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Niagara Falls: Express Mail Lines of American Steamers and Railroads, 1851. Advertisement for the Lake Ontario Express Mail Lines, measuring 310 x 140mm, with black print and a square map showing the routes around Lake Ontario on recto side only. Ink notations along the right side of the map and some words have been underlined. Some edge wear and closed tears along the edges, with a 1" chip to the top edge. Faint fold lines. In very good condition overall, especially given its age. This advertisement shows the routes from: "Niagara Falls to Montreal and Boston via Lake Ontario and River St. Lawrence and Northern Rail Roads, and From Niagara Falls to Albany, Troy and New York via Rochester Oswego and Syracuse". The captains, times and prices are all listed as well for the year 1851 and was printed at the "Iris Office" in Niagara Falls. 1851

Lake of the Woods: F. Jay Haynes. Stereoview. very good. 6 15/16" X 3 15/16" card. very good "#802 Ojibeway Tepee - Lake of the Woods." Photographer: [F. Jay] Haynes, Official Photographer N.P.R.R. Fargo.Series: Northern Pacific Views. Original 19th Century Stereoview.

Hartford, CT.: Columbian Book Company, 1872. xvi, 327pp. Crown octavo. Bound in half dark brown morocco leather and marbled boards; four raised bands and five compartments to the spine stamped with gold gilt lettering and decorations. Dark gray endpapers that look to be newer than the binding, though no other signs of restoration found. Gold gilt to the top edge of the text block. Heavily illustrated with full page and in-text black and white engravings. Some wear to the boards with a bit of rubbing along the edges and some abrasions to the leather on the fore and top edge of the front board. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown and signature to the verso of the front fly-leaf. Internally clean and an overall very good copy. All other copies listed online at the time this one was catalogued are bound in publisher's cloth, which leads us to believe that this copy was rebound at some point, though the binding is contemporary to the book. The majority of the illustrations… Read More

Sedan, Kansas: J. C. Avery. Photograph. very good. Original 19th Century. Mounted on studio card 6 1/2" X 4 1/4" card. Image is 5 5/8" X 3 7/8". very good

John Andrew & Son, 1905. Photograph. very good. The Altar - Cheyenne. From Copyright Photograph 1910 by E. S. Curtis Original Photogravure on Rice Paper. Mounted ʯn Dutch etching stock; Holland Van Gelder : 12.5" X 9.5" Image is 7 1/4" X 5 3/16". very good 1905

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. [8],72 pp. 16mo. Original blue cloth with gilt title on spine and front boards. Gilding a bit dull. Original printed unprice clipped dust wrapper. Wrapper a bit browned on the spine and the edges. "A Timely Message to the American People" Hoovers take on American Political Theory of the day. A very attractive copy with a nice signature on the free endpaper. Scarce in this condition and signed. 1923

John Andrew & Son, 1910. Photograph. very good. Animal Dance - Cheyenne from Copyright Photograph 1910 by E. S. Curtis Photogravure on Rice Paper. Mounted ʯn Dutch etching stock; Holland Van Gelder : 12.5" X 9.5" Image is 7 1/8" X 5 1/4". very good 1910

John Andrew & Son, 1910. Photograph. very good. Arapaho Youth from Copyright Photograph 1910 by E. S. Curtis Original Photogravure on Rice Paper. Mounted ʯn Dutch etching stock; Holland Van Gelder : 12.5" X 9.5" Image is 7 1/8" X 5". very good 1910

John Andrew & Son, 1915. Photograph. very good. restrike. The Bark Gatherer. The North American Indian. Intended for Portfolio 11 as Plate 383 from Copyright Photograph 1915 by E. S. Curtis Re-struck Photogravure [John Andrew & Son.]Paper: 21 7/8" X 17 1/2" Image: 15 3/16" X 11 1/8". very good 1915

John Andrew & Son, 1915. Photograph. very good. restrike. The North American Indian. Intended for Portfolio 11 as Plate 371From Copyright Photograph 1915 by E. S. Curtis. Re-struck Photogravure [John Andrew & Son.]Paper: 21 7/8" X 17 1/2" Image: 15" X 11 3/8". very good 1915

New York: Grolier Club, 1904. Undetermined. good to very good. 1st edition limited to 325 copies on American handmade paper. xx,334pp. Small Quarto, uncut in full brown calf with plates (including frontispiece) and illustrations in text. Bookplate on front pastedown. Head and foot of spine chipped with some wear to edges and extremities, internally crisp, clean copy. good to very good The Boston Port Bill with facsimiles of contemporary cartoon images. 1904

John Andrew & Son, 1911. Photograph. very good. Boughs for the Altar - Cheyenne from Copyright Photograph 1911 by E. S. Curtis Photogravure on Rice Paper. Mounted ʯn Dutch etching stock; Holland Van Gelder : 12.5" X 9.5" Image is 7 3/16" X 5 1/16". very good 1911

Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1940. Undetermined. fine. 1st Edition. 326pp. Octavo in original blue cloth, gilt top edge with 9 maps and charts (including folding) fine The author's detailed examination of the work of previous historians, including Bandelier, Bancroft, and Twitchell, with his interpretation of Cabeza de Vaca's route through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico. 1940

John Andrew & Son, 1915. Photograph. very good. restrike. The Captured Whale. The North American Indian. Intended for Portfolio 11 as Plate 396From Copyright Photograph 1915 by E. S. Curtis Re-struck Photogravure [John Andrew & Son.]Paper: 21 7/8" X 17 1/2" Image: 14 15/16" X 11 3/4". very good 1915

John Andrew & Son., 1910. Photograph. very good. [ Cheyenne Type ] A portrait of Wako'yami ("his horse bobtailed") of Northern Cheyenne. Possibly a printer's proof as it lacks identifiers and copyright normally found on bottom edge. Used in : the North American Indian, Vol. 6, Portfolio, as Plate 210. Date of Original 1910 [ Photogravure produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son ]Photogravure on Very Heavy Etching Stock ʺ 22 1/4" X 18 1/16" Image: 15 1/2" X 11 1/16". very good 1910

Salt Lake, Utah: C. W. Carter, Portrait & View Artist. Stereoview. very good. Original 19th Century Stereo view. 6 15/16" X 3 1/2". very good Original Stereo view. "Cheyenne Indians" "Carters Celebrated Indian Stereos"Photographer: Printed logo of C. W. Carter, Portrait & View Artist. Salt Lake, Utah. With small juvenile drawings in pencil on reverse.

Massachusetts: Suffolk Eng. Co., Cambridge Mass., 1927. Photograph. very good. Cheyenne Costume. The North American Indian. Vol. 19, Plate 666. From Copyright Photograph 1927 by E. S. Curtis Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co., Cambridge Mass. Original Photogravure on Dutch Van Gelder : 21 3/4" X 17 15/16" Image: 15 1/2" X 11 1/2". very good 1927

Dublin: Hodges, Smith and Co., 1864. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. [iv],188pp. 16 mo (approximately 15.5cm tall) in original gilt lettered blindstamped brown cloth and pale yellow coated endpapers. Names on front front free endpapers. Not illustrated. Covers slightly mottled. A small pamphlet is included titled"Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends". very good Compiled from extracts from "Sewell's History of the Quakers" interspersed with remarks of the author's. 1864

Suffolk Eng. Co., Cambridge Mass., 1924. Photograph. very good. A Chukchansi Matron. The North American Indian. Vol. 14, Portfolio, Plate 505. From Copyright Photograph 1924 by E. S. Curtis. Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co., Cambridge Mass. Original Photogravure on Dutch Etching Stock, Van Gelder : 22" X 17 5/8" Image: 15 9/16" X 11 3/4". very good 1924

John Andrew & Son, 1915. Photograph. very good. restrike. A Clayoquot TypeThe North American Indian. Intended for Portfolio 11 as Plate 378From Copyright Photograph 1915 by E. S. Curtis. Re-struck Photogravure [John Andrew & Son.]Paper: 21 7/8" X 17 1/2" Image: 15 1/8" X 11 1/4". very good 1915