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(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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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 lithographed 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 document” – 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 endpapers. 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 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 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 photographs 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 information 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. A new Territory of Arizona, consisting of the western half of New Mexico Territory, was then declared in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 24, 1863, and these are the published Acts of the first thirteen sessions of the territorial legislature. Arizona would not officially become a state until Feb. 14, 1912. The first volume here is especially important, as it is among the earliest imprints published within the Territory, and it includes the Organic Act providing for temporary government. In his sale catalogue Streeter writes of the first three volumes included here: “These laws, resolutions, and memorials of the first Legislative assembly of Arizona and those of the second and third Legislative assemblies, also in my collection, are an interesting source of contemporary information on mail routes, printing, railroads, Indian troubles, and for the general history of Arizona.” The first volume alone sold for $225 in the Streeter sale. Few copies of the early volumes appear on the current market, with certainly nothing approaching this type of consecutive run. An especially rare set, virtually unobtainable on an individual basis. The works included here are as follows:

1) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the First Legislative Assembly of the Ter- ritory of Arizona. Prescott: Office of the Arizona Miner, 1865. 79pp. McMURTRIE (ARIZONA) 8. AII (ARIZONA) 8. STREETER SALE 507. SABIN 1983. 2) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the Second Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona. Prescott: Office of the Arizona Miner, 1866. 98pp. McMUR- TRIE (ARIZONA) 14. AII (ARIZONA) 16. 3) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the Third Legislative Assembly of the Ter- ritory of Arizona. Prescott: Office of the Arizona Miner, 1867. 72pp. McMURTRIE (ARIZONA) 19. AII (ARIZONA) 23. 4) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the Fourth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona. Prescott: Office of the Arizona Miner, 1868. 74pp. McMUR- TRIE (ARIZONA) 23. AII (ARIZONA) 27. 5) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the Fifth Legislative Assembly of the Ter- ritory of Arizona. Tucson: Tucson Publishing Company, 1869. 71pp. McMURTRIE (ARIZONA) 25. AII (ARIZONA) 29. 6) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the Sixth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona. Tucson: Office of the Arizona Citizen, 1871. 144pp. Mc- MURTRIE (ARIZONA) 29. AII (ARIZONA) 33. 7) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the Seventh Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona. Tucson: Office of the Arizona Citizen, 1873. 177pp. Mc- MURTRIE (ARIZONA) 31. AII (ARIZONA) 35. 8) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the Eighth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona. Tucson: Office of the Arizona Citizen, 1875. 238pp. Mc- MURTRIE (ARIZONA) 34. AII (ARIZONA) 40. 9) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials of the Ninth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona. Tucson: Office of the Arizona Citizen, 1877. 132pp. Certification leaf partially detached. AII (ARIZONA) 44. 10) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials of the Tenth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona. Prescott: Office of the Arizona Miner, 1879. xv,160pp. AII (ARIZONA) 48. 11) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials of the Eleventh Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona. Prescott: Territory of Arizona, 1881. xvi,[2],219pp. AII (ARIZONA) 57. 12) Laws of the Territory of Arizona Twelfth Legislative Assembly; also, Memorials and Resolutions. Prescott: Printed at the Daily and Weekly Arizona Miner, 1883. [8],[2],311pp. AII (ARIZONA) 79. 13) Laws of the Territory of Arizona Thirteenth Legislative Assembly; also, Memorials and Resolutions. San Francisco: H.S. Crocker & Co., 1885. xvii,[2],415pp.

$6000.

8. [Arkansas]: CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, AS ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION FEBRUARY 11th, 1868. Little Rock: Republican Steam Book and Job Printing Office, 1868. 28pp., printed in double columns. Modern half black calf and marbled boards, leather label. Embossed library blindstamp on titlepage, ink number on verso. Text trimmed close, costing some letters on a handful of leaves. Very good.

The Reconstruction constitution of 1868, which allowed Arkansas to re-enter the Union after the Civil War, but which produced great anger within the state, where it was viewed as a “conqueror’s” constitution. The constitution recognizes “the equal- ity of all persons before the law” regardless of “race, color, or previous condition,” enfranchises blacks, voids the secession constitution of 1861, restricts the voting rights of former Confederate officials and soldiers, outlaws dueling, establishes a system of free public schools, and forbids religious tests as a qualification for office. The final two pages contain the “Address of the Republican State Central Committee” in favor of ratification of the constitution. Recognized by Ledbetter as “the focus for all the ills of Reconstruction” by conservative Arkansans, the 1868 constitution is now seen as an instrument for promoting social, economic, and political reforms through governmental means. It was replaced by a new, more conservative constitution in 1874. An important document in understanding the course of Reconstruction policy, and the public reaction to it, in Arkansas. ALLEN, ARKANSAS IMPRINTS 528. Cal Ledbetter, Jr., “The Constitution of 1868: Conqueror’s Constitution or Constitutional Continuity?” in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 44. No. 1 (Spring 1985), pp.16-41. $1000.

Rare Account of Lower California by a German Jesuit

9. [Baegert, Jacob]: NACHRICHTEN VON DER AMERIKANISCH- EN HALBINSEL CALIFORNIEN: MIT EINEM ZWEYFACHEN ANHANG FALSCHER NACHRICHTEN.... Mannheim: Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1773. [16],358pp. plus two engraved plates and folding map. Contemporary black half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities lightly worn, small paper label at foot of spine. Small ink stamp on titlepage and verso of map. Minor scattered foxing. Very good.

Second issue with some corrections, after the first printing of the previous year, of this rare account of Lower California by the Ger- man Jesuit, Jacob Baegert. Baegert lived in Baja California for seventeen years (1751-68) and spent most of his time at the Mission of San Luis Gonzaga, leaving after the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. He provides some important details on the culture of the Indians of Baja California, including the Pericues, Guiacuras, and Cochiemes. Wagner states that the Ger- man Jesuits were especially dissatisfied toward the end of the Jesuit regime in California, and Baegert’s bitterness is evident in his book: “... it was a land full of ferocious beasts and even more ferocious Indians, the soil was poor, the water undrinkable, and there was no fuel to be had.” The fine and important map was made by the fellow Jesuit, Ferdinand Consak, and is described by Streeter as “most helpful in giving the location of the many Jesuit missions in Lower California. It also shows the route along the west coast of Mexico followed by Baegert in going to California in 1751 and his route out in 1768, after the expulsion of the Jesuits.” The top right corner of the territory (present-day Arizona) is labeled, rather ominously, “Los Apaches Barbari.” The excellent plates, which were apparently not issued with all copies, depict male and female California Indians. The NUC locates only three copies of this second issue. A prime early account of Baja California, with an important map and plates of the region. HOWES B29. HILL 46. COWAN, p.27. SABIN 4363. BELL B5 (1772 ed). STREETER SALE 2442. BARRETT 129. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 157. MEADOWS, BAJA CALIFORNIA 1. GRAFF 137 (1772 ed). $9000.

10. 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-coloring. Within an ornamental border. Sheet size: 32¼ x 38 inches. Publisher’s blindstamped cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt, publisher’s advertisement on front pastedown. Minor separations at folds expertly repaired, very minor losses at intersecting folds.

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. $4500.

11. Barbé-Marbois, François: HISTOIRE DE LA LOUISIANE ET DE LA CESSION DE CETTE COLONIE PAR LA FRANCE AUX ÉTATS-UNIS DE L’AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE.... Paris. 1829. [6],485pp. plus partially colored folding map. Half title. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, expertly rebacked with original gilt spine laid down, leather label. Very good.

“Barbé-Marbois represented France in the preliminary negotiations with the United States on the Louisiana purchase and his book is one of the main sources on that subject. It shows that in the claim by the United States in the negotiations with Great Britain, that the northern boundary of Louisiana included the area now comprised in Oregon, Washington and Idaho was without foundation. The important map in the first edition indicated the 110th meridian as the western extent of Louisiana” – Streeter. HOWES B115, “aa.” STREETER SALE 1599. SABIN 3306. $750.

Classic View of Louisiana

12. [Baudry Des Lozières, Louis N.]: VOYAGE A LA LOUISIANE, ET SUR LE CONTINENT DE L’AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE, FAIT DANS LES ANNÉES 1794 A 1798; CONTENANT UN TAB- LEAU HISTORIQUE DE LA LOUISIANE.... Paris. 1802. viii,382pp. plus folding map. Half title. Contemporary three-quarter calf and boards, black gilt morocco label. Front hinge slightly cracked, spine with minute worming. Internally bright and clean. Near fine.

One of the classic early views of Louisiana at the beginning of the 19th century. It has been suggested that this work was written when it was first thought that Louisiana would be returned to France, in an effort to demonstrate its importance as a colony. While less a work of personal observation than a collection of contemporary data and reports, the text includes some discussion of Texas, the resident Indian tribes and their languages, accounts of slavery and colonial administration, etc. WAGNER-CAMP 1a. FIELD 99. CLARK II:76. HOWES B243. MONAGHAN 149. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 319. STREETER SALE 1571. $2000. Presentation Copy

13. Bigsby, John J.: THE SHOE AND CANOE OR PICTURES OF TRAVEL IN THE CANADAS. ILLUSTRATIVE OF THEIR SCENERY AND OF COLONIAL LIFE.... London. 1850. Two volumes. xv,[1],352; viii,346pp., plus five maps (two folding) and twenty plates. Original blue publisher’s cloth, stamped in gilt, rebacked in blue cloth, gilt leather labels. Corners bumped. Some minor toning. Most plates lightly dampstained. Good.

This copy is inscribed by the author on the half title in the first volume: “The Royal Institution of Great Britain / from the Author.” This narrative was prepared from the author’s sketches and notes made during his geological pursuits in Canada from 1821 to 1827. He was a military physician, but seems to have devoted most of his time to the pursuit of paleobotany. He visited Quebec, Montreal, the St. Lawrence region, the Great Lakes region, Niagara Falls, and Lake of the Woods. Bigsby’s narrative is particularly valuable for his account of the Canadian West in a period before it was regularly settled. A scarce narrative, illustrated with handsome plates of the scenery and sights. His other work is mentioned in Taxonomic Literature. LANDE 1582. TPL 142. SABIN 5360. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE I, p.214. $1750.

A Wonderful Album of West Coast Bridges

14. [Bridge Construction in the West]: [PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM OF WEST COAST BRIDGES]. [Washington, D.C.: Works Project Admin- istration? ca. 1935]. Over 300 original mounted silver gelatin photographs, most from approximately 3 x 5½ to 7½ x 9½ inches, with seven panoramas, the largest about 3 x 13¾ inches. Oblong folio. Contemporary paper-covered thin boards, twin-bolt binding, calligraphic title on front cover: “Bridges.” Paper along the joints largely chipped away, corners worn, some rubbing and soiling to boards. Mounted photographs in mostly excellent condition. Very good.

A fantastic photograph album, largely composed of images featuring bridges located on the West Coast of the United States, possibly created as a Works Progress Ad- ministration project. The bridges are shown over roads and bodies of water, some under construction, but primarily completed and noting structural components or necessary repairs, including both striking clean shots of the full structure and detailed close-ups of needed repairs. The seven panoramas (six made up of two conjoined photographs, the seventh made of three). Each page includes at least one printed caption noting the location of the bridge and other technical details. Some captions note federal aid project numbers. Except for the first twenty-six photographs, which concern bridges at Mount Vernon and the Boundary Channel Bridge in Arlington, and a handful showing bridges in New Mexico and Montana, all the bridges photographed are located on the West Coast, including California, Oregon, Washington, and also Arizona, many constructed with the help of the Federal Aid Project. The album itself has the impression of a WPA product, though it is not identified as such. At the least, it is likely the work of an engineer familiar with the technical aspects of bridge construction, evidenced by the captions. The California bridges are captioned as follows: Charley Creek Bridge (near Redding); Pollards Gulch Bridge; Boulder Creek Bridge; Mossdale Bridge over the San Joaquin River; Van Duzen River Bridge; Polaris Bridge over the Truckee River; Harlan D. Miller Bridge over Dog Creek; Merced Overcrossing; Pulga Bridge over the North Fork of the Feather River; Feather River Bridge; Klamath River Bridge; Smith River Bridge near Crescent City; Salinas River Bridge near Bradley; Par- rot Creek Bridge; Santa Ana River Bridge; Big Lagoon Trestle on the Redwood Highway; Santa Clara River Bridge near El Rio; Double Reinforced Concrete Arch Bridge over the Shasta River; Douglas Memorial Bridge over the Klamath River (many examples); Willow Creek Bridge; Roubidoux Bridge at Riverside; Dyerville Bridge over the Eel River; and San Benito River Bridge. The Oregon bridges include: Reinforced Concrete Viaduct at Newberg; Mosier Arch in Wasco County; Rock Point Arch; Scappoose Creek Bridge; Oswego Arch; Robert A. Booth Bridge (near Roseburg); Young’s Bay Bridge at Astoria; Grande Ronde River Bridge; Oregon City Bridge over the Willamette River; Hilgard Overcrossing and Bridge; Myrtle Creek Bridge and Overcrossing; Rogue River Bridge near trail; Kilchis River Bridge; Gate Creek Bridge; Blue River Bridge; Cape Creek Bridge; Rogue River Bridge at Grant’s Pass; Chasm Creek Bridge; Elk River Bridge; Keno Bridge over the Klamath River; Oakland Overcrossing on the Pacific Highway; Willamette River Bridge at Albany; Harrisburg Bridge over the Willamette River; Maupin Bridge over the Deschutes River; Rocky Creek Arch; Depoe Bay Bridge; Siletz River Bridge; Schofield River Bridge; Umatilla Bridge; Skipanan River Bridge; Parrot Creek Bridge; R.A. Booth Bridge at Winchester; Gold Hill Bridge over the Rogue River; Rogue River Bridge at Gold Beach; Seuffert Viaduct; and Wilson River Bridge. The Washington bridges include: Mill Creek Bridge; Abernathy Creek Bridge; Vantage Ferry Bridge over the Columbia River (including the largest panorama); Klamath River Bridge; Lake Creek Bridge; Benton Creek Bridge; Coal Creek Bridge; and Concrete Truss Bridge at Seattle. The Arizona bridges are captioned as follows: Bridge over the Salt River in Tempe (many examples); San Pedro River Bridge at St. David’s; Gillespie Dam Bridge over the Gila River; New River Bridge; San Simon River Bridge; Joseph City Bridge; Sol’s Wash Bridge; Santa Cruz River Bridge at Continental; Railroad Overcrossing near Hot Springs Junction; Querino Canyon Bridge; Chino Wash Bridge; Agua Frio Bridge west of Phoenix; Canyon Diablo Bridge; Little Colorado Bridge near Holbrook; Little Colorado Bridge near Leupp; Little Hell Canyon Bridge; Big Hell Canyon Bridge; and 600-foot Suspension Span over the Little Colorado River Near Cameron. A fascinating pictorial record of early bridge construction in the western United States. $5000. 15. [Buffalo Bill]: BUFFALO BILL’S WILD WEST...AND...ROUGH RIDERS OF THE WORLD. Buffalo, N.Y.: Courier Company, Printers, [1902]. [11],[3]-64,[9]pp. including many in-text illustrations and [20]pp. of advertisements, many illustrated. Original chromolithographic pictorial wrappers. Wrappers separating, chipped at extremities. Occasional soiling. Overall very good.

“9th Edition.” An elaborate Wild West Show program, with “historical sketches” and many photographic illustrations of western exploits, equestrian scenes, Sitting Bull and other Indian leaders, and Buffalo Bill himself. The program also features portraits of Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, some of whom were working for the Wild West Show. The rear wrapper is a chewing gum advertisement surrounded with western sporting vignettes. $850.

Giant Wild West Show Poster

16. [Buffalo Ranch Real Wild West]: BUF- FALO RANCH REAL WILD WEST. A LESSON IN THE HISTORY OF PIO- NEER DAYS. GAMES OF THE REAL RED MEN CAMEL RACES. Milwaukee: Riverside Print Co., [ca. 1910]. Chromolitho- graphic poster, 55 x 20 inches. Old folds and creases. Two small chips at edges, one touching the border edge. Very good. Framed and matted. Not examined out of frame.

An attractive, colorful, and action-filled poster for one of the many “Wild West” shows that were formed in the wake of Buffalo Bill Cody’s success. The Buffalo Ranch Real Wild West Show was formed around 1910 and produced shows filled with spectacle, as evidenced by this poster. The bottom half of the poster is dominated by a Catlinesque image of “The Real Indian War Dance,” as braves in headdresses and breastplates dance around a camp fire. A full moon illuminates the night sky, and a number of teepees are visible in the background. A large illustration in the upper half shows a number of Indians on horseback playing “equestrian foot ball,” while others show fancily dressed Anglo women on horseback, as well as a camel race with riders dressed in quasi-Bedouin garb. An attractive poster for a little-remembered Wild West show and a fine example of the “West (and Near East) of the Imagination.” $2500. 17. [California]: EL EXMO. SR. VICE-PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA- DOS-UNIDOS MEXICANOS SE HA SERVIDO DIRIGIRME EL DECRETO QUE SIGUE [caption title]. Mexico. Aug. 17, 1833. 2pp. on single folded sheet. Folio. Some worming to first outer leaf and gutter. Very clean. Very good.

This document is a decree from the Vice President of los Estados-Unidos Mexicos distributed to the parishes of Alta and Baja California. It states the government’s intention to secularize the parishes in order to regain the attentions and loyalties of the native community. This move sought to make the local parishes smaller and return land to the natives. It also includes details of payment to each parish, to be used as aid to the community. These actions by the government were a last ditch attempt to convert the native communities to Spanish ways and to gain their allegiance to the crown. $1000.

Published During the Civil War

18. [California]: Mears, Leonard, compiler: MEARS’ SACRAMENTO DIRECTORY, FOR THE YEARS 1863-4: EMBRACING A GEN- ERAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF RESIDENTS. Sacramento: Printed by A. Badlam, 1863. 21-142pp. plus 26pp. of preliminary advertisements printed on yellow, red, and green paper, with additional advertisement in the rear (complete). Publisher’s roan-backed boards, with advertisements on both covers and endpapers. Binding worn, else good.

An early Sacramento business directory, published in California during the Civil War. An invaluable source of information for the period, with advertisements for a wide range of businesses including shippers, wine merchants, surgeons, dentists and druggists, printers and bookbinders, photographers, grocers, hardware dealers, and more. Besides the alphabetical directory, the work includes a brief history of Sacramento as well as information on the state, county and city offices, local insti- tutions, post offices, and stage routes. Scarce, with five examples cited by OCLC, only one of which is outside California. ROCQ 6528. $3500.

Early Napa Valley Views

19. [California]: HAND BOOK OF CALISTOGA SPRINGS OR, LIT- TLE GEYSERS, ITS MINERAL WATERS, CLIMATE, AMUSE- MENTS, BATHS, DRIVES, SCENERY, THE CELEBRATED GREAT GEYSERS AND PETRIFIED FOREST, AND THE CLEAR LAKE COUNTRY, WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS. San Francisco: Alta California Book and Job Printing House, 1871. 30,4pp. plus folding map and six (of seven) lithographic plates. Lacks the folding view of “Calistoga Springs in 1871.” Titlepage printed in red and green. Original limp purple cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, white cloth backstrip. Cloth sunned, rear cover repaired with tape at upper edge. Two small chips in titlepage, else quite clean internally. Very good.

A scarce illustrated pamphlet promoting the lovely Napa Valley community of Calistoga and its healing springs. “Justly called the Saratoga of the Pacific, Calistoga has been a renowned resort for over a hundred years. This guide proudly describes the numerous advantages and beauties of the northern section of the Napa Valley. Originally settled by Sam Brannan, Calistoga provides the visitor with natural mud baths, geysers, mineral baths, the grape cure, and the famous ‘air and sun’ cure to this day” – Howell. The map shows routes to Calistoga Springs from various places throughout California. The attractive plates (like the map, lithographed by Britton & Rey) show various views of Calistoga, including the railroad depot, Mount St. Helena, vineyards, the swimming baths, and Wapoo Indians. We can locate only two copies of this attractive work offered for sale in the past thirty-five years, one copy at auction in 1991 and the copy offered by Warren Howell in his Catalogue 50. Two copies were offered by the Holmes Book Company as part of the Norris Collection in 1948, one with the folding view of “Calistoga Springs in 1871” (priced $5) and one without (priced $3). The present copy lacks the folding view. A scarce promotional, with early and attractive views of this Napa Valley landmark. ROCQ 5876. COWAN, p.102. HOWELL 50:345. NORRIS CATALOGUE 501, 3666. $850.

A Fine Map of San Diego

20. [California]: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. MAP OF THE HARBOR OF SAN DIEGO AND VICINITY, SHOWING THE TERMINUS OF THE CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN RAIL ROAD, AT NATION- AL CITY, TOGETHER WITH THE PROPERTY OF THE SAN DIEGO LAND AND TOWN COMPANY. San Diego. 1881. Folding map, 23½ x 34¾ inches, folded to 8¼ x 4½ inches. Minor separations at cross- folds, a couple short fold separations, ink stamp on front. Else very good.

A rare blueprint map showing the harbor of San Diego, along with a scaled map of the U.S. from northern California east to Boston, south to Charleston, South Carolina, and west to Sonora, Mexico; with a grid of the property of the San Diego Land & Town Co. in National City (a small city within San Diego), and including the “Terminal Grounds” of the railroad. Heliographed by O.N. Sanford in San Diego. Frank A. Kimball was the agent for California Southern or the San Diego Land & Town Co. in National City, and the front cover bears his ink stamp. Rare, with only three copies on OCLC, at Yale, the University of California, San Diego, and the Sacramento Public Library. Not in Rocq. OCLC 54146621, 35291187, 34434276. $2500.

21. [California]: MONTEREY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED. RESOURC- ES, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY [cover title]. [Salinas, Ca.: E.S. Harrison, ca. 1889]. 88pp., printed in double columns. Profusely illustrated. Double-page map. Quarto. Original pigskin, gilt, with pictorial onlay on front board, a.e.g. Chipped at head of spine, binding a bit shelfworn. Small closed tear in upper margin of final leaf, not affecting text. Contemporary ownership signature on front fly leaf. Very good. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

Designated “souvenir edition” on the front board and without a titlepage, apparently as issued. A scarce and early guide to Monterey County, featuring a general profile of the region, its history, resources, industries, and agriculture, as well as biographical sketches of prominent men. Several of the biographies are illustrated with portraits, and there are dozens of illustrations of the sights in the county as well. The double-page map shows the entirety of Monterey County. This text was also issued in pamphlet format around the same time, for the Salinas City Board of Trade. ROCQ 5514. $750. 22. [California]: MAP OF GLEN-DEVEN MONTEREY COUNTY CALIFORNIA 1928. [Monterey?] 1928. Blue-line map on two conjoined sheets, 15¼ x 68½ inches total. Light toning and creasing, a bit of edge wear. One-inch closed tear in lower margin, not affecting image. Very good.

Rare blue-line map of the Glen-Deven development in beautiful Carmel, California. The area depicted appears to be in the exclusive seaside town, and not a part of the Glen Deven Ranch further south, which is now a part of the Big Sur Land Trust. This long map depicts more than 100 lots of land developed and offered for sale in Carmel. Several unnamed roads are shown, as are the courses of Wildcat Creek and “Garapata” Creek. Dimensions are given for each lot, and the map bears a number of pencil notes, dated as late as the mid-1930s, indicating that this may have been a reference copy used by the developers themselves. In a few instances the names of purchasers are listed, including Tilly Polak, a well-known Dutch artist resident in Carmel, and in some cases the lots are listed as “under contract.” One group of four large lots in the center of the development is marked as “deeded Whitcomb & Bain,” referring to builders George Mark Whitcomb and Miles Bain, who were instrumental in the early shaping of Carmel. No copies of this map are located in OCLC. An interesting map showing the early development of a part of Carmel, California. $750.

Among the Earliest Caricatures of the Forty-Niners

23. [California Gold Rush]: Read, James A. and Donald F., illustrators: JOURNEY TO THE GOLD DIGGINS BY JEREMIAH SADDLE- BAGS. New York: Stringer & Townsend, [1849]. 63,[1]pp. Pictorial title and 112 wood engraved comic illustrations. Oblong octavo. Original green lower wrapper (upper wrapper, which repeats the title, is lacking). Good. In a modern cloth slipcase.

Rare first edition of among the earliest caricatures of the Forty-Niners. A classic of California Gold Rush comic book literature. “Of the American comic books on the subject of the gold rush, the best known, although it is scarce, is this.” This is the story of an “Argonaut who risked the hard journey to the gold fields, found that it was all a good deal more difficult than he had thought, avoided death by a hair’s breadth time and again, and came home poorer than he went. It is the best of the American comic books on this theme” (Cowan). “Jeremiah Saddlebags underwent every possible mishap in this classic spoof of the adventurers of the Forty-Niner” – Streeter. Two issues of the first edition were published, without priority, in Cincinnati and New York. A scarce example of the best known work of Gold Rush comic book literature. $9500. 24. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: FIRE IN SAN FRANCISCO. JN [sic] THE NIGHT FROM THE 3d – 4th MAY, 1851. LOSS $20,000,000 [caption title]. San Francisco: Lith. Justh & Co., [1851]. Pic- torial letter sheet, 8¾ x 11¼ inches, on blue wove paper. Light edge wear. Near fine.

A striking California pictorial letter sheet showing the raging fire that consumed much of San Francisco in the first week of May 1851, one of several fires that swept through the city in the early years of the Gold Rush. The view is looking east from Nob Hill, with the fire raging near the waterfront, south of Telegraph Hill. Several people are shown in the foreground carting their belongings up the hill, while dozens of people are shown climbing up Telegraph Hill in the left side of the picture. In 1851, San Francisco was largely comprised of wooden structures, and fires often tore through the city. This letter sheet was produced by Justh & Co., one of the first and most important lithographic firms in San Francisco. Another copy of this same letter sheet brought $920 at the Clifford sale in 1994. An evocative image of the dangers involved in living in a booming yet hastily built San Francisco. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 77. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 70. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, p.133. $1500.

25. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: LIFE IN SAN FRANCISCO. THE KING’S CAMPAIGN OR REMOVAL OF THE DEPOSITES COMPOSED & SUNG BY FRANK BALL [caption title]. [San Fran- cisco. n.d., ca. 1851]. Pictorial letter sheet on a double sheet of white paper, 16¾ x 10¾ inches. Old folds, some light old staining in the lower left. Minor edge wear. Very good.

A large, rare California pictorial letter sheet with satirical political content, unknown to Baird. The engraved illustration in the upper quarter of the sheet shows a procession of men dressed in suits and top hats, or dressed as knights or warriors, and most of them carry a weapon of some sort. In the center a blindfolded donkey draws a small cart in which a man is standing. A banner reading “C.H. Treasurer” is held aloft by one of the group, and another man carries a bag over his shoulder labeled $2,000. The image is meant to satirize the reaction of San Francisco Customs Collector Thomas Butler King who, when the customs house was burned in the San Francisco fire of 1851 organized his employees to remove the contents and march it to a safe place, their procession appearing similar to that of the illustration on this sheet. As noted, this pictorial letter sheet is not listed in Baird, though the illustration bears similarities to Baird 134 and 341. Below the scene is a ten-stanza poem mocking King, political patronage, and the way he conducted himself during the fire. Such overt political satire on a California pictorial letter sheet is rather uncom- mon, and this is the first example of this sheet that we have owned. It is not listed in Reilly’s catalogue of American political prints in the Library of Congress. Not listed in Baird, the only other copy that we can locate was in the noted Clifford collection. Rare. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 345. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PIC- TORIAL LETTER SHEETS 134, 341 (ref ). $1850.

26. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: VIEW OF THE FIRE IN SAC- RAMENTO CITY ON THE NIGHT OF 2d & 3d OF NOVEMBER 1852, TAKEN FROM THE LEVEE. LOSS: TEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!! [caption title]. San Francisco: Lith. & Pub. by Justh, Quirot & Co., [1852]. Pictorial letter sheet, 8¼ x 10½ inches, on blue wove paper. Light wear along the edges. Very good.

A stunning view of a tremendous fire in Sacramento, captured in a dramatic night- time scene. The sky is filled with billowing smoke and shooting flames as buildings burn in the center of the image and futile attempts are made to douse the flames. People, crates, and barrels cover the levee in the foreground. By 1851, Sacramento, not yet the capital of California, was an important center of communication and supplies for the mining camps, and the fires and floods that occasionally hit the city were events of major interest. This letter sheet was produced by Justh, Quirot & Co., one of the first and most important lithographic firms in San Francisco. This copy bears a stamp in blue ink in the left lower margin reading “Noisy Carrier’s Publishing House / Long Wharf San Francisco / Charles P. Kimball Proprietor,” which is not mentioned by either Baird or Clifford. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 305. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, p.138. $1750.

Letter Sheet of California Indians

27. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: [Hutchings, James M.]: HUTCH- ING’S [sic] CALIFORNIA SCENES. THE CALIFORNIA INDI- ANS [caption title]. [San Francisco]: Excelsior Print, [1854]. Quarto sheet, 11¼ x 9¼ inches, with eight illustrations in the borders and text in double columns in center. Light blue tinted paper. Very slight edge wear. Near fine.

An attractive California pictorial letter sheet, featuring eight scenes of California Indians around the border of the sheet, with explanatory text in the middle. Scenes depicted are “Gathering Acorns,” “Gathering Seeds,” “An Indian Fandango,” “Catching Grasshop- pers,” “Grinding Acorns,” “Mode of Travelling,” “Burning their Dead,” and “Cooking Food.” Male and female Indians are shown, with most of the females topless and bosomy. The illustrations are by the great artist, Charles Nahl, the “Cruikshank of California.” The text describes the scenes and Cali- fornia Indian social customs. The publisher, James M. Hutchings, issued several pictorial letter sheets showing California scenes. Baird notes two issues of this letter sheet, one with “Sun Print” listed as the printer, the other (as is ours) with “Excelsior Print.” The Excelsior Print is the scarcer of the two issues. A handsome display piece. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 105. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 102. $1250.

View of San Francisco in 1854, with a Letter

28. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: Kernan, J.S.A.: SAN FRANCISCO, 1854 [caption title]. San Francisco: Lith. of Britton & Rey, [1854]. Double- size pictorial letter sheet, 10½ x 16¾ inches, on blue paper. Image stretches across entire upper half of sheet, lower half taken up by an autograph letter (see below). Folded for mailing. Light tanning along fold lines. Small separations at five cross-folds, expertly repaired. Very good.

An iconic view of San Francisco on a double-size pictorial letter sheet bearing an autograph letter. Britton and Rey used this view of San Francisco looking east from Nob Hill at least four times, and it was used on a letter sheet issued by Sarony and Company. The present copy was part of the celebrated Clifford collection of letter sheets. The view shows San Francisco growing at a rapid pace just five years after the first gold-seekers began arriving, and dozens of ships are shown in the bay. Two figures are shown in the foreground, as well as an artist who sketches the scene. The city spreads over the hills, and the density of the built environment is ably represented. The lower half of the sheet contains an autograph letter, signed, from J.S.A. Kernan to his father, dated April 30, 1854, making this among the earliest recorded uses of this letter sheet. Reman has identified various landmarks in the view, noting the general locations of North Beach, Telegraph Hill, Yerba Buena Island, and drawing a small sketch of City Hall. Kernan notes that “the foreground of the picture are the [?] hills on the south side of the city.” He writes his father that he is planning on coming home in a year or so, but that he is presently working on a plan to secure a fortune for himself: “I came to California for an object. That object attained I shall return. My prospects now are good how long they will continue I dare not hope but if I can only hold my present situation for one year without any loss I can come home as I wish to come, with money.” An excellent view of San Francisco in 1854 on a pictorial letter sheet, with a highly representative letter from one who, like thousands of others, went to Cali- fornia to seek his fortune. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 239. CLIFFORD LET- TER SHEET COLLECTION 240 (this copy). PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, pp.76-78, plate 37. $2000.

Feet Froze Off

29. Campbell, Archibald: A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, FROM 1806 TO 1812; IN WHICH JAPAN, KAMSCHATKA, THE ALEU- TIAN ISLANDS, AND THE SANDWICH ISLANDS, WERE VISITED. INCLUDING A NARRATIVE OF THE AUTHOR’S SHIPWRECK ON THE ISLAND OF SANNACK, AND HIS SUB- SEQUENT WRECK IN THE SHIP’S LONG BOAT. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENT STATE OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS, AND A VOCABULARY OF THEIR LANGUAGE. Ed- inburgh. 1816. 288pp. Lacks the half title. Folding frontispiece map. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Very minor scattered foxing, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

The scarce first edition of this valuable account of Campbell’s voyage to Japan and China, with much useful information on Hawaii and Alaska. While in China, Campbell joined the crew of the American ship Eclipse, sailing out of Boston and captained by Joseph O’Cain (called “O’Kean” in the text here). He departed China and went on to Japan and Kamchatka, and thence to Alaska, where the Eclipse was shipwrecked in 1807. Campbell gives an important and early description of Alaska. He wintered at the Russian base at Kodiak in 1808, where he met Baranov, who happened to be there at the time, and gives a valuable description of life on Kodiak. After his shipwreck on Kodiak, both of Campbell’s feet froze, and they were eventually amputated. After the amputation Campbell was sent to Hawaii to rehabilitate and became friendly with King Kamehameha I, for whom he made sails. “Campbell’s account of his stay in Hawaii...is of the greatest importance, being the first narrative from the viewpoint of a resident rather than as a visitor....The author lived among the chiefs and then with Isaac Davis, and he identifies some of the earliest foreign residents of the islands, a number of whom were Botany Bay men. His keen firsthand observations on the social structure and agricultural practices of Hawaiians are of great importance” – Forbes. A twenty-five-page appendix contains a Hawai- ian vocabulary, and an additional three pages contain Hawaiian phrases useful to seamen. The map is a rather detailed chart of the Northwest Coast, showing the “Track of the Eclipse’s Long Boat from Sannack to Kodiak 1807.” After his time in Hawaii, Campbell spent two years in various businesses in Rio de Janeiro, also discussed in this narrative. This account of his adventures, edited by James Smith, was published in an attempt to benefit Campbell. HOWES C88, “aa.” LADA-MOCARSKI 71. HILL 244. SABIN 10210. FORBES 448. WICKERSHAM 6544. STREETER SALE 2418. TOURVILLE, p.91. RICKS, p.56 (1819 ed). JUDD 30. $3750.

A Primary Report on Early New Mexico

30. Cancelada, Juan López, or [Pino, Pedro Baptista]: EXPOSICION SU- CINTA Y SENCILLA DE LA PROVINCIA DEL NUEVO MEXI- CO: HECHA POR SU DIPUTADO EN CÓRTES DON PEDRO BAPTISTA PINTO, CON ARREGLO A SUS INSTRUCCIONES. Cádiz: Imprenta del Estado-Mayor-General, 1812. 48,[3]pp. Small quarto. Dbd. Some soiling to titlepage, still very good. In a half morocco box.

The rare first edition of a work Howes describes as “the chief source on New Mexico’s last years as a Spanish province and of her beginnings as a Mexican state.” Cancelada’s concise work on New Mexico, published under the pseudonym Pedro Baptista Pino, includes much information regarding the region’s history, geography, populations, government, natural resources, and economic prospects. The author was elected to represent New Mexico in the Spanish Cortes in 1810. He wrote several works during his residency in Spain which were published there, including this classic and significant work on New Mexico. “Pino’s detailed account of New Mexico is the best extant for 1801-22” – Graff. WAGNER-CAMP 10a. HOWES P383. STREETER SALE 406. GRAFF 3296. JONES 756. SABIN 62979. PALAU 140894, 140899. $12,500.

Promoting Washington Territory on the Brink of Statehood

31. Carrere, John F.: SPOKANE FALLS WASHINGTON TERRITO- RY, AND ITS TRIBUTARY COUNTRY, COMPRISING ALL OF EASTERN WASHINGTON AND THE IDAHO PANHANDLE, THEIR MINERAL, AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL RE- SOURCES, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE SPOKANE FALLS WATER-POWER. [Chicago]: Published by the City Council and Board of Trade, 1889. 40pp. Illus. Original printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling. Very good plus.

An exceedingly rare pamphlet concentrated on the Spokane Falls area of Washington Territory and Idaho. The frontispiece engraving is a dynamic representation of the falls, with a burgeoning city situated behind them. A George D. Smith catalogue in 1921 cited but one known copy, but more have surfaced in the intervening years. Still, a scarce item, printed the same year Washington Territory became Washington State. STREETER SALE 3289. DECKER 25:145. SMITH (1921) 602. GOODSPEED 546:602. $1000.

Carrington on the Fetterman Massacre

32. Carrington, Henry B., Col.: [COLLECTION OF NINE LET- TERS, SIGNED, FROM COL. HENRY B. CARRINGTON, ONE OF THEM WRITTEN IN THE WAKE OF THE FETTERMAN MASSACRE AND HIS SUBSEQUENT RELIEF OF DUTY. AN- OTHER LETTER DESCRIBES CARRINGTON’S ACTIVITIES IN NEGOTIATING A TREATY WITH THE FLATHEAD TRIBE IN MONTANA IN 1889, AND OTHERS RELATE HIS FAMILY HISTORY TO HIS SON]. [Various places, as described below]. 1867- 1910. [21]pp. total, [2]pp. of which are a manuscript letter, signed; [3]pp. of which are autograph letters, signed; [16]pp. of which are typed letters, signed. Quarto sheets. Light edge wear to a few letters; the earliest letter with a two- inch closed tear, not costing any text. Very good overall.

An interesting and informative collection of letters from Col. Henry B. Carrington, the earliest of which was written in the wake of the Fetterman Massacre in Wyo- ming, and in which Carrington writes his superior officers asking for the timeline of the orders by which he was relieved of his duties. Almost all of the other letters are written from Carrington to his son – one of them while Fetterman was serving on the United States Indian Service at the Flathead Agency, the others concerning Carrington’s personal history and his family history. Henry B. Carrington (1824-1912) was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, gradu- ated from Yale in 1845, and attended Yale Law School. After his schooling he wrote and taught, eventually moving to Ohio, where he practiced law and became involved in the state militia. During the Civil War he served as adjutant general in Ohio, eventually rising to the rank of brigadier general. Following the war he was sent west to Wyoming, where he supervised the construction of Fort Phil Kearny, protecting the Bozeman Trail from hostile Indians. A few months later, on Dec. 21, 1866, a force commanded by Capt. William Fetterman (one of Carrington’s officers) was attacked by a force of Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho, resulting in the deaths of Fetterman and his command of eighty men. It was the worst massacre of American troops in the Plains Indian Wars up to that time, and Carrington, who had been criticized for his timidity in engaging hostile Indians, took much of the blame. He was immediately relieved of his command. The earliest letter in this collection, a manuscript letter signed by Carrington, was written from Fort McPherson, Nebraska on March 9, 1867 and is addressed to the Assistant Adjutant General of the Department of the Platte. Having been relieved of his command, Carrington writes to inquire about the exact timing of his dismissal, and provides information about how news of the massacre was transmitted to Fort Laramie. He asks about the exact date of his dismissal, “as that date has become a material fact...[and] it will be seen as necessary to complete my record.” Carrington inquires:

Was the telegram to Lieut. Colonel J.A. Palmer sent from Department Head Quarters, Dec. 25th 1886, after receipt of his telegram from Horse Shoe from Lieut. Colonel Wessels with report of the massacre?....[O]n what day of De- cember was my telegraphic dispatch received at Department Head Quarters with report of disaster; which had already been previously announced by Colonel Parker. It is proper to say that I suppose this telegram reached Department Head Quarters by the 26th certainly not later than the 27th, as my courier reached Laramie a little before midnight of the 25th and the telegram was sent the next day early.

Carrington retired from active service in 1870 and moved to Indiana and then Massachusetts. More than twenty years after the Fetterman Massacre, in 1889 he was in Montana as part of the United States Indian Service, helping to negotiate a treaty with the Flathead tribe. A letter in this collection from Carrington to his son, James, was written from Stevensville, Montana on Dec. 1, 1889. He writes that he will soon return to Missoula and then to the Flathead Reservation, and mentions disagreements he is having with the commissioner of Indian Affairs and the difficulty he is having in getting a law he wrote passed through the Montana legislature. With regard to the law he writes: “I have the signature of every Indian adult in Bitter Root Valley, except two who are on their fall hunt. Those who are on a hunt, when I am at the Reservation, have returned, and I shall get their signatures when I return there.” He goes on to describe conditions in Montana, recounting floods, fires, and extreme cold then occurring. The rest of the letters in the collection are typed and are addressed to Car- rington’s son, James, dated from Massachusetts in 1900, 1907, 1910, and a few months before Carrington died in 1912. He describes his life and daily activities, the dispersal of family artifacts to his son and other family members, and gives long accounts of his youth and the Carrington family history. A letter of Jan. 18, 1910 gives a detailed chronology of Carrington’s life, from his school days in Torrington through the first decade of the twentieth century, and mentions that some of his papers will be deposited at Yale. $1750.

A Modern Western Rarity

33. Carter, Robert G.: ON THE BORDER WITH MACKENZIE OR WINNING WEST TEXAS FROM THE COMANCHES. Washing- ton. 1935. [2],xviii,418,[2],419-542pp. Illus. Original cloth. Fine. In a cloth slipcase.

One of the great rarities of Western Americana printed in the 20th century, issued in a small edition by an obscure Washington publisher in the midst of the Depression. Carter’s book is one of the primary sources for the Indian wars on the South Plains. “This is one of the best sources on the Federal cavalry campaigns against the Indians in the 1870’s” – Jen- kins. “The most complete account of the Indian wars on the Texas frontier in the Seventies” – Jeff Dykes. After serving in the ranks in the Civil War and graduating from West Point in 1870, Carter was stationed at Fort Concho. He spent the next five years in the midst of some of the most ferocious Indian fighting in the West until a wound forced him to retire in 1876. His commanding officer, Gen. Ranald Mackenzie, was one of the legendary cavalry commanders of the time. Carter’s stories, told in an outspoken narrative, are extraordinarily interesting, despite his somewhat hackneyed style and large basket of prejudices, which are distributed freely over the narrative (he was especially bitter about his treatment by the War Office after being disabled). Carter published several sections of this book as pamphlets in very small editions for distribution to friends, evidently before deciding to undertake the larger book. All of those pamphlets are extremely rare, and together constitute only part of the present work. Carter died the year after the book’s publication, and the unsold edition may have been disposed of by the publisher. In any case, it is both important and very rare. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 25. HOWES C195. $3500.

Famous Views of American Indian Life

34. Catlin, George: CATLIN’S NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN PORT- FOLIO. HUNTING SCENES AND AMUSEMENTS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND PRAIRIES OF AMERICA. FROM DRAWINGS AND NOTES OF THE AUTHOR, MADE DUR- ING EIGHT YEARS’ TRAVEL AMONGST FORTY-EIGHT OF THE WILDEST AND MOST REMOTE TRIBES OF SAVAGES IN NORTH AMERICA. London: C. & J. Adlard for George Catlin, Egyptian Hall, 1844. [pp.1-2] letterpress title (verso blank); [pp.3-4] “To the Reader”; pp.[5-]20 text. Twenty-five handcolored lithographic plates on thick paper, after Catlin, drawn on stone by Catlin (2) or McGahey (23), and printed by Day & Haghe. Folio. Publisher’s brown moiré cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt, rebacked and retipped with dark brown calf. Endpapers and tissue guards renewed. Scattered minor soiling. Else very good. See cover of this catalogue for illustration.

First edition, handcolored issue. Catlin published the first two issues of Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio... simultaneously in late November 1844. The first issue was handcolored and the second had tinted plates. Catlin originally envisaged publishing a series of linked but separate portfolios, each with its own theme: religious rites, dances, costumes, etc. Unfortunately, the first series was the only one that was ever published, and its production proved to be so taxing, both financially and physically, that Catlin sold both the publication and distribution rights to Henry Bohn. Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio contains the results of his years of painting, living with and travelling amongst the Great Plains Indians. Catlin summarized the American Indians as “an honest, hospitable, faithful, brave, warlike, cruel, revengeful, relentless, – yet honourable, contemplative and religious being.” In a famous passage from the preface of his North American Indian Portfolio, Catlin describes how the sight of several tribal chiefs in Philadelphia led to his resolution to record their way of life: “the history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy of the lifetime of one man, and nothing short of the loss of my life shall prevent me from visiting their country and becoming their historian.” He saw no future for either their way of life or their very existence, and with these thoughts always at the back of his mind he worked, against time, setting himself a truly punishing schedule, to record what he saw. From 1832 to 1837 he spent the summer months sketching the tribes and then finished his pictures in oils during the winter. The record he left is unique, both in its breadth and in the sympathetic understanding that his images constantly demonstrate. A selection of the greatest of images from this record was published in Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio in an effort to reach as wide an audience as possible. In addition to publishing the present work, Catlin spent from 1837 to 1852 touring the United States, England, France, and Holland with his collection of paintings and examples of Indian crafts, accompanied by representative members of the Indian tribes. A financial reverse in 1852 resulted in his losing the collection, but he spent his later years making several trips to South and Central America sketching the natives there. The plates are as follows:

1) “North American Indians.” 2) “Buffalo Bull Grazing.” 3) “Wild Horses, at Play.” 4) “Catching the Wild Horse.” 5) “Buffalo Hunt, Chase.” 6) “Buffalo Hunt, Chase.” 7) “Buffalo Hunt, Chase.” 8) “Buffalo Dance.” 9) “Buffalo Hunt, Surround.” 10) “Buffalo Hunt, White Wolves attacking a Buffalo Bull.” 11) “Buffalo Hunt, Approaching a Ravine.” 12) “Buffalo Hunt, Chasing Back.” 13) “Buffalo Hunt, Under the White Wolf Skin.” 14) “Snow Shoe Dance.” 15) “Buffalo Hunt, on Snow Shoes.” 16) “Wounded Buffalo Bull.” 17) “Dying Buffalo Bull, in Snow Drift.” 18) “The Bear Dance.” 19) “Attacking the Grizzly Bear.” 20) “Antelope Shooting.” 21) “Ball Players.” 22) “Ball-Play Dance.” 23) “Ball Play.” 24) “Archery of the Mandans.” 25) “Wi-Jun-Jon an Assiniboine Chief...Going to Washington...Returning to his home.”

A highly important record of a “truly lofty and noble race....A numerous nation of human beings...three-fourths of whose country has fallen into the possession of civilized man...twelve million of whose bodies have fattened the soil in the mean time; who have fallen victims to whiskey, the small-pox, and the bayonet” (Catlin). ABBEY 653. FIELD 258. HOWES C243, “c.” McCRACKEN 10. SABIN 11532. WAG- NER-CAMP 105a:1. William S. Reese, “The Production of Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, 1844-1876,” issue 2. $110,000.

With Handcolored Illustrations

35. Catlin, George: ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MANNERS, CUS- TOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN IN- DIANS WITH LETTERS AND NOTES WRITTEN DURING EIGHT YEARS OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE AMONG THE WILDEST AND MOST REMARKABLE TRIBES NOW EXIST- ING.... London: Henry Bohn, 1857/1866. Two volumes. viii,264; viii,266pp. 313 handcolored etchings on 180 plates, including three maps (one folding). Contemporary three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards; spines tooled with gilt devices of Indian heads, tomahawks, and peace pipes; gilt morocco labels, a.e.g. Edges and corners rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedowns, hinges tender. Light scattered foxing to plates, else very clean. Very good.

A deluxe set of the ninth edition of volume one and the tenth edition of volume two, both editions issued especially with the plates printed in outline and colored by hand. London publisher Henry Bohn took over publication in 1845 and altered the title to that given above. What is important in this copy is the colored plates. According to Sabin (who knew Bohn quite well and was certainly in a position to be aware of the facts), “Mr. Bohn had twelve or more copies colored after the fancy of the artist who did the work, but tolerably well. Such copies are worth $60 a set.” In fact, a set brought $24 at the Field sale in 1875. By comparison, a copy of Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio... sold for only $1.50 at that sale. Howes disagrees with Sabin and states that various editions published by Bohn appear with the plates colored; however, given the quality of the work involved and the lack of any contemporary evidence amongst Bohn’s advertising material of a more generally available colored issue, it would seem likely that Sabin is correct and only about a dozen were produced. The plates themselves are clean, fresh, and very handsomely colored. It is impossible to identify the colorist, but it was quite possibly one of the Catlin copyists working in England at that time, John Cullum or Rosa Bonheur. The plates illustrate scenes of Indian life in the West, or are portraits of individual Indians. The book was and is one of the most widely circulated works on American Indians written in the 19th century, and the illustrations so beautifully presented herein remain the most important body of illustrative material for wild Indian life in the American West. FIELD 260. HOWES C241, “b.” MILES & REESE, AMERICA PICTURED TO THE LIFE 55 (1848 ed). McCRACKEN, CATLIN 8K. CLARK III:141. SABIN 11537. STREETER SALE 4277. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 685. WAGNER-CAMP 84. $27,500. 36. Catlin, George: BUFFALO HUNT, CHASE [Plate 7]. [London: Chatto & Windus, n.d., but 1875]. Handcolored lithograph, printed by Day & Haghe, on later card mount. Very good.

A fine image from Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, one of the most important accounts of Native American life. “In this plate is represented a number of the accidents of the chase, with all of which the sportsman in that country will soon become acquainted. There is also seen here another variety of the ‘rolling’ prairie; and the effect of the Indian’s deadly weapons forcibly displayed; likewise a party of Indians dashing amongst a herd of buffaloes in a ravine, from which they are ‘breaking’ in various directions; and men, horses, and buffaloes are meeting the accidents and alternatives here represented, which are familiar in the country. In the midst of precisely such a scene I was thrown, in a desperate chase by a party of Sioux Indians, near the mouth of the Teton River, on the Upper Missouri.” Catlin summarized the Native American as “an honest, hospitable, faithful, brave, warlike, cruel, revengeful, relentless, – yet honourable, contemplative and religious being.” In a famous passage from the preface of his North American In- dian Portfolio, Catlin describes how the sight of several tribal chiefs in Philadelphia led to his resolution to record their way of life: “the history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy of the lifetime of one man, and nothing short of the loss of my life shall prevent me from visiting their country and becoming their historian.” He saw no future for either their way of life or their very existence, and with these thoughts always at the back of his mind he worked, against time, setting himself a truly punishing schedule, to record what he saw. From 1832 to 1837 he spent the summer months sketching the tribes and then finished his pictures in oils during the winter. The record he left is unique, both in its breadth and in the sympathetic understanding that his images constantly demonstrate. A selection of the greatest of images from this record was published in the North American Indian Portfolio in an effort to reach as wide an audience as possible. The present image is one of the results of this publishing venture and is a work of art of the highest quality as well as a fitting memorial to a vanished way of life. William S. Reese, “The Production of Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, 1844- 1876.” $5500.

Surveying California in 1769

37. Chappe d’Auteroche, Jean: VOYAGE EN CALIFORNIE POUR L’OBSERVATION DU PASSAGE DE VÉNUS SUR LE DISQUE DU SOLEIL, LE 3 JUIN 1769. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1772. [4],170,[2]pp. plus large copper-engraved plan of Mexico City, three copper- engraved plates, and a folding letterpress table. Half title. Quarto. Contempo- rary mottled calf, elaborately gilt, expertly rebacked with original gilt spine laid down, leather label. Three bookplates on front pastedown. Small ink library stamp on half title and titlepage, an occasional fox mark, short tear repaired on verso of folding plan. Internally clean. A very good, tall, handsome copy with wide margins.

A rare account of a scientific expedition to observe astronomical phenomena in California. Astronomer Jean Chappe d’Auteroche, who had observed the transit of Venus in Siberia in 1761, was sent by the French government to Baja California to observe it again when it reappeared on June 3, 1769. The transit is illustrated in the plate facing page 96. En route to Baja, Chappe d’Auteroche made stops in Vera Cruz, Guadalajara, and San Blas. “A thrilling account of a race against time to reach Lower California before the transit of Venus occurred. After nerve-wracking delays, which began in Spain, and narrow escapes from disaster, the goal was reached late in May. Two days after the transit was observed a malignant fever spread through the little group and Chappe d’Auteroche, who nursed the sick and dying, took it himself and died on the first of August. Mr. Cowan is quite incorrect in his note on this book, saying ‘this celestial phenomenon was visible only upon the coast of California.’ It was in fact visible throughout the western hemisphere and expeditions to observe it were sent to numerous stations. Also Spain not only knew of the expedition, but in the end co-operated in every way to make it a success” – Streeter. Includes a large folding plan of Mexico City. The Volkmann copy, with his bookplate. COWAN, p.114. HILL 278. HOWES C299, “aa.” SABIN 12003. STREETER SALE 2443. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 158. HOWELL 50:40. $6750.

A Storehouse of Important Maps, in a Handsome Contemporary Binding

38. Charlevoix, Pierre François-Xavier: HISTOIRE ET DESCRIPTION GENERALE DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE, AVEC LE JOUR- NAL HISTORIQUE D’UN VOYAGE FAIT PAR ORDRE DU ROI DANS L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE. Paris: Chez Pierre-Fran- çois Giffart, 1744. Six volumes. [6],viii,454; [2],501; [2],465; [2],388; [2],456; [2],434,[4]pp., plus twenty-eight maps, and ninety-six plates on forty-four sheets. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, raised bands, spines gilt, leather labels, marbled endpapers, all edges red. Slight wear at joints, spine ends, and corners. 19th-century bookplate on each front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good.

First duodecimo edition, printed the same year as the three-volume quarto edition of this classic work of Canadian history, including important material on French settlement in the Mississippi Valley. The journal consists of thirty-six letters, six of which relate to the southern colonies. “The principal work of this great Jesuit traveller and historian and the pre-eminent authority on the French period in the West” – Howes. “This work is one of the best authorities concerning various Indian tribes, some of which no longer exist. The laborious accuracy with which the work was executed can be estimated by the fact that the maps, dated 1743, are marked with the latest discoveries, in 1742, in the extreme north of America” – Lande. Most of the maps in this work were drawn by French cartographer Nicholas Bellin, including his important rendering of North America, a frequent source for later mapmakers, as well as some of the most definitive and up-to-date maps available of Canada. Besides its great importance as a historical and cartographical work, Charlevoix’s narrative is of considerable interest for the section entitled “Description des Plantes Principales de l’Amerique Septentrionale,” which in the duodecimo edition occupies much of the fourth volume. Here the author describes ninety-six plants, mainly ones native to Canada, but including herbs of the Mississippi Valley as well. Most of the plants described are of medicinal value. The text is accompanied by forty- four folding plates illustrating all ninety-six species discussed. LANDE 125. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 120. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 756. TPL 188. HOWES C307, “b.” MICHIGAN RARITIES 8. CLARK I:59. SABIN 12136. KARPINSKI, p.137. GREENLY, MICHIGAN 11. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 744/56. ARENTS 730. CUMMING & DE VORSEY 259. SERVIES 380. $5400.

The First Cherokee Laws in Oklahoma, and Collected Constitutions

39. [Cherokee Nation]: LAWS OF THE CHEROKEE NATION: AD- OPTED BY THE COUNCIL AT VARIOUS PERIODS. PRINTED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION.... [with:] THE CONSTI- TUTION AND LAWS OF THE CHEROKEE NATION: PASSED AT TAHLEQUAH, CHEROKEE NATION, 1839 – 1851. Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation: Cherokee Advocate Office, 1852. Two parts bound in two volumes. 179; 248pp. Expertly bound to style in uniform half black morocco and period marbled boards, spines with raised bands. Faint dampstain in upper corner of some leaves of first volume, else very good.

The first Cherokee laws in Oklahoma, described by Hargrett as “perhaps the most important single volume in the fields of Cherokee law and history.” Each part appears with its own titlepage, and, as Hargrett notes, the two are often divided for that reason. “This important volume, which has often been ignorantly divided and sold as two, contains the constitutions of 1827 and 1839, a complete compilation of the acts and resolutions from 1808 through the annual session of 1851, and the laws of the Western Cherokee or Old Settlers” – Hargrett. These volumes bring together the earliest written laws of the Cherokees, all the constitutions, and the laws after Removal. Their publication represents the mending, at least on paper, of the huge rifts in the tribe brought about by the move to Indian Territory and the split over whether to go. HARGRETT, OKLAHOMA 152. HARGRETT, LAWS OF THE AMERICAN IN- DIANS 18. FOREMAN, p.36. $7500. With Original Photographs of Redwood Lumbering

40. Cherry, Edgar: REDWOOD AND LUMBERING IN CALIFOR- NIA FORESTS. San Francisco: Edgar Cherry & Co., 1884. ii,107pp. plus twenty-four albumen print photographs, each on an individual thin card mount within a purple printed border, twenty with purple printed titles, the other four with no printed title. Quarto. Original red cloth, title stamped in gilt on front board. Corners bumped and worn, spine lightly soiled, head and foot of spine slightly frayed. Personal embossed stamp on first two leaves and final plate. Light foxing, primarily to first and last few leaves. Images generally clean and bright. About very good.

An important early Californian photographically illustrated work and an “impressive verbal and pictorial description of the logging industry on the northern coast of California” (Kurutz). The photographs are remarkable and must have shocked eastern audiences by showing men standing before redwood trunks thicker than the man is tall. Other photographs show logging trains, felled timbers, groves of redwoods, and logging methods utilizing the steam-powered “donkey engines.” In the preface Cherry complains that the “almost constant fog that hangs over the Redwood belt makes it difficult also to obtain good views of the forests and logging camps,” but that he wanted to illustrate the book with photographs rather than engravings “to set aside all doubt as to the enormous growth of the Redwood, the number of feet per acre, and the superior qualifications that will recommend it to builders and others. In as much as engravings are usually cut from sketches, drawn perhaps by enthused artists, perfect satisfaction is not given; but with photographic views, which cannot lie, argument as to truthfulness is unnecessary.” The pictures in the book vary from copy to copy, and it appears that no two copies are identical regarding the pictures included or the order in which they are presented. The photo captions were applied manually with an ink stamp, but some of the captions in this copy are blank (as is often the case). The volume was prepared to promote the use of redwood, the superior qualities of which are emphasized. The brief history of redwood lumbering is recounted, and the processes by which the trees are felled and cut are related in great detail. There is also an article by Kellogg on the relationship of the redwoods to other cedar trees. COWAN, p.525. KURUTZ, CALIFORNIA BOOKS ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGI- NAL PHOTOGRAPHS 7; p.16. GOLDSCHMIDT & NAEF, THE TRUTHFUL LENS 135. HOWELL 50:361. FRITZ, CALIFORNIA COAST REDWOOD 1209. MILES & REESE, CREATING AMERICA 74. $8500.

41. Chittenden, Hiram M.: THE AMERICAN FUR TRADE OF THE FAR WEST. New York. 1902. Three volumes. 1029pp. total, plus folding map. Half title in each volume. Frontispiece in first and second volumes. Original green cloth, gilt-stamped spines. Internally bright and clean. Near fine, partially unopened.

From the library of noted Americana collector Frank Cutter Deering, with his bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. After all these years, still the standard work on the subject. This is the handsome first edition, published by F.P. Harper, and the essential starting point for research on the fur trade. HOWES C390, “aa.” RITTENHOUSE 112. STREETER SALE 3206. GRAFF 696. SMITH 1721. $1500.

42. Chittenden, Hiram Martin, and Alfred T. Richardson: LIFE, LET- TERS AND TRAVELS OF FATHER PIERRE-JEAN DE SMET.... New York. 1905. Four volumes. Seventeen illustrations, portraits, and maps. Original green cloth. Slight wear at spine ends. Inner front hinge of first and third volumes separating. Small old institutional stamp on each titlepage and front pastedown. Good.

A major scholarly work, including a narrative of the life of De Smet and publishing for the first time his original journals and numerous letters, some previously published, but most not. A Francis Harper publication, in a format matching that of the edited journals of Pike, and Lewis and Clark, which were also published by him. HOWES C392. TWENEY 8. GRAFF 3824. $750.

Pretending to Be Buffalo Bill

43. Cody, Samuel Franklin: JOHN BULL’S ADVICE. SEE The Klondyke Nugget! Birmingham: Moody Bros., [ca. 1898]. Chromolithographic poster, 20 x 30 inches. Minor soiling and wear, a few small closed tears in the margin. Flyer for local theatre pasted to right side of sheet (in image). Very good.

A rare poster for the popular stage play, The Klondyke Nugget, written and performed by S.F. Cody throughout the British Isles at the end of the 19th century. Samuel Franklin Cody (1867-1913) was a unique figure in late Victorian Anglo-American popular entertainment. Born Samuel Franklin Cowdery, he later changed his sur- name to capitalize on the fame of Buffalo Bill Cody, even mimicking Buffalo Bill’s clothing and facial hair style. Born in Texas, S.F. Cody trained in the Forepaugh Wild West Show, and found much of his fame in England. He is renowned in the history of aviation as the first man to conduct a powered flight in England, and he later developed large kites that were used for artillery spotting during World War I. Cody’s life was filled with tall tales (though some of them are perhaps true), including his claim that he prospected for gold in Dawson City during the Klon- dike Gold Rush. That story set the groundwork for the theatrical play advertised herein, where Cody plays the role of George Exelby; Lela Cody, his (common law) second wife, the part of Rosie; and her son, Edward LeRoy, plays Joe Smith. This poster shows a portly British gent in a Union Jack waistcoat centered in the sheet, endorsing the play by giving a thumbs up. He is surrounded by a varied cast of characters from all nations and ethnicities – a Native American, an Eskimo, an African tribesman, a Scotsman, Uncle Sam, a Chinaman, and an Aussie with a Kangaroo, among others. An ad for “The Theatre, Neath. Near G.W. Station” is pasted to the right side of the sheet, indicating that the play runs three nights only, December 5, 6, & 7. $1500. A Pretender to the Cody Name and His Klondike Show

44. Cody, Samuel Franklin: THE KLONDYKE NUGGET. By S.F. Cody. Belfast, Ireland: David Allen & Sons, [ca. 1898]. Chromolithographic poster, 30 x 20 inches. Tears in both corners of upper margin, not affecting image or text. Light edge wear. Very good.

A rare poster for the popular stage play, The Klondyke Nugget, written and performed by S.F. Cody throughout the British Isles at the end of the 19th century. Samuel Franklin Cody (1867-1913) was a unique figure in late Victorian Anglo-American popular entertainment. Born Samuel Franklin Cowdery, he later changed his sur- name to capitalize on the fame of Buffalo Bill Cody, even mimicking Buffalo Bill’s clothing and facial hair style. Born in Texas, S.F. Cody trained in the Forepaugh Wild West Show and found much of his fame in England. He is renowned in the history of aviation as the first man to conduct a powered flight in England, and he later developed large kites that were used for spotting artillery during World War I. Cody’s life was filled with tall tales (though some of them are perhaps true), including his claim that he prospected for gold in Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush. That story set the groundwork for the theatrical play advertised herein, where Cody plays the role of George Exelby; Lela Cody, his (common law) second wife, the part of Rosie; and her son, Edward LeRoy, plays Joe Smith. All three are depicted on this poster, which also features a large gold nugget and shows scenes from the play in camp, on the trail, and in hairy situations in barrooms and the frozen wilderness. One of the larger illustrations shows a forlorn Cody pondering a map, while another shows him, pick-axe in hand, “on the summit of the Chilcoot Pass.” OCLC locates a single copy of this poster, at Yale. A colorful and rare poster from a remarkable American showman at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. OCLC 797177308. $3250.

With Thirteen Original Photographs

45. [Collier, John (photographer)]: [Harrington, Charles]: SUMMERING IN COLORADO. Denver: Richards & Co., 1874. 158pp. plus thirteen mounted albumen photographs and [5]pp. of advertisements. Original rust cloth, front board gilt. Corners and spine ends worn, cloth a bit of bubbled. Occasional tanning, scattered soiling, a few leaves loosening. Good overall.

Published to promote tourism, this work contains images of Central City, Boulder Canyon, Clear Creek Canyon, Grand Crater, Rainbow Falls (Manitou), Monument Park, and more. All the photographs are by John Collier of Denver. Scottish-born photographer John Collier came to Central City, Colorado in 1871, establishing one of the earliest photography studios there, before selling the business and moving to Denver to open another studio in 1878. This work is usually found with from four to eight mounted photographs; the present copy contains thirteen, which is among the most we have seen in a copy of this title. Unlike many Colorado pieces, the scenes are all over the state and not concentrated around Colorado Springs. All the photographs show landscape scenes. MARGOLIS, TO DELIGHT THE EYE 13 (10 photos). $1500.

46. Coues, Elliot; [Pike, Zebulon M.], editor: THE EXPEDITIONS OF ZEBULON MONTGOMERY PIKE, TO HEADWATERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, THROUGH LOUISIANA TERRITORY, AND IN NEW SPAIN, DURING THE YEARS 1805-6-7.... London & New York. 1895. Three volumes. Plates. Maps (some folding). Original green cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Minor toning. Frontispiece of first volume dampstained and detached. Overall very good.

From an edition limited to 1150 copies, printed on fine book paper. “A new edition, now first reprinted in full from the original of 1810, with copious critical commentary, memoir of Pike, new map and other illustrations, and complete index.” Noted by Howes as the “best edition.” HOWES P373, “aa.” BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 163. RITTENHOUSE 467 (note). $750. Hawaii and the Northwest Coast in 1812

47. Cox, Ross: ADVENTURES ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER, IN- CLUDING THE NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE OF SIX YEARS ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE ROCKY MOUN- TAINS, AMONG VARIOUS TRIBES OF INDIANS HITHERTO UNKNOWN: TOGETHER WITH A JOURNEY ACROSS THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831. Two volumes. Wood-engraved illustration on p.83 in second volume (a sketch map of the junction of the Columbia and Okanogan rivers). Without half titles. Half calf and marbled boards, with the gilt stamp of the Writers of the Signet on the boards, gilt leather label. Scattered foxing and soiling. Very good.

One of the two most important sources of information about Oregon in the early period, along with Alexander Ross’ Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River (London, 1849). These two works are generally considered to be the prime printed sources of information on the exploration and settlement of Oregon. Cox left Hawaii and arrived in Oregon with the Astoria party in 1812, later working for the North West Company. In 1817 he went overland to Montreal. “Cox’s narrative gives an excellent firsthand account of the fur trade and of the Indian tribes in Montana, Idaho, and eastern Washington with whom the fur traders dealt and sometimes fought. While Cox was making this journey the tension between Hudson’s Bay and Northwest Companies had become very acute and he gives a good account of their rivalry” – Streeter. WAGNER-CAMP 43:1. TWENEY 89, 10. HOWES C822, “aa.” PILLING, PROOF- SHEETS 915. FIELD 376. SABIN 17267. JUDD 47. PEEL 83. COWAN, p.59. STREET- ER SALE 3702. HILL 390. FORBES 775. $4000.

48. [Creek Laws]: Rentie, W.A.: ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE MUSKOGEE NATION OF 1893. ENGLISH AND CREEK. Muskogee, Indian Territory. 1894. [2],ii,21,[2],28pp. Quarter morocco and marbled boards, leather label. Origi- nal printed front wrapper with faint old ink library stamp bound in. Minor tanning. Very good.

A rare collection of Indian laws printed in both English and Muskogee. “The laws relate to a number of important subjects such as land, timber, schools, live-stock, railroads, elections, constitutional convention, surveys, marriage, supreme court, etc. One of the resolutions is an answer to the United States Commissioners stating that their attempt to make Oklahoma a state ‘is greatly to be deprecated and will be resisted by all proper means’” – Eberstadt. Rare, with only five copies in OCLC. EBERSTADT 109:119. FOREMAN, p.45. GILCREASE-HARGRETT, p.181. HAR- GRETT, CONSTITUTIONS AND LAWS OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 64. OCLC 54277078, 81630149. $1000. A Contemporary Image of Davy Crockett

49. [Crockett, Davy]: Chapman, John Gadsby: COLONEL CROCKETT. [New York. ca. 1940, after the original executed in 1839]. Handcolored mezzotint engraving. Image: 19½ x 13½ inches, plus wide margins. Fine.

This wonderful image is a mid-20th-century impression from a plate originally engraved by Charles Stuart in 1839, after a contemporary painting by John Gadsby Chapman. Davy Crockett (1786-1836), frontiersman, Indian fighter, and defender of the Alamo, is an archetypal hero of the early United States. From his activities as a scout for Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812, through his service in the Tennessee legislature and the United States House of Representatives, to his death at the Alamo in 1836, his fame grew. Chapman (1808-89) met Crockett in the early 1830s and executed a portrait study of him. Crockett was very conscious of his public image as a frontiersman and worked hard to foster that image while serving as a Congressman from Tennessee. When Chapman’s original painting was completed in 1834, Crockett was contemplating a run for the presidency in the next election. After Crockett’s death Chapman worked the study into a full-length portrait. It was exhibited in the fall of 1838 at the Apollo Gallery in New York, an exhibition space that had been founded by a group of artists including Chap- man. That painting was acquired by the state of Texas and hung in the capitol in Austin, where it was later destroyed by fire. Chapman painted another version of the portrait, which now hangs in the Harry Ransom Research Center at the Uni- versity of Texas in Austin. The present engraving states: “New York. Published at the Apollo, 1839.” A catalogue issued by the Apollo Gallery in October 1839 describes an engraved version of the present image. Charles Stuart was a mezzotint engraver working in New York at the same time. In the portrait Crockett stands, in his buckskins, looking to his left, his right arm outstretched, holding his broad- brimmed hat. In his left arm he cradles a long rifle, and a knife is tucked into his belt. Three obedient dogs gaze up at him, and he stands in a small clearing with a shock of wheat and some trees behind him. The original 1839 version of this print is so rare as to be unobtainable and is lacking from most major institutional collections. The last we can trace for sale was one offered by The Old Print Shop on the front cover of the Portfolio, in May 1963 for $200 (this at a time when the major Audubon prints were still in the three-figure range). A striking image of a central figure in the mythology of America. $1500.

Fremont’s Mining Troubles

50. [Cushing, Caleb]: [Fremont, John Charles]: THE UNITED STATES, ADS. JOHN C. FREMONT, APPELLANT, FROM DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DIS- TRICT OF CALIFORNIA. BRIEF FOR THE UNITED STATES. C. CUSHING, ATTORNEY GENERAL. [Washington? ca. 1855]. 55pp. plus addendum leaf inserted between pp. 22 and 23. Dbd. Slightly soiled. Very good.

This case, brought by the U.S. government, contested Fremont’s ownership of “Las Mariposas,” a rich gold region near Yosemite Valley. Fremont bought the seventy-square-mile tract sight unseen for $3,000 in 1847. The gold from the area, known also as the “Mariposa Grant,” made Fremont a rich man, although he was embroiled in a variety of lawsuits over the legitimacy of his ownership claim. The federal government argued that Juan B. Alvarado, who sold the land to Fremont, had no real title and that the land should be considered in the public domain. The Supreme Court, hearing the case in their December term of 1854, found for Fre- mont. Gold Rush historian J.S. Holliday has wryly observed that Fremont “was probably the only person in California taking gold from land he actually owned.” OCLC locates only four copies: three in the University of California system and one at Yale. A scarce and interesting Fremont item. J.S. Holliday, Rush for Riches, p.136 (note). OCLC 19561911 $1750.

51. Dallam, James Wilmer: A DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF TEXAS: CONTAINING A FULL AND COMPLETE COMPILATION OF THE LAND LAWS; TOGETHER WITH THE OPINIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT. Baltimore: Printed by John D. Toy, 1845. ix,[1], [9]-632pp. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Minor foxing. Very good.

A scarce early Texas legal compilation. Baltimore-born lawyer James Wilmer Dallam moved to Matagorda, Texas in 1839 and returned to Washington to compile this work in 1844, hence its Baltimore imprint. The work became known as the Texas “Lawyer’s Bible” and was reprinted many times. Dallam County is named in honor of the author. “A graduate of Brown University at the age of nineteen and then a student in the law office at Baltimore of the famous Reverdy Johnson, Dallam came to Texas in 1839 and while still in his twenties published this Digest...” – Streeter. An important Republic of Texas work. STREETER TEXAS 1577. RAINES, p.240. RADER 1044. SABIN 94993. $3500.

Seminal Early Work on Montana

52. De Smet, Pierre Jean: LETTERS AND SKETCHES: WITH A NAR- RATIVE OF A YEAR’S RESIDENCE AMONG THE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Philadelphia: M. Fithian, 1843. 252pp. plus thirteen lithographed plates (including folding allegorical plate, often lacking). Original brown publisher’s brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Minor wear. Very good.

The scarce first issue of the first edition of Father De Smet’s epistolary narrative of a journey to the Rocky Mountains. This account describes De Smet’s experiences in the Rocky Mountains in 1841 and 1842. “On April 30, 1840 Father De Smet left Westport in company with the annual party of the American Fur Company for rendezvous on the Green River, and returned in the fall of that year. In 1841, he journeyed to the Rockies again, here he remained for nearly a year [serving as a missionary at St. Mary’s near present day Stevensville, Montana]. In the Spring of 1842, he continued his journey west, arriving at Fort Vancouver early in June, and returned to Saint Louis by way of Fort Colville, Fort Union, and the Missouri River” – Wagner-Camp. A leading advocate for Indians, particularly the Flathead tribes of Montana, his works are some of the best sources of the period, well-written and articulate. The lithographed views include “Chimney Rock on the Oregon Trail,” “A View of the Rocky Mountains,” “Devil’s Gate,” “Soda Springs,” “Fording the River Platte,” “Indian Mode of Travelling,” “Interior of a Kanza Lodge,” “Kanza Village,” “Wor- ship in the Desert,” and others. The large folding allegorical plate, often lacking, is present here. MINTZ 124. WAGNER-CAMP 102:1. HOWES D283, “b.” FIELD 1423. SABIN 82262. TWENEY 89, 13 (note). STREETER SALE 2095. $2250.

A Classic of the Gold Rush

53. [Delano, Alonzo]: PEN KNIFE SKETCH- ES; OR, CHIPS OF THE OLD BLOCK. A SERIES OF ORIGINAL ILLUSTRAT- ED LETTERS, WRITTEN BY ONE OF CALIFORNIA’S PIONEER MINERS, AND DEDICATED TO THAT CLASS OF HER CITIZENS BY THE AUTHOR. Sacramento. 1853. 112pp. including twenty-four engraved plates. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing and thumb-soiling to text, light vertical crease throughout. Very good.

An important and rare piece of illustrated Califor- niana, comprised of witty text by Alonzo Delano (a.k.a. “Old Block”) and wonderful illustrations by the masterful Charles Nahl. Delano was born in Auburn, New York and was living in Illinois in 1849. He travelled overland to California, where he mined in the diggings and operated a shop selling provisions in San Francisco, before settling down in Grass Valley as a banker and agent for Wells Fargo. His writings provide a comic but realistic view of life during the Gold Rush. The great illustrations by Nahl, the “Cruikshank of California,” depict scenes in San Francisco and at the gold mines. “Delano...began publishing his witty and delightful observations of California for the Pacific News and the California Daily Courier. Well received, they were gathered with other Delano writings into book form in 1853....The publishers enriched the volume with full-page wood engravings by Thomas Armstrong based on drawings by Charles Nahl. The portrait of the long-nosed Old Block on San Francisco’s Long Wharf is a classic” – Kurutz. A rare work, accorded a “b” by Howes, and a basic document of the Gold Rush. COWAN, p.163. HOWES D232, “b.” GREENWOOD 383. HOWELL 50:1517 (this copy). ROCQ 6047. KURUTZ 181a. $4750.

Best Report on American Indians of the Times

54. 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. Modern three- quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Several small tears in edges of leaves, light scattered soiling and wear. 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. The scores of photographic plates show tribal leaders, delegations, homes, schools, food preparation, craft making, artifacts, etc., and provide an outstanding visual catalogue of the tribes near the turn of the 20th century. HOWES D418, “aa.” REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 33. $1250. A Great Louisiana Rarity

55. [Dumont, Georges Marie]: MÉMOIRES HISTORIQUES SUR LA LOUISIANE, CONTENANT CE QUI Y EST ARRIVE DE PLUS MEMORABLE DEPUIS L’ANNEE 1687.... Paris. 1753. Two volumes bound in one. [4],x,261; [4],338pp., plus six plates (three with two images) and folding engraved map of Louisiana. Half titles. Half calf and marbled boards in antique style, spine gilt, leather label. Very good.

A rare and important early history of French Louisiana. “One of the best contemporary histories of French Louisiana, based on the author’s twenty-five-year residence in the colony as an army officer, engineer, and planter. The first volume describes the natural history and life of the inhabitants, Europeans and Indians; and the second volume is devoted to the military and political history of the colony from about 1717 to 1740, especially the Indian wars. Dumont’s work is the first reliable account of much of Louisiana” – Streeter. The engraved plates depict four different tree specimens, while the wonderful plans show New Orleans and Fort Rozalie des Natchez, as well as a typical Louisiana house plan. The handsome folding map of Louisiana notes the different Indian tribes and villages in the region. This is one of the few reliable firsthand accounts of French Louisiana in the mid-18th century, and far rarer than the works of Bossu or Le Page du Pratz, the other cornerstones of the time and place. HOWES L250, “b.” FIELD 463. SABIN 9605. STREETER SALE 125. JCB (1)III: 996. $9500. The Rarest DuPont Volume

56. DuPont, Samuel F.: EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE JOURNAL-LET- TERS OF CAPTAIN S.F. DuPONT, WHILE IN COMMAND OF THE CYANE, DURING THE WAR WITH MEXICO, 1846 – 1848. PRINTED FOR HIS FAMILY. Wilmington: Ferris Bros., Printers and Binders, 1885. [6],444pp. Original three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Front hinge expertly repaired, else a near fine copy.

“These extracts from DuPont’s journal and letters, privately printed for his family by his wife after his death, are a valuable and almost unknown account of U.S. Naval operations in the Pacific and Gulf of California during the Mexican War. After conveying Fremont and his battalion from Monterey to San Diego and participating in the taking of San Blas, DuPont entered the Gulf of California, seized La Paz, and at Guaymas burned the Mexican fleet. Within a few months he had cleared the Gulf, and in 1847 aided Commodore Shubrick in the occupation of Mazatlan, and later led his troops to the rescue of the American forces at Mission San Jose” – Streeter. “The richest mass of first-hand source material extant on the conquest of California” – Eberstadt. “Even more important than DuPont’s detailed and meticulous account of his own actions is his careful recording of the movements of, and communications with, other important figures with whom he was in almost constant contact” – Hill. Only fifty copies were printed for the family. STREETER SALE 2991. HOWES D588, “b.” GRAFF 1184. BARRETT 744. HILL 521. GARRETT, p.207. EBERSTADT 132:173. $6500.

57. Elderkin, James D.: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND ANEC- DOTES OF A SOLDIER OF THREE WARS, AS WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. THE FLORIDA, THE MEXICAN WAR AND THE GREAT REBELLION, TOGETHER WITH SKETCHES OF TRAVEL, ALSO OF SERVICE IN A MILITIA COMPANY AND A MEMBER OF THE DETROIT LIGHT GUARD BAND FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS. Detroit. 1899. 202pp. plus frontispiece portrait and other portraits. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Small chip at head of spine, boards worn, minor scraping, front inner hinge starting. Else very good.

With the bookplate of Everett D. Graff. Autobiography of a career soldier span- ning the 19th century. Elderkin joined the army in 1839 at age nineteen and was first stationed in Indian Territory for two years before going to Florida in 1841. He gives a vivid account of the brutal combats of the Second Seminole War, where he spent several “dark and terrible” years. In 1842 he was transferred to Jefferson Barracks (now Kansas City). He went to the Texas frontier with Taylor in 1846 and was present at Palo Alto, Churubusco, and minor conflicts in between, followed by the taking of Mexico City. In 1852 he was transferred to California, and was under the command of U.S. Grant for a time. In 1854 he left the Army and lived as a miner and musician in California in 1857 before moving to Detroit. In 1861, Elderkin reenlisted and took part in all of the Peninsular Campaign in 1862, of which he gives a vigorous account. He left the army when his one-year enlistment was up, when he was forty-two, and returned to Detroit, where he remained for the rest of his life. An interesting western narrative. DORNBUSCH I, MICH-56. NEVINS I, p.85. GRAFF 1229 (this copy, marked as sold). $1000.

A Landmark in Illustrated Americana

58. Emory, William H.: REPORT ON THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICAN BOUNDARY SURVEY, MADE UNDER THE DIREC- TION OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.... Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson & Cornelius Wendell, printers, 1857-1859. Two volumes. Vol. 1: xvi,258,viii,174pp. plus two large folding maps (one colored), single- page map, folding chart, folding profile, fifty-four full-page plates (of which forty-two are uncolored engravings and twelve are handcolored lithographs), and twenty-one paleontological plates. Vol. 2: vi,270,ii,62,[33],[35],[85]pp. plus sixty-one botanical plates, seventy-six cactus plates, twenty-seven zoologi- cal plates, twenty-five handcolored ornithological plates, forty-one reptilian plates, and forty-one ichthyological plates. Large, thick quarto. Modern three- quarter morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt. Scattered tanning and foxing, else very good.

One of the foundation works on the exploration and mapping of the Texas-Mexican border. Emory was first assigned to the Boundary Com- mission after the Mexican-American War. No sooner was the survey finished than the Gadsden Purchase necessitated a new survey, which is summarized in this work. Incor- porated 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,” as well as handsome color plates of Indians and scenery. This set is also noteworthy for having the folding colored “Map Illustrating the General Geological Features of the Country West of the Mississippi River” by James Hall, which is bound between parts one and two in the first volume, and which is not always present. In this set the first volume is the Senate issue of the REPORT, while the second volume is the House issue. WAGNER-CAMP 291. HOWES E146. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 916. RAINES, p.76. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 31. DEÁK, PICTUR- ING AMERICA 649, 650. $5000.

59. 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. WITH A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE, AND A MAP OF THE TERRITORY. New York: William Taylor, 1845. 40pp. plus folding map. Modern marbled wrappers. Minor toning. Very good plus. In a cloth slipcase and chemise.

Rare first American edition of this defense of British rights to Oregon Territory. 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, written partly as a response to William Sturgis’ On the Oregon Question, reviews the history of United States boundary questions and seeks to establish British title to Oregon Territory. With an attractive, detailed map of the territory. HOWES F17. TPL 2710 (ref ). SABIN 23728. SMITH 2972. $1250.

60. Figueroa, José: THE MANIFESTO, WHICH THE GENERAL OF BRIGADE, DON JOSE FIGUEROA, COMMANDANT-GENER- AL AND POLITICAL CHIEF OF U. CALIFORNIA, MAKES TO THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC, IN REGARD TO HIS CONDUCT AND THAT OF THE SNRS. D. JOSE MARIA DE HIJARS AND D. JOSE MARIA PADRES, AS DIRECTORS OF COLONIZA- TION IN 1833 AND 1834. San Francisco: Herald Office, 1855. 104,1pp. Contemporary purple calf, gilt, spine gilt. Very good. Provenance: book label on the front pastedown.

The scarce first English language edition of Figueroa’s defense of his conduct in a California colonization plan, following the extremely rare first edition of 1835, which was the first book-length imprint from Agustin Zamorano’s pioneer California press. Hijar and Padres planned a project of colonizing California in the early 1830s, which brought to California many families who played a prominent role in the development of the province. The Mexican government secularized the missions in 1833, and the expectation was that the families would take possession of the mission lands. Hijar and Padres themselves expected to be given governmental positions of importance. Orders from Mexico countermanded the promises, and Figueroa, governor of California, refused to hand over the lands, for which he was criticized. This edition is considered quite rare, and Howes affords it a “c” rating. COWAN, p.210. GRAFF 1320. GREENWOOD 562. HOWES F122, “c.” STREETER SALE 2784. ZAMORANO 80, 37 (note). $5750.

Fishbourne’s Rare 1849 View of the City of San Francisco

61. Firks, Henry, for W.H. Jones: SAN FRANCISCO. Pennsylvania: G.T. Devereux & W.H. Jones, 1849. Tintstone lithographed by Avrah Ibbotson, printed by Thomas Sinclair. Sheet size: 19 1/8 x 33 3/4 inches. Expert res- toration, else very good.

An important and rare California view, this fine and rare lithograph depicts the city only months before the great increase in population brought about by the Gold Rush. “A wide-ranging portrait of San Francisco, crisply rendered by the artist Henry Firks, is provided in this important view of the city...the view delineates the main features of the newly laid-out town: its favorable location on a wide bay; the hilly terrain affording lookout points; the low commercial structures lining the shore; the residential buildings of various make, some substantial, most not; and the large amount of shipping accommodated by the harbor. At the right is the Pacific Ocean entrance to the harbor, already known as the Golden Gate. Flush with the right-hand margin of the arched view is Yerba Buena Island, preserving San Francisco’s original name. Firks’ rendering is the source of numerous other views of San Francisco looking north on Montgomery Street to Telegraph Hill” – Deák. Baird and Evans record eight issues of this image (the first two issues were published in Philadelphia and New York, respectively). In California on Stone, Harry T. Peters comments on the rarity of this imprint: “Firks was the artist of one of the best-known early San Francisco views...I have heard of an issue of this print by Fishbourne, but I have not seen it and so cannot give any accurate record of it.” The view was an exciting enough find in 1943 for Goodspeed’s Bookshop to illustrate the lithograph in one of its catalogues with the tag-line: “Here it is.” Henry Firks was a painter and lithographer known primarily for his images of California during the mid-19th century. His works are held by the Bancroft Library, California Society of Pioneers, and the University of California. R.W. Fishbourne (with various associates) was one of the earliest California lithographers, operating on and about Ohio Street in San Francisco. This print would have been one of Fishbourne’s first productions. BAIRD & EVANS, HISTORIC LITHOGRAPHS OF SAN FRANCISCO (1972) 8A. REPS 240. DEÁK, PICTURING AMERICA 584. $6500.

62. 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. 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.

63. Foote, Morris C., Lieut.: [GROUP OF NINETEEN PHOTO- GRAPHS OF FLATHEAD LAKE, BIG FORK, MONTANA FROM THE COLLECTION OF LIEUT. MORRIS C. FOOTE]. [Montana. ca. 1878]. Nineteen sepia-toned photographs, housed in plastic sleeves and stored in a three-ring binder. Almost all 5 x 7 inches. Three photographs separated into pieces, some somewhat faded. Else good.

A group of photographs of the Bigfork and Flathead Lake area of Montana, from the collection of U.S. Army officer Lieut. Morris C. Foote. Highlights include an image of Kootenai Indians near Dayton Creek, located on the west side of Flathead Lake, as well as multiple views of camp scenes in which several men are gathered together, including images of a surveying party and images of hunters armed with their rifles. The two images featuring the surveying party could very well emanate from Foote’s scouting expedition in the Black Hills in 1878, while his unit was assisting in building telegraph lines in South Dakota. A view of what appears to be a train accident, a ship in harbor, and landscape photographs are also included. Images from this area of the West during this period are rare. $2500.

64. Forbes, Alexander: CALIFORNIA: A HISTORY OF UPPER AND LOWER CALIFORNIA...A FULL VIEW OF THE MISSIONARY ESTABLISHMENTS AND CONDITION OF THE FREE AND DOMESTICATED INDIANS. WITH AN APPENDIX RELAT- ING TO STEAM NAVIGATION IN THE PACIFIC. London. 1839. xvi,352pp. plus ten lithographed plates and folding map. Contemporary three- quarter calf and cloth, rebacked with original gilt spine preserved. Corners worn. Minor toning, but internally clean. About very good.

“First book in the English language devoted exclusively to California and of permanent value on its Indians and early missions” – Howes. An important account by one of the first Anglo-Saxons to explore this unknown territory, although he did not see the region until after the book was published, having collected information from his agents working there. “...He reaped the reward of his enterprise by secur- ing the possession of the great quicksilver mines, now worked by the firm of which he is the head...” – Sabin. The map, produced for inclusion in this work, shows upper and lower California, Mexico (including Texas) and Guatemala, with insets of Pacific harbors. The handsome plates depict Indians and views of the missions. HOWES F242. HILL 619. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1317. COWAN, p.217. STREETER SALE 2491. FIELD 550. GRAFF 1377. ZAMORANO 80, 38. SABIN 25035. $1500. With the Rufus Sage Map

65. Fremont, John C.: NARRATIVE OF THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, IN THE YEAR 1842; AND TO OREGON AND NORTH CALIFORNIA, IN THE YEARS 1843-44. Syracuse: Hall & Dickson; New York: A.S. Barnes, 1847. 427pp. plus large folding map, two plates, and [4]pp. of advertisements. Original brown publisher’s cloth, spine gilt. Very good.

Considered by Howes and other authorities the “best edition” because of its inclusion of Rufus B. Sage’s superb map of the West, which otherwise appeared only in Sage’s book of the preceding year. It is far rarer than the regular Fremont map, which it resembles in many respects. Fremont’s narrative is one of the most important of western explorations, chronicling his trip over the Oregon Trail and into the Great Basin. It was published in numerous editions. HOWES F370. ZAMORANO 80, 39 (ref ). MINTZ 165. WAGNER-CAMP 115:9. TWENEY 89, 22 (ref ). GRAFF 1433. STREETER SALE 3132. WHEAT TRANSMIS- SISSIPPI 527. $6250.

The London Edition of Gass

66. Gass, Patrick: A JOURNAL OF THE VOYAGES AND TRAVELS OF A CORPS OF DISCOVERY, UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN LEWIS AND CAPTAIN CLARKE OF THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER MISSOURI THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF NORTH AMERICA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, DURING THE YEARS 1804, 1805, & 1806. CONTAINING AN AUTHENTIC RELATION OF THE MOST INTERESTING TRANSACTIONS DURING THE EXPEDITION: A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY: AND AN ACCOUNT OF ITS INHABITANTS, SOIL, CLIMATE, CURIOSITIES AND VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL PRODUC- TIONS. London: J. Budd, 1808. iv,381pp. Half calf and marbled boards in antique style. Very good.

The first British edition of the Gass narrative, usually considered the best, is printed in a large and elegant format as opposed to the American original; it is also rarer than the Pittsburgh first edition and is not listed in the NSTC. The two-page introduction by English publisher J. Budd is dated April 18, 1808 and makes a virtue of the fact that Gass “appears to have been of inferior rank in the Expedi- tion; but, for those who wish to know the unadorned truth, that circumstance is not likely to be lamented. From such facts as he records, the reader will be able to form a much more correct idea of the real state of the country, than he would from a narrative, written under the influence of a desire to establish or confirm certain pre-conceived positions; not to mention another influence, too generally prevalent in America, namely, that of self-interest, for which there may be such ample scope for indulgence, in giving an account of countries, immediately adjoining that of a nation of land-jobbers.” Because of the delay in the publication of the official account, Gass’ journal was the first to appear, and as such was eagerly taken up by readers starved for information about Lewis and Clark. Gass was a sergeant who, by order of Lewis and at the insistence of Thomas Jef- ferson, kept a journal of the expedition’s activities, and this book seems closely based on that document. “Patrick Gass was a rough reliable frontier soldier when he joined the Lewis and Clark expedition. He was made a sergeant when Sergeant Floyd died. He writes a terse soldier’s narrative, exasperating in its brevity, but always with rugged honesty. His story was for many years the only true account of the expedition – the first real information the nation had of the Oregon country and of the Louisiana Purchase. It is a work of primary importance” – Webster A. Jones. WAGNER-CAMP 6:2. HOWES G77, “b.” LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 3.2. GRAFF 1517. FIELD 595. $6000.

67. Gorham, George C.: THE STORY OF THE ATTEMPTED ASSAS- SINATION OF JUSTICE FIELD BY A FORMER ASSOCIATE ON THE SUPREME BENCH OF CALIFORNIA. [San Francisco? n.d., but ca. 1890]. 198pp. Original cloth, gilt spine. Very good, with corrections pasted in (see below).

A presentation copy, inscribed by Stephen Field to his niece, Ruth. Field went to California in 1849 and began a long legal career which led to his appointment by Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court. His finding of fraudulence in the will of Senator Sharon as submitted by Sarah Althea Hill and her attorney, David Terry, led to a threat on Justice Field’s life by Terry. Eventually Terry was shot dead by Field’s bodyguard. This is one of the few copies with correction slips pasted over some passages, as noted by Howes. HOWES G259. COWAN, p.244. $2250.

A Western Classic

68. 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. 1844. Two volumes. 320; 318pp., plus map and six plates. Lacks the folding map. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, t.e.g. Some scattered foxing in first volume. Scattered marginal dampstaining and heavier foxing in second volume. Contemporary ownership signature in first volume across part of title (“C.B. Scully”) and on fly leaf, with previous ownership inscription neatly crossed out on fly leaf (“Mary Parker Aug. 20, 1844”). Overall very good.

First edition, first issue. One of the landmark books of Western Americana, Gregg’s book is acclaimed 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 provides a lively, intimate, and personal account of experiences on the prairies and in northern Mexico. The map, not present in this copy, called a “cartographical landmark” by Wheat, is among the most important of the early Southwest. WAGNER-CAMP 108:1. RITTENHOUSE 255. GRAFF 1662. STREETER TEXAS 1502. FLAKE 3716. HOWES G401. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 482. DOBIE, p.76. STREETER SALE 378. SABIN 28712. $1750.

69. Halkett, John: STATEMENT RESPECTING THE EARL OF SELKIRK’S SETTLEMENT OF KILDONAN, UPON THE RED RIVER, IN NORTH AMERICA; ITS DESTRUCTION IN THE YEARS 1815 AND 1816; AND THE MASSACRE OF GOVER- NOR SEMPLE AND HIS PARTY. London: [Printed by J. Brettell, 1817]. [4],125,lxxxix pp. plus folding map. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Inked date on titlepage and a few inked numbers on the verso, a couple small tape repairs on verso of folding map. Very good.

The rare first issue of Halkett’s work on the Red River settlement, describing the history of Selkirk’s settlement on Red River and its differences with the North West Company. This is the true first issue, without a printer or date on the titlepage, issued in January 1817, as opposed to the edition issued by Murray later in the year. Reportedly only a handful of copies were printed for Halkett’s friends and associates. The map, by Aaron Arrowsmith, shows the Red River country, Lake Winnipeg, and north to Hudson Bay. “Halkett, Lord Selkirk’s brother-in-law, gives an account of the establishment of the Red River colony, its troubles, and the ‘Massacre of Seven Oaks’ of 1816, in which Governor Semple lost his life. The tone of the Statement is arrogant, and was certainly poor ‘public relations’ as far as the Canadian public was concerned” – Streeter. A landmark work of Canadiana. LANDE 1206. STREETER SALE 3672. PEEL 42. TPL 1093. FIELD 1382. SABIN 20704. $1500.

William Wilberforce’s Copy

70. [Halkett, John]: STATEMENT RESPECTING THE EARL OF SEL- KIRK’S SETTLEMENT UPON THE RED RIVER, IN NORTH AMERICA; ITS DESTRUCTION IN 1815 AND 1816; AND THE MASSACRE OF GOVERNOR SEMPLE AND HIS PARTY.... Lon- don: John Murray, 1817. viii,194,[ii],c pp. plus folding map. Original brown paper boards, paper label. Spine ends a bit frayed, contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper and titlepage. Near fine. Untrimmed and unopened. In a half green leather and brown cloth slipcase.

English abolitionist William Wilberforce’s copy of Halkett’s work on the Red River settlement. The “imprinted issue,” after the unimprinted issue of the same year. Halkett herein defends Lord Selkirk’s Red River settlement against the aggressions of the North West Company. This edition contains added material not found in the first issue, answering to a work published under the North West Company’s auspices titled A Narrative of Occurrences in the Indian Countries. The map, by Aaron Arrowsmith, shows the Red River country, Lake Winnipeg, and north to Hudson Bay. Wilberforce has signed both the front free endpaper and the titlepage. He was instrumental in abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire, working for decades to achieve total abolition. He died just three days after being assured that the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 would pass through Parliament. A landmark work of Canadiana, with a distinguished provenance. LANDE 1206. STREETER SALE 3673. PEEL 42. TPL 1093. $1750.

71. Hallowell, John K.: GUNNISON, COLORADO’S BONANZA COUNTY. Denver: Colorado Museum of Applied Geology and Mineral- ogy, 1883. viii,168pp. Original pink printed wrappers. Rear wrapper detached, front wrapper nearly so, spine chipped. Some toning to preliminary and final pages. Else a very good, bright copy.

Description of a tour through the county, examining the mineralogical resources and mining camps. This elaborate report provides a great deal of information about the potential mineral resources of far western Colorado, an area which had not been extensively explored until this time. “Geological Monograph No. 2, Author’s Edition.” WYNAR 2597. EBERSTADT 131:194. $1500.

72. Harmon, Daniel W.: A JOURNAL OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOUR OF NORTH AMERICA, BETWEEN THE 47th AND 58th DEGREES OF NORTH LATITUDE, EXTEND- ING FROM MONTREAL NEARLY TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, A DISTANCE OF ABOUT 5,000 MILES, INCLUDING AN AC- COUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL OCCURRENCES DURING A RESIDENCE OF NINETEEN YEARS, IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.... Andover. 1820. 432pp. plus folding map. Lacks the errata slip. Half title. Contemporary tree calf, leather label, rebacked with original spine laid down. Ownership initials on front pastedown. Light to medium foxing and toning. Very good.

The first edition of this interesting work, edited for publication by Daniel Haskell (who surreptitiously inserted some religious maunderings not found in the author’s manuscript). Harmon joined the North West Company in 1780 and travelled to Lake Winnipeg and the Assiniboine, where he stayed some seven years. His later travels took him to Fort William, New Caledonia, Fort Vermillion, Fort Chipewyan, etc. Contains vocabularies of the Crees and Tacullies. The map, engraved by Annin & Smith of Boston, shows the northern United States and Canada to the Pacific Ocean in some detail. “An important book” (Howes), containing valuable firsthand information on the early fur trade. WAGNER-CAMP 17. SABIN 30404. FIELD 656. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1664. GRAFF 1786. HOWES H205, “b.” AMERICAN IMPRINTS 1518. STREETER SALE 3692. PEEL 71. LANDE 1216. TPL 1171. $900. An Important Narrative of the California Gold Rush by Its Most Celebrated Author

73. Harte, Bret: [AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED OF HARTE’S ACCOUNT OF THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH, “MY EXPERIENCES AS A GOLD DIGGER”]. [with:] [CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT OF THE SAME STORY RETITLED IN MANU- SCRIPT, “HOW I WENT TO THE MINES”]. [Arford House, Headley, Hampshire, England. 1897]. 9; 7pp. Quarto. Loose sheets. Accompanied by the original brown paper packaging with additional autograph notation by Harte and addressed to Harte, postmarked November 1897. Two tiny stains to the first page of the manuscript, mailing folds. Minor fold separations to first page of typescript, one horizontal mailing fold. Overall very good. In a cloth chemise with red morocco label in gilt, with two modern bookplates, within a blue morocco clamshell case.

An extraordinary surviving literary treasure from one of the West’s legendary authors, comprising working drafts of Bret Harte’s account of his time as a gold digger, probably in the Stanislaus River region in Tuolumne or Calaveras county. Both the manuscript and typescript have holographic corrections in the author’s hand. Little is known of Harte’s life between his arrival in Oakland in 1854 and his move to San Francisco in 1860 to work for the Golden Era. His work in the gold-mining regions that figures so prominently in his work occurred during this dark period in his biography and are of the most interest to Harte scholars. This present manuscript is one of the most important sources for researching Harte’s experiences during this mysterious period. This story provides some of the best detail on how Harte first became acquainted with the mines and miners which figure so prominently in his most famous works. “[This sketch] lays no claim to biographical accuracy, and certain improbable incidents were doubtlessly elaborated for the sake of giving point to the narrative. The story...employs the first person – with Harte usually a sign of autobiographic tendency. Harte’s sisters accepted it as essentially accurate; so did his devoted friend [T. Edgar] Pemberton. The narrative, moreover, has the ring of authenticity; the intimate experiences and petty difficulties of the boy walking to the mines are hardly ones which an elderly gentleman would be able to imagine in London” – Stewart. The typescript, the first seven pages of which are present here, has been corrected in manuscript to be nearly identical to the published version. Most notable in both typescript and manuscript are the passages that were entirely deleted from the published version which first appeared in the American periodical, Youth’s Companion, in 1899. The published version numbers approximately 3,800 words and Harte’s own notation on the packaging indicates the original story was 4,500 words. Deleted passages include the first paragraph recounting Harte’s experiences with mining and his bad first impression of miners:

I suspect that I never really caught what was then called – “the gold fever” – an infection to which an imaginative and errant school boy like myself might have been unduly susceptible. I never had the faith of a gold seeker. Even the glamour of emigration to a distant and unknown country did not include the hopeful vision of picking up gold nuggets in the streets of San Francisco...I remember that at first the returning successful or unsuccessful miner as I saw him in the streets of San Francisco, unkempt of hair and beard and patched of trowser, did not strike my boyish fancy as an heroic figure. His implements were not picturesque, and in his kit or outfit the frying pan and the kettle were shamelessly obtrusive....Let any of my youthful readers, unused to manual labor, imagine himself condemned for days, weeks and perhaps even years, to the regular task of digging, shovelling and carrying earth in a wheelbarrow to a dirty stream to be as regularly washed; let him further imagine that his only reward for this toil was just sufficient to procure him the plainest food and he will have some idea of gold digging as practised by at least two-thirds of the mining population of California – even in what was known as its “flush times.”

Later Harte wrote of the visual environment in California, especially around the gold mines themselves:

In that absolutely clarified air, it seemed only a few hundred feet away. In point of fact it was nearly two miles as the crow flies, and a hawk swinging midway up the abyss, seemed larger than the crawling miners besides the canvas tents. There were gashes and excavations on the mountain side – and a rugged gap in the files of pines; there were hovels, misshapen sheds, and piles of debris.

From the celebrated collection of Estelle Doheny, with her bookplate on the folder, sold as lot 720 at the auction of her collection at Christie’s on Feb. 2, 1988, where it realized $18,000. George Stewart, Bret Harte: Argonaut and Exile (1931), p.46. $25,000.

74. Haynes, Frank Jay: SCENERY OF THE YELLOWSTONE NA- TIONAL PARK [caption title]. Fargo, N.D. [ca. 1885]. Eight (of twelve) original mounted photographs, images 6½ x 8½ inches, mounts 10 x 11¾ inches. Slight chipping to some mounts, foxing to mounts, one short tear in one photograph done at time of original mounting. Very good.

A beautiful collection of mounted albumen views of Yellowstone, each photograph captioned in print on the mount. Originally published as a set of twelve under the title, Yellowstone National Park, this assortment includes the choicest examples from the set. “It was as the official photographer that Haynes achieved his lasting fame, an appointment made in 1884, and lasting for 34 years” – Taft. The views included here are captioned as follows:

1) “Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.” 2) “ld Faithful Geyser.” 3) “Grott Geyser Cone.” 4) “Devil’s Well and Castle Cone.” 5) “Hell’s Half Acre.” 6) “Great Falls of the Yellowstone, 360 Ft.” 7) “Splendid Geyser.” 8) “East Entrance to Golden Gate.”

EBERSTADT 163:586. Taft, Photography & the American Scene, p.308. $2000.

Propaganda for the South Sea Company

75. [Hennepin, Louis]: A DISCOVERY OF A LARGE, RICH, AND PLENTIFUL COUNTRY, IN THE NORTH AMERICA, EXTENDING ABOVE 4000 LEAGUES. WHEREIN, BY A VERY SHORT PASSAGE, LATELY FOUND OUT, THRO’ THE MER-BARMEJO INTO THE SOUTH-SEA; BY WHICH A CONSIDERABLE TRADE MIGHT BE CARRY’D ON, AS WELL IN THE NORTHERN AS THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF AMERICA. London: Printed for W. Boreham, [1720]. [4],30,[2]pp., incorrectly paginated 1-24,17-22. Calf, stamped in blind, in antique style, gilt label. Some leaves with significant wear, repaired with tissue, resulting in minor text loss, not affecting legibility. About good.

This pamphlet was evidently issued to promote the projects of the South Sea Company and suggest the existence of a passage from the Great Lakes to the Pacific. “In this pamphlet there are important contemporary accounts of LaMothe, Cadillac, the founder of Detroit, La Salle, and Tonty, as well as interesting descriptions of the Indians” – Lande. Part of the text might be based on Hennepin’s New Discovery.... Quite rare. LANDE S654. HOWES D348, “b.” SABIN 20247. $5000.

Important Collection on Early Louisiana

76. [Hennepin, Louis; Henri Tonti; et al]: RELATIONS DE LA LOUI- SIANE, ET DU FLEUVE MISSISSIPI. OU L’ON VOIT L’ETAT DE CE GRAND PAIS & LES AVANTAGES QU’IL PEUT PRODUIRE &c. Amsterdam: Jean Bernard, 1720. [4],408pp. plus folding map and fourteen plates. Half title. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. Repaired closed tear in inner margin of map. Very minor foxing and wear. Very good.

This volume is rich in interest, being drawn from material which originally appeared in the fifth volume of Jean Bernard’s Recueil de Voyages au Nord. It consists of Henri Tonti’s Dernieres Decouvertes..., here in the second French edition, one of the most important 17th-century French narratives of the Mississippi Valley; Hennepin’s Voyage...entre la Mer Glaciale, a later edition of his second book; Rela- tion de la Louisiane ou Mississippi..., published here for the first time, an anonymous officer’s account of a visit of several months in 1717, “an interesting narrative of the Indians, French settlers, natural history and products, and trade, especially with the Indians” (Clark); and a short summary of the voyages of Gosnold and Pringe. These narratives are accompanied by fourteen plates of Indians, based on John White’s illustrations in De Bry, which do not appear in the regular set. Also present is the handsome folding map, a reissue on a smaller scale of Delisle’s 1718 Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi. The second, smaller map shows the coast of Atlantic Canada and New England. This assemblage usually appears in an abbreviated form and with fewer plates. SABIN 4936, 69299. HOWES T294 (ref ). CLARK I:137. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 720/19. SERVIES 283. $8500.

77. Hind, Henry Youle: NARRATIVE OF THE CANADIAN RED RIV- ER EXPLORING EXPEDITION OF 1857 AND OF THE ASSIN- NIBOINE AND SASKATCHEWAN EXPLORING EXPEDITION OF 1858. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. xx,494; xvi,472pp., plus seven maps (two folding) and folding profile, all partially colored; and twenty plates, all colored or sepia-toned. Half titles. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and marbled paper, spine gilt. Boards lightly rubbed. Inner hinges of first volume and front inner hinge of second volume cracking but stable. Both folding maps with small tears in gutter, one with small repair. Very good.

The expedition set out from Toronto to ascertain the practicability of an emigrant route between Lake Superior and the Selkirk settlement, and to establish a new colony at Lake Winnipeg. During his travels Hind lived almost continuously among the Chippewa. He gives a good account of their customs and manners, with notes on their language. The magnificent plates were executed by Spottiswoode & Company, after sketches made by Fleming or photographs taken by H.L. Hime. The expedition added greatly to the knowledge of the region and facilitated the movement of prospectors to the gold fields of British Columbia. It also contributed data toward the establishment of a railroad route to the West. WAGNER-CAMP 360. FIELD 699. ABBEY 630. STREETER SALE 3730. PEEL 221. GRAFF 1892. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1800. $1000.

Presentation Copy of One of the Earliest Books for Emigrants to Texas

78. Holley, Mary Austin: TEXAS. Lexington, Ky.: J. Clarke & Co., 1836. [2],viii,410pp. plus folding map. 12mo. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Map backed on linen. Very good.

A presentation copy from Mrs. Holley, inscribed in her hand at the head of the titlepage: “B. Drake from the Author.” This is very likely Benjamin Drake, author of Cincin- nati in 1826 and biographies of Indian chiefs Tecumseh and Black Hawk. He was the younger brother of Daniel Drake, the most distinguished physician of the West at the time, who had headed the medical department of Transylvania University when Mrs. Holley’s husband Horace was president there. In the small literary world of Lexington and Cincinnati, Benjamin Drake and Mrs. Hol- ley would have naturally known each other well. Inscribed copies of Mrs. Holley’s book are quite rare. This is Mrs. Holley’s second book on Texas, intended as a practical and informative guide for emigrants to the area. Despite the title, which is similar to the author’s Balti- more 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 regarding what they would find there. As Stephen F. Austin’s cousin, she was in a position to know. STREETER TEXAS 1207. RAINES, p.116. HOWES H593, “aa.” SABIN 32528. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 15. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 94. $25,000.

79. [Hughes, W.E.]: THE JOURNAL OF A GRANDFATHER. [Saint Louis. 1912]. 239pp. plus plates. Portrait. Original cloth-backed boards, t.e.g. Some wear to corners, closed tear in front free endpaper, else very good.

Hughes gives an account of years he spent as a cowboy, ranchman, soldier, and stagecoach driver in the West. He served in the Confederate army during the Civil War under McCulloch and settled in Young County, Texas. He provides a detailed description of his experiences in the cattle business as well as a long appraisal of the cattle industry of the late 1800s in Texas; with material on a number of famous cattlemen and ranches, such as Goodnight, Kennedy, and King; and a chapter on Indian depredations, especially those committed by the Kiowa. This work serves as the only eyewitness account of the 1st Texas Artillery and the 16th Confederate Cavalry. A trove of Western Americana material. DYKES, COLLECTING RANGE LIFE LITERATURE, p.9 (“very rare”). GRAFF 2007. HOWES C856 (misplaced). $1000.

With Extraordinary Lithographs of Places in Idaho

80. [Idaho]: HISTORY OF IDAHO TERRITORY SHOWING ITS RE- SOURCES AND ADVANTAGES; WITH ILLUSTRATIONS DE- SCRIPTIVE OF ITS SCENERY, RESIDENCES, FARMS, MINES, MILLS, HOTELS, BUSINESS HOUSES, SCHOOLS, CHURCH- ES, &c. San Francisco: Wallace W. Elliott & Co., 1884. [9],20-304,[1]pp. plus maps and numerous unnumbered leaves of lithographs. Folio. Publisher’s cloth, tooled in blind and gilt, neatly rebacked in red leather stamped in gilt. First few leaves with light wear at edges, some light soiling. Some light wear and soiling to text, a few scattered edge tears. Very good.

The first “full-scale history of Idaho” (Howes). This work contains illustrations of Idaho Territory’s prominent citizens and their homes, including many specific ranches and farms; many of the buildings in Boise as well as street scenes and views of other towns; mines, mills, and other industries of the Territory; and a map of the territory with an inset of Old Faithful Geyser. The frontispiece is a view of Shoshone Falls on the Snake River. The introductory remarks indicate the text has been divided into twenty-six sections for easy reference, including a history of Northwest Territory; missionaries and immigration; a description of Idaho Terri- tory’s physical features, climate, soils, and natural resources; the “state of society in the Territory,” biographical sketches of prominent citizens, and public schools; the native peoples and animals; and “miscellaneous historical matters.” In the section entitled “Primitive Inhabitants,” the native tribes of the area are listed, with a brief description of each:

The Pend d’Oreilles are peaceable, industrious, and, in the main, self-supporting. Many of them have adopted the dress, and, in a measure, the customs and hab- its of civilized people....The Kootenay’s are an indolent, thriftless people, too cowardly to fight, too indolent to work, and many of them too lazy to hunt.... The Shoshones are well supplied with good horses, and warmly and decently clad, with the single exception, dirt.

And so forth. There is an extensive section on the Nez Perce encompassing the Nez Perce War and efforts to relocate the tribe to a reservation. This work contains a remarkable group of lithographs illustrating ranches, houses, and properties in the Territory, making it a tremendous visual resource for the American West. HOWES I2, “aa.” EBERSTADT 131:349. $6000.

81. [Idaho Territorial Laws]: [NINE EARLY SESSION LAWS FROM IDAHO TERRITORY, 1864 – 1879]. Lewiston & Boise City. 1864-1879. Nine volumes bound in eight (see publication details and pagination below). 20th-century buckram, gilt leather labels. Minor shelf wear, one label chipped. Small ink library stamp on titlepages, most with embossed blindstamp on titlepage and some other leaves; some titlepages and a few other leaves with ink ownership inscriptions. Otherwise, mostly clean texts. A nice set in good plus condition.

A fantastic run of the first session laws for Idaho Territory (which then included Montana, so this ostensibly counts as the first laws of that territory). All of these volumes are rare in commerce, including the crucial first volume, which includes the Organic Act. But for the eighth session, this is a complete run of Idaho territorial laws from the first session through the tenth, providing the legal foundation for the territory that would become the forty-third state of the Union on July 3, 1890. The volumes included here are as follows:

1) Laws of the Territory of Idaho, First Session.... Lewiston: James A. Glascock, 1864. 686,xxxiii pp., with a duplicated fourth signature. AII (IDAHO) 16. 2) Laws of the Territory of Idaho, Second Session.... Boise City: Frank Kenyon, 1866. [iii]-viii,[2],516pp. AII (IDAHO) 32. 3) Laws of the Territory of Idaho, Third Session.... Boise City: Frank Kenyon, 1866. xiii,329pp. AII (IDAHO) 33. 4) Laws, Memorials and Resolutions, Passed by the Fourth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho. Boise City: Idaho Statesman Publishing Company, 1867. xiii,[15]-270pp. AII (IDAHO) 39. 5) Laws and Resolutions Passed by the Fifth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho. Boise City: James S. Reynolds, 1869. [4],[15]-183pp. AII (IDAHO) 52. 6) Laws and Resolutions Passed by the Sixth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho. Boise City: James S. Reynolds, 1871. 106pp. AII (IDAHO) 62. 7) Laws and Resolutions Passed by the Seventh Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho. Boise City: Milton Kelly, 1873. 104pp. Original printed wrappers bound in. AII (IDAHO) 73. 8) Laws of the Territory of Idaho, Ninth Session.... Boise City: Milton Kelly, 1877. [4],144pp. Original printed wrappers bound in. AII (IDAHO) 93. 9) Laws of the Territory of Idaho Tenth Session.... Boise City: D. Bacon, 1879. 92pp. Original printed wrappers bound in. Bound with the ninth session laws. AII (IDAHO) 105.

SABIN 34166. $4000.

The Bear Flag Rebellion

82. [Ide, Simeon]: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM B. IDE: WITH A MINUTE AND INTERESTING AC- COUNT OF ONE OF THE LARGEST EMIGRATING COMPA- NIES. (3000 MILES OVER LAND), FROM THE EAST TO THE PACIFIC COAST. AND WHAT IS CLAIMED AS THE MOST AUTHENTIC AND RELIABLE ACCOUNT OF “THE VIRTUAL CONQUEST OF CALIFORNIA, IN JUNE, 1846, BY THE BEAR FLAG PARTY.” [Claremont, N.H.]: Printed for the subscribers, [1880]. [2],239,[1]pp. Half title. 12mo. Original blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. Some staining and soiling to boards, minor edge wear. Hinges tender, bookplate removed from front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good.

Presentation copy of the first edition, inscribed by Simeon Ide to the Hon. Uriel Crocker on a front fly leaf. Also includes a brief pencil correction on page 93, likely in Ide’s hand. William Ide emigrated to California in 1845. In 1846, after rumors that the Mexican Republic was going to expel all non-citizens, he led a group of settlers in what became known as the Bear Flag Revolt after the California Bear Flag raised as they took control of the Sonoma pueblo. Ide was named Commander of the California Republic. Afterwards most of the party joined Lieut. Col. John C. Fremont in seizing California from Mexico. Uriel Crocker was a founder of leading Boston publishers Crocker & Brewster, and later sat on the board of several railroad companies including the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, South Pacific Railroad, and St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad. “This Sketch contains an account of the early years of W.B. Ide, recollections by his daughter of the family’s trip across the plains to California in 1845, and an account of the Bear Flag revolt of 1846 as told by Ide to his brother in 1849, and in a letter to a Senator Wambough which, as Ide died in 1852, must have been written within a few years of the event. [An] interesting account of the overland journey of 1845 and important source on the beginnings of American rule in California in 1846...” – Streeter. The work is also important in that it is one of the few overland journals written from the point of view of a woman (Ide’s daughter, who in 1845 at age eighteen accompanied her father west), and is unique in its exclusive treatment of the Bear Flag Revolt. Howes speculates that this first edition, printed by the author at the age of eighty-six on a handpress, “was probably small.” A rare and important California book. HOWES I4, “b.” STREETER SALE 2967. TUTOROW 3466. EBERSTADT 105:136 (ref ). GRAFF 2059. ZAMORANO 80, 45. COWAN 1914, p.118. MINTZ 250. $5000.

83. [Indian Treaties – Comanche and Kiowa]: TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE CAMANCHE AND KIOWA TRIBES OF INDIANS. [Washington. 1866]. 8pp. Folio. Folded sheets, as issued. Mildly tanned, light chipping to final leaf. Very good.

Concluded Oct. 18, 1865, ratification advised May 22, 1866, proclaimed May 26, 1866. This treaty was apparently produced in a small edition, perhaps only enough for the use of the negotiating parties. “In this treaty, made at Council Ground in the Little Arkansas River, Kit Carson provides for the possession by the Comanche and Kiowa of a vast Texas Reservation, with reservations. Ostensibly the Treaty gave the Indians the Panhandle” – Eberstadt. EBERSTADT INDIAN TREATIES 40. RADER 3472. STREETER SALE 2021. $1000. 84. [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, else 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 130. $750.

85. Ives, Joseph C.: REPORT UPON THE COLORADO RIVER OF THE WEST, EXPLORED IN 1857 AND 1858. Washington. 1861. 131, 14,[2],154,[2],30,[2],6,[2],31,[1]pp. plus plates (some colored), maps, and some explanatory leaves for plates. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Some scattered foxing and offsetting. Very good.

One of the most important and best illustrated army surveys of the American West. The report describes the activities of the expedition on the Colorado in 1857-58 under the command of Ives. Goetzmann calls the book the best of individual army reports, “a long, carefully written journal, consciously literary but with a maximum amount of attention to scientific observation.” Wheat is equally lavish in his praise of the maps, applauding the detail and design of the finished work. The primary work on the exploration of the Colorado. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 947. GOETZMANN, pp.379-94. FLAKE 4287. HILL 874. STREETER SALE 177. WAGNER-CAMP 375. HOWES I92. TAXONOMIC LIT- ERATURE 786. SABIN 35308. FARQUHAR, COLORADO 21. $750.

86. Jacobs, Peter: JOURNAL OF THE REVEREND PETER JACOBS, INDIAN WESLEYAN MISSIONARY, FROM RICE LAKE TO THE HUDSON’S BAY TERRITORY; AND RETURNING. COM- MENCING MAY, 1852: WITH A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WESLEYAN MISSION TO THAT COUNTRY. Toronto: Anson Green, 1853. 32,[1]pp. plus two plates. Original printed wrappers, front wrapper reattached with archival paper and repaired at edges. Wrappers toned, light soiling. One plate laid in. Internally very clean. Good. In a half morocco clamshell box.

The journal of Reverend Peter Jacobs, an Ojibwa who was converted to Methodism by William Case in the 1820s. Jacobs went on to become an ordained minister and missionary, travelling through Canada, the United States, and England, though primarily continuing Case’s work christianizing the Canadian indigenous communities. His journal gives a detailed account of his tour of the Hudson Bay territory, from Rice Lake to York Factory and back, which offers an insightful look into the life and trials of a missionary. Scarce. Laid into this copy are the leaf of omissions and an additional portrait of Jacobs. TPL 3266. SABIN 35503. WAGNER-CAMP 223b:1. FIELD 771 (ref ). $3250.

The First Pictures of the Great Plains

87. James, Edwin: ACCOUNT OF AN EXPEDITION FROM PITTS- BURGH TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1819, AND ’20 UNDER THE COMMAND OF MAJOR STEPHEN H. LONG. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & Lea, 1822-1823. Two octavo text volumes plus quarto atlas volume. Half titles. Atlas: eleven engraved plates and maps (two double-page maps after S.H. Long by Young & Delleker; double-page plate of geological cross-sections; eight plates [one handcolored] after S. Seymour [6], T.R. Peale [1], and one unassigned; engraved by C.G. Childs [2], Lawson [1], F. Kearney [2], W. Hay [1], Young & Delleker [1]). Text: Expertly bound to style in full tree calf, gilt, spines gilt, marbled endpapers. Atlas: Expertly bound to style in half tree calf and period marbled boards, spine uniform to that of the text. Very good.

Edwin James was the botanist, geologist, and surgeon for this important government expedition, initially named the Yellowstone Expedition. Led by Maj. Stephen Long, the expedition added significantly to the earlier discoveries of Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike. In addition to his duties on the expedition, James subsequently served as the editor and compiler of this text, relying “upon his own records, the brief geological notes of Major Long, and the early journals of Thomas Say [who served as the expedition’s naturalist]” (Wagner-Camp). Appendices to the text comprise astronomical and meteorological tables and Indian vocabularies. In addition to Long, James, and Say, the expedition included Titian Peale as draughtsman and assistant naturalist, and Samuel Seymour as landscape artist. The published plates depict Oto Indians, views of the Plains, and buffalo. Major Long was the principal proponent of government-sponsored exploration of the West following the War of 1812. He travelled farther than Pike or Lewis and Clark, and blazed trails that were subsequently followed by Fremont, Powell, and others. The expedition travelled up the Missouri and then followed the River Platte to its source in the Rocky Mountains before moving south to Upper Arkansas. From there the plan was to find the source of the Red River, but when this was not found, the Canadian River was explored instead. Cartographically the atlas contains the first maps to provide detail of the Cen- tral Plains. Upon returning to Washington from the expedition, Long drafted a large manuscript map of the West (now in the National Archives), and the printed maps in James’ Account closely followed. The “Western Section” map is particularly interesting, as it is here that the myth of the Great American Desert was founded, a myth which endured for decades. The designation “Great American Desert” appears east of the single range of the Rocky Mountains, together with a two-line note: “The Great American Desert is frequented by roving bands of Indians who have no fixed places of residence but roam from place to place in quest of game.” Long’s map, along with that of Lewis and Clark, “were the progenitors of an entire class of maps of the American Transmississippi West” (Wheat). BRADFORD 2637. GRAFF 2188. HOWES J41, “b.” PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1958. SABIN 35682. STREETER SALE 1783. WAGNER-CAMP 25:1. WHEAT TRANS- MISSISSIPPI 353; II, p.80. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 12942. $22,000.

First Report on Lewis and Clark

88. [ Jefferson, Thomas]: TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR PARTS OF AMERICA; COMMUNICATING DISCOVERIES MADE IN EX- PLORING THE MISSOURI, RED RIVER AND WASHITA, BY CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK, DOCTOR SIBLEY, AND MR. DUNBAR; WITH A STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE COUN- TRIES ADJACENT. AS LAID BEFORE THE SENATE, BY THE PRESIDENT...IN FEBRUARY, 1806, AND NEVER BEFORE PUB- LISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN. London. 1807. 24,17-116pp. (as published) plus folding table. Three-quarter calf and marbled boards in antique style, spine gilt, leather label. Hinges rubbed. Minor foxing. Very good.

The first London edition 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, providing information about their route, Indians, trade, animals encountered, and geography. Equally important are the accounts of the southern explorations. Included are Dr. Sibley’s letters to Gen. Henry Dearborn, which comprise the first account of Texas in book form, mentioning in particular various Texas tribes and the Red River country. RADER 3359. STREETER SALE 3121. HOWES L319. SABIN 40826. WAGNER- CAMP 5:6. $5000.

A Key Overland Guide

89. Johnson, Overton, and William H. Winter: ROUTE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF OREGON AND CALIFORNIA; THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES, THEIR RESOURCES, SOIL, CLIMATE, PRODUCTIONS.... La- fayette, In.: John B. Semans, Printer, 1846. 152pp. Original plain brown cloth. Some wear to cloth, minor edge wear, hinges reinforced. Two small modern bookplates on front pastedown. Minor foxing and spotting, pale dampstain through some text. Very good. In a green half morocco clamshell case.

One of the earliest and rarest overland guide books to the Oregon Trail, chrono- logically the second such guide, preceded only by the Hastings guide of 1845. The authors went overland to Oregon in 1843. Winter went to California the following year, then returned to Indiana, where he arranged to publish this guide book in time for the 1846 emigrant season. The book provides a detailed account of the 1843 trip, a long description of Oregon, Winter’s route to California, the Bear Flag movement, gold at Santa Barbara, and northern California. The return route from California is also described, and there is a table of distances at the rear. Winter eventually settled in the Napa-Sonoma area. A variant issue of the text, with “River” corrected on page 26 and signature mark “8” corrected on page 57, but with the vertical slug present before “Fort” on page 36. The Jay Snider copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown, sold as lot 234 at Christie’s New York in 2005 for $24,000. A rarity, afforded a “d” by Howes, who calls it “one of the greatest of early overland narratives.” A key guide and important work of Western Americana. GRAFF 2221. HOWES J142, “d.” SABIN 36260. STREETER SALE 3145. WAGNER- CAMP 122. COWAN, p.315. $20,000.

Important Views in Texas and New Mexico

90. [ Johnston, Joseph E., et al]: REPORTS OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, WITH RECONNAISSANCES OF ROUTES FROM SAN ANTONIO TO EL PASO. BY BREVET LT. COL. J.E. JOHN- STON; LIEUTENANT W.F. SMITH; LT. F.T. BRYAN; LT. N.H. MICHLER; AND CAPTAIN S.G. FRENCH...CAPT. R.B. MAR- CY’S ROUTE FROM FORT SMITH TO SANTA FE; AND THE REPORT OF LT. J.H. SIMPSON OF AN EXPEDITION INTO THE NAVAJO COUNTRY; AND ALSO THE REPORT OF LT. W.H.C. WHITING’S RECONNAISSANCES OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER OF TEXAS. Washington. 1850. 250pp. plus two folding maps and seventy-two lithographed plates, several handcolored, some folding (plates are numbered to 75; plates 2, 21, and 39 were not issued). Origi- nal blindstamped cloth, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Moderate foxing throughout. Several plates with dampstaining in upper outer corner. Each map has a long, closed tear, but with no loss. Good.

This report was most important for the opening of travel and settlement in West Texas and New Mexico. By these explorations a supply and potential railroad route was surveyed across West Texas, and this became the main passageway for soldiers, settlers, and gold seekers. The surveyors were pleased with what they saw, pointing out the large population which could be supported in the Rio Grande Valley as well as the strategic importance of El Paso. The Simpson report is one of the first thorough surveys in New Mexico. Related to it are the many handsome plates and one of the maps. The other map shows the routes across Texas. The plates in the Simpson report make it an important American color plate book. WAGNER-CAMP 184. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 111. GRAFF 2228. HOWES J170. RAINES, p.128. $1850.

With the Blueprint Map

91. Johnston, William G.: EXPERIENCES OF A FORTY-NINER, BY ...A MEMBER OF THE WAGON TRAIN FIRST TO ENTER CALIFORNIA IN THE MEMORABLE YEAR 1849. Pittsburgh. 1892. 390pp. plus plates and folding blueprint map. Frontispiece portrait. Original gilt cloth. Slight wear to head and toe of spine, spine lightly rubbed. Near fine.

From an edition limited to fifty copies, according to Mintz. This copy contains the scarce folding blueprint map, showing the route of the forty-niners from In- dependence, Missouri to Sacramento, California, and the political subdivisions of the West in the mid-19th century. This is one of the most important and readable of all the forty-niner overland narratives. Jim Stewart served as the guide for the author’s party. They left Independence in April and travelled through Fort Bridger and Salt Lake City, arriving in Sacramento in late July. Johnston gives an excellent account of his life in the mines, early Sacramento, and San Francisco, and of his return journey by sea. This work is high on the list of desirable post-Wagner-Camp overland narratives. HOWES J173, “b.” STREETER SALE 3198. GRAFF 2229. MINTZ 261. MATTES 511. COWAN, p.316. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 113. KURUTZ 364a. HOWELL 50:556. EBERSTADT MODERN OVERLANDS 25 $3000. 92. Jollivet, Adolphe: DOCUMENTS AMERICAINS. TROISIEME SE- RIE. LES ETATS-UNIS D’AMERIQUE ET L’ANGLETERRE. AN- NEXION DU TEXAS. L’OREGON. Paris: Bruneau, April 1845. 74pp. Half calf and marbled boards in antique style, leather label. Lightly toned, internally very clean. Very good.

A rare pamphlet on American annexation issues, the third and longest in a series by Jollivet, all published in 1845. This installment contains an introduction by Jollivet followed by French translations of letters from Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur related to the annexation of Texas and Oregon, and other documents. “As it gradually became known in French political circles that Guizot was planning unstinted support for England’s policy ‘to uphold the Independence of Texas against the encroachments of the United States, even at the risk of a collision with that Power’...there was great outcry in French political circles” – Streeter. As a result of Jollivet’s efforts, the French supported slavery in the new state of Texas. Raines sums up the French position on Texas and Oregon as such: “Let Texas and Oregon belong to the United States since they cannot belong to France.” Rare, with only a dozen copies worldwide on OCLC. STREETER TEXAS 1588B. HOWES J178. SABIN 36416. RADER 2109. RAINES, p.128. OCLC 228716994, 561996893. $2000.

93. [Kansas]: [GROUP OF EARLY LAWS FOR KANSAS TERRITO- RY, INCLUDING SEVERAL EARLY TERRITORIAL IMPRINTS]. Lecompton & Lawrence. 1855-1861. Ten volumes. 20th-century cloth, gilt leather labels. Some labels chipped, cloth lightly soiled. Library stamps on each titlepage. Minor foxing, some scattered soiling. Good.

An extensive run of territorial laws for Kansas Territory, covering 1855 through 1861, including eight early territorial imprints for 1857 through 1861. The initial years of Kansas Territory – and its laws – were marked by a bloody fight between pro- and anti-slavery advocates. There is a wealth of information herein on the struggles which proceeded the Civil War. The present group covers much of the territorial law until Kansas became a state in 1861. The individual titles are as follows:

1) The Statutes of the Territory of Kansas.... Shawnee M.L. School: John T. Brady, 1855. vii,1058,[1]pp. Likely published in St. Louis or further east, rather than in the Territory. Not noted in American Imprints Inventory for Kansas. 2) Laws of the Territory of Kansas, Passed at the Second Session of the General Legisla- tive Assembly.... Lecompton: R.H. Bennett, 1857. [4],378pp. AII (KANSAS) 117. 3) Laws of the Territory of Kansas, Passed at the Third and Fourth Session of the Legislative Assembly.... Lecompton: S.W. Driggs & Co., 1858. 469,[2]pp. AII (KANSAS) 183. 4) Private Laws of the Territory of Kansas, Passed at the Fourth Session of the Legisla- tive Assembly.... Lecompton: S.W. Driggs, 1858. 398,[1]pp. AII (KANSAS) 184. 5) General Laws of the Territory of Kansas, Passed at the Fifth Session of the Legisla- tive Assembly.... Lawrence: Herald of Freedom Steam Press, 1859. 720pp. AII (KANSAS) 221. 6) Private Laws of the Territory of Kansas, Passed at the Fifth Session of the Legislative Assembly.... Lawrence: Herald of Freedom Press, 1859. 233pp. AII (KANSAS) 223. 7) General Laws Passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, at the General and Special Sessions of the Year 1860.... Lecompton: S.A. Medary & S.W. Driggs, 1860. 264pp. AII (KANSAS) 252. 8) Private Laws of the Territory of Kansas, Passed at the Special Session of the Legisla- tive Assembly.... [Lecompton: S.A. Medary, [1860]. xii,455pp. AII (KANSAS) 254. 9) General Laws of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, for the Year 1861.... Lawrence: Sam. A. Medary, 1861. 35,[1]pp. AII (KANSAS) 287. 10) [Laws of the Territory of Kansas]. [Washington: John T. Brady, 1856]. 822pp., lacking first 48pp. including titlepage. Contains the Organic Act. $8500.

In Original Boards

94. Keating, William H.: NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE SOURCE OF ST. PETER’S RIVER, LAKE WINNEPEEK, LAKE OF THE WOODS, &c. &c. PERFORMED IN THE YEAR 1823... COMPILED FROM THE NOTES OF MAJOR LONG, MESSRS. SAY, KEATING, AND COLHOUN [sic]. London: Geo. B. Whittaker, 1825. Two volumes. xiii,[3],458; vi,248,156pp., plus folding map, eight plates, and three folding tables. Half title in each volume. Contemporary paper boards, paper labels. Spines with minor repairs, spine ends a bit chipped. 19th-century ownership signature on each half title, a few leaves foxed. Very nice, in original boards. In a half morocco box.

The first British edition, with the map and plates identical to those of the American. The primary work on Long’s second expedition, compiled by its historiographer and geologist. “...Almost a cyclopedia of material, relating to the Indians of the explored territory. Nothing escaped the attention of the gentlemen who accompanied the expedition; and their statements regarding the customs, character, and numbers of the Sioux and Chippeway tribes, are among the most valuable we have of those people” – Field. WAGNER-CAMP 26b:2. FIELD 949. HOW- ES K20. GRAFF 2280. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2066, 3494. TAXONOMIC LIT- ERATURE 3560. SABIN 37137. $1000. First Edition of a Scarce Account of Gold Rush-Era California

95. Kip, Leonard: CALIFORNIA SKETCHES, WITH RECOLLEC- TIONS OF THE GOLD MINES. Albany: [ Joel Munsell, Printers, Al- bany, for] Erastus H. Pease & Co., 1850. 57pp. Publisher’s advertisement on verso of upper wrapper. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Very good. Prov- enance: Josiah Markle (period signature on upper wrapper).

Leonard Kip’s work includes excellent firsthand descriptions of San Francisco, Stockton, mining camps, and life in the diggings around the Mokelumne River area. Kip’s companions suffered from dysentery, scurvy, low provisions, and little success, and consequently his impressions of California are a touch gloomy. Pre- dicting a bleak future for the state once the gold ran out, he writes: “It will readily be conceived that California can present few inducements to the settler.” According to the introductory notice, these recollections “were intended for one of the daily papers, but the friend to whom they were sent (in the absence of the author), has assumed the responsibility of publishing them in this form, for the benefit of those who are meditating a voyage to the El Dorado of the West.” His older brother, William Ingram Kip, went on to become a major figure there as the first Episcopalian Bishop of California in 1853. Scarce. COWAN, p.331. GRAFF 2343. HOWES K174. KURUTZ 379A. SABIN 37946. STREETER SALE 2638. BIBLIOTHECA MUNSELLIANA 474. $12,000.

96. [Klondike Gold Rush]: [PAIR OF TYPED LETTERS FROM A MINER IN THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH, AND ON HIS WAY BACK TO THE UNITED STATES TO PURCHASE GOODS FOR HIS MERCHANT BUSINESS]. Circle City, Ak. and on a steamer between Juneau and Seattle. Nov. 10, 1896; Feb. 17, 1897. [12]pp. typed on folio sheets of onion-skin paper, plus three hand-drawn maps. A total of some 6,750 words. Stapled at upper edge. Three horizontal folds. Near fine.

A very interesting pair of typed letters from a young man in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. The anonymous author wrote these two letters to his parents, describing his journey overland and by water to the Birch Creek mining district, his experiences mining for gold, and his decision to go into business as a merchant. The letters are written in a detailed style that indicates an educated author. They include three manuscript sketches showing the routes traversed in Alaska and provide a great deal of information about the writer’s experiences in the Klondike. These letters are typed, but they were likely originally handwritten by the author, who later typed them (and included his manuscripts maps and sketch) in order to send them to his family when he arrived in Seattle or San Francisco. The letter dated Nov. 10 begins with a description of the writer’s boat journey from Juneau to Dyea, which was a popular disembarkation point for the Chilkoot Trail to Dawson City, a center of the gold rush. He arrived at Dyea on April 23 and notes that “dinner at the Dyea post was the last square meal I have had up to the present date (November 10).” After dinner he loaded his equipment on horses for the journey inland:

My outfit consisted of about 1000 lbs. of provisions, guns, amunition [sic], tools for boat building, a whip-saw, jack-plane, cross-cut saw, hand saw, rip saw, hatchet hammer draw knife, brace and bits, square, etc. and clothing, blankets, tent, sheet-iron stone, and, in fact, I think I had about every thing that ever went down the Yukon. Altogether my outfit weighed about 1,302 pounds, which is much more than is usually taken into the interior.

The author spent the next several days transporting his provisions between Dyea and Lake Linderman, and he includes in his letter a sketch of the route from Dyea through the valley to the lake (noting several camps along the way), as well as a sketch of his sled. The second letter, dated Feb. 17, 1897, was written on board the steamer Al Ki, between Juneau and Seattle. He continues the narrative of his trip inland, explain- ing that he arrived at Lake Linderman on May 14. A month later, on June 14, the author and a partner, their canoe loaded with provisions, departed for Circle City, which they reached on June 29. There they stored most of their provisions and headed for the mines in the Birch Creek region. Mining was at its height in the middle of the summer, but rather than seek out a claim on their own, the author and his companion, Jim Wishard, decided to work for other miners, earning some $10 a day. He describes working at mining from 7 p.m. until 6 a.m., the long days making the task of working at night possible. In August the author bought a claim in the Harrison Creek region, but decided to forego mining in favor of establishing himself as a merchant:

From what I could see the miners are poorly supplied with food by the two companies, and there is always a great demand for luxuries; that is, something out of the ordinary, and even the necessaries of life. I made up my mind last summer that I could do as well bringing in some food – in other words, being something of a merchant – as in any other way to start, and having a good knowledge of the country, and keeping my eyes open, I would undoubtedly have many good chances for speculation. It is a conceded fact that one cannot lose money taking in such an outfit. Everything brings in an average profit of 400 per cent., over the original cost, and whatever any one has to sell in the “grub” line is in demand.

The author then describes his construction of a small cabin in Circle City, and his decision soon afterward to leave Alaska for the winter. He describes the trip to Dyea, undertaken in January, and the hardships of winter overland travel in Alaska. Included are some very practical tips:

In crossing water when it is thirty or forty degrees below zero, one should dip his moccasins into the water very quickly, taking them out before the moccasin is wet through. They will then freeze in a mass on your feet, and will serve the same purpose as rubber boots. You can then walk right through water, though I would not advise any one to tempt Providence too much.

The letter concludes with a description of a recently discovered gold strike called “Bonanza,” not far from the Forty Mile camp. The author describes the high hopes around the strike, and includes a manuscript map of the region, indicating the location of a claim in which he himself has invested. He hopes that his mine will bring him some wealth, but reiterates his belief that the way to wealth in the Yukon Gold Rush is by supplying miners with goods, and that he is on his way to Seattle and San Francisco to buy provisions to resell. $1250.

A Cornerstone Work on Pacific Exploration

97. La Pérouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup de: VOYAGE DE LA PÉROUSE AUTOUR DU MONDE...RÉDIGÉ PAR M. L.A. MILET- MUREAU. Paris: l’Imprimerie de la République, an V [1797]. Five quarto text volumes, plus folio atlas. Text: half titles, final blank Qq4 in fourth volume. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Atlas: engraved allegorical titlepage by Ph. Trière after J.M. Moreau le jeune, sixty-nine copper-engraved plates comprising thirty-one charts, maps, and plans (one folding, twenty double-page); thirty-eight views, ethnographical or natural history plates, or coastal profiles. Expertly bound to style in half red straight-grained morocco and pale pink boards, spines gilt. Very good.

First edition of the official account of the famous but ill-fated voyage aboard the frigates Astrolobe and Boussole which took place between 1785 and 1788. “La Pérouse’s expedition was one of the most important scientific explorations ever undertaken to the Pacific and the west coast of North America....The charge to the expedition was to examine such parts of the region as had not been explored by Captain Cook; to seek for an interoceanic passage; to make scientific observations on the various countries, peoples, and products; to obtain reliable information about the fur trade and the extent of Spanish settlements in California; and to promote the inducements for French enterprise in that quarter....La Pérouse and his men did important geographical research [including visits to Easter Island, Hawaii, Macao, Formosa, the Aleutian Islands, Samoa, Tonga, and Australia]....The voyage also included the first foreign scientific group ever to visit Alta California [two of the plates depict a bee-eater and a male and female partridge of California; there are also maps and plans of San Francisco, Monterery, and San Diego]....La Pérouse sent dispatches back to France from Kamchatka and Botany Bay. The two ships then set sail from Botany Bay, in 1788, and were never heard from again” – Hill. Thirty-nine years later, in 1825, the wrecks of the two frigates were found at Van- ikoro in the Santa Cruz group by Peter Dillon. The La Pérouse voyage is notable for its superb mapping of the Alaska and California coasts (discussed at length by Wagner in Cartography of the Northwest Coast), including maps of San Diego, Monterey, and the entire Northwest Coast. Of equal importance are the series of charts that were produced as a result of the expedition’s surveys of the Asiatic side of the Pacific. The atlas also contains numerous interesting coastal views, as well as botanical and natural history plates. The text contains a wealth of scientific and ethnographic information. In addition, La Pérouse was the first westerner to safely navigate and chart the Japan Sea and the strait between the island of Sakhalin and the northernmost island of Japan. En route for Australia in 1788, La Pérouse sailed via Samoa. This work “is one of the finest narratives of maritime exploration ever written, and certainly deserves to hold a place of high honor among the great travel accounts of the eighteenth century” (Howell). SABIN 38960. HILL 972. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST 837-848. ANKER 276. COWAN, p.383. FERGUSON I:251. FORBES I:272. HOWES L93. LADA-MOCARSKI 52. ZAMORANO 80, 49. $27,500.

A Rare Overland Narrative and Indian Captivity

98. Lee, Nelson: THREE YEARS AMONG THE CAMANCHES, THE NARRATIVE OF NELSON LEE, THE TEXAN RANGER, CONTAINING A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HIS CAPTIVITY AMONG THE INDIANS, HIS SINGULAR ESCAPE THROUGH THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF HIS WATCH, AND FULLY IL- LUSTRATING INDIAN LIFE AS IT IS ON THE WARPATH AND IN THE CAMP. Albany. 1859. [ii],224pp. Original portrait title. 12mo. Original cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Spine lightly sunned. Two small, unobtrusive contemporary ownership stamps on front free endpaper. Vertical, closed tear to pp.21/22 extending from the bottom edge into five lines of text, with no loss. Very good. In a blue half leather slipcase and chemise.

“Lee was a member of the Texas Navy, which he left to join the Rangers; he went through and describes the early Mexican-Texas border wars...the Santa Fe Ex- pedition...the Mier Expedition...the Battles of Monterey, Palo Alto, etc. At the conclusion of the War, he started overland for California...but had only been out a few days when the party was surrounded by savages and all but the author and three others summarily butchered. His experiences in captivity are of vivid interest, and afford a most minute and detailed account of the manners and customs of the tribe. He gives also an account of the hardships and sufferings of his co-captives, Mrs. Haskins and her two daughters, including the torture of the former” – Eberstadt. “The appalling and monstrous cruelties of this untamable [Comanche] nation of nomads, reconciles us somewhat to their rapid extinction. Unlike the savages of the Algonquin and Iroquois races, who invariably respected the chastity of their female prisoners, the savages of the southern plains ravish and torture them, with the combined fury of lust and bloodthirst” – Field. “The best contemporary description of the life of the early Texas Rangers” – Jenkins. In the introduction to the 1957 reprint of Lee’s narrative, Walter Prescott Webb writes: “The story he tells is absorbing, but the information he conveys about how the Comanches lived before they were affected by the white man is invaluable.” A rare book, central to any collection relating to overland travel and Indian captivities, here in the original binding. WAGNER-CAMP 333:1. STREETER SALE 401. FIELD 905. HOWES L212, “b.” DOBIE, p.34. SABIN 39778. RADER 2215. GRAFF 2444. AYER 182. EBERSTADT 122:227. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 123. GARRETT, p.227. $8500.

First Edition

99. Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark: HISTORY OF THE EXPE- DITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK, TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN THE RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. PERFORMED DUR- ING THE YEARS 1804-5-6.... Philadelphia: J. Maxwell for Bradford & Inskeep and Abm. H. Inskeep of New York, 1814. Two volumes. xxviii,470pp. plus two maps; ix,[1],522pp. plus five engraved maps or charts, the large folding map in expert facsimile. Expertly bound to style in full period tree calf, gilt, spines gilt, black morocco labels. Very good. Provenance: Washington McKean (early signatures).

The “definitive account of the most important exploration of the North American continent” (Wagner-Camp), and a cornerstone of Western Americana. The book describes the government-backed expedition to explore the newly acquired Loui- siana Purchase undertaken from 1804 to 1806 by ascending the Missouri to its source, crossing the Rocky Mountains, and reaching the Pacific Ocean. The expedition covered a total of some 8,000 miles in slightly more than twenty-eight months. Lewis and Clark 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. This official account of the expedition is as much a landmark in Americana as the trip itself. The narrative has been reprinted many times and remains a perennial American bestseller. The observations in the text make it an essential work of American natural history, ethnography, and science. It is the first great U.S. government expedition, the first book on the Rocky Mountain West, and a host of other firsts. It is among the most famous American books. The large folding map of the West was not issued with all copies, and in fact was priced separately and cost almost as much as the book itself. WAGNER-CAMP 13:1. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 272. GROLIER AMERICAN 100, 30. HOWES L317. TWENEY 89, 44. GRAFF 2477. SABIN 40828. CHURCH 1309. FIELD 928. STREETER SALE 1777. STREETER, AMERICANA BEGINNINGS 52. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 31924. HILL 1017. $19,500.

100. Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark: HISTORY OF THE EXPE- DITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF LEWIS AND CLARK...A NEW EDITION, FAITHFULLY REPRINTED...WITH COPIOUS CRITICAL COMMENTARY...BY ELLIOT COUES. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1893. Three text volumes plus atlas, totaling 1364pp. Facsimiles, plates, and maps (some folding). Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Light shelf wear. Some inner hinges repaired. Two pages in third volume with offsetting from a laid-in newspaper clipping, otherwise quite clean internally. A very attractive set.

One of 800 sets on “fine book paper” from an edition limited to 1000 sets. The first “modern” edited scholarly edition of the Lewis and Clark account and manuscripts, reprinting the official text of 1814, but with extensive notes by Elliot Coues based on his examination of the surviving manuscripts and maps of the expedition. This was also the first of a series of landmark publications by Harper on western exploration, and the first editing project of the prolific Coues. “[Coues’] edition of 1893 ranks second in importance only to the original journals. His lengthy annotations, based on first-hand knowledge of the territory, are highly informative, and his bibliographical essay is a major contribution” – Wagner-Camp. A landmark work in the history of western historiography, ushering in modern scholarship the same year as the Turner thesis. HOWES L317. GRAFF 2484. WAGNER-CAMP 13:7 (note). LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 5b.2. $4250.

101. Lockwood, R.A.: THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE OF SAN FRANCISCO. METCALF vs. ARGENTI et al. SPEECHES OF R.A. LOCKWOOD, ESQ. San Francisco. 1852. 48pp. Modern three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Slight shelf wear. Bookplate on front pastedown. A bit of foxing, light stain in gutter of titlepage. Very good.

An important event in the history of the first Vigilance Committee. Rufus Lock- wood was Metcalf ’s lawyer in this bizarre case. Metcalf, a drayman, was accused of stealing goods he was transporting. In the middle of the night, Argenti and a Vigilance Committee group came to Metcalf ’s house and violently searched it for “stolen items,” material actually in a warehouse in transit. Metcalf sued Argenti and his band for damages. The verdict of the case was $200 in compensation for Metcalf, significantly less than the $20,000 he requested. “These speeches of Lockwood are required reading for anyone wishing to understand the dark and cruel side of the activities of the Vigilance Committee” – Streeter. SABIN 41752. COHEN 12019. GREENWOOD, CALIFORNIA IMPRINTS 333. STREETER SALE 2713. COWAN p.394. GRAFF 2521. HOWES L420. $2500.

Key Documents of the Louisiana Purchase and Early Louisiana

102. [Louisiana]: COLLECTION CONTAINING THE DECLARA- TION OF INDEPENDENCE, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITS AMENDMENTS, THE TREATY OF CESSION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.... [bound with:] RECUEIL DANS LEQUEL SONT CONTENUS LA CONSTITUTION DES ETATS-UNIS AVEC SES AMENDEMENTS; LE TRAITE PAR LEQUEL LA LOUISIANE A ETRE CEDEE AUX ET AS-UNIS.... New Or- leans: Printed by Thierry & Dacqueny. 1810. Two volumes bound in one. [2],ii,8,[2],[9]-72,75-122; [2],ii,7,118pp. Expertly bound to style in half calf and period marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco label. Light toning, light foxing. Some words effaced in the subtitle of the first titlepage. Very good.

A foundation collection of early Louisiana treaties, constitutions, and related legislative works. This vitally important collection contains the first Louisiana printing of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, the act of Congress enabling the Purchase, the act dividing the Purchase into two separate territories (Orleans in the south, Louisiana in the north), a printing of the Northwest Ordinance, the act establishing Mississippi Territory (then what is now Alabama and Mississippi), and several ordinances of W.C.C. Claiborne as the first American governor of Louisiana. The second work is the French translation of the first work. Rare, with only nine copies of the first work and four copies of the French translation in OCLC. JUMONVILLE 204, 205. McMURTRIE (NEW ORLEANS) 158, 159. FAVROT, p.11, 56. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 19798, 21179. FOOTE, p.6. OCLC 9668537, 28995394, 166601942. $12,500.

103. [Louisiana Constitution]: CONSTITUTION OR FORM OF GOV- ERNMENT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. [bound with:] [CON- STITUTION OU FORME DE GOUVERNEMENT DE L’ETAT DE LA LOUISIANE]. New Orleans. 1812. 32,30pp. Expertly bound to style in half calf and period marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco label. Contemporary ink notations and ink burn on titlepage, second work without separate titlepage. Minor toning and foxing. Else very good.

A vital work in the history of Louisiana, with the very first printing of the state’s constitution. “The enabling act providing for calling a convention to frame a constitution for Louisiana was passed February 20, 1811, and this, the first constitution of Louisiana, was adopted on January 22, 1812. It is very rare” – Streeter. “Under this Constitution was admitted to the Union the first State to be carved out of the Louisiana Purchase with boundaries beginning at the mouth of the River Sabine and following largely those laid down for the Territory of Orleans east and west of the Mississippi, as adopted by ‘the Representatives of the People of all that part of the Territory or country ceded under the name of the People of all that part of the Territory or country ceded under the name of Louisiana, by the Treaty made at Paris, on the 30th day of April 1803, between the United States and France.’ The convention which met at New Orleans to draft this historic document concluded its labors January 22, 1812. Under its terms Louisiana was admitted to statehood April 30, 1812, doubtless something of a record” – Eberstadt. Both works were printed in New Orleans, the first by Joseph Bartholomew Baird. The second work, printed by Jean Baptiste Simon Thierry, is the French translation of the first. An important and quite rare collection of the founding constitution of the state of Louisiana. JUMONVILLE 223, 224. STREETER SALE 1592. EBERSTADT 166:64. FOOTE, p.49. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 25882, 25883. $12,500.

104. Mackenzie, Alexander: VOYAGES FROM MONTREAL ON THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE, THROUGH THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA, TO THE FROZEN AND PACIFIC OCEANS; IN THE YEARS 1789 AND 1793. WITH A PRELIMINARY AC- COUNT OF THE FUR TRADE OF THAT COUNTRY. London. 1801. viii,cxxxii,412,[2]pp. plus three folding maps. Pages 249-256 misbound, after page 152. Half title not present. Errata leaf at rear. Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece of Mackenzie by P. Condé after Thomas Lawrence. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Boards lightly scuffed and soiled. Scattered foxing and toning. Very good.

Alexander Mackenzie was “the first white man to cross the continent and his journal...is of surpassing interest” (Wagner- Camp). The present work is the first published account of the two exploring expeditions that Mackenzie made on be- half of the North West Company as part of their attempt to break the Hudson’s Bay Company’s stranglehold on the fur trade. The author was born in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland in 1764, in North America in 1774, employed as a clerk in the fur trade in 1779, and by 1787 he was a wintering partner in the North West Company, posted at Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca. Mackenzie set out on his first expedition on June 3, 1789, armed with information and maps provided by fur trader Peter Pond. He had decided to follow a large river flowing west from Great Slave Lake in search of a northwest passage to the Pacific. The expedition was partially successful: on July 13, Mackenzie and his party reached salt water, but it proved to be the Beaufort Sea rather than the Pacific Ocean. After a further two years in the fur trade in Canada, Mackenzie returned to England in the autumn of 1791 to study navigation and astronomy, as the first expedition had demonstrated to him that he needed more expertise in these areas. He returned to Canada in the spring of 1792 and made his way west to the newly- built Fort Fork, near the junction of the Peace and Smoky Rivers. In May 1793, having spent the winter making preparations, Mackenzie left on what was to be his greatest journey. After a difficult passage by canoe and on foot through the Rockies, he and his party arrived at the Pacific near Bella Coola, British Columbia on July 22, 1793. He returned to Grand Portage in 1794 and subsequently to Montreal, where he acted as an agent for the North West Company until 1799, when he retired to England. His great achievement did not receive the wide acknowledgment it deserved until the present work was published, and his subsequent and equally important proposals drawing attention to the importance of the Pacific coast. In 1802, Mackenzie was knighted by George III and went on to serve as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1804 to 1808. HOWES M133, “b.” WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 251. GRAFF 2630. HILL 1063. LANDE 1317. PEEL 25. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2384. SABIN 43414. WAGNER- CAMP 1:1. STREETER SALE 3653. DNB III, pp.1356-57. $7500.

105. [Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society]: [COLLECTION OF PAMPHLET PUBLICATIONS OF THE MANITOBA HISTORI- CAL AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY, RELATING TO THE RED RIVER SETTLEMENT, 1882 – 1930]. Winnipeg. 1882-1930. Thirty- four pamphlets. Original printed wrappers. A few rear wrappers lacking, some chipping to a few wrappers. Ownership signatures on some front wrappers. Overall, very good. In a tan cloth chemise and slipcase, leather label.

An excellent collection of Canadian pamphlets relating to the Red River settlement in present-day Manitoba, all published by the Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society. Some issues likely belonged to a colleague, or perhaps a relative of Charles Napier Bell, as the ownership signature of Robert Bell appears on two pamphlets, and Charles Napier Bell has inscribed two of his own publications. The imprints included here are as follows:

1) McArthur, Alexander: The Causes of the Rising in the Red River Settlement, 1869- 70. Publication No. 1. [Winnipeg. 1882]. 2) Rae, John: The Arctic Regions and Hudson’s Bay Route. Publication No. 2. [Win- nipeg. 1882]. DECKER 46:54. 3) Bryce, George: Notes and Comments on Harmon’s Journal, 1800-1820. Transaction No. 3. Winnipeg. 1883. 4) Burman, W.A.: The Sioux Language. Publication No. 5. Winnipeg. [1883]. 5) Dennis, William: The Sources of North-Western History. Transaction No. 6. [Win- nipeg. 1883]. 6) Bryce, George: In Memoriam. Late A.K. Isbister, M.A., L.L.B. Honorary Member. Transaction No. 2 [i.e. 8]. Winnipeg. 1883. 7) Bryce, George: The Old Settlers of Red River. Transaction 19. Winnipeg. 1885. 8) Panton, J. Hoyes: Notes on the Geology of Some Islands in Lake Winnipeg. Transac- tion No. 20. Winnipeg. 1886. 9) Bryce, George: The Souris Country. Its Monuments, Mounds, Forts and Rivers. Transaction 24. Winnipeg. 1887. 10) McArthur, Alexander: Our Winter Birds. Transaction No. 25. Winnipeg. 1887. 11) McCharles, Angus: The Foot-Steps of Time in the Red River Valley, with Special Reference to the Salt Springs and Flowing Wells to Be Found in It. Transaction No. 27. Winnipeg. 1887. 12) Bell, Charles Napier: Some Red River Settlement History. Transaction No. 29. Winnipeg. 1887. 13) Bryce, George: Sketch of the Life of John Tanner, a Famous Manitoba Scout. A Border Type. Winnipeg. 1888. 14) Bell, Charles Napier: Henry’s Journal, Covering Adventures and Experiences in the Fur Trade on the Red River, 1799-1801. Transaction No. 31. Winnipeg. 1888. 15) Bell, Charles Napier: Continuation of Henry’s Journal, Covering Adventures and Experiences in the Fur Trade on the Red River, 1799-1801. Winnipeg. 1889. 16) Macbeth, John: Social Customs and Amusements of the Early Days in Red River Settlement and Rupert’s Land. Transaction 44. Winnipeg. 1893. 17) Schultz, John: The Old Crow Wing Trail. Transaction No. 45. Winnipeg. 1894. 18) Bryce, George: Early Days in Winnipeg. Transaction No. 46. Winnipeg. 1894. 19) Schultz, John: A Forgotten Northern Fortress. Transaction No. 47. Winnipeg. 1894. 20) Bryce, George: Worthies of Old Red River. Transaction No. 48. Winnipeg. 1896. 21) Bryce, George: The Lake of the Woods. Its History, Geology, Mining and Manufac- turing. Transaction No. 47 [i.e. 49]. Winnipeg. 1897. 22) MacBeth, R.G.: Farm Life in the Selkirk Colony. Transaction No. 48 [i.e. 50]. Winnipeg. 1897. 23) Bryce, George: Sketch of the Life and Discoveries of Robert Campbell. Transaction No. 52. Winnipeg. 1898. 24) Fonseca, W.G.: On the St. Paul Trail in the Sixties. Transaction No. 56. Win- nipeg. 1900. 25) Bryce, Mrs. George: Early Red River Culture. Transaction No. 57. Winnipeg. 1901. 26) McLean, W.J.: Notes and Observations of Travels on the Athabasca and Slave Lake Regions in 1899. Transaction No. 58. Winnipeg. 1901. 27) Ross, Alexander: Letters of a Pioneer. Edited by George Bryce. Transaction No. 63. Winnipeg. 1903. 28) Bryce, George: Treasures of Our Library. Transaction No. 64. Winnipeg. 1904. 29) Turner, J.P.: The Moose and Wapiti of Manitoba. A Plea for Their Preservation. Transaction No. 69. Winnipeg. 1906. 30) Bell, Charles Napier: The Earliest Fur Traders on the Upper Red River and Red Lake, Minn. (1793-1810). Transaction No. 1 (New Series). Winnipeg. 1926. 31) Bell, Charles Napier: A Prehistoric Copper Hook. Transaction No. 2 (New Series). Winnipeg. 1927. 32) Bell, Charles Napier: The Old Forts of Winnipeg (1738-1927). Transaction No. 3 (New Series). Winnipeg. 1927. 33) Bell, Charles Napier: The Journal of Henry Kelsey (1691-1692). Transaction No. 4 (New Series). Winnipeg. 1928. 34) Stewart, David A.: Early Assiniboine Trading Posts of the Souris-Mouth Group 1785-1832. Transaction No. 5 (New Series). [Winnipeg]. 1930.

A rich source of information on the Red River settlement in modern-day Manitoba, and an excellent collection of Canadiana. $2500.

Details of the French Negotiations, 1803

106. [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 three-quarter 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. A Monument of the Age of Jackson

107. McKenney, Thomas L., and James Hall: HISTORY OF THE IN- DIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND ANECDOTES OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEFS. EMBELLISHED WITH ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY POR- TRAITS, FROM THE INDIAN GALLERY IN THE DEPART- MENT OF WAR, AT WASHINGTON. Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle (vol. I), Frederick Greenough (vol. II), and Daniel Rice and James G. Clark (vol. III), 1837/1838/1844. Three volumes. 120 handcolored lithographic plates after Karl Bodmer, Charles Bird King, James Otto Lewis, P. Rindisbacher, and R.M. Sully; drawn on stone by A. Newsam, A. Hoffy, Ralph Trembley, Henry Dacre, and others; printed and colored by J.T. Bowen and others. Volume III with two lithographic maps and one table printed on recto of one leaf, 17pp. of lithographic facsimile signatures of the original subscribers. Extra- illustrated with an additional plate prepared for McKenney and Hall’s work but not included in the final publication, captioned “J-Aw-Beance / A Chip- peway Chief,” lithographed by Lehman and Duval after King and published by Biddle. Folio. Expertly bound to style in dark purple morocco and period cloth, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers. Very good.

First edition of “one of the most costly and important [works] ever published on the American Indians” (Field), “a landmark in American culture” (Horan), and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life, including some of the greatest American handcolored lithographs of the 19th century. This set is extra- illustrated with a very rare additional plate, prepared for the publication but not included in the final published work. After six years as superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the western tribes. He had observed unscru- pulous individuals taking advantage of the American Indians for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chip- pewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827 he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee, and Winnebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with American Indian tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1839, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years he was joined by James Hall, the Illinois journalist, lawyer, state treasurer, and, from 1833, Cincinnati banker, who had written extensively about the West. Both authors, not unlike George Catlin, whom they tried to enlist in their publishing enterprise, saw their book as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. The text, which was written by Hall based on information supplied by McKenney, takes the form of a series of biographies of leading figures amongst the Indian nations, followed by a general history of the North American Indians. The work is now famous for its color plate portraits of the chiefs, warriors, and squaws of the various tribes, faithful copies of original oils by Charles Bird King painted from life in his studio in Washington (McKen- ney commissioned him to record the visiting Indian delegates) or worked up by King from the watercolors of the young frontier artist, James Otto Lewis. All but four of the original paintings were destroyed in the disastrous Smithsonian fire of 1865, so their appearance in this work preserves what is probably the best likeness of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the early 19th century. Among King’s sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola. This was the most elaborate plate book produced in the United States to date, and its publishing history is extremely complex. The titlepages give an indication of issue and are relatively simple: volume I, first issue is by Edward C. Biddle and is dated 1836 or more usually 1837; the second issue is by Frederick W. Greenough, dated 1838; and the third issue is by Daniel Rice & James G. Clark, dated 1842. Volume II, first issue is by Frederick W. Greenough and dated 1838, and the second issue by Rice & Clark and dated 1842. Volume III, first issue is by Daniel Rice & James G. Clark and dated 1844. BAL 6934. HOWES M129, “b.” SABIN 43410a. BENNETT, p.79. FIELD 992. LIP- PERHEIDE Mc4. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 24. SER- VIES 2150. $130,000.

108. [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. Folio. Dampstain in lower right corner, light fold lines. Clean. Endorsed in manuscript at end. 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 decree of April 6, 1830 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. 109. [Minnesota]: [Campbell & Davison, publishers]: ST. PAUL CITY DIRECTORY FOR 1874. COMPRISING A COMPLETE LIST OF THE CITIZENS OF ST. PAUL, WITH PLACE OF BUSINESS AND RESIDENCE...ALSO A COMPLETE CLASSIFIED BUSI- NESS DIRECTORY. St. Paul: St. Paul Press Co., 1874. [1],477,[3]pp. including front and rear covers and pastedowns. Original half green cloth and printed paper boards, spine gilt. Boards edgeworn, rubbed and soiled. Quite clean internally. Very good overall.

A lengthy directory for this growing and important city which, with Minneapolis, is the first major city near the headwaters of the Mississippi River. The publishers note that in the past year alone the population of St. Paul had increased twenty percent. Furthermore, “soon after the issuance of the previous Directory the City was re-numbered, which, to a great extent, destroyed its usefulness as a Guide.” Indeed, more than twenty pages are devoted to a “street and avenue guide.” There are a number of advertisements for local businesses, including an advertisement on the verso of the titlepage for the Northern Pacific Railroad, “now completed to Bismarck, Dakota Territory.” $750.

Views in Montana

110. [Montana]: [Weitfle, Charles]: VIEWS OF GRANITE, PHILIPS- BURG AND VICINITY [cover title]. Granite, Mt.: Published by Chas. Weitfle, [ca. 1891]. Numerous albertype illustrations on 16 accordion-style pages. 16mo. Original red paper boards, stamped in blind and gilt. A bit of edge wear and rubbing to the boards, else fine.

A volume of interesting views of these mining towns in western Montana, just west of Helena and not far from the Anaconda copper mine. Granite, which thrived in the 1890s as a silver mining center, is now a ghost town, although Philipsburg still exists, with a population of 820 in the 2010 census. Though undated, this volume was likely produced during the area’s silver mining heyday and features views of the towns of Granite and Philipsburg. Also included are views of a number of mines (with their names given), mining company offices, mining equipment, and miners themselves. There are also views of local schools, churches, hotels, homes, residences, shops, and a fishing scene. There is also an interesting view of Main Street in Granite on June 9, 1891, showing the street flooded with rushing water. Charles Weitfle, a German immigrant, was a Union photographer during the Civil War and is best known as a producer of stereoviews. He was based in Colorado in the 1870s and 1880s, until a Denver fire consumed his studio in 1883. He eventually moved to Cheyenne, and then to Granite County, Montana. $750. Beautiful Moran Chromolithograph of the Grand Canyon

111. Moran, Thomas: GRAND CANYON OF ARIZONA FROM HER- MIT RIM ROAD. New York. 1912. Elephant folio chromolithograph print, 34¼ x 25 inches, plus margins. In fine condition.

This majestic print is the largest and most dramatic of Thomas Moran’s printed works. It was published by the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad in 1912, after the original oil commissioned for (and still owned by) the line. It shows a tremendous sweep of the scenery of the Grand Canyon from Hermit Rim, with the bright colors of the Canyon shown dramatically against the turbulent sky. Thomas Moran, famous for his superb landscapes of the West, first painted the Grand Canyon in 1873 when he created his “Chasm of the Colorado,” which he sold to Congress the following year. In 1892 he visited the Canyon as a guest of the Santa Fe Railroad, whose line now brought tourists within easy reach, and painted a large canvas for the line in return for a free trip. The Santa Fe Railroad completed a spur line to the rim in 1901, and consistently sponsored “artist’s excur- sions” there from 1901 to 1912, as well as purchasing paintings to serve as a basis for promotional efforts. In 1912 the railroad capped twenty years of association with Moran by commissioning this picture and producing this large chromolithograph. Almost all copies of this Moran print were soon distributed by the Santa Fe Railroad as a promotional gift. Few of these have survived, generally being badly framed, usually without glass, and displayed in poor conditions. A small number remained in the archives of the railroad, and so have retained their untrimmed and pristine state. The present copy is one of these, a fine copy of Moran’s most striking printed image. Nancy K. Anderson, ed., Thomas Moran, pp.301, 320 (detail). $6500.

First Announcement of the Mormons Going to the Rockies

112. [Mormons]: A CIRCULAR OF THE HIGH COUNCIL. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS, AND TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Nau- voo, Il. Jan. 20, 1846. Folio broadside. Printed in three columns, with deco- rative floral border. Slight wrinkling near the bottom edge, otherwise fine.

In this broadside the Church announces that in the Spring they will send a company of pioneers to the Rocky Mountains to open the way for Mormon settlement. The intense anti-Mormon persecution in Hancock County, Illinois led to this decision. This broadside was probably intended to assuage the anti-Mormon sentiments against the citizens of Nauvoo, but the Saints were forced to evacuate Nauvoo by the end of January, during the coldest winter months. As famed western historian Howard Lamar noted:

Young now set out to accomplish in a wilderness what Smith had failed to do in settled America – establish a permanent sanctuary and kingdom for the Saints....Thousands of Mormons followed Young in 1846 on the Mormon Trail to a temporary shelter at Winter Quarters (near Omaha, Nebraska), from which he led the first wagon company to Salt Lake City in July 1847.

Records indicate only two copies at auction in the last fifty years. This broadside was not in the Streeter sale of Americana. Not in Byrd’s Illinois Imprints. SCALLAWAGIANA 100, 31. FLAKE 1338. CRAWLEY, DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOG- RAPHY 296. New Encyclopedia of the American West (1998), p.624. $20,000.

The Mormons Weather the Civil War

113. [Mormons]: CIRCULAR. TO THE CITIZENS OF UTAH: THE MANNER IN WHICH WE CAME TO THESE VALLEYS, BRING- ING WHAT SEEDS...AND PROVISIONS WE COULD FOR OUR SUBSISTENCE UNTIL WE SHOULD BE BLESSED WITH A HARVEST.... [Salt Lake City. 1864]. Broadside, 12¾ x 7½ inches. Manu- script notation in ink at bottom: “GSL City July 5, 1864.” Stub of original blank continuation leaf for subscribers still affixed at bottom. Very good. In a modern cloth folder, leather label.

First edition, first issue, with the place and date in manuscript. This was originally issued with a blank continuation leaf intended for circulation to subscribers. The Yale copy has the stub (visible in the facsimile Yale issued in 1985), as do all other copies known to us. An attempt to guard the Mormon community against the ravages of a free market economy likely to produce severe fluctuations in demand and money supply as a result of gold discoveries and intensified western migration. According to the text accompanying the Yale facsimile edition:

The broadside printed here was probably stimulated by mineral discoveries in Montana in 1864. In its simultaneous calls for Mormons to accept only gold when trading with miners and to preserve sufficient stores of grain for their neighbors’ needs as well as their own, the proclamation reveals the mixture of shrewd business sense and social idealism characteristic of the early Mormons.... Chief among their policies was the development of an insular, self-sufficient economy which would protect the well-being of the Mormon community from the distractions of materialistic national markets.

The convention, attended by “one del- egate from each precinct of our grain raising regions” was to be held “in the Tabernacle in Great Salt Lake City, on the second Monday in August next.” As an additional measure taken to maintain a price level consistent with the needs of the community, the covenant concludes with a vow “that we will mutu- ally sustain each other...by those who are able...buying at the aforementioned price from those who may not be able to hold on against lower offers.” Similarly, the circular stipulates: “previous to selling any grain, we will reserve at least a year’s supply for ourselves.” Rare, with only five copies located in OCLC, at Yale, BYU, Princeton, Uni- versity of Utah, and Utah State. There are also copies at the Bancroft Library and the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University. Not in Eberstadt or Scallawagiana. We are aware of only one trade sale, from a Michael Heaston catalogue in 1988 for $850. Accompa- nied by the Yale University facsimile edition, published for the Friends of the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Christmas 1985. FLAKE 2374a. OCLC 6590739. $4750.

With Excellent Maps

114. Mullan, John, Capt.: REPORT ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MILITARY ROAD FROM FORT WALLA-WALLA TO FORT BENTON. Washington. 1863. [2],363pp. plus four folding maps, ten tinted lithographic plates, and errata. Original cloth, expertly rebacked with original spine laid down. Cloth faded on spine and edges. Faint tideline. About very good.

The most complete account of Mullan’s reconnaissance from March 1858 to Sep- tember 1862, followed by the reports of the engineer and others. The plates, drawn by C. Sohon and lithographed by Bowen & Co., depict the Great Falls of the Mis- souri, Pend d’Oreille Mission, Paloose Falls, Flathead Indians, etc. The maps are far and away the best of the area to that time, and Wheat devotes some ten pages to a discussion of them. WAGNER-CAMP 393. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 1077 through 1080. SABIN 1275. TWENEY 89, 56. GRAFF 2932. HOWES M884, “aa.” STREETER SALE 2103. $750.

A Gold Rush Rarity

115. Müller, J.: DAS GOLDLAND CALIFORNIEN, ODER: BLEIB’ IM LANDE UND ARBEITE FLEISIG.... Leitmeritz: C.W. Medau, 1850. 84pp. with six engraved scenes on three plates. Original yellow printed paper-covered boards. Minor edge wear. Light toning and foxing to text. Near fine. In a brown half morocco clamshell case.

A very early account of life in California gold country. “After a brief overview of America, Müller began California Land of Gold or Stay at Home and Work Hard with a business-like look at California history, the gold discovery, mining life, equipment, weather conditions, and routes to California. The second portion is the pitiful story of Friedrich Berwick, a master joiner from Germany, and his unfortunate experiences as a gold seeker...” – Kurutz. The illustrations also make a strong case for staying at home, including a family encounter- ing a coffin-maker, besieged in bed by rats, stumbling through a jungle, and watching a house burn. A truly rare work, with no copies in OCLC. Not listed in Graff or Wagner-Camp. “An apparently unknown Gold Rush narrative. Not in Cowan, Wheat, Sabin, and no copy in auction records; we have never seen another copy” – Eberstadt. HOWES M876, “aa.” KURUTZ 456a. EBERSTADT 131:134. $7500.

Important Run of New Mexico Laws, with the Second Edition of the Kearny Code

116. [New Mexico]: [CONSECUTIVE RUN OF THE PRINTINGS OF THE FIRST THROUGH SEVENTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEM- BLIES OF THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO]. Santa Fe. 1852- 1858. Seven volumes. Early 20th-century cloth, leather labels. Some wear to labels. Institutional ink and blind stamps on titles. Very good.

Early and significant New Mexico imprints, containing legislation passed in the formative years of the Territory, including first laws following its organization and the first reprinting of the Kearny Code. The individual titles are as follows:

1) [First Assembly]: Laws of the Territory of New Mexico, Passed by the First Legisla- tive Assembly in the City of Santa Fe, (at a Session Begun and Held on the Second Day of June, A.D. 1851;) to Which are Prefixed the Constitution of the United States, and the Act of Congress Organizing New Mexico as a Territory. Santa Fe: James L. Collins, 1852. 442,[1]pp. Errata on terminal leaf. This printing of the first laws of the Territory of New Mexico following its organization includes the first reprinting of the Kearny Code. That code, written by Col. Doniphan during the U.S. occupation of the region during the Mexican-American War and printed in Santa Fe in 1846, would be the first American code of laws locally printed in the Far West. The Territory of New Mexico would be ceded to the U.S. as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, and the territory was officially organized in November 1850. The first session of the first legislative Assembly of the Territory met in Santa Fe on Dec. 1, 1851, with the first act establishing the Office of the Translator. With text in English and Spanish throughout, in addition to a reprinting of the Kearny Code this volume includes a printing of the organic law creating the territory, the acts passed by the first and second sessions of the first legislature, a printing of the U.S. Constitution (in Spanish only, as issued), a list of the members of the Assembly, and an index to all the laws. As expected, the acts passed by the first legislative assembly include the foundation acts concerning the establishment of courts, elections, territorial militia, revenue, county boundaries, public lands, negotiations with Indian tribes, and much more. According to an act passed at the first session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory (approved July 18, 1851, see p.181), 500 copies of the laws were ordered to be printed. This foundation work on the establishment of the Territory, printed in the Territory, is very rare. CHECK LIST OF NEW MEXICO IMPRINTS AND PUBLICATIONS 1784-1876, 65. McMURTRIE (NEW MEXICO) 39. SABIN 53281. 2) [Second Assembly]: Laws of the Territory of New Mexico, Passed by the Second Legis- lative Assembly in the City of Santa Fe. Santa Fe: James L. Collins, 1853. 3-160pp. Dampstaining. Terminal leaf defective with some loss, but with photographic facsimiles bound in. CHECK LIST OF NEW MEXICO IMPRINTS AND PUBLICA- TIONS 1784-1876, 73. McMURTRIE (NEW MEXICO) 49. 3) [Third Assembly]: Laws of the Territory of New Mexico, Passed by the Third Leg- islative Assembly in the City of Santa Fe. Santa Fe: J. L. Collins, 1854. 3-219pp. CHECK LIST OF NEW MEXICO IMPRINTS AND PUBLICATIONS 1784-1876, 78. McMURTRIE (NEW MEXICO) 53. 4) [Fourth Assembly]: Laws of the Territory of New Mexico, Passed by the Fifth [i.e. Fourth, error in numbering of sessions] Legislative Assembly in the City Of Santa Fe. Santa Fe: Santa Fe Gazette Office, 1855. 3-147pp. CHECK LIST OF NEW MEXICO IMPRINTS AND PUBLICATIONS 1784-1876, 93. McMURTRIE (NEW MEXICO) 56. 5) [Fifth Assembly]: Laws of the Territory of New Mexico Passed by the Legislative Assembly. 1855-56. Santa Fe: Santa Fe Weekly Gazette Office, 1856. 3-176pp. CHECK LIST OF NEW MEXICO IMPRINTS AND PUBLICATIONS 1784-1876, 103. McMURTRIE (NEW MEXICO) 103. 6) [Sixth Assembly]: Laws of the Territory of New Mexico Passed by the Legislative As- sembly. 1856-57. Santa Fe: Office of the Democrat, 1857. 3-112pp. CHECK LIST OF NEW MEXICO IMPRINTS AND PUBLICATIONS 1784-1876, 110. McMURTRIE (NEW MEXICO) 110. 7) [Seventh Assembly]: Laws of the Territory of New Mexico Passed by the Legislative Assembly. 1857-58. Santa Fe: Santa Fe Weekly Gazette Office, 1858. 3-96pp. Titles trimmed at foredge. CHECK LIST OF NEW MEXICO IMPRINTS AND PUB- LICATIONS 1784-1876, 121. McMURTRIE (NEW MEXICO) 121.

The acts passed in these years (between 1852 and 1858) cover a variety of subjects, from laws regarding individual rights to others establishing counties, courts, elections, and criminal codes, to particular prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons “within the settlements,” laws on vagrancy, gambling, prostitution, selling liquor to Indians, and much more. Other acts deal with the incorporation of mining companies and establishing mail routes. Early and significant New Mexico imprints, containing legislation passed in the formative years of the Territory. $8500.

With the Important Map

117. Nicollet, I.N.: REPORT INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE A MAP OF THE HYDROGRAPHICAL BASIN OF THE UPPER MIS- SISSIPPI RIVER.... Washington. 1843. 170pp. plus large folding map. Contemporary calf, red and black gilt morocco labels. Boards rubbed, spine a bit darkened. Small ink ownership stamp on front free endpaper. Three-inch closed tear in the map where bound in, with no loss; small bit of loss at cross- fold in Lake Superior. Clean internally. Very good overall.

Nicollet accompanied Fremont’s 1839 expedition to the upper Missouri River. 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. The map, “Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River From Astronomical and Barometrical Observations Surveys and Information...,” is the first detailed modern depiction of the Great Lakes region and the primary source for the area at that time. 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. HOLLIDAY SALE 820. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE VI:403. $1500. 118. [Oklahoma]: R.L. POLK & CO.’S LAWTON CITY DIRECTO- RY 1907 – 1908. EMBRACING A COMPLETE ALPHABETI- CAL LIST OF BUSINESS FIRMS AND PRIVATE CITIZENS; A MISCELLANEOUS DIRECTORY OF CITY AND COUNTY OFFICIALS, CHURCHES, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS, BANKS, ASYLUMS.... Sioux City [et al]: R.L. Polk & Co., 1907. 245pp. plus four leaves of advertisements bound in the text. Original red backstrip over green cloth. Spine ends frayed, boards mildly soiled. Hinges tender, first four leaves detached, paper a bit brittle. Else good.

The second edition. The publisher is very proud of this effort, according to the introduction, and claims the directory will be “used by all classes and conditions of people in every locality in the city and by every stranger that comes within the city limits every day of the year.” This edition still does not list women of Lawton, but accounts for them in the population by multiplying the 3,660 names by “2½, to represent married women and children.” A rare early directory from Oklahoma. $900.

119. [Osage Laws]: Fitzpatrick, W.S.: TREATIES AND LAWS OF THE OSAGE NATION, AS PASSED TO NOVEMBER 26, 1890. Cedar Vale, Ks. 1895. [21],103pp. Original front wrapper bound into half morocco and marbled boards, leather label. Gutter of front wrapper neatly repaired. Mild toning. Very good.

A scarce collection of treaties and laws compiled by W.S. Fitzpatrick, a member of the State Senate of Kansas, and later a successful oil man in Oklahoma. Printed are all treaties with the United States, the constitution of the tribe, and the revised criminal laws. Partially interleaved, as issued. HARGRETT, CONSTITUTIONS AND LAWS OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 208. GILCREASE-HARGRETT, p.313. OCLC 4272307. $1250.

First Map to Show the Grand Canyon with That Name

120. Palmer, William J.: REPORT OF SURVEYS ACROSS THE CON- TINENT IN 1867-’68, ON THE THIRTY-FIFTH AND THIR- TY-SECOND PARALLELS, FOR A ROUTE EXTENDING THE KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN AT SAN FRANCISCO AND SAN DIEGO. Philadelphia. 1869. 250pp. plus folding map and folding profile. Original front printed wrapper bound into modern dark brown calf, gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown. Text clean. Small tape repairs on map at gutter margin. Very good plus.

One of the most detailed western railway survey publications, accompanied by a large, important map of the West and profile of the route from Missouri to Cali- fornia. This work sets forth the ambitious expansion plans for the Kansas Pacific Railway. The Railway began to show interest in moving forward with its projected line through New Mexico and Arizona to the Pacific shortly after the its decision to follow the Smokey Hill Route across Kansas and into Denver. The folding map, depicting the proposed route of the Kansas Pacific Railway, is based on the famous Keeler map of 1867, but with a number of additions. It is the first map to show and name the Grand Canyon. The text includes detailed reports of the mineral and agricultural resources along the route in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. The folding profile, almost always lacking, shows the change in elevation along the entire route, from Missouri to California. It is riddled with important geographic details (passes, gaps, locations of rivers, etc.) as well as manmade landmarks such as sundry army forts and lines already constructed. In all, the profile offers a stunning visual summary of the challenging and dramatic variances in elevation with which the railroad’s engineers had to cope. “[Palmer’s] report is full of all sorts of information – geographic commentary, engineering detail, and comparative discussions of different routes, with attention to such larger matters as mineral resources, manufacturing resources, and sources of traffic” – Wheat. Palmer rescued James White on this expedition and provides White’s narrative, in his own words, of the remarkable overland expedition through the Colorado Canyon. This copy, like that of Graff, contains only one folding map. Howes asserts that some copies have three maps. Copies with the map and profile are extremely rare. A fundamental description of the American West. HOWES P54, “aa.” WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 1206. GRAFF 3177. SABIN 58383. FARQUHAR 24. $3250.

121. Parker, Nathan H.: THE KANSAS AND NEBRASKA HAND- BOOK, FOR 1857-8. Boston: John P. Jewett, 1857. 189pp. plus handcolored folding map. Original brown publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Head and foot of spine chipped, corners bumped and worn. Presentation inscription from the author on front fly leaf. Text faintly dampstained at edges. Nearly very good, the map very good.

A guide to Kansas and Nebraska, containing much useful information for the emigrant, including an attractive map by J.H. Colton. The author wrote several such guides for states in the area, including Minnesota and Iowa. In addition to the usual material found in emigrant guides, this includes a long chapter about the very recent dramatic events in Bleeding Kansas. The map extends as far west as Salt Lake City and as far north as the Canadian border. This copy has a presentation inscription from the author, as well as a lengthy note by him:

Mrs. A.M.M. Storm, from her friend the author. N.H. Parker / So far as this goes, it is correct, but it is of course a true statement of the present condition of that Territory. “Kansas” has since been admitted as a state, and both Nebraska Ty. and Kansas have improved very rapidly during the past 5 or 6 years. I know of no late, reliable work, however. N.H.P.

HOWES P84. SABIN 58722. $850.

A Classic of the Overland Trail

122. 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, expertly recased. Early ownership signatures and book label of E. Jackson, Jr. of Middletown, Connecticut. A good plus copy. In a half morocco and cloth box.

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. “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...” – Field. 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 1815. $2500.

The First Major History of the Greater Southwest

123. Perez de Ribas, Andres: HISTORIA DE LOS TRIUMPHOS DE NUESTRA SANTA FEE ENTRE GENTES LAS MAS BARBARAS, Y FIERAS DEL NUEVO ORBE: CONSEGUIDOS POR LOS SOL- DADOS DE LA MILICIA DE LA COMPAÑIA DE IESUS EN LAS MISSIONES DE LA PROVINCIA DE NUEVA-ESPAÑA. Madrid. 1645. [40],763,[1]pp. Folio. Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title, mar- ca del fuego. Hinges cracking, light soiling. Very small ink stamp on titlepage. Light foxing and tanning to text; some very slight worming, confined primarily to margins in rear of text block. A few ink notations and stains. Very good overall. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

A great rarity of the Spanish Southwest, and still the dominant history of the region and of Jesuit activities there from 1590 to 1644. The Historia... provides an unparalleled description of the upper part of Mexico and what is now the southwest region of the United States in the first half of the 17th century. Andres Perez de Ribas (1576- 1655) joined the Jesuit order in 1602 and arrived in Mexico in 1604 to proselytize among the native Indians. He was assigned to the area of northern Sinaloa, along the Pacific coast, and showed great ability from the start. Within a year he had bap- tized all the members of the Ahome nation, and a large part of the Suaqui tribe, together about 10,000 natives. In 1617 he was instrumental in the pacification and conversion of the Yaqui tribe. Perez de Ribas was recalled to Mexico City in 1620 to work in the college there, eventually becoming a provincial of the school. He returned to Rome in 1643, undertaking the present history, which he completed in 1644, and other histories still found only in manuscript. Perez de Ribas’ Historia is divided into twelve parts, cumulatively giving a history of Jesuit activities in Mexico and the American Southwest, as well as providing a social and cultural examination of Indian customs, manners, rites, and superstitions. The first part of the book gives a history of Sinaloa and its people before the arrival of the Spanish. Parts two to eleven describe the arrival of the Spanish and the Jesuits in upper Mexico and their activities among the several tribes, including the conversion of the Hiaqui tribe, the missions at Topia, San Andres, Parras, and Laguna Grande, as well as the conversion of the Tepeguanes and their subsequent rebellion. The final part discusses missionary activities in other parts of New Spain, including an account of the martyrdom of nine Jesuit missionaries in Florida in 1566. There is also some information on Baja California. “Obra de extremo interes acerca de las actividades de los jesuitas en Sinaloa, California y Florida” – Palau. Of Perez de Ribas’ Historia Bancroft writes:

It is a complete history of Jesuit work in Nueva Vizcaya, practically the only history the country had from 1590 to 1644, written not only by a contemporary author but by a prominent actor in the events narrated, who had access to all the voluminous correspondence of his order, comparatively few of which documents have been preserved. In short, Ribas wrote under the most favourable circumstances and made good use of his opportunities.

The history of Perez de Ribas is exceedingly rare on the market. In forty years of bookselling, this is the second copy we have handled. Very important and desirable. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 43. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 645/96. SABIN 60895, 70789. SERVIES 176. JCB (3)II:333. MEDINA (BHA) 1083. PALAU 222254. STREIT 1745. BARRETT 1984. BELL P169. HOWGEGO R35. $37,500.

First Government Exploration of the Southwest

124. Pike, Zebulon M.: AN ACCOUNT OF EXPEDITIONS TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSISSIPPI, AND THROUGH THE WEST- ERN PARTS OF LOUISIANA, TO THE SOURCES OF THE AR- KANSAW, KANS, LA PLATTE, AND PIERRE JAUN, RIVERS... DURING THE YEARS 1805, 1806, AND 1807. AND A TOUR THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF NEW SPAIN...IN THE YEAR 1807. Philadelphia: Printed by John Binns, published by C. & A. Conrad, & Co. of Philadelphia; Somervell & Conrad of Petersborough; Bon- sal, Conrad, & Co. of Norfolk; and Fielding Lucas Jr. of Baltimore, 1810. Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of Pike by Edwin, six engraved maps (five folding), three folding letterpress tables, all backed on linen at an early date. Expertly bound to style in period tree calf, spine gilt, original red morocco label. Very good.

The first edition of the report of the first United States government expedition to the Southwest, including an account of Pike’s exploration of the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers, the sources of the Mississippi River, and the Spanish settlements in New Mexico. Pike’s narrative stands with those of Lewis and Clark and Long as the most important early books on western exploration and a cornerstone of Western Americana. “In 1805, Pike was given the difficult assignment of conducting a reconnaissance of the upper Mississippi region. He was ordered to explore the headwaters of that river, to purchase sites from the Indians for further military posts, and to bring a few influential chiefs back to St. Louis for talks. The trip was only moderately successful as a mission to the tribes, but Pike was able to convey important geographical information to President Jefferson and other Washington officials. On Pike’s second expedition, 1806-1807, he was assigned to explore the head-waters of the Arkansas River, then proceed south and descend the Red River from its source....Pike and his men were taken into custody by a Spanish patrol, and Pike was able to observe many areas in New Mexico, Chihuahua, and Texas....His book created interest in the Southwest and stimulated the expansionist movement in Texas” – Hill. The maps were the first to exhibit a geographic knowledge of the Southwest based on firsthand exploration and are considered “milestones in the mapping of the American West” (Wheat). “The description of Texas is excellent” – Streeter Texas. HOWES P373, “b.” WAGNER-CAMP 9:1. STREETER SALE 3125. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 297, 298, 299. GRAFF 3290. FIELD 1217. STREETER TEXAS 1047C. HILL 1357. BRADFORD 4415. RITTENHOUSE 467. SABIN 62936. JONES 743. BRAISLIN 1474. $20,000. The Famed Map of the Oregon Trail

125. Preuss, Charles: TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE ROAD FROM MISSOURI TO OREGON COMMENCING AT THE MOUTH OF THE KANSAS IN THE MISSOURI RIVER, ENDING AT THE MOUTH OF THE WALLAH WALLAH IN THE COLUMBIA. IN VII SECTIONS. [Washington. 1849]. Seven folding maps. Dbd. Very mi- nor wear and foxing. Very good plus. In a blue cloth slipcase and chemise.

Second issue of the first map “to show the Oregon Trail accurately” (Rumsey). One of the greatest monuments to the cartography of the American West. This issue of the Preuss map appeared in the Rockwell report, which provided a comprehensive overview of the travel routes between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, overland as well as isthmian sea passages. Charles Preuss, born George Karl Ludwig Preuss in Höhscheid, Prussia in 1803, served as the cartographer on Fremont’s first and second expeditions and drew all of the maps which accompany Fremont’s reports. Preuss also produced the present masterful map of the Oregon Trail. It is drawn to a very detailed scale, ten miles to an inch, and in addition to providing accurate cartographical information about the whole of the 1,670-mile route between the Missouri and the Columbia rivers, the sheets combine to give a real feeling of the daily progress of the expedition (in 1842 and 1843, between June 10 and Oct, 26) by including indicators of where and when each overnight camp was set, where each noon-day halt was called, and the total distance from the starting point of Westport Landing. Longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates are also given, as are daily “Meteorological Observations” and “Remarks,” including notes on the availability of game, water, grazing, and the friendliness (or otherwise) of local Indian tribes. “More than any other persons, John Charles Fremont and Charles Preuss dominate the cartography of the American West during the three years before the gold rush.... Owing to its rarity and to its long having stood in the shadow of the more widely known and distributed Fremont-Preuss map of 1845, Preuss’ sectional map of 1846 has been insufficiently appreciated by students of Western history. In particular, those interested either in Fremont’s travels in 1842-43 or the revolution of the transcontinental wagon roads will find that the map rewards close study” – Wheat. First edition: WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 523. WAGNER-CAMP 115. STREETER SALE 3100. GRAFF 3360. RUMSEY 2773.001-.007. $6500.

126. [Radisson, Peter Esprit]: VOYAGES OF PETER ESPRIT RADIS- SON, BEING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS TRAVELS AND EXPERI- ENCES AMONG THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, FROM 1652 TO 1684.... Boston: Published by the Prince Society, 1885. vi,[2],385pp. plus original subscription form. [with:] Campbell, Henry Colin: RADIS- SON’S JOURNAL: ITS VALUE AND HISTORY. Madison: State His- torical Society of Wisconsin, 1895. [87]-116pp. Quarto. 20th-century polished calf, spine gilt. Mild shelf wear. Small ink ownership inscription on front pastedown. Minor toning to text. Very good.

The journals from Radisson’s travels, printed from the manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum. From an edition limited to 250 copies. Radisson and his brother-in-law, Des Groseilliers, spent more than ten years trading with the Indians of Canada and the Far West. The journals contains much information on the Iroquois, Hurons, and other tribes. “First printing of these famous journals. Radisson and the Groseilliers were the first Europeans to see the upper reaches of the Mississippi. They probably got to the Missouri” – Howes. The pamphlet by Campbell bound at the rear was taken from the Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin at Its Forty-Third Annual Meeting Held De- cember 12, 1895. The pamphlet contains a critical discussion of Radisson’s travels, but Campbell ultimately concludes that Radisson and Groseilliers are “two of the most daring explorers that have ever penetrated our North American wilderness. They were the first explorers of Lake Superior, of Northern Wisconsin, and of Northern Minnesota....Their names must ever remain inseparably connected with the history of Wisconsin, of the old Northwest, and of much more of the North American continent.” HOWES R6. LARNED 673. $750. Early Thoughts of an Empire Builder in Spanish America

127. Robinson, William D.: A CURSORY VIEW OF SPANISH AMERI- CA, PARTICULARLY THE NEIGHBOURING VICE-ROYALTIES OF MEXICO AND NEW-GRENADA, CHIEFLY INTENDED TO ELUCIDATE THE POLICY OF AN EARLY CONNECTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THOSE COUNTRIES. Georgetown: Richards and Mallory, 1815. 41pp. plus errata. Dbd. Stain and chip near foredge of titlepage, barely affecting title. Uniform light tanning. About very good. In a half morocco box.

An interesting early manifestation of the principles of the Monroe Doctrine. Rob- inson advocates quick action in foiling the joint designs of England and Spain on the new territory of Louisiana, citing evidence that the British have been supplying Indians with arms and munitions in Spanish-controlled Florida. He claims that, should Spain unite with England, the last vestiges of her independent colonial power will be forfeited, and that this forfeiture would clear the way for the United States to rid herself of any remaining European authority in the New World. An aggressive argument, born out of the crisis of the invasion of Louisiana by the Brit- ish at the close of the War of 1812. Robinson would later be involved in various conspiracies in Texas and northern Mexico, including the attempt of Xavier Mina to seize Texas. Not in Servies. SABIN 72200. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 35799. $3250. A Primary Work on the Fur Trade

128. 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,[1]; viii,262pp., plus folding map and lithographed frontispiece in each volume. Contemporary red calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Light shelf wear. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Internally clean. Very good plus.

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. A very pretty copy. 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.

129. Russell, Andrew J.: [ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A RAILROAD BRIDGE IN THE GREEN RIVER VALLEY, WITH CITADEL ROCK IN THE BACKGROUND, CAPTIONED ON VERSO:] No. 78. CITADEL ROCK. TEMPORARY & PERMANENT BRIDGES AT GREEN RIVER. [Wyoming Territory. 1868]. Albumen photograph, mounted on card at a period date, captioned in manuscript on verso. Image size: 8 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches. Sheet size: 13 3/4 x 17 inches. Image faded, some chipping at edges of the card mount, else very good. In a museum quality rag mat.

The dream of a transcontinental railroad stirred the imaginations of many Americans during the 19th century. It was not until 1862, when President Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act, that the first serious steps toward a transcontinental railroad project got underway. Soon thereafter the federally subsidized Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad companies took up the massive task of building the railroad, a project which shifted into high gear with the end of the Civil War. The Union Pacific was responsible for construction westward from Omaha, while the Central Pacific built the line east from San Francisco. By 1868 the Union Pacific had reached Wyoming and was pressing west rapidly. Andrew J. Russell was born in New Hampshire and grew up in New York. Origi- nally trained as a painter, he served as a photographer for Union military railroads during the Civil War. In 1868 the Union Pacific Railroad employed him to record its transcontinental progress in evocative images that documented both remarkable engineering efforts and equally impressive natural scenery. As the railroad made its way across Wyoming and into Utah, Russell made three trips along the line, one in 1868 and two in 1869, to photograph its progress, its bridges, locomotives, towns en route, awe-inspiring scenery, and ultimately the famed Golden Spike ceremony, when the Union and Central Pacific Railroads met at Promontory Point, Utah on May 10, 1869. The present image was photographed in Wyoming Territory’s Green River Val- ley in the winter of 1868. In the image a temporary wooden trestle bridge is seen along the right, with a locomotive on it; along the left runs a stone bridge under construction. A reduced version of this image appeared in Hayden’s Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery. The completion of the first transcontinental railroad, perhaps more than any other single event, enabled the settlement of the West, ushering in a new era in American history. $3750.

A Wonderful Journal of the 1849 Gold Rush, with a Detailed Description of Early Days in San Francisco

130. Savage, Josiah: [AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED AND ILLUSTRATED, BY JOSIAH SAVAGE, TITLED “INKLINGS OF A VOYAGE ‘ROUND THE HORN”]. [Various places including New York, Jamaica, Chile, Cape Horn, & San Francisco]. Jan. 16-July 31, 1849. 200pp. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter black calf and cloth, spine gilt. Some wear to boards and edges. An occasional bit of spotting, but mostly clean. Very good. In a marbled slipcase.

A phenomenal journal of a voyage around Cape Horn to California in 1849, illustrated by the author with pencil sketches of his ship and sights from his voyage, including drawings of “Valparaiso Girls” and depictions of horse riders in Chile and Valparaiso. This well-written journal begins with its young author departing New York on the Barque Croton (elegantly illustrated on a preliminary leaf ) in Janu- ary of 1849, an early participant in the California Gold Rush. On board Savage and the other young men traveling with him amuse themselves by writing letters, watching dolphins, catching Bonita, reading, getting fellow passengers drunk, and generally behaving as young men on an adventure do. Savage is a good writer and gives detailed descriptions and illustrations of his travels. In Chile he describes drinking mate with the natives (p.136):

The ladies of Valparaiso so far as our observation extended may be considered as a whole decidedly good looking not to say handsome. Their complexion is dark without any of the rosy tint so much admired in the Anglo Saxons. Their peculiar charms consist in their large black eyes & luxurious & pretty hair which they generally wear in two long plats as was the fashion a few years since among young girls in the U.S.....Many of them have bad teeth...it is thought by the free use of a peculiar drink called matte & is a concoction of some kind of herb & such & very hot water through a silver tube. I had an opportunity of taking it at the house of a fair Chilano where I was introduced by a young gentleman whose acquaintance I made in V. After first taking a suck at the liquid, she passed it to me & afterwards to the rest of the company & so it went round the room til the pot was dry – all sucking through the same tube!

Most “Round the Horn” journals end abruptly on arrival in California, but in this case Savage kept his writing for some time, and about 3,500 words are devoted to his impressions and experiences there. When the barque arrives in San Francisco on July 29, 1849, Savage complains about the climate and criticizes his fellow travelers: Many of the soft fingered gentry who have come out here with the idea that lumps of gold were to be had for the picking up have found themselves sadly mistaken. Gold is not to be got without hard labor unless a man has capital to start with in speculation. He notes: “there is an immense quantity of shipping in port more than a hundred sail English, French, Dutch, Peruvian, Chilano and Kanacka....” The journal closes as Savage and his partners plan to take the barque up the Sacramento River and sell their beef, pork, butter, dried apple, and other stores at a healthy profit. Savage is optimistic through it all: “All I can say about our prospects is that they are quite as good as I had expected. There is money to be made in one way or another and we are bound to make it.” The author is likely Josiah Savage (1824-49) of Middlesex County, Connecti- cut, an 1846 graduate of Yale who died in California in 1849. The San Francisco Public Library owns an undated typescript of this journal, but the original had not surfaced publicly until now. A fascinating and important firsthand historical account from an early participant in the California Gold Rush. $12,000.

His Rare First Book, Inscribed Twice

131. [Seton, Ernest Thompson]: Thompson, Ernest E.: A LIST OF THE MAMMALS OF MANITOBA...TRANSACTIONS OF THE MANITOBA SCIENTIFIC AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, No. 23, MAY, 1886. [Toronto. 1886]. [2],26pp. plus errata leaf. Illus. Original illustrated wrappers. Minor chipping and splitting to backstrip, short tear in rear wrapper. Early 20th-century bookplate on verso of front wrapper. Very good. In a cloth chemise and clamshell case, gilt leather label.

An extraordinary presentation copy of Seton’s exceedingly rare first published work, which predates his second book by a full decade. Only a few copies are known to exist of this highly desirable Seton rarity. Ernest Thompson Seton, born Ernest Thompson, emigrated to Canada as a child. After graduating from the Ontario College of Art he began his travels as a naturalist, settling in Manitoba in 1881. In 1892 he was appointed Naturalist to the Manitoba Government before moving to the United States to write and illustrate more than forty books of animal stories. This pamphlet consists mainly of Seton’s field notes, with six in-text illustrations by him, including the titlepage vignette of a mule, or jumping deer, repeated on the wrappers. The presentation inscriptions read, “Montagu Chamberlain Esq with the writer’s compliments” and “To J B McGee, this my first publication under the pseudonym “[Ernest E. Thompson]” cordially, E.T. Seton.” Included with the book is a 1945 letter from David Randall of Scribner’s offering this same copy to a customer in Washington, D.C. Randall writes that the pamphlet “must be of excessive rarity” as Jake Blanck (author of the Bibliography of American Literature) had never seen a copy, nor had two other rare book scouts come across one in all their years. This copy sold at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries for $1400 in 1977. PEEL 1640. $3750.

132. Sewall, J.S.: SECTIONAL MAP OF THE SURVEYED PORTION OF MINNESOTA AND THE NORTH WESTERN PART OF WIS- CONSIN. St. Paul: J.S. Sewall, [copyrighted 1857, but ca. 1867]. Fold- ing color map, 32¾ x 24½ inches. Folding into original 16mo. cloth covers, stamped in blind and gilt. Covers edgeworn, cloth faded. Minor separations at cross-folds. Very good.

The Thomas W. Streeter copy of a rare early map of Minnesota. Like other Min- nesota maps of this period, the present map is most valuable for showing nascent development along the northern shore of Lake Superior. Much of northern Min- nesota appears sparsely occupied. The coloring is restrained and quite lovely in this copy. “A beautiful map, showing the country in great detail” – Eberstadt. The map was engraved by C.A. Swett of Boston and published by Sewall in St. Paul. It was apparently available from agents for quite some time after its initial 1857 publication date; the front pastedown of this copy bears an advertisement for agents D.D. Merrill, Randall & Co., dated St. Paul July 1, 1867, noting that it is available for $1.25. This issue of the map was apparently updated some time after 1862, as it shows that the name of Toombs County (named after Georgia Congress- man and future Confederate General Robert Toombs) has been changed to Andy Johnson County, named after Andrew Johnson. The county name was changed yet again, after Johnson’s impeachment in 1868, to Wilkin County. STREETER SALE 3928 (this copy). CHECKLIST OF THE PRINTED MAPS OF THE MIDDLE WEST (MINNESOTA) 0715. EBERSTADT 107:265. GRAFF 3735. RUMSEY 2381 (another ed). PHILLIPS MAPS, p.433 (another ed). $1750.

Ashbel Smith’s Memoir of Texas Diplomacy

133. Smith, Ashbel: REMINISCENCES OF THE TEXAS REPUBLIC. ANNUAL ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GALVESTON. Galveston, Tx.: Published by the Society, 1876. 82pp. Lacks preliminary limitation leaf. Half morocco and marbled boards in antique style, leather label. Scattered pencil annotations. Very good.

One of 100 copies of the rare first printing of Ashbel Smith’s important memoir of Texas diplomacy during the Republic period. “Written by one of the wisest men of early Texas, this is the most astute first-hand account of diplomatic activities leading to annexation. No one, with the exception of Sam Houston and Anson Jones, was more intimately involved in the process of acquiring international recognition of the Republic of Texas and bringing about annexation than Dr. Ashbel Smith.... The text is personal but objective, a blended narrative of anecdote and analysis. Smith reviews the Texas border question, the various votes and movements for recognition and annexation in Texas and the United States, his activities in France and England, and the treaties which he negotiated” – Jenkins. Smith was born in Connecticut and educated at Yale, where he also received his medical degree. He became surgeon general of the Army of Texas in 1837, was appointed chargé d’affaires to England and France by Sam Houston, and later served as Texas Secretary of State. He provides a careful narrative of the course of Texas diplomacy from 1836 to 1845, covering shifts in mood regarding annexation in both the United States and in Texas, the Republic’s relations with the U.S., European nations, and Mexico, and the activities of Texan leaders. “An able work by one of the really great men of the Republic” – Raines. Though reprinted several times, this is the true first edition of this vital firsthand report on the diplomatic activities of the Texas Republic. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 186. HOWES S574, “aa.” RAINES, p.190. RADER 2934. VANDALE TEXIANAMETER 158. EBERSTADT 162:739. SABIN 82346. $3500.

Important Collection of Early Spanish Documents

134. [Smith, Buckingham, editor]: COLECCION DE VARIOS DOCU- MENTOS PARA LA HISTORIA DE LA FLORIDA Y TIERRAS ADYACENTES. TOMO I [all published]. London. [1857]. [8],208pp. Without the portrait of Ferdinand V, not issued with all copies. Small folio. Original red cloth, spine gilt. Cloth a bit soiled, worn at spine ends and corners. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Text tanned. About very good.

From an edition limited to 500 copies. “Among the 33 documents assembled are many of the highest importance on De Soto, Coronado, Cabrillo and other early explorers in the southern portions of the present Republic, from the Atlantic to the Pacific” – Howes. California, Florida, and the Gulf Coast are covered. HOWES S576. SERVIES 4231. SABIN 84379. GRAFF 3866. $850.

The Fourth, and First European, Edition of The Book of Mormon

135. Smith, Joseph, Jr.: THE BOOK OF MORMON...TRANSLATED BY JOSEPH SMITH, JUN. FIRST EUROPEAN, FROM THE SEC- OND AMERICAN EDITION. Liverpool: Printed by J. Tompkins...for Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Parley P. Pratt. By order of the Trans- lator, 1841. [4],634,[637]-643pp. (complete as issued). 18mo. Expertly bound to style in period sheep, spine gilt, black morocco label, marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Very good.

This first European edition of The Book of Mormon marked the beginning of a missionary effort which has seen it translated into many languages. Published under the guidance of Brigham Young, who evidently was not aware of the 1840 edition at the time of publication, and so used the text of the Kirtland edition. “In this edition the testimonies of the witnesses, formerly at the end of the volume, were transferred to the front, as they now appear in all later editions, and an index was added at the end. This index is a revision of the one printed separately at Nauvoo in 1840, with a few corrections and added words. According to Elder Joseph Fielding Smith, the book was entered at Stationers’ Hall in London, February 8, 1841. The contract was for 5000 copies, but only 4050 were delivered. An agreement was made in April, 1841, for the printing of another edition of 950 copies to supply the deficiency, at the expense of the printer, but the agreement was not carried out by the latter” – Sabin. FLAKE 598. HOWES S623. SABIN 83041. CRAWLEY 98. $20,000.

A Remarkable Archive from the Harriman Alaska Expedition

136. Spader, William Edgar: [SIXTY-TWO ORIGINAL INK DRAW- INGS ILLUSTRATING THE HARRIMAN ALASKA EXPEDI- TION, 1899]. [N.p., likely New York. ca. 1900-1905]. Sixty-two line drawings on thick card stock, each signed: “W. E. Spader.” Sizes vary between 4¼ x 8 inches to 17½ x 10¾ inches, oriented both portrait and landscape. Minor edge wear, some thumb-soiling, a few examples with minor marginal surface wear. Very good. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

A substantial archive of original art by William E. Spader, one of the principal artists hired to create illustrations for Edward Harriman’s monumental fourteen- volume work The Harriman Alaska Series, published throughout the first decade and a half of the 20th century. This important collection documents one of the great scientific expeditions of the late 19th century. Edward H. Harriman was a wealthy railroad magnate, one of the original rob- ber barons of lore, who greatly desired to hunt bear in Alaska. Never one to do anything small, he decided not only to travel to Alaska to hunt bear on Kodiak Island, but to finance a major scientific expedition to Alaska along the way. The Harriman Expedition comprised an elite roster of scientists, artists, photographers, and naturalists whose goal was to explore and document the Alaskan coastline. For almost two months, in June and July 1899, the S.S. George W. Elder steamed up the coast from Seattle to Siberia while various experts, including John Muir, Edward Curtis, and other botanists, biologists, geologists, artists, and photographers recorded what they encountered along the way. The greatest benefit of the expedition turned out to be the sizeable published record of the journey, which Harriman financed himself. The fourteen-volume Harriman Alaska Series was published by Doubleday beginning in 1901, and remains a landmark of Arctic exploration. William Edgar Spader was a Brooklyn-born craftsperson, and illustrator, whose work appears in much of Harriman’s Alaska series. Spader lived and worked in New York and is best remembered for his watercolors depicting beautiful women of the Art Deco period. His drawings here show landscapes, numerous views of glaciers, seal hunting, camp scenes, several scenes featuring canoeing or kayaking, one illustration of death’s head carvings, and much more. Some of the illustrations are captioned in pencil on the reverse, identifying specific views of Davidson Glacier, Hinchinbrook Island, Spruce Island, Hanging Valley, Grewingk Glacier, Charpentier Glacier, Plover Bay, Reid Glacier, Yale Glacier, Chilkoot Lake, Russell Fiord, College Fiord, the head of Lynn Canal, a view upland near Walker Bay, the tundra near Port Clarence, a view showing the caves in Barry Glacier, a landscape showing the ridged surface of Columbia Glacier, a large landscape showing the moraine of Columbia Glacier, a landscape of the hills near Brady Glacier, a large scene of an overturned forest near the La Perouse Glacier, an indoor view of a church at Metlakahtla, and a distant view of St. Paul Village, among others. A few examples show production notes, including size notations and penciled frame lines. Spader’s dozens of illustrations for Harriman’s published work are well-executed black-and-white line drawings after photographs from the expedition by the likes of Grove Karl Gilbert, C. Hart Merriam, A.K. Fisher, W.B. Devereaux, and others. Numerous examples of Spader’s original artwork were used to illustrate the first volume of The Harriman Alaska Series, starting with John Burroughs’ introductory essay, “Narrative of the Expedition.” One illustration is captioned on the reverse: “Little Auklets Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea For Burroughs’ Article.” It is marked in pencil “Vol. 1, Pg. 98,” where it appears in the printed work. Another illustration captioned in pencil on the verso “Church at Metlakahtla” is captioned in the published work as “Interior of Church Made by Indians at Metlakahtla” on page 25 of Burroughs’ work. An illustration by Spader of an irrigating water wheel can be seen on page 13 of Burroughs’ essay, another of a canoe in drift ice in Yakutat Bay is found on page 95, and yet another of “Yakutat Indians Paddling” appears on page 60. More Spader illustrations can be found in John Muir’s contribution in the first volume of The Harriman Alaska Series; two views of Davidson Glacier appear on page 121 of the first volume with both of the original illustrations having pencil notations on the verso identifying them as “Davidson Glacier...Muir or After.” Yet more Spader illustrations appear in the final essay in the first volume of the published work, George Bird Grinnell’s “The Natives of the Alaska Coast Region,” namely: the Tlinkit Dance Rattle (p.139), a Tlinkit canoe of southeast Alaska (p.140), a Yakutat sealing canoe (p.162), the aforementioned death’s head carving (p.165), an “Eskimo Summer House and Fireplace, Plover Bay, Siberia” (p.171), an Eskimo man and woman at Plover Bay (p.175), and an Eskimo umiak (p.179). Numerous illustrations of glaciers included here are featured in Gilbert’s Glaciers and Glaciation (the third volume of the series). An examination of the text yields no fewer than thirteen examples of Spader’s artwork featured in the published version of Gilbert’s work, highlights of which include large drawings of Barry Glacier, College Fiord, Reid Glacier from the Northeast, the ice cliff of Hubbard Glacier hovering over Disenchantment Bay, and the moraine of the Columbia Glacier. Three of Spader’s drawings present here illustrate a poem called “The Song of the Innuit” by William H. Dall, which was printed at the end of the second volume of The Harriman Alaska Series. Dr. Dall was a paleontologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, Honorary Curator of Mollusks at the U.S. National Museum, and also a member of the scientific party for the Harriman expedition. One illustration titled “Black Iceberg” is marked on the reverse: “Harriman Alaska Expd. Return original & proof to C. Hart Merriam Washington D.C.” Clinton Hart Merriam was the head of the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy at the United States Department of Agriculture, one of the founders of the National Geographic Society, and most importantly here, the organizer of the scientific party for the Harriman Alaska Expedition. Merriam’s treatise on the Bogoslof volcano in volume two of Harriman’s Alaska yields yet another Spader illustration utilized in the published work, namely his drawing of Murre’s eggs on page 330. This wonderful archive of Spader’s work for the Harriman publication is a wealth of research material for understanding the utilization of art during book publication, and for examination of the artist’s technique in translating photographs to drawings. $19,500.

Large Map of Alaska Territory

137. 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. Light wear to wrappers. Ink stamp at top of front cover, partially erased; embossed institutional stamp also on cover. Very clean overall. Map detached but present, with a few minor tissue repairs. Very good.

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 represent- ing 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. $1900. 138. [Texas]: ADDRESS TO THE READER OF THE DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE GALVESTON BAY & TEXAS LAND COM- PANY, WHICH ARE CONTAINED IN THE APPENDIX. New York. 1831. 37,[1]pp. plus 28pp. of the 69pp. appendix. Dbd. Small chunk lacking from gutter of title-leaf (affecting “G” in “Galveston Bay”). Tanned and rather soiled. Else good.

“When in the fall of 1830 the Galveston Bay Company was organized to colonize its Texas land grants on a large scale, the colonization of Texas thus far had been very largely carried on by Stephen F. Austin...the Galveston Bay Company is the first of such companies which actually sent colonists to Texas....The Address to the Reader, giving an account of Texas and its opportunities for emigrants, is well done and is one of the earliest accounts of Texas in English. It refers, though a little disingenuously, to the prohibition against immigration in the law of April 6, 1830, and later refers to it as ‘occasional and temporary,’ but it does give the complete text in the appendix....Many years ago Mr. Winkler suggested to me that the law of April 6, 1830, appeared in English translation here for the first time...” – Streeter. STREETER TEXAS 1123. RADER 1521. CLARK 43. SABIN 93710. $1750.

A Seminal Work of Texana and an Early Houston Imprint

139. [Texas – Provisional Government]: JOURNALS OF THE CONSUL- TATION HELD AT SAN FELIPE DE AUSTN [sic], OCTOBER 16, 1835. PUBLISHED BY THE ORDER OF CONGRESS. Hous- ton: [Telegraph Power Press], 1838. 54,[2, blank]pp. Expertly bound to style in half dark purple straight-grain morocco and period marbled boards. Very good. In a morocco box.

The beginnings of independence in Texas and the formation of the provisional government at the start of the Revolution. This is the rare first edition of “the record of the proceedings of the group of Texans which first set up a formal... government for Texas as a state independent of Mexico” (Streeter). This Journal documents the proceedings of the Consultation in October and early November of 1835, as it guided Texas towards independence amidst the Siege of Bexar. The work includes a printing of the “Declaration of the People of Texas, in General Convention Assembled” (p.21), a declaration of causes for taking up arms against Mexico preliminary to the Texas Declaration of Independence. On Nov. 13 the Consultation prepared twenty-one articles (pp.42-49) creating the framework for a provisional government for Texas; from that date until March 1, 1836 the Con- sultation was the only governing body in Texas. The formation of the Consultation is described by Streeter:

At a meeting of the citizens of Columbia held on August 15, 1835, it was resolved that “a consultation of all Texas, through her representatives is indispensable,”... it having become apparent, because of the opening of hostilities with Mexico, that there would be difficulty in assembling a quorum, on October 11, 1935, a small group, acting on a suggestion made by Stephen F. Austin a fortnight or so before, set up at San Felipe an informal organization sometimes referred to as the “Permanent Council” and sometimes as the “General Council of Texas.” The “Permanent Council” were so informally chosen that this Journals of the Consultation may be regarded as the record of the proceedings of the group of Texans which first set up a formal, though provisional, government for Texas as a state independent of Mexico. They were the body that drew up the Declaration of the People of Texas, in General Convention assembled. These Journals, not printed until 1838, are the first record of all the sessions of the Consultation.

Five hundred copies were printed of this record of the birth of an independent Texas. Streeter records fifteen extant copies, including his own. STREETER TEXAS 245. RADER 3055. SABIN 94952. HOWES S69. RAINES, p.229. EBERSTADT 110:259. $28,000.

Important Document of the Texas Revolution

140. [Texas, Republic of ]: JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS. HELD AT SAN FELIPE DE AUSTIN, NOVEMBER 14th, 1835. Houston: National Intelligencer Office, 1839. 363pp. Expertly bound to style in half black morocco and period marbled boards. Very good.

An important document of the provisional Texas government during the first phase of the Texas Revolution. The conferences cover the period from mid-November 1835 to March 11, 1836, with a wealth of data on the events of the Revolution. Almost all of the text is devoted to the period before mid-January 1836, although quorums of meetings are given as late as the fall of the Alamo (March 6, 1836). “This in fact is a report of the operations of the Provisional Government; the work of Gov. Smith, Gen. Houston, and the Council, and of their dissensions” – Raines. Five hundred copies were printed. HOWES T130, “b.” STREETER TEXAS 337. GILCREASE-HARGRETT, p.362. RAINES, p.229. SABIN 94958. EBERSTADT 110:260. $6000.

141. [Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb]: Friderici, Herman von: SKETCH OF THE HUTS OF KAMCHATKA COPIED AFTER COOK [translation of portion of manuscript caption title]. Nagasaki, Japan. March 1805. Gouache and ink on paper, 7½ x 12½ inches. Signed along lower edge of image, original manuscript caption written on verso. One-inch chip in upper left corner, small chip in upper right corner and center of lower edge, else very good. Mounted at upper corners onto heavier paper stock. Archival matting, and protected with mylar sheet.

A handsome original gouache and ink on paper copy of plate seventy-two in the atlas of Cook’s third voyage, called “A View of Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka.” This copy of the view of Kamchatka natives, their huts, and their animals was made during the Krusenstern circumnavigation of the globe (1803 to 1806). It was drawn by Herman von Friderici, who was major of the General Staff for Ambassador Rezanov, and was presented to Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau, a naturalist and artist on the Krusenstern expedition. A manuscript note on the verso in Tilesius’ hand explains that it was made by Friderici and given as a gift. Comparison with the actual plate in the Cook atlas shows this to be a very accomplished copy, with all the details from the original reproduced very faithfully. Ambassador Rezanov’s mission was to attempt to open Japan to Russian trade, but he was ultimately unsuccessful. An interesting artifact, linking the Krusenstern and Cook voyages. $6000.

With the Rare Large Folio Atlas

142. [Twining, W.J., et al]: DEPARTMENT OF STATE. REPORTS UPON THE SURVEY OF THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE TERRITORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE POSSES- SIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN.... [with:] JOINT MAPS OF THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE LAKE OF THE WOODS TO THE SUMMIT OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Washington. 1878. Reports: 624pp. plus twenty-two engraved plates and diagrams (some folding) and seven maps. Atlas: twenty-four map leaves plus lithographic titlepage and index map. Reports: Large, thick quarto. Original green cloth, spine gilt. Moderate wear. Internally very clean. Very good. Atlas: Large oblong folio. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, stamped in gilt. Boards rubbed. Minor scattered foxing. Very good.

Twining and company, under the direction of Commissioner Archibald Campbell, explored and mapped portions of the country from Lake of the Woods at the 49th parallel to the Rocky Mountains in order to establish the U.S.-Canadian border. Though several attempts had been made at delineating the border, this was the first time a survey of the disputed area was performed. The atlas contains detailed maps of the region surrounding the 49th parallel, beginning in northern Minnesota and running west to the continental divide. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 1289. PHILLIPS MAPS, p.921. PEEL 859. PHILLIPS ATLASES 1264. $1250.

143. [Tyson, Philip T.]: REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, COMMUNICATING INFORMATION IN RELATION TO THE GEOLOGY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF CALIFORNIA. [Washing- ton. 1850]. 127pp. plus ten folding maps and profiles. [bound with:] (PART II.).... [Washington. 1850]. 37pp. plus three folding maps. Modern cloth. Preliminary leaves tanned. Two maps detached but present. Some wear to maps at folds. Light foxing. About very good.

“Probably the earliest work of true scientific research to emerge from the Gold Rush. Its author was a gifted scientist whose pioneering effort was of considerable value” – Wheat. Tyson’s report was gleaned from his four-months’ stay in California. His report was reprinted in 1851 as Geology and Industrial Resources of California. The maps show the Sacramento Valley and the Sierra Nevada. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 212. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 179. HOWES T455, “aa.” KURUTZ 643b. $750.

The Earliest Utah Printing: A Great Salt Lake Valley Note

144. [Utah]: Young, Brigham: [PRINTED “VALLEY NOTE” CURREN- CY IN DENOMINATION OF $2.00, WITH PRINTED HEAD- ING: “G.S.L. CITY, JAN, 20, 1849”]. [Salt Lake City. 1849]. Small printed paper slip, measuring about 2 x 3¾ inches. Overall condition is excellent. No serial number. Blanks not filled in, unsigned and unstamped.

This small piece of paper money printed by the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City is an example of the earliest recorded printing done in Utah. Called a “Valley Note” by Alvin E. Rust, this form of paper currency was printed in several denominations, using a font of script type of the style used for calling cards. McMurtrie quotes a passage from a manuscript history of Brigham Young which describes the interesting circumstances under which this paper money was printed:

They had gold dust, but many refused to take it, as there was a waste in weighing it for exchange. To meet this want, we employed brother John Kay to coin the dust, but upon trial he broke all the crucibles and could not proceed. I then offered the gold dust back to the people, but they did not want it. I then told them we would issue paper till the gold dust could be coined. The Municipal Council agreed to have such a currency, and appointed myself and President Heber C. Kimball and bishop N.K. Whitney to issue it. The first bill, for one dollar, was issued on the first of this month [ January 1849]. The bills were signed by Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, & Thomas Bullock, clerk.

The copy in hand is not signed, stamped, or filled out. “It is definite enough that the first use of the press by the Mormon settlers was in January, 1849, for the production of paper currency. Furthermore, it is gratifyingly definite that the first printer was Brigham H. Young, with the perhaps unskilled aid of Thomas Bull- ock. Brigham H. Young at that time was a young man of about 25, the nephew of Brigham Young the governor and leader” – McMurtrie. Very rare. According to Rust, only 204 valley notes in the two-dollar denomination were issued without a serial number, “rare in unsigned condition.” McMURTRIE (UTAH), pp.13-20. Rust, Mormon and Utah Coin and Currency, pp.60-65. STREETER SALE 2285 (five pieces of currency). STREETER, AMERICANA BEGIN- NINGS 69 (ref ). SAUNDERS, DESERET IMPRINTS 3. $750.

An Extensive Run of Utah Laws

145. [Utah]: [EXTENSIVE RUN OF UTAH TERRITORIAL LAWS FROM THE INCORPORATION OF THE TERRITORY IN 1851 THROUGH 1878]. Salt Lake City. 1852-1878. Twenty volumes, detailed below. 20th-century cloth, gilt leather labels. Light to moderate wear and soiling, a few volumes with stained cloth, chipped labels. Institutional stamps on titlepages. Some light soiling and dampstaining. Good.

A remarkable and nearly complete run of the early session laws of Utah Territory, encompassing a number of early Salt Lake City imprints. The volume for the first session is the first collection of Utah Territory laws. It includes interesting statutes related to ranching, concerning such topics brand books and enclosures. The acts of the fourth session did not appear separately and is found only in the 1855 Acts, published in Great Salt Lake City by Joseph Cain in 1855, and present in this run. These volumes contain a wealth of information on Brigham Young and other Mormon pioneers, the incorporation of cities and counties, the building of roads, the establishment of industry, and all aspects of Utah life of the period. The laws encompass the founding of the territory, the Mormon War, the Civil War period, and the coming of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. The volumes are as follows:

1) Acts, Resolutions, and Memorials, Passed by the First Annual, and Special Sessions, of the Legislative Assembly, of the Territory of Utah, Begun and Held at Great Salt Lake City, on the 22nd Day of September, A.D. 1851.... G.S.L. City, U.T.: Brigham H. Young, 1852. 258pp. McMURTRIE (UTAH) 15. 2) Acts and Resolutions Passed at the Second Annual Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah.... Great Salt Lake City: George Hales, 1853. 168,[1]pp. McMURTRIE (UTAH) 19. 3) Acts and Resolutions Passed at the Third Annual Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah.... Great Salt Lake City: Arieh C. Brower, 1854. 39,[1]pp. McMURTRIE (UTAH) 22. 4) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Passed at the Several Annual Sessions of the Legisla- tive Assembly of the Territory of Utah.... Great Salt Lake City: Joseph Cain, 1855. 460pp. McMURTRIE (UTAH) 27. 5) Resolutions, Acts and Memorials Passed at the Fifth Annual Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: Convened at Fillmore City, Dec. 11, 1855. Great Salt Lake City. 1855. 51pp. McMURTRIE (UTAH) 32. 6) Acts and Resolutions Passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, Dur- ing the Sixth Annual Session, 1856-7.... Great Salt Lake City: James McKnight, 1857. 211pp. McMURTRIE (UTAH) 34. 7) Acts and Resolutions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: Eighth An- nual Session – for the Years 1858-9. Also Memorials to Congress. Great Salt Lake City: J. McKnight, 1859. 39,ii pp. McMURTRIE (UTAH) 37. 8) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, During the Ninth Annual Session, for the Years 1859-60. Great Salt Lake City: John S. Davis, 1860. iv,44pp. McMURTRIE (UTAH) 40. 9) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, During the Tenth Annual Session, for the Years 1860-61. Great Salt Lake City: Elias Smith, 1861. [2],50pp. 10) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, During the Eleventh Annual Session, for the Years 1861-62. Great Salt Lake City: Elias Smith, 1862. 60pp. 11) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed by the Legislative Assembly of Tthe Territory of Utah, During the Twelfth Annual Session, for the Years 1862-63. Great Salt Lake City: Elias Smith, 1863. 15pp. 12) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, During the Thirteenth Annual Session, for the Years 1863-64. Great Salt Lake City: Henry McEwan, 1864. 52pp. 13) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, During the Fourteenth Annual Session, for the Years 1864-65. Great Salt Lake City: Henry McEwan, 1865. 92pp. 14) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed and Adopted During the Sixteenth Annual Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah. Great Salt Lake City: James A. Thompson, 1867. iv,40,8pp. 15) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed and Adopted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, Seventeenth Annual Session, 1868. Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon, 1868. iv,56pp. Original printed wrappers bound in, with several small tears repaired with tape. 16) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed and Adopted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah. Eighteenth Annual Session, 1869. Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon, 1869. [2],24pp. 17) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed and Adopted During the Nineteenth Annual Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah. Salt Lake City: Joseph Bull, 1870. [2],xii,148pp. Original printed front wrapper bound in. 18) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed and Adopted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah at the Twentieth Annual Session. 1872. Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing Co., 1872. xiv,43pp. 19) Acts and Resolutions and Memorials Passed and Adopted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah at the Twenty-First Session, 1874. Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing Co., 1874. [4],52,[1]pp. 20) Laws, Memorials, and Resolutions of the Territory of Utah, Passed at the Twenty- Third Session, of the Legislative Assembly.... Salt Lake City: Star Book and Job Printing Office, 1878. [4],v,216pp. $7500.

146. Vergennes, Charles G. de: MÉMOIRE HISTORIQUE ET POLI- TIQUE SUR LA LOUISIANE.... Paris. 1802. 315pp. plus frontispiece portrait of Vergennes. Half title. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. Hinges rubbed. Very good.

An important account of Louisiana, prepared by the Foreign Minister of Louis XVI. Vergennes served as the French Minister from 1774 until his death in 1787 and played a vital part in bringing France into the American Revolution on the side of the Americans. Sometime during his term as minister he prepared this memoir on the history and situation of Louisiana for Louis XVI, although it was not published until 1802, when the temporary recovery of Louisiana by France awakened interest in the area. HOWES V74. STREETER SALE 1573. SABIN 98971. RAINES, p.208. $900.

Murder in Texas During the Civil War

147. [Waterhouse, Richard E.]: Slaughter, R.F.: [AUTOGRAPH DOC- UMENT, SIGNED, BY R.F SLAUGHTER, REGARDING TES- TIMONY IN THE MURDER CASE OF RICHARD E. WATER- HOUSE OF SAN AUGUSTINE, TEXAS]. [San Augustine, Tx. ca. 1863]. [4]pp. Folio sheets. Three horizontal folds, some soiling and staining. Very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth slipcase and chemise, spine gilt.

A detailed, closely written report concerning the testimony of three suspects in the murder of Richard E. Waterhouse in San Augustine, Texas in 1863. Waterhouse was a Seminole War and Mexican-American War veteran who ascended to the rank of colonel in Tennessee before moving his family to East Texas in 1849, where he opened a general store and speculated in real estate. In 1859, Waterhouse was elected to the Texas State Legislature as representative from San Augustine County. He was among the wealthier citizens of the town, a fact that seemed to be widely known and ultimately fatal to the Colonel. On the night of Dec. 31, 1863 his store was robbed and Waterhouse was murdered after sustaining a sharp blow to the head from a “hand axe or hatchet.” This document is a detailed summation of the events surrounding the robbery and murder of Col. Waterhouse, naming the suspects (Malvin Houston, H.M. Kinsey, and William M. Everett), and consisting of testimony given by the men, as well as Everett’s wife, who was implicated in the crime alongside her husband. It was written by an R.F. Slaughter, presumably an official with the Committee of Safety for San Augustine County, before whom the suspects appeared and gave statements which appear in summary form here. The suspects’ testimony includes motives for the killing, namely that Waterhouse was thought to have as much as $100,000 in cash in his store. Kinsey is reported to have said that Waterhouse earned the money “by extortion, & swindling the community.” Ultimately the thieves got away with about $15,000, which they divided among themselves before being apprehended. The responsibility for the murder of Waterhouse is unclear from the testimony, as Everett blames Houston, then Houston blames Everett. As far as the public record is concerned, the murder of Waterhouse remains unsolved, though in the closing line of this document it is written that the Committee of Safety “discharged Kin- sey by a very close vote!” The question remains whether Houston or Everett was responsible for the murder of Col. Waterhouse, or if it was in fact Kinsey, as both Houston and Everett initially testified. George Louis Crocket, Two Centuries in East Texas (Dallas: Southwest Press, 1932). $3750. Important Collection of Watkins Stereoviews of Yosemite

148. Watkins, Carleton E.: [FIFTY-SIX STEREOSCOPIC PHOTO- GRAPHIC VIEWS FROM WATKINS’ PACIFIC COAST SERIES, PRINCIPALLY DEPICTING SCENES IN YOSEMITE]. San Fran- cisco. 1867 [copyright date]. Fifty-six stereoscopic albumen prints by Watkins, on original yellow card mounts (3¼ x 6¾ inches), with his 429 Montgomery Street address. Very good. In a modern half morocco and cloth box.

Carleton Watkins was one of the finest 19th-century landscape photographers. The magnificence of the Yosemite Valley was unknown to settlers until 1849, and it remained so until Watkins brought photographic images of its extraordinary beauty to the public. Watkins’ vistas of a serene and underpopulated land demonstrated the ideal harmony between man and nature. “The controlled grandeur of his views of the sublime is encoded not only with classical ideals of simplicity, geometry, and measure but also with a perception of the West as the primordial theatre of an authentically American place” – The Waking Dream. These photographs helped clinch the notion that Yosemite was a relic of Eden in North America. Although Watkins is best known for his mammoth plate photographs, his work was also published as stereoscopic views. In July of 1861, Watkins first traveled to Yosemite equipped with a stereoscopic camera, taking 100 stereoscopic negatives. He returned to Yosemite between 1865 and 1866, which yielded an additional 300 stereoscopic negatives. The present collection includes fifty images of Yosemite (eleven from the first series taken in 1861 and thirty-nine from the second series taken between 1865 and 1866), as well as five images in San Francisco (including three Cliff House views; a July 4, 1864 image of Montgomery Street; and a view from Telegraph Hill), and an additional image of the entrance to the New Almaden, California mine. The collection is from an unusually early period, with the images on Watkins’ yellow card mounts with his Montgomery Street address (images printed subsequently would be on orange cards and a different address post-1871). The stereoviews present here were printed between 1867 and 1868, with many including notice of his Paris International Exposition medal on verso. Photographic historian Peter Palmquist has noted: “As a landscape photographer Watkins is best remembered for his pictures of Yosemite. Not only did he achieve many of his artistic successes there, but Yosemite also became more widely known and appreciated because of his eloquence and vision.” The Waking Dream, Gilman Paper Company Collection, p.124. Peter Palmquist, Carleton E. Watkins, Photographer of the American West (Albuquerque, 1983). $12,000.

Providence School Principal in the Gold Mines

149. Weston, Silas: LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS: OR FOUR MONTHS IN THE MINES OF CALIFORNIA. Providence: Published by E.P. Weston, 1854. 34,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern half morocco and boards. Unobtrusive old library stamp on front wrapper. Con- temporary ownership signature on titlepage. Old marginal pencil notes, some of which are quite humorous, poking fun at the author’s descriptions with an occasional “by George” and “my gracious.” Else very good.

A rare gold rush account by a Providence school principal, “who wrote these sketches ‘on the spot’ for the edification of the home folks” (Wheat). Weston was one of a dozen fortune seekers who worked the Auburn mines, located some forty-five miles northeast of Sacramento. He provides plain but entertaining descriptions of what he encountered, including “Hanging a Gambler,” “Wonderful Instinct of the Wood Duck,” “Origins of Indian Troubles – the Undaunted Backwoodsman,” “Scenery of Auburn and Vicinity,” “Lassoing a Gambler,” and “Fight with a Rattlesnake – also with a Scorpion.” A most unusual and evidently quite rare personal account. A second edition was issued the same year. HOWES W292, “b.” KURUTZ 672b. GRAFF 4613 (2nd ed). ROCQ 16147. SABIN 103053. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 224. STREETER SALE 2775. COWAN, p.676.$6500. Early Photographs of Alaska, with Naval Artifacts

150. Wieber, Francis W.F.: [PHOTO ALBUM OF NAVAL SURGEON FRANCIS W.F. WIEBER, OF EARLY SCENES IN ALASKA, TO- GETHER WITH HIS NAVAL HAT AND EPAULETTES]. [Various places. ca. 1880s-1890s]. Thirty-three leaves containing ninety photographs (nineteen cyanotypes), plus a tin type laid in. Hat and epaulettes housed in archival boxes. Images primarily 7½ x 9½ inches, some a bit larger or smaller (approximately 5½ x 4½ inches), also several panoramic photos. Oblong quar- to. Modern half morocco and paper boards, gilt leather label. Images removed from previous album and remounted, resulting in loss at a few corners; a few minor tears. Photos clean. Very good.

Commodore Francis William Ferdinand Wieber (1861-1947), born in Germany, was in the U.S. Navy for forty years, serving on the U.S.Ss. Vermont, Iroquois, Vandalia, Independence, and Charleston. In 1884 he was appointed Assistant Surgeon, and in 1887 he achieved Passed Assistant Surgeon and Surgeon in 1897. He served in the Pacific and was also stationed at Norfolk, Virginia and Puerto Rico. In addition to his active naval duties, he authored a number of journal articles related to treating Yellow Fever aboard ship. He retired in 1925 and died in San Diego at the age of eighty-six. The present album documents Wieber’s service and contains some wonderful large images of Alaska, Puerto Rico, China, and the Philippines. The Alaskan images appear to be quite early and we assume they predate the Gold Rush. There are twenty-eight large photos showing old fishing villages, log cabins, a group photo depicting two men and three women posing in front of the frame of a boat under construction, mountain scenery, flocks of seals gathering on beaches, and more. In one of the group photos several of the people are clearly of Inuit heritage. Interest- ingly, there is a significant Russian influence in the images, from the architecture (particularly churches) to the clothing worn by the photographed subjects. The remaining images are also quite interesting, including a large photograph of a political event in Puerto Rico, several photographs illustrating the aftermath of a terrible storm in the Philippines, and images of working farmers in China. There are also a few portraits of the crew with Wieber. Accompanying this album is Wieber’s naval cap, his belt and epaulettes, and an old tin type of him. All told, this is a fascinating collection of images and memo- rabilia documenting a segment of this officer’s career in the navy. $4250.

151. [Wilcocke, Samuel Hull]: A NARRATIVE OF OCCURRENCES IN THE INDIAN COUNTRIES OF NORTH AMERICA, SINCE THE CONNEXION OF THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF SELKIRK WITH THE HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY, AND HIS ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH A COLONY ON THE RED RIVER.... London. 1817. xiv,152,[4],87pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor soiling, small repairs on spine, ink signature on front cover. Contemporary ownership signature on titlepage. Very good. Untrimmed. In a red cloth clamshell box, spine gilt.

The Harmsworth-Streeter copy of this rare and important work of Canadiana. This pamphlet presents a brief outline of the establishment and growth of the Selkirk Colony from 1812, and attempts to defend and justify the North West Company’s actions as the natural consequence of the encroachments, hostilities, and provocations of Lord Selkirk and the Hudson’s Bay Company. Although sometimes attributed to Simon McGillivary and Edward Ellice the elder, the work was probably prepared by Samuel Hull Wilcocke, “a hack-writer in the employ of the North-West Company” (TPL). The pamphlet was issued under the direction of the London representatives of the North West Company to counter charges of unwarranted aggression and destruction of the Selkirk settlement on the Red River, leveled against them by John Halkett in his Statement Respecting the Earl of Selkirk’s Settlement (1817). “This narrative is the second of that long catalogue of statements, histories, and narratives to which the murder of Governor Semple by the half-breed Indians, in the service of the Northwest Fur Company, gave existence. The first publication was the ‘Sketch of the Fur Trade in North America,’ by the benevolent and enterprising Lord Selkirk. This narrative is the rejoinder of the Northwest Fur Company, covering pp. 1 to 152. The Appendix which follows, paged separately 1 to 87, is composed of affidavits of the traders, of Indian speeches, etc” – Field. “An important work relating to the foundation of Winnipeg” – Harmsworth. HARMSWORTH 6362 (this copy). STREETER SALE 3675 (this copy). LANDE 1313. TPL 1108. PEEL 50. VLACH 761. GAGNON II:1948. SABIN 20699. FIELD 1117. $2250.