CATALOGUE THREE HUNDRED THIRTY WESTERN AMERICANA WILLIAM REESE COMPANY 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 789-8081 A Note This catalogue is our annual offering of material in the field of Western Americana. It features many fine images, including such monuments of Western illustration as a gorgeous Moran chromolithographic view of the Grand Canyon, a folio McKenney and Hall, works by George Catlin, and Ansel Adams’ Taos Pueblo. It also contains many classics in the field, including a handsome set of Lewis and Clark and a presentation copy of Mary Austin Holley’s Texas. We offer herein numerous works on California, Colorado, Texas, Mormon-iana, and western Canada, with material ranging in scope from printed promotionals for the South Sea Company’s early efforts at exploration to Gold Rush manuscripts to early 20th-century photographs of Alaska and the Yukon. In all, a wide array of material covering the history of the American West. 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If you would prefer not to receive future catalogues and/or notifications, please let us know. Terms Material herein is offered subject to prior sale. All items are as described and are con- sidered to be on approval. Notice of return must be given within ten days unless specific arrangements are made. Connecticut residents must be billed state sales tax. Postage and insurance charges are billed to all nonprepaid domestic orders. Overseas orders are sent by air unless otherwise requested, with full postage charges billed at our discretion. Payment by check, wire transfer or bank draft is preferred, but may also be made by MasterCard or Visa. William Reese Company Phone: (203) 789-8081 409 Temple Street Fax: (203) 865-7653 New Haven, CT 06511 E-mail: [email protected] www.williamreesecompany.com THE COVER: 34. Catlin, George: Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio.... London. 1844. 1. [Abert, James W.]: REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, COMMUNICATING...A REPORT AND MAP OF THE EXAMI- NATION OF NEW MEXICO, MADE BY LIEUTENANT J.W. ABERT...[caption title]. Washington. 1848. 132pp. plus twenty-four lith- ographed plates. Lacks the folding map. Later pebbled cloth, printed paper label. Scattered foxing. Three plates with small chips at edges, not affecting image. Good. One of the great southwestern government-sponsored explorations, here in its earliest form, according to Wagner-Camp. The lithographed plates, attributed to Abert himself, include views of Santa Fe, Fort Marcy, San Felipe, the Pueblos, Indians, etc., and are among the most celebrated depictions of the region. The text describes Abert’s trip from Fort Leavenworth over the Santa Fe Trail via Bent’s Fort, his survey of the northern part of New Mexico and return via the Trail. Also included are the numerals and vocabulary of the Cheyenne. “...A basic SFT docu- ment” – Rittenhouse. HOWES A11. FLAKE 726. RITTENHOUSE 2. GRAFF 5. WAGNER-CAMP 143. SABIN 57. STREETER SALE 168. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2. $1500. A Classic of Western Photography 2. Adams, Ansel E., and Mary H. Austin: TAOS PUEBLO. San Fran- cisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. [6] preliminary pages followed by [14]pp. of text and twelve original mounted photographs, printed on Dessonville paper by Ansel Adams, various sizes to 9 x 6½ inches, each with a corresponding caption leaf. Large folio. Publisher’s half tan morocco and cloth, spine with raised bands, marbled endpa- pers. Very good. From an edition limited to 108 copies (this copy is number 64) signed by Mary Austin and Ansel Adams, containing magnificent photographs by Adams. Possibly the most famous modern photographic work on the West, Taos Pueblo was a col- laboration between the young pho- tographer, 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 photographer 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” – Adams. Produced in a small edition, the book is difficult to obtain today. One of the greatest books produced by the Grabhorn Press and featuring beautiful photo- graphs by Ansel Adams, it is a landmark of American photographic depiction of the Southwest. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY 137. ROTH, THE BOOK OF 101 BOOKS 58. Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest (1970), p. xxv. $85,000. 3. [Alaska]: GENERAL CHART OF ALASKA...COMPILED FROM UNITED STATES AND RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES.... Washington, D.C.: “Transferred to stone and printed by Andrew B. Graham,” 1897. Large folding pocket map in full period color, approximately 31 x 51½ inches. Bound into contemporary 12mo. cloth, cover titled in gilt. Cloth worn at extremities, frayed at head of spine. Map backed on linen. Map worn at one fold, with minor loss along approximately five inches, and at three additional meetings of folds, with minor loss. Map seller’s contemporary small ink stamp and label on front pastedown; same ink stamp near legend on map. Very good United States Coast and Geodetic Survey map of Alaska, first published in 1890, and issued in the present form as “Rand, McNally & Co’s Map of Alaska” (cover title). The comprehensive map and sailing chart includes a large portion of the Siberian coast and a detailed view of the Alaskan interior, naming several forts and mining posts. $1250. 4. [Alaska]: PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP CO. THE GOLD FIELDS OF ALASKA AND THE KLONDYKE ISSUED FOR FREE DIS- TRIBUTION. San Francisco: Goodall, Perkins & Co., 1898. 26pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Some edge chipping, toned and somewhat brittle, as usual. Good. A rare 1898 pamphlet with much information on the Yukon-Klondike and Alaska gold fields. Gold was discovered in 1896 on Rabbit Creek, a tributary of the Klondike, and when the news got out in July 1897, tens of thousands of gold seekers undertook the harrowing journey to Dyea and the Chilkoot gold rush trail. This pamphlet was very popular, with a first print run of 50,000 copies. It provided a wide range of informa- tion for the gold seeker, including what and how to pack, the regulations on transportation, the diggings, and Canadian duties. Topic headings include “Packing from Dyea Over Chilcoot Pass,” “Rate for Packing – Dyea to Summit,” “New Map of Alaska,” “Outfit for a Woman,” “A Lecture by Bishop Rowe of Alaska on the Yukon-Klondike Gold Field and How to Reach Same,” among others. Rare, with no copies in OCLC. $1250. 5. [Alaska]: [EARLY ALASKA AND YUKON TERRITORY PHO- TOGRAPH ALBUM]. [N.p. ca. 1910]. Twenty-six small silver gelatin prints, each approximately 2¼ x 3 to 4¼ x 3¼ inches. Small photograph album bound in full black calf, photographs pasted in. Some edge wear, spine head chipped, front joint split. Some photographs unevenly trimmed, most loose. In very good condition. An outstanding collection of early Alaskan vernacular photography. Images include Indian totem poles, several shots of a family in winter dress, snow-capped mountains, scenic forests, lake or harbor scenes, glaciers, icebergs, and more. Well-composed photos, obviously by a photographer with an artist’s eye, including rare views of native totems. $1250. Establishing an Army Post at Tucson 6. [Arizona]: Scott, Winfield, Gen.: [MANUSCRIPT COPY OF GEN. ORDERS No. 6, ESTABLISHING AN ARMY POST AT TUC- SON]. [New York]. June 17, 1856. [2]pp. on a single folded sheet. Slight browning at edges, two holes punched in left margin. Very good. General Winfield Scott’s General Orders No. 6, dated June 17, 1856, written in a clerk’s hand and signed by Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, ordering the establishment of an Army post at Tucson. This was the first American military base in the state of Arizona. $1500. An Important Run of Arizona Territorial Laws 7. [Arizona Territorial Laws]: [CONSECUTIVE RUN OF THE FIRST THIRTEEN SESSION LAWS OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEM- BLY OF THE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, 1865 – 1885]. Prescott, Tucson & San Francisco. 1865-1885. Thirteen volumes, publication details and pagination provided below. Uniformly bound in 20th-century buckram, gilt leather labels. Minor shelf wear, some labels chipped. Ink stamp, embossed blindstamps. Overall good. Arizona had been administered as part of the Territory of New Mexico until its seizure by the Confederacy following the Battle of Mesilla in 1861, though this was a short-lived conquest.