Travel & Exploration, Cartography & Americana The Library of Glen McLaughlin Sale 505 April 25, 2013 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Page 1 Sale 505 April 25, 2013 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Travel & Exploration, Cartography & Americana from the Library of Glen McLaughlin (with additions)
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Front Cover: Lot 290 Back Cover: Clockwise from upper left: Lots 341, 290, 410, 148 Bond # 14425383 The McLaughlin Collection
After 40 years assembling the largest collection, in private hands, of maps depicting California as an Island, Glen McLaughlin is dispersing the maps and his map reference library. The maps and books were accumulated through 80 map sellers on four continents over the 40 years. The maps have now been deposited at the Stanford Univer- sity Library for others to use and enjoy for all time and the images will soon be available via the internet.
These are the reference and related books I used in publishing The Mapping of California as an Island in 1995 and which continues to be the primary reference by collec- tors and dealers for this mapping area. The books were also used for the three chapters I wrote in the California 49 published in 1999 and The Bancroft Library 2009 Annual Keep- sake entitled California as an Island, Maps From The Library as well as several journal articles and group presentations.
For me, maps are natural objects of beauty and information and are part of my DNA as my great grandfather was a surveyor in the Civil War, my father won a school medal for drawing maps, and I learned aerial navigation as an Air Force Pilot.
I have enjoyed my association with maps and fellow collectors through the California Map Society where I served as President, The Library of Congress where I co- chaired the Phillips Society of the Geography and Map Division, and the International Map Collectors’ Society where we have participated in many overseas meetings. I have been privileged to spend quality time with past map luminaries including Ron Tooley and Helen Wallis in London and David Woodward, John Leighly, and Michael Mathes in the United States, all of whom have made enormous contributions to our cartographic literature. These have been wonderful associations with delightful people sharing a simi- lar passion for maps.
Now is time to allow other collectors to share these treasures and I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.
Glen McLaughlin Section I: Americana – Books, Manuscripts, Photographs & Ephemera, Lots 1-196
Section II: Travel & Exploration, Lots 197-347
Section III: Cartographic & Americana Reference, Lots 348-409
Section IV: Maps, Prints & Views, Lots 410-458
Section I: Americana 1. (Alaska) Compilation of Narratives of Explorations in Alaska. vii, [1], 3-856 pp. With 25 folding maps; plates from photographs & engravings; cuts in the text. (4to) 28x23 cm (11x9”), modern red half calf and black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900 Important gathering of accounts by Frederick Schwatka, Ivan Petrof, Henry Allen, W.R. Abercrombie, H.G. Learned, Charles P. Raymond and many others, giving a rare view of the evolution of our knowledge of the territory. Light wear to binding; previous owner’s name at head of table of contents; very good. (400/600)
2. (Alaska Gold Rush) [Goodwin, Charles]. Autograph Letter Signed - 1897 Los Angeles Gold-Seeker en route to the Klondike. 5 pp. With original mailing envelope. Port Townsend, Washington: May 5, 1897 To his wife Jennie Goodwin, in Los Angeles: “…I am still at the Port…for a small place, I never seen so many vessels of all kinds, both long, short, slim and tall…bound for every place in the world… and small steamers plying between small points along the coast…I expect to take the Alki this eve or in the morning…there is some talk of not enough room on the boat but there will be trouble if they don’t let this Chicken Roost on that Boat…You haven’t the slitest idea of the big talk of the miners at this place, there has been a great many from here made fortunes and a great many have gone from here… 200 or three hundred men went up to Juneau, had just enough to carry them through and no provisions…a man is a fool to undertake to go to the Interior without a grub stake…I am going to have such a good outfit to go in to the Interior that I feel sorry for the poor fellows. I purchased in S.F. coats and overalls…they cost me $9.75 all told. They had been in a fire, a tailor fixed them… Today I sold 2 of the coats for $10 leaving me 1 overcoat, 1 coat and 3 pairs of overalls…all wool lined. They are worth at least $12. I hope all of transactions will be as successful as that. It is very lonesome in this place and I hope we will be off soon…I hope things will be as bright as the sunshine seems to be at present. Am so hopeful that I can do well and will not leave a stone unturned in the place I go to…But Dearest, with these hopes I might not succeed… tell me will my little Bird be waiting for me with open arms in case of my not being successful. That at least we can go hand in hand and keep the wolf from the door and be happy with our little kidlets…the men I am with say I can make $20 per day as easy as falling off a log. Two of them have been there before and they say that I can … make more than this and perhaps a fortune, one of their Bros. has 9 Mines which he is going to open up at once.” 28 year-old Charles A. Goodwin, a hotel keeper, had left his wife and two small children in Los Angeles, joining his brother and a few other Californians to seek his fortune in the Klondike “stampede”, which began shortly before his departure. According to his later letters, preserved by the National Archives of Canada, Goodwin would spend the next three years in Dawson City, Alaska, barely sending home enough money – with a few gold nuggets as trinkets – for his wife to pay the rent. He would continue to express optimism about his chances of making a fortune – but his hopes were never realized. Very good. (200/300)
Page 1 3. (Almanack) Hutchins, John Nathan. Hutchins Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris ... For the Year of Our Lord 1790... - With an early printing of the Bill of Rights. 48 pp. 17.5x11 cm (7x4¼”), wrappers. New York: H. Gaine, [1789] Scarce issue of Hutchins’ long-running series of popular almanacs. The almanac includes the United States Constitution along with an early printing of the Bill of Rights, which was first printed separately in October of 1789. Evans, 21901; Drake, Almanacs, 5971. Edges worn, 1” wide strip lacking along the right side of the title leaf with some loss of type, early owner’s name in ink in margin of two leaves; paper browned, foxing; very good. (400/600)
4. Alter, J. Cecil. James Bridger: Trapper, Frontiersman, Scout and Guide. A Historical Narrative.... To which is incorporated a verbatim copy, annotated, of James Bridger: A Biographical Sketch by Maj. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge. xvii, 546 pp. Illustrated with 18 plates from photographs, engravings and other sources. 9¼x6¼, original embossed red-maroon cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. No. 142 of 1000. First Edition. Salt Lake City: Shepard Book Co., [1925] Signed by Alter at limitation. The best account written of this mountain man, fur trader and frontier entrepreneur. Howes A191. Light wear at spine ends; frontispiece detached; very good. (200/300)
5. (Annual Register) The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1770. (iii)-viii, 64, 65*-95*, 65-256, 256, [8] pp. (8vo) modern grey paper cover, paper labels on spine and front. First Edition. London: J. Dodsley, 1771 Includes articles on the various European nations, England and the American Colonies. Including an account of “the unhappy riot at Boston”, better known historically as the “Boston Massacre” or by the British as the “Incident on King Street”, in which the British Army killed five civilian men and injured six others. The event is widely viewed as foreshadowing the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later. Original binding perished; light foxing throughout; very good. (200/300)
6. (Arizona Outlaw Letter) Mills, W.S. Autograph Letter Signed by W.S. Mills, to his daughter, relating a trip from Arizona to California, and the hanging of an outlaw in Prescott, Arizona. 5 pages, in pencil, on lined notepaper 21.5x14 cm. (8½x5½”). San Francisco: Feb. 13, 1882 Mills left Prescott, Arizona on February 10th, bound by stage for Maricopa where he would catch a train for San Francisco via Los Angeles, but first “as I was about leaving the Sheriff took a man along the street guarded by about 50 men with guns gto the gallows. He was hung in plain view from the steps of my lodging house where I was standing, but I preferred not to look in that direction. It was reported his friends, the roughs, would attempt to rescue him, but they failed to try it. His hame was Hall and he was hung for shooting a man in a drunken fight - whiskey the cause of his troubles...” He goes on to relate details of his journey aboard a “jerky” -”...It is a two-seated wagon and I suppose it gets its name from the way it jerks the passengers over the rough roads,” with descriptions of the countryside and agriculture along the way. Old paperclip mark in top margin, near fine. (300/500)
7. (Arizona) Portrait and Biographical Record of Arizona. [8], 21-1034 pp. Numerous portrait plates from photographs. (4to) 27x22 cm. (10½x8½”) period full brown morocco. First Edition. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Co., 1901 Portraits and biographies of men of Arizona. Boards detached, spine mostly gone; first gathering detached; poor. (100/150)
Page 2 FIRST LARGE EXHIBITION OF MODERN ART IN AMERICA 8. (Armory Show) Collection of 50 Post Cards from the 1913 New York Armory Show. Collection of 50 (49 different), unused, post cards from the International Exhibition of Modern Art, held at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City, February 18 to March 13, 1913 by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors. Each with a photograph of one of the exhibited art works. Also, 4 post cards from the May 1913 exhibit in Boston, and 1 card from a 1913 exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. Together 55 cards, housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. New York: 1913 The 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art that was organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors (The Armory Show) was the first large exhibition of modern art in America. The three-city exhibition started in New York City’s 69th Regiment Armory, from February 17 until March 15, 1913. The exhibition went on to show at the Art Institute of Chicago and then to The Copley Society of Art in Boston, where, due to a lack of space, all the work by American artists was removed. The show was a very significant event in the history of American art, introducing astonished Americans, who were accustomed to realistic art, to the experimental styles of the European vanguard, including Fauvism, Cubism, and Futurism. The post cards include works by Duchamp, Matisse, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Brancusi, Hassam, Gauguin, Bellows, Picasso, Manolo, Archipenko, and many others. Individual cards from this series are difficult to obtain, a collection of this size is unlikely to be encountered again. Some light wear to cards but overall near fine. (1500/2000) Lot 8
9. Bagley, Will, editor. Kingdom in the West Series - Volumes 1-10, 12-14. 13 volumes. Volumes 1-10 & 12-14, Volume 11 apparently not yet published. (8vo) original blue cloth. First Editions. Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1997 “The Kingdom in the West Series, subtitled “The Mormons and the American Frontier,” is an award-winning series begun in 1997 that explores the story of the Latter-day Saints and their part in the greater history of the Western Frontier. The history of the Mormons in the American West is so sweeping it is easy to ignore episodes that, for one reason or another, found no place in the traditional annals of the region. Primary source documents, many of them never before published, will comprise the series’ core, continuing the publisher’s over 100-year tradition of issuing vital source works in American history. The Mormons’ frontier experience, their religious vision and political ambitions will be revealed in the words of the pioneers, edited and illuminated by noted historians of the West.” - From the publisher’s website. Fine, the last 4 volumes still in the publisher’s shrinkwrap. (300/500)
10. Bancroft, Hubert Howe. Some Cities and San Francisco and Resurgam - signed. 64 pp. 7½x5, pale purple cloth, decorated in white, lettered and decorated in gilt, tan dust jacket printed in black. New York: Bancroft Company, 1907 Inscribed to Supervisor Stafford, and signed by the author Hubert Howe Bancroft, dated Aug 19, 1907, on front free endpaper. With bookplate (now detached) of Briggs Books on front pastedown. Jacket with soiling to rear panel, chips and tears at edges; lightly rubbed and bumped at spine ends and corners; very good. (100/150)
Page 3 11. Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume XVIII-XXIV. History of California. 7 volumes. 9x5½, original brown cloth. Jackets. Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, [1963] Facsimile reprint of the 1886 first edition of Bancroft’s important history of California. With an introduction by Edmund G. Brown, then governor of California. Spines leaning, a few jacket spines a touch yellowed; near fine. (200/300)
12. Barns, C.[hancy] R., editor. The Commonwealth of Missouri: A Centennial Record. xxiv, 936 pp. Illustrated with numerous steel-engraved portrait plates, facsimile bank note, many wood-engraved illustrations in the text. (8vo) 24x16.5 cm. (9¾x6½”) period full red morocco stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt. First Edition. St. Louis: Bryan, Brand & Co., 1877 Text divided into several sections: Archaeology; History; Physical Geography; Material Wealth; Educational Progress; Biographies, each with separate chapter lists. History section includes a lengthy chapter on Missouri in the Civil War. Both boards detached, wear to spine ends, overall scuffing to leather; internally very good and worthy of restoration; good. (100/150)
13. Bartlett, W[illiam] C[hauncey]. A Breeze from the Woods. 212 pp. (8vo) original blue cloth stamped in gilt and black. First Edition. [Oakland]: Author’s Private Edition [printed at the Oakland Evening Tribune], 1880 The author’s recollections of Northern California. Inscribed by the author on front flyleaf. Spine ends frayed, some light wear, front hinge cracking; very good. (100/150)
14. Beechey, F[rederick] W[illiam]. An Account of a Visit to California 1826-’27. Introduction by Edith M. Coulter. Illustrated with 4 color reproductions of watercolors by William Smyth and one map of the San Francisco Bay by F.W. Beechey. (4to), linen-backed patterned boards, paper spine label. One of 350 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. San Francisco: Book Club of California, [1941] “Interesting account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American Conquest...” - Howes B309; BCC 60. Label and linen sunned, light soiling to boards; very good. (150/250)
15. Bell, William A. New Tracks in North America: A Journal of Travel and Adventure whilst Engaged in the Survey for a Southern Railroad the Pacific Ocean. 2 volumes. [iii]-lxv, [2], 236; [iii]-viii, [2], 322 pp. Illustrated with 20 color lithographed plates; 3 botanical plates; 1 wood-engraved plate; 2 maps (1 folding); woodcuts in the text. (8vo) half calf and boards, with much repair to spines. First Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1869 Inscribed and signed by the author on the half title page of Volume 1. “Contains firsthand accounts of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico” -Graff. Cowan p.45; Graff 246; Howes B330; Rader 330. Spines heavily repaired with brown tape, covers and spines detached or detaching; 3 lithographs detached; light foxing; each plate in Volume 2 with light dampstain at top edge; else very good and worthy of restoration. (250/350)
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Page 4 TWO SCARCE DIRECTORIES OF BEVERLY HILLS 16. (Beverly Hills) Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce. Beverly Hills City and Telephone Directory. 184 pp. Illustrated with a few advertisements for moving services, plumbing and the like. 27x22.5 10½x9”) original tan wrappers, printed in black and orange, with illustrated advertisements on covers. Beverly Hills: Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association, August 1936 A scarce telephone directory for Beverly Hills. Much more related to the White & Yellow Pages we are accustomed to, this city directory provides an alphabetical list of residents, professionals, businesses, churches, etc. Compiled by Western Directory Co. and published by the Chamber of Congress. Only 1 set of this periodical publication, located by OCLC / Worldcat at the Beverly Hills Public Library (however, the 1936 year is not present in that set). Some dampstaining to wrapper spine, much creasing at edges, rust at staple binding, ink number on front wrapper, name in ink on rear wrapper; several names in ink & pencil on page 1; very good. (500/800)
17. (Beverly Hills) Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce. Business & Professional Directory. [2], 26 pp. 19x13 cm (7½x5”) original brown printed wrappers. Beverly Hills, CA: Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce, May, 1931 A rare business directory for Beverly Hills, CA, a town established in 1907. Begins with Accountants, and ends with Yachts (there was only 5 of the former, and 1 of the latter). Mailed to a Mrs. C.L. Tanner of Beverly Hills, her address typed on the rear wrapper, the stamp which mailed the parcel, also sealed it (at fore edge of wrappers). No records in OCLC / Wordlcat. Tiny hole on front wrapper, some darkening and creases to wrapper edges; very good. (250/350)
SOUTHWEST HISTORICAL SERIES FROM ARTHUR H. CLARK 18. Bieber, Ralph P. & LeRoy R. Hafen, editors. The Southwest Historical Series. 12 volumes. Illustrated with plates from engravings, lithographs, photographs and other early sources; folding maps. Red cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1931-1943
Lot 18 Important set reprinting (and in some cases the first printings of) original accounts of the Southwest, including Adventures in the Santa Fe Trade, 1844-1847 by James Josiah Webb; Eugene Blandel’s Frontier Life in the Army, 1854-1861; George R. Gibson’s Journal of a Soldier Under Kearny and Doniphian, 1846-1847; Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail by Lewis H. Garrard; plus letters and diaries of the overland trail to California in 1849, journals of army exploration in New Mexico & Arizona, accounts of the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush, etc. The first major series after the publisher’s move to Glendale, California, from Cleveland. An assembled set, varying wear, fading, etc.; Volumes 10 and 11 are ex-library copies; overall very good. (1000/1500)
Page 5 19. Blair, Emma H., trans. & ed. The Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri Valley and Region of the Great Lakes, as described by Nicolas Perrot, French commandant in the Northwest; Bacquerville de la Potherie, French royal commissioner to Canada; Morrell Marston, American army officer; and Thomas Forsyth, United States agent at Fort Armstrong. 2 volumes. Illustrated with plates from early sources. Red cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. First Edition. Cleveland, Ohio: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1911-12 “Comprises original accounts written by men who spent the best part of the lives among these Indians and on the frontiers. These narratives, of great historical and ethnological interest, have never before been translated into English.” - from a letter from the publisher, laid in. Howes B498; Rader 380; Clark & Brunet, 20. Light wear to cloth; near fine. (250/350)
20. Bolton, Herbert Eugene. Rim of Christendom: A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino, Pacific Coast Pioneer. xiv, [1], 644 pp. With 12 plates, 3 facsimiles, and 8 maps. 8vo. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition. New York: Macmillan Company, 1936 A biography of the Jesuit Missionary, based in Mexico, who explored much of the West. One of the great biographies of the Spanish Southwest. The author’s clipped signature affixed to front free endpaper. Minor wear, previous owner’s name on front free endpaper; near fine. (100/150)
21. Brownell, Charles de Wolf. The Indian Races of North and South America: Comprising an Account of the Principal Aboriginal Races; a Description of Their National Customs, Mythology, and Religious Ceremonies; the History of Their Most Powerful Tribes, and of Their Most Celebrated Chiefs and Warriors; Their Intercourse and Wars with the European Settlers; and a Great Variety of Anecdote and Description, Illustrative of Personal and National Character. 720 pp. 40 woodcut and lithograph plates, many hand-colored. (8vo) period embossed brown leather, rebacked, endpapers replaced. First Edition. New York: H.E. & S.S. Scranton, 1854 Field 198 (citing 1857 edition) - An interesting and informative work, which undergoes some criticism by Field: “The last half of the title-page must have been written by the publisher, and the illustrations drawn by his infant son, as the Preface and Text indicate too respectable a mind to have concocted such a farrago, involving at least half a dozen falsehoods regarding the plates, which are the most tawdry and offensive daubs.” Binding worn; internally very good. (200/300)
22. Bruff, J. Goldsborough. Gold Rush: The Journals, Drawings and other Papers. 2 volumes. Edited by Georgia Willis Read and Ruth Gaines. Foreword by F.W. Hodge. Illustrated with plates from sketches and drawings by Bruff. (8vo), cloth-backed boards, spines lettered in gilt. First Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944 “Detailed journals and drawings of a trained draughtsman and engineer, who resigned his army commission and traveled from Washington, D.C., to the diggings...” - Wheat, who applauds the “scholarly editing” by Read and Gaines. Howes calls it the “most elaborate of overland narratives.” Bruff organized and commanded a party of sixty-six men called the Washington City and California Mining Association, leaving the nation’s capital on April 2, 1849, and arriving at the Feather River on November 1 of that year. The overland journey is covered in the first volume, his experiences in the mines in the second. Howes R91; Kurutz 93a; Mattes 377; Mintz 64; Rocq 15724; Wheat Gold Rush 25. Light wear, bookplates; near fine. Lacking slipcase. (200/300)
23. [Bungay, George]. Nebraska: A Poem, Personal and Political. 42 pp. 18.3x12 cm (7¼x4¾”), original green paper wrappers. First Edition. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1854 Published the year that the Nebraska Territory was formed. Spine perished, wrappers lightly worn, vertical crease throughout; very good. (100/150)
Page 6 24. Burdick, Usher L. The Last Battle of the Sioux Nation. 164 pp. Illustrations from photographs. (8vo) original brown cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition. Fargo, N. Dakota: Worzalla Publishing Co., [1929] This story was obtained by a number of interviews with many of the Indian survivors of the Little Big Horn battle, and collected over a period of many years. The peculiar part of this investigation is that no Indian ever deviated in any single particular in re-relating this story after the first interview. Light wear at spine ends; near fine. (250/350)
25. Burnett, Peter H. Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer. xiii, 448 + [6] ad pp. (8vo), original brown cloth decorated and lettered in gilt and black. First Edition. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880 Burnett left his home in Missouri in 1843 a traveled to Oregon in the same company as Applegate, Lenox and Whitman. “This volume is important since it is the reminiscences of the first governor of California, but even more since it is the record of an early Oregonian who forsook the territory to which he had emigrated from Missouri and joined the gold rush to California in 1848” - Zamorano. Burnett abandoned mining after little more than a month, on Dec. 19, 1849, taking a job at Sutter’s Fort as John A. Sutter, Jr.’s agent. Among his early reminiscences is his account of a sermon by Joseph Smith in Far West, Missouri, in 1838. Cowan p.86; Flake 1020; Graff 496; Howes B1000; Kurutz 99a; Mintz 66; Rocq 8471; Wheat Gold Rush 66; Zamorano 80, 13. Some wear and soiling to cloth, glue repair to hinges; very good. (200/300)
SCARCE CALIFORNIA PROMOTIONAL PAMPHLET 1870 26. (California) All About California and the Inducements to Settle There [For Gratuitous Circulation.] Second Ten Thousand. 74 pp. + 22 pages advertisements at rear. Illustrated with 4 maps, including double-page map of California. 20.5x13.5 cm. (8x5½”), original pictorial printed wrappers. Second Edition. San Francisco: California Immigrant Union. Printed by A. L. Bancroft & Co., 1870 Scarce California promotional pamphlet. Text on pp. 7-40 contains “California as a Home for the Emigrant” by John S. Hittell. PP. 65-74 contain information on “Railroad Lands” and “Notes to Second Edition” with updates on the progress of railroad development and new gains in agriculture in the State. Cowan p. 7; Howes C-36 Some wear to wrappers with chip to bottom corner tip of front wrapper, spine portion mostly rubbed away, rear wrapper nearly detached; overall quite presentable and internally very good. (700/1000)
27. (California) da Silva, Owen. Mission Music of California: A Collection of Old California Mission Hymns and Masses. (4to), original burlap-backed boards, lettered in gilt, illustrated paper label on front, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. [Los Angeles]: [Warren F. Lewis], [1941] Contains masses and hymns used by the friars and natives during Provincial times and includes ‘Misa de Cataluna’, Misa Viscaina, Credo Parisiense, 4 Gregorian Chants, 6 Motets, 2 Hymns (morning and evening) plus notes, sources, bibliography and an index. Many reproduced in facsimile exhibiting the beautiful calligraphy. Jacket worn and soiled, burlap backstrip covered with old clear tape; good. (100/150)
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Page 7 28. (California) James, H.T. & Co. About California: Places of Interest and Information for the Traveler. 84 pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs. 21x10 cm (8½x4”) original white wrappers, printed and decorated in red and green. Vol. 1, No. 7. Issued Monthly. San Francisco: H.T. James & Co., [July], 1898 From San Francisco and Oakland, to San Diego and Santa Barbara, this California tour guide briefly describes cities and attractions from all over the state. Complete with a great number of photographs of the areas described. Attractions described within include: Cliff House, Del Monte, Golden Gat Park, Lick Observatory, Sausalito, Monterey, Stanford University, Hotel Vendome, Yosemite, and more. A rare item, no copies of this monthly found by OCLC / Worldcat. A touch of wear to wrappers; fine. (300/500)
29. (California) Monarch Oil Refining Co. Auto Road Maps for California & Nevada 1912 Edition. 256 pp. Several maps guiding motor tours throughout the states of California and Nevada. 16.5x7.5 cm (6½x3”). Original green wrappers, with red Berg Auto Supply Co. of Oakland, CA sticker on front wrapper. Second Edition. San Francisco: E. Rawlins, 1912 This rare work is the second edition of the Automobile Road Guide produced by Monarch Oil Refining Co., the first edition was issued in 1911 (and it was only 128 pp.). This new edition was enlarged with new features added, and shows all surveyed automobile roads to date in California and Nevada. A convenient pocket road map for the motorist. No copies listed by OCLC / Worldcat, although an internet search revealed a copy of this 1912 edition at the San Jose Public Library. Moderately worn wrapper edges with creasing, rubbing; very good. (300/500)
30. (California) Santa Clara County and its Resources: Historical, Descriptive, Statistical. A Souvenir of the San Jose Mercury, 1895. 319, (3) pp., profusely illustrated, mostly from photographs, frontispiece map. (Oblong 4to) 22.5x33 cm. (9x12”). Original cloth spine and plain rear wrapper (front wrapper absent). First Edition San Jose, CA: San Jose Mercury Publishing and Printing Co., 1895 A massive compendium of information and pictures promoting Santa Clara County. Every other page contains a full-page photo illustration featuring public buildings, agriculture, portraits of citizens, etc. Lacking front wrapper, edges and fore-edge corners of first few pages worn, else very good. (80/120)
31. (California) Nine works on California. Includes: * Harlow, Neal. War and Peace on the Pacific, 1846-1850: California Conquered. Cloth, dj (price- clipped). University of California Press, [1982]. * Langellier, John Phillip. El Presidio de San Francisco: A History Under Spain and New Mexxico, 1776-1846. Cloth, dj. Arthur H. Clark, 1996. * Robertson, J.W. The Harbor of St. Francis: Francis Drake Lands in a Fair and Good Bay Near North Latitude 38. Boards, dj. One of 100 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press, 1926. * Carrasco, Amancio Landin. Islario Espanol del Pacifico: Identificacion de los descubrimientos en el Mar del Sur. Wrappers. Ediciones Cultura Hispanica, 1984. * Steward, George R. Donner Pass and Those Who Crossed It. Cloth. California Historical Society, [1960]. * Trend, J.B. Juan Ramon Jimenez: Fifty Spanish Poems. Cloth, dj. Dolphin Book Co., [1950]. * Hanna, Warren L. Lost Harbor: The Controversy over Drake’s California Anchorage. Cloth, dj. University of California Press, [1979]. * Jimenez, Juan Ramon. Platero and I. Cloth. Dolphin Book Co., [1956]. * Beilharz, Edwin A. Felipe de NEve: First Governor of California. Cloth. California Historical Society, 1971. Various places: Various dates Mild to moderate general wear; mostly very good. (200/300) Page 8 32. (California) Seven works on the history of California. Includes: * Wagner, Henry R. Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast of America in the Sixteenth Century. Cloth. California Historical Society, 1929. * Barrett, Ellen C. Baja California, 1535-1956 [and] Baja California II, 1535-1964. 2 volumes. Cloth, slipcases. No. 48 of 50 copies, signed by Mary A. Barrett. Bennet & Marshall, 1957 [and] 1967. * Bolton, Herbert Eugene. Outpost of Empire: The Story of the Founding of San Francisco. Cloth. Knopf, 1939. * Chapman, Charles Edward. The Founding of Spanish California. Cloth. Macmillan, 1916. * Treutlein, Theodore E. San Francisco Bay: Discovery and Colonization, 1769-1776. Cloth, dj. California Historical Society, 1968. * Ibanez, Vicente Blaco. Queen Calafia. Cloth. 2nd printing. E.P. Dutton, [1924]. * Duffus, R.L. Queen Calafia’s Island. Cloth-backed boards, dj. W.W. Norton, [1965]. Various places: Various dates Some light wear; very good or near fine. (150/250)
33. (California) Seven works on the history of California. Includes: * Wagner, Henry R. Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast of America in the Sixteenth Century. Cloth. California Historical Society, 1929. * Denis, Alberta Johnston. Spanish Alta California. Cloth. Macmillan, 1927. * Kelsey, Harry. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo. Cloth, dj. Huntington Library, 1986. * Van Nostrand, Jeanne. A Pictorial and Narrative History of Monterey: Adobe Capital of California, 1770-1847. Cloth, dj. California Historical Society, 1968. * The Queen of California: The Origin of the Name of California. Cloth-backed boards. 1 of 500 copies. Colt Press, 1945. * Treutlein, Theodore E. San Francisco Bay Discovery and Colonization, 1769-1776. Cloth, dj. California Historical Society, 1968. * Lemke, Nancy. Cabrillo: First European Explorer of the California Coast. Wrappers. EZ Nature Books, 1991. Various places: Various dates Light wear; near fine. (150/250)
34. (California) Small group on Spanish travel and exploration of California. Includes: * Mathews, W. Michael. Spanish Approaches to the Island of California. Boards. One of 400 copies. Book Club of California, 1975. * The Voyage of Sebastian Vizcaino to the coast of California, together with a map & Sebastian Vizcaino’s letter written at Monterey, December 28, 1602. Cloth-backed boards, plain paper dj. One of 240 copies. Book Club of California, 1933. * Burrus, Ernest J. La Obra Cartografica de la Provincia Mexicana de la Compania de Jesus (1567- 1967). 2 volumes (volume 2 a collection of loose maps housed in a portfolio). One of 1000 copies. Wrappers. Ediciones Jose Porrua Turanzas, 1967. * 2 copies of: Wagner, Henry R. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo: Discoverer of the Coast of California. Cloth-backed boards. One of 750 copies. California Historical Society, 1941. * Letter of Sebastian Vizcaino written from Monterey on December 28, 1602 and sent to New Spain by the Almiranta. Wrappers. Thomas W. Norris, 1949. * O’Crouley, Pedro Alonso. A Description of The Kingdom of New Spain. Cloth. John Howell, 1972. * 2 copies of: Mathes, W. Michael. Vizcaino and Spanish Expansion in the Pacific Ocean, 1580-1630. Cloth, dj. One copy inscribed and signed by author. California Historical Society, 1968. * The Apostolic Life of Fernando Consag: Explorer of Lower California. Cloth. One of 500 copies. Dawson’s, 1968. Various places: Various dates Mostly mild general wear; mostly near fine. (300/500) Page 9 35. (California) Five fine press works on California. Includes: * Mawn, Geoffrey P. Jasper O’Farrell: Surveyor, Farmer & Politician. Cloth-backed boards, plain paper dj. With original prospectus laid in. 1 of 350 copies. Book Club of California, 2001. * An Essay by Gary F. Kuruts on A Bibliography of California and the Pacific West, 1510-1906 by Robert E. Cowan. Cloth-backed boards. With original leaf. 1 of 390 copies. Book Club of California, 1993. * Harding, George L. Don Agustin V. Zamorano: Statesman, Soldier, Crafsman, and California’s First Printer. Cloth, dj. Zamorano Club, 1934. * A Facsimile Edition of California’s First Book Reglamento Provicional Printed at Monterey in 1834 by Augustin V. Zamorano. Cloth. 1 of 400 copies. Book Club of California, 1954. * Geographic and Hydrographic Description of Many Northern and Southern Lands and Seas... Cloth. Dawson’s Book Shop, 1974. Various places: Various dates Fine or nearly so. (150/250)
36. (California - Lake County) Three items relating to Seigler Springs, Lake County, California. Includes: * Vintage albumen photograph, bird’s-eye view, captioned in ink in lower margin “Sieglar [sic] Springs, Lake Co., Cal.” 11.5x19.5 cm., on period mount. (Some soiling to mount, corner wear, 1 chipped; small spot to image.) c.1890. * Seigler Hot Springs: W.H. Roberts, Manager. [24] pp. Illustrated from photographs. 15.5x10.2 cm., wrappers lettered in gilt. [San Francisco: Commercial Art Co., c.1900]. * Seigler Hot Springs, Lake County, California. 1 folded sheet (8 pp.) Illustrated from photographs; map. 22.7x14.3 cm. (Faint vertical crease.) c.1950s. Together, 3 items. Various places: Various dates Only only copy of the 24-page booklet is listed by OCLC/WorldCat, at Saint Patrick’s Seminary and University; there are no copies listed of a folding brochure from the 1950s, although there is one with the same title at U.C. Berkeley dated in the 1920s. Very good condition. (400/600)
37. (California - Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties) Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850. 507 pp. Lithograph general title page and lithograph title page for each county, engraved title page for California section. Illustrated with lithograph map, numerous lithograph views, engraved portrait plates. (4to), later crimson calf and black boards, gilt spine title. First Edition. San Francisco: Fariss & Smith, 1882 Scarce illustrated history of 3 rural Northern California counties. Cowan p.494; Rocq 6344 Rebound, as noted; minor scuffing to covers; owner name to blank preliminary leaf; slight foxing to first few leaves; a few pencil notations to Sierra County section; a few leaves frayed at fore-edge; else very good. (300/500)
PROPERTY FOR SALE IN SANTA ROSA 38. (California - Santa Rosa) Map of College Addition to Santa Rosa, California. Broadside map, printed in red ink. 37x28 cm. (14½x11”). Santa Rosa: 1892 Rare broadside advertising the sale of “This beautiful property...in the midst of a choice residence portion of the city of Santa Rosa... it must be sold before May 20, 1892, terms easy, address, H.M. McKnight, Santa Rosa, Cal.” The land is bounded by College Ave., North St., 5th St., and King St.; lot prices are shown. OCLC/WorldCat locates only two copies (Yale and Berkeley) in addition to a photocopy at Sonoma County Library and an unlocated listing. Slight browning to paper, faint crease at upper right corner; near fine. (500/800)
Page 10 39. (California - Solano County) [Munro-Fraser, J.P.]. History of Solano County Comprising an Account of its Geographical Position; the Origin of Its Name; Topography, Geology and Springs...also, A Full and Particular Biography of Its Early Settlers and Principal Inhabitants. [iii]-[xvi], [17]-503 pp. Illus. with 20 lithographed portrait plates, each with facing blank cardstock sheet. (8vo) 25x16 cm. (9½x6¼) later red buckram, gilt spine title. First Edition. San Francisco: Wood, Alley & Co., 1879 Best early history of the county north of the Carquinez Straits, on the way from San Francisco to Sacramento, and the apricot center of California. Cowan p.597; Howes M897; Rocq 14603. Rebound, as noted, covers clean and unworn; small skinned spot to front blank leaf, some spotting to contents, a few of the card blanks lightly stained; else near fine. (150/250)
40. (California - Statutes) Three early editions of the Statutes of California - 1850, 1851, and 1854. Includes: The Statutes of California, Passed at the First Session of the Legislature... (4to), full sheep. San Jose [i.e. New York]: J. Winchester, State Printer, 1850. * The Statutes of California, Passed at the Second Session of the Legislature... (8vo) full sheep. Title page is a cancel leaf, one leaf of errata inserted. Lacking one leaf of errata and one leaf of contents. No place [New York] Eugene Casserly, State Printer, 1851. * The Statutes of California, Passed at the Fifth Session of the Legislature. (8vo) full sheep. Binding warped. Sacramento: B.B. Redding, State Printer, 1854. Together 3 volumes. Various places: 1850, 1851, & 1854 All with wear to bindings; foxing; good. (250/350)
41. (California - Sutter County) Sutter County and the First National Bank of Yuba City, 1873-1926. [20] pp. Illustrations in sepia by Francis Todhunter(?). 24x15.5 cm. (10x6½”), wrappers. No place: c.1926 Short history of the bank that began as the Farmer’s Cooperative Union of Sutter County. OCLC/WorldCat lists only one copy, at the California State Library. With blindstamp of Thomas E. Hayden, United States Commissioner of the Northern District of California, to title-page; ink ownership signature of noted collector A.T. Leonard, M.D., 1926, to front flyleaf. Light offsetting within from the illustrations; near fine. (100/150)
42. Capron, E[lisha] S. History of California, from Its Discovery to the Present Time; Comprising also a Full Description of its Climate, Surface, Soil...with a Journal of the Voyage from New York, via Nicaragua, to San Francisco, and Back, via Panama. [2], [iii]-xi, 356 pp. Large folding hand-colored lithographed map of California with an inset of San Francisco, by J.H. Colton, dated 1854, before the title page, as issued. (12mo), original blindstamped brown cloth, spine stamped and lettered in gilt. First Edition. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1854 Important observations of San Francisco and California during the early years of development following the initial rush for gold. In 1853 Capron went to California as a commercial agent of several large mercantile houses in New York City. He visited the principal cities and villages of the state, and traversed the various mining regions. Besides an in-depth description of San Francisco’s lurid side, he gives definitions of various mining techniques, and description of the miners’ court, miners’ home, and Chinese exclusion. Cowan p.104; Graff 580; Howes C127; Kurutz 116; Rocq 16759; Wheat Gold Region 254. Tiny tear at spine head, a bit bumped and rubbed; small stub tear at map; very good. (300/500)
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Page 11 43. Catlin, George. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians...Written during Eight Years’ Travel amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, in 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39. 2 volumes in 1. viii, 264; viii, 266 pp. Many illustrated plates, maps (including 1 folding). (8vo) rebound in half brown morocco and pebbled green cloth. Third Edition. London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842 Important study of the American Indians by artist and anthropologist George Catlin who visited 48 Indian tribes on his tour of the West and executed some 600 paintings. Howes C241; Sabin 11536; Wagner-Camp 84:5. Moderate wear and rubbing to cloth, morocco; fore edge of folding map reinforced with paper (a few tiny chips), scattered marginal finger soiling; very good. (200/300)
44. (Cattle Growers’ Convention) Wilson, Mrs. Augustus. Opening Session of the First National Cattle Growers’ Convention: A Convention of Ten Thousand Cattlemen - Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Prominent Men Attending the Convention.... Pp. 290-326 in Parson’s Memorial and Historical Library Magazine. Illustrated with wood engravings. (8vo), gilt-pictorial red cloth. St. Louis: Becktold & Co., 1885 Valuable account of the proceedings of the convention, with short biographies of many prominent cattlemen. First printed separately the same year, as Memorial Sketch of the First National Convention of Cattlemen..., containing about 90 additional pages which were a list of all of those attending, and an actual transcript of the proceedings, but as Reese notes, this abridged printing “contains the gist of what was discussed.” He also elaborates on the importance of the work, calling it the record “of one of the most important conventions of cattlemen, meeting as it did at the peak of the cattle boom. The great topics of discussion were Texas fever and the proposed National Cattle Trail. Cattlemen from throughout the West were present.” -Reese Six Score 115; Adams Herd 2536; Howes W516, Spine heavily worn, mild to moderately rubbed and soiled covers; hinges cracked, endpapers loose; else very good. (150/200)
EARLIEST SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO CALIFORNIA 45. Chappe d’Auteroche, Jean. A voyage to California, to observe the transit of Venus. By Mons. Chappe d’Auteroche. With an historical description of the author’s route through Mexico, and the natural history of that province. Also, a voyage to Newfoundland and Sallee, to make experiments on Mr. Le Roy’s time keepers. By Monsieur de Cassini. [6], 215 pp. Folding copper-engraved plan of Mexico City. (8vo) 21x12.5 cm. (8¼x5”), modern half calf & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, morocco lettering piece. First Edition in English. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1772 First edition of one of the earliest scientific expeditions to California, sent out by the French government much to the consternation and suspicion of the Spanish, spurring the dispatch of Gaspar de Portolá in 1769 and hastening settlement of Upper California. Streeter describes the work as “A thrilling account of a race against time to reach Lower California before the transit of Venus occurred. After nerve-racking 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 [1728-1769], 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.” According to most sources, the engraved map of Mexico City probably was based on one by José Antonio Alzate y Ramírez. Howes C299; Streeter Sale 2443 (for 1st edition). Bookplate of James Douglas on front pastedown, that of Jose Ramon de Velasco on verso of front free endpaper. Old ink signature of B. Dalton to top of title-page. Rubbing to boards, spine a bit faded; lacking the half-title, prelims. creased, a bit of soiling to contents; very good. (1500/2500)
Page 12 Lot 45 46. (Chicago) A Biographical History, with Portraits, of Prominent Men of the Great West. 720, [3] pp. Illustrated with numerous steel-engraved portrait plates with tissue guards, (folio) 35x26 cm. (13¾x10”), original full morocco, gilt spine, boards stamped in blind. First Edition. Chicago: Manhattan Publishing Co., 1894 Biographies with fine steel-engraved portraits of more than 300 mostly Chicago and surrounding-area notables. Scarce. Spine detached and laid in (bottom quarter of spine lost), boards nearly detached, boards scuffed at edges and corners, white stains to boards; bookplate to front pastedown; very good internally and fair overall. Sold as-is. (100/150)
47. Christy, Edwin P[earce]. The Lilly of the Valley: Christys Melodies: As Composed and Sung by Them, at Their Concerts with Distinguished Success. 5 pp. 33.5x25 cm (13¼x10”) lithographed front cover. New York: Jaques and Brother, 1847 E.P. Christy (1815-1862) was the founder of the blackface minstrel group Christy’s Minstrels. This sheet music, Lilly of the Valley, is number 6, in this series of 12 songs composed by Christy. His group, Christy’s Minstrels started touring in April 1846. With a lithographed cover composed of a portrait of Christy at top, and the minstrel performers dancing, singing and playing instruments. Only 6 copies of this sheet music on OCLC / Worldcat. Name in ink, rubberstamp at lower right corner, and blind embossed stamp at top left corner of front wrappers, light spots of yellow; very good. (200/300)
48. (Civil War) Moat, Louis Shepheard, editor. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War. Woodcut illustrations throughout. (Folio) 17x12, original blindstamped brown cloth lettered in gilt. New York: Mrs. Frank Leslie, [1896] “Most Important Events of the Conflict Between the States Graphically Pictured. Stirring Battle Scenes and Grand Naval Engagements, Drawn by Special Artists on the Spot...” Light wear to cloth, corners rubbed, some fading to gilt lettering; internally near fine, superior to that typically encountered. (250/350)
Page 13 49. Coburn, Walt. Pioneer Cattleman in Montana: The Story of the Circle C Ranch. (8vo), brown cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1968] “In 1886, Robert Coburn, who had been ranching in Montana for a number of years, bought 30,000 acres of land from Granville Stuart. The land lay in the long shadows of the Little Rockies of Montana, and Coburn called it a ‘Cattleman’s Paradise.’” -from dust jacket. Jacket lightly worn, some spotting to cloth; very good. (100/150)
SEVERAL LOTS ON COLORADO 50. (Colorado Gold Fields of Cripple Creek. [48] pp. Illustrated from photographs; 2 maps, 1 of them folding. 13.2x19.7 cm. (5½x7¾”), original pictorial wrappers. First Edition. [Colorado Springs]: [Woods Investment Co.], [1901] Scarce brochure to accompany the Colorado Exhibit in the Mines Building at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York. The exhibit was made by the Woods Investment Company. Front wrapper with 2½x1” piece missing from upper right corner, 2x½” chip to rear wrapper; else very good. (200/300)
51. (Colorado) Official Souvenir and Manual of the Fifteenth General Assembly and State of Colorado. (270), + [12] ad pp. Illustrations throughout from photographs, portraits, etc. (Oblong 4to) 23.5x31 cm. (9¼x12¼”), original red cloth stamped in gilt and silver. First Edition. Denver: E.J. Miller, 1905 Scarce Colorado mug book: “Being a collection of portraits, engravings and biographies of the state officials, members of the Supreme Court, members of the Senate and House of Representatites(sic) of the Fifteenth General Assembly”. There appears to have originally been an illustration mounted to the front cover, it is no longer present. Light wear and soiling to cloth, front free endpaper lacking, rear hinge starting to crack; small ink Xs next to the biographies and photographs of several individuals; very good. (150/250)
52. (Colorado) Paonia Fruit: The Great Horticultural Region of Colorado. Nineteen Crops Without a Failure (wrapper title). 31, [1] pp. Illustrated from photographs.19.6x13.5 cm. (7¾x5¼”), original wrappers lettered in gilt. [Denver]: [W.F. Robinson Printing Co.], [1904] Rare little promotional for the region in Colorado, with caption title within “The North Fork Valley.” OCLC/WorldCat lists one copy of a slightly expanded version of the following year (notes “20 crops without a failure” on the wrapper), but no copies of this earlier version. Some soiling to wrappers, gilt lettering tarnished; dampstain to first several leaves, very good. (200/300)
RODEO IN MONTE VISTA COLORADO 1928 53. (Colorado) San Luis Valley Ski-Hi Stampede, Monte Vista, Colo. August 1-2-3-1928 [Program]. 64 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs. 22.3x15 cm. (8¾x5¾”), original yellow illustrated wrappers. [Denver]: [Welch-Haffner Printing Co.], 1928 Owned and given under the Auspices of The Monte Vista Commercial Club. San Luis Valley Ski-Hi Stampede is Colorado’s oldest pro rodeo, celebrating its 90th year running in 2011. Only 2 institutions holding this yearly publication, according to OCLC / Worldcat. A touch of edge wear to wrappers; near fine. (800/1200)
Page 14 54. (Colorado) Lot of 5 Colorado Tour Books. Includes: Colorado: What it Costs to Live There, etc. n.p.: Chicago & North-Western Railway, 1907. (small 8vo) color pictorial wrappers; Steele, James. Colorado via the Burlington Route (cover title). Chicago: Burlington& Quincy Railroad Co., 1900, (8vo) color pictorial wrappers; Around the Circle: One Thousand Miles Through the Rocky Mountains. Denver: Passenger Dept. Denver & Rio Grande RR, 1896, (8vo) color pictorial wrappers; Famous Colorado Resorts: Colorado Springs, Manitou, Denver and Cripple Creek. St. Louis: Passenger Dept. Missouri Pacific Railway System, circa 1900. (oblong 8vo) color pictorial wrappers; Nature’s Romance: Over the Loop. Clear Creek Canon and Adjacent Scenery. Denver: Colorado News Co., 1902. (4to) gray wrappers stamped in green and black. Together 5 volumes, various paginations, all illustrated from photographs. Various Places: Various Dates A representation of of railroad promotional pamphlets promoting travel to and within Colorado. Wear to spine of second volume; third volume with nibbling across top edge; mild to moderate soiling to wrappers of fourth and fifth volumes; toning to contents of fifth volume; overall else very good or better. (400/600)
55. (Colorado) Lot of 4 Colorado View Books. Includes: Mieir, W. O. Westcliffe Colorado: A Short Sketch of this Most Delightful Resort. Denver: Carson-Harper Co., 1898, (4to) green wrappers with gilt title; Views of the Garden of the Gods. Manitou, CO: Paul Goerke & Son, 1904. (oblong 8vo) green wrappers with title in black; Manchester and Its Points of Interest. NY: Mercantile Illustrating Co., 1895. (4to) pale yellow wrappers stamped in gilt; Manitou Springs, Colorado: A Brief Description of this Resort, etc. n.p. Compliments of the Barker Hotel circa 1890. (12mo) pictorial wrappers. Together 4 items, various paginations, first 3 illustrated from photographs, last item with engraved illustrations. Various Places: Various Dates Nice group of vintage Colorado promotional materials. First volume with fading and some chipping to wrappers; second volume with mild soiling to wrappers; third volume with crease to lower corner of front wrapper, mild soiling to wrappers; last volume fine and all contents very good to fine. (250/350)
56. (Colorado) Three Colorado View Books. Includes: * Denver, Colo. [14] pp. Red cloth. * The Loop and Clear Creek Canyon. [12] pp. Red cloth. * Views along the Denver & Rio Grande R.R. [12] pp. Tan cloth. [c.1890s] Three scarce books of lithograph views, including several panoramic views of Denver. Light wear to bindings; overall very good or better. (250/350)
57. Colton, Walter. Three Years in California. 456 pp. Illustrated with 6 steel-engraved portrait plates and 6 duotone woodcut plates; map; folding facsimile. (8vo) old black half leather and cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1850 Contains an oft-lacking facsimile of the California Declaration of Rights facing page 412. “Colton, the first alcalde of Monterey under American control, wrote a diary largely devoted to interesting details of incidents connected with the author’s administration of justice, with frequent remarks on the manners and customs of the people...” - Zamorano. Cowan p.137; Graff 839; Howes C625; Kurutz 151a; Wheat Gold Region p.74, map 148; Zamorano Eighty, 20. Binding well worn; old tape repairs to folding facsimile; foxing; good only. (100/150)
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Page 15 58. Connelley, William E. War With Mexico, 1846-1847: Doniphan’s Expedition and the Conquest of New Mexico and California. xiv, [errata leaf], 670 pp. Illustrations from photographs and other sources; 2 folding maps. Original cloth lettered in black & gilt, pictorial cover label. First Edition. Kansas City: Bryant & Douglas, 1907 Includes a reprint of John T. Hughes’ work on the Doniphan Expedition, with notes. There were also copies with a Topeka, Kansas imprint. Cowan p.139; Graff 851; Howes C688. Spine a touch sunned; near fine. (200/300)
59. (Cowboy Life) Cowboy Life [cover title]. 22 lithograph views on 12 leaves, accordion folded. 11.8x14.5 cm. (4¾x5¾”) original blue boards stamped in gilt and blind. First Edition. Portland, ME: Chisholm Bros., circa 1885 An early depiction of the life of a cowboy full of iconic images of the life of an American cowpuncher. The plates include the Mess Wagon; Roping a Steer; Branding on the Prairie; Pitching Broncho; Hitting the Breeze; Cutting Out; Throwing a Steer; Skinning a Beef; Bull Fight on the Plains; Branding a Maverick; “Pikes Peak or Bust,” etc. Scarce. Wear to spine; edges and corners rubbed; free folding section detached from first (mounted) leaf; else very good. (200/300)
60. (Dakota Territory) Laws Passed at the Fourteenth [Fifteenth] Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota. 2 volumes. (8vo), first volume in original calf-backed printed boards, second in period half calf and marbled boards Yankton, D.T.: Bowen & Kingsbury, printers, 1881, 1883 Two early collections of territorial law. Some wear to bindings, pages a bit browned; very good. (300/500)
61. (Dakotas) Hagerty, Frank H. The State of North Dakota: The Statistical, Historical and Political Abstract. Agricultural, Mineral, Commercial, Manufacturing, Educational, Social, and General Statements. 90 pp. 22.2x14.7 cm. (8¾x5¾”), original printed wrappers. First Edition. Aberdeen, S.D.: Daily News Print., 1889 Adams Herd 953, calling it rare. Slight chips to spine and lower corner of front wrapper, contents a little darkened, very good or better. (150/200)
62. (Dakotas) McClure, P. F. Resources of Dakota. An official publication compiled by the commissioner of immigration, under authority granted by the territorial legislature. Containing descriptive statements and general information relating to the soil, climate, productions ... The vacant public lands and how to obtain them ... 498pp. Illustrations; statistical tables; a few maps including color geological map of the Black Hills. 21.5x15 cm. (8½x5¾”), original printed front wrapper. First Edition. Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory: Argus-Leader Co., 1887 A scarce and quite extensive homesteader’s guide to Dakota Territory, covering commerce, agricultural lands, manufactures, geography, minerals, stock raising, etc. The engraved illustrations include schools, churches, public buildings, penitentiaries, business establishments, and more. The whole is a well indexed statistical compendium for Dakota, and with a separate treatment of each county. Adams Herd 2119; Allen, Dakota Imprints 497. Some chipping to wrappers, spine partially perished, very good. (150/200)
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Page 16 63. Darby, William. The Emigrant’s Guide to the Western and Southwestern States and Territories: Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Description of the States of Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio; the Territories of Alabama, Missouri, Illinois, and Michigan, and the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. With a complete List of the Road and River Routes, west of the Alleghany Mountains . . . [6], 311, xiii pp. Illustrated 1 full-page and 1 folding map (lacking folding frontispiece map). (8vo) 21.5x13 cm. (8½x5¼”); period full tree calf, morocco lettering piece. First Edition New York: Kirk & Mercein, 1813 A guide to the Mississippi valley region, including territories acquired in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Folding map depicts Mobile, Perdido, and Pensacola Bays; the full page map contains township charts in an unstated region. Howes D-61; Sabin 18527 Joints rubbed, overall scuffing and moderate staining to leather, front joint cracked but holding, boards a bit bowed, rubbing to edges and corners; lacking frontispiece map, foxing to text and maps, folding map torn at lower folds and frayed at fore-edge, else near very good. (300/500)
64. Dawson, William Leon. The Birds of California: A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and Subspecies of Birds Found in the State. 4 volumes. Hundreds of illustrations including color plates after watercolors and photogravures and duotone plates. Artists and photographers include Donald R. Dickey, Wright M. Pierce, Wm. L. Finley, the author, Major Allan Brooks and others. (4to), original pictorial embossed yellow-green cloth, top edges gilt. One of 350 copies of the Format De Luxe, Sunset Edition, this set out-of-series. San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco: South Moulton Company, 1923 Dawson’s great work on California ornithology. Issued in a variety of formats and limitations, this being one of the scarcer issues. Some light wear to extremities; very good. (500/800)
MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A SEA VOYAGE FROM BOSTON TO NEW ORLEANS IN 1856 65. (Diary of Sea Voyage) Notes of my first sea voyage from Boston to New Orleans (caption title). [35] pp. ink manuscript diary. 20.5x17 cm. (8¼x6¾”), modern leather (faux alligator). At sea: Oct 27-Nov. 26, 1856 Diary of a young man’s voyage from Beantown to the Big Easy aboard the “Franklin Heaven,” with observations that are fresh and insightful, if a little naive. He records initial sea-sickness of himself and fellow passengers (a number of whom are women), the weather, passing ships, the food fed to passengers (“very good, most of it. Beefsteak 3 times per day with fish, puddings, tea, coffee...”), etc. He is a keen observer, and provides insights into his fellow passengers. On Nov. 15 he records “the great event of today, after the oyster pie dinner, was the capture of a shark. I had just seated my self to play checkers in the wheel house when the alarm was given that a fish was about and running to the storm. I saw a shark coming towards us. We immediately put a piece of pork on our big hook bent a rope on it throw out... We soon had him on deck amid loud shouts. He measured 6½ feet in length...” One very interesting aspect of the diary is the presence of about 20 “Autographs of passengers on board the ship Franklin Heaven” towards the end, although a number appear to be in the same hand. Very good or better condition. (500/800)
66. Fischer, M. and Antonio Y. A. Abeytia. New Mexico Territorial Bureau of Immigration: Report as to Socorro County. [9] pp. 22x14.3 cm. (8½x5½”) original printed wrappers. Socorro, NM: Socorro Daily News Office, 1881 Scarce pamphlet prepared by 2 county commissioners promoting immigration to Socorro County, Arizona. Describes demographics, natural resources, etc. Eberstadt Catalog 136: 482; Streeter sale 477. Minor soiling and creasing to wrappers; else near fine. (200/300)
Page 17 67. Font, Pedro. San Francisco Bay and California in 1776: Three Maps with Outline Sketches Reproduced in Facsimile from the Original Manuscript Drawn by Pedro Font, Chaplain and Cartographer to the Expedition Led by Juan Bautista de Ansa... With an Explanation by Irving Berdine Richman. [4], 7 pp. With three facsimile maps from the original manuscript drawn by Pedro Font, 1 of them folding; facsimile of letter from Font. 16x11¾, quarter cloth & boards. One of 125 copies printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Providence, Rhode Island: The John Carter Brown Library, 1911 Font was chaplain and cartographer to the de Ansa overland journey from northern Mexico to the California coast during the winter of 1775-1776. The maps he drew are exceedingly important in the history of the cartography of the Southwest and California, being the first based on actual observations for much of the region. Cowan p. 216. With the bookplate of Robert Ernest Cowan on front pastedown. Rubbed and bumped at spine ends, light stray marks on boards; else near fine. (300/500)
68. Forbes, Alexander. California: A History of Upper & Lower California from their First Discovery to the Present Time, comprising an Account of the Climate, Soil, Natural Productions, Agriculture, Commerce, &c. A Full View of the Missionary Establishments and Condition of the Free and Domesticated Indians. With an Appendix relating to Steam Navigation in the Pacific. 10, xvi, 372 pp. With color plates from lithographs; folding map. (8vo), original cloth-backed gray boards. No. 168 of 250 copies. San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1919 Signed by publisher on limitation page. Reprint of the first edition, London, 1839. “This book is of value as being the first one printed in English to relate exclusively to California and is remarkable for the fact that the author did not see California until long after its publication. The book was written from descriptions furnished by his agents in California...The author... was a partner of Barron, Forbes & Company of Tepic, Mexico, owners of New Almaden mine in California” - Zamorano. Cowan p.217; Howes F242; Zamorano Eighty 38. Rubbed at edges, small tear at spine head, some scratching to boards, light wear to spine label; name in dark pencil on front pastedown; very good. (200/300)
69. Frémont, John Charles. The Expeditions of John Charles Frémont. 3 volumes, plus map volume. Edited by Donald Jackson and Mary Lee Spence. Eleven folding maps; plates. (8vo) 9¼x6, orange cloth, dust jackets (vols. 1-3), slipcase (maps). First Edition. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1970] Scholarly edition, containing “a large mass of hitherto unpublished correspondence and financial records, together with valuable explanatory notes and comments...” - Wagner-Camp. Wagner-Camp 115:25 note. Lacking the supplement to Volume 2. Fine. (250/350)
70. Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. 2 volumes. 584; 647, [1] pp. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait in each volume; with tissue-guards. Illustrated with several maps and wood engravings throughout; folding facsimile letter in Vol. I; tipped-in folding facsimile document in Vol. II. (8vo) original gilt stamped green cloth. First Edition. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885-86 With an 8-pp. leaflet laid in titled: Honoring General U.S. Grant. Stationed at Columbia Barracks, Vancouver, Washington. 1853. Printed by the Hill Military Academy, Portland, Oregon. Spines leaning, heavily worn edges, rubbing to covers and gilt decorations; hinges cracked or starting; some cracking at gutters between signatures, scattered marginal finger soiling; good. (200/300)
Page 18 71. Green, Thomas J. Journal of the Texian Expedition Against Mier; Subsequent Imprisonment of the Author; His Sufferings, and Final Escape from the Castle of Perote. With Reflections Upon the Present Political and Probable Future Relations of Texas, Mexico, and the United States...Illustrated by Drawings Taken from Life by Charles M’Laughlin, a Fellow-Prisoner. 487 pp. Illustrated with 13 steel-engraved plates (2 are battle plans, 1 of which is folding); tissue guards. 23.2x15 cm. (9x5¾”), original green blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845 Leading first-hand authority on the last of the raiding expeditions from Texas into the area south of the Nueces River during the days of the Republic of Texas. Jenkins calls it “The most important account of the tragic Texan expedition against Mier and the drawing of the black beans, this is also one of the most vitriolic Texas books.” Raines declares it “One of the best war histories of that period, and as fascinating as a romance, with incidents of soldier life on the march, in the battle, and in prison and drawings from life by Charles McLaughlin, a fellow prisoner. Bitter towards President Houston, but gives the reasons, and the reader must judge for himself ”. According to Graff the author “was particularly bitter toward Sam Houston and believed Houston was responsible for the deaths of those Americans shot as brigands.” Graff 1643; Howes G371; Jenkins 80; Rader 1670; Raines p. 98; Sabin 28562; Streeter 1581. Spine chipped at ends, heavily rubbed spine and covers; front cover detaching; lightly foxed; internally very good. (250/350)
RARE GUIDE TO THE SOUTHERN STATES THE YEAR AFTER THE CIVIL WAR 72. Hall, Edward H. Appletons’ Hand-Book of American Travel. The Southern Tour; Being a Guide Through Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky. [xii], 12, xii, 142, + [34] ad pp. Large folding map in pocket at front; colored folding map at title page; 5 folding plans. (8vo) 19.5x12.5 cm. (7¾x5”), original brown cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1866 Rare southern travel guide, published the year following the close of the Civil War. Includes plans of Baltimore, Washington D.C., Charleston, New Orleans and the Mississippi River. Numerous pages of illustrated advertisements for hotels, stationers, jewelers, etc. Some wear and soiling to cloth, lacks front free endpaper; short tear to folding map, a few pencil notations; very good. (1000/1500)
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73. Hall, James. Letters from the West; Containing Sketches of Scenery, Manners, and Customs; and Anecdotes Connected with the First Settlements of the Western States of the United States. vi, 385 + [1] ad pp. (8vo) modern morocco lettered in gilt. First Edition. London: Henry Colburn, 1828 Hall was one of the pioneer judicial and literary figures of the Ohio Valley in the early nineteenth century, this is his first work. Graff 1734. Howes H-74. Sabin 29789. Title-page and final leaf well soiled, the latter creased with two holes and corner missing; else very good. (250/350)
Page 19 74. Hayden, F[erdinand] V. Tenth Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territoris Embracing Colorado and Parts of Adjacent Territories, Being a Report of Progress of the Exploration for the Year 1876. xxx, 546 pp. Woodcut and lithograph plates and maps, many folding. (8vo) period brown half morocco, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878 One of the more richly illustrated of Hayden’s annual reports on the Colorado and New Mexico regions. Spine faded, lightly worn; several maps with tape repairs; very good. (250/350)
75. Hebard, Grace Raymond. Sacajawea, a Guide and Interpreter of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, With an Account of the Travels of Toussaint Charbonneau, and of Jean Baptiste, the Expedition Papoose. 340 pp. Illustrated. (8vo) red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition. Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1933 “This biography of Sacajawea was controversial because of the contention by the author that the Shoshone woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition lived for many years after her supposed death. Thus only small editions were issued over the years.” (Clark & Brunet). Howes H383; Clark & Brunet 117. Corners lightly bumped, bookplate of W.J. Holliday; near fine. (300/500)
76. Hebard, Grace Raymond. Washakie: An Account of Indian Resistance of the Covered Wagon and Union Pacific Railroad Invasion of Their Territory. Plates from photographs, etc.; folding maps. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1930 The author’s monogrammed calling card, signed, affixed to front free endpaper. Prospectus laid in. “Washakie played a central role in the westward movement of the Euro-Americans. He was a longtime friend of men such as Bridger, Kit Carson, Sublette, Jedediah Smith, and many others. He worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company, was a neighbor and friend of the Mormons and Brigham Young, and served as a scout with General Crook during the 1876 campaign against the Siouz. A chief of the Shoshone Indians, Washakie ruled for sixty years as a benevolent and respected despot.” Clark & Brunet, 118. A touch of edge wear, large bookplate of Clark S. Yowell on front pastedown; near fine. (200/300)
77. Hebard, Grace Raymond and E. A. Brininstool. The Bozeman Trail: Historical Accounts of the Blazing of the Overland Routes into the Northwest, and the Fights with Red Cloud’s Warriors. 2 volumes. Illustrated from drawings, plans, 2 color folding maps, and photographs including frontispieces. (8vo), red cloth with gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt. First Edition. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1922 Dustin calls this a valuable work, but believes some important facts were omitted. “This classic Clark title recounts the federal government’s attempt to open a road north from the Oregon Trail through the Powder River country, hunting grounds of the Sioux, in the late 1860s.” (Clark & Brunet). Dustin 139; Howes H382; Clark & Brunet 115. A few small spots of soiling to cloth; near fine. (300/500)
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Page 20 SCARCE BROADSIDE ADVERTISING FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC VOYAGE OF THE HINDENBURG 78. (Hindenburg Airship) First Flight of the New Airship “Hindenburg” to the United States of America. Printed broadside with 3 small illustrations of postage stamps featuring the Zeppelin Hindenburg. 45x18 cm. (17¼x7”), framed. New York: Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei, April 3, 1936 Scarce broadside for the inaugural flight of the airship Hindenburg across the Atlantic to the United States, one of 10 (or 12) Demonstration Voyages, scheduled to arrive in Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 8th, 1936. The main purpose of the broadside is to sell mail to be carried on the Hindenburg from Frankfurt and from Lichtenstein, and also on the return trip. Hindenburg’s maiden flight to North America included 1059 kg of mail in 60 mail sacks, primarily first flight covers destined for stamp collectors. Later flights between Germany and North America carried between 90 and 236 kg of mail, including commercial mail as well as philatelic items. The Hindenburg is today remembered, of course, for the spectacular disaster on May 6, 1937, when it caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, killing 35 passengers and crew, and one member of the ground crew. No copies of this broadside are listed in OCLC/WorldCat. Vertical crease, very good, not examined out of frame. (500/800)
79. Holder, Charles Frederick. All About Pasadena and Its Vicinity: Its Climate, Missions, Trails and Cañons, Fruits, Flowers and Game. [8], 141 pp. Illustrations from woodcuts. Original pictorial blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. First Edition. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1889 A scarce history and guide for visitors. Cowan, p.289. Light wear to cloth, binding open in gutter between front flyleaf and frontispiece; else very good. (300/500)
80. Holmes, Kenneth L., editor. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840- 1890. 11 volumes. Portraits; maps; plates, etc. (8vo), blue-green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, plain paper jackets. Trade Edition. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1983-93 Diaries and letters of women on the overland trails to the west, reprinted verbatim, with no changes in spelling, punctuation, etc. A noteworthy compilation making available much hitherto forgotten source material. The set was initiated by Dr. Holmes after years of working and collecting in the field. Clark & Brunet, 124; Kurutz, 340. Light wear to jackets; volumes fine. (500/800)
81. Hornaday, William T. The Extermination of the American Bison, With a Sketch of Its Discovery and Life History [in: Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution...For the Year Ending June 30, 1887. Part II]. xviii, 771 pp. Illustrations from photos, drawings, etc.; folding map. (8vo) original black cloth. First Edition. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889 Hornaday’s report on the American Bison comprises pages 367 through 548. Spine sunned, light edge wear; very good. (250/350)
82. Hunt, Aurora. The Army of the Pacific: Its Operations in California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Plains Region, Mexico, etc. 1860-1866. Illustrated with 17 plates from old photographs, engravings, etc.; folding map. (8vo), blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1951 The first major study of the volunteer forces who replaced the federal troops in the West during the Civil War. Clark & Brunet, 130. Some staining to cloth, previous owner’s name; very good. (100/150)
Page 21 83. Hutchings, J[ames] M[ason]. Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California...including the Mammoth Trees of Calaveras... 236 pp. Many engravings within text. (8vo), original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt- lettered spine. First Edition, First Issue. San Francisco: Hutchings & Rosenfield, [1860] “Hutchings was editor and publisher of Hutchings’ California Magazine, founded in 1856. This book is the first work to promote the natural beauty and scenery of California” -Greenwood. Cowan p.300; Currey & Kruska 64; Farquhar 4a; Greenwood 1275. Some soiling and rubbing to covers, spine ends and corners a touch frayed; lacks front free endpaper, dampstain at top edge of last 100 pages, plus rear endpapers; else very good. (150/200)
84. (Iowa) The History of Washington County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, its Cities, Towns, &c., a Biographical Directory of its Citizens, War Record of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest . . . vi, (7)-702 pp. Illustrated with 6 lithographed portrait plates, 4 wood-engraved views, 2 plans, 1 folding map. (8vo) 23x15 cm. (9¼x6”) publisher ¾ red calf and black cloth, gilt spine and cover titles. First Edition. Des Moines: Union Historical Co., 1880 Early history of the county, located in the south-east corner of the state. Scuffs to surface of spine, corners worn, cover cloth worn with edges of boards exposed, front cover gilt rubbed, small holes to cover cloth; stain to margin of p. iv and back of folding map, tears to folding map; good. (150/200)
85. Johnson, Edwin F. The Navigation of the Lakes and Navigable Communications Therefrom to the Seaboard and to the Mississippi River, and Relation of the Former to the Lines of Railway Leading to the Pacific. 48 pp. 23x15 cm. (9x5¾”), original printed wrappers. First Edition. Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Co., 1866 An analysis by a civil engineer of navigation from the Great Lakes to the Eastern seaboard as well as to the West. He speculates that the best means of connecting “the Sacramento Valley in California, where most of the population of California is congregated” to the East will be by rail to the Columbia River and thence by existing navigable waterways and proposed canals. Scarce in commerce, with only 1 auction record in 35 years. Howes J-132; Sabin 36206. Faint ink library stamp and notation to top of front wrapper; chips to corners of wrappers; couple short tears to edges; else near fine. (150/200)
IMPORTANT RECONNAISSANCE OF TEXAS WITH 72 LITHOGRAPHED PLATES 86. Johnston, J[oseph] E[ggleston], et al. Reports of the Secretary of War, with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso... Also, the Report of Capt. R.B. Marcy’s Route from Fort Smith to Santa Fe; and the Report of Lieutenant W.J.C. Whiting’s Reconnaissances of the Western Frontier of Texas. 250 pp. With 72 lithographed plates, 27 of them in color, 3 of three of them folding, 2 folding lithographed maps. (8vo) rebound in red half morocco and cloth, spine lettered in gilt (with Johnston misspelled as Johnson). The maps and the folding plates are housed in a matching morocco-backed box. First Edition. Washington: Printed at the Union Office, 1850 Important reconnaissance in Texas, with striking plates of the land explored, the natives encountered, rock inscriptions, etc., a number printed in color, an early use of color lithography. Jenkins remarks that the work is a “valuable compendium of reports of government explorations that led to the opening of West Texas to travel and settlement...” The plates are numbered 1-75, but there were no plate numbers 2, 21, or 39 issued. The two maps are “Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio de Bexar, El Paso del Norte, &c. &c....” and “Map of the Route pursued in 1849 by the U.S. Troops, under the command of Bvt. Lieut. Col. Jno. M. Washington...” Graff 2228; Howes J120; Jenkins 111; Raines p.128; Sabin 36377; Wagner-Camp 184; Wheat Transmississippi 677. Foxing, folding maps with repaired tears, folding plates trimmed at top edges; very good. (700/1000) Page 22 87. Johnston, Joseph E. Southern Boundary Line of Kansas. Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting the report of Colonel Johnston’s survey of the southern boundary line of Kansas. 3 pp. With large folding lithographed map. (8vo), modern red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Washington: 1858 Short report with a large map of some significance, “Sketch of the Country near the Southern Boundary of Kansas,” 63x127.5 cm., showing much of the Santa Fe Trail, with a profile of the route from Neoso to Santa Fe. The survey was done just before the admission of Kansas to the Union, and concentrates on the feasibility of the railroad routes near the southern boundary line, a prospect which Johnston, as a southerner, encouraged in his report. House Ex. Doc. No. 103, 35th Congress, 1st Session. Rittenhouse 330; Wagner-Camp 301a. A few small tape repairs to text; map with extensive tape repairs on verso; good. (200/300)
88. (Kansas) Sims, Wm. Kansas: Its Resources and Capabilities, Its Position, Dimensions and Topography. Information Relating to Vacant Lands, Agriculture, Horticulture, and Live Stock. Together with Statements and Statistics Concerning Schools, Churches, Manufactures, Mines and Mining, Etc., Etc. (cover title). 60 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings; folding color frontispiece map of Kansas dated 1883 by Rand McNally, showing the various counties. 23.5x15.5 cm. (9x6”) original light green printed wrappers. First Edition. Topeka: Kansas Publishing House, 1883 A wealth of data on Kansas for the prospective settler. Author was secretary of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture. Scarce. OCLC locates only the 1884 edition. Howes S510 (citing 1884 German language edition only). Front wrapper detached and with small chips to edges; spotting to front wrapper; old pencil drawing to plain rear wrapper; contemporary ink stamp of “Crippen Lawrence & Co., Salina, Kansas” to first page; text clean and else very good. (150/200)
89. (Kino, Eusebio Francisco) Burrus, Ernest J. Kino and the Cartography of Northwestern New Spain. [7], 104 pp. Frontispiece portrait; maps and plates throughout. (Folio), original red cloth, gilt stamped on cover and spine, plain paper jacket. One of 750 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. First Edition. [Tucson]: Arizona Pioneers’ Historical Society, 1965 Important account of the cartographic accomplishments of Eusebio Francisco Kino, the Jesuit missionary who explored Pimeria Alta (northern Sonora and southern Arizona) and founded several missions in the region. His map of Baja California, “Passage par terre a la Californie,” published in Paris in 1705, is the earliest extant depiction of the Gila River, the Colorado River, and southern Arizona, based on first-hand observation. Kino’s letters, diaries and maps are indispensable resources for the study of the development of geographical conceptions of California and for the early history of the region south of the Gila on both sides of the Gulf of California. Edge wear to jacket; volume fine. (150/250)
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Page 23 90. (Kino, Eusebio Francisco) Eleven volumes on Father Kino’s travels. Includes: * Smith, Fay Jackson, et. al. Father Kino in Arizona. Cloth, slipcase. No. 30 of a special gift edition of 200 copies. Signed by the authors on limitation. Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966. * First From the Gulf to the Pacific: The Diary of the Kino-Atondo Peninsular Expedition. Cloth. 1 of 500 copies. Dawson’s, 1969. * Burrus, Ernest J. Kino Reports to Headquarters: Correspondence of Eusebio F. Kino, S.J. From New Spain with Rome. Blue cloth. Signed by author on title page. Institutum Historicum Societatis Jesu, 1954. * Lockwood, Frank C. With Padre Kino on the Trail. Wrappers. University of Arizona Bulletin, Social Science Bulletin, No. 5. 1934. * Dunne, Peter Masten. Pioneer Black Robes on the West Coast. Cloth, dj. University of California Press, 1940. * Bolton, Herbert Eugene. Kino’s Historical Memoir of Pimeria Alta. Cloth, dj. Signed by author. University of California, 1948. * Bolton, Herbert Eugene. Kino’s Historical Memoir of Pimeria Alta. Cloth. University of California, 1948. * Bolton, Herbert Eugene. The Padre on Horseback: A Sketch of Eusebio Francisco Kino. Cloth- backed boards, dj. Sonora Press, 1932. * Dunne, Peter Masten. Black Robes in Lower California. Cloth, dj. University of California, 1952. * Wyllys, Rufus Kay. Pioneer Padre: The Life and Times of Eusebio Francisco Kino. Cloth. Southwest Press, [1935]. * 2 copies of: Bolton, Herbert Eugene. Rime of Christendom: A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino. Both in cloth, djs. Jackets in various states of disrepair. Macmillan, 1936. Various places: Various dates Very good to near fine. (200/300)
SEVERAL LOTS ON THE LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION 91. (Lewis & Clark Expedition) Chuinard, E. G. Only One Man Died: The Medical Aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Illustrated with plates from paintings, drawings, maps, facsimiles, etc. (8vo), original red cloth, spine gilt, dust jacket. Prospectus laid in. First Edition. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1979 No. XIX of the publisher’s Western Frontiersman series. An important contribution to Lewis and Clark studies. “Dr. Chuinard brought to this work his own medical training and years of practice, extensive knowledge of medical history, and a passionate interest in the Lewis and Clark expedition.” Clark and Brunet, 41; Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, p. 250. Jacket price clipped, light wear at edges; a touch of wear to cloth; near fine. (150/250)
92. (Lewis & Clark Expedition) Clark, William. The Field Notes of Captain William Clark 1803-1805. xxxv, [3], 335 pp. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Ernest Staples Osgood. Illustrated with collotype facsimiles of the entire collection of 67 field note documents; a few figure drawings, facsimile map; portrait vignette from an engraving on the title page. (Folio), original green and black cloth, stamped in gilt, pictorial jacket. First Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964 Signed by the editor on blank leaf preceding title page. A well-organized and meticulously edited volume with extensive annotations and a very insightful introduction for these rare and valuable documents of one of the most famous explorations in American history. Light wear and soiling to jacket; volume fine. (150/250)
Page 24 93. (Lewis & Clark Expedition) Clarke, Charles G. The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A biographical record of the fifty-one members and a composite diary of their activities from all known sources. Illustrated with plates from paintings. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1970 “The work contains biographies of the full fifty-one members who set ou on the expedition, plus the seven who joined en route. It is based on many years of primary research by the author. Also included is a composite diary of the daily events of the expedition, summarizing the setting and principal occurrences for easy reference.” Clark & Brunet, 44. Slight lean to spine, light wear; very good. (250/350)
94. (Lewis & Clark Expedition) Moulton, Gary E., editor. Atlas of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Plates of facsimile maps throughout. (Folio) 19½x13½, blue cloth lettered in gilt. Second Printing. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, [1999] Atlas volume of Moulton’s significant new edition of the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, presenting in facsimile the many manuscript maps which were produced during the journey, and the finished later derivations from them. This atlas comprised Volume I of the Moulton edition. Fine. (300/500)
95. (Los Angeles) Kenney, Grant W. The Touring Two (A Travelogue). [32] pp. (including wrappers). Color photographic illustration on each page of various sights in Southern California. 10x24.5 cm (4x9¾”) white wrappers printed in black. First Edition. 72,000 Kenney-Neuner Series. Los Angeles: Neuner Company, [c.1910] A rare tourism booklet. The photographic illustrations mimic the size and coloring of the postcards of the time period. They illustrate various sights and establishments of Southern California such as Sing Fat’s, Newcomb’s Corset Shop, Arrowhead Hot Springs Hotel, and Follow’s Camp, Azusa, California. Only 3 copies located by OCLC / Worldcat. A scattering of tiny faint yellow spots to wrappers; else fine. (300/500)
96. Lossing, Benson J. Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America. 3 volumes. 608; 640; 640 pp. Each with a steel-engraved frontispiece; plus numerous wood engravings and small maps within the text. (8vo), rebound in modern full calf, black leather spine labels. First Edition. Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1866-68 Extensive study and report of the American Civil War from first-hand experience, published just after the war between the states. Spines a bit faded; some foxing; very good. (200/300)
97. (Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904) Printed contractural agreement in Russian for exhibiting at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, A.K.A. the St. Louis World’s Fair. 3 pp. on 4-page conjugate, printed in Russian, unused. 36x22.5 cm. (14x8¾”). St Louis: 1904 Rare piece of ephemera from the 1904 exposition in St. Louis, an unused contract printed in Russian, for exhibiting at the Fair. The Russian government decided not to participate in the Fair, even though exhibits from that country already had arrived in St. Louis. Space originally allocated to Russia was assigned to other exhibitors. Fair organizers did honor the request of a contingent of Russians allowing some smaller exhibits in the palaces of Fine Arts, Varied Industries, Manufactures and Education. Fine condition. (300/500)
Page 25 98. Ludlow, William. Report of a Reconnaissance from Carroll, Montana Territory, on the Upper Missouri, to the Yellowstone National Park, and Return, Made in the Summer of 1875. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1876 Capt. William Ludlow was chief Engineer of the Dakota Dept. of the Corps of Engineers. His expedition to Yellowstone in 1875 (3 years after it was made the nation’s first National Park) iincluded George Bird Grinnell as expedition geologist. Howes L557. Covers lightly scuffed, some wear to corners and spine tips, small paper library label to spine foot; old ink library stamp to title page and page 51 (no other library markings), tears to mounted edge of large folding map, lower outside corner of text block bumped; else near fine. (400/600)
99. Mackay, Malcolm S. Cow Range and Hunting Trail. xv, 243 pp. Illustrated with 24 plates, most from photographs, 3 from drawings by C.M. Russell. (8vo), original green gilt-lettered cloth. First Edition. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1925 Inscribed and signed by Mackey on the front free endpaper. Yost & Renner I:38; Howes M120. Some spotting to covers, remains of paper spine label at spine foot, ends and corners a bit bumped and rubbed; bookplate, else very good. (150/200)
100. (Madera County) What You Will See at Chowchilla: Take This Booklet With You When You Go To California. 45 pp. Double-page plate at center with photographs. 19x13.5 cm (7½x5¼”) original brown wrappers, printed in dark brown, pictorial label of a horse plow and the farmer guiding it. Chicago: Daniel Hayes Bldg., [c.1919] Rare real estate promotional booklet on Chowchilla, in Madera County, California. Published by The Daniel Hayes Company, Established 1855 and called “The National Farming Corporation,” so the booklet’s focus is on farmland. There are details on alfalfa growing, grapes, figs, and more. No copies located by OCLC / Worldcat. A touch of wear at wrapper edges; faint foxing to title page; a touch of rust at staples seen at gutters; very good. (300/500)
101. Magnussen, Daniel O., ed. Peter Thompson’s Narrative of the Little Bighorn Campaign 1876: A Critical Analysis of an Eyewitness Account of the Custer Debacle. Illustrations from photographs; folding frontispiece map. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, plain paper jacket. First Edition. Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1974 Thompson was a participant in the Sioux Wars of 1876, and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions in bringing water to his wounded comrades on Reno Hill while under fire. “His personal account of the battle, however, is unreliable and, at times, wholly fictitious. Daniel Magnussen’s careful editorial commentary, greater in length than the Narrative, is a most illuminating treatment of the Custer Battle and a first-class example of historical analysis.” Clark & Brunet, 249. Minor wear to jacket; volume fine. (150/250)
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Page 26 RARE SAUSALITO PROMOTIONAL WITH FOLDING PANORAMIC PLATES 102. (Marin County - Sausalito) Sausalito: The Geneva of America, Marin County, California. [28] pp. Illustrated throughout from photographs, including three 3-panel fold-out panoramas. 15.2x22.8 cm. (6x9”), original color pictorial wrappers. First Edition. San Francisco: Commercial Art Company, 1911
Lot 102 Very rare and extremely well-produced promotional piece for Sausalito, California, just north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate. The numerous photographs show the fine houses and other features of Sausalito, and the three striking panoramas cover North Sausalito, Sausalito Business Section and R.R. Depot, and South Sausalito. OCLC/WorldCat lists only one copy, at the Marin County Free Library. Just light wear, ½” patch of adhesion damage to top left corner of rear wrapper affecting no text or illustration, fine or nearly so. (1000/1500)
103. McCall, George A. Letters from the Frontiers. Written During a Period of Thirty Years’ Service in the Army of the United States. 539 pp. (8vo), original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First Edition. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1868 Major General George Archibald McCall (1802 – 1868) graduated from West Point in 1822, served in the second Seminole War, the Mexican War, and in New Mexico thereafter. He retired in 1853, but rejoined the military during the Civil War, only to be captured and sent to Libby Prison for several months before being exchanged. Howes M30; Graff 2574. Spine with horizontal tear at center, bottom half detaching, chipped at spine ends, lightly rubbed extremities; name written on title page in pencil, again in ink on page iii; very good. (100/150)
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Page 27 104. (Mendocino County) [San Francisco and North Pacific Railway]. The Camper’s Paradise [California]. [12] pp. Photographs views of the area’s camping, plus map of the Northern Pacific coast from Ukiah to San Francisco. 12x20 cm (4¾x8”) original white wrappers, lettered in green. S.F. & N.P.Ry., [c.1907-1908] Rare little booklet on Northern California’s camping. “To the angler, the hunter and the camper, no part of the State offers better inducements than the section traversed by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railway, the Picturesque Route of California. For several years this road has been stocking with trout the streams in Marin, Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino Counties, and is now constructing its own Hatchery at Ukiah for replenishing streams.” -page 1. The booklet goes on to describe Guerneville’s suitability for camping in detail. Only 3 copies on OCLC / Worldcat. Dark yellow strip at fore edge of front wrapper; very good. (250/350)
INSCRIBED BY JOAQUIN MILLER TO J. ROSS BROWNE 105. Miller, Joaquin. Songs of the Sierras - inscribed from Joaquin Miller to J. Ross Browne. [4] ad pp., [viii], 299 pp. (8vo), green cloth with bear vignette in gilt on front cover, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt. Second American Edition. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872 Inscribed and signed by the author on front blank leaf. Inscribed to author J. Ross Browne with kind regards. From San Francisco Cal. Jan 30, 1872. Beneath inscription another name penned in another hand, Mrs. C.E. Hoffmann. Rubbed and bumped at spine ends and corners; very good. (500/800)
106. Mills, Charles K. Harvest of Barren Regrets: The Army Career of Frederick William Benteen, 1834- 1908. Illustrations from photographs. (8vo) blue cloth, plain paper jacket. First Trade Edition. Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1985 “Benteen served under Custer and played a major role in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. This biography, the first full-length treatment of the man, carefully documents the conflicting elements of his personality, and the events in which he played a part.” - Clark & Brunet, 162. Fine. (100/150)
107. (Mining) Mining Laws Enacted by the Legislature of Colorado from First to Ninth Session, Inclusive, and the Laws of the United States Concerning Mines and Minerals together with Laws and Information Concerning Farming and Grazing Lands. 100 pp. 22.4x15 cm. (8¾x5¾”) original pale green printed wrappers. Fourth Edition. Central City, CO: Collier & Hall, 1873 Considerably expanded over previous editions, with corrections. Crease to front wrapper, small chip at fore-edge of front wrapper; else fine and partly unopened. (200/300)
108. (Mormon) [Jencks, E.N.]. The History and Philosophy of Marriage; Or, Polygamy and Monogamy Compared. 256 pp. (12mo) original gilt-lettered brown cloth. First Edition. Boston: James Campbell, 1869 Later editions contained chapters on Mormon polygamy, not included in this, the first, edition. (See Flake 4378) Spine sunned, extremities worn, hinges cracking; light foxing; good. (80/120)
Page 28 109. (Morrison, Alexander F.) Scrap book with information about the life and death of San Francisco lawyer Alexander F. Morrison, and his wife May. Scrapbook leaves are 40x28 cm (15¾x11”), each with an item related to the life and death, and subsequent trust funds for the family of Alexander F. Morrison, and his wife May Treat Morrison. San Francisco: 1920s-1960s San Francisco lawyer Alexander F. Morrison died on November 13, 1921 in Singapore, while on vacation. Scrapbook includes a few silverprint photographs of him and his wife May, engraved portraits, a facsimile of Alex Morrison’s final will and testament, a 7 pp. typed document from the SF Superior Court about the Morrison Estate, dated 1927, a typed copy of an article written by Edward Hohfeld for the California Law Review, a typed copy of an article about Morrison written for the Encyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. LIV, and much more on the UC Berkeley graduate. Many items which go into great detail about Morrison’s life and merits. Plus typed descriptions and documents, plus newspaper clippings, describing memorial projects such as the Alex F. Morrison Memorial Library at UC Berkeley. Mrs. May T. Morrison passed away in 1939, and there is much material on that, including a typed copy of her last will and testament, etc. Plus a few ephemeral items from the 1950s-1960s about events funded by the Morrison Memorial Fund. Some wear to contents; very good. (200/300)
110. Muir, John. Steep Trails. x, [2], 391 pp. Edited by William Frederic Badè. Illustrated with 12 plates, including frontispiece. (8vo) gray cloth lettered in white, pictorial cover label, top edge gilt. First Trade Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918 All of the essays in this book cover the period from 1873 to 1902. Kimes 351. Rubbed at spine ends and corners; ink inscription in the date of publication on the front free endpaper; very good. (80/120)
111. Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir, Manuscript Edition - Volumes 9 and 10 only. 2 volumes. Volumes 9 and 10 only. Edited by William Frederic Badè. Illustrated with numerous photogravure and halftone plates, the gravure plates with printed tissue guards, each with photogravure frontispiece. Green cloth, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. No. 736 of 750 copies. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923-24 With a manuscript leaf in pencil, by Muir inserted before frontispiece of Volume 9. The hand- written verse reads “Wherever the ancient glaciers that once loaded the range spread soil thin You find our ice here most abundant when a rich soil & genial climate have grown trees in to luxuriant forests-but following every kind of growth up the curving morains to the edge of the highest gl[acier] forests, & though I cannot of course expect my readers to fully” (stopping mid- sentence). Kimes 342. Spines yellowed, wear to labels; very good. (300/500)
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Page 29 MUIR’S PICTURESQUE CALIFORNIA IN TEN PARTS 112. Muir, John, editor. Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains from Alaska to Mexico. Ten volumes of loose plates, and textual leaves, housed in paper wrapper with illustration of bear, inserted in a pictorial grey cloth portfolios (silk ties lacking). Over 700 illustrations including 98 (of 120) mounted full-page plates on India paper including etchings, photogravures, photo- etchings, etc., all with printed tissue guards; 114 smaller in-text gravure illustrations are also printed on India paper and mounted. Pages measure 48.5x36 cm (19x14”). Plus 12 plates on satin, each tipped onto matting with two spots of glue at top corners. Those measure 37x27 cm (14½x10¾”). Impression No. 470. San Francisco and New York: The J. Dewing Company, Publishers, 1888 A monumental undertaking overseen by John Muir, illustrating the beauty of California. This set with 12 plates on satin. Kimes 172. Several tissue guards with edge wear; satin plates with more wear, some creasing, foxing, and edge wear to each, mostly mild; Volume 3 lacking the full page plates; very good. (1000/1500)
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113. Muir, John, editor. Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains from Alaska to Mexico. 2 volumes. [v]-xii, [2], 240; [2], [241]-478 pp. Profusely illustrated with etchings, engravings and photogravures. 39.5x29.5 cm. (15¾x11½”), original half morocco and gilt-pictorial cloth, spines lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. San Francisco and New York: J. Dewing Publishing Company, 1888 Superb array of etchings, engravings and photogravures from works by important Western artists, including Thomas Moran, Julian Rix, Frederic Remington, Thomas Hill, and many others. Besides editing the work, Muir provided seven articles. Cowan p.486; Kimes 175. Spines and edges moderately rubbed or worn with spine ends of each volume chipped, corners showing; light, mostly marginal scattered foxing; very good. (500/800)
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Page 30 114. (Narratives) Twelve works from the “Original Narratives of Early American History” series. Includes: * Burrage, Henry S., ed. Early English and French Voyages, Chiefly from Hakluyt. 1906. * Hodge, Frederick, ed. Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543. [1907]. * Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625. [1907]. * Hosmer, James Kendall. Winthrop’s Journal “History of New England”, 1630-1649. 2 volumes. 1908. * Jameson, J. Franklin, ed. Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664. [1909]. * Jameson, J. Franklin, ed. Johnson’s Wonder-Working Providence, 1628-1651. [1910]. * Hall, Clayton Colman. Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633-1684. 1910. * Myers, Albert Cook, ed. Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West new Jersey and Delaware, 1630- 1707. [1912]. * James, Bartlett Burleigh, ed. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680. [1913]. * Andrews, Charles, ed. Narratives of the Insurrections, 1675-1690. 1915. * Kellogg, Louise Phelps, ed. Early Narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1699. 1917. * Davis, William T. Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation, 1606-1646. 1923. Together 12 titles in 13 volumes, all in the original green cloth. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Various dates Light wear, a few with bookplates or previous owner’s names; very good. (300/500)
115. (Native American) Nine volumes of Annual Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Nine volumes, including: * 3rd Annual Report, 1881-82. 1884. * 5th Annual Report, 1883-84. 1887. * 8th Annual Report, 1886-87. 1891. * 11th Annual Report, 1889-90. 1894. * 15th Annual Report, 1893-94. 1897. * 16th Annual Report, 1894-95. 1897. * 17th Annual Report, 1895-96, Part 2. 1898. * 19th Annual Report, 1897-98, Part 2. 1900. * 23rd Annual Report, 1901-02. 1904. Together 9 quarto volumes, all in the original green cloth but for the 5th Annual Report which is in period half leather. Washington: Government Printing Office, Various dates The Bureau of American Ethnology was established in 1879 for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Indians of North America from the Interior Department to the Smithsonian Institution. But from the start, the bureau’s visionary founding director, John Wesley Powell, promoted a broader mission: “to organize anthropologic research in America.” Under Powell, the bureau organized research intensive multi-year projects; sponsored ethnographic, archaeological and linguistic field research; initiated publications series (most notably its Annual Reports and Bulletins); and promoted the fledgling discipline of anthropology. A wealth of information on the Native American nations, the present volumes include reports on the Maya, Navajo, Zuni, Pueblo, Sia, and other nations. All with some wear; overall good to very good. Not comprehensively collated, sold as is. (400/600)
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Page 31 SEVERAL LOTS ON NEBRASKA 116. (Nebraska) Illustrated Biographical Album of Northeastern Nebraska, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens. viii, (17)-599, 123, [1] pp. Lithograph portraits. (4to) 26.5x20.5 cm (10½x8”). original full leather, stamped in blind and gilt, all edges gilt. First Edition. Philadelphia & Omaha: National Publishing Company, 1893 A scarce Nebraska mug book; includes a section at the rear with portraits and biographies of the U.S. Presidents through Benjamin Harrison. Spine faded, head of spine pulled, short split to front joint, hinges cracked; erasure at head of title page with resulting small hole; very good. (400/600)
117. (Nebraska) National Greenback Party. Independent State Convention. The Electors of the Independent Greenback party of the State of Nebraska, are requested to send delegates from the several Counties, to meet in State Convention at Lincoln, on Tuesday the 26th of September, 1876 [Caption title]. [4] pp. 23x15.5, unbound leaflet. First Edition. Lincoln, Nebraska: Beach, printer, 1876 The Greenback Party (also known as the Independent Party, the National Independent Party, the National Greenback Party, and the Greenback Labor Party) was an American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology, active between 1874 and 1889. The party fielded Presidential candidates three times - in the elections of 1876, 1880, and 1884, before fading away. The present leaflet endorses Peter Cooper for President and Samuel F. Cary for Vice-President. OCLC/WorldCat locates only the copy in the Graff collection at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Rare. Graff 2950. Light foxing; fine. (500/800)
118. (Nebraska) Portrait and Biographical Album of Gage County, Nebraska. Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County . . . (9)-776, [8] pp. Numerous lithograph views and portraits. (4to) 27x20 cm. (10½x8”) original full brown morocco stamped in blind and gilt, all edges gilt. First Edition. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1888 Scarce history of Gage County, at the southeast corner of Nebraska. Spine stained, front joint splitting, scuffing to leather; cloth hinge at front split, 2 gathering loose, text block shaken; else very good. (100/150)
SIGNED BY NUMEROUS NEBRASKA STATE LEGISLATORS, 1901 119. (Nebraska) Reid, D.W. Souvenir of the Nebraska Legislature, 1901-1902 - Signed by most of the subjects. 169 pp. Ads on endpapers and front flyleaf. (Oblong 8vo) 13x20 cm (5¼x8”), original brown cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition. Lincoln, Nebraska: Jacob North & Co., Printers, 1901 “Containing portrait engravings of all the state officers, members and officers of the state legislature, and other officials, with brief biographical sketch of each person.” A unique copy of a scarce volume, with approximately 145 signatures of those Nebraska officials pictured within, from the Governor to the Senate stenographer. Only approximately 25 of the entries are without an autograph. OCLC/WorldCat locates only 4 copies of this work in institutional collections. Light wear to cloth, small holes in spine gutters; very good. (700/1000)
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Page 32 120. (Nebraska) Report of Commissioners to Locate the Seat of Government of the State of Nebraska. 42 pp. (8vo) original printed lavender wrappers. First Edition. Omaha: St. A.D. Balcombe, 1869 Ownership signature of early Nebraska legislator Edson Rich on front wrapper. “The choices were Lancaster or Ashland. Lancaster was chosen on the second vote and renamed Lincoln.” - Graff, 2955. OCLC/WorldCat locates only the Graff copy and two others. Rear wrapper lacking, some chipping to front wrapper and first few leaves of text; very good. (250/350)
121. (Nebraska - Omaha) Chase, Champion S. Compiled Ordinances of the City of Omaha. xxxvi, 202 pp. 22.5x14.5 cm. (9x5¾”), sheep with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Omaha: Gibson, Miller & Richardson Printers, 1881 Inscribed in ink on front free endpaper, “Compliments of B.E.B. Kennedy.” Rare item, only 5 copies found by OCLC / Worldcat. Rubbing, some peeling to covers, and a few small chips on spine; front hinge cracked; some light foxing; very good. (150/200)
122. (Nevada) Nevada and Her Resources: A Brief Sketch of the Advantages and Possibilities of the State, and the Opportunities and Inducements Offered in Capitalists and Homeseekers. Compiled Under the Direction of the State Bureau of Immigration. [90] pp. Many illustrations from photographs, including double-page view, 2 large folding maps. 22x14.5 cm. (8¾x5¾”), original pictorial wrappers. First Edition. Carson City: State Printing Office, 1894 Promotional pamphlet for Nevada focusing more on agriculture and grazing than mining. Folding maps of the state and Elko County. Chips and soiling to wrappers; owner name to front wrapper, rear wrapper nearly detached; last several pages with notes and underlining in text; near very good. (100/150)
123. (Nevada) Statutes of the State of Nevada. Passed at the Second Session of the Legislature, 1866: begun on Monday, the first day of January, and ended on Thursday, the first day of March. ix, 315 pp. (8vo) period full sheep, morocco lettering pieces. First Edition. Carson City: John Church, State Printer, 1866 Scarce publication of statutes passed by the state legislature in the second year of statehood. OCLC locates only 2 copies. Not in Paher. Wear to covers, including skinned areas exposing boards at bottom front corner, rear joint splitting, rubbing to edges and joints; inscription dated July 4. 1868 to front pastedown, some spotting to text; else very good. (150/200)
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Page 33 STRIKING PHOTOGRAPH OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MOUNTAIN RANGE 124. (New Hampshire) H.G. Peabody, photographer. Original photograph of the Presidential Range on the Line of the Maine Central R.R. Large gelatin silver photograph, with color accenting added by hand. 50.5x60.5 cm visible (20x23¼”), matted. Overall 66x76 cm (26x29¾”). Boston: H.G. Peabody, 1895 Captioned on the matting: “Presidential Range, from Mount Pleasant House, White Mountains of New Hampshire. On Line of the Maine Central R.R.” Henry Greenwood Peabody (1855-1951) had a career spanning nearly sixty years, producing thousands of photographs, slides, and films documenting the American landscape. Peabody served as the official photographer for the Boston and Maine Railroad and the Great Northern Railway. Lot 124 After 1898 Peabody worked with William Henry Jackson at his Detroit Publishing Company, many of the images Peabody created for the Detroit Publishing Company have been wrongly identified as those of Jackson. The Huntington Library houses a large collection of Peabody’s photographs. Matting lightly worn and browned; photo fine. (1000/1500)
125. Newton, Henry and Walter P. Jenney. Report on the Geology and Resources of the Black Hills of Dakota. [xviii], 566 pp. Illustrated with 19 lithograph plates, including frontispiece; 28 figures, a few full page. (4to) period half red morocco and boards, spine lettered in gilt, (series title on spine reads “U. S. Explorations West of the Mississippi”), marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Atlas volume not present. First Edition. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880 Ex libris Northern Pacific Railway Co. Library with their small ink stamp to verso of front free endpaper and title page, bound for company president Henry Villard (1835-1900) with his name in gilt at spine foot. Villard was a major figure in the transportation industry in the West. He was president of Northern Pacific from 1880-1884 and served on the Board of Directors 1887-93. Text includes Newton’s and Jenney’s reports on the geology and mineral resources of the Black Hills as well as reports on the Paleontology, Petrography and Botany of the region. Moderate scuffing to spine ends, joints, and corners; small library stamps as noted, else fine. (150/200)
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Page 34 126. (Northern Pacific Railroad) Riley, W.C., compiler. The Northern Pacific Tour. From the Lakes and Mississippi River to the Pacific. 29 artotype plates, many with multiple images, others being triple and double-page panoramas, engraved by Charles Frey, Frankfurt, Germany, attached accordian style and extending approximately 18 feet in length. 5¼x7¼, original gilt-decorated cloth covers. St. Paul: Northern News Co., [1888] The charming work begins with a triple-panel panoramic views of Minneapolis and St. Paul, followed by double-panel views of Duluth and a Northern Pacific locomotive and cars, the rest are full-page and composite views of Montana cattle and mining industries, Custer monument, Crow Indian Camp, Portland, Tacoma, San Francisco, etc. Wear to edges of boards; inside of spine reinforced; triple and double panel plates show mild wear to the image at fold, else very good. (200/300)
127. (Northwest) Ordinances of the North-West Territories Passed in the First Session of the Third Legislative Assembly. 147 pp. (8vo), original printed green wrapper. First Edition. Regina, N. W. T.: John A. Reid, 1895 Contains 36 ordinances passed by the Legislative Assembly, including new ordinances and revisions to and repeals of existing ordinances. Light wear to wrappers, rear wrapper with chip at upper corner and small stains; else very good. (150/200)
128. (Oklahoma) Muskogee Indian Territory: The Industrial Prodigy of the New Southwest. 157, (3) pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs, 2 maps. (Oblong 8vo), original pictorial wrappers. Muskogee: Compiled by John H. N. Tindall Co. Publishers under the Auspices of the Muskogee Chamber of Commerce, [1904] Many full-page illustrations from photographs of public buildings, ranches, oil fields, etc. Many portraits of notable citizens Text includes a directory and index. Wrappers worn and soiled; half of double-page folding frontispiece photo plate lost; good. (80/120)
129. (Opium) Original photograph of Deputy Sheriff Charles Joseph Ogle, Sacramento County, seated on a stool surrounded by several dozen opium pipes and other paraphernalia. Sepia-tone silver photograph. 19.5x24.6 cm. (7¾x9¾”), Sacramento: Craft Foto Co., 1924 Striking photograph of the young deputy Charley Ogle surrounded by drug paraphernalia, the “Results of a raid on an opium joint,” as noted in an ink inscription on the verso. Ogle was killed in 1951 after 28 years in the Sheriff’s department, broadsided by a taxi cab while parked in his squad car on the side of the road. Some fading, dampstain on verso, very good. (250/350)
130. (Outlaws) Ward, William. Two works on western outlaws by William Ward. Includes: * The James Boys of Old Missouri. Adventure Series No. 2. * The Younger Brothers: The Border Outlaws. Adventure Series No. 6. Two volumes, both in the original pictorial wrappers. Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook Company, [c.1910] Adams, Six-guns 2310 & 2312. “as unreliable as the rest.” Wrappers lightly worn; paper browned, as usual; very good, better than typically encountered. (100/150)
Page 35 131. (Pacific Railroad Reports) Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-6. Volume IX only. lvi, 1005 pp. 11½x9, black half-leather with boards, gilt spine. House Issue. Washington DC: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1858 Wagner-Camp 266a. Bit of edge wear; some water spots on fore edge of page block; very good. (200/300)
132. (Pacific Railroad Reports) Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-4. Volume V. Volume V only. Illustrated with 26 color lithograph plates; 3 maps (of 4); 14 sections on 8 sheets (a few color, 7 sheets folding); 11 fossil plates; 28 botany plates; 1 geology plate. (4to) original brown cloth (spine lacking, covers detached). Senate Issue. Washington: Beverly Tucker, 1856 Robert Stockton Williamson’s explorations in California, one of the most sought-after volumes of the Pacific Railway Reports, with superb lithographs including the noteworthy first view of Los Angeles. With 2 bookplates on front pastedown, one from Boston University College of Liberal Arts Library, one from the Library of William E. Nickerson. Howes P3; Wagner-Camp 264. Spine lacking, covers and several early and late signatures detached; with library stamp and withdrawn rubberstamped on verso of every plate; some yellowing to contents; rectos of plates are mostly clean and bright; good. (100/150)
133. Patterson, J.B. Autobiography Of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, Or Black Hawk, Embracing the Traditions of His Nation...and his account of the cause and general history the Black Hawk War of 1832, his surrender, and travels through the United States. Dictated by Himself. 208 pp.With 3 lithographed plates including the frontispiece. (8vo), original gilt-lettered cloth. Oquawka, Illinois: [Press of Continental Printing Co., St. Louis], 1882 Enlarged reprint of 1833 edition. Howes P120. Spine rubbed, light wear at edges, rear hinge starting, previous owner’s name; very good. (150/250)
134. Peake, Ora Brooks. The Colorado Range Cattle Industry. Frontispiece portrait from painting; 2 folding maps; plates. (8vo) original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1937 With much material offered on Colorado stock associations, land policies, Indian problems, and other related topics. Adams, Herd, 1771. Minor wear, near fine. (150/250)
135. Pena, Amado. “El Domingo” - original mixed media painting. Original mixed media painting, of graphite and watercolor. Signed in pencil at top edge. Matted and framed. All together measures 61.5x49 cm (24x19¼”). No date Amado Pena (b.1943) is a New Mexico artist, born in Laredo, a border town of Texas. He is part Mexican and part Native American, and influences from both cultures are present in his work. This painting shows two women, and their clay pots. Fine. (600/900)
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Page 36 136. (Pennsylvania) Constitution of the Cornen Hose Co., No. 2, (Independent), Kendall Borough, McKean County, Pennsylvania. 2 copies. 16 pp. 5¾x3¾, black cloth. One copy has an 1883 amendment slip pasted to the rear flyleaf. Bradford, PA: Era Printing House Exchange Place, 1881 Earlier copy with Certificate of Membership at front filed-out in the name of Wm. N. Johnson. Some light spotting to cloth; very good. (200/300)
137. (Pennsylvania Railroad) Pennsylvania Railroad: The Standard Railway of America. Tours to the Golden Gate, by Superbly-Appointed Trains, under the Personally-Conducted Tourist System. Round Trip Tickets Include Necessary Traveling Expenses. (120) pp. Several illustrations from photographs in the text, large folding map at rear. 19x15.5 cm. (7½x6”) original white card wrappers with title embossed in gilt. First Edition. No place: Passenger Department, 1892 Complete itineraries, with costs, for 3 cross-country round-trip tours, including all stops along the way. Color folding map (40x51 cm) of the United States shows the routes of the 3 tours. Quite scarce; OCLC has no listing for this 1892 guide (1 each only for the 1896 and 1897 guides). Wrappers moderately soiled and worn; front blank leaf preceding title page lost; rear wrapper (with map attached) separated at spine, else very good. (150/200)
138. (Perry, Matthew C.) Notice of funeral procession for Commodore Matthew C. Perry, for the Seventh Regiment New York State Militia. National Guard. Regimental Order, No. 5. 1 pp. Typed notice, signed by Army Sargent. Printed on mourning paper (bordered in black). 20.5x16 cm (8x6¼”). New York: March 5, 1858 A notice to the Regiment that they are to appear at LaFayette Place, on Saturday, March 6, 1858 for the purpose of acting as Funeral Escort to the remains of the late Commodore Matthew C. Perry, who died on March 4, 1858. Matthew C. Perry (1794-1858) was a Commodore of the U.S. Navy and commanded a number of ships. He served in several wars, but his most notable exploit was his expedition to Japan, resulting in the opening up of trade between Japan and the United States. The Dictionary of American Biography describes it, “In January 1852 he [Perry] was selected to undertake the most important diplomatic mission ever intrusted to an American naval officer, the negotiation of a treaty with Japan, a country at this time sealed against intercourse with the Occidental powers.” By March 31, 1854, the treaty granting the U.S. trading rights had been signed by the Japanese. Upon his return to the U.S., his chief duty for the following year was to compile his reports of the expedition, aided by Francis Hawks. The importance of Perry’s mission to Japan cannot be overstated. Not only did Perry open Japan to Western trade and influences which she would soon master, thrusting her into the forefront of nations during the 20th century, but the accounts of the country and culture, and the pictorial representations, were some of the earliest to be readily available to the public, being superseded only by the cumbersome tomes of earlier missionaries. A few small yellow spots; near fine. (250/350)
139. Powell, John Wesley. Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its Tributaries. Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, under the Direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. [6], xi, 291 pp. Profusely illustrated with wood-engraved plates, many after photographs; folding map and folding profile laid in. (4to) cloth covers, spine lacking. First Edition. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875 Account of the first descent of the Colorado River, by geologist Powell, who was to become the second head of the U.S. Geological Survey. Francis Farquhar calls it “one of the basic documents of Colorado River history.” Farquhar Colorado River 42a; Graff 3336; Howes P528. Spine lacking, cloth covers moderately worn, detached; the name D.M. Harris in ink on front pastedown; a few leaves within detached; light wear and light foxing to map and profile; good. Would benefit from restoration. (300/500)
Page 37 140. (Railroad) Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R.R. Co. Instructions in Regard to Distribution of Expenditures [cover title]. 23 pp. 19.5x12.5 cm. (7¾x4¾”) original decorative stapled wrappers. First Edition. No place: Rand, McNally & Co., 1883 Scarce in-house publication for the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Rail Road Co. detailing policies for payment of all types of regular expenses incurred in the course of operations. Cover design of wrappers features a whimsical assortment of printer’s devices, including a frog and a Chinese juggler. Quite scarce, with no prior auction records, no listing on OCLC. Light soiling to wrappers; minor wear to spine fold; else fine. (150/200)
141. Ramsey, J.G.M. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its Settlement, As the Watauga Association, from 1769 to 1777; a Part of North-Carolina, from 1777 to 1784; the State of Franklin, from 1784 to 1788, etc. viii,744 pp., publisher’s 36-page catalog at rear. Illustrated with 1 folding frontispiece map, 1 full-page plan. (8vo) original green cloth, gilt spine title, blind-stamped boards. First Edition, Second Issue. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853 Folding map of “Cumberland & Franklin” and plan of the “Surrender of the Troops” at Kings Mountain engraved by W. Keenan. Howes notes this as “another issue” of the title also published in Charleston, same date and collation. The Philadelphia imprint appears to be the scarcer of the two. Howes R43. Old dampstain with rippling to cover cloth of rear board, some fading and mottling to spine and front cover; text pages with tideline to upper half of sheets, foxing; good. (100/150)
142. (Rocky Mountains) Gems of Rocky Mountain Scenery. [40] pp. Chromolithograph illustration inserted at front. Photographs throughout; smaller illustrations in margins by George Berger. (Oblong 4to) 25x32.5 cm. (9¾x12¾”) original cloth, color lithograph illustration on front cover. First Edition. Denver: Frank S. Thayer, 1892 A scarce book of Rocky Mountain views photographed by William Henry Jackson & Co.. OCLC/WorldCat locates only 2 copies (Harvard & Yale). Some wear and soiling to cloth, hinges cracked; very good. (300/500)
143. Rollinson, John K. Wyoming Cattle Trails: History of the Migration of Oregon-Raised Herds to Mid- Western Markets. 366 pp. Edited by E.A. Brininstool. Illustrated with photo plates; color frontispiece. (8vo) original brown cloth. No. 52 of 1000 copies. First Edition. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1948 Signed by Rollinson on limitation page. The story of the eastward movement of Oregon cattle to the Wyoming ranges, the later destruction of the open grazing lands, and the development of the Wyoming Cattle Growers’ Association, told by a former cowboy who rose to manage both cattle and horse ranches. Adams Herd 1943; Six-guns 1894. Spine lettering a bit faded; near fine. (100/150)
144. Rothert, Otto A. The Outlaws of Cave-In-Rock: Historical accounts of the famous highwaymen and river pirates who operated in pioneer days upon the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and over the old Natchez Trace. Illustrations from old paintings, drawings, facsimiles, etc. (8vo) original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1924 “During the period when the major transportation routes through the Midwest were on the backs of the rivers, outlaws and river pirates terrorized the river traffic. The Harpes were among the most notorious. Rothert carefully covers the career of that family, as well as many other of the criminals west of the Appalachians.” Clark & Brunet, 215; Adams, Six-guns, 1908. Spine cloth lightly wrinkled; near fine. (100/150)
Page 38 145. [Ruetenik, H.J.]. Aus der Indianer-Zeit. Neun Erzahlungen aus Zuverlassigen Quellen Gesammelt und Wahrheitsgetreu Erzahlt vom Verfasser der “Erlebnisse eines Deutschen Pfarrers in Amerika”. 127, [1] pp. Woodcut frontispiece; several woodcut illustrations in text. (12mo) original green cloth, lettered in gilt on front. First Edition. Cleveland, Ohio: Deutsches Verlagshaus, [c.1880] Scarce account of the Indians of Ohio. Frontispiece depicts the Mormon Temple at Kirtland, Ohio. OCLC/WorldCat locates only three copies of this title. Wear to cloth, dampstains at front and rear, a few pages loose; good. (200/300)
146. Runkel, William M. The United States Mint: A Brief History of the Institution, with a Full Description of the Manner in which Gold, Silver, Nickel and Copper are Converted into Money. 16 pp. 23.4x15 cm. (9¼x5¾) original pictorial lavender wrappers. First Edition. Philadelphia: Published for the Author by Turner & Co., 1870 Scarce history of the US mint recounting the history of the mint and the process of making coin. Includes a table of foreign currencies and their values against the US dollar. Engraved illustration of the US Mint to front wrapper, full-page advertisements at inside front wrapper and both sides of rear wrapper. Sabin 74133. OCLC locates 9 copies. Slight discoloration to wrappers; crease to bottom corner of rear wrapper; else near fine. (100/150)
EARLIEST COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF SACRAMENTO REGION 147. (Sacramento County) History of Sacramento County California. With Illustrations Descriptive of its Scenery, Residences, Public Buildings, Fine Blocks, and Manufactories. From Original Sketches by Artists of the Highest Ability. 294 pp. Illustrated with lithograph frontispiece, lithograph plates, and 1 (of 2) color map (lacks the folding map). Oblong folio, 28.5x37 cm. (11x14½”), re-bound in gray cloth with original gilt and blind-stamped brown cloth front cover and spine laid down. First Edition. Oakland, Cal.: Thompson & West, 1880 The earliest comprehensive history of the Sacramento Region. The illustrations clearly distinguish the Thompson & West imprints from other contemporary county histories: rather than the usual array of pioneer portraits, the lithographic plates in this volume depict in exceptional detail, albeit in a somewhat idyllic and stylized manner, businesses, residences, ranch scenes, etc., all with informative captions. Cowan, p. 548; Rocq 6512. Title page, frontispiece, and next 3 pages heavily worn with tape repairs at edges, a few other tape repairs to small tears at page edges within, heavy tape repairs at edges of page 291/292; else very good. (700/1000)
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Page 39 SAN FRANCISCO BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE 148. (San Francisco) Large collection of photographs of San Francisco prior to the 1906 earthquake. Large collection of approximately 350 photographs of San Francisco scenes, many with locations captioned in the negative, some captioned by hand in ink. Various sizes, most 9x7” and smaller. Late 19th century or early 20th century A wonderful large collection of San Francisco scenes in the years and decades preceding the 1906 earthquake, includes several copy photographs of 1850s scenes by Fardon, most appear to be early 20th century copy photographs of 19th century images, some from the early years of the 20th century. Many produced by T.E. Hecht, with his studio name in the negative. Mostly scenes of the downtown business district, also a few photographs of early illustrations of San Francisco. A wealth of pre- earthquake information contained in these images. Some curling and light wear; overall very good. (3000/5000) Lot 148
149. (San Francisco) Minute book of the Stockholders and Directors Meetings for Raphael Weill & Company, 1959-1964. 226 pp. Typed meeting minutes, signed by various secretaries, a few related items laid in. (Folio) 35.5x22.5 cm (14x8¼”) original half red leather and black cloth, spine gilt. San Francisco: 1959-1964 Raphael Weill & Co. operated The White House department store in San Francisco, occupying the Northwest quarter of the square block shared by PBA Galleries. Comprises minutes of the various shareholder and directors meetings, includes a letter of resignation from Michel D. Weill, dated 7/29/1960. Some wear and spotting to binding; very good. (300/500)
150. (San Francisco Art Institute) California School of Fine Arts San Francisco, August 14-May 17. Regular Session 1939-1940. [28] pp. Illustrated from photographs & works of art. 9¼x6½, wrappers. San Francisco: 1939 Brochure for the venerable institution that began in 1873 as The California School of Design, was renamed California School of Fine Arts in 1916 and San Francisco Art Institute in 1961. Faculty members in 1939 included Otis Oldfield, Ralph Stackpole, Ruth Armer, Ray Bertrand, and others. No copies are listed in OCLC/WorldCat. Near fine. (100/150)
151. (San Francisco Jewelers) Hall, A.I. & Son. Annual Illustrated Catalogue No. 11, 1903-1904. A.I. Hall & Son. Manufacturers; Agents and Wholesale Jewelers. 311 pp. Each item offered is illustrated in woodcut throughout. 30x23.5 cm (11¾x9¼”) original blue cloth, gilt-lettered, all edges died red. San Francisco: A.I. Hall & Son, 1904 Since 1879, A.I. Hall & Son had been jewelers in San Francisco, offering diamonds, watches, clocks, jewelry, gold pens, cut glass, sterling silver, silver plate, silver novelties and cutlery. Illustrated with many great images of the gold watches by Elgin and Waltham. Includes an index at front. Also, with a blue discount slip tipped in at page 5 (good for 50% off all prices within the book). Also laid in is a 4 pp. catalogue of silverware specials from Sorensen Co. on Market Street, San Francisco (with light edge wear and foxing). Rare, with no copies on OCLC / Worldcat. Cloth rubbed at spine and corners, some cover gilt rubbed, several small spots of soiling on front cover; very good. (500/800)
Page 40 152. Sandoz, Mari. Ten Volumes by Mari Sandoz. Includes: * Slogum House. Inscribed by Sandoz on front free endpaper. Boston: Little, Brown, 1937. * The Tom-Walker. Jacket price clipped. NY: Dial Press, 1947. * The Buffalo Hunters. Jacket price clipped. Signed by Sandoz on the half title. NY: Hastings House, [1954]. * The Horsecatcher. Inscribed and with a small sketch by Sandoz. Lacking dust jacket. Phil.: Westminster Press, [1957]. * The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grande Across the Far Marias. Signed “Presentation Edition”. NY: Hastings House, [1958]. * [Another copy]. Inscribed adn with a small sketch by Sandoz on half title. First Trade Edition. Jacket price clipped. [1958]. * These Were the Sioux. Inscribed and with a small sketch by Sandoz. NY: Hastings House, [1961]. * The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire. Inscribed and with a small sketch by Sandoz. Jacket price clipped. NY: Hastings House, [1964]. * Old Jules Country. NY: Hastings House, 1965. * The Christmas of the Phonograph Records. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska, [1966]. Together 10 volumes, most signed. Various places: Various dates Condition varies; overall very good but some better. (300/500)
SCARCE ATLAS MAP OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY FROM THOMPSON & WEST 153. (Santa Clara County) Thompson & West. Historical Atlas Map of Santa Clara County, California. 110 pp. Illustrated with 21 hand-colored maps (some maps in sections, 9 are double-page) and 54 views. (folio) 44x37.5 cm. (17½x14½”), original half calf and decoratively gilt cloth, re-backed with later spine. First Edition. San Francisco: Thompson & West, 1876 Wonderful record of 19th century Santa Clara County, with many hand-colored maps depicted individual plots of land, city maps of San Jose, Gilroy, Mountain View, Los Gatos, and others. The views depict prominent residences, colleges, and civic sites, with a double- page view of the workings at the New Almaden Mine. Cowan p. 567. Expertly re-backed with leather to match the original, corners a touch refurbished, scratch on front cover, bump and some loss on fore edge of front cover, a touch sunned, scattered tiny marks to cloth; joints repaired, occasional marginal finger smudge, and the fore edge trimming of page 81/82, else contents are fine; about near fine. Lot 153 (3000/5000)
Page 41 154. (Santa Cruz) Raymond, Isabel Hammel. The Hotel St. George. All About It. J.J.C. Leonard, Lessee. Santa Cruz, California Pacific Avenue and Front St. 31 pp. + map. Photograph plates. 10.5x15 cm (4¼x6”) orange wrappers, printed in black and dark orange. No place: [c.1897-1900] A rare Santa Cruz tourism booklet, promoting the Hotel St. George of which J.J.C. Leonard is the Lessee, but it almost seems to promote the hotel for which he is the proprietor, even more: The Sea Beach Hotel. The photographs include Sea Beach Hotel, Santa Cruz, J.J.C. Leonard, Proprietor; several views of the beach; the “Giant” [tree] near Santa Cruz; and more. The map at rear shows the location of Santa Cruz. Only 2 copies located by OCLC / Worldcat: UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley. With a pink contemporary rubberstamp on page 1 that reads: “For further information, call or address C.A. Hubert, Mgr. Bureau of Information, 207 West Third St. Los Angeles, Cal.” Fine. (300/500)
155. Santee, Ross. Lost Pony Tracks. [4], 303 pp. Illustrated with drawings throughout the text by the author. 8vo. Decorative oatmeal linen, pictorial jacket. Early printing. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1953] Santee’s experiences as a horse wrangler, told in words and pictures. Inscribed by Santee on the front free endpaper with a colorful sketch of horse and rider journeying through the hills. Spine sunned, light wear to cloth; very good, lacking dust jacket. (200/300)
156. Santee, Ross. Spike: The Story of the Cowpuncher’s Dog. Illustrations by the author. (8vo) original red cloth, pictorial endpapers. Early reprint edition. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1931] Originally published as “The Pooch”. Inscribed by Santee on the rear of the frontispiece with a sketch of a pair of riders heading toward the mountains. Inscription dated 1/36. Light wear to cloth; very good. (150/250)
157. Sheldon, J.D. Sheldon’s Retail Trade of the United States. Containing Representative Retailers in Dry Goods, Notions, Etc. Arranged in States and Cities, Giving Location of Office in New York, and Names of Resident and Department Buyers. 1152 pp. 13x8.5 cm (5x3¼”) orange cloth, printed in black. 55th Edition. New York: J.S. Phelon & Co., 1913 Begun in 1884, this business directory lists retailers across the United States, arranging them by city. This copy is the 55th year of production, and contains list of retailers from all over, including several California cities like Oakland, Bakersfield, Berkeley, Fresno, Hollywood, and much much more. Some wear from use, light shelf wear, a few stray pen marks; very good. (300/500)
158. Skarsten, M.O. George Drouillard, Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807- 1810. Illustrated with facsimile plates; 2 folding maps. (8vo) red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, plain paper jacket. Prospectus laid in. First Edition. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1964 Although best remembered as a key participant in the Lewis and Clark expedition, Drouillard was a major figure in the early history of the Rocky Mountain fur trade. A partner of Manuel Lisa, he established several forts in the Missouri Basin, trapped with John Colter along the Yellowstone and Big Horn rivers, and was killed by the Blackfeet in 1810. An excellent biography, and the only work on Drouillard’s life and career. Clark & Brunet, 232. Light wear to jacket; volume fine. (100/150)
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Page 42 159. (Slave Letter) Meara, James. Autograph Letter Signed from James Meara in Macon, Georgia, co-proprietor of Lanier House, to an Alex Hackett in New York, referring to the sale of a slave amongst other matters. 20 lines, in ink, on single sheet of lined paper. With envelope of Lanier House, Logan & Meara, Proprietors, Macon, Ga., addressed with stamp and postmark. 24x19.2 cm. (9¾x7½”). Macon, GA: March 9, 1858 James Meara has been having problems with his health, and, apparently, problems with his wife: “...I have been sick more or less ever since & lately was given up by the Doctors I have made my will & jointed the Church so I trust in God... You had better get your note from my wife as she refused to give it to me, besides she sold the Negroe for 1050 Dolls last summer and pocketed the proceeds - The Bar Keeper you sent us in the Fall done very well for a few weeks he like other white men has become a Gentleman of leisure. If you know of any other if so let me know immediately don’t promise him over 40$ per month...” An interesting letter revealing some of the social mores of the Old South in the last years before the Civil War was to change it forever. Very good or better. (200/300)
EXCEPTIONAL COPY OF THE ANNALS OF S.F. IN FULL MOROCCO BINDING 160. Soulé, Frank, John H. Gihon and James Nisbet. The Annals of San Francisco; Containing a Summary of the History of the First Discovery, Settlement, Progress, and Present Condition of California, and a Complete History of all the Important Events Connected with Its Great City: To Which Are Added, Biographical Memoirs of Some Prominent Citizens. 824 pp. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings, 6 steel-engraved plates (including frontispiece); 2 maps (1 folding). (8vo), original full black morocco, covers stamped in blind and lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. First Edition. New York: D. Appleton, 1855 “A necessary reference book of San Francisco to the middle fifties, compiled mainly from newspapers and information received from pioneer citizens...” - Zamorano. Also, the work “not only gives an outstanding narrative history of San Francisco, but also supplies much information on mining and its impact on this instant city” – Kurutz. Kurutz 594; Cowan p.601; Graff 3901; Howes S769; Sabin 87268; Zamorano Eighty 70. A touch of rubbed to joints and tops of spine bands, hinges just starting; light foxing; a superior copy, better than typically encountered; near fine. (400/600)
88-YEAR RUN OF SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 161. (South Dakota) South Dakota Historical Collections. - Volumes 1-41 plus index. 42 volumes. A consecutive run from Volume 1 through 41, and with the cumulative index volume. (8vo) all in the original green cloth but for Volume 1 which is in the original blue cloth. First Editions. South Dakota: Various publishers, 1902-1989 An important Mid-western journal, compiled by the State Historical Society. Numerous significant historical works including: A Comprehensive History of the Dakota or Sioux Indians by Doane Robinson; The Sioux Wars by Charles DeLand; Aborigines of South Dakota by Charles DeLand; Crazy Horse’s Story of the Custer Battle; Surrender of Sitting Bull by E.H. Allison; A History of the Department of South Dakota, Grand Army of the Republic; and much more. Some light wear and soiling; overall very good. (1500/2000)
Lot 161
Page 43 162. (Southern Pacific Railroad) From the Crescent City to the Golden Gate via the Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Company. 46 pp. + [1] chart of distances between cities, [1] map plate. Profusely illustrated with woodcut illustrations of various cities, plus a color lithograph and decorated folding map frontispiece. 25.5x17 cm (10x6¾”) pale yellow wrappers, printed in red and black (front wrapper reads: The Southern Highway). San Francisco: H.S. Crocker & Company, 1890 A nicely illustrated booklet presented by the Passenger Department of the Southern Pacific Company. The color lithographed folding map at front illustrates much of the United States, showing “Map of the Southern Pacific Company and Connections. 1890.” Plus an inset along the top edge, shows “Along the Sunset Route,” and includes small vignettes of various attractions along the way. The woodcut illustrations show views and vignettes of various sights and cities from New Orleans to San Francisco (along the Sunset Route of Southern Pacific), including San Antonio, the Rio Grande, Missions of Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Yosemite, San Francisco, and Tahoe. Also lists “Where to Go!” summer and winter resorts in California and mineral springs in California. Purple contemporary rubberstamp on verso of map frontispiece reads, “For Tickets and Information Call on C.W. Hole, Comm’l Agt. El Paso, Texas.” Touch of wear at wrapper extremities; hole at gutter edge of page 31/32 not affecting text or illustration; else fine. (500/800)
163. (Spain in the West series) Spain in the West, Volumes VII through XII - plus a few others. Includes: * Folmer, Henry. Franco-Spanish Rivalry in North America. * Gerhard, Peter. Pirates on the West Coast of New Spain 1575-1742. * 4 copies of: Holmes, Maurice. From New Spain by Sea to the California 1519-1668. * Chipman, Donald E. Nuno de Guzman and the Province of Panuco in New Spain 1518-1533. * Thurman, Michael E. The Naval Department of San Blas. From the Spain in the West Series, No. VII through XI. Each in original red cloth. Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark, 1953-1967 Also includes: * Nunis, Doyce B., Jr. The California Diary of Faxon Dean Atherton 1836-1839. Cloth, dj. California Historical Society, 1964. * McLaughlin, Glen. The Mapping of California as an Island. Wrappers. California Map Society Occasional Paper No. 3, [1995]. Some fading to some spines, light edge wear; mostly near fine. (150/250)
164. Spring, Agnes Wright. The Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage and Express Routes. Illustrations from photograph, engravings and other sources. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1949 No. VI in the publisher’s American Trail Series. “One of the best books written about the Black Hills and the outlaws of that region, revealing much scholarly research by an able historian....” Adams Six-guns 2084 Spine sunned, a few small spots to cloth, bookplate and owner’s names on endpapers; very good. (100/150)
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Page 44 BUILDING STANFORD FOOTBALL STADIUM TO HOST THE BIG GAME 165. (Stanford University Football Stadium) Printed letter soliciting subscriptions for seats in the proposed Stanford Football Stadium, along with a plan/view of the stadium and an unused subscription blank. Letter is 1½ pp. on pp. 1 & 3 of 4-page conjugate, with heading “Stanford University Board of Control”, over the printed name of Dr. T.M. Williams, ‘97. The plan has a bird’s-eye view of the proposed stadium at to top, beneath which is a plan of the stadium, which was designed by C.B. Wing, Professor of Structural Engineering. The subscription blank lists options for payment plans. Together, 3 items. 26.5x18 cm. (10½x7”) or smaller. Stanford University: 1921 Rare ephemera for Stanford’s football stadium and the annual Big Game between Stanford and the arch-rival University of California.The letter opens with the conjecture that “the necessity for a larger football field at Stanford has for a long time been apparent,” most notably to alleviate the “difficulty in the past in securing admission to the big game between Stanford and California.” By placing a subscription of $100 towards the $200,000 cost of construction, one would have the right to purchase two of the best seats for the annual game for fifteen years, whether the game is played at Stanford or in Berkeley. The seats themselves would cost $4 apiece. The new stadium at Stanford opened in November of 1921, two years before the larger stadium build by rival Berkeley. No copies are listed in OCLC/ WorldCat. Fine condition. (600/900)
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166. Stanton, William Henry. A Book Called, Our Ancestors, The Stantons. 649 pp. Illustrations from photographs, facsimiles, etc. Tipped in are several fabric samples from cloth made or worn by members of the Stanton family as well as a piece of White Oak veneer from Eli Stanton’s “Old Log House”. (thick 8vo) original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition. Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1922 A rare genealogical history. Contains genealogical tables of the Stanton, Baily, Bundy, Clendenon, Davis, Dawson, Doudna, Hodgin, Patten, Patterson, Sears and Vernon families. Spine sunned, light soiling to cloth; a few items laid in; very good. (500/800)
Page 45 167. Stenhouse, T[homas] B. H. The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons, from the First Vision of Joseph Smith to the Last Courtship of Brigham Young... xxiv, 761 pp. Wood-engraved plates & illustrations; steel-engraved frontispiece portrait. 23x14.6 cm. (9x5¾”), original green cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt, decorated in black. First Edition. New York: D. Appleton, 1873 Stenhouse was for 25 years a Mormon elder and missionary, and editor and proprietor of the Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Mintz regards the narrative of “Mr. Chislitt” relating the tragedies encountered by the 1856 Mormon Handcart Companies in their attempt to cross the plains to Salt Lake City as one of the more interesting features of the book. Flake 8404; Mintz 442. Rubbed at extremities, tiny tears at spine ends, front joint starting; lacks front free endpaper, rear joint cracked; else a clean and bright copy; very good. (150/250)
168. Sterling, George. Yosemite: An Ode. Illustrated with 5 plates from photographs by W.E. Dassonville; color pictorial cover label from a painting by H.J. Breuer. 8½x5¾, blue dust jacket over boards, cover pictorial label. First Edition. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1916 Lovely copy of Sterling’s tribute to the majesties of the Yosemite, with Dassonville photographs. Spine faded, very light creasing along edges; else near fine. (300/500)
169. Stuart, Robert. The Discovery of the Oregon Trail: Robert Stuart’s Narratives of His Overland Trip Eastward from Astoria in 1812-13. From the Original Manuscripts in the Collection of William Robertson Coe, Esq. Edited by Philip Ashton Rollins. Illustrated with facsimiles, portraits & maps. (8vo), red buckram, black spine label with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. First Edition in English. New York: Edward Eberstadt, 1935 First published in French in 1821 in Volumes 11 & 12 of Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, the work did not appear in English until the present edition. Howes S1103; Wagner-Camp 19 (note); Tweney 66. Spine sunned, corners lightly bumped; very good. (150/250)
170. Sutherland, H. J. The City of Syracuse and Its Resources, Illustrated. [1], 210, [2] index pp. Profusely illustrated with many portraits and 45 views from photographs, many pages of advertisements. (Oblong 4to) 27x35 cm. (10½x13¾”) original brick-red cloth with decorative gilt title on front. First Edition. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse News Publishing Co., 1893 Scarce commercial guide to the city of Syracuse. Many full-page views of architectural landmarks, etc. OCLC locates only 10 copies. Both boards detached, spine half gone, wear to corners; endpapers loose and edgeworn, final leaf (index) torn at gutter with parts adhering to rear board, worth restoring, but good only. (100/150)
171. Taylor, Drew Kirksey. Taylor’s Thrilling Tales of Texas: Being the Experiences of Drew Kirksey Taylor, Ex-Texas Ranger and Peace Officer on the Border of Texas. Written by Himself and Narrating True Incidents of Frontier Life. 93 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author, several full-page illustrations. 22x15.5 cm. (8½x5¾”) original printed wrappers. First Edition. No place: D. K. Taylor, 1926 Author was born in Pork County, Texas in 1857 and joined the Rangers in 1874. He “ . . . tells about some gunmen he knew, such as John Selman, John Larn, Clay Allison, and John Wesley Hardin. He also claims to have known Billy the Kid personally . . .” Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. (Adams, Six-Guns). Six-Guns 2183; Howes T47. Wrappers detached from stapled text block; moderate soiling and creasing to wrappers; facing pp 12/13 with blotchy brown stain (not obscuring text); else very good. (250/350)
Page 46 SCARCE PRINTING BY ISAIAH THOMAS 172. (Thomas, Isaiah, printer) Brady, N. & N. Tate. A New Version of the Psalms of David. Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches. 358 pp. (12mo) 14.2x8.5 cm (5½x3½”) period full calf, spine ruled in gilt. “First Worcester Edition” [i.e. Second Worcester Edition]. Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, 1788 Scarce printing by Isaiah Thomas, printer, author, publisher, and founder of the American Antiquarian Society. Though the title page declares this to be the “First Worcester Edition”, Brady and Tate’s Psalter was first published in Worcester by Thomas & John Fleet in 1782. Binding rubbed, head of spine chipped, lacks free endpapers; foxing; very good. (600/900)
173. Thorne, J. Frederic (Kitchakahaech). In the Time That Was: Being the First volume of a series of legends of the tribe of Alaskan Indians known as the Chilkats - of the Klingats. As told by Zachook the “Bear” to Kitchakahaech the “Raven”. [30] pp. Illustrated with full-page plates and text illustrations by Judson T. Sergeant. 23x16 cm (9x6¼”) original color pictorial wrappers. First Edition. Seattle: (The Raven, 1909) An elaborate presentation for this little collection of Chilkat legends; the paper appears to be made of birch bark. Fine. (100/150)
“EXCESSIVELY RARE” BOOK OF COWBOY SONGS 174. Thorp, N. Howard. Songs of the Cowboys. 50 pp. 16.3x11.5 cm. (6½x4½”), original gilt-pictorial red wrappers, stapled (as issued), custom cloth portfolio case with gilt-lettered spine label. First Edition. Estancia, New Mexico: Nes Print Shop, [1908] “Thorp had the perspective of both range and civilization. He was a kind of troubadour himself ” (Dobie, p.129).”The first of the compilations of cowboy songs” (Dykes, Kid 56). “There is no record of an ‘honest to goodness’ cowboy ever becoming a ‘songbird,’ in fact, few of the breed could carry a tune, nevertheless, the nature of their work was such that whistling, humming, and singing were important personal assets that helped to make short days out of long ones, and most of them gave it a fling.... [A] puny little book that sold for a quarter...now classed as excessively rare.”(Merrill, Aristocrats of the Cow Country, pp. 10, 25). Some light rubbing to wrappers; a few tiny finger or damp soiling to edges of a few leaves; else near fine. (1200/1800)
175. Thwaites, Reuben Gold & Louise Phelps Kellogg. Complete set of three titles, all edited from the Draper Manuscripts in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Includes: * Documentary History of Dunmore’s War, 1774. 1905. * The Revolution on the Upper Ohio, 1775-1777. 1908. * Frontier Defense on the Upper Ohio, 1777-1778. 1912. Together 3 volumes. Illustrated with plates, maps, etc. (8vo) original brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First Editions. Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Historical Society, 1905-1912 Rarely found together. Howes, T254, T256, & T257. Light wear to bindings; very good or better. (500/800)
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Page 47 176. Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Father Marquette. xvi, 244, [4] ad pp. (8vo) original green cloth. First Edition. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1902 Father Jacques Marquette S.J. (1637–1675), sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary. Marquette founded Michigan’s first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie, and later founded St. Ignace, Michigan. In 1673 Father Marquette and Louis Jolliet were the first Europeans to explore and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River. Light wear to cloth, early gift inscription on front free endpaper; very good. (150/250)
177. Tilghman, Zoe A. Marshal of the Last Frontier: Life and Services of William Matthew (Bill) Tilghman, for 50 Years One of the Greatest Peace Officers of the West. 406 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Folding map at rear. 8vo. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1949 Story of one of the greatest peace officers of the West, with a 50 year career in law enforcement, as told by his wife. “Suprisingly unbiased” - Clark & Brunet 254. Light wear to cloth, near fine. (150/250)
178. (Utah) Savage, C.R. Views of Utah and Tourist’s Guide. Containing a Description of the Views and General Information for the Traveler, Resident and Public Generally, form Authentic Sources. 16 glossy lithographed plates from photographs by Savage, folding accordion-style. 30 pp. text booklet affixed to inside of rear cover. 10x14.5 cm (3¾x5¾”), original red blindstamped cloth decoratively lettered in gilt. Salt Lake City: Art Bazar, [1888] Captivating little view book by the most notable of all photographers working out of Salt Lake City in the 19th century. Flake/Draper 7544. Light wear and spotting to cloth; very good. (150/250)
179. Vizcaino, Sebastian. The Voyage of Sebastian Vizcaino to the coast of California, together with a map & Sebastian Vizcaino’s letter written at Monterey, December 28, 1602. Decorations by Arvilla Parker; folding facsimile map. Linen backed boards, paper spine label. One of 240 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1933 BCC 45; GB 196. Slightly faded boards; near fine. (150/250)
180. Wagner, Henry R., editor. California Voyages, 1539-1541. Translation of Original Documents. 95, [3] pp. 8 facsimile maps. 25.5x16.5 cm (10x6½”), gilt-lettered cloth. First Separate Edition. San Francisco: John Howell, 1925 First published in December, 1924, as Vol. III, No. 4 of the Quarterly of the California Historical Society. Cowan p.665; Howes W6. Edges rubbed and bumped; a bit of yellow staining to fore edge of a few leaves near rear; very good. (200/300)
181. Warner, M. M. Warner’s History of Dakota County, Nebraska. From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Ye Olden Times. [v-xxiv], [31]-387 pp. 22 wood-engraved plates and text illustrations. (8vo) 8¼x5¾, original dark blue cloth, spine & front cover gilt lettered. First Edition. [Lyons, Nebraska]: Lyons Mirror Job Office, 1893 An exhaustive history of Dakota County, located at the northeast corner of the state. Lewis & Clark passed through in 1804 and the first pioneer settlements erew established about 1855. Text includes many interviews with pioneers. Signed by author on front pastedown. Graff 4541; Howes W-111. Minor wear to covers; hinges cracked; pages somewhat browned, else near fine. (150/200)
Page 48 RARE PHOTOGRAPH OF HALF MOON BAY ATTRIBUTED TO CARLETON WATKINS 182. Watkins, Carleton (attributed). Original photograph “San Mateo County - The Road to Spanishtown”. Original albumen print, approximately 25x31 cm (9¾x12¼”), pasted at corners and lower edge to a slightly larger sheet of old paper. 1870s
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A view along the road to “Spanishtown” (now Half Moon Bay) in San Mateo County, a horse and carriage in the foreground. Captioned in pencil on the mount. Attributed to Carleton Watkins by Anita Mozley, former Curator of Photography at the Stanford University Museum of Art. Photograph lightly wrinkled, some unevenness due to pasting, lower corners trimmed, short tear at top edge; very good. (1000/1500)
183. (Wells, Fargo & Co.) Collection envelope from Wells, Fargo & Co., filled out in ink, transmitting a draft for $74.82½. Yellow printed envelope with vignettes of railroad engine and cars. 22.2x10 cm. (8¾x4”). San Francisco: 1862 Envelope conveying a draft for $74.82½ from John McKoe in Folsom to Cronin & Dooley in San Francisco, proprietors of a “Granite Yard, somewhere on Battery St., under Telegraph Hill...” Very good condition. (250/350)
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Page 49 184. (Western Americana) Fourteen volumes of Western Americana published by the Arthur H. Clark Co. - All from the Frontier Military Series. Includes: * Hunt, Aurora. Major General James Henry Carleton, 1814-1873. 1958. * Heyman, Max L. Prudent Soldier: A Biography of Major General E.R.S. Canby, 1817-1873. Inscribed by the author. 1959. * Grivas, Theodore. Military Governments in California, 1846-1850. 1963. * Richardson, Rupert Norval. The Frontier of Northwest Texas, 1846 to 1876. 1963. * Wood, Richard G. Stephen Harriman Long, 1784-1864. 1966. * Smith, Cornelius C. Emilio Kosterlitzky: Eagle of Sonora and the Southwest Border. 1970. * Upton, Richard. Fort Custer on the Big Horn, 1877-1898. 1973. * Davidson, Homer K. Black Jack Davidson: A Cavalry Commander on the Western Frontier. Printed dj. 1974. * Lewis, Ernest Allen. The Fremont Cannon, High Up and Far Back. 1981. * Pohanka, Brian. Nelson A. Miles: A Documentary Biography of his Military Career. Printed dj. 1985. * Ellington, Charles G. The Trial of U.S. Grant: The Pacific Coast Years, 1852-1854. Printed dj. 1987. * Hardorff, Richard. Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight. 1991. * Hardorff, Richard. Hokahey! A Good Day to Die! The Indian Casualties of the Custer Fight. 1993. * Hardorff, Richard. Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight. 1995. Together 14 volumes, original blue cloth, plain paper jackets. Arthur H. Clark Company, Various dates Fourteen volumes from the publisher’s Frontier Military Series. Light wear; very good to fine. (300/500)
185. (Western Americana) Nine volumes of Western Americana published by the Arthur H. Clark Co. Includes: * Ambler, Charles Henry. A History of Transportation in the Ohio Valley. 1932. * Barker, Burt Brown. The McLoughlin Empire and its Rulers. Ex-library copy. 1959. * Blair, Walter A. A Raft Pilot’s Log: A History of the Great Rafting Industry on the Upper Mississippi, 1840-1915. 1930. * Drury, Clifford M. Nine Years with the Spokane Indians. 1976. * Lewis, George E. The Indiana Company, 1763-1798. Ex-library copy. 1941. * Mengarini, Gregory. Recollections of the Flathead Mission. 1977. * Rector, William. Log Transportation in the Lake States Lumber Industry, 1840-1918. 1953. * Schutz, John A. Thomas Pownall: British Defender of American Liberty. 1951. * Volwiler, Albert T. George Croghan and the Westward Movement, 1741-1782. Ex-library copy. 1926. Together nine octavo volumes, original blue cloth, some with plain paper jackets. Arthur H. Clark Company, Various dates Some light wear, a few ex-library copies; condition varies, very good to fine. (200/300)
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Page 50 186. (Western Americana) Nine volumes of Western Americana published by the Arthur H. Clark Co. Includes: * Chipman, Donald E. Nuno de Guzman and the province of Panuco in New Spain, 1518-1533. 1967. * Fordham, Elias Pym. Personal Narrative of Travels in Virginia, Maryland,... Ex-library copy. 1906. * Foreman, Grant. Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest. Ex-library copy. 1926. * Fowler, Harlan D. Three Caravans to Yuma: The Untold Story of Bactrian Camels in Western America. 1980. * Hafen, LeRoy. Overland Routes to the Gold Fields, 1859. Ex-library copy. 1942. * The Journals of Appleton Milo Harmon. 1946. * Kirkpatrick, John Ervin. Timothy Flint: Pioneer, Missionary, Author, Editor, 1780-1840. Ex-library copy. 1911. * Paullin, Charles Oscar. Commodore John Rodgers. 1910. * Richardson, Rupert. The Greater Southwest. 1935. Together 9 octavo volumes in the original red, blue or green cloth. Arthur H. Clark Company, Various dates Some light wear, a few ex-library copies; condition varies, very good or better. (200/300)
187. (Western Americana) Seventeen volumes of Western Americana published by the Arthur H. Clark Co. - All from the Western Frontiersman Series. Includes: * Nelson, Oliver. The Cowman’s Southwest. 1953. * Young, Otis. The West of Philip St. George Cooke, 1809-1895. 1955. * Hughes, Richard. Pioneer Years in the Black Hills. 1957. * Thorp, Raymond W. Spirit Gun of the West: The Story of Doc W.F. Carver. Blue cloth, printed jacket. 1957. * Hunt, Aurora. Kirby Benedict: Frontier Federal Judge. 1961. * Brooks, Juanita. John Doyle Lee: Zealot, Pioneer Builder, Scapegoat. Printed dj. 1964. * Erwin, Allen A. The Southwest of John H. Slaughter, 1841-1922. 1965. * Wilson, Iris Higbie. William Wolfskill, 1798-1866. 1965. * Goodman, David Michael. A Western Panorama, 1849-1875: The Travels, Writings, and Influence of J. Ross Browne. 1966. * Hoig, Stan. The Western Odyssey of John Simpson Smith. 1974. * Chaput, Donald. Francois X. Aubry: Trader, Trailmaker and Voyageur in the Southwest. Blue cloth. 1975. * Jackson, Sheldon G. A British Ranchero in Old California: The Life and Times of Henry Dalton. 1977 * Brooks, George R., ed. The Southwest Expedition of Jedediah S. Smith. 1977. * Briggs, Carl. Quarterdeck & Saddlehorn. 1983. * Stegmaier, Mark L. James F. Milligan, His Journal of Fremont’s Fifth Expedition. 1988. * Weber, David J. The Californios versus Jedediah Smith, 1826-1827. 1990. * Stillman, J.D.B. Wanderings in the Southwest in 1855. 1990. Together 17 octavo volumes, in the original cloth (red but for 2 volumes in blue). Arthur H. Clark Company, Various dates All from the publisher’s Western Frontiersmen Series. Light wear, a few with previous owners names, bookplates; all very good to fine. (400/600)
Page 51 188. (Western Americana) Twelve volumes of Western Americana published by the Arthur H. Clark Co. - All from the American Trail Series. Includes: * Young, Otis E. The First Military Escort on the Santa Fe Trail, 1829. Damp stain to lower edge of covers. 1952. * Settle, Raymond & Mary, eds. Overland Days to Montana in 1865. 1971. * Outland, Charles F. Stagecoaching on the El Camino Real. Printed dust jacket. 1973. * McKinstry, Bruce. The California Gold Rush Overland Diary of Byron N. McKinstry, 1850-1852. Printed dj. 1975. * Hague, Harlan. The Road to California: The Search for a Southern Overland Route, 1540-1848. 1978. * Sargent, Shirley, ed. Seeking the Elephant, 1848: James Mason Hutchings’ Journal of his Overland Trek to California. 1980. * Heckman, Marlin L. Overland on the California Trail, 1846-1859. 1984. * Koenig, George. Beyond This Place There be Dragons. Printed dj. 1984. * Shumate, Albert. The Notorious I.C. Woods of the Adams Express. Printed dj. 1986. * Hammer, Jacob. This Emigrating Company: The 1844 Oregon Trail Journal. Printed dj. 1990. * Rumer, Thomas. The Wagon Trains of ‘44. Printed dj. 1990. * Etter, Patricia. To California on the Southern Route. 1998. Together 12 octavo volumes, original red cloth, many with jackets. Arthur H. Clark Company, Various dates All from the publisher’s American Trails Series. Light wear; very good to fine. (300/500)
189. White, David A., ed. News of the Plains and Rockies, 1803 - 1865: Original narratives of overland travel and adventure selected from the Wagner-Camp and Becker bibliography of Western Americana. 8 volumes. Supplement volume, issued later, not present. Illustrated with maps, tables, facsimiles, etc. (8vo), tan cloth with brown gilt-lettered brown cover and spine labels. First Collected Edition. Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1996-[2001] A valuable reference of Western Americana. “This compilation pulls together...168 rare news reports of pioneers who epitomized the Western spirit” (introduction). Five of the volumes still in the publisher’s shrinkwrap; fine. (200/300)
190. Whitney, J. Parker. Reminiscences of a Sportsman. iii, 467 pp. Photographic portrait frontispiece, tissue guard. Title printed in red and black. 9½x6, original charcoal-gray buckram, spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. First Edition. New York: Forest & Stream Publishing Co., 1906 Inscribed by author on back of frontispiece: “Union League Club, with compliments of J. Parker Whitney.” “An observant angler, the author makes some observations on freezing and resuscitating trout which are worth reading” - Bruns W 101. Covers scuffed, wear to spine foot; front hinge cracked, bookplate to front pastedown, rear hinge loose, ink stamps of Union League Club to rear pastedown; else very good. (100/150)
191. Winsor, Justin, editor. Narrative and Critical History of America. 8 volumes. Profusely illustrated with engraved plates, maps, drawings, facsimiles, etc.; Vol. I with steel-engraved frontispiece portrait. 27.5x18 cm (10¾x7”), original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine, plain black endpapers. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., [1889] A valuable work of American history. Winsor was librarian of Harvard University (1877-97). “He advanced the scientific study of American history by making available new materials.” (Oxford Companion to American Literature). Howes W577. Rubbed at volume edges, Vol. V with a small tear at spine head; some hinges starting; very good. (150/250)
Page 52 192. (Wisconsin) (Butterfield, C. W., et al). The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing a History of Dodge County, Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., Etc., and Extensive and Minute Sketch of its Cities, Their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools, Societies . . . iv, [1], (19)- 766, [1] ad pp. Illustrated with full page map, several lithographed portrait plates. (small 4to) 24x19 cm. (9½x7½”) original ½ morocco and black pebbled cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. First Edition. Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1880 Dodge County is located in the southeast corner of the state. Chips to spine ends, rear joint split about halfway, wear to corners; rear hinge cracked, text quite clean and else very good overall. (100/150)
193. (Works Progress Administration - California) Lawson, William R., administrator. Northern California’s Three Years of Achievement Under the Works Progress Administration, 1935-1938. [45] leaves. Illustrated with many photographs. 27.5x21 cm (11x8¼”) original illustrated wrappers, cloth spine. Front wrapper reads: Accomplishments Work Progress Administration Northern California. [San Francisco]: Works Progress Administration, Northern California, [1938-1939] An informative report which includes employment statistics, information on WPA offices in California, and officials, followed by several leaves of photographs, capturing public works and projects that were completed, “Thanks to WPA.” Including San Francisco’s aquatic park, the SF Zoo, and various school houses and murals. Thank you indeed. Comes with a typed letter on William R. Lawson’s letterhead, administrator at the WPA Northern California office. He explains that with this letter, dated February 1, 1939, the recipient is receiving the booklet (as described above). Also laid in is a 4 pp. typed publication about the School Lunch Project, which provided over 300,000 free school lunches to needy and undernourished children from January to April, 1940. OCLC / Worldcat locates 7 copies. Cloth spine strip lacking, spine worn, several tiny spots of yellow soiling to wrappers, light edge wear; very good. (250/350)
194. (World War I) Summary of Operations in the World War - 26 division histories. 27 volumes (including 1 duplicate). Text and maps housed in brown cloth bindings, lettered in black. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1940s History of Division involvement in World War I. Includes the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 32nd, 33rd, 35th, 36th, 37th, 42nd, 77th, 79th, 80th, 81st, 82nd, 89th, 90th, 91st, 92nd, & 93rd Divisions. A duplicate of the 90th Division report (ex-library) is included. Some wear to bindings, most leaning, a few ex-library; very good. Not comprehensively collated but appears complete; offered as is. (400/700)
195. [Wright, William] De Quille, Dan. Snow-Shoe Thompson: 1856-1876. Preface by Carroll D. Hall. With linoleum block illustration on title, printed in green. Hand-set in Bulmer types. 7x5½, decorative paper over white boards, acetate. 1 of 210 copies printed on French Arches paper by Lewis & Dorothy Allen. Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1954 With the bookplate of Doris & Harold Zellerbach on front pastedown. Account by Mark Twain’s cohort of the near-mythical mail carrier who delivered his parcels across the Sierra Nevada, often in winter, on his “Norwegian skates.” Issued as number XLIV in Dawson’s Early California Travels Series. Allen Press 14. Spine a touch sunned; tiny pen mark on half title; near fine. (250/350)
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Page 53 196. (Yosemite) Letter from the Mutual Security Company offering for sale bonds to cover the construction costs of the Yosemite Post Office Building, on letterhead with a reproduced photograph of the building. One page, 27.5x21.5 cm. (11x8½”). Oakland, Cal.: c.1925 Rare piece of Yosemite ephemera, offering bonds with accrued interested to net 7% - $40,000 worth were available, returning $108,000 after 20 years, in denominations of $500 and $1000. And even better, the assured income is “not subject to the ups and downs of most business,” and “The building is covered by full fire insurance for the benefit of the bondholders.” The historic post office building, a fine view of which is on the letter, was completed in 1925. No copies listed in OCLC. Fine condition. (400/600)
Section II: Travel & Exploration
197. (Africa) Adams, Laura. Autograph Letter Signed by Laura Adams, writing from East Bloomfield, NY, to her brother Newton Adams, a missionary doctor in South Africa. 3½ pages, on 4-page lettersheet with integral address leaf. 32x19.7 cm. (12¾x7¾”). East Bloomfield, NY: April 28, 1839 Letter to Newton Adams, a missionary who was the first medical doctor in Natal when he arrived with his wife and fellow missionaries in February of 1835, in the heart of the Zulu nation, surrounded by tumult and danger. Much of the letter from his sister pertains to family matters and church activities in the United States, but there are some insightful and informative comments in response to her brother’s earlier letter from Natal. In part: “...We had hoped your next letters would have brought us a more favorable account of your prospects, but recent intelligence and the fact that so many of its members have returned home, leave very little encouragement that the mission among the Zulus will ever be resumed... We cannot advise but I think that you must be a better judge of what course to pursue than the prudential committee at Boston...” Very good condition. (300/500)
198. (Africa) Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa. Black and orange cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First American Edition. New York: Random House, [1938] Basis for the Academy Award winning 1985 film starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. Jacket price-clipped, and spine head a bit chipped, a few tiny tears; light shelf wear and faint marks; near fine volume in very good jacket. (200/300)
199. (Africa) Leakey, L.S.B. The Southern Kikuyu before 1903 - three volumes. 3 volumes. Cloth, dust jackets. London: Academic Press, 1977 Jacket of Volume 1 price-clipped, with a short tear; else fine. (300/500)
200. (Africa) Leakey, L.S.B. The Stone Age Races of Kenya. xii, 150 pp. Photographs, drawings, folding map. (4to) blue gilt-lettered cloth. First Edition. London: Oxford University Press, 1935 Review copy of the work, with a label from the publisher on front pastedown. Rubbed spine and extremities; very good. (150/250)
Page 54 201. (Africa) Stanley, Henry M. In Darkest Africa: or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. 2 volumes. Profusely illustrated with wood-engravings & plates; steel-engraved frontispiece portraits; 3 folding maps in rear endpaper pockets. (8vo) original gilt pictorial cloth with inset silhouette of Africa. First American Trade Edition. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890 One of the cornerstones of the literature of exploration. Rubbed cloth, some tearing to spine ends; very good. (200/300)
202. (Africa - 1853-1899 American Missionaries in Liberia and Nigeria) Hening, Mrs. E.F. History Of The Africa Mission Of The Protestant Episcopal Church In The United States With Memories Of Deceased Missionaries And Notices Of Native Customs. 300 pp. + [9] advertisements. Original cloth. Later Edition, first published in 1849. Also includes: * Stone, Rve. R.H. In Afric’s[sic] Forest and Jungle, Six Years Among the Yorubans. 282, [4] ad pp. Illustrated with photographs. Original cloth. Rubberstamps and names in ink to endpapers. Probable First Edition. Fleming H. Revell, [1899]. New York: Stanford and Swords, 1853 In sympathy with the pre-Civil War “Colonization” movement which sent freed American slaves to found “new countries” in west Africa, a group of white Protestant missionaries from Maryland sailed for newly-established Liberia in the 1830s, to “carry the gospel to one of the darkest corners of the globe”. Many of those who established a mission at Cape Palmas, a rocky peninsula on the southern tip of the Liberian coast, died of sickness or were killed by natives. Mrs. Hening was a missionary’s wife who survived the ordeal she details in her memoir. Forty years later, Rev. Stone and his young wife spent “four eventful years, far from civilization… among the barbarous people, inhabiting the part of Western Central Africa lying between the Bight of Benin and the Niger River”. Living among the Yoruba, the largest ethnic group in the region, their “precious memories” of “simple” life among those “dark souls” who “dwell in pagan darkness” is a valuable narrative of native life in territory soon to become a lucrative colonial “protectorate” of the British Government. Moderate wear to spines and extremities of each; good or very good. (150/250)
LEAKEY INVESTIGATES THE ORIGIN OF MAN 203. (Africa - Olduvai Gorge) Leakey, L.S.B., P.V. Tobias, et. al. Olduvai Gorge. 7 volumes, including: * Olduvai Gorge: A Report on the Evolution of the Hand-Axe Culture in Beds I-IV. Cloth, dj (price- clipped). 1951. * Olduvai Gorge. 5 volumes in 6 (Volume V is in 2 volumes in slipcase). All in cloth, dust jackets (most price-clipped). 1965-1991 Cambridge: University Press, 1951-1991 Nice series that reports on important findings gleaned from the most famous anthropological site, the Olduvai Gorge. Reports on things like cranium of the Australopithecus, fauna, excavations in Beds I-IV. Plus, a separate volume on the hand-axes of Beds I-IV. Illustrated with photographs, diagrams, charts, etc. A few jackets with light edge wear; else near fine or fine. (800/1200)
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Page 55 204. (African-American Book Of Travel) Brown, Wm. Wells. The American Fugitive in Europe. Sketches of Places and People Abroad. With A Memoir of the Author. 320 pp. Portrait frontispiece. (8vo), original cloth. First American Edition. Boston, Cleveland, and NY: John P. Jewett & Co., 1855 The first book of “foreign” travel by an African-American - who also wrote the first African- American novel and the first African-American play, as well as an early military history of Black soldiers in the Revolutionary War. The son of a slave mother and a white plantation owner in Kentucky, Brown (1814-1884) escaped from bondage to become an agent of Abolitionist societies and the Underground Railroad. In 1849, he sailed for Europe as a delegate to the third International Peace Congress, an association of anti-war groups on both sides of the Atlantic. To avoid the risk of capture under the newly-passed Fugitive Slave Law, he remained in Europe for five years as respected spokesman for the anti-slavery cause. During this time, he wrote both his novel Clotel, a story about the mixed-race slave daughter of Thomas Jefferson, considered the first fiction written by an African-American, and this book, an account of his travels in Ireland, France and England and meetings with such notables as De Tocqueville and Harriet Martineau. Brown returned to America in 1854, later becoming a Civil War recruiter of Black soldiers and a physician. A bit of loss to spine ends, corners bumped, light soiling, spine leaning a bit; foxed with a small corner dampstain to frontispiece; very good. (250/350)
205. (Art) Williams, H.[ugh] W.[illiam]. Autograph Letter Signed - 1827 British Landscape Artist Of Illustrated Travel Books. 4pp. including stampless address leaf. Edinburgh: July 24, 1827 To Mr. [George] Cooke, Engraver’s Office, London: “…our Exhibition which opened this month took up every minute of my time. I unfortunately had nothing prepared for it… thank you kindly for the beautiful selection from Claude, it really is quite exquisite and invaluable to me. Your brother’s work too does him infinite honor and I trust it will put thousands in his pockets. The price is reasonable and must ensure an extensive sale. The last number of the River Scenery is very good indeed. I like it better than most of the preceding numbers…I shall have the whole beautifully bound…I shall hope to see the progress you have made in the work of Pompeii and if it is not too much for my purse I may purchase…You ask me the price of my drawings… they are all done for the engravers in numbers, one colour and highly finished and such drawings I could not do for less than eight or ten Guineas…The size of the drawings generally may be about 12-14 16 or 18 inches but no difference in price. I make the drawings to suit the subject. I rejoice to learn that Greece is going on so well… Longman & Co. are going on well, better by much than Hurst & Co. My next number will be out very soon and will eclipse all the rest…The View of Edin. is going on well and in summer when the strangers come to Scotland it will no doubt sell rapidly. Millar…will proceed to my new work soon viz. Elba and unpublished Italy as a companion to France. Greece will be extended to 12 numbers in all. I think business is looking up here…” Scottish watercolor painter Hugh William Williams (1773-1829) was especially celebrated for his views of Greece in the romantic Byron era, though the collapse of his publisher, Hurst & Robinson, left him in financial straits. Ironically, finely-illustrated travel and “view” books with Williams’ landscape plates (like those of prolific engravers George and William Bernard Cooke) are now rare and highly-valued on the antiquarian book market. Some yellowing and tearing (from original wax seal opening - wax not present) at address leaf; very good. (200/300)
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Page 56 VOYAGES IN ASIA FROM THE 12TH TO 15TH CENTURIES 206. (Asia) Bergeron, Pierre. Voyages Faits Principalement en Asie dans les XII, XIII, XIV et XV Siecles par Benjamin de Tudele, Jean Du Plan-Carpin, N. Ascelin, G. de Rubruquis, M.P. Venitien, Haiton, J. de Mandeville et A. Contini. Accompagnes de l’Histoire des Sarasins et des Tartares. 2 volumes bound in 1. [x] pp., columns 1-156, pp. 157-161, [7] pp., columns 1-67, [5] pp., columns 1-82, [4] pp., columns 1-161, [8] pp., columns 1-132, pp. 133-136; [vi] pp., columns 1-66, pp. 67-69, columns 1-38, [1] p., pp. 1-4, columns 5-44, 1-162, pp. 163-185, columns 1-96, (2) pp., pp. 1-2, columns 3-26, (1) p., columns 1-62, (1) pp. 5 folding engraved maps; 8 half-page copper-engraved illustrations. (4to) 28x22 cm (11x8¾”), period full mottled calf, spine gilt. The Hague: Jean Neaulme, 1735 Originally composed by Pierre Bergeron mainly based on medieval travels and published at Paris in 1634. A new enlarged version was published at Leiden in 1729 by Pierre Van der Aa. This is a reprint of that edition with a new title. The section on Marco Polo is taken from Müller’s translation. Scarce in any edition. Binding rubbed; paper a bit browned, faint offsetting of maps to text; very good. (2500/3500) Lot 206 207. (Aviation) Around the World in 23 Days in a Fairchild Plane. 18, [6] pp. (including wrappers). Illustrated with 2 page map at center of the route around the world, photographs, and advertisements. 28x21.5 cm (11x8½”) illustrated wrappers. [New York City]: Fairchild Aviation Corporation, 1928 Charles B.D. Collyer was a former barnstormer (Liberty Flyers) and airmail pilot. From June 28th to July 22nd, 1928 Collyer, with H. Mears and a terrier named Tail Wind (as passengers), flew round the world from New York and back in 23 days, 15 hours, and 21 minutes to establish an FAI record. Their circumnavigation was completed faster than a lunar cycle, and one newspaper dubbed it a “race with the moon.” Later that year, Collyer and Harry Tucker attempted to set the West-East speed record with the same airplane, but crashed shortly after takeoff in Arizona. Both men died. Includes a leaf from The New York Times, Monday, November 5, 1928, reporting “Collyer and Tucker Killed when Speeding Plane hits Canyon Wall in Arizona.” Leaf is yellowed with a few tiny holes and tears. Titled within: “The Fairchild Aerogram.” The narrative begins with the preliminary preparation for the Collyer and Tucker flight around the world, then detail the flight and their stops along the way. Rare booklet, only 4 copies located by OCLC / Worldcat. A bit of edge wear to wrappers, small chip at lower left corner of front wrapper; very good. (400/600)
208. Biddlecombe, George. The Art of Rigging; Containing an Alphabetical Explanation of Terms and Phrases, and Directions for Operations; to Which are Added, Tables of the Relative Strength of Chain and Hempen Cables; Also, the Method of Progressive Rigging Together with Copious Tables of the Quantities and Dimensions of the Standing and Running Rigging, Expressly Adapted for Merchant-Shipping and Yachts. xii, 136 pp. Folding frontispiece and 14 steel-engraved plates; folding tables. (8vo), original blindstamped blue cloth, gilt vignette on front. A New Edition, Revised and Re-Compiled. London: Charles Wilson, 1848 Perhaps the best manual for the rigging of sailing vessels, based on the 1796 work of the same title by David Steel, but significantly altered and as such “the present edition may be regarded as an original work.” Fading and light soiling to cloth, early gift inscriptions on front endpaper; foxing; very good. (400/700)
Page 57 TWO RARE GUIDES TO PARIS 1605 & 1608 209. Bonfons, Pierre. Les Fastes Antiquitez et Choses Plus Remarquables de Paris. [32], 336 ff. Woodcuts after Jean Rabel. (8vo) 17x10.5 cm (6¾x4¼”), Modern full tan calf by Riviere, spine gilt, morocco labels, all edges gilt. First Edition. Paris: Nicolas & Pierre Bonfons, 1605
Lot 209
Scarce first edition of this illustrated guide to Paris. The woodcuts depict funeral monuments and statues of French monarchs and nobles. Extremities rubbed, front joint and hinge cracked; title leaf resized and possibly backed, final leaf resized; light foxing; very good. (2000/3000)
210. Bonfons, Pierre. Les Antiquitez et Choses Plus Remarquables de Paris. [xii], 447, [1] ff. Woodcuts after Jean Rabel. (8vo) 16.5x10.5 cm (6½x4¼”), early full calf, spine gilt, morocco label. Early edition. Paris: Nicolas Bonfons, 1608 First published in 1605. This edition revised and with additions by Jacques de Bruel. The woodcuts depict funeral monuments and statues of French monarchs and nobles. Spine ends chipped, light wear to extremities; occasional foxing; very good. (1500/2000)
Lot 210
Page 58 211. Brown, George. George Brown, D.D. Pioneer-Missionary and Explorer: An Autobiography. A narrative of forty-five years’ residence and travel in Samoa, New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. xii, 536 pp. Numerous plates from photographs; folding map. 23.5x15.5 cm. (9¼x6”), red cloth, gilt cover vignette, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908 With card of the Rev. G. Brown, President of the Methodist Church of Australia, mounted on front pastedown, beneath which is the card of Frederic Wood Jones. Spine and portions of covers faded, rubbing to extremities; hinges cracked at endpapers, about very good. (100/150)
212. Buzacott, A[aron]. Mission Life in the Islands of the Pacific: Being a Narrative of the Life and Labours of the Rev. A. Buzacott. xxii, 288 pp. Mounted original albumen photograph portrait as frontispiece; woodcut plates & illustrations in the text. Original cloth. First Edition. London: John Snow, 1866 A fascinating account of life in the Cook Islands, Samoa and Melanesia. Spine faded, leaning, some extremity wear; rear hinge cracked, about very good. (200/300)
213. Cheever, Henry T. The Island World of the Pacific: Being the Personal Narrative and Results of Travel Through the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands, and Other Parts of Polynesia. 304 pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece. 18.7x11 cm. (7½x4¼”), blindstamped clopth, spine lettered in gilt. First British Edition. Glasgow: William Collins, [1851?] Scarce and important account of Hawaii. “Cheever was an American Congregational minister who, due to his health, sailed to the Hawaiian Islands, thus enabling him to gather material for several of his books. He sailed aboard the Wales. He was an abolitionist and prohibitionist who later edited the travel books of Walter Colton.” Cheever (1814-1897) wrote a few other works on Hawaii and the South Seas, including Life in the Sandwich Islands, published the same year as this volume. Forbes 1802; Hill 286. Ownership signature of Francis Gorham to top of title- page, dated Aug. 23, 1852, below which is an inscription dated 1879. Spine faded a touch, slight bumps to extremities; about a fifth of the tissue guard to the frontispiece torn off; very good. (150/250)
JESUIT MISSIONARIES IN CHINA 214. (China) Bartoli, Daniello. Dell’ historia della Compagnia di Giesu la Cina: Terza Parte dell’ Asia. [8], 1152, [7] pp. (4to) 33.5x22.5 cm. (13¼x8¾”), early 20th century quarter morocco & cloth. First Edition. Rome: Nella Stamperia del Varese, 1663 Daniello Bartoli’s important history of the Jesuit missionaries in China, complete in itself though comprising the third and final part of his “Dell’ historia della Compagnia di Giesu... dell’ Asia,” 1653-1660-1663. The first two parts treated of Asia in general, the second of Japan. The present volume is concerned with the Jesuit presence in various Chinese provinces as well as in what is now Cambodia and Vietnam. Bartoli remarks on the journals of Ricci, Trigault and Rhodes. With the Australian themed bookplate of George Ernest Morrison (1862-1920), also known as Morrison of Peking or Chinese Morrison, an Australian adventurer and The Times Peking correspondent. Moderate wear to covers; darkening to contents of varying degrees, staining in top margins, some foxing, title-page laid on backing repairing some small holes and some loss at a horizontal crease with a few letters redrawn, following 3 leaves with corresponding but lesser loss affecting a dozen or so letters; (1000/1500)
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Page 59 215. (China) Collection of photographs of scenes of punishment and torture in Imperial China. 27 snapshot size photographs 11x8 cm (4¼x3¼”) and 8.5x13.5 (3½x5¼”) or the reverse. China: no date [c.1920s] Commercially produced graphic and disturbing images of torture and atrocities committed in Imperial China. Includes beheading and scenes of “death by 1000 cuts” torture. Light wear; near fine. (200/300)
216. (China) Hirth, Friedrich and W.W. Rockhill, translators. Chau Ju-Kua: His Work on the Chinese and Arab Trade in the twelfth and thirteenth Centuries, entitled Chu-fan-chi. x, 288 pp. Folding map at rear. 27.5x20 cm (10¾x8”) original tan wrappers, printed in black. St. Petersburg: Printing Office of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1911 A partially uncut, and wholly untrimmed copy. Folding map titled, Map to illustrate the “Description of Barbarous Peoples” (Chu-Fan-Chi). With an old bookseller’s receipt of purchase from W. Heffer & Sons, Cambridge. Light wear to wrapper edges, spine worn, lacking bottom 2½”; very good. (600/900)
PROPAGANDA POSTERS FROM THE CHINA OF MAO TSE-TUNG 217. (China) Original poster of Mao Zedong [Mao Tse-tung]. Color poster, 77.5x53.5 cm (30.5x21”). China: 1960s An iconic image of the Chinese leader. Edges lightly worn, 2” closed tear at lower left corner; very good. (200/300)
218. (China) Two propaganda posters from communist China. Two block print posters printed in red and black or red, black and green. Each approx. 78x54 cm (30¾x21¼”). China: 1970s One an image of Mao within a circle of radiating lines, shining down upon a group of smiling workers, all with their red books in raised hands. The second an image of Mao and a Chinese soldier observing marching troops, text at left. Both with some wear at edges, more so on the first poster; very good. (300/500)
219. (China) William Adams and Son. Document itemizing imported China bought of William Adams and Sons at Stoke-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire. Printed and mostly manuscript document, 3 pp. + stampless address. With 2 attached pages of US export documents, one signed by Francis Ogden, US Consul at Liverpool, the other by Thomas Adams, “earthenware manufacturer”. 15½x9½. Stoke-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England: August 16, 1835 Itemized lists, with costs of 100+ items of China being exported by the British Adams firm to George A. Ball of Philadelphia. The Adams firm, the subject of at least two books, was a major importer of China to the United States from the first years of the 19th century, notable for designs which were specifically “American” such as the Great Seal of the United States and the American Eagle. There were also American historical themes, some of which are detailed on this manuscript list, which mentions Printed Jugs with black-brown and purple Washington images. Other cryptic references (“Mothers Grave”, “American and Oriental Scenery”) would no doubt be of great interest and value to connoisseurs of early American “patriotic” pottery. Some wear, tiny chips and tears at edges; very good. (200/300)
Page 60 220. (China, Manchuria - 1932 China condemns Japanese conquest of Manchuria) North-Eastern Affairs Research Institute. Two publications: “Japan’s Deceitful Diplomacy” and “Japan’s Aggressive Policy, Carried on in the name of the Mikado by the Military Party”. Each is 22 pp. In original wrappers. Peiping [Bejing], China: North-Eastern Affairs Research Institute, August, 1932 Two of a series of scarce English-language booklets issued by the Institute – a group of scholars linked to the Chinese Nationalist Government – condemning Japan’s invasion of Manchuria and creation of the Manchukuo puppet government. The second imprint stresses that the conquest represented “abuse of the name” of the Japanese Emperor by his nation’s militarists. A bit of sunning to wrappers, Ex-library copies with some stamping on front wrappers; very good. (150/250)
221. (China - San Francisco Collection of Chinese Seals, 1 of 600 copies, inscribed) Na Chih-liang. Chinese Seals: The Collection of Ralph C. Lee. 112 pp. Frontispiece and 40 full-page plates photographed by Marjory Gay Walter. Original decorative cloth. No. 357 of 600 copies. [Taiwan]: [Privately Printed for Allan Lee], [1966] Inscribed in 1967 by Allan Lee to “very special friends who mean so much to me”. Lee’s father, San Francisco diamond merchant Ralph Lee, a director of the De Young Museum and patron of the San Francisco opera, collected several hundred antique Chinese seals or “chops”, made from bronze, ivory, stone, jade and lapis lazuli. After his death, the son commissioned a Chinese art authority, curator of the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, to write this book, which depicts highlights of the collection and includes some 20 pages of text about the history and lore of Chinese “chops”. Light shelf wear; small tear/hole at portrait frontispiece; very good. (200/300)
222. (China - 1900 US Army combats Boxer Rebellion) “Military Operations in China”. Part 9 of Report of the Lieutenant-General Commanding the Army in Annual Reports of the War Department. 255 pp. (including 46 pp. index). Profusely illustrated with 73 full-page photographs and 12 folding maps, battle plans, sketches and documents. Original buckram. Washington, D.C.: 1900 Despite a misleading title page and the preliminary multi-volume index, this is the complete US Army official report of the “China Relief Expedition”, the American portion of the eight-nation military force of 20,000 troops sent to China to counter the xenophobic Boxer rebels who besieged the foreign Legation Quarter of Beijing in June 1900. The alliance troops defeated the Boxer Army and captured Beijing on August 14, lifting a 55-day siege of the diplomatic enclave, and then entering the grounds of the Imperial Palace. The Report does not dwell on the uncontrolled foreign looting and repressive atrocities which followed, but details various Army reconnaissance and combat missions in and around Beijing and Tientsin from June until the end of September and beyond, including diplomatic correspondence and military communications. An essential historical document of the American military intervention. A touch of shelf wear; very good. (250/350)
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Page 61 223. (China - 1938-1946 US Marines & Air Force in China) Magic China, A Cruise With The Marines [U.S. Marine Corps recruiting pamphlet, ca. 1938]. 3½x5½ inches, unfolding to 10½x13½”. Multi- colored, illustrated with drawings and 5 photographs. “China – alluring and mystical! For more than thirty years, the US Marines have been on guard at the US Embassy in Peiping…” and also based in Shanghai and Tientsin. Also includes: * 2 issues of the Jing-Bao Journal of the C.A.C.W.. [1st Bomb Group, Chinese-American Composite Wing, 14th US Air Force] Issued by the “Avenger Club” and “Veterans of “The Avengers” (New York, January 15, 1945 and Oct. 1, 1946) 8½x14”. Mimeographed. 4pp. each. 1938-1946 Formed in 1943, the CACW was a joint US-Nationalist Chinese unit with pilots from both countries flying bombers and fighter planes across the Japanese lines. These rare newsletters, one issued during, and one after, the War, gave American pilots an opportunity for what would now be called “social networking” with combat buddies from the China Theater who had gone their separate ways. Curiously, one January 1945 posting is by a Major Winston S. Churchill, then stationed at an Air Force Base in South Carolina, possibly some forgotten American relation of the famed British statesman. Near fine. (150/250)
224. (Chinese Jews, 2nd Edition of the World War II rarity) White, William Charles. Chinese Jews: A Compilation of Matters Relating to the Jews of K’ai-feng. 211, 186, 228 pp. Illustrated with photographs. (8vo) Original cloth, dust jacket. Second Edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966 Classic study, by an Anglican Bishop in China, of the “‘orphan colony’ of Chinese Jews which flourished in and around K’ai-feng Fu until its sudden disappearance in the 19th century.” Jacket price clipped, spine a bit yellowed, tiny nicks at edges and a bit dust soiled; near fine volume in a very good jacket. (150/250)
VOYAGE TO GREECE WITH BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED PLATES 225. Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel August Florent de. Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce. 2 volumes in 3. [8], xvi, 204; [8], 346; [6], x, (347)-518, (xi)-xii pp. Half title present in all 3 volumes. Two double-page engraved maps of Greece in Volume I, frontispiece portrait of Choiseul-Gouffier in the third volume. Volume I contains 126 numbered engraved plates on 100 leaves; the two parts of Volume II include a total of 159 numbered engraved plates on 68 leaves including the two extra plates (numbered bis 8 and bis 76); numerous engraved vignette head- and tail-pieces. (Folio) 51x33.5 cm (20x13¼”) period full mottled tan calf, spines gilt, red and black leather spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. First Edition. Paris: J.J. Blaise, 1782, 1809, 1822 First issue of Volume 1, with preface ending “exoriare aliquis” rather than “O utinam” on page XVI. One of the few copies with the table labeled “Tournois turc” (instead Tournoi turc) in Plate No. 110. An account of Choiseul-Gouffier’s tour of Greece in 1776. Illustrated with a series of spectacular engraved plates, maps, plans, views, etc. Choiseul-Gouffier travelled to Greece as part of the Marquis de Chabert’s expedition. He was appointed French ambassador at Constantinople in 1784. The completion of the work was interrupted by the events of the Greek revolution, with the final volume completed, after the author’s death, under the direction of Barbié du Bocage. Blackmer 342; Cohen-De Ricci 238; Brunet I, 1847. 2 bookplates in each volume. (Baehler Neu-Habsburg and Duc d’Istrie) Bindings with expert restoration, some rubbing at extremities; internally about fine with some light foxing. Lot 225 (15000/20000)
Page 62 226. (Cruise Ships - French Line) Bound volume of 94 passenger lists from 1887 for voyages on the Le Havre- New York route. 94 passenger lists, each 4 pp. Chromolithograph covers. Bound together in red cloth. 23x15 cm (9x6”). Paris: 1887 A complete record of the years voyages on the the Le Havre to New York / New York to Le Havre route of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (the French Line). Presumably from the ship line’s library, many with holograph additions, deletions, etc. The chromolithograph illustrations on the front of each list is of a ship in the New York harbor, the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge depicted in the distance; the rear covers vary, some with hotel advertisements, others with advertisements for other routes. Light wear to cloth, several lists detached; very good. (300/500)
MANUSCRIPTS FROM CUBA 227. (Cuba) Powell, Albert E. Two Autograph Letters Signed “Albert” - 1904 First American Lawyers in Havana. Two letters: March 23, 1904. 3pp. and, May 19, 1904. 4pp. With mailing envelopes. Havana, Cuba: 1904 To his mother, Mrs. L.J. Powell, Cleveland, Ohio. Albert Edward Powell was a 30 year-old lawyer from Cleveland, a recent Harvard Law School graduate, who was considering a position with the Havana law firm of Ernest Lee Conant and Albert Wright, probably the first American attorneys to open an office in Cuba after the Spanish-American War. These letters give his impressions from the moment he arrived at Havana harbor “to see the yellow and white of the city looming in front of us and the low walls of Morro Castle perched above us...” His new law office (where, at siesta time, he found no one but the janitor), “is very pleasant but unlike a law office in the states, with its high walls, tile floors…marble stairway…and general Spanish effect…” He thought Havana “a queer city…with streets like alleys, stores without fronts, sidewalks as wide as the curb stones, its negroes galore from the pickanniny to the grey headed crone, its Chinamen, its senoritas in mantillas and face powder, its Spanish mules and the sunshine of a summer day flanking them all…” While appreciating the inexpensive restaurant food - “40 cents Spanish silver” for a “square meal” at “the best place in Havana”, when he began work, he was surprised to find his fellow attorneys dressed all in white, “coat and all.” Though assured that he would soon be in charge of handling Cuban war claims, he doubted that he would stay. Powell did, in fact, remain in Cuba for several months, writing a series of feature articles published in New York newspapers, in which he declared the corruption of Cuban politics to be the equal of Tammany Hall, but also praised the absence of race prejudice and the diverse “mixtures of blood” among the population, which, he predicted, would contribute to the creation of a “wide democracy”. Very good. (100/150)
228. (Cuba - 1870 Cuban Revolutionaries in New York) Demarest, A., Practical Engraver. Printed and handwritten Receipt Signed - 1870. 1 pp. Printed and handwritten receipt. Signed. New York: March 1, 1870 To “Cuba Junta” for $9 of printing/engraving work done in 1869-70, probably for business cards. Émigré leaders of the first Cuban revolutionary movement for independence from Spain had established a “Junta”, an Executive Council, in New York in the early 1850s, but the outbreak of a full-scale military revolt in 1868 gave the Junta new urgency in its efforts to fund and supply insurgent forces on the island who would fight on for 30 years until their final victory during the Spanish-American War. As for the skilled engraver Demarest, he had supplied 20,000 medals for Union Army veterans of West Virginia after the American Civil War, but, by 1870, he was more accustomed to printing wedding invitations then revolutionary calling-cards. Some yellow spots at edges; very good. (100/150) Phone bidding is available during our auctions Please call 415-989-2665 for more information prior to the auction.
Page 63 229. (Cuba - 1824 US Navy’s Farragut Fights Caribbean Pirates) Finch, Captain W.B. Autograph Letter Signed - 1824 US Navy’s Farragut Fights Caribbean Pirates. 1 pp. Matanzas (Cuba): May 25, 1824 To Lt. [Thomas] Paine, Jr. of the [USS] Ferret: “The Master of the brig Matilda, now in port, to sail in the morning, has asked for Convoy: You will therefore in the Ferret, accompanied by the barge Gallinipper, see his ship beyond the eastern point of this bay; after which, you will touch at Havana for letters and papers to officers of the Squadron and residents at Thompson’s Island, thence proceed to the Island replenish your stock of provisions, leave the Gallinipper and bring the Mosquito over to this place…” The US Navy’s West India Squadron was established in 1822 to combat pirates operating in Spanish Cuban and Puerto Rican waters and the Gulf of Mexico. The USS Ferret was one of eight schooners of this “Mosquito Fleet” which did battle with pirate vessels near Matanzas harbor. Among the future luminaries of the Squadron were then-Lieutenants John Sloat and John Montgomery, who would play pivotal roles in the early history of California. Most renowned of all was Lt. David Farragut, who, just days after these orders were written by the flagship Captain, took command of the Ferret at Thompson’s Island (the future Key West, Florida) until he was stricken with yellow fever – the start of an illustrious career that would later bring him “full speed ahead” into the naval annals of the Civil War. Very good. (250/350)
CITY COUNCIL RESISTS INCORPORATION INTO HAVANA PROVINCE, 1813 230. (Cuba - Bayamo) Manuscript document recording City Council meetings in the town of Bayamo discussing the proposed incorporation of this town into the Province of Havana. 95 pages. Folio, unbound. Bayamo, Cuba: 1813
Lot 230
Interesting and significant document dating from March through October 1813, being is a record of City Council meetings in the town of Bayamo regarding the proposed incorporation of this town into the Province of Havana. The representatives of Bayamo were fiercely against this idea and the document describes how they wrestled back and forth with officials from Havana. Bayamo is one of the original seven Spanish Cities in Cuba and is located in the southern end of the island approximately 450 miles away from Havana. It was the distance between the two cities that made the idea of incorporation unacceptable to Bayamo officials. Summary and partial translation available on request. Darkening to some pages, some bleed- through, very good. (1500/2000)
Page 64 TWO LOTS ON CUBA MAIL BY STEAMSHIP FROM NEW YORK 231. (Cuba - Mail) Four manuscript documents, in Spanish, regarding steamship mail transport between the United States and Cuba. 4 documents comprising 14 pages in all, two are from the Spanish Legation in Washington, two are from the government in Cuba. Folio and quarto. Washington & Cuba: 1868 The documents talk about Atlantic Steamship Company and a request made to use a replacement vessel “Missouri” to run the route between New York and Havana as one of the regular ships went out of service. Summary and partial translation available on request. Some aging, very good. (700/1000)
232. (Cuba - Mail) Six manuscript documents, in Spanish, regarding steamship and mail transport between the United States and Cuba. 6 documents comprising 28 pages in all, from the Spanish Legation in Washington. Folio. Washington: 1868 Documents concerning the Lovillard Steamship Company as well as the Atlantic Steamship Co. Cuban authorities decided to deny permission to set sail for any vessel that would not provide a manifest of the cargo on board. Summary and partial translation available on request. Some aging, very good. (800/1200)
233. (Cuba - Religious History) Six manuscript documents, in Spanish, about a textbook written by Jose Turull on the religious history of Cuba and Puerto Rico and its proposed publication. 6 manuscript documents in ink, comprising 19 pages in all, 3 are from Puerto Rico, and 3 are from Havana, Cuba. Quarto. Havana, Cuba & Puerto Rico: 1858-1860 Documents relating to a textbook titled “Religious History” written by Jose Turull, including the history of religion on Cuba and Puerto Rico, and its proposed publication. Summary and partial translation available on request. Some darkening, offset and bleed-through of the ink; about very good. (400/600)
CUBA SLAVERY DOCUMENTS 234. (Cuba - Slavery) Arocha, Pedro Tomas. Manuscript document relating to a crime committed by a black slave. 8 pages on 4 leaves, in ink. Folio, disbound. Santiago de Cuba: August 17, 1843 Interesting document in Spanish, the contents of which may be so summarized: “[Royal Seal, HM The Queen Isabella II – 1842-43]. Pedro Tomas Arocha, of HM Council (the Spanish equivalent of the UK Privy Council) certifies that the police commissioner was summoned by Fernando Pons to intervene in a case concerning the use of violence. This case concerned a black slave, called Luis, who was one of the aggressors. (A list of relevant witnesses is outlined) The black slave named Luis has been committed to prison. In addition, it transpires that the black man Luis forced Antonio Projet, who is in charge of tending to the horses in the farm, to drink a liquid which made him sick. He is now hospitalized. The patient suffers convulsions and seizures. His cognitive abilities have also been impaired as well as his arterial system. The Tribunal decided to exonerate the people questioned. The Captain General Governor has recommended that the case be now closed. Signed: Santiago de Cuba, August 7, 1843. Pedro Tomas Arocha”. Some foxing and darkening, bleed-through of the ink; about very good. (800/1200)
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Page 65 235. (Cuba - Slavery) Manuscript document listing slaves in Cuba held in a detention area in Matanzas. Three written pages plus 5 blank pages. Quarto. Matanzas, Cuba: 1885 Document and a list written on May 15, 1885 at the “Deposito de Cimarrones de Matanzas” (Slave Detention area in Matanzas) by the Administrator Benigno Jimenez. The document serves a “cover page” for the list which contains names and detailed information on 18 slaves that were admitted to the detention area. Summary and partial translation available on request. Some darkening and light foxing, very good. (700/1000)
236. (Cuba - Slavery) Printed document summarizing rulings of a military commission on conspiracy charges against rebellious blacks. 5 pages on 3 leaves, disbound. Folio. Havana: 1844 Printed document from Matanzas, Cuba, containing a ruling of the Military commission of Matanzas, judging on conspiracy charges against blacks and free pardos (mixed race people) “to eradicate the white race from this island.” With ink signatures on final page of (apparently) Jose Lalinde and Juan Bautista Rodriguez. Summary and partial translation available on request. Some marginal worming, very good. (700/1000)
Lot 236
237. [Dezallier D’Argenville, Antoine-Nicolas]. Voyage Pictoresque de Paris ou Indication de tour ce qu’il y a de plus beau dans cette grande Ville en Peinture, Sculpture, & Architecture. [Bound with] Voyage Pittoresque des Environs de Paris ou Description des Maisons Royales, Chateaux & autres Lieux de Plaisance situes a quinze lieues aux environs de cette Ville. Two volumes bound together. 277, [43]; 364 pp. (12mo) 16.5x10 cm (6½x4”) period calf, spine gilt. First Editions. Paris: Chez de Bure, 1749 & 1755 Scarce early guides to the sights of Paris and vicinity. Spine ends chipped, some wear at extremities; very good. (400/600)
Page 66 238. [Dezallier D’Argenville, Antoine-Nicolas]. Voyage Pittoresque de Paris ou Indication de tour ce qu’il y a de plus beau dans cette grande Ville en Peinture, Sculpture, & Architecture. xii, 496, [6] pp. Additional illustrated title page, partially hand-colored; 5 engraved plates (2 folding). (12mo) 17x9.5 cm. (6¾x3¾”) period full mottled calf, spine gilt, red leather label. Third Edition. Paris: Chez de Bure, 1757 A popular account of the sights of Paris. Some wear to extremities; very good. (200/300)
239. [Disraeli, Isaac (attributed)]. Domestic Anecdotes of the French Nation During the Last Thirty Years. Indicative of the French Revolution. [xvi], 444 pp. (8vo) 21.5x13.5 cm (8½x5¼”) modern brown cloth. First Edition. London: C. and G. Kearsley, 1794 A look at the events leading to the French Revolution. Attributed to Isaac D’Israeli (1766-1848), father of the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. Light foxing; very good in a fine modern binding. (200/300)
240. Du Chaillu, Paul B. A Journey to Ashango-Land: And Further Penetration Into Equatorial Africa. xxiv, 501, 2 ad pp. Woodcut plates, including frontispiece, plus folding map at rear. (8vo) original green gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette illustration on front cover. First American Edition. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1867 Ethnological, animal, costume and domestic life are illustrated by woodcut engraved plates. With the bookplate of J.N. Webster, Alameda, plus his name on a rubberstamp at endpapers. Worn at spine ends and corners, front joint starting, scattered marks; some light foxing; very good. (200/300)
241. Du Chaillu, Paul B. Two volumes by Paul Du Chaillu - on exploration of Africa. Includes: * Stories of the Gorilla Country. 292, 6 ad pp. 1872. * Wild Life Under the Equator. 231, 6 ad pp. 1873. Both with woodcut plates. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872-1873 Two later editions, identically bound in purple cloth, with gilt-lettering and gilt illustration of gorilla in front cover. Rubberstamps within (title page and 1st page of text) from First National Bank in San Leandro, CA. Spines sunned, rubbed and worn at spine ends and corners; very good. (150/250)
242. Edwards, Amelia B. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile. xxviii, 499 pp. Woodcut illustrations. (8vo) original gilt pictorial red cloth. Second Edition. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1897 First published in 1877. Amelia B. Edwards was one of the foremost woman travelers in the late 1800’s. She was a prolific author and one of the Founders of the Egyptian Exploration Fund. She was the driving force behind the establishment of the first chair in Egyptology at an English University and was a contemporary of African Explorers such as Richard F. Burton, David Livingstone and Henry Stanley. She was a remarkable woman and many say that A Thousand Miles Up the Nile was her masterpiece. Spine ends frayed, a few faint spots to cloth; very good. (100/150)
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Page 67 243. (Egypt) Bonaparte’s Feldzug Nach Egypten. Offizielle Aktenstucke aus dem Franzoesischen Ubersetzt. [ii], 94 pp. (8vo) 20.5x12 cm (8x4¾”) period half morocco and marbled boards. First Edition. Paris: Treuttel und Wurtz, Jahr VIII (1799-1800) Documents relating to Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt, translated from the French. Scarce. OCLC/WorldCat locates only 2 copies of this title, one with a variant title page. Binding worn, dampstaining and foxing throughout; ex-library from St. Mary’s College, San Antonio, TX, with ink stamp and other markings on title page; good. (300/500)
244. (Egypt) Sanford, K.S. and W.J. Arkell. Prehistoric Survey of Egypt and Western Asia - four volumes. 4 volumes. Includes: Volume I: Paleolithic Man and the Nile-Faiyum Divide. With dust jacket. [1929]. Volume II: Paleolithic Man and the Nile Valley in Nubia and Upper Egypt. [1933]. Volume III: Paleolithic Man and the Nile Valley in Upper and Middle Egypt. With dust jacket. [1934]. Volume IV: Paleolithic Man and the Nile Valley in Lower Egypt. [1939]. Each two-toned brown cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Each wtih Eliot Blackwelder, Stanford University rubberstamps on front free endpapers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1929-1939] Illustrated with photographs, maps, and diagrams of artifacts of the region. From the University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications. Jackets with several small chips and tears at edges; lightly rubbed volume extremities; near fine volumes in very good jackets. (200/300)
245. Ellis, William. Three Visits to Madagascar During the Years 1853-1854-1856. Including a Journey to the Capital. With Notices of the Natural History of the Country and the Present Civilization of the People. 514, [2] ad pp. Woodcut illustrations throughout. (8vo) original brown gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette on front cover. First American Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859 Ellis was sent to Madagascar to investigate reports of the harsh treatment of Christians on the island, the author is perhaps better known for his earlier works on Polynesia and Hawaii. Cloth rubbed all over, small gouge on front cover; faint dampstain at top edge of several leaves; very good. (100/150)
246. (England) D[aniel], S[amuel]. The Collection of the History of England. [ix], 222 pp. Woodcut illustrated title page, and initials. 29x18.5 cm (11½x7¼”) later half maroon morocco and boards, gilt-lettered spine. London: 1621 Daniel Samuel (1562-1619) was an English poet. An early edition of the work. The book begins with a page introducing the author, with a woodcut illustration of the crown, this page has been trimmed along the edges and backed with later paper. With a bookplate of the J.B. Lippincott Company, Dictionary Library on front pastedown. Wear to fore edges of many leaves, including title page (which has some paper repair), plus marginal finger soiling and yellowing, author’s intro page backed with later paper; very good. (200/300)
247. (England) Letters from a Moor at London to his Friend at Tunis. Containing An Account of his Journey through England, with his Observations on the Laws, Customs, Religion, and Manners of the English Nation. [ii], 274 pp. Woodcut head pieces, and 1 final tail piece. 16x9.5 cm (6¼x3¾”) rebound in later brown leatherette, original free endpapers intact. London: Printed for J. Batley and J. Wood, 1736 With contemporary name neatly inked on original front blank leaf, Elizabeth Homes (her first name written twice more at rear blank leaves), plus a later rubberstamp of a later owner in Auckland, NZ. Rare book, only 4 copies located by OCLC / Worldcat. Mostly faint dampstains to several leaves; light scattered foxing; very good. (300/500)
Page 68 248. Erskine, John Elphinstone. Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific, including the Feejees and others inhabited by the Polynesian Negro Races, in Her Majesty’s Ship Havannah. vi, [2], 488 pp. With 4 color lithographed plates; folding copper-engraved chart; engravings in the text. 21.2x13 cm. (8½x5”), original cloth stamped in gilt, rebacked with later leather spine. First Edition. London: John Murray, 1853 “Captain Erskine sailed from Russell, New Zealand, in 1849, and reached Niue or Savage Island. He visited Manua,Tutuila and Upolu of the Samoan Islands. Next Vava’u, Lifuka, and Tongatabu were visited, then Fiji, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and Port Jackson” - Hill 568; Abbey Travel 602. Spine faded, scuffed, marginal fading to covers; faint trace from pencil inscription on title-page which has been neatly erased, 6” tear to map repaired on verso; very good. (300/500)
249. Fernandez de Quiros, Pedro. The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros 1595 to 1606. 2 volumes. Translated and edited by Sir Clements Markham. xlviii, 320; viii, [321]-555, [4], 31 pp. 3 folding color maps loose in rear endpaper pocket of Vol. II, as issued. 22x14 cm. (8¾x5½”), blue cloth, gilt vignette of sailing ship on front cover. London: Hakluyt Society, 1904 Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (1565–1614) was a Portuguese navigator best known for his involvement with Spanish voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean, in particular the 1595-1596 voyage of Alvaro de Mendaña de Neira, and for leading a 1605-1606 expedition which crossed the Pacific in search of Terra Australis. Issued as Vols. XIV and XV in the Hakluyt Society Second Series. Rubberstamps of Berkelouw Booksellers Sydney to front endpapers. Spines darkened, some wear at ends and corners; darkening/foxing to endpapers and series titles, else very good. (300/500)
250. Fleisher, Benjamin, publisher and editor. Enthronement of the One Hundred Twenty-fourth Emperor of Japan. 180pp. Original color woodblock print of Himeji Castle, by Hiroshi Yoshida, tipped in. Profusely illustrated with drawings, reproductions of paintings and photographs on coated paper. (Folio) 43.5x31 cm (17x12¼”) thick boards covered with decorative purple cloth, front cover with a rooster design stamped in tan, blue, green, yellow, red, violet, and white, orange cloth pieces to top and bottom of gilt-stamped spine. Official “Enthronement Edition.” Tokyo: The Japan Advertiser, 1928 A lavish production that includes approximately 18 contributions in the form of art or articles by Japanese and foreign scholars on history, folklore and rituals associated with the elaborate ceremonies undertaken during the enthronement of Hirohito. The rear section of the publication is devoted to advertisements and endorsements congratulating the Emperor on his ascension, including messages from presidents and government officials around the world, commercial and industrial businesses, and more. Conspicuously absent are greetings from the Chinese government.
Despite the public and written pronouncements of desires for peace and harmony by Emperor Hirohito and the contributors who extoll the virtues of the heavenly emperor, Japanese tradition and its modern accomplishments, Japan was in the process of embarking on a bellicose path that included territorial conquest in China that started in Manchuria three years hence followed by a puppet regime in the form of Manchukuo, with developing plans to expand its power and influence throughout the whole Pacific region. Edges rubbed; very good. (200/300)
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Page 69 FRENCH DISCOVERIES IN NEW GUINEA WITH AN IMPORTANT SERIES OF CHARTS 251. [Fleurieu, Charles Pierre Claret]. Discoveries of the French in 1768 and 1769 to the South-East of New Guinea, With the Subsequent Visits to the Same lands by English Navigators, Who Gave them New Names. To which is prefixed, an historical abridgement of the voyages and discoveries of the Spaniards in the same seas. xxiv, 323, [1] pp. With 10 copper-engraved charts, 2 plates of coastal views and profiles, and 1 plate of arms and instruments, all folding. (4to) 30x23.5 cm. (11¾x9¼”), old boards, later leather spine. First Edition in English. London: John Stockdale, 1791
Lot 251 Translation of Fleureiu’s Découvertes des François en 1768 & 1769, dans le Sud-Ést de la Nouvelle Guinée..., 1790. Hill remarks that “The work is principally concerned with the achievements of Louis de Bougainville and Jean de Surville, but also contains numerous compilations and translations made from various accounts, both published and unpublished, of Spanish and English travelers in the Pacific... The maps are interesting, since they were based both on actual discoveries and on Fleurieu’s theories. When d’Entrecasteaux returned from his fruitless search for La Pérouse, he confirmed that Fleurieu’s theories appeared to be generally correct.” Hill 611. Spine faded, rubbed, boards with soiling, rubbing, and extremity wear; occasional light foxing within, else very good. (1500/2500)
252. (France) Daniel, P.G. Abrege de l’Histoire de France, depuis l’Etablissement de la Monarchie Francoise dans les Gaules. 9 volumes. Engraved headpieces. (12mo) period full calf, spines gilt, red leather labels. Paris: Chez Denys Mariette, et al, 1724 History of France from the fifth through 18th centuries. Brunet II, 487. Some rubbing to extremities; very good. (300/500)
253. (France) Millot, M. l’Abbe. Elemens de l’Histoire de France, Depuis Clovis Jusqu’d Louis XV. 3 volumes. (12mo) period full calf, spines gilt, red morocco labels. Fifth Edition. Paris: Durand, 1783 Spine ends chipped, bindings rubbed; light foxing; very good. (100/150)
Page 70 254. [Gavard, Charles]. Galeries Historiques du Palais de Versailles. 6 volumes in 7, plus plate album. Plate album containing 100 plates; Volume 4 (in two volumes) contains hundreds of heraldic illustrations. (4to) 30x23.5 cm (11¾x9¼”), period black morocco-backed boards, spines gilt. Paris: Imprimerie Royal, 1839-1853 In the 1830s, Louis-Phillippe of France conceived the idea of turning the Palais de Versailles into a public museum dedicated to French art, Gavard was employed to edit a series of publications which would both promote and celebrate the riches of the royal collections. Rubbing to extremities; plate volume a bit shaken; foxing; very good. (400/600)
255. Gill, William Wyatt. Three titles on the South Pacific by Rev. William Wyatt Gill. Includes: * Gems from the Coral Islands, or Incidents of Contrast between Savage and Christian Life of the South Sea Islanders: Eastern Polynesia: Comprising the Tarotonga Group, Penrhyn Islands, and Savage Island. (Spine faded, lacking front free endpaper.) Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, [c.1860]. * Gems from the Coral Islands. Western Polynesia: Comprising the New Hebrides Group, the Loyalty Group, New Caledonia Group. (Spine darkened, ink inscription “Male Bible Group No. 44” to front endpaper, light dampstain to earlier leaves, pencil notations to title-page.) Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, [c.1860]. * Life in the Southern Islands; or, Scenes and Incidents in the South Pacific and New Guinea. (Hinges cracked at endpapers, a few signatures sprung, occasional light foxing.) London: Religious Tract Society, [1876]. * Together, 3 volumes. Illustrated with engravings. (octavo) Cloth, lettering and some decorations in gilt. Various places: Various dates Generally very good condition. (200/300)
256. (Greece and Rome) Falke, Jakob von. Greece and Rome: Their Life and Art. xii, 351 pp. Translated by William Hand Browne. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. 39x28.5 cm (15¼x11¼”) original decorative green cloth, illustrated in black and gilt, all edges gilt. New York: Henry Holt, 1882 Rubbed and frayed at spine ends and corners; light soiling; binding shaken (it is a big book), some cracking at gutters; very good. (100/150)
HAKLUYT SOCIETY PRINTINGS OF RARE TRAVEL NARRATIVES FROM THE SCARCE FIRST SERIES 257. (Hakluyt Society) Bethencourt, Jean de. The Canarian, or, Book of the Conquest and Conversion of the Canarians in the Year 1402. Map. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship on front cover. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1872 A mostly unopened copy. Spine a bit yellowed, a bit of soiling and wear to extremities; else near fine. (200/300)
258. (Hakluyt Society) Birch, Walter de Gray. The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India. Volume IV only. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship on front cover. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1884 Spine yellowed, spine ends and corners bumped; very good. (100/150)
Page 71 259. (Hakluyt Society) Bond, Edward A., editor. Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship on front cover. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1856 Cloth darkened, finger soiling, light shelf wear; 1897 name in ink on front free endpaper; very good. (300/500)
260. (Hakluyt Society) Cortes, Hernan. De Gayangos, Don Pascual, translator. The Fifth Letter of Hernan Cortes to the Emperor Charles V, Containing an Account of his Expedition to Honduras. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship on front cover. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1868 Bookplate of Dent H. Robert Spine yellowed, several small spots of staining, finger soiling; else very good. (200/300)
261. (Hakluyt Society) Dallam, Thommas and John Covel. Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant. Frontispiece. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1893 Spine yellowed, lightly rubbed and bumped extremities; yellowed endpapers; name in ink on half title; very good. (250/350)
262. (Hakluyt Society) de Acosta, Father Joseph. The Natural & Moral History of the Indies. 2 volumes. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ships on front covers. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1880 With 2 bookplates each: Francis Augustus MarNutt at front pastedowns, and Ruth and Chester Greenough at rear pastedowns. Spines yellowed, some spots and rubbing at edges; yellowed endpapers, a few hinges starting; very good. (400/600)
BARENTS EXPLORES THE ARCTIC REGIONS 263. (Hakluyt Society) de Veer, Gerrit. The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions. clxxiv, [2], 289 pp. (8vo) blue cloth. Second Edition. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1876 Spine yellowed, a touch of shelf wear; endpapers yellowed; else near fine. (500/800)
264. (Hakluyt Society) Dominguez, Luis L. The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555). Large color folding map at rear. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette on front cover. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1891 Nice color folding map of South America, in fine condition. Spine darkened, light soiling, bumped edges; library stamps on title page, library bookplate on front pastedown; folding map is in fine condition; very good. (300/500)
265. (Hakluyt Society) Drake, Sir Francis. The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, Being his next Voyage to that to Nombre de Dios. Collated with an Unpublished Manuscript of Francis Fletcher, Chaplain to the Expedition. Large folding map backed with linen as frontispiece. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette on front cover. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1854 Light wear; very good. (400/600)
Page 72 266. (Hakluyt Society) Galvano, Antonio. The Discoveries of the World, From Their First Original Unto the Year of our Lord 1555. (8vo) blue cloth, gilt-lettered vignette of ship on front cover. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1862 Engraved armorial plate of Baldwin Wake Walker. Yellowed spine, light foxing and several other marks to covers; very good. (300/500)
267. (Hakluyt Society) Hakluyt, Richard. The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida by Don Ferdinando de Soto and Six Hundred Spaniards. Folding map of the Gulf Coast. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship on front cover. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1851 With an etching of a bird in a marsh, by W. B. Rye, pasted to verso of half title page. Spine and edges darkened/yellowed, a few chips and nicks; corner of half title page torn away; tiny stub tear to map, else near fine map; very good. (300/500)
TRAVELS IN RUSSIA IN THE 16TH CENTURY 268. (Hakluyt Society) Herberstein, Sigismund [Freiherr] von. Notes Upon Russia: Being a Translation of the Earliest Account of that Country, Entitled Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii. 2 volumes. Translated and edited with notes and an introduction by R. H. Major. Illustrated with plates from drawings including 2 folding decorative maps. (8vo) Decoratively blindstamped blue cloth, stamped in gilt. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1851-1852 First published in the 16th Century, Baron Sigismund von Herberstein’s “Notes Upon Russia” is an account of his travels in Russia where he gathered a wealth of information on the geography, history and customs of the people. Herberstein was sent to Russia as ambassador to the Austrian court in 1517 and later in 1526. Originally written in Latin under the title “Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarii” (Notes upon Russia) in 1549. Spines yellowed, cloth foxed; 1897 name neatly inked on front free endpapers; dampstaining to frontispiece of Volume 2; good. (600/900)
SEVERAL COMPILED AND EDITED BY CLEMENTS MARKHAM 269. (Hakluyt Society) Markham, Clements R. First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas by the Tnca Garcilaso de la Vega. 2 volumes. Maps. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1869-1871 Vol. I with yellowed spine, light wear at extremities; very good. (300/500)
270. (Hakluyt Society) Markham, Clements R. Narratives of the Voyages of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa to the Straits of Migellan - the author’s own copy. 2 copies, in 2 different bindings. Each with folding color maps. One in the original blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship on front cover. The other is the author’s own copy rebound in full calf, gilt-decorated spine, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1895 The rebound copy is from the library of Clements R. Markham, with a lengthy inscription about the book, signed by him, dated 1904. Plus, with the author’s bookplate on front pastedown. Author’s rebound copy with some moderate wear to calf; dampstained page edges within, and some foxing; a bit of shelf wear to the original cloth copy, that volume near fine. (300/500)
271. (Hakluyt Society) Markham, Clements R. Reports on the Discovery of Peru. Color map frontispiece. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1872 Spine yellowed, abrasion on rear cover, light marks; name in ink on front free endpaper; very good. (250/350) Page 73 272. (Hakluyt Society) Markham, Clements R. The Hawkins’ Voyages During the Reigns of Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, and James I. Frontispiece. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship on front cover. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1878 Engraved armorial bookplate of Mr. Josiah Rhodes on front pastedown, plus a withdrawn rubberstamp directly beneath. Spine and edges darkened, rubbed, a touch leaning, finger soiling; small rubberstamp on title page; very good. (200/300)
273. (Hakluyt Society) Markham, Clements R. The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci. (8vo) glue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship on front cover. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1894 Spine and edges darkened, some other finger soiling to covers; rubberstamping on title page, library bookplate on front pastedown; very good. (150/250)
274. (Hakluyt Society) Markham, Clements R. The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career. [8], xliv, 121 pp. (8vo) original blue cloth, gilt vignette of a ship on front cover, gilt-lettered spine. London: Hakluyt Society, 1894 No. XC from the Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society. A largely unopened copy of this rare book. Near fine. (150/250)
275. (Hakluyt Society) Markham, Clements R. The Life and Acts of Don Alonzo Enriquez de Guzman, a Knight of Seville, of the Order of Santiago, A.D. 1518 to 1543. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship on front cover. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1862 Inscribed and signed from the author to his sister Georgina E. Bown, August, 1862, on title page. Spine yellowed, soiling; very good. (400/600)
276. (Hakluyt Society) Markham, Clements R. The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622. Frontispiece, 2 folding maps (1 in color). (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1881 A near fine copy with beautiful maps. A touch of shelf wear; near fine. (500/800)
277. (Hakluyt Society) Markham, Clements R., translator. The Journal of Christopher Columbus (During his First Voyage, 1492-93), and Documents Relating to the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real. Map plates, including 1 folding. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship on front cover. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1893 Spine dark yellow, spine ends and corners bumped and worn; yellowed endpapers, name in ink on front pastedown; very good. (300/500)
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Page 74 278. (Hakluyt Society) Maynarde, Thomas. Sir Francis Drake His Voyage, 1595. Together with the Spanish Account of Drake’s Attack on Puerto Rico. (8vo) rebound in half calf and cloth, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1849 With Pacific Union Club bookplate, and a 1922 ink inscription presenting the book to the library to front endpapers. Rubbing to spine and edges; very good. (300/500)
VASCO DE GAMA AND MAGELLAN EDITED BY HENRY E.J. STANLEY 279. (Hakluyt Society) Stanley, Henry E.J. The Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama, and his Viceroyalty. Frontispiece. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship on front cover. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1869 Inscribed “from the author, December 1870” on the front free endpaper, to J. Dixon Esq. with John Dixon’s engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Spine darkened, ends chipped, corners exposed, light soiling; binding shaken; good. (500/800)
280. (Hakluyt Society) Stanley, Lord of Alderly [Henry E.J.]. The First Voyage Round the World, by Magellan. Translated from the Accounts of Pigafetta, and Other Contemporary Writers. Frontispiece, color folding chart of the Pacific Ocean, 2 views. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship on front cover. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1874 With engraved armorial bookplate (the name George Dixon in ink), plus inscription “from the author January 1875” to George Dixon Esq. on the front endpapers. Spine darkened, spine ends chipped; some cracking at gutters between signatures; very good. (700/1000)
281. (Hakluyt Society) Telfer, J. Buchan. The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger, a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427. Folding map at rear. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1879 Spine a bit yellowed, light shelf wear; name in ink on front free endpaper; near fine. (300/500)
282. (Hakluyt Society) Tootal, Albert and Richard F. Burton. The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse, in A.D. 1547-1555, Among the Wild Tribes of Eastern Brazil. (8vo) blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt vignette of ship on front cover. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1874 Rubbed at spine ends and corners; endpapers yellowed; small tear on title page; else near fine. (400/600)
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Page 75 283. (Hakluyt Society) Group of Hakluyt Society Publications. Includes: * Hair, Paul. Barbot on Guinea: The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa, 1678-1712. Volume 1 and 2. 1992. * Pennington, L.E. The Purchas Handbook: Studies of the Life, Times and Writings of Samuel Purchase, 1577-1926. 1997. * Dunmore, John. The Journal of Jean-Francois de Galaup de la Perouse, 1785-1788. Volume 1 and 2. 1994-95. * Barr, William and Glyndwr Williams. Voyages in Search of a Northwest Passage, 1741-1747. Volume 1 and 2. 1994-95. * Bridges, R.C. and P.E.H. Hair. Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth: Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society, 1846-1996. 1996. * Thomas, Colin. Petr Petrovich Semenov: Travels in the Tian-Shan, 1856-1857. 1998. * James, Wendy, et. al. Juan Maria Schuver’s Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883. 1996. * Foote, P.G. Olaus Magnus: A Description of the Northern Peoples, 1555. Volumes 1, 2, and 3. 1996-98. * Lamb, W. Kaye. The Voyage of George Vancouver, 1791-1795. Volumes 1-4. 1984. * Bockstoce, John The Journal of Rochfort Maguire, 1852-1854. Volume 1 and 2. 1988. * Wawn, Andrew. The Iceland Journal of Henry Holland 1810. 1987. * Wilkinson, John. Jerusalem Pilgrimage, 1099-1185. 1988. * Arrowsmith-Brown, J.H. Prutky’s Travels to Ethiopio and Other Countries. 1991. * Jackson, Peter. The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck. 1990. * Burstein, Stanley M. Agatharchides of Cnidus On the Erythraean Sea. 1989. * Lorimer, Joyce. English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon, 1550-1646. * Bivar, A.D.H. The Travels of Ibn Battuta A.D. 1325-1354. Volume 4 and 5 (index). 1994-2000. London: Hakluyt Society, Various dates Nice group of Hakluyt Society Publications from the Second Series. Each an 8vo in their original blue cloth, dust jackets. Light wear; very good or near fine. (200/300)
284. (Hakluyt Society) Group of Hakluyt Society Publications. Includes: * Searching for Franklin: The Land Arctic Searching Expedition. * Four Travel Journals: The Americas, Antarctica and Africa, 1775-1874. * Pieter van den Broecke’s Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola, 1605-1612. * The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island, 1578. * The Discovery of the South Shetland Islands, 1819-1820. * The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave Levant Merchant, 1647-1656. * The Discovery of River Gambra by Richard Jobson, 1623. * The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844. 2 volumes. * Sir Walter Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana. * The Origins of the Grand Tour. * The Central Australian Expedition, 1844-1846. * The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1767-1768. * The Malaspina Expedition, 1789-1794. 3 volumes. * Joao Rodrigues’s Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan. * The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger. * A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia. 2 volumes. Comprised of Volumes 1-20 of Series III. Large octavo, blue cloth, dust jackets. London: Hakluyt Society, 1999-2007 Fine. (200/300)
Page 76 THE SIGHTS AND SCENES OF PARIS PRIOR TO THE REVOLUTION 285. Hurtaut, [Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas] & L. de MAGNY. Dictionnaire Historique de la Ville de Paris et de ses Environs. 4 volumes. Engraved folding map and plan of Paris. (8vo) 20x12.5 cm (8x5”), period full mottled calf, spines gilt, all edges marbled. First Edition. Paris: Chez Moutard, 1779
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Descriptions of the sights of the French capitol and the surrounding area. Scarce. Spine ends chipped, bindings rubbed; short stub tears to maps; light foxing; very good. (800/1200)
286. (Ireland) Corkey, Alexander. The Truth About Ireland; Or, Through the Emerald Isle With an Aeroplane. 135 pp. Illustrations from photographs, drawings, etc. (8vo) original green cloth. First Edition. Oskaloosa, Iowa: Shockley Bros. & Cook, [1910] Introduction by William Jennings Bryan. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. An early account of a tour of Ireland by air. Light wear; near fine. (100/150)
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Page 77 RARE ARCHIVE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND PUBLICATIONS OF THE SAPPORO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 287. (Japan) Archive of photographs and publications of the Sapporo Agricultural College. Includes: * Nitobe, Inazo. The Imperial Agricultural College of Sapporo, Japan. 42 pp. (8vo) original wrappers. A history and description of the college, with list of faculty and course requirements. Spine perished, wrappers chipped, underlining and holograph corrections throughout. 1893. * L’Institut Agronomique de Sapporo, Japon, 1900. 64, ii, pp. Illustrations from photographs. (8vo) original wrappers, string bound. A catalog of the curriculum, text in French. 1900. * Two photographic view books of the Sapporo Agricultural College. One including 30 views of the school’s buildings and farms; the second with 64 views (including 1 folding), this edition with some duplication but with a number of scenes of the classrooms and students. Each approximately 14.5x22 cm (5¾x8¾”), stiff paper covers, string bound. * View book from the 1918 Hokkaido Exhibition, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Colonization if Hokkaido. 63 pages of photographs. Wrappers, string bound. 1918. * 13 postcard views of the college (now Hokkaido Imperial University). c.1920. * Two albumen photographs of the university buildings and farms. Each approximately 13x19.5 cm
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(5x7¾”) on slightly larger stiff card mounts. c.1880s. * Panoramic view of the college, six albumen prints mounted to stiff card, each panel 21x25.2 cm (8¼x10”); overall 23.5x161 cm (9¼x63½”) folded into a cloth portfolio 23.5x27.5 cm (9¼x10¾”) when folded. * Album containing approximately 90 photographic images, albumen prints and early gelatin prints, of Sapporo Agricultural College and environs, agricultural scenes, and some portraits. Sizes vary, from 9.5x6 cm (3¾x2½”) to 21x26.5 cm (8½x10½”). Mounted to the leaves of a period album, now disbound. The collection housed in 5 custom made cloth-covered boxes. Japan: Late 19th and early 20th century Sapporo Agricultural College, later the University of Hokkaido, was founded in 1876 to facili- tate the modernization of Japanese agriculture. The education provided by Sapporo College
Page 78 was not limited to technical training alone; the American-inspired cur- riculum also stressed personal de- velopment and presented it in terms with which the Japanese were famil- iar. The American chemist William Smith Clark (1826-1886), president of Massachusetts Agricultural Col- lege (now University of Massachu- setts, Amherst) was brought in for one year to design the new school. Clark’s American colleagues David P. Penhallow and William Wheeler became founding professors and lat- er principals of Sapporo. They built a modern university along the lines of the University of Massachusetts. The panoramic photograph is of particular rarity. A few items with some light wear but overall in very good or better condition. (10000/15000)
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288. (Japan) Brown, Mrs. Harold Lincoln. Manuscript diary recording a trip to Japan in May and June, 1939. Approx. 70 leaves written in ink, plus some blanks. 13x8.5 cm. (5x3¼”), thin leather covers. Various places: 1939 Fascinating record of a tourist’s voyage by ship to Japan and about a month in the island nation, written in a miniscule but quite legible hand. Mrs. Brown is meticulous in her records, keeping track of money spent, gifts for those back home, her numerous activities, etc., with some vocabulary, and more. About 9 leaves record her expenses (including cost of visa photograph, meals, tips, newspapers, etc.); 4 list gifts; 39 leaves (written on both sides) the events of her sojourn in Japan, impressions of the people and scenery, the food, weather, and more; 13 leaves are miscellaneous notes on Japan, the hotels and cities visited, etc. There are also 12 snapshot photographs of people. A revealing record of in the year before the outbreak of war between the U.S. and Japan. Some normal wear; very good. (250/350)
289. (Japan) The Japan Advertiser. Telephone Directory for Tokyo and Yokohama. 194 pp. Many advertisements for Japanese establishments, plus 1 advertisement on verso of rear wrapper for Elizabeth Arden in New York City, and 1 inserted ad on pink paper. 11x7.5 cm (4¼x3”) tan printed wrappers, string through hole at top left corner. The Japan Advertiser, April, 1935 An English language phone directory targeted to American visitors or ex-patriots. Only a 1936 edition similar to this located by OCLC / Worldcat. No copies of this scarce little phone directory on OCLC. Worn at wrapper edges; very good. (250/350)
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Page 79 OVER 200 ORIGINAL ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAPAN 290. (Japan) Three albums of albumen photographs of Japan, most hand-colored. Three comprising: * Album 1 - 48 hand-colored albumen prints, mounted to 24 thick leaves. Images approximately 20.5x26.5 cm (8x10½”) or the reverse, mounts 27x35 cm (10¾x13¾”). Many of the images are captioned on the mount. Period brocade cloth over wood boards, disbound, cloth well worn. * Album 2 - 58 albumen prints, 35 colored, mounted to the leaves of a period half-leather album. Images approximately 20.5x26.5 cm (8x10½”) or the reverse. Many images caption by hand on the mount. Album 33x27 cm (13x10½”). Album 3 - 73 albumen prints, all but 2 hand-colored. Approximately 17.5x13 cm (6¾x5”) or the reverse. Also, 34 albumen prints, 25 hand-colored. Approximately 14.5x10.5 cm (5¾x4¼”) or the reverse. Mounted to the leaves a period half leather album. Album 26x21 cm (10¼x8¼”). Together three albums, containing a total of over 200 images. Each album housed in its own matching custom box. Japan: Late 19th century Album 1 includes images captioned: Samurai in Armour, Japanese Prince, Pilgrim Going Up Fujiyama, Musume Summel Costume, Group of Children, Lot 290 Buddhist Priests, Brind(sic) Shampooer, Japanese Funeral, Japanese Marriage, View of Arima, Shinto Priests Playing Go, Large Bell Yangakuji at Kamakura, Kiyomidzu Temple at Kioto, View of Awaji-Shima Inland Sea, Coolies Wayside Refreshments, Playing Samisen Tsudzumi Fuye & Taiko, Biwa Lake From Ishiyama, Japanese Graves, View of Hakone Lake, Cave of Yenoshima, and others.
Album 2 includes images captioned: Prince Hotta Gardens Tokyo, Making Clogs, Flower Seller, Kumomoto Castle Higo, Prince Shumadzu Gardens Kagoshima, The Cherry Viewing, Temple Entrance Shiba Tokyo, Mr. Shiroses Gardens Niigata, Cleaning Rice, Winnowing Rice, Kairakolien Garden in Sapporo, Tannery Sapporo, Aino School at Tsu Ishkari Yezo, Farmer with Rain Suit, Jinrikisha Runner, and others.
Album 3 includes images captioned: Priest, Doctor, Actors, Making Matting, Lot 290 Washing, etc. Also includes several series of images depicting the production of Tea, Rice, Silk, Cotton, Tobacco, and Paper. A number of the smaller images are portraits of Japanese royalty.
A sizable collection of commercially produced photographs of Japanese occupations, landscape and other tourist views. Photographs with some light wear, wrinkling, etc.; overall very good or better. (10000/15000)
Page 80 291. (Japan) Three volumes on Japan. Includes: * Cortazzi, Hugh. Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan. Cloth, dj. Weatherhill, [1983]. * Franklin, Colin. Exploring Japanese Books and Scrolls. Cloth and illustrated boards, slipcase. Book Club of California, [1999]. * Boxer, C.R. Jan Compagnie in Japan, 1600-1850. Cloth, dj (sunned, a bit of edge wear). Martinus Nijhoff, 1950. Various places: Various dates Fine. (100/150)
292. (Japan - Ogawa, Kazumasa) Murdoch, James. Scenes from the Chiushingura and the Story of the Forty-seven Ronin. 52 pp. 17 black & white collotype plates from photographs. Each plate preceded by a protective tissue guard. (Folio) 40x28.3 cm (15¾x11¼”) stiff decorated wrappers, string bound. Tokyo: 1892 The 17 collotype photographs depict an important historical event in 1701 with the images involving actors who re-enact scenes from Chiushingura. Chiushingura (Asano Naganori) was required to commit harakiri. His forty-seven Samurai bodyguards, then reduced to the status of Ronin (masterless Samurai), took revenge two years later by assassinating Lord Kira Yoshinaka, the individual responsible for Naganori’s death. The Ronins were then ordered by the Shogun to commit harakiri and buried with their master. Chiushingura ranks among the most well-known of all stories in Japan. Slight wear to wrappers; near fine. (500/800)
293. Joinville, Jean Sire de. Memoires de Jean Sire Seigneur de Jonville, Sous le Regne de St Louys, Roy de France. Avec la Genealogie de la Maison de Bourbon. [xxiv], 299 pp. (12mo) 14.5x8.5 cm (5¾x3¼”), period full calf, spine gilt. Paris: Chez Francois Mauger, 1666 Jean de Joinville (c.1224–1317) was one of the great chroniclers of medieval France. He wrote from his personal experiences during the reign of Saint Louis, essentially the crusade in Egypt and their stay in the Holy Land. A scarce 17th century edition. Binding a bit dry; notes in an early hand on front flyleaf; very good. (200/300)
294. La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Jean Baptiste. Memoires sur L’Ancienne Chevalerie; Consideree Comme un Etablissement politique & militaire. 3 volumes. x, 391; [4], 317, [3]; xvi, 456 pp. (12mo) 16.5x9.5 cm (6½x3¾”), period full calf, spines gilt, edges dyed red. First Edition. Paris: Chez Nic. Bonav. Duchesne, 1759-1781 Scare history of the French knight and the chivalrous tradition. Binding of the 3rd volume, issued some 22 years after Volumes 1 & 2, differs slightly from the gilt decorations on the spines of Volume 1 & 2. Scarce. Bindings a bit rubbed; paper a bit browned and lightly foxed; very good. (300/500)
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Page 81 295. Labat, [Jean Baptiste]. Nieuwe Reizen naar de Franse Eilanden van America. 2 parts in 1 volume. 18, 350, 404 pp. Additional illustrated title page and 63 plates, many of them folding, including maps. 19.5x15 cm (7¾x6”) contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine. Amsterdam: Balthasar Lakeman, 1725 Labat (1663-1738) progressed from Dominican professor of philosophy to missionary to civil engineer, spending much of this time in Martinique, Guadaloupe, and the rest of the Antilles supervising the construction of mills, fortifications, etc. His experiences in the Western Hemisphere prompted him to publish the present work, which was first printed in French in 1722. This edition is rare. Plates illustrate maps, botanical specimens, animals, milling machines, and indigo production. Each part with its own title page; titles printed in red and black. Spine rubbed, joints starting, corners exposed; rubberstamp on illustrated title page; some scattered and light marginal/edge wear; very good. (300/500)
FIRST EDITION OF LEDYARD’S JOURNAL OF COOK’S LAST VOYAGE 296. Ledyard, John. A Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and in Quest of a North- West Passage, Between Asia and America; Performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779. 208 pp. Lacking the map, as often; supplied in facsimile. Pages 15-18 & 161-2 wanting and supplied in facsimile. (8vo) 17x11 cm (6¾x4¼”) period full calf, rebacked with original spine leather laid down. First Edition. Hartford: Nathaniel Patten, 1783 An adventurous American wanderer, Ledyard, while on a visit to England, enlisted as a corporal of marines under Captain Cook, who was about to set sail on his third voyage. Though he surrendered his journal at the end of the voyage, in accordance with instructions, upon his return to Hartford in 1783 (following his desertion from the British navy), he was induced by friends to write a short account of the voyage, which he sold to Patten for 20 guineas. In order to supplement his memory, he obtained a copy of John Rickman’s anonymous 1781 printed account, parts of which he copied literally, including the chart (lacking in this copy, supplied in facsimile). (Howes believes that “Ledyard himself would not have stooped to this practice, which indicates that another hand prepared the book for publication”). This has in the past led to speculation that Ledyard was the author of the Rickman journal, but, as Holmes notes, “this is clearly wrong.” Nonetheless, this is a Lot 296 very important book, being “not only the first American book on the Northwest coast but also probably the first American book on Hawaii” - Streeter. Lada-Mocarski calls it “an interesting - and rare - work, whose value is enhanced by the fact that it is a narrative of the only American who accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage, which included several visits to Alaska,” but his does allow that “One must not lose sight of the fact that Ledyard occupied an unimportant position in the expedition.” Ledyard’s position in history, however, is based upon more than this journal. He was a visionary who was one of the first to dream of opening up the trade of the Pacific Northwest, and also promoted the discovery of the interior parts of Africa. He died at the age of 38 while in Cairo awaiting to embark on an expedition into Africa sponsored by Sir Joseph Banks, of illness caused, according to Streeter, by “violent rage over delays in starting (the) expedition.” Evans 17998; Forbes 52; Hill 991; Holmes 45; Howes L181; Lada- Mocarski 36; Sabin 39691; Smith 5797; Streeter 3477; Wickersham 6556. Bookplate of Henry M. Brookfield. Binding rubbed, lacking free endpapers; some soiling and browning, particularly to title, a few tears and small losses but no loss to text, good. (7000/10000)
Page 82 LETTERS FROM OR RELATING TO MISSIONARIES IN LIBERIA 297. (Liberia) Breckinridge, W.L. Autograph Letter Signed, from W.L. Breckinridge, to Walter Lowrie at Mission House in New York, regarding a candidate for missionary in Liberia. One page, on lined stationery with accompanying address leaf with postmark. 25x20.4 cm. (9¾x8¼”). Louisville, Kentucky: March 12, 1846 Breckinridge writes to Mr. Lowrie about a candidate for missionary to Liberia, somewhat critically, “I have known Priest for many years - I have regarded him as a weak man, but I had no idea that he was such an one as your letter describes him... Whether such a person os fit to be a missionary of our church seems very questionable - altho he might be useful in some capacity as a citizen in the colony of Liberia...” Some edge wear, very good. (150/250)
298. (Liberia) Ellis, G.R. Autograph Letter Signed by G.R. Ellis, to Daniel Wells at Mission House in New York, regarding his receipt of goods for the Presbyterian mission in Liberia and hoped for compensation for the service. 16 lines, in ink, on sheet of lined paper, with folding cover addressed, postmarked, and stamped Ship. 21.5x21.5 cm. (8½x8½”). Monrovia, Liberia: April 6th, 1848 R.G. Ellis, a resident of Monrovia, complains that “For some time past I have been receiving things for your Mission. I was appointed by Mr. & Mrs. Connelly Agent for the Mission and have been acting in that capacity every since April 1846, when the Amazon arrived. Mrs. Ellis handed me the bill of lading for Mr. Catto’s things likewise Mr. Priest’s also 3 boxes for Mr. Connelly and I was somewhat surprized at not receiving a line from you in relation to them nor from Mr. Lowrie. I should like you to write me by the first chance how I am to be compensated whether from you or the Mission out here...” Splitting along folds, a little edge wear, else very good. (300/500)
299. (Liberia) Gitts, Ephraim. Autograph Letter Signed by Ephraim Gitts, returning to Liberia were he will be stationed at Edina, to Walter Lowrie, Secretary of the Presbyterian Mission Board in New York. 1¼ pages, on 1st 2 pages of conjugate lettersheet (separated), with address and postmark on 4th page. 31.7x19.5 cm. (12½x7½”). Philadelphia: Nov. 8, 1846 Ephraim Gitts is headed back to Liberia for another tour as a missionary in Liberia, and writes to the secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions before embarking on the voyage: “...I should have been glad to have seen you before I left the states for Liberia... a vessel will sale [sic] from Norfolk in a few days say 6 days, by which I expect to go to Edina. My health is improved mutch [sic] since in the states, when I left Libria [sic] I only wayd 135 lbs. & now 157 lbs. I suppose we may look for that Bro. from the south this winter or next spring although you did not promise me you would send him their, but as their is Ministers in all the other places, we hope the Board will not let the small church in Edina languish & decline, for if she does not obtain supplies she must die... Anything I can do to assist the Bro. I am willing to do, I suppose he will teach school as well as preach the Gospel if so there will need a school house also...” An interesting letter touching on the concerns of missionaries in Liberia and also to unstated competition for resources doled out by the mission bureaucracy in the United States. Short splits at a few folds, overall very good. (300/500)
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Page 83 300. (Liberia) McDonough, Washington W. Autograph Letter Signed by Washington McDonough, a teacher in Liberia, reporting to New York, requesting supplies, etc. 1½ pages, in ink, on 1st sheet of 4-page lettersheet which has separated, address and postmark on second sheet. 28½x23 cm. (11¼x9”). Settra Kroo, Liberia: Dec. 20, 1852 Letter from Washington McDonough, a teacher at the Presbyterian Mission at Settra Kroo, Liberia, to Walter Lowrie, at Mission House No. 23, New York, reporting on events, etc. In part: “...At the present time my school has numb[ered] from fifteen to eighteen boys, Sunday School from eighteen to twenty two... I do not thik that fift[y] dollars a years is enough to support the school for in the first place it will take fift croos [sic] of rice and more to feed fifteen boys besides their clothes and a little meat once or twoce a week, soap for washing &c. Now in the first place I want Spelling Books and a few primers... I had a Bush boy here from the interior about [eig]ht days journey he stayed in school about six months he was just beginning to read when his mother came and took him away a few days after he left I got two more from the bush country about fifty miles from the beach they are still in school and learning very fast. I hope that some good will yet spring out of darkness...” The postmark is faint, and there is also a handstamp “Ship” to the address leaf. Chipped around edges affecting some words, 2½x½” piece missing from address leaf affecting a few letters of address; good condition, very legible. (400/600)
301. (Liberia) Priest, J.M. Autograph Letter Signed, from J.M. Priest, a missionary in Liberia, to Walter Lowrie, at Mission House in New York. One page, separated from conjugate sheet on which is the address. 25x19.5 cm. (9¾x7¾”). King Williams Town, Liberia: Dec. 20, 1845 Rather uninspired letter from a missionary in Liberia, writing to the secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Missions in New York, reporting that “These lines leaves us in reasonable health exept my wife who as a sore foot. I have nothing extraordinary to write. My school is small only twelve boys. We have preaching as usual - I do not wish the Board to think that I am throwing away my time. Recollect that it is to God we stand or fall. In my last letter I stated that I wished you not to forget Nana Kroo in your attempt to enlarge the mission...” Generally very good condition. (400/600)
302. (Liberia) Todsen, George P. Autograph Letter Signed by Dr. Geo. P. Todsen, to Walter Lowrie at the Presbyterian Mission in New York, requesting compensation for medical services provided to missionaries in Liberia. Two+ pages, on 1st 3 pages of conjugate lettersheet, address and postmark on 4th page. 25x20 cm. (10x8”). Washington, D.C.: Feb. 12, 1838 Dr. Todsen was a physician in the service of the American Colonization Society in Liberia, and on returning to the United States seeks compensation for medical services he rendered to missionaries in Liberia, in a rather vehement manner, “...It is not necessary that I should repeat to you my arduous and zealous exertions, the sufferings and dangers to my own life, what my unceasing efforts to preserve their invaluable lives, my exposure to the fatal night air, and my almost entire loss of sleep for nearly three months at their beds-side... I embarked with a firm belief that I would be remunerated for my services to your Missionaries, as I had been and my predecessors for services to the... other missionaries in Africa. If the clamor of high or exorbitant charges, and secret denunciations could keep out of sight the rights of an individual, if resolutions, under feelings of prejudice could be made that missionaries should be attended gratuitously at a time when the Col. Society suffered my stock to be seized for their failure in their own engagements, and at a time when they owed me for salary several thousand dollars...” And so forth, an interesting letter from a highly regarded, if poorly compensated, physician who served in Africa. Chipping along gutter edge affecting a few letters, a few crease tears, else very good. (400/600) Bids may be placed during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder on our website at www.pbagalleries.com
Page 84 303. (Libya) Commemorative photo album of the 10th anniversary of the independence of the United Kingdom of Libya. 35 black and white photographs, most approximately 8½x10”, captions in English and Arabic on mounts. Housed in an embossed full leather album. Libya: [1961] Album in commemoration of 10 years of independence from Italy, presented to Lewis Clark, personal representative of the President of the United States (John F. Kennedy), who had the rank of Special Ambassador to this anniversary celebration. The album is consigned by the granddaughter of Ambassador Clark. Images portray the improvements in infrastructure, agriculture, industry, education, governmental and social issues, etc. Libya gained its independence from Italy in 1951 under the reign of King Idris, in September 1969, a small group of military officers led by 27-year-old army officer Muammar Gaddafi staged a coup d’état against King Idris, launching the Libyan Revolution. Gaddafi ruled Libya until his overthrow and death in 2011. Light wear to album covers, page block separating from covers; photographs originally tipped to album pages with cellophane tape which has dried with time and the photos are now detached; images fine. (500/800)
SCARCE PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF NEW GUINEA 304. Lindt, J[ohn] W[illiam]. Picturesque New Guinea. With an Historical Introduction and Supplementary Chapters on the Manners and Customs of the Papuans; Accompanied with Fifty Full-Page Autotype Illustrations from Negatives and Portraits from Life and Groups and Landscapes from Nature. xviii, 194 pp. Fifty plates from photographs. (Large 8vo) 25x18 cm (10x7¼”), original green cloth lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. First Edition. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887 A scarce study, with fine photographic illustrations, of New Guinea. In 1885 J.W. Lindt serves as the official photographer to Sir Peter Scratchley’s expedition to the Protectorate of British New Guinea. Some minor insect damage and extremity rubbing to covers; light foxing to contents, pages and plates coming loose due to the gutta percha binding, a common occurrence, else very good. (500/800)
DR. LIVINGSTONE IN AFRICA 305. Livingstone, David. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa. 541, 4 ad pp. Illustrated with wood engraved plates, frontispiece portrait, and large folding map loose in rear endpaper pocket. (8vo) maroon cloth, gilt-decorated and lettered. First American Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875 Livingstone’s last eight years in Africa, including his meeting the H.M. Stanley, and his tragic death. The large map, compiled from Livingstone’s surveys and observations, 1866-1873, is a major cartographic accomplishment. Rubbed and bumped at edges; several tears to folding map, torn nearly all the way through at center fold, can be repaired, with only slight loss at edges and/ or folds; good. (80/120)
306. Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years’ Residence in the Interior of Africa... xxiv, 732 + 4 ad pp. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait, woodcut plates, 1 folding chart, 2 folding maps. (8vo) brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First American Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858 Abbey, 347; Medelssohn I, 908. Spine and corners exposed, rubbed cloth, a few holes to spine’s cloth; lightly foxed; very good. (100/150)
Page 85 307. Livingstone, David and Charles. Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries; and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864. xxii, 638 + 6 ad pp. Illustrated with wood engravings, including double-page frontispiece, large folding map at rear. (8vo) original brown gilt- lettered cloth. First American Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866 Explorations in East Africa, with an eye towards arresting, or at least reporting upon, the slave trade. Spine and edges sunned, rubbed and bumped; light scattered foxing; very good. (200/300)
308. (Livingstone, David) [Roberts, John S., Compiler]. The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D. Carefully Compiled from Reliable Sources. viii, 702 pp. Additional chromolithograph title page, frontispiece and 15 chromolithograph plates. (4to) 30x23 cm (11¾x9”), publisher’s full black morocco binding, beveled edges, elaborately decorated with multiple gilt vignettes, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, all edge gilt. London: Adam & Co., [c.1874] Quite scarce in this deluxe publisher’s binding. Superbly illustrated biography of Livingstone, with lithographic views of the doctor on his explorations, the natives and animals of Africa, slaves being driven into captivity, Stanley meeting Livingstone, etc. Rubbed extremities; hinges repaired with cloth tape; neatly penned birthday inscription on verso of frontispiece, dated 1883; dampstaining at bottom edge of chromolithograph title page, scattered marginal internal marks such as light finger soiling and foxing; very good. (700/1000)
309. Montjoye, Abbé de. Description Historique des Curiosites de l’Eglise de Paris. 462, [4] pp. 6 folding copper-engraved plates. (12mo) 16.5x9.5 cm (6½x3¾”), period full mottled calf, spine gilt, morocco label. First Edition. Paris: C.P. Gueffier, 1763 Descriptions of the churches of Paris. With the bookplate of French composer Paul Lacombe Spine ends chipped, extremities rubbed; light foxing; very good. (300/500)
RARE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO PARIS 310. Nemeitz, [Joachim Christoph]. Sejour de Paris, c’est a dire, Instructions fideles, pour les Voiageurs de Condition, Comment ils se doivent conduire, s’ils veulent faire un bon usage de leur tems & argent, durant leur Sejour a Paris. 2 volumes. [ii], 420; [xiv], 421-630, [54] pp. Folding map of Paris; 60 engraved plates. (12mo) 16.4x10.5 cm (6½x4¼”) period full calf, gilt armorial device on covers, spines gilt, red and black morocco lettering pieces. First Edition. Leiden: Jean Van Abcoude, 1727 Rare early illustrated guide for visitors to Paris. Brunet IV, 36. Spines chipped at ends, light wear to extremities; foxing; very good. (600/900)
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Page 86 SEVERAL LOTS ON NEW GUINEA 311. (New Guinea) Eight volumes on New Guinea and the South Seas. Includes: * Stone, Octavius S. A Few Months in New Guinea. (Spine rubbed, leaning, ends worn; a map detached along with contents leaf.) 1880. * Thomas, Julian. Cannibals & Convicts: Notes on Personal Experiences in the Western Pacific. (Spine faded, stained, front hinge cracked.) 1886. * Cayley-Webster, H. Through New Guinea and the Cannibal Countries. (Spine faded, leaning, lower corner bumped.) 1898. * Abel, Charles W. Savage Life in New Guinea: The Papuan in Many Moods. c.1900. * Walker, H. Wilfrid. Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines. (Spine faded, front hinge cracking.) 1910. * Burnett, Frank. Through Polynesia and Papua: Wanderings with a Camera in Southern Seas. (Fading to spine and top of front cover.) 1911. * Mackellar, C.D. Scented Islands and Coral Gardens: Torrres Straits, German New Guinea, and the Dutch East Indies. (Some insect damage to coves.) 1912. * Holmes, J.H. Way Back in Papua. (Spine faded.) [1926]. * Together, 8 volumes. Original cloth. Various places: Various dates Generally very good, some with bookplates or other ownership markings. (300/500)
312. (New Guinea) Nine titles on New Guinea. Includes: * D’Albertis, L.M. New Guinea: What I Did and What I Saw. 2 volumes. Prize binding of the Worcester Training College, full navy calf, spine gilt, raised bands, morocco labels. (spines rubbed, faded, ends worn, lacking a spine label, others with chips.) 1881. * Lyne, Charles. New Guinea: An Account of the Establishment of the British Protectorate over the Southern Shores of New Guinea. 1885. * Romilly, Hugh Hastings. The Western Pacific and New Guinea: Notes on the Natives, Christian and Cannibal... 2nd ed. (Spine faded.) 1887. * Bevan, Theodore F. Toil, Travel, and Discover in British New Guinea. (Minor insect damage to covers) 1890. * Thompson, J.P. British New Guinea. (Covers faded, rubbed, especially spine, extremities worn, hinges cracked.) 1892. * Smith, Staniforth. Handbook of the Territory of Papua. 2nd ed. (Spine and cover margins faded.) 1909. * Grimshaw, Beatrice. The New New Guinea. (Some water damage/bubbling to cloth, adhesion remnants to rear cover.) 1911. * Newton, Henry. In Far New Guinea: A Stirring Record of Work and Observation Amongst the People of New Guinea... 1914. * Monckton, C.A.W. Some Experiences of a New Guinea Magistrate. (Some soiling and fading to cloth, foxing within. 1921. * Together, 9 volumes in 10. Original cloth except noted. Various places: Various dates Generally very good, a few better, some with bookplates or other ownership markings. (300/500)
Page 87 313. (New Guinea) Six volumes about New Guinea and missionary experiences. Includes: * Murray, Rev. A.W. Forty Years’ Mission Work in Polynesia and New Guinea, from 1835 to 1875. (Extremity wear to covers, spine darkened, front hinge cracked, lacking free endpaper. ) 1876. * U.S. edition of preceding. 1876. * Chalmers, James. Pioneer Life and Work in New Guinea, 1877-1894. (Front free endpaper excised. some rubbing and staining to covers.) 1895. * King, Joseph. W.G. Lawes of Savage Island and New Guinea. 1909. * Chalmers, James. Pioneering in New Guinea. [c.1910]. * Griffin, H.L. An Official in British New Guinea: With Earlier Reminiscences of Harrow and the Royal Artillery. (Covers faded, some soiling.) [1925]. * Together, 6 volumes. Original cloth. Various places: Various dates Generally very good or better condition, some with bookplates or other ownership markings. (250/350)
314. (New Guinea, Australia, etc.) Seven volumes on New Guinea, Australia, & the South Seas. Includes: * Cooper, H. Stonehewer. The Coral Lands of the Pacific: Their Peoples and Their Products. 1882. * Macdonald, Alexander. In the Land of Pearl and Gold: A Pioneer’s Wanderings in the Backblocks and Pearling Grounds of Australia and New Guinea. (Spine faded.) 1907. * Cowan, James. New Zealand, or Ao-Tea-Roa (The Long Bright World): Its Wealth and Resources, Scenery, Travel-Routes, Spas, and Sport. Cloth-backed boards. (Boards darkened, rubbed, contents shaken.) 1908. * Reclus, Elisee. Australasia. (Spine faded.) c.1910. * Wollaston, A.F.R. Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-Day in Dutch New Guinea. (Some fading to spine; newsclippings & magazine articles glued to front endpapers and preliminary matter). 1912. * Murray, Hubert. Papua of To-Day, or an Australian Colony in the Making. (Some insect damage to covers, spot to front cover, front free endpaper torn out.) 1925. * Mair, L.P. Australia in New Guinea. [1948]. * Together, 7 volumes. Original cloth except as noted. Various places: Various dates Generall very good, some with bookplates or other ownership markings. (300/500)
315. Nisbet, Hume. A Colonial Tramp: Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea. 2 volumes. xvi, 287; x, 289, [1] pp. With numerous plates & illustrations from drawings by the author and others; chromolithographed frontispieces. 22x14 cm. (8¾x5½”), gilt-lettered pictorial cloth. First Edition. London: Ward & Downey, 1891 Covers rubbed, worn at extremities, corners bumped affecting some contents; hinges cracked, contents shaken, good to very good. (200/300)
316. Norie, J.W. The Seaman and Merchant’s Complete Expeditious Measurer; Containing a Set of Tables Which Shew, At One View, the Solid Contents of All Kinds of Packages and Casks, According to Their Several Lengths, Breadths, and Depths: Also, Rules for Determining the Contents of All Sorts of Casks in Wine and Beer Measure. Unpaginated. 27.4x10.5 cm (10¾x4¼”), original full calf. Twenty-fifth edition. London: Charles Wilson, 1853 Scarce in any edition; an essential tool for the 19th century shipping trade. Binding worn, portions of the spine lacking; light foxing; good. (100/150)
Page 88 317. Osborn, Chase Salmon. Madagascar: Land of the Man-Eating Tree - with typed letter signed from the author to a reviewer of the book. xi, 443 pp. Folding maps, photograph plates. (8vo) black gilt-lettered cloth. First Edition. New York: Republic Publishing, 1924 With a 1 page typed letter signed from the author, addressed to Rexford W. Barton, of The Saturday Review of Literature, dated June 1, 1925. In the letter the author thanks Mr. Barton for his review (which is clipped from the newspaper, and pasted to the front pastedown of this book). Light shelf wear; offsetting from review at front free endpaper; else near fine. (200/300)
318. (Ottoman Empire) [Beauchamp, Alphonse De]. The Life of Ali Pacha, of Jannina, Late Vizier of Epirus, Surnamed Aslan, or the Lion. Including a Compendious History of Modern Greece. xii, 368 pp. Folding view of Yannina; folding map; portrait. (8vo) 20.8x12.7 cm. (8¼x5”), half calf and modern boards, black leather spine label. Second Edition. London: Lupton Relfe, 1823 Ali Pacha (or Pasha) was an Ottoman Albanian ruler of the western part of Rumelia, the Ottoman Empire’s European territory which was also called Pashalik of Yanina. Extremities rubbed, bookplate; foxing; very good. (200/300)
319. (Panama) Hinkle, J[im] F. A Trip to Panama (From Notes Taken at the Time). 35 pp. One photograph plate of the four men. 23x15 cm. (9x6”), original black pebbled cloth, lettered in yellow. [Privately Printed], [1932] Presentation copy, signed by the author on the dedication leaf, which reads: “This, twenty- three years afterward is presented to the other three ex-Horsemen and their children with the compliments of the 4th ex-Horseman, J.F. Hinkle.” Perhaps only 4 copies of the book were published, exclusively for the “4 Horsemen”? In any case, a rare work, not located by OCLC / Worldcat, nor offered at auction in the past 25 year according to ABPC. In January 1909, four men; E.A. Cahoon, J.P. Church, J.P. White, and J.F. Hinkle, left for Panama via the United Fruit Company line out of New Orleans. This little book describes their 25 day journey which the author calls “THE incident of our lives.” Jim Hinkle was a New Mexico legislator, governor, cowboy and banker. Very lightly rubbed in spots; near fine. (250/350)
320. Patterson, J.H. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and other African Adventures. xvi, 401 pp. Foreword by Frederick Courteney Selous. Illustrated from photographs throughout, plus a four-page facsimile document and a map; frontispiece portrait of the author. (8vo) original green cloth with a gilt vignette of a snarling big cat on the front cover, spine lettered in gilt. First American Edition, enlarged and revised from the original edition, with a new preface by the author. New York: Macmillan, 1927 Enlarged edition of the work first published in 1907, with differences in the illustrations. A touch bumped at spine ends and corners; near fine. (100/150)
321. Peary, Robert E. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. xxxii, 373 pp. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Foreword by Gilbert H. Grosvenor. Illustrated with photo plates including 8 in color; folding color map. (8vo), original dark blue pictorial cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Trade Edition. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1910 “Narrative of Peary’s last expedition 1908-09...and march to the Pole.” Arctic Bib. 13230. Light wear and soiling to cloth; a few pages creased; very good. (250/350)
Page 89 TO THE NORTH POLE IN SEARCH OF A PASSAGE TO INDIA 322. Phipps, Constantine John. A Voyage Towards the North Pole Undertaken by His Majesty’s Command 1773. [iii]-viii, 253 pp. 3 engraved folding maps, 11 engraved plates, all but one folding, all with tissue-guards, plus 11 table plates, all but 2 are folding. 29.5x23 cm (11½x9”) 4to, modern half brown morocco and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, all edges marbled. First Edition. London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774 First edition of the official account of Phipps’ polar voyage with three folding maps, and other engraved illustrations of navigational tools and marine life, among other things. Commodore Phipps led this expedition in June 1773 “for the purpose of discovering a route to India through the North Polar regions. North of Spitzbergen the sea was absolutely blocked with ice and the vessels had to return. Although unsuccessful the voyage was an important addition to nautical science, and the account of it contains a descriptive catalogue of the natural productions of Spitzbergen. The expedition is also of interest from the fact that Lord Nelson, then 14, accompanied it as a midshipman, and distinguished himself by his encounter with a bear.” (Maggs II:870). With a valuable index. Light foxing; else near fine. (3000/5000)
323. Pigagniol de la Force, [Jean-Aymar]. Description de Paris, de Versailles, de Marly: de Meudon, de S. Cloud, de Fontainebleau, Et de Toutes Les Autres Belles Maisons Ch Teaux Des Environs de Paris. (Paperback)Stock ImageView Larger ImageDescription de Paris, de Versailles, de Marly: de Meudon, de S. Cloud, de Fontainebleau, Et de Toutes Les Autres Belles Maisons Ch Teaux Des Environs de Paris. 8 volumes. Folding map with partial hand coloring; engraved plates, many folding. (12mo) 16.5x10 cm (6½x4”), period full calf, spines gilt. New Edition. Paris: Charles-Nicolas Poirion, 1742 Popular 18th century guide book to the chateaux in the environs of Paris. Bindings rubbed;light foxing; a few short tears to folding plates; very good. (500/800)
324. Rappoport, S. History of Egypt, From 330 B.C. to the Present Time. Volumes 1 & 2 only (of 3 by Rappoport, from a 12 volumes set, the other 9 volumes of which were by Gaston Maspero). Illustrations throughout with the plates in 3 states (colored, uncolored & proof). (8vo) 25.5x17.5 cm (10x7”), period full dark green morocco, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt dentelles with floral devices at corners, red morocco doublures with gilt floral devices at centers, moiré silk endleaves, top edges gilt. Number 9 of 50 sets of the “Edition Definitive”, printed on Japan vellum. London: Grolier Society, [1904] These volumes deal with the Ptolemaic Period (c.330 B.C.E.) through the Muhammedan Period (c.1100 C.E.), the third volume, not present here, brought the history to the turn of the 20th century. Very handsomely presented. Spines a touch sunned, light wear to edges; near fine. (100/150)
FRENCH PHYSICIAN AT THE RUSSIAN COURT 325. (Russia) Le Clerc, [Nicolas-Gabriel]. Histoire Physique, Morale, Civile et Politique de la Russie Ancienne [Moderne]. 5 text volumes. Atlas volume not present. 71 (of 72) plates, including 4 double page; 3 (of 4 maps); 10 tables, including 9 folding. (4to) 26x20 cm (10¼x8”), period full calf, spines gilt, marbled endpapers. First Edition. Paris & Versailles: Crez Froulle & Chez Blaizot, 1783-85 Le Clerc, Chief Physician of the King’s Army, traveled to Russia in 1759 and again in 1769, serving as the Chief Physician to the Grand Duke, where he gathered materials for this history of the Russian Empire. A 6th volume of text was published in 1794. Bindings worn, joints cracked; a few plates with outer margins extended by the addition of a strip of paper; light foxing; internally very good. (1200/1800)
Page 90 326. Seligmann, C.G. The Melanesians of British New Guinea. xxiv, 766 pp. Illustrations from photographs. 23.5x15 cm. (9¼x6”), original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Cambridge: University Press, 1910 An important ethnographic study on the indigenous Melanesians of Papua, New Guinea. Some rubbing to extremities, lower corners bumped with lower page corners slight affected; rubberstamp of Berkelouw Bros., Sydney, to front endpaper; very good. (400/600)
327. Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn. Sinai and Palestine in Connection with Their History. viii, 560 pp. Color map plates, including folding. (8vo) prize binding of full red calf, gilt lettered and decorated, bound by Browns’, Savile Street, Hull. New Edition. London: John Murray, 1896 Nice prize binding of this New Edition. With a bookplate from Hymers College, Kingston upon Hull, awarded to N.J. Foord for the subject of Greek Testament. Dated 1902. Spine darkened, rubbed and a nicked; contents fine; very good. (100/150)
328. Stanley, Henry M. How I found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa: Including an Account of Four Months’ Residence with Dr. Livingstone. xxiii, 736, [2] ad pp. Woodcut portrait of Stanley as frontispiece with tissue-guard; many wood engraved plates and illustrations w/in text; 6 maps, 4 of them folding. 9x5½, rebound in half morocco and boards. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1872 The account Stanley’s momentous first expedition to Africa in search of the peripatetic Livingstone. Rubbing at spine and edges, corners exposed; light scattered foxing; very good. (100/150)
329. Stanley, Henry M. Through the Dark Continent; or, The Sources of the Nile, Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. 2 volumes. xiv, 522; ix, 566 + 2 ad pp. Illustrated with wood engravings and plates, and maps (3 of them folding, 2 of which are loose in rear endpaper pockets). (8vo), original pictorial green cloth with lettering and highlights in gilt. Later American Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1879 Each with 2 bookplates on front pastedowns: F.A. Raynolds of Colorado, and William H. Wells. Rubbed and bumped edges, illustration and cloth bright and clean; some repair to hinges, name in ink on front free endpapers; very good. (100/150)
330. Stanley, Henry M[orton]. The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration. 2 volumess. xxvii, 528; x, 483 + 12 ad pp. Numerous wood-engraved plates & illustrations; 5 folding maps, 2 of them loose in rear endpaper pockets. 8¾x5¾, original cloth, lettering in gilt, pictorial front covers in gilt & colors. First American Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1885] Stanley’s important account of the founding of Belgian King Leopold’s notorious “Free” state of the Congo. With the bookplate of Edwin Stanley Atkinson on front pastedowns. Rubbed extremities, spines a touch darkened, gouge in front cover of Vol. I; hinges starting; very good. (200/300)
331. Thomson, J.P. British New Guinea. xviii, 336 + 4 ad pp. Illustrations from photos, drawings, etc.; folding map at rear. (8vo) original red cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. London: George Philip & Son, 1892 An extensive historic and ethnographic view of the country, nearly half of the volume is devoted to the flora and fauna of the island. Some fading to spine and cover martins, rubbing to extremities; hinges cracking at endpapers, else very good. (150/250)
Page 91 332. Tomlinson, H.M. The Sea and the Jungle. [vi], 354, [1] pp. 20 pp publisher’s catalog at rear. (8vo) original green cloth, top edge gilt, custom chemise and green cloth slipcase, lettered in gilt. First Edition. London: Duckworth, 1912 First issue of the author’s first book. A classic of adventure and travel from Wales to South America by way of tramp steamer. Light shelf wear to slipcase; bookplate; fine volume in a very good slipcase; near fine. (200/300)
333. Tomlinson, H.M. Six volumes by H.M. Tomlinson. Includes: * All Our Yesterdays. Cloth-backed boards, slipcase. No. 200 of 350 copies, signed by author. Harper & Brothers, 1930. * Tidemarks: Some Records of a Journey to the Beaches of the Moluccas and the Forest of Malaya, in 1923. Inscribed to author’s sister from the author. Cloth, dust jacket. Chemise and custom brown cloth slipcase. Cassell and Company, [1924]. * Out of Soundings. Cloth, dust jacket. Harper & Brothers, 1931. * Gifts of Fortune and Hints for Those About to Travel. Cloth, dj. Harper & Brothers, 1926. * Gallions Reach. Cloth, dust jacket. Harper & Brothers, 1927. * Old Junk. Cloth, dust jacket. Andrew Melrose, 1918. Various places: Various dates Mostly mild general wear external and internal; mostly very good. (200/300)
334. Toynbee, Arnold J. A Study of History - With an archive of letters from Toynbee. 10 volumes. Red cloth. Fifth Impression of Volumes 1-6, First Edition of Volumes 7-10. New York: Oxford University Press, [1951]-1954 Included is an archive of 24 Letters Signed, “Arnold Toynbee,” to Elizabeth Horton, a secretary at the Institute for Advanced Study, including 7 Autograph Letters Signed and 17 Typed Letters Signed, concerning errands of various kinds, many involving arrangements for travel and lodging. Mostly 4to, “Royal Institute of International Affairs” stationery. London, 1948-54. Minor wear, spines faded on volumes 7-10; letters fine. (400/600)
335. (Travel Scrapbook) Hohfeld, Jane & Edward. Family’s travel scrapbook - including photographs and ephemera collected while traveling throughout Europe. Jane “Janey” and her husband Edward Hohfeld departed from New York aboard the Cunard White Star’s Queen Elizabeth. Ed Hohfeld was a writer for the California Law Review. They boarded several ships and made several stops throughout Europe, visiting Paris, Switzerland, Barcelona, Genova, Milan, Florence, Venice, Salzburg, Rome, and more. Leaves measure 40x28.5 cm (15¾x11¼”). April - September 1949 The first page records their “Bon Voyage Janey, Easter Sunday, April 17, 1949,” with three original photographs of Jane Hohfeld (2 are yellowed). Includes the photograph of a group of ladies dining on board the R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth., plus Western Union Telegrams, post cards including real photo post cards, and including used ones (sent from Jane to friends and/or family), newspapers, hotel ephemera, ship ephemera, Jane’s passport, Italian stamps, brochures and city map guides, receipts, small original photograph snapshots of Italian places, tickets, and more. A rich archive of ephemera from mid-century European travel. Some wear to most, leaves disbound, original scrap book cover intact, spine lacking. (200/300)
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Page 92 336. (Travel and Exploration) Four volumes on travel and exploration. Includes: * Barth, Henry. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa. Brown cloth. Bookplate of Russel Van Arsdale Lee. With hand-colored folding map. J.W. Bradley, 1859. * Wassermann, Jacob. Bula Matari Stanley Conquerer of a Continent. Cloth. No. 445 of 500 copies. Liveright, [1933]. * Johnson, George R. Peru from the Air. Cloth. American Geographical Society, 1930. * Houghton, Louise Seymour. David Livingstone: The Story of One hwo Followed Christ. Cloth. Presbyterian Board of Publication, [1882]. Various places: Various dates Mild to moderate general wear; mostly very good. (150/250)
337. Twain, Mark. Letters from the Sandwich Islands, Written for the Sacramento Union. Introduction by G. Ezra Dane. Illustrations by Dorothy Grover. Gray linen-backed green decorative boards, paper spine label. One of 550 copies. First Edition. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1937 Publisher’s order form laid in. GB 266; BAL 2558. Slight shelf wear, near fine. (80/120)
338. Vegas, Antonio. Diccionario Geografico Universal, que Comprehende la Description de las Quatro Partes del Mundo. 6 volumes. (4to) 20.4x14.5 cm. (8x5¾”), period full calf, spines gilt, red and green morocco labels. Seventh Edition. Madrid: Josef Doblado, 1806 Descriptions of the world’s cities, towns, ports, etc. Some deterioration of spine leather, bookplates; bottom margin of title pages trimmed, some faint staining; very good. (150/250)
339. Wichmann, Arthur. Nova Guinea; Résultats de l’expédition scientifique Néerlandaise à la Nouvelle Guinée en 1903... 2 volumes in 3 parts, including: Vol. I, Entdeckungsgeschichte von Neu-Guinea (bis 1828); Vol. II, 1re Partie, Entdeckungsgeschichte von Neu-Guinea (1828 bis 1885); Vol. II, 2eme Partie, Entdeckungsgeschichte von Neu-Guinea (1885 bis 1902). With numerous maps in the text. 31x24 cm. (12¼x9½”), later cloth-backed boards. First Edition. Leiden: Buchhandlung und Druckerei E.J. Brill, 1909-1912 Results of a scientific expedition of the Dutch to New Guinea with a overview of the exploration of the island. There were two additional volumes published; all are scarce in the first edition. Internally fine or nearly so. (300/500)
340. Wilkes, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed, to French Ambassador Jean-Guillaume Hyde de Neuville. One page Autograph Letter, signed. 25x20.5 cm. (9¾x8”). New York: March 22, 1820 Wilkes writes to the French Ambassador to the United States, in full: “Mr. De Rham gave me the enclosed paper which I believe is the latest that has been received. We thought that it might be more particular than any one that you had seen & he allows me to send it to you. What a horrid crimes has been committed! I tremble for the consequences which may follow & endanger the safety of France & of Europe, and most sincerely sympathize in the affliction which I am sure Madame Neuville & you will feel on this dreadful event. May the almighty avert the evils which threaten your beloved country! With the highest esteem & respect I am, my [?] Most affectionately your friend[?] Chas. Wilkes”. Wilkes would later command the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Creased from mailing; fine. (300/500)
Page 93 WILKES LEADS THE FIRST SEABORNE SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION OF THE UNITED STATES 341. Wilkes, Charles. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. 6 volumes including atlas. lx, 434; xv, [1], 476; xv, [1], 438; xvi, 539; xv, [1], 558 pp. + atlas. With 64 steel-engraved plates, with tissue guards; text illustrations engraved in steel and wood; 9 double-page copper-engraved maps; atlas with 5 large folding copper-engraved maps & charts, 1 hand-colored. (Large 8vo) 28.7x17.8 cm (11x7”), original blindstamped brown cloth stamped in gilt. Third Edition. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845 Nice set of this official account of the first seaborne scientific expedition of the United States government. This is the third edition of Wilkes’ important narrative, following on the “official” quarto edition of 100 copies (of which 63 were given to foreign nations and 25 destroyed by fire), and the “unofficial” edition of the same size limited to 150 copies. The present edition in imperial octavo is the earliest and best that is generally available, printed in slightly smaller type than the two preceding, but including the important atlas that was not issued with subsequent editions. As Howes notes, this was “The first United States scientific expedition by sea. Wilkes sailed along and surveyed the whole Northwest coast and his exploring parties penetrated into the interior at many points...” Hill notes that Wilkes “sailed into the Antarctic Ocean and along the Antarctic Continent from 150° to 97° East, reporting land at a number of points in the region now know as Wilkesland. He visited Tonga, the Fiji group, and the Hawaiian Islands in 1840, and in 1841 explored the west coast of North America. The findings were timely, in view of the dispute with Great Britain over the Oregon Lot 341 Territory, and he also visited San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento River....” The numerous engravings and plates include striking depictions of Pacific islands and their natives, Hawaiian volcanoes, Australia, the continent of Antarctica, an early rendition of the outpost at Astoria, an encampment on the Sacramento with Californios relaxing, mountains in the distance, Mt. Shasta, etc., and an important map of the Western half of the present U.S. The atlas volume contains five significant maps: Chart of the World Shewing the Tracks of the U.S. Exploring Expedition in 1838, 39, 40, 41 & 42, 59x85.5 cm. (this one hand-colored); Chart of the Antarctic Continent Shewing the Icy Barrier Attached to it..., 59x87 cm.; Chart of the Viti Group or Feejee Islands..., 59.5x86 cm.; Map of the Oregon Territory... with inset of Columbia River from its mouth to Walla Walla, 58x86.5 cm.; and Map of Part of the Island of Hawaii, Sandwich Islands, Shewing the Craters and Eruption of May and June 1840..., 39.5x60 cm. Howes W414; Wagner-Camp-Becker 175a; Cowan p.538; Hill 1867; Forbes 1575. Spines faded, mild mottled fading to covers, rear cover of Vol. I unevenly faded, some rubbing to spine ends, short tears at top of joints of Vol. V; some mild offsetting from the plates, some scattered light foxing, else very good or better, contents clean and largely unopened. (6000/9000)
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Page 94 342. Williams, J[ohn] J[ay]. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec: Being the Results of a Survey for a Railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Made by the Scientific Commission Under the Direction of Major J.G. Barnard... 295 pp. 14 tinted lithographic plates, including frontispiece after J. Muller, tissue guards; large folding world map, and 2 other plates; errata slip tipped-in on the final page. (8vo) original cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. New York: D. Appleton, 1852 Williams’s account is from the scientific commission made under the direction of Major John Gross Barnard (1815-1882). Barnard was selected as chief engineer to make the survey after his service in the Mexican war as a surveyor and constructor of defenses. Spine ends chipped, a few small holes to cloth, corners bumped and exposed, light soiling; plates and other contents bright, clean, and near fine, one tiny stub tear to folding map; very good overall. (100/150)
343. [Williams, Jonathan]. Thermometrical Navigation. Being a Series of Experiments and Observations, Tending to Prove, That by Ascertaining the Relative Heat of the Sea-Water From Time to Time, the Passage of a Ship Through the Gulph Stream, and From Deep Water into Soundings, may be Discovered in Time to Avoid Danger, Although (Owing to Tempestuous Weather,) it May be Impossible to Heave the Lead or Observe the Heavenly Bodies. xii, 98, [3] pp. (8vo) 22x13.5 cm (8¾x5¼”), modern tan cloth, original plain blue paper wrappers bound in. First Edition in book form. Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1799 Extracted From the American Philosophical Transactions. Vol. 2 & 3. With Additions and Improvements. The author was Benjamin Franklin’s grand-nephew. Williams was sent to London in 1770 to complete his training and make contacts under Franklin’s tutelage. Franklin was impressed by his diligence and the two remained close. Williams returned to America with Franklin in 1785. Ex-library from the Library Company of Philadelphia, small embossed stamp on title page. Lacks the folding map, as often; light foxing; very good. (500/800)
344. (World War I - U.S. Neutrality) Lot of 17 responses to the question of whether the United States could or should maintain her neutrality during the World War. Handwritten or typescript, some in both forms, from 1 page to 7 or 8 pages. Various places: August 1915 Interesting collection of responses, mostly British, to the question of America’s neutrality in the World War which had started one year earlier. The question had apparently been posed by an American magazine. The respondents include Sir James Yoxall, MP, “...The U.S.A. can maintain neutrality, and will, whether Germany accepts President Wilson’s conditions or no...”; the Earl of Portsmouth, “America and England are united by a common language, a common literature and largely by a kindred race... I do not believe that any Power can remain neutral and arbitrate itself. The belligerents must fight it out and settle the issue themselves. As regards American intervention, I feel strongly that she cannot allow the outrages agains civilization...to continue...”; Leonard Huxley, “Assuming Germany’s satisfactory apology or full agreement with the demands of President Wilson, I take it there is nothing to prevent American neutrality from being maintained in the future...” And many others. Very good or better condition. (400/700)
345. du Breul, Jacques. Le Theatre des Antiquitez de Paris. [xvi], 974, 104, [15] pp. (Small 4to) 22x15 cm (8¾x6”) modern full black morocco, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Second Edition. Paris: Societe des Imprimeurs, 1639 A milestone in the understanding of the ancient history of Paris; first published in 1612. Binding signed on front free endpaper “Andrieux”. Some fading to leather, light wear to extremities; occasional foxing; very good. (700/1000)
Page 95 346. (Shelf) Small shelf of works on travel and exploration. Includes: * Stephens, H. Morse. The Pacific Ocean in History. Cloth. Macmillan, 1917. * Buck, Peter H. Explorers of the Pacific. Wrappers. With gift slip and Bishop Museum Membership form for Mrs. J. Platt Cooke, laid in. The Museum, 1953. * Elwood, Louie Butler. Queen Calafia’s Land: An Historical Sketch of California. 1 of 325 copies. Grabhorn Press, 1940. * Willey, Samuel Hopkins. Personal Memoranda: The Journal of his Voyage to California in 1848- 1849. Cloth. Friends of the Bancroft Library, 2007. * Leader, J.T. Life of Sir Robert Dudley. Reprint. Cloth, dj. Meridian Publishing, 1977. * Parry, J.H. The Spanish Theory of Empire in the Sixteenth Century. Cloth. Arden Library, 1978. * The Voyage of Sutil and Mexicana 1792. Cloth, dj. Arthur H. Clark, 1991. * Quinn, David Beers. The Last Voyage of Thomas Cavendish, 1591-1592. Cloth, dj. NEwberry Library, [1975]. * 2 copies of: Harrisse, Henry. The Discovery of North America: A Critical, Documentary, and Historic Investigation. Cloth. N. Israel, 1969. Various places: Various dates Mostly mild general wear; very good or near fine. (150/250)
347. (Shelf) Small shelf of works on travel and exploration. Includes: * The Northeast Passage from the Vikings to Nordenskiold. Cloth, dj. John Nurminen Foundation / Helsinki University, [1992]. * Bennett, J.A. The Divided Circle: A History of Instruments for Astronomy, Navigation and Surveying. Cloth, dj. Phaidon, [1987]. * Leon-Portilla, Miguel. Cartografia y Cronicas de la Antigua California. Cloth, dj. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, [1989]. * Galvin, John, ed. The First Spanish Entry into San Francisco Bay 1775. With dj. 1 of 5000. John Howell, 1971. * Skelton, R.A. Explorers’ Maps. Cloth, dj (price-clipped). Spring Books, [1958]. * Wagner, Henry R. The Rise of Fernando Cortes. Cloth. 1 of 300 copies. Cortes Society, 1944. * Brandes, Ray. The Costanso Narrative of the Portola Expedition. Cloth. Hogarth Press, 1970. * Savours, Ann. The Search for the North West Passage. Cloth, dj. St. Martin’s Press, [1999]. * Elwood, Louie Butler. Queen Calafia’s Land: An Historical Sketch of California. 1 of 325 copies. Grabhorn Press, 1940. * Plus 2 others. Various places: Various dates Some light wear to few; mostly near fine. (150/250)
Section III: Cartographic & Americana Reference 348. (Alaska) Two Alaska cartography reference works. Includes: * Phillips, P. Lee. Alaska and the Northwest Part of North America, 1588-1898. Maps in the Library of Congress. 119 pp. (8vo) rebound in gilt-lettered morocco-backed boards. Government Printing Office, 1898. * Falk, Marvin W. Alaskan Maps: A Cartobibliography of Alaska to 1900. 245 pp. Blue cloth. Garland Publishing Inc., 1983. Various places: Various dates Fine. (60/90)
Page 96 349. (America) Six volumes on maps of America. Includes: * Wheat, Carl I. Mapping the American West 1540-1857: A Preliminary Study. pp. 19-194 within: Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society at the Semi-annual Meeting Held in Boston, April 21, 1954. Rubberstamped name Thomas R. Smith on front wrapper, finger soiling. * Meinig, D.W. The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. 2 volumes. Wrappers. Yale University Press, [1986-1993]. * Wheat, James Clements. Maps and Charts Published in America Before 1800: A Bibliography. Cloth, dj. Yale University Press, 1969. * Wheat, James Clements. Maps and Charts Published in America Before 1800: A Bibliography. Revised Edition. Cloth, dj. Holland Press Cartographical 3, [1979]. * Wolff, Hans. America: Early Maps of the New World. Cloth, dj, slipcase. Prestel, [1992]. Various places: Various dates Near fine or fine. (150/250)
350. (America) Three volumes on the mapping of America. Includes: * Wolff, Hans, editor. America: Early Maps of the New World. Prestel, [1992]. * Ristow, Walter W. American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century. Jacket spine sunned. Wayne State University Press, 1985. * Schwartz, Seymour I. and Ralph E. Ehrenberg. The Mapping of America. Harry N. Abrams, [1980]. Various places: Various dates Together 3 oblong 4tos in cloth, dust jackets. Mostly fine. (150/250)
351. (America) Twelve volumes on the mapping of America. Includes: * Pritchard, Margaret Beck. Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America (Williamsburg Decorative Arts Series). Cloth, dj. Harry N. Abrams, 2002. Still in shrink wrap. * William J. H. Andrewes. The Quest for Longitude: The Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts November 4-6, 1993. Cloth, dj. Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, 1996. * Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest: Maps of Exploration and Discovery : British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Yukon. Cloth, dj. Sasquatch Books, 1999. * Cohen, Paul. Mapping the West: America’s Westward Movement 1524-1890. Rizzoli, 2002. * Hattendorf, John B. “The Boundless Deep...” The European Conquest of the Oceans, 1450 to 1840. Cloth, dj. John Carter Brown Library, 2003. * Krieger, Alex. Mapping Boston. Wrappers. Norman B. Leventhal / MIT, [2001]. With some related material laid in. * Schwartz, Seymour I. The Mismapping of America. Cloth, dj. University of Rochester Press, [2003]. * Linklater, Andro. Measuring America. Cloth, dj. [2002]. * Wendt, Henry. Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark. The Quivira Collection. Wrappers, clear printed dj. Inscribed by the author. [2004]. * Plus, 3 wrapper bound publications on maps. Various places: Various dates Near fine or fine. (200/300)
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Page 97 352. (American West) Four works on the mapping of the American West. Includes: * Wheat, Carl I. Mapping the American West 1540-1857. A Preliminary Study. Cloth. Lawton Kennedy’s copy, inscribed to him and signed from the author in the year of publication. The Society, 1954. * Wheat, Carl I. Mapping the American West. Separate from the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Volume Fifty, First Quarter, 1956. 16 pp. Wrappers. Bibliographical Society of America, 1956. * Koepp, Donna P., ed. Exploration and Mapping of the American West: Selected Essays. Occasional Paper No. 1. Cloth. Speculum Orbis Press, 1986. * Seavey, Charles A. Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540-1861: An Index to the Cartobibliography. Occasional Paper No. 3. Cloth. Speculum Orbis Press, 1992. Various places: Various dates Fine. (100/150)
353. (Antique Maps) Six volumes on early maps. Includes: Nordenskiold, A.E. Facsimile-Atlas To the Early History of Cartography with Reproductions of the Most Important Maps Printed in the XV and XVI Centuries. Wrappers. Dover Publications Inc., [1973]. * Moreland, Carl and David Bannister. Antique Maps. Cloth, dj. 2nd Edition. Phaidon, Christie’s, [1986]. * Moreland, Carl and David Bannister. Antique Maps. Wrappers. 3rd Edition, Reprinted. [Phaidon Press, 1995]. * Lister, Raymond. Old Maps and Globes with a list of cartographers, engravers, publishers and printers concerned with printed maps and globes from c. 1500 to c. 1850. Cloth, dj. Revised edition. Bell & Hyman, [1979]. * van Uchelen, Ton Croiset, ed. Theatrum Orbis Librorum: Liber Amicorum presented to Nico Israel on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Cloth. Hes Publishers, [1989]. Various places: Various dates Near fine or fine. (200/300)
354. (Bibliographies) Six Americana bibliographies. Includes: * Sabin, Joseph. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time. 2 volumes. Maroon cloth. Reprint of the original edition, limited to 200 copies. Martino Fine Books, no date. * Storm, Colton, compiler. A Catalogue of The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana. Cloth, dj. University of Chicago Press, 1968. Includes 2 copies of the wrapper bound: Index to Maps in the catalogue of The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana. 17 pp. 1972. * The Celebrated Reference Library of H.P. Kraus. Sotheby’s Auction Catalog. Wrappers. November 18, 19 & 20, 2003. New York. * Morrison, Richard and Shelly. Best Books on the West: A Guide to a Core Collection. Cloth. 1 of 100 copies bound in cloth, signed by Richard Morrison. [1989]. * Wagner, Henry R. & Charles L. Camp. The Plains & the Rockies. A Critical Bibliography of Exploration...1800-1865. Cloth. Fourth Edition, Revised, Enlarged. John Howell, 1982. * Rocq, Margaret Miller, ed. California Local History: A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings. Cloth, dj. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Stanford University, 1970. Various places: Various dates Fine. (200/300)
Page 98 355. (California) Three volumes of maps and atlases of California. Includes: * Woodbridge, Sally B. San Francisco in Maps & Views. Gold boards, dj. Rizzoli, [2006]. * Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of California with Original Maps. Cloth, dj. University of California Press, [2007]. * Donley, Michael W. Atlas of California. Cloth, dj. [Pacific Book Center, 1979]. Various places: Various dates The lot also includes: Galvin, John, ed. The First Spanish Entry into San Francisco Bay 1775. With dj (spine yellowed, small tears to edges, jacket very good). 1 of 5000. John Howell, 1971. Mostly fine. (200/300)
356. (Celestial) Seven volumes on celestial maps, or cartographical curiosities. Includes: * Snyder, George Sergeant. Maps of the Heavens. Cloth, dj. Abbeville Press, [1984]. * Stott, Carole. Celestial Charts: Antique Maps of the Heavens. Cloth, dj. Studio Editions, [1995]. * Whitfield, Peter. The Mapping of the Heavens. Cloth, dj. British Library, [1995]. * Brashear, Ronald. Star Struck: One Thousand Years of the Art and Science of Astronomy. Cloth, dj. University of Washington Press, [2001]. * Manguel, Alberto. The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. Wrappers. HBJ, [1987]. * Kanas, Nick. Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography. Wrappers. Signed. Praxis Publishing, [2007]. * Hill, Gillian. Cartographical Curiosities. Wrappers. British Library, [1978]. Various places: Various dates Fine. (150/250)
357. (China) Wanru Cao, et. al. An Atlas of Ancient Maps in China - From the Warring States Period to the Yuan Dynasty: three editions. Three volumes: From the Warring States Period to the Yuan Dynasty, 1990; The Ming Dynasty, 1994; The Qing Dynasty, 1997. Each a folio in original cloth, dust jacket and plain publisher’s boards slipcase. Beijing: Cultural Relics Publishing House, 1990-1997 With lovely full color photograph illustrations of ancient maps in China from the Yuan Dynasty, to the Ming Dynasty, and finally the Qing Dynasty. Fine. (200/300)
358. (Church, E.D.) Cole, George Watson, Compiler. A Catalogue of Books Relating to the Discovery and Early History of North and South America, Forming a part of the Library of E.D. Church. 5 volumes. (8vo) original red cloth. Reprint of the 1907 First Edition. New York: Peter Smith, 1951 Reprint of the 1907 monumental edition that contains more than 1,380 descriptive entries, with facsimiles, of books about the discovery and early explorations in America, published from the 15th to the 18th centuries. With a broadside advertising John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowships for 1982-83, folded and laid in. A touch of wear; near fine. (100/150)
359. Cortesao, Armando. The Nautical Chart of 1424 and the Early Discovery and Cartographical Representation of America. Foreword by Maximino Correia. Illustrated with 20 plates, including large color folding facsimile of the chart. 39x30 cm (15¼x11¾”) green leather-backed cloth, gilt-lettered, cloth and boards slipcase, hand-bound by Frederico d’Almuda. No. 20 of an unspecified limitation. Coimbra: University of Coimbra, 1954 Signed by Cortesao on the colophon. Slipcase sunned, finger soiling; ticker on volume spine, rubbed at spine; very good. (200/300)
Page 99 360. Cowan, Robert Ernest and Robert Grannis. A Bibliography of the History of California 1510- 1930. 3 volumes, including index. 825 pp. (4to), cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine label. Second Edition. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1933 Best edition of this seminal bibliography, containing many more entries than the 1914 edition and beautifully printed. Signed by Robert G. Cowan in third volume. Light wear to edges, lacking slipcase, bookplates removed from front free endpapers in first two volumes; very good. (300/500)
361. Gutiérrez, Electra y Tonatiúh. Imagen de America. 385 pp. Profusely illustrated with color illustrations from maps, art, and more. 40x33 cm (15¾x13”) blue cloth, blue dust jacket. First Edition. Mexico: Transportacion Maritima Mexicana, 1996 A nice study of the art and cartography created upon the the exploration of America. A few slight bumps to jacket edges; else fine. (200/300)
362. Harlow, Neal. Maps of the Pueblo Lands of San Diego, 1602-1874. Illustrated with facsimile maps. (4to), cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt. No. 299 of 375 copies printed by the Castle Press. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1987 Signed by Harlow in the colophon. Descriptions of more than 80 maps of the region from 1602 to 1874. Fine. (150/250)
363. Humphreys, Arthur L. Old Decorative Maps and Charts. viii, 51, xliii pp. With 79 plates, many tipped-in color, reproducing maps. 31x25 cm (12¼x9¾”), red cloth ruled & lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. No. 473 of 1500 copies. First Edition. London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1926 One of the early books relating to the collecting of decorative maps and charts, a lovely production. The illustrations are reproduced from maps on the MacPherson Collection, and at the end is a catalogue of Atlases, etc., in the collection compiled by Henry Stevens. Spine sunned, lightly rubbed; several pencil underlinings in text, pencil tick marks on plate list; plates are fine; very good. (200/300)
LONG RUN OF IMAGO MUNDI 364. (Imago Mundi) Imago Mundi: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Cartography. Includes: Volumes 1-64. Volumes 56-64 are each in two parts/volumes. Vols. 27-46 are in blue cloth, the rest are in wrappers. A mix of editions, including reprint editions. Amsterdam and London: Nico Israel and Imago Mundi Ltd., 1952-2012 A large collection of this important cartography journal. Vol. I is in German, published at Nico Israel in Amsterdam, 1974. The remaining are all printed in English by various publishers in The Netherlands or later, London by Imago Mundi, Limited. Fine. (700/1000)
365. (Japan) Muroga Nobu. Old Maps in Japan. 192 pp. Color illustrated, with several folding plates at rear. No. 530 of 1033 copies. 36.5x25.5 cm (14¼x10”) gray cloth, color illustrated dust jacket, blue cloth over boards slipcase with printed paper labels, plus a second publisher’s boards slipcase with paper labels. Osaka: Sogensha, 1969 Very faint extremity wear to slipcase; fine. (100/150)
Page 100 366. (Japan) Two volumes on cartography of Japan. Includes: * Walter, Lutz, editor. Japan: A Cartographic Vision. European Printed Maps from the Early 16th to the 19th Century. Red cloth, dust jacket. Includes an autograph note signed from the author, dated 1998, on KKR Hotel Tokyo letterhead. Prestel, [1994]. * Wrapper bound volume on Japanese maps. Kobe City Museum, 1989. Various places: Various dates Fine. (80/120)
367. Kenney, Louis. Catalogue of the Rare Astronomical Books in the San Diego State Library. 335, [1] pp. Introduction by Oswen Gingerich. Illustrated throughout with facimiles of title-pages, illustrations, etc.; pictorial endpapers. 12x9¼, red cloth decorated & lettered in gilt, slipcase. One of 1000 copies, this copy not numbered. First Edition. San Diego: Friends of the Malcolm A. Love Library, 1988 A detailed catalogue of 211 important early books on astronomy, with a profusion of facsimile illustrations. Edge of slipcase and volume spine a touch sunned; else fine. (100/150)
368. Klemp, Egon, editor. America in Maps, Dating from 1500 to 1856. Reproductions of map, including color. 51x35 cm (20x13¾”) green cloth, decorative slipcase. No. 478 of 1200 copies. First Edition. New York and London: Holmes & Meier, [1976] Fine. (100/150)
369. (Los Angeles County) Robinson, W.W. Maps of Los Angeles: From Ord’s Survey of 1849 to the End of the Book of the Eighties. Illustrated with color facsimile maps, many folding, one inserted in rear pocket. 33x23.5 cm (13x9¼”), cloth, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; bound by Bela Blau. One of 380 copies printed by the Plantin Press. First Edition. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1966 Signed by Robinson in the colophon. Detailed biblio-cartography tracing the evolution of the maps of the Los Angeles basin. Spine label a touch rubbed; fine. (200/300)
370. (Magazines) Collection of The Map Collector, Mercator’s World, and Mapforum magazines. Collection of several issues of three different map collecting magazines. Approximately 52 issues of Mercator’s World (a few duplicates). Approximately 68 issues of The Map Collector. 16 issues of Mapforum. mostly 1980s-2000s All near fine or fine. (100/150)
COMPLETE RUN OF MAP COLLECTORS’ CIRCLE 371. (Map Collectors’ Circle) Map Collectors’ Circle - 110 issues, bound in 11 volumes. 110 issues, bound in 11 volumes. Vol. I-XI. 24x18 cm (9½x7”) red cloth, gilt-lettered spines. London: Map Collectors’ Circle, 1963-1975 The complete run of this important reference for map collectors and scholars. Light shelf wear to each; very good or near fine. (600/900)
Page 101 372. (Maps) Eight volumes on map making. Includes: * Goss, John. The Mapmaker’s Art: An Illustrated History of Cartography. Cloth, dj. Rand McNally, [1993]. * Stefoff, Rebecca. The British Library Companion to Maps and Mapmaking. Cloth, dj. British Library, 1995. * Tooley, R.V. Maps and Map-Makers. Cloth, dj. 4th Edition. B.T. Batsford, [1970]. * Karrow, Robert W., Jr. Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps. Inscribed by the author. Cloth, dj. Speculum Orbis Press, 1993. * Crone, G.R. Maps and Their Makers. Cloth, dj. 5th Edition. Dawson / Archon Books, [1978]. * Brown, Lloyd A. The Story of Maps. Cloth, dj. Bonanza Books, [1949]. * Stevens, Henry and Roland Tree. Comparative Cartography. Cloth. Offprint Honoring Lawrence C. Wroth, 1951. Frederick R. Goff, 1951. * Wallis, Helen M. Cartographical Innovations: An International Handbook of Mapping Terms to 1900. Cloth, dj. Inscribed by author. Map Collector Publications, 1987. Various places: Various dates Near fine or fine. (200/300)
373. (Maps) Eight volumes on maps. Includes: * Goss, John. The Mapmaker’s Art: An Illustrated History of Cartography. Cloth, dj. Rand McNally, [1993]. Still in shrink wrap. * Harley, J.B. The New Nature of Maps. Essays in the History of Cartography. Cloth, dj. John Hopkins University, [2001]. * Bagrow, Leo. History of Cartography. 2nd Edition. Still in shrink wrap (jacket spine sunned nonetheless). Transaction Publishers, 1985. * Woodward, David. Art and Cartography: Six Historical Essays. Cloth, dj. University of Chicago Press, [1987]. * Wilson, Derek. The Circumnavigators. Cloth, dj (spine sunned). M. Evans, [1989]. * George, Wilma. Animals and Maps. Cloth, dj (price-clipped). University of California Press, [1969]. * Hopkins, Martha. Language of the Land: The Library of Congress Book of Literary Maps. Glossy boards. Library of Congress, 1999. * Library of Congress Geography and Maps. An Illustrated Guide. Wrappers. Library of Congress, 1996. Various places: Various dates Near fine or fine. (200/300)
374. (Maps) Eight volumes on maps. Includes: * Potter, Jonathan. Country Life Book of Antique Maps. Cloth, dj. Country Life Books, [1988]. * Suarez, Thomas. Shedding the Veil: Mapping the European Discovery of America and the World. Cloth, dj. World Scientific, [1991]. * Skelton, R.A., et. al. The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation. Cloth, dj. Yale University Press, 1965. * Humphreys, A.L. Antique Maps and Charts. Cloth, dj. Dorset Press, [1989]. * Sider, Sandra. Maps, Charts, Globes: Five Centuries of Exploration. Cloth, dj. Hispanic Society of America, 1992. * Skelton, R.A. Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries. Cloth. Staples Press, [1952]. * Gohm, D.C. Maps and Prints for Pleasure and Investment. Cloth, dj. 2nd Revised Edition. John Gifford, [1978]. * Rumsey, David and Edith M. Punt. Cartographical Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed. Cloth, dj. Esri Press, [2004]. Various places: Various dates Near fine or fine. (200/300)
Page 102 375. (Maps) Eight volumes on maps. Includes: * Suarez, Thomas. Early Mapping of Southeast Asia. Cloth, dj. Periplus, [1999]. * Mapping the Continent of Asia. Wrappers. Antiques of the Orient, [1994]. * Tooley, R.V. The Mapping of Australia and Antarctica. Cloth, dj. Second Revised Edition. Holland Press, [1979]. * Clancy, Robert. The Mapping of Terra Australis. Cloth, dj. [Universal Press, 1995]. * Konstam, Angus. Historical Atlas of Exploration, 1492-1600. Cloth, dj. Checkmark Books, [2000]. * McIntosh, Gregory C. The Piri Reis Map of 1513. Cloth, dj. University of Georgia Press, [2000]. * Taliaferro, Henry G. Cartographic Sources in the Rosenberg Library. Cloth, dj. Texas A&M, [1988]. * Aczel, Amir D. The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World. Cloth, dj. Harcourt, [2001]. Various places: Various dates Fine. (150/250)
376. (Maps) Eleven volumes on maps. Includes: * Tyacke, Sarah. English Map-Making 1500-1650. Cloth, dj. The British Library, [1983]. * Sellers, John R. Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789. Cloth. Library of Congress, 1981. * Cumming, William P. British Maps of Colonial America. Cloth, dj. University of Chicago, [1974]. * Barber, Peter. The Map Book. Cloth, dj. Walker & Company, [2005]. * Osley, A.S. Mercator: A Monograph of the Lettering of Maps, etc. in the 16th Century Netherlands... Cloth, dj (price-clipped). Faber and Faber, [1969]. * Tooley, R.V. Tooley’s Dictionary of Mapmakers. Cloth, dj. Map Collector Publications, 1979. * King, Geoffrey L. Miniature Antique Maps. Cloth, dj. Map Collector Publications, 1996. * Boorstin, Daniel J. The Discoveries. Cloth, dj. Random House, [1983]. * Larsgaard, Mary Lynette. Map Librarianship. Boards. Libraries Unlimited, 1998. * Plus 2 others. Various places: Various dates Mild general wear to few; mostly near fine. (150/250)
377. (Maps) Eleven volumes on maps. Includes: * Wroth, Lawrence C. The Early Cartography of the Pacific. Rare cloth-bound copy. One of 100 copies. Bibliographic Society of America, 1944. * Wroth, Lawrence C. The Early Cartography of the Pacific. Wrappers. Volume 38, No. 2, 1944. * Ristow, Walter W. Guide to the History of Cartography: An Annotated List of References on the History of Maps and Mapmaking. Cloth. Library of Congress, 1973. * Jolly, David C. Maps in British Periodicals. 2 volumes. Cloth. David C. Jolly, 1991. * Radford, P.J. Antique Maps. Cloth, dj. Garnstone Press, [1971]. * Jolly, David C. Maps of America in Periodicals Before 1800. Wrappers. David C. Jolly, 1989. * Haycox, Stephen. Enlightenment and Exploration in the North Pacific, 1741-1805. Wrappers. University of Washington Press, 1997. * Vorsey, Louis de. Keys to the Encounter: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of the Age of Discovery. Wrappers. Library of Congress, 1992. * Muller, Frederik. Catalogue of Books, Maps, Plates on America and of a remarkable collection of Early Voyages. Cloth. Reprint. N. Israel, 1966. * The Mapping of Scotland: A booklet of facsimile reproductions from some of the earliest known maps to those of the 19th century... Wrappers. John Bartholomew & Son, 1971. Various places: Various dates Some very light general wear; mostly near fine. (150/250)
Page 103 378. (Maps) Four volumes on maps. Includes: * Leon-Portilla, Miguel. Cartografia y Cronicas de la Antigua California. Cloth, dj. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, [1989]. * Campbell, Tony. Early Maps. Cloth, dj. Abbeville Press, [1981]. * Nebenzahl, Kenneth. Atlas of Columbus and the Great Discoveries. Cloth, dj. Rand McNally, [1990]. * The World Encompassed: An Exhibition of the History of Maps Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Wrappers. Water damage to fore edge of text block. Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1952. Various places: Various dates All but the last volume are fine. (150/250)
379. (Maps) Seven volumes on maps and map making. Includes: * [Ehrenberg, Ralph]. Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography. Cloth, dj. [National Geographic, 2006]. * Shedding the Veil: Mapping the European Discovery of America and the World. Cloth, dj. World Scientific, [1992]. * Berthon, Simon and Andrew Robinson. The Shape of the World. Cloth, dj. George Philip, No date. * Campbell, Tony. The Earliest Printed Maps, 1472-1500. Cloth, dj. University of California Press, [1987]. * Woodward, David. Five Centuries of Map Printing. Cloth. University of Chicago Press, [1975]. * Booth, John. Looking at Old Maps. Cloth, dj. Cambridge House Books, 1979. * Brown, Lloyd A. Map Making: The Art that Became a Science. Cloth, dj (price-clipped). Little, Brown, [1960]. * Konvitz, Josef W. Cartography in France, 1660-1848. Cloth, dj. University of Chicago Press, [1987]. Various places: Various dates Mostly near fine. (150/250)
380. (Maps) Small group of works on maps. Includes: * Thrower, Norman J.W. The Compleat Plattmaker: Essays on Chart, Map, and Globe Making in England. Cloth. University of California, 1978. * English Mapping of America 1675-1715. Wrappers. Mercator Society / New York Public Library, 1986. * Fine Western Americana & Related Pacific Voyages: The Library of Irving Whitmore Robbins, Jr. Sale 100. PBA Galleries Catalog. Cloth. 1996. * Baynton-Williams, Roger. Investing in Maps. Cloth, dj (price-clipped). Barrie & Rockliff The Cresset Press, [1969]. * Maps, Globes, Atlases and Geographies Through the Year 1800: The Eleanor Houston and Lawrence M.C. Smith Cartographic Collection... Cloth. University of Southern Maine Library, 1988. * Tooley, R.V. My Head is a Map: Essays & Memoirs. Cloth, dj. Francis Edwards and Carta Press, 1973. * Manasek, Francis J. Uncommon Value: A Rare Book Dealer’s World. Cloth, dj. Arbor Libri Press, 1995. * Reinhartz, Dennis. The Cartographer and the Literati-Herman Moll and His Intellectual Circle. Cloth. Edwin Mellen Press, [1997]. * Tooley, R.V. Tooley’s Handbook for Map Collectors. A Subject index record. Cloth. Speculum Orbis Press, 1985. * Plus 6 wrapper-bound map catalogues, etc. Various places: Various dates Fine. (200/300)
Page 104 381. (Maps) Small group on mapping and travel and exploration. Includes: * Leon-Portilla, Miguel. Cartografia y Cronicas de la Antigua California. Cloth, dj. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, [1989]. * Galvin, John, ed. The First Spanish Entry into San Francisco Bay 1775. With dj (spine yellowed, small tears to edges, jacket very good). 1 of 5000. John Howell, 1971. * Pigafetta, Antonio. Magellan’s Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation. 2 volumes. Cloth, slipcase. Yale University Press, 1969. * Mayer, Roberto L. Mexico Ilustrado: Mapas, Planos, Grabados e Ilustraciones de los Siglos XVI al XIX. Wrappers. Banamex, [1994]. * The Call to California: A Copley Book. Cloth, dj. Union-Tribune, [1968]. * Howse, Derek. The Sea Chart. Cloth, dj (price-clipped). David & Charles, [1973]. * Adams, Randolph G. British Headquarters: Maps and Sketches Used by Sir Henry Clinton... Cloth- backed boards. William L. Clements Library, 1928. * St. Bris, Thomas de. Discovery of the Origin of the Name of America. Wrappers (detached or nearly so). 1888. * Plus 3 wrapper-bound volumes of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo. Various places: Various dates Near fine or fine. (150/250)
382. (Maps) Ten volumes on the history of maps. Includes: * Mundy, Barbara E. The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas. Cloth, dj. University of Chicago, [1996]. * Harvey, P.D.A. The History of Topographical Maps: Symbols, Pictures and Surveys. Cloth, dj. Thames and Hudson, [1980]. * Wolter, John A. Images of the World: The Atlas Through History. Cloth, dj. Library of Congress, 1997. * Ristow, Walter W., compiler. A la Carte: Selected Papers on Maps and Atlases. Cloth. Library of Congress, 1972. * The Shape of the World. Cloth, dj. Rand McNally, [1991]. * Delano-Smith, Catherine. English Maps: A History. Cloth, dj. University of Toronto, [1999]. * Black, Jeremy. Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past. Cloth, dj. Yale University Press, [1997]. * Buisseret, David. Monarchs, Ministers and Maps: The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool of Government in Early Modern Europe. Cloth, dj. University of Chicago, [1992]. * Reinhartz, Dennis. The Mapping of the Entradas Into the Greater Southwest. Cloth, dj. University of Oklahoma, [1998]. * Winchester, Simon. The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology. Cloth, dj. HarperCollins, [2001]. Various places: Various dates Fine or nearly so. (200/300)
383. Martin, James C. and Robert Sidney Martin. Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900 - two editions. Includes: * Texas State Historical Association edition, [1999]. * University of New Mexico Press edition, [1984]. Various places: Various dates Both oblong 4tos in dust jacket. Near fine or fine. (100/150)
Page 105 THE CARTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION OF A.E. NORDENSKIOLD 384. Nordenskiold, Adolf Erik. The A. E. Nordenskiold Collection in the Helsinki University Library: Annotated Catalogue of Maps made up to 1800. 5 volumes in 6 (Vol. 5 is in 2 parts). Compiled by Ann- Mari Mickwitz and Leena Miekkavaara. Plates, some in color. (4to) original boards of various colors, pale blue, green and tan. First Edition. Helsinki: Helsinki University Library, [1979-1995] A valuable contribution to the bibliography of cartography, this work is a catalog of the maps of the huge cartographic collection of Adolf Erik Nordenskiold. The complete 6 volume set is hard to find. Spines faded and a touch of edge wear; near fine. (500/800)
385. (North America) Four volumes on cartography of North America. Includes: * Portinaro, Pierluigi and Franco Knirsch. The Cartography of North America, 1500-1800. Crescent Books, [1987]. * Cumming, W.P., R.A. Skelton, and D.B. Quinn. The Discovery of North America. Dj price-clipped. First American Edition. American Heritage Press, [1972]. * Golay, Michael. North American Exploration. Cloth, dj. John Wiley & Sons, [2003]. * Karpinski, Louis C. Maps of Famous Cartographers Depicting North America. Cloth, dj. Second Edition. Meridian Publishing, 1977. Various places: Various dates Near fine or fine. (100/150)
386. (North America) Three volumes on cartography of North America. Includes: * Goss, John. The Mapping of North America. Wellfleet Press, [1990]. * Portinaro, Pierluigi and Franco Knirsch. The Cartography of North America, 1500-1800. Crescent Books, [1987]. * Cumming, W.P., R.A. Skelton, and D.B. Quinn. The Discovery of North America. Dj price-clipped. First American Edition. American Heritage Press, [1972]. Various places: Various dates Together 3 folio volumes, each in original cloth and dust jackets. Fine. (100/150)
387. Nunn, George E. Origin of the Strait of Anian Concept. 36 pp. 5 map plates. 23x15 cm (9x5¾”) original brown cloth-backed boards, printed paper cover label. No. 18 of 200 copies, printed by George H. Beans. Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1929 The search for the Strait of Anian (i.e. the search for the Northwest Passage), occupied mariners for centuries. This work explains the origin of that concept. A scarce work. Smith 7489. Very faint stain on front board, slightest rubbing on spine ends and corners; fine. (200/300)
388. (Pacific Ocean) Four volumes on mapping of Pacific Ocean regions. Includes: * Fitzpatrick, Gary L. The Early Mapping of Hawai’i. Cloth, dust jacket. Editions Limited, [1986]. * Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean: Maps of Discovery and Scientific Exploration, 1500-2000. Cloth, dust jacket. Sasquatch Books, [2001]. * Suarez, Thomas. Early Mapping of the Pacific. Cloth, dust jacket. Periplus, [2004]. * MacFadden, Clifford. A Bibliography of Pacific Area Maps. Cloth. Rubberstamp on title page. American Council Institute of Pacific Relations, 1941. Various places: Various dates Mostly fine. (200/300)
Page 106 SPLENDID FACSIMILE OF THE 16TH CENTURY PICTORIAL MAP OF THE WORLD CREATED BY JEAN ROTZ 389. Rotz, Jean. The Maps and Text of the Boke of Idrography Presented by Jean Rotz to Henry VIII now in the British Library. xvi, 96, [2] pp + 32 color facsimile plates. Edited by Helen Wallis. Introduction by Viscount Eccles. 61x38.5 cm (24¼x15¼”), half morocco and cloth, top edges gilt. Oxford: The Roxburghe Club, 1981 Splendid facsimile of the pictorial map of the world (or most of it) created by Jean Rotz in the 16th century to illustrate his treatise on navigation. 500 copies were printed, only 200 were offered for sale. Several small spots of rubbing along spine; else fine. (700/1000)
390. (San Francisco) Harlow, Neal. The Maps of San Francisco Bay From the Spanish Discovery... Illustrated with collotype facsimiles of 21 maps on 19 plates, some fold-out. (Folio), red morocco- backed decorative boards, gilt lettered spine. One of 375 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. * Lot also includes a red cloth-bound Martino reprint, limited to 300 copies. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1950 Superbly printed compendium of cartographic representations of the Bay of San Francisco, with excellent facsimile reproductions and scholarly descriptive text. One of the three great cartographic works issued by the Book Club of California. With prospectus. BCC 77; GB 501; Graff 1784; Howes H202; Rocq 9699. A tiny spot of rubbing at spine ends; fine. (400/700)
391. (Sea Charts) Six volumes on sea charts. Includes: * Howse, Derek, ed. A Buccaneer’s Atlas: Basin Ringrose’s South Sea Waggoner. A Sea Atlas and Sailing Directions of the Pacific Coast of the Americas 1682. University of California Press, [1992]. * Putnam, Robert. Early Sea Charts. Abbeville Press, [1983]. * Sea Charts of the Early Explorers: 13th to 17th Century. Thames and Hudson, [1984]. * Howse, Derek and Michael Sanderson. The Sea Chart: An History Survey based on the Collections in the National Maritime Museum. David & Charels, [1973]. * Atlas of Maritime History. Gallery Books, 1987]. * Stommel, Henry. Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts. University of British Columbia Press, 1984. Various places: Various dates Each in original cloth, and dust jackets. Near fine or fine. (200/300)
392. Shirley, Rodney W. The Mapping of the World: Early Printed Maps, 1472-1700. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of maps, including many color plates. 13¼x9, cloth, jacket. First Edition. London: The Holland Press, [1983] Best available reference work on printed maps of the world before 1700. Some faint creasing at jacket edges; fine. (400/600)
393. Stephenson, Richard W. and Marianne M. McKee. Virginia in Maps: Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development. xxi, 224 pp. Color reproductions of 187 maps within, photographs, etc. Oblong folio, green cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. Richmond, VA: Library of Virginia, 2000 Signed on the title page by both editors. Each chapter authored by specialists in a period of Virginia cartography. Fine. (100/150)
Page 107 394. Stevens, Henry N. The First Delineation of the New World and the First use of the Name America on a Printed Map. xvi, 127, [1] pp. Wiith 2 folding facsimile maps. 12½x10. maroon cloth lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. First Edition. London: Henry Stevens, Son and Stiles, 1928 A few tiny marks to cloth; one folding map detached, early or marginal foxing; very good. (150/250)
395. (Streeter, Thomas W.) The Celebrated Collection of Americana Formed by the Late Thomas Winthrop Streeter. 7 volumes + Index. Also includes the wrapper bound volume: Schedule of Auctions, 1966- 1969. Illustrated with facsimiles. Prices printed in index volume. 10x7, gilt-lettered blue boards, Index in blue cloth. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 1966-1970 Perhaps the greatest private collection of Americana ever to appear at auction; the catalogue has excellent descriptions of many rarities which have seldom surfaced since. Spines lightly sunned, lightly foxed edges of text block; several prices realized annotations in ink within; very good. (300/500)
396. Thrower, Norman J.W. A Leaf from the Mercator-Hondius World Atlas Edition of 1619 with an essay by Norman J.W. Thrower. Folio. 23 pages. Publisher’s full vellum with gilt titles to spine and design to boards. With original 4 pp. of leaves from the 1619 atlas, including a double-page hand-colored map of the area of “Lymoges” (Limoges, France). Housed in publisher’s cloth slipcase. One of 26 [according to leaflet issued by publisher] copies in deluxe binding. First Edition. [Fullerton, California]: Stone & Lorson, 1985 The map is of the French region of Limoges (“Lymoges”), and has a nice inset of “Plan de la Ville de Lymoges.” “The first leaf book to incorporate a double page, 18x22 inch map of historic significance with applicable textual matter, together with an essay by Norman J.W. Thrower, Director, The Clark Library.” -publisher’s leaflet. From a total limitation of 115 copies, 89 were printed in quarter vellum binding. Top edge of slipcase a Lot 396 touch sunned; fine. (600/900)
397. (United Kingdom) Three works on maps of the United Kingdom. Includes: * Chubb, Thomas. The Printed Maps in the Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland, A Bibliography, 1579-1870. Green cloth. Bookplates. Homeland Association, [1927]. * Shirley, Rodney W. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477-1650. Completely Revised and Updated Edition. Cloth, dj. [Antique Atlas, 1980]. * Beresiner, Yasha. British County Maps: Reference and Price Guide. Cloth, dj. Antique Collectors’ Club, [1983]. Various places: Various dates Mostly near fine. (100/150)
Page 108 398. (United States) Four volumes on maps of various states and regions in the United States. Includes: * Schwartz, Seymour I. This Land is Your Land: The Geographic Evolution of the United States. Harry N. Abrams, [20000]. * Smith, Thomas H. The Mapping of Ohio. Jacket price-clipped. Kent State University Press, [1977]. * Cohen, Paul E. and Robert T. Augustyn. Manhattan in Maps, 1527-1995. Signed by both authors. Rizzoli, [1997]. * Reinhartz, Dennis and Charles C. Colley, editor. The Mapping of the American Southwest. Second Printing. Texas A&M University Press, [1988]. Various places: Various dates Each in cloth, dust jackets. Fine. (150/250)
399. (United States) Three volumes on mapping the United States. Includes: * Paullin, Charles O. Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States. Cloth. Carnegie Institution of Washington and American Geographical Society of New York, 1932. * Modelski, Andrew M. Railroad Maps of North America: The First Hundred Years. Cloth, dj. Library of Congress, 1984. * Modelski, Andrew M. Railroad Maps of the United States: A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Original 19th Century Maps... Wrappers. Library of Congress, 1975. Various places: Various dates Mild wear; very good or near fine. (100/150)
400. (United States) Three works on maps of the United States. Includes: * Van Ermen, Eduard. The United States In Old Maps and Prints. Tan cloth, dust jacket. Atomium Books, [1990]. * Van Ermen, Eduard. The United States In Old Maps and Prints. Tan cloth, dust jacket (with Rand McNally logo). Atomium Books, [1990]. * Fite, Emerson D. and Archibald Freeman. A Book of Old Maps Delineating American History from the Earliest Days Down to the Close of the Revolutionary War. Black cloth. Arno Press, 1969. Various places: Various dates Fine. (100/150)
401. (United States) Three works on maps of the United States. Includes: * Cohen, Paul E. Mapping the West: America’s Westward Movement 1524-1890. Cloth, dj. Signed by author. Rizzoli, [2002]. * Krieger, Alex and David Cobb, ed. Mapping Boston. Cloth, dj. [Leventhal Family Foundation, 1999]. * McCorkle, Barbara Backus. New England in Early Printed Maps, 1513 to 1800. Cloth, dj. John Carter Brown Library, 2001. Still in shrink wrap. Various places: Various dates Fine. (100/150)
402. (Vatican Maps) Gambi, Lucio & Antonio Pinelli, editors. La Galleria delle Carte Geografiche in Vaticano/ The Gallery of Maps in the Vatican. 3 volumes: Text, Atlas & Maps. In Italian and English. 31x24 cm (12¼x9¼”), black cloth, slipcase. Modena: Franco Cosimp Panini, [1994] Elegant presentation of the marvelous gallery of maps in the Vatican. Just a touch of shelf wear; fine. (300/500)
Page 109 403. Verner, Coolie & Basil Stuart-Stubbs. The Northpart of America. With reproductions of 46 maps, some color. (Folio), cloth, slipcase. No. 443 of 1500 copies. First Edition. [Toronto]: Academic Press, [1979] Signed by authors on limitation page. A valuable reference for the cartographic collector. Light wear to slipcase; volume fine. (200/300)
404. Wagner, Henry R. California Imprints: August 1846 - June 1851. [viii], 97 pp. (8vo) original gray wrappers, printed in black. One of 150 copies. Berkeley, California: 1922 An annotated chronological list of books, newspapers periodicals, pamphlets, etc. printed in early California. A bit of wear at spine and corners; very good. (150/250)
405. Wagner, Henry R. The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800. 2 volumes. Illustrated with facsimile maps, many folding. 31x23 cm. (12¼x9¼”), dark blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, jackets, together in publisher’s slipcase with paper spine label. First Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1937 Seminal work on the subject, offering a chronological listing of some 862 maps, identifying and giving the origins of countless place names, and detailing the explorations that revealed the shape of the continent. Shelf wear to slipcase, starting to split at bottom corner; jacket spines yellowed, chipped, some loss at edges repaired with paper; very good. (200/300)
ONE OF 50 SPECIAL COPIES OF PLAINS AND ROCKIES WITH 40 PHOTOSTATIC REPRODUCTIONS, 1921 406. Wagner, Henry R. The Plains and the Rockies A Bibliography of Original Narratives of Travel and Adventure, 1800-1865. [8], 193 pp. 40 photostatic reproductions. 25.5x17.5 cm (10x6¾”), vellum back with gray paper-covered boards. One of 50 specially bound copies. First Edition, second issue (the exceedingly rare first issue contained numerous errors and was suppressed). San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1921 This seminal Western Americana bibliography contains 349 entries and an index. With a bookplate from the American Art Association Book and Print Department, which records that they purchased the book in 1921 directly from the publisher. Vellum spine quite darkened, wear at edges, especially spine ends and corners, finger smudging and darkening to boards; good. (1000/1500)
Lot 406
Page 110 407. Wagner, Henry R. Three works about the collection of Henry R. Wagner, plus one volume from his collection, inscribed to him. Includes: * Cleland, Robert G. The Place Called Sespe: The History of a California Ranch. Cloth. With Henry Wagner’s bookplate, plus inscribed from the author to Wagner at front endpapers, dated March 25, 1940. Privately Printed, 1940. * Wagner, Henry R. Sixty Years of Book Collecting. Decorative boards. One of 100 copies printed by Ward Ritchie Press. Roxburghe Club, 1952. * Wagner, Henry R. The Grabhorn Press: A Catalogue of Imprints in the Collection of Henry R. Wagner. Signed by Wagner. Wrappers. One of 250 copies, only half available for sale. Privately Printed, 1938. * Henry Raup Wagner, 1862-1957. An Exhibition of Rare Books Honoring the Centenary of his Birth. 1 of 2000 copies. Wrappers. Newberry Library, 1962. Various places: Various dates Fine. (200/300)
CARL WHEAT MAPS THE WEST 408. Wheat, Carl I[rving]. Mapping the Transmississippi West...1540-1861. 5 volumes in 6. Illustrated throughout with facsimile maps, many of which are folding; color frontispieces. 14x10, green cloth- backed beige cloth, spines lettered in gilt. One of 1000 sets, all designed by The Grabhorn Press. First Edition. San Francisco: Institute for Historical Cartography, 1957-1963 A monumental and exceptionally thorough work detailing our expanding knowledge of the American West, unlikely to be surpassed. Vol. I was printed by the Grabhorn Press; Vols. 2-5 were printed by Taylor & Taylor & James Printing from the Grabhorn design. Vol. I: The Spanish Entrada to the Louisiana Purchase, 1540-1804; Vol. II: From Lewis and Clark to Fremont, 1804-1845; Vol. III: The Mexican War to the Boundary Survey, 1846-1854; Lot 408 Vol. IV: Pacific Railroad Surveys to the onset of the Civil War, 1855-1860; Vol. V (parts 1 & 2): Civil War to the Geological Survey. Spine ends with a spot or two of rubbing, a few volumes with a small smudge of white paint(?) on spine; else fine. (2000/3000)
ONE OF 22 COPIES ON SPECIAL PAPER FOR PRESENTATION 409. Wheat, Carl I[rving]. The Maps of the California Gold Region, 1848-1857: A Biblio-Cartography of an Important Decade. Illustrated with numerous facsimiles, some folding. (4to) 36x24 cm (14x9½”, tan calf-backed boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. One of 22 copies, printed on special paper for presentation. First Edition. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1942 Signed by Edwin Grabhorn dated 6/2/46 on the limitation statement. One of only 22 copies for presentation, from the personal library of the author. With the additional inserted map: Gibbes’ Map, opposite pp. 100. The definitive scholarly study of the maps of the Gold rush and one of the most respected books about California and the American West. With prospectus and order form (with envelope) laid in. GB 368: Howes W312. A few light scuffs to spine and boards; fine. (2000/3000)
Page 111 Section IV: Maps, Prints & Views
BRADFORD’S 1838 ATLAS WITH IMPORTANT MAP OF TEXAS 410. (Atlas) Bradford, T[homas] G[amaliel]. An Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Statistical and Historical, of the United States and the Adjacent Countries. [4], 170 pp. With 39 hand-colored copper-engraved maps (1 double page, counting as 2 on the list of maps; 1 with 4 city plans); hand-colored copper-engraved added pictorial title. 41.5x33.5 cm. (16½x13¼”), original half red sheep, leather cover label lettered in gilt, rebacked with original spine strip laid on, corners refurbished. Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Company, [1838] Bradford’s important atlas of the United States, with fine maps of each of the states, a general map of North America, a double-page map of the U.S. (from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and including Mexican California and the Southwest), city plans, etc. The most notable feature is undoubtedly the separate map of Texas as an independent republic, with Austin’s Colony shown, the various grants, etc., between the Red River and the Nueces. The accompanying text, about 1½ pages, is headed “Republic of Texas.” Texas is not shown independent from Mexico in the North American and U.S. maps, but it is named. David Rumsey described the atlas in some detail, calling it “Bradford’s best atlas, far superior to the smaller and more crudely drawn Comprehensive Atlas... There is a beautifully illustrated, engraved second title page reading ‘An Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Lot 410 Statistical and Historical of the United States’...” Corners bumped, other minor wear; free endpapers and flyleaves creased, offset from maps, occasional light foxing to them, else very good or better, nicer than usually seen. (7000/10000)
411. (Atlas) County atlas of California and Nevada, showing all county seats, towns, postoffices, railroads, county roads, stage lines carrying passengers, mail and express and distances between points, drawn expressly for the Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company. 63, [1] pp. With 30 color maps; a few illustrations. 12.7x17.5 cm. (5x6¾”), original printed wrappers. San Francsico: 1909 Scarce little atlas issued as a promotion by the Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company. On the pages facing the maps, in addition to a few illustrations, are printed homilies promoting Fireman’s Fund, many pertaining to automobiles and the insurance thereof, a growth sector as the horseless carriage was coming of age and Henry Ford’s Model T was just going into production, making car ownership affordable to the masses. OCLC/WorldCat lists only five copies, at the Huntington Library, Stanford, Yale, U.C. Berkeley, and the California Historical Society. Wrappers a little browned, as is title-page, ¾” patch of adhesion damage to front wrapper not affecting any lettering, very good. (500/800)
Page 112 412. (Atlas) Johnston, Alex Keith. Atlas of Astronomy Comprising, in Eighteen Plates a Complete Series of Illustrations of the Heavenly Bodies Drawn with the Greatest Care, from Original and Authentic Documents. [iv], 16 + 18 color plates of astronomical maps. Edited by J.R. Hind. 34x27 cm (13½x10¾”) half green morocco and cloth, celestial sphere and lettering in gilt on front cover, new endpapers. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1855 Maps of the Solar Systems, eclipses of the Sun and Moon, the comets, the telescopic appearance of the Moon, maps of the starts, double stars, etch. Alexander Keith Johnston published numerous atlases and separate maps. Moderate wear to volume edges, cloth yellowed with several small marks and scuffs; some neat restoration to the upper margins of four text leaves and one plate, title page foxed; very good. (300/500)
413. (Atlas) Philips’ Handy General Atlas of the World. 42 colored maps on 36 double sheets. Index at rear by John Bartholomew. (Folio) 34.5x25.5 cm. (13½x10”), original brown half morocco and green cloth, stamped in gilt on front and spine. London: George Philip and Son, 1874 Includes maps of the world, the various European nations, British possessions and colonies around the globe, and several of North America and the United States Edges lightly worn, hinges cracked; very good. (300/500)
BELLIN’S ATLAS TO PREVOST D’EXILES’ VOYAGES WITH 74 MAPS 414. (Atlas) Prevost d’Exiles, Antoine Francois. Atlas volume from Histoire Generale des Voyages... from the library of William Short, private secretary to Thomas Jefferson. Seventy-four maps by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, various sizes, most folding. Bound together in a single quarto volume, 25.5x22.5 cm (10x9”), period full calf, spine gilt. Paris: [c.1760] The atlas volume to Prevost d’Exiles monumental 75 volume work, “Histoire Generale des Voyages...”. This copy from the library of William Short, personal secretary to Thomas Jefferson, with his bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. William Short (1759–1849) was Thomas Jefferson’s private secretary while the latter served as ambassador in Paris, from 1786 to 1789. Jefferson often referred to Short as his “adoptive son”. Short, along with Jefferson, was Lot 414 a co-founder of Phi Beta Kappa at the College of William & Mary. On the bookplate is stamped in small letters “Short Heirs”. This is the designation added by the Transylvania University Library, Lexington, Kentucky, where the collection was for a time deposited. In 1930 the Short heirs called for the dispersal and sale of the collection. Binding worn, front joint and hinge cracked; light wear to the edges of a few maps; overall maps very good to near fine. (4000/6000)
Page 113 415. (Americas) Merian, Matthaus. America Noviter Delineata. Copper-engraved map. 27.6x35.7 cm. (10¾x14”). [Frankfurt]: [1638] Well-engraved map of the Americas, a reduced version of Hondius’ map of 1631, with inset of Greenland. There are two sea monsters and two detailed sailing ships in the oceans, and the geographical peculiarities include a large western U.S. lake draining into the Gulf of California (“Mar Vermeo”), a large lake in Guiana, etc. California is in its pre-island configuration. Unlike many Merian maps, this is actually signed “M. Merian fecit” in the plate at lower right. Birden 251, plate 251; Wagner, Northwest Coast, 329. A little toning to the map, with an absence of toning along the centerfold; very good. (500/800)
THE AMERICAS WITH CALIFORNIA AN ISLAND 416. (Americas) Schenk, Pieter. America Septentrionalis Novissima / America Meridionalis Accuratissima. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored; with 2 uncolored cartouches. 48.5x56.8 cm. (18¼x22¼”). Amsterdam: [1695-1700] Schenk’s map of North and South America, California an island, with the top cartouche depicting sword-wielding Europeans standing over Neptune at the edge of the sea, the lower cartouche with natives (one smoking a long pipe), a llama, etc. Leighly 102; McLaughlin 120; Tooley 56. Some stains to upper margin, light offsetting from some of the colors to the Pacific Ocean, very good or better, coloring bright. (1000/1500)
417. (Arabia) Two maps of Arabia. Includes: * Tirion, Isaac. Carta Nuova dell’ Arabia. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored. 28.5x35 cm. c.1735. * Arrowsmith family. Arabia. Copper-engraved map, slight hand-coloring. 24.5x39.5 cm. 1808. Together, 2 maps. No place & London: c.1735 & 1808 The coloring on the first is rather heavy, and likely later. Affixed to mattes with masking tape on verso; generally very good. (300/500)
418. (Asia) Bellin, Jacques Nicolas. Two Maps, of West Tartarie and India. Includes: Carte de la Tartarie Occidentale... 20.5x30.5 cm. 1749. * Carte de l’Indoustan... 22x33 cm. Together, 2 copper-engraved maps, later hand-coloring. France: c.1750 A little marginal foxing, very good. (100/150)
419. (Asia) Three Maps of Asia. Includes: * Guthrie, William. Asia from the Best Authorities. 19.1x28 cm. c.1790. * Chamouin/Giraldon. Asie Occidentale. Hand-colored in outline. 29x21.5 cm. c.1815. * SDUK. Asia. Hand-colored in outline. 31.3x39 cm. 1840. Together, 3 engraved maps. Various places: Various dates Affixed to mattes with masking tape on verso; overall very good. (200/300)
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Page 114 VALK & SCHENK’S RE-ISSUE OF HONDUIS’ BERMUDA 420. (Bermuda) Valk, Gerard & Pieter Schenk. Mappa Æstivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas Dictarum ... Accurate Descripta. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored, with uncolored cartouche, windrose and 2 shields at lower corners; key at bottom. 38.5x50.5 cm. (15x20”) including key. Amsterdam: [1720]
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Re-issue of the Hondius/Jansson map, which first appeared in the Mercator-Hondius atlas, with imprint of Valk & Schenk. The island of Bermuda divided into plots with the owners designated in the extensive key; an impression of the east coast of America is at top, quite out of scale. Faint offset, near fine. (1500/2500)
421. (Boston) Gentleman’s Magazine. A Plan of the Town and Chart of the Harbour of Boston Exhibiting a View of the Islands Castle Forts and Entrances into the Said Harbour. Copper-engraved map/chart. 27x33.1 cm. (10½x13”). London: 1775 Boston in the very early days of the American Revolution, dated Feb. 1st, 1775. Jolly GENT- 232. Light offset, as usual, very good or better. (300/500)
422. (Boston) Phillips, R. Boston, and its Environs. Copper-engraved map. 20.4x31.8 cm. (8x12½”). London: 1806 Well-engraved plan of the city and surrounding area as it was during the Revolutionary War. Extends to include Cambridge, Chelsea, Dorchester and the islands of Deer, Gallops, Long, Castle, and Spectacle. Locates roads, forts, powder magazines, batteries, etc. Top margin trimmed to neat line, lower margin trimmed close but imprint still present, right margin extended; very good. (250/350)
Page 115 423. (California - Fruto) Map of the Town of Fruto, Colusa Co. California. Sec. 17, T.20N. R.%W. M.D.M. On line of West Side and Mendocino Rail Road... Surveyed by L. D. Norton. June 1888. Scale: 200 feet to one inch. Ink manuscript map/plan on architectural linen. 47.5x63 cm.(18¾x24¾”). No place: c.1888 Map/plan of the town of Fruto, an unincorporated community in the north Sacramento Valley Region of Northern Calfornia, now in Glenn County which was formed in 1891 from parts of Colusa County. The post office at Fruto was established in 1888 and closed in 1953. Fine or nearly so. (300/500)
SCARCE REAL ESTATE MAP OF PACIFIC GROVE, MONTEREY COUNTY 424. (California - Pacific Grove) Map of Pacific Grove Properties, showing lots which will be sold at absolute auction sale... November 6th... November 8th. Lots shown in red are the Lots to be Sold... Printed map in red & black, with printed text on verso along with 3 illustrations from photographs. 50x68 cm. 19¾x26¾”), folding to 27x36 cm. (10½x14¼”). Pacific Grove, Cal.: Barry & Austin, Auctioneers, [1919] Scarce real estate map for the auction of plots in Pacific Grove, Monterey County, California, on the Monterey Peninsula between the city of Monterey and Pebble Beach. OCLC/WorldCat lists only three copies, at the U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Santa Cruz, and Yale University. Added to the lot is a business card for the Pacific Grove Curio Shop, Abalone Pearls a Specialty, W.H. Smith, Proprietor. Fine or nearly so. (600/900)
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425. (California - San Francisco) Map of the City and County of San Francisco Showing Auxiliary Water Supply System for Fire Protection. John J. Casey, City Engineer, 1938. Contemporary photographic copy. 37.7x50 cm. (15x19¾”). San Francisco: 1938 OCLC/WorldCat list no copies of this map - this example is a photographic copy on a reduced scale, though it is not known if any of the originals are extant. Some mild creases, very good. (300/500)
426. (California - San Francisco) Park-Presidio Aerial View... Park-Presidio-Blvd-&-Nineteenth-Ave. Typical Intersection... Blue-line copy of a drawing. 53.5x82.5 cm. (21x32½”). [San Francisco]: Jany. 5th 1942 (printed later) Bird’s-eye view of a busy intersection in San Francisco during the initial stages of World War II, when civil defense was still of prime concern, and fears of an invasion of the mainland by Japanese forces were rampant. This is born out by the plethora of military vehicles on the roadways. An earlier rubberstamp, “Microfilmed,” part of the blue-line reproduction, is at lower left. OCLC/WorldCat lists no copies of this view in any media or form. The present reproduction seems fairly early. Fine condition. (400/600)
Page 116 LOTTER’S STRIKING MAP OF EASTERN CANADA 427. (Canada) Lotter, Tobias. Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada avec l’ Isle de Terre-Neuve et de Nouvelle Ecosse Acadie et Nouv. Angleterre. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored; large uncolored pictorial cartouche. 57.7x49.6 cm. (22¾x19½”). Augsburg: 1756 Striking map of Northeastern Canada, including Nova Scotia, Labrador and Newfoundland. This is the second state of the map originally drawn by Seutter and engraved by Lotter, with Lotter’s imprint. The map’s vertical format elongates the geography and distorts Newfoundland, with the St. Lawrence River runing nearly north-south. The map is very detailed, especially along the coastlines and rivers, and there are many place names, both European and Indian. At bottom right is a scene with several sailing ships. At top left is a huge decorative title cartouche featuring allegorical figures, Indian chiefs, explorers, mapmakers, a fleet of ships, fishermen and wildlife. Ref: Kershaw #344; Moreland and Bannister, p. 90. Margins trimmed to within about ¼” of the neat lines; faint darkening along centerfold, very good. Lot 427 (1000/1500)
428. (Caribbean) Jansson, Jan / Valk & Schenk. Insularum Hispaniolae et Cubae Cum Insulis circum jacentibus accurata delineatio. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored; uncolored pictorial cartouche. 40.5x51.5 cm. (16x20¼”). Amsterdam: Pieter Schenk & Gerard Valk, c.1710 Second state of this important chart covering the southern tip of Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica and Hispaniola, issued by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valk. Its is one of the of the first Dutch maps to feature the region on a large scale, due to the importance of the “Canaal van Bahama” to the transport of Spanish gold and silver from the New World. It is based on the rare Hessel Gerritsz chart of 1631, with the addition of five place names in Florida. Jansson also depicts a spurious mountain range in Florida, taken from the much earlier de Bry map. Burden 291, state 2. Faint horizontal crease, mild offset from the coloring, very good or getter. (800/1200) Lot 428
429. (Caribbean) Valk, Gerard & Pieter Schenk. Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali cum Terris adiacentibus. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored in outline. 37.5x51.5 cm. (14¾x20¼”). Amsterdam: c.1690 Rare Schenk & Valk edition of Blaeu’s map of the Caribbean, based on Hessel Gerritsz’ rare chart of 1631. The area covered is basically the same as Gerritsz map, and the nomenclature in North America is virtually identical. Faint dust-soiling, near fine. (500/800)
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Page 117 430. (China) Allom, Thomas. Seven hand-colored steel-engravings after Thomas Allom from China in a Series of Views by G.N. Wright. On sheets approx. 8x10½”. London & Paris: Fisher, Son & Co., 1843 All from the 1843 first edition. Includes a Mandarin in a sedan hair;c the suburbs of Ting-hae; Honan Canal, near Canton; Coal Mines at Ying-Tih; etc. Affixed to mattes with masking tape on versos; very good. (300/500)
431. (Egypt) Roberts, David. Title-page, three full-page lithographs, and two half-page lithographs from the folio edition of David Roberts’ Egypt & Nubia. Includes: * Pictorial title-page to Vol. I, featuring the Entrance to the Great Temple of Aboo Simbel, Nubia. * Full-page plate, Interior of the Temple of Aboo Simbel. * Full-page plate, Entrance to the Tombs of the Kings of Thebes - Biban-El-Molook. * Full-page plate, View from Under the Portico of the Temple of Edfou, Upper Egypt. * Half-page illustration with text, Conference of Arabs. * Half-page illustration with text, St. Jean D’Acre. * Together, 6 pages/plates, with tinted or duotone lithographs. Sheets 61x43 cm. (24x17”). London: F.G. Moon, 1846 Title-page with old library stamp in lower margin. Affixed to mattes with masking tape on versos; images very good or better, clean. (400/600)
432. (Globe) Terrestrial 2” globe. A 2” diameter, 5” tall terrestrial globe with wooden rectangular base. Globe made of bone. No place: c.1920s? Italian globe, the seas and continents labeled in Italian, plus several illustrations (ships, sea currents, trees and whales). Cartouche is blank. Near fine. (200/300)
433. (Globe) Two 2” terrestrial globes. Two free-standing, terrestrial globes, made of bone. Both 2” in diameter. One is in Italian, and the cartouche reads: Lanelo Petini Sabritza. One is in English, and the cartouche reads: A Terrestrial Globe G. Adley No. 60 London. This one has metal bolts at poles (was once affixed to stand?). c.1920s? Near fine. (150/250)
434. (India) Bonne, Rigobert. L’Empire du Mogol et la Presqu’ Isle de L’ Inde en deca du Gange. Copper- engraved map, slight hand-tinting. 35x24 cm. (13¾x9½”). Paris: c.1770 French map of India as Britain was expanding her influence and control, and turning the subcontinent into the crown jewel of the empire. Very good or better. (80/120)
435. (India) De l’Isle, Guillaume. Carte des Cotes de Malabar et de Coromandel…. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored. 45.8x57.2 cm. (18x22½”). Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier, c.1730 Striking map of southern India showing the Malabar Coast, the Gulf of Cambaye and the mouth of the Ganges. Cities, trade routes and topography are detailed with notes on the Dutch and English colonies along the coast. Tape and glue stains in margins from previous mounting, 3” split at middle of the centerfold with slight loss; else very good. (250/350)
Page 118 436. (India) Tallis, John. Two maps, Northern India [and] British India. Includes: * British India. Map drawn & engraved by J. Rapkin. Illustrations by A.H. Wray, engraved by G. Greatbach. 4 vignette illustations. Hand-colored in outline & wash, the vignettes hand-colored. 29.5x12 cm. plus decorative border. * Northern India. Map drawn & engraved by J. Rapkin. Illustrations by A.H. Wray, engraved by J.H. Kernot. 8 vignette illustations. The map hand-colored in outline. 22x30 cm. plus decorative border. * Together, 2 steel-engraved maps from the Tallis atlas. London: c1850 Affixed to mattes with masking tape on verso; very good or better. (200/300)
437. (India) Ten hand-colored steel-engraved plates of scenes in India and adjacent countries. Images approx. 12x19 cm. plus margins. London: Fisher, Son & Co., 1840s Five of the engravings are from sketches by Captain Robert Elliot, R.N.; three are by G.F. White; and one each from Captain Grindlay and J.G. Newman. Subjects include Thubare on the Arabian Coast; Jeypore; “Sarnat, a Boode Monument near Benares”; Jahara Baug - Agra; view near Deobun; etc. Affixed to mattes with masking tape on verso; very good. (200/300)
438. (Michigan) Map of the Counties of Washtenaw and Lenawee Michigan from special surveys and official records by G.R. Bechler & E. Wenig. Engraved wall map on linen, hand-colored. 125x148 cm. (49¼x58¼”), wooden roller at top. Philadelphia: Samuel Geil publisher, 1864 Rare wall map of these two Michigan counties, with inset street maps of various communities and engravings of landmarks and buildings, including the University of Michigan and Adrian College. Badly worn, creased, torn, with tape repairs, lacking bottom roller and about 18 cm. of the map, lower portion laid on backing and repaired with tape, pieces missing; fair condition, sold as is. (500/800)
FUNDAMENTAL PROTOTYPE MAP OF AMERICA 439. (New England) Jansson, Jan / Valk & Schenk. Belgii Novi, Angliae Novae, et Partis Virginiae Novissima Delineatio. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored; uncolored pictorial cartouche, dedication and scale. 44x56.7 cm. (17¼x22¼”). Amsterdam: Pieter Schenk & Gerard Valk, c.1694 Re-issue by Valk and Schenk of one of the fundamental prototype maps of America in the seventeenth century. It was copied almost exactly on at least 27 later maps, and it formed the beginning of the famous Jansson-Visscher series. Compiled from numerous manuscript and printed sources, the map follows the general outline of Adriaen Block’s chart of 1614 with the St. Lawrence River and Lake Champlain based on Champlain. Virtually all European settlements are depicted with several English settlements appearing for the first time. The map is lavishly embellished with engravings Lot 439 of local game and two large Indian villages, all derived from Blaeu. This is the third state with the added dedication to Gualthero de Raet with his coat of arms and the imprint of Valk and Schenk. Burden #305; Fite & Freeman pp. 146-8; Tooley (Amer) p. 284, plate #146. Fine or nearly so, coloring bright, a few tiny brown spots in the margins. (2000/3000)
Page 119 440. (New York - Saratoga) Stedman, Charles. Plan of the Position which the Army under Lt. Genl. Burgoine Took at Saratoga on the 10th of September 1777, and in which it Remained till the Convention was Signed. Copper-engraved map/battle plan. 22.1x47 cm. (8¾x18½”). London: April 12, 1793 [but published 1794] Plan showing the disposition of British troops under General John Burgoyne at Saratoga along the Hudson’s River, with the surrounding American forces, shortly the for the two Battles of Saratoga which forced Burgoyne to surrender and became a turning point in the war. From Stedman’s The History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War. Slight toning, folds, very good. (300/500)
441. (North America) Lotter, Tobias Conrad. America Septentrionalis Concinnata juxta Observationes... per G. de l’Isle. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored; uncolored picorial cartouche. 45.5x60 (17¾x23”). [Augsburg]: [1760] Lotter’s publication of de l’Isle’s North America, with good detail in the east & Great Lakes region, “Nova Mexico” and California depicted, incl. “P. de Drak” near present-day San Francisco. Much of the west is blank, and the possibility of California being an island is left open. Marginal dampstains lightly intruding into lower portion of map, some edge wear and darkening; very good. (500/800)
442. (North America - East) Gentleman’s Magazine. A Map of the British and French Settlements in North America. Copper-engraved map, later hand-coloring in outline, colored decorative cartouche. 28x39.2 cm. (11x15.4”). London: 1755 The eastern half of North America from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, with boundaries, cities and towns, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory, and “Earl Granville’s Property” (North Carolina). Laid down on foam core backing; bottom margin trimmed to or just over outer neat line, left margin partially trimmed to neat line for folding into book; darkening along a fold with some wear; overall very good. (300/500)
RARE MANUSCRIPT VIEWS OF CUZCO AND HUAMANGA, PERU 443. (Peru) Two original watercolor bird’s-eye views of the Bishoprics of Cuzco and of Guamanga [i.e. Huamanga], Peru. Includes: * Mapa que Manifiena el Obispado del Cuzco. * Mapa que Manifiena el Obispado de Guamanga. * Together, 2 original watercolor maps/bird’s-eye views. Approx. 24.5x42.5 cm. on sheets 30.5x42.5 cm. (12x16¾”), with titles and keys in lower margins. Matted. Peru: 18th century Rare and fascinating manuscripts bird’s-eye view style maps of the mountainous Bishoprics of Cuzco and Huamanga in Peru, with settlements depicted with churches, numbered for the keys in the lower margins. Old folds with some wear, expertly silked on versos; very good. (7000/10000)
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Page 120 444. (South America) Lotter, Tobias. America Meridionalis Concinnata Juxta Observationes ... per G. De L’Isle, Geographum. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored. 46x58 cm. (18x22¾”). Augsburg: 1772 South America in the second half of the 18th century, with Terra Firma in the north, Terra Magellanica in the south, at the center a large Regio Amazonum taking over portions of present Peru and Brazil; the sea routes of various explorers are shown. Dampstain in top and bottom margins intruding into image at bottom, some edge wear, very good. (250/350)
445. (South Carolina) Phillips, R. The Siege of Charlestown. Copper-engraved map/battle plan. 21.1x32 cm. (8¼x12½”). London: 1806 Plan of the investment by British troops of American forces at Charleston, South Carolina in the final stages of the American Revolution. The American army under Major General Benjamin Lincoln was compelled to surrender in May of 1780, but victory was short-lived, and the decisive Battle of Yorktown a year and a half later was to cement American independence. Upper portion of left margin trimmed to neat line as issued for folding into book; very good. (150/250)
446. (South Pole) Gentleman’s Magazine. A Map of the South Pole, with the Track of His Majesty’s Sloop Resolution in Search of a Southern Continent. Copper-engraved map/chart. Engraved by Thomas Bowen. 24x24 cm. (9½x9½”). London: 1776 Chart tracing Cook’s search for the great southern continent, circling but not reaching Antarctica, with the southern portion of South American, the Cape of Good Hope, and New Zealand shown. From the January, 1776 issue of Gentleman’s Magazine. Jolly GENT 241. Folds as issued, mild toning, affixed to matte with 4 pieces of masking tape on verso; lower left margin clipped unevenly but not affecting map image; about very good. (80/120)
447. (Texas - Crockett County) Crockett Co. General Land Office, Austin Texas. Compiled by Hunnicutt and drawn by L.W. Jelinek 1901. Revised and Copied Nov. 1920 by J. Gascom Giles. Scale - 4000 varas = 1 inch. Blueprint map, on cloth. 78x110 cm. (30¾x43¼”). Austin: 1920 Scarce large-scale blueprint map of the county in west central Texas, on the Edwards Plateau, named in honor of Davy Crockett, the legendary frontiersman who died at the Battle of the Alamo. Ms. notations and a sketch map on verso, in ink and pencil. Some staining, folded with a few ill-creases, very good. (400/600)
448. (Turkey) Euler, Leonhard. Two maps by Leonhard Euler. Includes: Tabula Geographica Imperii Turcici... * Untitled map of the Anatolian peninsula and surrounding region. Together, 2 copper- engraved maps, hand-colored. Each approx. 31x35 cm. (12x13½”). Berlin: c.1750 The first map shows the Ottoman Empire, stretching from the western Mediterranean to present-day Afghanistan, including the Arabian peninsula; the second map the Anatolian peninsula (Asia Minor) and adjacent areas. Some darkening primarily to the margins; very good. (200/300)
Page 121 MAP OF UKRAINE BY MATTHEW SEUTTER, C.1770 449. (Ukraine) Seutter, Matthew. Amplissima Ucraniae Regio Palatinatus Kioviensem et Braclaviensem…. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored; uncolored pictorial cartouche and scale. 49.6x58 cm. (19½x22¾”), matted. Augsburg: c.1770
Lot 449 Uncommon and attractive map of the Ukraine with excellent detail of the river systems and pictorial topography. The elegantly engraved cartouche portrays agricultural bounty, including sheaves of wheat, cattle and Demeter, the goddess of the harvest. Fine or nearly so. (1200/1500)
450. (United States) Ensign, Thayer & Co. Ensign’s Travellers’ Guide, and Map of the United States, Containing the Roads, Distances, Steam Boat and Canal Routes &c. Engraved wall map, hand-colored. 43x97 cm. (17x38¼”) plus vignettes at bottom & margins; overall 69x105 cm. (27¼x41¼”); wooden rollers at top and bottom. New York: T. & E.H. Ensign, 1846 Wall map on original linen with rollers. West to Rio Grande; 15 inset maps, 5 historical vignettes, portraits of presidents through Polk. Stained; worn at upper right with some loss, ¼x2½” strip missing from surface of Alabama; fair to good, sold as is, but a rare and significant wall map of the United States in a time of turmoil. (1000/1500)
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Page 122 RARE AND IMPORTANT ENGLISH CASE MAP OF THE UNITED STATES, 1827 451. (United States & Canada) Walker, John & Alexander. Map of the United States; and the Provinces of Upper & Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, compiled from the latest Surveys and other authentic information. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored in outline; on 4 sheets, each dissected into 24 segments and mounted on linen, folding and in original cloth-covered cardboard slipcase with paper label of James Wyld, Geographer to His Majesty. Overall 127x193 cm. (50x76”); case size 22.3x13.2x4 cm. London: J. & A. Walker, 1827 Large folding case map of the United States and the settled portions of Canada, extending west to the upper Missouri and what is now the eastern half of Texas. The map is one of the great rarities among early 19th century English Case Maps of the United States. It is based primarily upon David Vance’s wall map of the United States of 1825, published in Philadelphia, but Walker surpasses the Vance in both detail and accuracy. The scale of Walker’s map and its size dwarf contemporary maps by John Melish and others; it is arguably the most significant map of the United States published in England after Arrowsmith’s map. A highly detailed map, it includes county boundaries, court houses, the homes of doctors, and explanations of the topography, as well as the trader’s route from Missouri to New Mexico, the Great Spanish Road, Road to the Pawnies, and early Western Forts and settlements. The treatment of Michigan Territory, Illinois, Northwest Territory and Missouri Territory, including the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, is unsurpassed. With James Wyld’s label on the verso of each sheet as well as on the case; the map was apparently colored and dissected by James Wyld in his shop, as the style of the dissecting runs vertically, whereas all other examples are horizontal. One of the great Americana maps of the post-Lewis and Clark period, very rare. Streeter, Texas #1098. Some rubbing and wear to slipcase, seams starting to split in places; light offsetting, as is common, tender or just starting to split along some folds, very good or better. (10000/15000)
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Page 123 RARE MAP OF THE WEST BY RUFUS SAGE, SOLD SEPARATELY BY HIS DAUGHTER TO GOODSPEED’S BOOK SHOP 452. (United States - West) Sage, Rufus B. Map of Oregon, California, New Mexico, N.W. Texas & the Proposed Territory of Ne-Bras-Ka (Nebraska)... Lithographed map. 45x59.5 cm. (17½x23¼”). New York: F. Michellins’ Lith., 1846
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Rare map of the western United States at a critical juncture both in political divisions and in the growth of geographic knowledge. Wheat notes that the map was primarily based on Fremont’s 1845 map, and adds that “the map was one of the earliest to depict the finally-determined Oregon boundary.” The map is also of significance in that it was useful to the many immigrants who crossed the plains from 1847 through the gold rush. The map was first issued in Sage’s Scenes in the Rocky Mountains (1846), with a remainder issue in the 1847 Syracuse edition of J.C. Fremont’s Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. However, the present map seems not to have been issued in either of those two works. It is contained in an envelope from Goodspeed’s Book Shop in Boston, and is accompanied by a typed letter from Goodspeed’s, dated 1937, to a Major L. Gehman, describing the origin of the map: “...The Rufus Sage map which we sent you is the original. Some years ago the daughter of Rufus Sage wrote us saying she had found some copies of the map. At that time we purchased a few copies in unused condition, not folded. At the present moment we have but one copy of this map left and we doubt that Miss Sage has any more copies...” The present copy of the map is folded, apparently a necessary action to mail it to Gehman, but there is no evidence it was every bound or inserted into a book. Wheat Transmississippi 527. Top margin dampstained intruding up to ¾ of an inch into the map image, light 4x2” dampstain to central California, foxing at side margins and light dampstain in left margin, 1¼” circular brown spot in Pacific Ocean off San Diego, some creasing in left margin; very good. (3000/5000)
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Page 124 HONDIUS’ IMPORTANT MAP OF VIRGINIA ISSUED BY SCHENK & VALK 453. (Virginia) Hondius, Henricus / Schenk & Valk. Nova Virginiæ Tabula. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored; 2 uncolored pictorial vignettes, an armorial shield, etc. 38x49 cm. (15x19½”). Amsterdam: Pieter Schenk & Gerard Valk, c.1694
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Second state of Hondius’ important map of Virginia, first issued in 1630, with the imprint of Schenk and Valk. The map shows the region surrounding the Chesapeake Bay, very hilly, with depiction at upper left of the interior of a Indian dwelling labeled “Status Regins Powhaten,” and at right a native holding a bow, called “Habitus fœminarum in Provincia Sasque fahanougs.” Burden notes that “This is Henricus Hondius’ derivative of John Smith’s highly important map of Virginia, 1612. It is, however, draw from his deceased brother Jodocus’ version of 1618. The two had led separate careers for at least ten years and in 1629, upon the death of Jodocus, Willem Blaeu acquired a number of plates from the estate. About thirty of these formed the nucleus of Blaeu’s Atlantis Appendix of 1630. This challenge to the atlas of Henricus, which was by now quite dated, stimulated fierce competition between the two houses. The sale of plates must have occurred by 2 March 1630 as a contract of that date survives where Henricus Hondius and his partner Joannes Janssonius, angry at the sale of plates to their competitor, engaged engravers to cut a number of new plates after those of Jodocus within eighteen months so that they could advance their own atlas. The Virginia was one of the first engraved as it appears in Janssonius’ Atlantis Appendix of 1630. Attractively engraved it is the only Smith derivative to bear an Indian facing the Chesapeake Bay...” Of this second state, Burden states “Imprint now reads Amstelodami, ex officina apud PET: Schenk, et Ger: Valk. C. Priv:. Longitude and latitude lines appear across the map, and a dotted line indicating the boundary of Virginia has been added.” Burden 228, State 2; Tooley, Mapping of America, p.165. Fine or nearly so. (1500/2500)
Page 125 454. (Virginia & Carolina) Jansson, Jan / Valk & Schenk. Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis, interjacentiumq. Regionum Nova Descriptio. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored, with uncolored pictorial cartouche and scale. 38x49 cm. (15x19”). Amsterdam: Pieter Schenk & Gerard Valk, c.1694 Re-issue by Valk and Schenk of Jan Jansson’s map of Virginia and Carolina, first appearing in 1639, which was itself a close copy of Willem Blaeu’s map of the same title which came out the preceding year. Burden remarks that “Cartographically it forms a marked improvement on the Jodocus Hondius map of 1606, from which this was largely derived. It also amply illustrates the direction that engraving styles had move, being more open and florid. The map depicts two nations’ interests, both marked by their own coat of arms. The Lot 454 French claim, being largely present day Georgia, rests on the abortive colonial attempts of the 1560’s. Blaeu makes no advance here in geography, following Hondius to the letter. The greatest improvement occurs in the northern half of the map north of Porto Royal. Whereas on the Hondius the coastline towards C. de Ste. Romano (present day Cape Fear) veered directly east, Blaeu more correctly takes it north-east, placing the cape closer to its true position of 34o...Chesapeake Bay was depicted as just a small bay on Hondius’ map of 1606 as John Smith was yet to explore these waters. The Gerritsz terminated at this point, and only two placenames appeared. Blaeu draw largely on the Smith map for much of the nomenclature but introduces some English ones from an unknown source. The most important is Newport nesa, Newport News, founded in 1621 and apparently shown here for the first time on a printed map...” This second state of the Jansson map adds the Valk and Schenk imprint and also latitude and longitude lines. Offset of the green coloring to the Atlantic Ocean, a few tiny (worm?) holes, near fine. (800/1200)
455. (Virginia - Yorktown) Phillips, R. Investment and Attack of York, in Virginia. Copper-engraved map/battle plan. Engraved by Cooper. 20.9x22.6 cm. (8¼x9”). London: 1806 Battle plan of the decisive battle of Yorktown, when the American and French forces compelled the British troops to lay down their arms, bringing a virtual end the the American Revolution and independence to the United States. Top of left margin trimmed to neat line as issued for folding into book, else very good. (150/250)
Page 126 456. (World) Homann Heirs. Neue Welt-Karte Welche auf Zwoo Kugelflaechen die Haupt-Theile der Erde, Insel-Gruppen, Theile des Welt-Meers und der en Benennungen den fünsten Welt-theil und die neuesten Entdekkungen nach den Karten und Reisebeschreibungen der berühmtesten Seefahrer und Gelerhrten unsres Zeit-alters der Herren Cook, Forster, Pallas, u.a.m. nebst einer kurzen Erklærung enthælt. Copper-engraved double-hemisphere map of the world, hand-colored in outline and wash. 47.3x55.9 cm. (18½x22”). Nurembeg: 1784 Double-hemisphere map of the world with a curious mixture of then-current geographical knowledge based on the recent voyages of James Cook and others, as well as erroneous configurations of the past. The Sandwich Islands are depicted, and Australia includes several place names on the eastern coast from Cook’s discoveries in 1770, while Van Diemens Land is still shown connected to the mainland. The Great Lakes are shown as one huge body of water and California is strangely shaped with the Baja nearly appearing as an island. Original color, with color key. German text in the panel below the hemispheres. Top right and left corners soiled and stained, affecting about a sixth of the map image overall; good to very good. (600/900)
457. (World) Jocelyn, N. & S.S. The World, Engraved by N. & S.S. Jocelyn - 1825 Anti-Slavery Artist maps the World. Engraved map, hand-colored. 22x28 cm (8½x11”). New Haven: N. & S.S. Jocelyn, 1825 Probably taken from the New Universal Atlas of the World (New Haven, 1825) of Sidney Morse, whose brother, Nathaniel’s close friend Samuel Morse, would later invent the telegraph. In their early twenties, the Jocelyn brothers – Simeon Smith and Nathaniel – went into successful partnership as engravers of bank notes and maps, a temporary avocation while Simeon studied theology at Yale and Nathaniel prepared to become a portrait painter. Simeon, an anti-slavery stalwart, becoming Minister of a Black congregation, persuaded Nathaniel to paint a sympathetic portrait of his colleague, the “radical” abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Thwarted in his dream of establishing a New Haven “Negro college”, and despite an attack on his home by a racist mob, Simeon later took an active part in support of the enslaved Africans who in 1839 revolted aboard the Spanish ship Amistad. During the historic legal proceedings to determine the fate of the Africans, a free Black Philadelphia abolitionist commissioned Nathaniel to paint a portrait of Cinque, the tall, handsome young leader of the Amistad revolt. Jocelyn’s 1840 painting has become famous, widely reproduced in both Africa and the US, and probably used as a model for the African actor who portrayed Cinque in Steven Spielberg’s 1997 Amistad film. One tiny nick at lower right corner, marginal finger soiling; very good. (200/300)
458. (World - in a clock) Homann, Johann Baptist. Geographische Universal-Zeig und Schlag-Uhr. Copper- engraved map of the northern hemisphere, at the center of a large clock, surrounded by text, with mention of Zacharias Landteck. Overall 48.5x57 cm. (19x22¼”). Nurembeg: c.1730 Unusual and striking use of a map of the northern hemisphere on a north polar projection, with California an island “with rounded northern coastline. Surrounded by sky, half lit by sun, and a ring of the zodiac figures with names of the months. All within drawing of a 24-hour table clock” - McLaughlin, who also notes that the map of the northern hemisphere is identical to that on the title-page of Grosser’s atlas (1737). In addition, he states that the clock/map was likely issued earlier, perhaps 1705, citing Tooley’ s Dictionary of Mapmakers, which refers to Landteck’s “Geographical Clock,” in Homman’s 1705 atlas. The present example is the first state of the map according to McLaughlin, without the Privilegio statement. Trimmed to or just over outer neat line, margin extended with neat line redrawn; some soiling, repaired along centerfold and a few other places, very good. (600/900)
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Page 133 Page 134 Offer Your Books at Auction through PBA Galleries
Rare manuscript in grand format of Werner History of the Expedition under the Command of Rare, complete copy of the 1613 folio edition Rolewinck's world history, Fasciculus temporum, Captains Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the of the King James Bible, with the double-page c.1471, one of 13 known examples, with lovely Missouri, 1814, the first edition of the official map of the Holy Land by John Speed. miniature paintings in gold leaf and colors. account of the most famous and most important Sold for $33,000 Sold for $102,000 expedition of exploration in U.S. history. Sold for $212,000
Rare Mormon hymnal from 1861 compiled by Isaac Newton's Analysis per Quantitatum Series, First edition of J.-B. Du Halde's massive Emma Hale Smith Bidaman, widow of 1711, published to demonstrate his claim to four-volume description of China, 1735, with LDS Church founder Joseph Smith. priority in the invention of the calculus. 65 maps and plates, most double-page. Sold for $16,800 Sold for $20,400 Sold for $22,800
Moby Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville. Second edition in English of Galileo's Fine example of William Eddy’s important Official First American edition of one of the most Mathematical Discourses, 1730, in the original Map of the State of California, 1854, folding into important novels of the 19th century. boards, untrimmed and uncut, a fine, the original red leather covers, very rare. Sold for $12,000 fresh copy, likely the finest obtainable. Sold for $39,000 Sold for $19,200
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Page 135 Sale 506: Fine Literature, Illustrated & Children’s Books, Oz and Books in All Fields Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 11:00 am Pacific Time
The Marvelous Land of Oz, by L. Frank Baum. The second Oz book. First edition, first state, in the very rare first state red cloth binding. Estimate: $4,000/6,000
Rinkitink in Oz, by L. Frank Baum. First edition, first state, with the rare original color pictorial dust jacket. Estimate: $5,000/8,000
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