[San Francisco]: Printed by Wm. C. Brown, 1889. [6],54,[11]pp. including one chromolithographic advertisement, plus three colored folding maps and four photographic plates of ships. Original brown cloth, gilt title on front board within gilt border. Minor wear and soiling, corners lightly bumped and worn, front hinge a bit weak. Small...
[Cascades. ca. 1910s]. [32]pp. containing seventy-one gelatin silver prints, most 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 to 3 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches, with nine larger images about 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, most mounted, some tipped-in, some cornered. One titled "On the Queets Trail," one signed "G.P. Fera" in...
New York. 1905. Four volumes. Seventeen illustrations, portraits, and maps. Original green cloth. Slight wear at spine ends. Inner front hinge of first and third volumes separating. Small old institutional stamp on each titlepage and front pastedown. Withal, just about very good. A major scholarly work, including a narrative of...
Dublin. 1784. Three volumes. [8],xcviii,421; [14],549; [11],559pp., plus frontispiece portrait, eighteen folding maps and charts, seven folding plates, and folding table. Contemporary calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Extremities lightly worn, slight wear to spine ends and hinges, volume one expertly rebacked, with original spine laid down. Minor occasional foxing. A....
Philadelphia: W. Woodward, for B. Johnson, 1796. 252pp. 12mo. Modern pink paper boards, printed paper label. Light dampstaining and soiling to text, heavier in some places. Good plus. "Faithfully abridged from the quarto edition." An abridged children's version of Capt. James Cook's third and final voyage, on which he was...
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Seattle. 1925. Small broadside, 10 1/2 x 7 inches. Previously folded. A few chips and small tears where previously adhered. Contemporary ink stamp. Good plus. Wanted poster offering a fifty dollar reward for a prisoner, M.W. Woods, who escaped from the custody of U.S. Marshals near Seattle in 1925. Woods...
New York. [ 1941.]. 127pp. Printed wrappers, as issued. Very good. One of the most notable bookseller catalogues ever issued in Americana, this was catalogue 119 of the firm. It covered Pacific Northwest Coast voyages by Russians, English, French, Spanish, and American expeditions, with a special section on the Wilkes...
Walla Walla. 1902. 122,[1]pp. Printed wrappers. Overall very good. Attacks a Yale professor's debunking of the so-called "Marcus Whitman legend."
Cincinnati. 1865. 264pp. plus 24pp. of advertisements. Publisher's cloth, spine gilt, neatly rebacked, with original spine laid down, corners renewed. 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown, moderate foxing, as usual. Very good. A scarce account of an expedition to the Northwest beginning at Council Bluffs, via the North Platte to Fort...
Oregon or Washington. [Based on sketches made ca. 1850-1855, but painted somewhat later]. Pastel on card, 19 1/2 x 39 inches. Signed lower left: "Gibbs." Framed and glazed in a period hardwood frame and gold gilt liner. The painting, with lovely, bright colors, is in excellent displayable condition. This beautiful...
Portland, Or. Oregon Historical Society, 1950. 173pp. Folding chart. Cloth. Cloth sunned, else very good. An account of the shipwrecks along the Columbia River, covering the period between the early 19th to the early 20th centuries.
London. 1821. [4],377pp. plus leaf of errata and [6]pp. of book advertisements. Contemporary boards, paper label. Front hinge cracked and rather tender. Some chipping at spine. Old circulating library chart adhered to front pastedown. Internally clean and nice. Good. The author, a chaplain-general in the British Army, was sent with...
London. 1826. [4],377pp., plus one leaf of errata. Original paper boards, paper label, neatly rebacked. Bookplate on front pastedown, ownership signature on titlepage. Light scattered foxing. Untrimmed, very good. Second edition. The author, a chaplain-general in the British Army, was sent, with his regiment, from France to America to fight...
San Francisco. 1874. xi,[1],511pp. plus plates and folding table. Frontis. Original gilt cloth. Worn at spine ends and along edges. Conents shaken, else good. The extensive military experiences of an army surgeon in the Northwest, including coverage of Indian uprisings in 1855-58. Glisan served in Oklahoma and west Texas in...
Washington. March 22, 1886. [1]p. plus original envelope. Quarto. Old fold lines. Slight separation at some folds. Faint offsetting. Very good plus. Senator Benjamin Harrison writes to William H. Clagart of Murray, Idaho regarding the annexation of the panhandle of Idaho into Washington Territory. Harrison was chairman of the U.S....
[Olympia, Wa.]. 1902. 13 leaves, each printed on one side only. Portrait. Oblong octavo. Original printed wrappers. Fine. Music and words for a prospecting song: "I'd wandered all over the country prospecting and digging for gold...." Illustrated with quaint drawings of a prospector by Major W.H. Bell.
Washington. 1943. xxiii,618pp. plus three folding maps. Original black cloth, gilt. Corners slightly bumped. Neat ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Near fine. Illustrated government report on the need for and means of relocating Japanese citizens during World War II. Includes several leaves of photographs showing happy internees going about...
[ San Francisco. 1938]. [2],76pp. Original blue cloth. Very good. From an edition limited to 200 numbered copies. A scarce, privately printed account of a sailing voyage between San Francisco and Hilo, Hawaii, with a description of Seattle as well. Johnson was born in Sweden, served as a regular seaman...
Eugene, Or. 1897. 28pp. Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Slightly chipped, else very good. Kip, a participant in the 1850s campaign against the northwestern Indian tribes, wrote this important report, which was first published in an edition of twenty-five copies in 1855.
Olympia, Wa. 1891. 68pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine chipped, else very good. Reviews the condition and needs of the state, and asks the legislature to put forth its best effort in making laws for the newly organized state of Washington.
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Olympia. April 1 & 15, 1865. 4; 4pp. Large folio. Folded with some loss at folds. Chipping and small tears at edges, light soiling and wear. Good. Washington state newspaper issue reporting on the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The interior two pages are both column-edged in black, the lead...
[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...
[Washington. 1867]. 39pp. plus large color folding map. Modern maroon cloth, gilt maroon morocco label. Minor dust soiling in text. Map bright and clean. Overall very good. An application to Congress by the Northern Pacific Railroad, headed by Minnesota railroad magnate James J. Hill, for federal aid to support the...
New York. 1865. 153pp. Original black blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Spine ends chipped, corners of boards worn. Faint tideline, else rather clean internally. Lacks the map. The narrative includes a day-by-day itinerary during a journey of forty-seven days from Walla Walla to Fort Benton, with a general description of the...
London. 1846. 226pp. plus folding map. Frontis. Dbd. Very good. Staunch advocacy of the British side of the dispute, urging that the northern boundary of California be accepted as the natural line between the two countries. Nicolay also describes the early settlement of the Pacific Northwest and the development of...
