![Item #5572 Amendment to the Negro Soldier Bill [caption title]. Civil War, Confederate States of...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
[Richmond, Va. February 14, 1865]. Broadside, 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Moderate toning and minor edge wear, faint ink stamp from the Rebel Archives at top, short blue pencil notation in bottom margin. A rare slip-bill printing of a Confederate Congressional amendment designed to allow slaveholders to approve "free negroes and..... More
![Item #5497 Mob Violence Springfield Aug - 08 [caption title]. African Americana, Illinois](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB5497.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1736524478)
[Springfield, Il. 1908]. Real photo postcard, 3.5 x 5.5 inches, with caption title printed in the negative at top left, and manuscript annotations on both sides. Minor edge and surface wear. A striking visual record capturing the scene of a "Negro home" razed to the ground during the 1908 Springfield..... More
Mexico: 8 de Julio, 1815. Double-sheet broadside, measuring 23.75 x 17 inches. Old fold lines, some slight rumpling. Minor soiling and wear. A fascinating and rare broadside in which the Inquisition attempts to prohibit pro-independence publications, including the 1814 Constitution of Apatzingán, during the midst of the Mexican Revolution. Dated..... More
Veracruz: Por Don Manuel Lopez Bueno, Impresor Real Tribunal del Consulado, 1803. [16]pp. Small quarto. Stitched, as issued. Contemporary plain rear wrapper, front lacking. Scattered faint foxing and minor dust soiling. An unrecorded imprint by the first printer in Veracruz, Manuel Lopez Bueno, and one of the earliest works printed..... More
Washington DC: El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos, 1942. Pictorial lithograph, 20 x 14.25 inches, printed in red, gray, yellow, and black. Minor surface wear, mild creasing, light dust-soiling, a few pinholes. A rare poster issued by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) during World War II, attempting..... More
[Cuba: 1814]. [9]pp. of manuscript text on folio sheets. Moderate wear, some worming, uneven toning and tanning. A fascinating and ethnologically significant file of proceedings ("expediente diligiencias") regarding a request by African Carabali slaves "of this class," i.e. bozales, who wish to celebrate a traditional holiday with religious ceremonial rituals..... More
Galveston: Galveston-Zeitungs-Office, bei C. H. Büchner, 1849. 255pp. Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled paper boards, spine gilt. Corners bumped, minor wear to boards. Scattered light foxing, minor toning to title page only. Ink German library stamp and withdrawal stamp on title page, with early library tag on backstrip. A decidedly..... More
Paris: 1922. x,84,[2]pp. Original grey printed wrappers. Minor toning, partially unopened. An early work by noted theologian and Civil Rights activist, William Stuart Nelson. Nelson (1895-1977) was a native of Kentucky who served in World War I. He would go on to work as an university president, teaching at Howard..... More
Bourbon County, Ky. 1824. 6pp., written on two folded folio sheets, docketed on verso of last leaf. Old folds, minor toning and soiling. An interesting manuscript document from early-19th century Kentucky, recording the court proceedings related to the collection of a personal debt. Thomas Roberts of Bourbon County sued in..... More
Courtland, Lawrence County, Al. October 1, 1848. Partially-printed document, completed in manuscript, 9.5 x 7.75 inches, docketed on verso. Old folds, minor toning. An intriguing legal document from antebellum Alabama in which the Grand Jury in the northern town of Courtland indicts James M. Bumer for keeping a "certain common..... More
![Item #5192 [Oath of Office Document for Constable John Gillespie in Late-Confederate Alabama]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB5192.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733504042)
Moulton, Al. N.H. White, 1865. Partially-printed document, completed in manuscript, 6 x 7.5 inches, docketed on verso. Old folds, minor toning. An interesting relic from late-Confederate Alabama in which Constable John Gillespie solemnly swears that he has "neither given, accepted, or knowingly carried a challenge in writing or otherwise, to..... More
San Luis Potosi: Imprenta del Estado en Palacio à Cargo de José Maria Infante, 1832. [2],13pp. Small quarto. Printed self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Some toning, heavier at edges; a few small, scattered fox marks. In early 1832, the Mexican garrison at Veracruz, under the command of Antonio Lopez de Santa..... More