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Item 376385Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail.

Adams, Ansel.

Price: $1,500

New York: Arion Press for Little Brown and Co, 2006. Limited edition, one of 500 copies, of which 14 Roman-numeral copies are for distribution by the Printer, and 26 capital letter copies are for distribution by the Publisher; this one copy G. Reissue of the iconic 1938 book. Read More Item Details for Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail Add to Wish List

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Item 300973A Letter to American Teachers of History.

Adams, Henry.

Price: $750

Washington: [Privately printed at the Press of J. H. Furst Co., Baltimore.], 1910. First edition. Signed by Adams at the end of the introductory letter, as it seems that most copies were. Adams, historian and a direct descendant of John Quincy Adams, published and disseminated widely this present work. It..... Read More Item Details for A Letter to American Teachers of History Add to Wish List

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Item 373131De Re Mettallica. Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 with Biographical Introduction, Annotations & Appendices upon the Development...

Agricola, George.

Price: $950

London: Published by Published for the Translators by The Mining Magazine, 1912. Translated from the First Latin text of 1556 by Herbert Hoover & Lou Henry Hoover, Number 630 of 3000 copies. Insribed on the ffep from E.P. Mathewson, General Manager at the Anaconda Smelter to Frederic Laist, Manager of..... Read More Item Details for De Re Mettallica. Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 with Biographical Introduction, Annotations & Appendices upon the Development of Mining, Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Mineralogy, and Mining Law from earliest times to the 16th Century Add to Wish List

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Item 264615Alaska.

Price: $350

September 6, 1941-1944. Starting in Maryland and progressing to 'The Good Old 41st C.B." Transportation Group, with names and addsresses c 25 fellow 41sters. Read More Item Details for Alaska Add to Wish List

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Item 249256Autograph Letter, signed. To Mr. Miller.

(Alaska) Foster, John Watson (1836-1917).

Price: $350

Washington, D.C: November 22nd, 1899. The letter traces the diplomatic claims of Great Britain in Alaska and goes into detail about the 2 contested parts, the "Portland Channel" and the parallel 50 degrees to Mt. St. Elias. He is grandfather of John Foster and Allen Dulles. He was also TR's..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed. To Mr. Miller Add to Wish List

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Item 320787Information for Prospective Settlers in Alaska.

(Alaska) Georgeson, C.C.

Price: $175

Washington, D.C: GPO, 1916; 1917; 1923. Three copies of the first three issues of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Station Circular No. 1, published to "give prospective settlers in Alaska, and particularly homesteaders, information on subjects which will be of more or less vital interest to them." Includes sections on climate..... Read More Item Details for Information for Prospective Settlers in Alaska Add to Wish List

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Item 41254Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields.

(Alaska) Harris, A.C.

Price: $150

nd (c. 1897). Read More Item Details for Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields.. Add to Wish List

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Item 378256Nome and Seward Peninsula. History, Description, Biographies and Stories.

(Alaska) Harrison, E. S.

Price: $300

Seattle: The Metropolitan Press, [1905]. Souvenir Edition. Plates after photographs by B. B. Dobbs, engraved by the Benson-Morris Company. Harrison prepared the above work while editor of the first Nome newspaper. Read More Item Details for Nome and Seward Peninsula. History, Description, Biographies and Stories Add to Wish List

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Item 313772Frances Lake, Yukon. Dawson 1887 Hunter 1923.

(Alaska) Hunter, Fenley.

Price: $3,000

Flushing, Long Island: [Marion Press], 1924. Copy #X of 50 copies. Printed at the Marion Press. Inscribed on the colophon page to Thomas A. Larremore April 2/26 from the printer Frank E. Hopkins. Larremore was the bibliographer of the Marion Press. “A very interesting journal with sketch maps and drawings..... Read More Item Details for Frances Lake, Yukon. Dawson 1887 Hunter 1923 Add to Wish List

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Item 319700Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Cession of Russian America to the United States.

(Alaska) Sumner, Charles.

Price: $300

Washington, D.C: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1867. First edition. Sumner's important speech in support of the ratification oof the treaty with Russia which ceded what would become Alaska to the U.S. Sometimes found with a large folding map by Lindenkpohl, though it was not issued with the speech..... Read More Item Details for Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Cession of Russian America to the United States Add to Wish List

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Item 376097Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Cession of Russian America to the United States.

(Alaska) Sumner, Charles.

Price: $2,500

Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1867. First edition. Sumner gives an account of the history of the Alaskan Territory, just recently purchased by Secretary of State William Seward from Russia for $7.2 million. Sumner was a strong exponent of the purchase, and Seward praised his speech. This example..... Read More Item Details for Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Cession of Russian America to the United States Add to Wish List

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Item 372440Catholic Prayers & Hymns in the Tinneh Language ... [Bound with:] Tinneh Indian Catechism of Christian Doctrine.

(Alaska).

Price: $1,250

Kosoreffski, Alaska: Indian Boys' Press, Holy Cross Mission, 1897. First editions. Rare catechisms in the Tinneh Indian language, crudely printed and bound by three Indian boys at the mission, who give their names Nicholia, Ivan and Aleck at the end of the prefatory notes. Streeter notes that "These two books..... Read More Item Details for Catholic Prayers & Hymns in the Tinneh Language ... [Bound with:] Tinneh Indian Catechism of Christian Doctrine Add to Wish List

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Item 320413Manuscript diary of a yachting and bear-hunting trip to Alaska, inscribed at the head of the first page: "Just a....

(Alaska).

Price: $6,000

Aboard the Hussar [Washington, Alaska, etc.]: May 8-June 3, 1934. Manuscript diary, in a secretarial hand (or perhaps by Hutton's wife Marjorie Merriwether Post) but signed by each of the member of the travelling party, of a 1934 cruise of Edward F. Hutton's 320-foot yacht Hussar along Alaskan coastal waters..... Read More Item Details for Manuscript diary of a yachting and bear-hunting trip to Alaska, inscribed at the head of the first page: "Just a Shooting Trip to Alaska & a few of my comic friends" and signed E.F. Hutton, May 9, 1934" Add to Wish List

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Item 232938Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, in Reponse to the Resolution of the House of Representatives...

(Alaska).

Price: $250

Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1885. First edition. Read More Item Details for Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, in Reponse to the Resolution of the House of Representatives of December 11, 1884 Add to Wish List

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Item 43825The Duchow Journal. A Voyage from Boston to California 1852. Foreword by George P. Hammond.

(Allen Press) Duchow, John Charles.

Price: $300

[Kenftfield, Ca.]: Printed and Published by Mallette Dean [Laid out and designed at the Allen Press], 1959. Dean, Mallette. One of 200 copies. Read More Item Details for The Duchow Journal. A Voyage from Boston to California 1852. Foreword by George P. Hammond Add to Wish List

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Item 2365The Duchow Journal. A Voyage from Boston to California 1852. Foreword by George P. Hammond.

(Allen Press) Duchow.

Price: $400

[Kenftfield, Ca.]: Printed and Published by Mallette Dean [Laid out and designed at the Allen Press], 1959. Dean, Mallette. One of 200 copies. Read More Item Details for The Duchow Journal. A Voyage from Boston to California 1852. Foreword by George P. Hammond Add to Wish List

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Item 376108Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt; Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston, During...

[Alsop, Richard, editor].

Price: $750

New York: Printed for the Publisher, [1815]. First New York edition. An expanded version of Jewitt's very rare Journal Kept at Nootka Sound (Boston, 1807), the "first printed account of a remarkable captivity among natives of the Northwest coast" (Howes). "Amongst the best-known and most popular of the early narratives..... Read More Item Details for Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt; Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston, During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound: With an Account of the Manners, Mode of Living, and Religious Opinions of the Natives Add to Wish List

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Item 316369Archive of Skateboarding photographs of Tom Spratt, Southern California, 1976-8.

Price: $17,500

[Various places, California: 1976-1978]. Skateboarding grew out of American roller skating and surfing traditions but it was the introduction of the urethane wheel in 1974 that forever altered the performance of the boards. The sport flourished and local and national skateboarding events took shape. With the suburbanization of America, the..... Read More Item Details for Archive of Skateboarding photographs of Tom Spratt, Southern California, 1976-8 Add to Wish List

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Item 376724Journey up the Mississippi [pp. 104-27, in:] The Winter Wreath, A Collection of Original Contributions in Prose and Verse [For...

Audubon, John James; Henry Fothergill Chorley, editor.

Price: $2,250

London: Published by George B. Whittaker; and George Smith, Liverpool, [1828]. An Audubon rarity: the journal of his first journey to the upper Mississippi River. In 1810, Audubon moved to Henderson, Kentucky to establish himself in the merchant business with his partner Jean Ferdinand Rozier. In December of that year..... Read More Item Details for Journey up the Mississippi [pp. 104-27, in:] The Winter Wreath, A Collection of Original Contributions in Prose and Verse [For MDCCCXXIX] Add to Wish List

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Item 246510Alaskan Holiday in the Land of the Willa-Waw [Cover title].

Auger, Fred.

Price: $1,750

[N.p., Vancouver? August 1961]. Privately printed account of a fishing trip by Donald Bates of Portland, B.C. lumber Baron H.R. MacMillan, Canadian Air Vice-Marshal Leigh Stevenson, and “one Indian” (the author, Fred Auger, publisher of the Vancouver Province newspaper) for steelhead, grayling, and salmon on the Kvichak River in western..... Read More Item Details for Alaskan Holiday in the Land of the Willa-Waw [Cover title] Add to Wish List

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