Iowa City: Printed by Wm. Crum, 1844. 22,[1]pp. Disbound. Moderate foxing, heavier to outer leaves. Slight paper loss at foot of title page, not affecting text; contemporary ink stain and pencil inscription at top of title page. Several contemporary ink notations to text. Unrecorded and early Iowa Territory imprint presenting..... More

Mexico City: Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1728. [16],28pp. Small quarto. Removed from a sammelband, partial marca de fuego along top edge. Light dust soiling to outer leaves. Short tear from gutter of final leaf. Occasional faint foxing and very light tanning. A rare oration given in honor of Fray Juan..... More

[Los Angeles? 1935]. [1],69 leaves, plus [5] leaves laid in. Mimeograph typescript. Folio. Original blue paper folder, title printed on cover. Light wear and fading to covers, heavier at edges. Contents with minor toning and wear, heavier to leaves laid in. Informative manual compiled by a missionary to the Fuzhou..... More

Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1925. 32pp. Oblong octavo. Original brown printed wrappers, stapled. Light soiling, lightly dampstained along lower edge of text and rear cover. Pamphlet published by the Harbor Commission on the construction of an underground motorway beneath the Ferry Building, designed to alleviate traffic and congestion in..... More

[Medway, Ma.? ca. 1850s]. Pencil sketch on heavy paper, with faint tempera highlights. Image measuring 7.5 x 11.5 inches on a sheet 8.25 x 13 inches. Light dust soiling and faint foxing. Evenly tanned. A skilled contemporary pencil sketch after a classic California Gold Rush pictorial letter sheet by San..... More

[Various places. ca. 1910-1920]. Sixteen real photo postcards. Light wear and soiling. Some cards with manuscript notation and postmarks. An assortment of real photo postcards depicting First Peoples on the Canadian Plains, primarily in Alberta but also at least one noted as Winnipeg. Half the images have locations noted, and..... More

[Mexico City?]: 1797. Broadsheet, approximately 11.5 x 8.25 inches. Minor worming, very slightly affecting text. Contemporary manuscript rubric on verso. Light tanning and a couple of faint fox marks. An unrecorded Mexican colonial broadsheet that reprints a 1795 royal decree by the king of Spain, Charles IV, announcing his authority..... More

Mexico City: 1844. [3]pp., on a small bifolium. Light wear at edges. Small wormhole through center, not affecting text. Light dust soiling. A scarce decree of Mexican interim president Valentin Canalizo, printed and published by the Ministry of Foreign Relations on December 2, 1844, which attempted to dissolve the government..... More

Habana: 1884. [2],496 [i.e., 498]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf, gilt, a.e.g.; rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners repaired with later black buckram; boards scuffed, spine chipped. Hinges cracked, repaired with later cloth and renewed endpapers. Minor scattered foxing and toning to text. Accomplished in a neat, highly legible hand. A..... More

Los Angeles: 1917. [12]pp. plus eleven silver gelatin photographs. Folio. Typescript with brown card spine and rear cover. Spine perished, leaves loose. Manuscript notations, light soiling. Typescript report by mining engineer Samuel Storrow, supplemented with eleven original photographs. Storrow (1865-1939) was the manager of the Goldstone Mining Company of Delaware..... More

Jackson, Ca. 1899-1900. [49] leaves. Large folio. 20th-century half calf and marbled boards. Minor wear to binding, contents generally clean. Volume containing carbon copies of manuscript forms ordering supplies for the Kennedy Mining and Milling Company of Jackson, California. The Kennedy Mine is located in the Mother Lode and was..... More

Puebla: March 12, 1847. Broadside, 12.75 x 8.5 inches. Minor soiling and wear. A rare broadside that prints the thanks and admonitions of the Governor of Puebla, Domingo Ibarra, following an attempted insurrection there in late February and March 1847 during the Mexican-American War. The uprising was a part of..... More

Mexico City: 1765-1785. Thirty printed letters. Mostly single sheets, plus several bifolia. Light wear, occasionally heavier; scattered worming and soiling, occasionally affecting text. One bifolium heavily soiled, but entirely legible; one sheet with lower right corner town away, not affecting text. Numerous contemporary manuscript inscriptions, some quite extensive. A substantial..... More