Madison, Wi. 1885. 16pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Very fine. Advice for the emigrant and traveller to Alaska: how to get there and what to expect; plus the Organic Act of the Territory, approved in 1884. Cowles was the commissioner for Alaska at the World's Cotton Exposition in New Orleans.....
Washington: United States Geological Survey, 1898. [2],44pp. plus folding colored map. Original printed wrappers, detached. Map with four neat closed tears. Text bright and clean. Very good. Report issued by the United States Geological Survey for the use of prospectors and miners, including descriptions of routes to the Klondike and.....
[N.p.]: 1959. Various paginations. Folding map. Tall folio. Later buckram. Original red wrappers bound in. Cancelled library stamps on titlepage. Else very good. Extensive collection of vital data on Alaskan counties, place names, boundaries, and the like.
[San Francisco]: San Francisco Examiner, 1898. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Front page with a chromolithographed illustration of a miner dressed in a heavy coat. Lightly tanned. Near fine. Scarce sheet music, published at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska, illustrated with a striking chromolithographic front.....
San Francisco. 1891. 63pp. Illus. Original green printed wrappers, detached and split at spine. Edges chipped. Internally clean and nice. Discreet cancelled library booklabel tipped inside back wrapper. Overall good. Extensive promotional work for Alaska tourism, issued before the Gold Rush. Describes the resources, agriculture potential and natural beauty of.....
London. 1812-1815. Five volumes. [2],xl,[16],574; [4],597; [4],512; [4],636; [4],462,[2],105pp. Modern black cloth, spines gilt. Front hinges of several volumes cracking, shelf numbers in white ink on spine, institutional stamps and markings on titlepages, top edges, and rear pastedowns. Light tanning and scattered foxing. Good plus. First English translation, after the.....
New York. 1884. [4],227pp. Frontis. Later gilt buckram. Ex-lib. with rubberstamps. A good, sound copy. The author read Samuel N. Townsend's letters from the West and decided to head ranchward. From 1877 to 1884 he lived on ranches and travelled in western Kansas, eastern Colorado and northern Texas. Aldridge was.....
![FORESTS AND ORCHARDS IN NEBRASKA. A HAND BOOK FOR PRAIRIE PLANTING [wrapper title]. James T. Allan](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM38170.jpg?v=1569514442)
Omaha, Ne. 1884. 64,[6]pp. including several full-page and in-text illustrations, plus three colored plates. Original pictorial wrappers. Light wear to wrappers, but on the whole very clean and near fine. An interesting Nebraska promotional item, giving a county- by-county description of the state and the best types of fruits to.....
New York. 1947. xx, 236pp. Original cloth, spine gilt. Front hinge a bit loose, corners bumped, boards slightly scuffed. Light tanning. Good plus. Standard bibliography on Arkansas printing to the end of Reconstruction.
![THE INDIAN - FEDERAL AND STATE RESPONSIBILITY [wrapper title]. Edgar A. Allen](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM49801.jpg?v=1488345333)
[N.p., likely Chilocco, Ok. 1915]. 7pp. Original printed self wrappers. Minor edge wear, vertical crease throughout, three short marginal tape repairs to each leaf. Good. A paper by Edgar A. Allen, superintendent of the Chilocco Indian School, at a conference of Indian workers in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 1915.....
New York: The Shakespeare Press, 1913. 78pp. plus frontispiece portait and four plates. Original brown cloth, gilt title on front cover, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Author's gift inscription on titlepage. Light tanning, otherwise internally clean. Very good. Inscribed by the author. "The Sheep Eaters or Tukuarika were.....
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.....
![VOL. 1 NO. I THE PEOPLE'S ALMANAC. 1834 [wrapper title]. Almanacs](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM34457.jpg?v=1559134870)
Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot, [1833]. 47,[1]pp., including thirty-one woodcuts. Title-leaf vignette. Gathered signatures, stitched. Minor edge wear. Last leaf with four inch tear in from foredge with some loss. Contemporary ownership signatures on first and last leaf. Other manuscript marks throughout. Good. A wonderful almanac, profusely illustrated with thirty- one.....
Mexico: Ignacio Cumplido, 1835. 96pp. plus three folding tables and two index leaves. Original printed pink wrappers. Chipping and wear to spine, some light wear and minor soiling to wrappers. Internally clean. Minor loss to final index leaf, affecting one or two letters of text. Very good. According to Streeter.....
Salt Lake City. 1938. 405pp. Facsimiles. Illus. Frontis. Gilt cloth. About fine, with news clipping laid in. Good reference, listing the newspapers by city or town, dates of publication, etc.
Mexico City. 1856. 480,[4]pp. Several errors in pagination. Small quarto. Contemporary red half sheep and boards, spine gilt. Boards and extremities rubbed. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Light toning and minor foxing. Very good. An extremely valuable compilation which gives detailed data, including route, scenery, and other key information, about.....
[Np. nd, ca. 1840s]. Folding map, 14 3/4 x 13 inches. Colored in blue and red. Split along one fold, expertly repaired, backed by tissue. Very good. Archival matting, and protected with Mylar sheet. A map of the United States showing the area east of the Rocky Mountains and including.....
Victoria. 1872. [4],112,[2],xlii pp. Original blue printed wrappers. Minor dust-soiling and chipping, short tear to front wrapper, top corner bumped. Internally clean. Good. A rare appraisal of British Columbia from an important officer of the Hudson's Bay Company. "This is a straightforward and useful account of British Columbia as it.....
New York. 1877. 221pp. Folding map. Original pictorial cloth. A fine copy. A presentation copy, inscribed: "...with the compliments of the author." Describes with gusto the mineral wealth of the Southwest.
Washington. 1854. viii,851pp. Original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Toe of spine frayed. Overall very good. The Senate issue, published a year after the House issue, of Andrews' extensive report on trade between the United States and Canada, with information on internal improvements in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida.....
Oakland: Thompson & West, 1881. 680pp. plus 116 lithographic plates. Small, thick folio. Modern buckram, spine gilt, leather label. Near fine. "This classic work is the most used and quoted history of any ever issued of the state. It is likely to remain forever the all time Nevada book, for.....
[Washington]. 1844. 3pp. Dbd. Very good. Sen. Doc., 28th Cong. 2d Sess. Correspondence dated from April through December, 1844.
[Washington. 1845]. 23pp. Dbd. Good. 29th Cong., 2d Sess. The committee, in a last ditch stand, recommends opposing annexation.
Chicago. 1934. 207pp. Original pictorial cloth. Spine lightly faded. Very good. Trail-driving on the Oregon Trail. One of 300 copies printed.
![AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM AN OREGON PIONEER REGARDING LAND CLAIMS IN MISSOURI]. Lindsay...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM29969.jpg?v=1488345074)
[Polk County, Or.]. Oct. 9, 1847. [1]p. on single letter sheet, 7 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches, docketed on verso. Tear along lower left edge, affecting two words. Old, light fold lines. Very good. An interesting letter from an important western pioneer, attempting to wrap up affairs back home. Oregon.....
