Schleicher County or Eighty Years Of Development In Southwest Texas.
Eldorado, TX: The Eldorado Success, 1930. Original printed wrappers, some browning on top edge, else vg. Herd 1058.
Eldorado, TX: The Eldorado Success, 1930. Original printed wrappers, some browning on top edge, else vg. Herd 1058.
Albuquerque: Horn & Wallace, Publishers, 1961. 152 pp, Near fine hardcover in slightly sun faded, else very good, dust jacket.
Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1969. xii, 156pp, maps. No dj, shelfwear, else very good. Dixon and Meares were sea captains working for competing British fur trading companies. They got cross-ways with each other on an expedition to the northwest coast of North America in 1786-87. This is a reprint of edited.....
NY: R. R. Bowker Company, 1954. 1st ed. x, 656pp. Shelfwear and rubbing, internally clean and very good. This first edition of Howes' bibliography was sold out within sixty days of publication. The later edition has become a basic reference for those who toil in the bookseller's trade. This first.....
London: Trubner & Co., 1865. Second edition. Original stamped boards. Spine faded, some loss of cloth at the top and bottom of the spine. Ex lib consisting of ink numbers on spine and a small bookplate on the front pastedown, else clean and very good. Howse (1774-1852) was a fur.....
Austin: np, 1877. 16pp. Issued in printed wrappers, here bound into quarter leather and marbled boards preserving the front wrap. Wrap slightly soiled pages browned light vertical fold. Hubbard became governor in 1876, serving until 1879. Raines says of him, "Gov. Hubbardd has no superior, perhaps, as an orator in.....
Denver: The Stewart Commission of Colorado College and The Denver Public Library, 1933. xv, 301pp, illus. Slight wear to extremities, owner's bookplate on ffep, else near fine. A group of essential source dcuments about the Santa Fe Trail. Reports and narratives include Pedro Vial, William Becknell, Augustus Storrs, George C......
London: Joseph Downing, 1730. xxxi, 356pp, 2 folding maps. Full leather, hinges expertly reinforced. Pages slightly browned, maps bright. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was an Anglican missionary created in 1701 to restore spirituality to the church in America. The labors of the society.....
Houston: E.H. Cushing, Publisher, 1874. 218pp. Front free end paper missing, boards worn, else very good hardcover.
Denver: NP, 1898. 18 views, each with a tissue guard and most with a paragraph of description (by Frank W Hynes). Square quarto. Original paper wraps. Minor soil and fading to wraps, else near fine The textured paper covers and gold foil title on the front cover make this a......
Baltimoinak (Baltimore): John Murphy, Okimissinakisan,1846.
np: Edgewood Publishing Company, 1897. 512pp, illus, folding map laid in. Slight rubbing to the extremities, gilt titles faded, internally browned, map junctions strengthened, else clean and very good. Significant amounts of gold were discovered in the Klondike district of the Yukon Territory in 1896, enough to spark a major.....
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea &: Blanchard, 1835. 274pp, [12 advts]. Rebound in brown leather w/marbled end papers, fine. First American edition. Irving and his nephew accompanied Indian Commissioner Henry L Ellsworth on a tour of the southern Great Plains in 1833. This is his account of the journey. Irving has been.....
New York: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1918. 100pp, illus, plus 28 pages of advts. Illustrated wrappers. Wraps soiled, title page loose, pages browned. Supposedly an autobiographical account of bootlegging and jail, in fact this consists mostly of bad jokes.
Minden, NE: Pioneer Village, 1958. 1st edition hardcover, some wear and chipping to edges of the dj, else VG. In addition to having a long career as a landscape photographer, William Henry Jackson did oil and watercolor paintings of western scenes as he saw them as a young man. Here.....
Minden, NE: The Harold Warp Pioneer Village, 1958. Very good softcover, illustrated covers, presentation statement on inside front cover.
Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Inc, 1956. Frontis, 427pp. Very good in a worn but complete dj. Reprint of a scare captivity narrative originally published in 1830. Tanner was abducted from his home in 1789 at the age of nine and spent thirty years with the Ojibway, becoming Indian in every.....
Boston: Little, Brown, and Compant, 1906. First edition. Two volumes. xliv, 270pp, illus, folding map; xiv, 271-547pp, illus. Some external wear and soil, spines faded, hinges starting, overall a very good set. The extended title continues, "Including an Account of a Recent Journey made down the Overflow of the Colorado.....
London: The Argonaut Press, 1930. 1 of 525, numbered. xiv, 142pp, illus (2 folding). Quarter vellum over orange cloth. Boards soiled, dusty on top, internally clean and very good. First English translation of an account of an important expedition - the last undertaken by Spain - in search of the.....
Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1837. 264pp, 32 plates (all but 3 hand colored). 16mo (6 4 inches). Half red leather and cloth. Spine faded to brown, some soil and wear to extremities, insect damage to cloth on back board, internally clean and very good. Covers the natural history of all Cetaceans.....
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1978. 1st edition HB, Near fine in sl rubbed dj. Second volume in the Southwest Indian Arts Series. Survey of the jewelry of the three great cultural traditions of the prehistoric southwest: Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi.
NP (Sacremento): NP, ND (1857). 28, 27pp. Disbound, pages browned. Along with the usual department reports and financials, Governor Neely summarizes the events surrounding the Vigilance Committee in San Francisco from May until November of the previous year. In an appendix (27 pages) the report reproduces correspondence and proclamations relating.....
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1963. #53 of 75 numbered and signed copies in special paper and hardcover binding. Near fine. Two ephemeral pieces relating to New Almaden pasted on rear pastedown.
NY: Bonanza Books, 1970. Well illustrated (more than 275 illustrations) 224pp, very good hardcover with very good dust jacket. " A lively record of California's dramatic growth from Stone Age to Space Age."
Sacramento: State Printing Office, 1894. vii, 240pp, illus (including a folding building plan), presentation slip tipped in. Hardcover, extremities worn, some spotting on boards, interior vg.