![[Group of Fifteen Images Documenting Classes of the Division Science Workshop in the Philippines]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/760/592/1513592760.0.l.jpg)
[Group of Fifteen Images Documenting Classes of the Division Science Workshop in the Philippines]
by [Philippines]. [Education]
Lucena City: Garcia's, 1969. Very good plus.. Fifteen sepia-toned photographs, most 5 x 7 inches, a couple slightly smaller, all but one captioned in the negative. Minor wear, otherwise very nice condition. A collection of fifteen photographs featuring the participants in the 1968 Division Science Workshop in the Philippine city of Lucena. The workshop appears to have concentrated on teacher training for instructors from grades 1 through 11. The present images capture the various training classes during instruction,... Read More
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District Record of School District No. B Township No. 14, County of Cape Girardeau, State of Missouri..
by [Missouri]. [African American Education]
Cape Girardeau, Mo, 1892. Very good.. [138]pp. of manuscript content. Folio. Contemporary preprinted record book, with some pages partially-printed and completed in manuscript and some pages with wholly manuscript content, bound in three-quarter calf and brown pebbled cloth, gilt spine titles. Some abrasions and wear to spine and edges, minor rubbing and soiling to boards. Occasional thumb-soiling and light spotting to text. A unique manuscript record book kept by the officials of the school district in Cape Girardeau,... Read More
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![[Eight Pamphlets Published During the 1930s by a Pacifist Group Campaigning Against Military Training in Schools]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/048/906/1592906048.0.l.jpg)
[Eight Pamphlets Published During the 1930s by a Pacifist Group Campaigning Against Military Training in Schools]
by [Committee on Militarism in Education]
[New York, 1940. Very good.. Seven pamphlets, plus two duplicates. Some staples, with minor oxidation. Otherwise minor wear and dustsoiling; a few scattered patched of browning. A group of eight uncommon pamphlets issued by the Committee on Militarism Education to disseminate their arguments against military training in schools. The group was established in 1925 by three pacifist ministers, the Quaker E. Raymond Wilson, the Episcopalian John Nevin Sayre, and the Presbyterian Norman Thomas to campaign against compulsory military... Read More
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Histoire de l'Ile Saint-Domingue; Extraite de l'Histoire Civile et Commerciale des Antilles
by Edwards, Bryan
Paris, 1802. Very good.. [4],xii,209pp., plus folding map. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Minor edge wear and rubbing to wrappers. Occasional minor foxing to text, small repair in gutter of half title. Untrimmed. First French edition of this notable history of Saint-Domingue translated by Jean-Baptiste Joseph Breton, which was highly popular at the time of its publication. The text is supplemented with a folding map of Saint-Domingue engraved by Blondeau. Bryan Edwards was a British plantation owner based in Jamaica... Read More
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![S. 990. In the Senate of the United States... A Bill to Protect the Integrity of the Democratic Process by Requiring Disclosure of Persons Writing, Publishing, and Circulating Scurrilous Literature in Connection with Political Campaigns... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/844/881/1673881844.0.l.jpg)
S. 990. In the Senate of the United States... A Bill to Protect the Integrity of the Democratic Process by Requiring Disclosure of Persons Writing, Publishing, and Circulating Scurrilous Literature in Connection with Political Campaigns... [caption title]
by [Elections]. [Propaganda]. Gillette, Guy
Washington DC, 1941. Very good plus.. 5,[1]pp. Original self wrappers. Soft horizontal crease. A slip-bill printing of the Gillette Propaganda Exposure Bill of 1941, proposed by Iowa Senator Guy Gillette. The bill sought "to protect the integrity of the democratic process by requiring disclosure of persons writing, publishing, and circulating scurrilous literature in connection with political campaigns; to deny the use of the mails to such literature and to prohibit its importation into the United States, in default... Read More
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![[Galley Proof of John A. McClernand's Speech Assailing President Ulysses S. Grant's Use of the Military in Enforcing Reconstruction Laws, Deploring the Installation of William Pitt Kellogg as Governor of Louisiana, Castigating Radical Republican Policies, and Denouncing Plans to Throw the Presidential Election to Hayes Rather Than Tilden]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/754/025/1674025754.0.l.jpg)
[Galley Proof of John A. McClernand's Speech Assailing President Ulysses S. Grant's Use of the Military in Enforcing Reconstruction Laws, Deploring the Installation of William Pitt Kellogg as Governor of Louisiana, Castigating Radical Republican Policies, and Denouncing Plans to Throw the Presidential Election to Hayes Rather Than Tilden]
by [Election of 1876]. [Reconstruction]. McClernand, John A.
[N.p., likely Springfield, Il: ca. January 8, 1877. Good.. Three long galley leaves, each approximately 6.5 x 19 inches and printed on rectos only, with numerous pencil emendations. Old folds and creases, numerous chips and tears to margins, pervasive wrinkling, making reading a bit challenging at times, but with no loss to text. Small portion of third leaf containing the last eight lines of text detached but present. Not in great shape, but seemingly unique. A galley proof... Read More
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![A Nuestros Compatrias del Salvador. Salvadorenños como Vosotros, Amantes de Nuestra Comun Patria... [caption title and first line of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/623/748/1681748623.0.l.jpg)
A Nuestros Compatrias del Salvador. Salvadorenños como Vosotros, Amantes de Nuestra Comun Patria... [caption title and first line of text]
by [El Salvador]. [Barrios, Gerardo]
[San Salvador?], 1863. Very good.. 4pp., on a bifolium. Folio. Portion of lower margin torn away, otherwise light edge wear. A fascinating and rather lengthy anti-Barrios address by his conservative opponents and would-be deposers in El Salvador. José Gerardo Barrios Espinoza was elected president of El Salvador in 1860, following several stints as interim head of state. The present work attacks Barrios' character, the "abyss of evils" that he has brought upon the country, and compares him unfavorably... Read More
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![Plan Politico Rejenerador de las Libertades y Garantias de la Republica del Salvador... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/626/748/1681748626.0.l.jpg)
Plan Politico Rejenerador de las Libertades y Garantias de la Republica del Salvador... [caption title]
by [El Salvador]. [Zaldivar, Rafael]
[Chalchuapa, El Salvador, 1876. Still very good.. [3]pp., on a bifolium. Folio. Crinkling and minor wear at edges. Faint dampstain to upper right corner. The president of Guatemala, Justo Rufino Barrios, invaded El Salvador in 1876, following the presidential election there. Barrios suspected that both the elected and former presidents had been harboring Guatemalan opponents to his regime, and hope to install someone more favorable. The present "political plan" for El Salvador reads more as an indictment of... Read More
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![Final Report U.S. Naval Construction Battalion Unit Two Hundred One. Deep Freeze 68 [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/658/873/1604873658.0.l.jpg)
Final Report U.S. Naval Construction Battalion Unit Two Hundred One. Deep Freeze 68 [cover title]
by [Antarctica]. [Construction and Engineering]
[Antarctica, 1968. Very good.. [65]pp. report typed on rectos only, plus [28] leaves, illustrated with eighty-six black-and-white mounted photographs, each approximately 5 x 7 inches, most accompanied by typed paper caption strips, plus three loose photographs. Quarto. Original pressboard wrappers with metal spine fastener, with printed title leaf pasted to front board. Minor wear to binding, photos in generally nice condition. A typed report accompanied by detailed photographs documenting the 1967-1968 projects carried out by U.S. Naval Construction... Read More
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![[Small Album of Annotated Photographs Documenting Concrete Construction and Civil Engineering Projects in the American West During the Early 20th Century]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/257/983/1449983257.0.l.jpg)
[Small Album of Annotated Photographs Documenting Concrete Construction and Civil Engineering Projects in the American West During the Early 20th Century]
by [Western Photographica]. [Engineering]
[Various locations including Wyoming, Nebraska, and Iowa], 1919. Very good plus.. Forty-two original black-and-white photographs and real photo postcards, most with manuscript annotations, bound into a two-ring leather binder. Two additional postcards laid in. Minor occasional dust soiling, but overall in excellent shape. An intriguing pocket-sized binder containing a collection of photographs and real photo postcards documenting large-scale construction projects in the American West, mostly involving concrete projects such as dams, drainage, reservoir infrastructure, railroads, and more between... Read More
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![Arbitration Between the Eastern Railroads and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen... [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/800/995/1672995800.0.l.jpg)
Arbitration Between the Eastern Railroads and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen... [cover title]
by [Organized Labor]. [Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen]
New York: Law Reporting Company, 1913. Very good.. [2],2711-2732pp. Printed self wrappers, stapled. Minor discoloration to outer leaves, light toning. A rare offprint relating to the arbitration award in a court case between the Eastern Railroad and an important early labor union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen in 1913. The text contains an "Interpretation of Award Previously Filed on April 23, 1913," comprised of additional legal inquiry on how to apply the arbitration award, correspondence related... Read More
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Equalitarian Bulletin
by [Labor]. [Equalitarians]
[California, 1949. Very good.. Fifty issues. Quarto. Mimeographed, stapled as issued, on varying paper stocks. Light wear and soiling, chipping to some issues. An extensive run of this utopian labor newsletter. The issues start with number 11 and run almost unbroken through issue 64, covering 1946 to 1949; two later issues, 91 and 105, round out the run. The newsletter advocates the formation of a world association of Equalitarians, drawing on theories of technocracy, the International Workers of... Read More
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Combined Map Berkeley Highlands
by [California]. [Real Estate]
Berkeley: Meikle, Brock & Skidmore, 1913. Very good.. Folding map, approximately 18 x 26 inches. A couple of short separations at fold points. Contemporary manuscript docketing on blank verso. Light tanning. An early 20th-century cadastral map that shows block and lot numbers, property dimensions, railroads, partial land ownership, and more, in a new subdivision north of Berkeley, here called Berkeley Highlands and now known as Kensington. The depicted area is bounded generally by Arlington Road, Highland Avenue, Purdue... Read More
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Map of Rice's Addition Tustin
by [California]. [Real Estate]
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Lithographic Co, 1887. Still very good.. Illustrated lithograph map, 20 x 24 inches. Trimmed along the left edge and borderline at the right. A few minor tears, backed with rice paper. An exceedingly scarce lithograph promotional map for a late-19th-century subdivision in central Orange County, California. The "Rice tract" depicted on this land development map was comprised of 194 lots for homes bounded by Prospect Avenue and Vineyard avenues and First Street and Preble... Read More
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Subdivisions One and Two of the Riverside Orange Heights Tract Adjoining Corona, California
by [California]. [Real Estate]
Los Angeles, 1910. Good plus.. Plat map, approximately 14 x inches. Folded, a couple of short separations and minor losses along or near folds. A few nicks at edges. Light, even tanning. Printed on thin paper. Ephemeral real estate map and advertisement for the Riverside Orange Heights Tract, located north of Corona in Southern California, and owned by the Citrus Belt Land Company. "The land west of the future Norco Hills, consisting of 5,500 of the former Little... Read More
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Map of Regents Park, Berkeley, Cal. As Approved by the Town Trustees, 1905 & 1906. Sub-Divided and for Sale by Irwin-Patton Company, Inc
by [California]. [Real Estate]
Berkeley: Irwin-Patton Company, 1907. Near fine.. Lithograph map, approximately 15 x 28 inches. Folded. Two contemporary manuscript annotations. Very minor wear at edges and faint toning; one small separation at fold point. Large, early 20th-century real estate map showing a proposed subdivision on some thirty blocks in North Berkeley, now adjacent to University Village. The map is oriented with due north corresponding roughly to the left edge, with San Pablo Avenue at the bottom edge, Cedar and Hopkins... Read More
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![[Manuscript Document Regarding Sale of Land East of Nacogdoches in Late 1835]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/157/677/1741677157.0.l.jpg)
[Manuscript Document Regarding Sale of Land East of Nacogdoches in Late 1835]
by [Texas]. [Real Estate]
[Nacogdoches: September 21, 1835. About very good.. [3]pp., on a bifolium, plus docketing. Previously folded. Light wear and staining along old folds. Minor edge wear and slight loss at center fold point. Spanish secretarial script, but quite legible. “En la villa de Nacogdoches y a los veinte y un dias del mes de Septiembre del año de mil ochocientos treinta y cinco ante mi el ciudadano Luis Rueg, Juez de primera Ynstancia de ella dicha villa... companieron en... Read More
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Communal Grapevine
by New Families
Oakland, 1980. Very good.. Broadsheet, 11 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded and mailed. Light wear. A 1980 "Communal Grapevine" news sheet, with announcements for classes, want ads for housing in the Oakland Utopian community, and fundraising requests.
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![[Archive Containing Original Photographs, Letters, and Documents Pertaining to the Military and Post-Military Careers of Major General Alexander McDowell McCook and His Son-in-Law Brigadier General Chauncey Brooke Baker]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/820/139/1625139820.0.l.jpg)
[Archive Containing Original Photographs, Letters, and Documents Pertaining to the Military and Post-Military Careers of Major General Alexander McDowell McCook and His Son-in-Law Brigadier General Chauncey Brooke Baker]
by [Spanish-American War]. [McCook Family]
[Various locations in Cuba, 1902. Very good.. Seventeen loose folio scrapbook leaves, each with mounted correspondence or other documents; one vernacular photograph album; two scrapbooks; and a small number of loose documents and newspaper clippings, as detailed below. An informative archive comprised of material from two generations of the McCook family of Ohio, specifically two different military officers -- Major General Alexander McDowell McCook, and his son-in-law Brigadier General Chauncey Brooke Baker (1860-1936). Baker was married to McCook's... Read More
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![[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Travels of the Royse Family Across the American West, With Much Content on Early Automobile Culture and Industry in the Far West]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/741/872/1457872741.0.l.jpg)
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Travels of the Royse Family Across the American West, With Much Content on Early Automobile Culture and Industry in the Far West]
by [Western Travel]. [Royse Family]
[Various locations, including Montana, Wyoming, Missouri, California, 1931. Very good.. [45] leaves, illustrated with 185 original photographs, from 2.75 x 2 inches to 6.5 x 4 inches, the great majority measuring 5.75 x 3.5 inches, and a few postcards, most with manuscript annotations on the borders of the images or on the album pages. Oblong folio. Contemporary textured black cloth, gilt title on front cover, string tied. Moderate rubbing to covers, bottom edge worn, corners creased. Internally clean,... Read More
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![[Small Group of Brochures and Ephemera Published by the Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship As the United States Entered World War II]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/072/906/1592906072.0.l.jpg)
[Small Group of Brochures and Ephemera Published by the Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship As the United States Entered World War II]
by [Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship]
New York: Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship, 1941. Very good.. Eight items. Light toning and wear. Informational brochures and application materials for the Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship, founded in New York in 1939 with the goal of fostering receptive attitudes toward pacifism within the denomination. The material present here was printed in 1940-1941, just as the United States was on the verge of entering the war.
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Sermon de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Mexico, Predicado en Su Santuario el Año de 1777 Dia 14 de Diciembre en la Solemne Fiesta con Que Su Ilustre Congregacion Celebra Su Aparicion Milagrosañ
by Fernandez de Uribe, Jose Patricio
Mexico City: Mariano de Zuñiga y Ontiveros, 1801. Good.. [8],26,129pp. Small quarto. Disbound, a bit roughly. Minor damage along gutter of initial and final gatherings. Light dampstaining along top edge, scattered foxing. Text block cocked; oversewn, affecting inner margin. A scarce Marian sermon on the appearances of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The author, José Patricio Fernandez de Uribe, was a native of Mexico City who died at age fifty-four in the town of San Augustín de las Cuevas... Read More
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Thoughts of Peace
by Field, Luman A.
Grand Rapids, 1910. Very good.. [16]pp. Original green wrappers, cover gilt, string-tied. Minor wear to wrappers, small ink stamp on rear cover; small ink stamp on verso of title page. Internally clean. Unrecorded work comprised of four poems interspersed with Bible quotations. All four pieces are, unsurprisingly, religious in nature. We find no record of the work or the author in OCLC.
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Carta Pastoral Exortatoria a Penitencia..
by Figueredo y Victoria, Francisco José de
Guatemala: Imprenta de Joachin de Arevalo, 1756. Very good plus.. [23]pp. Small quarto. Later marbled wrappers. Very light dampstaining at fore-edge, otherwise minor toning and dust soiling. A quite rare, mid-18th-century Guatemalan imprint, comprising a pastoral letter by Francisco José de Figueredo y Victoria, the Archbishop of Guatemala, that advises immediate and intense penitence by worshippers in the wake of the Great Lisbon Earthquake, which struck the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa on November 1, 1755, and destroyed... Read More
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![Two Great Features All Talking Colossal Screen Scoop The Killing of Dillinger... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/486/584/1470584486.0.l.jpg)
Two Great Features All Talking Colossal Screen Scoop The Killing of Dillinger... [caption title]
by [Film]. [True Crime]. [Dillinger, John]
[N.p., 1935. Very good.. 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 newsreel mixed with a reenactment of Dillinger's assassination, promised to show "actual authentic pictures," "the ambulance that hauled him away," and "Dillinger's body on a cold slab... Read More
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