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1791Carte Reduite des Iles Acores dressee Par Ordre du Ministre de la Marine Pour le Service des Vaisseux Francais, d'apres les Observations faites par M. de Fleurieu, en 1769 et par Don Vicente Tofiño en 1788/ Publiee au Depot general des Cartes, Plans et Journaux de la Marine. 1791.Grande carta nautica delle isole Azzore basata sull'idrografia dello spagnolo Vincent Tofino ed edita a Parigi. Incisione in rame, in ottimo stato di conservazione. Carte Reduite des Iles Acores dressee Par Ordre du Ministre de la Marine Pour le Service des Vaisseux Francais, d'apres les Observations faites par M. de Fleurieu, en 1769 et par Don Vicente Tofiño en 1788/ Publiee au Depot general des Cartes, Plans et Journaux de la Marine. 1791.A well engraved and highly detailed chart . It shows soundings, anchorage's, channels, shoals, navigational sightings. Engraved by Petit, engraver for the Depot Générale de la marine. To the left insets with coastal profiles.The main source for the chart's topography and place names is Vincente Tofiño de San Miguel's 1788 Carta esferica de las Islas de los Azores o Terceras, whose detail appears for the most part to be identical to this. A bank between the islands of Tercera and St. Michael has been added, as well as a small island southeast of the Formigues islands spotted by French mariners in 1788. This chart employs rhumb lines where the Tofiño uses latitude & longitude lines. The most significant visual difference between the Tofiño and the Depot are the latter chart's nine beautifully engraved coastal views. These all are far superior to those found on the 1755 Bellin, and show the benefit of more recent survey.A beautiful chart in fine condition.
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19538vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 28 plates on 14, 22 maps (several full-page) in the text, 2 large folding maps and coloured front and rear endpaper reproductions of sketch-maps by Rommel; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, in custom-made-slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. 'No commander in history has written an account of his campaigns to match the vividness and value of Rommel's'. Hart was in no doubt about the responsibility of his task, the more so since much of this unique material had to be painstakingly reassembled from its various hiding-places safe from Hitler's eyes. Half a century later, the brilliance of Hart's achievement is undimmed. An outstanding record from one of the greatest commanders of the war. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.374.
1974rif. 166j1282Ottawa: Environment Canada Fisheries and Marine Service. Very Good. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. "Dedicated to the salmons of the Pacific and the Atlantic and to all their friends in Canada and other countries who wish to protect them and restore or enhance their abundance." - copyright page. Uncommon hardcover edition in brownish-gray cloth. 79 pages profusely illustrated with colour photos. Clean tight and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality example of this lavishly-produced Haig-Brown memento. Please note that this offering consists of the book only i.e. no box slipcase etc. are included. Cave 185 a. ; 4to . Environment Canada, Fisheries and Marine Service hardcover
1950rif. 432c9910British Columbia: The British Columbia Regiment D.C.O. Very Good. 1950. First Edition. Paperback. Presents "certain episodes in the tale of our Regiment which occurred during the Second World War and which are now recounted for the entertainment of the lay reader rather than the critical analysis of the military historian." - Introduction. 86 pages. Includes many full-page black and white reproductions of photos and 28 Canadian Armoured Regiment BCR Casualty List. Minor blemish on back cover otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Tight and square. A quality copy of this important history. Edwards & Lort 1658 Dornbusch 15 Hale 1362. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Story of the British Columbia Regiment 1939-1945 WWII . The British Columbia Regiment (D.C.O.) paperback
1955rif. 215j2681Mission City B.C.: Fraser Valley Record Ltd. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Solomon Mussallem upon front free endpaper. Printed for private distribution. Solomon Mussallem 1881-1963 was born in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and moved to Canada in 1897 not speaking a word of English. After a variety of stops including a successful fur-trading expedition in Northern Ontario he and his growing family settled in Maple Ridge British Columbia. He started the Haney Garage in 1919 became a Ford dealer in 1924 and in 1930 became a GM dealer for the twenty-five years. He served on Maple Ridge council for 23 years 21 of those as Mayor. His son George went on to serve as the local MLA for four terms. credits: Maple Ridge Museum Find a Grave This book was written by a friend and admirer so that future generations would understand the adventurous making of a Canadian in the first half of the 20th century. xiv 143 p. Black and white photographic plates. Map. Book clean tight and unmarked with moderate wear to original blue cloth decorated in gilt. Above-average wear to dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A rare and signed example of this important and engaging British Columbia life story. ; 8vo; Signed by Subject . Fraser Valley Record Ltd. hardcover
1983rif. 618c7612Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press in co-operation with the Provincial Archives of British Columbia 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 218 pages. From limited edition of 1600 copies. "Concerned entirely with the Haidas of the Queen Charlotte Islands of the last century the intricacies of the kinship patterns of the great families and how they saw themselves as part of a fantastic but in its own terms logical cosmos and most of all how this was all expressed in their remarkable architecture with its perfectly integrated massive carved and painted embellishments the great totem poles of the Haidas." - from Foreward. "The documentary photographs that survive are among the few remaining records which illustrate the richness and variety of Haida monumental art. Of the more than five hundred carved poles which appear in the plates only about fifty were removed to museums for safekeeping. The remainder have perished entirely or survive at the village sites as decayed fragments overgrown with the lush vegetation of the islands." - from Preface. Light external wear and soiling to cream-coloured cloth-covered boards. No external markings. Discreet bookplate and bit of writing inside front board. Blindstamp to lower corner of title page. Bit of writing in upper left corner of title page. Remnant of card pocket inside back board. Binding tight. A quality copy of this magnificent work. University of British Columbia Press, in co-operation with the Provincial Archives of British Columbia Hardcover
1985rif. 315h2002British Columbia: Sono Nis Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 091920368X . "The first full-length study of the career of the controversial missionary William Duncan. An unordained Anglican minister he was sent to British Columbia by the Church Missionary Society of England in 1857 to work among the Tsimshian Indians at Fort Simpson. After five years he left to establish Metlakatla but after disputes with various governmental officials moved this community north to Annette Island near Ketchikan. He was an outspoken advocate of Indian rights particularly land ownership when that was not a popular cause among the land-seeking white population." - dust jacket. 341 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Map endpapers. Book clean bright and unmarked with light wear. Light wear to dust jacket now preserved in mylar. A quality copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . Sono Nis Press hardcover
1953rif. 325a2022British Columbia: Publisher Not Stated 1953. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 359 pages plus xxi page appendix and 8 pages index. List of illustrations. Dozens of archival black and white illustrations on glossy stock. "These notes are mainly a record of the B.C. Electric its subsidiaries and the companies which preceded it on Vancouver Island. However the B.C. Electric perforce had a wide range of interests throughout the years and to preserve the main theme in its proper perspective it has been found necessary to make incursions into the history of other utility companies on Vancouver Island and also to record a certain amount of local contemporary history." - from Preface. Appendix topics include: Now it Can Be Told - Kilowatts Went to War; A Short History of Gas; A Short History of Light and Power Service in Nanaimo; Honor Rolls - 1st and 2nd World Wars; History of Transportation Fares in Greater Victoria; Major undertakings and expenditures 1946-1951. Tight and square with only moderate external wear. Unmarked. A well preserved copy of this significant work. Publisher Not Stated Paperback
1985rif. 762j2925USA: Garland Publishing. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. "Deals with that sedulously ignored topic death in the woods." - p. xiii Author lost an Uncle and Great Uncle in logging accidents and carried a dead man from the woods in 1937. "Because nobody except their immediate families seemed unduly concerned about these killings I decided back in 1973 to investigate the matter. This study tells the story of the ordinary logger who with his axe and saw and accompanied by his sweaty partner the sawdust-covered millworker by grueling labor cut the trees from east to west across this continent. We will examine not only how they lived from day to day but also how they died. During more than three centuries the two of them served an industry which while busy at its task of producing lumber like an insatiable Moloch used up men and timber at an appalling rate." - Introduction. xxviii 252 p. Index graphs tables and occasional black and white reproductions of archival photos. An appendix lists details of accidents and injuries to mill factory and logging camp employees in Washington State December 1902-September 1904. No dust jacket. Tight and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound example of this unique informative and rare study.; Modern America History Series; 8vo . 1985. 0824056728 . Garland Publishing hardcover
1968rif. 839j1257New York: Carlton Press Inc. Good with no dust jacket. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed without inscription by author upon title page. "Harry Roberts after whom Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia is named built the 37 ft. sailboat named Chack Chack in the early 1920's. He homesteaded on Nelson Island and his grandmother is credited with coining the phrase 'Sunshine Belt' that evolved into the term 'Sunshine Coast'. - ABC BookWorld. Roberts relates many of his adventures although this book does not include his Chack Chack cruising stories as they were intended for a second book per Preface. Roberts built the first mill the first store and many community homes in the Roberts Creek area. 12 207 pp. Map front endpaper. Several grainy black and white reproductions of photos in text. Tight and unmarked with moderate wear to original blue cloth. No dust jacket. A sound signed copy of this rare work.; 8vo; Signed by Author . Carlton Press, Inc. hardcover
2013rif. 215j2919Canada: Sono Nis Press. Fine No dust jacket as issued. First Edition. Paperback. "In 1949 Vancouver Island's Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway became Canada's first major railway to be fully dieselized. As the E&N - the westernmost part of the vast Canadian Pacific system - entered the prosperous post-war years change became a dominant force in the railway's history. Its traffic base changed as coal mining declined while at the same time a a major expansion of the local forest industry took place. Once a lifeline of Vancouver Island the E&N declined as new transportation modes became dominant. Includes over 500 select photographs maps scale drawings illustrations appendices references and index. This beautiful carefully researched book is the companion volume to the authors' Canadian Pacific's Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway The CPR Steam Years 1905-1949." - front flap. 324 semi-glossy pages. Clean bright tight and unmarked with lightest wear. A rare and excellent example.; 8vo . 2013. 1550392123 . Sono Nis Press paperback
1901rif. 020485Perth: Perth: Richard Pether Government Printer 1901 First Edition xiii 578 32 31pp 1901 Near Fine original blue boards half-calf slightly worn with former owner's name in gilt to front board now rubbed corners and spine in calf with raised titles internally Fine throughout except for a little mild age-toning with hand-written emendations. This volume contains the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act in which Western Australia agrees to become part of the Commonwealth of Australia. Very Scarce. Perth: Richard Pether, Government Printer 1901 First Edition xiii, 578, 32, 31pp hardcover
1951rif. 29849New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc. for Western Electric Co. Inc 1951. First Thus. Stiff wraps. Near Fine. First Thus. 1-blank 7 792 pages. Large 4to 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Original printed thick grey cardstock covers. Previous owner name "A.E. Smith Code 434 ONR" written at head of top wrapper. The best copy of this work we have handled - it is notorious for the spine bowing away from the textblock and copies with provenance are difficult to find. Stiff wraps. The previous owner was Albert Eugene Smith a computer pioneer. He was the Acting Head of the Computer Branch of the Office of Naval Research ONR in 1949 see Redmond & Smith founder of the Digital Computer Newsletter and a participant in the development of the COBOL programming language working along side Grace Hopper and others. He was ONR's representative at the Moore School Lectures. See Wikipedia and Grokipedia for more information on Smith. THE TRANSISTOR contains 34 articles plus the introduction covering material given at a symposium on transistors held at the Bell Telephone Laboratories during the week beginning Sept. 17 1951. It includes work from luminaries like William Shockley 1956 Nobel Laureate in Physics with Bardeen and Brittain for "their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect" who contributed to three articles including "Holes and Electrons" derived from his similarly named book and "The Theory of p-n Junctions in Semi-Conductors and p-n Junction Transistors" published previously in the Bell System Technical Journal. From the transistor's invention in 1948 through the early 1950s the fledgling electronics industry was encouraged and funded by the military driving significant research into this startling new technology and it's potential. In retrospect the transistor was one of the most signficant inventions of the 20th century. Moore's law and the continual shrinking of transistor devices from a single device the size of a pea illustrated herein to many many thousands of transistors in the same space have driven the computer revolution and fundamentally changed our society in the process. This symposium details work conducted by primarily Bell System researchers to share what was then known much of it conducted under government contracts and previously unpublished. The symposium treats "theory transistor properties circuit design principles applications and finally characteristics of different transistor types then under development." As the Foreword notes: "It will be recognized that in a broad sense this constitutes by a progress report. The art is moving rapidly. There are still many problems to be solved and some of the material reported may be soon out of date. It is too early for a full appraisal of the extent to which the transistor may find its place in the field of electronics. Just now it is a promising infant trying to shed its swaddling clothes. It is hoped that this report will assist in this effort. Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc. Murray Hill N.J. November 5 1951." Important early work in the field of electronics. PROVENANCE: Purchased from Smith's descendants LITERATURE: Kent C. Redmond and Thomas M. Smith "Manuscript Edition Project Whirlwind Case History Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. for Western Electric Co., Inc unknown
1951rif. 29849New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc. for Western Electric Co. Inc 1951. First Thus. Stiff wraps. Near Fine. First Thus. 1-blank 7 792 pages. Large 4to 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Original printed thick grey cardstock covers. Previous owner name "A.E. Smith Code 434 ONR" written at head of top wrapper. The best copy of this work we have handled - it is notorious for the spine bowing away from the textblock and copies with provenance are difficult to find. Stiff wraps. The previous owner was Albert Eugene Smith a computer pioneer. He was the Acting Head of the Computer Branch of the Office of Naval Research ONR in 1949 see Redmond & Smith founder of the Digital Computer Newsletter and a participant in the development of the COBOL programming language working along side Grace Hopper and others. He was ONR's representative at the Moore School Lectures. See Wikipedia and Grokipedia for more information on Smith. THE TRANSISTOR contains 34 articles plus the introduction covering material given at a symposium on transistors held at the Bell Telephone Laboratories during the week beginning Sept. 17 1951. It includes work from luminaries like William Shockley 1956 Nobel Laureate in Physics with Bardeen and Brittain for "their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect" who contributed to three articles including "Holes and Electrons" derived from his similarly named book and "The Theory of p-n Junctions in Semi-Conductors and p-n Junction Transistors" published previously in the Bell System Technical Journal. From the transistor's invention in 1948 through the early 1950s the fledgling electronics industry was encouraged and funded by the military driving significant research into this startling new technology and it's potential. In retrospect the transistor was one of the most signficant inventions of the 20th century. Moore's law and the continual shrinking of transistor devices from a single device the size of a pea illustrated herein to many many thousands of transistors in the same space have driven the computer revolution and fundamentally changed our society in the process. This symposium details work conducted by primarily Bell System researchers to share what was then known much of it conducted under government contracts and previously unpublished. The symposium treats "theory transistor properties circuit design principles applications and finally characteristics of different transistor types then under development." As the Foreword notes: "It will be recognized that in a broad sense this constitutes by a progress report. The art is moving rapidly. There are still many problems to be solved and some of the material reported may be soon out of date. It is too early for a full appraisal of the extent to which the transistor may find its place in the field of electronics. Just now it is a promising infant trying to shed its swaddling clothes. It is hoped that this report will assist in this effort. Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc. Murray Hill N.J. November 5 1951." Important early work in the field of electronics. PROVENANCE: Purchased from Smith's descendants LITERATURE: Kent C. Redmond and Thomas M. Smith "Manuscript Edition Project Whirlwind Case History Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. for Western Electric Co., Inc unknown books
1918301 pages. Index. Thirty-two fascinating black and white photos. "I have tried to picture, from actual experience, something of the life in its early stages of the settler on the Canadian prairie." - page 5. Author spent two years on a homestead north of Radisson, Saskatchewan prior to the outbreak of WWI. Faint pencil erasure atop front free endpaper otherwise unmarked with somewhat above-average wear to publisher's tan cloth-covered boards. Narrow opening in binding at page 16. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating account. PEEL [2e] 2649, ARTIBISE 619. Book
1926rif. 3973Cambridge Ne: F.M. Steele 1926. Very good. Four photographs in five segments 7 x 46 inches in length folding to 7 x 9 inches on a card mount 10 x 12 inches. Images joined with linen. Light wear to card photo generally clean and crisp. An interesting documentary panoramic photograph depicting the livelihood and agricultural success of one B.F. Trosper of Cambridge Nebraska. Each panel is captioned in the negative with the third photo occupying two segments of the panorama. The first shows Trosper a woman we presume to be his wife and two other men who may be hired hands; the woman sits at the wheel of a Model T which is parked parallel to the photographer while Trosper stand with one foot on the running board. The two men stand behind the car and a stacked pen of corn is used as a background. The caption reads "The finest background for pictures in Nebraska is corn. This is B.F. Trosper of Cambridge Neb." The second panel shows a worker and a dog standing to the right edge of the image which proudly displays seven pens of corn piled high: "12000 bushels of corn. One half of the amount that was raised in 1924-25 by B.F. Trosper of Cambridge Neb." The third image again shows the car parked in front of the corn pens on the left with a tractor and plow parked on the right side of the image the farmhouse and windmill in the background. Each panel of this photo has a caption: "B.F. Trosper one of south west Nebraska's successful farmers and stock growers" and "B.F. Trosper owns 1840 acres of land he has bought since 1884 commenced without a dollar Cambridge Neb." The final panel depicts Trosper's cows in the feed lot. Francis Marion Steele 1866-1936 was a noted itinerant Western photographer who captured cowboys and cattle drives roaming the West to document ranch life and farming operations. F.M. Steele unknown
1926rif. 3973Cambridge Ne: F.M. Steele 1926. Very good. Four photographs in five segments 7 x 46 inches in length folding to 7 x 9 inches on a card mount 10 x 12 inches. Images joined with linen. Light wear to card photo generally clean and crisp. An interesting documentary panoramic photograph depicting the livelihood and agricultural success of one B.F. Trosper of Cambridge Nebraska. Each panel is captioned in the negative with the third photo occupying two segments of the panorama. The first shows Trosper a woman we presume to be his wife and two other men who may be hired hands; the woman sits at the wheel of a Model T which is parked parallel to the photographer while Trosper stand with one foot on the running board. The two men stand behind the car and a stacked pen of corn is used as a background. The caption reads "The finest background for pictures in Nebraska is corn. This is B.F. Trosper of Cambridge Neb." The second panel shows a worker and a dog standing to the right edge of the image which proudly displays seven pens of corn piled high: "12000 bushels of corn. One half of the amount that was raised in 1924-25 by B.F. Trosper of Cambridge Neb." The third image again shows the car parked in front of the corn pens on the left with a tractor and plow parked on the right side of the image the farmhouse and windmill in the background. Each panel of this photo has a caption: "B.F. Trosper one of south west Nebraska's successful farmers and stock growers" and "B.F. Trosper owns 1840 acres of land he has bought since 1884 commenced without a dollar Cambridge Neb." The final panel depicts Trosper's cows in the feed lot. Francis Marion Steele 1866-1936 was a noted itinerant Western photographer who captured cowboys and cattle drives roaming the West to document ranch life and farming operations. F.M. Steele unknown books
1942rif. 3662Various locations mainly Arizona Montana and Illinois 1942. Very good. 77 leaves illustrated with 617 original photographs from about 1.5 x 1 to 4 x 3 inches almost every page profusely annotated in white ink. Oblong folio. Contemporary faux-alligator brown leather string-tied. Edges and joints worn minor rubbing to covers. Compiler's ownership inscription on inside front cover reading "Property of Margaret E. Wells" with her address in Douglas Arizona. Occasional empty mounts minor wear to some photos but overall a very well-preserved collection. A densely-packed collection of annotated vernacular photographs documenting about a decade-and-a-half of an Arizona woman's life in the West and during various travels around the country in the early-20th century. Margaret E. Wells grew up on a ranch near Douglas Arizona which is well-represented in the photographs picturing various family members scenes around the exterior of the ranch house a shot of their school teacher Mrs. Wodham taking care of the livestock and more including Margaret as a younger child. There are also a healthy number of images around Douglas as well as other Arizona locations such as Cave Creek Ajo Grand Canyon National Park and Tombstone. As Margaret grows older the album records her travels taking her to numerous locations around the United States such as Yellowstone Park; Virginia City Montana; Bozeman Montana; campus views of Montana State College where she may have been a student for some time; desert scenes near Reno Nevada; the Chicago World's Fair in 1934; Long Beach California; San Francisco; Bryce National Park and Zion National Park in Utah; Washington; and Oregon. Some of the later photos show Margaret working at Spiegel Inc. and some of the last photographs document Margaret and her husband John with presumably their young child. Some of the more interesting images include Margaret and some of her companions dressed in "Mexican Sombreros" in Bozeman in 1927; two elevated shots of the town of Virginia City; a handful of shots of Wells' friend Buster "working on the railroad" in Arizona; and numerous shots of the various characters in a Spring 1939 rodeo in Douglas. A wide-ranging collection of annotated vernacular images recording about fifteen years in the life of a young Arizona woman in her home state as well as several other states before throughout and after the Great Depression. unknown
1922rif. 3405Various locations in the American West 1922. Very good. Seventeen leaves illustrated with ninety-one photographs and four souvenir postcards extensively annotated in white ink on the album pages throughout. Contemporary tan two-ring cardboard wrappers front wrapper with black sheet laid down titles handwritten in white ink. Minor soiling rubbing and edge wear to boards. Minor fraying to some album leaves. A delightful homemade annotated vernacular photograph album compiled by D.S. Alexander memorializing his journey by automobile train and steamship through the American West and down the Pacific coast in August 1922. The album opens with a manuscript title page indicating the locations Alexander visited which included Manitou Peak Denver and Estes Park in Colorado; Salt Lake City and the Great Salt Desert in Utah; and several locations in California namely San Francisco Long Beach Hanford San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento. Manitou is the first location pictured followed by an elevated view and a few others of Denver and the surrounding landscape. He then travels west on the highway stopping in Loveland to visit a large dam and past Big Thompson Canyon on the way to Estes Park. In Utah he visits "Eagle Gate and Beehive House - Brigham Young's official residence" the Utah state house Pioneer Park and includes a couple of "Scenes from the Great Salt Desert in western Utah" on the train to California. In San Francisco he photographs Golden Gate Park and Alcatraz Island from a ferry boat before heading south on the steamship Yale. He includes several images on the shore at Long Beach as well as scenes at Sequoia Lake in Grant Park a vineyard in Kings County the Parker Ranch large trees in Grant Park and on the capitol grounds at Sacramento. Somewhat incongruously the final leaf of the album and the last three photographs pictures Alexander onboard a steamship on the Mississippi River in May 1923 on which he took an "excursion from Davenport to Muscatine Iowa." Ultimately the album is a wonderful and unique photographic snapshot of one young man's journey through Colorado Utah and California in the late summer of 1922. unknown
1942rif. 3662Various locations mainly Arizona Montana and Illinois 1942. Very good. 77 leaves illustrated with 617 original photographs from about 1.5 x 1 to 4 x 3 inches almost every page profusely annotated in white ink. Oblong folio. Contemporary faux-alligator brown leather string-tied. Edges and joints worn minor rubbing to covers. Compiler's ownership inscription on inside front cover reading "Property of Margaret E. Wells" with her address in Douglas Arizona. Occasional empty mounts minor wear to some photos but overall a very well-preserved collection. A densely-packed collection of annotated vernacular photographs documenting about a decade-and-a-half of an Arizona woman's life in the West and during various travels around the country in the early-20th century. Margaret E. Wells grew up on a ranch near Douglas Arizona which is well-represented in the photographs picturing various family members scenes around the exterior of the ranch house a shot of their school teacher Mrs. Wodham taking care of the livestock and more including Margaret as a younger child. There are also a healthy number of images around Douglas as well as other Arizona locations such as Cave Creek Ajo Grand Canyon National Park and Tombstone. As Margaret grows older the album records her travels taking her to numerous locations around the United States such as Yellowstone Park; Virginia City Montana; Bozeman Montana; campus views of Montana State College where she may have been a student for some time; desert scenes near Reno Nevada; the Chicago World's Fair in 1934; Long Beach California; San Francisco; Bryce National Park and Zion National Park in Utah; Washington; and Oregon. Some of the later photos show Margaret working at Spiegel Inc. and some of the last photographs document Margaret and her husband John with presumably their young child. Some of the more interesting images include Margaret and some of her companions dressed in "Mexican Sombreros" in Bozeman in 1927; two elevated shots of the town of Virginia City; a handful of shots of Wells' friend Buster "working on the railroad" in Arizona; and numerous shots of the various characters in a Spring 1939 rodeo in Douglas. A wide-ranging collection of annotated vernacular images recording about fifteen years in the life of a young Arizona woman in her home state as well as several other states before throughout and after the Great Depression. unknown books
1922rif. 3405Various locations in the American West 1922. Very good. Seventeen leaves illustrated with ninety-one photographs and four souvenir postcards extensively annotated in white ink on the album pages throughout. Contemporary tan two-ring cardboard wrappers front wrapper with black sheet laid down titles handwritten in white ink. Minor soiling rubbing and edge wear to boards. Minor fraying to some album leaves. A delightful homemade annotated vernacular photograph album compiled by D.S. Alexander memorializing his journey by automobile train and steamship through the American West and down the Pacific coast in August 1922. The album opens with a manuscript title page indicating the locations Alexander visited which included Manitou Peak Denver and Estes Park in Colorado; Salt Lake City and the Great Salt Desert in Utah; and several locations in California namely San Francisco Long Beach Hanford San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento. Manitou is the first location pictured followed by an elevated view and a few others of Denver and the surrounding landscape. He then travels west on the highway stopping in Loveland to visit a large dam and past Big Thompson Canyon on the way to Estes Park. In Utah he visits "Eagle Gate and Beehive House - Brigham Young's official residence" the Utah state house Pioneer Park and includes a couple of "Scenes from the Great Salt Desert in western Utah" on the train to California. In San Francisco he photographs Golden Gate Park and Alcatraz Island from a ferry boat before heading south on the steamship Yale. He includes several images on the shore at Long Beach as well as scenes at Sequoia Lake in Grant Park a vineyard in Kings County the Parker Ranch large trees in Grant Park and on the capitol grounds at Sacramento. Somewhat incongruously the final leaf of the album and the last three photographs pictures Alexander onboard a steamship on the Mississippi River in May 1923 on which he took an "excursion from Davenport to Muscatine Iowa." Ultimately the album is a wonderful and unique photographic snapshot of one young man's journey through Colorado Utah and California in the late summer of 1922. unknown books
1952rif. 80334New York:: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1952-1954. Fine The jackets are preserved in jacket sleeves and enclosed in modern brad-bound stiff wrappers. Additional postage applicable. Titles: Bugle's Wake. Gunsmoke Gold. No Head for Her Pillow. Legacy for Our Sons. By Gun and Spur. Strange Return. The Day of the Peacock not in either series. The Arm of Mrs. Egan. Doves of War. Death and Little Brother. Run Killer Run. Red Pawns. So Cold My Bed. No Man's Street. Cry Murder. Dutton Diamond D Western. Guilt-Edged Mystery. E. P. Dutton & Co., unknown
1885rif. 42263Chicago: Chas. N. Trivess Printer 1885. 1885. DAKOTA TERRITORY. RAILROAD. First edition. 7 5/8" x 5 1/8" original stapled printed wrappers 16 pp. map of the Chicago & North-Western Railway system on the back cover. Primarily a series of signed testimonials solicited by the Railway to describe "the Dakota boom." Farmers relate their experiences settling and cultivating the land detail their crop yields and profits from cattle ranching and encourage further settlement as land is still inexpensive and readily available. Several describe the settlers as "a most excellent class of people" who are educated industrious and and morally upright. And if that’s not incentive enough there’s the unsurpassed healthfulness of the air which is "free from malaria and full of inspiring oxygen and invigorating ozone." 3 copies found in OCLC. Top corner of rear cover has been torn away but with minor influence on the railway system map else very good. Chas. N. Trivess, Printer, [1885]. unknown
1856rif. 0006091London: Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Commander S. Gurney Cresswell R. N. with four lithographs and a folding map . Octavo xix 405 ii 24pp. in blue embossed publisher's cloth leaf 13/14 has a repaired horizontal tear lacks preliminaries; rebacked in new quarler leather new endpapers and paper label. On this voyage in the "Investigator" the found the westward entrance to the desired Northwest Passage in the Prince of Wales Strait traveling in a route which is detailed in color on the folding map here. Due to unthawed pack ice -through several summers - they had to abandon the "Investigator" to her fate in the ice. M'Clure's name appears on at least eight geographical sites around Alaska and the Northwest Territory. Note: co-author Osborn also became an Admiral. Illustrated by Commander S. Gurney Cresswell R. N. with four lithographs and a folding map. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts hardcover
