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
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
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
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 first 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 paste-downs, 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
Washington, D. C. G. P. O., [1901-02]. Thick 8vo, pp. [5]-893; 21 plates from photographs, 13 folding maps (11 printed in color), folding facsimile, last 5 leaves (latter part of index) defective with approx. 1/5 nibbled away, and lacking the title-page; freshly bound in recent full red cloth, gilt-lettered spine..... 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
San Francisco: J. B. Scofield [engraved & printed by Sunset Publishing House], [1915]. 4to, pp. 70; 64 full-page color illustrations reproduced with permission from Sunset Magazine, including reproductions of artwork by Karl Moon, Thomas Moran, Fred Harvey, and others, and many striking photographs; original green art deco wrap-around wrappers; minor..... 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
Red Wing, Minn. Red Wing Printing Co., Steam Print, 1880. 8vo, pp. [16], [18] ads; 5 vignette woodcuts in the text plus several illus. ads at the back; a very good copy in orig. yellow printed wrappers; there is a cancel slip tipped to the title-page, changing the dates of..... More
Butte: Butte Intermountain Print, 1893. 16mo, pp. 64; tables throughout; original pictorial wrappers with 2 short cuts into the fore-margin of the front wrapper; all else very good and sound. Adams, Herd, 1537: "Scarce." More
[Philadelphia]: Jay Cooke & Co., n.d., [ca. 1871]. 8vo, pp. 46, [2]; original tan wrappers printed in red and black; ink offset on front wrapper; rear wrapper with map of the United States; some light chipping and wear; all else very good. A prospectus, of sorts, for potential investors, with..... More
[Austin, Minn.]: The Book Committee, 1914. 8vo, pp. 324, [1] errata leaf; folding map; original tan cloth (soiled), lettered in red and black; contemporary signature, Edward Chenery Gale's bookplate; some toning throughout; back hinge a bit weak; a good copy. 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
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
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
