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Item #40276 The Rhemes New Testament. Being a full and particular Account of the Origins,...

Turner, Decherd.

The Rhemes New Testament. Being a full and particular Account of the Origins, Printing, and subsequent Influences of the first Roman Catholic New Testament in English, with the divers Controversies occasioned by its publication diligently expounded for the Edification of the Reader.

Austin: Printed for the Book Club of California by W. Thomas Taylor, 1990. 37 pp. Illus. with 2 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. Quarter goatskin over paper covered boards. First edition. No. 193. One of 395 copies. A leaf taken from an imperfect copy of the first edition of the Rhemes..... More

Price: $125.00

Item #38388 Clara Driscoll. An American Tradition. Martha Anne Turner

Turner, Martha Anne.

Clara Driscoll. An American Tradition.

Austin: Madrona Press, (1979). color frontis, 185, 14 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Quarter cloth over paper covered boards. Special first edition. No. 99 of 125 copies, signed by the author. Contains as additional material: a short story by Clara Driscoll entitled "The Red Rose of San José."..... More

Price: $100.00

Item #20838 Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on The Oregon Trail. Ron. ed Tyler

Tyler, Ron. ed.

Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on The Oregon Trail.

Ft. Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1982. Frontis, viii, 480 pp. Illus. with 119 plates (some colored), b/w text drawings and photos + 1 map (3 panel fold-out). 4to. Cloth. First printing. Catalogue Raisonne by Karen Reyn. Art dealer's stamp to fore edge and free endpaper else a near fine copy..... More

Price: $40.00

Item #28001 Purchase of Island-Confluence of the St. Peter's and Mississippi Rivers. Letter from...

United States. War Dept. Poinsett, J. R.

Purchase of Island-Confluence of the St. Peter's and Mississippi Rivers. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting proceedings, under joint resolution of Congress of the 13th of February last, in relation to the purchase of the island at the confluence of the St. Peter's and Mississippi rivers. February 12, 1840. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

[Washington, D. C.]: Blair & Rives, printers. 1840. 20 pp. 8vo. Stitched self wrappers. First edition. 26th Congress, 1st Session. Doc. No. 82. Ho. of Reps. War Dept. About the purchase of the island from J. B. and P. Ferribault, of French descent, who have long lived among the Sioux..... More

Price: $30.00

Item #40379 Amer. Sep. Partie de la Vieille Californie. No. 47. Philippe Vandermaelen

Vandermaelen, Philippe.

Amer. Sep. Partie de la Vieille Californie. No. 47.

[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

Price: $575.00

Item #41131 Charles DeMorse. Pioneer Editor and Statesman. Ernest Wallace

Wallace, Ernest.

Charles DeMorse. Pioneer Editor and Statesman.

Lubock, TX: Texas Tech Press, 1943. frontis, v, 271 pp. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Texas Technological College Research Publication No. 6. Signed by the author, the "father of Texas journalism." A near fine copy. No dust jacket, as issued. More

Price: $20.00

Item #40300 Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, In compliance with a resolution of the...

Wallen, Henry Davies.

Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the report of Captain H.D. Wallen of his expedition, in 1859, from Dalles City to Great Salt Lake, and back. April 12, 1860 - Referred to the Committee ... April 13, 1860 - Report in favor of printing ... 36th Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 34.

[Washington, D.C.]: n.p., 1860. 51 pp. Illus. with 1 folding lithographed map (42 x 55 cm). 8vo. Modern cloth with morocco label with gilt title. First edition. 36th Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 34. "The road was surveyed through new country for the benefit of emigrants and prospective settlers..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #45874 A George Washington Keepsake: Printed in Observance of the Bohemian Club Book Show...

[Washington, George].

A George Washington Keepsake: Printed in Observance of the Bohemian Club Book Show March 3 to March 14, 1956.

[San Francisco]: Bohemian Club, 1956. 4 pp. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. This is a facsimile of the original letter which is a prized item in the Bohemian Club Library. Minor edgewear, else near fine. More

Price: $75.00

Watkins, T. H.

Gold and Silver in the West.

Palo Alto: American West Pub. Co., (1971). 287 pp. Illus. with color and b/w photos and drawings. 4to. Cloth. First edition. A near fine copy in a very good- dust jacket. More

Price: $12.00

Item #38391 Gold and Silver in the West. The Illustrated History of an American Dream. T. H. Watkins

Watkins, T.H.

Gold and Silver in the West. The Illustrated History of an American Dream.

Palo Alto: American West, (1971). xiii, 466 pp. Illus. with 75 color & 137 b/w plates, photos, & drawings. 4to. Quarter brown leather over cloth with gilt titles, map endpapers. First edition. Signed by the author on the half title. Original brochure and marketing material laid in loose. Small tear..... More

Price: $30.00

Item #39429 Walter Prescott Webb. A Man, His Land and His Work [Toward the morning sun: a tribute...

(Webb, Walter Prescott). Lea, Tom; Toynbee, Arnold, et al.

Walter Prescott Webb. A Man, His Land and His Work [Toward the morning sun: a tribute to Walter Prescott Webb, (cover title)].

[Austin, TX]: [Privately Printed / The Journal?], [1966]. 45, [1], [24] pp. Illus. with 8 tipped-in color plates with facing captions. 8vo. Tan cloth. First edition thus. The excerpts from The Graduate Journal combined here are tributes to the late historian Walter Prescott Webb (Volume VI, No. 1), and a...... More

Price: $150.00

Item #39406 An Honest Preface and Other Essays. Walter Prescott. Joe B. Frantz Webb, intro

Webb, Walter Prescott. Joe B. Frantz, intro.

An Honest Preface and Other Essays.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. vi, 216 pp. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author of the introduction, Joe Frantz. Includes facsimile of a three page letter written to Joe Frantz by J. Frank Dobie, regarding Webb. "Those for whom the American West has meaning will always care about Walter..... More

Price: $25.00

Western History Association.

Western History Association Annual Conference [Materials]: 1969-2008.

Western History Association, 1969-2008. Paper wrappers. First editions. A nearly continuous run of forty years, lacking only 2000, of the Western History Association conference program books from the 9th to the 48th, associated materials such as the Western Literature Association papers, invitations, and other ephemera for the various cities involved..... More

Price: $100.00

Item #40232 [19th century Photographs of the American West]. Western U. S

[Western U.S.]

[19th century Photographs of the American West]

n.p. (ca. 1880s-1890s). 12 sheets. Size varies from 4 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches to 13 x 10 inches. Not bound. 42 albumen and silver prints, mounted on large card stock, some tipped in, some remounted. Images of San Francisco, Yosemite, Pikes Peak, Grand Canyon as well as the Chicago..... More

Price: $1,200.00

Item #37402 The Historical Society of New Mexico Hall of Fame Essays. Victor Westphall, ed

Westphall, Victor, ed.

The Historical Society of New Mexico Hall of Fame Essays.

Albuquerque: The Historical Society of New Mexico, 1963. 49 pp. Illus. with 6 b/w reproductions. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. Includes the program to 'The Historical Society of New Mexico Hall of Fame Banquet' held in 1963. A near fine copy. More

Price: $10.00

Item #40273 Geological Survey of California. Geology. Volume I. Report of Progress and Synopsis...

Whitney, J.D. (Josiah Dwight).

Geological Survey of California. Geology. Volume I. Report of Progress and Synopsis of the Field-Work, From 1860 to 1864.

Philadelphia: Published by Authority of the Legislature of California (Caxton Press of Sherman and Co.), 1865. xxvii, 498 pp. Illus. with 9 plates and 81 further wood engravings in text. Sm. 4to. Later full sprinkled tan calf, five raised bands, red morocco lettering pieces, gilt title and rules, marble endpapers..... More

Price: $1,250.00

Item #32910 Los Gringos: or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru,...

Wise, Lieut. [Henry A.].

Los Gringos: or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia.

New York: Baker and Scribner, 1850. xvi, 453 pp. Sm. 8vo. Cloth. Second printing. Sabin notes that the second printing has the same imprints and collation as the first. Spine ends worn, a few small splits at the upper joints, foxed throughout, signed Charles A. Gillette 1852 on free front..... More

Price: $100.00

Item #38401 The Mining Men. Otis E. Young Jr

Young, Jr., Otis E.

The Mining Men.

Kansas City: Lowell Press, (1974). ix, 298 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. 8vo. Cloth with gilt titles. First edition. Tom Phillips, illus. Signed by the author. A fine copy in a very good jacket. More

Price: $20.00

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