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On the cover: 172. Tanner: A Map of the United States of Mexico.... Philadelphia. 1846. [detail] 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. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Map with neatly repaired closed tear in the left margin, barely intruding into the map border. A bit of very light foxing, but generally quite clean and fresh internally. 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.

2. [Alaska]: [FOUR MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO SEAL HUNTING IN THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS OFF THE COAST OF ALASKA]. Alaska & Washington, D.C. 1885-1889. [7]pp. Two folio and two quarto documents. Old folds. Some light wear and soiling. Very good.

Two letters and two manuscript documents relating to seal hunting and breeding grounds on St. Paul and St. George Islands in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska. The two letters concern Abial P. Loud, who served as a special treasury agent in the Pribilof Islands (formerly the Northern Fur Seal Islands) from 1885 to 1889. The first letter, written from St. George Island in August 1889, testifies to the upright and unimpeachable character of Captain Loud. The second letter is addressed to Loud, informing him of the steamer schedule leaving San Francisco for the islands. The two manuscript charts record facts about sealing on the islands. The first chart, “Distribution of Proceeds from Fur Seal Taken on St. Paul’s Island 1885,” records a total of 84,670 seal skins taken at forty cents apiece, and twenty sea lion skins. The names of seventy-five men who received payouts are listed, starting with first class, and the amounts descending from there. Most of the men have very Russian- sounding names. The second chart, “Measurement of Breeding Rookeries, St. Paul Island,” records the seal count as noted by two different individuals, in 1872 and 1886. The names of twelve rookeries are listed, measuring the sea margin, the total area in feet, and the total number of seals (estimated from the size of each rookery, allowing for two square feet per seal). The second recorder, in 1886, notes that the area of two square feet assigned each seal is inadequate, and the numbers assigned by his predecessor are enlarged slightly. $900.

3. [Alaska Photographica]: [ALBUM OF 132 ORIGINAL SILVER PRINT PHOTOGRAPHS OF SCENES IN ALASKA, MOSTLY IN UNALASKA, THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, AND THE BER- ING SEA, INCLUDING IMAGES OF WHALING, CANNERIES, CANNERY SHIPS, NATIVE ALASKANS, AND VOLCANOES]. [Various places in Alaska. 1911-1912]. 132 silver print photographs, from 2½ x 3½ to 4 x 6½ inches. Plus four additional small photographs and three large negatives loosely laid in at the rear. Many photographs have manuscript cap- tions. Mounted onto leaves of a contemporary oblong 12mo. black patterned leather album. Album rubbed around edges. Images clean and sharp. Near fine.

A marvelous collection of original photographs from Alaska in the early 20th century, showing a wide variety of scenes and places, mostly in the Aleutian Islands. Those few photographs that are dated carry dates of 1911 and 1912, hence our dating of the album. Several of the photograph show volcanoes, including Katmai, Isenotski, Shishaldin, Pavlov, Bogoslof, and Makushin. Several pictures show the area just after the 1912 eruption of Katmai, including images captioned “sea covered with lava 100 miles from Katmai. June, 1912”; “Kodiak – trees laden with lava”; “a slide of volcanic dust”; and “a garden without weeds.” One photograph shows a man clearing away lava and ash from his home. Many photographs show places in Unalaska (two of them showing the native cemetery there) and the Aleutian Islands, far into the Bering Sea. Included are pictures of Iliuluk Bay, Ballyhoo, Beaver Inlet, Dutch Harbor, Bellkaffski Village, Unalga Island, Saint Paul Island, and more. A few of the photographs show sport fishing on the islands, including trout fishing as well as more dramatic fishing scenes, being photographs of whaling and the cannery industry. There are images of sailing vessels called “cannery tenders,” the canneries at Karluck, and interior views of the canneries as well. Four photographs show whaling scenes, including “an Akutan whaling station”; “taking off the blubber”; and two of large whale carcasses on docks, waiting to be cut up and the oil extracted. There are many photographs of native Alaskans, including children, and one captioned “natives of Katmai and Douglas – destroyed by Mt. Katmai.” A few images show a Russian Orthodox church, built largely of earth and ground cover, but ornately decorated with icons inside. Others show fishermen and their vessels and the wildlife of the islands, and one is captioned “new houses at Perry,” depicting a small settlement with an American flag flying above. $3250.

4. [Alcaraz, Ramon, et al (editors)]: APUNTES PARA LA HISTORIA DE LA GUERRA ENTRE MEXICO Y LOS ESTADOS-UNIDOS. Mexico. 1848. v,401,[3]pp. plus fourteen portrait plates, thirteen folding maps and plans, and a folding chart. Two copies of the printed list of authors (“Redactores”) laid in. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Binding worn and rubbed. Lightly tanned, scattered foxing. Leaf with pages 79-80 torn in lower outer corner, affecting a handful of words and letters. Four-inch closed tear in one map, with no loss; map of “Campo de Padierna” torn, with slight loss. Good. In a cloth chemise and half red morocco and cloth slipcase.

An excellent general history of the Mexican-American War, written from the Mexi- can point of view, and suppressed by Santa Anna, according to Howes. “This work was originally published in installments between September 1848 and May 1849 under the...general title. Each installment appeared accompanied by portraits or maps at the rate of two per number. Most of the maps illustrate the sites of battles or skirmishes. When publication of the installments was completed, the various issues and their illustrations were sent to the binder by the subscribers. The final arrangement of the material varies from copy to copy” – Streeter. “Best source on the conduct of the war” – Haferkorn. TUTOROW 3254. HOWES A105, “b.” HAFERKORN, p.8. STREETER SALE 279. PALAU 14138. SABIN 1858. $2000.

Organizing the Arizona Cattle Industry

5. [Arizona Cattle Industry]: [Western Reserve Stock Company]: [MANUSCRIPT MINUTES OF THE ORGANIZING MEET- INGS OF THE WESTERN RESERVE STOCK COMPANY “TO ENTER INTO THE CATTLE BUSINESS IN THE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA”]. [Mineral Ridge, Ohio. 1882-1883]. Journal of financial transactions kept by John Dunlap from 1877 to 1898, consisting of 224pp., of which pp.62-189 are blank. The “Minutes” occupies pp.190-196. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter black roan and marbled boards notebook of lined paper, spine gilt. Light, even wear. Very good.

An interesting manuscript account of the formation of a joint stock company to enter the Arizona cattle industry. John Dunlap was a prominent local officeholder and one of the richest men in Trumbull County, Ohio in the late 19th century. With five other local men, Dunlap formed the Western Reserve Stock Company, of which he was treasurer and secretary. He records accounts of several meetings; purchases of range, cattle, and horses; and the hiring of Burt Dunlap to manage their interests and acquisitions. According to Ohio state records, a certificate was filed to dissolve the company in 1916. Other memoranda of note in the journal include lengthy manuscript pedigrees of cattle that Dunlap owned and records from several auctions at which cattle and agricultural implements were sold. The other memoranda are mainly personal business dealings relating to agriculture, totaling approximately sixty manuscript pages. These records exemplify the entrepreneurial attempt to cash in on the Arizona cattle industry’s late 19th-century boom from locations farther east. Given the size of the company and Dunlap’s position as its record-keeper, this manuscript is likely a unique account of stockholders’ meetings and business ventures. Harriet Taylor Upton, A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County Ohio, Vol. 2 (Chicago, 1909), p.334. $750.

6. [Arkansas]: LITTLE ROCK PAINT & COLOR WORKS, MAN- UFACTURERS OF ARKANSAW TRAVELER READY MIXED PAINTS. PURE WHITE AND BLACK, AND ANY DESIRED SHADE [caption title]. Little Rock: M.R. Savage, printer, [ca. 1890]. Broadside, 16 x 6¼ inches. With an accompanying trade card, 3¾ x 6¼ inches. Old folds. Some minor discoloration and wear. Very good.

Advertising circular for Little Rock Paint Works, with twenty-five different paint chips affixed displaying some of the available shades of pre-mixed paint. Most of the chips are a variant on an olive green, although there is a bright red, a teal, several browns, and a nice mustard color as well. The top of the sheet has an illustration of the Arkansas Traveler by artist John Cameron. Printed on the verso is a formula for calculating how much paint is required to cover a desired surface. Accompanying the circular is a trade card featuring the company’s “Iron Clad Paint. For railroad, barn, bridge and roof painting. Mixed ready for use and warranted.” A sample of five chips in shades of brown is affixed to the sheet, and the verso contains a notice to the trade offering special prices for large orders. Little Rock Paint Works applied for bankruptcy in December 1893 but seems to have survived, as it appears in Little Rock directories as late as 1897. An interesting piece of ephemeral advertising. $1000.

Rare Account of Lower California by a German Jesuit

7. [Baegert, Jacob]: NACHRICHTEN VON DER AMERIKANISCH- EN HALBINSEL CALIFORNIEN: MIT EINEM ZWEYFACHEN ANHANG FALSCHER NACHRICHTEN.... Mannheim: Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1772. [16],358,[1]pp. plus two engraved plates (on one sheet) and folding map. Small octavo. Modern half vellum and marbled boards, spine gilt. A bit of light age toning and an occasional light fox mark. Three small purple ink spots in lower portion of map. Near fine.

First printing of this rare and important account of Lower California by the German Jesuit, Jacob Baegert. Baegert lived in Baja California for a period of seventeen years (1751-68) and spent most of his time at the Mission of San Luis Gonzaga, leaving after the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. He provides some important details on the culture of the Indians of Baja California, including the Pericues, Guiacuras, and Cochiemes. Part one is an overview of California, its climate and products; part two describes the inhabitants; and the third part contains an account of the introduction of Christianity to California. Wagner states that the German Jesuits were especially dissatisfied toward the end of the Jesuit regime in California, and Baegert’s bitterness is evident in his book: “...it was a land full of ferocious beasts and even more ferocious Indians, the soil was poor, the water undrinkable and there was no fuel to be had.” The fine and important map was made by fellow Jesuit Ferdinand Consak, and is described by Streeter as “most helpful in giving the location of the many Jesuit missions in Lower California. It also shows the route along the west coast of Mexico followed by Baegert in going to California in 1751 and his route out in 1768, after the expulsion of the Jesuits.” The top right corner of the territory (present-day Arizona) is labeled, rather ominously, “Los Apaches Barbari.” The excellent plates, which were apparently not issued with all copies, depict male and female California Indians. A prime early account of Baja California, with an important map and plates of the region. HOWES B29, “b.” HILL 46. COWAN, p.27. SABIN 4363. BELL B5. STREETER SALE 2442. BARRETT 129. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 157. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST, pp.154-155 & item 631. MEADOWS, BAJA CALIFORNIA 1. GRAFF 137. PILLING, PROOF SHEETS 203. PALAU 358393. $10,000.

8. [Banvard, John]: DESCRIPTION OF BANVARD’S PANORAMA OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, PAINTED ON THREE MILES OF CANVAS: EXHIBITING A VIEW OF COUNTRY 1200 MILES IN LENGTH, EXTENDING FROM THE MOUTH OF THE MIS- SOURI RIVER TO THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS; BEING BY FAR THE LARGEST PICTURE EVER EXECUTED BY MAN. Boston: John Putnam, 1847. 48pp. Dbd. Lightly stained around the margins; scattered light foxing. Good.

An extensive promotional description of John Banvard’s famous three-mile panorama of the Mississippi River, the most successful exhibition of its kind. Large-scale visual exhibitions built around a single theme had been gaining in popularity since Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s development of the diorama in Paris in 1822, but when Banvard’s landscape behemoth arrived in Boston in 1846, a new age in public entertainment based on a shared visual event arrived with it. Banvard chose a topic with wide public appeal, and his scrolling profile of the romantic Mississippi River captured the attention and opened the purse strings of numerous patrons in Boston, New York, London, Paris, and beyond. Banvard’s success was not grounded in any real artistic talent, but rather in the charming tales and anecdotes he told on stage that brought his collection of river scenes to life. The present text, in addition to the expected testimonials, includes scene-by-scene descriptions of the panorama itself. These descriptions offer textual evidence of Banvard’s narrative performance and contain the real source of the panorama’s power. These charming vignettes of provincial life along the mighty Mississippi set his visual extravaganza in context and, ultimately, made Banvard a wealthy man. HOWES B110, “aa.” EBERSTADT 133:652. SABIN 3223. DAB I, p.582. GROCE & WALLACE, p.27. $950.

Classic View of Louisiana

9. [Baudry Des Lozières, Louis N.]: VOYAGE A LA LOUISIANE, ET SUR LE CONTINENT DE L’AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE, FAIT DANS LES ANNÉES 1794 A 1798; CONTENANT UN TAB- LEAU HISTORIQUE DE LA LOUISIANE... [with:] SECOND VOYAGE A LA LOUISIANE.... Paris. 1802-1803. Three volumes total. viii,382pp. plus folding map; [2],xvi,414,[1]; [4],410,[1]pp. Lacks folding table in third volume. Half title in each volume. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Hinges cracked and worn, head and foot of each spine chipped. Some light scattered foxing to first volume, light dampstaining to upper corner of last few leaves. Map backed on later paper. Light age toning and foxing to second and third volumes. A service- able set. Good.

One of the classic early views of Louisiana at the beginning of the 19th century, together with the sequel work. It has been suggested that this work was written when it was first thought that Louisiana would be returned to France, in an effort to demonstrate its importance as a colony. While less a work of personal observation than a collection of contemporary data and reports, the text includes some discussion of Texas, the resident Indian tribes and their languages, accounts of slavery and colonial administration, etc. Second Voyage a la Louisiane has been overlooked or disregarded by most bibliographers, without justification as far as we can see. It contains further observations regarding the conditions in and situation of the French American colonies, including all of the West Indies but especially Louisiana, as well as “the military life of General Grondel, commander of the French armies in Louisiana, and his services against the English and Indians, &c.....” Also included is a quite extensive “Vocabulaire Congo” consisting of words and phrases of the dialect of the Congo, and a “Manuel Botanique” describing over 100 species of plants found in the region. A valuable narrative, apparently not listed in Taxonomic Literature. WAGNER-CAMP 1a, 2a. FIELD 99. CLARK II:76. HOWES B243, B242, “aa.” MONAGHAN 149, 150. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 319. STREETER SALE 1571. SABIN 3980. $1850.

Wonderful Promotional

10. Beadle, J.H.: WESTERN WILDS AND THE MEN WHO RE- DEEM THEM. AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE, EMBRACING AN ACCOUNT OF SEVEN YEARS TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN THE FAR WEST.... Cincinnati: Jones Brothers & Company, [1877]. Broadside, 31 x 23 inches. Framed. Fourteen engraved vignettes as a border. Old fold lines. Some separation along central horizontal fold. Very good.

A broadside advertisement for Beadle’s upcoming book, Western Wilds and the Men Who Redeem Them.... Beadle’s work was a highly sensationalized, nearly fictional narrative with sections on the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Alamo, and other noted events in the West. The elaborate engravings depict typical western scenes, including shooting at Indians, hunting, and charging into battle. The publishers advertise for book agents, noting: “Western Wilds will sell in every community. It is the Largest, Latest, Cheapest, and Best book upon the subject ever published.” $850.

First History of Nevada County, California

11. Bean, Edwin F.: BEAN’S HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF NE- VADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. CONTAINING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY, WITH SKETCHES OF THE VAR- IOUS TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS.... Nevada, Ca.: Printed at the Daily Gazette Book and Job Office, 1867. vi,[6],424pp. With the advertisement leaf, not found in all copies, inserted between pp.184 and 185. This copy does not contain the small advertisement after p. vi, which, according to Quebedeaux, does not appear in all copies. Contemporary printed paper boards, calf backstrip, spine gilt; rebacked, with most of the original backstrip laid down. Boards rubbed and soiled, worn at corners and edges. Contempo- rary bookplate on front pastedown of William Montgomery; printed label on rear pastedown (“John Howell / Importer/ San Francisco”) and pencil notes in the hand of Warren Howell. Quite clean and neat internally. A very good copy.

The first Nevada County directory, the first history of the county as a whole, and the first book printed in Nevada County. Bean’s history and directory is quite scarce and contains a great wealth of early material on this vitally important mining region. Bean, who was Nevada County assessor and editor of the Daily Gazette, provides a complete history of the county, along with sketches of the various towns and mining camps, names and occupations of residents, and statistics on mining and other resources. A substantial essay is given over to mining gold from quartz deposits, which, as the author notes, has been the subject of numerous false starts. Besides the general history of Nevada County, there are also descriptions and directories of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Meadow Lake, Bridgeport, Rough and Ready, Little York, Washington, Bloom- field, and Eureka, as well as descriptions of the mines of Nevada City and Grass Valley, and a number of advertisements for local businesses. “[Bean’s] history and directory is, by far, the best-known of all California directories. One of the great ‘standard’ county histories, it is, in the minds of many collectors, dealers, historians and libraries, one of the most valuable – content wise – of all directories published in the United States. Though very scarce, it is also perhaps the most obtainable of California directories, probably because its worth was recognized from the beginning, resulting in the fact that copies were preserved in quantities greater than those of other directories” – Quebedeaux. “Notable compendium of early source material” – Wheat. QUEBEDEAUX 36. COWAN, p.170. HOWES B278, “b.” ROCQ 5956. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 13. STREETER SALE 2913. GRAFF 219. HOWELL 50:420. NORRIS CATALOGUE 2833. PLATH SALE 130. $3250.

The Rare First Edition

12. Beltrami, J.C.: LA DECOUVERTE DES SOURCES DU MISSIS- SIPPI ET DE LA RIVIERE SANGLANTE DESCRIPTION DU COURS ENTIER DU MISSISSIPPI...OBSERVATIONS CRITI- CO-PHILOSOPHIQUES, SUR LES MOEURS, LA RELIGION, LES SUPERSTITIONS, LES COSTUMES, LES ARMES, LES CHASSES, LA GUERRE, LA PAIX...DE PLUSIEURS NATIONS INDIENNES.... New Orleans. 1824. [8],327,[1]pp. plus errata slip. Con- temporary blue boards, rebacked at an early date with a crude sheep spine. Spine faded and worn, head of spine chipped. Modern bookplates on front endpapers. Faded institutional ink stamp on titlepage and page one; pp. [iii]-v loose. Minor foxing. Untrimmed. Good.

The rare first edition, in French, of this Italian’s adventures in America. “[Beltrami] found his way to the upper reaches of the Mississippi River, where he joined an expedition led by Maj. Stephen Long. The latter wrote of him, ‘an Italian whom we met at Fort St. Anthony, attached himself to the expedition and accompanied us to Pembina.’ Beltrami subsequently traveled down the Mississippi to New Orleans” – Wagner-Camp. “He undertook a hazardous and lonely journey in his search for the sources of the Mississippi and other rivers, in which he claimed success” – Clark. An expanded English translation was printed in London in 1828, and included a folding map illustrating the routes travelled in America, detailing Beltrami’s view of the geography of the headwaters of the Mississippi. The inclusion of the map in the later edition was in response to the criticism the author received for not providing a map in this, the first edition of the work. WAGNER-CAMP 26a:1. JUMONVILLE 417. FIELD 110. HOWES B338, “aa.” BUCK 181. LeCLERC 135. CLARK II:182. MONAGHAN 178A. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 340. SABIN 4604. ROSENBACH, AMERICAN JEWISH 255. $3250.

“...first-hand picture of life in New Orleans...”

13. Berquin-Duvallon, Mr.: VUE DE LA COLONIE ESPAGNOLE DU MISSISSIPI [sic], OU DES PROVINCES DE LOUISIANE ET FLORIDE OCCIDENTALE, EN L’ANNÉE 1802.... Paris: A l’Imprimerie Expeditive, 1803. xx,318,5,[4]pp. plus two colored folding maps. 20th-century half cloth and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Head and foot of spine bumped, corners lightly rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Very good. Untrimmed.

First edition of this “entertaining and gossipy first-hand picture of life in New Orleans at the turn of the century....At the end are general accounts of the natural features of Louisiana, its commerce, and other general subjects. Its two colored maps, one of lower, the other of upper Louisiana...are well worth-while” – Streeter. “This resident observer has given a good description of Louisiana and West Florida... [during] the year in which the dominion of this region passed to the United States” – Raines. The work was immediately popular. Two more editions appeared before the 1806 New York translation, with an 1804 German translation as well. HOWES B389, “aa.” SABIN 4962. STREETER SALE 1530. CLARK II:79. RAINES, p.74. SERVIES 766. $3250.

14. Bieber, Ralph P., editor: THE SOUTHWEST HISTORICAL SE- RIES. Glendale, Ca.: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1931-1943. Twelve volumes including index volume. Uniform red cloth, t.e.g. Cloth on some volumes slightly rubbed. Near fine.

A complete set of this famous collection of southwestern travel accounts, including those of Webb, Bandel, Gibson, Johnston, Garrard, Cooke, and McCoy, as well as compendiums of rare documents relating to the Colorado Gold Rush, Pike’s Peak Gold Rush, southern trails to California in 1849, and the Southwest in general. “This is the first major series published after the company’s move to Glendale, California. Ralph P. Bieber of Washington University in St. Louis, was the editor of the first eight volumes. Due to slow delivery of manuscripts, his contract was canceled and LeRoy R. Hafen, State Historian of Colorado, assumed responsibility for completing the series” – Clark & Brunet. CLARK & BRUNET 19. HOWES S791, “b”; G70, H72. RADER 3592. MINTZ 21. RITTENHOUSE 20, 47, 49, 52, 240, 268, 625. WAGNER-CAMP 182, 305:2, 339a, 346. SIX SCORE 76. ADAMS HERD 1385. $2000.

15. Bischoff, Hermann: DEADWOOD TO THE BIG HORNS 1877 A DIARY KEPT IN GERMAN BY THE LATE HERMANN BISCHOFF OF DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORY IN 1877. Bismarck. 1931. 50pp., printed in purple on the recto of each leaf. 12mo. Original light blue printed wrappers, bound into contemporary gilt leatherette. Mimeographed typescript. Small ink stamp of previous owner’s name on front free endpaper. Fine.

Produced in an edition limited to fifty copies only for the family, and translated by Edna L. Waldo in 1931. A crudely produced little book, with Bischoff ’s account of his life as a merchant in the gold fields of Dakota Territory. He traded his stock for provisions and organized a company to travel to the Big Horns. On the way he was plagued by Indians, unfaithful Chinamen, illness, and bad dreams. Unfortunately, his company found no gold and returned home. $800.

Osages Visiting in Paris

16. Boilly, Louis: OSAGES PEUPLADE SAUVAGE DE L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE, DANS L’ETAT DE MISSOURI. ARRIVES A PARIA LE 13 AOUT 1827. No. 89. [Paris]: Lith. de Delpech, [1827]. Handcolored lithograph, 13½ x 10½ inches. Lightly soiled, a bit of wear at corners. Very good. Matted.

A magnificent handcolored lithograph depicting three of the six Osage Indians that visited France in 1827. Their famed visit had a profound impact on French attitudes towards the tribe, many current members of which were the result of relations between French pioneers and Osage women. The six Indians, consisting of four warriors and two squaws, were quickly dubbed a “prince,” “princesses,” and “warriors” by the French press. Numerous publications appeared in conjunction with the visit, as did a handful of prints. This print depicts three members of the group: two men and a woman. They are shown from the chest or waist up – spaced in an impressionistic style and not in a conventional pose. Kishagashugah, depicted on the right, was an Osage chief inspired by a tradition that his ancestor had visited Paris. He is shown holding a club and wearing a large medallion around his neck. Also depicted are a woman, Gretomih (at left); and Minckchatahooh, another warrior (below). This and most other images of the group portray the Indians as objects of fascination. It is clear this print was produced separately and not intended to accompany any text. The lithograph was drawn by François Delpech after a painting by Louis Boilly. We know of one other lithograph after Boilly of the Osages, numbered “90” (the present print is numbered “89”), but we are unaware of any other images of the Osages created by Boilly beside those two. We are able to locate only three other copies of this rare print, at the Newberry Library, Yale, and the American Philosophical Society. OCLC 41672603, 61658013. $4000.

17. Bolton, Herbert E. [editor]: ATHANASE DE MEZIERES AND THE LOUISIANA-TEXAS FRONTIER 1768 – 1780: DOCU- MENTS PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME, FROM THE ORIGINAL SPANISH AND FRENCH MANUSCRIPTS, CHIEF- LY IN THE ARCHIVES OF MEXICO AND SPAIN; TRANSLAT- ED INTO ENGLISH.... Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1914. Two volumes. 351; 392pp., including illustrations and folding map. Frontis- piece in each volume. Red cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Slight wear to covers, corners bumped. Very good.

Prints important documents for the history of the Southwest never before published. HOWES B584, “aa.” BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 41. CLARK & BRUNET 23. $750.

18. Brackenridge, Henry M.: VIEWS OF LOUISIANA; TOGETHER WITH A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE UP THE MISSOURI RIVER, IN 1811. Pittsburgh. 1814. 304pp. Original three-quarter calf and marbled boards, rebacked, preserving original leather label. Corners worn, head of spine lightly chipped, boards rubbed. Front inner hinge cracked but holding. Inter- nally clean. About very good.

Brackenridge left St. Charles, Missouri in the spring of 1811, in company with fur trader Manuel Lisa. His journal describes his trip up the Missouri and gives an account of the overland trek of the Stuart-Crooks party from Oregon to St. Louis in 1812. The first section of the text describes the whole new territory of Louisiana, its history, existing settlements, natural history, Indian tribes, and natural resources. “An impartial and careful writer” – Clark. WAGNER-CAMP 12:1. CLARK II:136. RAINES, p.30. HOWES B688. SABIN 7177. STREETER SALE 1776. $1500.

19. Briggs, Edmund C., and R.M. Atwood: ADDRESS TO THE SAINTS IN UTAH AND CALIFORNIA. POLYGAMY PROVEN AN ABOMINATION BY HOLY WRIT. IS BRIGHAM YOUNG PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, OR IS HE NOT? [wrapper title]. Plano, Il.: Published by the Church of J.C. of L.D. Saints, 1869. 48pp. Original printed yellow wrappers. Some slight dampstaining in upper margin of rear wrapper. Generally clean and fresh. In a folding marbled boards case.

The third edition of this pamphlet, the first having appeared in 1864 in San Francisco, with an 1866 printing following from London. This version is noted as “Revised by Joseph Smith and Wm. W. Blair.” A quite early RLDS attack upon polygamy and the other disputes between the factions. FLAKE 817. $750.

20. [Buffalo Bill]: BUFFALO BILL’S WILD WEST AND CONGRESS OF ROUGH RIDERS OF THE WORLD. Buffalo, N.Y.: Courier Com- pany, Printers, [1901]. [8],64,[8]pp. including numerous in-text illustrations and advertisements, many illustrated. Plus [4]pp. insert bound in. Original chromolithographic pictorial wrappers. Front wrapper chipped at upper outer corner, foredge reinforced with tape on verso. Lower inner corner of rear wrapper repaired, with some good facsimile work. Overall very good.

An elaborate Wild West Show program, with “historical sketches” and many photographic illustrations of western exploits, equestrian scenes, Sitting Bull and other Indian leaders, and Buffalo Bill himself. This copy of the program was likely sold at a performance in Easton, Pennsylvania, as a four-page advertising flyer for businesses in the Easton area is bound in. The program also features portraits of Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, some of whom were working for the Wild West Show. One of the advertisements is an Annie Oakley endorsement of the Parker rifle. The text includes an account of the Boxer Rebellion in China, and the rear wrapper is a chewing gum advertisement surrounded by western sporting vignettes, including a scene of cavalrymen and Chinese laborers engaged in a gun battle. $850.

21. Butler, A.W., compiler: RESOURCES OF MONTEREY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, INCLUDING THE GREAT SALINAS VALLEY. San Francisco: Cubery & Co., 1875. 32pp. plus 16pp. of advertisements. Origi- nal printed tan wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, bit worn along edges and spine. Very clean internally. Very good.

A scarce, early, and interesting promotional for Monterey County, California, “published by the mayor and Common Council of Salinas City, for free distribution.” The text describes not only the agricultural qualities of the fertile Salinas valley and the variety of fruits and vegetables it could produce, but also has a section on raising Angora goats, prized for their cashmere. Prices of goods at retail markets are given, as is a general sense of the cost of available lands, either in valleys or on hills. Quite useful for the area, a table gives statistics on “amount of fogginess or cloudiness.” Not in the catalogue of the Norris collection, which lists several later Monterey promotional items. ROCQ 5485. COWAN, p.89. $750.

Stealing the Pious Fund 22. [California]: PRIMERA SECRETARIA DE ESTADO. DEPAR- TAMENTO DEL INTERIOR...ART.1. EL GOBIERNO PROCE- DERA AL ARRENDAMIENTO DE LAS FINCAS RUSTICAS.... Mexico. May 25, 1832. 2pp. Folded folio sheet. Fine.

A rare Mexican document relating to California. Part of this decree relates to expropriating the endowments of the Pious Fund of the Californias. Funds from the auction sale of lands owned by the Pious Fund are to be deposited for the sole use of the missions of California. Signed in print at the end by Jose Maria Ortiz Monasterio. STREETER SALE 2465. $750.

Reassessing Land Claims Under American Occupation

23. [California]: S.336. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES...A BILL FOR ASCERTAINING CLAIMS AND TITLES TO LAND WITHIN THE TERRITORY OF CALIFORNIA AND NEW MEXICO, TO GRANT DONATION RIGHTS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE SURVEY OF THE LANDS THEREIN [caption title]. Washington. July 31, 1848. 14pp. Folio. Stitched as issued. A few minor edge tears. Near fine. In a large red cloth folder, gilt leather label.

Slip bill for the 1st Session of the 30th Congress, concerning land claims in the newly acquired territories of California and New Mexico. At the end of the Mexican- American War in 1848, the territories of California and New Mexico passed to the control of the United States. Many people held legal title to land under Mexican administration and needed to reestablish their title under the new regime. This bill is the initial attempt to create a mechanism for establishing these claims, presented by the Committee on Public Lands. As with all slip bills, it is printed with each line numbered and spaced to provide room for correction and commentary. Such bills are rarer than the final form, since only enough copies were made as needed for members of Congress. $1000.

Numerous Early California Views

24. [California]: HISTORICAL ATLAS MAP OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY CALIFORNIA. COMPILED, DRAWN AND PUB- LISHED FROM PERSONAL EXAMINATION AND SURVEYS. San Francisco: Thompson & West, 1876. 110pp. (plus four pages numbered 16¼, 16½, 18¼ and verso blank). Including fifty-four lithographic views (five double-page) and twenty-one colored maps (ten double-page). Folio. Original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, neatly rebacked in calf. Closed tears, repaired, in front free endpaper and final leaf of index. A few leaves with small, closed tears in margins. Titlepage a bit foxed, some light scattered foxing. Very good overall.

An early and handsomely illustrated California county atlas, showing much of Silicon Valley as it was nearly 150 years ago. This is among the most attractive and detailed of the Thompson & West California. As opposed to later such county atlases by Thompson & West, this Santa Clara atlas leans much more heavily to maps and illustrations than to local history and biography. There is a brief historical section and description of the county, and an index, but the glory of this atlas is in the maps and views. The maps include one of California and Nevada; a general map of the county; and a number of detailed individual maps showing towns large and small in the county, including San Jose (depicted in a number of maps), Mountain View, Santa Clara, Milpitas, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Gilroy, and more. The handsome lithographic plates show residences of notable citizens, ranches, farms, vineyards, schools, businesses, churches, and public buildings, including a stellar double-page view of the New Almaden mine. Other views include the newly laid out “Poplar City,” College of Notre Dame, Santa Clara College, Pacific Congress Springs (all four of the preceding are double-page illustrations), the County Court House in San Jose, the ornate Bank of San Jose, St. Joseph’s Church in San Jose, Lone Hill Vineyard, and more. An outstanding example of this genre. Not in Howes. COWAN, p.567. ROCQ 13727. NORRIS CATALOGUE 3403. $3750.

25. [California]: RESOURCES OF THE SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. FRESNO, TULARE AND KERN COUN- TIES. TOPOGRAPHY, SOIL, CLIMATE, PRODUCTIONS, RAILROADS, AND GENERAL ADVANTAGES. San Francisco: Im- migration Association of California, [1885]. [2],78pp. plus four folding maps. Original printed red wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn. Early ink stamp of real estate agents on rear wrapper and verso of first map. Very clean internally. Very good.

One of the first extensive promotional pieces for the San Joaquin Valley, issued by the Immigration Association of California. This volume touts the potential of the southern counties of Fresno, Tulare, and Kern, from which emanates so much agricultural production. A wide variety of produce is described as being amenable to cultivation, with an emphasis on grapes and deciduous fruits. Three of the maps are detailed portrayals of the counties. One million acres of government land is available, as are “large tracts of cheap private and railroad land.” Streeter bought his copy from Dawson’s in 1950, and that firm paid $80 to buy it back at the Streeter sale in 1968. “Very rare item” – Norris catalogue. This is only the second copy that we have owned in twenty years. ROCQ 16487. STREETER SALE 2994. NORRIS CATALOGUE 3529. COWAN, pp.529-30. $1250.

26. [California and Arizona Photographica]: Riker, Mr. and Mrs. C.B.: SOUVENIR OF A PLEASANT MONTH [manuscript title]. [Vari- ous places in California and Arizona, as described below. 1915]. 211 original photographic prints, averaging 3½ x 5¾ inches. Contemporary oblong quarto flexible leather album. Album chipped around the edges and a bit rubbed. The prints are good, clear impressions, in very good condition and captioned in ink.

An album of interesting photographs documenting a month-long automobile excursion through California, with several additional scenes in Arizona. Included are many images of the greater Los Angeles area, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and the Petrified Forest. Eighteen of the photographs show scenes from the 1915 San Diego Exposition, and more than fifty document a camping trip to Yosemite, with many lovely photographs of iconic sites in the park. Images of Pasadena include the Busch home and the gardens of the “Huntington Hotel,” while shots around Santa Barbara show oil derricks, canyons, coastal scenes and lovely homes. Several pictures show the Rikers’ automobile trudging along rough dirt or gravel roads, giving a good indication of the difficulties of auto travel at the time. In northern California there are several images around Monterey and Carmel (including Seventeen Mile Drive), Santa Cruz (redwood groves), and Palo Alto (the Leland Stanford Memorial). Most of the San Francisco pictures show the buildings of the Panama Pacific Exposition, including the Palace of Fine Arts. Equally attractive are photographs from a trip through the Grand Canyon, showing that natural wonder from the rim and also from the canyon floor. Several other images show the Petrified Forest, with a caption noting that they were taken by “providential camera.” $950.

27. [California and Yellowstone Photographica]: [ALBUM OF 137 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF CAMPING AND VACATION EXCURSIONS IN CALIFORNIA AND AT YELLOWSTONE, IN- CLUDING A YWCA CAMP ON THE STANISLAUS RIVER, THE YOSEMITE AND HETCH HETCHY VALLEYS, AND MUCH MORE]. [Various places in California and Wyoming]. 1924-1930. 137 total photographs, averaging 2¾ x 4¾ inches. Twenty-one of the photographs are handcolored. Bound into a contemporary oblong octavo flexible leather photo album, string-tied. Binding rubbed around the edges, with a few chips as well. The photographs are very neat, clean, and sharp.

An album showing a number of annual excursions into the wilds of the American West in 1924 to 1930, including a number of photographs of Yosemite and Yel- lowstone. The images are consistently captioned, providing information on the numerous places depicted, and on some of the people who populate the photographs. A section of photographs at the end document a trip to Yellowstone in 1930, with a number of the pictures handcolored. There are images of Old Faithful and other geysers, wildlife in the park, hot springs, the Yellowstone River, and the Teton Range. Several other photographs show lakes, mountains, and camps in California, including the Mammoth Lakes region, Mount Morrison and Convict Lake, Lake Tahoe, Grass Lake, Desolation Valley, Yosemite, and the Hetch Hetchy Valley. Still other photographs show stays at camps in northern California, most prominently a YWCA camp called Camp Meeker on the Stanislaus River and Camp Meeker in Sonoma. $850.

Impressive Clipper Ship Card

28. [California Clipper Ship Handbill]: EXTRA NOTICE. FOR SAN FRANCISCO. ONLY 35 CTS. PER CUBIC FOOT ON THE FASTEST SHIP IN THE WORLD. THE CLIPPER SHIP AN- DREW JACKSON.... New York: Nesbitt, [1861]. Illustrated handbill, 6½ x 9¾ inches. In fine condition.

A rare and attractive handbill advertising the services of the Andrew Jackson, a clipper ship bound for San Francisco in late 1861. This is a large handbill, much larger than the typical clipper ship card, and has a wonderful image of Andrew Jackson astride his horse, with the American flag behind. The Andrew Jackson was a 1679 ton medium clipper, built in Mystic in 1855. She was a fast sailer, but contrary to what the handbill would imply, she didn’t set any records on any of her passages. At the time of the voyage advertised here (December 16, 1861) she was helmed by a Captain Johnson. It is interesting that this voyage to California was scheduled at a time when naval action in the Civil War was ramping up: the U.S.S. Constitution arrived at Ship Island at the mouth of the Mississippi River carrying the 26th Massachusetts Regiment to New Orleans; Great Britain began its embargo on U.S. exports; and the naval blockade of the Confederate coast was beginning to show results. Despite the turmoil of the war, the handbill states that the ship would depart “by Christmas day, but certainly on or before the 1st of January.” The clipper ship Andrew Jackson was sold to the British in 1863 and was lost in the Gaspar Straits in 1868. A rare, possibly unique survival. $4000.

A California Imprint Recognizing the New Government in 1838

29. [California Imprint]: Vallejo, Mariano G.: EL SENOR COMISIO- NADO POR EL SUPREMO GOBIERNO D. ANDRES CATIL- LERO, QUE ARRIBO AL PUNTO DE SANTA BARBARA EN LA GOLETA CALIFORNIA EL DIA 15 DEL CORRIENTE, ME DICE CON FECHA 17 DEL MISMO LO SIGUIENTE.... Sonoma [Ca.]. Nov. 27, 1838. [2]pp. on a 12½ x 8½-inch sheet. Old folds. A few light fox marks. Near fine. In a cloth slipcase and cloth chemise, gilt leather label.

A rare and significant early California imprint, officially recognizing the political regime installed by the California revolutionaries of 1836. In that year Juan Al- varado and his “Californio” cohorts, including Alvarado’s uncle, Mariano Vallejo, staged a successful revolt against the centralized authority of the Mexican state. Vallejo was named the military commander of California, and Alvarado the governor. This broadsheet reports the official recognition by the Mexican Republic of the ap- pointments of Alvarado and Vallejo in those roles. They had technically held those positions “illegally” since the 1836 revolt against the central Mexican government. This copy of the broadsheet does not contain the seal of the Comandancia General de la Alta California and the woodcut eagle of Mexico called for by Cowan, and Howell noted that it is likely an “early proof copy, possibly unique.” This is one of only thirteen products of the original Zamorano press printed during its short stay in Sonoma. Cowan writes that “about the middle of the year 1837, for some reason not well known, the press was removed to Sonoma, where it was directly under the supervision of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. Who the printer was does not appear, but during his lifetime the general frequently stated that he sometimes did the press-work himself.” We are able to locate only six other copies of this broadsheet. There are copies at the Huntington Library, Bancroft Library, and Yale. Thomas W. Streeter had a copy, which sold at his sale in 1968 for $1200 and is now at the California State Library. Robert Cowan located his own copy, as well as a copy in the archives of the office of the United States Surveyor-General at San Francisco. John Howell offered the present copy in his catalogue 50 in 1979, priced $2500, and it now reappears on the market, thirty years later. Rare and important. STREETER SALE 2488. HOWELL 50:239 (this copy). COWAN, SPANISH PRESS, p.25. GREENWOOD 50. FAHEY 48. HARDING 48. $18,500.

The Beginning of Settling California Land Claims

30. [California Land Claims]: COMMISSION FOR SETTLING PRI- VATE LAND CLAIMS IN CALIFORNIA. TREATY STIPULA- TIONS BETWEEN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES. ACT OF CONGRESS OF MARCH 3, 1851. INSTRUCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR TO THE COMMISSION- ERS. REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE PRESENTMENT AND PROSECUTION OF CLAIMS. San Fran- cisco. 1852. 20pp. Modern paper boards, gilt leather label. Three bookplates on front endpapers. A touch of light foxing and a faint vertical crease. Very good.

A seminal collection of documents under which California land claims were considered, and one of the earliest and rarest San Francisco imprints on that issue. California came under American control during the Mexican-American War and attained statehood in 1850. One of the most vexing legal questions in the 19th- century history of the state was the status of lands that had been granted by the former Spanish and Mexican governors. These “ranchos” at times amounted to thousands of acres, and questions of their ownership were quite contentious, despite the provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to respect all Mexican land titles. This volume contains the text of the pertinent articles from the Treaty of Guada- lupe Hidalgo, the text of the 1851 Congressional Act establishing a Commission to investigate the cases, the instructions to the Commissioners, and the regulations under which they operated. “This is the foundation document under the terms of which all California land claims were first adjudicated” – Streeter. “One of the earliest local publications with reference to Mexican land claims” – Cowan. Greenwood locates eleven copies, including the Streeter copy. One of the bookplates on the present copy is that of the noted Vermont collector, Hall Park McCullough. Only two copies have appeared at auction since the Streeter sale in 1968. COWAN, p.375. GREENWOOD 362. STREETER SALE 2726. NORRIS CATA- LOGUE 1996. COHEN 9587. OCLC 191282311. $3500.

The Streeter Copy

31. [California Land Claims]: ORGANIZATION, ACTS AND REGU- LATIONS OF THE U.S. LAND COMMISSIONERS FOR CALI- FORNIA; WITH THE OPINIONS OF COMMISSIONERS HALL AND WILSON ON THE REGULATION TO ALLOW ADVERSE CLAIMANTS TO INTERVENE IN THE ORIGINAL CASES; AND COMMISSIONER THORNTON’S DISSENTING FROM THAT REGULATION. ALSO A LIST OF LAND TITLES PRE- SENTED TO DATE. San Francisco: Monson, Whitton & Co., 1852. 43pp. Modern half calf and plain paper boards. Text lightly age-toned. Extensive early pencil notes (see below). Very good.

The Thomas W. Streeter copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown and his pencil notes on the front free endpaper. A very significant publication, indicating that from the earliest days the United States government would contest the validity of claims to land in California that had been granted before statehood. California came under American control during the Mexican-American War and attained statehood in 1850. One of the most vexing legal questions in the 19th-century history of the state was the status of lands that had been granted by the former Spanish and Mexican governors. These “ranchos” at times amounted to thousands of acres, and questions of their ownership were quite contentious, despite the provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to respect all Mexican land titles. In 1851 the U.S. Congress created a three-person commission to consider the validity of land claims, each of which would ultimately be challenged by the U.S. government. The list of land title cases at the end of this volume, the first to have been printed, shows that 247 cases were presented to the courts in the year after the Commission was created. “This pamphlet states the first official acts of the land commissioners. The list of land claims at the end gives the names of the attorneys, on which a former owner has penciled in many instances the final action of the commissioners” – Streeter. Of the three original commissioners Harry I. Thornton was a frequent upholder of the validity of the claims against the interests of the U.S. government, and was removed from the Commission in 1853. Not in Cohen or Sabin. This copy was bought at the Streeter sale in 1968 by Warren Howell, who asked $1000 for it shortly thereafter. We are unable to locate any other copies on the market since. STREETER SALE 2725 (this copy). COWAN, p.374. GREENWOOD 364. $2750.

One of the Most Famous California Land Cases

32. [California Land Claims]: Bolton, James R.: U.S. COMMISSION ON LAND CLAIMS IN CALIFORNIA. TITLE PAPERS, BRIEFS OF COUNSEL, OPINION OF THE BOARD, AND DECREE OF CONFIRMATION, IN CASE No. 81, J.R. BOLTON vs. THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE LANDS OF THE EX-MISSION OF DOLORES. San Francisco: John A. Lewis, 1855. 124,[1]pp., plus folding map with outline color, 19¼ x 24 inches. Original printed blue wrappers. Wrappers lightly wrinkled. Fine. In a half calf and cloth folding case, spine gilt.

“One of the most famous land cases” – Howell. The celebrated Santillan claim, for three leagues of land (more than 10,000 acres) in San Francisco, had been founded on the original grant signed by Governor Pico in 1846. Much of the land covered the property of the Mission Dolores. Pico made the grant to Don Prudencio San- tillan, a cleric of the Mission, who then transferred ownership to James Bolton. Those who contested Bolton’s claim argued that under Mexican law priests were disallowed from becoming grantees of land. Ownership of the land, which consisted of a large portion of the City, was contested into the 1880s. This volume gives the text of the original Pico grant, the transmission of the deed to Bolton, and the brief of Thompson Campbell on behalf of Bolton (which gives much information on the mid-century history of the Mission Dolores). Also included is the brief of H.I. Thornton (another of Bolton’s lawyers), and the opinion of the land commissioners confirming Bolton’s grant. The lovely large map, lithographed by Britton & Rey, is unlike any map of San Francisco from this period that we have seen. It shows the great expanse of the peninsula, from the Pacific Ocean around Seal Rocks and Point Lobos to Rincon Point and all the way to Point San Bruno in the southeast. The locations of the De Haro and Jose la Cruz Sanchez estates are shown, as is the “pueblo line according to Genl. Vallejo,” with the “devisadero” marked. The Richmond and Sunset districts are identified as “great waste of shifting sand.” The map is drawn on a scale of two inches to the mile. Rocq, Greenwood, and OCLC together locate only nine copies. Scarce. COWAN, p.367. GREENWOOD 630. ROCQ 8360. HOWELL 50:576. OCLC 21648017, 228680832. $1750.

33. [California Missionaries]: [COLLECTION OF FIVE SIGNATURES OF NOTABLE EARLY 19th-CENTURY CALIFORNIA MISSION PRIESTS]. [Various places. 1803-1817]. Five dated signatures on two sheets of paper, each 8½ x 6 inches. Old folds. One sheet with a light stain in the lower right corner (not affecting text). Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding box, spine gilt.

A collection of signatures from five early California missionaries of the Franciscan order. The signatures are on two sheets of paper. The first sheet contains the signature of Father Jose Barona, signed at San Di- ego on September 2, 1803. Barona (1764-1831) was born in Spain and became a member of the Franciscan order. He arrived at the Mission San Diego in 1798 and remained there until 1811, after which he went to Mission San Juan Capistrano. The second sheet contains an additional four signatures, including those of:

1) Father Joaquin Pasqual Nuez, dated May 20, 1817 at Mission San Gabriel. A Franciscan, Nuez was born in Spain in 1785. He arrived in the Americas in 1810 and reached California two years later, serving first at Mission San Fernando, and then at Mission San Gabriel. He is notable for a diary he kept while on an 1819 expedition against the Mojave Indians. Nuez spent seven years at the San Gabriel mission and died in 1821. 2) Father Geronimo Boscana, dated May 20, 1817 at Mission San Juan Capistrano. Boscana was born in Spain in 1776, joined the Franciscans, and came to America in 1803. He ministered at the missions at San Luis Rey, San Juan Capistrano, and San Gabriel. Boscana is best known for an ethnographic study of southern California native religion, called Chinigchinich. 3) Father Jose Sanchez, dated June 1, 1817 at Mission San Diego. Jose Bernardo Sanchez was born in Spain, joined the Franciscans, and came to California as a missionary in 1804. In that year he began his service at the San Diego mission, which lasted until 1820, after which he served at the missions at La Purisima and San Gabriel until his death in 1833. Sanchez was elected president of the missions in 1827. 4) Father Ramon Obles, dated May 21, 1817 at Mission San Luis Rey. Obles served at several missions, including Santa Cruz, San Luis Rey, and Santa Barbara.

$1000.

Major California Construction Projects

34. [California Photographica]: [ALBUM OF EIGHTY-FIVE ORIGI- NAL PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING CONSTRUCTION PROJ- ECTS AROUND CALIFORNIA, MANY INVOLVING BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION, AND OTHERS SHOWING PIERS AND BUILDINGS]. [Various places in California. 1909-1913]. Eighty-five photographic prints, ranging from 7½ x 9½ inches to 3¼ x 5½ inches. A few of the images captioned in the negative, but many more captioned in ink in the white border. Mounted in a contemporary oblong quarto cloth album, string- tied. The photographs are in near fine condition.

An album of interesting photographs of construction projects in California, mostly centered in the Bay Area and Central Valley, in the years before World War I. Many of the photographs show bridges under construction or finished, and it is likely that the compiler of this album was either a contractor or an engineer – someone who worked on pilings and bridge foundations. Included are pictures of the building of Pier 30-32 in San Francisco in 1913, a major public works project in the post- earthquake years. Located just south of the present location of the Bay Bridge, Pier 30-32 was built as the first pair of piers in San Francisco. It was the first with up-to-date freight handling services consisting of traveling cranes, telphers, and shiptowers. A major construction project, it is represented by several photographs. A number of bridges and bridge construction projects are also shown, including the Crescent City suspension bridge, the Eel River Bridge in Humboldt County, four images of the Skaggs Bridge in Fresno, a bridge in Modesto, several images of San Joaquin River bridges, and the Oroville Bridge. There are also a number of images of lift bridges, including the Hawthorne Avenue Bridge in Portland, and a pair of pictures of the types of dredgers used in constructing river bridges. Other photographs show buildings in Thousand Oaks, Eureka, Fresno, and San Francisco a few months after the earthquake. An interesting visual survey of public works constructions projects in California in the early 20th century. $2000.

California Dreaming with a Vanderbilt Heiress

35. [California Photographica]: [Vanderbilt, Consuelo]: [GROUP OF THREE PHOTO ALBUMS WITH APPROXIMATELY 500 PHO- TOGRAPHS SHOWING TRAVELS AROUND CALIFORNIA AND IN VARIOUS HIGH SOCIETY LOCALES]. [Various locations in California, plus Palm Beach, Newport, etc. 1915-1920, 1929-1931]. Three albums, most images approximately 3 x 4 inches, with some about 5 x 7 inches, and a handful of smaller snapshots. Oblong. First album quarto sized, red padded leather. Spine partially perished, with padding coming loose. Pho- tographs pasted to leaves, each captioned in ink. Second and third album with black cloth covers, tied with string. Photographs mounted with black corner pieces, captioned throughout in ink. All images bright and clean. Very good.

Three albums of California travel photographs of the heiress and society figure, Consuelo Vanderbilt, on several trips to California. The first album begins at “del Monte Ranch 1916” and includes many photographs from around Pebble Beach, as well as the good life in Newport, Palm Beach, Prides Crossing, and other sporty locales through 1920. It contains approximately 200 mounted photographs of Consuelo Vanderbilt and others in various ranch activities and sporting pastimes such as tennis and polo, as well as photographs of animals and landscapes, etc. The other two albums relate to one another and are caption titled “Tassajara Springs October 17 1929” and “Continuation of pictures taken in California during 1931.” These albums are almost entirely of California scenes, and together they hold approximately 300 images. They contain photographs depicting many scenes in the Monterey-Carmel-Pebble Beach area, the Santa Cruz horse races, rodeo, a pack trip, camping in cabins, the bison herd in Golden Gate Park, and other outdoor activities. All three are neatly captioned, identifying locales and people photographed. A wonderful group of pictures of the life and amusements of a Vanderbilt leading the California life. $2750. 36. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: DIVIDING THE PILE [upper] HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL [lower]. [San Francisco]: Britton & Rey, [ca. 1851]. Pictorial letter sheet, 10¾ x 8¼ inches, blank conjugate leaf attached. On white wove paper. A bit of chipping at edges. Small stain near lower portion of fold. A few light fox marks. Very good.

A nice pair of images from the California Gold Rush, here on a pictorial letter sheet with the blank conjugate leaf attached. In the upper image four weary miners sit or stand around a table, smoking and drinking, their mining tools at their feet. The one standing weighs gold in a hand balance. The lower image is of several miners on foot walking along a trail, several of them carrying equipment, and accompanied by pack animals. A nice pair of Gold Rush images, evoking the weariness and effort associated with mining. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 54. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 48. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, p.69. $1250.

37. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: FORT VIGILANT ROOMS OF THE COMMITTEE SACRAMENTO ST. BETW. DAVIS & FRONT [upper] MASS MEETING ENDORSING THE ACTS OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE JUNE 14th. [with:] CONSTI- TUTION AND ADDRESS OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE. [San Francisco]: Britton & Rey, [1856]. Pictorial letter sheet, 11 x 8½ inches, printed conjugate leaf attached. On green wove paper. Small institutional ink stamp in lower margin. Old folds, with small chips along the edges and the folds neatly repaired with tissue backing on the verso. A bit of staining on the printed side. Overall, very good.

A scarce California pictorial letter sheet, showing the well-defended headquarters of the second Vigilance Committee, as well as the scene of a huge public meeting at which the committee’s actions were endorsed. This example also contains the conjugate leaf, which prints the text and address of the Vigilance Committee. Both images were lithographed from daguerreotypes by the influential and pioneering San Francisco photographer, Robert Vance. The upper image shows the formidable headquarters of the Vigilance Committee, an imposing two-story building defended by armed guards and cannons on the roof. Filled gunny sacks and another cannon guard the entrance, and ships masts can be seen in the background. The lower image shows a scene of a crowded mass meeting that took place on June 14, 1856, attended by hundreds of citizens. Speakers address the crowd from the balcony of a building festooned with two large American flags. This letter sheet also contains the conjugate leaf, printing the text, in three columns, of the constitution and public address of the second Vigilance Committee, which was founded in 1856 in response to the murder of newspaper publisher, James King of William. The constitution announces that the Committee of Vigilance has formed “for maintenance of the peace and good order of society – the prevention and punishment of crime – the preservation of our lives and property, and to insure that our ballot-boxes shall hereafter express the actual and unforged will of the majority of our citizens.” BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 83. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 79. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, pp.69-70; plate 26. PALMQUIST & KAILBOURN, PIONEER PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE FAR WEST, pp.559-66. $1250.

The Streeter Copy

38. [California Pious Fund]: LEY Y REGLAMENTO APROBADO DE LA JUNTA DIRECTIVA Y ECONOMICA DEL FONDO PIADO- SO DE CALIFORNIAS. Mexico: Imprenta de Galvan a Cargo de Mariano Arevalo, 1833. 20pp. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Fine. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

The Thomas W. Streeter copy, with his extensive manuscript notes on the front free endpaper and the chemise. This copy brought $100 at the Streeter sale in 1968, and $1150 when it reappeared in 1999. “One of the earlier official documents relating to the Pious Fund of the Cali- fornias” – Barrett. The early 1830s saw a movement to secularize the California missions, partly as a way to reduce the Mexican national debt by confiscating church property. The present law was a part of the opposition to that movement. This law implements the Mexican government’s decree of May 25, 1832, ordering the properties in the Pious Fund to be rented and the proceeds deposited in the mint at the capital for the sole benefit of the California missions. In 1834, however, the California missions were secularized, with some of the land being given to neophytes, but much of it sold to rancheros. COWAN, p.491. SABIN 40897. STREETER SALE 2466 (this copy). PALAU 137279. BARRETT 1474. HOWELL 50:192. WEBER, CALIFORNIA MISSIONS, p.63. $850.

Founding the Canadian Pacific Telegraph: The Streeter Copy

39. [Canada and Pacific Telegraph]: CANADA AND PACIFIC TELE- GRAPH. RETURN TO AN ADDRESS OF THE HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, DATED 10 MAY 1846; – FOR, “COPY OF EXTRACTS OF ANY CORRESPONDENCE BE- TWEEN THE COLONIAL OFFICE AND THE AUTHORITIES IN CANADA AND BRITISH COLUMBIA, ON THE SUBJECT OF THE PROPOSED TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION BE- TWEEN CANADA AND THE PACIFIC....” [London. 1864]. 16,[2] pp. Folio. String-tied, as issued. A bit tanned, some small chips at the edges. Very good.

The Thomas W. Streeter copy, with his pencil notes on the titlepage. This House of Commons working paper is a continuation of their return dated July 10, 1863, on the subject of constructing a telegraph line to British Columbia and the Pa- cific. The Hudson’s Bay Company, unsurprisingly, was intimately involved in the machinations for the building of the line. They had made an agreement with the Canadian government to build the telegraph line from the Red River to the Pacific themselves, but when they failed to do so, a group of English bankers proposed to step in and do the job. The papers included herein provide much information on the qualities of the land between Lake Superior and British Columbia, and the need for swift communication throughout and across the vast region. Also included is a memorial from the people of the Red River Settlement, discussing their urgent need for the telegraph. STREETER SALE 3436 (this copy). SOLIDAY I:1207. LOWTHER 228. $1250. With a Handsome Map

40. Capron, Elisha S.: HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM ITS DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME; COMPRISING ALSO A FULL DESCRIPTION OF ITS CLIMATE, SURFACE, SOIL, RIVERS, TOWNS, BEASTS, BIRDS, FISHES, STATE OF ITS SOCIETY, AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, MINES, MINING, &c. WITH A JOURNAL OF THE VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK VIA NICARAGUA, TO SAN FRANCISCO AND BACK, VIA PAN- AMA. Boston. 1854. xi,356pp. plus large folding color map. 12mo. Original gilt cloth. Head and toe of spine chipped (more so at head of spine), corners lightly worn. Old pencil inscription on front free endpaper: “To His Excelly. Gov. Clarke.” A few signatures pulling, but internally clean. Overall very good.

Capron went to California in the spring of 1853 as the agent of several mercantile houses in New York. His vivid account includes descriptions of the lurid side of San Francisco, gaming, Chinese inhabitants, the missions of California, life in the mines, mining techniques, etc. “This work gives extensive treatment to the Mexi- can War and the conquest of California. Part two gives a detailed description of San Francisco, and part three a description of the gold mines of California” – Hill. The handsome colored folding map by Colton includes an inset street map of San Francisco. COWAN, p.104. KURUTZ 116. HOWES C127. ROCQ 16759. WHEAT GOLD RE- GIONS 254. SABIN 10764. GRAFF 580. HILL 254. RUMSEY 2885. STREETER SALE 2734 (this map in pocket form). $950.

41. 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 folding map and hundreds of plates. Original brown publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Occasional scattered foxing. Very good.

Styled the “second edition” on the titlepage, but with collation identical to that of the first edition published in London the same year. This is one of the most important works on American Indians published in the 19th century. Besides the descriptions of Catlin’s travels throughout the West, the book contains hundreds of line drawings of southern and western Indians, as well as two significant maps 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 84:4. HOWES C241. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 453, 454, 455. CLARK III:141. SERVIES 2615. $1500. Early Oklahoma Imprint

42. [Cherokee Language]: [Boudinot, Elias]: [Worcester, Samuel]: CHER- OKEE HYMNS. COMPILED FROM SEVERAL AUTHORS, AND REVISED. Park Hill: Mission Press, 1841. 67,[2]pp. 12mo. Contemporary green paper wrappers. Wrappers lightly chipped and soiled; contemporary no- tation on front cover, which is separating at hinge. Some minor dampstaining and soiling in text, some contemporary pencil notations. Very good.

Seventh edition, and the second Park Hill edition, printed by Cherokee printer John Candy. “In 1818 Galagina (later called Boudinot), along with two other Cherokees from Georgia, was sent to be educated in the Foreign Mission School. There he took the name Elias Boudinot, after the school’s famous benefactor. Returning to New Echota, the Cherokee Nation capital in Georgia, Boudinot was assisted by Samuel Worcester, a medical missionary, in compiling the first hymnal to be printed in the new Cherokee syllabary of Sequoyah” – Siebert sale. Cherokee leaders Boudinot, John Ridge, and Major Ridge were all assassinated by members of the anti-removal Ross Party in 1839. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 4217. AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (CHEROKEE) 68. SIEBERT SALE 465 (first ed). $2500.

43. [Cherokee Language]: Worcester, Samuel Austin, and Stephen Fore- man [translators]: EXODUS: OR THE SECOND BOOK OF MO- SES. TRANSLATED INTO THE CHEROKEE LANGUAGE. Park Hill [Ok.]: Mission Press: Edwin Archer, Printer, 1853-[55]. 152pp. 12mo. Dbd. Light mildewing and dampstaining. Good.

A scarce Park Hill imprint, entirely in the Cherokee language and using Sequoyah’s syllabary (generally called the “Cherokee alphabet”). Hargrett states that “printing of the volume [of Exodus] was not completed until some time in 1855.” The translators were Samuel Austin Worcester and Stephen Foreman. As a young man living with his parents in New England, Worcester had met and become friends with Buck Oowatie, a Cherokee whose name among Anglos was Elias Boudinot. Worcester studied for the ministry, and after he had been ordained he requested a post among the Cherokee. Once there he set to introducing printing, newspapers, and expanded literacy using Sequoyah’s syllabary. Foreman was born in Georgia of a Cherokee mother and white father. He was educated at Union Seminary, Princeton Seminary, and Marysville College in Tennessee, and was ordained in 1835. He made the trek from his homeland to the West with the Cherokee, and spent his life at and near the Park Hill mission. HARGRETT, OKLAHOMA 159. GILCREASE, p.49. FOREMAN, p.7. PILLING, IROQUOIAN, p.171 AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (CHEROKEE) 3. PILLING, PROOF SHEETS 4207. $750. 44. Chittenden, Hiram M.: THE AMERICAN FUR TRADE OF THE FAR WEST. New York. 1902. Three volumes totaling 1029pp., plus folding map. Frontispiece in first and second volumes. Original green cloth, gilt- lettered spines. Bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. Near fine. Partially unopened and untrimmed.

After all these years, still the standard work on the subject. This is the handsome first edition, published by F.P. Harper, and the essential starting point for research on the fur trade. HOWES C390, “aa.” RITTENHOUSE 112. STREETER SALE 3206. GRAFF 696. SMITH 1721. $1000.

45. [Choctaw Language]: THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, TRANSLATED INTO THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE. PIN CHITOKAKA PI OKCHALIN- CHI CHISUS KLAIST IN TESTAMENT HIMONA, CHAHTA ANUMPA ATOSHOWA HOKE. New York: American Bible Society, 1848. 818pp., misbound at time of original production, with pp.3-6 mistakenly replaced by pp.27-30, and with pp.19-22 mistakenly replaced by pp.43-46. In all, lacking four leaves of text. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gilt leather label. Binding lightly rubbed. Institutional ink stamp on titlepage and paper label on spine. Occasional light foxing. Very good.

This copy includes a gift inscription on the front free endpaper and on the verso of the titlepage from Rev. Cyrus Byington of the Choctaw mission in Indian Ter- ritory. A Christian missionary and Choctaw linguist, Byington was responsible for producing a Choctaw grammar, dictionary, and translating the first five books of the Bible and numerous other works into Choctaw. This is the scarce first edition of the first translation of the New Testament entirely in the Choctaw Language; only the title is partially in English. It was translated by Cyrus Byington and Alfred Wright, a missionary and colleague of Byington. AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (CHOCTAW) 9. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2744. $900.

Early News of the Civil War in the West: One of the First Major Battles

46. [Civil War]: [Missouri]: DAILY REPUBLICAN EXTRA...ANOTH- ER GREAT BATTLE IN MISSOURI. THE ENEMY ROUTED. REBEL PRISONER’S TAKEN! GENS. McCULLOCH AND PRICE KILLED! THE UNION FORCES VICTORIOUS! SIGEL AND HIS TROOPS SLEEP ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE. GEN. LYON KILLED! IMMENSE SLAUGHTER OF THE REBELS. OUR LOSS EIGHT HUNDRED KILLED AND WOUNDED! Rockford [Il.]: Daily Republican, Aug. 14, 1861. Broadside newspaper extra, 17¼ x 6½ inches, printed in double columns. Old dark stains. Closed tears repaired on verso with old tape. In fair condition.

A scarce newspaper extra giving up-to-the-minute news of the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, one of the most important Civil War battles in the western theatre, and “the major battle of the Civil War in Missouri” (Long). Missouri was hotly contested ground, with many there holding pro-secessionist sympathies; this early Confederate victory gave the C.S.A. effective control of southwestern Missouri. The Battle of Wilson’s Creek, hard-fought and bloody, took place just southwest of Springfield, Missouri on August 10, 1861. Union General Nathaniel Lyon was killed, the Fed- eral troops under Brig. Gen. Franz Sigel were scattered, and though Confederate troops under generals Benjamin McCulloch and Sterling Price were initially driven back, they rallied and counterattacked. Casualties from the days’ fighting were about equal, with some 2500 killed, wounded, or captured in total. Despite the headline and the news carried in this article, the battle was a Confederate victory, and McCulloch and Price were not killed. The article reports that Union forces were outnumbered three to one, and that the Confederate fighters included “Texas rangers and Cherokee half breeds.” The news, datelined St. Louis, is said to be the official report of the fight as transmitted by one of Gen. Lyon’s aids to Gen. Fremont. The Extra also carries military and political news from Washington and New York, as well as stories from southern newspapers, and a report on a recent election in Tennessee. “The second significant battle of the Civil War had been fought and won by the South, this time out beyond the Mississippi” – Long. A breathless report on the “Bull Run of the West.” Long, Civil War Day by Day, p.107. $2000.

News Broadside from Tyler, Texas in 1864

47. [Civil War]: [Texas]: REPORTER. EXTRA. TYLER, MAY 20, 1864 [caption title]. Tyler, Tx. 1864. Broadside, 12 x 3½ inches. Old fold lines. Lightly age-toned. Very good.

A Confederate broadside extra announcing news of the Battle of the Wilderness. “An extra from Woodville, Miss., has just reached here, giving an account of two days fighting in Virginia on the 5th and 6th inst., in which success has crowned our arms to the close of the 6th. The battle is called the Battle of the Wilderness, and was fought near the Rapidan. Ewell and Hill had the brunt of the battle to bear on the first day – Longstreet the next.” It goes on to quote Lee as attributing the victory to the grace of Almighty God and suggests the Union Army was destroyed. Wishful thinking; the battle is today considered a bloody draw. Not in Parrish & Willingham, and otherwise unrecorded. $2750. A Pretender to the Cody Name and His Klondike Show

48. Cody, Samuel Franklin: THE KLONDYKE NUGGET. By S.F. Cody. Belfast, Ireland: David Allen & Sons, [ca. 1898]. Chromolithographic poster, 30 x 20 inches. Tears in both corners of upper margin, not affecting image or text. Light edge wear. Very good.

A rare poster for the popular stage play, The Klondyke Nugget, written and performed by S.F. Cody throughout the British Isles at the end of the 19th century. Samuel Franklin Cody (1867-1913) was a unique figure in late Victorian Anglo-American popular entertainment. Born Samuel Franklin Cowdery, he later changed his surname to capitalize on the fame of Buffalo Bill Cody, even mimicking Buffalo Bill’s clothing and facial hair style. Born in Texas, S.F. Cody trained in the Forepaugh Wild West Show, and found much of his fame in England. He is renowned in the history of aviation as the first man to conduct a powered flight in England, and he later developed large kites that were used for artillery spotting during World War I. Cody’s life was filled with tall tales (though some of them are perhaps true), including his claim that he prospected for gold in Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush. That story set the groundwork for the theatrical play advertised herein, where Cody plays the role of George Exelby; Lela Cody, his (common law) second wife, the part of Rosie; and her son, Edward LeRoy, plays Joe Smith. All three are depicted on this poster, which also features a large gold nugget, and shows scenes from the play in camp, on the trail, and in hairy situations in barrooms and the frozen wilderness. One of the larger illustrations shows a forlorn Cody pondering a map, while another shows him, pick-axe in hand, “on the summit of the Chilcoot Pass.” OCLC locates a single copy of this poster, at Yale. A colorful and rare poster from a remarkable American showman at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. OCLC 797177308. $3250.

49. Comstock, J.L.: A HISTORY OF THE PRECIOUS METALS, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS TO THE PRESENT TIME; WITH DIRECTIONS FOR TESTING THEIR PURITY, AND STATEMENTS OF THEIR COMPARATIVE VALUE, ESTI- MATED COST, AND AMOUNT AT DIFFERENT PERIODS; TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRODUCTS OF VARIOUS MINES; A HISTORY OF THE ANGLO-MEXICAN MINING COMPANIES, AND SPECULATIONS CONCERNING THE MINERAL WEALTH OF CALIFORNIA. Hartford: Belknap and Hamersley, 1849. 222,4pp. 12mo. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Cloth rubbed, worn at spine ends and corners. Early ownership signature on front free endpaper. Scattered light foxing. Very good. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

This copy bears the contemporary ownership signature of John Gilroy, likely the namesake of the town of Gilroy, California. A very scarce book on world mining, with significant and timely sections on California gold mining. “The discovery of California gold made Comstock’s world survey appeal to a much wider audience. He hurriedly included information on California and added a final chapter entitled ‘Estimated Expenses of Outfits from the United States to California.’ He opened by saying his printer allowed him no time to fully develop the subject. Comstock also calculated the cost of going to California, the loss of labor in the eastern United States, and estimated that it would take $22,260,000 in California gold before the United States would realize a profit” – Kurutz. KURUTZ 154. COWAN, p.139. SABIN 15074. NORRIS CATALOGUE 835. $1000.

50. Conkling, Roscoe P. and Margaret B.: THE BUTTERFIELD OVER- LAND MAIL 1857 – 1869. Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1947. Three volumes. 412pp.; 446pp.; plus atlas volume of seventy-seven plates and three maps. Original red cloth, t.e.g. Very good.

A detailed study of this important overland mail project. One of the most important Arthur Clark publications on overland travel, and a difficult title to find. CLARK & BRUNET 50. $800.

51. Coulter, John: ADVENTURES ON THE WESTERN COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA, AND THE INTERIOR OF CALIFOR- NIA: INCLUDING A NARRATIVE OF INCIDENTS AT THE KINGSMILL ISLANDS, NEW IRELAND, NEW BRITAIN, NEW GUINEA, AND OTHER ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN.... London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. Two volumes. xxiv, 288pp. plus 32pp. of advertisements; xii,278pp. plus 2pp. of advertisements. Half title in each volume. Original blindstamped blue cloth, spines gilt. Bind- ings slightly cocked, spines a touch faded. Two bookplates on front pastedown of each volume. Near fine overall.

A sequel to the author’s Adventures in the Pacific... (1845), in which he describes visits to various South Pacific islands. In the present work Coulter continues his narrative after leaving Tahiti aboard the whaler Stratford, including early accounts of California (San Francisco, Santa Catalina, Indians, and bear hunting), Hawaii, numerous South Pacific islands, as well as a successful whale hunt. The Hill catalogue states that the descriptions of California and Melanesia “are of importance.” HILL 386. FORSTER 31. SABIN 17143. HOWES C802 (note). COWAN, p.145. GRAFF 886. FORBES 1633. $750.

One of the “Big Four” Cattle Books

52. Cox, James: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF THE CATTLE INDUSTRY AND THE CATTLEMEN OF TEXAS AND ADJACENT TERRITORY. Saint Louis. 1895. [1],743pp., with plates, portraits, index to the historical section, index of biographies, and an index of illustrations. The frontispiece, not issued with all copies, is not present here. Folio. Original gilt-stamped calf with vignette of a longhorn on the cover; rebacked in cloth. Repairs at board edges. Minor soiling and wear internally. Else very good.

One of the so-called “big four” cattle books and, in our experience, the most difficult to obtain. Includes biographies of some 448 cattlemen and an extensive contemporary account of the Texas cattle trade. The size and nature of the binding on this book often results in its being found in poor condition. “Supposedly most of the first edition was destroyed in a warehouse fire, hence its rarity today” – Merrill. “The book contains a wealth of information, and is a cornerstone in any range library” – Six Score. MERRILL ARISTOCRAT. SIX SCORE 24. ADAMS HERD 593. DOBIE, p.100. GRAFF 891. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 34. HOWES C820, “b.” VANDALE 44. $8000.

53. Crane, James: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE PACIFIC. San Francisco. 1856. 79pp. Modern brown cloth, gilt morocco label. Titlepage with a few fox marks and a small tear in upper outer corner. Two light vertical creases throughout; some wrinkling to text leaves. Still, very good.

An important California tract, with much material relating to the contentious issue of land titles, as well as early postal and express history. Crane, editor of the California Courier, lashes out at the policies of the federal government toward California, especially with regard to the validity of land titles held by early settlers from the period of Mexican control. He argues that federal policy toward California is malignant, and makes parallels between the present state of affairs and the relationship of the American colonies to England on the eve of the Revolution. “The author was a pioneer journalist. The pamphlet demonstrates the indifferent attitude of the federal government toward California” – Greenwood. “Crane describes the Conquest of 1846; the postal difficulties; leasing of the mineral lands; private land claims; the railroads across the continent; etc. An important early source book” – Eberstadt. COWAN, p.149. EBERSTADT 111:175. GREENWOOD 673. GRAFF 910. HOWES C861, “aa.” KEMBLE, pp.333-34. KURUTZ 162. $1250.

First Printed View of Fort Laramie

54. [Cross, Osborne]: A REPORT, IN THE FORM OF A JOURNAL, TO THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL, OF THE MARCH OF THE REGIMENT OF MOUNTED RIFLEMEN TO OREGON, FROM MAY 10 TO OCTOBER 5, 1849...[caption title]. [Washington. 1850]. pp.126-244 plus thirty-six plates (three folding). Contained in: Message of the President...to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirty-First Congress...Part II. Modern red buckram, spine gilt. A bit of occasional light foxing on the text and plates, but generally quite clean and neat. About very good.

The Senate issue. Cross’ report includes a detailed account of the Oregon Trail as it was in the first year of the great Gold Rush. The views, depicting the trail from Fort Laramie to the Dalles, seem to have been variously executed by both Ackermann of New York and Weber of Baltimore. An important report, with notable illustrations. The rest of the document contains more information relative to the Gold Rush. GRAFF 4415. WAGNER-CAMP 181:3. HOWES C923. SABIN 17660. $1750.

Rare Australian Narrative of the California Gold Rush

55. Dean, Johnson: A TRIP TO CALIFORNIA IN 1850-3, WITH CHAPTERS ON SOUTH-SEA ISLANDS, “PORT PHILLIP,” AND BEAUTIFUL TASMANIA. Hobart: J. Walch & Sons, [1905]. 120, [4]pp. plus frontispiece and seven photographic illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt. Corners worn. Light soiling and wear to covers. Internally clean. About very good.

Dean’s account of his trip to California is written in a convivial, chatty style, based on his visit in 1852. He provides descriptions of San Francisco, Oregon, the Sacra- mento Valley, Sydney, Port Phillip, and Tasmania. Additionally, he gives accounts of gold mining, gambling saloons, bullfights, and murders. The work concludes with a section on Van Dieman’s Land and Port Phillip, which includes some remarkable social details, recalling individual businesses and their owners, as well as reporting on the aboriginal population. The final four pages contain local advertisements for businesses in Hobart. Not in Kurutz. Scarce, with only one copy in auction records in the last forty years and only a handful of copies in OCLC. FERGUSON 9038. $2500. 56. DeGroot, Henry: RECOLLECTIONS OF CALIFORNIA MINING LIFE. PRIMITIVE PLACERS AND THE FIRST IMPORTANT DISCOVERY OF GOLD. THE PIONEERS OF THE PIONEERS – THEIR FORTUNE AND THEIR FATE. WRITTEN FOR THE MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS. San Francisco. 1884. 16pp., printed in double columns, with five full-page illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn and lightly soiled. Two brief notes on verso of front wrapper (one in pencil, one in ink). Very clean internally. About very good overall.

Henry DeGroot was a journalist with the New York Tribune when he was sent to report on the gold discoveries in 1848. Rather than giving a personal account of his own experiences, however, DeGroot presents a very useful history of gold discoveries in California in 1848 and 1849. Other sections consider why John Fremont failed to discover gold earlier in the 1840s, and why many of the early pioneers failed to attain wealth. The illustrations are by the great Gold Rush artist, Charles Nahl. The front wrapper shows a miner panning for gold, and the rear wrapper illustrates a quartz mill. Other illustrations show Sutter’s Mill and other mining camps, as well as various mining methods. KURUTZ 175. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 56. STREETER SALE 2985. HOWES D220 (ref ). COWAN, p.162. ROCQ 15772. NORRIS CATALOGUE 948. $2250.

Best Report on American Indians of the Times

57. Donaldson, Thomas C., editor: REPORT ON INDIANS TAXED AND NOT TAXED IN THE UNITED STATES (EXCEPT ALAS- KA) AT THE ELEVENTH CENSUS: 1890. Washington. 1894. vi,[2], 683pp. plus twenty-five maps (three of them large, colored, folding maps) and 203 plates, consisting of twenty in color (two folding), twenty-five uncolored lithographs, and 158 photographic plates. Large, thick quarto. Modern three- quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Several small tears to edges of leaves, light scattered soiling and wear. Very good.

One of the most important and exhaustive treatments of the American Indian in the 19th century. As American Indians had not been treated in detail in previous censuses, it was decided under the administration of Superintendent Robert Porter to prepare this mammoth undertaking, which pays scrupulous, detailed attention to the present state of the American Indian of the times. Included are discussions of Indian populations by state, status reports concerning life on the reservations, disbursement of populations on and off reservations, progress in schooling and employment, etc. Virtually every aspect of the topic is at least considered in this work, if not investigated in depth. The highly prized lithograph color plates of Indian life by noted artists are the best such works undertaken in a government publication, and are of exceptional quality. HOWES D418, “aa.” REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 33. $1250.

Tlingit-Russian Dictionary

58. Donskoi, Vladimir, Rev.: KRATKAIA ISTORIIA VETKHAGO ZAVETA V VOPROSAKH I OTVETAKH NA KOLOSHINSKO- RUSSKOM IAZYKE....EKUIATLE SHKALJTNYK CHAKU KA ISA ATVUSKUU, TLINGIT-KHENAKH KA ANUSHI-KHENAKH KAKHAVUZUKH KA CHUCHJIAIUTAKAKHOU.... [SHORT HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS BY QUES- TIONS AND ANSWERS, IN THE RUSSIAN AND TLINGIT LANGUAGES...]. New York. 1901. 207,viii pp. Original printed green wrappers. Spine lightly scuffed and worn. Two leaves wrinkled in the upper margin. Near fine.

A rare Tlingit-Russian exposition of the Old and New Testaments in the form of a catechism. The Tlingit are native to the northwest coast of Canada and southern coast of Alaska. Vladimir Donskoi, a Russian Orthodox priest, worked among them for many years. Not in the Ayer checklist of American Indian linguistics for Tlingit. OCLC locates copies only at Harvard, the Smithsonian, and the Univer- sity of Alaska. WICKERSHAM 5837. OCLC 17472860, 33371870. $1250.

A Great Louisiana Rarity

59. [Dumont, Georges Marie]: MEMOIRES HISTORIQUES SUR LA LOUISIANE, CONTENANT CE QUI Y EST ARRIVE DE PLUS MEMORABLE DEPUIS L’ANNEE 1687.... Paris. 1753. Two volumes. [4],x,261; [4],338pp., plus five plans (three folding), four plates of native plants and trees, and a folding engraved map of Louisiana. Half titles. Mod- ern calf, gilt leather labels. 19th-century ownership inscription on half titles and titlepages. Half titles reinforced at edges with tissue. Some light foxing. Very good.

A rare and important early history of French Louisiana. “One of the best contemporary histories of French Louisiana, based on the author’s twenty-five-year residence in the colony as an army officer, engineer, and planter. The first volume describes the natural history and life of the inhabitants, Europeans and Indians; and the second volume is devoted to the military and political history of the colony from about 1717 to 1740, especially the Indian wars. Dumont’s work is the first reliable account of much of Louisiana” – Streeter. The engraved plates depict four different tree specimens, while the wonderful plans show New Orleans and Fort Rozalie des Natchez, as well as a typical Louisiana house plan. The handsome folding map of Louisiana notes the different Indian tribes and villages in the region. This is one of the few reliable firsthand accounts of French Louisiana in the mid-18th century, and far rarer than the works of Bossu or Le Page du Pratz, the other cornerstones of the time and place. HOWES L250, “b.” FIELD 463. SABIN 9605. STREETER SALE 125. JCB (1)III: 996. $9500.

The Rarest DuPont Volume

60. DuPont, Samuel F.: EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE JOURNAL- LETTERS OF CAPTAIN S.F. DuPONT, WHILE IN COMMAND OF THE CYANE, DURING THE WAR WITH MEXICO, 1846 – 1848. PRINTED FOR HIS FAMILY. Wilmington: Ferris Bros., Printers and Binders, 1885. [4],444pp. plus [2]pp. of errata. Original three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Very minor shelf wear. Bookplate on front pastedown. Internally very clean and fresh. Near fine.

“These extracts from DuPont’s journal and letters, privately printed for his family by his wife after his death, are a valuable and almost unknown account of U.S. Naval operations in the Pacific and Gulf of California during the Mexican War. After conveying Fremont and his battalion from Monterey to San Diego and participating in the taking of San Blas, DuPont entered the Gulf of California, seized La Paz, and at Guaymas burned the Mexican fleet. Within a few months he had cleared the Gulf, and in 1847 aided Commodore Shubrick in the occupation of Mazatlan, and later led his troops to the rescue of the American forces at Mission San Jose” – Streeter. “The richest mass of first-hand source material extant on the conquest of California” – Eberstadt. “Even more important than DuPont’s detailed and meticulous account of his own actions is his careful recording of the movements of, and communications with, other important figures with whom he was in almost constant contact” – Hill. Only fifty copies were printed for the family. STREETER SALE 2991. HOWES D588, “b.” GRAFF 1184. BARRETT 744. HILL 521. GARRETT, p.207. EBERSTADT 132:173. $6500. An Important Archive of a Key Figure in Transforming American Indian Themes to Popular Culture

61. Eberhart, Nelle Richmond: [EXTENSIVE ARCHIVE OF MANU- SCRIPT NOTEBOOKS OF COMPOSER NELLE RICHMOND EBERHART, CONTAINING PROSE AND LYRICAL WORKS, AS WELL AS TWO LARGE SCRAPBOOKS]. [Various locations]. 1913-1936. Thirty-seven composition notebooks, plus two thick scrapbooks. Notebooks mostly octavo with cardboard covers; scrapbooks folio, cloth over heavy boards. Some wear to notebooks, several chipped. Some leaves a bit brittle. Scrapbooks worn at extremities, cloth frayed. Overall, very good.

An important archive of the manuscript writings of author and lyricist Nelle Rich- mond Eberhart (1871-1944), containing much material relating to the Indianist Movement in American music. Eberhart is best known for her work with composer Charles Wakefield Cadman, and is credited with introducing Cadman to the music and culture of Native American Indians. The archive contains a wealth of prose and lyrical writing, covering more than twenty years of her career from 1913 to 1936 and filling hundreds of sheets of paper. Eberhart became enamored of Native American culture while growing up in Atkinson, Nebraska, where her family moved in 1881. While there she witnessed the trials of Indian removal and relocation to Oklahoma, and developed an interest in the culture and music of the local tribes. Later, when married, she lived near Lincoln, Nebraska until moving to Pittsburgh in 1899. A school teacher, author, and lyricist, she was a pioneer of the Indianist music movement, which adapted traditional Native American music into modern-day themes. She met Cadman in Pittsburgh in 1902 at the start of his career, and by 1906 they had created Indianist songs together, and Eberhart was corresponding with Alice Fletcher and others on the topic. Collaborators for many years, Eberhart wrote the lyrics for more than one hundred of Cadman’s best-known songs and worked with him on several operas. The most well-known of these songs, “From the Land of Sky Blue Water,” written in 1908, was popularized by American soprano Lillian Nordica and was considered a wild success. Eberhardt’s other collaborations with the Cadman include “At Dawning”; the opera “Shanewis”; and the songs “The White Dawn is Stealing,” “Far Off I Hear a Lover’s Lute,” “The Moon Drops Low,” “From Wigwam to Teepee,” and “I Hear a Thrush at Eve.” Eberhardt frequently traveled with Cadman, who was an important collector of Native American music. His cylinder recordings of native music, made in Indian Territory, are at the Smithsonian. At the same time Cadman became a well-known theatre producer Also included here are two large scrapbooks belonging to Eberhart’s daughter, opera singer Constance Eberhart. Constance’s career led the family to move to New York in 1918. These scrapbooks include many clippings, correspondence, and at least one signed photograph. A significant archive of an important figure in early modern American music, and of the adoption of American Indian themes into popular culture. Arlouine G. Wu, Constance Eberhart: A Musical Career in the Age of Cadman (Buffalo, 1983). $11,000.

62. Eddy, J.M.: IN THE REDWOOD’S REALM BY-WAYS OF WILD NATURE AND HIGHWAYS OF INDUSTRY AS FOUND UNDER FOREST SHADES AND AMIDST CLOVER BLOSSOMS IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. San Francisco: D.F. Stanley & Co., 1893. 112pp., including photographic illustrations, maps, and tables. Quarto. Original cloth-backed stiff pictorial wrappers. Cloth worn at spine ends, wrappers worn at corners, lightly soiled, and waterstained (on rear wrapper). Second half of text leaves lightly waterstained. Good overall.

An elaborate and detailed promotional for northern California’s Humboldt County. The work is richly illustrated with halftone reproductions from photographs, and is the earliest Humboldt County promotional so illustrated. The many advantages of the coastal county are displayed, from its abundant timber lands to the fine harbor at Humboldt Bay, and the “cheap lands” and “clear titles” available. Also stressed is the already existing infrastructure in the area, including banks, lumber carrying firms, manufacturers, distribution facilities, etc. The diversity of the region’s exports is emphasized, and one of the maps shows the distribution of redwood products around the world. A very well done, and relatively scarce, county promotional. COWAN, p.191. ROCQ 2074. $1000. 63. Edwards, John N.: SHELBY’S EXPEDITION TO MEXICO. AN UNWRITTEN LEAF OF THE WAR. Kansas City, Mo.: Kansas City Times Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1872. 139pp., printed in double columns. Contemporary three-quarter black morocco and cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, modern gilt label. Binding rubbed and scuffed, mostly around the edges. Contemporary Jefferson City, Missouri binder’s ticket on front pastedown. Retains original blue endpapers, with additional new endpapers. Occasional light foxing. A good plus copy.

Inscribed on the titlepage: “with the high regards of the Author.” Confederate cavalry General Joseph Shelby, a Kentucky-born resident of Missouri, refused to take Lee and Johnston’s surrenders as the end of his personal battle, deciding instead to raise an army of some one thousand men to join Emperor Maximilian’s army in Mexico. The story of this ill-fated venture is ably told by John Edwards, a journalist who accompanied Shelby’s forces to Mexico. They rode through Texas, and much of the action recounted in this volume takes place there. Once in Mexico they battled Juarez’s guerillas, and remnants of Shelby’s forces eventually reached Maximilian’s army. The French-installed emperor refused their services, and Shelby’s men briefly established a Confederate colony in Mexico. The “undefeated” exiles were eventually forced to return to the United State’s after Maximilian’s capture and execution in 1867. Edwards’ work is the only contemporary eyewitness account of the expedition. “The standard account, now quite uncommon, of this curious and tragic episode of the Civil War, in which the Confederate general led his brigade through Texas, across the Rio Grande, to Mexico City, where their proffered services were refused by Emperor Maximilian” – Eberstadt. A very scarce work. HOWES E55, “aa.” HOLLIDAY SALE 338. EBERSTADT 162:269. $2500.

64. 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. Occasional light age toning and foxing. Intermittent stains. Overall a good copy.

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.

Murder and Mayhem in Gold Rush San Francisco

65. [Fargo, Frank]: A FULL AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE MURDER OF JAMES KING, OF WM., EDITOR OF THE San Francisco Evening Bulletin, BY JAMES P. CASEY, AND THE EXECUTION OF JAMES P. CASEY AND CHARLES CORA, BY THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE. San Francisco: J.W. Sullivan, [1856]. 24pp., printed in double columns. Original pictorial front wrapper, rear wrapper lacking. Front wrapper lightly soiled. A bit of wear around the edges of wrapper and text leaves. About very good.

An account of a famous and exciting California murder case, showing the violence endemic in the Gold Rush, and the strength of the so-called Second Vigilance Committee. This work was compiled from the columns of the Alta California, and thus provides valuable insight on the opinions of the press with regard to the Vigilantes. King, editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, was brutally shot to death in the street by Casey. King was a member of the executive committee of the first Vigilance Committee (which formed and disbanded in 1851), and his murder spurred the creation of a second Vigilance Committee in 1856. The culprit and another murderer, Charles Cora, were taken from prison, tried by the Committee, and hanged before a crowd of some twenty thousand spectators. Howes notes only a different edition, with a slightly different title and twenty-six pages in length. This copy appears to be a variant of Greenwood’s listing, without “Town Talk print” at the bottom of the front wrapper. The front wrapper carries a portrait of James King, taken from a daguerreotype. A rare account of California crime, and of one of the most famous events in the history of the Vigilance Committee. COWAN, p.202 McDADE 557. SABIN 23798. GRAFF 1286. GREENWOOD 679. ROCQ 9332. STREETER SALE 2802. COHEN 4063. HOWES F31 (another ed). $1250.

66. Farnham, Thomas J.: TRAVELS IN THE GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES, THE ANAHUAC AND ROCKY MOUNTAINS, AND IN THE OREGON TERRITORY. London: Richard Bentley, 1843. Two volumes. [iii]-xxiii,297; [iii]-viii,315pp. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather label. Light wear to corners and spines, boards rubbed; some light dampstaining to binding. Ownership markings on front endpapers, some blacked out; old library ink stamps on titlepages and second leaves in each volume. Some pencil notations to text, otherwise internally clean. Good plus.

The first English edition, after the first American edition of 1841. An important early account of the Oregon country. The author went overland 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. The book became an effective propaganda piece for boosters of American control of Oregon. Often reprinted, Howes considers this edition to be the best. WAGNER-CAMP 84. HOWES F50, “aa.” STREETER SALE 3349, 3351. $2750.

67. Farnsworth, R.W.C., editor: A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PAR- ADISE, (IN THE SUBURBS OF LOS ANGELES.) BEING A HISTORIC AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF PASADENA, SAN GABRIEL, SIERRA MADRE, AND LA CAÑADA; WITH IMPORTANT REFERENCE TO LOS ANGELES AND ALL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.... Pasadena, Ca. 1883. 132pp. including illustrations and map. Text printed in double columns. Tall octavo. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Cloth worn at corners and spine ends. Contemporary Pasadena ownership notes on endpapers and titlepage. Quite clean internally. Very good overall. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

An early southern California promotional for the northwestern part of the San Ga- briel Valley, in a lovely gilt-stamped cloth binding. Editor Farnsworth asserts that he is not presenting an idealized or exaggerated view in order to spur immigration to the region, only giving a truthful, straightforward account. The text is comprised largely of a history and description of Pasadena, San Gabriel, Sierra Madre, and La Cañada, with contributions by John Muir (on the Sierra Madre mountains), Alice Adams, Perry Green, Abbot Kinney, and many others. Special prominence is given to Pasadena (depicted in the map) and a “Pasadena Directory,” the first for that city, occupies the final six pages. COWAN (1964 ADDITIONS) 167. ROCQ 4610. $950.

68. Fenton, H.W., compiler: THE TERRITORY OF WASHINGTON A SKETCH OF ITS HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, CLIMATE, SOIL AND PRODUCTIONS, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO KING COUNTY AND THE CITY OF SEATTLE. Seattle: Cook & Moore, 1888. 24pp. Contemporary plain green paper wrappers. Wrappers a bit stained, worn at edges. Ink number stamped in upper margin of titlepage. Text evenly age-toned. Good plus.

“First edition, 5000 copies,” compiled by Fenton for Cook and Moore, real estate brokers of Seattle. A rare description of Washington, issued the year before it became a state and pitched to immigrants looking to settle there. Apart from the subjects mentioned in the title, it also describes the potential for stock-raising, horticulture, mining, salmon fisheries, and more. Also included are population and county tax statistics, and sections on land law, mining law, pre-emption law, timber law, etc. Printed by C.B. Bagley, book and job printer of Seattle. This pamphlet is known in two issues, one of twenty-four pages and the other of forty pages. The present twenty-four-page issue is the scarcer of the two, located by OCLC in only two copies, at Columbia University and BYU. Not in Howes or in Smith’s Pacific Northwest Americana. Not in the Streeter, Graff, or Soliday collections, nor in Eberstadt or Decker catalogues. Rare institutionally, and rare on the market. OCLC 81799475. $950.

69. Flint, Timothy: JOURNAL OF THE REV. TIMOTHY FLINT, FROM THE RED RIVER, TO THE OUACHITTA OR WASHITA, IN LOUISIANA, IN 1835. [Philadelphia]: From Waldie’s Select Circulat- ing Library, [1836]. 31pp. 12mo. Contemporary blue wrappers. Rear wrapper lacking. Embossed library stamp on titlepage. Else very good.

“An account of a survey of the Maison Rouge grant on the Ouachita River made by Flint and his son, in the form of a letter to the owner of the grant. The journey was made on horseback and apparently lasted only a few days, beginning at Alexandria, on March 24, 1835. The itinerary includes Big Creek, Little River, Bowley’s Tavern, and Prairie du Lait, after which it becomes vague. The work is mainly descriptive of forests, lands, waters, and general conditions along the route and on the grant itself ” – Clark. This work was also published in the periodical, Waldie’s Select Circulating Library; this edition, however, is consistent with the first as noted by Howes and Clark. Rare. HOWES F202. BAL 6135. CLARK III:42. $1500.

A Song of the Idaho Gold Rush

70. French, Frank: IDAHO. Chicago: H.M. Higgins, [1864]. 5pp. sheet music. Folio. Very minor soiling and wear. Vertical fold reinforced with tissue. Very good plus.

Sheet music promoting immigration to Idaho. The cover has a woodcut of a Con- estoga wagon drawn by four mules. “They say, there is a land, Where crystal waters flow, O’er beds of quarts [sic] and purest gold, Way out in Idaho....We’ll need to pick or spade, No shovel, pan, or hoe, The largest chunks are ‘top of ground, Way out in Idaho....” The only copy we find recorded is in the Streeter sale in 1968. STREETER SALE 3306. $1250. The Life of Abraham Lincoln in Sioux

71. [Garvie, James]: ABRAHAM LINCOLN TONI KIN, AESOP TAWOYAKE KIN. LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND AE- SOP’S FABLES. Santee Agency, Ne.: A.L. Riggs, 1893. 17,[1],10pp. 16mo. Original printed stiff wrappers. A portion of rear wrapper slightly darkened, faint vertical crease in front wrapper. Bookplate on verso of front wrapper. Near fine. In a green cloth folding case, spine gilt.

A scarce Sioux-language biography of Abraham Lincoln, printed by Indian children at the Santee Agency in Nebraska. James Garvie was a missionary to the Sioux and translated the biography of Lincoln; his mother was a member of the Sioux who lived in Minnesota in the 1860s. This is the earliest Indian-language biography of Lincoln that we are able to find in Monaghan. The second part of the text contains translations of Aesop’s fables by Jennie Cox and Eunice Kitto. The Eberstadts asked $200 for a copy of this title in their 1964 Lincolniana catalogue. A very scarce and interesting Lincoln item. MONAGHAN 3856. AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (DAKOTA) 79. EBERSTADT 165:426. $2500.

Firsthand Account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

72. Gass, Patrick: A JOURNAL OF THE VOYAGES AND TRAVELS OF A CORPS OF DISCOVERY, UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPT. LEWIS AND CAPT. CLARKE [sic] OF THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER MISSOURI THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF NORTH AMERICA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, DURING THE YEARS 1804, 1805 & 1806. Pittsburgh: Printed by Zadok Cramer, for David M’Keehan, Publisher and Proprietor, 1807. 262pp. 12mo. Contemporary half sheep and plain paper boards, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Closed tear in leaf M2, with no loss of text. Tanning, foxing, and staining. A good copy, in original condition.

The rare first edition of the earliest published firsthand account of the Lewis and Clark expedition, by a member of their party. Gass was a sergeant who, by order of Lewis and at the insistence of Thomas Jefferson, kept a journal of the expedition’s activities, and this book seems closely based on that document. “...One of the essential books for an Americana collection” – Streeter. STREETER SALE 3120. GRAFF 1516. SABIN 26741. HILL 685. SHAW & SHOE- MAKER 12646. SMITH 3465. WAGNER-CAMP 6:1. HOWES G77, “b.” LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 3.1 $17,500. 73. Gayarré, Charles: HISTOIRE DE LA LOUISIANE. New Orleans. 1846-1847. Two volumes. [4],xi,[1],377; vii,[1],427pp. The four leaves of signature 46 misprinted, with p.364 on the verso of p.361 (twice) and p.368 on the verso of p.365 (twice). Half title in each volume. 19th-century green cloth, gilt leather labels. Light shelf wear, hinges cracked but holding firm. Early 20th-century ownership signature on front pastedown of both volumes, manuscript notes on rear fly leaves of second volume. Very good. Untrimmed.

This work, one of a number of such publications by this noted historian and politician, covers the French period in Louisiana history up to 1769, with much material on early exploration, settlement, and commerce. Gayarré wrote the work in French in order to preserve the exact form of the original documents, excerpts of which comprise the large majority of the narrative. It is a different work from his four-volume English-language history of Louisiana, published a decade later. See Tinker for a lengthy sketch of Gayarré’s life and writings. HOWES G85. JUMONVILLE 1443. DAB VII, pp.196-97. TINKER, pp.218-45. SABIN 26792. $2500.

74. [German Emigration to Texas]: [REPORT FROM THE CHIEF AGENT OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF GER- MAN EMIGRANTS TO TEXAS, REPRODUCED IN LITHOG- RAPHY]. Wiesbaden. 1849. 16pp. Folio. Sewn gatherings, 32 x 20.5 cm. About fine.

An important report, with a covering letter, detailing the situation in the Texas colonies of the Society for the Protection of German Emigrants to Texas. This is a long report from the chief agent, Bene, on the situation in Texas during 1849, and letters from several other officials about progress at Fredericksburg. $750.

The Map a “Cartographic Landmark”

75. Gregg, Josiah: COMMERCE OF THE PRAIRIES: OR THE JOURNAL OF A SANTA FE TRADER DURING EIGHT EXPE- DITIONS ACROSS THE GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES, AND A RESIDENCE OF NEARLY NINE YEARS IN NORTHERN MEXICO. New York: Henry G. Langley, 1844. Two volumes. 320; 318pp., plus two maps (one folding) and six plates. Original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Cloth lightly worn, front joint on second volume cracked with cloth splitting. Previous owner’s name (W.B. Childers) stamped in ink on front and rear endpapers. Plates a bit darkened and foxed, otherwise internally very clean and fresh. A very nice set overall.

First edition, first issue, with a New York imprint only. One of the landmark books of Western Americana. Gregg’s book is acclaimed by all sources as the principal contemporary authority on the Santa Fe Trail and trade, the Indians of the south plains, and New Mexico in the Mexican period. J. Frank Dobie calls it “one of the classics of bedrock Americana.” It gives a lively, intimate, and personal account of experiences on the prairies and in northern Mexico. The “...Map of the Indian Territory Northern Texas and New Mexico showing the Great Western Prairies...” is by far the best map of the region up to that time. Wheat states: “Gregg’s map was a cartographic landmark...’one of the most useful maps of this region at that day.’” “A cornerstone of all studies on the Santa Fe Trail in the early period, describing the origin and development of the trade, Gregg’s own experiences, and useful statistics for 1822-43” – Rittenhouse. WAGNER-CAMP 108:1. RITTENHOUSE 255. GRAFF 1659. STREETER TEXAS 1502. FLAKE 3716. HOWES G401. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 482; Vol. II, pp.186- 88. DOBIE, p.76. STREETER SALE 378. SABIN 28712. RAINES, p.99. RADER 1684. $4750.

76. [Hafen, LeRoy, editor]: THE MOUNTAIN MEN AND THE FUR TRADE OF THE FAR WEST. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1965-1972. Ten volumes. Original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spines. Near fine. Bookplates of the James Copley Library.

The first and second volumes in this series are notoriously hard to find in first editions, as they are here. A standard and important reference in Western Americana, and one of the definitive works on the fur trade in the West. CLARK & BRUNET 108. $850.

77. Hafen, LeRoy R. and Ann W.: THE FAR WEST AND THE ROCK- IES HISTORICAL SERIES 1820 – 1875 [series title]. Glendale, Ca.: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1954-1961. Fifteen volumes. Plates. Maps. Frontispiece in all but the fifteenth volume. Green cloth, gilt. Minor wear. Near fine.

One of the great collections of source material, lavishly printed by the Arthur H. Clark Company. The series includes Hafen’s The Old Spanish Trail and Handcarts to Zion; an annotated reprint of Rufus Sage’s valuable account; Heap’s Central Route to the Pacific; and documentary collections of narratives and material relating to the 1849 Gold Rush, overland travellers from 1839 to 1842, the Utah war of 1857-58, relations with the Plains Indians before the Civil War, Fremont’s fourth expedition, the Powder River campaigns of 1865, and Colorado reports of the Civil War period. In addition, there is an index to the whole. Indispensable. CLARK & BRUNET 104. PAHER 744. KURUTZ 300 (“Journals of ’49ers” volume). $1500.

The Rare New York Edition, with a Map

78. [Halkett, John]: STATEMENT RESPECTING THE EARL OF SELKIRK’S SETTLEMENT UPON THE RED RIVER IN NORTH AMERICA; ITS DESTRUCTION IN 1815 AND 1816; AND THE MASSACRE OF GOVERNOR SEMPLE AND HIS PARTY. WITH OBSERVATIONS UPON A RECENT PUBLICATION, ENTI- TLED, “A NARRATIVE OF OCCURRENCES IN THE INDIAN COUNTRIES,” &c. New York: Published by James Eastburn & Co., 1818. viii,194,[2],c pp. plus folding map. Half title. Later three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light shelf wear. Map backed with paper. Scattered light foxing, a bit of light staining to the appendix leaves. Very good.

The Henry DePuy-Frank Deering copy, with their bookplates on the front pastedown. The Selkirk community was of particular interest to the former; most everything Americana-related was of interest to the latter. The first American edition, following the London edition (in two issues) printed the year before. Describes the history of Selkirk’s settlement on the Red River and its differences with the North West Company. Halkett herein defends Lord Selkirk’s Red River settlement against the aggressions of the North West Company. This edition contains added material answering to a work published under the North West Company’s auspices, A Narrative of Occurrences in the Indian Countries. The map, by Maverick and Durand of New York, after the original Arrowsmith map, shows the Red River country, Lake Winnepeg, and north to Hudson Bay. Not in Lande. This copy brought $30 at the DePuy sale in 1920. We do not find any records of this New York edition appearing at auction in the post-World War II era. A landmark work of Canadiana, here in the rare American edition. TPL 1094. DePUY SALE 1010 (this copy). PEEL 48 (note). LANDE 1206 (London ed). SHAW & SHOEMAKER 44221. $3750.

Important Early Map of Kansas

79. [Halsell, John]: [Kansas]: SECTIONAL MAP OF THE TERRI- TORY OF KANSAS. COMPILED FROM THE FIELD NOTES IN THE SURVEYOR GENERAL’S OFFICE. St. Louis: John Halsall, 1857. 29 x 22½ inches, handcolored, folded to 5½ x 3½ inches. Original cloth folder stamped in gilt. Most of the gilt worn away, leaving blind impression; light wear to cloth. Map with significant separations at several folds, but with no loss. About very good.

First edition, early issue. This map was published at a critical juncture in Kansas history. Kansas Territory and Nebraska Territory were created following the Kansas- Nebraska Act of 1854, with the provision that when admitted to the Union as states they “shall be received with or without slavery,” with the decision to be voted upon. Pro-slavery and anti-slavery advocates attempted to populate the territory with their proponents. When this emigration map appeared, the unhappy, violent time known as “Bleeding Kansas” had commenced, presaging the Civil War. Several variants of this map were published in rapid succession in 1857 and 1858. This copy has a copyright statement indicating that it was “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1856 by J.H. Colton,” and there is an advertisement for Colton’s publications on the front pastedown; the cover title is “Ream’s Sectional Map of Kansas.” Cherokee and Osage lands now have added designations for the counties of Godfrey, Wilson, Dorn, and McGee; Washington, Clay, and Dickinson counties are not present, and Riley County has not yet been downsized; the Kansas Reservation is not located. “One of the first pocket maps of Kansas to be issued as a Kansas map, with detail much improved....The government surveys are much more elaborate, and excellent details of old and new counties are present” – Heaston. This map shows the steady expansion into eastern Kansas at the time. Although showing only roughly the third of the Territory east of the principal meridian, considerable development is already taking place in the southeast quadrant along the Missouri River, with lesser development spreading out west of there along the Kansas River. Platted townships are shown, as are existing towns, roads, streams, military posts (including Fort Leavenworth, Fort Riley, etc.), and several fairly large Indian reservations and land holdings (e.g. Cherokee, Ottawa, Shawnee, etc.). The traveller going West is shown the “Santa Fee Road,” the “Fort Laramie Road,” etc. Kansas City, Kansas does not yet exist. KARROW 13-0558. PHILLIPS, MAPS, p.346. RUMSEY 4094. HEASTON, THE KANSAS POCKET MAP 6, 7. $5000.

80. Harmon, Daniel W.: A JOURNAL OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOUR OF NORTH AMERICA, BETWEEN THE 47th AND 58th DEGREES OF NORTH LATITUDE, EXTEND- ING FROM MONTREAL NEARLY TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, A DISTANCE OF ABOUT 5,000 MILES, INCLUDING AN AC- COUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL OCCURRENCES DURING A RESIDENCE OF NINETEEN YEARS, IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.... Andover. 1820. 432pp. plus folding map. Half title. Contemporary calf, leather label. Corners worn. Rear free endpaper ex- cised. Persistent brown dampstain affecting lower half of most leaves to a greater or lesser extent. Map heavily dampstained, torn completely along one fold. Bookplate. Except for the staining, a good copy.

The first edition of this interesting work, edited for publication by Daniel Haskell (who surreptitiously inserted some religious maunderings not found in the author’s manuscript). Harmon joined the North West Company in 1780 and travelled to Lake Winnipeg and the Assiniboine, where he stayed some seven years. His later travels took him to Fort William, New Caledonia, Fort Vermillion, Fort Chipewyan, etc. Contains vocabularies of the Crees and Tacullies. The map, engraved by Annin & Smith of Boston, shows the northern United States and Canada to the Pacific Ocean in some detail. “An important book” (Howes), containing valuable firsthand information on the early fur trade. WAGNER-CAMP 17. SABIN 30404. FIELD 656. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1664. GRAFF 1786. HOWES H205, “b.” AMERICAN IMPRINTS 1518. STREETER SALE 3692. PEEL 71. LANDE 1216. TPL 1171. $750. Rare Wagner-Camp Cariboo Gold Rush Item

81. Hazlitt, William Carew: THE GREAT GOLD FIELDS OF CARI- BOO; WITH AN AUTHENTIC DESCRIPTION, BROUGHT DOWN TO THE LATEST PERIOD, OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND VANCOUVER ISLAND. London. 1862. viii,184pp. plus folding map. Lacks the advertisements (4pp. total) at front and rear, found in some copies. 12mo. Modern half cloth and paper boards. Previous owner’s ink stamp on verso of map, on titlepage, and on eight text leaves. Lightly age-toned. Very good overall, with the map in lovely condition.

A rare guide to the gold fields of British Columbia, by the renowned British bib- liographer and man of letters. Hazlitt had already written British Columbia and Vancouver Island (1858), but in light of the gold discoveries in the region, he issued the present volume, an essentially new work. He describes the gold fields, mines, general prospects of the country, and offers advice to potential emigrants. He also writes of the agricultural potential of the region, commercial transit facilities, etc. “The discovery of a great new gold field on the upper Fraser River caused a rapidly increasing stream of immigrants, and the present work was designed for their aid, to accelerate the development of England’s newest, and probably her most valuable dependency” – Wagner-Camp. Includes a vocabulary of the “Chinook Jargon.” The map shows British Columbia and Vancouver Island, with the Cariboo gold diggings area labeled. Not in Lande or Lande Supplement. WAGNER-CAMP 382a. SABIN 31126 (note). TPL 6010. WHEAT TRANSMISSIS- SIPPI 1058. LOWTHER 170. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1695. PILLING, CHINOO- KAN, p.41. $3000.

82. Heap, Gwin Harris: CENTRAL ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC, FROM THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI TO CALIFORNIA: JOURNAL OF THE EXPEDITION OF E.F. BEALE...IN 1853. Philadelphia. 1854. 136pp. plus thirteen handsome lithographed plates (some tinted) and 46pp. of advertisements. Original blindstamped tan cloth. Spine ends chipped. Light wear to rear hinge and extremities. Discreet library blindstamp on upper outer corner of each plate as well as a few leaves of text, and discard stamp. Private owner’s rubber stamp on front free endpaper. Otherwise internally quite nice, with almost no foxing. Overall, a very good copy.

Beale and Heap were greatly influenced by Senator Benton in their choice of a route across Colorado and Nevada. This book is one of the first detailed examinations of the route, and a basic piece of Western Americana. The rare map, issued with only a few copies, is supplied in facsimile and tipped in at the rear. COWAN, p.273. HOWES H378. MINTZ 562. SABIN 31175. WAGNER-CAMP 235. FLAKE 3934. RITTENHOUSE 290. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 808. STREETER SALE 3177. $1000. 83. Henry, Alexander, and David Thompson: NEW LIGHT ON THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE GREATER NORTHWEST. THE MANUSCRIPT JOURNALS OF...1799 – 1814. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1897. Three volumes. Three folding maps and folding facsimile in rear pocket of third volume. Portrait. Original cloth and boards, paper labels. Boards edgeworn, hinges weak; spines darkened and chipped at heads and toes. Internally very clean and fresh. Very good. Unopened.

From the special edition limited to 100 copies in boards and printed on handmade paper (this being number 73), from of a total edition of 1100 copies. Published by F.P. Harper, and probably the most difficult to obtain of the excellent series issued by that firm. Describes the travels and adventures of both men, mainly in the Ca- nadian Northwest. “Considered by historians to be the most important contribution to Western history and exploration published in the twentieth century” – Tweney. Edited by Elliott Coues. HOWES H419, “aa.” TWENEY 89, 9. PEEL 32. WAGNER-CAMP 7 (note). $1250.

The First Book in English Devoted Entirely to Texas, Inscribed by Another Austin

84. Holley, Mary Austin: TEXAS. OBSERVATIONS, HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE, IN A SERIES OF LET- TERS, WRITTEN DURING A VISIT TO AUSTIN’S COLONY, WITH A VIEW TO A PERMANENT SETTLEMENT IN THAT COUNTRY, IN THE AUTUMN OF 1831. Baltimore: Armstrong & Plaskitt, 1833. 167pp. plus folding frontispiece map. 12mo. Original purple- brown cloth, title stamped in gilt on front board, expertly rebacked to style. Very good. In a blue half morocco box. Provenance: Louisa Austin (see below).

This copy bears an intriguing inscription on the front fly leaf: “Louisa / from her father / A. Austin.” Louisa Austin (1816-67) was the daughter of Aaron Austin (1786-1849) and his wife, Mary Cooley (d. 1862). Aaron Austin was born in Wallingford, Connecticut and raised his family in eastern New York, in the town of Durham. He was a descendent of John Austin of New Haven, Connecticut. Stephen F. Austin, the “empresario” of Texas, and Mary Austin Holley, the author of this book, were cousins, and the book is in fact dedicated to Stephen F. Austin. The two of them share the bloodline of Richard Austin of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and do not share a familial relationship with Aaron Austin and his family. Mary Austin Holley, however, was born in New Haven, and Stephen F. Austin was educated in Colchester, Connecticut, and his father, Moses Austin, was born in Durham, Con- necticut; so it seems natural to believe that these two families, though not related by blood but linked by surname and living in rather close proximity to each other in small communities, would have known each other and been on friendly terms. The rare first edition of the first book in English devoted entirely to Texas. The fine “Map of the State of Coahuila and Texas” is by W. Hooker and displays the region from just east of New Orleans to a degree west of Santa Fe, and north from the mouth of the Rio Grande to just above the 38th parallel. Copies with the map are rare indeed. Mrs. Holley was the cousin of Stephen F. Austin, to whom the book is dedicated, and Jenkins states that it was written with Stephen’s assistance. Mrs. Holley travelled from the mouth of the Brazos River to Bolivar to aid her brother, Henry, in making his home there. She found Texas “very like a dream or youthful vision realized.” Her work on this book was followed closely and approved by her brother and cousin. The book is, in the words of Thomas W. Streeter, “one of the Texas classics,” and was one of his favorite books on life and travel in Texas. Streeter and Jenkins note various states of the map and the text. Streeter gives a detailed description of the map in entry 1136 of his Texas bibliography, and in this copy the copyright notice is printed on the verso of the titlepage. STREETER TEXAS 1135. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 93B. RAINES, p.116. HOWES H593, “b.” SABIN 32528. CLARK III:56. DOBIE, p.51. RADER 1912. GRAFF 1934. $17,000.

Presentation Copy of a Rare Latter-Day Overland

85. Holton, E.D.: TRAVELS WITH JOTTINGS. FROM MIDLAND TO THE PACIFIC. Milwaukee: Trayser Brothers, 1880. 94pp. Portrait. Original limp black cloth, front cover gilt. Cloth torn at spine ends and worn at edges. Text block loosening. Small stain in lower outer corner of frontispiece. Good.

A presentation copy, inscribed by Holton on the front free endpaper to “Hon. H. Clay Evans.” Henry Clay Evans (1843- 1921) had a long and distinguished career in public service. Born in Pennsylvania, he served in the Union Army during the Civil War, after which he became a railway car manufacturer. He was mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee; a one-term congressman from Tennessee; and an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate and Tennessee governor. From 1897 to 1902 he was U.S. Commissioner of Pensions, after which he was U.S. Consul General in London. “Written for, and published, chiefly, as souvenirs to personal acquaintances and friends,” Howes contends that only fifty copies were published. Most of Holton’s dispatches herein are from California, including Yosemite, San Francisco, Sonoma, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara, among other towns. He also offers some thoughts on the Chinese question, and gives descriptions of Wyoming, Utah, Las Vegas, and Colorado as well. A scarce work, this is the first copy that we have handled. HOWES H618. COWAN, p.290. HOWELL 50:526. $1250.

86. Houston, Sam: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM SAM HOUSTON TO TEXAS SENATOR THOMAS J. RUSK, RE- SPONDING TO A WARNING ABOUT HOUSTON’S ANTI- SLAVERY SPEECH]. New Haven. Feb. 20, 1855. [1]p., plus integral docketing leaf. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor wear and soiling at central fold. Very good plus.

Sam Houston writes to friend and fellow Senator Thomas J. Rusk, responding to a note of warning given to Houston as he embarked for a speech at the Boston Anti-Slavery Society. After Houston announced his candidacy for president of the United States on the Know Nothing Party ticket, his campaigning took him to Boston to make a speech for Washington’s Birthday before the Anti Slavery Society. His friends tried to warn him that he was making a mistake and handed him a note as he boarded the New York train for Boston. This letter was his reply. Houston writes from New Haven, half way to Boston:

Your note was handed to me as I got in the car at New York, and read on my way here. It might have had some might with me if I had received it with the note accompanying it, but it came too late. I appreciate your advice as well as that of our friend Burke, but I must go on. Under like circumstances Gen. Jackson would have done so. To be honest and fear not is the right path. I would not conceal an honest opinion for the Presidency. If I were, I could not enjoy the office, and worse than that I should blame myself. I know well it is a risk, but it is for the harmony of the Union, if perchance I may benefit it.

In the end, despite being a slave holder himself, Houston’s Unionist and anti-slavery sentiments alienated the South and Texas, and he did not win the nomination for his party. The Know Nothing Party opted not to push the anti-slavery issue with the voters and ran Millard Fillmore as its candidate, who came in third behind James Buchanan and John C. Fremont. $6750.

Yachting to the Republic of Texas

87. Houstoun, Matilda C.: TEXAS AND THE GULF OF MEXICO; OR YACHTING IN THE NEW WORLD. London. 1844. Two volumes bound in one. viii,314; viii,360pp., plus plates. Frontispiece in second volume. Contemporary green cloth, blindstamped covers, gilt-lettered spine, rebacked. Frontispiece slightly worn, with small tear in center of image. Old institutional stamps and scribblings on rear free endpaper and pastedown. Good. Partially unopened.

The single-volume remainder issue, after the two-volume first regular issue. The remainder was issued without four plates from the first volume (including the frontispiece), four plates from the second volume, and the advertisements normally found at the end of the second volume. The author was a wealthy British woman who visited Texas in 1842 on her husband’s private yacht. She visited New Orleans, then sailed along the Gulf Coast, alternating between Texas and New Orleans. Mrs. Houstoun offers commentary on the politics and society of the day, including issues such as slavery and a possible civil war. “...She gives us some exceptional insights into Texas of the 1840’s” – Jenkins. The lithographs are included in Holman and Tyler’s preliminary research on 19th-century Texas lithography. They are wonderfully executed by the British firm of Day and Haghe, lithographers to the Crown. The “Alpine” Houston view, while apocryphal, may be the first published view of the city, and the prototype for subsequent views showing the city in the midst of mountains. One of the more charming accounts of the Republic of Texas, and other than that of Mrs. Holley, the only one by a woman. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 97. CLARK III:182. HOWES H693, “aa.” RAINES, p.120. SABIN 33202. STREETER TEXAS 1506. SERVIES 3044 (abridged American ed). $750.

Manuscript Draft of Humboldt’s Analysis of New Spain

88. Humboldt, Alexander von: TABLAS GEOGRAFICO POLITICAS DEL REYNO DE NUEVA ESPANA QUE MANIFIESTAN SU SU- PERFICIE POBLACION, AGRICULTURA, FABRICAS, COM- ERCIO, MINAS, Y FUERZA MILITAR [manuscript title]. Mexico. 1803-1804. [2],22 leaves, plus a double-page table within thick ink ruled border laid in. Small quarto. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. The whole clean and fresh. Fine. Manuscript in Spanish, written in a neat hand. In a half morocco box.

A manuscript copy, in a secretarial hand, of Alexander von Humboldt’s statistical tables for New Spain, written out in Spanish in a very clear and neat hand. This is the first modern statistical analysis of Mexico and the American Southwest, and the beginning point for Humboldt’s elaborate publications, one of the great monuments of scientific investigation and description of the New World. Humboldt was described by Dibdin as “the most illustrious traveller of his day.” With the support of the Spanish Prime Minister, Humboldt managed to enter the Spanish colonies from Mexico to Peru, which were effectively closed to foreign travel at the time. Accompanied by French botanist Aimé Bonpland, he spent five years travelling in New Spain, beginning in 1799, covering some six thousand miles. After his return to Europe in 1804, he spent the next twenty-three years recording his experiences, observations, and collections in a series of spectacular publications. One of the first of these to be published was the Essai Politique... (1811), describing northern New Spain, particularly Mexico and the northern provinces, including California and the American Southwest. Part of the foundational basis for that important work is the present manuscript set of statistics. Before his return to Europe, Humboldt presented a manuscript copy of his statistical tables to the Viceroy of New Spain, Iturrigary, on Jan. 3, 1804. Versions of these tables exist in manuscript, of which the present example is one. Institutional copies are located at the Sutro Library, Biblioteca Nacional of Mexico, Bancroft Library, Clements Library, Yale, and Tulane, dated variously from 1804 to the end of the decade. The first printed appearance of any part of the Tablas appeared in the fourth volume of El Diario de Mexico in 1807, where a small section was published. Full publication did not come until 1822, when it was issued as Tablas Geográficas Políticas (Mexico City, 1822). In addition to being a fascinating trove of information about New Spain, the present manuscript is a vital piece of background and underpinning for Humboldt’s masterful series of works on the New World. It is likewise the first modern statistical analysis of Mexico and the Southwest. The text begins with “Area y Poblacion,” and the “Yndice” (or table of contents) at the beginning lists seven topics: Yntendencias, Agricultura, Minas, Fabricas, Comercio, Rentas, and Fuerza Militar (Municipalities, Agriculture, Mining, Manu- facturing, Commerce, Revenue, and Military Force). Among the statistics given, Humboldt enumerates the population by geographic region and the ethnic groups within each, giving the number of Europeans, Spaniards, Indians, mulattoes, etc., with some discussion of the blacks and slaves as well. Of particular note, the Tablas provides information on Spanish California and New Mexico. While Humboldt is celebrated for his magisterial ability to encompass all subjects related to his theme, this manuscript provides a fascinating look at the sheer attention to detail and hard fact-finding that underpinned his work. The kind of statistical information compiled here was not easily obtainable, and the mass of compiled information demonstrates his constant alertness to his ultimate object. It also represents the earliest surviving attempt by Humboldt to bring order out of the vast mass of data he had compiled – a task that would ultimately take the rest of his life. Excellent references on Humboldt’s works: Laura Dassow Walls, The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America (Chicago & London: University Press, 2009). Aaron Sachs, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (New York & London: Viking, 2006). $4750.

Humboldt’s Master Study of New Spain

89. Humboldt, Alexander von: ESSAI POLITIQUE SUR LA ROYAUME DE LA NOUVELLE-ESPAGNE. [with:] ATLAS GEOGRAPHIQUE ET PHYSIQUE DU ROYAUME DE LA NOUVELLE-ESPAGNE. Paris: J.H. Stône for F. Schoell, 1811. Five octavo text volumes plus large folio atlas. Text: Half titles. Folding engraved map, folding engraved geographical cross-section profile printed in brown. Atlas: Letterpress half title, titlepage, and 4pp. description of the “Cartes Géographiques et Physiques contenus dans l’Atlas Mexicain.” Eighteen engraved maps, plates, and charts on 19 sheets (numbered 1-20), comprised of engraved map on two double-page sheets; three maps on double-page sheet; eight maps on single page; one map and four graphs on single page; four single-page maps; two folding geographical cross- section profiles printed in brown and black; folding geographical cross-section profile printed in black; folding geographical cross-section profile printed in brown and black; two single-page views printed in brown; single-page plate of diagrams. Text: Contemporary blue paper boards, spines gilt, red morocco label. Atlas: Expertly bound to style in half dark blue morocco and contemporary marbled boards, spine uniform to the text volumes, contemporary marbled endpapers. Very good. Provenance: Earl Fitzwilliam (Milton Hall book label on the pastedown of the atlas).

A fine set of Humboldt’s work on New Spain: a foundation work in the fields of political economy and economic geography, “of superlative California importance.” Humboldt’s Essai is regarded as one of the seminal cartographic works of West- ern Americana. The most important map is Humboldt’s great “Carte Générale du Royaume de la Nouvelle Espagne,” originally executed by Humboldt during his stay in Mexico in 1803-4, and covering two large folio double sheets. Wheat calls it “a truly magnificent cartographic achievement” and concludes that before the explorations of Lewis and Clark, Humboldt’s maps were in the first rank of western cartography. Schwartz & Ehrenberg stated that it remained “the standard map of the Great Basin region until Fremont’s explorations 35 years later.” Thomas Streeter discusses the map at great length, concluding that “it is without question the best representation of Texas that had thus far appeared.” It is certainly one of the seminal maps for Texas and the Southwest. Besides the large map, there is a double-sheet map of the whole North American continent south of 42° latitude which reiterates Humboldt’s western cartography on a larger scale, and three important maps for the Santa Fe trade illustrating the route from Mexico to Durango, Durango to Chihuahua, and Chihuahua to Santa Fe. Other maps illustrate the Valley of Mexico, and ports and routes in Mexico and across the Isthmus. The Atlas concludes with a series of fine geological/physical profiles (most printed in brown), and two excellent views of volcanoes, also in brown. Humboldt was described by Dibdin as the most illustrious traveler of his day. With the support of the Spanish Prime Minister, Humboldt managed to gain permission to enter the Spanish colonies of Central and South America, which were effectively closed at the time. He set off with the French botanist Bonpland from Marseilles in 1799, and spent five years travelling through Central and South America, during which time he covered some six thousand miles. He then returned to Europe and spent the next twenty-three years recording his experiences, observations, and collections in a series of spectacular works. One of the first of these was the Essai Politique..., describing northern New Spain, particularly Mexico and the northern provinces, including California and the American Southwest. Becker calls the work “detailed and thorough, containing much data that had never before appeared in print.” Dibdin adds:

Nothing seems too vast, too varied, too wonderful, or too minute, for the keen eye, penetrating intellect, and unwearied exertions of this extraordinary man. A botanist, zoologist, statistician and philosopher, the genius of this great writer seems to have been peculiarly fitted for surveying the varieties and immensity of the physical world; and he accordingly takes the foremost rank of all the travellers, dead or living.

COWAN, p.296 (ref ). GRAFF 2009 (ref ). HILL 843 (ref ). HOWES H786. PALAU 116974. PHILLIPS ATLASES I:2682. REESE & MILES, CREATING AMERICA 23 (ref ). SABIN 33713. SCHWARTZ & EHRENBERG, p.127, plate 139. STREETER SALE 195 (ref ). WAGNER-CAMP 7a:2. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 272, 273, 274, 275. $45,000.

An Army Officer Writes Two Girls Captured by the Cheyenne, 1875

90. [Indian Captivity]: [Germain, Catherine and Sophia]: [RETAINED MANUSCRIPT COPY OF AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY THOMAS NEILL TO THE GERMAIN SISTERS, FEMALE CAP- TIVES BEING HELD BY THE CHEYENNE]. Headquarters Troops in the Field, Camp near Cheyenne Agency, Indian Territory. Jan. 20, 1875. [2] pp. plus integral blank. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor soiling and wear. Very good plus.

Retained copy of a letter written by Lieut. Col. Thomas H. Neill to “Catherine Elizabeth or to Sophia Louisa Germain, white women now in the hands of the hostile Cheyennes with ‘Greybeard’ or Stone-Calf.” John and Lydia Germain and their seven children were moving by wagon across the plains via the Smoky Hill Trail to Colorado when they were attacked, in September 1874, by a Cheyenne war party. Both parents and three of the seven children were slain and scalped, leaving four girls as captives: Addie, five years old; Julia, seven; Sophia, twelve; and Catherine, seventeen. The two younger girls were rescued in a military raid in November 1874, severely emaciated and in poor health. In January, after the rescue of the two younger sisters, Lieut. Col. Neill sent out scouts with letters to induce the Cheyenne to surrender. This is a retained copy of one of those letters, addressed to Sophia or Catherine German: I send you these few lines to tell you that your younger sisters Juliana and Nancy are safe and well and have been sent home to Georgia. Your sad captivity is known all over the country and every effort will be made to obtain your release as soon as possible. Read this note to Stone-Calf or Grey-Beard and say to Stone-Calf that his message asking peace has been received and that I will receive him and his band upon condition that he shall send you and your sister in first, and then he can come in with his band and give himself up to the mercy of the Government and I will receive him. I send you with this pencil and paper. Write me Stone Calf ’s answer, and anything else you may desire. I think the Indians will make no objection. The friendly Indians here are all very anxious to get you in. Keep a brave heart and we hope to effect your release.

Sophia and Catherine were finally rescued in March 1875, having been subjected to repeated abuse and rape. All four sisters were then reunited at Fort Leaven- worth. $1000.

91. Jackson, William H.: THE ROYAL GORGE (GRAND CANON OF THE ARKANSAS.) DENVER AND RIO GRANDE RAILWAY – THE SCENIC LINE OF AMERICA [manuscript caption title]. Denver. [ca. 1880]. Mammoth-plate albumen photograph, 22 x 17¼ inches. Jackson’s name printed on the mat. Light discoloration in the sky in the upper center portion of the image. Near fine. Matted, glazed, and framed, with calligraphic manuscript title below the photograph. Contemporary wooden presentation frame (see below).

A beautiful mammoth-plate albumen photograph by William H. Jackson of the Royal Gorge in central Colorado. Jagged cliffs rise steeply into the sky, and the track of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway comes toward us from the distance, running along the Arkansas River. Jackson used a slight time exposure in taking this image, giving the river a very fluid quality. The photograph is in a contemporary presentation frame, inscribed with the initials of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway in the bottom panel. This photograph was taken during Jackson’s Denver era when he did extensive work for the railroads of Colorado and was given his own personal railroad car from which he based his photographic excursions and operations. This photograph is an example of the work Jackson did for the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. Jackson (1843-1942) began his career in photography in 1858, working as a retouching artist in a studio in Troy, New York. In the 1860s, after serving briefly in the Union Army, he worked at several studios in Vermont before moving to Omaha, Nebraska in 1867, where he established his own studio. He worked on an extensive series of views for the Union Pacific Railroad, which earned him enough notice to be recruited by Ferdinand Hayden for the U.S. Geological Survey team. With the Survey, Jackson explored and photographed vast areas of the West, including Yel- lowstone and parts of Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Nevada. In 1879, his work with the Survey at an end, he set up a commercial photography studio in Denver, marketing landscape photographs of the West. Jackson stayed in Denver until 1898, when he moved to Detroit. A lovely Jackson image of this Colorado scene. $7500.

Jackson Mammoth Plate

92. Jackson, William H.: TOLTEC GORGE AND TUNNEL. (SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS.) DENVER AND RIO GRANDE RAILWAY – THE SCENIC LINE OF AMERICA [manuscript caption title]. Denver. [ca. 1880]. Mammoth-plate albumen photograph, 22 x 17¼ inches. Jackson’s name written in the negative and printed on the mat. Very light spotting, a touch of light wear at the corners. Near fine. Matted, glazed, and framed, with calligraphic manuscript title below the photograph. Contempo- rary wooden presentation frame (see below).

A beautiful mammoth-plate albumen photograph of the mountains of New Mexico by William H. Jackson, showing a wintry scene along the route of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. The photograph shows the narrow Toltec Gorge in the San Juan Mountains, through which the railroad ran its line into the Toltec Tunnel. Barren, rocky cliffs rise majestically in the background, while the foreground is dominated by the icy Rio de los Pinos. Jackson appears to have used a slight time exposure in taking the photograph, giving the water and spray of the river an attractive milky quality. The photograph is in a contemporary presentation frame, inscribed with the initials of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway in the bottom panel. This photograph was taken during Jackson’s Denver era when he did extensive work for the railroads of Colorado and was given his own personal railroad car from which he based his photographic excursions and operations. This photograph is an example of the work Jackson did for the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. Jackson (1843-1942) began his career in photography in 1858, working as a retouching artist in a studio in Troy, New York. In the 1860s, after serving briefly in the Union Army, he worked at several studios in Vermont before moving to Omaha, Nebraska in 1867, where he established his own studio. He worked on an extensive series of views for the Union Pacific Railroad, which earned him enough notice to be recruited by Ferdinand Hayden for the U.S. Geological Survey team. With the Survey, Jackson explored and photographed vast areas of the West, including Yel- lowstone and parts of Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Nevada. In 1879, his work with the Survey at an end, he set up a commercial photography studio in Denver, marketing landscape photographs of the West. Jackson stayed in Denver until 1898, when he moved to Detroit. An excellent Jackson image of a New Mexico scene. $7500.

The First Published Views of the Great Plains

93. James, Edwin: ACCOUNT OF AN EXPEDITION FROM PITTS- BURGH TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1819, AND ’20 UNDER THE COMMAND OF MAJOR STEPHEN H. LONG. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & Lea, 1822-1823. Two octavo text volumes: [4],5,[2],503; [5],442,xcviii pp. Plus quarto atlas volume: Eleven engraved plates and maps (two double-page maps after S.H. Long by Young & Delleker; one double-page plate of geological cross-sections; eight plates [one handcolored] after S. Seymour [6], T.R. Peale [1], and one unas- signed, engraved by C.G. Childs [2], Lawson [1], F. Kearney [2], W. Hay [1], Young & Delleker [1]). Text: Expertly bound to style in full tree calf, covers and spines gilt, marbled endpapers. Atlas: Expertly bound to style in half tree calf and period marbled boards, spine uniform to the text volumes. Very good.

First edition of a cornerstone work of Western Americana and American cartography, with the rare atlas. Edwin James was the botanist, geologist, and surgeon for this important government expedition, initially named the Yellowstone Expedition. Led by Major Stephen Long, the expedition added significantly to the earlier discoveries of Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike. In addition to his duties on the expedition, James subsequently served as the editor and compiler of this text, relying “upon his own records, the brief geological notes of Major Long, and the early journals of Thomas Say [who served as the expedition’s naturalist]” (Wagner-Camp). Appendices to the text comprise astronomical and meteorological tables and Indian vocabularies. In addition to Long, James, and Say, the expedition included Titian Peale as draughtsman and assistant naturalist, and Samuel Seymour as landscape artist. The published plates depict Oto Indians, views of the Plains, and buffalo. Major Long was the principal proponent of government-sponsored exploration of the West following the War of 1812. He travelled farther than Pike or Lewis and Clark, and blazed trails that were subsequently followed by Fremont, Powell, and others. 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. Cartographically, the atlas contains the first maps to provide detail of the Cen- tral Plains. Upon returning to Washington from the expedition, Long drafted a large manuscript map of the West (now in the National Archives), and the printed maps in James’ Account closely follows. The “Western Section” map is particularly interesting, as it is here that the myth of the Great American Desert was founded by Long, a myth which endured for decades. The designation of “Great American Desert” appears east of the single range of the Rocky Mountains, together with a two-line note: “The Great American Desert is frequented by roving bands of In- dians who have no fixed places of residence but roam from place to place in quest of game.” Long’s map, along with that of Lewis and Clark, “were the progenitors of an entire class of maps of the American Transmississippi West” (Wheat). BRADFORD 2637. GRAFF 2188. HOWES J41, “b.” PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1958. SABIN 35682. STREETER SALE 1783. WAGNER-CAMP 25:1. WHEAT TRANS- MISSISSIPPI 353; II, p.80. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 12942. $27,500.

94. 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 in-text illustrations. Portrait. Early 20th-century three-quarter pebbled sheep and marbled boards, spine elaborately gilt. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Minor foxing. A very good copy. In a brown cloth clamshell box, spine label gilt.

“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.

A Key Overland Guide

95. 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.... Lafayette, In.: John B. Semans, Printer, 1846. 152pp. Original half cloth and plain paper boards, evidence of a paper spine label. Boards edgeworn and rubbed. Scattered foxing. Overall, very good, in original condition. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

One of the earliest and rarest overland guidebooks to the Oregon Trail, chronologi- cally 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 guidebook in time for the 1846 emigrant season. The guide 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 with 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.” A key guide and important work of Western Americana. GRAFF 2221. HOWES J142, “d.” SABIN 36260. STREETER SALE 3145. WAGNER- CAMP 122. COWAN, p.315. $20,000.

With Color Plates of Exotic Missions

96. Jouhanneaud, Pablo: ALBUM DE LAS MISIONES O COLECCI- ON PINTORESCA DE PINTURA DE COSTUMBRES, DE RE- FLEXIONES MORALES, DE AVENTURAS Y NARRACIONES INTERESANTES, DE COSAS CURIOSAS, etc. etc. Paris: Libreria de Rosa y Bouret, 1859. 192pp. plus twenty-four handcolored lithographs. Half title. Quarto. Original black cloth, boards beautifully gilt and colored, spine heavily gilt, a.e.g. Corners worn; some rubbing to the cloth, especially along the spine. Joints weakening, more so on the front joint. Scattered light foxing. Very good.

A little-known but quite interesting work providing reports of missionary activities around the world, embellished with two dozen attractive colored plates of exotic scenes. The regions covered are Oceania, including the Sandwich Islands, the Marquesas, Fiji, Tahiti, Africa, Madagascar, and Asia (including China, Tibet, and Bengal). The largest geographic region covered is the Americas, with reports on missionary activities in New Orleans, the Rocky Mountains, Hudson Bay, Texas, Kansas, Canada, Patagonia, Brazil, and Greenland. Most of the plates show missionaries preaching in exotic settings among wild natives. The book was produced in Paris but printed in Spanish, likely meant to be sold largely in South America and other parts of the Spanish-speaking world. Not in Forbes, though the first report, two-pages long, is on the Sandwich Islands. OCLC locates only nine copies. A scarce color plate book showing missionary activities in the Americas and other exotic lands. O’REILLY & REITMAN 7126. $2750.

97. [Kansas]: CITY OF KINGMAN, COUNTY SEAT OF KINGMAN CO. KANSAS. [N.p. n.d., but ca. 1890]. Folding map, 44 x 37½ inches. Contemporary stencil color. Splitting along vertical fold with no loss of image. Some light chipping and dampstaining at right edge. Good plus.

A detailed map of the city of Kingman, located directly east of Wichita. The map shows the city divided into four wards with individual plots marked, indicating the owners’ names. Also shown are streets, railroads, the river and mill race, and a large parcel set aside for the cemetery. A large, handsome map. $850.

Hall Kelley’s Call for Oregon Emigration

98. Kelley, Hall J.: A GENERAL CIRCULAR TO ALL PERSONS OF GOOD CHARACTER, WHO WISH TO EMIGRATE TO THE OREGON TERRITORY, EMBRACING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CHARACTER AND ADVANTAGES OF THE COUN- TRY; THE RIGHT AND THE MEANS AND OPERATIONS BY WHICH IT WILL BE SETTLED.... Charlestown. 1831. 27,[1]pp. 20th- century gilt mottled calf, spine gilt extra, leather labels. Original wrappers bound in at rear. Boards scuffed, labels a bit chipped. Ownership inscription on front fly leaf, modern ownership ink stamp on titlepage and front wrapper. Minor soiling. Very good. Untrimmed.

This is the first major proposal by visionary promoter Kelley, all of whose schemes came to nothing, but whose ideas encouraged many others. This pamphlet outlines his well reasoned plan for settlements in Oregon near the mouth of the Columbia River, with a woodcut plan of one of the proposed settlements printed on the last page. Kelley tried to obtain the assistance of the ministry in promoting his plan, with assurance of converting the Indians. This copy retains the original wrappers, noting a price of 12½ cents on the front wrapper, and with a list of agents on the verso. At the end of the text Kelley calls on newspaper publishers to print his circular in their papers as a public service. WAGNER-CAMP 44a. STREETER SALE 3345. HOWES K43, “b.” TWENEY 89, 39 (note). GRAFF 2286. SABIN 37260. SMITH 2007. $12,000.

Presentation Copy in Original Wrappers

99. King, Charles: THE FIFTH CAVALRY IN THE SIOUX WAR OF 1876. CAMPAIGNING WITH CROOK. Milwaukee, Wi.: Printed by the Sentinel Company, 1880. [8],133,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine chipped at top (half inch) and bottom (2 inches). Wrappers soiled, moderately dampstained, and with small chips at edges. Contemporary inscription on front wrapper: “compliments of the author.” Light age toning internally. A very good copy. In a half morocco box.

This is the rare first edition, of which King states in the preface to the 1890 reprint: “Only enough copies were printed to reach the few comrades who rode the grim circuit of the ‘Bad Lands’ in that eventful year, and the edition was long ago exhausted.” King was first lieutenant of the Fifth Cavalry, and served through the Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition of 1876. His journal of the expedition is one of the most interesting narratives of Indian warfare in the Wyoming and Dakota country ever published. The company left Laramie on June 22 for the purpose of cutting off the Indians on the South Cheyenne line. On July 7 a courier reached them with news of the annihilation of Gen. Custer and his favorite companies of the Seventh Cavalry. The Fifth Cavalry, with nothing but the clothes they wore and without supply wagons, started in pursuit of the Indians, trailing and fighting them through nearly a thousand miles of country in a period of ten weeks, halting only at the head of the Heart River, when the last ration was gone. HOWES K147, “b.” GRAFF 2327. JONES 1607. STREETER SALE 1826. JENNE- WEIN 63. $11,500.

With Important Illustrations of Indians in Louisiana

100. Le Page du Pratz, Antoine: HISTOIRE DE LA LOUISIANE.... Paris: Chez de Bure [et al], 1758. Three volumes. xvi,358; 441; 451,[3]pp., plus forty engraved plates, two folding maps, folding plan, and errata. Half title in each volume. 16mo. Contemporary calf, leather labels. Rubbed, hinges cracked but cords sound. Unobtrusive old library stamps on titlepages. Good. In a cloth slipcase.

One of the most useful contemporary authorities on French Louisiana, based on the author’s sixteen-year residence there. Jefferson instructed Lewis and Clark to take an edition of the book on their expedition. Le Page du Pratz affords a great deal of useful information on the Natchez and other Mississippi tribes, and his work as a whole has been the basis for many later studies of the period. “...Valu- able for showing French claims to southern territory east of the Mississippi and for particulars concerning Indian nations there” – Howes. Of special interest is a short account of Louis de St. Denis’ expedition to New Mexico in 1715. “...A curious mixture of history, travel narrative, tall stories, and reminiscences...touch[ing] upon almost every phase of Louisiana in [the author’s] time...” – Clark. There is a folding plan of New Orleans and a “Carte de la Louisiane” which shows a large eastward-flowing Missouri River. HOWES L266, “aa.” CLARK I:75. GRAFF 2462. RADER 2219. RAINES, p.73. SABIN 40122. STREETER SALE 127. FIELD 910. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 158. $2750. The Saddle-Blanket Edition

101. Lea, Tom: THE KING RANCH. Kingsville: Printed for the King Ranch, 1957. Two volumes. Illustrated by the author. Large, thick octavo. Heavy linen binding. Corners rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Presentation inscription from the author on front endpaper. Very good plus.

The special edition of this important ranch history, printed on rag paper with the Running W Brand watermark, after a design by Carl Hertzog, for distribution on a private basis by the ranch owners. Although 3,000 sets were printed, the exclusivity of distribution accounts for the relative scarcity of copies on the market. “Perhaps the most exhaustive ranch history ever written” – Six Score. “The best account of the most famous ranch in the world” – Jenkins. This set is particularly attractive because of its inscription from Lea to a well-known Texas book personality; the signature of Robert Kleberg, Jr. in the first volume; and the signature of Carl Hertzog on the colophon page of each volume. SIX SCORE 69. ADAMS HERD 1319. LOWMAN 99. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 121a. $1500.

With Original Photographs of the Sierras

102. [LeConte, Joseph]: A JOURNAL OF RAMBLINGS THROUGH THE HIGH SIERRAS OF CALIFORNIA BY THE “UNIVERSITY EXCURSION PARTY.” San Francisco: Francis & Valentine, 1875. 103pp. plus nine original mounted albumen photographs. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and blue cloth, spine gilt. Spine sunned. Frontispiece photograph with three small stains, and the final two photographs exhibiting some moder- ate fading, else quite clean internally. A very good copy.

A rare photographically illustrated account of a tour of Yosemite and the High Sierras, by one of the pioneer founders of the University of California. LeConte studied with Agassiz at Harvard before going to California to serve as professor of geology, and he was among the charter members of the Sierra Club. This work describe’s LeConte’s first expedition, with students of the University, into the Sier- ras, and the text wonderfully conveys LeConte’s enthusiasm for the region and its natural beauty. In his autobiography he describes his first years in California as “very active ones for me, the wonderful new country, so different from any that I had previously seen, the climate, the splendid scenery, the active, energetic people, and the magnificent field for scientific, and especially for geological investigations....” “A record of an excursion by Prof. LeConte and nine members of one of the early classes of the university. It is stated that but 20 copies were printed” – Cowan. The actual number of copies printed was almost certainly higher, perhaps as many as 120 (twelve for each member of the party). A beautiful book, with superb photographs depicting the range of northern California’s natural splendor. The images are captioned on the mounts as follow:

1) “...Great Yosemite Fall” (frontispiece group portrait of the party). 2) “The Grizzly Giant....” 3) “The High Sierras....” 4) “The Gates of the Valley....” 5) “Bridal Veil Fall....” 6) “The Heart of the Sierras. Lake Tenaya.” 7) “Day-Dawn in Yosemite. The Merced River.” 8) “...North Dome, South (Half ) Dome....” 9) “Montgomery St., San Francisco. Where our trip ended.”

HOWES L175. COWAN (1914), p.137. FARQUHAR 14a. CURREY & KRUSKA 230. KURUTZ, CALIFORNIA BOOKS ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL PHOTO- GRAPHS 27. ZAMORANO SELECT 64. $9000. Wonderful Indian Portraits

103. Lewis, James Otto: [THE ABORIGINAL PORT FOLIO]. [Phila- delphia: Printed by Lehman & Duval, published by the author, 1835-1836]. Seventy-two handcolored lithographic plates after Lewis, printed by Lehman & Duval; plus three letterpress advertisement leaves. Folio. Expertly bound to style in dark purple morocco and purple cloth, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled paper endpapers. Very good.

First edition. Scarcer than McKenney and Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America, Prince Maximilian’s Reise in das Innere von Nord-America, or Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, Lewis’ work records the dress of the Potawatomi, Win- nebago, Shawnee, Sioux, Miami, Fox, Iowa, and other tribes at treaties of Prairie du Chien, Fort Wayne, Fond du Lac, and Green Bay. The Aboriginal Port Folio was published in Philadelphia by lithographers George Lehman and Peter S. Duval. It was issued in ten parts, with each part containing eight plates. Given the size of the undertaking, the first nine parts were issued remarkably quickly, appearing monthly between May 1835 and January 1836. The reason for this haste is probably that Lewis was aware that the imminent appearance of the first part of McKenney and Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America would adversely affect his subscriber numbers. The evidence of the surviving copies suggests that his fears were well-founded, as there are a number of sets made up from eight parts (with sixty-four plates), but very few with nine parts (seventy-two plates); and ten-part sets with the full complement of a frontispiece/ title-leaf and eighty plates are virtually never found: only the Siebert copy is listed as having sold at auction in the past twenty-five years, and there are only about a half dozen or so other recorded sets (the Siebert set, and one other, are the only two examples to include the titlepage). James O. Lewis was born in Philadelphia in 1799, moved west as a teenager, and had become an engraver and painter by the time he was living in St. Louis in 1820. In 1823 he moved to Detroit, and painted the first of his Indian portraits at the request of Gov. Lewis Cass of Michigan. He accompanied Cass on four Indian treaty expeditions in the Great Lakes region in 1825-27 and painted Indians during the course of each. Virtually all of the originals of the images published here were executed by Lewis in this period. Subsequently, many of the Lewis portraits were copied by Charles Bird King, and some appeared in the King versions in the McKenney and Hall portfolio. All of the Lewis originals were destroyed in the Smithsonian fire of 1865. BENNETT, p.68. EBERSTADT 131:418. FIELD 936. HOWES L315, “b.” SABIN 40812. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 23. $100,000.

Jefferson’s Report on Western Explorations

104. [Lewis and Clark Expedition]: [ Jefferson, Thomas]: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT...COMMUNICATING DISCOVERIES MADE IN EXPLORING THE MISSOURI, RED RIVER, AND WASHITA, BY CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK, DOCTOR SIB- LEY, AND MR. DUNBAR; WITH A STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE COUNTRIES ADJACENT. New York: Printed by Hopkins and Seymour, 1806. 128pp. plus folding table facing p.24. Stitched self-wrappers. A lovely, uncut copy. In a brown half morocco and cloth box.

The scarce New York printing of the first official publication to provide any detailed account of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the first work to give any satis- factory account of the southwestern portion of the Louisiana Purchase. The first section consists of material transmitted to Jefferson by Lewis, giving information on their route, the Indians, trade, animals encountered, and the geography. Equally important are the accounts of the southern explorations, which include two letters by Dr. Sibley, one on the Indian tribes of Texas and the other an account of the Red River and the adjacent country. Sibley gives a careful account of the language, characteristics, location, and population of the various Indian tribes in Texas, with some account of their relations with the Spanish and French. The description of the Red River gives a good idea of the physical characteristics of the country. Streeter called this the first account of Texas in book form. Jefferson’s report to Congress on the various western exploring expeditions he had dispatched to investigate Louisiana Territory was the most accurate and complete account of the area to appear until the official publications of Pike (1810) and Lewis and Clark (1814). It was widely cribbed by a press eager for information on the vast new lands. The report was published first in Washington, and this rarer New York edition appeared shortly thereafter. An essential Lewis and Clark and southwestern exploration piece. WAGNER-CAMP 5:3. LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDI- TION 2b.4. HOWES L319, “b.” FIELD 925. GRAFF 4407. SABIN 40824. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 11632. STREETER TEXAS 1038 (Washington printing). $15,000. The First Attempt at Illustrating Indians Met on the Lewis and Clark Expedition

105. [Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark]: THE TRAVELS OF CAPTS. LEWIS & CLARKE [sic], BY ORDER OF THE GOV- ERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1804, 1805, & 1806, BEING UPWARDS OF THREE THOUSAND MILES, FROM ST. LOUIS, BY WAY OF THE MIS- SOURI, AND COLUMBIA RIVERS, TO THE PACIFICK OCEAN: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE INDIAN TRIBES, WHO INHABIT THE WESTERN PART OF THE CONTINENT UN- EXPLORED, AND UNKNOWN BEFORE.... Philadelphia: Hubbard Lester, 1809. 300pp. plus five engraved plates. Without the folding map, seldom present. Five engraved plates. Antique half calf and paper boards, leather label. Slight paper loss in margin of final four leaves, not affecting text, else very good.

First edition of the so-called “Apocrypha edition” of Lewis and Clark. In response to the growing curiosity of the public regarding the findings of Lewis and Clark and the delay in publication of the “authorized account” of their expedition, this compilation of bits and pieces from already published works appeared (culled from Gass, Clark, Mackenzie, Carver, and Jefferson’s Message... of 1806), misleading the reader into believing it was the account sanctioned by the government and containing all the information gathered during the journey. Despite its hodgepodge nature, it provided most of the world with its first detailed account of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It further contains five plates, purporting to be of western Indians. One of these is knocked off from the frontispiece of Bartram’s Travels...; the others have no earlier appearance that we can trace. The present copy lacks the incredibly rare folding map, which Wheat notes as “the earliest published map with legends stemming from Lewis and Clark.” Howes calls this the “counterfeit” edition, and Sabin states that, according to Paltsits, it is “the earliest edition of an unauthorized ‘counterfeit’ account....” Robert Becker (in Wagner-Camp) incorrectly cites the London map as accompanying this edition. This first Philadelphia edition is quite rare, and is almost invariably found in terrible condition, almost always without the map. LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 4a.1. WAGNER- CAMP 8:1. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2282. SABIN 96499. STREETER SALE 3122. HOWES L321, “aa.” SHAW & SHOEMAKER 17911. $5800.

The Most Important Western Exploration

106. 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: J. Maxwell for Bradford & Inskeep and Abm. H. Inskeep of New York, 1814. Two volumes. xxviii,470pp. plus large folding map in facsimile and two single-page maps; ix,522pp. plus three single-page maps. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked with original spines laid down. Corners rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage of first volume; contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown of second volume. Light foxing. Else very good.

The first edition of 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,” this work finally appeared in print nearly eight years after the journey’s completion, with the initial help of Nicholas Biddle and ultimately under the editor- ship of Paul Allen. The expedition itself was the brainchild of Thomas Jefferson and was the final grand attempt to find a water route across the continent. While the search was unsuccessful, Lewis, Clark, and their companions were the first white men to cross the western half of North America. In total, the expedition covered some 8000 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. WAGNER-CAMP 13:1. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 272. GROLIER AMERICAN 100, 30. HOWES L317. GRAFF 2477. TWENEY 89, 44. SABIN 40828. CHURCH 1309. FIELD 928. STREETER SALE 1777. STREETER, AMERICANA BEGINNINGS 52. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 31024. $19,500.

The Only Contemporary Printing West of the Mississippi of the Cooper Union Speech 107. Lincoln, Abraham: SPEECH OF HON. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AT THE COOPER INSTITUTE, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 27, 1860., VINDICATING THE PRINCIPLES OF THE NATION- ALITY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. LETTER OF JUDGE EDWARD BATES, OF MISSOURI, ENDORSING ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HANNIBAL HAMLIN. [San Francisco: Daily Ga- zette, 1860]. 16pp., printed in double columns. Printed self-wrappers. Two horizontal creases, with slight separation along the creases on the front wrapper. Center portion of front wrapper tanned. Very good.

This is apparently the only contemporary separate printing west of the Mississippi of Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech. The speech, given in New York in February 1860, catapulted Lincoln into the public eye and made him a viable presidential candidate. The final page carries an advertisement dated August 2, 1860 for the San Francisco Republican campaign newspaper, the Maul and Wedge, which had just commenced publication. Lincoln and the Republicans narrowly won California in the 1860 election. This printing is not in Monaghan, and OCLC locates only two copies, at the California State Library and Harvard. The Boston Athenaeum catalogue notes an 1860 printing by the “Santa Cruz News, for the Santa Cruz Republican Club,” but we are unaware of any newspaper by that name in Santa Cruz, California in 1860, nor does that printing appear in Greenwood. Rare. GREENWOOD 1297. OCLC 58934560, 82691855. $5000.

A Landmark Depiction of the West, with Superb Plates

108. 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 folding map and thirty plates. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and cloth, gilt. Light soiling to text, a few minor marginal stains, a few minor marginal tears. 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. 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. $30,000.

Hudson Bay Trader

109. Long, John: VOYAGES AND TRAVELS OF AN INDIAN IN- TERPRETER AND TRADER, DESCRIBING THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS...TO WHICH IS ADDED, A VOCABULARY OF THE CHIPPEWAY LANGUAGE.... London. 1791. x,[1],295pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Quarto. Contemporary calf, rebacked, spine gilt, leather label. Corners and boards lightly worn. Very minor scattered foxing and soiling. Very good. Un- trimmed.

Long began working for the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1768. As a fur trader he travelled extensively among the Canadian Indians for nineteen years. “His knowledge of the character, customs, and domestic life of the Indians was therefore the most thorough and intimate. His relations are characterized by candor and intelligence...” – Field. “An excellent account of the customs and manners of the Indians among whom the author lived...” – Graff. The map depicts the territory of southern Canada as far west as the Great Lakes. HOWES L443. HUBACH, p.27. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2311. RADER 2249. TPL 597. EBERSTADT 113:288a. GRAFF 2527. FIELD 946. SABIN 41878. STREETER SALE 3651. $2750.

110. Malaspina, Alejandro: Novo y Colsono, Pedro de, editor: VIAJE PO- LITICO-CIENTIFICO ALREDEDOR DEL MUNDO POR LAS CORBETAS DESCUBIERTA Y ATREVIDA AL MANDO DE LOS CAPITANES DE NAVIO D. ALEJANDRO MALASPINA Y DON JOSE DE BUSTAMANTE Y GUERRA DESDE 1789 A 1794...Se- gunda Edicion. Madrid: Imprenta de la viuda e Hijos de Abienzo, 1885. Text in two columns. [8],[xxxxii],[682],[6]pp. Engraved portrait, six engraved plates by Maura, folding map. Half title. Quarto. Modern half blue calf and purple cloth, spine with raised bands. Text age-toned as usual, plates clean. Very good.

Rare account of Spain’s greatest scientific voyage to the Pacific Ocean and to Cali- fornia and the northwest coast of America in the 18th century. The present work was compiled from the unedited papers of Malaspina, which had been suppressed and undisturbed in the Hydrographic Office in Madrid for nearly a century. In 1789, Malaspina and Bustamente drew up plans for this scientific circumnavigation which was to rival Captain Cook, the purposes being to chart the most remote regions of America and to observe the political state of America relative to Spain. Alexander Dalrymple assisted them with scientific instruments, a brilliant team of scientists was assembled, and ships were specially constructed. Surveys were made of the east and west coasts of South America, and they fixed the exact position of Cape Horn, correcting Cook’s reading. On receipt of orders to investigate the apocryphal Strait of Anian, they sailed for Alaska and entered Yakutat Bay at the supposed latitude of the strait, where the Malaspina Glacier flows into the sea, and followed the coast to Prince William Sound and Nootka. Malaspina surveyed the coast south to California at Monterey Bay and crossed the Pacific in 1791. Two of his officers and Jose de Espinosa y Tello returned north in search of a northwest passage and published the charts and account of this secondary voyage in 1802. In the Philippines, New Zealand, and New South Wales, Malaspina continued charting before making an easterly passage around the Horn for Spain. “In spite of having commanded Spain’s greatest scientific voyage of exploration to the South Seas in the eighteenth century, [Malaspina] is virtually unknown. He had enemies in the Spanish court who suppressed his reports, which were not printed until this edition of 1885. Some scholars consider the exploits of his five-year voyage as great as those of La Pérouse or of Captain Cook” – Hill. The full expedition report and crates of specimens were lost in the Spanish archives for nearly a century, until found by Novo y Colson. Stated on the titlepage to be a second edition, this is, in fact, the same printing as the first edition of the same date; and it is the first complete and authoritative account of the voyage in Spanish. HILL 1068. PALAU 195860. HOCKEN, p.362. FERGUSON 12207. HOWES M235. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST, pp.225-29. HOWGEGO M26. $7500.

111. [Malaspina Expedition]: NUMERO LXXV. NOUVELLES EX- TRAORDINAIRES DE DIVERS ENDROITS DU VENDREDI 18 SEPTEMBRE, 1789...EXTRAIT D’UNE LETTRE DE MADRID DU 1 SEPTEMBRE.... Leiden: Etienne Luzac, Sept. 18, 1789. Woodcut arms of the Netherlands at the head of the first sheet. 4pp.; with a 4pp. “Sup- plement aux Nouvelles Extraordinaires de Divers Endroits du Numero LXXV” inserted for a total of 8pp. Small quarto. Very good.

Extremely rare broadsheet containing news of the Malaspina expedition, among the earliest printed records of Spain’s greatest scientific voyage to the Pacific Ocean and to California and the northwest coast of America in the 18th century. The extract under the above heading continues:

...Les Corvettes de la Marine Royale, la Découverte & l’Entreprenante, com- mandées par Don Alexandre Malaspina, Capitaine de Frégate, ont mìs à la voile de Cadix le 30 Juillet dernier. L’Expédition, dont elles son chargées, ayant pour objet les progrès des Sciences & de la Géographie, elles ont été munies de tout ce qui est nécessaire pour faire un voyage autour du Monde; & outre des Oficiers d’une habilité reconnuë, elles ont à bord des Astronomes, des Naturalistes, des Botanistes, des Peintres de Perspective & de Botanique, pourvus d’une Collection ample & précieuse d’Instruments de Mathématiques, de Physique, & Astronomie.

Other news in the broadsheet concerns revolutionary events in France, including a lengthy speech from Necker given at the National Assembly, as well as news from Russia, Stockholm, the Hague, and elsewhere. In 1789, Malaspina and Bustamente drew up plans for this scientific circumnavigation which was to rival Captain Cook, the purposes being to chart the most remote regions of America and to observe the political state of America relative to Spain. Alexander Dalrymple assisted them with scientific instruments, a brilliant team of scientists was assembled, and ships were specially constructed. Surveys were made of the east and west coasts of South America, and they fixed the exact position of Cape Horn, correcting Cook’s reading. On receipt of orders to investigate the apocryphal Strait of Anian, they sailed for Alaska and entered Yakutat Bay at the supposed latitude of the strait, where the Malaspina Glacier flows into the sea, and followed the coast to Prince William Sound and Nootka. Malaspina surveyed the coast south to California at Monterey Bay and crossed the Pacific in 1791. Two of his officers and Jose de Espinosa y Tello returned north in search of a northwest passage, and published the charts and account of this secondary voyage in 1802. In the Philippines, New Zealand, and New South Wales, Malaspina continued charting before making an easterly passage around the Horn for Spain. “In spite of having commanded Spain’s greatest scientific voyage of exploration to the South Seas in the eighteenth century, [Malaspina] is virtually unknown. He had enemies in the Spanish court who suppressed his reports, which were not printed until this edition of 1885. Some scholars consider the exploits of his five- year voyage as great as those of La Pérouse or of Captain Cook” – Hill. Malaspina’s own account of the voyage was not published until 1885. 18th-century material concerning the voyage is of the utmost rarity. HOWGEGO M26. HILL 1068 (ref ). $7500.

Item 112. With an Impressive Map

112. [Mariposa Company]: THE MARIPOSA COMPANY.... New York. 1863. 80pp. plus folding color map. Contemporary patterned cloth, gilt-lettered cover. Head of spine chipped. Map with singular three-inch tear along fold. Color bright and clean. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell box.

A promotional guide for this California mining company, including a description of the resources and gold mining potential of Fremont’s famous Mariposa Grant, with elaborate reports by L.A. Garnett, H.P. Wakelee, Dr. J. Adelbert, and T.C. Allyn. The large folding map shows Mariposas County in its entirety and is colored to reflect changes in elevation. This promotional pamphlet was also issued without the map the same year. Neither Eberstadt nor Sabin cite the map. A lovely California mining item, with the apparently rare map. COWAN, p.414. SABIN 44599 EBERSTADT 136:148. ROCQ 5117. $1850.

113. Marryat, Francis S.: MOUNTAINS AND MOLEHILLS OR REC- OLLECTIONS OF A BURNT JOURNAL. London. 1855. x,[2],443pp. eight full-page color lithographic plates. Numerous illustrations in text. Con- temporary three-quarter black morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Extremities lightly worn. Later bookplate on front fly leaf. Some very minor toning and soiling, one plate loosening. About very good.

An excellent picture of life at the California diggings, big game hunting in the Rocky Mountains, and life in the pioneer West. Reliable observations are also included on early political and legal affairs in California, such as the Vigilance Committee and other attempts to impose order on the rambunctious populace. “...One of the best descriptions in print of life at the mines and of conditions at San Francisco and the ranchos in the 1850’s...” – Streeter. This London edition is vastly superior to the American edition of the same year, which lacks the extraordinary color plates, variously lauded as “being amongst the finest of early Californian subjects” (Zamo- rano 80) and “of great beauty and importance” (Wheat). Though there is material pertinent to outlaws, this work is not noted in Adams’ Six-Guns. STREETER SALE 2788. HILL 1089 (note). COWAN, p.416. HOWES M299, “aa.” GRAFF 2685. SABIN 44695. ADAMS HERD 1445. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 137. ZAMORANO 80, 52. KURUTZ 429a. $1000.

A Classic of Western Travel

114. Maximilian, Alexander Philipp, Prinz zu Wied-Neuwied: VOYAGE DANS L’INTERIEUR DE L’AMERIQUE DU NORD, EXECUTE PENDANT LES ANNEES 1832, 1833 ET 1834.... Paris: Arthus Ber- trand, 1840-1843. Three volumes. [4],383; [4],487; [4],410pp., plus sixty engravings on thirty plates, and a map of Fort Clark. Lacks the folding map. Half title in each volume. Contemporary three-quarter green morocco and cloth, gilt. Minor wear to extremities. Scattered foxing, moderately heavy at times. Very good.

First French edition of this most important work of Western Americana, describing the travels of German Prince Maximilian of Wied in the United States and on the upper Missouri River in 1832-34, accompanied by Swiss artist Karl Bodmer. Prince Maximilian was already an experienced naturalist and explorer in 1832, having made an important scientific expedition to Brazil in 1815-17. His prepa- rations for his trip to North America included retaining Karl Bodmer to prepare illustrations of the journey. Arriving in the fall of 1832, the Prince travelled across Pennsylvania and the Midwest and ascended the Missouri River in the spring of 1833. He went as far upstream as the American Fur Company post of Fort Mack- enzie in present-day Montana, and spent the winter at Fort Clark, near the Mandan Indian villages. During this prolonged stay, he and Bodmer had ample opportunity to observe the Indian tribes of the upper Missouri in their full glory, carefully recorded by Bodmer in watercolors. In the spring of 1834 they returned to Europe, and devoted the next five years to preparing the text and plates for this publication. Often eclipsed by the famous Bodmer atlas of the expedition, Maximilian’s text remains one of the most important western travel narratives of the fur trade era, and a rare book in its own right. WAGNER-CAMP 76:2. HOWES M443a. EBERSTADT 113:508. CLARK III:115. RADER 3652 (ref ). PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2522. SABIN 47015. $8500. 115. McKenney, L.M., compiler: THE MARYSVILLE APPEAL DIREC- TORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA! FOR 1878, EMBRAC- ING A COMPLETE DIRECTORY OF RESIDENTS IN THE COUNTIES OF BUTTE, COLUSA, NEVADA, PLACER, SUT- TER, TEHAMA AND YUBA, INCLUDING THE CITIES AND TOWNS, WITH HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL SKETCH OF EACH.... Marysville, Ca.: Lockwood & Dawson, 1878. [4],426pp. plus two leaves of chromolithographic advertisements. Original leather-backed and printed boards, spine elaborately lettered in gilt. Spine slightly chipped, pri- marily at head and foot. Light wear and soiling to boards. Contemporary ink notations on endleaves and several leaves of text. Lower corner of pp.7-8 torn, affecting a few words of text. Internally clean. Very good.

“Multicounty directory [with] general directories, town-by-town of Butte, Colusa, Nevada, Placer, Sutter, Tehama and Yuba counties; business directory of Sacramento, descriptions of the cities and towns. First general directories of Butte and Tehama counties, preceded only by G. Owens’ A General Directory and Business Guide of the Principal Towns in the Upper Country...and Henry G. Langley’s Pacific Coast Business Directory for 1867, 1871-73 and 1876-78. First general directory of Yuba County, preceded by Amy’s Marysville and Yuba County business directory of 1858.... Extremely rare. This directory was L.M. McKenney’s attempt to link seven north central California counties, all rural, most agricultural, some mountainous – from Butte and Tehama in the north to Placer in the south. Their population together, two years after its publication, in 1880, was approximately 92,500 according to the U.S. Census” – Quebedeaux, locating six copies, two of which are in private collections. This volume has the contemporary ink ownership inscription of P.J. Flannery of Marysville on the contents page and rear pastedown, and a few other of his ink markings. Flannery is listed on pages 32 and 66 as a shoe seller who apparently lived above his shop. Rare and in handsome contemporary condition, full of useful information on the area. ROCQ 1293. QUEBEDEAUX 133. $1750.

First Edition of the Octavo McKenney and Hall

116. McKenney, Thomas L., and James Hall: HISTORY OF THE IN- DIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND ANECDOTES OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEFS. EMBELLISHED WITH ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY POR- TRAITS FROM THE INDIAN GALLERY IN THE DEPART- MENT OF WAR, AT WASHINGTON. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1848/1849/1850. Three volumes. 120 handcolored lithographed plates, many heightened with gum arabic, by J.T. Bowen, chiefly after Charles Bird King; one handcolored lithographed dedication leaf “To the memory of Washington.” Original red morocco, gilt; rebacked with original gilt spines neatly laid down on matching red morocco. Spines darkened, with some loss of original leather at head and toe. Text foxed. Plates generally clean, with some minor soiling and occasional foxing. A good, solid set of the rare first edition.

The first octavo edition of McKenney and Hall’s classic work, first published in large folio format in 1836-44, and first appearing in smaller format in the present edition. This octavo edition was reprinted many times, but this first is by far the best for quality of printing and coloring of the plates. After six years as superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the western tribes. He had observed unscru- pulous individuals taking advantage of the American Indians for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827 he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee, and Winnebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become ac- quainted with the tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1839, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years he was joined by James Hall, the Illinois journalist, lawyer, state treasurer, and from 1833 Cincinnati banker, who had written extensively about the West. Both authors, not unlike George Catlin, whom they tried to enlist in their publishing enterprise, saw their book as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. The text, which was written by Hall based on information supplied by McKenney, takes the form of a series of biographies of leading figures among the Indian nations, followed by a general history of the North American Indians. The work is now famous for its color plate portraits of the chiefs, warriors, and squaws of the various tribes, faithful copies of original oils by Charles Bird King painted from life in his studio in Washington (McKenney commissioned him to record the visiting Indian delegates) or worked up by King from the watercolors of the young frontier artist, James Otto Lewis. All but four of the original paintings were destroyed in the disastrous Smithsonian fire of 1865, so their appearance in this work preserves what is probably the best likeness of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the early 19th century. Numbered among King’s sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola. HOWES M129. BENNETT, p.79. SABIN 43411. $17,500.

117. Mercer, Asa S.: THE BIG HORN COUNTY WYOMING THE GEM OF THE ROCKIES. Hyattville, Wy. [1906]. 115,[1]pp. plus eight plates including frontispiece. 12mo. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled and edgeworn. Front wrapper with an early ink stamp of a Cody, Wyoming realtor, a different ink stamp on the front free endpaper. Very clean and fresh internally. Very good overall. With a tattered printed leaf relating to Cody affixed to the rear wrapper.

An interesting and important work by the author of Banditti of the Plains..., relating much of value, statistically and anecdotally, about the then-present state of Wyoming, including the cattle industry, the growth of settlement, agriculture, irrigation, oil exploration, hunting and fishing, etc. There are also descriptions of Yellowstone and several small towns in the Big Horn County area, including Basin City, Shell, Cowley, Meeteetse, Bonanza, and more. Scarce in wrappers. HOWES M523, “aa.” GRAFF 2751. ADAMS HERD 1475. SMITH 6739. $900. A Superb Account of the Battle of Palo Alto by a Heroic Participant

118. [Mexican-American War]: Bliss, William Wallace Smith: [A LENGTHY AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM CAPT. W.W.S. BLISS TO COL. E.A. HITCHCOCK, RELATING DE- TAILS OF THE BATTLE OF PALO ALTO AND MILITARY MOVEMENTS]. Matamoros, Mexico. July 23, 1846. 8pp. Quarto, on two folded folio sheets, about 2200 words. Minor soiling, else fine. In a clear and legible hand.

An important letter written from the occupied city of Matamoros by William Wallace Smith Bliss to fellow soldier Ethan Allen Hitchcock, sharing details of a bloody engagement, troop movements, and general army gossip, including rumors about Gen. Zachary Taylor’s aspirations to the U.S. presidency. After the fearsome opening battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, Gen. Taylor’s troops crossed the Rio Grande and entered the city of Matamoros on May 18, 1846, without any opposition. Mexican forces under Gen. Arista, having determined that the city could not be defended, withdrew toward Monterey, leaving the U.S. forces in charge of the lower Rio Grande Valley. From there, Taylor’s troops would move in to Camargo and then on to Monterey, culminating in the Battle of Monterey on Sept. 20-24. The author of this letter, Captain W.W.S. Bliss, received honors for gallant and meritorious conduct at the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma; he would receive similar honors at the Battle of Buena Vista. His letter indicates that he is serving on Gen. Taylor’s staff at the time this letter was written. Bliss’ letter opens with a description the engagement at Palo Alto on May 8:

Soon after the enemy opened his batteries upon our line on the 8th, I was despatched with an order to the 5th Infantry on the extreme right. On my way thither I saw Lt. Ridgely’s mare standing in front of the battery with her lower jaw shot off – the first blood shed I witnessed. On my return from the right flank I discovered that my horse was bleeding at the nose and ascertained that he had been grazed by a ball, but not enough so to disable him. Not long after I joined the General, our group moved to the right and when about in rear of the centre a cannon ball coming obliquely from a Mexican batter on the left struck my horse in the left shoulder and came out at his heart. He instantly fell with me, but rose again to his feet when unsaddled. As he evidently could not live, I caused him to be shot to put him out of misery. The General was on my left and about a half a length in rear at the time – the ball passed just in front of his horse – Mr. Eaton was on my right. This ball seems to have been rather a stray one – at any rate we were under no heavy fire, but late in the afternoon the General & his staff were exposed to a fire from which it is almost miraculous that they all escaped. Capt. May was in motion with his squadron and formed a conspicuous mark for one of the enemy’s batteries. The General had just been indicating to Capt. M. the direction which he wished him to take for a particular purpose, when several guns were opened upon the mass and fired in the most rapid succession. The General with his staff & [illegible] was exactly in the range and was exposed to great danger. One ball passed between the legs of his horse and killed that of his orderly – others struck May’s squadron, wounded several men & killed half a dozen horses.

Bliss goes on to relate that the troops are “now in motion for Camargo, where a depot is to be established from which we shall move up the valley of the San Juan to Monterey.” He also talks at some length about Gen. Taylor’s dismissal of several regiments of volunteer troops who have been mustered in an unauthorized fashion, noting that “a portion of them are not allowed to have been legally in service at all.” About the move toward Monterey he writes:

Steamboats are plying in the river as high as Camargo but with considerable difficulty. From that point our transportation inland must be by wagons and pack mules. The General expects to take a column say of 6,000 men to Monterey; a larger force cannot well be subsisted from our own depot. He hopes to find at Saltillo a country affording some resources to his army and will in that case bring forward as many troops as can be subsisted. I think the Mexicans may meet us once more – perhaps in great force. It is said that Paredes – who is now President (elected by Congress), is moving north with a large army and will give us battle near Monterey. It may be that we shall have no general affair but only a succession of minor efforts to hold particular points. The sketch I send you is copied from a manuscript map found among Genl. Arista’s papers and I have represented on it in a mode similar to the [one] on that map the chain of the Sierra Madre and the defile through which the route from Monterey to Saltillo passes. With the exception of bleak and mountains, it is not unlike some of the passes in Vermont and may be defended to advantage at particular points, “La rinconda” being one. I think we may look for opposition in this defile, if we do not encounter it at Monterey.

Based on his position in Zachary Taylor’s staff, Bliss is convinced that Taylor has no intention of running for the presidency. Taylor makes a great show of being entirely disinterested in running for elected office, saying that he is “opposed to the elevation to that office of any military chief.” Bliss writes:

The General is pestered with all sorts of presents and complimentary letters. “Palo Alto” hats, India rubber ponchos, and even boxes of patent medicine are sent to him and must all be suitably acknowledged. But his greatest torment is the Presidential question. Every mail brings letters from all parts of the union on that subject – one desiring to know whether his views coincide with Mr. Clay’s; another advising him not to commit himself by writing long letters, and warning him against this one and that one; but all saying that he can be run in if he will. He replies to all these (I believe, for I am happily rid of this part of the correspondence) that he has no views to the Presidency – that he is opposed to the elevation to that office of any military chief – and that above all he does not wish his name used in any such connection while operating in the field, as it might inspire the Govt. with distrust and impair his usefulness. Depend upon it, he has no higher ambition than to retire to the bosom of his family. I cannot believe that he will suffer himself to be brought forward as a candidate under any circumstances.

Despite Bliss’s deep convictions, Taylor would run for the presidency after his great victory at the Battle of Buena Vista, which he used to his political advantage. A wonderfully detailed letter, relating more than just the grim details of war. $2850.

Rare Separately Issued Mexican War Map

119. [Mexican-American War]: BATTLE OF CERRO GORDO APRIL 17th & 18th 1847 FROM SURVEYS MADE BY MAJOR TURN- BULL & CAPT. McCLELLAN. TOPL. ENGS. DRAWN BY CAPT. McCLELLAN. [Washington, D.C. 1847]. Engraved map, 12½ x 18½ inches, with hand-coloring, on a 19½ x 23¾ inch sheet. Old folds. Small splits at four cross-folds. Foxing. Good.

A scarce and detailed map of the Battle of Cerro Gordo, one of the important battles of the Mexican-American War. General Winfield Scott’s victory at Cerro Gordo, over a much larger force commanded by Santa Anna, allowed the Americans to move closer to Mexico City. The map shows the location of the Mexican battery at the pass, as well as an additional Mexican battery of seventeen guns. Most dynamically, it shows the location of several American forces, including those commanded by Shields, Riley, Twiggs, Worth, and Pillow, as well as the location of the American dragoons and light artillery. A printed note below the map records that Scott commanded some 8,325 men, while Santa Anna had twice that under his command. A further note records a total of sixty-three Americans killed, and 367 wounded. The Mexican forces took some 1,000 in killed and wounded. The map was drawn by George B. McClellan, then a captain under Winfield Scott and a participant in the battle, some fifteen years before he achieved notoriety as a commander in the Civil War and as the Democratic nominee for president in 1864. $2250.

Letters Home from the Mexican War

120. [Mexican-American War]: Wingate, Benjamin: [TWO AUTO- GRAPH LETTERS, SIGNED, FROM CORPORAL BENJAMIN WINGATE TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS BACK AT HOME IN INDIANA, WRITTEN FROM THE FRONT OF THE MEXI- CAN-AMERICAN WAR]. Jalapa & Puebla, Mexico. May 16 & Aug. 5, 1847. [5]pp. total, each addressed on verso of second leaf. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Light soiling. Minor paper loss to second leaf, not affecting text. Very good. Postmarked at New Orleans and Vera Cruz, Mexico.

Two letters written by Corp. Benjamin Wingate during the Mexican-American War, the first to his family and the second to his friend, E.G. English, both in Lexington, Indiana, in the Southern portion of the state. In the first letter, to his family, written from Jalapa, he notes that he is in good health but does not know when he will next be able to write, for “we have orders to march day after tomorrow towards the city of Mexico and you know there is no chance for writing when on a march as I before stated.” He writes that he has been down to Vera Cruz guarding a wagon train and that the climate is very pleasant in Mexico at present.

I can’t give you any definite idy concerning the war at this time; it is said by some that we will march into the citty without any resistance. General Worth is within near a hundred miles of the citty with his division and I presume that by the time you get this letter that we will be in the citty of Mexico or near there. There is a prospect of us being remounted shortly I think. I have given a general account of the country in outher letters that I have written as possible. I believe I have not stated the sort of houses the citizens of this country live in with exception of the cities, they are nothing but small poles or cane cut and set upon end and covered with some kind of grass. I have seen now timber yet that would make a rale the fencing is eather hedges or stone fence....

The second letter is to Wingate’s friend, E.G. English, a few weeks later. Wingate writes from Puebla, taken by Scott in May 1847, just a few days prior to the U.S. assault on Mexico City. He relates that reports make it sound as though Mexico City will be a difficult battle. He also inquires after local county politics in Scotty County, Indiana.

I am good health at the present time, more than I am vary tired and much fatigued from a scout that we have had through the country. We was out 9 days, the object was for forage. We had 1 company of dragoons and Ruff ’s comp. of [?] riflemen. They had a small fight with some Mexicans in which they was successful. They killed some 50 or 60 Mexicans and lost 1 man wound[ed]. Gen. Pearce arrived here yester day with his command from Vera Cruz, and I suppose that we will leave here within 4 or 5 days for the Citty of Mexico and thare is no doubt but we will have a hard fight thare. Report say they have some 30 thousand men preparing for us though badly equiped for fighting, principally all volunteers. I have now [i.e. no] doubt that be fore you read this letter that the fate of many a blooming youth will be sealed. For my own part if I should be successful I expect to write my next letter in the Citty of Mexico. The place the Mexicans is fortifying is nine miles this side of the citty at what is called the 9 miles pass. It is some fore or five days march from here. I do not exactly [k]now the strength of Scott’s command at this time, but it must be near 18 tho. and you may wrest satisfied that we will do it up for [the Mexicans] in a rag as is always the case when they fight us. We have a company of Mexicans in our service mounted which rendered valuable service to us in the scout.

A good soldier’s letter, bringing both national and local politics together on the same page. $2000.

A Substantive Frontier Imprint from Northern Mexico

121. [Mexico]: [Chihuahua]: MEMORIA PRESENTADA AL HON- ORABLE CONGRESO SEGUNDO CONSTITUCIONAL DE CHIHUAHUA POR EL SECRETARIO DEL DESPACHO DE GOBIERNO SOBRE EL ESTADO DE LA ADMINISTRACION PUBLICA. [Chihuahua]: Imprenta del supremo gobierno del estado á cargo de José Sabino Cano, 1829. [2],32,[8]pp. plus one folding letterpress table. Small folio. Stitched as issued. Minor soiling. Near fine.

A rare, early, and interesting report that reviews all the different issues surround- ing the administration of this northern Mexican state. Among topics covered are police forces (inadequate), education, Native American raids, hospitals, education, health and vaccination, mining, an expedition to establish boundaries, etc. Given the shortcomings pointed out, it is obvious that Chihuahua does not have enough money to cover all its needs, as might be expected from this relatively poor region. Printing was established in Chihuahua in 1824, and a discussion herein of printing notes that the press is due to receive a major upgrade of equipment. Interestingly, this handsome imprint makes clear that the press office is well-equipped and the operators are not amateurs. No other copies located. $2500.

122. [Mississippi River]: Chambers, A.B.: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ST. LOUIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, IN RELATION TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE NAVIGATION OF THE MIS- SISSIPPI RIVER, AND ITS PRINCIPAL TRIBUTARIES AND THE ST. LOUIS HARBOR. St. Louis: Printed by Chambers & Knapp – Republican Office, 1842. 40pp. Modern three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Occasional pencil marginalia. Near fine.

The main body is a lengthy statement submitted by A.B. Chambers, a leader in the efforts to improve the navigation of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Chambers argues that the improvements would boost the commerce of St. Louis and would indeed be a “national work,” facilitating trade and commerce across the United States. He is especially concerned with the “snags” that frequently appear in the river due to alluvial deposits. The text includes much useful information on the commerce of the region, as well as a list of trade vessels operating out of St. Louis as of 1841. A scarce and early tract favoring improvements on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. SABIN 11792, 75341. AII (MISSOURI) 344. ADVENTURES IN AMERICANA 1065. $1000.

The Streeter Copy

123. [Missouri]: CORRESPONDENCE [ON FILE IN THE MISSOURI STATE DEPARTMENT, BETWEEN BEVERLY AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE STATE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVEN- TION, RELATIVE TO THE MISSOURI-IOWA BOUNDARY]. Jefferson. 1841. 15pp. Stitched as issued. Contemporary ownership inscription at top of first leaf; bookplate of Thomas W. Streeter on final page, with his typical penciled notes. Minor creasing and soiling. Very good.

Mr. Beverly Allen, a member of the General Assembly, sent a letter to each member of the Constitutional Convention then living, asking them to provide him with “the views entertained and expressed by the members of that body, at the time of adoption of the Constitution...as to what Rapids were meant by the ‘Rapids of the River Des Moines,’ and what line it was that was to be made to correspond with the Indian boundary line.” This pamphlet is a collection of their responses to his request. Rare. STREETER SALE 1861 (this copy). GRAFF 38. AII (MISSOURI) 289. $1250.

Very Rare Lithographed Views of Kansas City, Missouri

124. [Missouri – Kansas City]: Ramsey, Millett & Hudson (printers): KANSAS CITY ILLUSTRATED 1876 – 1877. Kansas City: Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, [1877]. 24pp. Lithographed title printed on blue paper, thirty-nine (of forty) tinted lithographed plates printed in purple ink against tan backgrounds. Publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover, rebacked to style, patterned endpapers. Some soiling and chips at edges of text and plates. Else very good. Provenance: Willie White (period presentation inscriptions and use as an album amicorum on verso of plates and on blanks).

Includes accounts of commerce in Kansas City and an historical essay stating:

We cannot make a Venice of Kansas city. Why hide her homeliness? Why strive to conceal her plainness? She must stand for the present, not draped in stately toga, standing in graceful pose on marble pedestal, but in the practical garb of labor, with hands stained by enterprising toil.

The views are wonderful examples of American lithography in the West and include a general view of Kansas City, a bird’s-eye view, and images of noted public buildings and businesses. A rare item. Not in Streeter, Graff, Deák, or Reps. OCLC cites eight complete copies, including Yale, Kansas City Public Library, State Historical Society of Missouri, and the University of Missouri; an incomplete copy is located at the Clements Library. HOWES K15a. $2750.

The Artist/Author’s Most Important Work

125. Möllhausen, Heinrich Baldwin: TAGEBUCH EINER REISE VOM MISSISSIPPI NACH DEN KUSTEN DER SUDSEE. Leipzig. 1858. Two volumes bound in one. [2],viii,222,[20],[223]-494,[2]pp. plus fourteen plates (seven in color, six tinted, one black and white) and folding map. Large, thick quarto. Contemporary black leather, spine gilt. Boards and extremities lightly rubbed. Bookplates on front pastedown. Light scattered foxing, a few leaves age-toned. Very good.

The second issue, issued the same year as the first, of the most important work by 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, investigating 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, “aa.” ABBEY 661 (ref ). WAGNER-CAMP 305:1. GRAFF 2851. SA- BIN 49914. STREETER SALE 3135. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 955. Taft, Artists & Illustrators of the Old West, pp.22-35. $5500.

With the Famed Moran and Holmes Plates

126. [Moran, Thomas, and William Henry Holmes, illustrators]: Dutton, Clarence E.: TERTIARY HISTORY OF THE GRAND CAÑON DISTRICT.... [with:] ATLAS TO ACCOMPANY THE MONO- GRAPH ON THE TERTIARY HISTORY OF THE GRAND CA- ÑON DISTRICT. Washington: [text:] Government Printing Office, [atlas: Julius Bien & Co. of New York (for the Government Printing Office)], 1882. Quarto text volume: [2],xiv,264pp. plus forty-two plates, plans, and maps (including two chromolithographed views by Sinclair after Holmes, seventeen wood-engraved views [eight after Thomas Moran, nine after Holmes], four “Heliotype” plates), ten double-page. Folio atlas: 1p. letterpress text, otherwise lithographed throughout. Title, twelve double-page map-sheets after Dutton (eleven printed in colors), ten double-page sheets of views after Holmes (9) and Moran (1) (five chromolithographed and five printed in tints), all printed by Julius Bien & Co. Text and atlas in original cloth bindings, gilt, neatly rebacked, original cloth laid down. Corners bumped. Contents leaf and left sheet of first double-page map (Geological Map) with small tear in lower left corner, but with no loss of text or map image. Faint tideline in upper edge of latter half of the maps in the atlas volume, not intruding into the image.

“One of the grandest publications of the scientific expeditions in the American West...[depicting] the Grand Canyon in a series of magnificent panoramas” – Creating America. The work includes illustrations by arguably the two greatest American topographical artists to record this era of westward expansion: William Holmes and Thomas Moran. The atlas includes eight beautifully executed maps of the region on twelve sheets, as well as the ten sheets of views. The views include a number of images that are designed to form larger continuous panoramas. The greatest of these is Holmes’ view from Point Sublime in the Kaibab: the three chromolithographed sheets (numbered XVI-XVII), if joined, would form a single panoramic view with an image area measuring approximately 17 by 90 inches. It is interesting to note that the first of these sheets includes what may be a self-portrait and portrait, respectively, of Holmes and Dutton: two figures are visible at the edge of the canyon, one is seated and clearly sketching (Holmes), while the second figure bends down to examine his companion’s work (Dutton). William Goetzmann calls W.H. Holmes “the greatest artist-topographer and man of many talents that the West ever produced... his artistic technique was like no other’s. He could sketch panoramas of twisted mountain ranges, sloping monoclines, escarpments, plateaus, canyons, fault blocks, and grassy meadows that accurately depicted hundreds of miles of terrain. They were better than maps and better than photographs because he could get details of stratigraphy that light and shadow obscured from the camera...his illustrations for Dutton’s Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District are masterpieces of realism and draftsmanship as well as feats of imaginative observation.” The team assembled to carry out this geological survey of the Grand Canyon included some outstanding talents: scientist C.E. Dutton, photographer Jack Hill- iers, and Holmes and Moran as artist-topographers. The intention of the survey was strictly scientific, but as Dutton writes in his preface: “I have in many places departed from the severe ascetic style which has become conventional in scientific monographs.” This is also true of Moran and Holmes, as both were clearly inspired by their subjects. The overall result is of a quality that would not be possible today. As Wallace Steiner wrote in his introduction to the 1977 reprint:

Later specialization has eliminated from scientific publications most of the ele- ments that make the Tertiary History so charming. No report written as this one is written would now be published by any government bureau. No illustrators like Moran and Holmes would be permitted to illustrate it....A great book... the Tertiary History has kept its value precisely because it does not specialize.

FARQUHAR 73. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire, pp.512-13. REESE & MILES, CREATING AMERICA 40. $11,000.

127. Morgan, Dale L., and Carl I. Wheat: JEDEDIAH SMITH AND HIS MAPS OF THE AMERICAN WEST. San Francisco: California Histori- cal Society, 1954. [4],86pp. plus seven facsimile maps (six folding). Large folio. Original red cloth. Lightly rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Near fine.

A vital reference on the impact of the great fur trade leader and explorer on the cartography of the West, by the two foremost experts. Printed by Lawton Kennedy in an edition limited to 530 copies. $750.

128. Morse, Jedidiah: A REPORT TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR... ON INDIAN AFFAIRS, COMPRISING A NARRATIVE OF A TOUR PERFORMED IN THE SUMMER OF 1820.... New Haven: Printed by S. Converse, 1822. 96,400pp. plus folding colored map. Without the errata slip found in some copies. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine richly gilt. Age toning (mostly light) throughout, with an occasional small fox mark. A few neat pencil notes. Very good.

In his report to the Secretary of War, Morse delivers an account of his journey in 1820 from New Haven through the Great Lakes country to Green Bay, and a brief trip in 1821 to Upper Canada, followed by notes on many Indian tribes. The work consists largely of the appendix, which includes reports and passages from the journal of John Bell of the Long expedition, descriptions of Indian schools, and many speeches by white officials and Indian chiefs. “This is certainly the most complete and exhaustive report of the condition, numbers, names, territory, and general affairs of the Indians, ever made. It affords us the details of almost every particular which we could desire, relating to the accessible tribes, in the territory of the United States, as they existed in the year 1820” – Field. Although Wheat does not note its appearance here, the accompanying map is the same as the map of the United States published the following year in Sidney Morse’s atlas of the U.S. As Wheat states, “this beautifully engraved map includes the Oregon country...with no northern boundary shown.” The frontispiece is a portrait of the Pawnee brave, Petalesharo, whose decision to end the practice of human sacrifice by his tribe made him an exemplar of the “noble savage.” An early work by artist Charles Bird King, this same portrait was later reworked for inclusion in McKenney and Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America. HOWES M843. WAGNER-CAMP 21b. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 355. PILL- ING, PROOF-SHEETS 2666. FIELD 1098. SABIN 50945. GRAFF 2908. $1250.

129. [Nevada Mining]: ABSTRACT OF THE GODFREY AND GROVE, HUDSON, MOUNTAIN EAGLE, & KYUGA LEDGES, REESE RIVER MINING DISTRICT LANDER COUNTY NEVADA [manuscript docket title]. Austin, Nv. 1865. [15]pp. of manuscript text, written on the recto of leaves (save for the final leaf, which has manuscript on both sides). Most leaves with either state and federal revenue stamps, or a green paper notarial seal, or a gold paper territorial seal. Folio. Leaves bound at top edge and protected by a folio leaf of green, coated paper. Some light edge wear. Very good.

A group of original, manuscript, notarized claims for four significant mines in the Reese River silver mining boom in central Nevada. The Reese River silver deposits were discovered in Lander County in 1862, and the area quickly boomed as various mining claims were filed and companies set up. These documents record the claims of four mines, with their locations and dimensions. The mines are the Godfrey and Grove, the Hudson, the Mountain Eagle, and the Kyuga “ledges.” Four of the documents are attested to by M.A. Sawtelle, notary public of Lander County, Nevada, and most contain either his seal, state and federal revenue stamps of the period, or the Nevada territorial seal. Good documentation of the method of recording mining claims during the Nevada silver boom of the 1860s, and evidence of once vital silver mining enterprises, now largely forgotten. $1250.

130. Newell, Chester, Rev.: HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION IN TEXAS, PARTICULARLY OF THE WAR OF 1835 & ’36.... New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1838. x,[2],215pp. plus folding map. Original brown patterned cloth, neatly rebacked, original gilt spine laid down. Early inscription “From George H. Moore 1844” on front pastedown. Map with small closed tear at right edge (where bound in) and with a few light fox marks. Occasional bit of light foxing in text. 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 after- wards. Newell was one of the first to seduce Sam Houston into giving particulars of the campaign” – Jenkins. The map shows all of Texas north to the Red River. “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. $7500.

With Important Maps

131. Niles, John M., and L.T. Pease: HISTORY OF SOUTH AMERICA AND MEXICO; COMPRISING THEIR DISCOVERY, GEOG- RAPHY, POLITICS, COMMERCE AND REVOLUTIONS...TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, A GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORI- CAL VIEW OF TEXAS, WITH A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE TEXIAN REVOLUTION AND WAR. Hartford: H. Huntington, Jr., 1838. Two volumes bound in one. 370pp. plus two portraits and colored folding map; 230pp. plus colored folding map. Frontispiece, engraved titlepage for the volume, and printed titlepage for each of the two parts. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt. Boards worn at corners, joints a bit worn and scuffed. Long, closed tear in the Mexico and Texas map, partially repaired by tape on the verso, not affecting image. Quite clean internally. Very good overall.

A variant issue of the 1837 edition, dated 1838 on the printed titlepage but with map descriptions and collation identical to those of the 1837 edition as described by Streeter. Contains an “excellent contemporary account of the Texas Revolution and its beginnings....The Account includes reprintings of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Burleson’s report on the taking of Bexar in December, 1835, and the Travis letter of February 24, 1836, and several other reports and documents. One of these is a reprinting, which I do not recollect having seen elsewhere, of the report of Benjamin H. Holland, Captain of the 2d Company of Artillery, on the Fannin Massacre....I am inclined to think the value of this contemporary account of the Texas Revolution, compiled by the father of one of the participants...has been overlooked” – Streeter. The colored map of Mexico and Texas shows the Republic as separate, and the internal provinces of Mexico. HOWES N156. STREETER TEXAS 1285A. SABIN 55319. PALAU 191596. $2750. Amazing Poster for Bill Pickett, Bull-Dogger

132. [Norman, Richard E.]: [ORIGINAL STONE-LITHOGRAPHED THREE-SHEET POSTER FOR THE BILL PICKETT WEST- ERN, The Bull-Dogger]. Jacksonville, Fl.: Norman Film Mfg. Co., [1921]. Stone-lithographed three-sheet poster, 77 x 40¾ inches. Old folds. Tears (mostly along folds and in the black background) expertly repaired. Backed on linen. In very good condition.

A large, striking three-sheet stone-lithographed poster advertising the Norman Film Studios production of The Bull-Dogger, a western starring famed black cowboy Bill Pickett and an all-black cast. The center of the poster is dominated by a nearly full-length image of Pickett standing before a bar in a saloon, facing the viewer sideways and with his six-gun drawn. His image is flanked by portraits of the film’s other two stars, Anita Bush and comedian Bennie Turpin, whose name and cross-eyed visage was undoubtedly meant to invoke the popular white comedian, Ben Turpin. The lower half of the poster features an oval illustration of Pickett performing a feat for which he was famous: wrestling a bull to the ground by its horns (i.e. “bull-dogging”). The text promises “death defying feats of courage and skill! Thrills! Laughs Too!” Pickett is promoted on the poster as the “world’s colored champion.” The poster was created by the Ritchey Lithographic Corpora- tion of New York. Norman Studios, founded in Jacksonville, Florida by the white producer and director, Richard E. Norman, was one of the most prominent studios making so-called “race films” during the 1920s. Melodramas, westerns, and action-adventure films were all produced by the studio. The Bull-Dogger was their most famous western, and its star, Bill Pickett, was renowned as a cowboy before he even stepped before the cameras. Born in Travis County, Texas in 1870 of an ex-slave father, Pickett worked as a cowboy from an early age, gaining notoriety for developing a method of bull-dogging that involved him wrestling a bull to the ground by its horns – an act featured in the film and on the poster. He later joined the travelling 101 Wild West Show, and appeared in a second western for Norman Studios, called The Crimson Skull, in 1922. A great, large poster for a western “race film.” $6500.

133. [Oklahoma Territory]: CREEK INDIAN LANDS NOW ON THE MARKET [caption title]. Holdenville, Indian Territory: Western Real Es- tate Company, [ca. 1901]. Broadside, 11¾ x 6¼ inches. Small chip in lower margin, else fine.

Rare broadside advertising lands for sale in Indian Territory, issued a dozen years after the “opening” of Oklahoma in 1889 that brought thousands of Sooners into the region. The land had been secured as a result of the “passage of the last Creek agreement,” a reference to the 1901 treaty between the United States and the Creek Nation, that resulted in the allotment of land to specific tribe members, which could then be resold. Many members of the Creek tribe were relocated to Indian Territory when they were removed from their lands in Georgia in the late 1820s and early 1830s. The broadside advertises 100,000 acres of land being offered by the Western Real Estate Company of Holdenville, Indian Territory, located just southeast of Oklahoma City. A trust company had been established to guarantee title to the land and to loan money to purchasers. The agricultural potential of the land, “the best country west of the Mississippi,” is touted: it would produce “from 30 to 80 bushels corn per acre; from 3/4 to 1 bale cotton; from 75 to 500 bushels potatoes to the acre. It is a fine fruit and berry center. The climate and the seasons are the very best. We never fail to make a crop here.” No copies of this broadside are located in OCLC. Good evidence of land hunger in pre-statehood Oklahoma. $1350. Early Oregon Atlas

134. [Oregon]: Williams, Edgar: HISTORICAL ATLAS MAP OF MAR- ION & LINN COUNTIES OREGON. COMPILED, DRAWN AND PUBLISHED FROM PERSONAL EXAMINATIONS AND ACTUAL SURVEYS. San Francisco: Edgar Williams & Co., 1878. 104pp. plus [8] inserted pages. Including twenty maps (nineteen double-page) and fifty-nine illustrations (often two or three to a page). Folio. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Spine and corners renewed in black morocco, hinges reinforced. A couple leaves with small closed tears in margins, with no loss, else very neat and clean internally. Very good.

The first Oregon county atlas, providing a wealth of visual, cartographic, and historic information for the Willamette Valley region of west-central Oregon. Marion County was created in 1843, with Salem as its seat, and adjacent Linn County (the seat at Albany) was created a few years later. The numerous large maps include a map of the entire state, followed by maps of both counties and more detailed maps of townships. The many illustrations show homes and ranches (with the owners’ names); town views; the state capitol at Salem; flour, grist, and saw mills; and more. The text provides a very detailed history of the counties and towns, and biographical sketches of leading citizens. An excellent Oregon county atlas. SOLIDAY IV: 439. SMITH 4413. PHILLIPS-LeGEAR, ATLASES 16706. $2500.

135. 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. 189pp. Original printed front wrapper, with spine and rear wrapper in matching paper. Front wrapper soiled and stained. In near fine condition internally, very clean and fresh. Untrimmed. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

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 produced 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 numbered some 3,000 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. $10,000.

Primary Source for Early California

136. 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 foredge 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. $25,000.

Illustrated with Original Photographs

137. Palou, Francisco: NOTICIAS DE LA NUEVA CALIFORNIA. San Francisco: Imprenta de Edouardo Bosqui y Cia, 1874. Four volumes. xx,270; 301; 315; 253pp., plus eighteen mounted albumen photographs. Modern three- quarter morocco and cloth, spines gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown of each volume, ownership signature on titlepage and p.43 of each volume. Very clean and fresh. A very good set.

An important history of Upper California and the Franciscan missions, illustrated with early photographs, and limited to only 100 copies, this being number 62. The text was first published as part of a series in Mexico in 1857, but this is the work’s first separate publication. Father Palou compiled the text before 1784, largely while he was at the Mis- sion Dolores in San Francisco. Palou took his information from correspondence, diaries, original narratives, and other sources. It contains descriptions of the early expeditions of Portola, Fathers Serra and Crespi, and many others. “In this work Palou brought the history of California down to 1784, and although it might be supposed to be confined to Nueva California it also includes notices of Antigua California” – Wagner. The photographs in this work are very noteworthy, and were done by several important 19th-century photographers, including Eadweard Muybridge, W.W. Stewart, John Jarboe, Bradley & Rulofson, and others. They show several scenes in San Diego, the missions at San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, and San Carlos, as well as banks and other businesses, and constitute an important photographic record. Gary Kurutz notes that it is one of only twenty- one California books illustrated with original photographs before 1890. The introduction was written by John T. Doyle, a San Francisco lawyer, who has initialed the limitation statement in the first volume. It was the first publication of the California Historical Society. The book is quite scarce on the market and would be an important part of any collection on California history and photography. HOWES P55, “c.” KURUTZ, CALIFORNIA BOOKS ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGI- NAL PHOTOGRAPHS 39. COWAN, p.472. ROCQ 17072. HILL 1290. STREETER SALE 2944. BAUER SALE 384. PLATH SALE 867. HOWELL 50:182. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 168a. $9500.

138. [Patent Medicine Almanac]: RESCUE OF TULA, 1861 ALMANAC. New York: B.L. Judson & Co., [1860]. [24]pp. Original yellow printed wrappers. Spine mostly perished. Some chipping and tears to wrappers. Very minor soiling. Good.

A rare patent-medicine almanac, reprinting the story of an herbalist’s rescue of Tula, the Aztec princess, likely fabricated to promote the sale of Judson’s various medicaments. Originally printed in 1859 by the same publisher, the almanac re- counts the story of the “wealthy herbalist, Dr. Cunard who, with a trapper named Du Bois or Hawk Eye, spent seven years trapping and travelling throughout the Far West. The doctor had a number of unusual experiences, not the least of which was his single-handed defiance of the Navajo Tribe as they were about to burn Tula, the Aztec princess, at the stake. This was accomplished by capitalizing on the fortuitous imminence of a total eclipse, of which the good doctor knew after consulting his handy little almanac. The Navajo chief was as confounded as Merlin in an earlier day and promptly gave up not only Tula but also his secret mountain- herb recipe. A trapper’s testimonial direct from St. Louis concludes this ‘True Account’” – Eberstadt. The almanac seems to have been published for only about four years (1860-63), although the advertisement/story does appear in a few other almanacs as well. OCLC locates only one copy of the 1861 almanac (and only one of most of the others as well), at the Rochester Museum and Science Center. Rare and interesting. EBERSTADT 127:215 (ref ). $750.

With the Important Map

139. Perrin du Lac, François Marie: VOYAGE DANS LES DEUX LOUI- SIANES, ET CHEZ LES NATIONS SAUVAGES DU MISSOURI, PAR LES ETATS-UNIS, L’OHIO ET LES PROVINCES QUI LE BORDENT, EN 1801, 1802, ET 1803.... Lyon. 1805. [6],x,479pp. plus folding map and folding plate, both on light blue paper. Half title. Contem- porary calf, spine gilt, leather label, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Lightly tanned. Closed tear in gutter of folding map, neatly repaired. Very good.

One of the few major narratives of the trans-Mississippi West prior to Lewis and Clark, here in the very rare first edition. The author arrived in New York in 1801 and travelled westward by way of the Ohio to St. Louis, ascending the Missouri River as far as central South Dakota with a fur trading expedition in the summer of 1802. The question has been raised as to whether Perrin du Lac himself made this trip or used without acknowledgement the journal of the St. Louis trader, Jean Baptiste Trudeau, but the veracity of the account is unquestioned. It is by far the most important published account of the Upper Missouri fur trade in its early days, including a great deal of information about tribes along the river. The large map of the Missouri River, beautifully engraved, is by far the most detailed map of its watershed up to that point. Wheat describes it as “the earliest published map of the Trans-Mississippi region which can be said to display even the faintest resemblance to accuracy.” It charts the river as far as the Arikara villages in central South Dakota. The folding plate illustrates “Mamoth tel qu’il existe au Musaeum a Philadelphie.” There were two issues published the same year, the other in Paris, with the same collations, but Howes and Wagner-Camp consider the Lyon issue to be the first. The English edition of 1807 is an abridgement and contains an inferior, reduced version of the map. STREETER SALE 1773. WAGNER-CAMP 3:1. HOWES P244, “b.” WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 256. CLARK II:52. SABIN 61012. MONAGHAN 1178. GRAFF 3254. $5000.

A Novel Based on Lewis and Clark: The Voyage of an Imaginary Irishman

140. [Philips, George]: TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA. Dublin: Christopher Bentham, 1822. [2],9-184pp. plus five woodcut plates (including frontispiece). Titlepage vignette of a turtle. 16mo. Contemporary plain paper boards, printed paper label. Boards detached. Contemporary ink inscription on titlepage. Scattered light staining and foxing. Good. In a half morocco box.

This apocryphal voyage describes the adventures of George Philips, an imaginary Irishman who was supposed to have accompanied Lewis and Clark from St. Louis to the Pacific. “As the expedition which Philips had now joined, was one from which much interesting information was expected concerning the interior of the American Continent, as well as much future advantage to the inhabitants of the United States, by establishing a commerce with the native Indians for their furs... Philips on his arrival at St. Louis, found Captains Lewis and Clarke the other commander and twenty-three robust active young men, who had volunteered to accompany them, two French watermen, an Interpreter and his wife, a hunter and a black servant, belonging to Captain Clarke.” Philips also had adventures in the West Indies, South America, Mexico, Canada, and the Great Lakes, and among the Esquimaux. He returned home to Ireland via Florida and the West Indies. The plates show the inside of an Indian hut, the falls of Niagara, a meeting with Esquimaux, a view of icebergs, and others. The latter part of the narrative seems to lean on Sir John Franklin’s first voyage, which had been published in 1819. The editors of Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition call the Philips narrative “an entirely new and quite wonderful fabricated account,” discussing it at length. A fascinating and little-known work, evidently quite rare. HOWES P305, “aa.” WAGNER-CAMP 21c:1. SABIN 62456. LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 4d.1. SERVIES 1129. CLARK II:174. $2500.

141. [Pike, Zebulon M.]: Coues, Elliott, editor: THE EXPEDITIONS OF ZEBULON MONTGOMERY PIKE, TO HEADWATERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, THROUGH LOUISIANA TERRI- TORY, AND IN NEW SPAIN, DURING THE YEARS 1805-6-7.... New York: Francis P. Harper, 1895. Three volumes. Six folding maps laid into pocket in third volume. Original cloth and boards, paper labels. Spines toned, head of spine on second volume torn. Boards shelfworn, top front corner of third volume heavily bumped. Fresh and clean internally. Untrimmed and unopened.

From a special edition limited to 150 copies in boards and printed on handmade paper (this being number 4), from a total edition of 1150. The first government expedition of the Southwest. This is the first edited edition of the Pike narrative, with notes by historian Elliot Coues, and is distinguished both for the quality of his work and the excellent production of the volume by the publisher, Francis Harper. Noted by Howes as the “best edition.” HOWES P373, “aa.” BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 163. RITTENHOUSE 467 (note). $1750.

An Oregon Rarity

142. Poussin, Guillaume T.: QUESTION DE L’OREGON. Paris: W. Co- quebert, 1846. 100pp. Half title. Slightly later half pigskin and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light wear to boards. Quite clean internally. Very good.

A rare, contemporary, and thorough account of the Oregon boundary question, which at the time was a major source of divisiveness in Anglo-American relations. Poussin travelled extensively throughout the United States in the 1820s, and produced a valuable illustrated account of his travels. In this volume he surveys the history of the Oregon conflict and describes Oregon Territory and its exploration over 350 years, paying special attention to American and English activities of the late 18th century. Not in Streeter or Graff. We are aware of only two copies at auction since 1977. HOWES P520. SABIN 64739. SOLIDAY III:623. SMITH 8316. MONAGHAN 1200. $7500. Privately Published and Beautifully Illustrated

143. Powell, John W.: CANYONS OF THE COLORADO. Meadville, Pa. 1895. 400pp. including illustrations, plus plates (ten double-page). Half title. Frontispiece portrait. Large quarto. Modern three-quarter leather and original brown publisher’s cloth, cover stamped in gilt, spine gilt, leather labels. Old ex-lib. markings on half title, titlepage, and text block edges. Some leaves with small edge tears. Minor soiling. A good copy.

This is the first complete narrative of Powell’s famous expedition of 1869-72, previously documented only in reports consisting largely of scientific data. Privately published, this volume contains far more information than any of the government reports of Powell’s journeys, and is the best book of one of the seminal figures in the West in the late 19th century. It also contains important documentation of Powell’s botanizing and collecting activities. The double-page views of the Grand Canyon are after beautiful drawings by topographical artist W.H. Holmes. This is a very elusive book, remarkable in being quite large and extensive, but privately printed and evidently issued in a very small edition. It is one of the most difficult books to find, of major textual importance, in all Western Americana. HOWES P527, “aa.” GRAFF 3335. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 8244. FARQUHAR, COLORADO 43. $6500. Classic Map of the Oregon Trail

144. 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 COLUMBIA.... Baltimore: E. Weber & Co., 1846. Seven individual sheets, each 15¾ x 25½ inches, folded. Tied at right edge with remains of blue paper spine. Light scattered foxing; faint dampstaining, heavier on rear sheets. Some slight separation at corners of folds. Still, about 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 of 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 of the 1,670-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 October 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.

145. Ransom, Leander, and A.J. Doolittle: NEW MAP OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA TERRITORY...WITH THE PRINCIPAL TOWNS, ROADS, RAILROADS AND TRANSIT ROUTES TO THE SILVER MINING DISTRICTS OF NEVADA TERRITORY...CAREFULLY COMPILED FROM UNITED STATES AND OTHER RELIABLE SURVEYS. [San Francisco]: W. Holt, 1863. Lithographed map, 27½ x 22¾ inches, with contemporary hand- coloring. Laid down on modern acid-free board. Neatly split along one horizontal fold, with minuscule loss of paper. Short, neat separation along another fold near edges of map. About very good.

An important map of California and Nevada Territory by Leander Ransom and A.J. Doolittle, showing routes into Nevada and the recently discovered silver mining regions. Wheat calls it “a Nevada map of first importance.” Ransom first published his map of California and Nevada in 1862 (though it bears a copyright date of 1861), and Wheat calls that edition “notably rare.” There are three issues of this 1863 edition of the map, one with a copyright of 1862 (Wheat 1070) and another with a copyright of 1863 and the word “A” added before “New Map” in the title (Wheat 1071). Our issue (as with the Streeter copy) seems to be a variant of Wheat 1071 – copyrighted 1863 but lacking the “A” at the beginning of the title – and it is not listed in Wheat. In the present issue (as with Wheat 1071) the Nevada-Utah border has been more accurately drawn at the 115th meridian (Wheat 1070 puts it at the 116th meridian). There are many other additions in Nevada from the 1862 edition, and from Wheat’s number 1070. A great number of details have been added in central Nevada: the important silver mining region of the Reese River District has great detail and lists a number of towns, including Austin, Clifton, and Jacobsville. The Smoky Valley and Big Canyon districts have been added south of the Reese District, and the Mount Hope District has been added to the north. Several stations have been added along the “Overland Stage Road,” with intervening distances noted. New mining districts appear in the northwest, as do new trails. In California the counties are named and variously shaded, the six United States Land Districts are shown, main roads are traced, and numerous towns in the California mining districts are located. There is also a table of distances. The presence of “New Mexico” instead of Arizona below the 37th parallel and “Washington Territory” instead of Idaho in the northeast corner indicates that this map was issued fairly early in 1863. The map is drawn on a scale of circa 1:1,750,000, not twenty-four miles to an inch as stated on map, and was lithographed by Louis Nagel of San Francisco, who also lithographed the 1862 edition of Ransom’s map. Leander Ransom was born in Connecticut, raised in New York, and came to California in 1851. Wheat notes that “until his death [in 1874] Ransom was intimately connected with the land affairs of California.” “A superb map, full of interesting and exotic information in Nevada and Cali- fornia” – Rumsey. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 1070, 1071 (ref ). STREETER SALE 2880. RUMSEY 4393.001. $6750.

Rare Pike’s Peak Overland Guide, with Important Maps

146. Redpath, James, and Richard J. Hinton: HAND-BOOK TO KAN- SAS TERRITORY AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS’ GOLD RE- GION; ACCOMPANIED BY RELIABLE MAPS AND A PRELIM- INARY 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 6pp. of advertisements. 16mo. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, neatly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Cloth lightly rubbed and a bit stained, corners bumped. In five instances page numbers have been neatly written or overwritten in ink. Very clean internally. Very good, with the maps in especially nice condition. In a half morocco box.

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 guidebook 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.

One of the Rarest Mexican-American War Narratives

147. Richardson, William H.: JOURNAL OF WILLIAM H. RICHARD- SON, A PRIVATE SOLDIER IN COL. DONIPHAN’S COM- MAND. Baltimore. 1847. 84pp. Half morocco and marbled boards, stamped in gilt. 19th-century library stamp on titlepage. Minor soiling and foxing, a few small tears at edges of some leaves, gutter of titlepage remargined. Overall very good.

First edition of one of the rarest Wagner-Camp and Mexican-American War titles. Richardson enlisted as a mounted volunteer as a result of patriotism engendered on the 4th of July in Carrollton, Missouri. He took part in the expedition under the command of Doniphan over the Santa Fe Trail in the fall of 1846, heading south to El Paso by the first of the New Year, then on to Chihuahua and eventually to Matamoros, where the command shipped by boat to New Orleans. By July 10, Richardson was back home in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and the first edition of his fascinating journal was published before the end of 1847 in the nearest city, Baltimore. STREETER SALE 166. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 33. WAGNER-CAMP 137:1. CLARK II:164. HOWES R262. GRAFF 3496. RITTENHOUSE 480. SABIN 71093. $4500.

Presentation Copy of a Scarce Texas Promotional Work

148. Roberts, Oran M., Governor of Texas: A DESCRIPTION OF TEX- AS, ITS ADVANTAGES AND RESOURCES, WITH SOME AC- COUNT OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. St. Louis: Gilbert Book Co., 1881. 133pp. plus eight chromolithographed plates and five double-page maps (four handcolored). Frontis- piece portrait. Original front wrapper bound into period brown cloth-backed marbled boards. Very good. Provenance: Miss Lucy J. Dupuy.

A presentation copy, inscribed: “Presented to Miss. Lucy J. Dupuy by OM Roberts Governor of Texas May 18th 1882.” Inscribed copies by this important Texas governor (1878-83) are quite rare. Among his other accomplishments, Roberts sat on the Texas Supreme Court, and was largely responsible for founding the University of Texas, at which he taught law for ten years. The plates are fine, early depictions of typical Texas scenes, including cattle and hog ranching, farming, the Texian Hare, an Indian chief, etc. It has been our experience that by no means all copies of this work include the plates, and as they form no part of the pagination, it is possible that only certain copies were bound with them. The text consists of a general appraisal of the state at that time, with prospects for industries, agriculture and settlement, development of railroads, etc. The maps, all relating to Texas, show railroads, soil belts, and types of vegetation. HOWES R344. RAINES, p.175. PHILLIPS, SPORTING BOOKS, p.314. $2400.

A Pioneering Gold Rush Work

149. Robinson, Fayette: CALIFORNIA AND ITS GOLD REGIONS; WITH A GEOGRAPHICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL VIEW OF THE COUNTRY, ITS MINERAL AND AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES.... New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1849. 137pp. plus [6]pp. of advertisements. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers nearly detached and soiled, heavily worn and scuffed, especially near the spine, where they are almost completely effaced. Titlepage a bit dusty, but generally quite clean internally. A decent copy, lacking the large folding map.

According to Wheat, “One of the best of the early books on California printed for gold seekers.” Robinson, who had produced a book on the Mexican-American War shortly before, drew on both official and unofficial sources for this book. Ku- rutz calls this work “a fine anthology of several of the earliest reports of the gold discovery, conditions in California, history of the region, and ways to reach the diggings.” Among the sources drawn on are reports by Mason, Fremont, Larkin, Emory, and Kearny, as well as newspaper accounts. Robinson discusses several routes to California, recommending the northern Overland Trail as the best. The map, lacking from this copy, is also highly praised. Howes and Kurutz note two issues of 137 and 144 pages, respectively, of which this is the former. HOWES R366, “b.” WHEAT GOLD RUSH 168. GRAFF 3527. COWAN, p.537. KU- RUTZ 539b. SABIN 72070. $1000.

California Pious Funds

150. Rodriguez de San Miguel, Juan: DOCUMENTOS RELATIVOS AL PIADOSO FONDO DE MISIONES PARA CONVERSION Y CIVILIZACION DE LAS NUMEROSAS TRIBUS BARBARAS DE LA ANTIGUA Y NUEVA CALIFORNIA. Mexico: Imprenta de Luis Abadiano y Valdes, 1845. 60pp. Dbd. Fine.

A collection of twenty-three documents describing the urgent need for funds for the church in California. These include the law of Sept. 19, 1836; the decrees of Santa Anna of Feb. 8 and Oct. 24, 1842; and other communications from the “apoderados” addressed to the government. Rodriguez de San Miguel was one of these “apoderados” of the Fund, and issued other pamphlets in 1845 documenting the urgent need for monies to keep the Fund going [see items 151 and 152]. He writes in the first numbered section that he had hoped to publish further documents, but limited resources allowed him to print only the twenty-three found here. A later printing of this work added twenty-eight pages of additional material. STREETER SALE 2504. SABIN 72543. COWAN, p.490. BARRETT 2138. $1250.

Urging Support of the Pious Fund

151. [Rodriguez de San Miguel, Juan]: RECTIFICACION DE GRAVES EQUIVOCACIONES EN QUE INCIDEN LOS SENORES TER- CEROS POSEEDORES DE BIENES DEL FONDO PIADOSO DE CALIFORNIAS.... Mexico: Imprenta de Lara, 1845. 16pp. Stitched as issued. Fine.

“Another defense of the Pious Fund, on behalf of the Church” – Streeter. STREETER SALE 2506. COWAN, p.492. BARRETT 2140. SABIN 72543. $1250. Supporting the Pious Fund

152. [Rodriguez de San Miguel, Juan]: SEGUNDO CUADERNO DE INTERESANTES DOCUMENTOS RELATIVOS A LOS BIENES DEL FONDO PIADOSO DE MISIONES, PARA CONVERSION Y CIVILIZACION DE LAS TRIBUS BARBARAS DE LAS CALI- FORNIAS.... Mexico: Imprenta de J. Mariano Lara, 1845. 32pp Dbd. Fine.

One of several pamphlets issued in 1845 in support of continued funding for the Pious Fund for the Californias. This title brings together a number of documents showing past support and funding. Scarce, with OCLC locating only nine copies. COWAN, p.492. BARRETT 2141. SABIN 72543. OCLC 228733485. $1250.

153. Roosevelt, Theodore: HUNTING TRIPS OF A RANCHMAN; SKETCHES OF SPORT ON THE NORTHERN CATTLE PLAINS. New York & London: Putnam, 1885. [16],318pp. plus plates, including proof impressions of etchings by R. Swain Gifford and J.C. Beard. Frontis. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Some light shelf wear. Corners slightly bumped. Overall a fresh, very good copy.

This is the very uncommon “Medora Edition,” limited to 500 numbered copies, constituting the actual first edition. The trade edition did not appear until the following year. One of Roosevelt’s most popular publications, this is one of the two books he wrote based on his experiences as a rancher in the Dakotas in the 1880s. ADAMS HERD 1949. MERRILL ARISTOCRAT. HOWES R430, “aa.” GRAFF 3560. SIX SCORE 93 (note). $1750.

154. Rowles, W.P.: THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF CAPT. WM. B. ALLEN, OF LAWRENCE COUNTY, TENN., WHO FELL AT THE STORMING OF MONTEREY, ON THE 21st OF SEP- TEMBER, 1846.... Columbia, Tn. 1853. 228pp. Original publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Head and foot of spine chipped, extremities worn and lightly frayed, but binding tight. Light scattered foxing. Good plus.

Allen was elected to the legislature of Tennessee in 1845 amidst heated battles over the Oregon and Texas questions. He enlisted in the military as a volunteer when the Mexican-American War broke out. He died at the battle of Monterey. The second half of this work is devoted to speeches and compositions by and about Al- len. Although some bibliographies call for a frontispiece, there is not one in this volume, nor is there any indication that there ever was. Previous copies we have owned have also been without a frontispiece, and we surmise that not all copies were issued with one. SABIN 73595. ALLEN (IMPRINTS) 3299. ALLEN (RARITIES) 632. $1000. A Pair of Early Charles Russell Pencil Sketches

155. [Russell, Charles M.]: [PAIR OF ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAW- INGS BY CHARLES RUSSELL, SHOWING SCENES OF AN INDIAN HUNTING WITH A RIFLE, AND A GROUP OF IN- DIANS RIDING HORSES]. [Great Falls, Mt. n.d., ca. 1900]. Each illustration drawn in pencil on the verso of a trade card of the Park Hotel, Great Falls, Montana, each card 3¼ x 5½ inches. Small stain in upper left corner of horse riding drawing, faint crease in lower left corner of hunting drawing, else fine. In a folding green cloth chemise and green cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

An outstanding pair of original pencil drawings by the great western illustrator, Charles Russell. One of the drawings shows a group of three Indian braves riding horses bareback at a high rate of speed. The lead rider is about to take a whip to his horse. The other illustration shows a male Indian holding a rifle and peering around a tree. Whether the brave’s prey is animal or human is a question left to the imagination of the viewer. Both of these illustrations are drawn on the verso of trade cards of the Park Hotel of Great Falls, Montana. Charles Russell and his wife moved from Cascade to Great Falls, Montana in 1897. One of Russell’s first paying jobs in Great Falls was to draw original illustrations on menus for a special Christmas dinner at the Park Hotel that December. These two sketches are unsigned, but their attribution to Charles M. Russell has been confirmed to us by Patrick Stewart, the former Director of the Amon Carter Museum and a leading Russell scholar. A pair of evocative sketches by one of the greatest western artists. $8500.

With the Famous Map

156. [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 EXCURSION OF THREE YEARS...By a New Englander. Phila- delphia: Carey & Hart, 1846. 303pp. plus folding map. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Small tear at one cross-fold of the map, with no loss. An occasional trace of foxing, stain on five leaves not affecting readability of text. Very good. With the bookplate of noted collector Kenneth Hill on the front pastedown.

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. 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. $9500.

157. Salmon, Francis: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM A SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESSMAN IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE GOLD RUSH TO A FRIEND BACK EAST, DESCRIBING BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES IN SAN FRANCISCO AT THE END OF 1849]. San Francisco. Dec. 31, 1849. [2]pp. on a folded folio sheet of blue lined paper. With a circular San Francisco postmark in black ink dated Jan. 1, a “40” rate handstamp, and a manuscript note that the letter was carried on the steamer Oregon. Old folds. Small separations at cross-folds; small tear (not affecting text) from wax seal. Very good.

A good letter illustrative of the opportunities found by some who came to California in 1849 and, instead of mining for gold, became merchants. Kimball’s San Francisco directory of 1850 lists Francis Salmon as a partner in the firm of Salmon & Ellis, shipping and commercial merchants, with offices on Pacific near Kearny. The letter was sent from Salmon in San Francisco to William G. Hopper in “Ramapo” (likely Mahwah), Bergen County, New Jersey. Salmon begins by thanking Hopper for attending to business on his behalf back home, and for administering some of his land in Bergen County. He then turns to business matters in his new home of San Francisco:

It is to be regretted that you have not shipped to me some lumber from your saw mill. It keeps very high $300 per thousand feet. You would have made something very handsome. We expect several cargoes from the states consigned to us also a great many framed houses and iron houses. Our business has been immense and very good. We have now in port several cargoes from different parts of the world 1 from China 1 from Germany 3 from France 5 from the States and one from the Sandwich Island loaded with oranges, jams, coconut, pumpkins & potatoes. There is on board of this last article 7 thousand bags. We sell them 25 cents per pound. The cargo will amount to $100,000 and our commission on it will be $10,000. That’s business for you.

Salmon then asks Hopper to encourage friends to come to San Francisco and join him in business and make their fortune. He closes by discussing current conditions in San Francisco, which had been ravaged by rain and fire: We are now in the rainy season and our streets have become impassable. The soil is so rich and deep that the wheel[s] sink up to the hub. We had a week ago a large fire. The loss of property could not have been less than two millions of dollars. It was fortunate that there was no wind at the time otherwise the whole town would have burn down. We have not loss anything by it.

$1250.

Gold Rush Rarity

158. Schmolder, Bruno: NEUER PRAKTISCHER WEGWEISER FUR AUSWANDERER NACH NORD-AMERIKA IN DREI ABTHEI- LUNGEN.... Mainz. 1849. Three volumes bound in one. [8],120pp. plus five plates (including frontispiece) and one full-page illustrations within the pagination; [4],153,[1]pp. plus frontispiece; [4],106pp. Three folding maps supplied in facsimile. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Corners worn. One-inch hole in titlepage, affecting imprint. Text toned and foxed. A few instances of pencil and ink notes. Overall good. In a cloth slipcase.

The second issue of Schmolder’s work, the first having been published the previous year without the maps and one of the plates. Collations are otherwise identical, and it is possible that the same sheets were used. The author went overland from Missouri to California in 1843, and evidently worked with John Sutter (portrayed in the frontispiece) on a scheme for colonization. One of the plates is a plan of “Suttersville” along the Sacramento River. This occupies the first part of the work, while the second is devoted to the Middle West (particularly Missouri and Texas), and the third to Iowa. Schmolder’s advice to immigrants includes information regarding New Orleans as an entrance point. The maps (here in facsimile) include “Die vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika & Mexico...” with the states and territories differentiated, and the large “Topographische Karte von Iowa” showing the region along the west bank of the Mississippi River. Streeter’s copy contained a map of the West in the first part, but it is almost never found with the book (it is present in this copy, in facsimile). A very rare work, of great importance to Continental immigration. An afford- able copy. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 178. WAGNER-CAMP 155:2. CLARK III:407. STREETER SALE 3154. COWAN, p.572. HOWES S172, “b.” KURUTZ 562b. WHEAT TRANSMIS- SISSIPPI 636. $2500.

159. Schoolcraft, Henry R.: A VIEW OF THE LEAD MINES OF MIS- SOURI; INCLUDING SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE MIN- ERALOGY, GEOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, ANTIQUITIES, SOIL, CLIMATE, POPULATION, AND PRODUCTIONS OF MIS- SOURI AND ARKANSAW, AND OTHER SECTIONS OF THE WESTERN COUNTRY. New York. 1819. 299pp. plus three engraved plates including frontis. Contemporary calf and marbled boards. Front board detached and rubbed. Slight foxing. Else very good.

The first published work of Schoolcraft, notable for his many later works relating to American Indians. His initial training was in geology. In 1817-18 he undertook an expedition to southern Missouri and northern Arkansas to examine the lead mines there, which had been described in print by Moses Austin twenty years earlier. His book is the first detailed description by a trained scientist of the Ozark uplands. At the time of his visit, the area was still effectively beyond the frontier, and he provides a good picture of life there. The frontispiece shows the mining town of Potosi. WAGNER-CAMP 15d:1. HOWES S194. GRAFF 3702. SABIN 77881. CLARK II: 66. $1500.

Vast Compilation on the American Indian

160. Schoolcraft, Henry R.: HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL IN- FORMATION RESPECTING THE HISTORY, CONDITION, AND PROSPECTS OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE UNITED STATES.... Philadelphia: Lippincott, Gambo & Co. [vols. 1, 3, 4] or J.B. Lippincott & Co. [vols. 2, 5, 6], 1851-1857. Six volumes. Half titles. Steel-engraved additional titles in volumes I-V; steel-engraved portrait of Schoolcraft in front of volume VI; folding letterpress table; 329 engraved or lithographed plates, plans, and maps after Seth Eastman and others (including the “Map of Kansas River,” plate 43, p.159, volume I, not found in later issues), some tinted, handcolored, or chromolithographed. Volume II extra-illustrated with four engravings of Joseph Brant, ten engravings or woodcuts of places and individuals connected with the Mohawks, two photographs, and four manuscript letters. Quarto. Expertly bound to style in half dark purple morocco and period purple cloth, spines gilt. Very good. Provenance: Dennis R. Alward (1830-92, recipient of the manuscript letters bound in).

A fine set of the first edition of Henry Schoolcraft’s masterpiece. This is the most extensive work on American Indians published in the 19th century, containing “a vast mass of really valuable information” (Field), and a cornerstone of any collection of ethnological studies on America. This copy is extra-illustrated with original manuscript material as well as photographs and engravings related to the Indians of Brantford, Ontario. The first edition of one of the most important and massive works concerning the American Indian, a foundation stone of ethnological studies in America. Schoolcraft, the general editor, was commissioner of Indian Affairs for many years, and in an unparalleled position to assemble the data presented herein. Field, while criticiz- ing the general layout of the work, says it contains “a vast mass of really valuable material. It has indeed performed a very important service for Indian history, in collecting and preserving an immense amount of historical data. Vocabularies of Indian languages, grammatical analyses, legends of various tribes, biographies of chiefs and warriors, narratives of captivities, histories of Indian wars, emigrations and theories of their origin, are all related and blended...a very large number of beautiful steel engravings, representative of some phase of Indian life and customs, are contained in the work....” In fact, the volumes contain some 336 illustrations, many of them steel engravings after artist Seth Eastman, most of which do not appear elsewhere. “No two people will probably agree which plates, among several hundred, are to be regarded as colored because the use of tinting is very skillful and most varied. The editor feels that only about 70, more than half in the first volume, are truly colored plates but he freely admits that the effect of coloring (as distinct from specific color) is very general throughout, though the black and white illustrations probably outnumber the others. It is said that the comparatively numerous colored plates of the first volume are all to be found, in colored state, in only a few copies” – Bennett. The copy in hand would appear to be one of the few colored copies. Only fourteen illustrations in the first volume of this set have no color or tint. There are many plates (and some maps in the second through sixth volumes) which have been handsomely and expertly colored (often by hand, some partially so) throughout the set, but most frequently in the first volume. This set has been extra-illustrated in the second volume by Dennis R. Alward, the recipient of three of the tipped-in letters. The two photographs show monuments of Mohawk chief Joseph Brant, and are mounted on cards from the Park & Co. studio in Brantford, Ontario. The engravings show related persons (including a portrait of Red Jacket) and places. The letters include a lengthy one from William C. Bryant, discussing Eva Johnson, daughter of Mohawk Chief George Johnson, as well as the Mohawk Indian Loft sisters (Sa-sa-na and You-we-ga), the elder of whom was tragically killed by a runaway freight train in 1852. Also included are letters from Eva Johnson written from Brantford, Ontario in 1887 concerning the two Indian sisters, as well as a letter by their brother, George Loft, with a return address of “Six Nations P.O., Haldimand Co., Ont[ario].” The final letter, written by W.H. Beauchamp and dated 1884, discusses the archaeological excavation of the possible site of Champlain’s fort. HOWES S183, “b.” FIELD, p.353. SABIN 77849. BENNETT, p.95 SERVIES 3691. $22,000. A Foundation Document of the California Oil Industry

161. Silliman, Benjamin: A DESCRIPTION OF THE RECENTLY DIS- COVERED PETROLEUM REGION IN CALIFORNIA, WITH A REPORT ON THE SAME. New York: Francis & Loutrel, February 1865. [2],iii,[1],24,[1]pp. plus folding map and folding cross-section. Original printed wrappers. 1½-inch semi-circular closed tear on front wrapper, with no paper loss. Wrappers a bit soiled, worn along spine. Small light stain in upper margin of first few leaves. Some light edge wear to the map. Overall very good.

This is Silliman’s second report on the oil region in Santa Barbara County, Cali- fornia, following a similarly titled study issued the year before (which did not have the folding map contained in the present issue). Silliman was a chemistry professor at Yale, and his reports are the most important early studies of petroleum in the United States (chiefly in Pennsylvania and California). He outlined the principal methods for preparing and purifying petroleum, and discovered its chief uses. Sil- liman’s surveys commanded high fees from the petroleum companies, raising ethi- cal questions in the scientific community. This report describes the oil wealth in lands owned by the California Petroleum Company. The map shows the location of the company’s lands around Ojai, in Santa Barbara County, and the cross-section shows the “ideal section from Buenaventura to Mupu Arroyo.” The company was capitalized at $10,000,000 and issued 100,000 shares at $100 each, with one-tenth of the capital stock reserved for working capital. Silliman concludes “that the promise of a remarkable development at Buenaventura is far better than it was in the Pennsylvania or Ohio regions – since so famous.” The Eberstadts called this report “the beginning of the petroleum industry in the West.” SABIN 81051. COWAN, p.588 (note). STREETER SALE 2903. GIDDENS, p.167. ROCQ 15489. EBERSTADT 133:801. DAWSON EIGHTY 66. $2000.

162. Sitgreaves, Lorenzo: REPORT OF AN EXPEDITION DOWN THE ZUNI AND COLORADO RIVERS. Washington. 1853. 198pp. plus large folding map and eighty plates (one folding, some tinted). Later 19th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Corners worn, head and foot of spine rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing and toning. About 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. 163. [Solano County Board of Trade]: SOLANO COUNTY CALIFOR- NIA. ITS LOCATION, TOPOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, CLIMATE, SOIL, PRODUCTIONS. ITS GREAT AGRICULTURAL, HOR- TICULTURAL AND VITICULTURAL WEALTH.... Oakland: En- quirer Print, [ca. 1887]. 84pp. including numerous full-page plates, plus one double-page plate and folding frontispiece map. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and quite chipped, especially at edges and along spine. Map edgeworn and with a closed tear at center. Final four leaves chipped in upper outer corner, else clean internally. A good copy overall. In a half morocco and cloth folding box, spine gilt.

A scarce promotional for Solano County, California, in the northeastern part of the Bay Area. The text gives a general description of the county, with an emphasis on its agricultural potential, and includes in-depth looks at Vallejo, Vacaville, Suisun, Benicia, and other towns. The illustrations show prominent buildings, homes, ranches, and the variety of agricultural crops cultivated locally. The map shows several of the townships of the county, at a scale of six miles to an inch. ROCQ 14643. EBERSTADT 132:164. $900.

164. Staehlin, Jakob von, and P.L. Le Roy: AN ACCOUNT OF THE NEW NORTHERN ARCHIPELAGO, LATELY DISCOVERED BY THE RUSSIANS IN THE SEAS OF KAMTSCHATKA AND ANADIR. TO WHICH IS ADDED A NARRATIVE OF THE AD- VENTURES OF FOUR RUSSIAN SAILORS, WHO WERE CAST AWAY ON THE DESERT ISLAND OF EAST-SPITZBERGEN: TOGETHER WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRO- DUCTIONS OF THAT ISLAND, &c, Translated from the German Originals at the Desire of several Members of the Royal Society. Lon- don: Printed for C. Heydinger, 1774. xx,118,ii pp. Publisher’s leaf of advertisements in rear. Ornamental headpieces. Without the original folding map engraved by Kitchin, but extra-illustrated with an engraved folding map depicting the same region, handcolored in outline, engraved by T. Bowen, extracted from the May 1775 issue of the London Magazine. Half title. Expertly bound to style in 18th-century tree calf, spine gilt with raised bands, morocco label, marbled endpapers. Very good.

First edition in English. “The author was Secretary to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and a member of the Royal Society of London. In the present work he attempted to present the gradual progress of the new Russian discoveries of islands in the North Pacific, including the Aleutian Islands, Kodiak and Unalaska islands, and a number of others. Staehlin states that his compilation is based on the original reports of Russian traders who, under a convoy from the Admiralty...spent 1764-67 exploring the North Pacific area, discovering new islands and confirming previous discoveries” – Lada-Mocarski. This first edition in English appeared the same year as the first edition, published in German in Stuttgart, and is much desired, as it additionally contains a narrative of four Russian sailors shipwrecked on East-Spitzbergen. This additional narrative, authored by P. Le Roy and with its own title, was previously published in St. Petersburg, but appears here in English for the first time. “An important work in the history of the northwest coast exploration. The work gives information on the people and wildlife of these islands. The map depicts Alaska as an island and shows routes taken by various Russian expeditions” – Hill. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 16667. HILL 1624. LADA-MOCARSKI 20 (German ed). $3750.

165. Stansbury, Howard: EXPLORATION AND SURVEY OF THE VALLEY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE OF UTAH, INCLUD- ING A RECONNOISSANCE OF A NEW ROUTE THROUGH THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Philadelphia. 1852. Two volumes. 487pp. plus fifty-seven plates (three folding) and three folding maps (two of which [on three sheets] are laid into a separate volume). Original cloth, stamped in blind; text volume with gilt-stamped spine, map volume with gilt-stamped front board. Cloth sunned. Very clean internally. Maps lightly soiled; map of the Great Salt Lake with a 2 x 1-inch repaired tear in upper portion, not interfering with the information on the map. Very good, a nice set.

This work is a report of the first extensive survey of the Great Basin, and a major landmark in the cartography of the American West, based on surveys made by Stansbury in 1849 and 1850. Stansbury’s publication presaged those of the Pacific Railroad Reports, and his account of the Mormons is one of the first by an outsider to be sympathetic and friendly. One of the large maps, “Map of the Great Salt Lake and adjacent country in the Territory of Utah,” permanently established the topography and place names of northern Utah. The other large “Map of a reconnoissance between Ft. Leavenworth, on the Missouri River, and the Great Salt Lake in the Territory of Utah...,” showing the overland trail, was based on the work of Stans- bury, Gunnison, Preuss, and Carrington. See Wheat for an exhaustive discussion. This account is also important as a pioneering botanical study of the Great Basin. HOWES S884. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 764, 765, 766. WAGNER-CAMP 219:2. MINTZ 433. FLAKE 8359. GRAFF 3947. FIELD 1490. SABIN 90372. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 12798. $1250.

166. Stapp, William Preston: THE PRISONERS OF PEROTE: CON- TAINING A JOURNAL KEPT BY THE AUTHOR, WHO WAS CAPTURED BY THE MEXICANS, AT MIER, DECEMBER 25, 1842, AND RELEASED FROM PEROTE, MAY 16, 1844. Philadel- phia: G.B. Zieber and Company, 1845. 164pp. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers spotted, worn at edges, neatly torn halfway up the front joint. Scattered light foxing. Very good.

The most readable and reliable eyewitness account of the Mier Expedition. Stapp joined the Texas forces in October 1842 and was one of the members of the Texas expedition against Mier. Stapp and his cohorts were taken prisoner in 1842, forced to march from the Rio Grande to Mexico City, and released in 1844. His narrative includes a chronology of events in Texas from 1836 to 1842, and accounts of the Dawson Massacre and the Vasquez and Woll expeditions. “This was the first book to appear on the Mier Expedition; it is still one of the best” – Jenkins. HOWES S891, “aa.” BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 197. DOBIE, p.58. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 27. GRAFF 3949. RAINES, p.194. SABIN 90483. STREETER TEXAS 1610. $1500.

With a Fine Folding Map of Kansas

167. Stark, Andrew [editor]: THE KANSAS ANNUAL REGISTER FOR THE YEAR 1864. PUBLISHED BY THE STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. Leavenworth: Printed at the Bulletin Job Printing Establish- ment, 1864. 265pp. plus six portraits (five of which are tinted lithographs), large folding colored map, and [9]pp. of advertisements at rear. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt leather labels. Boards quite rubbed and worn, front board nearly detached. Very clean and fresh internally; with the map in excellent condition, save for a two-inch closed tear in the gutter. In a calf-backed clamshell case, spine gilt.

A wonderful 19th-century digest of Kansas history and statistics, with a very rare and detailed map of Kansas which was apparently not issued with all copies. The text describes Kansas government offices, land surveys in Kansas, topography, school system, churches, military posts, etc. There is an account of Quantrill’s raid on Aug. 21, 1863, as well as a brief descriptive section on each county and a table of agricultural products. The portraits are of important Kansas figures: Thomas Carney, Thomas Ewing, James G. Blunt, James H. Lane, George W. Deitzler, and A.C. Wilder. Though the title implies later annual publications, this is the only one issued. Andrew Stark, the editor, was the publisher of the Topeka Tribune. The large folding map of Kansas, compiled by D.T. Mitchell and actually printed in Pittsburgh, is usually missing. It is entitled “Kansas Annual Register’s New Map of Kansas and the Gold Mines Embracing All the Public Surveys Up to 1864.” The primary map is quite detailed, showing all of the eastern half of the present state of Kansas. A large inset, occupying the bottom section of the map, shows the routes to the Colorado gold mines, indicating the trails across Kansas and the eastern section of Colorado. Mitchell worked with the cartographer, O.B. Gunn, who had prepared maps of Kansas as early as 1856, in creating this map. Not in Howes or in the Graff or Streeter collections. The combination of the map’s having been printed in Pittsburgh and the book’s publication in Kansas during the Civil War makes this is a very rare item. AII (KANSAS) 422. SABIN 37051. DARY, KANZANA 101 (copy inspected lacked map). EBERSTADT 137:588 (lacking map). $5000. Item 167.

An Arkansan in the Mexican-American War

168. Statham, George S.: A SOLDIER OF TWO WARS [caption title]. [N.p., but likely Arkansas]. 1884. Broadsheet, 10 x 7 inches, printed in two columns. Old fold lines. Small chips and tears at top and bottom edges. Minor foxing and toning. Very good.

This broadsheet, the text of which was originally published as a letter to the editor in the Fort Smith New Era, a newspaper published in Fort Smith, Arkansas gives a brief biographical sketch of a Captain Stephens, detailing his upstanding character in both the Mexican-American and Civil wars. The letter was written by George S. Statham, a comrade and friend of Captain Stephens during both wars, and was apparently written in defense of Stephens’ character: “Now, sir, had it not been for the late persecution of Captain Stephens at Hartford, this article would never have been written.” Though the letter does not mention what the precise accusa- tion against Captain Stephens is, it does say that there is no proof and mentions a “burned building.” Statham considers Stephens admirable and selfless in all respects, regaling his readers with anecdotes about the Captain giving up his horse and his blanket to soldiers who are sick or tired. He writes, “If all was told that could be truthfully said, his narrow escapes and good deeds would make quite an interesting little volume.” The gentleman in question is likely Captain James B. Stephens (1824-1906), a veteran of both the Mexican-American and Civil wars, who served with Statham in the 2nd Arkansas Union Cavalry, as indicated in the letter. Beyond his military service, Stephens also spent time in California panning for gold in 1850, served briefly in the Arkansas State Legislature, was married four times, and eventually moved to Montana to be near his children. His obituary notice reads in part: “Although a Union man he had no love for the negro and it is said he treated his colored brethren in the legislature with great contempt. And when colored door- keepers were trying to obey orders and retain a quorum at one session, Stephens drew a bowie knife and stalked unmolested past them.” Originally printed in a newspaper, this broadsheet was printed at the request of a Bery Stephens, who signs the postscript at the bottom, “in order that my friends may have the pleasure of reading this letter.” It is possible that this Stephens is the captain in question (whose middle initial B could stand for Bery), or a relation of his. A quite ephemeral piece, likely printed in a small number. No copies are located in OCLC. Obituaries of Benton County, Arkansas, 1905-1909, Vol. 3, pp.145-46. $850.

169. Stoddard, Amos, Major: SKETCHES, HISTORICAL AND DE- SCRIPTIVE, OF LOUISIANA. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1812. viii, 172,175-488pp. (complete). Cloth and old plain boards, gilt leather label. Boards rubbed and edgeworn. Old library blindstamp on titlepage, scattered foxing. Good. Untrimmed.

One of the classic early descriptions of upper and lower Louisiana, based on the author’s service there in the previous decade as civil and military commandant. His book is one of the earliest historical treatises concerning the regions extending to the Pacific, including descriptions of Indian tribes of this virtually unknown wilderness. As the western boundary of Louisiana had not yet been established, there is some material of relevance to Texas. HOWES S1021, “aa.” STREETER SALE 1537. GRAFF 3994. FIELD 1505. CLARK II:168. RAINES, p.196. SABIN 91928. RADER 2984. WAGNER-CAMP 10c. SERVIES 840. $1000. Santa Barbara Land Grant

170. Stuart, James F.: ARGUMENT ON THE SURVEY OF THE RAN- CHO “RIO DE SANTA CLARA,” SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA [wrapper title]. Washington: M’Gill & Witherow, 1872. 30pp. plus folding map. Original printed tan wrappers. Wrappers lightly foxed, a few small chips at edges. Text lightly toned. Very good.

Stuart was the attorney for the settlers who contested the “Rio de Santa Clara” land grant, asserted to have been given to one Valentine Cota by Governor Alvarado in 1837. Stuart’s argument reviews the history of the claim, argues against its validity, and cites the law in support of his side. The folding map shows the location of the contested land, located along the coast and south of the Santa Clara River, in present-day Ventura County. The appendix prints a letter from lawyer, diplomat, and former Attorney General, Caleb Cushing, on the meaning of the Spanish word “estero,” relevant in this case because of the presence of estuaries on the land. Not in Cowan. OCLC locates a dozen copies, mostly in California institutions. ROCQ 15491. OCLC 58874911, 11700978. $750.

Sioux Indian Painting

171. [Szwedzicki, C., publisher]: SIOUX INDIAN PAINTING PART I. PAINTINGS OF THE SIOUX AND OTHER TRIBES OF THE GREAT PLAINS. [with:] PART II. THE ART OF AMOS BAD HEART BUFFALO. Nice, France: C. Szwedzicki, [1938]. Two separate portfolios. 15; 10pp. of text in parallel English and French, plus fifty plates (many in color) on individual sheets. Folio. Text and illustrations laid in original cloth portfolio with illustrated front cover, string-tied. Slight wear to extremities of each portfolio. Plates all fine. Overall a very good, clean set.

One of 400 numbered sets, signed and numbered by the publisher. Comprised of letterpress introductions and notes by Hartley Burr Alexander, accompanied by fifty folio plates printed via gravure and the pochoir process (twenty-five plates per volume). These are two of the most desirable of all the lavish Szwedzicki folios. The beautiful plates depict the artwork of a number of Sioux, Shoshone, and Kiowa artists (e.g. Kills Two, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Pretty Hawk, Chief Washakie, and Silver Horn). The second portfolio contains artwork exclusively by Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, including a series of famous scenes from the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Seventeen of the twenty-five plates in the second part relate entirely to the Custer battle, and others to the Wounded Knee massacre. When the drawings were reproduced in 1967 in A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux, they were singled out as a Custer “Highspot.” Szwedzicki also produced portfolios of Kiowa Indian art and Pueblo art, all published in a similar format in the south of France in the 1930s. These portfolios have become rather uncommon due to cannibalization over the years, and it has been suggested that some sets were destroyed during World War II. A beautiful and important collection of 19th-century American Indian art. LUTHER HIGHSPOT 105. $6000.

A Seminal Map of the Southwest

172. Tanner, Henry S.: A MAP OF THE UNITED STATES OF MEXI- CO, AS ORGANIZED AND DEFINED BY THE SEVERAL ACTS OF CONGRESS OF THAT REPUBLIC. Philadelphia: H.S. Tanner, 1846. Engraved map on banknote paper, with original hand-coloring. Sheet size: 23 x 28½ inches. Very good. See the cover of this catalogue for detail illustration

An important and rare map of Mexico, depicting Texas in its largest form, the “1846, second edition” of the celebrated Tanner map. The present map embraces all of modern Mexico and the southwestern United States, and prominently features the new state of Texas with its original extensive boundaries. Henry S. Tanner, of Philadelphia, was one of the most esteemed Ameri- can mapmakers of the first half of the 19th century. His 1822 Map of North America was one of the most influential of the period. In 1825 he excerpted and enlarged the portion of the map pertaining to what was a newly independent Mexico, which then included the entire American southwest. Tanner’s map effectively became the definitive source map for the region. It was brazenly copied in the White Gal- laher & White map of 1828, which in turn directly inspired the famous Disturnell map of 1846, the “Treaty map” initially used to consider the redemarcation of the international border following the Mexican-American War. Walter Ristow noted that Tanner produced the first edition of the United States of Mexico map in 1825, and furthermore cited that he “issued 10 variants of one or another of five states” of the map up to 1847. The present map is officially termed the “1846, second edition,” although it is actually the seventh variant of the map to be issued, according to Ristow’s classification. It closely follows the “1832, second edition,” even including the “April 2nd, 1832” copyright imprint in the lower right corner. At this time, interest in all matters relating to Mexico and Texas amongst the American public was at an all-time high, and it is thought that Tanner hastily prepared this edition in order to capitalize on the commercial opportunities. Tan- ner did not take the time to avail himself of the most recent geographical advances, and consequently this map is a fascinating cartographic hold-out during a time of unprecedented change. Texas is portrayed as an enormous Mexican state, although it had since 1832 seceded, and later joined the Union as an American state. Its massive territory extends far to the north and west of its modern limits, following the eastern band of the Rio Grande up to its headwaters, up into the “stovepipe” to a point touching the 42nd parallel. The geographical detailing of most of Texas is quite accurate, as Tanner was well apprised of Stephen F. Austin’s surveys, a point underscored by his inclusion of “Austin’s Colony” in east-central Texas. In an improvement to its antecedent, the western portion of the state owes its form to William Emory’s map of 1844. The depiction of what is now modern Mexico is quite advanced, in light of Alexander von Humboldt’s exhaustive charting of the country. At this time Tanner elected not to include information from Charles Fremont’s ground-breaking map of 1845, based on his own discoveries. The coastline of Alta California still maintains a mythical quality, void of most actual details such as San Francisco Bay, but is replete with imaginary details such as the Buenaventura, Los Mongos, Timpangos, and San Felipe rivers. The interior regions extending all the way into what is now Colorado are shown to be almost completely unknown. A curious prophetic detail is the demarcation of a boundary line between Alta and Baja California, although located to the south of the international border that was to be set in 1848. The map includes a detailed inset depicting the key travel route from the port of Veracruz to Mexico City, the same path taken by U.S. forces during their successful attack on the Mexican capital in 1847. In the spirit of the times, the map also includes two statistical tables, one of distances and the other of population and geographical details of individual states. Tanner, wishing to update this map, produced a “third edition” later that same year that evinced Fremont’s discoveries. RISTOW, A LA CARTE, p.207. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI III, p.38. $30,000. In Original Boards

173. Taylor, Bayard: ELDORADO, OR, ADVENTURES IN THE PATH OF EMPIRE.... London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850. Two volumes. 360pp. continuous pagination. Original printed boards. Some fraying at spine extremities, contemporary ownership initials on each titlepage and first page of text in both volumes. Else internally fine, largely unopened.

The second British edition, issued the same year as the first, but reset on a smaller format and without the plates. The present copy is in the rare original state, in two volumes, in the publisher’s boards. Most copies of this edition were bound into a single volume. The narrative describes Taylor’s trip to the mines of California as a newspaper correspondent in 1849. “Unexcelled description of California’s gold-rush days by a professional traveller and trained observer” – Howes. HOWES T43. CLARK III:423. ZAMORANO 80, 73. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 204. KURUTZ 618e. $850.

174. Taylor, Joseph Henry: SKETCHES OF FRONTIER AND INDI- AN LIFE ON THE UPPER MISSOURI AND GREAT PLAINS.... Pottstown, Pa.: Printed and Published by the Author, 1889. 200pp. plus plates. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Worn at extremities, rear hinge starting. Heavily inscribed by contemporary owners on paste- downs and fly leaves. Front fly leaf lacks lower half. Scattered foxing to text and plates. A good, solid copy. In a red three-quarter morocco clamshell box.

A scarce western narrative by this modestly prolific chronicler of the Dakotas. Tay- lor lived in the Dakotas from 1864 to 1889. His memoir contains descriptions of the Upper Missouri River Valley and its inhabitants, including various local Indian tribes, in the closing days of the frontier, before the completion of the railroad in the 1870s and ’80s. Contains some material about Custer. HOWES T68. STREETER SALE 1829. GRAFF 4091. $850.

An Early View of Texas

175. [Texas]: LE CHAMP-D’ASILE AU TEXAS...Par C—. D—. Paris: Chez Tiger, [1820]. 107pp. Lacks pp.63-70. Folding engraved frontis. 16mo. Original cloth-backed patterned paper boards. Boards shelfworn, hinges weak. Frontispiece wrinkled, with a small tear in lower margin not affecting caption. Titlepage a bit soiled. Four of the final leaves irregularly trimmed at foredge, shaving a few letters. A solid copy, lacking eight pages.

The rarest and most sensational account of the abortive colony of Napoleonic loy- alists established in Texas in 1818. The Champ D’Asile colony was one of several such settlements attempted by former officers of the Emperor in the New World. It lasted only about a year before succumbing to the climate, lack of funding and supplies, and hostility from the Spanish and Mexican authorities. The accounts of Hartmann & Millard and L’Hertier, published in 1819, and the present account, are the three chief records of the colony at the time. This publication includes the founding proclamation of Gen. Lallemand in 1818 and a partial list of colonists, and adds a sensational tale of colonists being burned at the stake by hostile Indians. “...Rarest of books on the tribulations suffered by the abortive French colony on the Trinity River. The panoramic view of the settlement is one of much interest” – Eberstadt. Although this copy is imperfect, the view of the Champ D’Asile settlement is present, showing carpenters and blacksmiths at work in the foreground, ground being plowed, and houses and tents of the colonies. This is a very early Texas view. STREETER TEXAS 1077. SABIN 95071. EBERSTADT 162:134. HOWES D1, “aa.” $1000. A Previously Unrecorded Texas Land Company

176. [Texas]: VERMONT TEXAS LAND COMPANY. ONE SHARE, ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS [caption title]. Bethel, Vt. Jan. 9, 1837. Broadside, approximately 8 x 7½ inches. Old fold lines. Minor wear and light soiling. Very good.

A share in the Vermont Texas Land Company, organized in September 1836. The share is made out to Heman Parkhurst of Sharon, Vermont in Windsor County and signed by N. Williams, George Lyman, and Julius Converse. Lyman and Converse were both justices of the peace in Windsor County in the 1840s, and Converse went on to be governor of Vermont from 1872 to 1874. Beginning in 1820 the government of Mexico opened Texas to settlement by foreigners, provided they agreed to abide by the law and be morally upright citizens. This opened the way for many American settlers. Texas declared itself a free republic in March 1836, and shortly thereafter the Vermont Texas Land Company was organized. We can find no record of the company, though it would seem to still have been valid in 1845 when Heman Parkhurst transferred his share to Andrew Tracy, also of Sharon, Vermont. Unrecorded, and unknown to bibliographers. $3750.

The Slidell Mission to Mexico

177. [Texas]: ULTIMAS COMUNICACIONES ENTRE EL GOBI- ERNO MEXICANO Y EL ENVIADO ESTRAORDINARIO Y MINISTRO PLENIPOTENCIARIO NOMBRADO POR EL DE LOS ESTADOS-UNIDOS, SOBRE LA CUESTION DE TEJAS, Y ADMISION DE DICHO AGENTE. Mexico: Imprente de Ignacio Cumplido, 1846. 22pp. Tall octavo. Original printed yellow wrappers. Front wrapper detached but present. Wrappers a bit soiled, chipped at edges. Very light age toning to text. About very good.

This pamphlet discusses the Slidell mission to Mexico and its attempt to improve the situation between Mexico and the United States, especially as relates to Texas. The Eberstadts describe this as a basic document of the Mexican-American War, as it “was the final effort in the negotiation to preserve peace, after which war became inevitable.” Indeed, herein it is stated: “The Mexican nation does not recognize the American flag on Texas soil...and shall never permit new territorial advances by the United States....” PALAU 212780. GARRETT, p.87. STREETER SALE 245. EBERSTADT 162:541. $1500. Item 177.

Very Early Map of Abilene

178. [Texas]: Kirby, A.H.: MAP OF ABILENE....PUBLISHED BY LOUIS C. WISE & Co....GENERAL AGENTS FOR LANDS IN NORTHWEST TEXAS. CONTROL OVER 500 LOTS IN ALL PARTS OF ABILENE. CHOICE LANDS NEAR TOWN. Abilene, Tx.: Louis C. Wise & Co., [ca. 1885]. Lithographed map, 27 x 24 inches. Fine.

A rare map of Abilene, Texas, quite likely the earliest large map of the city. Abilene, some 180 miles west of Dallas, was established in 1881 by cattlemen as a stock shipping point on the Texas & Pacific Railroad, and it was promoted as the future great city of west Texas. By 1883 it became the seat of Taylor County, replacing Buffalo Gap, which had been passed over by the railroad. This map, which is undated but likely produced circa 1885, shows the rapid growth of the city. The map was drawn by A.H. Kirby and compiled by Kirby and County Surveyor J.A. Thomas. It is highly detailed, showing hundreds of lots available in the city from Louis C. Wise & Company (successor to Holt & Wise), the largest land agent in Abilene. A table provides the names of several land owners, with numbers corresponding to lots and blocks on the map. The map also gives street names, the route of the Texas & Pacific Railroad, the location of the stock pens near the train depot, and the paths of three creeks. Louis Wise was one of the earliest residents of Abilene. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1864 and following the Civil War went to Mexico as an engineer on the survey of the Vera Cruz and Mexico Railroad. Wise came to Texas in 1866, was employed as a draftsman in the state land office in Austin, and settled in Abilene when the town was founded. This map was printed by the Galveston lithographic firm of Clarke & Courts, which brought the first lithographic press to Texas in 1877. OCLC locates five copies, at Yale, Southern Methodist University, the Library of Congress, the University of Texas at Arlington, and at Hardin-Simmons University. OCLC 78372731, 71916763. $3000.

179. [Texas Annexation]: ANNEXATION, OR SPORT FOR GROWN CHILDREN [caption title]. [N.p.]: Seatsfield, del., [ca. 1844]. Lithograph, 13 x 15¾ inches. Lightly age-toned. Pencil marks and tape remnants on verso. A couple small repaired edge tears. About very good.

A rare American political print, satirizing the men in favor of annexing Texas to the United States in 1844. The image shows a group of men trailing two dogs named “Santa Anna” and “J. Bull,” who are chasing a third dog named “Jonathan.” That third dog is dragging a “Treaty Between the United States and Mexico” and pulling behind its tail a kettle marked “Texas.” Among the men commenting on the scene are John Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren, and a character wearing a top hat representing England (i.e. “John Bull”). Jackson proclaims, “there’s as much fun in this, as in scalping Indians,” while Van Buren, crouching behind bushes, says, “I have not my cue to speak yet, in the mean time I’ll keep dark, and watch how the — dog jumps.” Polk, the Democratic nominee for president in 1844 and a strong advocate of annexation, doffs his hat and says, “Hurra! Well, if they don’t elect me President for this, I’ll never do another good-natured thing as long as I live.” The John Bull character proclaims that he is undecided as to whether to “jump over the fence and join the sport; or stay here and cry shame!” Not in Reilly’s catalogue of political prints in the Library of Congress. OCLC locates only a single copy, at the American Antiquarian Society, and we locate two copies at the Beinecke Library at Yale. WEITENKAMPF, p.76. OCLC 191119742. $1500. Gone To Texas

180. [Texas Annexation]: THE DANGER OF VOTING YOURSELF A FARM – THE PROBABILITY OF GETTING IT IN A HORN [caption title]. New York: Published and for sale by J. Magee, [ca. 1845]. Lithograph, 12 x 15½ inches. Backed with tissue, repairing a small tear in the upper right corner of the margin and two small holes in the lower margin. A bit of light soiling and staining. About very good.

A very rare satirical print addressing the issue of Texas annexation, and warning of the false promises made by those in favor of adding the Republic of Texas to the United States. The image shows an impoverished family in tattered clothes walking down a trail. The father guards his four children as a massive bull gores the mother, sending her up into the air. A sign beside the bull points the way to Texas. The father curses “the likes of them that told me I could vote meself a farm...I go to the polls and vote 4 times for the Wig’s and 6 times for the Timecrats all in one day....” The bull responds, “You want a farm do yer, well there it is, in a horn ha ha ha.” The family has disembarked from a train, which is shown steaming off in the background. Peters mentions that the publisher, John L. Magee, made numerous “current events” prints, but this print caricaturing the hopes of those who would go to Texas is not among them. This rare print is not listed in OCLC, nor is it in Reilly’s catalogue of political prints in the Library of Congress. $1750.

181. [Texas Slavery]: [MANUSCRIPT DEED OF EMANCIPATION FOR A TEXAS SLAVE WOMAN AND HER FIVE CHILDREN, GIVEN THEIR FREEDOM MONTHS BEFORE THE OUT- BREAK OF THE TEXAS REVOLUTION]. Austin. March 26, 1835. [4]pp., with most of the text on the first two pages, signatures on p.[3], and manuscript docketing on p.[4]. Folio. Central vertical fold and three horizontal folds. Old tape repairs at edges of two horizontal folds and along the vertical fold. A bit soiled. On the whole, very good.

A very interesting pre-revolutionary Texas document, being a manuscript deed of emancipation for a slave woman and her children. By this deed John McAllen, “a resident settler of this colony...for the faithful services of his Negro slave Celia and her long tried fidelity and assiduous and tender care of his person and interests, moved by his spontaneous will, and informed and instructed in his rights in the best form the law permits he raises, quits renounces and abdicates totally all right property and dominion whatever which he has had and has in person labor and services of the above named Celia and the issue of her body.” Celia’s five children are also freed: Henry (about eight years old), Dolly (about six), Rankin (a son, about five), Yarboro (another son, about three), and George (just four months old). The text goes on to list the rights which Celia could henceforth legally exercise, concluding with that she could “generally...do whatever a free man might lawfully do.” There are, however, strings attached. Though much of the document describes the rights over Celia and her children that McAllen hereafter renounces, it notes that he could revoke the manumission “in case of the ingratitude of the said Celia and her children; and if he should at any time reclaim the emancipation, he wishes not be heard either judicially or extrajudicially.” The document is written in a secretarial hand and signed by Judge George Ewing in his own hand at the end. It is further signed by Celia with a “+” symbol, and also signed by John McAllen and several witnesses, including G.A. Powell, James Baird, John Evans, and J. Bricker. Manuscript evidence recording the emancipation of slaves in Texas at such an early date is rare. $1500.

Settling California Land Claims: The Streeter Copy

182. Thornton, Harry I.: OPINIONS DELIVERED BY HARRY I. THORNTON, AS ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE BOARD TO ASCERTAIN AND SETTLE PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS, IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF THE 3d OF MARCH, 1851. San Francisco: Printed and published by Francis A. Bonnard, 1853. 114pp. Modern half calf and plain paper boards. Spine lightly sunned. Scattered foxing, a tideline in the upper portion of the second half of the text. Small ink stamps on titlepage and edges of text. Neat, early pencil marginalia throughout. About very good.

The Thomas W. Streeter copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown and his pencil notes on the front free endpaper. This copy also contains the contemporary ink stamp of San Francisco booksellers Burgess, Gilbert & Still on the titlepage, just above the imprint. Harry I. Thornton was one of the three original members of the United States Commission for Settling Private Land Claims in California (created in 1851) and served for two years. This volume contains his opinions on the claims of “Californios,” Americans, and a Native American to lands granted to them by Spanish and Mexican officials. Among the cases included herein are the claims of Cruz Cervantes, Camillo Yintia (“a native Indian”), Francisco Dye, Archibald Ritchie, and several others. All the decisions were in favor of the claim- ant and against the United States, which may be why Thornton was relieved of his duties after only two years. We cannot locate another copy on the market since the Streeter Sale. Scarce, containing early decisions on California land claims. STREETER SALE 2750 (this copy). COWAN, p.637. GREENWOOD 430. COHEN 9586. $2000.

Landmark Work on Oregon and California

183. Thornton, Jessy Quinn: OREGON AND CALIFORNIA IN 1848... INCLUDING RECENT AND AUTHENTIC INFORMATION ON THE SUBJECT OF THE GOLD MINES OF CALIFORNIA.... New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. Two volumes bound in one. 393; 379pp., plus folding map with contemporary color and twelve plates. Without the sixteen pages of advertisements. Later three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands. Boards lightly rubbed and edgeworn. Very clean internally. An attractive copy, with the map in exceptionally nice condition.

“Thornton was one of the real pioneers of Oregon and California, arriving in Oregon in 1846. He has always been considered a good authority, and this work is among the best of the times. The first printed account of the sufferings of the Donner party is found in this volume. The map accompanying Thornton’s work is the famous Colton map of the Western United States, including Oregon, Cali- fornia, and Texas” – Wheat. The twelve illustrations, all engravings, show scenes from Thornton’s observations on the Oregon Trail and imaginative renditions of the demise of the Donner party. WAGNER-CAMP 174:1. HOWES T224, “aa.” MINTZ 466. GRAFF 4143. SABIN 95630. STREETER SALE 3155. KURUTZ 632a. ZAMORANO 80, 74. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 208. COWAN, p.638. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 73. MATTES 204. MINTZ 466. ROCQ 16107. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 593. $5000.

184. Tirion, Izaak: KARTE VAN HET WESTELYK GEDEELTE VAN NIEUW MEXICO EN VAN CALIFORNIA VOLGENS DE LAAT- STE ONTDEKKINGEN DER JESUITEN EN ANDEREN. Amster- dam: Isaak Tirion, 1765. Copper-engraved map with full original color. Sheet size: 16 x 19 inches. In excellent condition.

A very attractive and map of the American Southwest and Baja California, by a respected Amsterdam cartographer. This highly detailed map, with beautiful full original color, embraces the area from what is now central Arizona and southern California down to Sonora and the Baja California Peninsula of Mexico. The map depicts the region during an especially fascinating time in its development. The Baja Peninsula and Sonora are shown to be dotted with Spanish garrisons and Jesuit missions established in the wake of Father Eusebio Kino, who explored the area in the late 1600s. Kino was the first cartographer to definitively establish that Cali- fornia is not an island, as previously thought. The notations on the map refer to various episodes in the exploration of the region. The shores of the Peninsula and the Sea of Cortés are charted in finely assured detail, as are the courses of the lower Colorado and Gila rivers, the latter running near present-day Phoenix, Arizona. With reference to what is now known as southern California, the map depicts the Channel Islands and extends past “Kaap St. Diego” up towards modern-day Los Angeles; however, the shape of the coastline seems to be based more on conjecture than actual discovery. The first mission in Alta California, San Diego (founded 1769), was yet to be established, and accurate charting of the region by such figures as the Comte de La Pérouse were still to occur a generation into the future. The present map was included in Tirion’s highly regarded Nieuwe en Beknopte Hand-Atlas. LOWERY COLLECTION 498. PHILLIPS MAPS, p.494. PHILLIPS ATLASES, 600-102. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 148. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST 608. $950.

185. [Utah Laws]: ACTS, RESOLUTIONS, AND MEMORIALS, PASSED BY THE FIRST ANNUAL, AND SPECIAL SESSIONS, OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, OF THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, BEGUN AND HELD AT GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, ON THE 22nd DAY OF SEPTEMBER, A.D. 1851.... Salt Lake City: Brigham H. Young, 1852. 258pp. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Several leaves lightly dampstained, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

An important and very early Utah imprint. Brigham Young led the first Mormon settlers to the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1847, and the Territory was incorporated in 1850. A total of 2000 copies of these Acts were ordered printed. McMURTRIE (UTAH) 15. $1500.

186. Vandor, Paul E.: HISTORY OF FRESNO COUNTY CALIFORNIA WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE LEADING MEN AND WOMEN OF THE COUNTY WHO HAVE BEEN IDEN- TIFIED WITH ITS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT FROM THE EARLY DAYS TO THE PRESENT. Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1919. Two volumes. [7]-1287; [1289]-2603pp., including full-page photographic plates. Thick quarto. Original three-quarter black morocco and black cloth, spines gilt. Cloth a bit frayed. Very clean internally. Very good.

An absolutely massive history of Fresno County, California, one of the most pro- ductive agricultural regions in the United States. The first volume is a history of the county, with much on early settlers, social life, Indian troubles, agricultural development, and the growth of the town of Fresno. The second volume is filled with biographies and portraits of prominent citizens. Vandor, who had lived in California for decades, touts his authority as a historian over previous published histories that he describes as “the hurried labor of superficial hack writers, unac- quainted with their subject, the historical subordinated to the commercial feature of the publications.” “Several chapters are devoted to California outlaws, one to Vasquez, one to the Evans-Sontag gang, and another to various criminals of the county, including Murieta” – Adams. COWAN, p.655. ROCQ 1841. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 2263 (“scarce”). $750.

187. Watson, Douglas S.: CALIFORNIA IN THE FIFTIES. FIFTY VIEWS OF CITIES AND MINING TOWNS IN CALIFOR- NIA AND THE WEST, ORIGINALLY DRAWN ON STONE BY KUCHEL & DRESEL AND OTHER EARLY SAN FRANCISCO LITHOGRAPHERS. San Francisco: John Howell, 1936. [113]pp. plus fifty plates reproduced from lithographs. With additional portfolio containing an extra set of plates. Large oblong folio. Original three-quarter morocco and cloth with additional cloth portfolio. Corners worn, extremities rubbed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Bright and clean internally. Very good.

One of 100 copies printed on Alexandra Japan paper and issued with an extra portfolio of plates, this being number 92. A fine collection of early California lithographs reproduced in book format, with useful descriptive text. Printing was done by A. Carlisle & Co., the successors of the firm of Britton & Rey, from whose establishment most of the original lithographs were issued. In addition to being issued with an extra set of plates, the limitation statement indicates that this work was also issued with an original California newspaper of the era, as well as an original document, neither of which is present here. Still, scarce with the extra plates. HOWES W164, “aa.” $900.

With Colored Alfred Jacob Miller Lithographs

188. Webber, Charles W.: WILD SCENES AND SONG-BIRDS. New York. 1855. x,[2],347pp. plus twenty chromolithographic plates. Original blue publisher’s cloth, stamped in gilt, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners bumped. Bookplate on front pastedown. Lightly toned throughout. Very good.

The second issue, after the first of 1854, differing only in the date on the titlepage. The first issue incorrectly called for twenty-five plates described as “colored lithographs” when in fact they were chromolithographs. Both errors have been corrected in this 1855 issue, with the titlepage describing “twenty illustrations, printed in colors.” This book overlaps with Webber’s The Hunter-Naturalist, employing some of the same plates and stories, such as “Border Life in the West.” Its primary interest is its fine chromolithographs. Fifteen of these are of birds, executed by Mrs. Webber; the other five are by Alfred Jacob Miller and depict an “Indian caressing his horse,” “Encampment of Indians,” “Toilette of Indians,” “Antelope Chase,” and “Indian Girl Swinging.” The opportunities for seeing topless Indian girls swinging from trees or bathing in streams were limited on the Plains, but Miller managed – or fantasized. The plates were executed by one of the first chromolithographers in Philadelphia, Louis Rosenthal. McGrath calls Wild Scenes and Song-Birds the “most important” of Webber’s color plate books, a trilogy which also includes Wild Scenes and Wild Hunters of the World. BENNETT, p.111. McGRATH, pp.111-12, 131. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NA- TIONAL CHARACTER 28. $1500.

189. Weichardt, Karl: [Fremont, John C.]: DIE VEREININGTEN STA- ATEN VON NORD-AMERIKA UND DEREN TERRITORIEN, NEBST EINEM BLICK AUF KANADA.... Leipzig. 1848. x,447,[1] pp. plus engraved frontispiece and folding map. Later half cloth and marbled boards, manuscript paper label. Spine frayed, corners lightly worn. Ink stamps on verso of frontispiece and on titlepage. A few pencil marks in text, light scattered foxing. Good.

First edition thus, with added Fremont material. The author travelled extensively through the American South in the 1840s. “Special attention is directed to snakes in Virginia, rice fields in the Carolinas, the Indians of Florida, bear hunts, lynch laws, and itinerant preachers along the Mississippi River. Statistical information for the Ohio Valley, as well as a side trip from Louisville to Lexington” – Clark. The second part of the book contains an early German translation of John Fremont’s report of his first two expeditions, and the segments relating to the West are largely drawn from Fremont. This version of the book has an added preface. The same sheets were issued two more times in 1848 under different titles. CLARK III:431. HOWES W222. WAGNER-CAMP-BECKER 115:12. SABIN 102502. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 560. $1250.

Important Early Map of Kansas

190. Wells, John Gaylord: WELLS’ NEW RAIL ROAD AND TOWN- SHIP MAP OF MISSOURI AND EASTERN KANSAS FROM THE LATEST GOVERNMENT SURVEYS. New York: J.G. Wells, 11 Beekman Street, 1857. 24 x 30 inches, folded to 5¾ x 3½ inches, with contemporary color. In original green cloth folder, stamped in gilt. Light wear to folder. Separation at some folds. Very lightly toned, a few small stains in top left corner. Very good.

A rare and handsome map of Missouri and the eastern edge of Kansas, with each county highlighted in color. This map does not appear in Modelski’s railroad bibliographies or other standard sources. In the late 1850s railroads became increasingly important to the Great Plains region and the West. Most of the rail lines shown on this map emanate from St. Louis – the “Gateway to the West” – connecting her to Jefferson City and other smaller cities, with the future route of the line delineated. Several proposed lines are indicated, such as one from Jefferson City to Kansas City, and another from Keosauqua, Iowa to Kansas City. Tooley lists cartographer J.G. Wells (1821-80), but notes only one map (Ohio) by him. The front pastedown bears an advertisement for Wells’ latest publications, including eighteen maps and fourteen books, for a total of almost forty items. Wells’ cartographic output was short-lived but vigorous, and all his maps are very rare. This map is not located in OCLC, though an 1858 edition does appear in one copy, at the University of Virginia. $5750.

Broad-Ranging California Album

191. [Western Photographica]: [ALBUM OF NEARLY 400 ORIGI- NAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF VISITS TO YOSEMITE, HETCH HETCHY, THE FEATHER RIVER, YELLOWSTONE, AND THE GRAND CANYON IN THE 1920s]. [Various places in California, Wyo- ming & Arizona]. 1923-1925. 396 total photographs, 4½ x 3½ inches on average. Mounted onto the leaves of a contemporary oblong quarto album of black textured cloth, string-tied. Album edges chipped and worn. Very clean and neat internally, with the photographs in generally near fine condition.

An outstanding album of non-professional photographs from the 1920s, containing a large number of images of iconic western natural wonders, including Yosemite, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon, and including photographs of lesser-known sites such as the Hetch Hetchy Valley, the Feather River region, and the Tassajara Hot Springs. The first part of the album contains scores of images of Yosemite and the adjacent Hetch Hetchy Valley, taken on an excursion in 1924. There are photographs of Mirror Lake, Bridal Veil Falls, Glacier Point, Half Dome, and other famous sites in the park, as well as pictures of life in camp and along the trails, plus several photographs of Hetch Hetchy and the controversial dam that had just been completed there. The next section contains several photographs taken during a camping trip to Camp Elwell on the Feather River, as part of the California Camera Club in 1925. These pictures show the beauty of the area, as well as scenes in “Gold Lake Camp,” including swimming, hiking, boating, an elaborate mock wedding, etc. This was apparently an extended stay, represented in scores of images of an area that is not terribly well represented in the vernacular photography of the period. The final portion of the album contains scores more photographs of Yellowstone (including pictures of geysers, cabins, and the tour group itself ), and 1923 trips to the Grand Canyon and the Tassajara Hot Springs near Monterey, California, including pictures of Hopi dwellings at El Tovar, a Hopi dancer, Navajo Indians, the hot springs, and more. $1000. An Early View of Arizona

192. [Wheat, Marvin T.]: TRAVELS ON THE WESTERN SLOPE OF THE MEXICAN CORDILLERA, IN THE FORM OF FIFTY-ONE LETTERS...By Cincinnatus. San Francisco: Whitton, Towne & Co., 1857. 438pp. plus illustrations. Original publisher’s cloth. Corners bumped, extremities rubbed. Lacking front fly leaf. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Minor foxing. Very good.

These letters relate several journeys through Arizona and the Southwest, and include information about a potential railroad route, copper mining, the banishment of Barron and Forbes and the Tepic Conspiracy, and the American Filibustering Expedition. There is also much material on local customs, politics, labor, and the natural history of the region. “This book contains notes on a trip by H.W. Wash- burn, United States Deputy Surveyor, from Fort Yuma up the Gila River to Tucson and also comments on the Gadsden Purchase and the likelihood of a railroad by the southern route” – Wagner-Camp. The illustrations show the city and harbor of Mazatlan, San Blas, Acapulco, La Ventosa, and Minatitlan. WAGNER-CAMP 294b. GRAFF 4618. MUNK (ALLIOT), p.50. HOWES W313, “aa.” GREENWOOD 896. EBERSTADT 103:13. DECKER 31:291. $750.

An Important Early Texas Guide

193. Woodman, David: GUIDE TO TEXAS EMIGRANTS. Boston: M. Hawes, 1835. vi,[13]-192pp. plus engraved plate and folding map. Modern dark green cloth (the same as the original), spine gilt. Map backed with later paper, lower right quarter supplied in facsimile (the inset map of Galveston only, not affecting the map of Texas), several small tears and losses repaired. Several upper corners with tissue repairs. Contemporary meteorological tables pasted to rear endpapers. Minor soiling and foxing. A good, solid copy.

Woodman wrote this guidebook, 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. Part of the text of Woodman’s book is a pure promotion for the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company. It 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. GRAFF 4737. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 12. CLARK III:117. PHILLIPS, SPORTING BOOKS, p.413. $20,000. Item 193.

194. [Wyoming Brand Book]: OFFICIAL BRAND BOOK OF THE STATE OF WYOMING AND A COMPILATION OF LAWS AF- FECTING LIVE STOCK.... Denver. 1916. [4],450pp. Narrow octavo. Original limp red leather, front cover gilt. Institutional ink stamp and early ownership signature on verso of front cover. Near fine.

Issued by the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners of Wyoming, this volume shows all the brands on cattle and other livestock recorded up through June 1916, and includes a lengthy index and the text of applicable Wyoming laws. Wyoming looms large in the history of American stock growing – most famously the Wyo- ming Stock Growers Association was the villain of Mercer’s Banditti of the Plains. The first Wyoming brand book was issued in 1882, and even early 20th-century iterations are quite scarce. ADAMS HERD 2608. STREETER SALE 2394. $1250.

With Handsome Chromolithographs

195. [Yosemite]: YOSEMITE ILLUSTRATED IN COLORS. THIR- TEEN FULL PAGE CHROMO LITHOGRAPHS. San Francisco: H.S. Crocker & Co., 1890. Thirteen chromolithographs on boards, 29 text leaves on boards, coated stock, and tissue. Large quarto. Original three-quarter suede and cloth boards, cover stamped in gilt. Boards lightly soiled. Book- plate on front pastedown. Minor foxing to tissue, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

A handsome specimen of American chromolithography executed by H.S. Crocker and Company of San Francisco. Reproducing the original art work of H.W. Hansen and Carl Dahlgren, the various views of Yosemite are accompanied by text written by Warren Cheney and poems by Harry Dix. The plates include images of Sentinel Rock, Bridal Veil, El Capitan, the Cascades, the Three Brothers, Vernal Falls, Cathedral Spires, Nevada Falls, Cathedral Rock, Yosemite Falls, Half Dome, a general view, and the snow plant. A marvelous combination of late 19th-century American illustration and book production. $750.