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TRAVEL & Exploration, CARTOGRAPHY & AMERICANA the LIBRARY of GLEN MCLAUGHLIN SALE 505 APRIL 25, 2013 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) Auction Preview Tuesday, April 23, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Wednesday, April 24, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Thursday, April 25, 9:00 am to 11:00 am Other showings by appointment 133 Kearny Street 4th Floor : San Francisco, CA 94108 phone : 415.989.2665 toll free : 1.866.999.7224 fax : 415.989.1664 [email protected] : www.pbagalleries.com REAL-TIME BIDDING AVAILABLE PBA Galleries features Real-Time Bidding for its live auctions. This feature allows Internet Users to bid on items instantaneously, as though they were in the room with the auctioneer. If it is an auction day, you may view the Real-Time Bidder at http://www.pbagalleries.com/realtimebidder/ . Instructions for its use can be found by following the link at the top of the Real-Time Bidder page. Please note: you will need to be logged in and have a credit card registered with PBA Galleries to access the Real-Time Bidder area. In addition, we continue to provide provisions for Absentee Bidding by email, fax, regular mail, and telephone prior to the auction, as well as live phone bidding during the auction. Please contact PBA Galleries for more information. IMAGES AT WWW.PBAGALLERIES.COM All the items in this catalogue are pictured in the online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries. com. Go to Live Auctions, click Browse Catalogues, then click on the link to the Sale. CONSIGN TO PBA GALLERIES PBA is always happy to discuss consignments of books, maps, photographs, graphics, autographs and related material. There is no charge for appraisals of items intended for auction, and we accept both individual items, as well as, entire collections and estates. Please contact Bruce MacMakin for more information at [email protected] BOOK APPRAISALS AT PBA GALLERIES PBA Galleries now holds regularly scheduled book appraisals at our Kearny Street Gallery.Save the first Tuesday of each month to bring your books, manuscripts, maps, photographs and prints to the PBA Galleries’ Appraisal Events. Though no appointment is necessary, please call to let us know if you will be attending. The verbal appraisals are free. Join us from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., at PBA Galleries, 133 Kearny St., Preview & Auction Gallery, Fourth Floor, San Francisco (between Post and Sutter Streets). GET ON THE PBA EMAIL MAILING LIST PBA Galleries sends out notices of our auctions, schedule updates, sale highlights and other information via email. To be placed on this mailing list, email us at [email protected] RECEIVE NOTIFICATION OF YOUR SPECIFIC WANTS At the PBA Galleries website, you can sign up for CATEGORY WATCH, and receive email notification when books or other items in your areas of interest are coming up for auction, or for individual titles or books by specific authors. Go to www.pbagalleries.com. PBA WILL PACK AND SHIP YOUR ITEMS TO YOU PBA Galleries has a full-service shipping department, and will pack and ship items to you that you purchase at auction upon payment. The preferred method of shipping is United Parcel Service, and added charges will apply for use of other services. NOTE: MOST LOTS OFFERED IN THIS SALE HAVE A MINIMUM RESERVE OF ONE HALF OF THE PRESALE LOW ESTIMATE. SOME LOTS HAVE HIGHER RESERVES, BUT ALWAYS BELOW THE LOW ESTIMATE. Administration Sharon Gee, President Shannon Kennedy, Vice President, Client Services Angela Jarosz, Administrative Assistant, Catalogue Layout Megan Hipsley, Inventory Manager Consignments, Appraisals & Cataloguing Bruce E. MacMakin, Senior Vice President George K. Fox, Vice President, Market Development & Senior Auctioneer Gregory Jung, Senior Specialist Erin Escobar, Specialist Photography & Design Justin Benttinen, Photographer System Administrator Thomas J. Rosqui Summer Auctions, 2013 May 9, 2013 - Fine Literature - Illustrated & Children’s Books - OZ - Books in All Fields May 30, 2013 - South Sea: The Library of Dr. Richard Topel, Part II June 13, 3013 - Rare Books & Manuscripts June 27, 2013 - Literature & Books in All Fields July 11, 2013 - Rare Americana July 25, 2013 - Important Manuscripts & Archives Schedule is subject to change. Please contact PBA or pbagalleries.com for further information. Consignments are being accepted for the 2013 Auction season. Please contact Bruce MacMakin at [email protected]. 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.
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