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MINUTES OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF MAINE, AT THEIR ANNUAL MEETING IN WISCASSET...
Portland 1832 32pp. Sewn as issued. First edition. Not in Shaw. Presbyterian Conference.
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LIST OF CLAIMS BEFORE THE SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION. LETTER FROM... TRANSMITTING A LIST OF CLAIMS NOW BEING DEFENDED BEFORE THE SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION, AND OTHER INFORMATION.
Wash. SD299 1902 190pp. dbd. First edition.
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Bryce, George. SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF JOHN TANNER, A FAMOUS MANITOBA SCOUT. A BORDER TYPE...
Winnipeg, 1888. 4pp. Original printed wrappers. First edition. Hist. and Scientific Soc. of Manitoba Trans. #30. Decker Catalog 29:530, considers this one of the scarcer publications of the society.
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Bennett, James. OVERLAND JOURNEY TO CALIFORNIA: JOURNAL OF... WHOSE PARTY LEFT NEW HARMONY IN 1850 AND CROSSED PLAINS AND MOUNTAINS UNTIL THE GOLDEN WEST WAS REACHED.
N.Y., 1932. 45pp. Original wrappers. Limited edition of 200 copies from New Harmony Times of 1906. Howes B357a. Graff 261.
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Benton, Thomas H. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES... REPORT... TO VINDICATE THE CHARACTER AND HONOR OF THE SENATE AGAINST THE CHARGES OF CORRUPTION PUBLISHED IN ... THE "DAILY TIMES"...
Wash. SD222 1846 36pp. dbd. First edition. The Senate and Benton in particular, had been accused ofcorrupt communications with the British Minister in relation to the settlement of Oregon question. This is his vindication.
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Bibb, George M. REPORT OF... COMMUNICATING INFORMATION IN RELATION TO THE CLAIM TO LAND IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA CALLED THE "HOUMAS CLAIM."
Wash. SD45 1845 156,4pp. Illus., 3 folding maps of the claim. dbd. First edition. Contains 77 transcripts and copies of letters from 1841™1845 dealing with this important claim.
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Strickland, William. JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1794-1795 ... WITH A FACSIMILE EDITION OF WILLIAM STRICKLAND'S "OBSERVATIONS ON THE AGRICULTURE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA."
N.Y. 1971 [23],335pp. Illus. Original cloth. New York Hist. Soc. Coll. Vol. 83. First edition. From original journals and letters, this English traveller's experiences in the north and his relationships with important Americans of the era.
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A BILL FOR THE ADJUDICATION AND LIQUIDATION OF THE CLAIMS FOR PROPERTY TAKEN AWAY IN VIOLATION OF THE FIFTH ARTICLE OF THE TREATY OF GHENT.
Wash. HR395 1827 5pp. dbd. Folio. First edition.
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Randolph, Edmund. A VINDICATION OF EDMUND RANDOLPH, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, AND PUBLISHED IN 1795. NEW EDITION, WITH A PREFACE BY P. V. DANIEL, JR.
Richmond Wynne 1855 [11],82pp. Marbled boards in half leather, small paper label on spine. Daniel, son of the United States Supreme Court Justice and the grandson of Randolph, passionately defends him. "This man is suddenly stricken down, condemned, and disgraced, so far as such a man can be disgraced-- and for what cause, and on what evidence of guilt or unworthiness?" he asks rhetorically. The Vindication is printed in full here, along with Washington's anti-France Message of December 1793, his nomination of John Jay as our envoy to England, and Randolph's letter of August 1794 to Washington on the foreign policy implications of the Whisky Rebellion. Howes R55: "The author had resigned from Washington's cabinet under fire, suspected of aiding French intrigue." Swen 44676.
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Stewart, W. Frank. PLEASANT HOURS IN AN EVENTFUL LIFE.
San F. 1869 94pp. Original gold stamped cloth. First edition. Cowan p.615: "The subjects of severalof these poems are Californian, and many were written here from 1849 to 1856."
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Fairchild, Lucius. CALIFORNIA LETTER OF...
Madison, Wi. 1931 [19[,212pp. Illus. Original cloth. First edition. Edited with notes and introduction by Joseph Schafer. Wisc. Hist. Pubs. Colls. Vol. 31. Not in Howes, Cowan, or Graff.
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Argyll, John. THE CANDIAN NORTH-WEST. SPEECH DELIVERED AT WINNIPEG BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE MARQUIS OF LORNE, GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA.
Ottawa 1883 16pp. Illus. Folding map. dbd., small rubber library stamp on title page. Peel 558.
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Armour, J. Ogden. THE PACKERS, THE PRIVATE CAR LINES, AND THE PEOPLE.
Phila. 1906 380pp. Illus. Original pictorial cloth. First edition. Adams Herd 167. Reese Six Score 6. One of the great items in the literature of the American cattle trade.
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Arthur, John. A. BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE EXPERIENCES OF A PIONEER OF 1843.
Salem Oregon 1887 In: Oregon Pioneer Association Proceedings #15, pp.96-104, Original printed wrappers. First edition. Overland to Oregon from Missouri.
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Bayfield, Henry Wolsey. THE ST. LAWRENCE SURVEY JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN HENRY WOLSEY BAYFIELD 1829-1853.
Toronto, Champlain Society, 1984-1986. 2 vols. Illus. Original cloth. First edition. Publications of the Champlain Society LIV & LV. Limited to 1350 numbered copies.
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Bolton, Herbert E. PALOU AND HIS WRITINGS.
[Berkeley 1926] 74pp. Illus. Original printed wrappers. Reprinted from the introduction to Palou's "New California..."
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Burleton, Solomon Stevens. AN OFFICER OF THE LINE: IN THE CONQUEST OF THE CONTINENT. BY HIS SONS.
Hartford Church Missions Pub. Co. 1911 Illus. Original cloth. First edition. Missionary experience in Minnesota Wisconsin and Oneida.
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Carroll, John M. CUSTER IN TEXAS: AN INTERRUPTED NARRATIVE.
N.Y., 1975. 288pp. Illus. Original cloth. First edition.
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A TRIBUTE TO GENERAL GATES PHILLIPS THRUSTON.
[Dayton, Ohio 1914] 129pp. Illus., tipped in ports. Original boards. First edition. Contains his genealogy, military record, life in Nashville, etc. He was the author of "The Antiquities of Tennessee..." Not in Dornbusch, Nevins, or Nicholson.
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Speer, Alexander. SOUTH CAROLINA CLAIMS ... REPORT ... THE MEMORIAL OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA BY ... COMPTROLLER GENERAL.
Wash. HR66 1830 71pp. dbd. First edition.
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Monroe, James. MESSAGE FROM ... TRANSMITTING, A LETTER FROM THE GOV. OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AND EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE ...
Wash. HD129 1818 8pp. dbd. First edition.
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Buchanan, James. SOUTH CAROLINA. MESSAGE FROM ... TRANSMITTING CORRESPONDENCE IN RELATION TO FORT SUMTER, ETC.
Wash., HD61, 1861. 17pp. dbd. First edition.
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JAMES MONROE. MEMORIAL OF THE CITIZENS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY IN VIRGINIA, PRAYING CONGRESS TO RECONSIDER THE CLAIMS OF MR. MONROE ... AND TO REMUNERATE HIM FOR HIS LOSSES ... INCURRED IN THE SERVICE OF THE COUNTRY.
Wash. HD94 1829 6pp. dbd. First edition.
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Trenton, Patricia and Peter H. Hassrick. THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS: A VISION FOR ARTISTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Norman, Okla. Okla. [1983] [19],418pp. Illus., maps, plates, many colored. Original 4to oblong cloth, d.j. First edition. A broad overview of the development of landscape art in the Rocky Mountains from the works of the early scientific artist reporters on government expeditions to Albert Bierstadt.
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THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES, TO BE LAID BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL OF ARBITRATION, TO BE CONVENED AT GENEVA UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN, CONCLUDED AT WASHINGTON, MAY 8, 1871.
Wash. SED31 1872 204pp. Folding map. Original cloth. First edition.
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Clark, William H. THE SOLDIER'S OFFERING.
Boston 1875 First edition 76pp. Original cloth. Part I,pp.1-44: Reminiscences of the Thirty-Fourth Regiment, Mass. Vol. Inf., Part II, pp.51-76: original poems. Dornbusch I:300. Nicholson cat p. 155. Nevins VOl. 1 p.71. Presentation copy from G. W. Clark.
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LES CONSERVATEURS ET LA POLITIQUE NATIONALE DE 1878 A 1882.
St. Hyacinthe 1882 96pp. Original wrappers. First edition. Gagnon II:1641. Conservative campaign document attacking McKenzie's records on the CPR, the LeTellier affair, and fanaticism.
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CANADA'S GOVERNOR GENERAL, 1867-1952.
Toronto [1952] [26],210pp. Illus. Original cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. With aforeword by R. C. Wallace.
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Taylor, Zachary. MESSAGE OF ... TRANSMITTING REPORTS FROM THE SEVERAL HEADS OF DEPARTMENT RELATIVE TO THE SUBJECT OF ... ALLEGED REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN CUBA.
Wash. SD57 1850 124pp. dbd. First edition. Foreigners, enjoying the protection of the U. S., were getting up armed expeditions to invade Cuba.
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Decker, Malcolm. BENEDICT ARNOLD: SON OF THE HAVENS.
N.Y. Antiquarian Press 1961 [13],534pp. Illus. Original cloth. One of 750 copies. A very scarce andimportant biographical sketch.
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Rich, E. E. et al. MOOSE FORT JOURNALS, 1783-1785.
London Hudson Bay Record Society 1954 [30[,[4],392,[14]pp. Illus., folding maps. Original cloth. First edition. One of a limited numbered edition. Hudson Bay Record Soc. V.17.
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Davis, Henry. A SERMON DELIVERED ON THE DAY OF GENERAL ELECTION AT MONTPELIER, OCTOBER 12, 1815, BEFORE THE... LEGISLATURE OF VERMONT.
Montpelier Walton and Goss 1815 First edition 40pp. dbd. McCorrison 1727. Shaw 34541
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Moebs, Thomas T. U.S. REFERENCE-IANA: [1481-1899]. U.S. REFERENCE-IANA: [1481-1899]: A CONCISE GUIDE TO OVER 4000 BOOKS AND ARTICLES FOR RESEARCHING... SPECIFICALLY COMPILED FOR AMERICANA COLLECTORS, BOOKSELLERS AND LIBRARIANS.
Williamsburg, Va. 1989 [11],826,[4]pp. Illus. Original cloth, d.j. First edition. Art, books, broadsides, ephemera, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, pamphlets, photographs, and prints relating to that area within the present limits of the United States. Introduction by Archibald Hanna.
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Rohne, J. Magnus. NORWEGIAN AMERICAN LUTHERANISM UP TO 1872.
N.Y. 1926 [24],271pp. Original cloth, d.j., a few small pieces of d.j. missing. First edition. One of the most important works on the subject.
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THE CHURCHMAN'S CALENDAR ... DESIGNED TO EXHIBIT AN ACTUAL VIEW OF THE HOLY CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH ... NO. VIII.
N.Y. 1868 264pp. Original 12mo wrappers. First edition. Contains sketches of the activities of the Church in Alaska, Canada, the West and South. Also sketches of religious life in the West Indies and Latin America.
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Chapin, Eugene. BY-GONE DAYS; OR, THE EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN.
Boston 1898 120pp. Illus. Original cloth. First edition. Chapin was acting assistant paymaster of the U. S. Navy. This book contains chapters on the West, hunting, life at Key West, adventures at Tampa Bay, St. Joseph's Bay, naval days, etc.
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Dow, George Francis. EVERY DAY LIFE IN THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY.
Boston 1935 [12],293pp. Illus. Original marbled boards, cloth spine.(pictorial dust jacket). First edition. One of 1000 copies. An important picture of life in the early days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Much of the intimate detail of existence in the colony, in the 17th century, has been lost.
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Leonard, Irving, [trans.]. SPANISH APPROACH TO PENSACOLA, 1689-1693.
Albuquerque Quivira Soc. 1939 323pp. Illus., large folded map, frontis., plates. Original vellum backed boards. Limited to 550 numbered copies. An extremely fine group of documents for the first time translated. The importance of this mass of original sources for the history of the old Southwest and indeed, for the later history of the farther west, is matched only by their importance as a part of the history of Spanish exploration and settlement in the region north of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Reese, William S. SIX SCORE: THE 120 BEST BOOKS ON THE RANGE CATTLE INDUSTRY.
New HAven 1989 91pp. Illus., facs. of title pages, etc. Original cloth, d.j. Second and best edition. An important annotated bibliography. One of 1000 copies printed.
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Schofield, J. M. LETTER OF... COMMUNICATING... REPORTS IN RELATION TO RECENT DISTURBANCES IN LOUISIANA.
Wash. SD15 1869 45pp. dbd. First edition. A riot which occurred in the parish of St. Landry betweenthe whites and the free people of the parish.
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Edwards, Rev. George. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HISTORY.
Helena, Mt. 1907 In: Contributions to the Hist. Soc. of Montana, Vol. 6, pp.290-444. Original cloth. First edition.
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MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. CONTRIBUTIONS.
Helena, Mt. Volume 6. Original cloth.
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Latham, Dr. Hiram. TRANS-MISSOURI STOCK RAISING: THE PASTURE LANDS OF NORTH AMERICA: WINTER GRAZING...
Denver 1962 [16],94pp. Illus., drawings E. M. Schiwetz. Original cloth, d.j. With an introduction by Jeff Dykes. Facsimile of the rare 1871 original edition. This edition limited to 999 copies printed and designed by Carl Hertzog. Adams Herd 1409. Graff 2408. Howes L118. Dykes Schiwetz 29. Lowman 146. Reese Six Score 68.
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Mason, Charles and Jeremiah Dixon. THE JOURNAL OF...
Phila. 1969 231pp. Illus. Original folio cloth, d.j. torn. The printing of the original manuscript journal that Mason and Dixon kept during their famous survey.
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Lovejoy, Joseph C. and Owen. MEMOIR OF THE REV. ELIJAH P. LOVEJOY; WHO WAS MURDERED IN DEFENCE OF THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS, AT ALTON, ILLINOIS, NOV. 7, 1837...
N.Y. 1838. First edition 382pp. Original cloth, spine faded, wear to joints and spine. Howes L522.McCoy L365: "The story of Lovejoy, who was murdered by a proslavery mob, written by two of his brothers immediately after his death, and the major source of material on his life and the Alton Riot." Dumond p.76.
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Davis, Mr. DIARY OF MR. DAVIS, 1852.
Portland 1910 First edition Portland, 1910. In: Oregon Pioneer Association Transactions #37, pp.355-381. Original printed wrappers. He crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852 and this is his day by day account. He became dissatisfied in 1855 and went to Iowa where he married. He came back to Oregon in 1880.
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Perkins, Edith Forbes. LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF EDITH FORBES PERKINS, 1908-1925.
[Cambridge, Ma.] for private distribution 1931 4 vols. Illus. Original cloth, boxed. First edition.Contains material on Iowa, California, Wyoming in the 90's, Colorado, etc.
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Miles, William. JOURNAL OF THE SUFFERINGS AND HARDSHIPS OF CAPT. PARKER H. FRENCH'S OVERLAND EXPEDITION TO CALIFORNIA WHICH LEFT NEW YORK CITY, MAY 13TH, 1850, AND ARRIVED AT SAN FRANCISCO, DEC. 14.
[N.Y. 1916] 26pp. Original printed wrappers. Facsimile reprint of the rare Chambersberg, Pa., 1851 original. Cowan p.429. Howes M597. Jones 1265. Matthews p.327. Wagner™Camp 202. Graff 2791. One of 250 copies printed.
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Pearson, Henry Greenleaf. BUSINESS MAN IN UNIFORM. RAYNAL CAWTHORNE BOLLING, GENERAL SOLICITOR OF THE UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, COLONEL [SIGNAL CORPS], U.S.A..
N.Y. Duffield 1923 First edition [10],2,215pp. Illus., 12 plates. Original gold stamped boards withcloth spine. Major Bolling headed a mission to Europe, in 1917, to study the various aspects of the organization and aircraft of the allies. He was killed in action east of Estrees by German Infantry, March 26, 1918, after his car became lost. He was a member of the First Aero Company, N.Y. National Guard. Noffsinger 1140.
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Dolbeare, Dr. Benjamin. A NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY AND SUFFERING OF DOLLY WEBSTER AMONG THE CAMANCHE INDIANS IN TEXAS, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE MASSACRE OF JOHN WEBSTER AND HIS PARTY, AS RELATED BY MRS. WEBSTER.
New Haven Yale 1986 [11],34pp. Original cloth boards, facsimile reprint of the rare Clarksburg, 1843 original, with an important scholarly introduction by George Miles. One of 500 copies printed. Unrecorded by Howes, Wagner-Camp, Graff, etc. Streeter 1453 "No copy located..." West Virginia Imprints 377.
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Douglas, R. Alan. JOHN PRINCE: A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS.
Toronto 1980 [60],228pp. Illus. Original cloth. First edition. Prince was one of the most colorful individuals to reside in upper Canada. He was an attorney, politician, soldier, entrepreneur, and jurist.
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Drago, Hary Sinclair. WILD, WOOLLY & WICKED: THE HISTORY OF THE KANSAS COW TOWNS AND THE TEXAS CATTLE TRADE.
N.Y. 1960 First edition 354pp. Leather, deluxe edition limited to 250 copies numbered and signed byDrago. Adams Guns 729. "This book does much to debunk some of the nonsense written about the Earps... "
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Dunton, John. LETTERS FROM NEW ENGLAND, A.D. 1686... NOW FIRST PUBLISHED...
Boston Prince Soc 1867 First edition [24],340pp. Contemporary half morocco, x-library. One of 150 copies printed on small paper. Howes D581: "Interesting picture of New England life in the seventeenth century, but chiefly plagiarized from Josselyn, Mather and others." Larned 929: "An important and interesting account of New England, and particularly of Boston society, as it was near the close of the seventeenth century..."
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EDIT DU ROY, DONNE A PARIS AU MOIS D'AVRIL, 1717. PORTANT REGLEMENT GENERAL POUR LE COMMERCE DES INDES ET DE L'AMERIQUE ...
Grenoble; au palais, Giroud [1717] First edition 21pp. Modern wrappers. One of the most important decrees concerning French trade with its colonies, on which all subsequent regulations were based. The decree remained in force for a considerable time, suffering certain amendments sporadically, to suit varying economic and political changes. It appoints trading centers for America, duties on American vessels, classes of goods that may be imported, that all goods from America had to pass through France, etc. This edict, containing over thirty clauses, regulates every phase of trade between France and America and the Indies. Not in Kress.
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Howay, Frederic W. VOYAGES OF THE "COLUMBIA" TO THE NORTHWEST COAST, 1787-1790 AND 1790-1793.
[Boston] Ma. Hist. Soc. 1941 [33],518pp. Illus. Original cloth. First edition. Ma. Hist. Soc. Colls. Vol. 79. Not in Howes or Graff. The journals of John Hoskins, John Boit and Robert Haswell are included herein. It is a fascinating collection of material with a fine scholarly introduction and notes. Hill's Pacific Voyages p.148. Tourville 2203.
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FORT SNELLING INVESTIGATION ... REPORT. THE SELECT COMMITTEE ... TO INVESTIGATE THE FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES, ETC., CONNECTED WITH SALE OF THE MILITARY RESERVATION AT FORT SNELLING ...
Wash. HR351 1858 456pp. Original cloth, leather label. First edition.
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Viele, Teresa. FOLLOWING THE DRUM. A GLIMPSE OF FRONTIER LIFE.
N.Y. 1858 256,[7],[1]-4pp. Original cloth, spine faded., x-library. First edition, first issue. Wagner-Camp-Becker 312a:1: "Describes her year's stay at Ringgold Barracks in Texas." Hanna Yale Exhibit: "As a bride, she went with her soldier husband to Texas when the Mexican War was not long over and where the fierce Comanches were plentiful." Howes V92.
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Strevell, Charles N. AS I RECALL THEM.
N.p. ca. 1943. 304,[3]pp. Plates. Original brown cloth with title in gilt on front cover and spine.Recollections on Abraham Lincoln in Illinois in 1860 [Strevell persuaded Abe to stand against a door frame and have his height verified as 6'4"]; experiences in cattle ranching in Montana in the 1880's; hardware sales in Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah, during the 1890's, as well as various banking activities. Adams Guns 2158.
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Cordner, Rev. John. AMERICAN CONFLICT: AN ADDRESS BEFORE THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY OF MONTREAL, AND A PUBLIC AUDIENCE, IN NORDHEIMER'S HALL...
Montreal 1865 48pp. Original printed wrappers. First edition. TPL Cat. 9323. Deals with the American Civil War. Rare.
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Kip, W. Ingraham. A FEW DAYS AT NASHOTAH.
Albany Munsell 1849 First edition 31pp.dbd. Small slip pasted to title page "with authors regards." Howes K177. A journey in 1847 from Milwaukee to Nashotah, with detailed observations on the mission. Bibliotheca Munselliana p.37: " thousand copies."
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Howes, Wright. U.S. IANA [1650-1950]: A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY IN WHICH ARE DESCRIBED 11,620 UNCOMMON AND SIGNIFICANT BOOKS RELATING TO THE CONTINENTAL PORTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
N.Y. Bowker 1962 652pp. Original cloth. This is the revised edition of the 1954 original publication. Perhaps the single most useful Americana reference tool. Indispensable.
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Schoenberg, Wilfred P. JESUIT MISSION PRESSES IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Portland Champoeg Press 1957 76pp. Illus., frontis. A history and bibliography of imprints of the Jesuit Mission presses from 1876 to 1899. A fine work designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. One of 804 copies.
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Safford, William H. THE LIFE OF HARMAN BLENNERHASSETT. COMPRISING AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE BURR EXPEDITION: AND CONTAINING MANY ADDITIONAL FACTS NOT HERETOFORE PUBLISHED.
Chillicothe Ohio 1850 First edition 239pp. Illus., frontis. Original small 8vo gold stamped cloth, spine faded, old marginal stain in text. Howes S13. Tompkins 89. An important source of first hand information on the conspiracy that attempted to set up a kingdom in the southwest. Also, much information on Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, etc.
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Van Cleve, Charlotte O. "THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN." LIFE LONG MEMORIES OF FORT SNELLING, MINNESOTA, AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WEST.
[Minneapolis] 1888 176pp. Illus. Original green cloth, bookplate. First edition. First issue, copyright notice on slip. Howes V21: "Authoress was the first white child born in Wisconsin." Most of the work deals with fort life in the 1820's. Graff 4455.
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Earle, Rev. A. B. BRINGING IN SHEAVES.
Boston 1869 384pp. Illus. Original gold stamped small 8vo cloth. First edition. Contains missionaryexperiences in New Brunswick, New York, Mass., Vermont and a sermon delivered in San Francisco in 1866, as well as several chapters on California and Nevada in the 60's. Not in Cowan, Howes or Graff.
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Tracy, Russell Lord. SOME EXPERIENCES OF RUSSELL LORD TRACY.
[Privately printed 1941] [12],211pp. Illus. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Contains histrip with General Sheridan to the Yellowstone, trapping the grizzly, geysers, Grand Canyon, visit to Alaska, ride on the Denver and Rio Grande, Honolulu, Cuba, etc.
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Kunzel, Heinrich. UPPER CALIFORNIA.
San F. Book Club of California 1967 62pp. Illus., facsimiles, color frontispiece. Original cloth. Limited to 450 copies. Reprint of the first book printed in German for the purpose of promoting emigration to California.
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Norton, Francis L. CUBA... TO THE HONORABLE CHARLES SUMNER, UNITED STATES SENATOR.
[N.Y. 1873] 15pp., double columns. Original printed wrappers, loose. First edition. A vindication of Cubans living in the U. S. As not pursuing a war with Spain, but rather a normalization of relations.
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Long, Stephen H. VOYAGE IN A SIX-OARED SKIFF TO THE FALLS OF SAINT ANTHONY IN 1817.
Phila. 1860 First edition 87,[1]pp. Map. Original printed wrappers. Collections of the Historical Society of Minnesota. Graff 2528. Buck 100. Howes L445. This is the first publication of Long's journal wherein he describes his ascent of the Upper Mississippi from Prairie du Chien to the Falls of St. Anthony. The objects of his voyage were to explore and study the course of the river, to exhibit the general topography of the regions and to determine upon suitable sites for the military. It contains the first account of the legends of Maiden Rock and the Falls of St. Anthony, and describes the actual appearance of Indian villages on the sites of numerous busy towns of the present day.
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Schell, Rev. James Peery. IN THE OJIBWAY COUNTRY: A STORY OF EARLY MISSIONS ON THE MINNESOTA FRONTIER.
Walhalla, N. D. Lee 1911 [15],188pp. Illus. Original cloth. First edition. "Presentation from W. H.Hunter, June 13th 1912 " Gathered from private journals and correspondence of important observers and pioneer missionaries. Covers the area of the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Manitoba. Privately printed in a small edition, and now quite scarce. Soliday cat. V.4: 368: "Excessively rare. Can locate no other copy."
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Phillips, Catherine C. CORNELIUS COLE: CALIFORNIA PIONEER AND UNITED STATES SENATOR-A STUDY IN PERSONALITY AND ACHIEVEMENTS BEARING UPON THE GROWTH OF A COMMONWEALTH.
San F. Nash 1929 First edition [8],379pp. Illus. Original marbled boards. Howes P308. One of 250 copies. Cowan p.483.
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REPORT ON THE CHICAGO STRIKE OF JUNE-JULY, 1894, BY THE UNITED STATES STEEL COMMISSION APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT ... WITH APPENDICES CONTAINING TESTIMONY, PROCEEDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
Wash. SD7 1895 681pp. dbd. First edition. Controversies which arose between the Illinois Central Railroad Company and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company and certain of their employees.
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Smithson, William T. THE METHODIST PULPIT SOUTH.
Wash. Polkinhorn 1858 314pp. Illus., plates of the various Methodist ministers of the south. Original cloth. First edition. The preface is by John C. Granbery.
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Vischer, Edward. EDWARD VISCHER'S DRAWINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSION 1861-1878. WITH A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST BY JEANNE VAN NOSTRAND.
San F. Book Club of Ca. 1982 44 pages, plus 44 plates with one page of textual description. Original cloth, d.j. Limited to 600 copies oversubscribed at publication. See Howes V129, 131,132, for the author's original works on California.
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Wells, Rolla. EPISODES OF MY LIFE.
St. Louis 1933 510pp. Illus. Original boards with blue leather spine. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. Adams Herd 2463: "Has a chapter on cattle ranching on the Cheyenne-Arapahoe Reservation in the Indian Territory in which the author tells of driving cattle up the Chisum [sic] Trail and of life in Caldwell and Dodge City, Kansas." Howes W254.
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Giles, William B. LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE MILITARY COMMITTEE TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR WITH THE REPLY OF THE SECRETARY THERETO, AND SUNDRY DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.
Wash. Weightman 1814 28pp. dbd. First edition. Giles puts forth several plans for drafting and maintaining an army: 1. Let the free male population between 18 and 45 be formed into classes of 100 men each and let each class furnish four men for war; 2. Let the whole militia be divided into age classes; 3. Exempt every five men from militia service, who shall fine one to serve for war; 4. The present system of recruiting for bounty lands. The beginnings of selective service.
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Lincoln, Abraham. THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES OF 1858.
Springfield 1908 [11],627pp. Illus. Original cloth. First edition. Illinois State Historical Library Collections Vol. 3 [Lincoln Series V.1]. Edited with introduction and notes by Edwin E. Sparks. Monaghan 1629: "A reprint of the debates, no.69, with extensive newspaper comment and notes on the political setting. See No. 2391."
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Rusk, J. M. LETTER FROM ... TRANSMITTING A REPORT ON THE PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE THE PROPER LOCATION OF ARTESIAN WELLS WITHIN THE AREA OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH MERIDIAN AND EAST OF THE FOOT-HILLS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
Wash. SD222 1890 398pp. Illus., plates, folded maps. dbd. First edition.
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Slafter, Edmund F. JOHN CHECKLEY; OR, THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE IN MASSACHUSETTS BAY. INCLUDING MR. CHECKLEY'S CONTROVERSIAL WRITINGS ... AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT CONTROVERSY ON EPISCOPACY ... 1719-1774 ...
Boston 1897 2 vols. Illus. Original printed wrappers, wrappers in volume one worn and loose, lacking back wrapper. First edition. One of 250 sets. Prince Soc. Pubs. Checkley was the most conspicuous, if not the most effective, champion of the Church at this period. He embarked on a pamphlet war to aid the Church. How many converts were made by his publications is impossible to say, but at least they made the claims of the Church known to most of the literate population of New England.
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Wait, Benjamin. LETTERS FROM VAN DIEMAN'S LAND, WRITTEN DURING FOUR YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR POLITICAL OFFENSES COMMITTED IN UPPER CANADA...
Buffalo, 1843. 356pp. Illus., port, folding map. Full contemporary calf. First edition. TPL 2622. Howes W16. One of the seven rare narratives of Canadian exiled to the penal colony for political dissidents etc., in Australia.
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Graham, James D. et al. MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNORS OF MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA, TRANSMITTING THE REPORTS OF ... IN RELATION TO THE INTERSECTION OF THE BOUNDARY LINES OF THE STATES OF MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, AND DELAWARE, BEING A PORTION OF MASON AND DIXON'S LINE.
Chicago Fulton Steam press 1862 95pp. Illus., folded map.(show the boundary lines of the three states as per Col. Graham's suvey of 1850). Original printed wrappers. Second edition. Chicago Pre-Fire Imprints 641 locates 2 copies. An important historical document containing Graham's report to the Joint Commissioners indicating the boundaries of the Mason and Dixon line,as it relates to the three states in question.
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Rockfellow, John A. LOG OF AN ARIZONA TRAIL BLAZER.
Tuscon Acme [1933] First edition [15],201pp. Illus. Original decorated cloth. "Inscribed to Jack Speiden April 15, 1939" on front endpaper. Howes R392. Adams Herd 1928. Adams Guns 1878.
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Porter, Kenneth W. THE JACKSONS AND THE LEES: TWO GENERATIONS OF MASSACHUSETTS MERCHANTS, 1765-1844.
Cambridge 1937 2 vols. Illus. Original cloth. First edition. Harvard Studies in Business History Vol. 3.
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Kerns, John T. JOURNAL OF CROSSING THE PLAINS TO OREGON IN 1852.
Portland 1917 First edition In: Oregon Pioneer Assoc. Trans 42. Pp.148-93. Original printed wrappers. Matthews p.333: "Travel diary, March-October, 1852; from Rensselear to Portland, Oregon along Oregon Trail; pleasant descriptions and narrative ..."
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Mattocks, Brewer. MINNESOTA AS A HOME FOR INVALIDS.
Phila. 1871 200,[6]pp. Original cloth. First edition. A study of consumption and Minnesota as a therapeutic center due to its climate.
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MEMORIAL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, REMONSTRATING AGAINST THE SURRENDER TO THE STATE OF MARYLAND OF THE STOCK HELD BY THAT CORPORATION IN THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.
Wash. SD277 1840 250pp. dbd. First edition. Thomson 22649: "A great deal of material on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and other railroads."
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A PROPOSAL FOR THE FORMATION OF A NEW CORPS TO BE CALLED PIONEER LIGHT INFANTRY; OR, RIFLEMEN, PARTICULARLY ADAPTED TO THE SERVICE OF THE CANADAS, AND BRITISH NORTH AMERICA GENERALLY, AS WELL AS SUITED TO OTHER COUNTRIES ...