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![Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, In California, including part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers. [At head of title:] Thirtieth Congress — First Session. Ex. Doc. No. 41. Arizona, W. H. Emory.](/pictures/thumb/42372.jpg?v=1534804420)
Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, In California, including part of the Arkansas...
Washington, D.C: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848. First edition, House issue, later printing (gatherings 2 & 9 with Senate issue running head). An acceptable copy of these important accounts of the southwest, made by Emory and Abert as part of Gen Kearny’s passage through what was then northern Mexico... Read More
Price: $250
Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Adopted by the Second Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona.
Prescott: Office of the Arizona Miner, 1866. Arizona stated the exact rights of a woman in the Territory. During this session the legislature ratified an act outlining the rights of married women, consisting of thirty-three sections. Also passed during this session was the "Act To Incorporate the Mowry Silver Mine... Read More
Price: $675
The Crib 1912.
[ El Rancho Bonito, Arizona: Evans School], 1912. Miscellany of poetry and photographs of school life. Among the 17 students of the Evans School at El Rancho Burrito in this year were Louis Gordon Hamersley, Archibald Bullock Roosevelt, and Thomas Archer Morgan. Read More
Price: $150
Constitution and By-Laws of the Twin City Fish and Game Protective Association of Fort Smith and Van Buren, Ark.
Van Buren, AR: Thayer Bros. Print, n.d., ca 1890s]. First edition. The object of this Association shall be to create and foster a public sentiment in favor of the protection of the Fish and Game in the State of Arkansas, … and to procure the stocking of the streams and..... Read More
Price: $250
A Certificate of Admission to Austin's Colony: One of the Earliest Obtainable Texas Imprints
El Ciudadano Estevan F. Austin, Empresario, Para Introducir Emigrados Estrangeros, En Las Colonias Que Le Tiene, Designadas El Supremo Gobierno...
San Felipe de Austin: : Printed by G.B. Cotten, 1829. A Certificate of Admission to Austin's Colony: One of the Earliest Obtainable Texas Imprints. A rare imprint from the San Felipe de Austin press of Godwin Brown Cotten, an original certificate of admission to Austin's colony. "These grants were the... Read More
Price: $25,000
The History of Texas and the North Mexican States.
San Francisco: The History Company, Publishers, 1890. Read More
Price: $250
Athanase de Mezieres and the Louisiana-Texas Frontier 1768 - 1780: Documents Published for the First Time, From the Original Spanish...
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1914. Prints important documents in English translation on the history of the Southwest never before published. Read More
Price: $750
On the Border with Crook.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. First edition. One of the most acclaimed works on the Indian wars, by an army officer and ethnologist who served on Crook's staff. "A truly great book, on both the Apaches and the Arizona frontier" - Dobie. Read More
Price: $450
Arizona and Its Bird Life. A Naturalist's Adventures with the Nesting Birds on the Deserts, Grasslands, Foothills, and Mountains of...
Cleveland, Ohio: The Bird Research Foundation, 1951. First edition. Read More
Price: $200
Autograph Letter Signed ("James Smith"), declining an invitation to attend a performance of Shakespeare.
10 Austin Friars [London]: 29 April [n.y.]. A pair of letters from brother-humorists James Smith (1775-1839) and Horatio Smith (1779-1849), authors of the celebrated parody anthology "Rejected Addresses" (1812) which included imitations of Byron, Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, Scott, et al, "undoubtedly the best known collection of parodies published in the... Read More
Price: $500
Megalops. An Angler's Affair with Tarpon.
Far Hills, NJ: Meadow Run Press, 2001. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 26 copies, signed by the author, with additional portfolio of 4 signed photographs. Lively, well written account of tarpon fishing from Key West and Texas to Belize and Venezuela. Read More
Price: $550
Kino and the Cartography of Northwestern New Spain.
Tucson: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society, 1965. From an edition limited to 750 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. A detailed study of the contributions made to the cartography of Sonora, Arizona, and California by the noted missionary, Eusebio Kino, in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Read More
Price: $150
The Journal of Julia LeGrand. New Orleans 1862-1863.
Richmond [VA]: Everett Waddey Co, 1911. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
Women of the Ku Klux Klan
Constitution and Laws of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. Adopted by First Imperial Klonvocation at St. Louis, Missouri...
Little Rock, Arkansas: printed by M.G. Pugh and Company, [1927]. Women of the Ku Klux Klan. Two items from the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan, which began in 1915 and took shape as a national organization perpetuated by a well-established beauracracy with codified recruiting techniques and forms. The... Read More
Price: $500
Group of three scenes along the Suwanee River.
[Southern Georgia or northern Florida: nd, ca. 1842-1843]. A charming group of ink and wash drawings by the talented artist and United States Navy Lieutenant, John B. Dale. Only one of the drawings is titled, but they all show scenes along a river, presumably the Suwanee in southern Georgia or... Read More
Price: $9,500
[ORIGINAL INK DRAWING OF NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, BY UNITED STATES NAVY LIEUTENANT JOHN B. DALE].
[New Castle, Delaware: 1842]. A charming group of ink and wash drawings by the talented artist and United States Navy Lieutenant, John B. Dale. Only one of the drawings is titled, but they all show scenes along a river, presumably the Suwanee in southern Georgia or northern Florida, and two... Read More
Price: $4,000
![[TWO ORIGINAL INK DRAWINGS OF MOUNT VERNON, BY UNITED STATES NAVY LIEUTENANT JOHN B. DALE]. John B. Dale.](/pictures/thumb/100224.jpg?v=1547241478)
[TWO ORIGINAL INK DRAWINGS OF MOUNT VERNON, BY UNITED STATES NAVY LIEUTENANT JOHN B. DALE].
[Mt. Vernon, Va: 1842]. A charming group of ink and wash drawings by the talented artist and United States Navy Lieutenant, John B. Dale. Only one of the drawings is titled, but they all show scenes along a river, presumably the Suwanee in southern Georgia or northern Florida, and two... Read More
Price: $5,000
The Ben Lilly Legend.
Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1950. First edition. With Dobie's bookplate and a TLS from Dorothy Hayner telling about this copy. Read More
Price: $150
Tom Gilroy's Fiddler.
N.p: [Privately Printed], 1958. First edition. Christmas greeting story by Dobie. Read More
Price: $100
Adventures in Mexico; Experienced During a Captivity of Seven Months.
Boston: George R. Holbrook & Co, 1848. Twelfth Edition. The author, a clerk on a steamboat and then a Mexican War Volunteer, was captured by Canales' band of Guerillas and experienced a rigorous Captivity. He describes the wretched internal conditions, incidents of the War, his final escape and perilous return... Read More
Price: $300
Autograph letter, signed "A. Doubleday, Maj. Genl. ". To Major General Philip Henry Sheridan, Commanding.
Philadelphia: 20 July 1865. General Doubleday, here, recommends his brother Brevet Brig. Genl. Ulysses Doubleday (1824 – 1893), who had led the 45th United States Colored Troops, for Sheridan's use as he speaks fluent Spanish, French and German. Doubleday writes "I have no desire to puff him, but as you... Read More
Price: $1,500
Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt.
July 9, 1938. "To Alfred Eisenstaedt / with admiration for his / art and appreciation for his / comradeship / Jonathan Daniels / Raleigh, N.C. July 9, 1938" Daniels was editor the Raleigh, North Carolina, News and Observer. In 1938 he published his account of a ten-state tour of the South... Read More
Price: $50
Lee's Lieutenants. A Study in Command.
New York: Scribner's, 1945. Later edition. Freeman classic. Read More
Price: $150
The Fiscal History of Texas. Embracing an Account of Its Revenues, Debts, and Currency, from the Commencement of the Revolution...
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852. First edition, second issue. "The standard account of the financial history of the Texas Revolution, this book is much more interesting reading than the title suggests, mixing humor, anecdotes, and historical sidelights with statistics, finance, and fiscal theory ... Although the Texans did not... Read More
Price: $600