[Washington? 1862?]. 20pp. Original printed wrappers [a few very small chips, spine split and wraps detaching], stitched. Good+ or so. The firm Russell, Majors, and Waddell contracted with the War Department in 1860 "for the transportation of military stores and supplies to the army then occupying Utah and New..... More
[Plano, Illinois: 1860-1875]. 27 pamphlets, each with caption title. These include pamphlets numbered 2-12, 14-17, 20-27, 29-30 above the caption title; and two unnumbered pamphlets: TITHING [Plano: Printed at the True Latter Day Saints' Herald Office. 1860's?], and BRIGHAMISM: ITS PROMISES AND THEIR FAILURES. [Plano: Printed at the True Latter..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1876. Folio, original blue cloth [cloth on spine detached, shaken]. A clean and bright text with collation as called for by the Table of Contents. 518pp + 25 maps and plates, and errata slip. Just a couple of closed margin tears [no loss] from careless opening..... More
[Plano, IL? Printed at the True Latter Day Saints' Herald Office, @1890]. 14pp. Caption title [as issued]. Folded, partly uncut. Printed in double columns. Light edgewear. Tanned. [bound with] EPITOME OF THE FAITH AND DOCTRINES OF THE REORGANIZED CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS. 4. Published by the..... More
52d Congress, 1st Session. House... Ex. Doc. No. 139. 1892. 2 [part 1], 4pp + three folding plans. Caption title [as issued], Very Good. FIRST EDITION. More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. 8, 487pp [a few pages uncut], 54 plates [lacking the paleontology plates], 2 large folding maps [lacks smaller facsimile map of part of North America, a couple closed tears at edges, no loss]. Front board absent, gilt lettered red morocco spine label [spine ends..... More
Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1853. 495pp. Lacking the maps; all plates present except four [lacking Fort Bridger, Bowery, Baron La Hontan's Map, and Camp No. 4]. Bound in modern buckram, library marks, scattered light foxing. Margins of some plates a bit shaved. Good+. Wagner-Camp 219:3. Howes S884. Flake 8360. More
Great Salt Lake City: Elias Smith, Public Printer, 1863. 15, [1 blank] pp. Original printed front wrapper [faint rubberstamp], disbound, else Very Good. The main accomplishment of this Legislative session was a statute regulating the confidentiality and privacy of telegraph communications. OCLC 2012044 [9] [as of December 2012]... More
Salt Lake City, Utah: 1876. Large 8vo, bound sturdily in legal buckram, with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. Rubberstamps on front pastedown and title page, else a clean text. XII, [2 blanks], 900 pp. An attractive, complete text, with Index, Table of Contents, and side margin notes. Very Good. More
Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Company, Printers, 1882. 42pp. Original printed tan wrappers with wrapper title, stitched. Mild wrapper wear, Very Good. In addition to the Constitution, the pamphlet contains the four-page Memorial to Congress requesting Statehood; Resolution in Relation to a Constitutional Convention; the names of officers..... More
Salt Lake City: T.E. Taylor, Public Printer, [1882]. Original printed wrappers [a bit of corner wear] with wrapper title [as issued]. Stitched, with 27 + [1 blank] clean pages. Very Good. The Message includes much data on population, agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and livestock resources of the Utah Territory. The..... More
39th Cong., 2d Sess. HED45. 1867. 70pp, disbound. Very Good. Hazen, Inspector General of the Dept. of the Platte, and General Rusling render their reports on a tour from the Mississippi to the Pacific, with descriptions of topography, Indians, Mormons, transportation routes. FIRST EDITION. Not in Fales & Flake, Graff..... More
Salt Lake City: Geo. Q. Cannon, Public Printer, 1868. Original printed wrappers [decorated borders], stitched. 184pp. Wrappers and fore-edges dirty, but text clean. Two short closed blank margin tears to title leaf [no loss]. Good+. Reports and Messages, as well as the Legislature's doings, are printed. The subjects of..... More
Salt Lake City: Deseret News Company, 1882. VIII, 131 pp. A couple of rubberstamps, one gathering browned, else Very Good, in later cloth. More
35th Cong., 1st Sess. Senate Mis. Doc. No. 201. 1858. 5pp, disbound with some loosening, else Very Good. More
Salt Lake City: Star Printing Company, 1898. Two volumes: 976; [2], 977-2011 pp. Some margins spotted, else Very Good, in contemporary, somewhat scuffed sheep with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, with the ownership label of John M. Cannon, prominent Utah Mormon attorney. FIRST EDITION. Babbitt 566. More
Washington: 1857. 572pp, disbound. Contents clean. Very Good. Material on the Utah expedition, with Stewart Van Vliet's report of his interview with Brigham Young, who said "that the Mormons had been persecuted, murdered, and robbed, in Missouri and Illinois, both by the mob and State authorities, and that now..... More
[Salt Lake City?]: 1885. Original printed wrappers [detached but present, sunned], stitched. pp [85]-113 [as issued]. Very Good. A constitutional, legal, and historical analysis of Congress's power to govern the territories. Young argues that, in our limited national government of enumerated powers, Congress's authority over the territories is restricted..... More
Chicago: 1937. 69pp. Original printed wraps, light wear. Signed by author. Folding map, text sketches. Very Good. More