Our sixth catalogue features seventy-five items on a wide array of topics. Highlights include the original typescript of a Native American activist's memoir; the archive of an antebellum Virginia lawyer; a large collection of salesman's sample books; a directory from a Japanese internment camp; an archive of early 20th-century Montana photographic negatives; a 19th century Polish novel about the Haitian revolution; as well as unusual imprints, maps, archives, and more. Enjoy!
This year is America’s 250th birthday. As Americana dealers, we felt that merited a list – but not a greatest hits of the usual dead white guys. Instead we have compiled for your perusal a list of American Voices which we feel personifies the much-touted “Melting Pot” America of our childhoods. There are letters from immigrants to the various corners of our country; narratives of the formerly enslaved and civil rights handbills; letters, archives, and scrapbooks by women; protest posters, and Native American poetry. We hope you enjoy this compilation and find something to add to your collection.
Our latest list contains thirty items related to women and their activities -- work, love, politics, religion, and domestic life. Highlights include a rare literary work by a New Zealand suffragist; a wonderful scrapbook of a lady clown; a work of radical feminist literature from the 1890s; a tragic letter from a young woman to her dead fiance’s mother; a self-improvement beauty course or two; regulations for Mexico’s prostitutes; and more. Enjoy!
Our list for the RBMS Showcase this year includes a range of materials on a variety of topics. Highlights include a substantial run of an internment camp newspaper; the rules for organizing the Cuban baseball league; a Texas amnesty oath from the end of the Civil War; a bold Posada calavera; an indigenous Mexican artist's book; a catechism in the Yucatec language; a scarce Mexican newspaper from the independence period; the first Long Beach telephone directory; and more. Enjoy!
Our list for the New York fair this year includes some particularly choice highlights. These include a handsome photo album by Briquet; the rare Texas Declaration of Secession printed on silk; a run of the newspaper for the Denson internment camp; wonderful photos of Cuban street life; a Confederate soldier's archive; an important letter written by Malcom X; a rare and early account of Oregon Territory; an unpublished 18th-century narrative of a Mexican missionary to China; and much more. Enjoy!
Our second installment of material from the late-great Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts is comprised of thirty items, primarily of Latin Americana. They include a broadside advertising a bullfight printed in gilt; a group of manuscript documents about a voyage to Chile; a lengthy Mexican manuscript recording Catholic doctrines; an 18th-century edition of a Nahuatl catechism; and more. Enjoy!
Our latest list includes thirty manuscript and archival works. Highlights include the archive of a pioneering woman aviator; the archive of the last U.S. Ambassador to Cuba; the archive of a self-proclaimed artist madman; a letter describing 1830s Indiana; the archive of a Japanese man and a Japanese-American woman; manuscripts pertaining to the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, Spanish-American War, and both World Wars; a beautiful manuscript prayer book; and more. Enjoy!
Our list for the California Book Fair includes sixty items on a wide array of topics. Highlights include a rare California broadside regarding the French Intervention in Mexico; the diary of a teenage internee at Poston; the archive of an Oregon pioneer; a rare broadside about the capture of the Texas Santa Fe Expedition; seven early photographs of Folsom prison; and more. Enjoy!