Rare books from The Professor's Bookshelf

Simpson's Journey Around The World.Spotting throughout

Truly, one of the most important books of Western Americana as it provided a trail map for the great migration of miners of 1849 and settlers to follow. This volume includes the first report: An Exploration Of The Country Lying Between The Missouri River And The Rocky Mountains In The Line Of The Kansas And Great PLatte Rivers.(comprising pages 9 to 101). Illustrated with 2 one-page maps, 22 plates, and 3 fold-out maps

A lightly worn copy of the first edition of this title. Some edge wear to covers, otherwise a clean and tight set.Pictures reflect condition

SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR THE WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICASee pictures for condition. Rare

On Incidents of a cruise in the US Frigate Congress to California.PICTURES REFLECT CONDITION

Description: LIKE NEW Signed By Author Dj Bright Clean With Edge Rubs, Solid Binding, Collectible Quality . Very Good. Signed Hardcover. 1st Edition.1996.

LIMTED EDITION #599 OF 950 COPIES2 volumes. 18 maps and illustrations.THE HISTORY AND ITINERARY OF FRANCISCO GARCES, IN HIS TRAVELS THROUGH SONORA ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA 1775-1776 2 VOL

Chicago Il: A. C. Mcclurg & Company, 1902. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. GC 443 Pp. Dark Gray-Green Cloth Stamped In Black And Yellow. First Printing, With 1902 Date On Title Page. VG

72 pages of text. Hardcover binding with spots on the extremities. No dustjacket. Inner hinges tight. Illustrated with nine historic photographs/portraits.

BEAUTIFUL LARGE MARBLED The most massive compilations of exploration reports and scientific data ever published about the Trans-Mississippi West. Published by the Federal Government at the urging of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, and the result of numerous reconnaissance surveys of exploring four major routes surveyed for the expanding Pacific Railroad. These reports represent the first attempt at a comprehensive, systematic geographical exploration of the Western regions of America. VOL 3

THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, OREGON AND CALIFORNIA: THIS ACCOUNT OF EXPLORATION INCLUDES FREMONT'S BATTLE WITH NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS, AND HOW HIS WIFE GOT WEALTHY IN THE GOLD RUSH. WITH MAP ATTACHED IN FRONT. SLIGHT RUBBING ON FRONT BOARD CORNERS STAIN ON BACK BOARD. SPINE CRACKED BINDING GOOD TIGHTPICTURES REPRESENT CONDITION

A GUIDE BOOK FOR TRAVEL TO MONTANA ILLUSTRATED, WITH 9 MAPS ,AND 75 PHOTOGRAPHS.NICE BOOK WITH DUST JACKET AND MYLAR COVER

WITH 2 MAPS Henry Hudson, the navigator : the original documents in which his career is recorded, collected, partly translated, and annotated, with an introductionSOME CRACKED PAGES, REBOUND 2 MAPS

LIKE NEW FINE CLEAN, NO MARKINGS,IN EXCELLENT CONDITION A GREAT BOOK WITH WONDERFUL ILLUSTRATIONS CAPTURING A CENTURY OF ADVENTURE AND DISCOVERY.- - Includes black and white reproductions of 255 pictures by Thomas Nast, Winslow Homer and others, with commentary. Adventures Of America 1857 - 1900, A Pictorial Record From Harper's Weekly, Collectible

First Edition Second State. A beautiful sheepskin cover with black Morocco gilt spine label. Original peach end papers. 274 pages. List of Illustrations, numerous text vignettes by True W. Williams, and others. Contemporary bookplate inside of front board.