North America

# 15580

SCHOLES, David

The way of an angler : an appreciation of fly-fishing on many waters

Brisbane : Jacaranda Press, 1963. First edition. Octavo, patterned boards with dust jacket (some silverfishing), pp 184; photographic plates; a good copy. Discussing fishing regions in Victoria, Tasmania and the Monaro district of New South Wales, as well as in the U.S. and U.K.

# 15459

KEENE, J. Harrington

Fly-fishing and fly making for trout, bass, salmon, etc.

With plates of the actual material for making flies of forty-eight varieties. New York : Forest and Steam Publishing Company, 1898. Third edition. Octavo, pictorial cloth boards with gilt roundel containing fly blocked in black, laid over a fishing rod with small fish, spine lettered in gilt, previous owner’s bookplate to front pastedown, pp. 159; …

# 15855

VANCOUVER, George, 1757-1798; SPARRMAN, Anders, 1748-1820

En upptäckts-resa till Norra Stilla Hafvet, och kring jordklotet : att på Kongl. Engelsk befallning och omkostnad i synnerhet forska efter något segelbart sammanhang imellan Norra Stilla och Norra Atlantiske Hafven förrättad åhren 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, under commando af Capitain George Vancouver. Ifrån engelskan i sammandrag utgifven af Anders Sparrman.

Scarce Swedish edition of Vancouver’s voyage account, being Anders Sparrman’s abridgement of Voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the world (1798). Stockholm : Anders Zetterberg, 1800. Two parts in one volume, small octavo, contemporary half calf over speckled papered boards, spine ruled in gilt with title labels (one partially erased); speckled edges; pp [vi], …

# 15686

[MEAGHER, Thomas Francis, 1823-67]

[TASMANIA] General Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish Nationalist, convict in Van Diemen’s Land

[U.S.A. : s.n., circa 1865. Albumen print photograph of a painting or drawing, carte de visite format (102 x 61 mm), printed caption below image ‘Maj. Gen. Meagher’; no studio imprint; in fine condition. Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-67) was a prominent figure in the 1848 Irish Rebellion, during which he was captured by the British and arrested …

# 15422

BAIN & BURTT; [GIBBS, Alexander]

[NEW ZEALAND] Whaling letter written from Auckland to New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1853

Entire letter, single sheet folding to form [4] sides, quarto, closely written manuscript in ink on 3 sides, headed ‘Auckland, New Zealand, 8th February 1853’, addressed to ‘Alexander Gibbs Esqr., New Bedford’; signed at the foot ‘Your faithful obedt. servants, Bain & Burtt’; outer side with address panel, endorsed ‘via New York’, with ‘LONDON / …

# 15256

[PAGANINI, Nicolo]

Dettagli sopra la giovine Esquimaude giunta in Francia il 27 Luglio 1827 in compagnia degli Indiani-Osagi venuti dall’America e presentati a S. M. Carlo X. nel suo Palazzo Reale di S. Cloud il 15 Agosto 1827 e che Il. Sig. Paganini espone alla pubblica vista. Compendio della nascita e costumi di questa giovine Esquimaude ed altre particolarita’ degne dell’ osservazione del pubblico.

[Cover title: L’Esquimade vivente.] Torino : Tipografia Eredi Bianco e Comp., 1838. Octavo, original green printed wrappers (stitching a little loose, a trifle dog-eared), woodcut frontispiece illustration of the young female Inuit, pp 16; internally clean and sound, a good copy. This scarce pamphlet – a wonderful example of the nineteenth century European public’s fascination with travelling exhibitions …

# 13816

SAY, Thomas (1787-1834)

Description of the land and fresh water shells of the United States.

Philadelphia : [Mitchell, Ames and White], 1819. “From Mitchell, Ames & White’s third edition of Nicholson’s Encyclopedia” (title page). Octavo, plain wrappers, upper section of title page with late nineteenth century paper restoration, [24] pp, illustrated with 4 engraved plates; scattered foxing. Sabin, 77380. Rare. Not in Shaw-Shoemaker, Early American imprints. Series II (1801-1819). The bibliography in Turton’s A …

# 15121

New Orleans Mardi Gras 1881. Schedule of special train. New York to New Orleans and return

via B & O, O & M, and Jackson Route. Carrying the members and guests of the 71st Regt., NGSNY. Lithographed card, 150 x 76 mm (5 3/4 x 3 inches) folded, printed in green ink, 4 panels with decorative lettering and vignette illustrations of the soldiers celebrating Mardi Gras, and scenes on the train …

# 15207

MARIGHELLA, Carlos

Urban guerilla minimanual.

[Cover title: Minimanual of the urban guerrilla]. Vancouver : Pulp Press, 1974. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, pp 38, [1]; a fine copy. Carlos Marighella (1911-1969) was a Brazilian Marxist writer, politician – and guerilla.

# 15294

[KENNEDY, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963]

[JFK] Kennedy for President. 1960 Election campaign pinback button

[U.S.A. : Democratic Party, 1960]. Original metal button (badge); diameter 33 mm; pin intact; fine condition.

# 14569

LENTZ BROS.

[CIRCUS HISTORY] The Australian Wild Children

Circa 1875. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 115 mm, printed caption on mount beneath image, verso with studio imprint of Lentz Bros., Peru, Ind[iana].; the albumen print is a little faded and has some light marks; the mount is in good condition. A portrait of two microencephalic sideshow 'freaks', whose physical appearance …

# 14628

GOESIN, Petrus de

Geographie, ofte beginselen der Land-Beschryvinge, zoo als die in haer eygen aerd, in verdeeling

van Landen en Gewesten met Wateren en Zee-en sig bevinden, en door Bergen, Rivieren en Stroomen onderscheiden zyn; als mede den principaelsten Koophandel die in elke Landen verrigt worden. Tot Gend [Ghent] : Petrus de Goesin, [1762]. Duodecimo, contemporary calf (heavily rubbed and scuffed), spine with raised bands, compartments with stamped floral design in gilt …

# 14520

LONEY, Alan (1940 - ); WAGENER, Richard (1944 - )

Loom

Santa Rosa [U.S.A.] : Nawakum Press, 2014. Folio, papered boards, pp. [38], poetry by Loney and wood engraving by Wagener. Limited to 30 copies, signed and numbered by the poet. A deluxe edition was also published. Both editions quickly sold out. “The binding is hand sewn on linen tapes and laced into a limp paper …

# 14335

Van Noy Inter-State Co.

From Salt Lake City to San Francisco Bay via the Western Pacific Railway

Consisting of twenty-five views in eleven colours. Salt Lake City : Van Noy Inter-State Co., c. 1920. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers (corners worn, spine split), 25 photographic plates, text. 

# 608

CABAY, Joseph (d. 1865)

[NATIVE AMERICANA] Autograph calling card of Joseph Cabay (Ojibwe Nation), early 1860s

Buff card, 90 x 53 mm; manuscript in ink verso: Kewakezhig = A Home in the Skies / Joseph Cabay; recto: 5 Tremont St. Boston. Very fine. Joseph Cabay was an Ojibwe chief from Saginaw Bay, Michigan. He moved to Boston in the early 1860s and married Mary Henderson, a missionary and author of Thirty-three …

# 13974

DE LA MANO. [DREITZEHN, Zell, 1830-1882?]

[MAGIC] De La Mano the magician

A group of ephemera relating to the nineteenth century Austrian-born magician and spiritualist De La Mano, who toured the east coast of the United States in 1876, 1878 and 1881. As early as 1878 he was incorporating spiritualist elements into his shows, and his 1881 tour as an illusionist was ultimately abandoned in favour of …

# 12522

DUNCAN, John M.

A Sabbath among the Tuscarora Indians

Glasgow : Printed at the University Press, 1819. First edition. Small octavo, lacking the original wrappers but with the original cloth backstrip, author's name inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand on the title, the final blank inscribed in the same hand “Mr. John Duncan, Rothsay”; corners dog-eared, leaves with handling wear to the margins, …

# 11986

SCHOOL OF APPLIED ART, BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN.

[ART NOUVEAU] Instruction paper on fashion illustrating in general

Battle Creek, Mich. : School of Applied Art, 1910. Octavo, original decorative wrappers, 23 pp, illustrated with line drawings, a fine copy; [TOGETHER WITH] Instruction paper on fashion illustrating, heads, hats, etc. Battle Creek, Mich. : School of Applied Art, 1910. Octavo, original decorative wrappers (upper wrapper with small tear at top edge), 18, [1] pp, illustrated …

# 10642

JOHNSON, Phyllis (editor)

Aspen : the magazine in a box. Vol. 1., No. 4. The Marshall McLuhan issue.

New York : Roaring Fork Press, Spring 1967. White box printed in red and black, 310 x 230 x 20 mm (light wear), containing the following items:1. “The Medium is the Massage”, a press-proof from the new McLuhan-Fiore book; 2. “The TV Generation”; 3. “How to Improve the World” (John Cage); 4. “The Electronics of …

# 10578

ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY CO.

California picture book

Chicago : Rand McNally, November 1935. Small quarto, original pictorial wrappers (designed to be folded once, vertically), staple bound, 94 pp, photographic illustrations throughout, maps, printed in black and orange, a fine copy of an attractively designed tourist brochure.

# 10063

UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL STUDIO

[HOLLYWOOD] Welcome to Universal International

Hollywood, California : Universal International Studio, [c.1955]. Oblong octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled, [8] pp, a visitor's guide with double-page of thumbnail photographic portraits of current stars, illustrations of and printed information about the Studio; a fine copy.

# 10062

NATIONAL U.S. 66 HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION

Drive US 66 : shortest, fastest year-‘round best across the scenic west : Los Angeles to Chicago

Cover: Will Rogers Highway / The Grand Canyon Route / 1300 miles of 4-lane highway. Clinton, Oklahoma : National U.S. 66 Highway Association, [c. 1955]. Small quarto, 230 x 205 mm, pictorial wrappers (stamped 'The Town House Restaurant, 11 West Third St., Elk City, Oklahoma', stapled, [13] pp, printed in colour with sepia photographic illustrations, …

# 9447

SULZER, William (1863-1941); [CARBONNEL, Emile]

[PROHIBITION] Scrapbook relating to the career of U.S. politician William Sulzer, 1907-1918

Thick octavo, contemporary cloth boards, front paste-down inscribed 'Presented to the University of Tasmania by Emile Carbonnel of N.Y.' (with University of Tasmania deaccession stamp), approximately [70] leaves, filled entirely with laid-in election pamphlets and political speeches, newspaper cuttings and ephemera dating to the period 1907-1918, the later material relating to Sulzer's American Party (including …