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[Western Australian Museum]
Biological Survey of Mitchell Plateau and Admiralty Gulf Kimberley Western Australia. Papers resulting from a joint field expedition to Mitchell Plateau Kimberley by the Western Australian Museum Perth and the Field Museum of Natural History Chicago U.S.A. 1976-1977
Perth: Western Australian Museum 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Perth Western Australian Museum 1981. Small quarto iv 274 pages with numerous tables maps and illustrations from photographs. Pictorial card covers slightly rubbed with a tiny crease at one corner; ownership stamp on title page; an excellent copy. Western Australian Museum paperback
Bookseller reference : 144478
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[WESTERN AMERICANA - WOMEN]. CUSTER, Elizabeth B
Boots and Saddles or life in Dakota with General Custer. . . .
New York: Harper & Brothers 1885. 12mo. 312 pp. Frontisp. map. Pictorial brown publisher’s cloth gilt & black illust. of bugle and sunrise on front cover wear to fore-edges corners rubbing to spine still good copy w/ mounted albumen photo of a classroom on school steps on front pastedown sized 4 x 5 in. from the library of Florence Puher fl. 1890-1920 teacher and stenographer in Kansas City MO. First edition 2nd state of this account of General Custer and his wife during the Dakota campaigns right up till the battle at Little Big Horn. “Libbie†Custer 1842-1933 graduated valedictorian from the Young Ladies’ Seminary & Collegiate Institute in Monroe MI and soon after meeting Captain Custer and his meteoric rise to Brigidair General before Gettysburg married him Feb. 9 1864. Libbie’s charm and intelligence helped advance her husband’s career was admired by Gen. Phil Sheridan and accompanied her husband following the Civil War as he marched a cavalry division from Louisiana to Texas. After the Battle of Little Big Horn she would spend the next 57 years tirelessly writing and promoting to defend Gen. Custer’s reputation including this title and later the Following the Guidon 1890. See: Shirley Leckie Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth 1993. Harper & Brothers, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 60593
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[WESTERN AMERICANA -- WOMEN AUTHORS]. POE, Sophie
Buckboard days. Edited by Eugene Cunningham. Illustrated with many photographs from the famous Rose Collection of San Antonio. . . .
Caldwell ID: The Caxton Printers Ltd. 1936. Tall 8vo. 292 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Gray publisher’s cloth black lettering on spine illustrated map endpapers slight shelfwear w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by L.D. Cram slight chipping edgewear price-clipped still NF/VG copy from the library of Jack C. Best. First edition of this firsthand account of the thrilling experiences on our Southwestern frontier of John William Poe buffalo hunter United States Marshal sheriff rancher and banker by his wife Sophie Poe. She relates John Poe’s work as detective for the Canadian River Cattlemen trailing Billy the Kid and how as deputy sheriff under Pat Garrett he witnessed the killing of Billy in Pete Maxwell’s bedroom. Sophie Poe relates much of her life on the New Mexico frontier her experiences with old Roswell and John Chisum and more. See: Herd 1813 Six-Guns 778 Dykes 234. The Caxton Printers, Ltd., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 64236
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[Western Australia]
Bunbury Brewery Co. Perth Australia. A Pair of Beer Labels for Pale Ale and Stout
Perth: Sands & McDougall 1900. Very good condition. Two lithographed beer labels one on red paper and printed in red and black the second on cream paper and printed in black and both with the brewery's logo. Bottled by H. Sherwood & Co. Esplanade Perth. 3 1/2 x 2 3/4" Sands & McDougall unknown
Bookseller reference : 22027
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[Western Americana - 19th Century ] Haynes, Frank Jay
Cabinet Card Portrait of a Family in St. Paul Minnesota with One Man Holding a Violin and Another Carrying a Revolver 1890s
St. Paul 1889. Cabinet card portrait measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. Fine condition with great contrast. Fine. A striking portrait of a family taken by F. Jay Haynes in his St. Paul studio taken after 1889 when he opened it his last studio of his career. A family sits together one man holding a violin another with a revolver visible at his side. unknown
Bookseller reference : List1436
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[WESTERN AMERICANA -- COLUMBIA RIVER]. WATKINS, Charles Edward; ALINDER, James (Ed), FEATHERSTONE, David & ANDERSON, Russ
Carleton E. Watkins: photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon. Edited by. . . .
Carmel CA: The Friends of Photography Inc. 1979. Oblong 4to. 31 1; 104 pp unpaginated. Second title in red & black 8 text photo illustrations 51 sepia-tinted photo plates. Oatmeal-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art photo of Columbia River gorge by Watkins slight dustsoiling very slight shelfwear NF/NF copy w/ original Friends of Photography membership application laid-in from the library of Charles H. “Brig†Belvin IV b. 1937 w/ ownership markings on ffep. First edition thus of this exceptional photographic work which reproduces all 51 of Watkins’ mammoth plate prints from the Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon presenting a unique opportunity to fully appreciate the noted photographer’s brief six month period in 1867 documenting the Gorge in his exacting 18 x 22 in. wet plate glass negative process. The Friends of Photography, Inc., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 62332 ISBN : 0933286139 9780933286139
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[Western Americana] [Art] Russell, Charles M; Price, B Byron (edited by); with contributions by Dippie, Brian W; Hassrick, Peter
Charles M. Russell A Catalogue Raisonne
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 2007. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Very good. Folio with slip case. xviii 348 pages. Illustrated with color frontispiece color illustrations and black and white drawings. Brown leather binding with title facsimile signature and a steer head stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine. All edges gilt. Includes a one time key code to the website www dot Russellraisonne dot com. Limited numbered signed edition of 500 copies. This copy is numbered 184. Signed by the editor and 5 more of the contributors. University of Oklahoma Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 35400 ISBN : 080613836x 9780806138367
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[Western Americana]
CLASON’S GUIDE TO NEVADA with Map of Auto Routes
Denver: The Clason Map Co 1916. Includes a geographical index of towns and a table of railroad distances. The population of the state at the time was 98726 and Las Vegas was little more than a railroad division point. The raising of stock was an important industry: “Owing to the limited water supply it will never be an important agricultural state.â€<br />  <br /> 20 p. index with a folding map 17 ¾ x 22 ½â€. Original printed green paper wrappers 4†x 6 ¼â€. Some minor edgewear; otherwise very good. The Clason Map Co unknown
Bookseller reference : 78132
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[Western Americana]
COLORADO MINING CERTIFICATE: Clear Creek Tunnel Mining Company
Boston Massachusetts 1865. Engraved and printed in black on thin blue stock 7 ¾†x 6 ¾†with a green stamp this is certificate number 143 signed. Faded revenue stamp pasted on the left edge.<br /> <br /> A certificate for 100 shares in the mining company. Clear Creek owned 600 feet on the Kinney Tunnel Lode on North Creek in Black Hawk Colorado. Gold was found as high at $600 per ton and the mine also owned a mill-site on the creek at the mouth of a mine entrance a house and a 25-horse engine Hollister Ovando James: The Mines of Colorado. unknown
Bookseller reference : 79374
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[Western Americana]
COLORADO STOCK CERTIFICATE: The San Juan Consolidated Mining Co
Del Norte Colorado 1875. Engraved and printed in black on thin cream stock 11†by 8†this certificate No. 62 is for 100 shares of capital stock for $100 each. The certificate is signed and includes a blue cancellation stamp.<br /> <br /> Mining property in the San Juan Mountains region of the Colorado Territory. unknown
Bookseller reference : 79372
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[Western Americana]
COLORADO SILVER MINING STOCK: The Santa Barbara Silver Mining Company
Colorado Springs Colorado 1885. Engraved and printed in purple and green on thin cream stock 14 ¾†x 15 ½†this is bond number 4 signed. $500 10 percent bond secured by a deed of trust to the Fidelity Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Cincinnati Ohio. Includes six coupons valued at $25 each that are punched by still intact. unknown
Bookseller reference : 79373
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[Western Americana]
COLORADO: Kenyons Complete Indexed Pocket Map and Shippers’ Guide
Des Moines Iowa: The Kenyon Company 1918. A color map showing all the railroads cities towns post offices rivers telegraph stations money order post offices and chief auto roads. The population of the state at the time was 799024.<br />  <br /> 18 p. with a folding map 18 ½†x 14â€. An index of Colorado with the latest census and a shipping and postal guide is printed on the verso of the map. Original printed blue paper wrappers 4 ¼†x 6 ¼â€. Near fine. The Kenyon Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 78138
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[Western Americana]
COLTON’S MAP OF DAKOTA
New York: G.W. and C.B. Colton 1886. Hand-colored pre-statehood map published only three years before the Dakota Territory was split into North and South Dakota. Depicts the various counties railroads and townships with relief indicated by hachures.<br />  <br /> The 15 ½†x 12 ½†map folds into the original burgundy cloth-covered boards 3 ¾†x 5 ¾†with gilt and blind stamping. “Compliments off Aug. T. Post Banker 25 Nassau St. New York†is stamped on the front panel. Near fine. Scarce OCLC locates only two holdings: Yale and State Historical Society of North Dakota. G.W. and C.B. Colton unknown
Bookseller reference : 78130
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[WESTERN AMERICANA -- OREGON PIONEER ASSOCIATION SAMMELBAND]. [APPLEGATE, Jesse; NESMITH, J[ohn] W[ills]; ALLAN, George T, et al
Constitution and quotations from the register of the Oregon Pioneer Association; Transactions of the Third Annual Re-Union. . .; Fourth annual re-union . . . article written by Hon. Jesse Applegate “A day with the cow column in 1843;†Fifth annual re-union; Sixth; Seventh . . . “A recollection of the Rogue River War of 1853 by Hon. J.W. Nesmith;†Eighth . . . “The attack at the Cascades in 1856. An account by an ex-soldier of the defense at the Middle Block House;†Ninth. . . “Journal of a voyage from Fort Vancouver Columbia River to York Factory Hudson’s Bay 1841 by George T. Allan; Tenth. . . ; Eleventh. . . ; Twelfth. . . ; Thirteenth. . . ; Fourteenth. . . .
Salem & Portland OR: E.M. Waite Book & Job Printer; Press of George H. Himes 169-177 Second Street 1875-1887. Fourteen parts in one vol. Thick 8vo. 96; 88; 65 3; 98; 95 1; 63 1; 64; 80; 90 2; 29 3; 43 1; 44; 109 1; 10 pp. Oregon Pioneer Association emblem on titles 3 collotype photo plates tables. Contemporary quarter-brown calf over black cloth rubbing edgewear scuffing rubbing & wear to fore-edges wear to corners shaken still G copy from the library of Addie Mae Wilson Brant 1898-1985 noted home cook from Yoncalla Oregon granddaughter of famed Oregon settler William Hunt Wilson 1822-1902 who drove wagons for Jesse Applegate 1811-1888 over the Oregon Trail and a staunch abolitionist who virulently opposed the anti-immigration and anti-Black laws passed in early Oregon w/ additional pencil inscription of “Uncle Jesse Applegate†on front pastedowns possibly indicating this was his copy. First editions of these thirteen early publications issued by the Oregon Pioneer Association featuring an invaluable separately printed index as well as the first local printing of Applegate’s famed “A Day with the Cow Column in 1843†which was first published in 1868 in the Overland Monthly. The account is still considered one of the best early first person accounts of pioneer families trekking across the Oregon Trail. Nesmith 1820-1885 has included his own memoir of the 1853 Rogue River War serving with General Joseph Lane and commanding forces at the pivotal 1853 engagement at Evans Creek resulting in the Table Rock Treaty. Within two years following the 1855 Lupton Massacre the Rogue River War renewed resulting in the forced removal of the Takelma Shasta and Applegate Indigenous Peoples to the Siletz Reservation. E.M. Waite, Book & Job Printer; Press of George H. Himes, 169-177 Second Street, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 64248
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[WESTERN AMERICANA / PHOTOGRAPHY / MANITOBA / WOMEN'S HISTORY]
Delightful Group Portrait of Young Women in a Charming Tableau Vivant
Butte Montana: Genelli Studio N.D. Circa 1895. First Edition First Printing. Original Photograph on Mount. Original gelatin silver photograph measuring 13.25" x 10.5" mounted on its original heavy card-stock frame to an overall size of 13.75" x 10.75". An utterly charming and highly uncommon group portrait capturing ninteen young women dressed uniformly in flowing white gowns some adorned with sashes and bows. In contrast to the often rigid and sombre studio portraits typical of the period the image is remarkable for the subjects' relaxed candid and cheerful poses and expressions. Their choice of attire - resembling Victorian lingerie dresses - strongly suggests the group was gathered for a specific collective event such as a tableau vivant a theatrical production a society pageant or perhaps a graduation ceremony. Bears the stylized imprint of the prominent Western photography firm "Genelli" to the lower-left margin alongside a full studio stamp to the verso reading "Genelli 122 North Main St. Butte Montana." accompanied with a contemporary manuscript ink annotation also to the verso which suggests the era "about 1895" a location of provenance "Portage la Prairie" and a subject "Aunt Frank"'. Captured and produced by the American photography firm Genelli Studio a prestigious high-end franchise known for their artistic portraiture sophisticated lighting techniques and use of elaborate theatrical backdrops beautifully exemplified by the rich drapery and wainscoting apparent in the background of this lovely image. Exceptionally well-preserved retaining excellent clarity sharp focus and tonal range showing only but minor typical silvering to the darker areas and a few largely unobtrusive minor spots to the centre; Original mount remains sound showing some moderate edgewear slight rounding and minor delamination to the corners. Overall very good. Thoroughly lovely and charming. Rare. <br/><br/> Genelli Studio unknown
Bookseller reference : 7741
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[Western Americana] [Vernacular photography] [Education]
Dress-Up-Day Pictures Original string bound photograph album
St. Croix Falls WI: N.p. 1940. Vintage string bound photograph album containing 31 black-and-white snapshot photographs including four hand-tinted in blue and yellow documenting a school costume day. Manuscript ink annotation to the inside front cover provides the date and album title: "Dress-Up-Day Pictures / April 5 1940". <br /> <br /> Many photographs with manuscript ink annotation captions to the bottom edges identifying the subjects. <br /> <br /> The outfits run the gamut: while some teens opted for simple cross-dressing costumes many were more creative dressing as cowboys hula girls hoboes married couples and the like. Notably unusual costumes include an ice box Life Magazine a beer barrel a telephone directory several rolls of Tums and a record player with a paper sign noting the record title as Rhapsody in Blue. A humorous assortment. <br /> <br /> Photographs generally 2.5 x 3.5 inches. Mounted on black cardboard album leaves rectos and versos. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
Bookseller reference : 154291
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[WESTERN ART ARCHIVE -- QUIGLEY, Edward Burns]. [WILSON, Neill C; OBERT, Karl (Photographer), et al]
Fascinating archive of eight photographs of Ed Quigley painting with friends and riding with the Rancheros Visitadores club members exhibit catalogues -- 1949 Exhibition of Western Paintings 1962 Western Art Exhibit Rancheros Visitadores & Oregon Society of Artists Gallery; five promotional broadsides Christmas cards stationery Rancheros Visitadores riding club Twenty Fifth Anniversary 1930-1955 limited edition book souvenir Rancheros Visitadores Los Vigilantes badge and leather ribbons to be attached dating 1950-1962 and badge for the Wanapum Dam dedication ceremony in 1966.
Portland OR & Santa Barbara CA: E.B. Quigley 1949-1966. 1st -- 8 silver gelatin photos sized 8 x 10 in. some w/ photographer’s stamp on verso others w/ pencil and/or ink MS marking; 2nd -- 8vo. 12 pp unpaginated. illustrated self-printed softcovers pencil annotations back cover; 2 copies of 6 pp unpaginated. triptych illustrated; 4 pp unpaginated. brochure Rancheros logo by Joe de Yong on front cover creased from fold; 3rd -- 4to. 5 leaves broadsides photo illustrated 1 on stationery 1 signed by Ed Quigley; 4th -- 12mo. 4 x 5 in. 3 illustrated Christmas Cards 4 pp unpaginated. bifolium illustrated by Quigley 1 ALS on verso of front flap; 5th -- 4to. 1 leaf broadside of Quigley’s cabin in Sandy OR; 6th -- Oblong 8vo. to 4to. Approx. 100 pieces of illustrated & printed stationery invoices & envelopes on laid paper; 7th -- 4to. 8.5 x 10.25 in. 142 2 pp. Title printed in silver & black w/ colour and black & white photo illustrations & plates throughout 1 colour map text illusts. by Joe de Yong. Half-burgundy cloth over printed boards illustrated endpapers w/ d.j. wraparound cover art photo by Karl Obert 1 closed tear back cover NF/VG copy; 8th -- Small group of artifacts including 8 rawhide leather ribbons personalized to Quigley stamped w/ De Yong illust. including the Los Vigilantes badge for them to be attached to as well as personalized badge for dam dedication all from the library of Ed Quigley. This captivating archive offers a number of items documenting the storied career of noted Western artist Ed Quigley 1895-1984 including photographs catalogues broadsides and printed pieces as well as souvenirs from his participation with Los Rancheros Visitadores riding club in Santa Barbara CA. The photographs open with an image of him completing a painting of a cowboy working with mustangs in a corral with Quigley holding his palette and glimpses of Portland OR through the studio window in the background; another two show him and his smartly dressed friends during the 1930’s while he was painting for the Works Progress Administration Federal Artist’s program; and five additional photos by Santa Barbara photographer Karl Obert depict him riding with others at the Los Rancheros Visitadores in 1958. The exhibit catalogues include his June-July 1949 exhibition at the Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts which also included a number of his original woodcarvings; the 1962 Western Art Exhibits sponsored by Los Rancheros Visitadores which featured works by Quigley Charley Russell Will James Edward Borein Joe De Yong Olaf Wieghorst Frank Tenney Johnson and others; and the 1964 gallery showing of Oil Paintings and Wood Carvings at the Oregon Society of Artists Gallery in Portland OR including a photo of the artist carving sculptures. The several sales broadsides include one signed by Quigley for his bronzes with the verbiage that he had intended to cast 20 but there were only 10 and these include “Unloaded†“Indian Scout†and “Bronc Rider.â€Quigley expanded his career through the 1930’s and 1940’s by gaining inspiration from Yakama Indians in and around Toppenish while visiting horse trader Frank Green and would often return there. He writes in one of the undated Christmas cards that he had just “spent 3 interesting weeks with a couple of mustangers and the Indians on wild horse round-ups on the Yakima Reservation. Got a lot of good material and have 2 - 30†x 40†paintings finished.†The stationery included here all reproduce paintings by Quigley of mustangs on the Palouse as well as pen & ink drawing of the cabin built by the artist on Cedar Creek near Mt. Hood and Sandy Oregon. The prolific and popular Western artist focused on cowboys and Native Americans working in rugged landscapes often with pastoral themes as a native of the Pacific Northwest who also was an active member of many riding clubs including Los Rancheros Visitadores. Los Rancheros Visitadores was founded as an invitaiton-only riding club which included such members as founder Ed Borein along with Will James Joe De Yong Walt Disney Gary Cooper Montie Montana Clark Gable Philip Wrigley Charlie Russell Chuck Yeager Max Baer and Ronald Reagan. The rides usually center on the Los Prietos Ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley often include a visit to Santa Ynez Mission and for over four decades their rides participants and activities were documented by famed Santa Barbara photographer Karl Obert 1897-1976. No copies of the exhibition catalogues or broadsides are located in Worldcat; See: Phoebe Oelheim Artist Edward Quigley’s Romantic Vision of the West Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission 2002; Graham Sharkey Boots & Spurs The Capital Journal July 20 1950 p. 10. E.B. Quigley, paperback
Bookseller reference : 57035
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[Western Americana - Photography] Locke, Henry Robinson
Four Mounted Photographs of Deadwood and Lead City South Dakota
Deadwood: H.R. Locke 1890. Albumen photographs measuring 9 x 7 inches on larger mounts. Very good contrast some chips and wear to mounts. Very Good. A group of four photographs by Henry Robinson Locke who operated a studio in Deadwood South Dakota in the early statehood years. He photographed the Black Hills region. This collection of four photographs shows a gold mill in Deadwood a cyanide mill in Deadwood and two views of Lead City which was the home of the Homestake Mining Company during the period and continued to be a center for natural resource extraction for several decades following the initial Gold Rush period of the 1870s which brought the first wave of Euro-American settlers to the area. H.R. Locke unknown
Bookseller reference : List2450
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[Western Australia; Fenians; John Sarsfield Casey]
Full and revised report of the eight days' trial in the Court of Queen's Bench on a criminal information against John Sarsfield Casey at the prosecution of Patten Smith Bridge from November 27th to December 5 1877
Dublin: The Central Tenants' Defense Committee 1877. First printing. Hardcover. Good overall. The trial of returned convict John Sarsfield Casey an activist defender of Irish tenant farmers who earlier in his career wrote letters to Fenian newspapers as 'The Galtee Boy' which were used in his 1865 trial to support a charge of treason and a sentence of transportation to Australia. Casey was one of the 62 Fenians transported to Western Australia. He was granted a free pardon in 1869 and returned to Dublin in 1870.<br /> <br /> The 1877 trial recorded here was brought against Casey in Ireland by the agent for a wealthy land owner Nathaniel Buckley named Patten Smith Bridge. <br /> <br /> Bridge had imposed enormous rent increases on the Galtee Mountain tenant farmers; he alleged that Casey's articles to the press about the excessive rent increases had libeled him. Huge rents increases and the inability of farmers to pay resulted in whole families being thrown out of their homes; Casey knew these facts from personal experience as some of these tenants were his relatives. The trial lasted 8 days; Bridge's claim for damages against Casey was repudiated.<br /> <br /> 8vo vii 98pp. Deaccessed by the NY Association of the Bar Library with their stamp on the title page. Tan library cloth binding with leather gilt spine label and paper label. Cloth sunned at spine leather label slightly rubbed. Printed on cheap newsprint paper Title page detached chipped at edges with early paper repair on verso; Preface pages through vi chipped along gutter but holding. OCLC: 20515747. The Central Tenants' Defense Committee hardcover
Bookseller reference : 23994
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[Western Australia]. FRASER, Malcolm (compiler), and Baron Ferdinand von MUELLER
General Information respecting the Present Condition of the Forests and Timber Trade of the Southern Part of the Colony . Together with a Report on the Forest Resources of the Colony by Baron Ferd. von Mueller
Perth: Richard Pether Government Printer 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Perth Richard Pether Government Printer 1882 and London L. Reeve & Co. 1879. Large quarto 28 pages last blank with several tables plus 2 tinted lithographs and 2 colour maps one folding 490 × 370 mm; and viii 30 pages plus 21 plates including 17 full-page uncoloured lithographs of eucalypts after drawings by R. Austen. Pebble-grain dark green cloth with a large title-label printed in gilt on black paper on the front cover; minor loss to the label removing two letters of one word; cloth a little marked with light wear to the extremities; small section 25 mm of the leading edge of the rear cover a little abraded; endpaper hinges neatly reinforced; light tidemarks to two small sections of the endpapers with a little foxing confined mainly to the inner surfaces of the free endpapers and the adjacent pages; one tear to the folding map expertly sealed; minimal loss to silverfish to the bottom margin of the small map; mild signs of age and use; a very good copy. The balance of the first title is 'with some remarks and suggestions on future conservation and management of the timber areas from various authorities. With a reprint of the regulations and laws in force for the renting or leasing of timbered lands'. <p>The introduction to the combined work compiled under the direction of Malcolm Fraser the WA Surveyor General has this to say: 'In compliance with your instructions and so far as the information and means at my command allowed I have collected in a general way such information about our timber Forests as was available to me and I have endeavoured to weave this together somewhat in a connected form. <p>By including the valuable Report on the Forest Resources of Western Australia by Baron Ferd. von Mueller it will be brought more prominently before the public than it has hitherto been. the drawings give a very fair idea of the character of the Jarrah and Karri forests'. Richard Pether, Government Printer hardcover
Bookseller reference : 138714
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[Western Australia; Grey, Sir George]
Governor Grey's Australian Explorations" magazine article in Chambers' Edinburgh Journal
Edinburgh 1842. Very good condition. January 8th article on George Grey's expedition to the Northwest of Western Australia. Sir George Grey 1812 - 1898 explorer governor of South Australia and governor and Premier of New Zealand lead two expeditions to northwest Australia in 1837-9. Both expeditions were extremely grueling with Grey being wounded but led to the discovery of the rivers Glenelg and Gascoyne. Grey describes threatening to shoot his aborigine tracker "Kaiber" who Grey claimed pretended to not be able to find the members of the party they had left temporarily while in search of water. Folio 6pp complete issue. The article three full columns over two pages. String bound a bit ruffled at right margin otherwise very good condition. unknown
Bookseller reference : 18891
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[Western American Photographica]. [Prison Labor]
Group of Eight Annotated Vernacular Photographs Documenting Construction of an Unidentified Fort in the American West Retained and Annotated by a Law Enforcement Officer
N.p. 1925. Very good plus. Eight silver gelatin photographs 5.25 x 2.75 inches all with pencil annotations on verso. Mild edge wear. An intriguing collection of eight annotated vernacular photographs picturing construction and other work taking place at an unnamed western riverside fort. The manual labor for the project was performed by incarcerated men who are sometimes pictured. The annotations on the verso of each image provide valuable information on the activities and settings in the pictures. The images themselves show the stockade adjacent to the river the prisoners' dining hall the front part of the bunkhouse and dining tent an elevated view of the stockade showing sand and cement being hauled down a nearby road three young men preparing dinner "prisoners building a concrete wall" "prisoners working on the retaining walls" and "prisoners starting a wall in the side of a very bad slide." In the latter photograph the compiler of the photographs reveals his own involvement in the activities here: "You can see me R.B.A. standing with a gun on my shoulder." An interesting group of photographs documenting the long tradition in the United States of employing prison labor to perform back-breaking manual labor. unknown
Bookseller reference : 3241
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[Western Americana] [Travel] Darton, N H; and others
Guidebook of the Western United States Part C. The Santa Fe Route with a Side Trip to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Department of the Interior United States Geological Survey Bulletin 613
Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1915. First Edition. Soft cover. Fair. Octavo. iv 194 pages. Illustrated with 24 folding map sheets photographs and figures. Brown paper covers with title on front and spine. Paper cover is chipped on the front. Paper spine mostly vanished. Covers detached. Stitching starting to come loose. Fair only. Map illustrations in very good condition. Government Printing Office unknown
Bookseller reference : 35385
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[Western Americana] [Photography]
ICE PALACE LEADVILLE COLORADO
Denver: W.H. Jackson & Co. Photo 1896. Hand color-tinted photograph image: 9†x 3 ½†mount: 15†x 9 ¼â€.<br /> <br /> Although Leadville was one of the largest boomtowns in Colorado the mines were in decline by the 1890s and a plan to save the community in 1895 came in the form of an ice hotel and winter carnival. After months of fundraising and then building the ice palace opened on January 1 1896. It measured 450’ long by 320’ wide with five-foot thick walls. Two octagonal towers rose 90 feet at the entrance on the north where arched doorways led visitors inside. Smaller 60-foot towers flanked the sides and the south wall. Inside there was a rink that would accommodate 1000 skaters along with two ballrooms a restaurant and a 20-foot wide promenade that led people down the middle of the place.<br /> <br /> On its first day of operation 2500 visitors came by train wagon horseback and on foot to see the gigantic wonder. For nearly four glorious months visitors paid .50 cents for adults and .25 cents per child to walk past the ice sculpture of “Lady Leadville†at the entrance and into the fantasy world of their dreams. It’s estimated there were 250000 visitors.<br /> <br /> Some edgewear and staining to the mount with a small scuff to the photograph. W.H. Jackson & Co. Photo unknown
Bookseller reference : 79679
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[WESTERN AMERICANA]. GLISAN, R[odney].
Journal of Army life.
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft 1874. Thick 8vo. xi 1 511 1 pp. including pasted on errata notice at rear indicating that Glisan had been unable to review the proofs while they were in process. With woodcut-engraved frontisp. woodcut-engraved plates 1 large folding table of Meteorological Observations at rear. Illustrated brick-red publisher’s cloth gilt illust. front cover & spine of pennant saber rifle & bayonet w/ bow & arrows front cover pennant on spine black border ruling gilt lettering minor shelfwear minor rubbing to lower right corners slight scuffing printer error cocking text pp. 217-218 still VG bright copy preserving the original pale yellow publisher’s endpapers. First edition of this excellent memoir by the noted American military doctor and authority of the 19th Century as well as early Oregon & California pioneer. He details his time as surgeon in the Pacific Northwest during the Indian Wars of 1855-58 after serving in the Indian Territories and West Texas from 1850-1853. After leaving San Francisco in 1863 to move to Portland where Glisan 1827-1890 married Elizabeth Couch daughter of one of Portland OR’s founders John Couch he became president of the Multnomah County Medical Society and professor of OB/GYN at Willamette University School of Medicine. See: Graaf 1575; Howes G209. A.L. Bancroft, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 59772
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[Western Americana] [Political] [Slavery] Hale, Edward E
Kanzas and Nebraska: The History Geographical and Physical Characteristics and Political Position of Those Territories; An Account of the Emigrant Aid Companies and Direction to Emigrants
Boston: Phillips Sampson and Company 1854. 1854. Hardcover. Fair. Small octavo. 1 viii 9-256 pages 4 pages advertisements 1. Folding frontispiece map. Blue cloth hardcover with blind stamped covers. Gilt title and decoration on the spine. Folding map has some wrinkling and creases. Cloth hardcover is shelf worn rubbed at the extremities and chipped at the head and base of the spine. Lean to the binding. Light scattered toning and foxing to the contents. Fair. <br /> <br /> Graff 1079. Phillips, Sampson and Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 35390
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[WESTERN AMERICANA -- CARSON]. PETERS, DeWitt C
Kit Carson’s life and adventures from facts narrated by himself embracing events in the life-time of America’s greatest hunter trapper scout and guide including vivid accounts of the every day life inner character and peculiar customs of all Indian Tribes of the Far West. . . Modoc Indians and the Modoc War.
Hartford CT: Dustin Gilman & Co. Queen City Publishing Co. et al 1873. Thick 8vo. xvii 18-604 pp. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. of Carson frontisp. portrait of Peters and 32 woodcut-engraved plates. Emerald green decorated publisher’s cloth gilt & black lettering & black decorative borders front cover minor rubbing edgewear to lower fore-edge & corners very slight bumping to couple corners still a VG bright copy. First Dustin Gilman & Co. printing of this nicely illustrated and significantly expanded version of Peters’ biography of Kit Carson who was the only authorized biographer by Carson first published in 1858 as “The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson.†The work examines his life as mountain man and fur trader participation in the Modoc Indian Wars and Modoc Indians and other Indigenous Peoples experiences in Yellowstone gold mining in California mining in Colorado and involvement with Fremont and more. See: Graaf 3260; Wagner-Camp 306; Howes P266. Dustin, Gilman & Co., Queen City Publishing Co., et al, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 63936
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[WESTERN AMERICANA - WOMEN]. BERG, Norah [Theresa Sullivan], with SAMUELS, Charles
Lady on the beach.
New York: Prentice-Hall 1954. 8vo. 4 251 1 pp. Half-cloth over boards silver lettering slight bumping to head & foot of spine w/ d.j. minor chipping head of spine couple ninor closed tears tears still VG/G copy inscribed by the author on the ffep. First edition 3rd printing signed by author of this semi-autobiographical novel set on the Washington coast at Copalis Beach now North Beach WA depicting the author’s life in Grays Harbor County. Berg 1897-1958 writes about how she changed her life to leave a Seattle rooming house after the death of her first husband in 1929 “trapped in the squirrel cage of alcoholism.†She moves with her second husband Sarge Berg to be caretakers at an Ocean City resort but are fired because of alcoholism and slowly afterwards they begin rebuilding their life along the stretch scavenging for firewood picking mushrooms and blackberries and hunting. Of particular interest are her depictions of the unofficial migrant workers camps such as “The Old Glory Hole†consisting of cannery shacks abandoned WPA work camps and would eventually die after attending a clam chowder feed in 1958. Prentice-Hall, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 44343
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[Western Americana]
LETTERS FROM PIONEERING OKLAHOMA ATTORNEYS
A collection of letters written by pioneering Oklahoma attorneys C.O. Blake and Ernest Blake to their parents between 1884 and 1906.<br /> <br /> In a letter from Indianapolis dated January 12 1884 C.O. Blake 1860–1924 laments the struggle he was having setting up a legal practice: “Being in an office having my shingle out and some stationary printed looks a good deal of being a lawyer with a practice…sometimes I think I’ll just let the law go and go at something else to seek fame and bread and butter.â€<br /> <br /> Despite what seemed like an inauspicious start to his legal career Blake became a successful attorney and pillar of his community. Soon after this letter he relocated temporarily to Coldwater Kansas where he was elected Comanche County attorney on the Republican ticket. In a letter dated October 6 1885 he wrote to his parents about the election: “Got 30 out of 35 delegates. How is that for high. I think I will have no trouble to get elected.â€<br /> <br /> In 1890 he relocated to El Reno Oklahoma where he and his brother Ernest E. Blake established the law firm Blake and Blake. He soon became the railroad attorney for the Rock Island Lines in Oklahoma. Much of the expansion of Rock Island in the Southwest is credited to his ability to keep the railroad in good standing with the State Corporation. He also served on several civic organizations and became president of the board of regents for Oklahoma University having received his appointment from Governor Barnes.<br /> <br /> Blake wrote from the Hotel Frantz in Enid Oklahoma to his mother on April 27 1903 about his work for the railroad: “I have been very busy. I was here all last week and will have to be here a good part of this week. I tried a case last week for running over a boy of 13 and cutting off his leg and won it. I then tried a case for killing a man and the jury came in today with a verdict for $2000 but I think I will be able to get away from it all right as the evidence did not entitle the plaintiff to recover anything. The man was himself to blame. I tried another today where the plaintiff claims he was crippled in alighting from a train and the jury is still out. You can see it has been a strenuous ten days.â€<br /> <br /> Ernest Blake’s letters concern family matters. A long letter from C.O.’s wife Cora includes information about a new massage-based medical treatment she was receiving from a “vital healer†for problems with her hip: “He said it was not out of place but held too tightly in its place by reason of the muscles being so contracted and set.â€<br /> <br /> The Blake’s are descended from a long line of notable ancestors. One was the captain of the artillery who captured Aaron Burr in his expedition to Mexico; another was Israel Putnam leader of the Green Mountain Boys; and their great-great-grandfather was the organizer and leader of the Boston Tea Party.<br /> <br /> In total this collection of letters includes: nine complete letters and a partial letter from C.O.; eight letters and short notes from Ernest to his parents; two letters from others and a death announcement for Fremont Smith; a four-page letter from Cora Blake C.O.’s wife to his mother; and six pages of apparently incomplete letters by unknown authors. unknown
Bookseller reference : 78680
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[Western Australia] Wrenfordsley, HT; Fairbairn, Robert H T
Magisterial Duty in the Kimberley. Minute by His Excellency the Administrator
Perth: Goverment Printer 1883. Robert Fairbairn the prominent 19th century Western Australian magistrate is the appointee to whom this "Minute" is aimed. He would soon be in charge of the Kimberley district and Wrenfordsley was at the time of this writing the Acting Governor of Western Australia. Unusually this is not recorded on either Trove or the State Library of Western Australia. <br /> <br /> The "minute" advises Mr. Fairbairn on his duties which will involve ".those of the Judge the Collector of Customs and the Registrar". and he advises "the Magistrate to take his own notes of the evidence and not to trust to his clerk." It is most interesting for the directions of caution in meting out punishment to the aboriginal community. "As the dispenser of justice to an uncivilised race it is all important that he should appear to act with judicial calmness and deliberation." Settlers were to be discouraged from taking the law into their own hands. And the statues prohibiting the supply of liquor to natives were to be strictly enforced so that "in the remote and . peaceful wilds of the Kimberley country the white man's curse will long remain unknown." An early reader has commented at the top "This is good" and has also highlighted various sections of interest. <br /> <br /> At the time of this writing Wrenfordsley was Acting Governor of Western Australia however he had a long career in law as solicitor Attorney General of Jamaica Chief Justice of Western Australia and Chief Justice of Fiji. <br /> <br /> Foolscap folio 3pp black text on cream paper. At the end of page printed H.T. Wrenfordsley Administrator. 13-3-83." A notation on verso in ink "Notes of Wrenfordsley on Justice duties." Top edge ruffled small puncture top right pin mark two period folds overall very good. Goverment Printer unknown
Bookseller reference : 27755
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[Western Americana]
MAP OF SOUTH DAKOTA FARM LANDS
Highmore South Dakota: E.J. Quirk Land Company 1908. Promotional information is printed on the verso of the map. “South Dakota a wonderful farming country; great agriculture live stock; great in mineral wealth and natural resources.†This booster piece also claims South Dakota is the least advertised and known but “all things considered â€the richest and best state in the Union.†Land was offered at $12.50 to $30 per acre dependent on distance from railroads and improvements.<br />  <br /> The map is printed in red and black Hand Hyde Hughes and Sully Counties are highlighted in pink on a 22†x 17†sheet which folds into printed tan paper wraps 3 ¼†x 6â€. Tiny bit of edgewear; else near fine. Scarce OCLC locates only one copy at Yale. E.J. Quirk Land Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 78147
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[Western Americana]
MAP OF TRIPP COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA
Winner South Dakota: Tripp County Abstract Co 1940. Scarce cadastral map of Tripp County located in south central South Dakota bordering Nebraska with the meandering White River serving as its northern boundary. Land ownership is shown throughout as well as the cities and townships that comprised the county which supported a population of just under 10000 people at the time.<br />  <br /> The 25†x 38†map folds into printed green cardstock wrappers 4 ½†x 9 ¾â€. Just a hint of edgewear; else fine. OCLC locates no holdings. Tripp County Abstract Co unknown
Bookseller reference : 78131
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[WESTERN AMERICANA]. THAYER, William M
Marvels of the new West. A vivid portrayal of the unparalleled marvels in the vast wonderland West of the Missouri River. Six books in one volume. . . .
Norwich CT: The Henry Bill Publishing Co. 1890. Six works in one vol. Thick 8vo. xxxvi 715 1 pp. Frontisp. with 379 woodcut-engravings and maps. Publisher’s pictorial green cloth over beveled boards decorated endpapers marbled fore-edges gilt illustration of “Cliff-Dwellers†ancient ruins front cover Old Faithful geyser on spine minor shelfwear rubbing minor scuffing to tissue over extra-illustrated frontisp. title at gutter margin still VG bright copy. Early printing of this lavishly illustrated history of the West incorporating 100’s of engravings based on original photographs together with map diagrams and other illustrations. Of particular interest are the extended sections on the California Gold Rush gold mining and mineral riches in California; cattle ranching and cattle industry in how it shaped the West as well as many references to logging and timber in the Pacific Northwest. Scarce in such fine condition. The Henry Bill Publishing Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 63670
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[WESTERN AMERICANA -- WOMEN AUTHORS]. SANDOZ, Mar [Susette].
Old Jules. Illustrated.
London UK: Chapman and Hall 1937. 8vo. x 4 424 pp. Photo frontisp. 18 photo & facsmile illust. Three-quarter burgundy-coloured calf over marbled boards marbled endpapers Anchor Steamship Line anchor on spine gilt 3-stack insigna on cover raised bands gilt lettering on spine minor scuffing edgewear still VG copy. First British edition of Sandoz’s biography awarded The Atlantic Monthly nonfiction contest prize of $5000 detailing the life of her often brutal and eccentric father trapper farmer and hunter in the upper Niobrara County in western Nebraska. Chapman and Hall, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 63944
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[Western Australia]
Orient Line Perth and Fremantle handbill & 2 city plans
1932. Wraps. Very good condition. Folded hand sheet with brief history of Western Australia and description of the highlights of Perth and Fremantle. With two printed color maps of Perth and Fremantle showing the Orient Line Offices and Orient Line Berths as well as tram lines & taxi service loosely inserted. Hand sheet 10 1/4 x 8"; maps 5 x 7 3/4" paperback
Bookseller reference : 24923
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[WESTERN AMERICANA]. MORGAN, Dale (Ed)
Overland in 1846. Diaries and letters of the California-Oregon Trail. Volume I; Volume II. Edited by. . . .
Georgetown CA: Talisman Press 1963. Two vols. 8vo. 457 1; 3 458-825 1 pp. Colour-illust. titles 2 large folding maps. Half-red buckrum over illustrated red boards gilt lettering on spines w/ d.j.’s price-clipped F/NF set. First edition 1 of 1000 sets printed of this excellent set reprinting accounts letters and diaries from the California-Oregon Trail. The editor has included the complete diary of Virgil Pringle an early Oregon Pioneer a number of accounts by Donner-relief party members and much more. Talisman Press, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 64209
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[WESTERN AMERICANA]. CLARKE, S[amuel] A[sahel].
Pioneer days of Oregon History. Volume I; Volume II.
Portland & Cleveland: J.K. Gill Company 1905. Two vols. Tall 8vo. x 367 1; iv 369-729 1 pp. Frontisp. portrait vol. I numerous plates 1 map. Uniformly bound in brown publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spines very slight shelfwear very slight bumping to couple corners rear inner hinge Vol. I starting still a VG set. First edition -- not to be confused with the Arthur H. Clark 2nd edition which featured a printed imprint label pasted over J.K. Gill imprint on titles. This excellent history was compiled by Clarke -- an 1849 Oregon Trail pioneer himself and includes sections on the voyages of Captain Gray in the Columbia the Lewis & Clark Expedition the Astor Fur Company accounts of Alexander Ross and Ross Cox Pacific Northwest Indians Northwest Legends The Hudson’s Bay Company John McLoughlin Fort Vancouver the Wilkes Expedition the Whitman mission and massacre Cayuse War and much more. J.K. Gill Company, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 64064
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[Western Australia; Aboriginal] Giraux, Louis
Pointes de Fleches des Indigenes Actuels de l'Ouest Australien
Le Mans: Monnoyer 12 Place des Jacobins 1912. Paperback. Good overall. Not recorded on Trove. 8vo 4pp illustrations of three spear heads based on the author's examination of pieces exhibited at the Exposition Universelle de Paris in 1889 from the collection of M. A.-C. Bonnet. The author states that two were made of glass and the third of china. Green publisher's self wrappers sunned and a bit ruffled at edges text loose in wrapper. An unusual Western Australian aboriginal item. Monnoyer, 12 Place des Jacobins paperback
Bookseller reference : 28540
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[Western Americana – Photography] Haynes, Frank J
Portrait of an Affluent Man Fargo Dakota Territory 1879
Fargo Dakota Territory 1879. Cabinet card photograph measuring appx 4 x 5 ½ inches on larger mount. Very good plus. An early studio portrait by Frank Jay Haynes taken during his initial establishment in Fargo Dakota Territory shortly after his 1879 move from Moorhead. The mount—“Art Studio cor. 8th Ave. & Main St.â€â€”appears to represent Haynes’s first likely short-lived location in the city set just off the main commercial corridor before he relocated his business to the more prominent Front Street Main Avenue. The sitter an affluent-looking man in a fur overcoat holds a cane. In 1879 the affluent class of Fargo consisted primarily of railroad officials tied to the Northern Pacific Railway for which Haynes would later become the official photographer land agents and speculators capitalizing on townsite expansion grain merchants and elevator operators profiting from the wheat boom and a small professional class. Haynes was the first major photographer in the area and would have a prolific output; this image represents an example of his early work before he was established in the city. unknown
Bookseller reference : Cat359
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[Western Australia] Cliff, F
Pressed Kangaroo Paws wildflowers from trip to Collie Western Australia
1909. Very good overall. Three large album pages and one scrap of pressed Australian wildflowers likely made by a Perth resident in the early 1900s. The album pages is entitled in manuscript "Wild Flowers of Western Australia" and signed in ink in the lower corner F. Cliff. <br /> <br /> The flowers loosely arranged in a heart shape are entitled in ink at the center of the arrangement "Kangaroo Paws. From Collie W. A. gathered in early Sept. 1909"; and "Kangaroo Paws. From various parts of W. A. Gathered in Sept. 1909". The small scrap approximately 4 x 6 1/2" is untitled with pencil notations 205 206 & 207.<br /> <br /> Ancestry locates a Norman Franklin Cliff residing in Perth from 1914 to 1917 and again in 1919 and 1921. In 1925 he is in Fremantle.<br /> <br /> 3 album pages 9 x 12 1/4" unknown
Bookseller reference : 26137
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[Western Australia]
Progress of Australian Discovery. Contained in The Dublin Review Volume XIII 1842
London: C. Dolman 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London C. Dolman 1842. Octavo 27 pages in a total of ii 564 2 pages. Original ribbed cloth with a paper title-label on the spine; cloth a little marked and sunned; label a little chipped and sunned; small blank piece torn from the bottom corner of eight leaves not part of the relevant article; endpapers and first and last leaves foxed; an excellent copy. Pages 74-100 contain an article drawn from Grey's 'Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia' published the previous year and George Moore's extremely rare pamphlet 'Evidences of an Inland Sea collected from the Natives of the Swan River Settlement' Dublin 1837. C. Dolman hardcover
Bookseller reference : 75315
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[Western Americana]
RAND MCNALLY INDEXED POCKET MAP TOURISTS’ AND SHIPPERS’ GUIDE OF MONTANA: Railroads Electric Lines Post Offices Express Telegraph and Mail Service Counties Congressional Townships Cities Towns Villages Rivers Lakes Islands Creeks Mountains Etc.
San Francisco Chicago New York: Rand McNally & Company 1925. Highly detailed three-color map of Montana delineating the county borders showing relief by hachure and indicating the locations of thirteen railroads. Another map printed on the verso shows the main highways and principal trails in the state.<br />  <br /> Montana was the only state that lost population during the 1920s. A prolonged drought in 1917-18 started the exodus during which more than 60000 people left the state many of them moving to Washington Oregon and especially California. By 1925 farmland prices had fallen by 50 percent 20000 mortgages were foreclosed upon and half of Montana’s farmers had lost their land.<br />  <br /> 36 p. with the folding map 28†x 21â€. Original printed brown paper wrappers bound with two staples. Some minor edgewear; else very good or better. Rand McNally & Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 78133
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[Western Americana]
RAND MCNALLY & CO.’S INDEXED COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP POCKET MAP AND SHIPPERS’ GUIDE OF COLORADO: Accompanied by a New and Original Compilation and Ready Reference Index Showing in Detail the Entire Railroad System The Express Company doing business over each Road and Accurately Locating All Cities Towns Post Offices Railroad Stations Villages Counties Islands Lakes Rivers etc.
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1907. Highly detailed map of Colorado delineating its counties by color and indicating the locations of 28 railroads. A key along the left margin supplies the location and population of various cities large and small.<br />  <br /> 38 p. with the folding map 27 ¾†x 21â€. Original printed brown paper wrappers bound with three staples. A few tiny splits to the map with some minor soiling and edgewear to the wrappers; otherwise very good. Rand McNally & Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 78144
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[Western Americana]
RAND MCNALLY & CO.’S INDEXED COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP POCKET MAP AND SHIPPERS’ GUIDE OF ARIZONA
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Co 1908. Uncommon folding map of the Arizona Territory published four years before statehood. In addition to locating all cities towns post offices railroad stations villages counties islands lakes and rivers it shows in detail the entire railroad system identifies the nearest mailing point of all local places and names the express company doing business over each road. The 14†x 21†color map is housed within printed brown paper wrappers 4†x 6 ½†along with a list of Arizona railroads a 10-page index and advertisements for Elmer Chute’s New Map of Goldfield and other Rand McNally & Co. maps.<br /> <br /> 18 p. with the folding map. Original printed brown paper wrappers bound with three staples. A few very minor creases to the map with some minor edgewear to the wrappers; otherwise very good. Scarce OCLC locates no holdings of this 1908 map with only two of the 1907 issue and just one of the 1909. Rand, McNally & Co unknown
Bookseller reference : 78140
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[Western Australia; Patet]
Razza negra - Abitatori della parte meridionale-orientale d'Africa. Abitatori della parte meridionale-occidentale dell' Australia
Italy 184-. Print. The images of two Western Australian aboriginals Patet and a woman natives of King George's Sound Albany. These were patterned after the engravings that appeared in Prichard's "Natural History of Man" by J. Bull and the format is larger than issued in Prichard.<br /> <br /> Copper engraving period hand color. Printed area 6 1/4 x 8 3/4" on paper 9 x 11". Plate mark visible on two sides. Slt. foxing in the lower portion. Libraries Australia ID 9024501 states "Engraved above image: Etnografia Ser. III H 23 bis Atlante tav. CIV bis" but this is trimmed from this copy. unknown
Bookseller reference : 27365
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[WESTERN AMERICANA -- NATIVE AMERICANS & WASHINGTON TERRITORY]. HUNTER, Colonel George
Reminiscences of an old timer. A recital of the actual events incidents trials hardships vicissitudes adventures perils and escapes of a pioneer hunter miner and scout of the Pacific Northwest. . . .
Battle Creek MI: Review & Herald 1889. Thick 8vo. xxv 1 508 pp. Lithograph frontisp. 15 lithograph and woodcut-engraved plates. Pictorial red publisher’s cloth cover art image of author being named “Timus White Chief of the Palouses†gilt decorative lettering on spine decorated endpapers minor shelfwear rubbing soiling to back cover inner front hinge starting still VG- copy. Fourth edition of this expanded edition of the author’s memoir detailing his life emigrating across the Oregon & California Trail in 1852 to Shasta City gold mining the 1853 Rogue River Indian War including the Takelma Shasta and Applegate River People Athabascan; details on the events leading to the Whitman Massacre defending the Northwest against Confederate sympathizers mail carrier and later gold mining in the Okanagan/Kootenay Valley and later as scout and translator for General O.O. Howard during the Nez Perce Indian War. Of particular interest in this later edition is the inclusion of the detailed biographical supplement and addresses for Oregon Idaho & Washington Territory Pioneers gathered together by Hubert Howe Bancroft including occupations and genealogical information. Howes H811; Smith 4891; Graff 2018. Review & Herald, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 62722
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[WESTERN AFRICA]
Report of commissioner of inquiry on the western coast of africa. Climate and it's influence on health
London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons 1842. 46pp. Stitched as issued. Slight chipping to fore-edge of title page occasional spotting. An apparently unrecorded report of Her Majesty's Commissioner on the state of the British Settlements on the Western Coast of Africa specifically regarding the climate of the Gold Coast Sierra Leone and Gambia and its relation to the health of residences in those areas such as the detrimental effects of high temperatures and the spread of dysentery and fever. . First edition. Folio. Printed by William Clowes and Sons unknown
Bookseller reference : AQ24365
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[Western Americana]
ROAD MAPS: Pacific Coast Highways
San Francisco: Pacific Highway Association of California 1930. Highly detailed folding map with large cartographic renderings of the highway system in California Oregon and Washington along with several insets including street diagrams and traffic information for Seattle Portland Oakland San Francisco Los Angeles Sacramento Grants Pass and San Jose. There are also photographic illustrations of the Great Carquinez Bridge and the Antioch Bridge respectively eight strip maps and mileage tables.<br /> <br /> Designed and printed by Independent Pressroom San Francisco. Printed in black and orange on a 16" x 18 1/2" sheet which folds to 4" x 9 1/4" 16 panels. Some light toning and wear along the extremities; otherwise very good. Scarce OCLC located only one holding at Stanford University. Pacific Highway Association of California unknown
Bookseller reference : 77734
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[WESTERN AMERICANA]. BEATIE, Russel H
Saddles. Foreword by Dean Krakel. Drawings by Nancy Kay Niles and Judy Osburn.
Norman OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press 1982. 4to. xiv 4 391 1 pp. Double-page title with over 800 text illustrations diagrams and photos throughout. Simulated brown calf boards gilt saddle on front cover gilt illustration on spine slight shelfwear w/ d.j. NF/NF copy w/ former ownership markings and notes for Leslie Warren Wilson descendant of John W. Wilson homesteaded in 1910 on Wilson Farms in Pettibone ND and Joseph A. Alford homesteaded 1905 in Elida NM. Second printing of this first complete work in print on saddles and Western gear detailing every aspect of saddlery saddle measurement selection fitting the horse rider and saddle as well as leatherwork details. Univ. of Oklahoma Press, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 63559
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[Western Americana]
SANTA FE NEW MEXICO TRAVEL BROCHURES CIRCA 1950
A collection of travel brochures and a map dating from the 1950s for travel in Santa Fe New Mexico. The materials were likely gathered as part of a trip to the southwestern city for the 239th Annual Fiesta de Santa Fe which was held from August 31 to September 3 1951. An official program for this event is among the materials. The Fiesta has been criticized over the years for its reenactment of the 1692 reconquest of the city by General Don Diego de Vargas 1643-1704 and glorification of the defeat of Pueblo Indians at the hands of the Spanish an event that is described in this brochure.<br/> <br/> This group includes:<br/> <br/> WELCOME! 239th Annual Fiesta de Santa Fe August 31 - September 1-2-3 1951. 24 p. booklet 8 ½" x 11" with pictorial yellow paper wrappers. Official program with fiesta history calendar of activities and local advertisements.<br/> <br/> CITY OF SANTA FE SANTA FE COUNTY NEW MEXICO. Folding map 23 ½" x 19" printed in black on light pink paper. Dated January 1 1949 and distributed by the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce. Small ink notation along the border.<br/> <br/> RELAX AND PLAY IN SANTA FE'S BRACING MOUNTAIN AIR. 12 p. booklet 8 ½" x 11" filled with sepia tone images of outdoor activities. Undated issued by the Chamber of Commerce. Vertical crease along the middle as though folded in half.<br/> <br/> LA COCINA DE SANTA FE. Menu 5 ½" x 8 ½" for the restaurant which was recommended by Duncan Hines and the A.A.A. Four panels printed in black on tan cardstock and undated.<br/> <br/> LA FONDA: The Inn at the End of the Trail in old Santa Fe New Mexico. Stapled folding brochure 4" x 9" promoting expansion of the pueblo-style hotel. 12 panels internally printed in two colors with a full color cover illustration.<br/> <br/> FRED HARVEY SOUTHWESTERN HOTELS IN NEW MEXICO ARIZONA AND RESTAURANTS IN OHIO ILLINOIS MISSOURI KANSAS NEW MEX. ARIZONA CALIFORNIA 1951. Folding brochure printed in red and black on a 24" x 9" sheet of cream stock that folds to 4" x 9" 12 panels.<br/> <br/> EL NAVAJO GALLUP NEW MEXICO: "The Heart of the Indian Empire" - A Fred Harvey Hotel. Folding brochure promoting the hotel and local Navajo Country tours. Printed in black on an 8" x 9" sheet of yellow paper that folds to 4" x 9" 4 panels.<br/> <br/> THE ALVARADO ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO: A Fred Harvey Hotel. Folding brochure advertising stays at the hotel which was named after Hernando de Alvarado commander of artillery in Coronado's expedition. Printed in black on an 8" x 9" sheet of white paper that folds to 4" x 9" 4 panels. unknown
Bookseller reference : 74081
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