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Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Oblong 12mo. One albumen stereoview photograph sized 5.5 x 2.75 in. mounted on 7 x 3.5 in. yellow-tinted studio board, printed lettering at margins, title imprinted at lower fore-edge in blank, strong image, rounded corners (minor edgewear, rubbing), still VG. First edition, thus, of this early stereoview image of the Stein's Pillar located about 7 miles past the present-day Ochoco Reservoir off the Crooked River near Prineville, now the Steins Pillar Trailhead. The Continent Stereoscopic Company was noted for issuing pirated and copy negatives of stereoviews, with a view original images mixed in from 1870-1890. The "borrowed" images from C.R. Savage, F. Jay Haynes, William Henry Jackson, J.S. Mitchell, Enoch Conklin, and Ben Wittick.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 23 x 29 cm, states colored, verso has geographical information about CALIFORNIA AND MINNESOTA, topography by hachure, engraved by Geo. F. Sherman , N. Y. DATE ESTIMATED from content, not guaranteed McNALLY'S SYSTEM OF GEOGRAPHY, MAP No. 17, p 42,several tan stains one approaching 1 cm diameter, tiny tears at boundaries
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 48 p. + Two Large folding maps: "Western Oregon" & "Routes from Atantic Ports to Oregon". Inner wraps printed with advertisements for Oregon Central Railroad Company; Oregon and California Railroad Company; Kansas Pacific Railroad Company. 230 mm. Softcover. Original printed wraps, very slightly soiled. Title continues: "The State of Oregon Was Distinguished At the Centennial Exhibition By More Awards For the Excellence and Variety Of Its Products Than Comparatively Any Other State". Near fine. Rare immigration guide to the Northwest. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W12 Bag 1 x2 Language: eng
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Oblong miniature autograph album. Approx. 4" x 2.25". 84 pages used for autographs with names, dates, and locations. Brown leather hardcover with gilt borders, decorations and title on the front cover. Leather is rubbed and worn but in good condition. Binding is a bit shaken but no loose pages. On page 5 is an inscription to the presumed owner - "Presented to D. G. Pollard By his Mother Christmas 1873." Another Pollard family inscription written on page 3 reads "Fred Pollard Jan 4 1874 Aged 12 yrs. Oct 24 1873". There are 10 pages containing Pollard family names and locations most from Proctorsville and Chester, Vermont and Keene, New Hampshire. Two notable autographs inside are from the parents of the 30th American President Calvin Coolidge. John S. Coolidge and Victoria J. Coolidge (Moor) of Plymouth, Vermont signed their names April 2nd, 1874. Also signatures from F. H. Moor, Nancie Moor, H. D. Moor, and Abigail Moor of Plymouth, Vermont are located in this tiny album. The Moor family from Plymouth were directly related to the Coolidge family. Dates range from the Christmas inscription of 1873 to the year 1880. A variety of places are signed inside including Plymouth, Vt.; Proctorsville, VT; Keene, New Hampshire, Chester, Vt.; North Chester, Vt.; Rockingham, Vt.; Tyson Furnace, Vt.; Rutland Co., Vt.; Wallingford, Vt.; Clarksburg, West Va; Whiting, Vt.; Bradford, Vt.; Weeping Water, Nebraska; Castroville Tx; Wellesley College Mass; Ludlow, Vt.; Adrian, Michigan; Corvallis, Oregon; Fort Edward, New York; Ashland, Nebraska; New Britain, Conn.; and Woodstock, Vt. From wikipedia: John Calvin Coolidge Sr. (March 31, 1845 - March 18, 1926) was an American politician and businessman from Vermont, and the father of Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States. The senior Coolidge administered the presidential oath of office to his son at their family homestead in the early morning hours of August 3, 1923, following the death of President Warren G. Harding. Born in Plymouth, Vermont, John C. Coolidge was a farmer and store owner, and worked at a variety of other occupations, including banker and insurance broker. In addition, he was a veteran of the Vermont militia, and held the law enforcement posts of town constable and county deputy sheriff. A prominent local leader, he served in numerous Plymouth town offices, and was elected to terms in both the Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate. John C. Coolidge remained active in his farming and business interests until his death in Plymouth in 1926; he was buried in Plymouth Notch at a village cemetery where several generations of his family are also buried. From geni dot com: Victoria was a neighbor of John Coolidge in Plymouth. She attended Black River Academy for one year. She married John Coolidge and set up housekeeping in the cramped quarters behind the village store that her husband ran. She was a consumptive and became, soon after her marriage, a chronic invalid. Calvin Coolidge, in his Autobiography, is poetic in describing his mother. He describes her death, "When she knew that her end was near she called us children to her bedside, where we knelt down to receive her final parting blessing. In an hour she was gone. It was her thirty-ninth birthday. I was twelve years old. We laid her away in the blustering snows of March. The greatest grief that can come to a boy came to me. Life was never to seem the same again." Calvin carries his mother's picture with him the rest of his life.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 59, [1 blank] pp, large [17" x 19"] folding Colton color map of Oregon, Washington Territory, part of Idaho. A few short splits along folds with no loss. Original printed wrappers[soiled and worn]. Scattered spotting. A few small chips and wormholes at corners of outer leaves, closed tear to title page [no text loss]. Good+. "To meet the constant and increasing demand for full information as to the climate and resources of both Eastern and Western Oregon, the present pamphlet is issued. In this compilation use is made of matter entertained in pamphlets issued by Oregon State Board of Immigration. The reader is given a few of the disinterested opinions of travellers, map, and tables, showing all that may be desired in order to arrive at a correct knowledge of this state, as gathered from Facts and Figures." Adams, Herd 1729.
Seller: David M. Lesser, ABAA, Woodbridge, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition thus, greatly expanded from editions in the early 1870s that did not include the far West. 8vo royal blue cloth with heavy gilt decorations & titles. xii, 556pp. Illustrated with engravings. Contents. Classified Index to Advertisers. Index of Cities, Towns and Places of Interest. Eight tipped in folding maps ("Saratoga", "Prospect Park, Niagara Falls", "Niagara Falls", "Caledonia Springs", "Lower St. Lawrence, and Saguenay River", "White Mountains", "City of Boston", Excursion Routes"). Also, a spectacularly long folding map in front pocket, extending to 11' 7", of the Niagara & St. Lawrence Rivers (it's called "Panorama of St. Lawrence River"). Advertisements before & after main text for several historical railroads & hotels of the NE and the West (includes the colorfully named Oregon railroad & steamship companies). One rather long tipped in fold out map has on its verso a great pictorial ad of the Chicago ,Rock Island, & Pacific RR Palace Dining car cross section showing travelers dining in luxury & leisure. The section on Chicago has many engravings, showing the great fire & the rebuilding of the city since. Includes Union Stockyards. The so-called "Western Appendix" to the book is 177pp. long, & begins with Chicago & goes to Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, Leavenworth, San Francisco, Sacramento, Oregon, & Victoria. Includes table of stations of the Union Pacific & Central Pacific railways. Most of the book is, of course, on the Niagara Falls & St. Lawrence area, with information on Toronto. The corner covers are bent at the tips & soft. Just a bit of fraying to the spine. Leading & trailing edges of the long map are have short tears & a touch of chipping. Verso of rear free endpaper is browned from prior lay-in. Slight cracking to rear hinge. The gilt is bold & beautiful, showing small shields of Canada & the U.S., & rising up between them a famous high cantilevered rock over Yosemite Valley with two people standing near the edge of it -- all in gilt! Gilt decorative devices of the U.S. eagle & the Canadian beaver. Front cover is bordered in gilt. The text pages (except for indexes & ads) are decoratively bordered in red. This item is one of the more interesting books I have had the privilege to offer for sale. Earlier editions are scarce. This greatly expanded edition is rare. Not in the usual Western bibs.
Seller: Gene W. Baade, Books on the West, Renton, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 45th Congress, 2nd Session, Ex. Doc. 12, printed for the Senate. Quarto. Pp. xxiii, [1], 194 plus 24 large folding maps, one folding illustration, text diagrams. Appendices, index. Original dark brown cloth, gilt. Spine dulled, light wear to head of spine, else fine with all the maps in fine condition. Provides the progress made in the survey of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts. Includes charts of parts of New York; the East coast of Florida; the coasts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana; the coast of Texas; three charts of the coast of California; and the coasts of Oregon and Washington Territory. The California charts include the coast from San Diego to Point Sal; from Point Sal to Tomales Bay; and from Tomales Bay to the Oregon line. The Oregon and Washington Territory charts covers from the California line to Tillamook Bay and from Tillamook Bay to the boundary.
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xiii, 448p, [6]. Original decorated cloth over boards. Peter Burnett (1807-1895) was elected the first Governor of California in 1849 to 1851. Howes #1000 'Covers the early days in Oregon and California'. Some occasional light foxing otherwise a clean and well preserved copy
Seller: Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts, Basking Ridge, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First editions, 1880 - 1882; bound in marbled paper over boards and 3/4 brown morocco; five raised bands, gilt title, and gilt initials (G. G. Vest) to spine; marbled page edges; occasional, very-minor spots to text; a few of the publications with uniform age-toning; a bit of rubbing to leather on corners and tips of spine; very good condition.A collection of speeches on relevant for the time subjects, they were delivered by some of the more skillful and prominent US politicians of the 19th century. The orators included the previous owner of the book, Missouri Congressman and Senator George Graham Vest (1830 - 1904), Ohio and New York Congressman and US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Samuel S. Cox (1824 - 1889), Oregon Senator James H. Slater (1826 - 1899), Virginia Congressman John R. Tucker (1823 - 1897), Massachusetts Senator George F. Hoar (1826 - 1904), and Missouri Congressman Aylett H. Buckner (1816 - 1894). - Cox. S. S. "Speech of Hon. S. S. Cox, of New York City, on the Conference Report for the Re-enforcement of the Life-saving Service, by Increased Pay and Stations, Etc., in the House of Representatives, on the 27th of April, 1882." - Vest, George G. "Speech of Hon. George G. Vest, of Missouri, in the Senate of the United States, Tuesday, May 4, 1880 (On the resolutions reported by the Committee on Privileges and Elections declaring that W. P. Kellogg was not, and that Henry M. Spofford was, duly elected Senator from the State of Louisiana, for the term commencing March 4, 1877)."- Vest, G. G. "The Indian. His Past, Present, and Future. Speech of Hon. G. G. Vest, of Missouri, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Friday, April 9, 1880."- Slater, J. H. "Chinese Immigration. Speech of Hon. J. H. Slater, of Oregon, and Hon. G. G. Vest, of Missouri, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 26 and 27, 1882."- Vest, G. G. "Grant and the Retired List. Speech of Hon. G. G. Vest, of Missouri, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Monday, February 20, 1882."- Vest, G. G. "National Debt and National Banks. Speech of Hon. G. G. Vest, of Missouri, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Wednesday, January 11, 1882."- Vest, G. G. "Officers of the Senate. Speech of Hon. G. G. Vest, of Missouri, in the United States Senate, Monday, April 11, 1881."- Tucker, J. R. "Chinese Immigration. Speech of Hon. John Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, in the House of Representatives, Wednesday, March 22, 1882."- Hoar, G. F. "Chinese Immigration. Speech of Hon. Geo F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Wednesday, March 1, 1882."- Buckner, A. H. "Extension of Bank Charters. Speech of Hon. Aylett H. Buckner, of Missouri, in the House of Representatives, Monday, April 17, 1882."
Seller: ZH BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Fremont, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the front cover, 210 pp., detailed Index, illustrated throughout. with details, measurements and prices. Affixed to blank pages at rear are 5 color illustrated trade cards (one is a folding die-cut depicting an African-American mother attempting to bathe her child) bearing the stamp of 'W.L. Wade Dry Goods.' The catalogue includes ". goods strictly pertaining to Wagon and Carriage manufactures, Boat and Ship Builders, Coopers, Cabinetmakers, and Agricultural Implement manufactures." offered by Holt Brothers in San Francisco. Covers are stained and worn; evidence of label roughly removed from front pastedown sheet; previous owner's name "William England. Salem Oregon. 3-23-80") on front free fly leaf, internally clean and tight, else a good+ copy. William England (1829 - 1901) was the Pioneer Wagon and Carriage Maker of Salem, Oregon, arriving in 1852. He worked for a short time in the mines, he soon went into carpenter work. Later he opened a wagon shop and his business grew steadily and he soon began the manufacture of wagons and carriages, being the pioneer in that time in Salem. He continued in this business until 1883. Charles H. Holt arrived in San Francisco from Concord, New Hampshire, in 1864 to form C. H. Holt and Co. Initially the company produced wooden wagon wheels and later, steel wheels for streetcars. Brothers William and Ames joined Charles in San Francisco in 1871 and established the Holt Brothers Company in San Francisco, selling hardwood, lumber, and wagon and carriage materials, primarily manufacturing wagon axles, wheels, and frames. In 1883, brother Benjamin Holt joined them and successfully developed a continuous track system for his tractors, trademarking the term 'Caterpillar' in 1910. The successor of Holt Brothers today operates as 'Caterpillar, Inc.,' the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment with 2021 sales and revenues of $51.0 billion. Quite scarce, WorldCat locates no institutional holdings and we find no copies currently offered in the trade nor at auction in the past 30 years.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.