EXPLORATION from The Professor's Bookshelf

PUBLICATION 4043 16 PLATES FROM THE SMiTHSONIAN REPORT FOR 1950

ON THE OREGON TRAIL ROBERT STUART'S JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY

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

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

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

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

TSIMSHIAN TEXTS. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 27. Boas, Franz.

Bulletin 26: Kathlamet Texts.

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

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

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

An Excellent window into a pivotal time in North America and the World at large. A journal of a young New Yorker who signed on as a clerk with John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, incorporated in 1808, at a time when the Pacific Northwest was still disputed among the United States, Great Britain, Spain, and Russia. The company was… Read more about this item

BRILLIANTLY ILLUSTRATED FORBES LIBRARY MARKINGS INSIDE COVER. STEPHENS, John L. INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN CENTRAL AMERICA, CHIAPAS AND YUCATAN. Illustrated by numerous engravings. WITH ATTACHED MAP

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

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

# 1 OF A Four volume set first edition Vol 1 published 1862. Original publisher's green TR cloth. Spine Is square and hinges are tight Slightest corner bend.; Pierre M. Irving was Washington Irving's nephew and authorized biographer. Last page torn.

HISTORY OF THE HASTINGS CUTOFF AND EARLY TRAILS WHICH CROSSED THE GREAT SALT DESERT SEEKING A SHORTER ROAD TO CALIFORNIA. IMIGRANTS GUIDE, A DESCRIPTION OF OREGON AND CALIFORNIA. EQUIPMENT SUPPLIES AND METHODS OF TRAVEL.

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

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

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