[Ferndale, Wa.? ca. 1908]. [8]pp. Original pink pictorial wrappers, stapled. Light toning, manuscript notation and ink stamp on front cover. Faint dampstain to lower edge of text; several contemporary manuscript notations in text. Scarce work on the dwarfing of fruit trees for use on smaller lots -- thus, the "suburbanite's"..... More

San Francisco: Norman Pierce Company, 1905. [16]pp. Small quarto. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Old vertical fold. Minor wear at edges. Scattered contemporary ink annotations. Light tanning and dust soiling. Scarce and well-illustrated promotional for Phoenix and Maricopa County, Arizona, in the first decade of the 20th century. The text presents..... More

[N.p., likely Bridgetown, Barbados: Issued by the Commissioner of Agriculture, 1910-1916]. Four pamphlets, all in original illustrated wrappers, as detailed below. A quartet of rare agricultural pamphlets published in a series of works by the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies in the early-20th century, each focused on..... More

Eureka City: January 14, 1862. [2]pp. on a folded sheet. Old folds, minor wear. Manuscript letter to folks back home describing heavy rain and flooding around Eureka City. The author writes: "We have had two or three feet of snow at three different times this fall and winter, and each..... More

[Sacramento: Railway Express Agency, ca. 1910]. Broadside, 10 x 8 inches. Printed in gold. Slight creasing at top edge. In Chinese and English. An ephemeral survival, documenting aspects of Chinese agricultural production and transport in early 20th-century California. This broadside was issued by the Railway Express Agency of Sacramento, and..... More

Sancti Spiritus: 1838. Broadside, measuring 12.5 x 17.5 inches. Previously folded. Light wear to edges and along old fold lines, with a few small chips at edges. Moderate toning and soiling. An unrecorded broadside that prints statistics relating to agricultural production for the region of Sancti Spiritus in central Cuba..... More

Des Moines: State Register Print, 1876. Small folding pamphlet, with [8] panels. Small separation at foot of one fold line; slight biopredation at head of two panels. Light tanning. An unusual Iowa promotional, which charts the growth of the state over the 19th century through statistics and tables of its..... More

Crowley: 1919. [31]pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Moderate soiling to covers, contemporary pencil ownership notation on front cover. Doodle inside front cover. Minor soiling internally. "The city that sets the pace in the race for prosperity in the rice belt, takes nobody's dust and keeps her head turned always..... More

Guadalajara: Imprenta del Gobierno, 1842. 16pp. Disbound. Light foxing and even tanning. An interesting little tract on the history of the water supply in Guadalajara, published in the early 1840s. The text traces the addition of water sources from 1600, and concludes, evidently in response to some criticism, that the..... More

St. Louis: [ca. 1890]. Folding map, 16.75 x 16.5 inches; folded to 8.5 x 4 inches. Moderate wear, separation at some folds. Contemporary manuscript notations. Promotional brochure issued by the Missouri Land and Live Stock Company, advertising tracts of prime agricultural land in McDonald County. The interior is a map..... More

[Various locations in North and South Carolina: 1860-1879]. Thirteen autograph letters, signed, totaling twenty pages. Original mailing folds, minor overall wear. A collection of thirteen manuscript letters mostly sent to A.C. Myers at various locations in South Carolina, nine of which involve business matters and with four letters sent to..... More

[Birdsview, S.D. 1919]. [16] leaves, illustrated with thirty-one original vernacular photographs, mounted one per page and each captioned in white pencil on the album pages. Small oblong octavo. Contemporary black wrappers. Minor chipping to edges of wrappers and a handful of internal leaves, tape repairs to rear wrapper. An annotated..... More

Sioux Falls: Will A. Beach Printing Co., 1909. Folding map, approximately 17 x 21.5 inches. 18mo. Original printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling to wraps. A few short separations at fold point, one slightly longer from top edge. Light tanning. Unrecorded map and promotional for lands in central South Dakota..... More