|
||
|
Catalogue 256 Western Americana |
||
|
Section II: California
Gold Rush |
||
|
Papers
on Book Collecting by William S. Reese
|
28. [California Gold Rush]: SLOAT’S SAN FRANCISCO PRICES CURRENT AND SHIPPING LIST. Vol. 2. No. 8. San Francisco: Printed at the Office of the Sunday Dispatch, Aug. 30, 1851. [2]pp. plus blank integral leaf, containing a manuscript letter dated Aug. 30, 1850 [i.e. 1851], addressed in manuscript on the fourth page and with a stamped San Francisco postmark. Quarto. Old fold lines. Nine small closed tears along fold lines repaired by tape, with no loss of text. Good. A rare survival from gold rush-era San Francisco, giving an extensive listing of market prices for a wide variety of goods in San Francisco in the summer of 1851. The prices for scores of goods are listed, including building supplies, bricks, clothing, drugs and medicine, fish, fruits, flour, linens, liquor, cigars (Cubans fetch a mighty high price), spices, lead, honey, hay, and much, much more. The second page of text lists ships that have recently arrived in or departed from San Francisco harbor, as well as an evaluation of the direction and movement of prices, an assessment of the money market, and reports on the availability of goods. The editor of this series was L.W. Sloat, Secretary of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and proprietor of the Merchants Exchange, who began issuing these price sheets in early 1851. They were published twice a month, just before the departure of the regular mail steamer. The present example contains a brief manuscript letter on the blank integral leaf from Joseph D. Cadle in San Francisco to B.P. Hinch in New Haven, Illinois. Cadle wrote the day this issue was printed, informing his friend that he is about to board the ship, Marcane, for his return trip home, and does not have time to write more than a few lines. New Haven is located in Gallatin County, on the Ohio River in the southern part of Illinois. Only a handful of copies of these ephemeral publications, giving so much information on the material culture and economics of gold rush San Francisco, survive. WAGNER, CALIFORNIA IMPRINTS 104. STREETER SALE 2687 (ref). $1000. 29. [California Laws]: [RUN OF NINE VOLUMES OF THE SPANISH-LANGUAGE LEYES DE CALIFORNIA]. Sacramento. 1855-1863. Paginations given below. Uniformly bound in contemporary sheep, gilt morocco labels. Sheep worn and scuffed, several hinges cracked but internally repaired. Ex-lib., with a bookplate and card pocket on the pastedowns the only indication. Quite clean internally and overall in good condition. A collection of nine early volumes of the Spanish language laws of the state of California, covering 1855 to 1863. Starting in 1854, the state printed its laws in Spanish and in English, no doubt to accommodate the large Spanish-speaking population of the new state. The practice continued every year to 1863, and then irregularly after that. The present collection includes the Spanish-language laws for nine of the first ten years, lacking only those for 1854. The laws were all printed by the official state printer in Sacramento, and translated into Spanish by the official state translator, four of whom are identified on the titlepages of these volumes, including Augusto Splivalo, Eugene Lies, Thomas Eldredge, and John Brodie. The volumes contained in this collection include: 1) Leyes de California aprobadas en la sesta sesion de la legislatura.... Sacramento: B. Redding, 1855. x,354pp. OCLC locates ten copies. OCLC 21565107. 2) Leyes de California, aprobadas en la septima sesion de la legislatura.... Sacramento: James Allen, 1856. 158pp. OCLC locates seven copies. OCLC 13865086, 65114633. 3) Leyes de California. Aprobadas en la octava sesion de la legislatura.... Sacramento: James Allen, 1857. 156pp. plus two large folding tables. 4) 1858. Leyes de California, aprobadas en la novena sesion de la legislatura.... Sacramento: John O’Meara, 1858. ix,[1],166,47pp. plus three folding tables. OCLC locates seven copies. OCLC 8601277. 5) 1859. Leyes de California, aprobadas en la decima sesion de la legislatura.... Sacramento: John O’Meara, 1859. xxiv,336,29,[1]pp. plus two folding tables. OCLC locates eleven copies. OCLC 11931003, 57497353. 6) 1860. Leyes de California, aprobadas en la undecima sesion de la legislatura.... Sacramento: Charles T. Botts, 1860. xx,[1],228,35pp. plus three folding tables. OCLC locates a total of only four copies. OCLC 21557802. 7) Las leyes de California, dadas En La duodecima sesion de la legislatura, 1861.... Sacramento: Charles T. Botts, 1861. xxviii,467,[1],33pp. plus three folding tables. OCLC locates seven copies. OCLC 40459848, 65164389, 21557821. 8) Las leyes de California, dadas durante la sesion decimatercia de la legislatura, 1862.... Sacramento: Benj. P. Avery, 1862. xxxv,[1],445,[3],40pp. plus three folding tables. OCLC locates a total of only three copies. OCLC 56950368, 40559484. 9) Leyes del estado de California, decretadas durante la decima cuarta sesion de la legislatura, 1863.... Sacramento: Benj. P. Avery, 1863. liv,[2],698,[2],43pp. OCLC locates a total of only four copies. OCLC 65164390, 9329516. An important and interesting collection of early California laws and statutes printed in Spanish, showing the efforts the new American state was making to include its large Spanish-speaking population in its civic life. $2000. 30. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: FIRE IN SAN FRANCISCO. JN [sic] THE NIGHT FROM THE 3d – 4th MAY, 1851. LOSS $20,000,000 [caption title]. San Francisco: Lith. Justh & Co., [1851]. Pictorial letter sheet, 8¾ x 11¼ inches, on blue wove paper. Contemporary manuscript notes. Old folds. A few spots of staining, mostly in the upper right corner and in the right center margin. One small closed tear in the right portion of the image, mended with tissue. Very good overall. This copy is especially notable for the contemporary manuscript note written in ink by a San Francisco shopkeeper who sent it to his family. He has marked the location of his place of business (with the fire just a few buildings away) in the illustration with an "X" and writes: "this lith. has been got up in great haste, to sell, and although I do not consider it good by any means yet I send it to thee thinking it may be of some little interest to the children perhaps." A striking California pictorial letter sheet showing the raging fire that consumed much of San Francisco in the first week of May 1851, one of several fires that swept through the city in the early years of the gold rush. The view is looking east from Nob Hill, with the fire raging near the waterfront, south of Telegraph Hill. Several people are shown in the foreground carting their belongings up the hill, while dozens of people are shown climbing up Telegraph Hill in the left side of the picture. In 1851, San Francisco was largely comprised of wooden structures, and fires often tore through the city. This letter sheet was produced by Justh & Co., one of the first and most important lithographic firms in San Francisco. Another copy of this same letter sheet brought $920 at the Clifford sale in 1994. An evocative image of the dangers involved in living in a booming yet hastily-built San Francisco, sent by the owner of an imperiled business. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 77. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 70. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, p.133. $1500. 31. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: VIEW OF THE LAST GREAT CONFLAGRATION IN SAN-FRANCISCO ON THE 22d OF JUNE 1851. TEN SQUARES BURNED, LOSS $3,000,000. VIEW TAKEN FROM THE HEAD OF CALIFORNIA STREET DURING THE PROCESS OF THE FIRE [caption title]. San Francisco: Pub. & Lith. by Justh Quirot & Co., [1851]. Pictorial letter sheet, 8½ x 10¾ inches, on blue wove paper. Contemporary manuscript notes. Old folds. Corners reinforced by tissue. Tiny portion at top center of image (less than 1 cm. long and less than ½ cm. wide) in facsimile, strengthened on verso. Very good overall. This copy is remarkable for having contemporary manuscript notes showing the locations of the Episcopal and Methodist churches, as well as the courthouse and the "El Dorado," which is noted as being a gambling house. A striking California pictorial letter sheet showing the fire that burned much of San Francisco on June 22, 1851, the sixth fire to hit the city since Christmas Eve of 1849. This fire was especially destructive due to exploding kegs of miners’ blasting powder, and also due to the looters who took advantage of the conflagration. It was due to the activities of these looters (and arsonists) that the Vigilance Committee had been formed in early June 1851. This view is taken from the perspective of Nob Hill, looking toward Telegraph Hill, with the bay in the background. Black plumes of smoke rise above the city with flames across most of the image. Residents watch from the foreground. In 1851, San Francisco was largely comprised of wooden structures, and fires often tore through the city. This letter sheet was produced by Justh & Co., one of the first and most important lithographic firms in San Francisco. A copy of this letter sheet in poor condition sold at the Clifford sale in 1994 for $800. A dramatic scene of San Francisco on fire. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 301. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 308. PETERS, CALIFORNIA ON STONE, p.137. $1250. 32. Catlin, George: LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.... London. 1841. Two volumes. viii,264; viii,266pp. plus folding map and hundreds of plates. Three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands, a.e.g. Light wear to morocco, boards lightly scuffed. Light scattered foxing. Very good. Styled the "second edition" on the titlepage, but with collation identical to that of the first edition published in London the same year. This is one of the most important works on American Indians published in the 19th century. Besides the descriptions of Catlin’s travels throughout the West, the book contains hundreds of line drawings of southern and western Indians, as well as two significant maps of Indian tribes. Catlin first went west in 1830, travelling extensively for the next six years accumulating his "Indian Gallery." Letters and Notes... was published when he brought the exhibition to London. WAGNER-CAMP 84:4. HOWES C241. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 453, 454, 455. CLARK III:141. SERVIES 2615. $2500. 33. Catlin, George: WI-JUN-JON. [PL. 25]. [London. 1844]. Handcolored lithograph, deluxe issue cut to the edge of the image and mounted on card in imitation of an original watercolor, title label mounted beneath the image: "No. 25. / Wi – jun – jon. / an Assineboin chief. / (From Catlin’s N.A. Indian Collection.)." Sheet size: 17 1/2 x 12 1/8 inches. Very good. A handsome image, Plate 25 from the deluxe issue of Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, one of the most important accounts of Indian life. Wi-jun-jon, an Assiniboine chief and distinguished member of his tribe, was chosen as delegate to a Washington meeting in 1832. Travelling down the Missouri by boat, he first met Catlin in St. Louis, and his portrait was painted in his exceedingly beautiful native costume. When Catlin next saw Wi-jun-jon, it was upon the Chief’s return trip from Washington, where he had exchanged his clothing for a military suit of blue broadcloth with epaulettes. So impressed was Catlin by the transformation that he painted this double portrait showing the Assiniboine chief going to Washington and returning to his home. In the image of Wi-jun-jon on his return trip he is wearing a top hat (where previously he wore a feathered headdress), smokes a cigarette (where previously he held a long pipe), leans on an umbrella, and cools himself with a French-style fan. Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio contains the results of Catlin’s years of painting, living with, and travelling amongst the Great Plains Indians. In a famous passage from the preface Catlin describes how the sight of several Indian chiefs in Philadelphia led to his resolution to record their vanishing way of life: "the history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy of the lifetime of one man, and nothing short of the loss of my life shall prevent me from visiting their country and becoming their historian." From 1832 to 1837 he spent the summer months sketching the tribes and finishing his pictures in oils during the winter. He painted highly realistic and powerful portraits, carefully recording the costume, culture, and way of life of his subjects. ABBEY 653. FIELD 258. HOWES C243. McCRACKEN 10. SABIN 11532. WAGNER-CAMP 105a:1. (all refs) $9500. Rare Swedish Edition of Catlin 34. Catlin, George: NORD-AMERIKAS OCH DE, UNDER ETT ATTAARIGT VISTANDE BLAND DE VILDASTE AF DERAS STAMMAR UPPLEFVADE AFVENTYR OCH ODEN.... Stockholm. 1848. [12],320pp. plus twenty-three colored lithographs. Quarto. Half antique calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Some browning to text pages, one leaf torn and neatly repaired. One plate torn in margin and neatly repaired, not affecting images. Very good. This edition of Catlin’s works is a curious hybrid of his two best-known works, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians... and Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio..., originally published in 1841 and 1844, respectively. The text of this edition is an abridged version of the text of Letters and Notes..., while most of the plates are scaled-down versions of the large folio plates of the ...Indian Portfolio.... A similar version of Catlin’s works, in German, appeared in Brussels in the same year as the present one. These Continental editions of Catlin are quite scarce. They afford the collector the opportunity to own a contemporary colored version of the plates in the ...Indian Portfolio... at less cost than the prices at which the last several have brought at auction. WAGNER-CAMP 84:14. HOWES C243 (ref). $5000. With Handcolored Illustrations 35. Catlin, George: ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS WITH LETTERS AND NOTES WRITTEN DURING EIGHT YEARS OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE AMONG THE WILDEST AND MOST REMARKABLE TRIBES NOW EXISTING.... London: J.E. Adlard for Henry Bohn, 1857. Two volumes. 264; 265,[1]pp. and 313 handcolored etchings on 180 plates, including three maps (one folding). Publisher’s red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, spines in six compartments with raised bands, the second and third with morocco lettering pieces; the first, fourth, and sixth compartments with repeat decoration of a large tool of a shoulder-length portrait of an Indian within a decorative surround, the fifth compartment with a large tool showing a crossed peace pipe and tomahawk within a decorative surround, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Expert repairs to joints and head and foot of spines. Very good. A deluxe set of the ninth edition of Catlin’s work, issued especially with the plates printed in outline and colored by hand. The London publisher, Henry Bohn, took over publication in 1845 and altered the title to that given above. What is important in this set is the handcolored plates. According to Sabin (who knew Bohn quite well and was certainly in a position to be aware of the facts), "Mr. Bohn had twelve or more copies colored after the fancy of the artist who did the work, but tolerably well. Such copies are worth $60 a set." In fact, a set brought $24 at the Field sale in 1875. By comparison, a copy of the ...Indian Portfolio... sold for only $1.50 at that sale. Howes disagrees with Sabin and states that various editions published by Bohn appear with the plates colored; however, given the quality of the work involved and the lack of any contemporary evidence amongst Bohn’s advertising material of a more generally available colored issue, it would seem likely that Sabin is correct, and only about a dozen were produced. The plates themselves are clean, fresh, and very handsomely colored. It is impossible to identify the colorist, but it was quite possibly one of the Catlin copyists working in England at that time, John Cullum or Rosa Bonheur. The plates illustrate scenes of Indian life in the West, or are portraits of individual Indians. The book was and is one of the most widely circulated works on American Indians written in the 19th century, and the illustrations so beautifully presented herein remain the most important body of illustrative material for wild Indian life in the American West. FIELD 260. HOWES C241, "b." MILES & REESE, AMERICA PICTURED TO THE LIFE 55. McCRACKEN, CATLIN 8K (1866 ed). CLARK III:141. SABIN 11537. STREETER SALE 4277 (1866 ed). PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 685. PILLING, ALGONQUIAN, p.76. WAGNER-CAMP 84:17. $45,000. Catlin’s Final Work 36. Catlin, George: O-KEE-PA: A RELIGIOUS CEREMONY; AND OTHER CUSTOMS OF THE MANDANS. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1867. vii,52pp. including half title, plus thirteen full-page color plates depicting the Mandan Torture Ceremony. Half title. Quarto. Modern half morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Original fly leaf and half title chipped at upper corner (no loss). Text lightly tanned, plates clean. A very good copy. First American edition, actually the same sheets and printing as the London edition of the same year, but with a cancel titlepage. Catlin spent some fourteen years among the various North American Indian tribes and left the most authentic anthropological record of an already vanishing people. He wrote O-kee-pa... in response to an article appearing in an 1866 issue of Truebner’s monthly catalogue. The article attributed to Catlin the authorship of an "indescribably lascivious pamphlet" on the secret customs of the Mandans (see Sabin 11528). O-kee-pa... is as much a defense of Catlin as of the Mandans, a tribe who were mostly found on the west side of the Missouri River, most of whom were destroyed by a smallpox epidemic in 1837. Catlin states in his preface that of all the numerous customs which he had recorded, nothing was so peculiar and surprising as the O-kee-pa ceremony of the Mandans. The curious rite of O-kee-pa is shown in "horrible fidelity" (Field) in the thirteen outstanding color plates. BENNETT, p.22. FIELD 262. HOWES C244, "b." SABIN 11543. McCRACKEN, CATLIN, pp.101-8, 25A&B. $14,000. 37. Chase, C.M.: THE EDITOR’S RUN IN NEW MEXICO AND COLORADO EMBRACING TWENTY-EIGHT LETTERS ON STOCK RAISING, AGRICULTURE, TERRITORIAL HISTORY, GAME, SOCIETY, GROWING TOWNS, PRICES, PROSPECTS, &c. WITH OCCASIONAL ALLUSION TO "THE GOVERNOR," THE HEARTY INVALID, THE PUEBLO MAIDEN, AND OTHER SUBJECTS OF TERRITORIAL INTEREST. Lyndon, Vt. [1882]. 233pp., including illustrations, plus [3]pp. of ads. Frontispiece and photographic portrait of Chase. Original pictorial green wrappers bound into half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Fresh, and very good. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "E.B. Chase from C.M.C. May 4, 1895." Chase, editor of the Vermont Union, travelled across the country in the final months of 1881 and posted these dispatches. Following initial entries on Chicago and Kansas, he includes descriptions of his visits to Trinidad, La Junta, and Denver in Colorado. The bulk of the book contains an in-depth discussion of New Mexico, including descriptions of Cimarron, Taos, the Indian village of Pueblo, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Vegas, and more. All the while Chase includes observations on local society and politics, cattle and agriculture, Indians, etc. "Scarce" – Adams. HOWES C315. ADAMS HERD 450. GRAFF 652. WYNAR 2082. EBERSTADT 114:210. $750. The Bible in Cherokee 38. [Cherokee Language]: Jones, Evan and John B. [trans]: [SAMMELBAND OF FIVE WORKS IN CHEROKEE LANGUAGE]. [Cherokee Nation, present-day Oklahoma]: Baptist Mission Press, 1848-1849. Five works bound in one volume, each with its own titlepage in English and Cherokee. Narrow 16mo. Old half roan and cloth. Some scattered foxing and browning. Spine ends worn. Overall quite good. First editions in Cherokee. The five works are Ephesians (1848), Galatians (1848), Philippians (1848), Corinthians (1849), and Romans (1849). Not in Ayer, Indian Linguistics. FOREMAN, pp.27-28. GILCREASE, pp.45-46. HARGRETT 118, 120, 122, 133, 134. PILLING, IROQUOIAN, p.94. $3500. 39. [Cherokee Language]: THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO TIMOTHY [caption title]. [Park Hill: Mission Press, 1853]. 24pp. Dbd. Edges a bit tanned, else very good. Third edition, after the first and second editions of 1844 and 1849, respectively. Scarce Park Hill Mission imprint entirely in Cherokee. Only the title is partly in English. HARGRETT, OKLAHOMA 158. PILLING, IROQUOIAN, p.163. GILCREASE, p.49. $750. In a Presentation Binding 40. Cherry, Cummings: CINCINNATI & SONORA MINING ASSOCIATION. GEOLOGICAL REPORT AND MAP OF THE SAN JUAN DEL RIO RANCHE, IN SONORA, MEXICO. ALSO REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE, STATISTICS OF SILVER MINING, TRANSCRIPT OF TITLE, &c. Cincinnati: Wrightson & Co., 1866. 86pp. plus two folding maps. Presentation binding of dark blue sheep with red blue inlays, boards paneled and tooled in gilt, spine gilt, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Boards scuffed and bowed, front hinge weak. Internally very clean and in near fine condition. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Senor M. Romero. Minister of the Mexican Republic. Washington DC. With the compliments of the Cincinnati & Sonora Land and Mining Association, Sept. 14, 1866." Cherry was a mining engineer who produced several reports on mineral deposits in various areas of the United States, and who authored other works for the Cincinnati and Sonora Mining Association (see Sabin, Howes, and the Streeter sale, all of whom list other works, but not the present title). Cherry’s report is illustrative of a post-Civil War boomlet of interest in the mineral wealth of the Sonora region of northern Mexico (doubtless aided by a rumor that the United States might annex it). Cherry writes glowingly of the potential mineral wealth of the area while downplaying the threat from hostile Apaches, objections from the Mexican government, and a shortage of labor. The geological report is quite thorough, and the maps show a portion of "Cherry’s Traveling Military Map of Sonora" and the Ranche San Juan del Rio. OCLC locates ten copies. Scarce. OCLC 3502151. $2750. 41. Clark, C.M.: A TRIP TO PIKE’S PEAK AND NOTES BY THE WAY, WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS: BEING DESCRIPTIVE OF INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS THAT ATTENDED THE PILGRIMAGE; OF THE COUNTRY THROUGH KANSAS AND NEBRASKA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; MINING REGIONS; MINING OPERATIONS, etc., etc. Chicago. 1861. vii,[2],134pp. plus plates and errata leaf. Frontis. Original cloth. Hinges starting, rear board bit warped from dampness. Edges and corners bit frayed, some minor scattered soiling and foxing. Really quite clean internally. Overall good. In a brown buckram box, leather label. Clark was a Chicago physician who went to Colorado to prospect for gold in 1860, without success. He describes in detail the frontier town and expresses distaste with some of its aspects, such as gambling, crime, and language. His narrative is considered one of the few authentic and truthful accounts of life and travel in Colorado of the day. The plates offer many fine illustrations of Denver and other western towns. "One of the best of the few contemporary accounts of the Pike’s Peak gold rush..." – Wilcox. "[Clark’s] is one of the few authentic accounts of that year’s travel to the Rockies" – Wagner-Camp. About half the copies we have encountered lack the frontispiece, which is present in this copy. HOWES C430, "b". STREETER SALE 2144. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 548. GRAFF 731. WAGNER-CAMP 372. WILCOX, p.24. $3000. In Original Wrappers 42. Clarke, Asa B.: TRAVELS IN MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA.... Boston. 1852. 138pp. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Small stain in lower right corner of first half of text leaves, else a fine, bright copy. In a half morocco box. Asa Clarke left New York as a member of the Hampden Mining Company in late January 1849. He travelled to the mines of California from Camargo, Mexico, through Chihuahua and Sonora to the Gila River in Arizona (then the U.S.-Mexican boundary), arriving in Los Angeles on July 9. Clarke’s narrative provides the first printed description of that route. He spent that winter at Marysville and Sacramento, and along the Yuba River. Streeter characterizes this narrative as "one of the most interesting [overlands]...This route had not previously been described." HOWES C451, "b." SABIN 13393. MINTZ 534. COWAN, p.128. GRAFF 746. STREETER SALE 3169. WAGNER-CAMP 210. KURUTZ 138. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 41. HILL 302. JONES 1275. $3000. 43. [Cody, William F.]: THE LIFE OF HON. WILLIAM F. CODY KNOWN AS BUFFALO BILL THE FAMOUS HUNTER, SCOUT AND GUIDE. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Hartford: Frank Bliss, [1879]. 365pp. Illus. Frontispiece portrait. Modern half morocco and cloth. Titlepage bit tanned, else very good. Howes states that Prentiss Ingraham probably ghost wrote this biography. Cody had his first taste of fame in 1871 when he served as the guide for a group of army officers, including Custer and Sheridan. He soon parlayed his western experiences into a successful stage career. This biography covers his western experiences up through the advent of the Wild West show. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 224. GRAFF 786. RADER 859. JENNEWEIN 75. HOWES C531. $1000. 44. [Coke, Richard]: 46th CONGRESS, 2d SESSION. S. 1509. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES...AMENDMENT INTENDED TO BE PROPOSED BY MR. COKE, FROM THE COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS, AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BILL (S.1509) TO ACCEPT AND RATIFY THE AGREEMENT SUBMITTED BY THE CONFEDERATED BANDS OF THE UTE INDIANS IN COLORADO, FOR THE SALE OF THEIR RESERVATION IN SAID STATE...[caption title]. [Washington. 1880]. 17pp. Quarto. Gathered signatures, unstitched. Internally clean. Very good. A draft printing of a most important amendment, drawn up while a number of Ute leaders were visiting Washington. Provisions generally hinge on the distribution of significant annuities in exchange for greater cooperation of the various confederated tribes with federal agents. Coke, a former governor of Texas, was deeply concerned with the development of the American West, later becoming one the leading advocates of the federal regulation of railroads. Extremely rare. Not on OCLC. DAB IV, pp.278-79. $850. 45. [Colorado]: HISTORY OF THE ARKANSAS VALLEY, COLORADO. Chicago. 1881. [8],11-889pp. plus 178 plates. Thick quarto. Original gilt three-quarter morocco and pebbled cloth, a.e.g. Head of spine bumped and torn, extremities considerably rubbed. Inner hinges cracked but holding, old private bookplate. Else a good copy. A pleasing and quite massive early Colorado mug book, with portraits and biographies of prominent citizens. Many charming plates depicting mining works, factories, homes, etc. HOWES A314, "aa." $1000. 46. [Colorado]: CORBETT & BALLENGER’S TENTH ANNUAL DENVER CITY DIRECTORY CONTAINING A COMPLETE LIST OF THE INHABITANTS, INSTITUTIONS, INCORPORATED COMPANIES, MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS, BUSINESS, BUSINESS FIRMS, ETC. IN THE CITY OF DENVER FOR 1882. Denver. 1882. A-Q,[4],[33]-675,[1]pp. including pastedowns. One leaf on pink stock. Original printed boards, rebacked in leather. Lacking terminal advertising leaf (pp.677-678). Boards lightly rubbed and stained. Small modern ink inscription on first preliminary leaf. Bookplate of collector John J. Ford, Jr. on front pastedown. Very good. A comprehensive business and residential directory for Denver, containing numerous advertisements. $2000. 47. [Colorado]: Corregan, Robert A., and David F. Lingane, eds. & comps.: FIRST EDITION, 1883. COLORADO MINING DIRECTORY: CONTAINING AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE MINES, MINING PROPERTIES AND MILLS, AND THE MINING, MILLING, SMELTING, REDUCING AND REFINING COMPANIES AND CORPORATIONS OF COLORADO. ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY COUNTIES. Denver: The Colorado Mining Directory Co., [1883]. 908,[10]pp. including pastedowns and advertisements at beginning and end. Original blindstamped brown cloth, gilt. Binding slightly soiled. Very good. An exhaustive directory of the Colorado mining industry during its heyday. Containing demographic and geological descriptions of the counties listed, as well as many finely illustrated advertisements. $2500. 48. [Colorado]: NELL’S TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE STATE OF COLORADO. Denver: The Kendrick Book and Stationery Company, 1903. 12pp. plus folding map, 32 x 41½ inches. Bound into original 12mo. burgundy cloth boards, front board gilt. Small tear in the upper portion of a fold, and a few small separations at cross-folds, but with no loss in either case. A near fine copy. Nell produced some of the finest maps of Colorado in the 19th century, beginning in the 1880s. The present map, copyrighted in 1908, is a detailed map of Colorado, with mining towns named, county seats and towns identified, and land grants and reservations shown (including the Utes in the southwest corner of the state). Altitudes are also given, and railroad lines shown. The text contains 1900 population statistics for most towns and counties. A wonderfully detailed map. $1750. Huge Wall Map 49. Colton, G.W., and Phelps & Watson: GENERAL MAP OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE BRITISH PROVINCES, MEXICO, THE WEST INDIES AND CENTRAL AMERICA WITH PART OF NEW GRANADA AND VENEZUELA. [with:] G. WOOLWORTH COLTON’S NEW COUNTY MAP OF THE NORTHEASTERN PORTION OF THE UNITED STATES WITH CANADA etc. New York: Phelps & Watson, 1862. Wall map, 47 x 43 inches, full period color. Expertly restored, backed with modern linen, trimmed in burgundy cloth, on contemporary rollers. A few creases and a bit of expected tanning. Very good. A curious wall map, being a combination of two maps drawn by G.W. Colton and published by Phelps & Watson. The depiction of Virginia is significant on this map. Issued between the time when delegates from western Virginia declared independence from the state, but before West Virginia was admitted into the Union, it shows Virginia with its full pre-Civil War boundary. It is also noteworthy that Virginia was included at all in a map of the "northeastern United States" issued during the Civil War. The upper half shows a map of the entire United States, the southern portion of Canada, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and the tip of Venezuela. All the territories and states of the United States are shown, and no distinction is made between Confederate and Union states. The lower half contains Colton’s more detailed county map of the American northeast, with Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri in the south, and Kansas and the Nebraska and Dakota territories in the west. The entire map is bordered in a grapevine motif with engravings of the U.S. capitol, Mount Vernon, Willamette Falls, Oregon, and the Connecticut River Valley in the corners, and four obelisk-shaped monuments in the vertical borders. It also includes a table of distances within the United States and internationally, as well as tables of "Square Miles and Population of the United States" and "Population of the Slave States for 1850 and 1860." Not in Phillips’ Maps or Wheat. RUMSEY 718. $3500. 50. Colton, J.H.: COLTON’S RAILROAD & TOWNSHIP MAP WESTERN STATES COMPILED FROM THE UNITED STATES SURVEYS. New York: J.H. Colton, 1853. Folding map, 36¼ x 43½ inches, with period hand-coloring. Original roan binding (6¼ x 4¼ inches), the covers elaborately blocked in blind, the upper cover titled in gilt "Map of / the Western / States / J.H. Colton," rebacked in cloth; paper pastedowns, the pastedown on the upper cover printed with publisher’s advertisement. Covers scuffed, else very good. A highly detailed, large-scale map of the midwestern states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota, with additional vignettes of St. Louis, Louisville, and Cincinnati. The eastern and southern parts are well developed, but northern Michigan and Wisconsin, western Iowa, and particularly Minnesota, are still in a primitive condition. Excellent information on early roads, railroads, canals, counties, towns, and townships. $2500. 51. [Crockett, Davy]: A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF DAVID CROCKETT, OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE. London. 1834. vi, 113,[1]pp. [bound with:] COL. CROCKETT’S EXPLOITS AND ADVENTURES IN TEXAS: WHEREIN IS CONTAINED A FULL ACCOUNT OF HIS JOURNEY FROM TENNESSEE TO THE RED RIVER AND NATCHITOCHES...INCLUDING HIS MANY HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES; TOGETHER WITH A TOPOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND POLITICAL VIEW OF TEXAS. London. 1837. vii,152,[2]pp. Contemporary cloth backed boards, printed paper label (somewhat chipped). Three-inch crack along upper hinge, edges bit rubbed. An occasional fox mark, armorial bookplate. A good plus copy, untrimmed. First British editions of two famous Crockett biographies. The first title is the authorized biography of Crockett, first printed in Philadelphia the same year. Howes states that it was probably written by Thomas Chilton of Kentucky, from Crockett’s own dictated narrative. This work is here bound with the first British edition of Col. Crockett’s Exploits and Adventures in Texas..., which is attributed by Howes to Richard Penn Smith. "Ingenious pseudo-autobiography, purportedly printed from the manuscript found with the baggage of a Mexican general slain at San Jacinto" – Howes. A nice pair of Crockett books, here bound together in the original publisher’s boards. HOWES C900, S654. GRAFF 3864. RAINES, p.57. STREETER TEXAS 1192. $1250. 52. [Crockett, Davy]: "GO AHEAD!!" THE CROCKETT ALMANAC 1840 [wrapper title]. Nashville: Published by Ben Harding, [1839]. 33, [3]pp. including illustrations. Lacks pp.3-6. Original pictorial self-wrappers, the gathered signatures loose. Light staining and foxing. Good plus. Volume 2, No. 2 of the Crockett almanacs, with the usual stories of mayhem and heroism in the West, graphically illustrated. The illustration on the front wrapper shows the great scout being startled by an owl while the rear illustration, captioned "The Way They Travel in the West," shows a man in a boat being wildly pulled by two sea serpents. STREETER SALE 4189. HOWES C897, "aa." DRAKE 13416. ALLEN IMPRINTS 1545. $750. An Epic Exploration of Alaska 53. Curtis, Edward S.; Louis Agassiz Fuertes; et al: C. Hart Merriam [editor]: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. HARRIMAN ALASKA SERIES...HARRIMAN ALASKA EXPEDITION WITH THE COOPERATION OF WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institution, 1902-1914. Thirteen volumes. Half titles, all but the last two volumes with two titles per volume (one title in each of these volumes printed in red and black). 452 plates including one tinted lithograph, two lithographs printed in two colors, fifty-five chromolithographs), and ten chromolithographic maps (five folding). Octavo, 10 x 7 inches. Original green cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, t.e.g. Very good. Provenance: University of London (armorial bookplate in each volume, the last two volumes with small discrete ink stamps on verso of titles). A very rare complete set of the Harriman Alaska Expedition publications. These volumes record the findings of perhaps the largest private expedition to Alaska ever undertaken, that backed by Edward Harriman in 1899 in cooperation with the Washington Academy of Sciences. The party, which included three artists, two photographers, and twenty-five distinguished scientists and naturalists (e.g. ornithologist and author Daniel G. Elliot, proto-conservationist John Muir, William H. Brewer of Yale, George Bird Grinnell, Prof. William Ritter of the University of California, etc.), sailed from Seattle on May 30, 1899 aboard the chartered steamship, Geo. W. Elder. They sailed along the Northwest Coast, through the Bering Sea with stops at various islands, visited Eskimo settlements on the Asiatic and American coasts, and went through the Bering Strait to Siberia before heading home, travelling nine thousand miles in all. The first two volumes constitute the entire narrative section and are fully illustrated, with significant contributions from Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) (fourteen beautiful chromolithographs of birds) and the expedition’s official photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) (forty-five evocative landscape and ethnographic photogravures), as well as other images after artists R. Swain Gifford, Fred S. Dellenbaugh, Frederick A. Walpole, and Charles R. Knight, and photogravures from photographs by various other expedition members, but primarily C. Hart Merriam. The remaining volumes (ten in total, as volumes VI and VII were never published, and volume XIV was published in two volumes) include all the scientific articles and monographs to result from the expedition. It is very rare to find a complete run of these, and they were published over a twelve-year period. Following Harriman’s death in 1910, the publishing rights were transferred by his widow to the Smithsonian, who issued titlepages to the first eleven volumes, and went on to publish the final two volumes in 1914. The scientific results are also well illustrated with handsome plates and maps, including chromolithographs. The individual volumes are as follow: 1) John Burroughs, John Muir, and George Bird Grinnell: Harriman Alaska Series Volume I Narrative, Glaciers, Natives. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1902-10. Two titles, the second printed in red and black. Two chromolithographic maps (one folding); sixty plates including thirty-nine photogravures after photographs (twenty-one of these by Curtis), one photogravure after a painting, twenty colored plates (six of these after Fuertes, five after R. Swain Gifford, three after F.S. Dellenbaugh, four after Walpole, two after Knight); and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the "Smithsonian title page," dated 1910. 2) William H. Dall, Charles Keeler, B.E. Fernow, Henry Gannett, William H. Brewer, C. Hart Merriam, George Bird Grinnell, and M.L. Washburn: Harriman Alaska Series Volume II History, Geography, Resources. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1902-10. Two titles, the second printed in red and black. Chromolithographic map; sixty-one plates including forty-three photogravures after photographs (twenty-four of these by Curtis), one photogravure after a painting, seventeen colored plates (eight of these after Fuertes, two after R. Swain Gifford, three after F.S. Dellenbaugh, three after Walpole, one after a photograph by Merriam), one tinted lithograph after Fuertes, one uncolored plate after Fuertes; and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the "Smithsonian title page," dated 1910. 3) Grove Karl Gilbert: Harriman Alaska Series Volume III Glaciers and Glaciation. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1903-10. Two titles, the second printed in red and black. Six chromolithographic maps (two folding); twelve plates including two folding and uncolored, five photogravures after photographs (three of these by Curtis), one photogravure after a painting, four heliotypes after photographs; and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the "Smithsonian title page," dated 1910. 4) Benjamin Kendall Emerson, Charles Palache, William H. Dall, E.O. Ulrich, and F.H. Knowlton: Harriman Alaska Series Volume IV Geology and Paleontology. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1904-10. Two titles, the second printed in red and black. Folding chromolithographic map; thirty-four plates including one chromolithograph, three photogravures after photographs, fourteen heliotypes after photographs, fifteen uncolored plates; and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the "Smithsonian title page," dated 1910. 5) J. Cardot, Clara E. Cummings, Alexander W. Evans, C.H. Peck, P.A. Saccardo, De Alton Saunders, I. Thériot, and William Trelease: Harriman Alaska Series Volume V Crypotgamic Botany. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1904-10. Two titles, the second printed in red and black. Forty-four plates including five chromolithographs, six uncolored lithographs, two heliotypes after photographs, thirty-one uncolored heliotypes after drawings (twenty after Eva M. Saunders, eleven after I. Thériot; one illustration. Issue with the addition of the "Smithsonian title page," dated 1910. 6) Not published. 7) Not published. 8 & 9) William H. Ashmead, Nathan Banks, A.N. Caudell, O.F. Cook, Rolla P. Currie, Harrison G. Dyar, Justus Watson Folsom, O. Heidemann, Trevor Kincaid, Theo. Pergande, and E.A. Schwarz: Harriman Alaska Series Volume VIII [IX] Insects Part I [II]. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1904-10. Two volumes. Each volume with two titles, the second printed in red and black. Twenty-one plates including one chromolithograph, eight uncolored lithographs, one heliotype after a photograph, eleven uncolored heliotypes after drawings (five of these after J.W. Folsom, three after L.L. Howenstein); and numerous illustrations. Issues with the addition of the "Smithsonian title page," dated 1910. 10) Mary J. Rathburn, Harriet Richardson, S.J. Holmes, and Leon J. Cole: Harriman Alaska Series Volume X Crustaceans. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1904-10. Two titles, the second printed in red and black. Twenty-six plates including three uncolored lithographs, eleven heliotypes after photographs, twelve heliotypes from drawings; and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the "Smithsonian title page," dated 1910. 11) Wesley R. Coe and Alice Robertson: Harriman Alaska Series Volume XI Nemerteans by...Coe. Bryzoans...by Robertson. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1904-10. Two titles, the second printed in red and black. Twenty-five plates including ten chromolithographs, ten uncolored lithographs (seven after Coe), five heliotypes from drawings by Coe; and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the "Smithsonian title page," dated 1910. 12) Gustav Eisen and Katherine J. Bush: Harriman Alaska Series Volume XII Enchtraeids by...Eisen. Tubicolous Annelids by...Bush. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1904-10. Two titles, the second printed in red and black. Forty-four plates including one chromolithograph after Eisen, two two-color lithographs after Eisen, seventeen uncolored lithographs after Eisen, eleven heliotypes after photographs, thirteen heliotypes from drawings; and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the "Smithsonian title page," dated 1910. 13) William H. Dall and C.C. Nutting: Harriman Alaska Series Volume XIII Land and Fresh Water Mollusks by...Dall. Hydroids by...Nutting. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1905-10. Two titles, the second printed in red and black. Fifteen plates including thirteen uncolored lithographs (eight of these after Elizabeth B. Darrow from drawings by Nutting, two heliotypes after photographs); and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the "Smithsonian title page," dated 1910. 14) Addison Emery Verrill: Harriman Alaska Series Volume XIV Monograph of the Shallow-water Starfishes of the North Pacific Coast from the Arctic Ocean to California...Part 1. Text [...Part 2. Plates]. Washington: The Smithsonian Institute, 1914. Two volumes (including plate volume). Text: occasional illustrations. Plate volume: 110 heliotype plates including ninety-one heliotypes after photographs, nineteen heliotypes from drawings. RICKS, p.116. TOURVILLE 1950. $12,500. A Pioneering Dakota Language Newspaper 54. [Dakota Language]: Pond, Gideon H. [ed]: DAKOTA TAWAXITKU KIN, OR THE DAKOTA FRIEND [caption title]. St. Paul: Published by the Dakota Mission, November 1850 – August 1852. A total of eighteen issues, 4pp. each. Ten quarto issues from Volume 1, printed in three columns; eight folio issues from Volume 2, printed in four columns. Illus. The issues from Volume 1 interleaved and string-tied, issues from Volume 2 also interleaved. Edge wear and some tanning to the exterior leaves. A couple faint old stains in each of the gatherings. On the whole, quite clean and in very good condition. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label. A nearly complete run of this very rare Dakota Mission periodical. Only twenty total issues of this monthly newspaper printed in the Dakota and English languages were published, and this collection of eighteen issues contains all but issues three and four (January and February 1851) from the first volume. The primary purposes of the paper were to educate the Dakota themselves, and to pass along information on the tribe to the American people. It ceased publication when the Dakota were removed from Minnesota under a treaty of 1851, which ceded all Sioux lands in Minnesota to the United States, and provided for the removal of the tribe further westward. The editor, Gideon H. Pond, was a prominent missionary to the Dakota Indians, arriving in Minnesota in 1834 and taking up the study of the Dakota language. With his brother Samuel, Gideon Pond helped develop the first Dakota alphabet (no dictionaries or grammars being available up to that time), and they went on to publish readers, grammars, and translations in Dakota, and taught the language to Stephen Return Riggs. The mission statement of the newspaper is printed in the first issue and reads (in part): "to diminish and remove the existing prejudice to education among them [the Sioux], by exciting in them a taste for reading and bringing into use that knowledge of letters which is already expressed by a few...It will be the object of the paper to bring before the Indian mind such items of news as will interest them, and any such matter as it is believed will be calculated to improve their physical, mental, and moral condition." The paper contains a great variety of news, information, and reports, including news from local villages and settlements – including obituaries, weddings, and baptisms – reports by missionaries, accounts of Dakota customs and myths, religious works, the text of treaties, language lessons, and engraved illustrations. One article describes a ball game played by the Dakota closely resembling lacrosse, and another gives a description of the origins and form of their medicine dance, while another brief notice relates the Winnebago’s love of whiskey. Most of the articles are printed in both Dakota and English, though occasionally only in one or the other. Beginning with the seventh issue of the first volume, an illustration was incorporated into the masthead depicting Dakota children reading The Dakota Friend, as a missionary and two Dakota adults look on. "There is much of interest to the philologist in this paper: lessons for learners, grammatic forms, vocabularies, &c." – Pilling. After a few months of publication, the newspaper experienced financial difficulty, and several changes were made, including enlarging the size of the paper from quarto to folio sheets, and raising the subscription rate from twenty-five to fifty cents. The paper was printed at the Chronicle and Register Office in St. Paul for its entire run, and the English language portion was edited by the Rev. Edward Neill. Publication ceased in August 1852 with Vol. II, No. 8, and a note in the final issue reads: "the Dakota Mission deems it unadvisable, while the Indians are so unsettled, to continue the Friend. If the prospect is more encouraging it will be resumed hereafter." Printing in Minnesota began in the summer of 1849, so this is a very early imprint indeed, and only the fifth periodical in an Indian language published in the trans-Mississippi West (following a Shawnee language paper printed in Kansas beginning in 1835, and two Cherokee and two Choctaw language papers printed in present-day Oklahoma in the 1840s). Pilling locates runs of The Dakota Friend at the Library of Congress and Harvard, and OCLC adds runs (some incomplete) at The New York Public Library, Yale, Newberry Library (from the Ayer and Graff collections), Huntington Library, Chicago Historical Society, Minneapolis Public Library, Minnesota Historical Society, and University of Minnesota. A very rare and important early Indian language newspaper. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 3029. PILLING, SIOUAN, p.23. AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (DAKOTA) 65. LITTLEFIELD & PARINS, pp.128-31. GRAFF 988. SABIN 18286. OCLC 1644692. $17,500. "Remarkably interesting 55. [Dakota Newspaper]: FRONTIER SCOUT. Fort Rice, Dakota Territory. Aug. 3, 1865. Volume 1, No. 8. 4pp., printed in three columns on blue-ruled paper. Three horizontal fold lines. Some splitting at the folds, not affecting text. Very good. The eighth issue of this rare weekly newspaper printed at Fort Rice in Dakota Territory, containing a riveting account of a battle against the Sioux. The two-page story describes the vicious battle that took place between the First U.S. Volunteers and the Sioux Indians at Fort Rice on July 28, 1865. The account was written by Captain E.G. Adams, the editor of the paper, who says of the Sioux that they "may talk of peace, but their hearts are full of the bitterest hostility." Adams draws on the experiences of the men in the company to give an eyewitness account of the ferocious battle, which resulted in a victory for the U.S. forces: "Every officer and every soldier of Fort Rice, on that eventful day, were on the alert for scalps, and anxious to inflict as much injury on the red-skins as possible. And I have every reason to believe, indeed I know, that more Indians bit the dust than for a long time before in the annals of Indian warfare." The final page contains a long article, signed "S.P.Y.," discussing the future of American policy and actions with regard to the Sioux. The correspondent argues that a large U.S. force is necessary in the region to defend the Missouri River and the rich gold fields to the west. Other content of the paper includes poetry, local weather, and a discourse on mythology. The Frontier Scout carried original articles by soldiers and local citizens, and was published "for the edification of the people of Dacotah, both civilized and savage." "This weekly Army newspaper is the second newspaper printed in what is now North Dakota...Remarkably interesting and full of local color" – Streeter. Indeed, as Streeter notes, it is only preceded by an identically named newspaper published at Fort Union, which produced three or four issues in the summer of 1864. The Frontier Scout published at Fort Rice began its run on June 15, 1865, and continued on until the First United States Volunteers left the fort in October 1865, producing a total of fifteen issues. It was edited by Captain E.G. Adams and published by Lieut. C.H. Champney. Fort Rice was established July 11, 1864 on the right bank of the Missouri River, about thirty miles south of present-day Bismarck, North Dakota. The mission of the troops at the fort was to control the Sioux, protect the immigrant route from Minnesota to Montana, and to protect navigation on the Missouri River. The fort was abandoned within fifteen years, superseded by the nearby Fort Yates. The Frontier Scout is not listed in Allen’s bibliography of Dakota imprints, but if it was it would fall within the first thirty-five items listed. A remarkable frontier newspaper, with a rare firsthand account of a bloody Sioux attack on Fort Rice. Rare. STREETER SALE 2040. GRAFF 1452. Forts of the West, p.113. $2500. 56. De Smet, Pierre-Jean: NEW INDIAN SKETCHES. New York. 1863. 175pp. plus plate. Frontis. Original red cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine slightly faded. Very good. This is the variant first edition, with no date on the imprint. The famed missionary’s account of his travels as U.S. army chaplain during the Mormon hostilities of 1858-59, traversing the region from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Kearny and back, to the Pacific via Panama, Fort Vancouver and the northern Rockies, then east to St. Louis. Includes a partial vocabulary of the Skalzi tribe and a catechism as used by the Flathead, Kalispels, and Pend d’Oreilles, with the English equivalent. "Father Smet is a modern example of those hero martyrs of the Jesuit order, who so nearly redeemed the savage tribes of America from Paraguay to Canada" – Field. HOWES D285, "aa." STREETER 3071. SABIN 82267. FIELD 1427 (later ed). WAGNER-CAMP 395. GRAFF 3828. $1250. 57. Dearborn, W.L.: DESCRIPTION OF A RAIL ROAD ROUTE, FROM ST. LOUIS TO SAN FRANCISCO, IN LETTERS TO P.P.F. DeGRAND.... Boston. 1850. 16pp. Modern half morocco. Very good. A rare engineering report on a proposed Pacific railroad line from St. Louis to San Francisco. P.P.F. DeGrand, a Boston newspaperman, was one of several entrepreneurs who attempted to counter Asa Whitney’s plan for a transcontinental railroad with a vision of his own. The three letters in this document, submitted to DeGrand by engineer W.L. Dearborn, describe a railroad from St. Louis to San Francisco – one which would have run along a line further south than that proposed by Whitney. The discovery of gold outside Sacramento in January 1848 (a region through which DeGrand’s line would have passed), no doubt heightened the interest in a railroad to California. Dearborn endorses the route, saying that modern engineering can surmount the obstacle of the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada range: "the barrier will comparatively disappear, as have those of the Menai Straits and Alps, before the science, skill and enterprise of the age." Dearborn also gives information about the agricultural capabilities of the region, and a detailed description of the topography and course of the proposed route. The titlepage calls for a map and profile, noted by Cowan, and we know of one copy only, in a private collection, which contains the map. Wagner-Camp notes: "No map or profile in copy seen." OCLC locates only six copies. Rare. Literature Relating to the Union Pacific, p.18. WAGNER-CAMP 181a:1. SABIN 19083. OCLC 27778264. $1500. |
|
|
|
||
|
Papers
on Book Collecting by William S. Reese
|
|
|
Questions or comments?Write us at amorder@reeseco.com |
||
