San Francisco and New York: A. Roman & Co., 1863. Second edition, enlarged. Sabin 51211; Wagner-Camp 336n; Howes M-869. An early work on Arizona by speculator, miner and promoter Sylvester Mowry (1830-71), which was first published in Washington in 1859 as an effort to persuade Congress into designating Arizona a......
Chicago: Joseph G. Branch Publishing Co., (1912). First edition. An uncommon memoir by Mary Polk Branch, about her life in Middle Tennessee (specifically Columbia and its environs) in the years leading up to the Civil War and immediately afterward. Her immediate family and inlaws were well connected, wealthy Southerners and.....
Firenze: Nella Stamp. De Pietro Allegrini, 1788. First edition. Sabin 10704; Palou 42410. A treatise by Florentine historian and mathematician, Stanislao Canovai (1740-1811), that attempts to restore the reputation of Amerigo Vespucci as the founder of the new world, which was named for him, but he was not generally credited.....
New York [&] London: The Macmillan Co., 1897. First edition. Howes I-57. A nostalgic portrait of the original Santa Fe Trail as it developed from eastern Kansas to New Mexico, with an introduction by W. F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," and wistful illustrations by Frederick Remington and Thompson Willing. Henry Inman.....
Olympia: Murphy & Harned, (1872). First edition. Streeter 3258; Graff 2936; Howes M910. The first business directory to Puget Sound, printed in Olympia by R. H. Hewitt's Excelsior Job Printing. The directory is divided into two parts. The first contains a general sketch of Washington Territory, with descriptions of the.....
Boston: Published by D. C. Johnston, 1831. A famous portrait by Chester Harding (1792-1866) of American statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852), "drawn on stone by D. C. Johnston" and printed by Pendleton's Lithography, Boston.