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San Francisco, CA: A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Only. San Francisco, CA: A. L. Bancroft and Company, 1874. First edition. 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches: pp. xii, 511. Blue cloth with gilt decoration on cover and spine. With foldout meterological observations chart [creased], illustrations. Corners worn, some fraying at edges and top of spine and lower spine end chipped. Spine a little faded, some darkening to front edge of cover, rear board scuffed and scratched. Sticker with the number 1905 affixed to bottom spine. Owner stamp and name written in pencil on free facing end page. Foxing. Pages are unmarked. Front and back hinges cracked, binding shaken but holds. NOTE: This is a fairly rough but all there READING COPY. Extracts from the author's private journal as a medical officer in the army. With his accounts of Garrison life and the Oregon and Washington Territorial Indian wars from 1855-58.

San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1874. First Edition. Original Cloth. A reading copy. Hinges are tight in & out, but the covers are very worn. The paper inside the covers is wrinkled, and the margins of the pages in the last 1/3 of the book are mottled, although the damage is very old, as there is no obvious mildew smell. The stains do not extend into the text. Owners name on fep, and adress label inside front cover. ; 6 1/2x9" .

San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1874. Very Good -. San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1874, First Edition. Octavo; [xii], 511pp. Twenty-one illustrations including frontis, all present. Foldout meteorological observations table at back. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt and black lettering and and decoration. Ex-Duluth Public Library copy with their reference bookplates to front and rear pastedown, stamps to preliminaries, and sticker shadow to spine, but no card pockets or other additions. Boards rubbed along edges and corners with some exposure; split to cloth across spine tail with no loss, darkening to spine and edges of boards, with some staining and soiling to cloth, but gilt still legible. Likely re-cased, with apparent repair to top corner of rear board. Opens easily between gatherings but binding is holding soundly. Pages a touch toned along edges. Some very sparse pencil marginalia with small puncture to page 217-8 with loss, but otherwise text all legible. [HOWES G-209,… Read More

San Francisco: Life A. L. Bancroft and Company, 1874. Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. First Edition. Red cloth with gilt lettering and design, frontis, 511 pgs, fold-out chart, illustrations, minor exterior wear, front free end papers stuck to inside cover, Howes G209, Glisan served as Surgeon, in Oklahoma, Washington and Oregon. Rader 1609 Garrison life on the border, Indian Wars, 1855-1858. Graff 1575.

Good, No Dust Jacket A. L. Bancroft Company 1874 8VO, B/W Illus, Hardcover Hardcover. Green cloth boards are worn and frayed. Frayed spine ends and edges. Some soil and scuffing. Title and illustration in gold on front board and sun darkened spine. Previous owner's bookplate on inside paste down. Endpapers have pencil scribbles/notations and soil. Hinges starting. Pages tanned, occasional finger soil to text. Rear fold out meterological observations chart is creased and chipped. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. Previous owner's name on the bookplate is General J. J. Milhau. General Milhau was a civil war Brevet Brigadier General who settled and was educated in New York. He was appointed Medical Inspector of the Army of the Potomac, then Medical Director of the Third Army Corps and served and rose through the ranks for his gallant service during the Civil War.

San Francisco: Life A. L. Bancroft and Company, 1874. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and design, frontis, 511 pages, fold-out chart, illustrations, very slight edge wear, a very nice collectable copy, difficult to find in this condition. Howes G209, Glisan served as Surgeon, in Oklahoma, Washington and Oregon. Rader 1609 Garrison life on the border, Indian Wars, 1855-1858. Graff 1575..

A L Bancroft San Francisco, 1874 SUPERBLY BOUND in Half Leather, with hand marbled covers and endpapers. A sturdy and beautiful special fine binding. The book is a vigorous and still enthralling account of its subject. At the rear of the book is a fold-out meteorlogical observations chart, and there are also text illustrations. A tight, unmarked very good copy of the military experiences of this army surgeon in the Northwest, including coverage of Indian uprisings in 1855-58. The author served in Oklahoma and west Texas in 1850-53, and later in Washington and Oregon, among other states in the southern plains and the Northwest. An excellent personal narrative of western Indian fighting. THIS IS A SUPERBLY BOUND COPY.. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine.