Rare Americana The Alex Schwed Collection of Clipper Ship Sailing Cards, Gold Rush Ephemera ...

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Sale 439
Thursday, October 21, 2010
1:00 PM
Rare Americana
The Alex Schwed Collection of Clipper Ship
Sailing Cards, Gold Rush Ephemera & Hawaiiana
(with additions)

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Fall-Winter Auctions, 2010
October 21, 2010 - Rare Americana: The Alex Schwed Collection of Clipper Ship Sailing Cards, Gold
Rush Ephemera and Hawaiiana
November 4, 2010 - Illustrated & Children’s Books - Oz - Fine Printing
November 18, 2010 - Fine Americana with Manuscripts, Maps & Atlases
December 2, 2010 - Rare Books & Manuscripts
December 16, 2010 - Fine Books in all Fields
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Front Cover: Lot 329
Back Cover: Clockwise from upper left: Lots 261, 358, 237, 44
B ond # 14425383

Section I: Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera, Lots 1-242
Section II: Clipper Ship Sailing Cards, Lots 243-337
Section III: Original Photographs, Lots 338-422
Section IV: Maps & Atlases, Lots 423-451
Section I: Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera
1. AbrAms, Leroy. Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States: Washington, Oregon, and California. 4 volumes.
Illustrated with more than 6000 figure drawings throughout. 26.6x17 cm. (10½x7”), green cloth,
stamped and lettered in gilt. Later printings.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, [1968-1975]
A classic on Pacific coast botany, classifying over 6000 different plants. Some faint marks to
cloth and edges of text block; else near fine.
(100/150)
2. (Alaska) Farthest North. A Brief Summary of the Work Carried on in Alaska... by the Army Department
of the International Committee of Young Men’s Christian Associations New York City. Seacon 1908. 16 pp.
Illustrated from photographs; double-page map centered on the north pole. 7¼x4¼, original stiff
black wrappers with pictorial in silver.
[Seattle]: [Lowman & Hanford Stationery & Printing Co.], 1908
Charming little booklet outlining the good work of the YMCA raising morale of sailors and
soldiers posted in the frozen north, visiting the various outposts aboard launch Helen Gould.
Inscribed on the title-page, “With loving greetings for the New Year from the ‘crew’ of the
Helen Gould, Emma & Will, Jan. 1st 09.” No copies are listed in OCLC/WorldCat. Slight crease
to rear wrapper, still fine.
(300/500)
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3. (Americana) Fifteen Americana titles. Includes: Cone, Mary. Two Years in California. 2-page map
frontispiece. Cloth. Griggs & Co., 1876. * Davidson, Marshall B. Life in America. 2 volumes. Cloth,
djs (price-clipped), slipcases. Houghton Mifflin, 1951. * Rhodes, W.H. Caxton’s Book: A Collection
of Essays, Poems, Tales and Sketches. Cloth. A.L. Bancroft, 1876 * Simpson, Anna Pratt. Problems
Women Solved. Boards, portions of dj present. The Woman’s Board, 1915. * Eldredge, Zoeth Skinner.
The Beginnings of San Francisco from the Expedition of Anza, 1774 to the City Charter of April 15,
1850. 2 volumes. Cloth. Zoeth S. Eldridge, 1912. * Life Diary and Letters of Oscar Lovell Shafter.
Cloth. Blair-Murdock Company, 1915. * Davis, William Heath. Sixty Years in California... Cloth.
First few signatures detached. A.J. Leary, 1889. * Fremont, John Charles. Geographical Memoir upon
Upper California. Boards. Facsimile folding map at rear. Book Club of California, 1964. * Gudde,
Erwin G. California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology... Cloth, dj (price-clipped). 3rd ed.
University of California Press, 1969. * A Matter of Taste: Willis Polk’s Writing on Architecture in
The Wave. Cloth. 1 of 550 copies. Book Club of California, 1979. * Drannan, William F. Thirty-One
Years on the Plains and in the Mountains... Cloth. Rhodes & McClure, 1903. * Mylar, Isaac L. Early
Days at the Mission San Juan Bautista. Evening Pajaronian, [1929]. * Bateson, Charles. Gold Fleet for
California: Forty-Niners from Australia and New Zealand. Cloth, dj (price-clipped). Michigan State
University, [1963]. * Thompson, William. Reminiscences of a Pioneer. Cloth. Privately printed, 1912.
* Pollard, Josephine. The Boston Tea Party. Drawn by H.W. McVickar. Boards, re-backed with cloth
spine, custom slipcase. Dodd, Mead, [1882]. Together 15 titles in 17 volumes.
Various places: Various dates
Some light general wear to most; mostly very good.
(200/300)
4. (Americana) Fifteen Americana titles. Includes: Davis, William Heath. Seventy-Five Years in California.
Cloth. John Howell, 1929. * Davis, Stephen Chapin. California Gold Rush Merchant: The Journal
of... Cloth-backed boards. Huntington Library, 1956. * Beebe, Lucius. Comstock Commotion: The
Story of Territorial Enterprise and Virginia City News. Cloth, dj. Stanford University, [1954]. * Beebe,
Lucius. Virginia & Truckee: A Story of Virginia City and Comstock Times. Cloth. Grahame Hardy,
1949. * Hutchinson, W.H. Oil, Land and Politics: The California Career of Thomas Robert Bard. 2
volumes. Cloth, slipcase. University of Oklahoma Press, [1965]. * Wagstaff, A.E., ed. Life of David
S. Terry. Cloth. Continental Publishing Company, 1892. * Clarke, Dwight L. William Tecumseh
Sherman: Gold Rush Banker. Cloth, dj. California Historical Society, 1969. * Jackson, Joseph Henry.
Gold Rush Album. Inscribed by author. Cloth, slipcase. Scribner’s, 1949. * Riesenberg, Felix, Jr. The
Golden Road: The Story of California’s Spanish Mission Trail. Cloth, dj (price-clipped). McGraw-
Hill, [1962]. * Hungerford, Edward. Wells Fargo: Advancing the American Frontier. Cloth, dj.
Random House, [1949]. * Tinkman, George H. California: Men and Events, Time 1769-1890. Cloth.
George Tinkman, [1915]. * Scherer, James A.B. The First Forty-Niner and the Story of the Golden
Tea-Caddy. Cloth-backed boards, dj. Minton, Balch, 1925. * Marye, George Thomas. From ‘49 to ‘83
In California and Nevada. Cloth. A.M. Robertson, 1923. * Harpending, Asbury. The Great Diamond
Hoax and Other Stirring Incidents. Cloth. James H. Barry Co., 1913. * Lynch, Jeremiah. A Senator
of the Fifties: David C. Broderick of California. Cloth. A.M. Robertson, 1911. Together 15 titles in
16 volumes.
Various places: Various dates
Mild to moderate general wear to each; mostly very good.
(200/300)
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5. (Americana) One hundred Western Americana books or ephemeral items, plus fourteen stereo-views and three
cabinet cards. Includes: 12 stereo-views from the “Earthquake Series” on San Francisco. Tinted
photographs from 1906. * 2 stereo-views with original silver prints of unnamed places (one stereo-
view with photographs on both sides). * 3 turn of the century cabinet cards, each with original
albumen photograph portrait, one of a boy. All from Santa Cruz, CA. * Plus, 100 wrapper-bound
publications: Wagner, Henry Raup. Francisco Lopez de Gomara and his Works. Signed on title page.
Published by The Society, 1949. * Everyman’s Almanac 1926. Presented by Santa Fe System Lines.
Wallace, David A., 1926. * Mood, Fulmer. Andrew S. Hallidie and Librarianship in San Francisco,
1868-79. Inscribed and signed on title page. Reprinted from The Library Quarterly, Vol. XVI, No. 3,
July 1946. * Priestley, Herbert I. Four Centuries of Growth in the Americas. Signed on front wrapper.
University of California Press, 1938. * Brown, Joseph Epes. The Spiritual Legacy of the American
Indian. Pendle Hill Pamphlet No. 135. University of Oklahoma Press, 1953. * A Souvenir of the Dr.
Hyde Banquet. Held in the Palace Hotel, in the City of San Francisco, February Twenty-first, 1906.
* Plus 5 volumes on the Lassen region. * Many 20th century volumes on wildflowers. * Plus many
more.
Various places: Various dates
A wide array of materials, mostly wrapper-bound publications on Western Americana,
Californiana, and Natural History. Some light general wear from handling; very good.
(100/150)
6. (Arizona) Romola: Arizona’s Greatest Citrus Development. Folding brochure, when unfolded measures
45.6x60.6 cm. (18x24”). Map of the Phoenix area on one side, and shows the proposed location of
the Romola Grapefruit project and its proximity to the Lake Pleasant Dam, Roosevelt Dam, and
Phoenix, etc. On verso are many photographs of grapefruit growing and harvesting.
Pacific Development Co., [c. 1926]
This brochure from Pacific Development Company advertises their plans for the Romola
Grapefruit Project in Arizona, a project to grow grapefruit on 20,000 acres southwest of the
Lake Pleasant Dam (which is located on the map of the Romola Project and its surrounding
area). Interesting item. No copies located by OCLC/Worldcat. Name in ink on one panel, some
tiny yellow spots, a few very tiny holes; very good.
(150/250)
OCTAVO VOLUMES OF AUDUBON’S BIRDS OF AMERICA
7. Audubon, John JAmes. The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories.
Volume 1. Volume I only. viii, [11]-246. Illustrated with 70 hand-colored lithographed plates by J.T.
Bowen. (8vo) 26.4x17 cm. (10¼x6½) original full blindstamped brown morocco, all edges gilt.
New York: V.G. Audubon, 1856
Second octavo edition of
Audubon’s masterpiece
and the first edition with
fully colored backgrounds.
Contains the plates on
vultures, falcons, owls, goat-
suckers, swifts, swallows, and
flycatchers. Covers detached,
backstrip lacking, several
loose pages and plates; some
light marginal wear to plates
(one plate (#10) with larger
chip at corner) images not
affected; text leaves heavily
foxed, plates less so with
tissue guards still present;
plates overall very good.
Lot 7
(3000/5000)
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8. Audubon, John JAmes. The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories.
Volume II. Volume II only. (iii)-viii, [11]-199. Illustrated with 70 hand-colored lithographed plates by
J.T. Bowen. (8vo) 26.4x17 cm. (10¼x6½) original full blindstamped brown morocco, all edges gilt.
New York: V.G. Audubon, 1856
Second octavo edition of Audubon’s masterpiece and the first edition with fully colored
backgrounds. Contains the plates on wood-warblers, creepers, tits, warblers and thrushes.
Covers detached, backstrip lacking, several loose pages and plates; some light marginal wear to
plates (one plate (#80) with heavier wear at edges) images not affected, one plate (#136) with
small ink spot in background; text leaves heavily foxed, plates less so with tissue guards still
present; plates overall very good.
(3000/5000)
9. Audubon, John JAmes. The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories.
Volume III. Volume III only. viii, [9]-233. Illustrated with 70 hand-colored lithographed plates by J.T.
Bowen. (8vo) 26.4x17 cm. (10¼x6½) original full blindstamped brown morocco, all edges gilt.
New York: V.G. Audubon, 1857
Second octavo edition of Audubon’s masterpiece and the first edition with fully colored
backgrounds. Contains the plates on Thrushes, Wagtails, Larks, and Finches. Covers detached,
backstrip lacking, several loose pages and plates; some light edge wear to plates, images not
affected, dampstain at upper corner throughout but staining confined to margins only, not
entering images; text leaves heavily foxed, plates less so with tissue guards still present; plates
overall very good.
(3000/5000)
10. Audubon, John JAmes. The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their
Territories. Volume IV. Volume IV only. viii, [9]-321. Illustrated with 70 hand-colored lithographed
plates by J.T. Bowen. (8vo) 26.4x17 cm. (10¼x6½) original full blindstamped brown morocco, all
edges gilt.
New York: V.G. Audubon, 1856
Second octavo edition of Audubon’s masterpiece and the first edition with fully colored
backgrounds. Contains the plates on Marsh Blackbirds, Starlings, Crows, Shrikes, Greenlets,
Manakins, Chatterers, Nuthatches, Humming-Birds, Kingfishers, Woodpeckers, Cuckoos,
Parrots and Pigeons. Covers detached, backstrip lacking, page block split in several pieces,
several loose pages and plates; some light marginal wear to plates; text leaves heavily foxed,
plates less so with tissue guards still present; plates overall very good.
(3000/5000)
11. Audubon, John JAmes. The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories.
Volume V. Volume V only. (iii)-viii, [9]-346 pp. Illustrated with 70 hand-colored lithographed plates
by J.T. Bowen. (8vo) 26.4x17 cm. (10¼x6½) original full blindstamped brown morocco, all edges gilt.
New York: V.G. Audubon, 1856
Second octavo edition of Audubon’s masterpiece and the first edition with fully colored
backgrounds. Contains the plates on Doves, Turkey, Partridges, Grouse, Rails, Cranes, Plovers,
and Snipes. Covers detached, backstrip lacking, several loose pages and plates, page block split in
two pieces; some light marginal wear to plates; text leaves heavily foxed, plates less so with tissue
guards still present; plates overall very good.
(3000/5000)
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12. Audubon, John JAmes. The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their
Territories. Volume VI. Volume VI only. (iii)-viii, [9]-456. Illustrated with 70 hand-colored lithographed
plates by J.T. Bowen. (8vo) 26.4x17 cm. (10¼x6½) original full blindstamped brown morocco, all
edges gilt.
New York: V.G. Audubon, 1856
Second octavo edition of Audubon’s masterpiece and the first edition with fully colored
backgrounds. Contains the plates on Snipes, Ibises, Herons, Ducks, Mergansers, and Pelicans.
Covers detached, backstrip lacking, several loose pages and plates; some light marginal wear to
plates (one plate (#405) with larger chip at corner) images not affected; text leaves heavily foxed,
plates less so with tissue guards still present; plates overall very good.
(3000/5000)
13. Audubon, John JAmes. The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their
Territories. Volume VII. Volume VII only. viii, [9]-372 pp. Illustrated with 80 hand-colored lithographed
plates by J.T. Bowen. (8vo) 26.4x17 cm. (10¼x6½) original full blindstamped brown morocco, all
edges gilt.
New York: V.G. Audubon, 1856
Second octavo edition of Audubon’s masterpiece and the first edition with fully colored
backgrounds. Contains the plates on gulls, fulmars, auks, divers & grebes, finches, greenlets,
larks, finches, starlings, flycatchers, woodpeckers, etc. Covers detached, backstrip lacking, several
loose pages and plates; some light marginal wear to plates, about one half of the plates chipped
(nibbled) at the upper corner, not affecting the images; text leaves heavily foxed, plates less so
with tissue guards still present; plates overall very good.
(3000/5000)
AUDUBON’S QUADRUPEDS
14. Audubon, John JAmes & John bAchmAn. The Quadrupeds of North America. Volume I. viii, 383 pp.
Illustrated with 50 hand-colored lithographed plates by J.T. Bowen. (8vo) 26.4x17 cm. (10¼x6½)
original full blindstamped brown morocco, all edges gilt.
New York: V.G. Audubon, 1854
Famed collaboration between Audubon and his sons, John Woodhouse and Victor Gifford, and
the Lutheran minister, John Bachman. They travelled through much newly explored territory,
illustrating many species that are scarce or endangered today. Contains plates of badgers,
beavers, lynx, squirrels, foxes, rabbits, etc. Covers detached, backstrip lacking, several loose
pages and plates, page block in several pieces; some light marginal wear to plates, about one half
of the plates chipped (nibbled) at the upper corner, not affecting the images; text leaves heavily
foxed, plates less so with tissue guards still present; plates overall very good.
(3000/5000)
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15. Audubon, John JAmes & John bAchmAn. The Quadrupeds of North America. Volume II. iv, 334 pp.
Illustrated with 50 hand-colored lithographed plates by J.T. Bowen. (8vo) 26.4x17 cm. (10¼x6½)
original full blindstamped brown morocco, all edges gilt.
New York: V.G. Audubon, 1854
Famed collaboration between Audubon and his sons, John Woodhouse and Victor Gifford, and
the Lutheran minister, John Bachman. They travelled through much newly explored territory,
illustrating many species that are scarce or endangered today. Contains plates of buffalo, wolves,
deer, moose, polar bear, raccoon, etc. Covers detached, backstrip lacking, several loose pages
and plates; some light marginal wear to plates, not affecting the images; text leaves heavily foxed,
plates less so with tissue guards still present; plates overall very good.
(3000/5000)
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16. Audubon, John JAmes & John bAchmAn. The Quadrupeds of North America. Volume III. vi, 348 pp.
Illustrated with 55 hand-colored lithographed plates by J.T. Bowen. (8vo) 26.4x17 cm. (10¼x6½)
original full blindstamped brown morocco, all edges gilt.
New York: V.G. Audubon, [1854]
Famed collaboration between Audubon and his sons, John Woodhouse and Victor Gifford, and
the Lutheran minister, John Bachman. They travelled through much newly explored territory,
illustrating many species that are scarce or endangered today. Contains plates of bears, musk-ox,
hares, mountain goat, deer, otter, etc. Covers detached, backstrip lacking, several loose pages
and plates; some light marginal wear to plates, not affecting the images; text leaves heavily foxed,
plates less so with tissue guards still present; plates overall very good.
(3000/5000)
17. (Audubon, John James) Peterson, roger tory & VirginiA mArie Peterson. Audubon’s Birds of
America. Color plates throughout. 38x29.7 cm. (15x11¾”), full green morocco, spine lettered and
decorated in gilt, pair of owls illustrated in gilt on front cover, attached bookmark. The Audubon
Society Baby Elephant Folio.
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, [1981]
Lovely Easton Press edition of Audubon’s birds, this edition arranging the plates phylo-
genetically. Front hinge a touch over-extended; else fine.
(200/300)
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