Sale 454 Thursday, May 19, 2011 1:00 PM Rare Americana Travel & Exploration Maps & Atlases Auction Preview Tuesday, May 17, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Wednesday, May 18, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Thursday, May 19, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm Other showings by appointment 133 Kearny Street 4th Floor:San Francisco, CA 94108 phone: 415.989.2665 toll free: 1.866.999.7224 fax: 415.989.1664 [email protected]:www.pbagalleries.com REAL-TIME BIDDING AVAILABLE PBA Galleries features Real-Time Bidding for its live auctions. This feature allows Internet Users to bid on items instantaneously, as though they were in the room with the auctioneer. If it is an auction day, you may view the Real-Time Bidder at http://www.pbagalleries.com/realtimebidder/ . Instructions for its use can be found by following the link at the top of the Real-Time Bidder page. Please note: you will need to be logged in and have a credit card registered with PBA Galleries to access the Real-Time Bidder area. 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Administration Roger Wagner, Chairman Scott Evans, President Shannon Kennedy, Vice President, Client Services Angela Jarosz, Administrative Assistant Dan Sweetnam, Shipping Clerk Consignments, Appraisals & Cataloguing Bruce E. MacMakin, Senior Vice President George K. Fox, Vice President, Market Development & Senior Auctioneer Gregory Jung, Senior Specialist Erin Garland, Specialist Marketing Maureen Gross, Vice President of Marketing Photography & Design Chad Mueller, Photographer Spring-Summer Auctions, 2011 May 19, 2011 - Rare Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps & Atlases June 2, 2011 - Charles Bukowski & His Circle: The Collection of Ross Runfola June 16, 2011 - 19th & 20th Century Literature - Fine Books in All Fields June 30, 2011 - Fine & Rare Books: A Private Collectoin Schedule is subject to change. Please contact PBA or pbagalleries.com for further information. Consignments are being accepted for the 2010 Auction season. Please contact Bruce MacMakin at [email protected]. Front Cover: Lot 184 Back Cover: Clockwise from upper left: Lots 123, 69, 176, 139 Bond # 14425383 Section I: Americana – Books, Manuscripts, Photographs, Ephemera, Lots 1-199 Section II: Mining & Mineralogy, Lots 200-240 Section III: Travel & Exploration, Lots 241-267 Section IV: Cartography Reference, Lots 268-299 Section V: Maps & Atlases, Lots 300-376 Section I: Americana – Books, Manuscripts, Photographs, Ephemera 1. AdAms, Ansel And nAncy newhAll. The Pageant of History in Northern California. Illustrations from photographs by Adams. 14x11, spiral-bound pictorial wrappers, original two-part cardboard packaging present. First Edition. San Francisco: [American Trust Company], 1954 Fine. (100/150) 2. (Alaska) whymper, Frederick. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, Formerly Russian America - Now Ceded to the United States - and in Various Other Parts of the North Pacific. xviii, [2], 21-353 + 2 ad pp. Illustrated with wood engravings throughout (some full-page, including frontispiece with tissue- guard); large folding map of the Yukon area and Kwich-Pak River. 20.2x13 cm. (8x5”), original gilt- decorated cloth, spine lettered in gilt, brown endpapers. First American Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1869 Frederick Whymper was a member of the Russian-American Overland Telegraph Expedition of 1865-66 and his travels included Kamchatka, the west coast of the Okhotsk Sea, and the Yukon River. A well-written and valuable narrative. Arctic Bib. 19424. Edge wear, some mild repair to spine ends and corners; name in ink on front free endpaper; one short close stub-tear to map with tape repair on verso; very good. (200/300) 3. Allen, i.p. Exchange Tables for the Conversion of Sterling into Federal Money, From 48 Pence to 50½ Pence Per Dollar by 32ds of a Penny. Title leaf and 10 charts printed on stiff card stock, instructions for conversion of shillings pasted inside front cover. 20x14 cm (7¾x5½”) original cloth stamped in black. First Edition. San Francisco: Edward Bosqui & Co., 1878 Quite scarce. WorldCat locates only a single copy, at the Los Angeles Public Library. Some wear and soiling to cloth; very good. (300/500) Page 1 4. (American Imprints) dAnA, JAmes FreemAn. An Epitome of Chymical Philosophy. 231, [1] pp. (8vo) period tree calf, tan leather spine label. First Edition. Concord, N.H.: Isaac Hill, 1825 Dana (1793-1827) was an American mineralogist and chemist. In 1815 he received the Boylston prize for an essay on tests for arsenic. In the same year Harvard University sent Dana to England as a purchasing agent for chemical apparatus. While there, he studied for several months under Frederick Accum. Subsequently, he was hired by Harvard as an instructor. He died suddenly at the early age of 33. Spine sunned, some edge wear, early bookplate of the Dartmouth College Medical Library; foxing; very good. (200/300) RARE 1866 ARIZONA LAW BOOK 5. (Arizona) Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the Second Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona. [iii-xix], 20-98 pp. (8vo), half calf and boards, gilt-lettered spine. Prescott, AZ: Office of the Arizona Miner, 1866 Containing Acts, Amendments to the Howell Code, and Resolutions of great interest to the Arizona historian. Of particular interest are the incorporations of various mines and railway companies. Also, there are amendments to the rights of married women, plus divorce. Also, the appendix contains the Organic Act of Arizona, and Organic Act of New Mexico. Half title (pp. iii) present. Alliot, p.140; Streeter Sale 512. Rubbed extremities, tearing at spine head; front hinge cracked, a bit of dampstaining at bottom edge of several early leaves; very good. (600/900) 6. Ashley, williAm h. The West of William H. Ashley: The international struggle for the fur trade of the Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, and the Columbia, with explorations beyond the Continental Divide, recorded in the diaries and letters of William H. Ashley and his contemporaries, 1822-1838. liv, [2], 341 pp. Edited by Dale L. Morgan. Illustrated with reproductions of sketches, paintings, engravings, lithographs, etc., by Bodmer, Catlin & other early sources, a few in color; folding map. 13½x9½, pictorial cloth. Designed & printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy. First Trade Edition. Denver: Fred A. Rosenstock, 1964 Important compilation of early documents on the fur trade and the opening of the Northwest. Lightly rubbed extremities, corners a touch bumped; near fine. (100/150) 7. (Automobiles) Oakland Portola Automobile Road Race Under the Auspices of the Automobile Club of California - program. [24] pp. Illustrated with photographs and advertisements and 1 map of the course. 27.3x20.2 cm. (10¾x8”), original illustrated wrappers. Oakland, CA: 1909 First prize for Event No. 3 - Racing Cars - was $2,000. At center of program is a score card (unused). Also an article by Mrs. Frederick J. Linz titled “Women as well as Men can Motor.” Wrappers detached and chipped at edges, lightly soiled; tiny tears or creasing at page edges; very good. (300/500) Each lot is illustrated in color in the online version of the catalogue. Go to www.pbagalleries.com Page 2 8. BAgley, clArence B. Pioneer Seattle and Its Pioneers [cover title] - two editions, each signed by the author. Includes: 17 pp. Photograph plates. Original tan wrappers, printed in black. With a laid in typed letter from the author addressed to the principals of Seattle school, with the directions to distribute to classrooms, and for this purpose 1900 copies were sent. Inscribed on the front wrapper, “Arthur S.