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189287869St. Louis MO: Printed by Woodward and Tiernan Printing Co 1892. Second Edition. Staplebound Pamphlet. Good Plus. Stapled pamphlet. 7.5 in. x 5.25 in. pp. 64. Illustrated with in-text drawings and a fold-out map of Nebraska 21 in. x 26 in. Pink cardpaper wraps with black title to front. Light soiling to covers with chips to top/bottom of spine; older tape repairs to length of spine reattaching front cover and to left edge of rear cover. Fragile edges with chips to corners and several short closed tears to cover edges. Clean interior with very good plus map. This brochure was presented "With the Compliments of the General Passenger Department of the Missouri Pacific Railway." The text provides description and chart of information related to population geography geology weather land prices distances horticulture churches and more. Printed by Woodward and Tiernan Printing Co unknown
1890300405Pacific Electric Railway 1890. 1890. Photograph depicting 37 passengers at the Echo Mountain Terminal 3500 feet above sea level with printed descriptive information on the verso of mount with pictorial borders. 4 1/2" x 7 3/4" image on stiff 10" x 7" mount. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. Pacific Electric Railway [1890]. unknown
188853587Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. 1888. 1888. 20 3/4" x 13 1/2" sheet folded to 24 panels. Map. One cover panel; one panel showing N.P.R.R. route from Minneapolis to Washington Territory; and 10 panels of information to include information on the area's location and physical features climate agriculture stock raising manufacturing mining public schools cities and towns etc. Opposite 12 panels offer a map of Washington Territory printed in red and black. A rare promotional piece to encourage sales of Northern Pacific Railroad lands in Washington Territory. Light soling a few small splits to creases and with minor wear to the extremities. Very good. Rand, McNally & Co., 1888. unknown
188210945St. Paul MN: The Pioneer Press Co 1882. First Edition First State. 100pp. Octavo 24 cm Presentation binding. Publisher's full grained brown leather with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. A.E.G. Satin moire endsheets. Near fine. Inscribed on the front free endsheet. 'Mr. Minnie with compliments of the author. Map of the Yellowstone Valley 42 cm x 70 cm and the Plat map of Glendive 40 cm x 56 cm present and both linen backed and in nice condition. Presentation copy. The trade edition of this work was bound in green printed wrappers with 10 pages of advertisements in the front and 3 to 10 pages of advertisements in the rear. Map of transcontinental was attached to the rear free endsheet. Our copy predates the various issues with advertisements and the map attached to the rear free endsheet. Eberstadt and Yale copies and others only list the plat and cattle trails maps. Early Montana promotional item from the Northern Pacific Railroad a year before they opened the Gardiner Gateway at the north end of Yellowstone Park. An important descriptive tract of the new country at the time of its settlement with a fine large map showing the towns and cattle trails. Eberstadt 132: 478. Howes Y8. Rampaging Herd 1535. This is the first time that we've handled or encountered this title. Rare. The Pioneer Press Co unknown
188249882Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1882. 1882. First edition. 9" x 6" in color pictorial wrappers printed in red blue & black with vignettes of wheat threshing cattle mining and logging on front wrapper. 82pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's ads for Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. Contents. Illustrations. Maps. Uncommon Northern Pacific Railway land promotion detailing the sites and possibilities along the Northern Pacific route at the end of the 19th century. The work details the history of the NPRR divisions branch lines development opportunities for homesteaders and businesses in Western Washington the inner-mountain West Montana Yellowstone National Park the Dakotas Minnesota and specific land grants available from the NPRR in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Large color map attached to inside rear wrapper. Map fine. Light chipping to wrapper edges and with a few small closed tears to wrapper edges along with light soiling and rubbing to spine. Very good. Rand, McNally & Company, 1882. unknown
1871761New York 1871. Good plus. Folding pamphlet 6 x 17 inches. Separated along one fold. A few later pencil annotations. Light wear and tanning. A scarce advertisement for bond investment in the Northern Pacific Railroad issued in 1871 during the first great construction push on the line. Although the company was founded in 1865 ground was only broken on construction in 1870 after considerable backing by Jay Cooke. This pamphlet outlines the plans for the railroad to be built from St. Paul to Portland and Seattle the prospects for passenger and freight business upon completion and the extent of the land grants afforded the railroad by the federal government. The text goes on to describe the financial instruments on offer their advantages over Treasury bonds chiefly a greater yield at 7-8% vs. 5-6% and their security against the commercial and financial assets of the railroad as well as its land grants. With a map of the proposed route on the rearmost panel. A scarce call for investment in the Northern Pacific from its early history. unknown
1899219046New York.: Harper's Weekly. July 11899. Three photographic prints each approx 11 x 20 cms and three black and white engravings together 33.5 x 20.4 cms all captioned printed on two conjoined newspaper leaves pp 645-648 41 x 28.5 cms the associated articles: "Samoa in War-Time" in full with a cameo portrait of the Chief Justice of Samoa and "The Philippine Revolt." partial with a small sketch map of Malolos printed on the verso central fold a few small edge tears and faint toning but in good condition. Malcolm Ross the author and photographer of "Samoa in War-time" was a New Zealand freelance journalist and war correspondent for the New Zealand press as well as the Melbourne Age. In 1899 he spent three months in Samoa covering the clashes for the leadership of the colony that followed the death of Malietoa Laupepa the incumbent chief at the time. <br>Unusual late 19th Century coverage of Samoa especially by a New Zealand photojournalist. <br> <br>The second spread with the incomplete accompanying article by Joh F. Bass a "Special Correspondent of "Harper's Weekly" on "The Philippine Revolt" has an unsurprising pro-American tone: the armed conflict between the First Philippine Republic and the United States 1899-1902 was clearly viewed by the United States as an insurrection rather than as a continuation of the struggle for independence by Filipino nationalists that had begun in 1896 with the Philippine Revolution. . Harper's Weekly. unknown
186854075New York: John W. Amerman Publishers No. 47 Cedar St. 1868. 8vo. 17 3 pp. Very light salmon-coloured printed softcovers slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition of this informative work providing a concise history of the United States legal claims to the Oregon Territory detailing the efforts of missionaries such as Whitman and Perkins the fur growth of the fur trade the Whitman massacre by the Cayuse as well as extolling the tremendous economic potential of the West Coast. He makes specific mention of the newly constructed Transcontinental Railroad and the tremendous advantages this provided in transporting the mineral timber and agricultural production East. He also notes the purchase of Alaska the tremendous fisheries and the potential sources of wealth. Not in Smith Graff or Wickersham. John W. Amerman, Publishers, No. 47 Cedar St., paperback
189556659Mount Angel OR: Typis Monasterii S. Benedicti 1895. 8vo. 73 3 pp. Black embossed cloth embossed blind-stamped lettering on front cover minor edgewear rubbing slightly shaken still VG- copy from the library of Edwin Vincent O’Hara 1881-1956 Roman Catholic Priest educator social reformer and author of the Pioneer Catholic History of Oregon. whose manuscript note indicates this copy was acquired after he became the bishop of Great Falls MT in 1923. First edition of this scarce Oregon imprint and one of the earliest publications issued by the Mount Angel Seminary Press. This work publishes in Latin the orders and decrees describing and outlining the work and efforts of the Catholic missionaries and churches in the Oregon Territory and later state. It includes orders decrees and letters concerning missions and churches in Walla Walla Vancouver Island Portland Willamette Valley from and to the Archbishops and Bishops in Oregon Idaho Washington and Vancouver Island. Of particular interest the second Provincial Council was vehemently opposed to Public Schools and that due to the “swearing cursing and Profane expressions . . . of public school children†all good Catholics were “enjoined to preserve the little ones from the poisoned atmosphere of these godless institutions.†The Third Provincial Council was overseen by Archbishop William Gross who was also responsible for urging the Benedictine Monks to establish the Mount Angel Seminary to train Pacific Northwest priests. Typis Monasterii S. Benedicti, hardcover
18389126Ithaca NY: Published by the Author 1838. First edition. 8vo xii 13-371pp. Folding map of Oregon Territory at front and one plate here between pgs 208 and 209. Contemporary sheep with black spine label gilt lettering. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Front pastedown stained mild to moderate foxing throughout. Map with single small tear at fold neat tape repair at edge few spots of foxing. A very good example with attractive fragile map. <br /> <br /> First edition in contemporary binding of this popular book which went through at least four editions in the 1840s and contained one of the first widely circulated maps to contain reliable information about the Oregon Territory. Parker's journal details his fur trading expedition in the Rockies in 1835 for part of which he was accompanied by Marcus Whitman. The group arrived in Walla Walla in October 1835 and returned East 2 years later via ship around Cape Horn. A cornerstone Pacific Northwest title. <br /> <br /> Howes P89. Wagner-Camp 70. Washington 89 60. Published by the Author unknown
188914096Buffalo NY: E.H. Hutchinson 1889. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 87 pp in original printed wrappers. Mild soiling. The author was an attorney and Principal of the Buffalo Classical School. He traveled to Oregon Washington Alaska primarily Sitka and British Columbia in 1888 reporting back in a series of articles for his local newspaper the Commercial Advertiser. This is their first appearance in book form. Includes interesting letters on indigenous crafts in Alaska the Russian population in the Sitka area and the Sitka mission along with sketches of Portland Astoria and the Puget Sound region. Tourville 658; Wickersham 1987; Not in Smith or Arctic Bibliography. E.H. Hutchinson unknown
189564099Portland OR: Lewis & Dryden Printing Co. 1895. Folio. 10 x 14.75 in. xxiii 1 494 pp. Frontisp. 100s of illusts. photos decorated initials. Original publisher’s brown morocco over beveled boards gilt lettering & decoration on spine paneled in gilt ruling on covers marbled fore-edges & endpapers very slight rubbing slight shelfwear to corners and very slight sunning to spine still a near fine entirely unsophisticated copy. First edition of this invaluable maritime history in the Pacific Northwest with an excellent index and lavishly illustrated and perhaps one of the best copies this cataloguer has ever examined. Wright 1863-1930 as manager of the Portland Merchant’s Exchange had access to a vast store of original documents letters journals and accounts of marine shipping and development on the Columbia River and Pacific Northwest much of which has not survived. With the help of Harriman he later became director of the Port of Portland and later operated the shipyards in Astoria OR. Howes W963. Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., hardcover
189547595Portland OR: Lewis & Dryden Printing Co. 1895. Folio. xxiii 1 494 pp. Frntsp. 100s of illusts. photos decorated initials. Original publisher’s brown morocco over beveled boards gilt lettering & decoration on spine paneled in gilt ruling on covers gilt inner dentelles a.e.g. marbled endpapers minor bumping & wear to corners some rubbing edgewear rebacked with original spine laid back down still a VG copy from the library of Thea Foss 1857-1927 of Foss Launch & Tug Company later Foss Maritime -- who served as the inspiration for the story and Tugboat Annie movie based on her life. First edition of this invaluable maritime history in the Pacific Northwest with an excellent index and lavishly illustrated. Howes W963. Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., hardcover
18469109London: Charles Knight & Co 1846. First edition. 15x10cm 7 226pp. Frontis folding map at pg. 102. Cream blind stamped cloth with gilt spine lettering. Boards smudged spine darkened. Prelims unopened else clean internally and nearly fine. <br /> <br /> Very nice copy of this book printed for English youth and published the year in which the Treaty of Washington was signed ending the dispute between Great Britain and the U.S. over title to the Oregon Country. Tweney mentions in his Washington Eighty-Nine:<br /> <br /> "This book gives the English side of the Oregon boundary dispute and urges that the northern line of California be the natural boundary between the two countries."<br /> <br /> <br /> Besides presenting arguments the book is also very descriptive in the early settlement of the Pacific Northwest and rise of the fur trade. Not often found in the original cloth in presentable condition.<br /> <br /> Howes N151. Sabin 55251. Smith 7311. Wagner-Camp 122C:1. Washington 89 57.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> . Charles Knight & Co unknown
189253290Portland OR: Lewis & Dryden Printing Co. Oct. 1st 1892. Oblong folio. 200 pp. Colour chromolithograph frnts. of the Oregonian building 100s of photos 1 large double-page panorama of Portland OR maps illusts. Original embossed burgundy calf lettered & illustration in gilt on front cover by Meston-Dygert Book Manufacturing Co. expertly rebacked ffep. renewed still a VG copy with very bright gilt image on front cover. First edition of this scarce souvenir album intended to promote the history and economic strength of the Pacific Northwest and to extoll the virtues of Portland. The editors have includes 100s of photos and information about Portland buildings persons of interest sporting areas mountain climbing on Mt. Hood natural landmarks logging orchard farming shipping lines on the Columbia and Willamette industries and more. Of interest are the extensive sections on Washington state cities industries and more. There is also a small section on Idaho including Boise. Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., unknown
188263407New York NY & St. Paul MN: The Northern Pacific Railroad Co.; Printed by E. Wells Sackett & Rankin 1882. 8vo. 81 1 pp. With double-page frontisp. birds-eye woodcut view of Portland OR stretching out to Mount Rainier south to Mt. Hood 9 woodcut-engraved plates. Pink-tinted printed softcovers decorated lettering minor creasing egewear slight chipping at corners without the folding map still a good reference copy. First edition of this informative land promotion issued by the Northern Pacific Railroad upon completion of its line to the Pacific Northwest from St. Paul MN in conjunction with Jacob Kamm’s Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. The views include the two-panel birdseye of Portland OR as well as views of Astoria a Puget Sound sawmill Commercial Street in Seattle of the Washington Territory and includes a mention of Chinese-Americans employed to build the railroad and now available to take contracts for “grubbing brush land.†The Northern Pacific Railroad Co.; [Printed by] E. Wells Sackett & Rankin, paperback
18439124New York: Greeley & McElrath 1843. Third edition. 23.5x15.5cm 112pp. Printed in two columns with tables ads on inner wrappers. Stitched in original printed brown wraps. Damp staining to upper corner of first 35 or so pages more pronounced at title and near the front. Spine cocked and with ends chipped chipping along edges of wraps. Pencil annotation to front cover. A very good copy. <br /> <br /> Third edition following the 1841 and 1843 Poughkeepsie printings of this popular text issued as an "Extra" of the New York Tribune. The book is essentially an account of the first overland to Oregon migration of emigrants bound for the territory led by Farnham and known as the "Peoria Party." They left Independence Missouri on May 20th 1839 and as a substantially smaller group arrived in Oregon on September 23 1839 with Marcus Whitman. Scarce in the original wrappers.<br /> <br /> Howes F50. Wagner-Camp 85:3. Washington 89 20. Greeley & McElrath unknown
18019122London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies; Cobbett & Morgan; and W. Creech by R. Noble 1801. First edition. 4to 4 viii 412 2 errata cxxii pp with "General History of the Fur Trade" following the Voyages section and errata leaf. Complete with half title often lacking frontis portrait three large folding engraved maps. Fine 1/2 polished calf tooled in blind and lettered in gilt on spine marbled boards endpapers and page edges. Few stains and foxing to prelims most notably at the inner margin of the frontis and title pages. Otherwise scattered light foxing mainly marginal and more pronounced on the final dozen leaves or so. Maps quite nice with typical offsetting from folds some foxing and toning. A very good copy in attractive binding housed in a custom oatmeal cloth Solander box lined with green felt gilt spine label. <br /> <br /> A cornerstone work on early Pacific Northwest exploration being the first account of crossing the continent from ocean to ocean by a white man some dozen years before Lewis and Clark. This text also represents the first published account of the fur trade which was attributed to Roderick Mackenzie. A nice copy in attractive binding. <br /> <br /> Howes M 133. Sabin 43414. Streeter 3653. <br /> <br /> <br /> . Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies; Cobbett & Morgan; and W. Creech, by R. Noble unknown
18571004304to 11 ½ x8 ¾ original law calf morocco illustrated 4 134 85102 114 2 iv 64 pp. Some scuffing and wear to covers slight gouge to front joint chipping to edges. Two plates detached one with a chipped corner. Overall very good. Organized by the War department under the direction of Jefferson Davis who was Secretary of War at that time a collection of volumes was produced in the quest for the best route for a railroad to the West. Jefferson Davis wrote part of the introduction to this series and outlines the goals of the project. This report is on routes explored in Northern California and Oregon. Specifically the expedition was to look for a railroad route crossing the Sierra Nevada near the source of the Carson River and to see if it was feasible to connect the Sacramento valley with the Oregon Territory. Most of the color plates in this volume are located in the first three parts of the publication which is focused on topography geology and botanical subjects. This volume includes 23 color lithographs of scenery and botanical subjects 2 hand colored plates of birds and 24 steel engraved plates. Wagner-Camp 264a. Beverly Tucker, unknown
18561006214to leather spine and tips with marbled boards 36 Illustrations include 21 tinted/color lithographs one folding diagram two folding maps and a couple of black and white plates 36 14 136 127 175 pp. Binding with some wear at the spine and extremities hinges cracked some pages are a bit loose plates all present but probably not bound in correct order folding maps have a few tears some staining to front endpapers but not into the balance of the text plates and text show some aging foxing and browning but most plates resonably are clean. One of the great sources of information on the west the Pacific Railroad Reports also contains some great illustrations. This installment Vol. III is no exception. Included are some interesting and colorful pictures of the Mojave Indians and their territory. This report contains intelligence on an expedition near the 35th parallel which took the southern route due west to the Pacific Ocean from Fort Smith Kansas that was conducted by Lieutenant A.W. Whipple and assisted by Lieutenant J.C. Ives. Ives would make his own mark on western expansion a few years later in his travels on the Colorado River. The substantial amount of information on various Indain tribes makes this installment an important one. Since many of these volumes are broken for the plates they are getting somewhat scarce. Beverly Tucker, hardcover
1888134827Sydney: Kerry & Jones 308 George Street 1888. Sydney Kerry & Jones 308 George Street 1888. A high-gloss gelatin silver photograph 222 × 296 mm laid down within a gilt border on the original cardboard mount with the photographic studio's details in gilt in the bottom margin. Also mounted there is a small gelatin silver photograph 47 × 165 mm of the signatures of the eight participants 'Government House Sydney Jan. 25 1888' is written below the original signatures. The item is in a contemporary frame wood with gilt-decorated plaster a little chipped now lacking the original glass visible image size 315 × 350 mm external dimensions 423 × 458 mm. The contemporary label of Cole's Book Arcade Melbourne is mounted on the verso. The main photograph has a couple of tiny surface chips to the top edge and a few tiny marks to the bottom right-hand corner; the mount is a little marked possibly lightly water-streaked but fortunately the photograph is untouched; these trifling blemishes have little impact on this fine portrait. This informal group portrait features the Governors of each of the Australian colonies along with the Governors of Fiji and New Zealand. It was taken on 25 January 1888 the day before the centenary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Port Jackson the main reason for their presence in Sydney. It features left to right Sir Robert George Crookshank Hamilton 1836-1895 KCB LLD Governor and Commander in Chief of Tasmania and its dependencies; Sir Anthony Musgrave 1828-1888 GCMG Governor of Queensland; Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell 1836-1899 Governor of Fiji; Henry Brougham Loch 1st Baron Loch 1827-1900 GCP GCMG PC Governor and Commander in Chief of Victoria; Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire 1843-1928 KG GCMG PC JP DL Governor of New South Wales; Sir Frederick Napier Broome 1842-1896 KCMG Governor of Western Australia; Lieutenant General Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois 1821-1897 GCMG CB FRS Governor of New Zealand; and Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson 1834-1897 GCMG FRGS Governor of South Australia. <p>Extensive research notes come with this item; they were compiled with the assistance of Dr John Fahey author of 'Australia's First Spies' Sydney 2018 and 'Traitors and Spies: Espionage and Corruption in High Places in Australia 1901-1950' Sydney 2018. Among much else the notes have identified a slightly variant photograph taken at the same time as this one held by the Blue Mountains City Library; the identity of the sitters comes from a letter and diagram sent to them from the Mitchell Library in 1929. 'From the various sources available most notably the title given by the State Library of New South Wales this photograph commemorates an unofficial side-meeting of these Governors to discuss Australia's interests in the South Pacific'. Dr Fahey puts it more succinctly when he says it likely offers 'evidence of one of our earliest "secret" off to the side policy conferences'. The notes provide a lot more background information for the purchaser. A few incidentals not mentioned there: Sir Anthony Musgrave was Governor of South Australia from 1873 to 1877 and he died on 9 October 1888; Sir William Jervois was Governor of South Australia from 1877 to 1883; Sir William Robinson was Governor of Western Australia three times between 1875 and 1895 1875-1877 1880-1883 and 1890-1895. Provenance: the Sloane Pastoral Family of the Riverina purchased at the estate clearing sale in April 2021. Kerry & Jones, 308 George Street unknown
189639056N.P.: Privately printed 1896. 1896. 7" x 13 3/4" folded over twice to 7" x 3 1/2" in pictorial wrappers. 20 pp. illustrations map schedule rates 4-columns printed in red and blue ink. Information on Hotel Del Monte Monterey Santa Cruz San Luis Obispo Capitola Santa Maria Del Mar San Mateo San Jose Lick Observatory Paraiso Hot Springs El Paso de Robles Hotel Arcadia listing of Spanish and Indian names Tassajara Hot Springs Pacific Congree Springs Gilroy Hot Springs Leland Stanford Junio University Mount Hamilton Twin Lake Park Capitola the big trees of Santa Cruz etc. 7" x 13 3/4" color bird's-eye view map of California. Numerous photographs of scenery throughout brochure along with pictures of various hotels buildings points of interest. Cover wrappers lightly soiled with slight splits at spine ends and light wear to the extremities. Very good. A very interesting brochure. Privately printed, 1896. unknown
19006878San Francisco; Chicago: Southern Pacific Railroad; Printed by Poole Bros 1900. Duodecimo-size booklet 14.75 x 8.5 cm. 80 pages. Blue and brown ink on pink paper. Two photographic portraits Monsieur and Madame Bégué. Illustrations. List of railway agents. Title from cover. In logo at head of title: Southern Pacific Sunset Route. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A souvenir anthology of writings including sixty recipes from two landmark New Orleans restaurants offered for sale to customers traveling the Sunset Route San Francisco–New Orleans by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. A sampling: Mutton Feet à la Créole Liver à la Bégué Jambalaya of Chicken Codish with White Beans Bisque of Crayfish Creamed Cauliflower Onion Salad Eggplant with Rice and Ham Mayonaise of Celery and Shrimps Pineapple with White Wine. ~ The title displayed on the wrappers is misleading: the atmospheric essays and testimonials – arranged by a literary journalist who contributed to Southern Pacific's promotional magazine Sunset Henry Monroe Mayo 1868-1950 – reveal little regarding the eponymous originator of the recipes or the history of the cuisine that brought her fame. Only pages 47-68 contain recipes by Elizabeth née Elisabetha Kettenring Dutreuil Bégué 1831-1906 the proprietary chef of the beloved restaurant in the Vieux Carré – the second oldest such establishment in New Orleans – located on the Rue de la Levée Decatur Street after 1870 downriver from Jackson Square and across from the French Market. An immigrant from southern Germany she had opened a coffee shop with her husband Louis Dutreuil in 1863. After his death in 1875 she married again and with her second husband Hippolyte Bégué 1842-1917 reopened in the same location with the aim of serving one meal per day – a “second breakfast†beginning at 11:00 a.m. – to accommodate laborers in the meat markets and on the docks who started work at dawn. A fuller history by David Shields is available in his The Culinarians Chicago: University or Chicago Press 2017 pages 270-273. By the mid-1880s trade fairs held in the city were bringing tourists as well and Bégué’s became a destination on its own. Madame Bégué died in 1906. The restaurant continued under management of her daughter but was sold in 1914 to relatives of the family Tujague competitors since 1856 on Decatur Street a few doors away. ~ A shorter tribute with recipes pages 69-74 is accorded another restaurateur presumably Victor Béro d. 1904 an immigrant from Belgium who had presided over Victor's Restaurant since 1873. Mayo appears to confuse the "Monsieur Victor" of his time with the founder and namesake of the establishment Victor Martin 1812-1865; cf. Shields page 136 445. ~ The Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Company was the southernmost of the transport lines to the West Coast originally contemplated by the series of Pacific Railroad Acts between 1862 and 1866. Of the resulting publicly subsidized corporate consortia that would transform western North America – known collectively as the transcontinental railroads – Southern Pacific was already a mammoth system in 1900 including smaller subsidiaries such as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and extending across territories that would later become New Mexico and Arizona as well as northwards through Nevada Utah and much of California. The in-house Sunset magazine appears to have been printed close to headquarters in San Francisco but like many publications issued by the transportation industry Mme. Bégué and Her Recipes was printed by Poole Brothers of Chicago who advertised as "railway printers" and also produced tickets brochures and mileage tables. ~ A few pages dog-eared. Very good in publisher's red wrappers decorated in black and white with an image of Madame Chef in kitchen apron. Rare. OCLC locates thirteen copies; Uhler 28; New Orleans Culinary History Group page 13; not in Bitting Brown or Cagle. Southern Pacific Railroad]; [Printed by] Poole Bros unknown
190010228San Francisco; Chicago: Southern Pacific Railroad; Printed by Poole Bros 1900. Duodecimo-size booklet 14.75 x 8.5 cm. 80 pages. Blue and brown ink on pink paper. Two photographic portraits Monsieur and Madame Bégué. Illustrations. List of railway agents. Title from cover. In logo at head of title: Southern Pacific Sunset Route. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A souvenir anthology of writings including sixty recipes from two landmark New Orleans restaurants offered for sale to customers traveling the Sunset Route San Francisco–New Orleans by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. A sampling: Mutton Feet à la Créole Liver à la Bégué Jambalaya of Chicken Codish with White Beans Bisque of Crayfish Creamed Cauliflower Onion Salad Eggplant with Rice and Ham Mayonaise of Celery and Shrimps Pineapple with White Wine. ~ The title displayed on the wrappers is misleading: the atmospheric essays and testimonials – arranged by a literary journalist who contributed to Southern Pacific's promotional magazine Sunset Henry Monroe Mayo 1868-1950 – reveal little regarding the eponymous originator of the recipes or the history of the cuisine that brought her fame. Only pages 47-68 contain recipes by Elizabeth née Elisabetha Kettenring Dutreuil Bégué 1831-1906 the proprietary chef of the beloved restaurant in the Vieux Carré – the second oldest such establishment in New Orleans – located on the Rue de la Levée Decatur Street after 1870 downriver from Jackson Square and across from the French Market. An immigrant from southern Germany she had opened a coffee shop with her husband Louis Dutreuil in 1863. After his death in 1875 she married again and with her second husband Hippolyte Bégué 1842-1917 reopened in the same location with the aim of serving one meal per day – a “second breakfast†beginning at 11:00 a.m. – to accommodate laborers in the meat markets and on the docks who started work at dawn. A fuller history by David Shields is available in his The Culinarians Chicago: University or Chicago Press 2017 pages 270-273. By the mid-1880s trade fairs held in the city were bringing tourists as well and Bégué’s became a destination on its own. Madame Bégué died in 1906. The restaurant continued under management of her daughter but was sold in 1914 to relatives of the family Tujague competitors since 1856 on Decatur Street a few doors away. ~ A shorter tribute with recipes pages 69-74 is accorded another restaurateur presumably Victor Béro d. 1904 an immigrant from Belgium who had presided over Victor's Restaurant since 1873. Mayo appears to confuse the "Monsieur Victor" of his time with the founder and namesake of the establishment Victor Martin 1812-1865; cf. Shields page 136 445. ~ The Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Company was the southernmost of the transport lines to the West Coast originally contemplated by the series of Pacific Railroad Acts between 1862 and 1866. Of the resulting publicly subsidized corporate consortia that would transform western North America – known collectively as the transcontinental railroads – Southern Pacific was already a mammoth system in 1900 including smaller subsidiaries such as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and extending across territories that would later become New Mexico and Arizona as well as northwards through Nevada Utah and much of California. The in-house Sunset magazine appears to have been printed close to headquarters in San Francisco but like many publications issued by the transportation industry Mme. Bégué and Her Recipes was printed by Poole Brothers of Chicago who advertised as "railway printers" and also produced tickets brochures and mileage tables. ~ Internally clean and sound; in publisher's red wrappers decorated in black and white with an image of Madame Chef in kitchen apron. Wrappers with some rubbing and two small chips to the spine Near very good. Rare. OCLC locates thirteen copies; Uhler 28; New Orleans Culinary History Group page 13; not in Bitting Brown or Cagle. Southern Pacific Railroad]; [Printed by] Poole Bros unknown
189046165San Francisco: Crocker & Co. December 1890. 1890. 7" x 21" sheet on cream-colored stock folded to 12 panels each 7" x 3 1/2." 2 pictorial cover panels. Ticket rates from San Francisco to Monterey Pacific Grove or Santa Cruz along with excursion rates. 2 panels offering "Schedule of Stage Connections Showing Routes Distances Rates of Fare Etc." Black and white illustration showing bird's eye view of Hotel del Monte. Time schedules for the Monterey Line Pacific Grove Extension Santa Cruz Line Almaden Line Tres Pinos Line and Sta. Margarita Line. Light soiling to cover panels else near fine. Crocker & Co., December, 1890. unknown
