Zacatecas: March 12, 1836. Broadside, 12 x 8.5 inches. Stab holes along left margin where previously bound. Small, contemporary manuscript annotation at center of top margin. Mild tanning. A scarce bando printed in Zacatecas, to promulgate a February 26, 1836, decree regarding the ongoing war with Apache tribes in northern..... More

Butte: [ca. 1902]. [16]pp. Narrow quarto. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light soiling, corners and spine worn. Spine and text separating at lower margin. Minor soiling internally, some contemporary annotations. Promotional prospectus for sale of stock belonging to the Montana Standard Mining Company, a mining enterprise engaged in the extraction of..... More

New York: L.W. Ahrens Co., [ca. 1885?]. Chromolithograph, 21.5 x 28 inches. Matted. Minor wear, soiling, and a couple of modern pencil annotations at lower corners. A fine image of a proposed railroad bridge across the Hudson River, just north of Peekskill, New York. Plans to build a bridge over..... More

Philadelphia: 1883. Vol. I, Nos. 1-13. Each issue 8pp. Large folio. Loose issues stitched together at an early date. Light wear and soiling to outer leaves, heaviest to first leaf. Daily newspaper published by the Old Guard State Fencibles of Philadelphia during the Fair of the Infantry Battalion held at..... More

Durango, Co. 1919. [188]pp., approximately 24,000 words. Small octavo journal, original black pebbled cloth. Light wear at edges and spine ends; hinges a bit loose. Accomplished in a neat, legible hand. Light tanning. An extensive diary for 1919 kept by widow Dilla Raymond of Durango, Colorado, where she lived with..... More

[McAllen, Tx. ca. 1920s]. Ten original photographs, each 5 x 7 inches. Light wear at edges. Captioned in negative. Contemporary pencil initials on versos. A rare group of ten original photographs by early 20th-century Texas photographer John Peter Esklidsen, who worked in the Rio Grande Valley in the 1910s and..... More

San Marcos, Tx. 1902-1908. [12],374pp. Large folio. Original half calf and cloth, spine gilt. Light wear and soiling to boards, spine and corners a bit scuffed. Contemporary typescript sheet pasted to front flyleaf. Minor soiling and wear to contents. Extensive, early 20th-century court docket recording book for the city of..... More

[Sioux City, Ia.]: James H. Hamilton, 1888. Twenty stereoviews on printed mounts (one duplicative). Some light soiling and wear, one card lightly creased affecting image. Some slight fading to several photos. A group of twenty stereocards depicting the Corn Palace of 1888 taken by James H. Hamilton, the official photographer..... More