Sucre: Imprenta de Beeche, 1857. [8, i.e. 10],105pp. Original printed wrappers. Small quarto. Later, vaguely obtrusive manuscript additions in pencil to front wrapper. A few small nicks and minor wear to wraps. Internally quite clean. An ambitious design for a "Gran Escuela Central" for all in Bolivia, including native South..... More

Guam: [1945]. Ninety-five black-and-white silver gelatin photographs, each 4 x 5 inches, over seventy with printed or manuscript captions in the margin or verso, eighteen captioned in the negative. Minor overall wear, slight fading to a few images, all removed from photo album, with paper remnants on verso, about ten..... More

Valle de Santa Rosa, Mx. November 29, 1837. [2]pp. of manuscript on a single folio sheet. Old central horizontal fold, minor edge wear and marginal staining, light chipping to one edge, just touching a few letters of text. A unique manuscript document produced in a small northern Mexican town during..... More

Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico: July 23, 1852. Broadside, 17.75 x 6 inches. Old horizontal folds, light creasing. A seemingly-unrecorded Mexican broadside in which the Deputy President of the Congress of the State of Veracruz Ramon Teran argues for a special session of the legislature in order to address some of the..... More

[Mexico: ca. 1940]. 100 stereoview photographs, with duplicate 2.25-inch square image exposures mounted to grey card mounts measuring 3 x 6 inches. Prints hand-numbered in the margin at lower right, thirty-three with hand-written ink notations to versos. A couple of prints with small areas of discolor to extremities, with typical..... More

[N.p. 1980s]. [16]pp., rectos only. Folio. Contemporary yellow folder, typed label on front cover. Some light wear and soiling to covers, contents clean with a few white out corrections. A collection of fifteen poems by Penobscot poets, seemingly unpublished. All three identified authors are from the Penobscot Nation on Indian..... More

Philadelphia: 1890. Two works: 6; 1pp. Gathered signatures; single sheet. Some edge wear and creasing, minor foxing overall. Small hole to inner margin of first work, with some chipping to outer margin not costing any text. A pair of scarce circulars issued by the Indian Rights Association in Philadelphia in..... More

Fort Sill, I.T. W.S. Soule, [1870-1874]. Sepia-toned carte-de-visite photograph, 3.75 x 2.25 inches, on a slightly larger mount with studio imprint on verso. Minor dust-soiling and surface wear. An excellent studio portrait of a "Comanche Woman," identified as such through a manuscript caption on the verso. Another contemporary manuscript caption..... More

Rooseveltown, N.Y. Akwesasne Notes, [1970s]. Poster, 22.5 x 17.5 inches. On cream stock, printed in red and green. Minor wear. Handsome Native rights poster produced by the newspaper Akwesasne Notes, a publication of the Mohawk Nation. The paper reproduced several of its centerfold pieces as separate posters in the 1970s..... More

Rooseveltown, N.Y. Akwesasne Notes, [1970s]. 22.5 x 17.5 inches. On golden stock, printed in sepia. Minor wear. Handsome Native rights poster produced by the newspaper Akwesasne Notes, a publication of the Mohawk Nation. The paper reproduced several of its centerfold pieces as separate posters in the 1970s. The work pairs..... More

[Oklahoma: 1914]. 35pp. Original printed self-wrappers, stapled. First two leaves detached and chipped, not affecting text. Tanned, and brittle. An apparently unrecorded Oklahoma imprint advertising the auction of 347 tracts of coal lands on the Choctaw reservation in Latimer County. The first two pages lay out the terms and condition..... More

Montana and South Dakota: [ca. 1900]. Fifteen silver prints, 4.5” x 7.5” to 8.25” x 6.25”. All photos matted. Occasional fading or uneven tones to some images; one image printed from a cracked plate. A rare and captivating set of photographs by a little-documented western photographer who worked among the..... More

Merida de Yucatan: Oficina de J.D. Espinosa, 1847. 389,[3]pp. Disbound. Early ink ownership stamp on third leaf recto. Scattered, moderate toning and staining, heavier to title page and final leaf. Extensive explanation of Christian doctrine and the Catholic catechism in the Yucatec language, published in Merida during the midst of..... More