The Pathfinder.
Orlando, FL: np, 1947. Frontis, 24pp. Signed, good with small chip out of dj. A short biography of John Charles Fremont, but really a paean to the explorer.
Orlando, FL: np, 1947. Frontis, 24pp. Signed, good with small chip out of dj. A short biography of John Charles Fremont, but really a paean to the explorer.
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1966. 1st Arthur H. Clark ed., deckle-edged, as new in original publisher brown paper wrap.
Washington: 30th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Miscellaneous No. 26, 1848. 141pp, two folding maps, folding section. Disbound laid in custom cloth clamshell box. Wislizenus left Independence in May, 1846 traveling as a private citizen. He crossed the Santa Fe Trail and then headed south, ultimately spending six months in Chihuahua.....
NY: Baker and Scribner, 1849. 2nd issue, xvi, 453pp. Original stamped boards, foxing, sl cocked, still a very tight good copy. Wise set sail from Boston in 1846 and in the course of his travels visits South America, Mexico, California and the Sandwich Islands. He arrives in California too late.....
San Francisco: Nueva California Press, 1934. [iv], 124pp, illus, folding map. From an edition of 400 copies, numbered and signed, printed at the Nueva California Press by Lawton Kennedy and Company. Extremities with some soil and rubbing, bookplate on front pastedown, internally clean and very good. Hitherto unpublished letters that.....
Washington: U.S. War Department, 1856. 36, x, vii, 136, 7, 127, vii, 173pp, 3 folding sections, plates (lacking seven). Rebound in cloth. Title page torn with some loss of text, some foxing and browning, else good hardcover. Contains Whipples account of explorations on the 35th parallel, most significant because of.....
Boston: J.P. Peaslee, 1828. Later of many editions. 256pp, 3 plates, one folding. Later half leather and marbled boards. Internally foxed, else very good. Howes says of this, "A well-night worthless production of a seventeen year-old lad which enjoyed wide favor by an uncritical public." We are nothing if not.....
NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904. Seven volumes plus atlas. First trade edition, one of 750 printed. Original red cloth. Spines faded, two volumes with hinges starting, one volume (the atlas) with the hinges cracked, withal a very good set. Note that there are no bookplates and this is not.....
York, England: W. Alexander, 1815. "Second edition, improved." 312pp, 6 plates. 12mo. Plain (i.e. bland) new binding, foxing throughout, generally very good. Sutcliff was a British Quaker who made a number of trips to and through the United States. This account is quite readable and is based on his second.....