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Waeber, Alex. LANDES-UND REISEBESCHREIBUNGEN: EIN BEITRAG ZUR BIBLIOGRAPHIE DER SCHWEIZERISCHEN REISELITTERATUR 1479-[1900].  $95.

Cloth, 8vo. xxiii, 440pp; xvi, 172 pp. Bern: K.J. Wyss, 1899-1909. ISBN 1-57898-042.

This important and rare bibliography is a standard work in the field of Swiss travel and topography. The arrangement of the books is regional and chronological.  Firstly books pertaining to all of the Switzerland are described, then works on the western cantons. Text is in German and French. In all 7,500 books are fully described. Full author and title description is provided, as is collation and frequent annotations. There is a comprehensive 60 page index to the material. Our reprint will also include the supplement published in 1909, which updates relevant works published from 1891 to 1900. Besterman 5975.

Wagner, Henry Raup.  THE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA TO THE YEAR 1800. $125.

Quarto. Two Volumes in One.  Illustrated. 543pp. University of California Press, 1937.

According to Ristow, “although emphassis is on the Northwest  Coast of America, this is a useful reference work for the student of the cartographical history of America. It contains an extensive index, bibliography, and list of place names as well as a list of maps. An exhaustive and scholarly publication, which includes a note on practically every important map of the world between 1507-1794”. Ristow 377. Ristow, Guide to the History of Cartography #377. Published by arrangement with the University of California Press.

Wagner, Henry R. THE SPANISH SOUTHWEST 1542-1794. AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.  $75.

Cloth, 8vo. Two vols in one. 553 pp. The Quivira Society, 1937. ISBN 1-57898-019-4.

Henry R. Wagner is a giant in the field of Western Americana, having written many of the standard bibliographies in the field. The area covered by the Spanish Southwest 1542-1794 comprises New Spain, or Mexico. In practice, however, the work also covers those parts of Texas which belonged to the provinces of Nuevo Santander and Coahila, and those parts of Arizona which belonged to Senora. Wagner describes 750 books in chronological order. Annotations are extremely detailed, many going on for several pages. Jesuit relations are covered fully. Extended narrative discussions of points of interest are provided. The work is fully indexed.

Wagner, Henry Raup. Sir Francis Drake's Voyages Around The World; Its Aims And Achievements. $85.00

Octavo. x, 543 p. illus., ports., maps (part fold.) 28 cm. San Francisco, Calif., J. Howell, 1926

Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, (c. 1540 – January 28, 1596) was an English privateer, navigator, naval pioneer and raider, politician and civil engineer of the Elizabethan era. He was the first captain to circumnavigate the Earth (Magellan died on his voyage, which was completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano). He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He died of dysentery while unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1596 .Wagner's work is arguably the most comprehensive assembly of texts and detailed analysis of Drake's voyage.

Wagner, Henry Raup. SPANISH EXPLORATIONS IN THE STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA. $75.

Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp. v, 323, [1] p. 13 maps (part fold.) Santa Ana, California: Fine Arts Press, 1933.

Though much is known of the English explorers, Cook and Vancouver, who explored the Northwest Coast of the American, very little is known of the Spanish explorers of the same period. This is because the Spanish were not interested in having other nations known the results of their explorations.
Yet long before the fur traders appeared on the Northwest Coast, the Spaniards had sailed by the entrance to the strait several times without seeing it, no doubt because of the dense fog. The other problem was hard to see because of its configuration.
Wagner's aim is to do justice to the Spanaird's who preceded Vancouver and who left accounts of their experiences as vivid and entertaining as those of Vancouver and Cook. Wagner's account is a study of this neglected portion of exploration in U.S. history. The period covered is roughly from 1769 to 1793.
Contains 13 maps, several of them folding. Originally published in an edition of 425 copies printed on white Strathmore Broadcaster text. Though once reprinted, no copies are currently in print. Howes W10.

War Department. Bibliography Of State Participation In The Civil War 1861-1866. $135

Oversized octavo. 3rd ed. x, 1140 p. Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1913

The first edition of this catalogue was published in 1897, the second edition in 1899 and the supplement to the second edition in 1904. This is the third edition. The general arrangement is alphabetical by States wit the following threefold division in each state:

1. Official publications, such as reports of adjutants general, governer's messages, States registers, etc.

2. Regimental histories in alphabetical and numerical sequence.

3. Miscellaneous, such as State, County and town histories, and all material bearing upon the local participation not embraced in the preceding divisions.

In all, 25,000 titles are listed, making this one of the most extensive bibliographies on the subject listed in Besterman [3940]

Ward, Robert E. A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GERMAN-AMERICAN WRITERS 1670-1970. $20.       

Cloth. 448pp. Kraus Publishing, 1985.

This volume concentrates on the German-speaking men and women who, as immigrants or visitors to America, have written about the United States and the relationship of German and American creative writing. These include materials published both in America and Germany.

Waring, Edward John. BIBLIOTHECA THERAPEUTICA; OR BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THERAPEUTICS, CHIEFLY IN REFERENCE TO …THE MATERIA MEDICA.  $100.

Cloth. Two volumes in one. Octavo.  pp.xx.427 + vii.429-934.  London:  The New Sydenham Society, 1878-1879.

This scarce bibliography describes 12,500 printed items relating to all aspects of medicinal and herbal cures.  The first 100 pages are based on the author’s Encyclopaedia of Therapeutics, which he never completed. Then follows a bibliography of individual medicines and drugs, all arranged chronologically from the 15^th century onwards.  The reader thus has presented to him a concise literary history of each individual drug. Over 600 individual drugs are covered, including tobacco, opium, coffee and alcohol. 2000 of the entries, usually the most important, have appended critical, historical or practical annotations, thus adding greatly to the value of the work. Besterman 6124.

1227 Walker, A. Earl. A History of Neurological Surgery. $95.00

Octavo. Book xii, 583 p. ill., ports. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1951

A History of Neurological surgery from the prehistoric period to the current era.

Wauchope, Robert. Modern Maya Houses: A Study of their Archaeological Significance. $75.00

Quarto. English. vii,181 p. illus., Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1938

Wauchope's study of modern Mayan houses made an important contribution to archaeology both in general and specific terms. Not only does he cover the filed of ancient and modern houses as to plan and construction, but he also covers their historical, ethnological and sociological aspects.

The implication of the research is two-fold. The integration of the life of the past population with that of the living exercises a humanizing influence on the extremities of modern archaeological technique, and a survey of village household life gives a more continuous picture of culture evolution in Middle American than the concentration of research on the essentially specialized ceremonial centers. It is also very important for an understanding of these monumental centers to know something of the nature of the population concentration and the extent of the social units affiliated to such centers.---quoted from G.C. Vaillant in a review of the book, 1938.

Wauters, A - J; Ad Buyl. Bibliographie Du Congo, 1880-1895. Catalogue Méthodique De 3,800 Ouvrages, Brochures, Notices Et Cartes Relatifs À Lhistoire, À La Géographie Et À La Colonisation Du Congo. $65.00

Octavo. xlix, 356 p. Bruxelles, Administration du Mouvement géographique, 1895

French Congo was the original French colony established in the present-day area of the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and the Central African Republic. It began in 1880 as a protectorate, and its borders with Cabinda, Cameroons, and the Congo Free State were established by treaties over the next decade. The plan to develop the colony was to grant massive concessions to some thirty French companies. These were granted huge swaths of land on the promise they would be developed. This development was limited and amounted mostly to the extraction of ivory, rubber, and timber. These operations often involved great brutality and the near enslavement of the locals. Even with these measures most of the companies lost money. Only about ten earned profits. Many of the companies' vast holdings existed only on paper with virtually no presence on the ground in Africa. French Congo was temporarily divided between Gabon and Middle Congo in 1906, before being reunited as French Equatorial Africa in 1910 in an attempt to copy the relative success of French West Africa.

Weale W.H.J., & Hanns Bohatta. BIBLIOGRAPHIA LITURGICA  CATALOGUS  MISSALIUM  RITUS LATINI AB ANNO  M.CCCC.LXXV.   $65.

This work remains to this day one of the standard works for Latin missals. The original edition of the work appeared in 1886 and was compiled by Weale. The rare edition was published by Quaritch and described 1,750 Latin missals. Ours in the expanded 1928 edition.

Weaver, Warren.  ALICE IN MANY TONGUES: THE TRANSLATIONS OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND.  $55.

Cloth, Octavo. pp.x,147. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,1964.

 Weaver’s work is not only a history of translations of Dodgson’ s Alice in Wonderland, but a bibliography of all the foreign editions that Weaver was able to locate. There are chapters on Dodgson, the history of Alice in Wonderland as an original publication, early translations, the flood of translations, as well as difficulties encountered  in translations. Most importantly, there is an indispensable checklist of all the known translations that Weaver was able to locate. He covers editions in all Languages. Weaver identifies the publisher, place of the publication and date. He also adds remarks about the edition. Weaver’s work will be a valuable reference source to collectors of Alice in Wonderland.

Weaver, William (Edited by).   CATALOGUE OF THE WHEELER GIFT OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND PERIODICALS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS.        $90.

Cloth, 8vo. Two vols bound in one. [vii]. 504 + 475pp.  New York, 1909. ISBN  1-57898-074-7.

This important collection contains “practically every known publication in the English Language previous to 1886, on magnetism, electricity, galvanism, the lodestone, mariner’s compass, etc... There are among its 7,000 titles many books which are not to be found in either of the famous libraries with which it has been compared, and... there are even some of the very earliest examples of printing”. Introduction.

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