Our latest list is twenty-five freshly acquired and catalogued items, covering a wide array of subjects, formats, and regions. Highlights include the photographic and written records of a nurse at a Native American hospital in Tacoma; the revised 1851 Indiana state constitution which prohibited the settlement of African Americans; an unusual Hungarian memoir of a medical doctor who was with Maximilian I in Mexico; a large Texas oil map; an eyewitness account of the burning of Baranof Castle in Sitka, Alaska; and many more interesting and eclectic items. Enjoy!
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[N.p., likely South Carolina: ca. 1933]. [2],8,[1]pp. typescript, printed and numbered on rectos only, plus six additional leaves with original tipped-in photographs, some with typed captions, stapled. Tiny remnants of wrappers in the staples, minor edge wear, photographs mildly faded. A curious and bibliographically interesting biography of Charlie Adams, a...... More
![Item #3090 Speaking on the Baxter R.R. Proposition by Prominent Colored Speakers [caption title]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3090.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1654178889)
Nashville: Boylin Printing Co., [ca. 1898]. Printed broadside, 12 x 9 inches. Noticeably tanned and somewhat brittle, closed tear on right edge, slightly chipped. A rare broadside advertising a week-long schedule of African American speakers in Nashville. Jere Baxter, a prominent Nashville businessman founded the Tennessee Central Railroad and was..... More
Sitka, Ak. August 1, 1894. 5pp. Original mailing folds. A historically-illuminating eyewitness account of the burning of Baranof Castle, the famous fort built in the New Archangel (Sitka) by the first governor of Russian America, Alexander Baranov. During Russian rule, the castle was the administrative center of Russian America. Baranof..... More
[N.p. ca. 1935]. Photographically illustrated film herald, 12 x 6 inches. Even toning, minor edge wear, short closed tear near top edge. A rare small broadside advertising a true crime presentation including real footage related to the shooting death of famed gangster John Dillinger. This "sensational story," most likely a...... More
New York: Newcomb Publishing Co., 1913. 16pp. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. A few small scuffs and edge chips, moderate dust-soiling to wrappers, short tears to spine. Internally clean. A rare viewbook of the city of Chicago ostensibly seen at night by printing scenes from around the city..... More
[Various locations in Louisiana: ca. 1902-1903]. Twelve leaves, illustrated with twenty silver gelatin photographs. Contemporary gray cloth photograph album, string-tied, front cover stamped in gilt, "The Kodak Book." Noticeable soiling and rubbing to boards, edges worn. Two photographs detached, mild wear to a few pictures, but overall nice condition. A..... More
![Item #3034 Constitucion Politica del Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua [cover title]. Mexico](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3034.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1651852378)
El Paso, Tx. 1921. 48pp. Narrow octavo. Original printed self-wrappers, stapled. Lightly and evenly tanned, paper brittle with several small chips or tears. Ownership ink stamp of Chihuahua newspaper editor Silvestre Terrazas on first and least leaf. A 1921 edition of the 1887 constitution of the state of Chihuahua, published..... More
Mexico City: Viuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1745. [10],264pp. Narrow 12mo. Contemporary vellum. Text block separating but still stable. Title page lightly chipped and soiled, partially detached. Light worming to lower half of volume; text otherwise clean. Contemporary manuscript notations to rear endleaves. A book of prayers and..... More
Buenos Ayres: Imprenta Niños Expositos, 1808. [3]pp., on a small quarto bifolium. Removed from a sammelband, with later manuscript pagination at top edge. Some separation along gutter from top edge; minor loss at lower inner corner. Light toning and soiling. An interesting publication from the Niños Espósitos press in Buenos..... More
Budapest: Franklin-Tarsulat Nyomdaja, 1877. x,[1],220pp. Original russet cloth stamped in black and gilt, a.e.g. Light soiling and wear, corners bumped. Text toned but clean. Szenger was a Hungarian doctor serving in the Medical Corps of Maximilian I's army in Mexico. He witnessed first-hand, therefore, the French intervention in Mexico, including..... More
Austin: General Land Office, 1910. Large format blueprint map, 53 x 38.5 inches. Some fraying and minor chipping to edges, moderate staining, a smattering of small, mostly marginal wormholes. Rolled. A substantial blueprint cadastral map showing the state of land ownership in Live Oak County in 1910. Live Oak County..... More
[Various locations in Canada and Alaska]: 1920. 211 silver gelatin photographs on twenty-four leaves, most measuring 5 x 3.5 inches or 3.5 x 2 inches. Plus two photos and a copy of the Daily Alaskan newspaper laid in. Oblong folio. Original brown cloth covers, string-tied. Light wear to covers. First..... More