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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.

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

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The Crib 1912. Arizona.

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

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El Ciudadano Estevan F. Austin, Empresario, Para Introducir Emigrados Estrangeros, En Las Colonias Que Le Tiene, Designadas El Supremo Gobierno Del Estado De Coahuila Y Texas, Por Los Contratos Celebrados Entre El Dicho Gobierno Y El Mismo Austin. Stephen F. Austin.

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

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Autograph Letter Signed ("James Smith"), declining an invitation to attend a performance of Shakespeare. British Romantics, James Smith, Horatio Smith.

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

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The Fiscal History of Texas. Embracing an Account of Its Revenues, Debts, and Currency, from the Commencement of the Revolution in 1834 to 1851-52. With Remarks on American Debt. William M. Gouge.

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

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Tales of Lonely Trails. Zane Grey.

Inscribed, in Presentation Binding

Tales of Lonely Trails.

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1922]. First edition, G-W (July 1922) on copyright page. Inscribed, in Presentation Binding. Tales of outdoor travel and hunting in the West: Colorado, Arizona, and California. Inscribed by the author on first blank, in his characteristic purple ink, "To Edna from Zane Gray Christmas 1923" Read More

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