[California Gold Rush] DESCRIPTION DE LA NOUVELLE CALIFORNIE: GEOGRAPHIQUE, POLITIQUE ET MORALE. . . by [Americana] Ferry, Hypolite - 1850

1941. Scrapbook Compiled by a Lawyer Who Served as F.B.I. Agent in the Early 1940s [Scrapbook]. [Whitticar, Ralph M.]. [Scrapbook Compiled by FBI Agent and Lawyer Ralph M Whitticar]. Richmond and Fredericksburg, VA, 1941-1947, 1982-1983. [100] pp. Folio (14-1/2" x 11-1/2"). Padded imitation calf with ties, large hearth scene stamped to front cover below "Scrapbook." Light wear to extremities, front board detached, rear board partially detached, first leaf detached and moderately edgeworn, some edgewear and minor tears to several following leaves. Photographs, newspaper clippings, letters and documents affixed (with glue or cellotape) to rectos of 33 pages, three newspaper clippings from 1982 and 1983 laid in at rear of book. Most of these items have brief annotations. $1,500. * Ralph Whitticar was a lawyer from Columbus Ohio who joined the F.B.I. as a special agent in 1941. He served in Washington, DC and Virginia until he resigned in 1944 to take a position with the Virginia Department of Motor… Read More

California Illustrated: Including. A Description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes, by A Returned California - (John M Letts). 1852. New York: William Holdredge: 224 pages, includes California ConstitutionTrue first edition, copyright by John M Letts, 1852. With 48 Engravings, many with original tissue guards: "G.V. Cooper Del, On Stone by J Cameron, Litho of G. W. Lewis.NOT a library copy. No marks, inscriptions, or stamps found within. We carefully photograph our items so that you can review details of condition. After your review of the photos, please ask any questions or request additional photos from us so that you can make the best buying decision.
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[New Orleans]., 1827. Old plain wraps.. Very good, wrapper tattered, pages toned. . 8vo., 22x14 cm. . An anti-Jackson pamphlet circulated during the election campaign of 1828. weight: 0.1 lb.

This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details. [Revolutionary War] Plan of Camp May 9. 1779. Along Little Fox River [Northwest Territory?] 1779. Hand drawn map on laid paper. 16 x 34 cm. Has been folded. Edge chips, small hole. Edge staining. Good.
The map depicts a camp with symbols of canons, along Fox Creek and Little Fox River. Notation on verso "Plan of Camp May 9, 1779." On left corner: "Hedq [Headquarters] of God____." There are a few possible locations based on the name Little Fox River, but perhaps the most likely seems to be in what was then referred to as the Northwest Territory, in present day Illinois, some 58 miles south of Vincennes, because there are recorded military activities in the area in the timeframe. In December 1778 the British took Ft. Sackville, in Vincennes on the Wabash River along the border of present day Illinois and Indiana. Then in February 1779 American forces under George Rogers Clark retook the fort, re-naming it Ft. Patrick Henry. "In… Read More

[18]+886 pages with title in red and black, woodcut head-pieces and initials and index. Folio (11 3/4" x 8") bound in contemporary calf, spine in gilt. Earliest OCLC copy found was 1719.
Antonio Franco's work, as a history of the Society in that era, was typical among others in extolling those fellow Jesuits who died as martyrs during, or on their way to, missions in Brazil. Perhaps viewed now as a glorified euro-centric perspective, the work nonetheless features in the important Bibliographia Brasiliana by Borba de Moraes [1.318]. It also deals with the formation structure of the novitiate of the Jesuit school at Évora (Portugal), which became a model for many other Schools in Portugal, Brazil and island territories.
Father António Franco reveals a historical and critical consciousness at a time when hagiography (literary genre in which include his edifying lives) begins to assert itself as a critical science. The study also proposes a reading of Imagem da virtudeIn the context of spiritual… Read More

[vi]+123+[3] pages. Quarto (10 1/2" x 7") Bound in quarter leather with marbled paper boards. Clavijero's History of Baja California, which was first published in Italian, then in English, then a Madrid edition and then the Mexican edition. [Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 13, page 293] First Mexican edition. Clavijero, a Mexican native, was exiled with the other Jesuits in the 1760s, and lived in Italy thereafter. His history of Mexico is considered one of the best of the early histories of the subject. His history of Baja California is the first such, and contains passages relating to the foundation of the mission at San Francisco, as well as material on Kino and Salvatierra. Translated from the Italian manuscripts by Nicoles Garcia de San Vincente. The Palou volume is essential reading for the early history of Northern California. This is the second edition of the Vida of Serra. First published 1787. Francisco Palou (1723-1789) was a Franciscan missionary, administrator, and historian… Read More

Paris: A. LaCroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie, 1865. First edition thus. Green buckram with original yellow wrappers bound in, gilt titles. A very good or better copy, gilt accession numbers on spine, otherwise no further external or internal markings, original wrappers lightly soiled, small chip on corner of front wrapper professionally repaired, scattered foxing, new binding fine.. ix, 336, 2 pp. 8vo. "Extrait de la Revue du monde colonial, asiatique et americain." Expilly, who explains the details of emigration, was very critical of Brazil's treatment of slaves especially away from the major population centers. Quite uncommon. Last at auction in 1978. Borba de Moraes I, 253. Leclerc 3203. Garraux p.103. Conrad: Brazilian Slavery 116.

Francofurti ad Moenum [Frankfurt a.M.]: Typis & Impensis Johannes Philippi Andreae, 1712. Cloth. Very Good. 9 1/2 x 15 3/8 inches. Folio. Vols. 2, 3 and 5 [of 5]. Vol. 2 (Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Song of Solomon): 2 new & 1 original ffep + )( (2 leaf quire) + A - Llll (6 leaf quires) + 1 original & 2 new rfep. Vol. 3 (Major and Minor Prophets): 2 new ffep + ):( (2 leaf quire) + A - Rrrr (6 leaf quires) + Ssss - Tttt (4 leaf quires) + Uuuuu (6 leaf quire) + 1 original & 2 new rfep. Vol. 5 (Romans through Revelation): 2 new & 2 original ffep + )( (2 leaf quire) + A - Mmmm (6 leaf quires) + Nnnn (2 leaf quire) + 1 original and 2 new endpapers. With ownership inscription of H.N. Pierce. Pages with dampstains, foxing and age-toning. Inner and top margins occasionally a little close and rarely clipped, but margins otherwise nice and wide. Bound in matching later red buckram with gilt title, location and date to spine and new endpapers. Pierce was the first Bishop of… Read More

2 volumes. xiii+[3]+458 pages with 3 plates including frontispiece, folding map and music score of "Dog Dance of the Sioux"; vi+156 pages with 4 plates (2 in color), tables (3 folding) and appendix. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in full black leather with gilt lettering to spine. (Howes K20; Wagner- Camp IV: 26b:1; Graff 2280; Pilling 2066; Streeter 1785; Field 949) First British edition.William Hypolitus (or Hippolitus, or Hypolite) Keating was an American geologist. His father, Baron John Keating, of Irish ancestry, had been an officer in the French army in the West Indies and had settled in Wilmington, Delaware. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and then in France and Switzerland, where he studied mining. In 1822, he became Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He is perhaps best known for his work on the staff of Stephen Long's expedition to the Great Lakes in 1823, an account of which he… Read More

Printed For The Author, 1804. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. [Iii], 116 Pp. Second Edition, Extensively Revised To Reply To "A Reply To Aristides, By James Cheetham", With A New One Page Preface By The Author. Bound In Plum Morocco Over Plum Cloth, Gilt Title On Spine, Gilt Rules On Boards. First Printing, Of This Second Edition. Good, Wear. Closed Tear On Front Spine Edge, Fraying At Corners. "William Peter Van Ness, A Friend Of Aaron Burr, Was An Active Participant In The 1800 Presidential Campaign As A Supporter Of The Democratic-Republican Candidates, Burr For Vice President And Thomas Jefferson For President. In July 1804, Van Ness Served As Aaron Burr's Second In Burr's Duel With Alexander Hamilton And Was Present When Burr Fatally Shot Hamilton." [Pba 2016].