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Sale 484Thursday, July 19, 201211:00 AMFine AmericanaTravel & ExplorationWith Ephemera & Manuscript MaterialAuction PreviewTuesday July 17, 9:00 am to 5:00 pmWednesday, July 18, 9:00 am to 5:00 pmThursday, July 19, 9:00 am to 11:00 amOther showings by appointment133 Kearny Street 4th Floor:San Francisco, CA 94108phone: 415.989.2665 toll free: 1.866.999.7224 fax: 415.989.1664info@pbagalleries.com:www.pbagalleries.com

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AdministrationRoger Wagner, ChairmanScott Evans, PresidentShannon Kennedy, Vice President, Client ServicesAngela Jarosz, Administrative AssistantMegan Hipsley, Shipping ClerkConsignments, Appraisals & CataloguingBruce E. MacMakin, Senior Vice PresidentGeorge K. Fox, Vice President, Market Development & Senior AuctioneerGregory Jung, Senior SpecialistErin Escobar, SpecialistMarketingMaureen Gross, Vice President of MarketingPhotography & DesignChad Mueller, PhotographerSummer-Fall Auctions, 2012July 19, 2012 – Fine Americana – Travel & ExplorationAugust 2, 2012 – Fine Press – Illustrated Books – Fine Bindings & Sets – MiscellaneaAugust 16, 2012 – Fine Golf Books & MemorabiliaAugust 30, 2012 – Fine LiteratureSeptember 13, 2012 – Rare Books & ManuscriptsSeptember 27, 2012 – Americana - African-American History - Travel & ExplorationSchedule is subject to change. Please contact PBA or pbagalleries.com for further information.Consignments are being accepted for the 2012 Auction season. Please contact Bruce MacMakin atbruce@pbagalleries.com.Front Cover: Lot 62Back Cover clockwise from upper left: Lots 29, 139, 386, 201Bond # 14425383

Section I: Americana: Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Ephemera, Lots 1-342Section II: Travel & Exploration, Lots 343-411Section I: Americana1. Adams, Ansel and Edward Joesting. The Islands of Hawaii - condensed edition. [16] pp. includingwrappers. 28x35.5 cm. (11x14”), wrappers.Hawaii: Bishop National Bank of Hawaii, 1959“Since we have had many more requests for the book than we have been able to supply wedecided to publish this condensation.” -introduction. Some light wear to wrappers, a small tearat spine; dust soiling inside and out; very good.(100/150)SELECTION OF BLACK AMERICANA2. (African-American) Cobb, W. Montague. The First Negro Medical Society: A History of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia, 1884-1939. x, 159 pp. (8vo) original green cloth. FirstEdition.Washington, D.C.: The Associated Publishers, 1939Written by a Professor of Anatomy at Howard University, and published by the first African-American publishing company in the US, brainchild of the “father” of Black history, CarterWoodson. Light wear and soiling to cloth; very good.(200/300)3. (African American) Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore. The Dunbar Speaker and EntertainerContaining the Best Prose and Poetic Selections by and About the Negro Race. 288 pp. Portrait frontispieceand several other plates from photographs. (8vo) cloth. First Edition.Naperville, Ill: J.L. Nichols & Co., [1920]First printing of an early literary anthology of Black writers and poets, published at the dawnof the Harlem Renaissance and edited by the widow of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, an authorin her own right, as well as an active suffragette and political reformer. Selections from Dunbarhimself, as well as William Stanley Braithwaite, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Chestnutt,W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Charlotte Grimke, T. ThomasFortune – and Alexander Pushkin, the great Russian romantic poet, who was descended from anEthiopian prince held captive in Turkey. Light wear and soiling to cloth, short split to rear jointat head; very good.(150/250)Each lot is illustrated in color in the online version of the catalogue.Go to www.pbagalleries.comPage 1

confused with his brother Henry, also a photographer, as well as a book-binder. This rare letterwas written in the later part of Harvey Lindsley’s photographic career, which ended in the 1890swhen, due to failing eyesight, he gave up his studio and opened a laundry. Creased, light wear;very good.(250/350)9. (Agriculture) Wilder, Marshall P. Autograph Letter, signed, from the ‘father’ of the U.S. Departmentof Agriculture. Autograph Letter, signed. 3 pp.Boston: Feb. 10, 1853To Professor Joseph Henry [Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.]: Thanks “for yourcooperation and influence in sustaining the objects of the U.S. Ag. Society”, and lookingforward to a future “interchange of sentiments in relation to certain matters I would not liketo place on paper. From the conversation which I had with quite a number of the Members ofCongress, I feel encouraged that we shall receive the appropriation which has hitherto gone tothe Agr. Dept. of the Patent Office. If so we will endeavour to produce a volume which shall becreditable to ourselves and honorable to the country…” While only an “amateur horticulturist”with a passionate interest in fruit cultivation, Massachusetts merchant Marshall P. Wilder(1798-1886) had an historic role in the history of American agriculture. When he wrote thisletter to his influential Washington ally, Dr. Joseph Henry (1797-1878), first director of theSmithsonian Institution and “the most revered American scientist of his times”, Wilder had soldDaniel Webster and Stephen Douglas on his plan to create a private United States AgriculturalSociety which would assume and greatly expand the US Patent Office’s meager effort to “collectagricultural statistics”. Heading the Smithsonian-based Society for most of its eight yearsof existence, Wilder, according to historian Lyman Carrier, “brought to successful fruitionagricultural movements which will endure as long as the United States Government continuesto function” – the momentous results being federal establishment of “land grant colleges” topromote agriculture and the “mechanic arts”, and, in 1862, President Lincoln’s creation of theUS Department of Agriculture. Creased, light wear; very good.(150/250)10. (Alaska) Alaska Investigation, Report. No. 35, 40th Congress, 3rd Session. 41 pp. (8vo) string bound.First Edition.Washington, D.C.: 1869In March 1867, Secretary of State Seward completed negotiations with czarist Russia for thepurchase of Alaska, paying $7,200,000 for 586,412 square miles of territory – a diplomaticachievement derided by many as “Seward’s Folly”. It took nine months to convince the House ofRepresentatives to approve the necessary appropriation, a legislative path greased by the Russianambassador’s “judicious use of funds to buy votes” in Congress. When a Boston newspaperpublished allegations of financial shenanigans involved in the purchase, the House Committeeon Public Expenditures launched “a full investigation”. This rare document recounts theCommittee’s grilling of several subpoenaed witnesses, including Seward himself, the Treasurerof the United States, two prestigious Washington lawyers, well paid to act as secret lobbyistsfor the Russian embassy, and several journalists who had written propaganda supporting whatone jokingly called “the Alaska swindle”.. The Committee decided that no definitive proof of“complicity with criminal acts” of bribery could be reached without the cooperation of Russiandiplomats who were, of course, unwilling to testify. Several Committee members added their“decided disapproval’ of the American lobbyists who had sold their “extraordinary influence” inWashington, and the “trust and confidence” of their fellow citizens, “to a foreign power”. Fine.(150/250)The auction will be begin at 11:00 a.m.Page 3

11. (Alaska) Poindexter, Miles. Typed Letter Signed as US Senator, on stationery of the SenateCommittee on Indian Depredations. Typed Letter, signed. 1 pp.Washington, D.C.: June 8, 1917To Charles August Sulzer, Alaska Territory’s fourth “Delegate” to the US House ofRepresentatives. Written 2 months after the US entered the World War, supporting“development of Alaska coal fields” as being of “great importance” to the Army and Navy. TheSenator from Washington state assures Sulzer that he would be “glad to promote any measurethat will encourage private enterprise…in opening up these great resources” – of personalinterest to Sulzer, who, while serving only one term in Congress, was partner with his brotherWilliam, the former (impeached) Governor of New York, who owned one of the largest miningcompanies in the Territory. Creased from mailing; near fine.(80/120)12. (Alaska) Report of the Commission to Study the Proposed Highway to Alaska 1933. 116 pp. Photographplates plus large folding map at rear. 23x15 cm. (9x5¾”), brown printed wrappers.Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933Folding map at rear titled, “Map Showing Relation of a Proposed Road between Blaine,Washington and Fairbanks, Alaska...” Measures 91.5x67.8 cm. (36x26¾”). Pictures Alaska,Canada, United States, and Mexico. This copy belonged to a Lt. Colonel of the U.S. Armystationed in Juneau, Alaska, Robert E. Jones, his name in ink on front wrapper and again blankfront fly leaf, along with his rank and the date 16 June, 1936. Light wear to wrappers; map isfine; near fine.(200/300)13. (Alaska Boundary) King, W.F., J.J. McArthur, O.H. Tittman, & E.C. Barnard. Joint ReportUpon the Survey & Demarcation of the International Boundary Between the United States and Canadaalong the 141st Meridian from the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias. In accordance with the provisionsof Article IV of the Convention signed at Washington, April 21, 1906. 305 pp. Illustrated with b/wphotographs, folding maps, 6 large folding panoramic photographs at rear. (4to), original green cloth.First Edition.Washington: Department of State, 1918Important report of the Alaska boundary survey. This copy with presentation inscription toGeorge E. King by Jesse Hill, Senior Engineer, Alaska-Yukon Boundary Commission, datedApril 1, 1951, with notation below that King was “Hunter for International Boundary Survey -Portland Canal to Sleeker River, 1920 - Jesse Hill was chief of the party . . . “ There was an atlasvolume as well, offered separately in this auction. Bit of wear to fore-edge of last page of index;very good.(200/300)14. (Alaska Boundary) King, W.F., J.J. McArthur, O.H. Tittman, & E.C. Barnard. Joint mapsof the international boundary between the United States and Canada along the 141st meridian from theArctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias. 38 sheets. Surveyed and monumented 1907-1913 under the conventionsigned at Washington April 21st, 1906. Title-page, index map, 38 survey maps, sheet of profiles,map of “Arctic coast in the vicinity of the international boundary”, and “General map of the region...”70.4x47 cm. (27¾x18½”), gilt-lettered cloth.[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Geological Survey, [1918]Detailed survey of the boundary between Alaska and Canada. There was a text volume as well,offered elsewhere in this auction. Rubbing and extremity wear to covers, front hinge cracked,some marginal staining to earlier leaves; very good.(300/500)Page 4

PLAYING CARDS ON WAY TO NOME GOLD FIELDS15. (Alaska - Playing Cards) Set of playing cards issued by The White Pass and Yukon Route, with adifferent photo on the face of each card. Complete set of 52 cards, plus a joker, a card with a map of theroute to the Nome Gold Fields, a card with tables of distances, and a card printed on both sides withdescription of the route; two-part slipcase, the outer box of which is lettered in gilt on one side “TheWhite Pass and Yukon Route Souvenir Cards”, with a card showing its color pictorial back mountedon the other. 3¾x2¾x¾”.Seattle: [1900]Playing cards commemorating the “Scenic Railway of the World,” with photographs of thescenic wonders of Alaska, the rail lines and bridges, railroad cars, towns and stopovers, majesticmountains, etc. On the back of the cards is a design in red, white and blue with depiction ofa train crossing a bridge through the mountains. The edges of the cards are gilded. Just a littlerubbing and extremity wear to box, very good or better.(500/800)16. Allen, Lewis F. History of the Short-Horn Cattle: Their Origin, Progress and Present Condition.266 pp. With 10 lithographed plates. 22.5x14 cm. (8¾x5½), original blindstamped cloth with giltvignette on front cover. First Edition.Buffalo, N.Y.: Published by the Author, 1872Adams Herd 34. Formerly in the Loup City Township Library, with rubberstamp to lowermargin of p.125, ink number to lower margin of p.[iii], white number partially eradicated fromspine foot, and staining and pocket remnants to rear endpapers and flyleaves. Wear to spine endsand corners; light dampstain to top margins throughout and bottom margins of latter pages;very good.(200/300)17. Allen, Miss A. J., compiler. Ten Years In Oregon. Travels and Adventures of Doctor E. White andLady West of the Rocky Mountains; with Incidents of Two Sea Voyages Via Sandwich Islands Around CapeHorn; Containing also a Brief History of the Missions and Settlement of the Country... xvi, [17]-399 pp.Woodcut frontispiece portrait included in the pagination. (8vo), original blindstamped cloth, giltpictorialspine. First Edition, first issue.Ithaca, NY: Mack, Andrus, & Co. Printers, 1848Dr. E. White, described by Howes as a “fervent Presbyterian missionary and politicalpropagandist,” ventured to Oregon in 1842 and returned in 1845. Mintz notes that “they startedfrom Independence in May of 1842, in company with Medorem Crawford with L.W. Hastingsjoining later. Allen speaks of obtaining Thomas Fitzpatrick as guide at Ft. Laramie to take themto Ft. Hall.” This the first issue, with frontispiece portrait, and 399 pages total. Graff 36; HowesA131; Smith 114; Wagner-Camp 144:1. Some rubbing and a few light stains to cloth, cornersworn; light pen scribbles to one page; very good.(200/300)The Buyer’s Premium will be 20% for bids up to $100,000and 15% for that portion over $100,000.Page 5

18. (Americana) Small group of Americana booklets and ephemera. Includes: A Hysterical Map of DeathValley National Monument and it’s Lookin’ Mighty Low. Map in original envelope. * Calico. 57pp. Wrappers. Larry Coke, 1941. * Thurman, Sue Bailey. Pioneers of Negro Origin in California.Wrappers spiral bound. Inscribed by author. Acme Publishing, [1952]. * One Sinclair Dollar. The RedCurrency. Issued in 1934. * Origin of “Dixie”. 12 pp. Wrappers. Third Edition. Haberling Ptg. Co.,[c.1912]. * Teggart, Frederick J. Notes Supplementary to any Edition of Lewis and Clark. Wrappers.GPO, 1910. * Program of Entertainments on the occasion of the visit to Holland of the Americanbattleships “Wyoming” and “Arkansas” under command of vice-admiral Newton A. Mc. Cully; FromJuly 14th - July 25th 1924. 12 pp. * Almanaque Ilustrado de “La Prensa” Ano IV 1929. 160 pp.Wrappers. San Antonio, TX: Gran Diario Mexicano, 1929. * Los Angeles and Vicinity. View book,accordion-bound in red decorative cloth. New York: Whittemann Bros., 1885. * Rays from Liberty’sTorch. Arranged and Illustrated by F. Schuyler Mathews. Wrappers. Munich & New York: ObpacherBrothers, [n.d.]. * The Picture Bridge. Paintings by Frank M. Moore. 41 pp. Wrappers, in originalenvelope. Pasadena, CA: The Huntington, 1933. Together 11 items.1880s-1950sLight wear from handling; very good or better.(200/300)19. (Anti-Fraternity) Thomas, Charles S. Autograph Letter, signed, from a Colorado Senator, denouncingcollege fraternities. Autograph Letter, signed, on United States Senate letterhead. 4 pages.Washington, D.C.: c.1911-1915To Rev. Paul Hickock, Washington, D.C. Spalding was critical of the “many fraternities….whose activities are almost entirely social and whose membership is determined not so much bymerit as by social favor and social standing. These must inevitably establish a college caste andan artificial exclusiveness entirely inconsistent with the American Democratic Spirit. Wealthsooner or later becomes the arbiter of membership and the poor aspirant for its favors will berare indeed if successful. The resentments and heart burnings which these conditions beget areunfortunate. They are bad for those within as well as without the charmed circle and justifymuch of the criticisms directed against all secret fraternities…” Charles Spalding Thomas (1849-1934) was born in Georgia and served as a boy in the Confederate Army, but after becoming alawyer, moved to Colorado in 1875, and following four unsuccessful bids for political office, waselected Governor in 1899 and, in 1913, US Senator. Woodrow Wilson was then on his way tothe White House and his past opposition, while President of Princeton University, to snobbishfraternal “eating clubs” may have prompted this inquiry to his fellow progressive Democrat fromDenver. Fine.(150/250)You can bid absentee directly from the item description inthe online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries.com.Or bid during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder.Page 6

20. (Anti-Immigration) Stevens, F.C., et al. Three letters from Minnesota Congressmen opposingimmigration literacy test and one from the Secretary of Labor. Four typed letters, signed.Washington, D.C.: Jan. 14-26, 1914Three Typed Letters, signed, from US Congressmen from Minnesota F. C. Stevens, JamesManahan and George R. Smith, Washington, D.C. , Jan. 14-16, 1914 and 1 Typed Letter,signed, from the first US Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson. All written to A.G. Johnson,publisher of a Swedish-language newspaper in Minneapolis, opposing a “literacy test” provisionof an Immigration bill which had been vetoed by President Taft: “…this country can use everyman and woman of sound mind, sound morals and sound body who comes to make this his orher home. The development of our country is to a great extent due to the industry and the toilof the immigrant…The man who uses the pick and the shovel, the man who works at the forgeor the bench, the man who carries the hod or swings the axe, however illiterate he may be, if ofsound body and morals, can perform his work well and rear children who will be a credit to ourcivilization… I do not believe in excluding on the mere ground of illiteracy the honest, healthy,industrious immigrant, who stirred by ambition comes to our shores to better his own conditionand that of his family and to take his place in our civil and industrial life…” Facing the threat ofanother presidential veto, Congress dropped the literacy test provision, substituting “nationalorigin”quotas in the landmark 1924 Immigration Act, which, for nearly half a century,prevented many Jews, Italians, Slavs, Chinese and Japanese from entering the country. Creased,holes from ring binder along left edge; very good.(150/250)21. Applegate, Jesse A. A Day with the Cow Column in 1843. 19 pp. (8vo) cloth-backed patternedboards. Number 126 of 225 copies.[Portland, OR]: Champoeg Press, 1952Applegate (1811-1888) moved to Oregon with the first great migration of 1843. His briefmemoir was originally published in the Transactions of the Oregon Pioneer Association FourthAnnual Reunion (1876) and has been frequently reprinted. This fine press edition is the amongmost attractive of the reissues. Mintz 11; see also Graff 74; Howes A294; Mattes 72. Cornersrubbed, boards browned at edges; very good.(100/150)CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF OREGON EMIGRATION OF 184322. Applegate, Jesse. Recollections of My Boyhood. 99 pp. (8vo) 14x21 cm. (5½x8”) original pictorialwrappers, custom cloth and marbled boards folder. First Edition.Roseburg, OR: Press of Review Pub. Co., 1914Classic overland narrative, an account of the Oregonemigration of 1843, which the author made when he was butsix (or nine, according to some sources). Jesse A. Applegatewas the son of Lindsay Applegate and the nephew of JesseApplegate Applegate. The latter was the leader of the party,and blazed the Applegate Trail. The two Jesse Applegatesare often confused, confounded by the incorporation of thepresent work in the publication of the senior Applegate’s “ADay with the Cow Column” (Chicago: 1934) without anydistinction being made between the two. Moreover, somesources indicated the two are father and son (Mintz, quotingJohn Howell Books). The latter source does state that “theysettled in the Willamette Valley, becoming prosperous andinfluential pioneers in the Territory. His reminiscencesprovided an interesting, detailed, and perceptive recordof the crossing and the first decade of life in the Oregoncountry, which was still a dangerous and hostile environmentfor the frontiersman.” Adams Herd 109; Graff 75; HowesA294; Mintz 10. Spine ends perished, some neat repairs toLot 22backstrip, some soiling and light chipping to wrappers; verygood.(1500/2500)Page 7

23. (Arizona) Grazing Permit allowing Juan Roache to pasture 12 cattle and 3 horses in the ChiricahuaNational Forest in southeastern Arizona. Printed form filled in with typewriter, signed by Arthur P.Zachan as supervisor. 26.5x20.2 cm. (10½x8”).July 1, 1915Juan Roach, of Bernardino, Arizona, for payment of $7.56, is authorized to graze his cattle andhorses for a year on federal land abutting his ranch. The earmarks are indicated, and there arerubberstamps of a steer and a horse with the brands sketched in. Very good.(200/300)24. Armstrong, Leroy & J.O. Denny. Financial California: An Historical Review of the Beginningsand Progress of Banking in the State. 191, [1], xcv, [1] pp. Frontispiece; portraits; text illustrations.(8vo) original flexible read morocco. First Edition.San Francisco: The Coast Banker Publishing Company, 1916An indispensable work on California’s early banking history. Uncommon. Not in any edition ofCowan; Norris 117; Rocq 16654. Light wear to binding, a few dark spots on front cover; verygood.(300/500)25. (Army) Tabular Statements Showing the Names of Commanders of Army Corps, Divisions andBrigades, United States Army, During the War of 1861 to 1865. Title page + 42 leaves. 47.5x60.5 cm.(18¾x23¾”), brown gilt-lettered cloth, re-backed with original spine laid down.Philadelphia: Burk & McFetridge, 1887The title page continues: “Compiled from data on record in the office of the Qquartermaster-General of the Army.” With slip from the publisher tipped in at leaf 1, advertising a limitededition of this publication plus 1 other. Plus with printed notice laid down on front pastedownasking any readers to submit errors to the Quartermaster General. Moderate shelf wear; frontfree endpaper torn with some yellowing; very good.(200/300)26. Arnold, H[enry] H[arley] (Hap). Typed Letter, signed, regarding a troublesome newspaper article.Typed Letter, signed, on War Department letterhead.Washington, D.C.: October 14, 1937General Arnold writes Clifford Henderson, director of the National Air Races, regarding thecontents of a newspaper article: “I could scarcely believe that either you or Phil had inspired thenewspaper article which caused so much trouble...I am glad to know that each of you disclaimsany responsibility for the article since as you know it created a great deal of hard feeling.”Creased from mailing; fine.(200/300)27. Ashmead, William H., et al. Insects, Parts I & II - Volumes VIII and IX of the Harriman AlaskaSeries. 2 volumes. ix, [1], 238; ix, [1], 284 pp. Frontispiece in each volume (Vol. VIII in color); 20additional leaves of plates; text illustrations. Each volume indexed separately. (8vo) original greencloth, top edges gilt. First Edition.Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1910The entomological findings of the 1899 E.H. Harriman Alaska Expedition, the firstcomprehensive study of Alaska insects. Light wear to extremities; near fine.(300/500)Page 8

BRADFORD’S COMPREHENSIVE ATLAS 183528. (Atlas) Bradford, T[homas] G[amaliel]. A Comprehensive Atlas Geographical, Historical &Commercial. With 63 engraved maps with hand-colored outlines; 3 engraved plates with hand-coloredborders (one with 15 U.S. city maps, one with 6 maps and one with 4 maps of major cities fromaround world); 10 engraved plates (3 with some hand-coloring and 2 with several vignettes); handcoloredfrontispiece with tissue-guard; and a pictorially engraved title page. (4to) 12¾x10, modernmorocco-backed marbled boards, new endpapers.Boston / New York / Philadelphia: William D. Ticknor / Wiley & Long / T.T. Ash, [1835]Including 28 full-page maps of the Americas, most pertaining to the United States. Map of theUnited States shows the Oregon District, but the Southwest portion including Texas shownas still belonging to Mexico (Texas and “R. Colorado of the West” named), the San FranciscoBay shown as “Bay of Sir F. Drake”. Many separate state maps; Michigan has Michilimackinacland as the portion north of Saginaw Bay; plus maps from around the world, including thecontinents, hemisphere maps, etc. This copy with ownership signature on title-page of Henry Y.Barnes of Montepelier, Vermont, dated December 1835. Phillips Atlases 770. Mostly marginaldampstaining, intruding into frontispiece, title-page and earlier text leaves, some offsetting, mapof United States discolored, neat repair to title-page, else very good.(1000/1500)Lot 28Page 9

AUDUBON’S BIRDS AND QUADRUPEDSIN MATCHING PUBLISHER’S BROWN MOROCCO29. Audubon, John James and John Bachman. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in theUnited States and Their Territories [with] The Quadrupeds of North America. 10 volumes comprising:The Birds of America. 7 volumes. 500 hand-colored lithograph plates. * The Quadrupeds of NorthAmerica. 3 volumes. 155 hand-colored lithograph plates. (Royal Octavo) 26.5x18 cm. (10½x7”),original matching full publisher’s blindstamped brown morocco, spines lettered in gilt, marbledendpapers, all edges gilt. Second Octavo Edition.New York: V[ictor] G[ifford] Audubon, 1854-56A beautiful matching set of Audubon’s two classic natural history works. The Birds of America,is a landmark ornithological work and perhaps the most important American color-plate bookof the 19th century. The plates for this edition were reduced and modified from the originalHavell engravings for the double-elephant folio. The images were reduced by camera lucidaand some of the backgrounds entirely changed or greatly modified. To the original plate countincluded in the double-elephant folio edition, the octavo edition adds 65 new images for atotal of 500 plates, making it “the most extensive color plate book produced in America up tothat time” (Reese). The Quadrupeds of North America was a collaboration between the elderAudubon and his sons, John Woodhouse and Victor Gifford, along with the Lutheran minister,John Bachman. They traveled through much newly explored territory, illustrating many speciesthat are scarce or endangered today. The two works today are highly desirable, matching setssuch as the present are somewhat scarce. Bookplate of Seymour Cunningham of Litchfield,Connecticut in each volume, pasted atop another unknown bookplate in most. Prospectus frompublisher George R. Lockwood for the pair of works in both the octavo and folio formats laid inas well as a list of the works of John James Audubon available from C.S. Francis & Co., a secondcopy of the Francis list is mounted to the inside of the front cover of Volume 1 of the Birds.Spines darkened, some rubbing to joints, a few small scuffs to leather, four volumes with hingesreinforced, a few other hinges starting; some browning and foxing at front and rear of volumes;all tissue guards present, plates largely brightly colored and free of foxing; internally near fine,bindings very good or better.(60000/90000)Lot 29Page 10

30. Auger, Edouard. Voyage en Californie (1852-1853). [iv], 238 pp. (8vo) 17x10.4 cm. (6¾x4”)modern morocco-backed marbled boards, original wrappers bound in. First Edition.Paris: Librarie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1854Issued as part of a long French series of lively travel books, “Bibliotheque des Chemins deFer,” intended to be sold as light reading to train passengers. Because Auger was a sightseer inCalifornia and not involved in the scramble for gold, his account projects a more dispassionateview than most contemporary gold rush narratives. His description of a cockfight in Panamais highly unusual, and he devotes an entire chapter to lynchings, several of which he describesas an eyewitness. He regarded the religious revivals that he witnessed in the mining camps as aspectacle worthy of the Middle Ages. Cowan (II), p. 23; Howes A393; Kurutz 24; Norris 154;Rocq 15679. Corners rubbed; foxing throughout; very good.(250/350)31. (Aviation) Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation. Curtiss Aeroplanes advertising booklet.32 pp. Illustrations from photographs. 15.5x8.5 cm. (6x3¼”) original wrappers.Garden City, Long Island, NY: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation, c.1920Scarce advertising piece for Curtiss bi-planes. Includes a list of notable Curtiss achievements.Rubber-stamp of the Philadelphia distributor inside front cover. Light wear; very good.(200/300)32. Baily, Francis. Journal of a tour in unsettled parts of North America in 1796 & 1797. xii, 439 pp.22.5x13.5 cm. (8¾x5¼”). original blindstamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.London: Baily Brothers, 1856Presentation copy from one of the author-publisher’s family, inscribed at the top of the titlepage:“From Miss Baily, Tavistock Sq.” This has been neatly and only partially crossed out.There is an additional inscription below, “Mrs. H.B. Stowe with the Editor’s sincere respects,”undoubtedly Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose Uncle Tom’s Cabin appeared four years prior tothe present book, which was edited by A. de Morgan. One of the earliest and most significantnarratives of travel by an Englishman in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, not published tillnearly 60 years after the event. As a young man, Baily, who was to become President of theRoyal Astronomical Society, traveled from Baltimore to Natchez by riverboat, and returnedby land up the Natchez Trace. The narrative is of great importance for its observations ontopography, vegetation and the life of the river, including descriptions of all the places he visited,which included Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Washington D.C., Charleston, Pittsburgh,Wheeling, Limestone, Columbia, Cincinnati, Port William, Louisville, Fort Massac, Natchez,Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Nashville and Knoxville. On the way he met Daniel Boone andZebulon Pike. Buck 52; Clark III, 74; Howes B40; Sabin 2770; Rader 230. Formerly theproperty of Gates College, with faint rubberstamps to front endpapers, faint trace from removedbookplate, spine stained from removal of label. Minor wear to extremities, hinges cracking atendpapers, some light foxing to contents, else very good.(500/800)33. Bancroft, George. History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent. 9volumes. With 6 engraved frontispieces; occasional maps and plans. 22.5x14.5 cm. (9x5¾”), half tancalf & marbled boards, spines tooled in gilt, morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers & edges.Boston: Little, Brown, 1866-1871Attractive set of Bancroft’s oft-published work. Some minor scuffing to spines and corners, elsevery good.(300/500)Page 11

34. Bandelier, Adolphe F. The Unpublished Letters of Adolphe F Bandelier Concerning the Writingand Publication of The Delight Makers. 33 pp. Frontispiece portrait; folding facsimile. 21x13.2 cm.(8¼x5¼”) cloth, dust jacket. No. 146 of 295 copies. First Edition.El Paso, Texas: Carl Herzog, 1942Signed by Hertzog at the colophon. Previously unpublished letters from Bandelier to his NewYork literary agent Thomas Janvier, written between 1888 and 1892 and detailing the author’stribulations in completing and publishing his groundbreaking work, The Delight Makers. Veryscarce, perhaps the scarcest of all Hertzog publications. Library label of renowned printer WillRansom affixed to rear pastedown. Jacket edge worn and with a chip from the head of spine;volume fine.(250/350)35. Barbour, Barton H., ed. Tales of the Mountain Men. 77 pp. Text illustrations. (Small 4to) redcloth, paper label. No. 29 of 150 copies. First Edition.Santa Fe: Press of the Palace of The Governors, 1984Signed in the colophon by the author, printer and 3 others involved in the production ofthis volume. An attractively printed and already quite scarce volume, recounting some of thehair-raising and humorous exploits of the Mountain Men and the Rocky Mountain fur trade.Publisher’s prospectus and other promotional material laid-in. Minor wear; near fine.(150/250)36. (Baseball) Catalogue of Anchor Brand Baseballs Manufactured by J. de Beer, Johnstown, N.Y. (wrappertitle). [12] pp. Illustrated throughout. 17.2x13.8 cm. (6¾x5½”), original wrappers.Johnstown, NY: 1915Rare catalogue for the many varieties of baseballs from the de Beer company, still in existencetoday. Prices range from $1.25 for the American League (“Unsurpassed from Rubber to Cover- If this Baseball Does Not Last Two Full Games it Will be Replaced free of Charge”) to 5cents for the Bully Boy, “made of pressed cotton waste and is covered with real sheepskin.”Special emphasis is given to the Starter, “A soft ball which is rapidly replacing the regularcheaper baseballs used by small boys in cities. Can be fielded and batted like a hard ball and istherefore the ideal ball for the city youngster...” No copies listed by OCLC/WorldCat as being ininstitutional libraries. Minor creasing and rubbing to wrappers, very good.(500/800)37. Beach, S[pencer] A[mbrose]. The Apples of New York. 2 volumes. xx, 409; iv, 360 pp. Profuselyillustrated with plates of apples, most in color. (8vo), green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. FirstEdition.Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905The first in a series of horticultural monographs published under the auspices of the NewYork State Agricultural Experiment Station. The Apples of New York offers an astonishinglythorough, beautifully illustrated survey of the wild and cultivated varieties of apples grown inthe state, and is regarded as a classic work in the fields of horticulture and pomology. Spine endsfrayed, light wear; very good.(300/500)THREE THOMAS HART BENTON LIMITED EDITION LITHOGRAPHS38. Benton, Thomas Hart. Fire in the Barn - limited edition, signed lithograph. 22x33.8 cm.(8¼x13¼”), tipped onto matting with tape along all four edges of verso.New York: Associated American Artists, 1944Signed by the artist on the bottom right margin. From a limited edition of 250. Thomas HartBenton (1889-1975) was an American painter, muralist, anthropologist and lithographer.Surface of the work a touch toned with age; near fine.(2000/3000)Page 12

39. Benton, Thomas Hart. Rainy Day - limited edition, signed lithograph. 22x34 cm. (8¾x13¼”),tipped onto matting with tape along all four edges of verso.New York: Associated American Artists, 1938Signed by the artist on the bottom right margin. From a limited edition of 250. Thomas HartBenton (1889-1975) was an American painter, muralist, anthropologist and lithographer. Just atouch of yellowing at top edges; near fine.(1500/2500)40. Benton, Thomas Hart. The Boy - limited edition, signed lithograph. 24x35 cm. (9½x13¾”),tipped onto matting with tape along all four edges of verso.New York: Associated American Artists, 1948Signed by the artist on the bottom right margin. From a limited edition of 250. Thomas HartBenton (1889-1975) was an American painter, muralist, anthropologist and lithographer.Surface of the work a touch toned with age; else fine.(2000/3000)Lot 4041. [Berry, John J.]. Life of David Belden. 472 pp. Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece. (8vo) originalbrown cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. First Edition.New York and Toronto: Belden Brothers, 1891Born in Connecticut in 1832, Belden went to California in 1853. He served on the NevadaCounty Court from 1857 to 1861, in the State Senate from 1865 to 1868, and on the Districtand Superior Courts of Santa Clara County from 1871 until just before his death in 1888.Adams, Six-Guns 187; Rocq 5967. With the bookplate of former Mayor of San Francisco, JamesRolph III. Light wear and soiling to cloth; very good.(250/350)Page 13

42. Bidwell, John. Echoes of the Past... [4], 91 pp. 3 full-page illustrations from photographs. 7x5,original green wrappers. First Edition in Book Form.Chico: The Chico Advertiser, [1914]Reprinting of articles by Bidwell which appeared in the Century Magazine for November andDecember, 1890 and February 1891. Kurutz notes that “the vast majority of the text is devotedto the famed overland trek and early days in California before the American conquest. Thepioneer provided interesting information on pre-Marshall gold discoveries.” Bidwell served as acongressman during Reconstruction. Cowan p.52; Graff 292; Howes B432; Kurutz 55a; Mintz36; Rocq 1371; Wagner-Camp 88 (note); Wheat Books 18. Closed tear at top and bottom ofspine and tiny yellow spots of front wrapper; contents a touch yellowed with age; else near fine.(150/250)43. Black Hawk. Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk,...with an Account of the Causeand General History of the Late War, his Surrender and Confinement at Jefferson Barracks, and Travelsthrough the United States. 155 pp. Later half calf & marbled boards, morocco spine label.Boston: Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf, 1834Popular and oft-printed biography of the Native American leader who let a coalition of warriorsin their quest to reclaim land in Illinois. Lacking the frontispiece. Field 138 (citing 1845edition); Howes P120. Early ink ownership signature to top of title page. Covers rubbed; somefoxing within, very good.(200/300)44. (Blind) Howe, Samuel G. Ceremonies on Laying the Corner-Stone of the New York State Institutionfor the Blind, at Batavia, Genesee Co., N.Y. 53 pp. (8vo) original wrappers. Woodcut illustration onfront wrapper and title page. First Edition.Batavia: Henry Todd, printer, “Spirit of the Times” office, 1866Original printing of an historically significant speech by Samuel Gridley Howe, physician,anti-slavery crusader and husband of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” author Julia Ward Howe.Before the Civil War, Dr. Howe was founder and first Director of the Perkins Institutionand Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind. But in this startling post-war speech, he warnedagainst segregating people with disabilities in such Institutions: “We should be cautious aboutestablishing artificial communities for those who have natural infirmity… they should be keptdiffused among sound and normal persons. Surround insane and excitable persons with sanepeople and ordinary influences; vicious children with virtuous people and virtuous influences;blind children with those who see; mute children with those who speak….” A revolutionarydeparture from accepted philanthropic notions of Howe’s day, now praised as far ahead of itstime. Light wear, faint staining; very good.(200/300)45. Boddam-Whetham, J.W. Western Wanderings: A Record of Travel in the Evening Land. xii, [2],364 pp. Illus. with 12 wood-engraved plates. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.London: Richard Bentley, 1874The author traveled swiftly across the continent to Salt Lake City, and after a short stay venturedon to California, spending much time in Yosemite. Curiously, the book is not listed in Currey& Kruska. Cowan p.59; Flake 579. Spine darkened, binding cocked, front joint splitting, hingescracked; light foxing; very good.(100/150)Each lot is illustrated in color in the online version of the catalogue.Go to www.pbagalleries.comPage 14

FIGHTING FIRE IN BOSTON46. (Boston Fire-Fighting) Robinson(?), Solon. Autograph Letter, signed, regarding a plan for fightingfire in Boston. Autograph letter, signed. 3 pages plus integral address leaf.Sag Harbor, Long Island, NY: July 2, 1825To Boston Mayor Josiah Quincy. When future Harvard President Josiah Quincy was electedMayor of Boston in 1823, determined to organize an efficient city Fire Department, he sent alocal businessman to New York and Philadelphia to study the fire-fighting experience of thosecities. Reading about this mission in the newspaper, the writer of this letter, a ConnecticutYankee working on Long Island, sent this lengthy letter to Quincy suggesting a fire-fightingsystem far superior to water-carrying “Engines all huddling together around a fire” until theirtanks ran dry. A less expensive and more effective system would be to tap “the most inexhaustiblefountains of water” by powerful “forcing pumps” to direct water “into Lead Aqueduct pipeslaid deep underground and leading into every part of the city…at every convenient place havespouts run up from the principal pipes to the surface…” where the water could be accessedthrough locked iron covers – what we now call fire hydrants. The writer concluded, “Shouldyou be so far assured of the practicability of my plan that you might wish to have one of thekind erected I would engage to do it. I require no recompense therefore if I failed to make itwork to perfection…” While the signature to this ingenious plan has been obscured, a smudgeddocketing note identifies him as Solon Robertson or Robinson and the handwriting stronglyresembles that of famed writer and journalist Solon Robinson (1803-1880) an Indiana pioneerwho as agricultural columnist for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune became the leadingAmerican authority on all matters agricultural before the Civil War. Amazingly, in 1825, thatSolon Robinson was only 21 years old. A 2-volume biography of Robinson published by theIndiana Historical Bureau (1936) confesses that the “meager” information about his early lifeconfirmed only that he was living in Connecticut, trained as a carpenter and possibly workingas a “Yankee peddler” before he “wandered West” to Cincinnati and finally settled amongIndians and settlers in the Indiana woods There is no mention of fire-fighting among thevast and varied interests of Robinson’s later life. But whether or not he was indeed the writer,the plan detailed in this letter represented an historically significant use of early Americantechnology. Extensive archival repairs at folds, long tear obscuring writer’s signature, creased,light wear; very good.(500/800)47. Breen, Patrick. The Diary of Patrick Breen: Recounting the Ordeal of the Donner Party Snowboundin the Sierras 1846-47. Introduction and notes by George R. Stewart. With a 29-page facsimile of thediary. Decorations by Mallette Dean. (8vo), white cloth-backed patterned boards, acetate jacket. Oneof 300 copies printed by the Allen Press.San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1946Gripping first-hand account of the most harrowing of overland disasters. See Cowan p.70; AllenPress 5; BCC 64. Acetate lightly worn, spine sunned; near fine.(150/250)You can bid absentee directly from the item description inthe online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries.com.Or bid during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder.Page 15

POLITICS IN OREGON48. Brown, J[ames] Henry. Political History of Oregon. Provisional Government. Treaties, Conventions,and Diplomatic Correspondence on the Boundary Question; Historical Introduction of the Explorationson the Pacific Coast; History of the Provisional Government from Year to Year, with Election Returns andOfficial Reports; History of the Cayuse War, with Original Documents. Vol. I [all published]. viii, 462pp. With 2 portrait plates & 2 folding facsimiles. (8vo), original blindstamped cloth, spine letteredin gilt. First Edition.Portland, OR: Lewis & Dryden, 1892An extremely scarce work of meticulousarchival scholarship. Howes queries,“Practically entire edition burned or lost atsea?” Soliday avers, “Rare and importantwork of which there are probably not morethan twenty copies extant.” The latter partof this statement is easily disproven by listedinstitutional holdings on OCLC, but there isno denying either the scarcity or the historicalimportance of the work. Howes B841; Smith1169; Soliday I:1349. Slight stain to lowerfront cover and to the foot of the title-page,still in nearly fine condition.(1000/1500)Lot 4849. Bruce, Wallace. The Yosemite. 19 leavesprinted on rectos only, but for the title page.Illustrations by James D. Smillie. 18.5x15.2 cm.(7¼x6”), original brown cloth stamped in giltand black, all edges gilt. First Edition.Boston: Lea and Shepard, 1880A poem extolling the wonders of Yosemitein fourteen stanzas. The sixteen woodcutillustrations by Smillie are of greater interestthan the poem itself. Currey & Kruska 25.Spine ends and corners worn, 1880 giftinscription on front flyleaf; very good.(100/150)50. Burrus, Ernest J. Kino and the Cartography of Northwestern New Spain. [7], 104 pp. Frontispieceportrait; maps and plates throughout. (Folio), original red cloth, gilt stamped on cover and spine. Oneof 750 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. First Edition.[Tucson]: Arizona Pioneers’ Historical Society, 1965Important account of the cartographic accomplishments of Eusebio Francisco Kino, the Jesuitmissionary who explored Pimeria Alta (northern Sonora and southern Arizona) and foundedseveral missions in the region. His map of Baja California, “Passage par terre a la Californie,”published in Paris in 1705, is the earliest extant depiction of the Gila River, the ColoradoRiver, and southern Arizona, based on first-hand observation. Kino’s letters, diaries and mapsare indispensable resources for the study of the development of geographical conceptions ofCalifornia and for the early history of the region south of the Gila on both sides of the Gulf ofCalifornia. Fine.(200/300)The auction will be begin at 11:00 a.m.Page 16

51. (California) Brown, Edmund G. “Pat”. Typed Letter, signed, as Governor of California on theBerkeley Free Speech Movement. Typed Letter, signed, on Governor’s Office stationery. 1 pp.Sacramento: December 18, 1964To Florence Bishop, Oakland: ‘…your recent communication…encouraging me to take actionagainst the student demonstrators on the Berkeley campus. When the situation changed frompeaceful demonstrations - which are annoying but legal - to the outright violation of law, Idid act and acted speedily. Neither you, nor I, as Governor, nor anyone else in this state canbe allowed to violate the laws. The rule of law must be maintained, not only on our campusesbut everywhere in the state. As long as I am Governor it will be.” Erupting on the UC Berkeleycampus during the Vietnam War, and triggering similar student protests around the country,the Free Speech Movement began in October 1964 when the University administration refusedstudent demands that the University lift a ban on campus political activities, such as fund-raisingfor Freedom Rides in Mississippi. Several thousand students then occupied the Administrationbuilding in protest. With the authority of then Governor “Pat” Brown - father of the currentGovernor of California - on the night of December 3, police arrested 768 demonstrators whowere bussed off to County jail. When Governor Brown wrote this letter, two weeks later, afterrefusing to grant amnesty to the arrested students, the University Board of Regents had justdirected University administrators to take all “necessary steps” to “preserve law and order”. Twoyears later, Brown was defeated for re-election by Republican Ronald Reagan, who promised to“clean up the mess in Berkeley”. Creased; very good.(80/120)52. (California) Clayton, John M. Letter signed as Secretary of State. Letter, signed. 1 page.Washington, D.C.: March 8, 1849Letter Signed as Zachary Taylor’s newly-appointed Secretary of State. Officially notifyingthe US Consul to the Barbary States, Thomas H. Hyatt, that “the President, by and with theadvice of the Senate, has appointed me Secretary of State of the United States…” Former USSenator John Middleton Clayton (1796-1856) served as Secretary of State for only a yearand a half, being succeeded by the more illustrious Daniel Webster. But he made his mark inAmerican diplomatic history by negotiating a treaty with Great Britain, prompted by the massexodus of Gold Rush Forty-Niners across Nicaragua, “neutralizing” Central America and thusforeshadowing the future construction of the Panama Canal. Less remembered is Clayton’soffering young Congressman Abraham Lincoln appointment as Territorial Governor of Oregon– an offer Lincoln declined. And it was Clayton who suggested sending a presidential emissaryto California to urge its political leaders to quickly write a Constitution and seek entry to theUnion as a non-slave state. Creased; fine.(150/250)53. (California) Illustrated Fraternal Directory, including Educational Institutions of the Pacific Coast.Giving a succinct description of the aims and objects of beneficiary and fraternal societies and a briefsynopsis of the leading colleges and private seminaries compiled from official records and society archives,1889. vi, 343 pp. Illustrated throughout with portraits and advertisements. (8vo) 9x5¾, originalpictorial boards, modern black leather rebacking. First Edition.San Francisco: Bancroft Company, 1889A scarce California directory, illustrating the extent to which fraternal organizations permeatedthe social fabric of early California. Boards worn at edges; very good.(400/700)The Buyer’s Premium will be 20% for bids up to $100,000and 15% for that portion over $100,000.Page 17

54. (California) Jones, William H. Autograph Letter, signed, predicting the death of San Franciscopioneer Gabriel Post. Autograph letter, signed. 2 pages.San Francisco: February 7, 1861To Miss Martha Jane Post, Lansing, Michigan. With original mailing envelope. “…It is mypainful duty to say to you that there is but little hope for your brother Gabriel… he is fastsinking. The next mail will in all probability bring you the sad intelligence that he is no more…Kind friends will watch over his dear wife and sweet little one, for I can truly say that no one inCalifornia has more friends than he, whose death will be sincerely regret and long rememberedamong the Early Pioneers!...” The Forty-Niner for whom Post Street is named, Gabriel B. Post,came to San Francisco in February 1849. He was soon elected to the first non-Mexican citycouncil of the Gold Rush era, and was later one of the city’s first two State Senators under thenew state Constitution. An influential merchant, Post held other public offices, including Keeperof the County Jail. Like his friend William H. Jones, who wrote this letter, he was a leader of theoriginal Vigilance Committee of 1851. Creased, light wear; near fine.(150/250)55. (California) Lyons, Caleb. Autograph Letter Signed by Caleb Lyons, who would later be a prominentfigure in the California Gold Rush, relating to his lectures on woman’s rights. 1+ pp., on 1st 2 pages of4-page lettersheet, addressed on p.4. 25.5x20 cm. (10x8”).Collinsville, New York: December 6, 1842Early letter by the man who took credit for designing the California state seal in 1849. Just 20years of age, and freshly graduated from college in Vermont, Caleb Lyons launched himself onthe New England lecture circuit, with his subject being woman’s rights and temperance. Thisletter, to Rev. W.W. Ninde, Pastor of the M.E. Church, Rome, Oneida County, New York,attempts to arrange one of these lectures: “I have not forgot your kind invite to give you aTemperance Lecture in Rome at your Church and I now can tell when I would like to do so...Iwould of course like to have due notice both in the churches and by the Press well circulated.Even I, with my humble abilities would not like to Lecture to empty halls. The subject of theLecture will be of ‘Woman’s Rights and Influence, a Temperance Lecture’ by Caleb Lyon ofLyonsdale...” A few years later, with help from his politically-connected father, young Calebgot an appointment as the first U.S. Consul at Shanghai, though he may never have set footin China, instead appearing in California in 1849 to win a job as a secretary of the new State’sConstitutional Convention - and a $1,000 gold prize from the Legislature for the state seal(actually designed by a self-effacing Virginia friend who later became a Confederate General).Lyon then returned to New York to be elected to Congress, where he cultivated friends amonganti-slavery “radicals”. In 1864 he was appointed by Abraham Lincoln as the second governorof Idaho Territory, where he came very close to being indicted for embezzlement. Horizontaland vertical folds; large part of the address leaf was torn away and replaced, probably by therecipient, with a piece of paper taken from another letter, not in Lyon’s hand, and using nonarchivaltape. The Lyon letter itself is complete and in very good condition.(150/250)56. (California) The “City Guard”: A History of Company “B”, First Regiment, N.G.C. During theSacramento Campaign, July 2 to 26, 1894. Including a Brief History of the Company Since its Organization.263 pp. Illustrations from photographs. (8vo), original blue cloth. First Edition.San Francisco: Filmer-Rollins, [1895]Uncommon history of the San Francisco National Guard’s participation in the AmericanRailway Union strike of 1894, which threatened to shut down the entire Santa Fe railway systemin California. Cowan (II), p. 125; Rocq 8692 Light wear and soiling to cloth, front hingestarting; very good.(200/300)Page 18

SCARCE PROMOTIONAL WORKS FOR HOTEL DEL CORONADO57. (California - Coronado) Compliments of the Hotel del Coronado, the Most Charming and PerfectAll-the-Year-Round Resort in America. 4-page folding flyer on thin card stock. Woodcut illustration ofthe hotel. 7.8x14.5 cm. (3x5½”).San Diego: c.1890Rare little promotional piece for the beachfront luxury hotel in the city of Coronado, just acrossthe San Diego Bay from San Diego, California. No copies listed in OCLC/WorldCat Very goodor better.(150/250)58. (California - Coronado) Concerning Hotel del Coronado and Coronado Beach, California (wrappertitle). 44 pp. Illustrated from photographs & sketches. 17x12.5 cm. (6¾x4¾”), original wrappers.[Chicago]: [Press of the H.O. Shepard Co.], Early 1900sScarce promotional booklet for the beachfront luxury hotel in the city of Coronado, just acrossthe San Diego Bay from San Diego, California. On the first page is an alternate title, “Thecharms of life at Hotel del Coronado, California, as told by its patrons.” OCLC/WorldCat listsonly three copies, at the Huntington Library, San Diego State, and the University of California,Berkeley. A bit of soiling to wrappers, very good.(500/800)59. (California - Coronado) Coronado Beach, San Diego County, California. Its Attractions as a Healthand Pleasure Resort, Its Wonderfully Equable Climate which makes it as Delightful in Summer as inWinter, Its Luxurious Hotel, The Hotel Del Coronado, the Largest Resort Hotel in the World. 32 pp.Illustrated from photographs and decorations; railroad map on inside rear cover showing variousroutes to and from the Hotel Del Coronado. 15.2x22.8 cm. (6x9”), original decorative wrappers,saddle-sewn with string.Portland, ME: For E.S. Babcock, Manager, by Lakeside Press, [1891]Shows various activities and reports for the famous resort in San Diego, including swimming,fishing, horseback riding, beach walking, etc. First issued in 1887 - this edition with climatedata from 1890. OCLC/WorldCat lists only one copy of the 1891 Portland edition, at theHuntington Library. Rocq 7567. Staple in front wrapper at upper right corner, slight fingersoiling, near fine.(400/600)60. (California - El Dorado) Burnham, George, County Clerk. Great Register of the County of ElDorado, Cal. 57, [1] pp. 30x24 cm. (11¾x9½”), original blue wrappers printed in black, originalstring tie at top left corner.Placerville, Cal.: Mountain Democrat Printing, 1876A rare item. Alphabetical list of residents of the county, with names, ages, dates of voterregistration, etc. Evidently made to keep track of who is qualified to vote and if they voted,undoubtedly printed in a very small edition for voting booths for the 1876 election. Heavilyworn wrappers, vertical crease down center, rear wrapper detached and sunned, some tapeyellowing and soiling; good.(400/700)You can bid absentee directly from the item description inthe online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries.com.Or bid during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder.Page 19

61. (California - Fresno County) Abstract of the Title to Rancho Laguna de Tache for Laguna Lands,Limited, Fresno County -- California. iv, 235 pp. 35x21 cm. (13¾x8¼”) original black cloth letteredin gilt.Fresno: Fresno County Abstract Company, [c.1903]Comprehensive record of real estate transfers in a large tract of land adjacent to the King’s Rivernear the present-day community of Laton. The land was originally granted to Manuel Castroin 1846 by California governor Pio Pico, and the grant to Castro was confirmed in 1866 by adecision of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. This document tracesthe sale and subdivision of the land over the intervening forty years. Rocq 1901. Spine endsfrayed, hinges starting, inscription inside front cover; very good.(200/300)STUNNING ODD FELLOWS PRESENTATION MEDAL MADE OF CALIFORNIA GOLDWITH DIAMONDS, RUBIES AND PEARLS62. (California Gold Presentation Medal) Elaborate presentation medal, made in San Francisco in 1871of 14kt and 24kt gold, silver and encrusted with diamonds, rubies and pearls, for presentation to CaliforniaPioneer Dr. John F. Morse (1816-1875) of Sacramento and later San Francisco by the International Orderof Odd Fellows of California to commemorate the successful establishment of the order in Switzerland andGermany under his auspices, September 1871. The medal features a suspended medallion consistingof two portions. The uppermost part is a 14kt yellow gold scroll, measuring approximately 40x50mm., surmounted by a yellow gold eagle at the top, set with the United States flag shield of gold andenamel, measuring approximately 25x62 mm. The eagle has a gold scroll wound around its talons,and is set with 16 (approximately .05 carat) old mine cut diamonds and is flanked by two curved flags,Switzerland and Germany, in multicolored enamels mounted entirely front and back on yellow gold.All this is mounted on a yellow gold scroll which is finely engraved in a delicate floral pattern. Onthe top portion of the scroll are the intertwining initials, FJM (John F. Morse). The M is set with 14(approximately 1.5x2.5 mm.) faceted rubies, the F is dark blue enamel on gold, and the J is set with10 rose cut and old mine cut melee diamonds. The overall dimensions of the initials is approximately15x15 mm. Situated directly below the initials is a gold and enamel hand, set with one (approximately5x5 mm.) faceted heart shaped garnet. The lower portion of the medal is suspended on a 14kt yellowgold chain from the top piece and consists of a large disc, approximately 75 mm. in diameter. It isfinely tooled solid silver with the symbols of Faith Hope and Charity and the engraved legend “But theFirst Of these Is Charity”. This disc surrounds a hand engraved heavily embossed disc approximately45 mm. in diameter, of 24kt gold over 14 kt yellow gold of the State seal of California showing thebear, Miss Liberty, the Golden Gate and a miner at work. This disc is surrounded by approximately45 (approximately 2.5 mm.) cultured pearls. The 14 kt yellow gold bale and swivel from which thedisc is suspended is set with one old mine cut diamond in the center of an eye, an IOOF symbol. Thereverse of the gold Seal disc is engraved: “Presented To John F. Morse, G,R.S.D.G.S. & P.G.M of Cal.I.O.O.F.by the Lodges of San Francisco Commemorating the successful establishment of the order inSwitzerland and Germany under his auspices September 1871. The medal is housed in a velvet linedleather case which folds up for display, with the embossed gold lettering, John F. Morse R.W. grandRep. I.O.O.F. Cal. The medal alone weighs approximately 8 ounces.The medal is signed by the maker,David White Laird, San Francisco on the bottom edge of the silver disc.San Francisco: David White Laird, 1871D.W. Laird was active in San Francisco from 1863-1878 as a Gold medal, badge and jewelrymanufacturer, watch and jewelry retailer. A native of Scotland and initially employed by R.R.Gray and Co. in San Francisco, he opened a small shop in 1863 first on Merchant Street wherethis medal was probably made. He later was located on Montgomery Street, Post Street and thenMarket Street. He is known for his many presentation gold badges made for firemen, policemenand civic leaders. Dr. John Morse was born in Vermont in 1816. He was educated as a physicianand pursued his medical studies with great enthusiasm. His profession was his pride and delight.He came to California from Brooklyn in 1849, arriving on the ship Humboldt, on which heacted as surgeon, and immediately settled in Sacramento. In the autumn of that year, he openeda hospital in the downtown area which proved invaluable to the local citizens with an influx ofimmigrants headed to the goldfields, often sick and destitute, while dealing with an outbreak ofPage 20

Lot 62cholera in the Fall of 1850. In 1851 he was offered theposition of editor of the Sacramento Union which he acceptedand held for a year. He built the Morse building,became the president of the Sacramento Pioneer Associationfrom 1857-1859, and wrote and published theFirst History of Sacramento City, a book which was laterpublished in facsimile by the Sacramento Book CollectorsClub in 1945, and later reissued by the CaliforniaState library in 1997. He continued his medical practiceuntil 1863 when he moved to San Francisco. Not onlywas he known as a kind sympathetic doctor, he was alsoa man of great public spirit taking a lively interest inmatters affecting his community, State and nation. Duringthis time he joined the Odd Fellows and became oneof the most visual members on the Pacific Coast. Duringa visit to Germany in 1870, he introduced the order intothat empire, and as a result of that dedication, he wassubsequently awarded this decoration. Included withthe piece is an appraisal, done c.1980, with an estimatedreplacement value at that time of $22,500.00The medalhas remained in the Morse family until this offering. Themedal is in fine condition, having been preserved in itsoriginal leather case. A spectacular example of the 19thcentury jewelers art obviously using the plentiful localCalifornia gold. The gold, silver and gems are bright andflawless. The leather case exhibits some surface wear andneeds some polishing, with the brass clasp complete andfunctioning.(30000/50000)63. (California - Gold Rush) Gould, Thomas F. Autograph Letter, signed, from a San Franciscomerchant with an eye toward Oregon trade. Autograph Letter, signed. Three pages plus docketing noteon rear of second sheet.San Francisco: December 30, 1850To Maine merchant Jones P. Veazie, who had sent him to San Francisco as a Forty-Niner topromote Veazie’s lumber business. But Gould had had no luck selling, either at San Francisco orFremont Landing (a Gold Rush settlement on the Sacramento River), the last cargo of lumberwhich had arrived on one of Veazie’s Brigs, “…You are not a solitary sufferer. Fluctuationsof trade has blighted the hopes and crippled the energies of many of our most enterprisingmerchants. This country has more peculiarities perhaps than any other. Those professing to bewise frequently make most fatal operations. Merchandise of most kinds is at present quite low.Many cargoes have arrived in the past three or four months and have to a large extent beendisposed of at auction, keeping the market much depressed…” But Gould hoped there mightbe greener fields to the north: “The Oregon folks can supply timber and coarse lumber at rateshard to compete with. In return they require our lumber for finishing. That country is growingin wealth and importance very fast. Several thousands of the overland emigrants have locatedthere this season and the resources of the country seem now in a fair way to be developed…”Veazie, the son of a wealthy General in the War of 1812, was a Maine lumber and shippingmagnate with vast real estate holdings near the Maine town named after his family. ThomasGould later severed his ties to Veazie, went into the China trade and, as a devout Presbyterian,became a founding father of the San Francisco YMCA. Creased; fine.(300/500)Page 21

64. (California History) Small group of booklets and offprints about California history. Includes: Cushing,Charles S. The Acquisition of California, its Influence and Development Under American Rule. SanFrancisco: Recorder Co., 1919. * Hunt, Rockwell D. The Committees of Vigilance of California.Reprinted from the Annual Publications of the Historical Society of Calif. * Ferrier, William Warren.Congregationalism’s Place in California History. Berkeley, CA, 1948. * Course in Historical Research,1920-1921: Battle of Monterey. Camp Benning, GA: Infantry School Press, 1921. * 2 copies of:Teggard, Frederick J. The Approaches to California. Reprint from the Southwestern HistoricalQuarterly, July, 1912. 10 Publications from the Academy of Pacific Coast History, UC Berkeley, withsome duplication. 1909-1913. Together 16 volumes in wrappers.Various places: Various datesSome light wear from handling; very good or near fine.(200/300)65. (California - Humboldt County) Humboldt County California Wants Your Factory. [48] pp.30.5x23 cm. (12x9”) original illustrated wrappers. First Edition.Eureka, CA: Times Publishing Company, 1917Elaborate and uncommon promotional brochure for Humboldt County, issued by theHumboldt Times. OCLC locates only 7 copies of this title. Wrappers worn at spine and edges;very good.(100/150)66. (California - Humboldt County) Irvine, Leigh H. The Playground of the West: What HumboldtCounty, California, offers the autoist and sportsman. 31, [1] pp. incl. self-wrappers. With 8 full-pageillustrations from photographs, 1 double-page, and 1 half-page. 16.5x13 cm. (6½x5”), printed selfwrappers.[Eureka, CA]: [Daily Standard Press], c.1910-19Booklet no. 2. Issued by the Humboldt promotion and development committee. Irvineauthored several historical works on California, including a 1290 page history of HumboldtCounty. OCLC/WorldCat lists only two copies of this rare booklet, at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, and the Library of Congress. Rocq 2111 (listing only the UC copy). Somesoiling and rubbing to wrappers, 3 short, neatly repaired tears within, very good.(300/500)67. (California - Los Angeles Aqueduct) Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.With Introductory Historical Sketch. 319, [11] pp. With numerous plates from photographs (incl.in the pagination); 14 maps, plans & graphs in the text; 23 loose folding maps, plans and graphs(formerly in rear endpaper pocket); large folding map, loose as well. (4to) 27x19.6 cm. (10¾x7¾”),original green cloth, lettered in black. First Edition.Los Angeles: Department of Public Service, 1916Official report on the massive engineering project which diverted the waters of the OwensRiver to the plains of Los Angeles, allowing that city to grow at an increasingly frenetic pace,and reverting the lush Owens Valley to a dusty crevice. Included are numerous photographs ofthe breathtaking regions of the southern Sierra Nevada from which the water was to come, andthe man made dams, ditches and tunnels through which it made its way to irrigate the orangefields of the San Fernando Valley. The many folding plans and diagrams detail the physicalconfiguration of the canals and other features, as well as graphing the impact upon Los Angelesand her ability to grow. Light cover stain, wear to corners and other extremities, rear pocketstarting to tear (as is typical of this title), bookplate of James Rudolph Garfield (apparently a sonof former President James A. Garfield) to front pastedown; very good.(150/250)Page 22

68. (California - Mendocino) Carpenter, Aurelius O. Picturesque Mendocino (wrapper title). [96]pp., most being halftones from photographs by A.O. Carpenter. 13x17.3 cm. (5¼x6¾”), originalwrappers with circular halftone from photograph. First Edition.[Ukiah, Calif.]: Ukiah Republican Print, [c.1900]Scarce little view book with numerous photographs of Mendocino County, includingMendocino City, Fort Bragg, Ukiah, Willits, Navarro, etc., with hotels and fine residences,lumbering scenes, agricultural and pastoral activities, shipbuilding, scenery, etc. OCLC/WorldCat lists only two copies, at Yale and University of California, Berkeley. Rocq 5357(locating just the UC copy). Wrappers rubbed with some restoration, new cloth spine; minormarginal soiling, a few leaves with neat repairs, very good.(500/800)69. (California - Nevada City) In the Supreme Court of the State of California. Nevada Gold and SilverMining Company, Plaintiff and Appellant. vs. Original Empire Mill and Mining Company, Defendantand Respondent. Points and Authorities, Plaintiff & Appellant. 10 pp. 25.7x18 cm. (10¼x7”), originalprinted wrappers.Nevada City: “Daily Transcript” Job Print, 1884The Nevada Gold and Silver Mining Company was suing the Empire for mineral trespass.Empire had found high grade gold in quartz within the property lines of the NGSMC andmined it. NGSMC was seeking payment for stolen ores. The case number 9537 is written in inkat top of front wrapper in space provided. No copies listed in OCLC/WorldCat. Slight stains atlower left corner of front wrapper; near fine.(250/350)70. (California - Pasadena) Illustrated Souvenir, Picturesque Pasadena (wrapper title). [16] pp. ofhalftone illustrations from photographs by William Henry Hill. Printed text on inside of front andrear wrappers. 17.2x26.2 cm. (6¾x10¼”), original decorative wrappers.[Los Angeles]: Press of Kingsley-Barnes & Neuner Co., [1897]Nice selection of views of Pasadena, put out by the Board of Trade. OCLC/WorldCat lists onlysix copies. Some soiling to wrappers, very good.(400/600)71. (California - Pasadena) Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California, in 1904. 31, [5] pp. 18illustrations from photographs including wrappers, 1 double-page; map. 14.4x8.3 cm. (5¾x3¼”),pictorial wrappers.[Pasadena, CA]: Issued by the Pasadena Board of Trade, [1903]Scarce little promotional booklet for Pasadena. Date 1903 written in ink in upper left corner offront wrapper. Only three copies listed in OCLC/WorldCat, at UC Berkeley, UCLA, and theWisconsin Historical Society. Very good or better.(250/350)72. (California - Sacramento) Sacramento Illustrated: A Reprint of the Original Edition Issued by Barber& Baker in 1855. Introduction by Caroline Wenzel. Illustrated with reproductions of engravings.(Small folio), red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. 1 of 300 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at theCastle Press.Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1950Reprint of the very rare 1855 first edition. Light wear, near fine.(150/250)Page 23

73. (California - Sacramento) Upton, Lauren, clerk. Great Register of the County of Sacramento. 149pp. 29x22.5 cm. (11½x9”), half calf and boards, gilt-lettered spine.Sacramento, California: [H.S. Crocker & Co.], 1873Alphabetical list of residents of the county, with names, ages, country of nativity, local residence,date and place of naturalization, and date of registration. Shelf wear including several nicks tospine; pencil marks to front free endpaper, finger smudges scattered within; very good.(500/800)FIRST BENCH SHOW OF SAN FRANCISCO KENNEL CLUB74. (California - San Francisco) Catalogue of the Inaugural Bench Show of the San Francisco KennelClub, Mechanics’ Pavilion, San Francisco, Cal. May 19, 20, 21, 22, 1897. xii, 112 pp. With 4 insertedplates with photographs of trophies awarded; numerous illustrated advertisements. 23x14.7 cm.(9¼x5¾”), original color lithographed pictorial wrappers.San Francisco: 1897Rare and fascinating catalogue listing the many participants in the first dog show of theSan Francisco Kennel Club, with hundreds of categories, from Mastiffs and St. Bernards toDachsundes and Yorkshire Terriers. The lineage of each of the participating pooches is given,and other details, including whether they were for sale, and if for sale, the price. A quick perusalreveals prices as high as $10,000, that for a St. Bernard named Tammany. The advertisementsare equally entertaining, many relating to dog-related products, breeding fees, etc. No copies arelisted in OCLC/WorldCat. Minor wrapper wear and soiling, lower corner nicked; very good.(600/900)75. (California - San Joaquin & Sacramento Rivers) Annual report upon the improvement of San Joaquinand Sacramento Rivers and tributaries, and of rivers and harbors in California north of San Francisco, inthe charge of W.H. Heuer... being appendix TT of the Annual report of the Chief of Engineers for 1894.vii, [1], 2527-2552 pp. 23x15 cm. (9x6”), original printed wrappers.Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894In addition to the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, improvements were ongoing for theMokelumne River, Feather River, Petaluma Creek, etc. OCLC/WorldCat lists a single copy ofthe report for 1896, but none for 1894. Darkening along fore-edge of front wrapper, chip toedge of rear wrapper; darkening to prelim. leaves; very good.(300/500)76. (California - San Jose) Air Meet San Jose Air Port, King and Story Roads Sunday, May 22, 1932 -broadside. Broadside printed on paper, on both sides. 27x17.5 cm. (10¾x6¾”).San Jose, California: 1932Admission was 10 cents and the “Hell Divers” event from 2:30-3pm was “worth the price of theshow.” One side has the event information, including 8 events plus the “Hell Divers” plus a fewplanes that will be there including the Irving Meteor Plane - the world’s smallest flying plane.The opposite side has an advertisement for Associated Aviation Gasoline. Broadside is ruled onboth sides and with four corner airplane illustrations. Creased where folded; else fine.(200/300)77. (California - San Mateo) San Mateo Valley, a Picturesque County in the Golden State. Single sheetfolded into 5 panels to create 10 unnumbered pages. Illustration by A. Farnsworth on first page,another smaller illustration by him, 7 small illustrations from photographs, map on last panel. Overall15.6x42.5 cm. (6¼x15¾”), folding to 15.6x8.8 cm. (6¼x3½”).[San Mateo, Calif.?]: [San Mateo County World’s Fair Association], [1893]Rare little promotional brochure produced for distribution to attendees of the 1893 World’s Fairin Chicago, extolling the commercial, agricultural and scenic virtues of “that section adjoiningSan Francisco city and county on the south,” containing the cities of South San Francisco, SanBruno, Milbrae, San Mateo, Belmont, Redwood City, etc. The city of San Mateo itself wasincorporated September 4, 1894. OCLC/WorldCat lists only two copies, at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, and Ohio University. Tiny tear and crease to edge of first panel; near fine.(600/900)Page 24

78. Carter, Jimmy. Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President. xiv, 622 pp. Illustrated from photos. 9x6,publishers full dark blue cloth in matching slipcase. Limited First Edition.New York: Bantam Books, [1982]Signed in full “Jimmy Carter” in black ink on the specially printed leaf before the half-title. Fine.(200/300)CATLIN’S NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS79. Catlin, George. Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North AmericanIndians: with Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildestand Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing. 2 volumes. Illustrated with 360 engravings from theauthor’s original paintings, plus folding map in Volume I. (8vo) 24.3x15.2 cm. (9½x6”), period redhalf morocco and marbled boards, modern rebacking with original labels laid down, all edges gilt.Sixth Edition.London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848Important study of the American Indians by artist and anthropologist, George Catlin whovisited 48 Indian tribes on his tour of the West and executed some 600 paintings. This is alater edition of Letters and Notes on...North American Indians, first published in 1841. Thehundreds of illustrations were reduced from the original paintings under Catlin’s supervision,and portray all aspects of Indian life, including life in their villages, games, dances, funerals,sudatories, religious ceremonies, buffalo hunting, etc., plus detailed descriptions and depictionsof native dress and physiognomy. Howes C241. Edges rubbed, old ink stamp of the Mystic &Noank Library, Mystic, Conn. on title pages, evidence of labels removed from rear endpapers;some foxing; very good.(700/1000)80. Chalmers, Claudine. Splendide Californie!: Impressions of the Golden State by French Artists, 1786to 1900. Foreword by James McClatchy. Profusely illustrated from paintings, prints, facsimiles, etc.,mostly in color. (Small folio), green cloth, color pictorial cover label, paper spine label, publisher’sslipcase. One of 450 copies designed and printed under the supervision of The Yolla Bolly Press.San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2001Scarce and important Book Club of California title. Over-subscribed upon publication. BCC212. Lower corners lightly bumped; near fine.(500/800)81. (Civil War - Cartes-de-visite) Two cartes-de-visite of Confederate officers in the Civil War. Includes:Cdv of Capt. James Maffit, blockade runner in the Confederate States Navy, seated in a chair in studiosetting. With imprint on verso, “C.D. Fredricks & Co., Calle de la Habana, No. 108 entre Lamparillay Obrapia, Habana.” (Margins and lower corner of mount clipped.) * Cdv of a young cavalry officerwith riding gloves, holding his sword, hat on head. Signed “Yours Truly, William Miller” on mountbeneath image.Habana [Havana, Cuba] & No place: c.1861-5The second is not the Confederate General William Miller, but a much younger officer. Verygood or better condition.(200/300)Each lot is illustrated in color in the online version of the catalogue.Go to www.pbagalleries.comPage 25

85. (Civil War) Rosecrans, Major Gen. W[illiam] S[tarke]. Report on the Battle of Murfreesboro’,Tenn. [2], 577 pp. With 2 folding maps. 22.5x13.5 cm. (9x5½”), original blindstamped cloth.Washington: Government Printing Office, 1863Official report on the Battle of Murfreesboro, or Stones River, in Tennessee, December 31 -January 2, 1863, a victory for the Union army but Rosecrans’ lack of pursuit of Braxton Bragg’sConfederate forces made it an indecisive one. Spine faded, some minor staining to covers; verygood. Bookplate of John H. Starin.(300/500)86. (Civil War - Confederate Constitution) Fac-Simile of the Constitution for the Provisional Governmentof the Confederate States of America. [2] + 9 leaves. 36.6x47 cm. (14¾x18½”), gilt-lettered cloth.[New York]: Joseph Laing, 1883Photo-lithography from the original parchment in the possession of F.G. de Fontaine, esqr.Light shelf wear to cloth; contents fine; very good.(200/300)87. Colnett, James. The Journal of Captain James Colnett Aboard the Argonaut, From April 26, 1789 toNov. 3, 1791. Edited with Introduction and Notes by F.W. Howay. Illustrated with plates reproducingmaps & sketches. (8vo), red buckram, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. No. 348 of 550 copies.Toronto: Champlain Society, 1940No. XXVI in the publications of the Champlain Society. Colnett opened the South Pacificsperm whale fields, made two visits to the Galapagos Islands, and visited the coast of Chile, Peru,and California. He was the principal character in the “Nootka Sound Controversy,” when he andhis men were arrested and his ship seized by the Spanish following the Englishman’s attempt totake possession of Nootka and build a fort there. Howes C609; Smith 1905. Spine faded, lightwear; very good.(150/250)88. (Colorado) Fifth Annual Festival of Mountain and Plain; and State Fair. 48 pp. incl. 2 pp. of text& 44 pp. of plates from photographs & drawings, some in color. 13.6x19 cm. (5½x7½”), originalcolor pictorial wrappers.Denver: Edward G. Arkins, 1899Rare “Official Souvenir Program, Denver, Sept. 25th to 30th, 1899,” as stated on front wrapper.OCLC/WorldCat lists only four copies - at Autry National Center, SMU, Colorado HistoricalSociety Library, and the Pikes Peak Library District. Some rubbing to front wrapper, new rearwrapper, spine repaired with cloth tape; very good.(400/600)You can bid absentee directly from the item description inthe online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries.com.Or bid during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder.Page 27

MANUSCRIPT MINING PLATS FOR CLAIMS IN COLORADO89. (Colorado - Mining Claim Plats) Drummond, Daniel, U.S. Deputy Surveyor. Two manuscriptmining plats for claims in Colorado. Lithographed forms filled out in ink with manuscript plat mapsin ink and watercolor. Includes: Survey No. 395, Mineral District No. 4. Plat of the claim of T.Owens upon the Golden Age Lode, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado. Surveyedby Daniel Drummond, U.S. Deputy Surveyor. Containing 4/57 Acres. Scale of 200 Feet to aninch... June 24th, 1880. * Survey No. 538, Mineral District No. 4. Plat of the claim of The GoldHill Consolidated Mining Co. upon the I.X.L. Lode, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County,Colorado. Containing an area of 4.29 Acres. Scale of 200 Feet to an inch... Surveyed by DanielDrummond, U.S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor. March 25th, 1882. Together, 2 plates. Approx. 33x45cm. (13x17¾”) including margins.Denver: 1880 & 1882Each signed by Albert Johnson, U.S. Surveyor-General for Colorado. Fine condition.(700/1000)Lot 8990. (Colorado) Official Program Twenty-Fourth Annual San Luis Valley Ski-Hi Stampede Monte Vista,Colorado... Friday, July 31, 1942. Folding program, 3 panels, printed on both sides for total of 6 pages.24.5x15 cm. (9½x6”).[Monte Vista, CO]: 1942Program for the final day of the three-day event, Colorado’s oldest professional rodeo, whichbegan in 1919. No copies are listed in OCLC/WorldCat, and all ephemeral material connectedto the Stampede is scarce. Very good or better.(300/500)Page 28

91. (Colorado) Pippin, Lonnie, editor. Miss Stampede bids you welcome to the 22nd annual SanLuis Valley Ski-Hi Stampede, July31, August 1, 2, 1940, Monte Vista, Colorado. 16 leaves of halftonephotographs printed on both sides, interleaved with 16 smaller leaves of printed text on both sides.32.5x25 cm. (12¾x10”), spiral-bound black & sliver pictorial wrappers.[Monte Vista, CO]: [Monte Vista Journal], 1940Rare promotional piece for the oldest professional rodeo in the United States, begun in 1919,and the Colorado valley where it is held. OCLC/WorldCat lists the issue for 1942 (one copyonly, at Yale), which was only 8 pages in length and smaller in scale - the advent of World War IIevidently causing a scaling back. Fine or nearly so.(600/900)SOUVENIR MEDAL FOR 1ST FESTIVAL OF MOUNTAIN & PLAIN92. (Colorado) Souvenir medal for the First Annual Festival of Mountain and Plain of Colorado.Stamped medal hanging from a pinback, with picture of two miners shaking hands. Approx. 6x3.5cm. (2¼x1½”).Milwaukee, WI: Schwaab Stamp and Seal Company, [1895]Scarce little souvenir from the first of the annual celebrations of pioneer days in the Old Westheld in early October in Denver, running from 1895 to 1899, and in 1901, with a final attemptat revival in 1912. Some faint rubbing, else very good or better.(500/800)93. (Colorado) Weld, Lewis Ledyard. Autograph Letter Signed by Lewis Ledyard Weld, first Secretary ofthe Colorado Territory, to Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury. Pp. 1 & 6 only, on official stationeryof the Executive Department, Colorado Territory: Secretary’s Office. 25x20 cm. (9¾x8”).Denver: Sept. 25, 1861Lewis Ledyard Weld (1833-1865), a young Yale graduate, was appointed by Lincoln as the firstSecretary of the newly-established Territory of Colorado. In this letter to the Secretary of theTreasury, he is much concerned with government printing contracts, and sends “certain factswhich gravely affect the proper administration of Government here and upon which I conceiveit to be highly important that your personal opinion should be had, that by it all difficulty maybe quelled in the present and avoided in the future...the disposition of the Public Printing inthis Territory...in consequence of the well known difficulties which had heretofore arisen inthe Territories of Kansas and Nebraska...the matter has assumed the present complications...very detrimental to the public interests....I entreat your pardon for having thus forced uponyour notice a matter which may appear trivial, but I assure you sir it is a question vital tothe importance and effectiveness of the Federal rule in this Territory...” While this letter isincomplete, it is also an example of a rare autograph of the Civil War. Weld remained inColorado for two years, serving as Acting Governor, as well as a newspaper editor, and wascredited with doing much “to save the Territory to the Union”, despite the large number ofConfederate sympathizers in his community. He resigned in 1863 to join the Union Army,volunteering to become Captain of a just-created regiment of “Colored Troops”. Whilecommanding his African-American regiment in action in Virginia, Weld became sick and diedof pneumonia in January 1865, at the age of 32, Very good.(200/300)94. Columbus, Christopher. The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Santangel concerning his voyage tothe Indies. viii, 18 pp. Illustrations by Julian A. Links. (8vo) linen-backed boards. Number 46 of 200copies. First Edition Thus.[San Francisco]: [Windsor Press], [1926]Fine press edition of Columbus’ letter to Luis de Santangel, Escribiano de Racion of theKingdom of Aragon. The translation is from the 1893 Bernard Quaritch edition of the originalSpanish folio of 1493. Fine.(150/200)Page 29

95. (Comic Newspaper) Helmbold, George. Printed Receipt, signed, for subscription to “The Tickler”,an early American comic newspaper. Printed receipt, signed. Approximately 4x6¾”.[Philadelphia]: December 9, 1807To Philadelphia merchant Francis Gurney for “one quarter’s subscription to the Tickler”.Half a century before Vanity Fair, Puck, Harvard Lampoon, and Judge, George Helmbold, Jr.published The Tickler from 1807 until 1813, when he went off to fight in the War of 1812. TheTickler was the first successful weekly comic newspaper in the United States to treat political andeconomic subjects “not in abstract allegorical satire, but in direct editorial sarcasm…” (Sloane)The son of a self-made paper manufacturer who had emigrated from England just before theRevolution, Helmbold’s humor was “politically-incorrect”, even by Jeffersonian standards, andhis paper’s survival, despite libel suits, was a tribute to his mastery of an American literary genrefar ahead of its time. Creased; near fine.(100/150)96. Cone, Mary. Two Years in California. xii, [2], 238 + [7] ad pp. Illustrated 15 with wood-engravedplates; double-page map of California; plan of Yosemite. (8vo) original brown cloth, stamped in blackand gilt. First Edition.Chicago: S.C. Griggs, 1876Includes a general history and description of California as well as details of the author’sexcursions, among which was a trip to Yosemite and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove in 1875. 11of the 15 plates depict Yosemite. C. & K. call the account “both lively and detailed.” Cowan p.139; Currey & Kruska 72. Light edge wear; title page detached; good.(100/150)BRIGHT COPY OF BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND MAIL97. Conkling, Roscoe P. and Margaret B. The Butterfield Overland Mail: 1857-1869. 3 volumes.412; 446 pp. + atlas volume. Additional maps and illustrations in text volumes. 24x15.5 cm.(9½x6¼”), red cloth, top edges gilt on text volumes, edges untrimmed. First Edition.Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1947Often considered the best work on the first overland postal service from the Mississippi to thePacific Coast. Ownership signatures of Edith William Blunk to front endpapers. Some minorbumps to extremities and cover edges, near fine, bright copies, contents largely unopened.(500/800)98. (Constitution) The Constitutions of the United States, According to the Latest Amendments: To Whichare Prefixed, The Declaration of Independence, and the Federal Constitution with the Amendments. Alsothe Farewell Address of George Washington, Esq. 523 pp. Engraved portrait of George Washington atfrontispiece. (12mo) 16.8x10 cm. (6½x4”), period full calf, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label.Gettysburg: Robert Harper, 1811The federal constitution, and the state constitutions of the 13 original colonies plus Vermont,Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio. With an interesting message hand-written in ink on the rearendpapers from the original or early owner of the book, John Day, dated 1820 in which hewrites, “Steal not this book my honest friend,” and goes on to explain why. Calf rubbed all over,a few tiny nicks and tears; newspaper article c.1950s pasted to front pastedown; contents tonedwith age, some staining and foxing, frontispiece with tiny tears; good.(300/500)Each lot is illustrated in color in the online version of the catalogue.Go to www.pbagalleries.comPage 30

99. Conway, G.R.G. La Noche Triste, Documentos: Segura de la Frontera en Nueva España, año deMDXX. [2], xiv, 105, [2] pp. Illustrated with photographs of the documents and facsimile signatures.(8vo) red calf-backed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. No. 449 of 450 copies, signed by the author at thecolophon. First Edition.Mexico: Antigua Lireria Tobredo, de Jose Porrua e Hijos, 1943This copy additionally inscribed by the author on front flyleaf. Conway was an engineer forseveral railroad and utility companies in Mexico as well as a collector and scholar of earlyMexican history. His collection is now held by the Library of Congress. Spine a touch faded,light wear; very good.(100/150)100. Cooper, J[acob] C[alvin]. Military History of Yamhill County [Caption title]. Souvenir of GAREncampment 1899 McMinnville Oregon [Cover title]. [124] pp. Portraits and other text illustrationsfrom black-and-white photographs. 17.2x11.8 cm. (6¾x4½”) original thin boards First Edition.[McMinnville?]: 1899Scarce local history celebrating the martial spirit of Yamhill County’s male population throughthe Indian wars of the 1840s, the Civil War and the present Spanish-American conflict. Withportraits of Indian fighters, early settlers and regimental commanders, and with extensiveservice lists. Smith 2022; Soliday I:1361. Some light wear to edges, previous owner’s name andbookplate; very good.(250/350)101. Cornwall, Bruce. Life Sketch of Pierre Barlow Cornwall. [10], 87 pp. Plates from photographicportraits. 8½x5½, brown half calf, marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1906Mintz writes “Cornwall, in the company of his brother and Tom Fallon, the well knowntrapper and scout, left St. Joseph in April of 1848 overland for California. After enduring manysevere hardships he arrived in Sacramento, where he later made his fortune. Cornwall served aspresident of the Society of California Pioneers” - Mintz 107; Cowan p.143; Graff 880; HowesC780. Spine faded and rubbed, endpapers browned; very good.(100/150)102. Corser, Rev. H.P. Legendary Lore of the Alaska Totems. [32] pp. Plus 9 mounted photographplates, and photographic totem illustrations mounted to several textual leaves. 25.7x17 cm. (10x6¾”),original dark blue wrappers printed in black, original green string tie, mounted photographicillustration of totem on front cover.Juneau, Alaska: Purity Pharmacy, 1910A wonderful little book that goes over the legends of the various totems. Printed by the AlaskaDaily Record, copyright C.F. Cheek. With contemporaneous inked name Miss Claire Schmidt,on front cover. Some creasing, tiny tears and very faint soiling to wrappers; a few faint markswithin; very good.(200/300)103. Coues, Elliot. On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer. The Diary and Itinerary of Francisco Garces in hisTravels through Sonora, Arizona, and California 1775-1776. 2 volumes. xxx, 312; [viii], 313-608 pp.Translated by Elliott Coues. Three maps (one folding); five facsimiles; twelve black and white plates.(4to) 9x6¼, original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt. No. 619 of 950 copies. First Edition.New York: Francis P. Harper, 1900An important account of early Southwest travel and encounters with the native people. “In1775-1776... Garces started with Anza’s celebrated expedition...but separated from the mainparty at Yuma, at the junction of the Gila and Colorado...” - Edwards. Cowan, p. 228-9;Edwards Enduring Desert p.57; Howes C801; Wagner Spanish Southwest, p. 507. Slightrubbing to spine ends and corners; neatly eradicated signatures on front pastedowns; near fine,bright copies.(400/600)Page 31

107. (Crime) Pettigrove, Frederick G. Autograph Letter Signed as Chairman of the PrisonCommissioners of Massachusetts. Autograph Letter, signed. 1 pp.Boston: Feb. 20, 1905To George M. Stebbins, City Marshal, Springfield, Mass.: “…I do not share in the feeling thatit would be an indignity to subject an arrested person to a proper method of identification…Iagree with you that in many instances malefactors who are fugitives from justice might bedetected if the provisions of your bill were put into practical operation…” While the first fingerprintingof criminals in America is usually attributed to the New York Police Department in1905, a year earlier, Springfield Police began “taking of impressions by the inky thumb of theperson whom it is wished to identify”. The City Marshal, to whom this letter was written, thensponsored a bill in the legislature to make the new practice of criminal fingerprinting state-wide.Creased from mailing; very good.(100/150)108. Crocker, F.W. Crocker Novelty Monogram System: Standard of the World. [28] pp., nearly allbeing monograms or lettering. 28.6x21.5 cm. (11¼x8½”), wrappers.[South Haven, Mich.]: F.W. Crocker, 1924Rare booklet on creating your ideal monogram. Tipped to the inside of front wrapper is a sheetof additional monogram ideas, and topped to inside rear wrapper is list of supplies for engraving,with additional pencil notes. Laid in are for plates on card stock with Crocker monograms. Thebooklet is quite rare - the only copy listed in OCLC/WorldCat is at the Library of Michigan.Very good or better(400/600)109. Céliz, Fray Francisco. Diary of the Alarcón Expedition into Texas, 1718-1719. [12], 110, [2], 52,111-124 pp. Translated by Fritz Leo Hoffman. Illustrated With 8 collotype plates from photographs(most by Earl R. Forrest) & 2 maps (1 folding). (8vo), cloth-backed boards, gilt cover emblem, spinelettered in gilt. No. 233 of 100(?) copies of the facsimile edition. First Edition.Los Angeles: Quivira Society, 1935Signed by Hoffman on the limitation-page. Quivira Society Publications, Vol. V. The Celizdiary records the founding of the town of San Antonio and the mission of the Alamo, knownthen as Bejar and San Antonio de Valero. It also reports on the expedition through the interiorof Texas to the Spanish missions deep in eastern Texas and Louisiana. Lost for two centuries,the manuscript, which is reproduced here in facsimile in its entirety, was found in the MexicanNational Archives in 1933. Howes C254; Jenkins 29; Rader 643. Corners rubbed and lightlybumped, light soiling to cloth; very good.(250/350)110. Davidson, George. The Alaska Boundary. 235 pp. Illustrated with 2 folding maps; frontispieceportrait from a photograph of the author. (8vo) 26x17 cm. (10x6¾”), original brown cloth, spinelettered in gilt. First Edition.San Francisco: Alaska Packers Association, 1903An historical elucidation relative to the controversy between Canada and the U.S. over theAlaska boundary, which was resolved in 1903. Howes D88; Wickersham 1941. Light wear tospine ends and corners, hinges cracked; stub tears to maps (one extending about 2” into themap); very good.(100/150)111. Davis, Brotton. The Truth About Geronimo. Edited with an introduction by Milo MiltonQuaife. Plates from photographs. Cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929Excellent firsthand account of the U.S. cavalry’s Geronimo campaign of 1885-1886, whichresulted in the Apache surrender to General Miles and the removal of Geronimo’s followers toFlorida. Rader 1066. Jacket edge worn and with several larger chips, price clipped from frontflap; light soiling to cloth, lower corners bumped; very good.(100/150)Page 33

112. Davis, Jefferson. Report of the Secretary of War, Communicating...Information Respecting thePurchase of Camels for the Purposes of Military Transportation. 238pp. Folding plate at rear; woodcutsin text. (8vo) original blindstamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1857Unusual document on the use of camels as beasts of burden in military settings. In 1855Congress approved the expenditure of $30,000 for the importation of 75 camels and for factfindingin the Levant. In 1856 funds were set aside for the procurement of another 20. Somewear and spotting to cloth, lacking front free endpaper; light foxing; very good.(200/300)FATHER DE SMET IN OREGON113. De Smet, P. J. Oregon Missions and Travels over the Rocky Mountains, in 1845-46. 408, [4]pp. With 14 duotone lithographed plates (including frontispiece & added pictorial title, which areincluded in the pagination); folding lithographed map. (12mo) 17.5x11 cm. (6¾x4¼”), originalcloth, spine decorated and lettered in gilt. First Edition.New York: Edward Dunigan, 1847Father De Smet, a Jesuit Missionary from Belgium, ventured across the Missouri in 1840 with aparty of fur traders to assess the prospects of a mission to the Flathead Indians. He returned thefollowing year to found St. Mary’s Mission in the Bitterroot Valley, and moved on to Oregonthe next spring. Wagner-Camp notes that the present work contains “Father Smet’s descriptionsof his travels through and about the central Columbia River plateau as well as a trip up thatriver to its source, during which he continued on the Athabaska River, the country of theAssiniboines, and arrived at Fort Augusta about January 1, 1846. He returned to Fort Vancouverby way of Fort Colville. In July he departed for the Upper Mission and in August stopped atSt. Mary’s on his way down the Missouri River. He arrived at Westport on October 28.” Thecaptivating lithographed plates are from drawings by Father Nicolas Point, S.J. Field 1424; Graff3829; Howes D286; Sabin 82268; Smith 9556; Streeter 2099; Wagner-Camp 141:1; WheatTransmississippi 535. Spine faded, a little rubbing at ends and corners; foxing within, map with3” tear from stub, some ill-creasing and a few short edge tears; very good, a fairly tight, squarecopy.(3000/5000)Lot 113Page 34

114. De Smet, P. J. Voyages dans l’Amerique Septentrionale, Oregon. vii, [1], 406 pp. Frontispieceportrait, folding map. (8vo) 21x13.2 cm. (8¼x5¼”) period red morocco-backed boards, spine letteredin gilt. Third Edition.Bruxelles: Mathieu Closson et Cie., 1874Ink signature of Father De Smet, clipped from a document, appended “Missionaire auxMontagnes Rocheuses” in De Smet’s hand, tipped to top of frontispiece portrait. Father Pierre-Jean De Smet (1801-1873) was Superior of the Jesuit Indian missions of the Oregon country,and a towering figure in the early history of the Pacific Northwest. This book describes themissionaries’ travels through the central Columbia River plateau, as well as a voyage upriverto the Columbia’s headwaters in the Rocky Mountains. De Smet and his companions thencontinued north to the Athabasca River, before returning to Fort Vancouver by way of FortColville. The work was first published in English in 1847 and subsequently translated intoFrench for European distribution. This posthumous third edition contains material not foundin its predecessors, both English and French. Boards worn, crack to front pastedown endpaper;light foxing; very good.(500/800)115. Dillon, Richard H. Texas Argonauts: Isaac H. Duval and the California Gold Rush. Illustratedwith 13 color plates, some double-page, from paintings by Charles Shaw; endpaper maps showingDuval’s route. (4to) 13½x9¾, linen-backed pictorial boards, paper spine label, plain paper jacket.One of 450 copies printed by the Wind River Press.San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1987A handsome and wonderfully illustrated book, containing Duval’s previously unpublishedreminiscences of his 1849 Gila Trail journey from Texas to the California gold fields andhistorian Dillon’s lucid commentary. Kurutz 212; BCC 186. Jacket worn; volume fine.(100/150)116. Dobie, J. Frank. Typed letter, signed from J. Frank Dobie to Edwin Gross. 1 pp. TLs from J. FrankDobie to Mr. Edwin A. Gross. On Dobie’s personal Texas letterhead. He writes, “It is very pleasant tohear from you and to be remembered not only with a warm hearted letter but a graciously inscribedcopy of TEEN THEATER. Thank you and Nathalie Gross very much. I aim to read the plays buthaven’t had time to touch them yet. With best wishes to you both and hoping the book will prosper.”Austin, Texas: May 4, 1953Included with the letters are 2 additional letters: 1 pp. TLs from Edwin Gross addressed toDobie (to which Dobie’s letter is a response), dated April 24, 1953. * Copy of Dobie’s February28, 1941 letter to Gross (which began this whole correspondence). The letter is in regardsto a story that Gross sent to Dobie for literary criticism. Dobie encouraged Gross to publishit, which he did. The TLs from Edwin Gross with corner torn away (not affecting text) andyellowing; others are near fine.(150/250)117. Drury, Clifford M. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and the Opening of Old Oregon. 2 volumes.Illustrated from old paintings, prints, facsimiles, maps, etc. Blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt. FirstEdition.Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1973Volume I signed by Drury on the title-page. “A product of forty years of study, Drury wovehis extensive knowledge of primary source material into a detailed narrative which is heavilyfootnoted and documented.” - Clark & Brunet. C&B 68 Fine.(100/150)Page 35

118. Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Co. Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Co. Wholesale Dealers,Importers and Exporters of Hardware and House Furnishing Goods, Mining, Water Works, Railway andSteamship Supplies, Electrical Supplies, Sporting Goods and Kindred Lines. xliv, 1540, (1701)-2010 pp.1541-1700 omitted in pagination, as issued. Seven leaves of plates (3 in color), text illustrations.(Thick 4to) 29.3x23 cm. (11½x9”) original tan cloth.San Francisco: Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Co., 1909Catalog number 30 from this firm. Includes cutting tools marketed under the trademark “CleanCut,” but also offering a comprehensive selection of hardware, fishing tackle, rifles and revolvers,baseball gloves, coffee and spice mills, telephones, lamps, etc, etc. A fascinating compendium ofconsumer goods of the early twentieth century. Moderate cover soiling, light wear to corners;pages with moderate uniform browning; very good.(300/500)119. Elliott, Richard Smith. Notes Taken in Sixty Years. [4], 336 pp. Artotype portrait frontispiecefrom photograph; tissue guard. 21.7x14 cm. (8½x5½”), original olive green cloth, spine lettered ingilt. First Edition, first issue.St. Louis, Mo.: R.P. Studley & Co., 1883Richard Smith Elliot was a Indian agent at Council Bluffs starting in 1834, and also was withDoniphan’s expedition in 1846, among other adventures. First issue, with the portrait. HowesE111. Rubbing to spine ends and corners, some darkening to contents, else very good.(200/300)120. Fahey, Herbert. Early Printing in California: From Its Beginning in the Mexican Territory toStatehood, September 9, 1850. Illustrated with 16 plates after title-pages, newspapers, portraits, etc.(Small folio), black and green cloth, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. One of 400 copies printedby the Grabhorn Press.San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1956An essential reference on the subject. GB 582; BCC 94. Scratch to spine label, a touch of wearto cloth; very good.(200/300)121. Falconer, Thomas. The Oregon Question; or, a Statement on the British Claims to the OregonTerritory, in Opposition to the Pretensions of the Government of the United States of America. 49, [3] pp.Folding map bound-in at rear. (8vo) later olive boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt. SecondEdition.London: Samuel Clarke, 1845A lawyerly exposition of British claims to the Oregon territory, the second edition being issuedas an explicit rebuttal to William Sturgis’ lecture before the Mercantile Library Association ofBoston on January 22, 1845 -- an interesting case study of the manner in which English andAmerican claims were debated on both sides of the Atlantic. According to Howes, the secondedition was not issued with a map, and the map bound-in with this copy was likely taken froma copy of an earlier Falconer work, “On the Discovery of the Mississippi, and on the South-Western, Oregon, and North-Western Boundary of the United States” (1844). The map is titledNorth America, Published under the Superintendence of the Society for Diffusion of UsefulKnowledge (published by Chapman and Hall, 1843), and is hand colored in the outline. Anattractive copy of a very scarce work. Howes F17; Sabin 23728; Smith 2970; Wheat Maps479. Light chipping to spine label, penciled notes on front endpapers; pages unopened anduntrimmed; near fine.(500/800)The auction will be begin at 11:00 a.m.Page 36

PHOTO ALBUM OF FAMILY CLUB & BOHEMIAN CLUB122. (Family Club & Bohemian Club) Photograph album of the Family Club and the Bohemian Club.24 original silver-print photographs, approximately 8x10” or the reverse. Mounted to the leaves of aperiod photo album.California: c.1907One scenic photographof Mount Shasta, twentyphotographs of Family ClubMembers at the “Farm”in Portola Valley, three ofBohemian Club membersat the Bohemian Grove.The Family Club was a SanFrancisco men’s social club,not unlike the BohemianClub. Includes a groupportrait, several images ofmembers in rehearsal orperformance, groups of mensinging around the piano(outside), a baseball game,and other (staged) scenes ofthe members relaxing. TheBohemian club photographsare numbered Moulin studiosphotographs, dated 1907.Some light wear to album;Lot 122photos with some rippling butstill about fine.(1000/1500)123. Farnham, Thomas J. History of Oregon Territory, It Being a Demonstration of the Title of theseUnited States of North America to the Same. 80 pp. Frontispiece woodcut map. (8vo), full polishedgreen calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, brown morocco spine label. Wrappers not retained when bound.First Edition.New York: J. Winchester, 1844Farnham describes his intention in publishing this vehement contribution to the “OregonQuestion” controversy thus: “Out of her own mouth is Britain judged: and if this pamphletshall serve to convince my countrymen of the insolent selfishness of Great Britain -- her graspinginjustice, her destitution of political honesty -- . the author will feel richly rewarded .” Thefrontispiece map in this copy is bound upside-down, as is typical of the first edition. Howes F48;Sabin 23866; Smith 2992; Streeter VI:3355. Light wear to binding; foxing; very good.(600/900)Each lot is illustrated in color in the online version of the catalogue.Go to www.pbagalleries.comPage 37

124. (Financial History) Leffingwell, S[ally] M[aria]. Autograph Letter, signed, relating to the firstAmerican depression. Autograph Letter, signed. 2 pages plus stampless address leaf.New York: Jan. 6, 1908To her son, William C.[oit] Leffingwell, New Haven, then a student at Yale. “…Your Papahas had his mind in a continual state of anxiety for sometime past. He can hardly expect toescape losing money by so many & such large failures as has taken place, but as yet, he has gotalong very well. However, there is no knowing who will go next, nor who is to be taken in, itis a distressing time in NYork. We are much in fear of riots, as any thing at present, for thereis at least ten thousand people who are to be fed by their dayly earnings, they are now entirelyout of employ & the weather is so cold that the Corporation cannot employ them in digging.What their hunger will lead them to do, we have great reason to dread ... “ Written 15 daysafter President Jefferson signed the Embargo Act, intended to punish the warring British andFrench for violating the neutrality of American merchant ships, but, in effect, nearly haltingNew England seaport commerce with Europe and thus triggering the first economic disasterof the new Republic. New York was especially hard hit, with one merchant firm after anotherdriven to bankruptcy, thousands unemployed, and hundreds sent to debtor’s prison. One whoescaped the crash was William Leffingwell, husband of the writer. Grandson of an ex-innkeeperwho had profitably supplied Washington’s Continental Army, Leffingwell expanded his fortuneby shipping provisions to Revolutionary France during the Reign of Terror. When his wife wrotethis letter, fearful of the hungry masses in the first American Depression, he had just sold hisNew York mansion, which was literally on Wall Street, and was moving to New Haven, wherehis son was at college, to become that city’s richest citizen. Creased, light wear; very good.(400/600)125. (Financial History) Ralston, Robert and Henry Pratt. Autograph Document, signed, protestingthe state regulation of business. Autograph Document, signed. 2 pages.Philadelphia: February 5, 1801Robert Ralston served as President of the Common Council and Henry Pratt as President ofthe Select Council. “To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth ofPennsylvania. The Memorial and Remonstrance of the Select and Common Councils of theCity of Philadelphia”. Expressing “anxiety, surprize and alarm” that the State Legislature wasconsidering measures to take over “superintending authority” of local businesses from citygovernments and the courts; insisting that existing regulation of “Hucksters” and preventionof “frauds equally injurious to the farmer and inhabitant of the city… executed with no lessimpartiality and justice, than vigilance and zeal” were more than adequate”. If, occasionally,municipal judges might act “corruptly and oppressively”, they would be “strictly scrutinized”and “severely punished”. The assumption of this very early document in American economichistory was that businesses were owned by sole proprietors, tradesmen like butchers and bakers.The word “corporation” then referred only to city governments, and the danger, mentionedin the petition, of “forestalling the markets” meant tradesmen who tried to gain a “corner”, amonopoly, on certain products. The era of massive corporate trusts was still a century away.Creased, short splits at folds, small chip at left edge; very good.(200/300)126. Firestone, Harvey S. with Samuel Crowther. Men and Rubber: The Story of a Business. [6],279 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original gilt-ruled full morocco, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926Presentation copy inscribed in the half-title, “To Homer C. Campbell, with highest personalregards, Harvey S. Firestone, Dec. 24th, 1926.” This is undoubtedly to the Homer Campbellwho was administrator (i.e. mayor) of Akron, Ohio, in 1922. The Firestone Tire and RubberCompany, an American tire company founded by Harvey Firestone in 1900 to supplypneumatic tires for wagons, buggies, and other forms of wheeled transportation common inthe era, was originally based in Akron (also the hometown of its archrival, Goodyear Tire andRubber Company). Spine sunned, some scuffing; hinges cracked at endpapers, rear split all theway; very good.(400/600)Page 38

127. Ford, Gerald R. A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford. Blue cloth, dust jacket.First Edition, Second Printing.[New York]: Harper & Row, [1979]Inscribed by President Ford on the front free endpaper: “To Jeannette A. Sammett, with goodmemories of the University of Michigan Hospital in the 1930s. Best Wishes, Gerald R. Ford.”Jacket lightly worn; spotting to cloth; very good.(250/350)128. Glisan, R[odney]. Journal of Army Life. xi, 511 pp. Illustrated with numerous wood-engravedplates; folding table. (8vo), original green cloth stamped in gilt and black. First Edition.San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Co., 1874Glisan served as a surgeon in Oklahoma, Washington and Oregon, and the present work islargely concerned with the Indian wars of 1855-1858 and garrison life on the border. Cowanp.239; Howes G209; Smith 3611. Spine cloth with several tears, edges worn, hinges cracked;good.(150/250)129. (Gold Rush Fiction) Hall, Angelo. Forty-one Thieves: A Tale of California. Green cloth letteredin gilt, dust jacket. First Edition.Boston: The Cornhill Company, [1919]A tale of crime and punishment set in the vicinity of Nevada City, California, somewhatreminiscent of Bret Harte’s Outcasts of Poker Flat and similar gold rush era fiction. A scarcepiece of California fiction, particularly so in the original dust jacket. Baird and Greenwood1006. Jacket split entirely along front flap fold and along spine with a few small lacking pieces,edges chipped; volume with light extremity wear; near fine in a fair jacket.(150/250)130. Goulder, W[illiam] A. Reminiscences: Incidents in the Life of a Pioneer in Oregon and Idaho. 376pp. Frontispiece portrait. (8vo), original blue cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed.First Edition.Boise: Timothy Regan, 1909Goulder ascended the Missouri with Benton and Robidoux in 1844. Graff calls his lateradventures in Idaho and Oregon “rather interesting.” Graff 1603; Howes G277; Smith 3707.Light wear to extremities, previous owner’s name and note on front free endpaper; very good.(200/300)131. Gray, W[illiam] H. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849, Drawn from Personal Observation andAuthentic Information. 624 pp. With errata slip at rear. Wood-engraved frontispiece with tissue guard.(8vo), original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.Portland, Oregon: Harris & Holman, 1870One of the first Oregon pioneers, Gray journeyed across the plains with Whitman andSpalding in 1836, and gives a long account of the trip in this book, which some maintain is“undependable and biased, but, as a product of a pioneer of 1838, cannot be ignored” - Howes.Howes also notes that the first issue was in red cloth with one errata slip, and the second issue inblack cloth with two errata slips, but the Graff copy was in black cloth with just one errata slip,as this copy. Graff 1630; Howes G342; Smith 3756; Tweney 24. Some wear to cloth, front freeendpaper lacking; very good.(200/300)Page 39

132. Gregg, Josiah. Commerce of the Prairies or the Journal of a Santa Fé Trader, During EightExpeditions Across the Great Western Prairies... 2 volumes. 6 engraved plates; map of the Interior ofNorthern Mexico. (8vo) original blind-stamped cloth with gilt-stamped illustration to covers, letteringto spine, rebacked with original spine cloth laid down. Second Edition.New York: J. & H.G. Langley, 1845“This work stands as a cornerstone of all studies on the SFT in the early period, describing theorigin and development of the trade, Gregg’s own experiences, and useful statistics for 1822-43”- Rittenhouse. The work was immortalized as a “southwest classic” by Lawrence Clark Powellwho remarks “Gregg’s stone-ground prose evokes the life of the Santa Fe Trail as no other bookdoes. His passion for the prairies was also a passion for knowing. He was a tireless observer andrecorder.” Gregg made his first trip over the trail in 1831, and his last in 1839. Howes G401;Wagner-Camp 108:4. Light edge wear; foxing throughout, heavier to plates; very good.(300/500)133. Grinnell, George Bird. Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales. With Notes on the Origin, Customsand Character of the Pawnee People. 417 pp. Original green cloth lettered in gilt, with gilt vignette ofpapoose on front cover. First Edition.New York: Forest & Stream, 1889An early work by the great anthropologist and sportsman. Light rubbing to spine ends andcorners; hinges cracking, front free endpaper detached; very good, covers bright.(300/500)134. Hansen, Sofus E. Tacoma to Anchorage and Kodiak via Inside Passage. viii, 327, [9], [1 leaf], [4,ad] pp. 18.5x11 cm. (7¼x4¼”) original flexible leatherette wrap-around binding with snap closure,lettered in gilt. Third Edition.Seattle: Lowman & Hanford Co., [1926]Master mariner’s guide to coastal navigation along the Inside Passage from Puget Sound toAlaska, with distances provided in nautical miles, detailed maps of the Wrangell Narrows andsketches of shoreline landmarks. Hansen’s work was first published in 1917, and this editionwas the last prepared under his direction. see Ricks, p. 115; Smith 4048; Wickersham 1756 (allciting earlier editions). Previous owner’s ink stamped address on front endpaper; near fine.(150/250)135. [Harvey, Fred]. Grand Canyon of Arizona in Photogravure [cover title]. 30 mounted photogravures,on heavy captioned paper. 25x31.5 cm. (9¾x12¼”), original gray wrappers.[Tovar Studio], [c.1920]Only 2 copies located by OCLC / Worldcat, although those state the booklet has 24 photographplates, while this copy has 30. Light wear to wrappers; very good.(200/300)136. (Hawaii) Rewell, W.E. Autograph Letter, signed, from a Hawaiian sugar plantation. AutographLetter, signed. 4 pp.Paauhau, [Hamakua, Hawaii]: April 26, 1880To “Cornelius” (Bond?). Writing from one of the larger American-owned sugarcane plantationson the lush northeastern coast of the island of Hawaii, founded two years before by ClausSpreckels and other Yankee sugar czars, the writer discusses why “child bearing” was so “cruellypainful” for Caucasian women with their “misshaped frame” from “tight lacing unsuitable dressand want of exercise”, while Hawaiian native women “suffer very little…with their perfectlynatural physical development”. He also expounds on the problems of ground sugar cane beingspoiled by rats when it was stored too long, thus “throwing away entirely the labor of plantingand cultivation”, and arguing that mill capacity should be extended so that the cane could beground “when it is at its best”. The recipient of the letter was possibly Elias Cornelius Bond,whose parents were among the first American missionaries to settle in the islands. Fine.(100/150)Page 40

137. Hazen, R[euben] W. History of the Pawnee Indians. 80 pp. With 1 full-page wood engraving anda few tailpieces. Original pictorial cloth. First Edition.[Fremont, NE]: Fremont Tribune`, 1893Rare work with interesting local Nebraska history as well as an account of the Pawnee war or1859, in which the author participated. Graff 1830; Howes H371; Rader 1836. Some rubbingand extremity wear to covers, very good.(400/600)PHOTOGRAPH INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEASTTO HIS LONGTIME PRIVATE SECRETARY138. Hearst, William Randolph. Photograph inscribed and signed by William Randolph Hearst to hisprivate secretary Joseph Willicombe. 34x26 cm. (13¼x10¼”). With blindstamp of photographer JamesManatt, Hollywood, in lower left.No place: c.1930Inscribed in ink in the upper right quadrant, “To my good friends and valued adviser JosephWillicombe with whom I have enjoyed most agreeable and most advantageous association formany years this photograph is affectionately inscribed, William Randolph Hearst.” Accompaniedby larger studio photographs of W.R. Hearst’s twin sons, Randolph A. Hearst and Elbert W.Hearst [whose name was changed to David W. Hearst], at about ten years of age, each inscribedand signed to Willicombe, in folders of the Campbell Studios. Provenance: Joan Willicombe,daughter of Joseph Willicombe. W.A. Hearst photograph with silvering in the emulsion, a littleedge wear; sold soiling and sunning to folders; very good.(600/900)You can bid absentee directly from the item description inthe online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries.com.Or bid during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder.Page 41

HEARST’S DERISIVE OPINIONS OF FDR AND CLERGYMEN139. Hearst, William Randolph. Original manuscript by William Randolph Hearst, written on a pageof the New York American newspaper, commenting on two of the stories. Approx. 28 lines of manuscript,of varying length up to 50.5 cm. (20”), written in the margins and on the printed portion of p.5 of theNov. 30, 1935 issue of the New York American. Newspaper is 55x42.5 cm. (21½x16¾”), archivallyframed under plexiglass.[New York?]: c. Nov. 30, 1935William Randolph Hearst, newspaper magnate with enormous political influence, commentson two short articles in his newspaper the New York American, one about Bruno Hauptmann,alleged kidnapper of Charles Lindbergh’s baby son, the other about the opinion a group ofclergymen had of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The first article begins “Bruno Hauptman isinnocent in the opinion of his new spiritual advisor, the Rev. John Matthieson, pastor ofthe Trinity LutheranChurch…” The secondarticle is headlined“Clerics Hail Rooseveltas Toilers’ Friend. 47Pastors and ReligiousEducators, However, UrgeHim To Go Further in‘Move Left,’” and laudsthe president for “doingmore for the workingpeople than any previousAdministration…”The 72-year-old Hearstsees a commonality oftheme in the stories,and is decidedlyuncomplimentary to theDemocratic president:“Dear Mr. Delucaras (?),Many clergymen are goodsouls and mean well butare painfully innocent andunpractical and ignorantof the ways of the world.One such yesterdaydiscovered that murdererHauptman is a gentlemanand a child of Godconsequently a gentlemanLot 139and a child of God doesnot lie and consequentlyHauptman is innocent…Several other worthy clergymen assembled and decided that President Roosevelt was also toall intents and purposes a child of God and couldn’t lie although on frequent occasions he has???? something vaguely resembling a contract ???? desperately near it. These good clergymenconcluded that Roosevelt is the toilers’ friend and that he ought to go still further to the left thanhe has gone - even to the jumping off place and that the profit system ought to be abolishedand that the government ought to take over the basic industries and so on and so forth… Thereare to be sure a few people in the country more radically unbalanced than this but they for themost part are in asylums. Exactly how the toiler is benefited by the government bureaucracy tothe breaking point the industry which must in the last analysis provide him with employmentand exactly how industry is to be benefited by taking it out of the hands of competent andexperienced business men and putting it in the hands of incompetent and very largely dishonestpoliticians the reverent clerics do not say… In the first steamer that sails with deportedcommunists a few berths should be reserved for reverend but red eyed radical children of GodPage 42

who mean well perhaps but teach subversive nonsense.” After penning this revealing diatribe,Hearst evidently turned it over to his personal secretary Joseph Willicombe for transcription.Provenance: Joan Willicombe, daughter of Joseph Willicombe. Some chipping around the edgesaffecting a few words, old folds, else very good.(7000/10000)140. Hearst, William Randolph. Autograph Letter Signed by Hearst, to his private secretary JosephWillicombe. 8 pp., on two 4-page notesheets from Claridge’s, signed WR. With envelope from theHotel Alhambra Palace, Granada, addressed by Hearst.London: July 10, 1934William Randolph Hearst, his mistress Marion Davies, their dog Gandhi, and severalcompanions are touring Europe and have landed at Gibraltar, from where they eventually travelto London. Hearst writes to his longtime private secretary Joseph Willicombe to relate someof their adventures, following a request that Willicombe send to a friend in Paris some “veryexcellent California White wine... called Cresta Blanca...” In part, “We have been having a greattime... We landed at Gibraltar in a tender. It wasn’t a good tender but it got us ashore. Gibraltarbeing English they wanted to put Gandhi in quarantine. Marion blazed up like a shootingstar. In fact she only lacked a gun to be one. Finally after many diplomatic conversations it wasarranged that police should escort Marion and her dog to the frontier. The parade started. Bythe time we reached the frontier night had fallen and there were no frontiersmen. We had toring them up. Their indignation was appeased by an application of pesetas... The hotel peoplewelcomed us. We were glad to see them and they were glad to see us. There is not much businessin the summer. Gandhi who had brought the business was called the golden dog... Marion saidthat he was presented with the trees to the city. He availed himself of the courtesies extended...Nest day we went to Tangiers and Tetouan in Morocco for two days...” Hearst then describesthe trip to England, a harrowing flight aboard a Trimotor Dutch aeroplane in a dense fog. Eachof the notesheets is rubberstamped 910. Provenance: Joan Willicombe, daughter of JosephWillicombe. Envelope a little soiled, letter fine.(500/800)Each lot is illustrated in color in the online version of the catalogue.Go to www.pbagalleries.comPage 43

HEARST WRITES WHILE TOURING HITLER’S GERMANY141. Hearst, William Randolph. Two Autograph Letters Signed by William Randolph Hearst, writingfrom Germany, to his private secretary Joseph Willicombe. Each letter written on folding card with acolor etching on the front of a German scene. Accompanied by a letter to Willicombe from “Harry,” amember of Hearst’s party, transmitting a German newspaper with an article on and pictures of Hearst.Germany: 1934Newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst is touring Germany in the fall of 1934 (he wasto meet Hitler on the journey), and writes to his longtime private secretary and close friendJoseph Willicombe. In the longer of the two letters, in an envelope dated Sept. 24, 1934,Hearst thanks Willicombe “for the pictures of the puppies. They look as good as anything ofthe Dachshund breed that we have seen in Germany. Still we may bring home a new dog ofsome kind. Gandhi and Marion are still inseparable… We hunted up Lea Wrangall over herehad have had her as one of the maids. She is a very nice girl as you know and we are going totake her back with us. She told us that Mrs. Albert had written her telling her she couldn’t comeback. I hope Mrs. Albert is not getting a swelled head. I would hate to have her go the way ofMrs. Drew. But I can’t have her deciding who shall be at the ranch and who shall not…” Hearstconcludes with a brief discussion of his health, “…The doctor here says however that it takestwo or three months after the cure to reach the best condition so I suppose the operation wouldbetter be postponed for awhile…” The second letter, undated and without envelope, is shorter,“In Munich… and other southern towns, it was delightfully warm. Perhaps that heightenedthe appreciation of the beer. All the walled towns and picturesque places have pageants, and aremaking themselves especially attractive for tourists – like flowers luring bees. WRH.” The letterfrom Harry is in some ways the most interesting. In addition to transmitting the newspaper (inwhich Hearst is pictured drinking some of the aforementioned beer), Harry discusses the “NewGermany” and some of Hearst’s experiences, “The Chief has seen Haufstaegl, a Hitler aide, willsee shortly Rosenberg, head of the Hitler newspaper group, and by the time this reaches youmay have seen Der Fuhrer himself at Nurnburg. There are three things of paramount interestin present day Germany. Driving through one cannot help but notice that in the flag drapedvillages the swastika outnumbered the tricolor fifty to one, proving a unanimity - even if incertain cases one feels compulsion – for Hitler.” Harry also notes the presence of anti-Jewishsigns in may villages. Also present is an empty envelope, sent from Germany, addressed byHearst to Willicombe, dated Sept. 29, 1934, with notation on it in red pencil “Hitler & health.”Provenance: Joan Willicombe, daughter of Joseph Willicombe. Some wear, envelope of largercard with portions torn off; very good.(800/1200)142. Hearst, William Randolph. Autograph Note initialed by William Randolph Hearst, regarding aproposed meeting of a publisher of one of his newspapers with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Seven lines,in ink, at bottom of a T.L.S from Frank Barham, President and Publisher of the Hearst newspaper theLos Angeles Evening Herald Express. Accompanied by a copy of a telegram to Barham inviting himto meet President Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego to discuss the fight against polio.Los Angeles: 1935Barham writes to Joseph Willicombe, longtime private secretary to William Randolph Hearst, “Ipresume W.R. has not objection to my meeting the President. As you will recall, I was chairmanof the President’s Birthday Ball Committee in this district last spring and anything we can all doto help stamp out this terrible disease would be a boone to humanity…” Hearst’s reply, hastilywritten at the bottom of the letter for Willicombe to transcribe, “Good Lord NO I haven’t anyobjection to you meeting the President or the King of England or Mussolini or Haile Selassie. Itdoes us goo to meet those big folks and it does them good to meet us. W.R.” Provenance: JoanWillicombe, daughter of Joseph Willicombe. Minor creasing and wear, very good.(400/600)Page 44

MUSSOLINI THE “DUCE OF ORDERLY PROGRESS EVERYWHERE”143. Hearst, William Randolph. Autograph draft letter by William Randolph Hearst, in ink withpencil corrections, on a typed letter to Joseph Willicombe regarding a Hearst meeting with Benito Mussolini,in reply. Approx. 22 lines, in ink and pencil, on the bottom of the recto and the top of the verso ofa typed letter from Frank Gervasi, a journalist in Rome, to Hearst’s private secretary Colonel JosephWillicombe in Venice.Venice, Italy: 1936Gervasi writes that the “Italian Government has asked me to communicate to Mr. Hearst thatthe Duce deeply regrets that it was impossible for him to meet Mr. Hearst when he was in Romeand that should Mr. Hearst return to Rome after his visit to Venice, Signor Mussolini would bemost anxious to meet him.” To this Hearst drafts a reply: “I am about to leave for America… Iappreciate the invitation… of the Italian Government. I did not want to occupy the Duce’s timewith unimportant matters when he was engaged in affairs of such immense consequence to Italyand the world. The fight which the Duce is making for civilization and orderly government isnot merely for Italy, not merely for Europe but for the Western Hemisphere as well. He is theDuce of orderly progress everywhere. It is my hope that all thoughtful, capable and creativepeople… will cooperate to dam the flood of riot, bloodshed and communal violence which ismiscalled communism…” Stamped 863 at top left. Provenance: Joan Willicombe, daughter ofJoseph Willicombe. Some edge wear, a few chips and creasing; about very good.(700/1000)144. Hearst, William Randolph. Six Autograph letters or notes from William Randolph Hearst tolongtime private secretary Joseph Willicombe, initialed WRH; one autograph letter to a Captain Olson,regarding his yacht, signed W.R. Hearst; one typed note with a few pencil comments by Hearst. In ink orpencil, various sizes.San Simeon, etc.: c.1925-35Each of the letters/notes with a number stamped in upper left, which are here referenced:778. Typed note on orange paper, regarding various improvements, etc., to the house in SantaMonica Hearst had built for Marion Davies: “Mr. Williams is sending the Susanna Statue toSanta Monica and I have told Mr. Hellenthal where you want it placed… Mr. Hellenthal saysthe Carrousel will weigh 6 tons in center and 2 tons on outside edge…” With pencil notes. *841. Letter to Captain Olson: “Mr. Willicombe is going back on the yacht. We prefer to go bytrain. Mr. Willicombe has full authority… I am sorry to hear that the speed launch was wrecked.You might explain to Mr. Willicombe by whose authority the launch was being used in myabsence…” * 942. Short letter to Willicombe: “Did we ask Miss Head to send us about onehalf of the fine Rhine wine… How can we get some sparkling Mosalle of fine quality. Marionlikes it.” * 947. Short note to Willicombe, on the back of a menu from La Cuesta Encantada,San Simeon: “Mrs. Patterson is going with us on the Rex. She would like a deck room…” *951. Letter to Willicombe, but not addressed: “Please tell Mr. Loon I would like to have a wallaround the upper part of the road…” * 954. Letter to Willicombe, “The Mellon documentincluding the letter I would like bound and put in the library…” * 965. Letter to Willicombe,on San Simeon letterhead with picture of Casa del Mar. “An institution which made electricclocks (with batteries) went out of business about six months ago. Still there must be some suchclocks left unsold either in wholesale or retail stores. Please ask the various cities in which wehave papers to look up cloth and jewelry stores and see if they can find any of these clocks. Theyare fine for the ranch where the electric current is irregular…” * 999. Letter to Willicombe: “Weordered at desk. If it has not been shipped let’s get a modernistic one. The Chippendale looksvery badly in these simple pine rooms. We will not use the desk in the office if it comes, so betterget a modernistic one like the table.” The little archive presents an interesting glimpse at theminutiae Hearst concerned himself with in ordering his life and many residences. Provenance:Joan Willicombe, daughter of Joseph Willicombe. Generally very good.(500/800)Page 45

NEW YORK FRUITS145. Hedrick, U.P. The Cherries of New York. xii, 371 pp. Frontispiece portrait, 56 additional leavesof colored plates. (4to) original gilt-lettered green cloth. First Edition.Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1915The fourth volume in the celebrated series of horticultural monographs published under theauspices of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. The Cherries of New Yorkoffers a history of cherry cultivation throughout the world and, like its companion volumes, acomprehensive, beautifully illustrated survey of cherry varieties grown in the state. Light wear,hinges cracking; very good.(200/300)146. Hedrick, U.P. The Peaches of New York. xiii, 541 pp. Illustrated with 92 chromolithograph platesof various peaches and peach blossoms; map of the peach regions of New York, and a frontispieceportrait of Andrew Jackson Downing. (4to) original green cloth titled in gilt. First Edition.Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon Co., 1917The fifth volume in the celebrated series of horticultural monographs published under theauspices of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. The Peaches of New York offersa scientific study of peach botany, a history of peach cultivation throughout the world and, likeits companion volumes, a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated survey of peach varieties grownin the state. Some spotting to cloth; very good.(200/300)147. Hedrick, U.P. The Pears of New York. xi, 636 pp. Frontispiece portrait, 80 additional leaves ofcolored plates. (4to) original green cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition.Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Co., 1921The sixth volume in the celebrated series of horticultural monographs published under theauspices of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. The Pears of New Yorkoffers a history of pear cultivation throughout the world and, like its companion volumes, acomprehensive, beautifully illustrated survey of pear varieties grown in the state Institutionalbookplate (no other ex-library indicia), light wear and soiling to cloth; very good.(200/300)148. Hedrick, U.P., ed. The Grapes of New York. xv, 1, 564 pp. Color plates. (4to) original giltletteredgreen cloth. First Edition.Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1908The second volume in the celebrated series of horticultural monographs issued published underthe auspices of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. The Grapes of New Yorkoffers a comprehensive survey of both table grape and wine grape varieties grown in the state,and the volume is justly celebrated for its detailed color illustrations. Presentation rubberstampof New York State Assembly Clerk to front endpapers. Some spotting and light wear to cloth,hinges repaired; very good.(200/300)149. Hedrick, U. P., ed. The Plums of New York. xii, 616 pp. Portrait frontispiece, color plates. (4to),original green cloth titled in gilt. First Edition.Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon, state printers, 1911The third volume in the celebrated series of horticultural monographs published under theauspices of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. The Plums of New Yorkoffers a history of plum cultivation throughout the world and, like its companion volumes, acomprehensive, beautifully illustrated survey of plum varieties grown in the state. Presentationrubberstamp of state legislator on front endpapers. Moderate rubbing, light wear to joints andextremities, some spots to cloth; very good.(200/300)Page 46

150. Hedrick, U.P., ed. The Small Fruits of New York. xi, 614 pp. Full color plates. (4to) originalgreen cloth titled in gilt. First Edition.Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon, [1925]The seventh (and last) volume in a series of spectacularly illustrated horticultural monographspublished under the auspices of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. The SmallFruits of New York offers a detailed survey of the evolution, systematic botany and varietiesof wild and cultivated bramble fruits (raspberries, blackberries and dewberries), bush fruits(currants and gooseberries) and strawberries. Light wear; near fine.(250/350)151. Henius, Frank. Stories from the Americas. Illustrations by Leo Politi. (8vo) orange cloth, dustjacket. First Edition.[New York]: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1944One of Leo Politi’s earliest and most uncommon illustrated works, a charming potpourri ofchildren’s tales and legends from twenty Latin American nations. This copy is inscribed by Polition the pictorial flyleaf in his distinctive calligraphic script, with a few colored ink flourishes:“For my great friends Ethel and Stanley Ewens. Always, Leo Politi.” Considerable chipping andwear to jacket spine and edges, with some old cellophane tape mends; light wear to cloth; verygood in a good jacket.(150/250)152. Henry, Alexander and David Thompson. New Light on the Early History of the GreatNorthwest: The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry, Fur Trader of the Northwest Company, andof David Thompson, Official Geographer and Explorer of the same Company, 1799-1814: Explorationand Adventure among the Indians on the Red, Saskatchewan, Missouri, and Columbia Rivers. Edited byElliott Coues. 3 volumes. xxviii, 446 pp. + vi, 447-916 pp. + [vi], 917-1027 pp. Frontispiece portraitin Volume 1; three folding facsimile maps and folding legend sheet in rear pocket of volume 3. (8vo)original green cloth, spine gilt lettered. No. 239 of 1100 sets. First Edition.New York: Francis P. Harper, 1897According to bibliographer George Tweney: “The Coues edition described here is an entirelynew and original work printed from the original manuscript and contains the author’s dailyjournals of travels, explorations, and adventures in the fur trade throughout the Northwest. Thisset is considered by historians to be the most important contribution to Western history andexploration published in the twentieth century [sic].” Howes H419; Smith 4350; Tweney 9.Bookplates of historian Henry Raup Wagner and of the Bancroft Library (marked withdrawn,10/99), small stamp on the rear endpaper of the Huntington Library. Light wear to cloth, faintmarkings from labels on spines, hinges starting; tape repair to edges of a few pages; very good.(400/600)153. Hewitt, Randall H. Across the Plains and Over the Divide. A Mule Train Journey from East toWest in 1862, and Incidents connected therewith. [6], iv, 521, [1] + [12] ad pp. 59 black and whiteplates, including frontispiece portrait; numerous text illustrations; fold-out map (boundaries outlinedin red & green). (8vo) 7¼x5, original gray cloth, lettered in red on cover and spine, pictorial coverlabel. Third Edition.New York: Broadway Publishing Co., [1906]First printed in 1863 with the title “Notes by the Way” and reprinted again in 1872. This thirdedition was greatly enlarged by the author’s nephew and namesake, and also with the addition ofplates and a map (including plate captioned “Variegated Buttes,” which, per Howes and Mintz,is omitted from many copies). Per Soliday, “A well-written and detailed account of an overlandjourney from St. Joseph, Mo., to Olympia, Wash., in 1862.” Mintz observes, “This is a detailednarrative to the Northwest part of the nation via South Pass. The author went from Ft. Laramieby way of the Lander cutoff through what is now Wyoming and over the Mullan Road to theColumbia. Hewitt’s journal is one of the few printed of an 1862 crossing.” Graff 1875; HowesH447; Mattes 1845; Mintz 222; Smith 4393. Light wear, moderate soiling to rear cover, spot onfront cover, front hinge repaired; about very good.(250/350)Page 47

EXPLORING THE SASKATCHEWAN BASIN154. Hind, Henry Youle. Narrative of The Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 andof the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858. 2 volumes. xx, 494; xvi, 472 pp.8vo. Illustrated with Twenty chromoxylograph plates; woodcut text illustrations; 7 maps (2 folding,all partly colored); 4 colored profiles on 1 folding sheet. (8vo) red morocco-backed red cloth, spinelettered in gilt. First Edition.London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860Hind’s investigations of the country between Lake Superior and the Rocky Mountains wereprompted by the need for a land access to the gold fields of British Columbia and for thepossible establishment of a railway route to the Pacific Coast, and led to the discovery of fertilefarming area in the Saskatchewan basin. During the expedition Hind lived almost continuouslyamong the Crees and Chippeways, whose habits and peculiarities he was able to study. Thenarrative is enhanced by the spectacular color plates and woodcut illustrations reproducedfrom photographs taken by Humphrey Lloyd Hime, photographer to the Assinninboineand Saskatchewan Expedition, or from sketches by John Fleming, Assistant Surveyor andDraughtsman. Graff 1892; Sabin 31934; Soliday II:521; Streeter 3730; Wagner-Camp-Becker360. Traces of dampstaining to upper corner of vol. 2 (upper edge of some plates slightlyaffected), some tearing to folding map in vol. 1, two tissue guards lacking in vol. 1, originaladvertising pages not retained in rebinding; very good in fine modern bindings.(1000/1500)Lot 154Page 48

Lot 155TRUE FIRST OF HITTELL’S “GRIZZLY ADAMS”155. Hittell, Theodore H. The Adventures of JamesCapen Adams, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter, ofCalifornia. 378 pp. With 10 (of 12) wood-engraved platesby Charles Nahl. (8vo) 7¾x4½, original blindstampedcloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, 1860Scarce first edition, based on Adams’ own account, ofthis story of one of the legendary California pioneersand mountain men. Greenwood notes that “Adamsdictated his memoirs to Hittell at the Pacific Museumin San Francisco. Adams made a hunting expedition tothe Rocky Mountains by way of Walker River, and theHumboldt Mountains, to Salt Lake. After a short staythere he continued past Ft. Bridger to Ham’s Fork andSmith’s Fork returning to California in the summerof 1854...” Cowan regarded it as “probably the mostpopular work of its time issued in California,” andWagner -Camp explains that “In the course of Adams’sadventures, he hunted in the Rocky Mountains,traveling east from California by way of the WalkerRiver and the Humboldt Mountains to Salt Lake in1854...” Cowan p.284; Graff 1912; Greenwood 1274;Howes H543; Wagner-Camp 348:1; Zamorano Eighty42. Chipped at spine ends, rubbed at corners, somelight soiling on rear cover; very light scattered foxing;very good.(1000/1500)156. Holman, Frederick V. Dr. John McLoughlin Father of Oregon. 301 pp. With 2 portraits ofMcLoughlin, including the frontispiece. (8vo), green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, othersuntrimmed. First Edition.Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1907“Because of his years and influence at Fort Vancouver, and the important role he played in thedevelopment of the Northwest, Dr. McLoughlin deserves this place in history. This is a wellwrittenbiography of this influential man.” (George H. Tweney). Clark and Brunet II:143; Smith4583; Soliday I:1148; Tweney 31. Light wear to cloth, rear hinge cracked, small hole in frontfree endpaper; very good.(150/250)157. Holmes, Kenneth L., editor. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails,1840-1890. 11 volumes. Portraits; maps; plates, etc. (8vo), blue-green cloth, spines lettered in gilt.Trade Edition.Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1983-93Diaries and letters of women on the overland trails to the west, reprinted verbatim. Anoteworthy compilation making available much hitherto forgotten source material. Fine.(500/800)Page 49

158. (Hoover, Herbert) Six items of Presidential nature - including a typed letter, signed from PresidentHerbert Hoover. Includes: 1 pp. TLs from Herbert Hoover to Professor and Mrs. Eliot Jones of StanfordUniversity. Dated January 16, 1945, it is a short note thanking the couple for their greetings in“these troublous days.” * War Message and Facts Behind It. Delivered before Congress April 2, 1917.With Annotations... 16 pp. Folded, some soiling and chipping. Government Printing Office, 1917.* Leslie’s Weekly: McKinley Funeral Number. Vol. XCIII, No. 2403. With cover illustration showingillustration of President Roosevelt at President McKinley’s funeral. September 28, 1901. * Humorousand Pathetic Stories of Abraham Lincoln 83 pp. Wrappers. Fifth Edition, Second Series. Fort Wayne,Indiana: Lincoln Publishing Co., [n.d.]. * Ingersoll, Robert G. Abraham Lincoln: A Lecture. 173 +ads. Wrappers. New York: C.P. Farrell, 1907. * Inaugural Ball in Honor of The President of the UnitedStates Harry S. Truman. Program in gilt wrappers. January 20, 1949. Together 6 items.Various datesSome wear to each; generally very good.(200/300)159. Hunter, George. Reminiscences of an Old Timer: A Recital of Actual Events, Incidents, Trials,Hardships...Perils and Escapes of a Pioneer Hunter, Miner and Scout of the Pacific Northwest.... [2], xxv,454 pp. Illus. with 16 lithograph plates. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.San Francisco: H.S. Crocker, 1887Hunter crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852 at the age of 17; his narrative includes accountsof mining life in Shasta City, the Rouge River Indian War of 1852, the events which led to themassacre of Dr. Whitman, the Civil War, the gold strikes at Kootenia in British Columbia, theNez Perce War, his duties as interpreter for General Howard, etc. Cowan (II), p. 298; Graff2018; Howes H811; Smith 4819. Spine sunned, some wear to cloth, hinges starting; paper a bitbrowned; very good.(150/250)160. Hunter, John Dunn. Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians in North America, from Childhoodto the Age of Nineteen: with Anecdotes Descriptive of their Manners and Customs. To Which is Added,Some Account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable Productions of the Territory Westward of the Mississippi.ix, 448 pp. 21x12.5 cm. (8¼x4¾”), later half calf & marbled boards. First English Edition.London: Longman, Hurst, et al, 1823The accuracy of this narrative of John Dunn Hunter (c. 1797-1828) has always been hotlydebated. He wrote of being seized by Kickapoo Indians at such an early age that he rememberednothing of his family, of being traded from tribe to tribe, and of growing up as a full-fledgedwarrior, until he returned to the white settlements in 1816 to seek an education. Lionized inLondon during the winter of 1823-1824, he later returned to America, where he was murderedby Cherokees during a complex boundary dispute in Texas in 1828. See Graff 2019; HowesH813; Sabin 33921; Streeter Sale 4237; Wagner-Camp 24:2. Very good or better, with armorialbookplate of Viscount Gage.(300/500)161. (Illinois) DePestre, Edmond. Autograph Letter, signed, regarding purchase of land in Illinois.Autograph Letter, signed. 1 page plus stampless address leaf.Baltimore: January 23, 1819To John McFerron, Kaskaskia, Illinois; and, on verso, Vital St.Gemm. Autograph Note Signed.Ste. Genevieve, Missouri Territory. March 5, 1819, a receipt to McFerron. Written 16 yearsafter the Louisiana Purchase, this document links the new state of Illinois and the MissouriTerritory, formerly called Upper Louisiana. Ste. Genevieve, on the west bank of the Mississippi,was a center of French settler life and commerce when the St.Gem family moved there fromKaskaskia, a French colonial town of the Illinois country, 14 miles to the north. After the Frenchlargely abandoned Kaskaskia during the Revolutionary War, John McFerron became the leadingAmerican land-holder in the area; he received this letter just 36 days after Illinois became a state,with Kaskasia as its first capital, its fledgling state government convening there in a small rentedbuilding. Perhaps DePestre, a French émigré whose family had fled to America from the slavePage 50

evolt in Haiti, imagined that this official arrangement would be permanent when he engagedMcFerron to purchase Illinois land from St. Gem; he was clearly irritated that McFerron had notyet followed his earlier “instructions” to pay the land purchase money of $1000 “into the handsof Vital St. Gemm”, whose receipt to McFerron on the back of letter indicates that he did notreceive this sum until March 5. Unfortunately for DePestre, that was two days after the US Congresspassed an act donating land for a new Illinois state capital. Three weeks later, the Illinoislegislature appointed commissioners to select a totally new capital site; they eventually decidedto desert Kaskaskia and move 80 miles to the east to Vandalia. Whether or not DePestre ever sawhis ill-fated Illinois landholdings, he eventually gave up entirely on the American Republic andimmigrated again, this time to the Spanish slave island of Cuba. Creased, chip from left edge;very good.(400/600)162. Jacobs, Orange. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs, Written by Himself. Containing Many Interesting,Amusing and Instructive Incidents of a Life of Eighty Years or More, Fifty-six Years of Which Were Spentin Oregon and Washington. 234 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait. (8vo), brown cloth, spine letteredin gilt. First Edition.Seattle: Lowman & Hanford, 1908Jacobs, a lawyer by training, crossed the plains in 1852 for his health (his father advised himto go to Oregon rather than California, as he “would amount to nothing as a miner”). Theoverland passage transformed him from a sickly youth to a vigorous pioneer, and he writes withconsiderable vigor of his overland adventures, Indian customs and legends, and incidents ofpolitical life in the Northwest. Jacobs eventually became mayor of Seattle. Howes J36; Mattes1206; Mintz 257; Smith 5095. A little rubbing to spine ends, joints and corners; ink initialsRHS to front free endpaper; very good.(150/250)163. James, George Wharton. Travelers’ Handbook to Southern California. 507, [3] pp. (12mo) redcloth. First Edition.Pasadena: George Wharton James, 1904Warmly inscribed and signed by James on the half-title page, “To my friend for half a lifetimeHoward Tibbetts, whose wonderful photographs have done much to lure people to theWonderland of Southern as well as Northern & Central California.” Cowan IV:282; Rocq16291. Light wear, endpapers browned; very good.(150/250)164. (Jewelry Engraving) Winter’s School of Jewelry Engraving...: A Practical Self Teacher as Good asa School... A Course in Fundamental Principles of Designing and Engraving (wrapper title). 82 pp.Extensively illustrated. 19x29.5 cm. (7½x11½”), printed wrappers.[Chicago]: Albert A. Winter, 1915All you need to know to become a jewelry engraver. OCLC/WorldCat lists four otherpublications by Winter, but not this one, and none of the others is earlier than 1926. Some lightstaining and wear to wrappers, very good.(300/500)165. Johnson, Lorenzo D. Martha Washingtonianism, Or A History of the Ladies’ TemperanceBenevolent Societies. 88, [2] ad pp. (12mo) original blindstamped brown cloth, title in gilt on front.First Edition.New York: Saxton & Miles, 1843A scarce temperance tract, OCLC/WorldCat locates only 10 copies in institutional holdings,none west of the Rocky Mountains. Light staining and rippling to cloth, early bookplate (S.H.Johnson) on front pastedown; foxing throughout; very good.(300/500)Page 51

166. Jones, William Carey. In the Supreme Court of the United States. Arguments in the Case of CruzCervantes vs. The United States. 105 pp. (8vo) rebound in brown morocco-backed cloth, spine letteredin gilt. First Edition.Washington: Geo. S. Gideon, 1854Carey (1814-1867) was an effective advocate in defense of the title claims of several notableCalifornios and an authority on California land titles. His famous argument - the first before theU.S. Supreme Court on the subject of California Land Claims - resulted in the confirmation ofCervantes’ title to the Rancho San Joaquin in San Benito County. The second part of the work isseparately titles “The Title of Cruz Cervantes” and offers a detained and cogent historical analysisof the Ranch San Joaquin title from the time of its original grant. Light staining in uppermargins, foxing; very good.(200/300)167. Kahn, Edgar M. Bret Harte in California, A Character Study. [4], 25, [2] pp. (8vo) cloth backedmarbled boards. One of 2 author’s copies from an edition of 200 copies designed and printed byHaywood Hunt. First Edition.San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1951A unique association copy, signed by the author on the limitation page, and inscribed onthe front flyleaf by 12 members of the Roxburghe Club “on the occasion of Dr. Walter MuirWhitehill’s visit to San Francisco, March 4, 1953.” Signatures include such noteworthyRoxburghers as William P, Wreden, Duncan Olmstead, Carl Wheat, George Harding, FrancisFarquhar, and George Hammond. A signed, handwritten note from Edgar Kahn to Dr.Whitehill is laid-in. Spine a touch sunned, corners lightly rubbed; very good.(150/250)WITH 8 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHED PLATS BY PAUL KANE168. Kane, Paul. Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America, From Canada toVancouver’s Island and Oregon Through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Territory and Back Again. xvii, [1],455, [8] pp. Illustrated from drawings & paintings by Kane, incl. 8 chromolithographed plates byVincent Brooks & 13 woodcuts in the text; folding copper-engraved map with light hand-coloring.(8vo) 21.7x13.5 cm. (8½x5¼”), later full polished tan calf, gilt ruled borders, spine gilt, moroccolabel lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. First Edition.London: Longman, Brown, et al., 1859Born in Ireland, Kane came to Canada with hisparents as a child, studied art in the United States,France and Italy, and returned to Canada in 1845,beginning at once to travel extensively and paintscenes of wilderness life. He made several tripsthrough the wilderness of Canada and the PacificNorthwest, the most extensive one in the companyof Sir George Simpson beginning in 1846, travelingto the Red River, Norway House, up the Saskatchewanto Fort Assiniboine, then on to Jasper’sHouse and across the Rockies to the Columbia,arriving at Fort Vancouver on December 8 of thatyear; he departed the following summer, and spentanother year wandering before returning to hishome. His excellent depictions of Native Americansare reproduced in striking chromolithography,and place Kane with Catlin, Bodmer and Milleras among the few trained artists who were able tocapture the western Indians before the obliterationof their culture. Graff notes the “excellent impressionsof the fine plates,” and remarks that the textis based on the author’s journal put into narrativeLot 168form. According to Tweney, Kane spent time withPage 52

the Whitmans at Walla Walla in 1847, warning them of pending danger from the Indians, andsketched the only known likeness of Dr. Whitman made from life. Half-title present. AbbeyTravel 663; Field 811; Howes K7; Peel 212; Sabin 37007; Smith 5392; Streeter 3727; Tweney38; Wagner-Camp 332:1. Spine a touch sunned, light wear to leather; internally clean, the platesbrightly colored; near fine.(5000/8000)169. (Kane, Paul) Paul Kane’s Frontier, Including Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of NorthAmerica by Paul Kane. Edited with a Biographical Introduction and a Catalogue Raisonné by J. RussellHarper. Profusely illus. from drawings and paintings by Kane, some color. 11¼x11, full buckskin,slipcase. No. 211 of 300 copies of the special edition. First Edition.Austin: University of Texas Press, [1971]Published for the Amon Carter Museum and the National Gallery of Canada. Deluxe editionof the most complete and informative work on this important artist who captured the NativeAmericans of the Canadian and Pacific Northwest. Some wear to slipcase, splitting at corners;spine sunned, light wear to binding; very good.(100/150)170. Keep, Josiah. Common Sea-Shells of California. 64 pp. Sixteen lithographic plates by George H.Baker. (12mo) 6x4, original printed pictorial boards backed in black morocco. First Edition.San Francisco: Upton Bros., 1881Inscribed on front free endpaper: “J. G. Cooper, M.D., Compliments of The Author.” Theearliest appearance of this frequently revised and retitled handbook. The author was Curator ofConchology at the California Academy of Sciences. Dampstain and soiling to covers; very good.(100/150)171. (Kennedy, Jacqueline) Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care -Jacqueline Kennedy’s copy. (8vo) grey cloth, dust jacket. Revised Edition.New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1961]With the bookplate of First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and the Sotheby’s bookplate fromthe auction of The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on the front endpapers, Sotheby’s lottag also present (Lot 1101E). One can easily imagine the First Lady referring to this volume foradvice on the care of her children, Caroline and John Jr., who were but 4 and 1 years old at thetime of its publication. Jacket price-clipped and with some chipping; volume about fine.(500/800)You can bid absentee directly from the item description inthe online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries.com.Or bid during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder.Page 53

ORIGINAL UPI TELETYPE ROLL COVERING JFK ASSASSINATION172. (Kennedy, John F. - Assassination) Original teletype roll from UPI reporting on the assassination ofPresident John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Single continuous roll, 360x21.5 cm. (142x8½”).[Seattle[: 1963Original teletype roll containing United Press International reports of the most wrenchingoccurrence of the second half of the 20th century, casting a shadow over the nation and theworld. The reports begin rather innocuously - as the presidential motorcade proceeds throughDallas, “On man perched on the roof of his car had hellt [sic] the President a sign sayingthat because of Kennedy’s ‘socialist beliefs,’ .;. ‘I holdyou in complete contempt.’” Then, the reporting of theassassination begins, with the shooting of Texas GovernorJohn Connally, “Stinson said he asked Connally how ithappened... ‘I don’t know I guess from the back. Theygot the President too’... The vice president...was reportedbadly shocked by the shooting. Doctors were trying tokeep him as quiet as possible. He was under heavy secretservice and police protection... Malcolm Kilduff, anassistant press secretary, said he ‘cannot say’ whether thepresident is alive and ‘cannot say where he was hit. Thereare too many stories’... As the president fought for hislife, specialists arrived at the hospital. One, a Dr. Wilson,identified himself as a neurosurgeon... Television newsmanMal Cough said he looked up just after the shot wasfired and saw a rifpe [sic] being withdrawn from a 5th or6th floor window of a nearby building (the Texas BookDepository)... Flash. President Kennedy Dead!... Bulletin.2nd lead assassination by Merriman Smith UPI WhiteHouse Reporter. Dallas, Nov. 22 (UPI) President Kennedywas assassinated today in a burst of gunfire in downtownDallas. Texas Governor John Connally was shot downwith him... 1st add 2nd lead... The president, cradled inhis wife’s arms, had been rushed in his blood-spatteredlimousine to Parkland Hospital and taken to an emergencyroom. An urgent call went out for neurosurgeons andblood. The president, 44 years old, was shot once in thehead. Connally was hit in the head and wrist. Police founda foreign-make rifle. Sheriff’s officers were questioninga young man picked up at the scene...” And onward, asthe day unfolded, including the reaction from the SovietUnion, “The official Soviet news agency, Tass, said itbelieved the assassination was carried out ‘from amongthe extreme right wing elements’... Initial comments fromindividual Russians...deplored the shooting...” The teletypereports, in rare single roll form, are a vivid reminder of thathorrific day. The paper a little browned, tear to first foot ofLot 172the roll repaired with clear tape; very good or better.(3000/5000)173. (Kennedy, John F.) Ruby, Jack. Document signed, contracting performers for his Sovereign Club.Printed contract black, completed by typewriter and signed in ink. Approximately 8½x11”.Dallas, Texas: June 2, 1960Contract for performers Jerry Harmon and Gloria Christian for six performances at Ruby’sSovereign Club. Ruby achieved national notoriety in November of 1963 for the killing ofaccused Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald at the Dallas Police Headquarters. Some creasingand wrinkling; very good.(500/800)Page 54

174. Kimball, Charles P. The San Francisco City Directory...September 1, 1850. 139 pp. 14.5x10.1cm. (5¾x4”), brown cloth lettered in gilt.San Francisco: Journal of Commerce Press, 1850, [but c.1890]Later issue with 3 additional pages of “omitted names” at rear. Bound in a different cloth thanthe 1870 reissue and just slightly larger. An alphabetical listing of residents in San Franciscofrom 1850, contains over 2500 names and an appendix of general information. Howes states:“First real directory of this city, preceded only by two business directories.” Only five copies areknown to exist of the first printing. Cowan 132; Graff 2321-2; Howes K134. Minor extremitywear; near fine.(150/250)175. Kip, Lawrence. Army Life on the Pacific: A Journal of the Expedition Against the Northern Indians,the Tribes of the Cœur d’Alenes, Spokans, and Pelouzes, in the Summer of 1858. 144 pp. (8vo), originalblindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.New York: Redfield, 1859“Best account, by a participant, of the 1858 campaign against the northwestern tribes” - HowesK172. Graff 2341; Sabin 37944; Smith 5519; Tweney 40. Spine sunned, spotting to rear cover,corners bumped, previous owner’s name on front endpaper; very good.(300/500)176. [Lang, Herbert O., ed.]. A History of Tuolumne County, California. xi, [1], 509, [1], 47 pp. 12lithograph portraits (including a portrait of Mark Twain). (8vo) 20.8x14 cm. (8¼x5½”) original fullsheep, rebacked with original spine leather laid down. First Edition.San Francisco: B.F. Alley, 1882The earliest published history ofTuolumne County, with coverage fromMay, 1849, to September, 1880. Norrisconsidered this “one of the rarest of allCalifornia histories,” with “[o]nly a fewcopies in existence” (the Norris copy evenlacked a title page!). This copy is from thedistinguished collection of Californianaassembled by Daniel Volkmann, with thesmall Volkmann book label affixed to thefront pastedown. Adams Six-Guns 2248;Cowan (II), p. 646; Howes L71; Norris3968; Rocq 15345. Extremities rubbed,hinges cracked; page edges a touchbrowned; very good.Lot 176(800/1200)177. (Law) Ogden, Aaron. Printed and manuscript ‘Circular’ letter, signed. 3 pages with manuscriptadditions on third page. Approximately 9¾x8”.Washington: July 19, 1828With integral addressing to Giles Curtiss, Berlin, Connecticut. Aaron Ogden was aRevolutionary War veteran who served as a US Senator and as Governor of New Jersey duringthe War of 1812. He then became involved in steamboat navigation and was given a licenseby Robert Fulton to operate boats between New York and New Jersey. This monopoly waschallenged by the fabulously wealthy Cornelius Vanderbilt and the resulting dispute was carriedup to the US Supreme Court. Ogden was thus the defendant in the historic 1824 case ofGibbons vs. Ogden, one of the most important cases in American constitutional law, being thefirst broad interpretation of the scope of Congressional power - and limits of State authority- under the Commerce clause of the Constitution. Ogden subsequently went into private lawpractice and, in that capacity, he sent this circular discussing the legal issues of commissionscharged by agents (such as himself) who represented Revolutionary War veterans seekingpensions from the Federal government. A few chips and tears at right edge; very good.(100/150)Page 55

178. Lee, D[aniel ] & J[oseph] H. Frost. Ten Years in Oregon. 344 pp. Folding frontispiece map;title page vignette. (12mo), 17.7x11 cm. (7x4¼”), original cloth, gilt-lettered spine, rebacked withoriginal spine cloth laid down. First Edition, First issue.New York: Published for the Authors, 1844Written by two missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church. “A minute and doubtlessveracious journal of incidents of an arduous mission among the Northwestern Indian, withvocabularies of their dialects” - Field. Folding map shows the Northwest including VancouverIsland, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Columbia River, Mt. St. Helen, Walamet [sic] River, etc. Firstissue without the subtitle “Containing account of journey with Capt. Wyeth.” Field 904; Graff2440; Howes L197; Smith 5800; Tweney 42; Wagner-Camp 111; Wheat Transmississippi 484.Cloth worn; front free endpaper detached and with previous owner’s name covered with laterink; foxing throughout; good.(200/300)179. Lenox, Edward Henry. Overland to Oregon in the Tracks of Lewis and Clarke: History of the FirstEmigration to Oregon in 1843. ix, 69 pp. Edited by Robert Whitaker. Introduction by R. Morgenier.Illustrated with plates from photographs, drawings and a map. (8vo), original gilt decorated andlettered blue cloth. First Edition.Oakland, CA: 1904History of the 1843 emigration to Oregon Country, in which the author participated as a child.Although the title-page indicates “Limited Edition, Autograph Copy,” there is no other evidenceof either. Mintz 291; Graff 2454; Howes L255a; Smith 5859. Light rubbing to spine ends andcorners; near fine.(150/250)180. (Lewis & Clark Expedition) Chuinard, E. G. Only One Man Died: The Medical Aspects of theLewis and Clark Expedition. Illustrated with plates from paintings, drawings, maps, facsimiles, etc.(8vo), original red cloth, spine gilt, dust jacket. First Edition.Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1979No. XIX of the publisher’s Western Frontiersman series. This copy bears a lengthy inkinscription from “Frenchy” Chuinard to the book’s original owners. An important contributionto Lewis and Clark studies. “Dr. Chuinard brought to this work his own medical training andyears of practice, extensive knowledge of medical history, and a passionate interest in the Lewisand Clark expedition.” Clark and Brunet II:47; Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, p.250. Jacket lightly soiled and edge worn; spine leaning, previous owner’s ink-stamped name onfront free endpaper; very good.(150/250)WITH GEORGE ORD’S AMERICAN ZOOLOGY CONTAINING DATAGLEANED FROM LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION, 1815181. (Lewis & Clark Expedition) Guthrie, William. A New Geographical, Historical and CommercialGrammar; and present state of the several kingdoms of the world... To which are added, 1. A geographicalindex, with the names of places alphabetically arranged. 2. A chronological table of remarkable events fromthe creation to the present time. 3. A list of men of learning and science... Volume II (of 2) only. [4], 603pp. With 10 folding copper-engraved maps. 21.5x12.5 cm. (8½x5”), period sheep, leather spine label.Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, 1815The important second volume of the 1815 American edition of Guthrie’s Geographical Grammar,of great note for the inclusion of the section of North American zoology by George Ord,which comprises pages 290-361. This is considered to be the first systematic zoology of Americaby an American, and its significance is bolstered by the use of information gleaned from theLewis and Clark expedition. Ord received several of the specimens brought back by Lewis andClark for description, including the Grizzly Bear and the Pronghorn, and the expedition isreferenced numerous times in his section of the Grammar. George Ord (1781-1866), a businessmanturned naturalist and member of Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences, was a friendand colleague of ornithologist Alexander Wilson. The maps in the present volume include Asia,Page 56

India, Africa, North America (sadly lacking the western half), New England, the Middle Statesand Western Territories (as far as the Mississippi), the Southern States and Mississippi Territory,the Northwestern Territories (Great Lakes region west to the Red River), the West Indies, andSouth America. Covers scuffed, spine well so with 3” tear to leather; contents foxed, prelims. andAsia map dampstained, good condition overall.(1000/1500)182. (Lewis & Clark Expedition) Quaife, Milo M., editor. The Journals of Captain MeriwetherLewis and Sergeant John Ordway, Kept on the Expedition of Western Exploration, 1803-1806. 444 pp.Edited with an introduction and notes by Milo M. Quaife. (8vo), blue buckram, spine lettered ingilt. First Edition.Madison: Published by the Society, 1916“These two journals, printed for the first time, are transcribed from original manuscripts amongthe papers of the Biddle family at the American Philosophical Society. The Lewis journal isthat of the trip from Pittsburgh to the camp on the River Dubois, August 30-December 12,1803. Sergeant Ordway’s journal extends from May 14, 1804, to September 23, 1806. LikeWhitehouse’s journal, it shares material with that of Patrick Gass.” Literature of the Lewis andClark Expedition 5e; see also Howes L318; Smith 5908; Wagner-Camp-Becker 13 (note). Lightwear and soiling to cloth; very good.(100/150)183. (Lewis & Clark Expedition) Skarsten, M.O. George Drouillard, Hunter and Interpreter for Lewisand Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-1810. Illustrated with facsimile plates; 2 folding maps. (8vo) redcloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1964Although best remembered as a key participant in the Lewis and Clark expedition, Drouillardwas a major figure in the early history of the Rocky Mountain fur trade. A partner of ManuelLisa, he established several forts in the Missouri Basin, trapped with John Colter along theYellowstone and Big Horn rivers, and was killed by the Blackfeet in 1810. An excellentbiography, and the only work on Drouillard’s life and career. Just light shelf wear; near fine.(100/150)184. (Lincoln, Abraham) The Lincoln centennial medal, presenting the medal of Abraham Lincoln byJules Édouard Roiné together with papers on the medal: its origin and symbolism by George N. Olcottand the Lincoln centennial commemoration by Richard Lloyd Jones and certain characteristic utterancesof Abraham Lincoln. x, 70 + [6] pp. With original bronze medal of Lincoln set in pastepaper diecutmount bound into the book. 19x12 cm. (7½x4¾”), original blue cloth lettered in gilt, circularpictorial label. First Edition.New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1908The Centennial Medal is a high relief bronze sculpted by Jules Edouard Roiné with Lincolnin profile looking left on the obverse and, on the reverse, a mixed wreath of palm and oak,enclosing Lincoln’s facsimile autograph incised into the surface and the words “EmancipationProclamation Signed January First 1863”. At top edge is the word “Liberator” and at the bottom“1909 Centennial Commemoration”. A touch of rubbing to extremities, a few small chips toedge of mount; very good or better.(400/600)185. (Lincoln, Abraham) Wolf, Henry. Wood engraving of Abraham Lincoln. Proof engraving ontissue, tipped to backing sheet. Image 14x9 cm. (5½x3¾”) on sheet 29x23 cm. (11¼x9”).No place: [1898]Signed in pencil by Henry Wolf at lower right beneath image. A pensive Lincoln sits by a table,a poignant image by the master American wood-engraver of the latter 19th and early 20thcentury. Very faint foxing to paper but not visible on image; near fine.(250/350)Page 57

186. Little, James A. What I Saw on the Old Santa Fe Trail: Caravans of Prairie Schooners, FortyWagons, Five-hundred Oxen, Millions of Buffaloes, Thousands of Wild Horses, Antelopes, Big Grey Wolvesand Cayotes, Prairie Dog Towns and Jack Rabbits, Rattle Snakes, Lizards and Centipedes, Savage Indiansand Mexicans, Strange Sights Crossing the Desert. A Condensed Story of Frontier Life Half a Century Ago.[ii], 127 pp. 3 plates. 19.5x13.3 cm. (7½x5¼”), original wrappers. First Edition.Plainfield, Indiana: The Friends Press, [1904]Bibliographer Jack D. Rittenhouse notes, “Little was an Indiana man who went to Kansasin 1854, went over the Santa Fe Trail with a wagon train of Russell, Majors & Waddell, andspent his later years in Kansas.” The author is best known as the earliest biographer of Mormonpioneer and missionary Jacob Hamlin. Graff 2512; Howes L385; Rader 2240; Rittenhouse 368;Streeter sale I:186. Wrappers worn, short tear at bottom of front wrapper, paper a bit browned;very good.(300/500)187. Livermore, Abiel Abbot. The War With Mexico Reviewed. xii, 310 (i.e. 298) pp. Last pagemisnumbered 310. (12mo) original printed wrappers, spine lettered by hand. First Edition.Boston: Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1850Basically an abolitionist, anti-expansionist work. Livermore was a Unitarian minister from NewHampshire. The War with Mexico won a $500 prize from the American Peace Society. In it hedescribes expenditures, inhumanities, vices of camps, military executions, and the horrors of war.Deals with the causes of the war, and cites a number of speeches to show that the South wantedmore territory in order to spread slavery.” Tutorow 3223. Light wear to wrappers; light foxing;near fine, quite scarce in the original wrappers.(200/300)188. Lord, Elizabeth. Reminiscences of Eastern Oregon. 255 pp. Illustrated with 14 plates fromphotographs and other sources. 8x5¾, original green cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition.Portland, OR: The Irwin-Hodson Co., 1903Includes a detailed account of the author’s overland trip by oxen with the Laughlin party on thetrail to Oregon in 1850. Mintz notes that only a few copies of the book were printed for theauthor. Graff 2534; Howes L468; Mintz 304; Smith 6110; Eberstadt 298. Minor wear, previousowner’s name on front endpaper; near fine.(300/500)189. Low, A.P. Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands onBoard the D G S Neptune, 1903-1904. xvii, [1], 355 pp. Frontispiece portrait and fifty-one additionalleaves of illustrations from black-and-white photographs; large folding map in rear endpaper pocket.(8vo) original brown cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition.Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1906Interesting account of a Canadian government expedition to Hudson’s Bay to aid in maintainingpermanent stations in the Arctic region and to establish Canadian ownership of Ellesmere andSouthampton islands. Low’s well-written report offers considerable information on Eskimos,geology, whaling, and flora and fauna, and the text is supplemented with excellent photographs.Light wear to extremities, front hinge repaired; very good.(150/250)190. Lyman, George D. John Marsh, Pioneer: The Life Story of a Trail-blazer on Six Frontiers - Oneof 20 copies for presentation. 394 pp. Illustrated with plates from photographs, paintings, engravings,etc.; 4 inserted folding facsimile letters. Two-toned red cloth, leather spine label, top edge gilt, acetate,matching slipcase. One of twenty copies for presentation from a total edition of 150 copies. FirstEdition.New York: Scribner’s, 1930Signed by author on limitation page. Classic work into the fascinating life of this pioneeringdoctor’s life in California and the West. The facsimile letters were not issued for the regular tradeedition. Howes L578; Cowan p.400. Slipcase a bit faded; fine.(250/350)Page 58

191. (Maine) Waldron, Holman D. The Summer State of Maine. 24 pp. Illustrated with photographsand drawings by Harry D. Young. Approximately 16x10.5 cm. (6¼x4¼”), wrappers, the booklet iscut into the shape of the state of Maine, with a map illustrating the front wrapper.[Boston?]: Harrie B. Coe, [c.1893]A rare little tourism booklet, cut into the shape of Maine. Only 5 copies located by OCLC /Worldcat. Faint soiling on rear cover; near fine.(200/300)192. Mandat-Grancey, Le Baron E. de. La Breche auc Buffles. xvi, 292 pp. Double-page frontispieceand 5 additional double-page illustrations. 18x11.5 cm. (7x4½”), later cloth-backed marbled boards,leather spine label. First Edition.Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1889A French nobleman’s ranching experiences at Buffalo Gap in the Dakotas. Noted as very scarceto rare by bibliographer Ramon Adams. Adams Herd 1436; Six-Guns 1437; Dobie, p. 100;Graff 2668; Howes M245. A bit of extremity wear; light foxing; very good.(100/150)193. Mandat-Grancey, Le Baron E[dmond] de. Dans les Montagnes Rocheuses. 314, [1], pp.Frontispiece and 8 plates; folding map. (8vo) 17.7x11.2 cm. (7x4½”) modern calf-backed marbledboards. First Edition.Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie., 1884This account of a French nobleman’s adventures and misadventures in the Black Hills was laterpublished in English under the title, Cow-boys and Colonels; Narrative of a Journey across thePrairie and over the Black Hills of Dakota. Scarce, according to Ramon Adams; “moderatelyrare,” according to Howes. Adams Herd 1435; Adams Six-Guns 1436; Dobie, pp. 99-100; Graff2669; Howes M245. Minor wear; pages a touch browned at edges; very good.(200/300)SEVERAL MAPS OF THE AMERICAS194. (Map) Tallis, John. United States. Steel-engraved map, hand-colored in outline; surroundedwith engraved vignettes. 22.5x30 cm. (8¾x11¾”) plus decorative border.London: c.1846The United States with an apparently still-independent “maximum Texas” extending westwardto the Rio Grande in present New Mexico to include Santa Fe, Taos, etc. The map is drawn andengraved by J. Rapkin, and the 8 striking vignettes drawn by J. Marchant and engraved by J.Rogers, depicting a buffalo hunt, the Capitol in Washington, the Washington Monument, etc.Fine.(200/300)195. (Map) Tallis, John. North America. Steel-engraved map, hand-colored in outline; surroundedwith uncolored engraved vignettes. 30x22.3 cm. (11¾”x8¾”) plus decorative border.London: J. & F. Tallis, c.1847Detailed map of North America engraved by J. Rapkin. Includes 9 striking vignettes drawn byJ. Marchant and engraved by J. Rogers and shows Indians, Eskimos, Beavers, Niagara Falls, etc.Texas is part of the United States, but California and much of the west is still in Mexican hands;in the northwest, the boundary between U.S. territory and British North America is well southof the Columbia River. From “Tallis’s Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World.” Finecodition.(200/300)Page 59

196. (Map - Alaska) White Pass & Yukon Route. Map of the White Pass & Yukon Route andConnections. Folding color pocket map. In brown paper wrappers titled Map of Alaska Atlin and theYukon. 53x77 cm. (20¾x30¼”).Alaska: White Pass & Yukon Route, 1917Showing routes of the White Pass & Yukon railways and steamers, the “Gateway to the Yukon.”Plus the routes of the Nome-Seattle Steamship Lines, South Eastern Alaska Steamship Lines,the W.P. & U. Stage line to Dawson, and the U.S. Government winter trail to Fairbanks. Withinset, “Map of Atlin Lake District.” Brown wrappers a touch soiled; map is near fine with only afew tiny seamless tape repairs on verso, and a few other tiny closed tears at edges; near fine.(300/500)197. (Map - California) Johnstone, E. The Unique Map of California. Color lithograph map ofCalifornia, with several illustrations of various places of interest. 56x46 cm. (22x18”), plus margins.San Francisco: Dickman-Jones Co., [1885]With 20 vignettes throughout map showing various places of interest such as the Golden Gate,Coronado, Lake Tahoe, etc. Also shows drainage, railroads, and colored zones of mean annualtemperature. Mostly marginal finger smudging, stain at top edge, several small nicks and tearsat edges, the largest tear is 2” at top edge, a few tiny holes at crease folds; else a very good pieceworthy of restoration.(200/300)198. (Map - California) Mora, Jo[seph Jacinto]. California. This whimsical Carte of Topographicand Historic intention, depicting that fabled Isle of Montalvo’s dream-the El Dorado of ‘49-the gloriousCalifornia we know and love... Color lithograph map. Sheet measures 85.5x62.2 cm. (33¾x25¼”),mounted to board, framed.San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1927Brightly colored, humorous map of California in 1927, with a cartoon history from Cabrillo’slanding to the modern real estate boom in about one third of the image. Jo Mora (1876-1947)emigrated to California in 1903. He was an accomplished artist in many media and long-termresident of the Bay Area. Scarce. A few faint marks of soiling; very good.(500/800)199. (Map - California) Rand McNally and Company. Rand-McNally indexed pocket map andshippers’ guide of California. With two maps on both sides of single sheet, “The Rand McNally newcommercial atlas map of California” in full color, & “California automobile road map” with roadsprinted in red. 93.5x78.8 cm. (36¾x31”). Folding into booklet with 90 + [10] ad pp. of text, 16.5x10cm. (6½x4”), printed wrappers.Chicago: 1920Scarce commercial and road map of California. Light wear to wrappers; light wear on verso ofmap from being stuck to last page; near fine.(200/300)200. (Map - Marin County) Official Hearne Brothers Polyconic Projection Map of Marin County,California. Wall map, mounted on cloth, with wooden top roller and metal bottom weight. 163x124cm. (64½x48¾”).Detroit: Hearne Bros., 1955The main map covers the portion of Marin County from Novato south, with inset map of theentire county. Shows radial distances, and issued with radial index tape measure attached. Keyon verso. OCLC/WorldCat lists only one copy, at UC Berkeley. Some creasing and soiling tolower foot or so; very good.(300/500)Page 60

RARE PLAN OF CITY OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, 1818201. (Map - Savannah, Georgia) Stouf, I[sidore]. Plan of the City & Harbour of Savannah inChatham County, State of Georgia, Taken in 1818. Copper-engraved plan. 22x27 cm. (8½x10½”).No place: I. Stouf, April 9th, 1818Rare plan of the city of Savannah, Georgia, with inset view of Savannah from river front, belowtitle in upper right-hand corner. Also shown is the “Line of Defence thrown up in 1814”, avignette of a steamboat off Yamacraw, as well as a sailing ship off Ft. Wayne, plus the variousbuildings and streets, the cemetery, city common, etc. Oriented with north towards bottom,with depths shown bysoundings. OCLC/WorldCat lists only twocopies, at the GeorgiaHistorical Societyand Duke University.Phillips Maps p.786.Affixed at top marginto thin backing board,neatly split down thecenterfold, also splintalong the impressionline at the lower rightquadrant, with a smallchip in to margin justbeneath the impressionline at center, a fewmarginal chips atedges, mostly marginaldarkening and soiling,faint creasing at upperleft; good to very good,Lot 201worthy of restoration.(2000/3000)202. (Maps - Colorado) Ives, Joseph C. Geological Map No. 1 and Map No. 2 from Report upon theColorado River of the West. The 2 engraved folding maps from the publication. Sheet size 48x93 cm.(19x36½”).Washington: GPO, 1861Geological Map No. 1 and Map No. 2 prepared by J.S. Newberry for the publication. Very lightfoxing to both, Map No. 1 with long closed tears on left side, a few smaller closed tears on topedge, with several small tape repairs on verso; a few short closed tears to Map. No. 2, with a fewsmall tape repairs on verso; worthy of restoration; very good.(250/350)203. (Massachusetts) The perpetual laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, from the establishmentof its Constitution to the first session of the General Court, A.D. 1788. Compiled, arranged and printed tothe wishes of many respectable law characters, and the approbation of the honourable judges of the SupremeJudicial Court. Carefully compared with the original acts. [4], 389 pp. (8vo) 19.7x11.5 cm. (7¾x4½”),period sheep.Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1788The first true compilation of the complete laws of Massachusetts published the same year as theratification of the Constitution. Ink ownership signature of M. Rowe (?) to front flyleaf, datedJuly 10, 1788. Evans 21245; Sabin 45932. Covers scuffed, neat repair to front hinge, somenormal darkening/foxing to contents, very good.(400/600)Page 61

204. Mathews, Mrs. M[ary].M[cNair]. Ten Years in Nevada; Or, Life on the Pacific Coast. 343 pp.Illustrated. (8vo) Original cloth stamped in gilt and blind. First Edition.Buffalo: Baker, Jones & Co., 1880The author had a lively experience in California and Nevada, going there in 1869 to avenge themurder of her brother, and spending nearly ten years in the various mining camps and towns,including Virginia City, Gold Hill, American Flat, Silver City, Sutro, You Bet, Nevada City,and Red Dog. Incidents of life in these towns, together with sketches of the people, gambling,Chinese, etc., make up the contents. Howes M417; Paher 1249. Cloth worn at edges, rubbed,early owner’s name on front flyleaf; very good.(150/250)USF YEARBOOK FEATURING FOOTBALLER OLLIE MATSON205. (Matson, Ollie) University of San Francisco yearbook for Ollie Matson’s junior year. 114 pp.Profusely illustrated from photographs. 28x21.5 cm. (11x8½”), cloth.San Francisco: 1951Yearbook for football star Ollie Matson’s junior year, his first at the University of San Franciscoafter transferring from the City College of San Francisco. A running back who would go on toinduction in the pro football hall of fame, as well as winning an Olympic medal as a sprinter,Matson is perhaps best remembered for a game he did not play. During his junior year, Matson’sUSF team was decent, going 7-4, but the following year, the team was undefeated at 9-0, butfailed to get invited to a bowl team. It was later reported that the Orange, Sugar and GatorBowls - all in the American South - did not consider inviting any teams that had black players,and the USF players refused to play without their two African-American teammates, Matsonand Burl Toler. Nine players from the 1951 U.S.F. Dons made it to the N.F.L., and three of the— Gino Marchetti, Bob St. Clair and Matson — were eventually inducted into the ProfessionalFootball Hall of Fame. Its head coach was Joe Kuharich, who went on to coach at NotreDame and for three professional teams; and the athletic publicity director was Pete Rozelle,who became the N.F.L. commissioner. Matson is in five pictures in the yearbook, including afeatured picture of him tying is shoelaces. Toler who became the first black on-field official inthe National Football League, is also given a featured picture. The University of San Franciscoand USF Athletics welcomed members of the celebrated 1951 Dons Football Team back to theHilltop Saturday, October 8 to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of one of the most legendaryteams in college football history A little extremity rubbing, very good.(600/900)206. McAllister, Ward. Society As I Have Found It - Edition de Luxe of 400 copies. xv, 469 pp.Frontispiece portrait of the author. 25.3x18.3 cm. (10x7¼”), gold and blue cloth, with gilt armorialdevice on front covers, spine lettered in silver, all edges gilt. No. 253 of 400 copies of this Edition DeLuxe.New York: Cassell Publishing, [1890]Signed by Ward McAllister on the limitation statement. McAllister (1827-1895) was a wealthySan Francisco lawyer who moved to New York City and married a millionaire’s daughter. Thisis his memoirs, with accounts of his travels to Europe and his involvement in various societyaffairs. McAllister is credited with saying that only 400 people in New York’s elite society reallymattered, thus the De Luxe edition printed in a limitation of 400. Edge wear, light soiling; lightfoxing to early leaves and a few pen marks on frontispiece; very good.(300/500)207. McKelvey, Susan Delano. Botanical Exploration of the Trans-Mississippi West: 1790-1850. xl,1144 pp. With folding maps in text, plus two large folding maps in rear pocket. 25.4x18 cm. (10x7”),green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First Edition.Jamaica Plain, MA: Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 1955 [i.e. 1956]Important examination of the botanical aspects of all the Western exploration expeditions to1850. Light wear to spine ends; near fine.(250/350)Page 62

208. McWhorter, L.V. Hear Me, My Chiefs! Nez Perce Legend and History. Illustrated withphotographs; maps. (8vo) tan cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1952, 1952An “exhaustive and thorough examination” of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indianwar on this continent, described by Tweney as “Indian history, told from the Indian point ofview, and depends largely on Indian sources.” Tweney 47. Jacket edge worn, with tape repairs atedges; fine in a very good jacket.(200/300)209. Melendy, H. Brett & Benjamin F. Gilbert. The Governors of California: Peter H. Burnett toEdmund G. Brown. Illustrated with portrait plates. Gilt-lettered cloth, double slipcase. No. 32 of 75copies of the specially bound, boxed special edition. First Edition.Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1965Signed by the authors in the colophon. Light wear to outer box; else fine.(100/150)210. (Melville, Herman) McCurdy, R[obert] H. Autograph Letter Signed, from Robert H. McCurdyto his son, who knew Herman Melville and has been portrayed as his lover. 2 pages + integral stamplessaddress leaf. 27x21 cm. (10¾x8¼”).New York: December 21, 1850Letter written to Theodore F. McCurdy, c/o N. Berry, Paris, France, from his father in NewYork. About 14 months before the letter was written, Herman Melville, then 31 yeas old, hadsailed for Europe to search for a British publisher. At the start of the 25-day journey, Melvillefeared that he would have to share a cabin with Theodore McCurdy, 21 year-old law student,son of a rich New York merchant (and cousin of the ship’s Captain) whom Melville describedas “a lisping youth of genteel capacity…quite disposed to be sociable”. Happily told that hewould have a stateroom to himself, Melville spent the weeks on board talking philosophy witha Professor of Languages and a Doctor, joined in more sociable hours by McCurdy, who freelypaid for the champagne and brandy. Arrived in London, the quartet spent happy eveningstogether until the Doctor and McCurdy left for a trip to Egypt and Jerusalem. Melville was backin New York in February 1850 to see the publication of White-Jacket - and to begin work onthe whaling novel which was to be his masterpiece. When this letter was written by the seniorMcCurdy to his son, continuing the “grand tour” in Paris, Melville had nearly finished MobyDick and had probably forgotten all about the tall, sickly, rich youth with whom he had crossedthe Atlantic – notwithstanding a recent novel in which “Teddy” McCurdy appears as Melville’sshipboard gay lover. The letter reads in part, “..Uncle Charles…writes that Mr. Webster sayshe shall have his instructions immediately and may be off as soon as he pleases. He also saysthat Austria has complained in high terms of our government but that ‘he does not intendto eat humble pie’... Your French letter to sister was rather a puzzle…after some considerabledeciphering… You must write oftener and a great deal more in detail. You doubtless will say‘what new can I write about Paris?’ We say, Your own experience of it, in all its particulars….”Other than Melville’s diary of the trip, little is known about McCurdy or the colorful unclementioned in this letter, who was apparently working for Secretary of State Daniel Webster incountering Austrian diplomatic threats to retaliate for American support of the unsuccessfulHungarian revolution against Austrian rule. Fine.(100/150)Each lot is illustrated in color in the online version of the catalogue.Go to www.pbagalleries.comPage 63

211. (Mexico) Juarez, Benito. El Gobierno Constitucional a la Nacion. 3 pp. on a single folded sheet.28x21.8 cm. (11x8½”).Veracruz, Mexico: January 30, 1860Letter press address on The Constitutional Government To the Nation. Considered theGeorge Washington of his country, Benito Juarez had been “Interim President” of Mexicofor two tumultuous years of civil war when he and six Ministers of his cabinet, issued thismanifesto from his headquarters at Vera Cruz, denouncing Spain’s financial treaty with the rivalconservative military regime in Mexico City that had rebelled against the liberal reform policiesof his Constitutional government. By giving diplomatic recognition to the “enemies of liberty”,he wrote, Spain had committed an act “offensive to the dignity” of the Mexican Republic. Ayear later, to the dismay of Spain and other European powers, the Juarez Government, withUS support, recaptured Mexico City. But then French Emperor Napoleon III took advantageof the American Civil War to invade Mexico, proclaiming the “Empire” of Austrian ArchdukeMaximilian – and Juarez led an ultimately victorious five year war against the French and theirconservative Mexican allies. Minor wear; fine.(250/350)212. (Mexico-U.S. Boundary) Boundary between the United States and Mexico, as surveyed and markedby the International Boundary Commission, under the Convention of July 29th, 1882, revived February18th, 1889. With title-page + 26 double-page maps & profiles. 72.5x54 cm. (28½x21¼”), half sheep& marbled boards.Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899To accompany Report of the Boundary Commission upon the survey and remarking of theboundary between the United States and Mexico west of the Rio Grande, 1891 to 1896./Published also as Senate document 247 (v. 25) 55th Congress, 2nd session. Covers worn, frontdetached; some marginal chipping to contents, good to very good.(500/800)213. (Military) Cutts, Richard & William Lee. Printed document, completed by hand, signed asSecond Comptroller and Auditor of the US Treasury. Printed document, completed by hand. 1 page,approximately 16½x10½”.Washington, D.C.: September 19, 1826By this document, officials of President John Quincy Adams’ Treasury Department auditedthe expenditures of John Chafee, Army Paymaster at Springfield, Massachusetts for Armories,Arming and Equipping the Militia, and Ordnance. Cutts (1771-1845), former MassachusettsCongressman, Superintendent of Military Supplies during the War of 1812, and husbandof Dolley Madison’s younger sister, was a friend to four Presidents – until he was throwninto debtors prison and forced to sell his mansion across the street from the White House,to his sister-in-law, who made it a center of Washington society. Both Cutts and Lee,another Massachusetts Yankee, were soon to be purged by Andrew Jackson and replaced by“undistinguished and inexperienced” Democratic Party stalwarts. Creased, archival repairs tofolds, edges worn; very good.(100/150)214. (Military - Espionage) Nichols, W.A. Printed document, signed. General Orders No. 371...CourtMartial...William T. Smithson. Printed document, signed at the close. 7 pp.Washington, D.C.: November 18, 1863General Orders No. 371. U.S. War Department, Washington, D.C., November 18, 1863.Court-Martial of William T. Smithson, a Washington banker, linked to the “spy ring” of thefamous capital hostess Rose O’Neal Greenhow, for “giving Intelligence to the enemy”, Using anassumed name and writing in code, Smithson, in the ninth month of the Civil War, sent a (Confederate?)Colonel what amounted to little more than gossip, which he himself lamented was ofno military value (“We can learn little or nothing about the intended movements of MClellan’sarmy across the river. I believe the fellow is a coward, and will never attack you without he isforced to do it I would like to see you rush down upon him, if you think it safe or best to doso. I think you could drive them back to their forts with ease…” Smithson was undoubtedly aPage 64

ebel stalwart (“If you should fail to succeed, I don’t wish to live any longer”) but useless as a spy.Nevertheless, having “held correspondence with the enemy” (as well as reportedly investing inConfederate bonds) – and despite a suggestion from President Lincoln that the case might beturned over to a civil court – Smithson was found guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment.Creased; else fine.(150/250)215. (Military - West Point) Lincoln, Abram B. Autograph Letter, signed, regarding cadet vacancies atWest Point. Autograph Letter, signed. 1 pp. + integral stampless address leaf.West Point: February 7, 1840To Samuel G. Brown, Henrietta, New York, about Cadet vacancies at the West Point MilitaryAcademy: “Of the sixteen that entered last June from the state of N.Y. only about half of themnow remain and out of our class of one hundred that presented themselves for admission andof eighty four that were admitted only fifty two now remain. Perhaps before this you havesucceeded in getting an appointment.... While his almost-namesake was an obscure younglawyer in Illinois, New Yorker Abram B. Lincoln received an appointment to the West PointClass of 1845, which also included several future Civil War Generals. Lincoln himself, aftergraduation, served in the Mexican-American War and was severely wounded at the battle ofMolino del Rey. He died in Florida in 1852, while on sick leave. The recipient of this letter,Samuel George Brown, who had aspired to a scientific education, never attended West Point; hewas to die of tuberculosis three years later But he inspired intellectual curiosity in his youngersister Antoinette, who went on to study Theology at Oberlin College, where she was refuseda degree because she was a woman. Nevertheless, in 1853, Antoinette Brown became the firstordained woman Minister in America – a pioneering feminist like her future sister-in-law,Elizabeth Blackwell, who became the first woman medical doctor. Creased from mailing, lightwear; near fine.(150/250)216. (Military - West Point) Metcalfe, John T. Autograph Letter, signed, from a Cadet at West Point.Autograph Letter, signed. 3 pages plus address leaf.West Point, NY: August 30, 1837To Lt. Edwin M. Morgan, Fortress Munroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia. Long and frankletter from Mississippi Cadet John Thomas Metcalfe to a former roommate on active Armyservice. Metcalfe, a classmate of future Civil War Generals Pierre Beauregard (called “Beaury”in the letter) and Irvin McDowell, describes the Military Ball held two days before as “agreat affair…all kinds of folk at it”, but lamented that the Cadets had been allowed only twosummer cotillion parties a week. He had sour words about Commandant of Cadets JohnFowle (“Old Jack…thinks he is Jesus Christ”) and Colonel Rene De Russy, the AcademySuperintendent, (“has placed an infinite distance between his august and mighty self and thosepoor d-n contemptible things called Cadets”) and some junior instructors “of d-d rascality”,but praised one visiting professor (“possesses universal knowledge…converses very fluently andwith much elegance and is enabled by an inexhaustible store of anecdote to enliven and amuseexceedingly”). A year later, Metcalfe graduated seventh in his class (Beauregard ranked second),fought Indians in Florida, but then resigned his commission and became a distinguished Doctorin New York City. (Full text of the letter available on request). Creased, light wear; near fine.(250/350)You can bid absentee directly from the item description inthe online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries.com.Or bid during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder.Page 65

217. (Military - West Point) West Point. Invitation to a Ball at the US Military Academy. Printedinvitation completed by hand. 1 page plus stampless address leaf. Approximately 7x4½”.West Point, NY: 1837To Miss Clarissa Barnett, Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania: “The Corps of CadetsRESPECTFULLY request the attendance of Miss Clarissa Barnett at their MILITARY BALL,on Monday evening, the 28th instant......West Point, August 10, 1837. With the complimentsof Cadet Rogers” Heading the list of “Managers” of the Ball was G.T. Beauregard, the futureConfederate General, “a grave, reserved and withdrawn youth” in those years, who “excelledin sports, rode a horse beautifully, made high marks” and had “a tragic love affair” with thedaughter of a high-ranking General. Other Cadets of Civil War note who might have attendedthe Ball were Irvin McDowell, of Beauregard’s Class of 1838; Henry Halleck and EdwardCanby, Class of 1839; and William Tecumseh Sherman, Class of 1840. Daniel Rogers ofPennsylvania, who sent this invitation, was a classmate of Sherman’s who was commissioneda Lt. of Dragoons, serving in the Florida War and on the Indian frontier, where he was courtmartialedfor insubordination and sentenced to be dismissed from the service. President Tylerremitted the sentence and Rogers rejoined his Texas regiment in time for the Mexican-AmericanWar, only to die, two years later, at Vera Cruz. Creased, light wear; very good.(300/500)218. (Mineralogy) Rebello, Jose Silvestre. Autograph Letter, signed, regarding mineralogical samples.Autograph Letter, signed. 2 pp.Rio de Janeiro: November 4, 1831To Dr. [Joshua] Cohen, Baltimore, by the Brig Mentor: “…The people here cannotcomprehend that prosperity is dependent on education and instead of going on, they areretrograding, it is owed in part to European intrigues, we are now by our political situation toomuch exposed to [rascalous?] influence…. I sent… two small boxes with minerals, one for youand another for the Academy…offer that last in my name and accepting the other for you as atoken of my gratitude to your kindness, send me word upon my classifications and upon themerit of the contents. I must remember you to read the labels before you open the packages,the Diamond and Christalline Gold are so small pieces that they can be lost…” With Cohen’snearly-illegible note at bottom: “Replied…thanks for Academy and self. Label marked Corallinesought to be Quarz Agate. Green Topaz are new. Are you sure that they belong to Topaz…I hopehe may be able to obtain some [purple ?] Feeling much interested in crystallization of it…”In 1824, two years after Brazil declared its independence from Portugal, Brazil’s first envoy tothe United States arrived at Baltimore. During his five years in America, Jose Silvestre Rebellowas warmly welcomed by some of the great men of Washington –Adams, Jefferson, Madison,Monroe and Jackson - but also by Baltimore citizens like Dr. Joshua I. Cohen, pillar of theamateur scientific society soon to be incorporated as the Maryland Academy of Sciences. Cohen,one of the first Jews elected to public office in Maryland, had wide-ranging interests as a wealthycollector, from autograph letters of the Founding Fathers and early American paper money togems and minerals. It was thanks to his continuing friendship with Rebello that the BaltimoreAcademy acquired the rare mineral samples described in this letter. Letter separated at all folds,repaired with archival tape, no loss to text; very good.(100/150)BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS OF GOLD DREDGING COMPANY219. (Mining) Minutes of Gold Hill Dredging Company (cover title). 11, 157 leaves, typewritten onrectos only. 36x21.5 cm. (14¼x8½”), brad-bound in half leather and cloth vertical binding.Carson City & San Francisco: 1932-1935Fascinating and informative record of the business dealings of a gold mining company operatingnear Folsom, California, in the depths of the depression. The record begins with the by-lawsof the company, and the consent thereto signed by the five members of the board of directors.This is almost immediately followed by the resignation of the board, and the sale of the companyto principals in the Hillcone Steamship Company, from which Gold Hill received a substantialloan. The headquarters of the company was moved from Carson City, Nevada, to San Francisco,and E.B. DeGolia became president. Transactions with banks and the Pacific Gas & ElectricCompany are covered in the minutes of the meetings of the board of directors, purchase of capi-Page 66

tal equipment, plans to sell gold amalgam abroad, the volatile labor situation, etc. The minutesare signed by the board members. The last portion of the record is dominated by the applicationfor and receiving of a $240,000 loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, an independentagency of the United States government, established and chartered by the US Congress in1932, making loans to state and local governments as well as businesses. Thus the federal governmentwas able to alleviate some of the financial pressures on the Gold Hill Dredging Company.A sample stock certificate is bound in, and nine original photographs of several massive dredgesare laid in loose, each approx. 8x10”. Very good condition.(700/1000)220. (Mining) Three ephemeral pieces relating to the Mitchell Mining Company. Includes: Printed “Copyof Report of Prof. Robert T. Hill, secured for several friends and himself, and published at the requestof The Mitchell Mining Company.” 4 pp., on both sides of two sheets of paper. (A little browned,a few slight corner chips.) Dec. 24th, 1902. * Prospectus for the “Mitchell Mining Company (LaDicha Mining & Smelting Co. of Mexico.” 4 pp., single folded sheet. (1st page slightly browned.)No date. * Certificate for 100 shares of stock in the Mitchell Mining Company, with engraving ofminers underground, signed by the 2nd vice president and assistant secretary of the company. 1907.Together, 3 items.c.1902-1907Though headquartered in Los Angeles, the company was incorporated in Arizona, and the mineswere located in Guerrero, Mexico, about 40 miles north of Acapulco. Very good.(400/600)221. (Mississippi River) Atlas illustrating report of March 20, 1909, of Board on Examination andSurvey of Mississippi River... Title-page & 52 double-page plates of maps, charts, graphs, etc. 63.5x53cm. (25x21”, cloth.Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909House of Representatives. Document no. 50. 61st Congress. 1st session. March 15-August 5,1909. Covers sunned and soiled; very good.(300/500)222. (Missouri) Duerinck, John Baptiste, George A. Carrell et al. Manuscript DocumentSigned, regarding college expenses, signed by Jesuit botanist John Baptiste Duerinck and several others. 2pp.including stampless address leaf (both sides of single sheet), mailed to Rev. Carrell as President of St.Louis University. 40x24.5 cm. (15¾x9¾”).Cincinnati & St. Louis: 1844-46A long legal document, making the University’s claim for college expenses incurred by ChouteauSmith (apparently named for the famous family of Missouri fur-traders) while a student atSt. Xavier College, a Jesuit school in Cincinnati which drew its faculty from the Catholic St.Louis University, oldest university west of the Mississippi. The first scholar to make the trekfrom Missouri to Ohio was Duerinck (1809-1857), a Belgian Jesuit who had come to Americaas a missionary and took the opportunity to pursue his botanical interests, collecting plantsthroughout the Midwest, making “important ethnobotanical observations”, one new plant hehad discovered being named in his honor. He later headed a Jesuit college in a frontier region ofKansas, which was “regarded as an island of civilization by travelers on the Oregon Trail.” A fewshort tears at folds, very good.(150/250)The Buyer’s Premium will be 20% for bids up to $100,000and 15% for that portion over $100,000.Page 67

223. (Missouri, Kentucky) Atkinson, James E. Autograph Letter, signed regarding a journey onhorseback from St. Louis to Baltimore. Autograph Letter, signed. 3 pages plus stampless address leaf.Easton, MD: June 24, 1830To Richard Cromwell, c/o Deaver Cromwell & Co., Merchants, St. Louis. After visiting hisfriend Cromwell, a young Baltimore man who had opened a clothing supply business in thenewly-incorporated city of St. Louis, in partnership with an in-law of the famous Chouteaufamily of French fur-traders, Atkinson took a month-long trip on horseback home to Marylandwhich he outlines in this letter. The journey took him to Lexington, Kentucky (“one of thefinest countries in the West”), Washington, D.C. (“saw all the wise men of the nation”) andHarper’s Ferry, Virginia, and had its adventurous moments. On one lonely road, Atkinsonwas “overtaken” by “an old and ruff fellow” who “either wished to keep me from making anassault upon him, or to ascertain whether I was armed...showed me his pistols…I talked of mypercussion caps and I believe frightened him, although not armed with anything save a smalliron knife…” Creased, light wear; near fine.(100/150)224. (Monroe, James) Tillotson, Robert. Autograph Letter, signed, from Robert Tillotson, the nephewand close advisor to President Monroe, to Supreme Court Justice Smith Thompson. Autograph Letter,signed. 1 page plus integral address leaf. Approximately 10x8”.New York: November 8, 1823Tillotson, the nephew and close advisor to President Monroe writes to newly-appointed U.S.Supreme Court Justice Smith Thompson in Washington: “… if the Legislature alters the[mode?] of choosing the Electors, the power of the state with the electors will be thrown in thehands of Mr. Clinton and that this is to be the great bugbear of alarm. If anything can indicatethe total want of political discrimination, it is the perseverance with which M.V.B. and hisfriends hold the [language?] of resistance…this course would aid Mr. Clinton more than theprobable [chance?] he has for the electors. There is some public sentiment indicating [?] in favorof a candidate from [?] our State which I think will extend itself...Livingston is now here andstates that he intends to spend part of the winter in Albany with the view of passing the necessityfor a candidate from New York. Mr. Clinton is now openly supported by the federal partyand... will no doubt be in the field. The members from Dutchess are what are called the Stumpcandidates. What course they will pursue I do not know. Those from Ulster among whom ismy brother John may be relied on as promoting the views of this State.” Thompson was moreheavily involved in partisan politics than any Supreme Court Justice of his generation, evenrunning for Governor of New York while retaining his judicial office. Tillotson had long beenThompson’s booster at the White House, a significant political influence, as he was his uncle’scloset adviser. Creased from mailing; fine.(100/150)225. (Mormon) Olshausen, Theodor. Geschichte der Mormonen Oder Jungsten-tages-heiligen inNordamerika. iv, 244 pp. (8vo) period brown half morocco and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt.First Edition.Gottingen: Bandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1856Only edition of an early history of Mormonism, written by a German resident of St. Louis.The work deals extensively with Joseph Smith, the revelation of the Book of Mormon, and theMormons’ peregrinations to Nauvoo, Independence, and finally Utah. Flake 5992; Howes O81;Sabin 57255 Extremities rubbed; very good.(400/600)226. (Mormon - Mountain Meadows Massacre) Buchanan, James. Message of the President of theUnited States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to themassacre at Mountain Meadows, and other massacres in Utah Territory. 139 pp. 22.7x14.5 cm. (9x5¾”),removed from larger volume, still holding together.Washington: 1860Important documentation of the series of attacks on the Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon train,at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah. The attacks culminated in the mass slaughter of thePage 68

emigrant party by the Utah Territorial Militia and some local Native Americans. Flake 09191;Graff 4418; Howes M867; Wagner-Camp 352a, noting “In addition to documents and correspondenceconcerning the slaughter of the Arkansas emigrants in Utah, this item contains a longreport by Frederick W. Lander concerning the Indians along the Snake River between Fort Halland Fort Boise.” 36th Cong. 1st Sess. Senate. Ex. Doc. No. 42. Added to the lot is Jossiah Gibbs’The Mountain Meadows Massacre, 2nd edition, 1910, 59 pp., in new wrappers employing theprinted portions of the original wrappers. Some foxing, very good.(300/500)227. Moseley, H.N. Oregon: Its Resources, Climate, People and Productions. 125 pp. Foldinglithographed frontispiece map, hand colored. 16.5x10 cm. (6½x4”), original gilt-lettered green cloth.London: Edward Stanford, 1878A general overview of the resources of Oregon, including a brief historical sketch, politicalorganization, agricultural productions, etc. The author traveled with Wallis Nash to Oregon in1877. Graff 2914. Light staining and extremity wear to covers, front hinge cracked, ink name tofront endpaper dated 1879; very good.(200/300)228. (Muir, John) Hooper, Captain C.L. Report on the Cruise of the U.S. Revenue Steamer ThomasCorwin in the Arctic Ocean, 1881. 147 pp. Frontispiece and 14 additional plates; text illustrations.(4to) original blue pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition.Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884Captain Hooper’s summary report documents an important scientific expedition to the ArcticOcean undertaken in 1881, which included such notables as the naturalists John Muir andEdward William Nelson. The expedition sailed from San Francisco and traveled along theshore of Alaska, with stops on islands in the Aleutians and Kotzebue Sound, and with landingson Herald and Wrangel Islands in the Chukchi Sea. The report is illustrated with several fineethnographic photographs taken by Edward Nelson of indigenous peoples, including Inuit andChukchi, showing people in traditional clothing, tents, homes, sleds and other artifacts. At therear of the text is a report by John Muir, “On the Glaciation of the Arctic and Subarctic Regionsvisited by the United States Steamer Corwin in the year 1881.” Kimes 162. Spine ends frayed;one plate detached, some chipping and creasing to tissue guards; very good.(150/250)229. (Muir, John) Loomis, Henry B. Typed Letter, signed, regarding a trip to Alaska with John Muir.Typed letter, signed. 1 page.Seattle: September 17, 1890To his cousin Philo E. Wright, Detroit: “…My trip to Alaska was very interesting andinstructive. I sent Maud several copies of the Seattle Press containing my account of some of thethings which we saw at Muir Glacier. I wrote an account of the entire trip, but in as much asseveral descriptions of the trip to and from Glacier Bay had recently been published in Seattlepapers, I with-held that portion of mine….The growth of Seattle is wonderful; the populationhas increased so rapidly that streets are being opened, for the first time, in every direction…In time I think it will be a beautiful city…” As recorded in his posthumously-published book,Travels in Alaska, conservationist John Muir made four early trips to Alaska, long before theKlondike Gold Rush. On the last, in 1890, he was joined, he recalled, by “Mr. Loomis, whohad agreed to go with me as far as the Muir Glacier”, so named to honor his efforts to preserveits natural beauty. At the time, Loomis briefly wrote about their experiences for the Seattlepress, but as Muir’s own account was being serialized in San Francisco newspapers, he decided,as explained in this letter, to “withhold” his own complete narrative. Not until a century laterdid California historian Ronald Limbaugh, finding the unpublished 90-page manuscript at theYale Library, give due recognition to Henry Bradford Loomis (1853-1939), Muir’s “irresolutecompanion”, the “son of a prominent Yale mathematician and astronomer… a young Seattleattorney whom Muir had first met during the California Scot’s 1888 trip to climb MountRainier. Loomis own record of their 3-month Alaska excursion together, wrote Limbaugh,offered “a starkly contrasting view to Muir’s glowing nature prose” - and documented how the“human spirit” of this stolid court-room litigator was “transformed” by the “healing power ofnature”. Creased, a few small stains; very good.Page 69(150/250)

ACTS OF NEW YORK ASSEMBLY, 1726230. (New York) Acts of Assembly passed in the Province of New-York, from 1691 to 1725.Examined andcompared with the originals in the Secretary’s Office. [10], 252 [i.e. 256], 261-319 pp. (folio) 31.2x18.5cm. (12¼x7¼”), late 19th/early 20th century half morocco & cloth, spine lettered in gilt, raisedbands.New York: Printed and sold by W. Bradford, printer to the King for the Province of New-York,1726Rare compilation of legislative acts and laws ofthe Colony of New York in the late 17th and early18th century. Printed by William Bradford (1663-1752), sometimes referred to as “the pioneerprinter of the Middle colonies,” was the head ofa family that included leading publishers for 140years. Bradford established his press in 1695 afteremigrating from England to Philadelphia. Aftertroubles with Pennsylvania authorities regardingfreedom of the press, Bradford moved to NewYork in 1693, becoming the official printer of thecolony, and in 1725 began printing the New YorkGazette, the first newspaper published in the state.Only one copy of the 1726 printing of the Actshas sold at public auction since 1975, accordingto American Book Prices Current, in 1985. Thepresent copy of the Acts has the first 5 leaves (thetitle and index) in facsimile, also in facsimile arepp. 125-128 (signature Ll, missigned Kk), andthe final leaf, comprising p. 319, with the versoblank. Pp. 279-288 are shorter than the othersand the paper slightly thinner, likely suppliedfrom another copy. Sold as is. Evans 2785.Rubberstamp of the Western Reserve Law Schoolto front pastedown and the (facsimile) title-page.Several ownership signatures on p.1, two crossedout, others being Caleb Riggs and Sam. R. Betts,with dates 1800 and 1827. Scuffing to joints andextremities; contents browned with foxing, somedampstaining, some leaves dog-eared with cornersLot 230broken off, a few leaves with neat repairs, overallvery good.(1000/1500)231. (New York City) Valentine, D.T. Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1854. xii,560 pp. With numerous folding maps and plans, lithographed plates, etc. 19x11.5 cm. (7½x4½”),original cloth.New York: 1854Marvelous compendium of information on the greatest American city, its government, socialorganizations, buildings, economic institutions, etc. Some wear to corners and spine ends; tearsto a few of the folding maps, one loose; very good.(300/500)232. (Niagara Falls) Twenty-eight stereoview cards of Niagara Falls. 28 stereoview images. 17 on 3½x7”mounts; 11 on 4½x7” mounts.Various places: c.1870sAn assortment of images and photographic studios, including H.F. Neilson, George Barker,George E. Curtis, Charles Bierstadt, and a few unmarked mounts. Some light wear, spotting,soiling; very good.(150/250)Page 70

233. Nicolay, C[harles] G. The Oregon Territory: A Geographical and Physical Account of that Countryand its Inhabitants with Outlines of its History and Discovery. 226 pp. Folding map; wood-engravedfrontispiece showing the mouth of the Columbia River. 15x9.5 cm. (6x3¾”), original printedwrappers. First Edition.London: Charles Knight & Co., 1846Overview of the Oregon situation at a time of controversy. As Wagner-Camp notes, “In additionto presenting the British arguments in the Oregon Controversy, Nicolay describes in detail theearly settlement of the Pacific Northwest and the rise and development of the fur trade. Hetakes freely from the printed primary sourcees, such as Ross Cox, Fremont, and others.” Theuntitled folding map of the Pacific Northwest faces page 102, measures 13.7x11.3 cm. Rare inthe original wrappers, issued as Knight’s Weekly Volume for All Readers LXXXIX. Howes N151;Sabin 55251; Smith 7311; Wagner-Camp 112c:1. With bookplate of William D. Fenton oninside of front wrapper, his signature on front free endpaper. A bit of rubbing to wrappers, frontwrapper detached, wear to spine, very good, in custom-made folding cloth box.(250/350)234. Nixon, Richard. Leaders. (8vo) original blue leather stamped in gilt. No. 401 of 2500 copies.First Edition.[New York]: Warner Books, [1982]Signed by Nixon at the limitation statement. Fine.(300/500)235. Nixon, Richard. The Real War. (8vo) original red leather stamped in gilt. No. 156 of 2500copies. First Edition.[New York]: Warner Books, [1980]Signed by Nixon at the limitation statement. The original shipping carton still present. Fine.(300/500)236. (Northern Pacific Railroad) The Northern Pacific Railroad: Its Route, Resources, Progress andBusiness : The New Northwest and its Great Thoroughfare. 47, [1] pp. Map to rear wrapper. (8vo)original printed wrappers bound in modern green cloth. First Edition.[Philadelphia]: Jay Cooke & Co., [1871]Early and quite scarce promotional literature for the Northern Pacific Railroad, issued byfinancier Jay Cooke, “financial agent” for the nascent railroad. The report describes the climateand economic prospects of the Pacific Northwest, and offers a detailed account of the newrailroad’s financing, reconnaissance and construction. Smith 7397. Light soiling to wrappers,very good.(150/250)237. Noyes, Al. J. In the Land of Chinook, or the Story of Blaine County. 152 pp. Illustrated with 24plates, most from photographs. (8vo), Original green cloth. First Edition.Helena: State Pub. Co., [1917]Includes a chapter on Charles M. Russell. Graff 3050; Howes N220; Smith 7487. Some lightwear to spine ends and corners, a few small spots to cloth, bookplate; else very good.(250/350)Each lot is illustrated in color in the online version of the catalogue.Go to www.pbagalleries.comPage 71

SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF OBAMA’S “DREAMS”238. Obama, Barack. Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Cloth backed boards,dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing.[New York]: Times Books, [1995]With “First Edition” and number-line beginning with “2” on copyright page. Signed by the44th and current President of the United States, Barack Obama, on the title page. Light wear tojacket edges; bottom edge lightly rubbed; book and jacket near fine.(1000/1500)Lot 238239. (Obama, Barack) White, Jesse, editor. Illinois Blue Book, 2000. (8vo) blindstamped tan clothwith state seal and spine lettering in blue.No place: [State of Illinois], 2000Signed by Barack Obama in ballpoint pen on the front cover. Obama’s U.S. Senator businesscard laid in. A few page corners creased; fine.(500/800)240. (Oregon) McCormick, S.J. Portland City Directory for 1873: Embracing a General Directory ofResidents, a Directory of East Portland; together with a Business Directory, and other Statistics relative tothe Progress and Present Condition of the City. xxiv, [1]-256, 253a-556a, [557]-294 pp. Includes mayillustrated advertisements. (8vo) original black leather-backed boards. Eleventh Year of Publication.Portland, OR: A.G. Walling, 1873Scarce early Portland directory. The preliminary advertising pages are printed on variouslycolored papers. The street diagram notes, “Owing to the destruction by fire of a map of the City,prepared expressly for this work, we insert this diagram.” Extremities rubbed; some foxing andoffsetting; very good.(800/1200)The auction will be begin at 11:00 a.m.Page 72

241. (Oregon) Portland City Directory for the Year 1876. Embracing General Directory of Residents, aDirectory of East Portland [&] Albina; together with a Business Directory and other Statistics relative tothe Progress and Present Condition of the City. viii, 230 pp. Illustrations in advertisements. (8vo) blackleather-backed boards. Fourteenth year of publication.Portland, OR: A.G. Walling, 1876A scarce directory; important primary source material for early Oregon history. Boards worn atedges; publisher’s notice, title page, and table of contents supplied in professionally producedfacsimile, lacking one advertisement leaf (pages 45-46); very good.(500/800)MASSIVE HISTORY OF KLAMATH COUNTY, OREGON242. (Oregon) Sisemore, Linsy, ed. History of Klamath County, Oregon. xix, [3], 598, [6] pp. Onehundred thirteen leaves of portraits and other illustrations, chiefly from black-and-white photographs.(Thick 4to) original textured black cloth. First Edition.Klamath Falls, Oregon: 1941Number 64 of an unspecified limitation, this copy signed by historian Rachel Applegate Good.Massive volume, an excellent source of historical, biographical and genealogical information forthis Southern Oregon county. Smith 9493. Light wear, rippling to rear endpaper; very good.(800/1200)243. (Oregon) The Haut Ton Directory of Portland, Oregon. A Residence Address, Visiting, Club, Theatreand Shopping Guide. 134 pp. Numerous advertisements; tipped in seating plan of the New ParkTheatre. 6½x4¼, brown cloth lettered in gilt.Portland, Or.: C.H. McIsaac, Publisher, 1888Very scarce social register and directory for late-nineteenth-century Portland high society, withmembership lists of social clubs, instructions on the finer points of etiquette, and an interestingintroductory essay (“Noblesse Oblige”) on what constitutes “polite society” in a recentlyformed frontier community. Light wear to cloth at ends and corners; title page nearly detached,handwritten corrections to several addresses; very good.(500/800)244. Outland, Charles F. Man-Made Disaster. The Story of St Francis Dam Its Place in SouthernCalifornia’s Water System, Its Failure and the Tragedy of March 12 and 13, 1928 in the Santa Clara RiverValley. 249 pp. Portraits and other text illustrations; folding map. (8vo) brown cloth. First edition.Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1963This copy signed by the author. Less than two years after completion, the dam in SanFrancisquito Canyon north of Los Angeles broke at midnight and took the lives of 450 personsand destroyed towns and orchards in the Santa Clara River valley. Light wear to cloth, stickerresidue on rear cover; very good.(100/150)You can bid absentee directly from the item description inthe online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries.com.Or bid during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder.Page 73

245. Owen, John. The Journals and Letters of Major John Owen, Pioneer of the Northwest, 1850-1871,Embracing His Purchase of St. Mary’s Mission; the Building of Fort Owen; His Travels; His Relation withthe Indians; His Work for the Government; and His Activities as a Western Empire Builder for TwentyYears. Transcribed and Edited from the Original Manuscripts in the Montana Historical Society andthe Collection of W.R. Coe, Esq. by Seymour Dunbar: and with Notes to Owen’s Texts by Paul C.Phillips. 2 volumes. Illustrated with 30 plates from photographs and other sources, printed tissueguards; 2 folding maps. (8vo), red cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. One of 550 copies. FirstEdition.New York: Edward Eberstadt, 1927“John Owen appeared in the Northwest in 1849, and the following year established himselfas a trader in the Bitter Root Valley in what was then the Oregon Territory. From then until1877 he was one of the outstanding pioneer figures. He built Fort Owen, he built the firstcommercial gristmill in the Northwest, he was an adviser of Steptoe and Wright in the IndianWars, and he assisted in locating the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Between the years1851 to 1864 he made thirty-four journeys throughout the Northwest by pack-train and otherprimitive methods for a total of 23,000 miles. Many of these trips took him as far west as FortVancouver, with numerous visits to Fort Walla Walla, Fort Colville, and other strategic pointsin the Northwest. This is the first publication of his journals and letters, which hitherto werelargely unknown.” - Tweney. There was also a large paper edition of 50 copies. Graff 3148;Howes O163; Smith 7762; Tweney 58. Spines faded, worn at ends and corners; small stickers onendpapers; very good.(250/350)LETTERS AND MANUSCRIPT REGARDING THOMAS PAINE AND HIS WRITINGS246. (Paine, Thomas) Small collection of letters and manuscripts regarding Thomas Paine and his writings.Small collection of letters and manuscripts, 13 pages in total.Various places: Various datesComprising: Grant Thorburn, Autograph Letters Signed, Hallets Cove [Long Island], New York,March 5, 1838, 2pp. To William L. Stone, considering whether Paine was a “Licentious Character”;and New York, May 14, 1838. 1 pg. To William G. Goddard, Providence, asking for returnof a manuscript sketch of Paine’s Life which he had sent him earlier; Unsigned and undated 4page Autograph Letter, apparently to Thorburn, criticizing the first Paine biography publishedafter his death, and “the defence of Paine alluded to by your friend Goddard”; 4-page AutographLetter/Manuscript, “The Life of T.P.”, unsigned and undated, possibly written by Goddard, butwith address leaf franked by Rhode Island Congressman J.L. Tillinghast and mailed to Goddardin Providence; and “An Account of Thomas Paine received from Mary Rascoe”, unsignedand undated manuscript based on Thorburn’s interview notes, 3pp. Because of his atheism and“radical” politics, the famed author of “Common Sense”, was probably the most controversialnotable of the American Revolution. A shelf of 19th century Paine biographies hotly debatedhis alcoholism, disreputable relations with women – and whether, on his deathbed in 1809, he“found religion”.These early papersrecord an investigationmade lessthan 20 years afterPaine’s death, whenmany of those whoknew Paine in laterlife were still living- including theinvestigator himself:Grant Thorburn, aScottish immigrantto New York whobecame prosperousselling seedsLot 246imported fromPage 74

England, and, in 1852, published an autobiography in which he explained how he had come toknow Paine in the last years of his life, when “his company [was] shunned by the more respectableof his friends on account of his unpopular writings and hard drinking” and after his divorcefrom a “respectable young woman” who accused him of “cruel usage”. Thorburn often visitedPaine at his New York lodging to argue politics and religion, later concluding that he was “themost unreasonable mortal I ever conversed with”. After writing a critical magazine account ofPaine which “brought all the free-thinkers between Passamaquoddy and Baltimore on my back”,Thorburn decided to undertake this historical inquiry of his own, in conjunction with WilliamGiles Goddard, a newspaper publisher and Professor at Brown University. Thorburn was diligentin interviewing Mary Rascoe, a Quaker neighbor of Paine’s who often took him refreshmentwhile he was sick and dying and scribbling out a manuscript recanting his Atheism (which shebelieved was suppressed by his former friends). Thorburn himself doubted this, learning fromPaine’s Doctor that when Paine screamed “Jesus!” as one of his last words, he was merely swearingin pain. These papers are apparently unknown to any Paine biographer. Creasing, some lightwear; overall very good or better.(1500/2000)247. (Panama Pacific International Exposition) Panama Pacific International Exposition books, viewbooks, and ephemera. Six view books: Burness, Jessie Niles. Scupture and Mural Paintings in theBeautiful Courts, Colonnades and Avenues of the... Tan wrappers. San Francisco: Robert A. Reid,1915. * The Jewel City San Francisco 1915 [cover title]. Souvenir Views of the... San Francisco: PacificNovelty Co., 1915. * Souvenir Views of the... Blue wrappers. San Francisc: Pacific Novelty Co., 1915.* The Exposition: An Elegant Illustrated Souvenir View Book of the... Tan wrappers. San Francisco:Robert A. Reid, 1915. * The Jewel City in Natural Colors [cover title]. San Francisco: Robert A. Reid,1915. * Wonderful California. Tan wrappers. Chicago: C.T. & Co., 1915. * Plus the following booksand pamphlets: Wright, Hamilton M., ed. The World’s Greatest Exposition and Those Who Built Itin Picture and Prose. Green cloth. San Francisco: Exposition Press Union, 1916. * Masonic MarchTwo-Step. On To San Francisco. Composed by W.B. Ash (with his rubberstamp on front cover). Sheetmusic in wrappers. San Francisco: Scholz & Webster, 1915. * Southern California. Tan wrappers,two-part boards box. Southern California Panama Exposition Commission, [1914]. * Meyer, GeorgeHomer, ed. Municipal Blue Book of San Francisco, 1915. Blue cloth. Exposition Edition. 1915. *Exposition Universelle et Internationale de San Francisco 1915. Green cloth. With some expositionlibrary stamps, bookplates within. * The Argentine Republic. Maroon cloth. [New York: J.J. Little &Ives], 1915. * 9 wrapper bound guides published for or by the P.P.I.E. * Several items of ephemeraobtained at or about the P.P.I.E. including 12 engraved invitations to events (mostly dancing), manywith the gilt seal of the exposition on the letterhead.San Francisco: c.1915Some light wear from handling to many; very good or near fine.(300/500)248. Parkman, Francis. The Oregon Trail. ix, [5], 364 pp. Illustrated with 5 tipped-in color plates byN.C. Wyeth, including frontispiece and 5 tipped-in black and white plates by Frederic Remington.9x6, original half orange cloth and decorative boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. No. 689 of975 total copies. First Wyeth-Remington Illustrated Edition.Boston: Little, Brown, 1925Dykes W256; Allen p. 214. Light wear to binding; near fine.(200/300)The Buyer’s Premium will be 20% for bids up to $100,000and 15% for that portion over $100,000.Page 75

249. Parsons, George Frederic. Life and Adventures of James W. Marshall, The Discoverer of Golf inCalifornia. 188 pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece; wood-engraved headpieces. (8vo) original purplecloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition.Sacramento: James W. Marshall and W. Burke, 1870Considered one of the most important works of California history. Close to an autobiography,it was written to support Marshall’s claim to a pension in 1870. Cowan, p. 475; Howes P105;Graff 3204; Kurutz 483a; Wheat Books 153. Binding faded, stained and wrinkled, cornersworn, rebacked with original spine cloth (chipped) laid down, hinges reinforced with cloth tape;title page and frontis with tape in gutter, some penciled notes; fair.(100/150)250. (Pennsylvania) Martinsburg centennial souvenir. A pictorial and descriptive booklet containingthe history of Martinsburg and the Borough Council, and a list of patrons with their biographies, civicorganizations and business cards and many other things of interest in the life of a growing community,1832-1932. 83 pp. Numerous illustrations from photographs. 29.6x22.5 cm. (11¾x9”), originalwrappers with photo-pictorial cover label.Martinsburg, PA: Centennial Souvenir Booklet Committee, 1932Overview of the history and present prospects of the community in south central Pennsylvania.OCLC/WorldCat lists only four copies, at the Altoona Area Public Library, Juniata College,Indiana State Library, and the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Minor soiling towrappers, very good.(300/500)251. (Pennsylvania “Buckshot War”) [Stevens, Thaddeus]. Report of the Minority of the CommitteeAppointed to Enquire into the Causes of the Disturbances at the Seat of Government, in December, 1838.12 pp. (8vo), disbound. First Edition.Harrisburg: Boas & Coplan, 1839A rare early imprint in the career of Thaddeus Stevens, the future “Radical Republican” of CivilWar and Reconstruction days, who would spearhead the impeachment of President AndrewJohnson. In this pamphlet, Stevens, as a state Representative, expresses his minority-of-one viewof the “Buckshot War”, in which violent political rivalry led a mob to besiege the Legislature atHarrisburg, forcing Stevens to escape through a window. OCLC/WorldCat locates only threecopies in institutional holdings. Light wear, foxing; very good.(100/150)252. (Philatelic) Marron, Rovert H. Autograph Letter, signed, to Assistant Postmaster General JohnMarron. Autograph Letter, signed. 2 pp. + integral stampless address leaf.Shawneetown, Illinois: April 3, 1849To his brother, John Marron (Assistant Postmaster General) Washington, D.C. “… I want tohear what is to become of you, whether you are to be guillotined or worked over or what purgationyou are to fall heir to. I have not seen McClernand since he left but saw Judge [Bruze?] afew days since and he was inclined to think you might live through the storm that was about toburst upon the devoted heads of the Office holders at Washington….” John Marron has earneda place in American postal history because, in June 1847, as Assistant Postmaster General in thePolk Administration, he was sent to New York to take delivery of the first printed United Statespostage stamps, then to deliver 200,000 of the five- and ten-cent stamps to the postmasters ofNew York, Boston and Philadelphia. Born in Ireland in 1799, just before his parents immigratedto America, Marron had been clerk in the Post Office since Andrew Jackson days, moving upto become the department’s chief administrator – and so guardian of the first printed Americanpostage stamps - under Democratic President Polk. But when this letter was written by hisbrother, Marron was worried about losing his job to the political “guillotine” after the Inaugurationof the new Whig President, Zachary Taylor. So his brother Robert, active in Illinois politics,asked Congressman John McClernand, a powerful Democrat who chaired the Committees onPublic Lands and Foreign Affairs, to put in a good word for brother John in Washington – and,incidentally, to give federal assistance in land and mining deals in which Robert was interested.McClernand’s assistance may have helped, because John Marron remained Assistant PostmasterPage 76

General for the next ten years, until his untimely death in 1859, when the New York Times obituarylamented the loss of “an efficient officer, a warm and reliable friend, and a man of blamelesslife”. Creased; fine.(100/150)253. (Photograph) Genthe, Arnold. Original gelatin silver photograph of a woman by Arnold Genthe.Original gelatin silver photograph. 24.3x17 cm. (9½x6¾”). Signed in ink in the image.San Francisco: c.1910Lovely portrait photograph of a woman in her twenties. Several tiny nicks to surface ofphotograph, one faint stain at bottom left corner; else very good.(100/150)254. (Photographs) Nine original gelatin silver photographs of the Seattle fireboat Alki, stationed on PugetSound and the inland lakes. Each approx. 19.5x24.5 cm. (7¾x9¾”).Seattle: 1927Vintage photographs of the long-serving Seattle Fireboat Alki. 123 feet (37 m) long, she wasbuilt in 1927 and still serves today, stationed on the inland lakes, where she was moved fromPuget Sound in 2002 after a large fire destroyed thirty vessels, because it takes an hour for afireboat to traverse the locks between the lakes and the Sound. The photographs include viewsof the deck, fire cannons, engine room, cabin, and the captain himself. On the verso of eachphotograph is the faint rubberstamp of photographer M.L. Cohen of Oakland, California. Hewas invited to Seattle to take photographs of the launching of the Alki. Very good.(400/600)255. (Politics) Nineteen pamphlets of political nature from the turn of the century. Includes: TheColton Letters. Declaration of Huntington that Congressmen are for Sale. * Governor La Folletton National and State Issues. 1902. * Inaugural Message by Governor Robert M. La Follette to theWisconsin Legislature. Regular Sesson, 1901. * Republican Platform and Gov. La Follette’s AccepanceSpeech. * La Follette Got the Money...School Scandal Exposed... * 1902 Voter’s Hand-Book. TheTruth About the Governor, the Legislature, Taxation and Primary Elections. Milwaukee Free Press. *Apthorp, Henry. Two-Cent Railroad Fair. Cleveland, OH. 1897. * Speech of Hon. Henry M. Tellerof Colorado. 1896. * Adams, Charles Francis. The Sifted Grain and the Grain Sitters An Address atthe Dedication of the Building of the State Historical Society of Wisconsins...1900. * Schurz, Carl.American Imperialism: The Convocation Address...University of Chicago. 1899. * Speech of WilliamJ. Bryan, Democratic Nominee for President...Madison Square Garden. 1896. * The Income Tax. No18. Speeches of William J. Bryan of Nebraska... 1896. * The Free Coinage of Silver. Speeches of Hom.John G. Carlisle. 1895. * How a Combination of Common Carriers Stifles Competition and EvadesTaxation. * Dodge, Arthur J . Wisconsin’s Admission as a State. 1898. * No. 50. Silver and Gold.Democratic National Congressional Committee. * State of Wisconsin...Argument of M.H. Eaton.* With Reference to Railay Passenger Fares in the State of Wisconsin. * Argument of Chauncey M.Depew. Chicago, 1882. Together 19 pamphlets.Various places: 1895-1902Light wear to most; some sunning; very good.(200/300)Each lot is illustrated in color in the online version of the catalogue.Go to www.pbagalleries.comPage 77

ONE OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY COLE PORTER256. Porter, Cole. Red Hot and Blue: A Musical Comedy. [6], 52, [2] pp. Title-page in red, white &blue; musical scores throughout.30.5x22.5 cm. (12x9”), red, white & blue silk over boards, letteredin gilt.New York: Random House, 1936Signed by Cole Porter in the colophon. The music and lyrics for ten songs from Red, Hot andBlue, the musical that premiered on Broadway in 1936 and introduced the popular song, “It’sDe-Lovely” sung by Ethel Merman. Spine sunned with some rubbing, some fraying to cloth atcorners; darkening to endpaper gutters, else very good.(2000/3000)Lot 256257. Porter, Florence Collins & Helen Brown Trask, editors. Maine men and women insouthern California: A volume regarding the lives of Maine men and women of note and substantialachievement, as well as those of a younger generation whose careers are certain, yet still in the making. 144pp, Illustrated from photographs, mostly portraits. 26x17 cm. (10¼x6½”), rebound in red leather,with original morocco from the front and rear covers laid on. First Edition.Los Angeles: Kingsley, Mason & Collins, 1913The balmy climate of Southern California proved a powerful lure to those who enduredthe endless winters of Maine. Cowan p.883; Rocq 16355. The original morocco panels aresomewhat worn and chipped; owner’s inscription; very good.(200/300)258. (Princeton University) Howell, William Roe, attributed to. Nine photographs of PrincetonUniversity from 1873. 9 original albumen photographs, mounted to paper. Each is approximately15x22.5 cm. (6x9”), with slight variation.Princeton, NJ: 1873William Roe Howell was the class photographer at Princeton for the years 1869-1870 and1872-1873. Pictured are the various grand lecture halls such as Dickenson Hall, Whig Hall,and Philosophical Hall, plus a few different views of West College (established in 1897). Alsoincludes 2 photographs of graduating class of 1873. One picture is of the undergraduates? (22men), the second is of the graduate students? (13 men). All photographs are captioned in inkat bottom margin, “Pr ‘73”. Light wear at corners from handling, a few are a touch faded; verygood.(200/300)Page 78

259. Purvine, Mary B. Mary B. Purvine Pioneer Doctor. [6], 60, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait. (8vo),morocco-backed cloth, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt, slipcase. 1 of 100 copies printed by Johnck& Seeger. First Edition.Santa Barbara, CA: Privately printed, 1958Mary Bowerman Purvine graduated from Willamette University’s medical school in 1903, oneof that institution’s first woman graduates, and practiced medicine in the small town of Condon,Oregon, on the eastern side of the Cascade Mountains. These reminiscence of her early days inCondon were collected by her daughter and published in a small edition for family and friends,but they offer a vivid picture of life in a small Oregon community in the early decades of thetwentieth century and of a woman struggling to establish herself in a male-dominated societyand profession. Smith S3352. Light wear to slipcase; spine a touch sunned; near fine.(150/250)260. (Radical) Bemis, Edward W. Autograph Quotation, signed by the socialist economist fired from theUniversity of Chicago. 9 line Autograph Quotation, signed. Approximately 8x6¼”.Manhattan, Kansas: Sept. 12, 1898In full: “I honor the man who is ready to sink / Half his present repute for the freedom tothink, / And when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, / Will risk t’other half for thefreedom to speak, / Caring not for that vengeance the mob have in store, / Let that mob be theupper ten thousandor lower.” With a Ph.D. from John Hopkins, Edward W. Bemis taught atAmherst and Vanderbilt before coming, in 1892, to the newly-established University of Chicago.Bemis lectured and wrote prolifically on progressive taxation, the evils of Trusts, labor unionsand Socialism, and was a particularly vocal advocate of municipal ownership of utilities. In1895, University abruptly canceled his teaching contract; the Professor contended that he wasremoved because his public statements had “aggravated certain business leaders whose supportthe University wanted”, notably the institution’s founding benefactor, John D. Rockefeller. Froma less prestigious position at a Kansas state college, Bemis so noisily denounced an intrusion on“freedom of thought”, that his dismissal because a national cause célèbre of academic freedom.The eminent Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith had no doubt that Bemis was firedbecause of his attacks on corrupt local business monopolies: “The university authorities, likemany godly and scholarly men in academic positions, took for granted that their devotion totruth accorded them a special license to lie. So they compounded their crime in dismissingBemis by denying that their action was to appease the traditional monopoly or that it reflectedany abridgment of academic freedom…” Bemis later administered effective reforms ofpolitically-corrupt city departments in Cleveland and New York City. But his principal claim tofame remains his early dispute with John D. Rockefeller’s University of Chicago, his view of themomentous issues at stake being poetically described in this quotation. Fine.(100/150)261. Relander, Click. Drummers and Dreamers: The Story of Smowhala the Prophet and His NephewPuck Hyah Toot, the Last Prophet of the Nearly Extinct River People, the Last Wanapums. (8vo) browncloth, dust jacket. First Edition.Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1956Excellent and increasingly hard-to-find biography of Smowhala the Dreamer, religious leaderof the Wanapums, who inhabited the region along the Columbia River near Priest Rapids. Theauthor, longtime city editor of the Yakima Daily Republic, devoted many years of serious studyto the vanishing Indian tribes of eastern Washington. This copy is inscribed by Relander on thehalf-title page, and is additionally signed by Alba Shawaway Kootyallen, one of the few survivingdescendants of Smowhala and Puck Hyah Toot. Smith S594; Washington 89, 63. Light wear tojacket edges; volume fine.(150/250)Page 79

262. Rickard, T.A. Through the Yukon and Alaska. xiii, [1], 392 pp. Extensively illustrated fromphotographs. (8vo) original blue cloth, pictorially stamped and lettered in white. First Edition.San Francisco: Mining and Scientific Press, 1909Excellent survey of gold-mining activity in the Yukon Territory and Alaska, by a professionalgeologist. Thomas Arthur Rickard (1864-1953) is credited on the title page as “Associate of theRoyal School of Mines; Editor of the Mining and Scientific Press and the Mining Magazine;Formerly State Geologist of Colorado.” He was a prolific author throughout his long andproductive career. This work is scarce, according to Soliday. Ricks p. 183; Smith 8660; SolidayIV:52; Wickersham 3966 Cloth a bit rubbed, very good.(200/300)263. Ridings, Sam P. The Chisholm Trail: A History of the World’s Greatest Cattle Trail, together with aDescription of the Persons, a Narrative of the Events, and Reminiscences Associated with the Same. [12],591 pp. Illustrated from photographs, engravings, etc.; large folding map in back. (8vo), gilt-pictorialblack cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.Guthrie, OK: Co-operative Publishing Co., [1936]The best book on the Chisholm Trail, with much additional cattle lore from Texas andelsewhere. J. Frank Dobie called this classic “a noble book, rich in anecdote and character.”Adams Herd 1897; Six-Guns 1856; Dobie, p. 116; Howes R281. Jacket lightly soiled and edgeworn; light wear to cloth; very good.(150/250)UCLA YEARBOOK FOR JACKIE ROBINSON’S JUNIOR YEAR264. (Robinson, Jackie) U.C.L.A. Yearbook for Jackie Robinson’s junior year. 464 pp. Profusely illustratedfrom photographs. 30.5x22.5 cm. (12x9”), cloth.Los Angeles: 1940Yearbook for Jackie Robinson’s junior year at the University of California, Los Angeles, where hehad transferred after two years at Pasadena Junior College. He was to become the first African-American to play baseball in the Major Leagues since the 1880s, breaking in with the BrooklynDodgers in 1947 after a year in the minor leagues. His athletic prowess was exceptional, and hebecame UCLA’s first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: baseball, basketball, football,and track. He was particularly productive in football, and he is mentioned in the recap of everygame in which he played (he sat down for several due to a knee injury). He is one of six playersgiven a featured picture, and is in at least three other pictures for football. He was a forwardon the basketball team, with a featured picture as one of the starting five, and is in two otherbasketball pictures. He is in the baseball team picture, though it is noted that his appearance onthe diamond was delayed due to his activity on the hardcourt. Curiously, he is not mentionedin track section, and in the baseball overview it is noted “Jackie Robinson, in turning downtrack for baseball, added his name to the records for consistent field play and baserunning.” ButRobinson did participate in track and he won the 1940 NCAA Men’s Outdoor Track and FieldChampionship in the Long Jump, jumping 24’10.5”. Perhaps the timing of his participationwas too late for inclusion in the yearbook. Some rubbing to joints and extremities, shaken, verygood.(600/900)The Buyer’s Premium will be 20% for bids up to $100,000and 15% for that portion over $100,000.Page 80

ONE OF 200 COPIES OF DANIEL BOONE EDITIONWITH MS. LEAF BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT265. Roosevelt, Theodore. The Winning of the West. 4 volumes. Numerous full-page illustrations.(8vo) 25.2x17 cm. (10x6¾”) period three-quarter green morocco and marbled boards, spines letteredin gilt, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. No. 106 of 200 copies of the Daniel Boone edition.New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1900A leaf of the original manuscript insertedin Volume 1. The present leaf, well edited,comes from Chapter 1 of the fourth volume“Saint Clair’s Defeat, 1791”, subheaded “Furyand Skills of the Indians”. Howes R433.Spines sunned, extremities rubbed, Volumes 1& 4 rebacked with original spines laid down,internally fine.(10000/15000)Lot 265266. (Russell, Charles M.) Coburn, WallaceDavid. Rhymes from a Round-up Camp. [3]-138pp. Illustrated with 8 plates from drawings byCharles M. Russell. 17x13 cm. (6¾x5¼”), greencloth with title and cover illustration stamped ingilt. First Edition, Third Issue.No place: Wallace D. Coburn, 1899This copy corresponds with the “abberation”of the third issue as described by Yost andRenner, with pages 49/50, 51/52, 57/58,65/66, & 109/110 on stubs, pages 99/100 &129/130 are bound in with the sixth line ofthe second paragraph on page 130 containingonly a single word, “cows”. Yost & Renner I:8Slight lean to spine, light edge wear, lackingfront free endpaper, line of black marker onfront pastedown; very good.(300/500)267. Russell, Osborne. Journal of a Trapper, or Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains: 1834-1843. Beinga General Description of the Country, Climate, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Etc., and a View of the Life Ledby a Hunter in those Regions. [iii]-xviii, [5]-149 pp. (8vo), blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. SecondEdition.[Boise, ID]: [Syms-York], 1921Second edition, with the addition of a 20-page appendix on the Indians and animals of theregion. At the foot of the title-page is a small rubberstamp, “Copyrighted 1914 Appendix,”above the printed 1921 date. Howes notes that the work covers “The fur trade in its mostcolorful period.” Graff 3611; Howes R537; Smith 8778. Light wear to cloth, gift inscription onfront pastedown; very good.(250/350)268. (Sampler) “My Dog and My Gun” - early American paper sampler depicting a hunting scene. Ink &watercolor on paper. 23x17.5 cm. (8¾x7”).American: c.1820Rare example of early American folk art, a hunting scene with a man carrying a rifle, with twodogs, a barn in the background. At bottom right is “Drawn by Henry...” but with the cornertorn off affecting the last name. Soiling and browning to paper, brittle and cracking in places,minor chipping along right edge; good condition.(400/600)Page 81

269. (San Francisco) Abstract of Title & Certificate of Search to Part of 100 Vara Lot No 279 as shownby the various records in City & County of San Francisco Made at the Request of Patrick Gamble Sumnerthe 30th day of July 1883 by FA Rouleau, successor to Brooks & Rouleau, Searcher of Records for theCounties of San Francisco, Alameda & San Mateo [Cover title]. 87, [1] pp. of ink manuscript. 33x22cm. (13x8¾”) original leather-backed pebbled cloth, three-hole punched and tied with cord at leftmargin, with decorative front cover label, partly printed with remainder filled in ink.San Francisco: 1883Detailed title search from early San Francisco, meticulously compiled and recorded in severalneat legal hands. The property in question, a lot on Sumner Street between Howard andClementina, was originally purchased by Henry Gerke in 1849 (certified by John W. Geary, SanFrancisco’s first alcalde), and changed hands an extraordinary number of times in the intervening35 years. Covers worn and soiled, light wear to page edges; very good.(150/250)270. (San Francisco) Cridge, Alfred. Voting Not Representation: A Demand for Definite Democracyand Political Evolution. 32 pp. (8vo) original wrappers, woodcut on front wrapper. First Edition.San Francisco: By the author, 1880Original printing of a rare San Francisco imprint by a British-born political reformer whopublished an anti-slavery newspaper in Ohio and Indiana, was a Secret Service agent duringthe Civil War and then moved to California to join a Utopian community in Riverside. In1877, Cridge finally settled in San Francisco where he spent the rest of his life as an “agitationcommittee of one”, crusading for the economic views of Henry George, helping to form theUnion Labor Party and to write a new San Francisco City Charter. His scarce publicationsincluded a Utopian novel (“History of an Extinct Planet”) and pamphlets arguing forproportional representation, and for the Progressive causes of initiative and referendum. Spinechipped at foot, light soiling to wrappers; very good.(100/150)271. (San Francisco) The Star, Vol. 34, Nos. 1-26. Tabloid format newspaper, each issue 12 or 16 pagesin length. 35.5x27 cm. (13¾x10¾”), later stiff wrappers.San Francisco: James H. Barry, July 6 -December 28, 1901A six-month run of this San Francisco weekly, published from 1890-1921. The paper wasstaunchly pro-Democratic Party, pro-labor union, and anti-Chinese in its editorial policy. Afascinating view of San Francisco politics and life at the beginning of the last century. Somesoiling, creasing and edge wear to individual issues, accession stamp of the Stanford UniversityLibrary to masthead of each issue; very good.(150/250)272. (San Francisco) Swasey, Capt. W[illiam]. View of San Francisco, formerly Yerba Buena, in 1846-7, Before the Discovery of Gold. Color lithographed view of the small community of Yerba Buenaperched on the hills fronting San Francisco Bay, with several ships on the water. Lithographed byBosqui Eng. & Print. Co. Sheet size 50.7x58.5 cm. (20x22¼”), laid down on board.San Francisco: Capt. W.F. Swasey, [c.1883-84]The bird’s-eye view was “designed & copied from views taken at the time & published byCapt. W. Swasey, a continuous residence since 1845.” It is signed in the plate, in certificationof its accuracy by John D. Stevenson, Mariano G. Vallejo, and George Hyde. There is a keyidentifying 35 locations. Baird & Evans No. 3a; Reps 342 (State 1). Several faint dampstains,mostly marginal, except for one at top left corner, edge wear including creasing, tiny tears andtiny pin holes; very good.(500/800)Page 82

273. (San Francisco) Twelve original snapshots of the U.S. Army guarding the San Francisco Bay. 12snapshot photographs, each approximately 3x4½”.San Francisco: 1920sViews of the very large guns protecting the entrance to San Francisco Bay from the Marinheadlands and of the soldiers in training. Light wear; very good.(300/500)GLASS LANTERN SLIDES OF 1906 S.F. EARTHQUAKE & FIRE274. (San Francisco Earthquake) Original Glass Lantern Slides of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. 67original glass lantern slides in vintage cloth-covered box with side-hinged lid. Slides measure 4x3¼,box dimensions are 3¼x12x4¼. 9 slides tinted in colors.Superb collection of lantern slide pictures of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquakeand fire. Manufacturers labels on a few slides, including Mcintosh Stereopticon Co. Chicago,Tho. Johnson, Salt Lake City, Detroit Photographic Co., most without maker’s label. All withold hand-labeled subject captions. This lantern slide collection was the basis for the recentbook “1906 - The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire” by Darrell Heppner (BookmanPublishing, 2005). 4 slides cracked, else all images appear unblemished, box rather scuffed andworn. Very good.(1500/2000)Lot 274275. (San Francisco Yacht Club) The San Francisco Yacht Club, San Francisco, California. Organized1869, Incorporated June 16, 1873. Year-Book 1908. 57, [1] pp. 2 plates from photographs; 4 colorlithographed plates of insignia, pennants, etc.; folding map. 18.7x10.5 cm. (7½x4”), original canvaswrappers.[San Francisco]: [Press of Upton Bros. & Delzelle, Inc.], 1908Scarce yearbook of the yacht club with clubhouse and berth in Sausalito, including the bylaws,program of events and races, membership roster, etc. The map is of the northern part ofSan Francisco Bay and shows the location of the clubhouse and the club course on the bay. Nocopies are listed in OCLC/WorldCat. Covers foxed; very good.(600/900)Page 83

276. Sanders, Alvin Howard. A History of Aberdeen-Angus Cattle. With Particular Reference to TheirIntroduction, Distribution and Rise to Popularity in the Fields of Fine Beef Production in North America.xx, 1042 pp. With numerous plates from photographs. 23x14.5 cm. (9x5¾”), original gilt-letteredblue cloth. First Edition.Chicago: The New Breeder’s Gazette, [1928]The author was Editor Emeritus of “The New Breeder’s Gazette” and as written extensively aboutthe growth and development of the American cattle industry. Adams Herd 1999. Some stainingto front cover, small holes in joints; else very good.(200/300)LETTER FROM KIT CARSON’S GUIDE277. (Santa Fe Trail) Stanley, E[lisha]. Autograph Letter, signed, from the trader who led Kit Carsonacross the plains. Autograph letter, signed. 3 pages.Booncille, Missouri: April 25, 1845To his niece, Sophia Stanley, East Hartford, Connecticut: “... everything looks gloomy anddiscouraging in this part of the world. There has been a great deal of sickness throughout thecountry… people are in debt to the doctors… unable to pay what they owe… Your aunt wroteme that the smallpox made its appearance…that the sufferers were shut out from their neighborsand left to live or die… I could not have believed you such a lot of barbarians. And the Doctorshad to prescribe without seeing their patients. A pretty set of Physicians, truly…East Hartfordought to be ashamed of itself. In 1831 & 32 the small pox made its appearance in Santa Fe,and as there was no doctor there, I officiated as one and visited all ages & sexes in all stagesof the disease. Often felt the pulses of the diseased when I was compelled to place my fingersupon two or three pocks, and notwithstanding, I did not dream of running any risk or that Iwas doing more than my duty ... In this country too many are always discontented and will notremain long enough in a place to do any good for themselves. For the last year or two, Oregonhas been held out as the land of promise, to the restless and dissatisfied, and this year there willbe a very large company going to that country -- probably not less than 1,500 souls. They arenow congregating on the confines of this State. Many have passed through this place. Somefrom Illinois and Indiana, but the greatest number from this state. Most of those who go arepoor, with barely the means of getting on there. It is a great undertaking with persons with largefamilies of children. But it is very well that there is a place like Oregon, to receive this movingpopulation, as they are of but little use in the U. States…”. “Captain” Elisha Stanley (1790-1875), a Connecticut Yankee, was a legendary guide to emigrants crossing the plains alongthe Santa Fe Trail in the 1820s, a teenaged Kit Carson being among those he led to the then-Mexican southwest; another, in 1831, was explorer and naturalist Josiah Gregg, who describedthe adventure 13 years later in his classic “Commerce of the Plains”. Settled in Santa Fe, Stanleybecame one of the most successful Yankee traders of that western crossroads in the 1830s. By1845, he was living – none too happily – in Missouri, though, as he writes, he was not nearlyas dissatisfied with his lot as the emigrants who were gathering to plod west to Oregon, fouryears before the more massive exodus to California. Stanley’s autograph letters are very rare. Thefew in institutional hands date from his youthful days in Detroit during the War of 1812. TheRisvold collection included no example of his holograph, nor have any letters from his later yearsappeared at auction in the last three decades. Creased, light wear; near fine.(800/1200)You can bid absentee directly from the item description inthe online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries.com.Or bid during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder.Page 84

278. (Science) Fairchild, H. LeR. Autograph Letter Signed, as American Agent of the Ebell InternationalAcademy of Natural Science. Autograph Letter, signed. 2 pp.New York: April 17, 1877To Professor of Agriculture Towns[h]end, State Agricultural College, Columbus, Ohio. Withoriginal mailing envelope: “The death of Dr. Ebell makes it necessary to dispose of the materialin these rooms immediately. And the models will be sold very cheaply and at a sacrifice. Yourinstitution may have the Horse including the Horse’s Foot and Hoof for $350. The Horse alonecost $400 gold in Paris. You may have all of the Botanical models for $225. They cost in Paris$240 gold…Any other specimens you may desire will be proportionately reduced in price…”New York Professor Herman LeRoy Fairchild (1850-1943), later one of America’s pioneeringgeologists with an expertise on meteorites, was here acting as executor for Dr. Adrian John Ebell,whose vision of the first international science academy for young women had ended with hisdeath –prompting this “fire sale” of models and specimens Ebell had purchased in France. OhioProfessor Norton Strange Townshend, to whom Fairchild offered the specimens, was also aDoctor and a politician, having served as an anti-slavery Congressman and as Medical Inspectorof the Union Army during the Civil War. Creased from mailing; near fine.(100/150)279. (Science) Guex, John. Autograph Letter, signed, to John L. LeConte on Entomological subjects. 3page Autograph Letter, signed, + integral stamped address leaf. Approximately 10¾x8½”.Jersey City: December 15, 1853Guex writes to fellow entomologist John Le Conte: “...thanks for your information respectingworks on Lepidoptera - they seem to be very few and meagre...Motschulsky has not madehis appearance yet. I am glad to hear that something new has come into your hands from theBoundary Comm. and elsewhere. If I was in your place I would not postpone too long todescribe these, as some ‘illustrious foreigner’ might put his (mitre?) to them before you areaware of it. The copies of Mels.’ catalogue will be of service to me...I shall send some to friendsor correspondents or give one to such or such individual whom I may think would be of anyutility to me in the Entomological line. By little favors of this kind, I am frequently enoughable to get some very good specimens....I don’t give up the Russians yet as I think Mneszech isa man to be depended upon. Let us wait with patience...I long very much to see your work onEletevida...I am going to recopy the Cat. of my collection in two large vols. in 4o (fine vellumpaper) and add to each genera name its etymology in Greek, Latin, English and French...a workof length which will take me some winter evenings...” LeConte is considered by many to be thegreatest American Entomologist of the 19th century. Creased from mailing; fine.(100/150)280. Senn, Nicholas. War Correspondence (Hispano-American War) Letters from Dr. Nicholas Senn.[4], 278 pp. Illustrated from photographs & drawings; fold-out plan of field hospital at Fort Wikoff,NY; fold out chart of typhoid cases. 19x12.5 cm. (7½x5”) original cloth. First Edition in book form.Chicago: American Medical Association, 1899Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper, although therecipient’s name is unclear. Dr. Senn was the Chief Surgeon U.S. Volunteers during the Spanish-American War. Reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association. Near fine, butlacking the folding plate that should be at p.15.(300/500)The auction will be begin at 11:00 a.m.Page 85

RARE NARRATIVE OF OREGON EMIGRATION281. Sharp, James Meikle. Brief Account of the Experiences of James Meikle Sharp. 72 pp. Doubletipped-in frontispiece portraits. 19x13.7 cm. (7½x5½”) original red cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition.[Saticoy, CA?]: 1931One of the rarer overland narratives, dictated late in life by the author and clearly intendedfor limited distribution to family and friends. Bibliographer Merrill Mattes writes, “This is themigration record of a respectable but poor family that had to sacrifice and borrow to get theiroutfit together and were near starvation in Oregon.” The narrative also gives a brief accountof the author’s later life in Lane County, Oregon, and Ventura County, California, where heeventually prospered as a citrus fruit grower and banker. Howes S339; Mattes 1279. Somemottling near edges of covers; still near fine(1500/2000)Lot 281282. Shields, George Oliver. Cruisings in the Cascades. A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, AmateurPhotography, Hunting, and Fishing. 339 + [12] ad pp. Portrait frontispiece, decorative initials, text andfull-page illustrations. (8vo), brown cloth, ruled in blind and with pictorial gilt on spine and frontcover. First Edition.Chicago & New York: Rand, McNally, 1889(Title continues): With special chapters on hunting the grizzly bear, the buffalo, elk, antelope,Rocky Mountain goat, and deer; also on trouting in the Rocky Mountains; on a Montanaround-up; life among the cowboys, etc. “The articles on elk, bear, and antelope hunting werefirst published in Harper’s Magazine; those on buffalo hunting and trouting, in the Outingmagazine.” (Phillips p.343). Bruns S 142. Light wear to extremities, erasure mark on front freeendpaper; very good.(200/300)Page 86

283. Shiels, Archie W. San Juan Islands: The Cronstadt of the Pacific. Frontispiece map. (8vo) greencloth, stamped in gilt. First Edition.Juneau: Empire Printing Company, 1938“The original boundary treaty between the United States and Great Britain was signed in 1846,but this treaty left in limbo the exact boundary line through the San Juan Islands in PugetSound. Great Britain claimed a line that would deed the Islands to that country, but by thenthere were a number of American settlers in the Islands who felt otherwise. This led to somedisputes, including the famed San Juan Islands ‘Pig War.’ The dispute was finally sent to acommission headed by the German Emperor William I of the recently united German Empire.After much arbitration, he handed down his final decision on October 21, 1872, which gave theIslands to the United States. This was the resolution of the last boundary dispute between thetwo nations.” - Tweney. Smith 9429; Tweney 69. Light wear to cloth, hinges a bit shaken; verygood.(100/150)284. Smalley, Eugene V. History of the Northern Pacific Railroad. xxii, 437 pp. Large folding map,folding profile and five city plans. (Small 4to) 9½x7, full brown morocco, gilt monogram on frontcover, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition.New York: Putnam, 1883One of a few large paper copies, possibly in a presentation binding, of this thorough andillustrated history of the early explorations and development of the Northern Pacific Railroad.This copy lacks the 48 plates called for by Howes, but these are equally absent in the Graff copy“perhaps they [i.e., the plates] were not issued with the advance copies”. Graff 3817; HowesS561; Larned 3423. Spine faded, extremities rubbed, hinges cracked; very good.(300/500)285. Smith, C[harles] W. Journal of a Trip to California: Across the Continent from Weston, Mo., toWeber Creek, Cal. in the Summer of 1850. 79 pp. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by R.W.G.Vail. Gilt-lettered cloth. First Edition.New York: Cadmus Book Shop, [1920]“Smith’s diary provides only his transplains tour late in 1850” - Wheat. Mintz notes that thetour included “adventures of some interest. Smith tells of incidents with the Indians, ferry boats,Wisconsin wagons, and, among other things, lack of food.” Cowan p.592; Kurutz 587; Mintz428; Wheat Gold Rush 191. Spine rubbed; very good.(100/150)286. Soulé, Frank, John H. Gihon and James Nisbet. The Annals of San Francisco; Containing aSummary of the History of the First Discovery, Settlement, Progress, and Present Condition of California,and a Complete History of all the Important Events Connected with Its Great City: To Which Are Added,Biographical Memoirs of Some Prominent Citizens. 824 pp. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings,6 steel-engraved plates (including frontispiece); 2 maps (1 folding). (8vo) original blindstampedbrown morocco, spine gilt, all edges gilt. First Edition.New York: D. Appleton, 1855A necessary reference book of San Francisco to the middle fifties, compiled mainly fromnewspapers and information received from pioneer citizens...” - Zamorano. Also, the work “notonly gives an outstanding narrative history of San Francisco, but also supplies much informationon mining and its impact on this instant city” – Kurutz 594; Cowan p.601; Graff 3901; HowesS769; Sabin 87268; Zamorano 70. An ex-library copy, several ink rubber stamps, remnantof shelf label to spine; covers rubbed and with some wear to joints and edges, hinges starting;offsetting from engravings through tissue guards; good.(200/300)Page 87

287. (Southern Pacific Railway) Picturesque Shasta Springs on the Shasta Route of the Southern PacificCo. between San Francisco and Portland [Cover title]. [4] leaves printed on rectos only + 16 color viewsof Shasta Springs printed on both sides of heavy card stock, on linen tabs. No title page, as issued.Oblong, 17.5x 25.8 cm. (7x10”), original pebble-grained blue cloth, pictorially gilt-stamped andlettered.No place: [c.1890’s]Lovely Southern Pacific Railway keepsake with bright color nature views, depicting thewaterfalls, mineral springs, lumber scenes and Mount Shasta. Rocq 14489. Light wear to cloth,previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown and name on front flyleaf; very good.(150/250)288. (Spanish-American War) Lejeune, John. Autograph Letter, signed, from the future Marine CorpsCommandant, to his mother. Autograph Letter, signed. 4 pp.USS Cincinnati, Bridgetown, Barbados: March 16, 1898To his mother: “We are off again, and we are having another day of excitement and rush, butwe are getting used to it now. This morning just before noon, a cablegram arrived, and soonafter word came out of the cabinet that all three ships would go to sea at ten o’clock tonight.Our destination has been kept a profound secret but Lt. Hoogewerff, the Capt’s aid…whisperedthe word, Jamaica, to me, so that is to be our destination…I was so delighted yesterday to geta letter from you telling me that you had heard from Ellie about our sailing for Barbados…You mustn’t be worried by all this war talk. I am sure that there is very little chance of war andeven if the impossible should happen, the war would be short and easy for us…”. General JohnLejeune (1867-1942) is probably the most famous of the three dozen Commandants since 1776,if only because of the 150,000 acre North Carolina Marine base named in his honor. Lejeunecommanded the Corps throughout the 1920s peacetime era, though he himself had alreadyfought in two wars. This letter was written before that, very early in his career, after he hadgraduated from Annapolis and received his commission and married Ellie Harrison Murdagh.He was then a 1st Lieutenant, commanding the Marine Guard aboard the USS Cincinnati, afour year-old cruiser with 300 officers and men aboard. Neither Lejeune nor the Cincinnati hadyet seen combat, though there were serious rumblings of war with Spain, weeks after the sinkingof the US battleship Maine off Havana, Cuba. Lejeune was wrong in predicting (perhaps onlyto reassure his mother, with whom he was very close) that war was nearly “impossible” – it begana month later. And while the ensuing conflict was indeed fairly “short” , there was enough timefor the Cincinnati, sailing on to Cuba, to join in the blockade of Havana, bombard Matanzas,scout the West Indies for the Spanish fleet, soon to be destroyed in Santiago harbor, and thenconvoy troops from Guantanamo Bay to occupy Puerto Rico. It was Lejeune’s first taste ofwar - 16 years before he was promoted to General and sent “over there” to command a MarineDivision on shell-shocked French battlefields. Fine.(200/300)289. Stafford, Mrs. Mallie. The March of Empire Through Three Decades. Embracing Sketches ofCalifornia History... 189 pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of the author with her facsimileautograph. 17.5x11.8 cm. (6¾x4½”), original brown cloth, front cover stamped in black. FirstEdition.San Francisco: Geo. Spaulding & Co., 1884A rare account by a woman who witnessed early western expansion firsthand. Mallie Staffordwent to California in 1854 via Panama; she and her husband lived in Nevada City, thenMarysville. She moved to Nebraska on the eve of the Civil War, then lived in Denver while herhusband worked the Colorado mines. Howes S684; Graff 3939; Cowan (II), p. 606; Mintz 604.Some wear and soiling to cloth, front hinge starting; very good.(150/250)Page 88

SHEET OF THREE UNUSED MINING STOCK CERTIFICATES,EACH SIGNED BY LELAND STANFORD290. (Stanford, Leland) Sheet of three unissued certificates in the Bodie Bluff Consolidated MiningCompany of Aurora, Mono County, California, each signed by Leland Stanford as president. Engravedcertificates on single sheet with vignettes of a mine and a cornucopia, decorative border, yellowbackground, pale red under print of $1,110,000 with a lady on each side. At left is the register, withabout half of it neatly trimmed off. 42x32.2 cm. (16½x12¾”).San Francisco: Agneew & Deffebach print, c.1863Rare sheet of three unissued stock certificates in the Bodie Bluff Consolidation Mining Co., oneof Leland Stanford’s numerous business ventures and one of the least known. This was beforehis involvement in the Central Pacific Railroad and at the end of his brief tenure as Governorof California. Each of the certificates is signed by Stanford. In an offering of a similar sheet ofcertificates about four years ago, a leading dealer in western stock certificates believed his to bethe only uncut sheet left intact in existence. The present sheet is from the collection of CharlesH. Segerstrom, acquired by the present owner through descent. Some very slight creasing, elsefine.(3000/5000)Lot 290291. Stephenson, Terry E. Caminos Viejos: Tales Found in the History of California of EspecialInterest to Those who Love the Valleys, the Hills and the Canyons of Orange County, its Traditions andits Landmarks. [18], 111 pp. Illustrated with plates from photographs, facsimile maps including onefolding towards rear, and woodcuts by Jean Goodwin and Arthur Ames; pictorial endpapers. (8vo)9¾x6¼, embossed leatherette. No. 484 of 500 “de luxe” copies printed on the Press of the Santa AnaHigh School and Junior College by its Director, Thomas E. Williams. Revised Edition.Santa Ana, CA: [Williams Fine Arts Press], 1930Signed by both the author and printer Thomas E. Williams. An edition of 200 copies, with only110 pages of text was issued earlier in 1930. Vignettes from the early history of Orange County.A beautiful production from the printing operation that evolved into Williams’ Fine Arts Press.Cowan (IV):595; Curtiss 2b; Rocq 6194. Light wear to extremities, bookplate; very good.(250/350)Page 89

292. (Stevens, Isaac Ingalls) Stevens, Hazard. The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, by His Son. 2 volumes.Plates from photographs & other sources, maps, etc. (8vo), blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edgesgilt. Second Printing.Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900First published the prior year. Ingalls was the first governor of Washington Territory, anddirected the Pacific Railroad Surveys for the northern route. Smith 9986; Tweney 72. Light wearto spine ends and corners, endpapers browned; very good.(150/200)293. [Stone, John A.]. Put’s Original California Songster. 64 pp. (12mo) original pictorial wrappers.Housed in a custom plexiglas fronted slipcase. Front cover states “5th Edition, 25th Thousand”,though the title page states “4th Edition, 18th Thousand.”San Francisco: D.E. Appleton & Co., 1868Popular California Gold Rush songster comprising lyrics to several dozen California miningsongs, such as The Fools of ‘49; Joaquin the Horse Thief; Away Up on the Yuba; California As ItIs and Was; The Lousy Miner; the Sonora Filibusters; When I Went Off to Prospect; CaliforniaBloomer; Coming Around the Horn; etc. Cover illustration depicts in three small vignettesthe “arrival of a greenhorn” miner. “Much of the flavor of the gold days, as well as the era’spathos and humor, pervades these ephemeral little publications” - Wheat. Cowan (I), p. 183.Greenwood 983 & 984. Wheat 162. Very light wear to edges; about fine.(250/350)294. Stuart, Robert. The Discovery of the Oregon Trail: Robert Stuart’s Narratives of His OverlandTrip Eastward from Astoria in 1812-13. From the Original Manuscripts in the Collection of WilliamRobertson Coe, Esq. Edited by Philip Ashton Rollins. Illustrated with facsimiles, portraits & maps.(8vo), red buckram, black spine label with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. First Edition in English.New York: Edward Eberstadt, 1935First published in French in 1821 in vols. 11 & 12 of Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, the workdid not appear in English until the present edition. Howes S1103; Wagner-Camp 19 (note);Tweney 66. Minor wear; near fine.(150/250)295. Sussman, Emilie. My Trip to Yosemite from the Journal of Emilie Sussman, 1872. [ii], 7, [1] blank,[1] pp. (8vo), original cloth backed boards, front cover lettered in red. One of 60 copies. First Edition.San Francisco: [Printed at the Grabhorn Press for Samuel Wormser], 1939Although this diary account of a brief visit to Yosemite Valley is very slight, the small editionmakes it a most uncommon Yosemite and Grabhorn Press item. The book was printed for arelative of the author. GB 311; Rocq 5278. Light wear to edges; else near fine.(250/350)296. Sutter, John A. New Helvetia Diary: A Record of Events Kept by John A. Sutter and His Clerksat New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848. Illustrated with 2 color platesfrom lithographs; facsimile page from diary; facsimile map. (4to) 30.5x19.3 cm. (12x7½”), linenbackedpatterned boards, paper spine label. One of 950 copies.San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press with the Society of California Pioneers, 1939Sutter’s diary is of primary importance as “a record of exact dates, information about hundredsof early pioneers and as a contemporary journal of local affairs.” The book is illustrated withviews of Sutter’s fort and a facsimile page from the original manuscript, and provides a completeindex of “persons at the fort.” Graff 4041; Howes S1155; Kurutz 612; Rocq 6939; Wheat 202.Light wear to extremities; very good.(100/150)Page 90

297. Swan, James G. The Northwest Coast; or, Three Years’ Residence in Washington Territory. 435 +[4] ad pp. With wood engravings including frontispiece & title-page emblem; folding map. (8vo)19.3x12 cm. (7½x4¾”), original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.New York: Harper & Bros., 1857Scarce first edition of this early account of exploration and settlement in the Northwest. Tweneynotes that “John Gilchrist Swan was one of the first - and most colorful - of the pioneers andsettlers of the Seattle and Olympic Peninsula area. He was also an author, journalist, teacher,lawyer, probate judge, naturalist, historian, a collector for the Smithsonian Institution, andone of the foremost authorities on the wild life and Indian tribes and customs of WesternWashington and the Olympic Peninsula. With all his faults, Swan may be considered one of thegreat men of Washington Territory in its early years...” Graff 4046; Howes S1164; Smith 10044;Tweney 74. Spine ends lightly frayed, some rubbing to edges, previous owner’s name on frontendpaper; light foxing; very good.(200/300)298. Symons, Thomas W. Report of an Examination of the Upper Columbia River and the Territory inits Vicinity in September and October, 1881, to Determine its Navigability, and Adaptability to SteamboatTransportation. [2], 135 pp. Illustrated with 33 map plates, 1 folding. 23x14.5 cm. (9x5¾”), originalblack cloth, rebacked with original spine cloth laid down. First Edition. Senate Ex. Doc. No. 186,47th Congress, 1st Session.Washington: Government Printing Office, 1882Includes 25-sheet “Map of the Upper Columbia River, from the International Boundary Lineto Snake River, on a Scale of One Inch to Two Miles” plus folding index sheet. With materialon history & discovery of the Columbia, fur trade, etc. Edges worn; paper a bit browned; verygood.(150/250)299. Taylor, Lillie Jane Orr. Life History of Thomas Orr, Jr.: Pioneer Stories of California and Utah(wrapper title). [10], 51 pp. With 9 plates from photographs. 23x15.5 cm. (9x6¼”), original wrappers.First Edition.[Shingle Springs, Calif.?]: Lillie Jane Orr Taylor, 1930Orr (1832-1923) was a member of the Mormon Exodus of 1847 and an early pioneer ofCalifornia. His narrative, originally dictated to the editor of the Placerville Republican andprinted in that newspaper in 1915, recounts the winter journey from Nauvoo to Salt LakeCity in 1847; Orr’s travels across the Sierras to California and his adventures at the diggings;and his subsequent career as a freighter, road builder, stage-line operator and rancher. He was aresident of California’s El Dorado County for over fifty years. The balance of the book provides,in proper Mormon fashion, a detailed genealogy of the Orr family. Scarce. Eberstadt 114:724;Flake 8852; Norris 2983; not in Cowan or Rocq. Light wear to wrapper edges; near fine.(150/250)300. (Television) Disndale, A., editor. Television: The World’s First Television Journal. Volume 3,Number 25. 52 pp. Original wrappers.London: Television Press, March, 1930Edited by British engineer Alfred Dinsdale who had written the first book in English aboutTelevision in 1926 and later became an executive of the Xerox Corporation. This issue includesarticles on Television in Germany, Experimental Television Apparatus, The Photo-Electric Cell,British Television in 1930, Feminine Reflections: Television Fashion Lessons, and Proceedings ofthe Television Society. Light wear, paper a bit browned, previous owner’s name on front wrapper;very good.(100/150)Page 91

301. (Terrill, George M.) Three cabinet cards of the First Infantry of the National Guard of California- two of which picturing surgeon George M. Terrill. 3 cabinet cards: Photograph of George Terrill,posing in full uniform. 21x14.3 cm. (8¼x5”) on board mount. Photographer, Theo C. Marceau, S.F.,information on verso. Captioned in period hand on verso, “George M. Terrill Lt Col 1st NationalGuard of California from 1888 until 1898 - 10 year - 400 Stockton St. Calif.” * Photograph of 4men (incl. Terrill) and 7 women posing by a camp tent labeled, Surgeon, with hanging Chineselanterns. 17x22.7 cm. (6¾x9”) on board mount, captained at bottom margin, “Camp Orton, FirstInfantry, N.G.C. Santa Rosa, 1889.” Photographer was Oliver, also caption on bottom margin. Onverso in period hand is a caption which identifies the people in the photograph, and the date ofthe photograph July 27th, 1889. * Photograph of presumably the First Infantry of the NationalGuard of California, standing at attention. 13.8x21 cm. (5½x8¼”) on board mount, captained withphotographer information Fuller & Williams, 1150 Market Street. Together 3 cabinet cards.San Francisco and Santa Rosa: 1889George M. Terrill was son of the famous surgeon George P. Terrill of Virginia. George alsobecame an surgeon, serving with the army, and performing his duties most notably in the CivilWar and the Apache campaign of 1885-86. Soon after, he settled out west, becoming a memberof the First Infantry of the National Guard of California, which had posts throughout northernCalifornia. Some light wear from handling, some slight fading or yellowing with age, the lastphotograph (of the infantry standing at attention) with foxing; very good.(400/600)302. (Texas) LaGrill, L[ouis]. Autograph Letter, signed, from Louis LaGrill to the Mayor of Brownsville,Texas regarding his imprisoned renegade son. 4 page Autograph Letter, signed. Approximately 8x4¾”.Front of original envelope present.Memphis, Tenn.: December 13, 1866To the Mayor of Brownsville, Texas: “Yesterday, I received a copy of the “Rio Grande Courier”dated Oct. 23rd, 1866. It records the capture of a Band of Marauders under one Col. Young.In the list of Prisoners appears the name of Joseph LaGrill, my oldest Son, a lad only 16 years.This is the first intimation I had of his whereabouts. He was an ‘Apprentice’ on Board of theU.S. School Ship Sabine... was persuaded… to desert from the Sabine and he finally fell into thehands of one B.S. Osbon, who prevailed upon him… by glowing tales, to accompany him ona cruise in the Mexican Republican service, without my knowledge or consent. How he cameto leave Osbon or how he found his way into the Band with which he was captured I knownot...I make no doubt he has been led into it by misrepresentations and false promises…ThePaper says he with others was lodged in your County Jail. If in your power, will you confer afavor on a sorrowing Mother and Father to inform us of his whereabouts and the circumstanceswhich surround him? I desire if possible that he be returned to his Ship and trust that hispast experience will be a good lesson to him.…This B.S. Osbon is an Uncle to my son bymarriage…I cannot close this letter without warning the Citizens against him both in regard tohis honesty and integrity. I hope, Sir, that my son’s extreme youth and want of experience willplead for him…I hope and trust that your Authorities will be prevailed upon to deal mercifullywith him and return him to his ship…” The chaotic events along the Rio Grande border in thefall of 1866 was later described by the alleged villain of this letter, Captain Bradley S. Osbon,in his 1906 memoirs, Sailor of Fortune, written with Mark Twain’s good friend Albert BigelowPaine. Hired by the government of Benito Juarez, then fighting the French-installed regimeof Emperor Maximilian, to form a Mexican Naval force, Osbon was ordered to capture thecity of Matamoras, across the river from Brownsville, held by a group of drunken Mexican“Revolutionists” who had broken from the Juarez Army. Osbon successfully launched his assaultin a Mexican gunboat, supported by the mercenary troops of an ‘American Corps’ led by an ex-Confederate Colonel. Osbon makes no mention of a Colonel Young and his ‘Marauders’. If theytoo were supporting Juarez, then it’s a mystery why young LaGrill was jailed on the Americanside of the River, since the US military was covertly supplying Osbon. As for the young man’sfate, there is no record of Joseph LaGrill surviving his tragic Texas adventures. Creased; near fine.(250/350)Page 92

303. (Texas) Potter, Reuben M. Autograph Letter, signed from the author of the first accurate accountof the fall of the Alamo. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.[Philadelphia]: May 15, 1856To Major George H. Crosman, US Army Quartermaster. Requesting a clothing requisitionfor soldiers at his Barracks. Also: White, Thomas. Autograph Letter Signed. Indiana,Pennsylvania, Nov 3, 1836. 1 page plus stampless address leaf. To Stephen Austin’s relative,Thomas F. Leaming, of Philadelphia, about a land sale in which Leaming acted as agent for USNavy Captain Alexander Dallas, son of Madison’s Secretary of the Treasury. With Leaming’sholograph annotation in upper margin. Apart from writing the first accurate account of the fallof the Alamo, based on interviews with Mexican survivors of the battle, Reuben MarmadukePotter (1802-1890) was a significant figure in early Texas history. Having lived in Mexicosince the 1820s, he was often used as the Texas Republic’s diplomatic emissary to the MexicanGovernment, twice saving Texan prisoners held by Santa Anna from execution. He also wrotethe “Hymn of the Alamo”, beloved Texas equivalent of the Star Spangled Banner. After servingin the Mexican-American War, Potter held Army administrative positions at New Orleans,Philadelphia and San Antonio. His scarce letters, of any date, are sought by collectors of Texiana.The other letter, to Stephen Austin’s cousin Thomas Leaming, who represented Austin’s interestson the East coast during his “colonization” of Texas, was received by Leaming weeks before helearned that his friend and kinsman had died of pneumonia. Creased; near fine.(200/300)ARCHIVE ON AMERICAN ENTREPRENEUR304. Train, George Francis. Small Archive of materials relating to American entrepreneur GeorgeFrancis Train. Includes: An ALS from Train to William Henry Bailhache, manager of the Springfield(Illinois) State Journal, with original postmarked envelope. It is a short note, dated Dec.18, 1868 inOmaha, in Train’s characteristics scrawl, reading in part “Chinese Mandarins – good for you. Meanshalfway station from Paris to Pekin. Passengers for China this way.” * Bailhache family copy of Train’sbook, My Life in Many States and Foreign Lands (First edition, 1902). * Printed Application toInstall Street Railways in Great Britain, (one page; only one copy located in institutional holdings). *Three-page printed document providing the text of Train’s four previous applications to install streetrailways in Great Britain and providing ridership statistics for the Surrey Side Street Railway, whichhe established in 1861 (no copies located in OCLC).Various datesTrain was an extraordinarily energetic businessman who first made his fortune as the organizerof the White Diamond Line, which sent clipper ships around Cape Horn to San Francisco.He later became a great enthusiast of rail travel, establishing the first British street railway, andhelping to fund and promote the Union Pacific Railroad. He ran for President of the UnitedStates in 1872, traveled around the world several times, and claimed to be the basis for thecharacter of Phineas Fogg in Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days. Light wear to volume,other items creased; overall very good or better.(500/800)305. Twain, Mark. Mark Twain: San Francisco Correspondent. Selections from his letters to the TerritorialEnterprise: 1865-1866. Edited by Henry Nash Smith and Frederick Anderson. Illustrations fromphotograph, old prints. Cloth-backed boards. One of 400 copies.San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1957Mark Twain’s exuberant reporting for the famous Virginia City, Nevada, newspaper on a score ofsubjects, most relating to San Francisco. These articles were discovered in a scrapbook compiledby the author’s brother, Orion Clemens, the original newspaper files having been destroyed.Prospectus laid in. Some wear to extremities, spine sunned; very good.(100/150)Page 93

306. Twain, Mark. Roughing it in California. Illustrated by Mallette Dean. 10¼x6¼, wood veneerboards, acetate. 1 of 200 copies printed on Oxbow rag paper by Lewis & Dorothy Allen.Kentfield, CA: L-D Allen Press, 1953Allen Press 12. Acetate chipped; spine faded, light wear; very good.(150/250)307. Twiss, Travers. The Oregon Territory, Its History and Discovery, Including an Account of theConvention of the Escurial, Also, the Treaties and Negotiations Between the United States and GreatBritain.... 264, iv pp. (8vo), original printed front wrapper, later leather-backed boards, spine letteredin gilt. First American Edition.New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1846A detailed and masterly argument in support of British claims to the Oregon Territory, writtento refute to Robert Greenhow’s pro-American works, Memoir, Historical and Political (1840)and History of Oregon and California (1842). The British first edition, also published in 1846,contains an identical text, although it was issued with a slightly different title and in a largerformat, and contains two maps not included in the American edition. Cowan (I), p. 234; HowesT442; Smith 10372; Soliday 908. Bind rubbed, worn; pages browned, foxing; good.(200/300)308. Twitchell, Ralph Emerson. The History of the Military Occupation of the Territory of NewMexico from 1846-1851 by the Government of the United States, together with Biographical Sketches ofMen Prominent in the Conduct of the Government During that Period. 394 pp. Frontispiece portrait, 67pages of portraits and other illustrative material. (8vo), green cloth titled and decorated in gilt, colorpictorial cover label. First Edition.Denver: Smith-Brooks Company, 1909Inscribed by the author on title page. An excellent account of the Mexican War in general, theformation of the Army of the West and its march into New Mexico and Mexico, and of thevarious activities of Stephen Watts Kearny, A. W. Doniphan, and Sterling Price. Rader 3166;Rittenhouse SFT 587; Tutorow 3435. Light wear to cloth, hinges cracked and shaken, previousowner’s name in several locations; good.(150/250)309. Twitchell, Ralph Emerson. The Spanish Archives of New Mexico: Compiled and chronologicallyarranged with historical, genealogical, geographical, and other annotations. 2 volumes. xxiii, [1], 525; vi,[2], 683 pp. Numerous plates, portraits, maps and facsimiles. (8vo), original red cloth lettered in gilt,top edge gilt. First Edition.[Cedar Rapids]: The Torch Press, 1914Voluminous compilation of basic source material, fully indexed. Howes T445. Spines sunned,light wear to cloth, front hinge cracked in Volume 1; very good.(300/500)310. Tyson, James L. Diary of a Physician in California: Being the Results of Actual Experience includingNotes of the Journey by Land and Water and Observations on the Climate, Soil, Resources of the Country,etc. 92, [4 ad] pp. (8vo) modern brown leather binding. First Edition.New York: D. Appleton, 1850Dr. Tyson visited Gold Rush California “to become familiar with its diseases, particularly atthe mines, and to select a location for permanent settlement. Becoming a victim to one of theformer, and my tastes not inclining to the rugged hardships of the latter, I remained only longenough to gain the knowledge I sought.” Tyson’s diary is important not only for the descriptionof his adventures, but also for his medical advice on how to stay healthy while crossing theIsthmus or working in the mines. He writes, “I never saw so many broken-down constitutionsas during my brief stay in California.” An uncommon Gold Rush narrative. Cowan (II), p. 648;Howell 50:235; Howes T451; Kurutz 642; Rocq 16114; Streeter 2656; Wheat 211. Rebindingis a trifle amateurish, light foxing, original wrappers not retained when rebound, very good.(300/500)Page 94

311. Vaughn, Robert. Then and Now; or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies. Personal Reminiscences ofSome of the First Pioneers of the State of Montana. Indians and Indian Wars. The Past and Present of theRocky Mountain Country, 1864-1900. [6], [13]-461 pp. Illustrations from photographs, paintings byC.M. Russell, etc. (8vo), original pictorial green cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition.Minneapolis: Tribune Printing, 1900Scarce Montana pioneer reminiscences, by a man who seems to have known everyone, beeneverywhere, and done a little bit of everything. Soliday notes, “[e]mbraces the James Stuartprospecting party, events in northern Montana in ‘65, Lewis’s early days in Montana, battlesin the Sun River Valley, John D. Brown’s narrative, Warren C. Gilbert’s early experiences, etc.”Custer bibliographer Tal Luther notes, “Vaughn’s book is the only one that I have knowledge ofthat indicated an attempt was made to scout the upper reaches of Tullock’s Fork as Terry’s orderto Custer required.” Adams Herd 2403; Graff 4466; Howes V61; Luther High Spots 68; Smith10526. Very minor wear to extremities, bookplate; else near fine.(500/800)“FOUNDATION OF A LIBRARY OF CALIFORNIANA”312. Venegas, Miguel. A Natural and Civil History of California: Containing an Accurate Descriptionof that Country, Its Soils, Mountains, Harbours, Lakes, Rivers and Seas; Its Animals, Vegetables, Mineralsand Famous Fishery for Pearls. The Customs of Inhabitants, Their Religion, Government and Manner ofLiving before Their Conversion to the Christian Religion by the Missionary Jesuits. Together with Accountsof the Several Voyages and Attempts Made for Settling California, and Taking Actual Surveys of thatCountry, Its Gulf and Coast of the South-sea. 2 volumes. [20], 455; [8], 387 pp. With 8 copperengravedillustrations on four plates; folding copper-engraved map of California. 190.5x12 cm.(7¾x4¾”), period full calf, rebacked with later calf, morocco lettering pieces, new endpapers. FirstEdition in EnglishLondon: James Rivington & James Fletcher, 1759One of the cornerstones of the study of California history, called the “First attempt at a historyof California. Based, by the anonymous editor, Father Andres Marco Burriel, on Venegas1739 MS., but incorporatinginformation from other sources...”- Howes. Cowan calls the work“the foundation of a library ofCaliforniana.” The map, “AnAccurate Map of California, drawnby the Society of Jesuits,” engravedby J. Gibson for this English edition,is the same as that in the 1757 threevolumeSpanish first edition, butwithout the vignettes surroundingthe map. Wheat notes it as “a welldrawnmap, showing the missionsand Indian towns of Pimeria Alta...”Cowan p.658; Hill, Pacific Voyages,p.307; Howes V69; (Wheat,Transmississippi 138, Vol. I p.85);Zamorano 80 #78. Rubbing andedge wear to covers, corners showing;marginal darkening to prelim. andlatter leaves (including frontispieces)from the leather used in binding,most pronounced in second volume,frontispiece of Vol. I laid on backingsheet, map with 2” stub tear withLot 312earlier cloth tape repair on verso,overall very good.(1200/1800)Page 95

313. Victor, Frances Fuller. The River of the West. Life and Adventures in the Rocky Mountains andOregon; Embracing Events in the Life-Time of a Mountain-Man and Pioneer: With the Early Historyof the North-Western Slope... [2], 602 pp. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of Joseph Meek; woodengravings & plates. (8vo), original cloth with gilt cover vignette, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.Hartford, Conn.: Columbian Book Company, 1870Biography of Joseph Lafayette Meek, mountain-man. Meek ventured into the Rocky Mountainswith William Sublette in 1829, one year shy of his twentieth birthday. He ranged the beavergrounds for the next eleven years, settling in the Willamette Valley in Oregon in 1840. Heplayed a significant part in the early days of Oregon Territory, and was a major of volunteers inthe Yakima Indian War. He died in 1875. Graff 4477; Howes V89; Smith 10555; Tweney 80.Spine faded, ends frayed, some wear to edges; light foxing; very good.(200/300)314. Vinton, Stallo. John Colter, Discoverer of Yellowstone Park: An Account of His Explorations in1807 and of His Further Adventures as Hunter; Trapper; Indian Fighter; Pathfinder and Member of theLewis and Clark Expedition. 114 pp. Frontispiece; map. (8vo) cloth-backed boards. First Edition. Oneof 500 copies.New York: Edward Eberstadt, 1926Earliest and best biography of one of the iconic figures in the early history of the AmericanWest. Scarce. Graff 4490; Howes V114. Boards sunned at edges; very good.(200/300)315. (Virginia) Southall, V[alentine] W[ood]. Autograph Letter, signed, from a future leader of theVirginia Secession. Autograph Letter, signed. 3 pp. + integral stampless address leaf.Charlottesville, VA: August 28, 1850To Baltimore attorney W.P. Maulsby. Writing to his Maryland co-counsel for the plaintiffs in acase to be tried in a Virginia Court, Southall believed that one of the defendants had committed“ a deliberate fraud - a gross act of swindling”, but worried that their key witness, “a strangerfrom another state” would be contradicted by a Virginia defense witness, “connected with arespectable family, in the midst of his friends and neighbors, and before a jury to whom he will,no doubt, be known, and whose sympathies and possibly whose confidence, would be morelikely to be extended to him than to a total stranger.” Valentine Wood Southall (1789-1861)was a veteran Virginia politician and respected attorney – a descendant of Patrick Henry, andcousin of future Confederate General Joseph Johnston – who had been Speaker of the VirginiaHouse of Representatives in the 1840s. On the eve of Civil War, Southall, while bitterly opposedto “federal coercion”, was elected as a Union advocate to the Virginia Convention which met inFebruary 1861 to decide whether the state should secede from the Union. Though not presidentof the Convention, he chaired the momentous session of April 17, days after the surrender ofFort Sumter, when the Virginia Ordinance of Secession was passed. Southall died four monthslater. Fine.(100/150)316. Wagner, Henry R. Peter Pond: Fur Trader & Explorer. 103 pp. 3 loose folding maps in a paperportfolio. 17.8x12 cm. (7x4¾”), cloth-backed boards, slipcase. One of 550 copies. First Edition.[New Haven, CT]: Yale University Press, 1955Born in Connecticut in 1740, Pond trapped and explored the upper Mississippi and intoCanada, producing a number of maps which elicited both controversy and speculation. Paperfolder chipped, split and lacking one flap, slipcase worn; bookplate; very good.(150/250)Page 96

317. Wagner, Henry R. Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast of America in the Sixteenth Century.viii, 571 pp. Numerous maps (some folding), illustrations and facsimiles. (4to) original gilt lettereddark blue cloth. First Edition.San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1929Scholarly history by the eminent historian. Hill notes that “this work contains most of theavailable information regarding the Spanish voyages to the northwest coast of America from theearly sixteenth century to the seventeenth century....” Cowan, p. 666; Hill, p. 315; Howes W11.Small circular bookplate from the Bibliotheca H.R. Wagner tipped to front pastedown. Fronthinge a bit shaken; near fine.(300/500)318. Wagner, Henry R. The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800. 2 volumes.Illustrated with facsimile maps, many folding. 31x23 cm. (12¼x9¼”), dark blue cloth, spines letteredin gilt, jackets, together in publisher’s slipcase with paper spine label. First Edition.Berkeley: University of California Press, 1937Seminal work on the subject, offering a chronological listing of some 862 maps, identifyingand giving the origins of countless place names, and detailing the explorations that revealed theshape of the continent. Light wear to jackets and slipcase; residue from removed bookplate inVolume 1; near fine.(500/800)319. Wagstaff, A.E., ed. Life of David S. Terry, Presenting an Authentic, Impartial, and Vivid Historyof His Eventful Life and Tragic Death. xvi, [15]-526 pp. Frontispiece portrait from photograph; 4wood-engraved plates. (8vo) original dark green cloth stamped in blind and black, lettered in gilt onfront cover and spine. First Edition.San Francisco: Continental Publishing Co., 1892“Best biography of a violently eccentric Californian” - Howes. Terry (1823-1890) came toCalifornia from Texas in 1849, was elected to the state Supreme Court in 1855 and becameChief Justice in 1857, mortally wounded Senator David Broderick in a duel in 1859, fought forthe Confederacy in the Civil War, came back to California as a lawyer in 1869, married a client,struck U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field (occasioned by Field’s determining theaforementioned client’s documentation was false), and was gunned down by Field’s bodyguardDavid Neagle. Cowan p.66; Howes W14. Light wear to spine ends and edges, front hingestarting; very good.(100/150)The Buyer’s Premium will be 20% for bids up to $100,000and 15% for that portion over $100,000.Page 97

320. (War Department Technical Manuals) Lot of 20 War Department Technical Manuals - Mostlyvehicle repair. Includes: Ordnance Maintenance Turbosupercharger and Airplane Power Plan. TM1-404. 1943. * 2½-Ton, 6x6, Amphibian Truck (GMC DUKW-353). TM 9-802. 1945. * ¼-Ton4x4 Truck (Willys-Overland Model MB and Ford Model GPW). TM 9-803. 1944. * 1½-Ton 4x4Truck (Chevrolet). TM 9-805. 1943. * 1½-Ton 4x2 Truck (Ford. TM 9-806. 1944. * 2½-Ton Truckand 2½- to 5-Ton 6x4 Truck (Studebaker Models US 6 and US 6x4). TM 9-807. 1943. * ¾-Ton 4x4Truck (Dodge). TM 9-808. 1944. * 1½ Ton Truck, 6x6 (Dodge). TM 9-810. 1943. * 6-Ton, 6x6Truck (White, Corbitt, and Brockway). TM 9-813. 1944. * 4- to 5-Ton 4x4 Tractor Truck (AutocarModel U-7144T). TM 9-816. 1944. * 1½-Ton, 4x2, 29 Passenger Bus (IHC Models K-5 and KS-5).TM 9-824. 1944. * Snow Tractor M7 and 1-Ton Snow Trailer M19. TM 9-774. 1944. * 4-Ton, 6x6Trucks (Diamond T Models 968A Cargo, 969A Wrecker, 970A Ponton, and 972 Dump. TM 9-811.1944. * 6-Ton Payload, 10-Ton Gross, 2-Wheel, Can Semitrailer. TM 9-888. 1943. * Axles, PropellorShafts, and Wheels for Bomb Service Truck M6 and 1½-Ton 4x4 Trucks (Chevrolet), IncludingTelephone Earth Borer (K-44). TM 9-1765A. 1945 * 2½-Ton, 4x2 Dump Truck (IHC Model K-7)and 37 Passenger Bus (IHC Models K-7 and KS7). TM 9-1822. 1945. * Signal Equipment Directory,Power Units. TM 11-223. 1945. * Power Units PE-49-C, -D, -F, and -G and Motor Generator MG-37-A. TM 11-920. 1945. * Power Unit PU-58/G. TM 11-980. * Projector Equipments PH-131-Athrough PH 131-G. TM 11-2357. 1944. Together 20 volumes.Washington: War Department, 1943-45A nice gathering of WWII era government vehicle maintenance manuals. All with some lightwear, previous owner’s name in ink on front covers; overall very good.(500/800)321. (Washington) An Illustrated History of Whitman County, State of Washington. xiii, [3], 469 pp.Frontispiece portrait, thirty-nine additional leaves of portraits and other illustrations. (4to) originalfull morocco stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt. First Edition.No place: W.H. Lever, 1901The earliest published history of Whitman County, Washington, located in the Palouse regionof Eastern Washington on the state’s border with Idaho, with valuable local biographical andgenealogical information not available elsewhere. Smith 4864. Some rubbing and scuffing toleather; very good.(800/1200)322. (Washington) Told by the Pioneers. 3 volumes. (Small 4to) original pictorial cloth. First Edition.[Olympia, WA]: [Washington Pioneer Project], 1937-38An interesting compilation of historical and biographical sketches. Compiled and publishedunder the auspices of a state oral history project underwritten by the Federal W.P.A. Volume 1with some soiling to cloth, previous owner’s inscription in each volume; very good.(200/300)323. [Watson, Douglas]. West Wind: The Life Story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the GoldenHorseshoe. [viii], 109, [3] pp. Folding map, plates. (4to) 26.5x19 cm. (10½x7½”), original moroccobackedboards. One of 100 copies printed by Johnck & Seeger.Los Angeles: Percy H. Booth, 1934Signed by the publisher on the front flyleaf. The story of “Walker and his remarkable career andexploration in the Far West; Santa Fe in 1820; meeting Captain Bonneville; overland into theRockies in ’32; the Green River rendezvous; heading for the Pacific; hunting for a mountain passin the Sierras; wintering on the San Joaquin; trapping and trading in the Rockies; CaliforniaConquest; to Santa Fe with horses, etc.” (Eberstadt). Howes W161; Graff 4558. Spine rubbed,corners bumped and rubbed; very good.(300/500)Page 98

324. Webb, William Seward. California and Alaska and Over the Canadian Pacific Railway. 189 pp.4to. Illustrated with 4 etchings and 88 photogravures. Full morocco tooled in gilt. No. 193 of 500copies. First Edition.New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1890A wealthy businessman’s railway trip throughout the American West, with stops at Denver,Colorado Springs, Santa Fe, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Monterey, the Yosemite Valley, SanFrancisco, and points north. Cowan p. 672. Also included, and perhaps an inspiration for thepresent volume, is Webb’s copy of W.H.H. Murphy’s “Daylight Land”. An elaborately producedaccount of a journey by train across Canada, ending in Vancouver, written under the guise offiction. (8vo) original pictorial cloth. First Edition. 1888. With Webb’s bookplate on the frontpastedown. Both volumes with some light wear; overall very good or better.(400/600)325. Weston, Edward. Seeing California with Edward Weston. Illustrated from photographs byEdward Weston. 12½x9¾, cloth-backed pictorial boards. First Edition.Westways / Automobile Club of Southern California, [1939]Edges bumped and rubbed, a bit of warping at spine head, tiny spots of soiling; very good.(150/250)326. Wheat, Carl I[rving]. The Maps of the California Gold Region, 1848-1857: A Biblio-Cartographyof an Important Decade. xlii, 152 + [1] pp. Black and white reproductions. Foreword by MaurizioMartino. Cloth. Reprint edition, limited to 350 copies.Storrs-Mansfield, CT: Maurizio Martino Publications, [c.1995]An essential reference on the subject. Light wear; near fine.(100/150)327. White, David A., ed. News of the Plains and Rockies, 1803 - 1865: Original narratives of overlandtravel and adventure selected from the Wagner-Camp and Becker bibliography of Western Americana.9 volumes, including the supplement volume. Illustrated with maps, tables, facsimiles, etc. 10x7,tan cloth with brown gilt-lettered brown cover and spine labels. Supplement volume in brown giltletteredcloth. First Collected Edition.Spokane: Arthur Clark Company, 1996-[2001]A valuable reference of Western Americana. “This compilation pulls together...168 rare newsreports of pioneers who epitomized the Western spirit” (introduction). Fine, several volumes stillin shrinkwrap.(400/600)328. Whitney, Harry. Hunting With the Eskimos: The Unique Record of a Sportsman’s Year among theNorthernmost Tribe -- the Big Game Hunting, the Native Life, and the Battle for Existence through theLong Arctic Night. xiv, 453 pp. Frontispiece; text illustrations from black-and-white photographs;folding map. (8vo) original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt and white, top edge gilt. First Edition.New York: The Century Co., 1910Classic account of hunting walrus, narwhal, muskox and other game among the Eskimos ofCanada’s Baffin Bay and Ellesmere Land. Light edge wear, hinges cracked, previous owner’sname; very good.(100/150)Page 99

MILESTONE IN LITERATURE OF ORE DEPOSITS IN U.S.329. Whitney, J[oseph] D[wight]. The Metallic Wealth of The United States. 510 pp. 3 lithographplates, other illustrations in text. (8vo) later full mottled calf, spine gilt, red leather label, marbledendpapers. First Edition.Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854“This work was a milestone in the literature of ore deposits, and remained a standard text for twodecades. One of the first systematic texts in the field, it stimulated serious research on mineralores and helped to establish mining geology as a scientific discipline.” (DSB). Bookplate of thePacific-Union Club. Spine sunned, light edge wear; an occasional pencil marking; near fine.(700/1000)330. (Williams, Mary Floyd) Collection of letters addressed to Mary Floyd Williams and Herbert E.Bolton, regarding the recent publication of: History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. Including:Addressed to Herbert E. Bolton: 4 pp. copy of a TL from John F. Davis dated Sept. 22, 1919. * 1 pp.TLs from Richard F. Burges (of law firm Burges & Burges) dated Dec. 17, 1921. * 1 pp. TL from KarlF. Geiser dated Jan. 3, 1921. * 1 pp. TL from O.G. Libby dated Dec. 19, 1921. * Addressed to MaryF. Williams: 1 pp. TL from Edgar Dawson dated Dec. 2, 1921. * 1 pp. TL from Milton J. Ferguson,CA State Librarian dated Dec. 15, 1921. * 2 pp. ALs from Felix Frankfurter of Harvard Law Schooldated Nov. 27 [1921]. * 2 pp. TLs from Eudora Garoutte of the CA State Library dated Dec. 23,1921. Plus several others.Various places: 1920sA nice archive of letters from professors, academics, and librarians around the United States. Allwriting to address Professor Bolton or Miss Floyd about their response to the reading of Historyof the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 - Vol. XII of the University of CaliforniaPublications in History. Some very light wear to edges of some; mostly near fine.(300/500)331. Willis, N.P. Canadian Scenery Illustrated. From Drawings by W.H. Bartlett. 2 volumes. [4], 128;[4], 116 pp. With 2 engraved added pictorial title-pages; engraved map; 117 steel-engraved platesfrom drawings by William Henry Bartlett. (4to) 26.5x20.2 cm. (10½x8”), period full black morocco,wide decorative gilt border, spine gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt.London: George Virtue, 1842Splendid series of fine engravings of the Canadian wilds, as well as her few cities and settlements,from drawings by the pre-eminent 19th century British travel illustrator, or “topographicaldraughtsman.” Light rubbing to extremities; dampstain in lower margin at rear of Volume 2,into images on 5 plates; very good.(700/1000)ONE OF EARLIEST AMERICAN WRITINGS ON WINE332. (Wine) Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for PromotingUseful Knowledge. xxviii, xx, 116 (misnumbered as 217, 72, (117)-240 pp. Four folding plates (ofseven). (4to) 22.8x17 cm. (9x6¾”), full calf, red morocco spine label. First Edition.Philadelphia: William and Thomas Bradford, 1771Contains scientific essays relating to the Transit of Venus, improving navigation of Pennsylvaniaand Maryland, etc. Of particular interest is one of the earliest American writings on wine,Edward Antill’s “An Essay on the Cultivation of the Vine, and the Making and Preserving ofWine, Suited to the Different Climates in North-America”. Ex-library from the Allegheny,Pennsylvania Carnegie Free Library with several ink stamps, including on plates. Light scuffingto leather, joints and hinges cracking; lacking plates 2, 5, & 7; light foxing; very good.(1000/1500)Page 100

333. Winther, Oscar Osburn. The Story of San Jose, 1777-1869: California’s First Pueblo. Colorfrontispiece from drawing by William Smyth; plate reproducing lithograph of San Jose by Kuchel &Dressel; illustration of New Almaden Mine by J.W. Revere. 10½x7, cloth, paper cover & spine labels.1 of 150 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. First Edition.San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1935Prospectus laid in. Reprinted from the Quarterly of the California Historical Society. Thedevelopment of San Jose under Spanish, Mexican, and American rule. Scarce. Rocq 14139.Spine sunned, ripple to cloth on rear cover; very good.(150/250)334. Winthrop, Theodore. The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Riversand Forests; and Isthmiana. [2], 375 + 16 ad pp. 7¼x4¼, original blind-stamped pebbled cloth, spinelettered in gilt. First Edition.Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863“Winthrop was probably better fitted to portray the west than any other Eastern man whoattempted to describe it. As a story of travel among the forests and mountains of the Northwest,it was the first of a long line of books that turned the eyes of the country westward. It presents atruthful contemporary picture of the Indian and pioneer period. Included is a vocabulary of theChinook Jargon, and numerous sketches of Indians and Indian life, etc.” [George H. Tweney].Graff 4715; Howes W584; Smith 11130; Washington 89, 86. Spine a touch sunned, light wearto extremities; near fine.(150/250)335. Work, John. The Journal of John Work, a chief-trader of the Hudson’s Bay Co., during his expeditionfrom Vancouver to the Flatheads and Blackfeet of the Pacific Northwest. Edited, and with account of theFur Trade in the Northwest, and the Life of Work, by William S. Lewis and Paul C. Phillips. 209 pp.Frontispiece portrait & 4 plates from photographs; map. (8vo) 24x15.5 cm. (9¼x6”), original bluecloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. First Edition.Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1923An important narrative of the early fur trade in the Pacific Northwest, ably edited andannotated. One of 1,000 copies. Clark & Brunet II:316; Howes W675; Smith 11212. Lightwear and soiling to cloth, hinges starting; very good.(150/250)336. (World War I) A Message From the Skies by Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune Commanding SecondDivision, A.E.F. - printed message dropped by airplane during World War I. Printed on war-time paper.26x17 cm. (10¼x6½”). It begins, “1. One year ago, the enemy was at the high tide of success. Hisgreat offensives of March and April in Picardy and Belgium had with difficulty been checked...” With2 other bullet points. With Native American chief’s face within a star emblem stamped on bottom.[c.1919]“Dropped here by aeroplane June 1st 1919 on anniversary of Second Div. participation indefensive,” penciled on bottom margin. Toned with age, very faint soiling; very good.(100/150)Each lot is illustrated in color in the online version of the catalogue.Go to www.pbagalleries.comPage 101

ARCHIVE ON AMERICAN AVIATOR IN WWI337. (World War I Aviator Archive) Archive relating to Claude Edward Duncan, an aviator with theU.S. Signal Corps in World War I, who rose to general and saw service in World War II and the KoreanWar. Includes an original diary kept by Duncan during his service in the First World War, printedand typed orders, certificates of promotions, newspaper clippings, photographs, identification cards,medals and insignia, and much more. Many items are neatly housed in sleeves in a three-ring binder,the medals are in a display case.Various places: 1917-1971Significant historical archive relating to the military service of Claude Edward Duncan (1895-1971), born in Colorado and raised in California, who enlisted as a Private First Class in theAviation Section of the Signal Reserve in July, 1917. After two months training at the aviationground school at Austin, Texas, he was transferred to the American Expeditionary Forces inEurope, where he continued his pilot training and on March 13, 1918, graduated from flyingschool at Foggia, Italy, rated a pilot and commissioned a First Lieutenant in the Air Reserve. Hewas then transferred to the Western Front, and flew observation missions over France. After thewar ended, he served with the occupying forces in Germany, then back to the United States andon to Wheeler Field in Hawaii. He continued to rise through the ranks, and was promoted tofull colonel in January of 1942, when he was assigned as a special observer with the Eighth AirForce in England. The following month he became chief of staff of the Eighth Bomber Command.Following service in North Africa and back in the United States, from November 1943to July 1944 he served successively as assistant executive and assistant chief of staff of the XXBomber Command in India and China. He was instrumental in establishing air bases in Chinawhere U.S. bombers could land if their fuel was too low to return to their island bases afterbombing Japan. There are dozens of orders in the archive, charting his transfers to various basesand different duties, plus a dozen or so certificates of promotion, signed by secretaries of war;photographs of him at air bases in England during WWII (including a group photograph signedin the verso by many officers of the USAAF and RAF); documentation of the reunion of flyerstrained at Foggio, Italy, which took place in 1967; and much more. Perhaps the most interestingitem is a little diary kept by Duncan beginning on Sept. 25, 1917. The diary leaves are loosein a sleeve titled “Memorandum Sheets.” A few sample entries: “Sept. 25, 1917. 5:00 PM. LeftNY on Cunard Line, SS Saxonia”; “Oct. 18. Land in sight. Disembarked at Havre, Fr. 12:00noon. Rest Camp”; “Oct. 17. Passed thru Rome about 10-11 am. Arrived Foggio 10:00 pm”;“Dec. 10. Raid alarm. Given charge of machine gun... Morehead sideslipped into nose dive.Not badly hurt so far as we know”; “Dec. 15. Weather cleared. Started above Amity low cloudsbelow me began to get thick. Finally obscured ground entirely. Flew by compass. Saw rivers oncebut no chance to land. Clouds or mist evidently clear to ground. Struck west looking for holeand chance to land. None till at Asdorf. Very low clouds. Not possible to fly under. Stayed thereFrench Lts. took charge of us.” It is not known if the diary is complete, and some of the leavesare out of order. Very good or better condition, a fascinating archive.(800/1200)338. (World’s Columbian Exposition) World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893 - six issues ofCampbell’s Illustrated Monthly. Includes: No. 25. March, 1893. Color lithograph illustrated wrappers.* August, 1893. No. 30. * October, 1893. No. 34. * January, 1894. No. 35. * February, 1894. No. 36.* June, 1894. Vol. IV, No. 1. Together 6 issues, each 39x27 cm. (15½x10½”), all in wrappers, all butthe first in printed pink wrappers.Chicago: J.B. Campbell Publishing, 1893-1894Moderate wear to wrappers of each; mostly very good.(150/250)Page 102

339. Wright, E. W., editor. Lewis & Dryden’s Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. xxiii, 494pp. Profusely illustrated throughout mostly from photographs; frontispiece. 13¼x9¼, original halfbrown morocco, rebacked with recent cloth (simulating older leather appearance), ruled in gilt, spinelettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, hinges reinforced with period cloth. First Edition.Portland, OR: The Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., 1895An encyclopedic account of the men and ships, both sail and steam, that have contributedto the history of the Pacific Northwest. Containing hundreds of illustrations, the book is anindispensable resource for any collection relating to the Pacific Northwest and maritime history.Penciled note on first blank leaf: “Captain A.S. Gauerman’s Book. Presented by Richard Turpin,Engineer at Portland, Oregon, January 24, 1904…San Francisco...”. Howes W693; Smith 4473;Eberstadt 128:474. A few repaired scuffs to front cover, small stains, light edge wear; somedampstaining and finger-soiling to contents, large tear to title page with old tape repairing torest of tear, frontispiece verso with drawing of a house; else good or better.(300/500)340. Wyeth, Nathaniel J. The Correspondence and Journals of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1831-6: ARecord of Two Expeditions for the Occupation of Oregon Country.... xix, [1], 262 pp. 3 maps, 2 of themfolding. (8vo) 24.7x16.7 cm. (9¾x6¾”), original printed wrappers. With errata slip. First Edition.Eugene, OR: University Press, 1899Includes 245 letters addressed to various persons, plus Wyeth’s complete journals from his firstand second expeditions to Oregon, respectively covering the years 1832-33 and 1834-35 (he wasaccompanied by Sublette the fur trader). Wyeth was a New Englander who traveled to Oregonin an attempt to establish an interest in the fur trade and agriculture. While there, he helpedestablish Fort Hall and provided much of the East Coast population with physical and politicaldescriptions of Oregon, thereby encouraging emigration to that Territory. Graff 4764; HowesW718; Smith 11238; Tweney 89. Wrappers with some light sunning, soiling and wear; verygood.(150/250)341. (Yosemite) Spice, R[obert] P[aulton]. The Wanderings of the Hermit of Westminster betweenNew York and San Francisco In The Autumn of 1881. 84 pp. Illustrated throughout. (8vo) originalpictorial boards, rebacked, endpapers replaced. First Edition.[London]: Printed for private circulation, [1882]Inscribed: “With the Author’s Compliments” at head of the front cover. Contains two chapterson Salt Lake City, two chapters on Yosemite, chapters on Los Angeles, Arizona, New Mexico,Cheyenne, etc. “Visit to Salt Lake. Meets ‘the sensuous and cunning impostor Brigham Young,’who maintains a despotic apostle rule. A wedge is now inserted to break it.” (Flake). Spice,President of the British Society of Engineers, who took a special interest in new Americantechnology, especially the work of Edison, stopped in Wyoming, Utah, Arizona and NewMexico on his cross-country tour, but the high-point of his trip were his visits to San Francisco,Los Angeles and, in particular, Yosemite, which he narrates in detail. Cowan p. 605; Currey andKruska 323; Flake 8345; Not in Howes, Eberstadt, Graff or Decker. Boards edge worn, somelight soiling; very good.(200/300)342. Zabriskie, Col. Ja[me]s C. Speech of Col. Jas. C. Zabriskie, on the Subject of Slavery, and in Replyto the Address of the Pittsburgh Convention, and Geo. C. Bates, Esq., Delivered at Sacramento, Cal. on the10th Day of May, A.D. 1856. 14, [2 (blank)] pp. 23.8x15.8 cm. (9¼x6¼”).Sacramento: Democratic State Journal Office, [1856]With contemporaneous ink name on title page. Greenwood 795. 1 faint library stamp on eachside of title page, moderate wear to edges including some worming, some soiling; good.(200/300)Page 103

Section II: Travel & Exploration343. (Archaeology, India) Yatman, Matthew. Autograph Letter, signed, to Thomas Maurice regardinghis works on India and Hindustan. Autograph Letter, signed. 3 pp. plus integral stampless address leaf.Lindsay Row, Chelsea [London]: October 26, 1802To Rev. [Thomas] Maurice, manuscript curator of the British Museum, praising his 6-volumetome on the Antiquities of India (1792) and his Ancient History of Hindustan (1798), andsuggesting how Egyptian hieroglyphics of a Lotus flower and winged Sphinx, which Yatmanhad found in Scottish artist James Tassie’s wax impressions of ancient gems, related to Maurice’swriting on Oriental “heathen” concepts of a holy Trinity. Maurice, a noted scholar of bothIndian and Chinese history, considered the first British writer to “popularize” Asian history andreligion, was very generous in bothering to meet with Yatman, an eccentric London Apothecarywho later published obscure books on how Electricity could be used in Medicine. Creased frommailing, light wear; very good.(80/120)344. (Archaeology, Greece) Comte de Marcellus. “Pour le Prospectus, Souvenirs de l’Orient, Par M.Le Comte de Marcellus. Ancient Ministre Plenipotentiare”. French Manuscript draft, unsigned, butundoubtedly in the author’s hand. 2 pp.[Paris]: [c.1838]After 14 years of French diplomatic service n Asia Minor and the Middle East, the Comtede Marcellus (1795-1865) retired to a literary life. While the former ambassador publishedhalf a dozen books, his most notable was this 1839 autobiographic memoir, Souvenirs del’Orient, still cited for its now-controversial account of how, in 1820, on the Greek island ofMelos, Marcellus, “rescued” one of the most beautiful sculptures of antiquity, the Venus deMilo. Whether Marcellus, son-in-law of the Curator of the Louvre, in his zeal to acquire themasterpiece for France before it could be shipped off to Constantinople, was responsible forthe careless mishandling which led to its arms being severed and lost is still hotly debated. Butthese Souvenirs, never translated into English, remain the starting-point of historical argument,so it’s ironic that Marcellus himself had no notion of their future significance, instead offeringthe manuscript in this Prospectus, as an insider’s view of French diplomacy in war-tornGreece, Ottoman Turkey, Syria, Palestine and Egypt. With an unsigned French letter of 1855,commenting on Marcellus’ books and mentioning the Venus De Milo. Creased, some light wearand foxing; very good.(200/300)345. (Arctic) Autograph Letter, signed only with initials, regarding appointment to the U.S. Delegation tothe Bering Sea Arbitration. Autograph Letter, signed. 3 pp. on Riggs House letterhead.Washington, D.C.: May 7, 1892The letter informing the writer’s father that he had just met with Secretary of State James G.Blaine who confirmed his appointment, decided by President Benjamin Harrison the previousday, as Assistant Counsel of the US delegation to the international Bering Sea Arbitration. It wasuncertain whether he would be attending the Paris Arbitration meetings in January but he wasto begin working on the briefs immediately. The Arbitration was a diplomatic solution to a longsimmeringdispute between the US and England over the rights of seal-hunting on the BeringSea islands off the coast of mainland Alaska. It is possible that the writer was Robert Lansing,one of the two associate counsels of the Arbitration delegation, later to become WoodrowWilson’s Secretary of State during World War I, but then a young New York lawyer and sonin-lawof General John Foster, Blaine’s successor, who is also named in the letter. Lansing’scustomary florid and stylized handwriting does not at all resemble the holograph in this letter– perhaps, on rare occasions, he could also produce a more typical scrawl when writing in hasteabout his career advancement to a doting father. Fine.(100/150)Page 104

346. [Bacon, Francis, Viscount Verulam]. The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry the Seventh.[iv], 248, [10] pp. Woodcut title page. (4to) 28.3x18 cm. (11x7”) modern brown half morocco andmarbled boards. Second Edition.London: Printed by I.H. and R.Y. and are to be sold by Philemon Stephens and ChristopherMeredith, 1629A reissue, with cancel title page, of the 1628 edition. First published in 1622. STC, 1161; ESTCS106900. Bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim. Paper browned, some wear to edges of a fewleaves; very good.(400/600)RARE ENGLISH COLOR PLATE BOOK347. Book’em, Roger. Paris and Dover; Or, To and Fro; A Picturesque Excursion: Being a Bird’s-eyeNotion of a few “Men and Things”. 48 hand colored plates including frontispiece, interleaved withdescriptive letterpress. 19x23 cm. (7½x9”) original boards with paper label on front, later paperrebacking. First Edition.London: H. Fores, 1821Scenes of traveler’s sights on both sides of the channel. A very rare English color-plate book,with but a single copy at auction in at least the past 30 years (Sotheby’s, 1979). A second editionwas published the following year, it is equally rare. Tooley 362; Abbey, Travel 110. Light wear toboards; some light foxing and offsetting; very good.(800/1200)Lot 347Page 105

348. (British Exploration) Barrow, John. Letter Signed as Secretary of the British Admiralty. Letter,signed. 2 pp.[London]: August 20, 1834To Rear Admiral Michael Seymour, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy’s South AmericanStation. Rio Janeiro. Brazil, sending a copy of a letter from British Foreign Secretary LordPalmerston to the Consul General in Peru , “pointing out the proper course to be pursued byBritish Subjects resident in Peru to insure that protection from their own Government whichevents may render necessary”. A decade after winning independence from Spain, much of SouthAmerica was wracked by political instability which attracted British soldiers and sailors “offortune” - probably as much a concern as protecting British subjects in the event of war betweenPeru and neighboring Bolivia and Chile. Events in this region unfolded so much more quicklythan contact with London, that the Admiralty was unaware that Admiral Seymour, a hero ofthe Napoleonic Wars, had died at Rio six weeks before this letter was written. The writer, JohnBarrow (1764-1848), as Secretary to the Admiralty for 40 years, used his influence to promoteBritish voyages of discovery and exploration, including the Ross, Parry and Franklin expeditionsto the Arctic. He was also founder of the Royal Geographic Society and author of lavishlyillustratednarratives of travel to China, Indochina, and South Africa. Creased from mailing;near fine.(250/350)THE FAUNA OF CHILI349. (Chili) Gay, Claudio. Atlas de la Historia Fisica y Politica de Chile. Volume 2 (of 2) only. With109 (of 116?) steel-engraved natural history plates, all but 3 of them hand-colored; 2 hand-coloredlithographed plates of artifacts; 19 tinted steel-engraved detail maps; 1 large folding map. 39.5x28.5cm. (14¾x11¼”), period quarter morocco & marbled boards.Paris: E. Thunot y Ca., 1854The second volume of Claudio Gay’s important atlas of Chili, notable for the numerous handcolorednatural history plates, covering the birds, reptiles, fish, and countless insects. Somescuffing to covers; minor soiling to plates, a small number of plates with white-out in lowermargin (eradicating library markings?), at least seven plates excised, folding map badly torn butall present; plates very good, sold as is.(700/1000)350. [Bury, Charlotte Campbell & John Galt, ed.]. Diary Illustrative of the Times of Georgethe Fourth, Interspersed with Original Letters from the Late Queen Caroline and from Various OtherDistinguished Persons. 4 volumes. Portrait frontispiece in Volume 3. (8vo) green half calf and cloth,rebacked with remnants of original spines laid down. First Expanded Edition.London: Henry Colburn, 1838-39William Makepeace Thackeray described this diary as “the foul tittle-tattle of the sweepings ofthe Princess of Wales’s bed-chamber or dressing room, her table or ante-room, the reminiscencesof industrious eaves-dropping, the careful records of her unguarded moments, and thepublication of her confidential correspondence.” Period bookplate of the Alnwick Public Libraryin each volume. Extremities worn; lacking folding facsimile from Volume IV, foxing; good.(400/700)CHINA DEPICTED BY THOMAS ALLOM351. (China) Allom, Thomas. Collection of approximately 200 engraved plates of Chinese scenes. Loosecollection of approximately 200 plates. Sizes vary a bit, mostly 27.3x21 cm. (10¾x8¼”) or the reverse.London: [c.1850]Depicting Chinese scenery, costume, trades, etc. as perceived by the West in the mid-19thcentury. Edges a bit brittle; some with foxing or faint dampstaining; overall good to very good.(1000/1500)Page 106

352. (China) Door of Hope Shanghai: Twelfth Annual Report 1912. [2], 10, [3] pp. 2 plates fromphotographs. 21.2x13.6 cm. (8¼x5¼”), original wrappers.[Shanghai]: [Methodist Publishing House], 1912The Door of Hope was formed in 1900 when “a little company of Christian ladies in Shanghaibegan to do what they could to seek and save some of the many Chinese women and girls whoare brought to this city for immoral purposes. These number in the thousands...” This rareannual report contains an overviews of the activities, financial reports, etc. No copies are listed inOCLC/WorldCat. Very good or better.(400/600)353. (China) [Gaillard, Louis]. Sketches of Nanking. [6], 62 pp. With 10 illustrations fromphotographs on 6 plates; 2 sketch maps on both sides of inserted leaf; large folding map. 22.7x15.5cm. 9x6¼”), original red front wrapper.Nanking, China: Nanking Women’s Club, 1933Scarce little description of Nanking, with much of the information was taken from PèreGaillard’s “Nankin d’alors et d’aujourd’hui”, revised and enlarged under the auspices of theLiterary Section of the Nanking Woman’s Club. The large folding map has a key on the versoto 82 locations; it was supposed to be in a separate folder, but is here laid in loose. The list ofillustrations and maps calls for, at p.35, “Nanking and its Environs,” not present here withno signs of removal, possibly a double listing for the large map in this somewhat amateurishproduction. Lacking rear wrapper, front wrapper neatly reattached with archival tape, some edgechipping; overall very good.(200/300)354. (China) Goette, John. Jade Lore. 321 pp. Illustrations from photographs; color chartfrontispiece. (4to) original green cloth. First Edition.Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore: Kelly and Walsh, 1936Chinese imprint of what became a popular book when published in New York the same year.Goette was a well-known American journalist, for many years resident in Beijing, and an“assiduous collector of jades”. Spine faded, light wear and soiling to cloth; very good.(100/150)355. (China) Le Palud, A.M. The Yantze Gorges in Pictures and Prose:A souvenir of the Yangtze gorgesillustrated with fifty-seven photographic studies. [4], xviii pp. + 56 collotype plates from photographs,with captions in English & French; folding frontispiece chart. 26.7x18.2 cm. (10½x7¼”), blue clothlettered in gilt.Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., c.1935The dramatic scenery of the Yangtze gorges, now changed forever by the great Three GorgesDam. Rubbing to joints and spine ends, top corner of rear cover chipped; light offset to title andfrontispiece with darkening to gutter; very good.(250/350)RARE MAP OF SHANGHAI ISSUED BY YMCA356. (China) Map of Shanghai Showing Places of Interest. Compliments of the Navy Y.M.C.A. Foldingmap, printed in blue and red. 29x45 cm. (11½x17¾”) plus border and margins, folding into pictorialpaper wrappers 16.5x9 cm. (6½x3½”).Shanghai: Navy Young Men’s Christian Association, [1925]Map of the bustling city of Shanghai issued by the Navy YMCA for the use of U.S. servicemenstationed in or visiting the city. There is an index and key to over 80 locales, as well as thelocations of all the Socony Motor Gasoline stations (they were advertisers). On the verso isinformation about Shanghai, bus routes, places of interest, etc., as well as advertisements, andon the back of the wrapper is a listing of the services and amenities available at the YMCA. Offurther use, on the inside of the back wrapper is a listing of U.S. officials stationed in Shanghai.OCLC/WorldCat lists only two copies of the map, at UC Berkeley, and UC N. Reg. Libr. Somesoiling, creasing and other wear, overall very good.(500/800)Page 107

357. (China) Minshan Hu. Illustrative Map of Shanghai Specially mapped for Allied Forces with thecompliments of Mr. Y.C. Chang’s Allies Reception House. Map printed in black & red. 21.5x33 cm.(8½x13”), folding into printed stiff paper wrappers 3½x2½.Shanghai: 1945Little map put out for the allied forces who had so recently defeated the Japanese, with text onthe back listing billets, banks, theaters, churches, etc., and a few handy phrases, such as “Mayyour longevity be like the ‘Hump’”. The short preface by Mr. Chang also applauds the “versatileleadership of our Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.” A few scrapes to the wrappers, very good.(200/300)358. (China) Missionary Scenes in China. [4] leaves, each with multiple illustrations from photographsor drawings on both sides. 18.3x14 cm. (7¼x5½”), original gilt-lettered wrappers stitched with yarn.Cincinnati, Ohio: The Foreigh Christian Missionary Society, c.1905Rare little souvenir featuring pictures of missionaries in China, the Chinese to whom theyministered, various scenes, etc. No copies listed by OCLC/WorldCat as being in institutionallibraries. Fading to wrapper edges, gilt lettering dull in places, very good.(400/600)359. (China) Notes on the Inadequately Secured Loans of China. (With an appendix.) By C. C. S. andH. K. L., former Justices of the Supreme Court. [4], 37 pp. 23.3x17.5 cm. (9¼x7”), original printedwrappers. First Edition.Peking: 1926Scarce booklet detailing the debt of some one billion Chinese dollars owed to various creditorsand international entities, upon which the Chinese government defaulted. “How she landedherself in this financial quagmire and what these loans have and will cost he National Treasuryare, happily or unhappily, not yet clearly known to the public. The following Notes will throwa flood of light on the methods of ‘high finance’ in China...” A significant study revealinginstitutional weaknesses in China’s finances that left her vulnerable to exploitation and invasion.OCLC/WorldCat lists only eight copies. Slight fading along spine; near fine.(500/800)360. (China) Office of Strategic Services. News Transmissions from Communist China Beamed toNorth America. 30 pp. Mimeographed typescript. 10½x8, stapled.Washington: 1 June 1945Compilation by the OSS, predecessor of the CIA, described on the front wrapper/title-pageas “An analysis of the entire output of the Morse Code transmissions in English beamed fromYenan, the capital of Communist-controlled China, to North America for the first seven monthsof operation.” The observations provide vital insight into the mindset and impressions of theAmerican intelligence community during this crucial period in the history of China, whenboundaries and barriers were being formed which shape the world of today. Rubberstampchanging classification from Restricted to Unrestricted, dated Mar. 13, 1947, to front wrapper.Paper browned; very good or better.(200/300)361. (China) Rijke, Joh[annis] de. The Improvement of the Lower Hwangpu or Woosung river to thePort of Shanghai. With Remarks on Messrs. Franzius and Bate’s “International Project” of February 1902.[2], 31 pp. Folding plate. 22x15 cm. (8¾x6”), original printed wrappers.Tokyo: May 1902Scarce analysis of steps necessary for the improvement of river transport to China’s busiest port.De Rijke was a member of the Royal Institute of Dutch Engineers and Engineer to the HomeDepartment, Japan. The folding plate is a chart of the river with the planned changes in itscourse as it meets the Yangtze. No copies are listed by OCLC/WorldCat. Wrappers browned,chipped at edges, spine strip mostly perished, staining along spine; very good.(200/300)Page 108

362. (China) Rockhill, William Woodville. The Land of the Lamas: Notes of a Journey ThroughChina Mongolia and Tibet. viii, [2], 399 pp. Illustrated from sketches and drawings; 2 double-pagemaps. 23x14.5 cm. (9x5½”), original cloth, gilt spine vignette, leather spine label, top edge gilt. FirstEdition.New York: The Century Co., 1891Record of a “journey of several thousand miles through a very imperfectly known portion of theChinese Empire.” Blindstamp of the Reading Public Library to title-page, ink spine number,partially removed bookplate. A little rubbing to joints and extremities, shaken a bit; very good.(150/250)363. (China) Seven gelatin silver photographs of the Shanghai, China, fire department. Each approx.20x24.5 cm. (8x9¾”).China: c.1940-c.1950Helmeted members of the Shanghai Fire Department inspecting their truck, using a fire hose,etc. One is mounted on board, another with glue residue on verso from previous mounting,others with slight paper remnants at corners on verso. Very good condition.(400/600)364. (China) Staples, J.B. Autograph Letter, signed, as attorney for Jabez. B. Crook regarding a steamengine model presented to the Chinese Emperor. Autograph Letter, signed. 1 pp + integral stamplessaddress leaf.New York: December 9, 1843To Gilbert Thompson, Chief Engineer of US Navy, Washington, D.C. Forwarding a $60 claimfor the model of a Steam Engine, made by Crook “to your order last summer, to be taken toChina”. Jabez B. Crook is famous among connoisseurs of antique American fishing tackle forthe fine bamboo-rods and reels he produced at his sporting goods store in New York from the1840s until his death in 1884. But this letter is testament to his earlier skill as a machinist,producing a model of such quality that it was intended as a diplomatic gift to the Emperor ofChina. As detailed in John Rogers Haddad’s Romance of China, when President Tyler appointedMassachusetts Congressman Caleb Cushing as first US “Envoy Extraordinary” to imperial Chinain the hope of “opening” that country to American commerce, Cushing, thinking to impressthe Chinese with examples of new technological marvels like the telegraph, daguerreotype andsteam engine, enlisted John R. Peters, Jr., a brilliant young engineer, to accompany his missionto “exhibit the finest fruits of American mechanical ingenuity before the Chinese”. Petersbegan preparing for their voyage in the summer of 1843, and it was then that he may havecommissioned Crook’s model of the steam engine, perhaps placing his order through Thompson,a lawyer who was the Navy’s “Chief Engineer” only because his father, a Justice of the SupremeCourt had once been Secretary of the Navy. There is no record of what became of the Crookmodel in China – or if Crook was ever paid for his work. Other models Peters commissionedwere so late in coming that Peters had to sail for Asia a month after Cushing himself departed inthe USS Missouri, both men being reunited in Canton in April 1844. Cushing was then deniedan audience with the Emperor, instead meeting with his emissary to negotiate the first US treatywith the Chinese – possibly oiled by this first presentation of “modern” American technologyever to reach the Asian mainland. Creased from mailing, light soiling; very good.(200/300)You can bid absentee directly from the item description inthe online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries.com.Or bid during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder.Page 109

365. (China) The China Aircrafter: Anniversary Issue, August 1945. Vol. I, No. 3. Monthly. 20 pp.including wrappers. Text in English & Chinese. Illustrated from photographs & drawings. 27.7x21.5cm. (11x8½”), pictorial wrappers.San Francisco: China Aircraft Corportion, August 1945House organ published by the employees of the China Aircraft Corporation, founded by Dr. HuSeng-chiu following Pearl Harbor to aid in war production and to serve as a starting point forChina’s aviation industry following the war. Production at the factory in San Francisco’s PotreroHill district began in 1944 of the A-26 Attack Bomber. The periodical lays out a history of thecompany and its activities, as well as such features as “Inquiring Photographer Asks,” employeesporting events, a gossip column, etc. I cannot discover whatever became of the company,more than likely dissolved in post-war disarmament, never forming the nucleus of a soon-tobe-communistChinese aviation industry. No copies listed in OCLC/WorldCat. Some wear,darkening to wrappers and adjacent leaves, splitting along spine, very good.(600/900)366. (China) Walshe, W. Gilbert. “Ways that are Dark”: Some chapters on Chinese etiquette and socialprocedure. 276 pp. With 13 plates from photographs. 18.5x12 cm. (7¼x4¾”), gilt-pictorial bluecloth.Shanghai, etc.: Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., [1924]Revelation of the numerous rituals that provide the fabric of Chinese interaction; the platesdepict such procedures as tea drinking, bowing, the kowtow, and four gentlemen playing thegame of “Morra.” Ownership signature of H.E. Davies, 52nd Light Infantry, to front freeendpaper. Some extremity rubbing, light foxing to endpapers, front hinge cracking; very good.(300/500)RARE DOCUMENTS ON CHINA OPIUM TRADE367. (China - Opium) Jardine, Matheson & Co. Printed Letter regarding the opium trade in China.Printed (lithographed?) letter, signed in type . 1 page.Hong Kong: January 10, 1854“The downward tendency in Bengal Drug...has continued notwithstanding a fair inquiry forlocal consumption as well as for shipment to the North, and prices cannot now be quotedhigher than $350 for Patna and $362 for Benares with a very quiet market…Our advices fromShanghai…the market in that quarter was still inactive… There is no Political news of momentto notice. The War Steamer “Cassini” with the French Minister on board had returned froma visit to the Insurgent Leaders at Nankin… ascertaining that the organisation and strengthof their Forces in that City had been greatly improved and increased since the “Hermes”was there in May last, and that they still expressed a friendly feeling towards Foreigners…”Jardine Matheson dominated the British Opium trade in East Asia during the Opium Wars of1839-42 and 1856-1860. This Opium market letter is a rare reference to the intervening TaipingRebellion against the Manchu Dynasty, led by a Christian convert who established his“Heavenly Kingdom” capital at Nanking after capturing the city from government troops inMarch 1853. While the Chinese Emperor was hostile to Westerners, the rebels, as this lettertestifies, tried to maintain friendly relations with the British and French – until they attemptedto capture Shanghai. Then the Europeans, despite having ransacked the imperial palace atBeijing during the second Opium War, helped the Government to suppress the rebellion.Creased, a few small stains; very good.(500/800)The auction will be begin at 11:00 a.m.Page 110

368. (China - Opium) Jardine, Matheson & Co. Shanghai Stocks of Malwa and Bengal Opium.Printed document. 1 page. Signed in type by Wm. DobieShanghai, China: January 2, 1883William Dobie was Commander of the “Yuen Fah”, a Shanghai steamboat built in the 1860sand owned by Jardine, Matheson, the British company that, for decades, dominated the Britishopium trade. This document breaks down the stocks by type (Malwa, Persian, Patna andBenares) and lists 11 other steamships, including the newly-built S.S.Rome. Creased, light wear;near fine.(250/350)HONEYMOON VOYAGE TO CHINA AND JAPAN369. (China, Japan, etc.) Photograph album recording an ocean voyage across the Pacific to Japan, China,the Philippines, Ceylon and other points. Approx. 235 photographs, most snapshots but a few stockviews and several postcards, mounted on both sides of 24 leaves in an album, plus the endpapers,captioned in white ink on the leaves. 23.5x32 cm. (9½x12½”), faux alligator skin covers.Various places: 1928Photograph album recording thehoneymoon voyage of Danny andFranny aboard the S.S. PresidentTaft and other vessels, with extendedsojourns on land, commencingJune 2, 1928. The album concludeswith their arrival at Port Said onAugust 27th, by then aboard the S.S.President Garfield. In between arestops in Japan, China, the Philippines,Singapore, Malaysia and Ceylon. Thedetailed captions add greatly to thealbum. Perhaps most significant isthe time spent in China, recorded insome 55 photographs, with stops atTientsin, Peking (and a side trip toLot 369the Great Wall), Shanghai (“Humid!Gad!”), and Hong Kong. Minorextremity rubbing to album, very goodor better.(600/900)370. Churchill, Winston Spencer-. Typed Letter, signed, as Member of Parliament. Typed Letter,signed. 1 pp with original envelope.London: November 18, 1978To P.R. Threadgold, Coventry, England: Born the year that his famous grandfather becamePrime Minister of England, Winston Spencer-Churchill (1940-2010) was a journalist beforebeing elected to Parliament, becoming Conservative spokesman on Defense matters while hisParty was in opposition to the Labor Government. When he wrote this letter, he had just beenforced to give up that position because his Party, being led by Margaret Thacher toward victoryin the coming elections, had sided with the Government policy of imposing internationalsanctions on the Ian Smith white minority regime of Rhodesia. Churchill felt “great personalsadness” in breaking with Thacher on this issue, but, “in honesty and in honour”, he could notsupport sanctions against white Rhodesian rulers who might soon be “swept away” by black“gun-toting Marxist thugs trained up and armed by the Soviet Union…” Believing that Thacherherself was personally “opposed to the nonsense of sanctions” , Churchill thought it was “ofthe first importance that we unite behind Mrs. Thacher and that we all redouble our efforts toensure that she is elected Prime Minister with a clear Conservative majority. Only in this waycan Rhodesia be helped…”. Within a year, Mrs. Thacher would became the first woman PrimeMinister of England and an African clergyman would become the first Black Prime Minister ofRhodesia. Creased; fine.Page 111(100/150)

371. Darwin, Charles, editor. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Commandof Captain Fitzroy during the years 1832-1836. 4 volumes. With numerous facsimile plates fromengravings, etc., many in color, a few folding. 30.5x24 cm. (12x9¼), half gilt-tooled calf & marbledboards, raised spine bands, marbled endpapers. No. 547 of 1000 copies.[Peterborough, England]: [CIL Limited], [1994]Superb Commemorative Facsimile Edition of the exceedingly important publication of thefindings on the voyage of the Beagle, first published 1840-1843. Signed on the limitation pageby Dr. John Hemming, director of the Royal Geographical Society. Near fine with a few slightscuffs to extremities.(500/800)372. (Egypt) Catalogue of the collection of Egyptian antiquities formed in Egypt by R. de Rustafjaell...which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Wednesday, the 19th of December1906, and two following days. iv, [3]-35 pp. + 24 collotype plate with photographs of hundreds of ofantiquities. 25x19 cm. (9¾x7½”), original printed wrappers.London: Dryden Press, J. Davy & Sons, 1906Robert de Rustafjaell (1876-1943), Robert Fawcus-Smith, was a British collector and authorwho worked in Egypt as a geologist and mining engineer. After World War I, de Rustafjaellmoved to the United States, where he lived under the name Col. Prince Roman Orbeliani. Manyof the ancient artifacts he collected were sold through Sotheby’s in 1906 (this catalogue), 1913and 1914. OCLC/WorldCat lists only four copies of this catalogue, two in France, and two inGermany. Some darkening, light staining and wear to wrappers; very good.(400/600)373. (France) Gréhan, Amédée. La France Maritime. 3 volumes (of eventually 4). Numerous fullpage engravings. 27x18.5 cm. (10½x7¼”) period black morocco-backed boards, spines gilt. SecondEdition.Paris: Chez Postel, 1837A fourth volume, not present here, was published in 1842. Illustrated title page in first volumedated 1838. A well illustrated French maritime history. Bindings worn; heavily foxed, somepencil markings; good.(400/600)374. (France) Procès de Marie-Antoinette, de Lorraine-D’autriche, veuve Capet, du 23 du premier mois,l’an 2 de la République, octobre 14, 1793. Imprimé, Mot pour Mot, selon toute la teneur de la GazetteNationale, ou Moniteur Universel, du 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 D’octobre 1793. [iv],116 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece. (8vo) 21x13 cm. (8¼x5¼”) period full calf, red moroccospine label. First Edition.London: Chez J. DeBoffe, 1793Rare account of the trial of Marie-Antoinette, reprinted from the account in the NationalGazette. Binding rubbed, front hinge cracked; very good.(300/500)375. (Germany) The Buyers’ Guide through Germany and Bohemia etc... [8] ad, 452 pp. Illustratedadvertisements throughout including 3 inserts. 14.5x10.5 cm. (5¾x4”), green cloth lettered in silver.Twenty-eighth annual edition.Gotha, Germany: Julius Fleischmann, 1912-1913OCLC/WorldCat lists three copies of earlier editions, but not this one. A little extremityrubbing; darkening to contents, very good.(200/300)Page 112

376. Geslin, Jules. L’Expédition de “la Jeannette” au Pôle Nord racontée par tous les membres del’expédition, ouvrage composé des documents reçus par le “New York herald” de 1878 à 1882, traduits,classés, juxtaposés par Jules Geslin. 2 volumes. [6], 365, [2]; [6], 411 pp. Numerous wood-engravedplates & maps. 22.5x13.5 cm. (9x5½”), original cloth with lettering & pictorial in gilt, decorationsin black. First Edition, trade issue.Paris: M. Dreyfous, [1882]This work is the French translation of articles related to the wreck of the Jeannette published inthe New York Herald. It is dedicated to the owner/editor of the Herald, James Gordon Bennett.There was also an issue of 25 copies on Hollande Van Gelder paper. Spines a little darkened,a touch of rubbing to extremities; some light foxing within, near fine, contents partiallyunopened.(300/500)RARE REPORT FROM HAWAIIAN MINISTER OF INTERIOR377. (Hawaii) [Biennial report of the Minister of the Interior to the Legislative Assembly of 1890] -wrapper title, not present on this copy. 365 pp. With 7 folding tables & 1 folding blueprint map.22.2x14.5 cm. (8¾x5¾”), recent wrappers, cloth spine.[Honolulu]: [Robert Grieve, Steam Book & Job Printing], 1890Rare report from the Hawaiian government - Forbes notes, “The main report, by MinisterLorrin A. Thurston, lists departmental receipts and disbursements (pp. 277-349) and showsgovernment land sales andgovernment leases (1888-1890)on two folding tables (at p.286).Thurston reviews the subject of landsunder the control of the InteriorDepartment and discusses difficultiesin carrying out the homestead law.He says he is reluctant to open upcrown lands to homesteaders, as the‘comprise a very large proportion ofthe choicest lands of the country.’”In addition to the main report byThurston, there are 16 reports fromdepartments under his control,including the Surveyor General,Superintendent of the InsaneLot 377Asylum, Chief Engineer of the FireDepartment, Marshall of Prisons,Government Electric Lights, etc. The folding blueprint map is “Honolulu Water Works. Mapof Upper Part of the Nuuanu Valley System” by G.F. Allardt. No copies of the 1890 report arelisted individually by OCLC/WorldCat, though Stanford University is indicated as having a runof the reports. Forbes 4163 locates six copies. Lacking the original wrappers, else very good.(800/1200)378. (Hawaii) Thrumm, Thomas G., compiler and publisher. Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for1882[-87]: A Handbook of Information on Matters Relating to the Hawaiian Islands, Original andSelected, of Value to Merchants, Planters, Tourists and Others. Six issues, for 1882 to 1887, boundtogether. With folding map, folding table, & errata slip. 21.2x14 cm. (8½x5½”), period half calf &cloth, original wrappers not retained by binder.Honolulu: 1881-1886All early issues of Thrum’s almanacs, which were issued from 1875 to 1924, are scarce. Binder’sticker of H.S. Crocker, San Francisco, to front pastedown. Some soiling and wear to covers;minor aging within, verso tape repairs to map, else very good.(700/1000)Page 113

379. (Hawaii) Thurston, L[orrin] A. Report of the Select Committee on the complaint of some of thepeople of the Island of Lanai, as presented by the resolution of the Hon. L.A. Thurston. 38 pp. 20.3x13.2cm. (8x5¼”), later wrappers with original front wrapper laid on, spine repaired with cloth. FirstEdition, English language issue.Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Publishing Company, 1886Scarce pamphlet reporting on voter intimidation on island of Lanai in the Hawaiian archipelago,described by David Forbes in some detail: “A committee report on a legislative resolutionintroduced by Lorrin A. Thurston, member for Molokai, against the actions of Walter M.Gibson, ‘formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs and now Minister of the Interior.’ The substanceof the resolution was that ‘certain voters residing on the island of Lanai have charged andnow charge, that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, His Excellency W.B. Gibson, prior to thelate election, made... promises to the voters of Lanai that if they would vote as desired by himthey would be allowed to pasture their horses on the lands of the said Minister for two yearsfree of pasturage; and threatened... that if they did not vote in such a manner they should beejected from such island of Lanai, and deprived of the rights of hoaainas [tenants] on suchisland.’...” Gibson, who converted to Mormonism in 1859, arrived in Hawaii in 1861, andfounded a colony among Mormons already in the islands. He purchased land on the island ofLanai with funds from the colony in his own name, and was excommunicated after a churchinvestigation regarding accusations of preaching false doctrine, maladministration of the colony,and embezzlement of church funds. In 1882 he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, andthen on June 30, 1886 prime minister of the Kingdom of Hawaii by King Kal’kaua. He wasousted from power in 1887 and fled the islands for fear of losing his life, dying penniless in SanFrancisco in January 21, 1888. Forbes 3818 locates four copies, and OCLC/WorldCat locatesfour different copies. Lanai, or L’na’i, has of course been in the news with the announcement onJune 20, 2012, that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was purchasing 98% of the island. Original frontwrapper with some loss and chips, affecting the lower portion primarily including the date, a fewtears repaired when laid down; else very good.(400/600)380. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. Himalayan Journals; or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkimand Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c. 2 volumes. xvi, 348; xii, 345 + [2] ad pp. Woodengravedplates & illustrations. 20x12 cm. (7¾x4¾”), original blindstamped cloth, recased with newendpapers, spines re-lettered in gilt. A New Edition, carefully revised and condensed.London: John Murray, 1855Hooker, a botanist like his more famous father, Sir William Jackson Hooker (a fern specialist),was well known for his books on flora, particularly in Himalaya, New Zealand, Tasmania, andAntarctica, as well as India. He was a friend of Charles Darwin, and supported his theories.Some foxing within, very good or better.(300/500)381. (India) From Hooghly to the Himalayas: Being an Illustrated Handbook to the chief places of interestreached by the Eastern Bengal State Railway. [4], 73, [1] pp. Illustrated throughout from photographs,many full-page; folding map. 28x21.5 cm. (11x8½”), blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, withseal of the railway at center. First Edition.Bombay: Printed at the Times Press, 1913Entertaining glimpses of the people and places along the railway system from Calcutta toDarjeeling. OCLC/WorldCat lists only eleven copies. Some shelf wear, very good.(150/250)382. (Israel) Atlas of Israel: Cartography, Physical Geography, History, Demography, Economics, Education.Text in Hebrew (with title given in English on the title-page verso). Maps interspersed with textthroughout, many in color. 49x39 cm. (19¼x15”), gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.Jerusalem: Dept. of Surveys, Ministry of Labour, 1956Comprehensive atlas of the State of Israel as it was about to enter its second decade of existence,published the year of the Suez Crisis. Some wear to jacket, very good.(300/500)Page 114

383. (Japanese Costume) Nomura, Shojiro. Autograph Letter, signed, on his business stationery.Autograph Letter, signed on his business stationery (“Dealer in Old and New Silk Embroideries”).Kyoto, Japan: October 20, 1903To Mr. and Mrs. Albart Herbert: “I desire to respectfully call your attention to my store…where I am prepared to execut orders at the lowest possible price for articles in embroidery andcut velvet…I have also a large and rare collection of old silks, embroideries, brocades, textilesand ancient costumes of the nobility. My factory adjoin my show rooms and I shall take greatpleasure in showing visitors through my work rooms where they can see various articles inprocess of manufacture.” Remembered as the first modern collector of rare Japanese textiles,brocades and kimono robes and a great scholar of historical Japanese costume, author of a shelfof books, some translated into English and still in print, with parts of his collection treasuredtoday by the Tokyo National Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Mills Collegein California (attended by his daughter), Nomura began his vocation as a Kyoto dealer andmanufacturer of embroidery, catering to American connoisseurs such as art collector (andRockefeller in-law) Lucy Rockefeller. His early letters, such as this, to visiting Americans, arerare. Fine.(100/150)384. La Pérouse, Jean François de Galaup de. Five copper-engraved plates from the atlas volume ofVoyage de La Pérouse. Includes: Plan de la Baie de la Conception Situee dans le Chili... 33.5x49 cm.* Insulares et Monumens de l’Ile de Paque. 25.5x40 cm. * Costumes des Habitans de la Conception.25.5x40 cm. * Pirogue de Tchoka [on sheet with] Pirogue de l’Ile de Paque. Each image 18x25 cm. *Details Geometriques, des Monumens de l’Ile de Paque. 25x40 cm. Together, 5 plates.Paris: 1797Map and views from the atlas volume of the official account of the voyage of La Perouse aroundthe world, including a striking view of the giant stone heads of Easter Island. Some minorfoxing, a few marginal stains, very good.(400/600)385. (London) London and Its Environs Described. Containing an Account of Whatever is MostRemarkable for Graneur, Elegance, Criosity or Use in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It.6 volumes. Engraved plates; folding map. (8vo) period full calf, spines numbered in gilt. First Edition.London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1761Scenes of London sights and landmarks. Bookplate of bibliophile Norman J. Sondheim. Lightwear, a few joints and hinges starting; foxing; very good.(400/600)The Buyer’s Premium will be 20% for bids up to $100,000and 15% for that portion over $100,000.Page 115

WITH HAND-COLORED AQUATINTS OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY386. (London) The History of the Abbey Church of St Peter’s Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments.2 volumes. xviii, 330, [6 Index]; [4], 275 [276 blank], [4 Index] pp. With eighty-three plates, ofwhich eighty are hand colored aquatints, 1 copper-engraved portrait, 1 copper-engraved plan, and 1colored line engraving. (Large 4to) 33.8x27.5 cm. (13¼x10¾”), contemporary full tree calf, moderncalf rebacking. First Edition, Second Issue.London: R. Ackermann, 1812Magnificent hand-colored aquatint platesfrom Ackermann’s renowned publishingstudio, depicting stained glass windows,mosaics, tombs, monuments and architecturaldetails of Westminster Abbey. The work iscomplete with both half titles and the list ofsubscribers. Abbey, Scenery, 213 & 214; Tooley2. Bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, and 2others. Boards worn at edges; plates offset totext leaves; very good.(1500/2500)Lot 386TRAVELS IN NORTH AFRICA WITH COLORED LITHOGRAPHS387. Lyon, Captain G.F. A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa, in the Years 1818, 19, and 20;Accompanied by Geographical Notices of Soudan, and of the Course of the Niger. xii, 383, [1] pp. Foldingmap frontispiece; 17 hand-colored lithograph views. (4to) 27x21.8 cm. (10¾x8½”) modern full tanmorocco, old spine label laid down. First Edition.London: John Murray, 1821George Francis Lyon (1795-1832) was a British naval captain, explorer and artist who in 1819,accompanied Joseph Ritchie on an expedition to chart the course of the Niger and to locateTimbuktu. The expedition leftTripoli in March 1819 and reachedMurzuk a month later, where bothRitchie and Lyon took ill and Richieeventually died. Lyon continued,despite inhospitable temperatures,lack of financial resources, and undersuspicion by the sultan, reaching thesouthern border of Fezzan beforebeing forced to return to Tripoli.The handsome illustrations in thisvolume are after the originals byLyon. Abbey Travel 304 Somefoxing; short stub tear to foldingmap; most of the plates were rotated180 degrees when the volume wasrebound, with their previouslybound edges now at the fore; veryLot 387good in a fine modern binding.(1000/1500)Page 116

388. MacGahan, J.A. Campaigning on the Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva. x, 438, [2] pp. With numerouswood-engraved plates; double-page map. 21.314 cm. (8½x5½”), original cloth, spine lettered in gilt.First American Edition.New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874MacGahan was a correspondent for the New York Herald and accompanied General Kaufmanon his way to conquer Khiva. Formerly in the Forbes Library, Northampton, Mass., withperforated stamp to title-page, staining to covers and spine from removal of labels and markings,new endpapers. Overall, very good.(200/300)389. (Malta, Knights of) Prince Manuel Pinto da Fonseca. Diplomatic Letter, signed as GrandMaster of the Knights of Malta. Autograph Document, signed. 2 pages.Malta: July 1, 1760To Marquis Bernardo Tanucci, Naples. An untranslated document of state concerning CaptainGeneral Gaetani D’Aragona, written in Italian nine months after the nine-year son of the Kingof Spain became King Ferdinand of Naples and Sicily, with Tanucci as his Regent and guidinglight. Tanucci (1698-1783) is credited with bringing “enlightened government” to the SpanishdominatedItalian Kingdom – in contrast with Manuel Pinto (1681-1773), the autocraticPortuguese nobleman whose 30-year reign over the powerful Order of Malta made him the defacto equal of European kings. A rare autograph. Creased, paper a bit browned; very good.(500/800)16TH CENTURY TRAVELS TO INDIA BY PORTUGUESE ADVENTURER390. Mendez Pinto, Ferdinand. The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, A Portugal:During his Travels for the Space of One and Twenty Years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria,Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a Great Part of the East-Indies. [xiv], 326 pp.(Folio) 29x20 cm. (11½x8”) modern half calf and marbled boards, spine stamped in blind and gilt,endpapers replaced. Second English Edition.London: Printed by J. Macock, and are to be sold by Henry Herringman, 1663Portuguese mariner, adventurer, trader, pirate,etc., Ferdinand Mendez Pinto (1509-1583)embarked on his voyage in 1537 in a fleetcommanded by Vasco da Gama’s son, journeyingfor more than two decades before returninghome. During his travels, he was held captivethirteen times, and sold into slavery seventeentimes; he survived shipwrecks, visited, foughtand traded in China, Tibet, Tartary, Pegu,India, Thailand, Ethiopia, Ormuz and points inbetween. He reached Japan in 1542 and claimedto have been among the first party of Europeansto land there. Cordier, Japonica 40; Cordier,Sinica 2068-2069; Wing M1706. Bookplateof bibliophile Norman J. Sondheim Light wearto binding, front hinge cracking; paper a bitbrowned, worm tunneling in margins, intoheadline on several leaves but not into the bodyof the text; very good.(2000/3000)Lot 390Page 117

391. (Military - Espionage) Peacock, Captaine H.B. “Confidential” Typed Letter, Signed as BritishPolitical Agent. Typed Letter, signed. 2 pp.Kotah & Jhalawar Agency, Rajputana: June 29, 1915To Chaube Raghunath Das, native administrator of Kotah State: “…Ismail Hakki, who wasonce a spy of Abdul Hamid, the Ex-Sultan of Turkey, is believed to have left Suez for Goanine months ago… keep a sharp look out for him in the Kotah State…Hakki has visitedIndia once before in 1907. He is said to be bitterly opposed to the Young Turks, but as heonce admitted that he belonged to the Young Turk Party, and he is known to be guided in hisactions by mercenary instincts rather than principles, he should not be allowed to move aboutfreely if traced…Age 50 years, height about 5’-6”, complexion fair, well built bluish eyes, longmoustache, dresses in European clothes with Turkish fez, speaks Arabic, Turkish, and a littlePersian…” As if taken from a John Buchan or E. Phillips Oppenheim novel, this is a testamentto the global reach of the British Intelligence Service in the geopolitical labyrinth of World WarI. Turkey, led by Enver Pasha, whose Young Turks had overthrown the Sultan two years before,was allied with Germany and battling the Russians but also then fighting the British at Gallipoli.British agents in India were vigilantly keeping an eye on this “mercenary” spy who had servedmany masters in Constantinople. Small (spindle?) holes at left margin; very good.(150/250)392. Morden, William J. Across Asia’s Snows and Deserts. xiv, 415 pp. With numerous plates fromphotographs; 2 maps. 23.5x15.5 cm. (9¼x6”), blue cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition.New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1927Adventure in the high country and blistering deserts of central Asia, the Morden-Clark AsiaticExpedition of the American Museum of Natural History. At one point the author was capturedby Mongols. A little extremity rubbing, short tear to cloth at spine head; very good or better,covers bright.(200/300)393. (Newgate Calendar) Raynor, J.L. & Crook, G.T., eds. The Complete Newgate Calendar. 5volumes. (8vo) original green cloth, dust jackets.London: Navarre Society, 1926A record of the crime and criminals of English history. Jackets sunned and with some light wear;light foxing; very good in very good jackets.(250/350)394. (Peru) Braun & Hogenberg. Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput. Copper-engraved bird’s-eyeview, hand-colored (later?). 27x24 cm. (10½x9½”).Cologne: c.1572Bird’s-eye view of the capital of the Inca Empire, in present southeastern Peru; from CivitatesOrbis Terrarum, trimmed from a sheet that originally had a second view (Mexico City) to theleft. Light foxing, remargined at left edge; very good.(300/500)395. (Peru) Ogilby, John. Cusco. Copper-engraved bird’s-eye view, modern hand-coloring. 27x36cm. (10½x14”).London: 1671Bird’s-eye view of the capital of the Inca Empire, in present southeastern Peru; from Ogilby’sAmerica. A few repaired tears, two short tears not repaired, a tiny hole; very good.(200/300)Page 118

396. (Ocean Liners) Cunard and Anchor Steamship Lines. Cunard Comparisons. Unpaginated.Illustrations throughout from drawings. 9x12”, original illustrated wrappers.New York: [c.1928]Revision of a pamphlet originally published in the first years of the 20th century to laud theCunard Line’s Lusitania and Mauretania. Mentions the Mauretania, as well as the Berengaria(replacement for the ill-fated Lusitania) Franconia, Carinthia, and Aquitania. This bookletwas probably issued shortly before Cunard began work in 1930 on the 80,000 ton liner thatwas to become the Queen Mary. Most of the drawings are cartoon-types to give an idea ofthe enormous size of the largest liners (longer than the Washington Monument and BabeRuth’s farthest home run), but there are also drawings of some lavish accommodations, suchas swimming pool and sports arena of the Franconia and Carinthia and a stateroom on theBerengaria. Light wear and soiling to wrappers, small chip from lower corner of front wrapper;very good.(100/150)397. (Panama) Otis, F.N. Illustrated History of the Panama Railroad Together with a Traveler’s Guideand Business Man’s Handbook for the Panama Railroad and its Connections with Europe, the UnitedStates, the North and South Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, China, Australia, and Japan, by Sail and Steam.263, [1], +[4 ad] pp. Frontispiece; text illustrations; 2 maps. Errata slip inserted at front. (8vo) originalblindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861The construction and operation of a rail link across the Panamanian isthmus to meet thetransportation demand created in the wake of the California gold rush. The railroad made itsfirst coast-to-coast crossing in January 1855. Spine leaning, dampstain to edge of rear cover, lightwear; paper a bit browned; very good.(250/350)398. (Paraguay) Quiroga, José. Descripción del Río Paraguay, desde la boca del Xauru hasta la confluenciadel Paraná. [2], iii, [1], [3]-18 pp. 31.6x20.5 cm. (12½x8”), later quarter leather and marbled boards.Buenos Aires: Imprenta del Estado, 1836First published by D. Muriel in the appendix to his Latin Version of Charlevoix’ ‘Historie duParaguay,’ 1779. Pp. i-iii comprise “Noticias biograficas del P. José Quiroga,” signed Pedro deAngelis, Buenos Aires, junio de 1836. Rubbing to covers; light foxing to contents, very good.(150/250)Each lot is illustrated in color in the online version of the catalogue.Go to www.pbagalleries.comPage 119

“BENEVOLENT ASSIMILATION” OF THE PHILIPPINES399. (Philippine Insurrection) Otis, E.S. The Manila Times Extra...To the People of the PhilippineIslands. Broadside proclamation. 43x21.5 cm. (17x8½”).Manila: January 4, 1898 [i.e. 1899]Printed as broadside Extra of the Manila Times newspaper. Immediately after the signing ofthe peace treaty formally ending the Spanish-American War, President McKinley issued aProclamation detailing Washington’s “benevolent assimilation” of the Philippine Islands, makingclear that Spanish colonialism was to be replaced by American “supremacy” and “sovereignty”.When General Otis, the US Military Governor at Manila, received a copy of this document,he was so alarmed that the Filipinos would read the President’s words as “significant of futurepolitical domination, like that from which they had been recently freed”, that he censored thetext and, after a week’s delay, had the Manila Times, the first English language newspaper inthe Philippines, then in its third month of existence, rush out this EXTRA broadside with lessincendiary language. But he also sent a copy of the original Proclamation to another AmericanGeneral, who, unaware of the unabridged version circulated in Manila, passed the original toa Filipino official. This unaltered version reached Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the Philippineindependence movement, who denounced the “violent and aggressive seizure” of Philippineterritory “by a nation which arrogated to itself the title of champion of oppressed nations”, andthreatened “open hostilities” with American forces. Exactly one month after the printing of thisbroadside, the first shots were fired in the bloody three-year Filipino “Insurrection”, now moreaptly known as the Philippine-American War. Creased, some edge wear, a few small ink spots,paper browned; very good.(600/900)400. Roscoe, Thomas. The Tourist in Spain and Morocco. xii, 292 pp. Engraved frontispiece, additionalillustrated title page and 19 engraved plates after drawings by David Roberts. (8vo) 19x12.3 cm.(7¼x4¾”), original publisher’s full blindstamped green morocco, spine gilt, all edges gilt.London: Robert Jennings, 1838Issued as Jenning’s Landscape Annual for 1838 Spine sunned, some wear to extremities, shortpull at head of spine; previous owner’s name at head of title page; very good.(300/500)401. (Russia) Gregory, Dudley S. Autograph Letter, signed, regarding bribery in Russia. 2 pageAutograph Letter, signed, to an unknown recipient, with note in upper corner: “From D.S. Gregory,Esq., Mayor of Jersey City, Member of Congress, &c, &c”.No place: August 6, 1843Gregory writes regarding business opportunities in Czarist Russia: “...I think I had better giveyou a letter of introduction to Mr. Robt. Schuyler, who went to Russia, and who no doubtwill give you letters and also give you advise which may be of consequence. If you say so, Iwill send the papers to him and say that I will be glad to introduce you by letter to him. I shallprobably see his brother tomorrow (the Vice Prest. of our RR)...I mentioned that a friend ofmine intended to offer his services to the Russians etc. He said that every thing depended on theimpression made on the barriers surrounding the powers and much had to be done by bribery!Indeed, he said no other way was effectual...” The Schuylers produced the first American-builtwarship for Czarist Russia and later sealed their infamy by perpetrating the first great Wall Streetstock fraud after the worst railroad disaster in early American history. Creased; near fine.(100/150)402. (Russian-American Commercial Directory) Porter, E.C. & A.J. Sack, editors. IndustrialAmerica: A Hand Book of Industrial and Commercial Information regarding the United States. 428 pp.10x6¾, red cloth lettered in black in Cyrillic characters.New York: American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, 1917Commercial guide to the United States and its businesses, for distribution in Russia under theauspices of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce in Russia, with text mostly in Russian.The Bolshevik Revolution, and the rupture of U.S.-Russian relations, undoubtedly contributedPage 120

to the great scarcity of the volume - the only copy listed by OCLC is at the Hoover Institution,and the present copy was a duplicate from that library, with perforated stamp to title, a few rubberstamps,including one of withdrawl, within. Some rubbing and extremity wear to covers; verygood.(300/500)403. (Russian) Vegner, V. [Ellada. Sketches and pictures of Ancient Greece] - in Russian. [6], 1012,vii,[3] pp. Profusely illustrated including several color plates & 1 chromolithograph; folding map.23x16 cm. (9x6”), cloth, pictorial cover label.St. Petersburg: M.O. Wolf publishing house, 1914Voluminous history of ancient Greece. Joints starting to split, very good.(300/500)404. Schiller, Frederic. The History of the Thirty Years War in Germany. Two volumes in one. (iii)-xxviii, 305; 351 pp. Translated from the German by Captain Blaquiere. Lacking the copper-engravedfrontispiece portrait of Schiller. (8vo) modern polished half calf and cloth. First English Edition.London: W. Miller, 1799Important history of the conflict between Catholics and Protestants which consumed Germanyin the first half of the seventeenth century, notable for the campaigns of Wallenstein and ofGustavus Adolphus of Sweden. Some foxing; very good in a fine modern binding.(200/300)405. (Scotland) Storer, J. & H.S. A Graphic and Historical Description of the City of Edinburgh. 2volumes. 2 engraved illustrated title pages; two folding plans; 97 engraved plates interleaved withdescriptive letterpress. The plates preceded in the first volume by a 192 page history of Edinburgh.(8vo) 21.5x13.5 cm. (8½x5¼”), modern full blue morocco, red leather spine labels.London: Constable, 1820The sights and landmarks of Edinburgh beautifully displayed. Bookplate of bibliophile NormanJ. Sondheim in first volume. No printed title page at front of first volume (unclear if there wasever one present), printed title page for the views present following the History in Volume 1 andat start of Volume 2; light foxing and offsetting; very good.(300/500)406. Thoburn, J.M. India and Malaysia. 562 pp. Illustrated from photographs. 22.5 x14.5 cm.(8¾x5¾”), original full brown morocco pictorially stamped & lettered in gilt, rebacked with modernmorocco of a lighter hue, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition.Cincinnati / New York: Cranston & Curtis / Hunt & Eaton, 1892The author spent 33 years in India as a missionary. Front cover with irregular fading, lightrubbing to edges, else very good.(150/250)407. (Tyburn Chronicle) The Tyburn Chronicle: or, Villainy Display’d in All its Branches. Containing anauthentic account of the lives, adventures, tryals, executions, and last dying speeches of the most notoriousmale factors. Of all Denominations, who have suffered for Bigamy, Forgeries, Highway-Robberies, House-Breaking, Murders, Perjury, Piracy, Rapes, Riots, Sodomy, Starving, Treason, And other the most enormousCrimes. The Whole being the most faithful Narrative ever yet Published of the various Executions, and otherPunishments, In England, Scotland, and Ireland, From the year 1700, to the present time. 4 volumes. 34(of 39) engraved plates, plus one additional engraving, a variant of one of the called for illustrations.(8vo) period full calf, modern rebacking with original spines laid down. First Edition.London: J. Cooke, [1768]Scarce chronicle of crime and criminals, bound from the serial parts. Bindings rubbed, somefoxing; very good.(500/800)Page 121

408. White, Gilbert. The Natural History of Selborne. 416 pp. Folding map at rear. Illustrated withwood engravings by Eric Daglish. (4to) 29.5x24 cm. (11¾x9¼”), vellum backed patterned boards.No. 40 of 125 copies.London: Butterworth, [1929]With an additional wood engraving by Daglish tipped to front endpaper, as issued. A few smallspots to vellum, corners lightly bumped; near fine.(250/350)AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES ARRIVE IN FRANCE IN 1917409. (World War I) L’arrivée des Americains en France. 30 gelatin silver prints, mounted one per leafin an album. Images approx. 16.5x22.5 cm. (6½x9”); album is 31.2x43 cm. (12¼x17”), boards withmorocco border, stamped in blind on front cover “Documents de la Section Photographique del’Armee Francaise,” and in gilt above that “Cercle de l’Union a San-Francisco.”France: 1917The arrival of the United States troopsin France in June of 1917 under thecommand of General John J. Pershing.Pershing is seen walking the deck of thetroop ship, saluting his French counterpartsupon disembarking, the troops lined upfor review on the dock, boarding trainsto their training camps, Pershing meetingwith French generals, American troopsparading through the streets, etc. A veryinteresting pictorial record of the AmericanExpeditionary Force in France, rawuntrained troops who where to turn thetide against the Germans in World WarI. Provenance: rubberstamp of AllianceFrancaise on front free endpaper. Spinerepaired with clear tape, with library labels,lacking clasp, front hinge well crackedwith inadequate tape repair; some silver toimages; very good.(500/800)Lot 409YACHT RACING ON THE CLYDE410. (Yacht Racing) Finlayson, W.J. Yacht Racing on the Clyde, from 1883 to 1890. 3 preliminaryleaves and 76 photogravure plates, including frontispiece. (Folio) 37.5x27.5 cm. (14¾x10¾”) originalblue cloth lettered in gilt.Glasgow and London: Maclure, Macdonald & Co., [c.1890]Beautiful photographs of sailing yachts in various competitions including the Queen’s Cup racesand many other regattas. Cloth faded, and rubbed, hinges cracked; internally very good.(500/800)Page 122

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