Whittier, Ca. Will A. Smith's Print Shop, [1914]. 245pp. plus ads. Original brown publisher's cloth, cover stamped in black. Light wear and soiling to boards and contents. Community cook book from Whittier College, filled with numerous ads for local businesses. The foreword, written by the all-woman publishing committee, notes that..... More

Freestone County, Tx. August 2, 1866. [3]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old folds, lightly tanned. Slight biopredation affecting a few letters. Letter written by a gentleman in Texas to his friend, discussing the land and farming in Freestone County and the surrounding area. Freestone County is located about sixty..... More

Kansas City, Mo. Hallman Printing Co., 1904. 42,[2]pp. plus twenty-nine plates. Oblong octavo. Original pictorial printed wrappers, string-tied. Light wear and soiling, spine slightly chipped. Light soiling to text, last few leaves slightly dampstained. Publication on rice production in Texas and Louisiana, touting the humid climate of the area as..... More

Philadelphia: W. Young, 1788. [4],120pp. Original calf, remnants of gilt leather label. Spine and corners moderately worn. Slightly later ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Light toning and scattered foxing to text. One of the earliest American imprints dealing with the measurement of casks and barrels. The work first explains basic..... More

Great Lakes, Ill. 1945. Two panoramic photographs, 10 x 19.25 and 8 x 18.25 inches. Minor wear at corners; lower left corner of larger image partially stripped. Minor toning and dust soiling. A striking set of two panoramic photographs that comprise official portraits of African-American Naval Company 771 at the..... More

Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1836. xvi,[13]-238pp. 12mo. Original publisher's blue boards with black sheep spine, gilt. Boards rubbed, corners and spine moderately worn. Text lightly foxed. Scarce work addressing the anti-slavery work of George Thompson following his visit to America. Thompson (1804-1878) was British lecturer and reformer who worked as a...... More

[Santa Fe: ca. 1920]. [12]pp. Original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Light chipping and wear to wrappers, internally clean. An ephemeral brochure for Santa Fe, with a map and numerous local ads for tourists to the area. The text provides a brief history of the city highlighting the Plaza, the Palace..... More

Mexico City: Viuda de Bernardo Calderon, 1653. [6],110 [i.e., 88] leaves. Small octavo. Contemporary limp vellum. Moderate staining and wear. Remnants of two leather ties at fore-edge; manuscript shelf label and title on spine. Marca de fuego applied to title page, with resulting loss in lower quadrant. First Mexican edition..... More

New York: 1864. [2]pp. printed form on a quarto sheet, completed in manuscript. Old folds. Light wear and soiling, slight chipping and separation at folds. A printed muster roll form for McDougall General Hospital in New York, near Fort Schuyler, recording men from the 39th Regiment of Maryland Colored Troops..... More

Poston, Az. [ca.1943]. 96 photographs on eleven leaves, plus seventeen loose images. Oblong quarto. Original brown cloth album, string-tied, with black paper leaves. Light wear to binding. Several leaves loose, many with substantial chipping and wear. Several photographs missing from corner mounts, images clean and captioned throughout. Photo album kept..... More

New York: 1848. Two volumes. xvi,296; xii,336pp. plus twenty-four plates; publisher's ad tipped into end of second volume, printed note from the author tipped in at p.302. Original green publisher's cloth, gilt. Bindings rubbed, corners and spines moderately worn. Presentation inscription on front flyleaf of first volume; ownership inscription on..... More

[Mexico City]: Oficina de Dona Maria Fernandez de Jauregui, 1814. 39pp. Contemporary plain paper wrappers. Several wormholes neatly straight through text, some slight worming in margins. Minor wear and soiling. "A day by day case report of the lengthy but successful drainage of a hydrosarcocele [swollen testes]...it includes an account..... More

Chicago: American Lumberman, 1902. [2],196pp. Quarto. Original red limp cloth, cover gilt. Light soiling and wear to binding. Contemporary ownership pencil markings throughout, text dampstained around the edges, light scattered soiling. Extensively illustrated work on the operations of the Kirby Lumber Company, a division of the Houston Oil Company, originally..... More