465. (Texas) Ship Canal at Sabine Pass, Texas: Letter from the Secretary of War..... With numerous folding charts. Modern cloth. 1898. * Salesman's Dummy for Halstead's Galveston: The Horrors of a Stricken City, with numerous photo plates, etc. Red cloth with pictorial in black, lettering in black & gilt. [1900]. * Ziegler. Wave of the Gulf: Ziegler's Scrapbook of the Texas Gulf Coast Country. Dj (spine stained, several chips & tears). 1938. * Wentroth, ed. Forged in Strong Fires: The Early Life and Experiences of John Edward Dalton. No. 48 of 1000 copies signed by the editor. Dj (worn, front flap torn off, other chips & tears). 1948. * Knapp. The Life of Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada, 1823-1889: A Study of Influence and Obscurity. (Library markings of Fort Worth Public Library.) 1951. * Dawson. California in '41; Texas in '51. [1969]. Together, 6 vols. Various places: various dates. Generally very good or better condition. (120/180).
466. Thayer, William M. Marvels of the New West: A Vivid Portrayal of the Unparalleled Marvels in the Vast Wonderland West of the Missouri River.... xxxvii, 715, [1] pp. Profusely illus. with wood engravings & maps. Original gilt-dec. green cloth, beveled edges, floral endpapers. Norwich, CT: Henry Bill, 1889. Rubbing to covers, wear to extremities, else very good. (80/120).
467. Thrapp, Dan L. Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography. 3 vols. Pictorial wrappers. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska, [1991]. Owner's name to half-title, else fine. (50/80).
SIGNED BY D.O. MILLS
468. (Tuolumne County Water Company) Stock certificate certifying that Darius Ogden Mills holds one share of the capital stock in the Tuolumne County Water Company. Signed by Mills on the verso, and by company president J.W. Mandeville and secretary R.H. Robinson on the front. 6x9-3/4. Columbia, CA: July 21st, 1855. Attractive certificate lithographed by Britton & Rey of San Francisco, with vignette at left side of miners working flumes and a rocker. Darius Ogden Mills, owner of the stock, was an important Sacramento merchant and banker. Near fine, with perforation from cancellation. (100/150).
469. Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Travels with Mr. Brown: Being Heretofore Uncollected Sketches Written by Mark Twain for the San Francisco Alta California in 1866 and 1867, Describing His Irrepressible Companion in Nicaragua, Hannibal, New York, and Other Spots on Their Way to Europe. Collected and Edited with an Introduction by Franklin Walker and G. Ezra Dane. Cloth, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. No. 515 of 1795 copies. First Edition.New York: Knopf, 1940. BAL 3563 - Near fine with light foxing to endpapers. (70/100).
470. (U.S. Geological Survey) Emmmons, S.F., et al. Geology and Ore Deposits of the Leadville Mining District, Colorado. Professional Paper 148. (Front wrapper detached.) 1927. * Nolan, T.B. The Gold Hill Mining District, Utah. Professional Paper 177. (Rear wrapper, with loose folding maps in attached envelope, detached; tape repairrs to wrappers & spine.) 1935. * Gregory. The San Juan Country: A Geographic and Geologic Reconnaissance of Southeastern Utah. Professional Paper 188. 1938. Together, 3 vols. Illus. with photo plates, diagrams, profiles, maps, etc., some folding. 11-1/2x9, wrappers. Washington: various dates. Internally all in very good condition. (80/120).
471. (Union Pacific Railroad) Progress of the Union Pacific Railroad West from Omaha, Nebraska, Across the Continent, Making, With Its Connections, an Unbroken Line from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Eight Hundred and Twenty Miles Completed Sept. 20, 1868. 40 pp. Illus. with wood-engraved vignettes; frontis. map. 9-1/4x5-1/2, original lithographed pictorial wrappers bound in modern red buckram, spine lettered in gilt. New York: Published by the. Company, Sept. 25th, 1868. Promotional pamphlet for western railroad expansion, with much information on agriculture, timber, minerals, branches and connecting roads, anticipated profits, mortgage bonds, etc. The map shows the U.S. with the railroad spanning the continent, connecting branches to Puget Sound, the Montana gold fields, etc. These pamphlets were updated and expanded periodically, as more miles fell under the track. Minor wear & soiling to the wrappers, small rubberstamp on inside of front wrapper, else very good or better. (100/150).
472. (Union Pacific Railway) Library Bureau of Railway Economics. A List of References to Literature Relating to the Union Pacific System. Cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Reprint Edition. Newton, MA: Crofton Publishing, n.d.. Originally published in 1922. Fine. (50/80).
473. (Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe) McKittrick, Myrtle M. Vallejo, Son of California. With photograph of proclamation by Vallejo regarding annexation of California by England or France, mounted on front free endpaper. Dj. 2nd Ed. [1944]. * Emparan, Madie Brown. The Vallejos of California. Signed by the author on title-page, and by the dedicatee, the author's husband, Richard Raoul Emnparan, grandson of M.G. Vallejo, on dedication-page. Red cloth lettered in gilt. Designed & printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy. 1968. Together, 2 vols. Portland & San Francisco: [1944] & 1968. Near fine to fine condition. (200/250).
474. Van Cleve, Charlotte Ouisconsin. "Three Score Years and Ten," Life Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West. 176 pp. Frontis. port. Original gilt-lettered cloth. First Edition. [Minneapolis: Harrison & Smith], 1888. Graff 4455; Howes V21 - "Authoress was the first white child born in Wis." and lived at from Snelling from 1821; the work also deals with life at Fort Howard, Fort Winnebago and elsewhere in the early west. Near fine with some rubbing to extremities & edges. (100/150).
475. Van Osdel, A.L. Historic Landmarks: Being a history of early explorers and fur-traders, with a narrative of their adventures in the wilds of the Great Northwest Territory. [4], 400 pp. Illus. with plates from photographs, drawings, engravings, etc. 7-3/4x5, original pictorial cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. [No place: c.1915]. Smith 10516 - Fine condition. (150/250).
476. Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin (Grey Owl). Pilgrims of the Wild. Illus. from photographs. Jacket. First Edition. New York: Scribner's, 1935. Grey Owl was adopted into the Ojibway tribe as a boy, and later became a trapper, silver-miner, Wild West show performer, forest ranger, canoeman, packer & guide. In 1928 he gave up trapping and he and his Iriquois wife devoted their lives to conservationism. Price oddly clipped, chipping to jacket spine foot, a bit of rubbing to extremities, irregular sunning to cloth; rust marks from paperclips to free endpapers, else very good. (70/100).
477. Wagner, Henry R. & Charles L. Camp. The Plains and the Rockies: A Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure and Travel in the American West, 1800-1865. Revised, Enlarged and Edited by Robert H. Becker. Illus. with facsimiles. Buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Fourth Edition. San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1982. Fine condition. (100/150).
478. Wagner, Henry R. Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World: Its Aims and Achievements. x, [2], 543 pp. Illus. with numerous maps, many folding, plus reproductions of engravings, lithographs, etc. 11x8, red buckram, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. San Francisco: John Howell, 1926. Cowan p.665; Hill pp.314-5; Howes W9 - "A work of the greatest importance" - Cowan. Hill notes that "the main object of this work was to bring together in one book the principal narratives concerning the expedition which took Drake around the world, and, using these, to rewrite the account of the voyage...." Spine faded, some rubbing to covers; very good, internally fine. (150/250).
479. Wagner, Henry R. The First American Vessel in California. Monterey in 1796. Frontis. port. of Captain Ebenezer Dorr, Jr.; 1 plate from an old engraving. 7-1/4x4-3/4, cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. 1 of 325 copies printed by Caroline Anderson. Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1954. Vol. XX in the publisher's Early California Travels Series. Fine. (50/80).
480. Waseurtz af Sandels, G.M. A Sojourn in California by the King's Orphan: The Travels and Sketches of G.M. Waseurtz af Sandels, a Swedish gentleman who visited California in 1842-1843. Edited with an Introduction by Helen Putnam Van Sicklen. Illus. with plates reproducing drawings and sketches by the author, some folding, a few in color. 12- 3/4x9, half cloth & patterned boards, paper spine label. 1 of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. First Edition. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1945. Howes W125 - Memoir and sketches of California by a rather obscure Swedish doctor who was educated in England, giving an interesting picture of California in the last years of Mexican rule. Hinges starting to crack at endpapes; near fine condition. (100/150).
481. Waters, Frank. Leon Gaspard. Illus. with plates from paintings by Gaspard, some color. 12-1/4x9-1/4, slipcase. No. 42 of 500 copies. First Edition. Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1964. Signed by Waters on limitation page. Fine. (100/150).
482. (West - Young folks, Women, etc.) [Barrows]. The General; or, Twelve Nights in the Hunters' Camp. A Narrative of Real Life. (Spine ends worn.) 1875. * Cozzens. The Young Trail Hunters; or, the Wild Riders of the Plains. [1876]. * Optic. Going West; or, the Perils of a Poor Boy. 1876. * Ellet. The Pioneer Women of the West. N.d. * Bird. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. 1894. * Parkman. The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life. 4 plates by Frederic Remingtion. 1896. * Wyckoff. A Day with a Tramp and Other Days. 1901. * Crewdson. Tales of the Road. 1905. * Winch. Thrilling Lives of Buffalo Bill Col. Wm. F. Cody Last of the Great Scouts and Pawnee Bill Major Gordon W. Lillie White Chief of the Pawnees. (Flaking to cover lettering & illus.) [1911]. * Dixon. Westward Hoboes: Ups and Downs of Frontier Motoring. 1921. * Minehan. Boy and Girl Tramps of America. [1934]. * James. The Cherokee Strip: A Tale of an Oklahoma Boyhood. 1946. Together, 11 vols. Original cloth. Various places: various dates. Very good or better condition. (150/250).
483. (West) Drannan. Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains.... (Rubbing & stains to covers, spine foot torn, hinges cracked at front & rear, contents darkened.) [1900]. * Doubleday. Cattle Ranch to College: The True Tale of a Boy's Adventures in the Far West. [c.1913]. * Santee. Cowboy. Illus. by the author. [1928]. * Linderman. Morning Light (Lige Mounts: Free Trapper). Decorations by Joe de Yong. [1930]. * Carr. The West is Still Wild. Inscribed & signed by the author on title page. 1st Ed. 1932. * Vestal. Kit Carson: The Happy Warrior of the West. Dj (edge wear, price clipped). [1928, but later]. Together, 6 vols. Various places: various dates. Generally very good condition except for first. (80/120).
484. (West) Wood. Over the Range to the Golden Gate: A Complete Tourist's Guide.... (Fraying to spine ends.) 1905. * Frothingham. Trails Through the Golden West. 1st Ed.? [1932]. * Dick. The Story of the Frontier: A Social History of the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountains from the Earliest White Contacts to the Coming of the Homesteader. Dj. [1941]. * Big Spring: The Casual Biography of a Prairie Town. Inscribed & signed by the author on front free endpaper. Dj (chipped, lacking piece at spine foot, backed). 1st Ed. 1942. * Hutchens. One Man's Montana: An Informal Portrait of a State. Dj. 1st Ed. [1964]. * Kirsch & Murphy. West of the West: The Story of California from the Conquistadors to the Great Earthquake.... 1st Ed. [1967]. * Ballantine. High West. Dj. 1st Ed. [1969]. * Shatraw. Thrashin' Time: Memories of a Montana Boyhood. Dj. 1st Ed. [1970]. Together, 8 vols. Various places: various dates. Very good or better condition. (150/250).
485. (Western Americana) Bryson, J. Gordon. Culture of the Shin Oak Ridge Folk. Signed. 1964. * Utley, Robert M. The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890. [1984]. Together, 2 vols. Jackets. First Editions. Bastrop, TX & Albuquerque: 1964 & [1984]. First very good, 2nd fine. (50/80).
486. (Western Americana - Books About Books) Hoskin. A History of the Santa Clara Mission Library. Gilt- lettered cloth. 1 of 500 copies. 1961. * An Informal Record of George P. Hammond and his Era in the Bancroft Library. Gilt-lettered cloth. 1965. * Edelstein, ed. A Garland for Jake Zeitlin on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday.... Cloth-backed boards. 1 of 800 copies. 1967. * Dickinson, Laird & Maxwell. Voices from the Southwest: A Gathering in Honor of Lawrence Clark Powell. Dj. [1976]. * Shumate. The Notorious I.C. Woods of the Adams Express. Dj. 1986. Together, 5 vols. First Editions. Various places: various dates. About fine. (100/150).
487. (Western Americana) Hafen & Hafen. The Far West and the Rockies: General Analytical Index to the Fifteen Volume Series and Supplement to the Journal of Forty-Niners. 1961. * Haferkorn. The War with Mexico 1846-1848. Reprint Ed. [1970]. * Cook. Flood Tide of Empire: Spain and the Pacific Northwest, 1543- 1819. 1973. * Adams. Six-Guns and Saddle Leather: A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western Outlaws and Gunmen. [1982]. * Kane. A Gentile Account of Life in Utah's Dixie, 1872-73. 1 of 1000 copies. [1995]. Together, 5 vols. All but 2nd in jackets. All but 2nd are First Editions. Various places: various dates. Very good or better. (200/300).
488. (Western Americana) Young. Journalism in California, and Pacific Coast and Exposition Biographies. Cloth. [1915]. * Ballinger. Los Autos y Coloquios del Siglo XVI en la Nueva España. Tree calf. 1946. * Carroll. Reflections of Western Historians. Dj. [1969]. * Powell. Southwest Classics: The Creative Literature of the Arid Lands. Dj. 1974. * Crampton, ed. The Mariposa Indian War 1850-1851: Diaries of Robert Eccleston - The California Gold Rush, Yosemite, and the High Sierra. Dj. [1975]. * Nunis & Lothrop, eds. A Guide to the History of California. Cloth. [1989]. Together, 6 vols. Most First Editions. Various places: various dates. Very good or better. (200/300).
489. (Western Miscellany) Murray. The Prairie-Bird. Rebound in modern leather. (Title-page soiled & darkened.) 1845. * Miller. Paquita, The Indian Herione. [1881]. * Wood. Over the Range to the Golden Gate. A Complete Tourist's Guide. Ex-lib. with markings. 1889. * Group of articles on the Mississippi & Ohio Rivers excerpted from issues of Harper's Monthly and other periodicals, bound in later plain wrappers. N.d. * Drannan. Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, or the Last Voice from the Plains. (Covers rubbed & worn, recased, new endpapers.) 1899. * Armstrong. The Early Empire Builders of the Great West. Ex-lib. with markings. (P.1 adherered at gutter to preceding page with some damage; fading to covers.) [1901]. * Brown. The History of the Great Minnesota Forest Fires, Sandstone, Hinckley, Mission Creek, Pokegama, Skunk Lake. (Wear to covers; rear hinge cracked with flyleaf detached.) N.d. * Public Land Guide Showing Manner of Proceeding to Obtain Vacant Public Lands Under the Homestead, Timer and Stone, Desert Land and Other Laws. Wrappers (chipped & worn). 1908. * Inman & Cody. The Great Salt Lake Trail. 1913. * Memorial Volume of the Transcontinental Excursion of 1912 of the American Geographical Society of New York. Ex-lib. with markings. 1915. * Cook. Fifty Years on the Old Frontier, as Cowboy, Hunter, Guide, Scout, and Ranchman. (Rubbing to covers; brand to lower page edges.) 1923. * Plus 3 others. Together, 14 vols. Various places: various dates. Good to very good condition. (200/300).
490. (Western Miscellany) [Herrington]. Summering in Colorado. 3/4 calf & cloth. (Rubbing to spine & extremities; title-page printed askew.) 1878. * Richardson. Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean. Life and Adventure on the Prairies, Mountains, and Pacific Coast. 1885. * Wason. Letters form Colorado. 1887. * Glazier. Down the Great River; Embracing an Account of the Discovery of the True Source of the Mississippi.... 1889. * [B., L.P.] Our Western Empire. (Lacks title-page). c.1885. * King. The History of the Government of Denver with Special Reference to Its Relations with Public Service Corporations. (Front hinge cracked.) 1911. * Mills. The Spell of the Rockies. 1912. * Ellenbecker. The Indian Raid on the Upper Little Blue in Southern Nebraska during the Sixties. Wrappers (stained). 1937. * Casey. The Black Hills and their Incredible Characters. A Chronicle and a Guide. (Spine rubbed; owner's blindstamp with ink date to title- page.) [1949]. Together, 9 vols. Various places: various dates. Good to very good condition. (150/250).
491. (Westerners - Los Angeles) The Westerner's Brand Book. Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14. Jackets except No. 12, which has glassine. 1963-1974. * Nunis, ed. The San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856: Three Views. Silver Anniversary Publication of the Los Angeles Westerners. [1971]. Together, 6 vols. Illus. 11x6-3/4 or smaller. Los Angeles: Westerners, various dates. Near fine to fine condition. (150/250).
492. Wheat, Carl I. Pioneer Visitors to Death Valley After the Forty-Niners. 1939. * Mapping the American West. 1956. * The Published Writings of Carl Irving Wheat. Compiled by George L. Harding. With an Appreciation by George P. Hammond. 1960. Together, 3 vols. Wrappers. Various places: various dates. Near fine to fine condition. (70/100).
493. Wheat, Carl I. The Maps of the California Gold Region 1848-1857: A Biblio-Cartography of an Important Decade. Intro. by Gary Kurutz. Illus. with 26 facsimiles of maps, 17 of them folding, 10 in color. 1 of 350 copies. Reprint Edition. [Storrs-Mansfield: Maurizio Martino, 1995]. Fine. (100/150).
WITH WIEGHORST WATERCOLOR
494. (Wieghorst, Olaf) Brand Book Number One. The San Diego Corral of the Westerners. Ed. by Ray Brandes. Illus. from photographs, paintings, drawings, etc., incl. color reproductions of paintings by Olaf Wieghorst & pen sketches by him. 11x8-1/2, gilt pictorial leatherette from a design by Wieghorst. No. 197 of 500 copies. [San Diego: 1968]. Original watercolor drawing by Wieghorst, of an Indian's head, initialed by Wieghorst, on front free endpaper; signed in ink by him below. Fine condition. (200/300).
495. Wierzbicki, F.P. California As It Is & As It May Be; or, A Guide to the Gold Region. Intro. by George D. Lyman. Illus. by Valenti Angelo. Half cloth & boards, paper spine label. 1 of 500 copies.San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1933. Cowan p.682 (1st ed.); Howes W405; Kurutz 678d; Rock 16155; Wheat Gold Rush 227 (note); Zamorano Eighty 79 (note) - Referring to the very rare first edition, San Francisco 1849, Howes writes "First California-printed English book of an original nature; this, with its hightly interesting content, renders it the most important and prized of all books printed there, with the possible exception of Figueroa's Manifesto." Offset to free endpapers; near fine condition. (100/150).
496. (Wild West) Hartley, Cecil. Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer.... 1st Ed. (Chipping to spine ends, front joint cracked.) 1865. * [Eastman]. Seven and Nine Years among the Camanches and Apaches. 1st Ed. (Soiling & wear, good only.) 1873. * Custer, Elizabeth. "Boots and Saddles" or Life in Dakota with General Custer. 1st Ed. 1885. * Siringo, Charles A. Riata and Spurs: The Story of a Lifetime Spent in the Saddle as Cowboy and Detective. Intro. by Gifford Pinchot. (Foxing.) 1927. Together, 4 vols. Illus. Cloth. Various places: various dates. Good to very good. (100/150).
497. Wilkes, Charles. Life in Oregon Country Before the Emigration. Ed. by Richard E. More. Illus. from old lithographs & engravings. Cloth with gilt cover vignette, spine lettered in gilt, dust wrapper. No. 155 of 650 copies. 1974. * Stanton, William. The Great United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842. Illus. from old engravings & other early sources. Cloth, spine lettered in gilt & blue, dj (with price clipped). [1975]. Together, 2 vols. Ashland, OR & [Berekely]: 1974 & [1975]. First fine, second very good. (60/80).
498. Wilkes, Charles. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. 5 vols. Illus. with wood engravings & maps, some folding. 9x5-1/2, period 3/4 calf & cloth. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. Howes W414 - "The first United States scientific expedition by sea. Wilkes sailed along and surveyed the whole Northwest coast and his exploring parties penetrated into the interior at many points...." Bindings worn, most covers detached, spine ends chipped; lacking at 1 least map, bookplates on the back of the free endpapers & rubberstamps of Adam Duncan Dundas on the pastedowns, fair condition, sold as is. (100/150).
499. Williams, Mary Floyd, ed. Papers of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851: Minutes and Miscellaneous Papers, Financial Accounts and Vouchers. xvi, 906 pp. Illus. with facsimiles; folding map. Original printed wrappers. Berkeley: Univ. of California, [1919]. Cowan p.687 - Volume 4 in the Publications of the Academy of Pacific Coast History. Wrappers worn, chipped, detached; internally very good. (50/80).
500. Wiltsee, Ernest A. The Truth About Fremont: An Inquiry. Facsimile frontis. 10-1/2x7, cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, jacket. First Edition. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1936. Inscribed & signed by Wiltsee on from free endpaper; Christmas greeting card signed by Wiltsee laid in. Jacket lightly soiled, sunned; vol. fine. (80/120).
501. (Winship, George Parker, ed. The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Extracted from the 14th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, bound in 4 parts, continuously paginated, Pp.329-637. Illus. with facsimiles, maps, photo plates, etc. 11-1/4x7-3/4, plain wrappers with ink holograph cover labels. [Washington: 1896]. Howes W571 - Primarily a translation of Pedro de Castañeda de Nágera's Relation du voyage de Cibola, entrepris in 1540, which appeared in French in 1838, with added material. Coronado and his men were, asided from De Vaca, the first Europeans to visit Texas, and preceded all others into New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. Some darkening, chipping & a few tears to the wrappers, offset to the leaves touching them, else very good. (150/250).
502. Wistar, Isaac Jones. Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar, 1827-1905: Half a Century in War and Peace. Illus. with a few plates; folding map of Wistar's route across the plains in 1849. 10x6-3/4, jacket. Second Edition. Philadelphia: Wistar Instutute. of Anatomy and Biology, 1937. (Cowan p.692); Howes W598; Kurutz 691b; Rocq 16171 - "Largely devoted to the opening and development of the far West from 1849 to 1860, in which Wistar played a conspicuous part before achieving fame and fortune in Pennsylvania" - Howes. Includes his overland diary from Indepencence, MO, to Califronia on the Platter River and Humboldt-Truckee routes. Upon his arrival in Sacramento he sold his horse and purchased a half-interest in a whale boat to take supplies to Marysville, then sold his boat to buy mules to take supplies to the upper Yuba. He later started a freighting business supplying mines on the upper Klamath, Trinity, Salmon and Shasta rivers. The 1914 first edition was limited to 250 copies and is quite scarce. Jacket spine faded; vol. fine, with the bookplate of Roger Larson. (80/120).
503. Wittemann, A. Salt Lake City. In Photo-Gravure from Recent Negatives. Title-page, one text leaf, & 40 Albertype plates. 5x6-1/2, original dec. cloth lettered in gilt, string tie. First Edition. New York: Albertype Co., 1894. Flake 7501 - Near fine with slight shelf wear & faint foxing to title-page. (50/80).
504. [Wright, William]. DeQuille, Dan, pseud. History of the Big Bonanza: an Authentic Account of the Discovery, History, and Working of the World Renowned Comstock Silver Lode of Nevada including the Present Condition of the Various Mines Situated thereon; Sketches of the Most Prominent Men Interested in Them; Incidents and Adventures Connected with Mining, the Indians and the Country; Amusing Stories, Experiences, Anecdotes, etc., etc., and a Full Exposition of the Production of Pure Silver. Intro. by Oscar Lewis. Signed by Lewis on front free endpaper. Dj (some extremity wear, a few chips & tears, price clipped; water damage to fore-edge of front cover). 1947. * Rawls, James J., ed. Dan de Quille of the Big Bonanza. Foreword by Oscar Lewis. Illus. Half cloth & boards. 1 of 650 copies printed by Arlen & Clara Louise Philpott. 1980. Together, 2 vols. New York & San Francisco: 1947 & 1980. First very good, second fine. (70/100).
505. Wright, [George]. Report of the Secretary of War, communicating...a copy of the topographical memoir and map of Colonel Wright's late campaign against the Indians in Oregon and Washington Territories. 82 pp. 2 folding maps. 9x5-1/2, modern black buckram, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. First Edition. Washington: 1859. Howes W695 - Senate Ex. Doc. No. 32, 35th Congress, 2d Session. Wright was involved in the war against the Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, and Pelouze Indians in the summer and fall of 1858; the maps, prepared by John Mullan, who also contributed the topographical report, are plans of the battles of "Four Lakes" and "Spokane Plains." The are a bit darkened with tape repairs to stub tears. Dampstaining to first 18 pp., mostly marginal but intruding into the text, else very good. (150/250.
506. (Yosemite) Map of the Central Portion of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and of the Yosemite Valley. Large folding map with thin board covers, folded size 9-1/4x4-1/2. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1896. The twelfth publicaton of the Sierra Club. Fine condition. (80/120).
507. (Zamorano Club) Fullerton, George E., Carey Bliss, Tyrus Harmsen & Edwin Carpenter. The Zamorano Club: The First Half Century, 1928-1978. Illus. 12-1/2x9-1/2, half cloth & dec. boards, gilt-lettered spine. 1 of 200 copies printed by Richard J. Hoffmann. First Edition. Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1978. Fine. (70/100).
Section I: Section I: Western Americana...Lots 1-507
Lots 1. ABERT through 59. CALIFORNIALots 60. CALIFORNIA through 116. DODGE
Lots 117. DOTEN through 175. GUIDEBOOKS
Lots 176. GUZMAN through 229. KENDALL
Lots 230. KNOWER through 281. MINING
Lots 282. MINING through 337. OREGON
Lots 338. OSBORN through 404. SCHAEFFER
Lots 405. SCHREYVOGEL through 450. SUTRO
Lots 451. SUTRO through 507. ZAMORANO
Section II: Custeriana & Related Material...Lots 508-558
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