ANDERSSON, C - The Wayfarer's Bookshop

105 Pages·2012·6.38 MB·English

by  Steve Codling

The Wayfarer’s Bookshop

British Columbia

with the Arctic, the Pacific Northwest,
and Western Canada
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Catalogue September 2012
The Wayfarer’s Bookshop

British Columbia

with the Arctic, the Pacific Northwest,
and Western Canada

Catalogue September 2012

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Cover illustration – Oil painting of West Coast Totem Poles
and a Native Village, possibly by J. C. Pendray (item # 23)
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1. [19TH CENTURY GRAND BANKS FISHERIES]
[MCINTOSH, Roderick, Captain] (1845-?)
[Manuscript Journal of the Voyage of the Fishing Schooner Ocean From Provincetown, New
England, to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, May 15 - Sept 29, 1867, Titled]: Journal of a Voyage
from Provincetown to the Grand Banks.
[At sea], 1867. Octavo (20,5x16 cm). [38, 1] leaves. Ruled. Ink on laid paper, in legible hand writing.
Period style brown quarter sheep with marbled boards using original end papers. Some minor scattered
foxing, otherwise a very good manuscript.

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A rare journal of an American commercial fishing voyage, the manuscript notes the weather, the
schooner’s course, and names of vessels they met or sighted (including "lots of Frenchmen"). At first fish
was "very scarce" (May 27th, but the next day the Ocean "came across lot of Cape Ann men catching
halibut." The entry for the July 10th when the schooner was at the Virgin Rock noted "Catching fish quite
fast <..,> Seen a large fleet of vessels to the Southerd, see them coming for us. Lots of them anchored
with us"; the note for July 26th: "All the Doarys come aboard loaded with fish, then we commenced <..,>
to make a birth and parted our Chain." The note from August 19th: "Got our Anchor and stood to the
Westerd in company with the John Simons. Struck the fish and came to an Anchor." The vessels started
returning home in the middle of September: Mary E. Nason and Almira Cloughtman on the 15th, and the
Ocean itself on the 17th. The journal ends September 29th; it is supplemented with a "Remark for the fish
that we caught on board the Ocean for the year 1867" (2 leaves after the main text).
The Ocean’s journal includes 24 leaves and is followed by a short note on McIntosh’s fishing
schooner Bucephalus which went from Provincetown to the Grand Banks in May 1872 (1 page). Ca. fifteen
pages are occupied by the accounts of freight and supply coasts for the merchant schooner Freeman
which was cruising along the coast of New England in 1879-1881.
"Roderick McIntosh born in 1845, at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, was the seventh son of Roderick
McIntosh. He has lived in Provincetown since 1862, and since 1866 he has been master of vessels"
(History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1890/ Ed. By S.L. Deyo. New York, 1890. P. 1004).
The case of McIntosh was included in the report of the Committee on Claims after he claimed a
compensation of expense suffered after he had rescued the master and crew (9 men) of the schooner
Astoria of Buckport on July 8, 1885. McIntosh, master and owner of the schooner Bucephalus of
Provincetown, was fishing on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The rescue of the crew significantly
changed his schedule, "his voyage was prolonged fifteen days, and he encountered a severe storm, which
damaged his vessel and compelled him to enter a provincial port and repair damages at considerable
expense>" McIntosh claimed USD 346, and the Committee found it "reasonable" and that it should be
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paid, also noting: "It would appear to be good policy not to discourage acts of humanity by failing to
reasonable reimburse the masters and owners of vessels for services rendered in saving shipwrecked
crews" (See: Reports of Committees of the House of Representatives for the second session of the 49th
Congress, 1886-87: in 3 vols. Vol. 2. Washington, 1887. № 4080).
New York Times from September 12, 1888 informed about loss of McIntoch’s schooner Carrie
Bonnell at sea. The schooner "was 96 years old register, was 16 years old and was owned by her Captain
<..,> [it] was abandoned at sea in a sinking condition. [McIntoch and his crew of 14 men] were taken off
by another Provincetown fisherman and landed at St. Pierre on Sept. 3. They saved all their effects and
gear and set the vessel on fire before they left her."
$1500USD

2. [ALASKA, B.C., CANADIAN ROCKIES, PHOTOGRAPHS]
[Album of 147 Original Photographs of a Trip Through the American West, Including Scenes in the
Grand Canyon, Alaska, Yukon, Mt. Rainier National Park, Victoria (BC), and Canadian Rockies; [With] 71
Real Photo and Printed Postcards Obtained During the Trip].
1919. Oblong Folio (24x36,5 cm). 48 leaves. In total 220 images including a large panorama (ca.
8,5x24,5 cm or 3 ½ x 9 ¾ in) and a large original photograph (ca. 18,5x12,5 cm or 7x5 in); 112 original
photographs ca. 10x12,5 cm (4 x 4 ¾ in), 35 smaller photographs ca. 4,5x6,5 cm (1 ½ x 2 ½ in), 46 larger
(ca. 8,5x13,5 cm or 3 ½ x 5 ½ in) and 25 smaller (ca. 4,5x7 cm or 1 ¾ x 2 ¾ in) postcards, mounted on black
cardboard leaves. Postcards captioned in negative. With the official itinerary of the trip from the travel
agent (3 sheets) mounted on the first leaf. Handsome period style black half morocco with moire papered
boards and endpapers, and gilt tooled spine. Several leaves with small tears and chips, not affecting
photographs, one image with minor blue stains of the upper margin, a small photo faded, a few images
with minor damage in the corners (the photographs were stuck together and later separated). Overall a
very good album.
An interesting photograph
collection of a 1919 summer tour across
the Pacific Northwest and the Rocky
Mountains. As seen from the official
travel itinerary included in the album, the
traveller was Howard B. Sprague (93
Binney St., Boston, Mass) who went on an
independent tour organized by a Boston
travel company Raymond & Withromb
Inc. (17 Temple Place).
Sprague left Boston on June 15,
1919 and went to the Grand Canyon; after
that he proceeded to California, spending
several days in the resorts of Coronado,
and the Yosemite Valley. Then he headed
2. Totem poles, Alert Bay
to Seattle and Vancouver and on July 12
sailed from Vancouver on a Canadian Pacific steamer, according to the "itinerary of tour # 37."
Apparently, he went from Victoria, BC to Alert Bay (Vancouver Island), Prince Rupert (mainland BC), and
further along the coast of Alaska, visiting Wrangell, Juneau, and Skagway. After that he went inland
through the White Pass and Yukon Route, visited Lake Bennet and Dawson City and probably went down
the Yukon River and the on to Victoria, BC. Sprague returned to Seattle on the 30th of July and then
stayed at Mt. Rainier Park for several days. He took a train of the Canadian Pacific Railway from
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Vancouver to the Canadian Rockies and had several stops on the way - in Sicamous (Shushwap region),
Glacier (Illecillewaet), Lake Louise, Banff and St. Paul (Alberta). He arrived home on the August 30th.
The Alaskan photographs include coastal landscapes with mountains and icebergs, several pictures of
the narrow-gauge White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad and the international boundary between US and
Canada. Especially interesting are two photographs of the graves (in Skagway) of Jefferson Randolph
"Soapy" Smith (1860-1898), a famous con artist and gangster, and Frank H. Reid (1844 or 1850 - 1898), a
soldier and city engineer, both died in the renowned shootout on Juneau Wharf in Skagway on July 8, 1898.

2. Gold dredging operations

Then follow various views of Yukon River, Lake Bennet, an image of Dawson City; a series of ten
photos documenting gold dredging with close up views of mills and machines; several riverside scenes
showing bulk of logs on shore and their loading to the ship; there is a picture of a river steamer Casca
from Victoria, images of Victoria Legislature Building and CPR Empress Hotel et al.
Grand Canyon views include a photograph, which apparently, is a portrait of Sprague himself,
posing on a cliff, a photo of the traveller’s camp, and an interesting series of cowboy’s competition. A
couple of photographs show scenes of hiking on Mt. Rainier and various mountainous landscapes,
including nicely executed panorama and a large view of Mt. Rainier. The Canadian Rockies are
represented with a view of the Great Divide between BC and
Alberta, pictures of a bison and a wolf, and a series of over 20
photos of Lake Louise and Banff, including views of the Lake Louise,
Bow River, and CPR hotel Chateau Lake Louise (one of the images
show guests relaxing in the outdoor swimming pool).
The postcards (62 real photo and 9 printed) include 9 views of
the Indian settlement in Alert Bay with its renowned totem poles (also
represented with two photos); views of Victoria and Prince Rupert
(B.C.), Alaskan coast, Wrangell, Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, White
Pass and Yukon Route, Canadian dredges on Klondyke River and
Bonanza Creek; a scene with a dog sledge entitled "The Malamute
Chorus" et al. Series of postcards of Mt. Rainier (32) include images of
Paradise Inn hotel (completely covered with snow) and restaurant
"Ohop Bob" - a place of fine dining on the way to the mountain (it was
built in 1914 for the Tacoma Automobile Club and burned down in
1965). The Canadian Rockies are shown with views of "Sir Donald, Uto
and Eagle Peaks" (Glacier Park), Lakes Moraine and Louise. 2. Itinerary of the trip
$3250USD
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3. [ALASKA, PHOTOGRAPHS, POSTCARDS AND EPHEMERA]
[Unique Collection of 215 Postcards and Photographs of Alaska, including 15 Original
Photographs of the US Coast Guard Cutter Haida and its Crew, 138 Real Photo Postcards, and 62 Printed
Postcards; With 8 Pieces of Alaskan and North Pacific Related Ephemera].
[Alaska], ca. 1900-1930. Photographs and postcards all ca. 9x14 cm (3 ½ x 5 ½ in). Many captioned
in negative, ca. 50 images captioned and annotated in ink on recto or verso by the same person, most
likely a crew member of USCG Haida. Clean and strong postcards, with only less than ten used, one
postcard strengthened on margins. All ephemera in very good condition (see detailed description below).
Overall a great collection in very good condition.

COLLECTION OF A USCG HAIDA’S CREW MEMBER.
Unique collection of early and rare postcards and ephemera of Alaskan views, scenes and types.
A collection most likely assembled by a crew member of the US Coast Guard Cutter Haida, who
captioned and annotated ca. 50 images. A postcard from the collection with the text written in the same
or very similar hand, has been sent from Petersburg, Alaska, on July 30, 1921 (dated and stamped) to
"Miss C. Little" in Ireland; the sender "Bruce" informed that "We arrived here today & will stop for a short
time <..,> This is another fishing & mining town, also a lumber depo" (most likely, the sender put together
the collection).

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The collection of annotated images includes 15 original photographs, showing USCG Haida and its
crew, including the cutter’s Captain Shea with his dog, chief wireless operator Fanning, chief machinists
Browning and Jones, "race boats crew this year," "baseball team this year," "hunting party," "reindeer and
one of the crew" et al; three images show natives of St. Lawrence Island on the deck of USS Bear; three
photographs depict a naval (or military) formation in the Unalaska dock; and there is also a photo of
"Senator Dill & Secretary" on board a ship.
The postcards from the "Haida" collection include a picture of cutter Haida itself, and of other
vessels, for example USS Bear, Hudson’s Bay Company’s ship Baichimo (before it became a ghost ship;
with an interesting note on verso), "a passenger ship," a shipwreck, a view of the deck of a schooner and a
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native kayak next to it et all. There are six postcards
with the scenes of whaling, five showing Kodiak bears,
hunted or caught (with manuscript captions, like
"Prisoners of war," "This young bear will never roam
the wilderness" et al, and extent notes), and pictures
showing local fishermen and walrus hunters, native way
of drying salmon, a portrait of Alaskan prospector with
inscription "One of the men who made Alaska," two
portraits of the natives of Northern Siberia, two images
of Alaskan kayaks, a portrait of an "Indian slave" et al.
Postcards showing Alaskan cities and scenery
include a series of five very interesting views showing
the parade on the 4th of July in Seward, and a group of
views of the Aleutian Islands, with six pictures of
Unalaska (including images of the Russian Orthodox
church and Orthodox service in Unalaska), and two
3. Whaling scenes
views of the native huts on the Unimak and Akutan Islands.
The manuscript notes and captions are usually very informative, sometimes humorous, but always
interesting. See the extensive note on the verso of the postcard captioned "Captain Hanson" and showing
hunters cutting a walrus on board a schooner:
"This is the schooner that rescued the
last survivors of the American expedition to
Wrangell Island. They found the remains of all
the men dead with several unfinished diaries.
The man on the left if Captain Hanson, a
Dane. He was telling me all about he found
one Eskimo girl alive and feeling fine in the
gruesome surroundings, the only survivor, the
famous Ada Blackjack. He said he showed her
the time of her life afterwards for many
nights. I never laughed so much as to hear
that old reprobate tell of his experience. He
said that he had it to say he slept with the
most famous woman in the world. That was 3. A photo of Captain Hanson
his way of treating the sole survivor. Hanson is
quite a character, an old sailing ship man who might have been a great man, but he is so lawless wrecker."
USCGC Haida (WPG-45) was a 240-foot Tampa-class United States Coast Guard cutter in
commission from 1921 until 1947. Haida was first stationed at Seattle, Washington and began a
peacetime career on the annual Bering Sea Patrols. She first sailed to Unalaska, the headquarters for the
Patrol, and then sailed on her assigned tasks, which included acting as a floating court for the inhabitants
of the isolated areas she sailed, caring for the sick, conducting search and rescue activities, checking on
aids to navigation, regulating fisheries, and other duties. With Prohibition being the law of the land after
the passage of the Volstead Act in 1919, the Haida and her sister cutters became the main enforcement
arm of the federal government's effort to prevent liquor smuggling at sea, thereby adding another duty to
an already full plate. Haida apparently had little luck in stopping any smuggling but nevertheless
continued to carry out her other tasks. In 1924 Haida, in concert with the cutter Algonquin, sailed in
support of the U.S. Army's World Flight, the first attempt to circumnavigate the globe by air (United
States Coast Guards on-line).
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REAL PHOTO POSTCARDS
The postcards of Alaskan cities and landscapes include four views of the Kodiak Archipelago with
three views of Kodiak (public school, Kodiak Cannery and US Experiment Station in the Kalsin Bay, 14 m.
From Kodiak), and a view of the Letnik Lake on Afognak Island, pictures of Seward (3), Nome (two,
including a picture of the city fire in 1934), Valdez (2), Dutch Harbour next to Unalaska, Cordova,
Kennecott, Tanana Valley Railroad, Mt. Hood, McCarty Glacier, and Aurora Borealis in Alaska.
Over 30 postcards represent portraits of the natives, including types of fur dealers, hunters, basket
weavers, berry pickers, women, children, "Eskimo in Rain suit," views of totem poles, kayaks, interiors of
huts, a portrait of "Big Chief Affannassia" et al. Four postcards show various ships (USS Algonquin, a cutter
in Bering Sea, wreck of SS Mariposa, and a schooner from Nome), one postcard represent a mascot of USS
Bear (a goat). There are nine postcards with whaling, hunting and fishing scenes (including a series of
images about whaling in Kodiak, views of seal poaching ships in Unalaska and "Shark fishing" et al). 17
postcards show Alaskan animals and birds: Kodiak bears (5), fur seals, foxes, moose, spider crab, rock cod,
musk ox, Alaska eagle et al.

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11 postcards show the American settlers of Alaska and their occupations: the official group portrait
of Alaskan authorities (US President Warren Harding, Alaskan Governor Scott Cordell Bone, Secretary of
Commerce Herbert Hoover and others), a portrait of American pioneer pilot Parker D. Cramer next to his
plane, a "Hawaiian" style portrait of a man having sun tan in the winter Alaskan landscape; several
pictures of women and children ("Raising goats in Alaska," "Rosebuds in the North") et al.

PRINTED POSTCARDS
Printed postcards (52 colour and 10 black and white) include views of Alaskan cities and
settlements: Nome (4, including scenes of landing passengers in Nome, and US Mail Team), Unalaska (3),
Valdez (3), Skagway (2), Cordova (2, including views of Copper River and Northwest Railway), Seward,
Hadley, Circle City, Chena Slough and Fairbanks, and Bluff City; four postcards show Canadian cities
Dawson (2) and White Horse (2). Alaskan landscapes are represented with pictures of Cape Rodney, Cape
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Prince of Wales, Yukon River (4, including views of Fort Gibbon Weare and Tanana), Thompson Pass,
White Pass Summit (2), Muir Glacier, Taku Glacier (2 cards, one stamped "Skagway, Alaska, May 5, 1906
[?]"), a view of "Work train at Mile 113 of Copper River and Northwest Ry." et al.
13 postcards show types of Alaskan natives, including portraits of reindeer herders on Cape Prince of
Wales, "Native packer," "An Eskimo smoker," a portrait of a native woman called Jaorge-Sha-Wut, women
selling berries in Sitka, carrying children, weaving baskets, "Eskimo Mickaninnies on Parade," a view of an
Indian camp, four views of the totem poles (including those in Alert Bay of Vancouver Island) et al.

3. Printed postcards and e phemera from the collection

A series of postcards dedicated to Alaskan gold mining industry include three Nome scenes (a
portrait of prospectors, "shovelling on Buster Creek" and "Dredging for gold"); two views of Douglass
Island (showing the Treadwell Mine and Mexican and Ready Bullion Mines), a view of the main dining
room of the Treadwell Mine’s Boarding House; "Typical miner’s cabin," and a card showing several piles of
gold sand and entitled "$ 150,000. One Day’s Sluicing Discovery, Little Creek."
A colour postcard shows Reverend Wm. Duncan, founder of the Native mission in Metlakatla.
The majority of the printed postcards were issued by Portland Post Card Co. (28); Lowman &
Hanford Co., Seattle (9); E.H. Mitchell, San Francisco (7); HHT Co. (4); but also there are 7 postcards
published by small Alaskan or Canadian entrepreneurs: from Juneau (W.H. Case, Purity Pharmacy),
Cordova (O. Kennedy, Cordova Drugs Co.), Nome (B.B. Dobbs, Photographic Supply Stores), Dawson
(Zaccarelli’s Book Store). Several postcards were issued by New York (Albertype Co., the Photograph Co.),
and Lyon (prototype Levenq & Cottin) companies.
One of the card showing White Horse is supplemented with a vivid text: "Dear Mother, I am now in
Yukon, I have not yet picked up any gold. It is fearfully open and cold. I have now travelled over 9000
miles by train from Quebec. Yours truly, Percy John Tyson" (addressed to London, 1909).

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EPHEMERA
The ephemera includes:
A Few Facts Concerning the Development of Alaska and Siberia [An advertising brochure]/
Northwest Commercial Company. Seattle, [1906]. Oblong Octavo (15,5x23 cm). [32] pp., ill., maps.
Original publisher’s illustrated wrappers, slightly soiled. A very good copy.
Your Vacation should Include Yellowstone Park, Lewis and Clark Exposition, Alaska, one or all
[Advertising]/ Northern Pacific Yellowstone Park Line// McClure’s Magazine, April 1905. Octavo (24,5x16
cm). Very good. The advertising shows a native woman of the Pacific Northwest with two children, sledge
dogs and a totem pole in the background.
Two coloured lithographs representing types of natives of Unalaska, Aleutian and Kurile Islands,
and "Isole delle Volpi," Plates 67 and 68 from "Asia Settentrionale" (1841). Large octavo (28x20 cm). Very
good, bright lithographs.
Front wrapper of the magazine "The Open Road for Boys" (April 1937), by H.L.V. Parkhurst, showing
a pilot and a woman passenger flying low over Alaskan mountains and valleys, the heading "The Gold
Gulch Flight: Alaskan Air Adventure." Quarto (29x21 cm), very good.
Two collectable cards, # 24 and 71, entitled "Alaska" and sold with coffee of Arbuckle Bros., New
York. 1889-1893. Both ca. 7,5x12,5 cm. Very good. The cards show the map of Alaska, and several scenes
of local life (seals resting on the ice, whalers, hunters, natives), one card with the description of Alaska on
verso.
A collectable card entitled "Ausser-Europäische Wasserstrassen. Bering-Strasse" and sold with
Liebig’s Fleisch-Extract (broth), Germany. Ca. 1890-1910-s. Ca. 7x11 cm. Very good. The card shows map
and of view of Bering Strait, and a portrait of the native "Eskimo."
$8250USD

4. [ALEXANDER VON BUNGE EXPEDITION 1889]
[Unique Collection of 23 Original Photographs Documenting the Investigation of the Wreck of the
Russian Coast Guard Ship Kreiserok in the Vicinity of Cape Soya, Northwestern Hokkaido].
Ca. 1889. One photograph ca. 16.5 x 22cm (6.5 x 8.5 in), eighteen photographs, ca. 12x17 cm (4 ¾
x 6 ¾ in) and four smaller photographic portraits of the Kreiser’s crew, ca. 11x8 cm (4 ¼ x 3 ¼ in)
mounted on card leaves of different sizes. The majority of photographs with pencil captions in Danish
on the lower margins of the mounts. Minor foxing of the mounts, but overall a very good collection.
This important photographic collection
documents the search expedition of the
Russian Navy to the northwestern Hokkaido in
November 1889 - January 1890. The purpose
was to investigate the fate of the shipwreck of
the Russian coast guard schooner Kreiserok
("Little Cruiser") which was in service on the
coast of Tyuleniy Island (in the Sea of Okhotsk,
19 km to the south of Cape Patience (Mys
Terpeniya), on the eastern Sakhalin coast)
protecting against poachers and disappeared
in a storm on October 26, 1889.
The wreck of Kreiserok was discovered
by Japanese on the shore next to village
4. Alexander Bunge (bottom row, first from
Wakkanai, in the vicinity of Cape Soya,
left) and members of his expedition
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