Catalogues

List #24 - Manuscripts & Archives

List #24 - Manuscripts & Archives

Our first list of the year contains thirty interesting archives and manuscripts, most of them freshly catalogued over the past two months.  Highlights include a fantastic and charming travelogue of a journey from England to the Amazon illustrated with photos and drawings; a lengthy manuscript describing travel through Africa in great detail; a manuscript map from Mexico; two western American diaries; a large archive of a Colorado mining family; antebellum business letters from New Orleans; a weird manuscript from the 1980s about tarot; an Oklahoma teenager’s high school scrapbook; and much more.  Enjoy!

List #23 - Texas

List #23 - Texas

Our latest list features twenty-four items (mostly) new to inventory  and all relating to the Lone Star State. Highlights include an unpublished work of ranch fiction, the criminal court records for San Marcos, annotated photo albums, several promotional works, two oil maps, an archive relating to Spindletop, and a wonderful letter from a drunk lawyer. Enjoy!

Boston Book Fair 2020

Boston Book Fair 2020

We are pleased to be exhibiting at this year’s Boston Antiquarian Book Fair: Virtual Edition.  We’ve selected a wide array of new material for the fair, ranging from early American imprints to rare Mexican books to archives to photographs from the Japanese internment camps of World War II.  Highlights include a rare Mexican prayer book with the copper plate used in its printing; the first American work on aeronautics; photographs of early Texas oil fields; an early Ohio surveying manual; cartes-de-visite of two Chinese immigrants to Montana; and much more.  Enjoy!

List #22 - A Fresh Baker's Dozen

List #22 - A Fresh Baker's Dozen

Our latest list features thirteen items new to inventory and freshly catalogued, all modestly priced.  Highlights include a program for lady bullfighters in Tijuana; two panoramic photos of African-American naval men; a rare viewbook of Hawaii; an unrecorded treatise on socialism in the West; a partial run of a feminist newspaper from Seattle; a wonderful map documenting the route of the Alaska-Canada Highway, and more.  Enjoy!

Rare Books L.A. 2020

Rare Books L.A. 2020

For this virtual fair, we have gathered together eighteen pieces of Americana, many of them California or Western related.  Highlights include a photo album of businessmen traveling around the West at the turn of the century; a rare Mexican proclamation on the Santa Fe Trail; an Arizona cattle promo with beaten copper wrappers; a rare San Francisco street guide with map, and more.  Enjoy!

List #19 - 30 Under $300

List #19 - 30 Under $300

We offer you a list of 30 items priced $300 or less.  Most of these items have not been previously advertised in a list or book fair.  They encompass a wide variety of formats and subjects, including manuscripts, African-Americana, Latin Americana, Western Americana, and a handsome photo-illustrated book.  There is something for everyone.  Enjoy!