Hartford: Belknap and Hamersley, 1849. 222,4pp. 12mo. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Cloth rubbed, worn at spine ends and corners. Early ownership signature on front free endpaper. Scattered light foxing. Very good. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. This copy bears the contemporary ownership.....

New York: S.W. Benedict, 1850. 224pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original blindstamped cloth, gilt, expertly recased. Good. Later American edition, after the first edition with a different title published in 1847. The author was a chief of the Ojibwa Nation, and herein gives a history of his people, especially their religious beliefs.....

Indianapolis. 1869. 240pp. including tables, plus errata page, plus three large folding maps and one colored geological cross- section. Frontis. Original green gilt stamped pebbled cloth. Very minor spotting on the first and last leaves, else near fine. The maps and cross-section in original cloth backed and printed paper boards.....

San Francisco. 1856. 79pp. Modern brown cloth, gilt morocco label. Titlepage with a few fox marks and a small tear in upper outer corner. Two light vertical creases throughout. Still, very good. An important California tract, with much material relating to the contentious issue of land titles, as well as.....

[Washington? ca. 1855]. 55pp. plus addendum leaf inserted between pages 22 and 23. Dbd. Slightly soiled. Very good. This case, brought by the U.S. government, contested Fremont's ownership of "Las Mariposas," a rich gold region near Yosemite Valley. Fremont bought the seventy- square-mile tract sight unseen for $3,000 in 1847.....

Nevada City, Ca. 1948. xi,[1],64pp. Frontispiece plus in text illustrations. Folding map. Original gilt cloth. Spine sunned. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper. An interesting account of the growth of Nevada City during and immediately after the Gold Rush. With halftones taken from photographs of the.....

Washington. 1886. vii,576pp. Cloth. Cloth bit stained. Internally quite clean. Overall very good. A highly detailed report on the mining industries by the Division of Mining Statistics and Technology. Contains many charts of progress in such industries as petroleum, coal, and glass.

San Francisco: Dewey & Co., 1884. 16pp., printed in double columns, with five full-page illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers barely worn and lightly foxed. Very clean internally. Very good overall. Henry DeGroot was a journalist with the NEW YORK TRIBUNE when he was sent to report on the gold discoveries.....

Auburn & Buffalo: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854. 384pp., plus four plates, including frontispiece. Publisher's blindstamped brown cloth, gilt pictorial spine. Wear, rubbing, and light soiling to boards, spine ends starting to fray, corners bumped and worn. Light foxing and occasional soiling throughout. Good. First edition, first issue. Delano went.....

New York. 1850. [3]-128pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Front wrapper, titlepage, two plates, and final text leaf provided in facsimile. Internally clean and tightly bound. A decent copy (though with the titlepage, final two pages, and plates in facsimile) of a gold rush rarity. Delavan travelled.....

[Buffalo? 1891]. 96pp. Illus. Dbd. from larger volume, original front wrap present, crudely stitched. Internally very good. Promotional for the Rio Grande Western Railway, including a brief history of the Mormons.

Salem, Or. 1869. 128pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor wear to spine. Internally clean. Old ownership stamp in upper margin of front wrapper. Very good. An important compendium of mostly agricultural and geographical statistics for the state of Oregon, including individual reviews of twenty-one counties in addition to a general survey.....

New York. 1841. [250]pp. (last page misnumbered "50") plus nine plates and nineteen maps. 12mo. Original cloth. Extremities frayed, bit chipped at head and toe of spine, quite heavily foxed. A decent, sound copy. Sixth edition, after the first of 1825. Howes, Buck, and Sabin call for seventeen maps, the.....