[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 Oblong quarto. Original black cloth. Minor edge wear and.....
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1905. Four volumes. xvi,402; 794; 1211pp., continuously paginated, plus frontispiece in each volume and twelve plates. Lacking folding map in final volume. Large octavos. Half title in first two volumes. Original green cloth, spines gilt. Light shelf wear, front board of first volume nearly detached.....
Paris: Hôtel de Thou, 1785. Four volumes. [8],cxxxij,437,[3]; [4],422; [4],488; [4],552pp., plus eighty-eight engraved plates and maps, mostly folding, and folding vocabulary table in fourth volume. Half title in each volume. Quarto. Contemporary mottled Spanish calf, spines gilt with raised bands, leather labels. Boards scuffed, light shelf wear, spine ends.....
Paris: Hôtel de Thou, 1785. Eight volumes. [4],cxcvj,376,[6]; [4],344; [4],357; [4],340; [4],371; [4],439; [4],468; [4],304,108pp., plus folding vocabulary table in volume eight. Half title in each volume. Contemporary mottled calf, spines richly gilt with raised bands, edges of boards tooled in gilt. Light shelf wear and rubbing. Light tanning, an.....
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 Captain James Cook's third and final voyage, on which he was.....
![Item #WRCAM52863 [WANTED POSTER FOR A PRISONER ESCAPED IN PEABODY, KANSAS ON OCTOBER 17th, 1925]....](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM52863.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1593711855)
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.....
[Seattle: W.H. Pumphrey & Co., 1892]. Handcolored lithographic two-sheet folding map, matted to 30½ x 50½ inches. Original folds. Small abrasion to copyright notice at bottom left, obscuring the date. Very good. Attractively matted and framed, with the original cloth binding in a pocket on the back of the frame.....
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."
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. Ownership signature on front pastedown. Very 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 on.....
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.....
Honolulu: Printed for the proprietor [Peter A. Brinsmade], 1838-1839. Two volumes. [8],112,104,[217]-440pp. including printed music, plus two folding maps and large folding table; viii,494pp., plus one plate. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Light shelf wear. Scattered foxing, more prevalent in first volume. Very good. A complete run.....
[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: Government Printing Office, 1861. 131,14,[2],154,30,[2],6,[2],31,[1]pp. plus two large folding topographical maps, one profile, eight color plates, eight folding panorama views, sixteen black and white plates (frontispiece plate of Chimney Rock lacking, replaced by a duplicate plate of Robinson's Landing), three explanatory leaves accompanying plates, and numerous in-text illustrations. Large.....
![Item #WRCAM57824 RENSHUU KANTAI HOKUBEI JUNKOUKI [printed in Japanese]. [RECORD OF THE TRAINING...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM57824.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1666629105)
[Yokohama: Yokohama Boueki Kyoukai, 1932]. [6],4,5,115,[3]pp., including in-text photographic illustrations. Printed entirely in Japanese. Original textured paper boards, front board and spine lettered in gilt. Boards slightly bowed, minor loss along upper and lower portion of spine, light shelf wear. Tiny wormholes to blank lower margin of first few pages.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868. 39pp. plus color folding map, 23 1/4 x 44 3/4 inches. Original printed wrappers. Presentation inscription on front wrapper (see below). Wrapper edges chipped, minor soiling and tanning to wrappers, spine partially chipped, old vertical fold to pamphlet. Light foxing and tanning and occasional soiling.....
[ 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.....
Seattle: The Lumbermen's Printing Co., 1907. 291,[1]pp. Profusely illustrated with photographic portraits. Original maroon cloth, front board gilt. Minor edge wear, some rubbing to boards. Later bookplate of Seattle collector Ben A. Maslan on front pastedown, early ownership signature on verso of frontispiece. Occasional light thumb-soiling to outer margin. Very.....
[N.p., likely Bellevue, Wa. Late 1800s]. Printed broadside, 10 x 4 inches. Old folds, moderate uneven toning, left edge a bit worn and chipped. Very good. A curious broadside handbill advertising several performances at Butcher's Hall in Bellevue, the most interesting of which is the "Last Grand Performance of the.....
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.
