Paris. 1805. [4],x,479pp. plus large folding map and folding plate, both on light blue paper. Modern half cloth and marbled boards, leather label. Light wear to binding. Slight trace of foxing. Else a near fine copy. An important early piece of Western Americana, describing a fur trading expedition up the.....
[Washington. 1807]. 68pp. (pp.65-68 in facsimile) and folding map. Modern three-quarter diced calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Last two leaves of text in expert facsimile. Ex-Library of Congress, with their perforated stamp on the titlepage. Light scattered foxing. Map with scattered foxing and light toning in places. Still a......
Philadelphia: Published by C. & A. Conrad, & Co.... 1810. [8],105,[11],[107]- 277,[3],65,[1],53,[1],87pp. plus six maps (five folding) and three folding charts. Frontispiece portrait. 19th-century three- quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Slight shelf wear. Offsetting on titlepage as usual. Minor toning and foxing. Contemporary armorial bookplate on front.....
Salt Lake City. [ca. 1935?]. 94pp. plus advertisements and facsimile. Illus. Gilt pictorial cloth. Fine. Compiled by N.B. Lundwall.
[Washington. 1849]. Seven folding maps. Dbd. Very minor wear and foxing. Very good plus. In a blue cloth slipcase and chemise. Second issue of the first map "to show the Oregon Trail accurately" (Rumsey). One of the greatest monuments to the cartography of the American West. This issue of the.....
New York: J.H. Colton, 1859. 177pp. plus three maps on two folding sheets. 6pp. of advertisements. 16mo. Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Text lightly tanned. Small separations at map cross-folds. Very good. In a red morocco box, gilt. A rare Colorado gold rush guide book with three.....
London. 1851. Two volumes. viii,413,[1]pp. plus folding map and nine colored plates (including frontispiece); vii,[1],426pp. with color frontis. 20th-century three-quarter calf and tan cloth, spine gilt, leather labels. Minor shelf wear and rubbing. Modern bookplate on front pastedowns, light toning. Very good. Richardson, the noted naturalist, accompanied Franklin on his.....
Baltimore: John W. Woods, Printer, 1848. 96pp. plus three wood-engraved plates (including frontispiece), one in-text illustration, and a facsimile manuscript. Modern morocco in an antique style, spine gilt, raised bands, edges tooled in gilt. Contemporary institutional gift inscription on front free endpaper. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Second.....
Washington: Printed by J. & G.S. Gideon, 1846. [4],ii,[2],5-203,[1],xxiv pp., , including errata leaf, plus folding frontispiece map. Original printed blue wrappers. Wrappers soiled and stained, a few small chips around the edges, more heavily chipped at the spine. First two leaves repaired along gutter. Scattered foxing and soiling. Long.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1849. xv,[1],352pp., plus 16pp. of advertisements and folding frontispiece map. Publishers's blindstamped red cloth, rebacked in matching cloth, new paper label. Light wear to extremities, minor soiling to boards, front hinge starting. Bookplate removed from front pastedown, one-inch tear in front free endpaper, folding map.....
London. 1856. [16],416pp. Frontispiece. Original maroon cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down (worn). Internally clean. Good. One of the classic works on the Red River colony, and like the author's other works, an essential book on the development of the fur trade.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1924. [1],xxxix,317,[4]pp. plus frontispiece. 12mo. Original dark green cloth, spine gilt, front board gilt-ruled with gilt-stamped publisher's logo center, t.e.g. Light shelf wear, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A near fine copy. Lakeside Press reprint of the first volume of.....
Chicago: The Lakeside Press R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1923. xxviii,388,[2]pp. plus frontispiece folding map. 12mo. Original dark green cloth, spine gilt, front board gilt-ruled with gilt-stamped publisher's logo center, t.e.g. Light shelf wear. Bookplate on front pastedown. Chip to upper outer corner of folding map, not touching the image.....
London. 1847. viii,332pp. plus 16pp. of advertisements. Modern cloth, leather label. Very good. One of the best known travel narratives of the fur trade era, describing the adventures of the author, a British army officer, in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico in 1847.
Edinburgh & London. 1849. xvi,312pp. Original blindstamped cloth. Spine perished, covers detached. Fair. Ruxton spent several years in the Rocky Mountain West. "Of particular interest in LIFE IN THE FAR WEST is an account of the Walker expedition of trappers to California, which Ruxton may have heard from Mark Head.....
St. Louis: Printed by M. Niedner, 1851-53. Volume VII: iii,435,[1]pp. Volume IX: iii,438pp. Marbled boards. Scattered foxing. Very good. Interesting frontier publication full of material on railroads, manufacturing, agriculture and the economic development of the West. Mott says "valuable for articles on early railroad projects and material bearing on the.....
Mexico: Imprenta de Juan R. Navarro, 1850. 123pp. plus two folding maps. Large octavo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. Head of spine rubbed, hinges cracking, corners bumped. Bookplate on front pastedown. Titlepage lightly foxed, minor scattered foxing. Very good. The author was the surveyor for the Mexican boundary survey after.....
New York: Edward Eberstadt, 1926. 125pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original half Japanese vellum and boards, gilt-stamped cover and spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Fine, unopened. In a worn cardboard box. One of thirty-five large paper copies, from an edition limited to 385 copies total. The first appearance in book form, having.....
[New York. 1918]. 114pp., including illustrations. Frontis. 16mo. Original green cloth, spine gilt. Moderate wear at spine ends and joints, corners bumped. Clean internally. Very good. First English language edition, translated from the German edition issued in 1905, by Margaret and Erich Zimmerman. Privately printed in an edition limited to.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. 307pp. plus five maps (two folding). Three-quarter calf and contemporary marbled boards, corners in contemporary calf, rebacked in period style with gilt-lettered spine. Moderate to heavy foxing to front matter. Old library label on front pastedown. Maps with moderate foxing. Good. This copy is.....
New York. 1819. 299pp. plus three engraved plates including frontis. Contemporary marbled boards, neatly rebacked in calf, spine gilt, retaining original leather label. Extensive 19th-century library ink stamps and contemporary ownership signature on titlepage, pasted ink stamp on verso. Light foxing and toning. Good. The first published work of Schoolcraft.....
[Washington. 1850]. 25pp. plus three (of four) folding maps. Dbd. Minor foxing and soiling. Second map only partially present. Very good. The Senate issue. The maps show the route taken by troops from Fort Smith to Santa Fe along the Canadian River in 1849 while serving as an escort for.....
Washington: Beverley Tucker, 1854. 198pp. plus seventy-eight plates (some tinted, one folding) and large folding map. Original blindstamped cloth. Slight wear at head of spine and corners. Six-inch closed tear in map (in a blank section) with no loss. Scattered foxing on plates. A very good copy. Second printing, with.....
Washington. 1853. 198pp. plus large folding map (detached) and seventy-eight plates (one folding, some tinted). Original blindstamped cloth, rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Light scattered foxing, else very good. Sitgreaves and his party traversed the country from northern New Mexico to San Diego in the summer and fall of.....
Quebec. January, 1842. 92pp. Original printed front wrapper only. Some foxing. Else very good. An early report from the Quebec diocese of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. The Society established the Oregon Mission in 1838, which was in the charge of Francois Norbert Blanchet and Modeste Demers.....
