New Orleans: The Daily Item, 1899. 600pp. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Extremities worn, covers rubbed and lightly soiled. Some slight worming, heavier at front of text. Light tanning and wear. A rare New Orleans almanac full of facts and figures on a wide array of subjects ranging from Queen Victoria's..... More
![Item #3034 Constitucion Politica del Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua [cover title]. Mexico](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3034.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1651852390)
El Paso, Tx. 1921. 48pp. Narrow octavo. Original printed self-wrappers, stapled. Lightly and evenly tanned, paper brittle with several small chips or tears. Ownership ink stamp of Chihuahua newspaper editor Silvestre Terrazas on first and least leaf. A 1921 edition of the 1887 constitution of the state of Chihuahua, published..... More
[Mexico: 1846]. Manuscript map, approximately 13 x 17.25 inches. Folded; original hand color. Moderate chipping and several short closed tears at edges; three minor losses within map area. Light ink offsetting; Light tanning and scattered faint foxing. A neat manuscript map that delineates the boundaries of the small Mexican town..... More
[Various places]: 1925-1932. Seventy-five items, plus six small notebooks and one folio scrapbook. Some wear and soiling to a few items, but condition generally clean and quite good. Extensive archive of transit information for the cities of Lima, Peru, and Santiago, Chile, compiled by traffic expert M.T. Montgomery of Lancaster..... More
[Lincoln, Ne. 1869]. Two small broadsides. One previously folded, with minor wear at edges and closed tear along horizontal fold line. Light tanning and dust soiling. Two pieces of interesting promotion for land sales in and around the new state captial of Nebraska, Lincoln, in 1869. Nebraska became a state..... More
Boston: Four Seas, 1920. First Edition. 12mo. 115pp. Publisher's drab boards with printed paper spine label; in beige printed dust jacket. Boards with minor wear and faint soiling. Light chipping to dust jacket at corners and head of spine, lightly dampstained at lower edge. An uncommon later collection by Japanese..... More
McAlester, Ok. McAlester Real Estate Exchange, [ca. 1920s]. Printed map, 19 x 12 inches. Original folds, minor dust soiling and edge wear, two tiny expert repairs to strengthen folds on verso. A seemingly unrecorded real estate promotional cadastral map of LeFlore County, Oklahoma produced by the McAlester Real Estate Exchange..... More
[Various locations in Texas, including San Antonio, Laredo, and Raymondville: mostly 1947-1950]. Forty-six black-and-white photographs, from 3 x 2 inches to 8 x 10 inches, one tintype, and one printed certificate. Most photographs with personalized family annotations on verso. Moderate surface and edge wear to some pictures, a few creased..... More
[N.p., perhaps Bonham, Tx. ca. 1910 or later]. Sepia-toned photograph, 3.75 x 4.75 inches, mounted on a Kodak card. Minor soiling and rubbing. Inscribed on verso with a small drawing. An evocative photographic image of a street scene depicting two horse-drawn carriages proceeding down a dusty street with two pedestrians..... More
San Antonio: February 4, 1881. Three autograph letters, signed, totaling six pages, with two original transmittal envelopes. Original mailing folds, but otherwise clearly legible and in excellent shape. A four-page holographic letter written by William Henry Harrison Huston (1841-1907), an attorney in San Antonio, Texas to his brother, Arthur Brown..... More
San Antonio: Adolf Douai, 1855. [4]pp. Large folio. Previously folded. Contemporary ownership inscription at head of title. Light foxing and creasing. A scarce December 1855 issue of this socialist, abolitionist German Texas newspaper, the San Antonio Zeitung, "Ein sozial-demokratisches Blatt für die Deutschen in West-Texas." "The San Antonio Zeitung... began..... More
Electra, Tx. R.S. Allen, [1908]. Letter sheet, 11 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded, with one short separation along old fold from edge. Small portion of one corner with minor loss, repaired with tissue and not affecting text. Contemporary manuscript pencil notes. Light toning and dust soiling. Scarce promotional and pictorial..... More
![Item #1855 The Regimental Standard. Vol. 2 No. 6 [caption title]. United States Military, South...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB1855_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1615836146)
Fort Meade, S.D. 1895. [4]pp. Folio, on a folded sheet. Old folds, some separation and slight loss. A few small chips and tears at edges. "A weekly journal published in the interest of the members of the Eighth Regiment, U.S. Cavalry, every Monday at Headquarters of the Regiment, Fort Meade..... More
Seattle: 1899. 117pp. Original tan printed wrappers. Spine moderately chipped. Minor wear and soiling. This volume provides detailed specifications for contractors wishing to bid on this massive water supply project. Contracts were awarded on April 19, 1899, and work began soon afterward, with the Pacific Bridge Company building headworks and..... More
![Item #3559 [Pair of Small Panoramic Photographs Featuring Women at a Dude Ranch]. Women in the West](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3559.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1661965745)
[N.p., likely Colorado: ca. 1950s]. Two panoramic photographs, each measuring approximately 6.25 x 15.25 inches. Minor surface staining to one photograph, light soiling and edge wear. A pair of small panoramic photographs capturing a large group of women during the day and then at night on a dude ranch in..... More