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
Miami: February 11, 1941. Blueprint plan, 22 x 23 inches, printed in white on a quarter-inch to one foot scale with architect's embossed seal at lower right. Minor edge wear, mild surface wear, old soft creases. Original blueprint plan for a shotgun house, a narrow single-family gable-front home in which..... More
Chicago: G. Renesch, 1918. Chromolithograph, 19.5 x 26 inches. Minor occasional wear and scuffing to edges, tiny chips at a couple corners, short unobtrusive one-inch puncture below the central subjects, but otherwise a bright and vibrant example. A visually-powerful poster produced in the midst of the First World War, which..... 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
Denver: Comstock & Coad, [1891]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Evenly toned, shallow chipping to edges, light dust-soiling, tiny hole in the spine margin not affecting text. A fragile but exceedingly rare and ephemeral work. The rare prospectus for the first meeting, which took place on January 11, 1891..... More
[New York? ca. 1820s]. Narrow folio broadside, 20.25 x 8.75 inches, printed in two columns. Old folds, moderate foxing and staining, a few tiny areas of loss at crossfolds. A lovely letterpress broadside printing a narrative poem of forty-two four-line stanzas, arranged in two columns inside simple typographical borders comprised..... More
[Palermo, Argentina: 1905]. Broadside, 15.5 x 5.5 inches. Old folds, minor edge wear, tiny chip in left margin, one tiny hole in the lower third not touching any text, light creasing, numerous contemporary pencil notes. Paper remnants on verso, likely removed from a scrapbook. An unrecorded broadside documenting an obscure..... More
![Item #3970 A Declaration of Civil Rights [cover title]. African Americana, Civil Rights](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3970.jpg?v=1678125293)
[New Orleans: Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., 1948]. [4]pp., on a single folded folio sheet. Old horizontal folds, minor wear. A rare declaration of civil rights "approved at a Conference on Civil Rights at Madison Hall, University of Virginia" in 1948 by the Southern Conference Educational Fund. The group bills..... More
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Alto, La. 1952. [3]pp., on a single folded sheet. Old folds, minor soiling, moderate chipping, not affecting text. A seemingly-unrecorded program for a fundraising rally by the parents and teachers of an African-American high school in Alto, Louisiana during the late Jim Crow period. The program prints the schedule of..... More
Hempstead County, Ar. 1917-1918. Three separate quarto reports, each [4]pp. on single folded pre-printed sheets, completed in manuscript. Light chipping to edges, discoloration and chipping along top edge of November report. A collection of three reports on rural education in Arkansas, produced under the aegis of the Negro School Fund..... More
Montgomery, Al. 1900. 4pp., on a single folded sheet. Some bumping and creasing to top edge, a few short closed tears, minor soiling. Accompanied by a single-page typed letter signed with stamped signature. Old fold, minor wear along outer edge. A seemingly-unrecorded program for the first annual conference of the..... 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
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
[N.p. n.d., likely late-19th century]. Broadside, 13.25 x 12.5 inches, with title printed vertically at left and text printed in two columns. Old folds, some wrinkling, minor dust soiling. An unrecorded advertising broadside for an unrecorded (and perhaps unproduced) songster ostensibly written by Happy Bob Robinson, the leader of a...... More