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State, Area: [AFRO-AMERICAN]
Author: Clark, Rufus W., A.M., Pastor of the North Church, Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
Title: A REVIEW OF THE REV. MOSES STUART'S PAMPHLET ON SLAVERY, ENTITLED CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION.
Imprint : Boston,
Date: 1850.
Description: (Orig. pub. in the Boston Daily Atlas), ptd. wrps., 103, small ex-liby. stamp on front wrp., pvt. name in ink, v.g.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 2351.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [AFRO-AMERICAN]
Author: Jenkins, Welborn Victor:
Title: THE "INCIDENT" AT MONROE. A Requiem for the Victims of July 25th, 1946. Written at the Scene of the Tragedy.
Imprint : Altanta, Ga.,
Date: 1948.
Description: Lg. 8vo, ptd. wrps., 46, illus., v.g.
Reference: +Dedicated "To my Slave-born Mother, Mary Rebecca." A poetic account of tragic shootings of Dorothy and Rodger Malcomb, Willi Mae, and George, the Soldier-boy at Monroe, GA., with quotations from Eleanor Roosevelt and others upon reading the poem.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [ALABAMA]
Author: Georgia-Alabama Investment and Development Co.,
Title: BY-LAWS OF THE ________. Incorporated under the Laws of the State of Alabama.
Imprint : N.p.
Date: (ca. 1890.)
Description: Ptd. wrps., 11.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [ALABAMA]
Author: McMurtrie, Douglas C.:
Title: A NOTE ON JOSEPH FORSTER, Pioneer Alabama Printer.
Imprint : Hattiesburg, MS.: The Book Farm,
Date: 1943.
Description: Heartman's Hist. Ser. No. 68, Repr. with revisions and addition of three facsimiles of Alabama imprints, from ALABAMA HIST. QTLY., Vol. 5, #2, p. 234-239, 1943, ptd. wrps., 12, 3 facs.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [AMERICAN LITERATURE]
Author: Apfelbaum, Chas. and Lois, eds.:
Title: A CARL SANDBURG MISCELLANY.
Imprint : Valley Stream, NY.,
Date: 1977.
Description: 4to, Ed.1, 1/290 copies, pict. card covers, (4), 32, illus., facsimiles, signed by editors.
Reference: +Reprint of an early lecture, Spanish-American War record, manuscripts on Abraham Lincoln, letters to Oliver Barrett, family photos, &c.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [AMERICAN LITERATURE]
Author: Ward, Sister Saint Ignatius Ward, M.A.:
Title: THE POETRY OF JOHN HAY. A Dissertation...Catholic U. of America...Ph.D.
Imprint : Wash., D.C.
Date: 1930.
Description: Ed.1, ptd. wrps. some soiled, 78, (1), fldg. tab., Bibliog., Index.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [ARIZONA]
Author: Cole, M. Eliz.:
Title: JOTTINGS FROM OVERLAND TRIP TO ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA. 1908.
Imprint : (Poughkeepsie, NY., Privately Printed, Hansman & Pralow, Printers,
Date: 1908.)
Description: Ed.1, ptd. wrps., illus., 99. (16 photo-illus.)
Reference: +Not in Rocq. Erie R.R. to Cincinnati, B. & O. R.R. to St. Louis, Kansas City, MO., on to OK., NM., El Paso, and to Bisbee, AZ., where the author went on a trip to the Holbrook Mine, guided by her friend, Mr. Gidley, who works there, and gives a detailed description of the mine and works, illus. (30pp. on Bisbee & mines), on RR. thru Yuma, Salten Sea, Ontario, Pacific Grove, L.A., Santa Cruz, Lick Observatory, Fresno, Reedley, Oakland, to Reno, Utah, Rambo, Ogden, WY., NE., Omaha, & return to NY. by train.
Price: $100.


State, Area: [BIBLIOGRAPHY]
Author: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas:
Title: OKLAHOMA IMPRINTS 1835-1907. A History of Printing in Oklahoma Before Statehood.
Imprint : Norman, OK.: U. of OK.,
Date: 1936,
Description: Ed.1, xxiv, (ii), 499, (l), illus., maps, facs., bibliog., index, fine in v.g. d.j.
Price: $85.


State, Area: [CALIFORNIA]
Author: Hammond, Geo. P. & Dale L.Morgan, ed.:
Title: CAPTAIN CHARLES M. WEBER, Pioneer of the San Joaquin & Founder of Stockton, CA.
Imprint : Berkeley, CA.,
Date: 1966.
Description: Folio, Ed.1, ltd. to 700, viii, 118, index, col.frontis., ills., maps, ptd. by L.& A. Kennedy.
Price: $75.


State, Area: [CATTLE]
Author: Crissey, Forrest:
Title: ALEXANDER LEGGE, 1866-1933.
Imprint : Chicago: Printed by the Lakeside Press,
Date: 1936.
Description: Ed.1, xiv, 232, col. frontis., illus.
Reference: +Adams HERD 611.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [CIVIL WAR]
Author: Anderson, James H., LL.B.:
Title: LIFE AND LETTERS OF JUDGE THOMAS J. ANDERSON AND WIFE. Including a Few Letters from Children and Others'mostly Written During the Civil War; A History.
Imprint : N.p.,Press of F.J.Heer, (Columbus, Ohio?),
Date: 1904,
Description: vi, 535, illus, frontis. port., orig. cl., about fine.
Price: $50.


State, Area: [CIVIL WAR]
Author: Barns, George C.:
Title: DENVER, THE MAN. The Life, Letters and Public Papers of the Lawyer, Soldier and Statesman.
Imprint : Wilmington, OH.,
Date: 1949,
Description: Ed.1, evidently pvt. ptd., xii, (i), 372, illus., index.
Reference: +Biog. of Brig. Gen. James W. Denver, with account of early life in VA. & OH., Mexican War, State Senator in CA., in Congress, Comm. of Indian Affairs under Buchanan, Gov. of Bleeding Kansas, naming of Denver, the City, Civil War.
Price: $65.


State, Area: [CIVIL WAR]
Author: Boggs, S(amuel) S.:
Title: ADERTON MANADERS FANGELSELIF UNDER REBELLERNAS FLAGGA, ...
Imprint : Milwaukee, Wis.,
Date: 1892.
Description: Orig. cl. (cover dampspots), 109, frontis., illus., names in ink, quite good (text in Swedish).
Reference: +This ed. not in Dornbusch. Boggs was with the 21st Illinois Infantry, and tells of Andersonville, Danville, Charleston, and other prisons. Coulter 42, not noting this ed. NUC: NB 059800, MnHIi, IHi, GEU.
Price: $85.


State, Area: [CIVIL WAR]
Author: Kelly, Gene, Compiler:
Title: COLLECTION OF CIVIL WAR LETTERS WRITTEN BY MERCER CO. SOLDIERS. (Cover title.)
Imprint : (Aledo, IL.?
Date: ca. 1970.)
Description: 4to, Ed.1, ltd. to 150, orig. ptd. wrps., 58 leaves, stapled, mimeographed obverse only.
Reference: +Letters written home were printed at the time in the Aledo (Mercer Co.) Weekly Record, and reprinted here, with letters from Illinois Regiments: 84th, 9th, 126th, 58th, 17th, 27th, 102nd, 45th, 83rd Ill. Vol. Inf., and 14th Ill. Cavalry.
Price: $40.


State, Area: [CULINARY ARTS]
Author: Calkins, Earnest Elmo:
Title: ADVENTURES IN EATING.
Imprint : N.p., (N.Y.?),
Date: Christmas, 1928,
Description: Ed.1, Pvt. Ptd., sm. 4to, ltd. to 242 copies printed on Crane's Olde Book paper by A. E. Dittrich, orig. ptd. bds., 18, spine sl. faded, v.g.
Reference: +French cooking.
Price: $50.


State, Area: [GENEALOGY]
Author: Carpenter, Dr. Seymour D.:
Title: GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF THE CARPENTER FAMILY including the Autobiography, and Personal Reminiscences of____. Ed. by Edwin Sawyer Walker.
Imprint : Springfield, IL.: Illinois State Journal Co., Printers.
Date: 1907.
Description: Ed.1, ltd. to 500 copies, frontis. port., xv, (i),(11)-241 + index, facs., ports., illus., or. gilt cl. (some flecks), map.
Reference: +Trip to Memphis in 1846, to Cedar Rapids, IA., in 1849, early Iowa pioneers, early steamboats, railroad organization, financing the Chicago, Ia., & Neb. RR. Co., early Iowa politics, first bank, Asst. Surgeon U.S. Vols., Lt. Col. & Medical Dir. of the Dept. of Missouri, 1865, in Battle (Second) of Bull Run, of Prairie Grove, Fayetteville, the War in Mo., murders of three of Quantrill's men witnessed, Pilot Knob, after the war, building for the C.B. & Q. RR., Great Western RR. of Canada, La., TX., lumber co. at N.O., later life. Not in Dornbusch.
Price: $200.


State, Area: [GENEALOGY]
Author: Morgan, Henry T.:
Title: THE LIFE OF HENRY BRUCE.
Imprint : (Peoria, IL.),
Date: 1934.
Description: Ed.1, 1/2 cl., front cover title label, 186, 23 pls. (ports., fac.), finely printed by The Lakeside Press, fine.
Reference: +Much data on Bruces in England and Virginia, with travels to KY., TN., OH., MO., LA., IL., MD., AR., GA., NC., SC. Appendix includes references to Bruce, Morgan, and Collins families; with chapters on slaves, politics, &c.
Price: $60.


State, Area: [GEORGIA]
Author: Foster, Sophie Lee, Compiler, State Regent, D.A.R.:
Title: REVOLUTIONARY READER. Reminiscences and Indian Legends.
Imprint : Atlanta,
Date: 1913,
Description: Ed.1, or. cl., 378, fldg. map, index, 10 plates.
Price: $30.


State, Area: [ILLINOIS]
Author: Alvord, Clarence Walworth, Ed.:
Title: LAWS OF THE TERRITORY OF ILLINOIS 1809-1811.
Imprint : Springfield, Ill.,
Date: 1906.
Description: 8vo, ptd. wrps. soiled, 34, Bulletin, IL. St. Hist. Library, Vol.1, #2, June 1, 1906.
Price: $40.


State, Area: [ILLINOIS]
Author: Burlend, Rebecca:
Title: A TRUE PICTURE OF EMIGRATION. Ed. by Milo M. Quaife.
Imprint : Chicago: Lakeside Press,
Date: 1936.
Description: 12mo, orig. cl., xxxii, 167, ports., facs., t.e.g.
Reference: +Account of an English family pioneering in Pike Co., Illinois.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [ILLINOIS]
Author: Carpenter, Charles Knapp, a Crane's Grove Settler of Long Standing:
Title: THE EARLY HISTORY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS.
Imprint : (Mount Morris, IL.)
Date: 1948.
Description: 12mo, Ed.1, 144, port., map, illus.
Reference: +Pub. by Ogle Co. Federation of Women's Clubs. A history of settlement and the Northern Illinois Development Co.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [ILLINOIS]
Author: Rowell, Hopkins:
Title: THE GREAT RESOURCES AND SUPERIOR ADVANTAGES OF THE CITY OF JOLIET, ILLINOIS.
Imprint : Joliet: Republican Steam Press, Gritzner & Henderson, Book and Job Printers,
Date: 1871.
Description: Ptd. wrps., 32, two maps, v.g.
Price: $85.


State, Area: [INDIANA]
Author:
Title: PARKER REVIEW, Vol.V, #42, Jan.22, 1904.
Imprint : (Indiana?)
Date: Jan.22, 1904.
Description: Broadside of oil wells at Parker City Oil Field, 5 cols., newspaper format, verso blank, 12 x 18", folded, fine.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [IOWA]
Author: Temple, Seth J.:
Title: CAMP McCLELLAN DURING THE CIVIL WAR,
Imprint : Davenport, Iowa,
Date: 1928.
Description: 8vo, Ed.1, ptd. wrps., 2-page map, one illus., 50.
Reference: +With many excerpts from newspaper accounts of the prison camp and hospital, much on Indians, including the reprieved Sioux Indians (MN Indian Massacre, 1862).
Price: $25.


State, Area: [KANSAS]
Author: Gilmore, S.J.:
Title: THE IMMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE MOST FERTILE LANDS OF KANSAS...,
Imprint : Chicago,
Date: 1880.
Description: Folder, 8.6 x 18.8 cm., 6p., map, fine.
Reference: +By the Land Comm. of KS. Div. (formerly KS. Pac. Ry.) U. Pac. Ry. Co., K.C., Mo.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [KENTUCKY]
Author: Moses, Richard A., Compiler):
Title: A RECORD OF THE MOSES TRIBE (KENTUCKY).
Imprint : N.p.
Date: (1965),
Description: Ed.1, obl. 4to, (6), 171, (29), ports., illus.
Reference: +Genealogy, ed. by Nancy Ann Davis Birkie, including some biographies and local history.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [KENTUCKY]
Author: W.P.A.: Compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program...in ...Kentucky.
Title: HENDERSON. A Guide to Audubon's Home Town In Kentucky.
Imprint : Northport, L.I., New York,
Date: (1941.)
Description: Ed.1, 120, illus., index.
Price: $30.


State, Area: [LINCOLN]
Author: Barrett, Oliver R.:
Title: THE OLIVER R. BARRETT LINCOLN COLLECTION. Public Auction Sale Feb. 19-20 ...at the Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (Cover title.)
Imprint : NY.
Date: 1952.
Description: Ptd. bds., annotated catalog, 264, ports., facs., illus., 842 items, fine.
Reference: +"The Barrett Collection is so full and basic that a pretty good life of Lincoln could be written from it alone..." -Benjamin P. Thomas.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [LINCOLN]
Author: Foster, B.G.:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN INVENTOR.
Imprint : N.p.,
Date: 1928.
Description: Ptd. wrps., pvt. ptd., 3, 16, illus., port., facs.
Reference: +Monaghan 3013. Story of Lincoln's patent for lifting vessels over shoals.
Price: $20.


State, Area: [LINCOLN]
Author: Pratt, Harry E.:
Title: THE PERSONAL FINANCES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Imprint : Springfield, IL.,
Date: 1943,
Description: 4to, Ed.1, xiii, 198, frontis., illus., facs., bibliog., index, illus. endpapers.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [LINCOLN]
Author: Sandburg, Carl:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1809-1959. THE ADDRESS BY CARL SANDBURG BEFORE THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS WASHINGTON, D.C. FEBRUARY 12, 1959.
Imprint : Worcester: Achille St. Onge,
Date: 1959.
Description: Ed.1, ltd. to 2000 copies printed from Spectrum type on "Antiqua" paper by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, & bound by Proost en Brandt, Amsterdam, Holland, miniature book, 6.8 x 5 cm., full leather, frontis. one-cent U.S. postage-stamp portrait, 38, (1), a.e.g., fine.
Price: $75.


State, Area: [LOUISIANA]
Author: McVoy, Lizzie Carter and Ruth Bates Campbell:
Title: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FICTION BY LOUISIANIANS AND ON LOUISIANA SUBJECTS. Intro. by James A McMillen.
Imprint : Baton Rouge,
Date: 1935.
Description: Ptd. wrps., 87, index.
Price: $30.


State, Area: [MARITIME]
Author: (Roach, John):
Title: LETTER TO THE HON. SAMUEL SHELLABARGER. IRON STEAMSHIPS: Shall We Build Them of Our Own Material, or Buy Them, or the Material to Build Them, Abroad? A Practical Answer to the above Important National Question.
Imprint : Wash.: Gibson Brothers, Printers,
Date: 1872,
Description: Ptd. wrps., 18.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [MASON-DIXON LINE]
Author: Graham, Lieut. Col. J.D.:
Title: MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNORS OF MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA, Transmitting the Reports of the Joint Commissioners, and of___, U.S. Topographical Engineer 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. With a Map.
Imprint : Chicago: Steam Presses of F.Fulton & Co.,
Date: 1862.
Description: Ed.2, orig. wrps., 95, fldg. map, v.g.
Reference: +CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 641, 2c.
Price: $85.


State, Area: [MILITARY]
Author: Wolf, Simon:
Title: THE AMERICAN JEW AS PATRIOT, SOLDIER, AND CITIZEN.
Imprint : Phila., N.Y.-Chicago-Wash.: Brentano's,
Date: 1895.
Description: Ed.1, xiii, (1, Errata), (1), 576, (10, advts.), frontis., index, orig. gilt-stamped cl.
Reference: +Rev. War, Haym Salomon, Continental Army, War of 1812, Mexican War, U.S. Regular Army & Navy, Civil War, Confederacy, Jews in Armies of Europe, rosters, Staff Officers, and much more.
Price: $115.


State, Area: [MINING]
Author: Morris, Henry Curtis:
Title: THE MINING WEST AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. Illustrated accounts of many mining camps that I knew when they were discovered and richly productive and we could sell gold and silver without official interference.
Imprint : Wash., D.C.: Morris,
Date: 1952.
Description: 4to, orig. cl., ltd. ed., 80, illus., map.
Reference: +CO., incl. Cripple Creek, NV., Death Valley, Grass Valley, CA.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [MISSOURI]
Author: Munroe, Prof.H.S.:
Title: THE NEW DRESSING-WORKS OF THE ST. JOSEPH LEAD COMPANY, AT BONNE TERRE, MISSOURI. A Paper Read Before the American Institute of Mining Engineers, Buffalo Meeting, October, 1888.
Imprint : Author's Ed.
Date: 1899.
Description: Ptd. wrps., 19, 3 lg. fldg. diagrams, text figs., pls., v.g.
Price: $50.


State, Area: [MONTANA]
Author: Hofman, Prof. H.O.:
Title: NOTES ON THE METALLURGY OF COPPER OF MONTANA.
Imprint : (Phila.,
Date: 1903.)
Description: Sep. ptg. from Trans. of Amer. Inst. of Mining Engineers, (Albany Mtg., Feb., 1903), orig. self-wrps., 59.
Reference: +With condensed history of plants, (incl. Colo. Smelting & Mining Co., Colusa Smelter of MT. Copper Co., Parrott Silver & Copper Co., Bell Plant, Clark's Colusa, Butte & Boston Consol. Mining Co., Montana Ore-Purchasing Co., Anaconda Copper, Boston and Montana's Great Falls Plant), ore analyses, & their treatment, refining, furnaces, electrolyte refining, Rocky Mtn. coals, &c.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [MONTANA]
Author: Ramsey, Robert H.:
Title: MEN AND MINES OF NEWMONT. A Fifty Year History.
Imprint : NY.
Date: 1973.
Description: Ed.1, 344, index, illus., Index.
Reference: +Much on Western States' mining.
Price: $20.


State, Area: [MUSIC]
Author: Bloom, Mariesta Dodge Howland:
Title: THE SONG THAT DIDN'T DIE. A HISTORY OF THE PEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 1898-1958.
Imprint : (Peoria?) Published at The Parthenon Press,
Date: Feb., 1959.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 62, illus., roster 1958-9, v.g.
Price: $10.


State, Area: [MUSIC]
Author: Sandburg, Helga:
Title: SWEET MUSIC: A Book of Family Reminiscence and Song. Preface by Carl Sandburg.
Imprint : NY.: Dial Press,
Date: 1963.
Description: Sm. 4to, cl.-backed bds., 180, 33 illus. from orig. photos, facs. of music, pict. d.j., fine.
Reference: +Illus. include author's family pictures, some of her father, Carl Sandburg, poet and Lincoln-man, & of her mother, including one by her brother, famous photographer Edward Steichen.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [NATIVE AMERICANS]
Author: Bourke, John Gregary:
Title: THE SNAKE DANCE OF THE MOQUIS OF ARIZONA...
Imprint : Chicago,
Date: 1962.
Description: Reprint of the 1884 N.Y. orig. ed., cl., xxxvi, (i), 371, index, pls., fine.
Reference: +Howes B 655, repr. ed.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [NEBRASKA]
Author: Bessey, Chas. E.:
Title: GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS OF NEBRASKA.
Imprint : Lincoln, NE.,
Date: 1888.
Description: Ptd. wrps., 15, +20 plates.
Reference: +Repr. from State Bd. of Agric. Rept.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [NEBRASKA]
Author: Beadle, Erastus F.:
Title: TO NEBRASKA IN '57. A Diary by _____. Printed from the Original Manuscript by Courtesy of its Owner, Dr. Frank P. O'Brien.
Imprint : New York Public Library,
Date: 1923.
Description: Ptd. wrps., 89, facs., fine.
Price: $40.


State, Area: [NEVADA]
Author: Kelly, J. Wells:
Title: FIRST DIRECTORY OF NEVADA TERRITORY...Including Sketches of the Washoe Silver Mines by Henry de Groot. Intro. by R. Lingenfelter.
Imprint : Los Gatos, CA.,
Date: 1962.
Description: Orig. cl., 264, 24, illus., dj. sl. wn.
Price: $75.


State, Area: [NEVADA]
Author: Brodigan, Geo., Compiler:
Title: STATE OF NEVADA. THE MINING LAWS--1911.
Imprint : Carson City,
Date: 1912,
Description: Ptd. wrps., 86, stapled as issued.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [NEW HAMPSHIRE]
Author: BOSTON, CONCORD & MONTREAL RAILROAD,
Title: THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE ____. May, 1849.
Imprint : Concord,
Date: (1849.)
Description: Ptd. wrps., 24, few small stains.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [NEW MEXICO]
Author: Cockerell, T. D. A.:
Title: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ENTOMOLOGY OF NEW MEXICO. (Reprint from Vol. VII, Proc. of Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences),
Imprint : (Davenport, Iowa): Putnam Memorial Fund,
Date: 1898.
Description: Ptd. wrps., pp. 139-156.
Reference: +A Catalogue of the Fossorial Hymenoptera of N.M., and Some Records of Diptera.
Price: $15.


State, Area: [NEW YORK]
Author: (NEW YORK WOMEN FRIENDS):
Title: MINUTES OF THE YEARLY MEETING. 1820.
Imprint : (N.Y.):Printed by James & John Harper, 189 Pearl Street,
Date: (1820.)
Description: Broadsheet, approx. 8 x 13", with title and imprint (only) verso, giving details of Yearly Meeting of Women Friends in N.Y., Extracted from Minutes by Abigail Evernghim, Clerk.
Reference: +Not in AMER. IMPRINTS.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [OREGON]
Author: Whitman, Mrs. Marcus:
Title: A JOURNEY ACROSS THE PLAINS IN 1836. (in Trans. of 19th Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Assoc. for 1891),
Imprint : Portland, OR.,
Date: 1893.
Description: Ptd. wrps.(sm. top corner torn off rear wrp.), pp.40-68. Also, Letters, Written by Mrs. Whitman from Oregon to Her Relatives in New York, pp. 79-179. Also, Annual Address by Lydell Baker, & Occasional Address by Geo. H. Burnett, &c.
Reference: +First ptg. of the mss. journal.
Price: $75.


State, Area: [OREGON]
Author: Carey, Charles Henry:
Title: THE OREGON CONSTITUTION and Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention of 1857.
Imprint : (Salem, OR.,
Date: 1926.)
Description: Ed.1, 543, indices.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [OVERLAND]
Author: Pritchard, James A.:
Title: THE OVERLAND DIARY OF, from Kentucky to California in 1849...ed. by Dale L. Morgan.
Imprint : Denver,
Date: 1959.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 221, ills., maps, pls., dj., ptd. by Lawton Kennedy.
Price: $100.


State, Area: [PENNSYLVANIA]
Author: Ashburner, Chas.A.:
Title: THE BRADFORD OIL DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Imprint : (NY.
Date: 1879.)
Description: Ptd. wrps., 12, fldg. map-plan, v.g., (Sep. ptg. from Trans. of Amer. Inst. of Mining Engineers, Baltimore Mtg., Feb., 1879).
Price: $45.


State, Area: [PENNSYLVANIA]
Author: Chance, H.M., M.D.:
Title: THE AVAILABLE TONNAGE OF THE BITUMINOUS COAL FIELDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. A Paper Read before the Amer. Inst. of Mining Engineers,... Oct., 1881.
Imprint : Author's Ed., (Phila.?)
Date: 1881.
Description: Ptg. wrps. sl. soiled & worn, 19, 1 pl., sep. ptg.
Price: $15.


State, Area: [POLITICS]
Author:
Title: REPUBLICANS OF ILLINOIS. A Portrait and Chronological Record of Members of the Republican Party.
Imprint : Chicago & N.Y.: Lewis Pub. Co.,
Date: 1905.
Description: Lg. 8vo, full lea. gilt little rubbed, xiv, (iv), 379, a.e.g., corners bumped, good.
Price: $125.


State, Area: [POLITICS]
Author: Cochran, Bert:
Title: ADLAI STEVENSON, PATRIARCH AMONG POLITICIANS.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (1969.)
Description: 3d ptg., 424, photo-illus., dj.
Reference: +Ill. Gov., U.N. Ambassador.
Price: $15.


State, Area: [RAILROADS]
Author: [C.B. & Q. RR]
Title: SOUVENIR OF THE CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD AND ASSOCIATED LINES.
Imprint : Chicago, Publ. for A Century of Progress Exposition,
Date: 1933.
Description: Pict. ptd. wrps. (locomotives), (32), many photo-illus., center-fold panoramic view of Chicago Exposition lake front site, map, historical & descriptive text.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [RAILROADS]
Author: Corliss, Carlton J.:
Title: TRAILS TO RAILS. A Story of Transportation Progress in Illinois.
Imprint : (Chicago,
Date: 1934.)
Description: 4to, ptd. card wrps., 48, illus., maps, facsimiles, bibliog.
Reference: +Issued by Ill. Central RR.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [RAILROADS]
Author: UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM,
Title: A LIST OF REFERENCES TO LITERATURE RELATING TO THE ____.
Imprint : Newton, MA.,
Date: 1974, (repr. of 1922 orig. ed.)
Description: 4to, cl., 299, 21.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [RELIGION]
Author: Beecher, Henry Ward:
Title: STAR PAPERS; or, Experiences of Art and Nature.
Imprint : N.Y.: J. C. Derby,
Date: 1855.
Description: Ed.1, 359, spine faded, sl. wn., pvt. name on endp.
Reference: +Letters from Europe; Experiences from Nature.
Price: $30.


State, Area: [SOUTH AFRICA]
Author: Orr, Prof. J., B.Sc., Wh.Exh., M.I.Mech.E., A.M.I.C.E.:
Title: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TRANSVAAL INSTITUTE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, January 11th, 1908. CONTAINING PAPER, ENTITLED STOPE DRILLS: Results of the "South African Mines" Trials at the Robinson Mine, Johannesburg. Reprinted by permission of the Council of the Institute. (Wrp. title.)
Imprint : N.p., (Johannesburg?), The Transvaal Leader.
Date: (1908.)
Description: Sm. 4to, ptd. wrps., some edgewear, pp. (181)-236, frontis. pl. of The Trophy, many illus., 10 fldg. tabs. at back with some dampstains, mostly minor.
Reference: +Results of a contest of how much work one man could do in a given time with the new Stope Drill, with much technical discussion.
Price: $50.


State, Area: [SOUTH DAKOTA]
Author: Driscoll, R.E.:
Title: SEVENTY YEARS OF BANKING IN THE BLACK HILLS.
Imprint : Rapid City,
Date: 1948.
Description: Ed.1, orig. wrps., 87, port.
Reference: +Jennewein 161.
Price: $45.


State, Area: [SOUTH DAKOTA]
Author: Lincoln, Francis Church, et al:
Title: THE MINING INDUSTRY OF SOUTH DAKOTA.
Imprint : Rapid City, S.D.: So. Dakota School of Mines Bulletin #17,
Date: 1937.
Description: Ptd. wrps., 201, 2 fldg. maps in rear pocket, illus., fine, bibliog.
Reference: +Mining Law, Mining Directory of SD., index of property and minerals, &c.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [TENNESSEE]
Author: Davidson, Donald:
Title: THE TENNESSEE.
Imprint : N.Y.,
Date: (1946; 1948.)
Description: 2 vols., or. cl., 1st eds., illus. by Theresa S. Davidson, index, bibliography.
Price: $65.


State, Area: [TEXAS]
Author: Hunter, Joh. Marvin:
Title: THE TRAIL DRIVERS OF TEXAS.
Imprint : N.Y.,
Date: 1963.
Description: 8vo, DeLuxe Ed., ltd. to 97 copies in lea., Intro. & signed by Harry S. Drago, boxed, 2 vols., xxviii, 549; -1070, illus., fine.
Reference: +Adams SIX-GUNS 1084.
Price: $250.


State, Area: [TEXAS]
Author: Sprague, Major J. T., U.S.A.:
Title: THE TREACHERY IN TEXAS, The Secession of Texas, and the Arrest of the United States Officers and Soldiers Serving in Texas. Read before the New-York Historical Society, June 25, 1861.
Imprint : NY.
Date: 1862.
Description: Ptd. wrps., (109)-142, v.g.
Reference: +Dornbusch II, 1633.
Price: $75.


State, Area: [UPPER MISSOURI VALLEY]
Author: Briggs, Harold E.:
Title: FRONTIERS OF THE NORTHWEST: A History of the Upper Missouri Valley.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: 1950.
Description: Cl., repr. ed., xiv, 629, illus., index, map endpapers, fine.
Reference: +O.P. Includes ND., SD., MT., WY., parts of ID. & CO.
Price: $35.


State, Area: [UTAH]
Author: Rolker, Chas.M.:
Title: THE SILVER SANDSTONE DISTRICT OF UTAH.
Imprint : Author's Ed., (Phila.?)
Date: 1880.
Description: Ptd. wrps., 12, text figs.
Reference: +Read before the American Inst. of Mining Engineers, Aug., 1880.
Price: $25.


State, Area: [WYOMING]
Author: Sackett, Carl L, Ed.:
Title: BIG HORN PIONEERS.
Imprint : Big Horn, WY.,
Date: 1961.
Description: 1st Rev. Ed., pict. wrps., 115, illus., ports., with pioneer family histories.
Reference: +Compiled by Big Horn H.S. students under Mrs. Vie W. Garber, school librarian.
Price: $25.

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