Paris: l'Auteur Rue des Francs Bourgeois, [ca. 1820]. Engraving, 12 x 9.25 inches. Minor foxing, light overall wear. Tipped to a larger sheet of cardstock with archival tape. A wonderful and evocative portrait of French General Charles Lallemand, engraved by M.H. Legrand after the original portrait by Francois-Henry Mullard. Charles-Francois..... More
[Galveston, Tx. Henry H. Morris, 1900]. [24] leaves, illustrated with twenty-four sepia-toned photographs, each 4.5 x 6.5 inches. Oblong slim quarto. Contemporary black pebbled cloth, with "Photographs" stamped in gilt on front cover. Minor edge wear. A few leaves with minor chipping at outer margin, first blank leaf and first..... More
![Item #3922 A Few Facts About Pampa [cover title]. Texas](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3922.jpg?v=1678998544)
[Pampa?]: 1910. 24pp. 12mo. Original blue printed wrappers, stapled. Clean and fresh. One signature loosening. A lovely little promotional for Pampa, Texas, "a growing town of 500 inhabitants located on the Santa Fe Railroad." The work is illustrated throughout, highlighting the towns businesses and residences. Rare -- we locate three..... More
[Various locations in Texas, including Galveston, Houston, Brazoria, and others: Mainly 1884-1894]. Eighty-five letters, documents, invoices, memoranda, and other correspondence, totaling about 110 pages, written on a variety of plain paper, letterhead, and pre-printed forms, plus two maps, a printed sketch with manuscript additions, and an architectural blueprint. Minor losses..... More
![Item #3382 Garrison Harrison & Co.'s Picture Gallery of the Panhandle of Texas [cover title]. Texas](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3382_01.jpg?v=1678998818)
Canyon City, Tx. [1907]. [32]pp. Profusely illustrated with monotone photographs. Slim quarto. Moderate soiling and wear to wrappers, slight biopredation. Light wear and soiling to contents. A rare land promotional touting the advantages of Canyon City, Texas (known now simply as Canyon). Established in 1887, Canyon City became a major..... More
![Item #3993 Compte Rendu [caption title]. Texas, Champ d'Asile](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3993.jpg?v=1678722414)
[Paris: ca. 1819]. Hand-colored lithograph, 12.75 x 17.25 inches. Old folds, minor soiling. Tipped onto a slightly larger sheet of card stock. A humorous satirical cartoon lampooning the financial support extended to the Napoleonic loyalist exiles who attempted to create their own colony in Spanish Texas in 1818. The scene..... More
[Various locations in Texas, mostly Brenham: ca. 1890s]. Eleven cabinet card photographs, ranging from 3.75 x 3.75 inches to 7 x 5 inches. All but one image with manuscript captions in pencil on verso identifying the subjects. Varying levels of wear, staining, chipping, and fading. Studio imprint partially obscured by..... More
Mexico City: December 15, 1835. [4]pp., on a single folded folio sheet. Minor creasing and light edge wear. In a custom red leatherette folding chemise. Rare proclamation laying out the constitutional changes that solidified the Centralist system of government in Mexico in late 1835, supplanting the Federalist system established through..... More
[Texas: ca. 1900]. Manuscript in pen on nine slim sheets, joined at the top and bottom of each sheet, to create a single sheet measuring approximate 70 x 2.5 inches, folded accordion-style to 1 x 2.5 inches. [with:] A small paper-covered "Acme" box containing approximately forty glass microscope slides of..... More
[Prairie View, Tx. 1973-1974]. [19] leaves, illustrated with 248 photographs, mostly in color but some in black-and-white, ranging from thumbnails to 8 x 10 inches, plus several ephemeral items. Square folio. Contemporary handmade photograph album comprised of self-stick album pages bound in blue velvet with white felt decorations affixed to..... More
[Various locations in Texas: ca. 1850s to 1880s]. One daguerreotype, five ambrotypes, two tintypes, two CDVs, and five images mounted on card. Some significant wear and fading to a few of the earliest images, some soiling and surface wear to later images. A significant grouping of images documenting multiple generations..... More
Navarro County, Tx. August 18 to October 28, 1881. [4]pp., docketed on last page. Original folds, a few small areas of ink burn, but otherwise very clear and clean. A manuscript report from a processor in Navarro County, Texas documenting eighty head of "cattle slaughtered by J.A. Cooper for the..... More
Nueva York: Imprenta del Novo Mundo y la America Ilustrada, [1874]. [4],142,[1]pp., plus three plates. Small quarto. Contemporary quarter calf and purple marbled boards, spine gilt. Rubbing and wear to spine ends and corners. Minor soiling to title page, but otherwise clean and fresh internally. An introduction to the construction..... More
Tokyo: Hokubai kanno doshikai honbu, 1904. Broadside, 21 x 7 inches. Old folds and wrinkles, a few pin holes in the upper margin, with the Hokubei Kanno Doshikai red chop stamp in lower margin. A very rare and seemingly-unrecorded 1904 colonization scheme document issued by Hokubei Kanno Doshikai, promoting investment..... More
Dallas: Mathis Publishing Co., 1935. x,134pp., plus five pages of photographic plates. Original crimson cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Original green dust jacket ruled in white with black titles on front cover and spine and a color reproduction of the Texas state flag on the front..... More
Victoria de Durango: Imprenta del Gobierno a cargo de Manuel Gonzalez, 1841. Broadsheet, approximately 13 x 9 inches. Printed in two columns. Old horizontal fold; small chip at upper left edge. Otherwise, only minor edge wear and very light toning. In a custom cloth slipcase and chemise. An extremely rare..... More
[Paris: Bulla and Ladvocat, ca. 1819]. Aquatint engraving, 9.75 x 11.5 inches. Trimmed inside the neat line, costing the imprint line, moderate foxing. Hinged with archival tape to a backing and matted. A very rare engraving relating to early Texas, picturing residents - men, women, and children - of the..... More
San Luis Potosi, Mx. 1925-1930. Six folio volumes: 23; [70]; 100; 82; [66]; 29pp., plus a packet of fifteen additional pages of documents laid into the final volume. Uniformly bound in contemporary Mexican half sheep and marbled paper-covered boards (the first five by San Potosi binder Arnoldo Kaiser and the..... More
San Antonio: Harvey Patteson, 1926. Handcolored panoramic photograph, 9 x 35 inches. Moderate toning, staining, and soiling, some tiny edge chips, tears, and nicks, one cello tape reinforcement on verso, minor rubbing, somewhat tanned overall. A powerful panoramic photograph capturing about sixty Mexican or Mexican-American farm workers spread across a...... More
![Item #3374 [Two Manuscript Ledgers from a Farm & General Store in Late-19th-Century Texas]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3374_01.jpg?v=1673884323)
[Crockett, Houston County, Texas: 1874-1892]. [47]; [80]pp. of manuscript entries. Folio. Contemporary ledgers bound in marbled paper-covered boards with calf backstrips. Significant edge wear, chipping, rubbing, and scuffing to spines and boards. Numerous leaves in earlier ledger excised, some leaves partially torn away, extensive scribblings to endpapers, with a few..... More
Carmago, Mexico: June 21, 1847. [2]pp., in Spanish, on a single folded sheet, verso of integral leaf addressed on verso. Original mailing folds, mild wrinkling, minor toning to address panel, small chip to outer blank portion of integral leaf. A hand-carried letter from a Mexican merchant or lawyer named Francisco..... More