Washington. 1848. 132pp. plus twenty-four lithographed plates and folding map. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light foxing. Closed tear in left margin of map (just intruding into image) neatly repaired on verso. Very good. One of the great southwestern government- sponsored explorations, here in its earliest form.....
[New York]. 1855. 80pp. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt leather label. Minor shelf wear. Scattered soiling. Very good. Very scarce work regarding unresolved financial issues as a result of the Mexican- American War. After the war Arrangoiz was commissioned by Santa Anna to act as a "special agent," filling orders and.....
Bellefontaine, Oh. Hubbard & Brother, 1858. 176pp. Original blindstamped cloth. Some scattered foxing, else very good. "Private Edition Published by the Author." A galloping epic in seven cantos, much of it relating to events on the border, fights with the Apaches, and similar stuff. Two of the cantos relate to.....
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Tarentum, [Pa.]. January 5, 1848. [3]pp. written on folded folio sheet, addressed on verso. Small burn hole in lower left corner not affecting text. Very good. Brackenridge is best known for his first book, VIEWS OF LOUISIANA... (Pittsburgh, 1814). Richard Coxe, to whom he addresses this letter, was a distinguished.....
New York: J. Disturnell, 1847. Folding map, 29 1/2 x 24 inches. In a 12mo. contemporary cloth folder, gilt- stamped front board. Boards with minor soiling. Ownership inscription at verso left margin and on rear pastedown. Several separations along folds, some discoloration where tipped into covers. Printed color bright and.....
New York. 1848. xii,322pp. Original cloth. Front board lacking, rear hinge broken, spine chipped, scattered foxing, bottom of titlepage clipped, number stamp. Fair only. "A series of quotations, with no references to their sources. Treats Texas annexation as the cause of war. Scores of side effects are examined. Appendices contain.....
New York. 1882. 94pp. Portraits. Original gilt cloth. Extremities rubbed, neat bookplate, inner front hinge starting. Good. The later appendix (dated August 1, 1883) which is found in many copies, including the Graff copy, is not present here, indicating this copy is of the earliest issue. A list of survivors.....
New York. 1850. 456pp. plus plates, folding facsimile, and map. Portrait. Original cloth, rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Bookplate removed. Light dampstaining affecting several leaves at upper fore-edge corner. Else good. First edition of this popular and often reprinted narrative, which Howes calls both "interesting and valuable." Colton arrived.....
Topeka. 1907. xvi,670pp. including illustrations, plus maps (one folding). Portrait. Gilt cloth, pictorial onlay. Very good. "Valuable and well-documented sourcebook..." - Tutorow. Contains official rosters of various units of the Army of the West, and several appendices.
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1847. 264pp. including four plans. Frontispiece portrait. Engraved title. 12mo. Original blue blindstamped cloth, rebacked in later blue cloth, retaining original title label and publisher's information on spine. Cloth faded, worn at corners; rear hinge almost broken. Clean internally. Good overall. One of the principal sources.....
Cincinnati: Devol & Haines, 1887. 300pp. plus five plates including frontispiece portrait. Original gilt pictorial blue cloth, spine gilt. Spine slightly faded, spine ends and corners a bit worn, hinges slightly loose but still holding firmly. Light, even tanning. Very good. The true first edition of this classic memoir of.....
Wilmington: Ferris Bros., Printers and Binders, 1885. [6],444pp. Original three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Front hinge expertly repaired, else a near fine copy. "These extracts from DuPont's journal and letters, privately printed for his family by his wife after his death, are a valuable and almost unknown account.....
Wilmington, De. 1883. [2],531pp. Original purple cloth, spine gilt. Cloth speckled, else near fine. Both this work and DuPont's EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE JOURNAL-LETTERS... were issued in privately printed editions of only fifty copies for private distribution, and are exceedingly rare. Eberstadt states that the present volume is even rarer than.....
[Cape Cod, and other various locations. Primarily 1818-1860]. About 170 individual items, mainly a ledger, a letter book, a log book, manuscript letters, original photographs, and a portable writing desk, with some miscellaneous family papers. Various levels of wear to bound volumes, intermittent dampstaining to letters, front cover of portable.....
Philadelphia. 1847. 184pp. plus folding map. Half title. Modern cloth, gilt leather label. Bookplate on front pastedown. A few scattered stains; older library ink stamp on titlepage and several text leaves. Still, a good, solid copy. The first edition of the work which Wagner considered one of the most interesting.....
Detroit. 1899. [4],202pp. plus frontispiece portrait and three plates. Half morocco and pictorial boards. Boards lightly worn and faded, some scuffing, corners worn. Internally clean. About very good. Autobiography of a career soldier, spanning the 19th century. "The Florida, the Mexican War and the Great Rebellion, together with sketches of.....
St. Louis. 1883. 336pp. Original publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Front inner hinge cracked but holding. Extremities worn. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. A few leaves with minor chips at edge. About good. "Elliott was an Indian agent at Council Bluffs in the thirties and went on Doniphan's.....
New York: Published by H. Long & Brother, 1848. [6],230pp. plus thirty-nine (of forty) plates, large folding map and three plans. Lacks (and probably never had) "Head of the Mountain Goat Female" plate. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Slightest fraying at extremities, scattered foxing. Large map (in rear pocket) with.....
Washington. 1848. 416pp. plus 42 plates and large folding map (laid in). Modern green buckram, gilt leather label. Light foxing and soiling. About very good. One of several issues of the Senate version (with Emory's rank given as lieutenant colonel), of one of the most important government reports on overland.....
Washington. 1848. 416pp. plus forty plates (fourteen of botanical specimens), three plans, and large folding map. Original brown cloth, paper label. Worn at spine ends, label rubbed, corners slightly bumped. Upper outer corner of front free endpaper torn. A few fox marks, but on the whole a very clean copy.....
New York. [1846]. 80pp. plus folding colored map and plate. Lacks the "Map of Central Mexico." Engraved titlepage vignette. Original printed wrappers, bound into modern half cloth and paper boards, paper label. Wrappers soiled. Contemporary ownership signature on front wrapper. Scattered foxing. Good plus. The expanded edition of Farnham's work.....
[Washington]. 1848. 7pp. Dbd. First leaf removed, stab holes in gutter. Tanned at extremities. A good reading copy. In his speech Foote criticizes a New Hampshire senator for voting against the Resolution of Thanks to Gen. Taylor for Taylor's service to the nation in the Mexican- American War. Foote argues.....
Mexico City. July 20, 1854. [8]pp., text in Spanish and English in double columns. Folio. Trimmed at bottom edge, not affecting text. A bit of light foxing. Very good. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. The first Mexican printing of the Gadsden Purchase agreement.....
Puebla, Mexico. August 16, 1854. Letterpress broadside, 24 1/2 x 17 1/4 inches, printed in parallel Spanish and English. Minor chipping with loss of all or part of about a dozen words along central fold lines, with expert repairs to verso. Minor chipping in left margin. Withal, a very good.....
[Washington: National Intelligencer, 1848]. 8pp., on a folded sheet, unopened and untrimmed. Small hole in margin of final leaf, not affecting text. Bright and clean. Very good plus. An article, written by the publisher of the Daily National Intelligencer, quantifying the positive personality traits of presidential candidate Zachary Taylor.
