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1. AGASSIZ, Louis. Synopsis of the Ichthyological Fauna of the Pacific slope of North America, chiefly from the collections made by the U. S. Expl. Exped. under the command of Capt. C. Wilkes, with recent Additions and Comparisons with Eastern Types. [New Haven]: American Journal of Science and Arts, 1855. $350
8vo. Title, 46 pages. Modern blue buckram, black leather lettering-piece on spine. A fine copy.
Scarce offprint from the American Journal of Science and Arts, 2nd series, Vol. XIX. Agassiz revives the genera established by Rafinesque in his 'Ichthyologia Ohiensis' to analyze the natural relations of the representatives of fresh water fishes living on the western slope of North America. He examines specimens collected during Charles Wilkes's United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-42.
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2. BECHER, H. C. R. A Trip to Mexico, Being Notes of a Journey from Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and Back. Toronto: Willing and Williamson, 1880. SOLD
8vo (8.6 x 6 inches). vii, 183 pages. Map, one plate of hieroglyphics, and 20 mounted original photographs (many by Kilburn Brothers of Littleton, NH) with tissue guards. Original green gilt-decorated beveled cloth, top edges gilt. Front hinge cracked but holding, mounts slightly cockled, some plates age-toned.
FIRST EDITION, with the full complement of 20 photographs (some of drawings or prints) found in few copies (most have 12 or 13), each mounted on card with printed caption.
EDWARD WHYMPER'S COPY, with his signature dated 1882 on front pastedown, and manuscript list of plates mounted on front free endpaper. A wonderful association copy: the English mountaineer, best known for his first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, makes a note about the image of the volcano Popocatepetl at the foot of his list of plates. Becher writes about the means of Popocatepetl's ascent on the facing pages, and displays his displeasure with mountaineering. How the indefatigable Whymper must have scoffed at this fearful writer when he read: "When a mountain is accessible by rail... I approve of getting to the top of it; but where you have to toil, labour and struggle, to perspire and freeze, to cut notches for your feet in getting up a sloping wall of ice, to be tied to a rope with other foolish people tied to it above, others below you, a precipice behind and on either side of you, to be pulled up and down slopes and precipices by the rope when there is no foot-hold–in a word to be in a state of dirt, heat, cold, hunger, thirst, fatigue, risk, from base to summit, and from summit to base, I can only say, with the certainty of being despised by the members of the Alpine Club, and all people like the,– le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle, and I will stay humbly below." Whymper made many ascents in North and South America, and perhaps was considering climbing the second highest peak in Mexico. He could not have claimed a first ascent: that was made by an expedition led by Diego de Ordaz in 1519.
The English-born Becher immigrated to London, Canada where had a successful law practice and was, from 1857, director of the Great Western Railway. Inspired by an early reading of Prescott's history of Mexico, he traveled in a party of four women and one man to visit Mexico in 1878. The text takes to form of letters written from various stops along the way to a relative in England.
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3. BLACKMORE, William. Colorado: Its Resources, Parks, and Prospects as a New Field for Emigration; With an Account of the Trenchera and Costilla Estates, in the San Luis Park. London: Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston, 1869. $1,250
4to (10.75 x 8.5 inches). 217 pages. Oval bust portrait albumen photograph of William Gilpin, Governor of Colorado, mounted as frontispiece (mount foxed). Large folding map: "Map of the Trenchara and Costilla Estates forming the Sangre de Christo Grant Situate in San Luis Valley Colorado Territory," sheet 25.5 x 20 inches (some light toning along folds, one tiny hole, and a short tear along one fold, generally fine). Original green blind-paneled cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. Rebacked to match, some foxing at beginning and end, not affecting text.
First trade edition, published after the exceedingly scarce privately printed edition (see below). Blackmore was a visionary Englishman with a plan for developing southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. His work as an ethnologist was considerable, and his collection of American Indian material is now at the British Museum. The fine map was featured in Nothing is Long Ago: A Documentary History of Colorado 1776-1975: "This map shows the largest of those grants in Colorado that were later confirmed by the United States, the Sangre de Christo grant, comprising 1,000,000 acres in the San Luis Valley. The grant was made to Stephen Luis Lee and his 12-year-old nephew Narcisco Beaubien in 1843. Narcisco's father, Carlos Beaubien, was already half owner of an adjoining 1,700,000 acres, later called the Maxwell Grant. Carlos came into possession of the Sangre de Christo grant after his son and brother-in-law were killed in the Taos revolt of 1847." This important map is not in Wheat or Phillips.
The book was published in various forms, with varying numbers of photographs and paginations. It was first published in a very rare privately printed edition. The later trade edition, published as here by Sampson Low, is usually found with five or fewer photographs. Adams Herd 272; Graff 318; Howes C-607; Margolis & Sandweiss, To Delight the Eye 2; Sabin 14735; Wilcox, p.5; Wynar 2025.
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4. BURNS, Robert Homer; Andrew Springs GILLESPIE; Willing Gay RICHARDSON. Wyoming's Pioneer Ranches. Laramie, WY: Top-of-the- World Press, 1955. $550
Tall 8vo. vii, 752 pages. Richly illustrated. Original red buckram. A fine copy.
Limited edition, one of 1000 copies, this numbered R-4, and with original owner's name written on front free endpaper. A superb, exhaustive study of early Wyoming ranch history, extensively illustrated. Adams Herd 377; Adams Six Guns 335.
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5. CHICAGO AND ROCK ISLAND RAIL ROAD COMPANY. By-Laws of the Chicago and Rock Island Rail Road Company. Adopted June 9th, 1858. New York: Benjamin F. Corlies, 1858. $250
8vo. 10 pages. Original glazed-paper printed wrappers. A very good to near-fine copy, with one closed tear and some light discoloration to the wrappers.
Nine articles outline the structure of the company, which had formed in 1847 as the Rock Island and LaSalle Rail Road Company, and reincorporated under its new name in 1851. OCLC 4997635. Eberstadt catalogue 131, item 354.
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6. COLORADO. [Cover title:] Around the Circle [Views]. Denver: H. H. Tammen, 1888. $75
Accordion form (5.75 x 4.75 inches). Artotype plates. Mounted in the original red ribbed cloth binding, blind-embossed outer panel, central Sun-shaped title panel with emanating gilt rays, a floral pattern on the back. Binding rubbed and with some abrasions, the plates clean.
A fine accordion-form panorama containing 18 images on 12 panels, presumably produced under the auspices of the Denver and Rio Grande Rail Road. Views of Animas Canyon, the first and second tunnels at Grand River Canyon, Palmer Lake, Pike's Peak, Currecanti Needle, Mt. Abram near Ouray, Castle Gate, The Captain Canyon, Mount of the Holy Cross, Tower of Babel, Veta Pass, Dump Mountain, Cathedral Spires, Garden of the Gods, Manitou, Royal Gorge, Salt Lake City (with Tabernacle and Temple).
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7. COLORADO. Hand-Book of Colorado. For Tourist, Capitalist and Emigrant. Denver: J. A. Blake, 1879. SOLD
12mo. 136 pages. 10 plates, including two maps (one folding) and all advertisements, including: 6-pages before title (the first on pink paper), 6-pages at end, including folding map "A Correct Map of the Railroad System of Colorado" with time-table on the verso. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy, one stain on front wrapper, several small early penciled notes, and a few areas of wear, but overall a very fine example.
The ninth annual hand-book: An extensive description of the various pioneer localities, resources, etc. This edition not in McMurtrie. Wynar 44.
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8. COLORADO. Opening of the Town of Milliken and Inauguration of Train Service of The Colorado], 1910. SOLD
Bifolium (8 x 5.25 inches). With original red tassel at upper left corner. In fine condition.
A rare keepsake sent out by the officers of The Denver, Laramie & Northwestern Railway Co.; The Denver-Laramie Realty Company; and the Northwestern Land and Iron Company. Includes poems on the inner pages and a woodcut bust portrait of a man on the rear page captioned "SMILE!" OCLC 166502539 lists only a single copy, at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles.
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9. COLORADO SPRINGS. Among the Mountains, A Guide Book to Colorado Springs and the Scenery in the Neighborhood. Colorado Springs: "Out West" Printing and Publishing Company, 1873. SOLD
12mo. [4], 136, [2] pages. Frontispiece map, folding map of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, illustrations in text. Original printed wrappers. Rear wrapper archivally reattached, a few stains and lightly worn, but generally a very good plus copy.
An extensive guide book to Colorado Springs and its environs, with maps. Each text page is set between advertisements at top and bottom of the page. The text was largely derived from Out West, the eight-page weekly paper that had started publication in March 1872. The principal publishers were General William J. Palmer (the organizer in 1870 of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway Company and the Colorado Springs Company) and Dr. William A. Bell. The last issue of the paper was on December 26, 1872; the publishing company continued with this guide book. Wynar 2385.
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10. CROFUTT, George A. Crofutt's Grip-Sack Guide to Colorado. A Complete Encyclopedia of the State. Omaha: The Overland Publishing Company, 1881. $750
4to (10.25 x 7.75 inches). [8 including endleaves with advertisements], pp. [23]-183, [4] pages, including final page of advertisements mounted as rear pastedown. Large folding map: "Nell's New Topographical & Township Map," 25 x 18 inches, with wood-engraved bird's-eye view of Leadville on verso, frontispiece "Belles of Colorado" (12 oval bust portraits of Colorado women), inserted plate "Sectional View of Denver," double-page Map of the Denver and Rio Grande Rail Way with advertisements on verso after p. 56, copious illustrations in text, many full-page. Publishers brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-decorated and -lettered title block at center of cover. Front hinge cracked and first two leaves sprung, a bit shaken, few stains to covers, modest paper lightly browned.
FIRST EDITION, including the fine, large map. Includes descriptions and lists resources for every city, town, village, station, post office, and important mining camp in the state. Notes on soda, sulphur, hot and medicinal springs, resorts, stock raising and agriculture. Or, as it boldly proclaims on the title: "What is Worth Seeing, Where to See It, Where to Go, How to Go, Where to Stop, and What it Costs." Produced for railway voyagers, it was sold by news agents on "over 40,000 miles of railways." The caption to the frontispiece of the "Belles of Colorado" challenges the reader to "Name and locate them if you can." Wynar 2094.
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11. CUSHMAN, Samuel; J. P. WATERMAN. The Gold Mines of Gilpin County, Colorado. Historical, Descriptive and Statistical. Central City: Register Steam Printing House, 1876. $1,000
8vo. 136 pages, advertisements included in pagination. Original printed wrappers. A near-fine copy, light browning, but complete and with a minimum of handling wear.
FIRST EDITION. "A scarce locally printed history and description of the Russell and Gregory diggings, with much on the later strikes and development of the mining camps and interior towns" (Eberstadt catalogue 132, item 154). Howes C-978; McMurtrie and Allen 305; Wynar 3525. OCLC 6917656412 locates no copies.
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12. DENVER, LONGMONT & NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY. Circular. The Denver, Longmont & Northwestern Railroad Company. [Boston], February 1, 1881. SOLD
Square 8vo. 13 pages, printed on rectos only, the last cut short after end of text. Full-sheet map at end. Original printed wrappers, with inkstamp of banker and broker S. D. Loring on front. A fine copy with light toning at edges of wrappers.
Scarce: not in OCLC. The circular states that the road is now in process of construction, after the completion of the survey and material portion of its grading were completed. The main object of the road was to connect the wheat fields of northern Colorado, which produced over one half of the entire crop of the state, and the outlet to which is the town of Longmont, with the distribution center in Denver. It was also meant to shore up the supply from the coal fields to Denver, to allow direct transportation from Denver to the summer resorts near Estes Park and North Par, and to extend the road to the rapidly growing region northwest of Denver and beyond. The company was a Colorado corporation controlled in Boston, with capitalization of $1,000,000. A mortgage of the entire property and franchises, for the sum of $600,000, was executed by Josiah G. Abbott and Jacob Edwards, trustees from Boston, to sustain an issue of bonds, bearing interest at seven percent, redeemable in thirty years. The handsome map at end shows the proposed road, and includes Denver, Boulder, and Longmont. This was one of the earliest narrow-gauge lines in Colorado. "In 1883, the DL&NW reorganized as the Colorado Northern Railway. In 1884, it merged with the DUP. In 1889, the Colorado Central Railroad cut its rates to 50 cents per person for the trip from Longmont to Denver. This put the “Baby Railroad” out of business, and its tracks were ripped out that year" (Jim Stull, "Canfield and the Longmont "Baby Railroad," Erie Historical Society).
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13. DURANT, Thomas C. Union Pacific Railroad. Report of Thomas C. Durant ... to the Board of Directors, in Relation to the Surveys Made Up to the Close of the Year 1864. New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co., 1866. SOLD
8vo. 8; 24; 11; 15 pages (including the three appendices). 14 tinted lithographed plates by Major & Knapp, NY and 4 folding surveys of the Black Hills, Upper Canyon of Muddy Creek, and Weber Canyon (2). Original printed wrappers. Provenance: H. S. M. Comb (contemporary signature on front wrapper). A very good plus copy with a few repairs to tears on final text leaves, front wrapper and first few leaves chipped at corners, a few misfolds causing creasing to folding plans, but without separations or breaks, occasional pale spotting and a few soilmarks.
SCARCE, with superb lithographs and plans, by the Vice President and General Manager of the Union Pacific Railroad. These were the earliest surveys made for the Union Pacific Railroad, initiated after the company was incorporated on 1 July 1862 under an act of Congress approved by President Lincoln. Dr. Thomas Clark Durant was the dominant shareholder of the company, and he remained Vice President of UP through its historic joining with the Central Pacific railroad, making it the first transcontinental railroad in North America. Durant relays the status of the surveys made for the final location of the road, starting with the 1863 survey of the first 100 miles west of Omaha City. Appendix A is the report of James A. Evans, division engineer, of exploration from Camp Walbach to Green River made in 1864. Appendix B is the report of division engineer F. M. Casse, on surveys of Cache La Poudre, and South Platte Routes, and other mountain passes in Colorado made in 1864. Division engineer Samuel B. Reed is responsible for Appendix C, on surveys and explorations from Green River to Great Salt Lake City made in 1864. The collation agrees with OCLC 251865167, the copy listed at Brigham Young University and some copies of OCLC 1062053920, including Yale, though there are references a fourth Appendix of tables in some copies.
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14. FEDERAL UNION MINING COMPANY. By-Laws of the Federal Union Mining Company, Clear Creek County, Colorado. Organized March 27, 1866. Capital Stock $100,000. Greenfield: Franklin Job Printing Office, 1866. $400
12mo. 11 pages. Original blue printed wrappers. A fine copy save pale offsetting from old insert on two pages.
The first printing of the by-laws of this Massachusetts-based mining company, organized “for the purpose of mining gold and other ores” on the company’s property “on both sides of South Clear Creek, at Colona Bar, in the Territory of Colorado.” Wynar 3487.
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15. HIGGINS, C. A. New Guide to the Pacific Coast Santa Fe Route. California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois. Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, 1895. $100
8vo. 282 pages, 6-pages advertisements at end. Frontispiece and illustrations in text; large folding map at end (a few soft creases along left folds, but without tears or separations). Spine lightly toned, but generally a bright, clean copy.
An excellent traveller’s guide, including an index and vocabulary of Spanish and Native American place names.
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16. INGERSOLL, Ernest. The Crest of the Continent: A Record of a Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond. Chicago: R. R. Donnelly & Sons, 1885. $50
8vo. 344 pages. Frontispiece, illustrations in text, many full page. Publisher's decorated cloth. A very good plus copy with some light wear at extremities, one small split in cloth along spine, front hinge tender but strong.
FIRST EDITION. Ingersoll's thirty-seven chapters traverse much of the Rockies, including the Sangre de Christo, San Luis Park, New Mexico, Santa Fe, Rio Grande, Royal Gorge, Arkansas Valley, Fremont's Pass, Gunnison, Crested Butte, Ouray, Grand River Valley, the Wasatch and Salt Lake City. Wynar 2123.
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17. JAMES, George Wharton. Arizona the Wonderland. Boston: The Page Company, 1920. $250
8vo. xxiv, 478 pages. Folding map and 60 plates (including frontispiece), of which 12 are in color with tissue guards. Publisher's green decorated cloth, color image mounted on cover. Hinges tender but strong, a few abrasions to cover image, some pale foxing.
Third impression (first impression was 1917). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the recto of the frontispiece: "To Mrs. Wm. V. Hester, In happy remembrance of a joyous day spent at the Dedication of the Grand Canyon National Park, & with cordial greetings, George Wharton James." This extensive history includes chapters on the ancient cliff and cave dwellings, ruined Pueblos, the Spanish conquest, Jesuit and Franciscan missions, trail markers and American Indians, survey of the climate, scenic marvels, topography, deserts, industries, the state's influence on art, literature and science, and "some reference to what it offers of delight to the Automobilist, Sportsman, Pleasure and Health Seeker." The Grand Canyon was officially designated a national park on February 26, 1919, soon before this third impression of James's massive study of the state was issued.
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18. KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY. Hand Book for the Kansas Pacific Railway, Containing A Description of the Country, Cities, Towns, &c., lying along the Line of the Road and its Branches. St. Louis: Aug. Wiebusch & Son, 1870. SOLD
12mo. Pages 56-80, 1-page advertisement at end. Engraved folding map by Fisk, Russell & Ames of the Kansas Pacific & Denver Pacific Railways, showing lands for sale by the National Land Company. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy, the map fresh and bright, without tears or separations.
FIRST OFFPRINT EDITION, extracted from Tracy's Guide to the Great West (Howes T-235), "printed for the gratuitous distribution by the Kansas Pacific Railway Co."
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19. KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY. Opening Excursion. Kansas Pacific Railway. St. Louis to Denver. August 30--September 10, 1870. Denver: Rocky Mountain News Print, 1870. SOLD
Bifolium (7.75 x 5.25 inches). Soft mailing folds, but in fine condition.
A remarkable historical memorial of the completion and opening of the first railroad direct to Denver. It lists the "Excursionists" on the inner two pages, and the officers of the Railway on the final page. Among the ninety-three passengers was Gen. George A. Custer. Others on the inaugural trip included the Postmaster General, executives from the Railway, state and city officials, guests from Europe, an artist from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, journalists, and the secretary to president Grant. OCLC 27842575 lists only a single copy, at Yale. McMurtrie and Allen 123 ("not located").
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20. KEELER, Bronson C. Where to Go to Become Rich. Farmers', Miners' and Tourists' Guide to Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1880. SOLD
8vo. 180, 12-page advertisements at end. Richly illustrated in text, including full-page and folding. Original printed wrappers. A very skillfully rebacked copy, fine and complete with maps and advertisements.
FIRST EDITION. Includes the complete text of the mining laws, glossary of mining terms, and maps of New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. Contains extensive local histories and contemporary descriptions of the towns. Wynar 2130.
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21. MAP – DENVER. Map of Denver Colorado and the Town of Montclair. [Denver]: The Milk Engraving Co., ca 1891. SOLD
Folding lithographed map, sheet 17 x 27.5 inches, the section of Porter, Raymond's lots colored pink. A few pale stains in lower margin, small area of thinning paper lower right, no tears or separations, in generally clean and bright condition.
Promotional map from Porter, Raymond & Co. and Miller & Haekler, developers in Denver. In November 1890, the southwest corner of Montclair was platted and annexed to the town of Montclair as "Porter and Raymond's Montclair, an Addition to the Town of Montclair." Their second addition was plotted and annexed in January 1891. (See T. M. Robinson, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Colorado, Vol. 20, 1895, p. 394). This area was originally developed as a suburban community east of Denver by Matthias P. Cochrane and Baron Walter von Richthofen (a German nobleman and uncle to Manfred von Richthofen, the celebrated World War I flying ace known as the 'Red Baron'). The community was designed to attract wealthier residents seeking refuge from Denver's "400 saloons and forty Market Street bordellos."
The left side of the map shows the streets around City Park , the Denver Athletic Club grounds, and Capitol Hill Park, including Wyman's Addition. The right side shows the town of Montclair, including Porter and Raymond's development, and addition, and Richtofen's Montclair. Text at the upper left describes the water and electric lights, driveways, streets, and schools and includes a list of all of the residences completed in the past year, with the names of their owners and the cost of each residence. OCLC/WorldCat locates only a single example of this map, at Yale.
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22. MAP – RAND, McNALLY & CO. Map of New Mexico. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1884. SOLD
Folding map, colored in outline, sheet 22.25 x 14 inches. A well-preserved and wide-margined copy, with a pale stain in the lower margin and a few soft creases, but bright and free of tears and separations.
Bears the seller's stamp: "Right from J. J. Fitzgerreli The Live Real Estateman, Las Vegas, N.M." A handsome map with southern Colorado at top and Mexico and Texas at bottom. 13 counties within New Mexico are defined by green borders.
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23. MAP – RAND, McNALLY & CO. Revised Map of the Union Pacific, Its Branches and Connecting Stage Lines. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., ca 1880. SOLD
Folding map, sheet 18 x 28 inches. A few tears and small losses along folds, some reinforced on verso, overall presenting well and in generally good, bright condition.
The text at upper right is headed "The Three Great States: Kansas and Nebraska, The Granary, Colorado, The Mint Are Afforded the Best Railway Facilities in the World, by the Union Pacific Railway–Kansas Line (Formerly Kansas Pacific R'y,) and the Union Pacific–Nebraska Line." Small descriptions of the three states are printed below the headline and imply an 1880 publication date (i.e. "Colorado is the great center of attraction for 1880”). The map shows Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska, with small portions of Iowa and Kansas.
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24. NOYES, Al. J. In the Land of Chinook or the Story of Blaine County. Helena, MT: State Publishing Co., 1917. $250
8vo. 152 pages. 24 duotone plates, including a portrait of Charles Marion Russell, and a three- plate facsimile of Russell's letter to "Kid" Price. Original green gilt-lettered cloth. A fine copy.
FIRST EDITION of one of the finest Montana pioneer histories. Noyes settled in Big Hole Country in 1860, and includes a biographical portrait of Charles Marion Russell in his book. Adams Herd 1690; Adams Six Guns 1625; Graff 305; Howes N218; Smith 7488.
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25. RAND, McNALLY & CO. Rand, McNally & Co's Township, County and Railroad Map of Colorado [Wrapper title]. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co, 1879. SOLD
Folding map: "Rand, McNally & Co.'s Colorado," colored in outline, 13.75 x 19.5 inches. Folding into original salmon printed wrappers, the inner wrapper with map of Southern Vermont. The rear wrapper lists 50 other maps in the series. A fine copy, free of tears and separations.
A fine pocket map in practically as-issued condition. Shows railroads, counties, drainage and township grids. Relief is shown by hachures. OCLC 78217122 (with wrapper and cover title. three copies) and 911045172 (map only, 28 copies).
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26. SPENCER, Frank C. The Story of the San Luis Valley. Alamosa, CO: Alamosa Journal, 1925. $200
8vo. 83 pages. 8 duotone plates. Original printed wrappers, image mounted on cover. A very good plus copy with light shelfwear to the wrappers, internally clean.
FIRST EDITION, with text on this Colorado region's geology, Native Americans, the Spanish, mountain men, highways and railroads, cattle, agriculture, mining, etc. Adams Herd 2131; Wynar 578.
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27. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. The Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha, Nebraska, Across the Continent, Making, with its connections, an Unbroken Line from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. New York: Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, 1867. SOLD
8vo. 16 pages. Folding engraved frontispiece map printed by G.W. and C. B. Colton, NY, the routes hand-colored. Small advertisement on card with map of the U.S. offering Union Pacific Lands inserted at end. Original salmon printed wrappers. A fine copy, the map in excellent condition without tears or separations.
Scarce pamphlet through which the Union Pacific Railroad Company offered their first mortgage bonds. The initial text is signed by treasurer John J. Cisco, and provides a history and update on the company's progress. The remainder of the text was prepared by Edward D. Mansfield, Commissioner of Statistics for the state of Ohio, and provides an "Estimate of the resources, Property, and Prospects" of the company. The map shows the extent of construction to date and the circular on the rear wrapper lists the railroads first mortgage bonds. It states that the line had earned some $113,000 in the first two weeks of May, 1867. OCLC 4016601.
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28. UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY. The Union Pacific Railway Eastern Division, or (Kansas Pacific Railway.) Importance of its Route to all Sections of the Country. Washington, D. C.: Joseph L. Pearson, 1868. $350
8vo. 50 pages. Large folding map: "Map of the Routes of the Union Pacific Railroads with their Eastern Connections," sheet 8 x 18.25 inches. Disbound. In fine condition, the map bight and without tears or separations.
FIRST EDITION of this petition of sixty railroad presidents to congress for the extension of UP's subsidy, with the same privileges that were afforded to the Union and Central Pacific railroads, and permission to extend their railway to San Francisco through New Mexico and Arizona. With memorials of boards of trade of St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, and Philadelphia. Includes resolutions of state legislatures and conventions.
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29. WESTERN AMERICA. [Cover title:] Souvenir Album of the Great West. Columbus, OH: Ward Brothers, 1890. $125
Oblong (6 x 9.25 inches). 25 Artotype prints, each with multiple insets. Original decorated cloth album, black-blocked border, the front cover with central title panel lettered in gilt, original tasseled tie at spine. In fine condition, short tear on endpaper, but clean and fresh.
A fine souvenir album, with images of Denver, various natural wonders in Colorado, Utah, Yellowstone, the Tetons, Mt. Ranier, Mt Baker, New Mexico, Idaho, Nevada, and California.
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