A Tribute to Wright Howes on the 50Th Anniversary of U.S.Iana Part II

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A Tribute to Wright Howes on the 50th Anniversary of U.S.iana Part II

William Reese Company 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 789-8081 A Note This catalogue is the second of a two-part tribute to the great Americana bookseller and bibliographer, Wright Howes, and his bibliography, U.S.iana, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of the definitive second edition in 1962. Our preceding catalogue focused on rare material included by Howes in U.S.iana that is currently in our inventory. The present catalogue explores the odder, darker, corners of Howes’ work, what might be called “the old, weird America.” North American history from the colonial era to the 20th century is included, from obscure works by scoundrels and rogues to local history and works on exploration and the frontier experience. This catalogue also includes several entries that display Howes’ biting humor and frank, occasionally brutal assessments. Read, for example, his takedowns of William Drannan and Bampfylde Carew, and of the Puritans in his quote on George Bishop’s New-England Judged, by the Spirit of the Lord. Coming through it all is Wright Howes’ extraordinary range, knowledge, and sensibility, all of which contribute to make U.S.iana the essential reference that it is.

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Front cover: Wright Howes at the time of the publication of U.S.iana.

Rear cover: Howes’ “little black books,” in which he compiled bibliographical data in the field. Introduction

William S. Reese

This catalogue is the second part of our tribute to the great Americana bookseller and bibliographer, Wright Howes, and his U.S.iana, as it reaches the 50th anniversary of its definitive second edition, published in 1962. Probably no reference work has had a greater impact on the marketplace in printed works related to what is now the United States. It immediately became indispensable for its collations, notes on maps and plates, and lists of editions of “11,620 uncommon and significant books relating to the continental portion of the United States,” to quote the latter part of the title. It sought to answer the first question any bookseller or collector must ask: “Is it complete?” Rare book cataloging in libraries has only selectively caught up since, and in the age of the Internet, Howes often remains the reference of last resort. Wright Howes (1882-1976) was a rare book dealer specializing in Americana for most of his long life. Born in Savannah, and with a law degree from Columbia, Howes became a bookseller in 1908, with time out to serve in the Army in World War I. From 1912 he was based in Chicago, and after 1924 he worked from there under his own name until the 1960s. During that time he acted as the primary agent for the great collector, Everett Graff, and it was Graff ’s patronage of Howes and Chicago’s Newberry Library that allowed U.S.iana to be compiled during Howes’ quasi-retirement, between 1952 and 1962. My friend John Blew, a Chicago collector and fellow Howes fan, has done an excellent job researching Howes’ career (see his article in The Caxtonian, Vol. XX, no. 4, April 2012, and in a forthcoming book). U.S.iana grew organically out of Wright Howes’ experience as one of the leading dealers in “Americana” during the 20th century. I put “Americana” in quotes because it was a word he sought to avoid, recognizing that what most people meant by that was “material relating to the history of the European colonies in North America from the mid-17th century and then the United States.” This was too awkward, and his attempt to replace the concept with “U.S.iana” was no more successful, if more accurate. It was what he dealt in. At some early point in his career, perhaps just after World War I, Howes began to keep notes on the details of books in pocket notebooks – little black books – which he always carried with him. The late Jeff Dykes, who knew Howes well from the mid-1930s, recalled him as never without these notebooks, in which he jotted titles, collations, and other details. I have a number of these in my personal collection, and they represent the ur-text of U.S.iana (they are illustrated on the rear cover of this catalogue). Graff ’s support allowed Howes to do the library research to expand U.S.iana into its first published edition, in 1954, and the vastly improved second edition, in 1962. U.S.iana is a gateway to the full sweep of the printed history of the North Ameri- can colonies and the United States, put into a single compact volume. Fifty years on, it still instructs, amuses, and occasionally frustrates its devotees. This catalogue describes some of its riches. Wright Howes as a young man Abolitionist Petitions Submitted to the First Congress

1. [Abolition]: MEMORIALS PRESENTED TO THE CONGRESS... BY THE DIFFERENT SOCIETIES INSTITUTED FOR PRO- MOTING THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, &c. &c. IN THE STATES OF RHODE-ISLAND, CONNECTICUT, NEW-YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, MARYLAND, AND VIRGINIA. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Bailey, 1792. [4],31pp. Contemporary plain blue wrappers. Wrappers detached, stitching removed, and gatherings loose. Early ink signature on titlepage. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth box.

A series of abolitionist addresses, “presented and read in the House of Representa- tives of the United States, on the eighth day of December, 1791, when they were referred to a select committee” (preface). Each speech was delivered by an officer of the major abolitionist society of each state listed in the title. A remarkable document, demonstrating the strength of anti-slavery feeling at the beginning of the Federal period. EVANS 24536. HOWES M512. SABIN 47745. $3750.

“The non-fiction prose masterpiece of the nineteenth century in America” – Garry Wills

2. Adams, Henry: HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMER- ICA DURING THE FIRST ADMINISTRATION OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. [with:] ...DURING THE SECOND ADMINISTRA- TION OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. [with:] ...DURING THE FIRST ADMINISTRATION OF JAMES MADISON. [with:] ...DURING THE SECOND ADMINISTRATION OF JAMES MADISON. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1889-1893. Nine volumes. Half title in each volume. Original green cloth, spines gilt. Cloth shelfworn and lightly rubbed. Hinges of final three volumes mended. Tideline in lower margin of fifth, seventh, and ninth volumes, else quite clean and fresh internally. Very good overall.

A mixed set, comprising first and second editions, of a true masterpiece of American historical writing, a work that gave form and shape to an era and whose themes influence the way we understand the administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to this day. Adams’ overarching theme is the unification – through policy, economy, and war – of a country that in 1800 was disunited. He melds a scientific approach to history involving copious and thorough documentation with a graceful and compelling literary style. Garry Wills, who has devoted a recent book to an examination of Adams’ History..., calls it “the non-fiction prose masterpiece of the nineteenth century in America.” Adams worked for ten years on the research and writing of his History of the United States.... He wrote that with it he hoped “to exhaust all that I have to say in this world...to compress this into three volumes [the original planned length of the work] and to expunge every unnecessary syllable, will be my great labor for several years. To make it readable is the great hope of my life” (quoted in the Library of America edition of the administration of Jefferson, p.1300). Adams worked with Scribner’s in all aspects of the book’s production and design, including the binding, thickness of paper, page design, typography, reproduction of maps and plans, indexing, chapter titles, and running headlines. The complete set of nine volumes was published in an edition of 1500 copies in 1889 to 1891. A volume of Historical Essays was also published by Scribner’s in 1891, bound uniformly with the History... and sometimes found with it, but it is not a part of the work proper and is not included here. Significantly, Adams continued to make revisions to his text, which were incorporated into later editions. The present set contains the first edition of the first volume; second edition of the second through sixth volumes; and the first edition of the seventh, eighth, and ninth volumes. “The most skillfully organized and most brilliantly presented interpretation of any period of our history yet attempted” – Howes. “The most valuable history of this important period, remarkable alike for its research, its penetrating analysis of character and political tendencies, and for the flood of light it throws upon every phase of the foreign relations of the country” – Larned. “A work that pioneers the new history coming into existence at the time. It offers archival research on an unprecedented scale in America, and combines it with social and intellectual history, diplomatic and military and economic history. This wealth of material is deployed with wit and a sense of adventure” – Wills. “In the best pages of the History... there is an almost mathematical sense of precision; an almost mechanistic sense of cause and effect and resultant motion; above all, an evolutionistic sense, not so much of progress (although this element is present) as of progression....No American historian, and few, if any European, has surpassed Adams’ portrayal of the labyrinthian unfolding of human thought and the subtle interaction of one mind upon another” – Jordy. “The knowledge and ideas, the skill and imagination which made the historian an artist can best be seen in [this] masterwork” – Levenson. A monumentally important work of American history. HOWES A53, “aa.” BAL 19, 20, 21, 22. LARNED 1580. Garry Wills, Henry Adams and the Making of America (Boston & New York, 2005). William Jordy, Henry Adams: Scientific Historian (New Haven, 1952), pp.56, 63-64. J.C. Levenson, The Mind and Art of Henry Adams (Stanford, 1957), p.116. $1750.

3. Alden, Timothy: A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS WITH OCCASIONAL NOTES. New York. 1814. Five volumes. Original printed boards. Front cover of the fifth volume lacking; front hinge tender on other four volumes. Spine on third volume heavily chipped. Contemporary inscription on front pastedowns. Light scattered foxing. Good.

“The only extensive collection on the subject, and now scarce” – Sabin. It was Alden’s habit to transcribe epitaphs of “worthies” found in grave yards of towns he visited during his travels in the South, Northeast, and Midwest. Here he cites the epitaphs and offers any information he was able to compile about the subjects. HOWES A107. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 30648. SABIN 705. $325.

Handsome Plates of Revolutionary America

4. [Anburey, Thomas]: TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF AMERICA. IN A SERIES OF LETTERS. By an Of- ficer. London. 1789. Two volumes. [2],vii,[21],467; [2],558pp. plus eight plates (six folding) including two sheets of reproduced currency (printed on both sides). Lacks half titles. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Extremities lightly worn. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Very minor foxing. Very good.

Anburey served as an officer with Burgoyne, and his text, in a series of letters, describes the disastrous campaign and his captivity by the Americans, and the march of the British troops to detention in Charlottesville, Virginia. While some of the general descriptions are taken from other writers, Anburey’s account is a fascinating narrative by an observant British officer in the Revolution. The engravings, some of them quite large when unfolded, are based on expert drawings by the author, and show scenes in Canada and New York during the Burgoyne campaign (including an Indian with a dripping scalplock), and in Virginia, as well as a large map illustrating the interior of the country. This set includes the two sheets illustrating American currency after page 400 in the second volume, which are often absent. HOWES A226, “aa.” CLARK I:192. SABIN 1366. $2500.

With Numerous Lithographs of Nevada Scenes

5. [Angel, Myron, editor]: HISTORY OF NEVADA. WITH ILLUS- TRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ITS PROM- INENT MEN AND PIONEERS. Oakland: Thompson & West, 1881. 680pp. plus 116 lithographic plates. Small, thick folio. Modern buckram, spine gilt, leather label. Near fine.

“This classic work is the most used and quoted history of any ever issued of the state. It is likely to remain forever the all time Nevada book, for nothing issued since compares to its exhaustive coverage....There is very little worth knowing about Nevada before 1881 that cannot be found in this first statewide Nevada history” – Paher. Besides the historical and biographical material, a wealth of lithographic plates depict all sorts of mining, agricultural, and domestic scenes throughout the state. HOWES A273, “b.” PAHER NEVADA 27. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 58. GRAFF 64. FLAKE 175. $2500. 6. [Arizona]: Farish, Thomas E.: CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN ARIZONA. THE GARDEN OF AMERICA. [Tucson]. 1889. 48pp. Illus. Original printed wrappers, disbound from a larger volume, all leaves separated. Some edge chipping, affecting text on several leaves. Tanned and very fragile. Accession number stamped on front wrapper. Fair only.

Rare 19th-century promotional for Arizona, singing the praises of the arid lands of the territory for health and agriculture, and including some important historical data, with charming woodcuts depicting cattle, hogs, and fruit growing. Few copies of this fragile work could have survived. Farish later wrote one of the primary histories of Arizona. Arizona Imprints locates only three copies, in the Office of the Arizona State Historian, the Arizona Pioneers Historical Society, and the present copy, which was deaccessioned by The New York Public Library. HOWES F35. ADAMS HERD 789. ARIZONA IMPRINTS 138. $1250.

7. Armstrong, P.A.: THE PIASA, OR, THE DEVIL AMONG THE IN- DIANS. Morris, Il. 1887. 48pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Ex-lib., else fine.

Inscribed: “Presented by Ellwood Roberts to whom it was given by the author.” Describes Indian pictographs formerly existing near Alton, Illinois, which represented the corporal existence of winged evil spirits, and relates various theories of their origin. HOWES A323. $225.

8. Atwater, Caleb: REMARKS MADE ON A TOUR TO PRAIRIE DU CHIEN; THENCE TO WASHINGTON CITY, IN 1829. Columbus, Oh.: Printed by Jenkins and Grover, 1831. 296pp. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Small scrape on upper front hinge. Bit tanned, some minor foxing. Else very good, with autograph of the author tipped to the front pastedown.

A scarce and important early midwestern travel account, with a Sioux language gram- mar and good descriptions of the tribes inhabiting the area that became Wisconsin and Illinois. “Some very curious particulars relating to Customs of the Winnebagos are related by Atwater. Although nothing indicating the mission of Atwater appears on the title, yet the real object of his tour was to procure as Commissioner of the government, a cession of the title of the Winnebago, Pottawatomie, Chippewa, and Ottawa Indians, in the rich mineral lands, now forming the State of Wisconsin and part of Illinois. Much the greater part of the work is devoted therefore to a narration of the peculiarities of those tribes which he visited, biography of some of their chiefs, Indian poetry, specimens of their language, and incidents of his as- sociations with them” – Field. HOWES A379. THOMSON 49. BUCK 213. SABIN 2335. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 5818. FIELD 54. PILLING, SIOUAN, pp.2-3. $1000. 9. Bartram, William: TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, EAST & WEST FLORIDA, THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY, THE EXTENSIVE TERRITORIES OF THE MUSCOGULGES, OR CREEK CONFEDERACY, AND COUNTRY OF THE CHOCTAWS.... London: Re-printed for J. John- son, 1792. xxiv,520,[12]pp. Frontispiece plus seven plates (one folding) and folding map. Pp.225-240 misbound between pp. 176 and 177. Late 19th- century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands. Boards lightly rubbed. Small repair to tear on final index leaf, small repair to tear in folding map. Scattered light foxing, but on the whole quite clean internally. Very good.

First British edition of one of the classic accounts of southern natural history and exploration, with much on the southern Indian tribes. For the period, Bartram’s work is unrivalled. “...Bartram wrote with all the enthusiasm and interest with which the fervent old Spanish friars and missionaries narrated the wonders of the new found world...he neglected nothing which would add to the common stock of human knowledge” – Field. “Unequalled for the vivid picturesqueness of its descriptions of nature, scenery, and productions” – Sabin. The map illustrates the east coast of Florida from the St. Johns River to Cape Canaveral. HOWES B223, “b.” SABIN 3870. CLARK I:197. VAIL 849. FIELD 94. SERVIES 678. Coats, The Plant Hunters, pp.273-76. $6000.

10. Baudry Des Lozières, Louis N.: SECOND VOYAGE A LA LOUI- SIANE, FAISANT SUITE AU PREMIER DE L’AUTEUR DE 1794 A 1798.... Paris. 1803. Two volumes. xvi,414,[1]pp. plus folding table; 410,[1] pp. Half title in each volume. Contemporary calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Chipping at headband of first volume. Repair to titlepage. Else good.

A sequel to the author’s Voyage a la Louisiane... (Paris, 1802). This work has been overlooked or disregarded by most bibliographers, without justification as far as we can see. It contains further observations regarding the conditions in and situation of the French American colonies, including all of the West Indies but especially Louisiana, as well as “the military life of General Grondel, commander of the French armies in Louisiana, and his services against the English and Indians, &c.....” Also includes a quite extensive “Vocabulaire Congo” consisting of words and phrases of the dialect of the Congo; and a “Manuel Botanique” describing over 100 species of plants found in the region. A valuable narrative, apparently not listed in Taxonomic Literature. WAGNER-CAMP 2a. HOWES B242, “aa.” SABIN 3980. MONAGHAN 150. $1500.

11. Bayard, Ferdinand M.: VOYAGE DANS L’INTERIEUR DES ETATS-UNIS, A BATH, WINCHESTER, DANS LA VALLEE DE SHENANDOAH.... Paris. 1797. 336pp. Half title. Original plain wrappers. Front joint a bit worn, old stain on rear wrapper. Near fine, untrimmed.

Bayard was twenty-three when he made this trip with his wife and children to summer at Bath in the Shenandoah Valley to escape the heat of the Baltimore summer. His book is devoted mainly to observations of society in Virginia and is one of the better pictures of life there at the time. “Bayard’s account affords a sympathetic, sentimental, leisurely picture of society at a forgotten watering place seldom visited by travelers. His social and intellectual adaptability and the length of his stay set his book apart from the customary tourist-guide gazetteer” – Clark. MONAGHAN 151. STREETER SALE 829. CLARK II:77. HOWES B255. SABIN 4022. $600.

An Early Trip to the Ohio Country

12. Beatty, Charles: THE JOURNAL OF A TWO MONTHS TOUR; WITH A VIEW OF PROMOTING RELIGION AMONG THE FRONTIER INHABITANTS OF PENSYLVANIA [sic], AND OF INTRODUCING CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE INDIANS TO THE WESTWARD OF THE ALEGH-GENY MOUNTAINS.... London. 1768. 110pp. plus one leaf of ads. Old three-quarter gilt morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Boards rubbed and worn at edges. Pages lightly soiled and tanned. A very good copy, untrimmed.

The rare first edition, “quite difficult to procure complete” (Field). The Irish-born missionary was one of the most popular preachers of his day, travelling extensively in Europe as well as America. In 1760 he was sent with Duffield to observe and investigate the condition of the Indian tribes. This account, one of only a few pieces by Beatty ever to see publication, includes “the first account of Indian towns in southeast Ohio” (Howes), interviews with Indian chiefs, and encounters with Delaware Indians, whom Beatty conjectures to be descended from the Ten Tribes. “The tour of this zealous and intelligent observer to the Indian towns in Pennsylvania and Ohio, lying far beyond the frontiers, was made at a period of great interest in their history. The warriors of the Delaware and Shawnese had ravaged them with the tomahawk and firebrand for twenty years, and the Journal of the missionary is filled with notes of their awful massacres. It is very full and minute in its details of interviews with Indian chiefs, and the various phases of aboriginal life which attracted his attention” – Field. HOWES B281, “b.” VAIL 589. THOMSON 72. FIELD 102. BELL B125. JCB I:1607. WINSOR I, pp.110, 116. SABIN 4149. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 324. $4750.

The Rare First Edition

13. Beltrami, J.C.: LA DECOUVERTE DES SOURCES DU MISSIS- SIPPI ET DE LA RIVIERE SANGLANTE DESCRIPTION DU COURS ENTIER DU MISSISSIPPI...OBSERVATIONS CRITI- CO-PHILOSOPHIQUES, SUR LES MOEURS, LA RELIGION, LES SUPERSTITIONS, LES COSTUMES, LES ARMES, LES CHASSES, LA GUERRE, LA PAIX...DE PLUSIEURS NATIONS INDIENNES.... New Orleans. 1824. [8],327,[1]pp. plus errata slip. Con- temporary tree calf, spine gilt, leather label. Worming in final thirteen leaves (with tape repairs), affecting text, especially on the last few leaves. An occasional fox mark. Other than the worming, which is not severe, this is a beautiful copy. Withal, very good.

The rare first edition, in French, of this Italian’s adventures in America. “[Beltrami] found his way to the upper reaches of the Mississippi River, where he joined an expedition led by Maj. Stephen Long. The latter wrote of him, ‘an Italian whom we met at Fort St. Anthony, attached himself to the expedition and accompanied us to Pembina.’ Beltrami subsequently traveled down the Mississippi to New Orleans” – Wagner-Camp. “He undertook a hazardous and lonely journey in his search for the sources of the Mississippi and other rivers, in which he claimed success” – Clark. An expanded English translation was printed in London in 1828, and included a folding map illustrating the routes travelled in America, detailing Beltrami’s view of the geography of the headwaters of the Mississippi. The inclusion of the map in the later edition was in response to the criticism the author received for not providing a map in this, the first edition of the work. WAGNER-CAMP 26a:1. JUMONVILLE 417. FIELD 110. HOWES B338, “aa.” BUCK 181. LeCLERC 135. CLARK II:182. MONAGHAN 178A. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 340. SABIN 4604. ROSENBACH, AMERICAN JEWISH 255. $2250.

The Only American Edition and the Only Edition in English

154 [Berquin-Duvallon, M.]: TRAVELS IN LOUISIANA AND THE FLORIDAS, IN THE YEAR, 1802, GIVING A CORRECT PIC- TURE OF THOSE COUNTRIES. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH, WITH NOTES &c., BY JOHN DAVIS. New York. 1806. viii,181pp. 19th-century three-quarter black morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Con- temporary ownership inscription on titlepage, trimmed slightly. Lightly foxed. About very good.

The only English edition of an important work concerning Louisiana at the end of Spanish and French rule and the emerging American takeover. The author is known only as M. Berquin-Duvallon. He gives an unflattering picture of Spanish Louisiana, with descriptions of the flamboyant Creole lifestyle and the ill effects of slavery, as well as notes regarding agricultural productions (especially sugar), the look of New Orleans, and other aspects of the country. Despite the title of this translation, the author’s experience was mostly confined to the area around New Orleans and not in West Florida. Authorities agree that this is an important, if jaded, source for Louisiana at the time. This edition is quite rare, far more so than the French first. CLARK II:79. STREETER SALE 1533. SABIN 4965. HOWES B389, “aa.” $5000. 15. Beste, J. Richard: THE WABASH: OR ADVENTURES OF AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN’S FAMILY IN THE INTERIOR OF AMERICA. London. 1855. Two volumes. [4],viii,329; viii,352pp. Tinted lithographic frontispieces. Original cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Bit cocked, else a near fine set.

An Englishman’s account of an attempt to form a settlement on the Wabash. “This is a singularly unique two-volume travel account by the family of a wealthy English gentleman...who, together with his wife and twelve children – ages two to nineteen – left France in the spring of 1851 to spend the summer and autumn in the United States. They appeared to be investigating emigration prospects and immigration opportunities” – Clark. After arriving in New York, the family travelled along the Great Lakes and across Ohio to Cincinnati. Beste was decidedly against slavery, and herein voices his advocacy of a form of compensated emancipation. An informative and quite scarce midwestern travel narrative. HOWES B401, “aa.” BUCK 489. GRAFF 283. CLARK III:274. SABIN 5056. $800.

New Sweden on the Delaware

16. Biorck, Tobias E.: DISSERTATIO GRADUALIS, DE PLANTA- TIONE ECCLESIAE SVECANAE IN AMERICA.... Uppsala. 1731. [8],34pp. including woodcut illustration, plus folding map. Small quarto. Mod- ern paper boards, gilt leather label on front board. Old manuscript note at foot of titlepage. Lightly tanned. Map repaired at fold, with tape remnants on verso. Overall, a very good copy.

The first book by a native-born American to be published in Sweden. It contains important information on the establishment of the New Sweden Mission in the mid-Atlantic region, and its early work. There is also interesting information on the local Minque Indians. Tobias Biorck was the son of a Swedish missionary who was sent to America in 1697 and founded the Swedish Lutheran church at Christina (Wilmington, Delaware) the following year. “The account contains much significant historical detail and is especially knowledgeable concerning the Indians” – Streeter. The map, engraved by Jonas Silfverling, shows parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. The Streeter copy brought $1300 in 1967. Not in Field, and Siebert was apparently unable to acquire a copy. Rare and important. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 731/24. HOWES B458, “b.” STREETER SALE 917. SABIN 5664, 28916. CHURCH 911. BELL B284. LARSON 98. $4500.

17. Bishop, George: NEW-ENGLAND JUDGED, BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD...CONTAINING A BRIEF RELATION OF THE SUFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE CALL’D QUAKERS IN NEW-ENGLAND, FROM THE TIME OF THEIR FIRST AR- RIVAL THERE IN THE YEAR 1656 TO THE YEAR 1660...SEC- OND PART, BEING A FARTHER RELATION OF THE CRUEL AND BLOODY SUFFERINGS...FROM ANNO 1660, TO ANNO 1665...WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE WRITINGS OF SEVERAL OF THE SUFFERERS...ALSO, AN ANSWER TO COTTON MATHER’S ABUSES OF THE SAID PEOPLE, IN HIS LATE HISTORY OF NEW-ENGLAND.... London: Printed and Sold by T. Sowle, 1703/1702. Two parts bound in one volume. [8],498,212,[11],[3] pp. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original calf laid down, later gilt morocco label. Spine ends worn, cracked down center of spine. One signature loose, scattered foxing and tanning. Good. In a folding cloth box, gilt leather label.

The present copy bears the ownership inscription on the front free endpaper: “Mary Atkinson her book 1750.” Second edition of Bishop’s work, but the first combined edition of the two parts issued separately in 1661 and 1667, and the first edition to contain the appendix, Truth and Innocency Defended; Against Falsehood and Envy..., by John Whiting, which has its own separate titlepage and imprint. Bishop’s work is one of the great and reliable accounts of the Quaker persecutions in New Eng- land. While himself a resident of England, he was in receipt of correspondence from Friends in America, much of which forms the basis of this work. On Dec. 19, 1660 the Colony of Massachusetts sent to Prince Charles a petition defending the hanging of three Friends in their legal jurisdiction. Bishop was much incensed by this attempted defense, and this catalogue of horrors was the result. “Most exhaustive contemporary indictment of God-fearing Puritans driven by insensate religious fervor to sickening brutalities against other religious fanatics who dared to differ from themselves. Witch-hunting was bad; this was worse” – Howes. SABIN 5631. CHURCH 571, 598 (refs). EUROPEAN AMERICANA 703/16. HOWES B481, “aa.” $2000.

A Rare Indian Captivity

18. Bleecker, Ann Eliza: THE HISTORY OF MARIA KITTLE. IN A LETTER TO MISS TEN EYCK. Hartford: Printed by Elisha Babcock, 1797. 70pp. printed on light blue paper. 12mo. Contemporary brown paper boards. Boards edgeworn and worn along spine, spine ends chipped, rear hinge repaired. Early ownership signature on front free endpaper. Closed tear in pp.53-56 repaired, with minor obscuration of a couple words of text. Foxing. Good.

The scarce first separate edition of Bleecker’s narrative of the captivity of Maria Kittle, after its initial publication as part of Bleecker’s Posthumous Works... in 1793. This is the fictionalized story of the real-life captivity of Maria Kittlehuyne and the massacre of her family during King George’s War in the 1740s. Bleecker, an early American poet, lived on the New York frontier (north of Albany, near the area where Kittle was captured), and her very real concern over Indian attacks doubtless led her to write the present work. Bleecker was also likely influenced by her experiences during the American Revolution, when her family’s flight from the advancing troops of General Burgoyne helped result in the death of her daughter, Abella. The text takes the form of a series of letters from Bleecker to her half-sister, Susanna Ten Eyck. The story is based in fact, yet it is also considered the earliest American fictionalized work based on an Indian captivity, and in fact is one of the earliest fictional works by an American that focuses on Indians. HOWES B530, “b.” VAIL 1096. SIEBERT SALE 443. AYER (SUPPLEMENT) 18. WRIGHT 326. EVANS 31837. NAIP w012713. $3250.

19. [Boardman, James]: AMERICA, AND THE AMERICANS...By a Citizen of the World. London. 1833. xvi,430pp. Modern half morocco and cloth. Old library blindstamp on titlepage, else very good.

A presentation copy, inscribed on the titlepage: “...with the author’s compliments.” The author travelled to New York City, describes favorably most of what he saw there, including the public buildings, churches of various religions, blacks, politics and elections, libraries, book auctions, etc. His tour through the U.S. continued through Niagara, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, then back to New York where he embarked for Boston, and finally to Montreal and Quebec. Board- man intended to teach the British to respect the American people, and his detailed account American life reflects his wish to describe America in a favorable light. SABIN 6087. HOWES B561. $225.

20. Boller, Henry A.: AMONG THE INDIANS. EIGHT YEARS IN THE FAR WEST: 1858 – 1866. EMBRACING SKETCHES OF MONTANA AND SALT LAKE. Philadelphia. 1868. 428pp. plus folding map. Original cloth, spine gilt. A couple small nicks at spine ends, bookplate carefully removed from rear pastedown. Otherwise a fine, clean copy, with the map in pristine condition.

Boller entered the fur trade on the Upper Missouri in 1858, in the service of the American Fur Company. Most of the book deals with his experiences with the Indians in Montana as a trader for the Company. His account is one of the most vivid and well written narratives of the trade, and one of the few relating to the period it addresses. At the end of his sojourn in the West, Boller spent some time in Utah among the Mormons. Although this book bears an imprint of 1868, it was probably printed the previous year, as Graff owned a copy that was inscribed on Oct. 31, 1867. Wheat describes the map as notable for the places located and described in the text. It shows Montana and the Dakotas, with parts of Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. FIELD 147. GRAFF 341. HOWES B579, “b.” SABIN 6221. STREETER SALE 3079. FLAKE 582. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 1180. $6000. French Traveller in Louisiana, and Among Native Americans

21. Bossu, Jean Bernard: TRAVELS THROUGH THAT PART OF NORTH AMERICA FORMERLY CALLED LOUISIANA...ILLUS- TRATED WITH NOTES CHIEFLY TO NATURAL HISTORY. TO WHICH IS ADDED BY THE TRANSLATOR A SYSTEMAT- IC CATALOGUE OF ALL THE KNOWN PLANTS OF ENGLISH NORTH AMERICA.... London. 1771. Two volumes. viii,407; [4],432pp. Half title in both volumes. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, gilt morocco labels. Occasional offsetting of text. Very good.

Bossu went to Louisiana in 1750 as a captain of the Marines. This narrative is comprised of a series of twenty-one letters to the Marquis de L’Estrade describing Bossu’s life and travels in the vast Louisiana country from 1751 to 1762. Bossu’s ventures ranged from Fort Chartres, in present-day Illinois, to Mobile, and along the Mississippi. His visit to New Orleans took place only thirty years after its founding, and he was able to gather considerable information from the memories of locals. “Bossu wrote well and his letters not only give an interesting picture of life in the Mississippi Valley and the Mobile Country to the east at the beginning of the second half of the eighteenth century, but incorporated also are many sketches of events in preceding years” – Streeter. This is the first English edition, to which Howes assigns the same “b” rating as the suppressed first edition of 1768. “The first volume is almost entirely filled with historical and personal sketches of the Southern Indian Tribes of the present United States” – Field. Almost all of the second volume of this edition is given over to the catalogue of plants, making it an important piece of American natural history. The catalogue, which does not appear in the first edition, was compiled by Johann Reinhold Forster, the well known Ger- man explorer and botanist, based on specimens of North American plants he saw in England, and on his translation of the work of Swedish botanist Pehr Lofling describing the plants he collected in northern South America in 1754-56. CLARK II:5. SABIN 6465. SERVIES I, p.32. STREETER SALE 1518 (ref ). HOWES B626, “b.” MEISEL III, p.349. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 1825, 4921. FIELD 157. $4500.

22. Box, Michael James: CAPT. JAMES BOX’S ADVENTURES AND EXPLORATIONS IN NEW AND OLD MEXICO.... New York. 1869. 344pp. Original cloth. Bit chipped at head and toe of spine, faint stain to couple of leaves, else a very good, tight copy.

The second edition, employing the same sheets as the first edition of 1861 but with a new titlepage supplied. An interesting and well written account of the author’s travels, mainly in northern Mexico in the 1850s, while serving with the Texas Rangers. One chapter deals with Arizona as well. A classic of Ranger narratives. Streeter raises some question as to whether Box was the author. STREETER SALE 497 (ref ). HOWES B671. GRAFF 372. $450. 23. Brackenridge, Hugh Henry: INCIDENTS OF THE INSURREC- TION IN THE WESTERN PARTS OF PENNSYLVANIA, IN THE YEAR 1794. Philadelphia: John M’Culloch: 1795. Three parts bound in one volume. [2],[5]-124; [5]-84; [5]-154pp. Modern tan cloth, gilt leather label. Old ink stamp on verso of titlepage. Very minor toning and foxing. Very good plus.

A basic history of the Whiskey Rebellion, in which Brackenridge, a west Pennsylvania jurist and political thinker, also explains his views on the insurrection. He had taken the confusing stance of opposing the tax but supporting the federal government, and in the process alienated the leaders of the Republican and Federalist factions, both of which he had supported in the past. Howes notes that the erratic pagination results from the printer having planned originally for a three-volume work. HOWES B690, “aa.” SABIN 7189. BRADFORD 500. NAIP w020522. EVANS 28332. ANB 3, pp.340-42. $2000.

Up the Missouri with Hunt

24. Bradbury, John: TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF AMERICA, IN THE YEARS 1809, 1810, AND 1811; INCLUDING A DE- SCRIPTION OF UPPER LOUISIANA, TOGETHER WITH THE STATES OF OHIO, KENTUCKY, INDIANA, AND TENNESSEE, WITH THE ILLINOIS AND WESTERN TERRITORIES.... Liv- erpool. 1817. xii,[9]-364pp., plus errata slip. Modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine. Ex-Liverpool Public Library (properly de-acces- sioned) with their ink stamp on the verso of the titlepage and on two text pages. Scattered foxing. Very good.

Bradbury was a Scottish naturalist who went up the Missouri River with Wilson Price Hunt’s party, stopping at the Mandan villages, then returning down river to St. Louis with H.M. Brackenridge. The appendix includes an account of the Stuart overland trip, with a reprint of the American Enterprise article (see Wagner-Camp 11) about their expedition. In addition, there is an Osage vocabulary, considerable information about the Mississippi Valley, and an account of the captivity of John Colter. There is also a “Catalogue of some of the more rare or valuable plants dis- covered in the neighborhood of St. Louis and on the Missouri.” This work is not mentioned in Taxonomic Literature, but Ewan tells us that Bradbury was a “Scotch naturalist who came to America to collect seeds and objects of natural history for the Liverpool Botanical Garden.” Although Bradbury seldom mentions it, he was accompanied on this trip by naturalist Thomas Nuttall. A basic and rare work on the first probings up the Missouri. HOWES B695. CLARK II:137. WAGNER-CAMP 14:1. GRAFF 383. PILLING, PROOF- SHEETS 433. AYER SUPPLEMENT 23. STREETER SALE 1779. $4000. 25. Bratt, John: TRAILS OF YESTERDAY. Lincoln. 1921. 302pp. Frontis. Original gilt pictorial cloth, gilt-stamped spine, t.e.g. Bookplate on front pastedown. Small closed tear in upper margin of one plate, far from the image. Fine, with especially bright gilt pictorial binding.

John Bratt was one of the first ranchers in Nebraska. An Englishman, Bratt came to America in 1864 at the age of seventeen and worked as a bullwhacker, supplying Fort Kearny and other army posts. He started his cattle business in 1870. Most of his narrative is devoted to the development of the ranching industry on the central plains. ADAMS HERD 310. SIX SCORE 13. MERRILL ARISTOCRAT. HOWES B725. DOBIE, p.97. $375.

The Rare First Edition

26. Brayton, Matthew: THE INDIAN CAPTIVE. A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURES AND SUFFERINGS OF MATTHEW BRAYTON, IN HIS THIRTY-FOUR YEARS OF CAPTIVITY AMONG THE INDIANS OF NORTH-WESTERN AMERICA. Cleveland. 1860. 68pp. 16mo. Original half muslin and printed paper boards. Boards a bit soiled, worn at spine ends. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. A few fox marks, but generally clean and fresh internally. A very good copy. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

A rare Indian captivity, not in Ayer or Field. Brayton was stolen near his home in Ohio in 1825 and sold to the Pottawatomi, who took him to Michigan, where he lived among the Winnebago, Chippewa, and Sioux. The latter took him west, where he was again sold, this time to the Snake Indians, who adopted him into their tribe. Brayton apparently lived among the Snake on the upper Missouri River, following them to California, where he remained some five years. He describes fighting the Blackfeet in Oregon, as well as his extraordinary thirty-four years of wandering all over the West. He finally reconciled himself to civilization, enlisted in the army in 1861, and was killed at Pittsburgh Landing in 1862. “Extraordinary as the incidents appear, there is abundant proof of its entire truth” – Thomson. “It is quite true that it would not have been possible for Brayton to have made some of the movements described among the tribes named. On the other hand the critics have overlooked the fact that Brayton was taken at the age of seven and lived among the Indians for thirty-four years. He could not read or write, and spoke English with some difficulty...There remains not the slightest doubt that Matthew was a Brayton, and his narrative is, in general, correct” – Wessen. “One of the most remarkable and – in spite of its relatively late publication date – one of the rarest items belonging to captivity literature” – Howes. This account is sometimes attributed to John H.A. Bone, who may have assisted Brayton in setting forth the narrative. An extraordinary account, rarely met with, and hardly ever encountered in an original binding. HOWES B736, “c.” THOMSON 115. GREENLY MICHIGAN 32. GRAFF 393. STREETER SALE 4272. SIEBERT SALE 994. WAGNER-CAMP 351. WESSEN, MIDLAND NOTES 30:29. $4750.

Classic of Early Tennessee

27. Breazeale, J.W.M.: LIFE AS IT IS; OR MATTERS AND THINGS IN GENERAL: CONTAINING, AMONGST OTHER THINGS, HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE EXPLORATION AND FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE; MAN- NERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE INHABITANTS; THEIR WARS WITH THE INDIANS; BATTLE OF KING’S MOUNTAIN; HISTORY OF THE HARPS, (TWO NOTED MURDERERS).... Knoxville: James Williams, 1842. 256pp. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Titlepage foxed, toned throughout. Very good.

A most important book, recording in detail the history of conflict between the settlers in Tennessee and the Indians, from 1690 to date, including accounts of massacres, captivities, and depredations, the Cherokee war, Blount’s campaign, the effects of lack of federal military aid for the inhabitants during the wars with Britain, etc. Breazeale continues with a general history of Tennessee, an account of his expectations for future prospects, and a full chapter devoted to the notorious Harpes. “Deserves a place in every Tennessee historical library” – Horn. Seldom offered for sale in decent condition. HOWES B741, “aa.” AII (TENNESSEE) 44. ALLEN, TENNESSEE IMPRINTS 1850. SABIN 7651. STREETER SALE 1670. SOME TENNESSEE RARITIES 39. HORN, TWENTY TENNES- SEE BOOKS 9. $750.

28. Breck, Samuel: SKETCH OF THE INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS ALREADY MADE BY PENNSYLVANIA...PARTICULARLY AS THEY HAVE REFERENCE TO THE FUTURE GROWTH AND PROSPERITY OF PHILADELPHIA.... Philadelphia. 1818. 48,[1]pp. plus three double-sheet maps, partially handcolored. Modern half morocco. Some light foxing, else very good.

“Emphasizes Philadelphia’s strategic position for trade with the rising West” – Howes. Howes makes no mention of the maps which are present in this first edition; neither does Sabin, and his collation is wrong. They illustrate the headwaters of the principal rivers of Pennsylvania. The text includes recommendations for improvements in trade and transportation through the development of waterways. HOWES B742. SABIN 7670. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 43442. $600. 29. Bremer, Fredrika: HEMMEN I DEN NYA VERLDEN. EN DAG- BOK I BREF, SKRIFNA UNDER TVENNE ARS RESOR I NOR- RA AMERIKA OCH PA CUBA. Stockholm. 1853-1854. Three volumes. xii,468; 519; 531pp. Illus. Contemporary three-quarter calf and patterned boards, gilt. Some edge wear, corners bumped. Very good.

An account of the author’s travels through the Midwest, East and South, told through letters, largely written to her sister but including letters to others, among them the Queen of Denmark. Bremer describes aspects of American life such as politics, education, the country, literature, and literary figures including Irving, Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Hawthorne, Alcott, and Lowell. She comments on slavery, popular entertainments and culture, social life, nature, and much more. Clark (on page 339) calls Bremer’s work “one of the most important travel books written by a foreigner” in the decade before the Civil War. NYPL SWEDISH COMMENTATORS 109. HOWES B745. CLARK III:450. $200.

A Primary North Carolina Book

30. Brickell, John: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF NORTH CARO- LINA. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRADE, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE CHRISTIAN AND INDIAN INHAB- ITANTS.... Dublin. 1737. xv,408pp. plus folding map and four engraved plates. Early 20th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light wear to extremities. Bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Very good.

Brickell was one of the first medical doctors in North Carolina, practicing for many years in Edenton. Part of this book (mainly the material on plants and animals of North Carolina) is taken from the work of John Lawson, but there is also much of his own material, especially in the areas of social and economic history. “The book is well organized and written in a pleasing style. It is probably the best account in print relating to diseases and medical practice in colonial North Carolina. An account of a visit to ‘Cherokee Mountains’ in 1730 is one of the most interesting features of this volume” – Clark. Includes a short comparative vocabulary of the Woccon, Pamticoe, and Tuskeruro Indians. The map illustrates North Carolina. CLARK I:44. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 479. HOWES B762, “b.” SABIN 7800. FIELD 182. $12,000.

31. Brigham, Alasco D., compiler: JANESVILLE CITY DIRECTORY, HISTORY, AND BUSINESS ADVERTISER, FOR 1859 – 1860. Janesville, Wi.: Alasco D. Brigham, 1859. 128pp. Original half brown calf, printed paper covered boards. Slight wear. Very good.

The second independent Janesville, Wisconsin directory, after the first of the previous year. The 1858 directories for Rock County and Beloit also contained Janesville information. The present edition contains numerous attractive color advertisements. “Contains an historical account of Janesville, by Alexander T. Gray, taken from the history of Rock County, 1856” – Spear. SPEAR, p.157. HOWES B776. $1500.

32. Brown, J. Cabell: CALABAZAS. OR AMUSING RECOLLEC- TIONS OF AN ARIZONA CITY. San Francisco. 1892. 251pp. Illus. Original front wrapper. Wrapper chipped, detached, and spotted. Else good.

A vivid account of lawlessness in this refuge for bad hombres in the Santa Cruz valley. After the town was torn asunder by riots, the residents who remained mobile removed to Nogales, where, according to Ramon Adams, they “could keep one foot on the bar-rail and the other on the boundary line.” ADAMS SIX-GUNS 296 (“rare”). HOWES B845, “aa.” $150.

The Texas Domesday Book

33. [Burlage, John, and J.P. Hollingsworth]: ABSTRACT OF LAND CLAIMS COMPILED FROM THE RECORDS OF THE GEN- ERAL LAND OFFICE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS.... Galveston. 1852. 610,16,[2]pp. Contemporary half legal calf and marbled boards. Rubbed. Internally very good.

“One of the essential research tools on Texas lands and their settlement” – Jenkins. A basic Texas book, here in the third edition. The first edition, issued in Houston in 1838, is virtually unobtainable, while the second, printed in Austin in 1841, is only slightly less rare. This third edition was supposedly printed in an edition limited to 200 copies. It lists some 30,000 claimants – 10,000 more than the Austin edition. Names are arranged by district and the size, county, and acreage of the holdings are recorded. There is a separate section concerning Spanish and Mexican titles. An invaluable source for Texas research. Howes lists only the 1859 edition. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 204b. WINKLER 330. HOWES B990. COHEN 9658. $1750.

34. [Burlend, Rebecca]: A TRUE PICTURE OF EMIGRATION; OR FOURTEEN YEARS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMER- ICA; BEING A FULL AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES AND ULTIMATE SUCCESS OF AN ENGLISH FAMILY WHO EMIGRATED.... London. [1848]. 62pp. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Very good.

“The greater part of the pamphlet is devoted to the trials and experiences of the first few years in Pike County, Illinois...and it is an excellent picture of frontier life” – Buck. The family arrived in Illinois in 1832, travelling up the Mississippi from New Orleans. HOWES B992. BUCK 235. CLARK III:19. GRAFF 490. HUBACH, p.70. $300. Famous American Crook and Confidence Man: The Streeter Copy

35. Burroughs, Stephen: MEMOIRS OF STEPHEN BURROUGHS. [with:] ...VOLUME II. Hanover, N.H.: Benjamin True, 1798, and Boston: Caleb Bingham, 1804. Two volumes. [2],vi-vii,[8]-298; 202pp. Portrait on newsprint pasted to verso of second volume titlepage. First volume: Octavo. Modern calf. Second volume: 12mo. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked in matching style. Some foxing and tanning. A very good set.

The Thomas W. Streeter-Frank S. Streeter copy, with their bookplates on the front pastedowns, and Thomas Streeter’s pencil notes on the front pastedown of the second volume. A complete set of this memoir of a notorious swindler and con man, including the notoriously rare second volume. Burroughs (1765-1840) was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, the son of a Congregational minister, and quickly gained a reputation as a troublesome child. He ran away from home at age fourteen, joined the army only to desert shortly thereafter, and then enrolled at Dartmouth. He left college early, went to sea as a privateer, and impersonated a ship’s physician. Back in New England he impersonated a minister in Pellham, Massachusetts, and was soon caught counterfeiting money. Burroughs was imprisoned in Northampton, where he tried several times to escape before setting fire to the jail, which resulted in his incarceration at Castle Island in Boston Harbor. He escaped from the island fortress, was recaptured, and served out his term, eventually moving to Canada, where he became the leader of a counterfeiting ring. Later in life he reformed, joined the Catholic church, and became a teacher to privileged youth. “One of the great criminal autobiographies, and an important piece of picaresque Americana” – Streeter. As the second volume was published some years later in a different city, and evidently in much smaller numbers, complete sets are virtually impossible to come by. Shaw & Shoemaker locate only three copies of the second volume. STREETER SALE 724 (this copy). SABIN 9466 (not noting the 2nd volume). HOWES B1022, “aa.” EVANS 33478. NAIP w020739. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 5957. Appleton’s Cyclopædia I, p.470. $7500.

Important German Commentator

36. Busch, Moritz: WANDERUNGEN ZWISCHEN HUDSON UND MISSISSIPPI 1851 UND 1852. Stuttgart. 1854. Two volumes. [6],390; [6],381pp. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Light scattered foxing. Very good.

An important travel narrative by a learned German who was keenly interested in American customs, religions, politics, and folklore. The author’s training in theology explains his interest in American religious groups such as Mormons, Shakers, and Dunkards, but his translation and analysis of thirteen Negro spirituals place Busch above the standard observer and may even establish him as the pioneer scholar of American folklore. His itinerary through New York, Ohio, Kentucky, and Missouri provided much material for his absorbent mind to digest. “...His scholarly training, wide experience, understanding, and attention to detail make Busch an important observer” – Clark. “Trenchant observations on the Middle West, etc.” – Howes. The author concluded by stating what he believed to be the four characteristic qualities of Americans: “hostility to all authority,” “a certain philosophical attitude which expresses itself through questioning and searching for final causes and general ideas,” “extraordinary intensity in life and endeavor,” and “an exaggerated love for material things...which sets money above the value of the human.” Bosch later became known as “Bismarck’s Boswell” and published many travel books. HOWES B1038. SABIN 9520. CLARK III:283. FLAKE 1041. BUCK 482. STEVENS 1966. $675.

Attack on Cotton Mather’s Witchcraft Books

37. Calef, Robert: MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD: OR, THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, DISPLAY’D IN FIVE PARTS.... London: Printed for Nath. Hillar..., 1700. [12],156pp. Small quarto. Modern blue polished calf, tooled in gilt, spine gilt extra. Faint ink stamp on verso of titlepage. Minor scattered foxing and toning. Very good.

This well reasoned castigation of the proceedings of the courts in Massachusetts was written by Robert Calef, a Boston merchant, in response to Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World, wherein Mather sets forth his account of the supposed cases of witchcraft in Massachusetts. Calef attacks Mather personally, as well as the hysteria engendered by the witch scare. The first copies of this book to reach Boston were supposedly burned, and it historically has been a very rare piece of colonial Americana SABIN 9926. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 700/36. HOWES C25, “b.” WING C288. $17,500.

38. Calhoun, Arthur H.: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FAMILY FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT. Cleve- land, Arthur H. Clark Co., 1917-1919. Three volumes. Original red publisher’s cloth, gilt. Some light wear to bindings. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Very good plus.

Three-volume social history of the American family. Volume I, Colonial Period; Volume II, Independence through the Civil War; Volume III, 1866 to the early 20th century. One of the scarcest Arthur Clark Company titles, in their characteristic bindings. HOWES C27. $450. A Key Work on California in the Mexican Period 39. [California]: COLECCION DE LOS PRINCIPALES TRABAJOS EN QUE SE HA OCUPADO LA JUNTA NOMBRADA PARA MEDITAR Y PROPONER AL SUPREMO GOBIERNO LOS ME- DIOS MAS NECESARIOS PARA PROMOVER EL PROGRESO DE LA CULTURA Y CIVILIZACION DE LOS TERRITORIES DE LA ALTA Y DE LA BAJA CALIFORNIA. [Mexico City]. 1827. [2],16,11,8,18,44,14,14,[2],9-24,[1]pp. plus four folding charts. Small quar- to. Contemporary plain paper wrappers, manuscript title on spine. Wrappers lightly chipped and soiled. Modern bookplate inside front cover. Minor dampstaining to several leaves. Very good. In a half morocco box. One of the most important documents in California history – the result of the two-year study by the official “Committee for the Development of the Californias.” First edition, scarce complete with eight parts. “Covers the ambitious grand strategy of the Junta de Fomento de Californias looking to California colonization and the establishing at Monterey of a commercial capital to dominate the whole Pacific trade” – Howes. The growing Anglo-Saxon population on the Columbia River prompted Mexico to form this Junta. Interestingly, the folding plans advocate a grid layout for land distribution, a very Anglo – rather than Spanish – concept. The pamphlets each have their own titlepage and pagination, and comprise: replies to specific questions as to the extent of the Russian and Anglo-American activity and Mexico’s own establishment there; a plan for the administration of the California missions; a plan for opening California to foreigners to encourage colonization there, including a diagram for surveying grants of land (this was the basis for the California land-grant laws that remained in effect until the end of Mexican power in California); a similar plan for subsidized colonization by Mexican nationals; a proposed general system of laws for the better government of California; a plan for the province’s rapid mercantile development; a proposed project for establishing direct trade between Monterey and the Pacific, as well as with the United States and British trade in those regions; proposed articles for a private “Compania Asiatico-Mexicana” to implement the above. Though not made directly into law, the Junta’s plans served as a primary document from which the laws of California were drawn. BANCROFT, CALIFORNIA III:3-6, 21-23. BARRETT 1355. COWAN I, pp.124-36. HOWES C45, “d.” STREETER SALE 2462. $11,000.

With Superb Lithographs of Scenes and Places

40. [California]: HISTORY OF NEVADA COUNTY CALIFORNIA WITH ILLUSTRATIONS DESCRIPTIVE OF ITS SCENERY, RESIDENCES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, FINE BLOCKS, AND MANUFACTORIES. FROM ORIGINAL SKETCHES BY ART- ISTS OF THE HIGHEST ABILITY. Oakland: Thompson & West, 1880. 234pp., including colored “Map of California, Nevada, Utah, and Ari- zona” plus eighty-three full-page or double-page lithographs (the first included as part of the pagination). Oblong quarto. Original half sheep and brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, spine gilt. Cloth a bit soiled, spine neatly repaired. One lithograph with a three-inch closed tear, but with no loss. A few instances of a very light stain in the lower margin, else very clean and fresh internally. Very good overall, much nicer than usually found.

A magnificent illustrated history of Nevada County, California. The wonderful lithographs ably show how in just thirty years the area that had been a rough and tumble center of gold rush activity was transformed into a lovely group of communities in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The illustrations show private residences with neatly tended yards and gardens, courthouses and other public buildings, hotels, newspaper offices, mining companies, banks, foundries, factories, general stores, breweries, jewelers, druggists, lumber yards, liveries, mines, and much more. Two of the lithographs relate to the Donner Party disaster which occurred nearby, and other plates give historic representations of the area. One interesting plate shows Louis Siebert’s Vineyard & Soda Works, while the double-page illustrations include views of the Providence Gold & Silver Mining Company; the Idaho Quartz Mine; St. Patrick’s Church & Mt. Saint Mary’s Convent in Grass Valley; and Bird’s Eye Canyon. Most of the illustrations are of locations in the largest cities in the county – Nevada City and Grass Valley – though the smaller towns of Truckee, You Bet, Rough & Ready, North San Juan, Sweetland, Cherokee, and Lake City are also represented. The text includes a long and detailed history of the county, with information on gold mining, the Donner Party, biographical information on John Sutter and other leading men of the area, etc. These atlases are often found in very rough condition, usually lacking plates. The present copy is complete and in very nice condition, and provides an important visual and historical record of growth and community building in rural northern California in the late 19th century. Scarce and very desirable. COWAN, p. 452. HOWES N60, “b.” ROCQ 5957. NORRIS CATALOGUE 2834 (“very rare”). $4000.

Devonshire Stroller and Dog Stealer

41. [Carew, Bampfylde Moore]: AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF MR. BAMPFYLDE-MOORE CAREW, COMMONLY CALL’D THE KING OF THE BEGGARS.... London: Printed for R. Goadby and W. Owan Bookseller, at Temple-Bar, 1775. xxiv,iv,347,[1]pp. Folding frontis. Contemporary calf, raised bands. Minor rubbing. Slight tanning in margins of end matter, contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Overall very good.

Ninth edition, after the first of 1745, and the first appearance under the present title in 1749. The purported author, who characterizes himself as the “Devonshire stroller and dog stealer,” was born in 1693 and transported to America at some undetermined date in his youth. Carew describes his adventures in Maryland, Virginia, and farther north where, according to Howes, “he operated confidence schemes among colonial suckers.” Also described herein are his picaresque adventures among gypsies, on the Continent, and particularly in London. The last five pages make up a Gypsy dictionary. An intriguing, possibly fictional, narrative. This edition is notable for the large folding frontispiece of the author. HOWES C132. CLARK I:52. SABIN 27615. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 750/17 (another ed). $600.

Pioneering the Theory of an Asiatic Origin for American Indians

42. [Carli, Giovanni Rinaldo]: DELLE LETTERE AMERICANE. Cos- mopoli [i.e. Florence]. 1780. Two volumes. 275,[8]; 318,[10]pp. plus folding engraved map. Engraved vignette of a American Indian on each titlepage. Contemporary vellum, gilt spines with lettering blocked in blue. Occasional fox mark on latter leaves of second volume. A very good set.

A scarce Italian work on the origins of American Indians. In these letters, Count Carli exhibits his wide reading and knowledge of native American culture to refute the widely held European idea that America supported retrograde life forms. He writes about the origin, organization, epochs of nature, etc., of American natives, seeing America as a great example of liberty and toleration. “Confutes de Pauw’s Recherches...sur les Americains, and ascribes the origin of the American natives to the Atlantides” – Howes. “A discussion of the origins of the American Indians, including a substantial bibliography of the literature of New World exploration” – Bell. The handsome folding map, which was overlooked by Howes, consists of three insets: the Bering Strait (showing California and Japan), the Atlantic Ocean at the Equator (showing the proximity of South America and Africa), and a profile of the sea floor between South America and Africa. Field records only a French edition of 1788. The present Florence edition is the first edition in book form. HOWES C149. SABIN 10911. BELL C74. SAMUEL HOUGH, ITALIANS AND THE CRE- ATION OF AMERICA ( JCB EXHIBITION) 94. FIELD 243 (1788 French ed). $2000.

First Italian Traveller in the American South: Pioneer in Rice Culture

43. Castiglioni, Luigi: VIAGGIO NEGLI STATI UNITI DELL’ AMER- ICA SETTENTRIONALE FATTO NEGLI ANNI 1785, 1786, E 1787. Milan. 1790. Two volumes. xii,403; vi,402pp. plus five folding maps, nine plates (three folding), and three tables (all folding). Half title in first volume. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Internally fresh and near fine.

Castiglioni (1757-1832), a young Italian count, was the first Italian traveller in the American South. His narrative is an important overview of the United States for the time, especially for agricultural and botanical information. He was especially interested in rice culture, and is credited with importing several varieties back to Italy. The first part of the work describes the author’s journey through the eastern states (Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire), as well as a brief visit to Canada. The second part is comprised of an important alphabetized description of selected flora of the United States. Castiglioni’s route of travel in the South includes stops in Baltimore, Annapolis, Mount Vernon, Colchester, Dumfries (describing a tobacco warehouse there), Fredericksburg, Richmond (describing planters, persimmons, peaches, black slaves, etc.), Petersburg (a visit with John Banister, the plantation of Capt. Walker), Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, and Charlottesville (a visit to Monticello, comments on Notes on the State of Virginia). “Castiglioni’s purposes in visiting America were to witness the birth of a republic out of diverse people occupying a large area and to study the plants of North America with the particular view of finding species which might be introduced into Europe. He is credited with having imported into Lombardy the locust, which had flourished mightily by the time of his death, the catalpa, and the arbor vitae....The account of Luigi’s journey is interrupted, as he leaves a state, by a sort of encyclopedia type of miscellany on the state. For South Carolina, for example, he discourses on history, the districts, John Locke’s proposals, government, the inscription on the Pitt monument at Charleston, buildings, churches, trade, climate, and manners (abuse of liquor)....The new Constitution of the United States, given him by Franklin, is reprinted entire, probably its first translation into Italian...” – Clark. The plates are of an iceberg; a plan of Boston; Indian objects; a plan of New York; a plan of Charleston; drawing of three styles of American log fences; a detailed engraving of a rice mill and related processing tools for rice (a particular interest of the author); and figures illustrating the growing and processing of tobacco. There are also several fine natural history plates, including depictions of oak leaves and an acorn, an opossum, the leaf of the “Franklinia altamaha,” and a drawing of the sumac. See Clark for further references concerning Castiglioni. An important illustrated account of American travel, often overlooked and quite rare. HOWES C228. SABIN 11413. CLARK II:84. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 1055. PRITZEL 1595. SERVIES 664. $7500.

A Great Catlin Rarity

44. Catlin, George: AN ACCOUNT OF AN ANNUAL RELIGIOUS CEREMONY PRACTISED BY THE MANDAN TRIBE OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. [London: Philobiblion Society, 1865]. 67pp. Original plain wrappers. Spine chipped, splitting at front hinge. Ti- tlepage a bit scuffed and with a small tear, not affecting text, with printed bibliographic note affixed to verso. Near fine. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase.

The Siebert copy of this very rare printing (one of fifty copies) of Catlin’s account of the Mandan religious ceremony. Elements of this work were incorporated into Catlin’s O-Kee-Pa..., published by him two years later. Catlin had lectured to the Philobiblion Society on certain Mandan ceremonies, but resisted lecturing on their violent religious ceremony. The lecture did include a detailed account of a dance in which the women chose sexual partners, sometimes multiple ones in an evening, as part of a fertility dance. He did, however, submit an account to the Society in writing, which promptly published it without Catlin’s approval, in an edition of only fifty copies. Catlin publicly disavowed authorship, and demanded the surrender of every copy, unsuccessfully. This Siebert copy is the first to appear on the market in at least a quarter century, and the celebrated collections of Thomas W. Streeter, Everett D. Graff, W.J. Holliday, and C.G. Littell, all so strong in Western Americana, lacked copies. SIEBERT SALE 729 (this copy). HOWES C239, “b.” SABIN 11528. FIELD 262 (note). $17,500.

45. Champlin, James, Rev.: EARLY BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF REV. JAMES CHAMPLIN, WHO WAS BORN BLIND; WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT COUN- TIES THROUGH WHICH HE TRAVELED IN AMERICA.... Co- lumbus, Oh. 1842. 192pp. Original half cloth. Hinges cracked. Stained and foxed. Near good.

Champlin was no more than twenty-one years old when he published this autobiography. He had already been licensed as a “public exhorter” in the Methodist church, and his work is full of religious admonitions and warnings against evil companions. He traveled over parts of east and middle Tennessee on preaching tours; and he made a trip to Boston, going across Virginia to Norfolk and then by water, returning through the Erie Canal and across Ohio and Kentucky. As would be expected, Champlin’s comments on people are better than his descriptions of places. The chief value of the book is its reflection of the treatment and experiences of a blind traveler. HOWES C282. KAPLAN 997. $500.

Inspiration for the Climax of Moby Dick

46. Chase, Owen: NARRATIVE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY AND DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK OF THE WHALE-SHIP ES- SEX, OF NANTUCKET; WHICH WAS ATTACKED AND FINAL- LY DESTROYED BY A LARGE SPERMACETI-WHALE, IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE UNPARAL- LELED SUFFERINGS OF THE CAPTAIN AND CREW.... New York: W.B. Gilley, 1821. 128pp. 12mo. Contemporary green paper boards, later green cloth backstrip. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper and pastedown. Moderate foxing, some light soiling. Very good. Untrimmed. In a blue cloth slipcase and chemise.

A classic Pacific whaling rarity: the extremely rare first authentic account of the famous Essex shipwreck, whose sinking by a whale was, apart from being a sensational story in its own right, a landmark in American literature as the inspiration for the climax of Melville’s Moby Dick. Chase, first mate of the Essex and a native of Nantucket, provides a firsthand description of the ramming and sinking of the ship by a furious sperm whale on November 20, 1819, some two thousand miles west of the Galapagos. The surviving twenty crew members struggled to exist in three open boats, but only eight lived through the ordeal. Crew members on all three boats resorted to cannibalism eating those who died of natural causes, and killing one member when the need arose. All six of the black crew members died or were reported missing. The voyage of the two remaining boats that were rescued off the coast of South America was twice as long as that of Bligh in the launch of the Bounty. This has always been a scarce book. In 1935 the Golden Cockerel press published an attractive limited edition of the text with wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings. As with many (even most) American books of the period, there is some browning and staining in this copy as a result of the poor paper used in the publication. However, this is a very attractive copy of the book, uncut and in original boards with just the addition of a neat cloth spine. The contemporary ownership inscription at the start seems to be by Frederick Barnard and makes reference to Nantucket, the home port of the Essex. HILL 281. FORSTER 17. HOWES C318, “c.” SHAW & SHOEMAKER 4964. SABIN 12189. HUNTRESS 205C $20,000.

First English Language Edition

47. Chastellux, François J.: TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA, IN THE YEARS 1780, 1781, AND 1782. London. 1787. Two volumes. xv,462; xii, 432pp. plus two folding maps and three folding plates. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather label. Quite clean internally. Near fine.

The first British (and first English language) edition. A classic American travel narrative, called by Howes “the first trustworthy account of life in the United States.” Chastellux was second in command of the French forces in America during the American Revolution. A member of the French Academy and an enlightened and perceptive man, his work describes his travels in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Virginia, and his visits with Washington and Jefferson, with much material relating to the Revolution. The maps trace the author’s route, one showing Virginia and the other illustrating America from New Jersey to New England. HOWES C324, “aa.” CLARK I:212. SABIN 12227. $1850.

48. Chevalier, Michel: HISTOIRE ET DESCRIPTION DES VOIES DE COMMUNICATION AUX ETATS-UNIS ET DES TRAVAUX D’ART QUI EN DÉPENDENT. Paris: Librairie de Charles Gosselin..., 1840-1841. Two text volumes plus atlas. Text volumes: xiii,[3],542pp. plus errata; 582,[1],vi-lii pp. Half titles. Large quarto. Contemporary half morocco and boards, spines gilt. Atlas: Nineteen double-page plates and maps (one folding). Large folio. Near uniform contemporary half morocco and cloth. Scattered foxing, slight shelf wear. Very good.

A presentation copy, inscribed by the author: “Monsieur le Président Barouche, hommage de l’auteur Michel Chevalier.” The recipient’s rubber stamp appears on the front free endsheets. “Most elaborate early foreign work on American railroads and canals” – Howes. Chevalier, a noted French economist, was sent by the French government to the U.S. in 1833 to study the issues of overland and water transportation. “Among his contemporaries he enjoyed a reputation equal to that of... de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont. He remains one of the most important French commentators on the United States” – Monaghan. He remained in America for nearly two years and liked much of what he saw. This publication contains descriptions of the various railroads, canals, and major bridges along the eastern seaboard. Also covered are the railroads and canals of the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes regions of Canada. The atlas volume contains maps of the U.S. showing canals and railroads in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland; and technical plans depicting structural details of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cars, Schuylkill Canal, Cornwall Canal, Patapsco Viaduct, Aqueduct Bridge on the Potomac River at Georgetown, Morris Canal, etc. A handsome and important production. HOWES C358, “aa.” BUCK 351. KRESS C.5134. SABIN 12583 (ref ). MONAGHAN 425, 427. $6750.

49. Clark, C.M.: A TRIP TO PIKE’S PEAK AND NOTES BY THE WAY, WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS: BEING DESCRIP- TIVE OF INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS THAT ATTENDED THE PILGRIMAGE; OF THE COUNTRY THROUGH KANSAS AND NEBRASKA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; MINING REGIONS; MINING OPERATIONS, etc., etc. Chicago. 1861. vii,[1],134pp. plus frontispiece, plates, and errata leaf. Original cloth, rebacked. Some scattered soiling and foxing. Manuscript note on the frontis. Else quite good.

Clark was a Chicago physician who went to Colorado to prospect for gold in 1860, without success. He describes in detail the frontier town and expresses distaste with some of its aspects, such as the gambling, crime, and language. His narrative is considered to be one of the few authentic and truthful accounts of life and travel in Colorado of the day. The plates offer many fine illustrations of Denver and other western towns. “One of the best of the few contemporary accounts of the Pike’s Peak gold rush...” – Wilcox. “[Clark’s] is one of the few authentic accounts of that year’s travel to the Rockies” – Wagner-Camp. HOWES C430, “b.” STREETER SALE 2144. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 548. GRAFF 731. WAGNER-CAMP 372. WILCOX, p.24. $3000.

50. [Clayton, Augustin Smith]: A VINDICATION OF THE RECENT AND PREVAILING POLICY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, BOTH IN REFERENCE TO ITS INTERNAL AFFAIRS, AND ITS RELATION WITH THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT, IN TWO SERIES OF ESSAYS.... Athens, Ga.: Published by O.P. Shaw, at the Office of “The Athenian,” 1827. [2],x,[9]-90pp. Dbd. Titlepage worn, old tape repair at top edge. Tanned and foxed, tape repair on one internal leaf. Good only. In a half morocco and cloth case, spine gilt.

A series of articles by influential Georgia legislator Augustin Smith Clayton on two of the most pressing issues of the day: Georgia’s treatment of Indian tribes, and the Bank of the United States. Clayton launches a vigorous defense of Georgia’s policy of extending jurisdiction over Indian lands, in the face of criticism from President John Quincy Adams and others across the nation. He opposed the Bank of the United States as monopolistic, oppressive, and foreign controlled. Clayton’s articles originally appeared in the Columbian Centinel under the name of “Atticus.” This collected printing adds a prefatory address by the author. OCLC locates only nine copies. Scarce. DE RENNE I, p.402. SABIN 99823. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 28518. OCLC 15298659. DAB IV, pp.182-84. HOWES C473. $2750.

The Work of a Pioneering American Scientist

51. Colden, Cadwallader: AN EXPLICATION OF THE FIRST CAUSES OF ACTION IN MATTER; AND OF THE CAUSE OF GRAVITA- TION. New-York: Printed...and London Reprinted: for J. Brindley, 1746. 75pp. Bound to 18th-century style in three-quarter speckled calf and original marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Lightly tanned. Very good.

The first British edition of Cadwallader Colden’s important early contribution to American scientific knowledge, first published in New York in 1745. Colden was an important political figure in the colony of New York throughout his long life. He is best known for his history of the Iroquois, but he was also a polymathic naturalist and scientist. Although his anti-Newtonian arguments ultimately proved to be fallacious, this work was nonetheless an important contribution. It was one of the first serious scientific works conceived and written in America, and was widely discussed at the time. Colden’s work was published in two editions in London, and also translated into French, demonstrating the interest in Europe in American scientific thought. Sabin asserts that this first English edition was brought out without Colden’s knowledge or consent. Benjamin Franklin attributed attacks on the publication to the reluctance of Europeans to learn from “us Americans.” Colden, with Franklin, was one of the founders of the American Philosophical Society. HOWES C559, “b.” SABIN 14268. DAB IV, pp.286-87. $7500.

52. [Colorado]: HISTORY OF THE ARKANSAS VALLEY, COLO- RADO. Chicago. 1881. [8],11-889pp. plus 178 plates. Thick quarto. Original gilt three-quarter morocco and pebbled cloth, a.e.g. Head of spine bumped and torn, extremities considerably rubbed. Inner hinges cracked but holding, old private bookplate. Else a good copy.

A pleasing and quite massive early Colorado mug book, with portraits and biographies of prominent citizens. Many charming plates depicting ranching, mining works, factories, homes, etc. An essential history for southeastern Colorado. HOWES A314, “aa.” $600.

Second Edition

53. Cook, David J.: HANDS UP; OR, THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF DE- TECTIVE LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS AND ON THE PLAINS.... Denver. 1897. 442pp. Illus. Original gilt cloth. Inner front hinge cracking, else very good.

The first edition of this work, printed in 1882, is extremely rare, said to have been used as gun wadding in the Ute War. An important outlaw book. HOWES C728. GRAFF 862. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 483. $200.

54. Cooke, Philip St. George: SCENES AND ADVENTURES IN THE ARMY: OR, ROMANCE OF MILITARY LIFE. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1859. 432pp. Original green patterned cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Front hinge cracked. Slight foxing. Overall very good. From the library of Guy Littell, with his bookplate on the front pastedown.

Second issue, probably the same sheets as the first of 1857, with a cancel title and Cooke’s new rank of colonel. Cooke’s career was largely in the West, beginning as an escort for a Santa Fe caravan in 1829, and including service at Fort Atkinson in 1831 and on the Oregon Trail in 1845, which is as far as this volume carries his story. An interesting military memoir. WAGNER-CAMP 288:2. CLARK III:24. HOWES C740. FIELD 359. SABIN 16339. RITTEN- HOUSE 132. GRAFF 871. $650. 55. Copway, George: THE LIFE, LETTERS AND SPEECHES OF KAH-GE-GA-GAH-BOWH. New York: S.W. Benedict, 1850. 224pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Original blindstamped cloth, gilt title on front cover. Spine ends chipped, inner front hinge cracked. Else generally good. In- scribed on front free endpaper: “Bought of Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh or George Copway Ojibway Nation...Feb. 18th, 1851.”

Later American edition, after the first edition published in 1847 under a different title. The author was a chief of the Ojibway Nation, and herein gives a history of his people, especially their religious beliefs, traditions, and customs. Also his travels to Buffalo, Prairie du Chien, etc. Prints the text of his address before the Pennsylvania legislature in favor of giving Indians a permanent home between Ne- braska and Minnesota territories. In this he followed the Rev. Peter Jones, who was half Ojibway. This edition not noted by Howes or Field. A nice association copy. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 883. PILLING, ALGONQUIAN, p.92. SABIN 16717. HOWES C770 (ref ). $600.

56. Cornelius, Elias: THE LITTLE OSAGE CAPTIVE, AN AUTHEN- TIC NARRATIVE. Boston. 1822. 108pp. Lacks view of Brainerd plate. Frontis. 16mo. Contemporary calf-backed boards, gilt title on spine. Spine ends worn, edges rubbed. Tanned, some foxing. A good copy.

“The little Osage captive was rescued by missionaries from amongst the Cherokees, and given the name of Lydia Carter” – Ayer. The events take place in Tennessee. One of the plates is a view of the missionary establishment at Brainerd, Tennes- see. The frontispiece plate depicts the Cherokee captors showing the scalps of the little girl’s parents to the author, as the girl looks on. This is the first edition of a popular captivity narrative. HOWES C776. VAUGHAN 80. AYER 53 (ref ). $200.

One of the “Big Four” Cattle Books

57. Cox, James: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF THE CATTLE INDUSTRY AND THE CATTLEMEN OF TEXAS AND ADJACENT TERRITORY. Saint Louis. 1895. 743pp. Folio. Origi- nal gilt-stamped calf with vignette of a longhorn on the cover, neatly rebacked in matching style. Boards slightly rubbed, with minor repair on corners. Re- markably clean and fresh internally.

One of the so-called “big four” cattle books and, in our experience, the most difficult to obtain. The size and nature of the binding on this book often results in its being found in poor condition. “Supposedly most of the first edition was destroyed in a warehouse fire, hence its rarity today” – Merrill. “The book contains a wealth of information, and is a cornerstone in any range library” – Six Score. MERRILL ARISTOCRAT. SIX SCORE 24. ADAMS HERD 593. DOBIE, p.100. GRAFF 891. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 34. HOWES C820, “b.” VANDALE 44. $15,000. Famous Western Captivity

58. Crakes, Sylvester, Jr.: FIVE YEARS A CAPTIVE AMONG THE BLACK-FEET INDIANS: OR, A THRILLING NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES, PERILS AND SUFFERINGS ENDURED BY JOHN DIXON AND HIS COMPANIONS, AMONG THE SAVAGES OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY OF NORTH AMERICA.... Columbus, Oh. 1858. 224pp. plus six plates (including frontispiece). 12mo. Original cloth, stamped in blind. Cloth faded, a bit rubbed and shelfworn. Front free endpaper torn, with loss. One signature loosening; closed tear in pp.25-26 with no loss. Scattered light foxing, but generally quite clean internally. About very good.

According to Crakes, the text is based on Dixon’s notes, which were found in Santa Fe in the possession of a descendant of Castro Urego, for whom Dixon worked after his escape and until his death. At one time the highly romanticized style of the narrative led to suspicions about the authenticity of the tale, but the consensus today is that the captivity is authentic, although it probably occurred later than the ascribed date of 1806. Quite rare. The NUC locates only three copies. HOWES C850, “b.” WAGNER-CAMP 299. AYER SUPPLEMENT 37. GRAFF 903. VAUGHAN 81. STREETER SALE 3065. BRAISLIN SALE 508. $2250.

59. Crary, L.P.: A DIRECTORY FOR THE VILLAGE OF BUFFA- LO, CONTAINING THE NAMES AND RESIDENCE OF THE HEADS OF FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLDERS, IN SAID VIL- LAGE, ON THE FIRST OF JAN. 1828.... Buffalo. 1828. 55,[5]pp. 12mo. Modern cloth. Tanned and foxed, else good. Folding frontispiece map mostly lacking, supplied in facsimile.

The first directory of Buffalo, updated and printed annually for a number of years. Includes a history of the village as well. HOWES C867. SABIN 9055. STREETER SALE 909. SPEAR, p.68. $750.

60. Cushing, Frank Hamilton: ALMOST A LIFE, OR SAVED BY THE INDIANS, A TRUTHFUL STORY OF LIFE AMONG OUR WESTERN INDIANS [wrapper title]. [New York. ca. 1880]. 32pp. (including advertisements) illustrated in text with woodcuts. Original color pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn. Small closed tear in foredge of first two leaves. Near fine. In a half morocco box.

A clever snake oil promotional work which utilizes the story of how Frank Cush- ing’s life was saved by the administering of the Great Indian Sagwa while he lived among the Zunis in New Mexico. Cushing, among the most famous American ethnologists, lived among the Zunis for a number of years and did indeed suffer from poor health. In the interesting interview contained herein, Cushing relates details of his experiences among the Zunis, how he regained his health while living with them, how he was made a Priest of War, etc. Includes other examples of the curative powers of Indian remedies. OCLC locates only three copies, at Wichita State University, the Huntington Library, and the Bancroft Library at the University of California. There is also a copy at Yale. A remarkable and rare work involving the famous ethnologist. HOWES C971. OCLC 18119329, 80748339. $1500.

President Millard Fillmore’s Copy

61. Cusick, David: DAVID CUSICK’S SKETCHES OF ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SIX NATIONS, COMPRISING, FIRST – A TALE OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE GREAT ISLAND, (NOW NORTH AMERICA,) THE TWO INFANTS BORN, AND THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE.... Lockport, N.Y.: Turner & McCollum, 1848. 35pp. Original printed wrappers, minor wear. Contemporary inscription on front cover. Minor scattered foxing. Very good.

Third edition, after the first published in 1827. David Cusick was a member of New York’s Tuscarora tribe, the sixth of the Six Nations, or Iroquois. This is one of the earliest accounts of American Indian myths in English, written by an American Indian. There are four full-page illustrations depicting scenes from the legends, which are a creation myth, a legendary account of the arrival of Indians in the New World, and an account of the wars and coming together of the Nations. A scarce work in any edition; the second edition realized $4025 at the Siebert Sale in 1999. This copy is from the library of President Millard Fillmore, and is inscribed “O.H. Marshall to Mr. Fillmore” at the top of the front wrapper. Fillmore, who had one of the most extensive libraries of any president, was notable for his scholarship. Born and raised in western New York, he would have been familiar with the Tus- carora and their ways. At the time of the publication of this pamphlet Fillmore was governor of New York, but within the year he was vice president, and became president in 1850 on the death of Zachary Taylor. HOWES C979. PILLING, PROOF SHEETS 976. SABIN 18142. SIEBERT SALE 499 (ref). ANB 7:910-912. $3750.

62. [Dallas, Robert, or Joseph Galloway]: CONSIDERATIONS UPON THE AMERICAN ENQUIRY. London. 1779. 55pp. Half title. An- tique three-quarter calf. Very good. A very critical study of the British army under Gen. Howe’s command, and of the commanders themselves. “Jonathan Boucher attributed this to Joseph Galloway on his copy of the third edition, now in the Bodleian Library. The attribution to Sir Robert Dallas (1756-1824), who was twenty-three years of age at the time, seems less likely. He had been admitted as a student at Lincoln’s Inn only two years before and was not called to the bar until 1783. On the other hand, the author of this tract displays a familiarity with both political and military affairs in America going back to the early stages of the dispute, and he takes a position that is con- sistent with the one known to be held by Galloway” – Adams. Howes attributes the work to Robert Dallas. SABIN 18321. HOWES D28. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 79-42a. $850.

With Beautiful Steel Engravings of American Scenes

63. Dana, Charles A.: THE UNITED STATES ILLUSTRATED; IN VIEWS OF CITY AND COUNTRY. WITH DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL ARTICLES. New York. Herrmann J. Meyer, [1855]. Two volumes bound in one. 180,154pp. Extra engraved titlepages. plus eighty steel- engraved plates. Tissue guards. Quarto. Contemporary black three-quarter morocco, spine gilt. Hinges and extremities rubbed. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing throughout. About very good. In a black cloth slipcase.

Dana’s work contains handsome steel engravings of scenes throughout the country, many of them executed by Hermann J. Meyer. While Howes calls for seventy- seven plates, this copy contains three more. The first volume is devoted to the East Coast and includes views of Niagara, Washington, West Point, Mount Vernon, New York, and Harper’s Ferry. The second volume contains scenes in the West, in Minnesota, along the Mississippi, in Missouri and St. Louis, on the Plains, and in California. Includes views of San Francisco, Sacramento, California gold diggings, New Orleans, Fort Snelling, Nauvoo, New Harmony, St. Louis, Kansas, Jefferson City, Independence, a Mandan village, and others. A beautiful book. HOWES D45, “aa.” FLAKE 2657. $5000.

64. Darnall, Elias: A JOURNAL, CONTAINING AN ACCURATE AND INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE HARDSHIPS, SUF- FERINGS, BATTLES, DEFEAT AND CAPTIVITY, OF THOSE HEROIC KENTUCKY VOLUNTEERS AND REGULARS, COM- MANDED BY GENERAL WINCHESTER, IN THE YEARS 1812- 13.... Philadelphia. 1834. 87,[1]pp. 16mo. Original roan backed printed boards, expertly rebacked with most of original backstrip preserved, new endpapers. Boards speckled and rubbed. Internally about fine. In a crushed levant solander case by Riviere & Son.

Second edition of this popular narrative, originally published in 1813. The first edition is unprocurable due to its rarity, and the present edition is nearly as scarce. Sabin lists only the third edition of 1854. Prints the narratives of Timothy Mal- lary and John Davenport, who were taken captive by Indians during battle on the River Raisin near Frenchtown, important accounts of the War of 1812 in the West. HOWES D73. SABIN 18602 (ref ). VAUGHAN 84 (note). FIELD 399. TPL 943. $1250. 65. Davis, W.W.H.: EL GRINGO; OR, NEW MEXICO AND HER PEOPLE. New York. 1857. 432pp. including twelve plates. Original publisher’s cloth. Extremities rubbed, light soiling on rear board. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Later ownership stamp on titlepage. Internally clean. Very good.

An important account of New Mexico as viewed through the eyes of a U.S. official sent there soon after the Mexican War. After a stint at Harvard Law School, Davis served in the Mexican War and was afterward appointed U.S. attorney at Santa Fe. He later served as secretary to the territory of New Mexico and for three months was acting territorial governor. His is a most literate narrative of a journey over the Santa Fe Trail, starting in Independence in 1853, including much material concerning the political situation, Indians, senoritas, and the general atmosphere in New Mexico at the time. In later years Davis returned to his native Doylestown, Pennsylvania to run a newspaper, but he interrupted his work to fight in the Civil War. The illustrations were produced by Brevet Lieut.-Col. Eaton and F.A. Percey. Although the copyright notice on the verso of the titlepage is dated 1856, this 1857 issue is the first edition. “Davis was one of the first writers to have access to the archives in Santa Fe” – Wagner-Camp. “Excellent on manners and customs” – Dobie. STREETER SALE 437. GRAFF 1021. SABIN 18900. RADER 1073. WAGNER-CAMP 289. HOWES D139. RITTENHOUSE 153. DOBIE, p.76. $250.

Presentation Copy from William Henry Harrison of the Main Biographical Work on Himself 66. Dawson, Moses: [Harrison, William Henry]: A HISTORICAL NARRATIVE OF THE CIVIL AND MILITARY SERVICES OF MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM H. HARRISON, AND A VINDI- CATION OF HIS CHARACTER AND CONDUCT AS A STATES- MAN, A CITIZEN, AND A SOLDIER. WITH A DETAIL OF HIS NEGOTIATIONS AND WARS WITH THE INDIANS, UNTIL THE FINAL OVERTHROW OF THE CELEBRATED CHIEF TECUMSEH, AND HIS BROTHER THE PROPHET. Cincinnati. 1824. viii,464,[8]pp. plus 24-line errata slip. Contemporary calf, rebacked, corners repaired. Inscribed by Harrison on dedication leaf. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Good. In a brown half morocco and cloth slipcase. “This is certainly one of the most thorough, complete, and authentic treatises, relating to the Border Wars of the West, ever printed. The fine portraiture of aboriginal character, the narration of the minutest incidents of camp, treaty, and war, and the style of simple candor adopted by a scholarly mind, all commend the narrative to our judgment, and attract our interest in its progress” – Field. “Not only the principal authority on Harrison, but also one of the most exhaustive and dependable sources on events of the War of 1812 in the western country, Tecumseh’s uprising, etc.” – Howes. “The work is scarce and each year increases in price” – Thomson. This copy is particularly desirable, having been inscribed by Harrison to William L. Stone: “To Wm. L. Stone, Esq. With the respects of W.H. Harrison.” Stone (1792-1844) was a New York State printer and newspaper editor, an anti-slavery advocate, and an author of several notable historical works, including the life of Joseph Brant. He was appointed by President Harrison as the U.S. Minister to the Hague in 1841, but recalled shortly thereafter by President Tyler, following Harrison’s death. HOWES D158, “aa.” STREETER SALE 1333. THOMSON 312. SABIN 18956. GRAFF 1026. FIELD 407. $20,000.

67. Dawson, Thomas F., and F.J.V. Skiff: THE UTE WAR: A HIS- TORY OF THE WHITE RIVER MASSACRE AND THE PRIVA- TIONS AND HARDSHIPS OF THE CAPTIVE WHITE WOMEN AMONG THE HOSTILES ON GRAND RIVER. Denver. 1879. 192pp. including ads. Illus. Modern half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt. Old library blindstamp in upper margin of titlepage. Old accession number stamped in top margin of p.[3]. Titlepage and advertisements at end slightly age-toned and soiled. Else internally clean. A very good copy.

The primary contemporary account of the events which led up to the removal of the Ute Indians from their lands west of the 107th meridian. By the late 1870s most of the Indians of Colorado had been removed, with the exception of the Utes, who retained certain portions of their lands through the treaties of 1868 and 1873. White land hunger still remained avid, and in 1879 conflict broke out at the White River Agency where, under the direction of Agent Nathan Meeker, tensions had been especially high. After Meeker ordered the plowing of the Indians’ race track, a number of Utes left their reservation. Troops were ordered in from Wyoming and were ambushed en route, the agency was attacked, Meeker and eleven men were killed, and five women were abducted, including Meeker’s wife and child. After their rescue, the women related tales of horror about their period of bondage, and pressure for Ute removal increased. In 1880 a new treaty ceded most of the Ute lands, and most of the members of the tribes were sent to desolate regions of Utah. “After Hollister...the rarest Colorado imprint” – Howes. Edward Eberstadt writes, based on Dawson’s statement, that probably less than a dozen copies of this rarity survive. Apparently the book was used as cartridge wadding by troops during an Indian uprising. In later life Dawson became curator of the Colorado Historical Society. DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY, NOTHING IS LONG AGO 65. STREETER SALE 2194. HOWES D161, “c.” VAUGHAN 86. AYER SUPPLEMENT 42. FLAKE 2732. GRAFF 1028. JONES 1601. EBERSTADT 134:210. WILCOX, p.37. $4250. What’s East of Eden?

68. Dean, James: AN ALPHABETICAL ATLAS, OR, GAZETTEER OF VERMONT; AFFORDING A SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE, ITS SEVERAL COUNTIES, TOWNS, AND RIVERS. CALCULATED TO SUPPLY, IN SOME MEASURE, THE PLACE OF A MAP; AND DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF OFFICES, TRAVELLERS, MEN OF BUSINESS, &c. Montpelier: Printed by Samuel Goss, 1808. 43pp. plus errata page. Dbd. Uniformly tanned; some foxing on titlepage, scattered light foxing elsewhere. Good, untrimmed.

A presentation copy, with the inscription “A present from James Dean A.M.” written twice on the errata page, and the owner’s name there as well. The first few pages contain a geographical description of Vermont and its counties. Most of the text is taken up with detailed tables listing every town in the state, the county in which it is located, its population, neighboring towns, geographical coordinates, and distance from larger towns such as Bennington and Montpelier. In answer to the question of what is east of Eden, James Dean informs us that it’s Craftsbury, Vermont. A useful early Vermont gazetteer. GILMAN, p.70. McCORISON 984. HOWES D167. SABIN 19023. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 14840. $475.

The Extremely Rare First Edition

69. Dimsdale, Thomas J.: THE VIGILANTES OF MONTANA, OR POPULAR JUSTICE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. BEING A CORRECT AND IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE OF THE CHASE, TRIAL, CAPTURE AND EXECUTION OF HENRY PLUMMER’S ROAD AGENT BAND, TOGETHER WITH ACCOUNTS OF THE LIVES AND CRIMES OF MANY OF THE ROBBERS AND DESPERADOES.... Virginia City, M.T.: Montana Post Press..., 1866. 228pp. Lacks the two leaves of ads, found in some copies. Original printed front yellow-orange wrapper (rear wrapper lacking) bound into slightly later three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Binding a bit rubbed and shelfworn. Early ownership signature on endpapers. Very clean and fresh, and internally in near fine condition.

The very rare first edition. “Perhaps no book excells [sic] Dimsdale’s in presenting the picture of the lawless conditions that characterized the mining camps of the Rocky Mountain country. The author was editor of the Virginia City Montana Post and a participant in the extraordinary campaign against lawlessness...Exceedingly rare” – Adams. “Not only the first, but textually the most important, book ever printed in Montana” – Howes. Dimsdale’s work was originally issued in printed wrappers, and this copy retains the original front printed wrapper. Adams, however, calls the wrappers “pictorial” and says that the front wrapper should have advertisements on the verso. In past copies that we have seen, the wrappers are blue. However, in the present copy the front wrapper is yellow-orange and has no advertisements on the verso (which is blank). A legendary rarity of Montana and western outlaw books. HOWES D345, “b.” MONTANA IMPRINTS 2. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 596. GRAFF 1086. STREETER SALE 2221. $18,500.

Infecting the Rebels with Smallpox

70. Donkin, Robert, Major: MILITARY COLLECTIONS AND RE- MARKS. New York. 1777. [4],vi,[22],264pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Corners and hinges rubbed. Paragraph on p.190 neatly excised, as is usual. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good.

Written by a British Army officer serving in America, who states in the preface that subscriptions to the book will go to the widows and orphans of “the valiant soldiers...butchered when peaceably marching to and from Concord the 19th April 1775, by the rebels.” It contains many notes and anecdotes regarding the American Revolution. The portion of page 190 that is usually excised or mutilated (as in this copy) proposes that arrows dipped in smallpox be shot at the American rebels. A rare work, this being the only edition noted by Howes. HOWES D422, “b.” SABIN 20598. EVANS 15289. $6500.

71. Drannan, William F.: THIRTY-ONE YEARS ON THE PLAINS AND IN THE MOUNTAINS OR, THE LAST VOICE FROM THE PLAINS.... Chicago. 1899. 586pp. plus plates and ads. Portrait. Il- lus. Original elaborately decorated cloth. Some fraying at extremities, inner hinges cracking, contemporary ownership signature. Good.

The scarce first edition, reprinted many times. “Reminiscences – chiefly of adventures that never happened – by a senile braggart” – Howes. Lots of Indian fighting and hunting in the West, meeting with a number of famous characters. HOWES D482, “aa.” ADAMS SIX-GUNS 630. $225.

A Great Rarity of the 1864 Sioux Campaigns

72. Drips, Joseph H.: THREE YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS IN DAKOTA. Kimball, S.D. 1894. [4],139pp., including two pages of portraits. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, with original front wrapper pasted onto front endsheet. Split in left edge of titlepage repaired on the verso. A very good copy.

A very rare account of the Indian campaigns of 1863-65 in the Upper Missouri. Drips was a sergeant in Company L of the Sixth Iowa Cavalry. “The author participated in the Indian campaigns of 1863-5 under General Sully on the Upper Missouri, in North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. He was painstakingly precise in his description of various events, having kept a day-by-day journal. His descriptions of Indian battles include those at Fort Rice, Devil’s Lake, Knife River, White Stone Hill, the Yellowstone campaign, etc.” – Decker. This is one of the great rarities of the Plains Indian wars. HOWES D505, “b.” HOLLIDAY 317. GRAFF 1154. DECKER 31:97. $7500.

A Great Louisiana Rarity

73. [Dumont, Georges Marie]: MEMOIRES HISTORIQUES SUR LA LOUISIANE, CONTENANT CE QUI Y EST ARRIVE DE PLUS MEMORABLE DEPUIS L’ANNEE 1687.... Paris. 1753. Two volumes. [4],x,261; [4],338pp. (final six pages in second volume [pp.333-338] bound in between pages 328 and 329). Plus three double-sheet and two single-sheet plans, four plates of native plants and trees, and a folding engraved map of Louisiana. Half title in each volume. 16mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spines elaborately gilt, gilt morocco labels. Hinges expertly repaired, spines rubbed and chipped. Ex-lib. with bookplates on front pastedowns and one small ink stamp on first text leaf of each volume. A very good set, in contemporary binding. In a half morocco box.

A rare and important early history of French Louisiana. “One of the best contemporary histories of French Louisiana, based on the author’s twenty-five-year residence in the colony as an army officer, engineer, and planter. The first volume describes the natural history and life of the inhabitants, Europeans and Indians; and the second volume is devoted to the military and political history of the colony from about 1717 to 1740, especially the Indian wars. Dumont’s work is the first reliable account of much of Louisiana” – Streeter. The engraved plates depict four different tree specimens, while the wonderful plans show New Orleans and Fort Rozalie des Natchez, as well as a typical Louisiana house plan. The handsome folding map of Louisiana notes the different Indian tribes and villages in the region. This is one of the few reliable firsthand accounts of French Louisiana in the mid-18th century, and far rarer than the works of Bossu or Le Page du Pratz, the other cornerstones of the time and place. HOWES L250, “b.” FIELD 463. SABIN 9605. STREETER SALE 125. JCB (1)III:996. $9500.

74. [Earle, Thomas]: THE LIFE, TRAVELS AND OPINIONS OF BENJAMIN LUNDY, INCLUDING THE JOURNEYS TO TEXAS AND MEXICO; WITH A SKETCH OF COTEMPORARY [sic] EVENTS, AND A NOTICE OF THE REVOLUTION IN HAYTI .... Philadelphia. 1847. 316pp. plus folding map. Portrait. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt. Rubbed. Moderate to heavy foxing. A good, sound copy.

“Contains Lundy’s journal kept on his second and third journeys to Texas, 1833-34 and 1834-35, in search of suitable places for the colonization of freed slaves. On the second trip his route was by steamboat from Cincinnati to Nashville, thence to Memphis and New Orleans, and by sea to Brazoria; on foot to San Felipe; to San Antonio de Bexar, where he worked at his trade of saddler while planning a colonization scheme, August-October 1833, and to Monclava, where he remained until January 1834. The third journey began at Nashville, from which he went by steamboat to New Orleans, back up the Mississippi and Red River to Natchitoches.... On each of these tours he kept day-to-day accounts of his itinerary and activities. There are also some excellent descriptions of Texas” – Clark. “...A most interesting Texas book because of Lundy’s three journeys to Texas...to secure a colonization grant. Lundy was a keen observer and in his journeys refers to many of the prominent Texans” – Streeter. Scarce, and an important chapter in Texas history. CLARK III:66. GRAFF 1195. HOWES E10. WAGNER-CAMP (3rd ed) 108 (note). STREETER TEXAS 1169. $1000.

Texas Forger and Swindler

75. [Edwards, Monroe]: LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF THE ACCOM- PLISHED FORGER AND SWINDLER, COLONEL MONROE EDWARDS. New York: H. Long & Brother, 1848. 152,6pp. printed in double-column format. Frontispiece portrait plus numerous in-text engravings. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers worn at edges, torn along spine. An occasional bit of foxing. In very good, original condition. Untrimmed. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case.

Edwards, a famous Texas slave smuggler and forger, based his operations at Chenango Plantation in Brazoria County. He made a specialty of smuggling slaves to Brazil from Africa, and then from Cuba to Texas. Eventually he was sentenced to Sing Sing prison for his large-scale forgeries. In an escape attempt in 1847 he was se- verely beaten by guards, and then died. “Accomplished swindler, forger and Texas adventurer” – Howes. Although sensationalized, this is an amazingly detailed primary source for the schemes, love affairs, and trials of this Texas adventurer. Streeter attributes the work to George Wilkes, one of the editors of the National Police Gazette, wherein the account was originally published. “Because of the light the slave trade operation of Edwards throws on the slave trade in Texas and the public reaction to it, the general public interest in the doings of a resourceful and ingenious top-notch crook who happened to play a minor part in the history of Texas, a modern discussion of his life would seem to be an interesting subject for an article...” – Streeter. HOWES E62. SABIN 21980. STREETER TEXAS 1411 (ref ). $3500. 76. Edwards, Richard, and M. Hopewell: EDWARDS’S GREAT WEST AND HER COMMERCIAL METROPOLIS, EMBRACING A GENERAL VIEW OF THE WEST, AND A COMPLETE HIS- TORY OF ST. LOUIS, FROM THE LANDING OF LIGUESTE, IN 1764, TO THE PRESENT TIME.... St. Louis. [1860]. [4],[53]-604, [1],[30]pp. Plates, woodcuts. Thick octavo. Original gilt cloth. Lightly rubbed at extremities, neat bookplate on front pastedown. Overall very good.

Issued by subscription, this copy with a presentation inscription from Edwards. Contains a wealth of historical material, especially on early days in the West, the fur trade, scrapes with Indians, the Mexican War, and the commercial development of St. Louis, with many biographies of prominent citizens. Includes a view of Pittsburgh at the beginning of the text. The thirty-page section after the main text (not mentioned by Howes) is comprised of engraved plates to adorn a projected second volume, which was apparently never published. These specimen plates depict business establishments, breweries, mills, steam laundries, etc. HOWES E69. $400.

One of the Primary German Books on Texas

77. Ehrenberg, Hermann: FAHRTEN UND SCHICKSALE EINES DEUTSCHEN IN TEXAS. Leipzig. 1845. iv,258,[2]pp. Contemporary brown cloth, rebacked with backstrip in similar brown cloth, new paper label. Marginal wear to old boards, new endpapers. Text lightly tanned, with a few old stains. Good.

Third edition, after the first of 1843, and the first with this title. “One of the earliest German accounts of Texas, this is also an important source work on the events of the Texas Revolution” – Jenkins. Ehrenberg emigrated from Germany to New Orleans, and joined the Louisiana Greys to fight in aid of Texas in 1835. He took part in the siege of Bexar, the battle of Coleto in March 1836, and the Fannin massacre, from which he escaped. Later he took part in the gold rush and the early settlement of California. “By the leading surveyor, map maker and explorer of the early Southwest” – Howes. HOWES E83. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 54. STREETER TEXAS 1454b. RAINES p.75. GRAFF 1226. SABIN 22071. CLARK III:36. $3250.

78. Emerson, Charles L.: RISE AND PROGRESS OF MINNESOTA TERRITORY. INCLUDING A STATEMENT OF THE BUSINESS PROSPERITY OF SAINT PAUL; AND INFORMATION IN RE- GARD TO THE DIFFERENT COUNTIES, CITIES, TOWNS, AND VILLAGES IN THE TERRITORY, etc., etc., etc. Saint Paul: Published by C.L. Emerson, Minnesota Democrat Office, 1855. iv,[4],64pp. Quarto. Original printed front wrapper bound into modern polished limp black calf (lacks rear wrapper). Text lightly dampstained, some pencil notes. First leaf (ads) with 25% loss to upper portion. Otherwise very good. In a half morocco and cloth box.

Emerson, an early Minnesota land surveyor and civil engineer, obtained an intimate knowledge of Minnesota country and its pioneers through his professional travels. This interesting work provides a history of the settlement of Minnesota Territory from 1838 onward, as well as a directory of merchants, printing presses, lawyers, land agents, physicians, clergymen, hotels and taverns, traders, fur dealers, and even two artists. A table of distances is included for the potential settler, as well as several pages of local advertising matter. Very rare. Howes notes only four known copies, but OCLC currently locates eight copies. MINNESOTA IMPRINTS 84. GRAFF 1245. HOWES E138, “b.” SABIN 49306. STREETER SALE 1965. EBERSTADT 133:646. $2750.

79. Ewell, Thomas T.: A HISTORY OF HOOD COUNTY TEXAS, FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT.... Granbury, Tx.: The Granbury News, 1895. [4],161,[3]pp. plus 16pp. of advertising interspersed. Original gilt cloth. Cloth slightly spotted, front hinge nearly broken. Closed tear in title-leaf, printed on poor paper. Good.

A rare Texas county history. The titlepage calls for a “Sketch of the History of Somervell County,” not present here. Judging by the collation given by Howes, the latter occupied two leaves at the end of the text. However, this copy has far more advertising leaves than called for by Howes and agrees with the collation given by Jenkins. In any case, the history of Hood County, a quite early Texas county history, is complete. CBC 2475. HOWES E239. $1250.

80. Ferrall, Simon A.: A RAMBLE OF SIX THOUSAND MILES THROUGH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. London. 1832. viii,360pp. plus ten plates added as extra illustrations. Modern three-quarter green morocco, gilt-stamped spine. Very good. Lacks the frontispiece, as usual.

The author’s name was actually O’Ferrall. He includes a chapter of his observations while in New York state, with notes on Indians and Blacks. He spent some time in New Harmony before travelling through Illinois to St. Louis, stopping at Albion, then heading to New Orleans, Tennessee, Kentucky, Maryland and Philadelphia. The ten plates, uncalled for by Howes and certainly added at a later date, depict various scenes and people, including William Clark and Andrew Jackson. “Valuable source for the Ill. and Ind. frontier” – Howes. Contains much Indian material. HOWES F93. SABIN 24161. BUCK 245. $450. 81. [Field, David D., et al]: A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE, MASSACHUSETTS; IN TWO PARTS. THE FIRST BEING A GENERAL VIEW OF THE COUNTY; THE SECOND, AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL TOWNS. Pittsfield: Samuel W. Bush, 1829. 468pp. plus two handcolored folding maps, four wood-engraved plates (one folding), and one engraved plate. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gilt leather label. Boards slightly worn. Early inscription on front free endpaper, additional ownership inscription on verso of map facing titlepage, and other contemporary manuscript notes and drawings. Maps (both with contemporary hand-coloring) slightly dampstained with short clean tears. A very good copy.

An overview of the county, followed by a town-by-town history, with information on the American Revolution and Shay’s Rebellion, largely written by various Wil- liams College luminaries. A very early American county history. HOWES F112. SABIN 24270. $500.

82. [Filley, William]: LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF WILLIAM FIL- LEY, WHO WAS STOLEN FROM HIS HOME IN JACKSON, MICH., BY THE INDIANS, AUGUST 3d, 1837, AND HIS SAFE RETURN FROM CAPTIVITY, OCTOBER 19, 1866. AFTER AN ABSENCE OF 29 YEARS. Chicago: Published by Filley & Ballard, 1867. 112pp. including eight plates. Original front pictorial wrapper (rear lacking). Wrapper chipped and soiled. An occasional fox mark, some minor marginal dampstaining, else internally quite good. In a half gilt morocco and cloth slipcase.

Second edition, published the same year as the first. Much of the story of the “long lost Jackson boy” describes his adventures among the Indians and hunting in the Rocky Mountains. Filley was kidnapped from his home in Wisconsin in 1837 at age five and, according to this account, he spent the next twenty-nine years living with the Crow and other tribes in the northern Rockies. The account was edited by J.Z. Ballard. Quite scarce. HOWES F128, “aa.” AYER 98. FIELD 535. VAUGHAN 45. GRAFF 1322. SABIN 24238. CHI- CAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 1189. EBERSTADT 111:285. $1250.

83. Fleischmann, Carl Ludwig: WEGWEISER UND RATHGEBER NACH UND IN DEN VEREINIGTEN STAATEN VON NORD- AMERIKA. Stuttgart. 1852. iv,500,[28]pp. Illus. 19th-century limp cloth, leather label. Wear to wrappers. Light foxing and staining, p.25 trimmed close with minor loss to text. A number of blank pages bound in at rear. Good. Lacks the map.

A guide for German immigrants to the United States. A great number of German immigrants flocked to the United States following revolutions in the German states in 1848. This handy guidebook details everything the German immigrant might need to know when coming to America: distance charts for varying destinations from major cities, including many destinations in the Midwest; phrases in English with pronunciation guides, for cooks and chambermaids; a price guide for goods, current as of 1851; and it includes a section with a general guide to each state by region. Scarce, with only eight copies located on OCLC. HOWES F175. $750.

Important Narrative of Spanish Florida

84. [Florida]: NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE SPANISH MAIN, IN THE SHIP “TWO FRIENDS;”...WITH AN APPENDIX, CON- TAINING A DETAIL OF THE SEMINOLE WAR, AND THE EX- ECUTION OF ARBUTHNOT AND AMBRISTER. London. 1819. [12],328pp. plus errata. Half title. Original boards, expertly rebacked. Some light scattered foxing. A lovely copy, untrimmed and partially unopened.

The author resided in Florida from the fall of 1817 to the following spring. His is an important account of the last years of Spanish rule in Florida, and includes a narrative of a journey by land from St. Augustine to St. Mary’s on the Florida- Georgia border. “Almost the whole of the volume is devoted to the Seminole Indi- ans; the barbarous character of the war of the Americans with them; and anecdotes respecting the Seminoles” – Field. The book is also an important source for the Arbuthnot-Ambrister incident and M’Gregor’s filibuster. FIELD 1119. HOWES N12, “b.” STREETER SALE 1201. SABIN 51782. SERVIES 992. $2750.

A Swedish Guide to the United States at the Beginning of the Revolution

85. [Fougt, Henrik]: BESKRIFNING OFVER DE ENGELSKA COL- ONIERNE I NORD-AMERICA; UTDRAGEN AF DE TILFOR- LATLIGASTE ARBETEN, SOM I DETTA AMNE UTKOMMIT I ENGLAND AREN 1776 OCH 1777. Stockholm. 1777. 32pp. plus folding map, 10 x 16¼ inches. Contemporary plain stiff wrappers. Paper soiled, torn along spine. Early ownership signatures on front pastedown. Quite clean and neat inside. Very good. In a half morocco box.

A little-known and scarce Swedish guide to the American colonies, issued in the early years of the Revolution. Each of the thirteen colonies is discussed in its own section, with details on counties and towns, early exploration, colonization and history, climate, inhabitants, and more. The formerly Swedish colony of Dela- ware gets surprisingly little attention. The very interesting (and apparently quite scarce) Revolutionary map is entitled “Seat of War in America 1777” in English and Swedish, but is otherwise all in English. It has a small inset of the entire East Coast, but the main part of the map shows the region from the Chesapeake Bay up to Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It is a well-drawn map, the focus of which is the location of forts and large landholdings. OCLC locates a total of ten copies. Scarce. SABIN 5047. HOWES B398, “aa.” OCLC 187040219, 187040219. $4250.

86. Freeman, George D.: MIDNIGHT AND NOONDAY OR DARK DEEDS UNRAVELED. GIVING TWENTY YEARS EXPERIENCE ON THE FRONTIER.... Caldwell, Ks. 1890. 406pp. plus plates. Fron- tispiece portrait. Original maroon blindstamped cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Cloth discolored and rubbed, worn at spine ends and corners. Inner hinges cracked but holding; inner front hinge repaired, partially obscuring presentation inscription. Frontispiece loosely inserted and with a few chips around edges. Tanned, as usual. Good.

A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown. This is the first edition, second issue, with the added page of attestations, and with “Talbot” spelled correctly on the titlepage. Adams describes this edition as “exceedingly rare...the first edition is so scarce that some collectors think the 1892 edition the only one published.” Includes much material on the Talbot raid on Caldwell and the bank robbers, Henry Brown and Ben Wheeler. “An extremely rare history of Caldwell during this vital period” – Six Score. Presentation copies are exceedingly rare. HOWES F353, “aa.” ADAMS HERD 843. STREETER SALE 2030. SIX SCORE 39. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 763. DOBIE, p.121. GRAFF 1411. $3000.

Important Early Guide to Wisconsin

87. Freeman, Samuel: THE EMIGRANT’S HAND BOOK AND GUIDE TO WISCONSIN, COMPRISING INFORMATION RE- SPECTING AGRICULTURAL AND MANUFACTURING EM- PLOYMENT...SKETCH OF MILWAUKEE...A FULL AND AC- CURATE TABLE OF STATISTICAL INFORMATION OF THAT AND OTHER PORTS ON LAKE MICHIGAN...AND OTHER GENERAL INFORMATION TO EMIGRANTS. Milwaukee, Wi.: Sentinel and Gazette Power Press Print, 1851. 148pp. including ads. Original sheep-backed printed boards. Boards rubbed, front board loosening, hinges cracked, spine worn. First signature loosening, some light foxing. Good. In a half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt.

A thorough guide for emigrants to Wisconsin, largely designed for the use of Eu- ropeans, and the first important one printed there. It includes brief descriptions of the major cities of the east coast, and naturalization requirements. There is information on agriculture, industry, rivers, cities, employment opportunities, etc. “This is a quite complete handbook and guide to the state with interesting comments on wages and the like” – Streeter sale. Among the numerous advertisers are railroads, hotels, attorneys, architects, house builders, daguerreotype studios, a foreign language bookseller, and several breweries. OCLC locates only six copies. AII (WISCONSIN) 100. HOWES F354, “aa.” STREETER SALE 1948. BRINLEY SALE 4651. SABIN 25777. OCLC 30554010. $4250.

88. Fulkerson, H.S.: RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY DAYS IN MISSISSIPPI. Vicksburg. 1885. 159pp. Original cloth. Inner hinge cracked. Bit tanned, some soiling. A good plus copy.

Much material on steamboating, slavery, gambling, duels, railroads, and the Missis- sippi Bar. Also included is a brief account of the author’s trip to Indiana in 1843. Some of these sketches were revised for inclusion in this work after first being published in the Vicksburg Evening Post, and many are here published for the first time. HOWES F403, “aa.” GRAFF 1459. STREETER SALE 1565. $650.

89. Fuller, Emeline L.: LEFT BY THE INDIANS. STORY OF MY LIFE [wrapper title]. [Mt. Vernon, Ia.: Hawk-Eye Steam Print, 1892]. [2],40pp. plus three portraits (on two sheets). 12mo. Original printed front wrapper, lacks rear wrapper. Small portion torn away from bottom of front wrapper. Internally clean and tightly bound. Very good. In a half morocco box.

A rare Indian captivity. “One of the most harrowing records of personal experience, hardship and adventure on the overland ever to achieve publication. Those familiar with the terrible extremities to which the Donner Party were reduced in the Sierras will understand – and condone – the revolting means by which the remnant of this later party kept itself alive. In cold type we read: ‘We cooked and ate the bodies of each of the poor children, first sister Libbie, then Mr. Chase’s boys, and next my darling little baby sister....We also dug up the body of Mr. Chase...’” – Eberstadt. A gruesome narrative of survival. HOWES F407, “aa.” RADER 1054. GRAFF 1460. STREETER SALE 3197. EBERSTADT 107: 141. $1750.

The Rare Illustrated Edition

90. Gass, Patrick: JOURNAL OF THE VOYAGES AND TRAVELS OF A CORPS OF DISCOVERY, UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPT. LEWIS AND CAPT. CLARKE [sic]...DURING THE YEARS 1804, 1805, AND 1806.... Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey, 1811. 262pp. plus six plates including frontis. Original paper boards, rebacked in modern paper, ink title on spine. Old cancelled library blindstamp on titlepage. Internally crisp. A near fine, uncut copy in original state, untrimmed. In a half morocco and cloth box.

Third American edition, after the first of 1807, of the first published firsthand account of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The illustrations, first published by Mathew Carey in an edition issued in two states the previous year, are evidently based on the observations of a member of the party, and are the only extant illustrations of the famous journey. Gass was a sergeant who was charged, by order of Lewis and at the insistence of Jefferson, with keeping a journal, and this book seems closely based on that document. “One of the essential books for an Americana collection” – Streeter, describing the first edition. This edition, based on the experience of several veteran dealers, is the rarest. SABIN 26741. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 22891. WAGNER-CAMP 6:6. HOWES G77. GRAFF 1520. LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 3.6. $7500.

Interesting Dutch Traveller

91. Gevers Deynoot, W.T.: AANTEEKENINGEN OP ENE REIS DOOR DE VEREENIGDE STATEN VAN NOORD AMERIKA EN CANADA, IN 1859. Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1860. [10],264pp. plus six chromolithographic plates and lithographed titlepage. Half title. Original pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Cloth a bit sunned, else near fine.

A scarce account of Deynoot’s trip through the United States and Canada in 1859, featuring handsome chromolithographs. Deynoot left Rotterdam and went through Liverpool on his way to New York. He travelled throughout New England, visiting the factory towns of Lowell and Lynn, Massachusetts before crossing the border to Montreal. Deynoot then went to Quebec, returned to the United States via Detroit, and went as far west as Chicago, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and St. Paul. He steamed down the Mississippi to St. Louis, headed back east to Washington, D.C., passing through Louisville, Frankfort, Lexington, and Pittsburgh, and then through Baltimore and Philadelphia, then back to New York. The very attractive plates show the steamboat, Metropolis; hotels in New York and Boston; the Victoria bridge in Montreal; a log cabin out west and Indian wigwams beside the Mississippi; and the New York Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. One plate shows an image of the steamboat, City of Memphis, on the Mississippi, and a horse-drawn steam-powered fire engine in Cincinnati. This engine, invented by Alexander Bonner Latta and built and tested in Cincinnati, was the first practical fire engine, and Cincinnati became the first American city to replace volunteers with the horse-drawn steam fire engine and to form a paid fire department. A valuable narrative. HOWES G150, “aa.” SABIN 27251. $1250.

92. [Gonzalez, Rafael]: NOTA ESTADISTICA REMITIDA POR EL GOBIERNO SUPREMO DEL ESTADO DE COAHUILA Y TEJAS A LA CAMARA DE SENADORES DEL SOBERANO CONGRE- SO GENERAL, CON ARREGLO AL ARTICULO 161 NUMERO 8.° DE LA CONSTITUCION FEDERAL DE LOS ESTADOS- UNIDOS MEXICANOS EL AÑO DE 1826. Mexico: En la imprenta del Aguila, 1826. 9pp. Stitched as issued. Crisp and clean. Near fine. A fine copy of this “invaluable summary of the state of affairs in Coahuila and Texas at the time” (Streeter). The author, governor of Coahuila and Texas, gives details of frontier mail service, health, education, industry, and colonization. He reports a severe epidemic of measles and intermittent fever, as well as a lack of small pox vaccine. Indian hostilities are incessant, and he has entered six colonization contracts to settle in Texas 3,100 families from the U.S., with contracts pending for 400 English families. Rare. STREETER TEXAS 709. HOWES N211, “b.” $5000.

93. Grassi, Giovanni: NOTIZIE VARIE SULLO STATO PRESENTE DELLA REPUBBLICA DEGLI STATI UNITI DELL’ AMERICA SETTENTRIONALE. Rome: Luigi Perego Salvioni, 1818. viii,120pp., plus folding table. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt. Top of spine repaired. Early library stamp on titlepage. Uppermost portion of titlepage neatly excised, not affecting text. Very clean internally. A very good copy.

A wide-ranging yet little-known study of the United States, with an emphasis on American religions and the condition of the Catholic Church. Grassi was a Jesuit who resided for some years at Georgetown in the District of Columbia, as superior of the Catholic seminary. The second half of the text discusses the major religions in the United States, including the Methodists, Anglicans, Unitarians, Quakers, and more. Grassi then moves on to a closer examination of the Catholic communities in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Bardstown, Kentucky. The folding table lists all the states and territories of the U.S., and provides information on agricultural products, mineral resources, population, principal cities, and major universities. SABIN 28336. HOWES G318. $650.

One of the Rarest Works on the Vigilance Committee

94. [Gray, Henry M.]: JUDGES AND CRIMINALS: SHADOWS OF THE PAST. HISTORY OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE OF SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. WITH THE NAMES OF ITS OFFI- CERS. San Francisco: Printed for the author, 1858. 100pp. 12mo. Gathered signatures, string-tied as issued. Lacks wrappers. Title and last page of text dust soiled, some light scattered foxing. Very good. In a folding cloth box, gilt morocco label.

A vivid eyewitness account of the activities of the Second Vigilance Committee, one of the extra-legal organizations which evolved in California in the mid-1850s with the goal of ending the lawlessness then rampant. The attribution of authorship to Gray is due to a manuscript note on a copy seen by Cowan. Gray seems from the text to have been an outsider, but his eyewitness descriptions are detailed and insightful. Included are details of the murder of James King of William, the trial and execution of Casey and Cora, the role of state and federal authorities, the arrest of Justice David S. Terry for stabbing Vigilance Committee member Sterling Hopkins, the case of noted prize fighter Yankee Sullivan, and many more bloody and extralegal events. The appendix lists the names of the officers of the Committee, and describes its “military organization.” This work was chosen by Cowan as one of the twenty rarest and most important books relating to California history. No copy has appeared at auction for more than forty years, nor is any copy listed in the Eberstadt catalogues. There are copies at Newberry, Minnesota Historical Society, and Yale, as well as ten copies in California institutions, as noted by Greenwood and Rocq. The present copy is among those listed by Greenwood, and has been deaccessioned (but bears no library marks). This is the only copy we have ever handled, sold by us to a private collector in 1993 and now re-acquired. GREENWOOD 956. SABIN 76048. HOWES G334, “b.” GRAFF 2258. COWAN, p.319. COHEN 1533. ROCQ 10014. HOWELL 50:910. $5000.

One of the Gambling Classics

95. Green, Jonathan H.: GAMBLING UNMASKED! OR THE PER- SONAL EXPERIENCE OF J.H. GREEN, THE REFORMED GAMBLER, DESIGNED AS A WARNING TO THE YOUNG MEN OF THIS COUNTRY. Written by Himself. Philadelphia. 1847. 312pp. plus five plates. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth, spine gilt. Cloth bit spotted, some wear to extremities. Some light scattered foxing, plates browned. Very good.

The second edition, after the first of 1844. “A reformed gambler’s adventures among brother card-sharps, counterfeiters, etc., along the lower Mississippi, from Kentucky to Louisiana” – Howes. One of several works by Green, the most important early writer on gambling in America. This book is the most famous of his works, and reveals various forms of card-sharking and cheating. HOWES G365. $4500.

Very Rare Atlas of Maine

96. Greenleaf, Moses: A SURVEY OF THE STATE OF MAINE, IN REFERENCE TO ITS GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES, STATIS- TICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY; ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS. [with:] ATLAS ACCOMPANYING GREENLEAF’S MAP AND STATISTICAL SURVEY OF MAINE...[cover title]. Portland: Shirley & Hyde, 1829. Text volume: 468,[1]pp. Atlas: Seven maps and plates (some maps partially colored). Text: Original three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt morocco label. Boards lightly rubbed and edgeworn. Contemporary pencil notations on front endpapers, but generally quite clean internally. Very good. Atlas: Folio. Original three-quarter calf and marbled boards, printed orange paper label on front board; expertly rebacked, original spine laid down. Boards rubbed. Several maps reinforced with linen at folds. One map with a small edge tear. Very good.

A rare, early, and significant American atlas. Greenleaf was Maine’s first mapmaker, and this is one of the earliest state atlases, preceded only by those of South Carolina and New York. Greenleaf ’s Statistical View of Maine was first published in 1816, without an atlas. He enlarged and retitled his text volume in 1829, and added the present atlas. This atlas volume is quite rare and contains the best maps of the area made up to that time. The text volume is a detailed account of Maine’s agriculture, population, schools, commerce, natural resources, boundaries, and the like. Moses Greenleaf has been given a great amount of credit for promoting Maine as an entity separate from Massachusetts, a task he began with his “Map of the District of Maine” in 1815, followed the next year by his first book. After Maine attained statehood in 1820, Greenleaf published a revised map, and then began compiling more and newer information for the maps that eventually appeared in the present atlas. The map was published by Shirley & Hyde of Portland, Maine, but the maps and plates were engraved by William Chapin of New York. The maps and plates in the atlas, in the order in which they appear, are: 1) “Map of the Principal Rivers, Mountains and Highland Ranges of the State of Maine, 1828.” 22 x 13¾ inches. 2) “Sketch from Bouchette’s Maps of Upper & Lower Canada and the District of Gaspe.” 16½ x 17 inches. 3) “Sketch of the Imaginary Ranges of Highlands Reported by the British Surveyors under the Treaty of Ghent, as extending across the State of Maine.” 12¼ x 11¾ inches. 4) “Vertical Sections, Exhibiting the comparative Altitudes of the principal Highlands and Rivers of the State of Maine, 1828.” 20 x 29¼ inches. 5) “Map Exhibiting the Principal Original Grants & Sales of Lands in the State of Maine.” 32 x 24 inches. 6) “Map of the Inhabited Part of the State of Maine.” 20¼ x 24 inches. 7) “Meteorological Diagrams. Monthly means & extremes of temperature at Bruns- wick & Williamsburgh in the State of Maine.” 15½ x 12 inches.

HOWES G393, “aa.” SABIN 28666. PHILLIPS MAPS, pp.384-85. PHILLIPS ATLASES 1772. RISTOW, pp.94-96. RUMSEY 3441. $15,000.

97. Gregory, John: INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES OF WISCONSIN. Milwaukee: Starr’s Book and Job Printing Office. Juneau Block, 1855. 329,[2] pp. 16mo. Original cloth. Head of spine bit frayed, binding trifle sunned, else very good.

A rare early work on Wisconsin which, according to Howes, was originally to be issued in parts in Chicago; but, after three parts had appeared, the plan was abandoned. The unsold sheets, with balance added and a new titlepage (with Milwaukee imprint) resulted in the present first complete edition. A thorough introduction to the young state of Wisconsin, focusing on the agricultural and industrial potential of the region. HOWES G406, “aa.” SABIN 28740. AII (WISCONSIN) 31. $450.

98. Hall, Wm. Moseley: SPEECH OF WM. MOSELEY HALL, OF BUFFALO, N.Y. IN SUPPORT OF HIS RESOLUTIONS, WHICH PASSED UNANIMOUSLY, IN FAVOR OF A NATIONAL R. ROAD TO THE PACIFIC, ON THE PLAN OF GEO. WILKES, DELIVERED AT THE GREAT RIVER AND HARBOR CON- VENTION, AT CHICAGO, ILL..... Chicago: Journal Office Print, 1847. 22pp. Modern half morocco. Three instances of early ink highlighting margins, bleeding through onto surrounding pages. Four lines struck through by pencil but still legible. Overall very good.

One of the earliest speeches on the subject of a Pacific railroad, and a scarce Chicago imprint. The River and Harbor Convention met in Chicago in 1847 (coinciden- tally, the first convention ever held in Chicago) to discuss the issues of commercial navigation and transportation on the lakes and rivers of the United States. Hall took the opportunity of the meeting to deliver an impassioned speech on the necessity of a railroad from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and the logic of government funding of its construction. Hall endorses the construction plan of George Wilkes, who proposed that the railroad be built and owned by the federal government, over the competing privately funded charter plans of Asa Whitney and Hartwell Carver. Byrd locates nine copies. An early and important analysis of the feasibility of a railroad to the Pacific. Scarce. LITERATURE RELATING TO THE UNION PACIFIC, p.11. McMURTRIE (CHICAGO) 117. BYRD 1190. HOWES H91, “aa.” GRAFF 1744. SABIN 29862. OCLC 27772347. $3000.

The Extremely Rare First Edition

99. Harbison, Massy: A NARRATIVE OF THE SUFFERINGS OF MASSY HARBISON, FROM INDIAN BARBARITY, GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF HER CAPTIVITY, THE MURDER OF HER TWO CHILDREN, HER ESCAPE, WITH AN INFANT AT HER BREAST; TOGETHER WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CRU- ELTIES OF THE INDIANS, ON THE ALLEGHENY RIVER, &c. DURING THE YEARS, 1790, ‘91, ‘92, ‘93, ‘94. COMMUNICATED BY HERSELF. Pittsburgh: Printed by S. Engles, 1825. 66pp. 12mo. Con- temporary half muslin and paper boards. Boards quite worn and rubbed. Front free endpaper torn. Old stain in upper outer corner of titlepage and first three leaves of text. Tanning and foxing. A very decent copy, in original, unsophisticated condition. In a half morocco box.

The very rare first edition of this classic Indian captivity set on the Ohio-Pennsylvania frontier. Harbison and her infant child were kidnapped from their home on the Allegheny River by Indians in 1792. Her two young sons were scalped and she was held captive for two days before making a daring escape with her child and eventually reaching Fort Pitt. Includes an account of the defeat of St. Clair in 1791, based on otherwise unpublished dispatches. The Siebert copy fetched $18,400 in 1999. SABIN 30291. HOWES H179, “b.” AYER 335. FIELD 650. CHURCH 1332. GRAFF 1775. THOMSON 502. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 20806. SIEBERT SALE 980. $16,000.

In Original Printed Wrappers

100. Harman, Samuel W.: HELL ON THE BORDER; HE HANGED EIGHTY-EIGHT MEN. Fort Smith. 1898. xiii,[1],720pp. including more than fifty illustrations. Portrait. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Perforated stamp on titlepage and one other leaf, else internally clean and very good.

First edition of this outlaw classic, describing the career of the famous “hanging judge,” Isaac C. Parker of Fort Smith, with much on outlaws and life in the Indian Territory from the mid-1870s to the 1890s. “The chief source of practically every book and feature story on the old court and Oklahoma outlaws” – Adams. “An important source book, – all the statistical part of the book, the biographical sketches of those connected with the court and the transcriptions from the Court records, were the work of C.P. Stearns and are said to be scrupulously accurate...” – Graff. Adams asserts that the book was financed by J. Warren Reed, a criminal lawyer “who was such a thorn in Judge Parker’s side.” “One of the outstanding works relating to the establishment of law and order in Middle America” – Decker. Adams calls the book “exceedingly rare.” ADAMS SIX-GUNS 929. GRAFF 1785. HOWES H203, “b.” RADER 1780. DECKER 46:210. $1850.

101. Harmon, Daniel W.: A JOURNAL OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOUR OF NORTH AMERICA, BETWEEN THE 47th AND 58th DEGREES OF NORTH LATITUDE, EXTEND- ING FROM MONTREAL NEARLY TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, A DISTANCE OF ABOUT 5,000 MILES, INCLUDING AN AC- COUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL OCCURRENCES DURING A RESIDENCE OF NINETEEN YEARS, IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.... Andover. 1820. 432pp. plus folding map. Portrait. Half title. Contemporary calf, gilt morocco label. Binding worn and rubbed, hinges cracked. Foxing, some light staining. A good plus copy. Without the errata slip.

The first edition of this interesting work, edited for publication by Daniel Haskell (who surreptitiously inserted some religious maunderings not found in the author’s manuscript). Harmon joined the North West Company in 1780 and travelled to Lake Winnipeg and the Assinniboine, where he stayed some seven years. His later travels took him to Fort William, New Caledonia, Fort Vermillion, Fort Chipewyan, etc. Contains vocabularies of the Crees and Tacullies. The map, engraved by Annin & Smith of Boston, shows the northern United States and Canada to the Pacific Ocean in some detail. “An important book” (Howes), containing valuable firsthand information on the early fur trade. WAGNER-CAMP 17. SABIN 30404. FIELD 656. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1664. GRAFF 1786. HOWES H205, “b.” AMERICAN IMPRINTS 1518. STREETER SALE 3692. PEEL 71. LANDE 1216. TPL 1171. $1500.

The First Publication of the Harmony Society: Early Rappsters

102. [Harmony Society]: THOUGHTS ON THE DESTINY OF MAN, PARTICULARLY WITH REFERENCE TO THE PRESENT TIMES; BY THE HARMONY SOCIETY IN INDIANA. [Harmony, In.]. 1824. [2],96pp. Original blue paper wrappers. Covers soiled and stained, front cover torn, spine lacking. Dampstaining throughout. Edge of pp.51-52 (one leaf ) torn with no loss of text. A near good copy. In a half morocco box.

With the exception of a leaflet of songs, this pamphlet was the first publication of the Harmony Society after establishing its utopian colony at Harmony (later New Harmony), Indiana. Authorship is generally attributed to the Society’s leader, George Rapp. A German edition appeared the same year. “The English equivalent of the German text ends with line six on page 89. The remaining seven pages of this title were probably composed by the translator. Manuscripts in the Society archives reveal that printing of this title was not completed until 1825 and the title page was printed for the Society by Eichbaum and Johnston of Pittsburgh” – Byrd & Peckham. Howes bungles his entry for this item, giving the title of the Ger- man edition (incorrectly) and the collation of the English (also incorrectly). He accords it a “b” rating. An important American utopian statement from the press of one of the most famous American utopian communities. HOWES H206, “b.” STREETER SALE 4238. BYRD & PECKHAM 215. SABIN 95698. $3000.

The First Overland Guide Book

103. Hastings, Lansford W.: A NEW DESCRIPTION OF OREGON AND CALIFORNIA: CONTAINING COMPLETE DESCRIP- TIONS OF THOSE COUNTRIES, TOGETHER WITH THE OREGON TREATY AND CORRESPONDENCE, AND A VAST AMOUNT OF INFORMATION RELATING TO THE SOIL, CLIMATE, PRODUCTIONS, RIVERS AND LAKES, AND THE VARIOUS ROUTES OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Cincin- nati: George Conclin, 1849. 168pp. (lacks pp.129-152). Engraved titlepage vignette. Modern three quarter morocco and cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Scat- tered foxing, mostly on the early and late text pages. Good. Lacks the frontis.

The sixth edition (and the fifth known, as a second edition is noted as being published in 1845, but no copies are located) of the first guide to the overland trail. Hastings, a native of Mount Vernon, Ohio, was an early promoter of emigration to California. His propagandistic work played on the hopes and ambitions of emigrants, who were lured by the promise of “as much land as you want” in California. Hastings has been blamed for contributing to the Donner Party tragedy because of his promotion of a cutoff south of Salt Lake (his error was corrected). “...This is probably the most controversial of all guide books, and one of the most important early books concerning overland travel” – Mintz. Though Hastings’ guide was popular in its day, any contemporary edition is scarce on the market, including the present sixth edition, with Kurutz locating only three copies (CtY, CSmH, PP). The missing pages are from the chapters 13-15, which include a description of California. Imperfect, but so was the advice. HOWES H288, “b.” ZAMORANO 80, 41 (ref ). GRAFF 1815 (ref ). COWAN, p.270. MINTZ 215 (ref ). WAGNER-CAMP 116:6. KURUTZ 320b. $2500.

104. Hastings, Sally: POEMS, ON DIFFERENT SUBJECTS. TO WHICH IS ADDED A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF A FAM- ILY TOUR TO THE WEST; IN THE YEAR, 1800.... Lancaster. 1808. 220pp. Contemporary mottled calf, red leather label. Occasional fox marks, else a very good, tight copy.

After the section of poetry, Hastings has included a day-by-day account of a journey from Lancaster over the Alleghenies to Washington, Pennsylvania in October 1800. There is an account of the Ohio River at Pittsburgh and interesting commentary on the western frontier at the turn of the century. Early American poetry and an early account of a female’s overland travel. HOWES H289. STREETER SALE 834. THOMSON 524. SABIN 30826. $800.

A Legendary Rarity of Tennessee

105. Haywood, John: THE NATURAL AND ABORIGINAL HISTORY OF TENNESSEE, UP TO THE FIRST SETTLEMENTS THERE- IN BY THE WHITE PEOPLE, IN THE YEAR 1768. Nashville: Print- ed by George Wilson, 1823. viii,390,liv pp. Half title. 19th-century three- quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt label. Covers and spine worn, marbled paper on front board partially removed. Ownership inscriptions dated 1922 on front free endpaper and titlepage, additional ownership inscription (partially erased) on half title. Minor foxing. A very good copy. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase with cloth chemise.

First edition of Haywood’s substantial account of the natural and aboriginal history of Tennessee. A judge in Davidson County and one of the pioneering historians of Tennessee, Haywood wrote the companion volume entitled The Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee, from Its Earliest Settlement Up to the Year 1796, also published in 1823. In addition to providing much information about the Indians of Tennessee, the author attempts to demonstrate the relationship of Native Ameri- cans to the Caucasian race. He also includes details regarding Mexicans, Hindus, Persians, Peruvians, Cherokees, Chickasaws, and Natchez Indians. “In this book, now exceedingly rare and highly prized, the author has brought together a very large number of curious facts, relating to the origin and character of the natives of his State, prior to the settlement by the whites. He does not favor the hypothesis of great antiquity in the Indian nations of America, and believes in their common origin with the Caucasian race. He describes with great minuteness and care the relics of the race which once inhabited the territory, its utensils, skeletons, crania, and fortifications, most of which he appears to have personally inspected” – Field. This is one of the most difficult Tennessee books to acquire. The only copy to appear at auction in recent years was the Siebert copy (bought by this firm for a private collector in 1999 for $13,800). SABIN 31085. FIELD 670. HOWES H359, “b.” CHURCH 1325. STREETER 1659. SIEBERT SALE 371. ALLEN IMPRINTS 562. AII (TENNESSEE) 121. STREETER SALE 1659. $16,000.

106. Hazard, Samuel [editor]: THE REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF FACTS AND DOCU- MENTS, AND EVERY OTHER KIND OF USEFUL INFORMA- TION RESPECTING THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Phila- delphia. Jan. 5, 1828 – Dec. 28, 1833. Twelve (of sixteen) volumes. Uniformly bound in handsome contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, red leather labels. Bit tanned. Very occasional fox mark. Else a very good, particularly handsome set.

A nice run of the first twelve volumes of this informative Pennsylvania weekly, edited by the antiquarian Samuel Hazard, and published by him between January 1828 and January 1836. The DAB describes the contents of this publication: “The sixteen volumes of the series contain state papers and public documents, legal deci- sions, documents relating to the early history of the state, Indian history, treaties, anecdotes and antiquities, biographical memoirs, meteorological tables, mineralogical notes, and other interesting information. They are particularly rich in historical material. Some of the manuscripts in the American Philosophical Society relating to the early settlements on the Delaware were published for the first time in volumes IV and V of the series.” A mine of important historical information. HOWES H365, “b.” SABIN 31106. DAB VIII, p.472. $1500. Early German Traveller in the Midwest

107. Henni, Johann Martin: EIN BLICK IN’S THAL DES OHIO ODER BRIEFE UBER DEN KAMPF UND DAS WIEDERAUFLEBEN DER KATHOLISCHEN KIRCHE IM FERNEN WESTEN DER VEREINIGTEN STAATEN NORDAMERIKA’S. Munich. 1836. 128pp. Dbd. Remnant of plain paper spine, tape repair on last leaf at spine. Light soiling to outer leaves, minor soiling to text. Very good. Untrimmed. In a half morocco box.

Henni came to the United States as a German Catholic missionary in 1828, studying at Bardstown, Kentucky before becoming a vicar in Cincinnati. Most of his work was in Ohio and the Old Northwest. This work reports, in three letters, on the state of German Catholics in America, but centering on Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and western Pennsylvania. He discusses missions in detail, as well as disputes with Methodists, Campbellites, and the followers of George Rapp at Economy. Henni became bishop of Milwaukee in 1844, and became known as “Patriarch of the Northwest” in the course of a long career. Scarce. HOWES H418, “aa.” DAB VIII, p.542. $1750.

Early Photographs of Aged Revolutionaries

108. Hillard, Elias B., Rev.: THE LAST MEN OF THE REVOLUTION. A PHOTOGRAPH OF EACH FROM LIFE, TOGETHER WITH VIEWS OF THEIR HOMES PRINTED IN COLORS. ACCOM- PANIED BY BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE MEN. Hartford: Published by N.A. & R.A. Moore, 1864. 64pp. plus six original mounted photographs and six colored lithographs. Contemporary three-quarter leather and patterned cloth, gilt. Corners lightly rubbed. Some light foxing. Very good.

This book is remarkable for its extraordinarily early mounted photographs of actual veterans of the American Revolution. Hillard produced it during the Civil War to inspire patriotic sentiments by providing verbal and visual portraits of the experienced old veterans. The colored lithographs show their homes. The persons photographed are Samuel Downing, Daniel Waldo, Lemuel Cook, Alexander Mil- lener, William Hutchings, and Adam Link. An additional chapter on James Barham is unillustrated as he could not be found, although there was no record of his death. The photographs provide a remarkable reach back in time, showing persons born in the 1750s and 1760s. “The photographs were made uniformly under makeshift circumstances as would have been required if the photographs were made in situ while Hillard visited each for a personal interview” – Goldschmidt & Naef. A truly wonderful little book. This copy does not contain a facsimile of a letter written by Edward Everett, who served as both a congressman and governor of Massachusetts, commenting on the work. The original letter was written within days of Everett’s death on Jan. 15, 1865, and the facsimile is not found in all copies. BENNETT, p.56. HOWES H490. SABIN 31871. TRUTHFUL LENS 86. McGRATH, pp.114-15, 132-33. $8500.

Among the Rarest Western Cavalry Narratives

109. Holliday, George H.: ON THE PLAINS IN ‘65...TWELVE MONTHS IN THE VOLUNTEER CAVALRY SERVICE, AMONG THE INDIANS OF NEBRASKA, COLORADO, DAKOTA, WYO- MING, AND MONTANA. THRILLING ADVENTURES, FINE SCENERY, AND HOW THE BOYS PUT IN THE TIME IN THE FAR WEST. [Wheeling, W.V.]. 1883. 97pp. Original pictorial front wrapper bound in later cloth, spine gilt. Boards and spine slightly soiled, old library shelf label on bottom inner portion of front board. Institutional bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States on front pastedown. A very good copy.

This is perhaps the most interesting of all the post-Civil War narratives, privately printed and of great rarity. Holliday enlisted in the Union Army at the age of fifteen. He served in the 6th West Virginia Cavalry and was mustered out in Washington. After the Civil War he re-enlisted and his regiment was sent to the Rocky Mountains “to assist in protecting the frontier, guarding the overland stage line, running the mails through the remote Northwest, and in protecting the Government posts along the North Platte river.” The regiment travelled from Washington, D.C. to St. Louis, thence by steamer to Fort Leavenworth, and up the Missouri River to Fort Kearny. Holliday’s unit served in Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana from the summer of 1865 to the following spring, mainly based in Fort Laramie. There is some account of the Sioux Wars, hunting on the Powder River, fighting at Horseshoe Station, chasing wild horses, hunting buffalo in Wind River Valley, etc. Illustrated with a full-page wood-engraved standing portrait of the author (sporting shoulder-length hair and an army uniform), and many other illustrations in the text. “An extremely interesting story” – Graff. HOWES H596, “b.” STREETER SALE 1828. GRAFF 1936. PHILLIPS SPORTING BOOKS, p.182. $11,000.

A Great Rarity of American Black History

110. [Horsmanden, Daniel]: A JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE DETECTION OF THE CONSPIRACY FORMED BY SOME WHITE PEOPLE, IN CONJUNCTION WITH NEGRO AND OTHER SLAVES, FOR BURNING THE CITY OF NEW-YORK IN AMERICA, AND MURDERING THE INHABITANTS...By the Recorder of the City of New-York. New York: Printed by James Parker, at the New Printing-Office, 1744. [2],vi,205,[1],16pp., all but the Preface printed in double-column format. Quarto. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Hinges cracked. Boards rubbed and lightly soiled; extremities worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Moderate foxing and toning in text. A good copy, in original condition. In a green morocco clamshell case.

One of the rarest and most important early histories of New York, and one of the most substantial early New York imprints. The slave conspiracy of 1741, which was probably a relatively limited plot, engulfed the colonies and New York in fear of an uprising and drove the slaveholders to deeds of appalling cruelty; thirteen slaves were burned at the stake, and others hanged. Horsmanden was one of the judges. The assembled evidence against the slaves indicted is of interest far beyond the trial, because it reveals a wealth of detail about daily life in households, the kinds of freedoms slaves had, and all sorts of domestic details. This copy contains the appendix printing the depositions of several witnesses, and the tables include “A List of Negroes committed on Account of the Conspiracy” and a list of whites taken into custody. “An excessively rare work” – Sabin. HOWES H652, “c.” SABIN 33058. EVANS 5413. CHURCH 951. $17,500.

A Famous Texas Indian Captivity Rarity

111. House, E.A.: A NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY OF MRS. HORN, AND HER TWO CHILDREN, WITH MRS. HARRIS, BY THE CAMANCHE INDIANS, AFTER THEY HAD MURDERED THEIR HUSBANDS AND TRAVELLING COMPANIONS; WITH A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THAT NATION OF SAVAGES, OF WHOM SO LITTLE IS GEN- ERALLY KNOWN. St. Louis: C. Keemle, 1839. 60pp. Original rear printed cover only, lacking front cover. Rather worn and stained. Titlepage with some paper losses in gutter margin, text unaffected. Last eight leaves with small tears in inner margins toward bottom of each leaf (a few letters affected). Overall a quite good copy of this rarity, entirely unsophisticated. In a half morocco box.

“This book, famous as an Indian captivity, has in its earlier pages (6-18) Mrs. Horn’s account of joining Beale’s expedition to the colony he was establishing in Texas, which sailed from New York, November 11, 1833 (Mrs. Horn incorrectly gives this and an earlier date as 1834), and of the journey across southwest Texas from Copano, where they landed, by way of Bexar and Presidio Rio Grande to the site of Dolores, the proposed capital of the settlement. This was not far from the Mexican town of San Fernando, which was inland a few miles on the other side of the Rio Grande. The group arrived at Dolores on March 6, 1834. Mrs. Horn and her family found life in Dolores full of hardship, but they stayed there until March 8, 1836, when they joined a company of eleven men to undertake the journey to Matamoros. On April 4th, after they had reached the Nueces River, their wagon train was attacked by Indians. The men of the party were killed while Mrs. Horn and two of her children and Mrs. Harris were made captive. Mrs. Horn was ransomed in New Mexico in the fall of 1837” – Streeter. The Siebert copy of this work realized $20,700 in 1999. It too had some condition problems, including a perforated stamp on the titlepage. HOWES H642, “c.” AII (MISSOURI) 244. WAGNER-CAMP 74:1. STREETER TEXAS 1347. AYER 134. GRAFF 1973. FIELD 715. SABIN 33024. SIEBERT SALE 989. $16,500.

112. [Howard, H.R.]: THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOSEPH T. HARE, THE BOLD ROBBER AND HIGHWAYMAN.... New York. [1847]. 107pp. printed in double-column format, plus 1p. of ads. Illus. Modern cloth. Internally quite clean. Overall very good.

“One of the most notorious of early outlaws, who operated for eighteen years throughout the southern states” – Howes. Possibly a later issue, without the date on the titlepage. HOWES H701. SABIN 30364. SERVIES 3264. $650.

An Historical Hoax and Work of American Historical Fiction

113. Howe, John: [Roby, Luther] (attributed to): A JOURNAL KEPT BY MR. JOHN HOWE, WHILE HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A BRITISH SPY, DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR; ALSO, WHILE HE WAS ENGAGED IN THE SMUGGLING BUSINESS, DURING THE LATER WAR. Concord, N.H.: Luther Roby, Printer, 1827. 44pp. 12mo. Original printed yellow wrappers, stitched. Wrappers soiled and edgeworn, spine chipped with loss of about half the paper. Scattered foxing, evenly tanned. Good, in original, unsophisticated condition. In a half morocco box.

A fascinating work of early American historical fiction, and a grand literary hoax. This scarce work purports to be the memoir of one John Howe, a British spy during the American Revolution engaged in espionage in the northeast on behalf of General Gage. The text relates Howe’s experiences reconnoitering the roads from Boston to Worcester and Concord, with an emphasis on his activities in the days before the battles of Lexington and Concord. Included are the names of Tory agents, conversations with British officers, deceptions made toward American patriots, and more. According to Howe, he explored the road in advance of Percy’s expedition to Concord and Lexington and, joining the British at the former town on the day of the battle there, he was sent to Salem to carry letters to Tories. Eventually, Howe writes, he deserted the British and after the war went out to the Old Northwest to preach to the Indians and trade with them in furs. In the War of 1812 he attached himself to Hull’s army as a spy. Afterwards he became a smuggler, a career of which he gives a considerable account. Wright Howes was the most prominent bibliographer to cast doubt on the veracity of the memoir of “John Howe,” calling it a “thinly disguised plagiarism of the genuine spy narrative of Ensign de Berniere found in General Gage’s Instructions,” published in Boston in 1779. Recent research by the literary scholar Daniel Williams shows that the Howe memoir is indeed a fiction, likely invented by the printer/publisher Luther Roby and partially lifted from de Berniere’s experiences and modified to appeal to the American reading public. British regulars are depicted in a negative light, while the colonists are depicted as zealous patriots. The post-Revolutionary material appears to have been invented from whole cloth, again designed to appeal to the sensibilities of the New England reading public. But while of little use as primary evidence of historical events, the “John Howe” memoir is an important work in studying the development of a literary culture in the early United States, and how printers and publishers sought to satisfy the cravings of their readers. Not in Sabin and quite rare on the market. We can locate no copy at auction since the Streeter copy in 1967. The NUC, OCLC, and American Imprints together locate only eleven copies. Rare, interesting, and worthy of study. HOWES H725, “aa.” STREETER SALE 811. OCLC 33330890. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 29262. Daniel E. Williams, “Specious Spy: The Narrative Lives – and Lies – of Mr. John Howe” in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (Lubbock, Tx., 1993), Vol. 34, No. 3, pp.264-86. $5000.

114. Humason, W.L.: FROM THE ATLANTIC SURF TO THE GOLD- EN GATE. FIRST TRIP ON THE GREAT PACIFIC RAILROAD. TWO DAYS AND NIGHTS AMONG THE MORMONS.... Hart- ford. 1869. 56pp. Original blindstamped cloth, gilt. Slight wear to spine ends, hinges a bit worn. Contents lightly browned. Very good.

One of the first published narratives of transcontinental railroading. The author was in Utah at the time of the laying of the last rail, but he was in Salt Lake City ogling the Mormons instead of watching the ceremony. His party, in tow of a Central Pacific director, went on to California. GRAFF 2008. COWAN, p.295. HOWES H785. FLAKE 4132. SABIN 33685. WOODWARD 100. $350.

North America on the Eve of the French and Indian War

115. [Huske, Ellis]: THE PRESENT STATE OF NORTH-AMERI- CA. I. THE DISCOVERIES, RIGHTS AND POSSESSIONS OF GREAT-BRITAIN. II. THE DISCOVERIES, RIGHTS AND POS- SESSIONS OF FRANCE. III. THE ENCROACHMENTS AND DEPREDATIONS OF THE FRENCH UPON HIS MAJESTY’S TERRITORIES IN NORTH AMERICA.... London Printed, Boston, New-England, Re-printed and Sold by: D. Fowle and by Z. Fowle, 1755. [2],64pp. and advertisement leaf. Small octavo. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, gilt leather label. A bit of light foxing. Contemporary ownership signature on titlepage. Very good.

First published in London the same year, this is the very scarce first American edition. A second Boston edition (identified as such on the titlepage) was also issued in 1755, due to the great demand for the work. Huske reviews the history of North American settlement from an English point of view, then describes French aggressions in Nova Scotia, in Maine, penetration into upper New York and the Ohio country and throughout the South. Huske urges immediate war to remedy the situation. “This book was, at the time of its appearance, both inflammatory and influential. It set forth British aims in North America, making a clear, vigorous, and concise attack on the French pretension...” – Lande. Often attributed to John Huske, the North American Imprints Project, DNB, and British Museum Catalogue list the author as Ellis Huske ( John Huske’s younger brother). Ellis Huske was postmaster in Boston in 1734, preceded Benjamin Franklin as deputy postmaster general of the colonies, and was the publisher of the Boston Weekly Postboy for some twenty years. He died in 1755. HOWES H840, “aa.” SABIN 34027. LANDE 463. EVANS 7434. NAIP w028956. WROTH, AMERICAN BOOKSHELF, p.142. DNB X, pp.322-323. Appleton’s Cyclopædia III, p.330. $7500.

Utopias in Texas and Nauvoo

116. [Icarian Community]: [Cabet, Etienne]: COLONIE ICARIENNE AUX ETATS-UNIS D’AMERIQUE. SA CONSTITUTION, SES LOIS, SA SITUATION MATERIELLE ET MORALE APRES LE PREMIER SEMESTRE 1855. Paris: Chez l’Auteur, Janvier 1856. 240pp. Dbd., original rear wrapper present but detached. Quite clean internally, and in very good condition. In a half morocco box.

A scarce French printing of the principles, history, laws, constitution, and status of the Icarian communities in the United States. Founded by Étienne Cabet, the Icarian Community was among the most interesting Utopian experiments in the United States during the 19th century. After an unsuccessful attempt to settle in Texas, the Icarians established themselves in Nauvoo, Illinois, an abandoned Mor- mon town. After Cabet’s death in 1856, the group splintered, with some of the remaining Illinois group moving to Corning, Iowa. This volume, published in the year of Cabet’s death, offers his description of the community and the principles of its founding and operation, as well as the laws and constitution that governed them. Not in Graff. OCLC locates only eight copies. Scarce. SABIN 9779. HOWES C5, “aa.” STREETER SALE 4267. OCLC 23420055. $6000.

117. [Illinois]: A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE CITY OF PEO- RIA, COMBINING A SKETCH OF ITS EARLY HISTORY, TO- GETHER WITH A VIEW OF ITS PRESENT BUSINESS, MAN- UFACTORIES, &c., &c. Peoria, Il.: Transcript Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1859. 31pp. Printed yellow wrappers. Bit darkened, creased. Scattered foxing. Else quite good.

Thorough survey of Peoria from its history to its present business leaders, with additional information on, among other things, the educational system, railroads, trade and commerce, and the fairgrounds. HOWES P218 “aa.” $500.

118. [ Jacob, John J.]: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE CAPT. MICHAEL CRESAP. Cumberland, Md.: Printed for the Author, by J.M. Buchanan, 1826. 123,[1]pp. 12mo. Contemporary three- quarter roan over marbled boards, spine gilt. Covers worn, top outer corner abraded. 19th-century ownership inscription on front pastedown, 19th-century gift inscription and authorship attribution on titlepage, 19th-century inscription on rear pastedown. Top outer edge of text block abraded, affecting only page numbers of first ten leaves. A few contemporary manuscript annotations in the text. Minor age-toning and a few minor dampstains. A good copy. In a half morocco box.

First edition of this biography of Captain Cresap, defending him against charges that he slaughtered Indians before the beginning of the Revolutionary War. In particular, Cresap became infamous in the case of the Indian, Logan, and the murder of his defenseless family in 1774. “This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson’s account in Notes on Virginia....The immediate occasion for this now rare book, written by the revolutionary officer, later clergyman, who had married Cresap’s widow, was the reopening of old sores by [ Joseph] Doddridge in his then recently published Notes [on the Settlement and Indian Wars, of the Western Parts of Virginia & Pennsylvania, from the Year 1763 Until the Year 1783 Inclusive] of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest” – Streeter. HOWES J32, “b.” SABIN 35488. STREETER SALE 1335. FIELD 769. THOMSON 640. AMERI- CAN IMPRINTS 24967. DAB IV, p.538 (Cresap). $3500.

With Material Not in Other Editions

119. [ James, Edwin]: MÉMOIRES DE JOHN TANNER, OU TRENTE ANNÉES DANS LES DÉSERTS DE L’AMERIQUE DU NORD.... Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1835. Two volumes. xl,355; [2],416pp. Half title in each volume. Contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards, gilt- lettered spine. Slight wear to extremities. Moderate foxing and browning. Very good.

“Minute, vivid...account of all phases of Indian life” – Howes. “[Tanner’s] relation of his life among the Northern Indians, is probably the most minute...ever printed” – Field. “Part II...is ascribed to Edwin James and contains comments on various aspects of Indian culture – their customs, knowledge of astronomy, music, and poetry – a catalogue of plants and animals, and a vocabulary of Ojibway words and phrases” – Wagner-Camp. “His narrative contains much information about the Hudson’s Bay and Northwest Companies, and about Lord Selkirk’s Red River colony” – Streeter. Field states that Schoolcraft was “strongly prejudiced” against Tanner, who assaulted him and then in 1846 murdered Schoolcraft’s brother, James. This French edition contains additional notes not in any other edition, according to Howes. HOWES J42. SABIN 94329. WAGNER-CAMP 40:3. Another edition: FIELD 772. GRAFF 2189. STREETER SALE 3701. AYER 290. $1250.

120. Janson, Charles William: THE STRANGER IN AMERICA. Lon- don. 1807. [22] (including engraved title),499,[1]pp. plus nine tinted plates and a plan of Philadelphia. Large quarto. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Frontispiece, titlepages, a few early text leaves, and final leaf with marginal repairs made with tissue. Tanning and foxing. Tear in leaf 2R3 (likely a paper flaw) affecting a few letters of text. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Good.

Janson lived in America from 1793 to 1805 and did not like what he saw, or at least felt that the rise of Jeffersonian democracy was guided by the devil. Clark sums up the book well: “Janson draws a picture of unrelieved black, but one worthy of attention because of the length of his stay and the breadth of his interests. He covers an astonishing variety of subjects in a loose topical arrangement....” “A petulant view of U.S. life” – Howes. In fact, the man’s ill temper is quite amusing. He lived for some time in Rhode Island, where he failed in business, and travelled in the South, equally hating Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia, where he was defrauded in the Yazoo land scheme. The handsomely produced book contains nine tinted plates depicting six scenes in Philadelphia, one of Mount Vernon, and one each in Boston and New York. Little known is the fact that the appendix to the book contains, on pages 482-489, what appears to be the first British printing of Thomas Jefferson’s December 1806 message announcing the completion of the Lewis and Clark expedition, as well as other western explorations. This should seem to qualify it for inclusion in Wagner-Camp, though it is not listed in that bibliography. HOWES J59. CLARK II:99. SABIN 35770. $1500.

121. Jenkins, Thomas J.: SIX SEASONS ON OUR PRAIRIES AND SIX WEEKS IN OUR ROCKIES. Louisville, Ky.: Chas. A. Rogers, 1884. 218, [1]pp. 12mo. Original blue cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, spine gilt. Cloth slightly worn. Old ex-lib. marks of a seminary library, with bookplate on front pastedown and discreet circular ink stamp on titlepage. Very good.

A lively journal of an extended stay in the upper Plains and Rocky Mountain region. In journal fashion Jenkins relates his experiences in Minnesota in the first half of the text, while the rest describes the Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colo- rado. A devout Catholic, Jenkins also includes much information on the Catholic missions and churches of the region, as well as his prescriptions for spreading the faith westward. The Eberstadts note a work with nearly the same title and similarly paginated, also published in 1884, but “privately printed.” Not in Wynar. Scarce. HOWES J95, “aa.” EBERSTADT 106:170 (ref ). $1250. 122. Johnson, Edwin F.: RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC. NORTHERN ROUTE. ITS GENERAL CHARACTER, RELATIVE MERITS, etc. New York. 1854. 176pp. (misnumbered 166) plus two folding maps, folding plan, and seven plates. Modern half morocco. Faint ink stamp on titlepage and on two internal facing pages. Two maps with closed splits at folds, with no loss. Plates a bit tanned. Very good.

Styled the second edition on the titlepage, but actually the first printing in book form, sections having appeared previously only in periodicals. The author was a fine engineer and ultimately the chief of engineering for the construction of the Northern Pacific. Herein he summarizes the route later followed by the line, one of the most elaborate works issued before the Railroad Surveys. There is much information on the terrain of the proposed route, the findings of earlier explorers, climate, soil, etc. Projected railroad routes are shown on the maps, with possible routes outlined. “This is in many ways an extraordinary map....It has the routes of Lewis and Clark, Fremont and Emory well drawn, and its showing of the general features of the topography is also excellent, considering the time of its preparation” – Wheat. WAGNER-CAMP 239. HOWES J133. GRAFF 2216. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 811. SABIN 36207. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 240. $2750.

123. [ Johnston, A.S.]: MEMOIRS OF A NULLIFIER. Columbia, S.C. 1832. [2],110pp. plus errata page. Original paper covered boards, modern paper spine. Scattered light foxing. Very good, untrimmed.

Though this is a work of fiction, it is still an important southern states’ rights tract, written at the height of the nullification controversy. Taking the form of a memoir, the narrator of this allegory sets out to deflate northern ideas about federal supremacy and the political rights of the minority. Ascribed by Howes to A.S. “Johnson,” and by others to Dr. Thomas Cooper. A scarce and interesting work on states’ rights and nullification, appearing in Wright’s bibliography of American fiction, but also in several Americana bibliographies as well. WRIGHT II:760. HOWES J121, “aa.” SABIN 47565. TURNBULL 276. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 13189. $675.

Famous Indian Captivity

124. Johonnet, Jackson: THE REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF JACKSON JOHONNET, OF MASSACHUSETTS...CONTAIN- ING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS CAPTIVITY, SUFFERINGS, AND ESCAPE FROM THE KICKAPOO INDIANS. Boston. 1793. 16pp. Modern blue paper wrappers. Minor paper loss to first and last leaf, not affecting text. Very minor soiling. Very good. In a blue cloth box, leather label.

First separately published edition of this important Indian captivity narrative, providing a firsthand account of General St. Clair’s defeat. Johonnet had recently served under generals Harmar and St. Clair in the western army’s expeditions against the Indians in the Northwest Territory. He was captured on the banks of the Wabash River in August 1791 by a band of Kickapoo and taken to their camp on the Upper Miami, where he made a dramatic escape after witnessing the torture and deaths of his fellow soldiers. There were seven pamphlet editions published in 1793, of uncertain priority, and a chimerical 1791 Lexington edition; but Howes lists this Boston printing as the first pamphlet issue. This is the Frank Siebert copy. HOWES J176, “b.” SIEBERT SALE 441 (this copy). AYER 167. VAIL 945. EVANS 25665. $12,500.

A Contemporary of Tocqueville

125. Julius, Nicholas H.: NORDAMERIKAS SITTLICHE ZUSTANDE. NACH EIGENEN ANSCHAUUNGEN IN DEN JAHREN 1834, 1835 UND 1836.... Leipzig. 1839. Two volumes. xxviii,514pp. plus folding map and two folding sheets of music; xii,502,[2]pp. plus twenty-seven folding tables and thirteen folding architectural plates. Half titles. Contemporary paper boards, leather labels. Boards rubbed, joints and edges worn. Ex-lib. with ink stamps on front free endpaper and titlepage, otherwise quite clean internally. A good, solid set.

Like Tocqueville, Julius came to the United States to examine the prison system, and like Tocqueville he wrote a work discussing the country in general. “The first volume...describes its government, population, religion, charitable institutions, and other social features...the second volume is a detailed treatise upon crime and punishment in the United States...he spent some time in Richmond investigating the prison there, mainly because this institution had been omitted by Beaumont and Tocqueville” – Clark. HOWES J277. CLARK III:61. $425.

126. Keating, William H.: NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE SOURCE OF ST. PETER’S RIVER, LAKE WINNEPEEK, LAKE OF THE WOODS, &c. &c. PERFORMED IN THE YEAR 1823...COMPILED FROM THE NOTES OF MAJOR LONG, MESSRS. SAY, KEATING, AND COLHOUN [sic]. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1824. Two volumes. xii,[1],[9]-439pp. plus four plates, frontispiece and folding map; vi,[5]-459pp. plus frontispiece and nine plates. Half titles. Contemporary calf, leather labels. Wear to corners and outer hinges. Heavily foxed, one blank endsheet torn, tear in corner of one page not affecting text, slight repairs on map folds. A good, sound set.

First edition of the primary work on Stephen Long’s second expedition, compiled by its geologist and historiographer. “...Almost a cyclopedia of material, relating to the Indians of the explored territory. Nothing escaped the attention of the gentlemen who accompanied the expedition; and their statements regarding the customs, character, and numbers of the Sioux and Chippeway tribes, are among the most valuable we have of those people” – Field. Includes vocabularies of several tribes. The excellent plates, engraved by Hill after the drawings of Samuel Seymour, illustrate scenes and Indians on the upper Mississippi. The map depicts the Great Lakes, the headwaters of the Mississippi, and the Red River of the North, with the river origins and the complicated hydrography of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the border area rendered in far greater detail than ever before. Botanical collections relating to this expedition were made by the distinguished naturalist, Thomas Say. It was proposed that Thomas Nuttall write the descriptions, but in his absence the task became the responsibility of Lewis David van Schweinitz, and his work appears as an appendix in the second volume. WAGNER-CAMP 26b:1. FIELD 949. HOWES K20. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2066, 3494. GRAFF 2280. SABIN 37137. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 16763. STREETER SALE 1785. TAXO- NOMIC LITERATURE 3560. $2000.

Travels on the Eastern Seaboard in 1702

127. Keith, George: A JOURNAL OF TRAVELS FROM NEW-HAMP- SHIRE TO CARATUCK, ON THE CONTINENT OF NORTH- AMERICA. London: Printed by Joseph Downing..., 1706. Title-leaf, dedication leaf, 92pp. Small quarto. Modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt- stamped spine, raised bands. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Owner- ship signature at head of titlepage. Title-leaf a bit soiled. Very good.

Keith arrived in Boston in 1702 as a representative of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, having renounced his previous fanatical attachment to Quakerism. His travels from New England to Carolina during the two subsequent years had him sermonizing before a good number of congregations, as well as taking part in several pamphlet controversies (Sabin attributes some fifty-two titles to him; see Reese’s bibliography of Keith’s American publications). He preached at Yorktown, Williamsburg, Jamestown, and other locations along the coast, and made a name for himself by taking on the “stubborn and irascible inhabitants” of the colonies. An important narrative by a major figure of the period. This copy is signed at the top of the titlepage by William Boothly, a noted English book collector of the period. CHURCH 827. STREETER SALE 817. CLARK I:108. SABIN 37199. William Reese, “Works of George Keith Printed in America” in Princeton Library Chronicle, Winter 1978, pp.98-124. HOWES K33, “b.” EUROPEAN AMERICANA 706/141. $8500.

Hall Kelley’s Call for Oregon Emigration

128. Kelley, Hall J.: A GENERAL CIRCULAR TO ALL PERSONS OF GOOD CHARACTER, WHO WISH TO EMIGRATE TO THE OREGON TERRITORY, EMBRACING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CHARACTER AND ADVANTAGES OF THE COUN- TRY; THE RIGHT AND THE MEANS AND OPERATIONS BY WHICH IT WILL BE SETTLED.... Charlestown. 1831. 27,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers, spine reinforced, stitched. Institutional stamp and light staining on front wrapper, else internally bright. Near fine. In a half morocco and cloth box.

This is the first major proposal by visionary promoter Kelley, all of whose schemes came to nothing, but whose ideas encouraged many others. This pamphlet outlines his well-reasoned plan for settlements in Oregon near the mouth of the Columbia River, with a woodcut plan of one of the proposed settlements printed on the last page. Kelley tried to obtain the assistance of the ministry in promoting his plan, with assurance of converting the Indians. This copy retains the original wrappers, noting a price of 12½ cents on the front wrapper, and giving a list of agents on the verso. At the end of the text Kelley calls on newspaper publishers to print his circular in their papers as a public service. WAGNER-CAMP 44a. STREETER SALE 3345. HOWES K43, “b.” TWENEY 89, 39 (note). GRAFF 2286. SABIN 37260. SMITH 2007. $12,500.

129. Kessinger, Lawrence: HISTORY OF BUFFALO COUNTY, WIS- CONSIN. Alma, Wi. 1888. xvi,656pp. plus double-sheet map. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth. Extremities a bit rubbed, front hinge starting but still intact. Frontispiece and title-leaf lightly dampstained. Good.

A quite thorough treatment of this Wisconsin county, with a wealth of information on the early settlements, Indians, natural history, geology, and agricultural resources of the region. With tables and lists setting forth agricultural and population statistics, plants found in Buffalo County, soldiers from the Mexican and Civil wars, the early settlers of the county, etc. HOWES K107. $400.

Pioneering Work

130. Kilbourn, John: COLUMBIAN GEOGRAPHY; OR A DESCRIP- TION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF GEOGRAPHY, IN GENERAL. Chillicothe: Printed at the Office of the Supporter, By Nashee & Denny, 1815. [8],[13]-228pp. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and boards. Binding heavily worn but still quite solid. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on endpapers. Light to moderate foxing and toning in text. Overall very good. In a half morocco box.

This curious and rare work predates the appearance of Kilbourn’s first Ohio Gazet- teer by one year. It contains descriptions of western territories such as Mississippi, Michigan, Indiana, the Northwest Territory, and Missouri, and therefore stands as one of the earliest western geographies. Included is a chapter about each of the other states and territories as well, with boundaries, rivers, and topography described, as well as population statistics, Indian inhabitants and slaves included. Not in Thomson or Sabin. Very scarce. HOWES K128, “b.” AII (OHIO) 261. MORGAN, OHIO IMPRINTS 891. WILKIE 317. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 35058. $3750.

131. Koerner, Gustave: McCormack, Thomas J., editor: MEMOIRS OF GUSTAVE KOERNER 1809 – 1896. LIFE SKETCHES WRITTEN AT THE SUGGESTION OF HIS CHILDREN. Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1909. Two volumes. xv,628; xii,768pp. plus plates. Original red publisher’s cloth, spines gilt. Extremities rubbed. Modern bookplate on front pastedowns. Internally clean. Very good.

Memoirs of German-born lawyer and politician Gustave Koerner. Koerner, who settled in Illinois, was an early member of the Republican party and a supporter of Abraham Lincoln for president. In 1862, Lincoln appointed Koerner minister to Spain. Koerner was likewise an active voice for the fair treatment of immigrants in the United States. He eventually served as lieutenant governor of Illinois. His memoirs detail his youth in Germany, his emigration to America, and his upward rise through legal and political circles. HOWES K243. $300.

132. Kohl, Johann G.: KITCHI-GAMI. WANDERINGS ROUND LAKE SUPERIOR. London. 1860. xii,428pp. Illus. Modern three-quarter polished calf and cloth by Bayntun, spine gilt, leather label. A near fine copy.

First British edition. “One of the most exhaustive and valuable treatises on Indian life ever written” – Sabin. “[The work] is wholly the result of personal experience, and one which only the most fervent scientific zeal and earnest self-abnegation, as well as a very high order of intelligence, could produce...[Kohl] endeavored to penetrate the thick veil of distrust, ignorance, and superstition which conceal the mind of the Indian, and learn the innate traverses of thought which give motive to his soul...” – Field. HOWES K247, “aa.” SABIN 38215. GRAFF 2354. FIELD 842. TPL 3573. GREENLY, MICHI- GAN 89. $1000.

133. Lafitau, Joseph François: MOEURS DES SAUVAGES AME- RIQUAINS, COMPAREES AUX MOEURS DES PREMIERS TEMPS. Paris: Saugrain and Charles Estienne Hochereau, 1724. Two volumes. [8],610pp. plus twenty-one plates including frontispiece and map; [26],490,[41]pp. plus twenty-two plates. Quarto. Contemporary calf, gilt, stamped with the arms of the House of Chimay on both covers. Extremities lightly worn, some scuffing to covers; head and foot of spine chipped. Book- plate on front pastedowns. Very minor scattered foxing. Very good. First edition of this detailed account of the customs, manners, and religion of the Indians of America. The work focuses mainly on the Indians of Canada, with over thirty pages of the second volume devoted to the language of the Hurons. The author was a Jesuit missionary among the Iroquois at Sault St. Louis. “An extraordinary summation of seventeenth century knowledge of the life and society of the American Indian. Lafitau’s comparison of Indian societies with ancient Asian societies was an attempt to demonstrate the Asian origin of the American Indian” – Streeter. The plates are particularly notable, showing numerous aspects of Indian life, including games, dances, ceremonies, and costumes. Some of the plates are based on De Bry or earlier sources, while others were newly engraved for this work. An essential Americanum. FIELD 850. SABIN 38596. BORBA DE MORAES, p.453. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2168. LANDE 494. HOWES L22, “b.” JCB (3)I:345. STREETER SALE 121. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 724/97. STREIT III:1359. LeCLERC 815. $8500.

134. [Langworthy, Edward]: MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE CHARLES LEE, ESQ. LIEUTENANT COLONEL OF THE FOR- TY FOURTH REGIMENT, COLONEL IN THE PORTUGUESE SERVICE, MAJOR GENERAL, AND AID DU CAMP TO THE KING OF POLAND, AND SECOND IN COMMAND IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DURING THE REVOLUTION.... London. 1792. xii,439pp. Lacks half title. Early 20th-century three-quarter roan and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities and spine rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. A few small spots of foxing, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

First edition, published the same year as the Dublin and American editions. Howes says the editor was claimed to have been Thomas Paine, working under the direction of Langworthy. “Contains many curious particulars relating to the war between Great Britain and the Colonies. Published under the direction of Edward Lang- worthy, of Georgia” – Sabin. A controversial figure, the DAB calls Charles Lee “one of the most extraordinary and contradictory characters in American history.” ESTC T146543. HOWES L83. SABIN 38903. LARNED 1411. $600.

135. Lanman, Charles: HAW-NO-NOO; OR, RECORDS OF A TOUR- IST. Philadelphia. 1850. [8],[13]-266pp. Later half cloth and marbled boards, rebacked. Spine sunned, hinges reinforced internally with cloth tape, moderate edge wear. Light scattered foxing. A good copy.

A fine account of Lanman’s hunting and angling adventures in the southern back country. Clark describes Lanman as a “prolific writer, a native of Michigan, artist, editor, onetime secretary to Daniel Webster, librarian of the War Department and later librarian in the Department of the Interior, nature lover, amateur explorer, and devoted Izaak Waltonian....” Parts of this work were later included, with added material, in Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces. The word “Haw-No-Noo” alludes to a Cherokee description of America as “the country upheld on the back of a turtle.” Lanman’s backwoods itineraries brought him into contact with people and animals that other more urbane travellers rarely noticed. The present account includes descriptions of the wild horses of Accomac County, Virginia, as well as chapters devoted to plantation life in the South, wildlife, and Indian legends of the Cherokee, Catawba, and Choctaw tribes. HOWES L88. PHILLIPS SPORTING BOOKS, p.217. CLARK III:342. $300.

French Libertine Among American Indians

136. Le Beau, Claude: AVANTURES DU SR. C. LE BEAU, AVOCAT EN PARLEMENT, OU VOYAGE CURIEUX ET NOUVEAU, PARMI LES SAUVAGES DE L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE.... Am- sterdam: Chez Herman Uytwerf, 1738. Two volumes. [14],370,[6]; 430,[6]pp. plus six plates (all folding) and folding map. Titlepages printed in red and black. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spines gilt extra, raised bands, leather labels. Very minor wear to hinges. On pp.378-379 and 411 of the second volume several sentences have been blacked out in ink (probably contemporary cen- sorship). Otherwise a fresh, clean set, in handsome contemporary bindings. Very good.

In 1729, Le Beau was transported to New France from a French prison where he had been incarcerated for libertarianism. He fled from Quebec to Holland in 1730, having been charged with counterfeiting and thereby facing a death sentence. Sabin describes his narrative as “a pleasant gossiping book, evidencing considerable acquaintance with the subjects described. It contains a description of the manners and customs of the Iroquois, the Hurons, the Algonquins, and other Indian tribes, derived from the author’s personal experiences, although the style in which the work is written is rather that of a romance than a true narrative.” Of particular interest are the chapters in which the author discusses the habits of the beaver and the religious ideas and customs of the Indians. “A description of Huron, Iroquois, and Algonquin customs, written in charming style and based, the Author claims, on observations made on a trip to America in 1729” – TPL. TPL 168. LANDE 513. HOWES L167. BELL L126. FIELD 901. GAGNON I:1992. JCB I:582. SABIN 39582. WINSOR IV, p.299. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 738/41. DCB II, pp.373-74. $2250.

With Original Photographs of the Sierras

137. [LeConte, Joseph]: A JOURNAL OF RAMBLINGS THROUGH THE HIGH SIERRAS OF CALIFORNIA BY THE “UNIVERSITY EXCURSION PARTY.” San Francisco: Francis & Valentine, 1875. 103pp. plus nine original mounted albumen photographs. Original blue cloth, title in gilt on front board. Ex-lib. with ink stamp on titlepage and evidence of removed plates on front pastedown and rear free endpaper. Lower outer corner of pp.47-48 and 49-50 repaired with tape, with no loss of text; lower outer corner of pp.51-52 repaired, costing about ten words in total. Small stain in lower margin of final few text pages and final photographic mount, else quite clean internally. Overall, very good. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell box, spine gilt.

A rare photographically illustrated account of a tour of Yosemite and the High Sierras, by one of the pioneer founders of the University of California. LeConte studied with Agassiz at Harvard before going to California to serve as professor of geology, and he was among the charter members of the Sierra Club. This work describe’s LeConte’s first expedition, with students of the University, into the Sier- ras, and the text wonderfully transmits LeConte’s enthusiasm for the region and its natural beauty. In his autobiography he describes his first years in California as “very active ones for me, the wonderful new country, so different from any that I had previously seen, the climate, the splendid scenery, the active, energetic people, and the magnificent field for scientific, and especially for geological investigations....” “A record of an excursion by Prof. LeConte and nine members of one of the early classes of the university. It is stated that but 20 copies were printed” – Cowan. The actual number of copies printed was almost certainly higher, perhaps as many as 120 (twelve for each member of the party). A beautiful book, with superb photographs depicting the range of northern California’s natural splendor. The images are captioned on the mounts as follow: 1) “...Great Yosemite Fall” (frontispiece group portrait of the party). 2) “The Grizzly Giant....” 3) “The High Sierras....” 4) “The Gates of the Valley....” 5) “Bridal Veil Fall....” 6) “The Heart of the Sierras. Lake Tenaya.” 7) “Day-Dawn in Yosemite. The Merced River.” 8) “...North Dome, South (Half ) Dome....” 9) “Montgomery St., San Francisco. Where our trip ended.”

HOWES L175. COWAN (1914), p.137. FARQUHAR 14a. CURREY & KRUSKA 230. KURUTZ, CALIFORNIA BOOKS ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS 27. ZAMORANO SELECT 64. $9500.

138. Lee, Daniel, and Joseph H. Frost: TEN YEARS IN OREGON. New York: Published for the Authors..., 1844. 344pp. Folding frontispiece map. Titlepage vignette. Contemporary tree calf, red gilt morocco label. Minor foxing. Bookplate on front pastedown, ownership signature on front free endpaper. Very good.

Nine chapters are devoted to the history and settlement of Oregon and the establishment of the Oregon Mission. Lee went to Oregon in 1834 with Townsend, Wyeth, and Nuttall, while Frost travelled by sea. “A minute and doubtless vera- cious journal of incidents of an arduous mission among the Northwestern Indians, with vocabularies of their dialects” – Field. “A Sketch of the Columbia River and Adjacent Country” shows the Northwest Coast north to above Vancouver Island and south to below “Mount Shasty,” with native Indian tribes, missions, forts, and rivers located. SABIN 39724. HOWES L197. TWENEY 89, 42. FIELD 904. GRAFF 2440. WAGNER-CAMP 111. FORBES HAWAII 1499. $500.

A Rare Overland Narrative and Indian Captivity

139. Lee, Nelson: THREE YEARS AMONG THE CAMANCHES, THE NARRATIVE OF NELSON LEE, THE TEXAN RANGER, CONTAINING A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HIS CAPTIVITY AMONG THE INDIANS, HIS SINGULAR ESCAPE THROUGH THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF HIS WATCH, AND FULLY IL- LUSTRATING INDIAN LIFE AS IT IS ON THE WARPATH AND IN THE CAMP. Albany. 1859. 224pp. Frontispiece portrait. 12mo. Original cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Cloth sunned, binding cocked. Con- temporary ownership signature in pencil on front free endpaper. A few fox marks, but overall quite clean. A very good copy.

“Lee was a member of the Texas Navy, which he left to join the Rangers; he went through and describes the early Mexican-Texas border wars...the Santa Fe Ex- pedition...the Mier Expedition...the Battles of Monterey, Palo Alto, etc. At the conclusion of the War, he started overland for California...but had only been out a few days when the party was surrounded by savages and all but the author and three others summarily butchered. His experiences in captivity are of vivid interest, and afford a most minute and detailed account of the manners and customs of the tribe. He gives also an account of the hardships and sufferings of his co-captives, Mrs. Haskins and her two daughters, including the torture of the former” – Eberstadt. “The appalling and monstrous cruelties of this untamable [Comanche] nation of nomads, reconciles us somewhat to their rapid extinction. Unlike the savages of the Algonquin and Iroquois races, who invariably respected the chastity of their female prisoners, the savages of the southern plains ravish and torture them, with the combined fury of lust and bloodthirst” – Field. “The best contemporary description of the life of the early Texas Rangers” – Jenkins. In the introduction to the 1957 reprint of Lee’s narrative, Walter Prescott Webb writes: “The story he tells is absorbing, but the information he conveys about how the Comanches lived before they were affected by the white man is invaluable.” A rare book, central to any collection relating to overland travel and Indian captivities, here in the original binding. WAGNER-CAMP 333:1. STREETER SALE 401. FIELD 905. HOWES L212, “b.” DOBIE, p.34. SABIN 39778. RADER 2215. GRAFF 2444. AYER 182. EBERSTADT 122:227. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 123. GARRETT, p.227. $8500. 140. Lévy, Daniel: LES FRANÇAIS EN CALIFORNIE. San Francisco. 1884. ix,[1],373pp. 20th-century half calf and boards, spine gilt, raised bands, morocco labels. Corners slightly worn. Near fine.

A presentation copy, inscribed by Lévy on the titlepage. A detailed history of Cali- fornia, and the French in California, from the gold rush to the 1870s. “The author was one of the most learned members of the French colony in San Francisco, and this work is of permanent value” – Cowan. “A work of basic import resulting from many years of research” – Wheat. “A source book for the filibustering expeditions of Raousset-Boulbon, de Pindray, and de Sigondis” – Eberstadt. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 126. COWAN, p.391. ROCQ 16989. EBERSTADT 115:269. HOWES L304, “aa.” $850.

141. [Lewis, Hannah]: NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY AND SUFFERINGS OF MRS. HANNAH LEWIS, AND HER THREE CHILDREN, WHO WERE TAKEN PRISONERS BY THE INDI- ANS, NEAR ST. LOUIS, ON THE 25th MAY, 1815.... Boston: Printed by H. Trumbull, 1817. 24pp. Folding colored frontispiece. 12mo. Original plain wrappers. Wrappers torn and edgeworn. Closed tear in frontispiece with no loss. Horizontal tear in leaves C and C1, with no loss of text. Very good, untrimmed. In a half morocco and cloth box.

A riveting, possibly fanciful, captivity narrative. Though identified as St. Louis, Buck supposes that the action probably took place in Illinois. Later editions identify the captors as members of the Sac and Fox tribes. The partially colored frontispiece shows a weeping Mrs. Lewis being taken into captivity. She and her eldest son escaped in April 1817, leaving her other two children behind. Howes calls for another 1817 edition; but Ayer, Field, and Sabin do not identify anything earlier than this self-styled “second edition.” AYER 184. FIELD 924. HOWES L311, “aa.” BUCK 90. SABIN 40808. $3750.

Livingston’s Reply to Jefferson on the New Orleans Batture Seizure

142. Livingston, Edward: AN ANSWER TO MR. JEFFERSON’S JUS- TIFICATION OF HIS CONDUCT IN THE CASE OF THE NEW ORLEANS BATTURE. Philadelphia: William Fry, 1813. xi,187pp. plus two folding maps. Half title. Contemporary plain wrappers. Spine perished, chipped and worn at extremities. Minor foxing. Very good, untrimmed.

Livingston’s bitter reply to Jefferson’s justification for confiscating the former’s waterfront property in New Orleans. The New Orleans batture case was one of the bitter controversies of Jefferson’s presidency. Livingston, a prominent New Orleans attorney, claimed ownership of a strip of beach (the batture) at New Orleans which had long been used as a common boat landing. Jefferson asserted government ownership up to the high water mark and had a federal marshal forcibly dispossess Livingston. This resulted in a celebrated case of the use of federal power which continued to be bitterly argued, so much so that Jefferson felt constrained, four years after leaving the presidency, to compose his legal reasoning in a pamphlet, one of only three full-scale works published under his name in his lifetime. Livingston herein replies to the former president. This copy is unusual in that it contains the two folding maps relating to the controversy. They are almost always lacking. The second of these shows in detail the eastern suburb of New Orleans, one of the first such maps of the area. The Streeter copy, the last to appear at auction with the maps, sold for $1300 in 1967. BOUND TO PLEASE 14, p.20. HOWES L396. STREETER SALE 1593. SABIN 41610. COHEN 2827 (note). $5000.

The Best Edition, with Washington’s Journal 143. [Livingston, William]: A REVIEW OF THE MILITARY OPERA- TIONS IN NORTH AMERICA; FROM THE COMMENCE- MENT OF THE FRENCH HOSTILITIES ON THE FRONTIERS OF VIRGINIA IN 1753, TO THE SURRENDER OF OSWEGO, ON THE 14th OF AUGUST, 1756.... Dublin. 1757. 276pp. 20th-century red morocco, gilt, a.e.g., by Riviere & Son. One corner lightly worn, bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean. Near fine. In a red half morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. First Dublin edition of this important work, after the first London of the same year, which is among the prime authorities for the Lake George campaign of 1755. This Dublin edition is expanded slightly, including George Washington’s journal of his 1754 expedition in Ohio. Largely a vindication of Major General William Shirley’s conduct during his service as commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America during the Seven Years’ War, for which he was charged with neglect of duty, reviewing the progress of the war in Virginia and the northern colonies, including Washington’s capitulation at Fort Necessity and Braddock’s defeat at Monongahela. Shirley was replaced by Lord Loudon as commander-in-chief. The following year Loudon, placing the blame for the loss of Oswego squarely on Shirley’s shoulders, dismissed him from military office and removed him from the governorship of Massachusetts. It has been suggested that New York historian William Smith may have had a hand in the preparation of this work. ESTC N12681. HOWES L401, “aa.” $7500.

144. Lomas, Thomas: RECOLLECTIONS OF A BUSY LIFE. [Cresco, Ia. 1923]. 220pp. Original blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover. Fine.

A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. “The author relates memories of his 1864 wagon trip to Honey Lake, California. It seems that only a small number of copies were printed for his relations, making the book very scarce today” – Mintz. “Leave Prairieville, Wisconsin, April 23. Cross Missouri River at Council Bluffs-Omaha. Via South Pass to Salt Lake City. Stage route to Ruby Valley and Virginia City, Nevada. Helped to take 500 horses to California. Waited two days in line at the Council Bluffs ferry. ‘When we got to Omaha we were told that a company of surveyors were just starting out to survey the Union Pacific.’...At Salt Lake City told to camp ‘on Emigrant Square’” – Mattes. Not in Eberstadt’s Modern Overlands, Decker, Flake, Streeter, or the Soliday sale. MINTZ 298. GRAFF 2523. HOWES L436, “aa.” COWAN, p.870. MATTES 1967. $1750.

145. Loskiel, George H.: GESCHICHTE DER MISSION DER EVAN- GELISCHEN BRUDER UNTER DEN INDIANERN IN NORDA- MERIKA. Barby. 1789. [14],783,[1]pp. Thick 12mo. Contemporary calf. Very good.

The first edition, first state of this important work (with a six-line errata). A very important official account of missionary work among the Indians of the frontier in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York from 1735 to 1787, including details on the Gnadenhutten and Salem massacres, the activities of the Moravians and their missions, and what is reputed to be the first mention in a book of the discovery of oil in western Pennsylvania. The first edition is preferred to the translations because significant material pertaining to tribes which had become friendly in the intervening years was deleted in the translations and later editions. “...It is the best authority, both as to tradition and facts” – Field. HOWES L474, “aa.” PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2321. SABIN 42109. THOMSON 732. FIELD 952. $600.

146. Loudon, Archibald: A SELECTION, OF SOME OF THE MOST INTERESTING NARRATIVES, OF OUTRAGES, COMMITTED BY THE INDIANS, IN THEIR WARS, WITH THE WHITE PEO- PLE. [Harrisburg, Pa.]. 1888. Two volumes. [2],x,301,[1]; 357pp. Contempo- rary three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, t.e.g. Morocco scuffed and worn in spots. Bookplate on front fly leaf of each volume. Minor scattered foxing. About very good.

From an edition limited to 100 copies, signed by the publisher. The second edition, after the extremely rare and essentially unobtainable 1808 Carlisle edition, of this most important collection of Indian captivities and border wars. This work is generally described as the best, most famous and therefore most sought after book of Indian warfare. Among the narratives included are those of Dr. Knight, Col. Crawford, John Slover, Mrs. Frances Scott, Frederick Manheim, John Corbly, Isaac Stewart, Massy Harbison, Peter Williamson, Jackson Johonnot, Mary Jordon, Gen. Putnam, Col. James Smith, John M’Cullough, and many others. “It contains some narratives not elsewhere to be found, and is one of the most desirable works of its class” – Sabin. HOWES L487, “b.” AYER 188. First edition: SABIN 42165. FIELD 954. STREETER SALE 993. $2500. 147. MacGregor, John: OUR BROTHERS AND OUR COUSINS: A SUMMER TOUR IN CANADA AND THE STATES. London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1859. xix,[1],156pp. Half title. Frontis. 12mo. Con- temporary red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Slightly cocked. Minor foxing on end matter. Overall internally clean. Very good.

A critical view of the United States, written during a tour from Halifax to St. Louis and up the Mississippi River to Chicago. During his travels MacGregor was particularly concerned with the abolition movement, and includes much commentary regarding the treatment of Blacks and public attitude towards slavery. A good outsider’s perspective on the antebellum United States. Scarce. Not in Clark, although he includes Missouri as southern. HOWES M105. SABIN 43290. STATON & TREMAINE 3919. GRAFF 2612. BUCK 605. $500.

148. Maclure, William: OPINIONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, DEDI- CATED TO THE INDUSTRIOUS PRODUCERS. New Harmony, In.: Printed at the School Press, 1831. Two volumes bound in one. [4],480,[481]- 592pp. Modern calf, leather labels. Later inscription on fly leaf. Ex-lib. stamps and contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Moderately foxed. Good.

A set of the first issue of the first two volumes of Maclure’s Opinions... (a third and final volume was printed in 1838, and thus is accorded a separate entry by Howes). Byrd & Peckham write that this work “has a most irregular and somewhat confusing publishing history. Volume I was completed but no copies were released. The press continued with the printing of volume II, supplying an undated title page and numbering the pages continuously with the first volume. When page 592 was completed...some copies were released and are found bound as one volume. This is believed to be the first state of the publication.” They also note this first state as the rarest of the three possible issues. William Maclure, one of the more colorful figures in early American science, was born in Scotland and became an American citizen in 1803. He was active in the Philadelphia scientific world while travelling extensively in the United States. In 1817 he published the first geological map of the United States. By that time his chief interest had become the establishment of an agricultural school for common people, and in 1819 he purchased a large tract of land in Spain to carry out this scheme. When the land was seized by the Church, he turned to Robert Owen’s projected colony of New Harmony with his idea, persuading a number of scientific men such as Thomas Say and Charles LeSueur to accompany him. In 1827 he went with Say to Mexico, and except for a trip to Philadelphia, he remained there the rest of his life. His collected correspondence to his friends in New Harmony on political, social, and economic topics was published there as the Opinions.... Almost all New Harmony imprints are rare, and this work is no exception. HOWES M162, “aa.” BYRD & PECKHAM 443. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 8077. SABIN 43554. $1000. 149. Madelène, Henry de la: LE COMTE GASTON DE RAOUSSET- BOULBON: SA VIE ET SES AVENTURES. Alençon. 1856. 162pp. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Minor wear, else very good.

The rare first edition of the biography of the Count, issued two years after his death. Here the whole story is told. As Howes describes it: “The audacious dream of the conquest of Sonora and the mines of Arizona, extinguished only by two ill-starred expeditions and a final firing squad.” Two other editions followed this one. COWAN, p.340. HOWES M198. SABIN 38700. $300.

150. Mandat-Grancey, Edmond: LA BRÈCHE AUX BUFFLES. Paris. [1893]. [16],292pp. plus six double-page plates. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Near fine, untrimmed. In glassine jacket.

Second edition. The Baron’s second published account of his ranching experiences in the Dakotas and with Black Hills characters. Unlike his famous Dans les Mon- tagnes Rocheuses (1884), this work did not see contemporary translation into English. HOWES M245. ADAMS HERD 1436. GRAFF 2668 (1st ed). ADAMS SIX-GUNS 1437. DOBIE, p.100. JENNEWEIN 156. MONAGHAN 1017 (1st ed). $400.

The Greatest Early Work on American Steamboats, with the Atlas Volume

151. Marestier, Jean Baptiste: MEMOIRE SUR LES BATEAUX A VA- PEUR DES ETATS-UNIS D’AMERIQUE, AVEC UN APPENDICE SUR DIVERSES MACHINES RELATIVES A LA MARINE.... Paris: De L’Imprimerie Royale, 1824. Text volume plus atlas. [4],290pp. plus leaf of corrections and seventeen plates in the atlas. Text volume: Quarto. Con- temporary half green morocco and pebbled cloth, ornate gilt-lettered spine. Slightly rubbed, especially at head and toe of spine. Minor foxing on titlepage. Internally bright and clean. Very good. Atlas: Large folio. Modern half green morocco and cloth, ornate gilt-lettered spine. Small scuff mark on front cover. Minor foxing. Very good.

By 1824, American steamboat technology was well developed. The French, who had supported Robert Fulton in many of his early experiments, were eager to keep abreast of developments in the United States. This Memoire..., prepared by the officers of the French Ministry of the Marine, is the most elaborate treatise published on American steamboats of the early period. The work is quite rare, and when found is usually in the text volume alone. Sabin did not know of the atlas at all. The text records the history of the boats, contains extensive scientific figures on the boats in existence, lists boats in different parts of the country, and provides detailed technical drawings of hulls, frames, superstructures, and machine parts. Far and away the greatest work on early steamboats, so vital to the inland commerce of the Mississippi. SABIN 44523. POLAK 6384. HOWES M282, “b.” $5250. In Original Boards

152. Martin, François-Xavier: THE HISTORY OF NORTH-CARO- LINA, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD. New Orleans. 1829. Two volumes. [12],325,[1],[blank leaf ],[114]; [4],411,[1]pp. Half title in each volume. Contemporary boards, expertly rebacked. Minor wear to and slight dampstaining on boards. Occasional foxing. Small hole in front free endpaper of first volume. Contemporary ownership markings and notes, contemporary ownership signature, and later ownership stamp on front pastedown, front free endpaper, and titlepage, respectively, of each. Overall near fine, untrimmed. In a half morocco and cloth box.

An important early history, quite scarce, the first devoted entirely to the state, by the prolific lawyer-historian, François-Xavier Martin, issued the same year as his history of Louisiana. Jumonville locates only five copies. Copies in original boards are very seldom seen. HOWES M333. STREETER SALE 1140. JUMONVILLE 671,672. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 39436. $4500.

153. [Mason, Jesse D.]: HISTORY OF AMADOR COUNTY, CALI- FORNIA, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ITS PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS. Oak- land, Ca.: Thompson & West, 1881. 344pp. plus scores of lithographic plates and portraits. Quarto. Original half morocco and gilt pebbled cloth. Signifi- cant wear to spine extremities, leather slightly scuffed, but gilt lettering still quite bright. Binding intact and tight. Just about very good.

A scarce California county history and mug book, illustrated with many handsome lithographs of ranches and home sites, mining operations, public buildings, and the like. Includes chapters on the Donner Party, San Joaquin county, the Span- ish and Mexican periods, early agriculture, mining, gold discoveries, local politics, and the usual biographies. Amador county was created in 1854 from a portion of Calaveras county. ROCQ 1237. COWAN, p.13. HOWES A196, “b.” $1250.

154. Matthews, Sallie R.: INTERWOVEN. A PIONEER CHRONICLE. El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1958. xiv,[4],226,[3]pp. including illustrations by Buck Schiwetz Frontispiece portrait. Half title. Original half orange cloth and patterned cloth, gilt-stamped spine and cover. Contemporary ownership signature on half title, else fine.

One of 1500 copies of the limited edition, designed and printed by Carl Hertzog. “One of the best portraits of ranch life from a woman’s point of view” – Six Score. “Tells more about daily life on the frontier than any comparable narrative....A good history of a large part of the cattle frontier from the 1860’s to modern times [and] The most beautiful specimen of [Hertzog’s] work” – Greene. SIX SCORE 78. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 139. FIFTY BEST BOOKS ON TEXAS 12. HOWES M426. LOWMAN 105. DYKES HIGHSPOTS 90. $400.

Indians of Martha’s Vineyard

155. Mayhew, Experience: INDIAN CONVERTS: OR, SOME AC- COUNT OF THE LIVES AND DYING SPEECHES OF A CON- SIDERABLE NUMBER OF THE CHRISTIANIZED INDIANS OF MARTHA’S VINEYARD, IN NEW-ENGLAND...TO WHICH IS ADDED, SOME ACCOUNT OF THOSE ENGLISH MINIS- TERS WHO HAVE SUCCESSIVELY PRESIDED OVER THE IN- DIAN WORK IN THAT AND THE ADJACENT ISLANDS. BY MR. PRINCE. London: Printed for Samuel Gerrish, Bookseller in Boston in New-England, 1727. xxiv,310pp. plus [2],8pp. of bookseller’s advertisements. Late 19th-century gilt red morocco, raised bands, spine gilt, t.e.g. Small tear in titlepage expertly repaired. Internally quite crisp. A very good, handsome copy, untrimmed.

Mayhew worked as a missionary among the tribes in Martha’s Vineyard. “In this extraordinary relation of the effects of the Gospel upon the aborigines, are narrated biographical sketches of one hundred and twenty-nine Indians, who gave unexceptional tokens of conversion by Christian lives” – Field. Prince’s work has a separate title at page 277. HOWES M452, “aa.” FIELD 1045. SABIN 47124. JCB (1)III:399. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 727/158. SIMMONS 1727:17. $6500.

156. Mazzuchelli, Samuel: MEMOIRS HISTORICAL AND EDIFYING OF A MISSIONARY APOSTOLIC OF THE ORDER OF SAINT DOMINIC AMONG VARIOUS INDIAN TRIBES AND AMONG THE CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Chicago: W.F. Hall Printing Company, 1915. xxv,[1],375pp. plus illustrations and folding map. Frontispiece portrait. Con- temporary three-quarter black faux morocco and green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Minor wear to extremities. Internally clean. Very good. Lacks the half title called for by Howes.

A translation of Mazzuchelli’s memoirs, first published in Milan in 1844, with an introduction by noted St. Paul archbishop John Ireland. The author spent fourteen years as one of the primary missionaries to Indians on the upper Great Lakes. “Mis- sionary labors in Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan from 1830” – Howes. Translated by Sister Mary Kennedy of the St. Clara Convent, originally founded by Mazzuchelli. “Mazzuchelli, a member of a prominent and wealthy family of Milan, Italy, became one of the greatest Roman Catholic missionaries of Iowa and Wisconsin. Here he tells of his missionary experiences in northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, from the year 1830, when he was ordained to the priesthood at Cincinnati, until 1844, when on a visit home he finished these memoirs” – Streeter. The first edition, in Italian, is of the greatest rarity; this is the second edition and first in English. HOWES M457. SABIN 47208 (another ed). STREETER SALE 1811 (another ed). $400.

157. [McAfee, Robert B.]: HISTORY OF THE LATE WAR IN THE WESTERN COUNTRY. Lexington. 1816. 534pp. plus errata. Contem- porary calf, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down, leather label. Usual browning and foxing. A good copy.

Thomson views this book highly: “It is the original authority from which later writers borrowed freely...all the incidents of the War of 1812 in Ohio and the Northwest Territory are given with great minutiae of detail.” According to American Imprints Inventory, the book was written by McAfee and revised by James Buchanan. One of the most extensive products of the Kentucky press to that time, and one of the longest prose works, outside of laws, of that early period. A most important historical source. HOWES M9, “aa.” GRAFF 2568. JONES 781. STREETER SALE 1076. THOMSON 738. SABIN 42929. AII (KENTUCKY) 612. RADER 2270. $1500.

The Rare Maysville Edition

158. McClung, John A.: SKETCHES OF WESTERN ADVENTURE: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOST INTERESTING INCIDENTS CONNECTED WITH THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST FROM 1755 TO 1794. Maysville, Ky. 1832. 360pp. Half title. 12mo. Modern half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Uniformly browned, some pencil marginalia, else very good. The present copy contains the half title, which was lacking from the Streeter copy.

The very rare first edition of this miscellany of tales of the opening of the dark and bloody ground of Kentucky. One of the prime sources of the Daniel Boone tale, the work went through multiple later editions. Thomson calls it “the most complete collection of captivities and adventures ever published in one volume.” STREETER SALE 1666. SABIN 43052. THOMSON 745. VAUGHAN 191. AYER 189. HOWES M46, “aa.” COLEMAN 2221. $2500.

159. McCoy, Isaac: REMARKS ON THE PRACTICABILITY OF IN- DIAN REFORM, EMBRACING THEIR CIVILIZATION. Boston. 1827. 47pp. Modern leatherette. Title heavily soiled. Overall sound.

The first publication of this western Indian missionary. This work was the first publication of the tireless western Indian missionary, Isaac McCoy. McCoy sug- gests that all the area west of Missouri, southwest of the Missouri River, and north of the then boundary with Mexico at the Arkansas, become an Indian territory. “One of the earliest suggestions for a reservation on which to colonize and educate western Indians” – Howes. HOWES M70, “aa.” GRAFF 2591. FIELD 985. SABIN 43113. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 29566. $600.

160. McCoy, Isaac: REMARKS ON THE PRACTICABILITY OF IN- DIAN REFORM, EMBRACING THEIR CIVILIZATION; WITH AN APPENDIX. New York: Printed by Gray and Bunce, 1829. 72pp. Dbd. Light foxing. Closed tear in foredge of one leaf, not affecting text. Very good. Second edition, following the first of 1827 and adding an appendix. In the appendix McCoy gives his vision of the character and qualities of the proposed missions. Neither Graff nor Field note this second edition, and either edition of this work is scarce. HOWES M70, “aa.” SABIN 43113. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 39355. $450.

A Gold Rush Miscreant Tells His Story

161. McGowan, Edward: NARRATIVE OF EDWARD McGOWAN, INCLUDING A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR’S AD- VENTURES AND PERILS WHILE PERSECUTED BY THE SAN FRANCISCO VIGILANCE COMMITTEE OF 1856. San Francisco. 1857. 240pp. including seven full-page woodcuts within pagination. 12mo. Original printed paper wrappers. Light soiling and foxing to wrappers. Minor foxing to text, but generally quite clean. Very good plus. In a half morocco and cloth case, spine gilt.

McGowan was accused of being an accomplice in the murder of James King of William, but managed to escape the Vigilantes. He published this narrative to vindicate his conduct. When McGowan returned to San Francisco, he edited the weekly newspaper, Ubiquitous, in which he was free to rail against the Committee and its actions. “...a prime rascal, one of the truly colorful characters in California during the middle of the last century” – Graff. An intriguing view of the Vigilance Committee. COWAN, p.407. STREETER SALE 2822. GRAFF 2611. GREENWOOD 842. ADAMS SIX- GUNS 653. SABIN 43278. HOWES M103, “b.” WHEAT GOLD RUSH 132. ZAMORANO 80, 54. ROCQ 10310. $2500.

The McLeod Case

162. [McLeod, Alexander]: TRIAL OF ALEXANDER McLEOD FOR THE MURDER OF AMOS DURFEE. [Contained in:] GOULD’S STENOGRAPHIC REPORTER. VOL. II. New York. 1841. 416pp. Later boards, with original blue printed wrappers pasted on front and rear covers. Hinges cracked, hanging by cords. Lacks front free endpaper. Scattered foxing. Else good plus.

An extensive account of this celebrated case of international law which resulted from the Canadian Rebellion of 1837. According to McDade, “In 1837 an attempted insurrection in Canada was put down, and the group fled to an American island in the Niagara River. A small steamer, the Caroline, brought provisions to them, and the British sent a force out to destroy it, which they did, killing Amos Durfee in the effort. The incident led to a controversy between the United States and England. McLeod, while in Buffalo, boasted of being Durfee’s killer. He was arrested and charged by New York State with the murder. The United States government tried to prevent the trial, and failing, the United States Attorney successfully defended McLeod, who probably had no part in the event.” The case touched on delicate points of international law, as well as the great friction caused by the Rebellion of 1837. Howes describes a Washington edition of this work as the “enlarged edition.” TPL 2470. LANDE 1954. McDADE 661. COHEN 12860. HOWES M157 (Washington ed). SABIN 43531 (note). $400.

163. McLeod, Donald: HISTORY OF WISKONSAN, FROM ITS FIRST DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT PERIOD. INCLUDING A GEOLOGICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE TERRITORY WITH A CORRECT CATALOGUE OF ALL ITS PLANTS. Buffalo: Steele’s Press, 1846. 310pp. plus four plates. Origi- nal blindstamped cloth. Spine ends frayed. Touch of foxing. Free endpapers replaced. Overall just about very good.

This copy includes the four plates not present in all copies, but it does not contain the folding map, which is present in only a few copies. One of the earliest and rarest state histories to offer an account of the territory which now forms the state of Wisconsin. The plates depict native burial mounds and remains, many of which would send proponents of “ancient astronaut” theories into fits of enthusiasm. Includes much information concerning navigation on the Great Lakes, native inhabitants, development of commerce, and means of travel, etc. SABIN 43537. HOWES M159, “b.” STREETER SALE 1944. $1250.

A Major Shaker Rarity and Early Cincinnati Imprint

164. McNemar, Richard: THE KENTUCKY REVIVAL, OR, A SHORT HISTORY OF THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY OUT-POURING OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD, IN THE WESTERN STATES OF AMERICA...WITH A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE ENTRANCE AND PROGRESS OF WHAT THE WORLD CALL SHAKERISM, AMONG THE SUBJECTS OF THE LATE REVIVAL IN OHIO AND KENTUCKY.... Cincinnati: From the press of John W. Browne, 1807. 119,[1]pp. [bound with:] OBSERVATIONS ON CHURCH GOV- ERNMENT...TO WHICH IS ADDED, THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THAT REVEREND BODY.... Cincinnati: From the press of John W. Browne, 1807. 23pp. 12mo. Original floral-patterned paper over a calf backstrip. Most of the spine paper perished, boards stained and worn. Titlepage stained, carrying through in lesser fashion to the following eight leaves. Bottom inch of titlepage torn away, not affecting the imprint or any text. Small paper flaw in the leaf containing pp.87-88, costing a few letters but not affecting the sense of the text. Uniform tanning, a few signatures loosening. On the whole, still an attractive copy, in original condition. In a brown half morocco and cloth clamshell box, spine gilt.

A major rarity of American religious texts, this is the first edition of the first full- length book published by the Shakers. It is of extreme importance as an eyewitness account of the rise of the Shaker movement in the West, as well as a source of Shaker doctrine. MacLean calls McNemar the “father of Shaker literature,” and Bestor calls this work “the basic source on Shaker expansion to the West.” McNemar was originally a Presbyterian, but later converted to Shakerism and worked hard to establish that faith on the American frontier. “This is a first-hand account by a leader of the Kentucky Revival, one of the first western Shaker converts, which has been quoted extensively by later authors. McNemar describes frontier revivals, the Presbyterian schism, beginnings of Shakerism in the West, and early Shaker relations with the Indians” – Richmond. McNemar is also the author of the second tract included here, Observations on Church Government..., but is only identified on the titlepage as the “Presbyter of Springfield.” Springfield was a small community located eleven miles north of Cincinnati. It is a separate work from The Kentucky Revival..., with its own titlepage, and separate pagination and signatures. The text explains the tenets of the Shaker faith. Thomson calls The Kentucky Revival... “very scarce. This was one of the earliest books printed in Cincinnati.” It is very rare on the market indeed. Streeter was only able to acquire an 1808 Pittsfield reprint, and no copies of this first edition are located in auction records over the past thirty years. Rare and important. AII (OHIO) 64, 70. THOMSON 767. MACLEAN 65. RICHMOND 929, 1333. RUSK II:251-252. WILKIE 90, 97. BESTOR, BACKWOODS UTOPIAS, p.256. COLEMAN 992. HOWES M177, “aa.” SABIN 43605, 89893. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 12969, 13571. $13,500.

Crowning Infamy of the Ages

165. Mercer, Asa S.: THE BANDITTI OF THE PLAINS OR THE CATTLEMEN’S INVASION OF WYOMING IN 1892 [THE CROWNING INFAMY OF THE AGES.]. [Denver. 1894]. Preliminary leaf printing ordering information, 139pp. Original black cloth. Slight fraying at toe of spine, inner hinges cracked. Old inscription on front free endpaper, “To Elmer from the ‘Mayor’ Xmas 1909,” and similar inscription on rear free endpaper. Overall very good.

One of the most famous books on the cattle industry, growing out of the Johnson County War in Wyoming in 1892, which pitted the large, established members of the Wyoming Stockgrowers Association against the smaller cattlemen and squatters on the range. In the course of the bloody conflict, Mercer, editor of the Northwestern Livestock Grower, published in Cheyenne, took the side of the small growers and produced this vitriolic work. The book is said to have been suppressed, and may have been to a certain extent, but a fair number of copies exist today, although it certainly remains rare. The book is often listed as being printed in Cheyenne, but Mercer’s children maintain that it was printed in Denver, where Adams agrees it was bound. Its importance is great, chronicling one of the last major upheavals of frontier violence in the wars for the open range against fencing. It has since appeared in many later editions. ADAMS HERD 1474. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 1478 (“exceedingly rare”). DOBIE, p.111. GRAFF 2750. HOWES M522, “b.” SMITH 6735. SIX SCORE 79. STREETER SALE 2385. $5250.

A Great Midwestern Rarity

166. Metcalf, Samuel L.: A COLLECTION OF SOME OF THE MOST INTERESTING NARRATIVES OF INDIAN WARFARE IN THE WEST, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ADVENTURES OF COLONEL DANIEL BOONE, ONE OF THE FIRST SET- TLERS OF KENTUCKY.... Lexington, Ky. 1821. [2],270pp. Contem- porary calf, gilt leather label. Worn at extremities; boards scuffed, moderate foxing throughout. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on front pastedown, titlepage, and several internal pages. Several contemporary ink stains, including one on page 135 that has caused a small hole and loss of several words of text. Still, a good solid copy of this scarce title.

One of the rarest works of the midwestern frontier, chronicling the Indian wars and skirmishes of the Kentucky and Ohio frontiers in the late 18th century. “This compilation, seeking to preserve for posterity early border narratives, has become almost as rare as the originals themselves” – Howes. Metcalf includes narratives of Boone, Knight and Slover, several Indian captivities, and personal experiences of the Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne campaigns in Ohio. The last two-fifths of the book is a slightly abridged second edition of one of the rarest of western Indian captivities, that of Col. James Smith during the French and Indian War, first published in the unobtainable 1799 Lexington edition. STREETER SALE 1655. AYER SUPPLEMENT 84. FIELD 1061. THOMSON 818. SABIN 48166. PIERSON, LEXINGTON IMPRINTS 323. HOWES M560. $3750.

With Important Maps of the Rio Grande 167. [Mexican Boundary Troubles]: REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION SENT IN 1873 BY THE MEXICAN GOV- ERNMENT TO THE FRONTIER OF TEXAS. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1875. viii,[3]-443pp., plus three colored folding maps. Original cloth- backed printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, chipped at edges. Old institutional blindstamp on titlepage and following two leaves. Largest folding map with two-inch closed tear at central fold. Very clean internally. Very good. In a half morocco box. A rare report on the troubles along the Texas-Mexico border in the years following Texas’ independence and eventual absorption into the United States. This is the English language edition of the lengthy report of the Mexican Commission sent to investigate the issue, and its printing was ordered by the Mexican government (a Spanish language edition was published the same year). All manner of crimes were taking place along the border, including robbery and horse and cattle rus- tling. Americans blamed Mexicans for the crimes, while the Mexicans alleged that Americans dressed as Indians were the perpetrators. An American commission had already investigated, and absolved Americans of wrongdoing. This Mexican report puts the blame on the Americans, and argues that the Norteamericanos either refuse to control the Indians within their borders, or in fact encourage them to raid into Mexico in order to destabilize the neighbor to the south. Accounts of the troubles, dating back many years, are given in detail herein, blame is assigned, and solutions are proposed. The folding maps include a version of Josiah Gregg’s 1844 “Map of the Indian Territory Northern Texas and New Mexico,” a map of the states of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon (showing the routes taken by raiding parties), and a large and attractive “Mapa del Rio Grande.” The highly accomplished map of the Rio Grande is one of the most accurate and important of the period, showing the river from its mouth to the Big Bend, and identifying towns, rivers, mountains, forts, roads, and ranches along the border. “A work of great documentary value” – Decker. This report is scarce in and of itself; it is rather rare with the three maps, as here. HOWES I32, “aa.” GRAFF 2765. ADAMS HERD 558, 2264. DECKER 40:324. EBERSTADT 122:197. $5000.

A Rare Emigrants’ Guide

168. Miller, Andrew: NEW STATES AND TERRITORIES, OR THE OHIO, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, MICHIGAN, NORTH-WESTERN, MISSOURI, LOUISIANA, MISSISIPPI [sic] AND ALABAMA, IN THEIR REAL CHARACTERS, IN 1818.... [Keene, N.H.]: Printed for the Benefit of Emigrants and others, intending to visit the Western Country, 1819. 96pp., lacking the extremely scarce folding table. 24mo. Contemporary half calf and paper boards, recased. Boards slightly worn. Wear and staining along foredge of several text leaves, else overall internally quite clean. Good. In a cloth chemise and slipcase, gilt label.

A rare little guide in which Miller collects information on the newly settled territories in the West from travellers, military officers, Indian agents, and correspondents, to benefit prospective emigrants. “Miller gives quite a complete picture of the status of the different Ohio towns as they were in 1816, and of the different routes to the East. He gives the same kind of information for the country to the West and North, but settlement thus far had been so slight that there was not much to report. It is an excellent guide, giving a good contemporary account of the Old Northwest and especially Ohio, and Sabin’s characterization ‘A little volume of much rarity but of little use’ though correct as to rarity, is thoroughly misleading otherwise...” – Streeter, describing a different issue. A very rare work. Thomson had only seen one copy, and it was also lacking the table, as in this copy. HOWES M601, “c.” SABIN 49008. GRAFF 2794. THOMSON 826. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 48692. JONES 205. STREETER SALE 1329 (ref ). $3750.

169. Miller, Benjamin S.: RANCH LIFE IN SOUTHERN KANSAS AND THE INDIAN TERRITORY. AS TOLD BY A NOVICE. HOW A FORTUNE WAS MADE IN CATTLE. New York. 1896. 163,[1]pp. Portrait. Original front wrapper, rear wrapper and spine supplied in expert restoration. Otherwise very nice and clean. A good plus copy. In a folding fabrikoid box.

Miller was born in 1851, attended Cornell, and went to Kansas in 1878. This colorful narrative of his life as a rancher there over the next five years is an excellent firsthand account of ranching in Indian Territory during that early period. Miller spent a year and a half in Alaska in 1898-99, and died in Binghamton in 1930. One of the best early accounts of Indian Territory, and quite scarce. HOWES M602. ADAMS HERD 1485. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 1486. STREETER SALE 2387. $2750.

170. Miller, Lewis B.: A CROOKED TRAIL. THE STORY OF A THOUSAND-MILE SADDLE TRIP UP AND DOWN THE TEXAS FRONTIER IN PURSUIT OF A RUNAWAY OX, WITH ADVENTURES BY THE WAY. Pittsburgh: Axtell-Rush Publishing Com- pany, 1908. 184pp. Original stiff printed wrappers. Spine chipped and mostly gone, but signatures holding. Occasional fox mark. Good.

A scarce account of a thousand-mile trip on horseback along the Texas frontier. Published originally as a serial story in the National Stockman and Farmer in Pitts- burgh, but written by a Texan. HOWES M611, “aa.” ADAMS HERD 1489. $300.

171. [Minnesota]: SKETCH OF ST. ANTHONY AND MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA TERRITORY. St. Anthony & Minneapolis. 1857. 32,[4] pp. Numerous woodcuts. Map. Lacks the errata slip. Frontis. Modern plain boards. Small tear to lower corner of frontispiece with no loss. Neat 19th- century ownership stamp on verso of frontis. Overall very good.

A quite scarce 19th-century account of these two towns, which grew up on opposite sides of the Mississippi. St. Anthony, on the eastern side, was settled circa 1839, while Minneapolis, on the west, was settled circa 1847. The former was annexed by Minneapolis in 1872. The map shows Lake Minnetonka and vicinity. Among the illustrations are views of Minneapolis, the falls of St. Anthony, the town of St. Anthony, and the suspension bridge between the two towns. Not in American Imprints Inventory for Minnesota. HOWES S22. SABIN 74998. $500.

172. [Minnesota]: Bishop, J.W.: HISTORY OF FILLMORE COUNTY, MINNESOTA. WITH AN OUTLINE OF HER RESOURCES, AD- VANTAGES, AND THE INDUCEMENTS SHE OFFERS THOSE SEEKING HOMES IN THE WEST. Chatfield, Mn.: Holley & Brown, 1858. 40pp. including folding map. Original printed wrappers. Moderate soiling on covers. Chipped near head of spine. Slight foxing throughout. Overall, about very good.

A promotional pamphlet to attract settlers to Minnesota, with full details regarding geography, agriculture, and industrial potential. A good example of early Min- nesota printing. The folding map, printed in Chicago, is the most detailed of the area to that time. AII (MINNESOTA) 186. HOWES B477, “aa.” $1500.

Important Early Great Lakes Narrative

173. [Missionary Narrative]: SIX MOIS CHEZ LES SAUVAGES. Par un Missionaire. Limoges: Barbou Freres, [ca. 1854]. 191pp. Tinted lithographic frontis. Half title. Contemporary elaborate embossed filigree over textured cloth, spine richly gilt. Cloth lightly faded and edgeworn. Scattered foxing. Very good.

The only edition of this scarce Indian missionary narrative which, according to Howes, is based on an anonymous 18th-century account of a missionary who worked around the Great Lakes. The first chapter describes the Indian tribes and languages of Canada. Earlier bibliographies record the imprint date as either 1855 or 1856, but the Siebert copy, with a school label dated April 8, 1854, provides concrete evidence of earlier publication. Not in Field. HOWES S522, “aa.” GAGNON 3326. SIEBERT SALE 29. $2000.

174. [Missouri]: Curtius [pseud]: TORCH LIGHT. AN EXAMINATION OF THE ORIGIN, POLICY, AND PRINCIPLES OF THE OP- POSITION TO THE ADMINISTRATION, AND AN EXPOSI- TION OF THE OFFICIAL CONDUCT OF THOMAS H. BEN- TON, ONE OF THE SENATORS FROM MISSOURI; WITH AN APPENDIX. St. Louis: Printed at the Missouri Republican Office, 1826. 71pp. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Evenly tanned, a touch of foxing. Very good, untrimmed.

This copy bears a contemporary inscription at the head of the titlepage, “Secretary of the Treasury. Washington,” which indicates that it may have belonged to Richard Rush, the Treasury Secretary in John Quincy Adams’ administration. Rush was Adams’ vice presidential running mate in the election of 1828. A rare compilation of eight articles, printed in Missouri, mostly relating to the controversy surrounding the presidential campaign of 1824, and other political debates of the day that would be of interest to Missourians. No majority was reached in the 1824 presidential election, and Henry Clay, who was running for president, was compelled to cast the deciding ballot by virtue of being House Speaker. He chose John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson, and much controversy ensued over an alleged “corrupt bargain” between Clay and Adams. These articles reveal something of the popular opinion in Missouri regarding these events, as well as the state of national politics at the time, especially the changing political attachments of Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton. Benton had first supported Clay for president, then opposed Clay’s choice of Adams, and later aligned himself with Jackson, an erstwhile enemy. These articles first appeared under the pseudonym of “Curtius” in the Missouri Republican. Quite rare, Howes accords a “b” rating to the eighty-eight-page version of this work (also published in 1826) and lists it under “Benton.” The Eberstadts describe the eighty-eight-page issue as the “original edition of this daring and important expose....” The longer version was printed in a duodecimo format, and lacked the appendix contained in this seventy-one page version, which accounts for the fact that, though seemingly shorter, the present issue actually contains more information. OCLC locates only one copy, at Yale, while American Imprints Inventory for Missouri lists four more. Very rare. AII (MISSOURI) 83. EBERSTADT 136:432 (both for this ed). HOWES B370, “b.” SABIN 96190 (both for longer version). OCLC 28057861. $1500.

An Editorial Copy

175. Mitchell, D.W.: TEN YEARS IN THE UNITED STATES: BEING AN ENGLISHMAN’S VIEWS OF MEN AND THINGS IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH. London. 1862. xii,332pp. plus 16pp. of ads. Original brown cloth, blindstamped, pictorial gilt spine. Worn at spine ends, corners bumped. Very good.

This copy bears marks indicating that it was used by the publisher in preparation for a second edition, which was never published. There are substantive annotations and editorial marks in the preface and the first chapter. David W. Mitchell wrote this account based on ten years’ residence in the United States, mostly in Richmond, Virginia. He discusses the American political system, and differences between the North and South. There is quite a bit about slavery and the conditions of Blacks, with Mitchell weighing in distinctly on the side of the slave-holder. “Favorable account of the South and its peculiar institution” – Howes. CLARK III:474. HOWES M674. SABIN 49671. $500.

176. [Mitchell, S. Augustus]: MITCHELL’S NEW TRAVELLER’S GUIDE THROUGH THE UNITED STATES.... Philadelphia: Thom- as, Cowperthwait & Co., 1850. 128pp. plus colored folding map, 21¼ x 28½ inches. 16mo. Original gilt pictorial brown leather. Rubbed at edges. Some old, light dampstaining throughout text and on map. A good copy.

A later edition of Mitchell’s guide, and the second showing important information on the California gold regions. The detailed map shows the United States west to part of Texas and Indian Territory, north through the Great Lakes, and south through a good part of Florida. Insets are of New England, the Copper Mine region in Michigan, Niagara Falls, and the “Maritime and Overland Routes to California,” with a further inset of the gold and quicksilver district of California, showing Sacramento. An excellent map containing much geological detail and information. Not in Rumsey, who lists editions of 1849 and 1851. HOWES M690. $900.

With Important Maps of Montana

177. [Montana]: THE CLIMATE, SOIL AND RESOURCES OF THE YELLOWSTONE VALLEY, WITH ACCURATE MAPS OF THE YELLOWSTONE COUNTRY, THE TRANSCONTINENTAL ROUTE AND CONNECTIONS OF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD AND A PLAT AND DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN OF GLENDIVE.... St. Paul: The Pioneer Press Co., 1882. [10],100,[8]pp. plus three folding maps. Original printed wrappers. Small oval stain on rear wrapper, else fine. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

A rare and very informative guide to the Yellowstone River valley, Montana, and the newly created town of Glendive, in an incredibly handsome copy. It was hoped that Glendive, built on the banks of the Yellowstone River, would be a hub joining the Yellowstone, the Missouri, and the Northern Pacific Railroad. Issued just a few months after the settlement of Glendive, the text gives much detailed information on cattle ranching, land claims, agricultural potential, climate, trails, and the like. The text also describes the types of businesses needed in Glendive, the capital needed to begin a business, and the going wages for workers. The advertisements at the beginning and end contain several listings for businesses in Glendive, as well as Dakota Territory and Minnesota, a timetable for the Northern Pacific Railroad via St. Paul, and a map showing the route of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids, and Northern Railway. The folding maps include a colored map showing the routes of the Northern Pacific, a detailed map of the town of Glendive, and a map of the Yellowstone Valley. “Contains much on stock raising and the various ranches, with the cattle trails laid down on the map. Also valuable data on the routes of travel, the mineral resources, and the town of Glendive at the junction of the railroad and the steamboat traffic of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers” – Eberstadt. Rare and desirable. HOWES Y8. EBERSTADT 132:478. ADAMS HERD 1535 (“rare”). SMITH, PACIFIC NORTH- WEST 7381. $9500.

178. Montgomery, M.W.: HISTORY OF JAY COUNTY, INDIANA. Chicago. [1864]. 288pp. plus folding map. Woodcuts. Original full morocco, stamped in blind. Some minor rubbing at extremities, occasional light foxing. Overall very good.

An account of the early settlement of the county along with a history of involvement in the Civil War, with lists of the officers and recruits of several Indiana regiments. Contains interesting material pertaining to fugitive slaves, Indians, early state organizations, wild animals of the region, etc. HOWES M743. SABIN 50154. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 841. $500.

179. [Moore, Clement C.]: OBSERVATIONS UPON CERTAIN PAS- SAGES IN MR. JEFFERSON’S NOTES ON VIRGINIA, WHICH APPEAR TO HAVE A TENDENCY TO SUBVERT RELIGION, AND ESTABLISH A FALSE PHILOSOPHY. New York. 1804. 32pp. Original plain wrappers, stitched. Rear wrapper torn, else near fine.

A violent attack on Jefferson and his book, by this arch-Federalist and author of Twas the Night Before Christmas. Howes ascribes this work, incorrectly, to Nicholas Rogers. HOWES R416. GAINES 342. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 6812. $500.

Important Early Road Guide, with Route Maps

180. Moore, S.S., and T.W. Jones: THE TRAVELLER’S DIRECTORY, OR A POCKET COMPANION: SHEWING THE COURSE OF THE MAIN ROAD FROM PHILADELPHIA TO NEW YORK, AND FROM PHILADELPHIA TO WASHINGTON, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLACES THROUGH WHICH IT PASSES, AND THE INTERSECTION OF THE CROSS ROADS. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1804. [4],37,[1],19[i.e. 17]pp. plus thirty-eight engraved maps on twenty-two leaves. Half title. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather label. Half title, titlepage, and final map leaf strengthened at edges with tissue. Pencil notes on half title, early ownership signature (“Mary Cox’s Book 1816”) on titlepage. Light tanning and foxing. About very good.

Second edition, following the first of 1802. Quite scarce, even in this second edition, and one of the first important American road guides. The text describes in detail the two routes north and south from Philadelphia, the whole giving a comprehensive picture of the route up the metropolitan corridor as it looked in 1802. There is a long, detailed description of Philadelphia, its buildings, businesses, and public institutions, as well as informative sketches of towns and counties along the route. The excellent strip maps show every part of the route in close detail. Only Colles’ pioneering work (without text) in 1789 predates this rare work. The Streeter copy of this edition from $300 in 1969, a strong price at the time considering that cartographic works did not do particularly well in the Streeter sale; the only recent copy at auction brought $6000 in 2005. An important early American road guide. STREETER SALE 3970. SABIN 50436. HOWES M778. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 6815. $6500.

181. Mooso, Josiah: THE LIFE AND TRAVELS OF JOSIAH MOOSO. A LIFE ON THE FRONTIER AMONG INDIANS AND SPAN- IARDS, NOT SEEING THE FACE OF A WHITE WOMAN FOR FIFTEEN YEARS. Winfield, Ks. 1888. 400pp. Frontis. Original red cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine. Gilt on cover faded, slightly rubbed. Hinges cracked but holding. Overall, a tight copy and about very good.

Mooso was a fur trader who travelled extensively in the West, including an overland trip to Oregon and California in the early 1850s (dates are a little vague in this narrative, but it seems largely founded on fact). How Mooso came up with his sub-title is hard to figure, since women of the white sort seem to abound in the story. A rare work, one of the earlier reminiscence school of autobiography of the overland trail. AYER SUPPLEMENT 86. COWAN, p.440. HOWES M784. JONES 1647. GRAFF 2885. RADER 2400. $750.

182. [Mordecai, Samuel]: RICHMOND IN BY GONE DAYS: BEING REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD CITIZEN. Richmond. 1856. xi,[13]- 321pp. Original blindstamped cloth. Cloth somewhat faded. Two bookplates, moderate foxing, some light pencil marginalia. Else very good.

A charming work written “to while away the tedium of a sick chamber,” containing references to “old residences, the mayor, newspapers and printers, tobacco warehouses, the colored aristocracy,” among others. HOWES M785. HAYNES 12574. $375.

Important Account of Joseph Smith’s Death

183. [Mormons]: Hunt, James L.: MORMONISM: EMBRACING THE ORIGIN, RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE SECT, WITH AN EX- AMINATION OF THE BOOK OF MORMON; ALSO, THEIR TROUBLES IN MISSOURI, AND FINAL EXPULSION FROM THE STATE...WITH AN APPENDIX, GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE LATE DISTURBANCES IN ILLINOIS, WHICH RE- SULTED IN THE DEATH OF JOSEPH AND HYRUM SMITH. BY G.W. WESTBROOK. St. Louis: Printed by Ustick & Davies, 1844. v,[1],[5]-304,36pp. plus errata. Original black ribbed cloth, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Titlepage reinserted, lower blank margin a bit trimmed. Overall just about very good. In a half morocco box.

Second edition, but the first edition to contain Westbrook’s important appendix, which makes a large contribution to the history of the events which led to the Smiths’ assassinations. Hunt felt the Mormons had slandered the citizens of Missouri by making charges against them in Mormon accounts of their difficulties in the state. Hunt casts a cold eye on the origins of The Book of Mormon, the Mormon Church, and the activities of the sect from its inception to their present state. The errata leaf cited by Howes and present in the Graff copy is also present in this copy, though lacking from others we have seen. HOWES H805, “b.” MISSOURI IMPRINTS 408. GRAFF 2013. FLAKE 4142. WOODWARD 101. $4000.

Revolutionary War Classic

184. Moultrie, William: MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLU- TION, SO FAR AS IT RELATED TO THE STATES OF NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA, AND GEORGIA. New York: Printed by David Longworth, 1802. Two volumes. 506; 446pp. Portrait in first volume. Contemporary calf, spines gilt, leather labels. First volume expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down, gilt leather label; second volume with modern calf backstrip in matching style, gilt leather label. Boards a bit shelfworn. Early ownership signature on front free endpaper of first volume; institutional ink stamp on titlepage of second volume. Text tanned, some foxing. Good.

A scarce work, and one of the most valuable firsthand narratives of the American Revolution in the South. At the outbreak of the Revolution, Moultrie was a politician and an officer in the South Carolina colonial regiment (where he had risen to prominence during the Cherokee War). He was eventually promoted to the position of brigadier-general in the Continental Army. Moultrie fought in several important southern battles, including the defense of Fort Sullivan in 1776, and helped lead the defense of Charleston from the British before his forces were finally overcome in 1780. He was taken prisoner and held for more than a year, after which the British tried to bring him to their side by offering him a command in Jamaica. “Of great value for the history of the Revolution in South Carolina and Georgia” – DAB. “The author’s position as Governor of South Carolina, afforded him ample facili- ties to consult original authorities, and the result of his researches is a good book” – Sabin. “One of the most interesting of the Revolutionary narratives” – Larned. HOWES M865, “aa.” SABIN 51142. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 2704. LARNED 1441. DAB XIII, pp.293-94. $5500.

Merrill Aristocrat

185. Myrick, Herbert: CACHE LA POUDRE; THE ROMANCE OF A TENDERFOOT IN THE DAYS OF CUSTER. New York & Chicago. 1905. Illustrated with photographs and tipped-in color plates by Schreyvogel, Deming, et al. Frontis. Quarto. Full fringed smoked buckskin. Slight edge wear. Dampstain in lower blank margin throughout. Else very good.

Although the limitation printed in the book indicates this deluxe edition of 500 copies, it has long been suggested that in fact far fewer copies were published. An account of life on the plains, ranching, Indian fighting in the Dakotas, Custer, etc. Never catalogued by the Eberstadts or Peter Decker. HOWES M935, “aa.” MERRILL ARISTOCRAT. ADAMS HERD 1596 (“rare”). DYKES, SCHREYVOGEL 84. DEMING 77. $400.

186. Newell, Chester, Rev.: HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION IN TEXAS, PARTICULARLY OF THE WAR OF 1835 & ‘36.... New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1838. viii,215pp. plus folding map. Original brown cloth, embossed sides, gilt title on backstrip. Very minor foxing and wear to cloth. A very good plus copy. In a half morocco clamshell case.

“This is one of the earliest books published about Texas after it became a republic... the quotations from participants are of considerable historical value. The descriptive portions add much to our knowledge of the early republic....The work begins with an excellent summary of Mexican history from 1821 to 1835, followed by a sketch of Texas history from 1832 to 1835, ending with Cos’ retreat from San Antonio. The events of 1836 are described, including quotations from participating Texans and from...Mexican accounts, such as Almonte’s diary....Of particular value are the account of Santa Anna’s capture [and his] confrontation with Houston shortly afterwards. Newell was one of the first to seduce Sam Houston into giving particulars of the campaign” – Jenkins. “One of the rare and reliable books on Texas” – Raines. The appendix prints some important historical documents regarding the revolution. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 151. HOWES N115, “aa.” CLARK III:215. GRAFF 3010. RADER 2479. RAINES, p.154. SABIN 54948. STREETER TEXAS 1318. $5000.

187. Newton, James H. [ed]: HISTORY OF VENANGO COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, AND INCIDENTALLY OF PETROLEUM, TO- GETHER WITH ACCOUNTS OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT AND PROGRESS OF EACH TOWNSHIP, BOROUGH AND VIL- LAGE, WITH PERSONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE EARLY SETTLERS, REPRESENTATIVE MEN, FAM- ILY RECORDS, ETC. BY AN ABLE CORPS OF HISTORIANS. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS DESCRIPTIVE OF ITS SCENERY, PRIVATE RESIDENCES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, FARM SCENES, OIL DERRICKS, MANUFACTORIES, etc., FROM ORIGINAL SKETCHES. Columbus, Oh. 1879. 651pp. Forty-seven plates (some double- page) on 33 leaves. Facsimiles. Color maps. Thick quarto. Contemporary cloth, recently rebacked in calf, corners expertly repaired. Else a very good copy.

A scarce Pennsylvania county history with wonderful plates of local residences, businesses, farms, factories, oil wells, etc. Contains much material relating to the petroleum industry, Oil City, and the speculative oil business. An important local historical reference. HOWES N129. $850.

188. Nicholl, Edith M.: OBSERVATIONS OF A RANCH WOMAN IN NEW MEXICO. Cincinnati. 1901. [6],260pp. Original green cloth. Some bleach spots on covers, binding bit cocked, title-leaf mounted on silk. Overall a good copy.

First American edition, after the first British edition printed in London in 1898. A scarce account of an English woman’s quest for good health and happiness raising alfalfa and other crops in southern New Mexico. Includes chapters on “the Mexican in New Mexico,” the climate and soil, irrigation, mineral resources, and “Politics and Sectionalism.” She has a rather mixed opinion of the Mexican labor she hired to work on her farm, stating that most Mexicans are honest yet fail to pick up after themselves. As evidence, she quotes typical Mexican worker on her ranch: “Sometimes I feel like working and sometimes I don’t.” HOWES N140. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 1610. $450.

Beautiful Photogravures

189. Nordenskiold, Gustav: RUINER AF KLIPPBONINGAR I MESA VERDE’S CANONS. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt, [1893]. [6],193,iv pp. plus map and seventeen plates. Numerous in-text illustrations. Folio. Original half morocco and green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt, t.e.g. Spine sunned, slightly chipped at head. Else a bright, near fine copy.

An extraordinarily interesting and visually beautiful work on the cliff dwellers of Mesa Verde and environs, distinguished by twelve outstanding photogravure plates (on nine sheets, one double-sheet) of the cliff dwellings, evidently by the author, including views of Mountain Sheep Canyon, the Cliff Palace, the Balcony House, etc. These views are supplemented by several full-page tinted maps, and numerous other plates and illustrations after photos of artifacts, other ruins, etc. Nordenskiold made several expeditions in the late 19th century to the Southwest to study the cliff dwellers of Mesa Verde. Without a doubt, this is one of the most important and sophisticated works on this topic ever published. POWELL, SOUTHWESTERN CENTURY 69. HOWES N174. WYNAR 1654. $2500. 190. Noyes, Alva J.: THE STORY OF AJAX LIFE IN THE BIG HOLE BASIN. Helena, Mt.: State Publishing Company, 1914. [8],158pp. plus thirteen plates including frontispiece. Original gilt cloth. Binding slightly rubbed and soiled, head and toe of spine and corners moderately bumped. Moderate age-toning and soiling, text block slightly sprung. A good copy.

A presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “’Vista’ never felt so pleased in my life and when I ‘buncked’ you out of the price of this little story. Truly yours Al Noyes (Ajax).” “First autobiography published in Montana; by a settler of 1860” – Howes. Noyes went to Montana in 1866, and this is an important and very rare history of early settlement and especially the cattle industry there. A rare book, remarkably difficult to find. HOWES N219, “aa.” GRAFF 3051. ADAMS HERD 1691. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 1626. SIX SCORE 82. $2000.

191. Nuttall, Thomas: A JOURNAL OF TRAVELS INTO THE AR- KANSA [sic] TERRITORY, DURING THE YEAR 1819. WITH OCCASIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNERS OF THE ABORIGINES. Philadelphia: Printed and published by Thos. H. Palmer, 1821. xii,[9]-296pp. plus four lithographic plates and folding map. Modern half calf and marbled boards, leather labels. Contents somewhat browned. Some foxing. Map foxed, with repairs on old folds. A good copy.

One of the important early travel narratives pertinent to the region, with a considerable amount of valuable material relating to the Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Osage Indians. Three appendices are devoted specifically to observations of the Indians, as well as a compilation of meteorological data. Nuttall travelled in the company of Major Bradford from Fort Smith to the prairie country and Red River, and spent some time near the mouth of the Verdigris River. Clark praises Nuttall’s scientific acumen and singles out his narrative as a valuable work on the botanical history of the region. WAGNER-CAMP 19a. HOWES N229, “b.” GRAFF 3055. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2785. CLARK II:48. BRINLEY SALE 4667. FIELD 1145. SABIN 56348. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 6319. STREETER SALE 1597. $4500.

192. [O’Hanlon, John]: LIFE AND SCENERY IN MISSOURI. REMI- NISCENCES OF A MISSIONARY PRIEST. Dublin. 1890. xii,292,[4] pp. 16mo. Original gilt-stamped green cloth, spine gilt. Slight wear at spine ends and corners. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper. Very good.

A fine firsthand account of life among the pioneers and Indians in 1843-53, with a chapter on the Mormons. Includes quite an interesting description of St. Louis in the 1840s, the progress of the Catholic seminary there, the legends of early Irish and Norse expeditions to North America, Father Marquette and French colonization, Irish Catholic settlements of Armagh and Downpatrick on the Merrimac River, and the like. HOWES O46. FLAKE 5978. GRAFF 3080. RADER 2501. $300.

193. O’Reilly, Henry: ROCHESTER IN 1835. BRIEF SKETCHES OF THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE CITY OF ROCHES- TER.... Rochester. 1835. 14pp. Dbd. Bottom margin trimmed, affecting a few lines of text, else very nice. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase.

Originally published in the Rochester Daily Advertiser, this brief work addresses the industry, resources, commerce, and population of the city. It was greatly enlarged and published in 1838 as Settlement in the West.... HOWES O122 (note). SABIN 57593. $400.

Ballooning in Natchez in 1806, and Other Adventures

194. Oehler, Andrew: THE LIFE, ADVENTURES, AND UNPARAL- LELED SUFFERINGS OF ANDREW OEHLER: CONTAIN- ING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS TRAVELS THROUGH FRANCE, ITALY, THE EAST AND WEST INDIES, AND PART OF THE UNITED STATES; HIS IMPRISONMENT IN FRANCE, GER- MANY AND SPAIN: AND THE LATITUDE, SOIL, CLIMATE, PRODUCTIONS, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE DIF- FERENT COUNTRIES. Trenton: Published by D. Fenton, 1811. 226pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, gilt morocco label. Calf rubbed on spine, head of spine cracked. Lower 1¼ inches of pp.59/60 torn away, with a total loss of three lines of text on each page. Foxing. A good copy.

A remarkable picaresque history, with many travels through the South between 1800 and 1808. Born in Germany in 1781, Oehler claimed he arrived in Baltimore in 1800 as a bound tailor; escaped to become a dancing master in Alexandria and then a fencing master in Port Tobacco, Maryland; then went to Santo Domingo, where he says he served with Toussaint; Egypt; China; Charleston, South Carolina, in 1802; then Columbia, Augusta, and Nashville. In 1805 and 1806 he experimented with ballooning in Nashville and Natchez (an ad in a Natchez newspaper for 1806 corroborates this part of the sometimes incredible tale). In New Orleans he claims to have learned “Legerdemain,” by which he paid his debts, but which got him thrown in jail in Mexico. He gives a long account of his sojourn, in and out of jail, in Mexico. Returning to the U.S., he made two trading expeditions to the west of the Mississippi, one to Natchitoches in 1807. He returned overland to Georgia in 1808, and later settled in New Jersey. Felcone records two issues printed in 1811. FELCONE 1187. HOWES O25. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 51124. KAPLAN 4310. SABIN 56732. CLARK II:110. $2850. 195. Ogden, John C.: AN EXCURSION INTO BETHLEHEM & NAZ- ARETH, IN PENNSYLVANIA, IN THE YEAR 1799; WITH A SUCCINCT HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY OF UNITED BRETH- REN, COMMONLY CALLED MORAVIANS. Philadelphia. 1800. 167pp. plus errata. 12mo. Modern half morocco. Old stamp on titlepage, upper forecorner of titlepage clipped, else good.

In the fall of 1779 the author travelled from New York to visit the settlements in Pennsylvania. This is one of the best 18th-century accounts of the Pennsylvania German communities. Ogden’s narrative includes a brief account of the massacre of Christian Indians at Gnadenhutten and Salem, as well as notices of the progress of United Brethren missions in other regions such as the West Indies. An important account of the Moravian settlements. SABIN 56815. HOWES O37, “aa.” EVANS 38149. $1250.

A Wealth of Ohio Images

196. [Ohio]: THE OHIO RAILROAD GUIDE, ILLUSTRATED. CIN- CINNATI TO ERIE, VIA COLUMBUS AND CLEVELAND. Co- lumbus. 1854. Half title. Engraved title. [4],135pp. plus thirty lithographed plates and folding frontispiece plate. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Cloth faded. Scattered light foxing. A very good copy.

The enlarged edition, after the original of 1852. This copy contains four more plates than are noted in the list of illustrations (Sabin also only lists twenty-eight). Thomson, who records twenty-four plates and one folding plate, attributes the text to E.D. Mansfield of Cincinnati. There are a number of excellent early Ohio views, including lithographs of a number of small towns and rural locales, the train depot at Cincinnati, and several scenes of rivers with railroad bridges spanning them. The State Penitentiary and statehouse in Columbus are shown, and the folding frontispiece is a wonderful illustration of the train station and waterfront on Lake Erie in Cleveland. Issued by the Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland and Erie Railroad. HOWES O52. THOMSON 887. SABIN 56994. $750.

197. Olshausen, Theodor: GESCHICHTE DER MORMONEN ODER JUNGSTEN-TAGES-HEILIGEN IN NORDAMERIKA. Gottingen. 1856. [4],244pp. Original printed wrappers, rebacked with paper spine en- forcement. Wrappers chipped and tanned. Else generally good.

A scarce German history of the Mormons, especially in Missouri. HOWES O81. FLAKE 5992. $1000.

198. [Page, Frederic B.]: PRAIRIEDOM: RAMBLES AND SCRAM- BLES IN TEXAS OR NEW ESTREMADURA. By a Suthron. New York. 1845. [2],vi,[2],[11]-166pp. plus folding map. 12mo. Late 19th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Slight wear at hinges and extremities. Bookplate on front pastedown, institutional blindstamp on titlepage. Small, closed tear in right border of the map, not intruding into the image. Internally quite clean. A very good copy.

An account of Page’s travels, undertaken in the spring of 1839, from the Sabine via Nacogdoches, Houston and Bastrop to San Antonio, returning to Houston by way of Texana and Goliad. “[This account] brings back to us now in a charming fashion the Texas of 1839” – Streeter. The map shows Mexico and the Southwest, with an inset of Texas. Dr. Page was a graduate of Harvard Medical School. HOWES P9, “aa.” STREETER TEXAS 1604 (note). RAINES, p.167. RADER 2568 (1st ed). CLARK III:221. SABIN 93969. GRAFF 3159. $2750.

Rare 1776 Edition of Common Sense 199. Paine, Thomas: COMMON SENSE; ADDRESSED TO THE IN- HABITANTS OF AMERICA, ON THE FOLLOWING INTER- ESTING SUBJECTS.... Philadelphia, Printed; Newbury Port, Reprinted, by John Mycall, and to be Sold at the Printing Office, [1776]. 61,[1]pp. Half title. Gathered signatures, stitched, as issued. Some soiling and contemporary ink markings on half title and titlepage, else very good. Untrimmed. In a red morocco slipcase. A wonderful contemporary American edition of Thomas Paine’s famous Common Sense, one of the dozen such editions produced in America in 1776 after the initial Philadelphia editions issued by Bell and Bradford. All American editions from 1776 are quite rare, and many provincial editions such as this are possibly rarer than the first ones. Common Sense was first issued by Philadelphia printer Bell on January 9, 1776. By Feb. 14, Bell had issued a third edition, but Paine had deserted his original publisher for W. and T. Bradford, who had gone along with his wishes in adding considerable material to the text, increasing it “upwards of one Third.” It is this Bradford text, with several appendices and “An Address to the People Called Quak- ers,” which was reprinted in the present Newburyport edition. It is impossible to fix the point of issue of the Newburyport edition, but it appears in two forms: one with the imprint of Samuel Phillips of Andover; and one with the imprint as here, for John Mycall, a resident of Newburyport and the actual printer. It was probably issued in the early spring, however, since Paine had invited other printers to republish it, and it was almost instantly famous. It is almost unnecessary to comment on the importance of Common Sense. The political rhetoric of Paine inflamed the desire for independence, calling for it in clear language which swept the country like wildfire. The editors of the Grolier American Hundred remark: “It is not too much to say that the Declaration of Independence... was due more to Paine’s Common Sense than to any other single piece of writing.” GROLIER AMERICAN 100, 14. GIMBEL CS-42. HOWES P17. EVANS 14961. AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 222o. DAB XIII, pp.398-99. $35,000. 200. Parker, Nathan H.: IOWA AS IT IS IN 1856; A GAZETTEER FOR CITIZENS, AND A HAND-BOOK FOR EMIGRANTS, EM- BRACING A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF IOWA. Chicago. 1856. 264pp. plus plates, colored folding map, and advertisement. Frontis. Original red cloth, gilt pictorial spine. Small tear with some loss to upper margin of titlepage, not affecting text. Very good.

One of two issues of the second edition of this guide, the first being issued the previous year. The other issue of the second edition contains 282 pages. Covers the state by counties, describing climate, soil, and prairies, with a large folding map. Through some remarkable oversight this book, which is not that rare, is not included in either Byrd or Ante-Fire Imprints, although there seems to be no question about its place of imprint. HOWES P83. WAGNER-CAMP 278a:1. $400.

201. Parker, Samuel, Rev.: JOURNAL OF AN EXPLORING TOUR BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS...PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1835, ‘36, AND ‘37...WITH A MAP OF OREGON TER- RITORY. Ithaca, N.Y.: Published by the Author, 1838. 371pp. plus folding map, plate. Original embossed cloth, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down, printed paper label. Contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown; book label of C.G. Littell. Two tears in edge of map, else quite clean. Very good. In a cloth slipcase.

Parker accompanied the American Fur Company’s exploring party of 1835 from Council Bluffs to Walla Walla, and became one of the first missionaries in the Pacific Northwest. This narrative is a standard work on the American settlements there in the earliest days. The map is the earliest to illustrate the interior of Oregon with any pretense toward accuracy. Contains a vocabulary of the Nez Perce language, as well as those of other tribes. This copy is from the library of C.G. Littell, with his bookplate. Littell was president of R.R. Donnelly, a large Chicago-based corpora- tion whose activities included publishing, printing, and binding via the Lakeside Press. His well-known and important library was sold by Parke-Bernet in 1945. HOWES P89, “aa.” GRAFF 3192. SABIN 58729. WAGNER-CAMP 70:1. TWENEY 89, 60. HILL 1304. SMITH 7893. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2904. STREETER SALE 2093. FORBES HAWAII 1120. $950.

Mormon Fanaticism!

202. Parsons, Tyler: MORMON FANATICISM EXPOSED. A COM- PENDIUM OF THE BOOK OF MORMON, OR JOSEPH SMITH’S GOLDEN BIBLE. Boston. 1842. 104pp. Original blue printed wrappers. Slight edge wear. Moderate foxing. Very good. In a green cloth slipcase.

Second edition, after the first of the previous year. Parson’s work, the product of a series of debates held between himself and Mormon Elder Freeman Nickerson in Boston in June of 1841, discusses the Nauvoo Legion and the probability that Mormons will become a political and military power in the West. An early and intriguing anti-Mormon expository which makes plain the sort of prejudice Mormons were facing in the East. “I am not aware that the Mormons claim the privilege of polygamy as yet. I presume they will, when they revise their creed” – Sabin. SABIN 58915. FLAKE 6145. HOWES P108. CRAWLEY 126 (note). $3000.

The First German Promotional Tract for Pennsylvania

203. Pastorius, Francis Daniel: UMSTAENDIGE GEOGRAPHISCHE BESCHREIBUNG DER ZU ALLERLETZT ERFUNDENEN PROVINTZ PENSYLVANIAE, IN DENEN END-GRAENTZEN AMERICAE IN DER WEST-WELT GELEGEN DURCH FRAN- CISCUM DANIELUM PASTORIUM, J. V. LIC. UND FRIEDENS RICHTERN DASELBSTEN. WORBEY ANGEHENCKET SIND EINIGE NOTABLE BEGEBENHEITEN UND BERICHT-SCH- REIBEN AN DESSEN HERREN VATTERN MELCHIORUM ADAMUM PASTORIUM. UND ANDERE GUTE FREUNDE. Frankfort & Leipzig: Andreas Otto, 1700. [1],[10],140pp. 12mo. Modern brown crushed morocco. Very good.

Scarce first edition of an important early source on the history of Pennsylvania, written by the founder of Germantown. Pastorius, born in Germany in 1651, formed an acquaintance with William Penn, became a Quaker, and helped organize the Frankfort Land Company. Securing 15,000 acres of land in Pennsylvania, he emigrated in 1683 and soon thereafter laid out Germantown, of which he was the principal founder. This epistolary work includes letters written from Pennsylvania to his father describing the region, including its form of government and providing advice to emigrants. In the rear of the work is a printing in German of William Penn’s Letter to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders. Pastorius, Winsor writes, was “the most active and intelligent of the first Ger- man settlers” and his work “is of great interest, as it contains the views of one thoroughly identified with the German movement to America” (Winsor). This work stands at the beginning of the “Pennsylvania Dutch” culture of Pennsylvania, still a vibrant culture today. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 700/212. HOWES P115, “b.” SABIN 59028. WINSOR III:502. $6000. A Classic of Overland Literature

204. Pattie, James O.: THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF JAMES O. PATTIE, OF KENTUCKY, DURING AN EXPEDITION FROM ST. LOUIS, THROUGH THE VAST REGIONS BETWEEN THAT PLACE AND THE PACIFIC OCEAN, AND THENCE BACK THROUGH THE CITY OF MEXICO TO VERA CRUZ.... Cincinnati: Published by E.H. Flint, 1833. 300pp. plus five plates. Contempo- rary tree calf, gilt leather label, neatly rebacked, preserving original backstrip, corners repaired. Wear along hinges. Ex-lib., with bookplates on front and rear pastedowns. Tanned, scattered foxing. Good. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

The second edition of Pattie’s narrative, differing from the 1831 edition only in the reprinted titlepage. The sheets in each edition are from the same printing. The editor and virtual author, Cincinnati literary lion Timothy Flint, achieved such a poor sale of the original edition that he canceled the titlepage and reissued the work with the 1833 date to make it seem current. The Pattie account is one of the classics of Western Americana. The author and his father were engaged in the fur trade in the Southwest in the 1820s. In 1828 they went overland to California, only the second American group to make the trip by a southern route (the first was Jedediah Smith in 1826), and the first to publish an account of their journey. The party experienced difficulty and dangers in New Mexico, Arizona, and California, where they were tossed in jail by Mexican authorities and the elder Pattie died. The son was released after he aided in vac- cinating people during a smallpox epidemic. A major work of Californiana and Western Americana. GRAFF 3217. WAGNER-CAMP 45:2. CLARK III:83. HILL 1317. HOWES P123, “c.” COWAN, p.476. VAUGHAN 108. SABIN 59150. FIELD 1186. DAB XIV, pp.310-11. STREETER SALE 3139. BARRETT 1963. ZAMORANO 80, 60. BAL 6122. $6000.

205. [Paulding, James K.]: LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH, WRITTEN DURING AN EXCURSION IN THE SUMMER OF 1816. By the author of John Bull and Brother Jonathan, &c. &c. New York. 1817. Two volumes. 254; 260pp. Half titles. 12mo. Early 20th-century paneled roan, morocco labels. Outer hinges worn. Internally clean, tight, and very good.

Written in the form of letters to an eastern friend named Frank, Paulding records his travels through Virginia, including much of present-day West Virginia. The work is strongest in its observation of social mores. Clark downplays its value as travel literature, but says: “As a patriotic, informed American’s view of his country at that moment it is an excellent commentary on the times, a quotable contemporary document.” “A charming account of an excursion made into Virginia, in the summer of 1816, with bright, refreshing descriptions of the country and the people” – Larned. HOWES P133. CLARK II:228. LARNED 1668. SABIN 59203. BAL 15693. $450. Low Rent Continent

206. [Pauw, Corneille de]: RECHERCHES PHILOSOPHIQUES SUR LES AMERICAINS, OU MEMOIRS INTERESSANTS POUR SERVIR A L’HISTOIRE DE L’ESPECE HUMAINE...AVEC UNE DISSERTATION SUR L’AMERIQUE & LES AMERICAINS, PAR DOM PERNETTY. London. 1774. Three volumes. [4],xiv,[2],406; [4],364,[2]; [2],x,379pp. Half titles. 19th-century half calf and marbled boards, leather labels, spines gilt extra. Minor rubbing to extremities. Unobtrusive ownership stamps on half titles and final text leaves. Overall a very good set.

An important text in a major Enlightenment debate, in which some scholars, notably Pauw and Buffon, held that all American species were inherently weaker and inferior to European ones. It was to refute these arguments, in large part, that Jefferson wrote Notes on the State of Virginia. “The author endeavors to show the inferior character of everything American, especially the inhabitants, and his work provoked considerable controversy. It contains a very curious account of the ‘Hermaphrodites de la Floride,’ and the custom of ‘Circoncision’ and ‘Infibulation’” – Sabin. This is a later edition, with the additional volume containing Pernetty’s criticism of the work and Pauw’s response. HOWES P142. SABIN 59246. SERVIES 476. $450.

207. [Pearse, James]: A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF JAMES PEARSE, IN TWO PARTS. PART I, CONTAINING A GEN- ERAL ACCOUNT OF HIS EARLY LIFE, AND MORE PAR- TICULARLY OF FIVE YEARS RESIDENCE IN THE STATES OF MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA...PART II, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS UNFORTUNATE IMPRISONMENT AT PLATTSBURGH.... Rutland, Vt. 1825. 144pp. Contemporary half morocco and paper-covered boards. First and terminal blank leaves lacking; pp.137-138 lacking, replaced with facsimile leaf. Small hole in inner margin of first four leaves, not affecting text. Gift inscription, dated 1826, on fly leaf. Scattered foxing and occasional stains. Early pencil and ink drawings on front and rear endpapers. Bookseller’s label on rear pastedown. Good.

An interesting memoir, in two parts, the first recounting the author’s unhappy sojourn in the South from 1818 to 1823, the second detailing his trial for slander against a corrupt innkeeper. Part I is particularly illuminating in its gritty descriptions of migration, work, illness, society, and slavery in Mississippi and Louisiana from the perspective of one of the many northerners who had attempted to settle in that region in the early 1800s. The author worked briefly as a plantation slave manager, despite his strong antislavery views. STREETER SALE 1539. CLARK II:51. SABIN 59438. HOWES P159. $600. Presentation Copy of an Early Illinois Book

208. Peck, John M.: A GAZETTEER OF ILLINOIS IN THREE PARTS: CONTAINING A GENERAL VIEW OF THE STATE, A GENERAL VIEW OF EACH COUNTY, AND A PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF EACH TOWN...ALPHABETICALLY AR- RANGED. Jacksonville: Published by R. Goudy, 1834. viii,376pp. Con- temporary calf. Spine moderately scuffed, edges bit rubbed. Binding quite tight. Very small worm holes in blank gutter of last four leaves. Overall a very good copy.

A presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Rev. E. Kincaid / from / Rev. John M. Peck / Illinois.” This is the first edition of one of Peck’s many publications regarding the state of Illinois and the adjacent country, derived mostly from his own personal experiences as a veteran traveller within and without the state. A useful guide for visitors as well as residents, with an appendix describing Wisconsin Territory. HOWES P170. GRAFF 3232. BRADFORD 4232. BUCK 278. BYRD 191. SABIN 59483. $1250.

209. [Pemberton, Israel]: AN ADDRESS TO THE INHABITANTS OF PENNSYLVANIA, BY THOSE FREEMEN OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA WHO ARE NOW CONFINED IN THE MASON’S LODGE, BY VIRTUE OF A GENERAL WARRANT, SIGNED IN COUNCIL BY THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF PENNSYLVANIA. London: James Phillips, 1777. 46pp. 19th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed, head of spine chipped. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Closed tear on titlepage neatly repaired on verso. Minor soiling and foxing. About very good. In a brown half morocco and cloth folder.

First and only London edition, after the Philadelphia edition of the same year. A work of great importance in the history of civil liberty, freedom of religion, and objection to war in the United States. The document was written by a group of Quakers led by merchant Israel Pemberton. “During the first Continental Con- gress the Massachusetts delegation were invited by the Friends to attend a meeting at Carpenter’s Hall. Pemberton addressed them, urging them to grant liberty of conscience to the Friends and Baptists in their province. This incident is said to be one of the chief reasons for John Adams’ animosity toward the Quakers. Hold- ing to his religious convictions, Pemberton was opposed to the Revolution. With others of his faith he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or to promise not to give aid to the enemy. Consequently he was arrested early in September, 1777, and imprisoned in the Free Mason’s Lodge without trial. Their homes were searched and their papers seized....Pemberton’s health was undermined during his imprisonment, causing his death one year later” – DAB. This pamphlet was written by Pemberton and other Quakers immediately after their imprisonment, and put through the press of Robert Bell by friends. It sets forth their views and defends their conduct. Of the greatest importance to the history of American civil disobedience. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 77-2c. HOWES P191. SMITH, FRIENDS’ BOOKS 1:281. ESTC T79339. $500.

Presentation Copy

210. [Perrie, George W.]: BUCKSKIN MOSE; OR, LIFE FROM THE LAKES TO THE PACIFIC, AS ACTOR, CIRCUS RIDER, DE- TECTIVE, RANGER, GOLD-DIGGER, INDIAN SCOUT, AND GUIDE. New York. 1873. 285pp. plus plates and advertisements. Original cloth. Binding rather cocked, spine ends bit frayed, else very good.

A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front fly leaf: “Charles R. Ben- nett, San Francisco, California December 1894, from the Author G.W. Perrie.” “The author reached California in the middle 50’s and spent some time in Lassen County. Later he became a noted Indian fighter. His account of the Crim Emigra- tion Company which numbered seventy-five men, his journey across the plains, and his experiences in the diggings are related with great verve and drama” – Streeter. STREETER SALE 3084. COWAN, p.82. GRAFF 3252. HOWES P242. MINTZ 365. $500.

The First Bound Book Issued in Upstate New York

211. Pickering, Timothy: POLITICAL ESSAYS. A SERIES OF LET- TERS ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. Canandaigua: Printed and sold by J.D. Bemis, 1812. 215pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf-backed birch boards, gilt leather label. Binding rubbed, worn at corners. Tear in lower outer corner of pp.97-98, affecting about twenty words; small tear in extreme lower outer corner of pp.71-72, touching a few letters. Scattered foxing. Very good, in the original binding. In a cloth chemise and slipcase, spine gilt, leather label.

The first American edition, following the London edition of the previous year. This book is notable as the first bound book printed in western New York. This copy is especially remarkable for being in its original binding. In this collection of essays Pickering vents his strong anti-Jefferson and anti- Madison opinions, including his views on the Embargo, the circumstances of his dismissal from office by John Adams, and the approaching war with England. After Alexander Hamilton’s death, Pickering, who had been the third Secretary of State (under Washington and Adams), and who also represented Massachusetts in the United States House and Senate, became a prominent Federalist spokesman. He was a leader in the movement to have New England secede from the Union (via the Essex Junto and the Hartford Convention) in the years leading up to the War of 1812. The fact that this volume was printed in Canandaigua, in far western New York, in the year of the outbreak of the war, is interesting evidence of the Federal- ists’ attempt to spread their philosophy to the American frontier. McMURTRIE, CANANDAIGUA IMPRINTS 16. HOWES P339. SABIN 62657. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 26462. $1250.

First Book: A Key Overland Narrative

212. Pike, Albert: PROSE SKETCHES AND POEMS, WRITTEN IN THE WESTERN COUNTRY. Boston. 1834. 200pp. 12mo. Original cloth, spine gilt. Spine ends bumped and worn, small pieces of spine chipped. Corners bumped, boards slightly stained. A good copy. In a half morocco and cloth box.

First edition of the author’s first book, printing what has been generally accorded the honor of being the first printed account of a trip across the Texas Panhandle: the journey of Pike and his friend, Aaron B. Lewis. Lewis started from Fort Towson after spending a wretched winter on the Canadian River. The following summer he trapped in the Colorado Mountains. Pike joined him for the return trip in the fall, down the Pecos and across to one of the headwaters of the Brazos, and from thence northeast to Red River and Fort Smith. The overland narrative occupies pages 9-80. The remainder of the book is comprised of poetic and prose renderings of life in the Southwest, written chiefly while Pike was resident in Santa Fe and Arkansas Territory. He later distinguished himself in the Mexican War, superintended the Indian Territory for the Confederates during the Civil War, and dabbled in the law and Masonry in later years. While his overland journey has always been the chief interest of this book, one should not ignore its literary merits. The DAB states that Pike “had imagination and skill in versification...Some of his poems have a lusty vigor, and of the different versions of ‘Dixie’ his is perhaps the best.” WAGNER-CAMP 50. STREETER TEXAS 1150. CLARK III:88. WRIGHT I:2045. FIELD 1219. RADER 2670. VANDALE 132. GRAFF 3285. BAL 16031. HOWES P365. RITTENHOUSE 466. $3500.

Running the American Colonies

213. Pownall, Thomas: THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE COLO- NIES. (THE FOURTH EDITION.) WHEREIN THEIR RIGHTS AND CONSTITUTION ARE DISCUSSED AND STATED.... London: J. Walter, 1768. [iii]-xxxi,[1],318,73pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, retaining original leather label. Contemporary ownership inscription of “Dr. Logan” on titlepage. Some dampstaining, mainly in margin, and affecting titlepage, else quite good. Lacks the half title.

Fourth and best edition. This was one of the most influential books on the Ameri- can colonies written before the Revolution. Pownall had a distinguished career as an enlightened colonial administrator and served as governor of several British American colonies. He also gave serious consideration to the business of governing the colonies, writing the present work on his return from North America. Pownall felt that imperial reform was necessary, arguing that the colonies would only be bound to Britain by a sound and equitable economic balance. A moderate man with sympathy for the Americans, he issued successive editions of his widely read book, with revisions, through a seventh edition in 1777. Pownall writes: “The whole train of events, the whole course of business, must perpetually bring forward into practice, and necessarily in the end, into establishment – either an American or a British union – There is no other alternative....” This copy belonged to George Logan (1753-1821), grandson of William Penn’s secretary, James Logan, also a noted Philadelphia physician and member of the state legislature. Marginalia, in George Logan’s hand, on page 279 directs the reader to reference James Logan’s Letters on the subject at hand. HOWES P539. SABIN 64817. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 64-16d. $3000.

First Traveller’s Guide Printed in America

214. [Prince, Thomas]: THE VADE MECUM FOR AMERICA: OR A COMPANION FOR TRADERS AND TRAVELLERS.... Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland, 1732. iv,[2],220pp. Very narrow quarto. Contempo- rary calf. Calf scuffed, joints splitting but sound. Bookplate, free endsheets excised, slight tanning, an occasional fox mark. Else very good.

The second edition of the earliest guide to outline the routes of transit in the North American colonies from the Kennebec to Jamestown, Virginia. The first edition was published the previous year. The first part of the work is comprised of tables of currency conversion and interest. The text then lists “Counties and Towns in New England” and “Courts in the Provinces and Colonies,” including court dates. A section follows which lists roads and routes, with mileages, from Boston to Ken- nebec, Brunswick, Londonderry, Yarmouth, Northtown (Massachusetts), Springfield, Hartford via Windham, Cape Cod (with assorted directions on the Cape), Bristol and Rhode Island, Providence, New London, and New York. Also listed are routes and mileages from New York to Philadelphia, and Philadelphia to Jamestown, Vir- ginia. At the end is a list of the “Streets, Lanes, and Alleys in the City of Boston.” EVANS 3598. HOWES P616. SABIN 98274. $2750.

Handsome Remington

215. Remington, Frederic: REMINGTON’S FRONTIER SKETCHES. Chicago. [1898]. [6]pp. of text plus fifteen full-page plates, each with a tissue guard bearing a caption for the respective plate. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial boards, a.e.g. Front joint cracked, two small areas of rubbing on boards, otherwise an unusually nice copy of this extremely fragile book, with tissue guards (bearing captions) intact.

Introduction by George S. Rowe. Reproduces in 9½ x 12-inch format fifteen of Remington’s illustrations which appeared initially in Gen. Nelson Miles’ Personal Recollections.... McCRACKEN, p.145. DYKES, REMINGTON 327. HOWES R206. $500.

Midwestern Travel Rarity, with an A.L.S. from the Author

216. Reynolds, John: SKETCHES OF THE COUNTRY, ON THE NORTHERN ROUTE FROM BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS, TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK, AND BACK BY THE OHIO VALLEY; TO- GETHER WITH A GLANCE AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Bel- leville. 1854. 264pp. Modern full morocco, raised bands. Wear along outer hinges (leather scuffed). Occasional light foxing. Overall very good. Tipped in at rear is an a.l.s. from the author, dated at Washington, 16 Dec. 1835, addressed to the auditor of public accounts in Illinois, relating to the sale of land in Adams Co., Illinois.

“Contains detailed historical and descriptive notes of places along the route...” – Buck. A rare and valuable contribution to the literature of the region. The author was governor of Illinois and lived a good part of his life in Belleville. HOWES R238, “b.” GRAFF 3481. BUCK 510. BYRD 2173. SABIN 70422. $2750.

The American Theatre on a Bet!

217. Rhys, Horton: A THEATRICAL TRIP FOR A WAGER! THROUGH CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES. London: Published for the author, 1861. [4],140pp. plus five plates (three tinted, one colored). Later three-quarter roan and pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed. Lower outer corner of final leaf expertly repaired. Very good.

A humorous account of the author’s tour giving theatrical entertainments mainly in the towns of Canada East and West in 1859-60, on a wager that he could pay his way with his talents. Rhys traveled through Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, Cobourg, Peterborough, Toronto, Belleville, and Niagara in Canada, and through Baltimore, Detroit, New York, and Rhode Island in the United States. One of the tinted plates shows bathers at Newport Beach, Rhode Island, while the colored plate shows an iceberg by moonlight. Rhys performed under the stage name, “Morton Price.” HOWES R245. SABIN 70773. TPL 4011. LANDE 2124. GAGNON I 3013. DIONNE II 1446. $700.

218. Richmond, C.W., and H.F. Vallette: A HISTORY OF THE COUN- TY OF DU PAGE, ILLINOIS; CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT AND PRESENT ADVANTAGES, A SEPARATE HISTORY OF THE SEVERAL TOWNS...WITH THE NAMES AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST SETTLERS IN EACH TOWNSHIP, AND MUCH VALUABLE STATISTICAL INFORMATION. Chicago. 1857. 212pp. Woodcut plate. Original cloth, stamped in blind. Cloth sunned, some minor rubbing at extremities. Gnawing at foremargins of front free endpaper and title-leaf (text unaffected). Scattered foxing. Overall a good copy.

The first Du Page county history, including an invaluable account of the county’s earliest organizations, schools, agricultural productions and settlers, as well as some interesting anecdotes regarding the Black Hawk war, Indian massacres in the county, old claim feuds, and other scrapes and incidents in the history of the county. Richmond was a schoolteacher and Vallette was a lawyer. The plate depicts the Naperville Academy. HOWES R263, “aa.” CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 281. BYRD 2781. BUCK 788. $400.

Narrative of an Important American Revolutionary Figure

219. Riedesel, Friedrich, and Friederike Charlotte: DIE BERUFS-REI- SE NACH AMERICA. BRIEFE DER GENERALIN VON RIE- DESEL AUF DIESER REISE UND WAHREND IHRES SECH- SJAHRIGEN AUFENTHALTS IN AMERICA ZUR ZEIT DES DORTIGEN KRIEGES IN DEN JAHREN 1776 BIS 1783 NACH DEUTSCHLAND GESCHRIEBEN. Berlin. 1800. x,352pp. Engraved title vignette. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, ornate gilt spine. Lightly rubbed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Very good.

The first published edition, preceded only by a privately printed edition for the family, with a different title, issued the same year. Although bibliographers often attribute this book to both Riedesels, it was in fact written by Mrs. Riedesel. Mr. Riedesel was in command of the German troops sent to Canada in February 1776 to aid the British. His wife joined him there in the spring of 1777 and accompanied him on the campaign under Burgoyne which went south into New York that fall, ending in the defeat and surrender of all of Burgoyne’s forces at Saratoga on Oct. 17, 1777. The Riedesels were then captives of the Americans (although under loose parole), first at Cambridge and then in Virginia, when the captive army was moved there in late 1778. Life was quite pleasant there, and the prisoners became friendly with Thomas Jefferson. Later they spent time in York, Pennsylvania, Bethlehem, New York, and Canada, before finally returning to Europe in 1783. “Mme Riedesel’s narrative and descriptions are written with impressive directness and simplicity; there is a quality of genuineness about them that bespeaks her sterling character and the honesty of her record” – Clark. HOWES R284. CLARK I:295. SABIN 71300. $1500. An Important Early Louisiana Travel Narrative

220. Robin, Claude C.: VOYAGES DANS L’INTÉRIEUR DE LA LOUISIANE, DE LA FLORIDE OCCIDENTALE, ET DANS LES ISLES DE LA MARTINIQUE ET DE SAINT-DOMINGUE, PENDANT LES ANNÉES 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805 ET 1806...SUIVIS DE LA FLORE LOUISIANAISE. Paris: F. Buisson, 1807. Three volumes. [3],xii,346; [3],511pp. plus folding map; xii,551pp. plus folding plate. Frontispiece portrait in first volume. Half title in each volume. Antique-style half calf over pastepaper boards with vellum corners, spines gilt. A fine set.

An important narrative of travel in the Caribbean, Louisiana, and West Florida. The first volume describes the author’s voyages and his visits to Martinique and St. Domingo, ending with his arrival at Pensacola in 1803. In the second volume he gives an account of his stay in Pensacola and journey to New Orleans, which he describes in great detail. He was present at ceremonies turning Louisiana over to the United States both in New Orleans and in Natchitoches. He spent considerable time exploring in western Louisiana and gives an excellent account of the country, its natural history, the crops and agriculture of Louisiana, the French inhabitants of the area, and the climate. He also discusses the limits of Louisiana, the problems of the border with Spain, the new American government of Louisiana, and other civil and political questions. “He gives a most ample description of Louisiana’s western interior and of Spanish Texas” – Howes. In the third volume Robin publishes “La flore Louisianaise,” later translated into English by C.S. Rafinesque and republished in New York in 1817. The text is accompanied by a large folding map entitled “Carte de Deux Florides et de la Louisiane Inferieure,” by J.B. Poirson, which shows all of Florida and Georgia, Louisiana north to Arkansas with the Ozarks clearly delineated, and east Texas with its rivers in some detail. Despite a fair number of copies in the NUC, this work is rare on the market and remains little known, missed by Clark despite its obvious importance as a southern travel narrative, and not seen, though reported, by Servies. HOWES R362. SABIN 72039. MONAGHAN 1247. GRAFF 3524. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 9279. SERVIES 1807-2. $6000.

221. Robinson, John Hovey: SILVER-KNIFE; OR, THE HUNTERS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Bos- ton. 1854. 168pp. Contemporary blindstamped cloth. Moderate wear to lower spine, scattered foxing, else very good.

The second edition, preceded by an 1850 printing. A somewhat fanciful and ro- mantic account of life in the Rocky Mountains and the “Indian country.” Although the preface explains that the content was gleaned from an original manuscript, Wagner-Camp justifiably calls it a work of fiction. A scarce and unusual piece of Western Americana. HOWES R367. WAGNER-CAMP 187a:2. $500. 222. Rock, James L., and W.I. Smith, editors: SOUTHERN AND WEST- ERN TEXAS GUIDE FOR 1878. St. Louis. 1878. 282pp. Illus. Folding colored map (Texas on one side, the United States on the other). Frontis. Original gilt cloth. 10-inch horizontal tear along one fold of map, 5-inch jagged tear in eastern part of Texas. Otherwise very good.

A fine guide to Texas in this period, listing resources by county. With the folding map, which is usually lacking. HOWES R389. MORRISON 3073. $500.

223. Rossi, Louis: SOUVENIRS D’UN VOYAGE EN OREGON ET EN CALIFORNIE. Paris: Martin-Beaupre Freres, 1864. [4],iv,[9]-322,[2]pp. (with page numbers 121-145 on a single page, as explained in errata note) plus two folding maps. Original pebbled brown cloth, spine gilt, paper label at foot of spine. Cloth lightly sunned, endpapers discolored. Near fine. The third edition, first published in Brussels the year before. Abbé Louis Rossi west to Washington Territory as a missionary in 1856 with Bishop Blanchet, and was later assigned to northern California and Nevada. The text describes Rossi’s voyage to the Pacific Coast, and his missionary labors and journeys around the Northwest, with individual chapters on San Juan Island, San Francisco, and Hum- boldt Bay. One of the attractive folding maps is of California, and the other is of Washington Territory and northern Oregon. “The Abbé saw much, and told it well” – Cowan. Neither Streeter nor Graff apparently ever owned a copy of any edition, nor did Holliday, Bauer, or Plath. Sabin is in error in assigning a publication date of 1863 to this edition. HOWES R463. SABIN 73420. ROCQ 16033. COWAN, p.543 (note). MONAGHAN 1262 (another ed). SOLIDAY IV:539 (another ed). $1200.

The Most Famous New England Indian Captivity

224. Rowlandson, Mary: A NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY, SUF- FERINGS AND REMOVES OF MRS. MARY ROWLANDSON, WHO WAS TAKEN PRISONER BY THE INDIANS WITH SEV- ERAL OTHERS AND TREATED IN THE MOST BARBAROUS AND CRUEL MANNER BY THOSE VILE SAVAGES. WITH MANY OTHER REMARKABLE EVENTS DURING HER TRAV- ELS. Boston: John Boyle, 1773. 40pp. plus preliminary advertisement leaf. 20th-century red half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Some light dampstaining and foxing. Still, a very good copy.

The Frank T. Siebert copy of this famous captivity narrative, with his pencil notes on the front fly leaf. A desirable copy of this work, in an 18th-century edition. No copies are known of the first American edition, published in 1682, and only two of the second American edition which followed shortly thereafter. “The Rowlandson captivity is the first and perhaps the most famous of all Indian captivities. Tyler... comments that ‘there is no more graphic or more exquisite literary memorial’” – Streeter. “One of the earliest narratives of Indian captivities, and possibly one of the most authentic. The relation of the manners and peculiarities of the Indians of New England, in 1675, by one so observant and scrupulous in her statements, has more than ordinary interest and value. The original edition is very rarely found complete” – Field. Rowlandson was captured in February 1675 and spent eleven weeks among the Indians before being ransomed. Her simple and compelling account has become one of the most famous American frontier narratives, a classic of the Indian captivity genre and of early New England. EVANS 12988. AYER 238 (1st ed). SIEBERT SALE 438 (this copy). VAIL 620. HOWES R478. SABIN 73583. $10,000.

225. Ruxton, George F.: ADVENTURES IN MEXICO AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. London. 1847. viii,332pp. Original red blindstamped cloth. Spine ends worn, with slight expert repairs to spine. Ink name on titlepage. A few marginal pencil marks. Else very good.

One of the best known travel narratives of the fur trade era, describing the adventures of the author, a British army officer, in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico in 1847. HOWES R553, “aa.” HILL 1506 (ref). FLAKE 7459. WAGNER-CAMP 139:1. RITTENHOUSE 499. GRAFF 3620. $350.

226. Rye, Edgar: THE QUIRT AND THE SPUR. Chicago. [1909]. 363pp. Original pictorial cloth. About fine.

“This book became rare because a prominent ranching family felt themselves slandered by some remarks in it and destroyed all the copies they could purchase” – Six Score. An important West Texas cattle book. SIX SCORE 95. ADAMS HERD 1982. HOWES R559. $425.

227. Safford, William H.: THE LIFE OF HARMAN BLENNERHAS- SETT COMPRISING AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE BURR EXPEDITION: AND CONTAINING MANY ADDITION- AL FACTS NOT HERETOFORE PUBLISHED. Cincinnati: Moore, Anderson, Wilstach & Keys, 1853. 239pp., plus numerous added illustrations. Modern three-quarter green morocco, ornate gilt spine, t.e.g. Worn where bookplate was removed from front pastedown. Very good.

Second edition, after the first of 1850. This edition was issued without the plates found in the first edition, but the present copy has been extra-illustrated with numerous prints of individual portraits and views of individuals discussed in the text. Safford is still considered the leading authority on Harman Blennerhassett in the wake of his publication of The Blennerhassett Papers in 1864. This volume precedes that better known work by a decade, but it establishes Safford’s scholarly interest in the flamboyant man who provided much of the capital for Burr’s scheme against the Spanish in Mexico. Blennerhassett’s life has been regarded a mixture of “farce and tragedy,” and Safford’s work maintains this caricature. HOWES S13. SABIN 74878. ANB 3, pp.15-16. $500.

228. Sagra, Ramon de la: CINCO MESES EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE LA AMERICA DEL NORTE. Paris. 1836. 437pp. Original wrappers. Slightly chipped and worn at top and bottom of backstrip, but overall a near fine copy, uncut.

Sagra was a noted Cuban doctor and botanist who visited the United States in 1835. He was interested in social and economic issues and gathered much data, including material on prisons. He travelled on the East Coast between Washington and Boston, and through upstate New York as far as Buffalo. “A study of social and industrial conditions...” – Howes. HOWES S18. $350.

Rare Vermont Imprint and Indian War History

229. [Sanders, Daniel Clark]: A HISTORY OF THE INDIAN WARS WITH THE FIRST SETTLERS OF THE UNITED STATES, PAR- TICULARLY IN NEW ENGLAND. Montpelier. 1812. 319pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, leather label. Hinges rather worn. Trimmed a bit close, affecting a couple letters at foredge. Somewhat darkened, a few fox marks, old ownership signatures and stamp. A good, sound copy. In a cloth case, leather label.

A rare work on the history of the Indian Wars in New England, written by the president of the University of Vermont. “This book aroused bitter criticism because of its strictures on colonial bigotry and cruelty to the natives...” – Streeter. The book was long believed to have been suppressed by its author because of his mortification at the attacks made on it by reviewers, and both Field and Church give long accounts of its supposed destruction. While there certainly were bitter reviews, and the work is quite rare, more modern bibliographers, notably Marcus McCorison in Vermont Imprints, have suggested that the suppression story may be exaggerated. Later writers have also praised the book as one of the best written histories of the Indian Wars of New England. CHURCH 1306. HOWES S84. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 3474. FIELD 1351. GILMAN, p.240. SABIN 76366. McCORISON 1420. STREETER SALE 727. $1750. 230. Scharmann, Hermann B.: SCHARMANN’S OVERLAND JOUR- NEY TO CALIFORNIA FROM THE PAGES OF A PIONEER’S DIARY. [New York. 1918]. 114pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original green cloth, spine gilt. Lightly rubbed at extremities, top corner of front cover lightly creased. Bookplate on front pastedown. Bright and clean internally. Near fine.

First English language edition, translated from the German edition issued in 1905, by Margaret and Erich Zimmerman. Privately printed in an edition of only fifty copies. “Scharmann started his overland odyssey on March 20, 1849, from New York as the president of a German company. By November 1, the company arrived at Lassen’s Ranch, where Scharmann encountered Peter Lassen, who imparted little aid to Scharmann’s sick wife and infant daughter. Shortly thereafter, both died. The next portion of the book consists of his experiences looking for gold and the difficulties of trying to survive high prices, hard work, illness, and little success. The German narrates a detailed description of Marysville, Sacramento City, Negro Bar, and various mining methods” – Kurutz. Dissatisfied with his experiences in California, Scharmann left in late October 1850 and returned to New York. WAGNER-CAMP 217b (note). HOWES S149. MINTZ 406. MATTES 616. NORRIS CATA- LOGUE 3553. GRAFF 3693. COWAN, p.571. KURUTZ 559b. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 177. HOW- ELL 50:828. $850.

231. Schermerhorn, John F., and Samuel J. Mills: A CORRECT VIEW OF THAT PART OF THE UNITED STATES WHICH LIES WEST OF THE ALLEGANY MOUNTAINS, WITH REGARD TO RELIGION AND MORALS. Hartford: Peter B. Gleason & Co., 1814. 52pp. Dbd. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Minor soiling. Very good. “In the summer of 1812, Messrs. John F. Schermerhorn and Samuel J. Mills com- menced a tour through the western and southern parts of the United States, under the patronage of the Massachusetts Missionary Society, and the Missionary Society of Connecticut” – Advertisement. The two men travelled to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri Territory. The report includes statistical tables on the number of inhabitants in each area and their religious affiliations, as well as an overview of the religious groups in the area. With the ownership inscription of Dr. Uriah Bigelow, a prominent physician in Albany, New York. HOWES S156. SABIN 77609. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 32722. $950.

232. Schoolcraft, Henry R.: INQUIRIES, RESPECTING THE HIS- TORY, PRESENT CONDITION AND FUTURE PROSPECTS OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE UNITED STATES. [Washing- ton. 1847]. iv,55pp. Quarto. Original printed wrappers. Wraps tattered and considerably chipped, not affecting text. Dog-eared, else good.

After a long term as an Indian agent, Schoolcraft lost his position because of politics, and spent some years trying to support himself as a writer. He eventually engineered a position as Indian Historian to the U.S. Government, and produced his massive six-volume work on American Indians at the government’s expense. This circular, sent by Schoolcraft to all Indian agents and traders, was the opening salvo in his project, positing questions in 348 separate areas to obtain information. The questionnaire is highly revealing of mid-19th-century attitudes toward Indians. See Brian Dippie’s excellent book, Catlin and His Contemporaries (University of Nebraska, 1990), for a full account of this and other Schoolcraft books. HOWES S184. DIPPIE, p.174. $600.

With the Original Box, a Remarkable Survival

233. Schreyvogel, Charles: MY BUNKIE AND OTHERS. PICTURES OF WESTERN FRONTIER LIFE. New York. 1909. [6],36 leaves with illustrations on recto in black and white. Half title. Oblong folio. Original cloth and pictorial boards. Two old stains on the rear board, boards very lightly edgeworn and lightly soiled. Internally clean and neat. Overall a fine copy of a book often found in ragged condition. In the original pictorial box (a bit worn). In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

Schreyvogel’s chief book, with striking scenes of Indian and cavalry life on the Plains. A remarkable survival in the original box. HOWES S199. DYKES, SCHREYVOGEL 93. $3000.

With an Important Series of Maps

234. Schultz, Christian: TRAVELS ON AN INLAND VOYAGE THROUGH THE STATES OF NEW-YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, VIRGINIA, OHIO, KENTUCKY, AND TENNESSEE, AND THROUGH THE TERRITORIES OF INDIANA, LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, AND NEW-ORLEANS, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808.... New York. 1810. Two volumes bound in one: xviii,207; viii,224pp. plus two plates and five folding maps (as found in a few copies only, see below). Frontispiece portrait. Contemporary calf, gilt morocco label, spine gilt. Lacks front free endpaper. Text moderately tanned and foxed, maps and plates lightly foxed. Contemporary Fredericksburg,Virginia bookseller’s label on front pastedown. A very good copy.

One of the earliest works to give a detailed account of travel and the actual risks and dangers encountered in the western country. Schultz crossed upstate New York and western Pennsylvania, then went down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, travelling inland along the way. The entire second volume covers the trip from the mouth of the Ohio south, and paints a marvelous picture of a Mississippi passage of the period. The excellent maps include one of the South to New Orleans, the Ohio River, one of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers, and the locations of the ancient mounds near Marietta. The book is most often found with only four folding maps; this copy has five maps, as is the case in only a few copies. GRAFF 3707. CLARK II:166. HOWES S202, “aa.” SABIN 78001. THOMSON 1027. BUCK 70. $7500.

235. Sewall, R.K.: SKETCHES OF ST. AUGUSTINE, WITH A VIEW OF ITS HISTORY AND ADVANTAGES AS A RESORT FOR IN- VALIDS. New York. 1848. 69pp., plus six plates and 11pp. of advertisements. 12mo. Original blindstamped cloth, gilt. Rubbed and edgeworn, chipped at spine ends. Faint tideline throughout. Good.

Includes pages 39-40, which Howes notes are lacking in most copies. That leaf was deleted due to the anti-Minorcan statements it contained. This publication is one of the earliest promotions of Florida as a health resort. Much of the text is anti-Catholic. The plates depict important buildings, the military burial ground, and a pineapple. SERVIES 3349. HOWES S304, “aa.” SABIN 79439. $400.

With Numerous Lithographic Views in California

236. Seyd, Ernest: CALIFORNIA AND ITS RESOURCES. A WORK FOR THE MERCHANT, THE CAPITALIST, AND THE EMI- GRANT. London: Trubner and Co., 1858. [4],168,[1]pp., plus eighteen plates (seven colored or tinted, one folded), two folding maps, and ads. Tinted lithographic frontispiece. Original black pebbled cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt. Cloth quite rubbed, worn at spine ends, corners bumped. Internally fresh and clean. Overall, very good.

“One of the best early surveys of the natural resources of California” – Currey & Kruska. A thorough and lively work on California, with much on the state’s natural resources, history, and economy, as well as its gold fields and agricultural prospects. The tinted frontispiece showing Yosemite Falls and another tinted plate showing Yosemite Valley were derived from sketches made in 1855, and appear to be the first views of Yosemite Valley to be published in a book. Other illustrations show buildings in San Francisco, forest scenes, and mining operations. Wheat says the illustrations “are of much Gold Rush significance.” One map shows all of California, while the other shows several routes to California from England and Europe, including overland from New York or New Orleans, across the Isthmus of Panama, or around the Horn. “Scarce....One of the best books on the resources of California, with much historical material on the Vigilance Committee” – Howell. COWAN, p.577. ROCQ 17136. CURREY & KRUSKA 296. HOWELL 50:832. HOWES S310, “aa.” SABIN 79633. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 181. ABBEY 662. $2250. 237. Shepherd, William, Major: PRAIRIE EXPERIENCES IN HAN- DLING CATTLE AND SHEEP. London. 1884. [6],266pp. plus folding map, eight plates (including frontispiece), and 32pp. of ads. Half title. Original pictorial green cloth, expertly recased. Binding worn at extremities. Very good.

Shepherd, an Englishman, rendered this mildly optimistic account of his travels in the American West in 1882 and 1883 upon his return to his homeland, thereby further fueling the fire of the already marked interest on the part of British capi- talists in the investment opportunities afforded by the American cattle trade. The not untalented author illustrated the work himself. HOWES S389. GRAFF 3751. DOBIE, p.98. RADER 2920. SIX SCORE 97. ADAMS HERD 2057. $450.

238. [Sigsby, William]: LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF TIMOTHY MURPHY, THE BENEFACTOR OF SCHOHARIE, INCLUDING HIS HISTORY FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE REV- OLUTION – HIS RENCONTRES WITH THE INDIANS – THE SIEGE OF THE THREE FORTS...AND ANECDOTES OF HIS ADVENTURES WITH THE INDIANS.... Schoharie: A.B.F. Pond, July 1863. 21,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Very good.

Second edition, after the scarce 1839 printing. A moderately sensational account of the life and adventures of this Mohawk Valley scout and Indian fighter. In this copy, a passage relating to Murphy’s brutal murder of an Indian when he found him defecating in the woods has been crossed out in ink (though it remains completely decipherable). “The authenticity of the stories narrated here and elsewhere, of his prowess, is better sustained, than most of those illustrating the heroism of border warriors” – Field. SABIN 80968. HOWES S453. FIELD 1109 (1st ed). $375.

A Rarity of the First Seminole War

239. [Simmons, William Hayne]: NOTICES OF EAST FLORIDA, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEMINOLE NATION OF IN- DIANS. By a recent traveller in the province. Charleston: Printed for the author, 1822. 105pp., plus errata page. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards. Front board nearly detached, binding quite rubbed and darkened. Text tanned, scattered foxing. Occasional pencil marginalia. Good. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase.

The Frank T. Siebert copy. Simmons travelled through East Florida and Seminole country in 1821-22, and his work is a valuable and scarce account of the country and the Indians he encountered. Florida had only been secured from Spain via the Adams-Onìs “Transcontinental Treaty” of 1819. Simmons discusses the geography between Volusia and Alachua, St. Augustine and the outbreak of yellow fever there in 1821, a settlement of blacks, and the manners and mores of the Seminoles. Sim- mons includes a nine-page vocabulary of the Seminole language, derived in part from a manuscript by Alexander Arbuthnot, the Scottish trader who was famously executed by Andrew Jackson in 1818. “As the results of personal intercourse of an intelligent observer of the character and peculiarities of that interesting people, it possesses more than common interest” – Field. Aside from this Siebert copy, we can locate only the Streeter copy (which brought $700 in 1967) and one other as having appeared at auction in the past forty-five years. HOWES F211, “aa.” SERVIES 1133. FIELD 1143. SABIN 24889. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 10282. PILLING, MUSKHOGEAN, p.64. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (FLORIDA EXHIBITION) 91. STREETER SALE 1206. SIEBERT SALE 623 (this copy). $9500.

The First Cowboy Autobiography

240. Siringo, Charles A.: A TEXAS COW BOY OR, FIFTEEN YEARS ON THE HURRICANE DECK OF A SPANISH PONY. TAKEN FROM REAL LIFE. Chicago & New York: Rand, McNally & Co...., [1886]. 347pp. plus three plates including portrait and color frontispiece, and an odd advertisement on the verso of the last page of the preface; plus [5] pp. of ads. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Light wear to extremities; a few small stains. Ownership inscriptions on fly leaf. First and last few leaves loosening. A few minor edge tears to text. Very minor toning. A good copy.

“The first – and best – cowboy autobiography” (Howes), and undoubtedly one of the most important range books. This would seem to be one of the earliest Rand, McNally editions, undated, but still using the colored frontispiece which appears in the 1885 and 1886 editions that were issued by Siringo himself. SIX SCORE 99. HOWES S518. GRAFF 3804. DYKES, KID 17. DOBIE, p.119. ADAMS SIX- GUNS 2032. ADAMS HERD 2077. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 185. $1000.

241. Siringo, Charles A.: HISTORY OF “BILLY THE KID.” THE TRUE LIFE OF THE MOST DARING YOUNG OUTLAW OF THE AGE. [Santa Fe. 1920]. 142,[1]pp. 12mo. Original printed pictorial wrappers bound into modern paneled morocco. Near fine.

“This rare little book further strengthened some of the legends about the Kid which by the time were so well established. The author repeats the many legends about the Kid’s early life that were created by Ash Upshon and follows the Garrett book very closely, even to the misspelled proper names” – Adams. HOWES S516, “aa.” DYKES 79. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 2028. $1750. The First Edition of The Book of Mormon 242. Smith, Joseph: THE BOOK OF MORMON: AN ACCOUNT WRITTEN BY THE HAND OF MORMON, UPON PLATES TAKEN FROM THE PLATES OF NEPHI...By Joseph Smith, Ju- nior, Author and Proprietor. Palmyra, N.Y.: Printed by E.B. Grandin, for the Author, 1830. Title (copyright notice on verso); pp.[iii]-iv preface “To the Reader” signed “The Author”; pp.[5]-588 text; extra leaf with “The Tes- timony of Three Witnesses” (recto) and “And Also The Testimony of Eight Witnesses” (verso). Without the two-page index issued at a later date. Con- temporary sheep, the flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets, black morocco label lettered in gilt “Book of / Mormon” (usual wear). Some minor foxing, as usual. Very good. In a black morocco box. Provenance: Moses Lindsley (early signature on front endpaper inscribed Otto, Cattaraugus County, NY); Laura Bartlett (signature on front endpaper, inscribed Otto NY and dated 1901). First edition of the written basis for the beliefs of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints: Joseph Smith’s translation of the golden tablets revealed to him by the angel Moroni in the hill of “cumorah” near Manchester, New York, with the leaf of testimonies, and final blank. This first edition is the only one in which Smith is listed as “author” rather than “translator,” and was printed only two weeks before the formal founding of the Church of Latter-Day Saints on April 6, 1830. The text was dictated by Smith to Oliver Cowdery, who served as scribe and who testified, along with David Whitmer and Martin Harris, to the existence of the golden tablets. Egbert B. Grandin, a local printer and proprietor of the Wayne Sentinel, undertook to print the sizeable edition (5,000 copies) for the twenty-five-year-old Smith. The manuscript “was delivered a few pages at a time to the typesetter, who supplied all the punctuation and paragraphing” (Crawley & Flake). CHURCH 1342. CRAWLEY & FLAKE, MORMON FIFTY 1. GROLIER AMERICAN 100, 37. HOWES S623. SABIN 83028. STREETER SALE 2262. $98,000.

243. [Smith, Sol.]: THE THEATRICAL JOURNEY-WORK AND AN- ECDOTAL RECOLLECTIONS OF SOL. SMITH...COMPRIS- ING A SKETCH OF THE SECOND SEVEN YEARS OF HIS PROFESSIONAL LIFE; TOGETHER WITH SKETCHES OF ADVENTURE IN AFTER YEARS. Philadelphia. [1855]. 254pp. Fron- tis. 12mo. Original illustrated wrappers. Spine chipped. Light scattered foxing. A very good copy.

The recollections of Solomon Franklin Smith, one of the most important figures in the development of the American theatre. Smith describes his various theatrical ventures in the South and West in the first half of the 19th century, including the founding of “the first genuine theatre west of the Mississippi in 1837 in St. Louis” (ANB), and his operations in Alabama, Georgia, New Orleans, and more. Of Smith’s three works on his career and travels, Clark calls this volume the “rich- est in material about travel in the South...[Smith] traveled widely over the South and played in virtually every town of importance in the lower Mississippi Valley, Alabama, and Georgia.” The front wrapper, a colored lithograph by T. Sinclair of Philadelphia, says that this work is part of the “Library of Humorous American Works” series. The book is dedicated to Smith’s friend, P.T. Barnum. CLARK III:240. HOWES S671. SABIN 84240. $500.

One of the Rarest Accounts of the Seminole War

244. [Smith, W.W.]: SKETCH OF THE SEMINOLE WAR, AND SKETCHES DURING A CAMPAIGN. By a Lieutenant of the Left Wing. Charleston: Dan J. Dowling, 1836. [6],311,[1]pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Bookplate on front pastedown. Small, expert repairs to titlepage. Minor foxing. Very good.

One of the rarest personal narratives of the second Seminole War of 1835-36. Be- sides a copy we handled in 1995 (sold for $5000), the last record we can find of this work having been offered for sale is in a 1935 Eberstadt catalogue. The volume is absent from the Streeter collection, which contained some of the rarest Seminole War material. It is also lacking from several otherwise exhaustive collections of southern military history. The author was an officer in the South Carolina volunteer regiment commanded by Col. A.H. Brisbane. James Servies, in the new edition of his Bibliography of West Florida, identifies the author as W.W. Smith on the basis of a Niles Weekly Register article about the book. Smith gives a general history of the beginning of the war, then proceeds to a narrative of his experience with the South Carolina volunteers between the formation of the regiment in January 1836 and the termination of their service at St. Augustine in May. He gives a lively firsthand account of the campaign and his part in it, with interesting observations on the land, natural history, and Indians, as well as military details. He also provides a “Vocabulary of the Seminole language.” HOWES S284. SERVIES, WEST FLORIDA 1913. CLARK III:237. GILCREASE-HARGRETT, p.336. FIELD 1418. EBERSTADT 103:106. $9500.

245. Sola, A.E. Ironmonger: KLONDYKE: TRUTH AND FACTS OF THE NEW EL DORADO. London: The Mining and Geographical Insti- tute, [1897]. [10],102pp. plus twenty-six illustrations and three maps. Frontis. Original gilt stamped cloth. Cloth lightly stained. Separation along crease in folding map. Overall very good.

One of the earliest works of the Alaskan gold rush. The author lived in Alaska for four years and cautions about the difficulties of mining there. HOWES S749. WICKERSHAM 4414. TOURVILLE 4240. $375. Rare Account of Texas Indian Fighting

246. Sowell, A.J.: RANGERS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS. WITH A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENTS, HARD- SHIPS, MASSACRES, BATTLES, AND WARS, BY WHICH TEX- AS WAS RESCUED FROM THE RULE OF THE SAVAGE AND CONSECRATED TO THE EMPIRE OF CIVILIZATION. San Antonio: Shepard Bros. & Co., 1884. [2],411pp. Illus. Original cloth. Cloth scuffed, considerable wear to extremities, corners and edges frayed, contents a bit shaken. Old pencil ownership inscriptions on endpapers. Withal, a good copy, in original binding, of this elusive title. In a half morocco and cloth box.

One of the rarest and best accounts of pioneer days in Texas, described by Edward Eberstadt as “one of the most important and authentic accounts of the Indians Wars in Texas.” Sowell wrote the book while still in his mid-thirties, and so his was one of the first primary accounts to be published. The first section of the book collects Indian affrays as recounted to Sowell by various pioneers. The second section relates the adventures of the author’s family in Texas during the 1830s and ‘40s, with much interesting material concerning the Texas Revolution and the republic period. The final section contains Sowell’s vital personal narrative of experiences during the Wichita Campaign of 1870-71. A Texas rarity of prime importance. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 192. RAINES, p.193. HOWES S801. GRAFF 3909. DOBIE, pp.58,60. $3000.

247. Sparks, Jared: THE LIFE OF JOHN LEDYARD, THE AMERICAN TRAVELLER; COMPRISING SELECTIONS FROM HIS JOUR- NALS AND CORRESPONDENCE. Cambridge. 1829. xi,[1],310pp. Later three-quarter brown morocco, black gilt morocco label. Neat bookplate on front pastedown. Very good.

The second edition. Ledyard was one of the first great American explorers. He accompanied Cook’s third expedition as a sailor, and so visited the Pacific, the Northwest Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii, where he was one of the oarsmen in the boat which took Cook ashore for the parley at which he was murdered. After the American Revolution, at the behest of Thomas Jefferson, then U.S. minister in Paris, Ledyard attempted to cross over to America by traversing Russia, only to be arrested and sent back in farther Siberia. He disappeared while exploring up the Nile in 1789. An important source for Cook’s voyage and other great explorations. HOWES S818. SABIN 88991. LADA-MOCARSKI 92 (ref ). WICKERSHAM 6566 (ref ). FORBES HAWAII 739. $500.

248. Sproat, Gilbert Malcolm: SCENES AND STUDIES OF SAVAGE LIFE. London. 1868. xii,317pp. plus ads. Lithographic frontis. Original green cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down. Slight rubbing and wear to cloth, else very good.

A scarce volume with valuable information on Vancouver Island Indians, including an alphabetical list of words from the Aht language used by Indians on the west coast of the island. The author, a Scotsman, trained for the Civil Service but arrived in British Columbia in 1860 with two shiploads of sawmill equipment. After holding various official posts, he retired to Victoria. “An interesting account of Indian life on the west coast of Vancouver Island, where Malcolm Sproat was a justice of the peace and magistrate from 1863 to 1865” – Lowther. “...Includes account of the massacre of the crew of the ‘Boston’ at Nootka, in 1803” – Howes. GRAFF 3936. HOWES S858, “aa.” PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 3716. LOWTHER 313. SABIN 89910. $600.

249. Stanley, F. [pseud. of Father Stanley Crocciola]: THE GRANT THAT MAXWELL BOUGHT. Denver: The World Press, 1952. [8],256pp. plus folding map. Quarto. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Light shelf wear and soiling. Bookplate on front pastedown. Internally fine. Very good.

No. 54 of an edition limited to 250 copies, signed by the author. “The Maxwell Land Grant at one time comprised a large portion of New Mexico, and its history inevitably involves much concerning land and cattle. Father Stanley’s work, his first book, deals extensively with the history of the area, with emphasis on personalities. The edition was limited to 250 copies” – Six Score. An increasingly scarce work. ADAMS HERD 2149. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 2103. DOBIE, p.109. HOWES C892. SIX SCORE 102. $675.

250. Steedman, Charles J.: BUCKING THE SAGEBRUSH; OR, THE OREGON TRAIL IN THE SEVENTIES. New York. 1904. 270pp. plus plates and folding map. Color frontis. Illustrations by C.M. Russell. Original pictorial cloth, t.e.g. Cloth soiled and a bit rubbed, affecting some of the lettering on the front board and spine, else near fine. In cloth slipcase.

The Everett D. Graff copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. “Most of this book is devoted to a narrative of a cattle drive from Oregon to Wyoming in 1878, certainly one of the earliest drives of this magnitude from Oregon east” – Six Score. Also includes recollections of cattle buying in Mormon country. HOWES S916, “aa.” ADAMS HERD 2153. YOST & RENNER 19. MERRILL ARISTOCRAT. DOBIE, p.120. GRAFF 3957. SIX SCORE 103. SMITH 9832. DYKES, WESTERN HIGH SPOTS, p.21. FLAKE 8383a. $1000.

The Very Rare First Edition of the Principal Manual of the American Revolution 251. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von: REGULATIONS FOR THE ORDER AND DISCIPLINE OF THE TROOPS OF THE UNITED STATES. PART I [all published]. Phil- adelphia: Styner and Cist, 1779. 154,[9]pp. Eight engraved folding plates. 12mo. Publisher’s paper-backed blue sugar paper covered board, front and rear endpapers and blanks comprised of waste sheets from a 1775 issue of The Pennsylvania Magazine. A fine copy, uncut and unopened. Provenance: N. Gilman (signature dated 16 August 1779 and inscribed “West Point”). A marvelous copy of the first edition of this important military manual written expressly for the use of American troops during the Revolutionary War. This copy is bound in original boards with contemporary pastedowns and endpapers. Interest- ingly, the front and rear preliminary matter is made up leaves from The Pennsylvania Magazine, printed by Robert Aitken. The front matter includes the printing of the rules and regulations of the Military Association in Pennsylvania, and the rear end leaves contain descriptions of newly available British publications. The German-born Steuben, well trained in the highly disciplined military system developed under Frederick the Great, served as inspector general of the Conti- nental Army. In this capacity he wrote his Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States on orders from the Continental Congress. First published in 1779, the work became the standard text for the Continental Army and the United States Army into the early 19th century. Fifty editions, abridge- ments, extracts, and adaptations were printed before 1800. Steuben’s contribution to American independence cannot be underestimated. “He was unrivaled among the citizens of the new nation as an expert on military affairs. His introduction of European military concepts to the Continental army marks the beginning of a truly professional military tradition in the United States” – ANB. This copy belonged to Nicholas Gilman (1755-1814), who served throughout the war as an officer in the 3rd New Hampshire. His service included the harsh Valley Forge winter of 1778. During that time Gilman’s commanding officer, Colonel Scammell, became the Adjutant General of the Continental Army, with Gilman being appointed his assistant. In that capacity Gilman served the remainder of the war on George Washington’s staff. Interestingly, in August of 1779, Gilman was with both Washington and Steuben at West Point, suggesting the intriguing possibility that Steuben presented the freshly printed volumes to Washington and his staff at that time. Following the war Gilman would become a signer of the Constitution from New Hampshire and would serve in Congress. A beautiful copy of the first military manual devised for the Continental Army, in original condition, with interesting contemporary endpapers and an important provenance. SABIN 91395. EVANS 16627. NAIP w021709. HILDEBURN 3945. HOWES S951, “aa.” ANB 20, pp.689-91. $22,500.

252. Stevenson, David: SKETCH OF THE CIVIL ENGINEERING OF NORTH AMERICA; COMPRISING REMARKS ON THE HAR- BOURS, RIVER AND LAKE NAVIGATION, LIGHTHOUSES, STEAM-NAVIGATION, WATER-WORKS, CANALS, ROADS, RAILWAYS, BRIDGES, AND OTHER WORKS IN THAT COUN- TRY. London: John Weale, 1838. [3]-320pp. plus fourteen plates (four folding), folding engraved map, tables, pp.[61]-76 of ads, and Weale’s Scientific Advertiser for July 1838 (16pp.) bound in at rear. Original blindstamped cloth. Spine bit sunned. Unobtrusive bookplate on front pastedown. Otherwise a fine, crisp copy.

A presentation copy, inscribed: “Admiral Sir David Milne with the Author’s respectful compliments.” A classic compendium documenting the early stages of America’s internal improvements, including bridges, canals, railways, harbors, steam power, etc. Brooke Hindle calls this the best of the early European works on American engineering, adding that the earliest American surveys of native civil engineering feats were not as elaborate or well executed as British works on American technology: “...a knowledgeable Scot, [Stevenson] presents a remarkably well-paced view of harbors, lake and river improvements, steamboats, building methods, canals, roads, bridges, railroads, waterworks, and lighthouses.” THOMSON 2013. SABIN 91589. HOWES S976. Hindle, Technology In Early America, pp.50-51. $600.

253. Stoddard, Amos, Major: SKETCHES, HISTORICAL AND DE- SCRIPTIVE, OF LOUISIANA. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1812. viii, 172,175-488pp. (complete). Later half calf and marbled boards. Minor foxing, but very good.

One of the classic early descriptions of upper and lower Louisiana, based on the author’s service there in the previous decade as civil and military commandant. His book is one of the earliest historical treatises concerning the regions extending to the Pacific, including descriptions of Indian tribes of this virtually unknown wilderness. As the western boundary of Louisiana had not yet been established, there is some material of relevance to Texas. HOWES S1021, “aa.” STREETER SALE 1537. GRAFF 3994. FIELD 1505. CLARK II:168. RAINES, p.196. SABIN 91928. RADER 2984. WAGNER-CAMP 10c. SERVIES 840. $1000.

254. [Strubberg, Friedrich August]: FRIEDRICHSBURG, DIE COL- ONIE DES DEUTSCHEN FÜRSTEN-VEREINS IN TEXAS. Leipzig. 1867. Two volumes bound in one. [12],233,[1]; [6],236,[1]pp. Con- temporary three-quarter cloth, spine gilt. Minor shelf wear. Very minor foxing. Two leaves trimmed closely and reinforced at edges, not affecting text. Very good.

An authentic account of early German Texas, although cast as a novel set in the German colony at Fredericksburg, Texas, written by Friedrich August Strubberg, who was the director of the settlement in 1846 and 1847. Strubberg (1806-89) was a prolific author who wrote many novels set in German Texas. Fredericksburg was settled in 1846 by the Adelsverein, an organization of German noblemen first associated in 1842 for the purposes of acquisition of land in Texas and the support of emigration by German nationals to that land. An important and authentic account, even if fictionalized. GRAFF 4017. HOWES S1088. RADER 2997. $2250.

255. Stuart, Granville: FORTY YEARS ON THE FRONTIER, AS SEEN IN THE JOURNALS AND REMINISCENCES OF GRANVILLE STUART. Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1925. Two volumes. 272; 265pp. including illustrations. Frontis. Blue cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g. Ink stamp removed from pastedowns of first volume, else near fine.

Stuart was one of the first ranchers in Montana, as well as a gold miner, politician, and leader of the Vigilantes. His book has become a classic. “Nothing better on the cowboys has ever been written than the chapter entitled ‘Cattle Business’ in Volume II. A prime work throughout” – Dobie. Edited by Paul C. Phillips. The second volume in the “Northwest Historical” series. CLARK & BRUNET 245. HOWES S1096, “aa.” ADAMS HERD 2195. MATTES 1296. MER- RILL, p.25. MINTZ 450. DOBIE, pp.121-22. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 2160. SIX SCORE 106. $650.

256. Sullivan, Edward: RAMBLES AND SCRAMBLES IN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA. London. 1852. 424pp. Original cloth. Inner hinges cracking, chipped at top of spine, cloth edgeworn and a bit sunned. Internally clean. Good.

“The course of his adventures led the author on a hunting trip in 1850 to the headwaters of the James River in the Dakotas, and among the Sioux, in a party led by a Canadian trader from Echo Lake, probably Martin McLeod” – Wagner-Camp. Forty pages of the narrative are devoted to this British sportsman’s observations of the South, including a river trip to New Orleans, and his views on slavery. After leaving New Orleans in 1851, he travelled to Cuba and South America. GRAFF 4025. TPL 3113. WAGNER-CAMP 219a:1. CLARK III:420. HOWES S1119. SABIN 93482. $225.

The First Russian Traveller in America

257. Svin’in, Pavel: MALERISCHE REISE DURCH NORDAMERI- KA...AUS DEM RUSSISCHEN UBERSETZT. Riga. 1816. [4],169pp. plus errata. 12mo. Original three-quarter calf and boards. Spine chipped, wear at outer hinges. Front free endsheet torn, some minor dampstaining in gutter of several leaves, contemporary ink note on one page. Else a very good, tight copy. Laid in a cloth case, leather label.

First German edition, after the original Russian edition of 1815. Svin’in was the secretary of the Russian consul-general in Philadelphia from 1811 to 1813. Dur- ing the twenty months he spent in America, the young upper-class diplomat had time to travel from Maine to Virginia. He found Americans most interested in “mercantile enterprises,” but was fascinated by American ingenuity, especially Ful- ton’s steamboat. He reports in detail on the Quakers he met in Philadelphia. An amateur artist, he was critical of the Philadelphia artists of the day, asserting that as painters, the Peales were “very wretched.” This edition was issued without the plates included in the original edition. HOWES S1159. ABROAD IN AMERICA, pp.12-21 (ref ). SABIN 93991. $1500.

258. Tallent, Annie D.: THE BLACK HILLS; OR, THE LAST HUNT- ING GROUND OF THE DAKOTAHS. A COMPLETE HISTO- RY...FROM THEIR FIRST INVASION IN 1874 TO THE PRES- ENT TIME.... St. Louis. 1899. xxii,713pp. plus plates. Frontispiece portrait. Original gilt cloth. Hinges reinforced. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary ownership signatures on front fly leaves. Near fine.

First and only edition. Valuable source for the invasion and settlement of the Dakota-Wyoming country by the whites. The author accompanied the first expedition to the Black Hills in 1874, and includes accounts of that as well as the Custer, Crook, and Yellowstone expeditions. HOWES T14, “aa.” GRAFF 4061. EBERSTADT 115:929. JENNEWEIN 124. ADAMS HERD 2232. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 2180. $375.

259. Taylor, Joseph Henry: BEAVERS THEIR WAYS AND OTHER SKETCHES. Washburn, N.D. 1904. 178pp. plus nineteen plates including frontispiece, and [4]pp. of ads. Three quarter cloth and printed boards, printed paper spine label. Just about fine.

A fine, detailed examination of habits of the beaver, with plates illustrating much of their industry. The section entitled “Other Sketches” includes accounts of trapping in Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota in the 1860s and ‘70s, the protection and hunting of muskrats, deer and birds, and game laws. An interesting work, by the author of Sketches of Frontier and Indian Life... (1889) and Kaleidoscopic Lives... (1901). HOWES T66. PHILLIPS, SPORTING BOOKS, p.370. $750.

260. [Tennessee]: HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH: COMPRE- HENDING ALL THE OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE; THE SOUTHERN ANNUAL CON- FERENCES, AND THE GENERAL CONVENTION; WITH SUCH OTHER MATTERS AS ARE NECESSARY TO THE RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF THE CASE. Nashville: William Cameron, Printer, 1845. viii,267pp. Original mottled calf. Minor wear at corners, some slight foxing, but a very nice copy.

A summary history of the reasons leading to the separation affected at the 1845 Louisville convention, compiled by the editors of the South-Western Christian Ad- vocate at the behest of the convention. HOWES H531. ALLEN IMPRINTS 2169. $275.

261. Thomas, David: TRAVELS THROUGH THE WESTERN COUN- TRY IN THE SUMMER OF 1816.... Auburn, N.Y. 1819. [4],320pp. plus folding map, and errata, with additional errata slip adhered to final fly leaf. Contemporary calf, leather label. Three-inch tear in map. Some light foxing. Overall just about very good.

One of the classic narratives of midwestern travel. “It is a work of sterling merit... the route of the author was down the Ohio, stopping at all towns and places of interest on both sides of the Ohio...” – Thomson. Thomas proclaims the merits of the Wabash Valley above all else. The map illustrates the Vincennes District. For some reason most copies of this book lack the map or have had it torn out. HOWES T162, “aa.” CLARK II:236. BUCK 92. STREETER SALE 1409. GRAFF 4126. THOM- SON 1139. $900.

An American Classic

262. Tocqueville, Alexis de: DE LA DEMOCRATIE EN AMERIQUE. Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1835-1840. Four volumes. [4],xxiv,367; [4],459; [4],v, [3],333; [4],363pp. plus a handcolored folding map bound in at the end of the first volume. Contemporary French half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Extremities rubbed. A few gatherings lightly tanned. Light scattered foxing and toning, but generally quite clean and fresh. Minor dampstain to part of first volume. Very good.

The first edition of both parts of Tocqueville’s famous classic, Democracy in America. Because the two parts were published five years apart, and because the first part was done in such a small number, it is quite difficult to obtain a set of first editions. Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States in the spring of 1831, accompanied by his friend and fellow student, Gustave de Beaumont. Their original goal was to study the penitentiary system of the United States. After visiting prisons in the East, they undertook a tour of the South as far as New Orleans, ascended the Mississippi, visited the Great Lakes and Canada, and returned via New York, having travelled for nine months. After writing their report on prisons, Tocqueville began work on the first part of Democracy in America in 1833-34 and published it, in an edition of less than 500 copies, in January 1835. The book was an instant success, and numerous editions, many with revisions, followed quickly, so that the second part, first published in April 1840, was issued concurrently with the eighth edition of the first part (another reason sets of first editions are difficult to obtain). Democracy in America was an immediate and sustained success. There were probably more than fifty editions in English and French published before 1900, besides numerous other translations. Almost from the beginning it enjoyed the reputation of being the most acute and perceptive discussion of the political and social life of the United States ever published. Remarkably, it has sustained its appeal generation after generation, as new readers find it speaks to their time with a contemporary voice. Whether perceived as a textbook of American political institutions, an investigation of society and culture, a probing of the psyche of the United States, or a study of the actions of modern democratic society, the book has continued to offer insight and provoke thought since its inception. It has also probably provided commentators and politicians with more quotations than any other work. HOWES T278, T279, “aa.” SABIN 96060, 96061. CLARK III:111. Library of Congress, A Passion for Liberty, Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy & Revolution (Washington, 1989). $45,000.

263. Topping, E.S.: THE CHRONICLES OF THE YELLOWSTONE. AN ACCURATE, COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF THE COUN- TRY DRAINED BY THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER – ITS INDIAN INHABITANTS – ITS FIRST EXPLORERS – THE EARLY FUR TRADERS AND TRAPPERS – THE COMING AND TRIALS OF THE EMIGRANTS. St. Paul: Pioneer Press Company, 1888. [4],245,[1] pp. plus folding map. Original blue gilt cloth. Some very minor wear to toe of spine and lower corners, else a bright, near fine copy.

Reprinted from the original 1883 edition, with a good folding map. HOWES T300. $500.

Important Work on the Texas Revolution 264. Tornel, Jose Maria, Gen.: TEJAS Y LOS ESTADOS-UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EN SUS RELACIONES CON LA REPUBLICA MEXI- CANA. Mexico. 1837. 98pp. Original printed wrappers. Some light soiling. Internally clean. Very good plus. “This is a hasty review of the history of Texas to after San Jacinto, written with considerable venom by Tornel, while he was Secretary of War and Marine. It ends with a plea for a vigorous continuation of the Texan war. Tornel says (p.90) that the loss of Texas would mean the loss of New Mexico and the Californias” – Streeter. As the Mexican Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Sates in 1803, Tornel unsuccessfully tried to halt the colonization of Texas by refusing passports to applicants. Included is a report on contracts regarding Texas colonization from 1825 to 1834. “[Tornel] saw in Mexico, and herein analyzes, the American attempts at Revolution in California; the ulterior motives of the ‘colonization’ schemes beginning with that of Austin, together with the causes and events of the Texas Revolution” – Eberstadt. STREETER TEXAS 932. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 18. SABIN 96208. HOWES T302, “b.” EBERSTADT 114:790. RADER 3145. $4500. A Classic Picture of American Life

265. Trollope, Frances M.: DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERI- CANS. London. 1832. Two volumes. [12],304; [4],303pp. plus twenty-four plates. Half titles. 19th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Bit rubbed. Light foxing. Overall very good.

Third edition, published the same year as the first. Mrs. Trollope, mother of the famous novelist, went to America with her family in late 1827 and took a steamboat from New Orleans to Cincinnati, where she resided for the next few years, spending the summer of 1830 in Maryland before returning to England. Her description of American life, full of horror at the vulgar ways and lack of manners prevailing in the States, was an instant classic in England and Europe and much reviled in the United States, where it provoked numerous xenophobic reactions. Mrs. Trollope certainly was prejudiced herself, but her narrative of the social scene and manners of Cincinnati and near Washington, enhanced by her cruel lampooning illustrations, is a classic. Few works so capture American life in the Age of Jackson. CLARK III:112. SABIN 97028. HOWES T357. HUBACH, p.65. $400.

The Confessions of Nat Turner, with the Rare Folding Woodcut Frontispiece 266. Turner, Nat: Gray, Thomas R.: THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, THE LEADER OF THE LATE INSURRECTION IN SOUTHAMPTON, VIRGINIA, AS FULLY AND VOLUNTARI- LY MADE TO THOMAS R. GRAY, IN THE PRISON WHERE HE WAS CONFINED...ALSO, AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE WHOLE INSURRECTION, WITH LISTS OF THE WHITES WHO WERE MURDERED, AND OF THE NEGROES BROUGHT BEFORE THE COURT OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND THERE SENTENCED &c. New York: Printed and published by C. Brown, 1831. 23pp. Folding woodcut frontispiece, 7 x 9¼ inches. Modern plain wrappers, string-tied. Titlepage and final leaf repaired with tissue in inner margin. Ink stamp in lower inner margin of titlepage. Small hole in upper margin of frontispiece, not affecting text or image. Text and frontispiece lightly foxed. Very good overall. This very rare pamphlet describes the famous Nat Turner slave rebellion, which took place along the Virginia-North Carolina border in the summer of 1831. Turner led a massacre of whites after an eclipse of the sun convinced him that the time for slaves to shed their bondage had come. The pamphlet reports the gory details of the uprising, which began on August 22, but which was quickly suppressed. Thomas Gray, a lawyer in Jerusalem, Virginia, visited Turner in his cell on November 1, and took down his confession, which was used during the trial and has become the basis for all subsequent printed accounts. Turner recounts his personal history, and describes in detail the slaughter he led. The text concludes with a list of the whites who were killed, the slaves who were tried, their owners’ names and sentences they received, and a brief account of Turner’s execution. This edition is not described in any of the bibliographies, and contains a very rare folding woodcut frontispiece which depicts, in graphic detail, the atrocities supposed to have been committed. Entitled “Horrid Massacre in Virginia,” it shows, in overlapping scenes, a mother trying to shelter her children from an ax- wielding slave, a plantation owner being stabbed to death, and another planter defending himself with a sword. Another version of this frontispiece is known to exist with the same title, but showing across the bottom mounted militia pursuing rebellious slaves into a thicket. That version of the frontispiece appears in an 1831 edition published in New York by Warner and West. Of the present version of Nat Turner’s confessions, as told to Thomas R. Gray, Howes locates a Baltimore edition of 1831 and a Richmond edition of 1832 (neither with a frontispiece), but does not mention this New York printing. Not in Sabin, who lists the Baltimore and Richmond editions and alludes to a New York edition based on a “cutting from an unidentified sale catalogue.” Nor is this edition in Dumond, who does list the Warner and West edition. OCLC locates only one copy of this edition, in the Blockson Collection at Temple University, though that record does not mention the presence of the frontispiece. A great rarity of Afro-Americana, almost never seen complete, possibly the only complete copy of this edition. OCLC 124559436. HOWES G340 (ref ). SABIN 97487 (note). SWEM 18834 (Baltimore ed). AMERICAN IMPRINTS 9463 (Baltimore ed). KAPLAN 5790 (Richmond ed). $37,500.

267. Turner, T.G.: GAZETTEER OF THE ST. JOSEPH VALLEY, MICHIGAN AND INDIANA, WITH A VIEW OF ITS HYDRAU- LIC AND BUSINESS CAPACITIES. Chicago: Hazlitt & Reed, Printers, 1867. 166,[2]pp. including one plate. Frontis. Original cloth, spine neatly rebacked with binder’s cloth tape. A very good, clean copy.

Includes descriptions of the Valley and its counties, with many illustrated advertisements for local businesses, mostly from South Bend, but some from other places in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio (pp.88-166). Full of interesting local historical sketches about settlement, businesses, etc. With a full-page illustration of the Studebaker Brothers’ carriage and wagon factory in South Bend, and a frontispiece depicting the residence of Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House. HOWES T427. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE 1263. DECKER 32:382. $375.

268. Turnley, Parmenas Taylor: REMINISCENCES OF PARMENAS TAYLOR TURNLEY. FROM THE CRADLE TO THREE-SCORE AND TEN. By Himself. FROM DIARIES KEPT FROM EARLY BOYHOOD. WITH A BRIEF GLANCE BACKWARD THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AT PROGENITORS AND AN- CESTRAL LINEAGE. Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, [1892]. 448pp. plus six plates including frontispiece portrait, and inserted leaf of contents (found only in some copies). Publisher’s cloth, boards stamped in blind, spine gilt. Boards and spine slightly worn and soiled, old library shelf label at bottom of spine. Institutional bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion on front pastedown. Inscription on recto of front fly leaf: “Limited to 250 copies and privately distributed.” Additional half-page advertisement for the book, printed (carbon copy?) on recto and verso, tipped onto verso of frontispiece portrait. Slight age-toning in outer margins. A very good copy.

A presentation copy, with the author’s half-page gift inscription on the verso of the front fly leaf: “To my respected friend and comrade Colonel Charles W. Davis... Chicago...January 18, 1894.” An important work, printed for the author. Turnley led an extremely active life during which he travelled through a good part of the western portion of the continent. After graduating from West Point, he served in the Mexican War in New Orleans, Veracruz, Monterey, and Mexico City. He spent a considerable time in Texas in the 1850s at Fort Brown, Austin, San Antonio, and along the Rio Grande. He accompanied Harney’s Sioux expedition, went overland to Fort Bridger, Salt Lake, and points west. During the Civil War he was active on the Union side, politicked a bit, and went on a special commission to Denver. HOWES T429. GRAFF 4217. $1250.

Overland Twice

269. Udell, John: INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL TO CALIFORNIA, ACROSS THE GREAT PLAINS; TOGETHER WITH THE RE- TURN TRIPS THROUGH CENTRAL AMERICA AND JAMAI- CA.... Jefferson, Oh.: Printed for the author, 1856. 302pp. plus errata. Por- trait. Original patterned cloth, spine richly gilt. Spine ends worn away, worn at corners, cloth splitting along hinges. Scattered foxing. Contemporary pencil ownership inscription on a front fly leaf. A good copy. In a cloth clamshell box, spine gilt.

This copy contains the portrait, which Howes notes is not present in all copies. Udell has signed this copy below his portrait: “Your friend, John Udell.” An important overland narrative. Udell, a Baptist minister, travelled via South Pass in 1850, home by Nicaragua in 1851, to California again in 1852, back by Panama in 1853, out again in 1854, and home in 1855. The book describes his overland experiences in detail, including a trip through Salt Lake City and observations of Mormonism, as well as giving details of his life in California, including mining for gold. COWAN, p.648. HOWES U3. MINTZ 473. FLAKE 9068. STREETER SALE 3180. GRAFF 4230. KURUTZ 644. SABIN 97663. WAGNER-CAMP 281. MATTES 995. NORRIS CATALOGUE 4042. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 213. HOLLIDAY SALE 1112. $1750. 270. Unonius, Gustaf: MINNEN FRAN EN SJUTTONARIG VISTELSE NORDVESTRA AMERIKA. Uppsala. 1862. Two volumes. [8],424; [8], 621pp. Eight plates. Original cloth. Outer hinges cracking but sound, spines sunned. A good set.

The author was the founder of a Swedish settlement in Wisconsin in 1841, one of the first movements in the tide of Scandinavian emigration to the upper Midwest. A minister, he also farmed but seems to have been disappointed with America. Besides the Swedish settlements, he discusses at length the Indians in Wisconsin. Later he moved to Chicago and lived there in the 1850s, before returning to Swe- den in 1858. A scarce narrative. This is the second edition, after the first of the previous year, also published in Uppsala. HOWES U20, “aa.” LARSEN 638. $400.

271. Van Buren, A. De Puy: JOTTINGS OF A YEAR’S SOJOURN IN THE SOUTH; OR FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE; WITH A GLIMPSE AT SCHOOL-TEACH- ING IN THAT SOUTHERN LAND, AND REMINISCENCES OF DISTINGUISHED MEN. Battle Creek, Mi. 1859. 320pp. Original cloth. Cloth a bit darkened, spine ends a bit frayed. Foxing. Good.

A scarce account of antebellum Mississippi plantation life by a Michigan schoolteacher who spent a year living among wealthy planters in the Mississippi Delta region. Van Buren taught school for a while, but most of his book is devoted to describing society life in the South. On numerous occasions he was introduced to local dignitaries, and certainly during his stay in the South he enjoyed the lifestyle of a wealthy aristocrat planter. Van Buren stops short of being a social critic, however, and in regard to slavery he writes: “we have certainly written with perfect disregard to political prejudice, as if Slavery did not exist in our Southern Border.” To him the South was noble and simple, a place populated by beautiful ladies and gentlemen of the highest order. HOWES V15. CLARK III:503. $500.

Northwest Coast Narrative

272. [Van Delure, John]: A HISTORY OF THE VOYAGES AND AD- VENTURES OF JOHN VAN DELURE. GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS BEING LEFT ON THE N.W. COAST OF AMERICA.... Montpelier: Wright and Sibley, 1812. 96pp. 16mo. Contemporary half calf and boards. Moderate to heavy wear to extremities, slight edge wear. Faint worming in end matter. One leaf with lower outer corner torn away, affecting text. Contemporary ownership signature on front and rear free endpapers. Overall very good. In a half morocco box.

First Vermont printing of this entertaining, albeit apocryphal, story of Indian captivity and travel in the Northwest, after its first appearance in Boston in 1788. Though the structure of the narrative changed throughout its many editions, the tale remained the same. The author, a Dutchman, departed Amsterdam for China in 1783 and proceeded from there aboard a trading vessel to the northwest coast of America to participate in the fur trade. After a surprise attack by local Indians, Van Delure and his companion were hauled six hundred miles overland to a large city built on an island. Rescued from certain death by the local sachem, Van Delure married the Indian chief ’s daughter and lived among them for two years. In 1787 he encountered three white men who had supposedly travelled up the Mississippi from New Orleans. One of the men was Alonso Decalves, to whom this narrative is sometimes attributed. His meeting with the three men rekindled a certain homesickness, prompting him to extol the virtues of the Christian way of life to his native bride. The narrative ends with the textbook conversion of his wife and her father, followed by an account of his voyage home. “The fictitious account which includes the narrative of the Indian captivity of John Vandelure, Vandeleur, Vandeluer, or Van Delure, passed through many editions under varying titles. In most cases these bear the pseudonym of Alonso Decalves...In others, Vandeleur, himself, is given as the author. The narrative is also included in the ‘Narrative of a Voyage...from Amsterdam to China and from there to...North America,’ which purports to have been written by James Van Leason or Vanleason” – Sabin. The present edition is among the rarest of this oft-reprinted narrative. OCLC locates only four copies. McCORISON 1394. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 27374. SABIN 98466. AYER, INDIAN CAP- TIVITIES 130. STREETER SALE 4232. VAIL 1188. HOWES V24, “b.” FIELD 1593. OCLC 10248784. $6000.

A Surveyor’s Working Copy, with Manuscript Map Laid In

273. Van Zandt, Nicholas B.: A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE SOIL, WATER, TIMBER, AND PRAIRIES OF EACH LOT, OR QUAR- TER SECTION OF THE MILITARY LANDS BETWEEN THE MISSISSIPPI AND ILLINOIS RIVERS. Washington. 1818. [2],84pp. (of 127 called for). Contemporary wallet-style leather binding. Binding worn, tears at spine ends. Evenly tanned, trimmed close at bottom. Very good.

This copy bears the ownership signature of George T. Williamson of Cincinnati, Ohio, dated 1837, who has added: “should this at any time be lost a reward will be paid for its return to me.” It appears that Smith was a surveyor, and only bound up so much of the text (eighty-four pages) as he needed. The final blank leaf contains penciled survey notes, and the binding indicates utilitarian use. Laid in is a manuscript map in colored ink showing the division of a parcel of land, presumably in Ohio, into twelve plots. The names of the owners and size of the lots are noted, and a “State Road” runs diagonally across the map. A printed map was issued later on and sometimes accompanies copies of this work, though rarely. As well as printing a detailed description of the lands, section by section, this work contains a “Description of the Illinois Territory,” and a similar section on Missouri, with general observations on the fecundity and promise of the territories. A very important and detailed promotional for the region. GRAFF 4464. BUCK 127. HOWES V48, “aa.” STREETER SALE 1433. SABIN 98590. $650.

274. Varlo, Charles: THE FLOATING IDEAS OF NATURE, SUITED TO THE PHILOSOPHER, FARMER, AND MECHANIC, AND ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT TIMES OF SCARCITY, IN OR- DER TO CREATE PLENTY, BY INTRODUCING SEVERAL NEW CROPS, AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. London: Printed for the Author, 1796. Two volumes. 318,[6]; 108,*109-*134,109-290,325-332,291- 299pp. Folding table. Contemporary calf, spines gilt, leather label. Extremities quite worn, hinges cracking but cords intact. Occasional foxing. Just about good.

A later issue, after editions under various titles including The Essence of Agriculture (1786) and Nature Displayed (1793). Varlo came to America in 1784, pursuing the quixotic claim that he owned a grant to a large portion of New Jersey and Long Island through a grant from Charles I to Sir Edmund Plowden. He made no progress in establishing his claim, but travelled between Philadelphia and Boston. He makes many remarks concerning agriculture and trades, as well as meeting such notables as Ethan Allen. His American observations are scattered throughout the rest of the text as well (including eating Indian corn with George Washington), and make this work an important contribution to American agricultural writing of the period. Includes sections on raising Indian corn and tobacco, as well as Varlo’s idiosyncratic social commentary. All of Varlo’s self-published works are scarce, but this seems to be the rarest of them, printed only for a small group of subscribers. “This work contains an account of the Plowden Patent and of the author’s tour through America, including a visit to Washington at Mount Vernon” – Sabin. HOWES V53. SABIN 98633. $850.

275. Villiers de Terrage, Marc: LA DECOUVERTE DU MISSOURI ET L’HISTOIRE DU FORT D’ORLEANS (1673 – 1728). Paris. 1925. 138pp. plus two maps, and advertisements. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Wrap- pers a bit tanned, else a fine, crisp copy.

From an edition limited to 350 copies, printed on handmade paper. An important work for the early history of French exploration in the Missouri River valley. “First publication of the two journals of Bourgmond describing his 1714 and 1717 trips to the upper Missouri as far as the Cheyenne River. He later established a fort on the lower Missouri and led expeditions in to Kansas” – Howes. HOWES V105. GRAFF 4489. RADER 3540. $400. A Rare Account of the Osage Tribe 276. [Vissier, Paul]: HISTOIRE DE LA TRIBU DES OSAGES, PEUP- LADE SAUVAGE DE L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE, DANS L’ETAT DU MISSOURI, L’UN DES ETATS-UNIS D’AMERIQUE; ECRITE D’APRES LES SIX OSAGES ACTUELLEMENT A PAR- IS.... Paris. 1827. 92pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern blue half morocco and boards, spine gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown. Several small tissue repairs to edges of wrappers. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Very good. Vissier issued this brief work when an Osage “prince” and four warriors visited Paris. He describes the Osage tribe as well as other Indians then living on the Missouri, speculates on the origin of American Indians, and provides a general view of the customs, agricultural practices, food, marriages, wars, etc., of North American Indians. Rare, and particularly nice with the original wrappers intact. HOWES V133, “b.” SABIN 100607. WAGNER-CAMP 33a. $3750.

Black Hawk War

277. Wakefield, John A.: HISTORY OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE SAC AND FOX NATIONS OF IN- DIANS.... Jacksonville, Il.: Printed by Calvin Goudy, 1834. 142pp. 12mo. Modern crushed red morocco by Riviere & Son, tooled in gilt, spine richly gilt, gilt inner dentelles. Rear board stained in upper portion, bookplate on front pastedown. Closed tear in first preface leaf expertly mended, else internally quite clean. A handsome copy.

A scarce and valuable account of the Black Hawk War and other Indian troubles, by a firsthand witness, including the account of the captivity of the Hall sisters as related by Sibley Hall. Wakefield based his account of the 1827 campaign on oral reminiscences and newspaper accounts, but he was a participant in the last two campaigns. He served as a scout and dispatch-bearer and was wounded at the battle of Axe River. This is not the first printing of an account of the Hall captivity, but that contained in the 1832 pamphlet, Narrative of the Capture and Providential Escape of..., was so full of errors that this may be noted as the first accurate account, and the first in book form. Interestingly, many participants in this war were to become prominent (e.g. Abraham Lincoln, whose company was disgraced for being intoxicated; Jefferson Davis; Zachary Taylor; and James Clyman, the latter a famous mountain man who rode with Jedediah Smith in 1824 and was mess mate to Lincoln). “One of the few first-hand accounts of the Indian wars in Illinois and Michigan” – Eberstadt. Not in Ayer. GRAFF 4510. BYRD 213. HOWES W19, “b.” SABIN 100978. DECKER 33:319. STREETER SALE 1449. EBERSTADT 132:727. $1750. Extremely Rare

278. [Wales, William, and John Roberts, publishers]: THE SOUTH- WESTERN MONTHLY, A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO LITERA- TURE AND SCIENCE, EDUCATION, THE MECHANIC ARTS AND AGRICULTURE. Nashville. 1852. Vol. I. viii,374 [i.e. 376] pp. plus plates. Contemporary three-quarter calf and boards. Sheep worn and scuffed. Some scattered staining and foxing, a couple plates torn with some loss, portions of three leaves torn away, clipped. Lacks pp.193-198 (according to the table of contents, these leaves would have printed editorial comments) and some plates. Although incomplete, a relatively decent copy, generally found in deplorable condition.

The first of only two volumes published of this interesting Tennessee periodical, but containing all six of the twelve articles entitled “Early History of the South- west,” which constitute the main interest of the magazine for modern readers. The remaining six were published in Volume II. After the magazine ceased publication with the December 1852 issue, the editors followed their intention stated in their last editorial and gathered all of the narratives into a book issued in January 1853 entitled Indian Battles, Murders, Seiges [sic] and Forays in the South-West. “...This was a collection of narratives by various authors. These had appeared separately as articles in the South Western Monthly Magazine, printed in Nashville during the years 1851-52. The magazines are considered frontier periodicals of extreme rarity – the 1853 book...is all but unobtainable. Apparently, few copies of the book were printed, judging from the very few times one finds records of its sale...” – Allen. The NUC locates the book in four copies (DLC, OC, TU, ICN). Allen does not note TU but adds WHi. The actual first appearances in print of all of the items in the book are the periodical versions. Articles contained in this volume include “Sketch of the Captivity of Col. Joseph Brown” (two articles), “The Indian Massacres in the Vicinity of Bosley’s Spring...,” “Indian Murders around Nashville – Narrative of John Davis, Esq.,” “Scalping of Thomas Everett and his two sisters, near Buchanan’s Fort...” and “Indian Battles and Murders – Narrative of General Hall.” Virtually all of the narratives describe Indian fights in Tennessee between the 1780s and the War of 1812. HOWES W30 (ref ). ALLEN RARITIES 47. ALLEN IMPRINTS 3160. $750.

Defending a Failed Invasion

279. Walker, Hovenden: A JOURNAL: OR FULL ACCOUNT OF THE LATE EXPEDITION TO CANADA. WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING COMMISSIONS, ORDERS, INSTRUCTIONS.... London. 1720. 304pp. Contemporary tooled calf. Wear to outer hinges and extremities, neat bookplate, else very good.

“Walker presents a defense of his unfortunate 1711 expedition against Canada, which operated from Boston and was of New England instigation. Having distinguished himself in the West Indies, he was placed in command of the naval forces. Ill fortune attended the enterprise, eight transports being cast away and nearly 900 soldiers drowned...the expedition was a total failure and Sir Hovenden was arraigned for his conduct. He underwent great persecution, his name being struck from the Admiral’s list....He later went to Carolina, but returned to England and published the Journal” – Lande. A vital record of this ill-fated New England attempt to unseat the French in Canada, by the chief participant. LANDE 886. TPL 148. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 720/236. HOWES W39, “b.” $3000.

280. Wansey, Henry: THE JOURNAL OF AN EXCURSION TO THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA, IN THE SUMMER OF 1794. EMBELLISHED WITH THE PROFILE OF GENERAL WASHINGTON, AND AN AQUA-TINTA [sic] VIEW OF THE STATE HOUSE, AT PHILADELPHIA. Salisbury. 1796. xiii,[3],290, [12]pp. plus plate and errata. Portrait. Old three-quarter sheep and marbled boards. Sheep scuffed and chipped, hinges broken, rear board nearly detached. Some light foxing, else internally good.

First edition, second issue, according to Howes, with different lettering and an eyelash evident in the Washington profile. Wansey, a British wool manufacturer, departed England in March 1794, stopping at Halifax in late April, and finally reaching Boston in May. He describes his experiences in Boston, New York and Philadelphia (including a visit with President and Mrs. Washington, and an account of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793). “The Journal...includes the Hagerstown and Winchester data of Toulmin. Wansey was much in the company of Dr. Priestley and his sons Joseph and William during his short stay, and doubtless acquired the Toulmin accounts through them” – Clark. HOWES W86, “aa.” JCB (1)III:3830. CLARK II:127 (note). SABIN 101241. $450.

281. [Watson, Douglas S.]: WEST WIND. THE LIFE STORY OF JO- SEPH REDDEFORD WALKER.... Los Angeles: Privately Printed for His Friends by Percy H. Booth, 1934. [8],110,[2]pp. including five plates, plus folding map. Frontispiece portrait. Half morocco and printed boards. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Near fine.

From an edition limited to 100 copies. “Presents all available information on an eminent figure of the early fur-trade era, the leader, in 1836, of the first trapping expedition into California over the Sierras” – Howes. One of the earlier, and rarest, scholarly works on the fur trade. HOWES W165, “b.” GRAFF 4558. $500. 282. Wells, James: “WITH TOUCH OF ELBOW” OR DEATH BE- FORE DISHONOR. A THRILLING NARRATIVE OF ADVEN- TURE ON LAND AND SEA. Philadelphia. 1909. [2],iii,[4],362pp. plus plates. Frontispiece portrait. Original gilt pictorial blue cloth. Inner hinges starting with some cracking, but still intact. Else just about very good.

Before his cavalry service during the Civil War, Wells led an adventurous life on the Plains in the 1850s, which is partially recounted herein. His narrative includes an account of fighting Indians and Mormons during the Utah Expedition, and min- gling among the miners in Virginia City and Placerville. Wells travelled overland, apparently as a horse herder with the firm of Gale and Parker, from Kalamazoo to St. Joseph and thence to Virginia City. HOWES W249. GRAFF 4582. MATTES 1799. NEVINS I, p.175. DORNBUSCH (Michigan) 42A. FLAKE 9687. $750.

An Important Sammelband of Whitefield Tracts

283. Whitefield, George: A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE FROM LON- DON TO SAVANNAH IN GEORGIA. IN TWO PARTS.... [bound with:] A CONTINUATION OF THE REVEREND MR. WHITE- FIELD’S JOURNAL, FROM HIS ARRIVAL AT SAVANNAH, TO HIS RETURN TO LONDON. [bound with:] A CONTINUATION... FROM HIS ARRIVAL AT LONDON, TO HIS DEPARTURE FROM THENCE ON HIS WAY TO GEORGIA. [bound with:] A CONTINUATION...DURING THE TIME HE WAS DETAINED IN ENGLAND BY THE EMBARGO. The Second Edition. [bound with:] A CONTINUATION...FROM EMBARKING AFTER THE EMBARGO, TO HIS ARRIVAL AT SAVANNAH IN GEORGIA. [bound with:] A CONTINUATION...FROM A FEW DAYS AF- TER HIS RETURN TO GEORGIA TO HIS ARRIVAL AT FAL- MOUTH.... [bound with:] A SHORT ACCOUNT OF GOD’S DEAL- INGS WITH THE REVEREND MR. GEORGE WHITEFIELD. [bound with:] [Two issues of THE WEEKLY MISCELLANY, February 10 & 24, 1738]. London. 1738-1741. [1],iv,58; [4],38; iv,115; iv,40; 88; [1], 85,[1]; 76pp. plus two newspaper issues, [2]pp. each. Modern calf in antique style, raised bands, leather label. Early inscriptions on fly leaf describing contents of volume. Some foxing, else very good.

A nearly complete run of George Whitefield’s seven journals (lacking only the sixth), with Whitefield’s autobiographical sketch and two London newspaper issues containing letters pertaining to his activities in England. The first edition of the first journal was published by Whitefield’s friends, without his knowledge, and the numerous reprints, and successive parts and continuations (including American printings by Franklin) present an exasperating bibliographic maze. That stated, the present collection is relatively straightforward in its bibliography: the first Journal..., printed as two parts in one, is present here in its first authorized edition, after the unauthorized edition of the same year; and the third Continuation... (“the fourth journal”) present here is a second edition; all other items are first editions. The letters in the two issues of London’s The Weekly Miscellany refer to a recent Sunday morning on which Whitefield’s followers stormed St. Margaret’s Westminster Methodist church and forcibly removed the minister from his pulpit, installing Whitefield in his place. By the time of his first famous journey to America, George Whitefield had established himself as a popular and controversial preacher in England and one of the founding personalities of Methodism. The journals are Whitefield’s account of his first two journeys to America (of a total of seven in his lifetime), where he preached widely, playing an instrumental revivalist role in the Great Awakening, and helped establish numerous social institutions in Georgia, including the Bethesda Orphanage, which is still operating today. “[Whitefield’s] influence in America, entirely apart from that which he exerted in Great-Britain, was many-sided and far reaching. With his advent a religious awakening already begun was greatly stimulated and a burst of evangelical activity occurred that had a marked effect not only on the religious and social life but on the political as well....Although others contributed greatly to this movement, Whitefield was its most dynamic representative, its unifying elements and the personification of its tendencies....Of the Great Awakening, he was above all others the Awakener” – DAB. HOWES W374. SABIN 103534, 103535, 103538, 103540, 103542, 103550, 103591. DE RENNE I, pp.75-76 (other eds), 81, 82, 88, 101. DAB XX, pp.124-29. $7500.

A Graff Texas Rarity

284. Whitely, Ike: RURAL LIFE IN TEXAS. Atlanta. 1891. [2] leaves of advertisements, 82pp., [2] leaves of advertisements. Illus. Original printed wrappers. Some chipping at spine ends, wrappers dust soiled, upper corner of front wrapper dog-eared. Leaves tanned. Still a good copy of a fragile book. In a library buckram case.

Whitely was a rural peddler and sharpster in Texas in the 1870s and ‘80s. While this autobiographical account is obviously not totally trustworthy, it is certainly amusing. The author sold patent medicine made from colored water and pills made from mud, speculated in land, and ultimately got enough scratch together to buy a “vehicle agency.” HOWES W377. GRAFF 4639. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 49. $250.

Important Guide to California and Oregon

285. Wilkes, Charles: WESTERN AMERICA, INCLUDING CALIFOR- NIA AND OREGON, WITH MAPS OF THOSE REGIONS, AND OF “THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY.” Philadelphia. 1849. [iii]-130pp. plus three folding maps, and advertisements. Modern cloth, spine gilt. Titlep- age soiled and stained, with three small tears in the margins, not affecting text. Large map of the Sacramento Valley repaired with tape at cross-folds, and with some loss in the San Joaquin Valley area. Minor soiling in text. About good.

The only English language edition of this important early guide to the West Coast. Wilkes had conducted extensive surveys in California and Oregon while commanding his famous U.S. exploring expedition on the West Coast in 1841. This work includes material not published with the official report, additional geographical notes supplied by Father De Smet, and material from the Emory and Fremont reports. “In a sense, it constitutes the first Pacific Coast guide” – Howes. The large map of the Sacramento Valley is one of the first large-scale maps of the gold region. The small maps show Upper California and Oregon, respectively. An important addition to gold rush literature, now quite scarce. HOWES W416, “aa.” WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 134, 135. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 229. KU- RUTZ 679a. GRAFF 4656. COWAN, p.683. STREETER SALE 3326. WHEAT TRANSMISSIS- SIPPI 654, 655. SABIN 103955. WAGNER-CAMP 175a:1. ROCQ 16162. $4750.

286. Willcox, R.N.: REMINISCENCES. OF CALIFORNIA LIFE. BEING AN ABRIDGED DESCRIPTION OF SCENES WHICH THE AUTHOR HAS PASSED THROUGH IN CALIFORNIA, AND OTHER LANDS. WITH QUOTATIONS FROM OTHER AUTHORS. A SHORT LECTURE ON PSYCHIC SCIENCE. AN ARTICLE ON CHURCH AND STATE: WRITTEN BY HIS SON; R.P. WILCOX. Avery, Ohio: Willcox Print, 1897. [2],290pp. Original pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Cloth a bit rubbed. Text lightly tanned, but very clean internally. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Very good.

A little-known, scarce, and valuable account of the Gold Rush. Willcox was an apprentice carpenter in Mystic River, Connecticut at the time news of the Cali- fornia gold discoveries began to spread. He sailed from New York to Panama on January 20, 1852, crossed the Isthmus, and arrived in San Francisco in a very quick thirty-three days after his departure from New York. He gives a good description of crossing Panama and of life in San Francisco and the mines, writing in elaborate detail of the mining camps, outlaw bands, gambling saloons, opium dens, California cattle and agriculture, Vigilance organizations, Indian troubles, and more. Willcox worked as a carpenter and got a job building a bridge over the American River, a sawmill, and a quartz mill. “Somewhat rambling in his recollections, Willcox describes Chinese miners, hydraulic mining, wagon roads, quicksilver mining, and general resources of California” – Kurutz. “His vivid portrayal of mining life in California, from 1850 on is of deep interest. In it he depicts in detail the rowdy- ism, hardships and Indian troubles that beset the early miners. A source book of real value” – Norris catalogue. The Graff copy notes the presence of a halftone frontispiece portrait, but Howes asserts the portrait was printed circa 1901 and only inserted into some copies. The Streeter copy did not contain the portrait, nor does the present copy. Howes notes that not over 100 copies were printed, while Ernest Wessen (who called it a “very rare book”) wrote that “one who is said to have participated in the printing of this book has assured your cataloger that less than seventy-five copies were issued” (Midland Notes). While rather plentiful in library holdings, this book is scarce on the market. KURUTZ 681. COWAN, p.684. HOWES W436, “aa.” GRAFF 4673. ROCQ 16163. NORRIS CATALOGUE 4228. STREETER SALE 3024. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 228. MIDLAND NOTES 3:82. HOWELL 50:933. $1000.

287. Williams, John: THE CAPTIVITY AND DELIVERANCE OF MR. JOHN WILLIAMS, PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN DEER- FIELD, AND MRS. MARY ROWLANDSON, OF LANCASTER, WHO WERE TAKEN, TOGETHER WITH THEIR FAMILIES AND NEIGHBORS, BY THE FRENCH AND INDIANS, AND CARRIED INTO CANADA. Brookfield: Hori Brown, 1811. 116,80pp. 12mo. Modern brown morocco, gilt-lettered spine. Narrative of Mary Row- landson with separate titlepage and pagination, though continuously signed. Scattered foxing, light uniform browning. Very good.

A later combined edition of two of the most famous of all captivity narratives, originally printed in 1707 and 1682, respectively. Williams, a Harvard graduate in charge of the church at Greenfield when it was attacked by Indians in 1703, was taken with others to Canada. His wife and two of his children were tomahawked on the way. Mrs. Rowlandson was captured in February 1675 and spent eleven weeks among the Indians before being ransomed. Her simple and compelling account has become one of the most famous American frontier narratives, a classic of the Indian captivity genre and of early New England. Equating the two, Howes writes of the Williams saga: “As a powerful picture of Indian cruelty, ranks next to the Rowlandson captivity narrative.” An uncommon printing of two of the most celebrated and accurate captivities of the old frontier. AYER 313. VAIL 1252, 1047. FIELD 1330. SABIN 104272. HOWES W461 (another ed), R478 (another ed). $600.

288. Williams, John S., editor & publisher: THE AMERICAN PIO- NEER, A MONTHLY PERIODICAL, DEVOTED TO THE OB- JECTS OF THE LOGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY.... Cincinnati. 1842-1843. Two bound volumes containing volumes I and II, respectively. 448; 480pp. Illus. Map. Frontispiece in first volume. Uniform three-quarter calf and cloth. Front hinge of first volume cracked, other hinges rubbed. Occasional spotting, tear in one leaf of first volume affecting some text, bookplates neatly removed. Overall a very good, tight set.

Second edition of the first volume, first edition of the second. This work was originally issued monthly in twenty-one numbers, all present here. “As a repository of material on Ohio valley pioneer events ranks with Craig’s Olden Time...” – Howes. Contains many Indian captivity narratives (including those of John Brickell, John Williams, and Israel Donalson), journals of campaigns against Indians, and border warfare incidents, fully indexed. HOWES W469. THOMSON 15. AYER 15. GRAFF 4681 (ref ). $450.

289. Winthrop, John: A JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS AND OCCURRENCES IN THE SETTLEMENT OF MASSACHU- SETTS AND THE OTHER NEW-ENGLAND COLONIES, FROM THE YEAR 1630 TO 1644.... Hartford. 1790. [6],364,[4]pp. Modern three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g. Light foxing and soiling. Still, very good.

The first publication of Winthrop’s journal, one of the primary accounts of the great Puritan migration, the founding of Boston, and the early years of Massachu- setts Bay Colony. The work was copied from Winthrop’s original manuscript by Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut and his secretary, John Porter, and then edited by Noah Webster. HOWES W583, “aa.” EVANS 23086. SKEEL 781. TRUMBULL 1695. $1000.

The Rarest Account of the Burr Treason Trial

290. [Wirt, William]: THE TWO PRINCIPAL ARGUMENTS OF WIL- LIAM WIRT, ESQUIRE, ON THE TRIAL OF AARON BURR, FOR HIGH TREASON, AND ON THE MOTION TO COMMIT AARON BURR AND OTHERS, FOR TRIAL IN KENTUCKY. Richmond. 1808. Title-leaf, leaf of advertisements, 221pp. 16mo. Contem- porary calf, leather label. Edges scuffed. Ownership signature on titlepage carelessly obliterated, but not egregious. Overall good and quite clean.

A letter laid into this copy from legendary Americana dealer Ernest Wessen and dated 1959, states that he had never handled a copy of this work before the one at hand. Published the same year that Wirt, then future United States attorney general, was elected to the House of Delegates. His prestige was increased dramatically when he appeared for the prosecution of the case against Burr, prompting Jefferson to suggest Wirt seek a Congressional seat, which the latter declined. A rare Burr item. Streeter’s copy contained a frontispiece portrait which is not always present, and is not present in this copy. HOWES W587. SABIN 104883. TOMPKINS 112. STREETER SALE 1693. SHAW & SHOE- MAKER 16753. $3750.

291. Wood, R.E., reporter & editor: LIFE AND CONFESSIONS OF JAMES GILBERT JENKINS: THE MURDERER OF EIGHTEEN MEN. Napa City [Ca.]: C.H. Allen & R.E. Wood, 1864. 56pp. plus two plates. Original tan pictorial wrappers. Very minor soiling and creasing. Fine. In a blue half morocco and cloth folder, spine gilt.

Written while Jenkins was waiting to be hanged, this confessional recounts the murder of “eight white men and ten Indians,” as well as numerous other crimes committed across the country. With a frontispiece portrait of Jenkins, as well as an illustration showing him burying one of his victims. Like any good criminal, Jenkins blamed his crimes on demon alcohol. “An exceedingly rare little book on one of the early outlaws of California” – Adams. HOWES W635, “aa.” COWAN, p.120. McDADE 514. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 2440. $600.

292. Woods, John: TWO YEARS’ RESIDENCE IN THE SETTLE- MENT ON THE ENGLISH PRAIRIE, IN THE ILLINOIS COUNTRY, UNITED STATES.... London. 1822. 310pp. plus three maps (two folding) and errata slip. Half title. Original paper boards, rebacked in matching paper, paper label. Rubbing and slight paper loss on front board. Lacks the errata slip. Scattered foxing and faint dampstaining to maps. Very good. Untrimmed.

This important work was written by a prosperous British farmer who travelled with his family from the Isle of Wight in 1819. After landing in Baltimore and trekking across the South, he settled in one of the British colonies in southeastern Illinois, of which he gives an excellent account. Included herein are extracts from his journal of the trip to his new home. Copies with all maps, as in the present copy, are uncommon. The maps show the settlement of English Prairie, the Illinois country, and the range of townships in southeastern Illinois. STREETER SALE 1437. CLARK II:71. SABIN 105125. HOWES W654, “aa.” BUCK 153. RUSK II:129. $1500.

Important Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest

293. Wright, E.W. [editor]: LEWIS & DRYDEN’S MARINE HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. AN ILLUSTRATED REVIEW OF THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENTS OF THE MARI- TIME INDUSTRY, FROM THE ADVENT OF THE EARLIEST NAVIGATORS TO THE PRESENT TIME, WITH SKETCHES AND PORTRAITS OF A NUMBER OF WELL KNOWN MA- RINE MEN. Portland. 1895. 494pp. plus plates. Folio. Original pebbled morocco, gilt-stamped cover and spine, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g., rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Binding lightly rubbed at extremities. In- ternally very clean. Very good.

The most important and reliable marine history of the Pacific Northwest to date of publication, and a fundamental reference for the history of the entire Pacific Coast. Includes many hitherto unpublished logs, narratives of exploration, accounts of steamboating on the Snake River, the logging industry, the gold rush, boundary controversies, exploration of the Columbia and inland waters, Indian difficulties, etc. Essential in all regards. HOWES W693. SMITH 4473. TWENEY, WASHINGTON 89, 87. EBERSTADT 128:474. $900.

294. Wright, Robert M.: DODGE CITY, THE COWBOY CAPITAL, AND THE GREAT SOUTHWEST IN THE DAYS OF THE WILD INDIAN, THE BUFFALO, THE COWBOY, DANCE HALLS, GAMBLING HALLS AND BAD MEN. [Wichita. 1913]. 344pp. plus plates. Color frontis. Original pictorial cloth. Slightest speckled soiling on covers, else very good.

The Littell copy. It is supposed that most of this edition was destroyed by fire. The second issue, of the same year, does not contain the color frontispiece. There is much material relating to Dodge City as a cow town and on ranching in the area, as well as the trail driving phase. HOWES W706, “aa.” STREETER SALE 2395. ADAMS HERD 2564. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 2456. DOBIE, p.125. GRAFF 4756. SIX SCORE 118. $450.

Gambler, Grifter, Forger, Thief

295. Wyman, Seth: THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF SETH WYMAN, EMBODYING THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF A LIFE SPENT IN ROBBERY, THEFT, GAMBLING, PASSING COUN- TERFEIT MONEY, &c. &c. Written by himself. Manchester, N.H. 1843. 310pp. 20th-century brown cloth, spine gilt. Light foxing and soiling. Very good.

The thoroughgoing bad nature of the author is well described in the title. Most of his career was passed in New Hampshire and Maine, where even among a population renowned for its sharpness, he was able to find many a sucker. Born in 1784, he died just before the publication of this work, in prison. How much moralizing has been added by the publisher it is impossible to tell, but an entertaining account nonetheless. A rare book, one of the few pre-Civil War personal accounts of gambling and other bad behavior. HOWES W724. $2000.