[N.p. 1914]. [2],151pp. Publisher's tan cloth, gilt title to front cover. Moderate dust-soiling to covers, minor bump to fore-edge. Internally clean. Very good. Scarce report on this Indian reservation located in northeast Wisconsin, by the noted collecter of Indian captivity narratives.
New York. 1868. 45pp. Original printed wrappers. Chipped and torn along spine, else very good. A day-by-day account of Brainerd's trip from New York across the Mississippi by steamer and train, including descriptions of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, and Illinois, with much on the cities he stayed in and the sites.....
[Racine, Wi. N.d., 1880?]. Broadside, approximately 6 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches, with engraving of the Fish Bros. Wagon. Slight curling in upper margin, minor adhesive remnants to verso, else very good. An attractive broadside promoting the Fish Bros. Wagon, described as "Second to no other Wagon in Existence." Chas.....
London: Printed for the Author, by William Richardson, 1779. [24],xvi,17-543,[1]pp. (complete as issued), plus five plates and two folding maps. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, gilt leather labels. Text a bit tanned with minor foxing in places, a few later pencil marks in the margins.....
Milwaukee. 1862. Folding color map, 28 x 21 inches. 16mo. Original printed boards. Rubbed. Map with four-inch rough tear along one fold. Overall color bright and clean. Good. Covers Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and parts of associated states. An unusual wartime and local issue. "Rare, he made few regional.....
Milwaukee. 1856. 36 x 33 1/2 inches, with full period hand-color. Folded into original 16mo. cloth boards, stamped in blind and gilt. Cloth a touch faded. Near fine. A large, attractive map of Wisconsin, showing all the surveyed counties and many towns, and extending northward to include the unsurveyed areas.....
Janesville, [Wi.]: July 4, 1862. Broadside, 8 1/2 x 6 inches. Light wear and foxing. Very good. An unrecorded Civil War broadside publicizing a dispatch from Union Gen. George B. McClellan following The Seven Days' Battles, which occurred between June 26 and July 2, 1862. In the course of that.....
Madison, Wi. Beriah Brown, Printer, 1850. Two issues (of three). 60; 116pp. Issue 1: Original printed wrappers. Chipping along spine. Soft vertical crease from folding. A few small stains on front wrapper, not affecting text. Overall very good, untrimmed and partially unopened. Issue 2: Original printed wrappers. Minor chipping along.....
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1859. 432pp. Original green patterned cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Front hinge cracked. Slight foxing. Overall very good. From the library of Guy Littell, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Second issue, probably the same sheets as the first of 1857, with a cancel title and Cooke's.....
Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait, 1849. 21 1/2 x 29 inches, folded into 12mo. contemporary cloth folder, gilt-lettered cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Two minor tears in from left edge along folds, one three-inch tear also in from left edge; additional small separations at intersections. Occasional faint soiling. Printed color bright and clean.....
[Duluth, Mn.]: 1899. [80],[32]pp. including illustrations. Original printed wrappers, backed with blue cloth. Wrappers heavily chipped. Occasional contemporary pencil annotations and ink stamp addition of an additional telephone line. Some leaves with marginal tears, but quite clean internally. Good plus. A pair of rare and early telephone directories for Duluth.....
Chicago. 1881. 82pp. plus [13]pp. of advertisements. Illus. Original stiff printed wrappers bound into modern half cloth and boards. Ex-lib. with 2 rubberstamps on verso of titlepage.
London. [ 1890s]. [4],211,[1]pp. Original pictorial cloth. Head and toe of spine a trifle frayed, private library bookplate. Else very good. A scarce travel narrative, mostly concerning India and the Near East, but also the American West (pp.152-79). The author travelled from New York to Chicago and thence to Wisconsin.....
Madison, Wi. 1931. xix,212pp. plus illus. Portrait. Cloth. Fine. Fairchild went to California in 1849 at the opening of the gold rush, and remained there for six years. A native of Wisconsin, he later became a notable figure in the Civil War.
[Washington. 1854]. Thirty-seven (of forty-four) maps, plans, and views. Contemporary calf, red and black gilt morocco labels. Internally clean. Very good. An exhaustive collection of congressional documents, including many maps from President Pierce's message to Congress. The documents range in subject matter from survey maps of Arkansas, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan.....
[Washington. March 13, 1872]. Broadside, 26 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches. Old folds. Wear and separation at some folds; top left corner torn away, not affecting text. Minor soiling, but generally quite clean. About very good. Proclamation by President Ulysses S. Grant indicating the sale of public lands in Wisconsin.....
Milwaukee: Starr's Book and Job Printing Office. Juneau Block, 1855. 329,[2]pp. 16mo. Original cloth. Head of spine bit frayed, binding trifle sunned, else very good. A rare early work on Wisconsin which, according to Howes, was originally to be issued in parts in Chicago; but, after three parts had appeared.....
Madison, Wi. 1970. xv,[1],275pp. plus illustrations. Cloth, spine gilt. Near fine. In dust jacket. A scholarly examination of the various primary and secondary records regarding the activities of the pioneering French Jesuit missionary, explorer, and trader.
London: Richard Bentley, 1835. Two volumes. [12],336; [8]340pp. Original paper boards, printed spine labels. Hinges and spines cracked, spine extremities and labels chipped, light edge and corner wear. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper of first volume. Light dust soiling at edges, with an occasional fox mark. Good, in.....
Alma, Wi. 1888. xvi,656pp. plus double-sheet map. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth. Extremities a bit rubbed, front hinge starting but still intact. Frontispiece and title-leaf lightly dampstained. Good. A quite thorough treatment of this Wisconsin county, with a wealth of information on the early settlements, Indians, natural history, geology, and agricultural.....
[N.p., Oshkosh, Wi.? ca. 1905]. 20pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Slight sunning to edges, short split to front joint. Internally clean. Very good. Mostly unopened. A short but interesting biographical treatment of Oshkosh, the great chief of the Menominee Indians in Wisconsin. Oshkosh was Menominee chief from 1827 until his death.....
Milwaukee: W.W. Coleman, 1865. 24pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor soiling and wear. Internally clean. Very good. The Welsh edition of the annual message of the Governor of Wisconsin, delivered January 12, 1865. From an edition of 5,000 copies, according to the titlepage. Only three are located in OCLC - at.....
London: Colburn and Co., 1852. Two volumes, xv,228pp. plus 16pp. of advertisements; ix,292pp. plus 26pp. of advertisements. Original publisher's blindstamped cloth, neatly rebacked with original gilt spines laid down. Slight bumping to corners. Titlepage in each volume signed: "Donald S. MacKinnon." Very good. Unlike many of his countrymen, Capt. Lauchlan.....
Chicago: W.F. Hall Printing Company, 1915. xxv,[1],375pp. plus illustrations and folding map. Frontispiece portrait. Contemporary three quarter black faux morocco and green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Minor wear to extremities. Internally clean. Very good. Lacks the half title called for by Howes. A translation of Mazzuchelli's memoirs, first published in Milan.....
Seattle: Published & Printed by Frank McCaffrey, 1931. 220pp. plus two facsimiles tipped in. Folio. Original blindstamped cloth, gilt morocco label. Near fine. From an edition limited to 300 copies. Another indispensable work from the indefatigable McMurtrie, covering the first eighteen years of Wisconsin printing. Includes a section on newspapers.....
