John Ross Browne 1821 (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Buday Books, which was located in Gilbertsville New York, issued a series of reprints titled "Vintage Reading". The book offered here is one of the "Vintage Reading" series, published in 1993. It is a compilation of several titles, the main ones (listed on the cover) are as follows : "True Accounts of Gold Mining at Bodie Bluff, California" ; "The Alkali Waters of Mono Lake - the Dead Sea of the West in the Sierra Nevada". Of note is the inclusion of an 1893 short story by 19th Century Nevada author, F. Hayden Carruth ("The Cash Money of Sunset City"). The book is generously illustrated with reproductions of old engravings, halftone photographs, and a few detailed line maps, which are nice and clear. The book is now Out of Print ( OP ) TABLE OF CONTENTS : - A Trip to Bodie Bluff, California -and- "The Dead Sea of the West" - by John Ross Browne (1864) - Biographical Sketch of John Ross Browne - The Many Lives and Times of Bodie, with Notice of its Present Circumstances - Mono Lake - The Not-So-Dead Sea of the West, and What the Intrepid Traveler may Find - Adapted from the Accounts of William V. Wells (1860), L. P. Brockett (1881), G. Thomas Ingham (1888), William M. Thayer (1891), and Contemporary Sources. With Special Material and Photographs from California Department of Parks and Recreation - and The Friends of Bodie. - A Short Story : "The Cash Money of Sunset City" .- by F. Hayden Carruth (1893) - Index to Proper Names - Postscript : Go All the Way West, Young Man CONDITION -- Near Fine -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive with near-negligible signs of handling : Slight yawn to front cover and slight surface rub to rear cover. No writing, no underlining or marginalia, no signatures.…

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Etchings of a Whaling Cruise [microform]: With Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar, to Which is Appended a Brief History of the Whale Fishery. Book.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 419 pages; Description: xxi, 419 p. Facsims. , ports. 25 cm. "Books by Ross Browne": p. 414. Subjects: Browne, J. Ross (John Ross) , 1821-1875. West (U. S. ) --History. 1 Kg. …

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Etchings of a Whaling Cruise [microform]: With Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar, to Which is Appended a Brief History of the Whale Fishery. Book.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 419 pages; Description: xxi, 419 p. Facsims. , ports. 25 cm. "Books by Ross Browne": p. 414. Subjects: Browne, J. Ross (John Ross) , 1821-1875. West (U. S. ) --History. 1 Kg. …

PF. Condition: New.

17, [1] pp. Last page blank. 8-1/2" x 5-3/4" Not in Lone. OCLC shows 13 institutional holdings, though the pamphlet is rather scarce in the trade. We attribute the piece to Browne based on this copy's inscription, Browne's well-documented work in the mining profession, as well as 2 similar works published around the time of this pamphlet, "Reports on the Mineral Resources of the United States; by Special Commissioners J. Ross Browne and James W. Taylor" [1867], and "Report of J. Ross Browne on the Mineral Resources of the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains" [1868]. A bit of edge darkening. A VG+ copy. Self-wrappers, sewn. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve 1st edition (Sabin 15947). INSCRIBED by Browne, across the top of the pamphlet, to "Senator Ramsey, "with the compts of" with Browne's signature underneath. Senator Ramsey no doubt Alexander Ramsey, Republican Senator from Minnesota, 1863 - 1875.…

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.