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William Reese Company 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 789-8081 A Note This catalogue contains much in the way of new acquisitions in Western Americana, along with several items from our stock that have not been featured in recent catalogues. Printed, manuscript, cartographic, and visual materials are all represented. A theme of the catalogue is the exploration, settlement, and development of the trans-Mississippi West, and the time frame ranges from the 16th century to the early 20th. Highlights include copies of the second and third editions of The Book of Mormon; a certificate of admission to Stephen F. Austin’s Texas colony; a document signed by the Marquis de Lafayette giving James Madison power of attorney over his lands in the Louisiana Territory; an original drawing of Bent’s Fort; and a substantial run of the wonderfully illustrated San Francisco magazine, The Wasp, edited by Ambrose Bierce. Speaking of periodicals, we are pleased to offer the lengthiest run of the first California newspaper to appear on the market since the Streeter Sale, as well as a nearly complete run of The Dakota Friend, printed in the native language. There are also several important, early California broadsides documenting the political turmoil of the 1830s and the seizure of control by the United States in the late 1840s. From early imprints to original artwork, from the fur trade to modern construction projects, a wide variety of subjects are included.

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On cover: 177. [Manner of Carl Wimar]: [Indian Warriors Riding Away...]. (detail) 1. [Abert, James W.]: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT...COM- MUNICATING A REPORT OF AN EXPEDITION LED BY LIEUTENANT ABERT, ON THE UPPER ARKANSAS AND THROUGH THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMANCHE INDIANS, IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR 1845. [Washington. 1846]. 75pp. plus twelve lithographed plates and large folding map. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Bookplate on front pastedown. Minor toning and foxing. Very good.

The first printing of this most important report, accompanied by the map based on the first astronomical observations made in the territory traversed. Wheat describes this map as “of great interest” and suggests that it was probably drawn by Charles Preuss. It is notable for the new information about the country between the Arkansas and Canadian rivers. Under Fremont’s orders, Abert travelled west to the Raton Mountains, down the Canadian, and back to Fort Gibson through the Creek Nation. The views are quite handsome and include the famous plate of Bent’s Fort, as well as depictions of West Texas and Oklahoma. HOWES A10. RITTENHOUSE 1. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 489. SABIN 59. WAGNER-CAMP 120. GRAFF 6. $2500.

2. Aimard, Gustave: [COLLECTION OF TEN NOVELS, INCLUD- ING The Missouri Outlaws; The Prairie Flower; The Indian Scout; The Trappers of Arkansas; The Border Rifles; The Free- booters; The White Scalper; The Guide of the Desert; The Insur- gent Chief; The Flying Horseman]. London. [1876-1877]. Ten works bound in three volumes. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Extremities lightly worn; hinges on first volume neatly repaired. Internally clean. Very good.

Mixed editions and issues – at least one is the first edition in English, and the other nine are probably second editions in English. A nice gathering of popular tales of American frontier life by French writer Oliver Gloux (1813-83, pen name Gustave Aimard), which were first translated into English and published in yel- lowback format beginning in 1860. In 1876, Percy B. St. John was contracted by publisher Vickers to translate The Missouri Outlaws and revise and edit the other twenty-eight titles in the series, with brief prefaces. Aimard is an interesting – almost mythic – figure in the dime novel tradition, alternately known as the Dumas of the Indians and the Fenimore Cooper of France. He came to the United States as a young midshipman and is said to have lived among the Indians in Arkansas, where he learned the skills of frontier life. A nice run of these works. $850. With a Map of Alaska Territory, Printed There in 1887

3. [Alaska]: THE NORTH STAR. No. 1. Vol. 1. Sitka, Ak. December 1887. [4]pp., text in three columns. Large map on front page. Single horizontal fold. Closed splits along folds, foredge of first leaf a bit rough, but with no loss of text. Very good.

The first issue of an early Alaska newspaper, published twenty years after the territory was purchased by the United States. The North Star was published monthly, “in the interests of schools and missions in Alaska,” and was produced at the Sitka Industrial School. The text is filled with news of missionary work in the remote territory, a list of missionaries in Alaska and their post office addresses, notices to arrivals in the territory and of the establishment of new churches, allegorical stories with a religious theme, and much more. The front page is taken up by a map of Alaska, furnished by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. $1500.

Furthest North Imprint?

4. [Alaska]: CATHOLIC PRAYERS & HYMNS IN THE TINNEH LANGUAGE. [bound with:] TINNEH INDIAN CATECHISM OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE. Kosoreffski, Ak.: Indian Boys’ Press, 1897. Two volumes bound in one. [2],39; [2],22pp. 24mo. Original decorative cloth wrappers. A few early leaves tanned. Second page of first title with four words of text corrected by a contemporary pasted-on slip. A very good copy, crudely trimmed. In a cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase.

One of the earliest American items printed this far north in Alaska. According to Wickersham, Kosoreffski was opposite Holy Cross on the Yukon River. These two items, bound together, were produced by Fathers Tosi and Ragaru, and stand as the first production of the Holy Cross Mission at Kosoreffski. Streeter further notes that “these two books are the only ones listed in the imprints catalogue at the New York Public Library as printed at Holy Cross.” Remarkably early Alaskan linguistic imprints. WICKERSHAM 1046, 1047. STREETER SALE 3569. $1750.

5. Ansted, David T.: THE GOLD-SEEKER’S MANUAL. London: John Van Voorst, 1849. [4],172pp., plus [6]pp. of ads. Small octavo. Original green cloth, later printed paper labels on front board and backstrip. Minor shelf wear. Very clean internally. Near fine.

The second (and best) London edition of this popular guide to gold prospecting, published in the year of the California Gold Rush. This edition is nearly twice the length of other British and American editions, with much added material. Ansted, a prominent British mining engineer, speculates on the probable economic effects of the California gold discovery, with chapters on the distribution and nature of gold; methods by which to identify it; washing, assaying and refinement; and the effect of California gold on the world market. “The concluding chapter described California’s prospects as a gold-producing country and promoted the gold discovery as a grand opportunity for English manufacturers” – Kurutz. “This was the standard authority of the time” – Cowan. HOWES A286. SABIN 1647. COWAN, p.17. KURUTZ 19b. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 5. HOLLIDAY SALE 20. ROCQ 15677. $1500.

6. [Arizona Photographica]: [ALBUM OF SIXTY-FIVE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF ARIZONA, INCLUDING SEVERAL OF THE DEDICATION OF THE THEODORE ROOSEVELT DAM ON THE SALT RIVER, NORTHEAST OF PHOENIX, AND SEV- ERAL OF SCENES ALONG THE COLORADO RIVER IN NEW MEXICO]. [Arizona. 1911-1917]. Sixty-five original photographic prints, measuring on average 5 x 4 inches, most with accompanying manuscript captions. Oblong 12mo. Contemporary pebbled black imitation leather album. Binding worn, cracking along front joint. A few of the photographs faded or lightly printed. Very good.

An album of photographs of early 20th-century Arizona, highlighted by a group of photos showing the dedication of Theodore Roosevelt Dam, which President Roo- sevelt himself attended. The Roosevelt Dam was built on the Salt River, northeast of Phoenix, between 1905 and 1911, chiefly to gather water for agricultural uses, and to control flooding. It was begun during the Roosevelt administration and built under the auspices of the Reclamation Act of 1902, which funded numerous irrigation projects in the West. Eleven photographs show the dam and the 1911 dedication ceremonies, including one of Theodore Roosevelt himself, walking along- side Arizona Governor Richard E. Sloan. Other images show the dam from various angles, including a picture of Roosevelt’s flag-draped lectern, which also held the “electric button which he pressed & opened flood gates.” Two other pictures show the photographer’s party on the forty-mile buggy ride to the dedication ceremony. Another eleven photographs show scenes along the Colorado River, mostly in New Mexico, including shots of Battleship Rock. Other photographs span the years from 1911 to 1917 and show various scenes around Arizona, including the 17th Cavalry Camp in August, 1917; the Old Dominion Hospital; Silver Stamp Mill; swimming, fishing, hiking, camping, and riding activities; and two views of a Forest Ranger’s home. There are also photographs of the El Tovar Hotel near the Grand Canyon, and a Hopi Indian Village. $900.

Arkansas Land Sale Broadside

7. [Arkansas]: EXECUTORS SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE. GREAT SALE OF ARKANSAS LANDS...[caption title]. [New York. 1844]. Broadside, 21½ x 16¾ inches. Wrinkled. Tears in upper, lower, and right edge, with some minor loss. A few closed tears repaired with tape on verso. About good.

A rare broadside advertising the sale of more than 10,000 acres of land in Arkansas. The 1840s were a booming period for Arkansas, and the population rose from less than 100,000 in 1840 to more than 200,000 in 1850. Doubtless large tracts of available land (such as those offered in this broadside) were partially responsible. The land was owned by Joseph Watson (deceased, late of Washington, D.C.), and is described as exceptional for raising cotton, sugar, tobacco, hemp, and native grapes (“equal in quality to the French grape”). The range, township, section, and quarter where each parcel of land is located is given in detail, accompanied by the size of each lot, most of them being 160 acres in size but a few containing 320 acres. Some sixty lots in all were offered for sale. The terms of sale are cash, and the executors would be handing out quit-claim deeds together with the patents for the land to the purchasers. The executors of the Watson estate are identified as N.B. Haswell and A. Ward, and the auction was scheduled for May 15, 1844 at the sale rooms of Anthony Bleeker & Company in New York City. No copies of this broadside are located on OCLC. Very rare. $3500.

8. [Army of the Republic of Texas]: GOVERNMENT OF THE ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS, PRINTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH A JOINT RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS. APPROVED JANUARY 23d, 1839. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR. Houston: Intelligencer Office – S. Whiting, Printer, 1839. Title-leaf [verso blank], index, 3pp. [verso blank]; inserted leaf of errata; two plates; General Regulations, 187pp.; Uniform of the Army of the Republic of Texas Prescribed and Published by Order of the President, 16pp. including half title. Original muslin cloth, lacking the printed spine label as usual. Binding somewhat worn, and lightly faded and stained. Front endpaper consists of a page from an 1864 government document relating to Confederate States Army. Text stained and browned. A good copy. In a tan cloth slipcase, morocco label.

“These regulations were printed in compliance with a joint resolution of Congress approved by President Lamar on January 23, 1839....Except for the section at the end, ‘Uniform of the Army,’ they follow closely the General Regulations for the Army of the United States, City of Washington (copy in my collection). These sixteen pages on the uniform appear to be a revision of the material issued in a twelve-page pamphlet, No. 374 here, and like that pamphlet are preceded by General Order No. 5, dated Houston, May 23, 1839, ordering the adoption of the uniform....If this binding was done in Texas, those copies with the original binding are the earliest examples of Texas binding of which I have a record” – Streeter Texas. Streeter locates only three copies of this printing and only six of Streeter Texas 372A including his own; several lack the errata leaf, and his copy and that of the Houston Public Library are incomplete. Not in Eberstadt Texas 162, Eberstadt Texas Collection Inventory, Decker, Graff, Howes, or the Streeter sale. STREETER TEXAS 372. New Handbook of Texas 5, p.203. VANDALE TEXIANAME- TER 181. $15,000.

A Certificate of Admission to Austin’s Colony: One of the Earliest Obtainable Texas Imprints

9. [Austin, Stephen F.]: EL CIUDADANO ESTEVAN F. AUSTIN, EMPRESARIO, PARA INTRODUCIR EMIGRADOS ES- TRANGEROS, EN LAS COLONIAS QUE LE TIENE, DESIGNA- DAS EL SUPREMO GOBIERNO DEL ESTADO DE COAHUILA Y TEXAS, POR LOS CONTRATOS CELEBRADOS ENTRE EL DICHO GOBIERNO Y EL MISMO AUSTIN.... [San Felipe de Austin: Printed by G.B. Cotten, 1829]. Printed document, 6 x 8¼ inches, completed in manuscript. Signed by Benjamin F. Hughs. Faint age toning and creasing, ink stain affecting “i” in “Colonias” of title docketed on verso in contemporary manuscript. Very good. Cloth matted with facsimile portrait of Stephen Austin and three accompanying plaques, two of which contain explanatory text.

A rare imprint from the San Felipe de Austin press of Godwin Brown Cotten, being an original certificate of admission to Austin’s colony. “These grants were the foundation of the colonization of Texas” – Streeter. This document reflects one of the four essential steps in the colonization process, being the empresario’s certification stating that the immigrant (in this case a widow named Frances Manifee) had been admitted as a member of Austin’s colony. The next step would be to present this certificate to the commissioner charged with issuing land titles in the Colony. This document is signed in manuscript by Benjamin F. Hughs and dated July 29, 1831. This is effectively the earliest obtainable Texas imprint, since any earlier ones are only surmised or exist in a few copies in institutions. It is now extremely rare in the marketplace. The only relatively recent sale of a copy was of a much inferior one, with loss in the top margin, which sold at Sotheby’s in the Texas Independence Collection sale on June 18, 2004 for $30,000 including house premium. STREETER TEXAS 9. EBERSTADT 162:39. $25,000.

Riots in Sacramento in 1850

10. Badger, William G.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM WILLIAM BADGER IN SAN FRANCISCO TO ANDREW CAR- NEY IN BOSTON, GIVING DETAILS OF THE VIOLENT AND BLOODY SQUATTERS RIOT THAT HAD BROKEN OUT IN SACRAMENTO THE DAY BEFORE]. San Francisco. Aug. 15, 1850. [2]pp. letter on a folded folio sheet, addressed for mailing on the fourth page and with a red circular postmark: “San Francisco 15 Aug 40.” Old folds for mailing. Near fine.

An interesting and immediate letter from Gold Rush San Francisco in the summer of 1850, giving the latest news on the violent and bloody “Squatters Riot” that had erupted in Sacramento the day before. Since the discovery of gold on John Sutter’s land outside Sacramento in January 1848, a wave of settlers came to the region, many of them camping (or “squatting”) illegally on Sutter’s large estate. Real estate owners appealed to the Sacramento authorities to do something about the squatters, and the settlers grew more and more belligerent in response. Ill feelings came to a head and erupted on August 14, 1850 in an outburst of violence that left many dead. The Mayor of Sacramento, Hardin Bigelow, survived bullet wounds but died a few months later of cholera. Fatalities from the conflict included the Sacramento Assessor, Sheriff Joseph McKinney, and several squatters. Badger writes (in part):

I have sent you a paper of today [not present] which contains intelligence from Sacramento City. It seems that the citizens, and squatters, have had a terrible conflict. The mayor reported wounded is dead. I believe Mayor Bigelow is from Boston, when the steamer left they were preparing for a great battle. The squatters are men that came overland from the Western States, and are most desperate characters. It is generally believed up to the latest moment that the whole of Sacramento City is in ashes...troops have been ordered from Benicia and there is no knowing where this matter will stop. The ringleader of the squatters was shot dead, the ball entering his eye. All the parties engaged are Americans, people are equally divided as to which side is right. I hope law and order will prevail. It has created quite a panic in this city as many here have stores in the above city....Business here is good and growing better every day.

Badger concludes with a few notes about current prices for goods in San Francisco, imports that he is expecting for his business, and business strategy. William Badger, born in 1821, was a Bostonian who came to San Francisco just a few months before writing this letter. He set himself up initially as a clothing merchant, and eventually became a successful dealer in pianos and organs. His correspondent, Andrew Carney, an Irish-born tailor, became wealthy as a clothier and in Boston real estate and finance. He would later provide the money for Boston’s Carney Hospital, the first Catholic Hospital in New England. Later pencil notes on the address page of this letter detail its route from San Francisco to Boston, first on the Pacific Mail Steamship vessel “Carolina” to Panama, and then to Chagres, Havana, and New York. $1250.

Successor to Audubon

11. Baird, Spencer F.; John Cassin; and George N. Lawrence: THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA; THE DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES BASED CHIEFLY ON THE COLLECTIONS IN THE MUSEUM OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Philadel- phia. 1860. Atlas volume only. [2],xii pp. plus 100 handcolored lithographs. Quarto. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine tooled in blind, leather label. Titlepage a bit chipped at edges, tears repaired. First twelve pages dampstained. Plates mostly clean, with slight warping and discoloration along top edge. Title and final plate with 19th-century library stamp. Overall, a very good copy.

Baird was the foremost American ornithologist of his day and, although he does not explicitly describe it as such, the present work forms an extension of John James Audubon’s famed bird studies. Many of the beautiful color plates in this work were taken from earlier reports, including Emory’s U.S.-Mexican Boundary Survey (1859) and the Pacific Railroad Survey (1858). Indeed, Bennett calls this the first separate and complete edition of the ninth volume of the Pacific Railroad Survey. Nevertheless, this work presents new material, including several original plates. An important American color plate book and contribution to American ornithology. SABIN 2809. BENNETT, p.7. MEISEL III, p.484. $2000.

Landmark Map of the Far West

12. Bancroft, A.L.: BANCROFT’S MAP OF CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, UTAH AND ARIZONA. San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Compy. Book- sellers & Stationers, 1873. 32 x 35 inches, with full period color, folding into original stamped brown cloth covers. Covers repaired along spine, corners lightly worn. Advertisement for Bancroft laid down on inside front cover. Expert tissue repairs to splits along folds and cross-folds. Five-inch tear along Utah-Nevada border repaired with tissue, with minor loss of paper. Good.

This is the third, revised edition of what Streeter calls an “important large scale map.” The map shows California and Nevada, plus western Utah and Arizona on the impressive scale of twenty-four miles to the inch. Bancroft shows these western areas with the most accurate detail possible, with completed railroads, proposed railroads, and wagon roads carefully laid down. Also identified are important natural features such as wells, salt springs, buttes, etc. Counties are individually shaded, and the states are outlined in color. The Bancroft publishing house first issued this map in 1864, and there are also editions dated 1871 and (apparently) 1872. Wheat notes that Bancroft’s original map was published in 1863 with the title, Bancroft’s Map of the Pacific States. Compiled by William H. Knight, it “was probably the most important map yet produced by a publisher of the Pacific coast.” Knight’s map is significant for many reasons, not least of which for changing the name of Lake Bigler to Lake Tahoe. Wheat describes the several iterations of the map in detail, and its augmentation over the years, asserting: “The great Map of the Pacific States, originated in 1863 by William H. Knight, proliferated in 1864 into a whole family of notable maps, automatically establishing the rising H.H. Bancroft house as the greatest map publisher of the Pacific Coast. So large in size are these maps and so overflowing with detail, it is utterly impossible to describe their minutiae.” In 1864 Bancroft divided his large map along the 42nd parallel, and this Map of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona is known in editions of 1864 and 1871, before the present 1873 edition. Streeter had a copy with an 1872 date (see lot 3934 in his sale), the only such example that we have been able to locate. The Rumsey collection has a copy of this 1873 edition in a wall map format, as opposed to the present pocket map format. A scarce and important western map. STREETER SALE 3937. RUMSEY 46. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI V, pp.70-73, 104-106, 272-273; item 1219 (note). $4750.

Western Exploration Works from the Library of U.S. Boundary Commissioner and Bibliophile John Russell Bartlett

13. [Bartlett, John Russell]: Fremont, John C. [et al]: [SAMMELBAND OF FOUR IMPORTANT WORKS OF WESTERN EXPLORA- TION, COMPILED BY HISTORIAN AND SURVEYOR JOHN RUSSELL BARTLETT, INCLUDING TWO WORKS BY JOHN C. FREMONT, AS WELL AS REPORTS BY JOSEPH N. NICOLLET AND WILLIAM H. EMORY]. Washington & New York. 1843-1849, as detailed below. Four works bound in one volume. Each work lacking the large folding map, otherwise complete with all text and plates (save for one plate missing from the fourth title). Full collations below. Contemporary three- quarter morocco and pebbled cloth, spine gilt, expertly rebacked retaining the original backstrip. Contemporary pencil notes on front endpapers and in text. Very clean internally. Very good.

A remarkable volume bringing together the text and illustrations from four of the most significant western explorations of the 1830s and 1840s. This volume was compiled by John Russell Bartlett, the scholar, bookseller, and surveyor who was Commissioner of the Mexican-American Boundary Survey in the early 1850s. Bartlett almost certainly compiled this volume in preparation for his work on the southwestern boundary, and it brings together important western explorations by John Fremont, Joseph Nicollet, and William Emory. The Emory report, which dealt most directly with the area which Bartlett himself would be surveying, contains several instances of notes and pencil highlighting in Bartlett’s hand. Along with the internal manuscript notes, this volume has pencil notes in Bartlett’s hand on the front free endpapers giving the contents of the volume, as well as specific notes on Fremont’s 1842 expedition. The foot of the spine is stamped in gilt: “R. Townsend.” We have been unable to discern whether Townsend was an associate of Bartlett, or perhaps a slightly later owner of this volume. As mentioned above, each of the four reports contained herein lacks the large folding map that was issued with them. It is likely that Bartlett had the maps bound into a separate volume or volumes, so that he could consult them more easily, and also make the present volume less bulky. John Russell Bartlett was a bookseller and ethnographer when he was appointed by Zachary Taylor to the commission to delineate the United States-Mexico boundary in 1850. He spent the period from 1850 to 1853 surveying the region, but was removed from the commission after the election of Franklin Pierce in 1852. In 1854, Bartlett published his Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihuahua, Connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, which remains one of the most readable and accurate accounts of the American Southwest for the period. Aside from having been collected by Bartlett in this volume, the four works included herein are linked in interesting ways. Joseph Nicollet was a mentor of Fremont and a member of Fremont’s 1839 expedition to the upper Missouri, and Fremont in turn assisted Nicollet on the latter’s report and monumental map of the Upper Mississippi. When the House of Representatives re-issued Nicollet’s report in 1845, the map was re-drawn by William H. Emory. Finally, Emory was responsible for the final publication of the Boundary Commission on which Bartlett served as commissioner, issued in 1857 to 1859 as the Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. The four reports, in the order in which they appear in the present volume, are:

1) Fremont, John C.: Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44. Washington: Blair and Rives, 1845. 583pp. plus twenty-two plates and four maps (two folding). The House issue of the Fremont report, preceding the Senate issue, according to Wagner-Camp, and with the lithographed plates executed in a slightly different form. This document is certainly one of the most important single pieces of Western Americana. In various editions it was more widely read than any other account of the West published before the Gold Rush, and the text and map had a profound effect on the routes frequented in the great period of emigration. The “Map of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains...” (lacking from this volume) is perhaps the greatest single western map. COWAN, p.223. HOWES F370. SABIN 25845. WAGNER-CAMP 115:2. STREETER SALE 3131. GRAFF 1437. Coats, The Plant Hunters, p. 322. 2) Nicollet, Joseph N.: Report Intended to Illustrate a Map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River. Washington: Blair and Rives, 1843. 170pp. Nicollet accompanied Fremont’s 1839 expedition to the upper Missouri. He departed St. Louis on April 4 and arrived at Fort Pierre on June 12, with Etienne Provost and William Dixon (son of the interpreter at Fort Pierre, Baptiste Dorion). The present work is Nicollet’s report of that event, although he died before the expedition was completed. His “Sketch of the Early History of St. Louis” appears on pages 75-92. Also included is the catalogue of botanical specimens collected by Carl Geyer and described by John Torrey. HOWES N152, “aa.” WAGNER- CAMP 98. BUCK 339. GRAFF 3022. SABIN 55257. STREETER SALE 1808. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE VI:403. 3) Fremont, John C.: Geographical Memoir Upon Upper California, in Illustration of His Map of Oregon and California. Washington: Tipping & Streeper, 1849. 40pp. The House issue of Fremont’s third expedition of 1845-46. This report marked the conclusion of Fremont’s career as a topographical engineer. It was during this journey that Fremont helped launch the Bear Flag Revolt, and was court-martialed for his efforts. Wagner-Camp notes that most copies lack the folding map, which is not present in this volume. The text consists of Fremont’s description of the third expedition, undertaken in 1845-46 but unpublished until 1848, with charts of astronomical observations. COWAN, p.223. HOWES F366. RITTENHOUSE 227. SABIN 25837. WAGNER-CAMP 150:2. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 78. KURUTZ 256b. 4) Emory, William H.: Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers. New York: H. Long & Brother, 1848. 230pp., plus thirty-nine plates (of forty) and three single-page maps. This volume lacks the large map, but does include the three single-page maps of Mexican-American War battles, as well as all but one of the plates (lacking the plate of the head of the female mountain goat). One of the most important government reports on overland travel, with accounts of the march of the Army of the West, the Mexican War in New Mexico and California, and some of the first American views of the far Southwest. “A library of Western Americana is incomplete without it” – Zamorano 80. Emory also made an important scientific contribution with this work, especially in the botanical section contributed by John Torrey. WAGNER-CAMP 148:3. HOWES E145. HILL 561. ZAMORANO 80, 33. First edition: PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1207. COWAN, p.195. RITTENHOUSE 188. FIELD 500.

We appreciate the assistance of John Russell Bartlett scholar (and editor of Bartlett’s autobiography), Jerry Mueller, for assisting us in identifying the manuscript notes as those of Bartlett. [See item 58 for another book from JRB’s library] $2500. A Legendary Dakota Rarity

14. Batchelder, George A.: A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY AND RE- SOURCES OF DAKOTA TERRITORY. Yankton: Press Steam Power Printing Co., 1870. 56pp. Colored frontispiece map. Modern half cloth and paper boards. Very clean and fresh internally. Fine.

One of the earliest works on the Dakota-Wyoming frontier, and among the first locally printed works on Dakota Territory and on gold in the Black Hills. “Batch- elder compiled this report in response to numerous requests from acquaintances in the East. The section on railroads, pp.40-43, states that in August 1870, Dakota has not yet a line of railroads, but describes the Northern Pacific railroad which is to pass through the territory, and gives a list of other projected roads” – Streeter. Batchelder was the Secretary of Dakota Territory, and this work covers the early history and exploration of the region, Indians, climate, soil, produce, stock raising, mineral resources, and investment possibilities. A “Map of Dakota in Miniature” is the frontispiece. The first letter of each section of text is printed with a large, stylized initial, quite unusual for an early frontier imprint. STREETER SALE 2051. HOWES B231, “b.” GRAFF 205. DAKOTA IMPRINTS 73. ADAMS HERD 219 (“very rare”). JONES 1522. BRADFORD 286. $9500.

Before He Joins the Confederacy, Judah Benjamin Discusses Nevada Mining Lands

15. Benjamin, Judah P.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM SENATOR JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, DISCUSSING THE CALI- FORNIA-NEVADA BOUNDARY SURVEY]. Senate Chamber [Wash- ington, D.C.]. Jan. 17, 1861. [2]pp., docketed on verso. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Remnants of old paper mounting strip on right edge of verso, else near fine. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

Senator Judah P. Benjamin writes to fellow Senator John Sherman of Ohio, requesting additional appropriations for the survey of the boundary between California and Nevada. Benjamin, a senator from Louisiana, would resign his seat a short time later to join the Confederate government as Attorney General; he would subsequently serve as both Confederate Secretary of War and Secretary of State. He writes that he has received a letter from Lieut. Mowry, who is conducting the survey, and cites an extract from Mowry’s letter which reads:

“Will you be so good as to say a word in favor of an additional appropriation for the Survey of the California line. You have seen Washoe and know the great value of that region. The line I have to survey runs through Washoe, down through Mono, Coso, the Esmeralda region and on to the Colorado. The whole of this line is supposed to run through a rich mineral region and its development will add greatly to the wealth of the country. Congress appropri- ated only $55,000 to commence my work – I shall have to stop and discharge my parties unless another appropriation is made, and it will be much more costly to commence it again at some future day. The people of Washoe are very anxious to have the work done to settle the question of jurisdiction. We ought to have $100,000 to carry the work on the July 1862.”

Benjamin writes: “If you can consistently with your views of public duty aid in the above passage of such an appropriation as is above indicated, you will oblige [me].” $1500. A Recently Discovered Drawing of Bent’s Fort in Its Final Days

16. [Bent’s Fort]: [Colorado]: [BENT’S FORT, COLORADO TERRI- TORY]. [Bent’s Fort in southeastern Colorado. ca. 1869]. Pencil on buff paper, 10½ x 14¾ inches. Inscribed in pencil in the lower right corner: “Bent’s Fort. Arkansas River. Colorado Ter. July 13th 186[?]. This trading post built in 1832. Now used as a S.O.M. + Ex station.” A modern penciled inventory no. on reverse: “WCA-2800 (b).” Signed with an interlocking JFK monogram, lower right image (at the edge of the grass). Two short closed tears at the extreme edges, and a tiny chip in the lower right corner, not affecting the image. Archival matting. Excellent displayable condition.

A very fine and finished pencil drawing of Bent’s Fort, on the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado Territory, one of the very few images of this legendary western fort, once the center of the fur trading empire built by brothers George and Wil- liam Bent. It depicts the once important trading post during its last commercial phase, as a stagecoach station for the Barlow-Sanderson Overland Mail & Express Company on the route from Kansas City to Santa Fe. The surviving structures of the adobe stronghold are seen in a deteriorating state, barnyard animals roaming the grounds, the walls and gates falling, tended by a lone agent. It is possibly the last image of the original Bent’s Fort, of which few images survive in any form. Bent’s Fort was constructed in 1833 by Bent, St. Vrain & Company, the largest fur trading and commercial firm in the Southwest. The company developed a complex business network as part of the Santa Fe trade, selling blankets from New Mexico and buffalo robes from the Plains, driving Mexican sheep through to Missouri, trading in horses and mules, and trading goods to Indians. Just on the American side of the then boundary with Mexico, it was in a perfect location to serve as a trade nexus. At the same time it served as a base for U.S. government exploring and military expeditions such as those of Kearny, Dodge, Fremont, and Abert. With the end of the Mexican-American War and the American annexation of New Mexico, the fort lost its strategic significance, and the proprietors were struck a serious blow when the senior partner, Charles Bent, the provisional American governor of New Mexico, was murdered in Taos in 1847. In 1849 his brother, William Bent, offered to sell the fort to the United States, but, perceiving the government’s very low counter-offer as an insult, he set fire to his stores of gun powder, destroying many of the buildings, and abandoned the fort. From 1849 through 1861, Bent’s Fort was unoccupied and allowed to deterio- rate. Barlow-Sanderson operated the stagecoach station from 1861 until 1881, after which settlers in the region began cutting away adobe from the fort for use in their own buildings. An Arkansas River flood in 1921 completed the destruction of the few remaining ruins. Bent’s Fort has since been reconstructed on its original foundations by the National Park Service and designated a National Historic Site. Very few images of Bent’s Fort survive, despite its key role in the Santa Fe and fur trades at their height. A detailed plan and view of the fort in James W. Abert’s report of his 1845 western expedition are the best known depictions of the fort, and these, along with the archeological evidence, provided the basis for the Park Service reconstruction. It has been suggested that the monogram in the lower corner of this picture is that of John Frederick Kensett, a leading painter of the Hudson River School and an artist skilled in small pencil drawings, learned in his career as an engraver. Kensett made on-the-spot sketches of the Fort during his 1870 trip to Colorado Territory with fellow Hudson River School painters Worthington Whittredge and Sanford Robinson Gifford. Only four of the pencil sketches absolutely identifiable as by Kensett survive from this Colorado trip, and we make no attribution of the present drawing. This very fine drawing of Bent’s Fort is unrecorded in the Art Inventories Cata- log of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, unknown to the archivist at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site, and unpublished. One of the few depictions of a major historic landmark of the West, the drawing is a significant addition to the art history of Colorado. Howard R. Lamar, ed., New Encyclopedia of the American West (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1998) pp.91, 93. Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975 (Madison, Ct.: Soundview Press, 1999) II, p.1825. Jackson W. Moore, Bent’s Old Fort. An Archeological Study ([Np]: State Historical Society of Colorado, 1973) passim. Patricia Trenton & Peter H. Has- srick, The Rocky Mountains. A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983), pp.210-22. $27,500.

17. Berry, James: CIRCULAR TO THE CITIZENS OF HARRIS COUNTY. Houston: Printed at the Telegraph Book Office, 1858. 7pp. Printed on a single folded sheet, unopened. Tanned, some foxing and soiling. Slight separation along one fold, with a bit of paper loss but not affecting text. Good.

Rare defense of a public officeholder’s honor in antebellum Houston, the only copy that we have been able to locate. Berry, the former Harris County Treasurer, addresses this rare circular “to the Tax Payers of Harris County,” giving them an accounting of the receipts, expenditures, and debts of the county for the year ending August 1858. The purpose of the accounting, and of Berry’s accompanying text, is to defend himself against the recent “grave charge of fraud, not openly, but insinuatingly and insidiously, alleged against me, by Judge Shearn, in his circular, issued upon the heel of the late election.” Judge Charles Shearn (1794-1871) was a major figure in the political and mercantile life of Harris County. A veteran of the Texas Revolution, Shearn was a merchant, a Houston City Councilman, and Chief Justice of Harris County for six years. Berry gives his defense, concluding with thanks to the citizens of the county: “the only apology I have for taxing them with this refutation of a slander, is my desire to wipe out that ‘stain,’ and, if I have not succeeded in doing so, I have the satisfaction of knowing that the attorney- general of the state, and every chief justice and board of commissioners for Harris county from 1848 to 1856, have fallen into the same error with myself.” No copies are located in OCLC, not in Winkler. Rare, possibly unique. $1250.

The Sting of the Wasp: Ambrose Bierce, Political Satire, and Chromolithography in San Francisco in the 1880s

18. Bierce, Ambrose, editor: [San Francisco Periodical]: [Chromolithog- raphy]: THE WASP. San Francisco. Nov. 25, 1882 – Jan. 30, 1886. A non- consecutive run of sixty total issues, each issue numbering sixteen pages. Each issue illustrated with a chromolithographic front and rear cover, as well as a chromolithographic double-page center spread (save for issue of Aug. 9, 1884, see note below). Folio. Expertly bound to style in half dark blue morocco over contemporary marbled paper covered boards, gilt spine. Oct. 27, 1883 issue lacks the front cover; Nov. 10, 1883 issue lacks pp.5-6 and 11-12. A number of issues with some old staining or soiling, more noticeable in the text than the illustrations. Very good overall.

An outstanding collection of sixty issues of The Wasp, one of the most colorful and unusual magazines ever published in America, edited by Ambrose Bierce. All sixty of the issues in this non-consecutive run were published during Bierce’s celebrated tenure as editor. A fixture in San Francisco for sixty-five years, The Wasp is best remembered for its issues of the late 19th century when, as a chromolithographic weekly devoted to politics and satire, it was the most widely read magazine on the West Coast. Each issue features a chromolithographed front and rear cover, as well as a chromolithographic double-page center spread. Each issue also features barbed and stinging commentary on the politics and society of California, the West, and the United States generally. The Wasp was founded in 1876 by the Korbel Brothers, cigar box manufacturers who also printed their own chromolithographic labels. The Wasp made a name for itself for its colorful full-page and double-page illustrations, as well as for its pointed attacks on politicians and public affairs, especially in California. It pioneered the mass production of large-scale colored cartoons in the United States. In 1881 the Korbels sold the magazine and E.C. Macfarlane became the publisher, hiring Ambrose Bierce as editor of The Wasp, a position Bierce held from 1881 to 1886. All the issues herein were edited by Bierce, and “for five years his vitriolic wit, his prejudices, and his brilliant writing not only made the Wasp: they were the Wasp. It stung busily here, there, and everywhere” (Mott). In Richard West’s assessment, The Wasp “stands foremost at the intersection of various vital fields: American humor and satire, American political cartooning, Western Americana, and 19th century chromolithographic printing. There is simply no other magazine like it.” These sixty issues provide a very representative sample of the pictorial and printed views and humor of The Wasp. Bierce was merciless in satirizing and criticizing particular targets, and he often did so in his column, called “Prattle,” which appeared in most issues. Occasionally issues would contain the sorts of definitions that were later published in Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary. To Bierce’s words, and those of contributors, were added pointed satirical illustrations criticizing some of the most influential figures of the time, among them railroad magnates such as Charles Crocker and Collis Huntington, and various California and national political figures including Leland Stanford (who, along with Crocker, Huntington, and Mark Hopkins was one of the “Big Four” railroad magnates). Another favorite target of Bierce was Frank Pixley, publisher of the rival periodical, The Argonaut, and Bierce’s former employer. The Wasp also took strong stands on national politics, Chinese immigration (very much opposed, though Bierce’s own views were more nuanced), American Indian policy (anti-Indian, but also critical of the effective- ness of government tactics), foreign policy, and local California topics including the arts and literacy. George Frederick Keller was the most prolific of the artists whose work appeared in The Wasp, though other popular artists such as Solly Walter and the talented Joseph Henry Barkhaus (only seventeen years old when he began his career in 1883) are also amply represented in this group. Many of the images were produced by the Schmidt Label and Lithographic Company of San Francisco. A sampling of the illustrations in this collection include an August 15, 1885 illustration satirizing the “Restriction Act” via the motif of a baseball game; an August 29, 1885 cover illustration entitled “Uncle’s Sam’s Indian Policy” showing a cavalryman and an Indian facing off while riding wooden horses on a carousel; a January 23, 1886 center spread mocking United States Indian fighting throughout the West; and an October 10, 1885 center spread entitled, “Things this generation will never see,” which includes an illustration of a “Suspension Bridge to Oakland.” With regard to culture there are illustrations poking fun at “The Mikado Craze” in the Decem- ber 12, 1885 issue (shortly after the Gilbert and Sullivan opera premiered), and a January 23, 1886 back cover illustration satirizing the draconian regulations of San Francisco Public Library head Frederick Beecher Perkins. All but one of the issues in this run features chromolithographed illustrations. The covers and center spread of the August 9, 1884 issue, however, are uncolored, and it is explained that this was due to a recent fire in San Francisco “which totally destroyed our whole edition, stones and presses.” The next issue resumes with color illustrations, as promised. A complete list of the issues included is available on request. A landmark American and California periodical, famed for its biting wit, its brilliant editing by Ambrose Bierce, and its remarkable chromolithographic illustrations. MOTT III, pp.56-57. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, pp.42, 141, 188, 202, Richard Samuels West, The San Francisco Wasp (Easthampton, Ma., 2004). $12,500. 19. Bodmer, Karl (illustrator); Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied: REISE IN DAS INNERE NORD-AMERICA IN DEN JAHREN 1832 BIS 1834. Coblenz: J. Hoelscher, 1839-1841. Two volumes. 12pp. sub- scribers’ list. Engraved plan, lithographic plate, and fifty-two wood-engraved illustrations. Large quarto. Original half purple cloth over textured purple paper covered boards, spine gilt, blue speckled edges. Very good.

A fine set of the text volumes recording the 1832-34 travels on the Upper Mis- souri River of German Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied and Swiss artist Karl Bodmer. Prince Maximilian was already an experienced naturalist and explorer in 1832, having made an important scientific expedition to Brazil in 1815-17. His preparations for his trip to North America included retaining skilled artist Karl Bodmer to record illustrations of the journey. Arriving in the fall of 1832, the Prince ascended the Missouri River in the spring of 1833, going as far upstream as the American Fur Company post of Fort Mackenzie in present-day Montana, and spending the winter at Fort Clark, near the Mandan Indian villages. During this prolonged stay, he and Bodmer had ample opportunity to observe the Indian tribes of the Upper Missouri in their full glory, carefully recorded by Bodmer in watercolors. In the spring of 1834 they returned to Europe, and devoted the next five years to preparing the text and plates for this publication. Prince Maximilian and Bodmer were able to record in both words and pictures the Plains tribes in their heyday. They were witness to hunting parties, Indian dances, ceremonies and life among the Mandans and other tribes, as well as the incredible scenery on the upper Missouri before the era of mass settlement from the West. ABBEY 615. GRAFF 4648. HOWES M443a, “dd.” WAGNER-CAMP 76. $15,000.

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 in rear pocket. Modern half morocco, gilt-stamped spine. Map backed with linen, some wear along folds with partial loss, five crude tape repairs. The text is clean and near fine. Overall a very good copy.

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 year before, 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. $3750. The Earliest Western Brand Book We Have Seen

21. [Brand Book]: [Missouri]: [LEDGER RECORDING BRANDS FOR JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI FOR A PERIOD OF SIXTY YEARS]. Jackson County, Mo. 1827-1887 (but probably initially compiled 1866). [13],126pp. Folio. Original plain blue boards, neatly rebacked with leather spine. Boards rubbed. Minor foxing, but contents quite clean, legible, and in very good condition. In a half morocco box.

The earliest record of cattle brands and marks we have ever encountered, in some forty years of interest in the subject. The earliest printed brand book in the West was published in 1865, and the earliest manuscript records we have seen begin in the 1850s. This volume was probably compiled initially in 1866, with brands reaching back to 1827. Jackson County was organized in the newly admitted state of Missouri in 1826. Its location in the far western part of the state on the Kansas border and along the Missouri River meant that it was a crossroads for the western expansion of the nation. Lewis and Clark passed through what would become Jackson County; Joseph Smith declared it the “New Jerusalem” for the Latter-Day Saints in 1831 before they moved farther west; Civil War battles secured Missouri for the Union. But most residents were hard-working farmers and ranchers, and the need arose to identify their holdings. This Jackson County brand ledger records the early days of the county and state. The first pages have an index, followed by 126 pages of recorded brands. Several of the first entries, from July 7, 1827, are early residents of Blue Township, itself only organized May 22, 1827. There are many brands recorded in 1827, then fewer and fewer each year, as certainly the land was kept within families with little available for newcomers; some later years record none at all, until the last entry on Dec. 3, 1887. The last couple are the only ones with drawings of brands; most of the early ones are crops and slits. The first entry, for example: “James King this day records his mark which is as follows, to wit: a swallow fork on the right ear and an under bit off the left ear.” The first ninety-eight pages of this ledger are in several uniform hands. As of 1866 these become varied with each entry, making it likely that this ledger was originally compiled from earlier records in 1866, and the brands from then on were added individually. Most of these were added in 1867-75, trailing away to fewer and fewer entries up to 1867. An early bit of western history from the edge of the Great Plains. $9500.

Jim Bridger’s Bad Debts

22. [Bridger, Jim]: [Sarpy, John]: [Fur Trade]: [MANUSCRIPT DOCU- MENT SIGNED BY JOHN P. SARPY, TESTIFYING TO THE DISPERSAL OF THE ESTATE OF HENRY FRAEB AND THE DIFFICULTY OF COLLECTING MONEY FROM FAMED MOUNTAIN MAN JIM BRIDGER]. St. Louis. June 20, 1843. [1]p., docketed on verso. Folio. Old fold lines; some separation at folds, a few repaired with older archival tape. Quite clean and bright. Good.

A remarkable window into the business dealings of famed mountain man Jim Bridger, this signed manuscript affidavit of John P. Sarpy testifies to his actions on behalf of the estate of fellow fur trader Henry Fraeb, who was killed by Indians in the Rocky Mountains. Sarpy, who was a partner in the major firm of Pierre Chouteau & Co., had worked closely with Fraeb and knew him well. In his affidavit he writes about the Chouteau Company’s concerns about Jim Bridger, Fraeb’s partner at the time of his demise, and the difficulty of getting Bridger to pay his debts. Dated at St. Louis, Sarpy’s affidavit states:

...on the 8th day of August last he was appointed...administrator of the estate of Henry Fraeb then lately deceased. Said Fraeb had been a trader in the mountains, & was at the time of his death in partnership with a man of the name of James Bridger, & said Bridger & Fraeb were indebted to the firm of Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Co., & it was feared by the members of said firm that unless some one became the administrator of the said Fraeb, the said Bridger might interpose difficulties in the settlement of the accounts existing between them & Bridger & Fraeb. & for the purpose of doing justice to themselves, as well as to the said Fraeb, the said Sarpy applied for letters of administration, which were granted to him as above mentioned. The said Bridger has however since this time been here & has settled in full the accounts existing between the firm of Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Co. & the said Bridger & Fraeb. And the said Sarpy says that no property has come into his hands as the administrator of the said Fraeb, although it may be that the said Fraeb has property in the [mountain?] country or in the hands of James Bridger his former partner.

Though he may have been one of the greatest and most beloved mountain men of all time, Jim Bridger was not the best debt in the world, nor did Pierre Chouteau & Co. forget business. $5500.

23. Briggs, E.C., and R.M. Attwood: ADDRESS TO THE SAINTS IN UTAH AND CALIFORNIA. POLYGAMY PROVEN AN ABOMI- NATION BY HOLY WRIT. IS BRIGHAM YOUNG PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OR IS HE NOT? Plano, Il.: Published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1869. 48pp. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Faint residue from pamphlet binder at spine, else fine.

The third edition of this pamphlet, the first having appeared in 1864 in San Francisco, with an 1866 printing following from London. This version is noted as “Revised by Joseph Smith and Wm. W. Blair.” A quite early RLDS attack upon polygamy and the other disputes between the factions. FLAKE 817. $750. Mining in British Columbia

24. [British Columbia Photographica]: [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM CONTAINING EARLY IMAGES OF THE MINING AND LUM- BER INDUSTRIES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA]. [Near Fernie & Mi- chel, B.C. ca. 1900-1910]. Fifty leaves, containing approximately 182 photographs. Oblong octavo. Original black pebbled cloth. Covers worn, detached from text block. Several photographs loose, a handful with some damage. Generally clean and crisp, most with manuscript captions. About very good.

Wonderful candid photo album of British Columbia, with several photographs of Alberta and the Rocky Mountain regions. This photograph album was assembled, we suspect, by Alex and Agnes Middleton, whose portraits are included amongst the images. It is a fascinating visual collection documenting the early mining and lumber towns of Fernie and Michel in southeastern British Columbia. Included are images of lumber camps, coal mining sites, town views, the rugged and beautiful surrounding mountain ranges, train depots, bridges, hotels, churches, Elk River, Crowe Nest Pass, Elk Prairie, and much more. There are two particularly interesting photographs depicting “Frites Wood Store, Michel” before and after a fire devastated Michel around 1902 or 1903. There is also an image showing tent camps which served as temporary living quarters for those villagers who lost their homes to a fire in Fernie around 1904. Additionally, there are several images of Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, La- dysmith, and Natal. Most of the photographs throughout the album are identified in manuscript. All in all, a very nice, cohesive collection of images from the early industrial days of this Canadian frontier region. $2000. Naming a Fort, with Breaking War News

25. Brooke, George M.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM GEORGE M. BROOKE TO BRIG. GEN. ROGER JONES, REC- OMMENDING THE NAMING OF FORT KEARNY]. St. Joseph, Mo. May 18, 1846. [2]pp. plus integral address leaf, docketed on recto and addressed on verso. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old folds, else fine. Post- marked Fort Leavenworth, Mo.

A fine letter from Brig. Gen. George M. Brooke to Brig. Gen. Roger Jones, recom- mending that Fort Kearny be named for Stephen W. Kearny, the officer charged with its construction. The first Fort Kearny was on the Missouri River in Indian Territory (present-day Nebraska), just north of Table Creek. The original site was scouted by Col. Stephen W. Kearny and Capt. Nathan Boone, son of Daniel Boone, in 1838, and Fort Kearny was erected as a way-point for westward-bound settlers along the Oregon Trail. The site was deemed irrelevant, however, since most settlers who took the Trail west bypassed the Fort. Thus in 1846 a new Fort Kearny was erected along the Platte River one hundred miles to the west. Originally named Fort Childs, this new fort was renamed in honor of Kearny, who served with distinction in California during the Mexican-American War, and within a few months of this letter would be the military governor of California. George Mercer Brooke served with distinction in the War of 1812, eventually attaining the rank of major-general just before his death in 1848. He marched with Andrew Jackson’s troops to Florida during the first of the Seminole Wars and was left in command of the American forces when Jackson marched north. He established Fort Brooke in 1824 (which later became the city of Tampa) and served in the Mexican-American War. In this letter he also mentions the opening hostilities that would signal the beginning of that war.

...on my way to Table Creek, with Col. Kearny, Major Wharton & the detach- ment of troops intended for the new fort. We are now about one hundred twenty miles before that point, but hope to reach it in two days. From thence, I return immediately to Fort Leavenworth and shall at once proceed to Fort Scott, unless I should find at Fort L. that my presence is required at St. Louis. We have just heard of the unfortunate & melancholy collision of the American & Mexican troops....I respectfully suggest that the new fort may be called Fort Kearny in honor of the gallant colonel who has the construction of it. His name, among the Indians, on this frontier, is a Host in itself, and I know of no officer in the army who deserves more justly this small mark of honor & respect.

With a very early postmark of Fort Leavenworth, and franked by Brooke “on public service.” $1500. “...are there inducements in the Horrid Region...?”: Yellowstone, Jedediah Smith, and the Fate of Hiram Scott

26. Bruffee, James B.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM JAMES B. BRUFFEE TO ROBERT CAMPBELL, DESCRIBING THE YELLOWSTONE COUNTRY AND REQUESTING FUR- THER DETAILS OF THE DEATH OF HIRAM SCOTT]. Potosi, Mo. Sept. 10, 1829. 3pp., docketed on verso. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old folds; separation at some folds, a few repaired with archival tape. Hole from wax seal affecting two words of text. Minor soiling. In a clear and legible hand. Good.

An intriguing letter from James B. Bruffee to his friend and fellow fur trader, Robert Campbell, containing a very early reference to Yellowstone and the bleakness of its landscape, as well as the death of his business partner, Hiram Scott. Bypassed by the Lewis and Clark expedition, Yellowstone was largely unknown to white men; the legendary Hugh Glass ventured there in 1807, and when the fur trade opened up the Upper Missouri and the Rocky Mountains in the 1820s, fur traders and mountain men began making forays into the area. The region, however, remained largely unexplored until the after the Civil War, and there are only a handful of references to it at this early date. Regarding the Yellowstone country, Bruffee writes that he hopes Campbell does not feel the need to return to that “Horrid Region,” but admits that his own financial affairs make it likely that he himself will have to venture there once more:

But my much respected friend, are there inducements in the Horrid Region still sufficient to induce you back? Certainly the hazard is more and more increased....Consequently I feel disposed to yield to a necessity that may say your happiness and your best interest calls for further enterprise. Certain it is that my own wants and even embarrassments are still of a character to venture if it were to tread the infernal confines. Could I gain cash to justify such a life and such a voyage, and were there an opening I would willingly join you in your returns, but presume you have no power to dispense with any thing in the shape of an interesting birth in that dreary and inhospitable region.

He continues, writing of his concern for his friend, Jedediah Smith, still out in the wilderness, and elaborates on some further business and his desire to see Campbell:

I have for many months past been filled with thoughts the most perplexing and the greatest degree of solicitude for our [friend] Mr. Smith’s precarious situation in the mountains and now to have those feelings reawakened is truly distressing, yet I still have a hope left me, that a man of his boldness, prudence, and merit must finally succeed. But that he is still safe together with his frds. J & S [Smith’s business partners, David Jackson and William Sublette] I do most fondly hope....Were there not such a necessity for my unremitted applica- tion to business I would try to see you &c a week from thus period, but now I can’t promise myself that pleasure by a trip to St. Louis unless I can effect some arrangements to lay in a small stock of iron & steel for my winter business. Times are truly hard with those in debt here without a capital capable of being wielded to advantage. The great fall in the price of lead coupled with the natural barrenness of the country is grievously felt....Be good enough to mention in your next communication what particular vestiges you saw of the remains of unfortunate Scott, where he made his exit, &c.

Bruffee had gone to the 1827 rendezvous at Bear Lake with supplies for the famed Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Company, owned by Smith, Jackson & Sublette. Among his crew was Hiram Scott, who became ill on the way to the rendezvous. The group split into two parties in order to facilitate an easier return for Scott, with Bruffee and his men in the second party promising to wait for Scott and the others to catch up with them at the steep bluffs on the south side of the North Platte River, in present-day Nebraska. When Scott’s party arrived there was no trace of Bruffee or his men. The two men with Scott, now on the brink of collapse themselves, had to choose – would they all three perish together, or would they abandon Scott and try to save themselves? They chose the latter, leaving Scott, lest they too die in the wilderness. William Sublette later found Scott’s remains and buried them; the bluff where they were found has since been known as Scott’s Bluff. It is likely that Bruffee only learned of Scott’s death in the letter sent him by Robert Campbell, to which he is responding here, hence his request for further details. Though he seems to have been close to most of the major players of the fur trade at this time, Bruffee remains a relatively obscure character, due to the scant information about him. He does not appear in LeRoy Hafen’s ten-volume work, The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West. An early and eye-witness description of Yellowstone and the fur trade in the Far West. $7500.

The California Declaration of Independence: One of Five Known Copies, and the Only Copy Signed in Manuscript

27. [California]: EN EL PUERTO DE MONTERREY DE LA ALTA CALIFORNIA, A LOS SIETE DIAS DEL MES DE NOVIEMBRE DE MIL OCHOCIENTOS TREINTA Y SEIS...LA ALTA CALI- FORNIA SE DECLARA INDEPENDIENTE DE MEJICO MIEN- TRAS TANTO NO RESTABLESCA EL SISTEMA FEDERAL QUE SE ADOPTO EL ANO DE 1824 [caption title and later text]. [Monterey: Santiago Aguilar, Nov. 7, 1836]. Broadside, 12¼ x 8½ inches. Old folds and some wrinkling. Small hole in left margin, not affecting text. Near fine. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth folding box, spine gilt.

A remarkably early and important California imprint, this is the official notice of California’s Declaration of Independence from the central Mexican government. This is one of only five known copies of this document, and the only one that is signed in manuscript. Juan Alvarado and his “Californio” cohorts toppled the Mexican military authorities at Monterey on Nov. 3, 1836. In the present proclamation the new government declares itself independent from Mexico “for as long as the Federal system it adopted in 1824 remains unrestored.” The California rebels were revolting against a Central- ist system of government that ruled without much consideration for the outlying provinces, and they hoped that a return to the Federal system would return more autonomy to the states. The Declaration sets up a full government for California, including a system for appointing leaders, establishing a legislature, and creating a constitution. The third provision of this Declaration establishes the Roman Catholic church as the only faith that may be publicly practiced, but also notes that citizens will not be persecuted for the private practice of other faiths. Occurring in the same year as the Texas Revolution – though more conservative in nature – the actions of the Californians clearly showed the ineffectiveness of centralized Mexican control of the states. The text is signed in print at the end by Juan Albarado (i.e. Alvarado), who led the independence movement and declared himself governor, serving in that role until 1842; José Castro, who served as Alvarado’s military chief; Antonino Buelna; and José Antonio Noriega. The present copy also bears the manuscript signatures of Alvarado, Castro, and Noriega, below their printed names. Alvarado served as governor of California until he was removed in 1842, then staged another successful revolt against governor Manuel Micheltorena in 1844, ruling until the Bear Flag Revolt, and John C. Fremont toppled him in 1846. This broadside is also significant from a printing history standpoint, as it is the second imprint by the second printer in California, Santiago Aguilar. California’s first printer, the famed Agustin Zamorano, was forced into exile by Alvarado and Castro on Nov. 4, 1836, three days before the date of this broadside, and they in- stalled Aguilar in his place. Aguilar himself would be thrown out of his position a few months later, when he backed the wrong side in a political revolt in Monterey. Greenwood locates the Streeter copy, as well as copies at the Huntington and Bancroft libraries. There is also a copy at the archives in Mexico City. The Streeter copy brought $4500 at the Streeter sale in 1968. Rare and very desirable, documenting a landmark moment in the political history of California. STREETER SALE 2482. GREENWOOD 23. LIBROS CALIFORNIANOS (1st ed), p.26. COWAN, SPANISH PRESS, p.16. FAHEY 22. HARDING 22. AII (CALIFORNIA) 17. $65,000.

An Extraordinary Collection of the First California Newspaper: Exceedingly Rare and Highly Important

28. [California]: CALIFORNIAN. Monterey & San Francisco. Aug. 29, 1846 – Sept. 15, 1847. Together, twenty-seven numbers, each 4pp. First volume in quarto format, folded sheets, unbound as issued. Second volume in folio, as issued. Sixteen numbers of the first volume are in excellent condition. Of the others, No. 3 has a large hole through both leaves, obliterating some text; No. 5 is silked and separated at fold; No. 15 is silked; No. 28 has a small hole; No. 29 is silked and separated at fold, with small hole and corner missing. Four numbers of the second volume have small sections missing, either clipped or torn out. In two red half morocco and cloth boxes.

An extensive run of the first California newspaper, comprised of twenty-one issues of the first volume and six numbers of the second volume. The set offered here is likely the most complete to appear on the market since the Streeter sale in 1968. The California State Library’s set is less complete – as is every other known run of the newspaper save for a complete set handled by Howell and a run of thirty-eight numbers sold at the Streeter sale (for $17,500 in 1968). A set belonging to the California Pioneers was destroyed by fire. The Californian was edited by Walter Colton, author of Deck and Port (1850) and Three Years in California (1850), and Robert Semple, a frontier doctor from Kentucky. The first issue appeared on Aug. 15, 1846, and the newspaper continued to be published weekly in Monterey, in English and Spanish on the Zamorano Press, the first printing press in California. Paper was so scarce that a few issues had to be printed on cigar wrapping papers. Much of the news is comprised of firsthand accounts of local happenings. When there was a scarcity of news items, Colton and Semple used fillers of poetry and fiction, or culled from newspapers received in exchange. The paper was printed every Saturday until No. 36, April 24, 1847, when Colton turned the business over to Semple due to ill health. Number 37, here present, notes the change, and that number and the next issue, the last published in Monterey, appeared on Thursday rather than Saturday. Semple moved the paper almost immediately to San Francisco, where he began publication in a larger folio format on May 22, 1847. The paper bore the masthead, The Californian, until No. 15, Aug. 28, here present, when “The” was dropped. B.R. Buckelew took over as publisher on July 17, Robert Gordon on Oct. 27, and Buckelew again on Jan. 26, 1848. The Californian served as a vital source of news for the American forces during their occupation of California in the Mexican War. The paper continued in its important role after the war with its support of the new government, printing the texts of the various official proclamations, and strongly advocating a territorial relationship with the United States as a first step toward annexation. The issues included here include Part I of a review, with extracts, of Melville’s Typee (Vol. I, No. 21), a reprinting of the prospectus for the paper establishing editorial policy (Vol. I, No. 30), and an account of the rescue of the Donner party survivors (Vol. I, No. 32), among many other items of great historical interest. The only opportunity likely to present itself to acquire a fabled California rarity. FAHEY, pp.33-48. STREETER SALE 2509. GREENWOOD 99. GRAFF 550. KEM- BLE (1962), pp.52-65. WAGNER, CALIFORNIA IMPRINTS 1. $75,000.

The Establishment of American Military Government in California in 1847

29. [California]: Shubrick, William B., and Stephen W. Kearny: CIR- CULAR. TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. BE IT KNOWN. THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DESIR- OUS TO GIVE AND SECURE TO THE PEOPLE OF CALI- FORNIA A SHARE OF THE GOOD GOVERNMENT AND HAPPY CIVIL ORGANIZATION ENJOYED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES...HAS INVESTED THE UNDER- SIGNED WITH SEPARATE AND DISTINCT POWERS, CIVIL AND MILITARY...[caption title and beginning of text]. Monterey, Ca. March 1, 1847. Broadside, 9½ x 8½ inches. Text in English and Spanish in double columns. Faint old folds. Near fine. In a cloth chemise and slipcase, gilt morocco label.

A rare and important broadside, issued in the wake of the American conquest of California during the Mexican-American War, and establishing the civil and military authority of the United States. Fighting between American and Mexican forces in California commenced in the summer of 1846, shortly after news of the outbreak of the Mexican-American War reached the Pacific Coast. In January 1847 the Treaty of Cahuenga was signed, by which the Mexican “Californios” capitulated and agreed to put down their resistance to the Americans. California was formally ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, but in the interim the United States began to establish its civil and military authority in California. That was the purpose of the important announcement in this broadside. The text declares that President James K. Polk is “desirous to give and secure to the People of California a share of the good government and happy civil organization enjoyed by the People of the United States, and to protect them at the same time, from the attacks of foreign foes, and from internal commotions.” The inference, of course, is that the Mexican authorities were either unable or unwilling to guarantee these blessings, but that the benevolent protection of the United States would. Polk proclaims that William B. Shubrick, commander-in-chief of the American naval forces, would be in charge of regulating the import trade and establishing port regulations. Brigadier General Stephen Watts Kearny is named governor of Cali- fornia, “invested...with administrative functions of government over the People and Territory occupied by the forces of the United States,” and is assigned the “direction of the operations on land.” Wagner notes that while this broadside is dated March 1, it was not actually issued until March 4. The text of this broadside was printed in The Californian on March 6, and in the California Star two weeks after that. OCLC and Greenwood together locate a total of four copies, at the Bancroft Library, California State Library, the Huntington Library, and Yale. GREENWOOD 87. FAHEY 77. WAGNER, CALIFORNIA IMPRINTS 5. OCLC 17356933, 79724678. $30,000.

Establishing Civil Government in California

30. [California]: Riley, Bennet: PROCLAMATION TO THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA. CONGRESS HAVING FAILED AT ITS RE- CENT SESSION TO PROVIDE A NEW GOVERNMENT FOR THIS COUNTRY TO REPLACE THAT WHICH EXISTED ON THE ANNEXATION OF CALIFORNIA TO THE UNITED STATES, THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD CALL ATTENTION TO THE MEANS WHICH HE DEEMS BEST CALCULATED TO AVOID THE EMBARRASSMENTS OF OUR PRESENT POSI- TION [caption title and beginning of text]. Monterey, Ca. June 3, 1849. Broadside, 17¾ x 13 inches. Old folds. Docketed on verso. Three-quarter-inch by five-inch portion clipped from lower left margin, not affecting text. Very good. In a three-quarter cloth folding box, spine gilt.

The Thomas W. Streeter copy, with his notes in the upper left corner of the recto and his bookplate on the lower left corner of the verso. This copy sold for $1700 at the Streeter sale in 1968. This rare broadside is a fundamentally important document in the political history of the state of California. In it, Brigadier General Bennet Riley establishes the basic civic framework of California as a United States territory. He calls for a convention to draw up a new constitution, announces that the laws currently in place in California would continue to be enforced, and sets dates for the election of judges and other municipal officers. It is the first formally announced effort to exert the civic authority of the United States throughout California. Riley begins by stating that, though he is a brigadier general in the United States Army, he is actually the civil governor of California, and that the territory is not under military control. He announces:

...no military officer other than the commanding General of the Department exercises any civil authority by virtue of his military commission, and the powers of the commanding General as ex officio Governor are only such as are defined and recognized in the existing laws. The instructions of the Secretary of War make it the duty of all military officers to recognise the existing civil government and to aid its officers with the military force under their control. Beyond this any interference is not only uncalled for but strictly forbidden.

Riley goes on to describe in detail the various offices that constitute the civil government of California. In an effort to promote order and stability he announces that the laws that were in place in California before the American occupation would continue to be in effect until they are “replaced by others made and enacted by competent power.” Riley further calls for the organization of a civil government “by the election and appointment of all officers recognized by law,” and sets August 1 as the date for elections to fill judicial positions. Of the utmost importance, he calls for a convention to meet at Monterey on September 1 to frame a constitution for the territory, and designates the various districts from which the delegates will come and how many will come from each district. We are able to locate only six other copies of this important broadside, at Yale, the California State Library, the Huntington Library, the Bancroft Library, the Newberry Library, and the National Archives. A founding document in the civil history of California. GREENWOOD 119. WAGNER, CALIFORNIA IMPRINTS 31. STREETER SALE 2555 (this copy). AII (CALIFORNIA) 92. GRAFF 548. OCLC 58924468, 17317148. $38,500.

31. [California]: JOURNAL OF THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA; AT THEIR FIRST SESSION BEGUN AND HELD AT PUEBLA DE SAN JOSE, ON THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF DE- CEMBER, 1849. [with:] JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA; AT ITS FIRST SESSION.... San Jose: J. Winchester, 1850. 1347pp. Thick octavo. Modern three-quarter leather and marbled boards, gilt leather labels. Bookplate on front pastedown. Library markings of the “Ligue Nationale Fran- caise” of San Francisco on the titlepage. Light dampstaining to first few leaves, else quite clean internally. Very good.

Important journals of the first California legislature, containing all the foundational laws for the new state. Includes the adoption of common and civil law, reports and speeches, the designation of the various counties, election of U.S. Congressmen, and many other key pieces of early California law. Given to the Ligue Nationale Française of San Francisco by P. Alexandre Bergerot, a San Francisco lawyer and politician of French lineage. Despite the San Jose imprint on the titlepage, Green- wood notes that this work was actually printed in New York. GREENWOOD 167 (ref ). $1000. Large Early View of Sacramento

32. [California]: SACRAMENTO IN CALIFORNIEN...DES AUS- WANDERERS HOFFUNG. Berlin: J. Hesse, [ca. 1851]. Handcolored lithographic print, 19½ x 14½ inches. Minute browning and edge wear in margins. Color bright and clean. Very good. Archival matting, and protected with mylar sheet.

Variant issue, without priority, of this delightful early view of Sacramento, showing the city inland from the harbor, complete with bustling streets and wharf. In the harbor are two ships flying American flags, one steamer, and what is presumably a Mexican vessel. One large building facing the water is adorned with an elephant across the upper portion of its facade. The elephant figured prominently in the Gold Rush mythos. Those who said they “saw the elephant” meant that they had been there and seen the big show (as in “went to the circus and saw the elephant”). Thus, an early example of California billboard advertising. The print was most likely extracted from the German Magazin in Berlin... and has an unrelated image on the verso. Reps locates only four copies. A rare California view. REPS, VIEWS AND VIEWMAKERS 218. $3500.

As Useful Now As It Was Then

33. [California]: THE CALIFORNIA TEXT-BOOK; CONTAINING A GRAMMAR OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE IN ENGLISH; OF THE ENGLISH IN SPANISH; CONVERSATIONAL DIA- LOGUES IN BOTH LANGUAGES, AND A FULL DESCRIP- TION OF CALIFORNIA. San Francisco: Marvin & Hitchcock, 1852. 258pp. 16mo. Original half red sheep and brown cloth, spine gilt, original backstrip laid down. Neatly repaired at head of spine. An occasional light fox mark. Overall, in very good original condition.

With the bookplate of noted Californiana collector Dan Volkmann on the front pastedown. “The first text-book published in San Francisco. Published by Marvin and Hitchcock, San Francisco’s first book-sellers” – Norris. A very useful and important grammar, designed for the use of Anglos and Spanish speakers in California when the state was still young and booming and experiencing one of many clashes of cultures. The first 146 pages contain a Spanish grammar in English, while pages 147-191 contain an English grammar in Spanish. A section of “dialogues” containing a dictionary and phrase book follows, concluding with a very positive description of California that includes geographic information, a historical sketch, and information about the state’s political structure. Greenwood contends that this is not a California imprint, noting that on the verso of the titlepage C.W. Benedict of New York is listed as the printer. The book is a translation of Jose Urculla’s Spanish-language grammar, published the same year, and A. Armstrong is sometimes noted as the compiler. A charming little book, historically significant. GREENWOOD 320. COWAN, p.101. NORRIS CATALOGUE 4049. SABIN 98117. $2500.

Multiple Californias

34. [California]: REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE WITH REFERENCE TO THE DIVISION OF THE STATE. [Sacramento]: B.B. Redding, [1855]. 8pp. Dbd. Light tanning. Very good.

An intriguing document, submitting a proposal entitled, “An Act to Create Three States Out of the Territory of California.” The states are to be named California, Colorado, and Shasta. The state of California is to occupy the territory between the forty-second and thirty-fifth parallels; Colorado is to exist roughly between the mouth of the Pajaro River and the Sierra Nevadas, extending south to Mexico; Shasta is to be comprised of the remaining territory. The purpose of the proposed division was twofold: it would be far easier to collect revenue from California’s booming population if the territory had three separate administrative governments; and secondly, California’s tremendous coastline was represented in Congress by only two senators, in contrast to the ten senators representing the eastern coastal states. The authors do raise the serious issue of whether or not slavery will be permitted in the new states. It is their contention that only the middle state would profit from the institution, its economy most likely based entirely on agriculture, and they reject the argument that the issue is critical to the balance between North and South. They maintain that balance is destroyed already, and that the fabric of the Union is held together only by the failing patriotism of its citizens. Not in Greenwood. Quite scarce, with OCLC locating only six copies. OCLC 11847469, 21618433. $850.

With Many Superb Views of Scenes and Places

35. [California]: HISTORY OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY, CALIFOR- NIA. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS DESCRIPTIVE OF ITS SCEN- ERY, RESIDENCES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, FINE BLOCKS, AND MANUFACTORIES. Oakland: Thompson & West, 1880. 294pp. plus two colored maps (one folding) and 216 lithographic plates (several with more than one illustration, eight of them double-page). Oblong quarto. Original half sheep and cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, spine stamped in gilt. Spine and hinges rubbed and scuffed, boards moderately worn at edges. Long closed tear in folding map and one text leaf, else internally very clean and fresh and in near pristine condition.

A magnificently illustrated comprehensive history and description of Sacramento. While the text provides a history of the city from its settlement to the date of publication, the illustrations provide excellent views of numerous key buildings. Included are the state capitol, courthouses, the Sacramento Brewery, the Arcade Hotel, the offices of the Sacramento Bee and other newspapers, the Sacramento Seminary, cattle ranches, farms, lumber yards, merchants, mills, Breuner’s furniture shop, the county hospital, and much more. Homes of several prominent citizens are shown, including Mrs. E.B. Crocker’s mansion (her main residence as well as a smaller – yet still grand – home a block away), the opulent home of Albert Galla- tin, and the ranch of cattle baron Frederick Cox. Scores of more modest homes in the city and country are shown as well, including the residences of several farmers and ranchers in what was once open countryside but is now part of Sacramento’s suburban sprawl. One map is of California and surrounding states, while the folding map shows Sacramento County. An exhaustive effort, designed to attract additional residents and businesses to California’s booming capital, and providing an unequalled visual record of Sacramento in the late 19th century. COWAN, p.548. HOWES S9, “b.” ROCQ 6512. NORRIS CATALOGUE 3351. $3000.

36. [California]: Harvey, William: FRESNO COUNTY, CAL. FARMS OF 20 OR 40 ACRES, FOR SALE IN SOUTH WASHINGTON COLONY. IMPROVED OR UNIMPROVED LAND IN LARGE OR SMALL TRACTS, A SPECIALTY. Fresno, Ca.: William Harvey, [1890]. Tinted map, 32¼ x 23¼ inches. Text on verso. Minor edge wear. Some small neat splits at cross-folds, five-inch closed separation along one fold, with no loss. Very good.

An elaborate and handsome map and promotional for agricultural land in Fresno, California. The map was lithographed by the notable San Francisco firm of H.S. Crocker & Company. The map shows several “colonies” or “tracts” in a wide area of Fresno, and what is most notable about it is the small amount of land still available for sale. Most of the lots shown had been sold, and the owners’ names are identified. Real estate agent William Harvey, however, still had thirty-two lots available in the South Washington Colony, with terms as follow: “sold in 20-acre tracts, all the ditches constructed by the owner, conveying water to the highest point in every 20-acre lot; price $100 per acre. Terms one-fourth cash; balance any time within four years, with interest at the rate of 8 per cent.” The lower portion of the map is taken up with advertisements for a variety of local businesses, including banks and agricultural concerns. The verso of the map contains text in six columns headlined “Fresno, Raisin District of California!” and is a lengthy promotional for the lands and their excellent properties for planting vineyards and engaging in raisin production. OCLC locates three copies: at California State University, Fresno; the Bancroft Library; and Yale. A scarce California map and agricultural promotional OCLC 24032427, 58875969. $1250. Sonoma County Mortgages

37. [California]: [PRINTED LEDGER, COMPLETED IN MANU- SCRIPT, CONTAINING MORTGAGES FOR SONOMA COUN- TY, CALIFORNIA]. Santa Rosa, Ca. 1894-1895. 640pp. Large folio. Leather ledger with suede inlays, spine gilt. Light wear to binding. Internally clean. Very good plus.

This massive ledger records all mortgage agreements between individuals and some banks for parcels of land in Sonoma County for a six-month period in 1894-95. It offers a fascinating and significant description of the heart of the California wine country and its denizens. The locations of the plots are described in great detail, along with the grantors and grantees, the amounts paid, interest, and other terms. All amounts are specified as being paid in gold coin. Two county officials have affixed their names to the records; the volume begins with Gil P. Hall signing as County Recorder, but he is replaced by A.J. Atchinson in January of 1895. A highly detailed source for information on land dealings in Sonoma County at the turn of the century. $2250.

38. [California]: DIRECTORY OF PALO ALTO MAYFIELD MEN- LO PARK THE CAMPUS. Palo Alto, Ca.: The Times Publishing Com- pany, 1904. 147pp. plus double-page map. 12mo. Original printed green wrappers. Wrappers a bit worn and soiled, internally clean. Very good.

Rare directory for the Palo Alto area, including the town of Mayfield, which was incorporated into Palo Alto in the 1920s. “The Campus” is Stanford University, which was founded twenty years earlier and had grown to such an extent that it comprises thirty pages of this directory. The double-page map is of Palo Alto, and there is a single-page map of Mayfield. The text is supplemented by advertisements. No copies are located on OCLC. Rocq locates only two copies, at the California State Library and the Palo Alto City Library. Rare. ROCQ 13747. $750.

An Incunable of Western Cattle Brands

39. [California Cattle Brands]: [MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT RE- CORDING THE HIDES AND TALLOW RECEIVED BY CALI- FORNIA PIONEER AND PROMINENT MERCHANT, WIL- LIAM HEATH DAVIS, AND RECORDING THE BRANDS ON THE HIDES]. Yerba Buena [i.e. San Francisco]. Sept. 21, 1846. Manuscript text and brand marks on a sheet of paper, 7 x 8½ inches. Old folds. Near fine. In a half morocco clamshell case.

A very early example of California cattle brands, the earliest trans-Mississippi brand record that we have ever encountered. The document is headlined: “Inspected the following hides & tallow for Mr. William Heath Davis with the vent marks.” William Heath Davis (1822-1909) was born in Hawaii and settled in California, working first for his merchant uncle and then developing businesses for himself. He became a wealthy merchant, ship owner, and rancher, and was also an early settler of San Diego. The present document records the inspection of fifty-one hides and five bags of tallow belonging to Davis. In his memoirs Davis describes the process by which merchants received animal hides and tallow (the tallow being used for candles and soap) from ranchers in exchange for payment for goods. He also describes how merchants would race to collect their debt first, before the other creditors came to the ranchers seeking payment. It is likely that the present document was produced at an instance when Davis received a large payment of hides and tallow, which needed to be inspected for quality, quantity, and provenance. Significantly, the document reproduces the seven vent marks used on the hides. A vent mark was used by cattlemen to visibly quit their claim to branded cattle, usually by altering the existing brand, which by its nature could not be erased. Also inspected were five bags of tallow, and the four marks used on those bags are also recorded. The document is dated September 21, 1846, and is signed by E. Ward Pell, “Inspector General.” An early example of California cattle brands, and an interesting document illustrating the business operations of the important merchant, William Heath Davis. William Heath Davis, Seventy-five Years in California, pp.246-47 and passim. $5000.

The Laws of the Diggings

40. [California Gold Rush]: COLUMBIA MINING LAWS [caption title]. [Columbia, Ca.: Gazette Print, 1853]. Broadside, 10¾ x 8 inches, printed in three columns. A bit of light foxing, mostly in the margins. Near fine. In a folding cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

A rare broadside printing of the laws of the Columbia Mining District in Cali- fornia in 1853, created and enforced by the miners for their own self-government. The seventeen articles all deal with regulations for mining and claims. The first nine set out rules for making and operating claims. The next three address foreign ownership of claims. Article 10: “None but Americans and Europeans who have or shall declare their intentions of becoming citizens, shall hold claims in this district....” Article 11: “Neither Asiatics nor South Sea Islanders shall be allowed to mine in this district, either for themselves or for others.” Article 12 sets out a punishment for any miner who sells a claim to an Asian or Polynesian. The final five articles set out rules for enforcing the laws, including the creation of a Miners Committee, and a system of binding arbitration. According to the text, the laws were adopted “at a meeting of the Miners of the Columbia Mining District, held Oct. 1st, 1853...,” and the laws are signed in print by “C.H. Chamberlain, Pres.” and “R.A. Robinson, Sec’y.” “The item is of basic importance...as an example of how the California miners – or men beyond the reach of government anywhere else in our States and Territories, for that matter – banded together and enacted and enforced codes of law for their own protection” – Eberstadt. The Columbia Gazette (which printed this broadside) was, according to Kemble, the second newspaper to operate in Columbia, starting operations in the fall of 1852. The first newspaper in the area, the Columbia Star, apparently printed only two or three issues in October-November of 1851, before the printing press was destroyed by vandals. Greenwood locates only three copies, at the California Historical Society, the Bancroft Library, and the Streeter copy, which was sold at the Clifford sale in 1994. Rocq lists a copy at the Huntington Library. OCLC adds copies at Yale, Library of Congress, University of California at San Diego, Stanford, and DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University. A rare and interesting example of the search for order in the tumult of the Gold Rush. GREENWOOD 381. ROCQ 15427. EBERSTADT 131:105. STREETER SALE 2735. CLIFFORD SALE 26. OCLC 29876358. $6500.

Vallejo Grants Amnesty in California, 1837

41. [California Imprint]: Vallejo, Mariano G.: PROCLAMA. MARIANO G. VALLEJO COMMANDANTE GENERAL DE LA ALTA CALI- FORNIA, A SUS HABITANTES.... Monterey [Ca.]: Imprenta del Su- premo Gobierno del Estado a cargo del C. Santiago Aguilar, Feb. 24, 1837. Broadside, 12¼ x 8¼ inches. Contemporary manuscript notation of date in upper margin, as well as a note in red pencil. Old folds. Near fine. In a cloth chemise and cloth slipcase, gilt leather label.

The Thomas W. Streeter copy, with his pencil notes in the upper margin. A tremendously important broadside from the first printing press established in California. Printing began in California in 1834, when Augustin Zamorano brought his press to Monterey. This item was printed by his successor, Santiago Aguilar, but was produced on that first press. In 1836, Juan Alvarado and his “Californio” cohorts, including Alvarado’s uncle, Mariano Vallejo, staged a successful revolt against the centralized authority of the Mexican state. Zamorano, in fact, lost his position as official printer in the wake of this revolution, when he was forced into exile by Alvarado. Vallejo was named the military commander of California, and Alvarado the governor. This broadside was issued while Alvarado was quelling an uprising against his rule in southern California, and addresses fears of a civil war and recriminations against those who did not support the new regime. Vallejo reviews the reasons and objectives of the revolution, and denies any intention on the part of the new government to deport or mistreat any non-Californio Mexicans, promising to protect lives and property. He also reiterates that California is a free and independent state. The provenance of this copy is not recorded in the catalogue of the Streeter sale, but he bought many of his early California imprints from Henry Wagner and from Edwin Grabhorn. Howell bought this copy at the Streeter sale in 1968 for $1200, and asked $2500 for it in his catalogue 50 in 1979. We are able to locate only three other copies, at Yale, the Bancroft Library, and the Huntington Library. Examples of early California printing from the Zamorano Press are much sought after and prized by collectors and institutions alike. The significant political content of the present broadside makes it highly important and desirable. STREETER SALE 2485 (this copy). HOWELL 50:238 (this copy). COWAN, SPANISH PRESS, p.22. GREENWOOD 39. FAHEY 39. HARDING 39. $20,000. Complete Run of California Statutes

42. [California Laws]: THE STATUTES OF CALIFORNIA.... [New York], San Francisco & Sacramento. 1850-1866. Sixteen volumes. Contempo- rary legal sheep, leather labels. Some volumes with tender or almost detached hinges. Contemporary and later ownership inscriptions, including those of Walter Norris of Salinas, Lucas F. Smith of Santa Cruz, Victor L. Hicks, Wright & Wright of San Francisco, and Fred V. Wood of Oakland. Overall a very good set.

A complete run of the first editions of the statutes of California during her forma- tive years. As the third and fourth volumes are very rare, it is extremely difficult to find a consecutive run of these early laws. At this early stage of California legal printing, any given state printer was not kept for long. Those represented herein are as follow: J. Winchester (first volume); Eugene Casserly, State Printer (second volume); G.K. Fitch & V.E. Geiger, Co., State Printers (third volume); George Kerr, State Printer (fourth volume); B.B. Redding, State Printers (fifth and sixth volumes); James Allen, State Printer (seventh and eighth volumes); James O’Meara, State Printer (ninth and tenth volumes); Charles T. Botts, State Printer (eleventh and twelfth volumes); Benj. P. Avery, State Printer (thirteenth and fourteenth volumes); O.M. Clayes, State Printer (fifteenth and sixteenth volumes). There is an interesting note to the printing history of the statutes. According to Wagner, the Governor refused to acknowledge Casserly as state printer at the end of the 1851 session and instead appointed G.K. Fitch to the position. Fitch turned over all state printing copy to be done in New York. Casserly brought the matter to court and won back his position as state printer, whereupon the already printed statutes were sold to him in a compromise agreement. Casserly then proceeded to have new titlepages added to the statutes that had been printed in New York, and added errata slips and an index. All subsequent laws were printed in California. COWAN, p.610 (ref ). GREENWOOD 167 (ref ). WAGNER, CALIFORNIA IM- PRINTS 147, 149, 150 (ref ). $3000.

A Significant Archive of the Work of a Major California Construction Firm in Northern California, 1918-1930

43. [California Photographica]: [MacDonald & Kahn, Builders]: [LARGE ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS SHOWING THE BUILDING OF TWENTY-NINE CONSTRUC- TION PROJECTS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, INCLUDING THE MARK HOPKINS HOTEL, TEMPLE EMANU-EL IN SAN FRANCISCO, I. MAGNIN DEPARTMENT STORE, FOX AND LOEWS THEATERS, THE E.F. HUTTON BUILDING, AND OAKLAND SHIPYARDS; ALL OF THE PROJECTS BUILT BY THE CONTRACTING FIRM OF MacDONALD & KAHN]. [Sev- eral places in Northern California, including San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Emeryville, Fresno, Sacramento, and Stockton. 1918-1930]. 406 original photographic prints, 7¾ x 9½ inches on average. Most prints mounted on linen, many with the ink stamp of the photographic firm on the verso. Plus an additional group of eighty-seven original photographic prints, 7¾ x 9½ inches or smaller, showing miscellaneous projects and buildings. Some prints with some light wear or creasing, a few with edge wear and fraying of the linen mounts. A small number are stained in the image. On the whole, in very good condition.

A remarkable collection of original photographic prints showing the progress of construction of more than two dozen projects in the greater San Francisco Bay Area in the 1920s. Among the notable buildings whose construction is documented herein are the famed Mark Hopkins Hotel on San Francisco’s Nob Hill, the Temple Emanu-el (one of the two oldest Jewish congregations in San Francisco), various shipyard projects in the Port of Oakland, an I. Magnin Department Store, a notable Art Deco movie palace, factories, the E. F. Hutton headquarters, small Woolworth stores, Masonic and Scottish Rite temples, and much more. The collection gives a vast amount of visual information on construction in the Bay Area in the 1920s. The photographs also showcase the designs of a number of notable California architects. The photographs show the construction of the buildings over time through a series of images, usually spaced between a week or two weeks apart. As such, they are reminiscent of Eadweard Muybridge’s series of pictures of the United States Mint in San Francisco under construction in the early 1870s, which were among the first to utilize photography to document a construction project. A few of the projects are represented by only a handful of images, but on average the span of time covers several months and shows the project from start to finish. The series on Congregation Emanu-el, for example, consists of twenty photographs showing the building of the Temple over eighteen months. Oakland’s Fox Theater, which took a year to build, is shown in sixty photographs, many of them detailing the plaster work done on the Art Deco interior. The shipyard construction photographs are also quite detailed, giving a vivid understanding of the complex infrastructure required by the projects. Interestingly, no projects are noted as having been begun after the fall of 1929, likely a reflection of the effect of the great stock market crash of October 1929. These photographs were commissioned by the California contracting firm of MacDonald & Kahn, who are listed as the builders on each project. MacDonald & Kahn was a very active construction firm in California and the West in the early 20th century, building projects in northern and southern California, and participating in the construction consortium that built the Hoover Dam. They were prolific not only in commercial construction but also in public works. Along with the Hoover Dam, they worked on the Oakland Shipyards (included in this archive) and on the Fourth Street Viaduct project in Los Angeles. The images were taken by a variety of photographers in the Bay Area and Cen- tral Valley, and would have been used by the contractors to document the progress of each project over time. Most of the prints are backed by linen, many with the name of the photographic firm that took the images stamped on the verso. Most of the linen backings also contain a stub at the left edge or top of the print (de- pending on its orientation, landscape or portrait style), indicating that these prints were originally meant to be housed in binders of some sort. Information on the name of the project, the architect and builders, and the date of the photograph have been noted in a corner of the print itself. The photographs are often dated at one or two week intervals, showing the ebb and flow of construction over time. The earliest MacDonald & Kahn project represented here is the California Associated Raisin Company in Fresno, built in 1918. The latest are rather modest buildings done in the winter of 1929-30. The twenty-eight separate projects are as follow:

1) Athens Athletic Club. Seventeen photographic prints. William Knowles was the architect on this project, built by MacDonald & Kahn. The location of the building was 12th and Clay Streets in Oakland. The photographer was Ford E. Samuel of Oakland, and the prints are dated from July 15, 1924 to June 15, 1925. The latest pictures show the building still under construction, with scaf- folding on one side of the exterior, the first floor unfinished, and the building site surrounded by construction materials. 2) Boulevard Theatre. Three photographic prints. This building, at San Bruno and Burrows in San Francisco, was designed by Reid Brothers. R.J. Waters and Co. of San Francisco took the photographs, which show the theatre in the early stages of construction, dated January 30 to February 13, 1927. The first photograph shows the lot as it was dug out, and the final two photographs show the steel structure of the building, the steel provided by Schrader Iron Works of San Francisco. The small MacDonald & Kahn site headquarters is shown in two of the prints. 3) Butler Brothers Building. Thirteen photographic prints. Located in San Francisco, the Butler Brothers building was designed by Bliss & Fairweather. The images are dated from November 16, 1927 to May 18, 1928. The final two photographs show the six-story building from two different angles. 4) California Associated Raisin Company. Forty photographic prints. The prints are dated between March 15 and October 25, 1918 and were taken by the Laval photographic firm (later called Laval and Ninnis) of Fresno. One of the prints is by Gabriel Moulin of San Francisco, and shows the architect’s rendering of the proposed plant, which was built in Fresno. The plan shows an ambitious multi- building complex, only one building of which was built. No architect is stated. 5) California Packing Corporation. Eleven photographic prints, measuring 7 x 17 inches on average. The prints are dated from October 11, 1924 to March 9, 1925. These large-scale, almost panoramic photographs show the construction of the California Packing Corporation’s Plant Number 11 in Sacramento. No architect is stated, but the Chief Engineer was Philip Bush. The photographs were taken by the Hodson photographic firm. 6) Capital Theatre. Thirty-five photographic prints. The prints date from December 29, 1927 to January 28, 1929 and document in detail the construction of this large theater. The building was designed by Thomas W. Lamb and built by MacDonald & Kahn. The Waters Company of San Francisco documented the construction in a series of at least thirty-eight photographs, of which thirty-five are present here. 7) Concrete Shipyard, Oakland. Twenty-five photographic prints. Dated from June 27 to November 26, 1918, the photographs were taken by Mollers of Oakland. No architect or engineer is identified. Many of the photographs contain brief descriptive information in the print. The earliest photographs show the grading of the construction site and views of the shoreline. This was a massive construction project, and the photographs contain several interior views showing the huge shell of the building as well as the cafeteria, latrines, etc. 8) Congregation Emanu-el Temple. Twenty photographic prints. Dated from August 19, 1924 to February 23, 1926, all but one of the photographs were taken by the Schoenfeld Studio of San Francisco. The temple was designed by architect Sylvian Schnaittacher, who was instrumental in designing many prominent buildings that went up in the years following the 1906 earthquake and fires. The temple is still in use in Presidio Heights, housing one of the two oldest Jewish congregations in California. 9) Continental Baking Company. Nine photographic prints. The prints are dated from July 29, 1929 (showing much of the structure of the building already up) to an image of the completed building, dated October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday, the date of the Wall Street crash). Bliss and Fairweather were the architects, and Waters Company took the photographs. 10) Financial Center Building. Two photographic prints. The two prints are dated April 28, 1926 (showing the beginning of construction) and September 30, 1926 (the nearly completed building). The building, more than ten stories high, was advertised as being ready for occupancy on February 1, 1927. Fred Myers was the architect, and the photographs are by R.J. Waters & Co. 11) Fox Theater. Sixty-four photographic prints. The photographs are dated from April 26, 1922 to April 12, 1923, and were taken by the Western Photo Company of Oakland. They show, in intricate detail, the year-long construction of this classic Art Deco theater in Oakland. The photographs show the interior and exterior work, including several images of the plaster being applied to the interior. This was the original Fox Theater in Oakland, located on Broadway and with more than 2500 seats. It was demolished in the 1960s. The architect is not identified. 12) Addition to Hale Brothers. Ten photographic prints. The images are dated April 16, 1923 to October 7, 1926, and were taken by R.J. Waters & Co. George Taylor de Colmesnil was the architect. The final image is undated and shows the main building of this popular San Francisco department store. 13) Mann Apartments. Eight photographic prints. Dated August 19 to December 23, 1922, the photographs are by R.J. Waters & Co. The architect is not identified. 14) Hutton Building. Nine photographic prints. These prints, taken by R.J. Waters & Co., show the construction of the San Francisco office of E.F. Hutton & Company, and are dated November 12, 1921 to April 1, 1922. Founded in San Francisco in 1904, E.F. Hutton was an important stock brokerage firm. Its original building was destroyed in 1906; this building is a stately, three-story Neoclassical structure. 15) I. Magnin & Co. Building. Eleven photographic prints. The prints were taken by Waters Company, and show the construction of the I. Magnin store beside the Union Trust Company building at the foot of Grant Avenue, near Market and O’Farrell. The images are dated April 17 to July 5, 1929. Bliss and Fairweather were the architects. 16) Kahn’s Department Store. Five photographic prints. Dated April 2 to June 23, 1923, the photographs show the beginning stages of the projected six-story addition to Oakland’s largest department store. MacDonald & Kahn were the builders, and the photographs were taken by Western Photo and by C.L. Huntington. 17) Kroehler Manufacturing Company. Eleven photographic prints. The prints are dated September 3, 1926 to February 11, 1927. The building for the furniture manufacturer, designed by L.H. Nishkian, was located in the outskirts of San Francisco. R.J. Waters & Company took the photographs. 18) Loew State Theater. Seven photographic prints plus two related images. The images are dated September 27, 1920 to August 19, 1921. This theater is the only building in this grouping built in Los Angeles. A comment on the final image notes that the building was completed in nine months and seven days at a cost of $2.5 million. Reid Brothers were the architects. An additional image shows the Loew’s Warfield Theater under construction, and another shows an architect’s rendering of the Loew Union Square. 19) Financial Center Building. Five photographic prints. The images are dated May 1, 1929 to June 6, 1930, and the photographer is unidentified. A comparatively small, single-story project, built by MacDonald & Kahn and identified only as the “Financial Center Building” in San Francisco. 20) Mark Hopkins Hotel. Eleven photographic prints. This series of photographs shows the construction of one of the most iconic buildings in San Francisco, the opulent Mark Hopkins Hotel on the top of Nob Hill. The building was designed by Charles Peter Weeks and William Peyton Day. The Schoenfeld Studio took the photographs, which are dated from March 16, 1926 (showing the steel beams of the structure already up) to an image of the completed building dated November 8, 1926. Signs placed around the construction site note that it was financed by Straus Bonds. 21) Masonic Temple. Twenty-one photographic prints. The photographs show the construction of this Masonic Temple in Stockton, California, and are dated from August 22, 1921 to May 1, 1922. Several of the images, taken by V. Covert Martin of Stockton, show the interior of the building, including meeting rooms and the auditorium. The architect was Carl Werner. 22) Pacific Station. Thirty-two photographic prints. The photographs were taken by R.J. Waters & Co., and show construction on the building from October 14, 1924 to March 10, 1925, by which time it had been completed. Bliss & Faville were the architects. 23) Port of Oakland. Four photographic prints (one of them double-sheet). The photographs, taken by the Waters Company, show work done at the Port of Oakland by MacDonald & Kahn in the Spring of 1929. The double-sheet print shows a large two-story building in an advanced state of construction. 24) Thomas Dyeing & Cleaning. Five photographic prints. The photographs, by the Waters Company, show work done by MacDonald & Kahn on this four-story San Francisco building from January 30 to March 31, 1930. The architect was F.W. Dakin. 25) Scottish Rite Temple. Five photographic prints. The photographs date from October 17, 1926 to August 17, 1927, with a final photograph showing the completed building, dated on the verso January 9, 1928. R.J. Waters & Co. took the construction photographs, and Carl Werner was the architect. 26) Western Electric. Thirteen photographic prints. The photographs show the construction of the Western Electric Company building in Emeryville, from March 26 to August 31, 1929. The architect is not identified. The photographs were taken by Waters Company. The final photograph shows a construction site very much in work. 27) Woolworth Company. Five photographic prints. The five pictures show the construction of a modest Woolworth’s 5, 10, and 15 cent store in San Jose. The pictures, by George Jacob Kinze, date from August 12 to October 9, 1826. The final picture shows what appears to be a MacDonald & Kahn company truck being loaded with debris from the construction site. 28) Woolworth Company. Two photographic prints. These two pictures, dated April 18 and April 29, 1925, show the early stages of construction of a Woolworth’s store in Stockton. The Logan Studio of Stockton took the photographs. 29) Lester Building. Three photographic prints. These pictures show three stages in the early construction of a building identified only as “Lester.” A.J. Maclure was the architect, and construction began around April 1926. The final picture is dated May 12 and was taken by R.J. Waters & Company. Portfolio of Additional Architectural and Construction Photographs. An additional group of some eighty-five original photographs, 7¾ x 9½ inches or smaller. A number of the photographs show completed structures built by MacDonald & Kahn, while others were likely part of a photographic reference file used by the firm in its work.

An outstanding collection of original photographic prints, showing the course of construction of more than two dozen projects and buildings in Northern California in the 1920s, including the Mark Hopkins Hotel, the Oakland Shipyards, Art Deco movie houses, financial institutions, and much more. $22,500.

With Numerous Mining Scenes and a Letter

44. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: LIFE AMONG THE MIN- ERS. No. 2. San Francisco: Published by Hutchings & Rosenfeld, [nd, ca. 1858]. Double-sheet pictorial letter sheet, 16¾ x 10½ inches, on blue ruled paper. With thirteen pictorial vignettes. [with, written on the verso:] Porter, E.L.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM E.L. PORTER AT DEVILLS HILL MINING CAMP, TO A RELATION BACK HOME]. Devills Hill [Ca.]. Sept. 3, 1859. [2]pp. autograph letter. Edge wear. Minor splits at a few cross-folds, some stains. In good condition.

A scarce and attractive California pictorial letter sheet, crowned with a lovely scene of a mining camp in the mountains, and containing an autograph letter home from a miner on the verso. This large letter sheet is in an uncommon double-sheet format, and features an engraving of a mining camp in the mountains, measuring 2¾ x 7½ inches, at the top. The rest of the sheet is taken up by a dozen smaller engraved vignettes, with a few lines of poetry describing each, illustrating the miner’s daily life. Included are illustrations of a log cabin, miners at work, washing their clothes, recovering from illness, cooking, gambling, weighing out their gold, receiving letters from home, and strolling the streets of the city in their finery. James Mason Hutchings, the publisher of this letter sheet, was the major early promoter of Yosemite, editor and publisher of Hutchings’ Illustrated California Magazine, and an active publisher of pictorial letter sheets. He often used the same illustrations in a variety of media. The sheet was printed by S.H. Wade at 151 Clay Street. E.L. Porter’s letter, written on the verso of this sheet, is addressed to “Com- modore J.B. Porter Esq.” (apparently his brother) back home. Porter notes that he had previously sent to “Major General Captain Esquire Franklin Porter” a letter “on a sheet that told all about the way the Californians mined out the chunks,” indicating that he sent home a letter sheet with scenes of mining. On this pictorial letter sheet he writes, “now as you survy [sic] how that is done I send the description of the gold mining opparations [sic] so you can have an idea of how we live and how we fare.” Baird locates a total of only six copies of this engaging and attractive California pictorial letter sheet. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 131. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 138. KRUSKA, JAMES MASON HUTCHINGS 38. $2500.

45. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: LA PORTE, SIERRA COUNTY. (STREET VIEW.) [caption title]. La Porte, Ca.: Published by J.C. Lester, Bookseller, etc., [ca. 1858]. Pictorial letter sheet, 9¾ x 7¾ inches, on ruled white paper. Wood engraved illustration, 3¾ x 5 inches. A slight bit of edge wear, else fine.

A scarce California pictorial letter sheet, giving a view of the mining town of La Porte. The view shows the town’s main street, and several businesses are identified, including Everts, Wilson & Co. banking house; Lee & Ned’s Pioneer Livery Stable; the Hotel de France; and the Union Hotel. A number of men, women, and children are shown in the street, along with a miner carrying a pickaxe. The view of the town, which carries an “AE” monogram, is attributed to artist Alex- ander Edouart, son of silhouettist Auguste Edouart. La Porte is located near the north bank of Rabbit Creek (after which it had formerly been named), on a ridge between the Yuba and Feather rivers, at an altitude of 4500 feet. Mining began in La Porte around 1850 and continued throughout the decade. A printed description and history of the town surrounds the image, the two occupying the upper half of the whole sheet. Baird locates a total of only four copies of this view of La Porte. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 129. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 136. $1750.

A Letter from the Overland Trail in 1849

46. [California Trail in 1849]: Snyder, Fred: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM EMIGRANT FRED SNYDER TO HIS BROTH- ER, JOHN, WHILE EN ROUTE ON THE OREGON TRAIL]. Near Fort Kearny, Ne. May 9, 1849. [1]p. plus integral address leaf, addressed on verso. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Moderate soiling and dampstaining, primarily to second leaf. Small paper loss to a few folds, affecting a few words of text. Still, quite legible. Good.

Written from the banks of the Platte River in Nebraska, this letter typifies correspondence sent home from the Oregon Trail, reporting on game, grass, Indian encounters, and deaths on the Trail. Given the date and the destination, it is possible that Fred Snyder was a Forty-Niner, headed West to the California gold fields. He writes:

I have just time to inform you that we have travelled about 310 miles from St. Joseph and 800 from St. Louis and are now encamped upon the Platte River between Fort Kearney and Fort Laramie. We are now within 16 days travel from the latter fort. Game is abundant but the grass is poor. I shall take every opportunity to write to you, but I have not heard a word from home since I left nor do I expect to until my arrival in California. Do not forget to direct letters for me to San Francisco by the way of Chagres & Panama. We meet Indians every day and are now in the Paunee country. By tomorrow we shall be among the Sioux. Nicholas Boismenue of Cahokia accidentally shot himself a few days ago and died immediately. He was buried on the Big Blue River. Regards to all.

Until the Panama railway was completed in 1855, Chagres, Panama was the main port of call for travelers who took the sea voyage to California, landing at Chagres and then traversing the Isthmus before boarding a vessel on the other side. A good letter, illustrative of the emigrant experience on the Oregon Trail. $1750.

47. Cassin, John: ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BIRDS OF CALIFOR- NIA, TEXAS, OREGON, BRITISH AND RUSSIAN AMERICA. INTENDED TO CONTAIN DESCRIPTIONS AND FIGURES OF ALL NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS NOT GIVEN BY FOR- MER AMERICAN AUTHORS, AND A GENERAL SYNOPSIS OF NORTH AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. Philadelphia: J.B. Lip- pincott & Co., 1862. Fifty handcolored lithographs, printed by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia (eighteen after George G. White, thirty-two drawn on stone by William E. Hitchcock). Contemporary half green morocco over marbled paper covered boards, by E. Rau, gilt spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Very good.

Cassin’s additions to Audubon: an important American color plate and ornithological work. Cassin intended his work to supplement that of Audubon. He had originally suggested to Audubon’s sons a plan for extending the octavo edition of Audubon’s The Birds of America, but difficulty concerning credit on the titlepage sank the scheme, and Cassin proceeded with his own publication. Cassin used the same lithographer as the Audubons, J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia, to produce the beautiful plates of American birds, consisting entirely of western species that Audubon had never observed. Cassin was a trained scientist as well as careful artist and observer, and his work took American ornithology to a new level of technical competence, becoming the first American bird book to utilize trinomial nomenclature. The present copy is the second edition, after the first of 1853-56, with the same content. ANKER 92. ZIMMER, p.124. LADA-MOCARSKI 144. COWAN, p.110. NISSEN BIRDS 173. FINE BIRD BOOKS 64. BENNETT, p.21. $7500.

First Edition of Catlin’s Classic

48. Catlin, George: LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.... London. 1841. Two volumes. viii,264; viii,266pp. plus errata slip and hundreds of plates and maps. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines elaborately gilt, gilt leather labels. Rubbed at extremities, hinges neatly repaired. Bookplate on front pastedown. Some scattered foxing. Very good.

The first edition of Catlin’s famous book, one of the most important works on American Indians published in the 19th century. Besides the description of his travels throughout the West, the book contains hundreds of line drawings of southern and western Indians, as well as two significant maps showing the locations of Indian tribes. Catlin first went west in 1830, travelling extensively for the next six years accumulating his “Indian Gallery.” Letters and Notes... was published when he brought the exhibition to London. WAGNER-CAMP 84:1. HOWES C241. STREETER SALE 1805. WHEAT TRANS- MISSISSIPPI 453, 454, 455. CLARK III:141. $6000.

Catlin’s Final Work

49. Catlin, George: O-KEE-PA: A RELIGIOUS CEREMONY; AND OTHER CUSTOMS OF THE MANDANS. Philadelphia: J.B. Lip- pincott, 1867. vii,52pp. including half title, plus thirteen full-page color plates depicting the Mandan Torture Ceremony. Half title. Quarto. Modern half morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Original fly leaf and half title chipped at upper corner (no loss). Text lightly tanned, plates clean. A very good copy.

First American edition, actually the same sheets and printing as the London edition of the same year, but with a cancel titlepage. Catlin spent some fourteen years among the various North American Indian tribes and left the most authentic anthropo- logical record of an already vanishing people. He wrote O-Kee-Pa... in response to an article appearing in an 1866 issue of Truebner’s monthly catalogue. The article attributed to Catlin the authorship of an “indescribably lascivious pamphlet” on the secret customs of the Mandans (see Sabin 11528). O-Kee-Pa... is as much a defense of Catlin as of the Mandans, a tribe who were mostly found on the west side of the Missouri River, most of whom were destroyed by a smallpox epidemic in 1837. Catlin states in his preface that of all the numerous customs which he had recorded, nothing was so peculiar and surprising as the O-kee-pa ceremony of the Mandans. The curious rite of O-kee-pa is shown in “horrible fidelity” (Field) in the thirteen outstanding color plates. BENNETT, p.22. FIELD 262. HOWES C244, “b.” SABIN 11543. McCRACKEN, CATLIN, pp.101-8, 25A&B. $14,000.

50. Chambers, Thomas J.: DOCUMENTS CONNECTED WITH THE LATE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN GEN. T.J. CHAMBERS OF TEXAS, AND MESSERS. WILSON & POSTLETHWAITE OF KENTUCKY. Louisville: Prentice & Weissinger, Printers, 1836 27pp. Later light blue wrappers. Very minor foxing. Very good. In a half red leather slipcase with chemise.

Prior to the Texas Revolution, Chambers was a noted land speculator and held numerous high positions in the government of Coahuila and Texas. In 1829 he was appointed surveyor general. The winds of war brought Chambers into an active part in the Texas cause, using his lands for security to raise men and arms in the United States. These activities would bring him into controversy with President David Burnet, Wilson, and Postlethwaite. Edward Wilson and G.I. Postlethwaite of Kentucky were in command of three hundred men recruited by a subordinate of General Thomas J. Chambers. The boys missed the Battle of San Jacinto by three months. They returned to Kentucky after finding conditions were quite different in Texas. They wrote scathing remarks about Chambers, Texas, and Texans in the Lexington Gazette, and even accused President David Burnet of insulting treatment, and remarked on the “deceitful and hypocritical allurements” of the Texas land speculators. The pamphlet presents the charges and the reply. There was thought of a duel which did not occur. A very important work published during the early days of the Republic of Texas, including numerous letters and other important documents. STREETER TEXAS 1184. $4250.

Pueblo Indian Pottery

51. Chapman, Kenneth M.: [Szwedzicki, C., publisher]: PUEBLO IN- DIAN POTTERY. Nice, France. 1933. 22pp. plus fifty photo-lithographic plates, colored by hand, on separate sheets. Folio. Text stitched and plates unbound as issued, contained within original publisher’s cloth portfolio, upper cover with mounted plate and ties. Slight wear to extremities. Original tissue guards intact. Titles and first pages of introductions printed in red and black, half-titles, parallel text in English and French. Very good.

Limited edition of 750 copies signed by the publisher. A rare part set of Chap- man’s survey of Pueblo Indian pottery, an art which was an integral part of a “native culture, unique among the patterns of the American Indian, [which] had its inception, and had reached its maturity, in the heart of the great southwestern area of the United States” (Introduction). This work is much scarcer than the same publisher’s portfolio of Sioux Indian paintings which was issued several years later. The text gives a general introduction to the ceramic art of the Pueblo Indians of the southwestern United States, then concentrates on an overview of the pottery produced in the pueblos of Taos and Picuris, San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Cochiti, Santa Domingo and Santa Ana. This is followed by descriptions of the specific examples of the pottery shown in the plates. Szwedzicki also produced portfolios of Kiowa Indian art and Pueblo art, all published in the south of France in the 1930s. $3000.

Voyage to California in 1769

52. Chappe D’Auteroche, Jean: A VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA, TO OBSERVE THE TRANSIT OF VENUS...ALSO, A VOYAGE TO NEWFOUNDLAND AND SALLEE, TO MAKE EXPERIMENTS ON MR. LE ROY’S TIMEKEEPERS.... London. 1778. [8],215pp. (final page misnumbered 315), plus folding frontispiece plan of Mexico City. Half title. Contemporary speckled calf, ruled in gilt, expertly rebacked in match- ing style, gilt morocco label. Boards edgeworn, bookplate on front pastedown. Small, faint blindstamp on titlepage. Internally quite clean and neat. About very good.

The first English edition, translated from the French of 1772, and adding the account of the Newfoundland voyage. Considerable interest was taken in observing the 1769 transit of Venus, an important event for determining absolute measure- ments of, among other things, the distance from the earth to the sun. Streeter calls this “a thrilling account of a race against time to reach lower California before the transit of Venus occurred.” The party crossed Mexico en route, as the folding plan of Mexico City testifies. “One of the earliest scientific journeys sent to the [Baja] peninsula” – Barrett. Two days after the observation of the transit of Venus, Chappe D’Auteroche and other members of the party contracted yellow fever (the “black vomit”) and died. The Canadian section is also fairly extensive, pages 109-160 discussing the cod fishery and methods of catching and preparing the economically important fish. HILL 279. COWAN, p.46. HOWES C299, “aa.” SABIN 12004. PALAU 67059 (French ed). BARRETT 509. $2750.

The Rare Dublin Edition, with Native American Portraits and Maps

53. Charlevoix, François-Xavier: A VOYAGE TO NORTH AMERI- CA, UNDER THE COMMAND OF THE PRESENT KING OF FRANCE. CONTAINING THE GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIP- TION AND NATURAL HISTORY OF CANADA AND LOUISI- ANA.... Dublin. 1766. Two volumes. [10],48,228; [22],335pp. plus eight folding maps and two plates. Modern polished calf, ruled in gilt, spines gilt extra, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Expertly rehinged. Two maps neatly backed with linen. A handsome, near fine set.

Charlevoix travelled in the Great Lakes region and down the Mississippi in 1720-22, to inspect interior posts and settlements and to gather more information about the westward regions. He had intended to return upriver, but he fell ill at Biloxi and returned to France in 1723. Originally published in 1744 as part of Charlevoix’s larger work on New France, this journal was published separately in English, in London in 1766. The Dublin edition, which is much rarer, is considered the best by Howes and others because of the accompanying maps and the two striking Indian portraits which appear as frontispieces, “A Delaware Indian with his tomahawk, scalping knife, &c.” and “Outacite Chief of the Cherokees.” The text contains a short appendix relating to the West Indies, with excellent maps of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the Caribbean. HOWES C308, “b.” CLARK I:60. FIELD 283. SABIN 12139. GRAFF 651. TPL 191. GREENLY, MICHIGAN 12. $6000.

54. [Cherokee Language]: Worcester, Samuel Austin, and Stephen Fore- man [translators]: ISAIAH. I-VII, XI, LII-LV [caption title]. [Park Hill: Mission Press, 1849]. 32pp. on folded sheets. Unbound. Some minor dampstaining in foremargins, which also have some gnawing, but text unaf- fected. Else a fresh copy, unopened, in original state. Very good.

A rare Park Hill Mission imprint, with the text entirely in Cherokee and only the title in English. Five thousand copies were printed, but only a small number survive today. Hargrett locates eight copies. HARGRETT, OKLAHOMA 136. PILLING, IROQUOIAN, p.174. PILLING, PROOF SHEETS 4234. AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (CHEROKEE) 4. FOREMAN, p.8. GILCREASE 47. $875.

Scarce Chicago Periodical

55. [Chicago]: THE CHICAGO MAGAZINE. THE WEST AS IT IS; ILLUSTRATED. Chicago: John Gager & Co. for Chicago Mechanic’s In- stitute, March – August, 1857. Five parts. 451pp. plus numerous inserted plates, portraits, and ads. Each part in original pictorial green wrappers. Wrap- pers lightly faded, and with light wear. On the whole very clean and neat, inside and out. Near fine. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell box, spine gilt.

The Littell copy, with his bookplate on the inner front board of the box. A complete set of all five numbers issued in the first volume (all published), retaining the original wrappers. A very uncommon ante-fire periodical, including a number of important articles of a historical nature about Illinois, Chicago, the Far West (Utah, Iowa, etc.), Mormons, biographies, fiction, poetry, and so on. The general editor was Zebina Eastman, and according to Scott, “it was beautifully and pro- fusely illustrated, and though it carried as many advertisements as were usual at the time, its expenses were greater than its receipts...[its] failure was a great loss to the literary interests of the city.” “Running through the first three numbers is a long, documented history of the Mormons” – Eberstadt. Not in Flake. SCOTT, NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS OF ILLINOIS, p.71. PAULIN 574 (“very rare”). CHICAGO IN PERIODICAL LITERATURE (1940), p.90 passim. LOM- AZOW A646. SABIN 12625. GRAFF 687. EBERSTADT 133:696 (“very rare”). $3500.

A Document Connecting Auguste Chouteau and Moses Austin

56. Chouteau, Auguste: [MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT, SIGNED, BY AUGUSTE CHOUTEAU, ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF ST. LOUIS, AND SIGNED CLERICALLY BY MOSES AUSTIN, REAL ESTATE SPECULATOR AND INITIAL FOUNDER OF THE AUSTIN COLONY IN TEXAS, CONCERNING FUNDS OWED TO HIS BROTHER, STEPHEN AUSTIN]. New Orleans & St. Louis. 1801/1805. [3]pp. in French, [1]p. blank. Folio. Old folds. Small legal certificate, mentioned in text, affixed to recto of first leaf. Old ink stain on all three pages of text, obliterating a few words, with some loss of paper due to lead corrosion. Still, in very good condition. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

A document written in New Orleans in 1801, while Louisiana was still under French control, concerning a petition made by Moses Austin to the supreme tribunal in New Orleans. The court was overseen by Nicolas Marie Vidal, lieutenant governor of the region, who served as the French government’s representative overseeing the case. The petition concerns funds owed to Moses Austin’s brother, Stephen, who received a bill of exchange from Pascal Detchemindy in June 1797 in Philadelphia. The funds were never repaid, although legal requests were submitted in Philadelphia, and then in the St. Genevieve district, where both Stephen Austin and Detchemindy were residents. The unresolved case was then directed to be reviewed by Vida, who decided that Detchemindy’s objections to repaying Stephen Austin were unfounded, and ordered that restitution of funds be made immediately. Dated June 1, 1801, the decree by Vidal ordered that the payments be delivered in the city of New Orleans. Two additional legal statements in the document were signed in St. Louis four years later. This includes Auguste Chouteau’s statement, signed as a judge in the district, in which he mentions the small stamp affixed to the bottom of the page which serves as a certificate of authenticity. The document also includes a statement signed in St. Louis on May 27, 1805, certifying [here in English translation] “that the translation done herewith for a petition presented by Mr. Austin to the supreme tribunal of New Orleans because of his lordship Don Nicolas Vidal’s decree dated June 1, 1801, against Sr. Pascal Detchemindy of St. Genevieve, is as much conforms to the original that my knowledge of the Spanish language has allowed me.” The Spanish translation is not included in the present document, but serves as a reminder of the various official languages and cultures present on the United States frontier at the beginning of the 19th century. Both Chouteau and Austin were active agents in the developing frontier and economy in the early history of the United States. Auguste Chouteau, born in New Orleans in 1749, was raised by his stepfather, Pierre Laclede, and his mother, Marie Therese Chouteau. He accompanied Laclede to the Illinois country in 1763 and the following year oversaw the initial stages of building and developing St. Louis. The founding occurred when the settlement was beginning to serve as the gateway to American, French, and Spanish commercial activity with Indians in the trans- Mississippi West. He became deeply involved in the fur trade there, and positive relations with the Osage allowed him to develop the business considerably; from 1794 to 1802 he held a monopoly on the Osage trade. Chouteau prospered as the village grew into a commercial hub, both under Spanish rule in the late 18th century and U.S. control beginning in 1804. Diversifying into banking and real estate as the fur trade declined, Chouteau was both a business and social leader in St. Louis. He was the first chairman of the board of trustees upon the town’s incorporation in 1809. Moses Austin, with his brother, Stephen, gained control of Virginia’s richest lead deposit circa 1790. Experienced miners and smelters from England were recruited to improve the operation, resulting in the founding of the American lead industry. He established Austinville at the lead mines in 1792. Looking westward to finance his enterprise further, he investigated rumored lead deposits in Spanish Upper Louisiana, and in 1798 he established the first Anglo-American settlement in Missouri. Austin continued to aggressively expand his wealth. “Using the ef- ficient reverberatory furnace, the design of which he had learned from the English smelters, he soon controlled virtually all smelting in the region and amassed a wealth of $190,000. The second period in the history of the American lead industry is known as the Moses Austin period, and Austin’s contributions characterized the lead industry until heavy machinery revolutionized mining and smelting after the Civil War” – ANB. Financial difficulties in the 1810s led Austin to develop a plan for creating an Anglo-American settlement in Spanish Texas. Although he didn’t live to see this last plan to fruition, he did obtain permission to bring the colonists to the region, and his son, Stephen, was able to establish the colony in Texas. An early 19th-century document recording aspects of a legal case, under review both in New Orleans under the Spanish and in St. Louis as a part of the United States, involving two significant figures in the economic development and geographic expansion of the West. ANB 1, pp.766-67 (Austin). $6750.

57. [Clemens, Samuel L.]: ROUGHING IT. Hartford: American Publish- ing Company: 1872. 591,[1]pp. plus seven plates including extra frontis. Illus. Publisher’s three-quarter morocco, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed. First two plates and titlepage loose. Minor toning. About very good.

First American edition, first state, issued a week after the first British edition. “Valuable as an autobiographical chapter in the author’s life and as a vivid portrayal of Nevada mining life in the ’60s” – Howes. HOWES C481. BAL 3337. $750.

John R. Bartlett’s Copy

58. Clever, Charles P.: NEW MEXICO: HER RESOURCES; HER NE- CESSITIES FOR RAILROAD COMMUNICATION WITH THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC STATES; HER GREAT FUTURE. Washington: McGill & Witherow, 1868. 47pp. Late 19th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Extremities worn, old unobtrusive blindstamp on titlepage. Internally clean and nice. Very good.

John R. Bartlett’s copy, with his signature on the front wrapper, and a presentation inscription from the author: “...with the compliments of C.P. Clever.” Clever was a delegate to Congress from New Mexico. In this interesting pamphlet he devotes much space to a description of the mineral resources of New Mexico, finally outlining the importance of building a western railroad from Memphis, through New Mexico, terminating in San Diego, California. A nice association copy, once owned by John R. Bartlett, author of Personal Narrative of Explorations in Texas, New Mexico, California... (1854). HOWES C488. STREETER SALE 466. SABIN 13683. $2500.

The Monumental Harriman Expedition Report

59. Curtis, Edward S.; Louis Agassiz Fuertes; [et al]: ALASKA VOL- UME I NARRATIVE, GLACIERS, NATIVES. By John Burroughs, John Muir and George Bird Grinnell. [with:] VOLUMES II – V, VIII – XI, XIII – XIV. Washington. 1910-14. Eleven volumes bound in twelve, lacking only the twelfth volume (sixth and seventh volumes were never published). Numerous plates (some colored) and maps. First and second volumes in modern green half morocco, the others in original gilt green cloth, t.e.g., fifth through eleventh volumes in green cloth dust jackets. A couple covers slightly rubbed. Minor dampstain on foredge of front board of thirteenth volume. Shelf label removed from toe of some spines. A few volumes with library labels on front pastedown and front free endpaper. Bookplate on front pastedown of first and second volumes. Generally a very good, sharp set.

A very rare, nearly complete set of the Harriman expedition publications, lacking just one volume. These volumes record the findings of perhaps the largest private expedition to Alaska ever undertaken, that backed by Edward Harriman in 1899 in cooperation with the Washington Academy of Sciences. The party, which included an impressive roster of scientists and naturalists (e.g. William H. Brewer of Yale, George Bird Grinnell, John Muir, Prof. William Ritter of the University of California), sailed from Seattle on May 30 and returned two months later. They sailed along the Northwest Coast, through Bering Sea with stops at various islands, visited Eskimo settlements on the Asiatic and American coasts, and went through Bering Strait to Siberia before heading home, travelling nine thousand miles in all. The first two volumes constitute the entire narrative section. The other ten volumes (of which nine are present here) of scientific data are extremely scarce, having been printed over a period of thirteen years, with a change in publisher after Harriman’s death in 1910. The work is illustrated with handsome plates and maps throughout, including chromolithographs of birds and plants, as well as photogravures of Curtis Eskimo photographs. Accompanying the expedition were artists R. Swain Gifford and Fred S. Dellenbaugh, as well as bird painter Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Most of the photographs are by E.S. Curtis or C. Hart Merriman. Following is a list of the titles of each volume:

1) Narrative, Glaciers, Natives. By John Burroughs, John Muir, and George Bird Grinnell. 183pp., paginated continuously with second volume, which contains the index for both. 2) History, Geography, Resources. By William Healey Dall and others. pp.185-383. Index. 3) Glaciers and Glaciation. By Grove Karl Gilbert. 231pp. 4) Geology and Paleontology. By Benjamin Kendall Emerson and others. 173pp. 5) Crytogamic Botany. By J. Cardot and others. 424pp. 6) Never published. 7) Never published. 8) Insects Part 1. By W.H. Ashmead and others. 238pp. 9) Insects. Part 2. By W.H. Ashmead and others. 284pp. 10) Crustaceans. By M.J. Rathbun and others. 337pp. 11) Nemerteans and Bryozoans. By W.R. Coe and A. Robertson. 251pp. 12) [lacking here:] Enchytraeids and Tubicolous Annelids. By C. Eisen and K.J. Bush. 355pp. 13) Land and Fresh Water Mollusks of Alaska and Adjoining Regions. Hydroids of the Expedition. By W.H. Dall and C.C. Nutting. 250pp. 14) Monograph of the Shallow-Water Starfishes of the North Pacific Coast from the Arctic to California. By A.E. Verrill. Two volumes. 408pp. 110 plates.

Sets of the Harriman expedition series are extremely rare in the marketplace. RICKS, p.116. TOURVILLE 1950. $11,000. A Pioneering Dakota Language Newspaper

60. [Dakota Language]: Pond, Gideon H. [editor]: DAKOTA TAWAX- ITKU KIN, OR THE DAKOTA FRIEND [caption title]. St. Paul: Published by the Dakota Mission, November 1850 – August 1852. A total of eighteen issues, 4pp. each. Ten quarto issues from Volume 1, printed in three columns; eight folio issues from Volume 2, printed in four columns. Illus. The issues from Volume 1 interleaved and string-tied, issues from Volume 2 also interleaved. Edge wear and some tanning on exterior leaves. A couple faint old stains in each of the gatherings. On the whole, quite clean and in very good condition. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

A nearly complete run of this very rare Dakota Mission periodical. Only twenty total issues of this monthly newspaper printed in the Dakota and English languages were published, and this collection of eighteen issues contains all but issues three and four ( January and February 1851) from the first volume. The primary purposes of the paper were to educate the Dakota themselves, and to pass along information on the tribe to the American people. It ceased publication when the Dakota were removed from Minnesota under a treaty of 1851, which ceded all Sioux lands in Minnesota to the United States, and provided for the removal of the tribe further westward. The editor, Gideon H. Pond, was a prominent missionary to the Dakota Indians, arriving in Minnesota in 1834 and taking up the study of the Dakota language. With his brother Samuel, Gideon Pond helped develop the first Dakota alphabet (no dictionaries or grammars being available up to that time), and they went on to publish readers, grammars, and translations in Dakota, and taught the language to Stephen Return Riggs. The mission statement of the newspaper is printed in the first issue and reads (in part): “to diminish and remove the existing prejudice to education among them [the Sioux], by exciting in them a taste for reading and bringing into use that knowledge of letters which is already expressed by a few... It will be the object of the paper to bring before the Indian mind such items of news as will interest them, and any such matter as it is believed will be calculated to improve their physical, mental, and moral condition.” The paper contains a great variety of news, information, and reports, including news from local villages and settlements – including obituaries, weddings, and baptisms – reports by missionaries, accounts of Dakota customs and myths, religious works, the text of treaties, language lessons, and engraved illustrations. One article describes a ball game played by the Dakota closely resembling lacrosse, and another gives a description of the origins and form of their medicine dance, while another brief notice relates the Winnebago’s love of whiskey. Most of the articles are printed in both Dakota and English, though occasionally only in one or the other. Beginning with the seventh issue of the first volume, an illustration was incorporated into the masthead depicting Dakota children reading The Dakota Friend, as a missionary and two Dakota adults look on. “There is much of interest to the philologist in this paper: lessons for learners, grammatic forms, vocabular- ies, &c.” – Pilling. After a few months of publication, the newspaper experienced financial difficulty, and several changes were made, including enlarging the size of the paper from quarto to folio sheets, and raising the subscription rate from twenty-five to fifty cents. The paper was printed at the Chronicle and Register Office in St. Paul for its entire run, and the English language portion was edited by the Rev. Edward Neill. Publication ceased in August 1852 with Vol. II, No. 8, and a note in the final issue reads: “the Dakota Mission deems it unadvisable, while the Indians are so unsettled, to continue the Friend. If the prospect is more encouraging it will be resumed hereafter.” Printing in Minnesota began in the summer of 1849, so this is a very early imprint indeed, and only the fifth periodical in an Indian language published in the trans-Mississippi West (following a Shawnee language paper printed in Kansas beginning in 1835, and two Cherokee and two Choctaw language papers printed in present-day Oklahoma in the 1840s). Pilling locates runs of The Dakota Friend at the Library of Congress and Harvard, and OCLC adds runs (some incomplete) at The New York Public Library, Yale, Newberry Library (from the Ayer and Graff collections), Huntington Library, Chicago Historical Society, Minneapolis Public Library, Minnesota Historical Society, and University of Minnesota. A very rare and important early Indian language newspaper. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 3029. PILLING, SIOUAN, p.23. AYER, INDIAN LIN- GUISTICS (DAKOTA) 65. LITTLEFIELD & PARINS, pp.128-31. GRAFF 988. SABIN 18286. OCLC 1644692. $17,500.

World Map with Interesting Northwest Coast Cartography

61. De l’Isle, Guillaume: MAPPE-MONDE DRÉSSE SUR LES OB- SERVATIONS DE MRS. DE L’ACADEMIE ROYAL DES SCI- ENCES ET QUELQUES AUTRES SUR LES MEMOIRES LES PUS RECENS. Paris: Chez l’Auteur Rue des Canettes pres de St. Sulpice, 1700. Copper-engraved map, handcolored in outline. Sheet size: 17 1/8 x 26 1/8 inches. Good condition, cut to just within the plate mark, with expert repairs to margins and central fold.

The rare first state of the celebrated world map by De l’Isle, “one of the foremost cartographer’s of the age” (Shirley). This highly important map proved to be one of the most influential world maps of its time, and is present here in the rare first state. De L’Isle was a much esteemed figure who, after being tutored by the great Jean-Dominique Cassini, became the geographer to the French Academy of Sci- ences in 1702, and then Premier Géographe to Louis XV in 1718. Rodney Shirley notes that “De L’Isle’s work is distinguished by its scientific basis, the minute care taken in all departments, constant revision, and personal integrity.” In this map of the world De l’Isle was among the first cartographers to re-establish California’s true form as a peninsula, to give more or less accurate configurations of all five Great Lakes, and to show the full extent of the Mississippi. He was also one of the first to correct the exaggerative attenuated form of the Mediterranean Sea. In fusing New Guinea and Australia, he followed William Dampier’s presumably personal survey, but resisted the temptation to join Tasmania and New Zealand to Australia, an error soon to be popular. Curiously, the tip of South America is shown to curve sharply into the Pacific, a detail conspicuously amended in subsequent states of the map. The map also features the tracks of important circumnavigators including Magellan, Mendaña, Dampier, Van Noort, Le Maire and Schouten, and the antipodean tracks of Abel Tasman. SHIRLEY, THE MAPPING OF THE WORLD: EARLY PRINTED WORLD MAPS 1472-1700, 603, plate 416. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST 461. $4500.

62. [Department of the Platte]: ROSTER OF TROOPS SERVING IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PLATTE, (THE STATES OF IOWA AND NEBRASKA; TERRITORIES OF UTAH AND WYO- MING AND SO MUCH OF THE TERRITORY OF IDAHO AS LIE EAST OF A LINE FORMED BY THE EXTENSION OF THE WESTERN BOUNDARY OF UTAH TO THE NORTHEASTERN BOUNDARY OF IDAHO.) COMMANDED BY COLONEL JOHN GIBBON, SEVENTH INFANTRY. HEADQUARTERS, OMAHA, NEBRASKA. Omaha: Department of the Platte, October 1884. 12pp. Self- wrappers. Two brass eyelets in blank gutter. Wraps a bit dust soiled in margins. Otherwise very good.

Scarce roster for the Department of the Platte, printed on an Army press, listing the officers, medical department staff, fort or outpost where each is stationed, and troops under their respective commands. Includes information for forts Bridger, Laramie, McKinney, and Russell in Wyoming; Douglas and Thornburh in Utah; Niobrara, Omaha, Robinson, and Sidney in Nebraska; and others. $850.

Best Report on American Indians of the Times

63. Donaldson, Thomas C., editor: REPORT ON INDIANS TAXED AND NOT TAXED IN THE UNITED STATES (EXCEPT ALAS- KA) AT THE ELEVENTH CENSUS: 1890. Washington. 1894. vi,[2], 683pp. plus twenty-five maps (three of them large, colored folding maps) and 203 plates, consisting of twenty in color (two folding), twenty-five uncolored lithographs, and 158 photographic plates. Large, thick quarto. Original black cloth, neatly recased. Extremities rubbed. A few small chips or tears to text; minor soiling. Very good.

One of the most important and exhaustive treatments of the American Indian in the 19th century. As American Indians had not been treated in detail in previous censuses, it was decided under the administration of Superintendent Robert Porter to prepare this mammoth undertaking, which pays scrupulous, detailed attention to the present state of the American Indian of the times. Included are discussions of Indian populations by state, status reports concerning life on the reservations, disbursement of populations on and off reservations, progress in schooling and employment, etc. Virtually every aspect of the topic is at least considered in this work, if not investigated in depth. The highly prized lithograph color plates of Indian life by noted artists are the best such works undertaken in a government publication, and are of exceptional quality. HOWES D418, “aa.” REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 33. $1250.

64. Ealy, Elijah, Dr.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM FORTY-NINER ELIJAH EALY TO HIS WIFE, DESCRIBING HIS TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS TO CALIFORNIA]. Uba [sic] River, Ca. Sept. 30, 1849. [3]pp. autograph letter, on a folded folio sheet. Ad- dressed for mailing on the fourth page, with an inked circular “San Francisco Cal. Nov 1” postmark and an ink “40.” Old folds. Small tears at several cross- folds, affecting a few letters of text. Paper tanned and lightly stained. Good overall, and quite readable. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt.

Dr. Elijah Ealy of Dayton, Ohio departed St. Louis in late April 1849, and proceeded to Independence and then St. Joseph. He and his party followed the Platte River Road, but eventually veered south toward Salt Lake City. They arrived in Cali- fornia in mid-September, 1849, and this letter was written from Ealy’s camp along the Yuba River in northern California. Ealy died in December 1851, just a little more than two years after writing this letter to his wife. In this letter he recounts the details and hardships of his overland journey in vivid style, giving an excellent description of the challenges he (and thousands others) faced. He writes, in part:

Benj. Kniseley was drowned in attempting to cross the north fork of Platte River....He had a hard time of it, indeed, it is no sport to cross over a barren, sandy & rocky country, as it is from Fort Laramie here. There is no grass except on the water courses & in one place we had neither water nor grass for 60 miles, with the exception of what we carried with us. Cattle died on this desert in great numbers. We did not lose a single mule. And fortunately for the emigrants, the citizens here, have sent out, on all the routes, provisions & cattle to help the emigrants through. Capt. King, McCorkle, the Smiths & others we passed on Humboldts River. King had a fight with the Indians. It appears from what I could learn that they had some of their oxen stolen. A party went out into the mountains in search. They found the Indian thieves & they commenced shooting their arrows. King was wounded in the arm. He succeeded, after a hard struggle in which the Indian seized his rifle & attempted to wrest it out of his hand, in shooting him through the heart. The others in seeing their red comrade fall, took to their heels & were soon out of sight. They were very troublesome & stole away a great many oxen & horses. I saw one company from Missouri that had all their oxen stolen.

Ealy goes on to describe their difficulty in obtaining provisions along their overland journey, then turns to the excitement in California over the prospects of riches from mining:

There is great excitement here, in regard to the gold. There is just at this time, a bustle of running from one gold region to another. Great stores are told of men making fortunes in a few days. And I have no doubt many have done so. The fact is gold is abundant on all the streams which rise in the mountains east & south-east of the Sacramento River. And almost every man you see has his little bag of gold....We came to this place 8 days ago, but found the richest diggings all claimed by others. It is only in places that fortunes are to be made, but it is exceedingly hard labour to get it out from amongst the rocks.

He then discusses the difficult methods of mining, the high prices for goods, and his plans to go to the “dry diggings” south of Sutter’s Fort for the winter. A fine Gold Rush letter, describing the hardships of the overland journey to California and conveying the hopes of riches in the mines. $3000.

Fine Indian Images

65. Eastman, Mary: THE AMERICAN ABORIGINAL PORTFOLIO. Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo & Co., [1853]. 84pp. plus twenty-six plates after Seth Eastman. Engraved and letterpress titlepages. Quarto. Publisher’s blue cloth, covers richly gilt, a.e.g. Minor wear to corners. Scattered foxing to the text, the plates generally quite clean. Overall, very good.

A classic work on American Indians. The handsome engraved plates are after paintings of Indian life by the author’s husband, Seth Eastman, an accomplished artist and topographical draftsman. Mrs. Eastman drew her descriptions of the plates from her experiences while she was with her husband when he was commander of Fort Snelling in Minnesota Territory. The plates are handsome depictions of Indians performing various rituals and activities such as burial, administering medicine, danc- ing, travelling, fishing, spearing muskrats, dressing a buffalo skin, and much more. HOWES E17, “aa.” WAGNER-CAMP 222c. SIEBERT SALE 865. RADER 1269. SABIN 21682. FIELD 477 (note). $1750.

An Original Watercolor of the Upper Mississippi by Seth Eastman

66. Eastman, Seth: [WATERCOLOR DEPICTING THE AMERICAN SURRENDER AT FORT SHELBY, PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, WIS- CONSIN ON JULY 20, 1814]. [Np, but likely Wisconsin. ca. 1846-1848]. Approximately 6½ x 10 inches. Framed, with UV3 plexiglass. In fine condition.

An attractive watercolor by American army officer and noted artist of American Indians, Seth Eastman, depicting the moment of surrender by the American troops at Fort Shelby in Wisconsin during the War of 1812. Fort Shelby was the American fort built at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, at the junction of the Mississippi and Wisconsin rivers, in June 1814 by William Clark, governor of Louisiana Territory. It was named for Isaac Shelby, Revolutionary War soldier and first governor of Kentucky. Its purpose was to block any British advance on the headwaters of the Mississippi, but the fort fell to them after a short siege in the latter part of July 1814, and was renamed Fort McKay. The war was over too soon for this to prove of strategic value, and it was burned in May 1815 by departing British troops. The United States then constructed a major post, Fort Crawford, on the spot. Seth Eastman, a captain in the U.S. Army, was noted for his scenes of Indian life, particularly of the Sioux and the Dakotah. John Francis McDermott has called him “the premier watercolorist of the Mississippi River landscape.” He was commissioned in 1849 to illustrate Henry Schoolcraft’s great work on the Ameri- can Indian, Historical and Statistical Information, Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States, 1851-57, a work for which Eastman produced over 275 pages of illustrations. Near the end of his life in the 1870s, Eastman was also commissioned by the U.S. Government to paint seventeen important American forts. Eastman’s work from 1841 to 1848, during the time he was stationed at Fort Snelling at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, centered on Indian life, and the Mississippi River. During this time he is known to have also painted Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, the fort which replaced Fort Shelby, as well as a number of watercolors in the Prairie du Chien region. In fact, Eastman himself was once stationed at Fort Crawford, his initial assignment after graduating from West Point in 1829, and his earliest known dated sketch was made there. He must have known the story of the surrender at Fort Shelby, and probably had details of the event from some who had witnessed the surrender first-hand. A handsome watercolor of the Mississippi by a noted American artist. John Francis McDermott, Seth Eastman’s Mississippi (University of Illinois Press, 1973). Sarah Boehme, et al, Seth Eastman: A Portfolio of North American Indians (Afton Historical Society Press, 1995). $13,500.

Item 67. Important Early Texas History

67. Edward, David B.: THE HISTORY OF TEXAS; OR, THE EMI- GRANT’S FARMER’S, AND POLITICIAN’S GUIDE TO THE CHARACTER, CLIMATE, SOIL AND PRODUCTIONS OF THAT COUNTRY.... Cincinnati. 1836. 336pp. plus leaf of advertising and folding map (outlined in color). Original publisher’s cloth, printed paper label. Label rubbed and chipped. Slight staining to cloth. Ownership signature on front fly leaf. Map clean and crisp. Very good.

“The map shows towns, rivers, colonies, grants, Indian villages, mountains, roads, silver mines in Mexico and on the San Saba River, iron ore, copper mine, note on Col. B.R. Milam’s death, comments on wild life and topography, salt works on Galveston Bay, site of General Toledo’s defeat in 1813....There is also a printed note by D.B. Edwards on the Rio del Norte, its navigability and its possibilities as a southwestern boundary for Texas” – Day. “As a preceptor of Gonzales Seminary and resident of Texas, Edward was well equipped to record his observations accurately” – Graff. “This contemporary history by Edward, notwithstanding some idiosyncrasies of the author, is one of the essential Texas books. It gives a good account of the physical features and towns and products of the Texas of 1835... page 177 to the end are devoted to the political events from 1832 to about October, 1835...” – Streeter. “Conditions just prior to the Revolution described by an actual observer” – Howes. An early and important work on Texas, with the “Map of Texas.” DAY, MAPS OF TEXAS 388. HOWES E48, “aa.” GRAFF 1208. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 53. RADER 1279. RAINES, p.74. SABIN 21886. STREETER TEXAS 1198. STREETER SALE 344. CLARK III:35. $11,000.

A Landmark in Illustrated Americana

68. Emory, William H.: REPORT ON THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICAN BOUNDARY SURVEY, MADE UNDER THE DIREC- TION OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.... Washington: Cornelius Wendell, Printer, 1857-1859. Two volumes bound in three. Vol. 1, part 1: Large folding map, single page map, twelve hand-finished color lithographs, forty-two engraved plates, folding profile, folding chart, numerous illustrations. Vol. 1, part 2: large handcolored folding geological map, twenty-one conchological plates, illustrations. Vol. 2, part 1: sixty-one botanical plates, seventy-six cactus plates. Vol. 2, part 2: twenty-seven zoological plates, twenty-five handcolored ornithological plates, forty-one reptilian plates, forty-one ichthyological plates. Large, thick quarto. Contemporary sheep, gilt leather labels. Very good overall.

Senate issue. One of the foundation works on the exploration and mapping of the Texas-Mexican border. Emory was first assigned to the Boundary Commission after the Mexican War. No sooner was the survey finished than the Gadsden Pur- chase necessitated a new survey, which is summarized in this work. Incorporated into these volumes, along with Emory’s report, are numerous scientific reports by James Hall, T.A. Conrad, and others, as well as superb maps by Jekyll and Hall, and important views and plates after Schott, Weyss, and Vaudricourt. The commission undertook one of the first systematic studies of the topography and natural features of the area, and the boundary as surveyed has remained intact, with only minor alterations, for the last 150 years. Of special note are the twenty-five fine colored plates of birds, lithographed by Bowen & Company, included in Spencer Baird’s report, “Birds of the Boundary,” and here present in fine state; as well as handsome color plates of Indians and scenery. WAGNER-CAMP 291. HOWES E146. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 916. RAINES, p.76. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 31. DEÁK, PICTUR- ING AMERICA 649, 650. $7500.

69. [Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning]: A NEW MAP OF THE WESTERN STATES. New York. 1858. Folding pocket map, 26 x 33½ inches, with full period color. Bound into original 16mo. brown cloth boards, stamped in blind and gilt. Very good.

This map shows the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota; and more importantly, the recently established western territories of Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota. It is one of the best commercial maps of the period for the northern Great Plains, and one of the earliest maps to show Dakota. Kansas extends west to include present-day eastern Colorado. Nebraska includes much of the present-day Dakotas, Wyoming, and eastern Montana. Indian tribes are located throughout. Quite scarce. Not in Phillips or Rumsey. $2850.

70. Falconer, Thomas: THE OREGON QUESTION; OR, A STATE- MENT OF THE BRITISH CLAIMS TO THE OREGON TER- RITORY, IN OPPOSITION TO THE PRETENSIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. London: Samuel Clarke, 1845. 49,[3]pp. plus a contemporary English map of North America bound in at rear. Later green paper boards, gilt leather label. Label lightly rubbed. Near fine. Uncut and unopened. Pencilled notes in the hand of noted Americana dealer Wright Howes inside the front cover.

The second edition of this defense of British rights to Oregon Territory, with considerable additions over the first edition of the previous year. Falconer, a British lawyer, came to America in 1840, participated in the Texan-Santa Fe Expedition, and wrote the first book on that affair. The present work on the Oregon boundary question was written partly as a response to William Sturgis’ On the Oregon Ques- tion, reviews the history of United States boundary questions and seeks to establish British title to Oregon Territory. Two postscripts to this second edition were issued separately. The first edition of this work contained a map, but this second edition does not properly contain a map. A previous owner added a folding map of “North America” published by Chapman and Hall in 1843, to this copy, which is the map that belongs in Falconer’s earlier On the Discovery of the Mississippi, and On the South-Western, Oregon, and North-Western Boundary of the United States (1844). A scarce work in either edition, with an attractive added map. SABIN 23728. HOWES F17. TPL 2710. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 463 (for the map). $1250.

Early California, with California as an Island

71. Fer, Nicholas de: LA CALIFORNIE OU NOUVELLE CAROLINE TEATRO DE LOS TRABAJOS APOSTOLICOS DE LA COMPA. JESUS EN LA AMERICA SEPTE. Paris: De Fer dans l’Isle du Palais à la Sphere Royale, 1720. Copper-engraved map, with original outline color. Sheet size: 19 3/4 x 28 3/8 inches. In excellent condition.

One of the largest and most important depictions of California as an Island, this is one of the finest early maps of California and the Southwest. Wheat calls it an “important and carefully drawn map”; and Tooley describes it as a “fine rare map...a reissue of de Fer’s map of 1705 but on a larger scale and with some notable additions.” The map was based on information gathered by Father Eusibio Kino before 1695. Kino, a Jesuit missionary and traveler, visited Baja California in 1685. He was among the Seris and Pimas in 1690, after which he transferred to northern Sonora, where he remained until his death in 1711. His missionary work in So- nora included expeditions north and west to Arizona. In 1696 he sent to Rome a compilation of his cartographical work. It was this manuscript, or another similar map now lost, on which Nicholas de Fer based his printed map. De Fer’s map is probably the best synthesis of knowledge for the region on the eve of Kino’s subsequent 1701 discovery that California was attached to the continental landmass. De Fer still shows California as an island, probably the last great map to do so, and the Gila flows directly into the sea rather than correctly into the Colorado River. The Gila is thick with place names, and New Mexico is well portrayed. Below the title is a lengthy engraved text that gives the early history of California up to 1695. Over 350 towns and villages are located on the map. It is an invaluable record of the late 17th-century missions and Indian villages in the region. LOWERY, THE LOWERY COLLECTION 205. McLAUGHLIN, CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND 196. Tooley, “California as an Island” 83 in THE MAPPING OF AMERICA. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 102. $12,000.

72. Foote, Henry Stuart: TEXAS AND THE TEXANS; OR, ADVANCE OF THE ANGLO-AMERICANS TO THE SOUTH-WEST; IN- CLUDING A HISTORY OF LEADING EVENTS IN MEXICO, FROM THE CONQUEST BY FERNANDO CORTES TO THE TERMINATION OF THE TEXAN REVOLUTION. Philadelphia. 1841. Two volumes. viii,13-314; 403pp. Original cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Cloth faded, bumped at spine ends and corners. Text lightly tanned. Overall, about very good.

A presentation set, inscribed by the author in pencil on the front fly leaf of the first volume: “To Noah H. Swayne, a beloved and esteemed friend, from the Author, H.S. Foote.” An important contemporary history of the early days in Texas. “One of the most influential books on Texas in its time, this work is still of considerable value and interest” – Jenkins. The first volume includes five chapters on Mexican history, along with chapters on Spanish-American relations, the Burr Conspiracy, and James Long. There are also four chapters, described by Jenkins as among the best in the book, on the Fredonian Rebellion. The second volume treats the history of colonization and the Texas Revolution. “One of the best histories of Texas for the period covered” – Raines. “This is a very discursive account of Texas history down to the opening years of the Republic of Texas, but, with judicious skipping, a rather entertaining one” – Streeter. Eugene C. Barker has remarked that “one’s impatience with Foote’s betrayal of the historian’s obligation to tell the truth as he knows it gives way to amusement at the ingenuity of his grandiose distortions.” Some copies (not this one) include James H. Young’s A New Map of Texas (Phila- delphia, 1842), and it is asserted by several bibliographers that the publisher only inserted this map in remaining copies of the book in 1842. HOWES F238, “aa.” GRAFF 1376. SABIN 25019. RADER 1425. RAINES, p.84. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 63. STREETER TEXAS 1377. $2750. One of the First California Gold Rush Books

73. Foster, George G.: THE GOLD REGIONS OF CALIFORNIA: BEING A SUCCINCT DESCRIPTION OF THE GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, AND GENERAL FEATURES OF CALIFORNIA: INCLUDING A CAREFULLY PREPARED AC- COUNT OF THE GOLD REGIONS OF THAT FORTUNATE COUNTRY. PREPARED FROM OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS AND OTHER AUTHENTIC SOURCES. New York: Dewitt & Davenport, Tribune Buildings, 1848. 80pp. plus [12]pp. of advertisements. Frontispiece map. Original printed wrappers. Spine perished (but still sturdily bound), wrappers a bit soiled and with some small chips at edges. Impeccably clean internally, and a very good copy. Untrimmed. In a half morocco box.

An odd and apparently unrecorded variant of Foster’s early and important book on the gold regions of California, with “Second Edition” printed on the wrapper, but the titlepage has no edition statement at all, which implies that it is a first edition titlepage. This copy also has the same number of advertisement leaves as Kurutz notes for the first edition (the number of which differs in subsequent editions). This would appear, then, to be the first edition titlepage and text of Foster’s work bound up in second edition wrappers. Edward Eberstadt called this “the first considerable pamphlet on the Gold Regions and but two others (Sherwood and Simpson) are contemporary with it.” “Foster, in his eloquent and stirring introduction...correctly predicted that a fortune could be made by the enterprising blacksmith, wheelwright, carpenter, shoemaker, etc. This slender work is a useful anthology of some of the earliest reports of the gold discovery and features the writings of Farnham, Mason, Doniphan, Larkin, Folsom, Fremont, Colton, and articles from the June and August issues of the Californian” – Kurutz. The frontispiece map shows California from Los Angeles to Sutter Buttes, with the Gold Region encircled by a dotted line. According to Wheat, the map is one of the first to mention the Gold Region. An important early Gold Rush book, in an odd variant. KURUTZ 250a, 250b. GRAFF 1387. HOWES F287, “aa.” MINTZ 160. ROCQ 15810. STREETER SALE 2529. COWAN, p.219 (3rd ed). SABIN 25225. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 77. WHEAT GOLD REGION 39. EBERSTADT 107:55-58. DECKER 24:68. HOWELL 50:85. $6250.

Essential Publication

74. Fremont, John C.: REPORT OF THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN THE YEAR 1842, AND TO OREGON AND NORTH CALIFORNIA IN THE YEARS 1843-44. Washington. 1845. 693pp. plus twenty-two plates and five maps (three folding, one in a separate folder). Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Corners lightly worn, cloth starting to separate at rear hinge. A few scattered spots of foxing, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

The Senate issue of the Fremont report, certainly one of the most important single pieces of Western Americana. In various editions this report was more widely read than any other account of the West before the Gold Rush, and the text and map had a profound effect on the routes frequented during the great period of emigration. The maps include the huge folding “Map of...Oregon & North California in the Years 1843-44,” with many lakes and rivers traced in color. Fremont also made substantive contributions as a naturalist, mainly through the work of John Torrey, who accompanied the expedition. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 497. RITTENHOUSE 229. WHEAT GOLD RE- GIONS 3266. TWENEY 89, 22. HILL 640. ZAMORANO 80, 39. MINTZ 165. COWAN, p.223. HOWES F370. SABIN 25845. WAGNER-CAMP 115:1. GRAFF 1437. TAXO- NOMIC LITERATURE 1852. Coats, THE PLANT HUNTERS, p.322. $3000. 75. [Fur Trade]: Tillton, William P.: [TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, SIGNED, FROM WILLIAM P. TILLTON TO WILLIAM HEMP- STEAD, CONCERNING BUSINESS VENTURES]. Fort Gibson [Indian Territory]. Aug. 15, 1835; July 4, 1836. [3]pp., each letter with its integral address leaf. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Near fine.

Two manuscript letters from fur trader William P. Tillton to friend and business associate William Hempstead, a prominent St. Louis merchant. Tillton (also spelled Tilton) was head of the Columbia Fur Company, founded in 1822, which was bought out by the American Fur Company in 1827. Little else is known about him. Fort Gibson, on the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma, was established in 1824 and was a vital military outpost on the western frontier for the next seventy years. The Fort was the terminus point for the Trail of Tears, and was vital to the resettlement of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory and relations between the tribes and the U.S. government. In the first letter, dated Aug. 15, 1835, Tillton laments a personal loss, writing that he must be the most “unlucky, miserable poor devil in the world; it appears I am a doomed man....The only favor God ever did me he has taken away from me again – I have lost the best, the kindest, the most affectionate and the most noble of womankind, a loss that can never be repaired. Hempstead you know nothing about it, you have not the most distant idea of such a loss and God grant you never may have.” He moves on, however, to business matters, noting that he hopes to make a tidy profit from his time in the Territory: “I have always been doing a fair business here and doubt not at the end of the appointment to show a nett profit of at least $30,000 at this post; it [the appointment] expires in two years....in my opinion I am always afraid things are done too loosely elsewhere than here, I wish I had this post to myself and I would soon be rich....” In his second letter, dated July 4, 1836, Tillton forwards a check for $5,000, pulled from his share of the profits. He indicates that he prefer Hempstead not indicate the transaction in his ledger, as Tillton did not wish the use of the funds known:

I have drawn [the check] from the concern as part of my profits and advised March of the same, telling him I had use for it. I do not wish it placed to my credit on your books because I do not care he should know what I wanted of it. If it is worth bank interest to you for six months, use it; and if not, keep it until called for. Should I die in the mean time, advise my mother, Mary M. Tillton, Pittstown, Maine that you have that amount in your hands subject to her order.

Two letters from the frontier, both with integral address leaves marked with postage at Fort Gibson, extremely early letters from Oklahoma. $1200. The Missouri Fur Trade in 1852

76. [Fur Trade]: [Chouteau, Pierre & Co.]: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM JOSEPH SIRE TO PIERRE CHOUTEAU, RE- GARDING COMPETITION IN THE FUR TRADE]. St. Louis. May 6, 1852. [2]pp. plus integral address leaf. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Docketed on verso. Old fold lines. Very minor soiling. Near fine.

Manuscript letter written in French, from Joseph Sire, Pierre Chouteau’s agent in St. Louis, enclosing returns (not present) from his agents in the field, and commenting on the low volume of furs being brought in by competitors as well as by Honore Picotte, Chouteau’s agent in Fort Pierre. Sire started out in the fur trade as a river boat captain on the Missouri River. He had been with the Chouteau firm – a massive fur trading outfit, originally based in St. Louis – since the 1830s and was married to Pierre Chouteau’s cousin. In the letter he mentions that he and John B. Sarpy, another partner and family member by marriage, would be willing to withdraw from the company; they were both getting older at this time, and both would die within the next six years, Sire in 1854. A partial translation reads:

It would seem that our opponents must be doing a very weak trade...I cannot comprehend how, if Picotte has made only 900 packs in the district of Fort Pierre he will collect a total of 4000 packs, and our opponents only 1500....I don’t count on more than 75 to 80,000 [buffalo] robes against 93,000 last year....I would very much like to count on the [balance sheet] of CM&S [Chouteau, Merle & Sanford) provided that it be correct. Sarpy and I count on quickly receiving a definitive answer concerning our interest in New York....We consent to withdraw, but we would very much want to know exactly what the time of our discontinuation is....

Though Chouteau spoke and wrote English, his first language was French and he preferred to do all of his correspondence in French. Chouteau, Merle & Sanford, mentioned in Sire’s letter, was another of Chouteau’s many companies, in partnership with John F.A. Sanford, his son-in-law. Sanford’s sister, Irene Sanford Emerson, was the wife of Dr. John Emerson, owner of the slave, Dred Scott; upon Emerson’s death, Sanford became the defendant in that landmark case. John E. Sunder, The Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1965). $1250.

Firsthand Account of Lewis and Clark

77. Gass, Patrick: JOURNAL OF THE VOYAGES AND TRAVELS OF A CORPS OF DISCOVERY, UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPT. LEWIS AND CAPT. CLARKE [sic]...FROM THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER MISSOURI THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF NORTH AMERICA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, DURING THE YEARS 1804, 1805, AND 1806.... Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey, 1812. 262pp. plus folding engraved map and six plates. 12mo. Contemporary tree calf, gilt label. Edges of covers worn, hinges tender. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on front free endpapers, verso of map, and titlepage. Age-toning and dampstains, offsetting from plates. A good copy. In a half morocco and cloth box.

Styled the “fourth edition” on the titlepage, after the first edition of 1807 (but with the plates not found therein), which Howes states was the “earliest full first-hand narrative of the Lewis and Clark expedition, preceding the official account [by] seven years.” “This 1812 edition seems identical in text with my 1807 and 1810 edition, but it has, added, a folding map and two preliminary pages headed ‘Review of this Work.’ The plates are the same, and the pagination is kept the same by eliminating the half title after the preface” – Streeter. STREETER SALE 3127. HOWES G77, “aa.” GRAFF 1521. FIELD 597. WAGNER- CAMP 6:7. SABIN 26741. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 308. $7500.

78. George, Henry: OUR LAND AND LAND POLICY, NATIONAL AND STATE [wrapper title]. San Francisco. 1871. 48pp. plus folding colored map. Original printed wrappers. Text block stitched together and loosely laid into wrappers, and apparently never bound in. Wrappers a bit soiled and worn. Map with a long closed tear, with no loss. One text leaf torn in outer margin, not affecting text. Overall, about very good. In a cloth chemise.

Henry George’s rare first book, putting forth in early form some of the ideas for which the economist and reformer became famous. George holds that the private ownership of land is injurious to society as a whole, and argues that public lands should not be given in large grants to railroads, speculators, or corporations, but to actual settlers and workers themselves, who need the land and natural resources to create wealth. “With tremendous power and farsightedness, he attacks the railroads and land grants, boldly giving names and specific cases of wrongdoing. The especially prepared map shows the immense extent of the ‘Railroad Reservations’ in California” – Howell. George also calls for taxes on land values and the abolition of other taxes that he sees as injurious to workers and investors as well. Much of the text relates specifically to land issues in California, often involving mining and railroads. An important and rare work of American economic thought. HOWES G105, “aa.” COWAN, p.233. HOWELL 50:482. $3500.

A Major Mexican War Rarity

79. Gibson, Thomas W., Capt.: LETTER DESCRIPTIVE OF THE BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA. WRITTEN UPON THE GROUND... WITH A DIAGRAM OF THE BATTLE FIELD...[wrapper title]. Lawrenceburgh, In.: John B. Hall, 1847. [1],12pp. plus plan. Original printed yellow wrappers. Wrappers creased and heavily worn. Tear in foredge of plan and leaf of explanatory text, costing a small bit of the lower portion of the plan. Old dark stain throughout, with an attendant small hole causing minor loss of a few letters of text on each of seven pages. Excepting the stain, a good copy. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

A great rarity of Mexican War narratives. This copy has a remarkable provenance, bearing the ownership signature of Gen. Walter Lane on the front wrapper. Lane was born in Ireland but moved to Texas in 1836 and participated in the Texas Revo- lution. He rose to the rank of major, participated at the Battle of Monterrey, and helped recover the remains of the Mier Expedition. He fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, rising to the rank of brigadier general. The Battle of Buena Vista, which took place on Feb. 23, 1847, was a major victory for American forces under Zachary Taylor, as they defeated a much larger Mexican contingent under the command of Santa Anna. It was the only major battle of the war to take place on the American side of the Rio Grande. The Indiana volunteers, the 3rd Regiment of which Thomas W. Gibson was a member, were among the first to be attacked and fought valiantly throughout the day, trapping Mexican forces and repulsing their attack. Gibson (misidentified as “J.W. Gibson” on the front wrapper) describes in great and immediate detail his experiences during the battle in a letter written from Agua Neva (some twelve miles from the mountain pass of Buena Vista) dated March 6th, less than two weeks after the battle. An addenda, possibly composed by the publisher, John B. Hall, extols the actions of the Hoosier volunteers. The plan of the battle was drawn by John G. Dunn, also a member of the 3rd Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, and shows the position of American and Mexican forces during the battle. The accompanying text describes the action, relating charges, retreats, artillery exchanges, and the deaths of several American officers. Not in Garrett, and therefore not at the University of Texas at Arlington. OCLC locates only five copies, at Yale, Harvard, The New York Public Library, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and the Huntington Library. The NUC adds a copy at the Library of Congress. We are able to identify only two copies on the market in the last one hundred years. Extremely rare, and with a fine provenance. HAFERKORN, p.45. TUTOROW 3399. OCLC 27984877. $12,500.

With the Espejo Relation of New Mexico

80. Gonzalez de Mendoza, Juan: HISTORIA DE LAS COSAS MAS NOTABLES, RITOS Y COSTUMBRES, DEL GRAN REYNO DELA CHINA...CON UN ITINERARIO DEL NUEUO MUNDO .... Madrid: En casa de Pedro Madrigal, 1586 [but dated 1587 on the colophon page]. Two parts bound in one volume. [12],116; 244,[12] leaves, including one full-page plate. Small octavo. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original gilt backstrip laid down, gilt red morocco label. Binding edgeworn and rubbed, foredge of front board gnawed. Trimmed close, affecting the first work of the title and the running headline in the preliminary material. Ex- lib., with a small ink stamp on the verso of the titlepage and on the colophon page. Faint old stain in upper margin of second part, else quite clean internally. About very good. In a half morocco and cloth box.

An early edition of Gonzalez de Mendoza, following the first of 1585, and the second and best edition to contain the Espejo narrative of early exploration in the American Southwest. Antonio de Espejo began his exploration of New Mexico in 1583, in the company of Fray Beltran and fourteen soldiers. The ostensible reason for his expedition was to find Fr. Agustin Rodriguez, who had disappeared in that region the previous year, but much more was accomplished than merely establishing the sad fate of the martyred Franciscan. A true wealth of new information about the traversed territory was garnered, and this is the first publication to include notice of that expedition (found in this edition beginning on leaf 165 of the second part). Most editions of this work do not contain the information about Espejo’s New Mexican adventure, and Wagner says that the present edition is only the second with the Espejo narrative, following a Madrid edition of 1586, printed by Querino Gerardo Flamenco. Wagner also notes that many of the errors of that previous edition have been corrected in the present edition, and Palau writes that this edition is considered to be the most complete. Other Americana content in this volume can be found beginning on leaf 147 of the second part, in the section entitled “Itinerario y epitome de todas las cosas notables que ay desde Espana, hasta el Reyno de la China, y de la China a Espana, boluiendo por la India Oriental, despues de auer dado buelta a casi todo el Mundo. En el qual se trata de los ritos, cerimonias, y costumbres de la gente que en todo el ay, y de la riqueza, fertilidad y fortaleza de muchos Reynos, y la descripcion de todos ellos,” which is a succinct tour of Cuba, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Central America, and the Philippines. Topics of special interest are natural history, Indian landholding practices, and Spanish cultural developments. Ortelius states in his atlas that he obtained more information about America from this work than from any other single source. In addition to the volume’s great Americana content, it offers rich data on China, Japan, the Maluccas (the Spice Islands), and the Philippines. The author (1545- 1614) was an Augustinian, but he includes much about the activities of Jesuits and Franciscans, seemingly – and this is notable – in an impartial and unprejudiced manner. Copies of the Spanish language editions of this work that contain the account of the Espejo expedition have become very rare in commerce. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 587/21. JCB (3)I:307-308. PALAU 105499. MEDINA (BHA) 308. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 7z. STREIT IV:1993. SALVA 3333. SABIN 27776 (note). $20,000.

The Map a “Cartographic Landmark”

81. Gregg, Josiah: COMMERCE OF THE PRAIRIES: OR THE JOUR- NAL OF A SANTA FE TRADER DURING EIGHT EXPEDI- TIONS ACROSS THE GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES, AND A RESIDENCE OF NEARLY NINE YEARS IN NORTHERN MEX- ICO. New York & London. 1844. Two volumes. 320; 318pp. plus two maps (one folding) and six plates. Original gilt cloth, both volumes rebacked with original backstrips laid down. Some foxing. Small tear in upper right margin of folding map, with loss of 3 x 1-inch piece of map image. Binding of first volume lacks the gilt pictorial stamp of Mexican horseman, thus probably a married set. Overall a good set.

First edition, second issue, with a dual New York and London imprint in the first volume. One of the landmark books of Western Americana. Gregg’s book is ac- claimed by all sources as the principal contemporary authority on the Santa Fe Trail and trade, the Indians of the south plains, and New Mexico in the Mexican period. J. Frank Dobie calls it “one of the classics of bedrock Americana.” It gives a lively, intimate, and personal account of experiences on the prairies and in northern Mexico. The “...Map of the Indian Territory Northern Texas and New Mexico showing the Great Western Prairies...” is by far the best map of the region up to that time. Wheat states: “Gregg’s map was a cartographic landmark...’one of the most useful maps of this region at that day.’” WAGNER-CAMP 108:1. RITTENHOUSE 225. GRAFF 1662. STREETER TEXAS 1502a. FLAKE 3716. HOWES G401. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 482. DOBIE, p.76. STREETER SALE 378. SABIN 28712. $4500. President Benjamin Harrison on Tour in the West

82. [Harrison, Benjamin]: [ARCHIVE OF TWENTY-THREE PIECES OF PRINTED EPHEMERA FROM PRESIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON’S TRIP ACROSS THE COUNTRY BY TRAIN]. [Vari- ous places, mostly California]. 1891. Twenty-three pieces (a detailed list is available on request). Overall, very good.

A unique archive of printed ephemera from President Benjamin Harrison’s epic cross-country railroad journey, from the papers of E.F. Tibbott, Harrison’s private secretary who accompanied him on the trip. The President’s train left Washing- ton and proceeded to make a large loop through the country, traveling through nineteen states: Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri, Il- linois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The journey covered nearly 10,000 miles, during which time the President made nearly 150 speeches, which were later published in a volume compiled by a correspondent from the New York Mail and Express (item no. 23) who accompanied the President’s party. The introduction to that volume claims: “So complete were the arrangements in detail that the train carrying the Presidential party was always on time, and was never once delayed for repairs. Country of all sorts was traversed, all kinds and conditions of mankind seen, and every variety of weather encountered. Still nothing hindered the party from keeping every engagement.” The majority of the items in this archive relate to Harrison’s time in the West, particularly California. A wonderful collection of memorabilia from this presidential journey. A detailed list of the contents is available on request. $3750.

Bret Harte Reviews Mrs. Victor

83. [Harte, Bret]: [AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, BEING A BOOK REVIEW, WITH NUMEROUS AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS, OF MRS. FRANCES FULLER VICTOR’S The River of the West, PUBLISHED IN THE Overland Monthly]. [San Francisco? ca. 1870]. [4]pp. manuscript written on the rectos of four 8½ x 5¾-inch sheets, each sheet mounted to a slightly larger sheet of stiff card. A total of 400 words of text. Manuscript sheets chipped at edges with loss to a handful of letters of text. Good overall. In a quarto-sized half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt.

An original Bret Harte manuscript, being a review of a well-received book on the American fur trade by a prominent American woman journalist. Harte’s article appeared in the June 1870 issue of the Overland Monthly, and reviewed not only Frances Fuller Victor’s The River of the West, but also W.H. Gray’s A History of Oregon. The present manuscript is Harte’s review of the Victor book only. Bret Harte was a prolific writer, and an active book reviewer. In 1868 he became editor of the Overland Monthly, and published “The Luck of Roaring Camp” shortly thereafter, a story which won Harte national acclaim. For the June 1870 issue Harte reviewed a pair of books on Oregon, one of them being Mrs. Victor’s book, subtitled Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains and Oregon. A biography of fur trader Joe Meek, it was published in 1870 and was quite popular, going through four more editions by 1881. This is very much a working manuscript by Harte, with each page containing corrections and additions. He is generally ap- proving of Victor’s work, writing that she intended the book to be not so much a history of the Pacific Northwest, but a study of Meek, and that it is better for it:

The reader who may be disappointed in finding the biography of a pioneer, where he looked for the historic and scientific story of a River somewhat[?] famed in pioneer history will relieve the author of blame. And it is very possible that the average reader of popular subscription books will get much more satisfaction out of these pleasantly told reminiscences of pioneer life than in the same number of pages of carefully collated scientific and historic statistics.

An early Bret Harte manuscript, its interest heightened by being a review of a book on a Western subject. STEWART, BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF BRET HARTE IN THE MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS OF CALIFORNIA, 1857-1871, 412. $3000. 84. Hartmann, L., and — Millard: LE TEXAS, OU NOTICE HIS- TORIQUE SUR LE CHAMP D’ASILE.... Paris: Chez Beguin, 1819. [6],[4],135pp. plus folding plate. Antique half calf and marbled boards. Some light foxing and faint dampstaining. Signed by the author, as usual. Very good.

This is the primary source book for the history of the ill-fated effort of a group of Napoleonic veterans to establish a colony in Texas. The French group, under Gen. C.F.A. Lallemand, landed at Galveston in January 1818 and attempted to establish a colony on the Trinity River. The effort failed that summer, and the remaining starving colonists retreated to New Orleans. Despite its short life, the colony was the center of an important episode in the maneuvering between Spain, the United States, and the not yet independent state of Mexico, for control of Texas. The French settlers dreamed of establishing a new Napoleonic empire in the New World, and with more support they might have succeeded. This is one of four contemporary French books on the Champ d’Asile colony, and Streeter calls it “an indispensable source and by far the best of the group.” It consists of the diaries of Hartmann and Millard, a list of colonists, and Lallemand’s proclamation, as well as a folding plate showing the layout of the colony. A rare and important piece of early Texana. STREETER 1069. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 85. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 6. HOWES H270, “b.” MONAGHAN 792. RAINES, p.109. SABIN 30706. $7500. 85. [Haynes, F. Jay]: YELLOWSTONE [cover title]. St. Paul, Mn.: Pho- tographed and published by F. Jay Haynes, [nd, ca. 1891]. Forty original mounted photographs, each 4 x 5 inches and with a caption printed on the mount. Oblong 12mo. Original cloth. Minor wear and soiling to cloth. The photographs are very clean and crisp. Overall near fine.

A very nice collection of original mounted photographs of Yellowstone Park, by the leading early photographer of that natural wonder. Each of the forty images is individually captioned, and the album as a whole shows geysers (including Old Faithful), canyons, cascades, terraces, lakes, waterfalls – the entire spectrum of Yel- lowstone in rich tones of black, white, and silver. Haynes, the foremost master of Yellowstone photography, held the official photographic concession for the Park, granted him by the Department of the Interior in 1884. “It was as the official photographer of Yellowstone Park that Haynes achieved his lasting fame, an appointment made in 1884, and lasting for thirty-two years” – Taft. “That [Haynes] perceived the commercial possibilities of Yellowstone National Park is evident from his immediate attempt to obtain a franchise from the Department of the Interior to establish a photographic operation in the Upper Geyser Basin. Although he did not obtain the concession until 1884, Haynes returned to Yellowstone in 1882 and every year thereafter for the remainder of his life – to photograph, process, and sell views of the ‘Wonderland’” – F. Jay Haynes, Photographer. Collections of original Haynes prints of Yellowstone are difficult to find, especially in such nice condition. Taft, Photography and the American Scene, p.308. Montana Historical Society, F. Jay Haynes, Photographer, p.11 and passim. $2750.

Important Indian Linguistic Item

86. Hill, George W.: VOCABULARY OF THE SHOSHONE LAN- GUAGE. Salt Lake City. 1877. 36pp. Original green printed wrappers. Very minor wear and soiling. Near fine.

First edition, issued by the author. As early as 1855, Alexander Ross in his Fur Hunters of the Far West had included a two-page “Snake Language” word list, but Hill’s work is the most comprehensive vocabulary of English-Shoshone to have been published. Not in Streeter, Pilling, or Graff, and a rarity of western Indian linguistics. AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (SHOSHONE) 3. JONES 1590. SIEBERT SALE 1049. $6750.

With Numerous Maps

87. Hodges, L.K. [editor]: MINING IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. A COMPLETE REVIEW OF THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF WASHINGTON AND BRITISH COLUMBIA. WITH MAPS. Seattle: Post-Intelligencer, 1897. xiv,[2],192,xvii-lvi pp., plus twenty-eight maps (many folding). Frontispiece map loosely laid in. Original printed stiff wrappers. Front wrapper detached (but present) and chipped in upper outer corner. Wrappers soiled. One map with a neat, closed split along a fold. Text evenly tanned. A good copy of a book printed on poor paper.

An extensive and important study of the contemporary state of mining in the Pacific Northwest, specifically in Washington and British Columbia. The volume ably shows that the mining boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries extended beyond the Klondike Gold Rush of the far north. The text includes detailed descriptions of mines and mining regions, and also includes an index, a directory of mining companies, and advertisements for regional businesses specializing in the mining industry. The maps in this work are marvelous, and show with great specificity the various mines – most contain an index to claims. The large folding frontispiece map is “Washington and the Southern Portion of British Columbia. Showing Mining Districts and Lines of Travel,” and was prepared by Webster Brown, a civil and mining engineer in Seattle. “This work has become exceedingly scarce” – Soliday catalogue. Printed on poor paper and scarce on the market, especially so when in decent condition, as here. SOLIDAY I:1141. SMITH 1740. $2000.

Early Guide to Texas, with an Important Map

88. Holley, Mary Austin: TEXAS. Lexington, Ky.: J. Clarke & Co., 1836. [2],viii,410pp. plus folding engraved map of Texas on onionskin paper, 26.8 x 34 cm., with original handcolored outline and shading. Original tan muslin, printed paper label (chipped). Some wear and repairs to cloth. Moderate foxing. The Hooker map is clean and crisp. Gift bookplate dated 1838 from G.M. Bryan to Nu Pi Kappa Society at Kenyon College in Ohio (Guy M. Bryan was the nephew of Stephen F. Austin). Huntington Library deacces- sion stamp on rear pastedown. Overall very good. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt extra.

This is Mrs. Holley’s second book on Texas, intended as a practical and informative guide for emigrant’s to the area. Despite the title, which is similar to the author’s Baltimore 1833 book, this is a completely different work. Jenkins calls it “a much more important book.” Included herein is a general history of Texas to May 5, 1836; a printing of the Texas and Mexican constitutions; Stephen Austin’s farewell address of March 7; and specific information regarding settlements, towns, business and banking matters, transportation and communication facilities, etc. While her earlier book served to promote the enthusiastic interest of prospective emigrants to Texas, in this work Mrs. Holley provides the hard facts of what they would find there. As Stephen F. Austin’s cousin, she was in a position to know. The Hooker “Map of the State of Coahuila and Texas” was published several times, with revisions to reflect the changing face of Texas. This edition is quite striking, with the grants colored. There are numerous additions to this map over past issues. Though the 1833 Holley commands a higher price than the 1836, the 1836 is seldom offered on the rare book market. STREETER TEXAS 1207. RAINES, p.116. HOWES H593, “aa.” SABIN 32528. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 15. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 94. VANDALE TEXI- ANAMETER 88. $17,500.

The Streeter Copy

89. Hoppe, Janus: CALIFORNIENS GEGENWART UND ZUKUNFT .... Berlin. 1849. viii,151,[1]pp. plus two folding maps. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers worn at edges and along backstrip, else near fine. In a half morocco and cloth box.

The Thomas W. Streeter copy, with his pencil notes on the titlepage. “Like many such publications, the author drew heavily upon previous works, including Duflot de Mofras, Fremont, Robinson, and Forbes. This introduction to California consists mainly of a geographical and historical discussion together with a climatography by Professor Erman. Erman also wrote on the discovery and importance of gold, based on information gathered during an 1829 visit to San Francisco while circumnavigat- ing the globe. Hoppe believed that the primary interest in California was for the European colonization of the West Coast of North America” – Kurutz. “One of the more important of the many early German publications on the gold discoveries, with data from various reports and studies by George A. Erman” – Wheat. “The maps are of substantial importance” – Hill. One map shows California and the other shows the gold regions of the world. STREETER SALE 2573. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 96. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 104. HOWES H639, “aa.” KURUTZ 341. DECKER 29:44. EBERSTADT 125:137. HOLLIDAY 528. COWAN, p.291. HILL 826. SABIN 32991. $1500.

Strong Content Letter Between Hudson’s Bay Company Factors on the Fur Trade and the Oregon Question

90. [Hudson’s Bay Company]: Ross, Donald: [AUTOGRAPH LET- TER, SIGNED, FROM HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY FACTOR DONALD ROSS TO THE CHIEF FACTOR OF THE COMPANY, JOHN STUART, DESCRIBING THE SEASON’S TRADE AND COMMENTING ON THE OREGON BOUNDARY DISPUTE]. “Norway House” [Nelson River, Manitoba, Canada]. Aug. 12, 1844. 3pp. plus integral address leaf. Folded sheet. Short separations at folds, hole from opening costing a few words, else very good.

For much of the first half of the 19th century Great Britain and the United States had jointly occupied the fur-rich Oregon country (known as the Columbia District to the Hudson’s Bay Company), the northwest coast region west of the continental divide, north of the Columbia River to the 54th parallel. By 1844, however, with America’s vision of manifest destiny in full swing, the U.S. laid claim to the region, launching the Fifty-four Forty or Fight campaign. Particularly debated was the area north of the Columbia but south of the 49th parallel (i.e. much of present-day Washington State). Ross here argues that if that area were ceded, the entire region to the 54th parallel might as well be forsaken:

...Our furs, I am happy to see, sold well last winter, with the exception of Beaver, and the quantity sent home was by no means small, yet somehow or other, we cannot manage to make profit nowadays, tho’ the trade was never carried on in this country with so little expense; there must be a peg loose somewhere, that is a clear case, but I shall not pretend to say where the leakage is. The trade of this Department for the last outfit is certainly very good...and as we are now again to hunt beaver without restraint, I expect the current year will produce something even better than the last....The Columbia too has given large return for the last outfit but its expenses, I fear, will swallow all up, and probably more; our affairs in that quarter, I expect are in a very critical state. The Americans are pouring across the mountains by thousands, and if the Oregon question be not speedily settled, some serious mischief will assuredly arise before long. These grasping Republicans it appears insist on the line of 49 to the sea; if they get that, it will be better to give them the whole, the rest will be of little value to England and will rather be a source of trouble and annoyance than of real benefit to the nation; they have no just claim whatever to any portion of the territory, but John Bull, good honest soul as he is, terrible when his anger is up, allows himself to be cheated and gulled by every body who can manage to blurry and tickle him into good humour. For my own part, I sincerely wish we were well rid of the whole concern, for I strongly fear we shall then suffer the heaviest blow that ever fell on the fur trade....

Two years later the Oregon Treaty was signed, setting the boundary between the U.S. and Canada as the 49th parallel. $2500.

91. Hughes, George W.: MEMOIR DESCRIPTIVE OF THE MARCH OF A DIVISION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY, UNDER THE COMMAND OF BRIGADIER GENERAL JOHN E. WOOL, FROM SAN ANTONIO DE BEXAR, IN TEXAS, TO SALTILLO, IN MEXICO. [Washington. 1850]. 67pp. plus two folding maps and eight plates. Modern three-quarter calf and boards. Light scattered foxing. Very good.

An excellent account of Gen. Wool’s army in San Antonio and his march to Saltillo in 1846. Includes Josiah Gregg’s account of the march of the Arkansas Volunteers across Texas to San Antonio. The attractive lithographed plates, after watercolors by Edward Everett, illustrate San Antonio de Bexar and a plan of the Alamo, as well as the two earliest published views of the exterior and interior of the ruined Alamo, Mission Concepcion and Mission San Jose near San Antonio, and a church and watch tower near Monclova. One map traces the route of Wool’s troops from San Antonio to Saltillo; the other shows the route of the Arkansas regiment from Shreveport to San Antonio. Not in Wagner-Camp. HOWES H767. RAINES, p.121. TUTOROW 1634. $2250.

The Texas Cotton Office in the Civil War

92. [Hutchings, W.J.]: HOUSTON, TEXAS, NOV. 20th, 1864. TO THE SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS, FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS. [Houston: “News” print, 1864]. 19pp. Two instances of contemporary manuscript notes in text. Gathered signatures, string- tied, as issued. Tanned. A bit of light staining and edge wear, including a small chip in foredge of first leaf. Very good.

A very rare Confederate imprint and report on the Texas cotton trade during the Civil War. The Texas Cotton Office was established “for the military service in this Department,” and it operated by receiving cotton from Texas growers and using it to purchase arms for Confederate forces. Hutchins, chief of the Office, discusses its creation, explaining that at the outset of the Civil War all arms in Texas were sent east, and that the state’s forces had to be armed from scratch. Wanting money as well, the Texas government decided to “impress” one half of the cotton produced in the state, initially angering reluctant cotton producers. Included are lists of army supplies purchased by the Texas Cotton Office, as well as a list of growers and the amount and value of cotton they have contributed to the cause. Also printed is the text of a message from Hutchins and his associates, “To the Cotton Planters of Texas” (also issued as a separate broadside, see Parrish & Willingham 1577), in which they encourage planters throughout the state to work with their office OCLC and Parrish & Willingham locate only two copies of this rare pamphlet, at the University of Texas and at Duke. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 1578. OCLC 26998092. $3000.

Topographical Description

93. Hutchins, Thomas: AN HISTORICAL NARRATIVE AND TOP- OGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF LOUISIANA AND WEST- FLORIDA, COMPREHENDING THE RIVER MISSISSIPPI WITH ITS PRINCIPAL BRANCHES AND SETTLEMENTS.... Philadelphia. 1784. 94,[1]pp. Antique-style three-quarter speckled calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Early ownership signature on titlepage and in margin of two interior leaves. Overall very good.

One of the most valuable works on Florida and Louisiana in the Revolutionary period. Hutchins was an officer in the British Army during the French and Indian War, and later surveyed the country along the Mississippi from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. During the Revolution he served under Greene in the Carolinas, and later spent several years in West Florida, the area between New Orleans and Pensacola. He made a minute examination of its coast, harbors, lakes, and rivers, all reported in this accurate book. EVANS 18532. SABIN 34056. CLARK I:259. STREETER SALE 1521. SERVIES 608. VAIL 705. HOWES H845, “b.” $6000.

94. [Indian Treaties – Two Kettles Band of Dakota or Sioux]: TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE TWO KETTLES BAND OF DAKOTA OR SIOUX INDIANS. [Washington. 1866]. 7pp. Folio. Dbd. Minor chips, tears. Very good.

One of the famous Sioux treaties of Fort Sully. “These famous treaties were concluded at Fort Sully, Dakota Territory by Newton Edmunds, E.B. Taylor, and Generals S.R. Curtis and H.H. Sibley. They stipulate a cessation of hostilities and depredations by the various bands, and their withdrawal from the overland routes established or to be established through their country, etc. Among the witnesses is Hezekiah L. Hosmer, Chief Justice of Montana Territory” – Eberstadt. EBERSTADT INDIAN TREATIES 130. $750.

Hungarian Exiles in Iowa

95. [Iowa]: Kossuth, Louis: [MANUSCRIPT IN GERMAN OF KOS- SUTH’S APPEAL FOR HUNGARIAN FREEDOM, TITLED “AN DAS FREIE VOLK DER VEREINIGTEN-NORD-AMERI- KANISCHEN STAATEN,” PREPARED BY LADISLAUS UGHAZI, A HUNGARIAN EXILE LIVING IN NEW-BUDA, IOWA]. [New- Buda, Iowa]. Jan. 24, 1851. 22pp. manuscript. Folio. Loose sheets. Some dust soiling. Overall good.

Lajos Kossuth’s eloquent and impassioned appeal for Hungarian freedom from centuries of Austrian tyranny, here prepared by the leader of a community of Hungarian exiles living in Iowa. In a paragraph on the last page, Kossuth appoints Ughazi his representative to the United States. The manuscript seems to have been aimed at garnering American support for the Hungarian cause, soon after the failures of the revolution of 1848 and subsequent short-lived Hungarian republic led by Kos- suth. New-Buda was the location of an early Hungarian settlement in Iowa. An important work of a leading Hungarian immigrant. EBERSTADT 163:284. $3750.

Original Boards

96. Irving, Washington: ASTORIA; OR, ENTERPRISE BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Three volumes. xvi,317,[3] ;ix,[1],320; vii,[1],294pp. Half title in first volume. Original drab paper over boards, printed labels, edges rough trimmed. Three joints cracked (one neatly reinforced internally with rice paper), one-inch segment of paper lacking from toe of one spine, spines cracked (but sewing still sound), mild discolorations on three boards. Bookplate and early ink name. Generally a good set, internally near fine. In cloth slipcase.

First British edition, issued shortly after the American edition. This is the most uncommon binding for this book which, when in the original state, is usually seen in cloth backed boards. There is a half title in the first volume, but none is called for in the second and third. The Stockhausen set was similarly bound, though uncut, and a special note was made in the sale catalogue: “Neither the NYPL Ir- ving bibliography nor BAL note a copy of Astoria in this state...” (Part I, lot 265, $500, 1974). BAL 10296. HOWES I81. WAGNER-CAMP 61:2. SABIN 35130. FIELD 761. LANG- FELD & BLACKBURN, p.35. FORBES HAWAII 1004. $750. 97. [ James, Jesse]: GRAND 1930 TRIUMPHAL TOUR. THE GREAT SCENIC STAGE PLAY PRODUCTION OF JESSE JAMES. THE MOST AMAZING STORY OF DARING AND THRILLING ADVENTURE EVER PRODUCED ON THE STAGE. THIS IS NOT A MOVING PICTURE BUT A 4 ACT STAGE PLAY WITH VAUDEVILLE SPECIALTIES BETWEEN EACH ACT. Erie, Pa.: Erie Litho. & Ptg. Co., [1930]. Broadsheet, 28 x 10½ inches, printed on light orange paper and featuring five large illustrations of scenes from the production. Very light edge wear. Near fine.

An excellent broadsheet advertising a touring 1930 stage production of the life and exploits of legendary outlaw Jesse James. This production was mounted as the Great Depression was deepening, and the treatment of James in the text anticipates the public’s fascination with depression-era outlaws such as John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Ma Barker, and “Baby Face Nelson.” James is called “the most interesting character American history has furnished,” and it is noted that “thousands of people...were in sympathy with [the James brothers] and followed their sensational career with the utmost interest.” Parents are assured that they can safely bring their children to the performance: “it will not corrupt the mind of the young. On the contrary it teaches a great moral lesson.” The illustrations depict thrilling scenes from the play, including a bank robbery, a prison break, and Jesse’s murder by “the traitor” Robert Ford. This broadsheet was meant to advertise whatever local performance was being undertaken, and the name and place of the venue has been left unaccomplished on this copy. $750.

Jefferson’s Report on Western Explorations

98. [ Jefferson, Thomas]: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT... COMMUNICATING DISCOVERIES MADE IN EXPLORING THE MISSOURI, RED RIVER, AND WASHITA, BY CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK, DOCTOR SIBLEY, AND MR. DUNBAR; WITH A STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE COUNTRIES AD- JACENT.... New York: Printed by Hopkins and Seymour, 1806. 128pp. plus folding sheet. Modern antique-style three-quarter calf, gilt, and marbled boards. A fine copy.

The scarce New York printing of the first official publication to provide any detailed account of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the first work to give any satisfactory account of the southwestern portion of the Louisiana Purchase. The first section consists of material transmitted to Jefferson by Lewis, giving information on their route, the Indians, trade, animals encountered, and the geography. Equally important are the accounts of the southern explorations, which include two letters by Dr. Sibley, one on the Indian tribes of Texas and the other an account of the Red River and the adjacent country. Sibley gives a careful account of the language, characteristics, location, and population of the various Indian tribes in Texas, with some account of their relations with the Spanish and French. The description of Red River gives a good idea of the physical characteristics of the country. Streeter called this the first account of Texas in book form. Jefferson’s report to Congress on the various western exploring expeditions he had dispatched to investigate Louisiana Territory was the most accurate and complete account of the area to appear until the official publications of Pike (1810) and Lewis and Clark (1814). It was widely cribbed by a press eager for information on the vast new lands. The report was published first in Washington, and this rarer New York edition appeared shortly thereafter. An even rarer edition was published in Natchez. An essential Lewis and Clark and southwestern exploration piece. WAGNER-CAMP 5:3. LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDI- TION 2b.4. HOWES L319, “b.” FIELD 925. GRAFF 4407. SABIN 40824. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 11632. $15,000.

99. Johnson, Alvin J., and Rufus Blanchard [publishers]: JOHNSON’S NEW RAIL-ROAD & TOWNSHIP COPPER PLATE MAP OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS. New York & Chicago.: A.J. Johnson (New York) and Rufus Blanchard (Chicago), 1858. Copper engraved folding pocket map, full period hand-coloring, ornamental border. Sheet size: 20 x 26 inches. Folds into original dark brown cloth covers, upper and lower covers blocked in blind, the upper cover blocked in gilt. Very good.

Rare pocket map of Missouri and Kansas at the time of the Bleeding Kansas conflict. The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created those two territories with the provision that the region’s settlers would decide whether slavery would be lawful. The border state of Kansas thus became a breeding ground for anti- and pro-slavery conflict. Pro-slavery Missourians, known as border ruffians, flooded into the eastern half of the state, specifically along the Missouri River where slave-based agriculture would be feasible. Anti-slavery forces rallied, sending settlers from the North, with most coming from New England. Free state settlements were created in Topeka and Lawrence (both identified on this map), with the border ruffians establishing their capital at Lecompton (labeled here in all capital letters). This rare map, according to Heaston identical to an issue published by Johnson and Wyckoff in the same year, colorfully depicts all of Missouri and the eastern counties of Kansas (the latter is shown as far west as Fort Riley). The southeastern corner of Nebraska is shown, as are the southernmost counties of Iowa and a large portion of southwestern Illinois. The map is quite detailed, with all principal towns named, and many rivers, roads, and railroad routes (existing and proposed) shown across the region. Prominently shown in Kansas are two proposed railroad routes: the Pacific Railroad, running from Jefferson City, Missouri, through Kansas City and Lawrence, to Millard; the Manhattan and Leavenworth Railroad, running from Leavenworth to Fort Riley. Not in Phillips, Graff, Wheat, or Rumsey. HEASTON 14. $1500. 100. Kelly, William: AN EXCURSION TO CALIFORNIA OVER THE PRAIRIE, ROCKY MOUNTAINS, AND GREAT SIERRA NE- VADA. WITH A STROLL THROUGH THE DIGGINGS AND RANCHES OF THAT COUNTRY. London. 1851. Two volumes. 342; 334pp. plus leaf of advertisements. Modern half sheep and paper boards, maroon gilt morocco labels. Internally clean. Very good.

Like so many Englishmen of his era, Kelly took a dim view of the civilization in the United States. Nonetheless, his narrative is a rich and detailed account of his journey overland to the gold fields in 1849, and his subsequent account of life in California has been called “lively and interesting.” The first volume is devoted to the author’s trip from Liverpool to New York and overland to California. WAGNER-CAMP 200:1. COWAN, p.235. MATTES 515. MINTZ 269. ROCQ 15895. FLAKE 4569. GRAFF 2298. HOWES K68, “aa.” STREETER SALE 2670. KURUTZ 370a. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 115. EBERSTADT 115:1036. HOWELL 50:563. VAIL, GOLD FEVER, p.19. SABIN 37321. $2500.

The Best Edition

101. Kendall, George W.: NARRATIVE OF THE TEXAN SANTA FE EXPEDITION. COMPRISING A DESCRIPTION OF A TOUR THROUGH TEXAS, AND ACROSS THE GREAT SOUTHWEST- ERN PRAIRIES, THE CAMANCHE AND CAYUGA HUNTING GROUNDS, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SUFFERINGS FROM WANT OF FOOD, LOSSES FROM HOSTILE INDI- ANS, AND FINAL CAPTURE OF THE TEXANS, AND THEIR MARCH, AS PRISONERS TO THE CITY OF MEXICO. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856. Two volumes. Original cloth. Spine ends carefully repaired on first volume. Head and toe of spine frayed on second volume. Corners refurbished. Contemporary ownership label and pencil signatures on front endpapers. Bookplate removed from second volume. Moderate to heavy foxing in both volumes, affecting plates and folding map. Old bookseller’s blindstamp on titlepage of each volume. Overall good.

This is the seventh and best edition of the most important work on a decisive event in Texas and southwestern history. The Texan Santa Fe expedition was conceived by Mirabeau B. Lamar in an attempt to open a trade route which would lure away some of the traffic hitherto utilizing the Santa Fe trade, and also to extend his greetings to residents of New Mexico, whom he wished to participate in Texas government as residents of territory claimed by Texas in an act of 1836. Due to poor navigation, faulty planning, and harassment by Indians, the expedition lost most of its momentum. Upon their arrival in New Mexico, the entire force was taken captive under orders of Gov. Manuel Armijo. The prisoners were forcibly marched to Mexico City, and the affair brought relations between Texas, the United States, and Mexico to a boiling point. Those who survived the march and imprisonment were released in April 1842, six and a half months after their capture. Kendall, editor of the New Orleans Picayune, accompanied the expedition as an observer. With him was Thomas Falconer, who was acting in secret as an agent for the British government. Because of Falconer’s British citizenship, he was among the first prisoners released. This extremely important seventh edition incorporates for the first time an appendix containing excerpts from Falconer’s diary, as well as two additional chapters of text. For this reason, this edition is eminently more desirable than the first edition, and it is much more difficult to acquire. The map, although not a notably accurate one, shows various routes across West Texas. HOWES K75, “b”. WAGNER-CAMP 110:10. CLARK III:188. FIELD 818. RADER 2157. RITTENHOUSE 347. SABIN 37360. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 483. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 26a. GRAFF 2306. STREETER SALE 398. STREETER TEXAS 1515 (1st ed). $5000.

102. Killen, Thomas J.: TO THE PUBLIC. IN A HANDBILL DATED APRIL 21, 1854, AND SIGNED IN LARGE CAPITAL LETTERS “JOHN POYNTER McMILLIN,” THAT GENTLEMAN MAKES “THREE SPECIFIC CHARGES” AGAINST THE REV. MATTH- IAS M. BARRON [first line of text]. [Hannibal, Mo.? 1854]. Broadside, 18½ x 8½ inches. Printed in three columns. Old folds. Moderately foxed. Contemporary docketing on verso. Good.

An apparently unrecorded broadside issued by Judge Thomas J. Killen in response to slanders published by a former litigant, John Poynter McMillin. McMillin, who lives “within three miles of the City of Hannibal,” lost a lawsuit over which Judge Killen presided. McMillin then published his version of the trial and his testimony in an attempt to refute the verdict against him. Killen’s broadside is a rebuttal of those published slanders and falsehoods. It reads, in part:

To the Public. In a handbill dated April 31, 1854, and signed in large capital letters “John Poynter McMillin,” that gentleman makes “three specific charges” against the Rev. Matthias M. Barron. On these charges I have nothing to say. Mr. Barron is an aged gentleman, well known to this community; but when J.P. McMillin, in his hot haste to prove his charges and thereby prevent himself from “sinking to the degraded level of a mere slanderer,” (as he terms it,) attempts to give the public a history of his lawsuit, and in so doing, misrepresents every important event of said lawsuit; and even publishes downright falsehood, concerning it. I take it upon myself as a party misrepresented, and falsified, to give the public a correct statement of said lawsuit.

Killen goes on to disprove McMillin’s “superlatively ridiculous” charges, mocks his evident insolvency, suggests he is a deadbeat, and assures McMillin: “you may banish fears of sinking to the degraded level of a mere slanderer. Both your tongue and your pen, sir, have lost all power of slander, or detraction; true like the native polecat, they may occasionally offend and disgust the community yet no one blames it because it is the nature of the beast.” A most unusual judicial response to criticism, this broadside is doubtless the sort of thing many judges wish they could do today; unhappily, they are barred from doing so by the Canons of Judicial Ethics. Not located in any of the usual sources, including OCLC or the online catalogs of AAS, Harvard, or the Library of Congress. $1750.

Lafayette Has James Madison Handle His Business in American Land

103. Lafayette, Gilbert, Marquis de: [MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT, SIGNED BY LAFAYETTE, GIVING POWER OF ATTORNEY TO JAMES MADISON WITH REGARD TO LAFAYETTE’S NEWLY-GRANTED LANDS IN LOUISIANA TERRITORY]. Paris. Oct. 9, 1804. [1]p., in English. Folio sheet. Top inch of upper margin expertly reinforced with tissue, a few expert small repairs along the edges. Small circular stain in upper margin. Very good.

A true copy, signed in manuscript by the Marquis de Lafayette, of the document granting power of attorney to Secretary of State James Madison with regard to La- fayette’s newly-granted lands in Louisiana Territory. Although Lafayette returned to the United States only once after his heroic efforts in the American Revolution, he was greatly revered in the country whose independence he did so much to secure. In 1802 the United States Congress, at President Jefferson’s bidding, gave Lafayette a huge grant of land north of the Ohio River. Lafayette had lost much of his fortune and fame during the course of the French Revolution, and it was hoped that the grant would induce him to return to America. After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Jefferson asked the Congress to amend the grant so that the land would fall in the newly acquired territory. Jefferson even considered asking Lafayette to serve as governor of Louisiana Territory, though the plan never came to fruition and Lafayette would not visit the United States again until 1824. By this document Lafayette grants power of attorney to James Madison to manage his new lands in Louisiana. Lafayette is identified in the document as “Late Major General in the Army of the United States of America.” Madison is authorized to work for Lafayette “in my name & on my behalf to locate the lands which the Congress was lately pleased to grant me at the price & upon terms he will think the most advantageous to my interest; authorising my aforesaid Attorney to execute in my name & to my use all necessary Deeds for the better locating or letting out the said Lands & to enter with any person or persons he will think proper into such Leases, Bargains, Agreements & other Instruments of Writing which may be found necessary for the above purposes & generally to do & cause to be done in the premises all & every thing I could myself do were I personally present....” The document is signed by Lafayette in his hand, and he also notes that it is a “true copy.” The document is further signed and witnessed by Fulwar Skipwith, the Commercial Agent of the United States in Paris. A fine document, tying Lafayette to Madison, and showing the great esteem in which Lafayette was held in the United States. ANB 13, pp.37-38. $25,000.

Classic of the War of 1812

104. Latour, Arsene Lacarriere: HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF THE WAR IN WEST FLORIDA AND LOUISIANA IN 1814 – 1815. WITH AN ATLAS. Philadelphia: Published by John Conrad and Co., 1816. xx,264,cxc pp., plus eight colored maps and plans (seven folding). Atlas portion with its own titlepage, with copyright information on verso. Half title. Frontispiece portrait. Late 19th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Text lightly tanned, an occasional light fox mark. Maps neatly repaired. Else very good.

One of the most important books on the War of 1812 in the South and West, describing the campaign around the battle of New Orleans. “Major Latour’s account of the military events is minute and interesting, and the appendix contains an invaluable collection of state papers” – Sabin. “Chief authority, well-documented, on these operations” – Howes. The eight maps (Sabin states that there are only seven) consist of battle plans and “A General Map of the Seat of War in Louisiana and West Florida” executed by Major Latour in his capacity as Jackson’s engineer. Streeter describes the maps and plans (which are sometimes found bound in a separate atlas) as “invaluable,” and Clark calls the Historical Memoir... “a detailed and precise narrative of the 1814-15 campaign from the first arrival of British forces on the Louisiana coast until their complete evacuation.” Theodore Roosevelt, in his Naval War of 1812, remarks that “Latour (who was General Jackson’s chief engineer) is the only trustworthy contemporary American historian of this war” (quoted in Streeter). Latour’s text was translated from the French by H.P. Nugent. The portrait of Jackson, not found in all copies, is present here, and is a rare early likeness. SABIN 39214. CLARK II:158. STREETER SALE 1075. HOWES L124, “aa.” SHAW & SHOEMAKER 38034, 38035. SERVIES 878. $7500.

105. [Law, John]: [THE GREAT MIRROR OF FOLLY...] HET GROOTE TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID, VERTOONENDE DE OPKOMST, VOORTGANG EN ONDERGANG DER ACTIE, BUBBEL EN WINDNEGOTIE, IN VRANKRYK, ENGELAND, EN DE NEDERLANDEN. [Holland]. 1720. Title printed in red and black. 26,52,31,[1],[8],9,[1]pp. Seventy-four engraved plates or broadsides on sixty-seven sheets (including forty double-page and fourteen folding; one plate present in two states [titled “Monument consacre a la posterite en memoire de la folie incroyable...”]; eight quarter-page plates trimmed and mounted on two sheets as issued); two engraved maps (including a large folding chart by Van Keulen). Contemporary Dutch mottled calf, covers elaborately paneled with gilt rules and roll tools, central arabesque figure and corner pieces, spine in eight compartments with raised bands, brown morocco label in the second compartment, repeat decoration in gilt in the others. Expert restoration at the joints. Very good.

A very rare collection of contemporary satirical prints relating to the financial exploits of John Law and his infamous Mississippi Bubble. John Law (bap. April 21, 1671 – March 21, 1729) was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself, and that national wealth depended on trade. He is said to be the father of finance, responsible for the adoption or use of paper money or bills in the world today. Law was a gambler and a brilliant mental calculator, and was known to win card games by mentally calculating the odds. An expert in statistics, he was the originator of economic theories, including two major ideas: “The Scarcity Theory of Value” and the “Real bills doctrine.” The present work records the economic crisis precipitated by Law. The crisis had its origins in the decision of the French regent, Philippe d’Orléans, to appoint John Law the Controller General of Finances for France. “[In] May 1716 the Banque Générale Privée (‘General Private Bank’), which developed the use of paper money was set up by Law. It was a private bank, but three quarters of the capital consisted of government bills and government accepted notes. In August 1717 he bought the Mississippi Company, to help the French colony in Louisiana. In 1717 he also brokered the sale of Thomas Pitt’s diamond to the regent, Philippe d’Orléans. In the same year Law floated the Mississippi Company as a joint stock trading company called the Compagnie d’Occident which was granted a trade monopoly of the West Indies and North America. The bank became the Banque Royale... in 1718, meaning the notes were guaranteed by the king. The Company absorbed the Compagnie des Indes Orientales, Compagnie de Chine, and other rival trading companies and became the Compagnie Perpetuelle des Indes on 23 May 1719 with a monopoly of commerce on all the seas. The system however encouraged speculation in shares in ‘The Company of the Indies’ (the shares becoming a sort of paper currency)....In 1720 the bank and company were united and Law was appointed Controller General of Finances to attract capital. Law’s pioneering note-issuing bank was extremely successful until it collapsed and caused an economic crisis in France and across Europe. “Law exaggerated the wealth of Louisiana with an effective marketing scheme, which led to wild speculation in the shares of the company in 1719. In February 1720 it was valued for a very high future cash flow at 10,000 livres. Shares rose from 500 livres in 1719 to as much as 15,000 livres in the first half of 1720, but by the summer of 1720, there was a sudden decline in confidence, leading to a 97 percent decline in market capitalization by 1721. Predictably, the ‘bubble’ burst at the end of 1720, when opponents of the financier attempted en masse to convert their notes into specie. By the end of 1720 Philippe II dismissed Law, who then fled from France” – Cole. Copies of The Great Mirror of Folly vary greatly in terms of the selection and number of plates; in addition, some plates are known in various states, as evidenced here by one plate present in two states with variant text. This copy is without the engraved list of plates found in some copies. BOUND TO PLEASE 5, p.7. HOWES G442, “aa.” GOLDSMITHS 5829. KRESS 3217. MULLER 3535. SABIN 28932. A.H. Cole, The Great Mirror of Folly...An Economic- Bibliographical Study (Harvard, 1949). $16,000.

With the View of Austin in the Rare Colored State

106. Lawrence, A.B.: HISTORY OF TEXAS, OR THE EMIGRANT’S GUIDE TO THE NEW REPUBLIC, BY A RESIDENT EMI- GRANT.... New York. 1845. [5]-275pp. Colored frontispiece. Original calf, spine gilt, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Occasional light foxing, heavier on titlepage. Overall very good.

Later issue, with a differing title, of a general account of Texas, first issued in 1840. The frontispiece is the first printed view of the town of Austin, and in this copy it is in the rare colored state. Also, in this copy the frontispiece is dated Jan. 1, 1840, as in the first edition; in others it is dated 1844. The text is actually the same as in the 1840 edition, but with a cancel titlepage. Streeter calls this “an important Texas book,” noting its coverage of social life, possible openings for emigrants and directions for them, as well as its account of a journey from Houston to Austin in 1840. The book also contains much on agriculture in Texas, with sections on several crops, the uses of bees for pollination and for making wax and honey for export, the introduction of the silk worm, etc. STREETER TEXAS 1361C. RAINES, p.203. HOWES L154, “aa.” SABIN 95091. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 120 (note). $2500. 107. [Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark]: THE TRAVELS OF CAPTS. LEWIS & CLARKE [sic], BY ORDER OF THE GOV- ERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1804, 1805, & 1806, BEING UPWARDS OF THREE THOUSAND MILES, FROM ST. LOUIS, BY WAY OF THE MIS- SOURI, AND COLUMBIA RIVERS, TO THE PACIFICK OCEAN: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE INDIAN TRIBES, WHO INHABIT THE WESTERN PART OF THE CONTINENT UN- EXPLORED, AND UNKNOWN BEFORE.... Philadelphia: Hubbard Lester, 1809. 300pp. plus the rare folding map, 11¼ x 9 inches, which is often lacking; stipple engraved frontispiece by W.R. Jones; and four unsigned etched plates with roulette work. Contemporary marbled sheep, neatly rebacked to style, gilt spine, original black morocco label. Very good. Provenance: J.C. Smith (early inscription noting the purchase of the book from “an itinerant bookseller at the price of one dollar”); Floyd B. Smith (bookplate).

First edition of the so-called “Apocrypha edition” of Lewis and Clark. In response to the growing curiosity of the public regarding the findings of Lewis and Clark and the delay in publication of the “authorized account” of their expedition, this compilation of bits and pieces from already published works appeared (culled from Gass, Clark, Mackenzie, Carver, and Jefferson’s Message... of 1806), misleading the reader into believing it was the account sanctioned by the government and containing all the information gathered during the journey. Despite its hodge-podge nature, it provided most of the world with its first detailed account of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It further contains five plates, purporting to be of western Indians. One of these is knocked off from the frontispiece of Bartram’s Travels...; the others have no earlier appearance that we can trace. The present copy also includes the very rare folding map, which Wheat notes as “the earliest published map with legends stemming from Lewis and Clark.” Howes calls this the “counterfeit” edition, and Sabin states that, according to Paltsits, it is “the earliest edition of an unauthor- ized ‘counterfeit’ account....” Robert Becker (in Wagner-Camp) incorrectly cites the London map as accompanying this edition. This first Philadelphia edition is quite rare, and is almost invariably found in terrible condition and almost always without the map. LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 4a.1. WAGNER- CAMP 8:1. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2282. SABIN 96499. STREETER SALE 3122. HOWES L321, “aa.” SHAW & SHOEMAKER 17911. $13,500.

The Very Rare Dublin Edition of Lewis and Clark

108. [Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark]: HISTORY OF THE EX- PEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAINS LEW- IS AND CLARKE TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN THE RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. PER- FORMED DURING THE YEARS 1804-5-6.... Dublin: J. Christie, 1817. Two volumes. [12],xxvii,[1],588; [2],xii,[3]-643pp. plus engraved folding map, five engraved maps and plans, and one engraved view. Later 19th-century three quarter calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, maroon gilt labels. Covers worn and soiled, spines rubbed and cracked, hinges tender. Occasional foxing and staining, otherwise internally clean. Ownership inscription on titlepage if each volume: “James Hudson, Kings Coll., Windsor.” Gift inscription on verso of titlepage in first volume reads: “David and William H. Hudson, to their brother James on his going to America, June 28, 1831.” A very good copy. In a half morocco and cloth box.

First Dublin edition, the rarest of the early editions of the Lewis and Clark narrative. The engraved plates present here are far cleaner than encountered in the original edition, further enhanced by the presence of an additional plate depicting the principal cascades of the Missouri River. The folding map closely resembles that in the 1814 Philadelphia edition, and Coues notes that the typography and line spacing make this Dublin edition easier to read than the Philadelphia edition. This is the most famous of all western travels, and the cornerstone of any collection of Western Americana. Described by Wagner-Camp as “the definitive account of the most important exploration of the North American continent,” this work finally appeared in print nearly eight years after the journey’s completion, and then with the initial help of Nicholas Biddle, and ultimately under the editorship of Paul Allen. The expedition itself, the brainchild of Thomas Jefferson, was the final grand attempt to find a water route across the continent. While the search was unsuccessful, Lewis, Clark, and their companions were the first white men to cross the western half of North America. In total, the expedition covered some eight thousand miles in slightly more than twenty-eight months. They brought back the first reliable information about much of the area they traversed, made contact with the Indian inhabitants as a prelude to the expansion of the fur trade, and advanced by a quantum leap the geographical knowledge of the continent. The biography of Meriwether Lewis by Thomas Jefferson was omitted from the London edition, though present in the first American printing. “Of all of the reissues this one is the best, being nearest the original, of which it is a faithful and literal reprint” – Coues. A rare copy of an early printing of the account of Lewis and Clark’s expedition. Only two complete copies of the Dublin edition have been offered at auction in the last twenty-five years. WAGNER-CAMP 13:6. LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDI- TION 5a.6. HOWES L317, “c.” GRAFF 2482. SABIN 40831. $50,000.

Establishing a Fire-Fighting Company in New Orleans

109. [Louisiana]: AU NOM DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE. LAUSSAT, PRÉFET COLONIAL, COMMISSAIRE DU GOU- VERNEMENT FRANÇAIS, CONSIDRANT QUE L’INCENDIE DE LA NUIT DERNIÈRE DANS CETTE VILLE, L’A MENACÉE TOUTE ENTIÈRE DU DANGER LE PLUS IMMINENT...[caption title]. [New Orleans. 1803]. Broadside, 12¾ x 9 inches, with woodcut headpiece of symbolic figure with printed inscription: “Préfecture Coloniale.” Slight tanning at edges, a few minor instances of foxing. Contemporary and modern inscriptions above text. A very good copy. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

An exceedingly rare New Orleans broadside ordering the creation of a fire-fighting company as part of the city’s militia, printed during the brief return of France’s control of Louisiana between the Spanish and American periods of ownership. The decree, dated Dec. 16, 1803, was published after a disastrous fire the previous night. “This edict promptly orders the creation of a company of militia engineers to form part of the New Orleans militia and to serve in times of emergency; it also directs the municipal council to study means of preventing and controlling fires” – McMurtrie, Louisiana. Spain signed a treaty of cession on March 21, 1801, but this was not announced to the inhabitants of the colony until March 27, 1803. The actual transfer of Loui- siana back to France occurred on Nov. 30 of that year, and three weeks later the territory became a part of the United States. Pierre Clément de Laussat, Colonial Prefect, arrived in New Orleans from Paris to take formal possession of Louisiana and, as had already been arranged, transfer title to the U.S. “Laussat’s first official announcement after his arrival in New Orleans was followed by five other proclamations or edicts in broadside form which have been seen and recorded in the course of this study, and there were undoubtedly still others which have not come to light. The purpose of these broadsides was to establish and carry on the machinery of government and to insure the maintenance of law and order after the automatic termination of the authority of the Spanish magistrates and office holders. Most of these bear at the top an interesting woodcut of the typical female figure symbolical of France, and inscribed ‘Préfecture Coloniale.’ This woodblock was undoubtedly brought by the commission from Paris” – McMurtrie, New Orleans. An extremely rare broadside printed during France’s brief control of Louisiana in the early 19th century. Jumonville records copies at Historic New Orleans Collection and Tulane, both McMurtrie and Shaw & Shoemaker list a copy at the University of Alabama, and OCLC adds a copy at Yale. JUMONVILLE 88. HUMMEL 781. McMURTRIE (NEW ORLEANS) 55, p.64. Mc- MURTRIE (LOUISIANA) 34. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 4546. OCLC 27829599. $11,000.

Signed by Colonial Prefect Laussat

110. [Louisiana]: LAUSSAT, PRÉFET COLONIAL, COMMISSAIRE DU GOUVERNEMENT FRANÇAIS, CONSIDÉRANT, QUE PAR LE REMISE DE POSSESSION DE LA LOUISIANE À LA RÉ- PUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE, LES OFFICIERS DE JUSTICE QUI TENAIENT LEUR CARACTÈRE DE LA COURONNE ROYALE D’ESPAGNE, ONT DÛ CESSSER LEURS FONCTIONS...[caption title]. [New Orleans. 1803]. Broadside, 13¾ x 9¼ inches, with woodcut headpiece of symbolic figure with printed inscription: “Préfecture Coloniale.” Minor old folds at edges, moderate wear at edges. Moderate dampstaining in bottom margin. Autograph signatures of Colonial Prefect Laussat and Com- mission Secretary Daugerot, authorization stamp of the Préfecture Coloniale de la Louisiane, contemporary ink inscriptions and later pencil inscription above text. A good copy. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

An exceedingly rare New Orleans broadside concerning the establishment of the French judiciary in Louisiana, printed during the brief return of France’s control of Louisiana between the Spanish and American periods of ownership. The decree provides “for the hearing of urgent cases by the Municipal Council until a judicial system is established after cession to the United States” (Hummel). Spain signed a treaty of cession on March 21, 1801, but this was not announced to the inhabitants of the colony until March 27, 1803. The actual transfer of Loui- siana back to France occurred on Nov. 30 of that year, and three weeks later the territory became a part of the United States. Pierre Clément de Laussat, Colonial Prefect, arrived in New Orleans from Paris to take formal possession of Louisiana, and as had already been arranged, transfer title to the U.S. “Laussat’s first official announcement after his arrival in New Orleans was followed by five other proclamations or edicts in broadside form which have been seen and recorded in the course of this study, and there were undoubtedly still others which have not come to light. The purpose of these broadsides was to establish and carry on the machinery of government and to insure the maintenance of law and order after the automatic termination of the authority of the Spanish magistrates and office holders. Most of these bear at the top an interesting woodcut of the typical female figure symbolical of France, and inscribed ‘Préfecture Coloniale.’ This woodblock was undoubtedly brought by the commission from Paris” – McMurtrie, New Orleans. An extremely rare broadside printed during France’s brief control of Louisiana in the early 19th century, signed by the Colonial Prefect Laussat and the French Commission Secretary Daugerot. Jumonville records copies at New Orleans Public Library and Historic New Orleans Collection, and McMurtrie (Louisiana) adds a copy in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville. JUMONVILLE 69. HUMMEL 798. McMURTRIE (NEW ORLEANS) 53, p.64. Mc- MURTRIE (LOUISIANA) 22. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 4551. $10,000.

An Extraordinary Run of the Laws of Louisiana

111. [Louisiana Laws]: ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF THE TERRITORY OF OR- LEANS, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE PRINCIPAL, IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS, ON MONDAY THE THIRD DAY OF DECEMBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FOUR...[through 1816]. New-Orleans. 1805-1816. Fifteen items bound in five volumes. Contemporary calf, leather labels. Some wear at extremities, a couple hinges cracked. Scattered browning and foxing, contemporary ink notes and signatures (several by Charles Mitchell), hole in one titlepage not affecting text. The front board of one volume bears the embossed name of “J.M. Ducros.” Overall good to very good. In two brown half morocco clamshell boxes (the boxes are slightly different shades of brown).

An extensive run of the important first laws of the territory and state of Louisiana, with the text in English and French. These laws established the foundation on which the American legal system was built, and this archive comprises the earliest collection of American laws west of the Mississippi. The influence of French and Spanish laws in North America is evident in these early territorial laws, as is the legal confusion created by the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. It took Congress more than two decades to determine their intent with regard to existing Spanish and French law. The present volumes cover the following sessions: first and second sessions, legislative council, 1805; first and second sessions, first legislature, 1807; “Acts Relative to Land Claims” and the Farewell Address of Washington, 1807; first and second sessions, second legislature, 1808-9; first and second sessions, third legislature, 1810-11; first, second, and third sessions, general assembly, 1812-14; and first and second sessions, second legislature, 1815-16. All are New Orleans imprints from a period from which all such imprints are rare. See Jumonville for collations. JUMONVILLE 121, 122, 143-45, 147, 173, 186, 203, 215, 226, 239, 249, 264, 723. STREETER SALE 1587 (ref ). $15,000.

The United States Takes Possession of Louisiana

112. [Louisiana Purchase]: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT... ACCOMPANYING SUNDRY DOCUMENTS RELATIVE TO A DELIVERY OF POSSESSION, ON THE 20th ULTIMO, BY THE COMMISSARY OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, TO THE COM- MISSIONERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OF THE TERRITORY OF LOUISIANA [caption title]. [Washington. 1804]. 12pp. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Light soiling and wrinkling. Very good. Untrimmed and partially unopened. In a half morocco box.

For the history of the Louisiana Purchase, this document is second in importance only to the actual treaty between France and the United States. This Message records the actual transfer of Louisiana to American control, which Jefferson calls an “important acquisition, so favorable to the immediate interests of our Western citizens, so auspicious to the peace and security of the nation in general, which adds to our country territories so extensive and fertile, and to our citizens new brethren to partake of the blessings of freedom and self-government.” This printed document consists of: 1) Jefferson’s message to Congress announcing the transfer and the stationing of troops in the Purchase, and conveying his “sincere congratulations”; 2) the Dec. 20, 1803 letter of commissioners William C.C. Claiborne and James Wilkinson to James Madison, Secretary of State, announcing the transfer had taken place that day; 3) the transfer document, signed the same day by the commissioners and citizen Peter Clement Laussat, the French Prefect; 4) Claiborne’s proclamation, as governor general of the Province of Louisiana, extending the authority of the United States to the Territory; and 5) Claiborne’s “Address to the Citizens of Louisiana,” also dated Dec. 20, 1803. The document, and Jefferson’s notice of transmittal, are dated Jan. 16, 1804. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 7545. STREETER SALE 1585. COHEN 7272. $6500.

The Louisiana Purchase, and the Laws Governing the New Territory

113. [Louisiana Purchase]: ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE EIGHTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.... [with:] ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE EIGHTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...[caption titles]. [Washington. 1804/1805]. Two volumes. 225, vi; [233]-376,v,[36]pp. Original plain wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn. Light even tanning, scattered foxing. Very good. Untrimmed and unopened. In a half morocco box.

This pair of volumes, covering the acts passed at the first and second sessions of the eighth Congress, contains much significant material concerning the acquisition and governing of Louisiana Territory. The first volume contains the first Congressional printing of the Louisiana Purchase treaty and associated conventions. This famous treaty was really three separate documents. The first was the purchase of Louisiana, the second was a convention for the payment of the money due on the purchase, and the third was a convention for the settlement of old claims. All were executed secretly in Paris in April 1803, ratified by the Senate on Oct. 17, and proclaimed on Oct. 21, 1803. The terms were the most important in American diplomatic history after the 1783 peace treaty. They gave the United States all of the vast Louisiana Territory and made the country a continental power, with territory extending to the Pacific Ocean. The text of all three documents is given in full in French and English. Also included are the texts of treaties with several Indian tribes. The second volume, covering the second session of the eighth Congress, contains the act for the governing of Orleans Territory, the act for governing Upper Louisiana, the constitutional amendment changing the mode of election of the vice-president, the Treaty of Vincennes, and other important laws. This is followed by an index to this volume and the acts of the first session. Neither volume is listed in Shaw & Shoemaker. MALLOY, p.508. $3000.

Early Lobbying Effort by Louisiana

114. [Louisiana Territory]: REFLECTIONS ON THE CAUSE OF THE LOUISIANIANS, RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED BY THEIR AGENTS. [Washington? 1805]. 17pp. Dbd. Upper margin of titlepage inscribed in a contemporary hand: “Hon.ble. Mr. Bradley.” Some light foxing, else near fine. In a half morocco box.

A brief account of Louisiana under its various occupations, calling for the swift establishment of its statehood. The pamphlet, which was presumably submitted to Congress, is dated 1804 by Sabin, but is more likely to have been printed after Dec. 31, 1804, when a memorial mentioned on page 5 was submitted, and before March 2, 1805, when the Orleans Territory government bill was passed. The present copy bears a contemporary ink ownership inscription, presumably in a clerical hand, of the “Hon.ble. Mr. Bradley.” Stephen Row Bradley, U.S. Senator from Vermont from 1791 to 1795 and 1801 to 1813, was instrumental in advocating his own state’s admission to the Union. This extremely rare pamphlet was evidently privately printed to lobby members of Congress to move swiftly to formulate a territorial government. It argues that the citizens were perfectly happy under the Spanish government, and that the successive changes in governments had led to laws being promulgated without publication. The pamphlet goes on to argue that the people of Louisiana can only be happy and loyal to the United States if they know they have equal rights as American citizens and can look forward to statehood and political representation. SABIN 42288. E.S. Brown, The Constitutional History of the Louisiana Purchase (Berkeley, 1920), pp.155-61. DAB II, pp.575-76. $6500.

Details of the French Negotiations, 1803

115. [Maclure, William (compiler)]: TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNIT- ED STATES. Philadelphia. 1807. [2],2,[1],[4],[9]-145pp. including tables on ten folding leaves. In English and French. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Occasional foxing, else near fine.

A comprehensive collection of tables, correspondence, and other documents pursu- ant to the Convention of April 1803 between France and the United States. The 1803 Convention, which is printed in the present volume, was the last of the three agreements of the Louisiana Purchase signed by Robert Livingston, James Monroe, and Barbé Marbois on April 30, 1803. Unlike the first two documents, which dealt explicitly with the cession of and payment for Louisiana, this convention follows upon the Convention of 1800, providing for the compensation of American citizens whose ships and goods were seized by France during the Quasi-War of 1798-1800. The work details Americans claims as documented by a board of commissioners appointed in 1803 and follows their work through 1804. The introductory note printed on the verso of the title-leaf suggests some controversy involved in the process, or at least the return of tensions with France: “To satisfy rational enquiry – prevent misrepresentation and shew how far the late American Commissioners at Paris endeavored to execute what they considered their duties under the Convention of April 1803; the following statement of their transactions is respectfully submitted to an enlightened and discriminating Public without any observations or deductions, by A Member of the late Board.” By 1807, when the volume was published, France had once again begun, along with the British, to challenge American neutrality on the seas with various abuses, helping lead to the Embargo Act of that year. Sabin and Shaw & Shoemaker attribute the compilation to William Maclure (1763-1840), the important Scottish-born geologist and co-founder of New Harmony, who served on the 1803 commission to Paris. SABIN 43556, 97944. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 12968. $950.

116. Mason, Allen C.: COMPENDIUM OF INFORMATION CON- CERNING THE CITY OF TACOMA AND WASHINGTON TER- RITORY. Portland, Or.: A. Anderson & Co., 1888. 110pp. plus map and frontis. Original printed green wrappers. Wrappers soiled and edgeworn, spine chipped; front wrapper with closed tears (repaired on verso). Map/frontispiece leaf worn at foredge. Closed tear in outer margin of first twenty leaves with no loss of text. Good.

Scarce second edition, following the first of the previous year. This edition is more than double the length of the first, and adds a map of Washington and northern Oregon. Mason was a prominent real estate loan broker in Tacoma, and a booster of the region and the territory. The map shows the railroad lines in the area, and the frontispiece shows Mason’s office. The text gives a history of Washington, describes its agricultural resources, forests, mines, and stock raising. There is also detailed information on particular counties. Not in Howes, and scarce on the market. EBERSTADT 138:721. OCLC 28205604. $900.

Very Early Arizona Imprint

117. McCormick, Richard C.: MESSAGE OF HON. RICHARD C. McCORMICK, ACTING GOVERNOR OF THE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, TO THE SECOND LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. Prescott: Office of the Arizona Miner, 1865. [2],13pp. Folded sheets, untrimmed and unbound. Foredges stained and a bit frayed. Overall a very good copy, in original state. In a half morocco box.

A very rare early Arizona imprint. McCormick gives a “state of the territory” address, including discussions of both hostile and friendly Indians, and of the burgeoning mining industry in Arizona. McMurtrie locates only two copies of this rarity. McMURTRIE (ARIZONA) 7. ARIZONA IMPRINTS 7. MUNK, p.141. $7500.

A Highly Important Texas Imprint Issued by Zachary Taylor

118. [Mexican-American War]: Taylor, Zachary: QUARTEL GENERAL, EXERCITO DE OCUPACION, CORPUS CHRISTI, 8 DE MAR- ZO, DE 1846. ORDEN NUM. 30. [Text begins:] EL EXERCITO DE OCUPACION EN TEJAS, ESTANDO YA PARA TOMAR POSI- CION SOBRE LA BANDA IZQUIERDA DEL RIO GRANDE.... Corpus Christi. March 8, 1846. Broadside, 11¾ x 8 inches. Four horizontal folds. Minor splitting along fold edges. Very good.

A very rare printing of one of General Zachary Taylor’s earliest Mexican War orders, issued on his way to the Rio Grande, just two months before the United States formally declared war on Mexico. The controversy over the boundary between Texas and Mexico was one of the contentious issues that led to the Mexican War. Texas claimed that the Rio Grande constituted its border with Mexico, while Mexico contended that the border was actually the Nueces River, far to the north. In January 1846, President Polk ordered Taylor and his army to march to the Rio Grande. In this order, dated from Corpus Christi on March 8, General Taylor tells the inhabitants of the region that they may expect the most scrupulous treatment from the American troops, who will do their utmost to safeguard their civil and religious rights. Taylor communicates that he has full faith in the discipline and patriotism of is troops, and expresses his wish that they will be able to ensure the same freedoms on the south side of the Rio Grande as those that exist on the north side. Furthermore, he says that his army will pay fair prices for all the goods they consume in the area. The broadside is signed at the end (in type): “Z. Taylor, Bt. Bd. General en Gefe, Exercito de los Estado Unidos.” Just two weeks later, on March 23, Taylor and his armies reached Point Isabel, Texas, near the banks of the Rio Grande. There was a newspaper in Corpus Christi, and this was probably printed on its press. OCLC locates only a single copy, at Yale. Winkler notes one copy of an English version, at the Library of Congress. Rare and important, and an early statement of American intentions in the weeks before the official beginning of the Mexican-American War. OCLC 60461252. WINKLER, TEXAS IMPRINTS 28 (note). $3750.

Kearny’s Return from California

119. [Mexican-American War]: Gallaher, Dr.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM A MEMBER OF THE SAVANNAH BLUES OF THE OREGON BATTALION IN THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR, DESCRIBING GENERAL STEPHEN KEARNY’S RE- TURN TO FORT LEAVENWORTH AND A COURT-MARTIAL CASE INVOLVING HORSE THIEVERY]. [Fort Leavenworth, Ks.]. Aug. 26, 1847. [3]pp. autograph letter, on a folded folio sheet, addressed for mailing on the fourth page and with a circular “Fort Leavenworth, Mo.” postmark, dated August 28 in manuscript. Several tears at folds and cross-folds unobtrusively repaired with tissue. Small tear in foredge of second leaf (from wax seal), affecting a few letters in the closing. Good. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt.

An interesting letter from Fort Leavenworth during the Mexican-American War, describing General Stephen Kearny’s triumphant return from California, as well as recent incidents of crime and violence. The letter is from a Dr. Gallaher to his friend, the Rev. C.D. Herbert in Parkville, Missouri. Gallaher was a member of the so-called “Oregon Battalion” of Missouri volunteers, who protected emigrants on their way to Oregon and California during the war. The letter contains references to Andrew Sublette, brother of the legendary mountain man, William Sublette. Andrew Sublette was a captain of the St. Louis company of the Oregon Battalion, and was stationed at Fort Leavenworth for part of the Mexican-American War. The fort was the base from which General Kearny mounted his expeditions to Mexico and California during the Mexican-American War. Gallaher begins by thanking Herbert for his recent letter and cautions: “I hasten to answer it because we are now under marching orders and may start within one hour from this time....” Gallaher describes the recent arrival of General Kearny at Fort Leavenworth, returning from his victorious campaigns:

General Kearny and Col. Willard P. Hall arrived at the Fort from California at 10 o’clock on the 22d. All the commissioned officers at the Fort and in the Battalion were immediately commanded to appear “in the square” at 3 o’clock p.m. At 1/2 past 3 one company U.S. infantry in full uniform were placed “in a square” in “the square” where a full bank of music was placed. At 4 Gen. K. & Col. H. in full uniform mounted on snow white steeds marched round the outside of the inside of the square followed by all officers then arrived at the Fort. While 10 guns were being fired and the music played the tunes “The Conquering Hero Comes” “Hail to the Chiefs” “Hail Columbia” &c. &c.

Gallaher then describes an evening full of music celebrating Kearny’s return. Dr. Gallaher likely practiced medicine at Fort Leavenworth, but also appears to have been a member of the tribunal that heard court-martial proceedings. Much of the rest of the letter discusses an incident involving a horse stolen from Andrew Sublette’s company:

Last week was spent principally in court martials and there are some cases now to be tried soon. In the fore part of last week a horse from Sublette’s company strayed off – was taken up by an Indian living some two miles below the Fort. Some of Stewart’s Rangers were passing the Indian’s house – saw the horse & said they were going straight to Sublette’s camp & would take him over and paid the Indian $2.50 for his troubles – but they forgot to call at Sublette’s camp, took him to their own – erased the letter brands on his shoulder (“G.B”) after keeping him some days. The Indian told Sublette’s men where he was & went with him to Captain Stewart’s camp & pointed out the man & horse. Stewart’s men gave him up without a word – but what must be done with him or them for making the erasures was a matter not so easy [sic] settled. That, or the day after, Stewart’s men (some of them) & some officers with them took the Indian – tied him up by the heels & whipped him almost to death for telling Sublette’s company that Stewart’s had the horse. I saw him & know just how bad or how well he was whipped.

Gallaher concludes by mentioning how members of the same company recently robbed a steamship. An interesting Mexican-American War letter, giving a flavor of life at Fort Leavenworth. $3000.

120. [Mexico]: PRIMERA SECRETARIA DE ESTADO. DEPART- MENTO DEL INTERIOR. EL EXMO. SR. VICE-PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS-UNIDOS MEXICANOS SE HA SERVIDO DIRIGIRME EL DECRETO QUE SIGUE...[caption title]. [Mexico. Feb. 4, 1834]. Broadsheet, 8 x 11½ inches, integral blank leaf present. Damp- stain in lower right corner, light fold lines. Clean. Very good.

An important decree by vice president and temporary acting president of Mexico, Valentin Gomez Farias, for the relief of oppressed citizens and unemployed soldiers. This act reiterates the intentions of a similar April 6, 1830 decree which stated the government’s wish to relieve suffering caused by the country’s disorganized administration by helping citizens take up government lands in Coahuila and Texas. This February 1834 act was in turn reinforced by an April 11, 1834 act which clarified the administration of such new colonies as might appear. Quite rare. “Streeter locates only one copy besides his own. A highly interesting decree...Here we learn that preference will be shown to soldiers and politicians thrown out of work by the termination of the revolution” – Eberstadt. STREETER TEXAS 812. ARRILAGA 1834, p.47. EBERSTADT 162:330. $1000.

A Scene of Native American Life in the Rocky Mountains

121. [Miller, Alfred Jacob]: FEMALE INDIANS TOILET [manuscript caption title]. [New Orleans. 1837]. Watercolor, 8½ x 11¼ inches, made up of pencil on buff paper, with gray and brown washes, heightened with white. Fine. Matted and attractively framed.

An attractive Alfred Jacob Miller watercolor showing a pair of Indian women bath- ing. Though unidentified beyond the caption, they are very likely members of the Snake Indian tribe, whom Miller encountered on an expedition to Wyoming in 1837. Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-74) was one of the earliest and most important artists who produced paintings of American Indians based on his firsthand experience on the frontier. In this, he was a contemporary of Karl Bodmer and George Catlin – an artist who travelled the American West in the 1830s and created paintings of North American Indians based on his own observations and experiences. Miller is significant for travelling further west than either Bodmer or Catlin, reaching the Rocky Mountains in 1837. This image depicts a pair of Indian women in a wooded area, clad from the waist down, as they kneel beside a river and bathe themselves. Miller has rendered it in subdued earth tones, and the women themselves seem to be a part of the lush natural landscape. The outline of another group of Indians is visible in the background. Born in Baltimore, Miller studied painting in Europe in his early twenties. He returned to Baltimore in 1834 and opened a studio, exhibiting paintings in Baltimore and Boston shortly thereafter. In 1836, Miller moved to New Orleans and opened a studio there. The following year he met Scottish baronet Sir William Drummond Stewart, retired from the British army, and agreed to join his expedition to the Rocky Mountains as the company’s artist. “Miller was not driven by the fierce desire for posterity that motivated Catlin, but he would see more than both Catlin and Bod- mer, for Stewart was en route to the annual rendezvous of fur trappers and traders, which [Stewart] had attended for the past four seasons” – Tyler. Captain Stewart had met Karl Bodmer and his patron, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, in St. Louis a few years earlier, and was inspired by the details of their western journeys. Stewart, Miller, and their party began in St. Louis, completed their outfitting in Westport, and then travelled along what would become known as the Oregon Trail through Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The ultimate destination of Stewart’s group was the annual rendezvous of trappers and traders which, in 1837, took place at Horse Creek, a tributary of the Green River in present-day Wyoming. It was there that Miller first encountered the Snake Indians, who staged a grand entry to the rendezvous in Stewart’s honor. Miller made dozens of sketches during the course of the three-week rendezvous, which he turned into finished watercolors and oil paintings when he returned to New Orleans in late 1837. Miller exhibited several of his western paintings in Baltimore and New York in 1838 and 1839. A large group of the watercolors that Miller produced in New Orleans in late 1837, the present work among them, were meant for Captain Stewart’s personal collection. Miller travelled to Murthly Castle in Scotland in 1840 to present his paintings to Stewart and to paint further works for him. The present watercolor was part of “a fresh and lively group of pen, wash, and watercolor sketches that Stewart kept in a ‘richly bound portfolio’ in the drawing room” (Tyler). Provenance: This watercolor was part of the portfolio given to Sir William Drummond Stewart by Alfred Jacob Miller about 1840. It descended in the Stewart family at Murthly Castle until it appeared at auction at Chapman’s in Edinburgh, June 16-17, 1871, where it was purchased by Bonamy Mansell Power. It descended through the Power family until it was consigned to auction at Parke Bernet Gal- leries in New York on May 6, 1966, where the album was broken up and sold as a series of watercolor drawings by Miller, “the property of Major G.H. Power of Great Yarmouth, England.” This watercolor was acquired at that sale by Carl and Elizabeth Dentzel, becoming part of their collection. It was sold to the previous owner in 1996 by the Gerald Peters Gallery. A lovely and early watercolor of American Indians by the important artist, Alfred Jacob Miller, based on his travels in the West. TYLER, ALFRED JACOB MILLER 473A (“unlocated”). $62,500.

122. [Mormons]: THE DESERET NEWS. TRUTH AND LIBERTY. Vol. X. No. 1 [through] 51. Salt Lake City. 1860-1861. 408pp. Folio. Dbd. Fifty-one issues. First issue heavily chipped, worn, and soiled. Issue 38 loose but present; chipped at edges. Final issue heavily worn and chipped, with some loss. Scattered small tears and soiling. Overall, about good.

Fifty-one issues of the important Mormon newspaper, The Desert News, covering most of 1860 and the first months of 1861. This volume includes news on Lincoln’s election, the stirrings of the Civil War, and many other interesting items. FLAKE 2822. McMURTRIE (UTAH), pp.21-36. $2250.

123. Munson, Samuel Bishop: A NEW MAP OF THE WESTERN RIV- ERS. OR TRAVELLERS GUIDE EXHIBITING THE MISSIS- SIPPI, MISSOURI, OHIO, AND ILLINOIS RIVERS, WITH ALL THE PRINCIPAL TOWNS, ISLANDS & DISTANCES. Cincinnati. 1845. Folding map, 12 x 22 inches, partially handcolored. Tipped to original board. Minor splits along folds, neatly repaired. Scattered foxing; small piece missing from lower outer corner, affecting border only. Very good. Archival matting, and protected with mylar sheet.

Second edition, after the first of 1843. A remarkably rare map, by the cartographer of A New and Embellished Map of the United States.... The present map depicts sections of the above mentioned rivers as they flow through Wisconsin, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Mississippi. The hand-coloring highlights state borders and tributaries. Published to facilitate river travel, a complete table of distances between towns is provided, listing locations as far north as St. Anthony (Minneapolis), south to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, east to Pittsburgh, and west to Fort Leavenworth. The juxtaposition of these several key rivers illustrates clearly the importance of river transportation to the growing western economy. Extremely rare, the NUC locates only one copy. NUC 0888205. $4000. Reporting on the California Gold Rush, 1849

124. Murrill, J.H.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM J.H. MURRILL TO AN ASSOCIATE, DESCRIBING LIFE IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1849, AND THE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES IN REAL ESTATE AND MERCHANDISE]. San Francisco. Dec. 31, 1849. [4]pp. manuscript letter on a folded folio sheet. Old folds, some light marginal staining. Very good.

An interesting letter from San Francisco in 1849, the first year of the Gold Rush, in which a recent arrival writes a friend to tell him about the opportunities to be had, and conditions in the booming city. J.H. Murrill apparently came to San Francisco in 1849, but had no intention of going to the mining districts. Rather, he stayed in San Francisco to make his fortune, first in the real estate business, and, he hopes, as an importer of merchandise. Murrill begins by striking a familiar note, that the city is full of crime and degeneracy. He writes that he lives in the land of the “dying, a land of gamblers & thieves, of murderers and robbers as were the situation no doubt by trade and occupation of many before they came here.... Before the fire there were over two hundred large gambling houses in our town and I have no doubt that one quarter of the inhabitants of the place spend their time there Sundays not excepted.” Murrill goes on to write that he has made a great deal of money in selling his real estate, despite being targeted by two “great scoundrels.” He writes: “I have sold most of real estate on time all however to be paid within 16 months and for 3 or 6 months I have to remain here to settle up and attend to my affairs before I can join my family [in the Sandwich Islands].” Murrill goes on to say, “There is one thing sure here, a man with capital can make money faster than in the states. There is great opportunities for purchasing lands now low in many places & a man with 5 to 10 thousand capital would settle himself for life very greatly....” He says that he hopes to use his Sandwich Islands connections to set himself up as an importer of fruits and vegetables: “the best opportunities in the world are now offered at the Sandwich Islands...$10,000, these will give a man a start by which he may live as easy as he pleases. I think I shall turn my attention to the shipping business which cannot fail to be good. A line of packets from this place to the Sandwich Islands and Panama will be a lucrative business....” Of course there is always the possibility that Murrill himself was a “scoundrel,” seeking money from a gullible investor back east. Written on New Year’s Eve 1849, and full of hope for prosperity in Gold Rush San Francisco of 1850. $900.

125. [Muskogee Language]: NAKCOKV ESYVHIKETV. MUSKOKEE HYMNS. Collected and revised by Rev. R.M. Loughridge, A.M. of the Presbyterian Mission, and David Winslett, interpreter. New York. 1859. 216pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Light dampstaining to part of text. Contemporary pencil notations as to the English lyrics for some songs. Very good.

A scarce Muskogee language hymnal, here in the third edition, revised and enlarged. A contemporary hand has written English lyrics in for some of the songs. This edition is not in Ayer. OCLC locates only four copies of this edition, at Yale, Georgetown, Drew, and Brown universities. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2332. OCLC 20211766. $1500.

Item 126. The Earliest New Mexico Imprint

126. [New Mexico]: LISTA DE LOS CIUDADANOS QUE DEBERAN COMPONER LOS JURADOS DE IMPRENTA POR EL AYUNTA- MIENTO DE ESTA CAPITAL. Santa Fe: Imprenta de Ramon Abreu a cargo de Jesus Maria Baca, 1834. Broadside, 13 x 8 inches, printed in double- column format. Overall clean and very good. In a red cloth case, leather label.

The earliest surviving New Mexico imprint, issued while New Mexico was still a province of the Republic of Mexico. This broadside lists the names of ninety men obligated under Mexican law to be jurors in cases involving printing libels and other illegal publications. Under a Mexican law of Oct. 14, 1828, the ayuntamientos of the capitol cities of each state or province were required to establish a panel of at least fifty individuals to serve as jurors over printed matter. This is the list of citizens called to serve in Santa Fe. It was issued by the ayuntamiento, shortly after the establishment of the first printing press in New Mexico. “The first press of New Mexico was imported overland from the United States in 1834 [and] was operating at Santa Fe by August 1834 with Abreu as proprietor and Baca as printer, the latter having learned his trade in Durango, Mexico” – Trienens. STREETER SALE 409. GRAFF 3675. STREETER, AMERICANA BEGINNINGS 61. AII (NEW MEXICO) 3. TRIENENS, PIONEER IMPRINTS FROM FIFTY STATES, pp.58-59. Wagner, “New Mexico Spanish Press 1834-1845” in NMHR ( January 1937). $7500.

The Crucial Fight Over the New Orleans Batture

127. [New Orleans Batture]: [SAMMELBAND OF FOUR EARLY NEW ORLEANS IMPRINTS DEALING WITH THE LEGAL BATTLE OVER THE NEW ORLEANS BATTURE]. [New Orleans. 1807-1808]. See paginations below. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather label. Near fine.

An interesting collection of scarce New Orleans imprints detailing the origins and progress of the New Orleans “batture” case, one of the bitter controversies of Jefferson’s presidency and beyond. John (also called Jean) Gravier and, later, his attorney, Edward Livingston, claimed ownership of a strip of beach (the batture) at New Orleans which had long been used as a common boat landing and which had been built up by alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River. Gravier brought suit against the city, which also claimed the land. After a trial in a territorial court, the case came to the attention of the federal government, with President Thomas Jefferson and the Justice Department challenging the rights of Gravier and Liv- ingston (who had become a partial owner of the land). The case dragged on for several years, the eventual ruling being in favor of private ownership rights. The case set important precedent in the interaction of federal and state power, as well as having important local ramifications. The items in this collection have collations which correspond exactly to the appendices included by Edward Livingston in his Address to the People of the United States...with Respect to the Batture at New-Orleans ( Jumonville 159). It is likely that items 2 and 4 were printed separately and gathered by Livingston for inclusion in his work, while items 1 and 3 were probably printed especially for inclusion in Livingston’s rebuttal to Jefferson’s action dispossessing him of his land. The items in the present collection, in the order in which they are bound, are:

1) [Livingston, Edward]: Examination of the Title of the United States to the Land Called the Batture [caption title]. [New Orleans. 1808]. 68pp. Livingston mar- shalls the legal precedents supporting his position that the batture should be his for private use, drawing heavily on French law. This version of this text was most likely printed especially for inclusion in Livingston’s Address to the People of the United States... ( Jumonville 159). Jumonville’s item 160 lists this title, but gives a different pagination. McMurtrie, however, lists it as a separate entry and notes sixty-eight pages. JUMONVILLE 160 (ref ). McMURTRIE (NEW ORLEANS) 118. THOMPSON 2535. SABIN 41609. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 15442. SOWERBY 3496. COHEN 11687. 2) [Du Ponceau, Peter]: Opinion, on the Case of the Alluvion Land or Batture, Near New-Orleans [caption title]. [New Orleans. 1808]. lxxv pp. Peter Du Ponceau of Philadelphia was Livingston’s lawyer. Apparently no prominent New Orleans lawyer would take the case. This is his argument in favor of private ownership of the alluvial batture. JUMONVILLE 152. McMURTRIE (NEW ORLEANS) 126. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 14898. COHEN 11681. 3) Correspondence [caption title]. [Np, but likely New Orleans. nd, ca. 1808]. 15pp. This pamphlet reprints correspondence to and from Thomas Jefferson, Edward Livingston, James Madison, and C.A. Rodney regarding the dispute over the New Orleans batture, all dated 1808. In all, there are nine numbered letters. We have been unable to locate any separate printing of this item, and it was almost certainly printed solely for inclusion in Livingston’s Address to the People of the United States..., issued in 1808. See SOWERBY 3484 and 3498. 4) [Derbigny, Pierre]: Case Laid Before Counsel for Their Opinion, on the Claim to the Batture, Situated in Front of the Suburb St. Mary [caption title]. [New Orleans. nd, ca. 1807]. xxix,[3]pp. Jumonville attributes authorship to Louis Moreau Lislet based on manuscript notations on the Tulane copy, but most references attribute this title to New Orleans city attorney Pierre Derbigny. It states the side of the municipality in the case against John Gravier, whose original complaint sparked the controversy. Gravier was represented by Edward Livingston, and he repaid Livingston by giving him a section of land containing a batture. JUMONVILLE 162. McMURTRIE (NEW ORLEANS) 127. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 12273/13212. SOWERBY 3495. COHEN 11676. $6000. Coming Home from Oregon in 1838

128. [Oregon]: Thing, Joseph: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM JOSEPH THING ON THE OREGON COAST, TO BOS- TON MERCHANTS WILLIAM TUCKER & SON, RELATING HIS PLANS TO RETURN EAST]. At the Mouth of the Columbia River. Feb. 12, 1838. [1]p. autograph letter, signed, on a 10 x 8-inch sheet. Docketed in manuscript on verso. One-inch tear in left edge, with loss of paper but no loss of text. Two other closed tears, not affecting text. Very good and easily legible.

An early letter from the Oregon coast, written by a pioneer who travelled there with Nathaniel Wyeth in 1834. Joseph Thing was second in command on Wyeth’s 1834 expedition, and apparently spent much more time in the Columbia River region than many of his cohorts, Wyeth included. By early 1838, Thing had secured passage eastward on the Hudson’s Bay Company ship, Nereide, but his return was delayed when the ship’s captain, David Home, and four others were drowned in the Columbia River. Thing writes:

This is mearly to let you know that I am detained here mutch longer than it was intended by the agent of the H.B. Co. or my wishes in consequence of the death of Capt. Home who commanded this ship and was drown on the 26 of last month with four of his men by capsizing the ships long boat in a squall in crossing the river. This has been a tardy trip one delay after an other it seems as if we shall never git clear of this port. I am quite out of patients & all most made up my mind to turn back a crost the Mountains.

Thing goes on to write that he expects to depart by sea on another ship as soon as they have a “fair wind,” and that he is sending this letter to Boston by express across Canada. $2250.

129. [Oregon]: ART WORK OF THE STATE OF OREGON. Portland: The W.D. Harney Photogravure Co., 1909. Nine parts, bound without wrappers into one volume, comprised of eighty photogravure prints and 29 leaves of text. Folio. Contemporary black pebbled morocco, gilt. Front hinge repaired, rear hinge cracked, corners worn. Contemporary inscription on front fly leaf. Else good.

A bound set of the “Art Work” series for Oregon, with numerous photogravures of scenery in the state. The titlepage indicates “Edition De Luxe of Photogravures.” Although most issues of this series focus on the developing urbanity of the cities and towns they portray, the Oregon set depicts mainly but not exclusively natural scenes. A superb collection of American scenes, with eighty plates, some plates have two images, for a total of more than 100 scenes. $900. Osage Indians in Paris, 1827

130. [Osages]: SIX INDIENS DE LA TRIBU DES OSAGES, ARRIVÉS DU MISSOURI AU HAVRE.... Au Havre: Chez S. Faure, [1827]. [4], 27pp. Half title. Modern half calf and marbled boards, vellum-tipped corners, gilt label. Fine.

A detailed overview of the Osage Indians and their territory, printed to accompany the now-famous visit of six Osages to Le Havre, France in July 1827. The visit had a profound impact on French attitudes towards the tribe, many current members of which were the result of relations between French pioneers and Osage women. The six Indians, consisting of four warriors and two squaws, were quickly dubbed a “prince,” “princesses,” and “warriors” by the French press. Numerous publications similar to the present one were published in conjunction with the visit. Complete with sections on the Missouri River, Indian domiciles, treatment of women, children, religion, war, language, and a particularly interesting segment on the connection between the Indian and his land. This is clearly related to Paul Vissier’s work on the Osage, published in Paris the same year (Wagner-Camp 33a), and it is possible that he wrote this as well. Another edition of the present work was also published in Brussels the same year. Howes calls this Havre edition the “second edition, enlarged,” but a com- parison shows that the Brussels edition actually has additional text, and probably came second. OCLC locates only three copies of this Havre printing, at the Bib- liothèque Nationale, the Newberry Library, and the New-York Historical Society, but the latter two institutions cite twenty-eight pages and a note that this is “2. ed., revue, corrigée et augmentée,” neither detail of which conforms to the present copy. Not in Field. Scarce. HOWES O129, “aa.” SABIN 81484. BRINLEY SALE 5431 (ref ). OCLC 466397052, 70705407. $3750.

Overland Traction Engine

131. [Overland Traction Engine Company]: Robinson, Asa P., and Edward Warner: OVERLAND TRACTION ENGINE COMPANY. TRANS- PORTATION BY STEAM FROM MISSOURI RIVER TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Boston: Wright & Potter, Printers, 1865. 61pp. plus two plates and folding map. Narrow quarto. Original wrappers. Titlepage chipped on bottom and foredge, moderately dampstained. Map cleanly torn, affecting one inch of image; also cleanly separated along one fold. Moderate dampstaining of plates and pp.1-15. Some additional very light dampstaining in upper outer corner of text. A good copy. In a half morocco and cloth box.

A scarce privately circulated prospectus setting forth the optimistic plan of the Overland Traction Engine Company to haul freight and passengers overland aboard steam traction engines from the Missouri River to the Rockies. The plates, lithographed by Prang & Co., show two views of the engine – one encased, the other uncovered. A fabulous idea at a time when supplies were routinely carried hundreds of miles over the plains entirely by mule and cattle trains. In the end, however, the plan was a bit short on execution. The engine weighed fifty-four tons when fully loaded with fuel and bogged down in mud on its first trial. The folding map illustrates the prospective route west from Nebraska City. A curious 19th-century railroad alternative, which was essentially a locomotive with wheels. The NUC locates six copies, and we can add another, at Yale. GRAFF 3145. SABIN 57977. REESE & MILES, CREATING AMERICA 63. $3500.

Across Texas in 1767

132. Pages, Pierre Marie: VOYAGES AUTOUR DU MONDE, ET VERS LES DEUX POLES, PAR TERRE ET PAR MER, PENDANT LES ANNEES 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1773, 1774 & 1776.... Berne & Lausanne/Suisse. 1783. Three volumes. viii,199; 166; 219pp. including two folding tables. Half title in third volume. Old plain boards, manuscript labels. All free endsheets lacking, else very fine.

Second edition, after the first published in Paris in 1782. Pages began his trip around the world by landing in New Orleans in 1767, travelling up the Red River to Natchitoches, then to Nacogdoches and across Texas to San Antonio. Henry Wagner doubted the veracity of Pages’ account, but Thomas Streeter later established its reliability. After his Texas sojourn, Pages went on to Mexico City, sailed across the Pacific to the Marianas and Manila, visited Batavia and southern India, then proceeded up the Persian Gulf and crossed to Jerusalem. In 1773-74, Pages accompanied Kerguelen-Tremarec on his expedition to search for a southern continent in the Indian Ocean, and several years later accompanied a Dutch whaler to Spitsbergen, making his book one of both Arctic and Antarctic interest. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 165 (ref ). CLARK I:285. STREETER TEXAS 1027 (ref ). HOWES P13. SABIN 58171. HILL 1285 (ref ). $950.

Signed by the Famed California Missionary

133. Palou, Francisco: [MANUSCRIPT LETTER, SIGNED, FROM FRANCISCAN MISSIONARY FRANCISCO PALOU TO RAMON DE POSADA Y SOTO, THE FISCAL OF THE ROYAL TREA- SURY IN MEXICO, REGARDING THE QUESTION OF WHO SHOULD BE NOTIFIED WHEN MISSIONARIES TRAVEL TO UPPER OR LOWER CALIFORNIA]. [Mexico City]. May 24, 1787. [2]pp. manuscript letter on single folio sheet, written in a clerical hand and signed by Palou on the verso. Left edge a bit worn, apparently removed from a bound volume, small bit of wear on the top edge, else near fine. In a half morocco and cloth case, spine gilt.

A document signed by the famed California missionary, Francisco Palou, toward the end of his long career, when he was Guardian of the College of San Fernando. Palou (ca. 1722-89) was a student of Father Junipero Serra and followed his teacher to California where the two men, in conjunction with other missionaries, labored to build a system of missions in Upper and Lower California. Palou founded Mission Dolores in San Francisco, and was at one time or another the superior of the missions of Upper and Lower California. His historical writings are still the principal source for the life of the venerable Father Serra, and for early California missionary history as well. This manuscript, written in a clerical hand and signed by Palou, is illustrative of the struggle for influence in the Californias between the church and the secular government. In the mid-1780s, Palou became “guardian” of the College of San Fernando, a Franciscan seminary in Mexico City. Pedro Fages, governor of both Californias, often interfered with the passage of missionaries to and from the region. On April 24, 1787, Ramon de Posada y Soto, the Fiscal of the Royal Treasury in Mexico, issued a decree that the Governor should be informed which friars would be travelling to California. Palou, upon learning of the decree, contacted the newly- appointed interim Viceroy, Archbishop Alonso Nuñez de Haro y Peralta, and the Viceroy determined that the only authority which needed to be informed was the “higher government,” and not the secular authorities. In this manuscript letter Palou writes Posada y Soto with characteristic diplo- macy after having gone over the head of the government official, and informs him of the new order of things. The text reads (in translation):

With due respect and attention I received the Official Communication of the 21st of this month in which you so kindly inform me that it was a slip of the pen to have stated that it was necessary for the Missionaries of this Apostolic College who are working or will be working in the active Missions of New California and Monterey, to have a license from and permission of the Governor of that Peninsula, but that all that is necessary is for that Higher Government and the Guardian of this College to be aware of the fact and to give his permission; with this determination the error contained in the first copy of the Decree of the preceding April 24 is obliterated. I am advised of the explanation, and I shall communicate this information to all those Chaplain Missionaries who serve under your Excellency and Illustrious Self, so that they may commend it to God and pray for health and happy achievements in both governments; and I shall do likewise with regard to all individuals of this your Apostolic College of San Fernando and Mexico.

Palou’s signature shows his advanced age – this letter was signed by him in 1787, two years before his death at age sixty-six. Documents signed by Palou are rather scarce on the market. An excellent example of his deep and continued interest in the California missions he helped found, and of his guardianship of the independence of church missionaries from secular control. Zephyrin Engelhardt, The Missions and Missionaries of California, Vol. 2, pp.443-44. $7500. A Classic of the Overland Trail

134. Parkman, Francis: THE CALIFORNIA AND OREGON TRAIL: BEING SKETCHES OF PRAIRIE AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE. New York. 1849. 448pp. plus advertisements. Illustrated half title. Frontis. Original blue blindstamped cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Contemporary ownership signatures on front pastedown and free endpaper. Joints cracked, spine slightly faded, edges of text block decorated with green and yellow stripes. Very good and tight. In a chemise and half morocco slipcase.

Second printing of the first edition, with the advertisement leaves numbered 1 through 6, and 8. This printing was issued in mid-April 1849 and consisted of 500 copies. One of the classics of western travel literature, Parkman’s work may be the most familiar piece of western travel writing to modern readers. The exciting adventures of the young Boston Brahmin loose on the plains makes excellent reading. Field remarks: “Mr. Parkman had all the genuine love of adventure of a frontiersman, the taste for the picturesque and romantic of an artist, and the skill in narration of an accomplished raconteur. It is not too high praise to say that his pictures of savage life are not excelled....” WAGNER-CAMP 170:1b. BAL 15446. COWAN, p.474. GRAFF 3201. HOWES P97. RADER 2608. MINTZ 359. RITTENHOUSE 450. HOLLIDAY SALE 853. LARNED 2062. FIELD 1177. FLAKE 3277. GROLIER AMERICAN 100, 58. STREETER SALE 1816. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 327. $5000.

Interesting Black Hills View Book

135. Peterson & Carwile: BLACK HILLS VIEWS. PUBLISHED BY PE- TERSON & CARWILE, DEADWOOD, S.D. Omaha. [1903]. [3]pp, plus sixty-one photographic plates. Oblong octavo. Original black cloth, gilt title stamped on front cover. Some minor wear. Old inscription on front free endpaper. Overall clean and very good.

A detailed illustrated promotional work for the Black Hills region. Full of interesting views of mining operations (Homestake, Deadwood Standard, Horseshoe Mill, Oro Hondo, etc.), Indians, cattle and cowboy scenes, hotels, Sylvan Lake, Calamity Jane, and bird’s-eye views of Deadwood, Lead City, and other South Dakota towns. JENNEWEIN 231. $750.

Two Letters of the Utmost Importance to the Early Discovery and Explorations of the Gulf of California: The King of Spain Writes to the Viceroy of New Spain and Admiral Don Pedro Porter Casanate

136. Philip IV of Spain: [MANUSCRIPT LETTER, SIGNED WITH THE ROYAL SIGN MANUAL, TO THE VICEROY OF NEW SPAIN, CONCERNING ADMIRAL PORTER CASANATE’S EX- PEDITIONS TO THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA]. Madrid. Aug. 6, 1650. [2]pp. Folio. [with:] Philip IV of Spain: [MANUSCRIPT LET- TER, SIGNED WITH THE ROYAL SIGN MANUAL, TO ADMI- RAL DON PEDRO PORTER CASANATE, IN REPLY TO THE LATTER’S LETTER CONCERNING THE DISCOVERY OF THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA]. Madrid. Aug. 6, 1659. 2pp. Folio. Both letters very good. In individual green levant morocco cases.

Don Pedro Porter Casanate was the dominant figure in the exploration of the Gulf of California from 1635 to 1653. Born in Spain in 1604, he joined the Spanish navy early in life, serving with distinction against pirates in the Atlantic and Carib- bean. In 1634 he published the fruits of his observations on navigation as Reparo a Errores de la Navegacion Espanola.... Shortly thereafter he shifted his operations to the Gulf of California, where he led an expedition in 1635 under orders of the Viceroy. Evidently intrigued by this voyage, Casanate petitioned the Crown for permission to explore further, and in 1640 he was granted a license to “explore the Gulf of California without limit to leagues or time.” Porter pushed his explorations forward, but was handicapped by a lack of funds, since the Crown would grant him no money nor appoint him to the various patronage positions he requested, which might have supplied funds in a more round-about way. Nonetheless, he managed in 1648-50 to explore the upper reaches of the Gulf of California, especially the Baja side. It is at that point that these two manuscripts were written. The first is a letter from the King of Spain, Philip IV, to the Viceroy of New Spain concerning Casanate and his proposed expedition. The King summarizes his previous arrangements with the explorer, instructs the Viceroy to obtain detailed reports, to ascertain the cost and means of the expedition, and if Casanate discovers anything valuable, such as a pearl fishery, to come to his assistance. On the same day, Philip IV writes to Casanate (the second letter), denying him the judgeship of Sinaloa, but at the same time encouraging him in his explorations and demanding a full report once they are concluded. In short, while the Crown and the Council of the Indies were willing to do very little to aid the explorer, they were quite willing to benefit from his excursions. Certainly two of the earliest and most important documents pertaining to the Gulf of California and the discovery of Baja. Portillo y Diez de Sollano, Descubrimientos y Exploraciones en la Costas de California (Madrid, 1947), pp.243-90. Ricardo del Arco, “El Almirante Pedro Porter y Casanate. Explorador del Golfo de California” in Revista de Indias, Vol. 8 (1947), pp.783-844. $35,000.

137. Pico, Pio: [MANUSCRIPT LETTER, SIGNED TWICE BY THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF MEXICAN CALIFORNIA, PIO PICO, RESPONDING TO A REQUEST FOR HIS AUTO- GRAPH]. “El Ranchito” [present-day Whittier, Ca.]. Dec. 28, 1884. [1]p. manuscript on a quarto sheet. Old folds. Remnants of four small mounting stickers in the corners on the verso, otherwise near fine. In a half morocco and cloth folding box, spine gilt.

A very nice example of the rare signature of Pio de Jesus Pico (1801-94), best known as the last governor of Mexican California. Pico responds to a request from B.W. Austin, who wrote him asking for his autograph. Pico has signed this letter (the body of which is in a secretarial hand) twice: once at the conclusion, and a second time, with a flourish, in the left margin. Pico lost power as governor of Alta California when the United States seized the territory during the Mexican-American War. At the time he signed this letter he was involved in a protracted lawsuit over his home, El Ranchito. Pico was born at Mission San Gabriel when California (which was a part of Mexico) was still under Spanish rule. He served in the army for a time, and in 1828 became a member of the territorial assembly. Pico and other members of his family received large grants of land from the government, and he became a major southern California landholder. He was also instrumental in the growth of Los Angeles from a small pueblo to a substantial city. In 1845, Pico participated in a revolt against the rule of the Mexican governor of California, Micheltorena. He became governor of California in 1845 (also serving a brief term in the early 1830s) and presided for a year, until being driven out of office by advancing American forces during the Mexican-American War. Pico manuscript material is rare on the market. The only item that we have been able to find at auction in the past thirty years is another manuscript letter, signed, which sold in 1982. $1500. In the Original Wrappers

138. Pike, Zebulon M.: VOYAGE AU NOUVEAU-MEXIQUE...PRÉCÉ- DÉ D’UNE EXCURSION AUX SOURCES DU MISSISSIPPI, PENDANT LES ANNÉES 1805, 1806 ET 1807. Paris. 1812. Two volumes. xiv,[2],368; 373pp. plus three large folding maps. Half titles. Original salmon colored wrappers, printed paper labels. Rear wrapper lacking from second volume, else a very fine set in original state, untrimmed. In a half morocco and cloth box.

A beautiful copy of the first French edition of Pike’s classic account of the first government exploration of the Southwest, originally published in Philadelphia in 1810, here translated into French by M. Breton. HOWES P373. WAGNER-CAMP 9:3. SABIN 62838. STREETER TEXAS 1037C. $6500.

Signed by the California Explorer, Portola

139. Portola, Gaspar de: [MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED BY GASPAR DE PORTOLA AS GOVERNOR OF PUEBLA, CONFIRMING THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT BETWEEN JUAN URBANO ME- LENDES AND MARIA JOSEFA MORALES]. Ciudad de Los An- geles, [Mexico]. Aug. 18, 1777. [8]pp. manuscript, with Royal ink stamps at the head of four pages. Signed by Portola on the seventh page. Folio. Old folds and a handful of light stains. Very good. In a half red morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt.

A rare example of the signature of the great Spanish explorer and California governor, Gaspar de Portola, the founder of San Diego and Monterey. Portola (1716-86) is most famed for leading expeditions in 1769 and 1770 from San Diego to Monterey, helping to secure the California coast against potential British or Russian encroach- ments. Portola did this while serving as the governor of Baja and Alta California. From 1776 to 1784, Portola was governor of the province of Puebla, Mexico, and it is in that role that he has signed this confirmation of the marriage of Juan Urbano Melendes and Maria Josefa Morales. The document is signed by Portola on the seventh page, where it is also signed by the notary, Francisco Xavier Bernal. Jacinto de Barrios in Mexico City has signed the document on the eighth page. Portola signatures are rare on the market – no other example has appeared at auction in the past thirty-five years. $4000.

140. [Pratt, Parley Parker]: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN JOSH. [sic] SMITH & THE DEVIL. [Liverpool? 1846?]. 10pp. Lacking pp.11-16 which contains an additional “Dialogue.” Modern three-quarter morocco and cloth. Hinges a bit tender, spine leather dried. Contents age-toned. Overall a good plus copy.

An early separate printing of this pro-Mormon satire, which first appeared on the front page of the New York Herald on Aug. 25, 1844. “Probably the first work that can be classified as Mormon fiction. Parley Pratt composed it while he was stump- ing for Joseph Smith’s presidential candidacy in the eastern states in the spring of 1844” – Crawley. According to Crawley, all known separate pamphlet editions of this work also included “Dialogue Between Tradition, Reason, and Scriptus,” but it is lacking here. See Crawley for an extensive account of this work. FLAKE 6569. CRAWLEY 292. $2500.

An Extraordinary Collection of Original Buffalo Bill Art

141. [Prowse, Robert]: [Buffalo Bill]: [COLLECTION OF SEVENTY- ONE PIECES OF ORIGINAL COVER ART FOR THE Buffalo Bill Novels MAGAZINE SERIES]. [Np, but possibly London. 1918- 1932]. Seventy-one original painted illustrations, done in watercolor and gouache, each about 14 x 11 inches. Some light soiling and chipping around edges, but images generally bright and clean. Overall, very good.

A remarkable group of original cover art for the Buffalo Bill Novels, a British boys’ pulp magazine published from 1916 to 1932 by the Aldine Publishing Co. in London. Despite its name, the stories were not always about Buffalo Bill, though they were always set in the Old West and featured plenty of cowboys and Indians. These illustrations are all signed by Robert Prowse (R.P.), who did artwork for this and other similar projects; some are dated below his initials. The series ran for 342 issues, though the last cover in this collection is for No. 344, possibly an unpublished issue, as we could find no trace of this title associated with the Buf- falo Bill Novels. Somewhere between No. 188 and No. 191, “New Series” began to appear above the issue number, though they all appear to be of the same run and the numbering is continuous. The titles are as follow:

No. 23. The Man in Black No. 24. The Mad Avenger No. 29. The Red Tomahawk No. 41. The Pony Ride Detective No. 44. The Crimson Arrow No. 51. Buck Taylor! Buffalo Bill’s Chief of Cowboys No. 73. Buffalo Bill and the Bandbox Bravo No. 74. Pirates of the Prairie No. 90. Buffalo Bill’s Tangled Trail No. 94. Buffalo Bill’s Dead-Shot Nine No. 95. The Redskin Detective No. 96. Buffalo Bill’s Dilemma No. 97. Marauders of Mexico No. 98. The Gentleman from Texas No. 101. Dick Talbot’s Big Bonanza No. 103. The Velvet Hand of Cinnabar No. 104. The Silent Avenger No. 106. The Red Gold-Hunters No. 108. The Mad Rider of the Rockies No. 109. The Tenderfoot of Granite State No. 112. The League of Eight No. 114. The Doomed Sixteen No. 115. Buffalo Bill at Five Springs No. 121. The Sport from Hard Luck No. 122. Buffalo Bill’s Mystery No. 123. Buffalo Bill as Revenue Detective No. 125. The Rustler of Rolling Stone No. 126. Buffalo Bill and the Island Outlaws No. 130. The Man from Denver No. 134. Delaware Dick, the Ranger Spy No. 143. The Brand of the Red Triangle No. 151. Glass-Eye, the Hunter No. 152. The “Maddest Man in Oregon” No. 154. The Bad Man of Benson’s Ranch No. 158. The Mystery of a Lost Mountain No. 159. Three Pards of the Prairie No. 167. Buffalo Bill’s “Bad Medicine” No. 175. Dick Talbot’s Detective Trail No. 176. The Ghost of the Colorado No. 182. Dick Talbot’s Trail of Vengeance No. 188. Buffalo Bill’s Double No. 191. Buffalo Bill’s Big Bluff No. 198. Buffalo Bill’s Haunted Ranch No. 200. Buffalo Bill’s Life-Stake No. 208. The Outlaw King of the Overland No. 241. The Tigress of Texas No. 242. Buffalo Bill’s False Ally No. 256. Buffalo Bill and the Mine Jumpers No. 287. The Red Indian Detective No. 289. The Black Riders of the Overland No. 291. Rangers of the Rio Grande No. 292. Gold Spur of Texas No. 295. Wizards of the Trail No. 296. A Borderland Vendetta No. 297. Dick Talbot at the Mines No. 301. The Black-Hoods of Shasta No. 302. War Hawk the Delaware No. 303. Jackson Blake of ‘Frisco No. 305. The Rock Rider of the Sierra No. 306. The Giant Tenderfoot No. 308. Death-Notch the Scalp-Hunter No. 309. The Foes of the ‘Frisco Fresh No. 310. The Doomed Sixteen! No. 319. The Ranchmen Rivals No. 329. The Vengeance of the Omaha No. 330. Dark Dashwood, the Bandit of the Brazos No. 332. Vultures of the Border No. 333. Death-Trailer the Dauntless No. 334. Buffalo Bill’s Bad Medicine No. 336. The Wild Riders of Texas No. 344. The Boy Scourge of Dakota

A fun and fascinating group of images. $55,000. First Botanical Record of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

142. Pursh, Frederick: FLORA AMERICAE SEPTENTRIONALIS; OR, A SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANTS OF NORTH AMERICA.... London. 1814. Two volumes. xxxvi,358; [2],[359]-751pp. plus twenty-four handcolored stipple- engraved plates, one plate signed as being by W. Hooker after Pursh, a second signed as by and after Hooker, the others unsigned; with [6]pp. of advertisements, not found in all copies. With [2]pp. of manuscript notes bound in at the end of the second volume. Modern half calf and cloth, gilt leather label. 19th-century library stamp on verso of titlepages. A few contemporary notations in text. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Very good.

A landmark work in early American botany, the first to publish the findings of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and a book which has been called by one botanical historian “amazingly brilliant.” Born in Saxony, Pursh came to America in 1799. Aided by Benjamin Smith Barton, he made two memorable journeys of botanical exploration in 1806 and 1807. On his return from the second journey in 1807 he took over the running of David Hosack’s Elgin Botanic Garden in New York. He remained in the United States until 1811, when he sailed for England in an attempt to arrange for the publication of the present work. In 1806, Pursh met Meriwether Lewis, who gave him a collection of dried plants gathered on the expedition, “in order to describe and figure those I thought new, for the purpose of inserting them in his travels, which he was then engaging for the press.” It is unclear why Lewis would choose Pursh to turn the specimens over to. He may have intended that they go to Barton, for whom Pursh then worked. In any case, the death of Lewis and the delay in publication of the account of the expedition led Pursh to incorporate the Lewis and Clark material into his own work, where the material from the expedition and the locations where Lewis gathered it are carefully noted, with specimens identified as “in Herb. Lewis.” Pursh’s work is important for eastern botany as well, but its greatest contribution is the material relating to Lewis and Clark, and the publication of the first extensive observations on the botany along the route of their expedition. A fascinating feature of the work is the narrative preface in which Pursh gives some detail of his life and travels in the Americas, mentions the botanists he encountered, and gives a description of the sources he consulted in England after his arrival in 1811. Pursh returned to North America and died in Montreal in 1820. This copy contains two pages of manuscript notes describing, in scientific fashion, two different species of orchid. A unique addition to this important work. MEISEL II, pp.92-93; III, 374. McKelvey, Botanical Exploration, pp.73-83. PRITZEL 7370. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 8404. BRADLEY BIBLIOGRAPHY I:306. NISSEN (BBI) 1570. SABIN 66728. STAFLEU & COWAN TL2 8404. $6000. The Squandering of the Public Domain

143. [Railroad Lands Map]: HOW THE PUBLIC DOMAIN HAS BEEN SQUANDERED MAP SHOWING THE 139,403,026 ACRES OF THE PEOPLE’S LAND...GIVEN BY REPUBLICAN CONGRESS- ES TO RAILROAD CORPORATIONS.... Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., [1884]. Broadside, 23½ x 16½ inches; containing a map of the United States showing railroad land grants, measuring 11¾ x 15½ inches. Fine.

Political class warfare, Gilded Age style, featuring a striking map. This is a 1884 Democratic Party campaign poster, dominated by a very interesting map of the United States showing the millions of acres given by the government to railroads. Most of the land was in the West, but a smattering was in the Deep South and Michigan. Westward-snaking wide grey strips ably show the large swaths of land granted to the railroad lords, including most of Iowa and much of Minnesota. As with most political arguments it is quite misleading, greatly overstating the land actually used by the railroads; but as political propaganda it is very effective. The text claims that if the 139 million acres (more than the total land contained in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, and Indiana) were divided into 160- acre parcels, it would be enough to create more than 871,000 farms; and if the land was priced $2 per acre, the total reward reaped by the railroads would be some $278,806,052. The text below the map starkly contrasts the Democratic creed as opposed to the pro-Robber Baron philosophy of the Republicans:

We believe that the public lands ought, as far as possible, to be kept as home- steads for actual settlers; that all unearned lands heretofore improvidently granted to railroad corporations by the action of the Republican party should be restored to the public domain; and that no more grants of land shall be made to corporations, or to be allowed to fall into the ownership of alien absentees.

The attack in this broadside was directed at Republican presidential candidate James G. Blaine and his cronies. Though he lost the 1884 election to Grover Cleveland, Blaine paradoxically won the western states. RISTOW, p.474; figure 28-7. $2000.

144. Remington, Frederic: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM FREDERIC REMINGTON TO ELLIS D. ROBB]. New Rochelle, N.Y. May 30, [ca. 1905]. [½]p. 7 x 4½ inches. Very good. In a green cloth chemise.

“My first work appeared in ‘Harper’s Weekly’ and in the ‘Outing’ in ’86 or there- abouts.” A product of Ogdensburg, New York, Remington studied art briefly at Yale, then headed West, hoping to strike it rich. He arrived on the scene “during the final period of the old lawless West,” which he proceeded to document in a vast and admired output of drawings, paintings, and bronzes for some thirty years. In addition, he was sent on numerous assignments in various parts of the world, from Eastern hunts and football games to Russian military maneuvers. His pictures of the Spanish-American War were instrumental in enhancing Theodore Roosevelt’s military reputation and political career, and Remington illustrated several of Roos- evelt’s books and articles. Remington’s popularity has never waned, and he remains one of the favorite artists of the 19th century. Reed, The Illustrator in America, pp.42-43. $750.

Presentation to Famed Western Pioneer J.W. Denver

145. Ringgold, Cadwallader: A SERIES OF CHARTS, WITH SAIL- ING DIRECTIONS, EMBRACING SURVEYS OF THE FARAL- LONES, ENTRANCE TO THE BAY OF SAN FRANCISCO... STATE OF CALIFORNIA.... Washington: Printed by Jno. T. Towers, 1852. 48pp. plus eight lithographic plates including frontispiece, and six folding maps. Quarto. Original green cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt on front board. Cloth stained, front hinge neatly repaired. Old stain along gutter of titlepage/frontispiece, else generally quite clean internally. Three of the maps with long, closed splits, but with no loss. “Chart of Sacramento River” laid in. A good copy. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

A presentation copy, inscribed on the titlepage: “For Hon. J.W. Denver of California, with the respects of the author.” James William Denver (1817-92) was born in Virginia and served in the army during the Mexican War. He had a long and varied political career, serving as a member of the California State Senate in 1852-53, as California’s Secretary of State of from 1853 to 1855, and then as a U.S. Congressman from California in 1855-57. In 1852 he engaged in a duel with newspaper editor Edward Gilbert, during which Denver killed Gilbert. Denver went on to serve as secretary and governor of Kansas Territory in 1857-58. It was while governor of Kansas Territory that land speculator William Larimer named the western Kansas town of “Denver” after him (the city would become capital of the state of Colorado). During the Civil War, Denver was a general in the Union Army. This copy also bears the small, early bookplate of Theodore D. Judah of Sac- ramento on the front pastedown. Though it was published only a little more than a decade before his death, this would seem to be the engineer, Theodore D. Judah (1826-63), who launched the Central Pacific Railroad and was the driving force behind the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. As chief engineer of the Central Pacific, he surveyed the route over the Sierra Nevada that that railroad would eventually take. He lobbied tirelessly in Washington, D.C. for funding for the Transcontinental Railroad, eventually bringing together the “Big Four” railroad barons who would make the project a reality. The “third edition, with additions,” after the first of 1851. Ringgold, a U.S. Navy officer, undertook the survey of the area from the Farallones to Sacramento at the request of a group of prominent San Franciscans, and this guide was utilized extensively during the peak years of the emigration and Gold Rush. The frontispiece is a view of San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island. The other plates show smaller, similar views of other areas, generally two to a plate. This edition was issued the year after the first. A copy with a remarkable provenance. HOWES R303. SABIN 71425. COWAN, p.534. KURUTZ 536d. HILL 1454. $4000.

With Original Mounted Photographs

146. Ritzhaupt, Curt: EIN FERIEN-AUSFLUG UM DIE ERDE. SEINEN LIEBEN WERWANDTEN UND FREUNDEN. Leipzig: G. Kreysing, [1894]. 133pp., including sixteen full-page illustrations (nine of them original photographs) and two folding colored maps. 12mo. Original brown cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt. Light wear at corners and spine ends. Very clean internally. Near fine.

Inscribed by the author on the page facing his portrait. A rare photographically illustrated account of a trip around the world by a German traveller. Ritzhaupt began in Leipzig and travelled west across the Atlantic, arriving in New York in the late summer of 1893. He records his impressions of and travels through New York City and upstate (including Niagara Falls and Saratoga), Ontario, Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago (where the World’s Fair was ongo- ing), Minnesota, Yellowstone National Park, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Hawaii. He then went to Asia, visiting Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Ceylon. Japan receives extensive description, as does India (the subject of three photographs). From there Ritzhaupt travelled to Aden, through the Suez Canal, and back to Germany. Among the photographs illustrating his travels are images of Calcutta, the Ganges, and Bombay in India, Ceylon, Japan, Hong Kong, Ha- waii, and the Mammoth Hot Springs at Yellowstone. The maps show the course of Ritzhaupt’s journey. Undoubtedly printed in a small edition for private distribution. OCLC locates only two copies, at the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin and the Rijksmuseum in Amster- dam. Not in Forbes’ bibliography of Hawaii, nor in Cowan or Flake. Rare, and a desirable photographically illustrated account of a trip around the world. OCLC 246826298. $2250.

147. Rodenbough, Theo. F., comp: FROM EVERGLADE TO CAÑON WITH THE SECOND DRAGOONS...AN AUTHENTIC AC- COUNT OF SERVICE IN FLORIDA, MEXICO, VIRGINIA, AND THE INDIAN COUNTRY.... New York. 1875. 561pp. plus plates (includes five chromolithographs), two folding maps, and two leaves of advertisements. Chromolithographic frontis. Original publisher’s red cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, with gilt regimental insignias on front board and backstrip. Cloth a bit darkened, expertly rebacked with the original backstrip laid down. Internally neat and clean.

This classic work on the history of the military unit which became the Second United States Cavalry, offers accounts of Indian fights in Nebraska, Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming. The appendix includes biographical sketches of prominent officers in the Second Dragoons, as well as brief accounts of battles in which they participated from 1836 to 1875. William Drown’s daily journal from 1852 to 1858 is present, as well as material on the Civil, Mexican, and Florida wars, and the Mormons. The work is highlighted by handsome and bright color plates by Edwin Forbes depicting military scenes; and two folding maps of battles, one of the United States and Mexico, the other of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. GRAFF 3544. HOWES R395. MUNK (ALLIOT), p.191. BENNETT SUPPLEMENT 1, p.140. FLAKE 7399. SABIN 72467. TUTOROW 3312. $2500. A Primary Work on the Fur Trade

148. Ross, Alexander: FUR HUNTERS OF THE FAR WEST; A NAR- RATIVE OF ADVENTURES IN THE OREGON AND ROCKY MOUNTAINS. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1855. Two volumes. xv,333; viii,262,[1]pp. plus folding map. Lithographed frontispiece in each volume. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Rubbed at extremities. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Very good.

The very scarce first edition of the work which Streeter describes as “a principal source for all writing on the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest during the period of activity of the North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company.” Ross was with the Astor Company but joined the North West Company when the former broke up. In 1825 he travelled from the Pacific to Red River to take possession of a grant of 100 acres allotted him by Gov. Simpson. Herein he gives an excellent account of his trip. Rich in data about the Indians Ross encountered, this work is praised by Field, who states: “In all the qualities which should attract and hold our attention, it is rare to find the superior of Mr. Ross.” The “Map of the Oregon” covers the area from north of Vancouver to Mount Shasty. The appendix contains a Nez Perce vocabulary. WAGNER-CAMP 269. SMITH 8785. HILL 1486. FIELD 1326. HOWES R449, “b.” SABIN 73327. TWENEY 89, 67 (note). GRAFF 3578. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 3382. STREETER SALE 3719. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 859. $2250.

Slave and Indian Troubles in Texas in 1859

149. Runnels, Hardin R.: MESSAGE OF THE HON. HARDIN R. RUNNELS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS! PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE EIGHTH LEGISLATURE. Austin: Printed by John Marshall & Co., State Printers, 1859. 29pp. Stitched, with remnant of original yellow wrappers along the backstrip. Two pages printed faintly. Very good.

A scarce printing of Gov. Runnels’ message regarding the state of affairs in Texas on the eve of the Civil War, with much vitriol on slavery and abolition. Runnels discusses Indian troubles in the Red River country, the progress of railroads, and fiscal matters. He describes Captain Ford’s expedition north of the Red River against “marauding bands of wild Indians” who plague “the frontier and border sections of our State.” Runnels also comments on anti-slavery agitation, stating that “equality and security in the Union or independence outside of it, should be the motto of every Southern State.” Runnels takes aim at the “anarchical and revolutionary schemes” of abolitionists who are “at open warfare with the rights of property and the constitutional laws by which it is protected.” Winkler locates only three copies, and OCLC adds only three more. Quite scarce, and a forceful statement of pro-slavery sentiment in Texas. WINKLER 1221. EBERSTADT 165:194. OCLC 28445002, 26429201. $1500.

An Indian Treaty of Great Rarity, Ceding Lands on Both Sides of the Mississippi

150. [Sac and Fox Indians]: A TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE UNITED TRIBES OF SAC AND FOX INDIANS. Washington, Printed by William Duane & Son, 1805. 12pp. Dbd. Near fine. In a half morocco box.

The original printing of the important 1804 treaty made between William Henry Harrison and Sac (Sauk) and Fox chiefs at St. Louis, through which the Sauk and Fox were coerced into ceding the greater part of their lands to the United States. Four years before the treaty was signed, William Henry Harrison was appointed governor of Indiana Territory, in which one of his immediate tasks was to obtain minor cessions of Indian territory along the Illinois River. In August 1804 a handful of white squatters were killed in a fight on Sauk and Fox hunting grounds about forty miles north of St. Louis, providing Harrison with an excuse to prosecute a much larger demand in that region. In late October, Quashquame, a minor Sauk chief, and other “head men” of the Sauk and Fox arrived in St. Louis for a council with Harrison, bringing with them one of the accused killers, who was immediately put behind bars. After a week of pleading for his release and drinking heavily at the local grog shops, Quashquame and his delegation were assembled before Harrison on Nov. 3, “confused, intimidated, and either drunk or hung over” (Channick, p.8). To their surprise and befuddlement, the Indians were read the present land treaty, which they were expected to sign that day with their marks. The 2,000-word treaty traded the Sauk and Fox’s rights to 23,000 square miles of their lands in present-day Illinois, Wisconsin, and Missouri, for the “friendship and protection” of the United States together with a one-time payment of goods worth $2,234.50, and annual payments worth $1000. Herbert S. Channick notes in his 1998 Illinois Heritage article on the subject that considering “that their winter fur catch was reputed to have brought the Sauk and Fox as much as $60,000 in a single season, the deal was preposterous on its face” (pp.8-9). One of the country’s great swindles for Indian lands in the Mississippi Valley, helping set the stage for the Black Hawk War of 1832. An excessively rare document, as are most Indian treaties printed before the burning of Washington in 1814 and the emergence of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817. Two copies are listed between Sabin, Shaw & Shoemaker, and OCLC, at the Massachusetts Historical Society and the British Museum. SABIN 96616. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 9638. Herbert S. Channick, “William Henry Harrison Steals Western Illinois from the Sauk and Fox” in Illinois Heritage, Vol. I, No. 2, Winter 1998, pp.6-10. DAB VIII, pp.348-52. DAH V, pp.33-34. $5000. 151. [Salt Lake City]: R.L. POLK & CO.’S SALT LAKE CITY DI- RECTORY 1894-5. EMBRACING A COMPLETE ALPHABETI- CAL LIST OF BUSINESS FIRMS AND PRIVATE CITIZENS; A CLASSIFIED LIST OF ALL TRADES, PROFESSIONS AND PURSUITS; A MISCELLANEOUS DIRECTORY OF CITY AND COUNTY PUBLIC OFFICERS, CHURCHES, PUBLIC AND PRI- VATE SCHOOLS, BANKS AND INCORPORATED INSTITU- TIONS, SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION. Salt Lake City: R.L. Polk & Co., 1894. [2]-952pp. (including one chromolithographic advertising plate and 43pp. of advertisements printed on tinted stock). Original black half cloth, gilt, and boards printed with advertisements. Boards and preliminary leaves detached, closed tear in cloth of spine. Plate fold strengthened. Inter- nally fine. Overall very good.

An exhaustive directory with numerous illustrated advertisements. The chromolithographic plate advertises “The Orcutt Company, Leading Lithographers” and depicts a middle eastern market scene. $850.

The United States Asserts Its Federal Governmental Authority in San Francisco: The Streeter Copy

152. [San Francisco]: Riley, Bennet: PROCLAMATION TO THE PEO- PLE OF THE DISTRICT OF SAN FRANCISCO: WHEREAS, PROOF HAS BEEN LAID BEFORE ME, THAT A BODY OF MEN, STYLING THEMSELVES “THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEM- BLY OF THE DISTRICT OF SAN FRANCISCO” HAS USURPED POWERS...[caption title and introductory text]. [Monterey. 1849]. Broadside, 13 x 8¾ inches, printed in two columns. Staining and wear at folds, split neatly in half across the center horizontal fold and along one ver- tical fold. Contemporary ink numbers on verso. Overall, still very good. In a cloth chemise and slipcase, gilt leather label.

The Thomas W. Streeter copy (one of only two known perfect copies of three total known copies), with his pencil notes at the top of the recto and his bookplate at the bottom of the verso. Streeter bought this proclamation from Edwin Grabhorn in 1936, and it sold at his sale in 1968 to the Carnegie Book Shop for $1800. It was later offered by Warren Howell. At the time of this proclamation California was still under the rule of the United States military, a state of affairs in place since the Mexican War. San Francisco’s political situation in early 1849 was in a state of tumult, and the city was filled with lawlessness and crime. At the start of the year the city had three different town councils, all operating in opposition to each other. On March 12, 1849, a single, local “District Legislature” or “Legislative Assembly” was organized to ex- ercise supreme power in San Francisco, and it acted over and above the power of the Alcalde, making laws, levying taxes, and filling offices. It was this Legislative Assembly that Bennet Riley condemned as illegitimate and illegal, usurping the power of the United States Congress. In this document Riley, the military governor of California, denounces the actions of the so-called “Legislative Assembly of the District of San Francisco,” ordering citizens not to pay its taxes or support its officers. Further, Riley notes that someone “assuming the title of Sheriff under the authority of one claiming to be a Justice of the Peace” had seized the public records of the district from the lawfully constituted Alcalde. Riley calls on all law-abiding citizens to uphold the “legally constituted [i.e. federal] authorities of the land.” He urges San Franciscans to aid in restoring the records to the Alcalde and in ignoring the claims to power of the “Legislative Assembly.” Riley writes: “It can hardly be possible that intelligent and thinking men should be so blinded by passion, and so unmindful of their own true interests and the security of their property...as to countenance and support any illegally constituted body in their open violation of the laws and assumption of authority which in no possible event could ever belong to them.” He closes by implying that if the Alcalde has in any way misruled, federal authorities will provide a remedy. Bennet Riley (1787-1853) served as the military governor of California from April 12 to Dec. 20, 1849, and later assisted in creating the civil government of the state, calling for a constitutional convention and later a gubernatorial election. The broadside is signed in print by Riley at the end, dated at Monterey, June 4, 1849, and also signed in print by H.W. Halleck as Secretary of State. “This proclamation was undoubtedly printed as a broadside but I have not succeeded in locating a copy of it” – Wagner. Greenwood locates only this copy and a copy at the Bancroft Library. OCLC locates a copy at the University of California, San Diego, which is defective, with a large hole in the first nine lines of text (costing thirty-one words of text). A very rare and early California imprint, vividly describing the political instability in San Francisco in the early days of the Gold Rush. STREETER SALE 2556 (this copy). GREENWOOD 121. WAGNER, CALIFORNIA IMPRINTS 32. AII (CALIFORNIA) 94. FAHEY 119. OCLC 19807981. $38,500.

San Francisco in the Early Years of the Gold Rush

153. [San Francisco]: MAP OF SAN FRANCISCO, COMPILED FROM LATEST SURVEYS & CONTAINING ALL LATE EXTENSIONS & DIVISION OF WARDS. San Francisco: Britton & Rey, [1852]. Litho- graphed map, issued as a letter sheet, measuring 9 x 11 inches and printed on blue paper. Some browning and chipping at edges. Slight staining along upper edge. Very good. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

An early and important map of the developing city of San Francisco, issued as a letter sheet by the lithographic firm of Britton & Rey. It shows the city bounded by San Francisco Bay, the Presidio Ranch, and Mission Creek and Tracy Street. Most significantly, it shows proposed extensions of the city’s waterfront area into the bay. Speculation in these proposed lots was running rampant at the time, and the city had sold “water lots” in the central business district as early as 1847 in order to pay down municipal debt. Planked streets are shown in darker tones, and the extra width of Market and California streets is indicated. The “Mission Plank Road,” a toll road built in 1851, is also indicated. A vignette of a building in the lower right corner is captioned “Page Bacon & Co. – Adams & Co.,” showing the offices of the important banking firms that likely commissioned the map. A key gives the locations of City Hall, the post office, customs house, places of worship, etc. “The date was derived from comparisons with the B.F. Butler map of 1852 and the Zakreski map of 1853” – Streeter. Baird locates only three copies of this scarce and important early San Francisco map. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 149. CLIFFORD LET- TER SHEET COLLECTION 155. WOODBRIDGE, SAN FRANCISCO IN MAPS & VIEWS, pp.52-54. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, p.83. STREETER SALE 3885. EBERSTADT 158:31. $3750.

154. [San Francisco]: RECORDS OF THE COLLEGE HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO 1868 [manuscript title]. San Francisco. 1868-1872. 82pp. of manuscript. Folio. Original calf and sheep letter book, spine gilt. Spine neatly repaired. Internally clean and neat. Very good.

An interesting record of an early San Francisco land venture known as the College Homestead Association. Little is known of this association, though it is mentioned in a few published San Francisco records of the time. The present volume is a record of its activities over four years, as it bought and sold hundreds of lots of land in San Francisco. This organization should not be confused with the College Homestead Association of Berkeley, organized around the same time in order to raise funds for the construction of the University of California across the bay from San Francisco. The College Homestead Association of San Francisco was incorporated on March 23, 1868, with the objective of purchasing, subdividing, and selling twenty-one full blocks and five fractional blocks of land in San Francisco. This volume includes the minutes of that first meeting, the text of the association’s Act of Incorporation, and the names of the shareholders and the officers. The association was capitalized at $150,000 and had seven principals, among whom were Lester L. Robinson, a land and railroad speculator; Warren Dutton, a founder of the Marin County town of Tomales; and Jasper Babcock, the future Secretary of State of Nevada. Also included in this volume are the lengthy Articles of Association, laying out the framework by which the association would operate, as well as minutes of meetings of shareholders and directors, and records of the sales of stock. There are also long lists giving the names of the owners of various properties, and their block and lot locations, as well as notes (sometimes accompanied by newspaper clippings) announcing the forfeiture of lots due to non-payment, along with the name of the forfeiting party. A detailed and comprehensive record of four years in the operation of this early San Francisco real estate venture, sure to benefit from further research. $850.

Interesting Collection of Santa Barbara Photographs

155. [Santa Barbara]: [COLLECTION OF THIRTY-TWO ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF SANTA BARBARA, LOMPOC, AND SUR- ROUNDING AREA, INCLUDING SCENES OF TOWNS, AGRI- CULTURE, SETTLERS, SCHOOLS, AMUSEMENTS, etc.]. [Santa Barbara County, Ca. ca. 1880-1915]. Thirty-two original photographic prints, measuring from 3¼ x 5¼ to 8 x 10 inches. One photograph with a tear repaired with tape. A bit of occasional fading to an image, but on the whole the photographs are clean and bright. Overall very good.

An interesting collection of photographs showing turn-of-the-century scenes in Santa Barbara County. The photographs date from the 1890s to the 1910s, and include images in the towns of Santa Barbara and Lompoc, as well as the surrounding area. They show scenes in towns and in the country, coastlines, farms and ranches, oil drilling operations, schools, hotels, etc., providing a visual record of the development of the area. Some of the photographs are captioned in the negative, others have contemporary or later notes on the verso of the image or the card mount, thereby identifying the people and places depicted. One of the earliest photographs (ca. 1880) is captioned on the verso, “When Clara Ashley was Goddess of Liberty,” referring to an annual Fourth of July Parade that began in Santa Barbara in 1876. It shows a parade moving down the central street in Santa Barbara, with horses pulling carriages or wagons, and onlookers viewing the festivities. Another photograph, likely from the 1910s, shows an automobile crossing a bridge at Gaviota Pass in Santa Barbara County. Two photographs show schools in Lompoc – one of them is of students in front of the LaSalle School in Lompoc, while the other shows teachers Hattie and Grant Jackson with their students at the Lompoc Public School, circa 1885. A few photographs show agricultural scenes, including harvesting hay in Lompoc, with notes on the verso identifying some of the men in the photographs. There are also a few portraits, including a male member of the Lundberg family, and another of Sheriff Broughton of Santa Barbara County. Scenes in Santa Barbara include the Los Baños Del Mar bath- house in Santa Barbara, and the Hotel Potter. Ranching scenes show the Jalama Ranch in Lompoc and cowboys roping a cow at the Jesus Maria Rancho, while two images show oil drilling operations, including a gusher from the Hartnell No. 1 rig in the town of Orcutt. Several of the photographs are on mounts identifying the professional photographer who took them, thus providing further information on the development of the photography industry in California at the turn of the century. A photograph mounted on the card of San Francisco photographer W.N. Collom shows the Lompoc-area ranch of the Morehead family. Collom was active in San Francisco beginning in the 1890s, and specialized in photographs of residences and farms. Another photograph, circa 1895, was taken by C.C. Curtis of San Jose and shows an eight-horse team pulling two wagons filled with bags of seeds or feed. A large photograph on the printed card of J.B. Rhea of Lompoc shows several men standing around what appears to be an early oil rig, identified on the verso as being owned by Ben Richardson. Another Lompoc photographer with work included here is E.T. Briggs, whose studio was used by a hunting party of four men posed with rifles and three dead deer. Yet another photographer whose work appears in this collection is A.H. Rogers, who began in San Bernardino in 1885 and moved to Santa Barbara in 1898. One of his photographs is of a sunset from the tower of the Hotel Potter in Santa Barbara, while another shows the large steamer “State of California” at the pier in Santa Barbara, also taken from the tower of the Hotel Potter. A third Rogers photograph shows Sunday strollers along the waterfront in Santa Barbara. A photograph by A. Sturtevant, who operated in Los Angeles in the late 1890s, shows an adobe house in Los Angeles purportedly used by John C. Fremont and Kit Carson in 1847. In all, an interesting collection of photographs from the then remote and little developed Santa Barbara County. $3750.

Gold Rush Rarity

156. Schmolder, Bruno: NEUER PRAKTISCHER WEGWEISER FUR AUSWANDERER NACH NORD-AMERIKA IN DREI ABTHEI- LUNGEN.... Mainz. 1849. Three volumes bound in one. [8],120pp. plus five plates (including frontispiece); [4],153,[1]pp. plus frontispiece and colored folding map; [4],106pp. plus folding map. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Scattered foxing. Paper restoration in upper margin of pp.1-2 in the first part, not affecting text. Overall, a very good copy. In a half morocco box.

The second issue of Schmolder’s work, the first having been published the previous year without the maps and one of the plates. Collations are otherwise identical, and it is possible that the same sheets were used. The author went overland from Missouri to California in 1843, and evidently worked with John Sutter on a scheme for colonization. This occupies the first part of the work, while the second is devoted to the Middle West, particularly Missouri and Texas, and the third to Iowa. Schmolder’s advice to immigrants includes information regarding New Orleans as an entrance point. The map entitled “Die vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika & Mexico...” is entirely handcolored, with the states and territories differentiated. The large “Topographische Karte von Iowa” shows the region along the west bank of the Mississippi River. Streeter’s copy contained a map of the West in the first part, but it is almost never found with the book. A very rare work, of great importance to Continental immigration. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 178. WAGNER-CAMP 155:2. CLARK III:407. STREETER SALE 3154. COWAN, p.572. HOWES S172, “b.” KURUTZ 562b. WHEAT TRANSMIS- SISSIPPI 636. $8500. 157. Schoerenhunt, J.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM J. SCHOERENHUNT IN MONTEREY TO DR. JOHN TOWNSEND AT PUEBLO DE SAN JOSE, REGARDING LAND SALES IN SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY IN 1849]. Mon- terey, Ca. Sept. 15, 1849. [2]pp. autograph letter on a quarto sheet. With manuscript cover address on accompanying quarto sheet. Both sheets wrinkled and edgeworn. Address sheet with tears from wax seal. Good overall. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt.

A very interesting letter regarding land sales in San Francisco at the dawn of the Gold Rush. The letter was written from a “J. Schoerenhunt” in Monterey to Dr. John Townsend. Townsend (d. 1850) was a prominent and important California pioneer. He came to California with the famed Murphy expedition in 1844, and was the first licensed doctor to settle there. An early supporter of John Sutter, Townsend was appointed the fourth American alcalde (pre-statehood mayor) of San Francisco, serving from April to September, 1848. He then attempted mining, until moving to San Jose, where he practiced medicine and became involved in real estate and land improvement. Townsend and his wife died in San Jose during the cholera epidemic of 1850. Schoerenhunt and Townsend were apparently partners in real estate ventures, which is the main subject of the present letter. Schoerenhunt writes, in part:

I have written twice to you at San Francisco, thinking you had returned to that port, to inform you that I had the papers both for selling the lots and to bring down the water to the city and the port. They are made before the Alcalde, Archivada, etc., so that they are now in order without any fear of difficulties. I have only sold here 16 lots to Hartnell and Dna. Auugustin. Nothing is to be done at this place when people who have money keep it for the pleasure of looking at it. I am very desirous to go to San Francisco, but the present admiral wrote to me from Lima that he will be here about the middle of the month. This obliges me to remain a little longer.

Schoerenhunt concludes by discussing pending transactions, and relates the opin- ions of others frustrated by slow sales. An interesting and early letter regarding land sales in Monterey and San Francisco in 1849, sent to a prominent California pioneer. $1500.

158. Scott, Samuel: MAP OF THE BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DA- KOTA AND WYOMING WITH FULL DESCRIPTIONS OF MINERAL RESOURCES, etc. Custer City, S.D. (pamphlet) and Phila- delphia (map). 1897. [2],40pp. and folding map, 29 x 31 inches. Pamphlet and map in original red pocket folder with printed cover. Water damage to folder, with minor bleeding to inner margin of pamphlet and one panel of map. Else very good.

Cover title: Rocks, Minerals, and Other Resources of the Golden Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. Uncolored edition of Samuel Scott’s large map of the Black Hills region, showing topographic features and various towns, including Deadwood, Sturgis, and Custer City. “For legibility, and for tracing streams to their sources, this is still a useful map of the Hills” – Jennewein. The accompanying pamphlet, sometimes referred to by the cover title, is “the first book on descriptive mineralogy of the Black Hills...today highly sought after as a Black Hills mining relic” (Loomis). JENNEWEIN, BLACK HILLS BOOKTRAILS 229 (colored ed). Thomas A. Loomis, “Black Hills Pegmatites” in Dakota Matrix Minerals, Vol. 10, No. 3. http://www.dakotamatrix. com/Black_Hills_pegmatites.asp. $750.

Slavery and the Bibliography of Slavery in Texas

159. [Slavery]: [Texas]: A REPORT AND TREATISE ON SLAVERY AND THE SLAVERY AGITATION. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF TEXAS. DECEM- BER, 1857. Austin: Printed by John Marshall & Co., State Printers, 1857. 81,[1],vi pp. Original printed green wrappers. Wrappers worn along edges and with a few small tears; worn along spine. A few scattered light fox marks. Overall, very good.

A scarce antebellum Texas report on slavery and the slave trade, including a very early bibliography of printed works on slavery. John Henry Brown was chairman of the committee that produced this report, which urges Congress to abolish all laws hindering the slave trade, with lengthy reasons why it is in Texas’ interest to do so. Several arguments are given in favor of the legality and practicality of slavery and the slave trade. Of great interest is a six-page “List of Works on Slavery,” which was “compiled by a Southern Editor.” This is a very early bibliography of Ameri- can works on the subject, covering both nonfiction and fiction, and with informed annotations. Almost all the works listed carry a strong pro-South, pro-slavery viewpoint. The last copy of this Texas report that we can find offered for sale was from the Eberstadts in the 1960s. A scarce work on Texan views toward slavery in the years immediately before the Civil War. WINKLER 958. EBERSTADT 165:70. $4000.

The Rare Second Edition of The Book of Mormon

160. Smith, Joseph, Jr.: THE BOOK OF MORMON: AN ACCOUNT WRITTEN BY THE HAND OF MORMON, UPON PLATES TAKEN FROM THE PLATES OF NEPHI. TRANSLATED BY JOSEPH SMITH, JR. Kirtland, Oh.: Printed by O. Cowdery & Co. for P.P. Pratt and J. Goodson, 1837. [3]-619,[2]pp. 12mo. Contemporary sheep, manuscript label on front cover. Binding rubbed but quite solid. Light foxing. Very good, in original unsophisticated condition. In a half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt.

The rare second edition of The Book of Mormon, with a new preface by Parley P. Pratt, printed while the Church was headquartered in northeastern Ohio. There are some textual changes, and Smith now notes himself as “translator” on the titlepage. This edition is considerably rarer than the first. “The preface (pp.[v]-vi), signed by Parley Pratt and John Goodson, indicates that they had obtained the rights to publish a second edition of 5,000. This probably means that they helped under- write the publication and shared in the profits accruing from its sale. In spite of the statement in the preface, the exact size of the edition is uncertain. In 1886, Ebenezer Robinson, a typesetter in the Kirtland print shop, recalled a bit tentatively that it was 3,000. This smaller number is more consistent with the relative scarcity of the 1837 Book of Mormon today. The preface further explains that in preparation for the new edition, the first edition was ‘carefully re-examined and compared with the original manuscripts’ by Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery. Richard Howard has found more than two thousand changes which were written into the Printer’s Manuscript of the 1830 Book of Mormon and incorporated into the second edition, and over one thousand other changes not indicated in the manuscript. It would seem, therefore, that the 1837 Book of Mormon was printed from the corrected Printer’s Manuscript, and additional changes were made – by Cowdery? – as the book was set in type. Most of the changes are grammatical and stylistic. A few, however, are significant, for example, where ‘God’ or ‘Eternal Father’...are changed to ‘Son of God’ or ‘Son of the Eternal Father.’ Thus the 1837 edition is an important progenitor in the genealogy of the Book of Mormon: from it was printed the first sequence of British and American editions culminating in the edition now in use by the LDS Church” – Crawley. Joseph Smith moved the Church to Kirtland, Ohio in 1831, after founding the movement in Palmyra, New York the previous year. The Church was headquartered in Kirtland until 1838, when Smith relocated to Missouri, and shortly thereafter to Nauvoo, Illinois. The first Temple of the Mormon Church was built in Kirtland and stands there to this day. While in Kirtland, the Church also re-branded themselves as the Church of Latter Day Saints, later to be formalized as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some idea of the comparative rarity of the second edition of The Book of Mormon can be seen in book auction records for the last thirty-five years, where forty-two complete 1830 editions are offered, but only one complete 1837 second editions appears ($30,000 in 1998). A lovely copy of this very rare edition, in the original binding. FLAKE 596. CRAWLEY 35. HOWES S623, “aa.” SABIN 83039. $60,000.

Third Edition of The Book of Mormon

161. Smith, Joseph: THE BOOK OF MORMON. TRANSLATED BY JOSEPH SMITH, JR. Nauvoo, Il.: Printed by Robinson and Smith, Ste- reotyped by Shepard and Stearns...Cincinnati, Ohio, 1840. [5],8-571,[2]pp. plus two preliminary blanks. 12mo. Contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked, original gilt spine laid down, green leather label. Small section at bottom of spine repaired. Corners lightly worn. Titlepage repaired in gutter. Internally clean, very good.

Scarce third edition, first state, of The Book of Mormon, published by Ebenezer Robinson and Don Carlos Smith, younger brother of Joseph Smith. This work was actually printed in Cincinnati, despite the Nauvoo imprint. “By December 1839 the Book of Mormon was again out of print, and on the 29th the Nauvoo high council voted to publish a new edition under the supervision of the First Presidency as soon as funds could be raised” – Crawley. Robinson and Smith received permission from Joseph Smith to print 4,000 copies of the book, providing all the necessary funds themselves. The book was stereotyped and printed in Cincinnati, and is known to exist in three states, all printed from the same plates. The present copy is the first state, as described by Crawley, who notes that the second and third states may be later impressions struck off in Nauvoo. This edition contains a significant number of revisions and corrections from the 1837 Kirtland second edition. Joseph Smith moved the Church to Kirtland, Ohio in 1831, after founding the movement in Palmyra, New York the previous year. The Church was headquartered in Kirtland until 1838, when Smith relocated to Missouri, and shortly thereafter to the small town of Commerce, Illinois, which Smith re-christened “Nauvoo.” It was there that Joseph Smith met his untimely end, in 1844, when he and his brother were killed by an angry mob of citizens from neighboring towns. The church remained centered in Nauvoo until 1846, when, amidst a growing sea of hostility, they fled west under the guidance of Brigham Young. FLAKE 597. CRAWLEY 83. HOWES S623, “aa.” SABIN 83040. $36,000.

“The earliest representation of the north-west coast of America on a printed map” – Burden

162. Solinus, C. Julius: POLYHISTOR, RERUM TOTO ORBE MEM- ORABILIUM THESAURUS LOCUPLETISSIMUS. Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1543. [20],230,[2]pp. plus two folding maps and eighteen in-text maps. Woodcut vignette on titlepage and final leaf. Folio. 18th-century three- quarter calf and patterned paper boards, spine gilt, morocco label. Boards a bit bowed, spine slightly wormed. A few leaves very lightly tanned, two small worm holes in outer margin of final four leaves. Very good.

Second edition, after the first of 1538. A landmark in the mapping of North Amer- ica, this collection of geographic accounts, edited by Sebastian Münster, contains “the earliest representation of the north-west coast of America on a printed map” (Burden). It takes the form of a land mass in the upper right corner of the folding “Asia Major” map, extending northwest, labeled “Terra Incognita,” and shown with a small bay, trees, and hills. The cartographer of the map is unidentified, though Wagner asserts that it was drawn by Münster. Julius Solinus (ca. 250 A.D.) was a Roman geographer of some repute. His Polyhistor... was first published by Nicholas Jenson in Venice in 1473, and Isingrin’s edition of 1538 was the first to contain maps by Münster. Münster also added notes to the text containing up-to-date geographic information. Burden further notes that the Asia Major map shows one of the first delineations of a strait between Asia and America, some two hundred years before Bering’s voyages to the region. It is also the first work to include a printed map of Asia as a whole. A significant work of geography, containing a seminal image of the northwest coast of North America. BURDEN 11. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST, p.9. HARRISSE BAV ADDITIONS 143. JCB GERMAN BOOKS 543/2. $15,000.

Large Map of Alaska Territory

163. Sumner, Charles: SPEECH OF HON. CHARLES SUMNER, OF MASSACHUSETTS, ON THE CESSION OF RUSSIAN AMER- ICA TO THE UNITED STATES. Washington. 1867. 48pp., printed in double columns, plus large folding colored map. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit worn at extremities. Old tideline in upper outer corner throughout, scattered light foxing. Very good. The map is in fine condition. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

A discourse by Sumner on the history and state of Russian America, which had just become the American territory of Alaska. Secretary of State William Seward, the architect of the purchase, praised Sumner’s speech for accurately representing Alaska’s great potential. The map, which is usually lacking, is of the greatest importance, being the first published version of the cession area, a region amounting to one-third of the lower forty-eight states. It is widely believed to be the first map to use the name “Alaska.” HOWES S1134. LADA-MOCARSKI 159. TOURVILLE 4391. WICKERSHAM 4128. $2750.

A Landmark Map of Texas and California in 1846: The Streeter Copy

164. [Tanner, Henry S.]: A MAP OF THE UNITED STATES OF MEXI- CO, AS ORGANIZED AND DEFINED BY THE SEVERAL ACTS OF THE CONGRESS OF THAT REPUBLIC [caption title]. New York: Henry S. Tanner, 1846. Folding handcolored pocket map, 31 x 24¾ inches, Original 12mo. front board, stamped in blind and gilt, detached but present. Tear in the left portion of the map (Pacific Ocean region, near the border) expertly repaired. A few small splits at folds expertly repaired on verso. Overall, a very good, attractive copy. In a half morocco box.

The Streeter copy of the third edition of the Tanner treaty sequence map, the first with the Fremont discoveries. Hailing it as a much superior production to the second edition, Wheat speculates that Tanner’s conscience must have been “pricked” by his earlier production. Texas and New Mexico are unaltered, but Tanner has incorporated Charles Preuss’ 1845 map, thereby rendering inland portions and the coast of California in a much more accurate manner, even though the coast line still leaves something to be desired. More significantly, in the latter’s case, he has engraved a prophetic boundary line between Upper and Lower California, which, as Wheat points out, “had Disturnell done likewise, that southern boundary might well have been drawn differently in the treaty” (Wheat, Transmississippi West, p.38). No doubt published with the same motivations as his second edition, Tanner has here made a more sophisticated attempt to separate the public from their money. Walter Ristow noted that Tanner produced the first edition of the United States of Mexico map in 1825, and furthermore cited that he “issued 10 variants of one or another of five states” of the map up to 1847. The present map is officially termed as the “1846, third edition,” although it is actually the eighth variant of the map to be issued, according to Ristow’s classification. Tanner’s maps of Mexico, based on the work of Humboldt, Pike, Darby, and others, were primary sources for cartographic intelligence on Mexico and the emerging western territories of the United States for three decades. For instance, Tanner’s 1834 map was one of the few sources to include Stephen F. Austin’s recent surveys (Tanner also published Austin’s maps). Other mapmakers, such as Rosa, selected Tanner’s map of Mexico, indicating the importance placed on Tanner’s map as the ultimate authority on the region. As Wheat concludes, it was probably issued in great haste to take advantage of the populace’s unending appetite for news of the Mexican-American War. This map’s influence proved to be so great that it led Disturnell and Bartlett to incorporate a misconception in their maps that, upon the conclusion of the Mexican-American War, caused the United States to leave Mexico in possession of the territory that held the only viable southern route for U.S. transcontinental rail service. The United States was only able to recover from this misstep upon completion of the Gadsden Purchase of 1853. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI II, pp.89-90, no. 364; III, p.38, no. 529. SCHWARTZ & EHRENBERG, pp.276-77. STREETER SALE 3824 (this copy). RUMSEY 2822. PHIL- LIPS MAPS, p.409 (another ed). OCLC 21842347. WHEAT GOLD REGION 32. Martin, “Disturnell’s Map” in Miller, Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America. Ristow, A la Carte, p.207. $40,000.

Extremely Rare Wagner-Camp Item

165. Taylor, James W.: LEGISLATURE OF MINNESOTA. NORTH- WEST BRITISH AMERICA AND ITS RELATIONS TO THE STATE OF MINNESOTA...PRINTED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SES- SION OF 1859-60. St. Paul: Newson, Moore, Foster and Company, Print- ers, 1860. 53,[1]pp. Without the map, which was included only in some copies. Modern three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Very good.

The true first edition, printed as a supplement to the Journal of the House of Rep- resentatives, of this very rare report on boundary questions and possible rail links from Minnesota into the Canadian Northwest. “Streeter calls the paper a valuable report, resulting from Taylor’s appointment in 1859 as an agent of the United States Treasury Department to investigate trade and transportation between the United States and Canada” – Wagner-Camp. Streeter had a copy of Wagner-Camp 365:2, which contains a map that did not appear in the first edition. Not in American Imprints Inventory for Minnesota. HOWES T56, “b.” LOWTHER 124. WAGNER-CAMP 365:1. STREETER SALE 3731 (ref ). $3750.

166. Taylor, James W.: THE SIOUX WAR: WHAT HAS BEEN DONE BY THE MINNESOTA CAMPAIGN OF 1863: WHAT SHOULD BE DONE DURING A DAKOTA CAMPAIGN OF 1864, WITH SOME GENERAL REMARKS UPON THE INDIAN POLICY, PAST AND FUTURE, OF THE UNITED STATES. St. Paul: Office of the Press Printing Company, 1863. 16pp. printed in double-column format. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit dust soiled. Very good.

“The title of this pamphlet would indicate that it related primarily to Minnesota, but it also has much about the Black Hills, and it is perhaps the earliest separate printing of a project for the creation of a territory, the Territory of Upsaroka, for the region out of which later Montana and Wyoming Territories were formed” – Streeter. Taylor had printed a similar pamphlet the previous year in which he called for offensive measures against the Sioux in order to remove them from their threatening positions on the Minnesota frontier. Taylor was secretary of the Min- nesota and Pacific Railroad, but he also worked as a journalist. In 1870 he became American consul at Winnipeg. AII (MINNESOTA) 528. DAB XVII, p.330. STREETER SALE 2104. $3500.

German Colonization of Texas

167. [Texas]: [COLLECTION OF TWENTY-NINE DOCUMENTS RE- LATING TO THE GERMAN COLONIZATION OF TEXAS AND THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF GERMAN EMI- GRANTS TO TEXAS (VEREIN ZUM SCHUTZE DEUTSCHER EINWANDERER IN TEXAS)]. [Various places]. 1845-1864. Approxi- mately [140]pp. Mostly folio. Overall very good to fine condition. In a half morocco clamshell case, leather label.

An important collection of documents concerning the Adelsverein, or the Society for the Protection of German Emigrants to Texas. The Society was organized in 1842 by a group of German noblemen for the purpose of acquiring land in Texas and encouraging German emigration. Beginning in 1844 the Adelsverein brought thousands of German emigrants to Texas, founding the town of New Braunfels and other towns in West Texas between Austin and San Antonio. The documents at hand trace the history of the Adelsverein from its first active years through bankruptcy and its evolution into the Texas and German Emigration Company, headed by Henry Fisher. This choice collection of printed documents, issued by the Society during its most active period, mainly in the antebellum statehood era, represents a crucial chapter in Texas colonization history. Documents include emigration contracts; minutes of meetings of the directors; fiscal papers; publicity material to attract emigrants; correspondence and reports from Texas back to the directors in Germany; and material on the dissolution and rearrangement of the Society’s finances. A detailed list of the contents is available on request. STREETER TEXAS 1626. $13,500.

168. [Texas]: MORRISON & FOURMY’S GENERAL DIRECTORY OF THE CITY OF HOUSTON, 1887-88. CONTAINING THE PRESENT STATE, COUNTY AND CITY GOVERNMENTS, AND A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL COUNTY OFFICIALS, POST OFFICES AND MONEY ORDER OFFICES IN TEXAS; ALSO AN INDEX OF SOCIETIES, ASSOCIATIONS, CHURCHES, CORPORATIONS, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES, THE FULL NAME AND ADDRESS OF ALL RESIDENTS, THEIR OCCU- PATIONS OR PURSUITS, AND A COMPLETE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY. ALSO, A VALUABLE STREET INDEX OR GUIDE. Galveston: Morrison & Fourmy, 1887. 7,[1],x,[8]-332pp. plus [75]pp. of ads interspersed. Original red publisher’s cloth, stamped in gilt; canvas strap at top of text block. Inner hinges cracked. Minor toning and soiling, but generally quite clean internally. Good plus.

A comprehensive directory for the city of Houston. Morrison & Fourmy began publishing directories in the late 1870s and were the leading directory publishers in Texas for the next two decades. The first city directory for Houston was published by Morrison & Fourmy in 1877. Early directories for the city are relatively scarc, and contain interesting information about the period, particularly in the form of advertisements. This work contains seventy-five pages of advertisements for local establishments, most of which are printed on heavier pink card stock. $1250.

169. [Thompson, Henry]: TEXAS. SKETCHES OF CHARACTER; MORAL & POLITICAL CONDITION OF THE REPUBLIC; THE JUDICIARY, &c. By Milam. Philadelphia. 1839. 95pp. 12mo. Original patterned green cloth, gilt leather label. Cloth lightly faded and stained, some wear at extremities. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper. Very light tanning, a few fox marks. Overall, a very good copy.

A rather scarce work on the Texas Republic. Streeter has identified the author of this work as Henry Thompson, a lawyer in Houston, and Mirabeau B. Lamar’s private secretary early in 1839. He was killed the following year at the Council House fight. “These Sketches of Character, which are given for several of the well- known citizens of Texas and the accounts of current affairs there, are well done, and are a contribution to our knowledge of the Texas of the first two or three years of the Republic” – Streeter. STREETER TEXAS 1357. HOWES T195, “b.” RAINES, p.149. RADER 3112. SABIN 95117. $5000.

170. Thompson, Thomas H.: OFFICIAL HISTORICAL ATLAS MAP OF TULARE COUNTY...COMPILED, DRAWN AND PUB- LISHED FROM PERSONAL EXAMINATIONS AND SURVEYS .... [Tulare, Ca.?]. 1892. 4pp. Double-sheet key map plus 108 township maps (many partially colored). Folio. Original three-quarter calf and cloth, front board gilt. Spine extremities rather rough and worn. One free endpaper torn, the other wrinkled. Titlepage a bit dust soiled, else generally clean internally. Overall very good.

A detailed subdivision and township atlas of Tulare County, in the southern Central Valley of California. Large lots are labeled with names of the owners, and in this copy many changes of ownership are noted in pencil. Although the preface and contents mention illustrations and portraits, there are none in this copy. A fine detailed township atlas for a California county. ROCQ 15171. NORRIS CATALOGUE 3965. $1500. Official Mexican Printing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

171. [Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]: TRATADO DE PAZ, AMISTAD, LIMITES Y ARREGLO DEFINITIVO ENTRE LA REPUBLI- CA MEXICANA Y LOS ESTADOS-UNIDOS DE AMERICA.... [Second titlepage, in English:] TREATY OF PEACE, FRIENDSHIP, BOUNDARIES, AND DEFINITIVE SETTLEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE MEXICAN RE- PUBLIC.... Mexico: Imprenta de I. Cumplido, 1848. 55pp., printed on facing pages in parallel Spanish and English. Original printed wrappers bound into modern Mexican calf, spine gilt, gilt inner dentelles. A few light fox marks, else near fine.

The official Mexican printing of the final text of the landmark Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War and delivering to the United States its current territory in the Southwest. This printing closely follows the Queretaro edition produced just a few months earlier, but contains added protocols excluded from that earlier printing. The full text appears here in both English and Spanish, on facing pages. Pages 46-49 contain the text of amendments made to the treaty by the United States Senate, followed by a statement of Pena y Pena, dated May 30, 1848, accepting the modifications, and concluded by a Protocol dated May 28 attempting to put the best light on the treaty from the Mexican point of view. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war between the United States and Mexico, resulted in the formal cession of the entire Southwest and California to the United States. Agreements were reached for the withdrawal of American troops from Mexico, the payment of Mexican claims, and the formal cession of territory (the U.S. had already occupied all of the land). The theoretical boundaries were set out, and arrangements for boundary commissioners were made. By this treaty the U.S. obtained an addition of land equaled in size only by the Louisiana and Alaska purchases. A fundamental piece of Western Americana, here in the official Mexican edition of the complete treaty, and scarce on the market. STREETER SALE 282. PALAU 339389. GARRETT, p.91. COWAN, p.252. HOWES M565, “aa.” EBERSTADT 162:847. MALLOY, p.1107. $8000.

Official Treaty Settling the Boundary of Oregon and the Northwest Boundary of the United States

172. [United States-Great Britain Treaty]: TREATY BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF THE OREGON BOUNDARY. SIGNED AT WASHINGTON, JUNE 15, 1846. London: Printed by T.R. Harrison, 1846. [2],2pp. Folio. Modern red half morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Three horizontal folds. A bit of light staining. Paper repairs to inner gutter, not affecting text. Very good.

The official British printing of this landmark treaty in the growth of the United States and the history of the American West. The Oregon Treaty of 1846 set the northwest boundary between the United States and Canada, and paved the way for the development of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The question of the boundary between the United States and Canada had been an issue since the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition. Several attempts were made in the first half of the 19th century to settle the question, none of them satisfactory. The combination of recent American emigration to Oregon and long-standing tensions over trapping rights made the boundary one of the overriding issues of the presidential campaign of 1844. Presidential candidate James K. Polk pledged to reoccupy Oregon, and many clamored for a declaration of “fifty-four forty or fight” (referring to the Americans’ most extreme land claim). After Polk’s election it seemed as though the controversy would come to a head. The potential for war with Mexico in 1846, however, led Secretary of State James Buchanan to offer the more conciliatory 49th parallel as a border. Domestic pressures in Great Britain led British negotiator Richard Packenham to accede to the boundary. The concluded treaty therefore spells out the final border between the United States and Canada:

From the point on the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, where the boundary laid down in existing treaties and conventions between the United States and Great Britain terminates, the line of boundary between the territories of the United States and those of her Britannic Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the chan- nel which separates the continent from Vancouver’s island....

The British also secured certain navigation and land rights for the Hudson’s Bay Company in Oregon Territory and the Columbia River. OCLC locates eleven copies of this scarce and important London printing of the Oregon Treaty, a cornerstone of any collection of Western Americana. MALLOY, p.656. TPL 7858. OCLC 10670670, 228693949, 63012010. $6000.

173. [Utah]: Sloan, Edward L., compiler & editor: GAZETTEER OF UTAH, AND SALT LAKE CITY DIRECTORY...1874. Salt Lake City: “Salt Lake Herald” Publishing Company, 1874. [5],17-326pp. plus 10pp. of advertisements (including pastedowns) and folding color map. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Cloth slightly discolored. Internal hinges starting. Overall very good.

The “Gazetteer” portion of this volume contains a “Sketch of Mormonism,” an extensive historical time line for Utah, and a great deal of additional information on the state’s history, geography, government, industry, etc. The directory lists both organizations and individuals, the latter with their professions and places of residence. The folding frontispiece features maps of Utah, Salt Lake City, and the Great Salt Lake Valley. $2500. Rare Account of the French Scientific Survey of Louisiana, 1720

174. [Vallette Laudun, M. de]: JOURNAL D’UN VOYAGE A LA LOUI- SIANE, FAIT EN 1720. Paris: Chez Musier, Fils, & Fournier, 1768. 8,316, [3]pp. Half title. Original plain wrappers, later manuscript paper label. Wrap- pers moderately worn. Very light occasional foxing. Else near fine. In a half morocco and cloth box.

A rare account by the commander of the 1720 French scientific expedition to Louisiana, the French West Indies, and the Gulf of Mexico. Vallette Laudun led the first detailed survey made of Louisiana by the French government, three years after the founding of New Orleans and at the height of enthusiasm over John Law’s Mississippi Company. “Vallette was the commander of the Toulouse, which sailed from Toulon in March, 1720, and reached Dauphin Island, on Mobile Bay, early in July” – Clark. The text consists of 132 letters to an unnamed French lady, which collectively provide a vivid picture of Vallette Laudun’s voyage, the French dominions in Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley, and the things Vallette Laudun saw there. The same voyage is described in Laval’s sumptuous work of 1728. Not in Servies, but should be, as the author led the survey described by Laval, which Servies does include. One of the rarest early publications about Louisiana. HOWES V12. CLARK I:164. BELL V14. SABIN 98393. $6500.

175. [Western Photographica]: [ALBUM OF APPROXIMATELY 175 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES OF EXCURSIONS TO YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, AND ALSO INCLUDING LAKE TAHOE, THE EASTERN SIERRA, THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS, AND SHERMAN OAKS, CALIFORNIA]. [Vari- ous places in California. primarily 1917-1924, with a few stretching into the 1930s]. Approximately 175 original photographic prints, measuring on average 3¼ x 5¼ inches (or the reverse). Supplemented by some twenty-five commercial photographs and picture postcards. Mounted into an oblong octavo album, string-tied. A small number of the photographs with some fading, but on the whole the images are clear, bright, and clean. Near fine.

A nice collection of original photographs of scenes in Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, and other regions in California in the 1910s and ‘20s. The photographs document several excursions to Yosemite, and most contain brief captions identifying the location or event. Included are photographs of three people standing beside their Saxon automobile at the Wawona Tunnel Tree; images in Mariposa Grove and at Camp Curry, Mirror Lake, and various camps. Many of Yosemite’s natural wonders are featured, including waterfalls, cliffs, and giant trees. Various unpaved automobile routes to the region are also shown, including the Fresno Road, Tioga Road, and Coarse Gold Road. There are also images of Lake Tahoe (many of them commercial photographs) as well as other less photographically common sites in the eastern Sierras and San Bernardino Mountains, such as Owens Valley, Convict Lake, Gem Lake, Agnew Lake, Arrrowhead Lake, along with several images of the family home in a then undeveloped Sherman Oaks. The Sherman Oaks photographs, numbering about two dozen, are from the late 1920s and 1930s. $750.

First Proposal for a Transcontinental Railroad

176. Whitney, Asa: A PROJECT FOR A RAILROAD TO THE PA- CIFIC.... New York. 1849. viii,112pp. plus two folding maps. Modern half morocco. Faint ink stamp on titlepage. Lightly tanned. Very good.

During the 1840s, Congress considered Whitney’s proposals for building a transcontinental railroad, to be assisted by government land grants and finances, and in the 1850s, Whitney financed three major railroad surveys. “This was the culmination of Whitney’s promotion of his scheme for a transcontinental railroad. The opposition was so great, despite his own prodigious labors, that he abandoned his plans and retired. He lived, however, to see the completion of one such railroad and the inauguration of three others” – Graff. One of the maps shows the potential world- wide connection of the Pacific railroad; the other shows the proposed route in detail. BRE, p.288. LITERATURE RELATING TO THE UNION PACIFIC, p.17. GRAFF 4642. COWAN, p.680. HOWES W383. $3000.

Indians of the Badlands

177. [Manner of Wimar, Carl]: [INDIAN WARRIORS RIDING AWAY FROM CAMP, AN AMERICAN FORT IN THE NEAR DIS- TANCE]. [20th century, based on paintings and sketches ca. 1850s]. Oil on panel, 15½ x 23 inches. American carved and gilded wood frame. Fine condition. [See cover of this catalogue for a detail illustration]

An action-filled image of Indian life near an American Army fort (inscribed “Fort Pierre” lower right) along the Missouri River, this fine oil painting of a large party of heavily armed and war-painted braves riding out of their camp past their squaws and dogs, is similar to the style of the important frontier painter, Carl Wimar, but also shows the stylistic influences of other notable artists of the American West such as Seth Eastman, Anton Schonborn, and Alfred Jacob Miller. The German-born Wimar based himself in St. Louis, which he used as a springboard for sketching trips through present-day Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. “He translated these [sketches] into paintings that authentically and powerfully depict Indian life....His dramatic portrayals of the conflict between native Americans and pioneers helped to establish many of the myths of the American West that prevail to this day” – Ron Tyler. A handsome painting showing the upper Missouri in the fur trade era. Rick Stewart, Carl Wimar: Chronicler of the Missouri River Frontier (Amon Carter Museum, 1991), passim. Peggy & Harold Samuels, Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West (Garden City, 1976), passim. $6500.