![Muster Roll for Company B of the First Battalion, Native Cavalry California Volunteers ["Californio Lancers"] - Aug. 31, 1865](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/183/894/1583894183.0.l.jpg)
Muster Roll for Company B of the First Battalion, Native Cavalry California Volunteers ["Californio Lancers"] - Aug. 31, 1865
by [Mexican - Americana, California - Civil War - California Native Cavalry]
Camp Low, 1865. Original partially printed document, 26cm x 77cm. Printed on both sides of the sheet, completed in manuscript. Darkening at folds from old tape repairs; partial splits to folds and extremities; complete and quite Good. Docketed verso, signed in ink by Lieutenant M[organ?] Owen. Lists twelve enlisted soldiers, most with Spanish surnames (two with French surnames). Fine. The formation of the California Native Cavalry in 1863 marked a significant chapter in the state's history. Comprising primarily... Read More
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![Lengthy Letter Describing the Food and Scenery of Vera Cruz, Written by Captain George Clutter of Wheeling, [West] Virginia, Captain of the the ‘Mountain Boys of Monongolia.’](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/769/898/1583898769.0.l.jpg)
Lengthy Letter Describing the Food and Scenery of Vera Cruz, Written by Captain George Clutter of Wheeling, [West] Virginia, Captain of the the ‘Mountain Boys of Monongolia.’
by [Mexican-American War - Correspondence - Food] Clutter, George
Vera Cruz, 1847. Folded letter to Wheeling, Virginia with learly struck two-line datestamp with "Paid 10" manuscript rate and blue "Steam" handstamp of New Orleans on 1847, with an unusual “Steam” marking applied in New Orleans. Fine condition. Fine. A descriptive and interesting letter from Captain George W. Clutter of Wheeling, Virginia, describing the scenes and food in Vera Cruz in detail. Clutter had enlisted a detachment of thirty-two men in early 1847 in Monongalia County for service... Read More
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Signed manuscript report and chart from Hersant, Consul de France a San Luis Potosí and Tampico, to Comte de Rigny, Minister of the Navy
by [Mexico] [Pastry War] Hersant, M.
Mexico, 1833. First Edition. Mexico: May 23, 1833. Letter and chart on watermarked single folio sheets, approx. 13 x 16-½ inches, letter: [3] pp.; chart: [2] pp.;. Near Fine. Rare first-hand documentation of the growing trade tensions that eventually led to the French-Mexican “Pastry War” of 1838. Consul Hersant’s gossipy report surveys the “commercial movement of the port [of Tampico] since it’s opening in 1824 until the end of 1832.” Hersant complains to his superiors that Mexican trade... Read More
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Scrapbook Documenting the Mexican Border Service Campaigns of 1916-1917, with an Unrecorded Map of the Campaign in Hidalgo County in 1916
by [Mexican Border War - Cartography - Personal Narratives] Gaffney, Samuel; Rice, C.A., et al.
VP, 1917. Scrapbook measuring 15 ½ x 10 ½ inches. With forty leaves, most with newspaper clippings and varied ephemera attached. Boards detached, contents generally fine. Laid in is a blueprint map entitled Map of Part of Hidalgo County Texas Showing Line of March in my Mexican Border Service, 1916. Made from Survey Notes taken on the march by Corp. C.A. Rice 74 Inf. N.G.U.S. Buffalo N.Y. Armory. Map measuring 33 ½ x 14 ¾ inches, irregularly shaped and... Read More
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Mexico Considerado Como Nacion Independiente y Libre, o Sean Algunas Indicaciones Sobre Los Deberes Mas Esenciales de Los Mexicanos
by [Mexico] [Texas] Ortiz, Tadeo
Burdeos [Bourdeaux]: Carlos Lawalle Sobrino, 1832. 8vo, full calf, 598 [2] pp. Chips to head of spine, ex-libris stamp to preliminary page, text block fine, very good to near fine overall. Very Good. A nice first edition copy of Tadeo Ortiz’s second historical work, written during his time as Consul in Bourdeaux and printed in Bourdeaux after he had returned to America to work as official commissioner in Texas. Ortiz advocated free trade and was in support of... Read More
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Photo Album of a 1947 Motorcycle Tour Through Mexico
by [Mexico – Motorcycles – Tourism] Wolfe, Wayne W.
Mexico and the United States, 1950. Scrapbook with approximately fifty-four photos: forty-four affixed measuring 5 x 7 inches and smaller; one loose measuring 5 x 7 inches; and nine loose measuring 8 ½ x 10 inches. With nineteen medium format negatives and six pieces of ephemera from Mexico and the US. Scrapbook pages delicate, photos excellent; overall very good to excellent.. After World War II, motorcycling’s popularity in the United States took off, especially among veterans, who had... Read More
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1844 Letter Describing “beautiful wonderful” Kalamazoo, Michigan, the “magical village of the west”
by [Michigan – Kalamazoo] Denger, Elizabeth
Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1844. Single three-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 9 ¾ inches. Folded with very small tears at folds; larger tear at seal intersecting with text. Overall excellent to Near Fine.. An 1844 letter from a woman who had recently moved to Kalamazoo to a friend in Urbana, Ohio. The writer describes Kalamazoo: “It is nearly four months since we bade our sad adieu to Staten Island and our lovely abode, & here have we been... Read More
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Autobiography of Joos Verplanke, Spring Lake, Michigan, Written during Winter of 1921
by [Michigan – Euro-American Immigration – 1834 Dutch Reformed Church Split – Civil War] Verplanke, Joos
Spring Lake, Michigan, 1921. Twelve 8 ½ x 11 inch pages affixed to backing sheet. Wear, marginal damage, and some tearing to backing sheet; pages folded with some wrinkling; excellent.. Joos Verplanke (1844–1943) was born in Zeeland, The Netherlands, and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1849. They settled in Holland, Michigan, and besides his time serving in the Union Army, Verplanke would live in the Ottawa County area for the rest of his life.... Read More
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![First Fam’lies of the Sierras [Finely Bound, with Letter from Miller to his Publishers Affixed to Preliminary Page]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/735/161/1386161735.0.l.jpg)
First Fam’lies of the Sierras [Finely Bound, with Letter from Miller to his Publishers Affixed to Preliminary Page]
by Miller, Cincinnatus Heine aka Joaquin Miller
Chicago: Jansen, McClurg and Co, 1876. 8vo, finely bound in ornate polished calf with all edges gilt, 258 pp. A finely bound copy of one of Miller’s best-known works, bound in perhaps early 20th century fine polished calf. Affixed to the preliminary page is an effusive letter from Miller written to the Roberts Brothers complaining about their treatment of him.
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Cabinet Card Showing a Series of Comical Drawings of a Failed Mining Expedition
by [Mining] Dennis, Photographer
Glenwood Springs, Colorado: Dennis, 1890. Albumen photograph, 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches on larger mount. Near Fine. An uncommon cabinet card lampooning the plight of the solitary miner through a series of drawings. The drawings show a man setting out to strike it rich before burying himself in a hole, from which he is eventually rescued. The final drawing shows him relaxing at home with a pipe and his foot in a cast. We find no record... Read More
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![Map of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming with Full Descriptions of Mineral Resources, Etc. [1897]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/830/062/1702062830.0.l.jpg)
Map of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming with Full Descriptions of Mineral Resources, Etc. [1897]
by [Mining History – South Dakota – Wyoming] Scott, Samuel
Custer, South Dakota: E. P. Noll & Co, 1897. Packet measuring 4 ½ x 7 ½ inches, containing a forty-page booklet and fold-out map measuring 28 ½ x 31 inches. Map folded with very small tears at folds, else Fine; booklet with staining from cover and staples; overall excellent to Near Fine.. The Black Hills gold rush began with George Armstrong Custer’s expedition there in 1874, breaking the US government’s treaty with the Sioux and ultimately leading to... Read More
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1857 Letter from Minnesota Territory Discussing Democrats and African-American Suffrage
by [Minnesota Territory – African-American History] Graham, C.
Henderson, Minnesota Territory, 1857. Single three-page letter measuring 8 x 10 inches. Fine.. A letter written shortly before Minnesota’s statehood concerning territorial politics, particularly African-American suffrage. The author, C. Graham, writes to N. E. Nelson: “After you get to Red Wing, you will be governed by your judgment & advice of the democrats at Red wing – Try & get the Lake City Tribune of 12 Sept. last, No. 34. In an Editorial the Editor says that... Read More
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The City of Mitchell and the Country Tributary Thereto
by [Dakota Territory - Promotional Literature - Mitchell]
Mitchell, 1887. 8vo, wraps, 82 pp. Tears to wraps, partially disbound, contents very good, good overall. Good. An unrecorded promotional book written about the city of Mitchell four years after its founding and near the end of the Dakota Boom. The introduction states “No apology is needed for the publication at this point of a pamphlet setting forth the advantages of this city and the country tributary thereto… The east is overcrowded with people… the west presents the... Read More
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Collection of Six Photographs of the Murray Louis Dance Company, 1972-1977
by [Modern Dance] Chimera Photo, David Shaw, Paul Hyman, et al.
New York, 1970. Six photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches. Fine condition. A collection of six photographs of Murray Louis Dance Company productions from the 1970s, with another portrait of Louis. The productions include Go Six, Personnae, Calligraph for Martyrs (two images), and Hoopla. A fine collection.
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Plea for Religious Liberty and the Rights of Conscience. An argument delivered in the Supreme Court of the United States April 28, 1886, in three cases of Lorenzo Snow, Plaintiff in Error, v. the United States, on writs of error to the Supreme Court of Utah Territory
by [Mormonism] [Polygamy] [Snow, Lorenzo] Curtis, George Ticknor
Washington: For the Author, 1866. 8vo, blue wraps, 42 pp. Apparently a gift copy from Curtis. Near fine overall with minimal wear. Near Fine. A scarce survival from Lorenzo Snow’s trial in the U.S. Supreme Court for polygamy under the Edmunds Act, where two of his three convictions were eventually overturned as the court determined that the offense was continuous and therefore only warranted a single conviction. George Ticknor Curtis defended Snow, and published this edition of his... Read More
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Christensen’s Ragtime Review. Vol. 1, Nos. 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9 (January–September 1915)
by [Music – Ragtime / Popular Piano Culture] Christensen, Axel
Chicago, Illinois: Axel Christensen School of Popular Music, 1915. Six issues from the inaugural volume of Christensen’s ragtime periodical. Original wrappers; expected wear from use; overall very good.. A rare group of early issues from Christensen’s Ragtime Review, a short-lived publication emerging from the Chicago-based pedagogical enterprise of Danish-American pianist and educator Axel Christensen (1883–1976). Founded in late 1914 at the height of ragtime’s popular ascendancy, the magazine functioned simultaneously as promotional organ, instructional forum, and cultural manifesto... Read More
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![Cotton Club Program, c. 1938. [Signed by Cab Calloway]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/328/311/1738311328.0.l.jpg)
Cotton Club Program, c. 1938. [Signed by Cab Calloway]
by [Music – Jazz – Dance] Calloway, Cab; Stark, Herman
New York City, 1938. Small folio, 12 x 9 inches, (16) unnumbered pages. Signed boldly by Calloway on the front cover above the leg of the dancer in the illustration. Near Fine.. An illustrated program for the Cotton Club from 1937/1938, with photographs of Cab Calloway, the Nicholas Brothers, and Mae Johnson, in addition to information about the Club’s fifth edition of their Cotton Club Parade (though this is a larger program). This copy documents the Midtown Manhattan... Read More
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Cuba Plantation Dance
by [Music – Plantation Songs / Caribbean Slavery Imagery] Wilson, Chas. H.
Philadelphia: Edward L. Walker, 142 Chestnut St., above 6th, 1855. Folio sheet music, pictorial lithographed cover, approximately 13.5 × 10.5 inches. Light edge wear and minor toning; very good with a strong impression of the cover illustration.. An antebellum piano dance reflecting the plantation imagery that circulated widely in mid-nineteenth-century American popular music. “Cuba Plantation Dance” was composed by Chas. H. Wilson, a little-documented composer whose name appears chiefly in connection with this work, and issued in Philadelphia... Read More
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![Cakewalking Babies from Home. [Sheet Music]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/361/311/1738311361.0.l.jpg)
Cakewalking Babies from Home. [Sheet Music]
by [Music – Jazz – Sheet Music] Williams, Clarence; Smith, Chris; Troy, Henry; Leff, Sydney [illustrator]
New York City: Clarence Williams, 1924. Folio measuring 12 x 9 inches, 5 pp. With an attractive period style illustration by Sydney Leff, with his printed signature in the lower right corner. Fine condition.. A very scarce surviving example of the sheet music for "Cakewalking Babies from Home", a cornerstone early jazz-blues composition issued through Clarence Williams’s publishing enterprise at the moment when New Orleans–derived ensemble practice was reshaping American popular music. Written by Williams with Chris Smith... Read More
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My Regular Girl Is a Regular Feller (And I’m Her Regular Beau). Novelty Song
by [Music – Tin Pan Alley – Gender] O’Neil, Dannie; Foley, Jimmie
New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1919. Folio sheet music, 3 pp. plus pictorial cover (4 pp. total). Near fine with light general wear and minor handling marks.. A lively Tin Pan Alley novelty song written and performed by the vaudeville duo Dannie O’Neil and Jimmie Foley, whose studio portraits appear prominently on the cover. The design places their photograph against a decorative field of bold red flowers and deep blue foliage, a bright, poster-like arrangement characteristic of... Read More
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![“Taking Dope” Ramones Fanzine. [First Two Issues]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/277/063/1702063277.0.l.jpg)
“Taking Dope” Ramones Fanzine. [First Two Issues]
by [Music History – Punk Rock] Ramone, Dee Dee; Holmstrom, John; Zampini, Barbara Ramone
New York City: self-published, 1996. Two stapled packets, each with about twenty 8 ½ x 11 photocopied pages. Near Fine.. The first two issues of Dee Dee Ramone’s fanzine “Taking Dope”, from the collection of Ramones collaborator Daniel Rey. The zine was authored by Ramone, his partner Barbara Zampini, and cartoonist John Holmstrom, who illustrated the covers for the Ramones’ Rocket to Russia (1977) and Road to Ruin (1978). The zines contain letters from Dee Dee, lyrics, descriptions... Read More
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Group of Nine Duke Ellington Songsheets Published by Exclusive Productions in the Late 1930s, Including a Copy of “La De Doody Doo” Signed by the Illustrator Billy DeBeck
by [Music – Jazz – Duke Ellington / Swing Era Publishing] Ellington, Duke, et al.
New York: Exclusive Publications, Inc, 1939. Nine pieces of sheet music. Folio. Titles include: “Azure”; “Caravan”; “In a Sentimental Mood”; “La De Doody Doo”; “Lost in Meditation”; “Prelude to a Kiss”; “Scattin’ at the Kit Kat”; “Solitude”; “The Gal from Joe’s”. Generally very good plus to near fine with light handling wear; one piece, “La De Doody Doo,” signed by cartoonist Billy DeBeck. Covers bright with striking graphic illustration. Very good plus to Near Fine.. An uncommon and... Read More
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Masculine Women! Feminine Men! Which Is the Rooster? Which Is the Hen
by [Music – Popular Song – Gender Satire] Leslie, Edgar; Monaco, James V.
New York: Edgar Leslie / Clarke & Leslie Songs, Inc, 1926. Folio sheet music, illustrated color pictorial cover with portrait of Sammy Clark; with ukulele arrangement. Light wear and small creases; covers detached, small tears at margins, still bright and attractive. Fair to good.. A lively novelty song from the height of the Jazz Age fascination with shifting gender roles, written by lyricist Edgar Leslie and composer James V. Monaco and published in New York in 1926. The... Read More
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Spondulix Petroleum Co. / Capital $50,000,000 / Shares 50 cts Each. / Dividends Declared Very Often… / Every Stockholder is Entitled to One Copy of the Famous Petroleum Galop
by [Music - Oil - Lithography] Spondulix Petroleum Company [pseudonym]; William A. Pond and Company; Helmsmuller, F.B.
New York: Wm. A. Pond, 1865. Folio, 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Fine condition. Fine. An unusual use of sheet music as satire, with the lithographed cover showing a fake stock certificate. The cover - engraved by Major & Knapp - advertises an ownership share in the Spondolix Petroleum company and states that F.B. Helmsmuller, who was actually a noted composer, was the “Treasurer and General Manager” of the company. This is a particularly fine example of... Read More
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Dinah. Featured Song Success in the New Plantation Revue (Society’s Rendezvous of N.Y.)
by [Music – Jazz Age] Akst, Harry; Lewis, Sam; Young, Joe; Barbelle, Alfred Willard [Baker, Josephine, et al.] [illustrator]
New York City: Henry Waterson, Inc, 1925. Folio, illustrated wraps. 5 pp. Fine condition.. A striking Jazz Age sheet music issue and likely first edition for “Dinah,” the widely popular song composed by Harry Akst with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young, here promoted as a “Featured Song Success” from The New Plantation (Society’s Rendezvous of N.Y.), a Harlem revue-style theatrical production. The revue was advertised as an all-Black production reopening the Plantation Cabaret at 50th... Read More
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