Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair – October 2016

Outstanding Views of the Grand Canyon

1. [Arizona]: Dellenbaugh, F.S.: THE GRAND CANON OF ARIZONA THROUGH THE

STEREOSCOPE. THE UNDERWOOD PATENT MAP SYSTEM COMBINED WITH EIGHTEEN

ORIGINAL STEREOSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHS. New York and London: Underwood & Underwood,

1908. 64pp., plus single-page map and folding map. Plus eighteen stereoscopic images on stiff mounts.

Narrow 12mo. Original brown cloth, gilt. Light wear to extremities. Six-inch closed tear in folding map,

with no loss. Very good. The stereoscopes clean and bright and in fine condition. Housed in original

brown cloth chemise, spine gilt.

Images and words provide a unique visual tour of the Grand Canyon, a natural wonder that truly needed

to be seen to be believed. The text is by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh who was a member of John Wesley

Powell's Colorado River expedition of 1871, and knew the Grand Canyon very well. Most of the text

relates to the stereo views, but Dellenbaugh also gives a history of exploration of the Grand Canyon as

well as a list of recommended reading. One of the stereo views is a very interesting image of the great

artist, Thomas Moran, sketching the Grand Canyon. The text was originally issued in 1900, and there

was an edition in 1904 as well. The stereoscopes in this set are copyrighted 1903, and are keyed to the

folding map (copyrighted 1904). The verso of each mount contains a few paragraphs describing the scene,

with the title from the recto further translated into French, German, Spanish, Swedish, and Cyrillic,

demonstrating the wide geographic spread of those who would be interested in the images. The images

are titled as follows:

1) "A Wonder to the primitive inhabitants - Santa Fe Train crossing Canon Diablo; Arizona."

2) "From Red to San Francisco Mountains - a woody wilderness in sun-kissed Arizona."

3) "Blown asunder by Volcanic energies - Red Mountain, an extinct Volcano, Northwestern Arizona."

4) "Labyrinthine ways through the Lava ash formations, Red Mountain Crater, Arizona."

5) "The sinuous Colorado, yellow as the Tiber - N. from Bissell's Point Grand Canon Arizona."

6) "Among the Buttes, Red Canon Trail, Grand Canon of Arizona."

7) "Fathoming the depth of a vanished sea - Grand Canon of Arizona from Hance's Cove."

8) "Descending Grand View Trail - Grand Canon of Arizona."

9) "Dendritic Stalagmites in a limestone Cave, Grand Canon of Arizona."

10) "Angels' Gateway and Newberry Terrace from Cottonwood Spring, Grand Canon of Arizona."

11) "Beside the Colorado - looking up to Zoroaster Tower from Pipe Creek, Grand Canon of Arizona."

12) "Down the Granite Gorge of the Colorado (1200 ft. deep) from Pyrites Point, Grand Canon of Ariz."

13) "Prospecting for Gold, Indian Gardens, Grand Canon of Arizona."

14) "Rounding Cape Horn on the Bright Angel Trail, Grand Canon of Arizona."

15) "Thos. Moran, America's greatest Scenic Artist, sketching at Bright Angel Cove, Grand Canon of

Arizona."

16) "'Over all broods a solemn silence' - Sunset at O'Neill's Point, Grand Canon of Arizona."

17) "Overlooking Nature's greatest Amphitheatre - from Rowe's Point, N.W. - Grand Canon of Arizona."

18) "On the brink, one mile above the river - Grand Canon of Arizona - west from Rowe's Point." $850

2. Audubon, John James: DELINEATIONS OF AMERICAN SCENERY AND CHARACTER. New

York: G.A. Baker & Company, 1926. xlix,[1],349pp. Portrait. Original blue cloth, spine gilt. Fine.

Brings together in one volume some sixty essays by Audubon from his ORNITHOLOGICAL

BIOGRAPHY, describing his travels in America from 1808 to 1834. Particularly strong in Audubon's

descriptions of the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys. HOWES A389. CLARK II:179. $25

Rare Pilot for the Allegheny River, with Sixteen Lithographed Maps

3. Babbitt, E.L.: THE ALLEGHENY PILOT; CONTAINING A COMPLETE CHART OF THE

ALLEGHENY RIVER SHOWING THE ISLANDS AND BARS, AND LOW WATER CHANNEL,

FROM WARREN TO PITTSBURGH, WITH DIRECTIONS FOR NAVIGATING THE SAME WITH

RAFTS, FLAT-BOATS, ETC. AND INTENDED FOR THE BENEFIT OF RIVERMEN

GENERALLY...ALSO A TABLE OF DISTANCES FOR ALL THE PRINCIPAL WESTERN

NAVIGABLE RIVERS. Freeport, Pa.: E.L. Babbitt, Publisher and Printer, 1855. 64,[1]pp., plus sixteen

lithographed maps and [15]pp. of ads. Original front wrapper, rear wrapper lacking. Front wrapper soiled,

with loss at the edges, and backed by paper. Old tideline in final nine leaves, occasional light foxing.

About very good. In a folding cloth box, gilt leather spine label.

A rare American river pilot, written and printed by E.L. Babbitt in the small town of Freeport,

Pennsylvania, about twenty-five miles up the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh. The guide describes and

illustrates the course of the Allegheny from Warren, located near the New York state line and considered

the head of steam navigation on the river, all the way to Pittsburgh, a distance of some two hundred miles.

As such it is an important record of the original path of the Allegheny and life in its communities. Babbitt

describes the river, its islands, bars, and channels, and gives a wealth of historical information gleaned

from local residents. Included is much on Indian tribes and local history back to the colonial and

Revolutionary eras, as well as notes on industry along the river, such as lumber. Ernest Wessen notes that

"the bulk of the lengthy historical notes on the river towns are original; either from local sources or the

writer’s first-hand knowledge of the subject. From the standpoint of rarity it ranks with the very early

pamphlet editions of Cramer’s Navigators; while its fine lithographed charts are superior to those

published in any navigator that has come to our attention." Babbitt provides important pieces of local

history, intermingled with the navigation directions. For example, in the Freeport section he gives an

account of the Massy Harbison Indian captivity.

Adept at a variety of skills, E.L. Babbitt not only wrote the text but also printed the book himself. On the

titlepage he is also identified as a photographer, and he must have been one of the earliest

daguerreotypists in western Pennsylvania. Born in Massachusetts in 1817 he was trained as a blacksmith

and then moved to Pennsylvania, where in later years he was deeply involved in the oil industry. In fact,

the text herein contains an early mention of the oil deposits that would make western Pennsylvania a

hotbed of oil exploration just a few years later - in the description of Map Seven Babbitt discusses Oil

Creek Island, which "derives its name from a peculiar kind of inflamable oil known as the 'Seneca Oil'

which is found floating upon the surface of its water in different places."

The outstanding, detailed maps are by William Schuchman of Pittsburgh, a German emigre who opened

the city's first lithographic firm in 1849. The final page of text contains a "business directory" of

Pittsburgh, and the advertisements are for a variety of local businesses, including druggists, clothiers,

printers, photographer G. Wetz, marble works, and colleges. Not in Sabin, nor in the Streeter Collection.

OCLC locates only four copies, at the Clements Library, University of Missouri (at St. Louis), Wisconsin

Historical Society, and University of Wyoming. There are also copies at Yale, the Historical Society of

Pennsylvania, and Penn State. Quite rare in the market - the last copy that we could find offered was by

Ernest Wessen in 1960. HOWES B5, "aa." JONES, ADVENTURES IN AMERICANA 1325.

MIDLAND NOTES 58:11. OCLC 80453965. $4,750

4. Baird, Joseph Armstrong, Jr.: CALIFORNIA'S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 1849 1869. San

Francisco: David Magee, 1967. 171,[1]pp., including full-page plates and a facsimile letter sheet laid into

rear pocket. Folio. Half morocco and patterned paper boards, spine gilt. Fine. In a torn and worn plain

dustjacket.

Inscribed by Baird on the front free endpaper. A pioneering bibliography of California's pictorial letter

sheets, one of the most interesting, informative, and entertaining printed and visual remnants of the Gold

Rush. Baird gives detailed descriptions, locates copies, and illustrates dozens of the sheets. An important

reference work. Printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem in an edition of 475 copies.

GRABHORN-HOYEM BIBLIOGRAPHY 6. $250

5. Bell, William A.: NEW TRACKS IN NORTH AMERICA. A JOURNAL OF TRAVEL AND

ADVENTURE WHILST ENGAGED IN THE SURVEY FOR A SOUTHERN RAILROAD TO THE

PACIFIC OCEAN DURING 1867-8. London & New York. 1870. lxix,[3],236,[2],[237]-564pp.,

including in-text illustrations, plus two colored maps (one folding) and twenty-four plates (many tinted).

Half title. Titlepage vignette. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Backstrip a bit faded, some wear at

spine ends and corners. Front hinge cracked but holding well. Contemporary gift inscription on half title

from Irving Van Wart of Birmingham to George Frederick Munby. Old ink stamp on the titlepage,

occasional light foxing, otherwise quite clean internally. About very good.

Second edition, following the first of the previous year. Dr. William A. Bell, a British physician,

accompanied William Palmer's expedition for a southwestern railroad route from Kansas to southern

California. Organized by the Kansas Pacific Railway, they travelled from Kansas through Colorado, New

Mexico and Arizona to southern California (their route is traced on the folding map). Bell's text is praised

for his account of the travels of the party and the country traversed, his lengthy discussion of the Indians

of the Southwest, and the excellent views in the plates and in-text illustrations. The final portion of the

text discusses the prospects of several Pacific railway projects, and gives thoughts on westward

emigration. Bell's work is also of value for the appendices, which include tables of distances, a report by

expedition botanist C.C. Parry, detailed instructions given to Bell on taking wet plate collodion

photographs in the field, and John Wesley Powell's report of his 1869 explorations on the Colorado River.

HOWES B330. COWAN, p.45. GRAFF 246 (1st ed). FIELD 109 (1st ed.) RADER 330 (note). $500

Pioneer in the Angora Wool Industry

6. Black, William L.: A NEW INDUSTRY, OR RAISING THE ANGORA GOAT, AND MOHAIR,

FOR PROFIT...WITH A COMPLETE MANUAL UPON THE CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF

GOATS, AND HOW TO GRADE UP THE COMMON MEXICAN GOAT.... [Fort Worth, Tx.:

Keystone Printing Company, 1900]. 486,xxxvii pp. Profusely illustrated. Portrait. Modern green cloth,

with a square portion of the original gilt cloth title affixed to front board, spine gilt. Staining in the lower

edge of the textblock, often seeping into the lower margin of text leaves. Very good overall.

A presentation copy, inscribed "compliments of the author," on a front fly leaf. William L. Black (1843-

1941) Confederate veteran and blockade runner, was a true industry pioneer. Following the Civil War he

worked as a cotton broker before becoming enamored of the angora goat and its great potential in

commerce as a source of mohair and meat. Black became involved in raising goats in 1884 and his flock

soon grew to more than 8000 head. He spread the gospel of the great potential of the angora industry in

pamphlets, periodicals, and this, his magnum opus, which seemingly tells more than one would ever need

to know about the subject. It became the Bible of angora raising and mohair production for the next half

century, and in 1926 Black sued the USDA for infringement on the copyright of this book. He discusses

the historical, commercial, and practical features of the industry, gives notes from a number of breeders

not only in Texas but also in California, Iowa, and Oregon, lauds the goat as an excellent method of

clearing brushy land, includes information on preparing mohair for market, grading and dressing goatskin,

the angora's relative immunity to disease, angora venison as a salable product, and much, much more.

Quite scarce in the market. HOWES B487. $500

When the Republican Party was Still Organized

7. [Brooklyn]: CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE FIRST WARD REPUBLICAN

ASSOCIATION OF BROOKLYN. New York. 1882. 8pp. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Light

soiling. Very good.

Apparently first published in 1875 (known in only one copy, NYPL). OCLC locates only two copies of

this 1882 edition, at the Brooklyn Public Library and The New York Public Library. Scarce. OCLC

36865321. $50

A Classic, Illustrated Gold Rush Narrative

8. Bruff, J. Goldsborough: Read, Georgia Willis, and Ruth Gaines (editors): GOLD RUSH. THE

JOURNALS, DRAWINGS, AND OTHER PAPERS OF J. GOLDSBOROUGH BRUFF. CAPTAIN,

WASHINGTON CITY AND CALIFORNIA MINING ASSOCIATION APRIL 2, 1849 - JULY 20,

1851. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1944. Two volumes: lxxxviii,630; viii,[631]-1404pp., including

numerous illustrations (three of them folding). Half titles. Quarto. Half cloth and paper-covered boards,

spines gilt. Fine. In a very good (edgeworn, with a few tape repairs) slipcase, printed paper label.

"One of the most comprehensive and informative gold rush sources available, not only for its picture of

life in the diggings, but for its highly detailed narrative, including Bruff's own sketches and drawing of

the overland crossing" - Mintz. J. Goldsborough Bruff, an employee of the Treasury Department in

Washington, and a skilled draftsman, went to California in 1849 with the intention of writing an overland

guide book. As the captain of the Washington City and California Mining Association he kept detailed,

observant, and perceptive journals, enhanced by remarkable illustrations. His journals rank among the

best firsthand accounts of the overland journey and life in the California diggings. The first volume

covers his overland trip, and the second recounts his experiences in the mines and his return journey.

Bruff's journals are at the Huntington Library, and editors Read and Gaines spent fifteen years preparing

them for this publication. This first edition, printed in an edition of not more than 1250 copies, is greatly

preferred over the abbreviated second edition published for the Gold Rush centennial in 1949. "The most

elaborate and accurate single record of an overland journey for 1849 or for any other year...his sketches,

reproduced in this book, alone would have entitled him to a place in the pantheon of gold rush immortals,

for they comprise the most extensive and vivid known contemporary pictorial record of the overland

experience" - Mattes. KURUTZ 93a. ZAMORANO SELECT, 9. WHEAT, GOLD RUSH 25. MATTES

377. MINTZ 64. HECKMAN 56. ROCQ 15724. NORRIS CATALOGUE 424. EDWARDS, DESERT

VOICES, p.25. HOWES R91, "aa." $350

Amateur California Newspaper – Two Variant Printings of the First Issue

9. [California Newspaper]: RED HOT. CALIFORNIANS' OWN PRIDE. ARDENTIA VERBA! VOL. I.

NO. I [two variant printings]. Santa Cruz, Ca. May, 1873. Two variant examples of the first issue, each

4pp. Unfolded sheets. Very light wear, else fine.

Two variant printings of the first - and quite possibly the only - issue of this amateur newspaper, printed

on a handpress in Santa Cruz, California. The motto of the newspaper was "Ardentia Verba" - words that

burn. Present here are two variant printings of this issue, one printed all in black, the second with the title

in red and black. Apparently the brainchild of job printer Tom C. Cooper, who is identified in the

masthead as "fuel furnisher and bellows blower." This issue carries a work of fiction on the front page,

and continues with assessments of other amateur newspapers (and advertisements for them) and an

editor's statement asserting that RED HOT "will be an Amateur in the widest sense of the term, being

edited, contributed to and printed solely by boys." The text and ads ably transmit the growing

consciousness of an amateur newspaper publishing community. OCLC records only two holdings, at UC

Santa Cruz, and Indiana University, which have only this first issue. OCLC 248008619. $95

Important Reports on Mexico’s Plans to Colonize California

10. [California]: COLECCION DE LOS PRINCIPALES TRABAJOS EN QUE SE HA OCUPADO LA

JUNTA NOMBRADA PARA MEDITAR Y PROPONER AL SUPREMO GOBIERNO LOS MEDIOS

MAS NECESARIOS PARA PROMOVER EL PROGRESO DE LA CULTURA Y CIVILIZACION DE

LOS TERRITORIOS DE LA ALTA Y DE LA BAJA CALIFORNIA. [Mexico City]. 1827.

[2],16,11,[1],8,18,44,14,[2],14,[2],9-24,[1] pp., plus four folding charts. Small quarto. Contemporary

plain wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled and edgeworn. A few worm tracks throughout the entirety, the

widest appearing in the upper margin, else very good.

A rare and fundamentally important collection of documents outlining the Mexican plan for the

colonization of California. Mexico feared that English, Russian, or American settlers would eventually

overrun California, and so formed the Junta de Fomento de Californias to strengthen the Mexican

presence in upper and lower California. This copy is complete with all eight titles.

"The decisive step taken by Madrid in 1769 in founding San Diego and Monterey as a means of definite

claim to California had not been followed by a sufficient increase in population to keep the area from

threatened absorption by the growing Anglo-Saxon population on the Columbia River. These various

plans were devised in order to tie California more firmly to the Mexican Republic" - Streeter Sale. These

plans were devised by the Junta, and aimed to increase Mexican colonization in California, and to

establish Monterey as a commercial capital dominating trade in the Pacific. It was proposed to grant lands

to Mexican colonists, to provide them with money, livestock, and tools to aid their settlement. The

pamphlets each have their own titlepage and pagination, and consist of a study of Anglo-American and

Russian activity in California; a plan for the administration of the missions; a system of laws for the better

government of California; and plans for mercantile development and for establishing direct trade between

Monterey and the Pacific, including the founding of an "Asiatic-Mexican company." Two of the

pamphlets relate directly to colonization plans, including those encouraging Mexican colonization and

another for an orderly, controlled colonization by foreigners, with plates featuring a grid layout for

development, which became a basis for California land grant laws.

Howes notes only seven parts, failing to list the concluding plan for the establishment of an Asian-

Mexican company. The Streeter copy also lacked this concluding part. A primary document for the

development of California. COWAN, p.320-321. BARRETT 1355. HOWES C45, "d." SABIN 9997.

STREETER SALE 2462. NORRIS CATALOGUE 1910. $9,000

Presentation Copy

11. [California]: [Langley, Henry G., editor]: THE STATE REGISTER, AND YEAR BOOK OF

FACTS: FOR THE YEAR 1859. PUBLISHED ANNUALLY. [SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION.].

San Francisco: Henry G. Langley and Samuel A. Morison, 1859. iii,[1],420pp. Contemporary half sheep

and moire cloth, spine gilt. Expertly rebacked, with original backstrip laid down. Very clean internally.

Very good.

A presentation copy, inscribed on the titlepage from "the editor" to Dr. Thomas M. Logan. Logan, a

prominent Sacramento physician and corresponding secretary of the State Medical Society, wrote an

essay for this volume, called "Contributions to the Climatology of California," which appears on pages

31-36. Based on five years' meteorological observations in Sacramento, the essay includes tables

recording wind, rain, humidity, etc. This copy also bears the early ownership inscription on the front free

endpaper of Asa P. Andrews, a founder of the Sacramento Society of California Pioneers

This is the second and final edition of the California state register, following the first of 1857, containing

a wealth of information on California ten years after the start of the Gold Rush. Included are statistics on

state finances, population, Indians, railroads, wagon roads, the school system, fraternal organizations,

libraries, and more. There are also sections on the young state's agriculture, mineral wealth, canals and

ditches, and manufactures and machinery. Each county is briefly profiled, and there is an extensive list of

state officials. The advertisements include the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and the California Steam

Navigation Company. This copy does not include the final six leaves of ads (which would take the

pagination up to page 432), which were apparently never bound in. Cowan and Sabin call for 420pp. of

text (as here) while other references (such as Greenwood), note 432pp. GREENWOOD 1173. COWAN,

p.610. ROCQ 17165. DRAKE 92. SABIN 10045. $575

Rare Oakland Theatre Broadside, Printed on Silk

12. [California Theatre]: DIETZ HALL. GRAND OPENING NIGHT, THURSDAY EVE'G, OCT. 21,

1875, BY THE CELEBRATED FABBRI OPERA. [San Francisco]: Spaulding & Barto, [1875].

Broadside printed on pink silk, 9 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches, including fringed border. Lightly soiled. Very good.

An attractive broadside printed on silk, advertising the maiden performance at the Dietz Opera House,

Oakland's first theatre. The building formerly housed Brayton Hall of the University of California, but

when the school moved to Berkeley it was purchased by Alfred Dietz, who installed a performance space

on the second floor. The opening night performance featured the members of the Inez Fabbri's opera

troupe. By the mid-1870s Mrs. Fabbri, who had performed around the world, was one of the leading

lights of classical music in the Bay Area. The performance included scenes from "Il Trovatore," the

"Merry Wives of Windsor," and "Martha." The process of printing this broadside is interesting. The verso

bears an advertisement for Decker Bros. pianos of New York, featuring an illustration of a piano, and

listing Kohler, Chase & Co., as their sole agents on the Pacific Coast. That side of the silk bears the

imprint of James W. Morrissey of New York, indicating that the advertisement side might have been

printed in New York (at the instigation of Decker Bros. or Kohler, Chase & Co.,) and then the broadsides

sent to California to have the recto imprinted with local information - in this case the opening of Dietz

Hall. Attractive evidence of the cultural scene in Oakland and San Francisco in the 1870s. $400

Printed on Silk, Raising Money for a Fire Bell in Hollister

13. [California Theatre]: BEATTY'S HALL, HOLLISTER, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 11,

1874. DRAMATIC & MUSCIAL ENTERTAINMENT, BY THE HOLLISTER LIBRARY

ASSOCIATION, IN AID OF FUNDS TO PURCHASE A FIRE BELL. ON WHICH OCCASION WILL

BE PRESENTED THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMME: Hollister, Ca.: Shaw & Son Printers, 1874.

Broadside, printed on pink silk, 19 x 8 inches. Some light staining. Very good.

Long before it became synonymous with an aspirational clothing line, Hollister was a small central

California town in need of a fire bell. This very interesting broadside, printed on pink silk, advertises an

evening of theatre and music at Beatty's Hall in Hollister. Sponsored by the local library association, the

events were held to raise funds for the purchase of a town fire bell. The full line-up of the evening is listed

in a variety of typefaces, beginning with a piano solo by Miss Holloway, followed by a vocal duet, a

performance of the two-act comic drama, Down by the Sea, and concluding with another vocal duet. A

synopsis of the play is also given. Beatty's Hall in Hollister was a popular venue for theatrical and musical

entertainment, and also an occasional host to the Hollister Library Association. No copies are located in

OCLC. Attractive and rare evidence of a night of entertainment with philanthropic aims in rural

California in the 1870s. $875

14. Carter, John, and Graham Pollard: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN

NINETEENTH CENTURY PAMPHLETS. London and New York. 1934. xii,400pp., plus four plates.

Original red cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g. Near fine in a good (chipped and torn) dustjacket.

First edition of this classic work, in which two brilliant young booksellers exposed the literary forgeries

of scholar Harry Buxton Forman and collector Thomas J. Wise, thereby pulling back the veil on the

willful self-delusion sometimes exhibited by buyers and sellers of rare books. $100

15. Caughey, John Walton: McGILLIVRAY OF THE CREEKS. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press,

1938. xvi,[2],385,[1]pp., plus illustrations. Map endpapers. Original cloth. A very clean, near fine copy,

in a good plus dust jacket (with some shelfwear and small edge tears).

McGillivray was leader of the Creeks, a large Indian tribe in the Southeast, in the decade following the

American Revolution. His astute statesmanship helped forestall encroachments into his tribe's lands by

the Americans, British, and Spanish. This work is largely based on letters by and to McGillivray that had

been hitherto unstudied. $65

Scarce Railroad Promotional

16. [Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway]: THE GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE ALMANAC

AND HAND-BOOK OF USEFUL INFORMATION FOR 1883. Chicago. [1882]. 47,[1]pp., including

illustrations and tables, with map of the Great Rock Island Route on the rear wrapper. Original pictorial

wrappers. Wrappers a bit sunned. Very clean internally. Near fine.

A rather scarce promotional, in the form of an almanac, for the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific

Railway, with special attention paid to its "Great Rock Island" and "Albert Lea" routes. The former was a

direct line from Chicago to Kansas City, Leavenworth, Atchison, and Council Bluffs, and the latter went

to Minneapolis-St. Paul. The text describes the states through which the routes travelled, but also includes

information on Idaho, Montana, Colorado, the Dakotas, Manitoba, and more. One section is devoted to

explaining free homesteads, timber culture, and pre-emption laws to potential settlers. The map on the

rear wrapper shows the many rail lines emanating from Chicago. OCLC locates a dozen copies. An

interesting volume, showing the utility and importance of the railroad to the pleasure seeker and the

emigrant alike. OCLC 11164483, 13673763. $500

17. Colby, Bainbridge: THE CLOSE OF WOODROW WILSON'S ADMINISTRATION AND THE

FINAL YEARS. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1930. 29pp. 12mo. Original printed paper-covered

boards. Shallow chip at foot of spine. Very good.

Colby, Secretary of State during the last year of Woodrow Wilson's administration, delivered this address

before the Missouri Historical Society. He discusses life inside the Wilson inner circle, recounting

Wilson's feelings about the Senate's rejection of the Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant of the League

of Nations, as well as American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union, Mexico, and Asia. $35

History of Colorado and Its Prominent Men

18. [Colorado]: [Kroenke, F.W. (ed.)]: THE COLORADO BLUE BOOK FOR 1891. Denver: Aurora of

the Western World Publishing Company, [1891]. 159,[1]pp., including illustrations (portraits and views)

and a full-page map, "Governor Gilpin's Cosmopolitan R.R. Map of Behring Strait." Modern blue

wrappers with a large portion of the original printed blue front wrapper affixed to the plain blue front

wrapper. Ex-Library of Congress, with their ink stamp (noting this as a copyright copy) in the lower

margin of the titlepage. Titlepage with closed tears, tape-repaired on the recto and verso of the leaf.

Preface leaf with two small tape repairs in the foredge, final text leaf with a closed tape-repaired tear in

the lower gutter, affecting a few letters of text on the recto of the leaf and a few index page numbers on

the verso. Otherwise, internally very clean and very good overall.

The first and apparently the only edition of this review of Colorado history, hymn to its accomplishments,

booster of its limitless potential, and profile of its prominent citizens. The text gives a history of the state

and of Denver, profiles important citizens, politicians, and business leaders (including governors Gilpin,

Routt, Adams, and others), describes economic opportunities in the state, lists political officeholders, and

more. The tone of the profiles is as fawning as any we have encountered in such works, and almost

borders on self-parody. The illustrations show the men profiled, the natural beauty of the state, and

significant public and private buildings. A similarly titled work was published in 1892, written by Anges

Leonard Hill (see WYNAR 853) but that title seems unconnected to this one, and is more of a directory of

prominent citizens of Denver and its suburbs. OCLC locates eight copies. WYNAR 136. OCLC

122780445, 13195954. $575

Unrecorded Colorado Blueprint Mining Map

19. [Colorado]: Rank, S.A.: PROPERTIES OF THE BERTHA G.M. AND M. CO GILPIN COUNTY

COLORADO. [Denver? n.d., ca. 1900]. Blueprint map, 12 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches. Old folds. Small split

along outer edge of one fold, not affecting map image. Near fine.

Not much is known of the Bertha Gold Mining and Milling Company. Stock certificates were issued, and

the Denver-based company produced a prospectus and a single "Weekly Report" in 1901, each located by

OCLC in only a single copy, at the Denver Public Library. Neither of those publications is described as

having a blueprint map, and this map was likely separately issued. It shows more than a dozen properties

claimed by the company in a crowded region in Gilpin County, each full claim measuring 1500 feet.

Many of the Bertha Company's claims overlap those of other mining concerns, no doubt leading to legal

issues. The map was drawn by surveyor S.A. Rank. By 1904 the MINING REPORTER periodical was

reporting that the company was being offered for sale. $175

A Pioneering California Surgeon Offers Free Medical Instruction

20. Cooper, E.S.: ANATOMICAL AND SURGICAL LECTURES [caption title]. San Francisco.

December 10, 1856. [1]pp. on a folded folio sheet of blue paper. Small embossed stamp in upper left

corner. Minor edgewear. Fine.

Rare announcement of anatomical and surgical lectures offered by Dr. E.S. Cooper, a pioneering

physician in California. Cooper issued this circular just a year after he arrived in San Francisco, and in

fact began offering courses in October, 1855. He offered free instruction in surgical anatomy, vivisection,

ophthalmic and orthopedic surgery, no doubt aggravating his colleagues in the medical profession.

Cooper asserts that "San Francisco offers above that of any other city of this Continent, or perhaps the

World besides, for prosecuting the study of Practical Anatomy and of Operative Surgery....the salubrious

breezes preserve bodies for any desirable length of time." He also invites his fellow physicians in Mexico,

Latin America, and Hawaii to exchange medical knowledge with him. Elias Samuel Cooper (1820-1862),

founder of the first medical college on the Pacific coast, "was a bold, enthusiastic and original surgeon

who, soon after his arrival in San Francisco gained a reputation as a daring operator by a sensational

operation in which he successfully removed a breech-pin of a fowling piece from beneath the heart" -

Kelly & Burrage. Cooper also founded medical publications and important medical associations in

California. Greenwood locates only a single copy of this circular, at the California Historical Society, and

OCLC adds copies at the Bancroft Library, UC San Francisco, and Yale. GREENWOOD 671. OCLC

21726814, 702933884. KELLY & BURRAGE, pp.255-256. $950

21. Dillon, Richard H.: TEXAS ARGONAUTS ISAAC H. DUVAL AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD

RUSH. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1987. xiii,[1],199,[1]pp., including fourteen color

illustrations (ten of them double-page). Map-illustrated endpapers. Half title. Folio. Half cloth and

pictorial paper boards, printed paper spine label. Very fine in a very good (edgeworn) plain dustjacket.

From an edition of 450 copies designed by David Holman and printed by the Wind River Press. A

significant and attractively illustrated account of an overland journey by the southern route (the Gila

Trail) from Texas to California during the Gold Rush. Much of the text is taken directly from Duval's

well-written journals, with useful context and supporting information from Richard Dillon. The

illustrations are by Charles Shaw. Four-page prospectus laid in, as well as single-page printed note from

the Wind River Press apologizing for the delay in the book's production. This is publication 186 of the

Book Club of California. $125

Important Early Account of Central America

22. Dunn, Henry: GUATIMALA, OR, THE UNITED PROVINCES OF CENTRAL AMERICA, IN

1827-8; BEING SKETCHES AND MEMORANDUMS MADE DURING A TWELVE MONTHS'

RESIDENCE AT THAT REPUBLIC. New York: G. & C. Carvill, 1828. 318pp., plus [1]p. of errata.

Contemporary plain paper boards backed with modern calf, gilt morocco spine label. Boards lightly

shelfworn. Ex-library, with the bookplate of the Fitchburg Athenaeum on the front pastedown, and their

small oval blindstamp on the titlepage. Scattered foxing. Good plus. Untrimmed.

First edition of this thorough description of Guatemala and Central America generally, published in the

wake of the independence movements of the area. Dunn describes his voyage from England, with stops at

Jamaica, Belize, the Mosquito Coast and Yucatan before arriving at Guatemala. He comments on slave

populations, climate, disease, immigration, Indians, customs, superstitions, etc. Once in Guatemala Dunn

describes the capital city, the social scene there, public morals, education, the prison system, village life,

religion, and more. One chapter focuses on amusements, and describes booksellers, the literary culture,

bullfights, theatre, and fine arts. Part three includes a lengthy history of the revolutionary movement

earlier in the decade, and another chapter is devoted to the native population. "One of the classic

travelogues, written by an Anglican clergyman traveling in company with the Dutch consul general

during the conflicts relating to the independence movement" - Grieb. In the preface, Dunn explains that

he desired a map to accompany this first edition, but that he could not find one that was adequate. An

English edition, with a map, was published in London the following year. GRIEB GU 392. PALAU

77296. SABIN 21320. GRIFFIN 3558. $650

23. Emmett, Chris: TEXAS CAMEL TALES INCIDENTS GROWING UP AROUND AN ATTEMPT

BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO FOSTER AN UNINTERRUPTED

FLOW OF COMMERCE THROUGH TEXAS BY THE USE OF CAMELS. San Antonio: Naylor

Printing Company, 1932. xvi,[1],275pp., including illustrations. Plus four-page list of subscribers to the

first edition laid in. Portrait. Half title. Original tan suede. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown,

ownership signature and stamp on front and rear pastedowns. Near fine in a good dustjacket (rubbed, with

chips at extremities and tape-repairs on verso).

From an edition limited to 300 copies, (this being number ninety-four), signed by the author on the half

title. This copy bears the bookplate and ownership signatures of Brigadier General Robert S. Abernethy.

Born in Gonzales County, Texas, in 1874, Abernethy served in the Spanish-American War and in the

Philippines, retiring from service in 1938. His name is marked in the laid-in list of subscribers in red ink.

This copy of the first edition is Jenkins's "Variant B," without "July, 1932" on the verso of the titlepage.

"The best account of the famous camel experiment in Texas, this volume is also a successful blend of the

numerous official records of the experiment with the memoirs and anecdotes of the people involved" -

BASIC TEXAS BOOKS. It was at the urging of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis that the United States

Congress approved an experiment in 1855 to use camels for explorations and transport in the southwest.

Among the officers involved in the experiment were Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston. The Civil

War and the coming of the railroads doomed the camel experiment, though Emmett continues the story of

some of the camels to the late nineteenth century. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 55. $750

Beautiful Etchings of American Ships

24. Gleason, J. Duncan: Gleason, Dorothy: Wall, Bernhardt: WINDJAMMERS. New York: Bernhardt

Wall, 1922. [28] etched leaves in total, including limitation leaf, title leaf, and twenty-six leaves of

etchings and text, printed on rectos only. Plus facsimile letter from Franklin Roosevelt to Wall tipped in at

front. Tall quarto. Original half cloth and pictorial paper boards. Fine. In a very good plain dustjacket

(neatly split along the front joint), printed paper spine label.

Number 107 from an edition limited to 325 copies. The lovely etchings are by Bernhardt Wall after

illustrations by J. Duncan Gleason. The brief, evocative, text (often in the form of poetry) was written by

Dorothy Glean. Twelve of the illustrations (ten full-page and two smaller) are etchings of ships; the

remainder feature text with smaller illustrations.

J. Duncan Gleason (1881-1959) was a prolific and popular illustrator with a long interest in nautical

scenes and the sea, and this work is a paean in images and text to sailing and to American naval prowess.

The illustrations include etchings of the U.S.S. Constitution and other military ships, the whaler Charles

W. Morgan, the clipper ships that carried so many argonauts to the gold fields of California, the ocean

liner, and many more. This copy is signed by both Gleasons and Wall on the limitation leaf, and includes

the tipped-in facsimile of a letter from Franklin Roosevelt to Wall complimenting him on the work. The

final two blank leaves each bear a brief pencil note, "1/16/55, Mrs. Wall, Pasadena Calif." $2,500

25. Hafen, LeRoy R.: THE OVERLAND MAIL 1849-1869 PROMOTER OF SETTLEMENT

PRECURSOR OF RAILROADS. Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1926. 361pp., including six

full-page illustrations and folding map, plus frontispiece portrait. Half title. Original dark green cloth,

spine gilt, t.e.g. Hinges a bit stressed, some light foxing on the foredge and lower edge of the textblock,

else a near fine copy. Untrimmed, partially unopened.

A pioneering study of the overland mail from the Gold Rush to the completion of the Transcontinental

Railroad. Included are chapters on the Pony Express, the Butterfield Overland Mail, the so-called

"Million Dollar Mail," mail service in the Pike's Peak region, the difficulties posed by hostile Indians, and

the passage of mail to the Pacific Coast by steamers. The two-page prospectus for the work is laid into

this copy. This is the first of many of Hafen's books published by the Clark Company, this in an edition of

1253 copies. CLARK & BRUNET124. HOWES H11. PAHER 751. RITTENHOUSE 267. DOBIE, p.81.

$150

26. Haley, J. Evetts: EARL VANDALE ON THE TRAIL OF TEXAS BOOKS. Canyon, Tx.: Palo Duro

Press, 1965. 44,[1]pp., one plate included in the pagination, plus portrait frontispiece and three plates.

Original red cloth, front board and spine gilt. Fine.

A fascinating account of a Texas book collector who traveled the countryside hunting for books.

Vandale's collection is now at the University of Texas. From an edition of 500 copies, printed by Carl

Hertzog. ROBINSON 39. $150

The First California Railroad Directory

27. Hamilton & Brown (compilers): GAZETTEER OF THE CALIFORNIA PACIFIC RAILROAD

AND ITS BRANCHES. FOR THE YEARS 1871-72. EMBRACING A GENERAL BUSINESS, ALSO,

A CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF ALL THE CITIES AND TOWNS ON THE LINE OF

THE ROAD, SAN FRANCISCO INCLUSIVE.... San Francisco. 1871. [6],352,[2]pp., plus eight leaves

of advertisements and views interspersed throughout the directory. Half morocco and printed paper

boards, rebacked with most of original backstrip laid down. Boards rubbed, edgeworn, and soiled, hinges

reinforced. Very clean internally. Very good overall.

The first railroad directory in California and the first directory of the Central Pacific's railroad towns,

called "very rare" by Quebedeaux. Completed in 1869, the California Pacific Railroad ran from

Sacramento to Vallejo, where it connected with a ferry that made the bay crossing to San Francisco. The

railroad carried passengers and freight, and played a significant role in transporting wheat, thus taking

part in the tremendous boom in wheat production then taking place in California. By 1871 the Central

Pacific had absorbed the California Pacific, and this directory describes the towns and cities on its route

and branches, covering businesses in a plethora of communities in Sacramento, Solano, Napa, Yolo,

Yuba, and Sonoma counties. Also included are views of Calistoga Springs (operated by Samuel Brannan),

the Grand Hotel in San Francisco, and Heald's Bryant & Stratton Business College, and advertisements

for the Women's Co-Operative Printing Union (featuring a woman operating a press), various railroads

including the Central Pacific and Kansas Pacific, the Bank of California, photographers Bradley &

Rulofson, publisher A.L. Bancroft, and a variety of San Francisco businesses. Quebedeaux, Rocq, and

OCLC together locate a total of seven copies, at the California State Library, California Historical

Society, Yuba County Library, Sacramento Public Library, Bancroft Library, Yale, and in a private

collection. Not in Cowan, though picked up in the 1964 additions. The copy offered by the Eberstadts in

1954 is the last one we see in the market. Rare. QUEBEDEAUX 138. ROCQ 15844. COWAN (1964

additions) 193. EBERSTADT 135:144. OCLC 14443224, 173725424. $2,500

Marvelous Panorama of Portland, More than Ten Feet Long

28. Henrichsen, L.C.: PORTLAND OREGON FROM THE HEIGHTS WEST OF THE CITY

LOOKING EAST [caption title]. Portland, Or.: L.C. Henrichsen, 1903. Panoramic photograph comprised

of fourteen silver prints, each print 7 x 9 inches, for a total size of 7 x 126 inches. Each photograph

affixed to a slightly taller stiff paper mount. Bound into original quarto-sized red cloth boards, stamped in

gilt. The first three panels still bound into the boards, the remaining eleven detached from the first three

but still bound together. Near fine.

A remarkable panoramic photographic showing the growing city of Portland, Oregon at the dawn of the

twentieth century. The panorama is composed of fourteen silver prints, totaling more than ten feet in

length, and shows the city from the west looking east. The Willamette River runs through the center of the

photographs, and Portland is shown rising up on either side, with houses, multi-story buildings, docks,

warehouses, and a growing downtown. The hilly topography of the city and surrounding area is clearly

depicted, and Mount Hood can be seen in the fifth panel. Lars C. Henrichsen (1839-1924) was born in

Denmark and came to Portland in 1861, where he had a long career as a prominent jeweler and optician.

The title of the panorama is printed in the lower margin of the mounts of the seventh and eighth images,

and the copyright information appears in the lower corner of the final image, as well as on the front board

of the binding. We can find eight copies of this panorama in OCLC, at the University of Oregon, Oregon

State University, Multnomah County Library, University of Idaho, Denver Public Library, Bancroft

Library, Huntington Library, and Yale. There are also copies at the Oregon Historical Society. A copy of

this panorama sold at a Swann Galleries photography sale in 2014 for $4,500. OCLC 18549592,

228694204. $1,750

First Book on Computer Generated Music

29. Hiller, Jr., Lejaren A., and Leonard M. Isaacson: EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC. COMPOSITION

WITH AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTER. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1959. vi,[2],197pp.,

including musical notations. Original blue cloth. Some pencil underlining (see provenance note below).

Very good in a good dustjacket with some chips and tears in the edges.

A landmark book in the history of 20th century music, this is the first book on computer-generated music.

The composition, called the Illiac Suite, was created using the University of Illinois' Illiac computer. This

copy bears the bookplate on the front pastedown of noted music critic, scholar, and teacher, Gilbert

Chase. Chase has also underlined several passages throughout the book. $150

30. Hittell, Theodore H.: THE ADVENTURES OF JAMES CAPEN ADAMS MOUNTAINEER AND

GRIZZLY BEAR HUNTER OF CALIFORNIA. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.

xiii,[1],373pp., plus portrait frontispiece and eleven plates. Half title. Original blindstamped brown cloth,

spine gilt. Moderate wear at spine ends and corners. Early ownership signature on front pastedown. Ink

stamp on front pastedown, front free endpaper, and half title, else quite clean and neat internally. Very

good.

A "new edition" of this California classic, which "enjoyed - and merited - wide popularity" (Howes). First

published in San Francisco and Boston in 1860, this 1911 edition is significant for some textual changes

and an introduction and postscript by Hittell providing information about Adams and how the book came

to be written. CURREY & KRUSKA 147. ROCQ 15858. HOWES H543. COWAN, p.284.

ZAMORANO 80, 42. $65

31. Horstmann, G. Henry: CONSULAR REMINISCENCES. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1886.

xii,420pp. Original green pictorial cloth, spine gilt. Contemporary non-authorial gift inscription to the

Akin Hall Library on the front free endpaper, circular Akin Hall Library stamp on titlepage, two neat ink

notes on dedication page; modern ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Pages 243-262

loosening, but still bound in. Very clean internally. Overall, very good.

Horstmann was the American consul at Munich from 1869 to 1880, and then consul at Nuremberg from

1880 to 1885, and his memoir is a significant record of an American's experiences in Europe during an

eventful period. Horstmann discusses European culture at great length (German passion plays and Lola

Montez, for example), describes the wide variety of his duties as a consul, and comments on Americans

touring through the continent. There is also much on diplomatic events, politics, scandals, etc. Rather

scarce. $75

Published to Accompany Johnston’s “Experiences of a Forty-Niner”

32. [Johnston, William G.]: Johnston, Stewart: [ORIGINAL BLUEPRINT MAP DRAWN BY

STEWART JOHNSTON, SHOWING ROUTES TO CALIFORNIA DURING THE GOLD RUSH,

CREATED TO ACCOMPANY COPIES OF WILLIAM G. JOHNSTON'S BOOK, Experiences of a

Forty-Niner]. [Pittsburgh]: Stewart Johnston, 1893. Blueprint map, 9 1/2 x 30 1/4 inches. Folded, so as to

be laid into the book. Fine.

One of two issues of the rare map drawn to accompany copies of William Johnston's outstanding account

of his overland journey to California during the Gold Rush. Johnston's EXPERIENCES OF A FORTY-

NINER was published in his hometown of Pittsburgh in 1892, and has become a classic of Gold Rush

literature. It was published in an edition of about 225 copies, and has become quite scarce, especially with

the present map. When originally published, the book was issued without a map. However, Johnston's

son, Stewart, decided that the book would be improved by a map, and he set about drawing the present

map, which was then mailed out to owners of the book, along with a portrait of William Johnston. Not

everyone complied with family's wishes, though, and copies of Johnston's book are more often found

without the map than with it.

The map is untitled, but its main feature is to show the various overland routes to California during the

Gold Rush, including the Platte River Road, the Oregon Trail, Sublette's cut-off, and more. It shows a

wide swath of the West during the Gold Rush, and includes the region between Missouri and California,

South Dakota to Oregon, and down to the southern borders of Kansas and Colorado. Hand-made by

Stewart Johnston, the map is filled with information, including the location of towns and mining regions

in California, mountains and rivers, the grounds occupied by a number of Indian tribes, military forts,

natural landmarks, and much more. An inset in the upper right shows the boundaries of states and

territories in the Western United States in 1849.

The present issue contains twelve lines of text, explaining the map; the other issue contains eleven lines.

This issue also features more information and details, with differences in the drawing of the map - such as

the location of the inset in the upper right - as well as the lettering of the names of states, territories, and

Indian tribes, and more locations for natural features. This additional information indicates to us that it is

perhaps a second, improved, issue of the map. We have seen copies of the book with either issue of the

map, and it seems that either issue was sent out to owners of the book in 1893. A rare and significant map

of overland trails and the West in 1849. $850

Remarkable Memoir of Life in the Texas Rangers

33. Lee, Nelson: THREE YEARS AMONG THE CAMANCHES, THE NARRATIVE OF NELSON

LEE, THE TEXAN RANGER, CONTAINING A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HIS CAPTIVITY

AMONG THE INDIANS, HIS SINGULAR ESCAPE THROUGH THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF HIS

WATCH, AND FULLY ILLUSTRATING INDIAN LIFE AS IT IS ON THE WAR PATH AND IN

THE CAMP. Albany. 1859. [ii],224pp. Portrait. 12mo. Original cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Spine

lightly sunned. Two small, unobtrusive contemporary ownership stamps on front free endpaper. Closed

vertical tear to page 21-22, extending from the bottom edge into five lines of text, with no loss. A very

good copy. In a blue half leather slipcase and chemise.

"Lee was a member of the Texas Navy, which he left to join the Rangers; he went through and describes

the early Mexican-Texas border wars...the Santa Fe Expedition...the Mier Expedition...the Battles of

Monterey, Palo Alto, etc. At the conclusion of the War, he started overland for California...but had only

been out a few days when the party was surrounded by savages and all but the author and three others

summarily butchered. His experiences in captivity are of vivid interest, and afford a most minute and

detailed account of the manners and customs of the tribe. He gives also an account of the hardships and

sufferings of his co-captives, Mrs. Haskins and her two daughters, including the torture of the former" -

Eberstadt. "The appalling and monstrous cruelties of this untamable [Comanche] nation of nomads,

reconciles us somewhat to their rapid extinction. Unlike the savages of the Algonquin and Iroquois races,

who invariably respected the chastity of their female prisoners, the savages of the southern plains ravish

and torture them, with the combined fury of lust and bloodthirst" - Field. "The best contemporary

description of the life of the early Texas Rangers" - Jenkins.

In the introduction to the 1957 reprint of Lee's narrative, Walter Prescott Webb writes: "The story he tells

is absorbing, but the information he conveys about how the Comanches lived before they were affected

by the white man is invaluable." A rare book, central to any collection relating to overland travel and

Indian captivities, here in the original binding. WAGNER-CAMP 333:1. STREETER SALE 401. FIELD

905. HOWES L212, "b." DOBIE, p.34. SABIN 39778. RADER 2215. AYER 182. EBERSTADT

122:227. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 123. GARRETT, p. 227. SIEBERT SALE 993. GRAFF 2444. JONES

1414. $8,500

Early Study of the Film Industry

34. Lescarboura, Austin G.: BEHIND THE MOTION-PICTURE SCREEN. New York: Scientific

American Publishing Company and Munn & Company, 1919. [8],420,[4]pp., plus more than 300

illustrations. Frontispiece. Original pictorial cloth. Spine lightly faded, cloth lightly soiled. Very clean and

neat internally. A very good copy.

The scarce first edition of this early study of the technology and development of the motion picture

industry. Included are chapters on Edison's invention; the roles of the director, cameraman, producer, and

writer; techniques of screen acting; "camera tricks"; documentary filmmaking; animation; scientific uses

of motion picture technology; and much, much more. A very interesting and significant early work. FILM

INDEX 6b. BUKALSKI, p.84. $200

A North Carolina Attack on Slavery on the Eve of the Civil War

35. [Manumission Society of North Carolina]: AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF NORTH

CAROLINA, ON THE EVILS OF SLAVERY. [New York: Nicholas Muller, ca. 1860]. [2],68,[1]pp.

16mo. Gathered signatures, string-tied as issued. Titlepage and following leaf with loss in the lower outer

corner, not affecting text. Several leaves dog-eared. Scattered light foxing. Good.

First published in Greensborough, North Carolina in 1830, this second edition was printed in New York

circa 1860, just on the eve of the Civil War. The original printer was William Swaim, who was also

secretary of the Manumission Society of North Carolina. When originally published it was a voice in the

southern wilderness, decrying the evils of slavery. This reprint was also meant for circulation in the slave-

holding South, and Lewis Tappan, in the introduction to this edition, writes that "it is well that the people

of those States should know all the sentiments of the generation that preceded them, on the great and all

engrossing subject of American Slavery." In the text the North Carolina abolitionists condemn slavery in

the harshest terms, calling it contrary to Christian teachings and "radically evil...founded in injustice and

cruelty...a fruitful source of pride, idleness and tyranny...[increasing] depravity in the human heart while

it inflames and nourishes a numerous train of dark and brutal passions and lusts, disgraceful to human

nature, and destructive of the general welfare." This copy bears the ownership signature of Samuel C.

Fessenden, Congressman from Maine and scion of a notable abolitionist family, on the front and rear

wrappers. Sabin lists the first edition, but not this second edition. Either edition is scarce in the market.

SABIN 55591 (ref). $675

36. Matthews, Leonard: A LONG LIFE IN REVIEW. [St. Louis. 1928]. [8],176,[6]pp., plus portrait

frontispiece and five additional photographic illustrations, plus a portrait of Matthews at 101 years of age

loosely laid in. 12mo. Original burgundy cloth, gilt. Cloth lightly rubbed and lightly worn at extremities,

some staining to the rear board. Small, faint stain in the extreme lower gutter of a few early leaves. Very

good.

Second edition, published the same year as the first. An interesting memoir, valuable for its Gold Rush

narrative and description of life in St. Louis in the second half of the nineteenth century. Matthews wrote

this memoir to mark his hundredth birthday. He describes his trip overland to California in 1849 as part of

the "St. Louis Telegraph Train" and his experiences in the diggings and as a supercargo on a ship

transporting supplies to Sacramento. In June 1851 he returned to Missouri via Panama, and a good deal of

the text describes his life back there, including experiences in St. Louis during the Civil War, social

customs, the St. Louis tornado of 1896, and his successful career in business. His text is also of interest

for its Mormon content, including encounters with Mormons at Nauvoo, and troubles in Salt Lake City in

1888. There is no place or date of printing, and bibliographers have generally assigned 1928 as the date

for both editions, which were likely printed in Chicago at the Lakeside Press - the size and binding clearly

resemble the Lakeside Classics series. This second edition has an index added, and numerous changes

were made to the text. KURUTZ 433 (noting only the first edition). EBERSTADT, MODERN

OVERLANDS 328 (first ed). MATTES 555 (first ed). MINTZ 328. FLAKE 5308b (first ed). GRAFF

2721. $325

37. Meyers, William H.: (edited by John Haskell Kemble): JOURNAL OF A CRUISE TO

CALIFORNIA AND THE SANDWICH ISLANDS IN THE UNITED STATES SLOOP-OF-WAR

CYANE 1841-1844. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1955. [2],xvi,[2],68pp., plus ten colored

plates and a frontispiece map. Folio. Half morocco and linen, spine gilt. Light wear to the leather at the

spine ends, some offsetting to the hinges from the spine leather. Near fine.

Meyers, a gunner on the Cyane, was present in California and Hawaii during an eventful period, and his

journal covers Thomas ap Catesby Jones's premature capture of Monterey, tensions between the kingdom

of Hawaii and Great Britain, and visits to several California and South American ports. Meyers was also a

very talented artist, and this volume reproduces several of his attractive color sketches, including views of

Monterey, Santa Barbara, Yerba Buena, San Diego, Honolulu, Molokai, and more. Original prospectus

laid in. Printed at the Grabhorn Press, in an edition of 400 copies. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY 578.

$200

Promoting a Nebraska Town that was Never Built

38. [Nebraska]: CIRCULAR OF THE UNION SETTLEMENT COMPANY, OTOE CITY,

NEBRASKA [caption title]. Hartford: Calhoun Printing Co., [circa 1855]. Broadsheet circular, 10 1/2 x 8

1/2 inches, printed on thin blue paper. Three old horizontal fold lines. A couple small stains in the edges,

light edgewear. Very good. In a folding cloth case, gilt leather label.

A rare circular for a Nebraska port town that never came to fruition. Otoe County, Nebraska, located in

the southeastern part of the state, against the Missouri River, was formed in 1854. The county seat,

Nebraska City, was incorporated in 1855, and was a busy port town, with much steamboat traffic and a

large slave population. This rare circular appears to have been issued around the time of Nebraska City's

boom, and seeks to build a competing town a few miles north on the Missouri, near the mouth of the

Platte, at Bennett's Ferry. The Union Settlement Company announces in this circular that it has already

acquired the land, "containing the greatest natural and local advantages on the Upper Missouri," and is

laying out a town plan. The town's location is touted, and its natural advantages and soil and mineral

qualities are described. The price of shares is given as $10, and no person is allowed to hold more than ten

shares.

OCLC locates one copy of this circular, at Yale, which also has another undated Otoe City prospectus

with a map. That prospectus, printed by Phair & Company in New York, is promised as forthcoming at

the conclusion of the text in this circular, and so the present circular would seem to be the earlier Otoe

City promotional. Fine evidence of the push of emigration and town building in the antebellum West.

OCLC 54164309, $1,500

39. Neff, Boss: [McCarty, John L. (ed)]: SOME EXPERIENCES OF BOSS NEFF IN THE TEXAS

AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE [wrapper title]. [Amarillo, Tx. 1941]. [30]pp., printed in triple

columns. Portrait of Boss Neff and thirteen illustrations by Harold Bugbee, including front wrapper.

Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor edgewear and slight soiling around edges. Near fine.

Printed in an edition of 200 copies, not for general sale. This series of twelve recollections of ranching in

the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle in the late nineteenth century were originally written by Boss Neff

for his grandson, and then appeared in the Amarillo GLOBE-NEWS in 1941, accompanied by Harold

Bugbee's illustrations, which are also included here. The text - terse, informative, and entertaining -

includes a chapter on the famous gunfight at Tascosa. ADAMS, HERD 1372. ADAMS, SIX-GUNS 1387

("rare"). $350

Early History of the Texas Revolution

40. Newell, Chester: HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION IN TEXAS, PARTICULARLY OF THE

WAR OF 1835 & '36; TOGETHER WITH THE LATEST GEOGRAPHICAL, TOPOGRAPHICAL,

AND STATISTICAL ACCOUNTS OF THE COUNTRY, FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC

SOURCES. ALSO, AN APPENDIX. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1838. x,[2],215pp., plus folding map

printed on thin paper. 12mo. Modern morocco, spine gilt, with most of the original blindstamped cloth

affixed to the front and rear boards. Small squares of red tape affixed to the four corners of the map.

Foxing. A good copy.

An important early source on the Texas Revolution, drawn from a number of the actors involved in the

conflict, and one of the first works on the Texas Republic. The main narrative begins with the events of

1832 and continues through the Congress that convened in the fall of 1836. Newell went to Texas in 1837

for his health and spent a year there. He gathered his information from a variety of primary sources,

including Sam Houston, who gives an account of Santa Anna's conduct after his capture (contained in the

appendix). Among the Texas military leaders Newell drew from are Lamar, Huston, Poe, Ward, Neil, and

Shackleford. "The quotations from participants are of considerable historical value" - Jenkins. There is

also a concluding section on natural resources, sketches of a number of towns (large and small), advice to

emigrants, and a discussion of religion (Newell, a Protestant minister, thinks Texans could be more

pious), morals (again, they could be better) and education in the new Republic. The map shows the region

from New Orleans west to 102 degrees, and from Matamoros in the south all the way north to the Red

River. Streeter mentions two issues of Newell's book - in the present copy the dedication is printed on

page iv and page iii is blank, and the map is dated 1838. "One of the rare and reliable books on Texas" -

Raines. "One of the best, as well as one of the earliest, works published about Texas while it was a

republic" - Clark. STREETER, TEXAS 1318. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 151. HOWES N115, "aa."

SABIN 54948. RAINES, p.154. RADER 2479. CLARK III:215. GRAFF 3010. EBERSTADT 162:566.

$4,250

Interesting Map of a Small Corner of Oklahoma,

with Manuscript Additions

41. [Oklahoma]: [UNTITLED PRINTED MAP OF A PORTION OF DEWEY COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, WITH MANUSCRIPT ADDITIONS SHOWING THE ROUTE OF THE K.C. M. & O.

RAILROAD, THE CANADIAN RIVER, TWO PARCELS OF PURCHASED PROPERTY, AND THE

APPARENT SITE OF A PROPOSED TOWN]. [Oakwood, Ok. ca. 1900-1910]. 6 x 6 inch township map

printed on a 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 sheet, with several manuscript additions and notes. Old folds. Closed splits

along a few folds (in the edges of the sheet) and two small separations at cross-folds in the map. Good

plus.

What on its face is a very plain and ordinary "township map" of a remote portion of western Oklahoma is

actually quite interesting as a snapshot of early 20th century rural America and the hopes engendered by

railroad construction and the promise of land ownership and town-building. It was originally printed as a

non-specific plat map, modified for adaptation to a southwestern corner of Dewey County, Oklahoma,

which is located just northwest of Oklahoma City. The margin below the map bears the ink stamp of

Perry DeFord Real Estate of Oakwood, Oklahoma, and the upper margin has been filled out in manuscript

to identify the exact portion of the county depicted. The map itself has been filled out in manuscript,

showing the course of the Canadian River through the area, and the route of the K.C. M. & O. Railroad.

The Kansas City, Mexico, and Orient Railway was conceived around 1900 and was intended to reach all

the way to the Pacific at Topolobampo, Mexico. On this map, at the intersection of the railroad and the

river, a small town has been drawn in manuscript, called "Hobseot." We are unable to locate any such

town, and it was apparently never built. The K.C. M. & O. suffered a slightly better fate, eventually being

acquired by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Finally, two small parcels of land have been colored-in in

this map, with the parcel colored red accompanied by a red finger-pointer marked "mine," and the one

colored blue marked "yours." $200

Early Account of the Pacific Whaling Industry, With Marvelous Illustrations

42. Olmsted, Francis Allyn: INCIDENTS OF A WHALING VOYAGE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED

OBSERVATIONS ON THE SCENERY, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, AND MISSIONARY

STATIONS, OF THE SANDWICH AND SOCIETY ISLANDS, ACCOMPANIED BY NUMEROUS

LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTS. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1841. 360pp., including in-text

illustrations, plus twelve lithographed plates (including frontispiece). 12mo. Original black blindstamped

cloth, rebacked in black cloth, spine gilt. Corners expertly repaired. Scattered light foxing, even tanning,

some persistent dampstaining (mostly confined to lower gutter). Occasional pencil underlining or

marginalia. A good copy, complete with all the plates.

One of the earliest accounts of the Pacific whaling industry, and an important narrative of a voyage to

Hawaii and Tahiti. Olmsted, a recent graduate of Yale, shipped aboard the North America, a New London

whaler and "temperance ship" in 1839. They hunted whales in the Atlantic and off the coast of South

America and then set sail for Hawaii. Olmsted later proceeded on his own to Tahiti. The excellent plates

are based on Olmsted's own drawings, and those showing aspects of whaling activities are considered

especially valuable. The plate of Hawaiians surfing is one of the few nineteenth-century depictions of that

sport, and there are also views of churches in Hawaii (old and new). Forbes calls for only eleven plates,

though this copy has the complete complement of twelve. "The most popular description of the whaling

industry previous to...Moby Dick...certainly to be listed among the Pacific classics - Day." Plagued by ill-

health Olmsted died in 1844, still quite young. "One of the great classics of life on a whaling voyage, and

it includes an important account of the author's visit to Hawaii" - Forbes. HILL 1261. FORBES 1312.

DAY, PACIFIC ISLANDS LITERATURE 50. O'REILLY & REITMAN 1041. HUNNEWELL, p.59.

HOWES O75, "aa." SABIN 57239. SMITH O19. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 41-3941. $2,250

Beautiful Copy of a Cornerstone of Western Travel

43. Reid, John C.: REID'S TRAMP; OR, A JOURNAL OF THE INCIDENTS OF TEN MONTHS

TRAVEL THROUGH TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, SONORA, AND CALIFORNIA.

INCLUDING TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATE, SOIL, MINERALS, METALS, AND INHABITANTS;

WITH A NOTICE OF THE GREAT INTER-OCEANIC RAIL ROAD. Selma, Al.: Printed at the Book

and Job Office of John Hardy & Co., 1858. 237pp., including two in-text diagrams and a list of watering

places. Original plum cloth, stamped in blind, spine stamped in gilt. Boards lightly shelfworn, cloth a bit

faded and with an old stain in the upper front joint. Bookplate on front pastedown of Dorothy and Clinton

Josey, contemporary ownership signatures on front free endpaper, copyright leaf, and an internal margin.

Light, mostly marginal, staining to text. The most attractive copy we have seen of a book usually found in

much lesser condition. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

One of the great classics of travel and exploration through the American Southwest, and a highly

important book. Reid's group, the Mesilla Valley Company, left Marion, Alabama in September, 1857

with the intent of exploring the recently-acquired Gadsden Purchase of southern Arizona and southern

New Mexico. They travelled by boat from New Orleans to Galveston and Indianola, and then across

Texas. At Fort Bliss he joined Crabb's Auxiliary Expedition, a filibustering enterprise to Mexico that

resulted in the massacre of almost all of the original participants. Eberstadt notes that many facts of this

and other little-known events are brought to life in Reid's account. The survivors made their way to

Tucson Valley and then to the Pima and Maricopa villages. From there they travelled down the Gila to

Fort Yuma and San Diego, and northward to San Pedro, Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San Francisco. He

returned to New Orleans via Panama. Reid describes the areas through which he travelled, often

providing historical background, and discusses German emigrants, Indian life, flora and fauna,

agricultural possibilities, and more. "One of the great southwestern rarities" - Streeter. "Very scarce in

original binding, and extremely important" - Eberstadt, who hypothesizes that many copies were

destroyed in Selma during the Civil War. "Excessively rare. Probably no subsequent overland, and only

one or two of earlier date, can in any way compare with it in point of actual rarity" - Huntington Sale.

Not in Sabin. An attractive copy of a very important book. WAGNER-CAMP 307. HOWES R172, "d."

ALABAMA IMPRINTS 1091. COWAN, p.528. RAINES, p.172. CLARK 490. RADER 2776. GRAFF

3450. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 39. JONES, ADVENTURES IN AMERICANA 279.

VANDALE TEXIANAMETER 140. DESERT VOICES, p.138. STREETER SALE 176.

HUNTINGTON SALE 740. EBERSTADT 136:574, 162:667. $21,500

Inscribed

44. Riis, Jacob A.: THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1901.

xiii,[1],443,[2]pp. Frontispiece and illustrations. Original blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Shelfworn, worn at spine

ends and corners. Front hinge loosening. Very good.

Inscribed by Riis on the front free endpaper, "Faithfully yours / Jacob A. Riis / New York / Dec. 9 1901."

This copy bears the ownership inscription, also on the front free endpaper, of former Ohio Congressman

Milton Southard (1836-1905). First edition of this classic memoir by the journalist, social reformer, and

photographer. An important perspective on the late nineteenth century immigrant experience in America.

$850

Suppressed?

45. Rye, Edgar: THE QUIRT AND THE SPUR. Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, [1909]. 363pp.,

including eleven full-page illustrations (including frontispiece portrait). Original pictorial tan cloth. Light

wear at corners and spine ends. Previous owners' address label on rear pastedown. Near fine.

A well-regarded series of sketches of West Texas in the late nineteenth century, with much on

Shackelford County and Fort Griffin, cattle ranching and outlaws. Rye was born in Kentucky in 1848,

moved to Texas in 1876, worked as county attorney and justice of the peace in Shackelford County, and

also as a journalist and cartoonist for several newspapers. There are many tales of the cowboy, as well as

buffalo hunting and Indian fighting. This first edition was supposedly suppressed by a prominent ranching

family upset with the contents. SIX SCORE 95. ADAMS, HERD 1982. ADAMS, SIX-GUNS 1923.

RADER 2864. DOBIE, p.161. HOWES R559. $300

Early Map of San Francisco, Printed as a Letter Sheet

46. [San Francisco]: [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: MAP OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

San Francisco: Lith. & Published by Quirot & Co., [ca. 1853]. Map, printed as a pictorial letter sheet, 8

1/4 x 10 3/4 inches, on a folded sheet of blue wove paper (16 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches) with blank conjugate

leaf attached. Some very slight edgewear. Near fine.

A map of San Francisco, done as a letter sheet (this copy with the blank conjugate leaf attached) showing

the city from Mission Bay to North Point, and inland to Larkin Street. Various types of ships are shown in

the bay, and nine buildings and are located, including the Custom House, Post Office, Jenny Lind Theatre

(and other theatres), the prison, and city hall (at Stockton and Filbert). Also located are seven churches

and Yerba Buena cemetery, running along Market between Larkin and Jones. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA'S

PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 148. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 153. PETERS,

CALIFORNIA ON STONE, p.138. $1,750

47. Shaw, R.C.: ACROSS THE PLAINS IN FORTY-NINE. Farmland, In.: W.C. West, 1896. 200pp.

Portrait. 12mo. Original pebbled cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt. Worn at spine ends and

corners, cloth scraped along foredges of boards, and with a few small holes in the joint cloth. Quite clean

internally. Good.

A presentation copy, inscribed on the front fly leaf, "Presented to Mr. & Mrs. T. Hubbard." Reuben C.

Shaw was a member of the Mt. Washington Mining Company, and travelled to California along the North

Platte Route, arriving at Sutter's Fort on September 6, 1849. He describes the difficulty of the journey,

including cholera and Indian scares, in detail. The final chapter recounts mining activities in the vicinity

of Weber Creek. This memoir is expanded from articles that Shaw originally wrote for the FARMLAND

ENTERPRISE in 1895, and is a lively, well-written account of a Gold Rush overland journey, and

experiences in the mines. KURUTZ 571. COWAN, p.580. HOWES S349, "aa." GRAFF 3744.

EBERSTADT, MODERN OVERLANDS 431. MINTZ 420. NORRIS CATALOGUE 3586. $300

48. Sibley, Henry H.: MINNESOTA TERRITORY: ITS PRESENT CONDITION AND PROSPECTS

[wrapper title]. [Washington: Globe Office, 1852]. 6pp., printed in double columns on a folded folio

sheet. Slightly dusty. Very good, unopened. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt.

A scarce and early tract on Minnesota Territory, by the future first governor of the state. Minnesota

Territory had only recently been established by Congress and treaties were being negotiated with the

Sioux. Sibley encourages emigration there, though he warns of the potential hardships that are always

endemic to the settlement of a new country. "One of the earliest accounts of the territory. Sibley's travels

and position afforded him an exceptional and intimate knowledge of the country and its people. His work

provides an accurate picture of the territory and its future, with advice to intending immigrants" -

Eberstadt. Nine copies are listed in OCLC, with all but Minnesota Historical Society and University of

South Dakota being east of the Mississippi. SABIN 80822. EBERSTADT 110:177. OCLC 4297768. $485

The Most Important Contemporary History of San Francisco

49. Soule, Frank, John H. Gihon, and James Nisbet: THE ANNALS OF SAN FRANCISCO;

CONTAINING A SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST DISCOVERY, SETTLEMENT,

PROGRESS, AND PRESENT CONDITION OF CALIFORNIA, AND A COMPLETE HISTORY OF

ALL THE IMPORTANT EVENTS CONNECTED WITH ITS GREAT CITY: TO WHICH ARE

ADDED, BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SOME PROMINENT CITIZENS. ILLUSTRATED WITH

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FINE ENGRAVINGS. New York & San Francisco: D. Appleton &

Company, 1855. 824pp., including in-text illustrations and a single-page map, plus folding map and six

plates (including frontispiece). Thick octavo. Contemporary morocco boards, stamped in blind and gilt,

expertly and unobtrusively rebacked in matching black morocco, retaining original gilt lettering piece,

raised bands, a.e.g. Corners expertly restored, bookplate on front pastedown. Very light wear to boards.

Two-inch closed tear in edge of folding map where bound in. A handsome copy.

"The most important contemporary work on San Francisco...a classic" - Wheat. Historian Richard Dillon,

in his foreword to the 1999 Berkeley Hills Press edition of the book, calls THE ANNALS OF SAN

FRANCISCO "not only the best single book ever written on the City...but has also proved itself to be the

most influential book ever set in type to concern itself with San Francisco."

The text is largely based on newspaper reports (Soule and Nisbet were journalists), on information from

pioneer citizens, and on the authors' personal knowledge. The third author, John Gihon, was a medical

doctor with an interest in history. Gary Kurutz notes that not only is THE ANNALS an outstanding

narrative history of San Francisco, it "also supplies much information on mining and its impact on this

instant city." The folding map shows the region explored by the United States and Mexican Boundary

Commission, and the single-page map is of San Francisco. The frontispiece shows the view on

Montgomery Street northward, and there are portraits of Commodore Stockton, John Geary, and others,

as well as a plethora of illustrations, representing one of the finest collections of views of Gold Rush

California. ZAMORANO 80, 70. COWAN, p. 601. KURUTZ 594. WHEAT, GOLD RUSH 193. ROCQ

7970. SABIN 87268. HOWES S769, "aa." GRAFF 3901. BARRETT 2301. HOWELL 50:791. NORRIS

CATALOGUE 3458. $700

50. Squier, E.G.: NOTES ON CENTRAL AMERICA; PARTICULARLY THE STATES OF

HONDURAS AND SAN SALVADOR: THEIR GEOGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATE,

POPULATION, RESOURCES, PRODUCTIONS, &c., & c., AND THE PROPOSED HONDURAS

TRANS-OCEANIC RAILWAY. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1856. [2],397pp., [i.e. 395pp.,

without a leaf with pages numbered 141-142, as issued, and textually complete]. Includes an in-text map

and illustration, plus five folding maps (including frontispiece) and nine plates (one containing two

views). Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Hinges repaired, light shelfwear, corners and

spine end worn. Quite clean and neat internally. Very good.

A presentation copy of the first British edition, following the first American by a year. In fact, this edition

also lists Harper & Brothers of New York in the imprint, and appears to be the same text, illustrations,

and map as the first American, with a new titlepage. This copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper

"Hon. C.P. Villiers, with the best respects of the author." Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898) was an

influential member of Parliament, sitting in the House of Commons for more than six decades. A

champion of the working man, he successfully fought for the repeal of the Corn Laws and was at the head

of the free trade movement.

E.G. Squier was the American charge d'affaires to the Central American republics, and a prolific writer on

the region. This is an important description of Honduras and San Salvador in the 1850s, with

considerations of politics, governmental structure, the economy, administrative districts, rivers, bays,

ports, harbors, mineral resources, agriculture, and future prospects for development (a major hindrance

being poor roads). A chapter gives details on a proposed inter-oceanic railway through Honduras,

illustrated in the large folding frontispiece map. This copy has an extra map tipped in, showing proposed

routes of interoceanic communication. The plates show views of Tegucigalpas, the island of Tigre,

Comayuga, Puero Caballos, the volcano of San Vicente, and more. "The most complete work on Central

America, by the U.S. diplomatic agent and promoter who supplemented observation with research" -

Griffin. This English edition is not noted by Sabin, and is more scarce than the American. GRIFFIN 4411.

PALAU 321801. PILLING 3724. SABIN 89981 (ref). $575

51. Stokes, Anson Phelps: CHURCH AND STATE IN THE UNITED STATES. New York: Harper &

Brothers, 1950. Three volumes:lxix,[1],936;[4],799;[4],1042pp., plus plates. Frontispiece in each volume.

Cloth. Very minor shelfwear. Near fine copies with good dustjackets (folded and edgeworn, and laid into

the box) for second and third volumes (no dustjacket for first volume). In the original box (back panel

broken, general wear).

First edition. This set bears the ownership signature on the front pastedown of each volume of Jacob K.

Shankman. Shankman (1904-1986) was the longtime rabbi of Temple Israel in New Rochelle, NY, a

member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and American director of the World Union for

Progressive Judaism. His papers are in the collection of the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati. A

very handsome set of the scarce first edition of Stokes's monumental and masterful study of church-state

relations throughout American history. Truly a landmark, essential work, and difficult to find in such nice

condition. $350

Go to Texas!

52. [Texas]: [Military Pensions]: Talbot, D.H.: SEND FOR A COPY OF THE NEW PENSION LAW.

HO! FOR TEXAS! THE LONE STAR STATE! WHERE LANDS ARE CHEAPER THAN IN ANY

OTHER STATE IN THE UNION, AND WHERE CAN BE AND IS RAISED A GREATER VARIETY

OF CROPS THAN IN ANY OTHER TWO [recto]. [on verso:] GOOD NEWS FOR ALL SOLDIERS

AND SAILORS! WHO HAVE TAKEN A LESS AMOUNT OF LAND AS A HOMESTEAD, PRIOR

TO JUNE 22, 1874, THAN 160 ACRES, ARE NOW ENTITLED TO ENOUGH MORE TO MAKE IN

TOTAL 160 ACRES. FOR WHICH I WILL PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE. Sioux City, Ia.: Daily Journal

Steam Print, [1878]. Small broadsheet, 6 x 4 3/4 inches. Fine.

A scarce little broadsheet issued by D.H. Talbot of Sioux City, Iowa, regarding veterans' pensions and

encouraging emigration to Texas. Talbot was offering to sell land in Texas to veterans who served all the

way back to the War of 1812 and even before. He notes that the new pension law gives $8 per month to

the survivors of the War of 1812 or their widows, and encourages emigration to Texas which, "unlike the

old Southern States, is progressive, and is rapidly taking her place among the more advanced States of the

Union." Texas land is noted as selling for as little as twenty-five cents per acre, with more premium land

going for a dollar an acre, and the population is composed "in part of enterprising settlers from all

portions of the Northern states." The verso of the broadsheet details the offers that Talbot will make to

veterans who own land and who want to sell. $200

Rare Study of Creole Grammar, by the Child of Former Slaves

53. Thomas, J.J.: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CREOLE GRAMMAR. Port-of-Spain: The

Chronicle Publishing Office, 1869. viii,134,[1]pp. Original printed green wrappers bound into slightly

later half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands, t.e.g. Boards and spine rubbed, some

shelfwear. Bookplate on front pastedown. Front wrapper and front free endpaper detached, and loosely

laid in. Light, even tanning. Very good.

A rare, pioneering, and highly significant study of Creole grammar, published in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.

John Jacob Thomas (ca. 1841-1889) was one of the most prominent Trinidadian scholars and intellectuals

of African descent. He was born in Trinidad just a few years after slavery ended on that island, and was

largely self-educated. Thomas became a prominent civil servant in Trinidad, and is today probably best

remembered for his 1889 study, FROUDACITY. In 1860, not yet twenty years old, he began working as

a teacher in the remote villages of Savonetta and Couva, and it was there that he began his study of the

Creole language that culminated with the present work. Thomas's 1869 work is a landmark study of the

language that developed among men and women of African descent on Trinidad, in which they fused

their own linguistic traditions with that of the French and Spanish occupants of the island to develop their

own Creole language. While not a trained grammarian, Thomas describes the orthoepy, orthography,

etymology, and syntax of Trinidadian Creole at length and authoritatively. While Thomas asserts in his

preface that his goal in writing this book was practical, specifically to help court interpreters in translating

from Creole into English, and to aid priests in ministering to their African-Trinidadian congregants, his

study of the Creole language has taken on an importance much greater than his initial goals. Not least

among his accomplishments is to show Trinidadian Creole as a manifestation of African culture and

traditions in the New World. Lafcadio Hearn relied on Thomas's study as a source for his own 1885 work,

GOMBO ZHEBES: LITTLE DICTIONARY OF CREOLE DIALECTS.

Quite rare in the market; a copy was sold by Bonhams in 2008 as part of the John and Monica Lawson

Collection of books on education, and before that we cannot find other copies in the market since Charles

Heartman offered a copy in 1948 and Edward Eberstadt & Sons in 1939. Not in Sabin or Palau, nor in the

catalogue of the Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection at Hamilton College. We can find only six copies in

OCLC, all in European institutions, though there is also a copy at Yale. TRUBNER, p.41. LECLERC

2190. OCLC 248495473, 759737006, 474694247, 834721883. EBERSTADT 114:471. Akins Vidale,

"John Jacob Thomas," www.triniview.com/TnT/080705.html $1,750

54. Thompson, G.A.: NARRATIVE OF AN OFFICIAL VISIT TO GUATEMALA FROM MEXICO.

London: John Murray, 1829. xii,vi,528pp., plus folding map. Half title. 12mo. Slightly later three-quarter

morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Front board and half of backstrip smoke-darkened, map singed at

edges and along one fold. Closed three-inch tear in map near gutter, splits along folds. Text quite clean. A

good copy.

George Alexander Thompson, a British commissioner to Mexico, was sent to Guatemala to report on

conditions in the newly-independent United Provinces of Central America, and the potential for British

colonization. He delivers a fairly comprehensive report on Guatemala, its people, villages, capital city,

government, civil structure, the role of the church in society, mines, the state of the slave trade, and also

offers some thoughts on Mexico and Belize. The map shows Central America from the Yucatan to Costa

Rica's southern border, and has an inset showing a proposed canal route from Lake Nicaragua to the

Pacific Ocean. GRIEB GU 1293. PALAU 331831. SABIN 95511. GRIFFIN 4403. $600

Early Accounts of Utah Territory: 1 of 100 Copies Printed

55. [Utah]: Calkin, Asa: GENERAL REPORT OF THE AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS FOR

THE TERRITORY OF UTAH: PRESENTED TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY DECEMBER 18,

1854. Great Salt Lake City: Joseph Cain, Public Printer, 1854. 8pp., on a folded folio sheet. A bit dusty, a

few old creases, else near fine. In a folding cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

An early Utah imprint, one of 100 copies printed. Asa Calkin, auditor of Utah Territory's public accounts,

reports on monies spent and monies to be collected, including delinquencies due to nonpayment. He notes

that county taxes have brought in nearly $8000 dollars, but that the Territory as a whole shows a

delinquency of more than $19,000. Costs include $1250 for roads and bridges in Ogden and Weber, more

than $2000 to the Tithing Office, $173.28 for the Arsenal; $867.39 for Indian Expeditions, more than

$450 for the Library, etc. The least amount spent was $6, for Criminals. Calkin also complains about the

tardy reporting of various Territorial officers, such as those of the University, which makes his job more

difficult. Exasperated, he goes so far as to suggest imposing penalties on those who are late in reporting.

This was Calkin's third and final auditor's report. He left Salt Lake City for the British Mission in 1855.

Not in Flake. OCLC locates seven copies, at The New York Public Library, the Huntington Library,

Brigham Young University, Utah State, Yale, the University of Utah, and Princeton. There are also copies

at the Library of Congress, the Bancroft Library, and the Church History Library in Salt Lake City. An

interesting report on finances, including internal improvements, in Utah, also disclosing the somewhat

disorganized state of affairs in the early Territorial government. McMURTRIE, UTAH 24. CRAWLEY

938. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS UTAH EXHIBITION (1947), 228. DECKER 47:251. EBERSTADT

167:482. OCLC 41315083, 702365009, 8069755. $1,500

56. Vandiveer, Clarence A.: THE FUR-TRADE AND EARLY WESTERN EXPLORATION.

Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1929. 316pp., including illustrations. Frontispiece. Half title.

Original green cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g. Light shelfwear, minor wear at spine ends. Front hinge loosening.

Very clean internally. Overall, a very good copy.

An extensive and thorough history of the development of the fur trade in the American and Canadian

west, from the 17th century into the 19th century. "Much sought by collectors" - Clark & Brunet. CLARK

& BRUNET 288. PAHER 2056. $60

George Davidson’s Copy

57. [Venus, Transit of]: [Davidson, George]: TRANSIT OF VENUS, 1882. INSTRUCTIONS TO

OBSERVERS [caption title]. [London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1882].

23,[1]pp. Gathered signatures, loose, removed from a larger volume. Printed on poor paper; tanned, and

with small several small chips in the edges of leaves. Good.

Noted geographer and astronomer George Davidson's copy, with his signature (dated October 27, 1882)

in the upper margin of the first page, and his marginalia and underlining in several places throughout.

Davidson (1825-1911) supervised the American scientific expeditions to observe the Transit of Venus in

1874 and 1882. This text includes detailed instructions on scientific instruments to use in observing the

1882 Transit of Venus, and on notes and measurements to make. There is also a section printing notes

made during observations of the transit in 1874. Separated by a gap of more than a century, and usually

occurring in pairs, the Transit of Venus is an important opportunity to gather information helpful in

understanding the solar system and beyond. OCLC locates two copies (and notes that this is usually found

with a committee report on superintending the arrangements), at Oxford and the National Library of

Australia. OCLC 221047975. $100

Four by Henry Wagner

58. Wagner, Henry R.: THE DESCENT ON CALIFORNIA IN 1683. [San Francisco]: California

Historical Society, 1947. pp.309-320pp. Errata slip tipped onto first page of text. Stapled leaves. Two

small spots on final (unrelated) page, else fine.

Translation of an account of an expedition to the tip of Baja California in 1683, in which Father Kino

participated. The account is translated, with an introduction by Wagner. AXE, PUBLISHED WRITINGS

OF HENRY R. WAGNER, 142. $35

59. Wagner, Henry R.: A DISCUSSION OF RAMON IGLESIA'S Cronistas e Historiadores de la

Conquista de Mexico: el Ciclo de Hernan Cortes. [Berkeley, Ca.]: Pacific Historical Review, 1942.

pp.449-450. Fine.

Offprint of Wagner's rather critical review of Iglesia's book on Cortes and the earliest historians of the

Spanish conquest. AXE, PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF HENRY R. WAGNER, 119. $35

60. Wagner, Henry R.: FRANCISCO LOPEZ DE GOMARA AND HIS WORKS. Worcester, Ma.:

American Antiquarian Society, 1949. 22pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine.

According to Axe, one of thirty separately issued copies, repaginated, from the PROCEEDINGS OF THE

AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, October, 1948. Wagner's essay on Francisco Lopez de

Gomara, one of the principal, early historians of Spanish conquests in the New World, specifically Peru

and Mexico. Includes a study of Lopez de Gomara's several published works. AXE, PUBLISHED

WRITINGS OF HENRY R. WAGNER, 145. $50

61. Wagner, Henry R.: THE LOST FIRST LETTER OF CORTES. [Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press],

1941. pp.[669]-672. Stapled self-wrappers. Fine.

One of seventy-five copies, according to Axe. Wagner's essay on the "lost first letter" of explorer Hernan

Cortes to King Charles of Spain, describing the conquest of Mexico. An offprint from the HISPANIC

AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW. AXE, PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF HENRY R. WAGNER,

109. $65

Unrecorded Prospectus for a Washington Gold Mining Company

62. [Washington Mining]: THE GREAT REPUBLIC GOLD MINING CO., OF SEATTLE,

WASH...PROSPECTUS..... [N.p., but likely Minneapolis or Seattle. ca. 1900]. [16]pp., printed in red and

black, including five maps. Small folio. Original stapled self-wrappers. Old folds. A bit of soiling to the

outer leaves and a couple of closed marginal tears, else very good.

Rare prospectus for the Great Republic Gold Mining Company of Seattle, which operated several mines

in Snohomish County around 1900. The text describes their capitalization, program of works for 1899-

1900, the extent of their mines, reports of inspection visits, and more. The maps show the locations of the

company's mines in Silverton, Monte Cristo, and Silver Creek, and a double-page map shows the mines,

electric railway, and townsite of the Great Republic Gold Mining Company along the Miller River and

Money Creek. The operation was run by the Pacific Mining Investment Company of Minneapolis, which

produced this prospectus. OCLC lists three other titles relating to the Great Republic Gold Mining

Company of Seattle (all located in only a single copy, at the University of Washington), but not this 16pp.

prospectus. Rare. $300

A Survey of Public Buildings in the West on the Eve of the Depression

63. [Western Photographica]: [ALBUM OF NINETY-EIGHT ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF

PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN THE WEST, INCLUDING COURTHOUSES, SCHOOLS, STATEHOUSES,

POST OFFICES, AND HOSPITALS IN CALIFORNIA, OREGON, AND NEVADA]. [California,

Oregon, and Nevada. ca. 1927]. Ninety-eight original photographic prints, each measuring approximately

2 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (or the reverse). Most images captioned either in ink on the mount or with a small

typed legend in the top margin of the image. Affixed to the leaves of a contemporary oblong 12mo.

leatherbound photo album. One image loosely laid in. Near fine.

An unusual album of photographic views from California, Nevada, and Oregon, showing a variety of

public buildings in those states. Among the images are California county courthouses in Redding,

Stockton, Red Bluff, Weaverville, Santa Rosa, Sonora, Madera, Oroville, Martinez, Willows, Placerville,

Yuba City, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Eureka, Ukiah, San Andreas, and more. Buildings in Oregon include

the statehouse and Marion County courthouse in Salem, Medford City Hall, the Josephine County

courthouse in Grants Pass, and the post office in Roseburg. From Nevada, views include the Washoe

County courthouse in Reno, the statehouse in Carson City, and the Masonic Temple in Reno. Schools are

shown in Bieber, Antioch, Chico, Madera, Red Bluff, and Alturas, California, among others. There are

also images of hospitals, banks, fraternal organizations, the old customs house in Monterey, and more.

The images all appear to have been taken around 1927, for an unknown reason. Were anyone to single-

mindedly pursue the same type of images today, they would likely wind up on a Homeland Security

watch list. $500

Eccentric Account of the California Gold Rush

64. Willcox, R.N.: REMINISCENCES OF CALIFORNIA LIFE. BEING AN ABRIDGED

DESCRIPTION OF SCENES WHICH THE AUTHOR HAS PASSED THROUGH IN CALIFORNIA,

AND OTHER LANDS. WITH QUOTATIONS FROM OTHER AUTHORS. A SHORT LECTURE ON

PSYCHIC SCIENCE. AN ARTICLE ON CHURCH AND STATE: WRITTEN BY HIS SON; R.P.

WILLCOX. Avery, Oh.: Willcox Print, 1897. [2],290pp. Original black pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Cloth

lightly rubbed and shelfworn. Text lightly tanned, but very clean and neat internally. Very good.

A little-known, scarce, and valuable account of the Gold Rush. Willcox was an apprentice carpenter in

Mystic River, Connecticut at the time news of the California gold discoveries began to spread. He sailed

from New York to Panama on January 20, 1852, crossed the Isthmus, and arrived in San Francisco in a

very quick thirty-three days after his departure from New York. He gives a good description of crossing

Panama and of life in San Francisco and the mines, writing in elaborate detail of the mining camps,

outlaw bands, gambling saloons, opium dens, California cattle and agriculture, Vigilance organizations,

Indian troubles, and more. Willcox worked as a carpenter and got a job building a bridge over the

American River, a sawmill, and a quartz mill. "Somewhat rambling in his recollections, Willcox describes

Chinese miners, hydraulic mining, wagon roads, quicksilver mining, and general resources of California"

- Kurutz. "His vivid portrayal of mining life in California, from 1850 on is of deep interest. In it he

depicts in details the rowdyism, hardships and Indian troubles that best the early miners. A source book of

real value" - Norris catalogue.

The Graff copy notes the presence of a frontispiece portrait, but Howes asserts that the portrait was

printed circa 1901 and only inserted into some copies. The Streeter copy did not contain the portrait, nor

does the present copy. Howes notes that not over 100 copies were printed, but Ernest Wessen (who called

it a "very rare book") wrote that "one who is said to have participated in the printing of this book has

assured your cataloguer that less than seventy-five copies were issued" (MIDLAND NOTES). While

rather plentiful in library holdings, this book is scarce on the market. KURUTZ 681. COWAN, p.684.

ROCQ 16163. WHEAT, GOLD RUSH 228. HOWES W436, "aa." FLAKE 9865. NORRIS

CATALOGUE 4228. STREETER SALE 3024. GRAFF 4673. ADAMS, HERD 2520. ADAMS, SIX-

GUNS 2394. HOWELL 50:933. MIDLAND NOTES 3:82. $1,000

Outstanding Stereoviews of Yellowstone

65. [Yellowstone]: YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK THROUGH THE STEREOSCOPE. New

York: Underwood and Underwood, [1904]. 68pp., plus folding map. Plus thirty stereoscopic images on

stiff mounts, plus a second (different) copy of view number twenty-six. Narrow 12mo. Original printed

brown wrappers. Light wear. The stereoscopes clean and bright and in fine condition. Housed in original

brown cloth chemise, spine gilt.

An important photographic tour of Yellowstone, containing thirty stereoscopes of the park (this set

contains two versions of view twenty-six, see below). Like many natural wonders of the western United

States, the beauties of Yellowstone had to be seen to be believed. As a result, it became a popular subject

for photographic firms, from F. Jay Haynes to Underwood and Underwood, who specialized in

stereoscopic views. The pamphlet text begins with a brief history and overview of Yellowstone, along

with tips on how best to enjoy the park, before moving on to detailed descriptions of each of the views

contained in the stereocards. The text bears a copyright date of 1904, while the map, which is keyed to the

photographs, is copyrighted 1905. Each of the views is copyrighted 1904 on the mount (save for the

Keppler Canyon view, copyrighted 1901), with an accompanying title. The verso of each mount contains

a few paragraphs describing the scene, with the title from the recto further translated into French,

German, Spanish, Swedish, and Cyrillic, demonstrating the wide geographic spread of those who would

be interested in the images. The images are titled as follows:

1) "Arriving by N. Pac. Ry. at Gardiner, Mont., for visit to Yellowstone Park - looking west to Gallatin

Range."

2) "Six-horse tally-ho leaving mountain walled Gardiner for trip through Yellowstone Park, U.S.A."

3) "From Yellowstone Park N. through its gateway over Gardiner to Gallatin Range (left) and Buffalo

Plateau."

4) "Fort Yellowstone, among the mountains, headquarters of U.S. Troops guarding Yellowstone Park,

U.S.A."

5) "A mountain of 'petrified water' - Pulpit Terrace and Mammoth Springs Hotel, Yellowstone Park,

U.S.A."

6) "How an overflowing spring begins to build a terrace of "geyserite" deposits, Yellowstone Park,

U.S.A."

7) "Cleopatra Terrace and its mirror-like pools - Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone Park, U.S.A."

8) "Wild Buffalo, one of America's 'first families,' at home on a sunny slope, Yellowstone Park, U.S.A."

9) "Golden Gate - entrance to picturesque ravine of 'golden rocks' - Yellowstone Park, U.S.A."

10) "'Black Growler' whose steam kills trees, and whose roaring startles tourists, Yellowstone Park,

U.S.A."

11) "Glittering spray from 'Constant' Geyser and steam from 'Black Growler,' Yellowstone Park, U.S.A."

12) "The 'Devil's Inkwell' bubbling and boiling over hidden fires, in famous Yellowstone Park, U.S.A."

13) "Grizzly Bear at home in the wooded wilderness of famous Yellowstone Park, U.S.A."

14) "'Great Fountain' Geyser, throwing up clouds of steam and boiling water, Yellowstone Park."

15) "The 'Black Warrior' Geyser waving a banner of steam and spray Yellowstone Park, U.S.A."

16) "Grotesque shapes of geyserite among the pools of 'Biscuit Basin,' Yellowstone Park, U.S.A."

17) "Fifteen-minute display of 'Riverside" Geyser' - boiling water 100 feet in air - Yellowstone Park,

U.S.A."

18) "The 'Tea Kettle' boiling hot from Mother Earth's hidden fire - Yellowstone Park, U.S.A."

19) "Sunrise in Yellowstone Park, where Mother Earth's great fires still burn - N.E. over Upper Geyser

Basin."

20) "Peering into the mysterious center of 'Old Faithful,' between its eruptions, Yellowstone Park,

U.S.A."

21) "The most famous sight in Yellowstone Park - 'Old Faithful' Geyser in action (height 180 ft.)."

22) "Mirrored beauty of majestic 'Old Faithful,' east to Continental Divide, Yellowstone Park, U.S.A."

23) "Ominous bubbling and boiling in the 'Devil's Punch Bowl,' Yellowstone Park, U.S.A."

24) "Keppler Cascade, one of the Gems of Yellowstone Park, U.S.A."

25) "W. from the Continental Divide over Shoshone Lake to the distant Grand Teton, Yellowstone Park,

U.S.A."

26) "Fisherman at lake turning to cook in a boiling hot spring the trout just caught, Yellowstone Park,

U.S.A." (NOTE: there are two copies of this view, one showing a man in sporting gear, the other a man

dressed in a suit).

27) "From Pt. Lookout, 1,200 ft. above the river, up canon to Lower Falls (308 ft.), Yellowstone Park,

U.S.A."

28) "From Pt. Lookout north down the glorious canon to river 1,200 feet below, Yellowstone Park,

U.S.A."

29) "Ten miles of yawning chasm - down the canon from Inspiration Pt. Yellowstone Park, U.S.A."

30) "Incredible heights and depths of the canon N.E. from Artists' Point, Yellowstone Park, U.S.A."

$1,000

Twenty-four Lovely Images of Yosemite

66. [Yosemite]: Turner, Charles Quincy: YOSEMITE VALLEY THROUGH THE STEREOSCOPE.

New York: Underwood & Underwood, [1902]. 70pp., plus folding map. Plus twenty-four stereoscopic

images on stiff mounts. Narrow 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Insect damage to upper and lower

margins of final three leaves, not affecting text, otherwise quite neat. One small tear in the map. The

images are clean, fresh, and in outstanding condition. Very good overall. Housed in original brown cloth

chemise (worn), spine gilt.

First edition of this attractive group of views of Yosemite, issued one by the leading producers of

stereoviews at the time. The Underwood firm also produced similar groupings of stereos and

accompanying text of Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, all of them feeding a worldwide interest in

photographic images of the great natural wonders of the American West. The text by Charles Quincy

Turner (former editor of OUTING magazine) gives a brief history of Yosemite, followed by detailed

explanations of each of the twenty-four views, each of which is also keyed to places on the folding map.

The map is copyrighted 1902, and the views are each copyrighted 1902 (save one dated 1901), with an

accompanying title on the recto. The verso of most of the mounts contains a few paragraphs describing

the scene, with the title from the recto further translated into French, German, Spanish, Swedish, and

Cyrillic, demonstrating the wide geographic spread of those who would be interested in the images. The

images are titled as follows:

1) "From Inspiration Point (E.N.E.) through Yosemite Valley - showing Bridal Veil Falls, Cal."

2) "El Capitan (3,300 ft. high), most imposing of granite cliffs - east to Half Dome. Yosemite Valley,

Cal."

3) "Ribbon Falls (2000 ft. leap), looking N. from the Valley, near Merced River, Yosemite, Cal."

4) "El Capitan, a solid granite mountain (3,300 ft. high) - looking N.W. - Yosemite Valley, Cal."

5) "The 'Three Brothers' (Eagle Peak in centre) from down the wonderful valley to Yosemite, Cal."

6) "North Dome. Half Dome and Cloud's Rest. Yosemite Valley, Cal."

7) "Mirror View of the Majestic Cathedral Rocks - looking W.S.W. down the Valley, Yosemite, Cal."

8) "Amidst Yosemite's charms - Sentinel hotel, looking N. across valley to Yosemite Falls, Cal."

9) "Majestic Yosemite Point, and wind-sprayed Yosemite Falls (1,600 ft. leap, looking N.N.E.), Yosemite

Valley, Cal."

10) "The Valley, Half Dome, Nevada Falls, Cap of Liberty and imposing Sierras, Yosemite, Cal."

11) "Yosemite Falls, from Glacier Point trail, Yosemite Valley, Cal."

12) "Look up the sheer face of Glacier Point, 3000 ft. to the Overhanging Rocks. Yosemite Valley, Cal."

13) "Look straight down from Overhanging Rocks, Glacier Point, 3,257 ft. into Valley below Yosemite,

Cal."

14) "Nearly a mile straight down and only a step - from Glacier Point, (N.W.) Yosemite, Cal."

15) "Overlooking nature's greatest scenery - from Glacier Point (N.E.) Yosemite Valley, Cal."

16) "From Glacier Point, over Mirror Lake, Half Dome and Clouds Rest, Yosemite Valley, Cal."

17) "Nevada and Vernal Falls, and Cap of Liberty - from Glacier Point (E.S.E.) Yosemite Valley, Cal."

18) "Amidst the majestic heights and chasms of wonderful Yosemite Valley - from Trail (N.N.W.), Cal."

19) "On the brink of a fearful chasm - from Glacier Canon (N.E.) to Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, Cal."

20) "Climbing up the steep Zig-Zag trail - at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley, Cal."

21) "Nevada Falls (605 ft. high) and Cap of Liberty (1800 ft.), from Trail, Yosemite Valley, Cal."

22) "Mirror Lake, where Nature multiplies her Charms - looking (N.E.) to Mt. Watkins, Yosemite Valley,

Cal."

23) "From Clouds Rest over Lake Tenaiya to the distant Matterhorn, Sierra Nevada Mts., Cal."

24) "From Clouds Rest (S.E.) over Little Yosemite Valley to Mt. Clark (11,250 ft.), Sierra Nevada Mts.

Cal." $850

Records of One of the Most Exclusive Clubs in New York

1 of 100 Copies, with Type Designed by Tiffany

67. [Zodiac Club]: RECORDS OF THE ZODIAC AS THEY APPEAR IN THE MINUTE BOOKS

1868 - 1915. New York: Privately Printed, 1916. xv,[1],335,[9]pp., plus numerous portraits and two

colored plates, including frontispiece. Half title. Quarto. Original half cloth and paper-covered boards,

front board stamped with gilt insignia, gilt morocco spine labels. Front hinge a bit weak, bifolium

containing the Honorary Retired List and the first leaf of the Minutes loosely laid in, else near fine. In the

original green cloth dustjacket, gilt (jacket with slight edgewear and tears at the spine ends).

From an edition of 100 copies, said to have been printed for the Zodiac Club by Charles Scribner and

Sons, with type designed by Tiffany & Company. A second volume of the club's history appeared in

1928.

A magnificent artifact of a club founded in New York City during the Gilded Age, which continues to this

day, and for whose dozen members the Gilded Age has never ended. This work records nearly fifty years

of dinner meetings held by a club consisting of the financial and power elite of New York. The Zodiac

Club was founded in 1868 by Civil War General Edward Elmer Potter and consisted of twelve of the

wealthiest men in New York, men who wanted to socialize and enjoy food, wine, and gossip of the

highest order. The twelve members were (and are) each named after a sign of the zodiac. Among the

members were J.P. Morgan and his son, J.P. Morgan, Jr., politicians J. Hampden Robb and Nelson

Aldrich, lawyers Joseph H. Choate and Lewis Cass Ledyard, coal magnate James Clendenin, and a

number of military veterans.

This volume prints the constitution of the club, which calls for meetings on the final Saturday of each

month from November through April, and also lists the names of the forty men who have been members

to date. The menus and wine lists of 272 meetings are carefully recorded, and there are also brief notes on

the business that was conducted and the cost of the meal. The Zodiac Club met at a variety of locations,

usually at the Knickerbocker Club and the Union Club, but also including the Delmonico's and the private

apartment of restauranteur Louis Sherry. The menu for each meeting was arranged by a "caterer" chosen

from among the club members, each of whom tried to outdo the others in terms of lavishness. Members

of the club contributed the wines. The records of the Zodiac Club thereby also allow us to chart tastes in

food and wine at the highest levels in Victorian America.

This copy bears the bookplate of George Selleck on the front pastedown, and laid in is a typed note dated

1974 to Selleck from Porter Sesnon, as well as photocopies of five pages of documents. Selleck and

Sesnon appear to have been members of a West Coast version of the Zodiac Club, founded in 1963 and

emulating the original New York club. OCLC locates ten copies (six of those in New York institutions) of

this first volume of the history of the Zodiac Club. OCLC 7013680, 228711432. $2,250