![Item #46235 Harbor at Dubuque. Letter from the Secretary of War. Doc No. 57 [with map]. Iowa,...](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46235.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686757635)
[Washington, D.C.]: Blair & Rives, printers, 1845. 9pp. + map. Illus. with 48 x 22 inch map of the Harbor at Dubuque. 8vo. Removed. First edition. Transmitting a copy of the report of the survey of the harbor at the town of Dubuque. January 24, 1845. Read, and laid upon..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1971). xx, 366 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. A very good+ copy, clean and crisp, in a very good+ price-clipped dust jacket with a darkened spine. More
El Paso: Texas Western Press, Univ. Texas at El Paso, 1975. Illus. with 1 b/w photo and 1 map. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. Book review laid in loose. Tiny scuff on bottom edge of front wrapper, else a near fine copy. More
Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1914. 179 pp. [237-413 pp.]. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. Publications of the Academy of Pacific Coast History. Vol. 3 No. 3. Wrappers edgeworn else near fine. More
Ann Arbor: Univ. Michigan Press, 1942. Frontis, viii, 40 pp. + Plates [27]. Illus. with 1 color & 27 b/w plates. 4to. Cloth. First edition. John Mix Stanley (1814-72), American painter and photographer, accompanied many military expeditions west, traveling from the Dakotas to Hawaii. His daguerreotype collection toured the country..... More
Weimar: Verlegt von dem Gebr. Hoffmann, 1821. [6], xviii, [4], 91, [6], 96-168; 176; 240, [1] pp. Illus. with 20 copper-engraved, aquatint plates (19 boldly colored on thick wove paper, 4 are double-page, one with tissue guard), 6 copper-engraved maps (5 folding), and 2 folding tables. 4to. Contemporary three quarter..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1996. 36 pp. Illus. with duotone plates. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. Robert Bothamely, checklist. Faint bump to upper cover else a fine copy. More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1991. xii, [2], 99 pp. Illus. with b/w plates and in-text drawings. Sm. 4to. Cloth with gilt decoration. First edition. Publication no. 195. One of 400 copies. Provenance: From the library of Kenneth E. Hill, with his bookplate. Small bookplate on front pastedown, else..... More
New York: Whittlesey House, Mc-Graw Hill, (1948). 321 pp. 8vo. Cloth with gilt titles. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Provenance: Fabiola [Cabeza de Baca] Gilbert (signature) author of Historic Cookery (1931), perhaps the first book on New Mexico cooking. A very good or better copy..... More
![Item #43222 [Photograph] Souvenir of World Famous Mt. Lowe: America's Greatest Scenic Trip....](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43222.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591212067)
[Mt. Lowe, CA], ca. 1900s but after 1905. Image: 4 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches mounted on 7 x 10 inch multi-ruled mount. Ruled card mount. Silver gelatin print taken at the top of the Great Incline on Echo mountain with a large group of travelers at the side and..... More
Norman: Univ. Oklahoma Press, (1967). xxii, 231 pp. Illus. with b/w reproductions. 8vo. Cloth with gilt title. First edition. A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. More
Norman: Univ. Oklahoma Press, (1988). 148 pp. Illus. with color and b/w drawings. Trade format. Paper wrappers. Later printing. Edited by H. G. Merriam. Delightful book by a friend of Russell's. A fine copy. As new. More
Berkeley: Univ. California Press, 1974. 278 pp. Illus. with 22 b/w photos and drawings. 8vo. Cloth with gilt title. First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 249 pp. Illus. with 170 b/w photos. Sq. 4to. Cloth. Second printing. Extraordinary photographs of the vast landscape and the frontier people by an extraordinary women who left the English gentry, took up ranching in Montana, then photography, and developed her pictures in a...... More
Albuquerque: Univ. New Mexico Press, (1996). XVI, 168 pp. Illus. with 83 b/w plates + maps. Obl. 4to. Cloth. First edition. Walter Truett Anderson, Intro. Modern photographs of the 19th c. trail. Small spot on lower edge of free front end paper, else a fine copy in a fine dust..... More
Austin: Texas State Historical Assoc. (2007). xiii, [1], 333 pp. Illus. with b/w photos, drawings and reproductions. Sm. 4to. Cloth. First edition. J.P. Bryan, foreword; Janice Pin. Inscribed by the author. Complete with the original DVD entitled The Future of Texas History is Now, produced by Wattsmedia, 2006, in rear..... More
Urbana: Univ. Chicago Press, (1970). xii, 351. Illus. with 29 b/w reproductions. Sm. 4to. Cloth. First edition. The American West as it appeared to travelers who braved the trans-Mississippi frontier from its French-Spanish days through the nineteenth-century. A near fine copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. More
Evanston: Privately Printed, 1942. 5 pp. 1 sheet folded. 24mo. Unbound sheets in stiff paper wrappers. McMurtrie's introductory booklet only. Rare. Only twenty copies printed. At least thirteen are in institutional hands. A very good, unopened copy, with minor wear along the edges, contents crisp. More
Oakland, CA: [ca. 1925]. [3 leaves], 102 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Publisher address corrected to a different street address in Oakland. Dealers listed are: Hardy's Bookstore (Oakland) & John Howell (San Francisco). Sticker to front wrapper else very good, inked in correction to title..... More
Lubbock: Texas Tech Univ. Press, (2004). xvi, 160 pp. Illus. with 176 color photos. Sq. 4to. Cloth with gilt titles. First edition. Red Steagall, foreword; Mike Gib. First issue. "The Four Sixes is not a relic, showpiece, or preserve. It’s a working cattle ranch, some 290,000 acres of West Texas..... More
San Francisco: Dempster, 1880. 33 pp. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. Contains a memorandum from Merry on cost of construction, location, local resources, financial results, etc. Also included is a description of the route through Nicaragua; a memorial from the Board of Trade, a comparison of the Panama and..... More
New York; [Chambersburg, PA]: The Cadmus Book Shop; [Valley Spirit Office], 1916; [1851]. 26 pp., [3 leaves]. 8vo. Paper wrappers. Reprint. "One of an edition of two hundred and fifty copies reprinted by The Cadmus Book Shop ...1916." Only seven known copies of the first edition (Howes). First Gold Rush..... More
St. Louis: Woodward & Tiernan Print. Co.:, [1892]. 64 pp. Illus. with b/w engravings. 12mo. Stapled paper wrappers. Promotional booklet published by the Missouri Pacific Railway encouraging settlement in Nebraska. Lacks folding map. A good, copy, wrappers chipped, soiled, starting to detach, seller stamp to front wrapper,, occasional soiling to..... More
[Philadelphia]: [W.M. Bradley & Bro.], 1886. Hand colored map. 21 x 14.5 inches. Plates 86 & 87: County & Township Map Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. Entered by Wm. M. Bradley & Bro. 1884. From: Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc...... More
[Philadelphia]: [W.M. Bradley & Bro.], 1886. Hand colored map. 21 x 14 inches. Plate 92: County and township map of Arizona and New Mexico. Entered ... 1882 by S. Augustus Mitchell.... From: Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc., Embraced..... More