Mexico City: 1895; 1889; 1895. 215pp.; 61,[1]pp., plus thirteen plates (six folding); 145,[1],ii,[1],4pp., plus seven folding plates. Later half morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine labels. Boards heavily scuffed, with losses to paper and cloth; some staining and edge wear. Dampstaining along top edge through text block. Moderate tanning and..... More

Paris: 1859. 102,[1]pp., plus three folding maps. Original printed wrappers. Spine perished, stitching nearly so. Light wear at edges. Light toning and dust soiling. Extensive proposal and recommendation, translated into German from the French, for a canal route across Nicaragua, one of several 19th-century Central American canal projects that never..... More

Los Angeles: 1928. [4],23 leaves, plus forty-six photographs. Folio. Contemporary black leatherette, cover gilt. Spine ends chipped and worn, leather coming away from boards, extremities worn. Small pen notation to title page, contemporary ink stamps in text. Light wear. Report compiled by District Attorney Asa Keyes following the tragic and..... 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

Bogotá: 1846. [3],41,[1]pp. Small quarto, stitched as issued. Some wear and biopredation in margins, causing minor losses but not affecting text. Light tanning and scattered dampstaining. Scarce, early proposal for a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, to be financed and at least partially funded by "major foreign nations," including..... More

Heroica Veracruz: Imprenta a Cargo de Vicente Torras, 1827. 87,[2]pp. Small quarto. 19-century quarter sheep and marbled boards. Text block detached, except for half title. Light scuffing and wear. Small area of dampstaining to initial leaves. Scarce meditation on the development of wisdom by man in contemporary society, and the..... More

Keokuk, Ia. Mississippi River Power Company, 1911-1913. Ten volumes, complete. Profusely illustrated. Oblong folio. Each issue measuring 9 x 12 inches, in original pictorial wrappers, two holes punched along spines and bound together in a later gray cloth Tatum-style Y binder with leather corners. Minor edge wear and staining to..... More

Boston: Geo. Ellis & Co., [1911]. 19pp. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial wrappers, stitched and stapled. Minor wear. "Reprinted from an article in the Engineering News. Illustrated with many special views." An illustrated account of the reconstruction of the Hauser Dam on the Missouri River in Montana. The original dam failed..... More

Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1936. Twenty-seven leaves, illustrated with twenty-six photographs, each 4.75 x 6.75 inches, each with a manuscript caption in white ink beneath the image. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black cloth photograph album, string tied, string partially perished. An exceptional album of vernacular photographs capturing scenes in and around Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania..... More

[Pennsylvania? 1957]. [76]pp. Quarto. Quarter cloth and paper wrappers. Spine perishing, corners chipped. Moderate wear, short edge tears to wraps. Toning and dust soiling, scattered staining internally. Accomplished in a competent, legible script. A fabulous handmade, manuscript journal, densely filled with Cold War–era space-race “clippings” copied out by hand --..... More

London, England: Labour Information Office / United States Information Service, 1955. 29pp. Folio. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Noticeable toning and spotting to wrappers, minor edge wear. Light toning to first text leaf. A rare collection of offprints of three articles which first appeared in the English publication Labour News from..... More