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FOR THE
SOUTHWEST & BORDERLANDS
1. ABERT, J[ames] W[illiam]. Report of the Secretary of War...
Report and Map of the Examination of New Mexico.....
[Washington, 1848]. 30th Congress, First Session, Senate
Executive Document, No. 23. 132 pp., 24 lithographs, folding
lithograph map of New Mexico + 11 lithographs from Abert’s 1846
report (Message...Report of an Expedition...on the Upper
Arkansas and through the Country of the Comanche Indians, in the
Fall of the Years 1845). Total: 35 lithograph plates with
exceptionally beautiful watercoloring. The coloring of the
plates is in the same style, technique, and shades found in
Abert’s own copies of these reports with his original
watercolors or personally hand-colored lithographs in the
Beinecke Library at Yale. This is an extra illustrated and
annotated copy, with extensive manuscript corrections,
especially of botanical and Spanish words, apparently in Abert’s
hand, and pencil notes on most plates indicating proper
placement of plates within text. Signed “Abert” on first plate.
8vo, modern full green levant morocco, spine gilt-lettered,
raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Light
intermittent foxing. Upper inner corners with light
waterstaining barely into plates. Text and plates trimmed (a few
plates shaved with occasional loss of a few letters of title or
imprint; a few of the manuscript annotations are also trimmed).
The map appears to be supplied from another copy. Overall a very
good copy, the coloring of the lithos quite lovely, fresh, and
bright. The W. J. Holliday copy, with his bookplate tipped in
(front pastedown with evidence of removal of former bookplate).
Upper Arkansas and Comanche Country Report, 1846 (11
plates): Bennett, American Nineteenth Color Plate Books, p. 1:
"Very fine colored lithographic plates. This item appears in two
forms, colored and uncolored, and the colored copies have long
been in substantial demand." Graff 6. Howes A10. Matthews, p.
297. Plains & Rockies IV:120. Raines 1: “Significant and
important.” Sabin 59. Streeter Sale 161 (Abert’s copy, now at
the Beinecke). These are the plates from Abert’s 1846 report on
his 1845 trip from Bent’s Fort along the Canadian River, back to
St. Louis. Among them is an important early lithograph view of
Texas.
New Mexico Report, 1848 (printed report, map, and 24
plates): First edition of an early official U.S. publication
relating to New Mexico. Graff 5. Howes A11. Pilling 2. Rader
3344. Raines, p. 1: “Canadian Valley of Texas was part of region
traversed and described.” Rittenhouse 2: “A basic Santa Fe Trail
document.” Sabin 57. Streeter Sale 168: “First printed map of
New Mexico made public by the War Department.”
IV:143.
Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 532. This report
contains Abert’s journal of the expedition from Fort Leavenworth
to Santa Fe and tour of New Mexico Territory immediately
following U.S. acquisition. An extremely important work,
initiating a scientific awareness of Southwestern geography and
containing some of the very first regional views. Abert’s report
includes valuable observations and illustrations of Hispanic and
Native American cultures of the Borderlands.
The Upper Arkansas Report was available (but is rarely
found) with the lithographs tinted by the lithographer. Abert,
however, complained that the copies so colored contained errors,
especially in the coloring of the flowers (see Holliday Sale Lot
4 where this problem is mentioned). Because two of the plates of
this report present here have yucca flowers incorrectly colored
yellow, it seems possible that the coloring on these plates is
the work of the lithographer. Conversely, in the plates from the
New Mexico report in which yucca plants are depicted, the
flowers are correctly colored white, which gives rise to the
presumption that they were colored by someone with first-hand
knowledge about Southwestern botany. This copy, except for the
map, seems actually to have been assembled, annotated, and
signed by Abert, whose signature appears on one of the plates
from the Upper Arkansas Report, with the yucca incorrectly
colored. It seems clear that Abert assembled this volume before
it was bound, because his annotations are trimmed. Possibly, in
assembling this volume Abert used plates tinted by the
lithographer in addition to those that he completed himself. The
volume needs more research.
For examples of Abert’s lithographs with his original
coloring and his original watercolors, see the internet exhibit
“The Illustrating Traveler” assembled in 1996 by William S.
Reese and George Miles for the Beinecke Library at Yale:
http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brblevents/spirit2.htm and
http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/native3.htm. See also Reese
and Miles, Creating America 34 & 114 (color illustration at p.
85)
Map
Map of the Territory of New Mexico, Made by Order of Brig. Gen.
S. W. Kearny, under Instructions from Lieut. W. H. Emory,
U.S.T.E. by Lieut’s J. W. Abert and W. G. Peck, U.S.T.E. 1846-7.
C. B. Graham’s Lithy. Washington [top left]: Data. The road from
the direction of Bent’s Fort to Santa Fe and from Santa Fe to
Taos and the Astronomical positions given on the map of Lieut.
Emory, except the latitude of Taos by Lieut. Warner, U.S.T.E.
Topographical sketches by Lieut. W. G. Peck, T. E. This map is
connected with the map of Senate Document No. 438; 2nd. Session,
29th. Congress. Published by order of the War Department.
Uncolored lithograph map. Neat line to neat line: 65 x 50.8 cm;
24-5/8 x 20 inches. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West
532.
Plates
In order of appearance in this copy:
The Pillar Rock on the Canadian. Source: Upper Arkansas and
Comanche Country report. Shaved into caption with slight loss of
lower portion of letters of title.
Valley of the Purgatory. Source: Upper Arkansas and Comanche
Country report. Lower margin trimmed, title present, but
possible loss of imprint.
Wah-to-Yah, or The Spanish Peaks | [below title]: Lith. by E.
Weber & Co. Source: Upper Arkansas and Comanche Country report.
View of the Santa Fe Road | [below title]: Lith. by E. Weber &
Co. Source: Upper Arkansas and Comanche Country report.
Trap Dikes | [below line border lower right]: Lith. of E. Weber
& Co. Balt. Source: Upper Arkansas and Comanche Country report.
Plains & Rockies puts imprint at lower left.
Scene near Camp No. 10 Aug 23d. | [below title]: Lith. by E. Weber
& Co. Source: Upper Arkansas and Comanche Country report.
View of the dividing ridge between the Cañadian & Washita from
Camp 48 Oct. 1st. | Lith. of E. Weber & Co. Balt. Source: Upper
Arkansas and Comanche Country report. Plains & Rockies puts
imprint at lower left.
Antelope or Boundary Buttes | [below line border lower right]:
Lithr. of E. Weber & Co. Source: Upper Arkansas and Comanche
Country report. Plains & Rockies puts imprint at lower left.
O Cum-Who-Wust, Chief of the Cheynnes [sic] | [below line border
lower right]: C. B. Graham’s Lithy. Source: New Mexico report.
Old Bark’s Son Ah-Mah Nah-Co and Squaw | [below line border
lower right]: C. B. Graham’s Lithy. Source: New Mexico report.
Las Cumbres Espanolas | [below line border lower right]: C. B.
Graham’s Lithy. Source: New Mexico report.
San Felippe | [below line border lower right]: C. B. Graham’s
Lithy. Source: New Mexico report.
San Miguel. | [below line border lower right]: C. B. Graham’s
Lithy. Plains & Rockies puts imprint at lower left.
Ruins of Pecos. | [below line border lower right]: C. B.
Graham’s Lithy. Source: New Mexico report.
La Ciudad de Santa Fé | [below line border lower right]: C. B.
Graham’s Lithy. Source: New Mexico report.
A Cañoned Creek | [below title]: Lith. by E. Weber & Co. Balto.
Source: Upper Arkansas and Comanche Country report.
Gold Mts. Near Tuerto | [below line border lower right]: C. B.
Graham’s Lithy. Source: New Mexico report.
Fort Marcy and the Parroquia Santa Fé | [below line border lower
right]: C. B. Graham’s Lith. Source: New Mexico report.
Pueblo de Santo Domingo | [below line border lower right]: C. B.
Graham’s Lith. Source: New Mexico report.
El Pueblo de Santa Ana. | [below line border lower right]: C. B.
Graham’s Lithy. Source: New Mexico report.
View of Volcanic Peaks, Looking North Lat. 35° 13. Lon 107° 20’
| [below line border lower right]: C. B. Graham’s Lith. Source:
New Mexico report.
Moquino. | [below line border lower right]: C. B. Graham’s Lithy.
Source: New Mexico report.
Acoma No. 1 | [below line border lower right]: C. B. Graham’s
Lith. Source: New Mexico report.
Acoma No. 2. Source: New Mexico report. Without imprint
designated in Plains & Rockies. Source: New Mexico report.
Acoma No. 3 | [below line border lower right]: C. B. Graham’s
Lith. Source: New Mexico report.
View near Rito | [below line border lower right]: C. B. Graham’s
Lithy. Source: New Mexico report.
El Cañon Infierno. | [below line border lower right]: C. B.
Graham’s Lithy. Source: New Mexico report.
Ruins of Abo. | [below line border lower right]: C. B. Graham’s
Lithogy. Source: New Mexico report.
Bosque del Apache. | [below line border lower right]: C. B.
Graham’s Lithogy. Source: New Mexico report.
Bents Fort | [below line border lower right]: Lith. of E. Weber
& Co. Source: Upper Arkansas and Comanche Country report. Imprint
not noted in Plains & Rockies. This plate is folded at right
margin. Source: Upper Arkansas and Comanche Country report.
View on the Cañadian | [below title]: Lith. by E. Weber & Co.
Balt. Source: Upper Arkansas and Comanche Country report.
Imprint not noted in Plains & Rockies. Source: Upper Arkansas
and Comanche Country report.
Valverde | [below line border lower right]: C. B. Graham’s Lithy.
Source: New Mexico report.
Fossils from the coal beds of the Raton, Lat. 30° 15’ Lon. 104°
35’. For locality see map of Canadian river by Lieuts. Abert &
Peck. 1845. | [in image]: C. B. Graham’s Lith. Source: New
Mexico report.
1. Inoceramus - Rio Timpa, Lat. 30° 41’ Lon. 104° 07’ 2. Fossil
from the coal bed of the Raton Cañon | [in image]: C. B. Graham,
Lith Source: New Mexico report.
1 & 2. Sharks teeth from Poblazon. 3. Fossils from Poblazon. 4
Fossils from the lead mine at Tuerto. | [below title]: C. B.
Graham’s Lith. Source: New Mexico report.
The scientific and topographical illustrations by the
artists who accompanied various official U.S. government surveys
that probed the Southwest are among the best glimpses of
nineteenth-century Texas, New Mexico, and the surrounding
regions. This volume contains major iconography of the Southwest
and Borderlands by one of the brightest and most outstanding
expeditionary artists who served with the early U.S. surveys of
the Southwest. Abert (1820-1871) was one of the more competent
commanders and artists, serving as both on his expeditions.
Leading a dangerous exploration into Mexican territory after
being detached by Frémont for the mission, Abert guided his
troops successfully to the source of the Canadian River at Raton
Pass, New Mexico, successfully crossed the Texas Panhandle, and
brought his troops safely back. While so doing, he depicted many
of the areas through which he travelled, thereby leaving to
posterity many early images of these area and their inhabitants,
as published in the two illustrated reports.
Tyler, Prints of the West, pp. 75-77: “Abert was a West
Point graduate who had studied topographical drawing under
Robert W. Weir and his assistant Seth Eastman. He and his
classmates were probably among the first to use Eastman’s
Treatise on Topographical Drawing. Eastman had a much more
precise form of drawing in mind, but his language sometimes
paralleled the Romantic landscapists of the Hudson River
School.... Weir believed that his students should be schooled in
the principles of freehand drawing and encouraged them to sketch
the scenery up and down the Hudson River. Eastman, meanwhile
provided the geometrical explanation for converting a
topographical plan into a perspective drawing.... Although
trained in topographical drawing, Abert was hardly prepared for
the stark and rugged country that he found [in the Southwest].
‘Should a painter, in sketching the landscape, give it the true
tone of color, he likely would be censured for exaggeration.’”
The quality of the rare surviving colored plates in Abert’s two
reports is in marked contrast to their appearance as usually
found in uncolored state. It is almost as if one cannot really
see what Abert witnessed on his journeys by viewing only the
black and white versions. Abert’s historic images are a
felicitous melding of art and science, and the rugged Southwest
as seen through the lens of the Romantic vision of the Hudson
River School.
The emphasis of the images in this volume is New Mexico,
but the work is also important for Texas. Ron Tyler in his
unpublished manuscript on Texas lithographs of the nineteenth
century refers to the plate entitled The Pillar Rock on the
Canadian as the first lithographic image of Texas from a U.S.
government survey. ($25,000-$50,000)
2. ALESSIO ROBLES, Vito. Coahuila y Texas en la Epoca Colonial.
Mexico: Editorial Cultura, 1938. xii, 751 [1, blank], [2] pp.,
18 plates & maps. [With]: Coahuila y Texas desde...la
Independencia hasta el Tratado de Paz de Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Mexico, 1945-1946. iii-xv [1, blank], 542 pp., 5 plates & maps +
[3]-540 [2] pp., 9 plates & maps. Total: 32 plates & maps (some
folding or in color), text illustrations. 3 vols., thick 8vo,
original beige printed wrappers. Old cellophane over the wraps
(original glassine wrappers not present), a few spots to
wrappers, light foxing to text, generally a very good set.
Presentation copy from Sr. Flores to [Charles] Downing, Eagle
Pass, 1957.
First edition, trade issue (a numbered, signed issue of 100
copies on thick paper came out simultaneously). Basic Texas
Books 1: “Presents the history of Texas as a Spanish province
and state from the Mexican viewpoint.” Griffin 2458 & 4903:
“Provides a rich, solid history...a major work [that] will long
be considered a standard work of reference.” Howes R382. Palau
6924. Steck, Borderlands, p. 53: “A splendid, authoritative
study, heavily documented, with a rich bibliography.” In an age
in which English has virtually become the world language, and
Americans the most mono-lingual of cultured societies, it is
difficult to understand why this fundamental work on the history
of Spanish and Mexican Texas has never been translated. Alessio
Robles (1879-1957) was a Saltillo-born historian, soldier, and
politician who took active part in many of the Mexican political
and military controversies during the early twentieth century.
After being exiled in 1929, he spent time at the University of
Texas (Austin) researching. ($200-400)
THE SKIING MAILMAN
OF THE
SIERRAS
3. ALLEN PRESS. [WRIGHT, William]. Snow-Shoe Thompson: 1856-1876
by Dan De Quille. Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1954. xv [1, blank],
63 [1, blank] pp. (on French Arches paper), title with linoleum
block illustration by Mallette Dean, printed in green, text in
black and red. 12mo, original white parchment paper spine,
Swedish pattern-paper sides. Fine copy save for former owner’s
ink signature and shelf mark on front free endpaper. Original
glassine dust wrapper.
Limited edition (210 copies). Allen Press Bibliography 14.
Paher, Nevada 2222. Reprinted from the Overland Monthly for
October 1886, this is the story of John A. Thompson (1827-1876),
who carried mail across the Sierras on skis between Placerville
and Carson City from 1856-1876. Brought from his native Norway
to the United States as a child, he eventually changed his name
from Tostensen and moved to California in 1851. He sometimes
carried as much as a hundred pounds using skis he had
constructed based on those from his native land. Because this
book has been avidly sought by collectors of postal history and
skiing, it has become among the most elusive of all Allen Press
books. ($200-400)
4. [ATLAS]. BRADFORD, T[homas] G[amaliel]. A Comprehensive Atlas
Geographical, Historical & Commercial. Boston: William D.
Ticknor; New York: Wiley & Long; Philadelphia: T. T. Ash
[copyright 1835]. 52 leaves (unnumbered), 2 engraved plates
(hand-colored frontispiece, The Five Varieties of the Human
Race; and elaborate pictorial title drawn by E. Tisdale and W.
Croome, engraved by J. Andrew), 76 engraved maps with original
outline coloring. Folio, original three-quarter tan sheep over
blue marbled boards (neatly rebacked, original spine laid down,
original green marbled endpapers preserved). Both hinges cracked
but holding tight, mild to moderate foxing throughout (heavier
on endpapers), light offsetting to title page, overall a very
good, complete copy, with later printed label of William A.
Larned (1806-1862), minister and professor at Yale.
The first editions of Bradford’s small atlas came out in
1835, apparently published by a consortium of publishers. These
atlases enjoyed commercial success, with small format versions
appearing in 1835, and a reworked large-format version published
in 1838. Phillips, Atlases 770. Sabin 7260. Shaw & Shoemaker
306134. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 408, 409, 410:
“The little Bradford maps of 1835, while not important, give the
general picture of the West that one would have had as a member
of the public as the thirties rolled past their half-way point.
Chiefly interesting is the boundary on one of the maps at 54°
40’, while on another map the southern boundary of the Oregon
country ends in San Francisco Bay.”
There was no separate map of Texas in the earliest versions
of Bradford’s atlas (see next entry for the first edition of the
Bradford atlas to contain a separate map and text leaf for
Texas). However, here there are three maps with original outline
color that show Texas as part of Mexico: [1] United States, 19.4
x 25.5 cm (7-5/8 x 10 inches); [2] Mexico, Guatemala, and the
West Indies, 19.4 x 25.5 cm (7-5/8 x 10 inches); Texas is shown
as part of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, with Austin’s Colony
prominently located and outlined in green and pink; however, the
accompanying text leaf states that Texas is part of Coahuila y
Tejas, evidence of the unsettled political status of Texas; [3]
North America, 25.5 x 19.5 (10 x 7-5/8 inches); Austin’s Colony
is not specifically located (but is mentioned), and San Felipe
and San Antonio are located.
A plate at the back entitled Modes of Travelling has an
early depiction of a train. "Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (18021887) of Boston served as an assistant editor of the America
Encyclopedia before entering the field of atlas publishing"
(Ristow, p. 270). ($1,000-2,000)
FIRST
PRINTED ATLAS TO CONTAIN A SEPARATE MAP OF
TEXAS
5. [ATLAS]. BRADFORD, T[homas] G[amaliel]. A Comprehensive Atlas
Geographical, Historical & Commercial. Boston: William D.
Ticknor; New York: Wiley & Long, [copyright 1835]. 53 leaves
(irregularly numbered 1-178), 2 engraved plates (hand-colored
frontispiece, The Five Varieties of the Human Race; and
elaborate pictorial title drawn by E. Tisdale and W. Croome,
engraved by J. Andrew), 77 engraved maps with original outline
coloring. Folio, original three-quarter tan sheep over brown
marbled boards (neatly rebacked, new sympathetic spine, original
matching marbled endpapers preserved). Covers scuffed, light
foxing and offsetting to interior, generally fine. The map of
Texas is fine, save for moderate foxing to blank margins. Later
ink stamp of J. L. Kennedy on front fly leaf, old pencil cost of
$12.
First edition of the first printed atlas to contain a
separate map of Texas. This is a revised version of Bradford’s
1835 small-format atlas (see preceding entry), here with page
numbers added to both text leaves and maps, but more
importantly, the first version of Bradford’s atlas to contain
the separate map of Texas based on Stephen F. Austin’s
celebrated map (here simply entitled: Texas, grants hand-colored
in outline; 20 x 26.6 cm; 7-7/8 x 10-1/2 inches); plus the added
leaf of text (numbered 64B & 64C) relating to Texas. The map of
Texas in this atlas includes early issue points, such as Mustang
Wild Horse Desert (shown in south Texas), Nueces River
designated as southwestern boundary of Texas, land grants shown
instead of counties, city of Austin (founded 1839) not shown
yet, etc. Subsequent issues of the atlas had only one page of
text on Texas. As in the earlier version, there are three maps
showing Texas as part of Mexico (see preceding entry).
Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 408, 409, 410.
This version of the Bradford atlas is not in Phillips (Atlases)
or Shaw & Shoemaker. Martin & Martin 31: “Although Thomas
Gamaliel Bradford was not a leading figure in the nineteenthcentury American map trade, his atlases are significant to the
cartographic history of Texas because they included the first
two maps to depict Texas as an independent republic. Bradford’s
first of three works, A Comprehensive Atlas..., has survived in
at least four variant forms, all dated 1835, but some clearly
published later.... Bradford, aroused by the revolutionary
events in Texas that led to conflict, inserted a new map of
Texas after the one of Mexico and accompanied it with a two-page
text describing Texas as ‘at present engaged in an arduous
struggle for independence.’ The text included a complete
geographical description of the province, its rivers and
harbors, its colonies and towns, its climate, crops, and natural
resources. It also included a brief account of the colonial
developments, leading up to the Declaration of Causes that
initiated the Texas Revolution in November 1835. After quoting
clauses of this declaration, the account concluded: ‘It is
needless to enter into the details of what followed, as they are
fresh in the minds of all.’
“The map itself appeared to be copied directly from
Austin’s, the only readily available authority. The depiction of
the rivers and the coast were certainly modeled from Austin’s,
as were the numerous notes on its face relating to Indian tribes
and horse herds. The map differed from Austin’s primarily in its
prominent display of numerous colonization grants and a plethora
of new settlements and towns, indicative of the massive influx
of colonists occurring after the publication of Austin’s work.
Another significant departure from Austin was the map’s
depiction of the Arkansas boundary controversy. The ‘Boundary of
1819’ was shown, corresponding to the present boundary of the
state, but to the west another line, labeled ‘prop’d Boundary of
Arkansas,’ was depicted, which would have assigned the northeast
corner of Texas to that state. The map also extended west beyond
Austin’s to the Pecos, erroneously showing the Guadalupe
Mountains to the east of that river....
“Aside from showing Texas as a separate state, the maps and
text Bradford inserted into his atlases are historically
important for clearly demonstrating the demand in the United
States for information about Texas during the Revolution and the
early years of the Republic. They also serve to confirm the
importance of Austin’s map as a source for that information.”
It is always preferable to acquire maps of this nature in
situ, as part of the original atlas. ($4,000-8,000)
EARLIEST
BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF
LAREDO
LISTED BY
REPS
6. [BIRD’S-EYE VIEW: LAREDO, TEXAS]. [WELLGE, Henry
(attributed)]. Perspective Map of the City of Laredo, Texas. The
Gateway to and from Mexico.... [At top]: Presented with the
Compliments of the Laredo Real Estate & Abstract Co. W. R. Page
Pres’t. [Insets]: Maps: Laredo’s Railway Connections;
Continuation of “The Heighths” [sic] from Point A. Views: City
Hall; Webb County Court House; Opera House; Office Block;
Masonic Hall; Hotel Hamilton; The Laredo Improvement Co.;
Commercial Hotel. Milwaukee: American Publishing Co., ca. 18901892. Uncolored lithograph bird’s-eye view with some subtle gum
arabic highlights. 50.2 x 84 cm; 19-11/16 x 33-1/8 inches
(image); 54.3 x 84.1 cm; 21-3/8 x 33-1/8 inches (image with
title & text). Mounted on stiff board at an early date, uniform
light age toning, a few moderate stains (particularly at old
folds), light waterstaining at upper left and lower center
generally not affecting image, overall very good. With
contemporary walnut frame (no glass).
Earliest bird’s-eye view of Laredo listed by Reps (Cities
of the American West, Fig. 18.15 (illustrating LC copy & citing
date as ca. 1890) & p. 614; Cities on Stone, Plate 48
(illustrating the Amon Carter colored copy & cited as 1892; & p.
94); Views and Viewmakers of Urban America, Plate 70
(illustrating LC copy & cited as 1892) & 3985 (two locations: LC
& Amon Carter) & pp. 55, 85, 215: “By the time this view was
published, a new bridge had replaced the more picturesque but
less efficient ferry across the river.... Tanneries, brick
manufacturing plants, lumber yards and furniture shops, a woolen
mill, Fort McIntosh, and a complex of activities associated with
railroad maintenance and repair, all provided employment for
Laredo’s increasing population, which had jumped from 3,521 in
1880 to 11,319 a decade later.”
Any reader with an interest in bird’s-eye views will want
to take a look at the marvelous exhibit of such views by Ron
Tyler at the web site of the Amon Carter Museum:
http://www.birdseyeviews.org/zoom.php?city=Laredo&year=1892&extr
a_info=. Dr. Tyler comments:
The railroads brought prosperity and new settlers to Laredo
when they arrived in 1881, and the city grew from an 1880
population of 3,521 to 11,319 in 1890. But instead of
focusing on the railroads, as many other bird’s-eye-view
artists had done, Henry Wellge emphasized the results of
the railroads, which had turned Laredo into a growing city
and the gateway to Mexico. The Texas Mexican Railway linked
Laredo with Corpus Christi, and the International and Great
Northern linked it with San Antonio. The Mexican National,
which established shops and a roundhouse in Laredo, linked
the city and the rest of the country, via the first
international bridge, to Mexico City and made Laredo the
gateway to Mexico.
Wellge documented the city’s expansion from the
southeast, especially in terms of downtown buildings such
as the new Webb County Courthouse and the combination city
hall and market house. Most of the structures in the city
were modest one-story buildings, but the new prosperity had
spurred a building boom. This growth was reflected in
increased property values, scarce hotel rooms, and high
demand for building materials, such as lumber and bricks.
The arrival of the railroads also provided a market for the
local coal, found near the upriver village of Minera, which
had been known for decades but now could be profitably
mined. As Wellge showed, miners floated the coal down the
river on barges when possible, but developers built the Rio
Grande and Pecos Railway in 1882–83 to link the mines with
the city. When the RG&P collapsed, the Rio Grande and Eagle
Pass Railway took it over. Wellge suggested the location of
the mines on the horizon, in the upper left-hand corner of
the print.
The community itself had also undergone dramatic
change in the decade since the railroads arrived. Steamboat
traffic on the Rio Grande had begun to diminish as
irrigation took so much water from the river that boats
often ran aground. The railroads were more reliable,
bringing thousands of newcomers into the community. Laredo
remained a predominantly Mexican city, but the arrival of
large numbers of Anglo-Americans led to the development of
a separate Anglo culture and society, and the change was
apparent by the turn of the century.
Henry Wellge, the German-born artist who settled in
Milwaukee in 1878, “ranks with the most prolific of the city
view artists of America” (Reps). ($4,000-8,000)
THE PHOENIX
OF
SPOKANE
ARISING FROM THE ASHES
7. [BIRD’S-EYE VIEW: SPOKANE, WASHINGTON]. KOCH, Augustus.
Panoramic View of Spokane Falls, Spokane County, Washington,
1890 Eleven Months after the Great Fire. [lower left below
image]: Inter-State Publishing Co., Printers and Lithographers,
Kansas City, Mo. [lower right below image]: Drawn by Augustus
Koch. Lithographic bird’s-eye view with original teal wash. 68.5
x 100 cm; 27 x 39-3/8 inches (image); 73.7 x 100 cm; 29 x 39-3/8
inches (image with text below). A few tears into image area (no
losses), light staining at upper borders (affecting only blank
margins) and one small stain at lower left, slight overall
browning, but all in all, very good—a rare survival in any
condition.
This large and finely detailed bird’s-eye view is not
recorded by Reps; the earliest Spokane view recorded by Reps is
Wellge’s 1884 view (View and Viewmakers of Urban America 4181;
and Panoramas of Promise 106). Wellge’s 1884 view is not at all
like the present one.
On August 4, 1899, Spokane suffered a huge fire that
destroyed most of the central business district. While operating
out of a tent city, most businesses, which were insured, quickly
rebuilt using brick or stone, resulting in the fine assemblage
of buildings shown here between Front and First Streets. Many of
the buildings were designed by distinguished architect Kirtland
K. Cutter and other noteworthy architects. Shown on the view as
No. 54 is the Washington Water Power Company, which was set up
to provide power for the Northwest Industrial Exposition, held
at Spokane in 1890, which was Washington’s first industrial
fair. The new Industrial Exposition Building is shown in the
lower right of the view. All in all, this view executed
specifically for real estate agent H. L. Moody reflects a
prosperous, bountiful city, definitely on the rebound.
German-born Augustus Koch (1840-?), the creator of this
rare view, was one of the most important viewmakers. "No
American viewmaker traveled more widely in search of subjects
than August Koch.... Koch drew his cities with considerable
care, consistently depicting his subjects as if seen from very
high viewpoints.... He seems to have drawn with substantial
accuracy.... His recorded output of 110 views was exceeded by
only a few other viewmakers" (Reps, Views, pp. 184-185).
($3,000-6,000)
ZAMORANO 80
8. BREWER, William H[enry]. Up and Down California in 18601864.... Edited by Francis P. Farquhar.... New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1930. xxx, 601 [1, blank] pp., 32 plates
(including photographic frontispiece; many halftones from
contemporary navy blue cloth, folding map, text illustrations.
8vo, original navy blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered. Fine in d.j.
(price clipped and spine of d.j. sun faded). Laid in is
publication information.
First edition. Cowan II, p. 70. Edwards, Enduring Desert,
pp. 32-33. Hill, pp. 362-63. Howell 50, California 322. Howes
B754. Huntington Library, Zamorano 80...Exhibition of Famous and
Notorious California Classics 9. Libros Californianos, p. 55
(Powell commentary). Neate, Mountaineering and Its Literature
106. Norris 391. Powell, California Classics, pp. 115-27:
“Brewer was the field leader of the first California Geological
Survey.... His description of California in the early 1860s is
unmatched by any other in its variety, fidelity, and human
interest.” Rocq 16701. Zamorano 80 #9.
Gary F. Kurutz in Volkmann Zamorano 80 catalogue:
William Henry Brewer, who served as Josiah D. Whitney’s
principal assistant and field leader of the California
Geological Survey in the early 1860s, wrote a series of
journal-like letters that form one of the best travel
accounts describing the totality of California. Skillfully
assembled and edited by that great historian and
bibliographer of the High Sierra, Francis P. Farquhar,
Brewer’s detailed letters cover virtually every aspect of
the state from Los Angeles to Crescent City and from San
Francisco to the mines of the Comstock Lode. In four years,
this New York–born scientist had traveled over 14,000 miles
from one end of the state to the other. Probably no one
before or since had tramped over so much territory. Kevin
Starr calls his letters “the founding statement of
California mountaineering...they put on record the exact
extent of California’s alpine heritage.” Although written
for family and friends, they superbly chronicle the first
systematic scientific survey of the Golden State.
By foot, mule, and stage, the Yale-trained Brewer and
his colleagues Clarence King (also a Yale graduate),
Charles F. Hoffman, and James T. Gardiner traversed over
hill and dale to learn all they could about California’s
post–Gold Rush natural resources and its geologic past. In
so doing, Brewer saw just about every notable natural
wonder that graced the state from its majestic coastline to
the towering peaks of the Sierra. The Yosemite Valley, the
giant sequoias, geysers, lakes, rivers, and mountain peaks
all came under his scrutiny. This book of letters, however,
is much more than an alpine adventure or nature study; it
also encompasses California’s human environment of instant
cities, mines, farms, ranches, lumber mills, roads, and
waterways. His visits to Los Angeles, the “decadent” town
of Santa Barbara, San Francisco (the “best governed city in
the United States”), and once-booming mining camps provide
a fresh perspective and entertaining reading.
Brewer sent these letters back home to his brother
Edgar with instructions that they be shared with family and
friends and be saved for his return. The scientist,
however, never intended them to be published but, as
brought out by Lawrence Clark Powell, he was “an unwitting
literary artist, capable of writing a vigorous, flowing
prose.” His epistles are marked by their clarity and
immediacy and are not bogged down in turgid technical
writing. Farquhar noted that “When he came to write out his
impressions for the benefit of others, he clothed the bare
bones of his statistics and created something pulsing with
life. Yet he never altered his facts to make an
impression.”
As demonstrated by these reports to his family, Brewer
seemingly never rested. Carrying delicate scientific
instruments, he collected geologic and botanical specimens
of all kinds, made complex observations and measurements,
packed and repacked, tended to the needs of his colleagues
and mules, kept statistics, maintained detailed notebooks,
and yet found time to sit around a campfire to write.
During a lengthy Los Angeles rain, for example, he confided
that he had written thirteen letters or about eighty pages.
Credit must be given to Farquhar for a masterful job
of documenting Brewer’s California peregrinations. In
addition to extensive notes, the volume includes an
itinerary and a map illustrating his travels.
($150-300)
“PRO-UNION
SENTIMENT RAN HIGH AND KING’S ELOQUENCE WAS ITS CUTTING EDGE”
—KEVIN STARR
9. [BROADSIDE: CALIFORNIA & THE CIVIL WAR]. KING, T[homas]
Starr. Peace: What It Would Cost Us. Address Delivered in
Platt’s Music Hall, San Francisco, by Rev. T. Starr King,
Thursday Evening, August 29th, 1861.... [Colophon]: San
Francisco, August 29th, 1861. Folio broadside in six columns. A
few small spots, some skillful repairs at folds, minor losses
(costing a few letters), but overall a fine copy of an ephemeral
broadside.
First printing. Greenwood 1480 (2 locations: California
Historical Society & Boston Public Library). Text of an address
denouncing the Southern Rebellion and advocating a return to
constitutional government for the whole county, by force, if
necessary. King (1824-1864) was a prominent Boston emigrant to
California and a strong Union advocate. For discussion of King’s
influence in California, see pp. 97-105 in Kevin Starr,
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1973). ($600-1,200)
“WESTWARD
THE
STAR
OF
EMPIRE
MAKES ITS
WAY”
10. [BROADSIDE: MANIFEST DESTINY]. PHELPS, H. The Great West
Embracing its Population, Productions, Extent, Places and
Distances on the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers,
Panoramic View of the Route to China, &c. By H. Phelps, New York
[below border]: Rufus Blanchard, 242 Main St. Cincinnati |
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by H.
Phelps, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the
United States for the Southern District of New York.—Published
by Joseph Ward, 52 Cornhill, Boston. | Ensigns, & Thayer, 36 Ann
Street, New York. | D. Needham, 12 Exchange St., Buffalo N.Y.
Large broadside (71.2 x 54.6 cm; 28 x 21-3/8 inches). Woodcut
illustrations and printed text, hand colored. Panoramic view at
top showing overland and sea route from the U.S. to China,
portraits (Ferdinand De Soto, Daniel Boone, Thomas H. Benton,
and Henry Clay), shields of states (including Texas), with
statistics, itinerary of routes on the Missouri, Ohio, and
Mississippi Rivers, and allegorical scene “Westward the Star of
Empire makes its way.” Mild staining and some tears repaired,
generally very good.
First printing. Manifest Destiny ephemera—the climax of
popular iconography for the masses. The designers seemed intent
upon squeezing in as much history and iconography as possible of
the Young Republic on the crest of Manifest Destiny. Phelps was
one of the more enthusiastic boosters of Western travel and
emigration. ($750-1,500)
YOUNG COMET
STUD SERVICES FOR
$15
11. [BROADSIDE: TEXAS STUD]. CONN, Tramuel. Young Comet! This
fine and celebrated Horse, will stand this season at my Stable
12 miles above Gonzalez, and 4 miles North East of Bellmont, and
will be let to mares at the low price of $15 COMET is 7 years
old this spring, 17 hands high, and for form is not surpassed by
any horse in the State. He is a fine deep sorrel, and sired by
Old Comet of Ky. I have lost his Pedigree, but suffice it to
say, he was a fine a horse as I ever saw. Young Comet’s Dam was
sired by Bertrand, he by the celebrated Running Bertrand of Ky.,
and out of a sister of Woodpecker’s Mother, raised by Col.
Buford of Ky., his grand dam by Hambeltonion, great dam of Tup
Imported. Further Description is unnecessary, as the horse is
here to show for himself, and I will be ready to show him at any
time. Please call and see for yourselves. Great care will be
taken to prevent accidents, but responsible for none. Tramuel
Conn. [Dated at end]: Gonzales [Texas], March 15, 1855.
Broadside printed in five different type fonts. Several moderate
stains, professional reinforcement at folds (minor losses to
blank areas). Manuscript note in ink offering $50 prize for the
best colt shown on the fourth day of the Court in Gonzalez in
October 1846. Preserved in a half burgundy morocco and maroon
cloth slip case with matching chemise.
This type of stud advertisement is rare, especially for
Texas. Not in Winkler. ($1,000-2,000)
CALIFORNIA PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS
The California pictorial letter sheet provides the best visual
chronicle of the California Gold Rush and the golden decades of
the 1850s and 1860s. Imprinted on sheets of writing paper were
views of rough-and-ready mining camps, Argonauts panning for
gold in the boiling Sierra foothills sun, pioneers pushing their
way across the continent, terrifying city fires, vigilance
committees marching down San Francisco streets, and California’s
spectacular natural wonders.... Joseph Baird, in his monumental
California’s Pictorial Letter Sheets 1849-1869, wrote:
“Manifestly, the pictorial letter sheet of California was an
extraordinary phenomenon—unparalleled in development anywhere
else in the United States.” This phenomenon, which grew out of
the Gold Rush, satisfied an urgent need to communicate....
California pictorial letter sheets...served to graphically tell
the story of the Golden State during its most crucial decade.
Recognizing their importance, historians and picture researchers
have used them to illustrate countless books, articles,
exhibits, and films. Because of their direct linkage to the
California Gold Rush and their charm, rarity, and visual
quality, institutions and collectors alike have long prized
them.—Gary F. Kurutz
12. [CALIFORNIA PICTORIAL LETTER SHEET]. Dividing the Pile
[upper illustration, four miners in a cabin weighing gold, one
stands at left and weighs gold dust over a gold pan; of the
three seated, one watches the weighing carefully, the others
smoke as they await the outcome]; Hard Road to Travel [lower
illustration, miner on mountain trail with packed mules]; [below
border]: Lith & Pub. by Britton & Rey, Cor Mont & Comml. Sts.
[upper right]: 7. Lithograph, double sheet, white wove. Fine.
Baird 54. Peters, California on Stone, p. 69. Britton & Rey
numbered series. ($250-500)
13. [CALIFORNIA PICTORIAL LETTER SHEET]. Hutching’s [sic]
California Scenes. The California Indians. [in two blocks, lower
right]: C. Nahl del. [in all blocks, lower left, right, and
center]: Anthony & Baker Sc. [below lower center vignette, at
right]: Sun Print. [below border]: Entered...1854...by James M.
Hutchings...Orders, pre paid, addressed “Box H, Placerville, El
Dorado Co., Cal.” [Eight scenes, clockwise, from top]: An Indian
Fandango; Catching Grasshoppers; Grinding Acorns, &c.; Cooking
Food; Burning Their Dead; Mode of Traveling; Gathering Seeds;
Gathering Acorns. Descriptive text printed at center. Wood
engraved, single sheet, blue laid paper. A few pinholes holes
and slight wear where formerly folded, two minor stains.
Baird 105. One of the most popular letter sheets, with
illustrations by Charles Nahl. ($150-300)
14. [CALIFORNIA PICTORIAL LETTER SHEET]. Life in The Mines
[below border]: Lith. Britton & Rey San Francisco. [4 scenes]:
[1] Slapjacks (miner’s cooking pancakes); [2] Rush for new
Diggings (long line of miners hitting the road for new
diggings); [3] Tree’d (man high in a tree pursued by bear); [4]
Nooning (miners cooking over an open fire in front of a tent).
Lithograph, single sheet, on grey wove paper. Fine.
Baird 133. ($200-400)
15. [CALIFORNIA PICTORIAL LETTER SHEET]. The Mining Business in
Four Pictures. [below border]: Lith & Published by Britton &
Rey, corner of Montgomery & Commercial Sts. S.F. [upper right]
9. [4 scenes]: [1] Going in to It (two miners entering the
mining country); [2] Making Something (two miners finding gold
and leaping with joy); [3] Making Nothing (two discouraged
miners staring at an empty hole); [4] Going out of It (two
miners with knapsacks hiking to a city). Lithograph, double
sheet, white wove. Light uniform browning, minor expert
restoration to slight splits at centerfold.
Baird 171. From the Britton & Rey numbered series. Baird
171. ($200-400)
16. [CALIFORNIA PICTORIAL LETTER SHEET]. Past & Present of
California. [below border, at right]: Lith. & Pub. by Britton &
Rey S. Francisco. [number at upper right]: 11. Elephant at top,
two ships in large circles at center loading and docking,
surrounded by vignettes of mining and life in California.
Lithograph, single sheet, white wove. Backed with Japanese
tissue, a few repairs and minor voids at corners.
Baird 193. From the Britton & Rey numbered series. A
complex and creative composition, especially desirable with the
elephant at the top. ($250-500)
17. [CALIFORNIA PICTORIAL LETTER SHEET]. Sundry Amusements in
the Mines [below border]: Lith. & Published by Britton & Rey
[upper right]: 23. [4 scenes]: [1] A Sundays Amusement (two
miners washing laundry in a stream); [2] A Daily Pleasure (two
men cooking over a fireplace in a long cabin, with a dog
watching); [3] Occupation for Rainy Days (two men in tent, one
mending a boot, the other sewing); [4] A Pleasant Surprise (two
miners discover a bear in their tent warming his paws before
their fire). Lithograph on thin white wove paper. Trimmed with
slight loss of lower portion of publisher’s imprint.
Baird 268. Peters, California on Stone, p. 78 (Plate 39).
From the Britton & Rey numbered series. ($200-400)
18. [CALIFORNIA PICTORIAL LETTER SHEET]. The Winter of 1852 & 3.
[below border]: Lith. & Publd. by Britton & Rey, corner Montgomy.
& Califa. Sts. S. Francisco. Four lithograph illustrations of
winter mining scenes in California, including street scene
(Sacramento?) with horses and wagons mired in mud. Single sheet,
gray wove. Mild foxing, minor creasing.
Baird 335. ($200-400)
CARRIZO
CATTLE BRANDS
& MARTIAN
FARMERS
19. [CATTLE BRANDS]. “Stockmen’s Brand Directory. For Colorado,
New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas” in Carrizo Weekly Miner and
Stockmen’s Range Journal, June 2, 1905. Folio (height: 59.7 cm;
23-1/2 inches). Newspaper leaf, illustrated with approximately a
hundred brands. Browned due to the cheap paper used for
printing, a few archival tissue reinforcements at tears (no
loss).
This leaf constitutes a mini-brand book for the region at
the time of publication. Among the Colorado ranchers whose
brands are listed are several ladies (Annie B. Darling of
Carrizo; Mrs. Deborah Breislin of Vilas; and Mrs. A. Schroder of
Regnier). The Carrizo Weekly Miner and Stockmen’s Range Journal
(edited by C. Frost Liggett), was established in 1899. Among the
minutiae of local history: “The JJs have recently turned loose
about 2000 head of steers in this county and have returned to
New Mexico after another herd.” Present are many ads for tonics
(such as Lydia E. Pinkham’s tonic for female complaints). We
also discover the startling revelation that Mars is populated by
intelligent farmers, and the canals are merely part of an
elaborate irrigation system. (It might well be that the writer
of that article had been hitting the Lydia E. Pinkham tonic a
bit imprudently.) ($200-400)
MANUSCRIPT MAP
OF
CATTLE TRAILS
20. [CATTLE TRAILS]. Original manuscript map entitled “Cattle
Trails of the Old West,” executed in sepia ink on laid paper
tipped onto thick board N.p., ’46 [1946]. 48.2 x 63.5 cm; 19 x
25 inches. Light chipping to blank margins, paper age-toned and
ink a bit light, lightly creased at old centerfold.
This attractively executed map shows cattle trails through
Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas. The
title of the map is whimsically decorated with buffalo head, cow
skull, and cactus. ($1,000-2,000)
21. CAVO, Andres & Carlos María Bustamante. Los tres siglos de
México durante el gobierno Español...con notas y suplemento, el
Lic. Carlos Maria de Bustamante.... Mexico: Luis Abadiano y
Valdés, 1836. Vol. I: [2], 12, [4], 4, 13-281 [1, blank] pp.
Vol. II: [2], 185 [1, blank] pp. Vol. III: [2], vii [1, blank],
419 [3 blank] pp. Vol. IV: [2], viii, 281 [1, blank] pp. 4 vols.
in 2, 8vo, three-quarter contemporary red Mexican sheep over
marbled boards. Bindings rubbed and worn. Titles and a few other
leaves with purple ink marking over previous ownership
identification. Occasional mild to moderate staining. Uncommon.
First edition. Barrett 484n. Brunet I:1703. Cowan II, pp.
88-89. Griffin 2283: “An annalistic history of New Spain, from
the conquest to 1766. The author was an eighteenth century
Jesuit who assembled early material from the Actas de Cabildo
and other records and set down contemporary material from his
own experience." Palau 50645. Raines, p. 47: "Includes an
account of the Presidios and Missions of Texas." Wilgus, pp.
235-236: "A comprehensive volume about Mexico, containing many
facts not found elsewhere, disappeared until the nineteenth
century when Bustamante found the manuscript which had been
written in Roma in 1792.... Cavo, the New Catholic Encyclopedia
said, was...born in Guadalajara, México, in 1739 and died in
Roma after 1794... He entered the Jesuit Order in 1758 and was
sent to México where he served as a missionary in northwest New
Spain."
The work comprises an early history of Viceregal Mexico as
compiled by Cavo, with two added volumes by noted Mexican
historian Bustamante, bringing the history up to the postIndependence. In keeping with the thorough research of
Bustamante, the work contains important, previously unpublished
documentary source material. Ernesto J. Burrus published an
edited version at Mexico City in 1949. Wagner cited this work in
his bibliography on the Spanish Southwest because it contains
information on colonial Texas, California, and New Mexico. For
instance, Vol. III contains information on Bernardo de Gálvez,
for whom Galveston, Texas, was named. Gálvez aided the colonists
during the American Revolution and was “the most direct tie
between Spanish officials in Texas and the American
revolutionists” (Institute of Texan Cultures, Texas and the
American Revolution, pp. 13-17). Vol. III is rich in California
and Pacific history, including the establishment of settlements
in Alta California in 1769, the Pious Fund, the Nootka Sound
Controversy, and the explorations of “Wancouver” (sic). ($250500)
22. [COLORADO]. Idaho Springs; Its Mines and Mineral Waters.
Georgetown, Colorado: Georgetown Courier Steam Printing Company
and Blank Book Manufactory, 1880. 40 pp., 3 maps (full-page text
illustrations). 8vo, original tan pictorial paper wrappers,
sewn. Lower wrap detached, else fine.
First edition. Promotional for area mining, mineral waters,
and hot springs. ($50-100)
ZAMORANO 80 — SONGS
FROM THE
GOLDEN GATE
IN THE RARE DUST WRAPPER
23. COOLBRITH, Ina [Donna]. Songs from the Golden Gate.... With
Illustrations by William Keith. Boston & New York: Houghton,
Mifflin and Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1895. vii
[5], 159 [1, blank] pp., 4 halftone plates (photographs of
William Keith’s paintings). 12mo, original gilt-lettered red
cloth, gilt lyre on upper cover, t.e.g. Other than mild browning
to endpapers, a very fine in d.j. It would be difficult to find
a better copy.
First edition. Huntington Library, Zamorano 80...Exhibition
of Famous and Notorious California Classics 21. LC, California
Centennial 282. Norris 853. Walker, A Literary History of
Southern California, pp. 79-82; San Francisco’s Literary
Frontier, p. 63: “She refused to write her autobiography,
[stating] ‘Were I to write what I know, the book would be too
sensational to print; but were I to write what I think proper,
it would be too dull to read.’” Zamorano 80 #21. Kurutz, in
Volkmann Zamorano 80 Catalogue: “The only book of poems included
in this august list of Californiana is Ina Coolbrith’s Songs of
the Golden Gate. She had a passion for California equaled by few
others and this slender volume features the best of her lyric
poetry.... This ‘mistress of California verse” was a remarkable
woman in an age dominated by men. As a child she came overland
to the Golden State in 1851 via covered wagon, claiming to have
been carried across the Sierra on the saddle of James P.
Beckwourth, the famed mountain man. Living in mining camps and
then Los Angeles, she received a modest education. Eventually
settling in San Francisco, she penetrated the City’s young
literary scene and knew just about everyone of consequence.
($300-600)
ZAMORANO 80
24. DALE, Harrison Clifford (editor). The Ashley-Smith
Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the
Pacific, 1822-1829, with the Original Journals.... Cleveland:
The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1918. [3]-352 pp., double-page
colored map, 4 plates. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt-lettered
spine. Spine slightly faded, otherwise fine. The Pacific-Union
Club duplicate with their bookplate at front and their small ink
call number on title verso. Various ephemera relating to the
Clark Company tipped in.
First edition. Clark & Brunet, The Arthur H. Clark Company
55: “One of the basic works in fur trade history.” Cowan II, p.
154. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 64: “Jedediah Smith is the
first known white man to come into California via the overland
route from the east, crossing the Mojave Desert into Los
Angeles.” Howes D21. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 6.
Paher, Nevada 427. Plains & Rockies IV:34n. Zamorano 80 #25.
Kurutz in Volkmann Zamorano 80 Catalogue: “This handsome
Arthur H. Clark publication is credited with rescuing Jedediah
Smith from obscurity.... Dale, a professor of political science
at the University of Wyoming, produced one of the seminal books
concerning the exploration of the Far West. He proved that Smith
deserved the appellation of ‘Pathfinder’ before John C.
Frémont.... In comparing degrees of difficulty, Dale points out
that ‘Ashley and Smith, crossing from one complicated drainage
area to another, were obliged to traverse a series of lofty
mountain barriers as well as vast stretches of difficult and
trying desert.’ Smith accompanied Ashley to the Great Salt Lake
and from there he pushed through largely unexplored territory to
the Pacific. During his eight years of wandering through unknown
hostile territory, Smith accomplished an incredible number of
firsts. He became the first white man to reach California
overland, the first since Lewis and Clark to reach the Pacific
coast, the first to cross the Sierra, and the first to cross the
Great Basin. No one prior to Smith had seen so much of the West
and contributed so much to geographic knowledge. His death at
the young age of thirty-two cut short a life full of promise.”
($150-300)
BRITISH SECRET AGENT’S TREATISE & MAP CLAIMING OREGON
FOR
ENGLAND
25. FALCONER, Thomas. On the Discovery of the Mississippi, and
on the Southwestern, Oregon, and Northwestern Boundary of the
United States, etc. With a Translation from the Original ms. of
Memoirs, &c. relating to the Discovery of the Mississippi by
Robert Cavalier de la Salle, and the Chevalier de Tonty. London:
Samuel Clarke, 1844. 100, 99 [1] pp., engraved, folding map of
North America with boundary of proposed British Oregon outlined
in blue: North America Published under the Superintendence of
the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge [below
border]: London, Chas. Knight & Co. 22 Ludgate Street Engraved by
J. & C. Walker (38.7 x 31 cm; 15-1/4 x 12-1/4 inches). 12mo,
original dark green cloth, printed paper spine label (neatly
rebacked, original spine and endpapers retained). Fragile spine
label darkened, rubbed, and lightly chipped. Text with uniform
light age toning, otherwise fine, map very fine. Pencil note on
front pastedown: “Has fold. map, which considerably enhances the
value. A. H. Greenly”. Greenly was a noted historian,
bibliographer, and collector. Very scarce, especially in
original cloth.
First edition. Anderson 1686:417: “The most important of
the English contributions to the celebrated ‘Oregon Boundary
Question.’ Much of the work is based on documents in the
Archives of the Marine, at Paris. The author, an able lawyer,
presents a strong case for the British contention to the Oregon
Country, hinging his claim on the broad territorial acquisitions
of La Salle and other French explorers who operated under
Canadian auspices, which he considers were acquired by Great
Britain upon the cession of New France.” Bradford 1610. Graff
1283. Holliday 355. Howes F16: "Weightiest exposition of British
claims to Oregon and contains the first English translation of
La Salle's report and Tonty's 1693 Memoire.” Plains & Rockies
IV:106b. Rader 1328. Raines, p. 79: “Some of the Memoirs relate
directly or indirectly to Texas.” Sabin 23726. Streeter 1496n
(tracing the development of Falconer’s use of the documents
printed herein). Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 479,
Vol. II, p. 189: “Falconer...was probably a secret agent of the
British Foreign Office. If his reports were no better than the
throwback map he used, they were hardly calculated to obtain
their ends.” Wheat (Mapping the Transmississippi West 493) notes
that Falconer reused the same map in his 1845 The Oregon
Question. ($2,000-3,000)
SIGNED BY
A RARE FARNHAM WITH TWO MAPS
GREEK-AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICER GEORGE MUSALAS COLVOCORESSES
26. FARNHAM, Thomas J. Mexico: Its Geography—Its People—And Its
Institutions: With a Map, Containing the Result of the Latest
Explorations of Fremont, Wilkes, and Others. New York: H. Long &
Brother, [1846 copyright by Theodore Foster], n.d. 80 pp., 2
folding maps. 8vo, original beige pictorial wrappers with woodengraved portrait of Santa Anna. Fragile wraps worn with
chipping and some tears along outer margin of upper wrap (no
losses), lower wrap almost detached. Text and maps moderately
foxed. A well worn copy of a rare book. This is an interesting
association copy, bearing the contemporary ink signature of
noted Greek-American naval officer George M. Colvocoresses, who
served in the Pacific Squadron 1844-1846, and quite naturally
would have been keenly interested in Farnham’s book with its
suggestions on military operations against Mexico in 1846.
Maps
Mexico, Texas & California by Thos. J. Farnham, Author of Travels
in Oregon, California &c. &c. Entered according to Act of
Congress in the year 1846, by T. J. Farnham in the Clerks Office
of the District Court of the Southern District of New Yo (sic)
Lith of Lewis & Brown, 272 Pearl St. N.Y. Lithograph map. Neat
line to neat line: 27.5 x 26.5 cm (10-7/8 x 10-1/2 inches).
Map of Central Mexico: Showing the Contemplated Route of the
Army. Engraved map. Entire image, including title: 20.5 x 23.2
cm (8-1/8 x 9-1/8 inches). Includes the South Texas theater.
Second edition, enlarged (with an added map, plus an
additional very negative chapter on “Mexican character, habits,
manners and superstitions”). Day, Maps of Texas, p. 42. Garrett,
p. 201. Plains & Rockies IV:120b:3. Wheat, Mapping the
Transmississippi West 508. Farnham (1804-1848) travelled to the
West Coast from Illinois with a group of green adventurers,
almost none of whom, except Farnham and two others, actually
made it to Oregon. From Oregon, Farnham went to Hawaii, came
back to California, crossed Mexico, and went back to Illinois by
way of the Mississippi River. He subsequently returned to San
Francisco, where he died. In his writings, he actively promoted
U.S. expansion to the western parts of North America, and
Rittenhouse (Santa Fe Trail 201) conjectured that he might even
have been a secret agent for the U.S. government. His Travels in
the Californias, and Scenes in the Pacific Ocean (1844) is a
Zamorano 80 selection.
Colvocoresses (1816-1872) lived a life of high Greek drama.
Born on the Island of Scio in the Greek archipelago, at the age
of six he was ransomed from the Turks after the Scio massacre
and sent to the United States, where he was raised by Capt.
Alden Partridge and educated at the military academy in Norwich,
Vermont. His first naval venture came in 1832 when he was
appointed a midshipman, and in 1836-1837 he served on the
frigate United States on the Mediterranean squadron. In 1838 he
accompanied Wilkes' exploring expedition to the South Pacific,
serving at various times on the Porpoise, Peacock, Vincennes,
and Oreton, and going on the overland expedition in 1841 from
Vancouver's Island to San Francisco. He served in the Pacific
squadron (1844-1846), the Mediterranean squadron (1847-1849), on
the coast of Africa (1851-1852), New York (1853-1855), in the
East India squadron (1855-1858, during which he participated as
executive officer of the Levant in the capture of the Barrier
forts in Canton River), and at Portsmouth Navy Yard in 18581860. Beginning in 1861 he commanded the store-ship Supply on
the Atlantic coast (1861-1863), during which he captured the
blockade-runner Stephen Hart, laden with arms and military
stores. Other Civil War ventures saw him in action on the sloopof-war Saratoga in the South Atlantic, and once again in the
Pacific Squadron in 1865-1866. In 1867 he retired and was
mysteriously murdered in Bridgeport in 1872. He wrote an account
of the Wilkes expedition, Four Years in a Government Exploring,
Expedition (New York, 1855). ($1,200-2,400)
PRIMARY
ACCOUNT OF THE
TEXAS REVOLUTION
FROM THE
MEXICAN
POINT OF VIEW
27. FILISOLA, Vicente. Representación dirigida al Supremo
Gobierno por el General Vicente Filisola, en defensa de su honor
y aclaración de sus operaciones como General en Gefe del
Ejército sobre Tejas. Mexico: Ignacio Cumplido, 1836. 82 pp.
8vo, original full Mexican tree sheep with gilt-rolled borders.
Binding rubbed and worn, lacking front free endpaper, title
abraded and with old ink note at top left, occasional light
foxing. With light, gentle conservation, this copy would be much
improved. At rear is the old pencil note price of $150 in the
hand of long-time dealer-scout-dentist of Mexico City, Roberto
Valles (R.I.P.), supplier to Eberstadt, Howell, et al.
First edition. Basic Texas Books 61. Eberstadt, Texas
162:293: “Seldom found with the printed wrappers.” Graff 1321.
Howes F127. Palau 91610. Raines, p. 82. Streeter 853: “The
classic account of the retreat of the Mexicans through Texas
after the battle of San Jacinto and a masterly defense by
Filisola of his acts in ordering and conducting the retreat. In
an order dated May 31, 1836, Tornel, the Secretary of War had
relieved Filisola of his command, replacing him with Urrea,
and...after the news of the public treaty made by Santa Anna at
Velasco...he was commanded to return to Mexico and stand trial
for his conduct.... Here he gives a detailed account of the
retreat, in which the charges against him made by his former
subordinate Urrea, and others, are shown up in beautiful
fashion. That Filisola's reply struck home is shown by Urrea's
statement [in] his Diario...Militares...that Filisola's
Representación 'insults me, abuses me, satirizes me, and
belittles me.'... At his trial [Filisola] was exonerated.”
Vandale 66. ($2,000-4,000)
ANOTHER PROBLEMATIC MEXICAN COLONIZATION SCHEME
OF THE
1830S
28. FIGUEROA, José. The Manifesto, Which the General of Brigade,
Don José Figueroa, Commandant-General and Political Chief of U.
California, Makes to the Mexican Republic, in Regard to His
Conduct and That of the Snrs. D. José María de Híjars [sic] and
D. José María Padrés, As Directors of the Colonization in 1833
and 1834.... San Francisco: Printed at the San Francisco Herald
Office, 1855. 104 [2] pp. 8vo, original upper printed pink
wrapper (lower wrap wanting). Fragile wrapper worn along edges,
stained, and almost detached, light staining to first two
leaves, top outer corners of first few signatures slightly dogeared. Seldom found in wraps. Preserved in a half brown morocco
and green cloth slip case and chemise.
First edition in English (the first edition, printed by
Zamorano in 1835, is exceedingly rare; see Zamorano 80 #37).
Cowan (I), p. 86; (II), p. 210. Graff 1320. Greenwood 562.
Holliday 377. Howell, California 50:1528: “The Manifesto is a
defense of Governor Figueroa’s refusal to turn mission property
over to the colonists who arrived in 1834 under the direction of
Híjar and Padrés. This book is the first English translation of
the first important work printed on the Zamorano Press.” Howes
F122. Littell 349. Sabin 98728. Streeter Sale 2784.
“The Manifiesto is devoted to a defense of [Figueroa’s]
actions in connection with the Híjar and Padrés colonization
scheme...the most ambitious attempt at colonization made during
the Mexican régime [which] brought to California many families
who afterward took a prominent part in the development of the
province. The expectation was that the families would take
possession of mission lands, the secularization of the missions
having been voted by Congress in Mexico in 1833. The colonists
arrived in September, 1834, and [Híjar and Padrés] expected to
be appointed in Figueroa’s place, and to another of importance.
In fact, Híjar came with a commission as governor; but, before
he could arrive, orders countermanding it were sent from Mexico.
There was too much of politics mixed up in the affair. Figueroa
refused to turn the mission property over to the colonists”
Zamorano 80 #37n. ($2,000-3,000)
WITH
THE
HOOKER MAP & EARLY ENGRAVINGS
OF
SCENES
IN
TEXAS
29. [FISKE, M. (attributed)]. A Visit To Texas: Being The Journal
Of A Traveller Through Those Parts Most Interesting To American
Settlers. With Descriptions Of Scenery, Habits, &c. &c. New
York: Goodrich & Wiley, 124 Broadway, 1834. iv, [9]-264, [4] pp.
(p. 135 misnumbered 109), 4 copper-engraved plates, folding
copper-engraved map with original hand coloring. 12mo, original
dark slate green patterned cloth, title and vignette of a
rampant horse in gilt on spine. Shelf slanted, lower spine
extremity chipped, binding moderately stained and worn
(primarily at corners with a bit of board exposed), a few
signatures shaken, free endpapers wanting, scattered foxing
heavier on endpapers), light waterstaining to gutter margins of
some signatures, overall a very good copy in original cloth.
Tear to map closed with old paper tape, but otherwise the map is
in fine condition with strong coloring. Contemporary ink
ownership signature of A. Waitt above title. Two later pencil
inscriptions on pastedown.
Map
Map of the State of Coahuila and Texas. W. Hooker Sculpt. 26.5 x
32.5 cm (10-1/2 x 12-3/4 inches). Original extensive shading and
outlining in color.
Plates
Mr. Neil’s Estate near Brazoria. [below neat line at right] Engd.
by J. T. Hammond. 6.7 x 9 cm (2-5/8 x 3-1/2 inches).
Shooting A Deer On The Prairie. 6.7 x 9.5 cm (2-5/8 x 3-3/4
inches).
Lazoing A Horse On The Prairie [below neat line at right] Engd.
by J. T. Hammond. 6.7 x 9.6 cm (2-5/8 x 3-3/4 inches).
Road Through A Cane Break [below neat line at right] Engd. by J.
T. Hammond. 6.7 x 9.6 cm (2-5/8 x 3-3/4 inches).
First edition. Basic Texas Books 209. Bradford 5374. Clark,
Old South III:114. Eberstadt, Texas 162:889. Graff 1336. Howes
T145. Jones 962. Littell 1027. Phillips, Sporting Books, p. 388.
Raines, p. 210. 95133. Streeter 1155 & p. 328. Streeter Sale
330. Taliaferro 241n. Vandale 187.
Nobody is certain who wrote this important Texas book. It has
been attributed to an M. Fiske, a Col. Morris, or Asahel
Langworthy, although Jenkins firmly rejects the last
possibility. Whoever wrote it, if his own statements are to be
believed, arrived in Texas at Brazoria in March, 1831, munified
with scrip for 20,000 acres of Galveston Bay and Texas Land
Company holdings. His first visit was to John McNeel, one of
Austin's Old Three Hundred, who had a plantation in Brazoria
County. He can hardly contain his growing sense of wonder, and
his description of a gigantic, moss-covered live oak (pp. 37-38)
is a classic. After his visit with McNeel, his imagination is
fired by his own prospects. This generally favorable opinion of
Texas remains throughout the rest of his visit, except for
certain negative experiences, such as a constantly contrary
white mustang, and a few unpleasant encounters, such as a
potential threat to colonists at Anahuac from Mexican troops
excited by a drunken lieutenant (pp. 131-132).
The same charity did not extend, however, to the company
from which he supposedly had purchased his land. His motivation
for his trip to Texas in the first place was "to examine the
condition of a large tract of land I had purchased of the
Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, and to ascertain its value
to settlers from the United States, by personal observation, as
well as to satisfy myself concerning the soundness of the title
which I had obtained" (p. [9]). Although he had little
difficulty in being convinced of the value of the land to
settlers, he was frustrated and disappointed in his
investigation of his land holdings. In fact, he left Texas
knowing that he had been cheated and that the Company could
convey no land to him. The various attacks on the Company
sprinkled throughout the book are bitter, remorseless, and
blunt. Clearly he intended to save his compatriots from the same
troubles. In his parting shot he remarks, "On my return to N.
York, I got from the Trustees of the Land Company neither
remuneration nor sympathy for my fruitless expense and
disappointment" (p. 261). The publication of this work caused so
much difficulty that the Company employed David Woodman to write
his Guide to Texas Emigrants, a refutation of it published the
next year.
This work is often compared to Mary Austin Holley's Texas
(1831). This author ranged farther afield than Holley, who
visited only Austin's colony, but lacked the benefit of Austin's
personal assistance, which Holley received. Unlike Holley, this
author does not so overtly espouse Texas independence and also
notes that Austin is jailed in Mexico (p. 262). Other authors,
such as David B. Edward and Karl Postl, silently plagiarized
this author.
The exquisite little copper-engraved plates accompanying
this account are significant. Streeter remarks that they are
“thought to be the earliest to show sporting scenes in the
West.” They are assuredly among the early engravings of scenes
in Texas, and among the early ones based on an eyewitness
account (preceded only by Zebulon Pike). The images are
diminutive, yet precisely engraved with much fascinating detail.
What appear on first glance to be rather simple scenes, prove to
be quite complex under magnification. Little is known of
engraver J. T. Hammond. Mantle Fielding assesses Hammond as “a
good line engraver of landscapes and subject plates,” suggests a
birth date of c. 1803, and notes that he worked in Philadelphia
and perhaps St. Louis (p. 369).
The excellent map by William Hooker, showing Texas land
grants, is highly compelling to many collectors of Texana. The
map first appeared as a separate in 1833 and again, with
revisions, in Holley’s 1833 book (see Streeter 1135 & 1136,
Taliaferro 241). Hooker’s map, based on Austin’s monumental map
but in smaller format, contains corrections given by Austin to
Holley. The Hooker map in the present book does not have
additional place locations in the 1836 Holley, identification of
the Filisola grant, or manuscript additions. The map in the
present book does not have some features that are described by
Streeter (1136) as being in the separately issued Hooker map of
1833 (absence of crosshatching on the Burnet, Vehlein, and
Zavala grants, etc.). ($5,000-10,000)
“THE
FIRST BOOK IN
ENGLISH
TO RELATE EXCLUSIVELY TO
CALIFORNIA”—STREETER
30. FORBES, Alexander. California: A History of Upper and Lower
California from Their First Discovery to the Present Time,
Comprising an Account of the Climate, Soil, Natural Productions,
Agriculture, Commerce &c. A Full View of the Missionary
Establishments and Condition of the Free and Domesticated
Indians. With an Appendix Relating to Steam Navigation in the
Pacific. Illustrated with a New Map, Plans of the Harbours, and
Numerous Engravings. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839. xvi,
352, 1-6, 3-32 (ads) pp., errata slip (p. 339), lithographic
frontispiece of Father Antonio Peyri, 9 lithograph plates,
folding lithographic map of California on thin paper with
original outline coloring in red, green, and yellow: The Coasts
of Guatimala [sic] and Mexico, from Panama to Cape Mendocino;
with the Principal Harbours in California. London, Smith Elder &
Co. 1839. John Arrowsmith (37 x 50 cm; 14-1/2 x 19-3/4 inches),
with insets: (1) Harbour of San Francisco, by Captn. Beechey
R.N.; (2) Sketch of Puerto de S. Diego by Captn. John Hall; (3)
Sketch of Monterrey Harbour, by Captn.John Hall; (4) Sketch of St.
Barbara Harbour by Captn. John Hall; (5) Sketch of Port S.
Gabriel, or S. Pedro by Captn. John Hall. 8vo, publisher’s
original blind stamped brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered. Spine a
bit sunned, binding lightly stained, text block slightly cracked
at pp. 192/193, otherwise very fine, the plates and map just
about perfect. Preserved in a brown morocco and brown cloth clam
shell case. Ron Randall’s bibliographical notes and cost code on
lower flyleaf.
First edition, with the errata slip at p. 339. Barrett,
Baja California 866. Cowan I, p. 88. Cowan II, p. 217. Graff
1377. Harlow, Maps of San Francisco Bay 23; Maps of the Pueblo
Lands of San Diego 13. Hill, p. 107. Holliday 382. Howell 50,
California 83. Howes F242. Huntington Library, Zamorano
80...Exhibition of Famous and Notorious California Classics 38.
LC, California Centennial 42. Norris 1155. Streeter Sale 2491:
“The first book in English to relate exclusively to California.”
Van Nostrand & Coulter, California Pictorial, pp. 22-27
(illustrating one lithograph from this work and original
watercolors on which two of the plates were based). Walker, A
Literary History of Southern California, p. 37: “Survey of
California, the rich plum of the Pacific, made by...Forbes, the
English merchant at Tepic, who in his vivid and charming
California (1839) did his best to persuade the English to act
while there was yet time.” Zamorano 80 #38.
The map with insets of San Francisco, San Diego, Monterey,
Santa Barbara, and San Pedro is important. Harlow (Maps of San
Francisco Bay 23) comments on the San Francisco chart: “A detail
of the Beechey chart of San Francisco Bay, including the San
Francisco peninsula to south of the mission, a large part of
Marin peninsula, and the east shore from Point Pinole south to
San Antonio Creek. It is a selective copy, showing the
approaches to the bay, soundings, and some surface details but
not the amount of relief found in the original.” Forbes’s use of
Beechey’s (q.v.) map is an early reworking of Beechey’s
important San Francisco map (Harlow 19). Harlow (Maps of the
Pueblo Lands of San Diego 13) comments on the early chart of San
Diego port: “One of the charts of California ports made by the
English sea captain John Hall during the visit of the Lady
Blackwood to San Diego in 1822, probably for his own use, and
published in 1839.... The coastal map, according to Hall and the
editor of the accompanying work, was by Arrowsmith.... John
Forbes, editor of his brother’s work on California, stated that
the charts of Bodega, ‘Monterrey,’ Santa Barbara, San Pedro, and
San Diego were from Hall’s ‘own original surveys.’”
Kurutz, in Volkmann Zamorano 80 catalogue:
British merchant Alexander Forbes wrote the first book
published in English relating exclusively to California.
His narrative, as observed by Hubert Howe Bancroft, was not
so much a history as “a presentation by an intelligent man
of business of the country’s actual condition,
capabilities, institutions, and prospects.” His book, more
than any other, made California known to the Englishspeaking world and spurred on both European and American
interest in controlling this remote Mexican province.
A longtime resident of Mexico, Forbes completed the
text for his book in October 1835 before sending it off to
England for publication. Amazingly, Forbes had never set
foot in California. A delay in publication allowed for the
addition of new material up to the year 1838. His brother,
Dr. John Forbes, edited the work and supervised its
publication. The majority of this book consists of a
history of both Baja and Alta California based on the works
of Miguel Venegas, Francisco Palóu, and others. For more
current affairs, Forbes relied on correspondence with
Californios like José Bandini and his agents. The volume
contains excellent descriptions of the region’s climate,
natural productions, agriculture, and commerce. Showing his
futuristic thinking, Forbes included material on steam
navigation in the Pacific and advocated using the Isthmus
of Panama as a more rapid means of linking Europe to the
Pacific. The most fascinating component, however, is a
chapter entitled “Upper California Considered As a Field of
Foreign Colonization.” As British vice-consul in Tepic,
Mexico, Forbes was keenly interested in the future
prospects of California, writing: “Taking every
circumstance into account, perhaps no country whatever can
excel or hardly vie with California in natural advantages.”
Sparsely settled California with its natural harbors and
fertile soil, he campaigned, would be an attractive colony
for English settlers and “the innumerable starving
population of the Old World.” Forbes hoped that England
(and not America) would acquire California in exchange for
the millions of dollars owed to it by the Mexican
government. He postulated that if an industrious people
settled California, it “would soon be one of the most
interesting and prosperous spots on the earth.”
Although called engravings on the title page, the
volume is actually illustrated with ten handsome
lithographs of native peoples and coastal settlements.
Eight of the plates are based on watercolor sketches by
William Smyth. The artist had served on Captain F. W.
Beechey’s ship the Blossom when it cruised the California
coastline in 1826-1827. The plate of “California Mode of
Catching Cattle” was first published in Beechey (q.v.).
Smyth’s images also appeared in the works by Duflot de
Mofras (q.v.), Dwinelle (q.v.), and Farnham (q.v.). A
folding map entitled The Coast of Guatimala [sic] and
Mexico, from Panama to Cape Mendocino; with the Principal
Harbors in California (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1839)
graces the end of the volume. John Arrowsmith created the
large coastal map. In the appendix, Forbes added Hall’s
“Remarks on the Harbours of California, with Directions for
Navigating Them.”
($2,500-5,000)
RARE 1890 NEW MEXICO PROMOTIONAL
WITH
2 MAPS
31. FROST, Max (editor). New Mexico: Its Resources, Climate,
Geography, and Geological Condition. Santa Fe: New Mexican
Printing Company, 1890. 216 pp., 2 lithographed folding maps:
(1) Official Map of New Mexico 1890. Prepared under the
Direction of the Bureau of Immigration, 82 x 64.8 cm; (2) Map of
the Santa Fé Route and Connections. Chicago Rand McNally & Co.
[with inset of Mexico], 38.7 x 99.2 cm. 8vo, original tan
lithograph pictorial wrappers illustrating the prosperity and
products of New Mexico, stitched. Other than occasional light
staining, very fine, professionally conserved, map mounted on
archival tissue. Very rare.
First edition. Eberstadt 105:235. Herd 857. Compendium and
promotional on New Mexico towns, Native Americans, history,
quality of life, railroads, mining, stock raising and
agricultural resources (touting potential for grazing). The
first map shows New Mexico in large scale with each county
delineated and locates boundaries and grantees of all the
numerous early Spanish and Mexican land grants. The second map
shows railroad routes through the Western United States. ($7501,500)
HIGHLY
ORIGINAL THEMATIC MAPS OF
NORTH AMERICA
32. GILPIN, William. The Central Gold Region. The Grain,
Pastoral, and Gold Regions of North America. With Some New Views
of its Physical Geography; and Observations on the Pacific
Railroad. By William Gilpin. Illustrated with Maps.
Philadelphia: Sower, Barnes & Co.; St. Louis: E. K. Woodward,
1860. 194 pp., 6 folding lithographic maps (some colored). 8vo,
original blind-stamped dark brown ribbed cloth, spine gilt
lettered. Spine neatly repaired, binding with some light to
moderate abrading and edge wear, front hinge open (but holding
strong), interior fine, maps very fine and fresh, with only a
few short tears at juncture with text block (no losses).
Map List
[1] Gilpin’s Hydrographic Map of North America.... Neat line to
neat line: 20.4 x 26.8 cm; 8 x 10-1/2 inches. Partial color.
Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 1010: “The chief basins
and valleys are portrayed, and the Oregon Route up the Platte,
though meagerly. This same edition [Gilpin’s book] contains a
number of other interesting maps [lists maps 2, 3, 4, 5
following].”
[2] Hydrographic Map of the Mountain Formation of North
America.... Neat line to neat line: 28.5 x 20 cm; 11-1/4 x 7-7/8
inches. Partial color.
[3] Map of the World, Exhibiting the Isothermal Zodiak.... Neat
line to neat line: 20 x 38.4 cm; 7-7/8 x 15-1/4 inches. Partial
color.
[4] Map of the Gold and Silver Region of Pike’s Peak, Sierras
San Juan and La Plata. Entire image including title and imprint:
30.5 x 26.2 cm (12 x 10-1/4 inches). Uncolored. Wheat, Mapping
the Transmississippi West 1011.
[5] Map of the South Pass of North America...Proposed Great
Continental Rail Road. Entire image including title and imprint:
16.5 x 20.3 cm; 6-1/2 x 8 inches. Uncolored.
[6] Map of the Basin of the Mississippi.... Neat line to neat
line: 20.4 x 32 cm; 8-1/8 x 12-5/8 inches. Full color.
First edition. Braislin 834. Graff 1556. Howell, California
50:489: “Gilpin crossed the Plains in 1843 and claims to have
spent the 4th of July, 1843 with Frémont on the site of Denver.”
Holliday 432. Howes G192. Munk (Alliot), p. 87. Plains & Rockies
IV:358: “Gilpin first crossed the plains to Oregon in 1843 with
the Frémont expedition [and] remained involved with the Rocky
Mountain West.... He was an early advocate of the Pacific
Railway ...and later became governor of Colorado Territory.”
Rocq 15831. Sabin 27468. Tutorow 4069: “Gilpin was a major in
the Missouri Mounted Volunteers during the Mexican War.” Wheat,
Mapping the Transmississippi West 1010 & 1011.
Gilpin presents his concept of United States’ greatness to
create a ringing endorsement of Manifest Destiny. Gilpin has
little doubts about the lush prospects of the area or of the
ability of U.S. citizens to render the West profitable and
abundant. Gilpin discusses the building a transnational
railroad, and the appendix includes his address presented at the
Great National Railroad Convention held in St. Louis in 1849.
Leroy R. Hafen in Pike’s Peak Gold Rush Guidebooks of 1859
(Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1941) remarks, “Gilpin has been
called the Prophet of the West” (p. 241).
The highly original thematic maps of North America
complement the author’s accompanying geo-political essay. The
maps include a hydrographic map of North America with dramatic
concentric circles radiating from the Great Plains, a map of the
gold and silver region of pre-Territorial Colorado, and a map of
South Pass with suggested transcontinental rail route. Speaking
of the prescient nature of Gilpin’s 1848 Hydrographic Map of
North America (which appears in smaller format in the present
work; see Map [1] in above list), Robert Karrow remarks: “The
ideas that continents have centers and peripheries and that the
physical disposition of mountains, plains, and rivers create
geographical pressures, with long-term impacts on populations
and the wealth of nations, were very new in Gilpin’s day. It was
not until the early twentieth century, in the work of the
geographer Sir Halford Mackinder, that such notions were given
academic stature and a name: geopolitics.... Where others saw a
‘great American desert,’ he saw a region as central to American
development as the Mediterranean Sea was to Rome.... Where
others saw the Rockies and the Great Basin...as disagreeable
obstacles to be passed over as quickly as possible, Gilpin saw a
region of unparalleled advantage.... It was the vision of
Jefferson, heated by the spirit of ‘manifest destiny,’ inspired
by the achievements of the Oregon pioneers, nourished by
doubtful science, and larded with exclamation points and purple
prose” (in Paul E. Cohen, Mapping the West: America’s Westward
Movement 1524-1890, pp. 145-148). See also the excellent
commentary of William H. Goetzmann in Exploration and Empire
(Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1991, p. 88).
($500-1,000)
“HE
LIVED IN WRATH AND WROTE WITH FIRE”—DOBIE
33. GREEN, Thomas J[efferson]. Journal of the Texian Expedition
against Mier; Subsequent Imprisonment of the Author; His
Sufferings, and Final Escape from the Castle of Perote. With
Reflections upon the Present Political and Probable Future
Relations of Texas, Mexico, and the United States.... New York:
Harper & Brothers, 1845. xiv [3] 18-487 pp., 11 engraved plates,
2 maps: [1] Plan of Mier. The Texian Camp (14.6 x 25.4 cm; 5-1/8
x 10 inches: scale not stated; lower right: Engd. by W. Kemble,
N.Y.); [2] Ground Plan of the Castle of Perote, Drawn by Charles
M’Laughlin, One of the Mier Prisoners (14 x 20.1 cm; 5-1/2 x 81/4 inches; scale not stated). 8vo, publisher’s original green
embossed cloth. Binding worn with some light staining and spine
sunned. Upper pastedown abraded from bookplate removal. Moderate
to heavy foxing. Usual scruffy copy, but in original cloth;
apparently people read the book to death, which is
understandable, given its dramatic content. With ownership
signature of Sommers V. Pfeuffer (1856-1928), a prominent New
Braunfels businessman and politician, who also had a large
collection of Texana (see New Handbook of Texas).
First edition. Basic Texas Books 80: “The most important
account of the tragic Texan expedition against Mier and the
drawing of the black beans, this is also one of the most
vitriolic Texas books.... The book recounts the abortive
expedition in 1842 under William S. Fisher and Thomas J. Green
into Mexico after the withdrawal of the Somervell Expedition.”
Dobie, p. 55: “He lived in wrath and wrote with fire.” Graff
1643: “One of the most exciting accounts.... As a participant
Green was able to write a vivid and terrifying tale. He was
particularly bitter toward Sam Houston and believed Houston was
responsible for the deaths of those Americans shot as brigands.”
Library of Congress, Texas Centennial Exhibition 123, citing the
plate “Escape from the Castle of Perote.” Howes G371. Rader
1670. Raines, p. 98. Streeter 1581 & p. 329 (selected as one of
the top books for a Texas collection): “The unauthorized so-
called Mier expedition into Mexico...by a group of hot-headed
Texans...when one out of ten of the captured Texans was
immediately shot.”
According to the title-page, the well-executed plates were
engraved after drawings taken from life by Charles McLaughlin,
one of the Mier Expedition prisoners. Dr. Kelsey includes this
book in his preliminary survey of Texas engravings. W. Kemble,
the engraver of one of the maps in the book (Plan of Mier. The
Texian Camp), also engraved the map of Texas that appeared in
Kendall’s Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition (see Martin
& Martin 34). ($500-1,000)
RARE WESTERN TRANSPORTATION EPHEMERA
FROM THE
STAGECOACH KING
34. HOLLADAY, Ben. Table of Distances of the Overland Daily
Stage Line, from Atchison, Kansas to Great Salt City, the Route
Passing through Denver City, thence by the Cherokee Trail along
Cache la Poudre River, through Laramie Plains, by Fort Halleck
and Medicine Bow Mountains, Bridger's Pass and Fort Bridger, to
Great Salt Lake City. New York: Slote & James, Stationers, 93
Fulton Street, 1863. [4] pp. Unbound folded sheet, as issued (12
x 8.5 cm; 4-3/4 x 3-3/8 inches). Mint copy. Preserved in half
green morocco and brown cloth slip case with matching chemise.
Crème de la crème of Western Americana ephemera.
Various editions came out, the earliest known of which is
1861(?). Plains & Rockies IV:382d:3. After the MexicanAmerican War, Holladay (1819-1887) established a freighting
business to Salt Lake City, winning the support of Brigham
Young. Eventually he purchased the Central Overland California
and Pike's Peak Express Company, and under his aegis the
overland stagecoach service reached its zenith. "Holladay became
and retains his place as one of the greatest transportation
figures America has produced, and his impact on frontier life
was immense and enduring" (Thrapp, p. 669). This itinerary
covers the 1,245 miles between Atchison, Kansas, to Salt Lake
City. ($3,000-6,000)
A LADY
IN
YOSEMITE
35. HOWELL, Victoria. A Trip to the Yosemite Valley...Letters
Giving the Author’s Experiences on a Ten Days’ Trip. Oakland: J.
Howell & Company Publishers, 961 Broadway, 1908. 3, [3]-9 [1],
10-12 [1], [13-19 [1], 20 [1], 20-27 [1], 28-29 [2], 31-32 pp.,
10 photographic illustrations. Narrow 8vo, original pictorial
wrappers with photographic illustration on upper cover. Fine in
lightly tattered glassine dust wrapper.
First edition. Very rare privately printed account of a
lady’s trip to Yosemite. Unrecorded. ($200-400)
FIRST
VIEW OF THE
ALAMO
TO BE LITHOGRAPHED FROM AN EYEWITNESS DRAWING
36. HUGHES, George. W. Report of the Secretary of War,
Communicating...Operations of the Army of the United States in
Texas and the Adjacent Mexican States on the Rio Grande...
[half-title]: Memoir Descriptive of the March of a Division of
the United States Army, under the Command of Brigadier General
John E. Wool, from San Antonio de Bexar, in Texas, to Saltillo,
in Mexico...1846. [Washington, 1850]. 31st Congress, 1st
Session, Senate Executive Document 32. 67 pp., 8 lithograph
plates (after watercolors by Edward Everett), 2 folding
lithograph maps. 8vo, new blue cloth. Occasional very mild
foxing, overall very fine.
Maps
Map Showing the Line of March of the Centre Division Army of
Mexico, under the Command of Brigr. Genl. John E. Wool, from San
Antonio de Bexar, Texas, to Saltillo, Mexico....1846. 49 x 46.3
cm; 19-1/4 x 18-1/4 inches.
Map Showing the Route of the Arkansas Regiment from Shreveport
La to San Antonio de Bexar Texas. 29 x 43.5 cm; 11-3/8 x 17-1/8
inches.
Plates
San Antonio de Bexar 1846. [lower right, below border]: C. B.
Graham, Lithog.
Ruins of the Church of the Alamo, San Antonio de Bexar. Scale 10
feet to an Inch, 1850. [below border]: Drawn by Edwd. Everett |
C. B. Graham, Lithog.
Interior View of the Church of the Alamo. [below border]: Drawn
by Edwd. Everett | C. B. Graham, Lithog. Washn.
Plan of the Ruins of the Alamo near San Antonio de Bexar 1846.
Drawn by Edwd. Everett.
Mission Concepcion, Near San Antonio de Bexar [below border]: C.
B. Graham, Lithog. | Drawn by Edwd. Everett
Mission of San Jose Near San Antonio de Bexar [below border]:
Drawn by Edwd. Everett | C. B. Graham, Lithog.
Church near Monclova. [lower right, below border]: C. B. Graham,
Lithog.
Watch Tower Near Monclova. [lower right, below border]: C. B.
Graham, Lithog.
First edition (often this report is described as a limited
edition of 250 copies, but in reality, the statement on the
document is that 250 additional copies were printed for the use
of the Topographical Bureau). Garrett, The Mexican-American War,
p. 296. Howes H767. Raines, p. 121. Tutorow 1634.
Some of the lithographs in this work, including the Alamo
images, are after the work of London-born artist Edward Everett
(1818-1903), who came to the United States in 1840 and served in
the Mormon War and the Mexican-American War. “His landscape
sketches resemble those produced by the Hudson River School
artists. Despite definite artistic ability, Everett identified
himself as a ‘mechanical engineer’” (The Handbook of Texas
Online: Edward Everett). Everett arrived in Texas with Wool’s
division, which eventually made its headquarters in San Antonio.
When Everett’s interest in drawing became known, he was given
the task of making drawings of objects and buildings in the
vicinity. Among those in San Antonio were the famous sketches of
the ruined Alamo and the missions San José and Concepción, here
published for the first time. Because he was wounded at a
fandango, he did not march to Mexico with the Army and was
discharged in June in 1847. The lithographs were done by Curtis
Burr Graham, who also did Abert’s New Mexico report (q.v.) and
Emory’s Notes of Military Reconnoissance. The views of the Alamo
are the first lithographs to be made from an eyewitness drawing.
($750-1,500)
“ONE
ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOSEMITE
OF THE GREATEST CLASSICS OF EARLY CALIFORNIAN MOUNTAIN TRAVEL”—NEATE
37. LE CONTE, Joseph. A Journal of Ramblings through the High
Sierras of California by the “University Excursion Party.” San
Francisco: Francis & Valentine, 1875. 103 [1, blank] pp., 9
mounted albumen photographs (excursion party, views, scene in
San Francisco) within red borders, captions beneath printed in
red. 8vo, original blue gilt-lettered cloth. Binding moderately
rubbed and stained, minor abrasion of spinal extremities,
corners lightly bumped, front hinge cracked but holding,
photographs excellent with good contrast. Title page with large
ink gift inscription: “Thos. W. Snook from his niece, Louise J.
Snook Francis, San Francisco, California, Nov. 28, 1890.”
First edition. Cowan I, p. 137 (stating that but 20 copies
were printed, an assertion absent in his second edition). Cowan
II, p. 387. Currey & Kruska 230. Farquhar, Yosemite 14a: “The
original edition was printed for the members of the party, 10 in
number. Professor Le Conte’s son, Joseph N. Le Conte, tells me
that he thinks 12 copies were made for each of them.... Nothing
can quite equal the charm of the original thin blue volume with
its photographs.” Howes L175. Kurutz, California Books
Illustrated with Original Photographs 1856-1890 #27. Littell
631. Neate, Mountaineering and Its Literature 451: “The book is
regarded as one of the greatest classics of early Californian
mountain travel.” Norris 2040. Eight of the beautiful
photographs depict natural scenery (often including members of
the excursion party). The last, however, shows Montgomery Street
in San Francisco and includes an exterior view of Bradley &
Rulofson’s photographic studio. Le Conte (1823-1901) was an
early, significant professor of geology and natural history in
California. This excursion was actually something of a teaching
trip, and the party spent some time with John Muir. ($10,000$15,000)
SEARCHING
IN
TEXAS
FOR
HOMES
FOR
FREED SLAVES
38. [LUNDY, Benjamin]. The Life, Travels and Opinions of
Benjamin Lundy, Including His Journeys to Texas and Mexico; with
a Sketch of Cotemporary [sic] Events, and a Notice of the
Revolution in Hayti. Compiled under the Direction and on Behalf
of His Children [compiled by T. Earle]. Philadelphia: Parrish,
1847. [4, blank] [5]-316 pp., frontispiece mezzotint portrait,
engraved map with original full color: California, Texas,
Mexico, and Part of the United States. Compiled from the Latest
and Best Authorities. (21.5 x 26 cm; 8-1/2 x 10-1/8 inches).
12mo, original dark teal blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt
lettered. Binding slightly worn at extremities, mild
discoloration to cloth. Slight to moderate foxing to text and
map browned. Overall a very good copy. Contemporary pencil
ownership signature of Isaac Powell.
First edition. Clark, Old South III:66: “Contains Lundy’s
journals kept on his journeys to Texas, 1833-34 and 1834-35, in
search of suitable places for the colonization of freed slaves.”
Eberstadt, Texas 162:505: “Diary of his journey through Texas in
1833-35 touching at Brazoria, Austin, and San Antonio. Contains
much on the country and its products, local manners, etc.” Graff
1195. Howes E10. Matthews, pp. 255-6: “The most traveled of the
abolitionists was Lundy, who said he had walked 5,000 miles and
had rode another 20,000. He went to nineteen states, Haiti,
Canada, Texas, and Mexico.” Plains & Rockies IV:108n. Streeter
1169n: “A most interesting Texas book because of Lundy’s three
journeys to Texas.... Lundy was a keen observer and in his
journeys refers to many of the prominent Texans.” This book is
one of the few contemporary sources on pioneer printer Samuel
Bangs.
The colorful map (which is not listed by Wheat) shows the
Nueces Strip and the Panhandle uncolored and has printed on it:
Explanation. The part left uncoloured between the Rio Grande and
Nueces & C. shows the old and new boundaries of Texas, forming
the territory in dispute between the U. States and Mexico.
($750-1,500)
CAREY & LEA POCKET MAP
OF
U.S.
EXTENDING TO THE
ROCKIES
CA.
1823
39. [MAP]. CAREY, H. C. & I. LEA. United States of America.
[Philadelphia, ca. 1823]. Copper-engraved map on onionskin,
contemporary outline color on boundaries, folded into stiff
leather covers with Carey & Lea printed ad on front pastedown
and Carey & Lea Phila gilt-lettered on upper cover. Neat line to
neat line: 42 x 53 cm; 16-1/2 x 20-7/8 inches. A few small voids
at folds and a few foxmarks, otherwise fine, desirable in the
original Carey & Lea pocket folder.
This little pocket map appears to be in the family of Carey
& Lea maps of the United States that appeared in their 1822
American Atlas. The map extends into the Rockies to Lake
Timpanogas, encompassing New Mexico, Mexico (South to
Guadalajara), and all of present day Texas. See Wheat, Mapping
the Transmississippi West 352, listing a similar map, but with a
reference to Lewis and Clark in the Gulf of Mexico, not found in
this pocket map version. An expanding Young Republic includes
Missouri, admitted in 1821, but Arkansas, admitted in 1836, is
still a territory. The Louisiana Purchase, Texas, and New Mexico
are indicated in outline. ($300-600)
MAP
OF
MEXICO
BY
CASTRO & GENTILZ
40. [MAP]. CASTRO, Lorenzo. Map of the Republic of Mexico
Revised and Corrected by Lorenzo Castro, Drawn by Theodore
Gentilz. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1882
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.
Thompson & Moreau, Printers, 51& 53 Maiden Lane, N.Y. PhotoLith. by E. C. Bridgeman 88 Warren Str., N.Y. Lithograph map on
bank note paper, U.S.-Mexico and Mexico-Guatemala borders
outlined in red, inset text at left (“Explanation” and
Statistics”), lower left with two comparative views (“Height of
the principal mountains in feet” and “Approximate lengths of the
principal rivers in miles...”). Very fine. 80 x 112.6 cm (30-1/2
x 45 inches). Lithograph map. A few clean splits at old folds
(no losses), else very fine. Rare.
This large, handsome, detailed map of Mexico and the
Borderlands shows the Gulf of Mexico, most of Texas and the
railroad routes throughout Mexico and along the border in
California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and east to Florida,
encompassing the western tip of Cuba. The map was published to
accompany (but is seldom found with) Lorenzo Castro’s thorough
guide book, The Republic of Mexico in 1882. With Revised and
Corrected Map. New York: Thompson & Moreau, 1882. (See Raines,
p. 225. Ramos 952.) The makers of this wonderful map are
outstanding for Texas history. The original map was drawn by
Theodore Gentilz (1820-1906), the French artist and engineer
employed by Henri Castro to survey and promote his colony
southwest of San Antonio. Gentilz went on to record a large area
of the Texas southwest and northern Mexico. His paintings of
nineteenth-century Texas are considered by many to be the best
that survive. Here we have Lorenzo Castro’s revision and
updating of Gentilz’s original map. Lorenzo Castro was the son
French empresario Henri Castro, consul general for the Republic
of Texas at Paris and colonizer and founder of Castroville,
Quihi, Vandenburg, and D'Hanis. After the death of Henri,
Lorenzo carried on his father’s colonization project in Texas,
and wrote another work: Immigration from Alsace and Lorraine. A
Brief Sketch of the History of Castro’s Colony in Western Texas
(New York: George. W. Wheat & Co., Printers, 1871). ($750-1,500)
AUGMENTED
WITH A
MINING MAP
OF
CALIFORNIA’S EL DORADO
41. [MAP]. COLTON, G. W. & C. B. Colton’s California and Nevada
Published by G. W. and C. B. Colton & Co. No. 182 William St. New
York 1886 [at lower neat line at left]: Entered according to Act
of Congress in the year 1886 by G. W. & C. B. Colton & Co. in
the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Lithograph map in full color, borders outlined in rose, ornate
vine border. Image including border: 63 x 43 cm (24-3/4 x 17
inches). Pocket map, folded into original dark brown embossed
cloth folder, gilt-lettered on upper cover. Exceptionally fine
and crisp. This is an interesting copy—a contemporary owner
augmented this copy by pasting in a portion of another map
showing the Gold Regions of California (mounted on old linen).
A general map for the traveller and emigrant, locating
transportation routes, and wealth of detail documenting the
rapid growth of the West. Native American reservations and lands
are located. ($750-$1,500)
RARE TEXAS POCKET MAP FROM 1860—EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT & BEAUTIFUL
42. [MAP]. COLTON, J. H. Colton’s Texas Published by Johnson &
Browning, 172 William St. New York. 1860. [lower left]: Entered
according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1855 by J. H. Colton &
Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United
States for the Southern District of New York. [2 insets at lower
left]: [1] Plan of Galveston Bay; and [2] Plan of Sabine Lake.
“Census of Texas” printed on verso of map. Lithograph map on
bank note paper, full color, bright rose outlining, ornate
border. 30.5 x 39.5 cm (12 x 15-1/2 inches). Folded into
original red embossed cloth folder, title in gilt on upper
cover, printed paper labels on upper and lower covers, Colton
ads on front pastedown. Bright and beautiful, superb Texas
artifact. One of the most appealing maps of Texas of this era,
with exciting visual appeal. We have not had this map before in
pocket version. Ink signature of Harry L. Dalton on rear
pastedown.
Texas is shown just prior to the outbreak of the Civil.
This map is a descendant of Jacob de Cordova’s 1849 map of
Texas. De Cordova sold the rights to his Texas map to J. H.
Colton in 1855. ($5,000-10,000)
FIRST
MODERN DEPICTION OF THE AREA THAT BECAME SAN FERNANDO AND IMPORTANT AREAS
OF MODERN-DAY LOS ANGELES
43. [MAP]. DAY, Sherman. Plat of the Ex-Mission De San Fernando
finally confirmed to Eulogi[sic] de Celis Compiled in the Office
of the U. S. Surveyor General from the examined and approved
field notes of official Surveys on record therein. May 26 1869.
containing 116.85846 acres. Manuscript survey map on sized
cartographical cloth. 41.8 x 54.5 cm (16-3/8 x 21-1/2 inches).
Original ink drawing and lettering in black, red, and gold. With
certification at lower right signed by Day as U. S. Surveyor
General of California, confirming that the survey is in
conformity with a federal court orders of August 14, 1865, and
July 8, 1868. Also with approval of January 8, 1875, signed by
Willis Drummond, Land Office Commissioner. Two insets at upper
left: [1] “Table A” showing gross number of acres comprising the
tract; and [2] three tables consisting of “Exterior Boundaries
of the Ex Mission San Fernando,” “Co. boundaries with the 8
Tracts of the Mission San Fernando,” and “Connecting lines of
the 8 Tracts.” Mounted on foam board, creased where formerly
folded, occasional light darkening (mostly confined to edges),
otherwise very fine and handsome.
Detailed professional survey map made as part of the U. S.
patent approval process documenting this as the largest private
holding in California at the time and confirming it to Eulogio
de Celis in 1873. The area comprised 13 square leagues and is
the basis of present-day San Fernando, California, and parts of
Los Angeles. The Mexican government, desperate for cash to fight
the U.S. invasion of its country, had sold the property to de
Celis in 1846 for $14,000.00. De Celis’ heirs, however, did not
enjoy the property for long. Isaac Lankershim and Isaac Newton
Van Nuys, principals in the San Fernando Farm Association,
forced them to sell them the lower portion of the valley, which
they developed as a wheat ranch. Apparently chastened by that
encounter, the heirs were all too happy to sell the northern
part of their property to George K. Porter and Charles Maclay,
who made plans to develop the area in a somewhat orderly
fashion. Maclay, in his 1874 subdivision filings in Los Angeles,
gave the town its present name. Thus, this map dates from the
very days of the founding of modern-day San Fernando.
There are three important exceptions shown on the map. The
original mission, outlined here and still standing in downtown
San Fernando, was founded September 8, 1797, as the fourth
mission created by Father Lasuén in a period of four months. He
named it San Fernando Rey de España. The church property itself
was reserved when the land was sold to de Celis, and President
Lincoln, in an order of May 31, 1862, confirmed the church
buildings and the immediate property to the Catholic Church.
Also confirmed as part of the same series of proceedings in 1850
were the Rancho el Encino and El Escorpion, both of which are
shown here as distinct from the rest of the property.
The area shown here was first sighted by Gaspar de
Portolá’s 1769 expedition to the area. Father Juan Crespí left a
charming description of the valley, which impressed him
immensely. The area was first traversed by Juan Bautista de Anza
in 1774 and again by him in 1776. When the area passed from the
control of the Catholic Church to the Mexican government as part
of the secularization program in 1822, the mission owned 7000
cattle, 6500 sheep, 49 goats, 50 pigs, 1320 horses, and 80
mules. As secularization advanced, however, the Native Americans
drifted away and the mission declined. Eventually, the valley
came to comprise all or parts of the communities of San
Fernando, Van Nuys, Hollywood, Universal City, and Sylmar, all
except the first now part of Los Angeles itself.
Day (1806-1884) was the scion of a prominent Connecticut
family. His father was a signer of the Declaration of
Independence and President of Yale College. After graduating
from Yale, Day embarked on the first of his careers, this time
as a merchant. He travelled to France on business and after
returning to the U.S. established himself as a merchant in
Philadelphia and later in the Midwest. At these business
ventures, however, he was basically unsuccessful. His second
career, and that for which he is best remembered on the East
Coast, is as the author of Historical Collections of the State
of Pennsylvania (1848), to which he was inspired by his friend
John Warner Barber. In the execution of this book, he made
numerous exquisite sketches that preserved a fast disappearing
landscape. Not finding the East Coast climate agreeable to his
health, in 1849 he set out for California by the Panama route.
In the Golden State he prospered tremendously as a mining and
civil engineer and California state senator. He helped lay the
path for the first practical wagon route across the Sierras.
Appointed surveyor general, he was instrumental in many of the
surveys so necessary to establishing land claims and solving
land controversies. It was in this vital role that he created
this important map of the old mission of San Fernando.
Eulogio de Celis, a native Spaniard, returned with his
family in 1853 to Spain, where he died in 1868.
References: Robinson, W. W. Southern California Local
History: A Gathering of the Writings of W. W. Robinson. Ed.
Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1994; Smith,
Murphy D. Sherman Day: Artist, Forty-Niner, Engineer. William:
Michael Glazier, 1980; Weber, Francis J. Documents of California
Catholic History (1784-1963). Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop,
1965. ($4,000-8,000)
FIRST
MAP PUBLISHED BY THE
U. S.
GOVERNMENT TO RECOGNIZE THE BOUNDARIES CLAIMED
BY THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS
44. [MAP]. EMORY, W[illiam] H. Map of Texas and the Country
Adjacent: Compiled in the Bureau of the Corps of Topographical
Engeneers, [sic] from the best Authorities. For the State
Department, under the direction of Colonel J. J. Abert Chief of
the Corps; by W. H. Emory, 1st. Lieut. T. E. War Department 1844.
[Washington, 1844]. Lithographed map. Neat line to neat line:
35.7 x 55.2 cm (14-1/4 x 21-3/4 inches). Uniform light age
toning, a few scattered stains (most confined to blank margins),
minor losses at fold lines, minor marginal chipping at right
blank margin (no loss to image or border), otherwise fine.
First edition, the small-format version of the first map
published by the United States government to recognize the
boundaries claimed by the Republic of Texas, thus recognizing
Texas as a separate entity. “The order of priority of the issues
cannot now be determined” (Streeter 1543B). The small format
issue is more rare in commerce. Martin & Martin 33: "First map
to show correctly the final extent of the boundaries set by the
Texas Congress on December 29, 1836. Probably the best map of
the region at the time of annexation." Wheat, Mapping the
Transmississippi West 478 (describing this version).
One of the primary considerations during the Congressional
debate on the annexation of Texas was the determination of the
correct boundaries of the country. Accordingly, Congress in 1844
commissioned this map, the first to recognize Texas as a
separate entity, leading directly to the Mexican-American War.
Based on the great 1841 Arrowsmith map of Texas, but with
improvements, the map shows an enormous proposed northern
territory, including over half of New Mexico and parts of
Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma. ($7,500-15,000)
“OF
TOWERING SIGNIFICANCE IN THE CARTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE
WEST”—WHEAT
45. [MAP]. EMORY, W. H. Military Reconnaissance of the Arkansas
Rio del Norte and Rio Gila by W. H. Emory, Lieut. Top. Engrs.
Assisted from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe by Lieuts. J. W. Abert
and W. G. Peck, and from Santa Fé to San Diego on the Pacific by
Lieut. W. H. Warner and Mr. Norman Bestor, Made in 1846-7, with
the Advance Guard of the “Army of the West”. Under Command of
Brig. Gen. Stephn. W. Kearny Constructed under the Orders of Col.
J. J. Abert Ch. Corps Top. Engrs. 1847 Drawn by Joseph Welch.
Engraved on Stone by E. Weber & Co. Baltimore. Lithograph map.
76.8 x 183.5 cm; 30-1/4 x 72-1/4 inches. Slightly browned at
folds, occasional short splits at folds (a few minor losses).
Seldom found in such good condition, due to the friable paper on
which the maps was printed and the stresses to which copies of
the map were subjected because of folding and unfolding such an
enormous map.
This landmark map is found in Notes of a Military
Reconnoissance... (Washington, 1848). See Zamorano 80 #37.
Emory's large map was the first accurate depiction of the
territory between Santa Fe and Southern California. California
49: Forty-Nine Maps of California from the Sixteenth Century to
the Present 26. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 544 &
III, pp. 4-8: “His map was epoch-making...it tied the country
together on a route at its extreme south, and was to become of
great value when the boundary of the United States and Mexico
was traced a few years later.... In many respects, Emory’s map
was the most important milestone in the cartographic development
and accurate delineation of the Southwest.... The map of
Lieutenant Emory is a document of towering significance in the
cartographic history of West.” This detailed map would soon
provide vital information for anxious gold seekers taking the
southern route to the diggings. ($600-1,200)
“SHOWING ALL
THE
ROUTES
TO
CALIFORNIA”
46. [MAP]. ENSIGN & BRIDGMAN. Map of the United States, Canada,
Mexico and the West Indies with Central America, Showing All the
Routes to California with a Table of Distances. New York, Ensign
& Bridgman 156, William St. cor. of Ann St., [ca. 1854-1855].
Lithographed map on bank note paper, original full color, vivid
rose outlining, “Gold Region” located in California (along the
Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers), ornate vine border, ships
plying the seas, routes, table of distances below. Image area
including border: 55.7 x 68.7 cm; 21-7/8 x 27 inches. Pocket
map, folded into original lilac embossed and gilt-lettered cloth
folder, Ensign & Bridgman’s ad printed on bright yellow paper on
front pastedown. Superb copy, bright and beautiful, with only a
few minor splits at fold (no losses). It would be difficult to
find a better copy. Uncommon.
This very decorative map shows steam and sailing ships, sea
routes to California, land routes of Emory, Gregg, Fremont, and
other explorers. This rare map focuses mostly on the interest in
"routes to California" generated by the Gold Rush. Cf. Wheat,
Mapping the Transmississippi 804 & Maps of the California Gold
Region 258. Wheat lists the 1854 edition published by Ensign,
Bridgman & Fanning, but not the present one by the firm Ensign &
Bridgman. Tooley does not list the firm of Ensign & Bridgman.
The 1854 edition listed by Wheat does not yet show the Gadsden
Purchase which is delineated here. In the 1854 edition, three
ships are shown, whereas the present map has four ships.
Timothy (1795-1849) and Edward Ensign were lithographers in
New York City, active in a series of partnerships between 1841
and 1861, working with Phelps and Humphrey, as Ensign & Thayer
(with Horace Thayer), and as Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning. Over
their career they produced a number of notable prints on
subjects from American history as well as maps and U.S.
traveler's guides. See Peters, Harry T. America on Stone
(Doubleday, Doran, 1931, p. 181).
This particular map or this permutation of the Ensign firm
seems to be unrecorded. ($2,000-$4,000)
GUNN’S VERY
RARE
1859 MAP & GUIDE
TO THE
PIKE’S PEAK GOLD RUSH
47. [MAP]. GUNN, O[tis] B[erthoud]. Pocket map & guide:
Text: New Map and Hand-Book of Kansas & The Gold Mines.
Containing Descriptions and Statistics of the Indian Tribes,
Settlement, Soil, Productions, Climate, Roads, Rail Roads,
Telegraphs, Mail Routes, Land Districts, etc. With Description
of All the Routes to the New Gold Mines.... Pittsburgh: Printed
by W. S. Haven, Corner of Market and Second Streets, 1859. 71
[1, blank] pp. Original pink printed wrappers (upper wrap used
as pastedown, lower wrap follows final blank of text and has on
verso a handsome lithographed pictorial ad for Wm. Schuchman’s
Lithographic Establishment in Pittsburgh, Pa. The Schuchman firm
lithographed the map.
Map: Gunn's New Map of Kansas and the Gold Mines Embracing all
the Public Surveys up to the 6th Principal Meridian. Compiled
from the Original Field Notes by O. B. Gunn. Wynadott, K. T.,
1859. I take great pleasure in commending this map; compiled by
O. B. Gunn, Esq to the Public Use, as an Accurate Delineation of
the Surveyed Portions of the Territory of Kansas to this
Date.... Ward B. Burnett, Surveyor General Kansas and Nebraska.
January 10, 1859. [Inset map below]: Routes from the Missouri
River to the Kansas Gold Mines.... [lower right above vine
border]: Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1859.
By Otis. B. Gunn.... Wm. Schuchman, lith. Pittsburgh, Pa.
Lithograph map, original outline color, ornate vine border, two
vignettes (Native American and allegorical scene). Map & ornate
border: 65.5 x 71.1 cm (25-3/4 x 28 inches).
Cover: Original brown embossed cloth binding, lettered in gilt
on upper cover: Gunn's Map and Hand Book of Kansas and the Gold
Mines (repeated in blind on lower cover). Height: 16 cm; 6-1/4
inches.
Map detached from binding. Two sectors at left of map browned
due to former contact with cloth covers. Browned along folds and
a few small voids along those folds (no appreciable losses and
neatly infilled with archival tissue). Pocket covers a little
faded (especially upper cover), text foxed, old neat
reinforcement at juncture of title and front free endpaper.
Contemporary ink note on pastedown: “Sold to Parrish by
[continuing in pencil]: Edw. Turner Richmond Kentucky.”
Nineteenth-century engraved label, red ink on cream paper, of
Stephen D. Parrish Equity and Law Offices Federal and State
Richmond, Ky. Preserved in a tan morocco and brown cloth clam
shell case.
First edition of one of the more elusive 1859 maps and
guidebooks to the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush (see Hafen, p. 235). As
Charles Eberstadt observed, the guides to the Pike's Peak gold
fields have long been "perhaps the rarest of the several groups
of overland guides to the West" ("On Colorado Guidebooks of
'59," in Bookman's Holiday, pp. 33-43). Graff 1690 (map &
guide). Howes G461. Plains & Rockies IV:327: “Otis Gunn was a
prominent civil engineer, politician, soldier, and author. He
served in the Kansas State Senate and then as a major in the
Fourth Kansas Volunteers during the Civil War. Later he became
the chief engineer of the Kansas Pacific Railroad and built the
Missouri River Bridge at Atchison and the United Depot at Kansas
City.” Sabin 29282. Streeter Sale 2017 (map only). Wheat,
Mapping the Transmississippi West 976 & IV, pp. 168-169. Rare in
any form or condition, but particularly with map, pamphlet, and
covers present, as here.
Holliday 462 (map & guide): “The work gives an account of
the new territory and the status and conditions of settlement.
The several routes are next examined and announcement made of a
new and shorter route via the Smoky Hill River. Gunn cautions
the emigrant against its use ‘until it is fairly opened’. [This
was sage advice, which Daniel Blue, among others, failed to
observe. Vide: Blue’s Thrilling Adventures and Sufferings of
Pike’s Peak Gold Seekers.] An account of the Gold Regions
follows, with ‘Distances to the Mines’ and a list of stations on
the Northern and Southern routes. These include the route from
Wyandotte or Kansas City via Shawnee, Wilmington, Council Grove,
Diamond Spring, Cottonwood Creek, Big Muddy, Little Arkansas,
Big Cow Creek, Arkansas River, Allison’s Ranch, Pawnee Rock and
Fort, Arkansas crossing, Bent’s Fort, Puebla, Head of Cherry
Creek, to Auraria, 740 miles; and the route from Leavenworth via
Nemaha, Marysville Fort Kearney, Fort St. Vrain to Auraria, 700
miles.” ($25,000-35,000)
48. [MAP]. KELLOGG, E. B & E. C. (lithographers). Map of Mexico,
Texas, Old and New California, and Yucatan. Showing the
Principal Cities and Towns, Travelling Routes, &c. Hartford:
Published by House & Brown, 1847. Insets: [left]: Map of Vera
Cruz and San Juan de Ulloa; [right]: Plan of Operations at the
Battle of Monterey on the 21st, 22nd & 23rd Sept. 1846. [View]:
Castle of San Juan d’Ulloa. Lithograph map in full color. Neat
line to neat line: 42 x 60.5 cm (16-1/2 x 22-3/4 inches).
Heavily restored and mounted on thick archival paper. Very rare.
Day, Maps of Texas, pp. 46-47. Garrett, Mexican-American
War, p. 414. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 545. Cf.
Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 620 & Gold Region 97. A
shameless commercial attempt by House and Brown and the Kellogg
lithographic firm (the latter sometimes euphemistically referred
to as the Currier & Ives of Connecticut) to cash in on the
interest in Disturnell’s treaty map and Mitchell’s MexicanAmerican War Map of Mexico, including Yucatan & Upper
California. Two years later the Yankee entrepreneurs would
reissue the map yet again, adding a glittering dot in California
to lure the Gold Rush market. ($2,500-$5,000)
THE ELUSIVE POCKET MAP ISSUE
OF
KEELER’S MONUMENTAL MAP
OF THE
WEST
49. KEELER, William J. National Map of the Territory of the
United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. Made by
the Authority of the Hon. O. H. Browning. Secretary of the
Interior. In the Office of the Indian Bureau Chiefly for
Government Purposes under the Direction of the Hon. N. G.
Taylor. Commsr. of Indian Affairs & Hon. Chas. E. Mix Chief Clerk
of the Indian Bureau: Compiled from Authorized Explorations of
Pacific Rail Road Routes, Public Surveys, and Other Reliable
Data from the Departments of the Government at Washington, D. C.
by W. J. Keeler. Civil Engineer 1868. [below and left of title]:
N. Du Bois, Draughtsman. [above neat line at lower left]:
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867 by Wm. J.
Keeler, in the Clerks Office, of the District Court, of the
District of Columbia. [Washington, 1868]. Lithographic map on
bank note paper, original partial color (land offices in red,
minerals keyed to color, such as blue for silver, and orange for
gold, etc.), symbols locating forts, military posts, and
railroads completed and in progress, etc.). 75.6 x 95.2 cm (293/4 x 37-1/2 inches), folded into original brown blind-stamped
cloth covers (17.6 x 11.4 cm; 7 x 4-1/2 inches) lettered in gilt
on upper cover: Keeler’s Map of the U.S. Territories, Pacific R.
R. Routes, Mineral Lands, and Indian Reservations. 1868. A few
splits at folds (no losses), mild staining and browning at lower
margin of map. Covers slightly worn and with a few spots; neatly
reinforced at hinge. A fine copy, with contemporary ink
ownership inscription of Davis & Barraclough on pastedown of
upper cover. Davis & Barraclough were pioneer merchants of
Trinidad, Colorado in the 1870s and 1880s (their business
establishment was at 100 East Main, and the building where they
operated still stands).
First edition thus. This is a reduced version, here in
pocket map format, of Keeler’s monumental map, "the largest,
finest and most detailed map of the West as it was then known.”
Apparently there are three versions of this map, all issued with
basically the same title.
The first version, which came out in 1867 and is quite
common, is usually found in a cloth folder. Often those copies
are presentation copies for official purposes. The first version
measures 120.9 x 146.4 cm (47-5/8 x 57-5/8 inches). For the 1867
version, see: Graff 2281. Howes K22. Martin & Martin 47.
Streeter Sale 3077. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West
1170 (V, pp. 211-213).
Two versions of Keeler’s map appeared in 1868 (priority
undetermined). Wheat (Mapping the Transmississippi West 1187 &
V, pp. 237-238) lists an 1868 version with exactly the same
title as the 1867 version preceding, but measuring considerably
smaller (72.5 x 55.8 cm; 28-1/2 x 22 inches).
Wheat does not list the present incarnation, which is in
pocket map format, and measures between the size of the two
previously mentioned versions. The title of the present map
varies slightly from the 1867 version, but matches the title of
Wheat’s 1868 reduced version (neither of the 1868 versions
contain the phrase “J. F.Gedney, Lithographer, Engraver & Plate
Printer, Washington, D.C.”). Rumsey lists the present 1868
pocket map version (http://www.davidrumsey.com/maps3580.html),
but the copy documented does not have minerals colored (our
version is the same in all respects as Rumsey’s with the
exception that the minerals are colored in the present copy).
Rumsey comments on the present version: “This is the reduced
issue with slightly more coverage in the east and more
progressed railroad development. The detail is, of course, less,
due to the smaller scale, and the minerals are not colored.
Nonetheless it is still an excellent map of the west of its
time, and is far more scarce than the larger issue of 1867.” We
agree with Rumsey’s assessment regarding scarcity of the present
version as compared to the 1867 official version.
In some respects Keeler seems to have been using his maps
for entrepreneurial purposes, especially those related to
railroad promotion. The present pocket map version was issued by
Keeler for his own purposes, whereas the 1867 large version was
definitely an official publication. In fact, copies of the 1867
official version are usually always found as presentation copies
by government official and representatives, sometimes to
railroad magnates.
Besides its obvious importance as a railroad map, the map
is primary documentation on Native Americans, their lands being
colored in light orange. The thoroughness with which Keeler
covers reservations is not surprising given his own work with
the Indian Bureau. For mining, the map is key for the period,
with types of minerals located, including splotches of bright
yellow-orange indicating gold fields in California, Colorado,
Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, etc. Some of these mining
operation were quite new at the time, such as those in Idaho.
Martin & Martin 47: “In 1867, seeking to take advantage of
public interest in all aspects of the West, but particularly the
railroad routes, William J. Keeler, an engineer working in the
Indian Bureau, published a large, attractive map of the entire
country west of the Mississippi.... As a product no doubt of
Keeler’s own employment with the Indian Bureau, the various
Indian reservations were clearly shown and identified by a color
scheme, an early use of this thematic device.” Martin & Martin’s
selection of Keeler’s map for their exhibit and book on Texas
cartography is appropriate. Detail in Texas is excellent, and
Keeler’s conformation would be borrowed for decades after its
appearances in 1867 and 1868.
Wheat ably sums up Keeler’s map as an imposing production
offering something of interest for every part of the West.
($4,000-8,000)
YUKON GOLD RUSH MAP
50. [MAP]. MILLROY, J. J. Alaska and British Columbia Showing
the Yukon, Cariboo, Cassiar, with a Portion of the Kootenay Gold
Fields. Authorities Latest Reports & Surveys by the U.S. &
Canadian Government. Also Special Reports from Old Time Alaskan
Miners.... Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, &
Toronto: J. J. Milroy, Map Publisher, 1898. Large, colored map
on coated bank note paper showing routes to Alaska and locations
of gold fields, both in red, and seas in blue. 58 x 94 cm (223/4 x 37 inches). Except for slight crinkling, very fine and
bright. The coated paper seems to be waterproof.
The area includes coastal and inland regions from Astoria,
Washington, to the Arctic Sea, including all of Alaska. Inset
showing "All Lake Routes." Historic Yukon Gold Rush ephemera.
($300-600)
51. [MAP]. MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus. A New Map of Texas Oregon
And California With The Regions Adjoining. Compiled from the
most recent authorities. Philadelphia Published by S. Augustus
Mitchell N. E. Corner Of Market & Seventh Streets. 1846 Entered
according to Act of Congress in the year 1845 by H. N. Burroughs
in the clerks office of the District Court of the eastern
district of Pennsylvania. Lithograph map, original color.
Mounted on linen. Neat line to neat line: 56.4 x 51.7 cm (22-1/8
x 20-3/8 inches). Color faded, some repairs, fair copy only.
First edition. Baughman, Kansas in Maps, p. 35. Braislin
1268. California 49: Forty-Nine Maps of California from the
Sixteenth Century to the Present 25. Cohen, Mapping the West,
pp. 134-135: “Mitchell’s `New Map of Texas, Oregon and
California’ was the most popular of the West published up to
that time, and in many ways it defined the American public’s
view of the country’s changing geography.” Cowan II, p. 433.
Day, 387. Graff 2841. Holliday Sale 787. Howes M685. Littell
742. Martin & Martin, pp. 134-135, Color Plate XI (p. 56).
Plains & Rockies IV:122b. Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of
America, p. 276. Sabin 49714. Smith 2529. Streeter Sale 2511.
Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 520, Vol. III, p. 35.
Wheat, Maps of the Gold Region 29, pp. xv-xvi. ($4,000-8,000)
52. [MAP]. PALMER, W. R. & L. D. Williams. Map of Central
America.... New York: J. Bien for U.S. Coast Survey, 1856.
Lithographed map with original outline coloring. 109 x 101.5 cm
(43 x 40-3/4 inches. Folded into original 8vo brown cloth
folder. Very good.
This map was published when there was an interest in the
advantages to be gained by an inter-ocean link built across the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec, west of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
Handsome, detailed map of Central America, with historical notes
and insets of the Bay of Fonseca, the port of San Juan, and an
area map from Nicaragua to Fonseca. The map includes Florida,
the Texas coast, and the Gulf of Mexico. ($100-200)
HUGE CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD MAP
53. [MAP]. RAND, McNALLY. Correct Map of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy R. R. Connecting Lines. Chicago: Rand, McNally,
1883. Map with original full color in pastel shades, routes
shown in bold black, 8 large vignettes. 67 x 100.5 cm; 26-1/2 x
43-1/2 inches. A few creases and small flaws, browned on two
panels on verso, but generally fine.
Huge railroad map with scenic views along the route and the
fancy interiors of the train cars. Cf. Modelski 375. ($300-600)
POCKET MAP
OF THE
YOUNG REPUBLIC, ENGRAVED
WITH
EAGLE
54. [MAP]. SCHOYER, Solomon. Map of the United States Drawn from
the Most Approved Surveys Published by Solomon Schoyer. New York
Engraved by G. W. Merchant Albany 1826. Copper-engraved map on
bank note paper, original outline coloring, at lower left is a
large eagle. 41 x 51 cm; 16-1/4 x 20-1/8 inches. Pocket map,
folded into original stiff red paper covers. Moderately foxed
and some splits at folds (but no losses).
The map shows the Young Republic with its 23 states and
the territories of Arkansas, Northwest, Michigan, and Missouri,
the latter of which extends beyond the Rockies and to the
present Canadian border. The map shows the area beyond Rio del
Norte, but the geography of Texas remains distorted and vacant,
with Texas going only slightly beyond the Colorado River and
little located other than San Antonio and the river system.
($300-600)
PRECURSOR MAP
IN THE
DISTURNELL TREATY MAP SEQUENCE
55. [TREATY MAP]. WHITE, GALLAHER & WHITE. Mapa de los Estados
Unidos de Méjico, segun lo organizado y definido por las varias
actas del Congreso de dicha República y construido por las
mejores autoridades. Lo publican White, Gallaher y White. Nueva
York. 1828. Grabado por Balch y Stiles, Nueva York. Three insets
at lower left: (1) Tabla de Distancias; (2) Tabla de
Estadistica; (3) Carta de los caminos &c. desde Vera Cruz y
Alvarado a Méjico. Upper right: Large engraving of Mexican eagle
with snake in its beak, perched on cactus with names of Mexican
states lettered on pads (including Coahuila y Tejas and Nuevo
Méjico). Engraved map, original shading and outline coloring.
73.7 x 104 cm (29 x 41 inches). Black wooden rollers. A few fox
marks and light stains, some splits from having been rolled and
unroll, but professionally stabilized and laid down on archival
linen. This is a handsome, presentable copy of a map often found
in tatters. Perhaps the single most rare map in the Treaty Map
sequence.
First edition of the White, Gallaher & White version of the
Treaty Map. Both Tanner’s English language map, on which this
version is based, and the present map served as precursors for
Disturnell’s epochal Treaty Map. These three versions of the map
are exceptionally significant due to their historical context
and function with regard to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Together the Tanner, White, Gallaher & White, and Disturnell
maps document the cartographical sequence that resulted in the
boundary dispute following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The
White, Gallaher & White map is perhaps the single most rare map
in the Treaty Map sequence.
Crossroads of Empire 39. Martin & Martin, Maps of Texas and
the Southwest, 1513-1900, Plate 37 & p. 137. Rittenhouse,
Disturnell’s Treaty Map, pp. 13-16 (#1) (designating White,
Gallaher & White’s 1828 map as “one edition known”): “One of
Tanner’s maps, that of 1826, was copied and published in 1828 by
the firm of White, Gallaher & White, of New York City. This is
the map whose plates were bought by Disturnell and used for
printing the Disturnell Maps of 1846-1858. It has often been
said that White, Gallaher & White (and Disturnell) plagiarized
or ‘pirated’ this map. It was obviously copied from Tanner’s
map, but there is no proof that it was done with intent to
defraud. It might have been done as the result of an agreement.
The White, Gallaher & White map was issued in 1828, and that was
the year in which the United States made a Treaty of Limits with
Mexico. There was a market demand in Latin America for a map
with all the legends and place names in Spanish. The Tanner map
was in English; White, Gallaher & White made a map with all
legends in Spanish.... The original White, Gallaher & White map
was grabado (engraved) by Balch & Stiles of New York. Their
name, together with the copyright notice was imperfectly removed
and appears faintly on all Disturnell maps printed from these
plates from 1846 through 1858.”
Streeter Sale 222: “This map is included as it is such a
direct source for Disturnell’s Map of Mexico with the same
title, published in New York in 1846, that Col. Martin in his
elaborate survey, Disturnell’s Map, calls it the first of the 24
editions of that map, and the map published by Disturnell in
1846 the second. This White, Gallaher & White map in turn
follows closely, even to errors, the Tanner Map of Mexico of
1825.—TWS.”
Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West #384, Vol. II, pp.
95-96 & Vol. III, p. 36. Wheat, Maps of the Gold Region 33n. Of
the Treaty Map sequence of over thirty-five maps, White,
Gallaher & White’s map (Streeter 222), Tanner’s 1826 issue
(Streeter 3824), and Rosa’s version published in Paris in 1837
(Streeter 233) are the most difficult to obtain. We locate
copies of White, Gallaher & White’s map at the University of
Texas at Austin, the University of Texas at Arlington, and Yale
(Streeter’s copy). ($7,500-15,000)
56. MARSHALL, William I. Acquisition of Oregon and the Long
Suppressed Evidence about Marcus Whitman. Seattle, 1911. [2] 450
pp., frontispiece portrait of author + 368 pp. 2 vols., green
cloth. Very fine.
Second and best edition (a much abbreviated version was
published in 1905). Graff 2691. Howes M322. Smith 6555. Tweney,
Washington 89 #48: “Probably the most thorough attempt ever made
to expose the myth that Whitman saved Oregon... Essential to any
complete library dealing with the history of Oregon.” ($400-800)
STREETER TEXAS BROADSIDES
57. MEXICO (Republic). LAWS (April 25, 1835). [Decree of the
Congreso general declaring invalid the decree of March 14, 1835,
which authorized the sale of 400 sitios, as being contrary to
the colonization law of August 18, 1824]. El C. Manuel Diez de
Bonilla, Gobernador Constitucional del Estado Libre de México.
[Toluca, April 30, 1835]. Except for a trifling bit of
dustsoiling, very fine. Unrecorded Toluca broadside issue of
Streeter 833. With the passage of this law, many Anglos in Texas
concluded that such arbitrary actions and the unrelenting
dictatorship of President Antonio López de Santa Anna reflected
the death of the republicanism and liberalism of the
Constitution of 1824 under which they had united with the
Mexican nation. ($500-1,000)
LEGION
OF
HONOR
FOR
MEXICAN HEROES
OF THE
ALAMO
58. MEXICO (Republic). LAWS (April 27, 1836). [Printed decree
issued by José María Tornel, establishing a military legion of
honor for honoring distinguished actions in the campaign against
the Texans]. Mexico, April 27, 1836. 8 pp., folio. Except for
slight wrinkling, very good copy, with Eberstadt pencil note at
top. Streeter 877 (3 loc.). The legion of honor was established
to pay homage to the Mexican heroes of the Alamo. No copy has
been located of the first separate publication of this or of a
republication. ($500-1,000)
LET HIM GO,
BUT
DON’T PAY ATTENTION
TO
ANYTHING HE SAYS
59. MEXICO (Republic). LAWS (May 20, 1836). [Decree of the
Congreso general promulgated by José María Tornel, pledging
every effort to secure the liberty of Santa Anna]. [Toluca, May
31, 1836]. Very fine
Unrecorded Toluca broadside issue of Streeter 879 (listing
the Mexico City issue): “This law was passed the day after the
capture of Santa Anna [at San Jacinto] had been announced.... On
the same day the president declared a national state of mourning
to continue while Santa Anna was a prisoner.” The military is
ordered to fly flags at half staff so long as Santa Anna remains
a prisoner, but one provision judiciously stipulates that any
promises Santa Anna makes while prisoner will not be binding on
the Mexican government. ($500-1,000)
A LITTLE TOO LITTLE, A LITTLE TOO LATE
60. MEXICO (Republic). LAWS (December 30, 1836). [Decree
dividing the country into as many Departments as there formerly
were States, separating Coahuila from Texas and authorizing the
central government to locate the capital of Texas where most
convenient when order is re-established there]. [Toluca, January
5, 1837]. Very fine.
Unrecorded Toluca broadside issue of Streeter 882. “Had
this decree been passed in 1833, Texas might be a Mexican state
today" (Eberstadt 162:581). ($500-1,000)
PROVISIONS
FOR AN
ARMY
ON THE
MARCH
61. MEXICO (Republic). LAWS (October 15, 1836). [Printed decree
allowing some duty-free imports in northern Mexican ports for
the army now proceeding to Texas]. Mexico, October 15, 1836. Old
tape stains along outer edges, otherwise fine, with Alas’ ink
rubric. Eberstadt pencil note “212” at top and John Jenkins’
pencil note giving Streeter No. at top.
Streeter 885 (locating only the Bancroft copy). This law
was to support the army preparing to re-invade Texas. Among the
provisions deemed necessary for the Mexican army to subsist in
the Texas campaign were sugar of all classes, chocolate, coffee,
tea, chile, corn, and meat. Once again it is proven that an army
travels on its stomach. ($300-600)
ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS
OF
PUBLIC WORKS
IN
MEXICO - 1877
62. MEXICO (Republic). SECRETARÍA DE FOMENTO, COLONIZACIÓN Y
INDUSTRIA. RIVA PALACIO, Vicente. Memoria presentada al Congreso
de la Union por el Secretario de Estado y del Despacho de
Fomento, Colonización, Industria y Comercio de la República
Mexicana.... Mexico, 1877. 558 [3] pp., 17 original albumen
photographs mounted on thick paper stock (sites in Mexico,
railroad, canal, and other civil engineering works in progress),
20 lithographs (including maps). Folio, original beige printed
wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled, minor chipping, mostly
unopened, the photographs, plates, and maps very fine.
First edition of a monumental survey of the current state
of public works of the Mexican Republic. Palau 269849. Truthful
Lens 136 (& fig. 116): “Conceived with a very pictorial
sensibility.”
This remarkable publication was intended for members of the
Mexican Congress and meant to showcase Mexico’s
industrialization in 1877. Not all copies published included the
photographs. The text contains statistics relating to commercial
growth, railroad construction, roads, population, mining,
telegraphs, monuments and statues, and other public improvements
then being built through out the Republic. There is a brief
chapter by Ignacio Molina describing the importance of
photography to Mexican industry and science, which notes the
creation of a special government office of photography with
cameras and other equipment acquired from the British firm of
Dealmaker. The fourteen sections are by various authors,
including Antonio García Cubas, who collaborated with Casimiro
Castro on their 1877 monumental work of chromolithography on
Mexican railroads. ($5,000-8,000)
"ONE OF THE BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF THE AGE"—GOETZMANN
WITH A LITHOGRAPH OF TEXAS KIOWA ENCAMPMENT
63. MÖLLHAUSEN, B. Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to
the Coasts of the Pacific with a United States Government
Expedition. By Baldwin Möllhausen Topographical Draughtsman and
Naturalist to the Expedition. With an Introduction by Alexander
von Humboldt and Illustrations in chromolithography. Translated
by Mrs. Percy Sinnett. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans,
& Roberts , 1858. Vol. I: [iii]-xxx, [2], 352 pp., folding map,
frontispiece, 5 other colored plates, 1 woodcut plate. Vol. II:
[iii]-x [2], 397 [1], [2] pp., frontispiece, 4 other colored
plates, 11 woodcut plates (the colored and tinted plates after
Möllhausen’s art work were lithographed by Hanhart). 2 vols. in
one, 8vo, recent three-quarter brown mottled calf, spines with
red and black leather labels, raised bands. Mild age toning to
text, else a fine set, the plates very fine and with excellent
color.
Map
Map Illustrating Baldwin Mollhausen's Travels from the
Mississippi to the Coast of the Pacific, in the years 1853-1854.
[Red ink line] Mollhausen's Route. London, Longman & Co.
Engraved by Edwd Weller, Duke Strt, Bloomsbury. 44.7 x 19.6 cm
(17-5/8 x 7-3/4 inches). Trail marked in red; coast waters
tinted blue. Inset showing region of the Arkansas and Missouri
Rivers to longitude west 105°, latitude north 42° 30". Another
inset showing profile Section from Ft. Smith to the Pacific
Ocean.
First edition in English. Braislin 1326. Cowan II, p. 435.
Farquhar, Books of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon 19.
Field 1080. Graff 2849. Holliday 789. Howell, California 50:163:
Howes M713. Littell 744. Mintz, The Trail 582. Norris 2544.
Plains & Rockies IV:305. Rader 2418. Sabin 49915. Streeter Sale
3134. Taft, Artists and Illustrators of the Old West, Chapter II
& p. 22 et seq. Wheat, Books of the Gold Rush 145. Wheat,
Mapping the Transmississippi West 956. Wheat, Maps of the
California Gold Region 268n.
This work by one of the principal artists connected with
the Pacific Railroad Surveys contains an account of Whipple's
expedition to survey a railroad route to the Pacific. Goetzmann
calls this book "one of the best travel books of the age" and
notes that the author became known as the "German Fenimore
Cooper" for his works of fiction. This classic account of the
American West with its unusually beautiful plates of the
Southwest, including one Texas plate, Camp of the Kioway
Indians. ($1,500-3,000)
MORA LITHOS
OF
HOPI KACHINAS
64. MORA, Jo[seph Jacinto]. Jo Mora's Watercolor Collection of
Hopi Kachina and Ceremonial Figures. Tulsa, 1979. Collection of
8 colored lithograph plates on rag paper in original portfolios.
Fine.
First edition, limited edition (#598 of 650 copies).
Perceiving the Hopi were the last Native Americans to preserve
the integrity of their ceremonies, Mora created this valuable
ethnological record of Hopi ceremonial dress. Dr. Frederick J.
Dockstader, author of Indian Art in America, in his appraisal of
Mora's paintings stated: "They represent a unique record of Hopi
Indian religious ceremonies of the period; their value is
represented by the careful detail and aesthetic appeal, as
created by one of the outstanding Southwestern artists of the
day." Mora (1876-1947) was born in Uruguay, studied art in New
York and Boston, worked as a cowboy on California ranches in
1903, and spent two years among the Hopi and Navaho, learning
their language and observing their ceremonies. For more on Mora,
see Samuels, Artists of the American West. ($1,500-3,000)
RARE METAPHYSICAL MEMOIR
ON
AMERICA
BY THE
ROYAL PRINCE
OF THE
TWO SICILIES
65. MURAT, [Napoléon] Achille. A Moral and Political Sketch of
the United States of North America...With a Note on Negro
Slavery by Junius Redivivus. London: Published by Effingham
Wilson, etc., 1833. [iii]-xxxix [1], 402 pp., folding lithograph
map with original full color (Map of the United States; below
neat line: Lithographed & Printed by J. Netherclift | London.
Published by Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange; 30 x 36.8 cm; 117/8 x 14-1/2 inches). 12mo, early twentieth-century brown
library buckram. Front joint open but holding. Interior fine.
The map, which was backed at an early date with old linen, is
lightly foxed and somewhat wrinkled from clumsy folding. The
Birmingham Library (England) copy, with their printed bookplate
on front pastedown, and their small oval ink stamps scattered
throughout. Rare.
First edition in English of the author’s Esquisse morale et
politique des États-Unis de L’Amérique du Nord (Paris, 1832;
Sabin 51413). Clark, Travels in the Old South III:77: “Although
Murat considered himself an American, he was...so recent an
arrival in this country that his work should be regarded as that
of a traveler.... It is a philosophical account of American
institutions, including political parties, the frontier,
slavery, Indians, religion, law and justice, the army and navy,
finance, manners, fine arts, and literature.... His sympathies
were almost as exclusively Southern as if he had been a native.
He considered agriculture as the primal and prevailing interest
of the United States, advocated slavery on both practical and
metaphysical grounds, and thought Charleston to be the center of
all that was polished and superior in American society.” Howes
M901. Monaghan 1121. Sabin 51417.
The exiled Royal Prince of the Two Sicilies resided six
years on a plantation near Tallahassee and commanded a militia
regiment in a campaign against Native Americans. He expresses
contempt for religious hypocrisy in the U.S.: "There is no
country in which the people are so religious as in the United
States; to the eyes of a foreigner they even appear to be too
much so. The great number of religious societies existing in the
United States is truly surprising: there are some of them to
distribute the Bible; to distribute tracts; to encourage
religious journals; to convert, civilize, educate the savages;
to marry the preachers; to take care of their widows and
orphans; to preach, extend, purify, preserve, reform the faith;
to build chapels, endow congregations, support seminaries;
catechize and convert sailors, Negroes, and loose women."
The excellent map, which falls within the parameters of
Wheat (Transmississippi West) is not listed there. ($1,0002,000)
FIRST
PRINTED OVERLAND NARRATIVE TO
CALIFORNIA
66. PATTIE, James O. The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie,
of Kentucky, during an Expedition from St. Louis, through the
Vast Regions between that Place and the Pacific Ocean, and
thence back through the City of Mexico to Vera Cruz, during
Journeyings of Six Years; in which he and his Father, who
Accompanied Him, Suffered Unheard of Hardships and Dangers, had
various Conflicts with the Indians, and Were Made Captives, in
which Captivity his Father Died: Together with a Description of
the Country, and the Various Nations through which They Passed.
Cincinnati: E. H. Flint, 1833. 300 pp., 5 copper-engraved
plates. 8vo, early twentieth-century three-quarter navy blue
sheep over marbled boards, raised bands, spine gilt with gilt
lettering, a.e.g. Binding moderately rubbed, especially along
upper joint and at corners. Interior very good, plates fine.
Title page and pp. 19-20 with repaired loss where perforation
stamp was excised, the latter costing the page numbers. Typed
bookplate of Boone County Public Schools on front pastedown
and printed bookplate of Louis E. Goodman on front flyleaf.
Second edition of the first printed overland narrative to
California (the original edition, which is exceedingly rare, was
published in 1831, and the only difference is the 1833 title
replaces the earlier). BAL 6122. Barrett 1963. Bauer 392.
Bradford 4214. Cowan II, p.476. Graff 3217. Howell, California
50:187. Howes P123. Hill II:1317. Plains & Rockies IV:45:2.
Sabin 59150. Streeter Sale 3139: Zamorano 80 #60: “Both the
first and second editions of the Pattie Narrative are of extreme
rarity.”
Kurutz in the Volkmann Zamorano 80 catalogue:
“This mountain man’s narrative, while providing an
entertaining and fantastic Western travel adventure, ranks
as the first book directed at an American audience to call
attention to California’s beauty and potential. Pattie
enthusiastically described California’s ‘beautiful and
sublime scenery’ and its advantages of ‘healthfulness, a
good soil, temperate climate, and...vicinity to the sea.’
More superlatives are attached to this title. The Patties
made the second overland journey to California, following
that of Jedediah Strong Smith, and consequently, this book
has the distinction of being the first printed account of
an overland trek to California and its publication further
opened up the Southwest to increased exploration and
American expansion. Franklin Walker in his masterful A
Literary History of Southern California wrote, ‘Although
its accuracy has been questioned and its spirit criticized,
it remains the epic of the mountain men, perhaps more truly
representing their attitudes, their experiences, and their
adventures than any other book that has appeared on the
subject.’”
The five engraved plates are: Rescue of an Indian Child.
d.
Eng by W. Woodruff Cini.; Mr. Pattie wounded by an Indian arrow.
Engd.. by W. Woodruff Cini.; Shooting Mr. Pattie’s Horse. Engd. by
W. Woodruff Cini.; Messrs. Pattie and Slover rescued from Famish.
Engd. by W. Woodruff Cini.; and Burial of Mr. Pattie. Engd. by W.
Woodruff Cini. Engraver W. Woodruff is not listed by Hamilton
(Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers), but seems
to be the William Wood listed by Fielding, who comments:
“Engraver of portraits and landscapes. He was in business in
Philadelphia in 1817-24. He worked quite well in both line and
stipple. After 1824 he apparently removed to Cincinnati, as we
find prints by him engraved in that city. Died February 26,
1852.”
Of Texas interest is “The Downfall of the Fredonian
Republic” (pp. 289-291). ($4,000-8,000)
"FIRST
PUBLISHED ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY IN MODERN TIMES ACROSS THE
PANHANDLE”—STREETER
TEXAS
67. PIKE, Albert. Prose Sketches and Poems, Written in the
Western Country. Boston: Light & Horton, 1834. viii, 200 pp.
Bound with this copy is an engraved map with original coloring:
Mexico and Guatimala [below neatline]: J. H. Young sc.| xxxv;
neat line to neat line 20 x 24.5 cm. 12mo, original dark green
moire cloth (rebacked, remains of original spine laid down, new
endpapers). Scattered light to moderate foxing. Upper blank
margin of pp. 103/104 repaired where a small section is missing
(no loss of text).
First edition. BAL 16031 (binding A, no priority) Field
1219: "This tour, made in 1831, through the country of the
Comanches and the other Indian tribes, gives some interesting
particulars of their life and customs." Graff 3285. Plains &
Rockies IV:50: "Pike was one of the first Anglo-American authors
to use the Southwest as a setting for his writings." Rittenhouse
466. Streeter 1150: "This seems to be the first published
account of a journey in modern times across the Texas Panhandle.
It is an unusual book by an unusual man, who besides hunting for
furs on the Plains, wrote poetry and was later a leading lawyer
of the Southwest." Cited by Streeter in the introduction to his
Texas bibliography as "especially desirable for a Texas
collection" (p. 328). ($1,500-3,000)
ZEBULON PIKE
IN
ORIGINAL BOARDS
68. PIKE, Z[ebulon] M[ontgomery]. An Account of Expeditions to
the Sources of the Mississippi, and through the Western Parts of
Louisiana, to the Sources of the Arkansaw.... Philadelphia: C. &
A. Conrad, et al., 1810. 5 [3] 277 [3, blank], 65 [1], 53 [1,
blank], 87 [1, blank], [12] pp., stipple-engraved portrait of
Pike, 4 maps, 2 charts, 3 tables. 8vo, original drab blue boards
with original tan paper spine (spine perishing). Other than
moderate wear to fragile boards, light uniform age-toning, old
tape repair on pp. 1/2 of Appendix to Part I, this beautiful
copy is in incredible original condition, uncut. Preserved in
cloth box. Rarely found in boards.
Maps
Falls of St. Anthony.
The First Part of Captn. Pike’s Chart of the Internal Part of
Louisiana See Plate 2d. & References. Reduced and laid down on a
Scale of 40 miles to the inch. by Anthony Nau.
A Chart of the Internal Part of Louisiana, Including all the
hitherto unexplored Countries, lying between the River La Platte
of the Missouri on the N: and the Red River on the S: the
Mississippi East and the Mountains of Mexico West; with a part
of New Mexico & the Province of Texas. by Z. M. Pike Captn.
U.S.I.
A Map of The Internal Provinces of New Spain. The Outlines are
from the Sketches of, but corrected and improved by Captain
Zebulon M. Pike, who was conducted through that Country, in the
Year 1807, by Order of the Commandant General of those
Provinces.
A Sketch of the Vice Royalty Exhibiting the Several Provinces
and its Aproximation [sic] to the Internal Provinces of New
Spain.
Map of the Mississippi River from its Source to the Mouth of the
Missouri: Laid down from the notes of Lieut. Z. M. Pike, by
Anthony Nau. Reduced, and corrected by the Astronomical
observations of Mr. Thompson at its Source; and of Captn. M.
Lewis, where it receives the waters of the Missouri. By Nichs.
King engraved by Francis Shallus, Philadelphia.
First edition of the first U.S. government exploration of the
Southwest. Basic Texas Books 163: "The beginning of serious
interest in Texas." Bennett, American Book Collecting, p. 46.
Bradford 4415. Braislin 1474. Eberstadt, Texas 162:603. Field
1217. Graff 3290. Hill, p. 236. Jones 743. Howes P373. Plains &
Rockies IV:9:1. Raines, p. 165. Rittenhouse 467. Sabin 62936.
Shaw & Shoemaker 21089. Streeter, p. 328 (citing the book as
especially desirable for a Texas collection): "Its early date
and its writer make it a foundation piece.... The account of
Texas in the appendix to Pike is the first, in English, for
Texas as a whole. Three of its maps show Texas"; 1047: "Pike's
account of the journey and of the week he spent in San Antonio,
where he was handsomely entertained by the Spanish officials,
makes interesting reading." Streeter Sale 3125. Tate 2183.
This edition contains the first appearance in print of the
first maps of the Southwest to be based on firsthand
exploration–“milestones in the mapping of the American West...
Although some authorities seem to have taken delight in
belittling Pike's achievements, these maps of the Plains areas
west from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains and through an
important portion of these mountains are maps of outstanding
historic interest.... Viewed together, they offer a remarkable
picture of an important stretch of country that had hitherto
been known only through the vaguest of rumors” (Wheat, Mapping
the Transmississippi West 298-99 & II, pp. 20-24). Crossroads of
Empire (Amon Carter Museum exhibit June 12-July 26, 1981): “In
1807 Pike led one of the earliest expeditions to reconnoiter the
newly purchased territory of Louisiana.... The published account
of his adventures includes a map which, while similar to
Humboldt's in many details, is a significant improvement in
rendering the interior of Texas. With the exception of the lower
courses of the Sabine and Neches, which are distorted to the
East, the Rivers are shown accurately. The Brazos is, for the
first time in a printed map, shown in almost its proper length
and shape.” Martin & Martin 24. One of the intriguing
cartographical controversies of the early nineteenth century was
the dispute between Pike, Arrowsmith, and Humboldt regarding the
genesis of their maps and who “borrowed” from whom.
($35,000-70,000)
FIRST
MONOGRAPH ON
TEXAS GEOLOGY,
BY THE FATHER OF TEXAS GEOLOGY
69. ROEMER, Ferdinand von. Die Kreiderbildungen von Texas und
ihre Organischen Einschlüsse. Bonn: Adolph Marcus, 1852. vi,
[2], 100 pp., 11 lithographic plates of Texas fossils by C.
Hohe. Folio, original printed boards (rebacked in cloth).
Fragile boards browned and rubbed, some foxing and staining to
text, overall a very good copy of a rare Texas book, unopened.
First edition of the first treatise on Texas geology, by
the first scientist to conduct a geological examination of the
state. Howes R406. Sabin 72591. Roemer (1818-1891) gives a
thorough account of the chalk formations of Texas and describes
typical fossils of the Tertiary and Paleozoic. Each formation is
catalogued with a description of its external features,
location, and additional notes. The excellent plates by C. Hohe
and the Bonn lithographic firm of Henry & Cohen, illustrate in a
very precise manner the most typical formations.
“When Prince Carl wrote the Berlin Academy of Sciences to
request the aid of a competent young geologist to make a survey
of Texas—because he had been told that great silver mines
existed on the Adelsverein land—the Academy recommended twentyeight year old Ferdinand Roemer, who had received his Ph.D. in
geology in Berlin in 1842 and had spent the next few months
studying the geology of the mountainous country along the Rhine.
His book on the subject two years later caught the attention of
the Academy, and the great explorer, scientist, and diplomat
Alexander von Humboldt provided a letter of introduction for the
young scientist, who, ‘like a book, needs only to be opened to
yield good answers to all questions.’ Roemer easily stood out
from the crowd when he arrived in Texas in November, 1845. A
young professor, who, according to Mrs. Houstoun, had no teeth,
constantly chewed on a cigar, was fond of cognac, was a poor
rider, and whose neglect of personal hygiene was apparent even
in Texas society, he, nevertheless, kept everyone amused with
his ‘researches amongst the mud of the Texan rivers and his
diggings after geological specimens....’ Armed with credentials
from the Academy and anxious to see the new land, Roemer
crisscrossed the state for more than seventeen months, exploring
as far north as Glen Rose and as far west as Fredericksburg. He
visited Torrey's Trading Post near Waco and accompanied Baron
von Meusebach and Robert S. Neighbors on their treaty-making
expedition to the Comanches, but his primary task was to study
the geology of the region, which he undertook with enthusiasm
and dedication. Working virtually without maps, reliable
geological information, or colleagues with whom he could discuss
his theories, Roemer covered an area of approximately 20,000
square miles. Upon his return to Germany in 1847, young Roemer
finished two books at the Royal Academy of Science in Berlin,
one a travel narrative in 1849 that ranks among the most
accurate and candid of the accounts of Texas, the other his
scientific contribution in 1852, which was the first detailed
study of Texas geology. He also produced one of the most
reliable maps of Texas up to that time.” (Ron Tyler, unpublished
manuscript, Texas Lithographs of the Nineteenth Century).
($4,000-8,000)
“DESERVEDLY
RANKS AS A
SPANISH
PROSE CLASSIC"—HILL
70. SOLÍS Y RIVADENEYRA, Antonio de. The History of the Conquest
of Mexico by the Spaniards...Done in English...by Thomas
Townsend Esq. London: T. Woodward, J. Hooke, and J. Peele, 1724.
[18] [1] 2-163 [1, blank] + 252 + 152 pp., 7 copper-engraved
plates, 6 of which are folded (frontispiece portrait of Cortés,
panoramic views of the Valley of Mexico, archaeology, scenes
from the conquest), plus 2 copper-engraved maps: [1] Untitled
map of Mexico and Central America, above neat line at right J.
Clarke sc., folded; [2] The Lake of Mexico and Parts Adjacent;
engraved head- and tail-pieces, initials. Folio, contemporary
full calf over wooden boards.
First English edition. European Americana 1724/165. Field
1464. Hill I, p. 278: "The most popular history of Mexico that
had then been written. The sources were the letters of Hernando
Cortés, the works of Francisco Lopez de Gómara, Bernal Díaz del
Castillo.... The Historia, covering the years between the
appointment of Cortés to command the invading force and the fall
of the city of Mexico, deservedly ranks as a Spanish prose
classic." Hill II:1601. Medina, BHA 1773n. Palau 318693. Sabin
86487
Solís (1610-1868) gradually rose in Spanish Royal
administration until he became Philip IV’s secretary. In 1660 he
was named Chronicler of the Indies, and this book is one of the
results of that office. Not only is the book widely valued for
its historical worth, but also for the author’s gracious and
pleasing style. ($1,000-2,000)
MANUSCRIPT PLAN
OF
LOS ADAES—CAPITAL
OF
TEXAS
IN
1729
71. [SPANISH TEXAS]. “Presidio de Nra. Señora del Pilar de Los
Adaes en la frontera de los Thexas....” Manuscript plan of the
presidio, drawn before 1726. [2] pp., ink on paper. 42 x 30 cm.
Except for small splits at folds, very good. Professionally
rendered drawing of the fort, including prominent features such
as the chapel but lacking structures in the courtyard. With key
on recto and contemporary remarks in ink on verso about the
presidio.
Established in 1721 to block French encroachment upon
Spain's southwestern possessions, Los Adaes was in 1729 made the
capital of Texas and was the farthest eastern point in Spanish
Mexico. Because Los Adaes was so far removed from other Spanish
settlements and sources of supply, the residents developed trade
relations with the nearby French and the area's Native Americans
out of necessity. Despite official grumblings about illicit
trade, it was allowed to continue since there was no other way
for the settlement to survive. After nearly fifty years of
fairly peaceful and undisturbed existence, the place was ordered
abandoned and the settlers forcibly removed in 1773 in a manner
Herbert Eugene Bolton compared to the removal of the French
Acadians. Many of them returned to the area, however, and
founded the modern-day town of Nacogdoches, Texas. Los Adaes was
unique in Texas history because it was the only outpost actually
in modern-day Louisiana and the only one that developed any
meaningful relationship with the French.
This plan is a scale drawing of the presidio and was
probably made shortly after the structure was built. In 1726,
the garrison was reduced to sixty men; because of a reference
here to 100 men in the garrison, the plan must predate that
year. Although there were structures inside the walls, such as
the Governor's house, this plan depicts only the fortifications
themselves. An historically important depiction of a site now
being actively excavated by the State of Louisiana. ($6,00012,000)
GOLD RUSH STOCK CERTIFICATE
72. STANISLAUS CENTRAL BRIDGE COMPANY. Engraved pictorial stock
cetificate completed in manuscript, illustrating steamship,
suspension bridge, and train at top. No. [610] Sonora, [March
4,] 185[3], Stanislaus Central Bridge Company, Chartered for 50
Years, from October 1852.... [below border]: Printed at the
Dispatch Office, Commerical Street, San Francisco. Signed by
Lewis C. Gunn as secetary and Byrne as President and P. O. Byrne
as President (and founder of Poker Flat). Very fine.
Not in Greenwood. The central vignette depicts one of the
great misfortunes in this Gold Rush Company’s operations. The
suspension bridge depicted on the certificate spanned the
Stanislaus River, cutting hours of travel time between Stockton
and Sonora. After the bridge was built, but before it was
supposed to be open to traffic, it was determined that its loadbearing capacity was not great enough, and more cable chains
were ordered installed. For unknown reasons traffic was allowed
on the bridge anyway, which collapsed under the weight of a
wagon and its team. ($200-400)
73. SKELTON, R[aleigh] A[shlin] (editor). James Cook, Surveyor
of Newfoundland: Being a Collection of Charts of the Coast of
Newfoundland and Labradore, & Drawn from Original Surveys Taken
by James Cook and Michael Lane. London, Thomas Jefferys, 17691770.... San Francisco: [text printed at Grabhorn Press, and
charts printed at Meriden Gravure for] David Magee, 1965. <32>
[2] pp., printed in red and black + 11 leaves of plates (10
fascimile charts, 6 of which are folding + facsimile title page)
in portfolio. 2 vols., folio, original blue wrappers. Laid in
publisher’s grey cloth box with gilt-lettered black leather
spine label. Spine of portfolio slightly darkened, as usual, due
to contact with cloth inside case, otherwise very fine.
Limited edition (365 sets). Beddie 1946. Grabhorn Press
649. Hill I, pp. 63-64. Hill II:370. The original charts from
which the facsimiles were made are in the University of
California at Los Angeles. This survey of Newfoundland was
Cook’s first substantial naval assignment and his first command
of an expedition. Cook’s early experiences in the area were
during the French and Indian War, when he was present at the
reduction of Louisbourg. The area at the time was much disputed
between France and England, and the knowledge of it that Cook
gained during the surveys was highly important to his country as
relations between the two countries remained strained following
the French and Indian War. Treaty provisions gave France
continued access to part of the area, but geographical knowledge
was woefully inadequate, a situation Cook was sent to remedy.
Although understandably eclipsed by his later voyages,
Beaglehole says of Cook’s work here: “Cook was to carry out many
accomplished pieces of surveying, in one part of the world or
another, but nothing he ever did later exceeded in
accomplishment his surveys of the southern and western sides of
Newfoundland from 1763-1767” (Vol. V, p. 69). As Bernard de Voto
remarks, because of this survey, when Cook finally surveyed the
western American coast, he became the first man in history to
know how wide North America really is (Course of Empire). For a
detailed discussion of the contemporary publications of Cook’s
North American surveys and of their importance, see R. A.
Skelton & R. V. Tooley, “The Marine Surveys of James Cook in
North America, 1758-1768,” in R. V. Tooley, The Mapping of
America (London: Holland, 1980), pp. [173]-206. ($400-800)
THE PRISONERS
OF
PEROTE—ONE
OF THE
FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES
74. STAPP, William. The Prisoners of Perote: Containing a
Journal Kept by the Author, who was Captured by the Mexicans, at
Mier, December 25, 1842, and Released from Perote, May 16, 1844.
Philadelphia: Zieber, 1845. 164, [4] (ads) pp. 12mo, original
green cloth. Head of spine chipped, cloth slightly discolored,
interior very fine, with contemporary ownership notation of
Charles H. Wessels.
First edition. Basic Texas Books 197: "This was the first
book to appear on the Mier expedition; it is still one of the
best.... Descriptions of the march to the Rio Grande, the Battle
of Mier, the surrender of the Texans, their imprisonment and
attempts to escape, the drawing of the black beans, the removal
to Mexico City, and imprisonment in Perote Prison." Fifty Texas
Rarities 27. Graff 3949. Holliday 1038. Howes S891. Littell 987.
Raines, p. 194: “An interesting story of personal adventure and
prison life; but as to Santa Anna and description of Mexican
life, plagiarized largely from Brantz Mayer’s Mexico, issued the
previous year.” Sabin 90483. Streeter 1610 (cited by Streeter as
one of the top books for a Texas collection, p. 329). Vandale
167.
“Probably this book did not have a wide circulation, for
few copies have survived. In 1887-88 the La Grange Journal
reprinted Stapp's story in its columns. In 1933 the Journal
republished the book in a facsimile edition taken from its
files. The book harshly denounces Antonio López de Santa Anna.
Although Joe B. Frantz observed that the book was neither ‘fair’
nor ‘dispassionate,’ Wayne Gard found its denunciations only
‘understandable expressions of outrage.’ Stapp was well
educated; the book abounds in classical references as well as
literary and musical allusions. It was the first book to appear
on the Mier expedition and remains one of the best” (Handbook of
Texas Online). ($600-1,200)
THE OTHER TEXIAN LOAN–THE INFAMOUS CONFEDERATE BEAVER BOND
75. TEXAS. CONFEDERATE STATE. Engraved pictorial Texas
Confederate Bond completed in manuscript and signed in ink by
Texas Confederate Governor F. R. Lubbock and Treasurer C. H.
Randolph: $1,000...Texian Loan of One Million Dollars, Issued
under an Act of the Legislature, April 8th, 1861.... Austin,
[January 1st], 186[2]. 36 x 40 cm (14-1/8 x 15-3/4 inches). Very
good, with a few short tears (no losses).
Engraved by J. Douglas at New Orleans, this is a rare
example of the infamous Beaver Bond, so named because of the
pictorial vignette at top showing a man wearing beaver hat and
carrying a musket. After the Civil War ended, the bonds were not
paid because the State of Texas claimed the State government
under the Confederacy was illegal, and thus the bonds were null
and void. ($750-1,500)
“LA
PÉRDIDA DE
TEJAS
ACARREARIA INEVITABLEMENTE LA DEL
CALIFORNIAS”
NUEVO-MÉXICO
Y DE LAS
76. TORNEL [Y MENDÍVIL] , José María. Tejas y los Estados Unidos
de América, en sus relaciones con la República Mexicana. Mexico:
Impreso por Ignacio Cumplido, calle de los Rebeldes N. 2, 1837.
98 pp. 8vo, printed tan wrappers (upper wrapper in excellent
sympathetic facsimile, lower wrapper original). Tiny void on
title (no loss), text with mild to moderate browning, overall a
very good copy. Copies in wrappers are the exception.
First edition of Tornel’s domino theory regarding Texas.
Eberstadt, Texas 162:841. Fifty Texas Rarities 18. Graff 4167.
Howell, California 50:233: “An important analysis of MexicanTexan relations. The former Minister Plenipotentiary to the
United States from Mexico, General Tornel was at the time this
pamphlet was written Secretary of War and Marine. He details all
land grants up to 1837, and reports on the American attempts at
revolution in California, as well as their various schemes for
colonizing Mexican territories.” Howes T302 (“b”). Palau 334525.
Rader 3145. Ramos, Bibliografía de la Historia de México 4329.
Sabin 96208. Streeter 932: “This is a hasty review of the
history of Texas to after San Jacinto, written with considerable
venom by Tornel, while he was Secretary of War and Marine."
A man reputed to be more like Santa Anna than even the
dictator himself, Tornel (1789-1853) was not one to be taken in
by events or blinded by rose-colored glasses. He clearly saw
that the United States would in all probability, under whatever
pretext, attempt to take not only Texas but also other Mexican
territories, including California and New Mexico. He believed so
deeply that Anglos should be kept from Mexican possessions that
at one point in the early 1830s he even stopped issuing permits
for new colonists in Texas, a move overturned by others
obviously less insightful about possible outcomes. Written after
the defeat at San Jacinto, this work, although reviewing with
some impartiality the Texas grants and their progress, urges in
the strongest terms that the war be continued, stating that the
loss of Texas would merely set in train the disastrous series of
events so correctly predicted here: “La pérdida de Tejas
acarrearia inevitablemente la del Nuevo-México y de las
Californias; y poco á poco se iria menoscabando nuestro
territorio, hasta quedar reducidos á una espresion
insignificante” (p. 90). ($2,500-5,000)
78. WAGNER, Henry R. The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of
America to the Year 1800. Berkeley, 1937. xiv, 270 pp. + [4],
543 pp. Maps & illustrations. 2 vols., original black cloth.
Fine in dust jackets.
First edition. Howell 32:313 “Absolutely indispensable for
any collector specializing in the subject. Interesting and
readable for others.” ($400-800)
79. WAGNER, Henry R. Spanish Explorations in the Strait of Juan
de Fuca. Santa Ana, California, 1933. [2], v [1, blank], 323 [1]
pp., 13 maps (6 folding) 8vo, original black cloth. Maps. Fine
in original cloth over boards. Fine. Ink presentation on title
from Thomas Williams (typographer of the book) to Harry Carr.
First edition (limited to 425 copies). Howes W10. Streeter
Sale 4409. ($400-800)
A SELECTION
OF
ETCHED BOOKS
BY
BERNHARDT WALL
Bernhardt Wall (1872-1956) was a Connecticut Yankee who wintered
in La Porte, Texas, his wife's family home, for many years. In
the mid-1930s he produced at least three books of copper-plate
engravings during his annual Texas sojourns: Following General
Sam Houston, 1793-1863 (1935), Following Stephen F. Austin,
Father of Texas (1936), and Following Andrew Jackson (1937). The
process was so tedious and time-consuming that the editions were
always severely limited; however, these are the finished work of
a well-rounded artisan. Wall wrote his books, designed them,
etched the plates, printed and signed each etching, then cut,
folded, gathered, sewed, bound, lettered, and labeled them.
After his wife's death in 1938, Wall, like the horseman in his
colophon, rode away–back to Connecticut, where he later
remarried. He lived his own last years in Sierra Madre,
California.—Al Lowman, from his article “Printing Arts” in the
New Handbook of Texas
80. WALL, Bernhardt. Bits from Wall's Etched Books. [Lime Rock,
ca. 1932]. 13 etchings (plus cover etching), 6 signed by Wall,
and one inscribed. Various colored inks. Laid paper. Original
hand-bound plain grey boards, etching on upper cover (15.1 x
10.7 cm), plain grey dust wrapper, with Wall’s ink ms. title on
spine. Cover moderately foxed, d.j. slightly scuffed and
stained, interior and etchings very fine. Very affectionate
signed presentation copy by Wall to the Walls' friends the
Blodgetts, dated August 20, 1932.
Limitation not stated. Weber, p. 37: "This is a collection
of plates etched between 1921 and 1929." The present copy varies
in selection of plates from others we have seen; apparently Bits
from Wall’s Etched Books were made up by Wall for the nonce, as
the title would imply. ($400-800)
81. WALL, Bernhardt. Dogs and Some Literature. Lime Rock,
[1932]. 19 etchings (plus cover etching), limitation etching
signed by Wall. Mostly brown and black inks, wove paper, plain
grey dust wrapper with Wall’s manuscript title in ink. Original
hand-bound grey cloth over plain grey boards, etching on upper
cover (25 x 21 cm). Except for minor cover wear and browning the
d.j., very fine, the etchings perfect. With Wall’s warm, signed
presentation in pencil to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Blodgett, dated in
1934.
Limited edition (#4 of 100 signed copies). Weber, p. 6:
"Wall always claimed in his lectures that a dog had occasioned
his etching career”; & p. 41: "This book was described by Wall
as being a collection of plates 'etched in the past dozen
years.'" ($300-400)
The Etched Monthly
Including an Etching by Mary Bonner
82. WALL, Bernhardt. The Etched Monthly. Vol. I, Nos. 1-12,
October 1928 to September 1929. 12 issues, with 197 etchings
(including 12 cover etchings, each of which has a seasonal
theme, such as turkey for November). Many of the etchings are
signed by Wall. Various colored inks, heavy wove paper. 12
vols., original hand-bound tan paper wrappers with etching on
each upper cover (20.7 x 15 cm). Except for one thin strip of
waterstaining to blank margins of a few prints in No. 2,
exceptionally fine set (usually found in tattered and chipped
wraps). The etchings are uniformly pristine.
Limited edition (#55 of 250 signed and numbered copies).
Weber, p. 56: "The third phase of Wall's periodical
publications, The Etched Monthly, inaugurated at Lime Rock,
Connecticut in 1928, was completed in April of 1931. Smaller in
format than the earlier journal, it was priced at $25 per year.
Though advertised as being part of a press run of 250 copies,
only fifty-five subscribers were identified." A variety of
etching techniques are used, including regular etching, drypoint, aquatint, soft-ground, and roulette. Nine of the etchings
are by other artists, including one of a charro by noted Texas
artist, Mary Bonner. ($2,000-4,000)
83. WALL, Bernhardt. Following James McNeill Whistler Etcher and
Painter 1834-1903. [Lime Rock], [1944?]. 65 etchings (plus cover
etching), 54 signed by Wall). Various inks, wove paper. Original
grey cloth over grey boards with etching on upper cover (27 x 25
cm), plain grey dust wrapper with etched spine label. Light
marginal foxing to binding, a few spots to jacket, interior and
etching superior.
Limited edition (#8 of 103 copies). Weber, p. 44 (calling
for 62 plates): “These etchings, actually excecuted in Sierra
Madre, present a chronological sequence of Whistler’s career,
together with places associated with his life.” ($1,500-3,000)
84. WALL, Bernhardt. Following Stephen F. Austin: Father of
Texas. Lime Rock, [1936]. 47 etchings (including tipped-in
limitation notice and cover etching), most signed by Wall.
Various colors. Heavy wove paper. Original grey cloth over grey
boards with etching on upper cover (25 x 22 cm). Binding with
light outer wear and a few spots, interior very fine. With
Wall’s signed presentation inscription dated April 7, 1938: “To
Sir Robert Falconer, by George A. Hill, Jr., Esq., Houston
Texas.”
Limited edition, “Centennial Edition” (200 copies). Weber,
p. 43: "The plates for this book were engraved at Houston. It
was dedicated to Dr. Eugene C. Barker, the biographer of
Austin... This book was actually printed in Texas. There was
also a 'Centennial Edition' of 200 copies." ($1,500-3,000)
GREENWICH VILLAGE TYPES
WITH
2 ORIGINAL ZINC PLATES
85. WALL, Bernhardt. Greenwich Village Types: Tenements &
Temples. New York, [1920]. 27 etchings (plus etching on upper
cover), 23 signed by Wall. Plus 2 original zinc plates set
within boards (“An Italian Feed,” scene in restaurant; and
“Italian Church”). Mostly brown and black inks, but a few
colored lilac, orange, etc. Heavy wove paper. Original handbound grey cloth over grey paper-covered boards (25.3 x 22.8
cm), plain grey dust wrapper with Wall’s ms. title on paper
spine label. Except for mild foxing of boards and a few spots on
dust wrappers, very fine, the etchings excellent. A few of the
plates have Wall’s pencil notes. Laid in is Wall’s unsigned
typed letter of explanation concerning production of the book,
in which he states that the plates had become so worn that he
could not print from them any longer. Wall’s signed ink
presentation copy to Dorothy Blodgett Scholle, dated 1937.
Limited edition (#21 of 26 signed copies). According to the
limitation leaf, this is the third state. Weber, p. 31: "An
interesting pictorial presentation of 'the Montmartre of
America,' an area in Manhattan long frequented by authors,
artists, and students." The limitation leaf describes Greenwich
Village thus: "A hodge-podge of tumble-down tenements, rickety
architectural relics, with a great deal of modernity just minced
together. Mushroom tea taverns & dancing dens have found
lodgement in the attics & cellars." One of the most charming and
spirited of Wall's productions. ($4,000-8,000)
86. WALL, Bernhardt. In Mark Twain's Missouri. Lime Rock, 1931.
18 etchings (plus cover etching), 13 signed by Wall. Various
colored inks, heavy wove paper. Original hand-bound grey cloth
over plain grey boards, etching on upper cover (25.2 x 23 cm),
plain grey dust wrapper with Wall’s ms. title in ink on spine.
Boards and jacket slightly browned, otherwise very fine. Wall’s
pencil ms. warm presentation to Howard and Dorothy.
Limited edition (#3 of 100 signed copies). Weber, p. 37:
"This book resulted from a tour in 1926 'amidst the scenes of
Mark Twain's early childhood.' The frontispiece is based on a
sketch of Mark Twain by Wall at New York City in 1904." ($5001,000)
GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED
87. [WALL, Bernhardt (etcher)]. MARKHAM, Edwin & Bernhardt Wall.
Edwin Markham and "The Man With the Hoe." Lime Rock, 1936. 34
etchings (plus cover and spine label), 25 signed. The limitation
is signed by both Wall and Markham. Various colored inks (2 of
which are bi-colored), heavy wove paper. Original hand-bound
grey cloth over grey boards, etching on upper cover (32.5 x 26.5
cm), plain trey dust wrapper with etched paper spine label.
Covers lightly browned along upper and lower edge, dust wrapper
moderately sunned and foxed with a few small tears (no losses),
interior and etchings very fine." Wall’s signed ink presentation
copy to Howard Scholle dated September 12, 1937.
Limited edition (Trial Copy #5 of an unstated limitation
copy; the Humanities Research Copy at UT has Trial Copy #1 of a
designated 13 trial copies). Markham’s poem and Wall’s etching
was inspired J. F. Millet’s painting of the same name. Of the
original edition (San Francisco, 1899), Grolier American Hundred
#99 states: “The plaint of the laboring man, in an honest,
passionate, truly poetic outcry, which still rings to shame and
shock—and stimulate.” ($750-1,500)
88. [WALL, BERNHARDT]. WEBER, Francis J. Following Bernhardt
Wall 1872-1956...Biobibliographical Sketch. Austin: [Patrick
Reagh of Glendale & Castle Press of Pasadena, for] The Book Club
of Texas, 1994. Frontispiece portrait, tipped-in samples and
photogravure reproductions of Wall's etchings, including work
from his books, periodicals, and postcards. 4to, original grey
cloth over grey boards, printed paper label on upper cover,
plain grey d.j. New as issued, in slipcase.
Limited edition (195 copies, this being one of the 95
copies with an original ALs by Wall). ($200-400)
89. Zuni Indian Guide to Health and Longevity. Lancaster, New
York, 1889. 4 pp., folio, woodcut illustrations (including
portrait of supposed Zuni medicine chief S. Wolf who allegedly
was born in Zuni in 1857 but went east 1877). Uniformly browned
due to the paper on which it is printed.
A typical nineteenth-century medical advertisement selling
Indian remedies. This advertising was produced for a “big free
show” that was to run for two weeks at LaFargeville, according
to the rubber stamp on p. 1. Rare quack medicine ephemera using
the Native American factor as its shtick. ($100-200)
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