Our latest list contains thirty items related to business, trade, industry, and commerce. These range from an 18th-century document on the Triangle Trade to a massive photographic archive of 20th-century mining and smelting. Other highlights include an important visual archive of a business empire in Alaska at the turn of the century; several items relating to Black-owned businesses; business directories and promotional materials, and more. Enjoy!
Our list for the 2023 Spring VBF includes a diverse mix of materials. Highlights include a manuscript documenting a Chinese Cuban mutual aid society; the archive of a Mormon family; a photograph album showing the aftermath of the Galveston Hurricane; a phonograph record of two suffrage speeches; a handsome work on Uruguayan horse racing; choice pieces of Texana, African Americana, and much more. Enjoy!
Our list for the fair this year contains an eclectic mix of materials, per usual. Highlights include a fascinating archive of 19th-century Native American photographs; a handful of rare prints relating to the Champs d'Asile colony in Texas; an elaborate photo portrait celebrating the 13th Amendment; a pair of rare Japanese internment yearbooks from Arkansas; a first-hand manuscript account of the French Intervention in Mexico; an early Texas Republic archive; several U.S.-Spanish language imprints; a manuscript ledger from a Hawaiian sugar plantation, written in Japanese, as well as a handful of printed works on the Japanese in Hawaii; as well as other archives, rare imprints, and unusual unique materials.
Our latest list comprises twenty-five items of Western Americana spread across the region from Alaska to California to Arkansas. Subject emphases include African Americana, Texas, and the unique and interesting. Highlights include a collection of Japanese-American studio photographs from California; an archive of Kansas land speculation with an unrecorded map; an archive of Texas real estate centered on Galveston; an unrecorded African-American masonic work from Iowa; and much more. Enjoy!
Welcome to our latest list, comprised of thirty items freshly catalogued. Highlights include a colored panorama of Texas migrant agricultural workers; a manuscript manifest of Chinese indentured laborers bound for Cuba; a run of the National Era abolitionist newspaper; an interest- ing Japanese report about mining in Alaska; an unrecorded early Amer- ican ballad broadside; a Transmississippi Civil War diary; the archival notes of a turn-of-the-century abortion doctor in Texas; several interest- ing pieces of African Americana, and much more. Enjoy!
It's time for the California Book Fair! Highlights include an incredible photographic archive of elephants used as billboards; a rare broadside about the Texas Santa Fe Expedition; a unique 19th century photobook documenting the Kansas City, Pittsburgh & Gulf Railroad; an underground Masonic newspaper from 1870s Havana; an archive of ledgers kept by a Texas farmer with operations in Mexico; numerous pieces of Japanese Americana, Latin Americana, Californiana, and much more.
Rare Books San Francisco is making its debut as the "shadow show" for the Pasadena ABAA fair ... and we're going to miss it. We've already had a crazy 2023, and alas had to cancel our booth at the show. BUT we already had our material ready to go, so in lieu here is our list, packed full of interesting Californiana and our usual mix of eclectic items.
We’re kicking off the year with what we hope is a banging list of freshly-catalogued manuscript and archival materials. Highlights include the pictorial archive of a mad California inventor lady; the substantial archive of a U.S. military officer stationed in Central and South America who also happened to be a famous maker of castanets; several large photographic archives documenting African-American families; the manuscript accounts of a St. Domingue plantation; an annotated real photo postcard archive documenting an American soldier’s experiences in Russia in 1918, and more. Enjoy!