New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. Two volumes. [4],[iii]-xxix,[25]-255; 240pp., as issued. 12mo. Original publisher's rust cloth stamped in blind and gilt, spine gilt. Moderate wear and rubbing, spine ends with shallow chips, spines sunned, corners worn. Faint, neat ownership stamp on both titlepages. Minor scattered foxing. About very good.....
Baltimore. November 18, 1843. [177]-192pp. Quarto. Folded sheets, untrimmed and partially unopened. Some foxing. Else very good. This issue contains a brief notice of Sir William Drummond Stewart's hunting party, which had gone to the Rocky Mountains that summer. The item is a single paragraph in the third column of.....
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1812. viii,172,175-488pp. (complete). Cloth and old plain boards, gilt leather label. Boards rubbed and edgeworn. Old library blindstamp on titlepage, scattered foxing. Good. Untrimmed. One of the classic early descriptions of upper and lower Louisiana, based on the author's service there in the previous decade as civil.....
Washington. 1825. 14pp. Modern cloth, gilt leather label. Ink stain on titlepage, two pencil annotations in margins. Moderate browning. A good copy. One of the first important documents on the Santa Fe trade and trail. Storrs took a wagon train from Missouri to New Mexico in 1824, and herein gives.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. cxxxvii,391pp. plus four leaves of plates, including two-page map. Frontis. Half title. Quarto. Original burgundy cloth, black morocco gilt label to spine, t.e.g. Some wear to boards, label chipped, binding starting to loosen but still strong. Internally quite clean. Very good. Lacks dustjacket. The.....
London. 1852. 424pp. Original cloth. Inner hinges cracking, chipped at top of spine, cloth edgeworn and a bit sunned. Internally clean. Good. "The course of his adventures led the author on a hunting trip in 1850 to the headwaters of the James River in the Dakotas, and among the Sioux.....
London. 1865. Twelve issues, with three plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Modern calf, gilt spine label. Spine extremities slightly worn, spine label chipped. Light foxing and tanning. Nearly very good. "Tallack travelled from San Francisco to San Diego, and then by stage through the Southwest to the western terminus of.....
Washington. 1862. 87pp. plus folding map. Stitched, as issued. Titlepage separating, two short closed tears from gutter margin. Moderate tanning. Good. An important report on Northwest trade. This work is comprised of a partial reprinting of Taylor's report on Northwest British America (St. Paul, 1860), but more importantly contains his.....
New York. 1864. Two volumes. 393; 379pp., plus twelve plates. Original cloth, with expert repairs to head and toe of each spine. Cloth bit sunned, bookplate, a few marginal pencil notes. Overall a very good set. Third edition, issued without a map, after the first of 1849. "Thornton was one.....
London. 1840. Two volumes. xii,310; xi,[1],312pp. Frontispiece in each volume. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt. Corners rubbed, light wear to front hinges. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Very good. First London edition, after the American edition of 1839 under a slightly different title.....
London: Hodson & Son, 1860. [2],iv,[2],[5]-242pp. plus two engraved plates; 237,[1]pp. plus one plate and one folding map. 16mo. Publisher's red cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, spine gilt. Light shelf wear, a.e.g. Front hinge tender, contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Very minor scattered foxing. Very good. Later edition.....
Jefferson, Ohio: Printed for the author, 1856. 302pp. plus errata. Portrait. Original patterned cloth, spine richly gilt. Slight sunning to spine, minor edge wear. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Light foxing and spotting, some staining to a few leaves, light tideline in upper corner of some leaves. Overall, very good.....
Boston. 1856. 356pp. Portrait. Original cloth. Spine sunned, plates tanned, some light scattered foxing. Good. The standard campaign biography.
Columbus. 1858. vi,[7]-640pp. including numerous full-page illustrations and plates. Frontis. Thick octavo. Original blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt, rebacked, with original spine laid down. Minor edge wear and rubbing. Contemporary ownership signature on front flyleaf, light scattered foxing. Very good. The scarce first edition of this useful western compendium. Contains much.....
Paris. 1827. 92pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern blue half morocco and boards, spine gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown. Several small tissue repairs to edges of wrappers. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Very good. Vissier issued this brief work when an Osage "prince" and four warriors visited Paris. He.....
San Francisco: Whitton, Towne & Co., 1857. 438pp. plus illustrations. Original publisher's cloth. Corners bumped, extremities rubbed. Lacking front fly leaf. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Minor foxing. Very good. These letters relate several journeys through Arizona and the Southwest, and include information about a potential railroad route, copper mining.....
[ Washington. 1834]. 94pp. Modern cloth, spine label removed. Contents tanned, pencil note. Good. Contains Wheelock's journal of the Dragoons' expedition, under Col. Dodge, to the Toyash village, their council with the Indians, and the rescue of Matthew Martin.
New York. 1865. 107pp. Original front wrapper bound into modern calf, spine gilt. Two faint library stamps and small manuscript notation on front wrapper recto, bookplate on wrapper verso. Very good. A discussion of most of the major mining areas in Colorado and the types of bullion being extracted from.....
Sacramento: The Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1973. 79pp. Frontis. Quarto. Cloth. Quite fine, untrimmed. Translated from the German by Louis C. Bustcher and edited with an introduction by John A. Hussey. The 1850-51 journal is handsomely presented with extensive notes and a partial Indian lexicon (of the Hok and Kosume.....
Santa Ana. 1936. 158pp. Half morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Nearly very good. Introduction by Henry Wagner. Edited by Bejamin F. Taylor. Reprint of the extremely rare 1847 original, this is a good account of a trip over the Santa Fe Trail, apparently in.....
Braun Schweig. 1850. 211pp. plus three folding maps. Library buckram, original printed wrappers bound in. Ex-lib. with neat bookplate and shelf number on spine, wrappers bit soiled. Else a fine, crisp copy, with maps in fine state. The first German edition, after the English of 1848. Wislizenus travelled to Chihuahua.....
