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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
186895331868. <p>The Transcontinental Railroad made possible the winning settlement and development of the American West. It led to a revolution in interstate and international trade opening the markets of the west coast and Asia to the east and Europe while bringing products of eastern or European industry to the growing populace west of the Mississippi and beyond. The railroad caused a great production boom and was in a sense America’s first technology corridor. As it encouraged the growth of American trade and business so too did the railroad impact the nation's public discourse and intellectual life by making it possible to come and go across the length of the continent in just over a week. Now for the first time the beauties and riches of the central part of the continent could be accessed any anyone in days. Nothing was the same afterwards. Many people consider the Transcontinental Railroad the greatest technological feat of the 19th century and one of the most consequential major construction projects ever undertaken.</p><p>Before the advent of the Transcontinental Railroad a journey across the continent to the west coast meant months of careful preparation and acquisition of a conveyance and supplies then a dangerous six month trek over rivers deserts and mountains all the way risking the loss of necessities and encounters with blizzards and Indians. Alternatively a traveler could hazard a three to six month sea voyage around ferociously stormy Cape Horn which proved a graveyard to many ships or sail to Central America and cross the Isthmus of Panama through the jungle in part by pack animal and in part by rail which took five or six weeks risking exposure to any number of deadly diseases in the crossing. So it is no surprise that interest in building a railroad uniting the east and west coasts of the continent began soon after the advent of the locomotive.</p><p><strong>Early Trains in the US and the Idea to Build a Train Connecting East and West Coasts</strong></p><p>The first trains began to run in the U.S. in the 1830s along the East Coast and by the 1840s the nation's railway networks extended throughout the East South and Midwest. The annexation of the western territories including California following the Mexican War the almost immediately subsequent discovery of gold in the region in 1848 the resultant Gold Rush starting in 1849 and statehood for California in 1850 brought momentum to the idea of building a railroad across the nation to the Pacific. Meanwhile thousands of immigrants and miners sought their fortune in the West. During the 1850s Congress sponsored numerous survey parties to investigate possible routes for a transcontinental railroad. No particular route emerged as a clear favorite as the project became yet one more point of contention between the North and South before the Civil War with each wanting the railroad to go through their section.</p><p>Theodore Judah was a civil engineer who helped build the first railroad in California and he became obsessed with the idea of a transcontinental railroad running through Nebraska Wyoming Utah Nevada and California. In 1859 he drew up letters of incorporation for the Central Pacific Railroad Company. Judah surveyed the route creating maps that he used to bolster a presentation of the scheme he made to Congress in October 1861. Many Congressmen were leery of beginning such an expensive venture especially with the Civil War underway but President Abraham Lincoln a long-time supporter of railroads saw in the proposal an important additional opportunity: to help knit California and the West to the Union. He agreed with Judah and on July 1 1862 Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act authorizing land grants and government support which amounted to $32000 per mile of track laid to two companies the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad. The Central would start at California’s eastern rail point in Sacramento cross the Sierras go through Nevada and into northern Utah where it would meet up with the Union Pacific. The Central Pacific Railroad spiked the first rail on October 26 1863 and its construction crews began building the line east from Sacramento.</p><p>At the eastern end of the project Gen. Grenville Dodge and his assistant Peter Dey surveyed the potential route the Union Pacific would take. They recommended a line that would follow Nebraska’s Platt River along the North Fork would then cross the Continental Divide at South Pass in Wyoming and continue along to Green River then head into Utah. President Lincoln favored this route and made the decision that the eastern terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad would be Council Bluffs Iowa across the Missouri River from Omaha Nebraska.</p><p><strong>The Union Pacific</strong></p><p>Thomas Durant a medical doctor turned businessman gained control of the Union Pacific Railroad Company in July 1863. Though Durant took the office of vice president he was the actual leader of the railroad. In 1864 Congress passed the second Pacific Railway Act which doubled the size of the land grants and allowed the railroads to sell their own bonds. The Union Pacific began to lay tracks at Omaha Nebraska in July 1865. But Durant's management of the actual building of the rail line was sub par and lacked both organization and people with sufficient knowledge and skills to accomplish its ambitious task.</p><p>So as 1866 dawned Durant hired Grenville Dodge as chief engineer of the railroad Dodge began advising Durant immediately although he would not leave the service until May and Dodge insisted up front that Jack Casement and his brother be hired to lay the track and actually construct the Union Pacific line. John S. Jack Casement had worked as a railroad contractor on the Ohio Railroad prior to the Civil War. During the war he rose to the rank of General and Brigade commander and was admired for his bravery management skills and railroad experience. Jack and his brother Daniel had formed the firm of J.S. & D.T. Casement; “General Jack†was construction leader while Daniel handled financial matters.</p><p><strong>Jack and Dan Casement Build the Railroad</strong></p><p>The Casements came to an understanding with Durant and they agreed upon a proposal letter dated February 6 1866. That letter provided that the Casement firm would ""lay and fill the track on the Union Pacific Rail Road for seven hundred fifty dollars per mile on the following terms and conditions. The Rail Road Company to furnish motive power cars wood and water and tracks for boarding cars and pay for delays of over three consecutive days caused by want of material motive power or other default or neglect of Company. The track to be laid in a good and workmanlike manner and filled and surfaced with material taken from the side of the road the whole to be subject to the approval and acceptance of the Engineer of the Company in charge of the work and the track to be accepted on the completion of every twenty miles and approximate estimates to be made by the Engineer in charge and paid monthly. We will lay the track as fast as required not to exceed one mile per day and will at the option of the Company on ten days notice reduce our gang to a force sufficient to lay one half mile per day. We will furnish engineer men and all other help for the trains used in distribution of material and take the materials for track at any point on the Rail Road within one hundred feet of the track and we will furnish oil waste etc for trains in our employ. All trains used in construction or for any purpose by us are to be run subject to the regulations & schedule time of the Company & under the general control of the Superintendent of the Company. We will make no extra charge in cutting and filling in leveling ties unless it exceeds six inches. No extra charge for putting in frogs and switches for all necessary sidings. And we will place the labor of all our men at the disposal of the Company whenever the delays exceed three days and charge for their time as per our payroll. We will commence as soon as the Company requires & will lay track during the whole of the present season and longer if the Company requires.†This proposal was signed “J.S. & D.T. Casement.†Durant responded to the Casements two days later on February 8 1866. His letter stated: “J.S. & D. T. Casement Painesville Ohio. Gentlemen: Your proposition to the Union Pacific Railroad Company under date of Feb. 6 1866 in relation to track-laying is received and has been considered. The Company decides to regard your proposition and this acceptance as the agreement upon the subject. The Company reserves the right to terminate this arrangement in case you do not perform the agreement on your part. Yours truly Thomas C. Durant V. P.""</p><p>Jack Casement was responsible for all matters relating to building the Union Pacific. He hired the workers many of whom were former military personal gathered the materials and supplies and went into the field. As during the war his post was at the front in the construction camps which he ran like an army at the end of the line where the work was being done or in his car at the tail of the work train. Scrappy and hard-working he oversaw not just the laying but the grading of the track as well. As one of the necessities of his job to get to and from the work sites the Union Pacific presented him with annual passes to use their cars.</p><p><strong>Jack Casement’s engraved Union Pacific pass for 1868</strong> used by him to manage and supervise work on the Transcontinental Railroad signed by Company President John D. Perry. This pass was retained by Casement’s descendants until recently when we obtained it directly from them.</p><p>Under Casement’s leadership the Union Pacific laid 1087 miles of track from Fremont Nebraska west to Utah where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads met to form the transcontinental railroad. His was a magnificent achievement that compares well with the Central Pacific Railroad which laid 690 miles.</p><p>On April 9 1869 with construction work nearing a conclusion and both the Union Pacific and Central Pacific needing a meeting point Congress established it as Promontory Summit north of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Less than one month later on the morning of May 10 1869 locomotives from the two railroads met nose-to-nose to signal the joining of the two lines. At 12:57 p.m. local time at a ceremony planned to connect the railroads Leland Stanford Governor of California and president of the Central Pacific and Durant as vice-president of the Union Pacific were to pound in the golden spike with silver hammers. Both men proved unable to hit the spike so Jack Casement stepped up to do the job accompanied by much cheering from the workers surrounding him. Telegraphers announced the completion of the Pacific Railway. Canons boomed in San Francisco and Washington. Bells rang and fire whistles shrieked as people celebrated across the country. The nation was indeed united.</p> 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
1900373823St. Louis 1900. 34 photographs mounted recto and verso on 17 cards with printed album title on each the images captioned in the negative on linen guards. Oblong small folio 10-1/8x12-1/2 inches. Contemporary half calf and cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the upper cover leather perished contents loose. The images generally dark printings in good condition. Provenance: Battery Park Hotel Asheville NC presentation in gilt on the upper cover from H. C. Townsend Gen'l Pass'r and Ticket Agent St. Louis. 34 photographs mounted recto and verso on 17 cards with printed album title on each the images captioned in the negative on linen guards. Oblong small folio 10-1/8x12-1/2 inches. The images by an unindentifed photographer comprise lovely compositions of buildings and scenes along the route in Missouri Kansas Nebraska and Arkansas. OCLC locates only a single example at University of Texas Austin. unknown
188553538Paris: Imprimé pour Isadore Liseux et ses amis 1885. First edition thus. Near fine. First vernacular translation of these suppressed Latin elegies that include the most explicit poetic expressions of homosexual desire of the Italian Renaissance. The HECATELEGIUM was first published in Florence in 1489 by a poet so notorious for his open homosexuality that Machiavelli named him in a 1501 letter as one of those poets who would have been burned at the stake had they not been protected by powerful cardinals "qui nisi haberent refugium in asylum nunc huius nunc illius Cardinalis combusti iam essent". Massimi's fame during his long life was nearly extinguished over the centuries of suppression and silence that followed which saw a heavily bowdlerized edition of the HECATELEGIUM published in Parma in 1691 and this privately printed edition in French and Latin only in 1885 the first uncensored edition since 1523. Though the Latin of this edition is complete certain obscene Latin words are printed in Greek rather than French in the facing translation still deemed too filthy to be read by anyone without a protective classical education. Undertaken by the shadowy publisher Antoine-Isidore Liseux 1835-1894 it was printed in Liseux's elegant typographical style in a "private" edition of 120 copies. Rare and important. 9.75'' x 6.5''. Later three-quarter cherry-red calf over marbled boards signed "Canape Belz" with matching marbled endpapers. Edition of 120 copies this copy no. 80. Text in French and Latin. xvi 354 2 pages. Minor rubbing to extremities. Old shelf label removed from head of spine. Else bright clean and sound. Imprimé pour Isadore Liseux et ses amis unknown
1860100432Large thick 4to contemporary calf spine and tips with marbled boards 70 very attractive color lithograph plates 358 41 pp. Extremeties worn minor aging one map has tear in lower corner plates bright and clean. The Pacific Railroad Surveys 1853-1855 explored possible routes for a transcontinental railroad. However the surveys went beyond looking for a place for a railroad they included and incredible amount of information on natural history and the peoples that inhabited the areas where the surveys explored. Representing the first part of the final volume of these surveys this installment focused on the northern route for a railroad. The 12 volumes included in these surveys is also known for rich illustrations many of which were in color. With 70 color plates one folding and three folding maps in Volume XII part 1 this edition is particularly rich in illustration and the plates are bright and clean. Thomas A. Ford hardcover
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
189649745Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. 1896. 1896. RAILROAD MAP. Oblong atlas folio. 37 x 56 in. One large color lithograph map mounted on linen showing the routes of the Union Pacific and subsidiary railroads in red with red yellow & black banner style lettering at upper fore-edge Union Pacific shields with mentions of subsidiary Railways mounted to upper & lower wooden rods as issued some minor lifting & creasing from being rolled over the years minor tide mark at left fore-edge upper fore-edge minor fraying and darkening still nice complete example of this map. First Rand McNally & Co. edition thus of this uncommon First Rand McNally & Co. edition thus of this uncommon Union Pacific Railroad route map intended to be used by travel agents and passenger agents in Union Pacific stations across the West. The map demarcates the Overland Route and connections with the Oregon Short Line RR Co. Oregon RR & Navigation Co. and the Southern Pacific in bold red stretching West from Kansas City Leavenworth St. Joseph Omaha Council Bluffs Sioux City & Fort Worth. A version of this map was initially released in 1892 by Reeves with the Knight Leonard & Co. and a little larger by a couple inches as it included insets for Sandwich Islands and Alaska whereas this version focuses only on the Continental United States. Rand McNally & Co., 1896. unknown
190074021Port Townsend WA and others: N.p. ca. 1900. Original quarto album of full morocco measuring 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. There are 24 think leaves mounted on stubs with each leaf bearing four windows for photographs measuring 3 7/8 x 2 7/8 inches. Most of the leaves in the rear bear no photographs but in the front there are 64 inserted silver gelatin photographs. Of these 36 bear images of people places and activities in the Puget Sound/Port Townsend area The remainder are quotidian shots of England. A chief concern in this album is mining and likely they brought in some British miners which would explain the shots of England. No surnames are given so it is all a bit of a mystery but the pictures speak for themselves. Finding a mining album of the Northwest is a rather rare occasion.The photographs of interest are; Log Cabin; Ranch House with two women and an infant in front; the nanny appears to be a Native American; Ore Coming out of a Tunnel; Harry Smith Cabin with two gents relaxing on the front porch; Cook House a mess tent with many miners taking their meal; Bunk homes for the workers; Blacksmith shop and Ore Dump with two men pushing a cart of trailings down the hill; Swamp grass three foot high; Dumping ore from car; Road Gang at Dinner; Railroad Station near mountains; Road Makers to the Mine a posed group shot of 20 men; Sunset near Port Townsend; Mates at the Boiler Makers; A river near our mine faded. The rest are uncaptioned but we can see the same camp and people in the winter snow; 2 shots of a sailing vessel trying to come up the Columbia ; and seven photographs of Native Americans unposed. One of them seems to be wearing a mask or bag over his head. A fascinating album of a rough and tumble time in the Pacific Northwest. N.p. 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
188059310Portland OR & Seattle WA: Walter Angus MacKay Julia Rose Eder MacKay Cross & Dimmitt ca. 1880-1958. Two vols. 1st - Thick oblong 4to. 11.5 x 8.75 x 2.25 in. 128 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper. With 461 photographs sized 1.75 x 2.75 in. up to 4.5 x 5.5 in. including 2 CDV’s 1 cyanotype several albumen and range of silver gelatin snapshots on matted and glossy paper stock many w/ annotations either on verso below images or w/in the margins at lower fore-edge or in pencil some w/ white ink alongside the images. Contemporary flexible polished calf post-binder punch-sewn at gutter margin in gold silk braid RPPC of Tillamook Bay OR by Gregg mounted on front cover chipping & wear to front cover wear to corners wear & rubbing to some fore-edges occasional chipping minor closed tears still VG exemplar; 2nd vol. -- Oblong 8vo. 8 x 5.75 in. 78 pp unpaginated. on thick tan paper stock. With 101 silver gelatin photographs mounted sized from 1.75 x 2.75 in. up to 4 x 6 in. some w/ sepia effect either mounted directly on the pages or many affixed with small strips of black paper or old paper corners affixing the images to the leaves a few w/ annotations on verso or below. Contemporary flexible diced calf “Housh†photo album chipping & wear to spine wear & bumping to corners some pages reworked by compilers at some point still a G exemplar both albums’ photos with bright strong contrast. These photo albums faithfully follow the sporting and leisure activities of two gearheads from Chicago -- Walter MacKay and his brother Carrol MacKay who together with their extended families and friends drive and auto-camp across the West. The large first album opens with many photos following a trip to Yosemite National Park as well as scenes along the route and upon the return of Walter & Julia. Their follow-up automobile trip in 1928 takes them to Yellowstone National Park via Spokane Idaho and Montana with photos included of Old Faithful a photo by Haynes of the Grand Geyser as well as auto camping at “Mammoth Hot Springs.†Subsequent photos trace their travels through the Columbia River Gorge the Snake River Mount Rainier National Park Ariel Dam near Ariel WA Hoods Canal WA and Newport OR. Their speed boat launch the Carmen is featured in some photos along with several views of pumps hoisting engines giant diesel and gas engines under repair. Other trips include those to Snoqualmie Falls Trout Lake WA near Mt. Adams working a hoist at logging camp partying with friends in Renton WA and even views of Walter MacKay advertising his Automobile Repair Shop with a cover on his rear tire. Other outings include auto camping and picnicking along the Mt. Hood Loop Grant’s Park on the Clackamas River Mt. Hood the Rogue River Table Mountain and views of Grants Pass. Walter and his gearhead friends were known for their stripped-down roadster racing cars and were also early participants in the Seattle Motorcycle Club and Motorcycle races. A couple photos within the two albums show early motorcycles and even gallivanting on some stripped down chassis without engines or tires. The second album includes a series of photos featuring Walter and his car beneath a towering Cedar Stump with arch cut into the base and him holding gun as well as standing on the fenders of the car. The second also includes automobile camping photos with tent and cots folded out of the rear of the automobile driving into Vancouver B.C. as well as driving to Mount Rainier and more along the Columbia River Highway and Mount Hood. Also featured are hunting shots in Eastern Oregon construction of a summer log cabin and much more. Mackay 1883-1959 was a mechanical engineer machinist gearhead racecar builder who came West working for the railroad as a machinist before working for Paragon Co. in Seattle as parts manager. He owned and operated the MacKay Automotive Repair at 165 E. 39th in Portland OR on the SW corner of 39th Cesar Chavez and Belmont for years before working at Albina Engine & Machine Works at the end of the Great Depression. One of the photos in the 2nd album shows MacKay with his camera shooting a photo and several show Julia MacKay’s 1880-1958 sisters and family. Should be noted we unknowingly catalogued an album on Seattle Auto Racing and Motorcycle Clubs from before World War I without having had access to these unknown albums. See: The Origins and Growth of the Club Scene in Western Washington 1910-1941 Jolly Rogers Motorcycle Club Feb. 7 2009; Seattle Motorcycle Races Pantages Theater Program Early Advertising in the West 1867-1918 Univ. of Washington Spec. Collections. Walter Angus MacKay, Julia Rose Eder MacKay, Cross & Dimmitt, unknown
1874M7548Montreal: Canadian Pacific Railway 1874. Very Good; laid down on acid-free tissue paper for long-term preservation. Notes: A very important and early working map of Alberta and British Columbia depicting existing and suggested railways.<br>There is a note written in period ink in the lower margin in reference to a contemporary marking of newly suggested routes in black ink:<br><br>"Note -- The Surveys made since the publication of the Report & Maps of 1874 shew the routes colored full black line and thus broken black line to be the best lines for railway construction that have been found to this date Oct 1875. Mr. Smith".<br><br>"Mr. Smith" is believed to be Donald A. Smith a major partner in the yet-to-be incorporated Canadian Pacific Railway Company in 1881. <br><br>The routes marked out in red as printed depict potential lines crossing the Rockies to the west of Edmonton at Yellowhead Pass. Almost none of the suggested routes depicted on this map were eventually used--CPR dismissed the use of Yellowhead Pass for a pass farther south in order to discourage competition from railway lines south of the border. They chose instead Kicking Horse Pass which is depicted on this map. Size : 608x779 mm 23.94x30.67 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps Railroad; Maps Canada West British Columbia;Maps Canada West Alberta; Canadian Pacific Railway unknown
1851PACIFICO015869Longman Brown Green and Longmans London. 1851. First edition. Octavo. Two volumes in one: pp xii 352; xii 371. Four chromolithograph plates. Original blue cloth decorated in blind lettered in gilt.On the front free endpaper are two 19th century inscriptions one of which has been crossed through. Some foxing here and there. Head and tail of spine a bit scuffed. Some wear to edges. Very good. Very scarce in the intact publishers' binding. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London. hardcover
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
1900P5495Canada: Canadian Pacific Railway c.1900. Very Good . Notes: View of Banff Springs Hotel and Bow River Valley National Park-Rocky Mountains. It is framed in its original frame. <br>The Fairmont Banff Springs formerly and commonly known as the Banff Springs Hotel is a historic hotel in western Canada located in Banff Alberta. Image Size : 404x528 mm 15.91x20.79 Inches Platemark Size : Paper Size : 550x692 mm 21.65x27.24 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Medium: Offset Lithograph Categories: Views Canada Alberta & British Columbia; Canadian Pacific Railway unknown
187044035Omaha: Land Department Union Pacific Railroad Company 1870. 1870. First edition. First edition. 8vo. 8 3/4" x 5 3/4" printed wrappers with map on back cover 44 pp. introduction illustrated maps. The rear cover features a map of portions of Idaho Utah Wyoming Colorado Dakota Nebraska Kansas Missouri and Iowa. States where land grant bonds are available from the Union Pacific Railroad Company. The frontispiece is a map of the United States that shows the Union Pacific Railroad and its connections. A third map shows counties in Nebraska in 1870 and the Union Pacific Railroad lands first 200 miles grants of 1862-64. A description of the Nebraska lands are provided county by county. The available lands are contained in alternate sections of one square mile each within a breadth of twenty miles on either side of the railroad and extend along the entire line. They extend through central Nebraska southern Wyoming and northern Colorado and Utah and include within their limits the splendid agricultural lands of the Platte Valley the great natural pastures of the Laramie Plains and the valleys of Lodge Pole Creek and Bear River and the rich iron and coal fields between the Black Hills and the Wahsatch Mountains. Description advantages water resources climate soil live stock raising farming markets timber minerals information about homesteads advantages of living in colonies etc. Both Adams' Herd and Graff list similar titles but different years and claim their listings to be "rare." A small bump to the top edges light wear to the spine ends else a near fine copy. Land Department Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1870. unknown
186854323New York: Published by the Company 1868. 1868. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD. First edition. Pamphlet edition. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers 40 pp. frontispiece Map of the Union Pacific Rail Road and its Connections introduction illustrated frontispiece map advertisement on rear cover for "First Mortgage Bonds at 102 principal and interest payable in gold with an annual income of "between eight and nine percent." This is an investment and advertising booklet for the first transcontinental railroad in the United States which was built by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad in order to connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts by rail for the first time. Begun in July of 1865 and built primarily by Civil War veterans the construction and completion of the Union Pacific line was one of the most significant technological and economic accomplishments of the 19th century creating the vital connection for commerce trade and travel and literally joining the eastern and western halves of the United States. Contents include the formation of the Union Pacific Railroad Company progress natural resources construction branch and connecting roads construction resources anticipated business & profits actual earnings and sale of first mortgage bonds. A list of officers of the company is provided. Top of front cover displays that this copy is mildly ex-library with stamp and number appearing at the upper right side a faint vertical fold to the center of the booklet tiny chips to bottom corner of front cover and a few preliminary pages. Overall a very good copy of an important railroad report. Published by the Company, 1868. unknown
186754322New York: Brown & Hewitt Printers 1867. 1867. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD. First edition. Pamphlet edition. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers 24 pp. frontispiece Map of the Union Pacific Rail Road and its Connections introduction illustrated frontispiece map advertisement on rear cover for "First Mortgage Bonds at six per cent. In gold at Ninety Cents on the Dollar. Light evidence of the entire booklet having been folded vertically penciled name to top of front cover covers lightly soiled and used small closed tear to the lower margin of the front cover Overall a very good copy of an important railroad report. Brown & Hewitt, Printers, 1867. unknown
188741282N. P.: Crocker & Co. 1887. 1887. RAILROAD CALIFORNIA. First edition. 6 1/4" x 13 3/4" goldenrod colored paper folds to 6 1/4" x 3 3/8" two-sided eight panel timetable with exquisite scenes a map and train schedules for the Northern California lines of the railroad. The timetable has engraved vignettes and ornate lettering by E. Schultze. This is an attractive museum quality timetable and one of the rarest and finest early Southern Pacific railroad pieces that we have handled. It's in near fine condition and 130 years old. Crocker & Co., 1887. unknown
1859013021San Francisco: Towne & Bacon 1859. Small faded ink stamp on front wrapper and an old ink accession number. Contained in a cloth clamshell box with a printed paper label. First Edition. Original Printed Wrappers. Very Good. Towne & Bacon Paperback
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
188250958New York: Land Dept. Northern Pacific Railroad Co. 1882. 1882. PACIFIC NORTHWEST. First edition. 8vo. Printed wrappers 81 pp. introductory illustrated large folding map at the rear. Scarce Western promotional travel guide to the Pacific North-West. Addressed to prospective settlers and travelers alike this guide consists of historical geographical and agricultural information and discusses at length matters such as commerce climate education taxes prices and the regions of the Pacific North-West. Each county is described and suggestions are provided to prospective emigrants such as "In mercantile pursuits the opening is good for men of enterprise and capital; but the chances for mere clerks are not good." Farm labor wages in these parts are recorded as being between $25 and $30 per month and lumber mills wages between $60 and $90 per month for first-class hands. It is also noted that "Chinamen work for the railroads and boards themselves at $1.00 a day and in winter take contracts for grubbing brush land." There are ten full-page illustrations which include a two-page "Bird's Eye View of Portland Oregon" "Saw Mill on Puget Sound W.T." "Astoria Oregon Entrance to Columbia River" "First Street Portland Oregon" and "Commercial Street Seattle W.T." with folding map of the region Unfolded 28 1/2 x 18 inches in the back. Spine and outer edges of wrappers sunned else very good copy. Land Dept., Northern Pacific Railroad Co., 1882. hardcover
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
18717912San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Good . 12mo. 256 pp. original green cloth lettered in gilt index to advertisers advertisements i-lvii. -- Moderate wear to the extremities some fraying to the spine tips & corner edges corners bumped. Blank paste-down and first free end-paper paper a little separated but hinges still strong. Rear hinges strong. Rear paste-down has an advertisement pasted on and a small stamp at bottom near the gutter of "H. K. Van Siclen Bibliophile 133 Nassau St. Ny". --. "This tourist guide for visitors of San Francisco and the Yosemite Valley offers a look at travel and accommodations in the late 19th century".-googlebks. A. L. Bancroft & Company hardcover
186849559New York: Published by the Union Pacific Railroad Company 1868. 1868. RAILROAD. First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial printed wrappers 32 pp. frontispiece Map of the Union Pacific Rail Road and its Connections introduction. Details the formation of the company and the progress of the work including the topography character of the country and distances along the line. Much information is provided regarding agricultural resources timber minerals etc. Branches and connecting roads along with the needed resources for construction are discussed as is information on actual earnings anticipated earnings and the issuance of the company's first mortgage bonds. A wonderful advertisement on the rear cover panel offers First Mortgage Bonds at par principal and interest Payable In Gold. A faint vertical crease and very lightly toned at the cover edges else a near fine bright copy. Published by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1868. unknown
