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[003831] . A GUIDE FOR HIGHWAY SLAVAGE PROGRAMS IN ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND PALEONTOLOGY. New Mexico: Committee for Highway Salvage Archaeology, 1958. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Stiff Covers. New Mexico. Very Good "In April 1954, The United States Bureau of Public Roads, the New Mexico State Highway Department, and the Museum of New Mexico initiated a cooperative program to salvage the archaeological and historical materials being destroyed by highway construction in New Mexico. This still-continuing program resulted in the salvage of over 40 sites in the first two years of operation...The New Mexico Program has served as a model for highway salvage operations in other states..." 14 pp. Stiff tan covers. Slightly soiled otherwise Very Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $25.00

[004918] . SURVEYOR GENERAL OF NEW MEXICO 1854. 1871. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Disbound. New Mexico. Very Good 42d Congress, 1st Session, Senate. Mis. Doc. No. 12. Ordered to be printed: March 13, 1871. LETTER OF THE COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE, Addressed to Hon. J. F. Chaves, Communicating A copy of the instructions issued to the surveyor general of New Mexico, August 21, 1854. " The duty devolves upon the surveyor general is highly important and responsible. He has ...to prepare a faithful report of all the land titles in New Mexico which had their origin before the United States succeeded to the sovereignty of the country;..." 7 pp. Includes two lists of pueblos or civilized towns of Indians of the Territory of New Mexico and their populations. Disbound. Nicks at spine end where disbound? Still intact. Clean. 1/4" thin tear at side edge through document. Minor-in side margin-doesn't interfere with text. Overall document is Very Good. Names in document: Willis Drummond, Commissioner; John Wilson, Commissioner, and William Pelham, Esq., United States Surveyor General of New Mexico. The General Land Office (GLO), a former agency of the United States government, was created in 1812 to take over functions previously conducted by the United States Department of the Treasury relating to the public domain lands. It oversaw the surveying, platting and sale of the public lands in the Western United States and administered the Homestead Act and the Preemption Act in disposal of public lands. $40.00

[004296] . DESERT MAGAZINE, December 1949. . ill. Photographs, Maps, Drawings,. William Knyvett, Magazine: Desert. Very Good- December 1949 issue with cover showing White Christmas on the Desert. Some articles include: Valley of the Cathedrals, by Charles Kelly; We found Ant Hills covered with Jewels, by Edith Rutenic McLeod; Panamint Pack Trip, by Randall Henderson; Pom Poms at Christmas, by Dorothy L. Pillsbury; and Adobe Maker of Scottsdale, by Christine B. MacKenzie. Cover has a small tear at front spine "joint" and date: Nov. 25 stamped in the "D" for DESERT on the front cover, otherwise the covers are VG. Interior is tight, clean and VG+ $7.00

[004948] . MILITARY ROAD FROM FORT UNION TO SANTA FE. 1860. 1860. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 9". Disbound. New Mexico. Very Good 36th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Report No. 509. Report from Captain J. N. Macomb, Captain of Topographical Engineers "submitted to General Garland, commanding the department of New Mexico, his estimate for the completion of the road, from which it appears that Congress...appropriated $16,000 for this road, and that the sum of $35,000 is requisite to complete it....The fact of the road from Fort Union to Santa Fe being a part of the great mail-route from Missouri to the largest settlement in the Territory of New Mexico, and it being the only portion of the route upon which serious natural obstacles to easy transit exist, is deemed of sufficient importance to justify the asking for such a sum..." 3 pp. with breakdown of "Estimate for the completion of the road from Fort Union to Santa Fe, New Mexico". Disbound, otherwise in Very Good condition. $30.00

[004286] Dunn, Edward D.. DOUBLE-CROSSING AMERICA BY MOTOR, Routes and Ranches of the West. ill. Illus. With Drawings and Maps. New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1933. Size: Approx. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2". Car Narrative. Very Good- This charmingly illustrated book contains information about costs, rates and names of places to stay over night on a transcontinental trip. The book is divided into sections, each one consisting of an account of that day's trip, listing mileage, expenses, occasionally suggested reading, and highlights of the day's run. The trip takes in the charming South - Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky; the energetic Middle West - Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Kanses; the romantic Southwest - Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona; the amazing state of California; a short run into Old Mexico; the Bret Harte frontier country of Nevada and Wyoming; the agricultural lands of Idaho, Dakota and Pennsylvania; a short run into Canada; and the pastoral case of upstate New York. Several ranches along the way are described. Pictorial endpapers. 251 pp. 80 illustrations and maps. Spine dulled and ends slightly rubbed. Otherwise covers are Very Good. Illustrated endpapers. Slight foxing on half title page and on blank page at back. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. Bliss 58. $22.50

[003056] Earle, W. Hubert.. CACTI OF THE SOUTHWEST . ill. Figures(photographs, map). Arizona: Arizona Cactus & Native Flora Society, 1963. Size: Approx. 6 1/4" x 9 3/4". Brown Cloth. Botany. Very Good Science Bulletin No. 4. Covers Cacti of Arizona, Western New Mexico, Southern Colorado, Southern Utah, Southern Nevada, and Eastern California. 110 pp. including Index and several pages for Notes. Brown cloth with gilt letters on front cover. Slight rubbing to corner tips and spine ends, otherwise exterior is VG+. Interior is tight, clean and Near Fine. Text and photographs by author. $22.50

[003595] Henderson, Charles W.. GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC IN NEW MEXICO AND TEXAS IN 1922. Mines Report. ill. Tables. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1923. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Paper Wraps. Mining. Very Good Mineral Resources of the United States, 1922-Part I (Pages 199-215). Department of the Interior. United States Geological Survey. Slightly faded at spine otherwise Exterior is VG+. Interior tight, clean and VG+. Numerous Tables. I:17 $20.00

[004004] Hilpert, Lowell S. . Uranium Resources of Northwestern New Mexico . ill. Plates. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1969. Size: Approx. 9" x 11 1/2". Stiff Covers. Geological Survey. Very Good to Very Good+ Geological Survey Professional Paper 603. Prepared on behalf of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. A description of the straitigraphic & structural relations of the various types of uranium deposits in one of the world's great uranium-producing regions. 166 pp. including Index. 4 foldout Plates in back envelope. 15 tables and 20 illustrations. Covers faded around edges. Slight creasing to corner "tips", otherwise Very Good+. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. $20.00

[004125] House of Representatives. NEW MEXICO PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS.1861 Two Documents. Claims for GERVACIO NOLAND and SERAFIN RAMIREZ ; and for HEIRS OF LUIS MARIA C. DE BACA.. 1861. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4". Disbound. New Mexico. Very Good+ Two separate documents but disbound together. Both issued the same day: February 5, 1861. 36th Congress, 2d Session. Ex. Doc. No. 57 and No. 58. Ex. Doc. No. 57 Tranmitting a letter from the surveyor general of New Mexico relative to the Claims of Gervacio Noland and Serafin Ramirez. 2 pages. Ex. Doc. 58 Transmitting Documents in relation to the private land claim of the heirs of Luis María C. de Baca. 13 pp. The Cabeza de Baca Family is an offshoot of the Baca Family. The progenitor of this family is Luis María Cabeza de Baca. He was born as Luis Maria Baca on 26 October 1754, the oldest son of Juan Antonio Baca and Maria Romero. He had over 20 children by three different wives. The Cabeza de Baca family are often known by the abbreviated surnames of either C. de Baca or de Baca. They are part of the genealogy of Spanish New Mexican families. Disbound but intact. Very Good condition. $45.00

[004735] House of Representatives. Statehood for the Territories...Oklahoma and Arizona . ill. Tables. 1906. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4". Disbound. American History. Very Good- 59th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Report No. 496. " ...This bill, enables two States to be admitted into the Union. It consists of 43 sections, the first 18...relate to the proposed State of Oklahoma, the area which is to comprise the present Territory of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory: and the remaining 17 sections relate to the proposed State of Arizona..." 28 pp. Includes an Analysis of Bill; Qualifications for Statehood; Arizona; New Mexico; Oklahoma and Indian Territory; Allotment; Memorandum showing condition of work to the Five Civilized Tribes (Seminole Nation, Creek Nation, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations and the Cherokee Nation); and Conclusion. Includes Views of the Minority and Appendix No. I: Protests to Congress against the Passage of the Joint State Bill for New Mexico and Arizona. Disbound. Pages 1-12 intact, page 13 loose. and pages 13-28 intact. 1/2" tear on pages 13-28 at top left margin. Not near text. Otherwise document is Very Good. Clean. $35.00

[004737] House of Representatives. PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN NEW MEXICO. 1867. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 9". Disbound. New Mexico. Very Good LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, TRANSMITTING REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN NEW MEXICO. 40th Congress, 2d Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 33. "...directs the Secretary of the Interior to cause an examination to be made of the condition of the public buildings in New Mexico, and to present to the next Congress an estimate of the amount necessary to complete the same". Includes 3 letters and a report of Hon. W.F.M. Arny, Secretary of New Mexico, on the condition of the public buildings. "The estimate for the completion of the capitol is one hundred and twenty thousand five hundred dollars, ($120,5000) and for the completion of the penitentiary, thirty-five thousand dollars, ($35,000)." 14 pp. Includes a page long list of "merchants and citizens of New Mexico...hope that appropriation will be made to complete the buildings" and a break-down of the expenses for the Capitol and the Penitentiary. Disbound. Front page barely attached otherwise in Very Good+ condition. Clean and tight. Famous Americans in document: O.H. Browning, Secretary of the Interior; W. T. Otto, Acting Secretary; Robert B. Mitchell, Governor of New Mexico; and W. F. M. Arny, Late Secretary of the Territory, and Acting Superintendent Public Building, New Mexico. $58.00

[004749] House of Representatives. THE JUAN DE MESTAS PRIVATE LAND-CLAIM IN NEW MEXICO. ill. Sketch Map. 1874. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Disbound. New Mexico. Very Good 43D Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 213. The report of the surveyor-general of New Mexico on the land-grant to Juan de Mestas, private land-claim reported as No. 80. Transcript of land-grant for land in Santa Fe County, New Mexico-Date of grant, December 9, 1699-Reported by the United States surveyor-general February 5, 1874. 10 pp. Two pages of the Present Claimant's Petition; full page with Sketch Map "Plat of Juan de Mesta's Grant", Two pages in Spanish of the Petition; and four pages with "Translation of muniments". Disbound. 2" tear at spine which loosens several pages, but still intact. Document is clean and Very Good+. Famous individuals: Pedro Rodriguez Cubero,(Governor of New Mexico); Roque Madrid, Joseph Manuel Giltomey, and Cubero Domingo de la Barreda (Secretary of Governor of War). $45.00

[000355] Myers, John Myers. THE DEATHS OF THE BRAVOS. Little Brown & Co. 1962 Boston, Very Good/Good + to VG-. FIRST Hardbound 8vo. 467 pp. Owner's stamp on endpapers. An "informal, behind-the-scenes history of the men who explored, settled and fought in the mountains, towns and plains of the Western territories..." During the period of 1812-1878 .Bibliography & Tables of Leading Characters & Events. Front and back endpapers decorated with "A Sketch Map of the West" showing States west of the Missouri River with names of the famous men of the West like Bill Hickok,Sam Houston, Capt. John Fremont, Jed Smith,etc. $8.50

[003367] Powell, Donald M.. NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA IN THE SERIAL SET, 1846 - 1861. ill. Frontis.. Los Angeles: Dawson Book Shop, 1970. Green Cloth. American History. Signed by Author. Fine SIGNED by author on front free endpaper. Unpaginated. Green cloth. Reprinted from the New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. XLIV, no. 4., October, 1969, Vol. XLV, No. 1, January 1970. An annotated checklist intended to provide a key to the information on New Mexico and Arizona in the "Serial Set" (the serially numbered set of documents published for the use of Congress) for the period between the War with Mexico and the Civil War. Both exterior and interior are Fine. $25.00

[000215] Rice, Josiah M.. A CANNONEER IN NAVAJO COUNTRY. ill. Halftones /full-color Plates. Denver: Denver Public Library Denver, 1970. Limited. Size:10 1/2" x 8 1/4". Western Americana. Fine/Fine Limited Ed. brown cloth. 123 pp. Journal of Private Josiah M. Rice, 1851 22 illustration sketches by author, 20 reproduced in halftones and 2 in full-color plates. Two-color map as frontpiece. Josiah Rice's journal "is an account by a common soldier, a cannoneer in Colonel Edwin Vose Sumner's 1851 show-of-strength against the hostile Indians in the newly acquired territory of New Mexico, which then included the present state of Arizona. "Index. Table of Distances Traversed, Letters. Limited edition of 1500 copies. Edited by Richard H. Dillon. $45.00

[001708] ROBBINS, Michael.. ALONG THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE : HIGH COUNTRY TRAIL . Washington, DC, U.S.A.: National Geographic Society, 1981. Fine / Very Good+. ISBN: 0870443615. $10.00

[003125] Walter, Paul A. F. THE CITIES THAT DIED OF FEAR. ill. Photographs By Jesse Nusbaum, Maps. Archaeological Institute of America , 1916. Size: Approx. 6 3/4" x 10". Paper Wraps. Archaeology. Good The Story of the Saline Pueblos. Archaeological Institute of America. Papers of the School of American Archaeology. Number 35. pp.3-53. Filled with photographs. Paper is in Very Good condition. Clean and tight. Slight browning around edges. Front wrap detached, torn and missing pieces all around edges. All lettering there. Front cover is Poor but text/Paper is intact and VG. No tearing to text. $40.00

[004121] Wienzirl, John (edited by). BULLETIN OF THE HADLEY CLIMATOLOGICAL LABORATORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO. Volume III, No.1-11. 1901-1905. ill. Plate, Tables. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Stiff Covers. New Mexico. Good to Very Good Published with the cooperation of Mrs. W. C. Hadley. Vol III, No. I:THE BACTERIAL FLORA OF THE SEMI-DESERT REGION OF NEW MEXICO, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE BACTERIA OF THE AIR by John Winzirl with 2 plates. pp.211-242.; Vol III, Nos.2 and 3 (in one publication): SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE LUNG CAPACITY OF YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN NEW MEXICO by F. S. Maltby. Completed by John Wein with 2 tables. 7 pp. and THE EFFECT OF ALTITUDE ON THE BLOOD by John Winzirl with 6 tables. 21 pp.; Volume III Number 4: OBSERVATIONS ON SOIL MOISTURE IN NEW MEXICO FROM THE HYGIENIC VIEWPOINT by C. Edw. Magnusson with 2 tables. 8 pp.; Volume III. Number 5: METEOROLOGICAL TABLES by C. Edw. Magnusson with 3 tables. 14 pp.; Volume III. Number 6: THE AVAILABILITY OF NEW MEXICO'S CLIMATE FOR OUTDOOR LIFE by John Weinzirl with 3 tables. 9 pp.; Vol. III, No. 7: OBSERVATIONS ON COLOR-CHANGES IN THE GENUS BUTEO, APPARENTLY DUE TO APTOSOCHROMATISM by Francis J. Birtwell. 14 pp.; Vol. III No.8: COLD AS A CAUSAL FACTOR IN THE BLOOD CHANGES DUE TO HIGH ALTITUDE by John Weinzirl. (extracted from The Amercian Journal of the Medical Sciences, August, 1903). 7 pp. with 2 tables.; Vol. III No. 9: FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON INCREASED BLOOD COUNTS DUE TO HIGH ALTITUDE by John Weinzirl. and C. Edw. Magnusson. 3 tables, 1 graph ("Curve") 11 pp.; Vol. III No. 10: EVAPORATION FROM WATER SURFACE AT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO by John Weinzirl. 14 pp. and 3 tables. and Volume III, Number 11: THE POTABLE WATERS OF NEW MEXICO: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE CITY WATER SUPPLY by John Weinzirl..28 pp. with 2 "Curves" (full page graphs) and 3 photographs. Total of 10 Bulletins as No.2 and No.3 are in one bulletin. 4 bulletins in stiff covers. 4 missing? the covers but clean and intact. 2 publications, written at top: Vol. III with Number. ex.mus. stamp on front covers and title page. Vol.III. No. I's front cover missing small piece of bottom corner, on side edge, and upper left corner. 2 small circular pieces gone. Covers are intact and overall Good. Vol. III, No.8's top edge creased with tears. Otherwise Good. All the other covers are Very Good. All interiors are tight, clean and Very Good+. $175.00