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CATALOGUE THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT Western Americana WILLIAM REESE COMPANY 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 (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 A portion of our stock may be viewed at www.williamreesecompany.com. 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William Reese Company Phone: (203) 789-8081 409 Temple Street Fax: (203) 865-7653 New Haven, CT 06511 E-mail: [email protected] www.williamreesecompany.com 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 earli- est 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] prelim- inary pages followed by [14]pp. of text and twelve original mounted photographs, printed on Desson- ville paper by Ansel Adams, vari- ous 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 cata- logue 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 mod- ern photographic works on the West, Taos Pueblo was a collaboration be- tween 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’ photo- graphs of the adobe Pueblo. The book distilled the romance and naturalism that many Americans found in the Indian pueblos of New Mexico, and defined the style that was to make Adams the most popular photographer of the American West. “It was at Taos and Santa Fe that Ansel Adams first saw the Southwest. The time was the spring of 1927....His visit resulted in a Grabhorn Press book now of legendary rarity. It includes Ansel Adams’ photographs and Mary Austin’s essay on Taos Pueblo. Genius has never been more happily wed. Nowhere else did she write prose of such precise and poetical authority....Their Taos Pueblo is a true and beautiful book by two consummate artists” – Adams. Produced in a small edition, the book is difficult to obtain today. One of the greatest books produced by the Grabhorn Press and featuring beautiful photo- graphs by Ansel Adams, it is a landmark of American photographic depiction of the Southwest. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY 137. ROTH, THE BOOK OF 101 BOOKS 58. Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest (1970), p. xxv. $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 soil- ing 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.