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118. Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Co. Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Co. Wholesale Dealers,Importers and Exporters of Hardware and House Furnishing Goods, Mining, Water Works, Railway andSteamship Supplies, Electrical Supplies, Sporting Goods and Kindred Lines. xliv, 1540, (1701)-2010 pp.1541-1700 omitted in pagination, as issued. Seven leaves of plates (3 in color), text illustrations.(Thick 4to) 29.3x23 cm. (11½x9”) original tan cloth.San Francisco: Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Co., 1909Catalog number 30 from this firm. Includes cutting tools marketed under the trademark “CleanCut,” but also offering a comprehensive selection of hardware, fishing tackle, rifles and revolvers,baseball gloves, coffee and spice mills, telephones, lamps, etc, etc. A fascinating compendium ofconsumer goods of the early twentieth century. Moderate cover soiling, light wear to corners;pages with moderate uniform browning; very good.(300/500)119. Elliott, Richard Smith. Notes Taken in Sixty Years. [4], 336 pp. Artotype portrait frontispiecefrom photograph; tissue guard. 21.7x14 cm. (8½x5½”), original olive green cloth, spine lettered ingilt. First Edition, first issue.St. Louis, Mo.: R.P. Studley & Co., 1883Richard Smith Elliot was a Indian agent at Council Bluffs starting in 1834, and also was withDoniphan’s expedition in 1846, among other adventures. First issue, with the portrait. HowesE111. Rubbing to spine ends and corners, some darkening to contents, else very good.(200/300)120. Fahey, Herbert. Early Printing in California: From Its Beginning in the Mexican Territory toStatehood, September 9, 1850. Illustrated with 16 plates after title-pages, newspapers, portraits, etc.(Small folio), black and green cloth, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. One of 400 copies printedby the Grabhorn Press.San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1956An essential reference on the subject. GB 582; BCC 94. Scratch to spine label, a touch of wearto cloth; very good.(200/300)121. Falconer, Thomas. The Oregon Question; or, a Statement on the British Claims to the OregonTerritory, in Opposition to the Pretensions of the Government of the United States of America. 49, [3] pp.Folding map bound-in at rear. (8vo) later olive boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt. SecondEdition.London: Samuel Clarke, 1845A lawyerly exposition of British claims to the Oregon territory, the second edition being issuedas an explicit rebuttal to William Sturgis’ lecture before the Mercantile Library Association ofBoston on January 22, 1845 -- an interesting case study of the manner in which English andAmerican claims were debated on both sides of the Atlantic. According to Howes, the secondedition was not issued with a map, and the map bound-in with this copy was likely taken froma copy of an earlier Falconer work, “On the Discovery of the Mississippi, and on the South-Western, Oregon, and North-Western Boundary of the United States” (1844). The map is titledNorth America, Published under the Superintendence of the Society for Diffusion of UsefulKnowledge (published by Chapman and Hall, 1843), and is hand colored in the outline. Anattractive copy of a very scarce work. Howes F17; Sabin 23728; Smith 2970; Wheat Maps479. Light chipping to spine label, penciled notes on front endpapers; pages unopened anduntrimmed; near fine.(500/800)The auction will be begin at 11:00 a.m.Page 36