Sale 2432 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, November 17, 2016

64 THE STREETER COPY 64 ● (CALIFORNIA.) Dwinelle, John W. The Colonial History of the City of San Francisco. 2 maps, 3 plates. xlv, 34, [1], 106, 391 pages plus errata slips tipped to pages xlv and 365. 8vo, early 1 / 2 morocco, minor wear; intermittent minor foxing; Streeter tag on front pastedown, collation notes on flyleaf, Streeter catalog entry and additional collation notes laid in, as well as a pair of legal documents signed by Dwinelle in 1852. San Francisco, 1866 [1,200/1,800] Third edition, second issue.This issue is the most desirable, as it contains hundreds of additional pages (the table of contents is updated with an errata slip). “A great storehouse of information on the beginnings of San Francisco”—Streeter sale V:2912 (this copy, purchased from Grabhorn in 1936). Cowan 1933, page 189; Graff 1189; Howes D614 (“c”); Zamorano Eighty 32. 65 ● (CALIFORNIA.) Emory, William H. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri to San Diego, in California. 3 maps, 40 plates, text illustrations. 416 pages. Thick 8vo, contemporary cloth, moderate wear, remnants of original spine label; moderate foxing, lacking plate 26 of San Diego, but with a duplicate of botanical plate III; early inscriptions on front endpapers. 30th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Exec. Doc. 7. Washington, 1848 [400/600] Second Senate edition perWagner-Camp.Wagner-Camp 148:2; Zamorano Eighty 33 (“a library of Western Americana is incomplete without it”). Provenance: Robert Beale (Senate Sergeant at Arms from 1845 to 1853); gift to Elliott Eskridge Lane (1823-1857), who died of food poisoning at the inauguration dinner of his uncle President James Buchanan; thence to his sister Harriet Lane, who served as her bachelor uncle’s unofficial First Lady; John Howell catalogue, 1979, to the consignor. WITH —a detached copy of the large folding map from the first edition, “Military Reconnaissance of the Arkansas Rio del Norte and Rio Gila” by JosephWelch, 1847, in a separate envelope.