St. Louis. 1893. 169pp. plus five folding geneaological charts. Original cloth. Very minor wear to extremities. A very good, bright copy. A scarce history and genealogy on the descendents of French and Spanish colonists living in St. Louis. Charts the growth of the Chouteau family with five folding diagrams. Important.....
Paris: Amedee Bedelet, Libraire-Editeur... [ 1858]. 51,[1]pp. plus twenty-three chromolithographs and in-text illustrations. Frontis. Half title. Oblong quarto. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Slight offsetting on text; illustrations clean and bright. Occasional light foxing and soiling. A lovely copy. The handsome lithographs by J. Bocquin, after drawings by Leloir and Fossey.....
New York. 1952. 416pp. Large quarto. Profusely illustrated. Gilt pictorial cloth. Fine in chipped and worn dust jacket. A standard work.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley... 1831. Two volumes. [iii]-xxi,[3],392pp. plus fourteen plates and three maps (two folding); [iii]-vii,[1],[393]-742,[2]pp. plus nine plates. No half titles. Quarto. Modern three-quarter calf and amrbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Modern bookplate on front pastedowns, light foxing, some toning to plates, "Macclesfield Subscription Library".....
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley... 1831. Two volumes bound in one. xxi,[3],392pp. plus fourteen plates and three maps (two folding); vii,[1],[393]-742pp. plus nine plates. No errata slip in second volume. Half titles. Quarto. 19th-century polished calf boards with gilt tooled border, handsomely rebacked, spine elaborately gilt, gilt morocco label.....
Kansas City. 1904. 238pp. Illus. Pictorial wrappers. Bad paper, but good. Describes the lives and duties of different members of the train crew.
Montreal: John Lovell & Son, 1881. 135pp. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Spine repaired, corners bumped. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Library stamp on several leaves, else very clean. Good. Begg provides a brief history of Canada, including information on the Prince Rupert Charter, fur trading, and relations with.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1843. Two volumes. xxii [i.e. xxxviii],[2],387,16 [advertisements dated February 1843] pp. plus eight plates (including frontispiece); vi,[2],474pp. plus eleven plates (including frontispiece). Three folding maps in front pocket of first volume. Original blue embossed cloth, spines gilt. Spines sunned, minor edge wear, corners bumped. Bookplate on front.....
New York. 1930. 336pp. plus plates. Portrait. Cloth and boards, printed paper labels. About fine. Based on unpublished material left by Bell after his death, including notes on Murrieta and other California outlaws.
Los Angeles. 1881. 457pp. Original gilt pictorial cloth, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Cloth heavily rubbed and worn. Internally clean. Overall, a solid, just about a good copy. "The most readable historical narrative of early Southern California" - Howes. Bell includes accounts of his service with Walker in.....
New Orleans. 1824. [8],327,[1]pp. plus errata slip. Later paper boards. Light toning and foxing. Very good. Untrimmed. The rare first edition, in French, of this Italian's adventures in America. "[Beltrami] found his way to the upper reaches of the Mississippi River, where he joined an expedition led by Maj. Stephen.....
[London: Reynell, 1828]. 16pp. Dbd. Minute dust soiling, faint foxing, some leaves loose. Very good. A self-published work, Beltrami's defense against his critics. This pamphlet is the second such rant by Beltrami. In an earlier pamphlet he responded to criticism leveled against the first edition of his LA DECOUVERTE DES.....
Chicago. 1916. xiii,309pp. Forty-four photogravure illustrations. Original three-quarter cloth over cloth. Fine. Pencil inscription. From an edition limited to 300 copies. This important work, edited by Mrs. Edward Ayer, translates the memorial of Franciscan Alonso Benavides, the best account of early 17th- century New Mexico. Extensive notes by Charles F......
New York. 1946. 246pp., plus in-text illustrations. Half title. Original pictorial cloth. contemporary watercolor landscape drawing on front free endpaper. Very good in slightly worn and clipped dust jacket. How to run a ranch. With an original watercolor sketch by the illustrator of the book, Ross Santee in the front.....
Denver. 1903. 207pp. Gilt pictorial green cloth. Some dampstaining to lower part of leaves and gutter margins, text unaffected, very good. A joking description of travelling with a shipment from the West to the stockyards. Inscribed "Compliments of St. Joseph Stock Yards Co. St. Joe Sept 26/03."
Sacramento. 1853. 261pp. Plates. Original cloth. Extremities frayed, boards detached. The plates are some of the earliest works of Charles Nahl and illustrate California life in the early Gold Rush. Benton founded the Congregational Church in California in 1849, and this moralistic/religious allegory includes many details of California life at.....
[Np. 1849]. 8pp. printed in double-column format. In Gaylord binder. Tanned, else very good, unopened. This speech contains a portion of Benton's LETTER...TO THE PEOPLE OF MISSOURI (1853), examining Fremont's findings during his explorations to discover a western railroad route.
[Np. ca. 1844]. 8pp. Dbd. Scattered foxing, faint vertical fold through center, trimmed close at bottom with loss of about two lines on first seven pages. Fair. A recap of a speech delivered by the colorful and influential Senator from Missouri, Thomas Benton, against the annexation of Texas. The added.....
Graz. 1892. xi,186pp. Portrait fronispiece plus plates. Original blue pictorial cloth. Very good. Second edition, after the first of 1876. Account of the 1862 uprising of the Sioux and ensuing massacre of the German settlers.
St. Petersburg. 1823. [3],iv,126pp. plus folding table and map. Half title. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, bound in antique style, spine gilt, leather label. Small closed tear to map from lower gutter margin, neatly repaired. Light dust soiling and occasional faint foxing. A near fine copy. Untrimmed. The extremely.....
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Paris: A l'Imprimerie Expeditive, 1803. xx,318,[6],[4, errata]pp. plus two colored folding maps. Half title. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, leather label, marbled endpapers. Minor shelf wear to the binding. Later bookplate on front pastedown, small hole and repaired tear to half title, minor foxing, a few leaves toned. A mostly.....
New York. [ 1961]. xiv,432pp. plus plates. Large octavo. Cloth. Near fine in somewhat worn dust jacket. "...Celebrating the trapper-traders, the mountain men of legend, during the peak years of the American fur trade." Includes Jim Bridger, James P. Beckwourth, Jedediah Smith, Nathaniel Wyeth, Captain Bonneville, and many more.
New York. 1928. Three volumes in all. Facsimiles. Tall quarto. Original gilt cloth, t.e.g. [with:] AMERICANA COLLECTION OF HERSCHEL V. JONES A CHECK-LIST [1473 - 1926] COMPILED BY WILBERFORCE EAMES. New York. 1938. xii,220pp. Original gilt cloth, t.e.g. Bookplate on front pastedown of third volume. Bright, very good set. First.....
Dayton. 1879. 178pp. Original gilt cloth. Wear to spine extremities, inner front hinge cracked, else very good. Inscribed by the author to Hon. George H. Pendleton. These are the author's reworked correspondences to his hometown paper, written during a jaunt of the Ohio Editorial Association in June, 1879. He and.....
Chico. [ 1914]. 91pp. with illustrations. Illus. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Contents browned as usual. A near fine copy of a fragile book. These sketches of the author's early life in the West and California, including his account of his 1839 overland journey as a prospective settler, were originally published in.....
