Search Results: Authors starting with C from William Reese Company

Santiago, 1926. 440pp. Printed wrappers. Wrappers soiled and chipped at overlap edges. Internally tanned but very good, largely unopened. History of Chile, covering the economical, social, and political aspects, etc.

[Paris, 1842. 32pp. Dbd. Scattered foxing, else very good. Early Cabet item, issued shortly before his American utopian adventures. Here he offers his advice to those interrogated or detained by the police, the captive's rights, etc., with citations from the articles of the 1791 constitution.

[Paris: Felix Malteste, 1849].. 15,[1]pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light, intermittent soiling. Very good. The first issue of Étienne Cabet's periodical ICARIE, dated March 15, 1849, a compendium of letters and journal entries providing news of the Icarian utopian settlements in America to French and European audiences. This is an important and exceptionally scarce resource for a firsthand view of the difficulties settling in America that were faced by followers of the French politician, journalist and author, Étienne Cabet, whose theories for creating a communist utopia they sought to put into practice. The Icarian communal society "was the quixotic hope of Frenchman Étienne Cabet, who visualized a community with a controlled economy based on democratic decision rather than dictatorship. Cabet, a utopian socialist, contended that men suffered misfortune in society only because society was poorly organized, that inequality could be abolished only through common ownership of… Read More

Madrid, 1906. Two volumes.xxx,388,[5]; xii,428,[4]pp. Original paper printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled. Volume one with repair tape on spine, small tear on front wrapper. Later ownership stamp on front flyleaves. Text block cracked in volume one. Small section loose but attached on volume two. Good. Later edition of the famous narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, first published in 1542. Cabeza de Vaca gives an account of his expedition to Florida in 1527, his capture by and escape from Indians on the Mississippi coast, and his later overland journey across Texas before finally making his way back to Spanish controlled lands in Mexico. The original work was the first on Texas, and the first American travel account. A foundation work on Texas and the Southwest. The second part describes his career as governor of La Plata in South America

Three Rivers [Trois-Rivières], Québec: G. Stobbs, 1838.. 24pp. 12mo. Original blue paper wrappers. Spine perished, wrappers nearly detached. Moderate tanning, occasional foxing. Good plus. A rare account of a grisly incident in the fur trade in Northwestern Canada, in which Baptiste Cadien, a half Indian serving as an interpreter for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Norman, murdered half a dozen Hare Indians, and wounded several others in 1835. The crime took place in what is now Alberta province, somewhere north of modern-day Edmonton, not far from the Lesser Slave Lake. Cadien was accompanied by two other men, Creole Lagrisse, who participated in the murders once they began, and Baptiste Jourdain, upon whose testimony Cadien was convicted. Several sensationalized contemporary account of the killings asserted a romantic motivation for the killings, by which Cadien sought revenge for losing a paramour back to her husband of another tribe. Jourdain's testimony printed here suggests animosity between… Read More

Chicag: The Lakeside Press R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1947. xxx,181,[4]pp., plus one plate. Frontispiece map. 12mo. Original dark red cloth, spine gilt, front board gilt-ruled with gilt-stamped publisher's logo, t.e.g. Spine lightly faded. Interior clean and bright; text block warped along bottom edge. Very good. Lakeside Press edition of two 17th century memoirs, both dedicated to describing the indigenous peoples of North America. This is number forty-five in the Lakeside Classics series. Cadillac, the key figure in the founding of Detroit in 1701, attempts to draw a comprehensive picture of the tribes living in the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi Valley regions. Liette's memoirs focus specifically on the Illinois Indians, and were first published in English in Volume XXIII of the Illinois Historical Collections as "Memoir of De Gannes Concerning the Illinois Country," due to the copyist (De Gannes)'s signature at the end of the original manuscript. This is the first publication of Liette's… Read More

Reading, P, 1816. [42]pp. Old plain wrappers (front detached), dbd. from larger volume. Rather tanned, couple of fox marks. Good. Not in Kress, and Goldsmith lists only a German language edition published in Reading the same year, with the same collation. The NUC lists both editions and no others, the present edition with six locations. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 37149.

New-York: Printed by Hopkins and Seymour, 1805. xxxi,128pp. Dbd. Last few leaves loose. Good. Caines was the first official reporter in the United States. These reports inaugurated a new era in the reporting of cases. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 9012.

New York: D. Appleton and Compan, 1859. 130,[2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Nearly half of spine perished, splitting at front joint, wrappers soiled. Contemporary ownership signature on front wrapper and titlepage. Internally clean. Good. James Caird (1816-92) was an agriculturalist and member of the British Parliament. This volume was the result of a tour he undertook in 1859 through Canada and the American Midwest. Much of the volume is devoted to Illinois, though Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio receive a fairly thorough treatment. The portion on Canada provoked some resentment. HOWES C19. SABIN 9854

Lima: Plazuela de San Christoval, por Juan Joseph Gonzalez de Cossio, 1752. [46],279,[1]pp. Numerous errors in pagination. Small quarto. Contemporary vellum, lettered on spine; recased, with new endpapers. Lower corner of rear cover repaired. Minor toning to a few leaves. Near fine. First American edition of this work by the Spanish Jesuit, Calatayud, containing theological advice for priests. The work was first published in separate editions in Pamplona and Valencia in 1736. This Lima edition includes a preface by Pedro Antonio, Archbishop of Lima, outlining the reasons for reprinting the text, and reprints the original dedication and various approvals from the earlier editions. The work consists of six discourses intended to guide priests in their ministerial works. More a philosophical work than a practical guide, Calatayud explores the moral and religious obligations which priests have to those they serve and to themselves. The sixth discourse is addressed to bishops and prelates, and the final… Read More

[N.p., but likely Madrid, N.d., but ca. 1601].. [2],24pp. Folio. Dbd. Dampstained and soiled, top and bottom edges worn. Worm holes throughout, affecting a few words on each page. Contemporary underlining and marginal lines throughout, contemporary handwritten folio numbers on each recto. Still a good copy. In a half morocco and cloth box. An extremely rare treatise which considers the question of whether rebellious Indians in Chile should become slaves. Addressed to the Viceroy and Audiencia of Peru, the work discusses whether slavery of conquered Indians is just or not, reviewing arguments on both sides of the question. Calderón approaches the problem in an intriguing manner by providing separate justifications, each in its own individual section of the text, for enslaving the Indians from the various points of view of the King, the Kingdom, and the Church. In turn, the author then provides responses to these various assertions, promoting the view that such slavery would be unjust. The last pages… Read More

Philadelphia, 1819. xxiii,[1],452pp. plus two folding facsimiles. Portrait. Contemporary calf, maroon gilt morocco label. Minor nick at head of spine, small old label on spine. Lightly tanned. Later bookplate on front and rear pastedowns. Very good. Lacks the errata. An engaging biography of Gen. Nathanael Greene, with descriptions of many of the major battles of the Revolution, in which Greene played a significant role. Most notably, Greene was instrumental in wearing down Cornwallis's superior forces in the southern theater through a series of guerilla encounters. The folding facsimiles here reproduce two letters dated in 1779: the first, a letter from Greene to John Jay regarding positive Congressional acknowledgement of Greene's activities as quartermaster general of the Continental Army, and the second, a letter from George Washington to Greene pleading for a penknife during Greene's stint in the same position. The Appendix includes the text of Gen. Greene's letter to Congress resigning as… Read More

Mexico, September 19, 1836.. [1]p. on folded folio sheet, plus integral blank leaf, 12 x 8 1/4 inches. Docketed at the bottom of the first page. Old folds, a few spots of light foxing. Contemporary manuscript notes in three different hands, and one manuscript correction to text (see below). Very good. Of the highest importance in the religious history of California, this decree provides for the establishment of the first bishopric in Alta and Baja California. This decree came on the heels of the secularization of the California missions, which had been the foundation of religious organization there. The procedures for establishing a separate diocese and appointing a new bishop are given, the bishop to be chosen by the government based on the recommendation of the CABILDO METROPOLITANO and proposed to the Pope. The government would grant an annual stipend of 6000 pesos to fund the bishopric, which would also have at its disposal monies from the Pious Fund. The decree was issued by Mexican President… Read More

Berkeley, 1887. 33pp. Original printed pink wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled and worn, early ownership signature on front wrapper. Faint vertical fold. Final two leaves chipped in lower outer corner, not affecting text. Very good. An early carto-bibliography. The maps are listed chronologically by region. Issued as a supplement to the Report of the Secretary of the Board of Regents. COWAN, p.651.

Placerville, Ca, [ca. 1870].. [48] leaves, plus six stubs. Oblong quarto. Original half sheep and paper boards. Front board detached, stitching perishing. Boards rubbed, edges and corners worn. An 1870s receipt book for cemetery plots in Placerville, California. The burial ground belonged to the Morning Star Lodge, founded in the town at the height of the Gold Rush in 1854. The blank printed forms all provide a "Certificate of Purchase for Lot in the Union Cemetery, Placerville...belonging to said Lodge, according to the Plat of Survey made by D.B. Merry, and the said Lot is hereby granted to him, subject to the rules of said Lodge now in force, or that may hereafter be adopted for the government of the same." This particular lodge was (and still is) associated with the International Order of Odd Fellows, which established a number of groups in California during the Gold Rush.

Sacramento, 1886. 622pp. Original cloth. Gilt title on front cover. Moderate edgewear. Head and toe of spine frayed. Good. The extensive initial report by the State Engineer reviewing historical and innovative irrigation systems for potential use in California. Cowan lists the second part of this report (issued later), but not this first part

Oakland: Thompson & West, 1880.. 234pp., including colored "Map of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona" plus eighty-three full-page or double-page lithographs (the first included as part of the pagination). Oblong quarto. Original half sheep and green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, spine gilt. Hinges reinforced, corners neatly repaired, front and rear end leaves with some neat tissue repairs at the edges. Titlepage and two contents leaves with a mended vertical tear, not affecting text. Final text leaf with a small tear in the outer margin, not affecting text. Very good. A magnificent illustrated history of Nevada County, California. The wonderful lithographs ably show how in just thirty years the area that had been a rough and tumble center of gold rush activity was transformed into a lovely group of communities in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The illustrations show private residences with neatly tended yards and gardens, courthouses and other public buildings, hotels, newspaper offices, mining… Read More

Camp Nusseerabad, India., 1859-1860.. [121]pp. of manuscript text, about 15,500 total words. Original three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Boards edgeworn and lightly rubbed. Internally quite clean, neat, and legible. Very good. An interesting unpublished manuscript, this is a novel in the form of an autobiography, purportedly written by an American-born soldier in the British Army stationed in India in the late 1850s and early 1860s. The author describes his youth and early adulthood, culminating with an account of his adventures hunting grizzlies in Gold Rush-era California. The chapter on Grizzly hunting in California, called "Westward Ho," is copied (with a few small adaptations) from an article that appeared in the November 1857 issue of HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, called "The Grizzly Bear of California." The remainder of the text develops several themes over the course of the work, including the author's strained relationship with his wealthy father, his youthful disillusionment with a… Read More

San Francisco: Thompson & Hitchcock, 1851.. [20] blank leaves. 24mo. Original dark purple wrappers, printed in gilt. Very minor wear to wrapper edges. Near fine, with the original unused plain paper envelope. A lovely example of an unused Gold Rush letter book, intended to advertise Joseph Gregory's California and New York Express Line as a convenient way for gold seekers in California to communicate with friends and family back home. Gregory's California Express, according to the wrapper, is "one of the oldest established in the business, dispatch messengers BY EVERY STEAMER leaving New-York and San Francisco, in charge of Letters, Parcels, Packages, Gold Dust and valuables, for distribution throughout the United States and California." Also according to Gregory's text, "this book is made of the finest letter paper, and of the size of a folded letter, which, with an envelope, will not exceed the weight of a single letter, and is more convenient than paper in sheets." The inside rear wrapper prints… Read More

Los Angele, 1892. 96 [of 98, which likely include advertisements]pp., plus plates. Lacks the final leaf. Double-page frontispiece map. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn; faint ink stamp on front wrapper. Internally very clean. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt. Covers all aspects of the region, including agriculture, commerce, history, etc. Published by the Southern California Bureau of Information. ROCQ 16383