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188128032Cleveland OH: Morgan Lith. Co. 1881. Ephemera. Good overall. Trade card advertising the New Home Sewing Machine Co. 30 Union Square NY & Orange Massachusetts. Attracive image of a propering homestead the woman sitting at her sewing machine on the front verandah the family & their dog walking in from work. Color lithograph 3 x 5". Some glue residue on verso and slt. marginal browning. <br /> <br /> The Morgan Lithograph Company was established by William J. Morgan 1838-1904 and his younger brother George W. 1843-1905 in 1864. The Morgan brothers' parents emigrated from Wales in 1842 first settling in Pittsburgh before arriving in Cleveland in 1854. Located originally on Superior Street the W. J. Morgan & Company produced broadsheets trade cards pamphlets blotters postcards and posters to advertise local businesses. Increasing orders from surrounding states soon allowed the company to move to larger headquarters. Morgan Lith. Co. unknown
188150859New 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
1940List3440United States France and Germany 1940. Approximately 469 total items. Fifty-nine pieces of loose correspondence one with four photographs affixed. In large letter album approximately 199 pieces of written material: 118 pieces of incoming correspondence twenty-one drafts of outgoing correspondence and sixty other. 139 photographs: nine cabinet cards thirty-three smaller mounted or framed photos eleven CDVs or tintypes nineteen in small photo album sixty-six loose photographs and one real photo postcard. Eight pieces of loose miscellaneous written material totaling sixty-four pages; nine forms applications etc; forty-five clippings generally affixed to notebook pages; and ten pieces of unsorted ephemera. Written material generally dating from about 1891–1928. Photographic material and ephemera generally dating from about 1870s or earlier to 1943. Letter album with covers detached and damage to edges of paper very good plus; other material generally excellent. Overall very good to excellent. Charles Colt Yates 1868–1944 was born in Binghamton New York. He received a BS in Physics and an MS in Civil Engineering from the Case School of Applied Science now Case Western Reserve University before joining the US Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1892. Yates’ work with the USC&GS took him around the US and abroad; his work included observing the earth’s surface density in Hawaii; surveying Lake Pontchartrain the Alaska–Yukon border and the Aleutian Islands; surveying and ship-building in the Philippines and Hong Kong; and surveying the oyster bars in Maryland and Delaware.<br /> <br /> Offered here is a large collection of photographic and written material belonging to Yates. The photographs are almost entirely family shots. Subjects are generally identified verso by their initials and include Yates; his grandparents James Dennison Colt and Abigail Weber; his parents Walter Lloyd Yates and Charlotte Colt; and especially his brother Alonzo Colt Yates sister-in-law Elizabeth Deming and their children Evelyn and Lloyd Deming Yates.<br /> <br /> The written material relates to Yates’ work and includes incoming correspondence particularly work assignments sent by the Survey’s various superintendents; Yates’ drafts of outgoing correspondence; field expense forms—providing a look at the more quotidian activities of the Survey’s researchers—and departmental circulars; resumes and applications; notes and article drafts; and newspaper clippings. The latter generally relate to either the 1916 controversy around Woodrow Wilson’s scientific appointments particularly of E. Lester Jones or to the 1916 and 1928 Merchant Marine Acts. The merchant marine issue preoccupied Yates as several of his letters and articles concern the subject; other of his articles are an 1898 “Report on the Establishment of a Self Registering Tide Gauge at Morehead City N.C†and a 1914 report on oceanography.<br /> <br /> Early in his career Yates apparently wanted out of the Survey writing to several different people seeking a teaching position and explaining that his “desire to become a teacher and ultimately a professor is so great that I am willing to make a considerable sacrifice†in terms of pay July 16 1896. Of course there would have been upsides to leaving the Survey as working conditions at the time were far from ritzy; for instance fellow officer Alex S. Christie wrote of the employee at the Sandy Hook tidal station in New Jersey:<br /> <br /> “Where now located on the west side of this sand spit the observer is completely isolated and threatens to resign. He has no love for nature and no resources within himself. I could be very happy there.†July 26 1892<br /> <br /> Similarly Superintendent William Ward Duffield attempted to convince Yates that the conditions on the Alaska-Yukon boundary survey were more tolerable than he might think:<br /> <br /> “It might pertinently be added here that the American Transportation and Trading Company has a number of stations on the Yukon and carries a large stock of goods including drugs etc. at points near the boundary. The country is better supplied with means of existence and communication than was supposed sometime ago.†February 29 1896<br /> <br /> As references for a teaching position Yates offered his Case classmate and highly decorated electrical engineer Comfort Avery Adams then at Harvard and Case president Cady Staley. Yates corresponded occasionally with Staley including helping him with research by among other things giving him honest advice on the use of a theodolite:<br /> <br /> “From a personal experience: to approach a Vertical Circle without ever having seen one and having had it explained by a textbook is not only awkward but an embarrassing experience and perhaps even a disastrous experience when the proper approach of the level correction is reached.†February 24 1897<br /> <br /> Another Case affiliate with whom Yates corresponded was Albert A. Michelson then at the University of Chicago. Michelson is best known for the 1887 Michelson-Morley experiment a test of the speed of light performed at Case with Edward W. Morley and the assistance of Comfort Adams then a student. Yates had sent Michelson an observation of some kind—though he did not save the draft of this outgoing letter—and Michelson responds with several pages of reasoning:<br /> <br /> “I scarcely think it likely that refraction is the cause of the color observed – but even if this were the case it would not help matters much. The angle subtended by the spectrum could certainly not be less than 10†if a consistent color could be appreciated . Nevertheless I would recommend that the color phenomenon be carefully observed and recorded – for it may throw light on other matters of importance – even tho not of immediate practical use.†March 8 1896<br /> <br /> Yates also kept up with his Case classmates; several letter drafts in the archive are addressed “dear Classmates†and seem to be part of a semi-regular correspondence where the former classmates would update each other on their careers and lives though only Yates’ outgoing mail is represented. Yates writes a particularly interesting letter to his classmates describing his time in the Philippines and Hong Kong the surveying of which had become part of the USC&GS’s duties after the US assumed control of the territory:<br /> <br /> “I was just leaving for a surveying cruise along the south west coast of Samar Island the island General ‘Jakey’ Smith and brother officers made so famous by their approved ‘water cure’ and other ancient methods of obtaining information from the natives. We had an excellent Thanksgiving’s dinner in Jakey’s former residence the ‘bungalow’ at Tacloban and although many of his officers were still there I feel quite certain that water was not mentioned but their liquid method of obtaining information was probably even more effective. No doubt the natives of Samar are well subdued at least we judged so from the fact that when they saw any of our boats put off from the ship they immediately abandoned house and home to the old and crippled. Apparently Americans are to be trusted in reference to these two classes. Disappearing streaks of red skirts indicating retreating females were sometimes seen but our male ‘little brown brother’ was rarely discovered even on a run. This was quite a change from our previous experiences in other parts of the Philippines which had not received the benefit of the same intimate contact with our methods of civilization. In fact we were usually accompanied along the beach by a swarm of men women and children of all sizes and ages who though always polite and gentle were a nuisance sometimes through unintentionally getting in the way of our work.†October 15 1903<br /> <br /> The “water cure†was a form of torture similar to waterboarding often used by American soldiers during the Philippine-American War. General Smith was infamous not for use of the “water cure†but for his orders during the Pacification of Samar to execute everyone over age ten and turn the island into a “howling wildernessâ€; during the campaign several thousand civilians were killed.<br /> Later Yates explained to his classmates that he had had a nervous breakdown while stationed in Asia following the death of his only child at five months old and was sent home January 20 1907. He was assigned to survey oyster fields for the Maryland Shell Fish Commission which he described as “surrounded by politicians as our work seems to be the political issue of the Stateâ€.<br /> <br /> In fact at this time Yates seems to have become more interested in politics especially the Merchant Marine acts mentioned earlier. He sent out his article titled “By-products and Relative Values of a Merchant Marine†to several potential publishers and also corresponded with Congressmen regarding the act including Jesse D. Price of Maryland Frank P. Woods of Iowa and Joshua W. Alexander of Missouri. He wrote to the latter who was the 1916 act’s sponsor:<br /> <br /> “If you succeed in passing the Bill you will deserve oceans of credit and even if you fail you will have gained the sincere admiration of those who have studied the subject and know the great aggregate of vested shipping interests both foreign and domestic which are fighting you so hard because they fear the results to their personal interest of the founding of a real American Marine which would be brought about by the passage of your Bill.†May 16 1916<br /> <br /> Yates was also interested in the 1928 Act which concerned shipbuilding—having built ships for the Survey in Hong Kong and Wisconsin—and wrote an article that year giving suggestions for it. Otherwise the more recent contents of the archive are mainly ephemera of Yates’ brother diplomat Alonzo Colt Yates 1864–1950 including an ID card and passport.<br /> <br /> Overall a unique collection of an employee of the US government’s first and for a long time only scientific agency the archive provides a look at the agency’s activities at home and across the globe. It also provides some history of the early days of the Case School of Applied Science especially the activities of early alumni and faculty. unknown
1965000016559Big Rock Candy Mountain Utah: n.p. 1965. Pamphlet. Near Fine. 4to. 24.1 cm x 17.8 cm. Unpaginated. Colorful pictorial wraps printed in red and black staple-bound. Printed on glossy stock. With in-text photographs and illustrations in yellow. A souvenir booklet for visitors to the Big Rock Candy Mountain. The booklet highlights the motel and cafe at the mountain and the area wildlife that the owners of the motel keep as pets. A spot of soil on the front wrapper else sharp. n.p. unknown
187623907Boston: Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co. 1876. First edition. This scarce tinted lithograph was issued to commemorate the escape of Irish political prisoners from Fremantle W.A. on April 17th 1876. The Fenians are shown rowing towards the bark which is under full sail. The Catalpa is flying a flag with the initials "J T R" - for John T Richardson the ship's agent. A pennant with the letter C the Fenian flag and the American flag are also flying. <br /> <br /> The police boat is in hot pursuit and the British steamship "Georgette" is steaming in from a distance. Among the Fenians freed in this effort was John Boyle O'Reilly who became a leading citizen in Boston and was later to edit the 'Boston Pilot'. <br /> <br /> Captain George Anthony an American whaling captain out of New Bedford Massachusetts recruited a crew for this mission and set sail for Western Australia where two Fenian agents John Breslin and Tom Desmond had already established themselves with aliases. With several delays the day for the escape was set for the 17th of April when most of the convict garrison was distracted by watching the Perth Yacht Club regatta.<br /> <br /> Captain Anthony who refused to surrender the escaped prisoners to the British later sold his story to Zephaniah W. Pease who published the account in 'The Catalpa Expedition'. See also Laubenstein 'The Emerald Whaler'.<br /> <br /> On its arrival in New York in August of 1876 the Catalpa was met with great crowds; jubilant celebrations were held in the US and Ireland.<br /> <br /> 17 x 13" on paper 22 x 14 1/4". For information on the artist E. N. Russell see Blasdale Artists of New Bedford pp 160-161; Kendall Prints 28; Ingalls 318. OCLC: 191908718 1 copy at the Boston Athenaeum. Trove 45254 at the Australian National Maritime Museum; and 57714676 at the State Library of Western Australia. Professionally deacidified. In very good condition. <br /> <br /> A rare print important for its depiction of an important Western Australian colonial event. Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co. unknown
79380Partial handwritten land deed for the purchase of a tract of land for $100 and a second-hand wagon. The property was originally acquired by John M. Cox and Robert M. Kidder under the Homestead Act and located in Township 10 South Range 67-West. This property in located in present-day Adams County near the community of Todd Creek.<br /> <br /> The land transfer contains the official seal of the notary Edwin H. Kellog and is accompanied by an envelope for Kidder & Nichols Attorneys at Law Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania. There is some edgewear splitting and loss to this document but its historic purpose and intent remain intact. unknown
190278146Sioux Falls: Will A. Beach 1902. Interesting locally produced map by E. Frank Peterson of Vermillion South Dakota promoting the “Famous Artesian Belt†of eastern South Dakota. The counties and reservations are outlined in red with a printed overlay for the Security Land Company of Alexandria South Dakota pasted above the map: “Have a Choice List of Lands and Stock Ranches in Edmunds Walworth Brown Hand Aurora Jerauld and Lyman Counties in the Famous Artesian Belt Flowing Wells at From 700 to 1000 feet.†Alexandria is one of five cities on the map identified with a red star.<br />  <br /> The map 21 ¾†x 18 ½†folds into printed paper wrappers 3 ¼†x 6†with further advertising from the Security Land Company on the front panel. Small splits at some of the seams a few mended with tape. The map is a bit musty mothballs. Ink notation to the rear panel of the wrappers which are edgeworn and toned.<br />  <br /> The map was adapted by at least three different publishers to promote other regions of South Dakota. All are uncommon. OCLC locates only four holdings of this particular issue: Yale Lincoln Presidential Library Southern Methodist and Stanford. Will A. Beach unknown
187063746Portland OR: Harris & Holman 1870. 8vo. 624 pp. Engraved frontisp. of Astoria in 1811. Black pebbled publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor edgewear minor bumping to foot of spine slight fraying at a couple corners still a VG unsophisticated copy. First edition of this first-hand account of the settling of the Oregon Country by one of the original pioneers. He describes the Hudson's Bay Company the Fur Trade Mountain Men the early conflicts with the Pacific Northwest Indians and more. William H. Gray 1810-1889 was a young cabinet maker carpenter and house-joiner largely self-educated who had been inspired by the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening to become a missionary and sought permission from the ABCFM American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to proselytize amongst the Pacific Northwest Indigenous Peoples and originally was only hired as carpenter and mechanic to travel with Dr. Marcus & Narcissa Whitman Henry & Eliza Spalding and coordinated with Pierre Pambrun the French-Canadian factor at the Hudson’s Bay Co. Fort Walla Walla in 1836. Initially assigned to Lapwai by Dr. Whitman to work under Mr. Spalding Gray abruptly left for the East in 1837 to marry. His betrothed declined to become the third Euro-caucasian white woman in the “wilderness†but he subsequently met and married one Mary Augusta Dix 1810-1881 in 6 days even managing to attend medical college before securing an Associate Missionary certificate from the ABCFM and returned to Waiilatpu with his new wife and additional missionary reinforcements including Elkanah & Mary Walker and Asa Bowen & Sarah Smith along with Cornelius Rogers. Of particular interest within this history is that very little of Gray’s recently discovered unknown daily manuscript 1840-1842 diary was incorporated into this work. Presumably Gray had mislaid the MS or left behind in one of the family properties as it was 30 years later transcribed by daughter Caroline Kamm 1840-1932 noted socialite and philanthropist in Portland and is now held by the University of Washington Special Collections Allen Library. See: Howes G342 Graff 1630 Smith 3756. Harris & Holman, hardcover
188963050Portland OR: David Steel Successor to Himes the Printer 169-171 Second Street 1889. Tall 8vo. 2 xv 1 17-480 pp. With four woodcut engraved plates 2 facsimile signature plates. Half-gray-brown reverse-suede publisher’s calf & corners over plum-coloured ribbed cloth gilt decorations & lettering on spine gilt stamped title on front cover minor scuffing & wear head & foot of spine some rubbing to corners slight bumping edgewear slightly shaken several pages w/ ink & pencil manuscript corrections annotations & updates still a VG copy inscribed by the author from the library of John Baptiste Horner 1856-1933 noted literature & English professor and museum curator at Oregon Agricultural College now Oregon State who had completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Willamette University in 1887 and later a doctorate at Philomath College in 1899 perhaps best remembered for his “Oregon Literature 1899 Short History of Oregon 1924 and his comprehensive and expansive Oregon History and Early Literature 1931 w/ his ownership signature in upper left corner ffep. First edition inscribed of this rare and excellent association copy of Wells’ informative early history of the early exploration by Euro-Caucasians into the Pacific Northwest from the 16th-Century forward; the impact and spread of the fur trade through the Oregon Country; the formation of the Oregon Territory and the multiple military conflicts with native Americans up to the Modoc War in 1855-1856. Appended at the front rather than a table of contents is a detailed and comprehensive 11 pp. index offering an essential reference tool in exploring the work. In this particular copy J. Horner has frequently made corrections crossed out passages updated information and dates and provided MS brackets in pencil and ink to emphasize certain sections. Captain Wells 1854-1940 had been hired as editor for West Shore magazine in 1883 and largely changed the focus of this pioneering magazine from a literary feature to stories and supplements that highlighted the Pacific Northwest’s industries communities resources and their importance to attract new settlers investors and tourists. His drive as well to expand the magazine and lavish woodcut and lithograph engravings also strained the company’s finances forcing the West Shore into reorganization in 1890-1891. David Steel, Successor to Himes the Printer, 169-171 Second Street, hardcover
198550113Fairfield WA: Ye Galleon Press 1985. 8vo. 73 3 pp. Decorated title in red & black frontisp. numerous text illustrations plates decorated initials colophon in red & black. Burgundy-coloured simulated calf gilt lettering & printer’s armorial front cover gilt lettering on spine NF copy. First Ye Galleon Press edition of this very scarce diary of coming over the Oregon Trail and California Trail in 1858 recounting the grueling experiences of Mary and Americus Power. Ye Galleon Press, unknown
187235541Hartford: Columbian Book Company 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. xvi 17-327 pages. One page publishers advertisement. Frontispiece illustration. Illustrated. Green cloth hardcover with gilt illustration stamped on front cover. Gilt stamped title on spine. Light brown spots on the rear end sheets. Light edge wear to cloth extremities. Binding cords sometimes visible in the text. Text block is secure and uniform. <br /> <br /> Author's travel narrative locations include Raleigh Charleston Savannah Macon Columbus Montgomery Selma Meridian Vicksburg Shreveport Athens Marshall Waxahatchie Franklin El Paso Tucson Los Angeles. Last page has a small illustration of the Golden Gate. <br /> <br /> Howes P 537; Sabin 64804; Graff 3339. Columbian Book Company hardcover
1900210191900. Very good condition. Gelatin photograph with exceptional clarity a view of Albany from lower down Mt. Clarence with boulders framing the roof tops and the long jetty into the bay at center. Mounted on stiff board as found in photo albums of the time with title hand written below "Albany". Image 8 x 6". not found on Trove. unknown
1920List515Various Places 1920. Oblong folio cloth over cardstock 15 x 11 inches. Photographs and realphoto postcards most measuring around 5 x 3 1/2 inches mounted to pages. The system of national parks was created at first in a somewhat piecemeal fashion with the Department of the Interior holding responsibility for establishing each park individually. Chief White Calf of the Blackfeet famously negotiated the sale of the bulk of the lands that would form Glacier National Park in 1895 with the agreement being that the US Government would allow for Blackfoot hunting Chief White Calf’s son Chief Two Guns White Calf would later travel to Washington in protest of the government’s subsequent actions. The establishment of the National Park Service in 1916 coincided roughly with the dawn of American motor tourism. <br /> <br /> This album dates from that early period of National Park recreation and bears evidence as to the recreation that happened around the early part of the century. The album shows scenery in three national parks by noted photographers including some iconic photographs of Yellowstone by Frank J. Haynes first taken in the and several scarce images of Blackfoot attributed to the noted photographer T.J. Hileman who was the official photographer of Glacier National Park during this period. The album begins with twenty-eight photographs by Haynes who printed copies of his classic Yellowstone photographs first taken in the 1890s from his St. Paul Minnesota studio. The next group shows twenty realphoto postcards of Mt. Rainier National Wilderness Area taken by Frank Jacobs. Some images show the architecture of the lodges some of which were later designated as national landmarks due to their exemplification of National Park Service rustic-style architecture. Surrounding these images are a series of photographs presumably of the family responsible for the album showing a young family picnicking beside their automobile. This section also includes interestingly a realphoto Christmas Card from Mr. and Mrs. Mark Frederick Jukes. Jukes was a notable photographer based in Elko Nevada during this period. <br /> <br /> The next section which represents the most uncommon images in the album shows a series of images of Glacier National Park. The group includes ten realphoto postcards by or attributed to T.J. Hileman some with his copyright mark who was at that time the park’s staff photographer and famously took photographs of the Blackfoot people living in the eastern portion of the park. Included are two portraits of Two Guns White Calf and a portrait of Chief Three Bears neither of which we find records of in the trade. Following the Hileman images are twenty-one images taken by Fred Kiser of Glacier National Park each measuring 3 x 3 â… inches showing captioned scenes throughout Glacier National Park in Kiser’s distinctive cursive writing. Kiser began photographing western mountain landscapes on his own in 1905 following the death of his brother and his photographs of Glacier and its environs were reproduced during the park’s early days. Eight amateur photographs follow showing camping scenes in an unidentified Western landscape. The remainder of the album - 29 pictures - show the family at home and are most notable for a series of white children dressed up in faux- American Indian costumes. <br /> <br /> Overall a somewhat extensive and iconic representation of early automobile-age Western travel with the grand western scenery and zeitgeist of the time on full display. Images generally in fine condition with a few stray creases album with some light normal wear. <br /> <br /> Offered in partnership with James Arsenault & Company. unknown
1954List516California and Oregon 1954. Oblong 8vo dyed calf album measuring 11 x 7 inches. Contains 218 photographs most measuring 3 x 5 with some smaller. Very Good. A charming album depicting the canine-centric adventures of a couple as they fish hike and camp their way through some of the great Western parks nearly always with a German Shepherd in tow. Several iconic landmarks are on display - El Capitan the Columbia River giant redwoods and more. The photographer had a keen eye for landscapes and the overall quality of the images and the omnipresent dogs present an infectious appreciation of nature and the outdoors.<br /> <br /> The size of the fish on display and the beauty of the surroundings show the bounty of the Western parks in the early days of automobile-era tourism. Mixed in with the shots of the outdoors is a curious series of a German shepherd in various poses at a table and several pictures of the couple at home. Presumably several dogs are shown all German Shepherds as the album spans several decades. Contents are beautifully preserved album torn at seams at the exterior and spine perished good to very good condition overall. unknown
1872131493London: Edward Stanford 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Edward Stanford 1872. Octavo xvi 415 pages plus a frontispiece Government House Perth. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and extensively decorated in blind all edges uncut; cloth lightly marked and a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; spine tanned with minor wear to the ends and the front bottom corner; front endpaper slightly marked with the hinge cracked but firm; first and last pages offset; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. Provenance: contemporary ownership initials on the half-title and the later armorial bookplate of James Angas Johnson on the front pastedown. James Angas Johnson 1841-1902 accountant and pastoralist was a son of Rosetta French Johnson later Hannay eldest daughter of George Fife Angas 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Edward Stanford hardcover
1935152267N.p.: N.p. 1935. Archive of 24 vernacular photographs documenting a 1935 summer road trip through the badlands of South Dakota Idaho and Wyoming. Each photograph with manuscript ink annotations identifying location to the margins and manuscript pencil annotations to the verso noting locations and dates along with the stamp of Rays photography studio in LaCrosse WI. <br /> <br /> Captured in the archive are various natural landmarks including Shoshone Canyon IXL Ranch and Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming Bald Mountain in Idaho and the Black Hills Badlands and Missouri River in South Dakota. Also included are a few photographs taken along US Route 14 one of the original US highways of 1926 an east-west route running 1398 miles. An alternately charming and chilling collection of Depression-era travel photography in the Midwest and Mountain West. <br /> <br /> 23 photographs 4.5 x 2.17 inches 1 photograph 3.5 x 2.75 inches. Generally Very Good plus some with light fading and age toning. N.p. unknown
1981144478Perth: Western Australian Museum 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Perth Western Australian Museum 1981. Small quarto iv 274 pages with numerous tables maps and illustrations from photographs. Pictorial card covers slightly rubbed with a tiny crease at one corner; ownership stamp on title page; an excellent copy. Western Australian Museum paperback
188560593New York: Harper & Brothers 1885. 12mo. 312 pp. Frontisp. map. Pictorial brown publisher’s cloth gilt & black illust. of bugle and sunrise on front cover wear to fore-edges corners rubbing to spine still good copy w/ mounted albumen photo of a classroom on school steps on front pastedown sized 4 x 5 in. from the library of Florence Puher fl. 1890-1920 teacher and stenographer in Kansas City MO. First edition 2nd state of this account of General Custer and his wife during the Dakota campaigns right up till the battle at Little Big Horn. “Libbie†Custer 1842-1933 graduated valedictorian from the Young Ladies’ Seminary & Collegiate Institute in Monroe MI and soon after meeting Captain Custer and his meteoric rise to Brigidair General before Gettysburg married him Feb. 9 1864. Libbie’s charm and intelligence helped advance her husband’s career was admired by Gen. Phil Sheridan and accompanied her husband following the Civil War as he marched a cavalry division from Louisiana to Texas. After the Battle of Little Big Horn she would spend the next 57 years tirelessly writing and promoting to defend Gen. Custer’s reputation including this title and later the Following the Guidon 1890. See: Shirley Leckie Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth 1993. Harper & Brothers, hardcover
193664236Caldwell ID: The Caxton Printers Ltd. 1936. Tall 8vo. 292 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Gray publisher’s cloth black lettering on spine illustrated map endpapers slight shelfwear w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by L.D. Cram slight chipping edgewear price-clipped still NF/VG copy from the library of Jack C. Best. First edition of this firsthand account of the thrilling experiences on our Southwestern frontier of John William Poe buffalo hunter United States Marshal sheriff rancher and banker by his wife Sophie Poe. She relates John Poe’s work as detective for the Canadian River Cattlemen trailing Billy the Kid and how as deputy sheriff under Pat Garrett he witnessed the killing of Billy in Pete Maxwell’s bedroom. Sophie Poe relates much of her life on the New Mexico frontier her experiences with old Roswell and John Chisum and more. See: Herd 1813 Six-Guns 778 Dykes 234. The Caxton Printers, Ltd., hardcover
190022027Perth: Sands & McDougall 1900. Very good condition. Two lithographed beer labels one on red paper and printed in red and black the second on cream paper and printed in black and both with the brewery's logo. Bottled by H. Sherwood & Co. Esplanade Perth. 3 1/2 x 2 3/4" Sands & McDougall unknown
1889List1436St. Paul 1889. Cabinet card portrait measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. Fine condition with great contrast. Fine. A striking portrait of a family taken by F. Jay Haynes in his St. Paul studio taken after 1889 when he opened it his last studio of his career. A family sits together one man holding a violin another with a revolver visible at his side. unknown
197962332Carmel CA: The Friends of Photography Inc. 1979. Oblong 4to. 31 1; 104 pp unpaginated. Second title in red & black 8 text photo illustrations 51 sepia-tinted photo plates. Oatmeal-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art photo of Columbia River gorge by Watkins slight dustsoiling very slight shelfwear NF/NF copy w/ original Friends of Photography membership application laid-in from the library of Charles H. “Brig†Belvin IV b. 1937 w/ ownership markings on ffep. First edition thus of this exceptional photographic work which reproduces all 51 of Watkins’ mammoth plate prints from the Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon presenting a unique opportunity to fully appreciate the noted photographer’s brief six month period in 1867 documenting the Gorge in his exacting 18 x 22 in. wet plate glass negative process. The Friends of Photography, Inc., hardcover
200735400Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 2007. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Very good. Folio with slip case. xviii 348 pages. Illustrated with color frontispiece color illustrations and black and white drawings. Brown leather binding with title facsimile signature and a steer head stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine. All edges gilt. Includes a one time key code to the website www dot Russellraisonne dot com. Limited numbered signed edition of 500 copies. This copy is numbered 184. Signed by the editor and 5 more of the contributors. University of Oklahoma Press unknown
191678132Denver: The Clason Map Co 1916. Includes a geographical index of towns and a table of railroad distances. The population of the state at the time was 98726 and Las Vegas was little more than a railroad division point. The raising of stock was an important industry: “Owing to the limited water supply it will never be an important agricultural state.â€<br />  <br /> 20 p. index with a folding map 17 ¾ x 22 ½â€. Original printed green paper wrappers 4†x 6 ¼â€. Some minor edgewear; otherwise very good. The Clason Map Co unknown
186579374Boston Massachusetts 1865. Engraved and printed in black on thin blue stock 7 ¾†x 6 ¾†with a green stamp this is certificate number 143 signed. Faded revenue stamp pasted on the left edge.<br /> <br /> A certificate for 100 shares in the mining company. Clear Creek owned 600 feet on the Kinney Tunnel Lode on North Creek in Black Hawk Colorado. Gold was found as high at $600 per ton and the mine also owned a mill-site on the creek at the mouth of a mine entrance a house and a 25-horse engine Hollister Ovando James: The Mines of Colorado. unknown
