Habana: Impr. de P. Massana / Impr. del Tiempo, 1859-61. 225, 2 pp.; 220, 4 pp.; 247, 1 pp. 8vo. Modern quarter speckled calf over green marbled boards, four raised bands, red morocco spine label titled in gilt, marbled endpapers. First edition. "The most important work published by Bachiller y...... More

Paris: L'Illustration, 1932. xxiv, 574 pp. Illus. with 126 color (4 tipped in) and 1656 b/w plates, photos, plans, diagrams, and maps (many full or double page). Folio (39x29 cm.). Cloth. First edition. An illustrated history of French aviation. An excellent production from L'Illustration, this one under the direction of..... More

Washington [D.C.]: [U.S.] Government Printing Office, 1880. xxxii, 307 pp. Illus. with 11 b/w heliotype plates with tissue guards, 1 of which is folding, and 4 cross-section plates, all folding. 4to. Original brown cloth ruled in blind, gilt titles. First edition. At the head of the title: Department of the..... More

Eugene Golomshtok (born Eugenii Alexandrovich Golomshtok, Russia, 1897-1950) was a Russian émigré anthropologist, photographer, and authority on permafrost. He studied archaeology with Bruno Adler in Russia before he received his MA from University of California at Berkeley in 1923, where he was also the photographer of Phoebe Hearst Museum of..... More

Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1923. 195 pp. + plates [61]. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. Library cloth. First edition. Field Museum of Natural History Publication 216, Anthropological Series, Volume XVI. Signed by the author on the title page, who was assistant curator as well as the daughter of..... More

Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1925-1943. Part I: title page, plates list, 25 plates; Part II: note, plates list, 25 plates; Part III: preface, plates list, 16 plates. 66 illustrations. Folio. Paper portfolio in later card portfolio with ties. First edition. Comprised of specimens of pottery from Guatemala, Honduras, British Honduras..... More

Salt Lake City: 1864. [1 pp.] bifolium. 4 x 6 inches folded to 2 1/2 x 4 inches. Unsigned manuscript invitation, in a secretarial hand, dated February 16th, 1864: "Pres. Brigham Young presents his compliments to Bro. George Thatcher and his wife and request the pleasure of their company at..... More

Nashville: G.C. Torbett and Co., Printers, 1857. 36 pp.+ large folding table as frontispiece. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. The first report on Tennesse railroads then under construction, operating, and / or proposed, with details of their ownership, investments, contracts, miles of track, etc.,made by Railroad Commissioner Robert Garnett Payne (1812-1861)..... More

[Puebla, México]: [Gobierno del Estado de Puebla], Imp. del Hospicio, imprenta de Tomas F. Neve, 1872-73. Folio. Quarter morocco over marbled boards. First edition. Rare issues of this official newspaper of the State of Puebla (under various names,) during the period of unrest caused by Diaz' Plan de la Noria..... More

Paris: Mainsonneuve et cie, 1869. xviii, [19]-240 pp., + plates; [2], 81]- 142 pp. Illus. 146 plates (15 folding, 4 color) and numerous in text figures. Plates numbered 1-103, [1 unnumbered],109-132, & 141-156, [2 unnumbered]. 8vo. Quarter navy calf over marbled boards, 4 raised bands, gilt titles, all edges speckled..... More

[Bruxelles]: [Ph. Vandermaelen], 1827. 1 sheet. Hand-colored lithographic map. 47 x 57 cm. First edition. Shows the ranges of eight Indian tribes. Covers parts of Utah, Colorado and northern Arizona and New Mexico. Includes text: Note sur le Mexique. At a time when American map publishers were virtually ignoring the..... More

[Washington, D.C.]: [ca.1865]. 1 sheet. 8 x 10 inches. Unsigned and undated notification of the passage of Senator Henry Wilson's first civil rights bill of the Reconstruction Era. "Senator Wilson's bill to make free the wives and children of colonial soldiers has just passed the Senate by a vote of..... More