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EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS, 1748 - 1846, Volume
25
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest
contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and
Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early
American Settlement
Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by
Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D.
Volume XXV
Comprising the series of original paintings by Charles Bodmer,
to illustrate Maximillian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North
America, 1832 - 1834
The Arthur H. Clark Company: Cleveland, Ohio, 1906, first
edition in this format
Dimensions: 20-1/2 inches in height by 15-1/2 inches in
breadth; original burgundy cloth binding with gold print on spine; complete with
all 81 plates, endpapers, title page, half-title page, and list of plates; also
fold-out map at rear complete with NO tears or repairs.
Condition: near fine with no markings on the interior; some
very, very light scuffing on a very small spots on cover
No library markings.
PRICE: $2,500.00
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THE BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND MAIL, 1857 - 1869
Its organization and operation over the Southern Route to
1861; subsequently over the Central Route to 1866; and under Wells, Fargo and
Company in 1869
By
Roscoe P. Conkling and Margaret B. Conkling
The Arthur H. Clark Company: Glendale 4, California, U.S.A.
1947
First edition
Complete in 3 volumes; original red cloth bindings with gold
print on each spine; NO library markings or previous owner stamps. All
maps and plates present.
American Trail Series
Volume 1: 412 pages; biographical sketch of John Butterfield;
Western Territorial Expansion; Ocean Mails to the Pacific; inland routes;
establishment of the Butterfield Overland Mil; route and stations in Arkansas,
Indian Territory Oklahoma, Texas; complete with all illustrations.
Volume 2: 446 pages; Southern Route; route and stations
through New Mexico, Arizona, and California; Last Days on the Butterfield Trail;
Overland Mail on the Central Route; Closing Days of the Overland Mail;
Postmaster-General reports; coach companies; etc.
Volume 3: atlas with 77 plates and 3 maps.
Condition: near fine; clean, bright, solid original set of
this key work on the Butterfield Overland Map.
SOLD
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WHEN BUFFALO RAN
by George Bird Grinnell
New Haven: Yale University Press, September 1927, 3rd printing
Original covers, 114 pages, 8 photographic illustrations.
Very good plus condition; no dust jacket
Price: $85.00
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OUTLAW WANTED POSTER
Colorado and California Law Enforcement
Dated July 19, 1904
Posted with sheriffs, marshals, banks, and other institutions.
First suspect was wanted for assault with a deadly weapon;
also considered a strong union advocate.
Second suspect was also wanted for assault with a deadly
weapon, as well as intent to commit murder.
Both men's occupations are listed as being miners.
Found among historical Cripple Creek, Colorado records.
Size: 8-1/2 x 11 inches.
Condition: very good
Price: $250.00
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GLIMPSES OF THE GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO
Reproduced by Special Permission from Original
Copyright. Photographs by Oliver Lippincott, Los Angeles, Water Color
effects by J.P. Robertson, Denver, Colorado.
Plates and Color Press work by The Williamson - Haffner
Engraving Company, Denver, Colorado
Frank S. Thayer, Publisher, Denver, circa 1905
Original stiff covers; 15 pages with tipped on
chromolithograph images, plus 15 tissue pages with descriptions of scenes.
Covers chipped and worn along edges; pages in near fine
condition.
Price: $45.00
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ZION: HER GATES AND TEMPLE
Published by The Bingham Bulletin
Colored Reproductions, in water color effects from original
photographs by Charles R. Savage.
The Descriptive verse by Utah and Colorado poets as indicated.
Frank S. Thayer, Publisher, Denver, Colorado, circa 1900
Original gray wrappers; tie-string binding; 17
chromolithograph pages; 18 descriptive pages; scenes in and around Salt Lake
City, Utah
Condition: gray covers chips and edges worn, some very light
damp-staining; all pages are clean and in very good plus to near fine condition
Price: $45.00
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STREET TYPES OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES
By Sigmund Krausz
With Literary Sketches by Well-Known Authors
and
A Preface by Dr. Emil G. Hirsch
1896: The Werner Company; Chicago and New York
Original illustrated cloth covers and binding; 191 pages;
illustrated
Character studies of average urban Americans in the 1890s,
illustrated with Kodak photographs.
"... The artist has caught the inspiration of his
subjects. This book can therefore not fail to commend itself as a most
valuable souvenir. A deep thinker it was who said, within the shell was
the animal, behind the book the man. His sentiment applies to cities as
well. Behind the piles of iron and steel and granite and mortar are the
men. These much more than the edifices which they erect are
characteristics of a city ..."
PHOTOGRAPHIC AND DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES OF STREET URCHINS,
VENDORS, BEGGARS, NEWSPAPER BOYS, MERCHANTS, TRADESMEN, CITY WORKERS; CHICAGO
NEWSPAPER WRITERS, BEN KING, FRANKLIN H. HEAD, OPIE READ, EDGAR C. BLUM AND
OTHERS.
Condition: very good; a small nick in cloth of front cover;
internal pages clean and bright
Price: $200.00
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HISTORY OF OMAHA
From the Pioneer Days to the Present Time
By Alfred Sorenson
Illustrated
Omaha: Gibson, Miller & Richardson, Printers
1889
First Edition, 2nd printing
In original gold-printed gray cloth; 342 pages, with
advertisements
Good plus to very good condition; strong spine; clean pages;
staining to front cover; thin splits in gutters of cover and chips to head and
toe of spine, however, binding is strong
$95.00
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WONDERLAND 1906
By Olin D. Wheeler
Illustrated
This Number Describes
The Yellowstone National Park,
A Trip through the Bitterroot Mountains,
Columbia River and Puget Sound Region,
The Quenit Indians of the Northwest Coast,
and gives Some Information about Alaska.
A.M. Cleland, General Passenger Agent,
Northern Pacific Railway, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1906
Original illustrated purple wrappers; 74 pages; illustrated,
plus 2-page map of Northern Pacific Route
Near fine condition
Price: $95.00
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