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New York: Viking Press, 1942. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, 128 pages, beige cloth. Uncommon. Zweig examines why the continents are named America, and not Columbia. It involves the publisher, Martin Waldesmuller. With 12 pages of facsimiles of the period documents.
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Amerigo: A Comedy of Errors in History
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Australia And New Zealand Illustrated
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Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, ( 1922 ). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 8vo; xvii, 381 pages, cloth; x-library with pocket on front map endpapers; dj chipped W. D. Boyce, was a publisher, and the founder of the Boy Scouts of America. Boyce sponsored several exploring expeditions, but this is his account of his own exploration of Austrlia and New Zealand, with many photographs. Boyce signed this as a presentation copy to Amy Robinson.
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The Authentic Letters Of Columbus
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Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, 1895. First edition. printed wrappers. Good. Octavo, pp. 92-200, untrimmed, top cover detaching Eighteen plates of facsimiles of letters by Columbus which had been exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition. Issued as the second publication of the Field Columbian Museum, being Vol. 1, no.2, by the Museum, and edited by the Honorary Curator of the Columbus Memorial. In all, 32 parts, including the Will of Columbus. "Some of his letters have never been printed. Several had never been translated into English until the preparation of this Monograph -p100."
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THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH OVERLAND DIARY 1850-1852: With a biographical sketch and comment on a modern tracing of his overland travel by his grandson Bruce L. McKinstry
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Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clarke Company, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. plates, map. 8vo, 401pp., red cloth; cream dj; unread American Trails Series X. Foreword by Ray Allen Billington. "Diary exceptional on its own account for the thoroughness of overland coverage, penetrating observations of human character and trail geography, and a felicitous literary style. It becomes a classic through interpolations of grandson Bruce, who spent twenty-four seasons retracing every foot of Byron's route - Mattes, 894." [Not in Wagner-Camp, Mintz, or Cowan]. Illustrated with 38 images, mostly photographic supplied by the grandson, and a map.
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THE EPIC OF CHICAGO
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Chicago: Willett, Clark & Co., (1932). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. plates, maps. Octavo, 365pp., brown cloth Actually an expanded version of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard's MEMOIRS, as written by his nephew. Hubbard was the heart & soul of Chicago in the 19th century. Signed by Hamilton on the half-title page.
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FELIX WARREN PIONEER STAGE DRIVER
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Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, ( 1988 ). First edition. Paperback. Fine. photographs. 8vo, 64 pages, white wrappers, upper right corner gently bumped. Warrren's life as based on interviews with him. [ Not in Mattes]. Felix worked as a gyuide for Gen. O. O. Howard. He was a driver for the Walla Walla Stage Line. He owned several stage lines, including while he lived in Alberta, Canada. Photographs.
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Five Fur Traders Of The Northwest: Being the Narrative of Peter Pond, and the Diaries of John MacDonell, Archibald N. McLeod, Hugh Faries, and Thomas Connor
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St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1965. Second printing. Hardcover. Good/good. 8vo, 296 pages, Introduction by Grace Lee Nute, Foreword by Theodore C. Blegen: "Much has happened in the domain of fur-trade history since the narrative and diaries comprising this book were originally published in 1933."
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IN DARKEST AFRICA: or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. 2 volumes
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New York: Scribner's, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 maps in pockets, woodcuts. Octavos, half morocco bindings, marbled boards, all edges gilt, extremities rubbed. Stanley, who found Livingstone, and traversed Lake Victoria Nyanza, and relieved Emin Pasha, was knighted by Queen Victoria. 3 maps in pockets, woodcuts
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Journal Of William Lockerby Sandalwood Trader In The Fijian Islands During The Years 1808-1809: With an Introduction & Other Papers Connected with the Earliest European Visitors to the Islands. Edited by Sir Everard Im Thurn and Leonard C. Wharton
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London: Hakluyt Society, 1925. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. folding map in rear pocket, 3 plates. Octavo; cxi, 250 pages, blue cloth, untrimmed, unopened, head of spine frayed. With, Samuel Patterson's Narrative of the Wreck of the "Eliza" in 1808, Journal of the Missionaries put ashore from the "Hibernia" on an islet in the Fiji Group in 1809, and Captain Richard Siddon's Experience in Fiji in 1809-1815, with Appendices. Issued as vol. 52 in the second series of The Hakluyt Society. Folding map in rear pocket, 3 plates
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Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens: 2 volumes
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vos, blue cloth, x-library with rubber stamp on title-pages, call numbers on spines, otherwise very good, t.e.g. West Pointer Stevens fought in the War with Mexico, ran the U. S. Coastal Survey, was appointed territorial governor of Washington & Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory, was elected to the U.S. Congress, and died commanding troops in the Battle of Chantilly in 1862. Illustrated with maps, plans, and portraits. Hazard Stevens, son of Isaac, also was injured at Chantilly, but later, too, became a general in the army, while being awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians: bearing upon events occurring in my captivity
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Hartford, CT: Mutual Publishing, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, modern green cloth A later issue of the first edition, with a different title-page but printed from the same stereotype plates as the first edition, which was published in Cincinnati in 1871. [ Howes K62 ]. . Mrs. Kelly was captured by Ogalala Sioux in 1864 near Little Box Elder Creek in Wyoming en route via the Oregon Trail to Montana. Her captivity lasted five months. The work also includes a brief account of General Sully's Indian expedition in 1864
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OREGON MISSIONS AND TRAVELS OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN 1845-46
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Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1978. Facsimile edition. Duodecimo. Fine/issued without. engravings, map endpapers. 12mo, 426 pages, original red buckram Reprint of the 1847 edition, with a new Foreword by Edward J. Kowrach. [ See Graff 3829; Wagner-Camp-Becker 141:1; Field 1424; Howes D286; Smith 9556]. Engravings, map endpapers.
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THE ORIGINAL JOURNAL OF CHARLES LARPENTEUR: My Travels to the Rocky Mountains between 1833 and 1872
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Chadron, NB: Museum Association of the Western Frontier, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto; x, [ii], 318 pages, white boards; xmas presentation on recto of free endpaper Some unforgettable adventures in the untamed West, and dealing with the native tribes. "Larpenteur is one of our most important sources of information [re] the fur trade of the Upper Missouri in the 19thC. -Quaife" [Smith 5700; Cuthbertson & Ewers p. 109; Graff 2404; Howes C800; Hubach p. 77; Rader 2204]. "This is the fascinating account of the 1833 Rendezvous and life at Ft. Union from 1834 to 1871 -Cazadessus, 40." Transcribed and annotated by Erwin N. Thompson. Casler was a Park Ranger at Fort Union. With a lengthy section of photographs.
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ROUGHNECKS AND GENTLEMEN
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Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. photos. 8vo, 441 pages, black cloth; tough of waterstain at bottom corner of the lower dj flap. McCracken was an writer and art expert who became the Director of the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum. When he started he was a youth looking for adventure, inspired by Jack London. Nine sections of illustrations.
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Relation or Journall of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation Setled at Plimoth in New England: By certaine English Adventurers both Merchants and others. With their difficuolt passage, their safe arrival, their joyfull building of, and comfortable planting themselves in the now well defended Towne of New Plimoth. A reprint of the rare 1622 edition
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Bolton, England: Prestons Limited, 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo, 87 pages, green boards No. 38 of 2050 copies. Introduction by Michael Marshall. This work is commonly known as Mourt's Relation, altho it is attributed to William Bradford and Edward Winslow.
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Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44.
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Washington DC: Gales and Seaton, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 693 pages, publisher's brown embossed cloth, leaf 503/4 minor loss of paper and half of the final line of text at bottome of page 504, upper right corner dampstained for first quarter of pages, foxed. [ Howes F370; Streeter 3131; Wagner-Camp IV: 115:1; Graff 1436; Field 565; Sabin 25845. Soliday I:861. Rosenbach 32:146. Wheat 497 ]. Important Report by the amazing John C. Fremont, also known as "The Pathfinder". This copy has the 22 plates, and two maps, but lacks the two folding text maps, and lacks the important Preuss map from the rear pocket.
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The Silence of the North
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Crown , 1972. Family Bookshelf edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 209 pages, cloth, inked name on pastedown. Widow Frederickson and two children lived on the frontier near Vanderhoof, British Columbia. This is her account of their struggle to survive with and despite the wild animals, through all hardships and dangers, on a pioneer farm in the Thirties. Photogravures.
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TWO CENTURIES OF FUR-TRADING 1723 - 1923: Romance of the Revillon Family
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[ Paris, FR ]: Revillon, ( 1923 ). First edition. Hardcover. Good. sketches. Quarto, 121 pages, embossed brown cloth, beginning to separate at p.46-47., edgeworn Bicentennial history of the Revillon Freres fur company, active throughout Canada. Extensively illustrated.
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Ten Years A Cowboy: Addenda by Tex Bender, The Cowboy Fiddler
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Chicago: Rhodes & McClure, 1899 . New edition. Hardcover. Good. some plates by C. S. Littlejohn. 12mo, 471pp. plus Section on Teaching The Deaf To Speak, plus publisher's ads; extra extra-silver stamping on top cover and spine, extremities worn, front pastedown floral endpaper scuffed (?); inch tear in bottom margin to page 20. "A cowboy autobiography preceded only by that of Siringo - Howes P500]. A work variously attributed to Post, Tex Bender, and Phil Johnson (hero of Part 1). "Probably the second book written about the cowboy and evidently made the publishers some money, although they were unscrupulous about authorship - RAMPAGING HERD 1819 (also 1181)." Whoever he was, as a cow man, he knew a lot about sheep, and traveling the Great Plains, and, of course, horses. HOWEVER, Wright's AMERICAN FICTION, no. 4352 states the first 358 pages are fiction, but that the section on the Plains is factual. Note: HERD states 14 or 18 plates. I count 34 plates, including the frontispiece and a view of…
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Time of Gifts
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London: John Murray, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, boards.
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