Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

287 287 c   (WEST.) Fremont, John C. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in theYear 1842, and to Oregon and North California. 5 maps, 22 plates. 693 pages. 4vo, contemporary 1 / 2 morocco, moderate wear including small chip to upper backstrip; repaired closed tears to large folding Preuss map; foxing, moderate dampstaining on bottom edge. Senate Document, 28th Congress, 2nd Session, Doc. 174. Washington, 1845 [500/750] first edition , senate issue , with additional scientific data not included in the house issue . Includes the report on Frémont’s 1842 expedition along the Oregon Trail, as well as his second expedition concluded in 1844: “Guided by Kit Carson, Frémont proceeded down the Snake River and on down the Columbia to Fort Vancouver. Moving into northwestern Nevada, Frémont suddenly took his expedition on a rash midwinter crossing of the Sierra Nevada”—Hill 640. Howes F370 (“aa”); Sabin 25845; Wagner-Camp 115:1; Wheat, Transmississippi West 497 and pages II:194-200 (“magnificent map . . . Great Salt Lake is for the first time adequately mapped”); Zamorano Eighty 39. 286 c   (WASHINGTON, GEORGE.) Pair of commemorative silk ribbons depicting Washington. 2 items, various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1859 and 1876 [150/250] “Masonic Levee, Benefit of MountVernon Fund.” Printed pictorial silk ribbon, 6 1 / 2 x 2 1 / 4 inches; folds and faint soiling. Np, 22 February 1859 * “Centennial U.S.A., the Father of Our Country, George Washington . . . Philadelphia 1876.” Woven colored silk pictorial Stevengraph ribbon, 9 x 2 inches plus tassel, minimal wear. Coventry, England: Thomas Stevens, [1876]. 288 288 c   (WEST.) Stacy, Charles E.; photographer. Signed cabinet card of Buffalo Bill Cody. Printing-out paper print, 5 1 / 2 x 4 inches, on photographer’s gilt-stamped mount, signed “Buffalo Bill” in image area; minor soiling and wear, signature quite smeared and faded. New York, circa 1880s [400/600]