[AMERICANA]. A group of 21 volumes, including: STANSBURY, Howard. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. 8vo. Numerous lithographs including folding panoramic views, folding map. Original embossed cloth (extremes sunned, some spotting to covers). Senate issue. –– HERNDON, William Lewis. Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon. Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1854. 3 volumes including atlas part I, 8vo. Numerous lithographs, 2 large folding maps. Original blind–stamped cloth (spines sunned, spine panel mostly perished in Volume II). FIRST EDITION, House of Representative issue. –– ELLIS, Thomas T. Leaves from the Diary of an Army Surgeon. New York: John Bradburn, 1863. 8vo. Folding facsimile. Original gilt decorated green cloth (some edge wear, a bit of internal browning). Provenance: ownership signature dated 1864. –– [CODY, William F.]. The Life of…Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide. Hartford: Frank E. Bliss, [1879]. 8vo. Steel–engraved portrait frontispiece, numerous in–text woodcuts and plates (frontispiece foxed, some dampstaining at lower margin, few plates sprung). Original blind–stamped plum cloth decorated in gilt (extremes worn, hinges cracked, contents starting, sold as is). FIRST EDITION of the earliest and most important authentic biography of Buffalo Bill. Howes C531 (suggests that it was ghost written by Prentiss Ingraham). –– And many others, condition generally good.