Portland, ME: David Tucker, 1858. First Edition. 48 pp, 4.5 x 7.5 inches, in original salmon wrappers illustrated with wood engraving of the unfortunate Mr. Trask. "Peru, ME." written in ink on front wrapper, otherwise clean. Very good. Leonard Trask (1806-1861) fell from his horse while in his twenties, seriously... Item #19863
Napa City, CA: Reporter Publishing House, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 356 pp, with frontispiece and 28 additional illustrations, some full-page. Original rust-colored cloth boards and heavily worn, with several tears in the cloth and places where the underlying cardboard is visible. Spine lettering is faded, some foxing to endpapers... Item #2928
New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 268 pp, illustrated with color and b/w photographs.Slight softening to spine ends, else a fine copy. Briefly inscribed and signed by Messner beneath the epigraph. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has just a.... Item #12395
New York: Howe & Bates, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4 x 6.25 inches, in orignal brown cloth with mounted paper label (rubbed) on spine. Boards lightly soiled and edgeworn, foxing throughout text. Odd Fellows library bookplate ("I.O. of O.F. Library Inst.d June 1842") on front pastedown. A sensationalist anti-Catholic... Item #19884
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xvi, 368 pp, with two maps (one folding) and many illustrations from photographs. Original red cloth boards stamped in gilt and black. Spine slant, slight sunning to upper board, previous owner's name on front... Item #13051
Modern three-ring binder containing 27 black and white 8” x 10” photographs showcasing high-end vehicles for rent from the Iowa Garage, owned by former race car mechanic Eugene Lajunie of Pasadena. Each photo is accompanied by a typed caption giving the model number, color, some specifications, and the price per... Item #20563
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. Hardcover. Good. Third edition, revised and enlarged (with mining content not found in the first edition). 251 pp, with frontis engraving of the Mowry Silver Mines. Original brown cloth boards are edgeworn, with corners rubbed through, chips at spine ends, and cloth partially split... Item #2696
New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 708 pp, with 2 maps and many illustrations from photographs. Publisher's blue cloth. Spine toned but legible; clean and tight. In addition to being a Presbyterian missionary, the author was an accomplished linguist and... Item #13055
London: A.W. Bennett, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. pp. viii, 278, [2] (ads), frontis portrait of the author and 15 plates illustrating aspects of Ojibwe life and culture. Rebound in green cloth, gilt title on spine. Edges trimmed, mild spine slant; very good. Jones (1802-1856) was a Mississauga... Item #14866
London: White, Cochrane and Co., 1814. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Two volumes, pp xxxvi, 358; [359]-751, [6] ads. In a simple modern binding of brown cloth with leather spines; endpapers replaced. Although not a married set (at least, not recently), for unknown reasons Vol. I has been trimmed, while Vol... Item #14940
London: Macmillan, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. pp xiii, 356, [1] (ad) in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Corners rubbed through, hinges/joints repaired (likely by an amateur), foxing to first and last few pages only. Best known for his work on evolution, Alfred Russel Wallace did extensive... Item #17397
Kearny, NE: John A. Stryker. Undated, ca. 1920. 48 pp, 6 x 9 inches, oblong, in original string-tied wrappers, with oval cut-out window on front cover revealing color landscape below. Light soiling and edgewear to wraps, lower corner of last three leaves clipped; very good. Scarce promotional view book, containing... Item #19881
Buffalo, NY: Dodge Art Publishing Company, 1892. First Edition. Souvenir folder of lovely chromolithograph views of Lake Chautauqua in western New York. Cloth-backed paper boards, 3 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches when folded. Ten views in all, one mounted on the front cover and nine accordion folded inside, with one... Item #18042
Northern Pacific Railway. Wraps. Near fine. Undated, ca. 1916. 10 x 6-3/4" stapled chromo-litho- and gilt-printed cardstock wraps, unpaginated but 16 leaves printed recto and verso with text and b/w half-tone photographs, plans, and maps (one on a 2-page spread) within wide photographic peach/sepia borders; wraps a bit rubbed and... Item #20295
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4.75" x 7.25". pp xix, 291 + publisher's ads. Original green cloth with titles in gilt. Some old insect damage to boards, otherwise clean and sound. Ober was an American naturalist, hunter, and explorer who wrote and lectured... Item #14830
New York: Garland Publishing, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Series: Themes in European Expansion: Exploration, Colonization, and the Impact of Empire. 474 pp, indexed. Lists 3089 items. The first attempt to compile a comprehensive bibliography of English and foreign-language pamphlets and books pertaining to British East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika... Item #13712
Portland: Portland Printing House, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 495 pp, extensively illustrated with "splendid halftone engravings and etchings of important incidents" and "the latest photographs of the principal actors in the great land fraud drama." Light wear to extremities; near fine. According to the Oregon Encyclopedia, "Stephen Puter... Item #15562
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Hardcover. Very good. Reprint (first published 1919). 316 pp, with frontis portrait of the author's mother. Publisher's pictorial cloth, rubbed at extremities. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "To W.S. Morton with the regard and friendship of Chase S. Osborn," and with Osborne's own... Item #20468
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1964. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Yale Western American Series No. 5. 10 x 14 inches. xxxv, 335 pp, with maps, illustrations, facsimiles, index. 8x10 pcolor photo of a map showing the Route of Lewis and Clark, 1805 laid in. Minimal... Item #869
![The Field Notes of Captain William Clark 1803-1805 [SIGNED]. Ernest Staples Osgood, William...](/pictures/thumb/869.JPG?v=1474054802)
Buffalo, NY: E.H. Hutchinson, 1889. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 87 pp, in original printed wrappers. Mild soiling. The author was an attorney and Principal of the Buffalo Classical School. He traveled to Oregon, Washington, Alaska (primarily Sitka), and British Columbia in 1888, reporting back in a series of articles... Item #14096
United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, 1948. Hardcover. Good. 9 x 12 inches, 306 pp, with illustrations, advertiser index. Pictorial boards are edgeworn; contents clean and sound. Contains numerous articles on (then) current issues in the production of fruit and vegetables (transportation, packaging, financing, research, etc), accompanied by many advertisements... Item #194
Philadelphia: 1869. Hardcover. Good. pp. 250 + folding profile (but lacking folding map). Modern red cloth binding with minimal wear, contents clean, profile in very good condition. An important railway survey that that opened vast areas of the west to public knowledge. This report describes efforts to determine the best... Item #16538
London: Edward Arnold, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 331 pp + publisher's catalogue, with 8 plates, additional illustrations in the text, and two folding maps. Original burgundy cloth, with some uneven discoloration to the spine and mild wear to the corners, small stain on front board. Internals clean and... Item #16723
Salem, MA: Salem Press Publishing and Printing, 1891. Hardcover. Good. viii, 341 pp. Boards worn and soiled, name written on verso of last page, binding has some looseness to it, but still sound; text clean. Describes storms, comets, earthquakes, Aurora Borealis, winters, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, gales, meteors, avalanches, and other... Item #2565
Washington, D.C. Department of the Interior, 1891. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 15 pp, 7.75 x 10 inches; stapled self-wrappers. Old creases from folding, light handling wear; very good. Issued in advance of the full 1890 census report on the Alaska territory "in view of the extraordinary interest now being... Item #19970
