DISCOVERY from The Professor's Bookshelf

PUBLICATION 4043 16 PLATES FROM THE SMiTHSONIAN REPORT FOR 1950

THE GOLD TRIBE FISHKIN TARTARS OF THE LOWER SUNGARI MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

ON THE OREGON TRAIL ROBERT STUART'S JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY

AMERICAN ADVENTURE

THE WESTWARD ROUTE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION PRINTED BY THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 1970 RED BROAD CLOTH SLIGHT SCUFFING ON EDGE OF DUST JACKET

DESCRIPTIONS OF LARVA OF INJURIOUS FOREST INSECTS, STUDIES ON THE EMBRYOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE LOCUST AND OF OTHER INSECTS, AND ON THE SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF THE ORTHOPTERA IN RELATION TO OTHER ORDERS OF INSECTS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN LOCUST. THE WESTERN CRICKET. THE ARMY WORM, CANKER WORMS, AND THE HESSIAN FLY; 2 MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. PHOTOS REPRESENT CONDITION.

LARGE FOLD OUT MAP. REPORT ON CANADIAN ARCHIVES BEING AN APPENDIX TO REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE BROWN CHAMBERLIN PRINTER TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

Red cloth with gilt titles to spine, in brown uncoated card jacket with black titles and red figures to front and spine, small folio. 3rd edition. viii+168pp. Maps, b/w photos throughout. 25 tables. Fine, with sharp, bright cloth and bright, unmarked pages. . In paper-backed Brodart. Not ex-lib. Especially wonderful double-page themed maps with brown-red details.

First edition. 51 pp. Illus. with 1 folding lithographed map (42 x 55 cm). 8vo. 36th Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 34. "The road was surveyed through new country for the benefit of emigrants and prospective settlers. They departed from The Dalles on June 4, and arrived at Camp Floyd, Utah Territory, on August 16. They left Camp Floyd… Read more about this item

MISSING ORIGINAL MAPS.INCLUDED MAPS ARE FACSIMILES Frontispiece fold-out map, missing in most copies. Foxing throughout. Title continues: "Under the Direction of the A. B. C. F. M. Performed in the Years 1835, '36, and '37; Containing a Description of the Geography, Geology, Climate, and Productions; and the Number, Manners, and Customs of the Natives. With a Map of Oregon Territory." Rev.… Read more about this item

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 TIGHT PICTURES REPRESENT CONDITION

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,… Read more about this item

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

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… Read more about this item