New York. 1923. 89pp. Illus. Printed wrappers. Fine. Printed from the original manuscript by The New York Public Library. The diary "reflects the incidents of travel, especially on the rivers, the political sentiments of the day, the great emigration to the new territory, life in Nebraska, and...the financial panic of.....
Lincoln. 1921. 302pp. Frontis. Original gilt pictorial cloth, gilt- stamped spine, t.e.g. Bookplate on front pastedown. Small closed tear in upper margin of one plate, far from the image. Fine, with especially bright gilt pictorial binding. John Bratt was one of the first ranchers in Nebraska. An Englishman, Bratt came.....
[N.p., but Chicago? 1882?]. 24pp. Narrow octavo. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Light soiling and wear, vertical crease to center of pamphlet. Minor internal soiling. Just about very good. Promotional pamphlet for the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad Company, advertising lands for sale in Nebraska. The cover claims, "No state offers.....
St. Louis: B. Herder, 1884. 103pp. Color frontis. 16mo. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards. Boards worn around edges. Internally quite clean. Very good. A catechism entirely in the Chippewa dialect of the Algonquin language. The format is in a question-and-answer style. "Father Gafron writes me that he was prevented.....
St. Paul, Ne. [ 1902]. 160pp. Original red cloth. Spine slightly darkend, worn at fore-edge and toe of spine, hinges cracked. Good. An extremely prejudiced anti-Mormon item. Published in association with PRESENT TRUTH, a conservative Christian magazine, Crowe's diatribe against Mormonism begins with an attack on Joseph Smith's parents (indolent.....
London: Beadle and Company, 1865. 3-128pp. 12mo. Dbd. Internally clean. Very good. Later London edition, after the first of New York. Graff does not cite a year of publication for the New York or present editions, however it is noted that the original publisher, Sinclair Tousey, founded his firm in.....
Philadelphia: McCalla & Stavely, 1869. xviii,87pp. Original pictorial wrappers, rebacked. Front wrapper and first four signatures detached. Moderate chipping along edges, spine a bit worn, tape repair on left edge of front wrapper, minor browning at edges. Overall good. "The day-by-day journal of one of the more noted of the.....
Louisville, Ky. Chas. A. Rogers, 1884. 218,[1]pp. 12mo. Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, spine gilt. Cloth lightly rubbed and edgeworn. Very clean internally. Very good. A lively journal of an extended stay in the upper Plains and Rocky Mountain region. In journal fashion Jenkins relates his experiences.....
[Nebraska]: Orleans Sentinel Steam Print, 1887. 380pp. Numerous mispaginations. Modern half leather and marbled boards, old ex.-lib. stamp on endpaper, else very good. A presentation copy with inscription reading: "Compliments of S. V. Cole Adjutant General." A record of the veterans of the Civil War, War of 1812, and the.....
St. John, New Brunswick: Printed for the Publisher by H. Chubb & Co. 65 Prince William Street, 1870. [ii],138,[vi, ads and indexes] pp. plus folding map. First twenty-six pages of text and ads printed on multi-colored stock. 12mo. Original printed salmon wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled and edgeworn, a few small.....
Urbana, Il. 1988. xiv,[2],632pp. including map. Quarto. Cloth, gilt title on front board, spine gilt. Fine. Two thousand eighty-two entries describing manuscripts and books regarding overland travel in the American West in the 19th century. The entries are arranged chronologically, and give the name of the emigrant, the route followed.....
[Various places]. 1937-1942. Twenty-three volumes. Folio. Uniformly bound in green buckram, spines lettered in gilt; some with original wrappers bound in. Very good. A collection of the useful state imprint bibliographies, spearheaded by Douglas McMurtrie and published by the WPA Historical Records Survey Program. States covered include Tennessee, Ohio, Nevada.....
Maywood, Ne. Boyd Perkin, [ca. 1930]. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Fine. Reprinted largely after the 1894 and 1911 editions, though here Perkin has taken the liberty to insert numerous poems of his own composition throughout the EARLY HISTORY.... Still, an interesting history of the early Nebraskan frontier.
New York. 1844. 207pp. Original printed wrappers. Moderate chipping at edges, trace of foxing, else very good. First American edition. Although a fictionalized romance, the scenes and episodes of this novel are based on the author's experiences in the West in 1835, a trip which resulted in his TRAVELS IN.....
London: Richard Bentley, 1844. Three volumes. Later three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Some edge wear. Internally fine. Although a fictionalized romance, the scenes and episodes of this novel are based on the author's experiences in the West in 1835, a trip which resulted in his TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA. A......
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1889. Three volumes. 352; 356; 388pp., plus maps. Red publisher's cloth, gilt and blind stamped. Spine darkened, boards slightly dust soiled. Corners bumped, spine ends slightly frayed. Front hinge of volume one starting. Internally clean. Very good overall. Descriptive account of Canada by Scottish geographer Hugh.....
Omaha. 1865. 258pp. Dbd. Soiled and dampstained. Good. The penultimate meeting of the territorial assembly before Nebraska gained statehood in 1867. Records much important government bills and debates, with charts on state expenses and resources, and a county-by- county analysis of taxes. Indexed.
Omaha. 1893. 24pp. Original printed wrappers. Very good. Promotional pamphlet on Nebraska issued for the Nebraska Columbian Exhibit. The state that forced "the Great American Desert [to] become only a name and a tradition." Focuses on agricultural riches and industrial potential of Nebraska.
[Brownville, Ne. Brownville Historical Society, 1959]. 56pp. including numerous illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Fine. A local publication, offering various historical vignettes of this Missouri river town. Scarce. OCLC locates only fifteen copies.
New York. 1914. 32pp. Narrow quarto. Stiff plain wrappers. Light offsetting to p.[1], closed tear (repaired) in last leaf, else near fine. Reprinted from the Moravian Church Miscellaney of 1851-52. Detailed journalistic account of the trip to and visit with the Pawnees by these two missionaries, with descriptions of the.....
Salem. Oct. 15, 1884. [4]pp. Quarto. Folded, slight chipping at edge, a few spots, else very good. Contains a letter describing a railroad trip from Omaha to Kansas City and on to St. Louis, with observations along the way. Apparently part of a series by the same author describing an.....
Baltimore. 1914. 152,[1]pp. Portrait. Illus. Folio. Gilt cloth. Cloth spotted, some edge wear. Very good. Includes an account of Emilie Painter Jackson's three-year sojourn among the Omaha Indians and a chapter on Orrin Painter's visit to the Omaha Indian Agency in Nebraska. Emilie was the wife of artist and photographer.....
Boston: John P. Jewett, 1857. 189pp. plus handcolored folding map. Original brown publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Head and foot of spine chipped, corners bumped and worn. Presentation inscription from the author on front fly leaf. Text faintly dampstained at edges. Nearly very good, the map very good.....
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Fort Randall, Nebraska Territory. 1859. Watercolor, pen, and ink on a sheet of very lightly-ruled paper, 12¼ x 14¼ inches. Captioned in ink in upper margin, dated in lower margin. Several small chips in outer margin, not affecting image. Central vertical fold. Several closed tears, expertly mended on verso. The.....
Omaha. [ 1898]. Broadside, approximately 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches. Previously folded, some separations along old fold lines. Tanned, corners slightly chipped. Good. A curious survival from the 1898 Trans- Mississippi Exposition held in Omaha, promoting the sale of Mongolian jade carvings at a booth in the International Hall.....
