Peoria, Ill. Dubuque Real Estate Board, n.d., [ca. 1960s?]. Folio, approx. 17" square, 109 leaves printed on rectos only; library stamp on verso of title page, accession number in lower left corner of upper cover, 2 ownership signatures on front pastedown, upper cover with a few small spots; all else..... More
Winnipeg: Free Press no-rodeneleketekteyar, 1904. 16mo, pp. 54; original limp pebble-grain black cloth; generally fine. Tinne, or Athabaskan, is a language family spoken primarily in the Northwest and Alaska. More
St. Louis: printed at the office of the Daily Advertiser, 1847. 8vo, pp. 23, [1]; original blue printed wrappers; ink annotations on covers, Harvard discard stamp on verso of title page, some spotting in gutter, very good. Faculty, students, admissions, tuition, and courses of study for both the Academic and..... More
N.p. [Saint Paul?]: 1869. Large plate albumen photograph approx. 12" x 21" mounted on a printed card approx. 16" x 21"; slight toning; very good. A large and unusual photograph by an unnamed photographer showing the steamer Buckeye towing what was at the time the largest raft ever run on..... More
Central City, Colorado: December 8, 1873. Six-page pro-forma folio document (approx. 18¼" x 13¾" ) bound with red ribbon, being "General Land Office 931, Mineral Certificate no. 461," describing and outlining the parameters of the site in a lengthy one-and-a-half-page manuscript description, with a large wood-engraved illustration at the top..... More
Los Angeles: Rounce & Coffin Club, 1938-1971. 23 titles in 25 volumes (2 duplicates); illustrations; all in original printed wrappers with the exception of the 1971 number, which is bound in the original linen over boards in a grey printed dust jacket. Sizes vary, mostly 12mo or small 8vo; very..... More
St. Paul: Pioneer Printing Co., 1867. 8vo, pp. [2], 62; original printed tan wrappers, slightly chipped and cracked; very good. Contains articles on the "Mineral Regions of Lake Superior," the disgraced explorer "Constantine Beltrami," "Historical Notes of the United States Land Office," and perhaps most important, "Dakota Supersitions," by Gideon..... More
St. Anthony & Minneapolis: Croffut & Clark, 1859. First edition of the second directory of Minneapolis, 8vo, pp. [6], [15]-162, [2]; numerous advertisements throughout; later black cloth, with the insertion of 5 postcard photographs (one with the stamp of Edward Bromley) on the endpapers and pastedowns, a number of early..... More
Red Wing: Red Wing Printing Co., 1882. 8vo, pp. 14; orig. pink printed wrappers; slight fading at extremities, old library rubber-stamp on cover, else very good. Unusually nice copy. More
Austin: printed at Gazette Office, by Jo. Walker, state printer, 1866. 8vo, pp. 53, [1], ix (index), [1]; bound with, as issued: General Laws of the State of Texas, Passed by the Eleventh Legislature, Austin, 1866, pp. 272, [2], xxvii (index), [1]; modern paper wrappers; title page to the first..... More
Chillicothe: printed by Wm. C. Jones, 1840 [i.e. Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1950]. 8vo, pp. [2], xiv, 28, [6]; title page printed in red and black, folding map; fine copy in the dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. "This excessively rare book on Iowa was published in..... More
[St. Paul: Tribune Job Dept., Print.], 1883. Only edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 126; illustrated with 16 wood-engravings (many full-p.) as well as an inserted double-p. map of the city; very good copy in original limp terracotta cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover. Published during Minneapolis's great boomtime, the book..... More
Saint Paul: Globe Print, 1880. 8vo, pp. [6]; text in double column; near fine in original printed orange wrappers. More
Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1821. 8vo, pp. [3] plus 4 large folding tables and one smaller folding table; removed. Includes an early mention on the second table of "Cantonment Leavenworth, on the river St. Peter's," under the command of Colonel Snelling, with other particulars given with regard to its detachment..... More
St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Company, 1902-1915. 2 volumes, thick 8vo, pp. 540, 520; chiefly black and white photographic illustrations; uniformly bound in contemporary brown morocco gilt, spines in 6 compartments, a.e.g., marbled endpapers; extremities rubbed, slight discoloration to fore-edge of the second volume's upper cover, else a very good, attractive..... More
St. Paul: H.M. Smyth & Co., printers, 1878. 8vo, pp. 88; without the folding map of Minnesota found in some copies; original gray printed wrappers, soiled, slight chipping at edges, remains of old label adhered at upper wrapper; generally a good copy of a promotional pamphlet for immigrants, addressed: "To..... More
Aberdeen (later, Sioux Falls), S.D. The World Publishing Company, 1904-1906. 10 disparate issues, each approx. 11" x 8", each 12-18 pages; illustrated throughout; poetry, letters to the editor, current events, advertisements, news from local lodges, etc.; some toning but overall very good. Includes volume VI, no 11; volume X, no..... More
[Indianapolis? ca. 1829]. 8vo, pp. 12; printed self-wrappers, unopened and uncut; no evidence of having ever been bound; old dampstain affecting top quarter of pamphlet, general foxing, uniformly browned; contemporary ownership signature at head of title of N. B. Palmer, treasurer of the state of Indiana; about good and sound..... More
Omaha City, N.T. printed at the "Republican" office, 1863. 8vo, pp. 48; tipped inside the back wrapper is a slip announcing the general master and grand secretary, and the date and place (Plattsmouth) of the next annual communication; original glazed midnight blue wrappers printed in gilt; some wear at the..... More
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1949. 16mo, pp. 26; 1/200 copies printed by William Cheney; a fine copy in original brown cloth with gilt-lettered spine. More
[Minneapolis?]: Press of the C.A. Mitchell Printing Co., 1899. Edition limited to 1999 copies of which this is no. 30, 4 volumes, 16mo; black and white plates, some folding; text illustrations; original white printed wrappers, red line borders; original green paper slipcase, paper labels on upper cover and spine; wrappers..... More
Portland, Maine: L. H. Nelson Company, 1906. First edition, oblong 4to, unpaged; chiefly plain photographic views; original green pictorial wrappers stamped in gilt; a bit of wear from handling, else very good and sound. Depicts the various landmarks of Minneapolis and St. Paul, including Minnehaha Falls, Fort Snelling, and Nicollet..... More
[Norman, OK]: [University of Oklahoma], [1979]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 182; fine copy in dust jacket. More
New York: for the Bibliographical Society of America, by R.R. Bowker Co., 1947. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 221, [1]; fine in original green cloth. Bibliographical accounting of 773 titles, indexed and cross-referenced. Includes books printed in both North and South Dakota. More
New York: Oxford University Press, [1950]. Second edition, 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 352; map endpapers, numerous illustrations on plates, fine copy in original blue cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine, unclipped dust jacket is somewhat wrinkled and creased, but without loss. More
