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.....
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[Washington. 1823]. [55]-108pp. Modern blue pebbled cloth, gilt label. Light tanning and foxing. Very good. The document accompanies President Monroe's Message of 1823, which consists of letters and reports concerning attacks of the Arikara Indians on General Ashley's trading party, and of the Blackfoot Indians on the Missouri Fur Company's.....
Chicago: Chas. Scott & Co., 1857. 147pp. Publisher's olive green blindstamped cloth, spine and front board gilt. Moderate wear, rubbing, and some soiling to binding, corners bumped and worn. A few corners dogeared. Foxing, tanning, and light soiling throughout. Ownership inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. Good. Armstrong served.....
London. 1836. x,[2],663,[1]pp. plus sixteen plates on India paper and folding map. Thick quarto. Modern three-quarter blue morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Minor rubbing, spine slightly sunned. Minor marginal foxing to plates. Very good. A large paper copy of this major source both in the early exploration of the Far.....
Philadelphia. 1836. [4, ads],456pp. plus folding map. Original half blue cloth and calf boards, original calf labelon spine. Noticeable edge wear, front hinge almost detached. Minor foxing. Good. Untrimmed. Back went in search of Sir John Ross, travelling through north central Canada to the Great Slave Lake, and up the.....
Edinburgh. 1848. [2],xii,[2],328pp. plus four engraved plates. Half title. Original publisher's green cloth, gilt. Moderate wear and some dampstaining. Internally clean. Good. The scarce second edition (published in the same year as the first) of this popular account of life in Hudson Bay and the Red River settlement, replete with.....
Paris. 1802-1803. Three volumes total. viii,382pp. plus folding map; [2],xvi,414,[1]; [4],410,[1]pp. Lacks folding table in third volume. Half title in each volume. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Hinges cracked and worn, head and foot of each spine chipped. Some light scattered foxing to first volume.....
Paris. 1802. viii,382pp. plus folding map. Half title. Contemporary calf backed boards, spine gilt, leather label. Hinges rubbed, slight chip at top of front joint, an occasional trace of foxing. Near fine. One of the classic early views of Louisiana at the beginning of the 19th century. It has been.....
New Orleans. 1824. [8],327,[1]pp. plus errata slip. Contemporary blue boards, rebacked at an early date with a crude sheep spine. Spine faded and worn, head of spine chipped. Modern bookplates on front endpapers. Faded institutional ink stamp on titlepage and page one; pp.[iii]-v loose. Minor foxing. Untrimmed. Good. The rare.....
[Np. 1849]. 8pp. printed in double-column format. In Gaylord binder. Tanned, else very good, unopened. This speech contains a portion of Benton's LETTER...TO THE PEOPLE OF MISSOURI (1853), examining Fremont's findings during his explorations to discover a western railroad route.
Chico. [ 1914]. 91pp. with illustrations. Illus. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Contents browned as usual. A near fine copy of a fragile book. These sketches of the author's early life in the West and California, including his account of his 1839 overland journey as a prospective settler, were originally published in.....
Chicago: The Lakeside Press R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1928. [4],xxii,377pp., plus folding map. Frontis. 12mo. Original dark red cloth, spine gilt, front board gilt-ruled with gilt- stamped publisher's logo, t.e.g. Light shelf wear, interior lightly toned.Very good. Lakeside Press reprint containing two works on overland travel to and life.....
Glendale, Ca. The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1931-1943. Twelve volumes including index volume. Illustrated with plates from engravings, lithographs, photographs, and other early sources; frontispieces; folding maps. [6]ppp. printed prospectus for the series laid into first volume. Original red cloth, spines gilt, t.e.g. Cloth on some volumes lightly rubbed. Bookplate.....
Coblenz, Paris & London. [ca. 1839-1842]. Handcolored engraving, 10 x 13 1/2 inches; matted and framed to 14 x 19 inches. Clean and fresh, with handsome modern color. Very good. A handsome view from Staten Island, captured by Swiss artist Karl Bodmer upon his arrival in New York harbor in.....
Springfield, Ma. 1866. xx,452pp. plus advertisements and partially colored folding map. Original cloth. Wear at head and toe of spine, tear at gutter of map with no loss, some light foxing. Good. The second edition, after two issues of the first edition published the previous year. This edition is not.....
Springfield. 1865. 452pp. Lacks the map. Edgeworn, hinges broken, else good. The second issue with the added pages on California and the mines by William Ashburner. Bowles' party left Kansas in May 1865, reached San Francisco in July, and travelled thence to Oregon and Washington by steamer. In August they.....
Pittsburgh. 1814. 304pp. Modern calf, spine gilt, leather label. Contemporary ownership inscription and later blindstamp on titlepage. Very minor toning and foxing. Very good plus. Brackenridge left St. Charles, Missouri in the spring of 1811 in company with fur trader Manuel Lisa. His journal describes his trip up the Missouri.....
Fostoria, Oh. The Gray Printing Company, 1896. 70pp. 12mo. Original printed boards, cloth spine. Head and toe of spine bit worn. Leaves a bit tanned. Very good. According to Ernest J. Wessen, this reprint is rarer than the first edition of 1860 published in Cleveland. Brayton was stolen near his.....
New York. 1930. x,301pp. plus folding map. Illus. Cloth. Worn at head and toe of spine, some discoloration. A good copy. Brewerton was in California during the Mexican-American War. In 1848 he travelled east from Los Angeles to Taos over the Old Spanish Trail with Carson, later going farther east.....
Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1860. 374pp. plus 22pp. advertisements and six plates (including frontispiece). Original cloth, spine gilt. Cloth uniformly sunned, spine ends frayed, corners worn. 19th- century library bookplate on front pastedown, private library stamp on front free endpaper. Overall a good plus copy. Biography of this western legend who.....
Taos. 1926. 138pp. including frontispiece and plates. Original printed wrappers. Minor edge wear, inner hinges a bit tender. Internally clean. Very good. In a modern half leather and cloth box. The first publication of this dictated autobiography, which Peters used as the basis of his own biography of Carson, but.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. Two volumes. viii,264; viii,266pp. plus 180 colored plates containing 360 images, and folding map. Tall octavo. Original gilt pictorial red cloth, original backstrips laid down. Slight loss of original cloth at top of first volume. Covers are bright and very nice. Internally clean, with the.....
London. 1844. Lithograph, colored in aquatint. Large folio. Slight discoloration, else a very nice copy. This portrait is one of the extra, unnumbered plates from CATLIN'S NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN PORTFOLIO. A striking portrait of a standing chief holding a spear.
London. 1841. Two volumes. viii,264; viii,266pp., plus errata slip and hundreds of plates and maps. Large octavo. Original green cloth, later gilt labels. Spine ends slightly worn, corners bumped, some rubbing and a few scattered stains to boards. New endpapers, bookplate on front pastedowns. Some tanning at edges, scattered faint.....
Chicago. 1861. vii,[1],134pp. plus frontispiece, plates, and errata leaf. Original cloth, rebacked. Some scattered soiling and foxing. Manuscript note on frontis. Else quite good. Clark was a Chicago physician who went to Colorado to prospect for gold in 1860, without success. He describes in detail the frontier town and expresses.....
