[Rarebooks] fs: Another Shelf of Western Travel books w/more books

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

Nobody  took us up on yesterday's offer of 8 books (9 volumes) for $30.76 
per inch, so we are going to add some more books in an attempt to get that 
ever-important per-inch cost down...

Today we offer 12 titles (13 volumes) of Western travels, spanning the 
years from 1844 to 1976. Total shelf length of the sets/books is 18.5", 
which we are offering for $27.02 per inch, or, in other words, $500 net for 
everything listed here, plus $10 shipping.


Parker, Rev. Samuel.  JOURNAL OF AN EXPLORING TOUR BEYOND THE ROCKY 
MOUNTAINS...   Ithica; Andrus, Woodruff & Gauntlett: 1844.  "Under the 
direction of A.B.C.F.M. containing a description of the geography, geology, 
climate, productions of the country, and the numbers, manners, and customs 
of the natives: with a map of Oregon Territory".  First published in 
1838.  Parker traveled with the American Fur Company's 1835 
expedition.  The map is considered to be the earliest accurate map of the 
Territory.  Hardcover.  5"x8", 416 pages, folding map; original 
blindstamped covers with gilt spine title; covers somewhat soiled, spine 
head and base worn, one small cloth chip on hinge; contents with scattered 
soil and foxing; map moderately foxed and frayed a bit along the edges; 
still, a decent copy in the original covers and with the map.  [02366]  $350.00


Reid, Captain Mayne.  THE DESERT HOME, OR, THE ADVENTURES OF A LOST FAMILY 
IN THE WILDERNESS.  'THE ENGLISH FAMILY ROBINSON'. Boston; Ticknor and 
Fields: 1854.  This appears to be the elusive first edition.  Captain Reid 
(an Irishman by birth) had fought as a soldier in the Mexican War, and so 
embarked upon the career of novel writer, drawing (sometimes ex-treeemely 
loosely) on his own experiences.  In this children's tale, for instance, 
having taken a bad shortcut while returning from a trade trip, the author 
and his party discover an English family in the isolated and barren "Great 
American Desert".  Illustrated with 12 drawings by William Harvey, which 
mostly show the local wildlife running amok.  Hardcover.  5"x7", 411 pages, 
12 b/w plates; covers a bit dusty, spine head chipped.  A few signatures 
pulling slightly, a few spots, but a pretty nice copy.  [02705]  $125.00


Upham, Charles Wentworth.  LIFE, EXPLORATIONS AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF JOHN 
CHARLES FREMONT.  Boston; Ticknor and Fields: 1856.  45th thousand.  A 
popular biography of "The Pathfinder", issued at the time of his campaign 
as the first Republican candidate for the Presidency.  Fremont became 
famous as an officer in the Army's Topographical Corps, leading major 
Western expeditions in 1842, 1843-44, and 1845-47.  Much of his fame was 
spread by his reports, co-authored by his wife, Jessie, the daughter of 
Senator Thomas Hart Benton.  He was also instrumental in the California 
revolt which led to that state's admission into the Union, and served as 
one of California's Senators in 1850-51.  The "Pathfinder" was a 
crackerjack explorer, but something less than a crackerjack general, and 
his hopes for Civil War fame went largely unrealized, though not for want 
of trying.  After the War he served as Territorial Governor of Arizona and 
then retired to California.  Hardcover.  5"x7.5", 365 pages, 13 woodcut 
plates and an engraved portrait frontispiece; spine just a bit sunned, a 
little cover soil, a few internal spots, a little soil, a creased page 
corner or two, but overall a very nice copy.  [02782]  $60.00


Winthrop, Theodore.  THE CANOE AND THE SADDLE, ADVENTURES AMONG THE 
NORTHWESTERN RIVERS AND FORESTS; AND ISTHMIANA.  Boston; Ticknor and 
Fields: 1863.  6th edition.  The tale of a trip by the author in 1853 to 
the territories of Washington and Oregon, and his time amongst the Native 
Americans of the region.  He returned via Panama and described that as 
well.  His text includes some Chinook slang, written phonetically, as 
conversation.  An imaginative and opinionated writer-  "Indian maids are 
pretty; Indian dames are hags.  Only high civilization keeps its women 
beautiful to the last.  Indian belles have some delights of toilette worthy 
of consideration by their blonde sisterhood...", Winthrop then apparently 
took some opium and continued- "O mistaken harridans of Christendom, so 
bountifully painted and powdered, did ye but know how much better than your 
diffusiveness of daub is the concentrated brilliance of vermilion stripes 
parting at the nose-bridge and streaming athwart the cheeks!  Knew ye but 
this, at once ye would reform from your undeluding shams, and recover the 
forgotten charms of acknowledged pinxit".  Hardcover.  5"x7.5", 375 pages; 
bound in original patterned cloth, light cover wear, spine sunned; spine 
head and base with small chips; a very small amount of corrosion and a 
closed crack along the hinge; Fitchburg Historical Society bookplate; 
private owner bookplate; small chip on endpaper; light soil.  [02405]  $100.00


Van Tramp, John C.  PRAIRIE AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES OR LIFE IN THE 
WEST...  Columbus; Gilmore & Segner: 1866.  "To which will be added a view 
of the states and territorial regions of our western empire: embracing 
history, statistics and geography, and descriptions of the chief cities of 
the West".  First published in 1858.  A sweeping survey of the history and 
state of the Western United States, illustrated with many views, vignettes, 
etc.  Hardcover.  6"x9", 649 + [vi] pages, b/w illustrations; period 
elaborately-patterned cloth with gilt spine title; covers rubbed and 
somewhat worn, outer hinges cracked, inner hinges reinforced; spine 
covering partially perished, but does not look as bad as it sounds -the 
covers are still handsome; some internal spotting and soil; foxing on the 
title page.  [02410]  $60.00


Hennepin, Father Louis. A NEW DISCOVERY OF A VAST COUNTRY IN AMERICA. 
Chicago; A.C. McClurg & Co.: 1903. "Reprinted from the second London issue 
of 1698". Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. A very important and ultimately 
controversial 17th century travelogue. Hennepin set out with LaSalle to 
explore the Mississippi, and, after LaSalle turned back to raise more 
money, Hennepin sailed up the river and explored further into the Northwest 
interior than any European before him, even managing to be held captive by 
the Sioux for a while. The troubles began when Hennepin also claimed to 
have followed the Mississippi south to the Gulf of Mexico... when in fact 
he never did such a thing. He has also been criticized for plagiarizing 
passages from other authors. Despite these faults, this remains an 
important work.  Hardcover. 2 volumes. 6"x8.5", lxiv + 711 pages; several 
b/w plates and 2 folding maps; light cover soil, front hinge cracked and a 
bit loose; ownership stamp of "Eugene d'Aumont-Cote de St. Lusson" and 
blindstamp of "Eugene Cote -Police Justice"; spine heads slightly pulled 
and one slightly torn and apparently neatly reglued. [01204] $225.00


Duffus, R.L. THE SANTA FE TRAIL. London; Longmans, Green and Co.: 1930. 
First edition. "The trail to Santa Fe was the first of the great beaten 
tracks which joined the American East and West. As early as the sixteenth 
century parts of it were trodden by adventurers, and when Lewis and Clarke 
were pushing into the unknown northwest, the magic city Santa Fe was 
already a goal -though an officially forbidden one- for French and American 
traders.  Hardcover. 6.5"x9.5", 283 pages, b/w illustrations, dj; a nice 
copy with three rubbed spots on the endpaper, in a somewhat worn jacket. 
[01149] $45.00


Garrard, Lewis H.  WAH-TO-YAH AND THE TAOS TRAIL.  Norman; University of 
Oklahoma Press: 1955.  First edition in this format.  "Or prairie travel 
and scalp dances, with a look at Los Rancheros from muleback and the Rocky 
Mountain campfire".  First published in 1850.  From the Western Frontier 
Library series.  Hardcover.  5"x8", 298 pages, dj; a near fine copy in a 
lightly worn jacket. [01256]  $25.00


Stewart, George R.  THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL. AN EPIC WITH MANY HEROES. New 
York; McGraw-Hill Book Company, American Trails Series: 1962. Seventh 
printing.  The story of the main covered-wagon route to California, first 
attempted in 1841.  Hardcover. 6"x9", 339 pages, b/w illustrations, dj; a 
fine copy in a fine jacket. [[01152]  $20.00


Hawgood, John A.  AMERICA'S WESTERN FRONTIERS.  The Exploration and 
Settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West.  New York; Alfred A. Knopf: 
1967.  "(Hawgood) brings to these dramatic events a happy blend of his own 
lively style and narrative talent and a thorough familiarity with the 
documentary sources for these stirring events".  Hardcover.  6.5"x9.5", 440 
+ x pages; b/w illustrations, maps; dj; a very good copy in a lightly worn 
jacket.  [02393]  $25.00


Bray, Edmund C. & Martha C. (eds.).  JOSEPH N. NICOLLET ON THE PLAINS AND 
PRAIRIES.  The Expeditions of 1838-39 with Journals, Letters, and Notes on 
the Dakota Indians.  St. Paul; Minnesota Historical Society Press: 
1976.  "In 1838 and 1839 French scientist Joseph N. Nicollet led two U.S. 
government-sponsored expeditions into the land between the Missouri and 
Mississippi rivers...".  Hardcover.  6"x9", 294 pages, b/w illustrations, 
maps; dj; a fine copy in a near fine jacket.  [02202]  $40.00


Clark, Thomas D. (ed.).  OFF AT SUNRISE.  THE OVERLAND JOURNAL OF CHARLES 
GLASS GRAY.  San Marino; Huntington Library: 1976.  "A vivid and literate 
account of an overland journey during the gold-rush year of 1849.  The 
diary begins May 1st, 1849, the day young Charles Glass Gray leaves 
Independence, Missouri, the last entry is dated November 19, in San 
Francisco...".  Hardcover.  6"x9", 182 pages, dj; near fine in a near fine 
jacket.  [02208]  $35.00




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