Mexico City: April 20, 1848. [2]pp. plus docketing, on a bifolium. Previously folded. Minor dust soiling and creasing. A lively Mexican-American War letter, written by Charles Hagner to his friend James Goodwin in Portsmouth, New York, dated April 20, 1848. The letter was composed in Mexico City as the Treaty..... More
Cuba: June 7 to September 3, 1898. [56]pp. of diary text plus eight pages of addresses. 24mo. Contemporary limp maroon leather wallet-style binding. Minor scuffing to edges, spine head chipped, vertical crack to front cover. Internally clean. A firsthand account of military service in the American Army during the waning..... More
San Antonio & Austin: Texas Blueprint and Supply Co., [ca. 1930]. Blueprint map, 42 x 42 inches. Old folds, several minor separations at crossfolds, a few small nicks and chips to edges. An extraordinarily-detailed Texas oil map featuring the Luling Oil Field in the early-20th century, located in neighboring Guadalupe..... More
![Manuscript Survey of 1,280 Acres of Land on the Red River Belonging to Caspar Loewenstein]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2289.jpg?v=1640022613)
Fanning County, Tx. [ca. 1840]. [1]p. with manuscript endorsement and docketing on verso. Folio. Old folds, short separations along folds, old tape repair on verso along one horizontal fold line, minor toning. A rare Republic of Texas land survey performed by John D. Black and certified on the verso by..... More
[San Luis Potosi]: Imprenta del Gobierno, 1841. [2],41pp. 20th-century tan polished calf stamped in gilt on the front cover. Small ex-libris bookplate of prominent Mexican academic Jesus Reyes Heroles on front free endpaper, his initials stamped in gilt on front cover. Minimal shelf wear. Internally clean. An exceedingly-rare work of..... More
[Mainly Kansas and Oklahoma: 1882-1910]. Forty-seven letters, postcards, or transmitted documents, between one page and eight pages, almost all in original transmittal envelopes, and sometimes with more than one letter per envelope. Original mailing folds, occasional minor wear. An informative collection of letters sent to Mary Florence Rogers Henley of..... More
![South Half Rusk Co. Texas. Scale ~ 1" = 1000 Vrs. [caption title]. Texas, Oil](/pictures/thumb/2203.jpg?v=1640023248)
[N.p., likely Fort Worth: n.d., ca. 1932]. Blueprint map printed on linen, 40 x 60 inches. Original folds, minor edge wear. A seemingly-unrecorded, large-scale annotated Texas oil map featuring the breadth of the southern portion of Rusk County, located below Henderson, and just north of Nacogdoches in the eastern part..... More
[Hays County, Tx. 1890-1897]. Twenty-eight manuscript documents or partially-printed documents signed, ranging from one page to twelve pages. Old folds, minor loss to a few documents, one document with a long separation along one fold line, various levels of toning. Overall a well-preserved group. An interesting group of mostly late-19th-century..... More
[N.p., most likely San Francisco]: June 15, 1903. [bound with:] Rules and Instructions for the Government of Employés of the Maintenance of Way Department Adopted by the Southern Pacific Company. [September, 1903]. 164,[2],89pp., plus numerous folding plates, some numbered between 91-120, some unnumbered, profusely illustrated in the text, and with..... More
[Stanwood, Wa.]: 1896. Small, wallet-style commercial diary, with [370]pp. of entries and notes. Contemporary dyed calf, gilt lettered; wallet flap folded over from right edge. Light wear to covers, heavier along flap spine. Light tanning and minor dust soiling internally. Accomplished in a slightly crude, but quite legible script. A..... More
Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1913. 171pp., plus photographic portrait of the author. Original red cloth stamped in gilt on front cover. Former owner's ink signature on each cover, minor edge wear and dust-soiling to boards. Same former owner's business stamp (Sargent's Enterprises) on front pastedown, title page, author's portrait..... More
Boston: The Cornhill Company, [1918]. vi,55pp. Original black cloth and brown paper-covered boards, gilt titles stamped on front cover and spine. Spine a bit sunned, corners bumped, light rubbing and soiling to boards. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper, short tape repair to penultimate text leaf. A scarce work..... More
Long Beach, Ca. Worth While Publishing Company, [1923]. xxiv,103pp., including nine full-page illustrations with printed tissue guards, plus a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Original beige cloth stamped in black on the front cover. Moderate soiling and staining to covers. Dampstaining to lower margin of first several leaves. Poetry..... More
Washington: [1917]. 61,[1]pp., plus photographic portrait frontispiece of the author. Original maroon cloth, front cover stamped in gilt. Minor edge wear, corners lightly scuffed, crease in cloth on rear cover. A few text leaves bumped on fore edge. The decidedly-rare first edition containing thirty-two poems written by Walter E. Todd..... More
Portland: 1907. 46,[1]pp. Narrow quarto. Original brown pictorial wrappers, printed in color, stapled. Some light wear, internally clean. With a second, folding brochure on rubber production. Brochure promoting rubber production in Mexico sponsored by an Oregon-based company. The title page lists the company's officers and directors, while the contents explain..... More
![Charming Vernacular Photograph Album Depicting Life in Alaska at the Turn of the Century]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2507_01.JPG?v=1638388176)
[Georgetown and other locations in Alaska: 1908-1910]. 112 silver gelatin photographs on [28] leaves, including a handful loosely laid in. Small black cloth album. Moderate wear to covers, binding detaching from text block. Black paper leaves, several loose or with wear at edges. Some images with ink notation on photograph;..... More
New York: 1915-1917. Forty-four individual imprints, various paginations, bound together in 20th-century green library buckram, gilt spine titles. Ex-Hamilton College Library, with withdrawal stamp on bookplate on front pastedown and on many of the individual works. Mild edge wear to some works, occasional toning. A wealth of individual publications issued..... More
[Mainly Galiano Island, B.C. 1911-1919]. [25] leaves, illustrated with 100 vernacular photographs, the great majority annotated in white pencil on the album pages. Contemporary suede souvenir snapshot album with image of Native American on front cover, string-tied. Minor chipping and light soiling to covers. Two leaves detached, and two photos..... More
Mexico City: Cooperacion del Taller de Grafica Popular, [1955]. Broadside, 18.75 x 13.25 inches. Printed on this orange paper. Minor losses along center of sheet, minor soiling. Handsome pictorial broadside published in Mexico City in support of the strike of the workers of the United Fruit Company in Honduras. In..... More
![No Hot Summers. No Cold Winters. Salem -- The Capital City of Oregon [caption title]. Oregon](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1941_01.jpg?v=1638387256)
[Salem: ca. 1890]. [14]pp. Folio. Self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Light wear and soiling, some light creasing. Handsome pictorial promotional for Salem, Oregon, in the Willamette Valley, "universally acknowledged to be the most productive and most beautiful valley between Mexico and British Columbia". The work touches on public buildings such as..... More
![Depression-Era Vernacular Photograph Album of a Black Kansas Family]. African-Americana, Kansas](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2616_01.jpg?v=1638459986)
[Wichita, Ks.? ca. 1931]. 50 original photographs, in various small formats. Oblong, large octavo album, string-tied. Stiff card covers, front lacking; photos in corner mounts, with several loose images. Occasional, brief manuscript captions on print versos. Light wear, minor soiling and fading to a few images. A evocative, vernacular photo..... More
[Haskell County, Kansas: ca. 1912]. Twenty-two photographs, each 7.25 x 9.25 inches, plus three smaller prints, each 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Oblong folio album, limp leatherette covers, rivet binding. Covers and spine heavily worn, front detaching. Some wear to album leaves at edges and corners; contemporary manuscript annotations on versos..... More
![Cedula de Vecinidad Colonos [caption title]. Cuba, Slavery](/images/noimage.png)
[Havana? 1877]. Small broadside, 6.25 x 9 inches. Printed form completed in manuscript. Minor wear, including small loss at top edge, not affecting text, and two short closed tears. Small repair at lower margin. Trimmed at left and lower edges. Contemporary and slightly later paper stamps; traces of contemporary ink..... More
Los Angeles: Free Tract Society, [ca. 1935]. 112pp., plus sixteen pages of illustrations. Original orange printed wrappers. Moderate scuffing and staining to covers. Minor occasional foxing, even toning to text. A normally-uninteresting imprint, being a simple pocket-sized printing of the Gospel of John intended to be given away, but the..... More
Marble City, Ok. Dwight Mission Press, 1909. 12mo. 80,[6]pp. Original brown printed wrappers. Minor creasing and soiling to wrappers. Text uniformly toned. A decidedly-rare pocket-sized hymnal issued by the Literature Department of the Woman's Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church. The text prints 135 hymns in Cherokee with titles..... More