September 2017 New Acquisitions

Highly Important Study of the American Bison, Already in Danger of Extinction

1. Allen, J.A.: THE AMERICAN BISONS, LIVING AND EXTINCT. Cambridge, [Ma.]: University Press, 1876. ix,[1],246pp., plus folding colored map and twelve plates (six folding), each with an accompanying leaf of explanatory text. Quarto. Original cloth-backed, printed paper-covered boards. Light shelfwear, resulting in some chipping to paper along the edges of the boards. Early ownership signature on front board. Pristine internally. A handsome copy, near fine overall.

A comprehensive and authoritative study of the American Bison, by Joel A. Allen of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. The work was prompted by the discovery of bison bones at Big Bone Lick in Kentucky in the late 1860s, but soon grew to encompass a study of the American Bison generally. Allen discusses the distinctive characteristics and affinities of the bison, their geographic distribution, the destruction of buffalo herds, their hunting and potential domestication, and the uses of buffalo products. The plates depict bison skulls, teeth, horns, and bones, and the folding colored map shows the geographical distribution of bison throughout the United States and Canada. "The first important work on the American bison" - Graff. Issued as Volume 1, Part II of the MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF KENTUCKY. HOWES A149, "b." GRAFF 42. $2,500

Views of the Hamlet of Glen Ellen 2. [California]: VIEWS OF GLEN ELLEN AND VICINITY [wrapper title]. Glen Ellen, Ca.: Published for Chas. J. Poppe, [1915]. Eight leaves of plates, printed on the rectos only, with printed captions. Oblong 12mo. Original printed brown wrappers, stapled. One manuscript correction to a printed caption. Fine.

A rare little volume of views of the Sonoma County town of Glen Ellen, located in only one other copy. One of the most famous residents of the hamlet was Jack London, who lived and wrote at his ranch there, and died there in 1916. London's home at "Wake-Robin Lodge" is shown, as are creeks and canyons, a bridge, the Congregational church, Wegner's Villa, and the "California Home for the Feeble Minded." Charles J. Poppe, who published this work, operated a dry goods store in Glen Ellen for more than fifty years, and also served as postmaster. His shop is shown in the first image in the booklet, and it is marked with a manuscript "x." Not in Rocq. OCLC locates only a single copy, at the Bancroft Library, which has

a presentation inscription from Charles Poppe wishing the recipient a happy 1916, hence the dating of this work to 1915. Rare. OCLC 21646900. $125

Henry Carrington’s Rare, Privately-Printed Report on the Fetterman Massacre 3. [Carrington, Henry]: COLONEL CARRINGTON'S OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE PHIL KEARNEY MASSACRE. (PUBLISHED BY PERMISSION OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT) [caption title]. [N.p. 1868?]. 8pp. 16mo. Gathered signatures, loosely laid together, as issued. Upper outer corner of first leaf torn, with no loss of text. Old vertical crease. Outer leaf expertly mended along the central vertical fold. Very good.

The rare, privately-printed defense of Colonel Henry Carrington's actions in the "Fetterman Massacre" (also known as the Fort Phil Kearny massacre) during the Red Cloud War. It was the worst massacre of American troops by Indian forces on the Plains up to that time. In December, 1866, Col. Carrington, in command of Fort Phil Kearny (in northern Wyoming), sent Captain William Fetterman to relieve a wood transport train. Warned by Carrington not to venture beyond Lodge Trail Ridge, Fetterman was lured by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors and his forces were wiped out, costing the lives of all eighty-one soldiers. Carrington includes a list of grisly "mutiliations" suffered by the soldiers, as well as a detailed account of the massacre and the events preceding, and a defense of his own actions. Carrington writes that the army defeat "vindicates every report from my pen, and every measure I have taken to secure defensive and tenable posts on this line....It also declares that in Indian warfare there must be perfect coolness, steadiness, and judgment. This contest is in their best and almost their last hunting-grounds. They cannot be whipped or punished by some little dash after a handful, nor by mere resistance of offensive movements. They must be subjected, and made to respect and fear the whites."

"This pamphlet was privately printed by Colonel Carrington, after initial publication was withheld by General Ulysses S. Grant" - Siebert. Historian Robert Utley's assessment of the Fetterman massacre and Carrington's role is that "the army had selected a suitable commanding officer for a state of profound peace but a most unsuitable one for a state of war....[Carrington] devoted the remaining forty-two years of his life to vindicating his management of the Bozeman Trail defenses. With his contemporaries he achieved indifferent success. With historians of later generations he largely succeeded, for it is his version that until recent years has colored most accounts of the events culminating on Massacre Ridge on December 21, 1866."

Carrington's privately published report was issued without a titlepage, and the location of its printing is uncertain. The Streeter Sale catalogue notes that "there has been a question whether this pamphlet was printed in Wyoming (in which case it would be the first Wyoming pamphlet) or whether it was printed in Washington, D.C." It does not appear in Stopka's survey of Wyoming Territorial imprints. The Graff catalogue surmises that it was printed in 1869, at the time of the publication of the second edition of Mrs.

Carrington's ABSARAKA, but I cannot discern the basis of Graff's assertion, and Colton Storm's concluding note strikes a more equivocal tone.

I find only two copies of this report at auction in the past fifty years, the Streeter copy, which brought $400 in 1968, and the Siebert copy, which sold for $2875 in 1999. OCLC locates eight copies, at Yale, the New York Historical Society, Huntington, Autry Museum, Newberry Library (the Graff copy), Indiana State Library, Wisconsin Historical Society, and Univ. of Alberta. Not in Field. STREETER SALE 2231. SIEBERT SALE 744. GRAFF 593. OCLC 166488240, 54188915. Robert Utley, FRONTIER REGULARS (New York. 1973), pp.93-110. $4,500

4. Clark, Galen: EARLY DAYS IN YOSEMITE VALLEY. Los Angeles: The Docter Press, 1964. ix,[1],10,[2]pp. Half cloth and marbled boards, printed paper spine label. Spine a bit cocked, label slightly sunned. Near fine.

A fine press printing, done in an edition of seventy copies in commemoration of the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's establishment of Yosemite as a public trust. The text is taken from a manuscript by Galen Clark entitled "A Plea for Yosemite," and consists of a sketch of the early exploration and development of Yosemite, and a warning of the steps that need to be taken to protect the Valley. $125

Signed by Clark, and with an Original Photograph of Him Tipped In 5. Clark, Galen: INDIANS OF THE YOSEMITE VALLEY AND VICINITY THEIR HISTORY, CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS. WITH AN APPENDIX OF USEFUL INFORMATION FOR YOSEMITE VISITORS. Yosemite Valley, Ca.: Galen Clark, 1904. xviii,[2],110pp., including twenty- five illustrations plus frontispiece. 12mo. Original brown pictorial cloth. Cloth slightly soiled, light edgewear. Near fine.

A first edition, signed by Galen Clark on the front free endpaper, and with an original photograph of him standing with a young boy tipped to the front pastedown. The Canadian-born Clark first visited Yosemite in 1855, and until his death in 1910 was one of the most ardent promoters and defenders of the park, serving in the official position of Guardian of Yosemite for several decades. The text includes Clark's history of the tribes native to the Yosemite Valley, their customs, religious ceremonies, myths and legends, and the effects of their encounters with whites. Most of the illustrations are from photographs, though some are by the artist Chris Jorgensen, who had a studio in the Yosemite Valley for several years. The appendix includes not only information for visitors but also a brief native vocabulary. "One of the best available sources relating to the life and legends of these fast disappearing aboriginal inhabitants" - Cowan. ROCQ 5175. COWAN, p.126. $175

6. Clark, Galen: THE YOSEMITE VALLEY ITS HISTORY, CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES, AND THEORIES REGARDING ITS ORIGIN. Yosemite Valley, Ca.: Nelson L. Salter, 1910. xix,[1],108pp., plus [10]pp. of ads. Twenty-two illustrations from photographs (including frontispiece). 12mo. Original pictorial grey wrappers. Front wrapper faintly creased, light wear at spine ends. Advertisement leaves with an old stain in lower margin, causing some abrasions. Very good.

The Canadian-born Clark first visited Yosemite in 1855, and until his death in 1910 was one of the most ardent promoters and defenders of the park, serving in the official position of Guardian of Yosemite for several decades. He tells the history of Yosemite, relates theories of its origins (including his own), describes some of the natural wonders of the area, and gives practical hints to visitors. The illustrations

are from photographs by the important Yosemite photographer, George Fiske. Attractively printed by the Reflex Publishing Company of Redondo Beach, with the text and illustrations surrounded by a printed pale yellow border. Many of the advertisements are for Yosemite businesses, including Fiske's photography studio. The advertisements seem to be exclusive to the edition in wrappers; not appearing in the clothbound edition. COWAN, pp.126-127. ROCQ 5177. $100

All the Arguments for Funding the Transcontinental Railroad Through the Grants of Mineral Lands 7. Conkling, Edgar: BENTON'S POLICY OF SELLING AND DEVELOPING THE MINERAL LANDS, AND THE NECESSITY OF FURNISHING ACCESS TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROADS, WITH A LETTER ENDORSING THE POLICY, FROM LT. COL. T.J. CRAM, U.S. CORPS OF ENGINEERS - THE SUGGESTIONS OF SECRETARY CHASE, IN REGARD TO DIRECT TAXATION, AND OF COMPTROLLER McCULLOCH, RELATIVE TO A RETURN TO SPECIE PAYMENTS. Cincinnati: Caleb Clark, 1864. 16pp., printed in double columns. Dbd., removed from a sammelband. Small tear in lower margin of one page, affecting five letters of text. Very good.

This is the second edition of Conkling's text, published the same year as the first, but with two additional pages printing Cram's endorsement. On the titlepage of this edition, printed in red, is the text: "Please read this Pamphlet carefully, with Map before you, and then hand it to your neighbor, and if it meets your approval, petition Congress." Edgar Conkling, a founder of Mackinaw City, Michigan and a prominent Republican activist, took up the mantle of the late Senator Thomas Hart Benton as strong proponent of funding transcontinental railroads through the grant of mineral-rich lands to the builders. The railroad would not only unite the country (still a year from the conclusion of the Civil War) and develop mineral lands, it would also draw immigrants from Europe, raise revenue through land sales, help in defending against hostile Indians, and neutralize the political power of the Mormons.

Of the dozen trade offerings listed in Rare Book Hub only two are for this 16pp. edition of Conkling's text: a copy offered by Randall & Windle in 1979 and by Rosenbach in 1950 in their "West of the Alleghenies" catalogue (item 52). The main OCLC listing for this title seems unable to differentiate between the two editions, and also appears to be polluted with microfilm reprints. SABIN 15622. LITERATURE RELATING TO THE UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM, p.45. RAILWAY ECONOMICS, p.282 (listing the 14pp. edition only). $475

Recollections of a Wyoming Sheriff 8. Craig, Nute: THRILLS 1861 TO 1887. [Oakland: N.N. Craig, circa 1931]. 62pp., plus two plates and a facsimile. Original brown cloth, front board gilt. Light wear to spine ends, else fine.

Newton "Nute" Craig, was born in Missouri in 1849 and at age fifteen, "looking for thrills," left home and volunteered for service in the Civil War (in the Eleventh Illinois), heading westward after the Confederate surrender. He recounts youthful buffalo hunts in Kansas and work at a Missouri nursery, before going to Wyoming in 1871, where he repaired bridges for the Union Pacific and was a telegraph operator for Western Union. Craig describes skirmishes with Indians, and a meeting with Thomas Edison in Rawlins, Wyoming in 1878 (a facsimile of a later letter from Edison is included). For just over two years he was sheriff of Cheyenne and the final twenty-three pages of text describe his adventures, pursuing horse thieves and other outlaws, and intervening between railroad workers and Pinkertons during a Union Pacific strike. ADAMS, SIX-GUNS 507. $65

A Rare Manifesto Attacking the Colorado Justice System, the Capitalist Order, and Woman Suffrage 9. Gilstrap, W. Harvey: SOME COLORADO BARBARISM SHOWING AN INNOCENT MAN IN A CRUEL PRISON. OFFICIAL TYRANNY IN COLORADO, AND DENVER, THE CRUEL CITY OF THE WEST. LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF FREEDOM FOR THE POOR AND PRODUCING CLASS A PROLETARIAN EMANCIPATOR. Mexico: [Guillermo Agaya], 1921. [1],186,[1]pp., including portrait, plus printed notice affixed to front pastedown. 16mo. Original three quarter cloth and marbled boards. Occasional manuscript corrections. Near fine.

A strange - and rare - socio-political manifesto from a writer who introduces himself as "a Citizen of the World...your persecuted citizen," and who calls himself the enemy of the "World's Human Parasites." Harvey Gilstrap begins his work by explaining that twenty years earlier, while working in mining in Colorado, he was arrested on charges of rape. He forcefully denies the charges, asserting that he was being blackmailed by a prostitute who consented to have sex with him. Convicted, he rails against the justice system in Colorado, describes his ordeals in prison, and outlines the ways in which he has been swindled out of mining claims. But those are just one aspect of Gilstrap's text, as he also attacks the idea of woman suffrage (a strong undercurrent of misogyny runs throughout), decries the machinations of the Catholic Church and fraternal orders, argues in favor of public ownership of utilities, as well as tax and monetary reform, and heaps scorn on the capitalist system generally.

This copy bears several instances of contemporary manuscript corrections, as are found in the Yale copy. Gilstrap, in self-imposed exile in Mexico City, had this text printed there, which partially explains the many typographic and spelling errors. A printed notice affixed to the front pastedown explains that payment for the printing was made in advance, leaving Gilstrap to accept the poor printing job. He also notes that because his text is "Anti-Papist," he may not be able to copyright it in Mexico. OCLC locates a total of six copies, at the Denver Public Library, Yale, New York Public Library, Montana State

University, Wisconsin Historical Society, and the Pikes Peak Library District. Not in Suvak's bibliography of prison memoirs, though there is plenty here on Gilstrap's prison experiences. Rare. WYNAR 7013. OCLC 20075654, 424008619. $650

Controlling Rivers and Floods in California’s Central Valley 10. Hall, William Hammond: SACRAMENTO VALLEY RIVER IMPROVEMENT. GOVERNMENT POLICY AND WORKS. [San Francisco. 1905]. 23,[1]pp. Original printed self-wrappers. Old vertical crease. A bit of tanning to the front wrapper, slight wear to the outer margin of the first two leaves. Ex- California State Library, with their ink stamp in the lower margin of page 15. Very good.

An interesting pair of reports on river improvement and flood control from the important civil engineer, William Hammond Hall, who served as California's first state engineer, and designed San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Flood control in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys was a longstanding issue, and Hall recalls reports in the late 1870s that argued for the need to address the issue. Hall calls on the state government to act, both in improving the river channels, facilitating navigation by larger vessels, which would increase trade and transportation, and to address flooding issues, which are properly the role of government and not the private sector. Hall's reports are addressed to three engineers on the Board of Engineers for Improvement of the Sacramento and Tributary Rivers. Rocq locates a single copy, at the California State Library, and OCLC adds seven others, all in California institutions. ROCQ 16480. OCLC 17398839. $150

Idaho Recipes 11. [Idaho]: THE COLUMBIAN CLUB COOK BOOK OF TESTED RECIPES. COMPILED BY HOUSEHOLD ECONOMIC COMMITTEE BOISE, IDAHO 1906. Boise: Press of the Syms-York Company, 1906. [8],190,[26]pp., plus errata slip, plus manuscript recipes on five pages of endpapers and three laid-in slips of paper. Original green cloth. Cloth a bit soiled, corners worn. An occasional light stain, else quite clean internally. Very good.

A scarce and relatively early Idaho cookbook, compiled by the ladies of the Household Economic Committee of Boise. Includes recipes for meats, seafood, soups, salads, desserts, cakes, bread, pickles, etc., most of them with the name of the contributor given. A final chapter on "foreign dishes" is heavy in "Spanish" and Mexican recipes, and also includes Chinese, Swedish, and Canadian dishes. A helpful index concludes the volume. Advertisements at the beginning and end of the text - as well as along the lower margin of several leaves - are for Boise-area businesses. This copy has manuscript recipes on two pages of printed text, as well as another twelve manuscript recipes on the endpapers or on laid-in slips of paper. Not in Brown, CULINARY AMERICANA. In Cook's bibliography of charitable cookbooks, it is the fourth Idaho cookbook listed, chronologically. Cook locates six copies (three in private collections), and OCLC adds five more. COOK, p.56. OCLC 41684895. $225

“Naturalized Citizens – Non-Citizens – Know Your Rights!” 12. [Immigration]: Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born: JOURNAL FOR 1959. PUBLISHED FOR THE 9th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF LOS ANGELES COMMITTEE FOR PROTECTION OF FOREIGN BORN. [Los Angeles. 1959]. [1],24,[28]pp. (including text on rear wrapper). Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers very lightly soiled, a touch of wear at the head of the spine. Near fine.

The Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born was founded in 1950, and was affiliated with the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (founded 1933). This is the journal for the L.A. Committee's ninth annual conference, and journals for any of their conferences appear to be fairly scarce in commerce. The text on the inner front wrapper announces: "Naturalized Citizens - Non-Citizens - Know Your Rights! Agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service are using all kinds of tricks and threats to deprive non-citizens, naturalized citizens and even native-born citizens of their rights." The several articles in the journal attack the Walter-McCarran Law (a longtime target of the Committee), criticize the Bracero Program as a racket, discuss the deportation case of Korean immigrant, Diamond Kimm, relate some of the Committee's victories over the past year, and more. The final two dozen pages contain messages of support from individual, clubs, and businesses. The front wrapper bears an attractive illustration of foreign-born Americans from several western states marching toward the United Nations building, with the torch of the Statue of Liberty shown in the foreground. The records of the Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born are at the Southern California Library in Los Angeles. $65

13. [Immigration]: Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born: CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION FOR THE FOREIGN BORN. 12th ANNUAL CONFERENCE JOURNAL / 1962. WITH LIBERTY & JUSTICE FOR ALL [wrapper title]. [Los Angeles. 1962]. 38,[58]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers very lightly worn. Near fine.

This is the journal for the L.A. Committee's twelfth annual conference, and journals for any of their conferences appear to be fairly scarce in commerce. The many articles in the journal reflect the activities and concerns of the Committee, with titles including "The Law for Foreign Born Americans," "The Police State," "Surveillance," "Congress Assumes Unconstitutional Power," "The Chinese Confession Program," "The Church and the Foreign Born," etc. The final fifty-eight pages contain messages of support from individual, clubs, and businesses. The records of the Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born are at the Southern California Library in Los Angeles. $65

Authorizing the Indian Peace Commission to Sign Treaties with Plains Tribes, In an Effort to Safeguard Wagon Routes and Railroad Construction 14. [Indian Treaties]: Townsend, E.D.: GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 72. WAR DEPARTMENT...THE FOLLOWING ACT OF CONGRESS IS PUBLISHED FOR THE INFORMATION AND GOVERNMENT OF ALL CONCERNED...AN ACT TO ESTABLISH PEACE WITH CERTAIN HOSTILE INDIAN TRIBES. Washington. July 30, 1867. [2]pp. on a single sheet, 7 1/2 x 5 inches. Light edgewear. Very good.

This is the War Department printing of the Congressional legislation authorizing the Indian Peace Commission, which was charged with negotiating treaties with Plains Indian tribes, primarily in order to protect the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad and wagon roads to the west. Indian Affairs Commissioner Nathaniel G. Taylor was head of the commission, which also included Missouri Senator John B. Henderson, Col. Samuel Tappan (who investigated the Sand Creek Massacre), Major General John B. Sanborn, and Brigadier General Alfred Terry. William Tecumseh Sherman was also named to the Commission, but did not participate. The primary accomplishment of the Commission was the signing of the "Medicine Lodge" treaties with several tribes in October, 1867, including the Kiowa, Comanche, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho. The legislation instructs the commissioners to sign treaties "as may remove all just causes of complaint on their part, and at the same time establish security for person and property along the lines of railroad now being constructed to the Pacific and other thoroughfares of travel to the western territories, and such as will most likely insure civilization for the Indians and peace and safety for the whites. The law also provides for the creation of reservations on which to settle non-hostile tribes, appropriates money for that goal, and gives state and territorial governors the ability to form

companies of mounted volunteers to engage any tribes that do not agree to sign treaties. Issued over the printed signature of Assistant Adjutant General E.D. Townsend. $250

Travels in the West: A Little-Known Memoir 15. Lee, Aaron: FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC. REMINISCENCES OF PIONEER LIFE AND TRAVELS ACROSS THE CONTINENT, FROM NEW ENGLAND TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, BY AN OLD SOLDIER. ALSO A GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF HIS ARMY EXPERIENCES IN THE CIVIL WAR. Seattle: Metropolitan Press, [1915]. 190pp., including illustrations, plus two plates. 12mo. Original blue cloth with pictorial paper onlay on front board. Boards a bit edgeworn, especially on the foredges, small scuff in paper on front board, not affecting any text. Very clean internally. Very good.

A little-known memoir of an adventurous life travelling around the West in the second half of the nineteenth century, and of service in the Civil War. Aaron Lee was born in Massachusetts in 1832 and in 1855, influenced by the exhortations of Horace Greeley and Josiah Quincy, Jr., he and his cousin went to Minnesota, where he lived for twenty years, before moving to Iowa. He writes at length about pioneer life on the frontier, while also ruminating on New England history and his travels in the Northeast. In 1902 Lee moved to Washington, and he provides much information on the history and topography of the Northwest, Puget Sound, Seattle, Tacoma, etc. Lee was a member of the First Minnesota Infantry, and his memoirs of the Civil War comprise some fifty pages, with recollections of army life, battles and skirmishes, the capture of Richmond, and the surrender at Appomattox. Not in Soliday, nor in the Decker catalogues; not in Howes or Nevins. Scarce in the market. SMITH 5798. DORNBUSCH, MINNESOTA 14. EBERSTADT 131:415. $300

Early Los Angeles Imprint 16. [Los Angeles Imprint]: THIS INDENTURE, MADE THE ___ DAY OF ___ IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY ___ BETWEEN.... Los Angeles: Printed and Sold at the "Southern Californian" Office, [ca. 1854-1856]. [4]pp. on a folded small folio sheet of ruled blue paper. Printed forms (not completed in manuscript) on first and second pages only. Three horizontal folds and one diagonal crease. Some wear in the upper outer and lower inner corner. Very good.

An early Los Angeles imprint, produced by the second newspaper to publish in the town. The first page contains a partially-printed indenture form, and the second page is a partially-printed notarial form. Neither of the forms has any manuscript additions. Attractively printed on a folio sheet of ruled blue paper, the forms utilize a variety of types, and could also serve as specimens of a press's printing abilities. Such job printing was an important supplement to the finances of frontier newspapers, and their survival rate is relatively low. Kemble notes that the SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAN newspaper was founded in Los Angeles in July, 1854, and ceased publication in January, 1856, having become a "financial mess" (Dawson). Greenwood lists only three imprints of the newspaper, in the years 1855 and 1856, and only a handful of earlier Los Angeles imprints. The first Los Angeles newspaper, the LOS ANGELES STAR, was only established in 1851. An ephemeral, rare, and early Los Angeles imprint. KEMBLE, p.234. DAWSON, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERS, pp.28-29. $275

An Illustrated Report on the Warships of the United States Navy, Printed in Havana on the Eve of the Spanish-American War

17. Martinez-Jurado y Ruiz, Adolfo: DATOS SOBRE LA MARINA DE GUERRA DE LAS DIFERENTES NACIONES. ESTADOS UNIDOS. Havana: Imprenta y Litografia de la Maestranza de

Artilleria, 1898. Folio. Eight leaves (printed rectos only), plus thirty-eight tinted lithographic plates. Folio. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards. Boards lightly rubbed, a few small scuff marks. New endpapers. Contemporary ownership signature on titlepage (see below). Near fine internally.

A fascinating and attractively illustrated volume, printed in Havana for the Department of Artillery, giving illustrations and details of thirty-eight warships in the United States Navy. The printed text contains dates late in 1897, and the volume must have been produced early the following year, just months before the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor touched off the Spanish-American War, resulting in a resounding American victory that expanded the growing American empire. The Maine is featured along with more than three dozen American vessels. Each American ship is represented by its own plate, featuring a tinted lithograph and three line-drawn cross-sections, along with printed data of the ship's details: its class, firepower, crew, speed, date of commission (a few designated as "en construccion" or "en proyecto"), and more. The leaves preceding the illustrations (and one before the final group of twenty plates) describe the organization of the United States Navy, the different classes of ships, and list those that are active and inactive. Martinez-Jurado y Ruiz explains that the volume is being produced to prepare Cuba for naval attacks to which it might one day be subjected.

This copy bears an ownership signature on the titlepage, reading "Manuel de la Vega / Habana / 1898." This is almost certainly the Cuban diplomat who was later assigned Charge d'Affaires to the Cuban Embassy in Washington, and who made remarks at the 1914 ceremonies unveiling the monument to the USS Maine in New York City (see PAPERS RELATING TO THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, Washington. 1920. pp.414-415). OCLC locates only three copies, at the Biblioteca Nacional in Spain, the U.S. Navy Department Library, and the U.S. Army Heritage Center. OCLC 39900517, 433227817. $4,750

18. [Nebraska]: [Rinehart, Frank]: VIEWS OF THE TRANS- MISSISSIPPI AND INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION HELD AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, JUNE 1st TO NOVEMBER 1st, 1898. [Omaha?]: F. A. Rinehart, [1898]. Title leaf, followed by forty-seven half-tone plates. Oblong 16mo. Original cloth-backed pictorial wrappers. Front wrapper a bit soiled and scuffed. Faint old tideline in lower inner margin of many leaves, else quite clean and fresh internally. Very good overall.

A relatively scarce collection of illustrations of the 1898 Trans- Mississippi and International Exposition, held at Omaha. The illustrations are from original images by the talented photographer, Frank A. Rinehart, who was the official photographer of the exposition. The images include the grand court, dozens of state and thematic buildings (exterior and interior views), the giant see-saw (225 feet high), Chinese village, various

midways crowded with attendees, and much more. An attractive collection of views of this international exposition. $200

Belonging to a Marine Corps Officer, with a Manuscript Note Describing the Trials, and His Passes to the Gallery 19. [Nuremberg Trials]: INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL NURNBERG GERMANY 1945- 1946 [wrapper title]. [Nuremberg: Public Relations, HQ CMD, IMT, 1946]. [13]pp. Two visitors' gallery passes (completed in manuscript) and a 5 x 7 inch photographic print laid in. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers a bit creased. Six small pieces of tape on recto of final leaf (likely to attach to a scrapbook). Very good.

This pamphlet, issued by the Public Relations section of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, lists the charges against several Nazi officials, gives a diagram and key to the courtroom, and provides short biographies of nineteen of the defendants. This copy was originally in the possession of U.S. Marine Corps First Lieutenant Paul A. Grigorieff, who attended the Nuremberg proceedings on at least two days. Laid in is a partially-printed pass to the Tribunal Visitors' Gallery issued to Grigorieff, and a partially-printed pass to the Palace of Justice, dated July 2, 1946. Also laid in is an original photograph of tribunal proceedings, apparently removed from a scrapbook. Grigorieff sent this volume to a friend or family member, and has written a manuscript note, dated June 2, 1946, on the verso of the front wrapper. The note reads: "Dear Galina: Rode an ambulance to Nurnberg this morning. Listened to the 'Trials' this afternoon. It wasn't quite certain from the evidence presented whether the Germans or the Russians had liquidated 5000 Polish officers in the region of Smolensk. Very interesting tribunal. Paul." Grigorieff apparently attended the Tribunal on a day when it was considering culpability for the notorious "Katyn" massacres. $100

Arguing Against the Removal of Southwestern Tribes to Oklahoma 20. Painter, C.C.: THE PROPOSED REMOVAL OF INDIANS TO OKLAHOMA [wrapper title]. [Philadelphia: Indian Rights Association, 1887]. 7,[1]pp. Original printed self-wrappers. Ex-Buffalo Historical Society, with their printed label and part of a call number label on the front wrapper. Contemporary ink acquisition note at top of front wrapper. Neat splitting at the top and bottom portions of the spine. Very good.

One of a number of pamphlets by Charles C. Painter, published by the Indian Rights Association. An ordained Congregational minister and a former professor of Theology at Fisk University, Painter was for a decade an active lobbyist for the Indian Rights Association in Washington. In this work Painter argues against a plan being proposed by the federal government to move several southwestern tribes, including Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Wichita, into Indian Territory, i.e. Oklahoma. He asserts that not only do those tribes have important roots in their own lands, but that they would be infringing on

the lands of the Creeks and Seminoles, who themselves were removed to Indian Territory decades earlier. The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889, in which the territory was inundated with white settlers, put the brake on such schemes. $125

Important History of Early California 21. Palou, Francisco: Bolton, Herbert Eugene (editor and translator): HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF NEW CALIFORNIA. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1926. Four volumes: xcvi,331; xii,390; xi,[1],399; xiv,[2],446pp., plus plates (including frontispiece in each volume) and folding maps. Original blue cloth, spines gilt. Light wear at spine ends and corners. Near fine, partially unopened.

This set has a distinguished provenance, bearing the bookplates of former director of the California Historical Society, Alfred Esberg, and collector Roger K. Larson in each volume. This is the first general history of Alta California, written by Father Francisco Palou. As editor and translator Herbert Bolton writes in the preface to the first volume: "It was written before, was the basis for, and is sounder history than the same author's better known VIDA DEL PADRE SERRA. The work has the distinction of being a record composed by an eye-witness....Few men were in a better position to know than Palou, and none equaled him in habits of observation and journal keeping." Palou was Father Serra's chief lieutenant, and eventually rose to the position of president of the missions of Alta California. Originally written in the 1770s and 1780s, Palou's history was first published in Mexico in 1857, but Bolton used the original manuscript in the Mexican archives for this definitive edition. COWAN, p.471. HOWES P55, "aa." LARSON SALE II:179 (this copy). $375

The Central Pacific Railroad a “Godless Monopoly” 22. [Railroads]: Sutro, Adolph; J.L. Davie; H.M. Baggs; and C.H. Hubbard: TO THE MAYORS OF THE CITIES AND TOWNS OF CALIFORNIA, AND TO THE CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTIES THEREOF. GENTLEMEN: - THAT HUNTINGTON AND OTHER RAILROAD ASSOCIATE MAGNATES ARE NOW TRYING TO FORCE CONGRESS INTO PASSING A FUNDING BILL, IS A PATENT FACT....WE HAVE TAKEN THE LIBERTY OF INVITING YOU TO AID IN CALLING A STATE CONVENTION.... [San Francisco?]. January 9, 1896. Broadside, 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches. Old vertical and horizontal folds. A bit of offsetting, from where the sheet was folded onto itself. Unevenly torn in the left edge, still retaining a broad margin. Very good.

A rare broadside - located in only one other copy - calling for an emergency convention of citizens from across California to oppose a railroad funding bill being considered by the U.S. Congress. The original loans made by the federal government to the "Big Four" magnates of the Central Pacific were coming due in late 1895, "and if not settled with a new funding bill the government would foreclose on the Central Pacific" (White). Collis Huntington was expending great amounts of money to lobby Congress to refund the railroad. The authors of this broadside - the mayors of San Francisco (Adolph Sutro), Oakland (J.L. Davie), Stockton (H.M. Baggs), and Sacramento (C.H. Hubbard) - strongly opposed the funding. Fearful that the Congress would give the Central Pacific an eighty million dollar gift, the mayors protest in the strongest terms: "If a Funding scheme is passed, it will be a Governmental condonation of a most gigantic crime. Such Legislation precludes for years all Transcontinental Railroad competition, and leaves us in the iron grasp of a single godless monopoly." The four mayors call for a state convention ten days hence, with delegates from towns and counties across California to meet in San Francisco "to express the united opinion of the citizens of California against the vicious legislation, and to send a Memorial to Congress, protesting against it as an outrage on our rights as American citizens."

Public sentiment in California at the time was running strongly against railroad interests - the only California congressman who supported the funding bill lost his bid for re-election in 1896. Funding was opposed not just by the mayors mentioned above but also by the two major California newspapers - Hearst's EXAMINER and the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. In the end, the funding bill was defeated. OCLC locates a single copy of this broadside, at the Huntington Library. Rare. OCLC 84219602. Richard White, RAILROADED: THE TRANSCONTINENTALS AND THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA, (New York. 2011), pp.450-452. $600

Rare Guide Book and Directory to Gilded Age San Francisco 23. [San Francisco]: Warner, Frank W.: GUIDE BOOK AND STREET MANUAL OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. [San Francisco]: Published by F.W. Warner, 1882. [1],174,[1]pp., including advertisements (many of them illustrated). 12mo. Original black cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Some edgewear, cloth a bit faded. A few leaves with small closed tears. Very good.

A rare guide to San Francisco during the Gilded Age, intended for residents and visitors alike, and filled with information on businesses and municipal offices. Organized alphabetically - from amusements to wharves - the guide includes thousands of entries grouped in various categories, including churches, banks, fire stations and alarm boxes, consulates, libraries, schools, benevolent and social societies, hacks and cabs, steamships, and much more. A substantial section at the end is a guide to rail, steamer, and stagecoach transportation from San Francisco to hundreds of towns and cities throughout the West. There are also advertisements (often illustrated) for a number of businesses, including the Southern Pacific Railroad, Napa Soda Springs, photographer Isaiah W. Taber, Ichi Ban Japanese wholesaler, Thomas Price's assay office, Albion Ale & Porter, the Tivoli Opera House, and several hotels, including the Palace and the Occidental ("Headquarters of the Army and Navy"). This was the first such guide issued by publisher Frank Warner, and though he promised future editions updated yearly, this appears to be the only one he published. Not in Cowan, nor in Quebedeaux, though it would seem to fit into his category of business and specialized directories. Rocq and OCLC together locate only nine copies, all in California institutions. I can find no copies in the market since a 1925 Anderson Galleries sale. Rare. ROCQ 12721. OCLC 18849287, 228703663. $875

History of a Confederate Prison 24. Sclater, W.S. (compiler): A COMPLETE AND AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LIBBY PRISON. Richmond, Va.: Southern Art Emporium, 1894. [2],28pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers expertly and unobtrusively mended along spine. Near fine.

Rare first edition of this history of the Confederate prison in Richmond. Transformed from a general store in 1862, Libby Prison held thousands of Union prisoners during the Civil War. Sclater gives a physical description of the building, and much of the text focusses on accounts of attempted escapes. The Southern Art Emporium in Richmond specialized in Confederate realia: cannonballs, cutlasses, buttons, relics from Libby prison, as well as colonial and Native American artifacts. OCLC locates only four copies of this first edition, at The New York Public Library, UC Santa Barbara, the Univ. of Chicago, and the Maryland Historical Society. A second edition followed in 1897. OCLC 35843616. $185

Around the World on a Tramp Steamer at Age Eighteen: A Highly Interesting and Engaging Narrative 25. Scudder, Eric: JOURNAL OF FIRST TRIP AROUND THE WORLD MADE BY ERIC SCUDDER. LEFT SAN FRANCISCO JUNE 15, 1906, WITH TWO DOLLARS. RETURNED DECEMBER 18, 1906, STILL WITH TWO DOLLARS. [No place, but San Francisco? 1938]. [2],131pp., being carbon copies of a typescript, typed on the rectos only of 10 1/2 x 8 inch sheets. Diagram on one page. Quarto. Contemporary half leather and patterned cloth, spine gilt, raised bands, t.e.g. Corners worn, spine ends and bands lightly rubbed. Internally fine, near fine overall.

A highly interesting and engaging narrative of an American teenager's voyage around the world in 1906, with much on Manila and the surrounding area in the early years of the American occupation. Just two months after the devastating earthquake and fires of April, 1906, Oakland schoolboy Eric Scudder decided he needed to see the world. And he meant the whole world. Under false pretenses the teenager obtained a position as a waiter on a steamer and lighted out, heading out across the Pacific to Manila, where he jumped ship and spent two months in the Philippines. He then found work on another vessel, sailing to Singapore, Colombo (Sri Lanka), and other ports in the Pacific and Indian oceans. Passing through the Suez Canal, Scudder's ship then proceeded past Gibraltar and into the Atlantic, arriving at Newport News, Virginia in early November. From there, he made his way back across country to California by train.

The first thirty-one pages of Scudder's narrative give an overview of his journey; the remaining one hundred pages transcribe the journal he kept at the time, and include a diagram of the harbor of Manila. Lengthy portions describe his time in the Philippines, with other segments devoted to Honolulu, Guam (where his ship hit a reef), Singapore, Ceylon, and Gibraltar. Working aboard ship for his passage, Scudder proudly admits that he started and finished his journey with only two dollars. Born in San Francisco in 1887, Eric G. Scudder (1887-1975), graduated from Oakland High School, attended the University of California, married his high school sweetheart, became an attorney and practiced in San Francisco. This volume consists of a bound carbon copy of Scudder's typescript, and was almost certainly produced in a small handful of copies for private distribution to family and friends. No copies located in OCLC. Rare, and a remarkable coming of age story. $925

Rare Report on Gold and Silver Deposits in Calaveras County 26. Silliman, Benjamin and W.P. Blake: REPORTS ON THE GOLD AND SILVER DEPOSITS AT QUAIL HILL, CALAVERAS COUNTY, CAL. San Francisco: Printed at the Office of the Mercantile Gazette, 1867. 14pp. Original printed wrappers. Faint vertical crease, small closed tear in foredge of front wrapper, else fine.

A rare report on gold and silver deposits in Calaveras County in the Sierra Nevada foothills, issued at a time when well-capitalized companies were seeking to continue to extract wealth from the region, nearly two decades after the initial gold discovery. Yale chemist Benjamin Silliman, Jr., produced a number of reports on gold and silver deposits in California and Nevada in the 1860s. The present report is co- authored with geologist William Phipps Blake, a protege of Silliman's father, who came to prominence working on the Pacific Railroad surveys in the 1850s. Their report on the gold and silver deposits at Quail Hill, in Calaveras County (some thirty miles east of Stockton) is enthusiastic. Silliman calls it a "remarkable deposit," and Blake adds that "it is evident

that there is a very large amount of ore...[that] can be rapidly and cheaply mined and worked. Its working presents no unusual difficulties." The reports discuss the location of the mines, the nature of the deposit, the extent to which it has been explored, the quantity and value of the ores, and the expected costs to mine. Three tables give the results of mineral samples from Quail Hill.

It should be noted that Silliman and Blake's reputations (and fortunes) were adversely affected by their work as "mining consultants for hire." By the time this report was produced, Blake was professor of mineralogy at the College of California (soon to become the University of California), and was also a geologist for the State Board of Agriculture, but he was not held in high esteem by colleagues such as Josiah Whitney. Silliman, even more prolific as a writer of mining reports for hire, joined San Francisco and Grass Valley investors in putting money into the Quail Hill mines, only to suffer heavy financial losses in the enterprise (see Webb).

I find only two copies of this rare report in the market since 1980, the present copy, which sold at auction in 2006 for $1840, and another copy, offered by Michael Heaston in 2007, priced $1750 (now in a private collection). OCLC and Rocq together locate only five copies, at the California State Library, Huntington, Bancroft, Yale, and Lehigh. Not in Cowan, nor in Streeter. Rare. ROCQ 1442. LINGENFELTER CA:3186. OCLC 19578581. HEASTON 46:32. George E. Webb, "The Chemist as Consultant in Gilded Age America: Benjamin Silliman, Jr. and Western Mining," in BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY, 15/16 (1994), pp.9-14. $1,750

Sketches of Gold Rush Pioneers 27. Upton, Charles Elmer: PIONEERS OF EL DORADO. Placerville, Ca. 1906. [4],201,[1]pp., plus six plates (including frontispiece). Original green cloth, front board gilt. Cloth lightly soiled, lower edges shelfworn. Very clean internally, and near fine overall.

Self-published by Upton in a small edition, and quite possibly printed by him as well. "One of the most interesting of California narratives" - Eberstadt. Upton drew from the accounts of pioneers themselves, from the files of local newspapers, and from other authoritative published accounts for these biographical sketches of El Dorado County pioneers. Among those profiled are James Marshall, miner Robert Fugate, Mathias Lauber of Kearney's 1846 expedition, Wells Fargo detective James Hume, Reuben Berry (first alcalde of Salmon Hill), and others. The appendix draws from John Rollin Ridge (aka "Yellow Bird") to give an account of Joaquin Murieta. Not an easy book to find in decent condition - this is quite a nice copy. COWAN, p.653. ROCQ 1756. HOWES U25. ADAMS, SIX-GUNS 2258. NORRIS CATALOGUE 4046. HOWELL 50:889. EBERSTADT 111:100. $200

28. Wagner, Henry R.: BULLION TO BOOKS. FIFTY YEARS OF BUSINESS AND PLEASURE. Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1942. [12],370pp., plus portrait and four plates. Half title. Original cloth, spine gilt. Neat ink ownership stamp on front free endpaper and rear pastedown. Near fine. Lacks the dustjacket.

Inscribed by Wagner on the front free endpaper. Wagner's informative memoir of his life, work, book collecting and bibliographical activities. Covers the period from his graduation from Yale Law School, through his business career as a representative of Guggenheim mining interests in Latin America, to his activities as a book collector and dominant figure in Western Americana bibliography. Includes a bibliography of Wagner's writings to date. From an edition of 300 copies, printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. AXE, PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF HENRY R. WAGNER 113. $325

A Vigorous Defense of the Second Vigilance Committee, by a Maverick Assayer and Newspaper Editor 29. [Wiegand, Conrad]: Carroll, W. [pseudonym]: DR. SCOTT, THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE AND THE CHURCH. A LECTURE BY W. CARROLL, DELIVERED IN MUSICAL HALL, SAN FRANCISCO, OCT. 12, 1856. San Francisco: Whitton, Towne & Co., Printers, Excelsior Steam Presses, 1856. 52pp. Original printed yellow wrappers. Spine about half perished, five small stabholes along the bound edge, old red ink stamp on front wrapper. Old tidelines throughout, a bit of light foxing. Good plus.

A pseudonymously issued attack on Rev. William Anderson Scott of San Francisco's Calvary Church who, in sermons and writings, harshly criticized the mission and activities of the Second Vigilance Committee. Conrad Wiegand, a twenty-five year old assayer with the U.S. Mint in San Francisco, was a friend of newspaper editor James King of William, whose assassination in 1856 sparked the formation of the Second Vigilance Committee. In this text Wiegand takes on Scott and other religious and secular critics of the vigilantes, arguing that in time they will come to agree with the members of the Committee. He concludes by alleging that J. Ross Browne, Sen. William Gwin, and others "have threatened me with suspension from office, supposing I would favor the Vigilance Committee. I do favor it, and when turned out I think I'll join it." Young Wiegand produced a burst of political publications in 1856 - Greeenwood notes three titles in addition to the present attack on Scott. Wiegand would later move to Gold Hill, Nevada, where he founded the PEOPLE'S TRIBUNE newspaper, and caught the notice of Mark Twain, who profiled him favorably in ROUGHING IT. He committed suicide in 1880.

There are copies of Wiegand's tract in a number of California institutions, but the only copy I find outside California is at Yale. GREENWOOD 788. COWAN, p. 682. ROCQ 12820. HOWELL 50:905. COHEN 4205. OCLC 58933504, 24032561. JOHNSON, JAMES WELD TOWNE, p.138. $750

Defending Federalist Policy Towards England Against Jeffersonian Accusations 30. [Wolcott, Oliver]: BRITISH INFLUENCE ON THE AFFAIRS OF THE UNITED STATES, PROVED AND EXPLAINED. Boston: Young and Minns, 1804. 23pp. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Evenly tanned. Title leaf and first page of text with some foxing. Very good. Untrimmed and partially unopened.

Oliver Wolcott, son and namesake of a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, was Alexander Hamilton's successor as Secretary of the Treasury. He served under Hamilton as Auditor and then Comptroller in the Treasury Department, and the two men had a close professional and personal relationship. In fact, Wolcott, who remained Treasury Secretary throughout the Adams administration, was a source of much of the "High Federalist" criticisms of Adams during his 1800 bid for reelection. In this anonymously-published pamphlet (signed in print at the end as "Marcus"), Wolcott defends Federalist policies toward Great Britain since the Jay Treaty of 1794, specifically against Jeffersonian accusations that the previous administrations were much too generous in their dealings with England. "A convention for payment of the British debts as provided by the Jay treaty was negotiated during Jefferson's administration and thus by a sort of poetic justice the Virginia debts were shifted to the nation under the administration of a Virginia President. Oliver Wolcott, the former Federalist Secretary of the Treasury, attacked Jefferson's policy in a savage pamphlet..." - Beard. Wolcott writes that all previous American actions had followed treaty stipulations (including those of the 1783 treaty of peace), that the grievances of Jefferson and his southern planter allies over perceived favoritism toward England are economically driven, and that local economic interests are in fact the motivation for all Republican criticism of Federalist policies.

Wolcott had an interesting political journey, later defending James Madison's course in the War of 1812, and breaking with the Federalists to eventually become governor of Connecticut, as a Republican. It is notable that this pamphlet was printed by Alexander Young and Thomas Minns, printers to the state of Massachusetts, who in 1804 also printed harsh attacks on Thomas Jefferson in their newspaper, THE NEW ENGLAND PALLADIUM, resulting in a move by some Massachusetts lawmakers to have their state printing contract terminated. SABIN 104983. HOWES W611. GAINES 04-11. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 7793. Charles Beard, ECONOMIC ORIGINS OF JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY, pp.296-298. $450