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Views of Farms, Residences, Mills &C., Portraits of Well-Known Citizens, and the Official County Map Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books Donald Heald Rare Books 124 East 74 Street New York, New York 10021 T: 212 · 744 · 3505 F: 212 · 628 · 7847 [email protected] www.donaldheald.com California 2017 Americana: Items 1 - 34 Travel and Voyages: Items 35 - 58 Natural History: Items 59 - 80 Miscellany: Items 81 - 100 All purchases are subject to availability. All items are guaranteed as described. Any purchase may be returned for a full refund within ten working days as long as it is returned in the same condition and is packed and shipped correctly. The appropriate sales tax will be added for New York State residents. Payment via U.S. check drawn on a U.S. bank made payable to Donald A. Heald, wire transfer, bank draft, Paypal or by Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover cards. AMERICANA 1 ADAMS, Ansel Easton (1902-1984) and Mary Hunter AUSTIN (1868-1934). Taos Pueblo. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. Folio (17 x 12 1/2 inches). [6] preliminary pages followed by [14]pp. of text. 12 original mounted photographs, printed on Dessonville paper by Ansel Adams, various sizes to 9 x 6 1/2 inches, each with a corresponding caption leaf. Publisher’s tan morocco backed orange cloth, spine with raised bands in six compartments, marbled endpapers (minor fading to the leather). From an edition of 108 numbered copies signed by the author and the photographer, containing magnificent photographs by Ansel Adams. Possibly the most famous of modern photographic works on the West, Taos Pueblo was a collaboration between the young photographer, Ansel Adams, and one of the most evocative writers on the Southwest, Mary Austin. An elegant design by the Grabhorn Press provides a counterpoint to Adams’ photographs of the adobe Pueblo. The book distilled the romance and naturalism that many Americans found in the Indian pueblos of New Mexico, and defined the style that was to make Adams the most popular of photographers of the American West. “It was at Taos and Santa Fe that Ansel Adams first saw the Southwest. The time was the spring of 1927... His visit resulted in a Grabhorn Press book now of legendary rarity. It includes Ansel Adams’ photographs and Mary Austin’s essay on Taos Pueblo. Genius has never been more happily wed. Nowhere else did she write prose of such precise and poetical authority ... Their Taos Pueblo is a true and beautiful book by two consummate artists” (Ansel Adams: Photographs of the Southwest, 1970, p. xxv). Produced in a small edition, the book is difficult to obtain today. This example is signed by both Austin and Adams and is in beautiful condition. One of the greatest books produced by the Grabhorn Press and featuring beautiful photographs by Ansel Adams, it is a landmark of American photographic depiction of the Southwest. Heller & Magee, Grabhorn Bibliography 137; Roth, The Book of 101 Books 58. (#29693) $ 85,000 2 BANCROFT, H. H. Bancroft’s Map of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft, 1864. Folding pocket map, printed on two sheets joined, full original hand colouring. Within an ornamental border. Folds into publisher’s blindstamped cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt, publisher’s ad on the front pastedown. (Minor separations at folds expertly repaired, very minor losses at intersecting folds). Sheet size: 32 1/4 x 38 inches. First edition, first issue of a rare early pocket map of California. An “important large scale map ... The map shows the Emigrants Road to California, Overland Mail Route, and proposed routes for the Southern Pacific Railroad in California and for the Central Pacific” (Streeter). 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; completed railroads, proposed railroads, and wagon roads are carefully laid down. “All of California and Nevada are shown, along with the western parts of Utah and Arizona ... This is the scarcest of the editions of this map. A second issue was published in the same year, with a different border (interlocking leaves as opposed to interlocking Coltonesque metal strips in this copy)” (Rumsey). Rumsey 4819; Wheat Transmississippi 1219; Streeter sale 3915; Wheat 1093 (#28571) $ 4,500 3 BOLLER, Henry A. Among the Indians. Eight Years in the Far West: 1858-1866. Embracing Sketches of Montana and Salt Lake. Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Zell, 1868. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches). 428pp. Folding map. Publisher’s red cloth, expertly rebacked to style. First edition of a rare narrative of travels of a fur trader in the far west: complete with the folding map. 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. 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; Sabin 6221; Streeter Sale 3079; Flake 582; Wheat Transmississippi 1180. (#31316) $ 4,500 4 CALIFORNIA - De Pue & Company, publishers. The Illustrated Atlas and History of Yolo County, Cal. Containing a history of California from 1513 to 1850, a history of Yolo County from 1825 to 1880, with statistics of agriculture, education, churches, elections, lithographic views of farms, residences, mills &c., portraits of well-known citizens, and the official county map. San Francisco: De Pue & Company ... Jos. Winterburn & Co., printers, 1879. Folio. 65 lithographed maps and plates (50 numbered lithographed plates showing farms, buildings, ranches, towns, etc. [11 double-page]; 9 unnumbered lithographed plates with multiple portraits of citizenry; 6 hand-colored lithographed maps [5 double-page]), lithographed by Galloway of San Francisco. Expertly bound to style in half black morocco and original cloth covered boards, upper cover blocked in gilt. Scarce California county atlas. A lovely county atlas of the rural communities in Yolo County. The principal residents and ranches are all depicted, as well as the local farming-related businesses. Of particular note is an image of the J.E. Card Nursery and the thoroughbred stock farm of Theodore Winters. The history of California within the work is written by Frank T. Gilbert. As with most 19th century county atlases, the work was published strictly by subscription. Given the relatively small size of the county in terms of population, the atlas would not have been published in a large print run, resulting in its rarity today. “Despite their limitations and inaccuracies, nineteenth-century county atlases nonetheless preserve a detailed cartographical, biographical, and pictorial record of a large segment of rural America in the Victorian age” (Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, p. 424). Phillips, 11503; LeGear. Atlases of the United States, L482; Rumsey 2146. (#33140) $ 3,750 5 CAREY, Mathew (1760-1839). Carey’s General Atlas, improved and enlarged: being a collection of maps of the world and quarters, their principal empires, kingdoms, &c. Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1814. Folio (17 x 11 inches). Mounted on guards throughout. Letterpress title and 2pp. of prefatory remarks, 1p. certification leaf with two columns of letterpress text below a three quarter page engraved plate made up of seven small maps. 58 engraved maps (56 with period full hand-colouring [47 of these double page], 1 folding and hand coloured in outline). Early manuscript ink annotations (circa 1821, see below). Expertly bound to style in half dark blue straight grain morocco over contemporary marbled paper covered boards, flat spine divided into six compartments with gilt rules, lettered in the second compartment. The landmark third edition of Carey’s General Atlas, among the earliest commercially available atlases to include maps depicting the expansion of the U.S. following the Louisiana Purchase and with information derived from Lewis and Clark. This copy with extraordinary full period hand colouring: “the first atlas made in the United States to employ standard color on the maps” (Rumsey). Mathew Carey published the first American Atlas in 1795 (containing 21 maps) and the first General Atlas in 1796 (containing 45 maps). He republished the 1796 General Atlas in 1800, 1802 and 1804 and would publish a “second edition” of the atlas in 1811. That second edition was substantially the same as the preceding, containing the maps from the 1804 General Atlas with the addition of a map of Louisiana from his 1805 pocket atlas. In 1814, Carey published this “third” edition of the General Atlas, the first major revision of his famed atlas and considered by many to be the most desirable. The atlas contains 32 entirely new maps, and many of the remaining 26 maps underwent substantive changes to the plates to update the cartography. Significantly, this edition of Carey’s atlas was the first indigenous atlas to cartographically depict the westward expansion of the United States following the Louisiana Purchase and was the first commercially available atlas to include information derived from the Lewis and Clark expedition. The maps of America which appear in this edition for the first time include maps of Mississippi Territory (number 23), The State of Ohio with part of Upper Canada (number 24), The Upper Territories of the United States (i.e.
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