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Summer - Fall Auctions, 2013
July 25, 2013 - Historic Autographs & Manuscripts with Archival Material
August 8, 2013 - Fine Books in All Fields: Literature - Illustrated Books - Oz
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Front Cover: Lot 253
Back Cover: Clockwise from upper left: Lots 110, 457, 435, 137
Bond # 14425383

Section I: Americana – Books, Manuscripts, Photographs & Ephemera, Lots 1-225
Section II: Asian-American History, Lots 226-280
Section III: Travel & Exploration, including South Sea from Richard Topel
Library, Lots 281-430
Section IV: Maps, Prints & Views, Lots 431-468
Section I: Americana
1. (Almanack) Freebetter, Edmund [attributed to Nathan Daboll]. The New-England Almanack,
and Gentlemen & Ladies Diary, for the Year of Our Lord Christ, 1789...Fitted to the meridian of New-London.
[24] pp. (12mo) self wrappers, stitched. First Edition.
New-London: T. Green, [1788]
Rare 18th century American Almanack, WorldCat locates only 3 copies. Some soiling to outer
leaves, stain to lower corner throughout, edge wear; very good.
(150/250)
RARE EARLY AMERICAN BROADSIDE
REGARDING SEAMEN SEIZED BY FOREIGN POWERS
2. (American Imprints - Broadside) Olney, Jeremiah. Extract from the Act of Congress, Passed the 28th day
of May, 1796, Entitled “An Act for the Relief and Protection of American Seamen.”. Broadside, approximately
32.5x20.5 cm (12¾x8”).
[Providence]: 1796
Signed at the close by Jeremiah Olney, Collector
of revenue at Providence. Includes sections 5
& 6 of the compete act concerning American
seamen detained or seized by any foreign
power_. An apparent unrecorded variant of this
rare broadside, this issue not matching either
of the two Providence printings described by
Evans. Evans 31337 is described as having the
first line ending with “28th” and with Section
5 containing 19 lines of text and with Section
6 containing 13 lines of text. Evans 31338 has
the first line ending “of May” and the sections
having 13 and 11 lines of text respectively. The
present copy has the first line ending “28th”
and with Section 5 containing 21 lines of
text and Section 6 containing 14 lines of text.
Creased once vertically and thrice horizontally,
small holes at the intersections of folds, short
splits at folds, light foxing, some offsetting; very
good.
(1000/1500)
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3. (American Imprints) The Clerk’s Magazine: Containing the most useful and necessary forms of writings, which
commonly occur between man and man...calculated for the use of the citizens of the United States. [iv], 309, [5], +[6]
ad pp. (12mo) 17x10 cm (6¾x4”) period full calf, red morocco spine label. Third Edition.
Albany: Websters and Skinner, [c.1806]
Includes the Constitutions of the United States and of New York and various other important
Acts. First published in 1803. Some wear and scuffing to leather; paper browned; very good.
(150/250)
4. (American Imprints) [Wirt, William]. The Letters of the British Spy. Originally published in the Virginia
Argus, in August and September, 1803. 88 pp. (8vo) 21.5x12.7 cm. (8½x5”), period calf. Second Edition.
Richmond: Samuel Pleasants, Junior, December, 1803
“It was in 1803 that Wirt began his literary career by publishing the first of ‘The Letters of
the British Spy’ in the Richmond Argus. They came out anonymously and were supposed to
be the contemporary observations of an English traveler upon Virginian society and other
miscellaneous topics. The authorship was at once recognized, and the letters had an enormous
popularity, going through numerous editions within a few years.” (DAB) Howes W585. Covers
detached, backstrip lacking; browned and foxed throughout.
(100/150)
5. (American Journal of Science and Arts) The American Journal of Science and Arts - Collection of 42
numbers in 26 volumes. 42 issues, comprising:
* First Series. Volume 23, Number 1. 1832.
* Volume 49, Number 2. 1845.
* Second Series, Volume 1, Numbers 1, 2, & 3. 1846.
* Volume 2, Numbers 4 & 6. 1846.
* Volume 3, Number 9. 1847.
* Volume 4, Numbers 10, 11, & 12 in a single volume. 1847.
* Volume 5, Numbers 12, 14, & 15 in a single volume. 1848.
* Volume 6, Numbers 16, 17, 18 in a single volume. 1848.
* Volume 7, Number 19. Front wrapper torn and lacking a piece. 1849.
* Volume 10, Numbers 28 & 30. 1850.
* Volume 18, Numbers 52, 53, 54 in a single volume. 1854. Volume 20, Numbers 58, 59, 60 in a
single volume. 1855.
* Volume 21, Number 62. 1856.
* Volume 23, Number 69. 1857.
* Volume 30, Number 90. Rear wrapper lacking. 1860.
* Volume 32, Numbers 94, 95, 96 in a single volume. Rear wrapper lacking. 1861.
* Volume 33, Numbers 98 & 99. 1862.
* Volume 35, Number 105. 1863.
* Volume 37, Numbers 109, 110, 111 in a single volume. 1864.
* Volume 38, Number 114. Lacking part of front wrapper. 1864.
* Volume 43, Numbers 127, 128, 129 in a single volume. 1867.
Together 42 numbers in 26 volumes. All in the original paper wrappers.
New Haven: 1832-1867
A significant gathering of this important American journal of the arts and sciences. . Five of
the issues bear the ownership signature of Hon. Josiah Quincy, Jr. Quincy was a Federalist
congressman from Massachusetts, Mayor of Boston, and President of Harvard University.
Condition varies, all with some wear to wrappers; overall very good.
(500/800)
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AMERICAN COLONIALS TAKE UP ARMS, 1775
6. (American Revolution) A Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North America, now
met in General Congress at Philadelphia, Setting Forth the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms [in The
New-England Chronicle: Or, The Essex Gazette, Volume VII, Number 365]. 4 pp. Bifolium. Approximately
39x25 cm (15½x9¾”). Custom blue calf folder, lettered in gilt.
Cambridge: Samuel and Ebenezer Hall, July 21-27, 1775
The Declaration of the Causes and
Necessities of Taking Up Arms was
issued by the Second Continental
Congress on July 6, 1775 to explain why
the Thirteen Colonies had taken up
arms in what had become the American
Revolutionary War. The final draft of
the Declaration was written by John
Dickinson, who incorporated language
from an earlier draft by Thomas
Jefferson. The Declaration describes
what the colonists viewed as the
unconstitutional efforts of the British
Parliament to extend its jurisdiction
into the colonies following the Seven
Years’ War. Objectionable policies
include taxation without representation,
extended use of vice admiralty courts,
the several Coercive Acts, and the
Declaratory Act. The Declaration
describes how the colonists had, for
ten years, repeatedly petitioned for the
redress of their grievances, only to have
their pleas ignored or rejected by the
British government. Even though British
troops have been sent to enforce these
unconstitutional acts, the Declaration
insists that the colonists do not yet seek
Lot 6
independence from the mother country.
They have taken up arms “in defence of
the Freedom that is our Birthright and which we ever enjoyed until the late Violation of it”, and
will “lay them down when Hostilities shall cease on the part of the Aggressors”. Some wear at
edges, early owner’s name (Daniel Killam, Wenham); foxing; near fine.
(2000/3000)
7. (Arizona) Album with approx. 47 silver photographs of scenes in Arizona. About 20 of the photographs
are approx.9.5x11.5 cm. (3¾x4¾”),. others smaller, laid down in black leaves in an album 14x17.5 cm.
(5½x7”), wrappers with “Photographs” printed in white on front cover.
Arizona: c.1904
Captivating photograph album recording a trip in Arizona in 1904, some original snapshots,
some purchased commercial views. About 11 have typed captions on slips beneath the
images, and on the inside of the front wrapper is a typed notice: “Souvenir of a trip in the
White Mountains of Arizona. Left Phoenix, July 5, arrived in Phoenix on return August 8,
1904. Covered about 500 miles with wagon and pack train.” Among the photographs are:
“Government road on Apache Reservation”; “Toronto Dam Site”’; “Cliff Dwellings”; “Camp
on Diamond Creek in White Mountains”; “Apache Squaw and burden basket”; “Apache Basket
Makers”; and more. Six of the photographs show Apache Indians. Some images with marginal
fading or silvering; very good.
(600/900)
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RARE NEWSPAPER PRINTING OF ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, 1778
8. (Articles of Confederation) Articles of Confederation [in the Continental Journal and Weekly Advertiser].
4 pp. Bifolium. Approximately 39x25.5 cm (15¼x10”). Custom red and black cloth folder, lettered
in gilt.
Boston: John Gill, January 22, 1778
The Articles of Confederation was
first printed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
(where Congress was then meeting as
Philadelphia was under British occupation
at the time). It was issued in Lancaster as
a pamphlet, as well as in John Dunlap’s
Pennsylvania Packet and within a pocket
almanack from Dunlap’s Lancaster press;
state printings of the Articles were issued
shortly thereafter. Priority of these
contemporary pamphlet, newspaper,
and broadside issues has not been
established. This January 22, 1778 issue
of the Continental Journal published
in Boston by John Gill was likely issued
at the same time as a 16-page pamphlet
edition, also from his press. The Articles
of Confederation, formally the Articles
of Confederation and Perpetual Union,
was an agreement among the 13 founding
states that established the United
States of America as a confederation
of sovereign states and served as its
first constitution. Its drafting by the
Continental Congress began in mid-1776,
and an approved version was sent to the
states for ratification in late 1777. The
formal ratification by all 13 states was
not completed until early 1781. A gentle
Lot 8
horizontal crease through both leaves,
some light edge wear; near fine.
(5000/8000)
9. (Automobiles) Official Catalog Program of the Twenty-Third Annual Pacific Automobile Show. 32 pp.
Numerous advertisements. 23.5x15 cm. (9¼x6”), original pictorial wrappers.
San Francisco: [Guaranty Ptg.], 1938
Program for one of the leading automobile shows on the West Coast. The entertainment
was provided by Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees, “appear[ing] daily at matinee and
evening performances,” and a picture of the band leader is on the front wrapper. OCLC/
WorldCat lists single copies of the programs for 1924, 1930 and 1937, but none for 1938. The
whole with vertical crease, very good.
(150/250)
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10. (Aviation - 1938 Curtiss-Wright Aviation Mechanics School) Curtiss-Wright Technical
Institute. “With Wings and Courage” [promotional booklet]. 40 pp. Original blue wrappers, silver and red
crest on front cover.
Los Angeles, CA: Grand-Central Air Terminal, [c.1938]
Headed by a former Air Corps Major and boasting that the Institute was “the only school
in the West approved by and giving mechanics training to the U.S. Army Air Corps”, this
booklet offers general information for prospective students about the Institute’s history and
management, training policy, and special Curriculum for Master Mechanics and Aeronautical
Engineers. Inserted in the back is an unused Application for Registration which states: “The
management reserves the right to refuse entrance to any one not acceptable. Applications by
persons of the Negro race will not be accepted.” Five years would pass before the US Air Corps
accepted the African-American pilots of Tuskegee. Scattered yellow spots on wrappers, front
wrapper sunned; contents clean; very good.
(100/150)
11. (Aviation) Schroeder, R.W. Autograph Letter Signed - 1919 US Army Air Service’s Chief Test Pilot.
2pp.+ original mailing envelope.
Dayton, OH: Oct. 18, 1919
To Chester Bohn (Bell Telephone engineer), Chicago: “…I am still at the flying game as you can
see and trying to [do] something unusual or something that the other fellows have not done…I
wrote to Bill and tried to get him to enlist in my squadron and he was to tell you to join also
before being drafted, and I never heard a word from either of you. However, Bill always was
wild and careless so I did not feel bad about it. Yes I was in the New York-Toronto Race. I won
first prize $2,500 also the American Flying Club Trophy and the Government Reliability Race,
but the only thing I got out of it was a gold watch. I have been doing some experimental work
with a super-charged Liberty motor. I can maintain full H.P. up to 22,000 feet. I have been up to
37,000 feet with a passenger…I am sure I will be able to reach 40,000 true Altitude by myself
before long. 31,800 feet is the world’s Record for height with a pass. I am in charge of all test
experimental flying for the Government and have been for about a year and a half. They froze
me out of the trans-continental race by not sending me a entry blank in time. I have a machine
here that will make 152 m.p.h. and they were afraid of me, but just wait, I’ll get at ‘em yet…”
After working as a chauffeur and a telephone employee, Rudolph William Schroeder became an
airplane mechanic before enlisting as a pilot in the US Army Corps, soon breaking all records
for “looping the loop” 39 times in his flying machine. The 34 year-old Major went on to win the
One Man World Altitude Record in 1920 and later became an Aviation Engineer with his own
aircraft development company in Illinois. Creasing from folding; very good.
(150/250)
12. Bancroft, Aaron. Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Army Through
the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United States. xii, 560 pp. (8vo) modern half calf and
marbled boards by Bayntun Riviere. First English Edition.
London: John Stockdale, 1808
Bancroft was Pastor of the Congregational Church at Worcester. Scarce, no copies of this
English edition have appeared at auction in at least 30 years. Like foxing; very good in a fine
modern binding.
(300/500)
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BANKCROFT’S WORKS IN TREE CALF
13. Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. 39 volumes. (8vo) original full tree
calf, spines gilt, red and green labels, all edges gilt.
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Company, 1883-1890
Lot 13
“Colossal co-operative undertaking; nothing approaching it has ever been attempted in this
country.” (Howes). “[Bancroft’s] History of California is the best extant for it contains more
material about the state’s past than any other historian has succeeded in amassing.” (Zamorano
80). Howes B91; Zamorano Eighty 3. From the library of forty-niner James Brown Zumwalt,
with his name in gilt on a black label at the foot of each spine. Spines sunned, spine ends
chipped on a few volume, one volume (5) with front board detached; very good and an
impressive shelf presence, one of the most attractively bound sets of this work to have passed
through these galleries.
(3000/5000)
14. Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume XVIII-XXIV. History of
California. 7 volumes. (8vo) original brown cloth, dust jackets.
Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, [1963]
Facsimile reprint of the 1886 first edition of Bancroft’s important history of California. With
an introduction by Edmund G. Brown, then governor of California. A touch of wear to jackets;
fine.
(300/500)
15. Barneby, W. Henry. Life and Labour in the Far, Far West: Being Notes of a Tour in the Western
States, British Columbia, Manitoba, and the North-West Territory. xvi, 432 pp. With a large folding color
lithographed map in pocket at rear. (8vo)(8vo) original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and black, top
edge gilt. First Edition.
London: Cassell & Company, 1884
Barneby traveled by train across the United States to San Francisco, with stops in Salt Lake
City and Sacramento, then a side trip to Yosemite and down to Los Angeles before heading
to the Northwest and Canada. The large, detailed map shows all but the southern portion
of the American West, and much of western Canada, and indicates the major routes of the
railroads. This copy without the folding lithograph facsimile, issued later and thus not present
in all copies. Flake 305; Graff 187. Foxing to fore edge of page block, small tear to front free
endpaper; near fine.
(300/500)
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16. Beechey, F[rederick] W[illiam]. An Account of a Visit to California 1826-’27. Introduction by
Edith M. Coulter. Illustrated with 4 color reproductions of watercolors by William Smyth and one
map of the San Francisco Bay by F.W. Beechey. (4to), vellum-backed red cloth, spine gilt, green paper
dust jacket. One of 350 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, [1941]
There were also copies bound in linen-backed patterned boards, priority undetermined.
“Interesting account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American Conquest...” - Howes
B309; Grabhorn 354; BCC 60. Fine.
(200/300)
17. Bell, Major Horace. Reminiscences of a Ranger - Second and Third Editions. 2 editions, each in the
original cloth bindings, with dust jackets. Second and Third Editions.
Santa Barbara / Los Angeles: Wallace Hebberd / Primavera Press, 1927 / 1933
The second edition is in gilt decorated green cloth with both the original glassine jacket and the
printed red paper jacket. The third edition includes the rare original printed dust jacket which
was withdrawn at the request of Bell’s descendants. Second edition jacket with slight fading,
one short tear to bottom edge of front panel, minor wear to glassine; still fine. Third edition
with some chipping to jacket, price clipped from front flap; volume fine.
(300/500)
18. Bieber, Ralph P. & LeRoy R. Hafen, editors. The Southwest Historical Series. 12 volumes. Illustrated
with plates from engravings, lithographs, photographs and other early sources; folding maps. Red
cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edge gilt.
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1931-1943
Important set reprinting (and in some cases the first printings of) original accounts of the
Southwest, including Adventures in the Santa Fe Trade, 1844-1847 by James Josiah Webb;
Eugene Blandel’s Frontier Life in the Army, 1854-1861; George R. Gibson’s Journal of a Soldier
Under Kearny and Doniphian, 1846-1847; Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail by Lewis H. Garrard;
plus letters and diaries of the overland trail to California in 1849, journals of army exploration
in New Mexico & Arizona, accounts of the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush, etc. The first major series
after the publisher’s move to Glendale, California, from Cleveland. An assembled set, varying
wear, fading, etc.; Volumes 10 and 11 are ex-library copies; overall very good.
(500/800)
19. Bolton, Herbert Eugene, translator & editor. Font’s Complete Diary: A Chronicle of the Founding
of San Francisco. xx, 552 pp. Folding map. (8vo), original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.
Berkeley: University of California, 1931
“Font left both a short official account and this elaboration of it. Both were incorporated in
Bolton’s Anza’s California expeditions, 1930.” Howes B585. Bookplate, clipped booksellers’
catalog entries tipped to front endpaper; very good.
(150/200)
20. Bolton, Herbert Eugene. Fray Juan Crespi: Missionary Explorer on the Pacific Coast, 1769-1774. 402
pp. (8vo) blue cloth. First Edition.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1927
Crespi came to America in 1749 and accompanied explorers Francisco Palóu and Junípero Serra
on their explorations of California. In 1769 he joined the expedition of Gaspar de Portolà and
traveled by land, while Father Serra accompanied the mission supplies aboard ship and arrived
8 days later to occupy Monterey. Cowan p.60; Howes B586. A bit of light wear, bookplate
removed from front endpaper; near fine.
(150/200)
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21. Braly, John Hyde. Memory Pictures: An Autobiography. [iv], 263, [4] pp. (8vo) original pictorial
brown boards backed in brown linen, spine gilt lettered. First Edition.
[Los Angeles]: [For the Author], [1912]
Braly and his family followed the Oregon Trail in 1847, and he led an interesting life all over
California. Kurutz: “On July 1 (1849), he settled in Frémont,...With teams of oxen he freighted
supplies to Nevada City and Grass Valley.. “ Cowan, p. 69; Graff 390. Light wear to extremities,
small duplicate stamp from the Huntington Library on rear endpaper, bookseller’s notes in
pencil on front endpaper; very good.
(200/300)
22. (Brand Books) Four volumes of The Westerners Brand Book. Includes:
* The Westerners Brand Book, Volume III, 1946-47. Signed by 30 editors, members, etc. Green
cloth.
* The Westerners Brand Book. 1947. Brown cloth.
* The Westerners Brand Book. 1948. Pictorial cloth.
* The Westerners Brand Book. Book 6. 1956. Cloth, dj.
Together 4 volumes.
All with some light wear; overall very good.
Los Angeles: Various dates
(300/500)
23. (Brown, G.T., lithographer) I.O.O.F. Grand Lodge of Oregon - charter certificate for Canyon City chapter.
Lithographed charter, the central text surrounded with vignettes and symbols, filled out in ink. Signed
by the Master and the Secretary. 60.5x48 cm. (23¾x18¾”).
San Francisco: G.T. Brown & Co., 1868
Ornate charter certificate for the Odd Fellows lodge in Grant County, Oregon, an excellent
example of the lithography of Grafton Tyler Brown, the first African-American lithographer
and professional artist in California. Brown immigrated to California in the 1850s from
Harrisburg, Penn., when he was 20 years old, and was trained in lithography at the famous
firm of Kuchel & Dresel in San Francisco. He bought their firm in 1867 and renamed it G.
T. Brown, Lithographers. This certificate was printed in 1868, and then was filled out in ink
in 1899, to replace the original which was destroyed by fire, as noted in a neat ink notation at
bottom. Light stain at center, a few short edge tears repaired on verso, very good condition.
(300/500)
24. Bruff, J. Goldsborough. Gold Rush: The Journals, Drawings and other Papers. 2 volumes. Edited by
Georgia Willis Read and Ruth Gaines. Foreword by F.W. Hodge. Illustrated with plates from sketches
and drawings by Bruff. (8vo), cloth-backed boards, spines lettered in gilt. First Edition.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1944
“Detailed journals and drawings of a trained draughtsman and engineer, who resigned his army
commission and traveled from Washington, D.C., to the diggings...” - Wheat, who applauds
the “scholarly editing” by Read and Gaines. Howes calls it the “most elaborate of overland
narratives.” Bruff organized and commanded a party of sixty-six men called the Washington
City and California Mining Association, leaving the nation’s capital on April 2, 1849, and arriving
at the Feather River on November 1 of that year. The overland journey is covered in the first
volume, his experiences in the mines in the second. Howes R91; Kurutz 93a; Mattes 377; Mintz
64; Rocq 15724; Wheat Gold Rush 25. Lacking slipcase; clipped entries from booksellers’
catalogs tipped to front endpaper; very good.
(200/300)
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25. (Buffalo Bill) Buffalo-Bill: le Heros du Far-West. Nos. 77-100. Bound volume of 24 issues. 25.5x20
cm (10x8”), modern calf-backed boards, red leather spine label.
Paris: A. Eichler, [c.1900]
The French edition of the serially issued Buffalo Bill’s Heroes of the Far West. Original color
wrappers bound in. Light wear to binding; paper browned; very good.
(200/300)
26. Bynum, Lindley, Transcribed and Edited by. The Record Book Rancho Santa Ana del Chino. 55 pp.
Tipped in frontispiece. (8vo) wrappers.
Los Angeles: Printed and bound by Vocational Printing Classes of John C. Fremont High School,
June 1935
Crudely bound, text bock is detached from wrappers, some chipping to wrappers, some tearing
at spine; very good.
(80/120)
27. (Calendar) Calendar with bas-relief image of a soldier and his love. Promotional calendar for the Albert
Mackie Grocer Co., Ltd. of New Orleans with bas-relief illustration of molded ivory paper on a dark
green background. Bas-relief approximately 11¼x6½”, mounted to stiff card with grocer’s name in
gilt at top and small calendar (complete) affixed below. Overall 15½x10¾”.
St. Louis: National Chemigraph Co., 1900
The image, reminiscent of the style of John Rogers, shows a uniformed soldier, with pack
and rifle, embracing his love, with the motto “From Love to War” on the pedestal below. The
manufacturer’s label on the rear with instruction for lighting. Mount worn at edges, small stain
from tape residue; very good.
(300/500)
28. (California - Beverly Hills) Wagner, Rob. “We are Sitting on the Top of the World” - Leaflet. 1927
Charlie Chaplin’s Left-Wing Publicist in Beverly Hills. “We Are Sitting on the Top of the World”. 1 page
leaflet/broadside, 5x9”. With original mailing envelope from “The Fairplay Institute”, Los Angeles.
Postmarked Jan. 4, 1927. Addressed to Harry C. Frank, Delaware, Ohio.
Beverly Hills: Beverly Hills Citizen, 1927
Apparently issued to accompany the Beverly Hills “float” that won First Prize in the Rose
Parade of 1927 (8000 yellow and pink roses “massed in perfumed counterfeit of the Terrestrial
sphere”). Wagner humorously describes “shaded drives and beautiful homes wherein shine
all the brightest stars of Movieland”, with “two swimming pools to every bible”, but minus
the “glue factories, lovely sewers, ridiculous building permits and other ‘advantages’” of the
surrounding “adolescent village” of Los Angeles. Wagner, an ardent Socialist, was a former
newspaper artist and Paris-trained portrait painter who settled in Los Angeles in 1909, taught
high school classes to a young Frank Capra, wrote about the infant film industry for the
Saturday Evening Post, and became the close friend and publicist of Charlie Chaplin, whom
he introduced to leftist friends like Upton Sinclair. In 1929, Wagner founded his own literary
magazine, “Script”, which pioneered intellectual film criticism and was often called the “West
Coast New Yorker”, its contributors including Chaplin, Sinclair, Will Rogers, Edgar Rice
Burroughs – and later Louis L’Amour and Ray Bradbury. A very rare ephemeral imprint. Very
good.
(150/250)
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RARE CIVIL WAR RECRUITMENT BROADSIDE FOR IOWA HILL, CALIFORNIA, 1861
29. (California - Civil War Recruitment Broadside, Iowa Hill) Varnum, J.B. Attention Company! Having
been authorized by Hon. E.H. Vandecar, County Judge of Placer Co., to enroll a Company under the State Militia
Law to be located at Iowa Hill, I hereby give notice that a Book is now open for the enrollment of members at Carrier’s
Hotel... Printed broadside. 24.5x40.5 cm. (9¾x15¾”).
Iowa Hill, CA: Sept. 28, 1861
Rare recruitment poster for a
company of volunteers being
raised at the Gold Rush town of
Iowa Hill, sometimes referred to
as Iowa City, in the early period
of the Civil War. There are two
ink corrections to the broadside,
the day of the first meeting for
election of officers changed from
Saturday to Wednesday evening,
the date from the 9th to the 12th
of October. No copies listed in
OCOC/WorldCat. One small
hole caused from the heavy ink
Lot 29
obliterating Wednesday, two other
ink blots; very good.
(5000/8000)
30. (California - Earthquake) Four issues of the Santa Cruz Surf from April, 1906. Four isses, April, 18,
19, 20, & 21, 1906.
Santa Cruz: April, 1906
Issues from the day of, and the 3 days following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Headlines proclaim: “An Earthquake. The Most Severe and Extensive That Ever Visited
California.” “...Fire Raging in San Francisco...”, “...Business District of the City Entirely Wiped
Out and the Flames Still Spreading...”, “Silver Lining to the Cloud”. Worn at edges and splitting
at folds, paper browned and with some chips and tears; good.
(400/600)
31. (California - Lake Tahoe) Law, Dr. Hartland. Letter from President of Lake Taho Protective Association
- 1917 First Lake Tahoe Conservation Movement. Printed Letter Signed (in type) as President of Lake
Tahoe Protective Association. 4pp. + 1-page document to be filled out by a Lake Tahoe property
owner.
San Francisco: Nov. 14, 1917
To Mrs. R.L.Stephans, Sacramento, with original mailing envelope. Concerns a contract with the
US Department of the Interior, fixing the levels of the surface of Lake Tahoe in opposition
to “Power Companies” and the US Reclamation Service which proposed to raise the water
level “to such heights as to imperil the structures, piers and building on the lake front”, or to
lower the Lake rim, resulting in “unsightly exposures of shore line during the season when
the lake was most in use by residents and visitors”. The Association did not, however, oppose
drawing Lake water “to irrigate the arid lands of Nevada wheron large numbers of people are
being settled in the finding of comfortable homes, and in the enrichment of that State.” This
first movement for Tahoe preservation was not led by idealistic conservationists. Dr. Law was
a very rich San Franciscan who built the Fairmont Hotel after the 1906 Earthquake, his wealth
owing to the popular Viavi system of hygiene, which sold pills, laxatives and tonics as remedy
for tumors, back pains and constipation (a “notoriously fraudulent nostrum”, according to the
California Journal of Medicine, and a “most disgraceful and dishonest fake”.) Near fine.
(200/300)
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32. (California - Los Angeles) Los Angeles Harbor: The World’s Greatest Oil Port. 4 pp. 28x21.5 cm.
(11x8½”).
Los Angeles: Western Refining Company, c.1925
Scarce promotional piece for the port facilities and refinery being built at Los Angeles Harbor,
with bird’s-eye view on the first page along with brief printed description, photographs of the
construction progress on pp. 2-3, and portraits of the company president and nine officers,
most with past service at the Standard Oil Co., on p.4. No copies are listed in OCLC/WorldCat.
Near fine.
(200/300)
33. (California - Los Angeles) Picturesque Los Angeles County, California. Illustrative and Descriptive. 22 pp.
Illustrated with 65 full page photogravure plates with tissue guards. (4to) 30.8x25.8 cm. (12¼x10”),
original half calf and cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, rebacked with modern red cloth, all edges gilt.
First Edition.
Chicago: American Photogravure Co., 1887
“To fully illustrate the many beautiful spots to be found in Los Angeles County...we have taken
the choicest (views) from varied subjects...to familiarize the tourist and resident with localities
as will excite and interest in them...” - from author’s preface. A superbly illustrated work. Cowan
(III) page 397. Rocq 3247 Spine rubbed, corners worn, hinges reinforced, bookplate removed
from front endpaper; very good.
(700/1000)
34. (California - Mendocino County) [San Francisco and North Pacific Railway]. The Camper’s
Paradise [California]. [12] pp. Photographs views of the area’s camping, plus map of the Northern
Pacific coast from Ukiah to San Francisco. 12x20 cm (4¾x8”) original white wrappers, lettered in
green.
S.F. & N.P.Ry., [c.1907-1908]
Rare little booklet on Northern California’s camping. “To the angler, the hunter and the camper,
no part of the State offers better inducements than the section traversed by the San Francisco
and North Pacific Railway, the Picturesque Route of California. For several years this road has
been stocking with trout the streams in Marin, Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino Counties, and is
now constructing its own Hatchery at Ukiah for replenishing streams.” -page 1. The booklet
goes on to describe Guerneville’s suitability for camping in detail. Only 3 copies on OCLC /
Worldcat. Dark yellow strip at fore edge of front wrapper; very good.
(150/250)
35. (California - Nevada County) Nevada County California: The Most Prosperous Mining County of the
United States. [32] pp. Numerous full-page photographic illustrations; double-page map. 17.5x13.4 cm.
(6¾x5¼”), purple wrappers, gilt-embossed lettering on front cover.
[Nevada City, Calif.]: Nevada County Promotion Committee, [1904]
The front cover of this scarce little booklet about mining reads, “Nevada: The Banner
Gold County of California.” It was produced “Compliments of Nevada County Promotion
Committee.” Many great photographs within of Truckee, Grass Valley, and some mining sites.
Within the booklet describes why the area is ideal for mining geographically, etc., and how they
are the leading gold mining county in California. A bit of rubbing to the raised gilt lettering, the
double-page map detached; very good.
(300/500)
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36. (California - Truckee) Edwords, Clarence E. Truckee: Scenic Center of the High Sierras. 23. [1] pp.
incl. self-wrappers. With 5 illustrations from photographs; double-page map. 15.5x9 cm. (6x3½”),
pictorial self-wrappers.
[Truckee, Calif.?]: Truckee Chamber of Commerce, c.1920s
Rare little promotional brochure for Truckee, California, extolling its virtues including angling
and winter sports. on the front cover is printed “The Truckee Chamber of Commerce invites
you to travel on the Lincoln Highway.” OCLC/WorldCat lists only two copies, at the University
of California, Davis, and at Yale University. Fine.
(100/150)
37. (California - UC Berkeley) [Untitled volume of verse gathered for the University of California at Berkeley
Gun Club]. 210 pp. (8vo) flexible red leather, gilt emblem of the UC Berkeley Gun Club on the front.
No Place: No date [c.1922]
An interesting volume, untitled, containing verse by Gelett Burgess, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar
Alen Poe, Brete(sic) Harte, Wallace Irwin, Robert W. Service, etc. Printed inscription at front
“To Pop [Kessler], Our Genial Host.” The verso of the dedication leaf reads “This book is a
private collection and is not for sale”. Tipped in between pages 208 & 209 is a 3 page printed
poem by Bud Banning titled “To the G.C.”. Signed on the front blanks by 51 members of the
Gun Club. The Gun Club is the secret society of UC Berkely law students dedicated to alcohol
and poetry. Still active and veiled in secrecy today, it has included in its rolls alumnus Chief
Justice Earl Warren and Eisenhower aide Herman Phleger. Spine faded, “To Pop” in ink on
spine, light wear; very good.
(300/500)
38. (California Gold Rush) Cumming, James [and] Grannis, Samuel. 1849-52 Two Letters about the
exodus to California. Includes: James Cumming. Autograph Letter Signed. Catskill (New York), January
25, 1849. 2pp.+ partial stampless address leaf. To this father, Sanford, N.Y. Semi-literate lament of a
business clerk that he has been left all alone at his store, his boss being “west a getting stock for a new
Line of barges from Catskill to New York”, while at home, “it is all California now days, hundreds
are going all the time, there is a number that is at me to go, they make me a grate menny offers but
I have not made up my mind to go yet and think I shal not very soone…”; and Samuel Grannis.
Autograph Letter Signed. Le Roy, New York, April 7, 1852. 2pp.+ stampless address leaf. Last line
of first page trimmed off. To Guy R. Phelps, Hartford, Connecticut. “Mr. Lucius Park, a member
of your company whom I insured, has taken into his head that he must go to California this spring,
he wishes to be gone over one year… perhaps 2 years, he wishes to go or return any of the routes
that may seem to him best without any restrictions, he wants your permit on the best terms, if you
do not do it for him, he will let his policy stop and apply to some other company, he is as well, sound
and healthy to all appearance as ever…” An interesting sidelight of the Gold Rush, as Dr. Phelps
was a former physician who became an insurance pioneer, establishing the Connecticut Mutual Life
Insurance Co. in 1846. The company was still struggling in 1852 when he had to face this issue of
whether to insure the life of a young man who had caught the California fever.
1849-1852
Very good.
(150/250)
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39. (California Gold Rush) Toribio Malarin. Autograph Letter Signed - 1849 Peruvian Sea Captain’s
9000-acre Monterey Rancho. Autograph Letter Signed (in Spanish). To his brother Juan, “Puerto de San
Francisco” [California] 2pp.+ stampless address leaf.
Cerro de Pasco (Peru): June 25, 1849
Loosely translated, Toribio writes that he was engaged in (silver) mining in the Pasco region
of the Andes, but his business was in great debt, close to ruin, and, having neither personal
capital nor “protection”, he had “no hope” of future success. Had it not been responsible for
the care of his old mother and sister, he would have joined the many Peruvian friends who
were planning to leave for California. Toribio was happy to hear of his brother’s good fortune:
“God grant that you prosper” and not be “touched by the original misfortune which has
haunted the family…” He advised Juan to be wary of all the evil men who would gather (in
California), being “suspicious of everyone” and “careful with your life”, seriously considering
any proposition put to him, seeing “in every man” a potential enemy so as not to be surprised
when “selfishness” replaced “sanity”. Above all, “never forget this advice and make it your
daily prayer: Do not surrender to anyone and hide all that you possess.” Juan Malarin (1792-
1849), who, unknown to his brother, had died at Mission San Carlos in Monterey two months
before this letter was written, was a Peruvian sea Captain who first came to California in 1822,
was commissioned in the newly-formed Mexican Navy and married the daughter of a Mexican
Army officer whose family had large land grants in present-day Monterey and San Luis Obispo
County. Malarin settled in Monterey and received several large land grants of his own for a
Rancho of some 9000 acres in what is now the Salinas Valley. His son retained much of this
land after California statehood, but it is unknown whether his unfortunate uncle Toribio ever
made the long journey from Peru to the new land where Juan had grown rich. Very good.
(250/350)
40. (California Jockey Club - Pacific Jockey Club) California Jockey Club & Pacific Coast Jockey Club
advertising broadside. Chromolithograph broadside, 58x44 cm (17¼x22¾”). Framed.
No place: [c.1895]
Broadside showing, on the top portion, the Oakland Race Track with portraits of the president
and two other members of the California Jockey Club, and, on the lower portion, the president,
and two others of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club. Also views of the Ingleside Race Track in San
Francisco. The Ingleside Race Track opened in November of 1896 just off what is now Ocean
Avenue in San Francisco. The track was built with a sumptuous clubhouse, a fine viewing stand
and, for the horses, one of the best stables to be found. The Southern Pacific Railroad built
a special line delivering people to the front doors, In the early 20th century auto racing took
place at Ingleside, and after business declined the California Jockey Club took over the track and
promised new races. But it was not to be. The last horse race was in 1905 and the track closed
and served as a refugee camp for many San Franciscans after the 1906 earthquake. In 1910 it
was bought and developed into the Ingleside Terraces residential area which exists today. On
the reverse are printed advertisements, including the A. Schilling & Co. Appears to have been
issued separately with no staple holes, though it was folded in half. 8 small blank invoices from
the Wilder Hardware Co of Vallejo lightly pasted on the reverse for no apparent reason. A nice,
colorful presentation of bygone San Francisco. A few short edge tears, one if which extends
into an image, with a couple of internal splits from earlier folds, with no paper loss. A little
overall wear and light soiling, very good.
(200/300)
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41. (California Mining) Carson Hill Gold Mining Corp., Sonora, California: Special Report to Stockholders +
two additional pieces. [18] pp. With illustration from photograph. 8¼x5¼, wrappers. 1937. * Celebrating
the re-opening of Carson Hill Gold Mines, Melones, Calaveras County, Monday September 4, 1933.
Single sheet, folded to form 4 pages. With cut of miner in red & black on 1st page; halftone photo of
mine and camp on pp. 2 & 3. 11¾x4¾ (folded size). Angels Camp: 1933. * Guest Card for Booster’s
Club Labor Day Celebration, at Carson Hill Mine, Sept. 4, 1933. 3x5½.
[San Francisco]: 1933 & 1937
The re-opening of the Carson Hill Gold Mines in 1933, and review of prospects and finances
four years later of the mining company run by Charles Segerstrom. Scarce items - No copies of
the Special Report listed in OCLC/WorldCat, and only one copy, at the Bancroft Library, of the
celebration of the re-opening. Slight darkening to wrapper margins and spine; near fine.
(100/150)
42. (California Science) Raymond, William. Autograph Letter Signed, 1901 Before Scripps – Birth of
California Oceanography on Catalina Island. To his mother and sister in Oakland. 8pp. with original
mailing envelope.
San Pedro [California]: June 39, [1901]
A long, descriptive narrative of more than 1600 words, detailing the oceanographic research
work he and five other young scientists (including Zoologists Charles Kofoid and Calvin
Esterly and Geologist Ida Oldroyd) were doing at Catalina Island under the direction of UC
Berkeley Zoology Professor William Emerson Ritter – two years before Ritter won the financial
support of Los Angeles magnate E.W.Scripps to found the “Marine Biological Association”
that became the renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Raymond himself was a 36
year-old Assistant Professor of Physics at Berkeley with an early passion for Conchology and
a “remarkable” personal collection of sea shells, which he mentions in this letter. The Catalina
expedition was, in fact, largely devoted to collecting shell specimens, many of great rarity,
from the waters off Catalina. In this letter, Raymond describes, in enthusiastic detail, the Ritter
team’s work, the sailing of their research vessel and their simple living arrangements – and
notes, ironically, “Ritter is in a quandary as to how to keep the work going…L.A. people seem
enthusiastic about our work and $25 was given by one man, night of lecture. I hope there
will be something for our expenses…” Mr. Scripps beneficence was still in the distance. The
Scripps Institute notes that their very first samples of zooplankton were collected by Raymond’s
colleague Esterly in 1903, the year the Institute was founded, so this earlier letter dates from
the very foundation of California Oceanography and Marine Biology of the future. Partial
transcript of the text available on request. Very good.
(400/600)
43. (California) Bound volume of California government reports on hospitals and asylums for the insane. Approx.
29 printed reports, etc., relating to California state hospitals and asylums for the insane. 21.7x17.5 cm.
(8½x5¼”), later half leather and boards.
California: 1850 [but later?] to 1866
Reports covering the founding and early operations of state hospitals in California, geared
toward providing safe haven and possible cure for the insane, or at least to remove them from
polite society. The earliest report, a Senate Journal appendix report on establishing a “Marine
Hospital, for the Port and Harbor of San Francisco,” is dated 1850, though printed later.
Other reports include the 1852 Annual Report of the Marine Hospital (printed in 1853), with
some 88 pages of tables listing the various patients admitted, their native countries, date of
admission, disease, dated of discharge, and how (most cured, a smaller number dead). There
are also a number of reports on the founding and operations of the State Asylum for the
Insane in Stockton. With the bookplate of Roger K. Larson, noted collector. Also, occasional
rubberstamps of Masonic Home, Gift of Alexander Culver, 1930. Very good condition.
(500/800)
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RARE RATE SHEET FOR SACRAMENTO & PLACERVILLE RAILROAD 1876
44. (California) Broadside rate sheet for the Sacramento and Placerville Railroad, 1876. 23x29 cm. (9x11½”).
With small vignette of train.
No place: 1876
Rate sheet showing the “Local Passenger Tariff ” for the railroad, the superintendent of which
was Josiah Johnson. The name of the railroad is originally printed as the Sacramento Valley
Railroad, with Valley crossed out, “and Placerville” inked above. On the rate portion, the
Williamson stop has been corrected to Schoolhouse in two places. Other stops include Freeport
Junction, Alder Creek, Folsom, Latrobe, Shingle Springs, and Hangto’n Crossing, among others.
A rare piece of California railroad ephemera. A little edge wear, very good.
(800/1200)
45. (California) Brown, R.M., editor. The California American: A Progressive Monthly Publication - 1st two
issues. 2 issues. Vol. I, Nos. 1 & 2. Each 8 pp. With a few illustrations, mostly portraits. 34.7x27 cm.
(13¾x10½”).
San Francisco: 1912
Very scarce and evidently short-lived periodical - these might have been the only two issues. No
copies listed in OCLC/WorldCat, and we could find no other references. Includes such articles
as “Our Progressive Governor” profiling Hiram W. Johnson; “The Progressive Convention”
supporting the candidacy of Theodore Rosevelt; “The San Diego Situation” covering the
popular unrest in that city; “The Woman’s Political League of California” and is aims; and more.
The first issue with “Sample Copy” rubberstamped in top margin. Darkening to fore-margins;
very good.
(200/300)
46. (California) California: Special Limited Supplement. Profusely illustrated with steel-engraved portraits
of eminent Californians. (4to) 29.3x21 cm (11½x8”), half leather and marbled boards, gilt-lettered
spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.
[Chicago]: Lewis Publishing Company, 1926
Wonderful portraits of notable men and women of California’s history, each accompanied by a
few biographical pages. Edges rubbed, small chip on rear cover; very good.
(200/300)
47. (California) Fruits of the Golden State (wrapper title). [16] pp. Illustrated from sketches. 16x13 cm.
(6¼x5”), original color pictorial wrappers. First Edition.
San Francisco: California Fruit Canners Association, 1901
Scarce little booklet extolling the virtues of California fruit, Issued by the California Fruit
Canners Association for distribution at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N.Y., 1901.
OCLC/WorldCat lists only three copies, at U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Davis, and U.C.L.A. Fine
condition.
(200/300)
48. (California) Gold Bond for $500 from the Saratoga & Almaden Railroad Co., with redemption coupons intact.
Bond, lithographed by Britton & Rey. 40x55 cm. (15¾x21¾”) including the attached coupons.
San Francisco: 1885
Signed in ink by D.M. Pyle, President and the indecipherable secretary. The railroad was
apparently connected to Santa Clara County’s New Almaden quicksilver mine. Fine.
(150/250)
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49. (California) Two early and important documents about the development of Southern California beaches.
Includes:
* California State Park Commission Proposal for a Memorial to Will Rogers. Tan folder with
typed cover label, with a few tan leaves, and black and white photographs within. Including: 8x10”
photograph of Will Rogers, 7x10” photograph showing a stretch of California Pacific Highway
and the shoreline with a pencil annotation noting the frontage proposed for the designation, 10x7”
photo of visitors at the beach. Plus a 1 page typed proposal fro the designation of Will Rogers
Beach, signed by Wm. E. Colby, the chairman of the California State Park Commission, and a
folding map showing the proposed area of the beach. The resolution was adopted just one month
after Will Rogers died in a plane crash.
* Recreational Development of the Los Angeles Area Shoreline. An Engineering and
Economic Report to the Mayor and the City Council City of Los Angeles. 163 pp. Illustrated
with photographs, maps and charts (some folding). 11x8½”, original blue spiral-bound
wrappers. Madigan-Hyland, Consulting Engineers, New York City. Wrappers a bit soiled and faded.
1935-1949
Together these two scarce documents provide insight into the development of Southern
California’s beaches and the important role they continue to play in providing leisure and
recreation to residents, as well as an attraction for tourists to Southern California. A touch of
wear; very good or near fine.
(400/600)
50. (Canada - Winnipeg) Color photolithographic panorama view of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 14x70 cm.
(5½x27½”), framed under glass.
No place: c.1920
Panorama of the capital and largest city in Manitoba, on the eastern edge of the Canadian
prairies. Signs on the buildings identiry a number of businesses, including he Manitoba Free
Press; the Walker Theatre; Thomas, Ryan & Co.;Robinson, Little & Co.; etc. Very good
condition, not examined out of frame.
(300/500)
CATLIN’S INDIANS IN COLOR
51. Catlin, George. The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians...Written During
Eight Years’ Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-39. 2 volumes. viii, 264;
viii 266 pp. Illustrated with 180 chromolithographic plates reproducing works by Catlin and 3 maps (1
folding), many illustrations with multiple images (312 in total). (8vo), original black cloth with pictorial
in black and gilt on front covers & spine, lettering in gilt, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed.
London: Published by the Author, at the Egyptian Hall, 1841 [but c. 1890s]
Important study of the American Indians by artist and anthropologist, George Catlin who
visited 48 Indian tribes on his tour of the West and executed some 600 paintings. This is a later
edition of Letters and Notes on...North American Indians, first published in 1841, and although
that date is retained on the title-page, this edition was published about a half century later. The
first edition to have the plates printed in color was published in 1876; the present edition, which
was printed by W. & A.K. Johnston in Edinburgh, has plates which are distinctly brighter and
more vibrant than that edition. The hundreds of illustrations portray all aspects of Indian life,
including life in their villages, games, dances, funerals, sudatories, religious ceremonies, buffalo
hunting, etc., plus detailed descriptions and depictions of native dress and physiognomy. See
(Howes C241); Wagner-Camp 84:2. Spines lightly sunned, cloth rubbed, lower corners showing,
faint stain to front cover of Volume 2; very good.
(800/1200)
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52. Chisholm, C.R. Chisholm’s All-Round Route and Panoramic Guide of the St. Lawrence: Hudson River;
Saratoga; Trenton Falls; Niagara.. and Western Tourists’ Guide to the Great West, North West and Far West....
(ii)-xxii, 458, xxiii-xxxviii pp. 6 folding maps, numerous wood engravings in the text; plus very large
folding pictorial route map of the St. Lawrence River in front endpaper pocket. (8vo) original gilt
pictorial blue cloth.
Chicago and Montreal: C.R. Chisholm, 1881
The long panorama depicts the full course of The St. Lawrence River. Light wear to cloth,
hinges repaired; a few short tears to maps; very good.
(200/300)
53. (Civil War Broadside) Broadside Song Sheet, “The Virginia’s Knocking Around” - 1862 Anti-Lincoln Pro-
Confederate Song Sheet. Broadside Song Sheet, “The Virginia’s Knocking Around”, signed in type “M.”
and “Baltimore, March 20, 1862”, but possibly printed in the South. 1 page. 3½x14¼”.
[c.1862]
Within an ornamental border, a 112-line satirical “poem”, anonymously written and published,
virulently anti-Lincoln, satirizing the Union’s Generals and “Nigger Brigades” and fantasizing
about Confederate troops who capture the Union capital and “place Jeff [Davis] in the White
House at Washington.” The Library of Congress copy has the pencil note, “exceedingly rare”.
Pasted onto later paper backing; very good.
(200/300)
54. (Civil War Broadside) Civil War Broadside - 1863 New York Minstrels Who Launched Dixie. Broadside/
Leaflet, “Bryants’ Programme…Grand Tin-Pan-O-ni-on…Sally Come Up …Pillywillywinck Band…
Challenge Dance…Take-It-And-Leave Man…Rush-In-Ball”. No place or date, but probably
printed in New York in late 1863. 8¼x5¾”.
[Probably New York]: [c.1863]
The leader of the black face troupe, and star of the show, was Dan Bryant, one of three
brothers who formed the group in 1857. Before the Civil War, Bryant’s Minstrels, which
rivaled Christy’s Minstrels in popularity, specialized in nostalgic songs of slave plantations. On
April 4, 1859, at a performance in New York, the Byrants premiered the song “Dixie”, which
became especially popular in the South, adopted, when War began, as the national anthem of
the Confederacy. The Bryant troupe, on the other hand, remained distinctively pro-Union.
This broadside, which may be dated from the “Rush-In Ball” skit, a take-off on the lavish
Union welcome accorded the Russian Imperial Navy fleet that visited New York in November
1863, is notable for its lack of racist allusions in the year of the Emancipation Proclamation. A
few yellow spots, top left corner clipped; very good.
(150/250)
55. (Civil War) Record of the Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865. 2 volumes. (4to), rebound in red
cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First Edition.
Boston: Wright & Potter, 1868
Light wear; very good.
(200/300)
56. (Civil War) Reminiscences of the Cleveland Light Artillery. 101 pp. Photo frontispiece. (12mo)
original red cloth, stamped in gilt.
Cleveland: Cleveland Printing Company, 1906
Signed by James Barnett on the front free endpaper. Led by Col. James Barnett†, the regiment
first appeared in public in Sept. 1860. When the Civil War started in Apr. 1861, the Cleveland
Light Artillery did a 3-month tour of duty in West Virginia, the first of many wartime
engagements. After the war, the artillery made many special public appearances and later served
as the cornerstone of the formation of Battery B, 135th Field Artillery, Ohio National Guard.
Spine sunned, light wear, previous owner’s ink stamp on front free endpaper; some penciled
notations within; very good.
(200/300)
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57. Coit, Daniel Wadsworth. An Artist in El Dorado: The Drawings and Letters of Daniel Wadsworth
Coit. Edited by Edith M. Coulter. Illustrated with 8 collotype plates reproducing drawings by Coit.
(4to), original linen-backed boards, paper cover and spine labels, plain paper jacket. One of 325
copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. First Edition.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1937
Grabhorn 276. Fine.
(100/150)
SEVERAL LOTS ON COLORADO
58. (Colorado - Mining) Here Is Your Chance! Offering Extraordinary. Pembroke Mining & Milling Co.
100,000 Shares Treasury Stock Offered at Only 20 Cents per Share. 4 pp., single folded sheet. With 4
illustrations from photographs. 28x21.5 cm. (11x8½”).
Rochester, NY: The Pembroke Mining & Milling Co., c.1920
Scarce prospectus for sale of stock in this mining company with property on the northwestern
slope of Lincoln Mountain, Grand Island District, Boulder County, Colorado. The prospects
for profit were exceptional, based on the success of adjacent mines (why one would not invest
in them instead is not addressed), and the risk minimal. This photographis illustrations include
a bird’s-eye view of the property, the shaft and tunnel entrance, and nearby Sunset Town. So
remember, “No Man ever got rich by putting money in the bank.. Here is your chance to ‘Get
in on the Ground Floor’...” No copies listed in OCLC/WorldCat. Some light dampstaining, a
spot or two of adhesion damage, about very good.
(300/500)
59. (Colorado) Fifth Annual Festival of Mountain and Plain; and State Fair. 48 pp. incl. 2 pp. of text &
44 pp. of plates from photographs & drawings, some in color. 13.6x19 cm. (5½x7½”), original color
pictorial wrappers.
Denver: Edward G. Arkins, 1899
Rare “Official Souvenir Program, Denver, Sept. 25th to 30th, 1899,” as stated on front wrapper.
OCLC/WorldCat lists only four copies - at Autry National Center, SMU, Colorado Historical
Society Library, and the Pikes Peak Library District. Some rubbing to front wrapper, new rear
wrapper, spine repaired with cloth tape; very good.
(150/250)
60. (Colorado) Grand Reunion of States and Countries July 5, 1897 Pueblo, Colorado. [48] pp. View book
of the parade held on July 5, 1897. 15x23.5 6x9¼”), original white wrappers, lettered in blue and red,
with illustration of American flag on front. Souvenir Edition.
Pueblo, CO: John Morton, 1897
“July 5, 1897, marked an era in the history of Pueblo, for upon that date occurred the First
Pageant of States and Nations. The Project originated with Alderman Frank Ream and was
enthusiastically pushed by the members of the executive committee and state chairmen.” -
Introduction by the publisher. Only 3 copies located by OCLC / WorldCat. Moderate soiling to
covers, lightly worn edges, including a few tiny tears; else very good.
(150/250)
61. (Colorado) Information of Interest: A Statement for the Benefit of the Stockholders of the Belvidere-Leadville
Mining Company (wrapper title). 10 pp. Folding diagram. 19x14.5 cm. (7½x5¼”), original wrappers.
Belvidere, Illinois: [c.1911] Scarce prospectus for the Leadville-Belvidere Mining Company, basically
a plea for further investment by stockholders since success was just around the corner. No copies
listed by OCLC/WorldCat. The company recordsd of the Belvidere-Leadville Mining Company are
at the Denver Public Library. Darkening at lower edge, very good or better.
(300/500)
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RARE VIEW BOOK OF LA JUNTA, COLORADO
62. (Colorado) La Junta, Colorado. Gem City of Arkansas Valley. One Hundred and Forty Scenes in Half
Tone. Together with a Concise History from 1875 to 1904. [8] pp. title & text, 136 pp. of full-page halftone
photographs, 15.5x23.5 cm. (6x9¼”), original pictorial wrappers. First Edition.
[La Junta, Colorado]: La Junta Tribune, c.1904
Lot 62
63. (Colorado) The Short Line Blue Book: A Guide to Colorado
(wrapper title). 64 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs, etc.,
1 in color. 18.8x13 cm. (7½x5¼”), blue pictorial wrappers.
Denver, CO: The Blue Book Company, March, 1908
Scarce guidebook to Colorado “issued monthly under the
immediate supervision of the Traffic Department of The
Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Ry., in the
interest of the Resort Points in Colorado and Utah.” OCLC/
WorldCat lists only four institutions with holding of one or
more issues of the guide. A touch of spine and extremity
rubbing, the whole with a mild vertical crease, else very good.
(500/800)
Rare view book of the town of La Junta,
Colorado in Otero County, southeastern
Colorado. The numerous photographs,
identified as being by the firm of Moyemont
& Biebes, show in detail the residences,
commercial and government building,
residents, and government officials of the
town. OCLC/WorldCat list no copies of the
first edition, and only one of the 1981 reprint
(retitled “La Junta centennial picture book”),
at the Universivity of Colorado, Denver.
Spine replaced, with other restoration and
repairs to wrappers, else very good.
(600/900)
Lot 63
64. (Colorado) Souvenir of Glenwood Springs Colo. “The Greatest Sanitarium in the World” - cover title. 12
panels of glossy autotype plates from photogaphs, folding accordion-style, with multiple images,
featuring scenes from Glenwood Springs and the surrounding area. 12.8x15.5 cm. (5x6”), red
embossed boards lettered in gilt.
Glenwood Springs, CO: Published by Beans & Keck, c.1890
Scarce at attractive little souvenir book, likely printed in Germany, where most of this type of
view books were produced. OCLC/WorldCat lists only six copies in institutional libraries. A
little rubbing to joints and edges, else very good or better, quite uncommon.
(400/600)
65. Conklin, A. Picturesque Arizona. Being the Result of Travels and Observations in Arizona During the Fall
and Winter of 1877. 380 pp. Illustrations after views by the Continent Stereoscopic Company. (8vo)
original slate cloth, staime in gilt and black. First Edition.
New York: The Mining Record, 1878
Inscription from “The Author” to San Francisco attorney and Superior Court Judge, Francis
William Van Reynegom on front free endpaper. “Discusses the towns, people, life, manners;
the Indians; and the experiences and adventures of the author” - Eberstadt. Eberstadt 107:3.
Decker 45:12. Cloth lightly sunned; near fine.
(200/300)
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66. (Dakota Territory) [Mc]Collum, H[orace] G. Autograph Letter Signed - 1873 Joining future Custer
deputy’s Boundary Survey. 2 pp.
Pembina, Dacota T.[erritory]: June 23, 1873
To his father “…I am going in the Boundrie Line Survey this summer and will not be back in
the States until late in the Fall…seeing you are going away, we perhaps may never see each other
again on earth….The Old Woman [apparently his estranged mother] has induced Jahney to
enlist in the Regular Army in the 7th Cavalry Co. I, and they are here going out to escort us on
the Survey. He says he likes it first rate but he may not by the time his 5 years is up…when you
get to California write to me…I hope this will be my last journey of this kind for it is any thing
but pleasant …”; and David McCollum. Autograph Letter Signed. Lake City (Minnesota), June
1, 1873, 2pp. Probably to Horace’s father: “….California is a hard place to live in, I think I had
better stay here, I can make a big living here at tanning deerskins…tomorrow Horace starts with
the Surveying Party to Run the northern Boundary line between the United States & Brittian, he
expects to go through to Washington Teritory, he knows not when he will come back again...”
In 1873, the US Northern Boundary Commission, working westward from Fort Pembina, just
south of the US-Canadian border, surveyed 400 miles of what is now North Dakota, escorted
through potentially hostile Indian territory by 7th Cavalry troops under the command of Major
Marcus Reno. At the same time, hundreds of miles to the west in Montana, other 7th Cavalry
troops, commanded by Colonel George Custer, while guarding a Railway Survey group, clashed
for the first time with the Lakota Indians of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Three years later,
Custer’s cavalry, with Reno as ranking subordinate, fought Sitting Bull’s warriors at the Little
Big Horn. Custer, of course, was killed; Reno survived, later to be berated for the retreat which
spared his troops from sharing Custer’s fate. Very good.
(200/300)
67. Davis, Ellis A. Davis’ Commercial Encyclopedia. California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona. The Pacific Southwest.
(5)-196 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs and with 67 color maps, several of which are
double-page or folding. (Folio) 37x29.5 cm (14¼x11¼”), original brown cloth, lettered in silver on
front.
Berkeley: Ellis A. Davis, 1910
With many articles, biographies of prominent citizens, interesting illustrations, city maps of
Sacramento, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, statistical maps of California, maps of the other
states, etc. An invaluable compilation of biographical and commercial information. Cowan,
p.841 (listing copyrights of 1911 & 1914, this copy dated 1910). Some wear at edges; large
folding map of California with a long tear, residue from old cello-tape repair on rear; very good.
(300/500)
68. (Dentistry) Westcott, Amos. Letter from the First Dental Association in America, 1848. 1 page +
stampless address leaf.
Syracuse, NY: June 1, 1848
Inviting Providence Dentist Matthew Tyler to the Society’s Ninth Annual Meeting that year
in Saratoga Springs. The Society, formed in 1840 as the first national organization of Dentists
in America was soon wracked by “Amalgam Wars”, expelling members who refused to sign
an oath not to use Mercury Amalgam for fillings; the controversy eventually doomed the
organization, and in 1856, pro-Amalgam members formed the American Dental Association.
As ill-fated was Westcott himself, one of the first American Orthodontists, who later committed
suicide after investing heavily in the “Cardiff Giant”, an alleged “petrified man” , which turned
out to be one of the greatest hoaxes of the 19th century. Foxed with several tears; good.
(120/180)
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69. Domench, Em[manuel]. Seven Years’ Residence in the Great Deserts of North America. 2 volumes. xxiv,
445, [1], +[2] ad; xii, 465, [1], +[2] ad pp. Illustrated with one folding map and 58 plates, many in
colors, others duotone. (8vo) original terra-cotta cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First Edition.
London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1860
“Mostly a compilation from the ‘Reports of the Survey for the Pacific Railroad’, some of the
plates in that work being here reproduced.” Sabin 20554; Wheat 1008; Howes D410. Some wear
and soiling to cloth, hinges cracked in Volume 1; light foxing within; very good.
(300/500)
INVENTOR OF BASEBALL IN THE CIVIL WAR
70. Doubleday, Abner. Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. xvi, 243, +[4] ad pp. Maps. (8vo) original blue
cloth stamped in gilt and blind. First Edition.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1882
Volume 6 of the publisher’s Campaigns of the Civil War series. Signed by Brevet General Abner
Doubleday on the front free endpaper. Doubleday is often celebrated as folkloric “inventor”
of baseball, and he is also noted for ordering the first Union shot fired from Fort Sumter in
response to the Confederate barrage. Some wear to cloth; paper a bit browned at edges; very
good.
(700/1000)
71. (Douglass, Frederick) The Frederick Douglass Souvenir. Four plates from phtographs, stiff paper
wrappers, ribbon-bound.
No place: [c.1900]
Includes a portrait of Douglass, a view of the Douglass home and grounds in Washington,
D.C., photo of Mr. Douglass in his library, and a view of the front of the Douglass home with
Mr. Douglass on the porch. A bit browned and soiled, portrait of Douglass clipped from a
newspaper tipped to inside of rear wrapper; very good.
(100/150)
72. Edwards, E.I. The Valley Whose Name is Death. 122 pp. Cloth. First Edition.
Pasadena, CA: San Pasqual Press, 1940
One of 500 copies, according to Edwards, although the limitation states one of 1000. Edwards
174. Endpapers browned; near fine.
(100/150)
73. Emory, William H. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey.. Volume I. Volume One
(two parts) only. xvi, 258; viii, 174 pp. Illustrated 3 maps (two folding, one partially hand-colored)
with 9 steel-engraved plates of views (1 of which, “View of Monument Mountain” is not listed); 12
color lithographs of Indians or views; 33 plates with 66 engraved outline sketches; 1 folding profile; 1
folding chart; 21 steel-engraved paleontological plates. (4to), 28x222 cm. (11x8½”), later blue library
cloth. House Issue. 34th Congress, 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No. 135.
Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1857
Report on government explorations in the Southwest, noteworthy for the striking illustrations
as well as the text. The large folding maps present in this volume are “Map of the United
States and Their Territories Between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean and Part of Mexico
Compiled from Surveys Made Under the Order of W.H. Emory.” and “Map illustrating the
General Geological Features of the Country West of the Mississippi River...compiled by the
surveys of W.H. Emory and from the Pacific Railway Surveys...by James Hall,” with distribution
of rocks hand-colored. Howes E146; Wagner-Camp 291; Wheat Transmississippi 916. Rebound,
cloth lightly worn; light foxing, tape repair on rear of one map; internally very good.
(400/600)
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74. Endicott, Wendell. Adventures in Alaska and Along the Trail. xvi, 344 pp. Illustrated from
photographs; endpaper maps. (8vo), original two-tone green cloth lettered in gilt, gilt vignette on
front cover, top edge gilt, dust jacket. First Edition.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1928
Fishing, hunting and other adventures in the wilds of Alaska. Bruns E-33. Jacket chipped and
soiled, tape repairs; light wear to cloth; near fine in a good jacket.
(100/150)
75. Endicott, Wm. C., Secretary of War. Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting In Response to
Resolution of February 11, 1887 Correspondence With General Miles Relative to the Surrender of Geronimo Senate
Ex. Doc. No. 117. 77 pp. (8vo) later marble wrappers.
Washington: 1887
The official government report of the final capture of Geronimo. First page a bit yellowed and
worn; near fine.
(500/800)
76. Faurot, Walter Lowell, (1896-1976) San Francisco artist. Five matted and framed watercolors
by San Francisco painter Walter Lowell Faurot. Five matted and framed watercolors by San Francisco
painter Walter Lowell Faurot, with a 7 x 11” hand tinted b&w photograph, believed to be of the
artist and his wife, standing in front of their San Francisco home, ca. 1930’s. Included in this lot are
3 framed watercolors of Matson Lines ships at piers on the San Francisco waterfront, dated 1952,
approximately 10x14”, another 8x11” Matson ship dated 1947 a 6x7” watercolor cartoon dated 1945
and the photograph.
San Francisco: c.1930s
Faurot was born in 1896 in Ohio, and settled in San Francisco in 1924. He served in WWII in
the U.S. Navy, and was known for his still life watercolors and urban scenes. (Edan Hughes,
Artists in California). All are well executed in very good condition with bright colors, not
examined out of original frames, and certainly well worthy of further research.
(600/900)
77. (Franklin, Benjamin) Smith, William. Discourses on Several Public Occasions During the War in America
- With the bookseller’s ticket of David Hall, printed by Benjamin Franklin. xii, 246 pp. (8vo), period sheep.
First Edition.
London: A. Millar, 1759
Smith was an Anglican clergyman, teacher, and first provost of the College, Academy, and
Charitable School of Philadelphia, the precursor to the University of Pennsylvania. Howes
S688; Sabin 84600. Mounted to the front pastedown endpaper is the bookseller’s ticket of
David Hall, printing partner of Benjamin Franklin from 1748-1766. The ticket was printed by
Franklin. Miller 722a. Spine dry and brittle, front cover detached, tape residue at spine edge;
light foxing; good.
(300/500)
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78. Frémont, John Charles. Memoirs of My Life, by John Charles Frémont. Including in the Narrative
Five Journeys of Western Exploration, During the Years 1842, 1843-4, 1845-6-7, 1848-9, 1853-4. Together
with a Sketch of the Life of Senator Benton, in Connection with Western Expansion by Jessie Benton Frémont.
A Retrospect of Fifty Years, Covering the Most Eventful Periods of Modern American History... Volume I (all
published). xix, 655 pp. Extensively illustrated with engravings in wood and steel, 7 maps (some
folding) including one large folding map at rear, a chromolithograph of Frémont’s Rocky Mountain
flag, etc. Frontispiece portrait with tissue-guard. 27x19.5 cm. (10½x7½”), original decorative brown
cloth in gilt, silver, black and red, lettered in gilt. First Edition.
Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1887
Memoirs of the great Pathfinder (or Pathmarker), based on his original accounts of his
adventures in the west. The illustrations and maps are quite noteworthy. “Embraces his first
three exploring expeditions and the part played by him in the conquest of California” - Howes
F367. Binding worn, spine chipped and torn, edges rubbed, hinges cracked; folding map
detached; good.
(400/600)
79. Gifford, Edward W. & Gwendoline Harris Block. Californian Indian Nights Entertainments:
Stories of the creation of the world, of man, of fire, of the sun, of thunder, etc.; of coyote, the land of the dead, the
sky land, monsters, animal people, etc. 323 pp. Frontispiece from photograph; folding map. Red cloth,
spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. First Edition.
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1930
Creation myths, fertility rituals, wisdom from coyote, the afterlife, and other aspects of
American Indian religion and mythology are here written down. Clark & Brunet 96 A few light
spots to cloth; near fine.
(200/300)
80. (Gold Scales) Two gold scales and a hydrometer. 2 sets of gold scales and a hydrometer. One set of
brass gold scales in a fitted velvet lined box, complete with weights, and another set without box, but
earlier, including brass weights and a 7” brass stand. Also included is an antique hydrometer set, with
locking box. The label inside the cover is barely readable and indicates a maker of hydrometers and
thermometers in Cincinatti, with the first initial of H. The set has a silver bulb with a measuring ruler
device and other implements. Very good, but could use cleaning.
No date
From the estate of the late Sonora mine owner, Charles Segerstrom. Very good.
(200/300)
GRAND CANYON IN 3-D
81. (Grand Canyon) Dellenbaugh, F.S. The Grand Cañon of Arizona Through the Stereoscope. Descriptive
text by F.S. Dellenbaugh. 18 stereoscope cards with accompanying 64 page cloth-bound book, with
dust jacket. 2 maps, including one folding. 17x8.5 cm (6¾x3½”), original wrappers, housed together
in the original two-part box.
New York: Underwood & Underwood, 1908
A wonderful collection of Grand Canyon scenes with excellent descriptive and historical
commentary by Colorado River explorer/ethnographer Frederick Samual Dellenbaugh. The
images include a photograph of Thomas Moran, the noted western American artist, sketching
from an outcropping high above the canyon. Quite scarce and seldom found complete. Light
wear; near fine.
(500/800)
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82. Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. 2 volumes. 584; 647, [1] pp. Steel-engraved
frontispiece portrait in each volume; with tissue-guards. Illustrated with several maps and wood
engravings throughout; folding facsimile letter in Vol. I; tipped-in folding facsimile document in Vol.
II. (8vo) original gilt stamped green cloth. First Edition.
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885-86
These memoirs of the great General and 18th U.S. President are often mentioned as one of the
finest American works of nonfiction. Written from his sick bed the last year of his life. Some
wear to extremities, engraved portrait of Grant from another source pasted to front pastedown
of Volume 1, hinges cracked in Volume 2; facimile detached and torn, some pencil underlining;
good.
(200/300)
83. Habberton, John. Romance of California Life; Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and
Humorous. [12], (9)-502, [2] ad pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. (8vo) original blue cloth, stamped
in black and gilt. Early reprint.
San Francisco: A. Bartlett, 1883
First published in San Francisco in 1877 under the title “Some Folks.” Cowan notes “many
California stories are included in this interesting and entertaining volume.” Cowan p.256. Spine
sunned and leaning, edge wear; very good.
(100/150)
84. Hafen, LeRoy R., editor. The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West: Biographical Sketches
of the Participants by Scholars of the Subject and with Introductions by the Editor. 9 volumes (of 10); lacking
the index volume. (8vo) brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First Editions.
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1965-72
One of approximately 2,000 sets. “This series was Hafen’s final major work in the field of
western American history. Together with noted scholars and history buffs from throughout
the country, he compiled biographies of the major male figures in the fur trade of the Far
West...The account of the fur trade written by Dr. Hafen and included in Volume I provides an
excellent background study of the development of the fur trade” (Clark & Brunet). Clark and
Brunet, 108; Rittenhouse, 266. Some light wear; near fine.
(700/1000)
85. Hall, Frederic. The History of San José and Surroundings with Biographical Sketches of Early Settlers. xv,
537 pp. Folding map and 4 lithographed plates including frontispiece. (8vo), period black half calf
and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft, 1871
Presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper. Cowan notes the work as
“historically valuable.” Cowan p. 259; Howes H63; Rocq 14036. Front joint split, binding worn;
folding map detached and with several tears, old cello-tape repairs; foxing and soiling within;
good only.
(150/250)
86. Hamilton, Alexander. The Works of Alexander Hamilton. Edited by Henry Cabot Lodge. 12
volumes. (8vo) 9½x6½, original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt armorial device on front, top
edges gilt. No. 358 of 400 copies of the “Connoisseur’s Federal Edition”.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904
Spines faded, some light wear; very good.
(300/500)
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87. [Hamilton, Thomas]. Men and Manners in America. 2 volumes. 208; 204, [2] pp. (12mo) modern
brown half calf and marbled boards. Second American Edition.
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833
First published in Edinburgh earlier the same year. Howes H138. Foxing within, very good in
fine modern bindings.
(150/250)
88. Harte, Bret. Group of works by Bret Harte. Includes:
* The Luck of Roaring Camp. Illustrated. (Folio) original brown cloth. Boston: Osgood, 1872.
* The Luck of Roaring Camp. Linen-backed boards. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1916.
* The Luck of Roaring Camp. (Folio) cloth-backed boards. One of 300 copies printed at the
Grabhorn Press. San Francisco: Ransohoffs, 1948.
* The Wild West. Linen, slipcase. One of 840 copies. Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1930.
* How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar. Cloth-backed boards, slipcase. Illustrations by Paul
Landacre. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, [1941].
Together 5 volumes.
All with some light wear; overall very good and better.
Various places: Various dates
(300/500)
89. Harte, Bret. The Heathen Chinee - Several editions. * Plain Language From Truthful James. [The
Heathen Chinee]. In The Overland Monthly, September, 1870. Original wrappers (front wrapper
detached). Also, Further Language From Truthful James. In The Overland Monthly, January, 1871.
Original wrappers. The two issues housed in a custom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. San
Francisco: John H. Carmony, 1870 & 1871,
* The Heathen Chinee. Nine illustrated lithograph cards, loose as issued. Lithograph front panel of
the original envelope mounted to later paper folder. Housed in a custom folding cloth chemise and
calf-backed slipcase. First Separate Edition, Second Printing. Chicago: Western News Company,
1870.
* The Heathen Chinee. Words by Bret Harte: Music by F.B. 6 pages with lithograph illustration
on front. Second sheet music edtion. Tape repair to inside of spine crease. Boston: Oliver Ditson,
1870.
* That Heathen Chinee and Other Poems. Original brown cloth. First English Edition, First Issue.
London: Hotten, [1871].
* The Heathen Chinee. (Folio), blue boards, string-bound, slipcase. Slipcase split along rear edges.
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1934.
* The Heathen Chinee. (Folio) blue boards, string-bound, linen chemise. One of 500 copies. San
Francisco: John Henry Nash for the Book Club of California, 1934.
* Prospectus for the Book Club of California edition of The Heathen Chinee. Wrappers, string
bound. [San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1934.]
Together 7 items.
Various places: Various dates
A gathering of early editions of Harte’s classic work, including the first appearance, first
separate edition, first English edition and two finely printed editions. Most with light wear;
overall very good.
(500/800)
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90. Hayes, Benjamin. Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes. 307 pp. (8vo) original blue
cloth. First Edition.
Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1929
“Fe insights into the transition of Southern California from Mexican to American control are as
wide-ranging and penetrating as those found in the diaries of Benjamin I. Hayes. - (Zamorano
Select). “Part of Hayes’s diary is an account of a trip overland from Liberty, Missouri to
California. Most of the book covers his experiences in southern California. Reportedly issued
in a small edition” - (Mintz). Zamorano Select 45; Mintz 219; Adams, Six-guns 962. Light wear;
near fine.
(150/250)
SERIES OF IMPORTANT HORTICULTURAL MONOGRAPHS BY U.P. HEDRICK
91. Hedrick, U. P. The Plums of New York. xii, 616 pp. Portrait frontispiece, color plates. (4to), original
green cloth titled in gilt. First Edition.
Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon, 1911
The third volume in the celebrated series of horticultural monographs published under the
auspices of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. The Plums of New York
offers a history of plum cultivation throughout the world and, like its companion volumes, a
comprehensive, beautifully illustrated survey of plum varieties grown in the state. Light wear to
cloth; near fine.
(250/350)
92. Hedrick, U.P., editor. Sturtevant’s Notes on Edible Plants. viii, 686 pp. (4to) original green cloth,
lettered in gilt. First Edition.
Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon Company, 1919
A comprehensive cyclopedia of edible plants, compiled by Hedrick from various sources
including the notes of botanist Edward Lewis Sturtevant. Issued as Volume 2, Part 2 of the
27th Annual Report of the New York Department of Agriculture. Uniform in size and binding
to the Fruits of New York series. Light wear to cloth, front hinge cracked, ownership markings
on front endpapers; very good.
(100/150)
93. Hedrick, U.P. The Cherries of New York. xii, 371 pp. Frontispiece portrait, 56 additional leaves of
colored plates. (4to) original gilt-lettered green cloth. First Edition.
Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1915
The fourth volume in the celebrated series of horticultural monographs published under the
auspices of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. The Cherries of New York
offers a history of cherry cultivation throughout the world and, like its companion volumes, a
comprehensive, beautifully illustrated survey of cherry varieties grown in the state. Light wear,
small spot on rear cover, ownership markings on front endpaper; near fine.
(300/500)
94. Hedrick, U.P. The Grapes of New York. xv, 1, 564 pp. Color plates. (4to) original gilt-lettered green
cloth. First Edition.
Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon Company, 1908
The second volume in the celebrated series of horticultural monographs issued published under
the auspices of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. The Grapes of New York
offers a comprehensive survey of both table grape and wine grape varieties grown in the state,
and the volume is justly celebrated for its detailed color illustrations. Light wear and soiling to
cloth, hinges a bit shaken, ownership markings on endpaper; very good.
(250/350)
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95. Hedrick, U.P. The Peaches of New York. xiii, 541 pp. Illustrated with 92 chromolithograph plates
of various peaches and peach blossoms; map of the peach regions of New York, and a frontispiece
portrait of Andrew Jackson Downing. (4to) original green cloth titled in gilt. First Edition.
Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon Co., 1917
The fifth volume in the celebrated series of horticultural monographs published under the
auspices of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. The Peaches of New York
offers a scientific study of peach botany, a history of peach cultivation throughout the world
and, like its companion volumes, a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated survey of peach
varieties grown in the state. Light wear and spotting to cloth, ownership markings on front
endpaper; very good.
(250/350)
96. Hedrick, U.P. The Pears of New York. xi, 636 pp. Frontispiece portrait, 80 additional leaves of
colored plates. (4to) original green cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition.
Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Co., 1921
The sixth volume in the celebrated series of horticultural monographs published under the
auspices of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. The Pears of New York
offers a history of pear cultivation throughout the world and, like its companion volumes, a
comprehensive, beautifully illustrated survey of pear varieties grown in the state Light wear to
edges; near fine.
(250/350)
97. Hedrick, U.P. The Small Fruits of New York. xi, 614 pp. Full color plates. (4to) original green cloth
titled in gilt. First Edition.
Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon, [1925]
The seventh (and last) volume in a series of spectacularly illustrated horticultural monographs
published under the auspices of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. The Small
Fruits of New York offers a detailed survey of the evolution, systematic botany and varieties
of wild and cultivated bramble fruits (raspberries, blackberries and dewberries), bush fruits
(currants and gooseberries) and strawberries. Binding rubbed, ownership markings on endpaper;
very good.
(200/300)
98. Helper, Hinton R. The Land of Gold: Reality versus Fiction. xii, [13]-300 pp. (8vo) original blindstamped
brown cloth, spine with gilt-stamped vignette and lettered in gilt. First Edition.
Baltimore: For the Author, 1855
“Helper’s book ranks as one of the most famous, oft-quoted and entertaining books of the
Gold Rush.” - (Kurutz). Cowan p.274; Graff 1848; Howes H401; Kurutz 327a; Sabin 31272;
Wheat Gold Rush 96. Spine sunned, author’s name inked on spine, clipped bookseller’s catalog
entries on endpapers; foxing within; very good.
(150/250)
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EXPLORING CANADA’S RED RIVER COUNTRY
99. Hind, Henry Youle. Narrative of The Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 and of
the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858. 2 volumes. xx, 494; xvi, 472 pp. 8vo.
Illustrated with Twenty chromoxylograph plates; woodcut text illustrations; 7 maps (2 folding, all
partly colored); 4 colored profiles on 1 folding sheet. (8vo) original blindstamped green cloth, spines
lettered in gilt. First Edition.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860
Hind’s investigations of the country between Lake Superior and the Rocky Mountains were
prompted by the need for a land access to the gold fields of British Columbia and for the
possible establishment of a railway route to the Pacific Coast, and led to the discovery of fertile
farming area in the Saskatchewan basin. During the expedition Hind lived almost continuously
among the Crees and Chippeways, whose habits and peculiarities he was able to study. The
narrative is enhanced by the spectacular color plates and woodcut illustrations reproduced
from photographs taken by Humphrey Lloyd Hime, photographer to the Assinninboine
and Saskatchewan Expedition, or from sketches by John Fleming, Assistant Surveyor and
Draughtsman. Graff 1892; Sabin 31934; Soliday II:521; Streeter 3730; Wagner-Camp-Becker
360. Light wear to cloth, one hinge repaired, others cracked; light foxing; very good.
(800/1200)
100. [Hoffman, Charles Fenno] A New-Yorker. A Winter in the West. 2 volumes. [iv], 337; [iv], 346
pp. (12mo) original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First Edition.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835
The author travelled from New York to Ohio, Missouri and Illinois in the winter of 1833.
Howes H568. Light wear to cloth, bookplates, early owner’s notes on endpapers; foxing; very
good.
(300/500)
101. Houghton, Eliza P. Donner. The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate. Illustrations
from engravings, photographs, etc. (8vo) original gilt-lettered cloth. Second Edition.
Los Angeles: Grafton Publishing, 1920
First published by McClurg in 1911. Houghton was the daughter of expedition leader George
Donner, and made the fateful trip when she was 4 years old. Cowan p.856. Fine.
(100/150)
102. Hutchings, J[ames] M[ason]. Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California…including the Mammoth
Trees of Calaveras; the Caves and Natural Bridges of Calaveras; the Yo-Semite Valley; the Mammoth Trees of
Mariposa and Frezno; Mount Shasta; the Quicksilver Mines of New Almaden and Henriquita; the Farallone
Islands…. 267 pp. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings. (8vo), original full brown morocco,
decoratively blind-stamped, spine lettered in gilt, gilt floral endpapers, all edges gilt. Second Edition,
expanded.
San Francisco: J.M. Hutchings & Co., 1862
The first book-length description of California’s natural attractions, and the first work to
describe the big trees and the Yosemite region. The second edition, expanded from the two
printings of the first edition with the addition of three new chapters; the remainder of the book
is the same as the undated 1860 first edition and the 1861 reprinting of it. Cowan (I), p. 117;
Currey & Kruska, p. 84; Farquhar 4d; Rocq 5208; Sabin 34045. With the ownership signature of
Anson Burlingame, Minister to China under Abraham Lincoln. Burlingame, California is named
in his honor. Spine a bit darkened, binding rubbed; some foxing; very good.
(400/600)
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103. (Illinois Conservation Posters) 1936-37 Two Posters of Illinois Conservation Week. 2 Posters: Illinois
/ First Conservation Week / May 10-16, 1936; and Illinois / Second Conservation Week / May 9-15,
1937. Both 14x22”, printed in colors with handsome Art Deco graphics.
1936-1937
Two posters with handsome Art Deco graphics of birds (Chicago, 1936-37). Hoping to create
“conservation consciousness in the minds of the people” – especially sportsmen - the Illinois
state Department of Conservation sponsored these events to focus on forestry and wildlife
preservation during the Depression era, and to highlight the work of the Roosevelt New Deal’s
Civilian Conservations Corps. These posters, in WPA Federal Art Project style, are apparently
rare; no copy of either appears in the poster holdings of the Library of Congress. Creasing and
edge wear, one with faint circular spot of soiling near top; else very good.
(200/300)
104. (Indians - 1832 Isaac McCoy surveys Indian country west of the Mississippi) Letter from the
Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of a report made by Isaac McCoy, upon…the country reserved for the Indians
west of the Mississippi. 15 pp. (8vo) disbound, in plain brown paper wrappers. 22d Congress, 1st Session.
Doc. No. 172. Ho. of Reps. Issue.
[Washington, D.C.]: March 16, 1832
A Baptist missionary among the Indians of the Midwest, the well-intentioned McCoy advocated
“Indian removal” from the eastern US to a reservations in present-day Kansas, Nebraska and
Oklahoma, where, he hoped (in vain) Native Americans would be “unmolested” by white
settlers. After Congress authorized “Indian removal” to the west, McCoy spent ten years
surveying boundaries of possible reservations for more than 20 tribes. This report describes, in
McCoy’s own words, his early surveying labors on behalf of the Cherokee, Creek and Pawnee
tribes, his various “disappointments”, and the government vaccination program which, largely
through his efforts, helped to stem a smallpox epidemic which had killed thousands of Indians
who were being forced to move westward. Very good.
(150/250)
105. Ives, Joseph C[hristmas]. Report upon the Colorado River of the West. 131, 14, 154, 30, 6, 31, [1]
pp. Illustrated with 2 folding maps; 1 engraved profile; 14 lithographed or engraved views; 7 color
lithograph plates of Indians; 8 folding panoramas; 3 engraved paleontology plates. An additional
color plate of the Navajo (from the Pacific Railroad Survey) laid in. (4to), original cloth covers, rebacked
with black tape. First Edition, Senate Issue.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861
Superb survey of the Colorado River, with exceptional illustrations after Möllhausen and
others and including reports on the geology, botany and zoology by John Strong Newberry,
Asa Grey, Spencer Fullerton Baird and others. Wagner-Camp notes that “William Goetzmann
calls Lieutenant Ives’ complete report, ‘The best by far of these individual reports.. It is a
long, carefully written journal, consciously literary but with a maximum amount of attention to
scientific observation....’” Howes I92; Sabin 35308; Wagner-Camp 375; Wheat Transmississippi
4, pp. 98-101. Binding worn, hinges repaired; tape repairs to rear of maps; light foxing; good.
(500/800)
106. Jack, Alex, editor. The Resistance. National Edition #1, March 15 - April 3, 1968. 15 pp. Many
photographs throughout. 44x29 cm. (17¼x11¼”).
Newspaper devoted to the cause of protesting the Vietnam War. With reports as to the most
current resistance events throughout the United States. With articles on the subject by leading
counterculture authors such as Raymond Mungo and James Bevel. Only 6 institutions with a
copy of this newspaper, according to OCLC / Worldcat. Paper slightly yellowed, with light edge
wear, and light wear at center crease; very good.
(100/150)
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107. James, Will. Young Cowboy. [8], 72 pp. With five color plates by Will James, including frontispiece,
plus many text illustrations. 7x9½, gingham or blue and white checked cloth with printed and pictorial
yellow paper cover label. First Edition, First Binding State.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935
First binding state, in checked cloth rather than pale blue. “This is a children’s book in novelette
form for young boys and girls and was well received as such” - Frazier, p. 87. Foxing and light
soiling to cloth; very good.
(150/200)
108. (Jefferson, Thomas) Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and His Time. 6 volumes. (8vo) original red leather,
elaborately stamped in gilt, all edges gilt.
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, [1993]
With a two volume set of the Writings of Thomas Jefferson, uniformly bound. Fine.
(300/500)
109. Joutel, [Henri]. Joutel’s Journal of La Salle’s Last Voyage, 1684-7...To Which is Added a Bibliography
of the Discovery of the Mississippi by Appleton P.C. Griffin. [viii], 258 pp. Frontispiece; folding map. (8vo)
original linen-backed boards, paper labels on spine and front. No. 251 of 500 copies.
Albany, NY: Joseph McDonough, 1906
Biographical introduction and annotations by Henry Reed Stiles. A reprint of the 1714 English
translation, with additional matterial. Binding sunned, light wear at edges; very good.
(150/250)
KENDALL’S MEXICAN WAR WITH 12 STRIKING
HAND-COLORED FOLIO LITHOGRAPHED PLATES
110. Kendell, Geo[rge] Wilkins and Carl Nebel. The War Between the United States and Mexico
Illustrated, Embracing Pictorial Drawings of All the Principal Conflicts. iv, 52 pp. Lithograph map frontispiece
and 12 toned lithographs on handmade paper (see below), colored and finished by hand applying gum
arabic highlights (battle scenes, after art work by Nebel, printed and lithographed by Lemercier and
Adolphe Jean Baptiste Bayot), each with hand-written caption in lower margin, as issued. Large folio,
25.8x38 cm (20¾x15”) rebound in half leather and marbled boards, with original gilt-lettered leather
cover label laid down. First Edition.
New York: D. Appleton, 1851
An exceptional illustrated
work, with original gum
arabic highlights intact, as
issued. Magnificent series of
color lithograph plates of the
major battles of the Mexican
War, bright and superbly
executed. Howes notes that
“the fine plates by Carl Nebel
were produced at Paris, the
text printed in New Orleans,
and the book bound and sold
by Appleton in New York.”
On the copyright page is
the imprint “Plon Brothers,
Printers.. Paris.” Howes K76.
Lot 110
“Magnificently produced
portfolio by...the first modern
war correspondent” -Tyler, The Mexican War, a Lithographic Record, p. 11. Discoloration in
top margins and sky portion of most color plates from mold(?) and likely easily removed/
cleaned; gum Arabic sheen is bright and beautiful, lightly foxed pages; very good.
(10000/15000)
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111. King, Clarence. Memoirs: The Helmet of Mambrino. [viii], 429 pp. 9 portrait plates. (8vo) original
vellum-backed boards, stamped in gilt and brown, top edge gilt. First Edition.
New York: King Memorial Committee, 1904
Posthumously gathered collection of essays in tribute to Clarence King. Also contains the first
printing of King’s short story “The Helmet of Mambrino”. Some soiling to vellum, corners
worn; some pencil notations within; very good.
(100/150)
112. (Know Nothing Broadside) “The Great Know Nothing Song” Sheet 1850s. 1 page. 6x9¾”. Broadside
Song Sheet, “The Great Know Nothing Song, ‘I Don’t Know’ by Francis F. Eastlack.
[Philadelphia]: H.J.Kehr, No date [c.1849-52]
A 43-line song (to the tune of “Bow, Wow, Wow”) within an ornamental border: “The greatest
question of them all is who are the know nothings?...These men wear white hats all turned up,
and at you boldly stare, sir, They only speak with nods and winks and never comb their hair,
sir, They beat both Whigs and Democrats, wherever they may go, sir, And if you ask them
anything they’ll answer, I don’t know, sir…Now, ladies, don’t you think ‘tis hard, and don’t you
think it’s shocking, That we in free America, should all of us know nothing…” A lampoon of
the originally anti-Catholic Know Nothing political party during its early days of semi-secret
organization, when members, asked about its activities, reportedly replied “I know nothing”.
The author later co-authored a song book titled, ‘Hail! This glorious Yankee Land!” A bit
browned and fragile at edges; very good.
(150/250)
113. Le Conte, Joseph. A Journal Ramblings Through the High Sierra of California by the University Excursion
Party. x, [6], 152, [2] pp. Illustrated with 3 plates reproducing photographs from the original 1875
edition; gravure frontispiece portrait from a photograph; facsimile of original title-page. (8vo) linenbacked
blue boards, paper spine label. One of 1500 copies printed by Taylor & Taylor. Third Edition.
San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1930
The earliest readily obtainable edition of Le Conte’s classic account of camping in the high
Sierra; the 1875 edition was limited to about 120 copies, and the 1900 edition, separate from
the Sierra Club Bulletin, is perhaps even more scarce, most copies having been destroyed in the
1906 earthquake and fire. Farquhar calls this edition “a very attractive book” - Farquhar 14c.
Corners lightly bumped; near fine.
(100/150)
114. Le Moyne, Louis Valcoulon. Country Residences in Europe and America. viii, (553) pp. Illustrated
throughout from photographs, plans and drawings, several in color. (Folio), original green cloth,
lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Second Edition.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921
Expanded from the first edition of 1908. The author “describes what [he] considers to be the
most interesting country residences in various parts of Italy, France, England, and America.”
Among the latter are included Mount Vernon, Monticello, Biltmore, etc. Light soiling to cloth,
rear hinge cracked; very good.
(150/250)
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115. (Lincoln, Abraham) The Lincoln centennial medal, presenting the medal of Abraham Lincoln by Jules
Édouard Roiné together with papers on the medal: its origin and symbolism by George N. Olcott and the Lincoln
centennial commemoration by Richard Lloyd Jones and certain characteristic utterances of Abraham Lincoln. x, 70 +
[6] pp. With original bronze medal of Lincoln set in pastepaper diecut mount bound into the book.
19x12 cm. (7½x4¾”), original blue cloth lettered in gilt, circular pictorial label. First Edition.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1908
The Centennial Medal is a high relief bronze sculpted by Jules Edouard Roiné with Lincoln
in profile looking left on the obverse and, on the reverse, a mixed wreath of palm and oak,
enclosing Lincoln’s facsimile autograph incised into the surface and the words “Emancipation
Proclamation Signed January First 1863”. At top edge is the word “Liberator” and at the bottom
“1909 Centennial Commemoration”. Some chipping to cover label; near fine.
(200/300)
116. Lincoln, Abraham. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. 9 volumes. (8vo) original grey cloth.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University, 1953-55
Edited by Roy P. Basler; includes index volume. Light wear; near fine.
(100/150)
117. (Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904) Printed contractural agreement in Russian for exhibiting at the
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, A.K.A. the St. Louis World’s Fair. 3 pp. on 4-page conjugate, printed
in Russian, unused. 36x22.5 cm. (14x8¾”).
St. Louis: 1904
Rare piece of ephemera from the 1904 exposition in St. Louis, an unused contract printed in
Russian, for exhibiting at the Fair. The Russian government decided not to participate in the
Fair, even though exhibits from that country already had arrived in St. Louis. Space originally
allocated to Russia was assigned to other exhibitors. Fair organizers did honor the request of
a contingent of Russians allowing some smaller exhibits in the palaces of Fine Arts, Varied
Industries, Manufactures and Education. Basically fine condition.
(250/350)
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118. (Louisiana) Keyes, Charles Melvin. Autograph Letter Signed - 1854 Letter-Journal of a Voyage to
New Orleans and Chinese on the Mississippi. Autograph Letter Signed (“Charley M.”). To his sisters in
Vermont. 8pp.
Jackson, Louisiana: January 9, 1854
Diary-like account of a 24 year-old New England man’s three-week voyage from Boston to New
Orleans - to seek a job at an Insane Asylum, having apparently worked as a male nurse at an
asylum in Massachusetts. Keyes set sail on December 5, 1853, and after a week of seasickness,
recorded his first views of an ocean water spout and a shark, his arrival at the Bahamas, where
he caught sight of a notorious pirate refuge and the Captain recalled the “Negro Governor”
of one island who had once greeted him, barefoot and in shirt sleeves, in a boat “rowed by
six darkies”. Keyes eventually found his sea legs and climbed aloft to sit on a yardarm 100
feet above the sea, while sailors, “lazy scamps”, believing him to be a Doctor, begged him for
medical advice. Sailing past Key West (“quite a place” with “a fort, churches, lighthouse”) and
British Honduras, through the Gulf of Mexico, Keyes finally arrived, day after Christmas, at the
fascinating city of New Orleans: “…a great many very fine buildings and streets with stores
containing all the rich things imaginable kept by northern men… much like Boston”; though
the French Quarter was radically different: “French, Creoles, Germans, Irish, negroes, Jews and
gentiles all mixed up and all gabbing as fast as they can, especially at the markets…tended by
men and women together of all colors and sizes…” New Year’s fell on a Sunday, yet stores and
theaters were as open as the churches, with all the street cars running and “boys firing crackers
all day…much more like the 4th of July” then a peaceful New England Sabbath. Unable to
find a job in the city, Keyes took a boat 160 miles up the Mississippi to Jackson, site of the state
Insane Asylum, his fellow passengers being “seven Chinese men dressed in the style of their
country…their heads were shaved, except the crown about four inches in diameter which was
left to grow long and was braided and hung as low as the knee on some of them, some had on
brocade silk pants tight as they be and some had pants very large indeed….” Despite all the
attractions of his adventurous voyage, Keyes soon returned to his Vermont home, where he
married and settled as a merchant. Partial transcript available on request. Very good.
(400/600)
119. (Lynching) Real-photo postcard showing of three men hung by the neck from a tree - the second-to-the-last
lynching in the American West. 14x8,5 cm. (5½x3½”). Unused.
No place: c.1920
A grizzly scene of one of the last cases of capital “vigilante justice” in California. On
December 2, 1920 in San Francisco, three members of the Howard Street Gang, a group of
organized bootleggers operating out of a South- of -Market warehouse, lured two young girls to
a home, where they were “brutally assaulted.” The three, Terry Fitts, George Boyd and Charles
Valento, fled the supposed safe haven of Santa Rosa. Two San Francisco detectives contacted
Sonoma County Sheriff Petray and after a search the perpetrators were found at 28 West 7th
Street, and in a gun battle Sheriff Petray and Detectives Jackson and Dorman were killed. In
December of 1920 a mob overpowered jail personnel and removed the three prisoners who
were being held for the murder of the Sheriff and two detectives. The mob took the three
prisoners to the Rural Cemetery on Franklin Avenue, where they were dragged beneath a
locust tree and lynched. The leader of the vigilantes made everyone remain at the grisly scene
until the three were dead. It was the next to last lynching in California. Very good or better
condition.
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PANORAMA OF MT. TAM RAILWAY
120. (Marin County - Mt. Tamalpais Railway) Wohlbruck, T. C. Original panoramic photograph of the
Mt. Tamalpais passenger train. Gelatin silverprint panoramic photograph of the Muir Woods and Mt.
Tamalpais passenger train with Mt. Tamalpais in the background. Image measures 15.5x69 cm.
(6x27”) framed, with frame measures 18.5x73 cm. (7¼x18¾”).
San Francisco: c.1919
Nice early view of the Mill Valley and Mt. Tamalpais Scenic Railway, also known as “The
Crookedest Railroad in the World.” Once located in the beautiful Marin County of the San
Francisco Bay Area, it traversed the famous “double bow-knot” allowing locals and tourists
alike to experience jaw-dropping vistas as they reached the 2,571 foot summit. The trip would
end with a daring climb aboard the Gravity Car where the “Gravity Man” would “turn on the
gravity,” and down they would coast over 8¼ miles, around 281 turns on the mountain’s 7%
grade to the Mill Valley depot in Muir Woods. Photographer’s imprint in the negative Very good
or better, not examined out of frame.
(500/800)
121. (Marin County, California) Advertising poster for milk, “Lineup with Marin Dell. Sold only at Independent
Stores.”. Poster in blue and red on white background, featuring a football player in three-point stance
along with a large milk bottle. 68x53 cm. (26¾x20¾”).
San Francisco: Allied Printing, c.1935
Attractive poster advertising this San Francisco-based milk company which sold the milk froom
the dairy farms of Marin County. In 1919, Anthony F. Silveira bought the Miller Ranch - later
known as the Silveira Ranch. In 1929 he founded Marin Dairymen’s Milk Company, Ltd.,
known as Marin Dell--’the milk your children deserve.’ The business, operated in San Francisco,
received and processed milk from Marin dairies (including Silveira’s) and sold to independent
grocers in the Bay Area. Minor soiling, a bit of edge wear, very good.
(300/500)
122. (Maritime) Membership book of H.C Christiansen in the Sailor’s Union of the Pacific, with Constitution
and By-Laws. 48 pp. + 1 leaf Membership Certificate filled out in ink with blindstamp seal, & 3 leaves
for recording payment of dues.11.2x8.5 cm. (4¾x3½”), blue cloth lettered in gilt, paper label with
Christiansen’s name and membership number 928 in ink.
San Francisco: Commercial Publishing Co., 1903
Scarce membership book for a sailor in the labor union of mariners, fishermen and boatmen
working aboard U.S. flag vessels, founded in 1885 as the Coast Sailor’s Union, and merging
with the Steamship Sailor’s Union in 1891 to be renamed Sailor’s Union of the Pacific. H.C.
Christiansen joined in December of 1903, and paid his dues regularly through March of 1906.
OCLC/WorldCat lists a smattering of copies of various dates, but none of the 1903 priting,
and only single copies for 1900 (at the National Library of New Zealand) and 1902 (at Yale),
with two copes of the 1907 issue (at Stanford and Johns Hopkins). Modest wear, very good.
(200/300)
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123. (Maritime) Vessels Owned on the U.S. Pacific Coast including the Hawaiian Islands: Complete list of
vessels documented at San Francisco, Puget Sound Ports, Astoria, Portland, Eureka, San Pedro, San Diego, and
Honolulu Custom Houses, compiled from official sources for the Commercial Publishing Company [corrected only
to January 1st, 1901.]. 92 pp. including illustrated advertisements.14.5x23.7 cm. (5¾x9½”), original
printed wrappers.
San Francisco: Commercial Publishing Company, 1901
Listings of thousands of commercial vessels based in the western U.S. and Hawaii, listing the
name, vessel type and rig, tonnage, dimensions, date and place built, managing owner and
home port. Of great interest are the numerous advertisements, including for Hind, Rolph &
Co., Shipping ad Commission Merchants of Sa Francisco and Honolulu; Union Iron Works of
San Fancisco “The Only Builders of Steel and Iron Vessels on the Pacific Coast”; John Twigg
& Sons, Boatbuilders ad Shipwrights, San Francisco; etc. OCLC/WorldCat lists only a handful
of runs of this listing, with varying tiles, but none are indicated as having the 1901 issue,
with earliest issue being 1904, at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Library.
Staining and edge chipping to wrappers, spine reglued; about very good.
(500/800)
124. Massett, Stephen C. “Drifting About,” or What “Jeems Pipes of Pipesville” Saw-and-Did. Woodcut
illustrations by Mullen. (8vo), original blindstamped brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. First Edition.
New York: Carleton, 1863
Recollections of the first professional entertainer to delight gold rush San Francisco. Cowan
p.419, Kurutz 431a, Wheat 139. Spine faded, light wear, early owner’s name on endpaper and
title page; very good.
(100/150)
MOLLHAUSSEN’S RARE NARRATIVE OF THE IVES COLORADO EXPEDITION, 1861
125. Möllhausen, Balduin. Reisen in die Felsengebirge Nord-Amerikas bis zum Hoch-Plateau von Neu-
Mexico, unternommen als Mitglied der im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten ausgesandten Colorado-
Expedition. 2 volumes. (iii)-xvi, 455, [1]; (iii)-x, 406 pp. 12 color-tinted wood-engraved plates, some
finished by hand, after Möllhausen, folding lithographed map, engraved facsimile of letters by von
Humboldt. (8vo) period (original?) cloth-backed boards, paper labels on front covers
Leipzig: Hermann
Costenoble / Otto
Purfűrst, 1861
“To Möllhausen
must go the honor
of making the
first real pictorial
representation of
the Grand Canyon.
It is a moody scene
with vultures and
dead trees clinging
to the banks above,
but it does convey
the vastness of
the Canyon.”
(Goetzmann).
Lot 125
“Möllhausen’s
narrative of Ives’s
Colorado River Expedition of 1857-1858 has evidently never been published in English.”
(Wheat). Howes M712; Graff 2850; Rader 2419; Sabin 49913; Streeter sale 1:178; Wagner-Camp
362:1; Wheat, Mapping the Transmissippi West 1032. Bindings worn, binding detached at front
hinge in Volume 1, rear hinge cracked, endpapers replaced in Volume 2; some staining to plates,
foxing; good.
(1200/1800)
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126. McGlashan, C.F. History of the Donner Party. A Tragedy of the Sierra. 261 pp. Wood-engraved
plates from photographs, including frontispiece of Donner Lake. (8vo) original blind-stamped blue
cloth, spine gilt-lettered. Second Edition.
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Company, 1880
“The author was editor of the Truckee Republican and being near the scene of the tragedy,
had access to many hundreds of letters and manuscripts of the survivors of the unfortunate
expedition of 1846. He built his book upon these and around the famous diary of Patrick
Breen, one of the actors in the many gruesome events described...all early issues have become
scarce.” (Zamorano). The first edition was in 1879, the second was the first one illustrated.
Cowan p. 406; Graff 2610; Howes M102; Zamorano 53. Spine leaning, ends and corners frayed,
light soiling to cloth, previous owner’s name on title page; very good.
(500/800)
127. McGlashan, C.F. History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra. Four copies, including:
* San Francisco: A. Carlisle, 1922. Thirteenth Edition.
* San Francisco: A. Carlisle, 1927. Fourteenth Edition.
* San Francisco: T.C. Wohlbruck, 1931.
* Truckee: T.C. Wohlbruck, 1939.
Together 4 editions, the 1927 & 1931 editions in wrappers, the others in cloth.
Various places: Various dates
“The author was editor of the Truckee Republican and being near the scene of the tragedy,
had access to many hundreds of letters and manuscripts of the survivors of the unfortunate
expedition of 1846. He built his book upon these and around the famous diary of Patrick
Breen, one of the actors in the many gruesome events described...” (Zamorano). The first
edition was in 1879. Cowan p. 406; Howes M102; Zamorano Eighty 53. All with some light
wear, clippings inserted, etc.; overall very good.
(200/300)
128. McKenney, Thomas L. & James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical
Sketches and Andecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. 3 vols. lxii, [2], 442, [1]; viii, 458, [1]; xvi, 355 + [1] ad pp.
Illus. with 123 color plates from lithographs of Indians, with printed tissue guards; 2 folding color
maps; 2 photogravure portrait plates. 9¼x6½, blue cloth pictorially stamped in blind, spines lettered
in gilt, top edges gilt.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1933
Nice edition of the classic series of Indian portraits, described by Field as “one of the most...
important ever published on the American Indians. The plates are accurate portraits of
celebrated chiefs, or of characteristic individuals of the race, and are colored with care, to
faithfully represent their features and costumes.” Howes notes the plates as “mostly the work
of King,” and declares that they are “the most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed.. The
original oil paintings of which the plates were copies were all destroyed in the 1865 Smithsonian
fire.” Originally issued in 20 parts over eight years, 1836-38-44. Light wear to cloth, smoke
staining to fore edges of page blocks with some staining into margins; good.
(500/800)
129. Messiter, Charles Alston. Sport and Adventures Among the North-American Indians. xvi, [2], 368
pp. With 9 plates from drawings by Charles Whymper. (8vo) original pictorial green cloth, stamped
in gilt and brown. First Edition.
London: R.H. Porter, 1890
Messiter roamed through Montana, Nebraska, Texas and other remnants of the frontier. Howes
M558. Some light wear to cloth, recased with endpapers replaced; very good.
(200/300)
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130. (Mexico) Anderson, Alex[ander] D. The Tehuantepec Ship Railway, a Review of Its Geographical,
Commercial and Political Features and Advantages. 22 pp. Illustrated with 7 maps. (8vo), original gray
printed wrappers.
New York: Bowne & Co., 1884
Lauding development of a railway across an isthmus of southern Mexico that would connect
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans – a route from New York to San Francisco which would be 1300
miles shorter than crossing Panama, and more than 10,000 miles shorter than sailing “around
the Horn”. The railroad was eventually built in the 1890s, but it was soon to be eclipsed by
construction of the Panama Canal, and, in the mid-20th century, would be called Mexico’s
“White Elephant”. Lightly chipped wrapper edges, a few tiny tears, some faint soiling; very
good.
(120/180)
131. (Military - 1835 only known copy of Jacksonian West Point admissions circular) [U.S. War
Department]. Regulations Relative To The Admission Of Cadets Into The Military. 1 pp. + integral blank leaf.
No place or date in the text, but dated 1835 in ink docketing on verso. The first two West Point cadets
graduated from the Academy in 1802. By 1835, there were still only 30 to 45 Cadets admitted annually
but there was enough interest in the Academy for Andrew Jackson’s War Department to issue what
may have been this first informational circular on requirements for Admission, specifying that Cadet
appointments were to be made with “care…taken to distribute them as equally as circumstances
will permit, over the various sections of the Country in proportion to the number of Senators and
Representatives in Congress.” Two years later, in 1837 – date of the earliest copy of this circular
held by the Library Congress in its massive collection of American broadsides – began the more
formal process of appointing one Cadet from every congressional district. In addition to its historical
significance in West Point history, this imprint is of typographic interest, as it was handsomely
lithographed - a printing process still very uncommon in the 1830s (first used by Nathaniel Currier
of Currier & Ives in 1834). We can locate no other copy of the 1835 circular in any American
institution. Tiny yellow spots; very good.
J.J. Brandon, lithographer, No date, but ca. 1835
The lot also includes: United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. Appointment and
Admission Of Candidates. Circular. 4 pp. 5x8”. Thirty years after the preceding item appeared,
this late Civil War version of the same document - which includes information on Qualifications
and Examination of candidates and the course of study Cadets would pursue - is also undated,
but the textbooks listed include such early 1860s classics as Henry Halleck’s International
Law, as well as the war-time stipulation that no person could be appointed to the Academy
who had served in the Army or Navy of the “so-called Confederate States”. Undated, but ca.
1865. Printed on thin, fragile paper with one small tear at spine, a small faint dampstain on last
leaf, and a tiny hole; very good. A bit of wear to each; very good.
(400/600)
132. Milner, Joe E., & Earle R. Forrest. California Joe, Noted Indian Fighter. With an Authentic
Account of Custer’s Last Fight, by Colonel William H.C. Bowen. Illustrations from photographs.
(8vo) green cloth, stamped in gilt, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition, trade issue.
Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1935
Inscribed by Earle R. Forrest on front free endpaper. Besides the fascinating story of
“California Joe” (Moses E. Milner), who served as chief of scouts for Custer, Dustin notes that
“the appendices have considerable value, containing lists of the killed and wounded in the Little
Big Horn fight.” Adams Six-guns 1507; Dustin 203; Howes M635; Luther 151. Jacket price
clipped, tape repairs to spine ends; endpapers browned; book and jacket very good.
(200/300)
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133. (Miner’s Safety Lamp) Miner’s Safety Lamp. Brass safety lamp manufactured by the Wolf Safety
Lamp Co. of America. Brooklyn, NY. 11” tall, highly polished brass with hanging hook and gas fuel
hookup attachment.
Brooklyn, NY: Wolf Safety Lamp of America, 20th century
Beautifilly made of heavy brass with glass lens and folding mirror. Appears to be fully
functional, clean, and complete. Provenance: from the estate of Sonora mine owner and
Americana collector Charles Segerstrom. Fine condition
(200/300)
134. (Mining) Richards, Robert H. Ore Dressing. 5 volumes, including index volume. (8vo) original
gilt-lettered brown cloth. Second Edition, Fifth Impression.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1908
The author was Professor of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy at M.I.T. Some wear to cloth,
spine ends frayed, a few hinges cracked; good.
(150/250)
135. Moorehead, Warren K. The American Indian in the United States, Period 1850-1914. 440 pp.
Numerous plates & illus. from photographs; folding map. (Large 8vo) original gilt-lettered cloth with
gilt cover vignette. First Edition.
Andover, MA: Andover Press, 1914
Significant and well-illustrated study by one of the leading archeologists studying the American
Indian during the first quarter of the 20th century. Howes M781. Spine sunned, light wear; very
good.
(200/300)
136. (Muir, John) Badé, William Frederic. The Life and Letters of John Muir. Edited by 2 volumes.
(8vo) original green cloth, brown leather spine labels. First Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924
Badé was commissioned in 1915 as literary executor of Muir’s estate, and he immediately began
to collect Muir letters of copies of letters, accumulating nearly two thousand in all. Kimes 366;
BAL 14779. Spines sunned, labels lightly chipped, clipped bookseller’s catalog entry tipped to
front endpaper; very good.
(150/250)
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BRONZE BUST OF JOHN MUIR BY DESIGNER OF
COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP
137. (Muir, John) Wendelin, Rudolph. Bronze bust of John Muir by the designer of the 1964 commemorative
postage stamp. Bronze bust on cylindrical wooden pedestal. Bust approximately 8” tall, overall 12” tall.
Number 8 of 20 produced.
Fredericksburg, VA: Stewart and Steven Wegner, 1999
Cast from the original clay model produced by
Rudolph Wendelin for the 1964 5¢ commemorative
United States postage stamp honoring the naturalist
John Muir. The casting of the bust was sponsored by
Muir bibliograper Maymie Kimes and California rare
book dealer Lloyd Mason and was cast by Stewart and
Steven Wegner of Fredericksburg, Virginia.Rudolph
“Rudy” Andreas Michael Wendelin (1910–2000) was
a United States Forest Service employee and the bestknown
artist behind Smokey Bear. Beginning in 1944,
Wendelin became the full-time artist for the Smokey
Bear campaign. He was considered Smokey Bear’s
“caretaker” until his retirement in 1973. Wendelin
was born in Herndon, Kansas on February 27, 1910.
He studied architecture at the University of Kansas,
and studied art at several schools. He went to work
for the U.S. Forest Service in 1933 as an illustrator
and draftsman. He served in the United States Navy
during World War II and returned to the Forest
Service after the war. He completed hundreds of
paintings of Smokey Bear. Rudy Wendelin designed
the 1964 U.S. commemorative stamp honoring John
Muir as well as several other U.S. postage stamps.
Among these were a Forest Conservation stamp in
1958, a Range Conservation stamp in 1961, a stamp
honoring John Wesley Powell in 1969, and a Smokey
Bear stamp in 1984. Fine.
(3000/5000)
Lot 137
TWO EDITIONS OF MUIR’S PICTURESQUE CALIFORNIA
138. Muir, John, editor. Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains from Alaska to
Mexico. 2 volumes. [v]-xii, [2], 240; [2], [241]-478 pp. Profusely illustrated with etchings, engravings
and photogravures. (Folio) 39.5x29.5 cm. (15¾x11½”), original half morocco and gilt-pictorial cloth,
spines lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, rebacked with original spine leather laid down.
San Francisco and New York: J. Dewing Publishing Company, 1888
Superb array of etchings, engravings and photogravures from works by important Western
artists, including Thomas Moran, Julian Rix, Frederic Remington, Thomas Hill, and many
others. Besides editing the work, Muir provided seven articles. Cowan p.486; Kimes 175. Leather
dry and powdering, bindings worn, tear to flyleaf in first volume; internally near fine.
(300/500)
139. [Muir, John, editor]. Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope. 10 volumes.
Various paginations. Illustrated with etchings, photogravures, wood engravings, etc. by eminent
American artists. (Folio) 40x30.5 cm (15¾x12”), original blue cloth, pictorially decorated in black.
New York and San Francisco: J. Dewing Publishing Company, [1888]
Superb array of etchings, engravings and photogravures from works by important Western
artists, including Thomas Moran, Julian Rix, Frederic Remington, Thomas Hill, and many
others. Besides editing the work, Muir provided seven articles. Cowan p.486; Kimes 175. Some
wear and soiling to cloth; several bindings shaken; overall very good.
(300/500)
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140. Muir, John. The Cruise of the Corwin. [2], xxxii, 279 pp. Illustrated with plates from photographs
& from sketches by Muir; map; hand-colored photogravure frontispiece with printed tissue guard.
(8vo) original cloth-backed boards, morocco spine label. No. 344 of 550 large paper copies. First
Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917
A compilation of 21 letters Muir sent to the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin describing his
adventures as the geology and botany specialist aboard the steamer “Thomas Corwin” in 1881.
The expedition to Alaska was actually to search for clues in the disappearance of the steamer
“Jeanette” and 2 whalers that had been missing since 1879, but as the Polar region was relatively
unexplored, it was also a scientific expedition in which Muir played a significant role. Edited by
William Frederic Bade. Kimes 347. Label chipped, light wear to binding; very good.
(200/300)
WITH A LEAF FROM MANUSCRIPT OF MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA
141. Muir, John. John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir. xxii, 459 pp. Edited
by Linnie Marsh Wolfe. Illustrated with plates from photographs. 8vo. Cloth, pictorial jacket. First
Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,
1938
Signed by the editor on the half title,
signed by Muir’s daughter, Wanda Muir
Hanna, on the front free endpaper.
One of small number of copies with
a manuscript leaf in John Muir’s
hand tipped in. The leaf in this copy
containing an 11 line passage from
Muir’s “The Mountains of California”,
reading in part: “On the morning of
the flood, January 19th, all the Feather
and Yuba landscapes were covered with
running water, muddy torrents filled
every gulch and ravine, and the sky was
thick with rain...” Kimes 379. Jacket
lightly edge worn; some foxing to cloth;
book and jacket near fine.
Lot 141
(800/1200)
142. Muir, John. Letters to a Friend: Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879. [6], 194 pp. Original plain
boards, paper spine label. One of 300 copies. First Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915
“Mrs. Jeanne C. (Smith) Carr, wife of Professor Ezra Slocum Carr, to whom these letters
were written, had a great influence upon Muir’s career. Mrs. Linnie Marsh Wolfe, in Son of
the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir.. says: `More than anyone else who came into Muir’s
early life she became his teacher in the humanities. She formed the bridge between the crabbed
isolation of his boyhood and the world of men he would have to live in’.. The earlier letters in
this collection were written before Muir came to California. In the others, written between 1868
and 1879, Yosemite is almost constantly the theme...” (Farquhar). A touch of wear to boards;
near fine.
(200/300)
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143. Muir, John. The Mountains of California. [iii]-xiii, [3], 381 pp. Illustrated with half-tones, 2 maps.
(8vo), original tan cloth decorated in green and gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition.
New York: The Century Co., 1894
Covering the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Kimes & Kimes states, “The book contains much
of Muir’s finest writing between 1875 and 1882, and is considered by many Muir admirers to be
his finest book.” First issue with foliation mark “1” at foot of page 1. BAL 14746; Kimes 189;
Currey & Kruska 258; Howes M880; Zamorano Eighty 56. Spine sunned, light wear to cloth,
clipped booksellers’ catalog entries tipped to front endpaper; portrait of Muir from another
publication pasted to blank leaf opposite first page of text; very good.
(200/300)
144. Muir, John. The Mountains of California. Illustrations from sketches and photographs. (8vo)
original tan cloth. New and Enlarged Edition.
New York: The Century Co., 1911
First published in 1894. This edition with the addition of an index. BAL 14764. Bookplate of
J.F. Devendorf, founder of the city of Carmel, Californa. Spine sunned, light wear, small crack
to front hinge; very good.
(100/150)
145. Muir, John. My First Summer in the Sierra. viii, 354 pp. Illustrated with gravure plates from
photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, printed tissue guards; illustrated in the text from sketches made
by Muir originally in 1869. (8vo) original decorative green cloth stamped in gilt and light green,
lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911
At age 72, Muir began to compile his notes for this book, of which Kimes states, “With the
skillful editing of his mature years, he retains the refreshing spontaneity and enthusiasm of
his youthful experiences and observations, interspersed as they are with his lyrical and ofttimes
mystical reflections. Thus, this book, published near the apex of his career, reaps the
competence of age while capturing the essence of youth, and becomes, we believe, his finest
book” - Kimes 299; BAL 14765. A snapshot of Muir and another gentleman, identified on the
rear as John Hughes, laid in. Light wear to cloth, front panel from dust jacket (trimmed) pasted
to front free endpaper, a few newspaper clippings tipped in with resulting offsetting; a few
pencil notes; very good.
(200/300)
146. Muir, John. Our National Parks. Illustrated with 33 new plates including frontispiece & doublepage
map. Gilt-decorated pictorial cloth. New and Enlarged “Holiday” Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909
Kimes notes that “In addition to the illustrations, this edition was enlarged with an `Appendix,’
pp. 368-376...” Published in October (for the holidays), 1,100 copies had been sold by February
11. Kimes 286; BAL 14760 Light wear to cloth, rear hinge cracked; title page foxed; very good.
(100/150)
147. Muir, John. Steep Trails. x, [2], 391 pp. Edited by William Frederic Badè. Illustrated with 12
plates, including frontispiece. (8vo) gray cloth lettered in white, pictorial cover label, top edge gilt.
First Trade Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918
All of the essays in this book cover the period from 1873 to 1902. Kimes 351; BAL 14777.
Minor wear to cloth, offsetting to title page from laid in clipping (now removed); very good.
(150/250)
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148. Muir, John. A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. xxvii, 220 pp. Edited with an Introduction by
William Frederic Badè. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including a frontispiece
portrait with tissue guard; map. (8vo) original green cloth, color pictorial cover label, lettered in white,
top edge gilt. First Trade Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916
This autobiographical story tells of Muir’s early life, from his departure from the University of
Wisconsin to his first summer in the Sierra. Kimes states: “Muir’s early writing included in this
volume is important in disclosing his nature-oriented philosophy of life and the direction in
which it was taking him.” Kimes 340; BAL 14773. Light wear to cloth, clipping from dust jacket
and booksellers’ catalog entries pasted to endpapers; very good.
(150/250)
TWO EDITIONS OF MUIR’S WORKS
149. Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir, Manuscript Edition. 10 vols. Various paginations. Illustreated
with numerous photogravure & halftone plates, the gravure plates with printed tissue guards. (8vo)
original pale green buckram with gilt leather lettering pieces, page edges untrimmed. No. 678 of 750
copies of the Manuscript Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916-1924
The original manuscript leaf, from
Muir’s “The Yosemite”, reads in
part: “No other pine in the ranges
is so regularly planted as this one...”
Manuscript with several amendments
and corrections made by Muir, with
words crossed off and later words
added. The set comprises: Boyhood
and Youth, A Thousand Mile Walk
to the Gulf; My First Summer in
the Sierra; Travels in Alaska; The
Mountains of California (2 vols.);
Our National Parks; The Cruise of
Lot 149
the Corwin; Steep Trails; The Life
and Letters of John Muir by William
Frederic Badè (2 vols.). Kimes 342. Spine labels worn, some light wear to cloth, short tear to
cloth at head of Volume 4; very good.
(1000/1500)
150. Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir, Sierra Edition - with custom wood shelf as issued. 10 volumes.
Sierra Edition. Illustrated with plates from photographs, drawings, etc.; printed tissue guards. Original
green cloth, gilt-lettered leather spine labels, large gilt poppy stamped on front covers, top edges gilt.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917-1924
This set sits in a decorative custom wood shelf. Kimes 363. Light wear to spine labels; else fine.
(800/1200)
151. Muir, John. The Yosemite. x, 284. 32 full page plates from photographs; 3 folding maps. 8¼x5½,
original gilt pictorial green cloth, top edge gilt. First Edition.
New York: Century, 1912
At Robert Underwood Johnson’s urging, John Muir wrote this guide book to Yosemite,
assembling and rewriting material from his previous published works in order to tell visitors all
about the National Park. He even seized the opportunity to include a lengthy chapter on the
Hetch Hetchy Valley, mustering support for the ongoing campaign to preserve that “Tuolomne
Yosemite.” BAL 14767; Kimes 308. Light wear to extremities, clipped bookseller’s description
tipped to front endpaper; short tear to large folding map; very good.
(200/300)
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D.F. BARRY’S CHIEFS OF THE SIOUX WARS, 1 OF 150 SETS
152. (Native American) Barry, David Francis. Chiefs of the Sioux Wars and the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Introduction by Royal B. Hassrick. 15 black & white photographs, printed from the original glass
plate negative from the collection of David Francis Barry, acquired by the Denver Public Library.
Various sizes, matted, as issued. Overall 51x41 cm. Housed in a red cloth drop-back box. No. 81 of
150 sets.
Denver: Paul Harbaugh, 1982
Reprinted from the original negatives, taken
in the 1870s, 1880s, & 1890s by D.F. Barry
and Lyman Bullock Goff. The collection was
acquired by the Denver Public Library in 1934.
Each photograph with a label on the rear of
the mount signed by Paul Harbaugh and A.D.
Mastrogiuseppe, photographic curator of the
Denver Public Library. Images include: Rain-In-
The-Face, Gall, Low Dog, Sitting Bull, Crow King,
Red Horse, Long Dog, Running Antelope, John
Grass, American Horse, Red Cloud, Young-Man-
Afraid-Of-His-Horses, Rain-In-The-Face, Sitting
Bull and Burial Tree. Rare, no copies appear in
the auction records since its publication and no
copies are currently available through any of the
on-line bookselling sites. WorldCat locates only 4
copies in institutional collections (Yale, Univ. of
Arizona, UCLA, Univ. of Nevada), though one
may presume that the Denver Public Library also
retains a copy. Light wear to the portfolio; contents
fine.
Lot 152
(2000/3000)
153. (Native American) Report on Indians Taxed and Indians Not Taxed in the United States (except Alaska)
at the Eleventh Census, 1890. vii, [1], 683 pp. + plates. With 19 chromolithograph plates of Native
Americans, etc. (2 are folding titled “The Race” and “Omaha Dance” by Walter Shirlaw), plus others
by Julian Scott, with tissue-guards; 2 chromolithographs of pictographs; 2 sepia-tone lithograph
plates; 157 plates from numerous photographs; 16 plates from drawings; 8 plates from paintings; 3
folding color lithograph maps (showing Indian Reservations in the U.S. by T.J. Morgan, Linguistic
Stocks of American Indians by J.W. Powell, etc.); 22 full-page maps (2 with coloring, 6 double-page
and 4 are folding); plus numerous tables and a few facsimiles. (4to) 11¼x9¼, original black cloth.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894
The single most valuable compilation of information known to the U.S. government at the
close of the 19th century about the remaining American Indians, broken down by state and
tribe, with countless photo plates, striking chromolithographs, folding color maps showing tribal
distribution, etc. Issued by the Census Office at the U.S. Department of the Interior by Robert
P. Porter (Superintendent) and Carroll D. Wright (Commissioner of Labor). Some wear to cloth,
rear cover with a split in the board, hinges cracked; internally very good.
(600/900)
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154. (Nevada) Commission of William L. Cox as Major in the Nevada National Guard. Printed document
filled out in ink, with two mounted seals. 37.5x48.5 cm. (15x19”).
Carson City, NV: June 23, 1897
Signed by Reinhold Sadler, Governor of Utah and Commander of the Guard, and by Adjutant
General C.H. Galusha and Secretary of State Eugene Howell. William L. Cox, commissioned
here, was born in Virginia City in 1868. He joined the Nevada National Guard at the age of 17,
and was serving as major in the National Guard when the news of the sinking of the Maine
was received, and he was among those who offered service to the government when war was
declared with Spain. He took an active part in the organization of a company, and when the
troops were ordered to camp he was placed in command of the provisional camp while the
troops were being mustered in. A little creasing, very good.
(250/350)
155. (New York) Membership card from the Elite Club Where the Manhattan Cocktail was born, 1892. Printed
and handwritten Card Signed by W.L.Brown, August 25, 1892. “The Manhattan Club tender to Judge
Samuel F. Hunt of Cinn[cinnati] the privileges of their Club House for two weeks.”
New York: The Manhattan Club, August 25, 1892
Colonel William L. Brown, publisher of the New York Daily News and a powerful New
York politician, was a leading light of the club, the most elite social group in America for
rich Democrats (until the 1896 nomination of William Jennings Bryan, when many members
turned Republican). Holding court in a palatial mansion on Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, the
Club had a reputation for gastronomic excess. One $100 a plate luncheon hosted by Colonel
Brown for his friend Grover Cleveland included caviar, turtle soup, boiled codfish, cold quail
in jelly and aspic de pate de foie gras, washed down with champagne, an 1870 Montrachet, an
1877 Chambertin Magnum, and an 1875 Mouton Rothschild, followed by liqueurs and cigars.
The Club history claimed that at least a dozen new cocktails were born at its bar, most long
forgotten, except for the most famous - which was, of course, the Manhattan. Some finger
soiling; very good.
(150/250)
RARE SPANISH NOVEL OF EARLY CALIFORNIA
AND THE EXPLOITS OF JOAQUIN MURIETA
156. Nombela, Julio. La Fiebre de Riquezas Siete Años en California. 2 volumes. [iv], 547; [2], (6)-580
pp. Woodcut additional illustrated title page in Volume 1; 20 lithograph plates (10 in sepia). (8vo)
morocco-backed cloth, covered with mottled paper, spines gilt. First Edition.
Madrid: Urbano Manini, 1871-72
“This book first appeared in Madrid, Spain, as a serial in
1871-1872. The author writes of early California in a narrative
style, but most of his book consists of flights of fancy. In the
second part of the first volume he weaves Joaquín Murieta
into the story and deals with him at length, following the
details of the California Police Gazette version of Murieta’s
life very closely—so closely, in fact, that certain parts are
merely translations from the English text into Spanish. He
calls upon his imagination in relating Murieta’s early life and
ancestry.” - (Adams, Six Guns). “Much of this novel relates
to California in the gold rush days, and there is much about
well known California characters such as Joaquin Murieta”
- (Streeter). Cowan p. 455; Adams, Six-Guns 1616; Howes
N170; Streeter Sale 2933. With embossed bookstamp of
Manuel de Haro y Mateos on Volume 1flyleaf, half title, and
title page. Mottled paper on bindings worn, corners rubbed
and bumped, front hinge cracked in Volume 2; some light
staining and foxing throughout text; Vol. II with worm
Lot 156
damage in gutter margin, occasionally touching a few letters;
very good.
(800/1200)
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157. (Pacific Railroad Reports) Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and
Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made Under the Direction of
the Secretary of War, in 1853-4...Vol. III. Volume III only. [2], 36, x, vii, [1], 136, 77, 127, vii, [7], 175
pp. With 21 color or tinted lithographs; 8 topographical charts; 2 geological plates; 1 folding handcolored
geological section; 2 folding hand-colored geological maps (the one of the Mississippi River
to Pacific Ocean is much larger, but torn away from stub). (4to) original full sheep. House Issue.
Washington, D.C.: A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer, 1856
“Volume III contains extracts from Lieutenant Whipple’s preliminary report, and Parts I-IV
of his final report, covering the itinerary, the topographical features, the Indian tribes, and the
geology of the expedition” (Wagner-Camp). The color plates are views and many good studies
of the Indian tribes from Whipple’s expedition near the 35th parallel. Wagner-Camp 263.
Binding worn, front cover detached; foxing; internally very good.
(250/350)
158. Palóu, Fray Francisco. Historical Memoirs of New California. 4 volumes. Translated into English
from the Manuscript in the Archives of Mexico. Edited by Herbert Eugene Bolton. Plates from old
paintings and other sources; numerous maps. (8vo) original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First
Edition in English.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1926
Compiled before 1784 by Palóu from diaries, correspondence, and other primary sources,
including accounts of the expeditions of Portola, Fathers Serra and Crespi, and others, the
Noticias was first published in Mexico City in 1856 as part of an extensive historical series. The
first separate edition was published in San Francisco in 1874, in Spanish. Cowan p.471; Howes
P55. A few penciled notes within, clipped booksellers’ catalog entries tipped to front endpaper
in Vol. 1; very good.
(250/350)
159. (Panama-Pacific International Exposition) Newlands, Francis G. Location of Panama-Pacific
Exposition. [4] pp. on a single folded sheet. 11¼x8½”.
Reno, Nevada: 1910
Printed letter, dated August 30, 1910, to R.B. Hale, Acting President, Panama-Pacific Exposition.
Senator Newlands suggests a location for the exposition to span the waterfront between
Telegraph and Rincon Hills along the eastern edge of the city. The site eventually chosen for the
exposition was along the waterfront in what is now the cities Marina district. Fine.
(200/300)
160. Park, Andrew G. The City Beautiful: San Francisco Past, Present and Future. Unpaginated. Illustrations
from photographs, including 3 folding panoramas. 18x26.5 cm (7x10½”) original wrappers, lettered
in gilt on front. First Edition.
Los Angeles: Houston & Harding, 1906
Photographs taken before, during, and after the earthquake and fire of April 18, ‘06. Published
less than two months following the disaster. Wrappers lightly browned and worn at edges; very
good.
(100/150)
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161. (Pennsylvania Broadside) Broadside of 1857 Legal Fees - From Pig Appraisal and Wolf Scalps to
Weddings. Broadside, “LIST OF FEES To be Paid Aldermen, Justices of the Peace and Constables,
Approved April 18, 1857”. 1 page. 9½x19½”.
[Harrisburg]: State Printer, 1857
Enclosed within an ornamental border, a vast list of fees approved by the State Legislature for
judicial and law enforcement officials, from premiums for wolf and fox scalps (15 cents), writing
the confession of a defendant (1 cent for every 10 words), warrant to appraise swine (20 cents),
order to seize goods for the maintenance of a wife and children (25 cents), arresting a vagrant
(25 cents), and, most lucrative of all - marrying a couple, with certificate ($2). WorldCat locates
only 1 copy – at Harvard Law School. Light foxing and wear at edges, one long tear starting
from top edge, repaired with tape; very good.
(150/250)
162. (Philippine-American War) Sargent, Leonard R. “The Military Filipino” in The Outlook (magazine)
- 1899. “The Military Filipino” in The Outlook (magazine), September 23, 1899, Pp. 202-206.
September 23, 1899
One of the few sympathetic American accounts of Aguinaldo’s army, written by a US Naval
Cadet who spent two months in the interior of Luzon shortly before the start of the Filipino
insurgency and the Philippine-American War. A bit of light soiling to wrappers; very good.
(100/150)
163. Phillips, Catherine Coffin. Portsmouth Plaza: The Cradle of San Francisco. xiv, 464 pp. Profusely
illustrated. (4to), vellum-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine. First Edition.
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1932
One of 1000 copies printed. Howes P311. Slipcase lacking, some light wear; very good.
(200/300)
164. Phillips, Paul Chrisler. The Fur Trade. 2 volumes. (8vo) brown cloth, slipcase. First Edition.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, [1961]
Socio-economic history of the North American fur trade from the 16th to 19th centuries. An
essential work on the subject. Spines lightly sunned; fine.
(100/150)
RARE PHOTOGRAPH OF REDWOOD LOGGING TRAIN IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY
165. (Photograph - Humboldt County Logging) Redwood Logging Humboldt. Albumen photograph.
25.5x34.5 cm. (10¼x13½”), laid down on album leaf, title printed in lower margin.
No place: c.1890
Lot 165
Splendid view of a train loaded with
huge logs, with a dozen or more
men standing on the logs, and a
greater number of men and women
standing by or on the train itself; H.
and M. R. R. is on the side of the
engine. On the back of the leaf are
two smaller photographs, of the
Tacoma Mill and another Tacoma
building, Puget Sound, Washington.
Logging photograph with a few
tears repaired when laid down, 6”
crease with crack in emulsion across
lower left corner, some foxing, very
good.
(800/1200)
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166. (Photograph Album - Boston) Album with approximately 375 silver photographs, most of scenes in Boston
and the surrounding area. Photographs approx. 6x8.5 cm. (2¼x3¼”), laid down on black paper leaves
in an album 18x28.5 cm. (7x11¼”), flexible black cloth, ribbon tie.
No place: c.1915-20
Wide variety of scenes, a few in Europe at the beginning, then most from the Boston area,
including family members, pets, buildings, parades, the zoo, on shipboard, rocky coastal views,
and more. Very good condition.
(200/300)
EXCEPTIONAL PHOTO ALBUM OF ALASKA, CALIFORNIA AND HAWAII
167. (Photograph Album - California, Alaska, Hawaii) Taber, Isaiah W. Album with approx. 44 albumen
photographs, most of Alaska and California, a few of Hawaii. Albumen photographs, laid down on both
sides of 17 leaves of card stock in al album. Most captioned with imprint in the negative. Album is
23x28.5 cm. (9x11¼”), full leather.
Various places: c.1880-90
Exceptional photogaph album, with 10 large (approx.
19 x24 cm.) views of Alaska and on smaller image of a
a Madonna in the Greek Church at Sitka; 6 large views
of Califorina and 21 smaller (approx. 20x12.5 cm.)
views; 2 small views of Washginton State by Haynes;
2 small and 2 large views of Hawaii (the latter with no
photographers’s imprint); and an unidentified large-size
photograph of a port city. Among the Alaska views
are Muir Glacier; Davidson Glacier; a superb bird’seye
view of Juneau and Douglas Island; Indian River
showing the Old Water Wheel; Mt, St. Elias; and Sitka
from the Harbor Islands. California includes Geyser
Lot 167
Canyon and Geyser Hotel; the railroad loop at Siskiyou
Mountains; Cypress Tree at Carmel Point; Vernal Falls, Yosemite, plus other Yosemite views;
Surf Bathing at Santa Monica; and other Southern California views. Among the four Hawaii
views is a striking photograph of Diamond Head with a beached canoe in foreground. Album
covers scuffed, worn, spine strip lacking; photographs mostly very good or better.
(6000/9000)
TWO WATKINS MAMMOTH PLATE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SOLANO FERRY
168. (Photograph) Watkins, Carlton E. Mammoth plate photograph of the Ferry “Solano” being unloaded,
with Watkins’ photography wagon visible. Albumen photograph. 39.5x54 cm. (15½x21”), on original board
mount.
[San Francisco]: c.1880
Striking and rare Watkins photograph of
a four-car train being unloaded from the
Solano Ferry at Fort Costa, a steam engine
pulling the cars along the on-board tracks
upon which they had rested while making
the trip across the Carquinez Straights from
Benecia. Peeking out from behind one of
the towers on the wharf is the back end
of Watkins’ wagon, in which he carried
his photography supplies and developed
his glass plates. Much scarcer than
Watkins Yosemite views, which were more
marketable and thus produced in far greater
Lot 168
numbers. Mount with wear to edges and
margins, 4” tear to lower margin; image with
some fading and toning, mild soling in a few places; overall very good.
(3000/5000)
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169. (Photograph) Watkins, Carlton E. Mammoth plate photograph of the Ferry “Solano” with passengers
and crew members, plus two onboard trains visible. Albumen photograph. 39.5x54 cm. (15½x21”), on
original board mount.
[San Francisco]: c.1880
Lot 169
Famous view of the deck of the ferry Solona,
which crossed the Carqnuinez Straight between
Benecia and Port Costa, carrying trains on
tracks to be pulled off the ferry and quickly
proceed on their journey. This example has
been retouched at an early date to enhance
reproduction, with ink highlights drawn in to
enhance the contrast. “Mpss Eng.Co. N.Y.” is
in white ink at lower left of image. There are
a few pencil cropping marks in the margins.
Mount with edge wear, stained at left margin;
image with some toning, overall very good.
(2000/3000)
170. (Photographs - Stereoviews) Twenty-five stereoviews of western scenes. 25 stereoview cards, including
scenes of the big trees at Mariposa Grove, Grand Canyon of the Arkansas, Box Canyon Colorado,
Lake Luena, a large group of images of the various stone features of Monument Park, etc.
Various places: Late 19th century
All with some light wear, a few with chips; overall very good.
(250/350)
171. (Photographs - Watsonville, CA) Morita (photographer). Six gelatin silver photographs of the
Pajaro Valley Fruit Evaporating Co. in Watsonville, California. 6 photographs. Images approx. 19x24 cm.
(7½x9½”), on original mounts 30.5x35.5 cm. (12x14”), with imprint of Morita, Salinas, Calif.
Salinas, CA: c.1925
Photographs of a fruit processing factory in the fertile Pajaro Valley, with most if not all of
the workers appearing of Japanese descent. Four are of the exterior of the three conjoined
buildings (one of these a duplicate), one is of the bustling interior, and one of the employees
grouped on and in front of a truck parked in front of the factory. Some extremity wear to
mounts, overall very good.
(200/300)
172. (Photographs) Jackson, William Henry, Photographer. Two Chromo-Lithograph Process
Photographs by William Henry Jackson. 2 Jackson Chromo-Lithograph Process framed photographs; one
titled “A Chinese Maiden” (#51211), probably SF Chinatown, 3½x7” sight; and another of Pueblo
Indians “Antelope Priests Chanting At Kisl, Moki Snake Dance” ( #53813), 7x9” sight. Both clean
bright images, not examined out of frames.
No date
Jackson’s process began with wet plate glass negatives and the prints were made from several
blocks of fine grained limestone. He supervised a staff of many skilled people, many who came
to Detroit from Central Europe. Jackson was the only English speaking person who knew the
entire secret of his production process, so it may very well never be known. Examination of
each print under magnification reveals an extremely fine grain, but there is no trace of the dot
which is common to fine lithography today. Both appear fine, not examined out of frame.
(300/500)
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173. (Postcards) Star Novelty Co. printed list of “200 Names of Persons Who Wish to Exchange Picture Post
Cards With You”. Printed list in five columns, on single sheet, with listings for available postcard on
verso. 35.5x26 cm. (14x10¼”). With original mailing envelope addressed to a Miss Netta Ludwig in
Iowa.
Waldo, CA: Wm. B. Ross, c.1908
Listing of people who would like to exhange postcards, an ingenious marketing technique
for the Yuba Count, California Company - not only could they sell their color postcards to
correspondents wanting to exchange missives with those in far off places, but they alse received
compensation for placing people on he list. No copies of this advertising piece are listed in
OCLC/WorldCat. Very good or better condition.
(300/500)
ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR RADCLIFFE
ENDOWMENT FUND POSTER
174. (Poster Art, Womens History) Walker, Charles
Howard. “The Gate of Opportunity” - Original poster
art for Radcliffe College. Original pen and ink on card
drawing for a poster. Approximately 25x16”.
Radcliffe Endowent Fund, 1922
Charles Howard Walker (1857-1936) was a noted
Boston architect and MIT Professor, best known
for his architectural work, including design of
the Palace of Electricity at the St. Louis World’s
Fair of 1903. He also produced some ornate
propaganda posters during World War I. But this
poster for Radcliffe College – founded as male
Harvard’s “annex” for women – may be a unique
example of his later work. It first appeared in a
Radcliffe periodical of 1922 and more recently
was reproduced as frontispiece in historian Laurel
Thatcher Ulrich’s study of “Gender in Harvard and
Radcliffe History”. Some small chips to margins,
tape repairs on verso, some soiling to surface; very
good.
(1000/1500)
Lot 174
175. (Posters - WWI) Americans All! - Victory Liberty Loan. Color lithograph, 39¾x27”.
Boston: Forbes, 1919
Image of a young woman in a white gown with a patriotic cape holding a wreath aloft before
and “Honor Roll” of names, clearly representing the ethnic diversity among the American
forces. Illustration by Howard Chandler Christy. Mounted to the rear of a Charles F. Hurley
for Governor campaign poster (Massachusetts, c. 1936). A few short tears within image, some
rippling and creasing from amateur mounting; good.
(150/250)
176. (Posters - WWI) And They Thought We Couldn’t Fight - Victory Liberty Loan. Color lithograph,
40x30”.
Philadelphia: Ketterlinus, [c. 1920]
Image of a bandaged, yet smiling soldier, gripping the helmets of several fallen German soldiers
in his hands, his rifle over his shoulder. Illustration by Clyde Forsythe. Heavily chipped at edges,
mostly marginal but into image in several spots, long tear at bottom, several other shorter tears,
old tape repairs on rear; good.
(150/250)
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177. (Posters - WWI) Enrolls for National Service. Color lithograph, 30x20”.
No place: [1919]
Portraits of Lincoln and Washington above the crossed flags of the United States and the Red
Cross, portrait of Woodrow Wilson below. Designed for use in classrooms, with instructions
to the teacher in the lower margin. Unused. Pinholes in corners and margins, creasing, some
chipping and short tears, old tape repair on rear, small pea-size hole in lower third; good.
(100/150)
178. (Posters - WWI) For Home and Country - Victory Liberty Loan. Color lithograph, 40x30”.
New York: American Lithographic Company, 1918
Image of a young soldier returning home, receiving hugs from his family. Illustration by Alfred
Everitt Orr. Edges chipped and with a few short tears, old tape repairs on rear; good.
(150/250)
179. (Posters - WWI) Help Them. Keep Your War Savings Pledge. Color lithograph, 30x20”.
New York: American Lithographic Company, [c.1920]
Image of soldiers in the trenches, machine guns blazing. Illustration by Casper Emerson, Jr. A
bit of light edge wear, light wrinkling from having been previously rolled; very good.
(150/250)
180. (Posters - WWI) Sure! We’ll Finish the Job - Victory Liberty Loan. Color lithograph, 37¼x25½”
(visible). Matted and framed, overall 45¼x32¾”.
Chicago: Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., 1918
Image of an overall clad farmer reaching into his pocket. Illustration by Gerrit A. Beneker.
Some horizontal creasing otherwise appears very good. Not examined out of frame.
(250/350)
181. (Posters - WWI) Three World War I posters. Includes:
* “A sense of obligation for the varied and useful service rendered...by the Y.M.C.A....Pershing.”
* President Wilson to the People of the United States.
Lithograph posters, each 30x20”.
Various places: [c.1920]
Also includes: The Greatest Mother in the World (Red Cross). 27½x20½” (trimmed?), backed
with part of a campaign poster. All with significant wear, chipping, tears, old tape repairs, etc.;
fair to good only, offered as is.
(80/120)
182. (Posters - WWI) Two World War I Liberty Loan Posters. Includes:
* Remember Argonne, Chateau-Thierry...And Invest.
* The Hun - His Mark. Blot it Out With Liberty Bonds.
Various places: [c.1920]
2 lithograph posters, each 30x20”. Some chipping and tears, old tape repairs on rear; about very
good.
(100/150)
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183. (Remington, Frederic) 1896 “Oregon Trail” Publishers Seek Frederic Remington’s Fort Laramie Painting.
Autograph Letter Signed (“Bailey”). 2 pp.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, October 9, 1896
To C.B.Shea, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: “Through the courtesy of the American Art Association
of New York, we have been informed that some time ago you purchased from them a picture
by Mr. Frederic Remington entitled, “Fort Laramie and its Inmates”. This picture, together with
a number of others was made by Mr. Remington for the late Francis Parkman as an illustration
in his “Oregon Trail”, of which we are the publishers. We now have in process of manufacture
a new and very fine edition of Mr. Parkman’s historical works, which is to be illustrated with
a series of photogravure plates. The picture of Fort Laramie will appear in the new edition…
and we write to ask if you would allow us to have a photograph made of the picture in your
possession, as we can get a much better result by photographing from the original than from
any of the prints in our present edition…” Remington’s Laramie illustration was included
in Little Brown’s 1898 “Oregon Trails”, but there is no indication that it was taken from the
original painting purchased by Shea, who owned Pittsburgh’s leading department store. Very
good.
(150/250)
184. Ritzenthaler, Robert. Iroquois False-Face Masks. 71 pp. Illustrations from photographs, many in
color. (Small 4to) two-tone cloth. First Edition.
Milwaukee: Milwaukee Public Museum, [1969]
A catalog of the collection held by the Milwaukee Museum. One of only 1500 copies printed.
Fine.
(100/150)
185. (Roosevelt, Eleanor) Tarr, Ralph Stockman & Lawrence Martin. Alaskan Glacier Studies. xxvii,
498 pp. Plates from photographs; maps and illustrations in the text, 2 (of 9) colored maps in rear
pocket. 10x7, original red buckram. First Edition.
Washington: National Geographic Society, 1914
With the bookplate of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Signature on half title of G. Hall
Roosevelt. Volume well worn, lacking several maps; offered as is.
(100/150)
186. [Rush, Benjamin]. An Enquiry Into the Justice and Policy of Punishing Murder by Death. 4 pp. Approx.
37x24 cm (14½x9½”).
Boston: The Massachusetts Centinel, September 27, 1788
The front page in its entirety is taken up with Rush’s essay in opposition of the death penalty.
Rush argues that the death penalty is contrary to reason, divine revelation and common sense.
Reprinted from the American Museum and authored in response to a reading at the Society for
Political Enquiries held at the home of Benjamin Franklin in March of 1787. Rush was a signer
of the Declaration of Independence from Pennsylvania. The second page contains a brief
article in concerning certain proposed ammendments to the new constitution. Split along spine
fold, evidence of prior binding, creased, some small chips (without loss of text), short repair at
bottom of center column; good.
(200/300)
187. Sabin, Edwin L. Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868: “Adventures in the Path of Empire.”. 2 volumes.
Illustrated by Howard Simon. (8vo), gilt-lettered green cloth, glassine jackets, slipcase. Revised Edition
with New Matter. Trade issue; one of 1000 copies.
New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1935
First published in 1914. “This book is without a doubt the best of the many works that have
appeared on that famous scout and trapper...” - Zamorano Eighty 67; Howes S1 (both for first
edition). Slipcase lightly worn, split along one corner; glassine jackets chipped; volumes fine.
(200/300)
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RARE SACRAMENTO NEWSPAPER BROADSIDE
EXTRA FOR MURDER TRIAL AND TRIPLE EXECUTION
188. (Sacramento - Murder Trial & Execution) Broadside Daily Union Extra, “Particulars and Incidents
of the Trial and Execution of Steward, Thompson and Ackerman, for the Murder of John Carroll”. Broadside
newspaper, printed in 4 columns, with woodcut portraits
of the three perpertrators. 47.5x28.5 cm. (18¾x10½”).
Sacramento: Sacramento Daily Union, April 29, 1853
Rare broadside revealing some of the tawdry aspects
of the Sacramento underworld, with gang members
turning on one of their own, and a murderer gone
free when he turned dime on his partners in crime.
John Carroll, alias Boot-Jack, was deemed no longer
a fit member of the gang of thieves, and Stewart,
Thompson and Ackerman pressured cohort W.P.
Dunham, who, professing to have borne no ill will
himself towards said Carroll, was nonetheless directed
to shoot him dead with a “five inch, five shot revolver.”
Dunham turned in his fellow thieves, and while the
three were executed by hanging (“the hatchet of the
Sheriff fell, severing the rope that held the traps and
launching the prisoners into eternity”), Dunham,
through “turning State’s evidence.. obtained immunity
of the law, and was permitted to escape punishment.”
Some smudging to the type, expertly silked on verso;
very good.
Lot 188
(3000/5000)
189. (San Francisco Earthquake 1906) Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. The Stricken City - Sheet music written
for the Hearst San Francisco Relief Fund. 4 pp. Written Expressly for the Hearst San Francisco Relief
Fund. Music by Prof. F. Fanciulli. Published by Permission of American Advance Music Company,
New York, Owner of the Copyright. 35x28 cm (13¾x11”) original wrappers with illustrated cover
in black and red.
Chicago Sunday American, Sunday, May 20, 1906
A song of despair and hope glimmering, written by Wilcox and Fanciulli. From the Music
Section of the Chicago Sunday American, pages 5-8. With cover illustration of a lady weeping
among the flames that are engulfing the city at her feet. A touch of wear at fore edge, a very
faint dampstain at spine; very good.
(100/150)
190. (San Francisco) Abstract of title for land in San Francisco. Manuscript in ink. 16 leaves, lined paper.
With one sketch map. 36x22 cm. (14¼x8¾”).
San Francisco: c.1890
Abstract of title detailing the transactions from 1865 to 1890 involving a block of lank on
16th Avenue at K Street, also referred to as block 327 per map of the South San Francisco
Homestead and Rail Road Association. Some wear, overall very good.
(100/150)
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191. (San Francisco) Bonnet, Theodore, ed. Annals of the Olympic Club [1860-1914]. 227 pp. Lavishly
illustrated with photographs by George Fraser. 9x12”, original brown leatherette, all edges gilt.
San Francisco: 1914
The oldest athletic club in America, the Olympic was founded a decade after the Gold Rush,
its “annals”, compiled by a veteran San Francisco journalist, being a veritable history of
every variety of San Francisco sport during the half-century preceding the great Earthquake
– football, baseball, basketball, track and field, cycling, swimming, boating, boxing, wrestling
and gymnastics, even bowling, fencing, billiards, and pistol and revolver shooting. Many of the
photographs are classic period pieces, depicting athletics of another age. Binding rubbed at
spine and edges; very good.
(200/300)
192. (San Francisco) Crocker-Langley San Francisco Directory for the year ending September 1909... [2], [17]-
2011 pp. Advertisements in the margins throughout; inserted color lithographed advertisement card
for the Schmidt Lithograph Co. 24x15.5 cm. (9½x6”), original cloth.
San Francisco: H.S. Crocker, 1909
Rubbing to covers; hinge cracked following title-page, Schmidt Litho ad a bit creased; about
very good.
(200/300)
193. (San Francisco) Edwards Abstract from Records San Francisco, No. 10436-10586. Continuous run
from Monday, January 4, 1926 - Thursday, July 1, 1926. 13¼x9¾, bound together in half black leather
and cloth, gilt-lettered spine.
San Francisco: January - July, 1926
An important and rare record of San Francisco real estate transactions (mortgages, probates,
leases, and more). This volume belonged to Charles Robinson R.E. (Real Estate), his name in
gilt on spine heel. Each issue approximately 4-8 pp. Only 2 sets of this periodical located by
OCLC / Worldcat, one at the California State Library, the other at the San Francisco Public
Library. Light shelf wear, joints starting; front hinge cracked; very good.
(300/500)
194. (San Francisco) Modern San Francisco, 1907-1908. Unpaginated. Illustrations from photographs,
drawings, etc.; folding panorama at rear. (4to) original wrappers. First Edition.
San Francisco: Western Press Association, 1908
Scarce view book documenting the rebuilding of San Francisco in the two years following the
earthquake and fire of April, 1906. Spine faded and worn, some wear and fading to covers; very
good.
(100/150)
195. (San Francisco) San Francisco and Bay Counties California. Telephone Directory, May 1927. 396, [4],
400, 230, [2], 77, [3] pp. Color advertisement inserted near center; illustrations within the business
directory sections. (4to) original paper wrappers.
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1927
Scarce early 20th century directory; OCLC WorldCat locates no copies. Spine leaning, some
wear and faint staining; paper browned, some dogeared corners and edge wear; very good.
(200/300)
196. Sandoz, Mari. Old Jules. Illustrated with many plates from photographs. (8vo) tan cloth with
outline portrait on front cover, pictorial jacket. First Edition.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1935
Biography of the author’s father, Jules Ami Sandoz, of the upper Niobrara country in western
Nebraska. “The Atlantic $5,000 prize book for 1935”. Small publisher’s slip, dated Oct. 31,
1935, laid in. The author’s first book. Jacket chipped, cloth a bit browned at edges; near fine in a
good jacket.
(100/150)
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VINTAGE SURVEYOR’S TRANSIT MADE IN SAN FRANCISCO
197. (Scientific Instruments) Roach, John. Vintage Surveyor’s Transit, Made in San Francisco by John Roach.
Large antique brass surveyor’s transit, which measures 22” in total length, with a 2-1/2” removable
brass extension tube which fits on the objective end. It is approximately 8” high from the bottom of
the round screw mount to the top of the transit tube, and weighs 15 lbs. The piece is engraved “John
Roach Maker San Francisco” followed by the number 691. It is contained in a heavy fitted wooden
(Walnut?) carrying case which is 10” high x 6” wide and 23” in length, and includes two brass locking
hooks. There is an old Roach label mounted on the inner cover, along with a label for the A. Lietz
Co. Manufacturer of Scientific Instruments, 632 Commercial Street, San Francisco. This may be a
later dealer’s label.
San Francisco: John Roach, Late
19th century
John Roach (1813-1891) was
born in Ireland, and was in
business in New York by
1834, advertising himself as
“philosophical instrument
maker and optician”. Roach
moved to San Francisco in
the mid 1850’s and specialized
in surveying transits until his
death in 1891. The transit
appears to be in working order,
including the built in bubble
level mounted below the transit
Lot 197
tube. All mounted on a 4½”
circular threaded base. The
transit has a dark finish, which has worn through to the yellow brass in some places. Overall in
very good condition, and a beautiful California made instrument.
(1000/1500)
198. Sheldon, Charles. The Wilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands: A Hunter’s Experiences While
Searching for Wapiti, Bears, and Caribou on the Large Coast Islands of British Columbia and Alaska. xvi, 246
pp. Illus. with photo plates; 5 photogravures from drawings by Carl Rungius; 5 maps. (8vo) original
gilt-lettered cloth, gilt cover vignette, top edge gilt. First Edition.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1912
Includes chapters on bear hunting on Montague and Admiralty Islands, Alaska. Arctic Bib.
15872. Bookplate of Frederick W. Skiff. Small bump to lower edge of front cover; else fine.
(200/300)
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199. Siringo, Charles A. Riata and Spurs: The Story of a Lifetime Spent in the Saddle as Cowboy and
Detective. Introduction by Gifford Pinchot. Illustrations from photographs. Original tan cloth. First
Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927
Siringo worked for many years for the Pinkerton Agency, agreeing not to disclose any
information secured by him other than to the detective agency itself. However, upon leaving
the agency he violated his contract and published several books of reminiscences, including the
present volume, which were subsequently suppressed. “The first half of this book was taken
from the author’s A Cowboy Detective, with real names in place of fictional ones. Siringo was
a persistent soul and seemed determined to use the enjoined material in all his books; but when
the publisher’s attention was called to this objectionable material, the books were recalled and
a corrected and revised edition was released. Pages 120 to 268 were suppressed in the new
edition, and all references to the author’s experiences with the Pinkerton Agency were cut out
and material on bad men substituted. Only a few copies of the original printing survived; hence
its scarcity...” - Six-guns. Adams Herd 2075; Six-Guns 2030; Howes S517. A touch of wear to
cloth; near fine.
(200/300)
200. Sitgreaves, L[orenzo]. Report of an Expedition Down the Zuñi and Colorado Rivers. 198 pp. Illustrated
with 79 lithographed plates, most are duo-tone; large folding map in the back titled “Reconnaissance
of the Zuñi, Little Colorado and Colorado Rivers made in 1851 under the direction of Col. J.J.
Abert.” (8vo) 22x14 cm (8¾x5½), original blindstamped brown cloth. Senate Executive No. 59, 32nd
Congress, 2nd Session. First Edition.
Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1853
The expedition, consisting of Sitgreaves, Lt. J.G. Parke, Dr. S.W. Woodhouse, R.H. Kern, with
Major H.L. Kendrick in command of the escort and Antoine Lerouz as guide, “left Santo
Domingo, New Mexico, on August 1, 1851, stopped at Zuni in September, and arrived in San
Diego on November 30. Most of the lithographed plates are from drawings and paintings by
Richard Kern, a few by Edward Kern, some uncredited. They consist of 23 duotone lithographs
of views, (numbered 1-24, with no plate 14, as issued); 6 mammal plates; 5 bird plates (no plate
2, as issued); 21 reptile plates (numbered 1-20, with a plate 10a); 3 fish plates; and 21 botanical
plates. Howes S521; Wagner-Camp 230:1. Light wear to cloth; short stub tears to map; light
foxing; very good, better than typically encountered.
(500/800)
201. Skarsten, M.O. George Drouillard, Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-
1810. Illustrated with facsimile plates; 2 folding maps. (8vo) red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First
Edition.
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1964
Although best remembered as a key participant in the Lewis and Clark expedition, Drouillard
was a major figure in the early history of the Rocky Mountain fur trade. A partner of Manuel
Lisa, he established several forts in the Missouri Basin, trapped with John Colter along the
Yellowstone and Big Horn rivers, and was killed by the Blackfeet in 1810. An excellent
biography, and the only work on Drouillard’s life and career. Clark & Brunet, 232. A touch of
edge wear; fine.
(200/300)
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202. Soulé, Frank, John H. Gihon and James Nisbet. The Annals of San Francisco; Containing a
Summary of the History of the First Discovery, Settlement, Progress, and Present Condition of California, and a
Complete History of all the Important Events Connected with Its Great City: To Which Are Added, Biographical
Memoirs of Some Prominent Citizens. 824 pp. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings, 6 steelengraved
plates (including frontispiece); 2 maps (1 folding). (8vo), original full red morocco, covers
stamped in blind and lettered in gilt, rebacked with matching red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, all
edges gilt. First Edition.
New York: D. Appleton, 1855
“A necessary reference book of San Francisco to the middle fifties, compiled mainly from
newspapers and information received from pioneer citizens...” - Zamorano. Also, the work
“not only gives an outstanding narrative history of San Francisco, but also supplies much
information on mining and its impact on this instant city” – Kurutz. Kurutz 594; Cowan p.601;
Graff 3901; Howes S769; Sabin 87268; Zamorano Eighty 70. Boards rubbed at edges; folding
map with some professional restoration; very good.
(400/600)
203. (South Dakota) South Dakota Historical Collections. - Volumes 1-41 plus index. 42 volumes. A
consecutive run from Volume 1 through 41, and with the cumulative index volume. (8vo) all in the
original green cloth but for Volume 1 which is in the original blue cloth. First Editions.
South Dakota: Various publishers, 1902-1989
An important Mid-western journal, compiled by the State Historical Society. Numerous
significant historical works including: A Comprehensive History of the Dakota or Sioux Indians
by Doane Robinson; The Sioux Wars by Charles DeLand; Aborigines of South Dakota by
Charles DeLand; Crazy Horse’s Story of the Custer Battle; Surrender of Sitting Bull by E.H.
Allison; A History of the Department of South Dakota, Grand Army of the Republic; and
much more. Some light wear and soiling; overall very good.
(700/1000)
204. Sterling, George. Yosemite: An Ode. Illustrated with 5 plates from photographs by W.E.
Dassonville; color pictorial cover label from a painting by H.J. Breuer. (8vo), original blue dust jacket
over boards, cover pictorial label. First Edition.
San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1916
Sterling’s tribute to the majesties of the Yosemite, with Dassonville photographs. BAL 18765.
Spine sunned, light wear to edges, gift inscription; very good.
(100/150)
205. (Stieglitz, Alfred). American Authors Guild Bulletin, Volume 1, Number 1. 14pp. + Membership
Application Form. Original wrappers, the front cover being a photogravure of Guild President, Civil
War General and New York book-dealer James Grant Wilson.
New York: 1895
Most notable about this first publication of the newly-incorporated Guild is the frontispiece – a
reproduction of the photograph “Sketching in the Bois” by Alfred Stieglitz, who, after buying
his first hand-held camera and becoming co-editor of the American Amateur Photographer, had
taken his new bride on a honeymoon to Europe, during which he produced some of his first
famous images – including this photo of an artist in the bucolic setting of a Parisian park. The
Bulletin notes that this photograph, by “one of the most prominent and bemedaled amateur
photographers in the United States”, was being printed for the Guild in an edition of 1,000
copies by Stieglitz’s own Photochrome Engraving Company. Its reproduction as the Bulletin
frontispiece was one of the early publications of Stieglitz’ work. Wrappers a bit yellowed, a few
faint smudges; very good.
(200/300)
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206. (Streeter, Thomas W.) The Celebrated Collection of Americana Formed by the Late Thomas Winthrop
Streeter. 7 volumes + Index. Illustrated with facsimiles. Prices printed in index volume. 10x7, giltlettered
blue boards, Index in blue cloth.
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 1966-1970
Perhaps the greatest private collection of Americana ever to appear at auction; the catalogue
has excellent descriptions of many rarities which have seldom surfaced since. Plain brown paper
jackets have kept the sunning usually seen at spines to a minimum, very faint; else fine.
(300/500)
207. Stuart, Robert. The Discovery of the Oregon Trail: Robert Stuart’s Narratives of His Overland Trip
Eastward from Astoria in 1812-13. From the Original Manuscripts in the Collection of William
Robertson Coe, Esq. Edited by Philip Ashton Rollins. Illustrated with facsimiles, portraits & maps.
(8vo), red cloth, black spine label with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, dust jacket. First Edition in English.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935
First published in French in 1821 in Volumes 11 & 12 of Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, the
work did not appear in English until the present edition. This Scribner’s issue is generally given
precedence over the Eberstadt issue of the same year. Howes S1103: Tweney 66; Wagner-Camp
19 (note). Jacket browned, chipped at edges; fine in a good jacket.
(300/500)
208. (Texas - 1832 Sam Houston charged with Contempt of Congress for Assaulting a Congressman)
Speech of Mr. [Philip (inserted in pencil)] Doddridge, in The Case of Samuel Houston, Charged with A Contempt
and Breach of the Privileges of the House, by Assaulting The Hon. William Stanberry, A Member from the State
of Ohio, For Words Read in Debate. 32pp. Disbound, removed from larger volume.
Washington, D.C.: Gales & Seaton, 1832
Fiery Sam Houston, after serving as a pro-Jackson US Congressman and Governor of
Tennessee, and living in Arkansas Territory with the “relocated” Cherokee, returned to
Washington in 1832 to expose government agents who had defrauded the Indians. When Ohio
Congressman Stanberry accused Houston, on the floor of the House, of also cheating the
Indians, Houston confronted his accuser on Pennsylvania Avenue and beat him with a hickory
cane. Stanberry, in turn, drew a pistol and shot at Houston, but the gun misfired. Houston
was arrested by congressional order and tried for assault. Defended by Francis Scott Key and
pleading self-defense, he was found guilty, but suffered only light reprimand. Stanberry then
sued Houston in civil court and won a judgment of $500. Houston refused to pay – and left
the country for Texas, then a state of Mexico, where he would find his destiny. This pamphlet,
the rare imprint of a speech by another Congressman with a legalistic defense of Houston’s
indictment by the House, was actually a thinly-veiled attack on Tennessee Congressman James
K. Polk, who was working behind the scenes on Houston’s behalf. Polk, of course, later became
the President who led the country into war with Mexico. Very good.
(200/300)
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209. (Texas) In Memory of Marcellus Kleburg: A Record of Telegrams, Letters, Resolutions and Memorial
Addresses Received by the Family, and Newspaper Comments Upon the Death of Hon. M.E. Kleberg of Galveston,
Texas. 95 pp. Portrait frontispiece; photo plate. (8vo) original blindstamped black cloth, lettered in
gilt. First Edition.
No place: [c.1913]
“Marcellus E. Kleberg (1849-1913), attorney, son of Robert Justus and Rosalie (von Roeder)
Kleberg, was born at Meyersville, Texas, on February 7, 1849. He attended Concrete College
and graduated from the law school of Washington and Lee University in 1872. He established
his law practice in DeWitt County and in 1873 was elected to the House of the Thirteenth
Texas Legislature. He moved to Bellville in 1875 and formed a law partnership with B. T. Harris.
On October 24, 1875, he married Emilie Miller of Austin and later in the year moved his law
practice to Galveston. In Galveston Kleberg was city attorney, city commissioner, and a trustee
and president of the school board for eighteen years. He was a charter member of the state
bar association and a delegate to the national bar association in 1912. He was a regent of the
University of Texas under Governor S. W. T. Lanham. Kleberg died in Galveston on March 1,
1913, leaving his widow and six children.” Handbook of Texas Online. Light wear to cloth; very
good.
(200/300)
210. (Texas, Mexico) 1921 Rio Grande Valley Promotional Brochure - Excerpts From an Address by C.L.
Jessup of San Benito In Reference to the Rio Grande Valley and Its Possibilities. 4pp. + 2pg. inset of clippings
from Mercedes, Texas Tribune.
Wichita, Kansas: Scott Land Co., [c.1921]
2pg. inset of clippings from Mercedes, Texas Tribune, January 14, 1921: “The Rio Grande
Valley possesses in superabundance the fundamental essentials for the upbuilding of one of the
most prosperous and happy sections to be found anywhere in the world…” Mercedes and San
Benito are only a few miles north of the Texas-Mexico border. When Jessup wrote this puff
piece for future land development, the area had only a few thousand residents. Yellowed; very
good.
(120/180)
211. Thompson, George. Prison Life and Reflections; Or, A Narrative of the Arrest, Trial, Conviction,
Imprisonment, Treatment, Observations, Reflections, and Deliverance of Work, Burr, and Thompson, Who Suffered
and Unjust and Cruel Imprisonment in Missouri Penitentiary, for Attempting to Aid Some Slaves to Liberty. 377 pp.
Woodcut frontispiece. (8vo) original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Early reprint.
Hartford: A. Work, 1853
First published in 1847. Uncommon in any edition. Spine ends frayed; foxing; very good.
(100/150)
212. Tilghman, Zoe A. Marshal of the Last Frontier: Life and Services of William Matthew (Bill) Tilghman,
for 50 Years One of the Greatest Peace Officers of the West. 406 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Folding
map at rear. 8vo. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1949
Story of one of the greatest peace officers of the West, with a 50 year career in law
enforcement, as told by his wife. “Surprisingly unbiased” - Clark & Brunet 254. Some fading to
cloth, library call numbers erased from spine, endpapers renewed; very good.
(150/250)
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213. Truman, Major Ben C. Semi-Tropical California: Its Climate, Healthfulness, Productiveness, and Scenery;
its Magnificent Stretches of Vineyards and Groves of Semi-Tropical Fruits, Etc., Etc. 204 pp. (8vo) original
pictorially gilt brown cloth. First Edition.
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft, 1874
The author’s observations on the agricultural and pomological limits and advantages of
southern California. Truman visited nearly every orange grove and vineyard in Los Angeles
county gathering his statistics. Cowan p.645. Cloth sunned; some foxing; very good.
(150/250)
214. Twain, Mark. Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven. [3], 121 pp. Frontispiece by Albert
Levering. (8vo) original pictorial red cloth, blue and white stamped vignette on front cover. First
Edition.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909
First Edition of the last book published by Twain during his lifetime. BAL 3511. Spine sunned
and slightly cocked, previous owner’s name on endpaper; very good.
(100/150)
215. Von Holst, H. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States. 8 volumes. (8vo) original
terra-cotta cloth stamped in black and gilt.
Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1889-92
Translated from the German by John Lalor and Alfred Mason. Hermann E. Von Holst (1841-
1904) was a German-American historian and author of several works on American history and
politics, this being by far his most influential. Minor wear, previous owner’s address label in each
volume; near fine.
(250/350)
216. Wakeman, Edgar. The Log of an Ancient Mariner. Being the Life and Adventures of Captain Edgar
Wakeman. 378 + [4] ad pp. Illustrations include lithographed frontispiece portrait. (8vo), original giltdecorated
brown cloth. First Edition.
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft, 1878
“The author came to California in 1849, and spent much of his life in Pacific coastal waters” -
Howes. Wheat notes “vivid descriptions of California in the fifties, with special accent on the
Vigilance Committee of 1851,” although Cowan cautions “there is a persistent tendency to
doubt his narrative at times.” Cowan p.667; Howes W23; Kurutz 657; Wheat Gold Rush 218.
Corners and spine ends lightly worn, early inscription on front flyleaf; near fine.
(150/200)
WALCOTT’S AMERICAN WILD FLOWERS WITH 400
COLOR PLATES
217. Walcott, Mary Vaux. North American Wild Flowers. 400
colored plates of American wild flowers with 5 descriptive text
volumes. 31.5x23.5 cm. (12½x9¼”), Text and plates complete
in 5 volumes, each with a folding cloth case and original twopart
box. First Trade Edition.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1925
A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated guide to
American wild flowers; the authoritative work on the
subject. Nissen (Botany) 2094. Original subscriber’s name,
O.H. Speciale, in gilt on front covers. Fine.
(700/1000)
Lot 217
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LOVELY TRIBUTE TO THE SIERRA NEVADA
218. Walker, Ardis M. Sierra Nevada Sequence. Illustrated with 32 tipped-in wood-engraved plates by
Kirk Martin; plus several wood engraved vignettes and initials. (4to) 11x8”, 35 unbound folded sheets,
loose in publishers folding box, as issued. No. 24 of
107 copies hand bound by Bela Blau. First Edition.
[Kernville, CA]: Sierra Trails Press, [1968]
Each tipped-in plate is titled and signed in pencil by
the artist. Additionally inscribed from the author on
the blank verso of the table of contents, “For Hugh,
Jean Nancy, and Katy. Good friends and gracious
Forty-niners. Ardis M. Walker, Jan. 27, 1968.”
The prospecuts is laid in, along with seven pieces
of related ephemera, including five collaborative
Christmas keepsakes printed by Martin and pairing
his art with Walker’s Verse. The “High Choice”
poem ephemera is inscribed on verso from Walker,
“For Hugh and my girlfriend because, in the past,
they found time for my poetry. Ardis M. Walker.
Sept. 7, 1969.” A touch of shelf wear to box;
prospectus with small spot of soiling and creasing;
contents are fine.
(700/1000)
Lot 218
219. (Washington) Automobile Road Book of Western Washington, 1913. 313 pp. Maps, several folding.
Lacking maps from front and rear pockets. (8vo) original flexible red leather, lettered in gilt.
Seattle: Lowman & Hanford Co., 1913
Scarce early guide to the roadways of Western Washington. Includes a list of the state’s licensed
automobile owners, with the make of their vehicles specified. Covers worn, spine cracking;
good only.
(100/150)
220. (Washington, George) Jackson, W. Monuments of Washington’s Patriotism: Containing a Fac Simile of
His Publick Accounts Kept During the Revolutionary War; and Some of the Most Interesting Documents Connected
with His Military Command and Civil Administration; Embracing, Among Others, the Farewell Address to the
People of the United States Together with an Eulogium on the Character of Washington, by Major W. Jackson, One
of His Aides-de-Camp. [4], 28, [1], 52 pp. Lithograph portait of Washington after Rembrandt Peale;
facsimile plate of colonial currency at rear. (Small folio) original cloth, stamped in gilt on covers.
City of Washington: P. Force, 1838
Includes a brief biographical sketch, the Constitution, and a full facsimile of the expense
accounts Washington presented at the close of the Revolutionary war. Covers worn, spine
partially perished at ends, front free endpaper detached; foxing; good.
(150/250)
221. Webster, Noah. The Pictorial Elementary Spelling Book; Being an Improvement on the American Spelling
Book. [6], 168, [2] pp. Approximately 160 woodcut illustrations. (12mo) original cloth-backed printed
boards. “Last Revised Edition.”
New York: George F. Cooledge & Brother, [c.1845]
The last edition revised during Webster’s lifetime (1758-1843). This issue apparently c.1845,
advertising William Webster’s “An Elementary Dictionary” as “Just Published”. Scarce in all
editions. Binding rubbed; foxing; very good.
(300/500)
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222. West, George A. Tobacco, Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Indian. 2 volumes. 478; (479)-
994 pp. 257 plates. (Large 8vo) modern red cloth and marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, original
wrappers bound in. First Edition.
Milwaukee: Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, 1934
An in-depth and important study on tobacco use and ritual among the Native American nations.
Bindings lightly rubbed; dampstain to a few leaves at the rear of Volume 2; very good.
(400/700)
223. Woodruff, W.E. With the Light Guns in ‘61-’65. 115 pp. Photo frontispiece, map. (8vo) original
red cloth, stamped in black and gilt. First Edition.
Little Rock, Ark.: Central Printing Company, 1903
Reminiscences of eleven Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas Light Batteries, in the Civil War. Exlibrary
from the Drew Theological Seminary with spine lettered by hand, call numbers at foot,
ink stamp on title page, etc. Light wear; good.
(100/150)
RARE NEWSPAPERS ISSUED BY GI’S ON ATTU, 1945
224. (World War II) Attu Morning Sun - 13 issues from September 1945, including the VJ Day issue. Thirteen
issues of this rare newspaper produced by American service men, including two duplicates. Each 1 to
3 sheets, printed on both sides of 13x8” paper. Numerous cartoon illustrations. Comprises, Volume
VIII, Numbers 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, & 23, with duplicates of Numbers 19 & 22. Also
includes a flyer from the “Labor Day Boxing Smoker” and a 3 sheet advertisement for educational
opportunities on Attu. The September 2nd issue announces the Japanese surrender on VJ Day.
Attu Island, Alaska: September, 1945
Attu Island is the westernmost and largest island in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian
Islands of Alaska, and the westernmost point of land relative to Alaska, the United States, and
North America. The island is currently uninhabited. The island was the site of the only World
War II land battle fought on an incorporated territory of the United States (the Battle of Attu),
and its battlefield area is designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark. On June 7, 1942, six
months after the USA joined the war, a battalion of the Japanese Northern Army landed on
the island, without opposition. On May 11, 1943, the operation to recapture Attu began, more
than 500 American soldiers died in the fighting and on May 29th the island was reclaimed by the
United States. Paper browned, some light wear; very good.
(500/800)
225. (Zamorano 80) The Zamorano 80: A Selection of Distinguished California Books Made by Members of
the Zamorano Club. Illustrated with facsimiles including a folding frontispiece. (8vo) gilt-lettered cloth,
dust jacket. From an edition of 500 copies printed by Bruce McCallister. This copy designated as the
“Printer’s Copy” and signed by Bruce McCallister.
Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1945
Those books deemed most peculiar to California and its history, with scholarly commentary by
Leslie E. Bliss, Homer D. Crotty, Phil Townsend Hanna, J. Gregg Layne, Henry R. Wagner &
Robert J. Woods. Light wear to cloth, short crack to rear hinge; very good.
(200/300)
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Section II: Asian-American History
226. (American Ginseng to China, 1898) Nash, George V.; revised and extended by Maurice G.
Kains. American Ginseng: Its Commercial History, Protection and Cultivation. 32 pp. 4 line drawings and 1
map. (8vo) original gray wrappers.
Washington, D.C.: US Department of Agriculture, 1898
Originally written in 1895 by Nash, who pointed out that American exports to China of
this medicinal herb had nearly doubled over a decade to $1 million annually. Kains added 10
pages to this new edition on a subject of growing interest to American farmers, given that
“the demand for Ginseng in China is steady and it is believed that our exports may be largely
increased without overstocking the market”. Kains’ monograph was subsequently reprinted
for nearly a decade by the Orange Judd Company, but this first printing of the government
publication is scarce. Wrapper edges yellowed, a bit of finger soiling; very good.
(120/180)
227. (Anti-Japanese Prejudice in California) Three publications Countering Anti-Japanese Prejudice in
California, 1913-1920. Three publications together:
* Soyeda, J.[uichi] and T.[adao] Kamiya. A Survey of the Japanese Question in California 16 pp.
Original wrappers. With tipped-in slip pasted to rear of front wrapper presenting the pamphlet with
the compliments of the authors. San Francisco, August 6, 1913.
* Gulick, Sidney. The American Japanese Problem, A study of the Racial Relations of the East and
the West. 349pp. Illustrated. Original decorative cloth. First Edition. First Edition. Scribner’s, 1914.
* Boddy, E. Manchester. Japanese in America. 198pp. Illustrated. Original cloth. E. Manchester
Boddy, 1921.
Various places: Various dates
In the wake of the 1913 racist California Alien Land Law aimed at curtailing Japanese
immigration, Soyeda and Kamiya, influential Japanese economists sent to San Francisco by the
Tokyo Chamber of Commerce; Gulick, an American Professor teaching at Kyoto; and Boddy,
a Los Angeles newspaper publisher, all diplomatically decried the anti-Japanese “race hatred”
rampant on the west coast, though Gulick noted that even most Japanese statesman recognized
that “immigration from Asia swamping the white man…and bringing wide economic disaster
to Caucasian laborers and farmers is not…to be tolerated.” The Soyeda-Kamiya booklet is a
particularly scarce imprint. Mostly light general wear; very good.
(150/250)
228. (Asian-American Photographs) Nineteen gelatin silver photographs of Japanese-American families,
groups and individuals in the San Francisco Bay Area. Various sizes, images approx. 21x27 cm. (8¼x10¾”)
down to 11x8 cm. (4¼x3¼”), on original mounts, some in studio folders, most with photographer’s
imprints in Japanese and/or English.
Various places: c.1910-1940
Interesting selection of Japanese-American familial groups, in both western and traditional
clothing. Varying amounts of wear to the mounts; good or better.
(150/250)
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229. (Aviation) 1920 Chinese-American Pilot in Redwood City - photograph. Original photograph. 8.5x14
cm (3¼x5½”). Photograph of a pilot, apparently Asian, seated on the wing of an airplane, inscribed
“Sincerely Yours, Wallace S. Chinn. 7-13-20”.
1920
The picture appears to be taken at the airfield at Redwood City, California, in operation from
1915 until the 1930s as site of a School of Aviation then owned by World War I flying ace
Walter Varney, an aviation pioneer who later founded a company that evolved into United
Airlines. Given that there must have been few Chinese-American aviators in 1920, it’s surprising
that there seems to be no historical record of a Wallace S. Chinn, not even in the 1920 US
Census. A bit faded over time; very good.
(100/150)
230. (California Senate’s Anti-Chinese Immigration Report, 1877) Chinese Immigration: Its Social, Moral
and Political Effect. Report of the California State Senate of its Special Committee on Chinese Immigration. Pp. i-xv
1-302, 1-49 and 1-13 Included in larger volume of Appendix to the Journals of the Senate & Assembly
of the 22nd Session of the Legislature of the State of California, Volume III.Original binding of
¾ leather with red and black spine labels. With separate title-pages for the Report of the Special
Committee, Address to the People of the United States Upon the Evils of Chinese Immigration,
Memorial to the Congress of the United States, Proceedings of the Commission, with Testimony
Taken and Statistics Submitted, Policy and Means of Exclusion, Report of Senator McCoppin of
Committee on Chinese, and individual speeches by H.N. Clement (San Francisco attorney) on “The
Conflict of Races in California: ‘Caucasian vs. Mongolian’”, and Oakland Judge John H. Boalt [for
whom UC Berkeley’s Law School is named), on “The Chinese Question.”
Sacramento: State Printer, 1878
An extended racist political diatribe, reflecting rabid anti-Chinese sentiment in California at the
height of influence of San Francisco labor leader Denis Kearney and his “Workingman’s Party”.
Often found with various portions disbound, this complete volume – which also includes the
Biennial Report of the Commissioners to Manage the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big
Tree Grove – is scarce. Spine darkened, edges worn, front cover detaching; very good.
(250/350)
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CDV PHOTOGRAPH OF CHINESE-AMERICAN ARTIST IN CALIFORNIA
231. Carte-de-Visite of a Chinese man - 1870s Photograph by first Chinese-American Artist in California. Cartede-Visite
photograph of a seated Chinese man, approximately 2.25 x 4.25 inches. Printed on verso:
LAI YONG, Portrait Painter and Photograph Gallery / 743 Washington St. / Corner of Dupont /
San Francisco (undated, circa 1871).
San Francisco: No date [c.1871]
Lai Yong, according to historians, was the first known Chinese artist in California, his studio
listed in San Francisco directories as early as 1867, though his only surviving painting, dated
1870, is a skillful portrait of future San Francisco Mayor Adolph Sutro, symbolic of his
remarkable success in the white community, considering the restrictive social environment
of the time. He was not timid about attacking racist treatment of his people, co-authoring
an 1873 pamphlet, “The Chinese Question from a Chinese Standpoint”, read, in translation,
to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and even featured in an article in the New York
Times. Yong was also a notable photographer, his photos of Chinese subjects appearing at a
Mechanics Institute exhibition in 1869, about the time that he opened his Washington Street
studio. Historians have noted only four known carte-de-visite photos by Yong – of a Chinese
man, a woman, two children, and one self-portrait which shows the artist at work on the
portrait of a caucasian woman. The photo offered here appears to be an unknown fifth photo,
portraying another Chinese man with similar, but not identical, clothing and accoutrements.
It is not surprising that so little of Lai Yong’s work has survived, as he himself disappeared
from San Francisco records in 1882 – at the height of the “Chinese exclusion” furor – when
he apparently sold his business and may have returned to China. Some fading, edge wear; very
good.
(600/900)
232. (Chinatown Dancers - San Francisco) San Francisco Chinatown Dancers and Art Exhibit - photograph
and leaflet 1945-49. Striking black and white photograph, 8x10”, of a male and female Chinese dancer
([Karl] Romaine Photography, San Francisco, ca. 1945-49); and Tai Ping Co. “Chinese Silver Pagoda
on Exhibition”, 701 Grant Avenue, Chinatown, San Francisco (1948-50) 4pg. leaflet, 5x8”, with
pictorial front cover and pictorial map on rear cover.
1945-49
The dancers are unidentified but are probably one of 3 popular duos who performed at
Chinatown nightclubs during and after World War II - Mai and Wilbur Tai Sing; Jadin Wong and
Li Sun, and Jade Ling and Jack Mei Ling. The leaflet highlights the exhibit at a Chinatown Art
Goods store of a monumental Silver Pagoda, weighing 1300 pounds, which was “spirited out of
Shanghai for safekeeping on the last ship to leave before the outbreak of the war.” Very good.
(100/150)
233. (Chinese and Japanese Crime in California, 1932) Beach, Walter G. Professor of Social
Science. Oriental Crime in California, A study of Offenses Committed by Orientals in That State, 1900-1927.
98 pp. Original wrappers. First Edition.
Stanford University Press, 1932
A scholar’s study of Chinese and Japanese lawbreakers in California and whether racial
restrictions on the political rights of Asian residents made them an “anti-social…danger to their
fellow men.” His conclusion: Apart from gambling and narcotic addiction among Chinese, most
offenses were “minor” and, resulting from “lack of acquaintance” with American culture, made
Asian immigrants no different from other new-comers to the US. Beach notes the particular
absurdity of racist myths about the “gross immorality” and chronic alcoholism of Chinese; out
of 65,000 arrests of Asians, only a few hundred were for either prostitution or drunkenness.
Surprisingly, there is only one brief reference to the Chinese “Tongs”, so often mentioned in
the tabloid press - of which, Beach notes, there was as yet no truly “trustworthy description.”
Wrapper edges a bit yellowed, a few tiny chips to spine; very good.
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TYPICALLY RACIST ACCOUNT OF CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA
234. (Chinese ‘Habits, Morals and Manners’ in San Francisco, 1880) [Densmore, G.B.]. The Chinese in
California: Description of Chinese Life in San Francisco. Their Habits, Morals and Manners. 122 pp. Illustrated
with 11 full-page drawings by Voegtlin (probably German-born William Voegtlin, who painted
scenery at the Third Street Opera House). Original wrappers, with pictorial front cover. First Edition.
San Francisco: Pettit and Russ, 1880
Gilbert B. Densmore, a San Francisco newspaper journalist, was later drama critic of the San
Francisco Golden Era, the West Coast literary journal which “discovered” Mark Twain; he
also helped dramatize Twain’s Golden Age. Written in the Kearney era, Densmore’s book was
typically racist: “...a herd of Mongolians.. walks abroad in our streets.. disseminating whatever
contagious germs these unclean celestials may carry about with them...” – thus justifying
segregation of Chinese schoolchildren. Yet Densmore grudgingly admitted that the Chinese
laborer “performs his work quietly, is cheerful and inoffensive”. And, as Chinese labor as “seen
everywhere” - running restaurants, picking strawberries, canning fruit and washing shirts – the
Chinese had become an irreversible part of California life. Wrappers worn, a few chips, tape
repair to spine; foxing, mostly at wrappers and early leaves; very good.
(600/900)
235. (Chinese Cannery Workers in Astoria, Oregon) Stereoview Photograph, Chinese Cannery Workers
in Astoria, Oregon 1904. Stereoview Photograph, “Butchering Salmon – Interior of a Canning
Establishment, Astoria, Oregon” (Keystone View Co., c. 1904) 3½x7”.
Keystone View Co., c.1904
Astoria attracted many Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century who worked in canneries
and lived in nearby bunkhouses. Construction of a “Garden of Surging Waves” city park is now
underway to honor Astoria’s Chinese heritage. Near fine.
(100/150)
236. (Chinese Divination and Fortune Telling in America, 1895) Culin, Stewart. “Divination and
Fortune Telling Among the Chinese in America,” in Ovrland Monthly, February, 1895. Pp. 165-172. Illustrated
with photographs and drawings by Teitoku Morimoto.
San Francisco: Overland Monthly, February, 1895
A scholarly study by a pioneering ethnographer and museum curator who had already published
the first serious writing in America about Chinese medicine and gambling games, based on his
observations among the Chinese population of Philadelphia. In this article, Culin – who went
on to study games in many Asian cultures - sees similarities between Chinese fortune telling
and that of American Indians of the northwest. This magazine was apparently the personal
copy of Grace C.K. Thompson who has made ink annotations of her own article in this issue
about “The Wild Flowers of Hawaii”. Wear to wrappers, tears at spine ends and small chips at
corners; very good.
(100/150)
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237. (Chinese in California) Leavitt, Mary. Autograph Letter, Signed - 1874 “Talkative” Chinese cook
in California mining country. 2 pp. With original stamped mailing envelope. To her son. John Nelson
Davidson in Iowa.
Plum Valley, California: Sept. 24, 1874
Writing from a Gold country way station on the road to Virginia City, she deplores a Circus to
be held on a Sunday at a nearby mining camp (“a disgrace to a civilized country. It should not
be allowed”); sends news of one Uncle who was going to the State Fair in Sacramento with
his wife, living at Gold Hill near Placerville after her son-in-law had “got hurt in the mines”,
another uncle profitably carrying lumber on wagons led by teams of six horses, and a friend
who “got into a gambling den on his way over here from Pioche [Nevada] and lost everything
he had…” But her most colorful observation was of “the Chinaman cook here, gets shaved
all around his head every once in a while, he looks fearfully just after being shaved but it soon
grows out again. His name is Hop, he is quite good natured and inquisitive and a great talker if
he can get any one to talk with…” Light wear to envelope, top half of letter yellowed on one
side; very good.
(100/150)
238. (Chinese Students in California, 1916) Two Autograph Letters Signed and one Typed Letter Signed from
Chinese-American students to prominent Portland merchant Seid Back, Jr. 2 Autograph Letters Signed and 1
Typed Letter Signed from Chinese-American students to prominent Portland merchant Seid Back,
Jr., thanking him for hosting them on a summer boat trip from San Francisco : K. Young. Fresno,
June 25, 1916. 1 pg.; K.H. Chiu. Chinese Students Christian Association. Berkeley, Calif. June 27,
1916. 1 pg.; and Stephen Mark. University of California. Berkeley (written on Board the Steamer
T.C. Walker), Undated, but postmarked Aug. 7, 1916. 4pp. With H.H. Hawley. Detective Sergeant
(Portland Police Dept.) Typed Letter Signed, Portland, Nov. 17, 1913. Asking Back for a contribution
for the “unfortunate girls” in an orphanage. All with original mailing envelopes.
1916
The most interesting is from Mark – later a Congregational Minister in Hawaii - who writes
that he was on his way home to Stockton to see his family, whom he had not visited for two
years.”Portland and Summer session both drained my pocket book, so I am dead broke,
knowing hardly I am to return to college. Of course, I have worked my way up to the University
from the third grade in the grammar school but as each year comes on in the University, I find
it much more difficult to work and to study at the same time. In fact, I am about at my wit’s
end..U.C. will lose several old Chinese students next year, but the chances are that new ones
will take their places. The requirements are so strict here that many a one finds it necessary
to transfer to some other university in order to graduate in due time.” Seid Back Jr. was the
40 year-old son of the wealthiest Chinese-American merchant in the northwest, a Chinaborn
immigrant who, coming to Portland penniless in 1870 to work as a houseboy and cook,
eventually built a million-dollar business empire, “importing” thousands of Chinese laborers
to work for the large American railroad companies. Like his father, Back was a Christian, spoke
fluent English and was famous in Portland for his charitable work. Light wear to envelopes (as
expected), some toning to letters and envelopes; very good.
(100/150)
239. (Chinese) San Francisco and Oakland Chinese Telephone Directory, February 1949. 38 pp. 24x16.5 cm.
(9½x6½”), green wrappers, stapled, a small hole punched through top left corner.
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1949
Only the cover is bi-lingual with English and Chinese language. Contents only in Chinese.
Scarce, no copies in OCLC/Worldcat. A bit of inevitable rust to staples, light edge wear; very
good.
(250/350)
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240. (Chinese-American industrial corporation stock certificate, 1926) 1926 Chinese-American industrial
corporation stock certificate. Elaborately printed Stock Certificate for 1 share in the Chinese-American
Industrial Corporation. Signed by the President, Fred M. Chu and Treasurer Cyrus B. Austin.
New York: Chinese-American Industrial Corporation, Aug. 17, 1926
There is no record of the purpose or activities of this Corporation. Austin, a Harvard-educated
New York lawyer whose father had been Dean of Ohio Wesleyan University, had no apparent
connection to China. Perhaps he was merely friends with Chu, who immigrated as a student
from Shanghai to Seattle in 1911, attended Willamette University in Salem, Oregon where
he formed a Chinese Training School, suspected by US authorities of being a “scheme to
introduce Chinese laborers into the US as students”. He then returned to China as a YMCA
representative, but, during World War I, appeared in New York as a member of the Chinese
Students Alliance. Chu then disappears from historical records. But his obscure Corporation left
behind a mystery: Twenty years later, in 1947, the “Chinese-American Industrial Corporation”
appeared as legal owner of a riverboat which attempted to secretly smuggle Jewish refugees
from Europe to British Palestine – a vessel that became famous in an international cause celebre
as the ship Exodus. Near fine.
(100/150)
241. Dooner, P.[ierson] W. Last Days of the Republic. 258 pp. Illustrated with drawings by G.F.Keller.
Original decorative cloth. First Edition.
San Francisco: Alta California Publishing House, 1880
A popular dystopian fantasy novel of the Kearney era, written by a former Arizona journalist
who had transplanted to San Francisco after running afoul of political powers in Tucson. The
theme: “Immigration becomes Invasion”, with a “Mongolian” army of the Chinese Empire
conquering” and occupying America. The illustrator was political cartoonist of the San
Francisco Wasp, the weekly satire magazine which specialized in racist stereotyping of Chinese
immigrants. Spine ends bumped with some tearing, rubbed and darkened edges; very good.
(300/500)
242. (Dutch Flat, California) Hong Kong Letter to Chinese Brother in Dutch Flat, California, 1915. Large
ornately handwritten letter in Chinese, rubberstamped on original mailing envelope “Quong Nam
Hing, Hong Kong”, undated, but ca. 1915 (British postage stamp used was first issued in 1912-14) 1
page on rice paper, 8½x19”/
Quong Nam Hing, Hong Kong: No date [c.1915]
To Quong Hong Shing, Dutch Flat, California. Untranslated, but appears to be a letter between
brothers about their import-export business, the Hong Kong resident writing that business was
bad, that he was thinking of closing his shop and moving to America. Government records
show a Quong Mam (sic) Hing exporting bean sauce to the US in the 1890s, while Quong Hong
Shing is listed in 1916 as reference for another Chinese man visiting the US Dutch Flat, in
Placer County, was another Mother Lode community with a Chinese community dating to the
Gold Rush that had its share of misfortune, the small town’s Chinese district having burned to
the ground, accidentally or otherwise, in 1889. Envelope browned and worn; very good.
(100/150)
243. (First Academic study of “Orientals” in California) Mears, Elliot Grinnell. Resident Orientals
on the American Pacific Coast. 525 pp. (8vo) original gray wrappers.
New York: American Group, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1927
A ground-breaking academic study by a Stanford University Professor, unique for its
comprehensiveness and focus on both Japanese and Chinese residents in the western United
States, Among the chapter titles: Treaty Rights, Constitutional Guarantees, Naturalization,
Exclusion, Personal Relations, Property Rights, Occupational Status (Mining, Fishing and
Hunting, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Trade, Domestic and Personal Serivce, Professions),
Public Service, Segregation and Community Contacts. This preceded by several years a 1930s
series of Stanford studies of Japanese-Americans. Spine a bit yellowed, light wear from
handling, name in ink on front wrapper; very good.
(100/150)
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244. (First Chinese-American, 1898-1912) Sui Sin Far (pseudonym of Edith Eaton). Two works by
Sui Sin Far. “Sweet Sin, A Story” on Pp. 223-226 of Land of Sunshine, The Magazine of California
and the West, Vol. VIII, No. 5, April 1898. Original wrappers, text illustrations; and Mrs. Spring
Fragrance (Chicago, 1912) First Edition. Original decorative cloth binding. 347pp.
Various places: Various dates
Edith Maude Eaton has been called “the first published Asian North American fiction writer”.
Born in England, the daughter of a British merchant and a Chinese woman who was adopted
by English missionaries, Eaton came to Canada as a child, eventually moving to San Francisco.
She began writing for magazines in 1888; in 1896 her stories began to have a “Chinese theme”
and were signed with her Chinese pseudonym. The 1898 story offered here was the sixth of
these, but possibly the first written with a San Francisco Chinatown setting. Fourteen years later,
she published “Mrs. Spring Fragrance”, her only book of collected stories – and the first book
of Chinese-American fiction, about an “Americanized” Chinese woman in Seattle; the book also
contains “Tales of Chinese Children” which first appeared in 24 different American magazines.
While a less popular writer than her sister Winnifred, who wrote a shelf of romance novels
under the Japanese pseudonym “Onoto Watanna”, Edith Eaton, at a time of rampant racist
stereotypes, as her biographer notes, “courageously chose to write of the Chinese in North
America as humorous, tragic, charming, and loving - in short, as human.” Only light general
wear; very good.
(200/300)
SUSHI INTRODUCED TO AMERICA
245. (First Japanese-American Sushi Restaurant, Los Angeles, 1960s) Menu for Kawafuku - 1960s First
Japanese-American Sushi Restaurant, Los Angeles. 2 pp. menu. 11½x9½”. Original decorative color cover.
Los Angeles: c.1960s
Located in the “Little Tokyo” section of Los Angeles, Kawafuku is reputed to have introduced
Sushi to America. Though sources differ about dates and details, the story goes that sometime
between 1964 and 1966, Kawafuku’s owner, Nakajima Tokijiro, partnered with Los Angeles
importer Noritoshi Kanai and Sushi Chef Shigeo Saito, to open “the first true sushi bar in
the United States” on the second floor of the restaurant (with Saito’s wife as waitress). This
menu does not mention the word “Sushi”, but offers Tempura and Teriyaki Dinners as well as
Sukiyaki, Sashimi, Tendon, Oyako and Unagi Donburi. Rare ephemera for the connoisseur of
Japanese cookery. Lightly soiled; very good.
(200/300)
246. (Fresno Japanese Family) Cabinet Photograph of Japanese family in Fresno - 1920. Photograph,
7½x9¼ inches in 11¾x13¾” mat, of a Japanese family – six men and two women of an older and
younger generation
Fresno, California: F.U.K. Studio, [c.1920]
The small, tight-knit Japanese-American population of Fresno County tripled in the first
decades of the 20th century as the “aliens” established farms, vineyards and orchards
throughout California’s Central Valley. By 1920, near a Santa Fe Railroad stop south of the city
of Fresno, an all-Japanese agricultural community of 100 families farmed 3500 acres, with grape
vines and fruit trees surrounding their Buddhist Church and community center. Entire families
lived and worked together to operate their farms. This picture probably depicts one such
extended family which eked out a living in the 1920s - until almost all the Japanese of Fresno
lost their farms during the Depression. Light wear at corners, a bit of finger soiling to matt,
light foxing to photo margins; very good.
(120/180)
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247. Grodzins, Martin. Americans Betrayed: Politics and the Japanese Evacuation. 445 pp. Blue cloth, dust
jacket. First Edition.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1949]
The first exhaustive study, by a University of Chicago Professor, of the racist “pressure politics”
behind the “disastrous political decision” which led to “citizens driven out of their homes and
herded into barbed-wire pens, their places of business searched, their personal possessions
seized, their reputations publicly maligned…” Jacket price-clipped, spine sunned, light edge
wear; light wear at volume spine ends; bookplate; very good.
(100/150)
248. (Hawaii - Japanese) Album of photographs from post-World War II Hawaii, featuring Hawaiians of
Japanese descent. Includes 5 group photographs of students, with identification in white in on album
leaves; 15 photographs of people around the islands, most apparently students, a few soldiers, some
inscribed to Janet in ink on the images; 27 portraits of students, inscribed to Janet in ink on the images,
some identified as Class of 1949. The group photographs approx. 12.5x18 cm., others approx. 10x7.5
cm., loose in corner mounts on black album leaves; 18.5x29 cm. (7½x11¼”), boards.
Hawaii: c.1948
Album kept by a student at Pahala, Kau, Hawaii, shortly after World War II, with most of the
students featured of Japanese descent. Very good condition.
(250/350)
249. (History of Japanese Americans in Sacramento Region) Maeda, Wayne. Changing Dreams and
Treasured Memories, A Story of Japanese Americans in the Sacramento Region. 274pp. Extensively illustrated.
Original leatherette binding. First Edition.
Sacramento: Sacramento Japanese Americans Citizens League, 2000
A fine book-making production as well as a ground-breaking history, from the earliest
agriculture settlements of the 19th century onward through the difficult years of World War II
internment. Near fine.
(120/180)
250. (India Labor Union of America) India Labor Union of America - “The Cause of Labor is One” - 1919.
India Labor Union of America leaflet, “The Cause of Labor is One” / Labor in India. 6x9”.
NY: c.1919
Despite its name, this organization was not really a union but rather a pressure group to garner
support among American workers for the cause of trade unionism in British India – where, as
the leaflet describes, working conditions and illiteracy were appalling. The hero of the group
was Bombay social reformer and union organizer N.M. Joshi, quoted here after attending the
first International Labour Conference in Washington, D.C. in October 1919. Joshi later played
an important role in formation of the All-India Trades Union Congress, which, despite his own
moderation, gravitated toward Communism. Little is known about the New York group, but
it was probably supported from the start by American Communists before their ranks were
decimated in the postwar Red Scare. Fine.
(100/150)
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251. (Internment Camp - Arizona) Poston III Young Buddhist Association. Mohaveland - 1945
Buddhist Pictorial Yearbook of Arizona Internment Camp. Approximately 144 unnumbered pages, largely
photographic, with captions and minimal text. Original pictorial wrappers. Apparently issued without
a title-page as the colophon (which WorldCat identifies as Page 2) is found on verso of the Table of
Contents.
Poston, Arizona: Poston III Young Buddhist Association, June 1, 1945
Scarce and uncommon publication, produced three months before the end of the War with
Japan, chronicling “our desert life in exile”. Located on an Indian reservation, the three Poston
camps, 200 miles west of Phoenix and 130 miles north of the Gila River camp (see above) was
the largest of the ten internment camps, holding some 17,000 evacuees, mostly from southern
California. This is a Block by Block pictorial record of the third Poston camp, showing how
the “residents” lived and played, despite scorching desert temperatures. 12 pages are devoted
to Nisei who died while serving in the US Army. A rare imprint, WorldCat locating only two
institutional copies. Heavily worn, crudely repaired copy, but apparently intact except for loss of
a few caption words on two pages, apparently issued without a title page; good.
(150/250)
252. (Internment Camps for Japanese-Americans) Arizona Internment Camps and “Resettlement” in Ohio
1944-45. Three original snapshot photographs, 2½x3½”, taken at one of the two Arizona internment
camps (Poston or Gila River), ca. 1942; with 1-page Typed Letter Signed by Max and Ellen Franzen,
American Baptist Home Mission Society, Cleveland, Ohio, September 14, 1944, to Ben Sasaki, Gila
River Project, Rivers, Arizona, and printed/teletyped letter from George T. Trundle, Jr., Cleveland
Resettlement Committee (for Japanese Americans), Cleveland, January 5, 1945. 3pp.
1942-1945
Distributed to Japanese-Americans at the Arizona internment camps, urging them to “resettle”
in Cleveland, where they would be given assistance in finding “suitable employment and
permanent housing”. Some chipping at edge of letter; very good.
(150/250)
RARE PAINTINGS OF JAPANESE RELOCATION CAMP IN UTAH DURING WWII
253. (Japanese Relocation Camp) Two watercolor paintings of the Japanese Relocation Camp, Delta, Utah.
Circa 1942-1945. Two watercolor paintings.The first, signed L/L, S. Mikami, 11x16”. View of the
Topaz Valley, near Delta Utah, the site of the Japanese Relocation Camp set up at the beginning of
WWII under Executive order #9066. Charles Erabu “Suiko” Mikami born in Japan, studied Sumi and
Japanese ink and brush painting as a teenager before immigrating to Seattle with his family in 1913. At
the beginning of the war, he was interned at the Tule Lake Internment Center and then transferred
to the Topaz Center in Delta, Utah. He continued to actively paint at Topaz and after the War, where
he settled in Morgan Hill, CA as a Strawberry farmer. Some of his work is currently being shown
in Seattle, WA. In an exhibit titled “Art Behind Barbwire” at the Northwest Nikke Museum which
celebrates the 70th Anniversary of the signing of Executive Order # 9066 and the arts and crafts
produced during that period in the camps. His work is also held in the Japanese American National
Museum in Los Angeles, San Jose Japanese Museum and the Sacramento State Art Museum.The
second painting is also an 11x15” watercolor which is identified on the reverse in pencil as “Delta,
Utah Relocation Camp” . It is not signed, but there are some Japanese characters, and a “chop” on
the lower right corner. We have not been able to identify those, or whether this painting is also by
Mikami, but they came together and very well might be. This view is a very moving and haunting
image of a camp street scene in an evening sunset, showing two figures walking with lights on in the
rows of cabins.
Delta, UT: c.1942-45
Both pieces matted and in fine condition.
(700/1000)
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254. (Japanese Americans) Eight volumes on the history of Japanese Americans. Includes:
* Millis, H.A. The Japanese Problem in the United States. (4to) maroon cloth. Macmillan, 1915.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Charles S. Macfarland, Secretay of the Commission on
Relations with Japan.
* A History of Japanese in Hawaii. Edited by the Publication Committee. (4to) cloth. United
Japanese Society of Hawaii, 1971.
* Shepherd, Charles R. The Case Against Japane: A Concise Survey of the Historical Antecedents..
(8vo) black cloth. Daniel Ryerson, [1938].
* Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942. (8vo) black cloth. GPO, 1943.
* Daniels, Roger, et. al., editors. Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress. (4to) cloth, dust
jacket. University of Utah Press, [1986].
* Chuman, Frank F. The Bamboo People: The Law and Japanese-Americans. (8vo) cloth, dust
jacket. Publisher’s Inc., [1976].
* Ogawa, Dennis M. Kodomo no tame ni: For the sake of the children. (8vo) cloth, dust jacket
(price-clipped). University Press of Hawaii, [1978].
* Clyde, Paul H. Japan’s Pacific Mandate. Cloth, dj (clipped). Macmillan, 1935.
Various places: Various dates
Together 8 volumes. Only light general wear; mostly near fine, some very good.
(200/300)
255. (Japanese hymn book for famous Los Angeles Buddhist temple, 1930s) 1930s Japanese hymn
book for famous Los Angeles Buddhist temple. Hymn Book in English and Japanese. Date and place of
publication unknown, except for one English line in mid-text, “Made in Japan”. Approximately
170pp. of Japanese text, including musical notations. 4½x6”. Limp cloth. With rubberstamp on rear
flyleaf of Hongwanji Sunday School, Los Angeles.
“Made in Japan”: c.1930s
Though the text has not been translated, it’s presumed that this is some version of the widelyused
English-language Buddhist liturgical manual, the Vade Mecum, compiled by Ernest and
Dorothy Hunt, ca. 1927-32, while they ministered to English-speaking Buddhists at the Hompa
Hongwanji Buddhist Mission in Hawaii. Contains 26 pages of “Gathas”, Buddhist hymns
written by in English by the Hunts and other Caucasians. During World War II, the Los Angeles
church where this book was used, stored the belongings of Nisei sent to the “relocation”
camps. It is now the site of the Japanese-American National Museum. A touch frayed at spine
ends, very faint soiling and marks; very good.
(100/150)
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256. (Japanese-American Exemptions from Curfew and Evacuation, 1942) Printed US Government leaflet:
“Information and instructional Bulletin: PROCEDURES FOR OBTAINING EXEMPTIONS FROM
EVACUATION AND CURFEW”. 6x9”, with ream of unused vintage stationery for San Mateo
Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (“An All American Organization of American
Citizens / National Security Through Unity / For Better Americans In A Greater America”).
Presidio, San Francisco: Headquarters, West Defense Command and Fourth Army, [circa March
1942]
Three months after the Pearl Harbor attack, an 8 PM curfew was imposed on the West coast
for people of Japanese ancestry – and President Roosevelt authorized the Army to “evacuate”
Japanese-Americans who might be a “threat to national security” to isolated “relocation
centers”. Over the next sixth months, some 122,000 men, women and children were forcibly
moved to the ten internment camps. This bulletin was issued at an early point to accompany
a government form requesting “exemption” from both the curfew and military evacuation.
It’s not clear what “classes of persons” could apply to the Army for this exemption, allowing
them to continue to live and work in a “prohibited or restricted area.” Meanwhile, the Japanese
American Citizens League, instead of fruitlessly opposing the evacuation, chose to urge its
members to cooperate with Government authorities in the forced migration while quietly
fighting, throughout the years of internment, to regain their civil rights. Near fine.
(150/250)
THE JAPANESE-AMERICAN LIFESTYLE
257. (Japanese-American Life-Style Magazine) The Scene - 18 issues of Japanese-American Life-Style
Magazine. Scene, The Pictorial Magazine (Chicago, 1949-52) and Scene, The International East-West
Magazine (Chicago and Los Angeles, 1953-55). 18 monthly issues for October 1950; April and May
1951; January and April 1952; January, May, July and November 1953; January, June, November and
December 1954; and February, March, April, June and July 1955. Approximately 8½x11”, varying
from 25 to 65 pages each + ads.
Chicago and Los Angeles: 1949-1955
A post-war pictorial magazine for Japanese-Americans, which ran from May 1949 to August
1955, edited during its first 4 years by journalist Togo Tanaka, (who, while interned at Manzanar
during World War II had been threatened with assault for his conciliatory attitude toward
Government authorities). In a Life Magazine-style format, included a wide variety of articles
of general interest to younger Japanese-Americans – with stories about Nisei college students,
soldiers, politicians, artists, Hollywood actors, restaurant waitresses and hair-dressers, and, after
the change of title, some articles about Korean-Americans. Long runs of this magazine are
scarce. Light wear from handling; very good.
(500/800)
258. (Japanese-American) Japanese language text book for use in California. [108] pp. Several illustrations
in text. 22x15 cm (8¾x6”), stiff paper covers.
San Francisco: Aoki Taisei-do, 1923
A Japanese language text book, published for use in California schools. Light wear; near fine.
(200/300)
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259. (Lincoln’s Consul General to Shanghai Support Chinese Immigration, 1881) Seward, George F.
Chinese Immigration in its Social and Economical Aspects. 421 pp. Original blue cloth. First Edition.
New York: Scribner’s, 1881
An uncommonly sympathetic study of Chinese immigration, described as being “of great
service to the people of the Pacific coast”, by an American insurance executive who had spent
the Civil War years in Shanghai as Consul General (probably because he was the nephew of
Lincoln’s Secretary of State), returning to Asia in the 1870s as President Hayes’ ambassador
to the Chinese Empire. Unlike the usual polemic of the time, filled with facts, figures and
thoughtful analysis by an admirer of Chinese culture. With bookplate of W.H. Higginbotham
on front pastedown. Rubbed with light soiling; very good.
(150/250)
260. Mori, Toshio. Yokohama, California - First book of fiction by a Japanese-American writer. 166 pp. (8vo)
original cloth in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.
Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1949
Born in Oakland of immigrant parents, the 31 year-old Mori had already written work for major
anthologies and this collection of 22 of his short stories had been accepted for publication
when World War II sent him and his family to an internment camp in Utah, where he spent
3 years. Four more years passed before this book appeared in print, though, according to
California literary historian Jack Hicks, it was still the first book of fiction published by a
Japanese-American author. Saroyan, who wrote the introduction before Pearl Harbor, called
Mori “one of the most important new writers in the country”. Jacket a bit darkened, light wear
to edges including chips and very small tears; near fine volume in very good jacket.
(200/300)
261. Nakahara, T[oichi], Publisher and Editor. Typed letter Signed - 1913 Japanese-American Magazine
in New York. 2 pp. TLs as the Publisher and Editor of the Japanese-American Commercial Weekly
(“only Japanese Journal published, both in Japanese and English in the United States”). On company
stationery.
New York: August 16, 1913
Addressed to Columbia Professor of Mining Henry Smith Munroe, who had worked in Japan
as a Geological consultant in the 1880s: “We cannot hand down to our future generation a
mutilated romantic relation between Japan and the United States. What would be the best
attitude for the people of the two nations, irrespective of the California incidents, in order to
perpetuate the existing friendship. In behalf of peace and prosperity of the two countries, the
Japanese-American Commercial Weekly requests you to give us your idea. Your response will
be appreciated and treasured in our highest consideration.” Another reaction, like the preceding
item, to the furor over the California Alien Land Law, which extended to the Japanese the racial
prejudice long directed against the Chinese. Nakahara, apparently an unofficial representative of
the Japanese Foreign Office, sent out this same letter to several prominent Americans (including
novelist Jack London, who thought racial conflict to be like the “foolish quarrels” of “unruly”
school boys.) Near fine.
(120/180)
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262. (New York Japanese-American Directory, 1948) New York Japanese American Directory, 1948-1949.
Approximately 280 pp., not consecutively numbered. Illustrated with photographs. An inserted leaf
describes this directory, published by a New York Japanese-American newspaper, as “a permanent
illustrated history of New York and East of Chicago Japanese”, the first of a series of volumes which
continued until 1956. Original red cloth.
New York: Japanese American News Corp, 1948
Besides the many ads for businesses, from restaurants and nurseries to art studios and funeral
homes, there is a biographic section, and directories of Japanese-American businesses and
residents in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, New Orleans, Washington,
D.C., and throughout 14 states of the Eastern seaboard and Midwest. 100 pages are written
entirely in Japanese, but most are in English or bi-lingual. This first issue is uncommon, copies
appearing in only a handful of American institutions. Spine a bit darkened; else near fine.
(150/250)
263. (Photograph - Inter-Racial Couple) Photograph of 1910 Notorious inter-racial couple of San Francisco
Chinatown. Photograph on verso of unused post card, 3½x5½”, of a Chinese man and Caucasian
woman, inscribed in ink in upper left corner: “Mr. and Mrs. Wong Sun Yue Clemens, Mrs. Howard
Gould’s sister, San Francisco”
San Francisco: c.1907-10
The 50 year-old “angel of Chinatown”, Ella May Clemens (she changed her maiden name
from Clemmons while falsely claiming to be Mark Twain’s niece) was an eccentric convert to
Catholicism who had become a missionary in San Francisco Chinatown after divorce from her
second husband, a rich East Bay grower, in the 1890s. She spent eight years working out of
a Chinatown shanty, getting reluctant locals inoculated against Bubonic plague and starting a
Catholic Sunday school for Chinese children when, after the 1906 earthquake and fire, while
building a wooden refugee house among the debris, she fell in love with Chinese laborer Wong
Sun Yue, an opium addict who married her in a Chinese ceremony, as inter-racial marriage was
then illegal in California. Together they opened a “Tea Garden” curio shop on Grant Avenue,
where they sold tourists ‘Relics Dug from the Rubble’, odd souvenirs of the disaster like melted
money and solidified salt. Their best sellers were photographic postcards such as this which
Ella May autographed, always adding the note that she was “Mrs. Howard Gould’s sister.” Her
estranged sibling Katharine Gould was a former stage actress (and onetime bareback rider for
her aged lover, Buffalo Bill Cody) who had married one of the richest men in the world, the
son of railroad magnate Jay Gould. Ella May, while offering $1 tours of Chinatown, found it
useful to capitalize on the publicity that ensued when Gould divorced Katharine on grounds
of infidelity, giving her $100 a day alimony (none of which went to the Clemmons’ father, who
died penniless in an insane asylum.) Ella May continued to sell postcards and delight tourists
with the romantic tale of her unconventional marriage until Wong Sun announced that he
already had a wife in China and returned to the old country, leaving Ella May to become an
aging Chinatown legend. A touch of wear at extremities; very good.
(150/250)
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BUDDHISM INTRODUCED TO AMERICA
264. Pickering, John. Autograph Letter Signed - 1844 Introducing Buddhism to America. 2 pp. + stampless
address leaf.
Boston: June 25, 1844
To Prof. Romeo Elton (Baptist Minister who had taught Latin and Greek at Brown University),
New Haven, Connecticut. “…received…your admission fee to the Oriental Society…We are
gratified and know that you will take an interest in our young Society, and shall be much pleased
if you can find time to make some communications to our Journal. Our next No. will contain a
learned and (to scholars) an interesting Discourse on Buddhism by Prof. Salisbury of your city –
a promising scholar among our younger men. It gives me great pleasure to learn that you intend
to devote your remaining time to literary pursuits – we have need of all the force that can be
found in our country to maintain (or to acquire?) a solid reputation for scholarship; and at the
present day, we are doing tolerably well – but we must do more…My plan has always been to
study one principal language of a family as well as I could and then the rest of the family were
easily mastered….” A pencil note on the address leaf, probably Elton’s, notes that Pickering was
“one of the most profound linguists in the U.States.” Pickering (1777-1846) was a Boston lawyer
and amateur philologist who wrote the first dictionary of American slang. In 1842, he was the
founding President of the American Oriental Society, formed to encourage research in Asian,
Middle Eastern, African and Polynesian languages, literature, history and culture. The second
issue of the Society’s new Journal featured the “interesting Discourse” mentioned in Pickering’s
letter - a “Memoir on the History of Buddhism” by 30 year-old Yale Professor Edward E.
Salisbury, later described by historians as “a landmark in the history of the American Orient” -
the first scholarly study of Buddhism published in America. Near fine.
(400/600)
265. (Postcard - Chinese in Nevada) 1898 Chinese in ‘Humbug’, Nevada City Ghost Town - postcard.
Postcard sent to “Sue Kee, North Bloomfield, Nev.Co., Cal.”, addressed in English with message
written in Chinese on verso, untranslated, but reportedly about the exchange of a chicken for a duck.
Undated, but this variety of US Postal Card was introduced in 1897.
No date [c.1898]
The Gold Rush brought more than 3,000 Chinese to Nevada County in the Mother Lode
Country. Nevada City had a thriving Chinese Quarter until 1880 when, after a devastating
fire, Chinese were expelled from the city limits. A small Chinese community of miners and
shopkeepers remained at North Bloomington, an isolated railroad stop 10 miles north of
Nevada City which originally bore the quaint name of “Humbug”. Its population had swelled
to 2000 while hydraulic mining was underway, but a lawsuit by Sacramento area farmers that
ended mining operations in 1884 reduced North Bloomfield to a virtual ghost town. This
postcard is evidence that some Chinese residents remained. A bit yellowed; very good.
(100/150)
266. Sakai, Barnabas T. Autograph Letter Signed - 1903 Japanese Student at Harvard. 5x8”. 2 pp.
Tokyo, Japan: Dec. 2, 1903
To a Mrs. Hull, introducing “a good friend of mine – Mr. S. Yamaguchi – who is going to
Cambridge to study at Harvard”, for which he was “well prepared” after study at the Imperial
College in Tokyo. “I think that he ought to be admitted into College at least as a special student
at once…without examination….” Sakai asks that his old buddies at Harvard assist Yamaguchi
who “belongs to a good family and…is a fine man. I am sure that you and the boys will like
him…” Sakai himself had received a graduate degree at Harvard in 1898, one of the select
group of Japanese students who attended the University after the first had enrolled in the
1870s. Seitaro Yamaguchi represented a second wave of Japanese from wealthy families who
came to Harvard early in the 20th century, being welcomed to the same exclusive social clubs as
Roosevelts and Kennedys (from which Jews and African-Americans were excluded). Ironically,
one of these Harvard visitors, future Admiral Yamamoto, later planned the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor. Very good.
(120/180)
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267. (San Francisco Chinese Restaurant for Beat Poets, 1950-60) Two menus from San Francisco Chinese
Restaurant for Beat Poets. Two Menus:
* Fung Loy Café. Stockton Street, San Francisco. 7x11”. Pictorial cover + 2 pages (with pencil
inscription on front cover).
* Far East Café, Grant Avenue, San Francisco. 6x10½”. Pictorial cover + 3 pages.
San Francisco: c.1950-60s
The Fung Loy was the scene for a 1962 poem by Philip Whalen, a Zen Buddhist poet who was
a friend of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder and Lew Welch, about a “Sunday Afternoon Dinner”.
The Far East Café, which dates to the 1920s, has been described as “a chop suey house, the old
kind before the new Chinese came to town” and, according to Shirley Fong-Torres, “the only
authentic Chinese restaurant left in San Francisco with private dining booths.” Sunning and
pencil note to edges of Fung Loy Cafe front page; very good.
(100/150)
268. Saund, Dalip Singh, Ph.D. My Mother India - 1930 First Indian-American California Congressman
Defends Gandhi. 218 pp. Original cloth. The lot also includes: Saund, D.W. Congressman From India.
192 pp. Illustrated. Original cloth, dust jacket. Dutton, 1960. First Edition.
Stockton, California: Pacific Coast Khalsa Diwan Society [Sikh Temple], [1930]
Ten years after he immigrated to America from Amritsar, India (scene of the infamous British
colonial “massacre” of 1919), and then earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the UC, Berkeley,
D.S.Saund wrote this rare book, published by the Sikh Temple at Stockton, in defense of Indian
nationalism and Gandhi’s Passive Resistance campaign to win independence from British rule.
Becoming a successful farmer in California’s central valley – and a naturalized citizen after legal
restrictions on Indian-American civil rights were belatedly abolished following World War II –
Saund was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1956, making him not only the first
Indian-American, but also the first Asian-American, Congressman. Serving three terms, during
which he also wrote his 1960 autobiography, he left office in ill health and died in 1973, but was
still remembered as a “trailblazer” in a 2012 speech by President Obama. Light wear to both;
very good.
(250/350)
269. (Shanghai American Women’s Club Chinese History anthology, 1923) The Dawn of Chinese
Civilization. 256 pp. + advertisements. Original binding of printed boards and tape spine with ties.
Shanghai, China: American Women’s Club, Literary Department, 1923
Anthology of 29 essays on early Chinese history, written by American women residents of
China’s most cosmopolitan city between the World Wars. Includes such uncommon subjects as
The Development of Design in Bronze and Pottery of the Han Dynasty, The Chess Players of
Nanshan, Early Chinese Poetry, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, and Shih Hwang Ti, the Napoleon of
China. The Introduction was written by Club President Lucille Sinclair Douglass, an Alabama
artist who lived and worked in California before going to China to become associate editor of
the English-language Shanghai Times during the chaotic civil war era. Light soiling, portion of
one string tie lacking; very good.
(150/250)
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270. Shimano, Eddie, et. al. “Democracy Begins at Home – II” in Common Ground (periodical) - 1943
Uncommon wartime criticism of Japanese Internment Camps. Published in Common Ground (periodical),
Summer 1943, Pp. 65-87.
Summer, 1943
A World War II literary magazine founded by American liberals, Common Ground was best
known for its publication of notable African-American writers - contributions by Langston
Hughes and Ralph Ellison are included in this issue. But it was also one of the few mid-War
publications critical of the US Government’s internment of Japanese-Americans. Most notable
of the five authors of this issue’s feature on the internment camps was Eddie Shimano, who had
edited newspapers at the Santa Anita evacuation center and an Arkansas relocation center and
was then awaiting enlistment in the Army’s newly-formed all-Japanese combat unit. His article,
“Blueprint for a Slum” describes the “doubts , fears, suspicion, unrest, bitterness, pauperism...
and hope” of his fellow Nisei. Light edge wear; very good.
(100/150)
271. Theodore Roosevelt High School. Round Up [Yearbook] - 1941 Japanese-Americans high school
students in Los Angeles before Pearl Harbor. 9x12”. Unpaginated, approximately 125 pp. Extensively
illustrated.
Los Angeles: 1941
The personal copy of an 18 year-old Japanese-American woman, with many ink inscriptions
from fellow students. She had planned to attend college and become an artist – but, within a
year, she and her family would be “relocated” to an internment camp in Utah, while many of
her friends would be sent to Manzanar. Roosevelt, in the Boyle Heights neighborhood, was
one of the largest high schools in the country – and, for its time, one of the most ethnically
and racially diverse. The Yearbook editor was Japanese-American, as was the Student Body
Vice President, the Captain of the Tennis Team and the ROTC Commander. The President
was African-American; many of the Student Council members were Latino. Pictured on the
same page as the Japanese Club were members of the Jewish Club and the multi-racial “World
Friendship Club”. A few small tears at spine, some light soiling; well used, very good.
(100/150)
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TWO YEARBOOKS FOR INTERNMENT CAMP HIGH SCHOOL 1943 & 1944
272. (Tule Lake Internment Camp High School - 1943 Rare first Yearbook of the Japanese-American
High School) “Today We Follow, Tomorrow We Lead”, Senior Edition Yearbook, Tri-State High School. 36
poorly mimeographed pages, illustrated with many simple line drawings and cartoons. 7x8½”, original
decorative salmon-colored wrappers.
Newell, California: June, 1943
The second “Relocation Center” opened, after Manzanar, the Tule Lake Center in the far north
of California, just below the Oregon border, converted a Depression-era Conservation Corps
facility into the only one of the 10 internment camps with a specially-designated area for the
“segregation” of Japanese-American “dissidents” and draft resisters, 5,000 of whom renounced
their American citizenship, and others considered “disloyal” for vocal opposition to the forced
evacuation. Still more thousands of “evacuees” at Tule Lake – including future actors Pat
Morita (of “Karate Kid”) and George Takei (Sulu of “Star Trek”) - were not politically-suspect,
yet they too endured camp life in a hot, dusty area with little surrounding greenery where
winter temperatures could fall to twenty-nine below zero. When protests broke out at Tule Lake
against the poor living conditions, food and medical care, the “Segregation Center” was placed
under martial law. These were the circumstances under which 400+ teenagers, strangers to one
another from all over northern California, Oregon and Washington state, who made up the first
graduating class of the camp’s Tri-State High School spent the worst years of their adolescence.
Their first Yearbook was symbolic of the difficulties of life at Tule Lake – the mimeographed
reproduction was so poor that some of the text is nearly unreadable. Despite typical yearbook
features - selections of the most popular, athletic, wittiest, musical, glamorous, peppiest and
bashful students; a Class Yell and Song, a Will and a Prophecy – it is not hard to read between
the lines of the class President’s diplomatically-worded message: “Our journey through high
school has been trying but fruitful. There have been critical, discouraging days when our
thoughts were filled with pessimistic ideas and doubts as to our future position in this world...
Future problems will, undoubtedly, present themselves as imposing and formidable obstacles.
The progress toward future success will be hard….” A very rare imprint. Near fine.
(800/1200)
273. (Tule Lake Internment Camp High School - 1944 Second senior Yearbook of the Japanese-
American High School) “Archie, Senior Year at Tri-State” Yearbook of Senior Class of November 1944,
Tri-State High School. 36 poorly mimeographed pages, much of the text nearly unreadable and covered
by 60+ signatures and ink inscriptions from the owner’s fellow students among the 235 seniors of
the graduating class. Illustrated with line drawings and cartoons. 7x8½”, original decorative salmoncolored
wrappers.
Newell, California: November, 1944
Similar to the 1943 Yearbook above, listed class news stories, individual “Wills” and “Secret
Ambitions”, and the addition of a brief statement from the Superintendant, a dedicated
educator who had written books on teen alcohol abuse: “One mark of an educated man is his
ability to rise above the circumstances of his environment….” Another rare imprint. Near fine.
(800/1200)
274. (Tule Lake Internment Camp High School - 1945 Last Commencement Program) Commencement
Program, Tri-State High School, Class of 1945. 3 pp. 6x9”, on bluish-grey paper, with 8½x15”, 2-page
mimeographed program for Commencement Week, October 16, 1945.
Newell, California: October 19, 1945
Perhaps because of its “segregated” population of Japanese-American dissidents, Tule Lake was
the last of the 10 internment camps to close – eight months after the end of the War, in March
1946. Most of the 100,000 Japanese-American “evacuees” from other camps had already
returned to their homes when the last senior class of Tri-State High School held its graduation
ceremony, two months after Hiroshima and the surrender of Japan. The printing of these
papers was considerably better than the earlier imprints listed above, and the ceremony was
typical of any high school in America, with speeches, award presentations, vocal and violin solos
- and a skit pointedly titled, “Foreigners Settled America”. Scarce, like all imprints of the high
school at the Tule Lake internment camp. A bit of yellowing; very good.
(300/500)
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275. (US Government ‘Relocation Of Japanese-Americans’, 1943-46) Two official publications of the War
Relocation Authority, the US Government civilian agency that administered the Japanese-American internment after
Army evacuation from the West Coast. Includes:
* Relocation of Japanese-Americans (Washington, D.C., May 1943) Original wrappers. 11 pp.
Illustrated.
* WRA, A Story of Human Conservation (Washington, D.C., 1946) First Printing. Original
wrappers. 212pp. Illustrated. Owner’s inscription on title-page (and few ink marks in the text) of
American Anthropologist Henry Dobyns; with an original AP wirephoto, Sept. 21, 1942 “Evacuees
Arrive at Wartime Home”, showing a group of smiling young Japanese-Americans at an Arkansas
“Relocation Center”.
1943-46
The first booklet puts a wartime propaganda “spin” on the forced evacuation, giving assurances
that adequate education and employment and freedom of religion prevailed in the relocation
camps (but not at exorbitant cost to white taxpayers). The later book was an early post-war
“official history” of the Authority, detailing how government administrators tried to intelligently
deal with the multitude of problems that arose over four years in the “Relocation Camps”.
Only light wear; near fine.
(150/250)
276. Wong, Anna May. 1938 ca. inscribed photograph of Chinese-American movie star Anna May Wong.
Original photograph, uncredited. 9¼x6”. Inscribed “To Cine Avanca, regards Anna May Wong”,
with her signature in Chinese below. Stamped on verso “Prorpiedad de Mary M. Spaulding” and
“A.Cigarra”. Trimmed at edges for publication, not affecting the picture of Wong or her inscription.
No date, but ca. 1938
Born in Los Angeles to a laundryman, the stunningly beautiful Anna May Wong became the first
Chinese-American movie star and the first Asian actress to become an international celebrity.
She made her first film appearance in 1919 at the age of 14, and her last TV appearance in 1961,
the year she died. This photograph is inscribed to a Spanish movie magazine of the 1930s and
was owned by a prominent Cuban-born journalist who interviewed movie stars for Spanishlanguage
movie magazines. Near fine.
(400/600)
277. (World War II) Army photograph of Nisei soldiers in training at Camp Robinson, Arkansas after Pearl
Harbor 1942. Panoramic Photograph of the men of Company B, 67th Training Battalion, Camp
Robinson, Arkansas, 1942. 10x29”.
1942
12 of the soldiers have signed their names on the back of the photo, noting hometowns in West
Virginia, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, California and Washington. Remarkably, 7 of the men in the
front row appear to be of Japanese descent – some of the 500 Japanese-American soldiers who
were already in Army uniform before Pearl Harbor. While most of their white Army buddies
rallied to protect them from racist annoyance – even as their relatives were being “evacuated”
to Internment camps in the West - the Army sent most Nisei troops to Camp Robinson, where
they were assigned menial tasks like collecting garbage. They were later transferred to a base
in Kansas where they marked time – until, in 1943, President Roosevelt reversed government
policy and authorized the military service of Japanese-American men – leading to formation
of the heroic all-Japanese 442nd Infantry Combat Team. Ironically, Nisei troops like those in
this photo, who had already been in the service for two years in racially-integrated units, then
suddenly found themselves in a regiment that was purposely segregated. A touch faded, light
finger soiling; very good.
(150/250)
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278. (World War II) Saalburg, Allen (illustrator). “Get The Jap And Get It Over!”. 2 copies. Color
lithograph poster. 71x51 cm (28x20”). Illustration by Allen Saalburg.
[Washington, D.C.]: War Manpower Commission, 1945
Illustration of a bullet-ridden Japanese flag above a tattered Nazi flag on a bamboo pole. Issued
by the War Manpower Commission, encouraging American’s to “Work where you’re needed”.
Creased, as issued, light wear at edges, small holes at intersections of creases; near fine.
(200/300)
ROOSEVELT PUSHES JAPANESE-AMERICAN ENLISTMENT IN U.S. ARMY
279. (World War II) World War II Poster - President Roosevelt Supports Japanese-American Enlistment in
US Army 1943. Historic original US Office of War Information Poster, quoting from a statement
by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 3, 1943: “No loyal citizen of the United States
should be denied the democratic right to exercise the responsibilities of his citizenship. regardless
of his ancestry / The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been
governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart. Americanism is not, and never was,
a matter of race or ancestry / Every loyal American citizen should be given the opportunity to serve
this country wherever his skills will make the greatest contribution – whether it be in the ranks of
our armed forces, war production, agriculture, government service, or other work essential to the war
effort.” 20x28”, text in red and black, surmounted by large image of American eagle and flag.
This intentionally ambiguous quote of the President’s words, which omitted the first sentence
of his statement – “the proposal of the War Department to organize a combat team consisting
of loyal American citizens of Japanese descent has my full approval” - was intended to avoid
anti-Japanese racist backlash against the historic reversal of US Government policy, which
allowed Nisei from the internment camps to volunteer for active service in Europe. The famous
442nd Combat Team, which would prove to be the most decorated combat unit of the War, had
just been activated two days before Creased from folding; very good.
(800/1200)
280. (Yone Noguchi, 1st “Japanese-American” novel, 1902) “Miss Morning Glory” [pseud. Noguchi,
Yone]. The American Diary of A Japanese Girl. 259 pp. 10 full-page plates and text decorations by Yeto.
Half tan textured cloth and decorative boards with laid down color illustration of a Japanese girl
writing. First Edition.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1902
While the eminent Japanese poet and writer Yone Noguchi was not an American citizen – and,
indeed, strongly supported his homeland’s battle with the United States during World War
II – he spent more than 10 years of his early life in the US, living in San Francisco (among
the California “bohemians”) and New York from 1893 to 1904. This anonymously written
book, which he published at age 26, was his first novel, and, arguably, was the first “Japanese-
American” fiction. While the first novel of ‘Onoto Watanna’ (pseudonym of Edith Eaton’s
sister Winnifred), published two years earlier, is considered “the first known novel by an Asian
American”, Winnifred, like Edith (see her listings in this catalogue) was of Chinese-British
descent, though most readers of her popular, and beautifully produced, romance novels
believed her to be Japanese. A bit chipped at spine ends, faint dampstains to boards; front hinge
starting; name in red ink on front pastedown, name in pencil on front free endpaper; very good.
(100/150)
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Section III: Travel & Exploration
281. (Afghanistan) 25 collotype plates from “Souvenir d’Afghanistan: Kaboul, Kandahar, Galalabed, Laghmann,
Pagman”. 25 collotype plates from photographs, captioned in the upper portion of the image in
French and Dari. Approx. 15x20 cm. (6x8”), some with 2 cm. stub at left where previously bound.
[Paris]: [Etablissements Papeghin], c.1924
Plates from a scarce pictorial souvenir of Afghanistan during the reign of Habibullah, with
views of the many fine buildings and palaces built for the royal family; the various ministries;
parks; summer houses in Paghman; hunting scenes with the amir; etc. Very good or better.
(200/300)
282. (Australia) Garran, Andrew, editor. Australasia Illustrated - Parts 52 - 55. 4 volumes, including
Part 52, 53, 54, and 55. Each 36.5x26 cm (14½x10¼”) original tan-pink wrappers, printed in black.
Each volume illustrated with many woodcuts.
Sydney and Melbourne: The Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co., [c.1892]
There were a total of 60 parts issued in this series, with over 800 illustrations. Light wear to
wrapper edges; some foxing/darkening to early and late leaves; very good.
(100/150)
283. (Australia) Nine volumes about Australia. Includes:
* Kangaroo and Kauri: Sketches and Anecdotes of Australia and New Zealand. With bookplate of
W.H. de Luen. Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1894.
* Giblin, R.W. The Early History of Tasmania: The Geographical Era 1642-1804. Methuen & Co.,
[1928].
* Becke, Louis. The Tapu of Banderah. Library rubberstamp, ink notes on endpapaers. C. Arthur
Pearson, 1901.
* Becke, Louis. The Tapu of Banderah. Rebound. C. Arthur Pearson, 1901.
* Duncan, Norman. Australian Byways: The Narrative of a Sentimental Traveler. With dj. Harper &
Brothers, [1915].
* Collingridge de Tourcey, George. The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea. With
engraved bookplate of Bernard Gore Brett. William Brooks, 1906.
* Australian Aborigines and South Sea Islanders Implements, Weapons and Curios on Sale at
Tyrrell’s Museum. Wrappers. 1929.
* Australia and the South Seas. Wrappers. Maggs Bros. catalog No. 491. 1927.
* Butterworth, Hezekiah. Zigzag Journeys in Australi; Or, a Visit to the Ocean World. Estes and
Lauriat, [1891].
Mild to moderate general wear; mostly very good.
Various places: Various dates
(150/250)
284. Barry, Capt. W.J. Up and Down; or, Fifty Years’ Colonial Experiences in Australia, California, New
Zealand, India, China, and the South Pacific. xii, [2], 307, [1] + 32 ad pp. Woodcut portrait frontispiece,
plus woodcut plates and illustrations within text. (8vo) rebound in modern boards, all edges gilt. First
Edition.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1879
Inscribed on the portrait frontispiece by the author, “From the Author To C.W. Davidson Esq.
Capt. W. J. Barry.” Barry’s many adventures, some of which may have actually occured, included
action in the California Gold Rush, episodes in Australia, and a brief time in India. Cowan p.36;
Howes B195 Spine leaning; bookplate, lightly foxed, plate facing pp. 37 lacking; else complete;
very good.
(300/500)
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BEECHEY’S NARRATIVE IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS
285. Beechey, Captain F[rederick] W. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait, to Cooperate
with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty’s Ship Blossom Under the Command of Captain F.W.
Beechey, R.N. in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28. 2 volumes. xxvi, [2], 472; iv, 452 pp. 23 plates (including 4
double-page), 2 folding maps, 1 double-page map. (8vo) 22x14 cm (8¾x5½”) original gray boards,
re-backed with later boards, original(?) printed paper spine label. First Octavo Edition.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831
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Beechey’s narrative accounts an extensive exploration of the coast from Alaska to California,
including important descriptions of Alaskan Eskimos, Monterey, San Francisco and several
Pacific islands, including Hawaii. There were 3 printings of Beechey’s Narrative in 1831; the first
edition was in 2 quarto volumes, reprinted in octavo. “One of the most valuable of modern
voyages” (Hill). Hill 93; Howes B309.. Light shelf wear; light foxing; very good.
(3000/5000)
286. Beechey, Captain F[rederick] W. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait, to Cooperate
with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty’s Ship Blossom Under the Command of Captain F.W.
Beechey, R.N. in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28 . . . A New Edition. 2 volumes. xxii, 472; iv, 452 pp. 21 (of 23)
plates, 2 (of 3) maps. (8vo) 21.5x13.5 cm. (8½x5½”), modern brown calf, black leather spine labels.
First Octavo Edition.
London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley,
1831
Beechey’s narrative accounts an extensive
exploration of the coast from Alaska to
California, including important descriptions
of Alaskan Eskimos, Monterey, San
Francisco and several Pacific islands,
including Hawaii. There were 3 printings of
Beechey’s Narrative in 1831; the first edition
was in 2 quarto volumes, reprinted in octavo,
followed by this “New Edition” which did
not reprint all of the scientific notes of
the preceding printings. “One of the most
Lot 286
valuable of modern voyages” (Hill). Arctic
Bib. 1228; Cowan p42; Hill 93; Zamorano Eighty 4; Howes B309; Sabin 4347. Lacking 2 plates
and one map from Volume 1; some light foxing and browning within; very good.
(1000/1500)
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287. Bevan, Theodore F. Toil, Travel, and Discovery in British New Guinea. viii, 321 pp. Five folding
maps. (8vo), original blue gilt-lettered cloth. First Edition.
London: Kegan Paul, 1890
Lovely set of five folding maps at rear: Louisiade Archipelago, the “discoveries made” in British
New Guinea, the coast of Papua or New Guinea, Jubilee and Philip Rivers tributaries, and the
southeastern part of New Guinea. Light wear, corners rubbed, front hinge cracked; very good.
(200/300)
288. Bigandet, P. The Life or Legend of Gaudama, The Buddha of the Burmese. Two volumes in one. (8vo)
original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fourth Edition.
London: Kegan Paul, et al, 1911
First published in 1858. The author was both Bishop of Ramatha and the Vicar Apostolic of
Ava and Pegu. Some light wear; very good.
(100/150)
289. (Borneo) Three works about Borneo. Includes:
* Bruce, Charles. Twenty Years in Borneo. Rebound in half red morocco and marbled boards, giltlettered
spine. Cassell, [1924].
* Shelford, Robert W.C. A Naturalist in Borneo. Original green cloth. Blindstamped “Presentation
Copy” on the title page. The name E.R. Leach, 1932 in ink on the front free endpaper. T. Fisher
Unwin, [1916].
* Evans, Ivor H.N. Among Primitive Peoples in Borneo. Original orange cloth. Ex-library with
library stamping from Hartford Seminary Library. J.B. Lippincott, 1922.
Various places: Various dates
Three nice works on Borneo. Mostly mild wear; 1 ex-library book; very good.
(200/300)
290. Briffault, Robert. The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions. 3 volumes. Blue
cloth, gilt-lettered spines, dust jackets.
New York: Macmillan, 1927
A history of the social relations between the sexes is discussed here, from various aspects.
Jackets chipped with small tears at edges, browning mostly to spines, some small faint
dampstains to jacket spines; volumes are fine in very good jackets.
(200/300)
291. (Cannibal Narratives) Four volumes about Cannibals of the South Sea. Includes:
* Collinson, Clifford W. Life and Laughter ‘midst the Cannibals. Dark green cloth. Second Edition.
Hurst & Blackett, [1926].
* Booth, Doris R. Mountains, Gold and Cannibals. Red cloth. Cecil Palmer, [1929].
* “Verne, Jules.” Among the Cannibals. Black cloth decorated in red, spine lettered in gilt. With an
inscription “dated” 1877, likely the book published after that date. Ward, Lock, and Tyler, no date.
* Holmes, J.H. By Canoe to Cannibal-Land. Red cloth. Front free endpaper lacking. London
Missionary Society, 1923.
Light general wear, including foxing; very good.
Various places: Various dates
(200/300)
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292. Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution: A History. 3 volumes. viii, 404; viii, 422; viii, 448 pp.
Half titles present, ads not retained at rear of Volume 2. (8vo) 19x12 cm (7½x4¾”), period tan calf
with later rebacking, red leather spine labels. First Edition.
London: James Fraser, 1837
“The book at once captured the English-speaking world, and has, outside France, moulded
popular conceptions of the French Revolution down to the present day.” (PMM). Printing and
the Mind of Man 304. Bindings worn, front cover detached on first volume; occasional foxing;
internally very good.
(400/600)
293. (Ceylon) Arunachalam, P[onnambalam]. Sketches of Ceylon History. [4], 62, [blank leaf], v pp.
With 2 maps (including frontispiece with hand coloring in outlin); 4 plates from photographs (1 with
2 images); 3 folding tables. 21.2x14 cm. (8½x5½”), original cloth-backed boards illustrated from a
photograph. Second Edition, revised.
Colombo: Colombo Apothecaries Co., Ltd., 1906
Scarce overview of the history of the Island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), off the southern tip of
India, based on a lecture delivered to the Legislative Coundil Camber of Ceylon in January of
1906. Expanded from the 48-page first edition, with illustrations and maps added. Both editions
are quite scarce: only five copies of this second edition are listed in OCLC/WorldCat, and only
two copies of the first edition. Ownership signature of John Breck Shaw, Columbo, Ceylon, Jan.
3, 1912, to front free endpaper. Minor soiling and wear to covers; very good.
(300/500)
294. (China - 1938-1946 US Marines & Air Force in China) Magic China, A Cruise With
The Marines [U.S. Marine Corps recruiting pamphlet, ca. 1938]. 3½x5½ inches, unfolding
to 10½x13½”. Multi-colored, illustrated with drawings and 5 photographs. “China –
alluring and mystical! For more than thirty years, the US Marines have been on guard at
the US Embassy in Peiping…” and also based in Shanghai and Tientsin.Also includes:
* 2 issues of the Jing-Bao Journal of the C.A.C.W. [1st Bomb Group, Chinese-American Composite
Wing, 14th US Air Force] Issued by the “Avenger Club” and “Veterans of “The Avengers” (New
York, January 15, 1945 and Oct. 1, 1946) 8½x14”. Mimeographed. 4pp. each.
1938-1946
Formed in 1943, the CACW was a joint US-Nationalist Chinese unit with pilots from both
countries flying bombers and fighter planes across the Japanese lines. These rare newsletters,
one issued during, and one after, the War, gave American pilots an opportunity for what would
now be called “social networking” with combat buddies from the China Theater who had gone
their separate ways. Curiously, one January 1945 posting is by a Major Winston S. Churchill, then
stationed at an Air Force Base in South Carolina, possibly some forgotten American relation of
the famed British statesman. Near fine.
(100/150)
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CHINESE COOLIES REPLACE BLACK SLAVES IN CUBA
295. (China and Cuba) Canovas del Castillo, Antonio. Manuscript Letter Signed as Spanish Minister
of Overseas Territories - 1866 Foundation of Chinese Coolie Trade to Cuba after Black Slavery. 6x8½”. 14
pp. Manuscript Letter Signed as Spanish Minister of Overseas Territories, responsible for the
governing of Spainish colonies.
Madrid: May 5, 1866
To the Spanish Captain
General (Governor) of
Cuba, Francisco de Lersundi
y Hormaechea, who also
signed the document upon
its receipt in Havana on June
3. A significant letter of
state, written as the African
slave trade finally came to
a halt in Cuba – three years
after Lincoln’s Emancipation
Proclamation in the United
States, and weeks after the
last slaver sailed into Havana
harbor (though Cuban slavery
itself was not abolished for
another two decades). Mindful
of the need for cheap labor
to replace enslaved Blacks
in Cuban sugar fields, Spain
was among the European
powers which hastened to
conclude “Emigration”
treaties with the Chinese
Empire, allowing for foreign
employment of Chinese
workers – “coolies” in English
jargon, but more respectably
called “colonos” in Spanish.
This long letter from Canovas
del Castillo, royal Minister of
Lot 295
colonial affairs (later Prime
Minister of Spain until he
was assassinated by an anarchist) notified the Governor of Cuba of provisions of the treaty,
soon to be ratified in Madrid: Chinese workers must not be military deserters, they must be
volunteers, not “caught against their will”, and their health and safety as residents in a foreign
country must be protected. Workers could bring their families, and single Chinese women could
also immigrate in the hope of marrying male laborers, who would thus be more contented and
“orderly” in their work. Further regulations would be necessary to guarantee “good treatment”
of the workers and to clarify their wages, contractual obligations and legal status once arrived,
particularly for those who might choose to remain in Cuba after their contracts had expired.
To ensure the continued goodwill of the Chinese authorities, the Spanish Government was
particularly concerned to prevent abuses which might lead to “uprisings or violent scenes”
by disgruntled “colonos”. While thousands of Chinese workers had already been coming to
Cuba – as they had to the US and Latin America – for years, the Chinese Government secured
diplomatic agreements in the hope of protecting their rights. In reality, the coolies were treated
little better than slaves in Cuba, working under such horrid conditions that many committed
suicide. Chinese Government investigators found so much abuse by plantation owners, that,
eight years after Canovas wrote this letter, the coolie trade to Cuba was formally prohibited. A
momentous document of both Cuban and Chinese history. Yellowing; very good.
(1500/2000)
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296. (China) 1890s Japanese Picture Book of First Sino-Japanese War. 4½x6¾”. Untranslated Japanese
book.
[c.1890s]
Apparently commemorating Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95. Color
pictorial cover and 12 uncolored pages of battle scenes on land and at sea. More scarce than
pictorial books of the later Russo-Japanese War. Chipping at corners and spine; very good.
(150/250)
297. (China) Cheng, H. Lin. The Chinese Railways: A Historical Survey. x, 214 ppp. Large folding map in
original printed envelope laid in. (8vo) original linen. FIrst Editon.
Shanghai: China United Press, [1935]
Scarce volume on the history and future of the railroad in China. The author’s signed business
card laid in. Light foxing to cloth, spine sunned; very good.
(200/300)
298. (China) City Directory Map of Shanghai. Fully Indexed, With Street Directory. [12] pp. + large folding
map of Shanghai printed in black and orange. Sheet measures 78.5x108.5 cm (31x42¾”). Book
measures 19.5x12.5 cm (7¾x5”) original beige wrappers, printed in blue and orange.
[Shanghai]: [Printed at the Oriental Press], [c.1932]
Published with the compliments of the Dollar Steamship Line. The map of Shanghai does
not cover the entire sheet, in addition to the map are a colum and row of advertisements on
the periphery, including one fairly large advertisement, with photographs, of the Cathay and
Metropole Hotels. Rare, only a few listed by OCLC / Worldcat. Light wear to wrappers; near
fine.
(300/500)
299. (China) Collection of seven pro-Chinese Communist Tracts, 1944-45. 7 small booklets in wrappers, in
English:
* No Author. Abundant Clothing; Sufficient Food May 1945.
* No Author. Kuomintang-Communist Negotiation Vol. I July 1945.
* No Author. The Liberated Regions of China Behind Enemy Lines Vol. 1 March 1945.
* No Author. Our Task in 1945 February 1945
* Lin Tsu-Han. Annual Report of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region Government August
1944.
* Mao Tze-Tung. On Coalition Government: Report to the Seventh Congress of the Chinese
Communist Party at Yenan Sept. 1945.
* Susumo Okano The Construction of a Democratic Japan August 1945.
1944-45
Uniform size 6¼x8¼, with titles in red. Published at a time when feverish battles were waged
to determine the fate of China. Japan having been vanquished, the ensuing Communist strategy
was directed by its leaders who were still living in the Yanan caves – perhaps the place of
publication for these tracts. Only light wear and yellowing to wrappers; near fine.
(200/300)
300. (China) Dossier on Chinese Communist Party Leaders - typed manuscript. Approximately 50 pp. of typed
manuscript leaves on “onion skin” paper.
1946-1949
Dossier, usually with one subject per leaf. Appears to be intelligence collected for a journalist,
but could also have been for political purposes. Light wear to extremities; near fine.
(200/300)
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301. (China) Gorst, Harold E. China. xx, 300 pp. 28 illustrations including several full-page plates;
map. (8vo) original red cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition.
London: Sands & Company, 1899
From the publisher’s “Imperial Interest Library”. The author was the son of British diplomat Sir
John Eldon Gorst. Light wear, previous owner’s name on half title; near fine.
(100/150)
302. (China) Houo-Ming-Tse,Paul. Preuves des antiquites De Chine. Illustrated throughout with
photographic depictions of Chinese decorative arts. Folio, original printed wrappers.
Pekin[g]: 1930
An uncommon work in its original wrappers, about art of China. Text in French. Spine intact
but peeling away from text block and creased, chipped with small tears and light creasing to
wrapper edges; some offsetting at extremities within; very good.
(300/500)
303. (China) Kiang Kang-Hu. The Jade Mountain: A Chinese Anthology. Being three hundred poems of the
T’ang Dynasty. (8vo) original pictorial cloth. First Edition.
New York: Knopf, 1929
Translated from the Chinese by Witter Bynner. Spine sunned, light soiling; very good.
(300/500)
DIE-CUT WINDOW PATTERNS FOR CHINESE NEW YEAR
304. (China) Koehn, Alfred. Window Flowers: Symbolic Silhouettes for the Chinese New Year. Unpaginated.
Illustrated throughout with full-plate die-cut window patterns, most in red but some in full color,
some with gilt accents. Folio, red cloth-backed decorative boards, with a contemporary, custom dust
jacket (plain white, with hand-written title in English and Chinese).
Peiping, China: At the Lotus Court, 1948
Impressive, large book that turns up very infrequently. With a hand-written gift inscription
neatly inked on front free endpaper, with red Chinese colophon. Jacket a bit yellowed with wear
at edges; spine ends a bit bumped and frayed, some light bumping and rubbing at board edges;
front free endpaper rippled; else contents and illustrations fine.
(600/900)
305. (China) Kunming - an English language guide to the city of Kunming, China. 76 pp. Profusely illustrated
with photographs. 21.7x14 cm (8½x5½”) black and white photographed wrappers.
Kunming: Red Cross Town Club, [c.1945]
A guidebook to the city for English speakers. Kunming was a bustling US Army-base city in
which relief organizations also were located. Only light extremity wear; near fine.
(200/300)
306. (China) Little, Mrs. Archibald. Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them. xvi, 615, [1] pp.
120 illustrations from photographs, etc. (8vo) original red cloth, stamped in gilt and blue, top edge
gilt. First Edition.
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1899
An account of the author’s travels throughout China in 1887. Spine leaning, bookplate; foxing;
very good.
(200/300)
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RARE PEIPING MAP & DIRECTORY 1832
307. (China) The Map of Peiping with Street Directory (Alphabetical and Numerical). 20 pp. + color folding
map. Map measures 61.5x50 cm (24¼x19¾”). Book measures 17x11 cm (6¾x4¼”) original yellow
wrappers.
Tientsin-Peiping: Peiyang Press, [1932]
The map is of Peiping (Peking). A rare work, only 1 located on OCLC / Worldcat, at Nelson-
Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO. Near fine.
(400/600)
308. (China) Missionary Scenes in China. [4] leaves, each with multiple illustrations from photographs
or drawings on both sides. 18.3x14 cm. (7¼x5½”), original gilt-lettered wrappers stitched with yarn.
Cincinnati, Ohio: The Foreign Christian Missionary Society, c.1905
Rare little souvenir featuring pictures of missionaries in China, the Chinese to whom they
ministered, various scenes, etc. No copies listed by OCLC/WorldCat as being in institutional
libraries. Fading to wrapper edges, gilt lettering dull in places, very good.
(250/350)
309. (China) Portraits of China by the American Jesuits in Shanghai, Nanking & Hai Chow. [xii], 104 pp.
Illustrations from photographs. (8vo) original blue cloth. First Edition.
No place: Gonzaga College, [c.1935]
Printed and bound by the orpahn boys of Tou-Se-Wei. Scarce. Light wear to cloth, head of
spine pulled, front hinge cracked; very good.
(100/150)
WOODBLOCK ILLUSTRATIONS BY CH’I PAI-SHIH
310. (China) Qi Baishi. Beijing Rong Bao
Zhai Xing Ji Shi Jian Pu. Jiu Shi Yi Sui Shi
Lao 91 Sui. [Painted Papers by Old Ch’i Pai-Shih
on the Occasion of His 91st Birthday Celebration]. 2
volumes. Over 200 delicate woodblock prints
-- birds, grass, insects, fruit, flowers -- on thin
rice or bamboo paper. 31x21.5 cm (12¼x8½”)
blue stitched wrappers speckled with gilt,
printed paper cover labels, housed in an ornate
blue brocade chemise with two ivory clasps.
Bejing: 1955
A rare work filled with pristine and delicate
woodblock illustrations. Slight dime-size
dampstain running through several leaves at
an upper corner; else fine.
(1000/1500)
Lot 310
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RARE VIEW BOOK OF PEKING
311. (China) Yamamoto, S. Peking. 100 half-tone photo plates, captioned in English and Chinese.
19x26 cm (7½x10¼”), original patterned silk, ribbon-bound.
Peking: S. Yamamoto, 1909
Sanshichiro Yamamoto was a Japanese photographer operating in Peking, catering to the tourist
trade. His photos captured not just tourist scenes, but also scenes of daily life in China. Rare.
Covers worn and loosely attached; light wear at edges of a few pages; very good.
(600/900)
312. (China) Zhao Xi. [Zheng Jian Ye Pu: Collection of Poems from Chengdu and Shi Pi Jia]. 2 volumes. Color
woodblock prints throughout on rice or bamboo paper. 29x18 cm (11½x7”) blue paper stitched
wrappers, housed in blue cloth chemise with two ivory clasps.
Chungdu: c.1940s
Old poems from dead poets printed from original calligraphy. One cloth ring (for clasp)
lacking, light wear to chemise; volumes fine.
(400/600)
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF U.S. SAILOR WITH MANY VIEWS
OF CHINA & JAPAN, PLUS LINDBERGH ON BOARD
313. (China, etc.) Photograph album tracing the voyages of the U.S.S. Memphis, through the Panama Canal,
to China, transporting Charles Lindbergh back to the U.S. after his trans-Atlantic journey, etc. Approx. 252
photographs, corner-mounted on black album leaves. Most images approx. 9x14 cm. (3½x5½”);
album is 28.5x38.5 cm. (11¼x15¼”), flexible cloth.
Various places: c.1925-30
Lot 313
Exceptional album of photographs of the U.S.S. Memphis and the places visited, including
eleven with Charles LIndbergh aboard ship - the ship carried Lindbergh and his plane back to
the United States in 1927 following his trans-Atlantic flight. Though the “Spirit of Saint Louis”
itself is not shown, there are a few shots of ship-board observation planes, one with a passenger
who resembles Lindberth, making perhaps a 12th photo featuring Lindbergh. Among the many
other photographs, which include both original snapshot views and commercial photos, are
the journey through the Panama Canal; several of California, where leave was evidently taken;
Hawaii; many of China, including executions and beheadings, occidental troops marching
through protected areas, the Great Wall, city views, Shanghai, etc.; Guam; Japan (a number of
these are photo postcards); the 1923 Tokyo Earthquake (these are photo postcards, some with
pencil notes in English on the versos); etc. A fascinating glimpse of the world between the two
great wars of the 20th century, as perceived by an American sailor. Very good condition.
(2000/3000)
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314. (China, Manchuria - 1932 China condemns Japanese conquest of Manchuria) North-Eastern
Affairs Research Institute. Two publications: “Japan’s Deceitful Diplomacy” and “Japan’s Aggressive Policy,
Carried on in the name of the Mikado by the Military Party”. Each is 22 pp. In original wrappers.
Peiping [Bejing], China: North-Eastern Affairs Research Institute, August, 1932
Two of a series of scarce English-language booklets issued by the Institute – a group of
scholars linked to the Chinese Nationalist Government – condemning Japan’s invasion of
Manchuria and creation of the Manchukuo puppet government. The second imprint stresses
that the conquest represented “abuse of the name” of the Japanese Emperor by his nation’s
militarists. A bit of sunning to wrappers, Ex-library copies with some stamping on front
wrappers; very good.
(100/150)
315. Clifton, Violet. Islands of Queen Wilhelmina - signed by author. xv, 288 pp. Photograph plates
including frontispiece portrait of the author, folding map at rear. (8vo) full blue calf, gilt-decorated
spine, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label, all edges marbled. Bound by Birdsall Northampton.
London: Constable & Company, 1927
Signed by the author on a blank preliminary leaf, “Irene from Violet 1927.” Spine sunned,
rubbed extremities; a touch foxed at early and late leaves; very good.
(200/300)
TWO SCARCE CUBA DOCUMENTS
316. (Cuba) 1868 Chinese Coolie’s labor contract - printed and hand-written document in Spanish. Printed and
handwritten Document, Spanish text, Signed (in Chinese) by “Ruperto Ya-can”, “colono” [coolie];
his “patron”, Don Juan Espinosa; and the Lieutenant Governor. 8½x12”. 1 page.
Guanajay, Cuba: Sept. 19, 1868
An apparently standard labor contract for Chinese coolies by which Ya-can, a 38 year-old native
of Vai-chao, China (probably in Yunnan province, on the border of Burma, Laos and Vietnam),
an unmarried field hand, agreed to work for one year in Espinosa’s home for an unstated
“average” wage. If Ya-can was truly employed as a servant in Espinosa’s home, he was more
fortunate that many of his countrymen. Most of the 200 coolies in Guanajay, near Havana,
toiled in the sugarcane fields, having replaced former Black slaves under conditions little better
than slavery. Yellowing and edge wear; very good.
(300/500)
317. (Cuba) Unsigned manuscript document - 1847 Illegal Slave Trade to Spanish Cuba. 5¾x8”. 2 pp. With
official stamp of “Gobierno Superior Civil, Ysla de Cuba”, in Spanish, addressing “Su Majestad” in
the text; probably from the Spanish Governor, Don Leopoldo O’Donnell, to the teenaged Queen
Isabella II of Spain.
Havana, Cuba: October 20, 1847
Assuring Her Majesty that the official prohibition of the Slave Trade had been “faithfully
observed”, its “mandates enforced” by “special precautions” – despite the recent landing
of some Blacks on the southern coast at Trinidad, an “infringement” which had not gone
“unpunished.” Written seven years after the Amistad affair, in which illegally enslaved Africans
had revolted aboard a Spanish vessel sailing from Cuba. the US Supreme Court ultimately
deciding that the Africans were not the “property of Spain”, as the Spanish Government had
contended, but should be set free. Subsequently, O’Donnell, the Spanish Governor at Havana,
while repressing a slave uprising in 1844, had imprisoned, tortured and executed thousands of
slaves (and free Blacks) on the island. This letter of assurances that the Governor was strictly
enforcing Spain’s prohibition of the slave trade was contradicted by British documents showing
that more than 200 enslaved Africans, many mere children, had been landed at Trinidad by a
schooner which had then been sunk or set on fire to conceal the crime (in which the provincial
Governor himself had been implicated). Slavery was, in fact, still big business on Cuba, some
4000 African slaves, “valued” at $450 dollars each, being employed in production of 56,000 tons
of sugar. A rare and significant document. Text bleeding/offsetting; very good.
(300/500)
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318. Dana, Richard Henry. Two Years Before the Mast. 2 volumes. Illustrated. (8vo) tan linen-backed
boards, printed paper spine labels. No. 244 of 350 copies of the Large Paper Edition.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1911
With two hand-colored frontispiece plates. Volume 1’s spine with a few spots of soiling, small
tear at bottom edge of board of Volume 1; else fine.
(200/300)
319. Dodge, Ernest S. Gourd Growers of the South Seas: An Introduction to the Study of the Lagenaria
Gourd in the Culture of the Polynesians - signed. xiii, 119 + 33 photograph plates. (8vo) green gilt-lettered
cloth. The Gourd Society of America, Ethnographical Series No. 2.
Boston, MA: Gourd Society of America, 1943
Signed on the title page by the author. Near fine.
(150/250)
320. Edge-Partington, James. Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands. 33x33 cm (13x13”) clothbacked
boards, cardboard slipcase. Second Edition Expanded and Edited by Bruce L. Miller. Limited
Edition of 999 copies.
[Bangkok, Thailand]: SDI Publications, [1996]
Originally published as Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress of Natives
of the Pacific Islands. Fine.
(150/250)
321. Farmer, Sarah S. Tonga and the Friendly Islands; with A Sketch of their Mission History. Written for
Young People. 427 pp. 2 engraved double-page maps, plus engraved plate of corals, and woodcut plates.
(8vo) later blue library cloth. First Edition.
London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1855
Rubberstamp from personal library of W.W. Wilson of Fiji on the half title. Light early and late
foxing; very good.
(100/150)
RARE GUIDE TO FIJIAN LANGUAGE 1850
322. (Fiji) Hazlewood, David. A Compendious Grammar of the Feejeean Language; with examples of native
idioms. 72, [2] pp. With 3 folding tables. (8vo) 18x10 cm. (7x4”), rebound in cloth, with the major
portion of the original plain black front and back cover cloth laid on, endpapers reinforced. First
Edition.
Vewa, Feejee: Printed at the Wesleyan Mission Press, 1850
Rare, early guide to the Fijian language. The Reverend David Hazlewood [1820-1855] arrived
in Sydney from England in 1842. In 1844 he left as a missionary to Fiji, arriving there after a
four month stay in Tonga. He stayed in Fiji until 1853 when he returned to New South Wales in
failing health and died at Maitland in 1855. A skilled linguist, he published the present work in
1850, the first grammar book of the Fijian language. The book was printed by Edward Martin, a
Frenchman who was wrecked in an American ship among the Fiji Islands in a hurricane in 1848.
Printing began in the Fiji Islands in Buthainambua in 1839, and continued, in fits and starts due
to native politics and wars, until it was firmly established at Viwa in 1844. The mission press
was the only press in Fiji until a commercial press was established in 1868. OCLC/WorldCat
lists only eight copies, and two of those (at Yale and Cambridge), are but 12 pages, noted as
“Fragment of a rare work which, if complete, would contain 72 pages.” The others are at the
New York Public Library, Brown, the British Library, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the University
of Strasbourg, and the University of Queensland (this copy giving an undoubtedly erroneous
pagination of 358 pp.). Inscribed on the front pastedown in ink, “James Barton from James
Calvert, Feejee 1853.” Very good or better condition.
(700/1000)
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323. (Fiji) Seven works about Fiji. Includes:
* Henley, Thomas. Fiji: The Land of Promis. Religious - Political - Economic. Inscribed to H.A.
Breen Esq. from the author on the front free endpaper, dated 1927. Blue cloth. John Sands, 1926.
* Deane, W. Fijian Society or the Sociology and Psychology of the Fijians. Green cloth, dust jacket
(lightly chipped top edge). Macmillan, 1921.
* Henderson, G.C. The Discoverers of the Fiji Islands: Tasman, Cook, Bligh, Wilson,
Bellingshausen. Loose folding map in rear pocket. Maroon cloth, dust jacket (price-clipped, soiled
and chipped). John Murray, [1933].
* The Colony of Fiji, 1874-1929. Wrappers. Second Edition. J.J. McHugh, Governement Printer,
1929.
* Grimshaw, Beatrice. From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands. Red cloth. Thomas Nelson and Sons,
[c.1915]
* Endicott, William. Wrecked Among Cannibals in the Fijis: A Narrative of Shipwreck &
Adventure in the South Seas. Cloth-backed boards. Marine Research Society, 1923.
* Mead, S.M. The Lapita Pottery Style of Fiji and its Associations. Red cloth, dust jacket. Polynesian
Society, 1975.
Mostly mild general wear; very good.
Various places: Various dates
(150/250)
E.M. FORSTERS SCARCE HISTORIC GUIDE TO ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT
324. Forster, E.M. Alexandria: A History and a Guide. [6], x, 227 pp. Folding color plan of Alexandria
loose in rear endpaper pocket, as issued; 2 folding and several full-page plans within the volume;
frontispiece. 18.5x11.5 cm. (7¼x4½”), boards. First Edition.
Alexandria [Egypt]: Whitehead Morris Limited, 1922
The noted novelist’s guide to the port city of Egypt. Inscribed on the front free endpaper
by one Walt Taylor, “To Ona Crofton, hoping that she will continue to enjoy her stay in
Alexandria.” A large portion of this first edition was destroyed in a warehouse fire. Boards
darkened, some rubbing, spine lettering partially perished; about very good.
(600/900)
325. (France) Les Pyrénées - 100 Vues. 4 volumes. 100 lithograph views. 8x12 cm, original embossed red cloth,
lettered in gilt, original gilt lettered slipcase.
Paris: A. Bouchard, [c.1900]
Beautiful views of the French Pyrénées. Light wear to the slipcase; volumes fine.
(200/300)
326. Gibson, Walter M. The Prison of Weltevreden; and a Glance at the East Indian Archipelago. xiv, 495
pp. Illustrations from woodcuts. (8vo) original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. FIrst
Edition.
New York: J.C. Riker, 1855
The author spent years sailing in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean s. In 1853 he was
captured and imprisoned by the Dutch on the island of Java. This work describes his experience
during his time at Weltevreden Prison. Light wear, spine sunned; light foxing; near fine.
(150/250)
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327. Greene, Charles S. Talofa, Samoa: A Summer Sail to an Enchanted Isle. 49, [2] ad pp. Color
photograph plates, including frontispiece, 1 color folding map of South Pacific Ocean, plus a few
other plates. 22.5x14.5 cm (8¾x5¾”) original green wrappers with color lithograph illustrated front
cover illustrating a Samoan man, and a map on rear wrapper. Covers by Union Photo-Eng. Co., S.F.
San Francisco: San Francisco News Company, 1896
Nice and scarce little booklet on Samoa to “arouse” readers’ desires to visit. Wear to wrappers
including rubbing all over, creasing at corners, chip at top left corner of front wrapper, and to
spine head (with a small piece of tape there) and a tiny bit at top right edge of rear wrapper,
spine heel chipped; light marginal foxing within; very good.
(80/120)
328. (Grey, Zane) Hammond, T.G. The Story of Aotea - inscribed to Mrs. Zane Grey. 242 pp. (8vo) brown
cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.
Christchurch: Lyttelton Times Co., 1924
Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper from a relative of the dedicatee of
the book. “To Mrs. Zane Grey with J. Marsden Caughey’s compliments. 1.2.26.” The book is
dedicated to A.C. Caughey, and old and esteemed friend of the author. Also with a laid in post
card, with a message written to Miss Ida Grey c/o Zane Grey, sent from Zanesville, OH to the
Grey’s Altadena, California residence. Jacket soiled and chipped at edges; volume soiled a bit;
very good volume in a good jacket.
(200/300)
FIRST HAKLUYT SOCIETY PUBLICATION
329. (Hakluyt Society) Bethune, C.R. Drinkwater, editor. The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins,
Knt. in his Voyage into the South Sea in the Year 1593. xvi, 246 pp. (8vo) original blue cloth, gilt-letered
spine, gilt vignette of ship on front cover.
London: Hakluyt Society, 1847
This is the first of the Hakluyt Society publications and is a reprint of one of the scarcest of
the English voyaging narratives. Cox II, p. 257. Spine sunned, light soiling; light marginal foxing
at early and late leaves, old bookseller’s description pasted to verso of half title; very good.
(300/500)
330. (Hakluyt Society) Oliver, Pasfield, editor. The Voyage of Francois Leguat of Bresse to Rodriguez,
Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope. 2 volumes. Silverprint photograph frontispiece in Volume 1,
plus many plates within including several folding. (8vo) blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, gilt vignette
of a ship on front covers.
London: Hakluyt Society, 1891
Hakluyt Society No. LXXXII. Spines a bit yellowed; text blocks are a bit shaken with a few
signatures loose and at least one detached; very good.
(300/500)
331. (Hakluyt Society) Thompson, Edward Maunde, editor. Diary of Richard Cocks: Cape-Merchant in
the English Factory in Japan, 1615-1622. 2 volumes. (8vo) blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, gilt vignette
of ship on front covers.
London: Hakluyt Society, 1883
Hakluyt Society No. LXVII. Spines yellowed, light soiling; each with a bookplate on front
pastedown of Alfred Mitchell; very good.
(200/300)
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BOOKS AND EPHEMERA ON HAWAII
332. (Hawaii) Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1906.
Governor of Hawaii, Board of Indian Commissioners. iv, [2], 155 pp. 9 maps, most are large folding maps.
(8vo) rebound in library cloth.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907
59th Congress, 2d Session, December 3, 1906-March 4, 1907. In 112 volumes. This is Vol. 17.
Some stub tears or other neat tears to maps; very good or near fine.
(200/300)
333. (Hawaii) Annual reports of the Manager and Treasurer of Hawaiian Agricultural Co. and Kapapala Ranch
for the year ending December 31, 1896. 13 pp. 21.8x14.5 cm. (8½x5¾:), original printed wrappers.
Honolulu: Robert Grieve, Electric Book and Job printers, 1897
The Hawaiian Agricultural Company was established in 1876 on the southwest coast of
Hawaii at Pahala, in the Ku’a district, on prime sugar land. The Kapapala Ranch was a separate
operation from the plantation, although it was owned as a subsidiary company by Hawaiian
Agricultural Co. OCLC/WorldCat lists only microfilm holdings of annual reports of the
companym though Forbes does list a copy of this report at the Hawaiian Mission Children’s
Society, and notes that the report on the ranch, dated January 9, 1897, is by Julian Monsarrat.
Forbes 4819. Some minor foxing and wear, the whole with a vertical crease; very good.
(400/600)
AUSTRIAN DOCTOR VISITS HAWAII, LEPERS ON MOLOKAI
334. (Hawaii) Bechtinger, J[oseph]. Ein Jahr auf den Sandwich-Inseln. (Hawaiische Inseln.). [viii], 202, [2]
pp. Folding map at rear; 8 plates of woodcuts. (8vo) modern red half leather and marbled boards,
spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. 22.5x15 cm. (9x5¾”), later black cloth. First Edition.
Vienna: Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers, 1869
An account of Dr. Bechtinger’s year in Hawaii, 1868-69. “Much of the text concerns medical
matters, particularly the doctor’s interest in lepers on Molokai.” Forbes 2820. Occasional
rubberstamps of the Officiers-Bibliothek of an Austrian infantry regiment. Some rubbing to
covers; occasional minor soiling within, else very good.
(500/800)
335. (Hawaii) Bennett, C[hauncey] C. Lectures and Sketches of Life on the Sandwich Islands an Hawaiian
Travel and Scenery. 64 pp. With 3 full-page woodcut illustrations. 18.2x12.5 cm. (7¼x5”), original
stapled wrappers with photo portrait of the author on front. First Edition.
San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1893
“A rambling lecture with comments on historical events and social mores. Many of the remarks
reflect Bennett’s own slant on matters and should be viewed with caution.. The woodcut
illustrations have no relation to Hawaiian scenes or to any part of the text” - Fobes 4409.
Wrappers stained, small chips at edges and corners; internally about very good, though printed
on cheap paper, as noted by Forbes.
(300/500)
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336. (Hawaii) [Biennial report of the Minister of the Interior to the Legislative Assembly of 1890] - wrapper
title, not present on this copy. 365 pp. With 8 folding tables & 1 folding blueprint map. 21.5x13.5 cm.
(8½x5½”), period half calf & cloth binding with gilt-stamps of the General Assembly New Zealand
Library on front cover and spine, their bookplate on front pastedown.
[Honolulu]: [Robert Grieve, Steam Book & Job Printing], 1890
Rare report from the Hawaiian government - Forbes notes, “The main report, by Minister
Lorrin A. Thurston, lists departmental receipts and disbursements (pp. 277-349) and shows
government land sales and government leases (1888-1890) on two folding tables (at p.286).
Thurston reviews the subject of lands under the control of the Interior Department and
discusses difficulties in carrying out the homestead law. He says he is reluctant to open up crown
lands to homesteaders, as the ‘comprise a very large proportion of the choicest lands of the
country.’” In addition to the main report by Thurston, there are 16 reports from departments
under his control, including the Surveyor General, Superintendent of the Insane Asylum,
Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, Marshall of Prisons, Government Electric Lights,
etc. The folding blueprint map is “Honolulu Water Works. Map of Upper Part of the Nuuanu
Valley System” by G.F. Allardt. No copies of the 1890 report are listed individually by OCLC/
WorldCat, though Stanford University is indicated as having a run of the reports. Forbes 4163
locates six copies. Some scuffing to covers, spine darkened; internally quite clean.
(300/500)
BARK CLOTH OF HAWAII, WITH RARE ATLAS
337. (Hawaii) Brigham, William T. Ka Hana Kapa: The Making of Bark-Cloth in Hawaii - Memoirs of the
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History, III - complete with color plate portfolio.
Text volume + portfolio of loose color plates. Text volume is a folio, rebound in library brown cloth.
Portfolio of plates is comprised of: 2 leaves with [3] pp. of text (title page and explanation of the
plates). Plus, complete set of 27 color plates. All on loose leaves, measuring 31.5x23.5 cm (12½x9¼”)
and housed in a white paper sleeve with original(?) printed paper label, custom brick-red cloth case,
made by Pettingell Book Bindery of Berkeley. With duplicate plates of plates M, U, and X.
Honolulu, HI: Museum Press, 1911
With two laid in Tapa specimens. Volume III of the Memoirs of the B.P. Bishop Museum
contains color photographic reproductions of this important art form. Plates worn with
scattered marks to margins (red pencil, finger smudges), plus many with small closed tears or
very small chips at edges, 1 plate with crease at center, 1 plate with surface wear at center; tapa
specimens and cloth case are in fine condition.
(1000/1500)
338. (Hawaii) Bryan, William Alanson. Natural History of Hawaii - with a signed letter from the author.
596 pp. Illustrated with photographs. (4to) original greenish-brown gilt-lettered cloth, front and rear
panels of original decorative dust jacket pasted to pastedowns.
Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Co., 1915
Presentation copy, with an autograph letter signed from the author, tipped in at front free
endpaper. The letter is address to Dr. Paul Bartsch the Curator of Marine Invertebrates at the
U.S. National Museum, “With sincere aloha as a souvenir of the successful completion of the
first Pan-Pacific Scientific Conference...” Dated Aug 25, 1920. Spine and edges a bit faded, some
light rubbing at extremities; very good.
(200/300)
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339. (Hawaii) Collection of works about Hawaii. Includes:
* Fowler, Henry W. The Fishes of Oceania. Rebound in red cloth. Memoirs of the Bernice P.
Bishop Museum, Volume X. The Museum, 1928.
* Gowen, Herbert H. The Napoleon of the Pacific: Kamehameha the Great. Fleming H. Revell,
[1919].
* Emerson, Nathaniel B. Pele and Kiiaka: A Myth from Hawaii. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1915.
* Emerson, Nathaniel B. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula.
Smithsonial Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 38. GPO, 1909.
* 2 editions of: Holmes, Tommy. The Hawiian Canoe. Editions Limited, First Edition [1981], and
Second Edition [1993]. Both in dust jackets.
* Fraser, Juliette May. Ke Anuenue. University of Hawaii Press, 1952.
* Reynolds, Stephen. The Voyage of the New Hazard. With dj. 1 of 500 copies. Peabody Museum,
1938.
* Day, Emily Foster. The Menehunes: Their Adventures with the Fisherman and How They Built
the Canoe. Paul Edler, [1905].
* Pikoi and Other Legends of the Island of Hawaii. Kamehameha Schools Press, [1949].
* Tennent, Madge. Hawaiians for Victory. Signed by Tennent.
Mostly mild general wear; very good.
Various places: Various dates
(200/300)
340. (Hawaii) Constitution and By-Laws of the Kumuwela Camping Club. 8 pp. 14x11.5 cm. (5½x4½”),
original green printed wrappers.
Honolulu: No date
Rare little piece of Hawiaiiana, There are no copies listed in OCLC/WorldCat, and no other
records or references that we could find. Two small, faint stains to upper right corner of front
wrapper, else fine.
(400/600)
341. (Hawaii) The Courtland Guide: A Book of Information for Visitors to Honolulu and Hawaii. 111, [1] pp.
including wrappers. Illustrated from photographs; double-page map. 17.2x10.2 cm. (6¾x4”), pictorial
wrappers.
[Honolulu]: 1917
Guidebook produced “Compliments of the Courtland Hotel.”. Includes “A trip to Kauai. (Four
days)--Written by Rev. J.M. Lydgate” (pp.106-[111]). OCLC/WorldCat lists five copies, dated
from 1915 to 1917 and with slight variation in pagination, in institutional libraries. Very good
condition.
(250/350)
342. (Hawaii) Donne, M.A. The Sandwich Islands and Their People. 188, [4] pp. With 6 woodcut plates
including frontispiece portrait of Queen Emma. 16.5x10.5 cm. (6½x4”), original gilt-decorated cloth,
all edges gilt. First Edition.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1866]
Published in response to public interest in Hawaii following the visit of Queen Emma to Great
Britain. Forbes 2681; Hill 486. Ownership signature of Henry Dutheridge, Christmas 1868, to
front free endpaper. Soiling and extremity wear to covers, spine faded, leaning; about very good.
(400/600)
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SCARCE HONOLULU PRINTING OF ELLIS’ ACCOUNT OF HAWAIIAN MISSION
343. (Hawaii) Ellis, W[illiam]. The American Mission in the Sandwich Islands: A Vindication and an Appeal,
in Relation to the Proceedings of the Reformed Catholic Mission at Honolulu. 77 pp. 21x13.5 cm. (8¼x5¼”),
original morocco-backed printed boards. First Hawaiian Edition.
Honolulu: H.M. Whitney, 1866
Reprinted from the London edition of the same
year, but with the addition of a review of the
pamphlet, from the London Record of April
25th, 1866, which does not appear in the London
edition. Ownership signature of W.D. Alexander
to the top of the frnot board. William DeWitt
Alexander (1833-1913) was an educator, author
and linguist, born in Hawaii, son of the missionary
William Patterson Alexander. After Hawaii was
annexed into the United States in 1898, Alexander
was surveyor of the Territory of Hawaii. Forbes
2683. Covers stained with some wear; darkening to
contents, very good.
(500/800)
Lot 343
344. (Hawaii) Forbes, David W., compiler. Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1780-1900 - 4 volumes. Green
cloth. First Edition.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, [1999-2003]
Fine.
(200/300)
345. (Hawaii) Fornander, Abraham. Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore: The
Hawaiians’ Account of the Formation of Their Islands and Origin of Their Islands and Origin of Their Race...
Complete in three volumes. 3 volumes. 721 pp. 32x24 cm (12½x9½”) original brown printed wrappers.
Memoirs of the Bernic Pawuahi Bishop Museum, Vol. V, Parts I, II, and III.
Honolulu, HI: Bishop Museum Press, 1918-1919
Rare in original wrappers. Some light scattered wear to wrappers; very good or near fine.
(600/900)
346. (Hawaii) Frear, Mary Dillingham. Three volumes by Mary Dillingham Frear, including two signed.
Includes:
* Our Familiar Island Trees. Blue cloth, dust jacket. Inscribed to friends on the front free endpaper,
from the author. Richard G. Badger, [1929].
* Isle of Dreams: Verses by.. Blue cloth. Signed to Jane Grabhorn, from the author on the front
free endpaper. With Ed Grabhorn’s bookplate. [Privately Printed, 1940].
* Lowell and Abigail: A Realistic Idyll. Cloth-backed boards. Privately Printed, 1934.
Mostly mild edge wear; very good.
Page 97
Various places: Various dates
(150/250)

347. (Hawaii) Glimpses of the Hawaiian Islands: Indelible Photographs. Title leaf plus 11 (of 12) pages of
photographs. 17x13 cm. (6¾x5¼”), original wrappers, ribbon bound.
Honolulu: Hawaiian News Co., c.1889
Views of the Hawaiian Islands printed by the Albertype Co. of New York. Wear to wrappers
with long repaired tear, some soiling; lacking a plate, good.
(150/250)
348. (Hawaii) Hall, A[rthur] D. Hawaii. 177 + [15] ad pp. 17.5x12.5 cm. (6¾x4¾”), original color
pictorial wrappers. First Edition.
New York: Street & Smith, [1898]
Published to take advantage of the interest following Annexation, described by David Forbes as
“A general work on the islands. Chapter eight (p. 101-126) is on Liliuokalani and the revolution;
chapter nine (pp. 127-151) concerns the annexation of Hawaii. This work was published as No.
4 of Street and Smith’s ‘Historical Series.’ The text was printed on poor quality paper and most
copies are in poor condition. The color-printed cover features a lei-draped native girl in a grass
skirt.” Forbes 4895. Some soiling and wear to covers, spine neatly reglued; contents browned as
usual, else very good overall.
(150/250)
349. (Hawaii) Honolulu: Guide to Points of Interest. Compliments of Moana Hotel, Phil. Porrier, Manager.
32 pp. Illustrated from photographs; numerous advertisements; double-page map. 23.5x10.1 cm.
(9¼x4”), wrappers.
[Honolulu]: c.1930
No copies are listed by OCLC/WorldCat, though a similar guide, issued compliments of the
Alexander Young Hotel, numbering 24 pages, is in the collection of the Wisconsin Historical
Society. Very good condition.
(150/250)
350. (Hawaii) Kalakaua (His Hawaiian Majesty). The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The Fables and Folklore
of a Strange People. 530 pp. Steel engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, 1 other steel engraved
plate, 15 wood engraved plates, many illustrations in the text. (8vo), yellow pictorial cloth stamped in
gilt and black. First Edition.
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1888
Rare first edition of this important work on Hawaiian myths and legends by Hawaii’s last
reigning king before the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893. Edited and with an introduction
by R.M. Daggett, former US Minister to the Hawaiian Islands Spine ends frayed, light extremity
wear; bookplate; very good.
(300/500)
Absentee bids are accepted by phone.
Please call us at 415-989-2665 prior to the auction.
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COMPOSED BY QUEEN LILIUOKALANI
351. (Hawaii) Liliuokalani, Queen. Kuu Pua I Paoakalani (My Flower at Paoakalani). [6] pp. including
wrappers. LIthographed front wrapper with halftone photograph of Queen Liliuokalani. 35.6x26.5
cm. (14x10½”).
Honolulu: Jno. H. Wilson, 1895
Lot 351
Rare sheet music of a song by Queen Liliuokalani
composed while imprisoned in ‘Iolani Palace. It
is about her garden in Paoaokalani, from which
a loyal haole supporter, John Wilson (whose
mother, Evelyn T. Wilson, went into voluntary
imprisonment with the Queen) regularly brought
her flowers. These flowers were wrapped in
newspaper, through which means she was able to
read the news that was prohibited to her during her
imprisonment. The song is a tribute to this young
man, whom she held in very high esteem. OCLC/
WorldCat lists only two copies, at the University
of Hawaii Manoa, and the British Library. No
copies listed as having sold at auction per American
Book Prices Current, though PBA Galleries did
sell an example in the spring of 2013. A few short
marginal tears that are repaired, a little soiling, very
good.
(500/800)
352. (Hawaii) Na mele o Ziona. Title-leaf + 222 numbered hymns (all but a few with music) + [10]
index pp. 19.1x13 cm. (7½x5¼”), gilt-lettered cloth. Second Edition.
[Salt Lake City]: Published by the L.D.S. Hawaiian Mission, 1931
Mormon hymns in Hawaiian, printed at the Deseret News Press for the Hawaiian Mission.
Flake 1843, referring to the 1924 first editon. OCLC/WorldCat lists a 1909 work of the same
title, with additional subtitle, which contain only 16 hymns, but makes no reference to either the
1924 or 1931 printings of the present work. Near fine with a little rubbing to extremities.
(250/350)
353. (Hawaii) Patent Laws of the Hawaiian Kingdom and Rules of Practice in the Patent Office (wrapper title).
[2], 18 pp. 21.8x14 cm. (8½x5½”), original printed wrappers. First Edition.
Honolulu: P.C. Advertiser Steam Print, [1884]
Scarce Hawaiian imprint on the Patent Laws in the final decade of the Kingdom. Forbes notes
“This contains the law of 1884 (and the earlier 1864 law) establishing patents. It details the
process by which patents are to be issued and includes samples of proper forms to be used in
the process.” OCLC/WorldCat lists only two copies of this 1884 first edition, at the Library of
Congress and at Lee College Library. This copy with LC surplus/duplicate rubberstamp on rear
wrapper, and small “LC” perforated stamp on front wrapper.Forbes 3623. Ownership signature
of Cyrus Kehr, January 1889, to front wrapper. Rear wrapper with small corner chip, verso tape
repair, spine ends a bit worn, the whole with vertical crease; very good or better, quite scarce.
(300/500)
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354. (Hawaii) Prescott, Anne M. Hawaii. 133 pp. 17.2x13.2 cm. (6¾x5¼”), original wrappers. First
Edition.
San Francisco: C.A. Murdock, 1891
Signed and inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf, “Anne M. Prescott, Aloha nui, Aug.
19, 1891.” A series of short essays evidently based on the author’s letters to her sister - Forbes
notes that “Prescott comments on guava, coconut, and lantana. One essay is about Molokai and
Father Damien...” Forbes 4291. Spine reglued with some staining; overall very good.
(400/600)
RECORD OF HAWAIIAN LEGISLATURE WITH
RARE PHOTOGRAPH & SATIRICAL PAMPHLETS
355. (Hawaii) Record of Hawaiian Legislature of 1886 with rare photograph + two rare satirical pamphlets on
Hawaii, bound together. Comprises:
* Hawaiian Legislature. Session of 1886 (caption title - title-page or wrapper title not present). 292
pp. preceded by [7] index pp. With original mounted albumen photograph of members of the
legislature seated and standing, with printed key affixed to verso identifying the members (the photo
is loose and lower edge is trimmed, but a ragged stub, where it was bound into the work, is present).
[Honolulu: c.1886]. Bound in before this work are two satyrical paphlets on the reign of Kalakaua:
* [Atkinson, Alatau Tamchiboulac]. [The Gynberg Ballads]. 23 pp. With 13 color-printed
illustrations. (Wrappers with title & imprint not present). Forbes 3867. [San Francisco: Schmidt
Lithograph Co., 1887].
* [Purvis, Edward W.]. The Grand Duke of Gynbergdrinkenstein. A Burlesque in Three Acts.
Respectfully Dedicated to the Public of the Duchy. 22 pp. Printed wrappers present. Forbes 3851.
Honolu, H.I.: 1886.
Together, 3 items bound
together. 22.5x15 cm. (9x6”),
later half leather & cloth, spine
lettered in gilt.
Hawaii & San Francisco:
c,1886-1887
Assemblage of rare
Hawaiiana, including two
satirical pamphlets described
in great length by David
Forbes in his Hawaiian
National Bibliography, and
Lot 355
the official record of what
as until that time the longest
legislative session in Hawaiian history. This copy formerly belonged to Allen M. Nowell, a
Hawaiian sugar factor who settled in Hawaii in 1898, with his bookplate, and his ownership
signature on the front cover and the front pastedown. Additionally, it is inscribed to him by
Wm. W. Goodale, Nov. 19, 1927, with a two-page letter from Goodale to Nowell bound in:
“I am sending you the copy of the report of the 1886 term of the legislature as an addition
to your collection of Hawaiiana. The folly of the king, his advisers and the members of the
legislature made up to a great extent of tax assessors and collectors, sheriffs and deputy sheriffs
and personal friends of the king did much to bring about the trouble in 1887 and later, finally
culminating in the overthrow of the monarchy...” He goes on to describe the two pamphlets and
the true identities of their various characters. Goodale was an active figure in the development
of Hawaii’s sugar industry, in which he was continuously engaged for 46 years, 40 of which
were spent as a plantation manager, retiring in 1924. OCLC/WorldCat lists no records for the
Hawaiian Legislature Session of 1886. The original photograph faded with some foxing, minor
foxing and wear within the volume, else very good.
(800/1200)
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356. (Hawaii) Report of the Labor Commission on Co-operation and Profit-Sharing. 68 pp. 21x14 cm.
(8¼x5½”), original printed wrappers, bound in qurter buckram & boards, leather spine label. First
Edition.
Honolulu: Robert Grieve, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1895
The first 16 pages comprise the main report, with the remainder being the appendix containing
letters from various plantation managers on cooperation and profit sharing. Forbes calls it “a
thorough report.” OCLC/WorldCat lists only two copies, at Yale and the University of Hawaii.
With the bookplate of the [George] Rodiek Collecton of Hawaiiana. Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Wallace
M. Alexander, Honolulu Academy of Arts. A little darkening to wrappers, else very good.
(400/600)
357. (Hawaii) Rock, Joseph Francis Charles. A Monographic Study of the Hawaiian Species of the Tribe
Lobelioideae Family Campanulaceae. xvi, [5]-394. [1] pp. With frontispiece map & 214 plates from
photographs. 32.3x24.5 cm. (12¾x9¾”), printed wrappers, later cloth spine.
Honolulu: Published by Authority of the Trustees, 1919
Important monograph on this subfamily of the plant family Campanulaceae, as native to
Hawaii. Issued as Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Volume VII, Number 2. Two
preliminary leaves detached with some edge wear; very good.
(200/300)
358. (Hawaii) Sesser, W.F. Hawaii, the Paradise of the Pacific and Inferno of the World (wrapper title). [24] pp.
With 10 illustrations from photographs. 12.7x7.7 cm. (5x3”), wrappers with string tie.
St. Joseph, Mich.: Published for the Oahu Railway and Land Co. and the Volcano House Co. by
W.F. Sesser, [1891]
Scarce little view book of Hawaii. OCLC/WorldCat lists only two copies, at the University of
California, Berkeley, and the Strong Library, New York. Forbes lists several similar titles, but not
this one in miniature format. A few minor stains to wrappers, else very good.
(200/300)
359. (Hawaii) Seven volumes on the geology of Hawaii. Includes: 6 volumes from the Hawaii Division of
Hydrography Bulletins:
* Stearns, H.T. Geology and Ground-Water Resource of the Island of Hawaii. Bulletin 9. 1946.
* Stearns, H.T. Geology and Ground-Water Resources of the Island of Niihau, Hawaii. Bulletin 12.
1947.
* Macdonald. Bibliography of the Geology and Water Resources of the Island of Hawaii. Bulletin
10. 1947.
* Stearns, H.T. Geology and Ground-Water Resources of the Island of Molokai, Hawaii. Bulletin
11. 1947.
* Stearn, H.T. Geology and Ground-Water Resoures of Lanai and Kahoolawe, Hawaii. Bulletin 6.
1940.
* Stearns, H.T. Geology and Ground-Water Resources of the Island of Maui, Hawaii. Bulletin 7.
1942.
* Stearns, H.T. Geology of the Hawaiian Islands. Blue wrappers. Bulletin 8.
All but the last in orange wrappers. Plus:
* Brigham, William Tufts. The Volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa on the Island of Hawaii. Their
Variously Recorded History to the Present Time. (4to) blue cloth. Bishop Museum Press, 1909. Ex
library with the usual markings to title page and volume spine.
Mild to moderate general external wear; very good.
Various places: Various dates
(150/250)
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360. (Hawaii) Sixteen volumes about Hawaii. Includes:
* Goodrich, Joseph King. The Coming Hawaii. Decorative blue cloth. A.C. McClurg, 1914.
* Alexander, Mary Charlotte. Punahou, 1841-1941. Tan cloth, dust jacket (price excised). University
of California Press, 1941.
* Dole,, Edmund P. Hiwa: A Tale of Ancient Hawaii. Tan cloth. Harper & Brothers, 1900.
* Hayes, Walter. The Captain from Nantucket and the Mutiny on the Bounty. Cloth-backed linene,
slipcase. No. 273 of 500 copies, signed by author. William L. Clements, 1996.
* Frear, Mary Dillingham. The Cocoa Palm: Songs for Children. Illustrated wrappers (chip on front
wrapper). Revised and enlarged edition. Oliver Ditson Company, [1910].
* Day, Mrs. Frank R. The Princess of Manoa and Other Romantic Tales from the Folk-lore of Old
Hawaii. Brown linen. Paul Elder, [1906].
* Makua Laiana: The Story of Lorenzo Lyons. Lovingly known to Hawaiians as Ka Makua Laiana,
Haku Mele o ka Aina Mauna. Gray linen. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1945.
* Taylor, Albert P., editor. The Hawaiian Islands. Wrappers. Captain Cook Sesquicentennail
Commission, 1930.
* Souvenir of Honolulu. Color photograph view book. Wrappers. Honolulu Paper Co., no date.
* Kamakau, Samuel M. Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii. Aqua cloth, dust jacket. Kamehameha School
Press, [1961].
* Adams, Romanzo. Interracial Marriage in Hawaii. Brown cloth, dust jacket (price-clipped).
Macmillan, 1937.
* Gerould, Katharine Fullerton. Hawaii Scenes and Impressions. Green cloth-backed boards.
Scribne’r, 1916.
* Missionary Album: Portraits and Biographical Sketches of the American Protestant Missionaries
to the Hawaiian Islands. Blue cloth, dust jacket. Enlarged from the Edition of 1901. Hawaiian
Mission Children’s Society, 1937.
* Monnier, Marcel. Ile Hawai. Original front wrapper bound in, rebound in half blue-green cloth
and boards. E. Plon, 1885.
* Adams, Romanzo, et. al. The Peoples of Hawaii: A Statistical Study. Wrappers. Institute of Pacific
Relations, 1925.
* Alexander, W.D. Specimens of Ancient Tahitian Poetry. 5 pp. bound in plain peach wrappers.
Mild to moderate general wear; mostly very good.
Various places: Various dates
(300/500)
361. (Hawaii) Souvenir of Hawaii. 14 plates from photogaphs, printed by the Albertype Company of
New York, plus map, tipped to leaves. 18x12.3 cm. (9¼x7”), wrappers with oval photo pictorial cover
label, lettering in white, string tie.
Honolulu, H.I.: The Wall, Nichols Co., Ltd., c.1900
Scarce view book of Hawaii. No copies listed in OCLC/WorldCat. Wear to covers, lettering
mostly rubbed off; internally very good.
(400/600)
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362. (Hawaii) Sturdevant, C. V. Hawaii: General Information. By a Citizen. [2], 53, [3] + [6] ad pp.
20.8x14.4 cm. 8¼x5¾”), original pictorial wrappers, map on rear wrapper.
Los Gatos, Cal: C.V. Sturdevant, 1898
A guidebook with information useful to the tourist or prespective resident. Forbes notes that
the author “gives summaries of various industries and business concerns, and comments on
Hawaian customs, the cost of provisions, and wages paid to laborers. The remarks sometimes
reveal the author’s wry sense of humor...” Stated Sixth Thousand on the title page, as did the
copy described by Forbes. OCLC/WorldCat lists 8 copies. Forbes 4881. Wrappers restored, with
spine rebacked, edges reinforced and extended, a number of tears repaired with tape; internally
very good.
(250/350)
363. (Hawaii) Thurston, Lorrin A. Vistas of Hawaii: The Paradise of the Pacific and Inferno of the World.
44 pp. With 12 photogravure plates, most with multiple images; vignettes in the text, map. (oblong
4to) 17x27.5 cm (6¾x10¾”), wrappers, string tie. First Edition.
St. Joseph, Mich.: W.F. Sesser, 1891
Rather scarce view book “Published by W.F. Sesser.. for the Kilauea Volcano House Company
and the Oahu Railway and Land Company, Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands.” David Forbes (noting
it in pale blue boards wtih a tassled silk cord) describes the work as “An attractive and early
‘view book’ designed specifically to promote tourist travel to the Islands....” Wrappers with some
soiling and a few neat repairs, else very good.
(400/600)
364. Heber, Reginald. Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, From Calcutta to
Bombay, 1824-1825. (With Notes Upon Ceylon,) An Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces,
1826, and Letters Written in India. Three volumes. Illustrated with woodcut engravings. (8vo) 21.5x13.5
cm (8½x5¼”), old half calf and marbled boards, spines decorated in blind, red leather labels. Second
Edition.
London: John Murray, 1828
First published the prior year. Reginald Heber (1783–1826) was an English clergyman, traveller,
man of letters and hymn-writer who, after working as a country parson for 16 years, served as
the Anglican Bishop of Calcutta until his sudden death at the age of 42. Bindings rubbed; light
foxing; very good.
(300/500)
365. Hides, Jack. Three volumes by Jack Hides. Includes:
* Beyond the Kubea. Gray cloth, dust jacket (price clipped, many tears and chips). Angus and
Robertson, 1939.
* Savages in Serge. Gray cloth, dust jacket (many chips and tears). Publisher’s compliment slip
pasted to front free endpaper. Angus and Robertson, 1938.
* Savage Patrol. Green cloth. Bookplate. Robert M. McBride, [1936].
Various places: Various dates
Moderate wear to each; sunning to cloth, foxing; good to very good.
(80/120)
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366. Hogbin, H. Ian. Transformation Scene: The Changing Culture of a New Guinea Village - inscribed to
Margaret Mead. xii, 326, 12 ad pp. Double-sided map frontispiece, photograph plates. (8vo) green
cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1951]
Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Margaret Mead
with all good wishes from Ian Hogkin.” Hodkin and Mead were part of the golden age of
anthropology, among the in-between-wars generation that propelled the study of the human
race to new heights. Hodkin lived and studied in various South Sea regions. Light soiling and
rubbing; very good.
(500/800)
367. Holden, Horace. A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj.
H. Nute; who were cast away in the American Ship Mentor on the Pelew Islands, in the Year 1832. xii, [13]-133
pp. With two full-page wood-engravings, including the frontispiece. 15.3x9.5 cm. (6x3¾”), rebound
with original gilt-lettered cloth covers and spine laid down. First Edition.
Boston: Russel, Shattuck, 1836
“Holden, a farm boy from New Hampshire, was aboard the whaleship Mentor when it was
wrecked. Only about half the crew survived the wreck; they were ultimately captured by natives,
who tattooed, starved, and mistreated their prisoners. Holden and his friend Nute were rescued
in 1834 by the British barque Britannia...” Hill, revised edition, 818. Some soiling and rubbing to
original cloth; light dampstaining to edges of many leaves, foxed; very good.
(300/500)
368. Hopkins, A.I. In the Isles of King Solomon: An Account of Twenty-Five Years Spent Amongst the Primitive
Solomon Islanders - signed. 269 + 1 ad pp. Photograph plates, map. (8vo) green cloth, gilt-lettered spine,
gilt vignette on front cover, portion of original dust jacket (only spine and front panel) present. First
Edition.
London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1928
Signed, “from the Author,” neatly in ink on the front free endpaper. Jacket incomplete, present
is most of spine and front panel; light shelf wear, spots of rubbing and faint soiling to spine;
very good.
(200/300)
369. Im Thurn, Everard. Thoughts, Talks and Tramps: A Collection of Papers. (8vo) maroon cloth, giltlettered
spine. First Edition.
Oxford University Press, 1934
With an original silverprint of the author, holding his cockatoo, tipped in on verso of front
free endpaper, and captioned in ink on the paper, “Sir Everard im Thurn with his cockatoo in
Government House Gardens. Fiji.” On the facing blank leaf, a relative of Everard has inscribed
the book, “To Blanche Payne in memory of her great kindness...from H.C. im Thurn...March
11th, 1938.” An interesting association copy. Soiling to spine, a touch rubbed and bumped
extremities; very good.
(200/300)
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370. (Java) Small collection of works about Java (and her neighbors). Includes:
* Van Dyke, John C. In Java and the Neighboring Islands of the Dutch East Indies. Scriber’s, 1929.
* Walcott, Arthur S. Java and Her Neighbours: A Traveller’s Notes in Java, Celebes, the Moluccas
and Sumatra. Putnam’s, 1914.
* McMillan, M. A Journey to Java. Holden & Hardinham, [1914].
* Cabaton, A. Java, Sumatra, and the Other Islands of the Dutch East Indies. Scribner’s, 1911.
* Brown, J. Macmillan. The Dutche East: Sketches and Pictures. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1914.
* Geschiedenis van Java door W. Fruin-Mees. 2 volumes. Boards. Commissie Voor de Volkslectuur,
1920-1922. Spine lacking on one volume.
* Burden, W. Douglas. Dragon Lizards of Komodo: An Expedition to the Lost World of the Dutch
East Indias. Putnam’s, 1927.
* Netherlands East Indies. 2 volumes. Volume 1 and 2. Geographical Handbook Series. Naval
Intelligence Division, 1944.
Mild to moderate general wear; mostly very good.
Various places: Various dates
(150/250)
371. Jenness, D. and Rev. A. Ballantyne. Language, Mythology, and Songs of Bwaidoga. Goodenought
Island, S.E. Papua. viii, [2], 270, [2] ad pp. (for Maori Literature). Map frontispiece, plus 1 folding map.
24x15 cm (9½x5¾”) rebound in maroon cloth.
New Plymouth, NZ: Thomas Avery & Sons, 1928
Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 8. Light shelf wear; lightly foxed; very good.
(100/150)
AUSTRALIA & NEW GUINEA SURVEYED BY H.M.S. FLY 1847
372. Jukes, J. Beete. Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. Fly, Commanded by Captain F.P. Blackwood,
R.N. in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and Other Islands of the Eastern Archipelago, During the Years 1842-1846:
Together with an Excursion into the Interior of the Eastern Part of Java. 2 volumes. [2 ad], xiii, 423, 8 ad; [4 ad],
vii, 362, 10 ad pp. 19 plates (15 engraved); 2 folding engraved maps; woodcuts in text. With a smaller
sheet publisher’s advertisement tipped in at pp. 1 of each volume: In Volume 1: Leichhardt’s Journal
of an Overland Expedition; In Volume 2: Dutton’s South Australia and its Mines. (8vo) original
blindstamped cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First Edition.
London: T. & W. Boone, 1847
“The narrative of an important voyage undertaken for
the purpose of surveying the lesser-known parts of
the coast of northeastern Australia and the islands of
Torres Strait and the Great Barrier Reef. New Guinea
was also visited, andthe Fly River was discovered.
Accounts of Timor and its aborigines, Dutch Java,
Sandalwood Island, Singapore, and Malacca are
included. Jukes was the naturalist on the expedition.”
-- Hill II, page 319. The appendix includes: Owen,
R. “Notes on the Characters of the Skeleton of a
Dugong, (Halicore Australis,) from the North Coast
of Australia...”. Volume 1 with the bookplate of Henry
Temple Frere, Burston Recotry on front pastedown.
Spines faded and lightly soiled, light shelf wear; light
foxing throughout, darker foxing at early and late leaves;
very good.
(3000/5000)
Lot 372
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373. (Kertész, André) Mac-Orlan, Pierre. Paris vu par André Kertész. Unpaginated. Black & white
photographs by Kertész. (4to) original pictorial wrappers. First Edition.
Paris: Librarie Plon, [1934]
Kertész’s first monograph, precedes his landmark “Day of Paris” by more than a decade. Covers
detached and lightly worn, corners bumped; good.
(250/350)
374. Landor, A. Henry Savage. China and the Allies. 2 volumes. xxvi, [2]. 382; xxv, [1], 446 pp.
Numerous plates & illustrations from photographs; color plates from paintings by the author; maps.
(8vo) original yellow cloth decorated in gilt and colors, lettered in black, color pictorial endpapers, top
edges gilt. First American Edition.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1901
Savage-Landor gives an account of the Boxer Rebellion. Spines leaning, light wear and soiling,
bookplates; a few plates detached; good.
(150/250)
375. Le Souef, A.S., and Harry Burrell. The Wild Animals of Australia: Embracing the Mammals of
New Guinea & the Nearer Pacific Islands. Plates from photographs and drawings, plus several drawings
within text. (8vo) blue cloth with color illustration on front cover, lettered in black, dust jacket.
London: George G. Harrap, [1926]
Jacket spine yellowed, with a few tears at edges, a few tiny chips at edges; light shelf wear to
volume; all very good.
(80/120)
376. Lindsey, Robert and Sarah. Travels of Robert and Sarah Lindsey.. Edited by One of Their Daughters.
[8], 189 pp. Illustrated with 24 plates by Robert Lindsey Clark after original sketches by Fredric
Mackie. 18.5x12 cm. (7¼x4¾”), original gilt-lettered brown cloth. First Edition.
London: Samuel Harris and Co., 1886
Travels in America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Ownership signature of Rachel S.
Brown on front flyleaf. Minor insect damage and extremity wear to covers; very good, scarce.
(250/350)
377. M’Leod, John. Voyage of His Majesty’s Ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew;
with an Account of Her Subsequent Shipwreck. [vi], 323, [1] pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece and 5 handcolored
plates. (8vo) 22x14 cm (8½x5”)later half calf and marbled boards, black leather label lettered
in gilt. Second Edition.
London: John Murray, 1818
John M’Leod was surgeon of the Alceste, his account of the loss of the ship was called
“animating and ennobling” in the Edinburgh Review. Much detailed description of people and
places encountered in the Far East. Extremities rubbed; light foxing, one leaf chipped at lower
corner (no loss of text); very good.
(200/300)
378. Malcolm, John. A Memoir of Central India, Including Malwa, and Adjoining Provinces. With the History,
and Copious Illustrations, of the Past and Present Condition of that Country. 2 volumes. 580; 547 pp. Large
engraved folding map of India in Vol. I; hand-colored geological sketch of Malwa in Vol. II. (8vo)
period half calf and marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt. Second Edition.
London: Kingsbury, Parbury, & Allen, 1824
First published the prior year. “In January 181 the author was placed by the Marquis of Hastings
in the military and political charge of Central India; and during the four years he filled that
station, his own attention, and that of the public officers under his authority, was directed at
the object of collecting materials for the illustrion of its past and present condition.” (from the
preface). Bindings worn, front cover detached on Volume 1; light foxing; very good.
(200/300)
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379. Martin, John. An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. 461 pp.
Frontispiece, folding engraved map. (8vo) rebound in a circa 1919 green cloth, gilt-lettered morocco
spine label. First American Edition.
Boston: Charles Ewer, 1820
Comes with a typed letter signed from the office of publisher & bookseller H.S. Nichols,
who writes to the Bronx, NY recipient that he has procured the two books that the recipient
requested, this title being among the two “newly bound”. Letter is dated 1919. Darkening,
soiling to early leaves including frontis and map, map with a few closed tears at edges, foxed;
good.
(150/250)
380. Medhurst, W.H. China: Its State and Prospects, with Especial Reference to the Spread of the Gospel. [2],
xvi, 582 pp. Frontispiece printed in colors and 13 wood engraved illustrations. (8vo) modern red
cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.
London: John Snow, 1838
Medhurst traveled to China in 1816 for the London Missionary Society. His travels included
Malacca, Penang and Batavia. Frontispiece chipped, foxing; very good.
(150/250)
381. (Melanesia) Nine volumes on Melanesia. Includes:
* 3 volumes (of 6) from: Featherman, A. Social History of the Races of Mankind. Includes: Second
Division: Papuo and Malayo Melanesians. Ticknor and Company, 1887; Second Division: Oceano-
Melanesians. Trubner & Co., 1888; Third Division: Aoneo-Maranonians. Trubner & Co., 1889. All
identically bound in cloth, with printed paper spine labels (worn).
* Coombe, Florence. Islands of Enchantment: Many-Sided Melanesia. Green cloth. Macmillan,
1911.
* Codrington, R.H. The Melanesian Languages. Black cloth. Clarendon Press, 1885.
* Armstrong, E.S. The History of the Melanesian Mission. Blue cloth. Isbister and Company, 1900.
* Brown, George. Melanesians and Polynesians. Green cloth. Macmillan, 1910.
* Codrington, R.H. The Melanesians: Studies in their Anthropology and Folk-Lore. Black cloth.
Clarendon Press, 1891. Half title page stuck to front pastedown.
* Valentine, C.A. Masks and Men in a Melanesian Society: The Valuku or Tubuan of the Lakalai of
New Britain. Blue cloth. University of Kansas Publications, 1961.
Various places: Various dates
Nice little group on the social history of Melanesia. Mild to moderate general wear; mostly very
good.
(200/300)
JAMES BROOKE’S BORNEO JOURNALS
382. Mundy, Rodney. Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, Down to the Occupation of Labuan: From
the Journals of James Brooke. 2 volumes. xvii, 385; xi, 395 pp. 1 engraved portrait, 6 lithograph plates,
5 engraved folding charts, and a number of woodcut plates (complete). (8vo) full brown calf, giltlettered
morocco spine labels, all edges marbled. First Edition.
London: John Murray, 1848
Bound by Sotheran & Co. With the ex-library spine stickers, and bookplate from the Yale
University Southeast Asia Reference Library. Plus each with the bookplate of J.C. Hawkshaw.
Spine a bit faded and lightly rubbed at extremities; light foxing at early and late leaves (including
folding charts); very good.
(500/800)
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383. (New Hebrides) Four volumes about the New Hebrides. Includes:
* Deacon, A. Bernard. Malekula: A Vanishing People in the New Hebrides. Blue cloth, dust jacket.
George Routledge & Sons, 1934.
* Humphreys, C.B. The Southern New Hebrides: An Ethnological Record. Red cloth. Cambridge
University Press, 1926.
* Baker, John R. Man and Animals in the New Hebrides. Blue cloth. George Routledge & Son,
1929.
* Lamb, Robert. Saints and Savages: The Story of Five Years in the New Hebrides. Green cloth.
William Blackwood and Sons, 1905.
Light general wear; very good.
Various places: Various dates
(100/150)
384. (New Zealand) Eleven volumes on the history and exploration of New Zealand, including some works on
the Maori. Includes:
* Del Mar, Frances. A Year Among the Maoris: A Study of their Arts and Customs. Ernest Benn,
1924.
* Grace, A.A. Folk-Tales of the Maori. Blue cloth. Gordon & Gotch, 1907.
* Art in New Zealand: A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to Art in its Various Phases in our Own
Country. Vol. 1, No. 1. September, 1928. Original brown/gray wrappers. With tipped in color
plates, plus a laid in subscription form for the magazine.
* Stock, Eugene. The Story of the New Zealand Mission. Tan decorative wrappers. Church
Missionary Society, 1913.
* Views of Wonderland Rotorua N.Z. View book with color photograph plates. Decorative pink
wrappers. No date [c.1920s].
* Taylor, W.A. Lore and History of the South Island Maori. Green cloth. [Bascands Limited, No
date c.1940].
* Horsley, Reginald. Romance of History: New Zealand. Tan illustrated cloth. Frederick A. Stokes,
no date.
* Gooding, Paul. Picturesque New Zealand. Blue cloth. Houghton Mifflin, 1913. With the engraved
bookplate of Clara McGilvery Griffin on verso of frontispiece.
* Clune, Frank. Roaming Round New Zealand. Green cloth, dust jacket (price-clipped). Angus and
Robertson, [1956].
* Beaglehole, J.C. The Discovery of New Zealand. Brick red cloth. Department of Internal Affairs,
New Zealand, 1939.
* Beaglehole, J.C. The University of New Zealand: An Historical Study. Green Cloth. Council for
Educational Research, 1937.
Mostly mild general wear, with a few exceptions; mostly very good.
Various places: Various dates
(200/300)
385. (Pacific) Shelf of early twentieth century works on travel and exploration of the Pacific. Includes:
* Fletcher, C. Brunsdon. Stevenson’s Gemrany: The Case Against Germany in the Pacific.
Presentation copy inscribed by the author to E.M. Lawton, dated 1926 on preliminary blank leaf.
Maroon cloth. Heinemann, 1920.
* Fletcher, C. Brunsdon. The New Pacific: British Policy and German Aims. Green cloth. With
bookplate of Joseph M. Gleason. Macmillan, 1917.
* Sharp, Andrew. The Discovery of the Pacific Islands. Bluc cloth, dust jacket. Clarendon Press,
1960.
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* Brown, J. Macmillan. The Riddle of the Pacific. Blue cloth. With bookplate of Lee Lawrence
Stopple (the name Julian Hicks in ink beneath). Small Maynard, [c.1920].
* Colquhoun, Archibald R. The Mastery of the Pacific. Green decorative cloth. Macmillan, 1902.
* Beaglehole, J.C. The Exploration of the Pacific. Blue cloth, dust jacket (price-clipped). A. & C.
Black, 1934.
* Colwell, James. A Century in the Pacific. Red cloth. William H. Beale, [1914].
* Huntington, Ellsworth. West of the Pacific. Green cloth, dust jacket. Scribner’s, 1925.
* Burton, J.W. Missionary Survey of the Pacific Islands. Blue cloth. World Dominion Press, 1930.
* Montgomery, Helen Barrett. Christus Redemptor: An Outline Study of the Island World of the
Pacific. Blue cloth. Macmillan, 1909.
* Clune, Frank. Hands Across the Pacific: A Voyage of Discovery from Australia to the Hawaiian
Islands.. Brick red cloth. Angus and Robertson, [1951].
Various places: Various dates
Together 11 octavo volumes. Mild to moderate wear to jackets; mostly mild general wear to
volumes; mostly very good.
(150/250)
386. (Pacific) Small group of works on the Pacific. Includes:
* Pacific Islands. B.R. 519 (Restricted) Geographical Handbook Series. 4 volumes. Vol. 1: General
Survey; Vol. II: Eastern Pacific; Vol. III: Western Pacific; Vol. IV: Western Pacific. Blue cloth. Naval
Intelligence Division, 1939-1945.
* Speiser, Felix. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific. Green cloth. Mills & Boon,
[1913].
* Stephens, H. Morse, editor. The Pacific Ocean in History. Blue cloth. Macmillan, 1917.
* Parish, John C., managing editor. The Pacific Historical Review issued by The Pacific Coast
Branch of The American Historical Association. 3 volumes. Blue cloth. Arthur H. Clark, 1932-
1934.
* 3 volumes from: Condliffe, J.B., editor. Problems of the Pacific: Proceedings of the Second
(1927), [and Third (1929)] [and Fourth (1931)] Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations,
Honolulu, Hawaii. Original reddish cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Ex-library. University of Chicago
Press.
* Lenwood, Frank. Pastels from the Pacific. Brown cloth. Humphrey Milford, 1917.
Mild to moderate general wear; mostly very good.
Various places: Various dates
(250/350)
387. (Papua New Guinea) Six volumes about Papua New Guinea. Includes:
* Burnett, Frank. Through Polynesia and Papua. Francis Griffiths, 1911.
* Hides, J.G. Through Wildest Papua. With dj (price-clipped). Blackie & Son, [1935].
* Hides, J.G. Papuan Wonderland. Blackie & Son, [1936].
* Chignell, Arthur Kent. An Outpost in Papua. Smith, Elder & Co., 1911.
* Abel, Charles W. Savage Life in New Guinea: The Papuan in Many Moods. London Missionary
Society, [1902].
* Dauncey, H.M. Papuan Pictures. London Missionary Society, 1913.
Mild to moderate general wear; mostly very good.
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Various places: Various dates
(150/250)

388. Parkin, Ray. H.M. Bark Endeavour: Her Place in Australian History. 467 pp. + a cloth portfolio
volume housing 15 loose folding plans of the ship. (4to) red gilt-lettered cloth, publisher’s slipcase.
[Australia]: The Miegunyah Press, [1997]
“Captain James Cook’s Endeavour is one of the most famous ships in maritime history, yet until
recently few details of her were known to any but maritime historians. ...Ray Parkin, seaman,
artist and author, set out to record everything he could discover about the ship...” -slipcase
printed label. Slipcase a bit bumped; else fine.
(300/500)
389. Payer, Julius. New Lands Within the Arctic Circle: Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship
“Tegetthoff” in the Years 1872-1874. 2 volumes. xxxi, [1], 335; xiv, 303 pp. Illustrated with numerous
wood engravings (many are full-page); color lithograph frontispiece in Volume I; 2 double-page
maps. (8vo) original gilt-decorated blue cloth, top edges gilt; rebacked in modern blue cloth, black
leather spine labels. First Edition.
London: Macmillan, 1876
Adventures in the Arctic regions, including getting stuck in the frozen weather. Payer and his cocommander
Carl Weyprecht, at one point, found themselves on the coast of an unknown shore
which they would name Franz-Joseph Land. Arctic Biblio. 13202. Bookplate of George Edward
Foster in each volume. Spines leaning, some wear at edges; foxing; very good.
(300/500)
390. Philby, H[arry] St. J[ohn] B. The Empty Quarter, Being a Description of the Great South Desert of
Arabia Known as Rub’ al Khali. xxiv, 433 pp. 2 color folding maps; photographs. (8vo), tan cloth. First
Edition.
London: Constable & Co., 1933
Remarkable narrative of travel on the Arabian peninsula by the British cartographer, naturalist,
and archaeologist. Light wear to cloth, bookplate; very good.
(150/250)
391. Piddington, Henry. The Sailor’s Horn-Book for the Law of Storms: Being a Practical Exposition of
the Theory of the Law of Storms, and Its Uses to Mariners of All Classes, in all Parts of the World, Shewn by
Transparent Storm Cards and Useful Lessons. xxiv, 360, [2], 16 ad pp. Folding barometrical chart, 4 folding
maps/charts at rear, plus 1 (of 2) transparent storm card, in front pocket (rear pocket is empty).
21.5x13.5 cm (8½x5¼”) original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, gilt vignette of storm currents on
front cover. Second Edition, With Additions.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1851
Advertisements at rear are dated April, 1854. A rare book of storm currents for mariners, with
1 original transparent storm card, tucked into front pocket, apparentely used aboard the clipper
ship “Reporter” according to a note on an index card housed with the storm card. The name
Charles B. Hitchcock, 1922 in neat ink on front free endpaper. Spine and edges sunned and
soiled; hinges cracked; small dampstain to fore edge of first 40 pages; map/chart IV with long
stub tear; good. Rare.
(200/300)
392. (Polynesia) Collection of works from the Polynesian Society. Highlights include:
* Polynesian Artifacts: The Oldman Collection. Second Edition. Wrappers. Memoirs of the
Polynesian Society, Vol. 15, 1953.
* Hurinui, Pei Te. King Potatau: An Account of the Life of Potatau te Wherowhero, the First
Maori King. Signed by the author on title page, dated 1960. Cloth. Polynesian Society, [c.1960].
* Polynesian Culture History: Essays in Honor of Kenneth P. Emory. Signed by Emory on the title
page(?). Cloth. Bishop Museum Press, [1967].
* Polynesian Anthroplogical Studies: A Collection of Special Articles by Various Authors, Issued in
the Polynesian Journal during 1940.. Cloth, dj. Thomas Avery and Sons, 1941.
* Maude, H.E. The Evolution of the Gilbertese Boti: An Ethnohistorical Interpretation. Wrappers.
Polynesian Society, 1963.
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* Sutherland, I.L.G. The Ngariumu Hui. Wrappers. Polynesian Society, 1949.
* Greenwood, William. The Upraised Hand or The Spiritual Significance of the Rise of the Ringatu
Faith. Wrappers. Polynesian Society Memoir No. 21, 1942.
* Ta’aroa: L’Univers Polynesien. Wrappers. Paul et Francine de Deckker, [1982].
Various places: Various dates
Approximately 40 total volumes. Most volumes in the lot are publications in wrappers from the
Polynesian Society. Mostly near fine.
(500/800)
393. Ranke, Leopold. The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome During the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries. 3 volumes. (8vo) 21.5x13.5 (8½x5¼”) later green half morocco and patterned
cloth, spines gilt, all edges marbled. First Edition in English.
London: John Murray, 1840
Translated from the German by Sarah Austin. Bindings rubbed, piece torn from corner of rear
free endpaper in Volume 2; very good.
(250/350)
394. Rennell, James. A Treatise on the Comparative Geography of Western Asia. 2 volumes. lxiv, (3)-390;
viii, 420 pp. (8vo) 21.5x13.5 cm (8½x5¼”) period full calf, spines gilt, black leather labels. First
Edition.
London: C.J.G. & F. Rivington, 1831
Lacking the accompanying folio atlas. Major James Rennell (1742–1830) was an English
geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography. Beside his geographical and historical
works James Rennell is known today for his hydrographical works about the currents in the
Atlantic and Indian oceans. Spines worn, ends chipped; light foxing; very good.
(200/300)
395. Riley, James. An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, Wrecked on the
Western Coast of Africa, in the Month of August, 1815. With an Account of the Sufferings of Her Surviving
Officers and Crew, who were Enslaved by the Wandering Arabs on the Great African Desart (sic), or Zahahrah; and
Observations Historical, Geographical, &c. Made During the travels of the Author, while a Slave to the Arabs . .
. [xvi], 554, xvi pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 9 plates, and folding map inserted. (8vo), modern
cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.
New York: Printed and Published for the Author by T. & W. Mercein, 1817
Interesting narrative of shipwreck and captivity which went through several printings. Sabin
71397. Foxing throughout, repairs to front flyleaf and folding map; good.
(300/500)
396. Robbins, Archibald. A Journal, Comprising an Account of the Loss of the Brig Commerce, of Hartford,
(Con.) James Riley, Master, Upon the Western Coast of Africa, August 26th, 1815; Also of the Slavery and
Sufferings of the Author and the Rest of the Crew, Upon the Desert of Zahara, in the Years 1815, 1816, 1817;
With Accounts of the Manners, Customs, and Habits of the Wandering Arabs; Also, a Brief Historical and
Geographical View of the Continent of Africa. 275 pp. (8vo) old full calf, spine gilt. Early Edition.
Hartford, CT: Andrus & Judd, [c.1818]
First pubished in 1817; this copy with no date on title page and no statement of edition.
Published on the heels of Captain Riley’s account, the popularity of Robbins’ Journal is attested
by the numerous editions, or printings, it went through. Binding worn, lacking at least half of
the folding map; foxing; good.
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397. Ruffer, Marc Armand. Studies in the Palaeopathology of Egypt. xx, 372 pp. Illustrations from
photographs. (8vo) original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1921]
A collection of papers on the study of disease in ancient Egypt, posthumously prepared
following the author’s death at sea in 1917. Minor wear; a few plates, printed on highly acidic
paper, darkened (as typical); else a fine copy.
(250/350)
398. Russell, John. The Red Mark and Other Stories. (8vo) gray cloth lettered in red, yellow dust jacket.
First Edition.
New York: Knopf, 1919
Signed on the front free endpaper by the author, and dated 1921. Queen’s Quorum #62. Many
tears to jacket spine, repaired on verso with tape, chips and short tears at edges, also repaired
with tape on verso, jacket spine yellowed; a touch of shelf wear to volume; very good volume in
good jacket.
(100/150)
399. Russell, M. Polynesia: Or, An Historical Account of the Principal Islands in the South Sea, Including
New Zealand. 440, 16 ad pp. Folding map frontispiece and additional title, illustrated with a woodcut
vignette. 17x10.4 cm (6½x4¼”) re-backed in later brown cloth, new endpapers.
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1842
Contents fine, in a re-backed with original(?) brown cloth covers.
(100/150)
TRAVELS IN MYSTERIOUS LANDS BY A. HENRY SAVAGE-LANDOR
400. Savage-Landor, A Henry. In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey into Tibet, Capture by the
Tibetan Lamas and Soldiers, Imprisonment, Torture, and Ultimate Release... 2 volumes. Copiously illustrated
with plates, text illustrations, etc.; map. (8vo) original pictorial green cloth, top edges gilt. First
American Edition.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899
An account of the author’s unsuccessful attempt to reach Lhasa in 1897, very nice illustrated
from photographs and sketches. Volume 1 spine leaning, spine ends chipped, bookplates; very
good.
(400/600)
401. Savage-Landor, A. Henry. Across Unknown South America. 2 volumes. Photogravure frontispiece
portrait, 8 color plates from drawings by the author, numerous plates from photographs; maps. (8vo)
original blue cloth, stamped in gilt, top edges gilt. First American Edition.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1913
Journeys through the unexplored areas of Brazil with one of the most popular turn-of-thecentury
travel authors. Light wear; near fine.
(250/350)
402. Savage-Landor, A. Henry. The Gems of the East: Sixteen Thousand Miles of Research Travel Among
Wild and Tame Tribes of Enchanting Islands. 2 volumes. Illustrations, diagrams, maps, planse, etc. by the
author. (8vo) original red cloth, stamped in gilt and black. First Edition.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1904
An account of the author’s travels and anthropological observations in the Philippine and Sulu
Archipelagoes. Spines sunned, light wear; very good.
(400/600)
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403. Savage-Landor, A. Henry. Tibet & Nepal: Painted & Described by A. Henry Savage Landor. x, 233
pp. Illustrated in color by the author and with folding map at rear. (8vo) original blue cloth lettered
and decorated in blue, black and gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition.
London: A. & C. Black, [1905]
“The adventures described in ‘Tibet and Nepal’ met with some skepticism when the book was
published, especially as regards the greatest height by the author, and it would be a very naïve
reader who would take at face value the illustration of ‘An Awkward Moment’ facing page 22
[depicting the author and his horse narrowly avoiding a tumble down a steep cliff]: not so much
awkward as fatal...” (Inman, pp.40-1). Inman 81. Light wear, endpapers browned, bookplate;
very good.
(200/300)
404. Schliemann, Henry. Ilios: The City and Country of the Trojans. The Results of Researches and Discoveries
of the Site of Troy and Throughout the Troad in the Years 1871-72-73-78-79. xvi, 800 pp. Prefaces by Dr.
Rudolf Virchow, Max Müller, et al. Illustrated with approx. 1800 wood engravings; 6 folding maps
& plans, plus 32 plates with figure drawings at rear. (Large 8vo) original brown cloth, stamped in gilt
and black
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881
The author, Dr. Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890), discovered and excavated the site of ancient
Troy. With this expedition, the author finally brings the centuries-old search for Troy to a
conclusion. Spine faded and leaning, ends chipped, some light wear to cloth, rear hinge cracked,
front hinge starting; very good.
(150/250)
405. Schliemann, Henry. Mycenæ; A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns. lxviii,
384 pp. Numerous full-page plates, some folding, 4 color plates at rear. (Large 8vo), original pictorial
green cloth stamped in black and gilt, top edge gilt. Early printing.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1880
Schliemann was a German businessman and archaeologist, and an advocate of the
historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer. Schliemann was an important
archaeological excavator of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His
successes lent material weight to the idea that Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid reflect actual
historical events. Spine faded and leaning, some edge wear; very good.
(100/150)
VINTAGE SEXTANT IN ITS ORIGINAL FELT-LINED WOODEN BOX
406. (Scientific Instruments) Vintage Sextant made by Sewill of Liverpool. According to the label on the
inner cover of the fitted felt lined wooden box, “This sextant No. 5976 of 6-1/2” radius, divided on
Silver and reading to 10” was examined by the Liverpool Observatory, Bidston, Birkenhead on March
2, 1917 and found that the telescopes, shades, mirrors and
arc are found “very good” and the instrument is approved
for determination of Lunar distances, latitudes etc. with
no appreciable error.” Enclosed within the box with the
sextant is a scope and two eyepieces. The box is 5-1/2 x
9-1/2 z 10” with brass handle and clasps, with functioning
lock and key.
Liverpool: Sewill, Maker to the Royal Navy, Prior to 1917
Very good to fine condition, with a touch of surface
soiling. The box has some surface wear and a split on
cover with old repair.
(500/800)
Lot 406
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407. (South Pacific) Etablissements Francais du Pacifique Austral: Nouvelle Caledonie et Dependances...
Etablissements Francais de l’Oceanie. 128; 80, iv pp. 2 color plates, plus photograph plates. (4to) bound
in half red morocco and cloth, with gilt-lettered and decorated spine, top edge gilt. Bound by
Zaehnsdorf.
Paris: Societe d’Editions Geographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1931
Nicely bound copy of the work in French. Faint spots of soiling and rubbing to morocco; very
good.
(200/300)
408. (South Sea - Natural History) Seven works about the natural history of the South Sea. Includes:
* Fowler, Henry W. The Fishes of Oceania. Memoirs of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Volume
X. Bound with Supplement 1, and Supplement 2. Folio, rebound in blue marbled leather-backed
marbled boards. 1928-1934.
* Frost, Alan. Sir Joseph Banks and the Transfer of Plants to and from the South Pacific. Wrappers.
No. 103 of 150 copies. Colony Press, [1993].
* Steiner, Gerhard. Vogel der Sudsee: 23 Gouachen und Aquarelle nach Zeichnungen Georg
Forsters.. Full blue leather, illustrated boards slipcase. Im Insel, 1971.
* Evenhuis, Neal L., editor. Barefoot on Lava: The Journals and Correspondence of Naturalist
R.C.L. Perkins in H awai’i, 1892-1901. Cloth, dust jacket. Bishop Museum Press, 2007.
* Nicoll, M.J. Three Voyages of a Naturalist. Cloth. Witherby & Co., 1908.
* Moseley, H.N. Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations Made During the Voyage
of H.M.S. “Challenger” Round the World in the Years 1872-1876. Buckram (darkened). Putnam’s,
1892.
* Tomich, P. Quentin. Mammals in Hawaii: A Synopsis and Notational Bibliography. Cloth. Bishop
Museum Special Publication 57. 1969.
Various places: Various dates
A nice group of works of naturalist voyages and the study of birds, fish and plants of the South
Sea. Mostly mild general wear; very good or better.
(400/600)
409. (South Sea Art) Nine volumes on the art of the South Sea. Includes:
* Rialto, Delfino Dinz. Oceania. Comprised of loose sheets, tipped in color photograph plates, in
boards chemise and publisher’s slipcase. No. 918 of 1000 copies. [Officina d’Arte Grafica A. Lucini
e C., 1969].
* Hodgkinson, Frank. Sepik Diary. No. 384 of 600 copies of the book, with etching no. 56 of 100
copies, signed by Hodgkinson. Leather, slipcase. Reid Books, 1984.
* Tischner, Herbert. Oceanic Art. Cloth, dj (price-clipped). Pantheon Books, [1954].
* Barbier, Jean Paul. Islands and Ancestors: Indigenous Styles of Southeast Asia. Tan cloth, dust
jacket. Prestel, [1988].
* Newton, Douglas, editor. Arts of the South Seas. Boards, dust jacket. Prestel, [1999].
* Kaeppler, Adrienne L. Oceanic Art. Cloth, dust jacket. Harry N. Abrams, [1997].
* Oceanie: Curieux, Navigateurs et Savants. Cloth, dj. Editions d’Art, 1997.
* Ritual Arts of the South Seas: The Morton D. May Collection. Wrappers. St. Louis Art Musuem,
1975.
* Stohr, Waldemar. Kunst und Kultur aus der Sudsee. Boards. Ethnologica, 1987.
Most are near fine.
Various places: Various dates
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THE HOOPER COLLECTION OF PACIFIC ARTIFACTS
410. (South Sea Art) Phelps, Steven. Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas. The James
Hooper Collection. 487 pp. Profusely illustrated with color and black & white photographs. (4to) blue
cloth, pictorial dust jacket.
London: Hutchinson, [1976]
“James Thomas Hooper, with limited means but
single-minded dedication, formed this Collection
over a period of sixty years. It is the least known and
least published of the great English ethnographical
collections made this century...” Jacket blurb.
The book was published in association with
Christies. With ink gift inscription on front free
endpaper from Nadine & Norman Hurst, 1983.
Small chips and tears to jacket edges; volume edges
lightly rubbed; very good.
(1000/1500)
Lot 410
411. (South Sea) Bulletin de la Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes - ten volumes. Ten volumes from the periodical,
including: No. 6 (September, 1922); No. 7 (April, 1923); No. 8 (December, 1923); No. 9 (December,
1924); No. 11 (February, 1926); No. 15 (October, 1926); No. 16 (December, 1926); No. 18 (April,
1927); No. 19 (June, 1927); No. 146-147 (March-June, 1964). (8vo) all in original wrappers.
Tahiti: Imprimerie du Gouvernement, Mostly 1920s
Topics include Anthropology, Ehnology, Philology, History, Literature & Folklore, Astronomy,
Oceanography, and Natural Science. Some very light wear; very good.
(200/300)
Absentee bids are accepted by phone.
Please call us at 415-989-2665 prior to the auction.
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412. (South Sea) Collection of anthropological reports on various regions of the South Sea. Includes:
* Landtman, Gunnar. Ethnographical Collection from the Kiwai District of British New Guinea.
Commission of the Antell Collection, 1933.
* Christiansen, Sofus. Subsistence on Bellona Island (Mungiki): A Study of the Cultural Ecology of
a Polynesian Outlier.. With a printed envelope with loose color map plates. C.A. Reitzels Forlag,
1975.
* Wroth, Lawrence C. The Early Cartography of the Pacific. The Papers of the Bibliographical
Society of America. Volume 38, No. 2, 1944.
* Gladwin, Thomas. Truk: Man in Paradise. Viking Fund Publications in Antrhopology, No. 20.
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1953.
* Spoehr, Alexander. Majuro: A Village in the Marshall Islands. Fieldiana: Anthropology, Volume
39. Chicago Natural History Museum, 1949.
* Spoehr, Alexander. Marianas Prehistory: Archaeological Survey and Excavations on
Saipan... Fieldiana: Anthropology, Volume 48. Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957.
* Stirling, M.W. The Native Peoples of New Guinea. Smithsonian Institution War Background
Studies, No. 9. 1943.
* Soderstrom, Jan. Die Figurstuhle vom Sepik-Fluss auf Neu-Guinea. Statens
Etnografiska Museum, no. 18. 1941.
* Heydrich, M. Ethnologica, Neue Folge, Band 1. E.J. Brill, 1959.
* Buck, Peter H. Regional Diversity in the Elaboration of Sorcery in Polynesia. Yale University
Publications in Anthropology, No. 2. 1936.
* Braak, C. Het Klimaat van den Idjen. Het Idjen-Hoogland, No. 5. G. Kolff & Co., [c.1920].
* Kemmerling, G.L.L. De Geologie en Geomorphologie van den Idjen. Het Idjen-Hoogland, No. 2.
G. Kolff & Co., [c.1921].
* Garvan, John M. The Manobos of Mindanao. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences,
Vol. XXIII. First Memoir. 1931.
* Johansen, J. Prytz. Studies in Maori Rites and Myths. Ejnar Munksgaard, 1958.
* Maude, H.C. and H.E. String-Figures from the Gilbert Islands. Polynesian Society Memoir No.
13. 1958.
* Best, Elsdon. Maori Agriculture. The Cultivated Food Plants of the Natives of New Zealand..
Dominion Museum Bulletin No. 9. Whitcombe and Tombs, 1925.
* Cole, Fay-Cooper. The Tinguian: Social, Religions, and Conomic Life of a Philippine Tribe. Field
Museum of Natural History, Pub. 209. 1922.
* Cole, Fay-Cooper. Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-lore. Field Museum of
Natural History, Pub. 2180. 1915.
* Cole, Fay-Cooper. The Wild Tribes of Davao Distric, Mindanao. Field Museum of Natural
History, Pub. 170. 1913.
* Cole, Fay-Cooper. The Bukidnon of Mindanao. Fieldiana: Anthropology Vol. 46. 1956.
Various places: Various dates
A total of 20 volumes. A nice group, with a few in German. Mostly very light edge wear; very
good or near fine.
(400/600)
413. (South Sea) Collection of works on the South Sea. Includes:
* Baring-Gould, S. A History of Sarawak under its Two White Rajas, 1839-1908. Cloth. Henry
Sotheran, 1909.
* [Mortimer, Favell Lee]. The Night of Toil; or A Familiar Account of the Labours of the First
Missionaries in the South Sea Islands. With a period ink inscription on verso of frontispiece.
Rebound in half morocco and cloth. J. Hatchard, 1838.
* Buck, Peter H. Vikings of the Sunrise. Cloth, dust jacket (price-clipped). Signed by author on title
page. Frederick A. Stokes, 1938.
* Buck, Peter Henry. Anthropology and Religion. Cloth. Yale University, 1939.
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* Calkin, Milo. The Last Voyage of the Independence. Cloth. [Weiss Printing Company, 1953].
* George Brown, D.D. Pioneer-Missionary and Explorer. Cloth. Hodder and Stoughton, 1908.
* Colum, Padraic. Orpheus: Myths of the World. Includes Polynesian myths. Cloth. Macmillan,
1930.
* Elkin, A.P., editor. Collected Papers: In Memorian - N.W.G. Macintosh. Cloth. The Oceania
Monographs, No. 22, 1979/
* Anderson, Isabel. In Eastern Seas. Cloth. Bruce Humphries, [1934].
* Mollema, J.C. De Eerste Schipvaart: Der Hollanders naar Oost-Indie, 1595-1597. Cloth. Martinus
Nijhoff, 1935.
* Coxon, Stanley W. And That Reminds Me: Being Incidents of a Life Spent at Sea. Cloth. John
Lane, 1915.
* Buick, T. Lindsay. The French at Akaroa. Cloth, dust jacket. New Zealand Book Depot, 1928.
* Banfield, E.J. The Confessions of a Beachcomber. Cloth. T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.
* Banfield, E.J. Last Leaves from Dunk Island. Cloth, dust jacket. Angust & Robertson, 1925.
* Ballantyne, R.M. Gascoyne: The Sandal-Wood Trader: A Tale of the Pacific. Cloth, all edges gilt.
James Nisbet, no date.
* Otorohanga, W.B. Where the White Man Treads. Cloth, dust jacket. Second Edition. Wilson &
Horton Ltd, 1928.
* 2 copies of: Banfield, E.J. My Tropic Isle. One published by D. Appleton, the other published by
Brentano’s. 1924.
Together 18 volumes. Mostly mild general wear; mostly very good.
Various places: Various dates
(300/500)
414. (South Sea) Collection of works on travel and exploration of the South Sea. Includes:
* Russell, John. Far Wandering Men. With dj. Signed by the author on the half title. W.W. Norton,
[1929].
* Russell, John. In Dark Places. With dj. Thornton Butterworth, [1923]
* Agassiz, G.R., editor. Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz with a Sketch of his Life
and Work. Houghton Mifflin, 1913.
* Nyberg, Ragnar. On the Dragon Seas: A Sailor’s Adventures in the Far East. 3rd Impression.
Hurst & Blackett, [1935].
* Adkin, G. Leslie. Horowhenua: Its Maori Place-Names & Their Topographic & Historical
Background. With dj. Department of Internal Affairs, 1948.
* Ellis, James J. John Williams: The Martyr Missionary of Polynesia. S.W. Partridge, no date.
* Ellis, James J. John Williams: The Martyr Missionary of Polynesia. Sixteenth Thousand. S.W.
Partridge, no date.
* Savage-Landor, A. Henry. Everywhere: The Memoirs of an Explorer. 2 volumes. Frederick A.
Stokes, 1924.
* Dow, George Francis. Slave Ships and Slaving. Marine Research Society, 1927.
* Stock, Ralph. The Confessions of a Tenderfood. Henry Holt, [1913].
* Stock, Ralph. The Cruise of the Dream Ship. With dj. Doubleday, 1921.
* Humphrey, Seth K. Loafing Through the Pacific. With dj (price-clipped). Doubleday, 1927.
* Fay, Charled Edey. Mary Celeste: The Odyssey of an Abandone Ship. Peabody Museum, 1942.
* Spencer, Dorothy M. Disease, Religion and Society in the Fiji Islands. J.J. Augustin, [1941].
* Griffin, H.L. An Official in British New Guinea. Cecil Palmer, no date.
* Spence, Lewis. The Problem of Lemuria: The Sunken Continent of the Pacific. David McKay,
[1933].
Mostly mild general wear; very good.
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Various places: Various dates
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415. (South Sea) Collection of works on travel and exploration of the South Sea. Includes:
* Buck, Frank. All in a Lifetime. Inscribed and signed by the author on the photoraph frontispiece.
Robert M. McBride, [1941].
* Boyd, Mary Stuart. Our Stolen Summer: The Record of a Roundabout Tour. William Blackwood,
1900.
* Pallander, Edwin. The Log of an Island Wanderer: Notes of Travel in the Eastern Pacific. C.
Arthur Pearson, 1901.
* Crandall, Lee S. Paradise Quest: A Naturalist’s Experience in New Guinea. With dj (price-clipped).
Scribner’s, 1931.
* Brown, Charles W. The Journal & Letters of Capts. Charles W. Brown, 1876-1884. J.B. Brown,
1935.
* Bateson, Gregory. Naven: A Survey of the Problems...of a New Guinea Trube.. Cambridge
University Press, 1936.
* Bateson, Gregory. Naven: A Survey of the Problems...of a New Guinea Trube.. With dj. Second
Edition. Stanford University Press, 1958.
* Te Kuiti, W.B. “Where the White Man Treads.” Wilson & Horton, 1905.
* The Piraki Log (E Pirangi Ahau Koe) or Diary of Captain Hempleman. Henry Frowde, [c.1915].
* Sarasin, Fritz. Aus den Tropen: Reiseerinnerungen aus Ceylon, Celebes und Neu-Caledonien.
With dj. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1931.
* Warren, Mrs. Jane S. The Morning Star: History of the Children’s Missionary Vessell and of the
Marquesan and Micronesian Missions. American Tract Society, [1860].
* The Voyage of the Racoon: A Secret Journal of a Visit to Oregon, California and Hawaii. Book
Club of California, 1958.
* Forbes-Lindsay, C.H. America’s Insular Possessions. 2 volumes. Red cloth decorated heavily in gilt,
red cloth dust jackets. John C. Winston, 1906.
* Burton, R., editor. Venus Oceanica. No. 350 of 925 copies. Oceanica Research Press, 1935.
* Forbes, Rosita. These are Real People. With dj. Herbert Jenkins, [4*6].
* Churchill, William. Easter Island: The Rapanui Speech and the Peopling of Southeast Polynesia.
Caregie Institution of Washington, 1912.
* Stow, Catherin. Woggheeguy: Australian Aboriginal Legends. Boards, with dj. F.W. Preec & Sons,
1930.
Together 18 volumes. Mostly mild general wear; very good.
Various places: Various dates
(250/350)
416. (South Sea) Eighteen volumes on travel and exploration of the South Sea. Includes:
* Acheson, Frank O.V. Plume of the Arawas. Green cloth, original dust jacket. Walter Neale, 1930.
* Abel, Russell W. Charles W. Abel of Kwato: Forty Years in Dark Papua. Green cloth. Fleming H.
Revell, [1934].
* Davis, John King. Willis Island: A Storm Warning Station in the Coral Sea. Blue cloth, dust jacket.
Critchley Parker, 1923.
* Beebe, William. Galapagos: World’s End. Blue cloth. Putnam’s, 1924.
* Beebe, William. The Arcturus Adventure. With rubberstamps from personal library of Dr. V.H.
Podstata. Green cloth. Putnam’s, 1926.
* Beebe, William. Pheasant Jungles. Blue cloth. Putnam’s, 1927.
* Bell, Geo. W. Mr. Oseba’s Last Discovery. Red cloth. “Presented to Mildred Leo Clemens-Scenck
by the Government Tourist Bureau...1919” in ink on front free endpaper. New Zealand Times Co.,
1904.
* Monfat, R.P.A. Les Premiers Missionaires des Samoa (Archipel des Navigateurs). Maroon cloth.
Rubberstamp of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers Library in NYC on title page. Librairie Catholique
Emmanuel Vitte, no date.
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* Clifton, Mrs. Talbot. Pilgrims to the Isles of Penance: Orchid Gathering in the East. Maroon
cloth. With errata. John Long, [1911].
* Collins, Dale. Sea-Tracks of the Speejacks Round the World. Green cloth. Doubleday, 1923.
* Hogbin, H. Ian. Law and Order in Polynesia. Maroon cloth. Harcourt Brace, 1934.
* Cloman, Lt. Col. Sydney A. Myself and a Few Moros. Maroon cloth. Doubleday, 1923.
* Journal of Captain Solomon H. Davis: A Gloucester Sea-Captain, 1828-1846. Blue cloth, glassine
dust jacket. Privately Printed, 1922.
* Ballantyne, R.M. The Lonely Island or The Refuge of the Mutineers. Blue decorative cloth. James
Nisbet, [c.1880].
* Moors, H.J. With Stevenson in Samoa. Maroon cloth. Small, Maynard, [1910].
* Official Handbook of the Territory of New Guinea Administered by The Commonwealth of
Australia. Large color folding map. Red cloth. L.F. Johnston, [1937].
* Becke, Louis. Breachley, Black Sheep. Green cloth. T. Fisher Unwin, 1902.
* Gardiner, J. Stanley. Coral Reefs and Atolls. Green cloth. Macmillan, 1931.
Mostly mild general wear; very good.
Various places: Various dates
(200/300)
417. (South Sea) Fifteen volumes on travel & exploration of the South Sea. Includes:
* Faris, John T. The Paradise of the Pacific. With dj. Doubleday, 1929.
* Fanning, Edmund. Voyages & Discoveries in the South Seas, 1792-1832. Marine Research Society,
1924.
* Mackellar, C.D. Scented Isles and Coral Gardens. John Murray, 1912.
* Macdonell, S.G. The Quest of the Golden Fly: A Strange Adventure in the Hear of Savage Papua.
Quality Press, [1938].
* Monckton, C.A.W. Last Days in New Guinea. Dodd Mead, 1922.
* Mackay, Kenneth. Across Pa-pua. Witherby & Co., 1909.
* Montgomery, H.H. The Light of Melanesia. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1896.
* Edwardes, Charles. Rides and Studies in the Canary Islands. T. Fisher Unwin, 1888.
* Marmur, Jacland. Ecola! With dj. Doubleday, 1928.
* Moore, F. Frankfort. The Fate of the “Black Swan” A Tale of New Guinea. Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge, no date.
* Coote, Walter. The Western Pacific. Sampson Low, Marston, 1883.
* Melville, Lewis. The South Sea Bubble. With dj (price-clipped). Small, Maynard, 1923.
* Alexander, Gilchrist. From the Middle Temple to the South Seas. With dj. John Murray, [1927].
* Paton, Maggie Whitecross. Letters and Sketches from the New Hebrides. Hodder and Stoughton,
1894.
* Patterson, George. Missionary Life Among the Cannibals. James Campbell & Son, 1882.
Mild to moderate wear to each; good to very good.
Various places: Various dates
(250/350)
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418. (South Sea) Four volumes on the South Sea. Includes:
* Hastings, Viscount. The Golden Octopus: Legends of the South Seas. Leather-backed boards.
E.P. Dutton, no date.
* Nordyke, Eleanor C. Pacific Images: Views from Captain Cook’s Third Voyage. Cloth-backed
boards, dust jacket. Hawaiian Historical Society, 1999.
* Ennis, Henry. Remarks on Board His Majesty’s ship Tamar; in a Voyage from England to Port
Praia, Cape of Good HOpe - New South Wales. Leather-backed cloth, dust jacket. No. 118 of 160
copies.Richard Griffin, [1983].
* Cornell, Christine, translator. The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin: Commander-in-Chief
of the Corvettes Geographe and Naturaliste. Cloth. Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974.
Fine.
Various places: Various dates
(60/90)
419. (South Sea) Seven French works on the South Sea. Includes:
* de Rienzi, M.G.L. Domeny. Oceanie ou Cinquieme Partie du Monde. Revue Geographique et
Ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronesie.. 3 volumes. Boards. Firmin Didot Freres, 1836-
1837.
* Gaffarel, Paul. Les Colonies Francaises. Morocco-backed boards. Librairie Germer Bailliere, 1880.
* Radiguet, Max. Les Derniers Sauvages. La Vie et les Moeurs aux Iles Marquises. Illustrated by Jean
Dorsenne. Wrappers. No. 111 of 150 copies. Editions Duchartre & Van Buggenhoudt, [1929].
* Luquet, G.H. L’Art Neo-Caledonien. Cloth. Institut d’Ethnologie, 1926.
* Dupeyrat, Andre. Papouasie: Histoire de la Mission (1885-1935). Wrappers. [1934].
* Les Tong ou Archipel des amis et le R.P. Joseph Chevron. Wrappers. Second Edition. Emmanuel
Vitte, no date.
* Sauvin, G. Un Royaume Polynesien Iles Hawai. Lacks map. Wrappers. E. Plon, 1893.
Mostly light general wear; very good.
Various places: Various dates
(700/1000)
420. (South Sea) Small collection of nineteenth century works on travel and exploration of the South Sea. Includes:
* Coote, Walter. Wanderings, South and East. Full green morocco, gilt dentelles, gilt-lettered and
decorated spine. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882.
* Cousins, George, compiler. From Island to Island in the South Seas; or, The Work of a
Missionary Ship. Original blue decorative cloth. The name Mrs. John N. Chute in ink on title page.
London Missionary Society, 1893.
* Paton, William Agnew. Down the Islands: A Voyage to the Caribbees. Original decorative cream
cloth. Scribner’s, 1887.
* Agassiz, Alexander. The Islands and Coral Reefs of Fiji. Rebound in later cloth, with original
wrappers bound in. Harvard University bookplate on front pastedown, stamping on title page.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. XXXIII. May, 1899.
* Belcher, Lady. The Mutineers of the Bounty and Their Descendants in Pitcairn and Norfolk
Islands. Original green cloth. Harper & Brothers, 1871.
* John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides. An Autobiography. Edited by his Brother.
With a Portrait and a Map. 2 volumes. Including: First Part (7th edition, completing seventeenth
thousand) and Second Part (3rd edition, completing eleventh thousand). Original blue cloth.
Hodder and Stoughton, 1890.
* John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides. An Autobiography. Edited by his Brother. 2
volumes. Including: First Part (New Illustrated Edition) and First Part (New Illustrated Edition).
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Original green cloth. Fleming H. Revell, [c.1892]
* Cumming, C.F. Gordon. At Home in Fiji. Original dark aqua cloth. A.C. Armstrong, 1883.
* Ballantyne, R.M. The Island Queen; or, Dethroned by Fire and Water. A Tale of the Southern
Hemisphere. Original blue decorative cloth. James Nisbet, [c.1885].
* Cumming, C.F. Gordon. A Lady’s Cruise in a French Man-of-War. 2 volumes. Plates, Volume 2
with folding map. Rebound in red half morocco and boards. William Blackwood, 1882.
* Cumming, C.F. Gordon. A Lady’s Cruise in a French Man-of-War. 2 volumes. Rebound in later
green cloth. William Blackwood, 1882.
* Pfeiffer, Ida. A Woman’s Journey Round the World, from Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China..
Original green cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated spine. Office of the National Illustrated Library,
[c.1852].
* Missionary Ships Connected with the London Missionary Society. Original brown cloth. London
Missionary Society, 1865.
Mostly mild general wear; mostly very good.
Various places: Various dates
(200/300)
421. (South Sea) Ten volumes on travel and exploration of the South Sea. Includes:
* Pinchot, Gifford. To the South Seas: The Cruise of the Schooner Mary Pinchot to the
Galapagos.. Green cloth, custom chemise and slipcase. Inscribed by the author on the title page.
John C. Winston, [1930].
* Douglas, A.J.A. The South Seas of To-day. Blue cloth. Cassell and Company, [1926].
* Ramsay Smith, W. In Southern Seas: Wanderings of a Naturalist. Blue-green cloth. John Murray,
[1924].
* Burnett, Frank. The Wreck of the “Tropic Bird” and other South Sea Stories. Blue-green cloth.
Sifton, Praed & Co., 1926.
* Calnon, William Lee. Seeing the South Sea Islands. Dark blue cloth. Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1926.
* Burnett, Frank. Through Tropic Seas. Green cloth. Francis Griffiths, 1910.
* Burnett, Frank Summer Isles of Eden. Green cloth. Putnam’s, 1923.
* Parker, Gilbert. Cumner’s Son and Other South Sea Folk. Decorative red cloth. Harper &
Brothers, 1910.
* Stead, Richard. Adventures in Southern Seas. Decorative blue cloth. Seeley, Service & Co., 1913.
* Lambert, John C. Missionary Heroes in Oceania. Decorative blue cloth. Seeley and Co., 1910.
Mostly mild general wear; very good.
Various places: Various dates
(150/250)
422. Stanley, Henry M. In Darkest Africa: or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria.
2 volumes. Profusely illustrated with wood-engravings & plates; steel-engraved frontispiece portraits;
3 folding maps in rear endpaper pockets. (8vo) original gilt pictorial cloth with inset silhouette of
Africa. First American Trade Edition.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890
One of the cornerstones of the literature of exploration. Light wear to cloth, free endpapers
lacking in both volumes, hinges cracked; maps with some chipping and splitting along folds; a
few pages chipped at edges; good only.
(100/150)
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423. Stone, William S. Three volumes by William Stone, including one inscribed. Includes:
* Thunder Island. Brick red cloth, dust jacket. Knopf, [1942]. Inscribed on the front free endpaper
to Ann, dated 1944.
* Tahiti Landfall. Tan cloth, dust jacket. Sampson Low, no date.
* Two Came by Sea. Aqua boards, dust jacket. William Morrow, [1953].
Mostly mild wear to jackets and volumes; very good.
Various places: Various dates
(100/150)
424. Straelen, V. Van. Resultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Neerlandaises de...Prince et
la Princesse Leopold de Belgique. Volume 1. 222 pp. + 91 photograph plates with tissue guards. Plus,
181 photographs within text. 31.5x24 cm (12½x9½”) rebound in modern cloth, with original front
wrapper(?) pasted to front cover.
Brussels: Musee Royal d’Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, 1933
A detailed and profusely illustrated narrative of a journey through Java, Borneo, Celebes and
more regions. This mammoth production was originally issued in wrappers. Yellowing and
foxing to early leaves; tissue guards yellowed over time; very good.
(100/150)
425. (Tahiti) Gauguin, Paul. Five volumes of Gauguin’s Noa Noa. Includes:
* Noa Noa. 40x28 cm (15¾x11”) tan linen, illustrated. Edition de l’Association des Amis du Musee
Gauguin a Tahiti et la Gauguin and Oceania Foundation, 1987.
* Noa Noa: Faksimile des vollstandigen Manuskriptes nebst allen darin enthaltenen Zeichnungen
Gauguins Herausgegeben von J. Meier-Graefe. Prospectus in wrappers. 32.5x25 cm (12¾10”)
decorative pale yellow wrappers. Marees-Gesellschaft, 1926.
* Gauguin Mappe. Blue boards case, housing 15 black & white plates. R. Piper & Co., no date.
* [Noa Noa] L’Ancien Culte Mahorie. In boards, clear glassine dust jacket. La Palme, 1951.
* Gauguin, Paul. Noa Noa. Translated from the French by O.F. Theis. Cloth-backed boards.
Nicholas L. Brown, 1919.
Mild to moderate general wear; very good.
Various places: Various dates
(300/500)
426. Vanderbilt, William K. To Galapagos on the Ara 1926. Illustrated by 30 color plates of fish and
sea life, plus photographs within, and a mpa. 33x25 cm (13x10”) green gilt-lettered buckram, top edge
gilt, plain green dust jacket, matching green two part box. No. 573 of 900 copies.
Privately Printed, [1927]
Beautiful fine color prints of fish and sea life within. Cardboard box with some light wear;
volume and jacket are fine.
(300/500)
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427. Walpole, Fred. Four Years in the Pacific. In Her Majesty’s Ship “Collingwood.” From 1844 to 1848.
2 volumes. 432; 415 pp. 1 (of 2) frontispieces, woodcut illustrations in text. (8vo) blue cloth, new
endpapers, gilt-lettered spines. Early printing.
London: Richard Bentley, 1849
“Walpole served aboard the H.M.S. Collingwood, flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymor
and the first British ship-of-the-line to enter the Pacific Ocean via Cape Horn since the voyage
of Lord Anson in 1741. Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Juan Fernandez Island, Tahiti and the Society
Islands, Mexico, California, the Hawaiian Islands, and Samoa were visited. The Collingwood
arrived at Monterey a few days after the American flag had been raised there by John Drake
Sloat.” - Hill. Forbes, 1757; Hill, 1815; Sabin, 101142. Soiling and light edge wear; some early
pages lacking (v-viii) and frontispiece lacking from Vol. II; Vol. II early pages darkened, wear at
edges, light finger soiling; very good.
(200/300)
428. (Waterloo) Waterloo Commemorative Printed Textile, c. 1865. Duotone printed linen. 25x26½ affixed
to non-archival stiff board, framed.
No place: [c.1865]
Printed linen in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. Image at
center of a column adorned with portraits of Britain’s Duke of Wellington, The Netherlands’
Willem van Oranje III, and Prussia’s Gebhard von Blücher. Column flanked by two figures
of robed ladies, one of which is holding a horn with a banner reading ‘Victoria’. Foot of
column flanked by cannon and flags. Inscription on the base of the column reading (in
Dutch) ‘Waterloos Helden. Het Dankbaar Nageslacht.’ Battle scenes on a white background
surrounding column base. At each corner of the textile are images of winged cherubs. Laurel
branch and ribbon motif surround with dates of ‘18 Junij, 1815’ and ‘18 Junij 1865’ at sides and
‘Voor Vorst en Vaderland.’ at bottom. Linen folded over edges of board and affixed on reverse
with clear tape, some staining and age toning, small tear to linen in column at center, a few other
small holes; overall very good.
(250/350)
429. Willcocks, James. From Kabul to Kumassi: Twenty-Four Years of Soldiering and Sport. xvi; 440 pp.
Illustrations from photographs, including gravure frontispiece portrait; maps. (8vo) original green
cloth, stamped in gilt, rebacked with original spine cloth laid down. First Edition.
London: John Murray, 1904
The author spent more than two decades in India and Africa while serving as an officer of the
British Army. Wear to cloth, hinges cracking; good.
(150/200)
430. Young, Arthur. Travels During the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789, Undertaken More Particularly with
a View of Ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of France. 2
volumes. [2], xvi, 681; 571, [3] pp. Volume 2 without title page or other preliminary matter. First Irish
Edition.
Dublin: R. Cross, et al, 1793
The author was member of a number of learned societies in Ireland, England and on the
continent. Between 1787 and 1790 Young made three lengthy visits to France, Catalonia, and
northern Italy, which resulted in this very interesting and historically valuable book. Bindings
worn, joints and hinges cracked; paper a bit browned; very good.
(200/300)
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Section IV: Maps, Prints & Views
431. (Atlas - San Francisco) City and County of San Francisco Building Zone Ordinance and Zone Maps with
amendments to January 1, 1927. 3 pp. caption-title & text with index map + 14 leaves of sectional maps.
49.2x35 cm. (19½x13¾”), wrappers, cloth spine.
[San Francisco]: [Board of Supervisors], 1927
Large scale maps of San Francisco showing its zoning for residential, commercial, industrial,
and unrestricted use. OCLC/WorldCat lists only one copy, at the San Francisco Public Library.
Some rubbing and wear to wrappers, small ink note to front wrapper, very good.
(400/600)
SCARCE ATLAS OF YOLO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
432. (Atlas - Yolo County, California) The Illustrated Atlas and History of Yolo County, Cal. Containing
a History of California from 1513 to 1850, a History of Yolo County from 1825 to 1880,
with Statistics of Agriculture, Education, Churches, Elections, Lithographic Views of Farms, Residences,
Mills, &c. Portraits of well-known Citizens, and the Official County Map. [4], 105 pp. With
50 numbered lithographed plates showing farms, buildings, ranches, towns, etc., some double-page;
9 unnumbered lithographed plates with multiple portraits of citizenry; 6 hand-colored lithographed
maps, 5 of them double-page. (Folio) 47.5x37 cm (18½x14¾”) original half leather and cloth,
stamped in gilt on front and in blind on
rear. First Edition.
San Francisco: De Pue & Company, 1879
Lot 432
Scarce and sought-after atlas and view
book of Yolo County with significant
historical and descriptive text. The
striking views show the various farms,
ranches, towns, etc., with much livestock,
fine horses, and more. Binding well
worn, front cover detached; staining at
lower corner of several leaves at front
and rear of volume, some marginal
chipping and short tears; plates overall
very good.
(2000/3000)
433. (Atlas) Arbuckles’ Illustrated Atlas of the United States of America. 24 pp. Illustrated with 48
chromolithographs with map insets - 4 per page - printed on rectos with descriptive text on facing
versos. 18x28 cm. (7x11”), original chromolithograph wrappers, string-bound.
New York: Arbuckle Brothers, 1889
A visually compelling “Atlas” compiled from the Arbuckle Brothers Coffee Company trade
cards. Maps include states and territories. In addition to the maps contained within are
Washington, DC on front cover and Alaska on rear. Full-page map of the United States on
printed to inside of rear wrapper, facing page with text promoting “Coffee as a Disinfectant.”
Lower corner of front wrapper chipped, some light soiling; very good.
(300/500)
434. (California - Carmel & Pebble Beach Golf Course) Mora, Jo. Carmel-by-the-Sea, Past and Pres.
Color pictorial map, illustrated and drawn by Jo Mora. 46.5x62 cm. (18¼x24¼”), folding, with
original unused mailing envelope.
Monterey, CA: Jo Mora Publications, 1942
Captivating and amusing map by the noted illustrator, which includes all 18 holes of the Pebble
Beach Golf Course. Points out all the major historical and significant destinations in the area,
highlighted with numerous marginal vignettes of various figures and scenes from history, with
text, including a illustrated time-chart in the lower half. Fine condition, the envelope with a
touch of soiling and toning. Rare thus.
(600/900)
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RARE VIEW OF SEAT OF GOLD DISCOVERY IN CALIFORNIA
435. (California - Coloma) Kuchel & Dresel. Coloma, 1857, El Dorado County, California. Duotone
lithogaphed bird’s-eye view. 20.7x37 cm. (8x14½”) plus margins; sheet size 45.5x62.5 cm. (18x24½”).
[San Francisco]: Kuchel & Dresel, 1857
Lot 435
Rare view of the settlement along the American River which grew around Sutter’s Mill following
the discovery of Gold by James Marshall in 1858. Beneath the title is descriptive text: “First
discovery fo Gold in Cal. was made at this place eraly in February 1848 by Jas. Marshall & P.I.
Wimmer in the Tailrace of Sutter’s Sawmill , situated at the extreme lower end of the Town.
The Mill was torn down in 1856...” There is a key to a mark designating the place where the
mill stood. At top is printed “Kuchel & Dresel’s Califorina Views. Reps 74 locates two copies,
at the Amon Carter Museum and the Huntington Library, with the Library of Congress having
a facsimile. No copies of the original listed by OCLC/WorldCat. A few stray fox marks in the
margins; tape remnants at top edge from earlier mounting; very good or better.
(5000/8000)
436. (California - Gold Region) Ord, Edward Otto Cresap. Topographical Sketch of the Gold &
Quicksilver District of California, July 25th, 1848. Lithographed map. 54.5x39 cm. (21½x15¼”).
[Washington]: 1848
Early map of the California gold region. Wheat notes that “this was the first map to make
any pretense at cartographic accuracy after the gold discoveries. Edward Otho Cresap Ord
had a distinguished career in the army. Born at Cumberland, Md., Oct. 18, 1818, he early
demonstrated great mathematical ability and graduated from West Point in 1837.. In 1847
he went to California via the Horn with Lt. Henry W. Halleck (a classmate) and Lt. Wm. T.
Sherman....” The map was published in United States, House Executive Document No. 1, 30th
Congress, Second Session [To accompany President Polk’s Message to Congress of December
5, 1848]; original folds. Wheat, Maps of the Gold Region 54 (reproduced as an inserted plate).
Light foxing at top and along some of the folds, top of left margin rough from removal but well
away from map, else very good or better.
(400/600)
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LARGE FOLDING MAP OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY, 1886
Lot 437
437. (California - Humboldt County) Forbes,
Stanly. Official Map of Humboldt County,
California. Compiled and Drawn by Stanly Forbes,
1886. Adopted by an act of the Honorable Board
of Supervisors of Humboldt County Dated Feb. 6th,
1886 as the Official County Map. Lithographed
map, hand-colored. Lithographed by Britton &
Rey, San Francisco. 138x80 cm. (54¼x31½”),
sectioned for folding & backed with linen, as
issued. Original gilt-lettered cloth covers.
[Eureka]: [County of Humboldt], 1886
Large folding map of Humboldt County,
California, “From the U.S. Coast and Land
Surveys, the county records & original
surveys & reconoissances [sic] of the
compiler.” Likely also issued as a wall map.
With inset plans of Eureka and Arcata.
Relief shown by shading, hachures, and spot
heights. Land ownership is showne as well.
OCLC/WorldCat lists only two copies, at the
University of California, Berkeley, and at the
Library of Congress. Very good condition
with no major flaws.
(1200/1800)
438. (California - Imperial Valley) Blackburn, O.V. Blackburn’s Map of Imperial Valley of California:
Roads, Tracts, and Canals / Blackburn’s Map of Imperial County. Two blue-line maps, on both sides of
single sheet 69x50 cm. (27¼x20”). Folded.
Los Angeles: O.V. Blackburn, 1929
Partial cadastral maps, showing townships, range, sections, tracts, some ownership and
supervisorial districts. Revised from the maps of 1919 and 1927. OCLC/WorldCat lists only six
copies of the 1929 issue. Fine.
(250/350)
439. (California - Los Angeles) Gillespie, R.L. Gillespie’s Guide for the automobile driver, showing 11,500
streets, boulevard and sectional maps, house numbers and general information covering Los Angeles and seventy-nine
surrounding towns. Pp. [101]-172 + 52 pp. of maps + double-page color key to the maps. 19.7x10.2 cm.
(7¾x4”), printed wrappers. .
Los Angeles: Gillespie Guide Company, 1930
Greater Los Angeles from Burbank south to San Pedro, and Santa Monica east to Whittier.
OCLC/WorldCat lists only two copies of different editions of this rare guide, that for 1926
at the Yale University Library, and the one for 1931 at the University of Basel in Switzerland.
Moderate wear, very good.
(400/600)
440. (California - Sacramento) Phinney, Cate & Marshall, Engr’s. Map of North Sacramento California
1 inch-300 ft. Lithographed map, folding. 61x72 cm. (24x28¼”).
[Sacramento?]: c.1912
Map showing subdivisions and plots in the expanding North Sacramento, with railroad lines and
stations, etc. No copies listed in OCLC/WorldCat, which does list several other maps of the
Sacramento area by Phinney, Cate & Marshall. Very good or better.
(300/500)
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441. (California - San Francisco) Wackenrender, Vitus. Manuscript map, “James Paul’s Rancho. Subdivided
August 1867 b y Vitus Wackenrender Containing 215 56/100 Acres, Scale 5 ch. to 1 inch”. Ink manuscript
map with some hand-coloring in outline. 31.5x47 cm. (12½x18½”).
[San Francisco]: c.1867
Rare manuscript plat map of the rancho of James Paul in southeastern San Francisco, straddling
the San Bruno Road, flanked Visitation Valley, Bay View Park Property, University Mount, etc.
The Bay View Hotel is located in upper left, and Paul’s Residecne is at the lower center of the
rancho. Worn and creased, a number of repairs on verso, some staining; good.
(300/500)
RARE BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF HISTORIC GOLD RUSH TOWN
OF WEAVERVILLE, CALIFORNIA
442. (California - Weaverville) Kuchel & Dresel. Weaverville. Duotone lithographed bird’s-eye view.
23x40.7 cm. (9x16”), on sheet 35x47.5 cm. (13¾x18¾”).
[San Francisco?]: Kuchel & Dresel,
[1856-57?]
Rare view of the historic Gold
Rush town of Weaverville, Trinity
County, California, notable for the
large Chinese contingent of miners
that once worked the streambeds.
“Kuchel & Dresel’s Cala. Views”
printed at top, with no other
publication information. Reps 447
notes only one copy, at the Alta
California Book Store 2/9/80;
several other Kuchel & Dresel
lithographs of Weaverville listed
by Reps vary in size and title. No
copies listed in OCLC/WorldCat
Lot 442
Dampstain in left margin intrudes
into lower corner by barely visible in the image, just touching upper corner of image, some
scattered marginal foxing; very good.
(3000/5000)
443. (California) Territory served by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and affiliated companies, with location
of major electric generating plants and transmission lines and natural gas pipe lines, December 31, 1935. Color map.
24.5x62 cm. (9¾x24½”).
[San Francisco?]: Pacific Gas & Electric Company, 1931
The whole of Califorina, with transmission lines for both gas and electirc shown, as are
generating plants, water supplies, etc. Oriented with north toward the upper left. This is a later
issue of the 1931 map of the same title, with changes to date - only three copies of the 1931
issue are listed in OCLC/WorldCat, and none of this 1935 edition. Left margin neatly trimmed,
vertical folds, near fine.
(200/300)
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LEA’S RARE MAP WITH JAMAICA AND THE CARIBBEAN, 1685
444. (Caribbean - Jamaica) Lea, Philip. A Generall Mapp of the Continent and Islands which bee Adjacent
to Jamaica...[on sheet with] A New Mapp of the Island of Jamaica. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored in
outline, with colored compass-rose cartouche. Inset on upper map: “The English Empire” [in North
America]. Inset on lower map: “A New Draught of Port Royal.” 48x56 cm. (19x22”).
London: 1685
A rare map, the lower
half of which is a
detailed map of the
island of Jamaica
naming all the
plantation owners,
with an inset lower
left entitled A New
Draught of Port Royal
by Anthony Williams.
The top half is of the
region around Jamaica
and takes in the Gulf
of Mexico and the
southeastern portion
of North America. A
large B. Sp of Santo
represents the mouth
of the Mississippi
River, Florida bears a
similarly named river
on the west coast,
and S Augustine on
Lot 444
the eastern shore.
At the top of the map Carolina is depicted with the ports of Charles Towne and Port Royall
noted. An inset top right entitled The English Empire extends the coverage northwards through
New England. This map provides an accurate synopsis of the ‘Empire’ as it stood in the
mid 1680s. The new colony of Pennsylvania is illustrated and its capital named Philidolphia.
Moderate darkening to the map, ill-creasing along centerfold; about half of Hispaniola is
separated out (from the acidic coloring), but most of the piece is preserved and can be used in
restoration; hole in top margin along with tape remnants; about very good, a rare map worthy
of restoration.
(2000/3000)
445. (China) Manuscript Map of Guangzhou (Canton). Hand-drawn map in black, blue, red and yellow
on thin rice or “onion paper”. 53x73 cm (20¾x28¾”).
[c.1930s]
A very neatly drawn map. With an inset of Canton showing its relation to Hong Kong and
Macao. Emphasises infrastructure of military interest. No date, but has a reference to a
memorial established in the 1920s. Just a touch of wear; near fine.
(300/500)
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LARGE HERMAN MOLL MAP OF SCOTLAND 1714
446. (Great Britain) Moll, Herman. The North Part of Great Britain Called Scotland. With Considerable
Improvements and Many Remarks not Extant on any Map. According to the newest and exact observations...
Copper-engraved map, hand-colored in outlne. Wtih 11 large vignettes and 2 small maps on the sides.
60x101 cm. (23¾x39¾”).
Lopndon: I. Bowles, 1714
Large map of Scotland with vignettes at either side including bird’s-eye views of St. Andrews,
Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other towns and cities; plus Edinburgh Castle, Dunotyr Castle, The
Bass, etc. Paper evenly browned, split along fold at right, through the dedication and imprint but
not map image or vignette views, stains from old tape repairs along the split; very good.
(1000/1500)
447. (India) Map of British India World War II Poster 1944. Color map of India on paper. 22x30”.
Government of India Information Services, [c.1944]
World War II poster of British India. Multi-color map, showing the 11 provinces of “British
India”, with an inset of elevation, and 23 marginal vignettes with brief notes on population,
industry, minerals, agriculture, minerals, languages, and currency, praising Indian troops who
have “fought heroically…and won great victories against the Germans and Japanese”, and the
British assurance of “full self-government” after the War. Small joint repairs on verso with
non-archival tape; other minor wear; very good.
(100/150)
448. (Jamaica) Bowles & Carver. Bowles’s New One-Sheet Map of Jamaica Divided into it’s Parishes, &c., from
the Actual Surveys of Sheffield and others. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored. 48.5x56 cm. (19x22”),
neatly taped into mat at top edge.
London: Bowles & Carver, c.1780
Large map of Jamaica with inset of Port Royal. Some darkening to paper, a few scratches, very
good.
(300/500)
449. (Jamaica) Jefferys, Thomas. Jamaica from the Latest Surveys; Improved and Engraved by Thomas Jefferys
Geographer to the King. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored. 46x61 cm. (24x18”), neatly taped to mat.
London: Laurie & Whittle, 1794
The island of Jamaica with insents of Harbor of Kingston & Port Royal; and Harbor of
Bluefields. The map is quite darkened from the coloring used in the sea portions; good overall.
(300/500)
450. (Jamaica) Visscher, Nicolas. Jamaica, Americae Septentrionalis Ampla Insula, Christophoro Columbo
Detecta, in suas Gubernationes Peraccuratae Distincta. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored. 52x60 cm.
(20½x23½”), hinged to backing board.
Amsterdam: c.1680
Large map of the island of Jamaica, with uncolored pictorial cartouche. Paper toned, ½x2”
piece missing from upper left edge intruding over the neat line, ½” hole in upper left corner,
¼” triangle of coloring missing from one of the internal precincts, top and bottom margins
trimmed close; good, in need of some restoration.
(400/600)
451. (Jamaica) Zatta, Antonio. La Giammaica. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored in outline.
31.3x42 cm. (12¼x16½”), neatly taped to mat.
[Venice]: [1778]
Attractive map of the island of Jamaica presented in the form of a scroll, from Zatta’s Italian
version of Raynal’s History of North America. The map shows the island divided into 18
precincts, with numerous place names, mountains, rivers and roads, and a large compass rose
and scale of Italian miles. Very good or better
(200/300)
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452. (Japan) Aa, Pieter Van der. Les Ports et Havres de Firando et Nangesaque... Copper-engraved map,
hand-colored (later?). 19x15.5 (7½x6”) plus wide margins.
Leiden: c.1715
Scarce map of the port of Nagasaki, Japan, and adjacent coasts and islands. Nagasaki was
the Dutch treaty port at this time, and Japan’s window to the West. Some toning to paper, a
marginal tear or two not affecting map image; very good.
(400/600)
453. (Middle East - Garden of Eden) Calmet, Augustin. Carte du Paradis Terrestre Suivant le Systeme de
Mr. Huet et Execute par P. Starck-man. Copper-engraved map. 23.7x20.5 cm. (9¼x8”).
Paris: 1722
Eden, or Paridis Terrestre, along the Gehon River, with Mt. Ararat on top of which rests the
Arche de Noé, plus the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, Babylon, Jerusalem, Syria, etc. From
Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, geographique et litteral de la Bible, Vol. I. Faint
offset, very good.
(100/150)
454. (Minnesota) Rand, McNally & Co. Rand, McNally & Co.’s New Sectional Map of Minnesota, 1886.
Folding pocket map, color lithographed. 97x136 cm. (38¼x53½”), folding into cloth covers.
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1886
Large, detailed pocket map of Minnesota, with 12-page index. OCLC/WorldCat lists only one
copy, at the Minnesota Historical Society, which copy “lacks upper right portion of map. The
area missing includes Cook, Lake and Saint Louis Counties.” Minor wear to covers, a few small
splits to map folds; very good.
(400/600)
RARE PRE-FIRE CHICAGO PRINTING OF FOLDING MAP OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS
455. (Missouri & Kansas) Blanchard, Rufus. Blanchard’s Map of Missouri and Kansas Showing the Counties
Towns & Rail Roads. Folding pocket map, lithographed, hand-colored. Lithographed by Chas. Shober.
45x57 cm. (17¾x22½”), folding into cloth-backed boards.
Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1866
Rare pre-Chicago Fire imprint, with the
state of Missouri and the eastern portion
of Kansas, plus a portion of Illinois.
OCLC/WorldCat lists only one copy, at the
Huntington Library. Covers well rubbed
and worn, splitting along spine; map with
two dark spots ½” or so in diameter on the
image and a few in the margins, plus a few
amsller ones, split 4” along one seam and
a few smaller splits; about very good, very
rare.
(1000/1500)
Lot 455
456. (Mongolia) Collection of maps of Mongolia, topographic, political, etc. Approx. two dozen or so.
Various sizes. Includes some vacu-form plastic maps with relief.
Various places: Mid to late 20th century
Interesting collection of maps of this still-mysterious land, perhaps a future hot-spot in the
evolving geo-political morass or Asia. Good to very good condition.
(300/500)
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EARLY LITHOGRAPHED VIEW OF THE WASHOE DISTRICT OF NEVADA, 1861
457. (Nevada) Vischer, Edward. Panorama of the Washoe Region from the Summit of Mount Davidson.
Duotone lithograph, with central circular aerial view surrounded by scenes and text. 38x49 cm.
(15x19¼”), on sheet 21½x26½”); accompanied by sheet of descriptive text in three columns.
San Francisco: Edward Vischer, 1861
Rare lithographed view of the Washoe
District. The large circular view at the center
is titled “Washoe from the Summit of Mount
Davidson - Birds Eye View of Nevada
Territory, the Virginia District, Flowery and
the Deserts of the Emigrant Road, Washoe
Proper, the Truckee Country, and the Eastern
Range of the Sierra Nevada.” Surrounding
this are eight views: Devils Gate; Sparrow
& Trench’s Mill, Silver City; Entrance to the
Gould & Curry Mine; Virginia City from
the South Side; Gold Hill, Mount Davidson
and the Ophir Road; The Gold Hill Mines;
Entrance to the Ophir Mine; and The Ophir
Lot 457
Works in Washoe Valley. There are two
blocks of text, giving the principal lodes,
and principal crushing mills. OCLC/WorldCat lists only one example of this lithograph, at the
University of California, Berkeley. Some mostly marginal foxing and discoloration, paper a bit
toned, a few marginal tears repaired, small chips at top and bottom edges, top right corner with
piece missing well away from image; text leaf with a short tear; else very good.
(6000/9000)
LARGE MAP OF NORTH AMERICA BY HERMAN MOLL,
PART OF INSULAR CALIFORNIA DEPICTED
458. (North America) Moll, Herman. A New Map of the North Parts of America claimed by France under
ye names of Louisiana, Mississipi, Canada and New France with ye Adjoyning Territories of England and Spain.
Copper-engraved map, hand-colored in outline. With 1 vignette view and 2 inset maps. 60x101 cm.
(23½x39¾”).
London: H. Moll, 1720
Large map of North
America partially based
on a 1718 map of the
same region by French
cartographer Guillaume
Delisle: “Carte de la
Louisiane et cours du
Mississippi.” There are
a number of significant
differences between
the two maps, however,
particularly concerning
the border between
English Carolina and
French Louisiana. Moll
includes blocks of
Lot 458
descriptive text. In the
Midwestern regions, he
describes the countryside and the Indians who lived there, and on the Florida peninsula, he gives
a detailed account of a slave-hunting expedition. He depicts California as an island, although
only the southern portion of the island is shown. McLaughlin 197. Paper browned, trimmed
over outer neat lines, chip at lower edge, splitting long folds; good, worthy of restoration.
(3000/5000)
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459. (Oil Map - California) Map of the Coalinga Oil Field, Fresno, California. Blue line map on paper.
123x88.5 cm. (48½x34¾”).
1936
Shows oil drilling complete and incomplete. Not located by OCLC / Worldcat. Faint
dampstains at top right corner, some red pencil outlines to a few plots, plus several graphite
pencil notations; very good.
(150/250)
TWO SCARCE FOLDING MAPS OF PACIFIC NORTHWEST
PUBLISHED BY J.K. GILL & CO.
460. (Oregon & Washington) Habersham, Robert A. J.K. Gill & Co.s map of Oregon & Washington Ter.
Folding pocket map, lithographed, hand-colored. Lithographed by A.M. Askevold, Chicago. 87x67
cm. (34¼x26½”), folding into cloth covers.
Portland,OR: J.K. Gill & Co., 1878
Large folding pocket map of the Pacific Northwest. Shows county boundaries, military and
Indian reservations, stage routes and railroads, and lighthouses. The above title is the title in
upper margin of the map; sometimes listed under the cover title, “County & township map of
Oregon & Wash. Ty.” The map has been neatly removed from the cloth folder, and placed loose
in a paper sleeve which is affixed to the inside of the folder. Minor staining and extremity wear
to covers; map with a few nicks and tears at folds; very good or better.
(500/800)
461. (Oregon) Gill, J.K. J. K. Gill & Co.s Map of Oregon Portland Ogn. 1889. Folding lithographed map,
hand-colored. 58.7x68.6 cm. (23x27”), folding into cloth covers.
Portland, OR: J.K. Gill & Co., 1889
Scarce folding pocket map of Oregon, lithographed by L.M. Snyder & Co., Chicago, “compiled
and drawn from all United States and railroad surveys made previous to Jany. 1, 1888 by W.H.
Galvani, civil engeneer [sic] and John Gill.” Shows county boundaries, military and Indian
reservations, railroads, lighthouses, stage routes, and wagon roads and trails. OCLC/WorldCat
list only copies at the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Wisconsin at
Milwaukee. The map has been neatly removed from the cloth folder, and placed loose in a paper
sleeve which is affixed to the inside of the folder. Rubberstamp of Mann Education Library on
inside of folder. Covers worn; map with a few small nicks at folds, else near fine.
(700/1000)
462. (Palestine) Calmet, Augustin. Carte de la Terre Promise. Copper-engraved map. 47x23.3 cm.
(18½x8¼”).
Paris: 1722
The Promised Land, presently Israel and Palestine, from Antioch in the north to the mouth of
the Nile in the south. From Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, geographique et
litteral de la Bible, Vol. I. Near fine condition.
(100/150)
463. (Pennsylvania) Manuscript map, “A Draft of 20,121 Acres.. of Land Situate in Mifflin County, State of
Pennsylvania”. Ink manuscript with hand-coloring. On sheet 31.5x45 cm. (12½x17¾”).
No place: mid-19th century
Manuscript map showing land ownership in this county in central Pennsylvania. Some splitting
along folds, about very good.
(200/300)
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MOLL’S MUSCOVY, WITH POLAND, THE BLACK SEA, ETC.
464. (Russia) Moll, Herman. To His Most Serene and August Majesty Peter Alexovitz.. This Map of
Muscovy, Poland, Little Tartary, and ye Black Sea is most humbly dedicated... Copper-engraved map, handcolored
in outline, large uncolored pictorial cartouche. 61x98 cm. (24x38½”).
London: I. Bowles, et al., c.1715
Russia and northern Europe from Westphalia to the Volga River, with inset of the north part of
Russia. Paper darkened, trimmed to or over the outer neat line, starting to split along a fold; chip
at top edge, good.
(1500/2500)
LARGE LITHOGRAPH OF SAN FRANCISCO’S SUTRO BATHS
465. (Sutro Baths) Large Lithograph of Sutro Baths, Interior View. Color lithograph on several sheets,
approximately 73”x80”, later linen backing, wooden rollers.
[San Francisco]: Printer unknown, [c. 1896]
Famous lithograph image of the
Sutro Baths, a nice example with
colors bright and unfaded, with
bathers lined along the railings and
spectators in the viewing gallery, a
small number of patrons actually
in the water of the pools. In 1896,
the Sutro Baths was opened to the
public as the world’s largest indoor
swimming pool establishment.
Built on western edge of San
Francisco by entrepreneur and San
Francisco mayor, Adolph Sutro, the
breathtakingly vast glass, iron, wood,
and reinforced concrete structure
was mostly hidden in a small beach
inlet below the Cliff House which
was also owned by Adolph Sutro. A
visitor to the baths had a choice of 7
different swimming pools (one fresh
Lot 465
water and six salt water baths ranging
in temperatures) and could visit a
museum displaying Sutro’s large and varied personal collection of artifacts, a concert hall, and
at one time, an ice skating rink. During high tides, water would flow directly into the pools from
the nearby ocean, recycling the two million gallons of water in about an hour. Both the Cliff
House and the former Baths site are now a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area
and operated by the United States National Park Service. Some cracking and loss of image in
lower portion, affecting only the water and no figures or structures, a few small stains 3x4” or
smaller; very good.
(6000/9000)
466. (United States) Maximilian, Alexander Philipp, Prince of Wied. Map to Illustrate the Route of
Prince Maximilian of Wied in the Interior of North America [title also in French and German]. Printed map,
outline color. 37x71 cm. (14½x28”).
[Cleveland]: [Arthur H. Clark], [1906]
Map illustrating the travels of Prince Maximilian of Wied in the early 1830s, covering the
northern United States from New England to the Rocky Mountains. The first edition of his
travels, 2 volumes plus atlas, was published 1839-1841; the present map, a slightly reduced
facsimile of the original, is from the 1906 Arthur Clark reprint. Some minor ill-creasing, stain in
lower margin, very good.
(200/300)
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467. (West Indies) Benard, Robert. Carte du Golfe du Mexique des Isles et des Pays Adjacens Pour l’Histoire
de l’Amerique par le Sr. Robertson. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored (later) 31.5x48 cm. (12¼x18¾”),
matted & framed under glass.
[Paris?]: c.1778
The Caribbean and coasts of the Gulf of Mexico including Florida, attractively framed. From
the French edition of William Robertson’s History of America. Minor stain at lower left, very
good or better.
(300/500)
468. (World) Homann Heirs. Neue Welt-Karte Welche auf Zwoo Kugelflaechen die Haupt-Theile der Erde,
Insel-Gruppen, Theile des Welt-Meers und der en Benennungen den fünsten Welt-theil und die neuesten Entdekkungen
nach den Karten und Reisebeschreibungen der berühmtesten Seefahrer und Gelerhrten unsres Zeit-alters der Herren
Cook, Forster, Pallas, u.a.m. nebst einer kurzen Erklærung enthælt. Copper-engraved double-hemisphere
map of the world, hand-colored in outline and wash. 47.3x55.9 cm. (18½x22”).
Nurembeg: 1784
Double-hemisphere map of the world with a curious mixture of then-current geographical
knowledge based on the recent voyages of James Cook and others, as well as erroneous
configurations of the past. The Sandwich Islands are depicted, and Australia includes several
place names on the eastern coast from Cook’s discoveries in 1770, while Van Diemens Land is
still shown connected to the mainland. The Great Lakes are shown as one huge body of water
and California is strangely shaped with the Baja nearly appearing as an island. Original color,
with color key. German text in the panel below the hemispheres. Top right and left corners
soiled and stained, affecting about a sixth of the map image overall; good to very good.
(300/500)
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Guide to Buying at PBA Galleries
Buying at auction is a very simple process. We encourage all our potential buyers to
be familiar with this buying guide since it explains everything needed to find, bid
for, and buy at our auctions.
PBA GALLERIES
We are one of the few auction houses
in the United States specializing in rare
books, manuscripts, photographs,
maps, ephemera, and related items.
FINDING ITEMS FOR SALE
The first step is to browse our
catalogues for upcoming auctions. Our
catalogues are available by subscription
for print catalogues, downloadable
PDFs, or on our website,
www.pbagalleries.com, with high
resolution photographs for each lot.
Viewing our catalogue on our website
makes it easy to keep track of
interesting items by saving them to a
watch list in My PBA.
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTIONS
Our specialists provide detailed
descriptions of each lot including title,
author, publisher, date, place,
condition, and provenance where
available. We also provide low and
high auction estimates based on recent
auction and retail sales data.
RESERVES
The reserve is the minimum price at
which a lot will sell. In many cases, the
reserve is equal to half of the low
estimate. No lot at PBA Galleries will
open at less than the reserve. All
successful bids at PBA Galleries will
result in the sale of that lot.
PREVIEWS
We invite bidders to attend our auction
previews held in our gallery in the days
preceding the auction. It is always
helpful to see the items in person, but
if that is not possible, our staff is
available to provide additional
information.
NEED MORE INFORMATION?
Our specialists are happy to discuss
specific lots in greater detail or provide
more extensive condition reports. They
can be contacted by phone, fax, email,
or in person at our offices. In addition,
our photography department will
supply more photos upon request.
REGISTERING WITH PBA
Registration with PBA not only allows
bidding at auctions, but allows access
to My PBA where items can be placed
on a watch list, absentee bids placed,
and invoices viewed and paid. It is a
simple process to register and can be
done online at www.pbagaleries.com,
by phone by calling 415-989-2665 or in
person.
BIDDING
Placing bids for items at our auctions
need not be intimidating. Bids can be
placed in four ways: in person while
attending auctions, by phone, absentee
or online during the auction with
PBA LIVE.
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The auctioneer has sole and complete
discretion on the acceptance of any
bid. Bids are advanced in the following
increments:
$0 - $200 $10
$200 - $500 $25
$500 - $1000 $50
$1000- $2000 $100
$2000 - $5000 $250
$5000 - $10,000 $500
$10,000 - $20,000 $1000
$20,000 - $50,000 $2500
$50,000 - $100,000 $5000
$100,000 – 200,000 $10,000
In Person
Attending a gallery auction and placing
bids in person can be an exciting and
rewarding experience. Upon arrival at
our gallery, a bidding paddle will be
issued to all registered bidders desiring
one.
Phone Bidding
We offer phone bidding for clients who
are unable to attend the auction but
would like to bid on the phone during
the sale. This allows direct access to a
PBA Staff member in the auction room.
Reservations should be made as early
as possible since we have a limited
number of phone lines available.
Absentee Bids
Absentee bids may be placed in person,
by mail, phone, fax or email and should
be placed at least one hour before the
sale begins to provide time to process
the bid. Be assured that all bids will be
used competitively against other
absentee bids, internet bids and floor
bidders. The final selling price may well
be less than the upper limit of a
winning absentee bid.
the case of a tie with another bidder.
Complete the form with name, address
and phone number
We also accept absentee bids by
phone. When calling, have all the
information listed on the absentee
bidding sheet at hand before calling.
Online absentee bids may be placed by
registered bidders directly on the lot
details page for each item.
PBA LIVE Online Bidding
Watch and listen to our auctions as if in
the room with the auctioneer from
anywhere in the world on a computer,
tablet or smart-phone. Registered
bidders can log in and bid as the lot is
being offered for sale.
BUYER’S PREMIUM
In addition to the hammer price, items
sold will include a buyer’s premium.
PBA’s buyer’s premium is 20% for the
first $100,000 plus 15% for the amount
over $100,000 amongst the lowest in
the industry.
POST-SALE
For buyers attending the auction,
invoices are available and payment
may be made at any time during or
immediately following the auction. For
all other successful bidders, invoices
will be sent via email the day following
the auction or they may be viewed
online by logging in at My PBA. The
fnal amount due includes the hammer
price, the buyer’s premium, any
applicable state or local sales taxes,
and shipping and handling charges
unless we have received other
instructions. Payment is due upon
receipt.
It is simplest to fill out the Bid Sheet
found online or in the back of our print
catalogues. Enter the sale number and
date as well as the Lot number and top
bid for each lot. Indicate whether one
additional bid increment is desired in
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PAYMENT
PBA Galleries accepts cash, checks (echecks,
cashier’s checks, or personal
checks), money orders or domestic
wire transfers for over $1000 and
international wire transfers for any
amount. We also accept Visa,
MasterCard and Discover credit cards.
Check out may be done in person, by
mail, phone or through our website by
logging into My PBA.
PBA does not release material for
shipment or pick up prior to full
payment.
SHIPPING
PBA Galleries has a full service shipping
department to ensure proper packing
and safe delivery of purchases. We are
specialists at packing and shipping
books and works on paper all over the
world. All lots purchased by the same
client are combined for shipping in
order to keep the cost as economical as
possible.
STILL HAVE QUESTIONS?
Our staff is happy to help. Contact us
any of the following ways:
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Email info@pbagalleries.com
Or come by our offices located at
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CONDITIONS OF SALE
Property listed in our online or print catalogues will be sold by PB Auction
Galleries, dba PBA Galleries, as agent for others subject to the following terms
and conditions. Clients placing bids at auction agree to pay the full purchase
price of any lots for which the client is the winning bidder and further
acknowledge and agree to these Conditions of Sale. PBA Galleries reserves the
right to amend these by notice or oral announcement at the sale.
1. All bids are to be per lot as numbered in the catalogue.
2. PBA Galleries reserves the right to withdraw any property for sale at any time
prior to its final sale.
3. Unless specified, each lot is offered subject to a reserve, generally one-half of
the low estimate. PBA Galleries does not accept reserves of more than the low
estimate nor allow consignors to bid on their own items.
4. PBA Galleries reserves the right to reject a bid from any bidder. The highest
bidder acknowledged by the auctioneer shall be the purchaser. In the event of
any dispute between bidders or in the event the auctioneer doubts the validity
of any bid, the auctioneer shall have sole and final discretion either to
determine the successful bidder or to re-offer and resell the article in dispute. If
any dispute arises after the sale, our sales records shall be conclusive in every
respect.
5. The “hammer price” is the price at which a lot is sold or hammered down by
the auctioneer. The “purchase price” paid by the winning bidder is the
aggregate of (a) the hammer price, (b) a buyer’s premium of 20% of the
hammer price up to $100,000, plus 15% of the amount above $100,000, and (c)
applicable California state and local sales taxes. California state and local taxes
will be collected except where sold to a purchaser outside of California and
shipped to the purchaser or the purchaser has a valid California resale license
and provides such documentation to PBA Galleries.
6. Payment terms: All items are to be paid for by cash, Visa, MasterCard,
Discover, wire transfer, cashier’s check, e-check or personal check with
approved credit. Wire transfers are accepted for all international transactions
and any domestic transaction over $1000. PBA Galleries offers a 1% discount on
purchases paid by cash, check or wire transfer over $1000 on invoices paid
within 10 business days of the sale. The discount does not extend to shipping
and handling charges. PBA Galleries reserves the right to hold items paid for by
personal check until the check has cleared the bank. Buyer agrees to pay PBA
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Galleries $50 for any returned check. Invoices are due upon receipt.
Merchandise is shipped only after full payment has been received.
7. Purchases that have gone unpaid twenty (20) business days after the sale are
subject to any or all of the following: (a) late charge of five percent (5%) of the
total purchase price per month; (b) cancellation of the sale; (c) rescindment of
bidding privileges at future auctions; (d) Initiation of legal proceedings to collect
the entire debt including original purchase price, late charges, and legal fees and
costs to the fullest extent permitted by law; and (e) any other action or actions
PBA Galleries finds necessary and appropriate.
8. Purchases must be removed within five (5) business days of cleared payment
unless shipping instructions are received by PBA Galleries. If not removed,
property will be held at the sole risk of the purchaser and no responsibility is
assumed if such goods are lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed. PBA Galleries
reserves the right to store unclaimed purchases either in our office storage
facilities or a public warehouse at the expense of the purchaser. Purchaser will
be charge 10% of the purchase price/month for storage. PBA Galleries assumes
no liability for any damages incurred during storage.
9. In order to prevent inaccuracy in delivery or inconvenience in the settlement
of a purchase, no lot can be transferred. Each buyer must pay for the whole of
his purchases before any lot can be removed.
10. PBA Galleries has an in-house shipping department and will ship property via
USPS, UPS or FedEx. Total shipping costs include a packing fee, carriage and
insurance. PBA Galleries will not be responsible for any loss of damage resulting
from the shipping in excess of the amount of insurance. Property is shipped
only after payment has cleared.
11. If purchased property cannot be delivered in the same condition as at the
time of sale, due to fire, theft, loss or any other reason, PBA Galleries’ liability
will be limited to the sum actually paid by the purchaser. In no event, will
compensatory or other damages be included.
12. Any and all information provided by PBA Galleries, including all employees
of PBA Galleries, in its catalogs, other written or oral descriptions, email or
elsewhere are qualified statements of opinion. They are not intended to
represent warranties or representations of any kind or nature with respect to
the property or its value, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or
whether the purchaser acquires any copyrights. In no event shall PBA Galleries
or the consignor be responsible for the correctness of description, genuineness,
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attribution, provenance, authenticity, authorship, completeness, condition of
the property or estimate of value.
13. Property may be returned by the purchaser, the sale rescinded and the
purchase price refunded only under the following conditions: (1) printed books
which prove upon collation to be defective in text or illustration (provided such
defects are not indicated within the catalogue or at the sale), and (2)
autographs which prove not to be genuine (if this can be demonstrated and if
not indicated in the catalogue or at the sale). Printed books are not returnable
for defects not affecting text and illustration, including, but not limited to, lack
of half-titles, lists of plates, binder’s instructions, errata, blanks, or
advertisements. No returns will be accepted unless written notice is received by
PBA Galleries within fourteen (14) days of the sale of the property and the
property is returned in the same condition as it was at the time of the sale. No
lot is returnable on account of property included but not specifically named and
described in such lot. Lots containing three or more titles, whether named or
unnamed and selling for one hundred fifty dollars ($150) or less, exclusive of
buyer’s premium are sold not subject to return for any reason.
14. As a service to clients unable to attend the Sale in person, we accept
absentee bids in advance of the sale by telephone or in writing submitted by
email or fax. All bids must state the highest bid price the bidder is willing to pay.
“Buy” bids are not accepted. PBA Galleries accepts no responsibility for failure
to execute such bids or any errors contained on submitted bid forms.
15. Photographs, prints and other fine art multiples are sold in compliance with
California law and PBA Galleries’ catalogue descriptions of such multiples to the
applicable provisions of that law.
All sales held by PBA Galleries are conducted pursuant to Section 2328 of the
Commercial Code and Section 535 of the Penal Code of the State of California.
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Offer Your Books at Auction
through PBA Galleries
Rare manuscript in grand format of Werner
Rolewinck's world history, Fasciculus temporum,
c.1471, one of 13 known examples, with lovely
miniature paintings in gold leaf and colors.
Sold for $102,000
History of the Expedition under the Command of
Captains Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the
Missouri, 1814, the first edition of the official
account of the most famous and most important
expedition of exploration in U.S. history.
Sold for $212,000
Rare, complete copy of the 1613 folio edition
of the King James Bible, with the double-page
map of the Holy Land by John Speed.
Sold for $33,000
Rare Mormon hymnal from 1861 compiled by
Emma Hale Smith Bidaman, widow of
LDS Church founder Joseph Smith.
Sold for $16,800
Isaac Newton's Analysis per Quantitatum Series,
1711, published to demonstrate his claim to
priority in the invention of the calculus.
Sold for $20,400
First edition of J.-B. Du Halde's massive
four-volume description of China, 1735, with
65 maps and plates, most double-page.
Sold for $22,800
Moby Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville.
First American edition of one of the most
important novels of the 19th century.
Sold for $12,000
Second edition in English of Galileo's
Mathematical Discourses, 1730, in the original
boards, untrimmed and uncut, a fine,
fresh copy, likely the finest obtainable.
Sold for $19,200
Fine example of William Eddy’s important Official
Map of the State of California, 1854, folding into
the original red leather covers, very rare.
Sold for $39,000
SPECIALISTS IN EXCEPTIONAL BOOKS & PRIVATE LIBRARIES AT AUCTION
133 Kearny Street : San Francisco, CA 94108 : www.pbagalleries.com : 415.989.2665
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Sale 511:
Historic Autographs & Manuscripts
with Archival Material
Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 11:00 am Pacific Time
Civil War archive of Lieutenant
James Clinton Woodworth,
25th Regiment Massachusetts
Volunteers, Company H,
1861-1865.
Estimate: $25,000/35,000
Includes manuscript diaries,
photographs, and other material,
including an incredible album of
73 tin-type portrait photographs of
the soldiers of Company “H”.
Preview
Tuesday-Wednesday, July 23-24, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Thursday, July 25, 9:00 am to 11:00 am
Catalogue available for viewing about two weeks before the auction at
www.pbagalleries.com.
133 Kearny Street 4th Floor:San Francisco, CA 94108
phone: 415.989.2665 toll free : 1.866.999.7224 fax: 415.989.1664
info@pbagalleries.com : www.pbagalleries.com
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