Des Moines, Ia. Kenyon Company, 1909. Lithographic folding map printed in color, 19 x 21 inches. Folded and tipped into original printed red wrappers. Minor edge wear and light staining to wrappers. Short vertical split along one fold line at top, minor soiling. A rare and interesting promotional map of..... More

Mexico City: 1898. 117pp., plus eight plates. Original grey cloth, front board printed in black. Light wear to edges and spine ends; cloth rubbed and somewhat soiled. Front free end paper separating. A few contemporary annotations and geometric doodles scattered throughout, heaviest on front endpapers. Two contemporary ink stamps and..... More

Camp near Vera Cruz: March 29, 1847. [2]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old folds, minor wear to address leaf. A brief letter written by American soldier Wilkes Slocum to his mother back home during the Mexican-American War, describing his current naval assignment and mentioning the Battle of Vera Cruz..... More

Los Angeles: Pacific Map Co., 1922. Folding map, 22 x 17 inches. Old folds, minor wear. Handsome tourist road map featuring the state of California in its entirety on one side with an inset of Yosemite, and a detail of the area from San Jose to Ventura on the verso..... More

San Francisco: 1921. Folding map, 41.75 x 16 inches. Folded into card covers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Minor wear to map, light rubbing and wear to covers. A large folding map of the state of California showing primary highways, secondary and tertiary roads, rivers, borders, and railroads. Useful for navigating..... More

New York: 1893. [3]pp. on a bifolium, with map laid in. Old fold lines, minor wear and soiling. Prospectus advertising the sale of mortgage bonds for the Sherman, Shreveport and Southern Railway in Texas. The Sherman, Shreveport and Southern was organized in 1893, as a successor to the East Line..... More

Nashville: Work & Work, Fisk University, [ca. 1910]. [4]pp. on a single folded quarto sheet of cardstock. Spine reinforced with white linen tape, moderate edge wear and toning, a few small chips and closed edge tears, previous owner's ink signature on front cover. A rare piece of sheet music composed..... More

[N.p., likely near Bogalusa, La. ca. 1914]. [5]pp., on a single folded sheet of cardstock. Oblong 12mo. Some toning and dust-soiling, light chipping to one edge. A seemingly unrecorded promotional item touting the economic advantages of Bogalusa, Louisiana, located near the Mississippi border in the northeastern portion of the state..... More

Paris: Imprimerie et Librairie Adminstratives de Paul Dupont, 1855. 20pp. In French. Quarto. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers tanned, with minor chipping and soiling. Bottom corners of most text leaves dogeared. A rare French translation of a notable work by Charles Fenton Mercer, United States Congressman and one of the founders..... More

[N.p., but likely Winston-Salem, N.C. 1941]. Broadside, 9 x 6 inches. Minor edge wear, old horizontal folds, small single hole punch in upper margin. A very rare and ephemeral broadside handbill promoting a meeting at St. Paul's Methodist Church called by the Winston Branch of the National Association for the..... More

Mexico City: 1892. 1226,[1]pp. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, leather label. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Title page with small paper flaw at lower right, not affecting text. Light toning throughout; light foxing to initial leaves. A scarce, late-19th-century manual that details the rules and regulations from the..... More

Mexico City: 1888. 210,[6]pp. Contemporary quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt. Spine leather scuffed in places, corners and edges with some moderate wear. Even toning and occasional foxing. First Mexican edition of this realist novel by Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós, published in 1888. Miau tells the story of..... More

Puebla: 1892. xii,123,[1]pp., plus twenty plates, of which nine folding. Contemporary quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Moderate wear to spine leather, edges, and corners; some scuffing to boards. Light toning and dust soiling. Borderline phrenological late-19th-century study of Mexican criminals by a pair of Pueblan army doctors, Francisco..... More