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Alaska at the Dawn of the 20th Century 1. [Alaskan Photographica]: [ANNOTATED COLLECTION OF VERNACU- LAR ALASKAN VIEWS TAKEN AND ORGANIZED DURING THE LAT- TER YEARS OF THE ALASKAN GOLD RUSH, WITH SEVERAL VIEWS OF MINING CAMPS]. [Nome, Juneau, and other locations in Alaska. ca. 1900]. Twenty-four tipped-in photographs, with printed captions, each photograph ap- proximately 3½ x 3½ inches. Contemporary brown wrappers. Some scuffing to spine. Minor fading to images. Very good. An excellent collection of vernacular photographs of Alaska around the turn of the 20th century, with printed captions beneath the images containing valuable information for identification of the images. The majority of the album captures images of Nome when it was a thriving boom town shortly after the 1898 discovery of gold. One of the captions covering three of the photographs reads, “Mining on the Beach. Nome, Alaska.” Other views include Nome from a distance, showing the hundreds of tents housing the prospectors; the house in Nome belonging to one of the album organizer’s friends; sled dog teams delivering water; six views taken on the Fourth of July, including a parade of sled dogs passing in front of Wyatt Earp’s Dexter Saloon, draped in patriotic ribbons; the Hunter Saloon, titled “the finest in Nome,” and Northern Saloon, similarly decorated for Inde- pendence Day; the J.F. Giese Hardware Store, occupying the “finest building in Nome;” five views of Juneau, including a street scene, a brewery housed in the first church in Juneau, and an enormous canoe named the “Whalekiller”; totem poles in Wrangle, Alaska; and the Muir Glacier near Skagway. Photographs from the time period near the Alaskan Gold Rush are rare, especially in an album as well-organized and well-identified as this one. $2000. one of the largest truck, military, and heavy equipment manufacturers of the 20th century.

This album was created especially for W.J. Urquhart, the general manager of the Western sales department headquartered in Chicago (as reported in “The Horseless Age: The Automobile Trade Magazine,” vol. 24, 1909, p.420). The album opens with a photograph of a Pabst beer truck and continues with a wide variety of pas- senger and commercial vehicles, most with the names of the companies painted on the sides. Among the commercial vehicles depicted are trucks operated by Marshall Field, Red Rock beverages, the Birming- ham Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Pocahontas Coal, and B.F. Goodrich, and there Trade Album of Early Automobiles and Trucks are also images of an ambulance and a police car. A few of the images are detailed views of engines, transmissions, or other mechanical parts of the vehicles. Most 2. [Automobile Photographica]: [PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM OF WHITE of the photographs have a label on the reverse describing the vehicle or part, its MOTOR COMPANY VEHICLES]. Chicago. [ca. 1910]. [116] photographs price, and in some cases also including information on the purchaser. Several of plus advertising leaf removed from Harper’s Magazine issue. Includes album of the owners are local, but most are scattered across the country, Canada, and even modern reproductions of the photographs. Oblong pebbled morocco album, gilt Russia. A few photos depict the full fleet of a company’s trucks lined up proudly title on front board. Boards rubbed and worn, corners bumped, spine perished. in front of factories, warehouses, and storefronts. Despite the company’s reputa- Photographs mounted on original linen, which is slightly curled. A few small tion, decades of mismanagement at higher levels forced the company to declare chips to edges (no loss to images), occasional toning and spots to images. The bankruptcy in 1980; White was bought by Volvo the following year. photographs overall in near fine condition. Such early automobile trade albums are rare. A handsome trade album of vehicles available from the White Motor Company “White Motor Corp.” in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CLEVELAND HISTORY (on- (Cleveland, Ohio), which grew out of the White Sewing Machine Company into line) (Case Western Reserve University). $4500. Large Chromolithographs of the Riel Rebellion A trio of rare battlefield views depicting three of the major skirmishes fought during the North-West Rebellion in Saskatchewan in 1885. This series of battles 3. [Canada]: [North-West Rebellion]: [Blatchly, W.D.]: [THREE HAND- is also known by several other names, including the Saskatchewan Rebellion, the SOME COLOR LITHOGRAPHS DEPICTING THREE OF THE MOST Northwest Uprising, and the Second Riel Rebellion (the first Riel Rebellion oc- IMPORTANT BATTLES DURING THE NORTH-WEST, OR SECOND curred near Manitoba in 1869 and is also known as the Red River Rebellion). Both RIEL REBELLION]. Toronto: Toronto Lithographing Co., [ca. 1885]. Three the 1869 and 1885 actions were led by Louis Riel, the leader of the Métis people. color lithographs. Cut Knife and Fish Creek: approximately 20¼ x 26¾ inches; Capture at Batoche: approximately 19½ x 26¼ inches. Cut Knife and Fish Creek Chronologically, the lithographs are as follows: trimmed about ¾ inch along the top margin and about 1¼ inches along left mar- 1) “Battle of Fish Creek.” This battle occurred on April 24, 1885 and resulted in gin. Capture at Batoche trimmed slightly more but evenly in each margin and a stunning victory when around 200 Métis soldiers overcame a superior force of adhered to backing board. Overall good plus. 900 government soldiers, and temporarily halted an advance on Batoche. cessful rebellion. Some fifteen years later the Métis formed their own provincial government in western Saskatchewan after hearing that the Canadian government was sending mounted police to enforce Canadian law in the region. This Second Riel Rebellion occurred in a series of skirmishes between the Métis and the Ca- nadian armed forces between March 26 and May 12, 1885. Though led by Louis Riel, the Métis ultimately lost again to the Canadian government. Still, both rebellions helped the Métis gain some measure of recognition and respect from the Canadian government that they would very likely not have earned otherwise.

The lithographs were produced by the Toronto Lithographing Company, pur- veyors of patriotic views of famous Canadian wars. In this case, the company assigned W.D. Blatchly to paint the scenes for the 1885 conflicts; Blatchly was, at the time, one of the leading artists in all of Canada.

An excellent series of lithographs illustrating three important events in the famous rebellion, with outstanding display appeal. $3750.

2) “Battle of Cut Knife.” On May 2, 1885 a force of Cree warriors held off a superior group of Canadian army units. 3) “The Capture of Batoche.” Effectively the end of the rebellion, the Métis were soundly defeated in the second week of May after they ran out of ammunition on the third day of fighting. This action forced Riel to surrender on May 15. The Métis are one of the recognized aboriginal groups in Canada who trace their roots to the first interaction between First Nations people and the earliest European settlers, usually French, and largely as a result of the fur trade. The Métis are among the earliest mixed-race people in Canada, and developed a sepa- rate, distinct culture based on their ancestral origins, usually stemming from the coupling of an indigenous woman and a male European settler. By the 19th century the Métis were well-assimilated into French-Canadian cul- ture, and many worked as fur traders for the North-West Company or Hudson’s Bay Company, or supplied furs as independent trappers. When those companies pulled out of the Red River and Saskatchewan regions in the mid-to-late 1800s, the Canadian government took over the land and began to enforce their will on the Métis people. The first armed conflict between the Métis and the Canadian provincial govern- ment occurred in 1869 in the Red River region, where Louis Riel led an unsuc- A Striking Recruiting Broadside 4. [Civil War]: [New York]: THE WAR HAS ALREADY BEGUN! [caption title]. Dansville, N.Y. November, 1861. Printed broadside, approximately 18¾ x 24 inches. Top edge chipped, edges worn, center fold partially separated, a bit brittle, as usual. Still, a good copy of a rare piece of historical ephemera. A striking Civil War recruitment broadside filled with bold text inviting the citizens of East Avon, New York to meet at the Brick Church on the evening of Nov. 19, 1861, to hear speakers including W.H.C. Hosmer and Job C. Hedges, Esq. discuss the recently-engaged Civil War and “its merits.” Text at the bot- tom of the broadside explains that at the end of the meeting, men will have an opportunity to join the “Gallant Thirteenth Regiment the most Popular, best Fed, best Clothed, and most comfortably Quartered Regiment on the Potomac.” Broadside undersigned in print by the recruiting officer, Lieut. C.S. Benjamin. The Thirteenth Regiment of New York was organized at Elmira, New York and mustered into the Union Army on April 25, 1861. The Regiment was transferred from state service to federal service later that same year in August. From 1861 to 1863, the Regiment participated in numerous crucial conflicts including the Advance on Manassas, the First Battle of Bull Run, the Siege of Yorktown, the Second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, and many others. During its service, the regiment lost a total of one hundred men to battle and disease. Included in their ranks was the notable Private Myron H. Ranney, who received the Medal of Honor for his service at the First Battle of Bull Run. One of the speakers mentioned in this broadside is William Howe Cuyler Hosmer, a poet born in Avon, New York. who graduated from the University of Vermont in 1841 where he studied law. Hosmer had a particular fascination with Native Americans, and spent time amongst the tribes of Florida and Wisconsin study- ing their culture. One of his most famous poems, “Yonnondio, or Warriors of Genesee” is said to have inspired Walt Whitman to write his own poem of the same name. Hosmer would have been a particularly interesting speaker to hear at the event advertised in this broadside. $3500. Famous Western Images 5. [Crockett, Davy]: “GO AHEAD!!” THE CROCKETT ALMANAC 1839. CONTAINING ADVENTURES, EXPLOITS, SPREES & SCRAPES IN THE WEST, & LIFE AND MANNERS IN THE BACKWOOD. Nashville: Ben Harding, [1838]. 36pp. including twenty woodcut illustrations (twelve full- page). Contemporary plain brown wrappers, stitched. Short closed tear in gutters and fore-edge of first few and last few leaves, minor edge loss to last leaf, some toning. Overall, a very good, unsophisticated copy. “It was the Crockett Almanacks which made Crockett a legendary figure and a part of American folk-lore” – Grolier American Hundred. This is volume 2, number 1, and the fifth of the Crockett almanacs to be issued in Nashville. This issue contains the usual tall tales and wonderful woodcut illustrations, including “Judy Finx whipping a Catamount,” “Col. Crockett and the Methodizer,” “An unexpected ride on the horns of an Elk,” and other classics. The text, written in frontier dialect, describes Crockett’s adventures with a grizzly bear; a ride on the back of a buffalo; Col. Crockett and the Squatter; Col. Crockett in the par- lor; Davy Crockett’s dream; buying a horse; Ben Harding and the pirates; Col. Crockett and the elk; and more. HOWES C897, “aa.” STREETER SALE 4187. AII (TENNESSEE) 379. GRO- LIER AMERICAN 100, 39. EBERSTADT 113:012. DRAKE 13414. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 49951. ALLEN, TENNESSEE 1462. $5250. “First American history of the whole country” – Howes 6. Douglass, William: A SUMMARY, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL, OF its author was the first to attempt this story from the viewpoint of a resident THE FIRST PLANTING, PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENTS, AND PRES- American....” Various contemporaries recognized it for bringing together more ENT STATE OF THE BRITISH SETTLEMENTS IN NORTH AMERICA.... facts on the American colonies and their history than any previous publication, London. 1755. Two volumes. [2],iv,[4],568; [6],416pp., plus folding color map. John Huske commenting that it was “the best collection of facts in general, for 19th-century speckled calf, gilt morocco label. Hinges cracked, repaired at head a future historian, that was ever made or published.” and tail of first volume; light chipping at head of spines. Very good. HOWES D436. WROTH AMERICAN BOOKSHELF, pp.87-91 (ref). CLARK I:226. SABIN 20727. REESE & OSBORN, STRUGGLE FOR AMERICA 11 The first English edition. “First American history of the whole country” – Howes. (ref). $3750. Wroth comments: “Modern critics of the Summary have overlooked the fact that Primary Source on the History of the Southern Colonies 7. [Hewatt, Alexander]: AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE COLONIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEOR- GIA. London: Printed for Alexander Donaldson, 1779. Two volumes. xiv,[2],347; ix,[1],329pp. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, gilt leather labels. Expertly rebacked, preserving original backstrips. Contemporary ownership signature at top of titlepage. Even toning and minor foxing to text. Very good. Hewatt, an Englishman, lived in Charleston for several years, and during this time gathered numerous original papers and manuscripts on the colonial history of South Carolina and Georgia. Streeter describes him as “a keen collector of historical documents.” Published during the American Revolution, and thanks to Hewatt’s penchant for collecting, this was one of the few primary sources on the southern colonies available in England at the time. “Earliest history of this region” – Howes. A basic South Carolina and Georgia book. “He gives a full account of the war with the Yamasee Indians and its causes in Chap. V, of the first volume. Chapter X, almost wholly occupied with an account of the war with the Cherokees. A narrative of Sir Alex. Cumming’s treaty with that nation, and of the embassy of seven of their chiefs to England is found, in chapter seven” – Field. Seven Gables Book Store bought the Streeter copy for $175 in 1967. HOWES H452, “b.” DE RENNE, p.217. CLARK I:255. SABIN 31630. STREETER SALE 1133. SERVIES 552. BRINLEY 3868. FIELD AUCTION 967. $3000.

are candids or studio portraits of numer- ous members of a large family, and their associates and friends. The subjects are seen indoors and outdoors, at weddings, in military dress, outside schools, showing off babies or young children, at picnics and large family gatherings, attending sumo wrestling matches, driving, riding in, or posed with Model T-style automobiles, and more. There are a handful of pressed flowers within the album, as well. The pictures from the first part of the album seem to emanate from Japan, based on the dress and settings of the subjects, and pic- tures from Japan are peppered occasionally throughout the album. About half, or more, of the photographs come from California. A single photograph is inscribed, “To Mr S Kawasami, Sincerely Yours, from your friend, Charlie Kameko,” thus providing the impetus for our conjecture as to whom this family album belonged.

The Santa Barbara placement stems from a picture in the album of the placard at the Santa Barbara Mission. The numerous Los Angeles pictures feature subjects in and around Pacific Ocean Park in Santa Monica, with views of the park itself and the beach around the park. There are also street shots of downtown Los Ange- les, one featuring the John A. Roebling & Sons Wire Rope Building and another Japanese-American Family in California showing the Ambassador Hotel. 8. [Japanese-American Photographica]: [Kawasami Family]: [VERNACULAR The compiler of the album then shifts to northern California, with photographs PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM DOCUMENTING A JAPANESE-AMERICAN of Yosemite National Park, including the Wawona Hotel and Fish Camp. Apart FAMILY IN CALIFORNIA AND JAPAN IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE from the Yosemite pictures, there are a couple featuring the capitol building in 20th CENTURY]. [San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and other loca- Sacramento, and a photograph in San Francisco showing a large family group of tions in California; and possibly Japan. ca. 1920s to 1940s]. 265 mounted sepia- a few dozen Japanese-Americans arranged in front of a bay-windowed Italianate toned and black-and-white photographs, ranging from 2½ x 3½ inches to 6½ x 8¾ house; a “To Let” sign in an upstairs window of the neighboring house gives an inches. Oblong quarto. Contemporary crimson patterned leatherette photograph address for Doud & Co., a realtor or property management company on Kearny album, string-tied. Minor wear to extremities. One leaf detached, a handful of Street. There is also a pre-printed commercial aerial shot of the campus of the photographs missing. Photographs mostly in nice condition, with some silvering University of California, Berkeley, and perhaps a couple of other views around and occasional surface abrading to a handful of images. Overall very good. Berkeley. A wonderful collection of photographs of a Japanese-American family in California A substantial collection of Japanese-American family photographs from the pre- and Japan in the early to mid-20th century. The majority of the photographs internment period. $2500. also been helpful for Japanese-Americans businesspeople looking for a fresh start after their companies were taken away from them at the outset of the relocation program, and for new businesses to connect with the growing Japanese-American community in San Francisco and other places after World War II. The guide, illustrated with numerous photographs and a front cover illustration featuring the Golden Gate Bridge by renowned Japanese-American artist Chiura Obata, consists of a lengthy report printed entirely in Japanese, followed by a bilingual directory of Japanese-American organizations (including the Japanese American Citizens League, the Anti-Discrimination Committee, and others), churches (mostly Buddhist), professional organizations, businesses, and a residen- tial directory. The latter is organized by cities, with the great majority listing names and addresses of individuals in dozens of cities throughout California, but also Utah, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Washington D.C., Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, and Peru. The directory is interspersed throughout with advertisements for Japanese-owned businesses and other businesses friendly to the Japanese-American community; advertisements are also printed on the inside covers and back cover. Advertised businesses include the Yamate Brothers, importers and exporters; Takeuchi Broth- ers, “wholesale distributors of quality fishing tackle;” Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co., which touts “Direct high-speed radiotelegraph service to and from Japan;” Shibata Mt. Eden Nursery Co.; Kusano Hotel; Ogi Jewelry company; Wm. S. Yamashita Company, grocers; Dr. G.I. Kawamura and his medical partners; the Namimatsu Farm; Hime Brand Sacramento Noodle Factory; Mukai Brewing Co., and scores of others. The photographic illustrations at the beginning of the text are interesting. They open with a page showing various California buildings, including the state capitol in Sacramento. These are followed by pictures of the evacuation of Japanese Americans in 1942, a couple of scenes inside the internment camps, including Heart Mountain, and two aerial views of internment camps, one identified as Topaz in Utah. These photographs are followed by several pages of San Francisco street Directory of Japanese Americans, scenes showing various buildings of Japanese-American interest, ending with the Produced Just Three Years After World War II Nichi Bei Times office. 9. [Japanese Americana]: KIKAN FUKKO SHI NARABINI JUSHOROKU [in This directory was published by the Nichi Bei Times, an important Japanese- Japanese characters] NICHI BEI TIMES EVACUATION-RESETTLEMENT American newspaper started in San Francisco in 1946 by former employees of REPORT 1948 DIRECTORY [cover title]. San Francisco: Nichi Bei Times, the Nichi Bei Shimbun, after the return of Japanese Americans to the Bay Area 1948. [16],1-42,42A,43-138,[2],[10],1-[144],[4],145-243,[3]pp. Text in Japanese from internment camps. The paper quickly became an important source of news and English. Illustrations. Quarto. Publisher’s textured pictorial wrappers. Minor for Japanese Americans that the mainstream media often neglected, including wear, head of spine chipped. Minor toning to text, internally clean. Very good. important issues such as civil rights violations dealing with discrimination and hate crimes. At the time of its print demise in 2009, the Nichi Bei Times was the A fascinating guide designed to assist Japanese Americans with resettlement after longest-running Japanese-language newspaper in northern California; it continues their forced evacuation and confinement in internment camps earlier in the de- today as an online newspaper. cade. This guide would have been of great help in assisting Japanese Americans in reconnecting and reuniting with family, friends, and business associates from OCLC records just four copies, at Yale, the San Francisco Public Library, the whom they had been separated during the internment period. It would have Bancroft Library, and the University of Washington. OCLC 55742908, 21851426. $4250. Although Ramsay applied for copyright to this work in 1785 (and his History of the American Revolution in 1789), it was not granted until 1790. Nevertheless, the two hold the joint distinction of being the first books to receive copyright in America.

Ramsay, born in Pennsylvania and educated at Princeton, settled as a physician in Charleston. He served in the Continental Congress and as a military surgeon during the war, and was later president of the South Carolina Senate. His history is an accurate portrayal of the events in the southern theatre. Responding to a portion of the printing sheets of this work sent to him by Ramsay, Thomas Jefferson wrote to the author on Aug. 31, 1785: “I am much pleased to see that a commencement of those special histories of the late revolution which must be written first before a good general one can be expected. I shall be more pleased to see the remaining parts as well executed as this which sets the example.”

The maps, among the earliest American cartographic depictions, include: “A Sketch of Charleston Harbour”; “Plan of the Siege of Charleston”; “A Sketch of the Situations & Stations of the British Vessels, under the command of Sir Peter Parker on the attack upon Fort Moultrie”; and “Plan of the Siege of Savannah; Plan of the In- vestment of York[town] & Gloucester.” An Important History of the American Revolution, and the First Book to Receive Copyright in the United States Beyond its value as a cartographically-illustrated work of history, it has been ar- gued by Lester Cohen and others that the few 18th-century American histories 10. Ramsay, David: THE HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION OF SOUTH- of the Revolution, most notably those authored by Ramsay, were part of a larger CAROLINA, FROM A BRITISH PROVINCE TO AN INDEPENDENT nation-building movement. Thus, this history of the revolution in the southern STATE. Trenton: Isaac Collins, 1785. Two volumes. xx, 453,[1]; xx,574pp., plus theatre is distinctly American: in its writing, illustrations, printing, binding and five engraved folding maps. Half titles. Expertly bound to style in period tree socio-political impact upon the young Republic’s cultural identity. sheep, spine gilt, red and black morocco labels. Expert repairs to the folding HOWES R36. SABIN 67691. EVANS 19211. FELCONE 223. REESE, REVO- maps, else very good. LUTIONARY HUNDRED 80. $17,500. Puerto Principe, [Cuba]. September 10, 1898. Broadside, 16¼ x 12¼ inches. Toned, old folds and creases, minor edge chipping, short closed tear, slight fold separations. Very good. A very rare, possibly unique surviving example of a Cuban broadside dating from the month after the conclusion of the Spanish-American War. The war ceased with a truce between the United States and Spain on August 12, 1898; the official end of the war came a few months later, on December 10, when the two parties signed the historic Treaty of Paris. Here, on September 10, in the interim between truce and treaty, the outgoing Spanish colonial governor of the south-central Cuban city of Puerto Principe (present-day Camagüey), Emilio March y Garcia, calls for reinforcement of the truce agreement that would ensure free and open commercial trade in the region in the face of continuing interference by Cuban insurgents. March y Garcia claims that the Cuban revolutionaries are illegally detaining people, interrupting the cattle trade, trampling property rights, car- rying arms in flagrant disregard for the law, and more. The Arizona Republican published an English translation of this proclamation in its September 26, 1898 issue. The translation reads: “I hereby inform, the commanders of insurgent bands who are pillaging in the neighborhood of this city; who, not observing the agreement between the Spanish and American governments with regard to the freedom of commercial relations, are illegally detaining the country people; who are obliging the land owners to procure special passes and permits in order to put in order their plantations, and will not allow them either to sell their cattle, under the absurd pretext that the estates are the property of the nominal Cuban state, and that its government alone can distribute and sell them and turn their products to what uses it sees fit, thus trampling under foot the rights of property, whereas on the part of this government the most absolute liberty in making contracts has been allowed and will be allowed in the future, thus demonstrating the respect it has for the rights of all persons within its jurisdiction. I must call to notice with real sorrow that if these towns are suffering almost the horrors of starvation it is the result of the measures adopted by the chiefs of the insurgent bands, who are impeding free traffic by forbidding the entry of all kinds of provisions, especially cattle, into the towns. In view of what I have already explained I consider it necessary to publish the following warnings: Article 1. I repeat my order of August 23 last permitting free entry and exit to all towns of this province subject to my authority and the most absolute freedom of trade between all the inhabitants of the province. Ar- ticle 2. The prohibition to enter towns with arms remains in force and whoever is found with arms in his possession will be punished in accordance with the laws.” Don Emilio Augusto March y Garcia Mesa was a career Spanish military com- Attempting to Restore Order in the Cuban Countryside mander who spent at least three stretches of time in Cuba, the last as military in the Wake of the Spanish-American War governor of Puerto Principe during the Spanish defeat in the Spanish-American War. He also served as the colonial governor of Puerto Rico and general captain 11. [Spanish-American War]: March y Garcia, Emilio: BANDO. DON EMILIO of Arago, the Balearic Islands, and the Canary Islands. MARCH Y GARCIA GENERAL DE DIVISION Y GOBERNADOR MILI- TAR DE ESTA PLAZA Y PROVINCIA. HAGO SABER: QUE LOS JEFES The present broadside is exceedingly rare and quite possibly unique, with no DE LAS PARTIDAS INSURRECTAS...[caption title and beginning of text]. copies listed in OCLC and no records at auction. $1500. A Whaling Rarity 12. Stockell, William: THE EVENTFUL NARRATIVE OF CAPT. WILLIAM carries him across the globe, from Jamaica to Scotland, Malta, Quebec, Matanzas, STOCKELL, COMPRISING AN AUTHENTIC AND FAITHFUL DETAIL Havana, New York, Montreal, Bombay, Brazil, Botany Bay, Madagascar, Calcutta, OF HIS TRAVELS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. OF HIS VARIOUS Malacca, China, Mozambique, the Greenland seas, and the West Indies. His ad- AND SIGNAL ENGAGEMENTS...AND OF HIS ADVENTURES AND ventures contain numerous accounts of the pursuit and capture of pirates, including ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE WHALE FISHERY. Cincinnati: S. Ward & Co., a French privateer. Of particular note is his tale of a competition between two 1840. 326,[2]pp., plus twelve plates, including frontispiece. Contemporary pat- vessels for a whale. Whaling was of great interest to Stockell, and he provides terned cloth, gilt morocco label. Boards a bit worn and soiled. Minor dampstaining a missive on the art of harpooning with details on the proper positioning of the to first several leaves, scattered foxing throughout. Good. attacking ship. In total, over seventy pages of the work are devoted to Stockell’s whaling experiences. The many plates depict various dramatic scenes, including A rare work by an American seaman who spent the first two decades of the 19th a whaling scene and his “rescue” by a crew of dead men. All told, a wonderful century serving in the American and British naval and maritime services. Stockell’s narrative of life on the high seas. Not in Jenkins or Smith. narrative (which was “revised and corrected for the press” by Dr. Edwin A. Atlee) HOWES S1016. SABIN 91877. OCLC 5985500. $6000. Supplying the Army in the Pacific Northwest 13. [Washington Territory]: PROPOSALS FOR MILITARY SUPPLIES... FOR THE DELIVERY DURING PART OF THE PRESENT FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING JANUARY 1st, 1878, AND ENDING JUNE 30th, 1878, OF THE FOLLOWING MILITARY SUPPLIES AT FT. WALLA WALLA WASHINGTON TERRITORY.... [Portland, Or.: Office Chief Quartermaster, 1877]. Broadside, 17½ x 12 inches (but 17 x 11 inches sight). Backed on linen. Bright and clean, and in near fine condition. Matted and framed. A very rare broadside issued by George H. Weeks as Acting Chief Quartermaster of the Department of the Columbia (in the Pacific Northwest), soliciting bids from local merchants for lumber, oats, barley, and straw. This broadside is excel- lent evidence of the army’s need for local suppliers of essential goods, especially in relatively remote areas with attenuated supply chains. Weeks called for bids for goods to be delivered in the first six months of 1878 on the following sup- plies: 400 cords of soft wood; 600,000 pounds of oats; 100,000 pounds of barley; and 75,000 pounds of straw, showing that not only an army, but also its horses, travel on their stomachs. Bids were to be accepted both in Portland and at Fort Walla Walla until noon on December 18, 1877, and were to be delivered sealed and in triplicate. “Bids for any portion of the Supplies will be entertained. The Government reserves the right to reject any or all bids.” No copies of this broadside are located in OCLC. A rare and attractive broadside detailing the needs of the U.S. Army in the West in the year after the Battle of Little Bighorn. $1750.