Western Americana

catalogue three hundred thirty-eight Western Americana

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(203) 789-8081 A Note This is our annual catalogue devoted to Western Americana, made up almost entirely of material new to stock in the last year. High points include a fine set of Prince Maximilian’s travels with the famed Karl Bodmer atlas; a set of the Lewis and Clark expedition narrative in the original boards; a great Texas and Civil War rarity, Noel’s Campaign from Santa Fe... (1865); and the equally rare Lamar’s Address...to the Citizens of Santa Fe... (1841). Other great rarities are one of the most difficulty Zamorano 80 titles, the narrative of the Portola expedition; Francis’ Sport Among the Rockies with forty-eight original photographs; the memoirs of the last French governor of Louisiana, Laussat; and Pat Garrett’s famous life of Billy the Kid. Important illustrated works by Adams, Kendall, Linforth, and Vischer are notable, as are some of the great rarities of overland travel, by Riley Root, Johnson and Winter, Redpath, and Wyeth. There is important Spanish Southwest material as well: Palou, Cortés, Espinsoa, and Venegas. There are also nice groups of material on the Gold Rush, a series of important Wagner-Camp overland items, and a variety of Western imprints, laws, and travels.

Available on request or via our website are our recent catalogues 332 French Americana, 333 Americana–Beginnings, 334 Recent Acquisitions in Americana, 336 What I Like About the South, and 337 The Federal Era; bulletins 42 Native Americans, 43 Cartography, and 44 Photography; e-lists (only available on our website) and many more topical lists. q

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On the cover: 2. Adams and Austin: Taos Pueblo. San Francisco. 1930. 1. [Abert, James W.]: REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, COMMUNICATING...A REPORT AND MAP OF THE EXAMI- NATION OF NEW MEXICO, MADE BY LIEUTENANT J.W. ABERT...[caption title]. Washington. 1848. 132pp. plus folding map and twenty-four lithographed plates. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Scattered light foxing, mostly in text, on first six plates, and map. Very good.

One of the great southwestern government-sponsored explorations, here in its earliest form, according to Wagner-Camp. The lithographed plates, attributed to Abert himself, include views of Santa Fe, Fort Marcy, San Felipe, the Pueblos, Indians, etc., and are among the most celebrated depictions of the region. The text describes Abert’s trip from Fort Leavenworth over the Santa Fe Trail via Bent’s Fort, his survey of the northern part of New Mexico, and return via the Trail. The map is the most detailed survey of New Mexico then extant. Also included are the numerals and vocabulary of the Cheyenne. “...A basic SFT document” – Rittenhouse. HOWES A11. FLAKE 726. RITTENHOUSE 2. GRAFF 5. WAGNER-CAMP 143. SABIN 57. STREETER SALE 168. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 532. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2. $2000.

Magnificent Photographs

2. Adams, Ansel E., and Mary H. Austin: TAOS PUEBLO. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. [6] preliminary pages followed by [14]pp. of text and twelve original mounted photographs, printed on Desson- ville paper by Ansel Adams, various sizes to 9 x 6½ inches, each with a corresponding caption leaf. Large folio. Publisher’s half tan morocco and cloth, spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers. Light spotting to covers, light wear. Very good. In a morocco box. See the cover of this catalogue for another illustration.

From an edition limited to 108 copies (this is copy number 92) signed by Mary Austin, containing magnificent photographs by Ansel Adams. Possibly the most famous of modern photographic works on the West, Taos Pueblo was a collaboration between the young photographer, Ansel Adams, and one of the most evocative writers on the Southwest, Mary Austin. An elegant design by the Grabhorn Press provides a counterpoint to Adams’ photographs of the adobe Pueblo. The book distilled the romance and naturalism that many Americans found in the Indian pueblos of New Mexico, and defined the style that was to make Adams the most popular photographer of the American West. “It was at Taos and Santa Fe that Ansel Adams first saw the Southwest. The time was the spring of 1927....His visit resulted in a Grabhorn Press book now of legendary rarity. It includes Ansel Adams’ photographs and Mary Austin’s essay on Taos Pueblo. Genius has never been more happily wed. Nowhere else did she write prose of such precise and poetical authority....Their Taos Pueblo is a true and beautiful book by two consummate artists” – Adams. Produced in a small edition, the book is difficult to obtain today. One of the greatest books produced by the Grabhorn Press and featuring beautiful photographs by Ansel Adams, it is a landmark of American photographic depiction of the Southwest. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY 137. ROTH, THE BOOK OF 101 BOOKS 58. Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest (1970), p. xxv. $60,000.

3. [Alaska]: [Goetze, Otto D.]: SOUVENIR OF NORTH WESTERN ALASKA. ILLUSTRATED BY O.D. GOETZE. [Grand Rapids, Mi. ca. 1904]. 96pp. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial wrappers, brown cloth backstrip. Minor wear, one text leaf with chip in bottom corner. Very good.

A rich photographic record of Nome, Alaska during its heyday as one of the last of the great Gold Rush destinations. The text is entirely composed of black-and-white photographic images of the Nome area, which began to lure gold seekers away from the Klondike beginning in 1899. The gold rush in Nome lasted about a decade. All of the photographs here are captioned in print, with some dated 1903 or 1904, boom years for Nome. The photographs were the work of Otto Daniel Goetze, a Missouri native who moved to Nome in 1900, where he established the Alaska Photo Company with his brother. As expected, many of the views here center around mining activities, with an almost equal number of images concerned with the indigenous population. Over twenty images feature Eskimo families and individuals ranging from the most primitive settings to a studio photograph of a young married couple attired in their finest native dress. Other photos show a panoramic view of Nome, street views of the town, the waterfront, steamers delivering passengers, native grave sites, Fort Davis and the U.S. post at St. Michael, Dutch Harbor, Whalen, Siberia, a bird’s- eye view of Dawson City, and much more. A scarce book, with only seventeen copies in OCLC. OCLC 12644061. $1350. An Early Arkansas Imprint

4. [Arkansas]: ACTS, PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE TERRITORY OF ARKANSAS, AT THE SESSION IN OC- TOBER, 1823. Little Rock: William E. Woodruff, 1824. 58,[2]pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Minor browning. Near fine.

One of the earliest Arkansas imprints and an important record of the territory’s early administration. Includes acts controlling taxes on military bounties and the suppression of liquor sales to soldiers. Printed by the official territorial printer, William E. Woodruff. Rare. OCLC locates fewer than ten copies. ALLEN 4. COLE, p.115. $1250.

5. [Arkansas]: ACTS PASSED AT THE THIRTEENTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ON MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, ONE THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIX- TY, AND ENDED ON MONDAY THE TWENTY-FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, ONE THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY- ONE. Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes, 1861. xiv,[1],472pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards. Old library stamps on titlepage, old tape repair in gutter, foxed. Good.

An account of the ordinances passed in the Arkansas General Assembly, which took place from November 1860 to January 1861, in the months during the beginning of secession. This session was the last before Arkansas itself convened to take up the issue. ALLEN 418. $900.

6. [Arkansas]: JOURNAL OF THE CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CAPITOL IN THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ON MONDAY, THE FOURTH DAY OF MARCH, ONE THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY ONE. Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes, 1861. 144pp. Half calf and marbled boards in antique style, leather label. Light soiling and foxing on titlepage, else internally clean. Very good.

An account of the proceedings at the first meeting of the Secession Convention held in Arkansas, in March 1861. At this initial assembly, the delegates actually voted to remain in the Union and to reconvene later in the year to take up the issue again, at which point they eventually did choose to secede. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2707. HARWELL 425. $2250. 7. [Arkansas]: NEW CONSTITUTION WITH THE ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, PASSED AT THE SESSION BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CAPI- TOL, IN THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ON MONDAY, THE 11th DAY OF APRIL, 1864, AND ENDED ON THURSDAY, THE 2d DAY OF JUNE, 1864; AND AT AN ADJOURNED SESSION, COMMENCING MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7th, 1864, AND END- ING ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 3d, 1865 – ALSO THE CALLED SESSION, COMMENCING ON MONDAY, THE 3d DAY OF APRIL, 1865, AND ENDING ON SATURDAY, THE 22d DAY OF APRIL 1865. Little Rock: Unconditional Union Print, 1865. 95pp. Half title. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Early ownership inscriptions on half title. Scattered light foxing, else internally clean. Very good.

A copy of the Arkansas constitution adopted and ratified in 1864 by the pro-Union government installed in Little Rock, operating under the supervision of federal troops. Written to abide by the demands of Reconstruction, the document rescinded secession and abolished slavery. Also includes the laws passed by this state government in several sessions during 1864 and 1865, instructions on the enforcement of United States stamp duties, and an index. ALLEN 466. $3000.

8. Armstrong, A.N.: OREGON: COMPRISING A BRIEF HISTORY AND FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE TERRITORIES OF OR- EGON AND WASHINGTON...INTERSPERSED WITH INCI- DENTS OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE. Chicago. 1857. 147pp. Original brown publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine ends neatly repaired. Corners bumped, extremities rubbed. Bookplates of Edward Ayer and Newberry Library (deaccessioned) on pastedowns. Light scattered foxing and faint dampstaining. About very good.

Armstrong served for three years as a government surveyor in the region. His extensive travels form the basis for his minute descriptions of the geography, Indian life, and prospects for the Territory. “An excellent account of Oregon” – Streeter. “Armstrong spent most of his time in Oregon west of the Cascade Mountains. Seven of his chapters are devoted to this area, with two chapters on the Willamette Valley alone. One chapter only is given to Eastern Chinook Jargon and the Nootka dialect” – Wagner-Camp. HOWES A318, “aa.” TWENEY 89, 3. GRAFF 87. WAGNER-CAMP 283a. STREET- ER SALE 3330. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 229. $850.

9. Bartlett, John R.: PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATIONS AND INCIDENTS IN TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, CALIFORNIA, SONORA AND CHIHUAHUA, CONNECTED WITH THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICAN BOUNDARY COMMISSION, DURING THE YEARS 1850, ’51, ’52, AND ’53. New York. 1854. Two volumes bound in one. [2],xxii,506pp. plus plates, folding map, and [6]pp. of advertisements; [2],xvii,[1],624pp. plus plates. Folding frontispiece in each volume. Later green cloth, spine gilt. Cloth lightly worn at spine ends and corners. Closed tear in folding map repaired by tape on verso, light offsetting from frontispieces onto titlepages, as usual. Light dampstain in lower margin of about half the text and plates. Withal, very good, with bookplate of historian and carto-bibliographer Carl Wheat on front pastedown.

First edition of this cornerstone work of southwestern travel and exploration. The expedition left Indianola in September 1850 and spent nearly three years travelling throughout the region in an effort to determine the border between the United States and Mexico, which had been left indefinite by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo after the Mexican-American War. The resultant work remains one of the most readable and accurate accounts of the American Southwest for the period, and the illustrations include some of the most competent depictions of the area. The large folding map shows the region in detail. Various bibliographies record different numbers of illustrations and plates for this edition, and there are also dif- ferences between the printed lists of illustrations included in the two volumes and the plates that were actually published. The wood-engravings and lithographs in this set match those in the two copies found at the Beinecke Library. “Bartlett’s Narrative is an essential book for the southwest...” – Graff. Bartlett later became the first librarian of the John Carter Brown Library. GRAFF 198. HOWES B201. FLAKE 325. WAGNER-CAMP 234:1. STREETER SALE 173. ABBEY 658. HILL 74. CLARK III:272. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 252. COWAN, p.36. RAINES, p.22. RADER 287. POWELL SOUTHWESTERN CENTURY 9. SABIN 3746. $1500.

The Upper Missouri Fur Trade

10. Boller, Henry A.: AMONG THE INDIANS. EIGHT YEARS IN THE FAR WEST: 1858 – 1866. EMBRACING SKETCHES OF MONTANA AND SALT LAKE. Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Zell, 1868. 428pp. plus folding map. Publisher’s red cloth, expertly rebacked to style. Very good.

Boller entered the fur trade on the Upper Missouri in 1858, in the service of the American Fur Company. Most of the book deals with his experiences with the Indians in Montana as a trader for the Company. His account is one of the most vivid and well-written narratives of the trade, and one of the few relating to the particular period it addresses. At the end of his sojourn in the West, Boller spent some time in Utah among the Mormons. Although this book bears an imprint of 1868, it was probably printed the year before, as Graff owned a copy that was inscribed on Oct. 31, 1867. Wheat describes the map as notable for the places located and described in the text. It shows Montana and the Dakotas, with parts of Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. FIELD 147. GRAFF 341. HOWES B579, “b.” SABIN 6221. STREETER SALE 3079. FLAKE 582. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 1180. $4500.

The Only Edition with a Map

11. Bradbury, John: TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF AMERICA, IN THE YEARS 1809, 1810, AND 1811; INCLUDING A DE- SCRIPTION OF UPPER LOUISIANA, TOGETHER WITH THE STATES OF OHIO, KENTUCKY, INDIANA, AND TENNESSEE, WITH THE ILLINOIS AND WESTERN TERRITORIES. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819. xiv,[17]-346pp. plus folding map. 19th- century half morocco and marbled boards. Very good. Untrimmed.

The second and “better edition” (Graff ) of Bradbury, the only edition to contain the map. Bradbury went up the Missouri River with Wilson Price Hunt’s party, stopping at the Mandan villages, and returned down river to St. Louis with H.Q. Brackenridge. The “Map of the United States of America; comprehending the Western Territory with the course of the Missouri. Engraved for Bradbury’s Travels” is an early depiction of the Midwest, after a map of Melish, according to Wagner- Camp. The appendix includes an account of the Stuart overland, with a reprint of the “American Enterprize” article about their expedition. In addition, there is an Osage vocabulary and considerable information on the Mississippi Valley. A basic work on the first probings up the Missouri. “Both the book (1819 ed.) and the map are very scarce” – Wagner-Camp. HOWES B695, “b.” GRAFF 384. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 434. SABIN 7207. STREETER SALE 1780. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 331. WAGNER-CAMP- BECKER 14:2. WAGNER-CAMP (3rd ed) 14. AYER SUPPLEMENT 23. $5800.

Stirring Fears of Russian Invasions of California

12. Bringas de Manzaneda y Encinas, Diego Miguel: SERMON PO- LITICO-MORAL QUE PARA DAR PRINCIPIO A LA MISION EXTRAORDINARIA, FORMADA DE VENERABLES SACER- DOTES DE AMBOS CLEROS, DIRIGIDA A LA CONCORDIA Y UNION DE LOS HABITANTES DE ESTA AMERICA.... Mexico: Juan Bautista de Arizpe, 1813. 44pp. Original plain wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled and worn. A few fox marks, else very clean and fresh internally. Very good.

Scarce political sermon by the noted Franciscan loyalist preacher, Father Bringas, who was field chaplain to the Viceroy of New Spain, Gen. Felix Calleja, and a vocal opponent of the Mexican revolutionaries. In this work he predicts that without Spanish rule Mexico will be invaded by the United States, Russia, and England. Among his fears are that Russia would capture the Pacific Coast from Upper Cali- fornia to Nootka, and that the United States would invade Florida. Bringas cites legal, religious, economic, political, and cultural arguments against independence. “Father Bringas...a native of Alamos in Sonora, was the most noted preacher in Mexico during the period....He was a very violent realista and published a number of pamphlets during the early days of the revolution, full of violent attacks on the revolutionists” – Wagner. SABIN 7988. MEDINA 10856. PALAU 35865. SPANISH SOUTHWEST 174A (note). $900.

The Seat of War in Mexico

13. [Bruff, J.G.]: A CORRECT MAP OF THE SEAT OF WAR IN MEXICO. BEING A COPY OF GEN’L ARISTA’S MAP, TAKEN AT RESACA DE LA PALMA WITH ADDITIONS AND COR- RECTIONS.... New York: J. Disturnell, 1847. Folding map, 29½ x 24 inches. In a 12mo. contemporary cloth folder, gilt-stamped front board. Boards with minor soiling. Ownership inscription at verso of left margin and on rear pastedown. Several separations along folds, some discoloration where tipped into covers. Printed color bright and clean. Good plus.

Third issue, after the first of the same year, with the inset of “Heights of Towns and Mountains.” An engaging map of the second year of the war in Mexico, designed by J.G. Bruff. The map shows the territory south of the Rio Grande to Vera Cruz, with inserts of Tampico, Monterey, the Gulf of Vera Cruz, and the battlegrounds of Palo Alto. The inset description of the battles of Palo Alto and Monterey illustrates the southward progress and success of the American army. Disturnell’s map proved so popular that three separate issues were produced in 1847. The present map builds on the standard established by S. Augustus Mitchell and his celebrated “seat of war” maps of the previous year. An important installment in the parade of Mexican-American War cartography, which culminated in Disturnell’s controversial treaty map of 1851. Scarce. PHILLIPS, MAPS, p.410. GARRETT, p.413. $3750.

14. [California]: [Lang, Herbert O., compiler]: A HISTORY OF TU- OLUMNE COUNTY CALIFORNIA. COMPILED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC RECORDS. San Francisco: B.F. Alley, 1882. xi, 509,48pp. plus woodcut frontispiece and eleven other woodcut portraits. Later half calf and contemporary sheep, gilt morocco label, edges sprinkled brown. Hinges cracked, bottom of joints starting, corners and edges worn. Ownership inscription on front endpaper recto, scattered manuscript notations in pencil (several on portraits). Final contents page tipped in. Initial leaves moderately dampstained, else clean. Good.

A rare history of Tuolumne County, California, covering a variety of topics. It recounts the foundation of its towns by miners arriving from the East in the summer of 1848 at the beginning of the California Gold Rush, and contains a chronology of important events and a section of biographies for significant county figures. The volume also provides lurid accounts of various crimes committed, including lynch- ings, robberies, and murders, as well as natural disasters and mining accidents. A significant portion of the book is dedicated to the county’s mining history and its geology, as well as the promotion of its agricultural resources. Includes a portrait and brief biography of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), who spent time around the mines in California as a reporter during the Civil War, and apparently stayed in Tuolumne County during the winter of 1864-65, where he wrote “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” “One of the rarest of all California histories... with only a few copies in existence” – Norris. HOWES L71, “b.” COWAN II, p. 646. CALIFORNIA LOCAL HISTORY 15345. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 2248. NORRIS CATALOGUE 3968. $1750.

An English Satire on the California Gold Rush

15. [California Gold Rush]: MINING & MINERS, AND DIGGERS & PRIGGERS. By a Shareholder. London: W. Kent & Co., 1854. 28pp. plus errata slip and fifteen lithographed plates. Original lithographed wrappers, brown cloth backstrip. Light dust soiling, small paper abrasion on front cover. Small ink ownership stamp on first page of text. Very good plus. In red half morocco chemise and slipcase.

An extraordinarily rare and amusing British satire on the pitfalls of the California Gold Rush. “The author lampoons gold companies, like the delightful ‘Great Doo and Diddle Gold, Silver, Copper, and Brass, Smash, Dash and Crash Company,’ and comments on the feverish effect of the word ‘gold’ on people’s imagination. ‘Prigger’ is defined as a thief. ‘Tom Tiddler’ can be translated as any place where pick- ings may be sought or had without effective interference” – Howell. “This satirical piece is based on the experience of the English who invested in California and Australian mines....The company’s holdings were located in the ‘Moschetto and Torpedo Districts’ of California” – Kurutz. The Daniel G. Volkmann, Jr. copy, with his bookplate on the chemise, sold at Dorothy Sloan in 2005 for $7475. HOWELL 50 CALIFORNIA 648 (this copy). KURUTZ 445 (locating only three copies). FERGUSON 15601. SLOAN A15:187. $10,000.

Scarce Early Guide to Modern Mining Methods in California

16. [California Gold Rush]: THE MINERS’ OWN BOOK, CONTAIN- ING CORRECT ILLUSTRATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE VARIOUS MODES OF CALIFORNIA MINING, INCLUD- ING ALL THE IMPROVEMENTS INTRODUCED FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS TO THE PRESENT TIME. San Francisco: Hutch- ings & Rosenfield, 1858. 32pp. Woodcut illustrations after C. Nahl and others. Publisher’s pictorial brown wrappers. Expert paper restoration along spine. Period ink bookseller’s stamp on title (Carswell’s News Depot, Sacramento). Very good.

The publishers write in the prefatory note that they intended to inform the public on “the various modes that have been adopted to extract the precious metal from the earth...by rendering familiar, though correct views and descriptions, everything connected with the immense mining operation of the State. We believe it is the first book of the kind ever published.” The illustrations, many of which appeared in Hutchings Magazine, are as instructive as the text, and though many are signed by celebrated California artist Charles Christian Nahl, artists Harrison Eastman and Warren C. Butler also contributed. Scarce, with only two other examples at auction in the last thirty-five years. COWAN II, p.431. GRAFF 2813. HOWES M639. KURUTZ 444a. STREETER SALE 2839. EBERSTADT 168:121. GREENWOOD 967. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 141. $6750.

17. [California Laws]: THE STATUTES OF CALIFORNIA, PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE...1851, AT THE CITY OF SAN JOSE. [with:] THE STATUTES OF CAL- IFORNIA, PASSED AT THE THIRD SESSION OF THE LEG- ISLATURE...1852, AT THE CITIES OF VALLEJO AND SAC- RAMENTO. [San Jose] & San Francisco. 1851, 1852. 558; 314pp. with three-page errata bound into the first volume. Modern buckram, gilt leather labels. Minor shelf wear and soiling, slight chipping to labels. Faint ink library stamps and embossed blindstamps on titlepages, a few signatures tanned in first volume, occasional contemporary ink marginalia in second volume, minor foxing. Very good.

Two of the earliest imprints in the state of California, and two of the first three publications of laws printed in the state, constituting the laws for the second and third sessions of the California legislature. The first Statutes of 1850 was actually printed in New York, and the 1851 Statutes is one of two printings in that year, with an edition also printed in San Francisco. The laws instituted here are commensu- rate with those of a fledgling state, with additional provisions covering mining, as California was in the grips of the Gold Rush at this time. “The second Statutes is as rare as the first which was published in San Jose [actually New York], 1850” – Decker. Rare, with only two and three copies in OCLC, respectively. DECKER 50:62. CLIFFORD 12a, 12b. MIDLAND NOTES 59:98. OCLC 77805265, 65114630, 166509049. $900.

18. [California Photographica]: [ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS DE- PICTING A JOURNEY BY RAIL FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO THE GRAND CANYON]. [Various places in California & Arizona]. [ca. 1910]. Twenty-two leaves containing 171 silver gelatin photographs, each 3 x 4 inches. Oblong quarto. Original black pebbled leather, cover gilt. Front hinge cracked, spine loosening, edges worn. Images clean, with varying degrees of sharpness. Some light silver mirroring to some images. Very good.

A vernacular photograph album documenting a journey from San Francisco to the Grand Canyon by way of Santa Barbara and Death Valley. The first five images show the Grand Canyon before resuming chronological sequence. Images of San Francisco include several shots of the Sing Chong Chinese Bazaar, as well as a nice photo of Golden Gate Park and its windmills. The next series shows a looming mountain peak and railroad tracks, likely en route to Santa Barbara, the next distinctive location in the album. There is a nice photo of the train rounding a bend in the tracks, obviously taken while hanging out the window of a rear car. Scenes along the route include what may be a logging camp, and rural and small town scenes along the Pacific Coast that echo a drive down today’s Coastal Highway. Numerous images are then devoted to Santa Bar- bara, particularly the mission there. One photo shows a friar standing along a colonnade, staring pensively into the distance. Several images that follow show carts pulled by horses or oxen. One wagon, piled high with lumber, is pulled by four teams of oxen while a Mexican-American man trudges beside it. There are shots of the big redwood trees and an image of oil derricks. The group stopped next at Mission San Gabriel, photographing its famous bells. The next stop is at an estate – possibly that of Henry E. Huntington, which was designed in 1911 and built over the next few years. There are two images of what appears to be the Barstow train station. On the same page is a photograph of a wagon that says “From Death Valley” on its side, and an intriguing image of several Mexican-Americans – several men stand next to a structure on the far side of the train tracks, while three women in the foreground, one carrying a basket on her head, walk toward the men. The series closes with a handful of images of Hopi houses in Arizona, followed by photographs of the Grand Canyon. In all, a charming and interesting vernacular album of Southern California. $1500.

Scarce California Letter Sheet

19. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: MINERS WEIGHING THEIR GOLD [upper caption title] THE DREAM OF A PROSPECTING MINER [lower caption title]. San Francisco: Lith. & published by Quirot & Co., [n.d., 1850s]. Pictorial letter sheet, 10¾ x 8¼ inches, on blue paper. With the blank conjugate leaf attached. Some edge wear, including small tears, as well as light wrinkling. A few old ink smudges on the conjugate leaf. Very good.

An evocative and relatively scarce California pictorial letter sheet, giving two views of life in the gold diggings. The upper illustration shows three miners seated around a table made of wooden planks supported by tree branches. The miner in the center is weighing gold on a scale over a pan. The miners who flank him are both armed, one with a knife and the other with a pistol. Another pistol, as well as a rifle, lies on the table. The table also holds bottles, plates, a pair of horseshoes, and a large loaf of bread, which from its well-developed crumb structure appears to be a loaf of sourdough. The lower illustration shows the same miner who was weighing his gold laid out asleep under a tree near a fire. Beside him are guns, a powder horn, a knife, and a satchel, and a large bag (filled with gold?) rests under his right elbow. The three dream bubbles above him show scenes of a miner prospecting and a ship being loaded with heavy bags. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 170. CLIFFORD LET- TER SHEET COLLECTION 190. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, p.76 & plate 33 (the Britton & Rey version). $1500.

Vigilance Committee Letter Sheet

20. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: THE FIRST TRIAL & EXECU- TION IN S. FRANCISCO ON THE NIGHT OF 10th OF JUNE AT 2 O’CLOCK...[caption title]. San Francisco: Lith. & Publ. by Justh, Quirot & Co., [1851]. Pictorial letter sheet, 8¼ x 10¾ inches, on white wove paper. Old folds. Small closed tear along one fold in lower margin, with no loss. Four small holes at cross-folds. Very good.

A striking and rare California pictorial letter sheet, depicting the first act of violence of the Vigilance Committee – the execution of the “Sydney Duck,” John Jenkins. The so-called Sydney Ducks were a gang of Australian convicts who committed a number of arsons and robberies in San Francisco. Their activities, and the seeming inability of the legal authorities to stop them, were among the factors leading to the establishment of the first Vigilance Committee on June 9, 1851. The remainder of the printed caption tells the story:

John Jenkins, a Sidney [sic] man entered the store of Mr. V on long Wharf in the evening of 10th of June & carried off a sale. After he was captured he was brought to the corner of Sansome & Bush Sts. where he was tried by a jury of the highest respectability, and condemned to be hung. The execution took place on the Plaza on the same night at 2 o’clock. Immediately after sentence of death was passed upon him, he was asked if he had anything to say. He replied: No, I have nothing to say, only I should wish to have a cigar & brandy & water, which was given him.

This moody lithographic illustration is done in an almost impressionistic style, with dark clouds obscuring the moonlit night, crowds of shadowy, cheering on-lookers, and Jenkins’ body hanging from a rafter that forms part of a large cross at one end of the Custom House. “No series of events attracted greater attention than the workings of the 1851 and 1856 vigilance committees” – Kurutz (in the introduction to the Clifford Collection). This letter sheet was produced by Justh, Quirot & Co., one of the first and most important lithographic firms in San Francisco. It was printed on blue wove, gray wove, and white wove paper. The present example, printed on white wove paper, is the rarest of the three, with Baird locating only one copy, in a private collection. A vivid depiction of violence and justice on the Barbary Coast. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 79. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 73. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, pp.133, plate 66. $1250.

Vigilance Committee at Work

21. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: TREMENDOUS EXCITEMENT! SAMUEL WHITTAKER AND ROBERT McKENZIE RESCUED FROM THE AUTHORITIES, AND HUNG BY THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE, ON SUNDAY AUGUST 24th AT 3 O’CLOCK P.M. IN THE PRESENCE OF FIFTEEN THOUSAND PEOPLE [caption title]. San Francisco: Lith. & Publ. by Justh, Quirot & Co., [1851]. Pictorial letter sheet, 8¾ x 10¾ inches, on blue wove paper. With blank conjugate leaf still attached. A bit of light wrinkling. Near fine.

A scarce California pictorial letter sheet depicting an act of violence by the first Vigilance Committee: the execution of two “Sydney Ducks,” Samuel Whittaker and Robert McKenzie. The so-called Sydney Ducks were a gang of Australian convicts who committed a number of arsons and robberies in San Francisco. Their activities, and the seeming inability of the legal authorities to stop them, were among the factors leading to the establishment of the first Vigilance Committee in 1851. Whittaker and McKenzie were arrested in Sacramento by Committee members on Aug. 20, tried, and sentenced to hang in San Francisco, where they were soon transported. On the 23rd the San Francisco sheriff and mayor rescued the condemned men from the Committee’s headquarters and put them in jail. On Aug. 24 the Vigilance Committee broke into the jail and recaptured the prisoners, taking them to the Committee headquarters, where they were hanged. McKenzie and Whittaker are shown in this lithograph hanging from the second floor of a commercial building, which also housed the headquarters of the Vigilance Com- mittee. A large crowd is gathered in the street to take in the grisly event, which drew masses of spectators. Telegraph Hill, where many of the Sydney Ducks lived, is seen in the far right background. “No series of events attracted greater attention than the workings of the 1851 and 1856 vigilance committees” – Kurutz (in the introduction to the Clifford Collection). This copy differs from the one described by Baird in that the word “hung” (rather than “hanged”) appears in the title, leading us to believe that it is an early issue, produced before the mistake was corrected. Peters locates a copy with “hung” in the title at the California Historical Society (which contains a manuscript letter dated Aug. 30, 1851). This letter sheet was produced by Justh, Quirot & Co., one of the first and most important lithographic firms in San Francisco. Rare, and an important visual component of the rough early history of San Francisco. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 274 (later issue). CLIF- FORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 283. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, pp.134-36. $1500.

22. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: SUNDRY AMUSEMENTS IN THE MINES [caption title]. San Francisco: Lith. & Published by Quirot & Co., [ca. 1851-1853]. Pictorial letter sheet on grey paper, 8¼ x 10¾ inches. With blank conjugate leaf attached. Minor edge and corner wear. Manuscript numbering in upper right. Rear blank leaf with minor soiling, dampstaining in lower right of both leaves, slightly affecting image. About very good.

A pictorial letter sheet presenting a sardonic view of the diversions available to miners in California, depicted in four woodcut vignettes, each showing two men engaged in various activities. The first image, “A Sundays Amusements,” shows the two miners washing their clothes in a stream and hanging them in a nearby tree; in the second, “A Daily Pleasure,” the scowling men cook dinner in a log cabin while a dog looks on; the third piece, “Occupation for Rainy Days,” depicts the disheveled figures in their tent as they set about repairing boots and pants; in the final vignette, “A Pleasant Surprise,” the two miners open the flaps of their tent to discover a bear inside, warming its paws at their fire. The letter is undated, but the lithographer, C. Quirot, operated his own print shop under the name of Quirot & Co. in San Francisco from 1851 to 1853. Lithographers Britton & Rey took over Quirot’s press, and reused several of his stones, including this one, but this is the first edition. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 268. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 276. PALMQUIST, PIONEER PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE FAR WEST, p.451. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, p.78, plate 39 (ref ). $1500.

Burning Down the House

23. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: VIEW OF THE CONFLAGRA- TION OF MARYSVILLE ON THE NIGHT OF AUGUST 30th 1851. THREE ENTIRE SQUARES CONSUMED – LOSS ESTI- MATED $500,000 [caption title]. Marysville, Ca.: Published by R.A. Eddy, [before April 24, 1852]. Pictorial letter sheet, 8¾ x 10¾ inches, on blue paper. Light edge wear, with two small chips in the left edge. Near fine.

A striking view of the terrible fire that devastated Marysville, California in late summer, 1851. Fires ransacked many California cities in the 1850s. Marysville was only founded in 1850, but grew quickly as a town on the way to the northern gold fields from San Francisco and Sacramento. The fire that struck on Aug. 30, 1851 destroyed most of the wooden structures in the town. The image shows Marysville engulfed in flames that shoot up at menacing angles, and dark plumes of smoke swirl through the sky. The foreground shows dozens of people watching helplessly, and depicts the formation of a bucket brigade. According to Baird, this letter sheet was produced before April 24, 1852 and is a reworking of the view of Marysville from two sheets published by Marysville bookseller R.A. Eddy in 1851 (see Baird 280 and 280a). The lithograph was produced by the San Francisco firm of Justh, Quirot & Company, who also produced other letter sheets and maps for Eddy. Baird located only four copies of this scarce and compelling image. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 289. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 297. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, p.137. $1500.

24. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: JACKSON, AMADOR CO. [caption title]. San Francisco: From nature & on stone by Kuchel & Dresel, printed by Britton & Rey, [ca. 1854]. Pictorial letter sheet, 9 x 11¼ inches, on blue paper. With the blank conjugate leaf attached. Light wear at edges and corners. Very good.

A very nice grouping of California mining town views, showing the growing town of Jackson and the nearby camps of Butte City and The Gate. The view of Jackson takes up the upper half of the sheet and shows the town of one- and two-story wooden buildings spread across the hills. Due to its central location Jackson was an important crossroads in the mother lode region, and nearby mines produced great wealth in gold. The communities of Butte City and The Gate, pictured below Jackson on the sheet, are much more modest, each made up of just a dozen or so simple buildings or tents. This letter sheet bears an uncommon joint imprint: the illustrations were lithographed by Kuchel & Dresel, and printed by Britton & Rey. The address given for the former is 146 Clay Street, where the firm was located between 1853 and 1855. Jackson was transferred from Calaveras to Amador County in 1854, an event that likely prompted this letter sheet, hence our dating of it. The two earliest views of Jackson noted by Reps are from 1857, and both were printed by Britton & Rey, with one of them drawn by Kuchel & Dresel. Reps does not list any views of Butte City or The Gate, which was originally called “Gate of 1849.” Close examination shows that the name “The Gate” has been altered on the lithographic stone that produced this image. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 118. CLIFFORD LET- TER SHEET COLLECTION 127. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, p.146. REPS, VIEWS & VIEWMAKERS OF URBAN AMERICA 114, 115 (ref ). $1500.

Third and Best Edition

25. Carver, Jonathan: TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF NORTH AMERICA, IN THE YEARS 1766, 1767, AND 1768.... London. 1781. [4],22,[22],543,[1],[20]pp. plus frontispiece portrait, five plates (four colored), and two partially colored folding maps. Contemporary tree calf, gilt leather label, expertly rebacked with original spine laid down, corners renewed. Early 19th-century ownership signature on front free endpaper, light foxing. Very good.

A classic of American travel, in the third and best edition, with expanded text, a biographical sketch of the author, an index, and the added plate of the tobacco plant not found in the first two editions. Carver travelled farther west than any Englishman before the Revo- lution, going as far as the Dakotas, exploring the headwaters of the Mississippi and passing over the Great Lakes. The text contains the first published mention of the word “Oregon.” The author comments on the Indians he encountered, as well as offering observations on natural history. The tobacco plant plate is handsomely colored. An important source book and stimulus for later explorers, especially Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark. This is the second issue, according to Howes, with the index. HOWES C215, “b.” FIELD 251. SABIN 11184. VAIL 670. GREENLY, MICHIGAN 21. $5000.

First Edition of Catlin’s Classic

26. Catlin, George: LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.... London. 1841. Two volumes. viii,264; viii,266pp., plus errata slip, three maps, and hundreds of plates. Original green cloth, original paper labels. Minor edge wear, spine ends a bit frayed. Adhesive remnants on front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good.

One of the most important works on American Indians published in the 19th century. Besides the description of Catlin’s travels throughout the West, the book contains hundreds of line drawings of southern and western Indians, including plate 113/114 (often lacking), as well as two significant maps showing the locations of Indian tribes. Catlin first went west in 1830, travelling extensively for the next six years accumulating his “Indian Gallery.” Letters and Notes... was published when he brought the exhibition to London. WAGNER-CAMP 84:1. HOWES C241. STREETER SALE 1805. WHEAT TRANS- MISSISSIPPI 453, 454, 455. CLARK III:141. $4500.

27. Catlin, George: JOC-O-SOT, THE WALKING BEAR, A SAUK CHIEF FROM THE UPPER MISSOURI. London. 1844. Lithograph, colored in aquatint. Large folio. Slight discoloration, else a very nice copy.

This portrait is one of the extra, unnumbered plates from Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio. A striking portrait of a standing chief holding a spear. WAGNER-CAMP 105a. $2500.

28. Catlin, George: THE BEAR DANCE [Plate 18]. London: Chatto & Windus, [n.d., but 1875]. Handcolored lithograph, printed by Day & Haghe, on later card mount. Very good.

A fine image from Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, one of the most important accounts of Native American life.

All the world have heard of the bear-dance....The Sioux...all like the fine pleasure of a bear hunt, and also a participation in the bear dance, which is given several days in succession, previous to their starting out, and in which they all join in a song to the Bear Spirit; which they think holds somewhere an invisible existence, and must be consulted and conciliated before they can enter upon their excursion with any prospect of success.

Catlin summarized the Native American as “an honest, hospitable, faithful, brave, warlike, cruel, revengeful, relentless, – yet honourable, contemplative and religious being.” In a famous passage from the preface of his North American Indian Portfolio, Catlin describes how the sight of several tribal chiefs in Philadelphia led to his resolution to record their way of life: “the history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy of the lifetime of one man, and nothing short of the loss of my life shall prevent me from visiting their country and becoming their historian.” He saw no future for either their way of life or their very existence, and with these thoughts always at the back of his mind he worked against time, setting himself a truly punishing schedule, to record what he saw. From 1832 to 1837 he spent the summer months sketching the tribes, then finished his pictures in oils during the winter. The record he left is unique, both in its breadth and in the sympathetic understanding that his images constantly demonstrate. A selection of the greatest of images from this record were published in the North American Indian Portfolio in an effort to reach as wide an audience as possible. The present image is one of the results of this publishing venture and is both a work of art of the highest quality and a fitting memorial to a vanished way of life. William S. Reese, “The Production of Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, 1844- 1876.” $5500.

A Remarkable Early California Cattle Brand Book

29. [Cattle Brand Book]: [California]: [MANUSCRIPT CATTLE BRAND REGISTRATIONS FROM BAJA CALIFORNIA]. [Baja California]. 1862-1867. 60 leaves. Stitched folio and quarto manuscript leaves. Some edges chipped and worn, with minor text loss. Light dampstaining and foxing. Good. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

A collection of fifty three manuscript registrations of cattle brand designs for ranches in the Frontera Norte region of Baja California, south of the United States. Each contains a large pen drawing of the design to be registered and the name of the rancher to whom it would belong, and signed by the regional president, Ceclio Zerega from 1862 to 1866 and Luis Sosa in 1867. This manuscript brand book predates any printed brand books in the American West, and strikingly demonstrates the importance of the branding system to western ranching in the mid-19th century. $11,000.

30. [Cherokee Laws]: LAWS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS OF THE CHEROKEE NATION, ENACTED DURING THE REGULAR AND SPECIAL SESSIONS OF THE YEARS 1881-2-3. PUB- LISHED BY AUTHORITY OF AN ACT OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL. Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation: E.C. Boudinot, Jr. 1884. 176pp. Antique-style half calf. Small ink stamp and some ink scribblings on titlepage, same ink stamp on first page of text; small ink stain on first two leaves. Very good.

A collection of Cherokee laws covering 1881-83. “Acts and resolutions, some abbreviated and others of a temporary nature probably omitted, of the regular session of November and the extra session of December 1881, the regular session of November and the extra session of December 1882, and the extra session of May and the regular session of November 1883. The volume was printed at the Advocate office” – Hargrett. HARGRETT, OKLAHOMA IMPRINTS 526. HARGRETT, CONSTITUTIONS AND LAWS OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 47. HARGRETT-GILCREASE, p.68. FOREMAN, p.38. $1250.

Missouri Civil War Newspaper

31. [Civil War]: [Missouri Newspaper]: DER LUTHERANER. GOTTES WORT UND LUTHERS LEHR VERGEHET NUN UND NIM- MERMEHR [Vols. 16-19]. St. Louis: Wiebusch und Sohn, 1860-1863. Four volumes bound in one. [2],208; 200 (of 208); [4],208 (lacks pp.137-144); [2],200pp. Vol. 17 lacks issue 26. Vol. 18 lacks issue 18. Folio. Half morocco and marbled boards. Spine and corners heavily worn, front cover detached. Titlepage of first volume torn; second and third leaves heavily torn with some minor loss. Light to moderate foxing and wear. Else good.

Lutheran German-language newspaper founded in 1844 by Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther (1811-87). The paper and its founder were key components in introduc- ing the idea of an umbrella church for Lutherans in America and the Midwest, founding in 1847 the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. In the 1840s and ’50s Germans were the largest immigrant group in America, settling heavily in the Midwest. $1000.

In Original Wrappers

32. Clarke, Asa B.: TRAVELS IN MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA.... Bos- ton. 1852. 138pp. Original printed wrappers. Small stain in lower right corner of first half of text leaves, else a fine, bright copy. In a half morocco box.

Asa Clarke left New York as a member of the Hampden Mining Company in late January 1849. He travelled to the mines of California from Camargo, Mexico, through Chihuahua and Sonora to the Gila River in Arizona (then the U.S.- Mexican boundary), arriving in Los Angeles on July 9. Clarke’s narrative provides the first printed description of that route. He spent that winter at Marysville and Sacramento, and along the Yuba River. Streeter characterizes this narrative as “one of the most interesting [overlands]....This route had not previously been described.” HOWES C451, “b.” SABIN 13393. MINTZ 534. COWAN, p.128. GRAFF 746. STREETER SALE 3169. WAGNER-CAMP 210. KURUTZ 138. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 41. HILL 302. JONES 1275. $2000.

33. [Colorado Territory]: [LAWS OF THE TERRITORY OF COLO- RADO, 1861 – 1876]. Denver & Central City. 1861-76. Twelve works bound in nine volumes. Uniform 20th-century buckram, gilt leather labels. Wear to bindings. Ink library stamp on each titlepage, embossed blindstamp on all but one titlepage, some titlepages with ink manuscript ownership notations. Scattered foxing, some tanning. A good set.

A rare complete set of Colorado territorial laws, published between 1861 and 1876. The set comprises the session laws for the eleven sessions of the legislative assembly of Colorado Territory, plus the first edition of the 1876 Constitution of the State of Colorado, published just before Colorado officially became the thirty-eighth state in August 1876. Ten of the twelve works are titled General Laws...of the Territory of Colorado. The other two works are Private Acts, Joint Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the 7th Session of the Legislative Assembly of Colorado Territory and the afore- mentioned 1876 Constitution, which are bound together. These represent all of the session laws for Colorado Territory plus the constitution of the newly formed state. Interestingly, the first volume includes the Organic Act, organizing the territory, which laid out an area identical to that of the present-day state of Colorado. It also enumerates laws governing Indians, the militia, cattlemen, the education system, and much more. This is easily the most extensive run of Colorado territorial laws we have encountered in over forty years in business. McMURTRIE (COLORADO) 26, 33, 45, 54, 68, 80, 96, 116, 149, 202, 273, 289. $5000.

Organizing a New Indian Territory

34. Copway, George: ORGANIZATION OF A NEW INDIAN TERRI- TORY, EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER. ARGUMENTS AND REASONS SUBMITTED TO THE HONORABLE THE MEM- BERS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 31st CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. By the In- dian Chief Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bouh. New York: S.W. Benedict, 1850. 32pp. Modern plain wrappers. Ink spot through first four leaves, including titlepage. Light foxing and dust soiling. About very good.

The half-breed Ojibway chief proposes most of the area of Iowa and some of southern Minnesota as an Indian territory for the northern tribes of the United States, along with some remarks on Indian-White relations. Copway enumerates the many and varied problems facing the Indian populations, including the introduction of liquor and deadly diseases, a lack of education, the insistent work of Christian missionar- ies, and their location in front of a wave of American migration, then presses for the rights and sovereignty of Indian nations. With a copy of his unpassed “Bill to Provide for the Organization of an Indian Territory East of the Missouri River” as well as transcriptions of letters supporting Copway’s plan. HOWES C771. FIELD 367. SABIN 16719. $1250. A Cornerstone of the Spanish Colonial Conquest of Mexico and the Early Exploration of Southern California

35. Cortés, Hernan, and Francesco Antonio Lorenzana: HISTORIA DEL NUEVA-ESPAÑA, ESCRITA POR SU ESCALARECIDO CON- QUISTADOR HERNAN CORTES. Mexico: Imprenta del Superior Go- bierno, del Br. D. Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1770. [21],xvi,400,[18]pp. Title printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece bound following the title- leaf, two engraved folding maps, thirty-three engraved plates (one folding), plus engraved title vignette and engraved initial on the dedication leaf. Folio. Contemporary vellum, gilt label, edges painted red. Corners slightly bumped, bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean. Near fine.

First edition of this “important and highly esteemed work” (Sabin), containing the celebrated letters of Hernando Cortés to the Emperor Charles V, illustrated with important engravings and two influential maps. Father Lorenzana, the Archbishop of Mexico from 1766 to 1772, here publishes three of Cortés’ letters to Emperor Charles V, with numerous annotations which provide reliable information on the early civilization of Mexico and its conquest. Besides the allegorical frontispiece showing Cortés presenting the world to the Emperor, the plates include a depiction of the Mexican calendar, a folding view of the great temple of Mexico, and thirty-one plates depicting an Aztec codex representing the tributes paid by the different towns in Mexico. A general map of Mexico by José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez shows Cortés’ route. The second map is an important depiction of the northern Pacific coast of Mexico, the Baja peninsula, and southern California, after Domingo del Castillo, being the first map to establish definitively that California was in fact a peninsula and not an island. “Pages 322-328 contain an account of the voyage of Cortes to the peninsula of California and notices of later expeditions to 1769. The map of Castillo was inserted to illustrate this account, which Lorenzana states was copied from the original in the Archives of the Marquesado, that is, of the Cortes family. Since that time the original has never appeared, so we are still at a loss to know whether Castillo or Lorenzana put the name ‘California’ on the map” – Wagner. WAGNER, SPANISH SOUTHWEST 152. SABIN 42065. PALAU 63204. MEDINA V:5380. $15,000.

With Lewis and Clark Material

36. [Cramer, Zadok, publisher]: THE NAVIGATOR: CONTAINING DIRECTIONS FOR NAVIGATING THE MONONGAHELA, ALLEGHANY [sic], OHIO, AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS...TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING AN AC- COUNT OF LOUISIANA, AND OF THE MISSOURI AND CO- LUMBIA RIVERS, AS DISCOVERED BY THE VOYAGE UN- DER CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK. Pittsburgh. 1808. [2],156pp. including twenty-eight full-page maps. 12mo. Original half deerskin and plain boards. Boards quite heavily worn, much of the paper stripped. Text tanned and stained, with an occasional fox mark. Several leaves with tears at edges, some affecting the text. Portion at bottom of leaf G (containing pp.77-78) torn away, costing a bit of the map on recto and a couple lines of text on verso. Overall, still in good, unsophisticated condition. In a half morocco box.

This copy bears a contemporary manuscript note on the front free endpaper: “Jona- than Bacon’s book bought at Pitsburgh [sic] May 1809 price $1.00.” There is also at least one instance of contemporary manuscript notes in the text. Styled the “Sixth edition – improved and enlarged” on the titlepage, but actually only the fourth known edition, after those of 1802, 1804, and 1806. The first two editions have been found in only a few copies. Cramer’s work is the first navigational guide for the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, which were vitally important commercial arteries at the time. The present edition is the first to contain material regarding the Lewis and Clark expedition, found on the final ten pages of text. The Lewis and Clark material is taken from Patrick Gass’ journal, which was also printed by Zadok Cramer in Pittsburgh the previous year. Also included are twenty-eight woodcut maps of various sections of the rivers described. A vitally important work in helping to develop the commerce of the early United States, with a very early account of Lewis and Clark’s discoveries. HOWES C855, “aa.” SABIN 17385. LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION, pp.89-94. STREETER SALE 992. $17,500. 37. [Creek Laws]: CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE MUSK- OGEE NATION. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE NA- TIONAL COUNCIL. Saint Louis. 1880. 142pp. Quarter morocco and marbled boards, leather label. Old ink library stamp on titlepage, short closed marginal tear to top edge of several leaves. Very good.

A quite rare compilation of Creek tribal law, of which only 250 copies were printed. Includes the constitution, civil and criminal codes of 1867 with amendments, compiled statutes, U.S. laws affecting the tribe, the 1870 agreement between the Creeks, Cherokee, Seminole, and Osage, and those provisions still in force from the U.S. treaties signed between 1790 and 1866. Herein the constitution is rewritten and rearranged for clarity, but no provisions are changed. Twenty-five copies appear in OCLC, though we can find no auction records or other retail listings, and this is the first copy we have ever handled. HARGRETT, CONSTITUTIONS AND LAWS OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 171. GILCREASE-HARGRETT, p.176. OCLC 1486608. $1250.

Currier and Ives in the Rocky Mountains

38. [Currier & Ives]: THE INDIAN PASS. ROCKY MOUNTAINS [caption title]. New York: Currier & Ives, [1860]. Handcolored lithograph on a 19 x 24-inch sheet, with vibrant handcoloring. A bit of light soiling and edge wear, else near fine.

An attractive, handsomely colored, large-margined copy of this view of “Indian Pass” in the Rocky Mountains. A river cuts through soaring peaks, some of which appear snow-covered, and the others verdant and green. Sparse vegetation and cacti are seen in the foreground, and three men on horses are pictured near the water. The men appear to be Native Americans. A lovely example of this scarce view. PETERS, CURRIER & IVES 1548. CURRIER & IVES: CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ 3300. $1850.

Item 39. A Famed Pair of Scenes of Frontier Indian Fighting

39. [Currier & Ives, after Arthur F. Tait]. AMERICAN FRONTIER LIFE. “THE HUNTER’S STRATAGEM.” [with:] AMERICAN FRONTIER LIFE. ON THE WAR-PATH. New York. 1862, 1863. Two handcolored lithographs, visible areas 21 x 28 inches, expertly matted and handsomely framed to 33 x 39 inches. Some very pale mat burn. Near fine.

Two of the scarcest Currier & Ives prints, both depicting dramatic scenes of frontier Indian fighting. At the time of the celebrated sale of the collection of Norman James at The Anderson Galleries in 1928, it was noted for each: “only a few copies known.” The artist of both prints was Arthur Tait, one of the best artists with whom Currier & Ives worked. “Perhaps our greatest sporting artist, Tait would earn a high place in any discussion of art of the period. Among the Currier & Ives group he ranks among the very finest” – Peters. Very rare, and among the most famous and reproduced of prints by the famous lithographers. PETERS, CURRIER & IVES 1512, 1513. CURRIER & IVES: CATALOGUE RAI- SONNÉ 171, 172. $15,000.

40. [Curry, Belle]: PARSONS LABETTE COUNTY KANSAS YEARS FROM 1869 TO 1895 STORY OF THE “THE BENDERS.” Par- sons, Ks.: Bell Bookcraft Shop, [ca. 1937]. [4],117,[7]pp. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt, black cloth spine. Extremities rubbed, corners lightly worn. Ownership sticker on front fly leaf. Internally clean. Good.

One of fifty copies, according to a sticker in the front of the volume. A rare history of Parsons, Kansas, compiled by the local public library from various sources and locally produced. Contains an account of the murderous Bender family, an infamous family of “Hollanders or Germans” responsible for several grisly murders in Parsons. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 534. $2250.

41. Custer, George: MY LIFE ON THE PLAINS. OR, PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH INDIANS. New York: Sheldon and Company, 1874. 256pp. plus eight plates. Original publisher’s blue pictorial gilt cloth. Slight wear at head and toe of spine, boards with a few small scuff marks, corners very lightly worn. Later ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Scattered light foxing. Very good.

A nice copy in original publisher’s binding of Custer’s classic account of his experiences fighting Indians on the Plains, especially in the region between the Mis- souri and the Rocky Mountains. The work covers the period from Gen. Winfield Hancock’s Kansas expedition in the spring of 1867 to the defeat of Black Kettle on the Washita on Nov. 27, 1868. Published only two years before Custer’s last stand at Little Big Horn. HOWES C981. GRAFF 961. JONES 1566. RADER 1011. DUSTIN 81. LUTHER HIGH SPOT 7. $2250. With Beautiful Steel Engravings of American Scenes

42. Dana, Charles A.: THE UNITED STATES ILLUSTRATED; IN VIEWS OF CITY AND COUNTRY. WITH DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL ARTICLES. New York: Hermann J. Meyer, [1855]. Two volumes. 180,154pp. plus seventy-nine steel-engraved plates. Extra engraved titlepages. Tissue guards. Quarto. Original blue publisher’s cloth. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Minor scattered foxing. Very good plus.

Dana’s work contains handsome steel engravings of scenes throughout the country, many of them executed by Hermann J. Meyer. While Howes calls for seventy-seven plates, this copy contains seventy-nine. The first volume is devoted to the East Coast and includes views of Niagara, Washington, West Point, Mount Vernon, New York, and Harper’s Ferry. The second volume contains scenes in the West, in Minnesota, along the Mississippi, in Missouri and St. Louis, on the Plains, and in California. Includes views of San Francisco, Sacramento, California gold diggings, New Orleans, Fort Snelling, Nauvoo, New Harmony, St. Louis, Kansas, Jefferson City, Independence, and a Mandan village, among others. A pretty copy of a beautiful book. HOWES D45, “aa.” FLAKE 2657. $3750. Rare Colorado Imprint

43. Dawson, Thomas F., and F.J.V. Skiff: THE UTE WAR: A HISTO- RY OF THE WHITE RIVER MASSACRE AND THE PRIVA- TIONS AND HARDSHIPS OF THE CAPTIVE WHITE WOM- EN AMONG THE HOSTILES ON GRAND RIVER. Denver. 1879. 192pp. Woodcut portraits. Modern brown morocco, spine gilt. Small chip in fore-edge of titlepage, else internally clean. Very good.

The primary contemporary account of the events which led up to the removal of the Ute Indians from their lands west of the 107th meridian. By the late 1870s most of the Indians of Colorado had been removed, with the exception of the Utes, who retained certain portions of their lands through the treaties of 1868 and 1873. White land hunger still remained avid, and in 1879 conflict broke out at the White River Agency where, under the direction of Agent Nathan Meeker, tensions had been especially high. After Meeker ordered the plowing of the Indians’ race track, a number of Utes left their reservation. Troops were ordered in from Wyoming and were ambushed en route, the agency was attacked, Meeker and eleven men were killed, and five women were abducted, including Meeker’s wife and child. After their rescue, the women related tales of horror about their period of bondage, and pressure for Ute removal increased. In 1880 a new treaty ceded most of the Ute lands, and most of the members of the tribes were sent to desolate regions of Utah. “After Hollister...the rarest Colorado imprint” – Howes. Edward Eberstadt writes, based on Dawson’s statement, that probably less than a dozen copies of this rarity survive. Apparently the book was used as cartridge wadding by troops during an Indian uprising. Dawson later became curator of the Colorado Historical Society. DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY, NOTHING IS LONG AGO 65. STREETER SALE 2194. HOWES D161, “c.” VAUGHAN 86. AYER SUPPLEMENT 42. FLAKE 2732. GRAFF 1028. JONES 1601. EBERSTADT 134:210. WILCOX, p.37. $4000.

44. De Smet, Pierre-Jean: NEW INDIAN SKETCHES. New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 1863. 175pp. plus plate and frontispiece. 12mo. Original brown pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Cloth rubbed, lightly faded and edgeworn. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown. An occasional fox mark. Very good overall.

The famed missionary’s account of his travels as U.S. army chaplain during the Mormon hostilities of 1858-59, traversing the region from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Kearny and back, to the Pacific via Panama, Fort Vancouver and the northern Rockies, then east to St. Louis. Includes a partial vocabulary of the Skalzi tribe and a catechism as used by the Flatheads, Kalispels, and Pend d’Oreilles with the English equivalent. HOWES D285, “aa.” STREETER 3071. SABIN 82267. FIELD 1427 (later ed). WAG- NER-CAMP 395. GRAFF 3828. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 3631. PILLING, SALIS- HAN, p.64. PILLING, SIOUAN, p.71. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS, FLATHEAD 1, KALISPEL 9, KUTENAI 18. $750. Fine California Gold Mining Prospectus

45. [Delavan, James]: ROCKY-BAR MINING COMPANY, CALIFOR- NIA. CIRCULAR, ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION, RESOLU- TIONS, etc. 1850 [wrapper title]. [New York. 1850]. 12pp. Original blue wrappers printed in gold. Old vertical center fold, a few light fox marks, else very good and fresh. In a half cloth and paper archival folder.

An early and quite rare California mining stock promotion prospectus. The Rocky- Bar Mining Company was organized in July 1849 as an association of forty miners digging for gold on the Big-Bar on the middle fork of the American River, some seventy miles from Sacramento. From the text:

The Rocky and the Big Bars are considered by the old miners as the richest, or to say the least, among the very richest portions of the gold region in Cali- fornia....It is in the first place freely admitted, that all calculations heretofore made on this subject, are wholly speculative. It is however not impossible that the wildest estimates may be fully realized.

“Over 100 pounds of gold were taken out of the river in less than three weeks. President Philo D. Mickles and Secretary James Delavan wrote the first segment. It is dated November 4, 1850. Delavan...contributed the remainder of the text. Included are two resolutions, dated July 22, 1850, from Big-Bar, and July 29, 1850, from Sacramento City” – Kurutz. Delavan, whose name appears in print at the end of this report, was the author of Notes on California and the Placers (1850), in which he recounts his experiences of 1849 as part of the Feather River Party. “In this scarcely known brochure Delavan gives his narrative of the little band of miners, consisting of himself and 39 others, who went up the Feather River in 1849 and took out upwards of 100 pounds of gold in less than three weeks. Of the forty who started out, only twenty-five were able to withstand the hardships involved, during which they suffered ‘everything but death itself from privation, disease and sickness’” – Eberstadt. Wheat refers to the Rocky-Bar Mining Company as “the first organized project for mining quartz in California.” The only published Cali- fornia mining promotion preceding this was the report of the American Quicksilver Company of California. Handsomely printed. This is the Jay Snider copy, with his bookplate on the inside front cover of the archival folder. HOWELL 104 (this copy). COWAN, p.539. VAIL, p.22. SABIN 72456. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 58 (note). KURUTZ 541. STREETER SALE 2645. EBERSTADT 104:39. RANDALL 413. $6000.

The Doheny Copy, with Author’s Presentation

46. Dwinnelle, John W.: THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: BEING A SYNTHETIC ARGUMENT IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR FOUR SQUARE LEAGUES OF LAND CLAIMED BY THAT CITY. San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, 1863. [4],102,[2],115pp. plus frontispiece map. Later gilt calf, leather label (chipped). Hinges cracked. Leather book label on front pastedown. Leaf detached. Text lightly tanned, with an occasional fox mark, else clean. Good. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell box, leather chipped and worn.

The scarce first edition of Dwinelle’s essential California work, here with a presentation inscription on the recto of the frontispiece map: “C.V. Gillespie, Esq with complts of John W. Dwinelle.” C.V. Gillespie was a land title insurance agent whose business in San Francisco began at the start of the California Gold Rush. The original wrappers betray the origins of Dwinelle’s work as a legal brief for the case of “The City of San Francisco vs. The United States,” with John W. Dwinelle being the counsel for the claimant. This extensive brief is also a historical account of the city of San Francisco, and confirmed the city’s claim to four leagues of “Pueblo Lands,” as defined by the Land Commission Act. Dwinelle’s history is a great storehouse of information on the beginnings of San Francisco, with printings of a large number of documents which are now either inaccessible or destroyed. The frontispiece map depicts “The Peninsula of San Francisco.” The Streeter copy of the first edition, also in original printed wrappers and with a presentation inscription from Dwinelle to John Hittell, brought $300. This is the Estelle Doheny copy, with her bookplate. HOWES D614, “b.” ZAMORANO 80, 32. COWAN, p.189. HOWELL 50:782. SABIN 21573 (only 3rd and 4th eds). STREETER SALE 2879. HOLLIDAY SALE 331. NORRIS CATALOGUE 1023. $3750.

Enthusiastic Letter about Emory’s Notes...

47. [Emory, William]: [Dearborn, Henry Alexander Scammell]: [AU- TOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM HENRY ALEXANDER SCAMMELL DEARBORN TO JOHN JAMES ABERT, ABOUT THE UNITED STATES SURVEYING EXPEDITIONS]. [Hawthorne Cottage, Roxbury, Ma.] Dec. 9, 1848. [1½]pp. on folded quarto sheet, blank integral leaf present. Light fold lines. Quite clean. Very good. In a half morocco box.

An engaging letter discussing the state of the United States and Mexican boundary survey, and particularly William Emory’s Notes of a Military Reconnoissance..., which was published shortly before this letter was written. Emory’s Notes was a landmark in the history of California and the Far Southwest, and includes some of the first American views of the region. In his letter to Col. Abert, whose son was a member of the expedition, Dearborn lauds the courage and accomplishments of the brash young gentlemen of the army, such as Emory and Abert’s son, for bringing honor to themselves and to the country. The letter reads:

I am most grateful for Lt. Emory’s Reconnoissance in Mexico and California which you so kindly sent to me. I had before read from various Reports of his duties in the same expedition, as far as he descended the Rio Grande. I can not, insufficiently express [?] given the opinion I have formed of the meritorious labors of those officers. For scientific facts, in the geography, and natural history of those regions, the country is under the greatest obligations. Then how energetically, how cheerfully, how patriotically and how gallantly did they discharge their so various and multifarious duties. Such services not only reflect the highest honor on those estimable young gentlemen, and on the group to which they belong but on the country, which can boast of much accomplished officers.

Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn, like his illustrious father, spent a career in public service, most famously as the collector of the port of Boston. At the time of writing Dearborn was the mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts. His enthusiastic response to Emory’s report represents the optimism that Emory’s and other expedition reports fostered among influential members of the upper class. The underlying hope was that the lands acquired in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo would prove fruitful and offer a vast new arena for physical and economic expansion. DAB V, pp.176-77. Appleton’s Cyclopædia I, pp.8-9. $950.

48. Emory, William H.: NOTES OF A MILITARY RECONNAIS- SANCE FROM FORT LEAVENWORTH, IN MISSOURI, TO SAN DIEGO, IN CALIFORNIA, INCLUDING PARTS OF THE ARKANSAS, DEL NORTE, AND GILA RIVERS. Washington. 1848. 614pp. plus two folding maps and sixty-seven plates (three of which are single- page maps). Original cloth, recased, original backstrip laid down with most of printed label retained. Some wear and staining to cloth. Bookplates on front pastedown. Occasional light age toning and foxing. Intermittent stains. Overall good.

The House issue of the Emory report, including the reports of J.W. Abert, Joseph Johnston, and Philip St. George Cooke. Together the three summarize the activity of the U.S. Army to the west of Santa Fe after the capture of New Mexico by the Army of the West. This copy of the Emory report lacks his large map, which was not included in all copies of this issue. The first of the smaller maps is Philip St. George Cooke’s “Sketch of Part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke, from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean, 1846-7,” which shows the route of the Mormon Battalion from Santa Fe to the Gila River. The other, “Map of the Territory of New Mexico,” was compiled by lieutenants Abert and Peck after the conquest of New Mexico. Both are important contributions to western cartography. Abert’s report includes material on the Indians of New Mexico and their languages, as well as all of his views of New Mexico, the best group of early New Mexico views published. Wagner-Camp is in error in the collation of this edition, mistakenly calling for only forty plates, plus those of the Abert report. There are, in fact, more natural history plates. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 505, 532. WAGNER-CAMP 148:7. ZAMORANO 80, 33. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1207. COWAN, p.195. GRAFF 1249. HILL 561 (ref ). RITTENHOUSE 188. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 1669. HOWES E145. $1250.

A Landmark in Illustrated Americana

49. Emory, William H.: REPORT ON THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICAN BOUNDARY SURVEY, MADE UNDER THE DIREC- TION OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.... Washington: Cornelius Wendell, Printer, 1857/1859. Three volumes bound in two. Com- plete with hundreds of plates (many lithographed in color), plus charts, maps, and profiles. Quarto. Modern burgundy cloth, gilt morocco label. First reptile plate torn along upper outer edge and frayed along top edge, else internally clean and very good.

One of the foundation works on the exploration and mapping of the Texas-Mexican border. Emory was first assigned to the Boundary Commission after the Mexican- American War. No sooner was the survey finished than the Gadsden Purchase necessitated a new survey, which is summarized in this work. Incorporated into these volumes, along with Emory’s report, are numerous scientific reports by James Hall, T.A. Conrad, and others, as well as superb maps by Jekyll and Hall, and important views and plates after Schott, Weyss, and Vaudricourt. The commission undertook one of the first systematic studies of the topography and natural features of the area, and the boundary as surveyed has remained intact, with only minor alterations, for the last 145 years. Of special note are the twenty-five fine colored plates of birds, lithographed by Bowen & Company, included in Spencer Baird’s report, “Birds of the Boundary,” here present in fine state; as well as handsome color plates of Indians and scenery. WAGNER-CAMP 291. HOWES E146. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 916. RAINES, p.76. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 31. $5000.

One of the Great Works of Early Texas History

50. Espinosa, Isidro Felix de: EL PEREGRINO SEPTENTRIONAL ATLANTE: DELINEADO EN LA EXEMPLARISSIMA VIDA DEL VENERABLE PADRE F. ANTONIO MARGIL DE JESUS.... Mexico: Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1737. [38],456,[4]pp. plus engraved plate. Small quarto. Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title. Mild soiling, with remnants of ties. Text block holding by cords. Period signature on titlepage, faint ink stamp on C3, some worming to text of first section and a few internal leaves, and minor marginal worming to a handful of other leaves within. Otherwise a mostly clean and bright text. Very Good.

First edition, first issue (i.e. with the titlepage in black and red) of an important Texas rarity. At the age of fifty-nine, after having been a missionary in Guatemala and various regions of Mexico, including from 1713 until 1716 in Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, Father Margil led an expedition into Texas. Before he returned south of the Rio Grande in 1719, fleeing before the invading French, he founded two missions in northeast Texas and one in what is now Louisiana. The author of this fine biography was an intimate of Father Margil and accompanied him on the Texas expedition. The expedition is described on pages 278-90, as are events involving the French. Typographically, this is an interesting book because Hogal was one of the finest printers active in Mexico in the first half of the 18th century. It must also be noted that the book’s full-page engraving of Father Margil preaching to a group of Indians is signed by Joaquin Sotomayor. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 102. SABIN 22898. MEDINA (MEXICO) 3461. PALAU 82703. HOWES E184. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 5. LeCLERC (1878) 1129. HARPER, AMERICANA IBERICA 338. $12,500.

51. Farnham, Thomas J.: TRAVELS IN THE GREAT WESTERN PRAI- RIES, THE ANAHUAC AND ROCKY MOUNTAINS, AND IN THE OREGON TERRITORY. Ploughkeepsie [sic]. 1843. 197pp. plus 1p. of advertisements. Contemporary half cloth and boards, paper label. Cloth worn on hinges and head and foot of spine, corners rubbed. Bright and clean internally. Very good. Unopened. In a tan half morocco slipcase, spine gilt.

An important early account of the Oregon country, reprinted after the first edition of 1841. An excellent account of the first migration of settlers overland to Oregon. Farnham went overland there in 1839, going to Bent’s Fort and then north to the Oregon Trail. After a brief sojourn during which he gathered materials, he sailed for home via the Sandwich Islands. “Thomas Jefferson Farnham, a high-spirited young man, caught the Oregon ‘fever’ in its most potent form as the result of hearing Jason Lee lecture in his home town. This is the first and most interesting of his several books on the West. It has the freshness of the viewpoint of a young man entranced with early Oregon and its possibilities. It is the best account of the first overland-to-Oregon migration of settlers” – Jones. The book became an effective propaganda piece for proponents of American control of Oregon. WAGNER-CAMP 85:4. STREETER SALE 3351. SABIN 23872. RITTENHOUSE 201. JONES 1044 (note). HOWES F50. $750.

Gold Rush Town Directory

52. Fitch, Thomas, & Co.: [Placerville, California]: DIRECTORY OF THE CITY OF PLACERVILLE AND TOWNS OF UPPER PLA- CERVILLE, EL DORADO, GEORGETOWN, AND COLOMA, CONTAINING A HISTORY OF THESE PLACES, NAMES OF THEIR INHABITANTS, AND EVERYTHING APPERTAINING TO A COMPLETE DIRECTORY. TOGETHER WITH A BUSI- NESS DIRECTORY. Placerville: Republican Printing Office, 1862. 128pp. 12mo. Original half leather and printed boards, spine gilt. Portions of spine perished, corners bumped, a few chips at edges. Ownership stamp on and correction slip tipped to front endpaper recto. Scattered foxing, else internally clean. Very good, in unsophisticated original condition. In a red cloth clamshell box.

The first directory of this important gold mining region, and the first book printed in Placerville. James Marshall discovered gold in nearby Coloma in 1848 (he is listed in the Coloma section herein as “gold discoverer, south side Church street”), and the area became a center of gold mining activities for many years. By 1854, Placerville was the third largest town in California. The text contains a valuable history of the towns of Placerville (originally called “Dry Diggings” and also known as “Hangtown”), El Dorado, Georgetown, and Coloma, a directory of residents, municipal officers, churches, societies, etc., and advertisements for a variety of local businesses. Also included is a table of distances between principal cities in California. Thomas Fitch, the compiler, was publisher of the Placerville Republican. He went to California in 1860, where he was active as a journalist, lawyer, and politician. He served one term as a U.S. Congressman from Nevada (1869-71). Quebedeaux notes an errata slip, present in this copy, reading: “The sobriquet of ‘Hangtown’ was applied to Placerville not from the hanging of ‘Irish Dick,’ in 1850, but from the summary execution of the two Frenchmen and the Spaniard, who were hung in 1849, and not in 1854, as stated on page 11. No hanging, by a mob, has occurred here since 1850.” This copy bears on the front endpaper recto the ink ownership stamp of James B. Hume, a well-known western lawman and a detective for Wells Fargo. Hume became the City Marshall of Placerville in 1864, then served as Sheriff for El Do- rado County from 1865 to 1870. He became a Wells Fargo detective in 1872 and acted in that capacity until his death in 1904. In his most famous case he tracked down and arrested the stagecoach robber known as Black Bart in 1883. His stamp reads: “James B. Hume, Special Officer W.F. & Co. San Francisco, Cal.” “Rare....Without a doubt...one of the most important historical sources of the California gold region” – Quebedeaux. A vitally important source, and a rare and early California directory, with an interesting association. This copy realized $9600 at the Sloan auction in 2006. QUEBEDEAUX 11. GREENWOOD 1685. HOWES F159, P405, “aa.” COWAN, p.171. ROCQ 1822. GRAFF 1339. $9500.

53. [Folsom, George F.]: MEXICO IN 1842: A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY, ITS NATURAL AND POLITICAL FEATURES; WITH A SKETCH OF ITS HISTORY...TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN ACCOUNT OF TEXAS AND YUCATAN; AND OF THE SAN- TA FE EXPEDITION. New York: Charles J. Folsom, 1842. 256pp. plus colored folding map. 18mo. Publisher’s brown cloth, stamped in blind, neatly rebacked with original gilt spine laid down. Extremities worn. Contemporary inscription on front fly leaf. Minor foxing and dampstaining. Very good.

The section on Texas and the Santa Fe expedition is attributed to Franklin Coombs, a veteran of the latter ill-fated debacle, and his account of the expedition and his captivity (which first appeared in Niles Weekly Register) is reprinted herein, along with another account (Wagner-Camp 86) of a trip to Santa Fe appearing here for the first time in book form. The map measures 21.5 x 23.5 cm. and shows Texas, Mexico, and the southwest region as far north as the Arkansas River, south to Yucatan, west to the Pacific, and east to New Orleans. HOWES F226, “aa.” WAGNER-CAMP 91. RITTENHOUSE 694. GRAFF 1372. STREETER TEXAS 1413. SABIN 24968. $2500.

54. Forbes, Charles: PRIZE ESSAY. VANCOUVER ISLAND: ITS RE- SOURCES AND CAPABILITIES, AS A COLONY. [Victoria]. 1862. [4],63,18,[2, errata]pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor chipping, spine repaired, unobtrusive ownership stamp on front cover. Internally clean. Very good.

An important account of Vancouver Island, awarded a premium of £50 by the Colonial Secretary’s office. Forbes’ essay is a clear and comprehensive exposition of the capabilities, resources, and advantages of Vancouver’s Island as a colony for settlement. “The Essay is in five parts: an introduction, a section on the geography, geology, hydrography and meteorology, one on government, political geography and emigration, one on natural history and resources, and a recapitulation. The appendix contains meteorological abstracts, statistical tables and pertinent proclamations” – Streeter. The Streeter copy brought $50 in 1969. TPL 4138. LANDE 1177. STREETER 3429. EBERSTADT 160:462. SABIN 25036. LOWTHER 166. $1250. 55. [Foster, Roxana C.]: THE FOSTER FAMILY CALIFORNIA PIO- NEERS.... [Santa Barbara. 1925]. 285pp. Portraits. Publisher’s fabrikoid. Spine slightly soiled and worn, corners lightly worn. Small private library stamps on front pastedown and titlepage verso. Light foxing on endpapers and titlepage as well as to edges of text block. Very good.

Second and best edition of this privately printed book, with the addition of the journal of an 1857 voyage to California via Panama. Contains three journals of overland journeys undertaken by this Illinois family in 1849, 1852, and 1853, including accounts of the early gold mines, ranch life and outlaws, Santa Barbara, San Jose, etc. “One of the scarcest of the latterly published overland narratives...aside from the four overland narratives, there is a wealth of detail about early California pioneer families not to be found in any other work” – Decker. DECKER 36:156. HOWES F292. ROCQ 14119. KURUTZ 215b. EBERSTADT MOD- ERN OVERLANDS 428. MINTZ 416. COWAN, p.847. $1500.

Presentation Copy of a Great Western Photographic Rarity, Illustrated with Original Photographs: One of only Fifteen Copies Printed for Private Distribution

56. [Francis, Charles Spencer]: SPORT AMONG THE ROCKIES. THE RECORD OF A FISHING AND HUNTING TRIP IN NORTH- WESTERN MONTANA. By the Scribe. Troy, N.Y. 1889. [10],134pp., printed in double columns, plus forty-eight mounted original photographs. Small quarto. Original three-quarter morocco and cloth, neatly rebacked with original backstrip laid down with bumped corner tips repaired, t.e.g. The photographs are bright, unfaded prints, without any blemishes. Internally clean. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth box.

A series of twenty-five delightful letters written by Francis, the owner of the Troy Daily Times, describing “the experience of a little party of trojans, who inspired by a common fondness for hunting and fishing, determined to journey to the great Northwest in search of game, fish, and adventure” (Preface). The author and three unnamed friends started for the Northwest in August 1888 for a glorified hunting and fishing trip in the mountains and lakes of Montana. The narrative describes the settlements and settlers encountered, including the Indians, principally Blackfeet. The narrative was first printed serially in the Troy Daily Times and subsequently printed in this very small edition of fifteen copies, illustrated with original photographs, for presentation. The remarkable photographs represent a vivid and important photographic record of Montana at the time. Included are photographs of towns, ranches, Indian agencies, Indians (including Cree, Blackfoot, and Piegan), portraits, landscapes, camp scenes, and other fine views. “The photographs are by the author himself and constitute an immensely important record of the Far Northwest, its towns, ranches, Indians, agencies, etc. The narrative is one of surpassing interest, describing the outfitting at Great Falls; the Baker Massacre; Trapper Bill Weaver; Piegan Indians; the Big Horn; Starvation Camp; western horses and Indian ponies; horse thieves; Blackfoot Agency; life among the Indians; cattle ranges and ranches; Great Falls, its mushroom growth, future, etc. The volume is a veritable ‘book of the plains’ – a home-made production in make-up and appearance, and one of the most sought of all books relating to Montana” – Eberstadt. This presentation copy is inscribed and signed by the author on a front blank: “Mr. John Boetcher, with the compliments of Charles S. Francis. Troy, Aug. 15, 1889.” A great Montana rarity and one of the finest of 19th-century photographically illustrated books of the West. STREETER SALE 4110. HOWES F311, “b.” LITCHFIELD 58. EBERSTADT 136:445. $37,500.

57. Franklin, John, Capt.: NARRATIVE OF A SECOND EXPEDITION TO THE SHORES OF THE POLAR SEA, IN THE YEARS 1825, 1826, AND 1827...INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROG- RESS OF A DETACHMENT TO THE EASTWARD, BY JOHN RICHARDSON.... London: John Murray, 1828. xxiv,[4 (paginated xxi- xxiv)],320,clvii pp., plus errata leaf, six folding maps (one loosely laid in and one partially handcolored), and thirty-one plates. Thick quarto. Modern half tan morocco and marbled boards. Modern endpapers. Old and almost invisible institutional blindstamp on titlepage and dedication leaf. Occasional light offsetting from plates, else quite clean internally. Near fine.

This work is mainly devoted to the accounts of Richardson and Franklin during their explorations of the Mackenzie River region of the Canadian Northwest, although it contains a brief narrative of the explorations of Thomas Drummond in the Canadian Rockies. The plates, which are fine engravings by Finden after drawings and sketches by Lieut. Kendall and Capt. Back, depict the Mackenzie Basin and the Arctic Ocean. “The beauty of the typography is rivaled by that of the engravings, each of which is a splendid specimen of art. Nine of these illustrations represent some incident in the intercourse of the explorers with the Esquimaux” – Field. The handsome maps include “Route of the Expedition A.D. 1825, from Fort William to the Saskatchewan River...”; “Route of the Expedition from York Factory to Cumberland House...in 1819 & 1820”; “Route of the Expedition from Isle a la Crosse to Fort Providence, in 1819 & 1820”; “Route of the Land Arctic Expedition...from Great Slave Lake to Great Bear Lake River...”; and “The Dis- coveries of the Expedition...Near the mouth of the Mackenzie River, and on the Sea Coast East & West....” A handsome copy of an important book in the history of Canadian exploration. WAGNER-CAMP 35:1. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 5198. FIELD 561. GRAFF 1407. LANDE 1182. PEEL 88. SABIN 25628. STREETER SALE 3699. $2500.

58. Freeman, George D.: MIDNIGHT AND NOONDAY OR DARK DEEDS UNRAVELED. GIVING TWENTY YEARS EXPERIENCE ON THE FRONTIER.... Caldwell, Ks. 1890. 405pp. plus frontispiece portrait and three plates. Original printed boards and cloth spine. Wear to corners and edges, boards rubbed and worn, spine slightly frayed at extremities. Text toned, otherwise clean. A very good copy of a fragile book.

An important history of one of the primary Kansas cattle towns, where Texas trail drivers delivered longhorns driven up the trail to the railroad lines which would take them to Chicago stockyards. This is the rare first edition, first issue, with “Talbot” spelled incorrectly on the titlepage as “Talbert.” Adams describes this edition as “exceedingly rare...the first edition is so scarce that some collectors think the 1892 edition the only one published.” Includes much material on the Talbot raid on Caldwell and bank robbers Henry Brown and Ben Wheeler. “An extremely rare history of Caldwell during this vital period” – Six Score. HOWES F353, “aa.” ADAMS HERD 843. STREETER SALE 2030. SIX SCORE 39. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 763. DOBIE, p.121. GRAFF 1411. $3000.

Essential Publication 59. Fremont, John C.: REPORT OF THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN THE YEAR 1842, AND TO OREGON AND NORTH CALIFORNIA IN THE YEARS 1843- 44. Washington. 1845. 693pp. plus twenty-two plates and five maps (three folding, one in a separate folder). Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Corners lightly worn. A few scattered spots of foxing, but generally quite clean internally. Very good. The Senate issue of the Fremont report, certainly one of the most important single pieces of Western Americana. In various editions this report was more widely read than any other account of the West before the Gold Rush, and the text and map had a profound effect on the routes frequented during the great period of emigration. The maps include the huge folding “Map of...Oregon & North California in the Years 1843-44,” with many lakes and rivers traced in color. Fremont also made substantive contributions as a naturalist, mainly through the work of John Torrey, who accompanied the expedition. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 497. RITTENHOUSE 229. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 3266. TWENEY 89, 22. HILL 640. ZAMORANO 80, 39. MINTZ 165. COWAN, p.223. HOWES F370. SABIN 25845. WAGNER-CAMP 115:1. GRAFF 1437. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 1852. Coats, The Plant Hunters, p.322. $3000.

The Greatest Outlaw Book in Western Americana

60. Garrett, Pat F.: THE AUTHENTIC LIFE OF BILLY, THE KID, THE NOTED DESPERADO OF THE SOUTHWEST, WHOSE DEEDS OF DARING AND BLOOD MADE HIS NAME A TER- ROR IN NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA AND NORTHERN MEX- ICO. Santa Fe: New Mexican Printing and Publishing Co., 1882. 137pp. (pp.113-128 mispaginated 121-136) plus six plates including frontispiece portrait of the Kid. Present is the errata slip only sometimes found, tipped to foot of p.121. With a clipped signature of Marshall Pat Garrett laid in. Slightly later plain blue wrappers. Wrappers soiled along edges and worn at spine. Early ownership signature at head of titlepage and foot of final page. Tear in final leaf repaired with loss to five words but not affecting the sense. Three leaves with upper outer edge torn away, not affecting text or pagination. Else quite clean and neat internally. Overall, still very good. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase and chemise.

The most famous western outlaw book, and one of the rarest, the life of Billy the Kid by the man who killed him. Probably actually written by Ashmun Upson with the close collaboration of Garrett, this book is the foundation stone of the Billy the Kid legend. Dykes enumerates at length some of the inaccuracies of the narrative, and Adams is even more critical of particular points; but as Dykes’ work admirably demonstrates, the whole point of the Kid legend is not so much to preserve the facts of the case, but to grow the legend itself, and it is from this book that the legend springs. “First genuine biography of America’s most spectacular example of juvenile delinquency” – Howes. “Exceedingly rare” – Adams. HOWES G73, “b.” DYKES, KID 13. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 807. GRAFF 1515. RADER 1541. STREETER SALE 4287. SAUNDERS 2916. $28,500.

Signed by the Hero of the German Colony in Texas

61. [German Emigration and Rail-Road Company]: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. STATE OF TEXAS...I HAVE DRAWN UPON YOU .... New Braunfels. 1846. Printed indenture, 10½ x 8½ inches, executed in ink. Some old folds, light soiling. “55” written in red pencil in top blank margin. Very good.

Printed indenture, executed in ink and signed in full by John O. Meusebach as Trustee of the German Emigration and Rail-Road Company, drawing on the banking firm of H. Flersheim in Frankfurt, for the sum of $3000 to be deposited to the account of the Company, dated Dec. 12. Meusebach, a highly educated and civilized man, came to Texas from Germany in 1845 to succeed Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels as commissioner- general of the Verein zum Shutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas, in the course of which he assumed Texas citizenship, oversaw the affairs of the colonists, and accomplished the 1847 treaty with the Coman- che chiefs which made colonization possible. This document, coming from the period of his service to the Verein, no doubt represents a draft for funds to further the establishment of the colony, the cities of New Braunfels and Fredericksburg, and the attempted settlement of the financial horror show which Prince Carl left behind. A superb piece, signed by one of the major figures of early Texas colonization. $1000.

62. [Giddings, Luther]: SKETCHES OF THE CAMPAIGN IN NORTH- ERN MEXICO. IN EIGHTEEN HUNDRED FORTY-SIX AND SEVEN. By an Officer of the First Regiment of Ohio Volunteers. New York: Printed for the author by George P. Putnam, 1853. 336pp. plus frontispiece map and folding map. Original blindstamped brown cloth, spine gilt. Spine extremities and corners lightly worn, head of spine somewhat chipped. Pencil ownership inscription on front pastedown. Frontispiece map leaf loosening, text block cracked. Preliminaries and text edges tanned throughout, dampstaining to upper corners of rear leaves. Good.

A scarce work, providing a very good picture of army life during the Mexican- American War, including accounts of some of the major battles of the war, including the Battle of Monterey, and with material on the Texas Rangers. The author’s regiment returned home after the Battle of Buena Vista. HOWES G156. SABIN 27330. TUTOROW 3387. GARRETT, p.139. HAFERKORN, p.45. $1750.

The “Colored” Cavalry Regiment

63. Glass, E.L.N., compiler: THE HISTORY OF THE TENTH CAV- ALRY, 1866 – 1921. [Tucson: Acme Printing Company, 1921]. 141,[4]pp. with four original photographs pasted to rear endpapers. Original black cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine rubbed, light edge wear. Very good.

A history of the Tenth Cavalry, formed after the Civil War as one of two regiments “composed of colored men.” It records their service in the Southwest, especially West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico, as well as Cuba. The Tenth Cavalry was one of the original regiments of “Buffalo Soldiers.” The unit fought in the Indian Wars in the late 1800s, and was one of the main participants in the battle of San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War. Scarce. GRAFF 1571. $1500.

Thrilling Experiences

64. Goodman, Thomas M.: A THRILLING RECORD: FOUNDED ON FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS OBTAINED DURING TEN DAYS’ EXPERIENCE WITH COLONEL WILLIAM T. ANDERSON, (THE NOTORIOUS GUERRILLA CHIEFTAIN,) BY SERGEANT THOS. M. GOODMAN, THE ONLY SURVIVOR OF THE IN- HUMAN MASSACRE AT CENTRALIA, MO., SEPTEMBER 27, 1864; AND AN EYE-WITNESS OF THE BRUTAL AND BARBA- ROUS TREATMENT BY THE GUERRILLAS OF THE DEAD, WOUNDED, AND CAPTURED OF MAJOR JOHNSON’S COM- MAND. Edited and prepared for the press by Capt. Harry A. Houston. Des Moines, Ia.: Mills & Co., Steam Book & Job Printing House, 1868. 66pp. Later grey calf, marbled endpapers. Light scattered foxing, else very good.

“Account of the Centralia massacre by Bill Anderson’s guerillas, told by one of the few Federal soldiers who escaped.” During the Centralia Massacre twenty-four unarmed Union soldiers were captured and executed at Centralia, Missouri on Sept. 27, 1864 by the pro-Confederate guerrilla leader William T. Anderson. Future outlaw Jesse James was among the guerrillas. In the ensuing Battle of Centralia a large detachment of Union mounted infantry attempted to intercept Anderson, but nearly all of them were killed in combat. Rare, OCLC locates only twelve copies. HOWES G241, “aa.” $2750.

An Important Map of the Pacific Northwest

65. Habersham, Robert A.: J.K. GILL & COs. MAP OF OREGON & WASHINGTON TER. Portland: J.K. Gill & Co., 1878. Handcolored folding map, 39½ x 29 inches, folded to 6¼ x 4¼ inches. Minor wear at some folds, but near fine. In original brown cloth covers, stamped in gilt.

A handsome map of Oregon and Washington Territory, lithographed by the firm of A.M. Askevold in Chicago. Oregon separated from Washington Territory and became a state in 1859, although Washington did not gain statehood until 1889. This detailed map shows many communities, towns, and cities, as well as Indian reservations, railroad lines finished and proposed, and more. $4250. Item 65.

66. [Hawaii]: [ALBUM OF FIFTY-ONE PHOTOGRAPHS OF HA- WAII AND WHEELER AIR FIELD]. [Hawaii. ca. 1934]. Twenty-four leaves containing fifty-one original photographs, most approximately 7 x 9 inches, set loose in corner mounts on black leaves. Oblong quarto. Original black cloth covers, string-tied. Primarily comprised of silver-gelatin prints, with a handful of color images. Photos with some minor soiling and silver mirroring, but mostly clean and sharp. Very good.

Exceptional photograph album of 1930s’ Hawaii, apparently compiled by someone involved with Wheeler Field and military aviation. The album opens with eight photographs of military and aviation maps of the islands, followed by about a dozen of Wheeler Field, then several of planes in the air. There are four photos featuring the record-breaking Australian aviator Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith, who stopped in Hawaii on his way from Australia to Oakland, California. Of note are two photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s visit to Hawaii in 1934, one showing the cruiser U.S.S. Houston arriving at Honolulu, escorted by sea and air craft, the other of him in the back seat of an open automobile shaking hands with soldiers. Roosevelt was the first sitting president to visit Hawaii. Also included are a number of fine scenic shots of beaches, Diamond Head, fine buildings in Honolulu, and more. Many of the photographs are stamped on the verso: “This photograph not to be published without authority of the assistant chief of staff, G-2. Hawaiian department. Fort Shafter T.H. If authority is granted credit line must read: photo by eleventh photo section A.C. Wheeler Field. T.H.” $2500. Classic Photographically Illustrated Book on the American West

67. Hayden, Ferdinand V.: Russell, Andrew J., photographer: SUN PIC- TURES OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCENERY, WITH A DE- SCRIPTION OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL FEATURES, AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE RESOURCES OF THE GREAT WEST; CONTAINING THIRTY PHOTOGRAPH- IC VIEWS ALONG THE LINE OF THE PACIFIC RAIL ROAD, FROM OMAHA TO SACRAMENTO. New York: Julius Bien, 1870. viii,150,[2]pp. plus thirty mounted albumen photographs. Large quarto. Half title. Contemporary three-quarter green morocco and green cloth, spine gilt, a.e.g. Expert restoration at joints. Minor marginal staining to a few text leaves and one image. Else very good.

This impressive book, one of the standard pieces of photographically illustrated Western Americana, was prepared by the famous geologist, Ferdinand V. Hayden. The photographs, taken by A.J. Russell, appeared in a larger format the previous year in Russell’s extremely rare album, The Great West Illustrated. The views, depicting scenes along the line of the Union Pacific, are intended to illustrate the geology which can be observed from the train. Despite the title, all the photographs are of locales within the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada (twelve in Wyoming, sixteen in Utah, and two in California). Hayden wrote: “The pictures have been arranged so as to commence with the first range of mountains west of Cheyenne, and to continue thence to the Salt Lake Valley with the view that the book may be used as a guide by those who will avail themselves of the grand opportunities for geological study....” “In using Russell’s photographs as illustrations in Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery, geologist Hayden took the long view of history, emphasizing the value of pictures as documents of geological change while professing indifference to the more recent past. For Hayden, the geologic features of the West were like an open book, affording the educated reader the opportunity to understand millions of years of geologic history” – Sandweiss. HOWES H337. SABIN 31007. TRUTHFUL LENS 81. FLAKE 3920. MARGOLIS, TO DELIGHT THE EYE 7. SANDWEISS 177. $15,000.

68. Hayden, Ferdinand V.: TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SUR- VEY OF THE TERRITORIES: A REPORT OF PROGRESS OF THE EXPLORATION IN WYOMING AND IDAHO FOR THE YEAR 1878. IN TWO PARTS. Washington: Government Printing Of- fice, 1883. xviii,809;xxiv,[2],503pp. In-text figures, plus numerous maps (some folding) and chromolithographic plates. Large folding map in rear pocket of second volume. Original cloth, spine gilt. Spine lightly spotted. Ex-library, with bookplates on front and rear pastedowns, and with several ink stamps on front and rear endpapers. Lightly tanned, else internally clean. A good, sound copy.

Hayden’s famous two-part report, entirely devoted to the Yellowstone. A vast compendium of geological data, beautifully illustrated with chromolithographs. Goetzmann describes this as Hayden’s final attempt “to encompass a systematic geological survey of the region.” Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire, p.526. $1250.

69. Hazlitt, William Carew: BRITISH COLUMBIA, AND VANCOU- VER ISLAND; COMPRISING A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE BRITISH SETTLEMENTS IN THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.... London. 1858. viii,247pp. Folding frontispiece map. Half title. 16mo. Original color pictorial boards, backstrip neatly replaced. Tiny closed tear in map near mounting stub. Otherwise a very good, clean copy.

Includes descriptions of the Gold Rush, which had begun the same year as the publication of this work and radically changed the character of the region, which had until that time been mainly a source of furs for the Hudson’s Bay Company. Reprinted in the appendix is the act of Parliament dated Aug. 2, 1858, which called for a separate government for British Columbia. Hazlitt also treats the natives of the region and includes a brief Chinook vocabulary. He “[d]rew on primary sources – letters, and reports from the London Times correspondent – for his description of the gold fever” (Streeter). TPL 3818 (lacking map). GAGNON I:1635. LANDE 1219. SABIN 31126. WAGNER- CAMP 300b. SMITH 4272. LOWTHER 73. STREETER 3411. $2250.

With the Elusive Map

70. Heap, Gwin Harris: CENTRAL ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC, FROM THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI TO CALIFORNIA: JOUR- NAL OF THE EXPEDITION OF E.F. BEALE...IN 1853. Philadel- phia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co.; London: Trübner and Co., 1854. 136pp. plus thirteen lithographed plates (some tinted), folding map, and 16pp. of advertisements. Publisher’s cloth, publisher’s patterned endpapers with advertisements. Very good.

E.F. Beale and Gwin Heap were greatly influenced by Senator Benton in their choice of a route across Colorado and Nevada. The party travelled from Westport (Kansas City) southwest on the Santa Fe trail to Bent’s Fort, then to the short- lived Fort Massachusetts, the Rio Grande Valley, the Grand River, and then to the Uncompahgre. They returned to Taos for supplies, then continued southwest via Utah to California. The map, which is present here, was issued with only a few copies. Wheat lauds the map and spends several pages discussing the journey, saying that it has received less attention than it deserves. He notes that it is the earliest published map to show the middle Rocky Mountain region, through what is now southern Colorado; the first to depict several streams and rivers; and the first attempt to chart a route through Death Valley. This book is one of the first detailed examinations of the “Central Route” from Missouri to the Pacific, and a basic piece of Western Americana. This scarce issue of the first edition with the addition of a London imprint on the title below the Philadelphia one, evidently intended for export, is unrecorded by Wagner-Camp and others. This copy is particularly fine, with the binding and folding map in lovely condition. COWAN, p.273. HOWES H378, “b.” MINTZ 562. SABIN 31175. WAGNER-CAMP 235. FLAKE 3934. RITTENHOUSE 290. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 808. STREET- ER SALE 3177. (all refs) $6500.

71. Hoffman, David: THE FREMONT ESTATE: AN ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH PUBLIC, RESPECTING COL. FREMONT’S LEASING POWERS TO THE AUTHOR, FROM JUNE 1850. London: Printed by Charles Richards, [1851]. [4],59pp. Gathered signatures, stitching loose. Tanned, else very good.

Hoffman had leased Fremont’s extensive California holdings, known as the Mari- posa Estate, in 1850, and had proceeded to make further leasing arrangements with British companies. He was astounded to discover that Fremont’s father-in-law, Thomas H. Benton, was supporting an American who claimed to hold the only valid lease. He lays the whole case, or at least his side of it, out in this pamphlet. At stake was the right to work the gold mines thought to be on the property. Rare, and not in Cowan, Rocq, Eberstadt, Graff, Streeter, or Decker; only Sabin caught this one. The NUC locates four copies (DLC, PPL, NN, PHi) and the New-York Historical Society also has a copy. At least one pamphlet in reply was published the following year (Rocq 5102). Sabin calls for sixty-three pages, but the present copy, with original stitching intact, appears complete with fifty-nine pages; Sabin is possibly adding in the four-page preface. SABIN 32393. $900.

72. Hughes, John T.: DONIPHAN’S EXPEDITION; CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONQUEST OF NEW MEXICO; GEN- ERAL KEARNEY’S OVERLAND EXPEDITION TO CALIFOR- NIA; DONIPHAN’S CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE NAVAJOS.... Cincinnati: U.P. James, [1847]. 144pp. Illus. Frontis. Titlepage vignette. Origi- nal pink pictorial wrappers. Spine darkened and bit chipped, some internal dust soiling and minor scattered foxing, else an exceptionally fine copy, com- pletely unopened.

One of the classic, primary works on the campaign of the First Missouri Cavalry in New Mexico and Chihuahua. “The narrative is a valuable adjunct to the literature of overland travel, Doniphan’s march being one of the most famous in history and the author an actual participant. The chapters on the march to California of Kearny’s Army of the West, the battles en route and there, and of affairs on the west coast during the Revolution, contain one of the earliest accounts of these world-shaking events to appear in print” – Eberstadt. The first edition (which is extremely rare) appeared in 1847, and by 1851 more than 14,000 copies had been sold. The prece- dence of the various printings and revised printings was long a bibliographic mystery, now nicely summarized in Wagner-Camp-Becker. This printing, with U.P. James listed as the sole publisher, without date, is ascribed by Wagner-Camp-Becker to the period following the dissolution of the partnership of J.A. and U.P. James in July of 1854. Very uncommon in this original state. HOWES H769. WAGNER-CAMP 134:6. GRAFF 2006. RITTENHOUSE 311. $750.

The Bear Flag Rebellion

73. [Ide, Simeon]: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM B. IDE: WITH A MINUTE AND INTERESTING AC- COUNT OF ONE OF THE LARGEST EMIGRATING COMPA- NIES. (3000 MILES OVER LAND), FROM THE EAST TO THE PACIFIC COAST. AND WHAT IS CLAIMED AS THE MOST AUTHENTIC AND RELIABLE ACCOUNT OF “THE VIRTUAL CONQUEST OF CALIFORNIA, IN JUNE, 1846, BY THE BEAR FLAG PARTY.” [Claremont, N.H.]: Printed for the subscribers, [1880]. [2],239,[1]pp. Half title. 12mo. Expertly bound to style in period purple straight-grain morocco. Very good. Provenance: E.T. Ide (signature on titlepage).

An Ide family association copy, with the ownership signature of E. Truman Ide of Elgin, Illinois on the titlepage. “This Sketch contains an account of the early years of W.B. Ide, recollections by his daughter of the family’s trip across the plains to California in 1845, and an account of the Bear Flag revolt of 1846 as told by Ide to his brother in 1849, and in a letter to a Senator Wambough which, as Ide died in 1852, must have been written within a few years of the event. [An] interesting account of the overland journey of 1845 and important source on the beginnings of American rule in California in 1846...” – Streeter. The work is also important in that it is one of the few overland journals written from the point of view of a woman (Ide’s daughter, who at eighteen accompanied her father west in 1845), and is unique in its exclusive treatment of the Bear Flag Revolt. Howes speculates that this first edition, printed by the author at the age of eighty-six on a handpress, “was probably small.” A rare and important California book. HOWES I4, “b.” STREETER SALE 2967. TUTOROW 3466. EBERSTADT 105:136 (ref ). GRAFF 2059. ZAMORANO 80, 45. COWAN 1914, p.118. $4250.

A Remarkable Collection of Indian Treaties

74. [Indian Treaties]: [COLLECTION OF FORTY-FIVE TREATIES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND INDIAN TRIBES]. [Washington. 1854-1870]. Various paginations, mostly 4pp. to 8pp. each. Folio. Original self-wrappers, often tied with string or ribbon. Some loose sheets, minor edge wear, a few short tears. On the whole, very good. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

An outstanding collection of forty-five rare treaties between the United States and scores of Indian tribes, negotiated from the 1850s to 1870. Individually and collec- tively the treaties document the history of relations between the United States and the Indians, as the American government sought through negotiations to acquire more and more land, and Indian tribes were pushed westward and onto progres- sively shrinking reservations. These treaties illustrate a developing progression in attitude by Washington toward the Indians, as they are treated first as sovereign nations, then as undeclared enemies, and eventually as subject peoples. The earliest treaty in the collection was proclaimed by Franklin Pierce in June 1854, and the latest by Ulysses S. Grant in 1870. The treaties mainly cover the Midwest, and including some treaties with the Nez Perce, Nisqually, and other tribes in the Northwest, and the Choctaw, Cheyenne, and others in the South- west. A number of the treaties were concluded in Washington, but the majority were negotiated on reservations, in the territories, and at military forts. Many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the day took part in the negotiations, and the American government was represented by notables such as Henry Ellsworth, William Tecumseh Sherman, Kit Carson, James Gadsden, and Henry Schoolcraft, among others. The treaties cover all aspects of relations between the United States, its citizens and military, and the Indian tribes. In virtually all of the treaties tribes cede land in one area for a reservation elsewhere (usually further west), often with financial consideration involved. Boundaries of Indian lands are carefully described and delin- eated. Some of the treaties unite tribes, while others seek the cessation of hostilities between warring bands. Many provide the protection of the federal government, while other treaty articles make provisions for the construction of schools, or even offer citizenship to an entire tribe. Usually the United States government makes certain to secure the right to build military bases or roads through Indian lands. These treaties are all extremely rare, printed by the government in very small numbers for the use of negotiators and government officials. Attractively printed and presented, their survival is a marvel. Goodspeed’s Book Shop in 1939 and Edward Eberstadt & Sons in 1940 issued catalogues of these Indian treaties. Due to their fundamental importance, many of the treaties are listed in Sabin, though their dates of issuance range beyond the limits set for that bibliography. In the foreword to their catalogue the Eberstadts wrote:

In the field of Americana few aspects of the subject compare in interest and importance with that of the relationship between the whites and the Indians, and the treaties which were the written manifestation of that relationship. These treaties, often the result of the white man’s greed for lands and gold are, in effect, the fundamental documents of our national domain. In no more revealing way can the local history of America be preserved in our historical libraries and collections than by the accession of various of these original treaties by which was acquired the basic claim to this land of ours.

A fundamentally important collection of documents, tracing the history of Ameri- can expansion in the 19th century and presenting the official record of relations between the United States and American Indians. A complete list describing each treaty is available upon request. $21,000.

75. [Iowa Territorial Laws]: [COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF IOWA TERRITORIAL LAWS, 1839 – 1846]. Dubuque, Burlington, & Iowa City. 1839-1846. Nine volumes. Uniform 20th-century buckram, gilt leather labels. Minor shelf wear, some chipping to labels. Small ink library stamp and ink ownership inscriptions on titlepages, all but one volume trimmed close, minor marginal staining to a few volumes, light foxing. Good.

A comprehensive run of Iowa territorial printings including the extra sessions for July 1840 and June 1844. Iowa was admitted as a state in December 1846. The Statute Laws of 1839 is an important title, as it is the first legal work printed in Iowa. The works included here are as follows:

1) The Statute Laws of the Territory of Iowa, Enacted at the First Session of the Legislative Assembly of Said Territory, Held at Burlington, A.D. 1838-’39. Dubuque: Russell & Reeves, Printers, 1839. [2],597,[1]pp. Small triangular hole in the titlepage and following leaf, some tiny tape repairs to the next dozen leaves. This is essentially the first legal code for Iowa and the Nebraska, Dakota, and Montana territories. Issued as the first collected Iowa laws, it became famous as “Old Blue Book,” which was adopted to serve for many years as the law of all the country west of the Missouri to the Rocky Mountains between the 42nd and 45th parallels. This prints the Northwest Ordinance, the act to establish the territorial government of Iowa, and other resolutions and acts of the Territory. This was the second book printed in Iowa Territory, preceded only by a volume of the Wisconsin legislature, printed in Burlington in 1838, when that legislature was forced to temporarily relocate. “The famous ‘Old blue book,’ which was for many years the law of all the country west of the Rocky Mountains between the forty-second and forty-ninth parallels of latitude” – Eberstadt. A seminal frontier American law book. SABIN 35020. FITZPATRICK, IOWA TERRITORIAL DOCUMENTS, p.19. LC, IOWA CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION 122. EBERSTADT 111:297. 2) Laws of the Territory of Iowa, Enacted at the Session of the Legislature Commencing on the First Monday of October, A.D. 1839. Burlington: J.H. M’Kenny, 1840. 187pp. FITZPATRICK, IOWA TERRITORIAL DOCUMENTS, p.19. ROSENBACH 11:30A. 3) Laws of the Territory of Iowa, Passed at the Extra Session of the Legislative Assem- bly, Begun and Held in the City of Burlington on the First Monday in July in...One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty. Burlington: Printed by J.H. M’Kenny, 1840. 63pp. FITZPATRICK, IOWA TERRITORIAL DOCUMENTS, p.20. ROSENBACH 11:30B. 4) Laws of the Territory of Iowa, Enacted at the Session of the Legislature Which Com- menced on the First Monday of November, A.D. 1840. Burlington: John H. M’Kenny, 1840-41. 135pp. FITZPATRICK, IOWA TERRITORIAL DOCUMENTS, p.20. ROSEN- BACH 11:30C. 5) Laws of the Territory of Iowa, Enacted at the Session of the Legislature Which Com- menced on the First Monday of December, A.D. 1841. Iowa City: Van Antwerp & Hughes, 1841-42. 150pp. Small tape repair to bottom corner of titlepage, fore-edge trimmed close. FITZPATRICK, IOWA TERRITORIAL DOCUMENTS, p.20. ROSENBACH 11:30D. 6) Laws of Iowa, Passed at the Session of the Legislative Assembly Which Commenced on the 4th Day of December, 1843. Burlington: James Clarke, 1844. xi,227pp. FITZ- PATRICK, IOWA TERRITORIAL DOCUMENTS, p.21. 7) Laws of Iowa, Passed at the Extra Session of the Legislative Assembly Which Com- menced on the 17th Day of June, 1844...Also, the Laws of the Regular Session, Which Commenced on the 5th Day of May, 1845. Iowa City: Williams and Palmer, 1845. viii,13,[1]pp. FITZPATRICK, IOWA TERRITORIAL DOCUMENTS, p.22. 8) Laws of Iowa, Passed at the Session of the Legislative Assembly Which Commenced on the 5th Day of May, 1845. Iowa City: Williams and Palmer, 1845. [2],[19]- 159pp. Issued with the extra session laws just above, but bound separately here. FITZPATRICK, IOWA TERRITORIAL DOCUMENTS, p.22. 9) Laws of Iowa, Passed at the Annual Session of the Legislative Assembly Which Com- menced on the First Day of December, Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Five. Iowa City: A.H & G.D. Palmer, 1846. x,148pp. FITZPATRICK, IOWA TERRITORIAL DOCUMENTS, p.22-23. $3500.

The Red River Expedition of 1870

76. Irvine, [Matthew Bell]: REPORT ON THE RED RIVER EXPE- DITION OF 1870.... [bound with:] CORRESPONDENCE RELA- TIVE TO THE RECENT EXPEDITION TO THE RED RIVER SETTLEMENT: WITH JOURNAL OPERATIONS.... [bound with:] MAPS TO ILLUSTRATE THE CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE RECENT EXPEDITION TO THE RED RIVER SET- TLEMENT.... London. 1871. [2],16pp. plus folding chart; [2],96pp.; [2] pp. plus three color folding maps. Folio. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light toning, final leaf repaired with archival paper with no loss to text. Mild toning at edges of maps. Very good.

A scarce Parliamentary “blue book” examining the actions and orders of the Wol- seley Expedition. Colonel Garnet Wolseley, later one of the most famous soldiers in the British army, was sent to recover the Red River Settlement after the Red River Rebellion led by Métis leader Louis Riel. Included is correspondence detail- ing provisions needed, recommended routes, and Wolseley’s official journal. The British Parliament printed occasional reports of the various expeditions and related Arctic subjects which became known as the Arctic “blue books” named after the distinctive blue wrappers in which they were originally issued. The three maps included show the route between Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement, with dates of arrival by troops at various points, as well as providing previous unknown geographical information of the area. STREETER SALE 3933. PEEL 576, 568. $1500.

Classic Work on the Fur Trade

77. Irving, Washington: ASTORIA, OR ANECDOTES OF AN EN- TERPRISE BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836. Two volumes. 285; 279,8pp., plus folding map. Original blue cloth, spine gilt. Minor fading and chipping of spine. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepages. Minor pencil marginalia on the map as well. Light to moderate foxing. Good.

First edition, Blanck’s first state, with the copyright notice and imprint on the verso of the titlepage in the first volume, and the garbled footnote on page 239 of the second volume. The classic early work on John Astor’s Pacific coast fur trading enterprise, based in part on the journals of Robert Stuart, Wilson Price Hunt, and Ramsay Crooks, along with extracts from Capt. Bonneville’s notes on the western Indians. The map, “Sketch of the routes of Hunt and Stuart,” is not detailed, but as Wheat says, “for what it purports to be it is an excellent map.” WAGNER-CAMP 61:1. BAL 10148. HOWES I81. FIELD 760. TWENEY 89, 34. GRAFF 2158. SABIN 35129. STREETER SALE 3347. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 419. FORBES 1003. $750.

78. James, Edwin: ACCOUNT OF AN EXPEDITION FROM PITTS- BURGH TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1819, 1820...UNDER THE COMMAND OF MAJ. S.H. LONG, OF THE U.S. TOP. ENGINEERS. COMPILED FROM THE NOTES OF MAJOR LONG, MR. T. SAY, AND OTHER GENTLEMEN OF THE PARTY, BY EDWIN THOMAS, BOT- ANIST AND GEOLOGIST TO THE EXPEDITION. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823. Three volumes. vii,[1],344; vii,[1],356; vii,[1],347pp. Folding engraved map, folding engraved plate with geological profiles, and eight other plates (three aquatint) by I. Clark after S. Seymour. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Minor wear, front hinge of first volume cracked but firm. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Very good. In a brown half morocco and cloth clamshell case.

The first London edition of this cornerstone of Western Americana. Originally named the “Yellowstone Expedition,” the U.S. government expedition under Major Stephen Long was the most ambitious exploration of the trans-Mississippi West following those of Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike. The expedition travelled up the Missouri and then followed the River Platte to its source in the Rocky Mountains before moving south to Upper Arkansas. From there the plan was to find the source of the Red River, but when this was missed, the Canadian River was explored instead. Edwin James was the botanist, geologist, and surgeon for the expedition, and “based his compilation upon his own records, the brief geological notes of Major Long, and the early journals of Thomas Say [who served as the expedition’s zo- ologist]” (Wagner-Camp). Significantly, Long’s expedition was the first official U.S. expedition to be accompanied by artists (namely Titian Peale and Samuel Seymour), and the illustrations are an important early visual record of the region. Cartographically, Long provided the first details of the Central Plains. Upon returning to Washington from the expedition, he drafted a large manuscript map of the West (now in the National Archives) and the printed map in James’ Account... closely follows his original. The myth of the Great American Desert was founded by Long, a myth which endured for decades. Long’s map, along with that of Lewis and Clark, “were the progenitors of an entire class of maps of the American Trans- mississippi West” (Wheat). The American first edition was published in three volumes in Philadelphia in 1822-23; this London edition followed. The London edition differs in some respects from the American: a few additional paragraphs of text were added, the plates were re-engraved, and the two maps found in the American edition were here combined into one. WAGNER-CAMP 25:2. FIELD 948. ABBEY 650. HOWES J41, “b.” STREETER SALE 1784. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 353. SABIN 35683. $7500.

79. James, Edwin: A NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY AND AD- VENTURES OF JOHN TANNER...DURING THIRTY YEARS RESIDENCE AMONG THE INDIANS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA. New York. 1830. 426pp. including frontispiece and in-text illustrations. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Light to medium foxing and toning. Very good.

“Minute, vivid...account of all phases of Indian life” – Howes. “[Tanner’s] relation of his life among the Northern Indians, is probably the most minute...ever printed” – Field. Pages 23-281 relate Tanner’s captivity in detail in his own words. “Part II (pp.283-426) is ascribed to Edwin James and contains comments on various aspects of Indian culture – their customs, knowledge of astronomy, music, and poetry – a catalogue of plants and animals, and a vocabulary of Ojibway words and phrases” – Wagner-Camp. “His narrative contains much information about the Hudson’s Bay and Northwest Companies, and about Lord Selkirk’s Red River colony” – Streeter. Field states that Schoolcraft was “strongly prejudiced” against Tanner, who assaulted him and then in 1846 murdered Schoolcraft’s brother, James. WAGNER-CAMP 40:1. FIELD 772. GRAFF 2189. HOWES J42, “b.” PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1959. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3670. STREETER SALE 3701. AYER 290. JONES 911. PEEL 80. TPL 1612. SABIN 35684. EBERSTADT 104:279. DECKER 40:302. $1750.

80. [ Japanese Internment]: FINAL REPORT. JAPANESE EVACUATION FROM THE WEST COAST 1942. Washington. 1943. xxiii,618pp. plus three folding maps. With a related archive of papers and photographs. Original black cloth, gilt. Corners bumped, light wear at extremities. USAF ink stamp on front pastedown, slightly later presentation inscription on front fly leaf. Internally clean. Very good.

Illustrated government report on the need for and means of relocating Japanese citizens during World War II. Includes several leaves of photographs showing happy internees going about their daily tasks. This copy has an especially interesting and desirable provenance: it is inscribed by Gen. John L. DeWitt to Col. Truman R. Young on the front endpaper. Gen. DeWitt (1880-1962) was in charge of the Western Defense Command at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As such he was responsible for recommending the removal and internment of Japanese Americans from the West Coast, a plan which he then proceeded to implement, as laid out in the present volume. The inscription on the front fly leaf reads: “To Col. Truman R. Young, with best wishes and pleasant memories of our service together. J.L. DeWitt, Gen. U.S.A. Ret. Washington D.C., Nov. 11, 1959.” Eighteen years earlier, when the bombs fell on Pearl Harbor and thrust the United States into the war, Truman Young was aide-de-camp to DeWitt, and from March 16 to Aug. 8, 1942, he was temporarily reassigned to the new Civil Affairs Division established under the Wartime Civil Control Administration to implement President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 of February 1942, expelling “all persons of Japanese ancestry, including aliens and non-aliens,” from West Coast military zones. Accompanied by three original photographs (they are of DeWitt and Young together, DeWitt by himself, and a Signal Corps photograph of DeWitt and other officers on parade, saluting). Additionally, there are fourteen letters signed by DeWitt to Young (three are handwritten, the others typed), dating from November 1943 to April 1947, with a number from 1946 referring to Young’s run for Congress. A small ink note on the front pastedown indicates where Mr. Young is mentioned in the book. There is also biographical material on Col. Young and his military service. $1000.

81. Jaques, Mary J.: TEXAN RANCH LIFE; WITH THREE MONTHS THROUGH MEXICO IN A “PRAIRIE SCHOONER.” London. 1894. ix,[3],363pp. plus twelve plates. Illus. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Some wear and discoloration along edges, a few marginal lines and ink marks, occasional fox marks. Else just about very good.

“Mary Jaques was an Englishwoman who spent two years in America from 1889 to 1891. The last part of this rare book describes a trip to Mexico shortly before her return to England, and an earlier trip to the West Coast, but most of the book deals with her ranch experiences” – Six Score. While in California the author visited San Francisco and Yosemite, and when in Texas she spent her time on the Lucheza Ranch, near Kerrville. The photographic plates depict various ranch activities, such as driving and branding cattle. ADAMS HERD 1161. RADER 2042. HOWES J60, “aa.” SIX SCORE 63. MERRILL ARISTOCRAT. $3500.

82. Jenkins, Thomas J.: SIX SEASONS ON OUR PRAIRIES AND SIX WEEKS IN OUR ROCKIES. Louisville, Ky.: Chas. A. Rogers, 1884. 218,[1]pp. 12mo. Original brown publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, spine gilt. Cloth slightly worn and dampstained. Light foxing to endpapers, else internally clean. Very good.

A lively journal of an extended stay in the upper Plains and Rocky Mountain region. In journal fashion Jenkins relates his experiences in Minnesota in the first half of the text, while the rest describes the Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colo- rado. A devout Catholic, Jenkins also includes much information on the Catholic missions and churches of the region, as well as his prescriptions for spreading the faith westward. The Eberstadts note a work with nearly the same title and similarly paginated, also published in 1884 but “privately printed.” Not in Wynar. Scarce. HOWES J95, “aa.” EBERSTADT 106:170 (ref ). $900.

A Key Overland Guide

83. Johnson, Overton, and William H. Winter: ROUTE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF OREGON AND CALIFORNIA; THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES, THEIR RESOURCES, SOIL, CLIMATE, PRODUCTIONS.... La- fayette, In.: John B. Semans, Printer, 1846. 152pp. Original green drab boards, cloth spine. Cloth worn, hinges cracked but solid. Corners worn. Bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary ink inscription on front fly leaf. Some light foxing. Very good. In a red half morocco and cloth slipcase and chemise, spine gilt.

One of the earliest and rarest overland guide books to the Oregon Trail, chronologically the second such guide, preceded only by the Hastings guide of 1845. The authors went overland to Oregon in 1843. Winter went to California the following year, then returned to Indiana, where he arranged to publish this guide book in time for the 1846 emigrant season. The book provides a detailed account of the 1843 trip, a long description of Oregon, Winter’s route to California, the Bear Flag movement, gold at Santa Barbara, and northern California. The return route from California is also described, and there is a table of distances in the rear. Winter eventually settled in the Napa-Sonoma area. This is the issue has corrected text on pages 26 and 36. A rarity, afforded a “d” by Howes, who calls it “one of the greatest of early overland narratives.” This copy bears an ownership inscription which reads: “Jno. M.Gowan / Johnson classmate in / college for 3 years.” A later hand has indicated that this was Wabash College, in Crawfordsville. A key guide and important work of Western Americana, with an interesting association. GRAFF 2221. HOWES J142, “d.” SABIN 36260. STREETER SALE 3145. WAGNER- CAMP 122. COWAN, p.315. $20,000.

An Artist Among the Northwest Indians

84. Kane, Paul: WANDERINGS OF AN ARTIST AMONG THE IN- DIANS OF NORTH AMERICA FROM CANADA TO VANCOU- VER’S ISLAND AND OREGON THROUGH THE HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY’S TERRITORY AND BACK AGAIN. London. 1859. [ii]-xvii,[1],455,[8]pp. plus eight color plates and a partially colored folding map. 20th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Internally clean and bright. Very good.

“The author, after four years study of art in Europe, returned to Canada filled with the determination to fulfill an early formed design of executing a series of drawings, of scenes in Indian life. To accomplish this, he traversed, almost alone, the territories of the Red River Settlement; the valley of the Saskatchewan; across the Rocky Mountains, down the Columbia River; the shores of Puget Sound, and Vancouver’s Island. The book is a transcript of his daily journal, thrown into the narrative form; and the beautiful engravings are copies of the labors of his pencil” – Field. Kane travelled west with Sir George Simpson in 1846 and extensively toured Oregon Territory in 1847, returning to Canada the following year. An accomplished artist, his work is now recognized as including some of the most significant illustrations of North American aboriginal life from this period. The handsome lithographic plates add luster to the book. The map illustrates Kane’s route through the Hudson Bay territory. WAGNER-CAMP 332:1. GRAFF 2262. FIELD 811. HOWES K7, “b.” PEEL 212. AB- BEY 663. STREETER SALE 3727. SABIN 37007. TPL 2911. TWENEY WASHINGTON 38. $3000.

Kansas Lands for Sale

85. [Kansas]: A NEW SECTIONAL MAP OF SEVEN COUNTIES IN THE ARKANSAS VALLEY OF KANSAS, SHOWING SOLD AND UNSOLD FARMING, IRRIGABLE, AND GRAZING LANDS WITHIN THE LAND GRANT OF THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILROAD Co. [N.p., but possibly Topeka. 1884]. Map, 20 x 30 inches, folded to 10 x 3½ inches. Minor dust soiling, one small fold separation, a couple of long repaired tears, several tape repairs at edges. Good.

Sectional map and promotional brochure for the Arkansas Valley of Kansas, ad- vertising land for sale by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. The map shows the rail line from Ellinwood to Cimarron, passing through the Fort Larned Indian reservation and Dodge City, with sold and unsold lands marked accordingly, encompassing parts of Barton, Stafford, Rush, Pawnee, Edwards, Hodgeman, and Ford counties. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad broke ground in Oc- tober 1868, working its way westward and promoting land sales along the route. The brochure portion, on the verso of the map, promotes Kansas as an ideal area for the raising of sheep and cattle, with details on the soil and rainfall, and a brief description of each county and the terms of sale for the land grant. No copies located in OCLC, but there is a copy at Yale. $1250.

86. [Kansas Central Railway]: STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND RESOURCES OF THE KANSAS CENTRAL RAILWAY (NARROW GAUGE) FROM LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS TO DENVER, COLORADO. Leavenworth: Printed at the office of the Kan- sas Farmer, 1871. 19pp. plus partially colored folding lithograph map. Original blue gilt printed wrappers. Some tanning and light dampstaining. Map with a few scattered fox marks and some discoloration along folds. Very good. In a blue morocco and cloth clamshell box.

A prospectus for the Kansas Central Railway, which proposed to connect Denver with the Missouri River at Leavenworth, Kansas. Considered to be one of the most significant attempts to connect Denver with eastern states and transport, the railway managed only to construct approximately 165 miles of narrow gauge track west to Miltonvale, Kansas between its foundation in 1871 and 1882. The railway was then subsumed by Union Pacific, which by 1890 had reconstructed the existing track as a standard gauge line. “Not in McMurtrie. The map is of exceptional interest, with various routes marked in red. The report of Professor Mudge describes the country to be opened up by the new route through the Delaware strip” – Eberstadt. EBERSTADT 137:274. GRAFF 2273. HAWLEY & FARLEY 240. $2000.

87. Kendall, George Wilkins, and Carl Nebel: THE WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO ILLUSTRATED, EM- BRACING PICTORIAL DRAWINGS OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL CONFLICTS...WITH A DESCRIPTION OF EACH BATTLE. New York & Philadelphia: [Plon Brothers of Paris for] D. Appleton & Co. and George S. Appleton, 1851. Twelve fine handcolored lithographic plates on card, heightened with gum arabic, by Bayot (11) or Bayot & Bichebois (1) after Nebel, printed by Lemercier in Paris; and lithographed map. Folio. Text: Original red cloth-backed yellow thick paper wrappers, with printed title on upper cover. Plates: Unbound as issued. All within red half morocco and original red cloth portfolio with flaps and ties, upper cover with elaborate gilt design incorporating the title, yellow paper pastedowns. Very good. In a red morocco backed box.

A largely firsthand report, in words and pictures, of the first offensive war fought by the United States. This is the first and only edition, with superb handcolored lithographed plates, of one of the most important pictorial works relating to the Mexican-American War. “No country can claim that its battles have been illustrated in a richer, more faithful, or more costly style of lithography” – Kendall. “We have never seen anything to equal the artistic skill, perfection of design, marvellous beauty of execution, delicacy of truth of coloring, and lifelike anima- tion of figures....They present the most exquisite specimens ever exhibited in this country of the art of colored lithography; and we think that great praise ought to be awarded to Mr. Kendall for having secured such brilliant and beautiful and costly illustrations for the faithful record of the victories of the American army” (review in the New Orleans Picayune, July 15, 1850, commenting on the pre-publication proofs of the plates). Kendall was America’s first great war correspondent and an ardent proponent of the necessity of America’s war with Mexico. When hostilities broke out, he went at once to the Rio Grande where he joined with the Rangers, and later attached himself to the Scott expedition. For this work he keyed his text to the individual plates, and the combination affords a detailed illustrated account of each battle. The plates are the work of German artist Carl Nebel, who painted the twelve major clashes of the war. Kendall notes in his preface:

Of the twelve illustrations accompanying his work...the greater number were drawn on the spot by the artist. So far as regards the general configuration of the ground, fidelity of the landscape, and correctness of the works and buildings introduced, they may be strictly relied upon. Every reader must be aware of the impossibility, in painting a battle scene, of giving more than one feature or principal incident of the strife. The artist has ever chosen what he deemed the more interesting as well as exciting points of each combat...in the present series of illustrations the greatest care has been taken to avoid inaccuracies.

The authors of Eyewitness to War wrote approvingly that the present work “represents the climax of the confluence of journalism and lithography on the prints of the Mexican war” and that Nebel’s images are “the eyewitness prints that must be compared against all others.” Kendall drew on “the official reports of the different commanders and their subordinates” for the text, but “was present at many of the battles” and “personally examined the ground on which all save that of Buena Vista were fought” (for information on this he relied on a Capt. Carleton). The plates are titled “Battle of Palo-alto”; “Capture of Monterey”; “Battle of Buena Vista”; “Bombardment of Vera-Cruz”; “Battle of Cerro Gordo”; “Assault of Contreras”; “Battle at Churubusco”; “Molino del Rey – attack upon the molino”; “Molino del Rey – attack upon the casamata”; “Storming of Chapultepec – Pillow’s attack”; “Storming of Chapultepec – Quitman’s attack”; and “Gen. Scott’s entrance into Mexico.” It is interesting to note that while the work was published by the Appletons of New York and Philadelphia, the lithographs were produced in Paris. Both Kendall and Nebel felt that the Paris lithographers alone were qualified to produce their images, and they both spent some time in Europe overseeing the production of the work, for which Kendall and Nebel shared all the costs. An article on Kendall in the December 1965 issue of American Legion Magazine notes that “few [copies of this work] were printed, and some destroyed in a fire at the Picayune” (Tom Mahoney, Our First Great War Correspondent). BENNETT, p. 65. McDADE, p.136. HAFERKORN, p.47. HOWES K76, “b.” RAINES, p.132. SABIN 37362. TYLER, PRINTS OF THE WEST, p.78. M.A. Sandweiss, R. Stewart & B.W. Huseman, Eyewitness to War: Prints and Daguerreotypes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848 (Amon Carter Museum of Western Art). $28,000.

Kino Proves California is Not an Island

88. [Kino, Francisco Eusebio]: A PASSAGE BY LAND TO CALIFOR- NIA DISCOVER’D BY YE REV. FATHR. EUSEBIUS FRANCIS KINO JESUIT BETWEEN YE YEARS 1698 & 1701. [London. 1731]. Engraved map, 7¾ x 7¾ inches. In fine condition. [Bound in, following p.192, part 2:] Jones, Henry: THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS (FROM THE YEAR 1700 TO THE YEAR 1720.) ABRIDG’D AND DISPOS’D UNDER GENERAL HEADS. VOL. V.... London. 1731. [10],435,268,[24]pp. plus many folding plates. Quarto. Contemporary calf, raised bands, paper label. Binding heavily rubbed, hinges cracked but held by cords. Occasional spotting or light tanning. Good plus. In a folding cloth box, gilt leather label.

This is the second English edition of Kino’s important map of California, which finally debunked the concept of California as an island, a theory that had dominated cartographic representations for more than a century. The map also accurately depicts the lower California region, giving correct positions of the Colorado River, the Gila River, the Sonoran desert, and much of present-day Arizona. “Kino’s map exerted a great influence on contemporary cartography” – Wheat. The map first appeared in French in 1705, and then in English in 1708 in a volume of The Philosophical Transactions. It was published in that series again in this volume for 1731, accompanied by an extract from the report of Jesuit Francisco Maria Piccolo, “Of a Passage by Land to California, and a Description of that Country.” Piccolo’s report was first published in Mexico in 1702 and is usually considered the first printed account of California. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 89 (ref ). WAGNER, SPANISH SOUTHWEST 74a (note). WAGNER, NORTHWEST COAST 483 (ref ). SCHWARTZ & EHRENBERG, plate 75. $1100.

With Marvelous Photographs, and Early Observations by John Muir

89. Kneeland, Samuel: THE WONDERS OF THE YOSEMITE VAL- LEY, AND OF CALIFORNIA. Boston & New York. 1872. 97,[1]pp. plus two maps, and ten mounted photographic plates including frontis. Tall octavo. Original gilt decorated cloth, a.e.g. Spine sunned, chipped at spine ends, corners worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Slight foxing on mounts; photographs very clean and bright. Very good.

The third edition, after the first of 1871 and a second edition of 1872. “This is a very attractive book and is made more interesting by the additional matter incorporated in each successive edition. Kneeland took pains to get reliable information and present it with more than ordinary care. The photographic illustrations are excellent and include some unusual views....The third edition, [i.e. the present edition], has further additions: besides an expansion of the 1872 material, with an account of the author’s second visit to Yosemite, there are some pages on Yosemite in winter and an essay on ‘The Yosemite Glaciers.’” – Farquhar. The essay on the Yosemite glaciers is John Muir’s earliest published work and was important in the development of knowledge of the Sierra Nevada. Muir’s work was also used in the essays on a recent earthquake in Yosemite, and other sections. The photographic plates illustrate various attractions in the Valley. John Soule, a Boston photographic publisher, is identified on the titlepage as the photographer, but Farquhar and Currey & Kruska note that the images were likely created by local photographers, possibly including Eadweard Muybridge. CURREY & KRUSKA 225. FARQUHAR 10c. Muir: BAL 14733. KIMES & KIMES 5, 6, 7, 8. $1350. A Presentation Copy from the President of Texas to the Leading New York Newspaper Editor: A Streeter Copy

90. Lamar, Mirabeau: ADDRESS OF HIS EXCELLENCY MIRABEAU B. LAMAR, TO THE CITIZENS OF SANTA FE. Austin: Gazette Of- fice, [1841]. 14pp. plus terminal blank. Dbd. Very good. In a half morocco box. Provenance: James Gordon Bennett (pencil inscription by Lamar on titlepage: “with compliments of a Texian Citizen”); Thomas W. Streeter.

One of only a few known copies of this crucial document of Southwestern Ameri- cana, inscribed by Mirabeau B. Lamar, then President of the Republic of Texas, signing as “a Texian Citizen” on the titlepage, to newspaper publisher and editor James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald. In the spring of 1841, Texas sent a force of some 350 men to claim New Mexico and the lucrative Santa Fe trade route for itself, having long believed it to be part of her own territory. The expedition was organized by Lamar, who withdrew funds from the national treasury to finance it without any legislative support – a move of doubtful constitutionality. The expedition was in every way Lamar’s brain- child, including this proclamation to the citizens of New Mexico taken along for distribution. “This is the famous proclamation which the leaders of the Santa Fe Expedition carried to New Mexico” – Streeter. The pamphlet was intended to be distributed in New Mexico in the hope that the traders there would transfer their allegiance from Mexico to Texas. Lamar clearly hoped to legitimize his actions in the eyes of the world, or at least the United States, by getting public opinion on his side. It is hardly surprising that he would send a copy to James Gordon Bennett, who had founded the New York Herald three years prior and had become one of the most influential newspaper publishers in the United States. Bennett had already established himself as an American expansionist, and would later be a strong supporter of James Polk, the annexation of Texas, the Mexican-American War, and the seizure of the Southwest and California. Lamar no doubt sought to gain Bennett’s published approval of his high-handed actions. In every way the expedition was a disaster. Two days after they departed Austin, a commission of the Mexican government, sent specifically to arrange an armistice, arrived in that city. When they discovered what was afoot, they quickly returned home enraged. From then on armistice was impossible. The main body of the expedition was captured, prostrate from hunger and fatigue, about fifty to seventy- five miles east of Santa Fe. They were harshly treated and sent to Mexico, where they were released the following summer through efforts of the U.S. government. Most of the copies of the Address were destroyed during the Santa Fe Expedition, leading Thomas W. Streeter to proclaim it one of the fifteen most desirable items of Texana. Streeter located but four copies besides his own. This copy was once in Streeter’s collection and was lent by him to a New York Public Library exhibition in 1937. It later came to Yale with the Streeter Texas collection in 1957, but was deaccessioned by trade to the firm of Edward Eberstadt & Sons because Yale already owned a copy. From there it passed with the Eberstadt stock to the Jenkins Company of Austin, Texas in 1975, whose bindery supplied its present slipcase. Jenkins sold it to the (then) Austin dealer, Walter Reuben, whose description ac- companies this copy. It has been in a private collection since the late 1970s. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Vol. 41, No. 2 (February 1937), p.90. STREETER TEXAS 480. HOWES L43. SABIN 95025. $60,000.

Important Colorado Rarity

91. [Larimer, William H.H.]: REMINISCENCES OF GENERAL WIL- LIAM LARIMER AND OF HIS SON WILLIAM H.H. LARIMER TWO OF THE FOUNDERS OF DENVER CITY. COMPILED FROM LETTERS: AND FROM NOTES WRITTEN BY THE LATE WILLIAM H.H. LARIMER, OF KANSAS CITY, MIS- SOURI.... Lancaster. 1918. 256pp. plus plates, facsimiles, and folding table. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light shelf wear. Internally clean save for offsetting on two leaves from an old newspaper clipping. Very good.

“General Larimer lost his large fortune in the depression of 1854 and started life anew in Nebraska, leaving his wife and nine children in Pittsburgh. Late in 1855 they joined him in La Platte, a town above Omaha founded by the General. In the fall of 1858, the General, his son W.H.H. Larimer, then not quite 18 years of age, and four others made the overland journey from Leavenworth, Kansas, by way of Bent’s Fort to the new gold discoveries at Cherry Creek. Arriving at Cherry Creek on November 17, 1858 the General a few days later founded the Denver City Town Company. The son’s narrative tells of these journeys and the founding of Denver by his father and life there until the Civil War. From page 210 to 237 the editor tells from family letters of the Civil War services of the General and his son and of the General’s death in 1873. Ordinarily reminiscences are inferior to day by day contemporary accounts, but these are so skillfully edited and so buttressed by contemporary letters and extracts from note books that they form one of the best accounts of an overland journey across the plains and perhaps the best account of the founding of Denver and of life there for the first few years that we have” – Streeter. Rare. Printed in a small edition for private circulation by William Larimer Mellon. HOWES L102, “b.” STREETER SALE 3094. GRAFF 2400. $1250.

Famous Louisiana Rarity and Key Source

92. Laussat, Pierre-Clément de: MÉMOIRES SUR MA VIE, A MON FILS, PENDANT LES ANNÉES 1803 ET SUIVANTES...A LA LOUI- SIANNE...A LA MARTINIQUE...A LA GUYANE FRANÇAISE. Pau. 1831. 636pp., plus errata leaf. Half title. 19th-century half calf and cloth, spine gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown. A few light fox marks at very front and rear of text, else internally fresh and near fine.

An exceedingly rare account of the Louisiana Purchase and its transfer to American control, written by the French colonial prefect for Louisiana and privately printed for his family. Pierre-Clément de Laussat formally received Louisiana Territory from Spain on Nov. 30, 1803 and transferred it to the American com- missioners, William C.C. Claiborne and Gen. James Wilkinson, on Dec. 20. Laussat also supervised the transfer of the Spanish colonial archives to Spain and to American officials. This is Laussat’s own account of his experiences in Louisiana from March 1803 to April 1804, comprising nearly a third of the text. In the rest of the volume he describes his duties in Martinique and French Guyana. Beers asserts that 100 copies were privately printed for Laussat. Howes locates only the Yale copy, and Monaghan finds a single copy only, at the Bibliothèque Municipale in Pau, in the Pyrenees region of southern France, where the book was printed. OCLC also notes copies at the Historic New Orleans Collection, the New Orleans Public Library, and Tulane. “This is one of the rarest items of Americana in the nineteenth century” – Monaghan. An exceptionally desirable firsthand account of the Louisiana Purchase by the highest French authority serving in the region, in original condition. HOWES L142, “d.” MONAGHAN 940. SIEBERT SALE 695. OCLC 9766781. BEERS, FRENCH AND SPANISH RECORDS OF LOUISIANA, pp.20-24. $30,000.

One of the Earliest Separately Issued Maps of the Gold Region

93. Lawson, John T.: LAWSON’S MAP FROM ACTUAL SURVEY OF THE GOLD, SILVER & QUICKSILVER REGIONS OF UPPER CALIFORNIA EXHIBITING THE MINES, DIGGINGS, ROADS, PATHS, HOUSES, MILLS, STORES, MISSIONS, &c. &c. New York: Snyder, [1849]. Lithographic map, 16½ x 22¾ inches. Slight foxing, almost all marginal. Very good to near fine.

The second separately issued map of the California gold regions, published in New York in January 1849. Lawson’s map is preceded only by Larkin’s map of 1848, which showed just the Sacramento valley. As the gold fever rose, mapmakers moved quickly to fill the demands of those who wanted cartographic information regarding the mines. Lawson was a surveyor in San Francisco, and this map, heavily promoted as the best available for those going to the mines, was issued both as a separate map (as here) and bound into a folder. It was the first map to depict all the gold regions on a large scale, and shows the area from Pyramid Lake in the north to Santa Cruz in the south (the map is oriented with north to the left and east at the top). The Sierra Nevada mountains are the easternmost portion, and Lake Tahoe is identified as “Mountain Lake.” The streams and rivers of the region are heavily dotted with the locations of diggings and indications that there is “gold found on all these streams.” “Larkin’s Gold” is situated near the mouth of the Bear River, Sutter’s Fort is located, and the San Joaquin River delta is shown, with a note that “swamps overflowed in the winter season.” Silver and quicksilver mines are shown in the region south of San Jose, and pine, cedar, and redwood forests are also noted. Not in Phillips’ Maps. “Large scale maps, such as this, are the only satisfactory ones of the gold region...from 1849 on almost every map showing California at all indicates the ‘gold region’...but, with few exceptions, on such a small scale as to be of little value” – Streeter. A rare and important map. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 102. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 625. STREETER SALE 2541. $7500.

The Foundation Stone of Western Americana

94. Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark: HISTORY OF THE EXPE- DITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK, TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN THE RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. PERFORMED DUR- ING THE YEARS 1804-5-6.... Philadelphia: Published by Bradford and Inskeep..., 1814. Two volumes. Five maps and charts. Folding map supplied in expert facsimile. Uniformly bound to style in full calf, gilt leather labels. Contemporary ownership signature on front fly leaf and unobtrusive early library stamp on titlepage and one leaf of first volume. Slight foxing and toning. Very good.

The most famous of all western travel narratives, and the cornerstone of any collection of Western Americana. Described by Wagner-Camp as “the definitive account of the most important exploration of the North American continent,” the book describes the expedition to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, undertaken from 1804 to 1806 by ascending the Missouri River to its source, crossing the Rocky Mountains, and reaching the Pacific Ocean. In total the expedition covered some eight thousand miles in slightly more than twenty-eight months. They brought back the first reliable information about much of the area they traversed, made contact with the Indian inhabitants as a prelude to the expansion of the fur trade, and advanced by a quantum leap the geographical knowledge of the continent. This official account of the expedition is as much a landmark in Americana as the trip itself. The narrative has been reprinted many times and remains a peren- nial American bestseller. The observations in the text make it an essential work of American natural history, ethnography, and science. It is the first great U.S. government expedition, the first book on the Rocky Mountain West, and a host of other smaller firsts. It is among the most famous American books. Sets of Lewis and Clark have become increasingly difficult to find, especially as Stephen Ambrose’s excellent book, the Ken Burns documentary, and the expedition’s bicentennial further widened the already broad appeal of the work. One of the greatest books in all Americana. WAGNER-CAMP 13:1. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 272. GROLIER AMERICAN 100, 30. HOWES L317. TWENEY 89, 44. GRAFF 2477. SABIN 40828. CHURCH 1309. FIELD 928. STREETER SALE 1777. STREETER, AMERICANA BEGINNINGS 52. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 31924. HILL 1017. $18,500.

The Foundation Stone of Western Americana, in the Original Boards

95. Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark: HISTORY OF THE EXPE- DITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK, TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN THE RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. PERFORMED DUR- ING THE YEARS 1804-5-6.... Philadelphia: Published by Bradford and Inskeep..., 1814. Two volumes. Six maps, one of them folding. Original paper boards, covers with typographic greek-key border, the upper cover with letterpress text reproducing wording on title pages, lower cover with letterpress advertisement. Spines perished. Neat repairs to large folding map. Very good. In two black morocco boxes.

The most famous of all western travel narratives, and the cornerstone of any collection of Western Americana. Described by Wagner-Camp as “the definitive account of the most important exploration of the North American continent,” the book describes the expedition to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, undertaken from 1804 to 1806 by ascending the Missouri River to its source, crossing the Rocky Mountains, and reaching the Pacific Ocean. In total the expedition covered some eight thousand miles in slightly more than twenty-eight months. They brought back the first reliable information about much of the area they traversed, made contact with the Indian inhabitants as a prelude to the expansion of the fur trade, and advanced by a quantum leap the geographical knowledge of the continent. This official account of the expedition is as much a landmark in Americana as the trip itself. The narrative has been reprinted many times and remains a peren- nial American bestseller. The observations in the text make it an essential work of American natural history, ethnography, and science. It is the first great U.S. government expedition, the first book on the Rocky Mountain West, and a host of other smaller firsts. It is among the most famous American books. Sets of Lewis and Clark have become increasingly difficult to find, especially as Stephen Ambrose’ excellent book, the Ken Burns documentary, and the expedition’s bicentennial further widened the already broad appeal of the work. One of the greatest books in all Americana, very rarely found in the original boards, as here. WAGNER-CAMP 13:1. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 272. GROLIER AMERICAN 100, 30. HOWES L317. TWENEY 89, 44. GRAFF 2477. SABIN 40828. CHURCH 1309. FIELD 928. STREETER SALE 1777. STREETER, AMERICANA BEGINNINGS 52. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 31924. HILL 1017. $180,000.

One of 200 Copies on Large Paper

96. Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark: HISTORY OF THE EXPE- DITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF LEWIS AND CLARK...A NEW EDITION, FAITHFULLY REPRINTED...WITH COPI- OUS CRITICAL COMMENTARY...BY ELLIOT COUES. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1893. Three text volumes plus atlas, totaling 1364pp. Facsimiles. Plates. Folding map. Large octavo. Original half cloth and paper boards, paper labels. Spines rubbed, cloth lightly spotted, corners bumped. Text of atlas bound upside down; rear map pocket separated, but map is fine. Internally clean and tight. Withal, very good.

One of 200 copies on handmade paper from a total edition of 1000, and slightly larger in format than the 800 copies printed on “fine book paper.” This is the first “modern” edited scholarly edition of the Lewis and Clark account and manuscripts, reprinting the official text of 1814, but with extensive notes by Coues based on his examination of the surviving manuscripts and maps of the expedition. This was also the first of a series of landmark publications by Harper on western exploration, and the first editing project of the prolific Coues. “[Coues’] edition of 1893 ranks second in importance only to the original journals. His lengthy annotations, based on first-hand knowledge of the territory, are highly informative, and his bibliographical essay is a major contribution” – Wagner-Camp. A landmark work in the history of western historiography, ushering in modern scholarship the same year as the Turner thesis. HOWES L317. GRAFF 2484. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 272 (ref.) WAGNER-CAMP 13:7 (note). $6500. A Landmark Depiction of the West, with Superb Plates

97. Linforth, James, editor: ROUTE FROM LIVERPOOL TO GREAT SALT LAKE VALLEY...TOGETHER WITH A GEOGRAPHI- CAL AND HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF UTAH...ALSO, AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS’ EMIGRATION FROM EUROPE.... Liverpool. 1855. viii,120pp. plus thirty plates. Folding frontispiece map. Large quarto. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Map slightly trimmed, costing the top borderline in the map. Portraits of Willard Richards and John Taylor neatly excised from their old plate and mounted onto new paper. Very faint tideline barely visible on lower edge of final forty pages and final fifteen plates. The images themselves are generally clean and unblemished. Very good.

One of the most important publications devoted to the Mormon emigration, and a landmark in the artistic depiction of western scenes. The plates are after illustrations by Frederick Piercy. “This elaborately prepared and illustrated book was published as a monument to the Mormon emigration to Utah, and as a means of attracting further emigrants. Piercy made a special trip to America [in 1853] to make sketches for the plates, which are some of the best western views of the period” – Streeter. The outstanding views show New Orleans, Natchez, Vicksburg, Nauvoo, Council Bluffs, Laramie, Fort Bridger, and Scott’s Bluff. “...One of the most elaborately and beautifully illustrated of western books” – Howes. “...One of the basic sources of illustrated Western Americana of the period” – Taft. “One of the most illuminating maps of the West to appear during 1855...it shows Utah in all its glory. This is not only an important map in the history of Mormons, but is in every sense an important map in the history of the West, giving as it does a carefully drawn picture of that entire area” – Wheat. One of the landmark illustrated books of Western Americana. HOWES L359, “b.” WAGNER-CAMP 259. GRAFF 2501. FLAKE 6381. SABIN 41325. STREETER SALE 2296. Taft, Artists & Illustrators of the Old West, p.285. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI IV, pp.40-41. CRAWLEY & FLAKE, A MORMON FIFTY 46. $27,500.

A Foundation Work of Law in the West

98. [Louisiana]: Lislet, L. Moreau, and Henry Carleton, translators: THE LAWS OF LAS SIETE PARTIDAS, WHICH ARE STILL IN FORCE IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. New Orleans. 1820. Two volumes. xxv,605; [3],612-1248,[4],73pp., plus errata. Modern paper boards, paper labels. Moderate foxing and browning. Very good.

An expanded variation of this interesting Louisiana legal item, after its first appearance in 1818. “Las Siete Partidas” translates as “The Seven Parts,” referring to the number of principal divisions. This work is a compilation of the customary laws of Spain, the civil law, and the canon law, collected by four Spanish legal consults under Alphonso X in 1250 and promulgated as law in 1348 by Alphonso XI. At the time of publication the laws were still in force in Louisiana, Texas, and Florida, especially those sections relating to water law. Sabin quotes Ticknor’s Spanish Literature in calling this “A curious and learned work.” COHEN 3645 (ref ). SABIN 42244. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 2019. $2250.

99. [Louisiana]: NOTICE SUR L’ETAT ACTUEL DE LA MISSION DE LA LOUISIANE DERNIERE EDITION Á LAQUELLE ON A AJOUTE DE NOUVEAUX DETAILS. Turin: Chez Hyacinthe Marietti, 1822. 65pp. Contemporary marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Short split to rear joint near spine head. Persistent dampstain in top margin throughout, moderate foxing. Good.

Later edition, revised, after the original Paris edition of 1820. An account of the Catholic missionary activity under Bishop Du Bourg, whose diocese included the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri River valleys. Du Bourg arrived in Baltimore in the summer of 1817 with a group of priests and nuns, and thereafter travelled to St. Louis. This work describes Du Bourg’s work among the Indians. “Du Bourg was one of the great American Bishops” – Streeter. HOWES L515, “aa.” SABIN 55987. STREETER SALE 1538 (1st ed). $2000.

100. [Louisiana]: CODE CIVIL DE L’ÉTAT DE LA LOUISIANE. TRAITÉ DE CESSION DE CET ÉTAT PAR LA FRANCE.... [Par- is?]: E. Duverger, 1825. xvi,792,[1]pp. Half title. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original gilt spine laid down. Portions of original leather perished. Boards scuffed, bookplate on front pastedown. Ex-library, with stamp on titlepage. Initial leaves lightly dampstained, light tanning throughout. Good.

First French edition of a work also published in English in the same year, taken from the official French and English edition printed in New Orleans, also in 1825. The volume contains the first comprehensive revision of the civil code for the state of Louisiana, initially adopted in 1808 and modeled upon the Code Napoléon. “Although there seems to have been no act passed by the legislature for the express purpose of adopting this civil code, the legislature did authorize the printing and promulgation of the code, as amended, by act approved on April 12, 1824. The act provided that the text should be printed in English and French on opposite pages, and that the jurists who had revised the code were to superintend the printing of it, were to number the articles consecutively throughout, and were to add a complete index to it. In February 1825, the legislature granted additional time to the printer to complete the printing of the Civil Code, and on May 20, 1825, the Secretary of State issued his certificate to the effect that the printing had been completed and that the code should be deemed promulgated one month from that date. The title of this completed code, as promulgated, is ‘Civil Code of the State of Louisiana.’ Included in it were provisions originating from Spanish law which were not contained in the Code of 1808. It also contained some provisions from territorial statutes, and others from common law sources. There were a total of 3,522 articles, in this code, more than one and one-half times as many as were contained in the Code of 1808” – Hood. This text also includes copies of the treaty ceding Louisiana Territory to the United States from 1803, and the constitutions of Louisiana and the United States. JUMONVILLE 460. John T. Hood, “The History and Development of the Louisiana Civil Code” in Louisiana Law Review, Vol. 19, No. 1, p.30. $1000.

101. [Louisiana Laws]: ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF THE TERRITORY OF OR- LEANS, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE PRINCIPAL, IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS...ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUN- DRED AND FOUR.... [and:] ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF THE TERRI- TORY OF ORLEANS, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE PRINCI- PAL, IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS...ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIVE.... New Orleans: Printed by James M. Bradford, 1805. xxxiv,461; xii,95pp. Expertly bound to style in half calf and period marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco label. Light toning and spotting. Very good.

The first session laws issued by the Orleans Territorial Legislature, with the text printed in English and French on facing pages, constituting the first American laws printed in the West. In March 1804 the Louisiana Purchase was divided into the territories of Orleans (south of the present border of Arkansas and Missouri) and Louisiana (everything to the north and west, governed until 1807 by Indiana Ter- ritory). The influence of French and Spanish laws in North America is evident in these early territorial laws, as it took Congress more than two decades to determine their intent with regard to existing Spanish and French law. These two works are the same as the second and third works bound with the Compilation of New Orleans laws in item 1587 in the Streeter sale. “At the first session of the Legislative Council 51 Acts and one joint resolution were approved, the latest on May 1, 1805; and at the second session 15 acts were approved, the latest dated July 3, 1805” – Streeter. JUMONVILLE 121, 122. STREETER 1587 (ref ). FOOTE, pp.2-3. McMURTRIE (NEW ORLEANS) 77, 78. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 9072, 9073. THOMPSON 1079, 1080. $7500.

102. Marsh, James B.: FOUR YEARS IN THE ROCKIES; OR, THE AD- VENTURES OF ISAAC P. ROSE, OF SHENANGO TOWNSHIP, LAWRENCE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA; GIVING HIS EXPE- RIENCE AS A HUNTER AND TRAPPER IN THAT REMOTE REGION.... New Castle, Pa. 1884. 262pp. Frontis. Modern three-quarter polished calf and marbled boards, spine gilt extra, leather labels, t.e.g. Near fine.

“An important addition to the stories of the Wyeth expedition in the history of the early days of the fur trade” – Streeter. Isaac Rose, as a lad of nineteen, went west with Wyeth in 1834 and spent the next four years as a fur trapper and trader. STREETER SALE 2115. HOWES M306, “b.” GRAFF 2688. WAGNER-CAMP 3rd ed. 75 (note). $1000.

A Basic and Critical Source for the Texas Revolution

103. Martinez Caro, Ramon: VERDADERA IDEA DE LA PRIMERA CAMPAÑA DE TEJAS Y SUCESOS OCURRIDOS DESPUES DE LA ACCION DE SAN JACINTO. Mexico: Imprenta de Santiago Perez, 1837. vii,162pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Corners slightly worn. Bookplate of noted collector Luis Garcia Pimentel on front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good.

Memoir of the Texas Revolution and the decisive Battle of San Jacinto, written by Gen. Santa Anna’s secretary, including his official report of the campaign. The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, saw the swift defeat of Mexican forces by the Texian army, resulting in the conclusion of the war and Texan independence. “In reliability as a contemporary Mexican source on the Texas revolution ranks with Filisola’s Memorias; it is highly critical of Santa Anna” – Howes. This copy bears the bookplate of Mexican historian and bibliographer Luis Garcia Pimentel. HOWES C155, “b.” BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 138. $7500.

A Fine Set of Maximilian’s Travels with the Bodmer Plates

104. Maximilian, Price of Wied-Neuwied: Bodmer, Karl: REISE IN DAS INNERE NORD-AMERICA IN DEN JAHREN 1832 BIS 1834. Co- blenz: J. Hoelscher, 1839-1841 (text); Coblenz, Paris & London: J. Hoelscher, A. Bertrand, Ackermann and Co., [1839-1841] (plates). Four volumes: text in two volumes, large quarto; Tab. atlas of plates, oblong folio; Vig. atlas of plates, oblong small folio. Text: 12pp. subscribers’ list (front of vol. II), engraved plan, folding meteorological table, fifty-two wood-engraved illustrations. Tab. atlas: forty-eight aquatint plates (seventeen handcolored) after Karl Bodmer, each plate with the Bodmer blindstamp, engraved by J. Hurliman, L. Weber, C. Vogel, Salathé, Himely, Prévost, R. Rollet, P. Legrand, Desmadryl, and others; large folding engraved map by Lieut.-Col. W. Thorn, titled “Map to illustrate the Route of Prince Maximilian of Wied,” handcolored in outline. Vig. atlas: thirty-three aquatint plates (three handcolored) after Karl Bodmer, many heightened with gum arabic, each blindstamped “C. Bodmer / Direct,” engraved by C. Vogel, L. Weber, J. Outhwaite, J. Hürlmann, Himely, Martens, and others. Expertly bound to style in half calf and period marbled boards, spines tooled in gilt and blind, lettered in gilt. Very good.

This masterpiece is the pinnacle of illustrated works devoted to North America, and unquestionably the greatest of all illustrated books devoted to North American Indians. Reise in das Innere Nord-America is the finest work on American Indian life and the American frontier. It is the result of an epic journey which took place at a time when the mass migration of settlers and pioneers was about to irrevocably alter the unspoiled West. Karl Bodmer (1809-93) was engaged by Prince Maximilian (already famed for his earlier explorations to Brazil) to provide a record of his travels among the Plains Indians of North America in 1833-34. His efforts show great versatility and technical virtuosity, and give us a uniquely accomplished and detailed picture of a previously little understood and soon to vanish way of life. The most important part of the travels of Prince Maximilian and Karl Bodmer started in St. Louis, whence they proceeded up the treacherous Missouri River along the line of forts established by the American Fur Company. At Bellevue they encountered their first Indians, then went on to make contact with the Sioux tribe, learning of and recording their little-known ceremonial dances and powerful pride and dignity. Transferring from the “Yellow Stone” to another steamer, “Assiniboine,” they continued to Fort Clark, where they visited the Mandan, Mintari, and Crow tribes, then the Assiniboines at Fort Union, the main base of the American Fur Company. On a necessarily much smaller vessel they journeyed through the extraordinary geological scenery of that section of the Missouri to Fort Mackenzie in Montana, establishing a cautious friendship with the fearsome Blackfeet. From this, the westernmost point reached, it was considered too dangerous to continue, and the return journey downstream began. The winter brought its own difficulties and discomforts, but Bodmer was still able to execute numerous studies of villages, dances, and especially the people, who were often both intrigued and delighted by his work. The portraits are particularly notable for their capturing of individual personalities as well as forming, together with Prince Maximilian’s written studies, the primary account of what have become virtually lost cultures. Bodmer’s atlas, made up of smaller vignettes and larger tableaus of scenes from the trip, is justly famous for its extraordinary depictions of the Indians of the Up- per Missouri. These are, in fact, the best depictions of American Indians executed before the era of photography, and certainly the best of the Plains tribes in their heyday. Illustrated are hunting scenes, portraits of individual warriors including the famous Mato-Tope, Indian dances, scenes on the trip up the Missouri and along the river in its upper reaches, scenes among the Mandans and of the fur trade forts, and illustrations of Indian artifacts. No other images of American Indians even come close to these in accuracy, detail, and execution, faithfully transferred from the originals to the aquatint plates under Bodmer’s close supervision. As the original prospectus explains, the work was issued with the plates in five formats (the list of subscribers in the front of the second text volume shows which version was purchased by each subscriber by means of the following numbers): 1) uncolored on regular French paper; 2) uncolored on India paper (i.e. “chinesisches papier”); 3) on regular paper with twenty plates handcolored (as in the present set); 4) on India paper with twenty plates handcolored; 5) on “Imperial velin papier” with all plates printed in color and handcolored. In addition, the two text volumes were issued in regular and large paper, with the latter reserved for purchasers of the deluxe fully colored version. ABBEY 615. CLARK III:155, 1. HILLIER 898. HOWES 443A. MULLER 958. SABIN 47014. STREETER SALE 1809. WAGNER-CAMP 76:3 $450,000.

Establishing Frontier Garrisons in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Sonora

105. [Mexico]: [Molinos del Campo, Francisco]: [Lozano, Luis]: [MEXI- CAN GOVERNMENT BROADSIDE ORDERING THE ESTAB- LISHMENT OF FRONTIER GARRISONS ON THE NORTHERN BORDER]. [Mexico]. 1826. Broadside printed on parts of four different sheets, 15 x 21¾ inches, plus four charts, 15½ x 12½ inches. Sheets pasted together at top edge. Ink stamps on verso of primary broadside. Folds, slight wear at edges. Light tanning, otherwise clean. Very good. Untrimmed.

An important decree issued by the Mexican government on March 21, 1826 ordering the creation of garrisons in Mexican states and territories along its northern border. With this decree Mexico commissioned several outposts in Chihuahua, Sonora y Sinaloa, Coahuila y Tejas, Punta de Lampazos, and Tamaulipas, and made provision for the defence of its borders. These included garrisons in San Antonio de Bejar, Tucson, Santa Fe, and towns in northern Mexico. Accompanying the order are charts put together in February 1826 that outline the number of troops and supplies required for each garrison and the cost of providing them. This is a bando provincial printing, made April 27, 1826, of a decree originally published as a pamphlet in Mexico City on March 21. It was part of a general tightening of frontier security by Mexico which had a significant impact on American emigration to Texas and the Santa Fe trade. STREETER TEXAS 714 (cites original Mexico City printing). $3000.

106. [Mexico]: Cervantes, Miguel: MIGUEL CERVANTES, GENERAL DE BRIGADA, Y GOBERNADOR DEL DISTRITO FEDERAL.... [Mexico. Oct. 18, 1830]. Broadside, 11½ x 23 inches. Light wear to edges, two horizontal fold lines. Expert paper repair re-affixing lower third. Quite clean. Very good.

An important decree relating to the division of Sonora and Sinaloa. The present document outlines nineteen articles that clarify the various departments of the new states and provides for their administration. Of particular interest is the establishment of the Arizpe department in Sonora, which occupied much of what is now Arizona, as well as the allocation of electors to each of the several departments. Not in OCLC. $1000.

107. [Mexico]: PRIMERA SECRETARIA DE ESTADO. DEPART- MENTO DEL INTERIOR. EL EXMO. SR. VICE-PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS-UNIDOS MEXICANOS SE HA SERVIDO DIRIGIRME EL DECRETO QUE SIGUE...[caption title]. [Mexico. Feb. 4, 1834]. Broadsheet, 8 x 11½ inches. Dampstain in lower right corner, light fold lines. Very good and clean.

An important decree by the vice president and temporary acting president of Mexico, Valentin Gomez Farias, for the relief of oppressed citizens and unemployed soldiers. This act reiterates the intentions of a similar April 6, 1830 decree which states the government’s wish to relieve suffering caused by the country’s disorganized administration by helping citizens take up government lands in Coahuila and Texas. This February 1834 act was in turn reinforced by an April 11, 1834 act which clarified the administration of such new colonies as might appear. Quite rare. “Streeter locates only one copy besides his own. A highly interesting decree....Here we learn that preference will be shown to soldiers and politicians thrown out of work by the termination of the revolution” – Eberstadt. STREETER TEXAS 812. ARRILAGA 1834, p.47. EBERSTADT 162:330. $1000.

108. [Mexico Photographica]: [Self, Edward Danforth]: MEXICO NO- VEMBER 1901 [cover title]. [San Jose, Tamaulipas, Mexico. 1901-1902]. Three volumes. [24]; [24]; [24]pp., containing 189 gelatin silver prints mounted in die-cut windows, ninety-two 3¼ x 3¼ inches, ninety-seven 4¼ x 3¼ inches. Oblong quarto. Volume I: Antique-style calf, original gilt front cover label laid down. Volume II: Contemporary black blindstamped cloth. Volume III: Contemporary crimson pebbled cloth. Minor shelf wear, light bumping. Very good. Photographs in generally excellent condition.

A captivating visual record of early 20th-century Mexico. The images were captured by Edward Danforth Self, noted mechanical and mining engineer who worked as the general manager of the San Carlos Mine in Mexico. The San Carlos mines encompassed six square miles with a copper and gold smelter at San Jose, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and 6400 acres of timber. By 1901 the company included the Begonia, Santa Elena, and Bretana mines, with fifty shafts spread over seven miles of tunnels and total underground openings of ten miles. In 1904 they were reported to have mined and refined over 88,000 pounds of copper and an indeterminate amount of gold. Self continued to work for the San Carlos Copper Co. until 1907, when the company was sold to the Saddle Mountain Mining Co. of Arizona, after which Self moved to Phoenix to work in mines there. After early retirement, he moved himself and his family to Florence, Italy before World War I so his children could benefit from an education in art and music. The Nichols family, who owned and operated San Carlos and many other mining companies, eventually built a giant chemical company, Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation, which would grow into the special materials business of Honeywell. The images are filled with scenes of Mexican natives, mining equipment, smelters, cities, trains, coaches, ox carts, and more. The first album begins with photos of Self, along with colleagues George Finlay and Prof. James Furman Kemp, and families leaving on the Mexican Central Railroad from Eagle Pass, Texas to study copper ores at the San Carlos Copper Company mines. Unfortunately for the travelers, the branch railroad spur between Linares and the mines was unfinished, so they were forced to go by carriage, horseback, and oxcarts for the thirty-eight-mile journey to the mines. The images show the wagons, women preparing food, Mexican drovers, cowboys, Self ’s house in San Jose, mining buildings, Mexicans in Tampico waiting for the railroad, two images showing a Boettcher Bros. Co. hardware store in the background, and more. Many photos show street scenes featuring indigenous people in Mexico City, Guadalupe, San Angel, Montemorelos, Zacatecas, and Monterey, with an interesting image of a small Ferris wheel operating in Guadalupe, along with a street market, jewelry store, train stations, the countryside, and the smelter. The second and third albums show a variety of subjects including a steam en- gine, a hoist, the San Carlos Copper Co. office, Self ’s house, Mexican buildings, homes, and offices of the assorted mines, steam pouring from the engines driving the mining equipment, several trains of the Mexican Central Railroad, along with several shots of what appear to be Mexican troops on maneuvers, sporting events and races, Mexicans in native dress, and Self ’s wife and young children. Interestingly, in the second album there are several shots of the family on vacation in Saratoga Springs, New York, showing the boardwalk, tourist hotels, golfing, two sharp images of African-American caddies, and ladies playing croquet in Victorian dress. A wonderful artifact documenting the rural and urban life of Mexicans before the Revolution. $2500.

The First Laws of the State of Missouri

109. [Missouri]: ACTS OF THE FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI, PASSED AT THE FIRST [– SEC- OND & SPECIAL] SESSION, HELD AT THE TOWN OF SAINT LOUIS. St. Louis & St. Charles: Isaac N. Henry and Co., and R. M’Cloud, 1820,1821,1822. Three volumes. 112pp. with manuscript index at rear; 40,iiipp.; 195pp. plus index. Small octavo. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather label. Faint old stamps on titlepages of second and third volumes, first volume trimmed close with loss to some page numbers. Contemporary ownership signatures, generally clean copies. Very good.

The first acts of Missouri upon gaining statehood as part of the 1820 Missouri Compromise. The first assembly was held at St. Louis and the acts printed there. In 1821 the Assembly moved to St. Charles, and the printer, Robert M’Cloud, established the second place of printing in the state. According to the law passed to print the acts, 500 copies of each were printed. The first assembly established many basic state laws, while all deal with issues of land, western settlement, slavery, and trade. A set of these three imprints is rare. AII (MISSOURI) 30, 40, 55. $3750.

The Attempted Missouri Constitution of 1845

110. [Missouri]: CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI; MADE IN CONVENTION, AT THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, A.D. 1845 [cover title]. Jefferson: James Lusk, 1846. 26pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Old library stamp on first leaf, contemporary ink manuscript notation on first page. Heavily trimmed, with some loss to page numbers and annotation. Good.

The rare Missouri constitution drafted in the convention of 1845. The first Mis- souri constitution was passed in 1820, just prior to statehood in 1821. This is the second proposed constitution, drafted due to the growing population of the state. It was not, however, ratified by the voters, and thus was not adopted. Indeed, the manuscript note in this copy relates: “This proposed Constitution was submitted to the people of Mo Aug 1846 & rejected by a majority of 8,460–.” The constitution was not amended again until 1865, when Missouri passed a constitution with draconian loyalty oaths, designed to exclude all but the most fervent Unionists from public life. AII (MISSOURI) 481. $2000.

111. [Missouri]: JOURNAL OF THE MISSOURI STATE CONVEN- TION, HELD AT THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, JANUARY 6 – APRIL 10, 1865. St. Louis: Missouri Democrat, 1865. 287pp. Half calf and marbled boards, leather label, in antique style. Scattered light foxing. Very good.

Proceedings from the Missouri constitutional convention of 1865. Dominated by radical Republican political elements, the convention abolished slavery without compensation for slave owners, approved the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Con- stitution, and adopted a state constitution that was in effect until 1875. OCLC 19751212. $1250.

The Laws of Missouri Territory

112. [Missouri Territory Laws]: [CONSECUTIVE RUN OF MISSOURI TERRITORIAL LAWS FOR THE FIRST SIX GENERAL ASSEM- BLIES, 1813 – 1818]. St. Louis. 1813-1818. Six volumes. Half calf and marbled boards in antique style, leather labels. 19th-century bookseller’s stamp and ownership inscription on each titlepage, minor foxing, some toning and tanning, occasional very minor ink marginalia. Very good.

A significant run of six very early Missouri Territory general assemblies, all preceding statehood and very rare. All of these titles were printed by Joseph Charless, editor, printer, and publisher of the Missouri Gazette and official printer of Missouri Ter- ritory. “His official position as the Missouri territorial printer supplied Charless’ press with a considerable amount of work through the years. In addition to small job tasks which he was from time to time called upon to perform, he had also the responsibility annually of publishing the laws enacted during the previous session of the territorial legislature” – Kaser. This important assemblage provides a wealth of information about the trans- Mississippi frontier during the territorial period. All of the imprints are of considerable rarity. A complete listing of the imprints is aavailable on request. AII (MISSOURI) 7, 8, 9, 11, 16, 22. David Kaser, Printer in the Western Country (Phila- delphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, [1963]), p.123. $9500.

113. Mitchell, S. Augustus: MEXICO & GUATEMALA. Philadelphia. 1846. Folding handcolored pocket map, 12½ x 15 inches. Tipped into original 12mo. cloth folder. Separating at corner folds. Light soiling and foxing. Light wear to folder. Good.

A pocket variation of Mitchell’s map of Mexico and Guatemala. “This is based largely on 1845 Fremont” – Wheat. Mitchell issued several maps of Mexico and the surrounding area in 1846, and this map appears to have gone through several editions. The handcolored map shows all the states of Mexico, including Upper and Lower California and parts of the American Southwest. It also has insets of the Valley of Mexico and of Guatemala. Not in Phillips’ Maps. Scarce. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 519 (ref ). $1250.

114. Mitchell, S. Augustus: A ROUTE-BOOK, ADAPTED TO MITCH- ELL’S NATIONAL MAP OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC; COM- PRISING TABLES OF THE PRINCIPAL RAIL-ROAD, STEAM- BOAT AND STAGE ROUTES, THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846. 46pp. plus large folding map, 25 x 34¼ inches, with full period color. 16mo. Original blindstamped and gilt purple morocco, with original clasp. Morocco a bit rubbed and edgeworn. One significant tear from the left edge where bound in, with no loss; several other noticeable separations along folds. The text is very clean. Very good, the map with brilliant contemporary color. In a half morocco box.

Second edition, after the first of 1843, of this rare pocket map of North America, showing the United States west to Texas, Indian Territory, and Dakota Territory (i.e. 19° longitude west of Washington, D.C.). The map, J.H. Young’s “Mitchell’s National Map of the American Republic or the United States of North America,” is revised and updated from the 1843 version, most notably by the addition of the newly created Territory of Iowa. The inset map of Texas is new to this 1846 edition and dates from the first year of statehood, still showing Texas with its Republic boundaries. The Oregon inset is also new and shows the Oregon border going north into Canada (before the 1846 treaty boundaries). There are also two population tables, and the text lists the major railroad, steamboat, and stage routes all the way west to Iowa, Wisconsin, and Missouri. The four insets are “Map of the North- Eastern boundary of the United States According to the Treaty of 1842”; “Map of the Southern part of Florida”; “Map of Oregon Territory”; and “Map of the State of Texas.” These four insets take the place of the thirty-two small inset maps of cities and towns from the 1843 version of the map. Rumsey lists only the wall map version of this 1846 map. OCLC locates eight copies of this important pocket map. RISTOW, p.310. OCLC 228693421, 8551053. RUMSEY 3796 (ref ). $4500.

The Artist/Author’s Most Important Work

115. Möllhausen, Heinrich Baldwin: TAGEBUCH EINER REISE VOM MISSISSIPPI NACH DEN KUSTEN DER SUDSEE. Leipzig. 1858. [28],494,[2]pp. plus sixteen plates (seven in color, six tinted, and three in black and white) and folding map. Half title. Large, thick quarto. Original gilt-stamped cloth, expertly rebacked, edges neatly refurbished. Some scattered foxing, at times rather heavy, else just about very good.

The most important work of this notable German artist and topographer, who accompanied several of the leading western surveys of the 1850s. This book describes his experiences with the Pacific Railroad survey under Lieut. Amiel Whipple, in- vestigating a potential route along the 35th parallel in 1853, which took the party across northern New Mexico and Arizona. The work is notable for its plates of the Pueblo Indians and Möllhausen’s account of them. “...In addition to the account in journal form of his experiences as topographer of Whipple’s surveying expedition in 1853, there is an account of his experiences in the West in 1851 on a trip from St. Louis to Laramie with Prince Paul of Wurttemberg” – Streeter. Möllhausen’s career and the chronology of these expeditions are described in detail by Taft. The Tagebuch... is extremely scarce in the marketplace. HOWES M713, “b.” ABBEY 661 (ref ). WAGNER-CAMP 305:1. GRAFF 2851. SABIN 49914. STREETER SALE 3135. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 955. Taft, Artists & Il- lustrators of the Old West, pp.22-35. $4500.

116. Myers, Frank: SOLDIERING IN DAKOTA, AMONG THE IN- DIANS, IN 1863-4-5. Huron, Dakota: Huronite Printing House, 1888. 60pp. Original decorative printed wrappers. Rear wrapper partially restored. Minor chipping to spine. Loss to lower forecorner of text. Text lightly and evenly toned. Tissue repairs to last two leaves. Very good. In a black half morocco and cloth slipcase with chemise, spine gilt.

One of the rarest works about Plains Indian wars during the Civil War period. Myers was a member of the Sixth Iowa Cavalry, under the command of Gen. Alfred Sully, sent into the Dakotas to punish the Sioux in 1864 and 1865. He vividly describes events of 1863-65 on the northwestern frontier, including the rescue of the famed Indian captive, Fanny Kelly. An excellent firsthand narrative of events along the Up- per Missouri, including clashes with Indians (e.g. the Battle of Tah-Kah-O-Kee-Ta), Sully’s marches deep into Sioux country, and the punishments inflicted on the Sioux by American forces. Very rare. HOWES M929, “b.” ALLEN, DAKOTA 648. $7500.

An Impressive Run of Nebraska Law

117. [Nebraska]: [LAWS, RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE TERRITORY OF NE- BRASKA]. Omaha & Brownville. 1855-1865. Ten volumes. 20th-century tan cloth, gilt leather label. Cloth lightly worn and soiled, paper label at foot of each spine. Library ink stamps on each titlepage. Minor foxing. Good.

An impressive run of the territorial laws for Nebraska Territory, probably impossible to assemble separately today. The first volume includes the Organic Act, organizing the Territory, which encompassed areas of what is today Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Colorado, and Montana. Issued at a point of national turmoil over the status of slavery in the new territories, these laws are of great importance for the period just prior to the Civil War. The titles are as follows:

1) Laws, Resolutions and Memorials, Passed at the Regular Session of the First General Assembly of the Territory of Nebraska.... Omaha: Sherman & Strickland, 1855. 517pp. 2) Laws, Joint Resolutions, and Memorials, Passed at the Second Session of the Legislative Assembly, of the Territory of Nebraska.... Omaha: Hadley D. Johnson, 1856. 249pp. 3) Laws, Joint Resolutions, and Memorials, Passed at the Third Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nebraska.... Brownville: Robert W. Furnas, 1857. 312pp. 4) Laws, Joint Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the Fourth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nebraska.... Omaha: Edwin S. Chapman, 1858. 74pp. 5) Laws, Joint Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the Fifth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nebraska.... Omaha: C.C. & C.D. Woolworth, 1859. 455pp. 6) Laws, Joint Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the Sixth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nebraska.... [Omaha]: Thomas Morton, 1860. 233pp. 7) Laws, Joint Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the Seventh Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nebraska.... [Omaha]: Thomas Morton, 1861. 270pp. 8) Laws, Joint Resolutions and Memorials, Passed at the Eighth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nebraska.... Omaha: Taylor & McClure, 1862. 200pp. 9) Laws, Joint Resolutions and Memorials, Passed at the Ninth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nebraska.... Omaha: Taylor & M’Clure, 1864. 315pp. 10) Laws, Joint Resolutions and Memorials, Passed at the Tenth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nebraska.... Omaha: Taylor & M’Clure, 1865. 178pp.

SABIN 52193. $6000.

Important Early Laws of New Mexico Territory

118. [New Mexico]: LAWS OF THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO, PASSED BY THE SECOND LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY IN THE CITY OF SANTA FE, AT A SESSION BEGUN ON THE SIXTH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1852. [bound with:] LAWS OF THE TERRI- TORY OF NEW MEXICO, PASSED BY THE THIRD LEGISLA- TIVE ASSEMBLY.... [bound with:] LAWS OF THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO, PASSED BY THE FIFTH [actually fourth] LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.... Santa Fe. 1853, 1854, 1855. [3]-160; [3]-219; [3]-147pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Ex-Maine State Library, with an occasional oval ink stamp and at least one blindstamp, faint dampstain in upper corner of text, else quite clean internally. Very good.

A collection of scarce and early New Mexico territorial laws, containing the text of the laws passed by the second, third, and fourth legislative assemblies (the latter mislabeled as the fifth on the titlepage). These are very early and significant New Mexico imprints, containing much of the legislation passed in the formative years of the territory. The laws are printed in English and Spanish throughout, and each volume was issued with a separate Spanish titlepage, although only the Spanish titlepage for the laws of the fifth assembly is present here. The acts cover a variety of subjects, from laws regarding individual rights to others establishing counties, courts, elections, and criminal codes, to particular prohibitions on carrying con- cealed weapons “within the settlements,” laws on vagrancy, gambling, prostitution, selling liquor to Indians, and much more. Other acts deal with the incorporation of mining companies and establishing mail routes. The second assembly laws were printed by James L. Collins and Company (and contain several errors in the running headlines and elsewhere identifying them as those of the “third” session), the third by Collins and W.W.H. Davis, and the fifth at the Santa Fe Gazette office. AII (NEW MEXICO) 73,78,93. McMURTRIE (NEW MEXICO) 49, 53, 56. $2750. 119. [New Mexico]: RAND, McNALLY AND CO.’S LARGE TOWN- SHIP, COUNTY AND RAILROAD MAP OF NEW MEXICO.... Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., [ca. 1880]. 9,[5]pp. with large folding map, 29 x 24½ inches. Black publisher’s cloth. Cloth partially torn away from front board, text lightly tanned, slight offsetting on map, else fine.

A well-executed map of New Mexico Territory from approximately 1880 depicting towns, railroads, land grants, and surveyed geological features. Partially printed in color to denote different confirmed and unconfirmed land grants, as well as to show military installations and Indian reservations. $1500.

Raising Arms Against Texas Confederate Invaders

120. [New Mexico Territory]: Connelly, Henry: PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR [caption title]...WHEREAS THIS TERRITORY IS NOW INVADED BY AN ARMED FORCE FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS...DONE AT SANTA FE THIS 9th DAY OF SEPTEM- BER IN THE YEAR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY ONE. [Santa Fe. 1861]. [1]p. with integral blank. Signed in print by Connelly. Ubound. Very good.

This proclamation by the territorial governor orders “an immediate organization of the militia force” to repel invaders from Confederate Texas. The proclamation continues:

Citizens of New Mexico, your Territory has been invaded, the integrity of your soil has been attacked, the property of peaceful and industrious citizens has been destroyed or converted to the use of the invaders and the enemy is already at your doors. You cannot, you must not, hesitate to take up arms in defense of your homes, firesides and families....

Scarce. Imprints Inventory cites only the copy at the Huntington Library, although additional copies are located at the Newberry Library, Yale, Duke, Princeton, and the University of Wyoming. We find no other example on the market since 1972. EBERSTADT 162:173 (this copy?). STREETER SALE 443. AII (NEW MEXICO) 149. $15,000.

121. Newell, Chester, Rev.: HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION IN TEXAS, PARTICULARLY OF THE WAR OF 1835 & ’36.... New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1838. x,215pp. plus folding map in facsimile. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Lightly foxed, faint dampstaining at edges of text block. Very good.

“This is one of the earliest books published about Texas after it became a republic... the quotations from participants are of considerable historical value. The descriptive portions add much to our knowledge of the early republic....The work begins with an excellent summary of Mexican history from 1821 to 1835, followed by a sketch of Texas history from 1832 to 1835, ending with Cos’ retreat from San Antonio. The events of 1836 are described, including quotations from participating Texans and from...Mexican accounts, such as Almonte’s diary....Of particular value are the account of Santa Anna’s capture [and his] confrontation with Houston shortly afterwards. Newell was one of the first to seduce Sam Houston into giving particulars of the campaign” – Jenkins. “One of the rare and reliable books on Texas” – Raines. The appendix prints some important historical documents regarding the revolution. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 151. HOWES N115, “aa.” CLARK III:215. GRAFF 3010. RADER 2479. RAINES, p.154. SABIN 54948. STREETER TEXAS 1318. $1000.

The Greatest Rarity of Texas and Western Civil War Items

122. Noel, Theophilus: A CAMPAIGN FROM SANTA FE TO THE MISSISSIPPI; BEING A HISTORY OF THE OLD SIBLEY BRI- GADE FROM ITS FIRST ORGANIZATION TO THE PRESENT TIME; ITS CAMPAIGNS IN NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, LOUI- SIANA AND ARKANSAS, IN THE YEARS 1861-2-3-4. Shreveport, La.: Shreveport News Printing Establishment, 1865. 151pp. Contemporary plain wrappers, labeled in ink manuscript circa 1900. Skillful repairs to minor marginal tears. Some contemporary notes and corrections in pencil. About half of final leaf supplied in facsimile. Overall very good. In a half morocco box.

The greatest rarity of the Civil War in Texas and the trans-Mississippi West, Noel’s narrative is virtually impossible to obtain. We know of only one other copy to change hands in the last fifty years. The present copy belonged to Lieut. Alexander Porter Morse, who made a number of annotations in the text. Morse was attached to the Sibley Brigade during its Louisiana operations. The Sibley Brigade was formed by Gen. Henry H. Sibley, who conceived the bold plan of recruiting a brigade of troops in Texas to invade New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado and secure them for the Confederacy, then seize California. The gold of California and control of the West would give the Confederacy a boost which might sway the outcome of the war. Troops were recruited in the late summer and fall of 1861, and by November 1861 the Brigade left San Antonio for New Mexico. By early 1862 they had seized southern New Mexico and Fort Bliss in Arizona. In February 1862, Union troops pushed south from Colorado, and on the 21st a pitched battle was fought at Valverde which the Brigade won. Sibley chased the Union troops north, but in a second battle at Glorieta Pass in northern New Mexico on March 21 the Brigade was roundly defeated. This forced the abandonment of the western strategy, and the Confederates retreated to Mesilla and then across Texas, arriving back in east Texas in the summer of 1862. Noel’s account is the best of the entire southwestern campaign. In early 1863 the Brigade was involved in the defense of Galveston, then moved to western Louisiana, where it actively campaigned and took part in numerous conflicts from April onward. The fall of Vicksburg in July effectively cut the trans- Mississippi off from the rest of the Confederacy, and campaigning was confined to northern Louisiana before retreating to winter quarters in Texas. In the spring of 1864 it returned to the vicinity of Alexandria, Louisiana, and engaged in more hard fighting there and then in southern Arkansas until the end of the year. Noel’s narrative ends at the end of 1864. This book was probably printed in Shreveport during the winter of 1865, ac- counting for its extreme rarity. A prospectus exists dated at Houston on March 20, 1865, making it possible that this is not a Confederate imprint but actually issued immediately after the war. Parrish and Willingham locate seven copies, all in institutions with major Americana holdings. To this we can add a copy we know of in a private collection (the Sanders copy, on which his 1961 reprint was based, sold by this firm several years ago) and the present copy. One of the legendary rarities of Texana and the Civil War. HOWES N167, “d.” PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4977. $60,000.

123. Noyes, Alva J.: THE STORY OF AJAX LIFE IN THE BIG HOLE BASIN. Helena, Mt.: State Publishing Company, 1914. [8],158pp. plus thirteen plates including frontis. Original gilt cloth. Binding slightly worn and soiled, head and toe of spine and corners moderately bumped. Scattered pencil notations. Somewhat tanned, text block slightly sprung. Light foxing to text and plates. Good plus.

A presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Lizzie Raney. From cousin Al Noyes (Ajax).” “First autobiography published in Montana; by a settler of 1860” – Howes. Noyes went to Montana in 1866, and this is an important and very rare history of early settlement and especially the cattle industry there. A rare book, remarkably difficult to find. HOWES N219, “aa.” GRAFF 3051. ADAMS HERD 1691. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 1626. SIX SCORE 82. $1500. Stereo Cards by Timothy O’Sullivan and William Bell on the Wheeler Survey, 1871-74

124. O’Sullivan, Timothy, and William Bell: [SET OF FIFTY STEREO- SCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS, TAKEN ON THE 1871 – 1874 EXPEDITIONS OF THE WHEELER SURVEY, WITH SERIES TITLE ON THE VERSO OF EACH MOUNT: GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS WEST OF THE 100th MERID- IAN]. Washington: War Department, Corps of Engineers, [1873-1874]. Fifty stereoscopic albumen prints (forty-two by O’Sullivan, eight by Bell) on original card mounts (4 x 7 inches), the mounts with series number, photographer’s name, and descriptive title on verso. Very good. In a modern dark blue morocco backed box.

A wonderful series of stereoscopic views from Lieut. George Wheeler’s 1871-74 expedition in the West, one of the first systematic surveys of the north rim of the Grand Canyon. The expedition was a large-scale government topographical and geological survey of the region west of the 100th meridian, including Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Idaho. These photographs, taken by the expedition photographer, Timothy O’Sullivan, and his interim replacement, William Bell, are numbered 1 to 50 on the verso of the mounts, which also bear captions identifying the scenes. The series begins with an image of the starting point for O’Sullivan’s photographic work on the expedition, aboard small boats about to ascend the Colorado from Camp Mohave, Arizona, and continues more or less chronologically. The photographic crew set their own pace, on a boat named Picture. Included here are photographs of the Grand Canyon, New Mexico pueblos, Zuni villages, Navajos, Apaches, and many beautiful landscapes, by these two major American photographers of the West. In 1872, O’Sullivan left the Wheeler survey to work for Clarence King’s 40th Parallel Exploration; but he returned in 1873 to accompany Wheeler in Arizona, New Mexico, the Sierra Blanca Mountains, and Canyon de Chelly. During O’Sullivan’s absence, a British-born photographer named William Bell served as his replacement. Late in 1873, O’Sullivan did his last work in the West, photographing Shoshone Falls on the Snake River (in southern Idaho). The last seventeen views here, though dated 1874, must be from 1873, since O’Sullivan had by then apparently returned east. This is a complete series of fifty stereoscopic views issued to display and promote the government sponsored topographical survey of the West. Such complete series are seldom met with these days. A detailed list of the photographs is available on request. William Kittredge, “We Are What We See: Photography and the Wheeler Survey Party” in Perpetual Mirage. Photographic Narratives of the Desert West (New York, 1996), pp.63-67. George M. Wheeler’s Photographic Survey of the American West, 1871-1873 (New York: Dover Publications, 1983). $12,500.

The Oklahoma Land Rush

125. [Oklahoma Land Rush]: THE TERRITORIAL TOPIC...SEPTEM- BER 24, 1891. Vol. 3, No. 8 [caption title]. Purcell, Indian Territory: H.T. Miller, Sept. 24, 1891. Large folio newspaper. [8]pp. Previously folded, with some small separations along old fold lines. Several small chips and closed tears around edges. Tanned, but else clean. Nearly very good.

A rare account of the second Oklahoma land rush in 1891, as reported by an important Indian Territory paper printed by American Indians. This second land run occurred on Sept. 22 and 23, 1891 in an attempt to claim lands from the Iowa, Sac and Fox, Potawatomi, and Shawnee reservations, as well as the area around the town of Tecumseh in what would become Pottawatomie County, that were being opened to settlement by the federal government. The paper contains reports from various locations across the newly available territory and states: “The fact that thousands of ‘sooners’ have been on the ground for days is sure to cause trouble. Everyone will claim that everyone else is a ‘sooner.’ It will be a much worse condition of affairs than that which followed the opening of Oklahoma.” The Territorial Topic was established in 1889 by Henry T. Miller, who had brought his printing plant from Kansas to Purcell in Indian Territory. It was the third newspaper printed in the Chickasaw Nation. “The Territorial Topic espoused and was an ardent supporter of the interests of the intermarried disenfranchised citizens of the Chickasaw nation, and for this fact, and also because it was an excellent medium of news, the paper attained a wide and influential circulation” – Foreman. A very rare example of newspaper printing from Indian Territory. Copies of the Topic are recorded in only four institutions by OCLC, and none outside Oklahoma and Kansas. Not in Gilcrease-Hargrett. FOREMAN, pp.125-26. OCLC 13764429. $1250.

126. [Oregon]: [GROUP OF OREGON LAWS FROM 1850 TO 1864]. Oregon City; Portland. 1851-1866. Five volumes, detailed below. 20th-century tan cloth, gilt leather labels. Cloth lightly soiled, labels chipped. Library ink stamp on titlepages; additionally, one with contemporary ownership notation, one with embossed stamp. Light scattered soiling and wear. Good.

A substantial run of the laws of Oregon Territory, primarily printed by Asahel Bush in Oregon City, together with two early volumes of Oregon state laws. The first volume present here is considered the first comprehensive volume of Oregon Territory laws, issued after the second session of the Territorial Legislature. John B. Preston was Oregon Territory’s first surveyor general, arriving in 1851. Oregon became a state in February 1859.

1) Statutes of a General Nature Passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oregon.... Oregon City: Asahel Bush, 1851. 301pp. 2) The Statutes of Oregon, Enacted and Continued in Force by the Legislative Assembly, at the Session Commencing 5th December, 1853. Oregon: Asahel Bush, 1854. [4],592pp. Second leaf torn away at top, affecting caption title. 3) The Statutes of Oregon. Enacted, and Continued in Force, by the Legislative Assembly, and the Fifth and Sixth Regular Sessions Thereof. Oregon: Asahel Bush, 1855. 653pp. 4) The Code of Civil Procedure and Other General Statutes of Oregon, Enacted by the Legislative Assembly.... Oregon: Asahel Bush, 1863. 286,127,xx,iv pp. 5) The Organic and Other General Laws of Oregon Together with the National Constitu- tion and Other Public Acts and Statutes of the United States. 1845 – 1864. Portland: Henry L. Pittock, 1866. 1107pp. $2750. 127. [Oregon]: THE CONSTITUTION: TOGETHER WITH THE SES- SION LAWS OF OREGON, ENACTED DURING THE FIRST REGULAR SESSIONS OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF OREGON, BEGUN, SEPT. 10, 1860. Salem: Asahel Bush, 1860. 111,9,5,6,[1]pp. 20th-century buckram, gilt leather label. Some chipping to label, spotting to covers. Top corner of titlepage clipped with no loss of text, ink notations, ink offsetting, and ink library stamp on titlepage, ink stamp on first page of text, minor foxing, faint tideline on last third of text. Good.

“First edition of the Constitution of the State of Oregon” – Rosenbach. The constitution provides that “No negro, Chinaman, or mulatto shall have the right of suffrage” nor any “idiot or insane person.” It also levied a two dollar monthly tax upon “every Chinaman engaged in mining gold in this State....” Accompanied by an 1882 reprint of the Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Oregon. SABIN 57548. ROSENBACH 10:119. BELKNAP 508. $1000.

128. [Overland Travel]: [TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, SIGNED, BY AN ENTERPRISING VIRGINIAN, RECORDING HIS OVER- LAND TRIP TO CALIFORNIA AND RELATED BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS]. Baltimore & Santa Fe. 1849. [4]pp. Two letters, each folded to quarto format. Old folds. Minor stains and single hole in Santa Fe letter with slight loss to one word, else in fine condition.

Two letters from W.C. Winston, an enterprising Virginian who made the overland journey to California in 1849, to his father, A. Winston at Culpepper Court House in Virginia. Together the letters describe the journey from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Santa Fe, New Mexico in April and May 1849, and business transactions undertaken in preparation of the journey. The three-page letter describing the overland journey from Arkansas to New Mexico was written from Santa Fe on June 5, 1849. The expedition left Fort Smith on April 11 and with the exception of a few days of rest, travelled constantly until reaching Santa Fe. Winston provides much detail about the landscape and discusses the minimal amount of game encountered along the way.

The first 200 miles of our journey was through a country abundant in grass, wood, & water, the remainder of it with some little exception was ever a perfect desert, almost destitute of all, we were often compelled to carry both wood and water, and camped frequently without either....A small portion of the country only to our disappointment abounded with game, we shot four buffalo, one of which I had the gratification of killing myself, and I also shot an antelope, a very shy and swift animal, its flesh was the best we had on the route. Winston also reflects on the difficulties of the journey and his hopes for the future: “Our journey has been one of constant toil and fatigue, and whilst we have escaped serious indispositions, we have all lost flesh and strength. We entertain the consol- ing hope that a short time will terminate it, and place us in the Eldorado of the west, where I trust we may be rewarded for our trials.” The accompanying one-page letter, written in Baltimore on Feb. 19, 1849, details financial and commercial transactions which W.C. Winston completed prior to his overland journey. He informs his father: “W. Henry Fitzhugh has cashed the note for me at 6 months upon which you are endorsed, W.F. is willing and will stand the time of its payment. This was the best an agreement I could make, I expect to be able to take it up within the year, but first, hope it will give you no great inconvenience.” Winston also writes of goods he has bought which he hopes to sell at the end of the journey. A fine pair of letters regarding the overland travel in 1849, with much detail concerning the journey and related business transactions. $2250.

The Railroad Surveys: A Wealth of Images of the West

129. [Pacific Railroad Surveys]: REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, TO ASCERTAIN THE MOST PRACTICABLE AND ECONOMICAL ROUTE FOR A RAILROAD FROM THE MIS- SISSIPPI RIVER TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. MADE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, IN 1853-4.... Washington. 1855-1860. Twelve volumes bound in thirteen. Profusely illustrated with maps, lithographic plates, colored lithographic plates, profiles, etc. Large, thick quarto. Original blindstamped cloth, spines gilt. Minor edge wear. Each volume rebacked, retaining original backstrip, but with new endpapers. All but one volume from the Senate issue (Vol. XII, Part 1 is the House issue, with a Senate backstrip). Lacking the general map of the routes surveyed from Vol. XI. Several maps with holes and separations along fold lines, many with large tears, including Warren’s map of the western United States. Occasional tideline affecting text or an illustration, scattered foxing and toning. Overall quite clean internally. Good plus.

This large quarto set is the most important and massive compilation of exploration reports and data ever published about the trans-Mississippi West. Under the direction of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, the Pacific Railroad survey in two years increased the contemporary knowledge of the geography, topography, geology, and natural history of the West by a quantum leap. Included herein are the reports of Humphreys, Stevens, Beckwith, Whipple, Warren, Williamson, Lander, et al, supplemented with reports on scientific observations, and numerous significant achievements in cartography including Warren’s “Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean...” (here present in the eleventh volume), which has been hailed as “the best cartographical work on the West up to its time...” (Howes). The illustrative material (engraved and lithographed views, specimens of birds, fishes, and other animals) is of the highest quality, often in colored state, and encompasses thousands of illustrations, either in the text or as separate plates. Wheat devotes twenty-four pages of detailed discussion to the maps in this series of reports, singling out the Warren map as “among the great maps of the United States that preceded the Civil War.” All things considered, this edition of the Pacific Railroad Surveys stands as a testament to one of the greatest government sponsored projects in our history and is a foundation work for any collection devoted to Western Americana or cartography. HOWES P3, etc. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 822 through 824, 843 through 846, 852, 853, 864 through 867, 874, 875, 877 through 882, 898, 936 (23 in all). TWENEY 89, 59. WAGNER-CAMP 262 through 267. RITTENHOUSE 442. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 75. ZAMORANO SELECT 108. $8500.

130. Palmer, Joel: JOURNAL OF TRAVELS OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, TO THE MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER; MADE DURING THE YEARS 1845 AND 1846.... Cincinnati. 1847. iv,9-189pp. Facsimile wrappers, remnants of original rear cover bound in. Rear cover with partial loss, backed with later paper. Light wear and soiling, heavier to first and last few leaves. Good. In a cloth slipcase and chemise, gilt leather label.

First edition, second issue, with corrections made on pages 31 and 121 and without the errata slip tipped in at page 189. The tide of overland immigration which engulfed Oregon in 1843 was followed by even larger waves in subsequent years. The overland migration of 1845 was one of the largest, and it gleaned one of the most complete accounts of wagon trail life in this work by Joel Palmer. His journal is the only contemporary account by a participant in the 1845 migration, which included some three thousand people. “Most reliable of the early guides to Oregon; in addition, the best narrative by a participant in the overland migration of 1845, which more than doubled the population of Oregon” – Howes, who affords this issue a “c.” Also included in the work is a letter from Rev. Spalding about his missionary work among the Nez Perce, a vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon and the Nez Perce language, a description of Mount Hood, and what Streeter describes as one of the earliest printings of the Organic Laws of Oregon Territory. HOWES P47, “c.” WAGNER-CAMP 136:2. STREETER SALE 3146 (1st issue). GRAFF 3172. HILL 1287. FIELD 1165. SMITH 7886. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2286. PILLING, CHINOOKAN, p.57. AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (CHINOOK) 48. $8500.

131. [Palmer, William Jackson]: COPY OF LETTERS OF GENL. W.J. PALMER TREASURER FROM COLORADO & NEW MEXICO 1867. (TAKEN FROM LONGHAND COPIES IN LETTER BOOK WHICH WAS OBTAINED BY MR. GURLEY). [Chicago. ca. 1951]. [3],3,105pp. Contemporary black limp calf, gilt. Minor wear. Near fine.

A bound typescript produced in an unknown but certainly very small edition for the directors of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. This rare work contains transcriptions of twenty-five extensive letters, totaling perhaps 35,000 words, written by William Jackson Palmer, treasurer of the railroad company, while he was traveling on the Kansas Pacific Railroad Survey in 1867. An important railway survey that opened vast areas of the west to the public, the goal of the expedition was to determine the best route for extending the Kansas Pacific line from the end of the track in western Kansas to the Pacific coast. The exploring party compared two main routes (along the 35th and 32nd parallels), making note of distances, eleva- tions, settlements, distribution of military troops and Indian tribes, and availability of timber, coal, and other agricultural, mineral, and manufacturing resources of the surveyed territory. These letters include much interesting content on the progress of the survey, describing daily scientific progress, settlements visited, interactions with local officials, and availability and cost of resources, revealing Palmer’s evolving thoughts on the comparative merits of different routes. Palmer’s original letter book, from which these transcripts were made, resides at Southern Methodist University. No copies of this transcript edition (or any other) on OCLC or in the marketplace. OCLC 747998140 (ref ). $1000.

Primary Source for Early California

132. Palou, Francisco: RELACION HISTORICA DE LA VIDA Y APOS- TOLICAS TAREAS DEL VENERABLE PADRE FRAY JUNIPERO SERRA, Y DE LAS MISIONES QUE FUNDO EN LA CALIFOR- NIA SEPTENTRIONAL, Y NUEVOS ESTABLECIMIENTOS DE MONTEREY. Mexico: Imprenta de Don Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros, calle del Espiritu Santo, 1787. [28],344pp. plus plate and folding map. Small quarto. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. Vellum ties lacking. Front inner hinge cracked but holding. Some light soiling to fore-edge of first few leaves, minor soiling to rest of text. Very good.

First edition, second issue, with “Mar Pacifico” printed on the map (see Wagner). This is also the issue of the text “pro” at the end of the index and with the phrase “a expensas de various bienhechores” preceding the imprint on the titlepage. An outstanding book on early California. Cowan, in the 1914 edition of his bibliography, calls this “the most famous and the most extensive of the early works that relate to Upper California.” Palou was a disciple of Father Junipero Serra for many years, and his work is still the principal source for the life of the venerable founder of the California missions. “The letters from Father Serra to Father Palou [provide] interesting details on the various Indian tribes and their manners and customs, together with descriptions of the country....This work has been called the most noted of all books relating to California” – Hill. “Both a splendid discourse on the California missions, their foundation and management, and an intimate and sympathetic biography of the little father-present. Better, by long odds, than the bulk of lives of holy men, written by holy men” – Libros Californianos. “[The map] is of interest here because it seems to be the first on which a boundary line was drawn between Lower and Upper California” – Wheat. The map shows the locations of nine missions (of an ultimate total of twenty-one) as well as the pre- sidios at San Diego, Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San Francisco. The plate is an allegorical portrait of Serra ministering to Indians. BARRETT 1946. COWAN, p.472. COWAN (1914 ed), pp.171-72. HILL 1289. GRAFF 3179. HOWES P56, “c.” LC, CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL 34. LIBROS CALIFOR- NIANOS, pp.24, 67. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 208. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTH- WEST 168. WEBER, p.77. ZAMORANO 80, 59. $17,500.

133. Paredes y Arrillaga, Mariano: EL PRESIDENTE INTERINO DE LA REPUBLICA, A LA NACION. TRIUNFANTES LOS PRIN- CIPIOS PROCLAMADOS EN SAN LUIS POR EL EJÉRCITO DE RESERVA, ACLAMADOS SIN OPOSICION EN CASI TODA LA REPÚBLICA, NI UNA GOTA DE SANGRE, NI UN LAMENTO HA COSTADO NUESTRA EMPRESA Á LA NACION.... [Mexico City]. Jan. 10, 1846. Broadside, 23¼ x 15 inches. One vertical and one horizontal fold, some separation at the cross folds, mild edge wear. Good plus.

A large and impressive presidential decree anticipating the Mexican-American War, as both Texas and California are mentioned by name in the second paragraph, and Paredes seems to call out the United States in the third paragraph by accusing them of “the outrage of the seizure of Texas” (rough translation). The broadside is signed in print by Mexican president Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga, issued less than two weeks after he assumed control of the country in a coup d’état. Paredes had assumed power on the last day of 1845, but would hold the presidency for a mere seven months, during which the Mexican-American War began. Mexico and the United States would shortly clash over the control of the land between the Nueces and Rio Grand rivers, and the U.S. declared war in May 1846. Rare. Only one copy recorded by OCLC, at the University of California at Berkeley. OCLC 21511141. $1000.

134. Parkman, Francis: THE CALIFORNIA AND OREGON TRAIL: BEING SKETCHES OF PRAIRIE AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE. New York. 1849. 448pp. plus 10pp. of advertisements (two at the front and eight at the end). Frontis. Engraved titlepage. Original blue cloth, stamped in blind. Spine faded. Later bookplate of noted American literature collector Jacob Chester Chamberlain. Minor scattered foxing. Very good. In a green half morocco slipcase.

A rare variant state of the first printing of this landmark work, with blue cloth and eight pages of advertisements at the end. One of the classics of western travel literature, Parkman’s work may be the most familiar piece of that genre to modern readers. The exciting adventures of the young Boston Brahmin loose on the plains make excellent reading. Field remarks: “Mr. Parkman had all the genuine love of adventure of a frontiersman, the taste for the picturesque and romantic of an artist, and the skill in narration of an accomplished raconteur. It is not too high praise to say that his pictures of savage life are not excelled....” WAGNER-CAMP 170:1a. HOWES P97, “aa.” BAL 15446. COWAN, p.474. RADER 2608. MINTZ 359. RITTENHOUSE 450. HOLLIDAY SALE 853. LARNED 2062. FIELD 1177. FLAKE 3277. GROLIER AMERICAN 100, 58. STREETER SALE 1815. $6000.

First Book: A Key Overland Narrative

135. Pike, Albert: PROSE SKETCHES AND POEMS, WRITTEN IN THE WESTERN COUNTRY. Boston. 1834. 200pp. 12mo. Original cloth, spine gilt. Cloth faded and stained, lightly worn along hinges. Early ownership signature on front free endpaper, with ink bleeding faintly onto titlepage. Some light foxing, else generally quite clean internally. Very good.

First edition of the author’s first book, printing what has been generally accorded the honor of being the first printed account of a trip across the Texas Panhandle: the journey of Pike and his friend, Aaron B. Lewis. Lewis started from Fort Towson after spending a wretched winter on the Canadian River. The following summer he trapped in the Colorado Mountains. Pike joined him for the return trip in the fall, down the Pecos and across to one of the headwaters of the Brazos, and from thence northeast to Red River and Fort Smith. The overland narrative occupies pages 9-80. The remainder of the book is comprised of poetic and prose render- ings of life in the Southwest, written chiefly while Pike was resident in Santa Fe and Arkansas Territory. He later distinguished himself in the Mexican-American War, superintended Indian Territory for the Confederates during the Civil War, and dabbled in the law and Masonry in later years. While his overland journey has always been the chief interest of this book, one should not ignore its literary merits. The DAB states that Pike “had imagination and skill in versification.... Some of his poems have a lusty vigor, and of the different versions of ‘Dixie’ his is perhaps the best.” WAGNER-CAMP 50. STREETER TEXAS 1150. CLARK III:88. WRIGHT I:2045. FIELD 1219. RADER 2670. VANDALE 132. GRAFF 3285. BAL 16031. HOWES P365. RITTENHOUSE 466. $2750.

First Government Exploration of the Southwest

136. Pike, Zebulon M.: AN ACCOUNT OF EXPEDITIONS TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSISSIPPI, AND THROUGH THE WEST- ERN PARTS OF LOUISIANA, TO THE SOURCES OF THE AR- KANSAW, KANS, LA PLATTE, AND PIERRE JAUN, RIVERS... DURING THE YEARS 1805, 1806, AND 1807. AND A TOUR THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF NEW SPAIN...IN THE YEAR 1807. Philadelphia: Published by C. & A. Conrad, & Co...., 1810. [8],105,[11],[107]-277,[5],65,[1],53,[1],87pp. plus frontispiece, six maps (five folding), and three folding charts. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked with original spine and gilt leather label preserved. Corners worn. Light foxing and toning. First folding map with a closed tear in gutter margin. Very good. In a three-quarter morocco clamshell box, spine gilt.

The report of the first United States government expedition to the Southwest, and one of the most important of all American travel narratives, including an account of Pike’s travels to explore the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers, his earlier journey to explore the sources of the Mississippi River, and his visit to the Spanish settlements in New Mexico. Pike’s narrative stands with those of Lewis and Clark, and Long, as the most important early books on western exploration and as a cornerstone of Western Americana. The maps were the first to exhibit a geographic knowledge of the Southwest based on firsthand exploration and are considered “milestones in the mapping of the American West” (Wheat). “The description of Texas is excellent” – Streeter Texas. HOWES P373, “b.” WAGNER-CAMP 9:1. STREETER SALE 3125. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 297, 298, 299. GRAFF 3290. FIELD 1217. STREETER TEXAS 1047C. HILL 1357. BRADFORD 4415. RITTENHOUSE 467. SABIN 62936. JONES 743. BRAISLIN 1474. $25,000.

A Great California Rarity and Zamorano 80 Desiderata

137. [Portola Expedition]: ESTRACTO DE NOTICIAS DEL PUERTO DE MONTERREY, DE LA MISSION, Y PRESIDIO QUE SE HAN ESTABLECIDO EN EL CON LA DENOMINACION DE SAN CARLOS, Y DEL SUCESSO DE LAS DOS EXPEDICIONES DE MAR, Y TIERRA QUE A ESTE FIN SE DESPACHARON EN EL ANO PROXIMO ANTERIOR DE 1769 [caption title]. Mexico: en la Imprenta del Superior Govierno 16. de Agosto de 1770]. [5]pp. Folio. Loose sheets, trimmed in gutter margin. Near fine. In a half morocco box.

The exceedingly rare folio issue, published for official circulation. “Portola and Costanso...arrived in Mexico City on August 10, 1770, bringing the first news of the occupation of Monterey. The government therefore lost very little time in having the occupation report printed. It is the earliest known printed piece, since Torquemada’s Monarchia Indiana, to contain any information regarding what is now known as Upper California....About half a dozen copies of the Folio issue are known, and probably only four copies of the 4to edition” – Wagner. “Although Wagner would not commit himself on the question of priority, never having discovered any contemporary statement as to which was printed first, Cowan considered the folio issue to be the first. Dr. George P. Hammond presents a conclusive solution to the problem in Noticias de California (Book Club of California, 1958): On the basis of two corrections made in the quarto of spelling errors in the folio, he assigned priority to the folio” – Howell. “The first published account of the first permanent settlement in California, the Estracto being the preliminary report of the Portola expedition” – Streeter sale (folio issue). ZAMORANO 80, 35. HOWELL 50:195. COWAN, p.199. GRAFF 1264. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 150. MEDINA (MEXICO) 5330. PALAU 84307. STREETER SALE 2438. STREETER, AMERICANA BEGINNINGS 74n. LC, CALIFORNIA CEN- TENNIAL 26. ROCQ 5676. $45,000.

Classic Map of the Oregon Trail

138. Preuss, Charles: TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE ROAD FROM MISSOURI TO OREGON COMMENCING AT THE MOUTH OF THE KANSAS IN THE MISSOURI RIVER AND ENDING AT THE MOUTH OF THE WALLAH-WALLAH IN THE COLUM- BIA.... Baltimore: E. Weber & Co., 1846. Seven individual sheets, each 15½ x 25¾ inches. Sheets loose. Old fold lines, some light wear and chipping to several edges. Very minor foxing. Very good.

First issue of the first map “to show the Oregon Trail accurately” (Rumsey). One of the greatest monuments to the cartography of the American West. Charles Preuss, born George Karl Ludwig Preuss in Höhscheid, Prussia in 1803, served as the cartographer on Fremont’s first and second expeditions and drew all the maps which accompany Fremont’s reports. Preuss also produced the present masterful map of the Oregon Trail. It is drawn to a very detailed scale, ten miles to an inch, and in addition to providing accurate cartographical information about the whole 1670-mile route between the Missouri and the Columbia rivers, the sheets combine to give a real feeling of the daily progress of the expedition (in 1842 and 1843, between June 10 and Oct. 26) by including indicators of where and when each overnight camp was set, where each noon-day halt was called, and the total distance from the starting point of Westport Landing. Longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates are also given, as are daily “Meteorological Observations” and “Remarks,” including notes on the availability of game, water, grazing, the friendliness (or otherwise) of local Indian tribes, and some quite lengthy extracts from Fremont’s Report. A second revised issue of this map was published in 1849. “More than any other persons, John Charles Fremont and Charles Preuss dominate the cartography of the American West during the three years before the gold rush.... Owing to its rarity and to its long having stood in the shadow of the more widely known and distributed Fremont-Preuss map of 1845, Preuss’ sectional map of 1846 has been insufficiently appreciated by students of Western history. In particular, those interested either in Fremont’s travels in 1842-43 or the revolution of the transcontinental wagon roads will find that the map rewards close study” – Wheat. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 523. WAGNER-CAMP 115 (note). STREETER SALE 3100. PHILLIPS, MAPS, p.642. GRAFF 3360. EBERSTADT 106:266. RUMSEY 2773.001-.007. $7500.

The Colored Issue of the First Botanical Record of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

139. Pursh, Frederick: FLORA AMERICÆ SEPTENTRIONALIS; OR, A SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANTS OF NORTH AMERICA. CONTAINING, BE- SIDES WHAT MAY HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED BY PRECEDING AUTHORS, MANY NEW AND RARE SPECIES, COLLECTED DURING TWELVE YEARS TRAVELS AND RESIDENCE IN THAT COUNTRY. London: Printed for White, Cochrane, & Co., 1814. Two volumes. xxxvi,358; [2],[359]-751pp. plus twenty-four handcolored stip- ple-engraved plates (ten signed in print as being by W. Hooker, the others unsigned). Expertly bound to style in half straight-grain dark blue morocco and period marbled boards, spines gilt. Very good.

First edition of the highly desirable colored issue of this landmark work in early American botany, the first to publish the findings of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and a book which has been styled by one botanical historian as “amazingly brilliant.” Born in Grossenhain in Saxony, Pursh came to America in 1799. Aided by Benjamin Smith Barton he made two memorable journeys of botanical exploration in 1806 and 1807. On his return from the second journey in 1807 he took over the running of David Hosack’s Elgin Botanic Garden in New York. He remained in the United States until 1811, when he sailed for England in an attempt to arrange for the publication of the present work. In 1806, Pursh had met Meriwether Lewis, who gave him a collection of dried plants gathered on the expedition, “in order to describe and figure those I thought new, for the purpose of inserting them in his travels, which he was then engaging for the press.” It is unclear why Lewis chose to turn the specimens over to Pursh. He may have intended that they go to Barton, for whom Pursh then worked. In any case, the death of Lewis and the delay in publication of the account of the expedition led Pursh to incorporate the Lewis and Clark material into his own work, where the material from the expedition and the locations where Lewis gathered it are carefully noted, with specimens identified as “in Herb. Lewis.” Pursh’s work is important for eastern botany as well, but its greatest contribution is the material relating to Lewis and Clark, and the publication of the first extensive observations on the botany along the route of their expedition. A fascinating feature of the work is the narrative preface in which Pursh gives some detail of his life and travels in the Americas, as well as mentioning the botanists he encountered and giving a description of the sources he consulted in England after his arrival in 1811. He returned to North America and died in Montreal in 1820. For each plant Pursh gives a brief description followed by a note as to who first described the plant, followed by notes gathered from other works. Many of the entries then conclude with Pursh’s own interesting comments: “The Red Cedar, so useful and durable a wood, for whose history refer to Michaux’s work so often quoted, is as yet in great abundance in most parts of the country; but its extermination is going on so rapidly, that future inhabitants will be very much at a loss, and will feel the want of it when it is too late” (Vol. II, p.647, “Juniperus virginiana” entry). BRADLEY BIBLIOGRAPHY I:306. McKelvey, Botanical Exploration, pp.73-83. MEISEL III:374. NISSEN, BBI 1570. PRITZEL 7370. SABIN 66728. STAFLEU & COWAN 8404. $10,000.

Among the Earliest Caricatures of the Forty-Niners

140. Read, James A. and Donald F., illustrators: JOURNEY TO THE GOLD DIGGINS. By Jeremiah Saddlebags. Cincinnati: Stringer & Townsend, [1849]. 63,[1]pp. Pictorial titlepage and 112 wood engraved comic illustrations. Oblong octavo. Original orange printed wrappers. Chipping and wear to spine and covers, covers reinforced at corners with tissue. Light soiling and wear, but text generally clean and fresh. Bookplate of Thomas W. Streeter laid in. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase and chemise.

The Streeter copy of this rare work, which is among the earliest caricatures of the Forty-Niners and a classic of California Gold Rush comic book literature. This is the story of an “Argonaut who risked the hard journey to the gold fields, found that it was all a good deal more difficult than he had thought, avoided death by a hair’s breadth time and again, and came home poorer than he went. It is the best of the American comic books on this theme” (Cowan). “Jeremiah Saddlebags underwent every possible mishap in this classic spoof of the adventurers of the Forty-Niner” – Streeter. Two issues of the first edition were published, without priority, in Cincinnati and New York. A scarce example of the best known work of Gold Rush comic book literature with exceptional provenance. HOWES R92, “b.” GRAFF 3432. STREETER SALE 2591 (this copy). $10,000.

Rare Pike’s Peak Overland Guide, with Important Maps

141. Redpath, James, and Richard J. Hinton: HAND-BOOK TO KANSAS TERRITORY AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS’ GOLD REGION; ACCOMPANIED BY RELIABLE MAPS AND A PRELIMINARY TREATISE ON THE PRE-EMPTION LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. New York: J.H. Colton, 1859. 177pp. plus three maps on two folding sheets and [6]pp. of advertisements. 16mo. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, neatly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Bookplate on front fly leaf. Internally clean. Very good. In a red half morocco and cloth slipcase and chemise, spine gilt.

A rare Colorado gold rush guide book with three important maps of the region. The text contains an account of the Kansas region, descriptions of the various routes, information on the gold discoveries in the Rockies, and advice on outfitting a trip to the gold fields. “Pre-emption” laws relate to land claims and are treated in an appendix. The first two maps, on one sheet and both outlined in color, are “Kansas and Nebraska” and “Nebraska and Kanzas. Showing Pikes Peak and the Gold Region.” The third map is “Military Map of Parts of Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota by Lieut. G.K. Warren from Explorations made by him in 1855-57.” The second and third maps are particularly significant, showing Denver, Montana, and as far west as Salt Lake. “The authors were correspondents for eastern newspapers. Redpath, a rabid abolitionist, came to Kansas Territory soon after it was established. Hinton came in 1856 as a correspondent for the Boston Traveller” – Dary. Many of the advertisements at the rear are for rail routes to the Pike’s Peak gold region. The Eberstadts describe this guide book as the “original ‘Pike’s Peak or Bust’ overland guide.” WAGNER-CAMP 343. HAFEN, PIKE’S PEAK GOLD RUSH GUIDEBOOKS OF 1859, 14. GRAFF 3437. HOWES R120, “aa.” SABIN 68526. RADER 2773. STREETER SALE 2131. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 995, 996. EBERSTADT 137:522. DARY, KANZANA 74. $15,000.

Root’s Narrative: A Major Overland Rarity

142. Root, Riley: JOURNAL OF TRAVELS FROM ST. JOSEPHS TO OREGON, WITH OBSERVATIONS OF THAT COUNTRY, TO- GETHER WITH SOME DESCRIPTION OF CALIFORNIA, ITS AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS, AND A FULL DESCRIPTION OF ITS GOLD MINES. Galesburg, Il.: Gazetteer and Intelligencer Prints, 1850. 143pp. Contemporary printed wrappers, backed with early linen. Light wear and soiling to binding. Some light foxing and soiling. Very good. Un- trimmed. In a half morocco folding case, spine gilt.

One of the few journals of the 1848 emigration and a cornerstone of overland literature. Root crossed the Mis- souri River at St. Joseph in April and reached Oregon City on Sept. 13. He then went to California, arriving in the spring of 1849. His daily journal occupies pages 16-36 and is followed by several pages of very practical advice to emigrants. The remainder of the work consists of descriptions of Oregon and California, including a report on the Whitman massacre. The wrapper is known in several variants (see Wagner-Camp); this copy bears the wrapper imprint “Intelligencer Print” as well as the name of the com- positor. “Root provided his readers with information on the Oregon reaction to the Gold Rush, geography and geology of the gold district, varieties of gold, mode of searching for gold, and a general description of California” – Kurutz. “One of the best overland journals, one of a few covering 1848, one of the earliest describing the California gold-fields, which he reached from Oregon, May 1849” – Howes. Very few copies of Root have appeared for sale in the last several decades. HOWES R436, “c.” GRAFF 3565. WAGNER-CAMP 189. STREETER SALE 3162. COWAN, p.542. KURUTZ 543a. BYRD 1621. $27,500.

143. Ross, Alexander: ADVENTURES OF THE FIRST SETTLERS ON THE OREGON OR COLUMBIA RIVER: BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION FITTED OUT BY JOHN JACOB ASTOR, TO ESTABLISH THE “PACIFIC FUR COMPANY;” WITH AN ACCOUNT OF SOME INDIAN TRIBES ON THE COAST OF THE PACIFIC. London. 1849. xv,[1],352,16pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Original patterned cloth, rebacked, with title portion of original gilt backstrip laid down. Very slight paper loss to top edge of titlepage, several leaves roughly opened, ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, else clean. Good.

A book of the greatest importance to the history of the Astoria venture and the early Anglo-American struggle for control of the Oregon country. Ross was an officer of the Astoria company, and this is one of the fullest accounts of the entire venture, later supplemented by his Fur Hunters of the Far West. He also includes accounts of Robert Stuart and Wilson Price Hunt. Elliott Coues called this one of the three “synoptical gospels” of the Astoria enterprise. Howes notes that very few copies are found with a colored frontispiece; this is not one of them. The “Map of the Columbia” illustrates Oregon Territory. Contains a section devoted to Chinook vocabulary and jargon. WAGNER-CAMP 172. FIELD 1325. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 3381. TWENEY 89, 67. GRAFF 3576. HOWES R448, “aa.” SABIN 73327. STREETER SALE 3713. TPL 958. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 635. $1000.

A Primary Work on the Fur Trade

144. Ross, Alexander: FUR HUNTERS OF THE FAR WEST; A NAR- RATIVE OF ADVENTURES IN THE OREGON AND ROCKY MOUNTAINS. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1855. Two volumes. xv,333; viii,262,[1]pp., plus folding map. Lithographed view and portrait. Contempo- rary purple half calf and cloth, stamped in gilt with Glasgow’s coat of arms, spines gilt with raised bands, brown morocco labels, marbled endpapers and edges. Very good. Provenance: George Blackwood (High School of Glasgow prize, bookplate).

The very scarce first edition of the work which Streeter describes as “a principal source for all writing on the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest during the period of activity of the North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company.” Ross was with the Astor Company but joined the North West Company when the former broke up. In 1825 he travelled from the Pacific to Red River to take possession of a grant of 100 acres allotted him by Gov. Simpson. Herein he gives an excellent account of his trip. Rich in data about the Indians Ross encountered, this work is praised by Field, who states: “In all the qualities which should attract and hold our attention, it is rare to find the superior of Mr. Ross.” The “Map of the Oregon” covers the area from north of Vancouver to Mount Shasty. The appendix contains a Nez Perce vocabulary. WAGNER-CAMP 269. SMITH 8785. HILL 1486. FIELD 1326. HOWES R449, “b.” SABIN 73327. TWENEY 89, 67 (note). GRAFF 3578. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 3382. STREETER SALE 3719. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 859. $2000.

With the Famous Map

145. [Sage, Rufus B.]: SCENES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, AND IN OREGON, CALIFORNIA, NEW MEXICO, TEXAS, AND THE GRAND PRAIRIES; OR NOTES BY THE WAY, DURING AN EX- CURSION OF THREE YEARS...By a New Englander. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1846. 303pp. plus folding map. Publisher’s green cloth, expertly rebacked to style, retaining a portion of original spine with lettering. Foxing, wear to lower edges. Else very good.

One of the most important overland narratives. Sage set out from Westport in the summer of 1841 with a fur caravan, later visiting New Mexico, witnessing the disaster of the Snively expedition, and joining the end of the 1843 Fremont expedition. He returned to Ohio in time to take a vigorous if futile role in the election of 1844, supporting Henry Clay. He wrote this book in 1845. The story of the publication of this work and its subsequent sale is told by LeRoy Hafen in the introduction to the most scholarly edition of Sage, issued in two volumes by the Arthur H. Clark Co. in 1956. According to Hafen, the publishers of the original edition felt the addition of a map would cost too much, and it was only at the author’s insistence that a map was printed and sold with the book, at a higher rate. The map, based mainly on the 1845 Fremont map, is usually not found with the book. It is “one of the earliest to depict the finally-determined Oregon boundary...one of the earliest attempts to show on a map the evermore-heavily traveled emigrant road to Califor- nia” (Wheat). It adds interesting notes on the country and locations of fur trading establishments. Sage was certainly one of the most literate and acute observers of the West in the period immediately before the events of 1846. This is the first edition, second issue (with page numbers 77-88, 270-271, and 302 correctly placed in outer margin). Preceded by a limited issue of 100 copies in wrappers published without the map. COWAN, pp.548-49. HOWES S16, “b.” RAINES, p.181. MINTZ 402. SABIN 74892. WAGNER-CAMP 123:1. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 527. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 30. GRAFF 3633. STREETER SALE 3049. MATTES 68. RITTENHOUSE 502. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 30. FIELD 1345. $9000. 146. Scharmann, Hermann B.: SCHARMANN’S OVERLAND JOUR- NEY TO CALIFORNIA FROM THE PAGES OF A PIONEER’S DIARY. [New York. 1918]. 114pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original green cloth, spine gilt. Lightly rubbed at extremities, mild vertical crease in front board. Bright and clean internally. Very good plus.

First English language edition, translated from the German edition issued in 1905, by Margaret and Erich Zimmerman. Privately printed in an edition limited to fifty copies. “Scharmann started his overland odyssey on March 20, 1849, from New York as the president of a German company. By November 1, the company arrived at Lassen’s Ranch, where Scharmann encountered Peter Lassen, who imparted little aid to Scharmann’s sick wife and infant daughter. Shortly thereafter, both died. The next portion of the book consists of his experiences looking for gold and the difficulties of trying to survive high prices, hard work, illness, and little success. The German narrates a detailed description of Marysville, Sacramento City, Negro Bar, and various mining methods” – Kurutz. Dissatisfied with his experiences in California, Scharmann left in late October 1850 and returned to New York. WAGNER-CAMP 217b (note). HOWES S149. MINTZ 406. MATTES 616. NORRIS CATALOGUE 3553. GRAFF 3693. COWAN, p.571. KURUTZ 559b. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 177. HOWELL 50:828. $850.

The Streeter Copy of a Pioneering Map

147. Scholfield, Nathan: MAP OF SOUTHERN OREGON AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...EXHIBITING A RELIABLE VIEW OF THE RICH GOLD REGION...EMBRACING ALSO A COL- ORED CHART OF THE COAST FROM SAN FRANCISCO BAY TO THE COLUMBIA RIVER.... San Francisco. 1851. Lithographed map, visible area 24 x 17½ inches, matted and framed to 34 x 26½ inches overall. Backed on artist’s board, some creasing and toning, a few light stains and spots, a few small repairs to verso. Very good.

The Streeter copy of the “first map of what is now Oregon to be lithographed west of the Rockies” – Streeter sale catalogue. Streeter’s handwritten notes can be seen on the front of the map near the imprint. Streeter described the map as “one of the first, if not the first to show the new town of Portland, the new settlements on the Umpqua, and the road to California up the Willamette Valley.” “Scholfield had visited the Trinity River diggings, and having found all existing maps of the area ‘defective and erroneous’ decided to prepare one of his own. For the first time the explorations of the gold seekers in the northern region are portrayed, and the Trinity is correctly shown flowing into the Klamath River instead of into the ocean. The Sierra diggings are not shown in detail, but a few place names here first appear. The coast from San Francisco to the mouth of the Columbia is based on the recently completed U.S. Coast Survey charts” – Wheat. An exceptionally rare map with only four copies noted in OCLC, at the University of California in Santa Cruz, Oregon Historical Society Library, Huntington Library, and Yale. STREETER SALE 2685 (this copy). WHEAT GOLD REGION 206. WHEAT TWEN- TY-FIVE CALIFORNIA MAPS 13. OCLC 37219850, 83289666. $16,000.

148. Schoolcraft, Henry R.: JOURNAL OF A TOUR INTO THE IN- TERIOR OF MISSOURI AND ARKANSAW [sic], FROM PO- TOSI, OR MINE A BURTON, IN MISSOURI TERRITORY IN A SOUTH-WEST DIRECTION, TOWARD THE ROCKY MOUN- TAINS; PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1818 AND 1819. London. 1821. 102pp. plus folding map. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Title- page slightly chipped along fore-edge, tanned. Minor repairs to map. Internally quite clean. Very good.

Despite the statements of some bibliographers, this work by Schoolcraft is an entirely separate publication from the same author’s A View of the Lead Mines..., published the previous year, and describes his experiences after leaving the mines in the fall of 1818. He and a companion travelled into what is now Oklahoma, returning the following spring. The folding map shows much of the watershed of the Mississippi. WAGNER-CAMP 21. HOWES S185. SABIN 77854. CLARK II:64. $750.

149. Scripps, John Locke: THE UNDEVELOPED NORTHERN POR- TION OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. A LECTURE DELIV- ERED IN THE COURSE BEFORE BELL’S COMMERCIAL COL- LEGE, FEBRUARY, 1856. Chicago. 1856. 20pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine stamped in brown and gilt. Text trimmed close at fore-edge, costing portions of words throughout. Good.

A rare and important polemic “written in bitter hostility to the Hudson’s Bay Company, and exposing their operations on the Pacific Coast and among the Indian tribes and fur traders from the earliest times” – Eberstadt. “Scripps, author of an official life of Lincoln, visited the Lake Superior Country in 1855 and upon his return, made an extensive study of the region from the Great Lakes westward with special reference to the fur companies, the inhabitants, Hudson’s Bay Company, water courses and minerals. He also points out the economic advantages of the Northern region for the United States” – Decker. “Scripps, who was editor and publisher of the Democratic Press, had visited the Lake Superior country in 1855. He discusses here primarily the area of western Canada from Lake Superior to the Pacific, with comments on the Minnesota region south of the international boundary. He has a good deal to say about the fur trade and the Hudson’s Bay Company. ‘There can be little doubt but that the sole reason why the company maintains its posts in Oregon and Washington is to induce brother Jonathan to “shell out” liber- ally for them’” – Streeter. EBERSTADT 114:690. DECKER 39:360. STREETER SALE 3721. CHICAGO AN- TE-FIRE IMPRINTS 221. GRAFF 3717. HOWES S248, “aa.” SABIN 78485. $1800.

150. Sewall, J.S.: SECTIONAL MAP OF THE SURVEYED PORTION OF MINNESOTA AND THE NORTH WESTERN PART OF WIS- CONSIN. Boston. [1857]. Folding color map, 32 x 24 inches. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Spine split and repaired with old tape. Map color bright and clean. Very good.

A rare early map of Minnesota. Like other Minnesota maps of this period, the present map is most valuable for showing nascent development along the northern shore of Lake Superior. “A beautiful map, showing the country in great detail” – Eberstadt. This issue was published in locally printed wrappers by D.D. Merrill, Randall & Co. in St. Paul. CHECKLIST OF THE PRINTED MAPS OF THE MIDDLE WEST (MINNESOTA) 0715. EBERSTADT 107:265. RUMSEY 2381 (another ed). $1750.

151. Sitgreaves, Lorenzo: REPORT OF AN EXPEDITION DOWN THE ZUNI AND COLORADO RIVERS. Washington. 1853. 198pp. plus large folding map and seventy-nine plates (one folding, some tinted). Original green cloth, stamped in blind. Corners lightly rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light to moderate foxing. Very good.

Sitgreaves and his party traversed the country from northern New Mexico to San Diego in the summer and fall of 1851, crossing northern Arizona and descending the Colorado to Yuma before crossing the desert. This report is notable for its many lithographed plates of scenes along the route, as well as flora and fauna. The natural history specimens are described by John Torrey. Wheat calls the map “a monumental achievement...generally correct and exceedingly well done.” HOWES S521. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 763. FIELD 1414. WAGNER-CAMP 230:1. MEISEL III, p.134. SABIN 81472. GRAFF 3809. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE VI, p.403. $900.

With the Mexican-American War Appendix

152. [Stiff, Edward]: A NEW HISTORY OF TEXAS; BEING A NAR- RATION OF THE ADVENTURES OF THE AUTHOR IN TEX- AS, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE SOIL, CLIMATE, PRO- DUCTIONS, MINERALS, TOWNS, BAYS, HARBORS, RIV- ERS, INSTITUTIONS, AND MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THAT COUNTRY.... Cincinnati. [1847]. 244,[74],[17]pp. including frontis. Modern blue morocco, spine gilt. Minor shelf wear. Moderate foxing, small marginal tape repair to one leaf. Bottom edge trimmed close, costing only the date in the imprint. Good.

Fourth edition of this early reissue of Stiff ’s The Texan Emigrant, with added material relating to the Mexican-American War. In fact, some of the text is identical with that of Stiff ’s earlier work. Edward Stiff spent several months in Texas in 1839, and The Texan Emigrant is variously praised as “one of the objective accounts of Texas affairs...” (Howes), “One of the best books on Texas issued during the Re- public...” (Raines), and “quite an entertaining book” (Streeter). It is certainly one of the best guides issued during the Republic period. The author also met many leading figures of the Republic and describes their characters. This reissue corrects some typographical errors on the titlepage of earlier editions and adds the words, “and the Battle of Cerro Gordo.” The views of the Battle of San Jacinto (seen twice here, as the frontispiece and in the text) and Galveston Bay are still present in this edition. Due to textual changes in the various editions, all are necessary to a complete collection of Stiff ’s Texas adventures. SABIN 91726. HOWES S998, “aa.” MIDLAND NOTES 22:213 (3rd ed). EBERSTADT 162:761. HOWES 64:518 (2nd ed). BRADFORD 5376. $1000.

153. Stratton, R.B.: CAPTIVITY OF THE OATMAN GIRLS: BE- ING AN INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF LIFE AMONG THE APACHE AND MOHAVE INDIANS.... New York: Published for the Author..., 1858. 290pp. including map and illustrations, plus five plates (including frontispiece) and advertisements. Original cloth, spine gilt. Spine extremities and corners worn, boards lightly rubbed. Somewhat tanned, with scattered foxing and an occasional ink stain. About very good.

Third edition (designated “fourteenth thousand” on the titlepage) enlarged of this popular Indian captivity. The Oatman family was attacked while travelling to California via the Old Santa Fe Route in 1851. Six members of the family were murdered, one of the sons was left for dead, and Mary and Olive were taken by the Apaches. Mary died in captivity and Olive was ransomed in 1856. She was extensively tattooed, and went on tour to describe her experiences and display her decorations. The book was tremendously popular in its time and a bestseller. The first edition is extremely rare and the second only slightly less so. HOWES S1068. WAGNER-CAMP 294:4. AYER 284. SABIN 92742. FIELD 1515 (ref ). RITTENHOUSE 542 (ref ). $1250.

Thirty-three Mounted Albumen Prints

154. Street, George: CHE! WAH! WAH! OR, THE MODERN MON- TEZUMAS IN MEXICO. Rochester: E.R. Andrews, 1883. Folding map, color woodcut frontispiece, thirty-three mounted albumen photographs on nineteen sheets, woodcut illustrations. Publisher’s russet cloth, decoratively stamped in black, spine gilt, silk moiré endpapers. Very good. Provenance: Rev. H. W. Spalding (period gift inscription from Charles F. Case on front endpaper).

The “Modern Montezuma” comprised sixty-four general freight agents from the East who accepted the invitations of several western roads to tour their lines in a six-car private train. Travelling from Chicago to Chihuahua, the party passed through or stopped at Omaha, Lincoln, Denver, Cañon City, Leadville, Marshall Pass, Pueblo, Trinidad, El Paso, Raton, Las Vegas, Wagon Mound, Chihuahua, and other spots along the route. “This excursion tour was really a busman’s holiday; the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Denver & Rio Grande, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroads hosted a tour of Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico for a group of eastern freight agents. The party derived a good deal of innocent amusement from their Che! Wah! Wah! joke” – Train to Plane. The photographs, taken by R.D. Cleveland, traveling auditor for the Burlington, illustrate landmarks, trains, views, people, and architecture (including churches, de- pots, Montezuma Hotel and Hot Springs in Las Vegas, Windsor Hotel in Denver). One of the more unusual travel books, and one of the few 19th-century books with original photographs of Texas. This copy with provenance to one of the original travellers: Charles F. Case, the General Eastern Agent of the Erie & North Shore Despatch, who is listed as a passenger on page 14. TRAIN TO PLANE 43. $2400.

155. Sturgis, Thomas: THE UTE WAR OF 1879. WHY THE INDIAN BUREAU SHOULD BE TRANSFERRED FROM THE DEPART- MENT OF THE INTERIOR TO THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. Cheyenne, Wy.: Leader Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1879. 26pp. Original printed wrappers. A remarkably fresh, clean copy. Very fine. In a felt-lined cloth clamshell case, leather label.

A scarce Cheyenne imprint relating to the Ute War of 1879. The White River Agency, led by Nathan Meeker, came into conflict with the Utes as white land hunger fueled anti-Indian sentiment. The agency was attacked, Meeker and eleven other men were killed, and five women, including Meeker’s wife, were abducted. “An argument from the only-good-Indian-is-a-dead-Indian point of view, inspired by the recent Meeker Massacre and the outrages committed on the Meeker women” – Streeter. HOWES S1111, “aa.” STREETER SALE 2197. AII (WYOMING) 44. STOPKA, WYOMING TERRITORIAL IMPRINTS 1879.4. $4500.

Presentation Copy

156. Swasey, W.F.: THE EARLY DAYS AND MEN OF CALIFORNIA. Oakland. 1891. x,[9-]406pp. plus frontispiece and three plates. Original green publisher’s cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt. Front hinge cracked but strong, boards slightly rubbed, minor shelf wear. Text somewhat tanned, else internally clean. About very good.

This copy bears a presentation inscription from the author on the frontispiece. The author arrived in California in 1845, employed by Capt. Sutter and by American Consul Thomas O. Larkin in Monterey. Swasey also took part in Fremont’s march to Los Angeles. A classic collection of early California pioneer biographies combined with a reliable firsthand source of events in San Francisco before the Gold Rush: “It should be borne in mind by the reader that the immigrants, previous to the discovery of gold, were composed of a class of men who were in the full vigor of early manhood, imbued with a spirit of adventure in its highest sense, and backed by intelligence and supreme self-reliance.” “The book has always been considered an authority” – Zamorano 80. “[Swasey] wrote easily, and his work forms a reliable picture of the men and events of the early days, more especially of San Francisco” – Cowan. HOWES S1167. COWAN, p.627. STREETER SALE 3012. GRAFF 4047. KURUTZ 615. ZAMORANO 80, 72. $900.

German Colonization of Texas

157. [Texas]: [COLLECTION OF SEVENTEEN DOCUMENTS RE- LATING TO THE GERMAN COLONIZATION OF TEXAS AND THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF GERMAN EMI- GRANTS TO TEXAS (VEREIN ZUM SCHUTZE DEUTSCHER EINWANDERER IN TEXAS)]. [Various places]. 1845-1858. Ap- proximately [84]pp. Mostly folio. Overall about very good to fine.

An important collection of documents concerning the Adelsverein, or the Society for the Protection of German Emigrants to Texas. The Society was organized in 1842 by a group of German noblemen for the purpose of acquiring land in Texas and encouraging German emigration. Beginning in 1844 the Adelsverein brought thousands of German emigrants to Texas, founding the town of New Braunfels and other towns in West Texas between Austin and San Antonio. The documents at hand trace the history of the Adelsverein from its first active years through bankruptcy and its evolution into the Texas and German Emigration Company, headed by Henry Fisher. This choice collection of printed documents, issued by the Society during its most active period, mainly in the antebellum statehood era, represents a crucial chapter in Texas colonization history. Documents include emigration contracts, fiscal papers, publicity material to attract emigrants, correspondence and reports from Texas back to the directors in Germany, material regarding the Society’s finances, and news about progress made in the Texas settlements. Included are the following:

1) Additional-Congress-Beschluss...[caption title]. [Wiesbaden]. January 1845. Broad- sheet, 19 x 22 cm. Very good. Congressional resolution from the Texas legislature in regard to the settlement and its agents. Not in Streeter Texas. 2) Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas. Mainz. 1845. [4]pp. on two separate leaves, 19 x 25 cm. Small tear. Very good. Describes the Society’s land, provides details on what the emigrant should bring, and explains the dangers of emigration. Issued to help quell the rumors about the Society. STREETER TEXAS 1626. 3) Einwanderungs-Vertrag. Bremen. 1845. [2]pp., 33 x 20.5 cm. Light soiling, old fold lines, else very good. Printed emigrant’s contract, completed in manuscript and signed by Wm. Fehrmann, Republic of Texas Consul at Bremen. With seals. 4) Vertrag Zwischen dem Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas.... Antwerp. 1845. Broadside, 34 x 22 cm., with integral blank leaf. Old vertical fold. About fine. Emigrant contract between the Adelsverein and an individual sailing from Antwerp in 1845. The document bears the seal of the consulate of the Republic of Texas and is signed by the Texian consul as well as the emigrant. 5) United States of America, State of Texas.... [New Braunfels, Tx.]. 1846. [1]p. Printed bond, 27 x 20 cm. Old fold. Some toning. Very good. Completed in manuscript and signed by John Meusebach, the general commissioner of the Adelsverein’s interests in Texas. 6) Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas. Mainz. 1846. [3]pp. on folded folio sheet, 35 x 22 cm. About fine. An important promotional piece for the Society. Signed in type by the president of the Adelsverein, Prince Carl of Castell, it describes the colony and the number of emigrants who have gone to Texas, and adds numerous other details about the means of transportation, costs, etc. 7) Circular An die Mitglieder des Vereins zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas. Wiesbaden. 1849. Broadsheet, 34 x 21.5 cm. About fine. Issued by the Society, concerning banking arrangements made through the banker Flersheim of Frankfurt. 8) Die Thatigkeit des Comite’s Seit dem Lekten Bericht Vom 15. May D. J. Betreffend. Frankfurt. 1849. 4pp. on 33.5 x 21.5 cm. sheet. About fine. Report of the Com- mittee on progress made in the Texas settlements. 9) Vortrag die Beschaffung der Fonds Betr, Welche der Generalagent Bene zur Theilweisen Deckung der Vereinsschulden in Texas.... Wiesbaden. 1850. 29pp. 34 x 22 cm. Minor edge toning. Very good. Manuscript reproduced in contemporary offset, printing letters from F. Roemer, Kroeber, and others. This lengthy report seems to have been prepared for financing purposes, the literal title being: “Report on the condition of funds, which the General Agent Bene has submitted on Jan. 22, 1850, for partial provision of the Verein in Texas.” There is an account of the situation there as well as information on stockholders in Germany and financing measures. 10) Beilage Zu No. 41 des Herzoglich Rassanischen Allgemeinen Intelligenzblatts Vom 12. October 1850. Wiesbaden. 1850. 4pp. on folded sheet, 27 x 22 cm. Light foxing. Very good. Fiscal paper for the Society for the Protection of German Emigrants to Texas, describing conditions of loans. 11) Prioritats-Obligation des Vereins zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas Uber 500 Gulden Im 24½ Gulden Fuss. Wiesbaden. 1850. [4]pp. on folded folio sheet, 31.5 x 20 cm. Light fold crease. Very good. Printed bond, signed in ink by the Committee members, but not executed. 12) Uebersetzung. [Wiesbaden?] 1850. [1]p. on folded folio sheet, 32 x 21 cm. Litho- graphic manuscript. Fine. This short report translates a letter from the governor of Texas, P.H. Bell, on the landholdings of the Verein. 13) Comite des Vereins zum Schulze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas. Stuttgart. 1850. 21pp. Folio. Manuscript document reproduced by contemporary offset, stitched. Light edge wear and toning. Very good. This document, lithographically reproduced in a style often used by the Society, is a letter from the German promotional agent, Traugott Bromme, giving a detailed account of the doings of the Society, with an extensive summary of conditions in the colony. 14) Denkschrift. Wiesbaden. 1851. Broadside, 35 x 21.5 cm. Mild toning. Very good. Memorandum concerning the Society and the status of things in Texas, signed in type by Prince Hermann of Wied. 15) Manuscript letter reproduced by contemporary offset. [Frankfurt]. 1854. [2]pp. Some contemporary manuscript notes. Signed in facsimile by the Verein’s agent in Frankfurt. Old folds. Minor edge wear. Very good. Lists the agents of the Verein in German authorized by the Committee. 16) In Folge Beschlusse Vom. 17. Mai D. J. Find Die Angelegenheiten.... Newwied. 1858. Broadside, 28 x 22 cm. Minor edge wear. Very good. Evidently a document settling the estate of one of the stockholders. 17) Fahrpreise von Baltimore, in Einwandererzugen. Bremen. [1856?] Broadside, 36 x 13 cm. Lightly dampstained. Minor edge wear. About very good. Fare schedule for the Baltimore and Ohio Railway. $6750.

A Splendid Panoramic View of the German Settlement of New Braunfels, Texas

158. [Texas]: Rordorf, Conrad Caspar: PANORAMA DER STADT NEU- BRAUNFELS IN TEXAS AUFGENOMMEN VON DER SUD- WEISTESEITE IN SOMMER 1847. Berlin: Lithographed by J. Tem- peltey, Printed by Delius Brothers, 1851. Colored lithograph in two attached sections, image size 16 x 97 cm., with ample margins. Slight variation in tone between the two sheets, soiled, else very good.

A large and handsome panoramic view of the town of New Braunfels, Texas, described by Ron Tyler in his book on Texas lithographs as “one of the handsomest of all pre-Civil War lithographs of Texas.” The view was produced as part of the land promotion effort of the Adelsverein, an association of German noblemen who founded extensive German settlements in Texas in the 1840s and 1850s. Chief among them was New Braunfels, the largest town in the German colony. The town was named for Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels, the first president of the Adelsverein. The view shows New Braunfels from a hill south of town, an observation point which the German traveller, Dr. Ferdinand Roemer, described as offering “a beautiful and commanding view of the whole town, and of the neighboring hills, forests, and valleys, for several miles around.” The view looks north from this vantage point to the town spread out across a plain, bounded on the north by the watercourse of Comal Creek. A man lounges in the foreground, livestock grazes, and several travellers are on the roads from town. The whole town lies under the cloud-banked sky of a still Texas summer day. The artist who drew the panorama was Conrad Caspar Rordorf, a German en- graver, etcher, and watercolorist born in Zurich in 1800. He went to Texas in the mid-1840s and died violently the same year he drew the scene of New Braunfels, shot in a dispute over land. He was probably commissioned to do the panorama by the Adelsverein. This exceptional lithograph is quite rare. $9000.

159. [Texas]: Richardson, Willard and David: THE TEXAS ALMA- NAC FOR 1861, WITH STATISTICS, HISTORICAL AND BI- OGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, &c., RELATED TO TEXAS [cover title]. Galveston: The Galveston News, [1860]. [2],336pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Rear wrapper lacking, spine chipped. Front wrapper slightly chipped at corners and edges. Without the folding map, found in only a few copies. Else very good.

A wealth of contemporary information concerning Texas. Advertisements from all over Texas, as well as from New York and New Orleans, comprise pages 253-336. WINKLER, 1373. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 172E. HOWES T138. RAINES, p.174. $1000. 160. [Texas]: [Civil War]: Norton, A.B.: VINDICATION OF A.B. NOR- TON, FROM THE ATTACKS OF HIS ENEMIES; MADE IN THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE, APRIL 8th 1861 [caption title]. [Austin. 1861]. 8pp. Original printed wrappers. Some staining and minor foxing. Very good.

An especially rare Texas Confederate imprint concerning Norton’s alleged opposition to secession. Norton rebuts opponents who labeled him an abolitionist, yet decries the dissolution of the Union and the looming Civil War. His target of blame is clear: “Lincoln... [is] leading the hordes of Black Re- publicans amid the ruin of our beloved country, triumphantly to the National Capitol.” Parrish & Willingham notes just four copies, at Yale, Emory, the Boston Athenaeum, and the University of Texas at Austin. OCLC also notes a copy at Baylor. This is the first copy we have encountered in forty years. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 5683. CRANDALL 2796. SABIN 55858. HEARTMAN 120:1441. OCLC 22435 943. $1250.

161. [Texas Railroads]: AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SAN AN- TONIO AND MEXICAN GULF RAILROAD COMPANY [caption title]. [San Antonio?] Sept. 5, 1850. Bifolium, printed on the first page only. Minor discoloration at folds, a few fox marks on rear leaf. Near fine.

The Texas state law that chartered the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad, printed on blue paper. The San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Rail Road was founded in 1850 to connect San Antonio and Victoria with increasing maritime freight traffic at Port Lavaca and Indianola. The company suffered from financial and construction difficulties throughout its twenty-year life span, even after the federal government stepped in during early Reconstruction to pay for the rebuilding of much of the line. The railroad company was finally bought out by Charles Morgan and merged into his Gulf, Western Texas and Pacific Railway Company in 1871. Not in OCLC. Winkler locates only the copy at UT. WINKLER, TEXAS IMPRINTS 176. $1500. Item 161.

Wyoming Outlaws

162. Tittsworth, W.G.: OUTSKIRT EPISODES. Des Moines: Success Com- position and Printing Co., 1927. 232,[1]pp. Publisher’s maroon cloth, gilt. Spine and corners lightly worn, hinges cracked, front board starting. Author’s photo tipped onto titlepage. Light tanning, else internally clean. Very good.

“This rare book is the personal narrative of the author’s life and adventures in the Wyoming country and his experiences among the Rocky Mountain outlaws in the days when the Union Pacific was building westward. The author tells about Tom Horn’s killings and his execution” – Adams’ Six Guns. Horn was a well-known western gunman who began his career as a Cavalry scout and spent time as a Pinkerton detective. He was eventually convicted of murder and executed in Cheyenne in 1903. HOWES T275. GRAFF 4158. ADAMS SIX GUNS 2219. $1000. A Legendary Rarity of Western Americana

163. Tucker, Ephraim W.: A HISTORY OF OREGON, CONTAINING A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES. OF THE SPANISH, AMERI- CAN AND ENGLISH NAVIGATORS ON THE NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA.... Buffalo: A.W. Wilgus, 1844. 84pp. 20th-century blue three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Light foxing, heavier on outer leaves. Very good.

An extremely rare and early history of Oregon Territory, with significant description and discussion of the potential U.S.-Great Britain boundary dispute. In the introduction to the 1970 reprint edition Glen Adams writes: The Tucker History of Oregon is an extremely rare book, by far the rarest of the several histories of the area that were printed while the Oregon country was jointly occupied by the United States and Great Britain, and of course before the International Boundary had been set at the 49th parallel.... Adams also notes that not much is known about the author, beyond that he wrote a book entitled Five Months in Labrador and Newfoundland During the Summer of 1838 (Concord, 1839). Tucker is obviously an American partisan, advocating the claim of the United States to the entire Oregon Country. This position was actively voiced in the 1844 presidential campaign as “54’ 40’’ or fight,” meaning that the United States should get the entire Oregon Country north to 54’ 40” north latitude west of the Rocky Mountains as defined by the 1818 treaty between Great Britain and the United States. In 1846, occupied with fighting Mexico and seizing California and the Southwest, the Polk administration compromised with England and the final boundary was set at 49’ north latitude from the Great Lakes to the Pacific. Only a handful of copies in OCLC, and no copies appear in auction records for the past forty plus years; the last we can find is at the Lester Bauer in 1958 ($475). This is the first copy we have handled in forty-two years of active dealing in Western Americana. HOWES T378, “c.” GRAFF 4203. BRADFORD 5496. WICKERSHAM 4133. SABIN 97298. McMURTRIE (BUFFALO) 98. $25,000.

164. Turner, T.G. and C.E.: TURNER’S GUIDE FROM THE LAKES TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS...INCLUDING A HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE RAILROADS OF THE COUNTRY, TOWNS AND CITIES ALONG THE ROUTE, AND NOTICES OF THE CONNECTING ROADS AND ROUTES. Chi- cago: Spalding and LaMontes, 1868. 288pp., including many illustrated advertisements. Colored frontis. Original green cloth, spine gilt, edges red. Corners bumped, extremities a bit rubbed. Later ownership ink stamps on endleaves. Light dampstaining in upper gutter margin, heavier toward end of volume. Minor foxing. Nearly very good.

An extensive guide to travel from Cleveland and Chicago to the Missouri River, through Nebraska, Wyoming, and the Rocky Mountains via a number of railroads, including the Cleveland and Toledo, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana, Chicago and North-Western, Union Pacific, and Pacific and Sioux City Railroad. Included are chapters on early explorations in the West, railroads, steamboat travel, manufactures, and general capabilities and prospects for the West. Pages 213-232 are devoted to Wyoming, including an early description of Cheyenne and towns in the Black Hills. The last twenty pages contain ads (many of them illustrated) for merchants, real estate agents, attorneys, bankers, etc. from all over Nebraska, Wyo- ming Territory, Iowa, and Indiana. The colored frontispiece depicts a Studebaker Wagon. A lively western travel book. Howes lists a gazetteer of the St. Joseph valley by Turner published in 1867, but not the present work. Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints locates only four copies (CSmH, DLC, IC, ICH). Scarce. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 1414. GRAFF 4211. EBERSTADT 114:804. $1000.

With an Additional Article Extending the Treaty of Limits

165. [United States-Mexico Treaty]: PRIMERA SECRETARIA DE ES- TADO. DEPARTAMENTO DEL ESTERIOR...UN TRATADO PARA LA DEMARCACION DE LOS LIMITES.... [Mexico. 1832]. 5pp. printed in double columns in parallel English and Spanish. Folio. Red morocco in antique style. Minor worming to front fly leaves, not affecting text. Minor foxing on first leaf. Very good.

This document reprints the 1828 “treaty of limits” between the United States and Mexico which set the U.S.-Mexico border along the Sabine River and which was the first treaty between those two nations. This printing also includes an additional article, negotiated in 1831, extending the time allowed for ratification of the 1828 treaty. The treaty was ratified in 1832. MALLOY, pp.1082-85. $2000.

166. Valck, Gerard: L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE & MERIDIO- NALE DIVISÉE EN SES PRINCIPALES PARTIES SCAVOIR LES TERRES ARCTIQUES, LE CANADA, OU NOUVELLE FRANCE, LE MEXIQUE OU NOUVELLE ESPAGNE, LE NOUVEAU MEX- IQUE, LES ISLES DE TERRE NUEVE, DE CALIFORNIE, AN- TILLES, LA TERRE FERME, LE PEROU, LE CHILI, LE BRESIL, LE PARAGUAY, LA TERRE ET LES ISLES MAGELLANIQUES. Amsterdam. [ca. 1702]. Handcolored copper-engraved map, 18 x 21½ inches. Matted and framed. Mounted on backing board, else very good.

A nice copy of a well executed map of the western hemisphere, depicting California as an island. First published in Atlantis Sylloge Compendiosa...or Nova Totius Geographia Telluris Projectio by Gerard and Leonard Valck around 1702 and reissued from the same plate in Nova Totius Geographica Telluris Projectio (circa 1720). The map has a large cartouche and, interestingly, a scene of Europeans trading with Indians at lower right. California is shown as an island, the Mississippi River is ill-conceived, and the Great Lakes are indicated, though without defined western limits. McLAUGHLIN, MAPPING OF CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND 153. $2000.

The First Edition

167. Venegas, Miguel: NOTICIA DE LA CALIFORNIA, Y DE SU CONQUISTA TEMPORAL, Y ESPIRITUAL HASTA EL TIEMPO PRESENTE. SACADA DE LA HISTORIA MANUSCRITA, FOR- MADA EN MEXICO AÑO DE 1739.... Madrid: En la Imprenta de la Viuda de Manuel Fernandez..., 1757. Three volumes. [24],240pp. plus folding map; [8],564; [8],436pp. plus three folding maps. Small quarto. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, edges sprinkled green. Small bookplates on front pastedowns. Hinges rubbed, moderate shelf wear, minor worming in spine hinges and boards. Map of the Gulf of California has a 1¾-inch tear in gutter margin, not affecting image. Internally clean and fresh. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase and chemise.

The very rare first edition of this classic history of California, frequently reprinted in various languages. Wagner states that the work “contains more on Lower California than almost any other book that had been published in one hundred and fifty years.” Howes describes the work as the “first attempt at a history of California. Based, by the anonymous editor, Father Andres Marcos Burriel, on Venegas’s 1739 ms., but incorporating information from other sources. Volume three of the original Spanish edition contains [an] account of discoveries on the Northwest coast attacking, as fictitious, the then accepted voyages of de Fonte and de Fuca.” “Volume III contains extracts from Lopez de Gomara and Torquemada relating to the early explorations on the northwest coast and several articles written by Father Burriel himself. Of these the most interesting is his account of the construction of the map of Cali- fornia, and of the general map of North America....The extract from Torquemada relates to the Vizcaino expedition of 1602 and 1603 which Torquemada took from the diary of Father Antonio de la Ascension” – Zamorano 80. HOWES V69, “c.” STREETER SALE 2433. GRAFF 4470. SABIN 98848. COWAN, p.238. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 132. ZAMORANO 80, 78. $12,000.

A Rare Lithographed Edition of Vischer’s Work on the Giant Sequoias of California

168. Vischer, Edward: VIEWS OF CALIFORNIA. THE MAMMOTH TREE GROVE, CALAVERAS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. AND ITS AVENUES. San Francisco: Drawn and published by Edward Vischer [lithographed by Kuchel, printed by Nagel], 1862. 4pp. text, letterpress index mounted on rear pastedown as issued. Lithographed title on card (repeated and mounted on front pastedown as issued), twelve lithographed plates on card containing twenty-five mounted lithographed illustrations. Small folio. Contents loose as issued. Publisher’s brown cloth portfolio, paneled in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt. Very good.

Edward Vischer (1808-78) migrated from Germany to Mexico at the age of nineteen and worked with the commercial house of Heinrich Virmond. Dispatched to California in 1842, he became enamored of the area and returned to San Francisco in 1847, working as a merchant and agent for foreign companies during the Gold Rush. A talented amateur artist, Vischer began to sketch the California scenery he encountered. “In 1861 he visited the Calaveras Big Trees....In 1862 he published a portfolio of a dozen lithographed plates of sketches made on his trip” – Peters. This would be his first published work. Apparently unsatisfied with the way lithography captured his original drawings, Vischer republished the work with albumen photographs of his original drawings. Both versions are very rare. Currey & Kruska cite three issues of the lithographed version; the present example is their third issue, being the most complete with the maximum number of plates and text. COWAN, p.662. CURREY & KRUSKA 376 (3rd issue). FARQUHAR 5. HOWES V132. STREETER SALE 2877. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, pp.198-202. $18,500.

169. [Washington Territorial Laws]: [CONSECUTIVE RUN OF EARLY WASHINGTON TERRITORIAL LAWS, 1855 – 1869]. Olympia. 1856-1869. Fourteen volumes. 20th-century tan buckram, gilt leather labels (one volume in black buckram). Minor chipping to labels, some staining. Small ink library stamps and ink ownership inscriptions on titlepages, most titlepages with embossed library blindstamp, some foxing and staining. A good set.

A major run of Washington territorial laws, covering 1855-69, all printed in Olympia, the eventual state capital. The laws in this collection cover the period from the third to the sixteenth sessions of the territorial assembly. They begin over thirty years before Washington attained statehood on Nov. 11, 1889 and provide a fascinating look into the particular challenges of creating laws for a territory on the western extreme of the nation. All of these imprints are rare, with only one current retail offering of one of the imprints, and sparse auction records for all of them. A detailed list of the imprints is available upon request. McMURTRIE (WASHINGTON) 22, 29, 35, 39, 49, 53, 59, 67, 76, 95, 107, 120, 128, 134. $4000.

The Bodie Mines

170. Wasson, Jos.: BODIE AND ESMERALDA BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE REVIVAL OF AFFAIRS IN TWO SINGULARLY IN- TERESTING AND IMPORTANT MINING DISTRICTS.... San Francisco. 1878. 60pp. plus two folding maps. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Minor soiling and wear. Very good.

A rare pamphlet describing the early history of two California mining districts at the height of their boom. A profitable deposit of gold-bearing ore was discovered in Bodie in 1876, and over the next few years the population soared to 5000-7000. The once small town bustled with activity, boasting as many as sixty-five saloons spread along a one-mile strip. With details on more than twenty mines as well as tunnels, railroad routes, and other information useful for the prospective investor or settler. COWAN, p.671. $1500.

Taken During the Famed Wheeler Survey

171. [Wheeler Survey]: O’Sullivan, Timothy, photographer: APACHE LAKE, SIERRA BLANCA RANGE, ARIZONA...No. 1. [Washing- ton, D.C. ca. 1875]. Albumen photograph. Image size: 8 x 10¾ inches. On lettered card mount, 11 x 13¾ inches (mount reduced in size). Very good.

Scarce photograph of a lake in Arizona’s Sierra Blanca mountains, taken by Timo- thy O’Sullivan during the famed Wheeler Survey. The Irish-born O’Sullivan’s pioneering photographic work started during the American Civil War when he served as Matthew Brady’s apprentice and then through his work in Alexander Gardener’s studio. He afterwards became the official photographer on the United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel under Clarence King from 1867 to 1869. In 1870 he joined a survey team in Panama to survey for a canal across the isthmus. He joined Lieut. George M. Wheeler’s survey west of the 100th meridian west from 1871 to 1874, facing starvation on the Colorado River when some of the expedition’s boats capsized. Only a small percentage of the 300 negatives he took survived the trip back East. He spent the last years of his short life in Washington, D.C. as official photographer for the U.S. Geological Survey and the Treasury Department. All of the photographs were taken during the series of expeditions known by the collective title of the “Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian” (or more usually as the Wheeler Survey after its leader, Lieut. George M. Wheeler). The photographs document the work and explorations of the survey and include some of the earliest photographs taken of the Grand Canyon and of Indian tribes and sites in northern Arizona and New Mexico. A number of these images have achieved iconic status among the images of the early West. GEORGE M. WHEELER’S PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF THE AMERICAN WEST, 1871-1873 (New York: Dover Publications, 1983) 32, III:1. $1500.

172. Whiting, Daniel P., Lieut.-Col.: VALLEY TOWARDS SALTILLO, FROM NEAR THE BASE OF “PALACE HILL,” AT MONTEREY (LOOKING TO THE S. WEST) [No. 3 of a Series]. New York: G. & W. Endicott, 1847. Tinted lithograph, engraved by C. Parsons after Whiting. Image size (including text): 14¼ x 19 inches. Sheet size: 17¾ x 22¾ inches. Very good.

From Whiting’s Army Portfolio, a very scarce series of Mexican-American War views, which is not only one of the primary visual records of the conflict, but a fine topographical work as well that accurately recorded the area at a crucial turning point in its history. In late 1845, Gen. Taylor’s army was camped at Corpus Christi, Texas. In Janu- ary 1846 they advanced to the United States side of the Rio Grande, where they remained until May, and then marched on to the strongly fortified city of Monterey, which was taken in September. Whiting’s work documents this campaign. Although he originally intended to continue the series beyond five plates, the drawings for the additional plates were lost aboard a steamboat that sank in the Mississippi. Daniel Powers Whiting was born in Troy, New York and graduated in 1832 from the U.S. Military Academy, where he received formal training as a topographical artist. He was assigned to the 7th U.S. Infantry, with which he served in various garrisons before being promoted to captain in the spring of 1845. During the Mexican-American War he served in the army of Gen. Zachary Taylor and was made major “for gallant and meritorious conduct” in the battles of Fort Brown, Monterey, Vera Cruz, and Cerro Gordo. After the war he fought the Seminoles, joined the Utah expedition of 1859, served in various garrisons in Missouri and Kansas, and completed frontier duty in Indian Territory. During the Civil War he commanded at Fort Garland, Colorado (1861-62), was a member of the Board of Examination at Annapolis (1862-63), and commanded at Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania (1864). At the time of his retirement for “disability resulting from long and faithful service” he was lieutenant-colonel of the 6th Infantry. “The rarest lithographs of the war” – Tyler. “According to Whiting family tradi- tion, the work was limited to no more than twenty-four sets” – Goodspeed’s of Boston (The Month At Goodspeed’s Book Shop, Vol. XXI, nos. 2-3, Nov-Dec. 1959, p.43). PETERS, AMERICA ON STONE, p.175. EBERSTADT 162:910. STREETER SALE 275 (ref ). Tyler, The Mexican War, pp.24-45. $2750. 173. Whitney, Joel P.: SILVER MINING REGIONS OF COLORADO. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DIFFERENT PROCESSES NOW BEING INTRODUCED FOR WORKING THE GOLD ORES OF THAT TERRITORY [cover title]. New York. 1865. 107pp. Original front wrapper bound into modern calf, spine gilt. Two faint library stamps and small manuscript notation on front wrapper recto, bookplate on wrapper verso. Very good.

A discussion of most of the major mining areas in Colorado and the types of bullion being extracted from them. “The pages contained in this pamphlet have been hast- ily written and compiled, and are not given as the result of that care and research, due to the vast and unrivalled mineral resources of Colorado, but for the primary purpose of attracting the attention of Capitalists to the inviting Silver fields of the Cordillera Ranges, whose merits are destined at an early date to be subject of more extended and critical observation.” Almost the last entry in Wagner-Camp, this pamphlet is quite scarce. WAGNER-CAMP 427:1. HOWES W388. $900.

The Limited Edition of The Virginian

174. Wister, Owen: THE VIRGINIAN. A HORSEMAN OF THE PLAINS. New York. 1911. xvi,506pp. Publisher’s binding of quarter vellum and paper boards, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Publisher’s prospectus tipped onto front endpaper recto. Near fine.

The limited edition of The Virginian..., one of the most famous western novels, and the model for many later films and works of fiction in the western genre. This edition was limited to 100 copies, of which this is number eighteen, signed by Wister, and printed on Japan vellum, with illustrations by Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington. Curi- ously, this limited edition was issued by the publishers nine years after the first, which had by then achieved great fame. One of the most difficult to obtain of significant titles of the cattle industry in the American West. SIX SCORE 116. DYKES, REMINGTON 1128. YOST & RENNER 26a. $7500. An Important Early Texas Guide

175. Woodman, David: GUIDE TO TEXAS EMIGRANTS. Boston: M. Hawes, 1835. vi,[13]-192pp. plus engraved plate and folding map. Modern half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Upper corners of several leaves with minor tissue repairs. Contemporary meteorological tables tipped on rear endpapers. Minor soiling and foxing. Very good.

Woodman wrote this guide book, one of the first in English devoted to Texas, to serve the purposes of the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company and their promotion of lands in Texas. The book also contains a discussion of the various land grants in Texas, speeches and official reports on Texas, accounts of travellers’ visits there, and testimonial letters from settlers. The engraved plate is captioned “The Buffalo Hunt” and is after a painting by A. Fisher. A rare and important Texas guide, with a most important map of Texas, seldom met with. STREETER TEXAS 1177. HOWES W647, “aa.”. GRAFF 4737. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 12. CLARK III:117. PHILLIPS, SPORTING BOOKS, p.413. $30,000. “First printed account of the first emigrant party to cross the plains” – Howes

176. Wyeth, John B.: OREGON; OR A SHORT HISTORY OF A LONG JOURNEY FROM THE ATLANTIC OCEAN TO THE REGION OF THE PACIFIC, BY LAND; DRAWN UP FROM THE NOTES AND ORAL INFORMATION OF JOHN B. WYETH, ONE OF THE PARTY WHO LEFT MR. NATHANIEL J. WYETH, JULY 28th, 1832, FOUR DAYS’ MARCH BEYOND THE RIDGE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, AND THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS RETURNED TO NEW ENGLAND. Cambridge, Ma.: Printed for John B. Wyeth, 1833. 12mo. 20th-century three-quarter blue morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Hinges and spine extremities rubbed, corners slightly so. Engraved bookplate on front pastedown. Moderate to heavy foxing throughout. Very good.

A famed high spot of Western Americana. This important and rare record is a milestone in the history of the exploration and settlement of the West, being an account of the first overland expedition across America. John B. Wyeth witnessed the events described. He was a member of the group of emigrants led by his cousin, Nathaniel Wyeth. Departing from Cambridge, Massachusetts in March 1832, the party travelled overland via New Orleans and St. Louis to Oregon and the Rockies in search of riches in the fur trade. They succeeded in crossing the Rockies and got to within 400 miles of the Pacific. The inspiration for the venture seems to have been “Hall J. Kelley’s pamphlets on the colonization of Oregon....From Kel- ley’s accounts it appears that Nathaniel Wyeth, Dr. Jacob Wyeth, and several other members of the company had originally enrolled in Kelley’s emigrating society” (Wagner-Camp). According to Sabin and Wagner-Camp, the narrative was edited and possibly written by Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse. This copy does not include the one-line errata slip that is pasted to the verso of the title-leaf in a few copies. It seems possible that its absence (as in the Streeter, Graff, and Bancroft copies) is an indication of it’s being an early issue, before the errors were detected. GRAFF 476. HOWES W717, “c.” SABIN 105649. SMITH 11236. STREETER SALE 2091. TWENEY 88. WAGNER-CAMP 47. $15,000.

A Rare Hungarian Piece of Western Americana

177. Xantus, Janos: LEVELEI EJSZAKAMERIKABOL.... Peste [i.e. Bu- dapest. 1858]. 175,[1]pp. plus twelve tinted plates including frontis. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Plates somewhat foxed, contemporary ink note on titlepage, margin trimmed on a couple plates slightly affecting caption, else quite good.

Janos Xantus was one of the pioneering ornithologists of California. Involved in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, he came to the U.S. at the end of 1851 and worked as a topographer on the Pacific Railroad Survey and then as a member of the U.S. Coast Survey. He was stationed in California during the coastal survey, and while there made valuable collections of birds for the Smithsonian Institution, including many new species, some of which were named after him. Later he was attached to the U.S. Navy and commanded an expedition to make meteorological observations in certain parts of the Pacific Ocean. During the latter service, which concluded in 1861, he discovered eighty-nine islands and sand banks. He was ap- pointed U.S. consul at Manzanillo, Mexico and led a scientific research party into the Sierra Madre before permanently returning to his native Hungary in 1864. The present book is one of two Hungarian publications by Xantus providing an account of his travels in the U.S. The other volume, Utazas Kalifornia Deli Reszeiben, was published in Pest (i.e. Budapest) in 1860. Xantus undertook the journey across North America to California recorded herein in 1856. This volume includes letters written in Nebraska, Fort Laramie, New Orleans, Fort Riley, Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc., with notices of Marcy’s expedition to the Red River and a rare 19th-century account of Hungarians in Texas. Although many bibliographers claim this work was taken from Marcy’s narrative, the borrowed material would appear to be limited primarily to three plates. Contains Wichita and Comanche vocabularies, and plates illustrating a Wichita Indian village and dance, the San Gabriel Mission, Los Angeles, various Indians, and New York’s Union Square. Cowan lists this title under the name of the editor, Istvan Prepost. Streeter calls this an “unauthorized” edition of Xantus’ letters, asserting that the “authorized” edition is the 1860 title noted above. Not in Pilling or Ayer, despite the linguistic content. HOWES X1, “aa.” GRAFF 4784. COWAN, p.500. SABIN 105715. WAGNER-CAMP 316. STREETER SALE 3066. DAB XX, pp.589-90. $2500.

178. Yoakum, Henderson King: HISTORY OF TEXAS FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT IN 1685 TO ITS ANNEXATION TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1846. New York. 1856. Two volumes. 482; 576pp., plus eleven lithographs including four portraits, view of the mission, facsimile of a letter, and five maps and plans (two folding). Half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Minor foxing, folding map in first volume neatly repaired on fold. Very good.

The second printing, issued the year after the first. This is the first scholarly work on Texas after annexation. The author, a lawyer from Tennessee, came to Texas in 1845, befriended Sam Houston, and served in the Mexican-American War. “In spite of its detractors, Yoakum’s history remains a necessary source. Modern his- torians rally to its support, with reservations. Gambrell said Yoakum managed to achieve ‘a degree of objectivity unusual for the amateur historian, and literary style not often equalled by the professional’” – Jenkins. HOWES Y10, “aa.” RADER 3773. RAINES, p.223. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 224. $950.