Mexico City: Imprenta del Ciudadano Alejandro Valdes, 1833. Broadside, approximately 12.25 x 8.5 inches. Two small wormholes at left margin. Light dust soiling and toning. Scarce devotional poem, attributed to Luis Abadiano, for the veneration of depictions of the Señor de Santa Teresa and Maria Santisima de los Dolores. This..... More

Detroit: 1942. 43pp. Original printed wrappers. Corners heavily chipped, lightly soiled. Pictorial title page with photogravure on verso. Minor soiling and wear to text. Proceedings for this early World War II-era civil rights conference held in Detroit. The March of Washington Movement lasted from 1941 to 1946 under the slogan..... More

Buenos Aires: Imprenta de Niños Expositos, 1810-1820. Twelve imprints, mostly small folio broadsides, broadsheets, and bifolia, with one smaller. Some edge wear, with occasional small chips. Scattered worming, not affecting text. Moderate foxing and tanning. A substantial group of rare, early Argentine imprints from the important orphanage press of the..... More

Ashtabula, Oh. January 29, 1849. [1]pp., on a bifolium. Previously folded. Light dampstaining and short closed tears along gutter, somewhat affecting first few lines of text but not overall sense. An interesting letter from O.H. Field, an aspirational field representative of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company in Ashtabula, Ohio..... More

San Francisco: Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1906. 229,[3]pp., plus four leaves of advertisements printed on colored paper. Publisher's brown printed wrappers. Minor creasing and edge wear to wrappers, tiny chip to bottom corner of front wrapper. Minor occasional foxing to text, about half of final leaf, comprising advertisements..... More

[N.p., but California: 1934]. Broadside, approximately 11 x 5 inches. Previously folded. Minor wear and soiling. Scarce campaign literature in support of Frank Merriam but primarily against Upton Sinclair in the 1934 California gubernatorial election. Sinclair had formerly run for Congress as a Socialist, but won the Democratic nomination for..... More

Fort Kearny, Ne. October 28, 1862. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet of lined paper. Light wear and toning, old folds. An interesting manuscript letter written by Dr. George Lorin Miller (1839-1920), a leading Nebraska pioneer and instrumental figure in establishing Fort Kearny. Miller also served as the fort's sutler..... More

[Havana: 1857]. Small broadside form, approximately 8.5 x 12.5 inches. Previously folded, with some separation and minor loss along vertical fold. Completed in manuscript, with additional manuscript docketing on blank verso. Ink burn, causing additional minor loss in a few small areas. Light edge wear; some staining and offsetting; light..... More

Los Angeles: Kashu Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1940. [2],2,16,420,[1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor soiling and light edge wear to wrappers; spine ends a bit chipped; front hinge starting from both ends. Text browned, but not brittle, with scattered foxing and dust soiling. A rare collection of writings by an important Japanese-American activist..... More

[N.p. ca. 1890]. 16pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor chipping and wear to wraps. Scarce, late 19th-century promotional for five counties in Idaho. The counties represented include Shoshone and Kootenai, which occupy the northernmost Idaho Panhandle; and Blaine, Bannock, and Bear Lake, which range across the center and southwest portions..... More

[British Columbia, Canada: ca. 1942]. [1]p. Horizontal fold, chips at two corners, a few tiny closed edge tears, light toning. Rare form intended to be filled out by families of Japanese ancestry living on the west coast of Canada as the United States' entry into the Second World War brought..... More

Warren Co., Ky. 1817. [2]pp. Old mailing folds, almost completely separated along vertical fold, slight loss at crossfolds. A unique document pertaining to a Kentuckian's service in the War of 1812. The text reads, in most part: "I, John Franklin of the County of Warren and State of Kentucky, Do..... More

Mexico City: January 5, 1829. Broadside, 12 x 8.25 inches. Light wear, center horizontal fold, pinholes along left edge. A rare decree issued by Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil, Governor of the Federal District, attempting to regulate the disbursement and possession of guns in Mexico in 1829. Tornel notes that..... More