Dallas, Texas: 1906. Single typescript sheet from a wholesaler to dealers in Texas, Indian and Oklahoma Territories announcing his new partnership with Perkins Campbell and thanking them for their business of 20 years. One shallow closed tear, else fine. More
Saint Paul: James M. Goodhue, 1850. Second edition, with the additional "Description of Minnesota" on pp. 29-32 by congressional representative Henry H. Sibley, not included in the first edition of the same year, and an expended list of members; 8vo, 32pp., original tan printed front wrapper, lacking back wrapper; a...... More
St. Paul: James M. Goodhue, 1851. 8vo, pp. 241; orig. brown printed wrappers, wrappers loosening and slightly chipped. Martin 30; Sabin 49258 (citing that for 1850). More
N.p., n.d. [1837]. 8vo, pp. 36; large folding lithograph frontispiece of the Iron Mountains of Missouri, one other full-page map; removed from binding; very good. American Imprints notes 3 editions in 1837: Hartford, Philadelphia, and Boston. The present edition is not located in American Imprints. Missouri Imprints, 197. More
[Philadelphia]: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1860. Engraved hand-colored map approx. 12" x 15", decorative metalcut border, showing the state of Minnesota by counties, and the Dakota territory west to the 104th parallel; very light spotting, else near fine. More
London: Longman, [et. al.], 1858. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo; pp. [iii]-xxx [2], 352; x, [2], 397, [1], [2] ads; folding map (short split at one fold), 11 lithograph plates (7 chromolithographs, 4 tinted), plus 8 uncolored plates, and several illustrations in the text; 20th-century brown morocco-backed boards..... More
Denver: Fred A. Rosenstock / The Old West Publishing Company, 1964. First edition limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Morgan (this, mo. 62); folio, pp. liv, 341, [1]; color frontispiece, vignette title page printed in red and black, 20 plates (1 in color) showing 28 illustrations, 4 facsimiles, and..... More
Washington: G.P.O., 1863. Large 8vo, pp. 363, [3]; 10 lithograph plates (all but 1 tinted), plus 4 large folding maps (all bound in upside down); original diaper-patterned green cloth, gilt lettering on spine quite faded, else a very good copy. Ex-Northern Pacific Railway Co. with 2 small rubberstamps on the..... More
Washington: G.P.O., 1863. Large 8vo, pp. 363, [3]; 10 lithograph plates (most with hand coloring), plus 4 large folding maps; recent utilitarian library cloth, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; text block bound tight; clean inside. Early ownership signature of Mr. Thomson Mason, Baltimore, Nov. 1, 1863. See Howes M-884 showing..... More
Denver: The Range Press, 1981. Edition limited to 200 signed and numbered copies (this no. 196); 8vo, pp. 199; frontis portrait, title-p. printed in red and black, 9 other illustrations in the text; fine copy in original green cloth-backed peach boards lettered in silver on upper cover and spine, in..... More
Denver: The Range Press, 1945. First edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xiii, [1], 15-173; several small rust marks along the front joint, otherwise a fine copy in original white cloth-backed yellow paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial paper label on upper cover; glassine dust jacket with a few short tears and..... More
Chicago & New York: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1884. First edition, 12mo, pp. 241; frontispiece, plates; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine and in black on the upper cover; binding rubbed, hinges cracked, shaken; a good copy. More
San Francisco: Bacon and Company, printers, 1881. First edition, 16mo, pp. ix, [1], 254; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; upper cover rather spotted; good and sound. Cowan (1933), p. 463; Howes O-83. More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1855. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 306; lithograph frontispiece of the Falls of St. Anthony, 6 wood-engraved plates, illustrations in text, lacking folding map; contemporary three quarter tan calf over marbled boards, black and maroon gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, spine in 6..... More
Metuchen, NJ, & London: The Scarecrow Press, 1988. Second edition, revised and expanded (first published 1976), 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 325; title-page motif and 1 full-page illustration in the text; but for a small, dark smudge near top of spine, a fine copy in publisher's orange cloth lettered in white..... More
London: John Murray, 1853. First edition, 8vo, pp. [xvi], 326, [2] ads; 7 engraved plates including frontispiece; small chip to foot of spine, names in ink to front endpapers, a bit shaken, still about very good and sound in original decorative black and white cloth gilt. Palliser (1807-1887) is best..... More
San Antonio: press of Johnson Bros. Printing Co., 1899. First edition, 8vo, pp. [3]-227, v (index), [6] ads; portrait frontispiece; original red cloth, light stains on covers, not affecting text block, spine slightly sunned; very good. Gift inscription "To Brother Justinian from Mrs. L. B. Smith, Austin, Texas, Dec. 27..... More
Boston: John P. Jewitt & Co., 1857. First edition, 8vo, with the folding hand-colored map of Minnesota by Colton (short tear at the guard), pp. 159, [1]; generally a very good, sound copy in the unusual red cloth binding, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Howes P-85; Graff 3189;..... More
Ithaca, N.Y. Mack, Andrus, & Woodruff [etc.], 1842. Third edition (first published 1838), 8vo, pp. 408; folding frontispiece map of the Oregon Territory dated 1838, plus 1 engraved plate; in a plain, contemporary full leather binding; moderate wear, waterstains to the first handful of pages, a good and sound copy..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, 1910. 13 volumes, 8vo, gravure frontispieces and maps; contemporary half green levant over marbled boards, t.e.g.; spines browned, slight chipping and rubbing to the tops of a few spines, but largely a very good set. Includes the added 13th volume, A Life of Francis Parkman, by Charles..... More
Madison, Milwaukee, London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. First edition, 8vo, pp. 75a, [1], xx, 758; illustrated; very good in dust jacket, a few minor tears at spine ends. A reprinting of the Boston 1892 edition illustrated by Frederic Remington, to which the editor has added a preface, introduction, and..... More
New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1947. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xxv, [1], 381, [1]; [8], [383]-718 (continuous); map endpapers, 17 plates, 12 maps and illus. in the text; generally a very good set or better throughout, in the jackets (one snag in the spine of one..... More
Jacksonville: published by R. Goudy, 1834. First edition, 12mo, pp. viii, 376; original pink moire cloth, printed paper label on spine; some mild spotting on the covers, otherwise a very good, sound copy. This a presentation copy inscribed "Thomas G. Fessenden Esq. with the respects of the author." Fessenden, a...... More
Evanston, Illinois: The Branding Iron Press, 1952. First edition thus, limited to 500 copies (this, no. 267); 8vo, pp. [4], x, [2], 132, [2]; portrait frontispiece, 3 plates and illustrations in the text; original brown cloth-backed cream paper-covered boards, lettered in black on upper cover; near fine throughout. "Designed at..... More
New York: J. Winchester, 1844. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 155, [3]; text in double column; removed from binding; moderate foxing, otherwise very good. Streeter 1396A: "The main scene for this narrative is laid in Texas at the time of the Texas revolution, with an account of the Battle..... More
