Search Results: Authors starting with T from William Reese Company

[San Francisco, 1936. 56pp. plus woodcuts and prints. Original gold-colored wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled. Very good. Periodical of stories about the California gold rush. Featured in this issue: BLACK BART, POETIC BANDIT and twelve stories about the Mother Lode

Montreal: Eusèbe Sénéca, 1869. xiii,245pp. Modern polished calf, gilt, a.e.g. Internally clean. A near fine, handsome copy. Account of missionary work of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in western Canada between 1845 and 1866. Alexandre-Antonin Taché settled at the Red River Mission in 1845 and was named second bishop of St. Boniface in 1853. VINGT ANNÉES... is a revealing look at conditions around Fort Garry in the years before the Confederation, and immediately before the Red River Rebellion of 1869, which Taché helped quell. LANDE 1471. PEEL (3) 472. TPL 4540.

Montreal: Eusèbe Sénéca, 1866. 245pp. in French. Half title. Original printed wrappers. Minor chipping to spine and extremities of wrappers, ink notations and faint ink stamp on front cover. Good. Account of missionary work of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in western Canada between 1845 and 1866. Alexandre-Antonin Taché settled at the Red River Mission in 1845 and was named second bishop of St. Boniface in 1863. VINGT ANNÉES... is a revealing look at conditions around Fort Garry in the years before the Confederation, and immediately before the Red River Rebellion of 1869, which Taché helped quell. LANDE 1471. PEEL 213. TPL 4540

Montreal, 1888. 238pp. plus plates. Half title. Frontis. Large octavo. Original elaborately gilt cloth, a.e.g. Cloth worn and sunned, prize bookplate. Internally quite good. Second edition, after the first of 1866. An account of missionary activity in Canada from 1845 to 1865, covering the work of Tache and others among the Indians, mostly in the Red River region.

New York, 1953. xvii,[5],400pp. plus plates. Facsimiles. Cloth. About fine. In slightly chipped dust jacket. An indispensable reference, covering artists such as Remington, Möllhausen, and Alfred Mathews. DYKES, REMINGTON 1039.

Topeka, 1948. Offprint, paginated 113-135 plus plates. Pictorial wrappers. Light dust-soiling to wrappers, else near fine. First separate edition of the constituent chapters of THE PICTORIAL RECORD OF THE OLD WEST, each chapter issued as author's offprints from the THE KANSAS HISTORICAL QUARTERLY.

Lima, 1824. xx,39pp. Dbd. Small stain on titlepage, minor scattered foxing, else very good. Defense published by Jose Bernardo de Tagle, Marques de Torre-Tagle, after being ousted from the presidency of Peru. Tagle was the second president of Peru, in office only from August 1823 to February 1824, at which point he was accused of conspiring with the royalist faction and removed from office by Simón Bolívar. Fewer than ten copies in OCLC. MEDINA, LIMA 3786.

Bristol, R.I.: The Eastern Publishing Company, [1882].. 134pp., printed in double columns. Small quarto. Original black cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Cloth a bit faded and rubbed. Front hinge weak, first three leaves beginning to loosen, scattered light foxing. Very good. The peculiar third-person autobiography of a habitual gambler and self-styled "sporting man" turned temperance orator from Bristol, Rhode Island. The author relates the events of his life to date in florid and effusively self-congratulatory fashion, including his schooling at Philips Exeter, his start with sports betting in New York, traveling to New Orleans and playing faro in a Pullman car, and every other type of betting imaginable up and down the Mississippi. Much of the action takes place in Louisiana and New Orleans, with descriptions of a Mardi Gras ball, cockfighting, billiards parlors, card games, and more. Talbot describes being struck with the temperance spirit after losing his fortune and listening to Dr. Reynolds… Read More

Portland, Or, 1931. x,[2],153pp. Quarto. Original blue cloth. Front cover bit dusty, else very good. Prints the journals of this Kentucky native, who accompanied John C. Fremont on his 1843 western expedition and participated in a military expedition to Oregon in 1849-52. HOWES T13

London, 1865. Twelve issues, with three plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Modern calf, gilt spine label. Spine extremities slightly worn, spine label chipped. Light foxing and tanning. Nearly very good. "Tallack travelled from San Francisco to San Diego, and then by stage through the Southwest to the western terminus of the railroad at Syracuse, Missouri, nearly one hundred miles west of Saint Louis" - Wagner- Camp. Printed in a periodical containing several travel accounts, including a narrative to the gold fields in British Columbia, called "To Cariboo and Back," and a description of Native American life in Oregon. Tallack's narrative is contained in four of the twelve issues bound in this volume. WAGNER-CAMP 425.

Philadelphia: Moreau de St. Mery, 1797. 50pp. Dbd. Slight wear at bottom of title-leaf, else very good. First edition in English, after the original publication in French the same year, also from the press of Moreau de St. Mery. Written at the time of the highest tension between France and the U.S. over interference in American trade - the "Quasi-War" - the author argues that the U.S. is not being fair to France and is leaning too far toward England. HOWES T21. EVANS 32905.

Philadelphia, 1847.. Folding handcolored pocket map, 24 1/2 x 30 1/4 inches. In original 12mo. gilt cloth folder. Minor rubbing and soiling to cloth cover. A few small tears and losses at several folds. Minor toning and foxing, some faint offsetting. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell box, spine gilt. The fourth edition of Tanner's important map of Mexico, after the first of 1825 which was taken from his 1822 "Map of North America." The map shows all of Mexico and the majority of the American Southwest, with insets providing a "Table of Distances," a "Statistical Table," and a map of roads from Vera Cruz to Alvarado. This edition is modified only slightly from the third edition, second issue (1846), which played an important and controversial role in the war with Mexico and conflicting claims to territory near San Diego. "Finally, H.S. Tanner published the 'Fourth Edition 1847' and the 'Fifth Edition 1847' of his Map of Mexico. An insert of the harbor of Vera Cruz has been added, but in… Read More

New York: Henry S. Tanner, 1846.. Folding handcolored pocket map, 31 x 24 3/4 inches, tipped into original 12mo. cloth folder. Cloth sunned. Minor foxing on pastedowns. Slight staining from adhesive at cover. A few small holes at corner folds, else nicely intact. Color quite bright and clean. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt. Third edition, second issue, after the first of 1825. Each of these editions and issues was revised, and this is generally considered the most important. The map shows all of Mexico and the majority of the American Southwest, with insets providing a "Table of Distances," a "Statistical Table," and a map of roads from Vera Cruz to Alvarado. Taken from his 1822 "Map of North America," Tanner's present effort would play a controversial role in the war with Mexico and conflicting claims to territory near San Diego, here placed soundly within the United States. In the first issue, the southern boundary of California was placed further south than… Read More

Philadelphia: Published by Henry S. Tanner, 1829.. Engraved map, handcolored in outline, in sections backed on linen. Sheet size: 50 x 63 inches. Engraved by H.S. Tanner, assisted by E.B. Dawson, W. Allen, and J. Knight, with integral decorative title vignette after J.W. Steel. The map is surrounded by numerous small panels including two extensions to the area covered by the map, six more-detailed maps of environs of various eastern cities, eight city plans, a number of elevation profiles of railroads and waterways, and two tables of statistics. Rebacked on linen, expertly conserved by the Green Dragon Bindery. Silk lining edges. Lightly and evenly toned. A very nice copy. In a modern half morocco portfolio, stamped in gilt. The first edition of Tanner's spectacular and very beautiful large-scale map from "the Golden Age of American Mapmaking." The 1829 first edition of this map is described by Rumsey as "one of the best early large maps of the United States and the premier map for its period"… Read More

Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1864.. viii,112pp. 16mo. Original cloth. Binding stained, head of spine chipped and damaged, front board detached with front free endpaper and half title. Ownership inscriptions and stamp on front free endpaper, light tanning and soiling to lower corner throughout. About good. Interesting war-time publication on poisons, intended to help physicians detect "symptoms due to the villainous administration of deadly drugs." Includes sections on arsenic, mercury, lead, vegetable and animal irritants, opium, chloroform, alcohol, narcotic gases, tobacco, hemlock, venomous and rabid animals, etc. According to the titlepage this Philadelphia edition is "From the last London edition."

Helsinki, 1942. 83pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor soiling to spine. Internally very clean. Very good. An alphabetical list of bibliographic resources on Labrador. Reprinted from Acta Geographica Fenniæ.

Boston: Manning & Loring, 1798. 28pp. Dbd. Some foxing. Titlepage loose. Good. Graduation speech by David Tappan to Harvard graduates. Typical inspirational aphorisms, with a special emphasis on religion. "But the main instructions...is a lesson in favor of religion, especially of Christianity." EVANS 34629

Washington, 1824. 12pp. Modern half cloth and marbled boards, leather label. Very good. The first proposal for the building of a road to the Pacific Ocean by the federal government. The author advocates the construction of the road to open agricultural land, improve the fur trade, extend the Santa Fe trade, and establish the United States on the Pacific. With federal aid, Tarascon proposed to create the Missouri and Columbia Road Company, with many grandiose schemes written into its charter. GRAFF 4067. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 18939.

1832. 45pp. Dbd. Darkened. Good. Memorial from a convention of New York merchants to Congress whose "leading object...is to pray your honorable body to to continue the duties on imported foreign articles which were intended for the protection of domestic manufactures...."

London, 1787.. vii,[1],518pp. (including errata) plus one folding map with routes marked by hand in color, and four folding plans, with positions and troop movements marked by hand in colors. Quarto. Contemporary tree calf, recased with original gilt spine and board leather laid down, leather label. Some edge wear. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown, modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Light dampstain in bottom corner and outer margin of some leaves. Very good. A standard work concerning the southern campaigns of the American Revolution. Tarleton, the commander of a Tory cavalry unit, the British Legion, served in America from May 1776 through the siege of Yorktown. He was infamous for his brutal tactics and hard-riding attacks. His narrative is one of the principal British accounts of the Revolution, notable for his use of original documents, a number of which are included as notes following the relevant chapters. The handsome maps and plans include "The Marches of Lord Cornwallis in the… Read More