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.....

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".....

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 in the front.....

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. 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.....

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.

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.....

Glendale, Ca. The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1931-1943. Twelve volumes including index volume. Uniform red cloth, t.e.g. Cloth on some volumes slightly rubbed. Near fine. A complete set of this famous collection of southwestern travel accounts, including those of Webb, Bandel, Gibson, Johnston, Garrard, Cooke, and McCoy, as well as.....