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Colorado & the West, Part II RIVERRUN COLORADO & THE WEST, PART II A second portion of Western Americana from a private collection Riverrun Books & Manuscripts Ardsley, New York Number 8 RIVERRUN BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS 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. Colorado & The West, Part II RIVERRUN BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS 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. Colorado & The West, Part II RIVERRUN BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS 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. Colorado & The West, Part II RIVERRUN BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS 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. Colorado & The West, Part II RIVERRUN BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS 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. Colorado & The West, Part II RIVERRUN BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS 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). Colorado & The West, Part II RIVERRUN BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS 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. Colorado & The West, Part II RIVERRUN BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS 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. Colorado & The West, Part II RIVERRUN BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS 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.
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