Guatemala: c. 1862. Very good. Rare carte-de-visite (CDV) photograph, 6 x 10 cm, of Guatemalan President Rafael Carrera, with the backstamp of itinerant American photographer William C. Buchanan, one of the first photographers to work in Guatemala. Carrera (1814-1865) was one of the most powerful figures in nineteenth century Central..... Item #22923
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume X. xi, 793 pp, with Ives' map (18" x 19") laid in; index, bibliography. Three-quarter red leather over red buckram, gilt lettering on..... Item #22784
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. A fine copy bound in 3/4 red leather and marbled boards; signed by..... Item #17389
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1862. First American Edition. Hardcover. good. 8vo, xii, [4], 574+ [2] ads. Illustrated with engravings; 3 maps on one folding sheet. Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine darkened, fraying to spine ends, corners rubbed, front hinge partially cracked. Embossed library stamp on a...... Item #13758
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 8vo, pp xii, 443; viii, 478, [2] (ads), each with engraved frontispiece and title page vignette, folding map in Volume II. Publisher's green cloth ruled in blind, with gilt figure on each front board. Account of Burton's journey from..... Item #20752
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
London: Edward Stanford, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xiv, 214 pp, with colored folding map (of the Province of Victoria) and two color plates, but no ads. Rebound in cloth-backed marbled boards with leather spine label. Embossed library stamp on title page; no other libraray markings. Leather corners rubbed, some..... Item #19772
Lyndon, VT: 1882. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 233 pp + ads, in original salmon pictorial wrappers, with frontispiece (of a burro) and additional small illustrations in the text. Chips to corners of front wrapper and lower spine, previous owner's signature on front wrapper; internally very good. A series of letters..... Item #20755
London: Phoenix House, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. 118 pp, extensively illustrated with reproductions of Sella's magnificent photographs. Light wear to boards, paper starting to crack over front hinge, but binding sound, text clean. Dust jacket shows mild edgewear and has old price..... Item #22764
New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 402 pp, with appendix, bibliography, index, and more than 50 illustrations from photographs, in the simplest binding of unadorned grayish-brown cloth. Spine lettering faded but legible. Upper corners lightly bumped, binding sound, text clean. Short ownership inscription..... Item #22266
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 321 pp with illustrations from photographs, in original green cloth with mountain vignette in white on front board, top edge gilt. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, some tiny white paint specks on spine, foxing to fore edge of..... Item #22750
Milwaukee, WI: North American Press, 1921. First Edition. Soft cover. Good. Unpaginated (c 200 pp), 6 x 9 inches, oblong, bound in flexible leather, illustrated with many b/w photographs from the Klondike Gold Rush (including scenes along the trail and views of Fairbanks and Dawson), one color illustration. Signed "Sincerely..... Item #13466
![Item #13466 Poems of Klondyke's Early Days and Alaska's Long White Trail [SIGNED]. Fred Crewe](/pictures/thumb/13466.jpg?v=1474055333)
London: Truslove & Shirley, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 148 pp, with eight photogravure plates, folding plan of outrigger canoe, folding chart, and other illustrations. Number 291 of 500 copies issued. Spine lean, rubbed and bumped corners, old tape repair to verso of chart, otherwise clean and sound..... Item #19168
Mexico City: Editorial LAYAC, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 9.5 x 7.25 inches, xv, 417 pp, including index and bibliography, illustrations, folding maps and facsimiles, in original colorful printed wrappers. A few penciled check marks in the index, otherwise unmarked, clean and sound. Some pages unopened. Second volume in..... Item #21212
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1899. Hardcover. Near fine. Authorized edition. Two volumes in maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Small stain on front board of Vol. II, very slight sunning to spines, else fine. Illustrated. As described in the Cambridge edition, this work "began as an expansion of..... Item #22454
Syracuse: E.H. Babcock & Co., 1853. First and only edition. 12mo, 148 pp, in publisher’s blind-stamped plum cloth. Wood-engraved vignette of a family scene on title page. Inscribed on the front pastedown “Mrs. Clement Dale, the Author L.D. Davis a Cousin of my Mama.” Some staining to boards, internals clean;..... Item #19918
[Columbia, South Carolina]: Southern Carolina Environmental Coalition, 1975. Softcover. Near fine. 8.5 x 11 inches, 144 pp, in original wrappers. Ownership signature on first page, "Congaree Swamp" handwritten on the spine, else fine. A collection of articles compiled to explain the importance of South Carolina's old-growth, bottomland forest and to..... Item #20457
London: Geo. Goulding, 1789. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. large 4to, xxix, 360, 47 pp + 17 engraved plates, 5 folding maps and charts. Contemporary calf boards (rubbed through at corners), rebacked with new spine, original marbled endpapers retained. Armorial bookplate of John Bridge on front pastedown, Bridge's name and..... Item #22478
New York and New Orleans: George B. Richardson and Bloomfield & Steel, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. iv, 272 pp, with frontis portrait of the author and folding colored map of Brazil and Guyana, in origInal green cloth binding. Minimal external wear, binding sound, but all pages are tanned, some..... Item #22120
Salt Lake City: Charles Ellis, 1891. Softcover. Good. "Second edition of five thousand." 32 pp, in original printed wrappers, but with losses at the spine old stab holes from having been bound into boards. Good. A survey and pro-Mormon analysis of various events in the history of the Mormon Church..... Item #20643
Harbor Springs, MI: Holy Childhood Indian School, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xvi, 516 pp, with frontispiece, map, illustrations, index. General wear to boards, both hinges starting, bookplate of Edward Dean Lyman on front pastedown; contents clean. Handwritten sheet tipped in on p. 454 noting that all pages are present..... Item #2962
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 10.75" x 7.25", 104 pp, illustrated, in orignal red and grey cloth. Fine copy, with Verne Howard Mountaineering Books label on rear pastedown. Dust jacket has just a touch of shallow..... Item #22336
London: Methuen, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 390 pp, with index, half-tone and photogravure illustrations from photographs by the author and by Arthur E. Lightbody and Stuart Vines, folding panorama, 2 folding maps. Bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering, image of a condor on upper board. Upper..... Item #22265
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883. Hardcover. Very good. Early reprint (first published 1876), in a full-leather binding with raised bands, decorative gilt rules on boards, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 6.25", 338 pp, extra-illustrated with 28 mounted albumen photographs (4" x 5.25") of Egyptian scenes. "Rev. Russell Edwards..... Item #21816
San Francisco: Wood, Alley & Co., 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Title continues: With Descriptions of Scenes As Viewed By The Pioneers, The First American Argonauts of California; The Bear Flag; The Discovery of Gold; The Progress of Population and Agriculture; The Mexican Grants; The Principal Murders; Incidents of..... Item #21394
