Western Americana

catalogue two hundred eighty-seven Western Americana

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Front cover: 132. Saint-Mémin, Charles B.J.F. de: [Chalk Profile Portrait...]. Richmond. 1807.

Rear cover: 48. [Francis, Charles Spencer]: Sport Among the Rockies.... Troy, N.Y. 1889. Magnificent Photographs

1. Adams, Ansel Easton, and Mary Austin: TAOS PUEBLO. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1977. [6] preliminary pages followed by [14]pp. of text and twelve photographic illustrations, each with a caption leaf bound in before it. Woodcut decorations by Valenti Angelo. Folio. Original half leather and cloth. Spine slightly scuffed, else fine. In a slipcase. With the bookplate of James S. Copley.

Number 345 of the facsimile edition limited to 950 copies, signed by Adams. Possibly the most famous modern photographic work on the West, Taos Pueblo, originally published by the Grabhorn Press in 1930 in an edition limited to 108 copies, was a collaboration between the young photographer, Ansel Adams, and one of the most evocative writers on the Southwest, Mary Austin. An elegant design by the Grabhorn Press provides a counterpoint to Adams’ photographs of the adobe Pueblo. The book distilled the romance and naturalism that many Americans found in the Indian pueblos of New Mexico, and defined the style that was to make Adams the most popular photographer of the American West. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY 137 (ref ). $2750.

The “Child of the Alamo”

2. [Alamo]: Bryan, Guy M.: SPEECH OF GUY M. BRYAN, MEM- BER FOR BRAZORIA, ON A JOINT RESOLUTION FOR THE RELIEF OF THE INFANT DAUGHTER OF SUSANNAH AND ALMIRAM DICKINSON [caption title]. [Np. nd, ca. 1850]. Broad- sheet, 11¾ x 8½ inches. Several small holes in the text (affecting parts of a few letters but not the readability) and chips at edges expertly repaired with tissue. Lightly tanned. About very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt.

A rare printing of Guy M. Bryan’s “Child of the Alamo” speech, in support of a bill in the Texas legislature to raise funds for the welfare of Susanna Dickinson and her daughter, Angelina, two of the few survivors of the Alamo. Bryan was a nephew of Stephen F. Austin and a veteran of the Texas War for Independence. In 1849 a bill was introduced in the Texas House for the relief of the Dickinson women, and specifically to raise funds for the education of the teenage Angelina. Young Angelina was a little over a year old when she, her mother, and her father, Almaron Dickinson, found themselves under siege by Mexican forces in the Alamo, in late February and early March, 1836. Mother and daughter survived the slaughter, though Almaron did not. The Mexican general, Santa Anna, wanted to adopt Angelina, but her mother refused and both were granted their freedom. Texas granted the Dickinsons 640 acres of land in 1839, and they received another large grant of land in 1855. In this speech, Bryan argues stridently for the grant to the “christened child of the Alamo, baptised in the blood of a Travis, a Bowie, a Crockett and a Bonham!” His fiery speech to the Texas House helped the bill pass through that body, but it was later killed in committee. Angelina died in Galveston in 1869, where she was a known “courtesan.” Copies of this text are also known to have been printed on silk and on vellum. Thomas W. Streeter had a copy on vellum, now at Yale. WINKLER 139. $2500.

Striking Platinum Print of an Inuit Family

3. [Alaska Photographica]: Justice, J.M.: [PHOTOGRAPH OF AN INUIT FAMILY TAKEN ABOARD THE U.S.S. BEAR]. [Alaska]. 1895. Platinum print, 9½ x 13 inches. Image sharp and clear. In a contemporary wooden frame. Fine.

Large, clear photograph of an Inuit family taken aboard the U.S.S. Bear, a former whale ship employed in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service in Alaska. The Inuit are arranged in a standard “family portrait” group, centered in the shot with the two daughters seated while the son and parents stand behind them. Both parents look slightly dubious, while the oldest daughter peers shyly at the camera and the youngest daughter frowns and appears to be slightly hostile. The five are dressed in bulky winter clothing and wearing traditional footwear. The photo is signed and dated at the bottom left: “JM Justice, 95.” A lovely image. $1250. Fine Early California Local History

4. [Angel, Myron]: HISTORY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHI- CAL SKETCHES OF ITS PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS. Oakland: Thompson & West, 1883. 391pp. plus sixty engraved plates and portraits, several with more than one image on a plate. Quarto. Original half morocco and gilt cloth, rebacked with most of gilt backstrip laid down. New endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good overall.

A handsome entry in Thompson & West’s series of histories of California counties, this one focusing on San Luis Obispo County, on the southern California coast. The text includes a general history, with much on native Indians, missions (and their secularization), and California under Mexican rule. Other topics include political, military, financial, and immigration history; a discussion of the agriculture and mines of the region; and the activities of the Vigilance Committee. The attractive plates include portraits of prominent citizens, as well as views of homes, ranches (including a number of dairy ranches), and businesses. “This scarce book has three long chapters on crime and criminals, giving accounts of such California outlaws as Jack Powers, Joaquin Murieta, and Joaquin Valenzuela” – Adams. HOWES A275, “b.” ROCQ 13148. COWAN, p.565. NORRIS CATALOGUE 3538. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 60. $1000.

A Major Early Arizona Promoter

5. [Arizona Mining]: Willing, George M.: [CONTEMPORARY COPY OF A MANUSCRIPT LETTER FROM GEORGE M. WILLING TO THE EDITOR OF THE UNITED STATES RAILROAD AND MINING REGISTER, DESCRIBING EXPLORATIONS IN ARI- ZONA AND PROPOSING A MINING COMPANY TO EXPLOIT THE GOLD AND SILVER OF THE REGION]. [Washington, D.C. (but copied in Philadelphia)]. 1863. [6]pp. of manuscript on the rectos only of six folio sheets. With original mailing envelope. Horizontal folds. Very good.

An interesting pair of documents, being contemporary copies of an original manuscript on the potential of mining in Arizona, sent by George M. Willing to Thomas S. Fernon, editor of the United States Railroad and Mining Register. Willing’s letter was comprised of two parts, a description of “Dr. G.M. Willing’s Discoveries of Gold and Silver Mining in the New Territory of Arizona,” and a plan for forming a company to mine in the territory. Having been unsuccessful during the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush a few years earlier, George Willing led a party of prospectors to Arizona in the early 1860s. Willing would later become notorious in Arizona history for his role in the frauds of James Reavis, the so-called “Baron of Arizona.” Despite the tarnishing of his reputation in Reavis’ schemes, Willing did do significant work in searching for gold and silver in Arizona, as is documented by this report. Fernon has attested at the conclusion that the present document is an actual copy of Will- ing’s original report and proposal, made in December 1863, just a few months after Willing sent Fernon the originals. The first three pages describe the location and qualities of several areas examined in Arizona, including in the San Juan Mountains, the “La Plata District,” and along the “Unka Weep River.” The areas described are all ravines with nearby rivers, which would facilitate Willing’s hydraulic mining plans. Following the three pages describing the discoveries Willing appends a three-page “Proposed Plan of Operations” in which he spells out his plans for mining in Arizona. He calls for $100,000 to pay the expenses of fifty men for two years, and argues that it will be cheaper and more efficient to outfit the company in California, rather than east of the Rockies. Willing contends that Indians would not be a concern, and that “the company will have protection from the government troops on the whole route and in the occupancy of the country.” He goes on to describe in detail his proposed hydraulic mining operations, comparing the potential of the region to that of the Quartz Hill mines in Colorado. An early and interesting report on Arizona mining. $2250.

6. Austin, Mary: THE LAND OF LITTLE RAIN. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. xi,[5],281pp., including in-text illustrations and three half-tone plates. Frontis. Half title. Original green pictorial cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Binding very slightly cocked, a bit of foxing on the endpapers. Very clean internally. A near fine copy. In a near fine dust jacket (with two small chips at spine ends and some tears at folds).

First edition of the author’s first book, in the very rare dust jacket. This is the first printing of the first edition, conforming to Tabor’s issue points. This copy is especially notable for having the rare dust jacket, which is in lovely condition. A series of fourteen sketches of life in the high desert of California, and a classic of California literature and American nature writing. As such, Austin’s book has drawn favorable comparisons to the work of John Muir and Henry David Thoreau. “These charming sketches of the desert and semi-desert country comprising the Owens Valley and the approaches to the great sink of Death Valley have become practically a classic” – Zamorano 80. “Surely no one will urge denial to the assertion that The Land of Little Rain ranks among the all-time great books on California, and is an acknowledged classic of the desert” – Edwards. ZAMORANO 80, 2. COWAN, p.24. DYKES, FIFTY GREAT WESTERN ILLUSTRATORS (SMITH) 29. EDWARDS, p.14. GRAFF 114. HOWELL 50:273. HOWES A400. NORRIS CATA- LOGUE 155. STREETER SALE 3029. Stephen A. Tabor, “The Hidden Second Printing of Austin’s Land of Little Rain” in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 77:4 (1983), pp.468-69. $2500. 7. Beasley, Delilah L.: THE NEGRO TRAIL BLAZERS OF CALI- FORNIA...IT IS A TRUE RECORD OF FACTS, AS THEY PER- TAIN TO THE HISTORY OF THE PIONEER AND PRESENT DAY NEGROES OF CALIFORNIA. Los Angeles. 1919. 317pp., including illustrations and frontispiece portrait. Tall octavo. Original yellow pictorial cloth. Cloth soiled and shelfworn. Front free endpaper neatly excised, bookplate on front pastedown. Very clean internally. Very good overall.

A scarce and important early history of African Americans in California. Mrs. Beasley’s book is a wide-ranging work, incorporating a historical narrative with biographical sketches of leading black citizens, including doctors, lawyers, musicians, journalists, religious leaders, and educators. She drew heavily on primary sources, including papers, memoirs, and oral histories at the Bancroft Library and California State Library, and travelled throughout the state to interview subjects. Several of those profiled are pictured in the book. The book reportedly took eighteen years to complete – ten to research and the rest to write. COWAN, p.40. ZAMORANO SELECT 4. ROCQ 16678. EBERSTADT 107:19. $1350.

8. 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. Irregularly sunned on spines, else a fine set.

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. RITTEN- HOUSE 20, 47, 49, 52, 240, 268, 625. WAGNER-CAMP 182, 305:2, 339a, 346. SIX SCORE 76. ADAMS HERD 1385. $1900.

Written from Fort Laramie, on the Trail to California

9. Bishop, Norman: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM PROSPECTIVE GOLD MINER NORMAN BISHOP TO HIS WIFE, DESCRIBING HIS JOURNEY FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS, HIS STAY AT FORT LARAMIE, AND THE JOURNEY AHEAD]. Fort Laramie [Wy.]. May 21, 1850. [3]pp. manuscript letter on a folded sheet, addressed for mailing on the fourth page. Plus a smaller sheet of paper containing another sixteen lines of text. Old folds. Very good.

This letter, written by Iowan Norman Bishop on his way to the gold mines in Cali- fornia, gives a nice glimpse of life and travails on the overland trail west. Bishop wrote this letter at Fort Laramie, which had been acquired by the United States and made into an army post in 1849, and was an important stop on the route to California. As such, it provided needed protection and sustenance to those going overland to California during the Gold Rush. Bishop writes his wife to tell her that he has arrived at Fort Laramie, and to transmit his plans for the long journey still ahead of him (spelling irregularities maintained):

We are now 520 miles from [Council] Bluffs and about 782 from home and about one third of the distance on our way to the mines. We have come a long and tedious road to this place and the worst and longest part to go. I am not discouraged but shall keep trying as long as possible....Horses and provisions are to be had here but the price is above my pile....I am traveling in a company with two other teams called Lord Byron Company from Dubuke County. I fell in their company soon after I left my old friends and altho I was without tent cooking utensils and a scanty supply of provisions they invited me to join them, shair their tent with me and have treated me as a brother. I like my present company well. They will leave their two heavy waggons here and pack the balance of the distance. I shall travil threw with them. We shall take the buggy along with a light load to be used as a hospital in case of sickness. We are all rather scarce of provisions & mony. We are at work making our own pack saddles using their waggons beds for the saddle trees and the harness for straps. Our company will consist of ten men and fifteen horses. We have 7 or 8 guns. We have had all the buffalo meat that we could use for the last two or three weeks....There are a great many teams on the road. We have passed several companies who have the small pox. We think if we can get ready to leave tomorrow we can keep a head of that disease....I think of you all often and would be glad to be with you but I must go to California and try to get what will enable us all to live comfortable. I shall take good care of myself for I intend to return.

An excellent letter from the Oregon Trail. $2000.

Human Sacrifice in Oregon, 1844

10. [Brewer, Henry Bridgeman]: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM OREGON MISSIONARY HENRY BRIDGEMAN BREW- ER TO HIS PARENTS DESCRIBING THE ATTEMPTED HU- MAN SACRIFICE OF A YOUNG SLAVE BY LOCAL INDIANS AND THE CHILD’S RESCUE BY A FELLOW MISSIONARY, AS WELL AS THE ACTIVITIES OF THE MISSIONARIES]. Oregon Territory, Columbia River. Sept. 27 to Oct. 3, 1844. [4]pp. manuscript letter on a folded sheet, addressed and postmarked on a blank portion of the fourth page. Old folds. A few stains. Some small closed splits along folds, longer split along bottom fold of second leaf, with no loss of text. Overall very good.

A remarkable letter, offering a wealth of information on the activities of the Meth- odist Mission in Oregon Territory in the 1840s, and also including vivid details of the attempted sacrifice of a young slave by local Indians. At the time of this letter the Methodist Mission in Oregon was a decade old, and leadership was passing from the mission’s founder, Rev. Jason Lee. Henry Brewer’s letter describes this tumultuous time in the mission’s history, gives information on his own experiences with local Indians, and relates, in riveting detail, the near sacrifice of a young slave. Henry Bridgeman Brewer (1813-86) was a Methodist missionary born in Wil- braham, Massachusetts. In October 1839 he sailed with the Methodist Episcopal Mission around Cape Horn, arriving at Fort Vancouver the following June. He served as a farmer, teacher, and translator at the Wascopum Mission at the Dalles of the Columbia River until 1847, when the mission was transferred to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and he returned to Massachusetts. The most striking passage in Brewer’s letter describes the attempted sacrifice of a young slave by a grieving Indian father:

While we were on our visit to Wallamette a circumstance took place which shows that heathenistic practices are not all done away. It may be a good story for a Sabbath school. Sinimsh an Indian who lives not far from our house had a little boy whom he loved dearly; the father’s heart was set upon him. This little boy was taken sick and died. The father had a little slave that used to wait upon his little son in his life time. The father thought for the love he had for his son he ought to sacrifice the slave at his death, accordingly the deceased child and the living slave were taken to the sepulchre of the dead. (The Indians of the Dalles bury their dead in houses made of boards on an island in the Dalles to keep them from the wolves). The slave is probably eight years old. He made no resistance. They bound him hand & foot & laid him upon the bodies of other deceased persons who had been recently placed there, with his face downward & the body of the deceased child placed upon him. Just as they were about to leave him he called to them to loose the cord that bound him but they heeded not his cries. In this awful situation he spent one long dismal night though before morning he shook the corpse off from him. He said he heard the dead singing (the Indians believe this to be really true). One of the chiefs was in at Br. Perkins & was mentioning the circumstances & said he tried to dissuade them from doing as they did. Br. P. tried to have them bring him away that night but in vain. The next day Br. Perkins ransomed him from the grave by paying three blankets & a shirt which are to be placed in the room of the slave so that the dead may not be robbed. Br. P. has named him Ransom for he was ransomed from the grave. The little slave is a bright active little fellow. The sores where he was tied have not quite healed. Br. P. has him along & will probably put him out to some good pious man at Wallamette as an apprentice.

Brewer’s letter also gives a great deal of information about the activities of the missionaries in Oregon, including the succession of the leadership of the mission from the founder, Jason Lee, to George Gary, and the activities of missionaries Alvin F. Waller and H.K.W. Perkins. Brewer writes:

You no doubt have been apprised that Rev. Geo. Gary has been appointed to supercede Br. Lee in the superintendency of the Oregon Mission. The board no doubt made a good selection. Br. Gary is a good Father to us all. He is now 51 years old & a man of much experience. The board authorized him to dismiss all of the secular men of the mission except myself & sell all the farms, mills &c &c of the mission except the Wascopam [sic] farm, as they know not enough about that station to determine. Br. Gary has acted accordingly. The three farms on the Willamette are sold. The Indian school is given up, the store at Willamette Falls is sold &c.

Toward the end of the letter, in a passage dated October 3, Brewer announces his arrival at Wallamette Falls, relates news of the health of his wife, and describes the recent murder of a feared Indian: “Kladicula the Indian who abused us last spring was shot by a Cayuse Indian a few days before I left home. The Indians all seem to rejoice for they feared him. Thus you see vengeance belongs to God. I have felt for some time as though he would be cut off for his sins.” An exceptional letter from an Oregon missionary, offering a firsthand account of attempted human sacrifice by Indians, as well as details of missionary activities. $8500.

11. Buffum, E. Gould: SIX MONTHS IN THE GOLD MINES: FROM A JOURNAL OF THREE YEARS’ RESIDENCE IN UPPER AND LOWER CALIFORNIA. 1847-8-9. Philadelphia. 1850. 172pp. plus ads. Original printed wrappers. Spine perished, wrappers quite soiled, scuffed, and stained. Scattered foxing and staining (mostly in the second half of the text). Good, in original condition.

“One of the chief sources of authority for the history of that period” – Cowan. Bancroft called the book “One of the most important contributions to the history of California.” Buffum arrived in Baja California in 1847 as an officer in the U.S. army of occupation, and was mustered out of the service in October 1848. The first half of the book is devoted to a description of Buffum’s career in the gold mines, while the latter half gives a description of California in 1849. A former journalist in New York, Buffum gives a vivid account of his experiences. He later served as editor of the Alta California newspaper. “Observing the Gold Rush from its beginnings, he recounted every facet of life including the tremendous non-mining potential of California and the formation of government” – Kurutz. Scarce in the original wrappers. BARRETT 389. GRAFF 472. STREETER SALE 2613. HILL 207. HOWES B943, “aa.” WHEAT GOLD RUSH 28. SABIN 9067. KURUTZ 97. BYRD 7. COWAN, p.83. HOWELL 50:28. NORRIS CATALOGUE 436. ROCQ 15726. $1250. Secularizing the California Missions

12. [California]: Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de: PRIMERA SECRE- TARIA DE ESTADO. DEPARTMENTO DEL INTERIOR. EL EXMO. SR. PRESIDENTE...LA SECULARIZACION DE LAS MISIONES DE LA ALTA Y BAJA CALIFORNIA.... Mexico. 26 de Noviembre de 1833. Broadside, 11½ x 8¼ inches, on a folded folio sheet. Light wrinkling. Near fine. In a half morocco and cloth folding box, spine gilt.

An important broadside, announcing the secularization of the missions in California. Santa Anna, president of the Republic of Mexico, announces that the government will adopt all measures to make effective the secularization of the missions of Alta and Baja California, and to promote the colonization of the mission lands. Over the decades the missions, first established in 1769, had accumulated a great deal of land and wealth. The dispossession of the Church and the dissolution of the missions were critical events in the history of California, overthrowing the agrarian economy built up by the Church in the preceding half century. This broadside is a primary document in the unraveling of the power and influence of the missions, and is a fundamental document for the history of California. OCLC locates only four copies of this decree, all in California institutions. OCLC 21636893. $2000.

Item 15. Establishing a Bishopric in California

13. [California]: Corro, Jose Justo: SECRETARIA DE JUSTICIA Y NEGOCIOS ECLESIASTICOS. EL EXMO. SR. PRESIDENTE INTERINO DE LA REPUBLICA MEXICANA SE HA SERVIDO DIRIGIRME EL DECRETO QUE SIGUE...ERIGIR UN OBISPA- DO EN LAS DOS CALIFORNIAS.... Mexico. September 19, 1836. Broadside, 11¾ x 8½ inches, on a folded folio sheet. Contemporary manuscript correction to one word of text, contemporary manuscript notes in upper and lower margin showing transmittal of the document, signed by Amado de la Vega. Two pertinent passages underscored in red pencil. Very good. In a half calf and cloth folding box, spine gilt.

Of the highest importance in the religious history of California, this decree provides for the establishment of the first bishopric in California. This decree came on the heels of the secularization of the California missions, which had been the foundation of religious organization there. The procedures for establishing a separate diocese and appointing a new bishop are given, the bishop to be chosen by the government based on the recommendation of the cabildo metropolitano and proposed to the Pope. The government would grant an annual stipend of 6000 pesos to fund the bishopric, which would also have at its disposal monies from the Pious Fund. The decree was issued by Mexican President Jose Justo Corro, and bears the printed signature of Joaquin de Iturbide. We are unable to locate any copies of this decree on OCLC. Rare and important. $2500.

Rare Mexican War Narrative

14. [California]: ALTA CALIFORNIA: EMBRACING NOTICES OF THE CLIMATE, SOIL, AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF NORTHERN MEXICO AND THE PACIFIC SEABOARD; ALSO, A HISTORY OF THE MILITARY AND NAVAL OPERATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES DIRECTED AGAINST THE TERRI- TORIES OF NORTHERN MEXICO, IN THE YEAR 1846-47...By a Captain of Volunteers. Philadelphia: H. Packer & Co., 1847. 64pp. 19th- century three-quarter morocco and cloth, front board and spine gilt. Leather rubbed and a bit worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. A bit of foxing (mostly confined to titlepage). Very good. In a half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt.

A rare pamphlet on California, issued before the end of the Mexican War, containing several reports relating to the occupation of California by United States troops, including proclamations by captains Sloat and Stockton, as well as communications from San Diego and Los Angeles by Stephen Kearny. “This pamphlet, which is rare, was published before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo had closed the Mexican war. It relates almost entirely to California, and its author apparently still remains anonymous” – Cowan. There is also information on the climate, soil, and agricultural products of California, as well as much on the issue of slavery in the areas to be potentially acquired by the United States as a result of the Mexican War. Not in Sabin or Tutorow. A very immediate account of the seizure of California. STREETER SALE 2515. HOWES C37, “aa.” COWAN I, p.4. COWAN II, p.13. DECKER 36:50. GARRETT, pp.4-5. $5000.

Rare California Constitution

15. [California]: CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFOR- NIA. San Francisco: Printed at the Office of the Alta California, 1849. 16pp. Gathered signatures, string-tied as issued, lacking original wrappers. Light foxing and tanning. Good, untrimmed. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase.

This copy bears a contemporary manuscript note at the top of the titlepage: “Printed by Theo Messerve.” Theodore Messerve made his way around the Horn to Califor- nia in the first half of 1849. His journal of his trip was published in installments in the Overland Monthly in the final six months of 1914. The rare first separate printing of California’s first constitution. “The first appearance of the Constitution in book form and one of the earliest works printed in San Francisco” – Cowan. Section 18 of Article I (the “Declaration of Rights”) bans slavery. “The text was a model of advanced, liberal, and democratic social and political thought” – Howell. California became a state in 1850. This copy does not contain the final signature of leaves issued with some copies, which comprise a three-page “Address to the People of California.” The Eberstadts describe these last three pages as lacking from most copies, and it appears that many copies of the constitution were distributed before the “Address” had been printed. The text of the constitution is complete. One of the most important and difficult to obtain state constitutions. COWAN, p.140. SABIN 9998. WAGNER CALIFORNIA IMPRINTS 37. GREENWOOD 124. FAHEY 127. STREETER SALE 2553. EBERSTADT 112:63a. HOWELL 50:46. GRAFF 539. JONES 245. LIBROS CALIFORNIANOS (WAGNER & BLISS LISTS). AII (CALIFORNIA) 89. $12,500.

Important Early California Directory

16. [California]: Colville, Samuel: COLVILLE’S SACRAMENTO DI- RECTORY VOLUME VI. FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING MAY, 1856: EMBRACING A GENERAL AND BUSINESS REGISTER OF CITIZENS, WITH STATISTICAL TABLES, HISTORICAL REFERENCES, BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES, etc. IN FINE, A GAZ- ETTEER OF THE CITY.... San Francisco: Printed by Monson, Valentine & Co., 1856. xxxix,[1],140pp., followed by [8]pp. of ads. Original half sheep and printed green boards, spine gilt. Boards rubbed, stained, and edgeworn. Bookplate on front free endpaper. A touch of occasional foxing or tanning, but generally quite clean and neat internally. A very good copy. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

A very nice copy, in original condition, of an early and rare Sacramento directory. This is the fourth and last of Colville’s annual Sacramento directories (the first was published in 1853) and only the fifth Sacramento directory overall. Why Colville referred to this 1856 directory as “Volume VI” on the titlepage is unknown. It is the most substantial Sacramento directory to date, and the first to feature biographical sketches of notable residents, as well as descriptions within the directory of certain businesses, fire companies, churches, etc. The directory is prefaced by a lengthy description of the city, its civic structure, public utilities, and private businesses. The front board is taken up by an advertisement for Wells Fargo’s banking and express services, and a multitude of ads appear throughout the text. Included are notices for druggists, hotels, theatres, stone cutters, attorneys, machinists, stage and steam companies, bakeries and ice vendors, booksellers, and more. Prominent among the ads is a full-page notice for Stanford Brothers merchants, operated by Leland Stanford, who would become one of the “Big Four” railroad barons, serve as governor of California, and found Stanford University. “Rare” – Quebedeaux. QUEBEDEAUX 49. ROCQ 6522. GREENWOOD 730. GRAFF 843. SPEAR, p.327. COWAN, p.171. $3750.

17. [California]: RIVERSIDE HOUSE & COTTAGES, SANTA CRUZ [caption title]. San Francisco: Chas W. Saalburg, Lith., [nd, ca. 1880]. Cen- tral lithographic image measuring 7¾ x 17 inches, surrounded by advertisements, the whole sheet measuring 13¾ x 22 inches. Two closed tears in the left edge, but with no loss. Some foxing and spotting. Matted. A good plus copy.

A rare bird’s-eye view of Santa Cruz, California, dominated by the grounds and buildings of the Riverside House and Cottages. The view serves as a fine advertisement for the hotel, which was operated by Frederick Barson and which promised that it was “first-class in every particular. Terms moderate....Open year round by the day or month. Free carriages to the House from all Train and Steamers.” The hotel appears to have been quite luxurious, and the view shows its main building, cottages, landscaped grounds, and the “club house.” Groups of men and women stroll the grounds, and other groups are shown playing croquet and badminton. In the background is the unfolding Pacific Ocean, which could be accessed from the hotel grounds by taking a bridge across the San Lorenzo River. A number of advertisements for local businesses frame the view. Included are ads for M. Zaro’s Garden City Restaurant and Bakery (“Private entrance for ladies and families”), Fontenay Vineyard, the Neptune Baths and the Dolphin Bathing Establishment (both of which specialized in “surf bathing”), Chesnutwood’s Business College (which educated young men and young ladies), as well as photographers, shoemakers, druggists, and banks. No information on the Saalburg lithographic firm is given in Peters’ California on Stone. Not in Reps’ Views and Viewmakers of Urban America. OCLC locates only a single copy of this view, at Yale. Rare and very attractive. OCLC 62186247. $1250. 19th-Century Painting of the Arctic Oil Works in San Francisco, the Principal Whale Oil Refinery on the West Coast

18. [California]: [After Bosqui, Edward]: ARCTIC OIL WORKS SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. [1883]. Oil on canvas, 18 x 26 inches, on original wooden stretcher, with letters in lower margin, after the lithographed view of the same title published by Bosqui. Very good.

“Edward Bosqui was born in 1833 in Montreal, of French descent. When he was about seventeen years old he decided to go to California. He went by way of Panama, where like a good many others who headed for the Gold Rush in those days, he became stranded. He worked his way up through Mexico, a hazardous trip, but young Bosqui survived the many hardships....He arrived in San Francisco in the latter part of 1850, and his first job was as cashier of the first bank to be established there. Afterwards he served as General Fremont’s secretary. He first went into the printing business in 1859 at Clay and Leidesdorff Streets and stayed at that location for thirty-nine years. Bosqui did bookbinding as well as printing and lithography....He printed the Evening Bulletin in the early days of its existence, and did a great deal of commercial label work” – Peters. The Arctic Oil Works was established on a Bay side pier between 17th and 16th streets in 1883 to produce refined oils from seals, whales, and elephant seals. Soon after opening, it became the largest oil refinery on the West coast. In 1902 the oil works became incorporated as part of Standard Oil. The painting is quite similar to the lithographed view, though more Impres- sionistic in style and without quite as much detail. The spelling mistakes in the address of the works (“Potrcro” instead of Potrero) and in the address of the offices (“ZB” instead of 28) further suggest this painting to be after the scarce lithographed view produced by Bosqui. The painting, however, shows considerable age and is on the original stretcher, and dates from the late 19th century. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, pp.60-61. J. Russell Harper, Early Painters and Engravers in Canada, p.39. $9500.

An Autobiographical Novel of Bear Hunting in Early California

19. [California Fiction]: Lindsay, Douglas D.: REMINISCENCES OF AULD LANG SYNE [manuscript title, including a chapter of adapted California Fiction entitled “WESTWARD HO”]. “Camp Nusseerabad, India.” 1859-1860. [121]pp. of manuscript text, about 15,500 total words. Original three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Boards edgeworn and lightly rubbed. Internally quite clean, neat, and legible. Very good.

An interesting unpublished manuscript, this is a novel in the form of an autobiography, purportedly written by an American-born soldier in the British Army stationed in India in the late 1850s and early 1860s. The author describes his youth and early adulthood, culminating with an account of his adventures hunting grizzlies in Gold Rush-era California. The chapter on Grizzly hunting in California, called “West- ward Ho,” is copied (with a few small adaptations) from an article that appeared in the November 1857 issue of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, called “The Grizzly Bear of California.” The remainder of the text develops several themes over the course of the work, including the author’s strained relationship with his wealthy father, his youthful disillusionment with a career as a lawyer, his friendship with a charming rogue named “Twadle,” and his unsuccessful pursuit of love. The work also gently lampoons the character of the idle rich. It is unknown whether these other portions of the manuscript are also adapted from other published works, or whether they are the product of the author’s own imagination. Either way, this manuscript is a very interesting example of mid-19th-century imaginative fiction and literary adaptation, and worthy of further study. According to prefatory material, this text was written in 1859-60 by Douglas D. Lindsay, who identifies himself as a member of Company 7 of Her Majesty’s 83rd Regiment, stationed in East India at “Camp Nusseerabad.” On a preliminary page he writes that “these ‘Reminiscences of Auld Lang Syne’ were written and presented by the author to his friend and gossip, Thomas Smith of Her Majesty’s 83rd Regi- ment and who, in times to come, as he glances over these pages, will recall to mind the writer and ‘wish him well, wherever fate may have led him’; and he, in turn, will often think of his quondam friend, while far at sea or in the deep piney woods of his native land.” At several instances in the text, Lindsay disrupts the narrative to offer asides to Smith, providing a sort of post-modern authorial commentary on the proceedings. In a letter at the end of the text, dated July 23, 1860, Lindsay promises Smith that he will write a second volume “in which I propose giving you a few more passages from my experience in America – North – West and South, intermixt with some jottings about the sea, slavers, smugglers, etc. etc.” It is not known whether “Lindsay” ever wrote this second volume. In the prefatory chapter Lindsay gives a sketch of his early life, claiming to have been born “of a very ancient family who are said to be descended in right line from the Prodigal Son.” He writes that he did not have a good relationship with his father, and most of the assistance in his life was given to him by his deceased mother’s brother. Lindsay says he eventually went to “the law school of old Y...” [revealed later to be Yale], from which he graduated with a lofty idea of the law and jurisprudence. These beliefs were quickly deflated when he moved to the unnamed state’s capitol city and set to work as a lawyer. Finding himself quickly in debt and unhappy, he quit the law and moved back home. The next chapter in the book is entitled “A Screw Loose” and begins with Lindsay arguing with his father and being kicked out of the house. He departs, leaving behind him most of his expensive wardrobe, and ventures out in search of a friend named Twadle:

A young literary gentleman who was continually occupying the handsomest apartments he could find which he invariably vacated after a month of luxury. He was of a sanguine temperament and I will do him the justice to say that he always intended at the time of taking his rooms to pay for them. But so many extraordinary and unforeseen circumstances intervened between the day of his induction and pay-day, that when that period arrived he regularly found himself in a state of unprecedented pecuniary depletion.

Twadle was living in New York at the time, and he and Lindsay decide to have a meal at Delmonico’s. Of course, they do not have enough money to pay the bill, but Lindsay is rescued by his ever-helpful uncle, who just happened to be dining there that evening. His uncle then takes Lindsay to his home, welcomes him as a part of the family, and gives him a job in his engineering firm. In the next chapter, titled “Love Struck by Lightening,” Lindsay describes his landlady’s attempts to introduce him to eligible young women, and his courtship with Sophia Walter, daughter of a former governor. The romance fails when Lindsay discovers that his love has false teeth, which horrifies him. The penultimate chapter (comprising forty-one pages of the manuscript), entitled “Westward Ho,” is set in California during the Gold Rush era, and is largely copied or adapted from a Harper’s article of November 1857 called “The Grizzly Bear of California.” Large portions of the manuscript are copied verbatim from the published article, while in other places Lindsay makes adaptations or particularizes the story to himself. For example, he mentions a “Hindoo Bear” in one passage, and changes the name of the Grizzly hunter from “Colin Preston” in the published article to “Nathan Walker” in his manuscript. He also intersperses original passages which add to the story, among the copied text. The section begins with Lindsay and a friend leaving Manhattan aboard a steamer bound for Chagres, and then crossing the Isthmus of Panama. Lindsay then goes up the coast to Acapulco, where he “secured passage in a crazy old polacca rigged schooner which was bound direct to San Francisco.” The schooner is wrecked off the California coast, with Lindsay as the only survivor. Next comes a long discussion of the California Grizzly, and the “coastal range” in which it dwells, followed by a recounting of Lindsay’s providential escape from the shipwreck. He is rescued by a bear hunter called “Nathan Walker” (“Colin Preston” in the original Harper’s story), a native of Arkansas, who is described at great length. The rest of the chapter is filled with tales of Walker’s bear-hunting exploits, discussions of the nature of the Grizzly, and the recollection of bear hunts in which the author participated with Walker, often at great risk to his own life. In the final chapter (comprising twelve pages and called “The Man in the Drab Coat”) Lindsay tells a story of meeting an old Yale classmate of his in the Russian River gold diggings. His friend, Robert, had been quite successful in the mines, saving some $5000, but was gravely ill and soon died. Lindsay promises him that he will collect all his money and deliver it to Robert’s mother in the East. On his way home, Lindsay stops in New Orleans and loses all of his own money in the gambling halls, and leaves the city saddled with debt. Back in Troy, New York he considers drawing on his friend Robert’s money, using it as a gambling stake to win back the money he lost in New Orleans. Late one night, cold and seemingly hallucinating, he is visited by a devilish figure, “the man in the drab coat,” who so frightens Lindsay that he resolves to give all Robert’s money to his family, as he had promised. An interesting work of adaptive and imaginative fiction, meriting further research. $4000.

Important Documents for Early California

20. [California Manuscripts]: [GROUP OF THIRTEEN MANU- SCRIPT TRANSCRIPTIONS OF SPANISH COLONIAL DOCU- MENTS RELATING TO CALIFORNIA, RANGING FROM 1589 TO 1774, ALL COPIED FROM ORIGINALS IN THE ARCHIVO GENERAL DE INDIAS IN SEVILLE]. [Various places. 1589-1774, but all copied in Seville in 1884]. [163]pp. Folio. Stitched gatherings. Some minor soiling. Very good.

An interesting collection of documents on colonial Spanish California, transcribed from originals held in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain. The bulk of the documents are dated around the end of the 16th century, and relate to Spanish explorer Sebastian Vizcaino (1548-1624). The two lengthier pieces are “Diarios” of Spanish missionaries in California, Fray Junipero Serra and Fray Juan Crespi. It is likely that few if any of these documents were ever published in printed form, making a manuscript version the only available format. Each transcript is signed at the end with a statement about when and where it was copied.

1) Capitulos de Carta a S.M. del Virey de Nueva Espana de 26 Noviembre de 1597 en Que Have Relacion del Discurso y Estado Tocante al Descubrimiento de las Californias y de Algunas Particularidades Que de Nuevo Se Han Entendido [caption title]. 1597. 10pp., approximately 1700 words. 2) [Vizcaino, Sebastian]: Capitulo de una Carta a S.M. del Virey de Nueva Espana Conde de Monte Rey, Fecha en Mejico a 23 de Julio de 1597, Dando Cuenta de la Razon por Que No Se Uso de la Cedula Para Quitar los Titulos y Despadios Que Se Dieron a Sebastian Vizcaino Sobre el Descubrimiento de las Californias [caption title]. 1597. 2pp., approximately 200 words. 3) [Vizcaino, Sebastian]: Carta a S.M. de Sebastian Vizcayno, Fecha en Acapulco a 5 de Mayo de 1602 Manifestando Que Sale Con las Naos Al Descubrimiento y Demarcacion de la Costa Desde el Cabo de San Lucas a el de Mendocino [caption title]. 1602. 2pp., approximately 200 words. 4) [Vizcaino, Sebastian]: Carta a S.M. de Sebastian Vizcaino Fechada en Megico a 23 de Mayo de 1603, Participando Su Regreso del Descubrimiento y Demarcacion de las Costas de las Californias Hasta los 42 Grados de Latitud Norte [caption title]. 1603. 4pp., approximately 1,000 words. 5) [Aguirre, Andres]: Carta de Fray Andres Aguirre Al Ylmo. Sr. Arzobispo de Megico Participandole la Conveniencia de Reconocer y Descubrier la Costa N.O. de la Nueva Espana y Dando Noticias de Unas Islas Ricas y de Gente Civilizada a Donde Aporto Una Nave Portuguesa y Se Hallan de los 35 a 40 Grados de Latitud Norte [caption title]. [n.d.]. 6pp., approximately 1,100 words. 6) [Vizcaino, Sebastian]: Carta a Su Magestad del Virey de la Nueva Espana Sobre Conveniencia de No Enviar Espediciones Particulares a Tomar Posesion y Descubrir Las Provincias Al Norte de la Nueva Espana y Tomando Precausiones Para Lo Que Have en Este Sentido Sebastian Vizcaino [caption title]. 1596. 7pp., approximately 1,100 words. 7) [Vizcaino, Sebastian]: Capitulo de Una Carta a Su Magestad del Virey de la Nueva Espana Conde D Monterrey Sobre Entrada en el Nuevo Megico y Consesion a Sebastian Vizcaino [caption title]. [n.d.]. 2pp., approximately 200 words. 8) [Vizcaino, Sebastian]: Relacion Que Sebastian Vizcaino a Cuyo Cargo Fue la Jornada de las Californias, da Para El Rey Nuestro Senor, Dando a Entender Lo Que Vido en la Didia Jornada Desde El Puerto de Acapulco Hasta Parase de Veinte y Nueve Grados de Norueste...[first part of text]. [1602?] 16pp., approximately 3,200 words. 9) [Vizcaino, Sebastian]: Carta a S.M. de Sebastian Vizcaino Fecha en Mexico a 27 Febrero de 1597, Participando Haber Vuelto de Su Espedicion a Las Californias [caption title]. 1597. 3pp., approximately 400 words. 10) Capitulo de Una Carta del Virey de la Nueva Espana el Marques de Villamaurique a S.M. Espouiendo Lo Que Considera Oportuno Referente al Descubrimiento de las Costas de la Mar del Sur y Dando Noticia de Una Embarcacion Que Sale Con Este Intento, Su Fecha de 10 de Mayo de 1589 [caption title]. 1589. 5pp., approximately 750 words. 11) [Serra, Junipero]: Diario del Viage Que por Mandado del Padre Fray Junipero Serra, Predicador Apostolico y Presidente de Estas Misiones de Monte Rey, del Cargo de Nuestro Sante Colegio de Propagandafide de San Fernando de la Ciudad de Mexico Hago Desde Este Puerto de San Carlos de Monte Rey Sito en la Costa de la California...[first part of text]. 1774. 44pp., approximately 14,000 words. 12) [Crespi, Juan]: Diario Que Yo Fray Juan Crespi Misionero del Apostolico de Propa- ganda Fide de San Fernando de Megico Formo del Viage de la Fragata de Su Magestad Nombrada Santiago, Alias la Nueva Salicia Mandada por Su Capitan U Alferez de Fragata Don Juan Perez...[caption title]. 1774. 60pp., approximately 18,000 words. 13) Capitulo de Una Carta del Virey de Nueva Espana Don Luis de Velazco, a S.M. Diciendole Que Para Hacer el Descubrimiento de los Puertos de la Tierra Firme Hay Falta de Dinero; Pero Que Existen Personas Que Lo Hagan por Su Cuenta Medicante Cierta Concesiones, Fecha Megico a 8 de Octubre de 1592 [caption title]. 1592. 2pp., approximately 200 words.

A useful group of transcriptions, including much material still not available in published form, of key California documents from the Archives of the Indes. $3750.

21. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: THE MINERS [caption title]. San Francisco: Quirot & Co., [1850s]. Pictorial letter sheet, 8½ x 10¾ inches, on blue paper. With the blank conjugate leaf attached. Minor wear at the edges, light wrinkling. Near fine.

An attractive and significant California pictorial letter sheet, being one of the few based on an actual photographic source. The illustration itself measures 4 x 6½ inches, and is surrounded by a floral border. It shows a group of eight miners working windlasses with buckets in vertical openings in the ground. The faces of the miners and their clothing are rendered in a very sharp and distinct style. “The images are captivating and the faces of the men veritable portraits” – Clifford catalogue. “Such individual attention to facial detail is unusual in scenic letter sheet illustrations” – Baird. The present letter sheet is numbered “3” in the lower right corner, outside the floral border. Quirot issued another sheet, also called The Miners, but with different illustrations, and carrying the number “4.” No copies of similar sheets bearing the numbers 1 or 2 are known to exist, according to Baird. Near the printed number “3” is the ink stamp of the “Noisy Carrier’s Publishing Hall” on Long Wharf, in San Francisco. Many California pictorial letter sheets feature unattributed, fanciful, or satirical illustrations meant to be more evocative than accurate. The present letter sheet is important for giving an actual, realistic, view of miners at work. An archetypal Gold Rush image, from an actual photographic source. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 157, p.18. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 160. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, p.70. $1500.

Unusual California Views

22. [Carr, A.]: ILLUSTRATED HAND-BOOK OF CALIFORNIA: HER CLIMATE, TRADE, EXPORTS, &c. &c., AGRICULTURAL AND MINERAL WEALTH. London. 1870. xiv,116,[16]pp. plus fifteen plates (fourteen colored, including frontispiece), and folding map. Errata page. 12mo. Original cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt. Cloth scuffed and worn along spine. One plate loose. Good.

A scarce and beautifully illustrated handbook to California. The illustrations include scenes of Yosemite, mining, railroad lines, Clear Lake, steamboats, and more. The text describes various routes for reaching California, its natural resources and agricultural potential (with specific sections on several crops), its population, etc. The preface is signed by “A. Carr,” to whom the entire work is often attributed. Not in Howes. ROCQ 16761. COWAN, p.301. $1250.

Carson City Silver Dollars

23. [Carson City Mint]: [COLLECTIBLE SET OF THREE UNCIR- CULATED CARSON CITY SILVER DOLLARS FROM 1882, 1883, AND 1884]. Carson City. 1882-1884. Three silver dollars in plastic cases, with original boxes and certificates of authenticity. Near fine. Housed together in a large half morocco and cloth slipcase.

Set of three uncirculated Carson City silver dollars, released in 1972 as collectible coins, complete in their original packaging. The certificate inside reads:

This historic coin is a valuable memento of an era in American history when pioneers were challenging the West. The silver in this dollar was mined from the rich Comstock Lode, discovered in the mountains near Carson City, Ne- vada....This coin is an uncirculated specimen of the Morgan dollar, containing ninety percent silver, which somehow survived the massive coin melts of the early 1900’s. They were discovered by a Treasury audit in 1964, after nearly a century of obscurity in the vaults. This issuance by General Services Ad- ministration of the last of the uncirculated Carson City dollars will serve for millions of Americans as cherished mementos of a colorful era.

$1000.

Third and Best Edition

24. Carver, Jonathan: TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF NORTH AMERICA, IN THE YEARS 1766, 1767, AND 1768.... London. 1781. [4],[22],[24],543,[21]pp. plus six plates (four colored) and two partially colored folding maps. Contemporary calf, gilt, spine gilt extra, leather label. Joints unobtrusively repaired. Internally clean. A near fine copy.

A classic of American travel, in the third and best edition, with expanded text, a biographical sketch of the author, an index, and the added plate of the tobacco plant not found in the first two editions. Carver travelled farther west than any English- man before the Revolution, going as far as the Dakotas, exploring the headwaters of the Mississippi, and passing over the Great Lakes. The text contains the first published mention of the word “Oregon.” The author comments on the Indians he encountered, as well as offering observations on natural history. The tobacco plant plate is handsomely colored. An important source book and stimulus for later explorers, especially Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark. This is the second issue, according to Howes, with the index. HOWES C215, “b.” FIELD 251. SABIN 11184. VAIL 670. GREENLY 21. $6000.

A Great Rarity of Mexican California

25. Castañares, Manuel: COLLECCION DE DOCUMENTOS RELA- TIVOS AL DEPARTAMENTO DE CALIFORNIAS. Mexico: Im- prenta de la Vox del Pueblo, 1845. 70pp., including errata note at the foot of the final page. Modern three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown. A bit of light foxing. Very good.

A very rare and important work on California in the 1840s, by the former rep- resentative of the province in the Mexican national congress. Though modest in length, Castañares’ work is a detailed and significant study of California’s resources, Indians, settlements, missions, agriculture, mineral wealth, ports, presidios, and civic structure. He supports the preservation of the Pious Fund, and presciently warns that should Mexico not promote, care for, and defend California, it would fall victim to foreign occupation. “Castañares’ account of the rich gold placers near Los Angeles, from which 2000 ounces of gold had been taken in 1843, is perhaps the first account in pamphlet form of mining operations in California. Bancroft devotes nearly a chapter of the fifth volume of his History of California to an account of this book, which he regarded as one of the principal sources for the period 1844-45” – Streeter. OCLC locates only ten copies. Rare on the market, this is the first copy that we have owned. COWAN, p.110. GRAFF 625. STREETER SALE 2503. SABIN 11376. HOWES C224, “aa.” BAR- RETT 467. HOWELL 50:39 (this copy). OCLC 11880194, 651373774. $9500. The French Provoke Trouble in Hawaii, 1839

26. [Castle, Samuel N.]: AN ACCOUNT OF THE VISIT OF THE FRENCH FRIGATE L’ARTEMISE, TO THE SANDWICH IS- LANDS; JULY, 1839. Honolulu. 1839. [4],14pp. Removed from a bound volume. Original plain blue wrappers. Contemporary ownership inscription on front cover. Faint dampstaining in top corner, else internally clean. Very good plus. In a half morocco box.

An important Hawaii imprint and rarity. The French frigate L’Artemise came into Hawaiian waters in July of 1839 and demanded “satisfaction” for offenses against French citizens. Primarily among these were the expulsion of Catholic priests from the islands in 1831, and the insult of calling the Roman Catholic religion “idola- trous.” The goal was probably to create an incident by deliberate provocation. A larger account was published first; this pamphlet comprises the preliminary matter and pages 49-62 of the larger work, the correspondence. FORBES HAWAII 1140. $4500.

First Edition of Catlin’s Classic

27. Catlin, George: LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.... London. 1841. Two volumes. viii,264; viii,266pp. plus errata slip and hundreds of plates. Quarto. 19th-century three-quarter red morocco, gilt, and marbled boards, spines gilt, t.e.g. Boards and extremities lightly rubbed. Bookplates on front pastedowns. Very minor foxing. Very good.

The first edition of Catlin’s famous book, one of the most important works on American Indians published in the 19th century. Besides the description of his travels throughout the West, the book contains hundreds of line drawings of southern and western Indians, as well as two significant maps showing the locations of Indian tribes. Catlin first went west in 1830, travelling extensively for the next six years accumulating his “Indian Gallery.” Letters and Notes... was published when he brought the exhibition to London. WAGNER-CAMP 84:1. HOWES C241. STREETER SALE 1805. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 453, 454, 455. CLARK III:141. $6000.

28. [Catlin, George]: CATLIN’S NEW WORK. NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN PORTFOLIO [caption title]. [London. 1844]. [1]p. Quarto leaf. Fine. In a half morocco box, spine gilt.

The prospectus for Catlin’s famous color plate book of scenes of Indian life in the American West, with space at the bottom of the sheet to collect the names of sub- scribers. The prospectus notes that the work has already been viewed and patron- ized by Queen Victoria, the Emperor of Russia, and other important personages.

The portfolio, which will be ready for delivery in a few weeks, will contain Twenty-five Views, executed in the most superb style...and printed in Tints, from the most admired pictures in Catlin’s Indian Collection. These Views, which will contain all the varieties of the Buffalo, and other hunting scenes of Indians – their modes of catching and taming the wild horse – their favorite games – and the various landscape scenes of the Rocky Mountains and Prai- ries, – will be printed on the full Royal Sheet, 18 by 25 inches, accompanied by Letter-press sheets of equal size, in appropriate style, fully explaining all the Modes and Scenery exhibited in the Plates.

This first issue was the only issue actually produced by Catlin himself, with handcolored lithographs on paper with printed captions. The ...Indian Portfolio... reproduced these pictures within the lavish format of a British color plate book of the era, and today the plates are probably the best known Catlin images. It is one of the premier color plate books relating to America. $1500.

29. Champagnac, Jean Baptiste Joseph: LE JEUNE VOYAGEUR EN CALIFORNIE RÉCITS INSTRUCTIFS ET MORAUX OF- FRANT DES DÉTAILS CURIEUX SUR CETTE RÉGION DE L’AMERIQUE ET SUR LES COUTUMES USAGES ET MOEURS DE SES HABITANTS. Paris. [1852]. [4],248pp. plus eight handcolored plates (including frontispiece). Half title. Original gilt cloth, neatly rebacked, original gilt spine laid down, a.e.g. Very clean internally. Very good.

Scarce French novel of an adventurer’s journey to California to partake in the Gold Rush. While such works were usually meant as cautionary tales, they often had the result of spurring interest in going to the mines. The attractive illustrations, nicely handcolored, show scenes from the tale, including his tearful departure from France, his adventures in the wilds of America (encounters with Indians and hunting tigers), and his return home. KURUTZ 124. COWAN, p.113. Nasatir, French Activities in California, p.400. SABIN 11819. $1250.

On His Movie Company Stationery

30. Cody, William F.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM BUFFALO BILL CODY TO HIS NIECE, MARY JESTER ALLEN, WRITTEN ON STATIONERY FROM THE COL. W.F. CODY HISTORICAL PICTURES Co.]. [Long Beach, Ca.]. Apr. 25, 1914. [1]p., plus original envelope. Old fold lines. Light wear and soiling. About very good.

An interesting letter written by Buffalo Bill to his niece on the letterhead of “The Col. W. F. Cody (‘Buffalo Bill’) Historical Pictures Co.” of Denver and Chicago. It is accompanied by the original transmittal envelope, postmarked April 10, 1914 in Long Beach, California. The letterhead features a large portrait of Cody along the left side, and a laudatory description of his accomplishments and the proposed film project.

This is the first legitimate enterprise that, with experience and good faith, has immortalized the stirring events of American history and Indian fighting into moving pictures....His name [Cody] is the name of the victories of American civilization, and, in order to give the best that is to the eyes of the world, these impressive, historical moving scenes will be produced under the direction of the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company of Chicago.

Essanay is famous for producing a number of Charlie Chaplin short subjects in 1914. A leap into film was Cody’s attempt to make use of the technology that contributed so heavily to the decline of live entertainment. In spite of the glowing remarks on the stationery, the aging impresario reveals some anxiety in his letter, writing: “Yes I’ll be pleased to visit the Kiddes. And invite them to the show. Am anxiously waiting to hear from the east more about the Picture game and if I can do anything for you. Love to you both, Uncle.” The envelope is likewise addressed in Buffalo Bill’s hand. A nice piece, illustrating the showman’s resolve to stay active in the entertainment business, whatever the medium. $1350.

31. Copley, Josiah: KANSAS AND THE COUNTRY BEYOND, ON THE LINE OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY, EASTERN DI- VISION, FROM THE MISSOURI TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN.... Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867. 96pp. (final eight pages consisting of ads), plus folding map, 15½ x 38½ inches. Original gilt cloth, recased, preserving part of original gilt backstrip, new endpapers. Two institutional bookplates on front pastedown, institutional blindstamp on titlepage. Oth- erwise quite clean internally. Map expertly repaired with tissue. Very good.

Copley, a journalist, took part in an excursion on the Union Pacific Railway from Philadelphia to Fort Harker, Kansas. He wrote a series of dispatches regarding the trip for the Pittsburgh Gazette, and drew on other sources for the present work, which describes the journey west of the Mississippi, with special emphasis on the resources of Kansas, but also containing material on Arizona, California, Texas, and New Mexico. Of special interest is the map, by the important cartographer, William J. Keeler, which Copley calls “probably the most accurate and reliable Railroad Map that has ever been offered to the public.” Entitled “Map of the Routes of the Union Pacific Railroads with their Eastern Connections,” it is dated November 1867 and was created by Keeler expressly for this publication. Earlier in 1867, Keeler had produced his important “National Map of the Territory of the United States...,” and the present map takes the earlier work as its touchstone, simplifying it and putting the focus on western railroad lines. It shows the country from Cincinnati to the Pacific, and from Fort Reno in Wyoming to Fort Filmore in New Mexico, and traces the routes of completed and projected railroads. Wheat lavishes much attention on the present map:

It has a superior showing of new military data...it also displays, with colored symbols, deposits of gold, silver, coal, copper, and quicksilver from eastern Colorado to California – information derived from the General Land Office maps, economically pertinent to railroad operations. But primarily it is interesting for railroad routes west of the Missouri....

Not in Streeter or Graff. We can find only two copies on the market since 1966, the last at auction selling for $2937 in 2007. Rare, and with a highly important map. HOWES C767. DARY KANZANA 109. SABIN 16696. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 1171; V, pp.209-11. ADAMS HERD 581. EBERSTADT 168:163. $2250.

With Lewis and Clark Material

32. [Cramer, Zadok, pub]: THE NAVIGATOR: CONTAINING DIREC- TIONS FOR NAVIGATING THE MONONGAHELA, ALLEGH- ANY [sic], OHIO, AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS...TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF LOUISIANA, AND OF THE MISSOURI AND COLUMBIA RIV- ERS, AS DISCOVERED BY THE VOYAGE UNDER CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK. Pittsburgh. 1808. [2],156pp. including twenty-eight full-page maps. 12mo. Contemporary paper boards, rebacked in modern calf. Boards worn at extremities. Some light foxing. Very good.

Styled the “Sixth edition – improved and enlarged” on the titlepage, but actually only the fourth known edition, after those of 1802, 1804, and 1806. The first two editions have been found in a few copies only. Cramer’s work is the first navigational guide for the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, which were vitally important commercial arteries at the time. The present edition is the first to contain material regarding the Lewis and Clark expedition, found on the final ten pages of text. The Lewis and Clark material is taken from Patrick Gass’ journal, which was also printed by Zadok Cramer in Pittsburgh the previous year. Included are twenty-eight woodcut maps of various sections of the rivers described. A vitally important work in helping to develop the commerce of the early United States, with a very early account of Lewis and Clark’s discoveries. HOWES C855, “aa.” SABIN 17385. LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDI- TION, pp.89-94. STREETER SALE 992. $17,500. First Printed View of Fort Laramie

33. [Cross, Osborne]: EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, DUR- ING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE THIRTY-FIRST CON- GRESS ...REPORT OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL... MARCH OF THE REGIMENT OF MOUNTED RIFLEMEN TO OREGON.... Washington: Union Office, 1851. xxiii,441,490pp. plus five folding tables, thirty-seven plates (three folding), and two maps. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Light scattered foxing. Very good.

Contains Cross’ journal of the march of the mounted riflemen to Oregon, with many views of the Columbia and Snake rivers, and including the first printed view of Fort Laramie. Also contains a number of other military expeditions, as well as a folding plan for the grounds of the United States Naval Academy. “Major Cross’s report presents a detailed description of the emigrant trail to Oregon with thirty- six (other editions have various numbers) lithographed views of scenes along the route from Fort Laramie to Dalles. The troops thus moved to the new military posts on the Pacific Coast” – Wagner-Camp. A terrific collection of important historical documents. GRAFF 4415 (note). FLAKE 2598. WAGNER-CAMP 181:3. HOWES C923, “aa.” SABIN 17660. $1750.

34. Cushing, Frank Hamilton: ALMOST A LIFE, OR SAVED BY THE INDIANS, A TRUTHFUL STORY OF LIFE AMONG OUR WESTERN INDIANS [wrapper title]. [New York. ca. 1880]. 32pp. (including advertisements) illustrated in text with woodcuts. Original color pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn. Small closed tear in foredge of first two leaves. Near fine. In a half morocco box.

A clever snake oil promotional work which utilizes the story of how Frank Cush- ing’s life was saved by the administering of the Great Indian Sagwa while he lived among the Zunis in New Mexico. Cushing, among the most famous American ethnologists, lived among the Zunis for a number of years and did indeed suffer from poor health. In the interesting interview contained herein, Cushing relates details of his experiences among the Zunis, how he regained his health while living with them, how he was made a Priest of War, etc. Includes other examples of the curative powers of Indian remedies. OCLC locates only three copies, at Wichita State University, the Huntington Library, and the Bancroft Library at the University of California. There is also a copy at Yale. A remarkable and rare work involving the famous ethnologist. HOWES C971. OCLC 18119329, 80748339. $1500. Written from Fort Laramie, on the Trail to California, with Significant Statistical Information

35. Custer, Lorenzo D.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM PROSPECTIVE GOLD MINER LORENZO D. CUSTER TO HIS WIFE IN OHIO, GIVING A DESCRIPTION OF FORT LARA- MIE AND STATISTICS ON THE PEOPLE AND LIVESTOCK THAT HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE FORT]. Fort Laramie [Wy.]. June 26, 1850. [3]pp. manuscript letter on a folded folio sheet. Ad- dressed and postmarked on the blank fourth page. Old folds. Some staining. Several small splits at cross-folds, affecting a few letters of text. Good.

An informative letter from an Ohioan on his way to the California gold mines in 1850, written from the trail. Lorenzo Custer wrote this letter at Fort Laramie, which had been acquired by the United States and made into an army post in 1849, and was an important stop on the route to California. The fort provided needed protection and sustenance to those going overland to California during the Gold Rush. Custer gives his wife a description of the fort, and includes interesting statistics on the number of men, women, children, and animals that have passed through. He refers to a register of such statistics, which is presumably lost. This letter, then, provides significant demographic information on those passing through Fort Laramie, and the methods in which they travelled. Custer writes (with spelling errors uncorrected):

Ft. Larrimie is pleasantly situated on the south side of the Platt between the Platt & Larrimie rivers about one mile from the junction. The ft is built of sun burnt brick & garrisoned by 160 soldiers. Some verry good houses are being built this season for the accomodation of the Officers. Sick emigrants are taken into the hospital & cared for until they are well & able to go ahead or dead and burried (free of charge). They register all the names of emigrants the number of horses oxen &c. There has passed this place to the 23 June 34,753 men 583 women 733 children 8,168 wagons 21,435 horses 7206 mules 24,796 oxen 3,855 cows. There has been 2 deaths on the north side of the river the route I traveled and 155 on the south mostly with diareah or colera....I have encountered nothing dangerous thus far. The journey has been one of pleasure but we may be like young bears all our sorrows to come....I feel sanguine of success as ever and expect to be in the diggins in 50 days.

$2250.

Gold Rush Classic

36. [Delano, Alonzo]: [Nahl, Charles]: THE MINER’S PROGRESS; OR, SCENES IN THE LIFE OF A CALIFORNIA MINER. BE- ING A SERIES OF HUMOROUS ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE “UPS AND DOWNS” OF A GOLD DIGGER IN PURSUIT OF HIS “PILE.” Sacramento: Published at the Daily Union Office, 1853. 13pp. (eleven of them with crudely handcolored illustrations) followed by [2]pp. of ads. Original pictorial salmon-colored wrappers. Wrappers stained and quite worn, with several tears at edges. Bookplate on inner front wrapper, early ownership signature at head of front wrapper. Text leaves with some tears at edges, but none affecting text or illustrations. A worn but overall good copy. In a cloth chemise and slipcase.

A classic of Gold Rush satire, being among the earliest published works of humor- ist Alonzo Delano, and iconic Gold Rush artist Charles Nahl. The project was initiated by the Sacramento Union, which hired Delano and Nahl to produce the work, which also appeared in the July 4, 1853 edition of the paper. Delano, who often wrote under the name “Old Block,” emphasizes the loneliness, exhaustion, and dashed hopes of the miner, and Nahl’s sketches perfectly reinforce the tone of the work. The story ends well, however, with the miner striking gold and returning home to his loving family in Maine. Charles Nahl and his brother, Arthur, came to the United States from Germany in 1849, and arrived in California the following year. Charles, the “Cruikshank of California,” was the superior artist, and his illustrations of Gold Rush scenes are highly lauded. Hamilton says that Nahl’s illustrations “depicting the life of the miner in the days of the gold rush are extraordinarily good...he was an excellent interpreter of the humor and pathos of early California life.” The ads tout the several publications of the Sacramento Union. Kurutz notes blue-green pictorial wrappers, while ours are salmon-colored. A “third edition” also appeared in 1853, which presumes that there was also a second edition, though Kurutz never located one. KURUTZ 179a. COWAN, p.163. GREENWOOD 382. ROCQ 6043. STREETER SALE 2736. NORRIS CATALOGUE 949. HOWELL 50:410 & 50:1516. SABIN 49214. HAMILTON, EARLY AMERICAN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS AND WOOD ENGRAVERS I, p. xli; item 1109. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 57 (note). $2000.

37. [Delavan, James]: NOTES ON CALIFORNIA AND THE PLAC- ERS: HOW TO GET THERE, AND WHAT TO DO AFTER- WARDS. By One Who Has Been There. New York. 1850. [3]-128pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Front wrapper, titlepage, two plates, and final text leaf provided in facsimile. Internally clean and tightly bound.

A decent copy (though with the titlepage, final two pages, and plates in facsimile) of a gold rush rarity. Delavan travelled to California via Panama, made a quick fortune in the mines, and saw quite a bit of the rest of the region, including San Francisco and Sacramento. “This is one of the earliest diaries kept by an actual Gold Hunter and gives an unusually frank and detailed account of daily life at the diggings. Delavan was one of the original Feather River Party of ‘49 and struck it rich at Rocky Bar, where in less than three weeks he took out over 100 pounds of the yellow metal. His book describes the trip to California – the San Francisco of 1849; extravagant prices; the Gaming Halls; the fortunes won and lost; life and observations in Benicia; Embarcadero (Sacramento); Sutter’s Fort; Culloma (sic); Mormon Island; Volcano Bar; Spanish Bar; Kelsey’s Bar; Feather River; North Fork; Rector’s Bar; San Joaquin; Stockton; Monterey, etc. Other sections of the book deal with the ‘Code Lynch,’ the Oregon immigration; the Indian Tribes; their depreda- tions, etc.; methods of mining; traders and trading posts; kaleidoscopic conditions; manners and customs; routes; and advice to emigrants” – Eberstadt. “One of the most spirited accounts of the journey to California and life in the mines” – Kurutz. Very scarce on the market, with only the Clifford-Volkmann copy having appeared at auction in recent times ($18,400 at the Volkmann sale in February 2005). A wounded copy of a major gold rush rarity. KURUTZ 183a. HOWES D237, “b.” GRAFF 1044. COWAN, p.164. ROCQ 15773. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 58. STREETER SALE 2628. CLIFFORD SALE 33. SABIN 10036. DECKER 23:95. EBERSTADT 104:38. $1750. The Extremely Rare First Edition

38. Dimsdale, Thomas J.: THE VIGILANTES OF MONTANA, OR POPULAR JUSTICE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. BEING A CORRECT AND IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE OF THE CHASE, TRIAL, CAPTURE AND EXECUTION OF HENRY PLUM- MER’S ROAD AGENT BAND, TOGETHER WITH ACCOUNTS OF THE LIVES AND CRIMES OF MANY OF THE ROBBERS AND DESPERADOES.... Virginia City, M.T.: Montana Post Press..., 1866. 228pp. plus two leaves of ads. Later plain wrappers. Wrappers stained and chipped around edges. Titlepage chipped at outer corners, not affecting text. Small ink stamp on verso of titlepage. Final eight text leaves with small stain in outer margin, more pronounced staining on advertisement leaves, otherwise quite clean internally and in overall very good condition. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase.

The very rare first edition. “Perhaps no book excells [sic] Dimsdale’s in presenting the picture of the lawless conditions that characterized the mining camps of the Rocky Mountain country. The author was editor of the Virginia City Montana Post and a participant in the extraordinary campaign against lawlessness...Exceed- ingly rare” – Adams. “Not only the first, but textually the most important, book ever printed in Montana” – Howes. A legendary rarity of Montana and western outlaw books. HOWES D345, “b.” MONTANA IMPRINTS 2. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 596. GRAFF 1086. STREETER SALE 2221. $17,500.

Important California Voyage

39. Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste: VIAGGIO INTORNO AL GLOBO PRIN- CIPALMENTE ALLA CALIFORNIA ED ALLE ISOLE SAND- WICH NEGLI ANNI 1826, 1827, 1828 E 1829.... Torino. 1841. Two volumes. xvi,296; 392pp. plus errata leaf and four plates. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt. Corners rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Light scattered foxing. Very good.

The second edition and the first in Italian, following the French edition of 1834-35. A primary source on Mexican California. Duhaut-Cilly was a French trader who arrived at Yerba Buena in 1827, spending most of that year along the California coast. “He was the first outlander to become intimately acquainted with, and describe, the then thriving Spanish California.” The book was first published in Paris in 1834-35, and that edition is so rare that Howell surmised only about a dozen complete copies were known (catalogue 50, item 64). This second edition, in Italian, was translated by Paolo Emilio Botta, the ship’s doctor. It is much expanded, with additional chapters on Dr. Botta’s observations. “This is an important edition...It includes for the first time, in book form, an essay by Dr. Botta, ‘Observations on the inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands and California’” – Forbes. There is also an Italian-Hawaiian vocabulary. Besides California, the ship visited the Hawaiian Islands. Three of the plates show San Francisco, San Luis Rey, and Fort Ross. One plate shows Hawaii. No edition in English has been published of this invaluable account. This edition is scarce on the market. HILL 500. HOWES D547, “aa.” SABIN 21164. ZAMORANO 80, 31. FORBES HAWAII 1260. $1500.

Important Early Texas History

40. Edward, David B.: THE HISTORY OF TEXAS; OR, THE EMI- GRANT’S FARMER’S, AND POLITICIAN’S GUIDE TO THE CHARACTER, CLIMATE, SOIL AND PRODUCTIONS OF THAT COUNTRY.... Cincinnati. 1836. 336pp. plus leaf of advertising and folding map (outlined in color). Contemporary publisher’s cloth, printed paper label. Cloth lightly scuffed, extremities rubbed. Quite clean and crisp internally, map fine. Very good plus.

“The map shows towns, rivers, colonies, grants, Indian villages, mountains, roads, silver mines in Mexico and on the San Saba River, iron ore, copper mine, note on Col. B.R. Milam’s death, comments on wild life and topography, salt works on Galveston Bay, site of General Toledo’s defeat in 1813...There is also a printed note by D.B. Edwards on the Rio del Norte, its navigability and its possibilities as a southwestern boundary for Texas” – Day. “As a preceptor of Gonzales Seminary and resident of Texas, Edward was well equipped to record his observations accurately” – Graff. “This contemporary history by Edward, notwithstanding some idiosyncrasies of the author, is one of the essential Texas books. It gives a good account of the physical features and towns and products of the Texas of 1835... page 177 to the end are devoted to the political events from 1832 to about October, 1835...” – Streeter. “Conditions just prior to the Revolution described by an actual observer” – Howes. An early and important work on Texas with the “Map of Texas” in crisp condition and coloring quite fresh. A lovely copy. DAY, MAPS OF TEXAS 388. HOWES E48, “aa.” GRAFF 1208. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 53. RADER 1279. RAINES, p.74. SABIN 21886. STREETER TEXAS 1198. STREETER SALE 344. CLARK III:35. $11,000.

Texas Forger and Swindler

41. [Edwards, Monroe]: LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF THE ACCOM- PLISHED FORGER AND SWINDLER, COLONEL MONROE EDWARDS. New York: H. Long & Brother, 1848. 152,6pp. printed in double-column format. Frontispiece portrait plus numerous in-text engravings. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers worn at edges, torn along spine. An occasional bit of foxing. In very good, original condition. Untrimmed. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case.

Edwards, a famous Texas slave smuggler and forger, based his operations at Chenango Plantation in Brazoria County. He made a specialty of smuggling slaves to Brazil from Africa, and then from Cuba to Texas. Eventually he was sentenced to Sing Sing prison for his large-scale forgeries. In an escape attempt in 1847 he was severely beaten by guards, and then died. “Accomplished swindler, forger and Texas adventurer” – Howes. Although sensationalized, this is an amazingly detailed primary source for the schemes, love affairs, and trials of this Texas adventurer. Streeter attributes the work to George Wilkes, one of the editors of the National Police Gazette, wherein the account was originally published. “Because of the light the slave trade operation of Edwards throws on the slave trade in Texas and the public reaction to it, the general public interest in the doings of a resourceful and ingenious top-notch crook who happened to play a minor part in the history of Texas, a modern discussion of his life would seem to be an interesting subject for an article...” – Streeter. HOWES E62. SABIN 21980. STREETER TEXAS 1411 (ref ). $3500.

42. Eggenhofer, Nick: WAGONS, MULES AND MEN HOW THE FRONTIER MOVED WEST. New York: Hastings House, [1961]. 184pp., profusely illustrated. With an original signed drawing. Quarto. Origi- nal half calf and cloth, gilt. Fine. In a slipcase.

Number twelve of a special edition, limited to 250 copies, with an original signed drawing by the author. Bound in before the half title, the drawing is a bust portrait of an elderly Indian. This copy is inscribed by Eggenhofer to famed bookseller Malcolm “Peter” Decker: “To Peter Decker ‘South Pass Pete.’ To know him is a privilege. From a sincere friend Nick Eggenhofer, Cody, Wyoming Jan. 9, 1962.” Laid in is a photographic print portrait of Eggenhofer. A fairly thorough history of the accoutrements of overland wagon travel. This limited edition is scarce in the market. $1500.

43. Farish, Thomas E.: HISTORY OF ARIZONA. Phoenix. 1915-1920. Eight volumes. Later three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Bookplate of James S. Copley. Internally clean. A very good set.

The first standard history of the state, with extensive biographical data on early settlers. While the first volumes are common, the later volumes (especially the last two) are exceeding difficult to obtain. HOWES F37, “b.” $1500.

44. 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. xxiii,297; viii,315pp. 19th-century green polished calf and marbled boards, neatly rebacked with original spines laid down, leather labels. Small bookplate on front pastedowns. Very minor foxing and soiling. Very good.

The first English edition, after the first American edition of 1841. An important early account of the Oregon country. The author went overland there in 1839, going to Bent’s Fort and then north to the Oregon Trail. After a brief sojourn during which he gathered materials, he sailed for home via the Sandwich Islands. 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.

45. Figueroa, Jose: THE MANIFESTO, WHICH THE GENERAL OF BRIGADE, DON JOSE FIGUEROA, COMMANDANT-GENER- AL AND POLITICAL CHIEF OF U. CALIFORNIA, MAKES TO THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC, IN REGARD TO HIS CONDUCT AND THAT OF THE SNRS. D. JOSE MARIA DE HIJARS AND D. JOSE MARIA PADRES, AS DIRECTORS OF COLONIZA- TION IN 1833 AND 1834. San Francisco. 1855. 104,[1]pp. Contempo- rary purple sheep, tooled in gilt, gilt title on front board. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light shelf wear. Very clean internally. Near fine.

This is the scarce first English-language edition of Figueroa’s defense of his conduct in a California colonization plan, following the extremely rare first edition of 1835, which was the first book-length imprint from Agustin Zamorano’s pioneer California press. Hijars and Padres planned a project of colonizing California in the early 1830s, which brought to California many families who played a prominent role in the development of the province. The Mexican government secularized the missions in 1833, and the expectation was that the families would take possession of the mission lands. Hijars and Padres themselves expected to be given governmental positions of importance. Orders from Mexico countermanded the promises, and Figueroa, governor of California, refused to hand over the lands, for which he was criticized. This is Figueroa’s defense of his conduct. This edition is considered quite rare, and Howes affords it a “c” rating. COWAN, p.210. GREENWOOD 562. HOWES F122, “c.” STREETER SALE 2784. GRAFF 1320. ZAMORANO 80, 37 (note). $3750.

46. Fitch, Thomas, & Co.: [Placerville, California]: DIRECTORY OF THE CITY OF PLACERVILLE AND TOWNS OF UPPER PLA- CERVILLE, EL DORADO, GEORGETOWN, AND COLOMA, CONTAINING A HISTORY OF THESE PLACES, NAMES OF THEIR INHABITANTS, AND EVERYTHING APPERTAINING TO A COMPLETE DIRECTORY. TOGETHER WITH A BUSI- NESS DIRECTORY. Placerville: Republican Printing Office, 1862. 128pp., with pp.49-54 bound out of order (following p.60). 12mo. Slightly later half cloth and thick paper wrappers, with a 5½ x 3¼-inch piece of the original printed front board affixed. Wrappers quite worn. Stains on first and final pages, edges of several pages roughly trimmed. Good overall. In a half morocco box.

The first directory of this important gold mining region, and the first book printed in Placerville. James Marshall discovered gold in nearby Coloma in 1848 (he is listed in the Coloma section herein as “gold discoverer, south side Church street”), and the area became a center of gold mining activities for many years. By 1854, Placerville was the third largest town in California. The text contains a valuable history of the towns of Placerville (originally called “Dry Diggings” and also known as “Hangtown”), El Dorado, Georgetown, and Coloma, a directory of residents, municipal officers, churches, societies, etc., and advertisements for a variety of local businesses. Also included is a table of distances between principal cities in California. Thomas Fitch, the compiler, was publisher of the Placerville Republican. He went to California in 1860, where he was active as a journalist, lawyer, and politician. He served one term as a U.S. Congressman from Nevada (1869-1871). Quebedeaux notes an errata slip, not present in this copy. This copy contains three small manuscript corrections on page 11 which correspond to the corrections on the errata slip as described by Quebedeaux. This copy contains the ownership signature and ink stamp of Richard Alderson, Jr., likely the son of the saloon-keeper of the same name listed in the Placerville directory. “Rare....Without a doubt...one of the most important historical sources of the California gold region” – Quebedeaux. The last copy we can find at auction sold for $8000 (hammer) in 2006. A vitally important source, and a rare and early California directory. QUEBEDEAUX 11 GREENWOOD 1685. HOWES F159, P405, “aa.” COWAN, p.171. ROCQ 1822. GRAFF 1339. $3750.

47. [Fort Kearny]: [TWO MANUSCRIPT MAPS OF FORT KEARNY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA]. [Np, but probably near the Fort, in present-day eastern Nebraska. ca. 1855]. Two sheets, 10 x 8½ and 9¾ x 10½ inches. Earlier map with a few minor paper losses, not affecting text or image; backed with linen. Newer map with old fold lines and some minor soiling. Both quite fine.

A nice pair of manuscript maps of the original Fort Kearny site on the Missouri River in Indian Territory (present-day Nebraska), just north of Table Creek. The original site was scouted by Col. Stephen W. Kearny and Capt. Nathan Boone, son of Daniel Boone, in 1838, and Fort Kearny was erected as a way-point for westward- bound settlers along the Oregon Trail. The site was deemed irrelevant, however, since most settlers who took the Trail west bypassed the Fort. Thus in 1846 a new Fort Kearny was erected along the Platte River one hundred miles to the west. The first map shows the area as scouted by Stephen W. Kearny and Nathan Boone. It is labeled “To accompany Report of Colo. Kearny and Cap. Boone of 25th April 1838,” although it probably dates to 1855. The map shows several miles along the Missouri River, including McPherson’s Trading House to the north and the timber reserve for the fort directly across the river. Most interestingly, it shows an old northern border of Missouri that would later be successfully challenged by Iowa. Thus, the site now lies across from Iowa, not Missouri. The second map, drawn in 1855, is outlined in color and shows detail of the timber reserve across the river from the fort. While the earlier map delineated this with a simple line, on the present map the area is divided into townships and ranges, now an important detail since the area has become a destination for emigrants. By this time the fort had fallen into disuse, and a new Fort Kearny was constructed on the Platte River closer to the Oregon Trail. The present-day city of Kearney is near the site of the second fort, while Nebraska City is near the site of the older fort. $2500.

The Dedication Copy

48. [Francis, Charles Spencer]: SPORT AMONG THE ROCKIES. THE RECORD OF A FISHING AND HUNTING TRIP IN NORTH- WESTERN MONTANA. By the Scribe. Troy, N.Y. 1889. [10],134pp., printed in double columns, plus forty-eight mounted original photographs. Three-quarter calf and cloth, with the original cloth; the calf replaces the original in matching style. A few leaves with slight marginal paper loss neatly repaired, not affecting text. Very good, with the photographs in near fine condition. [See rear cover of this catalogue for illustration]

Only fifteen copies of this wonderful book were made, for private distribution by the author. The remarkable photographs, which are by the author himself, represent a vivid and important photographic record of Montana at the time. Included are photographs of towns, ranches, Indian agencies, Indians, portraits, landscapes, camp scenes, and other fine views. The text is comprised of twenty-five letters written by Francis for the Troy Times, of which he was the owner, describing a hunting trip to Montana in August and September of 1888. “The narrative is of surprising interest, describing the outfitting at Great Falls; the Baker massacre; Trapper Bill Weaver; Piegan Indians; the Big Horn; Starvation Camp; western horses and Indian ponies; horse thieves; Blackfoot Agency (including school groups); life among the Indians; cattle ranges and ranches; Great Falls, its mushroom growth, future, etc. The volume is a veritable ‘book of the plains’ – a home-made production in make-up and appearance, and one of the most sought of all books relating to Montana” – Eberstadt. This copy is the dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the front fly leaf: “To my manly little son, John M. Francis, Jr. Charles d. Francis, Troy, Aug. 15, 1889.” The printed dedication leaf, immediately after the title, reads: “To my Son, John M. Francis, Jr., whose love for hunting and fishing and fondness for outdoor sport, as well as his manly, generous, disposition, will, I trust, make him my companion on similar excursions in search of game and fish, this volume is affectionately dedicated by The Author.” A great Montana rarity, and one of the finest of 19th-century photographically illustrated books of the West. STREETER SALE 4110. HOWES F311, “b.” EBERSTADT 136:445. $35,000. Classic of the Santa Fe Trail

49. Garrard, Lewis H.: WAH-TO-YAH, AND THE TAOS TRAIL; OR PRAIRIE TRAVEL AND SCALP DANCES, WITH A LOOK AT LOS RANCHEROS FROM MULEBACK AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN CAMPFIRE. Cincinnati. 1850. [6],349pp. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Spine ends chipped, cloth with minor repair along hinges. Two bookplates on front pastedown. Very clean internally. A very good copy. In a cloth slipcase.

The most readable work on the Santa Fe Trail, and a classic of Western Americana. The author, only seventeen when he set out for the West, managed to be in the thick of the stirring events of 1846, the taking of New Mexico, the Taos Massacre, and the final subjugation of the province. All are recounted with verve and accuracy. WAGNER-CAMP 182. HOWES G70, “b.” GRAFF 1513. RITTENHOUSE 236. STREETER SALE 170. TUTOROW 3428. $2500.

Firsthand Account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

50. 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 Da- vid M’Keehan, Publisher and Proprietor, 1807. 262pp. Contemporary sheep-backed marbled paper-covered boards, flat spine ruled in gilt with a brown morocco gilt label in the second compartment. Binding worn, as usual. Minor foxing and staining. Good.

An unsophisticated copy in the original binding of the first edition of the earliest published firsthand account of the Lewis and Clark expedition, written by a member of their party: “one of the essential books for an Americana collection” (Streeter). The origins of Gass’ journal are explained in an April 7, 1805 letter from Meri- wether Lewis to President Thomas Jefferson: “We have encouraged our men to keep journals, and seven of them do so, to whom in this respect we give every assistance in our power.” Because of the delay in the publication of the official account, Gass’ journal became the first to appear in print, and as such was eagerly taken up by readers starved for information about the discoveries. “Patrick Gass was a rough reliable frontier soldier when he joined the Lewis and Clark expedition. He was made a sergeant when Sergeant Floyd died. He writes a terse soldier’s narrative with rugged honesty...For seven years his story offered the only real information the nation had of the Oregon country and of the Louisiana Purchase. It is a work of primary importance” – Webster A. Jones. First editions of Gass’ journal have become scarce, particularly in good condition. Besides being unsophisticated and in its original binding, this copy is also particularly tall, while most extant copies have been trimmed down considerably. STREETER SALE 3120. GRAFF 1516. SABIN 26741. HILL 685. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 12646. SMITH 3465. WAGNER-CAMP 6:1. HOWES G77, “b.” LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 3.1. $19,000.

With Many Landmark Maps of Western Lands

51. [General Land Office]: REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE FOR THE YEAR 1866. Washing- ton. 1866. 155pp. plus facsimile and twenty-three folding maps (outlined in contemporary color). Contemporary black cloth, spine gilt. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Minor foxing in text. Several maps with small tears at edge of gutter, but generally quite nice. Very good plus. In a blue half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

Significant report from the General Land Office, issued in the year following the end of the Civil War, containing twenty-three maps, including the large map of the United States. Among the other maps are surveys of California, Dakota, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, Washington Territory, and Oregon. The maps show the towns, cities, counties, rivers, railroads (completed and projected), lakes, mineral deposits, and other significant features. A lovely copy of this important report. Individual maps from this report are offered online for anywhere from $1200 to $25,000. The last complete copy at auction, an inferior one, sold for $5750 in 2005. $7500.

A Remarkable Manuscript by One of Custer’s Superiors Blaming the Little Big Horn Catastrophe on Custer’s Failure to Follow Orders: An Unpublished Essay by General John Gibbon

52. [Gibbon, John]: [ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT BY GENERAL JOHN GIBBON ENTITLED “Custer and His Orders,” BEING AN ACCOUNT OF DELIBERATIONS AND PLANNING LEADING UP TO THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN, AND GIBBON’S REFLECTIONS ON CUSTER’S FAILURE TO FOLLOW HIS ORDERS]. [Np. ca. 1890]. 19pp. manuscript, plus an additional nine lines of manuscript note on two other slips of paper. Main text written on 9¾ x 7½-inch sheets. Approximately 2500 total words. Several sheets with pencilled cross-outs, but very easily readable overall. Minor edge wear. Near fine. In a half morocco and folding case, spine gilt.

An exceedingly interesting and important firsthand account of the planning leading up to the massacre at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, written by General John Gibbon, who was involved in the planning and operations, and was one of Custer’s superior officers. Gibbon and his troops were among the first to arrive at the scene of the battle, and helped to bury Custer’s dead and evacuate the survivors. A major question surrounding the Custer tragedy was whether or not Custer exceeded or ignored his orders in attacking the Sioux before the arrival of Gibbon and his reinforcements. This manuscript recounts the deliberations conducted by General Alfred Terry and his officers, including Custer and Gibbon, and gives a great deal of information on the decision-making process, the plans at which they arrived, and the orders under which Custer was to operate. Gibbon wrote about his experiences in the Sioux Campaign in an 1877 article called “Last Summer’s Expedition Against the Sioux and Its Great Catastrophe,” which also appeared as a chapter in his posthumously published memoir, Adventures on the Western Frontier. The information in the present manuscript is not included in either of those works, however, and to our knowledge the present manuscript is completely unpublished. Gibbon begins by explaining that on June 21, 1876 he and his 7th Infantry troops were camped on the north bank of the Yellowstone River, with Custer and his 7th Cavalry camped on the south bank. He relates that the two separate columns had already conferred three times and were about to meet for a fourth conference, all under the supervision of commanding General Alfred Terry. Gibbon writes that at the first conference with Terry he offered Terry the services of his trusted scout, Mitch Bouyer, who eventually died with Custer’s men: “I little thought that I was sending poor faithful Mitch to his death.” Gibbon also briefly discusses his second conference with Terry, before describing a third conference, which took place in Gibbon’s tent. At that meeting Terry chastised Major Marcus Reno for “following the Indian trail up the Rosebud instead of at once returning & reporting what he had discovered; thus not only losing precious time, but running the risk of being discovered by the Indians.” Gibbon continues:

Shortly afterwards Custer’s command made its appearance on the southern bank & I accompanied Genl. Terry on the [ship] Far West across the River & Custer found us on board....We sat down at a table & with a map before us discussed the situation. My Crow scouts had reported seeing smoke in the valley of the Little Big Horn and hence it was inferred there must be a camp of Indians somewhere along that stream. The question discussed was how to approach them & strike them to the best advantage....I think Genl. Terry had already made up his mind, when the discussion took place, to send Custer with a command to follow up the trail discovered by Reno....In the course of the discussion I proposed the question what would the Indians probably do when they were disturbed.

Gibbon goes on to discuss the various questions that were posed, and impressions that were given, at the meeting. Among these was the presumption that the Sioux would attempt to “escape” rather than stand and fight. Gibbon notes that they were ignorant of the “desperate fight” that Crook had waged at the headwaters of the Rosebud just a few days earlier. Very importantly, Gibbon writes:

I suggested it would be advisable for Custer to keep on up the Rosebud; instead of following the trail over into the Little Big Horn valley, & after crossing over nearer to the mountains approach the supposed Indian camp from the south. This would not only interpose his force between the Indians & their refuge (the Big Horn Mountains) but would give my command the requisite time to get up, as I had the longest distance to pass over. This was agreed to apparently on the part of all....Custer was directed to examine the head of that valley and endeavor to send a messenger down it to communicate to Genl. Terry news of his progress & any information of importance he may have gained. This was regarded as a matter of some considerable moment as it would bring us news of the other columns & might possibly cause a modification of our movement.

Gibbon concludes by discussing Custer’s failure to follow his orders, and why he may have done so:

It is now a matter of history that Genl. Terry received no message from Custer... nor received any message from him of any kind, nor ever saw him again. It is also well known that Custer did not follow the line of march marked out for him at the conference. It is difficult to account for Custer’s failure to endeavor to communicate with Genl. Terry, as desired...except upon the supposition that when in the vicinity of the head of that valley on the day he struck the Indians camp his mind may have been so engrossed by his preparations for the conflict before him as to cause him to overlook it for the time....His reasons for not conforming to the ‘desires’ of his Dept. Comdr. as expressed in the letter of instructions can never now be known....This is a case which forms no exception to the general rule which prevails in all well disciplined military bodies that the wishes of the commander are always when possible to be construed as orders.

John Gibbon (1827-96) was born in the Holmesburg neighborhood of Philadelphia and attended West Point, graduating in 1847. During the Mexican-American War he was stationed in Florida, helping to keep the peace between American settlers and Seminole Indians and assisting the evacuation of Seminoles to Oklahoma Territory. This experience kindled in him a sympathy for American Indians that would last the rest of his life. Gibbon taught artillery at West Point and produced an influential treatise on the subject. Despite family ties to the Confederacy, he fought for the Union during the Civil War and was involved in many important battles, including Antietam. At Gettysburg he led forces against Pickett’s Charge, and was wounded on Cemetery Hill. Later, Gibbon helped block the Confederate escape route at the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse, and he was one of the three commissioners who received the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. After the Civil War he commanded an infantry unit in Montana Territory and took part in the 1876 campaign against the Sioux. Gibbon’s men were among the first to arrive at the scene of the battle of the Little Big Horn, and helped to bury Custer’s dead and evacuate the survivors. The following year he led a bloody attack on the Nez Perce, led by Chief Joseph, at the Battle of the Big Hole. Afterward, Gibbon and Chief Joseph would become friends. In 1885, Gibbon, now a brigadier general, took command of the Department of Columbia, and placed Seattle under martial law during the anti-Chinese riots of 1886. Aside from his Artillerists Manual of 1859, Gibbon wrote two other books, Personal Recollections of the Civil War and Adventures on the Western Frontier, both published posthumously. An exciting, informative, and unpublished firsthand account of the planning that preceded the massacre of Custer and his men at the Little Big Horn, by one who was intimately involved in the process. $42,500.

53. Gleeson, William: HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CALIFORNIA. San Francisco: Printed for the author, by A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1872/1871. Two volumes bound in one. xv,[1],446; 351pp., plus folding map and twelve plates. Frontispiece before each titlepage. Thick octavo. Original black cloth, recased, with original backstrip laid down. Backstrip a bit wrinkled. Very neat and clean internally. A very good copy.

The scarce first issue sheets of this important work on the Catholic Church in California, with the titlepage of the second volume dated 1871. Apparently a fire destroyed many of the first issue copies, and an edition was issued in 1872 with both titlepages dated 1872. A massive and thorough history of the Catholic Church in California from the 16th through the late 19th centuries. The church played a huge role in many aspects of California’s development, and its political and social history. “Although disposed to favor the church, this work is of much value” – Cowan. COWAN, p.239. ROCQ 16882. HOWES G204, “b.” $1250.

Early Gold Rush Maps

54. [Gold Discovery]: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT...TO THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS, AT THE COMMENCE- MENT OF THE SECOND SESSION OF THE THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Washington. 1848. 384pp. plus seven folding maps on six sheets (one in color) and seven folding tables. Dbd. Closed tear at bottom of titlepage. Some minor scattered foxing. Very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

The executive section of this report, without the subsidiary reports which may accompany it, comprising the first official announcement of the discovery of gold in California. Includes maps indicating the geographical positions of the mines, Gilman’s color “Map of the U.S. showing the boundaries established by treaties with Great Britain, Spain, France and Mexico from 1783 to 1848...,” a plan of Santa Cruz de Rosales and of the operations of Brig. Gen. Price’s troops during the siege, and a map of La Paz, or Lower California. Of one of the maps, Edward Ord’s “Topographical Sketch of the Gold and Quicksilver District of California,” Wheat states:

This was the first map to make any pretense at cartographical accuracy after the gold discoveries...Indeed, it was not until [its] appearance, late in 1848...that reliable details of the region toward which men by the thousands were converg- ing from all parts of the earth became available in the centers of population from which the flood of books, pamphlets, men – and maps – was pouring.... Ord’s map...must therefore be held to be of paramount importance in any cartographical consideration of the gold rush.

The document also prints the report of Col. Richard Mason, the military governor of California, concerning his trip to the diggings, accompanied by his maps of the region. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 42, 51, 52, 54. KURUTZ 105. COWAN, p.426. HOWES P446, “aa.” $1250.

Indian Wars in Northern California During the Civil War

55. Greene, Duane M., Capt.: [ARCHIVE OF MATERIAL FROM CAPTAIN DUANE M. GREENE OF THE 6th CALIFORNIA INFANTRY, DETAILING OPERATIONS AGAINST INDIANS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DURING THE CIVIL WAR]. Humboldt County, Ca. area. 1863-1864. A total of more than [80]pp. of manuscript, mostly on quarto sized sheet. Plus an additional thirty-six printed and manuscript items relating to the later military career of Second Lieutenant Duane M. Greene (see note below). Most documents with old folds; a few with edge wear and tears, occasionally affecting some text. On the whole, the entire collection is in very good condition.

A very interesting manuscript archive, telling the story of actions against Indians in northern California during the Civil War. This collection constitutes the military papers of Captain Duane M. Greene of Company E, 6th California Volunteers, stationed at Fort Gaston in present-day Humboldt County. During the period covered by this collection, Fort Gaston was headquarters of the California Volunteers, whose main mission was battling hostile Indian tribes, including what is referred to in these papers as the “Weitchpec” tribe. Duane M. Greene volunteered for service at San Francisco in February 1863 and served for two years. Aside from his service against Indian tribes in Humboldt County, he was also an Assistant Commissary of Musters. Four of Greene’s reports have been printed in the massive collection, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (1880). The present archive, however, goes far beyond the printed record of Greene’s experiences and gives a full view of the eight months he spent engaging Indians in northern California. The archive contains several of Greene’s manuscript drafts and notes used to produce his formal reports, and a few of the reports are present also in final manuscript versions, in a secretarial hand. It also contains several manuscript copies of orders sent to Greene regarding his mission, the conduct of his company, records of promotions and discharges, notes regarding the discipline of disobedient or deserting soldiers, orders regarding requisitions, and much more. A part of this archive that has certainly not been printed, for example, is a fourteen-page series of notes, in Greene’s hand, beginning February 17, 1864, describing the movement of his company from Benicia to northern California – first to Arcata and then to Fort Gaston. This manuscript appears to have some gaps in it and may be slightly incomplete, but it gives interesting insight into Greene’s early attitudes toward his service, and the challenges faced by his company as they travelled to the Humboldt region. A letter to Greene of March 10, 1864 was written by Major Thomas Wright at “Camp at Gaston,” and gives Greene instructions on interacting with local Indians:

I send you by Lt. Taylor rations for 10 days. You will remain until further orders near the junction of the Trinity and Klamath [rivers]. You will select such a position as you may deem best – with an eye to defense and comfort, putting your men in huts as soon as possible. You will send out one detachment at a time of 15 men in such directions as you may think best. I hardly think one Indian is worth going for to the mouth of the Klamath. Believe little that you hear from the Indians but do not let them discover your unbelief. Find out all you can, give as little information in return as possible and never trust one of them when out of sight.

Among the manuscript orders and directives is a copy of “Orders No. 2” issued from headquarters of Humboldt Camp and dated March 14, 1864, which instructs that “hereafter all Indians – ‘Bucks’ – captured in open hostility will be hung and none will be shot after capture. The women and children will always be spared and sent as prisoners of war to the cmdg. officer of Fort Humboldt.” Several of the documents contain Greene’s original manuscript notes of missions and reconnaissances in very brief and rough form. They are not final, polished, reports, but rather his original notes giving details of missions, from which his longer reports were written. They therefore constitute the “first draft” reports of his troops’ activities and encounters with Indians. For example, there are four pages containing notes on missions sent out by Captain Greene in March 1864, one of which resulted in the capture of two Indians:

Saturday [March] 12. The Capt. with 20 men started on an expedition down the river taking 4 days rations leaving 20 men in camp. Monday 14 – at 7:30p.m. The Captain and a party returned to Camp having in custody 2 Indian prisoners, “Jack” and “Stone.” Confined them in the log cabin under a guard of 6 men. 15 Tuesday – The 2 Indians still in confinement having no means convenient to hang them.

Greene notes that the next day the Indians were transported to Fort Gaston, where they were hung on Thursday the 17th. Reports for later in the month describe the search for two missing privates:

March 19. Lt. Taylor with 28 men and 10 days rations for the command arrived from Fort Gaston – reported 2 men...of my company missing. A scouting party of ten men out from 9am until 5pm marched n. easterly making a sweep of about 5 miles inclining towards the river which they touched at about 3 miles below the ferry. Seen nothing of any Indians. [March] 20 Lt. Taylor with an escort of 10 men started for Fort Gaston having the pack mules in charge. Sent out Sgt. Hines and 15 men across the river on a scout towards “French Camp” to examine the trails and more particularly search for the two men who was missing from Lieut. Taylor’s command on the previous day.

An eight-page manuscript report in a secretarial hand is accompanied by an eight-page rough draft manuscript (in pencil) in Greene’s hand and an incomplete four-page version of the same report, also in Greene’s hand. These are expanded and more polished versions of the reports noted above, and contain detailed information on “scouts and movements made from the 8th to the 15 day of March, 1864 inclusive by a detachment of Company ‘E’ 6th Infantry.” The scouting expeditions mostly involved searches for belligerent Indians and encounters with “friendly” Indians. For example, part of the report for March 8 reads:

I proceeded about five miles and met an Indian whose right hand was bleeding profusely, and on examination I found it was a rifle shot round. I asked him how he got hurt, and he said it was by the accidental discharge of his piece. He said he belonged to Lieut. Middleton’s party which he said was within half a mile of me, returning to Fort Gaston. Suspecting that he belonged to the band reported opposing Middleton, and endeavoring to escape, I made prisoner of him and proceeded about half a mile and met Middleton who said the Indian’s story was correct, whereupon I released him. Middleton told me the rumor of his being attacked, or that the Indians were collecting for that purpose was not correct. He saw some Indians, but they scattered and fled to the mountains.

Another pair of manuscript reports (one of them seven pages in a secretarial hand and the other four pages in Greene’s hand) from the month of April also give details of scouts in search of any actions against unfriendly Indians. The report is datelined at Camp Iaqua and describes in great detail an action of April 8, 1864 in which Greene’s troops, in conjunction with friendly Indians, attacked a tribe led by “Ceonalton John,” which led to a meeting between Greene and “John” to discuss terms of the Indians’ surrender. Another original manuscript report in Greene’s hand (written in pencil) is dated May 2nd and gives details of a successful attack on an Indian camp:

Up before daylight and started for the Indian camp which we surrounded in a short time. Lieut. Taylor occupying the south and a part of the east and west side, while I occupied the north and part of the east and west sides, I having a part of Lieut. Taylor’s detachment. Lieut. Taylor opened fire on the Indians when they run towards me I then fired on them and the fire became general from all sides. After the fight was over we found that we had killed three bucks and three squaws and broke one bucks arm, took two squaws and two children prisoner. The attack took the Indians so much by surprise that they had not time to carry off any of their property or plunder.

An original two-page manuscript report, dated March 15, 1864 at “Camp Greene,” and written by Second Lieutenant John B. Taylor, gives a detailed reconnaissance of the area around the Klamath River, the quality of trails, good places to cross, etc. An order, dated April 23, 1863 at Benicia Barracks, orders that “no more ‘small boys’ of the same age or height as Patrick Ford are to be enlisted. Bugles and not drums will be the field music of the Regiment.” Also included in this collection are another three dozen items relating to the later military career of a Second Lieutenant Duane M. Greene. This was apparently Captain Greene’s son, who served as an adjutant in Kansas and Arizona Territory. This grouping contains a collection of printed and manuscript orders, 1872-77, written from Fort Hays, Fort Riley, Kansas, and Camp Bowie, Camp Lowell, and Yuma Station, Arizona Territory. Also included are other documents relating to Greene’s later life, including his career as a grocer in Pasadena. An interesting and informative archive giving much information on a little- known aspect of Civil War and California military history. $8500.

A Cherokee Letter from Fort Smith

56. Gunter, George Washington: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON GUNTER TO E.A. WEBSTER REGARDING HIS FAMILY LANDS IN ALABAMA, WHICH HAD BEEN ABANDONED DURING THE TRAIL OF TEARS]. Gunter’s Prairie, Cherokee Nation. April 11, 1846. [1]p. autograph letter, signed. Addressed in manuscript on the integral blank leaf, and postmarked Fort Smith, Arkansas. On a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines; remnants of wax seal and corresponding paper tear in a blank edge. Very good.

A very interesting manuscript letter from George Washington Gunter, a member of the Cherokee Nation, regarding lands that his family had owned in Alabama, along the banks of the Tennessee River. These lands were abandoned by the Gunter family in 1838 when they were forced onto the “Trail of Tears” and relocated. This letter is notable for its content, and for having been postmarked at Fort Smith, Arkansas in April 1846 – a very early Arkansas postmark. George Washington Gunter was descended from John Gunter, a Scotsman who emigrated to America, married an Indian woman, and was admitted to the Cherokee Nation. George Washington Gunter writes to E.A. Webster in Huntsville, Alabama from his current home in “Gunter’s Prairie, Cherokee Nation.” Gunter tells Webster:

I need you to find out for me whether the lot No. 2 in the town laid off by Edward Gunter on his reservation at Gunter’s landing on the north bank of Tennessee is sold or not. It was sold by Gunter to John Gunter Junr. and I do not know whether John Gunter ever sold it or not and if he did not sell it let me know it and you shall be paid for your trouble.

$1500.

57. [Guzman, Jose Maria]: BREVE NOTICIA QUE DA AL SUPREMO GOBIERNO, DEL ACTUAL ESTADO DEL TERRITORIO DE LA ALTA CALIFORNIA, Y MEDIOS QUE PROPONE PARA LA ILUSTRACION Y COMERCIO EN AQUEL PAIS.... Mexico. 1833. 8pp. plus large folding table. Original plain paper wrappers. Persistent water- staining in upper foredge area of each leaf (as is often the case), repaired in each leaf. Overall good. In a cloth chemise and green half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

One of the most important California works from the Mexican period. The folding table provides population and crop statistics for the California missions. “Guzman, head of the Franciscan College of San Fernando at Mexico City, was well informed of the activities of the Franciscan missions in Alta California and his report and recommendations on the economy of the region are of great interest” – Streeter. Guzman feared that secularization of the missions would lead to chaos if the mission Indians were not inculcated with European concepts of land ownership. STREETER SALE 2467. ZAMORANO SELECT 37. GRAFF 1696. COWAN, p.254. $1750.

58. 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. 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 travelers 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.

With an Excellent Inscription from the Author About the Lawsuits Surrounding the Book

59. Haley, J. Evetts: THE XIT RANCH OF TEXAS AND THE EARLY DAYS OF THE LLANO ESTACADO. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1929. [16],261pp., plus illustrations and maps. Frontis. Original gilt cloth, t.e.g. Slight abrasion on spine cloth, else a fine copy.

Inscribed by Haley on the front free endpaper to the noted Texas bookman, Al Lowman: “For Al Lowman this book, one page of which resulted in over ten mil- lion dollars in libel suits – fortunately won by the defendants, the XIT people, and J. Evetts Haley. Aug. 8, 1965.” Haley’s first book, and a foundation work on ranching in the Panhandle. Shortly after publication Haley was sued for libel by members of the Spikes family, who alleged that comments made in chapter eight were damaging. These and other connected suits caused this first edition to be withdrawn from sale. Inscribed copies of this book are scarce. ADAMS HERD 969. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 894. SIX SCORE 54. GRAFF 1718. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 82. HOWES H39, “aa.” VANDALE 82. ROBINSON 3. DOBIE, p.104. $2250.

Important Early Western Account

60. Haswell, Anthony: MEMOIRS AND ADVENTURES OF CAP- TAIN MATTHEW PHELPS; FORMERLY OF HARWINGTON [sic] IN CONNECTICUT. NOW RESIDENT IN NEWHAVEN IN VERMONT. PARTICULARLY IN TWO VOYAGES, FROM CON- NECTICUT TO THE RIVER MISSISSIPPI, FROM DECEMBER 1773 TO OCTOBER 1780.... Bennington, Vt. 1802. 210,63,[3],xii pp. 12mo. 19th-century red three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Corners rubbed, spine slightly faded. Some light foxing and toning. Small edge-tear to p.33 of Appendix. Very good. In a red clamshell box.

One of the only sources for this period, and probably the only printed narrative by an eyewitness and participant in the opening campaigns of the American Revolu- tion in Louisiana and the “Natchez Country.” Field described the work as “very scarce” in 1875, and Owen dubs it “exceedingly rare.” Includes detailed accounts of the battles and travels, with much on the collusion between the British and the Indians, Spanish intrigues, etc. “[T]he Memoirs is one of the most fascinating and harrowing narratives of the early nineteenth century. Phelps and his family were members of a party led by Phineas Lyman to settle on the Yazoo River” – Graff. HOWES H300, “b.” GRAFF 1816. STREETER SALE 1528. CLARK I:287. SABIN 30829. OWEN, p.782. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 2887. FIELD 920. McCORISON 643. $3250.

The Hayden Survey

61. [Hayden, Ferdinand V., et al]: [FIRST THROUGH TWELFTH AN- NUAL REPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY, KNOWN AS THE HAYDEN SURVEY]. Washington. 1871-1883. Twelve reports bound in ten volumes. Hundreds of plates, maps, and illustrations. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Spines generally sunned, a few volumes with old library marks, but a uniform very good set.

The Hayden Survey was the most important of the four major government surveys of the American West undertaken after the Civil War (the others are Powell, King, and Wheeler). Collectively these surveys filled in the map of the United States, using accurate scientific methods to chart the land and investigate not only its geology, but natural resources, wildlife, and plants as well. In conception these surveys followed on the Pacific Railroad Surveys of the 1850s and other army surveys of the pre-Civil War era, the difference being that they were largely staffed with civilian scientists. Often at odds with each other for government appropriations, they operated from right after the Civil War until 1879, when all were merged into the United States Geological Survey. Ferdinand V. Hayden was trained as a medical doctor, but began working on geological surveys as a young man, including the Army surveys in the Dakotas in the 1850s. After the Civil War, with the backing of the Smithsonian, he was able to get a government grant to conduct a survey in Nebraska. His ability and skillful political work firmly established the survey, which ultimately covered Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Kansas, Montana, and Idaho. Its activities were described in annual reports. The first three of these reports, covering 1867, 1868, and 1869, were originally published as part of other government reports, but were collected in 1873 in a single volume uniform with the rest of the series. From 1870 and the fourth season, these were issued as single volumes, generally the year following. Present here are:

1) First, Second and Third Annual Reports for 1867, 8, and 9. Washington. 1873. Devoted to Nebraska and Colorado. 2) Fourth Annual Report for 1870. Washington. 1871. Devoted to Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado, and eastern New Mexico. 3) Fifth Annual Report for 1871. Washington. 1872. Mainly devoted to Wyoming and the line of the Union Pacific, but including the first year of work around Yellowstone. 4) Sixth Annual Report for 1872. Washington. 1873. Primarily devoted to the Yel- lowstone area. 5) Seventh Annual Report for 1873. Washington. 1874. Reports from throughout the West, although the season’s field work focused on Colorado. By this time Hayden’s annual appropriation from Congress was $75,000 for the season’s field work. 6) Eighth Annual Report for 1874. Washington. 1876. Primarily Colorado. 1873 and 1874 brought major discoveries in the Colorado mountains and at Mesa Verde, which William H. Goetzmann calls the “capstone” of Hayden’s career. 7) Ninth Annual Report for 1875. Washington. 1877. Mainly Colorado with some eastern Utah. 8) Tenth Annual Report for 1876. Washington. 1878. Colorado, with particular focus on the archeological discoveries of the survey, conducted by William H. Jackson. 9) Eleventh Annual Report for 1877. Washington. 1879. Mostly Idaho, Wyoming, and western Montana. 10) Twelfth Annual Report for 1878. Washington. 1883. This was the final report of the Survey before it became part of the USGS, and it was issued in two parts, with a portfolio of maps. Only Part I, the narrative and summation of the Survey’s work, is present here. Lacking are Part II, devoted to the Yellowstone, and the map portfolio.

Only odd volumes of these reports appear in the market, and it would not be possible to assemble a complete set because some volumes are quite scarce (the map portfolio, however, often appears separately). A major landmark in the surveying of the Plains and the Rockies, especially Colorado and Wyoming. Schmeckebier, Catalogue and Index of the Publications of the Hayden...Survey, pp.9-20. William H. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire (New York, 1966). See Chapter 14, “F.V. Hayden, Gilded Age Explorer,” pp.489-529. $3500.

Colored Photographs of Yellowstone

62. Haynes, F. Jay: PORTFOLIO OF TWELVE WATER COLOR VIEWS, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. COLORED FROM NATURE. St. Paul, Mn.: F. Jay Haynes & Bro., [ca. 1900]. Twelve mounted colored photographs, each measuring 8 x 5 inches, on mounts measuring 12 x 9 inches. Printed paper label on the verso of each mount. Housed in original folding cloth box, printed label at one end. Cloth a bit discolored and split- ting along one edge. Photographs bright, clean, and in fine condition. In a half morocco clamshell case.

A collection of beautiful colored photographs of Yellowstone by F. Jay Haynes, the master photographer of the park. The photographs show a variety of geysers, hot springs, falls, and canyons, including Old Faithful. Each photograph has a list of the complete portfolio on the verso of the mount. The list covers a previous note on the mount that indicate that Haynes repurposed these photographs from his series of “boudoir” pictures. “It was as the official photographer that Haynes achieved his lasting fame, an appointment made in 1884, and lasting for 34 years” – Taft. OCLC locates only two copies, at the Huntington Library and Yale. Rare, and quite lovely. While we have handled many of Haynes’ photographic series on Yellowstone, we have never encountered the present one. OCLC 228694153, 54135774. TRAVELING THRU WONDERLAND, p.78 (ref ). Taft, Photography & the American Scene. $1750.

Detailed Early Map of Arizona

63. Hinton, Richard J.: MAP OF ARIZONA PREPARED SPECIALLY FOR R.J. HINTON’S HAND BOOK OF ARIZONA COMPILED FROM OFFICIAL MAPS OF MILITARY DIVISION OF THE PACIFIC SURVEYOR GENERAL’S OFFICE A.T. & FROM THE NOTES OF COL. W.G. BOYLE, COL. J.D. GRAHAM, H. EH- RENBERG, PROF. PUMPELLY AND LIEUT. PHILIP READE, U.S.A. San Francisco: Payot, Upham & Company, Publishers, Lith. Britton, Rey & Co., 1877. 35½ x 25 inches. Lithographed map, expertly laid down on Japan tissue and matted. Toning along old fold lines, slight marginal loss not affecting image, minor loss along old fold line. A good, quite presentable copy of this highly important map.

An excellent and important map of Arizona, depicting the mining districts, Indian reservations, counties, towns, forts, camps, routes, and major landmarks. “The northern boundary of Arizona is still the 37th parallel, but only to the 114th meridian. That meridian, south to the Colorado River at a little north of 36 degrees and continuing along the Colorado, is now the western boundary. The line of the proposed Atlantic and Pacific R.R. is shown more or less along the line of the 35th parallel, with the Southern Pacific partially lined up along the Gila in West- ern Arizona” – Streeter. The map has an inset showing the route of the Southern Pacific connection through Arizona. One of the most detailed maps of Arizona up to this time, detailing those areas actually surveyed, proposed railroad routes, existing trails and towns, and military posts. STREETER SALE 525. $4250.

Early California Promotional

64. [Hittell, John S.]: THE RESOURCES OF VALLEJO: CONTAIN- ING A STATEMENT OF THE GREAT NATURAL ADVANTAG- ES OF THE PLACE, SHOWING THAT IT IS THE MOST CON- VENIENT SEAPORT, THE SAFEST HARBOR, THE NATURAL RAILWAY CENTRE, AND THE BEST MANUFACTURING SITE. WITH A PROSPECT OF BECOMING THE COMMER- CIAL AND FINANCIAL METROPOLIS OF CALIFORNIA... [wrapper title]. [Vallejo. 1869]. 71,[1]pp. plus two folding maps. Original printed wrappers. Small ink stamp on front wrapper (see below). A touch of offsetting from the maps, else very clean internally. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt.

This copy bears the ownership stamp on the front wrapper of the noted U.S. Coast Survey geographer and engineer, George Davidson, as well as a smaller ink stamp reading: “with the compliments of J.S. Hittell.” A promotional pamphlet forcefully arguing for Vallejo in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay area as potentially the greatest harbor in the region. Among the reasons offered are Vallejo’s connection to railroads, the cheap price of land, and its proximity to inland agricultural resources. The text begins: “We believe that Vallejo, as the necessary result of its natural resources, developed and assisted by intelligence, capital, and labor, will be the leading city of this coast; and that, if we should prove to be wrong in this opinion, it will at least be the second.” Alas, it was not to be. The maps are “San Francisco and San Pablo Bays” and “Map of California Pacific Railroad,” both by Britton & Rey. The Streeter copy contained only one map. Scarce and very interesting. COWAN p.284. ROCQ 14718. HOWES H541. SABIN 32273. STREETER SALE 2922. EBER- STADT 115:214. $1000.

Important Early Bay Area Architect

65. Hobart, Lewis Parsons: [ALBUM OF TWENTY ORIGINAL WA- TERCOLOR SKETCHES, MOSTLY ARCHITECTURAL STUD- IES, BY NOTED SAN FRANCISCO ARCHITECT LEWIS PAR- SONS HOBART]. [Various places. Various dates, 1896-1945]. Twenty original watercolors, most of them 12 x 9½ inches (with four measuring on average 6 x 6 inches). One of the watercolors loosely laid in, the others mounted to the larger leaves of the album. With four additional pencil sketches on 6 x 8½-inch sheets of paper, loosely laid in. Also tipped into the album are several contemporary maps and city plans. Folio. Contemporary cloth, spine gilt. Cloth quite waterstained, boards bowed and edgeworn. The watercolors themselves are very neat and clean and in near fine condition.

A very attractive album of original watercolors by noted San Francisco architect Lewis Parsons Hobart. The album contains a mixture of renderings of buildings that Hobart himself designed or worked on, along with watercolors of buildings and sights from his tours of Europe. The album is signed by Hobart on the front pastedown and dated “1934,” though all but three of the watercolors are undated. They appear to encompass a range of dates from an 1896 watercolor done in Pompeii and a circa 1905 rendering of a cathedral, apparently done while Hobart was still working in New York, to a study of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco (Hobart’s most renowned project) dated 1945. Lewis Parsons Hobart was born in St. Louis in 1873 and attended the University of California for a year, studying under influential architect Bernard Maybeck. He studied architecture for another two years at the American Academy in Rome, and for three more years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, completing his studies in 1903. He briefly worked in New York, but returned to San Francisco in 1906 to help with the rebuilding of the city after the devastating earthquakes and fires of that year. Hobart designed many important buildings and private residences in San Francisco, and is also noted for his designs of homes in the wealthy peninsula city of Hillsborough. In San Francisco he is best known for implementing the design of Grace Cathedral, but he built a number of buildings throughout the city, in a variety of styles, including homes in Pacific Heights, Russian Hill, and Nob Hill; the original California Academy of Sciences building in Golden Gate Park; and the Bohemian Club. Hobart died in San Francisco in 1954. A few of the watercolors are pastoral scenes, and others appear to have been done by Hobart while in Europe, including a watercolor of floral trims or accent designs, dated “Pompei, Jan. 1896.” A few other sketches show what appear to be Mediterranean-region scenes, including one with a smoking volcano in the background, possibly Vesuvius. Some of the readily identifiable watercolors include a lovely rendering of the home of actor Eugene Pallettee (presumably in southern California, and dated June 26, 1938); the “Lion House”; a church, signed by Hobart and with the address of his early New York office; and an expressive watercolor of the “Flood Chalice” on San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, dated 1945. A very detailed watercolor shows the elevation of a classical-style building, including measurements and dimensions. Four pencil sketches on smaller slips of paper loosely laid into the album show several sides of a home. An interesting collection of watercolors by a significant San Francisco architect. $2850. A Famous Texas Indian Captivity Rarity

66. House, E.A.: A NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY OF MRS. HORN, AND HER TWO CHILDREN, WITH MRS. HARRIS, BY THE CAMANCHE INDIANS, AFTER THEY HAD MURDERED THEIR HUSBANDS AND TRAVELLING COMPANIONS; WITH A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THAT NATION OF SAVAGES, OF WHOM SO LITTLE IS GEN- ERALLY KNOWN. St. Louis: C. Keemle, 1839. 60pp. Original rear printed cover only, lacking front cover. Rather worn and stained. Titlepage with some paper losses in gutter margin, text unaffected. Last eight leaves with small tears in inner margins toward bottom of each leaf (a few letters affected). Overall a quite good copy of this rarity, entirely unsophisticated. In a half morocco box.

“This book, famous as an Indian captivity, has in its earlier pages (6-18) Mrs. Horn’s account of joining Beale’s expedition to the colony he was establishing in Texas, which sailed from New York, November 11, 1833 (Mrs. Horn incorrectly gives this and an earlier date as 1834), and of the journey across southwest Texas from Copano, where they landed, by way of Bexar and Presidio Rio Grande to the site of Dolores, the proposed capital of the settlement. This was not far from the Mexican town of San Fernando, which was inland a few miles on the other side of the Rio Grande. The group arrived at Dolores on March 6, 1834. Mrs. Horn and her family found life in Dolores full of hardship, but they stayed there until March 8, 1836, when they joined a company of eleven men to undertake the journey to Matamoros. On April 4th, after they had reached the Nueces River, their wagon train was attacked by Indians. The men of the party were killed while Mrs. Horn and two of her children and Mrs. Harris were made captive. Mrs. Horn was ransomed in New Mexico in the fall of 1837” – Streeter. The Siebert copy of this work realized $20,700 in 1999. It too had some condition problems, including a perforated stamp on the titlepage. HOWES H642, “c.” AII (MISSOURI) 244. WAGNER-CAMP 74:1. STREETER TEXAS 1347. AYER 134. GRAFF 1973. FIELD 715. SABIN 33024. SIEBERT SALE 989. $16,500.

The Streeter Copy

67. Hughes, John T.: CALIFORNIA: ITS HISTORY, POPULATION, CLIMATE, SOIL, PRODUCTIONS, AND HARBORS. FROM SIR GEORGE SIMPSON’S “OVERLAND JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLD.” AN ACCOUNT OF THE REVOLUTION IN CALIFORNIA, AND CONQUEST OF THE COUNTRY BY THE UNITED STATES, 1846-7. Cincinnati: J.A. & U.P. James, 1848. 105,[3] pp. Original printed wrappers. Small piece excised from upper margin of front wrapper. Moderate foxing. Very good. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

From the library of Thomas W. Streeter, with his annotations on the titlepage and the chemise, and his bookplate on the inside rear wrapper. An interesting collection of California reprints, including the relevant portions of Simpson’s famous narrative and a selection from John T. Hughes’ equally well-known account of Doniphan’s expedition. “A rare California item, but with an almost total lack of original material. It reprints Simpson’s excellent narrative and contains extracts from Hughes’s Doniphan’s Expedition” – Streeter. Cowan mistakenly cites the first edition as 1849, though the present edition is the true first. Howes notes that this edition is sometimes found bound with Joel Palmer’s Journal of Travels. It was clearly assembled quickly to provide information when news of the gold discovery reached the East. Quite rare. STREETER SALE 2533 (this copy). HOWES H768, “b.” COWAN, p.295. GRAFF 2003. SABIN 33595. $5000.

One of 100 of the Limited Edition

68. Hunter, J. Marvin: THE TRAIL DRIVERS OF TEXAS.... Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1925. xvi,1044pp., copiously illustrated. Portrait. Original half cloth over cloth, gilt title on spine. Fine, unopened.

One of the deluxe edition of 100 copies of this classic compilation of narratives of early cattlemen and trail drivers. This edition, larger and printed on better paper than the regular edition issued the same year, was for presentation only and was not offered for sale. It is signed on the limitation page by George W. Saunders, president of the Old Trail Drivers Association, who supervised the publication. One of the great cattle rarities, and one of the best cattle books, being the largest collection of firsthand narratives of the range cattle industry. In Reese’s bibliography of cattle books he selects this edition as one of the additional “big four,” ranking with McCoy, Nimmo, Freeman, Cox, Siringo, The History of the Cattlemen of Texas, and the limited edition of Dobie’s Longhorns, as the most desirable cattle items. “Perhaps the most important single contribution to the history of cattle driving on the western trails” – Adams. An essential foundation book for any range library. SIX SCORE 61. ADAMS HERD 1103. HOWES H816. $5000.

An Important Source for Early California

69. [Hutchings, James M.]: HUTCHINGS’ ILLUSTRATED CALI- FORNIA MAGAZINE, VOLUME 1. JULY, 1856, TO JUNE, 1857 [through] VOLUME V. JULY, 1860, TO JUNE, 1861. San Francisco: Hutchings & Rosenfield, 1857-1861. Sixty numbers bound in five volumes (each containing 576pp.). Printed in double columns. Illustrated throughout, plus two plates (one folding, one colored). Uniformly bound in contemporary three-quarter straight-grained morocco and cloth boards, spines gilt. Some rubbing and shelf wear to bindings. Bookplates on front pastedown of each volume. Scattered foxing, occasional tanning. Very good.

This set bears the bookplate in the first two volumes of Charles James King, the son of newspaper editor James King of William (whose murder was a catalyst for the formation of San Francisco’s second Vigilance Committee). Charles James King’s name is also stamped at the foot of each spine in this set. A complete run of all sixty issues of California’s first illustrated magazine, giving an outstanding view of California in the immediate antebellum years. Hutchings’ magazine was published monthly from July 1856 to June 1861, and is particularly notable for its articles treating the natural history and resources of the state, often attractively illustrated. Among the significant artists who contributed to the magazine were Charles Nahl, Arthur Nahl, Thomas Ayres, and Louis Nagel. Many of the illustrations were original to the magazine, while others were taken from the many pictorial letter sheets Hutchings published earlier in the 1850s. Hutchings was one of the earliest promoters and expositors of Yosemite, and there is much early information here on that natural wonder. Other articles discuss California botany, mammals, insects, fish, and birds, as well as the state’s mineral and agricultural resources, California history, and sites of interest to newcomers. There are also humorous sketches, and good depictions of life in California in the decade following the Gold Rush. “The magazine provides a wealth of material and illustrations that elucidate those pioneer days; the content fulfills Hutchings’s commitment, stated in the first number, to ‘picture California.’ Several issues present some of the first images of Hutchings’s Yo-ham-i-te Valley available for public viewing. The illustrations validate his successful efforts to capture the California scenes while roaming through the Golden State...” – Kruska. Complete sets of Hutchings’ Illustrated California Magazine are rare on the market. Howell paid $500 for the Streeter set in 1968. KRUSKA, JAMES MASON HUTCHINGS 31. FARQUHAR, pp.19-20. STREETER SALE 2804. MOTT, AMERICAN MAGAZINES II:117-118. $3500.

Item 70. The Race to Council Bluffs: Very Early Railroad Surveys of the Iowa Central Air Line Railroad, One of the First West of the Mississippi

70. [Iowa]: [LARGE LAND TRACT LEDGER OF THE IOWA CEN- TRAL AIR LINE RAILROAD COMPANY]. [Np. ca. 1853]. 130 manuscript maps, each 12 x 12 inches, partly executed in color, mostly interleaved with ledger sheets relevant to each map. Large oblong folio, 18 x 23 inches. Contemporary calf, red and black gilt morocco labels. Binding quite sturdy, with minor wear to extremities. Maps and text bright and clean. Near fine.

An impressive collection of 130 manuscript maps executed as part of an exhaustive land survey commissioned by the Iowa Central Air Line Railroad, interleaved with ledger sheets offering exact dimensions and short descriptions of the quality of the land. The maps are organized by township, with proposed routes, important township lines, rivers, and certain plots outlined in color. Numerous features of the railroad territory and nearby land are labeled, such as sundry Indian reservations, “swamps,” “rolling prairie,” “farms,” and more. This album certainly precedes J.H. Colton’s Map of the Central Iowa Air Line Railroad and Its Connections (New York, 1857), which is also organized by township. The Iowa Central Air Line Railroad was an early aggressive player in the railway race across Iowa to Council Bluffs, but became instead a basic example of the rapid boom-to-bust cycle that afflicted many early midwestern lines. The line was among the first to actually begin construction west of the Mississippi. Initially organized in 1853 and known alternatively as the Lyons and Iowa Central Railroad, the Iowa Central Air Line was to run from the town of Lyons on the Mississippi River through Iowa City to Council Bluffs. Competition between the Air Line and rival railroads was substantial. In the South, the Mississippi & Missouri had already surveyed lands west of Davenport by the time the Air Line was organized, and the two lines struggled for the confidences of a limited number of investors. Despite the pressure, the Air Line was in a position to succeed. Two thousand Irish immigrants were installed at Lyons to get a jump on construction, but when the line’s chief backer, H.P. Adams, defaulted and saddled the counties with taxes and unsupported laborers, the line failed entirely. Most of the Irish hands settled for dry goods in lieu of wages, earning the expired railway the nickname of “The Calico Road.” By 1856 the Air Line was supplanted by the Chicago, Iowa, & Nebraska as the Mississippi & Missouri’s chief competitor. One can surmise that the first annual report to investors, issued in 1858 and known in only one copy (at the Newberry Library), was grim. The final stroke came in 1860 when the Iowa General Assembly transferred the Air Line’s original land grant to John I. Blair’s Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad. This album stands as unparalleled evidence of the early efforts of the Air Line to reach Council Bluffs. Cognizant of the head start afforded the Mississippi & Missouri, Air Line surveyors were rapidly dispatched west, the present assemblage no doubt being the product of their labors. Only scant manipulation of the physical landscape was ever performed, though, according to Iowa railroad historian Frank Donovan, Jr., and an old grade is still visible east of Iowa City. With little infrastructure surviving, the present text stands as perhaps the best record of the Air Line’s ambitious goal. A prime Iowa and western railroad item and a memorial to the state’s essential role in the trans-Mississippi railroad wars. H. Grant Roger, ed., Iowa Railroads. The Essays of Frank P. Donovan, Jr. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000), pp.126-59. GRAFF 2151 (ref ). BYRD 2951 (ref ). OCLC 41479312, 42953018 (ref ). $15,000.

Founding Sioux City

71. [Iowa and Dakota Territory]: Letellier, Louis: [ORIGINAL MAN- USCRIPT MEMOIR OF SIOUX CITY, IOWA PIONEER AND FUR TRADE FIGURE LOUIS LETELLIER DISCUSSING HIS EXPERIENCES IN THE DAKOTA TERRITORY AND IOWA IN THE 1850s; WITH SEVERAL OTHER MANUSCRIPT AND TYPED DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING BIOGRAPHICAL INFOR- MATION ON SIOUX CITY FOUNDER THEOPHILE BRUGUI- ER AND ON THE SIOUX CHIEF, WAR EAGLE]. [No place, but probably Sioux City, Ia. ca. 1905-1908]. 65pp. manuscript on quarto sheets. Plus numerous other manuscript or typed documents, described below. First three leaves of the Letellier memoir chipped at the edges, obscuring a few words of text. Overall, the entire collection is in very neat, readable condition. Very good.

A very interesting collection of manuscript and typed items relating to the early history of the region around Sioux City, Iowa. The centerpiece of the collection is a long manuscript memoir by Louis Letellier, a French-Canadian carpenter and boat builder who had been employed by Pierre Chouteau’s fur company. Also included are reminiscences by friends and relatives of Sioux City founder Theophile Bruguier, first-person accounts of Sioux City in the 19th century, and a biographical sketch of the Sioux Chief, War Eagle. Letellier, born near Quebec in 1927, describes his apprenticeship in Canada as a cabinetmaker, his decision to leave for America in 1845, his work in the fur trade with Pierre Chouteau and Peter Sarpy, and life at Fort Pierre in southern Dakota Territory. Much of Letellier’s memoir is devoted to relations between white settlers and Indians in the region of northern Iowa and the southern part of Dakota Territory, primarily the Sioux and Blackfoot tribes. He describes at length the manners and habits of the tribes, discussing their rituals, ways of life, and relations with (and hostilities toward) whites and other Indian tribes. Letellier’s memoir contains a wealth of information about life at Fort Pierre and in the Dakotas in the early 1850s, and also about the early days of Sioux City. Letellier also includes much about his interactions with fur traders in the region, as well as early settlers. In the transcript of a typed interview dated 1907, Letellier discusses his relationship with a Blackfoot Indian woman, which produced a daughter. Letellier relates how he ultimately had to “kidnap” the girl from the Blackfeet, in order to raise her in white society with his Canadian wife. Letellier’s memoir and the interviews with him contain a great deal of information on obscure figures in the region’s history, including French-Canadians, Americans, and Indians. Included with the Letellier memoirs are a series of letters from around 1907, between and among Sioux City historian Constant Marks, Doane Robinson of the South Dakota State Historical Society, and F.H. Garver of the Iowa State Historical Society regarding the possible publication of the Letellier items. Marks ultimately published Letellier’s memoir under the auspices of the South Dakota State Historical Society in 1908. There is also an ambrotype portrait of Louis Letellier with his wife and child, circa 1855. Also included in this collection are several items relating to the 19th-century history and development of Sioux City, Iowa. Of primary interest are three typed items regarding Theophile Bruguier, generally considered to be the first white settler of Sioux City. Included is a three-page reminiscence by Bruguier’s son, Samuel; a typewritten interview with O.C. Treadway, dated 1904, regarding Theophile Bru- guier; and a four-page typed “Partial list of the early French settlers in and about Sioux City.” Among the other items are several typed documents by Iowa lawyer, politician, and historian Constant R. Marks, including his seven-page recollection of Sioux City since his arrival in 1868, and a sixteen-page sketch by Marks of the life of the Yankton Sioux chief, War Eagle. A wealth of information regarding the Upper Plains in the mid-19th century, including relations between Indians and whites, and the fur trade. $1500.

“One of the best of the maps of California to this time” – Streeter

72. Jackson, William A.: MAP OF THE MINING DISTRICT OF CAL- IFORNIA. New York: Lambert & Lane, 1851. 38 x 58 cm., in full color. Folded into 12mo. original green cloth case, stamped in blind and with title in gilt on front cover. Text: “Appendix to Jackson’s Map of the Mining Districts of California Bringing Down All the Discoveries Since 1849...,” 16pp. Cloth discolored and stained. Text very lightly foxed. The map is brightly colored and in fine condition. In a half morocco and cloth box.

Second and best edition, revised and enlarged. In this improved edition the text has been considerably rewritten and enlarged, with sections on new towns including Santa Cruz, Agua Fria, Vallejo, and Martinez. There is also new information on placer mines, silver and lead mines, cinnabar mines, and agriculture. The map is one of the most attractive of all gold rush maps, with the counties all individually colored. Jackson identifies several of the southern mines (which he touts in the text), and it is the only map to name Santa Cruz County “Branciforte.” “This map is based on 1850-Jackson, but is much more ornate...Very few changes have been made in the information shown in the northern portion of the gold region, but much additional material has been added in the southern mining region. Marysville and many other valley points have been added” – Wheat. “There are new sections on quartz mines, silver and lead mines, and agriculture. This map shows all the counties from Monterey and Mariposa to the northern boundary, all clearly set off from each other by the color scheme and making this a very handy map to consult. It is one of the best maps of California to this time” – Streeter. Jackson notes in his text on page 15: “We could not advise any one who is doing well at home, to venture to California.” A splendid, large-scale map, scale about 9 to 10 miles to the inch, with exceptional coloring. Kurutz locates only a handful of copies. KURUTZ 358b. WHEAT GOLD REGION 196. STREETER SALE 2665. HOWELL 123. PHIL- LIPS MAPS, p.185. NORRIS CATALOGUE 2386. GRAFF 2178. ROCQ 15877. $20,000.

One of the Earliest and Most Important Western Expeditions, Uncut in Boards

73. James, Edwin: ACCOUNT OF AN EXPEDITION FROM PITTS- BURGH TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1819 AND ‘20, BY ORDER OF THE HON. J.C. CAL- HOUN, SEC’Y OF WAR: UNDER THE COMMAND OF MAJOR STEPHEN H. LONG. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1822-1823. Three volumes (two octavo text volumes plus quarto atlas). Text: Half title. Atlas: Eleven engraved plates and maps (two double-page engraved maps after S.H. Long by Young & Delleker; double-page plate of geological cross- sections; eight engraved plates (one handcolored) after S. Seymour [6], T.R. Peale [1], and one unassigned, by C.G. Childs [2], Lawson [1], F. Kearney [2], W. Hay [1], Young & Delleker [1]). Text: Original grey-brown boards, expertly rebacked to style, original labels on backstrips. Very good. In brown cloth chemises in brown morocco-backed slipcases. Atlas: Original grey-brown boards uniform with the text volumes, expertly rebacked to style, original letterpress title label affixed to upper cover. In a brown morocco-backed box. Very good.

First edition of a cornerstone work of Western Americana and American cartography, complete with the rare atlas. Originally named the “Yellowstone Expedition,” the U.S. government expedition under Major Stephen Long was the most ambitious exploration of the trans-Missis- sippi West following those of Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike. The expedition travelled up the Missouri and then followed the River Platte to its source in the Rocky Mountains before moving south to Upper Arkansas. From there the plan was to find the source of the Red River, but when this was missed, the Canadian River was explored instead. Edwin James was the botanist, geologist, and surgeon for the expedition and “based his compilation upon his own records, the brief geological notes of Major Long, and the early journals of Thomas Say [who served as the expedition’s zoolo- gist]” (Wagner-Camp). Significantly, Long’s expedition was the first official U.S. expedition to be accompanied by artists (namely Titian Peale and Samuel Seymour), and the illustrations in the atlas are therefore an important early visual record of the area. The plates depict Oto Indians, views of the Plains, buffalo, etc. 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). James’ Account deservedly ranks alongside the narratives of Lewis and Clark and Pike as the most important early exploratory narratives of the American West. BRADFORD 2637. GRAFF 2188. HOWES J41, “b.” PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1958. SABIN 35682. STREETER SALE 1783. WAGNER-CAMP 25:1. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 353; II, p.80. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 12942. $28,500.

74. [ Jefferson, Thomas]: AN ACCOUNT OF LOUISIANA. BEING AN ABSTRACT OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED IN, OR TRANS- MITTED TO, MR. JEFFERSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; AND BY HIM LAID BEFORE CON- GRESS, AND PUBLISHED BY THEIR ORDER. London. 1804. [2],43pp., including folding table (p.41). Modern three-quarter calf. Minor foxing. Several unobtrusive ex-library stamps on final two leaves. Very good.

The rare first British edition, after the first American of the previous year. One of the most important documents of the post-Louisiana Purchase period. Based on material assembled by Thomas Jefferson, this publication provided basic knowledge of Louisiana to a country hungry to hear about it. It was the first real account of the vast new western territory to become available to the American people, and as such, the magnitude of its importance is obvious. It provides details of geography, inhabitants, Indians, laws, agriculture, and navigation. HOWES L493. SABIN 42178. WAGNER-CAMP 2b:13. $3000.

Jefferson’s Report on the Lewis and Clark, and Sibley-Dunbar Expeditions

75. [ Jefferson, Thomas]: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT... COMMUNICATING DISCOVERIES MADE IN EXPLORING THE MISSOURI, RED RIVER AND WASHITA, BY CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK, DOCTOR SIBLEY, AND MR. DUNBAR. WITH A STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE COUNTRIES AD- JACENT. Washington: A. & G. Way, 1806. 171,[7]pp. Lacks the very rare map, the entire large folding table, and the upper half of the smaller folding table. Modern half antique calf and marbled boards, leather label. Uniformly tanned, some fox marks, dampstains to a couple leaves. One leaf expertly restored in blank margin, one leaf crooked in manufacture affecting a few letters of text. Overall good.

The first official publication to provide any detailed account of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the first work to give any satisfactory 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. “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, seem to be the first accounts of Texas in book form...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 account of Red River gives a good idea of the physical characteristics of the country” – Streeter. This is the Senate issue of the report, dated February 19, 1806. This copy lacks the folding map, which is terribly rare, as well as most of the two folding tables. The first page of the text of this copy bears the gift inscription of “Joseph Bloomfield to the Trenton-Librar[y] May 3d 1806.” Bloomfield was the mayor of Burlington, the old capital of West Jersey, from 1795 to 1800. “Changing his politics to Jeffersonism, he was elected governor by the New Jersey legislature, 1801... Bloomfield was returned unopposed until 1812” – DAB. A fine association copy. HOWES L319, “dd.” STREETER TEXAS 1038. WAGNER-CAMP 5:1. STREETER SALE 290. GRAFF 4406. SABIN 40824. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 11633. $12,500.

A Key Overland Guide

76. 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. 1846. 152pp. Original plain boards, cloth spine. Front hinge cracked; spine and boards soiled and worn. Light foxing. Good, in original unsophisticated condition. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

One of the earliest and rarest of overland guide books to the Oregon Trail, chrono- logically 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 of 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. A rarity, afforded a “d” by Howes. A key guide and important work of Western Americana. GRAFF 2221. HOWES J142, “d.” SABIN 36260. STREETER SALE 3145. WAGNER-CAMP 122. COWAN I, p.315. $20,000. Indianology

77. Jones, Jonathan H.: A CONDENSED HISTORY OF THE APACHE AND COMANCHE INDIAN TRIBES FOR AMUSEMENTS AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. PREPARED FROM THE GENERAL CONVERSATION OF HERMAN LEHMANN, WILLIE LEHM- ANN, MRS. MINA KEYSER, MRS. A.J. BUCHMEYER AND OTHERS.... San Antonio. 1899. 3 preliminary leaves, [9]-235pp. Numer- ous illustrations in text. Original blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine, new endpapers. Minor spotting to covers, some wear to extremities. Internally clean save for small stain affecting two leaves. Very good.

A nice copy of one of the rarest works on Texas Indians and Indian captivities, usually known by its gilt-stamped cover title, “Indianology.” Jones interviewed a number of Texans who were captured by Indians as children, most famous among them being Herman Lehmann, whose experiences as a Comanche captive occupy most of the book. These were later reprinted by A.C. Greene in the book, The Last Captive. All the narratives concern whites held by the Comanches in West Texas in the 1870s and early ‘80s. Lehmann’s account is one of the best of its kind. “One of the most remarkable accounts of life among hostile Texas Indians, this is also one of the few surviving accounts of life in nineteenth-century Texas from the Indian point-of-view...He was the last, or almost the last, white captive who was returned and lived to tell of it” – Dobie. A great rarity, with wonderful content. HOWES J232. GRAFF 2246. RADER 2122. DOBIE, p.34. $3000.

A Lively Firsthand Account of an Important Bleeding Kansas Raid by a Guerilla Force of Jayhawkers

78. [Kansas]: Crawford, George A.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM GEORGE A. CRAWFORD TO JAMES W. DEN- VER, GOVERNOR OF KANSAS TERRITORY, DETAILING A RAID BY MONTGOMERY’S JAYHAWKERS DURING BLEED- ING KANSAS]. Fort Scott, Kansas Territory. April 22, 1858. [2]pp. plus integral blank. Folded octavo bifolium (7¾ x 5 inches), with fine associated full-colored cover.

The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created those territories with the provision that the region’s settlers would decide whether slavery would be lawful. The border state of Kansas thus became a breeding ground for anti- and pro-slavery conflict. Pro-slavery Missourians, known as border ruffians, flooded into the eastern half of the state, specifically along the Missouri River where slave-based agriculture would be feasible. Anti-slavery forces rallied, sending settlers from the North, with most coming from New England. Free state settlements were created in Topeka and Lawrence, with the border ruffians establishing their capital at Lecompton. George A. Crawford, the author of this letter, “a well known editor and public man and several times a gubernatorial candidate, was born in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1827, of Scotch-Irish-German stock. After receiving an academic education and graduating from Jefferson College, he taught school in Kentucky and Mississippi, when he returned to Pennsylvania to study law. While still reading for the bar, he became editor and proprietor of the Clinton Democrat. During the early years he took an active part in politics against the Know-Nothings and in 1855 was a delegate to the Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention. In the spring of 1857 he came to Kansas; landed at Leavenworth and accompanied Dr. Norman Eddy, United States commissioner for the sale of Indian lands, to Lawrence. Crawford, Eddy and other associates purchased 520 acres of land and organized the Fort Scott Town Company, of which Mr. Crawford was made president, a position he held for twenty years. A town was laid out and the streets were named after Mr. Crawford’s friends. He was opposed to the agitation kept up by the border factions but did not change his free-state views and several attempts were made to assassinate him” – Connelley. Writing to Kansas Territorial governor James W. Denver, Crawford gives a lively account of a raid. Although citing “Jim Denton’s gang” as the culprits, the actual marauders were James Montgomery’s band of Jayhawkers:

Yesterday some of Jim Denton’s gang from the Osage, to the number of 20, commenced robbing pro-slavery men & national free-state democrats on the Marmiton [River], above town. The Marshall & 20 men under Capt. Anderson went after them and chased them into some timber, behind a bluff from whence they fired and mortally wounded one soldier, scratched the Capt. with a ball, killed two horses and hit the Capt.’s horse in three places. The Capt. sent for 20 more men, with long guns. When they got there, however, and charged on the ravine the scamps had made their escape, leaving all sorts of plunder, which they had been carrying away. We had hoped they would have all been caught. The affair created great excitement here. It is said they notified all Pro-slavery men to leave the Marmiton. – What are we to do? The very old Nick is in the people for mischief. The great mass of the settlers are well disposed – but this organized band strikes terror to them....

Goodrich, in his 2004 work on Bleeding Kansas, War to the Knife, writes:

Led by former minister James Montgomery, a gang of nominally free-soil regula- tors, soon to be known as ‘Jayhawkers,’ began robbing, flogging and sometimes killing southern settlers almost as fast as they arrived...On April 21 [1858], almost within sight of the army cantonment at Fort Scott, the Jayhawkers swept up the Marmaton River valley, plundering proslavery and free-soil settlers alike. When word of the raid reached town, a deputy marshal asked for and received a file of twenty dragoons to act as posse. Surprising the gang eight miles west of Fort Scott, the soldiers, armed with sabers and revolvers, quickly pressed the bandits...Without warning, the raiders wheeled and fired their weapons, striking several horses and severely wounding one of the soldiers.

This event was significant, as the soldier would die from his wounds, making him the first federal soldier to die in the Kansas violence. In addition to the letter, the cover is in fine condition and worthy of note: it includes a large “Fort Scott, K.T. / Apr 22” datestamp with Kansas Territory and matching straightline “paid” handstamp on buff cover, addressed to “His Excel- lency, / Gov. Denver / Lecompton, / K.T.”, with “corner card” of “Kansas Land Agency and Land Office. / George A. Crawford, Attorney & Counsellor at law / and General Land Agent, / Fort Scott, Kansas.” Connelley, Standard History of Kansas and Kansans (Topeka & Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1918), Vol. III, p.1247. $4500. 79. Keeler, Julius M.: MINING MAP OF INYO COUNTY. San Francisco: Lith. Britton & Rey, [1884]. Colored lithographed map, 16 x 17½ inches, printed on brown paper. Includes a colored illustration of Mount Whitney, as well as descriptive text. Folding into original printed paper wallet-style covers, printed ads on inner flaps. Cover a bit rubbed. Near fine. In a half morocco clamshell case.

A scarce map of Inyo County in east-central California. The map promotes the mining potential and recreational beauty of the county, which abuts the Nevada state line and encompasses both the highest point (Mount Whitney) and the low- est point (Death Valley) in the continental United States. The map is the product of Julius M. Keeler, who came to California in the Gold Rush twenty-five years previous to the publication of this map, and who in the early 1870s relocated to the Owens Lake district in Inyo County, eventually founding the town of Keeler. The map includes a great amount of geographical detail. The various districts are individually colored and the various types of ores to be found are identified by letters corresponding to a key. For those foolhardy enough to consider cutting through Death Valley, it is noted that “emigrants perished here in 1850.” The map and the accompanying text emphasize that gold and silver are still to be found in the county. The recreational aspects and natural resources of the area are promoted as well. The view of Mount Whitney, from Lone Pine, is by Mollie Stevens, daughter of a local sawmill owner, and the fishing potential of the lakes and rivers is described in detail, with attention paid to the Sierra Golden Trout. “Published to promote the potential mineral wealth of Inyo County and the recreational value of the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada in the Mount Whit- ney region. The map names and defines the boundaries of the county’s mining districts based on data provided by J.H. Crossman and several others acquainted with the area” – Currey & Kruska. The map was offered in three iterations: as a plain sheet on fine book paper for fifty cents; on linen paper, in cover, seventy-five cents; and colored, in covers, for a dollar. The present example is the most deluxe of the three options, colored and in covers. OCLC locates a total of five copies: at the Bancroft Library, Stanford, the Huntington Library, the California State Library, and two at Yale. An attractive copy of the deluxe edition of an important California map. CURREY & KRUSKA 222. NORRIS CATALOGUE 2375. OCLC 82959006, 58899122, 21738688. $4000.

With a Document Signed by Sam Houston

80. Kennedy, John F.: SAM HOUSTON & THE SENATE. Austin & New York. 1970. [6],33,[1]pp. plus original autograph document. Folio. Original three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Modern bookplate on front pastedown, else fine. In a near fine slipcase.

One of sixty-seven limited edition copies, specially bound and containing an original autograph document signed by Sam Houston. This copy contains a treasury warrant, signed on the verso by Sam Houston as governor of Texas, dated February 3, 1860. Also signed by Clement R. Johns as comptroller and C.H. Randolph as treasurer. $1250.

In Original Wrappers

81. 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 slightly chipped, minute wear to edges, wrappers a bit browned. Contempo- rary ownership signature on front and rear wrappers. Internally quite clean. Overall an excellent copy of this rare western classic. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell box.

This is the rare first edition, of which King states in the preface of 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, 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. The ownership signature on the rear wrapper appears to be that of J. Hayden Pardee, dated “Fort Reno, I.T. [Indian Territory] 1880.” Pardee of the 23rd Infantry served during the Crook Campaign, and his name is underlined on the roster page. HOWES K147, “b.” GRAFF 2327. JONES 1607. STREETER SALE 1826. JENNEWEIN 63. $11,500.

Kino Proves California is Not an Island

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

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

Important Northwest Coast Maps

83. Kotzebue, Otto von: NEUE REISE UM DIE WELT, IN DEN JAHREN 1823, 24, 25 UND 26. Weimar. 1830. Two volumes bound in one. [2],xxii,[2],191,[1]; [2],177,[1],34pp. Three folding maps. Engraved frontispieces. Contemporary vellum, spine gilt, gilt leather labels. Vellum a bit soiled and edgeworn. New endpapers. Lightly tanned, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

The first German edition, enlarged from the first publication in Russian of 1828. Kotzebue’s second voyage to the Pacific, made eight years after his first, combined scientific exploration and discovery with conveying cargo to Kamchatka and the protection of the Russian American Fur Company from poachers. Kotzebue spent the winter of 1824 in California and Hawaii, and his narrative provides an extensive account of the Fort Ross settlement, as well as a description of the San Francisco area. He also visited Brazil, Chile, the Society Islands, Pitcairn, Micronesia, and Alaska. The original Russian edition contains different maps and does not include the zoological study found herein. BORBA DE MORAES, p.373. COWAN, p.335. HILL 946. HOWES K259. SABIN 38286. LADA-MOCARSKI 93 (ref ). WICKERSHAM 6210. FORBES HAWAII 758. KROEPELIEN 674. O’REILLY-REITMAN 843. $2750. The Saddle-Blanket Edition

84. Lea, Tom: THE KING RANCH. Kingsville: Printed for the King Ranch, 1957. Two volumes. Illustrated by the author. Large, thick octavo. Heavy linen binding. Rear hinge of first volume cracked. Near fine. In a matching slipcase, leather label.

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. SIX SCORE 69. ADAMS HERD 1319. LOWMAN 99. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 121a. $1350.

A Tom Lea Rarity

85. Lea, Tom: THE HANDS OF CANTU. Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown & Co., [1964]. 244pp. plus plates. Illustrated by the author. Brown crushed levant by Harcourt Bindery, t.e.g., gilt inner dentelles. Accompanied by a signed and dated print by Lea of his character, Don Teclo Paz. An absolutely fine copy, in perfect condition. In the publisher’s cloth slipcase.

One of only 100 numbered copies, specially printed on mouldmade Arches paper, and signed by the author. This exceptionally handsome book (possibly the best job of book-making by an American trade publisher since the second world war) is certainly one of the handful of the most sought-after of all modern southwestern books. It was vastly oversubscribed on publication, and the publishers were forced to distribute copies via lottery to those individuals who had ordered, thereby in- curring the wrath of any number of customers and dealers who had prepaid their orders far in advance of publication. Since the time of publication, this limited issue has rarely been offered for sale. This is a cornerstone work for any collection of southwestern literature or art, and to quote one of the more deified commenta- tors on the Texas and southwestern book scene: “This lean-phrased story of the early Spaniards and their all-important horses is the best example to date of Tom’s diverse talents. Written, illustrated and designed by one man, this book is the full expression of his artistry.” $3000.

Against Slavery, But in Favor of Spreading It

86. Learned, Joseph D.: A VIEW OF THE POLICY OF PERMITTING SLAVES IN THE STATES WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI: BEING A LETTER TO A MEMBER OF CONGRESS. Baltimore: Printed by Joseph Robinson, 1820. 47pp. Gathered signatures, string-tied, as issued. Uniform, light tanning. Vertical crease. Very good. Untrimmed.

A scarce pamphlet arguing that the federal government has no right to interfere in the extension or prohibition of slavery into newly-admitted states of the Union. Rather, Learned maintains that the issue should be decided by the states themselves. Learned’s tract, written at the height of the controversy over the admission of Missouri into the Union, which culminated in the Missouri Compromise, is in response to Daniel Raymond’s The Missouri Question, published in 1819. Learned allows that slavery is a “moral evil,” but argues that “the condition of the slave is better in a free Government, for his protection by the laws is more sure.” He goes on to contend that spreading slavery into the new states is beneficial to the slaves, lessening the evil of slavery in the old states, and improving their condition in the new states. A scarce argument for states’ rights, this is the first copy we have ever owned. HOWES L166a. SABIN 39538. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 1919. WORK, p.331. DUMOND, p.73. $2750. With Original Photographs of the Sierras, and the Other Editions of the Work

87. [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. Original blue cloth, front board gilt. Cloth rubbed and a bit soiled; worn at spine ends, along hinges, and at corners. Hinges slightly weak. Quite clean internally, the photographs in especially nice condition. In a folding cloth box, gilt leather label.

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 describes LeConte’s first expedition, with students of the University, into the Sier- ras, and the text wonderfully transmits 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.”

This copy of the original 1875 edition of LeConte’s work is accompanied by reprints of the book published in 1900 in the Sierra Club Bulletin (the second edition of the book), and in 1930 by the Sierra Club with an introduction by Francis Farquhar (published in an edition of 1500 copies printed by Taylor & Taylor). HOWES L175. COWAN (1914), p.137. FARQUHAR 14a. CURREY & KRUSKA 230. KURUTZ, CALIFORNIA BOOKS ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS 27. ZAMORANO SELECT 64. $10,000. Robert E. Lee Congratulates Another Future Confederate General on His Comanche Fighting

88. Lee, Robert E.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM ROB- ERT E. LEE TO EARL VAN DORN, CONGRATULATING HIM ON A VICTORY OVER THE COMANCHE INDIANS]. Arlington, Va. Dec. 31, 1858. [3]pp. on a folded quarto sheet. Reinforced on verso along center fold. Near fine.

A warm, congratulatory letter from Robert E. Lee to Major Earl Van Dorn, prais- ing his comrade for his tactics and bravery in a recent fight against the Comanche in Indian Territory. Lee and Van Dorn were both assigned to the Second Cavalry, stationed at Camp Cooper, Texas and commanded by Albert Sidney Johnston (Lee was lieutenant colonel of the regiment, and Van Dorn a major). Their regiment was charged with helping to protect settlers from attacks by Apache and Comanche. Lee wrote this letter while he was on leave back in Virginia, settling the affairs of his recently deceased father-in-law, George Washington Parke Custis. Lee writes from the Custis home in Arlington, which he inherited and which became his home for the rest of his life. He congratulates Van Dorn for his victory over the Comanche, and expresses concern over the injuries he received in a battle of October 1st at the Wichita Mountains in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Van Dorn was shot with arrows twice during the battle, one in his left arm and another in his right side. Lee writes, in part:

My dear Major, Ever since I heard of your victorious engagement with the Camanches [sic] at the Witchita [sic] Mts. I have been wishing to express to you my admiration at the manner in which it was accomplished, & my con- gratulations at the happy result. I was first deterred by the deep regret I felt at your wound & the uncertainty of your condition & whereabouts....I hope that you have recovered from your wound & that you will add another wreath to the laurels you have gained. In truth it was a brilliant battle, skillfully planned & gallantly executed & unparalleled in our modern Indian warfare. I sincerely congratulate you my dear Major upon its achievement & feel proud of its having been accomplished by the brave men & officers of the Regt. whom I cordially thank for the honor they have conferred upon it. I have expressed my admiration on the subject wherever I have been, & shall continue to do so.

Lee goes on to express his regrets at not having been able to return to Texas, but says that family responsibilities have kept him in Virginia. Lee served intermit- tently in Texas from 1857 to 1861, returning often to Virginia to attend to family business. The recipient of this letter, Earl Van Dorn (1820-63) was a colorful, magnetic, and controversial figure. Born in Mississippi, he graduated from West Point near the bottom of the class of 1842, which also included Abner Doubleday and James Longstreet. Van Dorn soon saw action in Indian campaigns, and was brevetted captain and major for gallantry during the Mexican-American War. In 1861, Van Dorn resigned from the Cavalry and was appointed a brigadier general in the Confederate Army, assigned to Texas. He was soon promoted to major general and made commander of the Army of the West, but lost an important battle at Pea Ridge. Transferred to the Army of Mississippi, he suffered a defeat at Corinth, before distinguishing himself by destroying some of U.S. Grant’s supply depots at Holly Springs, Mississippi. Van Dorn was killed in May 1863 by a man who accused him of having illicit relations with his wife. A very nice Robert E. Lee letter, to a comrade in the Indian Wars of the day, and to a fellow future Confederate general. Generals in Gray, pp.179-183; 314-315. $9500.

A Santa Fe Trader in Baja California

89. Leese, Jacob P.: HISTORICAL OUTLINE OF LOWER CALI- FORNIA. New York. 1865. 46pp. Modern mottled leather, gilt. Extremities rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Minor soiling. Very good.

A scarce work on Baja California. “Jacob Primer Leese was a Santa Fe trader who settled in San Francisco in 1836 and engaged in the hide and tallow trade with Yankee ships. He married a sister of General Vallejo and became very wealthy. In 1863, Leese and other promoters founded the Mexican Mining and Colonization Company and obtained a land grant from the Mexican government of some 46,800 square miles between the 24th and 31st parallels of latitude in Baja California. They failed to meet their obligations, however, and the grant was transferred to another party in 1866. This outline was written ‘in the interest of the Mexican Mining and Colonization Company.’ In addition to details on the grant, it provides material on the discovery, early settlements, missions, minerals, and pearl fisheries of Baja California” – Hill. BARRETT 1460. HILL 998. SABIN 39834. $2250.

90. [Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark]: THE TRAVELS OF CAPTS. LEWIS & CLARKE [sic], FROM ST. LOUIS, BY WAY OF THE MISSOURI AND COLUMBIA RIVERS, TO THE PA- CIFIC OCEAN; PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1804, 1805, & 1806...CONTAINING DELINEATIONS OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, RELIGION, etc. OF THE INDIANS.... London. 1809. ix,309pp. plus folding map. Contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Titlepage tanned. Some scattered foxing, but generally clean internally. Very good. In a brown cloth slipcase.

The first London “Apocrypha edition,” as denoted by Elliott Coues. 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, misleading the reader into believing it was the account sanctioned by the government and containing all the information gathered during the journey. Wheat points out that the work contains “the earliest published map with legends stemming from Lewis and Clark.” Howes calls this the “counterfeit” edition, while Sabin states it contains material not published in any other edition. The map shows western North America. WAGNER-CAMP 8:2. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2283. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 294. BRADFORD 2995. CHURCH 1309. FIELD 928. JONES 771. SMITH 5894. STREETER SALE 3122. GRAFF 2379. HOWES L321. SABIN 40827. $5500.

91. [Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark]: Moulton, Gary, editor: THE JOURNALS OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION. Lin- coln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983-1999. Twelve volumes, including the atlas. Text: Original cloth. Overall in fine condition. In dust jackets. Atlas: Folio. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered cover and spine. Fine.

The definitive scholarly edition of the famed Lewis and Clark journals, with copious notes, botanical material, and maps. This set is entirely first editions, including the very hard to obtain first edition of the atlas. $4250.

92. Lockwood, R.A.: THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE OF SAN FRANCISCO. METCALF vs. ARGENTI et al. SPEECHES OF R.A. LOCKWOOD, ESQ. San Francisco. 1852. 48pp. Modern three- quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Slight shelf wear. Bookplate on front pastedown. A bit of foxing, light stain in gutter of titlepage. Very good.

An important event in the history of the first Vigilance Committee. Rufus Lock- wood was Metcalf ’s lawyer in this bizarre case. Metcalf, a drayman, was accused of stealing goods he was transporting. In the middle of the night, Argenti and a Vigilance Committee group came to Metcalf ’s house and violently searched it for “stolen items,” material actually in a warehouse in transit. Metcalf sued Argenti and his band for damages. The verdict of the case was $200 in compensation for Metcalf, significantly less than the $20,000 he requested. “These speeches of Lockwood are required reading for anyone wishing to understand the dark and cruel side of the activities of the Vigilance Committee” – Streeter. SABIN 41752. COHEN 12019. GREENWOOD, CALIFORNIA IMPRINTS 333. STREETER SALE 2713. COWAN p.394. GRAFF 2521. $2500.

Rare Early Images of the Gold Rush

93. M’Ilvaine, William, Jr.: SKETCHES OF SCENERY AND NOTES OF PERSONAL ADVENTURE, IN CALIFORNIA AND MEXI- CO. Philadelphia. 1850. 44pp., plus fifteen (of sixteen) lithographic plates. Plate 8 (“Kanaka Creek”) in this copy is provided in facsimile. Original black cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. New endpapers. Page 19 (facing plate 8) torn in upper blank margin, with repairs on verso. A touch of foxing, otherwise very clean and fresh internally. A very good copy, though with plate 8 in facsimile. In a half morocco and cloth folding box, spine gilt.

A major illustrated work of the California Gold Rush, one of the earliest such works published by a returning 49er. M’Ilvaine was born in Philadelphia, studied art in Europe, and then took it up professionally. He went to California in early 1849, arriving on June 1, and left on November 1, 1849 aboard the steamer California. Each full-page lithograph is accompanied by descriptive text (ranging from one to nine pages). Nine of the plates show scenes in California, including San Francisco, Stockton, Sutter’s Mill, Sutter’s Fort, Wood’s Creek, and scenes along the Tuolumne. The rest depict scenes along M’Ilvaine’s return journey across Mexico, including views of Acapulco, Chapultepec, and Mexico City. “This album-like volume represents one of the earliest publications illustrated with ‘on the spot’ drawings” – Kurutz. Howes is in error in calling for seventeen plates – he counts the engraved titlepage twice. Rare, with only a few copies on the market in the past twenty years. KURUTZ 420. COWAN, p.408. HOWES M112, “b.” SABIN 43328. STREETER SALE 2640. GRAFF 2615. VAIL GOLD FEVER, p.20. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 134. HOWELL 50:170. $4500.

94. McCoy, Isaac: THE ANNUAL REGISTER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS WITHIN THE INDIAN (OR WESTERN) TERRITORY [No. 2]. Shawanoe Baptist Mission, Ind. Ter. [Ks.]: J. Meeker, 1836. 88pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. A bit of light foxing. Very good.

The second number of McCoy’s The Annual Register..., of which only four numbers were ever printed, containing valuable firsthand particulars regarding the western Indian tribes. McCoy first visited the Prairies in 1828, with follow-up tours during the next three years. In 1831 he settled at the Shawanoe Mission in 1831, which had been founded by Lykins earlier that year. During the following years McCoy travelled widely in the western country. In 1835 he had Jothan Meeker, who had established a press at the Mission a year earlier, print the initial number of The Annual Register.... McCoy’s works are full of information regarding the In- dian emigrant’s introduction into the new country, and provide details concerning many tribes (e.g. Pawnee, Otoe, Omaha, Cherokee, Delaware, Kickapoo, Osage, Kansas, etc.). Also included are descriptions of the military posts within Indian Territory, conditions of various tribes, etc. Complete sets of the four numbers are rarely met with – even the Streeter set lacked the first number. Printing began in Kansas in 1834 and McCoy’s Annual Registers are the first works of any substance printed in the state. SABIN 43111. HOWES M67, “aa.” FIELD 983. GRAFF 2586. STREETER SALE 544 (ref ). McMURTRIE & ALLEN (Meeker) 41. $2250. 95. McCoy, Isaac: THE ANNUAL REGISTER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS WITHIN THE INDIAN (OR WESTERN) TERRITORY [No. 3]. Shawanoe Baptist Mission, Ind. Ter. [Ks.]: J.G. Pratt, 1837. 81pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Some tanning, occasional foxing. Overall very good.

The third number (of four) of McCoy’s The Annual Register..., and the last one printed at the Shawanoe Baptist Mission, containing valuable firsthand particulars regarding the western Indian tribes. McCoy first visited the Prairies in 1828, with follow-up tours during the next three years. In 1831 he settled at the Shawanoe Mission, which had been founded by Lykins earlier that year. In the following years McCoy travelled widely in the western country. In 1835 he had Jothan Meeker, who had just established a press at the Mission a year earlier, print the initial number of The Annual Register.... McCoy’s works are full of information regarding the Indian emigrant’s introduction into the new country, and provide details concerning many tribes (e.g. Pawnee, Otoe, Omaha, Cherokee, Delaware, Kickapoo, Osage, Kansas, etc.). Also included are descriptions of the military posts within Indian Territory, conditions of various tribes, etc. This number also includes a chart listing the number of Indians in each tribe, both east and west of the Mississippi, as well as “A Plea for the Aborigines of North America” continued from Number 2. Complete sets of the four numbers are rarely met with – even the Streeter set lacked the first number. Printing began in Kansas in 1834 and McCoy’s Annual Registers are the first works of any substance printed in the state. SABIN 43111. HOWES M67, “aa.” FIELD 983. GRAFF 2587. STREETER SALE 544 (ref ). McMURTRIE & ALLEN (Meeker) 58. $2250.

First Book on the Western Cattle Trade

96. McCoy, Joseph G.: HISTORIC SKETCHES OF THE CATTLE TRADE OF THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST. Kansas City, Mo. 1874. [6],427pp. plus plate, and including illustrations. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather label. Foxing at bottom of first few leaves, else clean. Very good.

One of the “big four” cattle books. “One of the first and most important books on the cattle trade” – Adams. McCoy opened the market for Texas cattle, acted as promoter of Abilene, Kansas, and is noted on the titlepage as “the pioneer western cattle shipper.” This work is the first general account of the trade, covering the period from the beginning of the post-Civil War opening of the cattle trade up to 1873. Reprinted many times, McCoy’s work is here in the first edition, binding state “A,” containing the many leaves of advertisements not found in all copies. “...One of the pillars of any range library” – Six Score. “...One of the most important sources on ranching in Texas, Colorado and Kansas, and on the Texas cattle drives” – Streeter. ADAMS HERD 1385 (“Rare”). GRAFF 2594. DOBIE, p.111. HOWES M72, “b.” RADER 2286. MERRILL ARISTOCRAT. STREETER SALE 2366. SIX SCORE 76. $3250. First Edition of the Octavo McKenney and Hall

97. 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.” Contemporary red morocco, embossed panels, spines gilt, gilt inner dentelles, neatly rebacked with original spines laid down, a.e.g. Light scattered toning and foxing. Very good. In a cloth slipcase.

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 acquainted with American Indian 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 amongst 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. $30,000. 98. [Mexican-American War]: CONTESTACIONES HABIDAS EN- TRE EL SUPREMO GOBIERNO MEXICANO, EL GENERAL EN GEFE DEL EJERCITO AMERICANO, Y EL COMISSION- ADO DE LOS ESTADOS-UNIDOS. Mexico. 1847. 36pp. Dbd. Lacks wrappers. Tanned. Otherwise quite good.

First issue. Many documents, proposals for treaties and counter-proposals, instructions, and papers of U.S. envoys Trist and Scott regarding the negotiations for the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Texas, Alta California, and New Mexico are discussed in various segments, including Trist’s offer to let Mexico retain San Diego harbor by establishing a southern boundary of California at the 33rd parallel. One of the more intriguing Mexican War pamphlets. HOWES C717. STREETER SALE 259. SABIN 48397. HAFERKORN, p.26. EBERSTADT 160:338. PALAU 60644. $1250.

“...it looks a little like peace, but the devil trust a Mexican.”

99. [Mexican-American War]: Foster, Charles Warren: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM CHARLES W. FOSTER TO HIS BROTHER GEORGE, WRITTEN FROM MEXICO CITY DUR- ING THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR]. Mexico City. April 7, 1848. 4pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old folds. Minor soiling. In a clear and highly legible hand. Very good plus.

A letter written from Mexico City during the U.S. occupation in the Mexican- American War. Charles W. Foster, of Massachusetts, served in the engineer corps in Mexican-American War, and later served in the Civil War. He writes to his brother George about family business – including George’s impending marriage – as well as details of his corps’ possible move to California. The United States took Mexico City in August 1847; the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in February 1848, ending the war and ceding a vast swath of Mexican territory to the U.S., including Texas, California, and everything in between.

In your letter of the 2nd March, you very humbly ask my pardon for publishing those letters; I took no offence whatever at the publication, I merely wished to inform you, that I wanted you to keep dark for the future. You can of course show my letters to any of my friends that you think proper. It seems that you are not agoing to get tied up at present, dam[n] bad plan, I do not see a word about Ellen in your letter; I hope that thare [sic] is no crockery broken....Col. J.G. Totten the chief [engineer] at Washington has proposed and recommended to the President to raise 7 more companys of Engrs, four of which are to proceed to California, should the Treaty be ratified (by the way the news of its ratification by our government reached this city on the 2nd of this month) to superintend the erection of fortifications thare, tharefore supposeing the War closed our company may not see home these two years yet, however should the Treaty be ratified by the Mexican Congress immediately [sic] I think that we should be among the first to leave for the States. It seems that my letter settled some doubts while had arrisen [sic] among some of my friends in relation to the duties of our company; I suppose that some imagined that we had a great deal of hard labour to perform, I can assure them that it is very seldom that we have anything of the kind to do. To give you some idea on the subject I will give you some account of our operations at Vera Cruz. Our company was divided into five parts, eight men in each part, and only one set in the trenches or batteries at a time, each detail on duty eight hours only at a time, and thus you see that eight men were divided among about five hundred men or more according to circumstances, each of the engineers haveing charge of a particular portion of the work, and all under the general superintendence of a detail of Engineer Officers. The Peace prospect brightens; it is said that there is a quorum of the Mexican Congress at Queratero, and it is the opinion of the leading Mexicans in this city that the Treaty will be accepted as modified by our Senate. Orders have already been issued for the downward movement of the troops, the first that move are the sick, who are under orders to move on the tenth of the present month to Saluppa [possibly Xalapa?]; several of the volunteer regiments together with the Mass. Regt. have also received orders to hold themselves in readiness to march on short notice, so you see that it looks a little like Peace, but the Devil trust a Mexican.

Foster also relates a grim tale of bank robbery gone awry, in which some of the U.S. troops determine to rob a local bank and a clerk is killed defending the safe:

A young Spanish clerk in a banking house was killed here night before last; there was some two or three thousand dollars in the office, which he died in defending. It seems that some teamsters and one or two Volunteer Officers learned that thare was a large amount of money in the building and laid there plans accordingly, but on entering they made so much noise that they awoke the two clerks, who drew their pistols and took their position in front of the safe to defend the money. One of them was shot dead, and two of the assail- ants were severely wounded. I am sorry to say that thare were two Lieuts. concerned both belonging to the Pennsylvania Regt. The parties have all been arrested; it creates a great excitement here the more so because American Of- ficers were concerned.

A detailed letter from the front lines of the Mexican-American War, discussing plans to fortify newly-acquired California. $1250.

Exile in California

100. [Mexico]: PRIMERA SECRETARIA DE ESTADO. DEPART- MENTO DEL INTERIOR. SECCION 1.A EL ESCMO. SR. PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS-UNIDOS MEJICANOS SE HA SERVIDE DIRIGIRME EL DECRETO QUE SIGUE...SE RENUEVA LA PROHIBICION DE TODA REUNION CLAN- DESTINA...[caption title]. [Mexico. Oct. 25, 1828]. Broadside, 8 x 12 inches. Light fold lines, minor wear to edges, slight discoloration to middle of text block. Overall very good.

“An almost unknown series of original reglamentos governing the introduction and conduct of foreigners in California” – Eberstadt. Includes regulations for punish- ment of people caught meeting in clandestine political groups, including exile in California. EBERSTADT 138:76. $2000.

101. [Mining Photographica]: [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM DETAILING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CROSBY MAGNESITE MINE IN WASHINGTON STATE]. [Various places, primarily in Washing- ton. 1917-1918]. [85]pp. containing 180 mounted photographs, most approximately 2 x 3 inches. Folio. Red leather binder. Covers moderately chipped. First few leaves lightly toned, else quite clean and bright internally.

An interesting photograph album chronicling the development of the Crosby Magnesite Mining Camp, with many images of life at camp and mining-related work. Magnesite is a mineral used in the making of steel; during World War I, the importation of magnesite came to an abrupt halt (foreign sources having been commandeered by the Allies), creating a surge in demand for local sources of the mineral. This album documents the construction of one such mine in Washington. The photographs show various buildings, both inside and out, including the office, cook house, blacksmith shop, chemical laboratory, meat house, bunk house, and several individual dwellings. There are also photographs of the mining operation itself: the quarry, ore chute and kilns, as well as the railroad built to run between the quarry and the bunkers. Several shots show individuals around camp, including children of the miners, and the camp dogs. One of the larger photographs shows the camp as seen from afar, giving the viewer a more complete picture of the camp’s layout. Each photograph is labeled as to date and subject. A 1919 government hearing on magnesite production indicates that after spending $50,000 to $60,000 on the property at the Crosby mine, the magnesite was found unfit for use and the operation was abandoned. An interesting and detailed look at an early 20th-century mining camp in the Pacific Northwest. $2250.

A Major Western Map

102. [Mitchell, S. Augustus]: ACCOMPANIMENT TO MITCHELL’S NEW MAP OF TEXAS, OREGON, AND CALIFORNIA, WITH THE REGIONS ADJOINING. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846. 46pp. text plus colored folding map, 22½ x 20¾ inches. 18mo. Original gilt morocco binder. Binder slightly worn. Text is clean. Map neatly repaired with tissues on old folds, else very good. In a half morocco clamshell case.

A major western map, with accompanying text. The detailed “New Map of Texas, Oregon and California with the Regions Adjoining...” shows the western portion of the U.S. to the Pacific, with Indian Territory, Missouri Territory, Iowa, and portions of the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Wisconsin, as well as northern Mexico and part of British Columbia, illustrating in detail the trans-Mississippi region on the verge of the Mexican War. Texas is elaborately depicted, with the Rio Grande as its southern border; Oregon is shown to extend to 54° 40”; and the Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail are both detailed, the latter with a table of distances published in the lower corner of the map. “This map represents a great step forward, in that it is among the first by a commercial cartographer to utilize the recent explorations that had bounded and determined the nature of the Great Basin...because of its popularity, this map of the West exerted great influence, not only with the public but on other commercial cartographers” – Wheat. The text describes each territory or state in turn, with notes on Lewis and Clark and other early explorers, and more historical material. Howes also mentions an issue with thirty-four pages of text, but Sabin lists only the present collation. HOWES M685, “aa.” SABIN 49714. MARTIN & MARTIN 36. WAGNER-CAMP 122b. COW- AN, p.433. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 520. STREETER SALE 2511. PHILLIPS MAPS, p.844. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 29. $13,500.

The Artist/Author’s Most Important Work

103. Möllhausen, Heinrich Baldwin: TAGEBUCH EINER REISE VOM MISSISSIPPI NACH DEN KUSTEN DER SUDSEE. Leipzig. 1858. Two volumes. [2],viii,222; [20],[223]-494,[2]pp. plus fourteen plates (seven in color, six tinted, and one in black and white) and folding map. Quarto. Original blue printed wrappers. Neatly rebacked in facsimile; corners and some edges of wrappers repaired and renewed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Minor foxing. Very good plus. Untrimmed and unopened. In a blue cloth box, gilt leather label.

The second issue, issued the same year as the first, of the most important work of this notable German artist and topographer, who accompanied several of the leading western surveys of the 1850s. This book describes his experiences with the Pacific Railroad survey under Lieut. Amiel Whipple, 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, and is almost never seen in the original wrappers. The Streeter copy is the only other copy located in auction records for the past century to appear in wrappers. The Streeter copy brought $500 and reappeared in a bookseller’s catalogue in 1988 at $6500. It was bought by Jay Snider, and sold at his sale at Christie’s in 2005 for $24,000 to a California collector. A highly desirable copy. HOWES M713, “aa.” ABBEY 661 (ref ). WAGNER-CAMP 305:1. GRAFF 2851. SABIN 49914. STREETER SALE 3135. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 955. Taft, Artists & Illustrators of the Old West, pp.22-35. $12,000.

104. Moran, Thomas: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM PAINTER THOMAS MORAN TO GEORGE F. EDMUNDS RE- GARDING A DRAWING FOR HIS WIFE]. Newark. July 23, 1872. [2]pp. Octavo, on a folded quarto sheet. Old fold lines. Fine. In a quarto-sized tan half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

A letter written by painter Thomas Moran to Vermont Senator George F. Edmunds, discussing a sketch Moran had done for Mrs. Edmunds – a great supporter of his work – entitled “Great Blue Spring of Fire Hole River.” Thomas Moran (1837- 1926) was a painter and printmaker who became famous for his depictions of the American West, particularly views of Yellowstone. Moran accompanied several expeditions to the West, including the Hayden expedition to the Yellowstone in 1870. Upon his return, he set up a studio and began producing work for publication and for sale. “With his highly finished watercolors, which he often sold as pieces in a series, Moran gained a range of new patrons, including Mrs. George Franklin Edmunds, the wife of the senator from Vermont who advocated passage of the Yellowstone bill” – ANB. Moran’s works were the first to adequately depict to the world the extraordinary scenes of the Yellowstone National Park, and his rendering has long been considered the most skillful and striking prints of the Park and its natural wonders. This letter is written around the time Moran’s career really took off, just after the Hayden expedition. In it he mentions his painting, “The Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone” (1872), which he was to deliver to Washington; this was the first landscape the government hung in the Capitol. He writes:

My dear sir, I have finished the drawing of the “Great Blue Spring of Fire Hole River” for Mrs. Edmunds & have sent it to Goupil’s in New York to have it mounted in a passe-partout; & as they frame drawings very handsomely there, I would recommend that you have them make the frame & which I will select if agreeable to you. The drawing is about 10 x 16 inches & I will forward it to you by express as soon as I hear your decision in regard to the frame. I start for the West on a sketching tour in about two weeks or immediately after delivering the ‘Cañon’ in Washington. The picture was well received in Boston & is now on exhibition at Goupil’s in New York for one week. There is a very handsome notice of it in the Atlantic Monthly for August.

A fine letter from one of the West’s premier artists. Moran letters are relatively scarce on the market, with only three appearing at auction in the last thirty years. This one is particularly desirable, with its content discussing work for a patroness. The watercolor in question, now called “Big Springs in Yellowstone Park,” appeared for sale in the John F. Eulich Collection at Sotheby’s, May 20, 1998 (lot 47). $3000.

With the Moran and Holmes Views

105. [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. Two volumes. Text: “Department of the Interior...Geological survey” title. 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. Atlas: Mounted on guards throughout. 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 (nine) and Moran (one) (five chromolithographed and five printed in tints), all printed by Ju- lius Bien & Co. Quarto and folio. Expertly bound to style in deep burgundy morocco over contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands, the bands flanked above and below by gilt rules, lettered in the second compartment. Very good.

A fine set of “one of the grandest publications of the scientific expeditions in the American West...[depicting] the Grand Canyon in a series of magnificent panoramas” (Reese & Miles). 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 x 90 inches. It is interesting to note that the first of these sheets includes what may be a self-portrait of Holmes and a portrait of 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 Canon 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: C.E. Dutton, the scientist; Jack Hilliers, the photographer; 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: both were clearly inspired by their subjects. The overall result is of a quality that would not be possible today. As Wallace Stegner 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. $17,500.

An Extraordinary Firsthand Account of the Alamo, and Details of the Deaths of Travis, Bowie, and Crockett: “...fought like tigers to the last....”

106. [Morgan, James]: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED IN THE BODY OF THE TEXT, FROM JAMES MORGAN, GIVING A FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE ALAMO LESS THAN A MONTH AFTER THE SIEGE]. New Washington, Tx. April 2, 1836. [4]pp. manuscript letter on a folded sheet. A total of approximately 3,000 words. Old folds. Chipped at edges, costing about a dozen words of text at bottom edge of both leaves. Closing signature neatly clipped away, but Morgan identifies himself in the text. Leaves browned near upper and lower edges, especially on the fourth page. Good. In a half morocco clamshell case, cloth chemise.

An outstanding Texas letter, giving a detailed account of the attack on the Alamo, based on firsthand information from one of the very few survivors of the siege, Col. William B. Travis’ slave, Joe. The letter was written less than a month after the siege, and was penned by James Morgan, a pioneer Texas settler and commander at Galveston during the Texas Revolution. Morgan relates the actions and deaths of two of the major heroes of the fight, Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and urges his correspondent to help get volunteers and arms to Texas. A strong theme of the letter is the perceived American indifference to the struggles of the Texans. Morgan also discusses a number of related topics, including his new appointment as a colonel, the recently passed Texas constitution, a newly adopted flag, and actions taken by the Texas Cabinet. Several women, children, and slaves survived the Mexican assault on the Alamo. One of these was Joe (born about 1813), the slave of William Travis. Morgan’s account of the Alamo is based on Joe’s observations, and carries a startling imme- diacy. The recipient of this letter is unknown, as it is simply addressed “My dear doctor” (quite possibly Ashbel Smith, then in the East, but medical director of the Texian Army after May 1837). Morgan’s signature has been neatly clipped away from the bottom of the final page, but he refers to himself in the text of the letter. Morgan writes, in part:

Since I last wrote, which was...about 20th Feby., we have had high times had [sic]. St. Anna at the tail of a considerable force, some 4 or 5 thousand men visited the Alamo – a kind of fortification at Bexar containing within a wall of some 7 or 8 feet high 4 or 5 acres of ground & requiring at least 500 men to defend it. Travis, with only 150 effective men, sustained the siege for some 2 or 3 weeks under a constant bombardment & was, finally, when worn down by fatigue taken, rather by surprise, on the morning of Sunday 6th March....[the defenders] fought like tigers to the last, dealing death & destruction in every direction until all were finally kil’d. I have the particulars from the only male survivor – a black serv’t. of Travis, who fought by his master until he fell. Bowie, poor fellow was in his bed sick. He got under the bed when the Mexicans got in the house & fought with his pistols & knife to the last, decapitating many of the yellow skins before they despatched him. Poor Davy Crockett ‘went ahead’ among them in great style. It is said he kept a lane clean before him for a long time. No man could have behaved with more bravery than he did. He is known to have kil’d 25 Mexicans previous to the storm! I regret that I have not time to give you all the particulars of the affair as related by Jo.... Since the affair of the Alamo the whole country has been armed and all able to bear arms here have turned out, except those who have, & are running off. More, I am sorry to say, than I ever anticipated would leave. But there are many stout hearts left who are determined to die as the last ditch, rather than surrender the country. We are all, who do stand up, determined on selling our lives dearly, if we do have to fight, rather than be driven out & are making our arrangements accordingly....We want means viz [mun]itions of war, men, heavy ordinance, muskets & bayonets & powder, provisions, bombshells, howitzers, &c. &c. &c. If a vessel could be chartered & sent to me at Galveston Island with the above articles I need not say...the effect it would have in favor of the N.W.A. [the New Washington Association]. But, Dr., we are neither Greeks nor Poles, therefore cannot enlist the sympathy of Americans I fear! Without aid from any quarter we shall come out. I have no fears for the result of the struggle. But help will be acceptable. The sooner it comes the better. Mexico must go down & Texas will be free.

Morgan writes that the Texans are eager to take the fight into Mexico, and asks his correspondent to help spread the word in the United States and raise volunteers for the cause: “If some of the leading papers in the U.S. will only come out, openly, & encourage the project, thousands, nay tens of thousands would flock in immediately. Volunteers are to be rewarded with lands for their service and the same of any troops in the U. States – let this be known.” Morgan goes on to discuss a number of related topics, including the defenses of Galveston, his commission as a colonel, his desire to have the seat of government of Texas fixed at New Washington, and the activities of some volunteers who have recently arrived from New York. He concludes his letter with a discussion of a newly-adopted Texas flag, the new Texas constitution (which was approved just two weeks before this letter was written), and reiterates his desire for volunteers and emigrants:

The Texas flag, which I send a design of [not included with this letter] you will see, ‘tis rather unique. Gov. Zavala’s suggestion to the convention caused this flag to be adopted. Regret that I have not a copy of the Constitution adopted to forward to N.Y. with this, it is not in print yet. I was thinking you could find many Poles & other foreigners that would be willing to come out from N. York here, just at this time. Those who have seen service, to come out as emigrants. We want colonists badly you know! Physicians for the army & elsewhere might do well. We have had some hard characters of that class here. But, in case some few genteel young men, well educated, & of good standing in their profession should come out their services might soon be brought into requisition.

James Morgan (1787-1866) was born in Philadelphia and grew up on North Caro- lina. In the early 1830s he founded a mercantile business in Brazoria, and in 1835 he was appointed agent of the New Washington Association (organized the year before by Lorenzo de Zavala and others) to develop Texas real estate. Morgan quickly purchased a large amount of land at the mouth of the San Jacinto River and laid out the town of New Washington (later called Morgan’s Point). Among the settlers to New Washington was Emily D. West (a free black woman from New Haven, Connecticut), the so-called Yellow Rose of Texas. From March 20, 1836 to April 1, 1837, Morgan was commandant of Galveston Island and planned and effected the fortification of the island. In the 1850s he was active in promoting the Houston ship channel, and he also raised cattle and experimented with the cultivation of oranges, cotton, and sugar cane. An amazing letter from the Texas Revolution, with a gripping firsthand account of the Alamo, one of the most famous battles in American history. HANDBOOK OF TEXAS (online). $75,000.

107. Muir, John [editor]: PICTURESQUE CALIFORNIA AND THE REGION WEST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, FROM ALAS- KA TO MEXICO. CONTAINING OVER SIX HUNDRED BEAU- TIFUL ETCHINGS, PHOTO-GRAVURES, WOOD ENGRAV- INGS, etc., BY EMINENT AMERICAN ARTISTS. New York & San Francisco: The J. Dewing Publishing Company, 1888. Two volumes. xii,478pp., plus 116 (of 120) plates. Large folios. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and cloth, spines gilt. Extremities rubbed; hinges cracked but repaired internally. Internally quite clean and crisp. Very good.

A great work of pictorial Western Americana. Among the famed artists who contributed to the work are Frederick Cozzens, Thomas Hill, Thomas Moran, Frederick Remington, and many others. Moran’s view of Half Dome is the first of a total of 120 full-page plates (with printed tissue descriptions), which include photogravures, etchings, and photo-etchings. The text is written by a variety of authors, but John Muir is listed as the editor, and he contributed seven articles to this work, three of them on the High Sierras and Yosemite Valley (two of Muir’s pieces were written especially for this work, the others came from earlier publications). Publication was issued by subscription, and no subscription was accepted “for less than the entire work.” The work was issued in a bewildering number of different formats and editions – see Kimes or Currey & Kruska for a complete description. KIMES 175. BAL 14744. COWAN, p.486. CURREY & KRUSKA 257. ZAMORANO SELECT 87. $2000. 108. [Munro-Fraser, J.P.]: HISTORY OF SOLANO COUNTY...ALSO A FULL AND PARTICULAR BIOGRAPHY OF ITS EARLY SET- TLERS AND PRINCIPAL INHABITANTS. San Francisco: Wood, Al- len & Co., 1879. 503pp., plus twenty full-page lithographic portraits. Quarto. Half calf and marbled boards. Stain along inner margin of one portrait (not affecting image), else very clean and neat internally. Very good.

A scarce and informative early California county history. The text begins with an extensive history and description of Solano County (located at the north end of San Francisco Bay), including a discussion of its early settlement, natural resources, politics, and civic structure. One chapter is devoted to murders and other trials, and another focuses on Mexican land grants. Several individual towns are profiled, including Benicia, Vallejo, Suisun, and Vacaville, as well as a number of smaller communities. Nearly two hundred pages are devoted to biographical sketches of prominent citizens, twenty of whom are illustrated with portraits. HOWES M897, “b.” ROCQ 14603. COWAN, p.597. NORRIS CATALOGUE 3649. $2250.

Perhaps the Most Famous Early View of San Francisco

109. Muybridge, Eadweard: PANORAMA OF SAN FRANCISCO, FROM CALIFORNIA ST. HILL. [San Francisco]: Morse’s Gallery, 1877. Albumen photographic panorama mounted on eleven panels, the entire panorama measuring a total of 7½ x 87¼ inches. Caption title, photographic credit, and publisher’s imprint printed on center panel. Backed by cloth and folding into original gilt cloth binding. Cloth boards with some old dampstaining in the lower edge. Old staining on the panels below the photographic prints. The images themselves are quite clean and sharp. Very good condition. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

One of the landmarks of 19th-century American photography, and an iconic image of San Francisco. This remarkable panorama dramatically shows the growth of San Francisco nearly thirty years after the onset of the Gold Rush. In the 1870s, San Francisco audiences were hungry for panoramic displays, and the rest of the country was intrigued by San Francisco, the largest city in the West. Muybridge satisfied all appetites by providing a 360° view of the city, creating what Rebecca Solnit calls “an impossible sight, a vision of the city in all directions, a transforma- tion of a circular space into a linear photograph.” David Harris calls Muybridge’s San Francisco panorama “one of the supreme conceptual and technical achievements in the history of architectural photography.” Eadweard Muybridge took the photographs that make up this panorama from a vantage point on the central tower of the unfinished Nob Hill residence of railroad baron Mark Hopkins, then the highest point in the developed portion of the city. The work was done in June or July, 1877 and took some five hours to complete, based on the shifting shadows seen in the image. Muybridge began in the late morning with a view toward the southwest (the tenth plate in the panorama) and proceeded in a clockwise direction, moving his camera away from the sun from one image to the next. Muybridge’s view is from some 380 feet above the sea level, and the view reaches some fifty miles into the distance and encompasses a width of fifteen miles. Despite the great scope of the work, precise details of the city are visible throughout, and one can clearly see hanging laundry, ships in the harbor, shop signs, and a clock on a tower in the fifth panel reading quarter to two (other copies of the panorama show the clock reading nearly five-thirty). San Francisco spreads throughout the panorama, and the dynamism of the city is clearly evident, as many unfinished buildings and roads under construction are also seen. Muybridge’s panorama was advertised as being for sale in July 1877, offered for eight dollars rolled or ten dollars accordion-folded and bound, as in the present copy. Buyers could purchase the panorama directly from Muybridge, or through Morse’s Gallery. Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was one of the great photographic innova- tors of the 19th century. Born in England, he came to San Francisco in 1855 and built his reputation on photographs of San Francisco, Yosemite, and other western locales. The year after he produced his San Francisco panorama, Muybridge, at the behest of another railroad magnate, Leland Stanford, produced a sequence of photographs of a galloping horse that proved that all four of the animals hooves were off the ground at the same time. Muybridge’s work in sequential photography, in which he photographed animals and humans in motion, laid the groundwork for motion pictures. A remarkable view of San Francisco, and a high point in the photographic representation of the West. David Harris, Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880, catalogue item 31; pp.37-53. Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. Paul A. Falconer, “Muybridge’s Window to the Past: A Wet-Plate View of San Francisco” in California History (Summer 1978), pp.130-157. $48,000.

110. [Nebraska]: THE OFFICIAL STATE ATLAS OF NEBRASKA. COMPILED FROM GOVERNMENT SURVEYS, COUNTY RE- CORDS, AND PERSONAL INVESTIGATIONS. Philadelphia: Everts & Kirk, 1885. 207pp. encompassing hundreds of maps, plus thirty-seven leaves of explanatory tables and fifteen leaves of illustrations. Folding map of the State, plus smaller tipped-in maps and leaves. Large folio. Later three-quarter leather over original cloth boards, cover gilt. Extremities rubbed, edges of boards lightly worn. Some leaves with small edge tears. Minor dampstaining at bottom edge. About very good.

State atlas of Nebraska, showing detailed maps of all the counties and cities, with information on the major landowners and views of important places in the state. Some maps are double-page or full-page, for counties and large cities, while some pages have up to six smaller maps of smaller communities. The extra leaves of text give statistical information on each of the counties, as well as a list of “leading farmers and land owners...who have assisted in the publication of the official state atlas of Nebraska.” Views include the homes of prominent citizens, the University of Nebraska, and the State Insane Asylum. Other views show ranches, complete with insets of prized livestock. Rumsey notes that this is the only atlas of Nebraska published in the 19th century. A remarkable record of the state. PHILLIPS ATLASES 2107. RUMSEY 2719. $3750.

Manuscript Account of the Nez Perce War

111. [Nez Perce War]: [ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT OF A MARCH FROM FORT WALLA WALLA, WASHINGTON, TO FORT LAPWAI, IDAHO, DURING THE NEZ PERCE WAR, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF THE DEATH OF A SOLDIER]. [Washington & Idaho. ca. 1877-1878]. [12]pp. About 3,500 total words. Folio sheets. Old horizontal folds. Leaves edgeworn and stained. Good.

A very interesting original manuscript account of a march from Fort Walla Walla, Washington to Fort Lapwai, Idaho during the Nez Perce War. Though without a specific year or years mentioned in the text, it seems that the events it describes took place from November 1877 to February 1878. The unnamed author was a member of the infantry, and his account opens with his company arriving at Fort Walla Walla. The author begins by noting that on their arrival at Fort Walla Walla “Capt. Rowell of the 4th Infantry Col. Vol. was in command of the Garrison...,” apparently indicating the presence of black troops at the fort. He goes on to give a description of Walla Walla and the surrounding countryside, writing of it affectionately and noting that “our time was principally occupied while at this place by fishing, hunting and other pleasing occupations.” They eventually received orders to proceed to Fort Lapwai, in southeastern Washington, and began a march, which the author describes in detail over the following pages. They marched through the Alpowa Valley and along the Snake River to Lewiston, Idaho, eventually camping in the “Lapwai Valley,” along the Snake River just east of Lewiston in December. One evening while out walking the author came across the scene of an ambush, which resulted in one soldier in his company, Allen Sprague, being mortally wounded:

I had not gone far when I was startled by the report of a gun and turning sharply around I beheld at the distance of a few hundred yards behind Private Sprague our companies favorite with his arms thrown wildly into the air and in the act of falling prostrate to the earth. At a few paces beyond was Nichols another member of our company dropping suddenly a gun and standing in an attitude of perfect consternation. Never shall I forget the tableau thus formed by these two persons. I stood for a few seconds gazing at the scene which had something fearfully fascinating in it. But on seeing Sprague fall heavily to the ground I recovered myself and rushed to the spot. When I arrived he was bleeding profusely from the neck and asked to be taken away.

The author then describes in detail the funeral services for Sprague. The manuscript goes on to give a description of an officers’ ball held at Fort Lapwai on February 23rd. The author concludes with a brief, respectful assessment of the Nez Perce:

The Nez Perce Indians are a fine athletic race. They are as tall and stout as any nation of white men in the world. They are also very industrious for red men of the forest, possessing many of our virtues with few of our vices. They are very fond of equestrian exercises and own great number of horses, which they drive at intervals in bands to the Southward to market. Horse racing is a favorite sport among [them] and on such occasions I have seen many change hands freely. Their dress consists chiefly of a blanket thrown loosely over their shoulders and tight fitting leggings of the same material.

An interesting account of a few weeks’ service in Washington and Idaho during the Nez Perce War. $1750.

Osage Indians in Paris, 1827

112. [Osages]: SIX INDIENS ROUGES DE LA TRIBU DES GRANDS OSAGES, ARRIVÉS DU MISSOURI AU HAVRE.... Brussels: J. B. Dupon, 1827. [4],28pp. Frontispiece. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Slight foxing. Near fine. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

A detailed overview of the Osage Indians and their territory, printed to accompany the now famous visit of six Osage Indians to Le Havre, France in July 1827. The 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 styled a “prince,” “princesses,” and “warriors” by the French press. Numerous publications similar to the present one were published in conjunction with the visit. Complete with sections on the Missouri River, Indian domiciles, treatment of women, children, religion, war, language, and a particularly interesting segment on the connection between the Indian and his land. The romantic frontispiece displays the six visi- tors. This is clearly related to Paul Vissier’s work on the Osage, published in Paris the same year (Wagner-Camp 33a), and it is possible that he authored this as well. Another edition, with nearly identical text, was published in Havre the same year. Not in Field. OCLC locates only six copies. Scarce. HOWES O129, “aa.” EBERSTADT 110:121. SABIN 81484 (another ed). BRINLEY SALE 5431 (ref ). OCLC 11807329. $3750.

The Railroad Surveys: A Wealth of Images

113. [Pacific Railroad Surveys]: REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, TO ASCERTAIN THE MOST PRACTICABLE AND ECONOMICAL ROUTE FOR A RAILROAD FROM THE MIS- SISSIPPI RIVER TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. MADE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, IN 1853-4.... Washington. 1855-1860. Twelve volumes bound in thirteen. Profusely illustrated with maps, lithographic plates, colored lithographic plates, profiles, etc. Collated complete with all the maps and plates called for in Wagner-Camp. Large, thick quarto. Modern black buckram, spines gilt. A nice, uniform set. Very good.

The Senate issue of the Pacific Railroad Surveys. This large quarto set is the most important and massive compilation of exploration reports and data ever published about the trans-Mississippi West. Under the direction of Secretary of War Jef- ferson Davis, the Pacific Railroad survey in two years increased the contemporary knowledge of the geography, topography, geology, and natural history of the West by a quantum leap. Included herein are the reports of Humphreys, Stevens, Beck- with, Whipple, Warren, Williamson, Lander, et al, supplemented with reports on scientific observations, and numerous significant achievements in cartography, including Warren’s “Map of the Territory of the United States from the Missis- sippi to the Pacific Ocean...” (here present in the eleventh volume), which has been hailed as “the best cartographical work on the West up to its time...” (Howes). The illustrative material (engraved and lithographed views, specimens of birds, fishes, and other animals) is of the highest quality, often in colored state, and encompasses thousands of illustrations, either in the text or as separate plates. This set includes fully seven reports listed by Wagner-Camp as separate items, and nine listed separately by Howes. Wheat devotes twenty-four pages of detailed discussion to the maps in this series of reports, singling out the Warren map as “among the great maps of the United States that preceded the Civil War.” All things considered, this edition of the Pacific Railroad Surveys stands as a testament to one of the greatest government sponsored projects in our history, and is a foundation work for any collection devoted to Western Americana or cartography. It is quite difficult these days to find a set of the Railroad Surveys in a uniform Senate edition (as opposed mixed House and Senate volumes). HOWES P3, etc. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 822 through 824, 843 through 846, 852, 853, 864 through 867, 874, 875, 877 through 882, 898, 936 (23 in all). TWENEY 89, 59. WAGNER-CAMP 262 through 267. RITTENHOUSE 442. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 75. ZAMORANO SELECT 108. $9000.

In Original Wrappers

114. 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 brown wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled and chipped at spine ends and corners. Scattered foxing in the first half of the text, but overall a very good copy, in original condition. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell box, 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, this work by Joel Palmer. His journal is the only contemporary account by a participant in the 1845 migration, which numbered some three thousand persons and more than doubled the white population of Oregon. “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” rating. Also included in this volume 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, CHINOO- KAN, p.57. AYER (CHINOOK) 48. $12,500. 115. Pike, Zebulon Montgomery: AN ACCOUNT OF EXPEDITIONS TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSISSIPPI, AND THROUGH THE WESTERN PARTS OF LOUISIANA, TO THE SOURCES OF THE ARKANSAW, KANS, LA PLATTE, AND PIERRE JAUN RIVERS ...DURING THE YEARS 1805, 1806, AND 1807. AND A TOUR THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF NEW SPAIN... IN THE YEAR 1807. Philadelphia: Printed by John Binns, published by C. & A. Conrad, & Co. of Philadelphia, Somervell & Conrad of Petersborough. Bonsal, Conrad, & Co. of Norfolk, and Fielding Lucas Jr. of Baltimore, 1810. With blank Mm4. Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece of Pike by Edwin, six engraved maps (five folding), three folding letterpress tables. Contemporary marbled sheep, the flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets, red morocco label. Expert repairs to the folding maps, the folding tables, and text pages 182/183 and 193/194. Else very good. In a blue cloth chemise within a modern blue half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt.

An excellent copy in the original binding of one of the most important of all American travel narratives: the first edition of the report of the first United States government expedition to the Southwest, including an account of Pike’s exploration of the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers, the sources of the Mississippi River, and the Spanish settlements in New Mexico. Pike’s narrative stands with those of Lewis and Clark, and Long, as the most important early books on western exploration and a cornerstone of Western Americana. “In 1805, Pike was given the difficult assignment of conducting a reconnaissance of the upper Mississippi region. He was ordered to explore the headwaters of that river, to purchase sites from the Indians for further military posts, and to bring a few influential chiefs back to St. Louis for talks. The trip was only moderately successful as a mission to the tribes, but Pike was able to convey important geographical information to President Jefferson and other Washington officials. On Pike’s second expedition, 1806-1807, he was assigned to explore the head-waters of the Arkansas River, then proceed south and descend the Red River from its source....Pike and his men were taken into custody by a Spanish patrol, and Pike was able to observe many areas in New Mexico, Chihuahua, and Texas....His book created interest in the Southwest and stimulated the expansionist movement in Texas” – Hill. The maps were the first to exhibit a geographic knowledge of the Southwest based on firsthand exploration and are considered “milestones in the mapping of the American West” (Wheat). “The description of Texas is excellent” – Streeter, Texas. BRADFORD 4415. BRAISLIN 1474. FIELD 1217. GRAFF 3290. HILL 1357. HOWES P373. JONES 743. RITTENHOUSE 467. SABIN 62836. STREETER SALE 3125. STREETER TEXAS 1047C. WAGNER-CAMP 9:1. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 297, 298, 299. $27,500. A Rare Overland

116. Pleasants, William J.: TWICE ACROSS THE PLAINS – 1849, 1856. San Francisco: Walter N. Brunt, 1906. 160pp. Illustrated. Original green pictorial cloth. Front inner hinge cracking. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Small tear in one leaf, not affecting text. A few scattered spots of foxing, but generally quite clean and fresh internally. Very good.

Pleasants made his first trip across the Great Plains with his family in 1849, striking out for California from Missouri during the Gold Rush. In 1856 he returned to Missouri by way of Panama to fetch the rest of his family to California. His tale includes stories of mining the California gold fields and the struggle of early settlers. Streeter calls this “an interesting narrative.” The only recent auction record is the Thomas Streeter-Frank Streeter copy, at the latter’s sale in 2007, where it sold for $8400. HOWES P421, “b.” STREETER SALE 3212. KURUTZ 510. MINTZ 372. COWAN II, p.494. GRAFF 3305. $4500.

117. Powell, H.M.T.: THE SANTA FE TRAIL TO CALIFORNIA 1849 – 1852 THE JOURNAL AND DRAWINGS OF H.M.T. POWELL. San Francisco. [1931]. [14],272pp. plus plates and folding map. Folding frontispiece. Folio. Original half pigskin and cloth. Duplicate removed from the Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library. Spine slightly darkened, some wear to spine extremities, else a very good copy, without slipcase.

One of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California, and generally considered to be one of the masterpieces of Grabhorn printing. Pow- ell’s extensive and detailed diary is one of the few gold rush narratives to follow the southern route, going over the Santa Fe Trail through New Mexico and Arizona. His journal then records his sojourn in the mines. An important modern overland and fine press classic. RITTENHOUSE 471. GRAFF 3334. HILL 1379. STREETER SALE 3229. MINTZ 592. KU- RUTZ 515. HOWES P525, “b.” EBERSTADT 137:517. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY 158. ZAMORANO SELECT 90. $1250.

118. Poydras, Julien de LaLande: FURTHER OBSERVATIONS IN SUP- PORT OF THE RIGHT OF THE PUBLIC TO THE BATTURE OF NEW ORLEANS, OR PORT OF ST. MARY. Washington: A. & G. Way, Printers, 1809. 24pp. including one table. Dbd. Near fine.

One of five publications by Julien Poydras concerning the famous New Orleans “batture case.” The case was one of several bitter controversies of Thomas Jefferson’s administration and the remaining years of the Federal era. Edward Livingston, a prominent New Orleans attorney, claimed ownership of a strip of alluvial land (the batture) at New Orleans which had long been used as a common boat landing. Jefferson took up the case of the city of New Orleans, asserting government ownership up to the high water mark, and had a federal marshal forcibly dispossess Livingston. This resulted in a celebrated case of the use of federal power which continued to be bitterly argued, so much so that Jefferson felt constrained, four years after leaving the presidency, to compose his legal reasoning in a pamphlet, one of only three full-scale works published under his name in his lifetime. It also brought about one of the few civil suits ever allowed against a sitting president. The case set important precedents in the interaction of federal and state power and had important local ramifications. Julien de Lalande Poydras (1746-1824), a French-born Louisiana poet and philanthropist, was a delegate from the territory of Orleans to the Eleventh United States Congress from 1809 to 1811. Although he had a compelling legal claim to the batture himself, Poydras argued forcefully in the present pamphlet that the land be designated municipal property and kept for public use. The pamphlet succeeds an earlier pamphlet of the same year, A Defence of the Right of the Public to the Batture..., also published in Washington, and an 1808 French language pamphlet published in New Orleans. In 1810, Poydras delivered two speeches before Congress on the subject, which were published the same year in Washington. SABIN 64844. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 18439. SOWERBY, JEFFERSON’S LIBRARY 3487. COHEN 11696. DAB XV, pp.163-64. $1500.

119. Prince, L. Bradford: [ARCHIVE OF MAPS AND OTHER MA- TERIAL RELATING TO LAND CLAIMS IN NEW MEXICO]. [Primarily New Mexico. 1880-1912]. Five maps, five printed land deeds, completed in manuscript, carbon copy typescript of 17pp., and other items. Some light dampstaining to a few items, slight paper loss to one large map. Overall, good to very good.

Collection of material relating to land claims in New Mexico, including several manuscript maps, from the papers of one-time territorial governor L. Bradford Prince. A native of New York State, Prince (1840-1922) served as chief justice of New Mexico from 1878 to 1882, and was later appointed as territorial governor, serving from 1889 to 1893. During his term in office, Prince endeavored to bring about statehood for the territory, but was unsuccessful. Land claims in New Mexico were a complicated affair. After Mexico ceded the area to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo guaranteed that the U.S. would respect ownership claims of former Mexican citizens who owned property in the area. These claims were often ignored, however, and eventually, in 1891, a federal Court of Private Land Claims was established, which spent the next thirteen years sorting through various claims and ruling as to their validity. Several of the land claims present in this archive represent owners of Hispanic origin, and cover lands in the counties of San Miguel, Union, Bernalillo, Santa Fe, and others. Maps include a large printed map (41 x 36 inches) of the Territory of New Mexico, dated 1896, which outlines in different colors various confirmed and unconfirmed land grant claims, as well as Indian territory and other highlighted land; two manuscript maps on linen which show unidentified land claims (23 and 18 inches square, respectively); a manuscript map on linen entitled “Plat of Land Surveyed for E.L. Wheeler and Rufus Whipple” dated 1883 (18 x 23 inches); and a colored manuscript map on heavy paper showing several land claims, including those of Santiago Montoya, John Dold, and Demerias (11 x 22 inches). The typescript, dated 1891, is a “Lista de Mercedes de Terrenos No-confirmadas Protocolizada en la Officina del Agremenzor General de Nuevo Mejico” that lists over a hundred land claims in Spanish. Also included are two copies of the U.S. Government report on the land claims of Mesilla and Arroyo, Santa Barbara, Ojo de Borrega, and San Miguel del Bado, dated 1881 and illustrated with numerous maps and charts; and a five-page galley proof of an article by Harold H. Dunham on “The Four-fold Heritage of New Mexican Records,” with manuscript corrections. Altogether a wonderful source of information on New Mexican lands. $1500.

New Mexico Governor’s Own Copy of His Reports

120. Prince, L. Bradford: [SAMMELBAND OF REPORTS AND MES- SAGES BY L. BRADFORD PRINCE, PRIMARILY DURING HIS TERM AS GOVERNOR OF THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXI- CO]. Washington & Santa Fe. 1882-1893. Fifteen pamphlets, enumerated below. Contemporary three-quarter roan and marbled boards. Extremities worn, spine lightly chipped. Contemporary ownership inscription of the author on the front pastedown. Internally clean. Most pamphlets with original printed cover. Very good.

A volume of pamphlets compiled by L. Bradford Prince, containing printed speeches given by him before and during his time as New Mexico territorial governor. A native of New York State, Prince served as chief justice of New Mexico from 1878 to 1882, and was later appointed territorial governor, serving from 1889 to 1893. During his term in office Prince endeavored to bring about statehood for the territory but was unsuccessful. This volume contains his reports as governor, speeches before the legislature of the territory, and speeches promoting statehood for New Mexico. An interesting volume, particularly desirable for its provenance. The pamphlets are as follow:

1) Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the Interior. 1889. Wash- ington. 1889. 25pp. 2) Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the Interior. 1890. Wash- ington. 1890. 50pp. 3) Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the Interior. 1891. Wash- ington. 1891. 44pp. 4) Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the Interior. 1892. Wash- ington. 1892. 43pp. 5) Message of Governor L. Bradford Prince to the Twenty-ninth Legislative Assembly of New Mexico. December 30, 1890. Santa Fe. 1891. xliii pp. 6) El Mensaje del Gobernador L. Bradford Prince a la Asamblea Legislativa Vigesima- Nova de Nuevo Mexico. December 30 de 1890. Santa Fe. 1891. lvi pp. 7) Message of Governor L. Bradford Prince to the Thirtieth Legislative Assembly of New Mexico. December 28, 1892. Santa Fe. 1892. xxxviii pp. 8) Mensaje del Gobernador L. Bradford Prince a la Asamblea Legislativa Trigesima de Nuevo Mexico. 28 de December de 1892. Santa Fe. 1893. 44pp. 9) New Mexico, Its Wonderful Resources and Products, Past and Present. An Address Delivered at the Territorial Exposition at Albuquerque, October 1, 1883 [caption title]. [Np. nd]. 4pp. 10) Home Markets in New Mexico. The Paradise of the Producer. An Address Delivered at the Territorial Exposition, at Albuquerque, Sept. 16, 1890 [caption title]. [Np. nd]. 8pp. 11) The Present and Future of New Mexico, a Land of Prosperity and Happiness. An Address Delivered at the Territorial Exposition, at Albuquerque, September 15, 1891. [Np. nd]. 15pp. 12) New Mexico: A Defence of the People and Country. A Reply by Chief Justice Prince to a Slanderous Letter in the New York Times [caption title]. [Np. 1882]. 4pp. 13) Nuevo Mejico: La Defensa del Pueblo y Pais. Respuesta del Juez Prince a Una Carta Infamatoria Que Aparecio en el “Times” de Nueva York [caption title]. [Np. 1882]. 4pp. 14) Admission of New Mexico. Both Justice and Expediency Demand It. Letter to the “New York Tribune” by the Hon. L. Bradford Prince, Late Chief Justice [caption title]. [Np.1889]. 4pp. 15) The Present and Future of New Mexico, a Land of Prosperity and Happiness. An Address Given at the Territorial Exposition, at Albuquerque, September 15, 1891. [Np. nd]. 15pp. $2750.

121. [Quivira Society]: [COMPLETE RUN OF QUIVIRA SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS]. [Various places]. 1929-1958. Thirteen titles bound in fifteen volumes. Profusely illustrated with plates and maps. Original half vellum or white cloth backed paper-covered boards, spines gilt. Minor shelf wear. Near fine. Bookplate on front pastedown and front free endpaper of most volumes.

A complete run of this essential series of publications on the history and exploration of the southwest United States and northwest Mexico. The publications are:

1) Expedition into New Mexico Made by Antonio de Espejo, 1582 – 1583, as Revealed in the Journal of Diego Perez de Luxan, a Member of the Party. Translated, with introduction and notes by George P. Hammond and Agapito Rey. 1929. 143pp. HOWES P226. 2) The Indian Uprising in Lower California, 1734 – 1737, as Described by Father Sigis- mundo Taraval. Translated, with introduction and notes by Marguerite E. Wilbur. 1931. 298pp. BARRETT 2371. 3) The Mercurio Volante of Don Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, an Account of the First Expedition of Don Diego de Vargas into New Mexico in 1692. Translated, with introduction and notes, by Irving A. Leonard. 1932. 136pp. HOWES S455. 4) History of New Mexico by Gaspar Perez de Villagra, Alcala, 1610. Translated by Gilberto Espinosa; introduction and notes by F.W. Hodge. 1933. 308pp. 5) Diary of the Alarcon Expedition into Texas, 1718 – 1719, by Fray Francisco Celiz. Translated by Fritz L. Hoffmann. 1935. 124pp. HOWES C254. 6) History of Texas, 1673 – 1779, by Fray Juan Agustin Morfi. Translated, with biographical introduction and annotations, by Carlos E. Castaneda. 1935. Two volumes. 496; 242pp. “Most complete history of Spanish Texas in its early period” – Howes. HOWES M792. 7) Wagner, Henry R.: The Spanish Southwest, 1542 – 1794, an Annotated Bibliog- raphy. 1937. Two volumes. 270; [271]-553pp. A classic and essential work on the literature of the Spanish Southwest. AXE, THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF HENRY R. WAGNER 87. 8) New Mexico in 1602, Juan de Montoya’s Relation of the Discovery of New Mexico. Edited by George P. Hammond and Agapito Rey. 1938. 143pp. 9) Spanish Approach to Pensacola, 1689 – 1693. Translated, with introduction and notes, by Irving A. Leonard; foreword by James A. Robertson. 1939. 323pp. 10) A Scientist on the Trail, Travel Letters of A.F. Bandelier, 1880 – 1881. Edited by George P. Hammond and Edgar F. Goad. 1949. 142pp. 11) Three New Mexico Chronicles. The Exposicion of Don Pedro Bautisita Pino 1812; the Ojeada of Lic. Antonio Barreiro 1832; and the Additions of Don Jose Agustin de Escudero, 1849. Translated, with introduction and notes, by H. Bailey Carroll and J. Villasana Haggard. 1942. 342pp. “Chief source on New Mexico’s last years as a Spanish province and of her beginnings as a Mexican state” – Howes. HOWES P383 (ref ). 12) Instructions for Governing the Interior Provinces of New Spain, 1786, by Bernardo de Galvez. Translated and edited by Donald E. Worcester. 1951. 150pp. 13) The Frontiers of New Spain, Nicolas de Laflora’s Description, 1766 – 1768. Edited by Lawrence Kinnaird. 1958. 243pp. $4000.

Commerce of the Californias

122. Quixano, Mariano Ignacio: [THREE PRINTED DOCUMENTS RELATING TO COMMERCE TO AND FROM THE CALIFOR- NIAS]. Mexico. 1819/1820. 2 leaves each. Folio and small quarto. One document with punctures in inner margin as for filing in a binder. Very good.

The King granted a special status to Fernando Sierra, a merchant in Cadiz, ex- empting him from paying taxes on goods belonging to him that were travelling from Spain to Upper and Lower California, and those being taken to Spain from those frontier regions. Tax officials in San Blas, Tepic, Guadalajara, and Veracruz have skirted the King’s will and invented taxes and impositions not specifically mentioned in the King’s previous decrees. Quixano, a viceregal official in the tax department in Mexico City, pontificates on Sierra’s behalf on his being harassed, and reissues in one document a series of prior decrees. One of the folio documents relates specifically to Sierra’s frigate, Rosalia, and to the customs officials in San Blas. Given the need to reiterate the King’s wishes, it is doubtful that Sr. Sierra received the relief he wanted, needed, or expected. $1500. The Classic of Southern Overland Narratives: Presentation Copy

123. Reid, John C.: REID’S TRAMP; OR, A JOURNAL OF THE IN- CIDENTS OF TEN MONTHS TRAVEL THROUGH TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, SONORA, AND CALIFORNIA. INCLUDING TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATE, SOIL, MINERALS, METALS, AND INHABITANTS; WITH A NOTICE OF THE GREAT INTER-OCEANIC RAIL ROAD. Selma, Al.: John Hardy & Co., 1858. 237pp. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Top of rear board lightly stained and discolored, else nice. Presentation inscription by the author on front flyleaf. Minor toning and foxing. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

One of the great classic rarities of Southwest Americana, here in a presentation copy, inscribed from the author to his cousin: “My dear Cousin Martha G, Mc- Coy, will accept this little volume as a slight evidence of the love & esteem of her kinsman The Author Oct. 1858.” This is Reid’s account of the journey to explore the Gadsden Purchase and his overland journey to California by the southern route. He left Marion, Alabama in September 1856 with a party of travellers known as the Mesilla Valley Company, whose main purpose was to explore the newly acquired territory in the Southwest known as the Gadsden Purchase. The group travelled through Mobile and New Orleans, then by ship to Galveston, then on land to San Antonio, Castroville, El Paso, Tucson, San Diego, and San Francisco. In the beginning of 1857, Reid joined a failed filibustering expedition into Sonora and Chihuahua led by Henry Crabb, but left for California by April of that year. He stayed only a short time in California before returning via Panama, Havana, and New Orleans. The book contains a wealth of brief and entertaining descriptions of life in the Mexican cession, including the towns and hamlets visited along the way, German immigrants, the agricultural promise of the region, desert flora and fauna, and speculation on the future of the Indians of the Southwest. The description of Reid’s association with Crabb’s filibusters is most interesting. “Reid’s work is one of the genuine classics relating to the Southwest; his descriptions of mines and miners, the natives, in fact all the country through which he passed, are vivid” – Decker. A most important Southwest rarity, accorded a “d” rating by Howes. HOWES R172, “d.” WAGNER-CAMP 307. STREETER SALE 176. RADER 2776. RAINES, p.172. CLARK III:490. COWAN, p.528. GRAFF 3450. DECKER 36:339. $25,000.

Presentation Copy of a Mexican War Rarity

124. Robertson, J.B.: REMINISCENCES OF A CAMPAIGN IN MEX- ICO. PRECEDED BY A SHORT SKETCH OF THE HISTORY AND CONDITION OF MEXICO FROM HER REVOLUTION DOWN TO THE WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES. Nashville: John York & Co., 1849. 288pp., plus folding frontispiece map. Presentation binding of elaborately gilt morocco, expertly rebacked, original spine laid down, a.e.g. Spine a bit darkened. Small stain on titlepage. Text tanned and foxed. Very good.

A presentation copy, in a sumptuous red morocco presentation binding, of a great Mexican-American War rarity, inscribed by the author on a front free endpaper: “To Dr. Alex Hensley, with the real regards of the author.” Hensley was the surgeon assigned to Col. Humphrey Marshall’s First Kentucky Cavalry regiment during the Mexican-American War, and also served under Zachary Taylor. Robertson’s work is dedicated to the First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers (the “Bloody First”), of which the author was a member. “These reminiscences were first published in installments in the Nashville Union. They were later gathered into book form with a brief history of Mexico and discussion of the origin of the war prefixed. The primary cause of the war was Mexican hostility over the annexa- tion of Texas. The regiment fought with Taylor to Buena Vista then with Scott to Mexico City. A friendly attitude toward Mexican people is evidenced” – Tutorow. The map is a “Plan of Monterey, its fortifications, and position of the American troops on the morning of the Twenty-first September, 1846.” We can find only two copies of Robertson’s work at auction in the past sixty-five years, and neither of those was a presentation copy. SABIN 71957. HOWES R355, “aa.” TUTOROW 3674. GARRETT, p.179. HAFERKORN, p.50. $16,500. 125. [Robinson, Alfred]: LIFE IN CALIFORNIA: DURING A RESI- DENCE OF SEVERAL YEARS IN THAT TERRITORY, COM- PRISING A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY AND THE MISSIONARY ESTABLISHMENTS...By an American. TO WHICH IS ANNEXED A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT...OF THE INDIANS OF ALTA-CALIFORNIA. New York: Published by Wiley & Putnam, 1846. xii,[2],341pp. plus nine plates (mostly tinted lithographs). Original blindstamped cloth, rebacked, with original gilt backstrip laid down. Cloth chipped along spine, corners worn. Scattered foxing. A good copy.

One of the first accounts of California in English by an actual resident. Robinson’s work is bound with Geronimo Boscana’s Chinigchinich..., paginated continuously beginning on page [227], with a separate titlepage, as issued. “The original edition has become quite scarce...The author and translator, Alfred Robinson, came to California as a super-cargo in 1829. He married into the de la Guerra family, one of the most prominent of the territory. Unquestioned as an authority, his work is without doubt the most important book for the period it treats, and is interesting as the first English book on California to be written by a resident of the province. Robinson originally intended his Life in California to be a preface for Fray Boscana’s Chinigchinich, but in the end the ‘tail wagged the dog’ and for the historian the Life in California is vastly more important” – Zamorano 80. ZAMORANO 80, 65. HOWES R363, “aa.” HILL 1467. STREETER SALE 2512. COWAN, pp.536-37. SABIN 72048. FIELD 155. $1500.

A Pioneering Gold Rush Work

126. 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. 144pp. Dbd. Titlepage soiled. Upper outer corner of first fifty-five pages gnawed, not affecting text. Scattered light foxing, a stain in upper outer corner or second half of text. A decent copy, lacking the frontispiece engraving and large folding frontispiece 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 War shortly before, drew on both official and unofficial sources for this book. Kurutz 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; and newspaper accounts. Robinson discusses several routes to California, recommending the northern Overland Trail as the best. Howes, Kurutz, and Sabin note two issues, of 137 and 144 pages, of which this is the latter, printed with an appendix on pages 125-144. A map, not present in this copy, is also highly praised. This copy also lacks the frontispiece view of San Francisco which Howes notes is “sometimes found, inserted, but was not issued with the book.” HOWES R366, “b.” WHEAT GOLD RUSH 168. GRAFF 3527. COWAN, p.537. KURUTZ 539a. SABIN 72070. $1000.

Item 127. A Pioneering Gold Rush Work: The Streeter Copy

127. Robinson, Fayette: CALIFORNIA AND ITS GOLD REGIONS; WITH A GEOGRAPHICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL VIEW OF THE COUNTRY, ITS MINERAL AND AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES...WITH A MAP OF THE U. STATES AND CALI- FORNIA.... New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1849. 137pp., plus [6]pp. of advertisements. Large folding frontispiece map. Original printed yellow wrappers. Early ownership signature on front wrapper. The map is detached and loosely laid in (as it was at the time of the Streeter sale), and with minor edge wear. Overall, a gorgeous copy, in original condition, untrimmed. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and marbled paper slipcase, gilt leather label.

The Thomas W. Streeter copy, with his pencil notes on the front wrapper, titlepage, and map, and his bookplate on the inside of the rear wrapper. 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 War shortly before, drew on both official and unofficial sources for this book. Kurutz 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... The excellent map is important for delineating the various sea and overland routes to California.” The gold region is usually tinted yellow on the map, as well as on the inset “Map of the Gold Region” (though that is not the case in this copy), and the overland routes are drawn in blue. 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 Over- land Trail as the best. Howes and Kurutz note two issues of 137 and 144 pages, respectively, of which this is the former. STREETER SALE 2595 (this copy). HOWES R366, “b.” WHEAT GOLD RUSH 168. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 70. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 591. GRAFF 3527. COWAN, p.537. KU- RUTZ 539b. SABIN 72070. $8500.

Root’s Narrative: A Major Overland Rarity

128. Root, Riley: JOURNAL OF TRAVELS FROM ST. JOSEPHS TO OREGON, WITH OBSERVATIONS OF THAT COUNTRY, TO- GETHER WITH SOME DESCRIPTION OF CALIFORNIA, ITS AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS, AND A FULL DESCRIPTION OF ITS GOLD MINES. Galesburg, Il.: Gazetteer and Intelligencer Prints, 1850. 143pp. Original printed pink wrappers, backed with pink cloth. Wrap- pers worn and soiled, with a few small holes in the front wrapper. Scattered foxing. Overall, a very good copy, in original condition. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

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

129. Ross, Alexander: ADVENTURES OF THE FIRST SETTLERS ON THE OREGON OR COLUMBIA RIVER: BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION FITTED OUT BY JOHN JACOB AS- TOR, TO ESTABLISH THE “PACIFIC FUR COMPANY;” WITH AN ACCOUNT OF SOME INDIAN TRIBES ON THE COAST OF THE PACIFIC. London. 1849. xv,[1],352pp. Folding frontispiece map. Original patterned cloth, rebacked, with original gilt backstrip laid down. Edgeworn, cloth faded and rubbed, corners bumped. Internally clean. Good.

A book of the greatest importance to the history of the Astoria venture and the early Anglo-American struggle for control of the Oregon country. Ross was an officer of the Astoria company, and this is one of the fullest accounts of the entire venture, later supplemented by his Fur Hunters of the Far West. He also includes accounts of Robert Stuart and Wilson Price Hunt. Elliott Coues called this one of the three “synoptical gospels” of the Astoria enterprise. Howes notes that very few copies are found with a colored frontispiece; this is not one of them. The “Map of the Columbia” illustrates Oregon Territory. Contains a section devoted to Chinook vocabulary and jargon. WAGNER-CAMP 172. FIELD 1325. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 3381. TWENEY 89, 67. GRAFF 3576. HOWES R448, “aa.” SABIN 73327. STREETER SALE 3713. TPL 958. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 635. $1200.

130. Ryan, William Redmond: PERSONAL ADVENTURES IN UP- PER AND LOWER CALIFORNIA, IN 1848-9; WITH THE AU- THOR’S EXPERIENCE AT THE MINES.... London. 1850. Two volumes. vi,[2],vii-x,347,[1]; [2],413,[1]pp. plus twenty-three plates (including frontispieces). Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines richly gilt, gilt leather labels. Paper boards a bit rubbed and scuffed. Some light foxing on plates; text is generally clean. Overall, a very handsome set.

The Frederick Fermor Hesketh copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedowns. That bookplate is tipped over the smaller bookplate in both volumes of “J. Bailey,” featuring a griffin. In this set the list of illustrations is bound in the first volume between the preface and the contents, hence the collation noted above. The author sailed from the East Coast to California via Rio de Janeiro and Cape Horn, a journey to which he devotes three chapters. Ryan initially went to California to fight with the First Regiment of New York Volunteers in the Mexican- American War, and afterward sought “relief from the monotony of civilized life, in a more congenial and adventurous existence amidst the wilds and mountains of California.” He spent some time in the Stanislaus diggings, but found opportunities in trading goods such as pistols and rifles to be more remunerative. Includes a chapter on the geographical features of the country, including mineral wealth. “The charming narrative of an artist and bohemian who left unrecorded but little that he saw. His descriptions are among the best of his time” – Cowan. “Both text and illustrations are among the best of the period” – Howes. “The plates by Ryan furnish the reader with some of the best contemporary views of mining, cities, pueblos, and daily life in California” – Kurutz. HOWES R558, “aa.” SABIN 74532. GRAFF 3626. HILL 1508. COWAN, p.547. KURUTZ 548b. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 173. STREETER SALE 2646. $2500.

With the Famous Map

131. [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. 1846. 303pp. plus folding map. Contemporary blindstamped black cloth, expertly rebacked. Minor wear to extremities, neatly repaired. Slightly cocked. Moderate spotting in text and on map. Map with short tear and old tape repair. Overall very good.

One of the most important overland narratives. Sage set out from Westport in the summer of 1841 with a fur caravan, later visiting New Mexico, witnessing the disaster of the Snively expedition, and joining the end of the 1843 Fremont expedition. He returned to Ohio in time to take a vigorous if futile role in the election of 1844, supporting Henry Clay. He wrote this book in 1845. The story of the publication of this work and its subsequent sale is told by LeRoy Hafen in the introduction to the most scholarly edition of Sage, issued in two volumes by the Arthur H. Clark Co. in 1956. According to Hafen, the publishers of the original edition felt the addition of a map would cost too much, and it was only at the author’s insistence that a map was printed and sold with the book, at a higher rate. The map, based mainly on the 1845 Fremont map, is usually not found with the book. It is “one of the earliest to depict the finally-determined Oregon boundary...one of the earliest attempts to show on a map the evermore-heavily traveled emigrant road to Califor- nia” (Wheat). It adds interesting notes on the country and locations of fur trading establishments. Sage was certainly one of the most literate and acute observers of the West in the period immediately before the events of 1846. COWAN, pp.548-49. HOWES S16, “b.” RAINES, p.181. MINTZ 402. SABIN 74892. WAGNER- CAMP 123. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 527. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 30. GRAFF 3633. STREETER SALE 3049. MATTES 68. RITTENHOUSE 502. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 30. $10,000.

A Superb Saint-Mémin Portrait of a Major Louisiana Figure

132. Saint-Mémin, Charles B.J.F. de: [CHALK PROFILE PORTRAIT OF THOMAS BOLLING ROBERTSON]. Richmond. 1807. 17¾ x 11½ inches. Drawing, executed on the pink drawing paper typically used by St. Mémin. The profile portrait is mounted on a later sheet of paper in the 19th century (as noted by Miles). Small closed tear through the subject’s nose, three longer tears through his face, meeting in his cheek, but with no loss, and expertly conserved by Theresa Fairbanks Harris. A conservation report and before-and-after photographs are available. In a later wood frame with eglomized glass (26¼ x 20¾ inches) matching the style typically used by St. Mémin. [See front cover of this catalogue for illustration]

A superb portrait by the well-known French-American artist, Charles Saint-Mémin, of prominent Virginian and future Secretary, Congressman, Attorney General, and Governor of Louisiana, Thomas Bolling Robertson, executed in Richmond in 1807. Charles St.-Mémin immigrated to the United States from France in 1793, his family having lost its lands and money in the French Revolution. He taught himself the techniques of engraving and drawing in New York, and in 1796 began making profile portraits with a physiognotrace. Over the next fourteen years he travelled throughout the United States making profile portraits, both original drawings and in the form of small engravings. During that time he executed portraits of many of the leading figures of the day, from United States presidents down. Ellen Miles’ extensive work on St.-Mémin, published by the National Portrait Gallery, describes every aspect of his career and lists almost a thousand known portraits by him. Saint-Mémin spent less than a year in Richmond (1807-1808), but it was an incredibly productive period for him, as he made more than 120 portraits while in the city. At the time of his stay, Richmond was in the midst of the trial of Aaron Burr, and the city was crowded with notables. Saint-Mémin executed the portraits of many of the principals in the trial, including presiding judge John Marshall. Miles observes that “Saint Mémin’s Richmond portraits are executed in a broader, looser technique than his earlier work. The chalk strokes are long, bold, and strong, notably in the rendering of the men’s coats. This slight change in style did not affect the facial profiles, which remain precise and detailed. The change is not surprising, given the large number of portraits Saint-Mémin made in so short a time.” Thomas Bolling Robertson (1779-1828) was one of the prominent Virginians who sat for a portrait by Saint-Mémin. He was born near Petersburg, graduated from William & Mary and then studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1806. Shortly thereafter he was appointed by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary for the Ter- ritory of Orleans, and moved to New Orleans in 1807, probably very shortly after this portrait was made. He was elected as the first Congressman from Louisiana in 1812 and served until 1818, after which he became the state’s third governor, serving from 1820 to 1824. Robertson was also Attorney General of Louisiana and judge of the United States Court for the district of Louisiana. Although virtually all of his adult and professional career was spent in Louisiana when not representing the state in Congress, he returned to Virginia to take the waters at Warm Springs in 1828 and died there, in his native state. Miles traces the provenance of this portrait through at least three generations of Robertson’s family. In the meantime, one of Robertson’s brothers became governor of Virginia. A wonderful American portrait of a major figure in early Louisiana, by an artist whose distinctive style was in great demand. Miles, St.-Mémin (Washington, 1994) 701; pp.163-71. Norfleet, Saint-Mémin in Virginia, p.201. R.S. Robertson, “St. Mémin Portraits: Thomas Bolling Robertson – Governor of Louisiana” in Magazine of American History (1881), pp.297, 428-30, 460. $22,500. The Viceroy of New Spain Requests Information on the San Diego Mission

133. [San Diego Mission]: Bucareli y Ursua, Don Antonio Maria: [MAN- USCRIPT LETTER, SIGNED, FROM THE VICEROY OF NEW SPAIN, ANTONIO BUCARELI Y URSUA, TO THE PROVIN- CIAL OF THE MISSION AT SAN DIEGO, REQUESTING A REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE PRIESTS IN THE PROVINCE]. Mexico City. July 3, 1776. [3]pp. manuscript document on a folded folio sheet, docketed on the fourth page. Vertical and horizontal folds. Near fine. In a half morocco and marbled paper folding box, spine gilt.

A very interesting and significant document, sent by the Viceroy of New Spain to the head of the San Diego Mission, requesting a report on missionary activities in the wake of an uprising by native Indians against the mission. The Mission San Diego de Alcala, founded by Junipero Serra in 1769, was the first Franciscan mission in the Californias. The next five years saw the establishment of four more missions, along with attendant monasteries and convents for Indian converts. The early years of the missions were plagued by violence as Indians resisted the missionaries, and in November 1775 a large group of local Indians attacked the San Diego Mission, destroying the buildings and killing one of the missionaries. In the present letter, written just a few months after the news of the incident reached Mexico City, Bucareli y Ursua launches an investigation into affairs at the mission and other religious establishments in the province of California. He requests an accounting of the number of priests who arrive and depart the missions, the alms they collect, and the names of convents and monasteries under their care. An early request for an accounting of the activities and finances of the San Diego Mission. $6500.

134. Shaw, Pringle: RAMBLINGS IN CALIFORNIA; CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY, LIFE AT THE MINES, STATE OF SOCIETY, etc. INTERSPERSED WITH CHARAC- TERISTIC ANECDOTES, AND SKETCHES FROM LIFE, BE- ING THE FIVE YEARS’ EXPERIENCE OF A GOLD DIGGER. Toronto: James Bain, [nd, ca. 1856]. 239pp. Half title. 12mo. Original green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Corners worn, cloth lightly faded and rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Lower outer corner of leaf D6 (pp.43-44) torn, affecting a few letters of text, but not the overall sense. Otherwise remark- ably fresh and clean internally. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

A rare account of gold prospecting in California, by a Canadian miner and local magistrate. Shaw went to California in 1851, prospected in the Yuba district, and stayed for five years. He provides vivid details about mining, immigrant groups, individuals, etc. Also several interesting sections on the state of the southern districts, including Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego. “...This little book has much to commend it. After descriptions of the people, the mines and ‘the face of the country,’ Shaw tells some good yarns about the mines and miners of the Sierra foothills” – Wheat. “Shaw, through this detailed volume, attempted to convey to the reader a true sense of what to expect in California. He included a fine account of the varied types of people found, with emphasis on the Chinese. He also added an elaborate depiction of mining methods and a general portrait of all the California counties, missions, and agricultural resources” – Kurutz. HOWES S348. STREETER SALE 2855. TPL 8607. SABIN 79954. KURUTZ 570. ROCQ 16051. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 184. COWAN, p.580. $1500.

Important Color Plates on Southwest Indians

135. Simpson, James H.: JOURNAL OF A MILITARY RECONNAIS- SANCE, FROM SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, TO THE NAVAJO COUNTRY.... Philadelphia. 1852. 140,24,[4]pp. plus large folding map and seventy-six plates (many tinted or in color, including frontispiece). There are usually only seventy-five plates with this edition, but in this copy plate 50, “Chapaton,” appears twice. Original blindstamped cloth, rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Corners bumped. Map a bit tanned, but a very nice example. Scattered foxing. About very good.

“One of the most accurate and complete of all narratives of exploration of the country of the Zuni and Pueblo Indians” – Field. Wheat praises the map as “An arresting production bringing out many new details of the region directly west of New Mexico.” Simpson was the first Anglo explorer to visit and describe Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Pueblo Bonita, Inscription Rock, and other sites in northern Arizona. As William Goetzmann notes, the work is “a major Southwestern archaeological endeavor” and “no serious student can afford to neglect Simpson’s report even in the present day.” The plates, handsomely illustrating Navajo cos- tumes, artifacts, and sites, make this an important American color plate book, with thirty-four colored plates. Deák cites the well-known view of Santa Fe by Richard Kern. Also included is a comparative vocabulary of the Pueblo language of the “wild tribes” of the borders of New Mexico. WAGNER-CAMP 218. GRAFF 3789. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 641. FIELD 1413. HOWES S498, “aa.” PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 3608. BENNETT, p.98. DEÁK, PICTURING AMERICA 590. PALAU 31488. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 29. $2500.

136. Simpson, James H.: REPORT OF LIEUT. COL. JAMES H. SIMP- SON, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, U.S.A., ON THE UNION PACIF- IC RAILROAD AND BRANCHES, CENTRAL PACIFIC RAIL- ROAD OF CALIFORNIA, NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD, WAGON ROADS IN THE TERRITORIES OF IDAHO, MON- TANA, DAKOTA, AND NEBRASKA... Washington. 1865. [4],161pp., plus four folding maps and diagrams. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Contents leaf a bit soiled, minor tanning. Two maps with neat repairs on verso. Very good.

A report on the progress of the railroads in the West, condensing an overview of all activity underway at the close of the Civil War. Includes details of equipment and methods of construction, and Leland Stanford’s report on the progress of the Central Pacific project. From this point, an explosion of construction took place once the war was resolved. Among the maps is the important map of the first forty miles of construction west from Omaha, all of the road constructed to that time. The maps are usually lacking. WAGNER-CAMP 422e. HOWES S503. $1250.

Early and Important Map of Dakota

137. Smith, B.M., and J.A. Hill: MAP OF THE CEDED PART OF DA- KOTA TERRITORY. SHOWING ALSO PORTIONS OF MIN- NESOTA, IOWA & NEBRASKA. St. Paul: Lith. by Louis Buechner, 1861. Folding colored map, 17¾ x 23 inches. Folded into original 16mo. cloth boards, stamped in blind, gilt title on front board. Old ex-library, with a blindstamp and small ink stamp on the verso of the map. Two small, closed tears in lower portion of map with no loss, neatly repaired. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell box, spine gilt.

A detailed map of Dakota Territory, one of the earliest of the region. The map shows the southwest section of Minnesota (from a line drawn approximately from Pierce to Freeborn counties), northeast Nebraska, the northwestern quadrant of Iowa, and the new Dakota Territory west to Pierce. The map is on a scale of 16¾ miles to the inch and was offered in an uncolored sheet, a colored sheet, and, as here, in a deluxe format “colored in pocket form.” Designed for civilian and military use, the map incorporated surveys of the previous year, as well as the cartographic work of Nicollet and Warren. “A detailed map of the new territory showing various exploration routes, among which is the ‘proposed road to the South Pass.’ The inset map of Dakota Territory, showing it bounded on the west by Washington Territory, must be one of the earliest of the Dakota Territory, which was organized only in 1861” – Streeter. Not in Wheat’s Mapping the Transmississippi West. Rare on the market, with the Streeter copy being the last one that we have been able to identify at auction. STREETER SALE 2033. GRAFF 3835. PHILLIPS MAPS, p.259. $7500.

The Rare Second Edition of The Book of Mormon

138. Smith, Joseph, Jr.: THE BOOK OF MORMON: AN ACCOUNT WRITTEN BY THE HAND OF MORMON, UPON PLATES TAKEN FROM THE PLATES OF NEPHI. TRANSLATED BY JOSEPH SMITH, JR. Kirtland, Oh.: Printed by O. Cowdery & Co. for P.P. Pratt and J. Goodson, 1837. [3]-619,[2]pp. 12mo. Original tree calf, spine double ruled in gilt in five compartments with a decorative roll tool on either side of each rule, lettered in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers. Very good. Provenance: Burr Riggs, 1811-60 (signature on verso of rear blank); Adeline Riggs (pencil signature and inscription on front free endpaper).

This second edition of The Book of Mormon, which is considerably rarer than the first, was printed while the Church was headquartered in Northeastern Ohio. Joseph Smith moved the Church to Kirtland, Ohio in 1831, after founding the movement in Palmyra, New York the previous year. The Church was headquartered in Kirtland until 1838, when Smith relocated to Missouri, and shortly thereafter to Nauvoo, Illinois. The first Temple of the Mormon Church was built in Kirtland and stands there to this day; while in Kirtland, the Church also re-branded themselves as the Church of Latter Day Saints, later to be formalized as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This new edition contains some textual changes, a new preface by Parley P. Pratt, and Smith now notes himself for the first time in print as “translator” on the titlepage. Crawley states:

The preface (pp.[v]-vi), signed by Parley Pratt and John Goodson, indicates that they had obtained the rights to publish a second edition of 5,000. This probably means that they helped underwrite the publication and shared in the profits accruing from its sale. In spite of the statement in the preface, the exact size of the edition is uncertain. In 1886, Ebenezer Robinson, a type- setter in the Kirtland print shop, recalled a bit tentatively that it was 3,000. This smaller number is more consistent with the relative scarcity of the 1837 Book of Mormon today. The preface further explains that in preparation for the new edition, the first edition was “carefully re-examined and compared with the original manuscripts” by Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery. Richard Howard has found more than two thousand changes which were written into the Printer’s Manuscript of the 1830 Book of Mormon and incorporated into the second edition, and over one thousand other changes not indicated in the manuscript. It would seem, therefore, that the 1837 Book of Mormon was printed from the corrected Printer’s Manuscript, and additional changes were made – by Cowdery? – as the book was set in type. Most of the changes are grammatical and stylistic. A few, however, are significant, for example, where “God” or “Eternal Father”...are changed to “Son of God” or “Son of the Eternal Father.” Thus the 1837 edition is an important progenitor in the genealogy of the Book of Mormon: from it was printed the first sequence of British and American editions culminating in the edition now in use by the LDS Church.

Some idea of the comparative rarity of the second edition can be seen in book auction records for the last thirty-five years, where forty-two complete 1830 editions are offered, but only one complete 1837 second editions appears ($30,000 in 1998). This copy has an interesting provenance to an influential and controversial early member. Burr Riggs was baptized and made and elder in 1831, and was further ordained a high priest later that year. Along with Major Ashley, Riggs was appointed by revelation to “the south country” (D&C 75:17). Riggs would be ex-communicated in 1833 for neglecting his duties, but would be re-baptized the following year after volunteering to accompany Joseph Smith as part of the Zion’s Camp expedition. In 1835, Riggs became part of the General Assembly, and was ordained a Seventy, serving in the first Quorum of the Seventy. In 1839, Riggs and his family moved Missouri to Illinois and would be ex-communicated for apostasy. FLAKE 596. CRAWLEY 35. HOWES S623, “aa.” SABIN 83039. $75,000.

The Plan for the Presidios of New Spain

139. [Spanish Southwest]: REGLAMENTO E INSTRUCCION PARA LOS PRESIDIOS QUE SE HAN DE FORMAR EN LA LINEA DE FRONTERA NE LA NUEVA ESPANA. RESUELTO POR EL REY NUESTRO SENOR EN CEDULA DE 10 DE SETIEMBRE DE 1772. Mexico: La Oficina de la Aguila, 1834. 30pp. Folio. Stitched as issued. Very faint dampstaining at top corner. Slight worming in gutter margin, not affecting text. Very good plus. In a half morocco and marbled boards box, spine gilt.

“This Reglamento grew out of the tour of inspection of the Marques de Rubi and contains the substance of the Instruccion which was prepared in Mexico and printed [in Madrid in 1772]. It was in effect for a long time...the line of presidios marked out by Rubi formed a cordon of fifteen...extend[ing] from Altar in Sonora to La Bahia in Texas, and was maintained with a few exceptions until the Revolution... The republican government in Mexico made a few changes in location, but generally speaking the system lasted until nearly 1850” – Wagner. This is the seventh printing Wagner notes, and the only printing in the 19th century and the Republic period. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 159 (note). STREETER TEXAS 706B. SABIN 56262. $1500.

A Lady Describes Life on the Frontier

140. Sperry, Laura Pierpont: [THREE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, SIGNED, FROM AN ARMY WIFE TO HER SON, WRITTEN FROM FORT LEAVENWORTH]. Jefferson Barracks & Fort Leaven- worth, Ks. 1847-1849. Three letters. 3; 4; 4pp. Each addressed on verso of second leaf. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old folds. First letter with a small hole, affecting a few letters of text. Second letter with two-inch closed tear at bottom edge of first leaf. All three quite clean and legible. Near fine.

Three historically informative letters written by Laura Sperry to her son, Anson, relating details of life at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as well as news of the Mexican War and American soldiering efforts on the frontier. Anson, the youngest of five children, was a lawyer in Marengo, Illinois, and was later postmaster there. Laura Sperry was a widow (her husband died in 1830) and was perhaps living with her daughter Elizabeth and son-in-law, Lieut. Col. Benjamin S. Roberts, who was stationed at the fort. Fort Leavenworth was established in 1827 as a protective post for the Santa Fe Trail; it is an active military outpost to this day. Throughout the Mexican-American War, the time during which these letters were written, Fort Leavenworth was the outfitting post for the Army of the West. The letters are also full of everyday details which help piece together what a woman’s life must have been like living at a frontier outpost. The first letter, dated Aug. 9, 1847 and postmarked Jefferson Barracks, Mis- souri, relates news of Gen. Scott’s assault on Mexico City, as well as Col. Kearny’s trouble with fellow officers Com. Robert F. Stockton and Lieut. Col. John C. Fremont. She writes:

Last Friday news was received that Genl. Scott had entered the City of Mexico on the 17th ult. without let or hindrance, but the report is not well authenticated & of course no credence is given to it. We are waiting with great impatience to hear what is the truth....Mrs. Kearney has brought her family to the barracks on account of her infant’s being sick. She has gone on a trip to Quincy with Dr. Wharton who has to examine some recruits there. Mrs. Kearney expects her husband [Col. Stephen W. Kearny] early in Sept. I suppose you have seen the difficulty he has had with Com. Stockton & Col. Fremont. The last news is that the latter is on his way home, under arrest. Col. Benton [Fremont’s father-in-law], in great rage it is said, left here for Washington not long ago. Col. K. it is well known went with powers to establish civil & military government there but the two above named had assumed the reins & refused to submit.

Scott had indeed taken Mexico City, but several days earlier than the 17th. The incident with Kearny to which she refers took place on the California front of the war. After the triumphant battles of San Gabriel and La Mesa, the American forces claimed control of the California territory. Kearny, as the ranking Army officer, claimed command of the area at the end of the hostilities, which began an unfortunate rivalry with Stockton, who commanded the naval forces. Mexican forces in California officially capitulated on January 13; however, they surrendered to Stockton’s aide, Lieut. Col. John C. Fremont – not to either Stockton or Kearny. Stockton seized the opportunity and appointed Fremont military governor of the area. Kearny appealed to Washington, who confirmed his authority, and he assumed command. He had Fremont relieved, arrested, and later convicted at a court-martial, though Fremont quickly received a presidential pardon, perhaps due in part to the above-mentioned efforts of his father-in-law, senator Thomas H. Benton. The second letter discusses the settling of Oregon Territory, beginning with newly appointed governor Joseph Lane’s arrival and departure. Due to the late- ness in the season – the letter is dated Sept. 30, 1848 – Lane chose to take a more southern route to Oregon, along the Santa Fe Trail to San Diego and then by boat, rather than making the entire journey overland.

I suppose it is impossible for Mr. R [Col. Benjamin S. Roberts] to tell now what he can do for Pierpont here. [Pierpont is one of Laura’s older sons; he is referred to often in all three letters, and seems to have had some difficulty keeping any sort of business affairs together and was often in need of assistance.] When we first arrived he supposed he should be obliged to go on immediately to Oregon, & he lamented that P. was not here that he could employ him at a pay of 50 dollars pr. mo. as forage master. He can do that in the spring when we go if he go on an independent [sic] command but that now is a matter of uncertainty. He was ordered up here to be in readiness with his company to escort Gov. Lane & the officers of the [Oregon] Territory, but no one tho’t that they would be here till spring. Gov. L. however arrived here the next day after we did & insisted upon going on, as it was desirable that the government should be established as soon as possible. Mr. R. tho’t he should exceed his instructions to go with him alone, & would wait for further instructions from Genl Kearney. So the Gov. finally concluded to take the second Lieut. (Hawkins) & 25 men & have the rest to come on when the other officials should arrive, which he tho’t would not be till spring. It was already so late that he was obliged to go by St. Fee, & from there to St. Diego thence by sea to Astoria; a long & tedious march. We hear from them occasionally by the troops coming in, as getting on well. Gov. Lane expects his family out with us in the spring & other families will go along....If it should happen that [Pierpont] would go to Oregon I do not know that his wife would consent to be left, & E[lizabeth] thinks it might be a risk to take the baby, as it will be its second summer. Beside she has never been put to take things ‘rough & tumble’ & I do not know how she could stand it & of course he could make no provision for her there. If she stay with her mother Mr. R would remit all she could need for her support of P’s pay, & he would not need to be at other expense save an outfit. If those officers destined for Oregon should go by sea it will have Mr. R subject to further orders & he may go under other & superior officers & of course he will not have the power to employ whomever he will.

In her third letter, of May 7, 1849, Laura writes to her son about the impending move to Fort Laramie and the march of the Mounted Riflemen to Oregon. This march was the first United States military expedition to travel the full length of the Oregon trail from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Vancouver, which occurred May to October, 1849 under the command of Col. William Loring. She also mentions a contingent of troops headed for Santa Fe.

The band is playing for tattoo, & I have little time to write to night, but I want to tell you that our destination is at last fixed, as I suppose, & we go to Fort Laramie. It is only 529 miles from here & so more accessible than any farther post. The regiment move from here next Thursday the 10th except Mr. R’s company & one other of the rifles, which wait till the 11th June to escort a train of 400 waggons [sic] of supplies for Ft. Laramie & Ft. Kearney, which last is only half the distance. They carry provisions for a year. When Mr. R was in Washington, he got an order to go with his company to escort some civil officials & their families to San Francisco. This would give him an independent command, & he wrote to his brother Henry & to Pierpont, to come & join him, as he would give them employment & wages of some 40 or 50 pr. mo. These advantages still hold good, but whether they will have the same desire as to go to California I don’t know, tho’ Henry has written that he shall be here in a few days. I do not know what Pierpont will do. I do not know what provision he can make for his family, or whether he will be resolute enough to leave them....Mr. R has been determined not to go with the regt. under command of Col. Loring, but it is arranged that his command (en route) is entirely independent, & the post is to be commanded by Maj. Sanderson who goes on with the regt. We are wanting a chaplain....The officers are almost all (that are anything) Episcopalian....Laramie is only a little distance, & Pierpont will be able to send for his family in the spring if they wish. Other families will be coming out. Maj. Sanderson & Mr. Elliott will send for theirs. Meantime his wife must be taken care of. I do not like to promise too much but will do what is necessary. She is able & ought to do something for herself....I wish you were here this morning to see how busy our garrison looks. Genl. Twiggs is here (& Mr. Mason with him & the troops are on inspection). The Rifles are encamped 3 miles from here but the ladies are all in garrison till they move, which is day after tomorrow. Of course we are full to overflowing. Not only the rifles but a company of infantry to each post, that is, at Kearney, Laramie, & a post to be built at Bear River near Ft. Hall, & all the troops for St. Fee & the escorts of officers, are here. There is another encampment beside the Rifles near, & the garrison is full. You will suppose we look lively....I wish you would come out next summer. It will not cost you much, & you don’t know how glad we should be to see you, & perhaps I will come home with you if I live.

Whether she went back to Illinois with Anson is not known, but she died in 1873 in New Haven, Connecticut at the age of eight-two, having traveled the western frontier quite extensively. An incredible set of letters, full of details about life at a frontier outpost, from the unusual perspective of a woman. $5750.

141. Strahorn, Robert E.: THE RESOURCES OF MONTANA TER- RITORY AND ATTRACTIONS OF YELLOWSTONE NATION- AL PARK. FACTS AND EXPERIENCES ON THE FARMING, STOCK RAISING, MINING, LUMBERING, AND OTHER IN- DUSTRIES OF MONTANA...AND OTHER VALUABLE AND RELIABLE INFORMATION APPLICABLE TO THE WANTS OF THE CAPITALIST, HOMESEEKER, OR TOURIST. Helena, Mt. [actually printed in Omaha]. 1879. 77,[1]pp. Numerous wood engravings. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, bound without wrappers and final leaf of ads. Light vertical crease. Very good.

All of Strahorn’s promotional works on the great Northwest have become scarce. Most of this pamphlet discusses the opportunities in stock raising and mining in Montana, with a section on Yellowstone. It contains very early, handsome woodcut engravings of Helena, Bozeman, Montana, public buildings, Yellowstone Lake and Falls, and the like. Also included is information on farming, home expenses, and local infrastructure. The final three pages contain advertisements for local businesses and the Union Pacific Railroad. Although Helena is given as the imprint, both Howes and McMurtrie assert that Omaha was the true place of publication. HOWES S1057, “aa.” STREETER SALE 2252. ADAMS HERD 2184. McMURTRIE (MON- TANA) 162. $3000.

142. [Texas Cattle]: PROSPECTUS OF THE PRESIDIO LIVE STOCK COMPANY, PRINCIPAL OFFICE, FORT DAVIS, TEXAS. Cin- cinnati: C.T. Woodrow & Co., 1883. 34pp., plus map. Original printed blue wrappers. Wrappers very lightly stained. Near fine. In a half morocco and cloth folding case.

A rare prospectus for the Presidio Live Stock Company of Texas, issued at the formation of the company. In 1883, Vermonter Edward Gage and a group of New England investors formed the Presidio Live Stock Company, which had 5500 head of cattle grazing on some 75,000 acres in Texas. The argument is strongly made in this prospectus that by banding together a number of small investors may make an excellent profit in the cattle trade, and statistics are provided to chart the projected growth and profits of the company. The charter of the company is included, as is a map of the company’s range land in far West Texas. By the 1950s, Gage’s cattle ranches would be the sixth largest in Texas. OCLC locates only a single copy of this rare prospectus, at Yale. OCLC 54267697. $3750.

Documenting Lands in Houston and Surrounding Areas

143. [Texas Real Estate]: Kennedy, John: [MANUSCRIPT LEDGER CONTAINING FAIR COPIES OF DEEDS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE REAL ESTATE AND FINANCIAL DEAL- INGS OF JOHN KENNEDY IN AND AROUND HOUSTON, TEXAS, AND OTHER EAST TEXAS COUNTIES, INCLUDING FOUR MANUSCRIPT MAPS]. Houston, Tx. 1836-1892. Approximately 250pp. plus three manuscript maps (two folding) and a fourth in the text. Folio. Contemporary three-quarter roan, spine gilt. Extremities worn. Several leaves loose. Front few leaves chipped and worn at edges. Light to moderate foxing and soiling. About very good. In a half morocco box.

Manuscript ledger documenting the real estate wheeling and dealing of John Ken- nedy, a resident of Harris County, Texas, containing fair copies of maps, deeds, contracts, notarizations, filing notes, etc. This ledger covers real estate transactions in the greater Houston area and beyond for a significant portion of the 19th century, from the early days of the city’s founding onward. The documents range from 1836 to 1892, with most dated in the 1840s and 1850s. Documented here are transactions by such early Texan notables as the Allen brothers (founders of Houston), the Borden brothers, James Morgan, F.R. Lubbock, Thomas M. Bagby, Thomas G. Western, and many others. Kennedy, a resident of Harris County, owned property in Erath, Burnet, Bexar, Montgomery, Comanche, Coryell, Bell, and Live Oak counties, as well as lots in Houston (some on Buffalo Bayou). The ledger contains records of the purchasing and selling of properties, with locations, names of buyers and sellers, lot numbers, dates, prices, etc. Houston lots are numbered “according to the plan of the city made by G. & T.H. Borden.” Entries relating to the Houston lots are indexed at the front of the volume, as are lands belonging to John Kennedy. One of the most significant features of the ledger are the manuscript maps, noted above. They are as follow:

1) “Comanche County,” with colored boundaries. 11¾ x 16¾ inches. 2) Untitled map in text illustrating field notes for 600 acres of land in Harris County west of Green Bayou, dated 1856. 3¼ x 4½ inches. 3) Untitled map of lots in Harris County. 6¼ x 6 inches. 4) “John Kennedy’s Map of Land” drawn by John Torry for the General Land Office, 1878. With inset maps showing plots of land in Bee, Bexar, Harris, Bell, Burnet, Comanche, and Coryell counties, on cartographic cotton in black and red inks, 11 x 18½ inches.

In addition to the many real estate records, the ledger also includes three records relating to John Kennedy’s purchase in 1859 of a “Negro Woman of brown complex- ion about eighteen years old, named Caroline but usually called Betty and also her child a girl about two and a half months old” from a J.B. Griffin of South Carolina. An interesting and important piece of Texas real estate history, and an excellent primary source for research into the subject. $4250.

Landmark Work on Oregon and California

144. Thornton, Jessy Quinn: OREGON AND CALIFORNIA IN 1848... INCLUDING RECENT AND AUTHENTIC INFORMATION ON THE SUBJECT OF THE GOLD MINES OF CALIFORNIA.... New York. 1849. Two volumes. 393; 379pp. and sixteen pages of ads, plus folding map with contemporary color and twelve plates. Original publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt. Light sunning and wear to cloth. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Small closed tear at map edge. Lightly foxed. Very good.

“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. $6000.

First Collection of Cowboy Songs

145. Thorp, N. Howard: SONGS OF THE COWBOYS. Estancia, N.M. [1908]. 50pp. 12mo. Red wrappers printed in gilt. Spine slightly rubbed, else very nice.

A rare little classic of the open range, the first collection of cowboy songs to be published, printed for the author in a small edition. Dobie says that Thorp “has a secure place in range literature because of his contribution in cowboy songs....[He] had a perspective of both range and civilization. He was a kind of troubadour himself.” DOBIE, pp.122, 129. MERRILL ARISTOCRAT. $1500.

One of 200 Sets on Large Paper

146. Thwaites, Reuben Gold [editor]: ORIGINAL JOURNALS OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 1804 – 1806 PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS...TOGETHER WITH MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL OF LEWIS AND CLARK...NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME PUBLISHED IN FULL AND EXACTLY AS WRITTEN.... New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904-1905. Seven volumes bound in fourteen parts, plus atlas volume. Plates (many in color), facsimiles. Quarto. Original gilt green cloth. Spines lightly worn, several slightly faded. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Internally fine, much of the text unopened. A very good set.

One of 200 large paper sets on Van Gelder paper. “The most elaborate work on this expedition” – Howes. A cornerstone of modern historical research, printing for the first time many major primary documents which did not appear in the Biddle edition, including the Floyd and Whitehouse journals, and material from the Clark-Voorihis papers, along with facsimile manuscripts, maps, portraits, and other illustrative matter. Also valuable is Victor Paltsits’ bibliography of the Lewis and Clark expedition, in the first volume. “This edition is notable for its thorough Introduction, covering the history of the expedition and earlier exploration, and a detailed account of the original journals and their various editions...In its maps and numerous illustrations, the Thwaites edition is an outstanding source of visual materials relating to the expedition” – Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. HOWES L320, “c.” LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 5d.1. WAG- NER-CAMP 13:7 (note). TWENEY, WASHINGTON 76. $14,500.

147. Tracy, J.L.: GUIDE TO THE GREAT WEST: BEING A BRIEF, BUT CAREFULLY WRITTEN, DESCRIPTION OF THE COUN- TRY BORDERING UPON ALL THE PRINCIPAL RAILROADS OF THE WEST, WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. St. Louis: Published by Tracy & Eaton, 1870. [2],261,[9]pp., including illustration, plus three folding maps. Advertisements are sometimes included in the pagination, other times not. 12mo. Original pebbled green cloth, front board gilt. Hinges repaired internally. Contemporary ink stamp on front free endpaper. Quite clean and neat. Very good.

This is one of apparently two variants of the only edition of this scarce western guide. The text is a very detailed description of western railroads, and the towns and sights along the routes. Towns large and small are described, often with very useful information. The variant noted by Howes has a different pagination, and only two maps, as opposed to the three in this copy. One of the maps shows the “Railroad Connections of the West” – most of them operating out of St. Louis. Another map shows the route of the Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific Railways, and the third shows the lines of the Atlantic & Pacific & South Pacific Rail Road Co. of Missouri. HOWES T325. $1250.

Item 144. First Mexican Printing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

148. [Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]: TRATADO DE PAZ, AMISTAD, LIMITES Y ARREGLO DEFINITIVO ENTRE LA REPUBLICA MEXICANA Y LOS ESTADOS-UNIDOS DE AMERICA, FIR- MADO EN GUADALUPE HIDALGO EL 2 DE FEBRERO DE 1848.... Queretaro: Imprenta de J.M. Lara, 1848. 28pp. printed in Spanish and English in double columns. [bound with:] ESPOSICION DIRIGI- DA AL SUPREMO GOBIERNO POR LOS COMISIONADOS QUE FIRMARON EL TRATADO DE PAZ CON LOS ESTADOS- UNIDOS. Queretaro: Imprenta de Jose M. Lara, 1848. 27pp. Original pink printed wrappers. Bookplate on inside of front wrapper. Minor dampstaining to some leaves at top of gutter. Very good plus. Untrimmed. In a red half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

The first Mexican printing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: a landmark American treaty and the document that gave the United States the Southwest and California. This printing was issued in the wake of the treaty signing, which took place in the town of Guadalupe Hidalgo, where the Mexican government had retreated in the face of advancing American troops. It is bound here, as is usual and proper, with the Esposicion..., in which the Mexican signatories to the treaty defend their cession of New Mexico and California to the United States. The two items are interesting from a printing standpoint, as the two titles have separate titlepages and are separately paginated, yet the signature markings on the gatherings are continuous, and the second titlepage is the third leaf in signature 4. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war between the United States and Mexico, resulted in the formal cession of the entire Southwest and California to the United States. Agreements were reached for the withdrawal of American troops from Mexico, the payment of Mexican claims, and the formal cession of territory (the U.S. had already occupied all of the land). The theoretical boundaries were set out and arrangements for boundary commissioners were made. By this treaty the U.S. obtained an addition of land equalled in size only by the Louisiana and Alaska purchases. “A document of resounding consequence” – Eb- erstadt. A fundamental piece of Western Americana, here in its earliest Mexican printing, and scarce on the market. STREETER SALE 281. PALAU 339388. GARRETT, pp.90-91. COWAN, p.252. HOWES M565, “b.” GRAFF 2775. LIBROS CALIFORNIANOS (2nd ed), p.29. EBERSTADT 162:846. BAUER 481. MALLOY, p.1107. $8500.

149. Tufts, Martin: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM MAR- TIN TUFTS TO A FRIEND IN GEORGIA, RELATING PRICES AND FINANCIAL CONDITIONS IN GOLD RUSH SAN FRAN- CISCO, AS WELL AS PROSPECTS FOR GAIN IN THE GOLD MINES]. San Francisco. March 28, 1850. [3]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Letter soiled and stained. Strengthened with tissue at center fold, tissue repairs to a few small holes, other small holes not repaired. Overall, still quite readable and in good condition overall. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt.

A nice Gold Rush letter written to a friend back home, seeking to disabuse him of notions of quick riches or plentiful jobs in California. Martin Tufts appears to have been a Georgia native who served during the Mexican-American War. His letter, written relatively early in the Gold Rush period, is full of caution about prospects in California. He begins by describing the situation for non-mining work in San Francisco and in the gold regions:

You can tell your friends that it is very difficult to obtain a situation here of any kind on account of the innumerable quantity of clerks and young men capable of all kinds of business who have made their way into this country. You can form no estimate of the number of young men who are here out of employment & how they get along is a mystery to me. They do not know what hard work is and consequently get disgusted with the mines and venture here to find employment. They pay very good salaries here as an instance some of the river boats pay $500 per month for a clerk, but every one cannot obtain these situations as there is but few of them. I am after one but I am fearful will not get it.

Tufts goes on to write that prices for goods such as flour and timber can be high on occasion, but that recent shipments of both from South America have caused a severe price deflation. He hopes to hear about his application for a clerkship soon, but if not, “off for the mountains to cheat some Indians of a little gold dust.” He continues:

As for the mines I know that there are quantities of gold but there is a very small average, one seldom makes more than ordinary wages. Sometimes a man is fortunate and makes a pretty fortune in a short while but I can assure you it is not general notwithstanding the tremendous stories which are published. I believe if a man will make up his mind to save his money he can go into the mines and work faithfully and in a few years will gather a very pretty sum, but it is a dog’s live [sic] and very hard work; if I go into the mines again I will hire Indians and trade, money has been made by working Indians, but they are a lazy lot.

$1750.

Rare Account of the French Scientific Survey of Louisiana, 1720

150. [Vallette Laudun, M. de]: JOURNAL D’UN VOYAGE A LA LOUI- SIANE, FAIT EN 1720. The Hague, “et se trouve à Paris”: Chez Musier, Fils, & Fournier, 1768. 8,316,[3]pp. Half title. Contemporary sheep-backed figured paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands, the bands flanked by double gilt fillets, label in the second compartment. Without the two final leaves giving the “approbation censoriale” and the “privilège” issued later (see below). Very good.

One of the rarest early publications about Louisiana. The author of this work, De Vallette-Laudun, was the commander of the ship Toulouse, and led the French government-backed scientific expedition of 1720 to Louisiana, the French West Indies, and the Gulf of Mexico. It resulted in the first detailed survey of Louisiana, just three years after the founding of New Orleans, at the height of enthusiasm over John Law’s Mississippi Company. The present epistolary narrative contains 132 letters addressed to an unnamed lady, which together provide a vivid picture of the expedition and include interesting details concerning Santo Domingo, Cuba, and the French settlements in Louisiana and the Mississippi valley. This is one of the rarest early works on Louisiana: just five copies are located by the Catalogue Collectif de France, and only two copies are listed as having sold at auction in France in the past fifty years. We could locate only the Littell copy selling at auction in the U.S. (Parke-Bernet, 1945). The present copy, like the Littell copy, is without the two final leaves (the “approbation censoriale” and the “privilège”); the catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France notes that these leaves are “absents de certains exemplaires, ont dû être ajoutés après.” HOWES V12. CLARK I:164. BELL V14. SABIN 98393. $6500.

151. [Webster, Daniel]: A MEMORIAL TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, ON THE SUBJECT OF RESTRAINING THE INCREASE OF SLAVERY IN NEW STATES TO BE ADMITTED INTO THE UNION.... Boston: Sewell Phelps, 1819. 22pp. Gathered signatures, string-tied, as issued. Light tanning, faint vertical crease. Very good. Untrimmed.

This scarce memorial was written by a committee chaired by Daniel Webster, at the request of the inhabitants of Boston and vicinity. Written at the height of the controversy over the admission of Missouri into the Union, which culminated in the Missouri Compromise, the text is a strong statement against the extension of slavery into new states and territories. “If the progress of this great evil is ever to be arrested, it seems to the undersigned that this is the time to arrest it.” A strong case is made for the authority of the federal government in the matter, as opposed to the rights of individual states. In Webster’s typical style he lays out the historical groundwork and legal reasoning for his position. Future Boston mayor and Harvard president Josiah Quincy was also on the committee that drafted this Memorial. Not in Work or Dumond. SABIN 47707. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 47390. Robert Remini, Daniel Webster, pp.168-69. $900. The Streeter Copy of a Significant Western Map

152. Wells, John G.: WELLS’ NEW SECTIONAL MAP OF NEBRAS- KA FROM THE LAST GOVERNMENT SURVEYS. New York. 1857. Pocket map, 31 x 23 inches, in a 6 x 4-inch cloth folder. Handcolored. Original green cloth folder, gilt. A few small separations at corner folds, else fine. Color bright and fresh. With the bookplate and penciled annotations of Thomas W. Streeter. In a half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt.

The Streeter copy of this scarce map of Eastern Nebraska, showing the beginning of the Oregon Trail. “This map, showing Nebraska townships to 97.5° and extending to about 98° 20’ was evidently issued for J.B. Snow of Otoe, Nebraska, since the ‘Great Emigrant rout [sic] to California and Oregon via Ft. Kearney’ starts at Otoe, a town no longer in existence, located across the Missouri from the Iowa-Missouri state line. This is an early and good large scale map of eastern Nebraska” – Streeter. Fairly scarce – not in Rumsey or Phillips, and only five copies located in OCLC. STREETER SALE 2003. $10,000.

153. [Westerners, Los Angeles Corral]: THE WESTERNERS BRAND BOOK...VOLUME 1 TO 17. Los Angeles: 1947-1986. Seventeen volumes. Large octavo. Bookplate of James Copley. In original dust jackets with slight wear, but otherwise a near fine set.

A long run of this publication, the first and best of the “brand books” issued by different chapters of this loose organization of enthusiasts of the history of the American West. Each volume is made up of articles on various aspects of western history, with an emphasis on the military history of the West, outlaws, Indian fighting, and ranching. Brand Book 11 is devoted entirely to the California desert. Produced in small editions, the individual volumes are hard to find and runs are even more difficult. The Brand Book also reproduces a large body of western illustrator art of the late 19th and 20th centuries. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 2363, 2363, 2365, 2366, 2367, 2368, 2369, 2370. ADAMS HERD 2489, 2490, 2491, 2492, 2493. $1750.

154. Wheat, Carl I.: MAPPING THE TRANSMISSISSIPPI WEST. San Francisco. 1957-1963. Five volumes bound in six. Large folio. Cloth. On the whole, in fine condition, and an attractive set.

A massive and essential reference work on the history of cartography in the West from the first Spanish explorations through the U.S. government surveys of the 1870s. The product of over twenty-five years of scholarly research by the foremost authority in the field, the set reproduces in excellent facsimile (some in color) over 300 maps, with accompanying text elaborating on the maps’ importance, historical context, and bibliographic nature. The first volume was elegantly designed and printed by the Grabhorn Press, with the following volumes printed by others according to the Grabhorn plan. Long out of print, and exceedingly useful. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY 590. HILL 1850. RITTENHOUSE 640. STREETER SALE 4416. $3500.

An Early View of Arizona

155. [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. 12mo. Original pictorial green wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled with a few small chips. A few contemporary pencil notes, small stain on foredge of titlepage and next few leaves, small hole in p.413-414 affecting six words. Very good. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

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. The pencil notes in this copy appear to have been made by someone who used the book shortly after its publication, and expand upon some of the routes, conditions, and statistics given. The list of illustrations calls for a frontispiece, but one does not ever appear to have been bound into this copy. A copy such as this, in original pictorial wrappers, is quite scarce on the market. WAGNER-CAMP 294b. GRAFF 4618. MUNK (ALLIOT) p.50. HOWES W313, “aa.” GREEN- WOOD 896. EBERSTADT 103:13. DECKER 31:291. $1500.

Complete Set of the Wheeler Survey

156. Wheeler, George M., Lieut.: REPORT UPON GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS WEST OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN.... Washington: Govern- ment Printing Office, 1875-1889. Seven volumes bound in eight. Large quarto. Original brown cloth, spines gilt. Minor shelf wear (mostly at spine ends and corners). Tightly bound. Plates in final volume a bit foxed, else very clean and fresh internally. A near fine set.

A complete set of the Wheeler Survey which, with those of Hayden, King, and Powell, was one of the major scientific surveys of the American West undertaken by the Army and the U.S.G.S. in the two decades after the Civil War. The best short account of the survey is in William Goetzmann’s Exploration and Empire, and he calls Wheeler’s efforts “an attempt by the Army to instill a professional spirit in its Western exploring activities to the point where it could regain scientific prestige in its own right, and with it control over all geographical activity in the Far West.” The Wheeler Survey began in 1871 and was most effective its first year in the field. In the end the work focused on the Southwest, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada were covered. In all, over the decade of the 1870s, Wheeler supervised expeditions over a third of the country west of the 100th meridian. Especially notable were their explorations of Death Valley, and a trip upstream on the Colorado River, from Camp Mojave. The Wheeler explorations were a mixture of pathfinding and surveying, and produced a vast wealth of data, published over more than a dozen years. This set contains the ownership signature of George Davidson on the titlepages of each volume. Davidson (1825-1911), an English-born Philadelphia-reared scientist, was an important member of the United States Coast Survey for several decades, and headed the survey of the California coast in the 1850s. There is also a presentation bookplate from Wheeler on the front pastedown of the second volume. The set of the Wheeler Survey is comprised as follows:

I. Geographical Report. 1889. 780pp. Thirty-eight plates (four of them chromolithographs, twenty tinted), three maps (one colored). Although this was the first volume, it was the last, by far, to be issued. II. Astronomy and Barometric Hypsometry. 1877. 571pp. Twenty-two plates. III. Geology. 1875. 681pp. Fourteen plates, including heliotypes and tinted lithographs. Geology Supplement. 1881. 420,xxviii pp. Four plates and three colored maps (in pocket at rear). IV. Paleontology. 1877. 219,370pp. Eighty-three plates. V. Zoology. 1875. 1021pp. Fifteen chromolithographs of birds, ten plates of reptiles (including three chromolithographs of snakes), seven plates of fishes, and thirteen of insects and butterflies (nine of them chromolithographs). There are descriptions of the specimens obtained (mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, etc.) and lithographic plates illustrating the specimens (although there are no plates of mammals). The plates were all lithographed by Sinclair of Philadelphia, and the bird plates were drawn by Robert Ridgway. VI. Botany. 1878. 404pp. Chromolithographic frontispiece and thirty uncolored engravings. VII. Archaeology. 1879. 497pp. Chromolithographic frontispiece, and twenty-one plates (four of them chromolithographs, else halftone photographs), plus a single-page map.

Wheeler originally planned on two atlases, one geographical and one geological; however, these were only partially completed, and it is uncertain if they were ever issued as volumes or simply loose maps. McGRATH, p.170. William Goetzmann, “The Last Stand of the Army Explorer” in Exploration and Empire, pp.467-88. Schmeckebier, Catalogue and Index of the Publications of the Hayden, Powell, King and Wheeler Surveys, pp.52-56. $4500.

First Proposal for a Transcontinental Railroad

157. Wilkes, George: PROJECT OF A NATIONAL RAILROAD FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, FOR THE PUR- POSE OF OBTAINING A SHORT ROUTE TO OREGON AND THE INDIES. New York: Published by the Author, 1845. 23pp. Original printed wrappers. Old center crease, pencil ownership signature at top of front wrapper. A very nice, clean copy, in near fine condition. In a half morocco cloth case, leather label.

Styled “second edition” on the titlepage, but actually the first separate issue, as the text had appeared previously in Wilkes’ History of Oregon, an advertisement for which appears on the rear wrapper. This is the first issue of this edition, with the preface dated June 1845. Privately printed and containing additional prefatory material not contained in the original version. The first proposal for a transcontinental railroad and for Manifest Destiny, and a landmark in the history of westward expansion: “The Railroad is the Great Negotiator, which alone can settle our title more conclusively than all the diplomatists in the world...Arouse then, America, and obey the mandate which Destiny has imposed upon you for the redemption of a world!” “One of the earliest transcontinental agitations; framed while California was still a Mexican province, an Oregon terminus was planned” – Howes. HOWES W419, “b.” SABIN 103999. $3000.

Wonderful Watercolor Views on the Snake River

158. [Wyoming Territory]: [Western Art]: [PAIR OF ORIGINAL WA- TERCOLORS OF THE CAMP OF K AND F COMPANIES OF THE NINTH U.S. INFANTRY DURING THE UTE WAR, AT SNAKE RIVER, WYOMING TERRITORY, IN 1879 – 1880]. [Wyo- ming. 1880]. Two watercolors, painted on the recto of two one-cent postcards, each measuring 3 x 5 inches. Description of each scene written in pencil on the verso of each card. Very minor wear. Near fine.

A pair of lovely watercolors of the camp of two U.S. Infantry companies in Wyo- ming Territory during the Ute War in 1879-80. The watercolors show the camp of K and F companies of the Ninth Infantry near the Snake River. Based on the scenery, these must depict the southern part of Jackson’s Hole, the only area which corresponds to the views shown. One shows the camp during the summer, and the other shows it in the winter. The camp was established in a valley, which is shown as lush and green in the summer scene, but barren and snow-covered in the winter scene. A note on the verso of the summer scene says that the “pictures were painted with water colors by a soldier of this command.” The verso of each card contains pencil descriptions of each scene. For example, in the comments on the summer scene it is noted that “the brush back of the tents are sage brush...the timber back of the camp follows the river still to the right are mountains and hills with cedar timbers.” Some of the text on the verso of the winter scene discusses the various buildings in the camp, including the cook’s house and the sutler’s store. The Ninth Infantry was ordered into the field as part of Army strategy during the Ute War, and established their camp along the Snake River in Wyoming Territory in November 1879. They remained there until July 1880. Original artwork from the Indian wars of the West is rare. $9500.

Rare News of the Yellowstone Expedition of 1819-20

159. [Yellowstone Expedition]: Clark, Isaac, Jr., Lieut.: [PAIR OF AU- TOGRAPH LETTERS, SIGNED, FROM LIEUTENANT ISAAC CLARK TO HIS FATHER, COLONEL ISAAC CLARK OF VER- MONT, DESCRIBING HIS EFFORTS TO OUTFIT THE AT- KINSON EXPEDITION TO THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER]. St. Louis. June 11, 1819 and Belle Fontaine, [Mo.]. February 16, 1821. Two manuscript letters, each of them [3]pp., written on folded folio sheets, addressed on the fourth page. Old folds. Both letters with small splits or separations along folds and tears in paper where wax seal had been affixed, but with no significant loss of text. Some tape repairs on splits of the later letter. Overall, very good.

A very interesting pair of letters, written by Lieutenant Isaac Clark, Jr., to his father, describing his efforts to outfit the Atkinson Expedition to the Yellowstone River, and giving his impressions of St. Louis. A significant but little-known early western expedition, the Yellowstone Expedition was organized in 1819 and was under the command of Col. (later Brigadier General) Henry Atkinson. It was charged with ascending the Missouri River by steam boat (an early attempt at such travel on the Missouri) to establish a series of forts along the Missouri to protect the American fur trade, guard against hostile Indians, and counteract the presence of the Brit- ish Hudson’s Bay Company in the region. The expedition ultimately reached the “Council Bluff ” in eastern Nebraska, where they established Fort Atkinson, near the Missouri River. The troops at Fort Atkinson endured a harsh winter in 1819- 20, and lack of provisions left them susceptible to scurvy and other diseases, which ultimately claimed between 100 and 200 lives. Clark’s letters give a rare firsthand account of the logistics and provisioning of the expedition. Both letters are written by Lieut. Clark, to his father, Col. Isaac Clark in Castle- ton, Vermont. Isaac Clark, Sr. (1742-1822) had a military career that spanned some fifty years. He fought heroically in the Revolutionary War, participating in the Battle of Bennington (1777) and the re-capture of Fort Ticonderoga (1778). Dur- ing the War of 1812 he led Vermont troops in patrolling the border with Quebec to prevent smuggling, and led several military forays into southern Quebec. He also served in several political and judicial positions in Vermont. On June 11, 1819, from St. Louis, Clark writes his father:

I arrived here on the 13th of May, since which time I have been constantly engaged in preparing stores for the Missouri Expedition. The agents of government in this quarter have been very dilatory so much so that not a particle of provision or stores of any kind were to be found in this place on my arrival destined for that expedition. By running & riding night and day, I have succeeded so far in procuring stores as to be able to start the Rifle Regiment in two days more, the 6th Regiment will follow in about fifteen days. The Missouri is a grand & noble stream but the difficulty in navigating is almost insurmountable. A current of at least five miles an hour, boats are not able to make more than nine miles a day. The 6th Regiment will go in steam boats if it is possible to get up. Their calculation is to go to the Council bluffs this season, 650 miles from this & about 400 miles above any settlement....I am not able to give you a very correct account of the country, as I have seen no part of it as yet except what borders on the River. This place is the capital of the Missouri Territory & has about 5000 inhabitants of all nations, colours, & languages who have flocked here for the purposes of speculation. There are many very good buildings and considerable wealth. It is the most extravagant place to live in the United States and, at the same time, we live wretchedly. I have been fortunate enough to get into Governor Clark’s house for a short time....

The second letter was written on February 16, 1821, from Belle Fontaine, near the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Clark writes:

The country has been almost inundated between this & Vincennes....I view this climate as very unfavorable to persons subject to bilious habits and in fact to any person bred in the frozen regions of the North....I shall never enjoy good health again, my constitution is destroyed. Gen. Atkinson is my sincere friend. He has placed me in command of this post. There is three detach- ments of troops; in all one hundred men. It gives me double rations and I also draw the additional pay of Asst. Commissary of Subsistence, which makes my pay equal to a major....Should the army not be reduced I shall leave this in March for the Council bluffs in command of the troops now at this post. We shall ascend the river in boats, an arduous task 850 miles against the strongest current in the world....

An interesting pair of letters from a little-known, early western expedition. $3000. San Francisco in 1853, with Proposed Additions to the City’s Waterfront

160. Zakreski, Alex: THE ONLY CORRECT & FULLY COMPLETE MAP OF SAN FRANCISCO. COMPILED FROM THE ORIGI- NAL MAP & THE RECENT SURVEYS, CONTAINING ALL THE LATEST EXTENSIONS & IMPROVEMENTS, NEW STREETS, ALLEYS, PLACES, WHARFS & DIVISION OF WARDS, RE- SPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE CITY AUTHORITIES. San Francisco: Drawn & Lith. by Alex Zakreski...at his Topographical Office, 1853. Lithographed map, 10¾ x 16¾ inches, on pink wove paper; issued as a pictorial letter sheet. Expertly backed by tissue, repairing a few small tears in the edges. Contemporary ink notes on verso, showing through a bit on the recto. Very good. Matted.

A rare and important map of San Francisco, issued as a letter sheet. The map was drawn and lithographed by Alex Zakreski, and was offered for sale by Cooke, Kenny & Co., stationers. It is a very significant map for showing the city in great detail, identifying hundreds of property lots. Most importantly, it shows proposed extensions of the city along the waterfront, such as North Beach, Mission Bay, and what has become the Embarcadero. The layout of these extensions, however, is quite different than the City looks today, and the map gives tremendous insight into San Francisco city planning in the early years of the Gold Rush. The map extends westward all the way to the charter line of the city in 1830, beyond the Western Addition and to Mission Dolores in the southwest (part of which is identified as “pasturage”). A key on the map locates eleven places of worship, and a dozen other buildings, including city hall, the jail, and various theatres. Zakreski (sometimes spelled Zakrewski), was a former captain in the Polish army who arrived in San Francisco in 1849. He published several maps of Warsaw early in his career, and is responsible for several early and significant western maps, including maps of Marysville and Arizona. Baird lists only an 1854 printing of this map, on white wove paper. Clifford had two copies of this 1853 edition of the map in his collection, one on green wove paper, and one on white wove paper (each of which brought more than $1000 in 1994). Streeter bought his copy from the Norris catalogue, where it was priced $20. Howell bought the Streeter copy in 1969 for $90, at a time when maps were quite undervalued. Rosenbach asked $190 for a copy in the 1940s, and called it “An extremely rare map of San Francisco...one of the most important early California maps in existence!” OCLC locates only two copies, at Yale and at the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. An early, rare, and significant map of San Francisco. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 351, 352, plate 118. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 188 (ref ). PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, pp.205-6, plate 109. STREETER SALE 3887. NORRIS CATALOGUE 2360. ROSENBACH 13:374. OCLC 80689032, 21823039. $2500.