Collection of 21 manuscript financial documents from one of the first American companies dedicated to extracting and selling oil outside the United States. Known variously as the Peruvian Refinery Company, Peruvian Refining Company, Peruvian Petroleum Company and Peruvian Petroleum and Refinery Company, the company was founded by James Bishop --..... (Item #21378)

[1855]. Softcover. Very good. Folio, 7 pp, printed on blue paper in two unsewn (unbound) gatherings. Minor handling wear; near fine. The Rogue River Indians were not a single tribe, but a conglomeration of several groups living in the Rogue River Valley of southwestern Oregon. This treaty was concluded by..... (Item #20479)

Operation Deep Freeze is the general codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica that began with Operation Deep Freeze I, launched in 1955–56 in preparation for scientific work planned as part of the International Geophysical Year (1957-58). Regular missions followed over the following decades, primarily to provide..... (Item #20864)

Holliston [MA]: Parker & Plimpton, 1851. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Title continues "Also, Statistics ofthe Town Returns in 1850, as Required by the Act to Ascertain the Ratable Estates within this Commonwealth. Also, Statistics of the United States Census, as Taken and Returned by the Marshall, for June 1850." 51..... (Item #19531)

Tacoma: F.T. Houghton, 1891. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 14 pp + [1] (membership application). Original printed wrappers are chipped and detached; text is clean. Explains the need for a state historical society, as "Washington was thirty-six years a territory and now nearly two years a State; having thus reached a...... (Item #20634)

Sacramento: State Office, 1881. 72 pp, illustrated with small wood engravings, in original lavender printed wrappers. Some chipping to spine, old tears and tape repairs to back wrapper, else very good. Matthew Cooke was in the business of manufacturing fruit boxes in the 1870s when California’s apple crop was devastated..... (Item #20560)

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 221 pp, with folding map (Hyposometric Map of the South West, or New Spain with Lines of Railways West of the Mississippi River in Operation 1877 also The Ocean Warm Streams). Publisher's green cloth with map printed on cover..... (Item #21006)

Hobart: Anson's Photographs. Hardcover. Very good. Souvenir view book printed in Germany for this Australian photography firm. Undated, internal evidence places it between 1890 and 1892. 5.75 x 4.25 inches (oblong). Red paper-covered boards decorated in gilt and black, containing 14 accordion-folded photolithographic (albertype or a similar process) views. Brothers..... (Item #20485)

London: John Murray, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. xi, 378, 38 (Appendix), with folding map, 8 plates, and additional illustrations in the text. Marbled boards with later leather spine, new endpapers. Stamp of the Isle of Wight Insitution on several pages. Title page, frontispiece, and some plates foxed (as..... (Item #21534)

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1836. Hardcover. Good+. Second edition, revised (first published 1835). 119 pp, with index, two plates, and a large folding panorama of the mountain. Ex-library, with discard markings, in a modern red buckram binding. Inscribed on the original front endpaper "To Dr. Neill, with much respect..... (Item #13030)

New York: William Morrow, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Limited edition, signed by Bartlett on the limitation page, which page states that there were 210 copies for sale; this copy is numbered 217 (so perhaps was a hors commerce copy). There is also a previous owner's gift inscription on..... (Item #21453)

London: Lovell Reeve, 1860. Hardcover. Good. xvii, 442 pp + 23 plates with facing pages + 20 (publisher's catalogue). Shelf wear to boards, tears to cloth at spine, front hinge starting to crack, small inscription on front free endpaper; contents clean. From the Preface: "The object of this Work is..... (Item #2961)

London: Richard Bentley, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp. xiii, 364, illustrated with engravings. Dark blue leather spine and corners over blue cloth boards, red spine label. Some scuffing to leather, mainly at corners and head of spine. Binding tight, text clean. Account of a tour through the..... (Item #21447)