Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 408pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 black cloth over gray cloth boards. Title stamped in gilt on the backstrip. Minor bumping to corners and edges. Moderate shelf wear to jacket. 3/4" closed tear at top of jacket at spine on back... More about Great Surveys of the American West
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, September, 1966. Later printing. Paperback. 410pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. An excellent history of the beginnings of the USGS, and a must for anyone with an interest in the exploration and cartography of the west. This book is probably not as well known... More about Great Surveys of the American West
Santa Barbara, CA; Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith, Inc, 1977. 1/1500. Monograph volume only. 264pp. Quarto [30 cm] 1/2 bonded brown leather over tan canvas boards. Lacking the slipcase. In 1875, Clarence Edward Dutton (1841-1912) joined the United States Geological Survey and is known for his extensive explorations of... More about Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District (Department of the Interior Monographs of the United...
Santa Barbara, CA; Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith, Inc, 1977. 1/1500. Monograph volume only. 264pp. Quarto [30 cm] 1/2 bonded brown leather over tan canvas boards. Lacking the slipcase. In 1875, Clarence Edward Dutton (1841-1912) joined the United States Geological Survey and is known for his extensive explorations of... More about Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District (Department of the Interior Monographs of the United...
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Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag, 1893. First Edition. 193 pp. Folio [37 cm]; original maroon cloth with decorative blind stamped borders to front and backstrip. Title gilt stamped on backstrip. Very good. Minor rubbing to corners of boards. Text in Swedish. Complete with all plates. Nordenskiold came to the... More about Ruiner af Klippboningar I Mesa Verde's Canons [The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde
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Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag, 1893. First Edition. Leather bound. 193pp. Folio [37 cm]; 1/4 calf with green pebbled cloth over boards, and gilt lettering and elaborate ornamental designs in gilt and blind on the spine and boards. Green marbled endpapers. Text in Swedish. Complete with all plates. Extremities... More about Ruiner af Klippboningar I Mesa Verde's Canons [The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1875. First edition. Leather bound. 291pp. Quarto [30 cm.] Original calf with leather labels on backstrip. Very good. Volume has been rebacked with original backstrip laid over. Light overall rubbing to boards, more rubbing to extremities. Small map of Arizona attached to the front pastedown... More about Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries. Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871,...
Philadelphia: Henry Perkins, 1839. First edition. Hardcover. 352pp. Octavo [24 cm] Purplish brown cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and blind stamped decorative patterns on the spine and covers. Good condition only. The underlying boards are exposed at the corners. The spine and surrounding areas... More about Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River, and a Visit to the...
San Francisco: Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957. First Edition. Five volumes in six (Volume Five in two parts). Folio [36.5 cm.] 1/4 green publisher's buckram over tan cloth boards. Titles gilt on backstrips. All volumes in fine in the original plain brown shipping dust jackets. Tasteful bookplate on the front... More about Mapping the Transmissippi West, 1540-1861
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1849. First edition. Hardcover. 130 pp., three folding maps. Later buckram binding with original wrappers bound in. The three maps are of the Oregon Territory, the area between Monterey and Prairie Buttes in the Valley of Sacramento, and the Upper California. Very good. Binding shows light... More about Western America, Including California and Oregon with Maps of Those Regions and of "The...