Mexico City: Juan Joseph Guilleno Carrasco, 1697. [11],10 leaves. Small quarto. Dbd. Very light wear at edges. Small patch of worming at top edge, occasionally affecting text. Partial marca de fuego at bottom edge. Light tanning and foxing. Sole edition of this late 17th-century sermon on the subjects of the..... More

[Mexico]: Impressa en la Imprenta del Real, 1765. [26],34pp. Small quarto. Removed from a sammelband. Worming along top edge, somewhat affecting top two lines of text (heavier to title page and initial leaves); additional biopredation at lower corner, occasionally affecting catchwords and printed marginal notes. Otherwise light dust soiling and..... More

San Francisco: October 4, 1852. [2]pp., with integral address leaf. Old folds, mild staining and soiling, three-inch closed tear to address leaf. An interesting letter documenting the family side of the California Gold Rush, in which a San Francisco man writes to his brother, offering to send his wife and..... More

San Francisco; New York: 1894-1895; 1900-1903. Eleven pamphlets, varying paginations. Original printed wrappers, some stapled. Minor wear; a few small chips. Scattered contemporary ink stamps. Light, even tanning. One pamphlet with dampstaining from top edge. A good group of scarce auction and sales catalogs for the Palo Alto Stock Farm..... More

[N.p., likely San Francisco: ca. 1853]. Broadside, 11.5 x 9.25 inches, with integral blank. Some toning and dust soiling, a bit heavier at top edge, a few very short tears and wear to the edges. An uncommon version of this notable California letter sheet, printing "The Miner's Ten Commandments" in..... More

Madera, Ca. [ca. 1890s]. Broadside, 16.5 x 9.5 inches. Horizontal fold at center. A few very short closed tears at top edge. Even tanning; a couple of faint fox marks. A scarce broadside advertisement for a land sale north of Fresno during the late 19th century. The Bank of Madera..... More

[Los Angeles?]: 1938. 18pp. Narrow 12mo. Original gilt wrappers, stapled. Light wear. Promotional brochure for the Regina Winery in Etiwanda, California, operated by the Ellena Brothers. Established in 1906 by Claudio Ellena, a descendant of an Italian winemaking family. Claudio's sons eventually took over the business, marketing their wine under..... More

Havana: September 8, 1880. Partially-printed broadside, 6.5 x 8.25 inches, completed in manuscript in Spanish and Chinese. Small marginal wormhole, mild edge wear, light toning. Ink stamp of the Consulado General at bottom-center. A scarce certificate issued in 1880 by the Chinese Consulate in Havana, authenticating the registration and details..... More

Woodland: C.P. Sprague & H.W. Atwell, 1870. viii,602pp. plus folding map. Original marbled boards, rebacked and recornered in reverse calf with original gilt leather spine laid down. Light scuffing to boards. Light, vertical tide lines through leaves of center section; light tanning and scattered foxing. Map with small, unobtrusive tape..... More

Sacramento: 1869. 43pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine ends chipped; light wear and dust soiling to wraps. Even tanning, occasional foxing internally. Biannual message of Governor Henry Huntly Haight to the state legislature of California at the outset of its eighteenth session in December 1869. Haight was notable for his strongly..... More

Mexico City: 1848. 3pp. Printed on a single folded sheet. Dbd. Old vertical fold, minor foxing. A rare United States Army field printing pertaining to a notable incident that occurred during the Mexican-American War. In early January 1848, Lt. Col. Miles was ordered by Brig. Gen. Twiggs to take command..... More

Mexico City: Oficina de Valdes, 1826. [6]pp. Folio. Uncut, with half-sheet inserted, as issued. Previously folded. Light wear and creases at edges. Some toning and dust soiling, heavier at gutter and old horizontal fold. A stylized, literary commentary on the state of politics and religion in Mexico five years after..... 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