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187579372Del Norte Colorado 1875. Engraved and printed in black on thin cream stock 11†by 8†this certificate No. 62 is for 100 shares of capital stock for $100 each. The certificate is signed and includes a blue cancellation stamp.<br /> <br /> Mining property in the San Juan Mountains region of the Colorado Territory. unknown
188579373Colorado Springs Colorado 1885. Engraved and printed in purple and green on thin cream stock 14 ¾†x 15 ½†this is bond number 4 signed. $500 10 percent bond secured by a deed of trust to the Fidelity Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Cincinnati Ohio. Includes six coupons valued at $25 each that are punched by still intact. unknown
191878138Des Moines Iowa: The Kenyon Company 1918. A color map showing all the railroads cities towns post offices rivers telegraph stations money order post offices and chief auto roads. The population of the state at the time was 799024.<br />  <br /> 18 p. with a folding map 18 ½†x 14â€. An index of Colorado with the latest census and a shipping and postal guide is printed on the verso of the map. Original printed blue paper wrappers 4 ¼†x 6 ¼â€. Near fine. The Kenyon Company unknown
188678130New York: G.W. and C.B. Colton 1886. Hand-colored pre-statehood map published only three years before the Dakota Territory was split into North and South Dakota. Depicts the various counties railroads and townships with relief indicated by hachures.<br />  <br /> The 15 ½†x 12 ½†map folds into the original burgundy cloth-covered boards 3 ¾†x 5 ¾†with gilt and blind stamping. “Compliments off Aug. T. Post Banker 25 Nassau St. New York†is stamped on the front panel. Near fine. Scarce OCLC locates only two holdings: Yale and State Historical Society of North Dakota. G.W. and C.B. Colton unknown
187564248Salem & Portland OR: E.M. Waite Book & Job Printer; Press of George H. Himes 169-177 Second Street 1875-1887. Fourteen parts in one vol. Thick 8vo. 96; 88; 65 3; 98; 95 1; 63 1; 64; 80; 90 2; 29 3; 43 1; 44; 109 1; 10 pp. Oregon Pioneer Association emblem on titles 3 collotype photo plates tables. Contemporary quarter-brown calf over black cloth rubbing edgewear scuffing rubbing & wear to fore-edges wear to corners shaken still G copy from the library of Addie Mae Wilson Brant 1898-1985 noted home cook from Yoncalla Oregon granddaughter of famed Oregon settler William Hunt Wilson 1822-1902 who drove wagons for Jesse Applegate 1811-1888 over the Oregon Trail and a staunch abolitionist who virulently opposed the anti-immigration and anti-Black laws passed in early Oregon w/ additional pencil inscription of “Uncle Jesse Applegate†on front pastedowns possibly indicating this was his copy. First editions of these thirteen early publications issued by the Oregon Pioneer Association featuring an invaluable separately printed index as well as the first local printing of Applegate’s famed “A Day with the Cow Column in 1843†which was first published in 1868 in the Overland Monthly. The account is still considered one of the best early first person accounts of pioneer families trekking across the Oregon Trail. Nesmith 1820-1885 has included his own memoir of the 1853 Rogue River War serving with General Joseph Lane and commanding forces at the pivotal 1853 engagement at Evans Creek resulting in the Table Rock Treaty. Within two years following the 1855 Lupton Massacre the Rogue River War renewed resulting in the forced removal of the Takelma Shasta and Applegate Indigenous Peoples to the Siletz Reservation. E.M. Waite, Book & Job Printer; Press of George H. Himes, 169-177 Second Street, hardcover
18957741Butte Montana: Genelli Studio N.D. Circa 1895. First Edition First Printing. Original Photograph on Mount. Original gelatin silver photograph measuring 13.25" x 10.5" mounted on its original heavy card-stock frame to an overall size of 13.75" x 10.75". An utterly charming and highly uncommon group portrait capturing ninteen young women dressed uniformly in flowing white gowns some adorned with sashes and bows. In contrast to the often rigid and sombre studio portraits typical of the period the image is remarkable for the subjects' relaxed candid and cheerful poses and expressions. Their choice of attire - resembling Victorian lingerie dresses - strongly suggests the group was gathered for a specific collective event such as a tableau vivant a theatrical production a society pageant or perhaps a graduation ceremony. Bears the stylized imprint of the prominent Western photography firm "Genelli" to the lower-left margin alongside a full studio stamp to the verso reading "Genelli 122 North Main St. Butte Montana." accompanied with a contemporary manuscript ink annotation also to the verso which suggests the era "about 1895" a location of provenance "Portage la Prairie" and a subject "Aunt Frank"'. Captured and produced by the American photography firm Genelli Studio a prestigious high-end franchise known for their artistic portraiture sophisticated lighting techniques and use of elaborate theatrical backdrops beautifully exemplified by the rich drapery and wainscoting apparent in the background of this lovely image. Exceptionally well-preserved retaining excellent clarity sharp focus and tonal range showing only but minor typical silvering to the darker areas and a few largely unobtrusive minor spots to the centre; Original mount remains sound showing some moderate edgewear slight rounding and minor delamination to the corners. Overall very good. Thoroughly lovely and charming. Rare. <br/><br/> Genelli Studio unknown
1940154291St. Croix Falls WI: N.p. 1940. Vintage string bound photograph album containing 31 black-and-white snapshot photographs including four hand-tinted in blue and yellow documenting a school costume day. Manuscript ink annotation to the inside front cover provides the date and album title: "Dress-Up-Day Pictures / April 5 1940". <br /> <br /> Many photographs with manuscript ink annotation captions to the bottom edges identifying the subjects. <br /> <br /> The outfits run the gamut: while some teens opted for simple cross-dressing costumes many were more creative dressing as cowboys hula girls hoboes married couples and the like. Notably unusual costumes include an ice box Life Magazine a beer barrel a telephone directory several rolls of Tums and a record player with a paper sign noting the record title as Rhapsody in Blue. A humorous assortment. <br /> <br /> Photographs generally 2.5 x 3.5 inches. Mounted on black cardboard album leaves rectos and versos. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
194957035Portland OR & Santa Barbara CA: E.B. Quigley 1949-1966. 1st -- 8 silver gelatin photos sized 8 x 10 in. some w/ photographer’s stamp on verso others w/ pencil and/or ink MS marking; 2nd -- 8vo. 12 pp unpaginated. illustrated self-printed softcovers pencil annotations back cover; 2 copies of 6 pp unpaginated. triptych illustrated; 4 pp unpaginated. brochure Rancheros logo by Joe de Yong on front cover creased from fold; 3rd -- 4to. 5 leaves broadsides photo illustrated 1 on stationery 1 signed by Ed Quigley; 4th -- 12mo. 4 x 5 in. 3 illustrated Christmas Cards 4 pp unpaginated. bifolium illustrated by Quigley 1 ALS on verso of front flap; 5th -- 4to. 1 leaf broadside of Quigley’s cabin in Sandy OR; 6th -- Oblong 8vo. to 4to. Approx. 100 pieces of illustrated & printed stationery invoices & envelopes on laid paper; 7th -- 4to. 8.5 x 10.25 in. 142 2 pp. Title printed in silver & black w/ colour and black & white photo illustrations & plates throughout 1 colour map text illusts. by Joe de Yong. Half-burgundy cloth over printed boards illustrated endpapers w/ d.j. wraparound cover art photo by Karl Obert 1 closed tear back cover NF/VG copy; 8th -- Small group of artifacts including 8 rawhide leather ribbons personalized to Quigley stamped w/ De Yong illust. including the Los Vigilantes badge for them to be attached to as well as personalized badge for dam dedication all from the library of Ed Quigley. This captivating archive offers a number of items documenting the storied career of noted Western artist Ed Quigley 1895-1984 including photographs catalogues broadsides and printed pieces as well as souvenirs from his participation with Los Rancheros Visitadores riding club in Santa Barbara CA. The photographs open with an image of him completing a painting of a cowboy working with mustangs in a corral with Quigley holding his palette and glimpses of Portland OR through the studio window in the background; another two show him and his smartly dressed friends during the 1930’s while he was painting for the Works Progress Administration Federal Artist’s program; and five additional photos by Santa Barbara photographer Karl Obert depict him riding with others at the Los Rancheros Visitadores in 1958. The exhibit catalogues include his June-July 1949 exhibition at the Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts which also included a number of his original woodcarvings; the 1962 Western Art Exhibits sponsored by Los Rancheros Visitadores which featured works by Quigley Charley Russell Will James Edward Borein Joe De Yong Olaf Wieghorst Frank Tenney Johnson and others; and the 1964 gallery showing of Oil Paintings and Wood Carvings at the Oregon Society of Artists Gallery in Portland OR including a photo of the artist carving sculptures. The several sales broadsides include one signed by Quigley for his bronzes with the verbiage that he had intended to cast 20 but there were only 10 and these include “Unloaded†“Indian Scout†and “Bronc Rider.â€Quigley expanded his career through the 1930’s and 1940’s by gaining inspiration from Yakama Indians in and around Toppenish while visiting horse trader Frank Green and would often return there. He writes in one of the undated Christmas cards that he had just “spent 3 interesting weeks with a couple of mustangers and the Indians on wild horse round-ups on the Yakima Reservation. Got a lot of good material and have 2 - 30†x 40†paintings finished.†The stationery included here all reproduce paintings by Quigley of mustangs on the Palouse as well as pen & ink drawing of the cabin built by the artist on Cedar Creek near Mt. Hood and Sandy Oregon. The prolific and popular Western artist focused on cowboys and Native Americans working in rugged landscapes often with pastoral themes as a native of the Pacific Northwest who also was an active member of many riding clubs including Los Rancheros Visitadores. Los Rancheros Visitadores was founded as an invitaiton-only riding club which included such members as founder Ed Borein along with Will James Joe De Yong Walt Disney Gary Cooper Montie Montana Clark Gable Philip Wrigley Charlie Russell Chuck Yeager Max Baer and Ronald Reagan. The rides usually center on the Los Prietos Ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley often include a visit to Santa Ynez Mission and for over four decades their rides participants and activities were documented by famed Santa Barbara photographer Karl Obert 1897-1976. No copies of the exhibition catalogues or broadsides are located in Worldcat; See: Phoebe Oelheim Artist Edward Quigley’s Romantic Vision of the West Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission 2002; Graham Sharkey Boots & Spurs The Capital Journal July 20 1950 p. 10. E.B. Quigley, paperback
1890List2450Deadwood: H.R. Locke 1890. Albumen photographs measuring 9 x 7 inches on larger mounts. Very good contrast some chips and wear to mounts. Very Good. A group of four photographs by Henry Robinson Locke who operated a studio in Deadwood South Dakota in the early statehood years. He photographed the Black Hills region. This collection of four photographs shows a gold mill in Deadwood a cyanide mill in Deadwood and two views of Lead City which was the home of the Homestake Mining Company during the period and continued to be a center for natural resource extraction for several decades following the initial Gold Rush period of the 1870s which brought the first wave of Euro-American settlers to the area. H.R. Locke unknown
187723994Dublin: The Central Tenants' Defense Committee 1877. First printing. Hardcover. Good overall. The trial of returned convict John Sarsfield Casey an activist defender of Irish tenant farmers who earlier in his career wrote letters to Fenian newspapers as 'The Galtee Boy' which were used in his 1865 trial to support a charge of treason and a sentence of transportation to Australia. Casey was one of the 62 Fenians transported to Western Australia. He was granted a free pardon in 1869 and returned to Dublin in 1870.<br /> <br /> The 1877 trial recorded here was brought against Casey in Ireland by the agent for a wealthy land owner Nathaniel Buckley named Patten Smith Bridge. <br /> <br /> Bridge had imposed enormous rent increases on the Galtee Mountain tenant farmers; he alleged that Casey's articles to the press about the excessive rent increases had libeled him. Huge rents increases and the inability of farmers to pay resulted in whole families being thrown out of their homes; Casey knew these facts from personal experience as some of these tenants were his relatives. The trial lasted 8 days; Bridge's claim for damages against Casey was repudiated.<br /> <br /> 8vo vii 98pp. Deaccessed by the NY Association of the Bar Library with their stamp on the title page. Tan library cloth binding with leather gilt spine label and paper label. Cloth sunned at spine leather label slightly rubbed. Printed on cheap newsprint paper Title page detached chipped at edges with early paper repair on verso; Preface pages through vi chipped along gutter but holding. OCLC: 20515747. The Central Tenants' Defense Committee hardcover
1882138714Perth: Richard Pether Government Printer 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Perth Richard Pether Government Printer 1882 and London L. Reeve & Co. 1879. Large quarto 28 pages last blank with several tables plus 2 tinted lithographs and 2 colour maps one folding 490 × 370 mm; and viii 30 pages plus 21 plates including 17 full-page uncoloured lithographs of eucalypts after drawings by R. Austen. Pebble-grain dark green cloth with a large title-label printed in gilt on black paper on the front cover; minor loss to the label removing two letters of one word; cloth a little marked with light wear to the extremities; small section 25 mm of the leading edge of the rear cover a little abraded; endpaper hinges neatly reinforced; light tidemarks to two small sections of the endpapers with a little foxing confined mainly to the inner surfaces of the free endpapers and the adjacent pages; one tear to the folding map expertly sealed; minimal loss to silverfish to the bottom margin of the small map; mild signs of age and use; a very good copy. The balance of the first title is 'with some remarks and suggestions on future conservation and management of the timber areas from various authorities. With a reprint of the regulations and laws in force for the renting or leasing of timbered lands'. <p>The introduction to the combined work compiled under the direction of Malcolm Fraser the WA Surveyor General has this to say: 'In compliance with your instructions and so far as the information and means at my command allowed I have collected in a general way such information about our timber Forests as was available to me and I have endeavoured to weave this together somewhat in a connected form. <p>By including the valuable Report on the Forest Resources of Western Australia by Baron Ferd. von Mueller it will be brought more prominently before the public than it has hitherto been. the drawings give a very fair idea of the character of the Jarrah and Karri forests'. Richard Pether, Government Printer hardcover
184218891Edinburgh 1842. Very good condition. January 8th article on George Grey's expedition to the Northwest of Western Australia. Sir George Grey 1812 - 1898 explorer governor of South Australia and governor and Premier of New Zealand lead two expeditions to northwest Australia in 1837-9. Both expeditions were extremely grueling with Grey being wounded but led to the discovery of the rivers Glenelg and Gascoyne. Grey describes threatening to shoot his aborigine tracker "Kaiber" who Grey claimed pretended to not be able to find the members of the party they had left temporarily while in search of water. Folio 6pp complete issue. The article three full columns over two pages. String bound a bit ruffled at right margin otherwise very good condition. unknown
19253241N.p. 1925. Very good plus. Eight silver gelatin photographs 5.25 x 2.75 inches all with pencil annotations on verso. Mild edge wear. An intriguing collection of eight annotated vernacular photographs picturing construction and other work taking place at an unnamed western riverside fort. The manual labor for the project was performed by incarcerated men who are sometimes pictured. The annotations on the verso of each image provide valuable information on the activities and settings in the pictures. The images themselves show the stockade adjacent to the river the prisoners' dining hall the front part of the bunkhouse and dining tent an elevated view of the stockade showing sand and cement being hauled down a nearby road three young men preparing dinner "prisoners building a concrete wall" "prisoners working on the retaining walls" and "prisoners starting a wall in the side of a very bad slide." In the latter photograph the compiler of the photographs reveals his own involvement in the activities here: "You can see me R.B.A. standing with a gun on my shoulder." An interesting group of photographs documenting the long tradition in the United States of employing prison labor to perform back-breaking manual labor. unknown
191535385Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1915. First Edition. Soft cover. Fair. Octavo. iv 194 pages. Illustrated with 24 folding map sheets photographs and figures. Brown paper covers with title on front and spine. Paper cover is chipped on the front. Paper spine mostly vanished. Covers detached. Stitching starting to come loose. Fair only. Map illustrations in very good condition. Government Printing Office unknown
189679679Denver: W.H. Jackson & Co. Photo 1896. Hand color-tinted photograph image: 9†x 3 ½†mount: 15†x 9 ¼â€.<br /> <br /> Although Leadville was one of the largest boomtowns in Colorado the mines were in decline by the 1890s and a plan to save the community in 1895 came in the form of an ice hotel and winter carnival. After months of fundraising and then building the ice palace opened on January 1 1896. It measured 450’ long by 320’ wide with five-foot thick walls. Two octagonal towers rose 90 feet at the entrance on the north where arched doorways led visitors inside. Smaller 60-foot towers flanked the sides and the south wall. Inside there was a rink that would accommodate 1000 skaters along with two ballrooms a restaurant and a 20-foot wide promenade that led people down the middle of the place.<br /> <br /> On its first day of operation 2500 visitors came by train wagon horseback and on foot to see the gigantic wonder. For nearly four glorious months visitors paid .50 cents for adults and .25 cents per child to walk past the ice sculpture of “Lady Leadville†at the entrance and into the fantasy world of their dreams. It’s estimated there were 250000 visitors.<br /> <br /> Some edgewear and staining to the mount with a small scuff to the photograph. W.H. Jackson & Co. Photo unknown
187459772San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft 1874. Thick 8vo. xi 1 511 1 pp. including pasted on errata notice at rear indicating that Glisan had been unable to review the proofs while they were in process. With woodcut-engraved frontisp. woodcut-engraved plates 1 large folding table of Meteorological Observations at rear. Illustrated brick-red publisher’s cloth gilt illust. front cover & spine of pennant saber rifle & bayonet w/ bow & arrows front cover pennant on spine black border ruling gilt lettering minor shelfwear minor rubbing to lower right corners slight scuffing printer error cocking text pp. 217-218 still VG bright copy preserving the original pale yellow publisher’s endpapers. First edition of this excellent memoir by the noted American military doctor and authority of the 19th Century as well as early Oregon & California pioneer. He details his time as surgeon in the Pacific Northwest during the Indian Wars of 1855-58 after serving in the Indian Territories and West Texas from 1850-1853. After leaving San Francisco in 1863 to move to Portland where Glisan 1827-1890 married Elizabeth Couch daughter of one of Portland OR’s founders John Couch he became president of the Multnomah County Medical Society and professor of OB/GYN at Willamette University School of Medicine. See: Graaf 1575; Howes G209. A.L. Bancroft, hardcover
185435390Boston: Phillips Sampson and Company 1854. 1854. Hardcover. Fair. Small octavo. 1 viii 9-256 pages 4 pages advertisements 1. Folding frontispiece map. Blue cloth hardcover with blind stamped covers. Gilt title and decoration on the spine. Folding map has some wrinkling and creases. Cloth hardcover is shelf worn rubbed at the extremities and chipped at the head and base of the spine. Lean to the binding. Light scattered toning and foxing to the contents. Fair. <br /> <br /> Graff 1079. Phillips, Sampson and Company hardcover
187363936Hartford CT: Dustin Gilman & Co. Queen City Publishing Co. et al 1873. Thick 8vo. xvii 18-604 pp. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. of Carson frontisp. portrait of Peters and 32 woodcut-engraved plates. Emerald green decorated publisher’s cloth gilt & black lettering & black decorative borders front cover minor rubbing edgewear to lower fore-edge & corners very slight bumping to couple corners still a VG bright copy. First Dustin Gilman & Co. printing of this nicely illustrated and significantly expanded version of Peters’ biography of Kit Carson who was the only authorized biographer by Carson first published in 1858 as “The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson.†The work examines his life as mountain man and fur trader participation in the Modoc Indian Wars and Modoc Indians and other Indigenous Peoples experiences in Yellowstone gold mining in California mining in Colorado and involvement with Fremont and more. See: Graaf 3260; Wagner-Camp 306; Howes P266. Dustin, Gilman & Co., Queen City Publishing Co., et al, hardcover
195444343New York: Prentice-Hall 1954. 8vo. 4 251 1 pp. Half-cloth over boards silver lettering slight bumping to head & foot of spine w/ d.j. minor chipping head of spine couple ninor closed tears tears still VG/G copy inscribed by the author on the ffep. First edition 3rd printing signed by author of this semi-autobiographical novel set on the Washington coast at Copalis Beach now North Beach WA depicting the author’s life in Grays Harbor County. Berg 1897-1958 writes about how she changed her life to leave a Seattle rooming house after the death of her first husband in 1929 “trapped in the squirrel cage of alcoholism.†She moves with her second husband Sarge Berg to be caretakers at an Ocean City resort but are fired because of alcoholism and slowly afterwards they begin rebuilding their life along the stretch scavenging for firewood picking mushrooms and blackberries and hunting. Of particular interest are her depictions of the unofficial migrant workers camps such as “The Old Glory Hole†consisting of cannery shacks abandoned WPA work camps and would eventually die after attending a clam chowder feed in 1958. Prentice-Hall, hardcover
78680A collection of letters written by pioneering Oklahoma attorneys C.O. Blake and Ernest Blake to their parents between 1884 and 1906.<br /> <br /> In a letter from Indianapolis dated January 12 1884 C.O. Blake 1860–1924 laments the struggle he was having setting up a legal practice: “Being in an office having my shingle out and some stationary printed looks a good deal of being a lawyer with a practice…sometimes I think I’ll just let the law go and go at something else to seek fame and bread and butter.â€<br /> <br /> Despite what seemed like an inauspicious start to his legal career Blake became a successful attorney and pillar of his community. Soon after this letter he relocated temporarily to Coldwater Kansas where he was elected Comanche County attorney on the Republican ticket. In a letter dated October 6 1885 he wrote to his parents about the election: “Got 30 out of 35 delegates. How is that for high. I think I will have no trouble to get elected.â€<br /> <br /> In 1890 he relocated to El Reno Oklahoma where he and his brother Ernest E. Blake established the law firm Blake and Blake. He soon became the railroad attorney for the Rock Island Lines in Oklahoma. Much of the expansion of Rock Island in the Southwest is credited to his ability to keep the railroad in good standing with the State Corporation. He also served on several civic organizations and became president of the board of regents for Oklahoma University having received his appointment from Governor Barnes.<br /> <br /> Blake wrote from the Hotel Frantz in Enid Oklahoma to his mother on April 27 1903 about his work for the railroad: “I have been very busy. I was here all last week and will have to be here a good part of this week. I tried a case last week for running over a boy of 13 and cutting off his leg and won it. I then tried a case for killing a man and the jury came in today with a verdict for $2000 but I think I will be able to get away from it all right as the evidence did not entitle the plaintiff to recover anything. The man was himself to blame. I tried another today where the plaintiff claims he was crippled in alighting from a train and the jury is still out. You can see it has been a strenuous ten days.â€<br /> <br /> Ernest Blake’s letters concern family matters. A long letter from C.O.’s wife Cora includes information about a new massage-based medical treatment she was receiving from a “vital healer†for problems with her hip: “He said it was not out of place but held too tightly in its place by reason of the muscles being so contracted and set.â€<br /> <br /> The Blake’s are descended from a long line of notable ancestors. One was the captain of the artillery who captured Aaron Burr in his expedition to Mexico; another was Israel Putnam leader of the Green Mountain Boys; and their great-great-grandfather was the organizer and leader of the Boston Tea Party.<br /> <br /> In total this collection of letters includes: nine complete letters and a partial letter from C.O.; eight letters and short notes from Ernest to his parents; two letters from others and a death announcement for Fremont Smith; a four-page letter from Cora Blake C.O.’s wife to his mother; and six pages of apparently incomplete letters by unknown authors. unknown
188327755Perth: Goverment Printer 1883. Robert Fairbairn the prominent 19th century Western Australian magistrate is the appointee to whom this "Minute" is aimed. He would soon be in charge of the Kimberley district and Wrenfordsley was at the time of this writing the Acting Governor of Western Australia. Unusually this is not recorded on either Trove or the State Library of Western Australia. <br /> <br /> The "minute" advises Mr. Fairbairn on his duties which will involve ".those of the Judge the Collector of Customs and the Registrar". and he advises "the Magistrate to take his own notes of the evidence and not to trust to his clerk." It is most interesting for the directions of caution in meting out punishment to the aboriginal community. "As the dispenser of justice to an uncivilised race it is all important that he should appear to act with judicial calmness and deliberation." Settlers were to be discouraged from taking the law into their own hands. And the statues prohibiting the supply of liquor to natives were to be strictly enforced so that "in the remote and . peaceful wilds of the Kimberley country the white man's curse will long remain unknown." An early reader has commented at the top "This is good" and has also highlighted various sections of interest. <br /> <br /> At the time of this writing Wrenfordsley was Acting Governor of Western Australia however he had a long career in law as solicitor Attorney General of Jamaica Chief Justice of Western Australia and Chief Justice of Fiji. <br /> <br /> Foolscap folio 3pp black text on cream paper. At the end of page printed H.T. Wrenfordsley Administrator. 13-3-83." A notation on verso in ink "Notes of Wrenfordsley on Justice duties." Top edge ruffled small puncture top right pin mark two period folds overall very good. Goverment Printer unknown
190878147Highmore South Dakota: E.J. Quirk Land Company 1908. Promotional information is printed on the verso of the map. “South Dakota a wonderful farming country; great agriculture live stock; great in mineral wealth and natural resources.†This booster piece also claims South Dakota is the least advertised and known but “all things considered â€the richest and best state in the Union.†Land was offered at $12.50 to $30 per acre dependent on distance from railroads and improvements.<br />  <br /> The map is printed in red and black Hand Hyde Hughes and Sully Counties are highlighted in pink on a 22†x 17†sheet which folds into printed tan paper wraps 3 ¼†x 6â€. Tiny bit of edgewear; else near fine. Scarce OCLC locates only one copy at Yale. E.J. Quirk Land Company unknown
194078131Winner South Dakota: Tripp County Abstract Co 1940. Scarce cadastral map of Tripp County located in south central South Dakota bordering Nebraska with the meandering White River serving as its northern boundary. Land ownership is shown throughout as well as the cities and townships that comprised the county which supported a population of just under 10000 people at the time.<br />  <br /> The 25†x 38†map folds into printed green cardstock wrappers 4 ½†x 9 ¾â€. Just a hint of edgewear; else fine. OCLC locates no holdings. Tripp County Abstract Co unknown
189063670Norwich CT: The Henry Bill Publishing Co. 1890. Six works in one vol. Thick 8vo. xxxvi 715 1 pp. Frontisp. with 379 woodcut-engravings and maps. Publisher’s pictorial green cloth over beveled boards decorated endpapers marbled fore-edges gilt illustration of “Cliff-Dwellers†ancient ruins front cover Old Faithful geyser on spine minor shelfwear rubbing minor scuffing to tissue over extra-illustrated frontisp. title at gutter margin still VG bright copy. Early printing of this lavishly illustrated history of the West incorporating 100’s of engravings based on original photographs together with map diagrams and other illustrations. Of particular interest are the extended sections on the California Gold Rush gold mining and mineral riches in California; cattle ranching and cattle industry in how it shaped the West as well as many references to logging and timber in the Pacific Northwest. Scarce in such fine condition. The Henry Bill Publishing Co., hardcover
193763944London UK: Chapman and Hall 1937. 8vo. x 4 424 pp. Photo frontisp. 18 photo & facsmile illust. Three-quarter burgundy-coloured calf over marbled boards marbled endpapers Anchor Steamship Line anchor on spine gilt 3-stack insigna on cover raised bands gilt lettering on spine minor scuffing edgewear still VG copy. First British edition of Sandoz’s biography awarded The Atlantic Monthly nonfiction contest prize of $5000 detailing the life of her often brutal and eccentric father trapper farmer and hunter in the upper Niobrara County in western Nebraska. Chapman and Hall, hardcover
