1776 - 1838 - 1846 - 1876. The State of Iowa United States of America. Its Statistics & Resources
by [Iowa]
Des Moines: State Register Print, 1876. Good plus.. Small folding pamphlet, with [8] panels. Small separation at foot of one fold line; slight biopredation at head of two panels. Light tanning. An unusual Iowa promotional, which charts the growth of the state over the 19th century through statistics and tables of its agricultural production. It also charts the growth of mining and manufacturing, shows the growing value of freight carried by railroads in the state, and delineates the... Read More
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![Copy of Official Primary Road System of Iowa [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/082/434/1317434082.0.l.jpg)
Copy of Official Primary Road System of Iowa [cover title]
by [Iowa]
Waterloo, Ia, 1925. Very good.. Folding map, 11.5 x 17.5 inches, in a printed card cover, 6.25 x 4.75 inches. Light wear and soiling to covers. Map with slight separation at corner folds, lightly toned. A map of the roads in Iowa, prepared by the state Highway Commission. The map is pasted into printed card covers advertising the Harrison Motor Co. of Nashua, Iowa; the cover also includes a list of automobile license prefix numbers for the state.... Read More
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![Saikin Beikoku Seiko Jikketsu [Ten Outstanding Successes in the U.S.A.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/622/328/1700328622.0.l.jpg)
Saikin Beikoku Seiko Jikketsu [Ten Outstanding Successes in the U.S.A.]
by Ishii, Isamu
Tokyo, 1903. About very good.. [2],4,26,371,[19]pp., plus three leaves of plates. Original tan printed wrappers. Spine partially perished, light wear to covers. First edition. Profiles of ten successful American businessmen, published as part of a late Meiji-era interest in business practices and strategies. The three plates show portraits of the men, among them J. Pierpont Morgan. The final section is mostly ad pages for business-related books. Three copies in OCLC, two in Japan and one at the Library... Read More
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Anecdotario Charro
by Islas Escarcega, Leovigildo
Mexico City: Tip. J.G. Villanueva, 1943. Good.. 63,[1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Ex-New York Public Library, with some associated markings on wrappers and initial leaves. Moderate wear to wrappers, with small portion of lower corner of front wrap torn away and neighboring small tape repair. Light toning and dust soiling. A scarce collection of entertaining anecdotes about charro life and culture in Mexico. The episodic stories focus on the customs and practices of the traditional Mexican rodeo cowboy. The... Read More
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Birds Eye View of Camp Travis. San Antonio, Texas. Oct. 1917
by [Texas]. [World War I]
San Antonio, 1917. Very good.. Large panoramic photograph, 8 x 92 inches. Rolled. Minor wear at edges, with one very short closed tear at top edge. Light blemish in negative at center of image. Light dust soiling and toning. An outstanding and extremely long panoramic photograph, measuring well over 7.5 feet in length, that depicts Camp Travis in San Antonio, following its recent opening. Although the camp was open and housing an entire division-in-training at the time of... Read More
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Bird's Eye View. Camp Bowie, Fort Worth Tex. October 1917
by [Texas]. [World War I]
Chicago: Mayhart Studio, 1917. Very good.. Large panoramic photograph, 8 x 90.5 inches. Rolled. Light wear at edges, with a couple of small chips and very short closed tears along top edge. minor dust soiling and toning. A fabulous and extremely long panoramic photograph, measuring approximately 7.5 feet in length, that depicts Camp Bowie in Fort Worth during October 1917. At this time, the camp was still under construction but also housed an entire infantry division in training... Read More
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![Derechos Convincentes para Elegir Emperador Americano [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/745/427/1483427745.0.l.jpg)
Derechos Convincentes para Elegir Emperador Americano [caption title]
by [Iturbide, Agustin de]
Mexico City: Alejandro Valdes, 1821. Still very good.. 8pp. Small quarto. Removed from a sammelband. Light wear at gutter fold. Minor dampstaining and dust soiling at edges. Light tanning. Fascinating and very scarce pamphlet concerning the right of Mexico to elect an emperor, published anonymously just after the country was granted independence by Spain in 1821. The first several years of independence in Mexico were fraught by political division concerning the form that the new government should take.... Read More
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![El Supremo Poder Ejectutivo Me Ha Dirigido El Decreto Que Sigue.... 1o Se Declara Traidor y Fuera de la Ley á D. Agustin de Iturbide... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/501/057/1533057501.0.l.jpg)
El Supremo Poder Ejectutivo Me Ha Dirigido El Decreto Que Sigue.... 1o Se Declara Traidor y Fuera de la Ley á D. Agustin de Iturbide... [caption title]
by [Iturbide, Agustin de]
Mexico City: April 28, 1824. Good plus.. Broadsheet. Small folio. Right edge reinforced. Small portion of lower left corner town away. Scattered worming, occasionally repaired with small paper discs on verso, slightly affecting text. The rare first printing of this dramatic and consequential decree, which designated Agustin de Iturbide, the first President and former Emperor of Mexico, as an enemy of the state. Iturbide's military and political coalition brought the Mexican War of Independence to a close with... Read More
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![Centinela Alerta, o Argos Americano en Favor de Su Patrio Suelo. Num 1.o Pág. 1. [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/761/427/1483427761.0.l.jpg)
Centinela Alerta, o Argos Americano en Favor de Su Patrio Suelo. Num 1.o Pág. 1. [caption title]
by [Iturbide, Augstin de]
Mexico City: Jose Maria Betancourt, 1821. Very good.. 7pp. Small quarto. Removed from a sammelband. Minor wear at edges. Light tanning and dust soiling. Very scarce, early Mexican pseudo-periodical, which calls for national unity and the installation of Agustin de Iturbide as Emperor of Mexico in the wake of independence in 1821. The anonymous author, who signs this work "C.A.G.," exhorts his fellow countrymen to be united as the Romans were by love of country ("amor patriae") and... Read More
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![[Group of Eight Handsome Professional Photographs of Jamaica]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/669/110/1700110669.0.l.jpg)
[Group of Eight Handsome Professional Photographs of Jamaica]
by [Jamaica]
[Kingston: A. Duperly & Sons, 1910. About very good.. Eight glossy sepia-toned photographs, each approximately 6 x 9 inches; matted to 14 x 16 inches. Some creasing and wear, more pronounced on a handful of images. Minor soiling, minimal fading, crisp images. A nice group of photographs from the noted Kingston studio of A. Duperly and Sons, initially established by patriarch Adolphe Duperly in the 1840s. The images here show local life and scenery, including a view of... Read More
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![Burajiru Yori Kaerite [Back from Brazil]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/651/741/1669741651.0.l.jpg)
Burajiru Yori Kaerite [Back from Brazil]
by [Japanese Americana]. [Brazil]. Ariyoshi, Akira
Tokyo: Nippon Renmi -- Nippon Kogyu Bu, 1930. Very good.. [2],9pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor wear and dust-soiling. An unrecorded pamphlet printing the text of a speech delivered to the Japanese Industrial Club by the Japanese Ambassador to Brazil. The title of the speech is translated as Back from Brazil or Returning from Brazil, and concentrates on Ariyoshi's experiences after spending three years in South America, with particular attention paid to Japanese immigration and potential investment. During the... Read More
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![Akarui Bukkyo: Amerika yori Nihon Bukkyoto ni [Brilliant Buddhism: From American to Japanese Buddhists]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/283/277/1681277283.0.l.jpg)
Akarui Bukkyo: Amerika yori Nihon Bukkyoto ni [Brilliant Buddhism: From American to Japanese Buddhists]
by [Japanese Americana]. Kyogoku, Itsuzo
Fresno, CA, but printed in Japan: Maha Maya Society, 1954. Very good.. [2],[8],265,[1]pp., plus photographic frontispiece portrait. Original tan boards stamped in silver, original printed dust jacket. Minor wear. A scarce biography of a Japanese-American priest, the title of which roughly translates to "Brilliant Buddhism: From American to Japanese Buddhists." Kyogoku was a Shin priest working within the Japanese American community in California. He spent the war years in the Topaz internment camp. OCLC records a little over... Read More
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![Senjika Nikkeijin to Beikoku no Jitsujo...Nikkeijin no Ketsurui Jisshi [Japanese-Americans During the War and the Real Conditions of America...The Bitter Story of Japanese Americans]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/806/592/1513592806.0.l.jpg)
Senjika Nikkeijin to Beikoku no Jitsujo...Nikkeijin no Ketsurui Jisshi [Japanese-Americans During the War and the Real Conditions of America...The Bitter Story of Japanese Americans]
by [Japanese Americana]. Ikeda, Kando
[Oakland]: Daireikyo Kenkyujo, 1950. About very good.. [14],336,[2],59,[1]pp., plus one two-sided plate. Original illustrated wrappers, printed in black, blue, red, and white, blue cloth backstrip with titles printed in yellow. Some scuffing and chipping to extremities, moderate sunning and rubbing to spine. Front hinge somewhat tender. Internally clean. The important first volume of a separately-published three-volume work focused on the Japanese-American experience during the internment period, the second and third volumes of which were published in the subsequent... Read More
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![Utsurikite Gojunen: Burajiru no Nikkeijin [Fifty Years: The Japanese in Brazil]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/756/849/1597849756.0.l.jpg)
Utsurikite Gojunen: Burajiru no Nikkeijin [Fifty Years: The Japanese in Brazil]
by [Japanese in Brazil]. Yamamoto, Kiyoshi
Tokyo: Raten Amerika Ch kai, 1957. Very good.. [1],114,[1]pp., plus color photographic frontispiece. Original pictorial wrappers printed in brown, tan, and green. Minor wear and dust-soiling. First edition of this rare biographical account of life in Brazil by Kiyoshi Yamamoto, a doctor of agriculture who served as Chairman of the Japan-Brazil Culture Promotion Committee. The work covers "fifty years of progress" among Japanese immigrant farmers and their lives in Brazil, published in Japan to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary... Read More
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![Sangai no Mado Kara [From the Third Floor Window]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/331/122/1533122331.0.l.jpg)
Sangai no Mado Kara [From the Third Floor Window]
by [Japanese Americana]. Oka, Morito
Tokyo, 1929. About very good.. 249pp. Original drab printed wrappers. Spine lightly toned and chipped, light soiling and wear to covers. Inscribed on title page, contemporary ink notation on rear endpapers. First edition. A collection of essays originally published in the Japanese American News; the author worked for the Los Angeles branch of the newspaper. The essays, most quite short and some comprised of just a few lines of poetry, offer observations on Japanese-American life and culture. Content... Read More
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![Zaibei Hojin No Mitaru Beikoku to Beikokujin / [America and Americans As Seen by a Japanese in the United States]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/308/983/1449983308.0.l.jpg)
Zaibei Hojin No Mitaru Beikoku to Beikokujin / [America and Americans As Seen by a Japanese in the United States]
by [Japanese Americana]. Hasegawa, Shin'ichiro
Tokyo: Jitsugyo No Nihonsha, 1937. Very good.. 4,5,456,7,[6]pp., plus three plates. Original cream cloth stamped in blue, black, and gold. In original pictorial slipcase. Moderate staining and soiling to boards. Endpapers toned, very occasional light foxing to text, unobtrusive dampstain to fore-edge. Slipcase very worn and mostly separated, but rarely seen with the work in any condition. Withal, a nice copy of a rare book. A scarce Japanese-American historical survey of American history and especially the relationship between... Read More
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![Nanpo Shin Tokoho [New Southern Travel Initiative]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/456/016/1591016456.0.l.jpg)
Nanpo Shin Tokoho [New Southern Travel Initiative]
by [Japanese in South Asia]. Nagata, Shigeshi
Tokyo: Nihon Rikkokai, 1942. Very good.. [1],[3],[7],26,[336]pp. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue and brown. Moderate foxing and soiling, minor edge wear to wrappers, some scuffing and minor losses to front wrapper. Text somewhat foxed and evenly toned, reflecting wartime book production standards. A very rare work encouraging Japanese civilians "of all classes" to emigrate to the Pacific regions now controlled by the Empire of Japan after the outbreak of World War II, namely Thailand, Burma, and the... Read More
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![Obei kiyu niman-sanzenri [23,000 Miles Through American and Europe]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/079/576/1516576079.0.l.jpg)
Obei kiyu niman-sanzenri [23,000 Miles Through American and Europe]
by [Japanese Americana]. Togawa, Shukotsu
Tokyo: Hattori Shoten, 1908. About very good.. [2],3,6,448,50,[1]pp., plus twenty-two plates. Original publisher's cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. Some abrading to boards and spine, modest edge wear, one small chip to spine. Occasional minor foxing, hinges a bit tender, small chip to front pastedown. A Meiji-era writer travels across the United States and sails for Europe, then makes the same trip in reverse on a different route. Togawa reports on the state of... Read More
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![Shiroi Tsue ni Tayoritsutsu [Relying on a White Cane]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/285/277/1681277285.0.b.jpg)
Shiroi Tsue ni Tayoritsutsu [Relying on a White Cane]
by [Japanese Americana]. Mihara, Tokinobu
San Francisco / Osaka: Oriental Culture Book Co, 1962. Very good.. [2],158,[1]pp., plus photographic frontispiece portrait. Original green cloth, gilt spine titles. Minor wear. A rare autobiography by the blind Japanese American author; Mihara's photo shows him reading a Braille bible with his fingertips. When Mihara was interned at Heart Mountain (where he lost his sight due to poor medical care), he created a pioneering Japanese Braille board. OCLC records just three institutional holdings -- UCLA, the Bancroft,... Read More
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![[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album of a Japanese Tourist Traveling Across the United States Just After World War I]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/653/760/1680760653.0.l.jpg)
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album of a Japanese Tourist Traveling Across the United States Just After World War I]
by [Japanese Americana]. [Travel]. [Fujisawa, Tomonosuke]
[Various locations in the United States], 1919. Very good.. [50] leaves, illustrated with 198 tipped-in sepia-toned photographs, almost all around 5 x 3 inches (a handful somewhat smaller), all with white ink manuscript captions in English. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black cloth photograph album with "Places and Faces" in gilt on front cover, string tied. Moderate wear, soiling, and minor scuffing to boards. Occasional creasing and minor wear to images. A unique and informative photographic record of an extensive... Read More
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![Burajiru o Chokushi Shite: Yuku Hito to Okuru Hito no Tameni [A Direct Look at Brazil: For Those Who Are Going and Those Who Are Sending]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/942/749/1665749942.0.l.jpg)
Burajiru o Chokushi Shite: Yuku Hito to Okuru Hito no Tameni [A Direct Look at Brazil: For Those Who Are Going and Those Who Are Sending]
by [Japanese Americana]. [Brazil]. Yamada, Yonosuke
Tokyo: Kaigai Kogyo, 1929. Very good.. [2],4,8,10,416,[4]pp., plus twenty-five double-sided photographic plates (one folding). Original illustrated wrappers printed in blue, green, white, and yellow. Moderate toning, minor edge wear. Light foxing to beginning and end of text block, otherwise internally clean. A rare and informative guide to Brazil intended for Japanese immigrants to the country in the early 20th century. The work contains chapters on the history of Brazil (including its relationship with Japan and information on the... Read More
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The Laws of Spirit Mediumship
by Jefts, Lena Barnes
Miami: Health Research, 1971. Good plus.. 39,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light soiling to wraps. Light tanning. An informational catechism on mediumship, published by an obscure Florida spiritualist center, The School of Spiritual Truth. The author, Lena Barnes Jefts, was the author of several occult pamphlets on spiritual healing, mediumship, and materialization, and traveled widely in the 1920s and 1930s to give readings, lectures, and performances. The present little work contains more than you ever wanted to know... Read More
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Glorias de Maria Santissima en Sermones Duplicados para Todas Sus Festividades
by Pedro de San Jose
Huesca: Juan Nogues, 1645. About good.. [4],311,[15] leaves. Small quarto. Contemporary limp vellum, ties lacking, manuscript spine title. Later manuscript ownership inscription and drawing on front flyleaf; outer portion of title page torn away and repaired, not affecting text.. Text block trimmed closely at bottom edge, lower corner dampstained, tanned. Half of leaf 269 torn away, several leaves with text blacked out as though by censorship; small portion of final leaf with loss and repair, slightly affecting text.... Read More
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![The Atlanta Republican --- Extra....Saturday, December 18, 1880 [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/498/682/1678682498.0.l.jpg)
The Atlanta Republican --- Extra....Saturday, December 18, 1880 [caption title]
by [Georgia]. [Judiciary]
Atlanta: December 18, 1880. About very good.. Broadside newspaper extra, 19 x 11.25 inches. Old folds and creases, a bit wrinkled, minor soiling, minor fraying and light staining to top edge, tiny hole at center crossfold. An extraordinarily rare broadside newspaper extra from the only Republican paper in the state of Georgia to survive the end of Reconstruction. The Atlanta Republican was issued weekly between 1874 and 1886, and was devoted to Republican Party causes during Reconstruction. The... Read More
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A Cuban Diary
by Kahl, Joseph A.
St. Louis, 1969. Very good.. [1],105,[8]pp. Printed on rectos only. Folio. Original blue card covers, spiral bound. Minor wear, slightly heavier to covers. Academic work written by Joseph A. Kahl, who was, at the time, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Washington University, specializing in Latin America. Kahl (1923-2010) subsequently moved to Cornell, where he taught until his retirement in 1983. He authored numerous works on the social and class struggles of Latin America. The present work appears... Read More
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