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.....

Kansas City. 1904. 238pp. Illus. Pictorial wrappers. Bad paper, but good. Describes the lives and duties of different members of the train crew.

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.....

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.....

[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.....

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, on 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."

[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.

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.....

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.....

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.....

New York. March 2, 1872 [?]. Photograph 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches, mounted on a stiff card together with Bierstadt's autograph. Minor soiling. Very good plus. Photograph of renowned Western artist Albert Bierstadt, with his autograph, taken by Napoleon Sarony in New York during the height of the painters.....