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.
Skyscrapers of New York
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928. Folio (42 x 27 cm; 16½ x 10¾ inches). 5 pages text, 24 full-page plates including frontispiece. Original quarter white patterned muslin, blue boards, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine; portions of dust jacket preserved. Provenance: Charles R. Lamb (1860-1942), American sculptor and architect.....
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.....
Hudson's Bay: or Every-day Life in the Wilds of North America, During Six Years' Residence in the Territories of the Hon. Hudson's Bay Company
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859. 8vo. 298 pages. Four wood-engraved plates, including frontispiece, and illustrations in text. Original blind-ruled brown pebbled cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated on spine. "Ballantyne's adventures began in 1841 from York Factory. While he recapitulates much history of the Hudson's Bay Company, he also quotes extensively.....
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.
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.
Handbook of the Wells, Fargo & Co.'s: Handstamps and Franks Used in the United States and Dominion of Canada and Foreign Countries
New York: Scott Stamp & Coin Co., 1926. 9 x 6 inches. 85 pages. Wrappers. First edition.
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.....
History of West Point, and its Military Importance During the American Revolution: and the Origin and Progress of the United States Military Academy
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1863. 8vo. xviii, 408, [12]pp., including advertisements at end. Large folding panoramic lithographed frontispiece of the Hudson River and West Point by Julius Bien, 9 plates, of which 2 folding and one in color; illustrations in text. Original blue embossed cloth, large gilt emblems on.....
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.
A Ride with Kit Carson across the Great American Desert and Through the Rocky Mountains
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1969. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; plain dust wrapper. A fine copy. LIMITED EDITION, number 418 of 1500 copies.
A Few Words of Warning to New Yorkers on the Consequences of a Railroad in Fifth Avenue with Remarks on City Railroads Generally, and Reflections Suggested by the Passage of the Broadway Railroad Bill
New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co, 1863. 8vo. 33 pages. Original printed wrappers; blue cloth portfolio. FIRST EDITION. Bristed writes vehemently against the prospect of a railroad along Fifth Avenue: "the mischiefs which a railroad on the Fifth avenue would inflict on the residents there as householders, are so.....
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.
Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk. With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. 8vo (7.75 x 5.25 inches). vii, 436 pages. Engravings in text, many full-page. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, "a long description of Juan Fernandez Island, which Browne visited in 1849, is given; it mentions Robinson Crusoe's cave, etc. The section on.....