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289 ● (WEST.) A pair of important southwestern exploration reports, by
Bartlett and Emory. In 3 volumes. 8vo, both lacking the folding maps.
Vp, 1854 and 1848 [400/600]
John Russell Bartlett. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New
Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua. 16 lithographic plates, numerous engraved plates
and text illustrations. 2 volumes. 8vo, later 1/2 morocco, extremities rubbed. Graff 198; Howes
B201; Sabin 3746. New York, 1854
William H. Emory. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri,
to San Diego, in California. 3 (of 4) maps, 40 plates. 8vo, contemporary cloth, restored, minor
wear; moderate foxing. 30th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Ex. Doc. 7, abridged edition. Graff
1249; Howes E145 (“aa”); Wagner-Camp 148:1. Washington, 1848.
290 ● (WEST.) Simpson, James H. Report . . . and Map of the Route from Fort
Smith, Arkansas to Santa Fe, New Mexico. 4 folding maps. 8vo, modern 1/4 morocco;
minor dampstaining; maps bound partially shut, small bookplate on front pastedown. 31st
Congress, 1st Session, Senate Ex. Doc. 12. Howes S500; Wagner-Camp 192; Wheat,
Transmississippi West 640.
Washington, 14 January 1850 [200/300]
291 ● (WEST.) Wheeler, George M. Preliminary Report Concerning Explorations
. . . in Nevada and Arizona. Folding map. 4to, publisher’s cloth gilt, minor wear; internally
clean; W.J. Holliday bookplate on front pastedown. Washington, 1872 [300/400]
“First official exploration of this area, including the Mojave and Death Valleys”—Howes
W321.
292 ● (WEST.) Set of Western sporting stereoviews, including Indians, ranching,
hunting, and fishing scenes. 100 stereoview prints, each 31/2 x 7 inches, printed on
heavy white card stock, versos blank; condition generally very strong. In original box
labeled “Sportsman’s Series,” moderate wear.
Np: T.W. Ingersoll, 1898-1905 and nd [300/400]
293 ● (WEST VIRGINIA.) Pair of books on frontier western Virginia by the
McWhorter brothers. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, minor wear; each inscribed by the author to
their nephew John Scott McWhorter in 1927. Vp, 1915 and 1927 [300/400]
Lucullus Virgil McWhorter. The Border Settlers of Northwestern Virginia from 1768 to
1795, Embracing the Life of Jesse Hughes. Hinge split, small stain on front cover. Howes
M192 (“aa”). Hamilton, OH, 1915 * John Camillus McWhorter. The Scout of the
Buckongehanon: A Historical Romance of the Western Virginia Border, 1764-1782. Minimal
wear, in worn dust jacket. Boston, 1927. WITH—a small group of John Scott McWhorter
papers, 1927-59.
294 ● (WHALING.) Smith, Henry H. Archive of letters from a whaler to his wife
from aboard the ship Factor. 8 letters addressed to wife [Mary Blackmer Smith];
various sizes, no major condition issues. Vp, 1844-45 [400/600]
Henry Hulsart Smith (1809-1851) was a resident of Rochester, MA near New Bedford.
Most of his letters are devoted to reminiscences of home, interspersed with a few maritime
scenes: “The next day after the gale, we saw a shoal of sperm whales & we had but one boat
ready & it was verry rough, however I took the boat and went after them, but got none” (16
October 1844). According to Starbuck, the Factor had a successful voyage in the Indian and
Pacific Oceans, but was condemned at Tahiti in July 1847.