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

63 c   (CALIFORNIA.) Kneeland, Samuel. The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California. 10 albumen photographs laid down as issued, text illustrations. [5]-71 pages. 4to, publisher’s cloth gilt, minor fading and wear; minimal foxing; printed in red and black; lengthy inscription to John Duff by “Dr. and Mrs. S. Kneeland” on front free endpaper. Boston, 1871 [400/600] first edition . The photographs are credited on the title page to John P. Soule, who never actually vis- ited California. He may have purchased the negatives from a California photographer, possibly Martin Mason Hazeltine or Eadweard Muybridge. Cowan 1933, page 333. 64 c   (CALIFORNIA.) Muir, John; editor. Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico. 120 plates, including frontis- piece. [v]-xii, 218; [2], 219-478 pages. 2 volumes. Folio, publisher’s gilt pictorial 1 / 2 morocco, joints split, moderate wear, one spine head chipped; minimal wear to contents. New York: J. Dewing Company, 1888 [400/600] Conceived as “the grandest California pictorial book of the nineteenth century,” its illustrations evoke “the sumptuous illustrations of the fifteenth-century Nuremberg Chronicle”—Zamorano Select 87. BAL 14744 (Format A). 65 c   (CALIFORNIA.) Passport from the Philippines to Gold Rush California. Partly printed Document Signed by Florentino Reyes and other officials, endorsed on verso, 17 x 12 1 / 2 inches; folds, moderate wear. Manila, 7 May to 6 July 1850 [400/600] This passport was issued to Englishman David Smitt, bound for California by the American frigate Merlin. 66 c   (CANADA.) Chabert, Joseph Bernard. Voyage fait . . . dans L’Amérique Septrionale, pour Rectifier les Cartes des Côtes. 6 folding maps, one folding plate, one folding table. [2], viii, 288, [10] pages. 4to, contemporary mottled calf, moderate wear, joints split, lacking 2 inches of backstrip; edges tinted red. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1753 [800/1,200] An account of the author’s voyage to Acadia, Isle Royale, and Newfoundland to make astronomi- cal observations to correct the mapping of the region. Lande 114; Sabin 11723;TPL 222. bound with —César-François Cassini deThury.Addition auxTables Astronomiques de M. [Jacques] Cassini. [2], 98 pages. Paris: Durand, 1756. GREELY’S COPY 67 c   (CANADA.) Mackenzie, Alexander. Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans. Frontispiece portrait. [2 of 4], viii, cxxxii, 412, [2] pages. 4to, library binding, moderate wear; lacking all three maps (facsimiles laid in), lacking half-title, errata leaf chipped on fore-edge, minor foxing, scattered pencil annotations in an unknown hand including a drawing of a person on page xciii; later illustrated bookplate on front pastedown. London, 1801 [300/400] first edition of Mackenzie’s classic transcontinental journey, more than ten years in advance of Lewis and Clark.This copy was later the property of Arctic explorer AdolphusW. Greely, who led the ill-fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition from 1881 to 1884. Books on Ice 2.1; Howes M133 (“b”); Sabin 43414;TPL 658.