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Donald Heald Rare Books a Selection of Rare Books & Manuscripts Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books & Manuscripts Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books & Manuscripts Donald Heald Rare Books 124 East 74 Street New York, New York 10021 T: 212 · 744 · 3505 F: 212 · 628 · 7847 [email protected] www.donaldheald.com California International Antiquarian Book Fair 2016 Americana: Items 1 - 26 Travel and Voyages: Items 27 - 47 Natural History: Items 48 - 72 Color Plate & Illustrated, including Photography: Items 73 - 88 Miscellany: Items 89 - 100 All purchases are subject to availability. All items are guaranteed as described. Any purchase may be returned for a full refund within ten working days as long as it is returned in the same condition and is packed and shipped correctly. The appropriate sales tax will be added for New York State residents. Payment via U.S. check drawn on a U.S. bank made payable to Donald A. Heald, wire transfer, bank draft, Paypal or by Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover cards. AMERICANA 1 [ALAMAN, Lucas (1792-1853)]. Memoria de la Secretaria de Estado y del Despacho de Relaciones Interiores y Exteriores, Presentada...en la de Diputados el Dia 7, y en la de Senadores el 8 de Enero de 1831. Mexico: Imprenta del Aguila, 1831. Small folio (11 x 8 inches). [2],53,[22]pp. Wood-engraved crest of Mexico on the title. Contemporary Mexican red morocco, covers with a decorative gilt roll-tool border, the flat spine divided into four compartments by gilt fillets and roll tools, the compartments with repeat decoration of a single small centrally-placed flower-spray tool, gilt turn-ins, green embossed silk pastedowns and free endpapers, gilt edges. An important official commentary on the state of the Mexican Republic, just prior to the Texas Revolution: here in a deluxe presentation binding. This scarce annual report on the state of Mexico by Lucas Alaman (1792-1853), Minister of Interior and Exterior Relations, was issued during a time of unrest in the republic, particularly with the growing resentment among Texas settlers. Alaman was a controversial figure in 19th-century Mexico. A scientist, politician, historian, diplomat, and writer, he was conservative by nature and expressed a nostalgia for monarchic rule. He was an influential politician in the early years of the Mexican Republic and favored a strong central government. Alaman was also instrumental in the creation of the Mexican National Archives and the Natural History Museum in Mexico City. This report reviews foreign relations, and lauds the republic’s domestic tranquility, prosperity and freedoms. Palau 160863. (#23332) $ 2,750 2 [ARIZONA, Mining] - COPPER CREEK MINING CO. [A photographically illustrated typescript describing and depicting the operations of the Copper Creek Mining Company in Southeastern Arizona]. [Copper Creek, Arizona: [circa 1910-1915]. Small 8vo (approximately 7 x 4 inches). 39 gelatin silver print photographs (approximately 3 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches each), includes a couple duplicate images. The typescript 28pp, recto only. [With:] A blueprint assay map of the Old Reliable Mine. Period sheep three-ring binder. Early industrial photographs of mining operations in Arizona. The photographs show mine and town buildings, machinery, settlers, and views from the mountains of the settlement of Copper Creek in Pinal County, Arizona. Copper Creek, its mines and town are located in the Galiuro mountains in the South East corner of Pinal County near Arivaipa Valley. This area produced silver as early as 1863, when ore was hauled to Yuma and shipped to Wales for reduction. Despite the relatively rich ore, factors including the remoteness of the area, the cost of transporting the ore, and the threat of Indians combined to limit mining activity in Copper Creek. But at the turn of the century, as interest in extending railroads to other mines and towns in eastern Pinal County brought the potential of carrying ore by rail, interest in Copper Creek rose once again. The Copper Creek Mining Company was organized in 1903, and in its first two years of operation yielded 49,000 pounds of copper. A narrow gauge railroad was constructed in 1912, and one of the images depicts the small locomotive being hauled overland by a team of horses. The Company went bankrupt in 1914. The present notes accompanying the photographs are of a promotional nature, envisioning the future of the settlement, perhaps as a way of attracting investors. It would seem likely that the photographs and typescript were produced for some official Company purpose. An early example of American industrial vernacular photography, of the sort which would have profound influence on a host of artists and photographers of the New Objectivity Movement. (#28112) $ 2,800 3 CALIFORNIA - Eusebio Francisco KINO (1645-1711), cartographer; and Francisco Maria PICCOLO (1654-1729). Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, ecrites des missions etrangeres par quelques Missionaires de la Compagnie de Jesus ... [including Piccolo’s report on California]. Paris: Le Clerc, 1724. Volume 5, 8vo (6 1/8 x 3 3/8 inches). 2 engraved folding maps. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers. Includes an important early Jesuit account of California, illustrated with a noted map by Father Kino. The fifth volume of the celebrated 34-volume collection of Jesuit Relations, first published between 1702 and 1776 (the present example a second edition), include the Memoire touchant lestat des Missions, nouvellement establies dans la Californie, by Father Francisco Maria Piccolo, usually considered to be the first printed account of California. Piccolo was one of the first Jesuit missionaries in Baja California Sur, New Spain, now Mexico. His letters and reports are important sources for the ethnography and early history of the peninsula. The folding map, Passage par terre a la Californie decouvert par le Rev. pere Eusebe-Francois Kino, was engraved from a copy of Father Kino’s original 1701 manuscript (now lost). Kino, Jesuit missionary and traveler, visited Baja California in 1685. He was among the Seris and Pimas in 1690, after which he transferred to northern Sonora, where he remained until his death in 1711. His missionary work in Sonora included expeditions north and west to Arizona. This famous map, which was based on Father Kinos explorations effectively disproved the California as an island myth which had originated in the early years of the seventeenth century. Cowan (1933), p. 390; Howes L299; Sabin 40697; Wagner, Northwest Coast, 483: Spanish Southwest, 74a. (#30504) $ 3,000 4 CHEROKEE NATION. Laws of the Cherokee Nation: Adopted by the Council at Various Periods. Printed for the Benefit of the Nation ... [With:] The Constitution and Laws of the Cherokee Nation: passed at Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, 1839-1851. Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation: Cherokee Advocate Office, 1852. 2 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 3/8 inches). 179; 248pp. (Faint dampstain in the upper corner to some leaves in the first volume). Expertly bound to style in uniform half black morocco over period marbled paper covered boards, spines with raised bands in six compartments, ruled on either side of each band, lettered in the second. The first Cherokee laws in Oklahoma: described by Hargrett as “perhaps the most important single volume in the fields of Cherokee law and history.” Each part appears with its own titlepage, and, as Hargrett notes, the two are often divided for that reason. “This important volume, which has often been incorrectly divided and sold as two, contains the constitutions of 1827 and 1839, a complete compilation of the acts and resolutions from 1808 through the annual session of 1851, and the laws of the Western Cherokee or Old Settlers” (Hargrett). These volumes bring together the earliest written laws of the Cherokees, all the constitutions, and the laws after Removal. Their publication represents the mending, at least on paper, of the huge rifts in the tribe brought about by the move to Indian Territory and the split over whether to go. Hargrett, Oklahoma 152; Hargrett, Laws of the American Indians 18; Foreman, p.36 (#29002) $ 7,500 5 FIGUEROA, José (1792-1835). The Manifesto, which the General of Brigade, don Jose Figueroa, commandant-general and political chief of U. California, makes to the Mexican Republic, in regard to his conduct and that of the Snrs. d. Jose Maria de Hijars and d. Jose Maria Padres, as directors of colonization in 1833 and 1834. San Francisco: Herald Office, 1855. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches). 104,[1]pp. Contemporary purple calf, covers bordered with a gilt roll tool, upper cover lettered in gilt, flat spine with gilt rules. Provenance: booklabel on the front pastedown. The scarce first English-language edition of Figueroa’s defense of his conduct in a California colonization plan, following the extremely rare first edition of 1835, which was the first book- length imprint from Agustin Zamorano’s pioneer California press. Hijar and Padres planned a project of colonizing California in the early 1830s, which brought to California many families who played a prominent role in the development of the province. The Mexican government secularized the missions in 1833, and the expectation was that the families would take possession of the mission lands. Hijar and Padres themselves expected to given governmental positions of importance. Orders from Mexico countermanded the promises, and Figueroa, governor of California, refused to hand over the lands, for which he was criticized. This is Figueroa’s defense of his conduct. This edition is considered quite rare, and Howes affords it a “c” rating. Cowan, p.210; Graff 1320; Greenwood 562; Howes F122, “c.”; Streeter Sale 2784; Zamorano 80, 37 (note). (#29210) $ 5,750 6 [FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790)]. Autograph manuscript, unsigned but entirely written in Franklin’s hand, titled “A new Version of the Lord’s Prayer”.
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