Denver: Frank S. Thayer, (1980's). Hardcover. Accordion style, single sheet folded. 5 by 8 inches closed; 8 by over 90 inches extended, contained within a box in imitation of a book, with marbled paepr edges, blue faux leather padded cloth sides, gilt. Upper hinge repaired else this is a very..... More
London: Horace Cox, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. ix, (1),363pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles on spine and upper board, the latter with also a vignette blocked in gilt. Illustrated with plates and in-text illustrations. Light wear to the edges and hinges but a near fine copy. The author spent time..... More
St. Paul: The Price-McGill Company, (1893). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vi,(7)-334pp. Dark green cloth, gilt titles on spine and upper board, as well as a vignette of an Indian shooting from behind a tree on the upper board. Illustrated with full page black and white drawings. War Whoop Series..... More
Washington: Printed at the Union Office, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Complete with all plates as issued (i.e., without plates numbered 2, 21,39). Later black cloth, gilt spine title. Plates foxed; the large map has old repairs on the reverse at the folds and with some fold separation (no loss)..... More
New-York: Harper and Brothers, 1844. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 12mo. xii, (13)-405; xii, (11)-406pp. Black T-grain cloth, spine title and vignette in gilt; upper and lower boards blocked in blind. Illustrated with four full-page plates as well as a folding map showing the route of the first Sante Fe..... More
NY and Los Angeles: Angelina Book Concern, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece and 22 illustrations. Original cloth gilt title and vignette. Translated by Julius Behnke, Professor of Modern Languages, Occidental College, Los Angeles. With his printed photograph tipped-in, and his presentation inscription: 'Yours for progress / without end..... More
San Francisco: California Development Board, 1913. Broadside. 21 by 36¾ inches. Lithographed in color. Railroad lines and steamship lines are clearly shown. Text discusses the activities of the Development Board which was housed in the Ferry Building in San Francisco. This version seems to be the original version, copyright..... More
San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1942. Drawings by Frank Anthony Stanush. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi, 236. Reddish cloth printed in black. Dark pink endpapers. Photographic frontispiece. Illustrated. Index. Neat ownership name and date (1944) on the front pastedown. A fine copy. The dustwrapper has a clean split on the..... More
Philadelphia: Rice and Clark, 1842. First edition. Hand-colored lithograph from the first folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 14-1/8 by 20 inches, matted in an 18 x 24 inch mat. Trace of binding adhesive along one edge , else..... More
Philadelphia: ca. 1836. Hand-colored lithograph from an early folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 14-1/8 by 20 inches, matted in an 18 x 24 inch mat. Trace of binding adhesive along one edge else a fine copy with rich..... More
Philadelphia: E. C. BIddle, 1837. Hand-colored lithograph from an early folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size showing through the mat is approximately 11¼ by 17 inches, matted and nicely framed in a 20 by 26 inch frame. Trace of spotting..... More
Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle, 1837. First edition. Hand-colored lithograph from the first folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 14-1/8 by 20 inches, matted in an 18 x 24 inch mat. Trace of binding adhesive along one edge and a...... More
Philadelphia: ca. 1836. Hand-colored lithograph from an early folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 14-1/8 by 20 inches, matted in an 18 x 24 inch mat. Trace of binding adhesive along one edge else a fine copy with rich..... More
Philadelphia: ca. 1836. Hand-colored lithograph from an early folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". Image size approximately 14-1/8 by 20 inches, matted in an 18 x 24 inch mat. Trace of binding adhesive along one edge else a fine copy with vibrant..... More
n.p. (Los Angeles): n.p., (1923). Hardcover. 8vo. 146pp.. Blue cloth, gilt title on the upper board. Light wear and soil. stain in front endpaper gutter, 1931 clipping pasted to front pastedown recounting the 1931 death of Edward Towne, a Cheyenne newspaperman, who in 1892, accompanied as a staff correspondent a...... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Contemporary half leather, cloth boards, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with photographs and charts, some folding. The leather is worn, hinges neatly repairs, cloth rubbed, else in very good condition with the contents in fine condition. Senate Document No. 247, 55th Congress, 2d..... More
Santa Fe: The Rydal Press, n.d. Limited edition. Hardcover. Single sheets 10 by 12 inches, printed letterpress, hand-colored, numbered and signed by the artist. Each illustration is accompanied by a separate sheet telling the story of the shield. A fine set housed in the publisher's black cloth clamshell case, printed..... More
Denver: The W. H. Kistler Stationery Co., (1935). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xxv, (1),533 pp. Blue victorian textured cloth, gilt spine title, gilt device on the upper board. Color frontispiece. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography. Index. Fine copy. Part One: Early Military History; Part Two: History of the 157th (1st..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. Brown textured cloth, gilt spine titles. Illustrated with photographs, folding tables and frontispiece maps. Trace of wear, small tear on spine of volume 2, else a very good set. More
Flafstaff: Northland Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xv,(1),98,(2)pp. Cream-colored cloth, black spine title. A fine copy. I publisher's slipcase, which is near fine with only a trace of soil. One of 55 numbered copies, uncut, bound at Silverlake Bindery, with an original watercolor by Don Perceval. This is number..... More
n.p. n.p., 1899. Stiff card. Small album of stiff colored card containing 14 mounted black and white photographs. Each is mounted with a white border hand-drawn about it. Affixed to the upper board is an embossed chromolithographed die-cut yellow rose and the hand lettered date, 1899. The photographs are mainly..... More
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1895. Limited edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. Black textured cloth, gilt spine titles. Frontispiece portrait. Volume 3 contains the index, a text map and the six folding map in a rear pocket. Light wear else a near fine copy. This edition is taken from Pike's original..... More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xi, 291 pp., frontispiece of Grand Canyon of the Colorado and 80 other numbered illustrations on full pages with verso blank, index. Two folding maps in rear pocket. Original dark green cloth, gilt spine title. Spine tips neatly repaired, new..... More
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Thick large 8vo. 703pp followed by the errata page. Publisher' blue cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and in gilt and black on the upper board. Illustrated with four portraits on steel. Brown coated endpapers. The cloth is rubbed at..... More
Topeka: Published by the Author, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvii,(1), 630pp Brown cloth blocked in dark brown and gilt on the spine and upper board. Illustrated. Large folding map present in rear. A very good copy; the foldout map is in fine conditon. Inscribed on the front free endpaper..... More
