![Item #WRCAM30008 THE ALASKA HOMESTAKE GOLD MINING CO. [cover title]. Alaska Mining](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM30008.jpg?v=1593711462)
[Seattle. Alaska Homestake Gold Mining Co., 1936]. 8pp. plus folding map. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Both wrappers detached. Internally clean. Very good. Prospectus of this well-financed Alaskan mining company with numerous statistics regarding cost of operation and potential yield. The map, perfectly traced from the original, illustrates the Bluff Quartz.....
Juneau. March 14, 1903. 4pp. Folio. Chipped and browned at edges. Two leaves separated at fold. Good. Daily Alaskan newspaper, containing news of William Sulzer's speech in support of the territory, an idyllic word-portrait of prospecting, and numerous advertisements. Sulzer, a Democratic Congressman from New York, argues that Alaska deserves.....
[Whitehorse, Skagway, and vicinity. ca. 1950s]. 112 photographs mounted in two U.S. Army portfolios. Photos uniformly 3 x 5 inches, each captioned in manuscript. Original pebbled cloth, boards stamped in gilt. Spines chipped, extremities rubbed. Images crisp and clean. Very good. An interesting pair of photograph albums documenting the daily.....
[Various locations in Oregon and Alaska. ca. 1922-1930]. Approximately 325 photographs, twenty postcards and real photo postcards, a linen- backed map of Alaska, and a few assorted ephemeral items, all housed in a contemporary leather satchel. Generally minor wear, some chipping to about twenty photographs. Overall very good. A treasure.....
Washington. 1904. Titlepage plus thirty-seven maps. Folio. Original cloth, gilt title on front cover. Very good. This atlas contains maps detailing the British case in the arbitration with the United States over the Alaskan boundary. Many of the maps are earlier historically important works by Vancouver, Bouchette, Arrowsmith, Langsdorff, etc......
Sitka, Ak. The Alaskan Publishing Company, March 6, 1886. [4]pp. Folio newspaper. Tanned, some chipping and small closed tears to margins. Split entirely along a horizontal fold, repaired with tape. Good. A rare issue of this very early Alaskan newspaper, with considerable content related to Alaskan district government and political.....
Rampart, Ak. Sept. 1, 1901. 4pp., on a single folded sheet. Each page printed in four columns. Folio. Misfolded, and neatly split along the center vertical fold, with resulting large margin in first leaf. Tiny closed edge tear, old tideline in upper margin of first leaf, evenly toned. About very.....
San Francisco. 1875. 43pp. Original front wrapper bound into later half morocco. Very good. A propagandistic appeal by the unsuccessful bidders for a fur seal contract, for the repeal of the so-called monopoly of the Alaska Commercial Company. Claims to present only the "facts" and calls on the people and.....
San Francisco. 1890. 63pp. Illus. Tables. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor chipping and a couple of tiny repaired tears to wrappers. Very good. Scarce early promotional from the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, after the first of 1887, discussing topography, industry, agriculture, with diagrams of steamships available for passage, namely deck plans.....
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.....
[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.....
Boston & London: Ginn & Company, 1901. xxv,384pp. Quarto. Original green cloth, spine label lacking. Bookplate of John Lawson on front pastedown. Cloth lightly worn and lightly discolored on front cover. Internally near fine. Very good. The foundational Inuit grammar, by the Jesuit scholar and missionary, Father Francis Barnum (1849-1921).....
London. 1781. iv,viii,557,[1]pp. plus pp.*471-*477, plus two maps (one folding), five folding tables, and two plates. Quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Good. A strange ensemble, but the two articles in the collection of the greatest interest are "The Possibility of approaching the North Pole.....
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.....
St. Petersburg. 1823. [3],iv,126pp. plus folding table and map. Half title. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Small closed tear in map from lower gutter margin, neatly repaired. Light dust soiling and occasional faint foxing. A near fine copy. Untrimmed. The extremely rare and significant first.....
[San Francisco and Sonoma County, Ca.]: 1897. [276]pp. comprised of [52] printed pages with the remainder being diary space completed in manuscript, irregularly filled out. Narrow 12mo. Limp brown wallet-style leather diary with flap and elastic closure loop, a.e.g. Some wear and loss to leather at flap folds, text block.....
![Item #WRCAM55131 [PHOTOGRAPHIC SAMPLE BOOK OF THE KING BOAT COMPANY]. California](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM55131.jpg?v=1593711985)
[Oakland. 1927]. Twenty-eight silver gelatin photographs, each approximately 4 x 6 1/2 inches. Each photograph backed with canvas and with a detailed typed caption on verso. Oblong octavo. Ring-bound flexible leather boards. Upper 1 1/2-inch portion of spine and front cover chipped away. Covers rubbed, crude repairs to spine, toning.....
Edinburgh. 1816. 288pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Original blue paper-covered boards, rebacked in linen, original label laid down. Moderate wear to corners, light soiling and ink drops on boards. Internally clean. Very good. Untrimmed. In a brown cloth clamshell case, spine gilt. The scarce first edition of this valuable account.....
London. 1843-1877. 136 leaves. Illus. A few leaves foxed. Overall very good. Laid into a cloth clamshell case, leather label, with an original cloth cover of the periodical pasted on the front cover. An interesting collection of individual leaves extracted from THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, all pertaining to Canada, Alaska.....
Juneau; White Pass. [ca. 1907]. Two photographs, each approximately 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Slight wear at edges. Captioned in negative. Very good. Two attractive original photographs by noted Skagway photography firm Case & Draper. William Case and Horace Draper followed the excitement of the Klondike Gold Rush and.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1936. xvi,620pp. including tables, illustrations and maps. Original printed wrappers, expertly repaired at hinges, manuscript title on spine. Spine creased but sturdy. A very good copy. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front wrapper by W.R. Chapline, Chief of the Division of Range Research, and with.....
Leipzig. 1874. Two volumes. Original publisher's cloth, spines gilt. Front hinges a bit loose, corners bumped, light wear to cloth. Contemporary bookseller's labels and photographic bookplate on pastedowns, contemporary gilt inscription on front free endpaper of volume one. Some tanning, heavier at edges. About very good. A collection of works.....
Birmingham: Moody Bros. [ca. 1898]. Chromolithographic poster, 20 x 30 inches. Minor soiling and wear, a few small closed tears in the margin. Flyer for local theatre pasted to right side of sheet (in image). Very good. A rare poster for the popular stage play, THE KLONDYKE NUGGET, written and.....
