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1998réf. 325a2249Vancouver B.C.: Insurance Brokers Association of British Columbia 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 218 pages. Book clean bright and unmarked with only very light traces of wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket. Nice copy. Insurance Brokers Association of British Columbia Hardcover
1961réf. 558H1654Vancouver B.C.: Prince of Wales Secondary School 1961. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 80 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of photos. Many autographs and inscriptions throughout. Above-average wear with small patch to fore-edge of front cover. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Prince of Wales Secondary School Paperback
1993réf. 737a4693Vancouver British Columbia Canada: Talonbooks Ltd 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 300 pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrated with colour photos black and white photos and images of the petroglyphs discussed. "Describes among many other things the solitary spiritual meditations of young people in the mountains a form of education once essential to all those who wished to succeed in life with their particular talents. Opens a discussion of some of the issues in rock research that relate to 'notating' and 'writing' on the landscape around the world and through the millennia. This landmark publication presents a well-researched hypothesis to explain the evolution of symbolic or iconic writing from sign language trail signs and from the geometric and iconic imagery of the dreams and visions of shamans and neophyte hunters." - from dust jacket. Clean bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A beautiful copy of this interesting work. Talonbooks Ltd Hardcover
1986réf. 664G3774Spain: Ediciones El Viso 1986. Book. Illus. by Blassi Jaume; Sota Santiago De La. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 240 pages. Bibliography. Index of names. Index of geographical references. Handsome reproductions of historic maps and illustrations. Printed upon glossy stock. Chapters include: Galleons Pirates Pearls and Fantastic Straits - California XVIIth Century; Russian French British and American Incursions into "The Spanish Lake"; The Spanish Presence on the Northwest Coast - Sea-going Expeditions 1774-1793; Spanish Cartographic Surveys of the Northwest Coast in the XVIIIth Century - The Corps of Naval Steersmen; The Culture of the Indians of the Northwest Coast; Faces in the Forest - Mozino's Noticias de Nutka; A Personal View of the Northwest Coast - The journal of Tomas de Suria 1791; Nootka - the Crisis of 1789. Fore-edge of front free endpaper rumpled othwerwise book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this handsome and very informative work. Ediciones El Viso Hardcover
1993réf. Alibris.0004875San Francisco CA: U.S. National Park Service: Republic of the Marshall Islands Historic. 1993. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 197 p. : ill. maps; 28 cm. Includes: Illustrations Maps. . Includes bibliographical references p. 168-175. U.S. National Park Service: Republic of the Marshall Islands Historic... paperback
1887réf. 513254New York: Press of Fleming Brewster & Alley 1887. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 16mo. 8pp. illustrated by H.R. Ward. Printed wrappers sewn with red cord as issued. Front cover is moderately dust soiled else very good. An epic poem issued by the Western and Atlantic railroad: "St. Valentine February Fourteenth 1887" in remembrance of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia between the armies of Johnston and Sherman. The poem is issued in holograph facsimile with two full-page illustrations. Uncommon. (Press of Fleming, Brewster & Alley) unknown
1887réf. 513254New York: Press of Fleming Brewster & Alley 1887. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 16mo. 8pp. illustrated by H.R. Ward. Printed wrappers sewn with red cord as issued. Front cover is moderately dust soiled else very good. An epic poem issued by the Western and Atlantic railroad: "St. Valentine February Fourteenth 1887" in remembrance of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia between the armies of Johnston and Sherman. The poem is issued in holograph facsimile with two full-page illustrations. Uncommon. (Press of Fleming, Brewster & Alley) unknown books
1853réf. BK0172Washington D.C. 1853. 24 pp. measuring 6 ½ x 10 inches. Stitched and untrimmed. Good with considerable wear and chipping at the edges some soiling and early pencil notations. Thomas Hart Benton's argument for a central transcontinental route issued as Congress was moving toward the government surveys that would dominate the Pacific railroad question during the next several years. Benton had been promoting a government-backed "central national highway" since 1849 running west from Missouri toward California. Writing to his former Missouri constituents on March 4 1853 Benton argues that the accumulated western explorations had already demonstrated the practicality of a central route. He gives particular attention to the country approaching the Rocky Mountains and to the search for a usable pass near the headwaters of the Arkansas and Rio Grande drawing heavily on the western travels of his son-in-law John C. Frémont. The final eight pages form an appendix bringing together evidence for the route. They include Frémont's 1850 letter to the Philadelphia Railroad Convention and more notably a statement made to Benton by the veteran trader and guide Antoine Leroux. Leroux recounts his early years in the West his association with the fur-trading expeditions of Ashley and Henry and his long residence at Taos. Graff describes this as the probable first printing of Leroux's statement. A useful piece of western railroad literature with substantial Frémont and New Mexico content published on the eve of the federal Pacific railroad surveys. Howes B368; Graff 270; Wagner-Camp 221; Sabin 4186. . unknown
1853réf. BK0172Washington D.C. 1853. 24 pp. measuring 6 ½ x 10 inches. Stitched and untrimmed. Good with considerable wear and chipping at the edges some soiling and early pencil notations. Thomas Hart Benton's argument for a central transcontinental route issued as Congress was moving toward the government surveys that would dominate the Pacific railroad question during the next several years. Benton had been promoting a government-backed "central national highway" since 1849 running west from Missouri toward California. Writing to his former Missouri constituents on March 4 1853 Benton argues that the accumulated western explorations had already demonstrated the practicality of a central route. He gives particular attention to the country approaching the Rocky Mountains and to the search for a usable pass near the headwaters of the Arkansas and Rio Grande drawing heavily on the western travels of his son-in-law John C. Frémont. The final eight pages form an appendix bringing together evidence for the route. They include Frémont's 1850 letter to the Philadelphia Railroad Convention and more notably a statement made to Benton by the veteran trader and guide Antoine Leroux. Leroux recounts his early years in the West his association with the fur-trading expeditions of Ashley and Henry and his long residence at Taos. Graff describes this as the probable first printing of Leroux's statement. A useful piece of western railroad literature with substantial Frémont and New Mexico content published on the eve of the federal Pacific railroad surveys. Howes B368; Graff 270; Wagner-Camp 221; Sabin 4186. . unknown books
1866réf. BK0132Philadelphia: F. Gutekunst 1866. Carte-de-visite photograph 3 ½ x 2 ¼ inches on larger mount with Gutekunst's 704 & 706 Arch Street imprint and two-cent U.S. revenue stamp for playing cards on verso. Contemporary identification beneath image "George Balcom / Evangelist. Fine condition. A portrait of George Farnham Balcom 1823-1879 the New York Baptist evangelist whose itinerant ministry eventually took him west to Kansas and Nevada. Balcom grew up in Oxford New York entered the Baptist ministry at about thirty and became known particularly for evangelistic work in both speaking and singing. He conducted meetings and helped organize churches in New York Pennsylvania Ohio and the western states. Balcom moved west in 1870 settling near Cawker City Kansas. Local accounts credit him with preaching among the earliest sermons in Osborne County and describe his continued work establishing churches on the frontier. His western career also included a brief period in federal service as special Indian agent at Nevada's Pyramid Lake Reservation in late 1871 making him the first Baptist preacher in the state.1 The revenue stamp dates the portrait closely to the Civil War-era federal tax on photographs while Balcom's handwritten identification as an "Evangelist" places the image squarely within the itinerant phase of his career. An well-documented portrait of a nineteenth-century Baptist revivalist whose ministry extended from rural New York to the developing communities of the American West. . F. Gutekunst unknown
1866réf. BK0132Philadelphia: F. Gutekunst 1866. Carte-de-visite photograph 3 ½ x 2 ¼ inches on larger mount with Gutekunst's 704 & 706 Arch Street imprint and two-cent U.S. revenue stamp for playing cards on verso. Contemporary identification beneath image "George Balcom / Evangelist. Fine condition. A portrait of George Farnham Balcom 1823-1879 the New York Baptist evangelist whose itinerant ministry eventually took him west to Kansas and Nevada. Balcom grew up in Oxford New York entered the Baptist ministry at about thirty and became known particularly for evangelistic work in both speaking and singing. He conducted meetings and helped organize churches in New York Pennsylvania Ohio and the western states. Balcom moved west in 1870 settling near Cawker City Kansas. Local accounts credit him with preaching among the earliest sermons in Osborne County and describe his continued work establishing churches on the frontier. His western career also included a brief period in federal service as special Indian agent at Nevada's Pyramid Lake Reservation in late 1871 making him the first Baptist preacher in the state.1 The revenue stamp dates the portrait closely to the Civil War-era federal tax on photographs while Balcom's handwritten identification as an "Evangelist" places the image squarely within the itinerant phase of his career. An well-documented portrait of a nineteenth-century Baptist revivalist whose ministry extended from rural New York to the developing communities of the American West. . F. Gutekunst unknown books
1881réf. 50859New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1881. 8vo. 8 pp. publ. ads xiv 265-500 4 pp. plus 20 pp. illust. ads. Numerous woodcut-engraved illustrations illustrated ads numerous maps & plans 10 folding 2 large inserted in rear pocket. Cobalt-blue publisher’s cloth embossed & decorated on front cover in gilt & black ad on rear for the New York Life Insurance company minor shelfwear rubbing couple tears at creases on 1 folding map repaired in rear pocket still a VG copy. First edition thus of this early Western and Southern railway guidebook describing railway schedules and stops from New York to Chicago Cincinnati to Louisville St. Louis as well as travel to San Francisco the Yostemite Valley Santa Cruz Pescadro Monterey San Jose Petrified Forest Santa Barbara Colorado Springs Texas Yellowstone Manitoba and much more. D. Appleton & Co., hardcover
1896réf. 79679Denver: W.H. Jackson & Co. Photo 1896. Hand color-tinted photograph image: 9” x 3 ½” mount: 15” x 9 ¼”. 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. 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. Some edgewear and staining to the mount with a small scuff to the photograph. W.H. Jackson & Co. Photo unknown
1908réf. 78140Chicago 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. 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
1871réf. 62250Hartford CT: Columbian Book Co. 1871. 8vo. xxi 1 23-602 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher’s ads. Steel-engraved frontisp. with numerous woodcut engravings & illustrations. Plum-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt bear stamped on front cover title lettering embossed in blind on spine minor foxing to frontisp. minor sunning & wear to spine edgewear slight uniform interior toning still a VG- copy. Second printing of this informative work gathered from the author’s first-hand interviews with early settlers and mountain men of the Pacific Northwest including Joe Meek William Henry Gray and others. Much of the work was actually written in the house of noted Oregon pioneer & author Belle W. Cooke who describes how she was “often reading the manuscript to my father and mother for comment.” Victor herself notes after publication that some of the historical facts regarding Marcus Whitman his efforts in the Oregon Country and the massacre orally related to her by Gray needed to have been checked more carefully. Victor d. 1902 was the primary author for the Bancroft histories of Oregon Washington and the Northwest Coast as well as a noted author of poetry and literature. See Powers History of Oregon Literature pp. 282 305-309 Graff 4477 1870 ed. Columbian Book Co., hardcover
1923réf. 23777Saalfield Publishing 1923. HBDJ 1923 Early EditionVG/VG- AS-IS DJ Mild sunning light Wear Scuff tiny chip Extremities Nice Bright Orange Black Decorated Cloth of of Boy on Horseback in Hat Cover light Wear 239 pgs 24 ChaptersSmall Narrow Triangular Chip Top Back DJ at Spine 1.5 inches across Interior Nice tight Clean Light FOX Wear Back DJ list Harlowes thru Yellowstone & Madge Morton & Meadowbrook NO ADS In Back. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Saalfield Publishing hardcover
1990réf. 362593Edmonton: University of Alberta Press 1990. First edition. hardcover. very good/no dustjacket. 4to. pp.675.Very heavy book additional postage will apply. University of Alberta Press hardcover
réf. 63-5978Goeggel & Weidner Publishers San Francisco; Capitola Hotel Western Publishing & Novelty Co. Los Angeles Frasher's Inc. Pomona CA et al. 1890-51. Postcards 25. 4.5" x 6.5" & smaller formats. Most blank some signed with inked MS notes to recipients. Most with color photographs. Very Good. Goeggel & Weidner Publishers (San Francisco); Capitola Hotel, Western Publishing & Novelty Co. (Los Angeles), Frasher's Inc. (Po unknown
1924réf. 243816Chicago: Illinois Pioneer Historical Publishing 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dj As Published. 4to. Vg in three green/gilt cloth-bound volumes marbled edges.The three volume set heavy item please inquire about postage costs Illinois Pioneer Historical Publishing hardcover
1839réf. 4904Edinburgh: Printed for the Maitland Club 1839. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 28 cm; xxiv 185 pages. Bound in contemporary red half morocco over pebbled boards edged with gilt rules . Spine decorated and titled in gilt. Marbled endleaves. Moderate wear especially at extremities with spine chipped a bit at heel. Two labels removed from pastedowns. A little foxing at front blank and the pages are not bright but text is effectively unblemished. Reference: Graesse 4 92; First printing of a fifteenth-century Scottish version of the Arthurian romance that was composed for the court of James III. It survived in a unique and incomplete manuscript in the Cambridge library. The text was edited by the librarian of Durham Cathedral Joseph Stevenson and published by the Maitland Club an association dedicated to the promotion of Scottish literature and culture. Printed for the Maitland Club hardcover
1839réf. 4904Edinburgh: Printed for the Maitland Club 1839. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 28 cm; xxiv 185 pages. Bound in contemporary red half morocco over pebbled boards edged with gilt rules . Spine decorated and titled in gilt. Marbled endleaves. Moderate wear especially at extremities with spine chipped a bit at heel. Two labels removed from pastedowns. A little foxing at front blank and the pages are not bright but text is effectively unblemished. Reference: Graesse 4 92; First printing of a fifteenth-century Scottish version of the Arthurian romance that was composed for the court of James III. It survived in a unique and incomplete manuscript in the Cambridge library. The text was edited by the librarian of Durham Cathedral Joseph Stevenson and published by the Maitland Club an association dedicated to the promotion of Scottish literature and culture. Printed for the Maitland Club hardcover books
1916réf. 23535Roanoke VA: Agricultural & Industrial Department Norfolk & Western Railway 1916. Softcover. Good. The Southern Homeseeker and Investor's Guide was published quarterly by the Norfolk & Western Railway from 1909 to 1918. Each 11.5" x 8.25" issue has an attractive color-illustrated cover and contains 40 pages of articles and advertisements relating to agricultural prospects and investment opportunities in the area served by the Norfolk and Western Railway. Most relates to Virginia but there is also content on North Carolina and West Virginia and occasional reference to states further afield. Articles cover topics such as fruit growing wheat farming dairying success stories about specific farms advice for prospective settlers higher education in Virginia what bankers' associations are doing to help farmers boys' and girls' agricultural clubs etc. This grouping includes Volume IV Number 2 June 1912 Volume IV Number 3 Sept. 1912 Volume IV Number 4 Dec. 1912 Volume V Number 3 Sept. 1913 and Volume VIII Number 1 March 1916. Condition ranges from good to very good with varying degrees of chipping tears creasing and general handling wear and a few detached wrappers. Internally all are very good. OCLC lists holdings of this periodical at only 6 institutions. Agricultural & Industrial Department, Norfolk & Western Railway unknown
1885réf. 5156Leiden: P. Somerwil 1885. Hardcover. Fair. Oblong portfolio 7 pages embossed blue cloth broken ties text block detached. Contains 31 of 36 panels of this chromolithographed panorama 27 x 35 cm. Note: WorldCat cites no copy in the Americas . Offered "as is" with some nicks with panels separating or separated. Note: this is the portfolio only which has a description of the panels but does not have the supplemental historical volume. Ex libris Albert Paul Marin Adrien Storm de Grave 1878-1952 lieutenant de cavalerie ritmestre. This is one of several panoramic costume cavalcades which depict the Leidsche Studenten Corps re-enacting historical sights. In this case it is a parade of personages from the foundation of Leyden University in 1574 to its 310th anniversary in 1884 in 223 figures by Gerardus J. Bos. P. Somerwil hardcover
1975réf. mon0003852564Unigraphic 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. . 2-volume set. large heavy books. minimal wear tanned pages. Unigraphic hardcover
1899réf. 0009259Warszawa: G. Centnerszwer 1899. First edition. Good. . 12mo; 70 67 77 54 pages quarter leather black cloth; bookplate and rubber stamp of the Biblioteki Polskiej South Bend IN. The only copy on OCLC is in Poland. Sedlaczek's work concerns the 1410 Battle of Tannenberg Grunwald. Bound with SYN KMIECY by Teresa Jadwigi / Jadwiga Teresa Papi. Warszawa 1897 Fiction. First published Chicago 1892. Bound with Zorjana E. W WALCE Z PHOANCAMI. Warszawa 1900. 1st Ed. OCLC lists only 1927 edition. Bound with SPRAWA O WOZ CZYLI. By Wiktor Olszewski. Warszawa 1901. This edition not cited on OCLC however OCLC credits a 1913 edition to Mieczyslaw. Brzezinski . G. Centnerszwer hardcover
