PBA Galleries: Fine Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Cartography

Album of Albertypes from photographs by William Henry Jackson taken on the 1871 Hayden Geological Survey, during which the Yellowstone region was explored and photographed

The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration

The Oriental Navigator, or, New Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies: also for the use of ships trading in the Indian and China seas to New Holland, &c. &c.

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; In Which the Coast of North-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command, Principally with a View to Ascertain the Existence of

Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail

Letter written at the start of an historic overland trek to the California gold fields in a wagon train led by famed Texas Ranger and Mexican-American War hero, "Jack" Hays, soon to become the first Sheriff of San Francisco.

The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa, with Notices of the Lunar Mountains and the Sources of the White Nile. Being the results of an expedition undertaken under the patronage of Her Majesty's Government and the Royal Geographical Society of Londo

Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

Chinese Telephone Directory, San Francisco and Oakland - 14 consecutive annual editions, 1931 to 1944

Report of Surveys Across the Continent, in 1867-'68, on the Thirty-Fifth and Thirty-Second Parallels, for a Route Extending the Kansas Pacific Railway to the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco and San Diego

Manuscript indenture on vellum, relating to the deed of conveyance transferring the province of East New Jersey from the estate of George Carteret to William Penn and his associates

Sindh, and the Races that Inhabit the Valley of the Indus; with Notice of the Topography and History of the Province.

Correspondence on the subject of the emigration of Indians, between the 30th November, 1831, and 27th December, 1833, with abstracts of expenditures by disbursing agents, in the removal and subsistence of Indians, &c. &c.

The Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond, exhibiting every Object on both Banks of the River, with a Concise Description of the Most Remarkable Places and A General View of London.

A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, Performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries. With a preliminary discourse on the geography and

Astonishing legal deposition about an Alabama slave owner who violently assaulted his wife for slighting his slave mistress

Collection of documents signed by President Grant and eight members of his administration

Report of the Exploring Expedition from Santa Fé, New Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West, in 1859

To Siberia and Russian America: Three Centuries of Russian Eastward Expansion

Israel: A Personal History

Large collection of antique barbed wire

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

Oeuvres complètes de Buffon, suivies de ses Continuateurs Daubenton, Lacépède, Cuvier, Duméril, Poiret, Lesson et Geoffroy-St.-Hilaire

Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, comprising a Description of a Tour through Texas, and across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Caygua Hunting-grounds, with an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Ind

Tacoye, the Half Dome, 5500 feet, Yosemite [Half Dome, Best Close View, Yosemite]