Fighting the Whales: Or, Doings and Dangers of a Fishing Cruise
New York: D. Appleton & Co, Library of Travel and Adventure, 1871. A later printing. 12mo. 169 pages. 4 color plates. Original crimson embossed cloth.
Americana
The Canadian Journal of Lady Aberdeen 1893-1898
Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1960. 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. One of 600 copies of volume XXXVIII of the Publications of The Champlain Society.
Thunder Bay District 1821-1892. A Collection of Documents
Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1973. 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. One of 825 copies of volume IX from the Ontario Society of the Publications of The Champlain Society.
Richfield Springs Illustrated. Historical and Descriptive
Richmond Springs NY: Mercury Office, F. E. Mungor, proprietor, 1886. 8vo. 106 pp. 12 plates, illustrations in text, map at end. Original cloth-backed decorated pebbled boards. Binding worn, laks front free endpaper; one plate sprung loose and chipped at edges. FIRST EDITION of this guide to the Richfield Springs in.....
The Trial in the Supreme Court, of the Information in the Nature of a quo warranto filed by the Attorney General, on the relation of Coles Bashford vs. Wm. A. Barstow, Contesting the Right to the Office of Governor of Wisconsin
Madison, WI: Calkins & Proudfit and Atwood & Rublee, 1856. 8vo. 368 pp. Original sheep. Spine perished, browned. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Coles Bashford to the Hon. William M. Robertson(?, inscription faded), Washington DC, February 15, 1856. The Republican Bashford challenged incumbent Governor Barstow’s right to the office.....
The Bank of Upper Canada. A Collection of Documents
Toronto: The Champlain Society in Cooperation with the Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1987. 8vo. Plates. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. One of 1300 copies of volume XIII of the Ontario Series from the Publications of The Champlain Society.
Anitigüedades Mejicanas Falsificadas: Falsificacion y Falsificadores
Mexico: Fidencio S. Soria, nd. 4to. 30 pages. 63 plates, with two large folding plates. Brown cloth, original printed wrappers bound in.
How to Hunt and Trap containing full instructions for hunting the Buffalo, Elk, Moose, Deer, Antelope, Bear, Fox, Grouse, Quail, Geese, Ducks, Woodcock, Snipe, etc. Also the Localities where Game Abounds
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1878. 12mo (7.5 x 5 inches). 220, [3, index] pages. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's gilt-stamped pictorial cloth (minor spotting). Early edition Phillips, p.36 records two 1878 editions (New York and Philadelphia) but not this. A practical guide to American hunting and trapping, with ample information on.....
The St. Lawrence Survey Journals of Captain Henry Wolsey Bayfield: 1829-1853
Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1984, 1986. Two volumes, 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. One of 1350 copies of volumes LIV and LV of the Publications of The Champlain Society.
From Ohio to the Mountains. Editorial Correspondence of the Dayton (Ohio) Journal
Dayton: Journal Book and Job Printing Office, 1879. Square 8vo. 178 pp. Original green decorated cloth. A near-fine copy with a few small areas of wear to binding. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by the author to Pitt Cooke, brother of financier Jay Cooke who assisted in financing the Union.....
Southern Colorado. Historical and Descriptive of Fremont and Custer Counties with their Principal Towns ... With a Description of the Immense Mineral Regions of Fremont and Custer Counties
Cañon City: Binckley & Hartwell, 1879. 8vo. 134 pp., including illustrations and advertisements. Wood-engravings in text, some double-page. Original cloth-backed printed boards. Boards a bit soiled, some minor pale intermittent dampstaining. Provenance: Everett D. Graff (small booklabel; sold Parke-Bernet, Newberry Library sale of duplicates, 4 May 1966, lot 346). THE.....
Colorado: Its Resources, Parks, and Prospects as a New Field for Emigration; With an Account of the Trenchera and Costilla Estates, in the San Luis Park
London: Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston, 1869. 4to (10.75 x 8.5 inches). 217 pages. Oval bust portrait albumen photograph of William Gilpin, Governor of Colorado, mounted as frontispiece (mount foxed). Large folding map: "Map of the Trenchara and Costilla Estates forming the Sangre de Christo Grant Situate in San Luis.....
The Pacific Railroad––Open. How to Go: What to See. Guide for Travel to and through Western America
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869. 12mo. 122 pp., [4] advertisements at end. Original plum gilt-lettered cloth. Spine sunned, pale stain on front cover, pale dampstain in second half of volume. FIRST EDITION. A scarce and early guidebook published on the occasion of the opening of the Transcontinental Railroad, which.....
The Journals of the Lives and Travels of Samuel Bownas and John Richardson
Philadelphia: William Dunlap, 1759. 8vo. viii + 242; iv + 220 pages. 20th-century brown half morocco. Provenance: John Martin (early inscripttion on front flyleaf). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. "Richardson visited America in 1701, and traveled through Virginia, Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and New England. He spent some time with.....
A Journey through Kansas; with Sketches of Nebraska: Describing the Country, Climate, Soil, Mineral, Manufacturing, and Other Resources. The Results of a Tour Made in the Autumn on 1854
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1855. 8vo. 216 pp. Lithographed folding frontispiece map. Modern green gilt-lettered cloth. Map a bit worn at edges, otherwise very good internally. FIRST EDITION of the second book on the Kansas Territory, and the first made from first-hand observation. The work includes a voyage.....
William Blackmore: Early Financing of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway and Ancillary Land Companies 1871-1878
Denver: Bradford Robinson, 1949. 8vo. Original cloth. Ex-library copy, with tape on spine and markings. Internally clean. FIRST EDITION.
William Blackmore: Early Financing of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway and Ancillary Land Companies: 1871-1878
Denver: Bradford Robinson, 1949. 9.25 x 6.5 inches. 333 pages. Boards. First edition.
In the Buffalo Country
Ashland: Lewis Osborne, 1970. Introduction by David Lavender. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; plain dust wrapper. A fine copy. LIMITED EDITION, number 317 of 1400 copies.
Banjo Studies Part 1 Part 2
Brooklyn: Grant Brower, 1894. Folio (12 x 9 inches). 24 pp. Musical notation. Original printed wrappers. Somewhat age-darkened, a few chips at edges of wrappers. Revised edition, after the first of 1891. Exercises, scale studies, arpeggios or harp chords, harmonics, slides, double fingering, velocity studies, barre, a duet for two.....
A Peep at Washoe or, Sketch of Adventure in Virginia City
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1968. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; plain dust wrapper. A fine copy. LIMITED EDITION, number 694 of 1400 copies.
Colorado Springs, Colorado and Its Famous Scenic Environs
Colorado Springs: 1893. Oblong 4to. Photogravure plates and a profusion of illustrations in text. Original cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered on front cover. Light soiling to covers, internally very clean and fresh. The second edition, after the first of the previous year. A lavishly illustrated work with descriptions and views of famous.....
Colorado Gold Mines and Ghost Camps
Fort Davis, TX: Frontier Book Co., 1969. 8vo. 112 pp. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers. Pale stain to wrappers. Originally published in 1897 as 'Colorado's Gold Fields. America's Most Famous Gold Mining Camps.'.
The Cambridge Directory for 1857: Embracing a List of the City Officers, a General Directory of the Citizens, and a Business Directory
Cambridge MA: John Ford at the Chronicle Office, 1857. First edition of the ninth in the series. 8vo. Engraved folding "Map of the City of Cambridge, Mass." after W.A. Mason, engineer and surveyor. Original blind-decorated brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Robert O. Fuller (pencil inscription on front flyleaf, he.....
The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians
London: Published by the Author, 1841 [but 1892 reprint]. Two volumes, large 8vo (10 x 6.25 inches). 400 color plates and 3 maps. Publisher's brown cloth gilt (rebacked preserving original spine panels). The 1892 reprint from the 1841 sheets of Catlin's important narrative of his travels in the Mississippi and.....
By-Laws of the Chicago and Rock Island Rail Road Company. Adopted June 9th, 1858
New York: Benjamin F. Corlies, 1858. 8vo. 10 pages. Original glazed-paper printed wrappers. Nine articles outline the structure of the company, which had formed in 1847 as the Rock Island and LaSalle Rail Road Company, and reincorporated under its new name in 1851. OCLC 4997635. Eberstadt catalogue 131, item 354.....