Report of the Exploring Expedition
John N. Macomb & John S. Newberry
First edition of the account of Macomb and Newberry’s expedition from New Mexico to Colorado and the Grand Canyon, with 22 full page plates, including eleven chromolithographed plates, eight lithographed plates of fossils and three lithographed plates of landscapes, along with “one of the most beautiful maps ever published by the Army” (Wheat), association copy of Vannoy Hartrog Manning, a Confederate Civil War officer in the Civil War who later served as Mississippi’s Representative to the U.S. Congress (1877-83). $6500. | More...
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians
Signed by George Catlin
An exceptional copy of Catlin's North American Indians, boldly signed "Geo. Catlin of Wyoming, Penna. 1842" in each volume. This is the second edition, published the same year as the first, and contains three maps (one folding) and over 300 plates. $13,800. | More...
Map of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode, State of Nevada
E.B. Lasalle
Pocket-sized folding map of the famous Comstock Lode in Nevada, identifying existing claims by name and location, published around the time of the “Big Bonanza” discoveries. $4800. | More...
The Writings
With an original manuscript leaf entirely in John Muir's hand bound in
"Manuscript Edition,” number 137 of 750 sets, with original manuscript leaf entirely in Muir’s hand bound in. Illustrated with over 100 plates, including engraved frontispieces (most hand-colored), portraits, photographs, and maps. Handsomely bound by the Riverside Press. $12,000. | More...
Shane
Jack Schaefer
First edition of this timeless American western, basis for the Oscar-winning film with Alan Ladd. $8500. | More...
My Camera on Point Lobos
Edward Weston
First edition, with 30 beautiful folio-sized duotone plates of the rugged California coastline near Carmel, together with excerpts from Weston’s daybook. $2000. | More...