Chicago. 1903. 302pp. Portrait. Illus. Three quarter calf and marbled boards. Hinges worn and weak. Internally very good. Allen spent years hunting and travelling in Montana, Idaho and the Dakotas in the 1880s and '90s. He tangled with some Indians and ran into some bad types such as Calamity Jane.....
Boston. 1869. 268pp. Original cloth. Gilt pictorial spine. Very good. The adventures of Gen. Willard Barrows, who crossed the plains to California in 1850 and travelled to Idaho and Montana in the 1860s. Gen. Barrows issued the first map of Iowa in 1845, and wrote a history of Scott County.....
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[Oakland. 1927]. Twenty-eight silver gelatin photographs, each approximately 4 x 6 1/2 inches. Each photograph backed with canvas and with a detailed typed caption on verso. Oblong octavo. Ring-bound flexible leather boards. Upper 1 1/2-inch portion of spine and front cover chipped away. Covers rubbed, crude repairs to spine, toning.....
Washington. 1864. 38pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Light toning. Very good. 38th Cong. 1st Sess. Includes an "Itinerary of route from Fort Benton to Bannock City," Captain Fisk's report entitled "North Overland Expedition, for the Protection of Emigrants, from St. Cloud, Minnesota, via Forts Abercrombie and Benton, to the Rocky Mountains.....
[Emmett, Id.; Sweet, Id.; Portland, Or. ca. 1915-1921]. Two albums. 169 total photographs, mounted, from 1 x 1 to 3 x 5 inches. Matching albums of black textured cloth, with blindstamping on front boards. Wear, rubbing, and some light soiling to boards. Twelve leaves detached (but present and undamaged) in.....
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Boise City. 1875, 1881-1889. Five volumes. Uniform 20th-century tan buckram, leather labels. Minor shelf wear and shelf marks or remnants thereof. Institutional ink or blind stamps on titlepages and some leaves. Good. An interesting group of Idaho territorial laws leading up to Idaho statehood. The first volume is a compilation.....
San Francisco: Wallace W. Elliott & Co., 1884. [9],20-304,[1]pp. plus maps and numerous unnumbered leaves of lithographs. Folio. Contemporary half sheep and publisher's cloth, tooled in blind and gilt. Boards scuffed and stained. Top edge lightly dampstained, minor scattered foxing. About very good. The first "full-scale history of Idaho" (Howes).....
San Francisco: Wallace W. Elliott & Co., 1884. [9],20-304,[1]pp. plus maps and numerous unnumbered leaves of lithographs. Folio. Publisher's cloth, tooled in blind and gilt, neatly rebacked in red leather stamped in gilt. First few leaves with light wear at edges, some light soiling. Some light wear and soiling to.....
Boise City: Frank Kenyon, 1866. 237,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper chipped and torn, with some text loss. Small tears and paper loss slightly affectly text persist through initial leaves, with titlepage somewhat crudely repaired. Light tanning. Good. An extremely scarce Idaho imprint, publishing the journal from the third session.....
Boise City: Milton Kelly, Territorial Printer, 1883. 347 pp. Modern cloth and boards. Old library peroration stamp on title, else good. Committee reports, roll call, bills passing, motions, resolutions - a thorough record of the Idaho legislature.
A. J. Boyakin, Territorial Printer, 1881. 295pp. Modern cloth and boards. Old library perforation stamp on title, else good. Record of legislative activities: reading of bills, voting on bills, governor messages, etc.
Jas A. Pinney, Territorial Printer, 1885. 274pp. Modern cloth and boards, leather label. Old library perforation on title; upper outer corner of title torn away, affecting six letters of text. Else good. Record of the proceedings of the assembly. Mainly consists of reading of bills, referring the bills to committees.....
Boise City: Frank Kenyon, 1866. xiii,329pp. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards, gilt spine labels. Head of spine and labels chipped, edge and corner wear, boards scuffed. Light dampstaining along fore-edge of initial leaves, light tanning throughout. About very good. A scarce early Idaho imprint, publishing the laws passed by.....
Chicago & New York. 1906. 15,[3]pp. plus folding color map, 54 x 35 cm. Near fine, in original stiff printed wrappers. An attractive color map of the state, showing fewer counties than are present today. The railroads are listed in red with numbers on map keyed to list.
Chicago & New York. [1893]. 14pp. plus folding color map, 14 x 21 inches. In 12mo. original printed wrappers. Minor chipping to wrappers. Some fold separations to map. Good plus. An attractive color map of the state, including the railroad system, and "all cities, towns, post offices, railroad stations, villages.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890. 94pp. plus folding map. Stapled, good. Original wrappers torn but present. The governor (George Shoup) reports on the population (113,777 people total!), public lands, railroads (total mileage and broken down by company), agriculture with a detailed description of each county, stock-raising, mining, forestry, education, Indians.....
Denver: Frank G. Pabor, [1901]. 14pp. of text plus a single-page advertisement and a single-page map (the whole printed as sixteen panels on one side of a large sheet). Map on reverse, entitled "South-Eastern Idaho, The Best Watered Irrigated Region in the West," unfolding to 24 1/2 x 14 1/4.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868. 39pp. plus color folding map, 23 1/4 x 44 3/4 inches. Original printed wrappers. Presentation inscription on front wrapper (see below). Wrapper edges chipped, minor soiling and tanning to wrappers, spine partially chipped, old vertical fold to pamphlet. Light foxing and tanning and occasional soiling.....
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888. viii,387pp. plus eighteen plates and color folding map. Original publisher's pictorial cloth, stamped in silver and black. Corners bumped, spine extremities and edges lightly worn. Moderate foxing. About very good. A humorous account of a trip through British Columbia undertaken by an English party.....
[Washington. 1868]. 39pp. plus large color folding map. Modern maroon cloth, gilt maroon morocco label. Minor dust soiling in text. Map bright and clean. Overall very good. An application to Congress by the Northern Pacific Railroad, headed by Minnesota railroad magnate James J. Hill, for federal aid to support the.....
New York. 1865. 153pp. Original black blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Spine ends chipped, corners of boards worn. Faint tideline, else rather clean internally. Lacks the map. The narrative includes a day-by-day itinerary during a journey of forty-seven days from Walla Walla to Fort Benton, with a general description of the.....
[Washington. 1867]. 10pp. Folio. Original self-wrappers, stitched. Small stain in center of front wrapper, very light scattered foxing. Very good plus. This is the treaty of Lapwai Valley. The Nez Percé "roamed between the Blue Mountains in Oregon and the Bitter Root Mountains in Idaho...but by treaty of 1855 they.....
San Francisco. 1885. 150pp. Modern three-quarter cloth and paper boards, front board lettered in blue. Lacking front wrapper. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Titlepage dust soiled and slightly dampstained, with short closed tear to fore- edge near lower corner. Good. A scarce Idaho promotional pamphlet. Quite detailed sections on mining.....
[Various places, mostly Sand Point, Id. and Victor, Mt. 1915-1938]. Two volumes. [2],142; [142]pp., nearly all filled in in manuscript. Quarto. Original three-quarter leather and pebbled black cloth, gilt. Leather rubbed, both spines perished, boards detached and most leaves of first volume loose, hinges of second volume cracked but holding.....
[Various places in Idaho, Utah, and California (see below). ca. 1907-1929]. 421 photograph negatives, 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches each. Housed in three button-fastened negative albums. Moderate wear to albums. One negative torn, a few negatives faded or warped. Very good overall. A fascinating collection of original photographic negatives.....
