St. Louis: [1894]. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Light toning and dust soiling. Scarce advertisements for anti-Catholic lectures by Margaret Shepherd, a nativist speaker who impersonated an ex-nun to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment in the late 19th century. Shepherd headlined extensive national speaking tours, and authored a fictitious autobiography about her sordid..... More

Mexico City: November 17, 1847. Broadside, approximately 12 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded, two small tape repairs on blank verso. Small chip at upper left corner. Contemporary manuscript rubrics. Light toning and dust soiling. This scarce order was issued by the Archbishop of Mexico two months after the capture of..... More

Mexico City: Imprenta de M. Murguia, 1856. 28pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Paper reinforcement on blank verso of front wrapper. Some edge wear; moderate dust soiling and toning. Scarce plea by the inhabitants of Zamora, directed to the Constituent Congress, asking it not to allow in the Republic the freedom..... More