinese and Japanese
Washington DC: (United States Government Printing Office), 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth; iv, 143 pages. Includes the catalogue, index to authors of works issued anonymously, books on East Asiatic music (Chinese and Japanese), and a list of books from the Dayton C. Miller Collection.
ACROSS THE CONTINENT: A SUMMER'S JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, THE MORMONS, AND THE PACIFIC STATES WITH SPEAKER COLFAX
Springfield, MA & New York: Samuel Bowles & Company/Hurd & Houghton, 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Original brown cloth; [2], xx, 452, [2], 6 pages. Illustrated with a large, folding hand-colored map of the Western states and territories. Travels through the Sierras, Yosemite, and much more. GRAFF 370; WAGNER-CAMP 410.
PICTURESQUE LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. ILLUSTRATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE
Chicago: American Photogravure Co., 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (9-3/4" x 12") in broken publisher's gilt-decorated leather-backed cloth; 16 pages of text and 65 full-page photogravure plates with tissue guards. From the unidentified author's preface: "To fully illustrate the many beautiful spots to be found in Los Angeles County .......
THE LAST OF THE GREAT SCOUTS: THE LIFE STORY OF COL. WILLIAM F. CODY ("BUFFALO BILL")
Chicago & Duluth: The Duluth Press Publishing Company, (1899). First Edition. Hardcover. Original maroon cloth with a buffalo head embossed in blind on the front cover; (xiv), 296 pages. Illustrated with plates after sketches and photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the subject on the half-title page: "With the Compliments/of the.....
TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST. A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF LIFE AT SEA
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. First Issue with all the points: dotted "i" in copyright notice, perfect running head at page 9, "CVI" on back-strip, and list on rear cover ending with 105; in the First State of the B binding of tan muslin. This copy.....
CUSTER DIED FOR YOUR SINS. An Indian Manifesto
(Toronto)/London: The Macmillan Company/Collier-Macmillan, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, a depiction of the historical and modern struggles of Native Americans and an examination of the stereotypes and half-truths persistent through the decades. A classic of modern Native American Literature.
THE IRIS: AN ILLUMINATED SOUVENIR FOR MDCCCLII (1852)
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. Seth Eastman. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in the original full embossed burgundy morocco leather with a gilt decorative figure in the center of both covers. Neatly rebacked at a recent date with a new leather spine. Most notable for the.....
THE AMERICAN ANNUAL: ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, [1854]. Seth Eastman. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in the publisher's gilt-decorated gray cloth, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 21 fine steel-engraved plates, mainly of the Sioux and the Pueblo, after Seth Eastman, the author's husband and one of the finest artists of.....
YOSEMITE, THE BIG TREES, AND THE HIGH SIERRA
(Mansfield Centre): (M. Martino), [2000]. Reprint. Reprint of the 1948 edition. Cloth; xii, 104 pages. Farquhar has assembled the most complete private library on the mountain regions of the Far West. From this collection he has selected 25 titles of major importance, either in their value as source material or.....
THIS IS NEW MEXICO
Santa Fe: Rydal Press, (1948). Wilfred Stedman. First Edition. Hardcover. Second printing. With articles by Dobie, Vestal, and others. Illustrated by Wilfred Stedman.
LIFE OF COL. FREMONT
New York: Greeley and M'Elrath, 1856. First Edition. Pamphlet. Pamphlet in self wraps; 32 pages. Illustrated with a portrait of Fremont taking more than the first half of the front page and two full-page engravings. A short life of Fremont from his early childhood to his presidential nomination in 1856.....
THE HISTORY OF OREGON AND CALIFORNIA, AND THE OTHER TERRITORIES ON THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA...
Boston: Little & Brown, 1845. Second Edition. Blue wraps. Blue wraps, complete with half-title page; [20] 492 pages. Graff 1652; Howes G-389; New Howes G-386 "b": "Leading contemporary authority, well documented"; Sabin 28362. The important edition with Greenhow's answer to Falconer's Strictures. The large (22-3/4" x 25-1/2" plus margins) folding.....
KLONDIKE. THE CHICAGO RECORD'S BOOK FOR GOLD SEEKERS
Boston: Desmond Publishing Company, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo in publisher's decorated cloth; 555, [5] pages. A detailed guide for gold seekers in the Yukon describing how to get there and what to do once you are there. Profusely illustrated.
REPORT UPON THE COLORADO RIVER OF THE WEST, EXPLORED IN 1857 AND 1858...
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (8-3/4" x 11-3/4") in original gilt-decorated cloth, rebacked with the original spine and a new spine label; 131, 154, 30, 32 pages. Illustrated with 12 (of 14) views, 8 color plates, 8 folding panoramas, 3 paleontology plates, 2 large folding.....
THE JOURNALS OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTS. LEWIS AND CLARK TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN THE RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, PERFORMED DURING THE YEARS 1804-5-6 BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Carl Bodmer. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. Edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good historical introduction by John Bakeless. Illustrated.....
THE JOURNALS OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTS. LEWIS AND CLARK TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN THE RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, PERFORMED DURING THE YEARS 1804-5-6 BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Carl Bodmer. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. This is copy #1175 of 1500 edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good.....
THE JOURNALS OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTS. LEWIS AND CLARK TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN THE RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, PERFORMED DURING THE YEARS 1804-5-6 BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Carl Bodmer. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. This is copy #887 of 1500 edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good.....
THE JOURNALS OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTS. LEWIS AND CLARK TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN THE RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, PERFORMED DURING THE YEARS 1804-5-6 BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Carl Bodmer. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. This is copy #333 of 1500 edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good.....
THE JOURNALS OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTS. LEWIS AND CLARK TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN THE RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, PERFORMED DURING THE YEARS 1804-5-6 BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Carl Bodmer. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. Edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good historical introduction by John Bakeless. Illustrated.....
THE JOURNALS OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTS. LEWIS AND CLARK TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN THE RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, PERFORMED DURING THE YEARS 1804-5-6 BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Carl Bodmer. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. This is copy #457 of 1500 edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good.....
THE JOURNALS OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTS. LEWIS AND CLARK TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN THE RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, PERFORMED DURING THE YEARS 1804-5-6 BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Carl Bodmer. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. Edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good historical introduction by John Bakeless. Illustrated.....