Memoria en Que el Gobierno del Estado de Nuevo Leon Da Cuenta el Tercer Congreso Constitucional, de Todos los Ramos Que Han Sido a Su Cargo en el Año Pasado de 1828
by [Mexico]. [Finances]
[Monterey]: Imprenta de Gobierno a Cargo del Ciudadano Sixto Gonzalez, 1829. Very good plus.. [9]pp., plus nineteen tables, some folding and completed in manuscript. Small folio. 20-century full calf, tooled in blind and gilt, dyed title panel on front board. Very minor wear and scuffing. Contemporary manuscript rubrics. Light tanning. The constitution of Nuevo Léon required its Secretary of State to provide an annual account of income and expenses for the state's operation. The present work contains a... Read More
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![[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Susquehanna River Flood of 1936]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/237/240/1455240237.0.l.jpg)
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Susquehanna River Flood of 1936]
by [Pennsylvania Photographica]. [Floods]
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, 1936. Very good.. Twenty-seven leaves, illustrated with twenty-six photographs, each 4.75 x 6.75 inches, each with a manuscript caption in white ink beneath the image. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black cloth photograph album, string tied, string partially perished. An exceptional album of vernacular photographs capturing scenes in and around Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in the aftermath of the devastating Susquehanna River flood in March 1936. The manuscript title leaf reads, "Flood Photographs Wilkes-Barre, Pa March 1936." While vernacular, the... Read More
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![[Manuscript Letter Describing the Environs and Various Local Events in Antebellum Jacksonville]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/647/047/1555047647.0.l.jpg)
[Manuscript Letter Describing the Environs and Various Local Events in Antebellum Jacksonville]
by [Florida]. [Medicine]. [Emigration]. Scranton, A.C.
Jacksonville, Fl: March 15, 1858. Very good plus.. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Old mailing folds. An informative dispatch from antebellum Florida from A.C Scranton to "Friend Barton" in 1858. In his letter, Scranton reports that despite some problems, he is enjoying southern people and general life in Florida: "The people generally in the south are very kind & hospitibal, but I need hardly to tell you that Florida has got some hard times as every new... Read More
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![[Collection of Mounted Photographs, With Manuscript Captions on Verso, Featuring Scenes in Cuba and Florida by a Group of Travelers]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/974/476/1701476974.0.l.jpg)
[Collection of Mounted Photographs, With Manuscript Captions on Verso, Featuring Scenes in Cuba and Florida by a Group of Travelers]
by [Cuba]. [Florida]
[Various locations in Cuba and Florida, 1890. Very good.. Twelve cabinet card photographs, each measuring 3.5 x 4.5 inches, on matching mounts measuring 5.25 x 6.5 inches, all with manuscript captions on verso. Moderate dust-soiling, minor overall wear, a few small unobtrusive chips to corners. A dozen original photographs picturing a group of men traveling in Florida and Cuba around the turn of the 20th century. The men seem relatively well-to-do and visit several different locations in each... Read More
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![[Large Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Featuring Scenes in Cuba and Florida]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/038/671/1699671038.0.l.jpg)
[Large Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Featuring Scenes in Cuba and Florida]
by [Cuba]. [Florida]
[Various locations, mostly in Cuba and Florida: March 5 to April 1, 1909. About very good.. [21] leaves, illustrated with 235 photographs, all with typed captions. Oblong folio. Contemporary full dark brown cloth, brad bound. Moderate staining and coiling to covers, some edge wear. Bottom corners of all leaves chipped, not costing content. Occasional minor wear to photos or captions. A well-organized and meticulously-captioned vernacular photograph album with significant content on Florida and Cuba in the first decade... Read More
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![[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album, with Rare Images Showing the Aftermath of the Great Jacksonville Fire of 1901]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/790/872/1457872790.0.l.jpg)
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album, with Rare Images Showing the Aftermath of the Great Jacksonville Fire of 1901]
by [Florida]
[Various locations in Florida], 1901. About very good.. [16] leaves, illustrated with thirty-two original vernacular photographs, all 3.5 x 3.5 inches, most with manuscript captions in ink above the images. Oblong octavo. Contemporary gray paper wrappers, white titles on front cover. Spine mostly split, a few shallow chips to edges. Internally clean. A small but important vernacular photograph album containing rare views of the devastation wrought by the Great Fire of 1901 in Jacksonville, Florida, which took place... Read More
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Niff and His Dogs. Containing Niff and His Dogs, The young Soldier, Uncle Johnson
by Foster, Gustavus Lemuel. [Harrison, Johnson]
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1866. Very good.. 84pp. 12mo. Original embossed publisher's cloth, spine gilt lettered. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Scattered foxing and dust soiling internally, heavier to initial leaves. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper. The third tract in this slim volume, "Uncle Johnson: The Pilgrim of Six Score Years," is the first appearance of the Reverend Gustavus Foster's biographical account of the former slave Uncle Johnson. An early footnote clarifies that... Read More
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Des Millions Pour un Sou! Mines d'Or de la Californie -- Nouveaux Détails
by [California Gold Rush]. [France]
[Paris]: Typ. Schneider, Rue d'Erfurth, 1, 1849. Very good.. Broadside, approximately 18 x 13 inches. Matted and framed. A pair of short closed tears, repaired, at lower edge. Even toning and light creasing. Contemporary manuscript annotation under caption title. A wonderful, illustrated faux news broadside published in Paris as gold fever coursed through Europe in 1849. The headline promises "nouveaux détails" of the gold mines in California, but the text is in fact a humorous description and light-hearted... Read More
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![Minutes of the Henderson Yoakam Chapter No. 39 [manuscript cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/499/877/1700877499.0.l.jpg)
Minutes of the Henderson Yoakam Chapter No. 39 [manuscript cover title]
by [Texas]. [Freemasons]
Moscow, Tx, 1888. Good plus.. [23],331pp. Folio. Contemporary vellum boards. Front board coming detached from foot; loss from foot of spine; moderate wear to corners and edges. Final leaf detached, otherwise minimal internal wear. A detailed and long-running record of minutes for the Henderson Yoakum chapter of Freemasons, which covers well over thirty years of the group's history. This chapter was located in the small east Texas town of Moscow, south of Lufkin, whose population was 228 in... Read More
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Tratado Elemental de la Destreza del Sable
by Frias, Simon de
Mexico City: En la Imprenta Arizpe, 1810. Fair.. [14],201,[17]pp., plus twelve (of thirteen) plates. Quarto. Contemporary tree calf, gilt ruled, with gilt-lettered spine label, edges painted red. Spine ends heavily chipped, rear board separating from foot; boards rubbed, moderate edge and corner wear. Defunct library ink stamp to title page. Some worming to initial sections of text, slightly affecting printed area. Scattered staining and foxing. Plates trimmed close at fore-edge, sometimes affecting images; second plate lacking. The first... Read More
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![Beikoku Ni Sumu Nihonjin No Sakebi [in Japanese characters, translated as The Protest of Japanese Americans: My Forty Year Stay in America]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/106/202/1445202106.0.l.0.jpg)
Beikoku Ni Sumu Nihonjin No Sakebi [in Japanese characters, translated as The Protest of Japanese Americans: My Forty Year Stay in America]
by Fujii, Sei
Los Angeles: Kashu Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1940. About very good.. [2],2,16,420,[1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor soiling and light edge wear to wrappers; spine ends a bit chipped; front hinge starting from both ends. Text browned, but not brittle, with scattered foxing and dust soiling. A rare collection of writings by an important Japanese-American activist, journalist, and editor. Sei Fujii (1882-1954) was the founding editor of the Kashu Mainichi (Los Angeles Japanese-California Daily News) in L.A. Fujii emigrated to California... Read More
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![Jose Maria Tornel y Mendevil... Con Fecha 5 de Este Mes Se Me Ha Dirigido por la Secretaria de Estado y del Despacho de Relaciones el Siguiente Decreto... [caption title and first line of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/659/110/1700110659.0.l.jpg)
Jose Maria Tornel y Mendevil... Con Fecha 5 de Este Mes Se Me Ha Dirigido por la Secretaria de Estado y del Despacho de Relaciones el Siguiente Decreto... [caption title and first line of text]
by [Mexico]. [Gambling]
Mexico City: September 9, 1829. Very good plus.. Broadside, 14.25 x 12 inches. Old fold lines, minor wear. Decree issued by President Vicente Guerrero allowing the taxation and regulation of gambling houses. Regulations include barring children and firearms from the establishments; the decree notes that fraud is still subject to other laws and penalties, and that gambling houses are considered public spaces and subject to visits by police, not protected from searches like private homes. It also sets... Read More
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Apuntes para la Historia de la Revolucion del Peru, Sacados de los Trabajos del Estado-Mayor del Ejercito de Operaciones
by Garcia Camba, Andres
Lima, 1824. Good plus.. [4],56pp. Small quarto. Modern paper boards, printed paper spine label. Minor worming to initial leaves, repaired, slightly affecting text. Light tanning and scattered foxing. Scarce royalist account of military operations in Peru during the early 1820s, during which time colonial forces under Viceroy José de la Serna recaptured much of Peru before their ultimate defeat by Bolivar and Sucre at Ayacucho. The author, Andres Garcia Camba, was a brigadier general in the colonial army,... Read More
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![Water; Its Sources, Varieties, Constitution and Therapeutical Uses [manuscript caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/086/553/1506553086.0.l.jpg)
Water; Its Sources, Varieties, Constitution and Therapeutical Uses [manuscript caption title]
by Garnett, Alexander Y.P.
Naval Asylum: January, 1848. Very good.. [3]pp., on a single folded folio sheet of lined paper, docketed in pencil on verso of the second leaf, "Dr. Garnett's Essay." Old folds, light toning, minor darkening along folds. A manuscript essay authored by Dr. Alexander Yelverton Peyton Garnett (1820-1888), a Navy surgeon recently returned from overseas service. Dr. Garnett was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's medical program and served as an assistant surgeon in the United States Navy... Read More
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![[An Important Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Life of Gerardo Coyula y Moeller and His German-Cuban Family, Including Their Ties to Nazi Germany and Documenting a Friend Lost at Dachau]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/950/940/1663940950.0.b.jpg)
[An Important Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Life of Gerardo Coyula y Moeller and His German-Cuban Family, Including Their Ties to Nazi Germany and Documenting a Friend Lost at Dachau]
by [German Experience in Cuba]. [Coyula y Moeller, Gerardo]
[Various locations in Cuba, Europe, and the United States, 1962. Very good.. [113] leaves of scrapbook cardstock, illustrated with 388 photographs, chiefly silver gelatin photographs, several colored or in color, in mounting corners. Most captioned in Spanish. Square folio. Contemporary brown cloth, spring-loaded spine, front cover stamped, "CUBA." Joints split but holding well, moderate rubbing and dust-soiling. Light foxing, handful of images lacking, some images slightly browned or with mild edge wear. An extensively-annotated vernacular family photograph album... Read More
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Historia Contemporanea de la Isla de Cuba. Resumen Cronologico de los Sucesos Mas Importantes Ocurridos en Esta Isla Desde 1801 Hasta el Presente Año de 1896
by Giralt, Pedro
Havana, 1896. About very good.. 114pp. 16mo. Original teal cloth. Corners bumped, binding lightly worn and soiled. Contemporary booksellers' stamps on half title, some notations and contemporary ownership ink stamps to text. Lightly toned. A scarce and unusual history of Cuba. Beginning with the year 1800, the author recounts important events in the island's history, listed chronologically by year. The "Primera Epoca" encompasses 1800 to 1868, and takes just eighteen pages before the author moves on to more... Read More
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Compendio de la Vida, y Virtudes de la Venerable Catharina de San Juan
by Grajeda, Jose de Castillo
Puebla: Imprenta de Francisco de Leon, 1692. Fair.. viii [of xii],138 [of 143]pp. Small quarto. Lacking title page, supplied in manuscript, as well as the second and final five leaves. Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title, marcas de fuego on top and bottom edges. Text block unattached. Minor soiling to vellum. Moderate insect damage to initial leaves and some additional worming throughout, affecting top lines of text. Worlds collide in the story of Catarina de San Juan, reportedly abducted... Read More
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Viaje de un Español por el Levante en 1827
by Granja, Juan de la
Nueva York, 1833. About very good.. 254,iii pp. 16mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine ornately gilt, edges marbled. Minor wear to binding, library ink stamps on edges of text block. Contemporary presentation inscription on front flyleaf. Moderately foxed. A scarce Nueva York imprint describing travel through the region in and around the Holy Land. Juan de la Granja (1785-1853) was a Spaniard who emigrated to Mexico in 1814, fleeing to New York in 1827, after Mexico had gained its... Read More
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![Free Lecture Illustrated by Over Eighty Beautiful California Views Projected on a Large Screen by a Powerful Lantern... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/820/919/1581919820.0.l.jpg)
Free Lecture Illustrated by Over Eighty Beautiful California Views Projected on a Large Screen by a Powerful Lantern... [caption title]
by [California]. [Laguna de Tache Tract Grant]
[N.p., possibly Fresno, 1905. Very good.. Broadside, 13 x 5 inches. A few small nicks to edges, minor even toning, old horizontal folds. Lecture location stamp added in bottom margin, reading "Southport Monday Eve. Aug 28th K.P. Hall." An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising a magic lantern presentation aimed at promoting land in Fresno and King counties "for sale in ten acre tracts or larger at from $25 to $35 per acre, including perpetual water right. Yearly water rental... Read More
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![[Collection of Ninety-five Annotated Vernacular Photographs of Guam and the Marianas Islands]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/052/171/1653171052.0.l.jpg)
[Collection of Ninety-five Annotated Vernacular Photographs of Guam and the Marianas Islands]
by [Guam]
Guam, 1945. Very good.. 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 images with slight corner loss or creases. A collection of original photographs showing Guam, local Chamorro people, and the Northern Mariana Islands in 1945. The images... Read More
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![El Hospital General. A los Valientes Picadores, Eulogio Hernandez, Bernardo Camey y Felipe Chiguichi. En Testimonio de Gratitud [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/196/092/1549092196.0.l.jpg)
El Hospital General. A los Valientes Picadores, Eulogio Hernandez, Bernardo Camey y Felipe Chiguichi. En Testimonio de Gratitud [caption title]
by [Bullfighting]. [Guatemala]
Guatemala, 1888. Good.. Broadside, 13.25 x 10.25 inches. Printed in gold. Old folds, slight separation, some chipping and wear at right edge. Unusual broadside souvenir printed by a Guatemalan hospital, thanking three bullfighters for fundraising efforts on their behalf. The Hospital General San Juan de Dios de Guatemala was founded in 1667. In the 1880s it undertook to restore and maintain the colonial-era Plaza de Toros, the local bullfighting ring, which was a popular spot for the local... Read More
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![El Gefe Provisorio de Guatemala a los Habitantes del Estado y de Toda la Republica. Encargado del Gobierno de Esta Estado, Mientras Se Roune el Cuerpo Constituyente Que Debe Decidir de Su Suerte... [caption title and first line of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/380/240/1455240380.0.l.jpg)
El Gefe Provisorio de Guatemala a los Habitantes del Estado y de Toda la Republica. Encargado del Gobierno de Esta Estado, Mientras Se Roune el Cuerpo Constituyente Que Debe Decidir de Su Suerte... [caption title and first line of text]
by [Guatemala]. Salazar, Carlos
[Guatemala]: Imprenta de la N.A. de Estudios, 1839. About very good.. Small broadsheet, approximately 12 x 8 inches. Unevenly trimmed, small piece of upper right corner torn away. Vertical tideline through center of sheet. Beginning in 1838, the Federal Republic of Central America was torn apart by civil wars pitting Liberal against Conservative forces and factions within the various states with different demands for the central government, with constitutional issues at the heart of the controversy. The Liberals... Read More
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![Mariano Rivera Paz, Consejero Gefe del Estado de Guatemala, a los Habitantes del Estado y Demas Pueblos de la Republica. Conciudadanos: Quando en Fines de Enero Ultimo Fui Arrojado por la Fuerza del la Silla del Gobierno... [caption title and first line of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/770/240/1455240770.0.l.jpg)
Mariano Rivera Paz, Consejero Gefe del Estado de Guatemala, a los Habitantes del Estado y Demas Pueblos de la Republica. Conciudadanos: Quando en Fines de Enero Ultimo Fui Arrojado por la Fuerza del la Silla del Gobierno... [caption title and first line of text]
by [Guatemala]. Rivera Paz, Mariano
Guatemala, 1839. About very good.. Broadsheet, approximately 12 x 8.25 inches. Untrimmed, with a couple of small chips at edges, not affecting text. Some dampstaining, with vertical tideline through center of sheet. A very scarce broadsheet, dated April 18, 1839 in which Conservative Mariano Rivera Paz addresses the Guatemalan people only five days after his return to power, having ousted his own recent ouster, Carlos Salazar. He says that the people, along with the aid of Rafael Carrera... Read More
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![El Presidente de la Republica, Capitan Jeneral del Ejercito, a la Division de Operaciones. Compañeros: He Venido con el Objeto de Particular de Vuestros Trabajos... [caption title and first line of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/807/240/1455240807.0.l.jpg)
El Presidente de la Republica, Capitan Jeneral del Ejercito, a la Division de Operaciones. Compañeros: He Venido con el Objeto de Particular de Vuestros Trabajos... [caption title and first line of text]
by [Guatemala]. Carrera, Rafael
Chiquimila: 2 Agosto, 1853. Very good plus.. Small broadside, approximately 8.25 x 6.5 inches. Trimmed a bit raggedly. Small wormhole at lower left, affecting one letter. Light tanning. An otherwise unrecorded 1853 broadside, in which Rafael Carrera addresses the army and people of Guatemala concerning the ongoing strife with Honduras. He writes, in part: "Sé bien que los pueblos de Honduras son nuestros hermanos, y siempre habiamos vivido con ellos en la mejor armonia; mas ahora,... Read More
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![El Presidente de la Republica de Guatemala, a los Pueblos del Estado de Honduras. Hondureños. Los Acontecimientos Que Se Estan Verificando en el Territorio de Ese Estado... [caption title and first line of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/874/240/1455240874.0.l.jpg)
El Presidente de la Republica de Guatemala, a los Pueblos del Estado de Honduras. Hondureños. Los Acontecimientos Que Se Estan Verificando en el Territorio de Ese Estado... [caption title and first line of text]
by [Guatemala]. Carrera, Rafael
Guatemala, 1855. Fair.. [3]pp., on a bifolium. Small folio. Leaves no longer integral. Heavy chipping and wear at edges, quarter-sized hole through upper center of both leaves, but only a small amount of text actually affected. Moderate tanning and soiling. A scarce 1855 broadside in which Guatemalan caudillo Rafael Carrera addresses Hondurans regarding the perceived malign intentions of their president, José Trinidad Cabañas. Honduras, with Cabañas at the helm, had been in conflict with Guatemala since 1853, and... Read More
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