The present list comprises twenty-five items of African-American history, from slavery to the Civil Rights era, from Phillis Wheatley to Dr. King. Highlights include a rare directory from Detroit; an annotated photo album from a young Black woman in Missouri; a first printing of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham City Jail; a rare African-American novel; the law banning the slave trade in Mexico, and more. Enjoy!
Summer means travel! This list features twenty items about hitting the road, with a wide array of manuscripts, photo albums, and printed narratives. Tour Mexico, Panama, the American West, and float the Mississippi River with us. Enjoy!
This list features twenty-five newly-catalogued items on a wide variety of subjects. Highlights include a vernacular photo album of an African-American family in Texas; a rare Colombian grammar; a rare run of a Cuban newspaper; a large archive of a Mexican-American soldier in the Korean War; a run of scripts from a woman's radio show about the U.S. Air Force; several other pieces of African Americana, Latin Americana, and more. Enjoy!
Join us for this year's RBMS Showcase (Virtual Edition, again). We offer a wide array of archives, interesting imprints, photography, and more. Highlights include a narrative of a voyage to the California gold fields; a rare Mexican cook book; a collection of photos documenting mid-century Haiti; notes for a thesis on indigenous languages; numerous pieces of Texana, African Americana, Latin Americana, and more. Enjoy!
If you didn't have a chance to make it to Rare Books Palm Springs, we offer here our list of materials from the show for your perusal. The list includes forty-five manuscript, archival, and photographic items from across Mexico and the American West. Highlights include unusual vernacular photographs from Alaska; images from the Border War in Texas and Arizona; an account of a voyage around Cape Horn to the California gold fields; a large archive of a Colorado mining company; an important photographic record of post-War Okinawa and Saipan; and a wonderful photographic album of California views by William Tyler. Enjoy!
Our latest list is twenty-five freshly acquired and catalogued items, covering a wide array of subjects, formats, and regions. Highlights include the photographic and written records of a nurse at a Native American hospital in Tacoma; the revised 1851 Indiana state constitution which prohibited the settlement of African Americans; an unusual Hungarian memoir of a medical doctor who was with Maximilian I in Mexico; a large Texas oil map; an eyewitness account of the burning of Baranof Castle in Sitka, Alaska; and many more interesting and eclectic items. Enjoy!
As per usual, we will have a wide array of archives and interesting imprints with us. Highlights include a photographic archive documenting sealing in the Pribilof Islands of Alaska; a New Testament in the Cree language; a large paper copy of Thomas Nuttall’s American Sylva in a contemporary striped cloth binding; a gorgeous bespoke album of photographs of Mexico by Paul-Emile Miot; a group of documents on the trans-Atlantic slave trade; numerous interesting pieces of Latin and Western Americana, and much more.
List 35 is our first list devoted entirely to Mexico and its imprints. We offer herein thirty items on a wide variety of subjects, from railroads to literature to history and viewbooks. Highlights include a rare viewbook of Tamaulipas; an illustrated, satirical newspaper from the 1890s; a group of children’s books; imprints from Puebla, Saltillo, and Durango; two different printer’s cancels; and much more. Enjoy!