![Commemoration Day Solemn March in Honor of Malcolm X... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/525/877/1700877525.0.l.jpg)
Commemoration Day Solemn March in Honor of Malcolm X... [caption title]
by [Malcolm X]
[N.p., likely Harlem, 1970. Good.. Illustrated broadside, 11 x 8.5 inches. Old folds, minor chipping and several old tape repairs to edges, moderate toning, light soiling. An undated but certainly early flyer advertising a "Solemn March" in celebration of Malcolm X Commemoration Day in Harlem in the late-1960s. The work includes a hand-drawn portrait of Malcolm X at lower left, with a long list of over twenty sponsors for the march printed at right. Malcolm is identified in... Read More
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Western Harness and Supply Company. Manufacturers and Wholesalers of Harness and Supplies, 608-610 Commercial Street Waterloo, Iowa, U.S.A.
by [Iowa]. [Manufacturing]
Vinton, Ia, 1913. Very good.. [80]pp. Oblong octavo. Original printed wrappers. Light dampstaining and creasing to wraps. Light dust soiling internally. A scarce, profusely illustrated trade catalog for this Iowa harness company based in the town of Waterloo. The publication advertises and illustrates nearly forty different types of available harnesses, hundreds of harness parts, and several styles of saddle. "Every piece of work we send out represents us.... We use nothing but the best Oak Leather and guarantee... Read More
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![Flores Historicas. Extracto de la Obra Francesa de P. Larousse. Traduccion de A. Almeida. Copia de J.F. Pellon [manuscript title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/544/811/1376811544.0.l.jpg)
Flores Historicas. Extracto de la Obra Francesa de P. Larousse. Traduccion de A. Almeida. Copia de J.F. Pellon [manuscript title]
by [Cuba]. [Literary Manuscripts]
Habana, 1884. Good plus.. [2],496 [i.e., 498]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf, gilt, a.e.g.; rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners repaired with later black buckram; boards scuffed, spine chipped. Hinges cracked, repaired with later cloth and renewed endpapers. Minor scattered foxing and toning to text. Accomplished in a neat, highly legible hand. A very attractive manuscript translation into Spanish of Pierre Larousse's well-known work on eminent and historical personages, Fleurs Historiques des Dames et des Gens du Monde, in... Read More
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![[Statement by Comrade Mao, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in Support of the Afro-American Struggle Against Violent Repression. April 16, 1968]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/208/609/1671609208.0.l.jpg)
[Statement by Comrade Mao, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in Support of the Afro-American Struggle Against Violent Repression. April 16, 1968]
by Mao, Zedong
[China], 1968. About very good.. [2]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Printed in blue. Central fold, light chipping and wear. Mao's statement argues that "Martin Luther King was an exponent of nonviolence. Nevertheless, the U.S. imperialists did not on that account show any tolerance toward him, but used counter-revolutionary violence and killed him in cold blood. This has taught the broad masses of the Black people in the United States a profound lesson." After it was disseminated, the... Read More
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Lemkovina: Map of Lemkovina or West Carpatho-Russia
by [Eastern European Immigration]. [Maps]
Philadelphia: Lemko Press, 1929. Very good.. Lithographed folding map, approximately 32 x 40 inches, printed in pink and black. Housed in original red wrappers printed in black. Modest wear along folds, a couple of small separations at crossfolds, light marginal toning. Wrappers with minor spine and edge wear. An extremely rare map of "Lemkovina," the homeland of the Lemko, an Eastern Slavic people from the Central Carpathian Mountains (where Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine meet in the present day).... Read More
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![[Archive of Photographic and Promotional Material for Mid-20th-Century Mariachi Musicians in Mexico and California]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/595/777/1703777595.0.l.jpg)
[Archive of Photographic and Promotional Material for Mid-20th-Century Mariachi Musicians in Mexico and California]
by [Music]. [Mariachis]
[Various places in California, New York & Mexico, 1960. Very good.. Sixty items total, including fifty-five photograps and five posters. Generally light wear. An attractive archive of visual materials, including posters, broadsides, original photographs, and real photo postcards, that promote leading mariachi singers and musicians of the mid-20th century, including Salvador López, La Prieta Linda, José Alfredo Jiménez, Lucero Aguilar, Miguel Angel Montes, Francisco Avitia, Ignacio Jaime, Jorge de Crespo, and Alfredo “El Mayoral” Gonzalez. Notably, many of... Read More
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El Triple Secreto del Espiritu Santo
by McConkey, James H.
Los Angeles, 1929. About very good.. 106,[1]pp. Small octavo. Original printed wrappers. Some chipping at spine ends, otherwise minor wear to wraps. Light toning internally. A scarce Spanish-language translation, published in Los Angeles, of a tract on the nature of the Holy Spirit by James H. McConkey, Baptist teacher and prolific writer on spirituality. McConkey graduated Princeton in 1880 and attended law school, but soon dedicated his life to the Baptist ministry and worked as a religious teacher... Read More
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Manual Sanitario, o Medicina y Farmacia Domesticas..
by [Medicine]. Raspail, Francois-Vincent
Mexico City: Tipografia de R. Rafael, 1848. Very good.. 295pp. Contemporary Mexican calf, spine gilt with leather label. Light wear to extremities, heavier to corners; label a bit chipped. Light foxing and wear to text. Second edition, after the first of the previous year. A popular manual for hygiene and the diagnosing and curing of diseases. Translated from the French and published in Mexico three subsequent years, the present work provides advice on the means to stay well... Read More
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![Latest Song Poems [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/437/548/1413548437.0.l.jpg)
Latest Song Poems [cover title]
by Melander, Peter H.
Tacoma, 1906. Very good.. [8] leaves, printed rectos only. Original black wrappers, printed in gold, string-tied. Light wear and chipping to wrappers at spine edge. Small ink stamp on front flyleaf and final blank. Internally clean. With original mailing envelope. An odd production, printing eight "song poems" each of which with a labeled chorus. The eight leaves feature three different papers and typefaces, giving the volume a rather charming, homemade feel. Titles include "My Louisiana Home" and "That... Read More
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![[Group of Four Pamphlets Detailing the Pacifist Positions of the Mennonite Church]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/647/950/1557950647.0.l.jpg)
[Group of Four Pamphlets Detailing the Pacifist Positions of the Mennonite Church]
by [Pacifism]. [Mennonites]
[Scottdale, Pa, 1949. Very good.. Four pamphlets, paginations below. Small quartos, in light card wrappers, stapled. Minor soiling and wear. A group of four tracts on the Mennonite pacifist philosophy and its consequences. The titles present are as follows: 1) Horsch, John. The Principle of Nonresistance As Held by the Mennonite Church. Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, 1939. 2nd Edition, Revised and enlarged. 74pp. 2) Yoder, Edward. Compromise with War: A Brief Critique of the War Philosophy... Read More
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![Racy Rhymes [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/458/548/1413548458.0.l.jpg)
Racy Rhymes [cover title]
by Merryman, T. J.
Lincoln, 1906. Very good.. 68pp. plus frontispiece and errata. 12mo. Original grey printed wrappers. Light soiling and wear. Small ink stamp on verso of first leaf. Internally clean. Temperance poetry written by a doctor in Nebraska. In one piece, titled "Our Bondage: Written on Nebraska's Senate Refusing the County Option Bill," he writes: "King George once swayed his scepter here, / And ruled us with an iron hand... / King Alcohol now holds high sway, / And seeks... Read More
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Memorandum a la American Federation of Labor Sobre la Crisis Internacional Que Algunos Capitalistas Extranjeros Pretenden Provocar en Mexico
by Alianza Liberal Mexicana
Nueva York, 1919. Good plus.. 15pp. Large octavo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Some staining on front wrapper and first two text leaves, minor edge wear. A rare missive sent from the Alianza Liberal Mexicana to the American Federation of Labor in 1919, asking for their help in "counteracting the propaganda that a large group of capitalists have begun to make in this country and in Europe in favor of an armed intervention in Mexico." The Alianza issued this... Read More
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![Secretaria de Hacienda. Seccion 1a. El Exmo. Sr. Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana Se Ha Servida Dirigirme el Decreto Que Sigue. ... "El Gobierno Solo Podra Disponer Hasta de la Mitad de las Rentas de los Departamentos, Mientras Subsista la Guerra Provocada por los Colonos de Tejas..." [caption title and first lines of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/441/961/1614961441.0.l.jpg)
Secretaria de Hacienda. Seccion 1a. El Exmo. Sr. Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana Se Ha Servida Dirigirme el Decreto Que Sigue. ... "El Gobierno Solo Podra Disponer Hasta de la Mitad de las Rentas de los Departamentos, Mientras Subsista la Guerra Provocada por los Colonos de Tejas..." [caption title and first lines of text]
by [Mexico]. [Texas]. [Vallejo, Antonio]
Mexico City: January 9, 1836. Very good.. Broadside, 11.5 x 8.25 inches. Old fold lines, minor creasing. An exceedingly rare Mexican decree concerned with financing the Mexican Army during the early months of the Texas Revolution. Essentially, the decree called for slashing the budgets of other departments (or states) within the Mexican government to help ensure funding for Santa Anna and his troops while "subsista la guerra provocada por los colonos de Tejas" [the war brought on by... Read More
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![Juan Nepomuceno de la Garza y Evia, Gobernador del Departamento de Nuevo Leon a Sus Conciudadanos. Nuevoleoneses: una Corta Seccion de Nuestro Ejercito Que andaba en Persona el Benemerito de la Patria... [caption title and first line of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/147/323/1592323147.0.l.jpg)
Juan Nepomuceno de la Garza y Evia, Gobernador del Departamento de Nuevo Leon a Sus Conciudadanos. Nuevoleoneses: una Corta Seccion de Nuestro Ejercito Que andaba en Persona el Benemerito de la Patria... [caption title and first line of text]
by [Mexico]. [Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de]
Monterrey: June 4, 1836. About very good.. Printed broadside, approximately 8.5 x 8.5 inches. Trimmed at lower edge, with no loss of text. Shallow, one-inch section torn away at lower edge, also not affecting text. Contemporary manuscript rubric. Light tanning and creasing. A scarce broadside dated June 4, 1836, in which the Governor of Nuevo Leon, Juan Nepomuceno de la Garza, announces the capture of Santa Anna by the Texans to his citizens. "Though [the first] announcement of... Read More
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![[Three Manuscript Letters Sent to Aristarchus Champion from New York Correspondents Just Following the Mexican-American War, Concerning Mexican Claims, New York Real Estate Prices, a Proposed "Road to Lake Erie," and Art Purchases]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/862/314/1664314862.0.l.jpg)
[Three Manuscript Letters Sent to Aristarchus Champion from New York Correspondents Just Following the Mexican-American War, Concerning Mexican Claims, New York Real Estate Prices, a Proposed "Road to Lake Erie," and Art Purchases]
by [Mexican-American War]. [Champion, Aristarchus]
New York, 1850. Very good.. Three manuscript letters, totaling nine pages, and approximately X words. All on single folded sheets, all addressed on the verso of the second leaf. Old mailing folds, minor foxing and wear, small hole in second leaf of two letters from removed wax seals. An informative trio of manuscript letters sent by Thomas Spencer and William W. Bliss from New York City to Aristarchus Champion in Rochester. Aristarchus Champion (1784-1871) was a Yale graduate... Read More
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![Secretaria de Estado y del Despacho de Hacienda y Credito Publico Seccion 5a – Mesa 1a.… El Presidente de la Republica se ha Servido Dirigirme el Decreto que Sigue… [caption title and first lines of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/449/295/1631295449.0.l.jpg)
Secretaria de Estado y del Despacho de Hacienda y Credito Publico Seccion 5a – Mesa 1a.… El Presidente de la Republica se ha Servido Dirigirme el Decreto que Sigue… [caption title and first lines of text]
by [Arizona]. [Mexico]
Mexico City: October 10, 1882. Very good.. [1]pp. Folio. Minor wear, faint fold lines. An exceedingly rare decree from President Manuel González of Mexico, announcing the yearly wage for the Mexican delegate to the American consulate in Tombstone, Arizona. The $1,500 allocated to this position was meant to be in addition to what it currently paid. Tombstone is located just 30 miles outside of the border of Sonora, Mexico. It is famous for being considered one of the... Read More
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Officium in Festo Sancti Patriarchae Camilli de Lellis Confessoris Clericorum Regularium Ministrantium Infirmis Fundatoris..
by [Catholicism]. [Mexico]
Mexico City, 1786. Very good.. 29pp. Original plain wrappers. Light soiling to wraps. Internally quite clean, but for some very faint dampstaining at upper corners. A scarce, late 18th-century printing of the offices of St. Camillus de Lellis, founder of the the Order of Cleric Regular, Servants of the Sick. With St. John of God, Camillus is co-patron of hospitals, nurses, and the sick. The work is printed in two columns, save for the last two pages which... Read More
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Cain y Abel El Primer Crimen Melodrama Biblico en Dos Actos y en Verso
by [Mexico]. Suarez, Constancio S.
Mexico City: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1898. About very good.. 30pp. Small quarto. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Wraps faded, with light wear to spine and edges; a few short, closed tears, small chips, etc. Scarce "melodrama biblico," which dramatizes the Cain and Abel story into a short play in two acts. The work was published by the late 19th- and early 20th-century king of the Mexican popular press, Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. The author, Constancio Suarez was almost... Read More
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![Headquarters of the Army, Mexico, February 4, 1848. General Orders - No. 45. Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry Convened at Tacubaya, Mexico, by Virtue of the Following Order... To Examine into the Facts and Circumstances Connected with the Loss of Certain Pack Mules on the 4th Inst. While Under the Escort of a Column of Troops Commanded by Lieut. Colonel Miles... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/322/983/1449983322.0.l.jpg)
Headquarters of the Army, Mexico, February 4, 1848. General Orders - No. 45. Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry Convened at Tacubaya, Mexico, by Virtue of the Following Order... To Examine into the Facts and Circumstances Connected with the Loss of Certain Pack Mules on the 4th Inst. While Under the Escort of a Column of Troops Commanded by Lieut. Colonel Miles... [caption title]
by [Mexican-American War]. [Miles, Dixon Stansbury]
Mexico City, 1848. Very good.. 3pp. Printed on a single folded sheet. Dbd. Old vertical fold, minor foxing. A rare United States Army field printing pertaining to a notable incident that occurred during the Mexican-American War. In early January 1848, Lt. Col. Miles was ordered by Brig. Gen. Twiggs to take command of a wagon train and a small cadre of troops and then conduct them from northern Mexico to Mexico City. Mexican merchants availed themselves of the... Read More
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![[Manuscript Letter Advocating a Mexican Railway Route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Over the Panama Canal]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/563/725/1551725563.0.l.jpg)
[Manuscript Letter Advocating a Mexican Railway Route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Over the Panama Canal]
by [Mexico]. [Railroads]. Corthell, Elmer Lawrence
[N.p., likely New York]: January 4, 1884. Very good.. [4]pp., written rectos only on four sheets of stationery from the Tehuantepec Ship Railway. Minor wear and discoloration to edges. An informative autograph letter, signed, from Elmer Lawrence Corthell to Lt. John T. Sullivan, US Navy, involving an unusual engineering plan for providing access across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Corthell, a renowned engineer who had been involved in construction projects from Siberia to the Mississippi, was Chief Engineer of... Read More
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![Oficina de Educacion Fisica. Reglas Oficiales de Futbol Americano [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/340/950/1495950340.0.l.jpg)
Oficina de Educacion Fisica. Reglas Oficiales de Futbol Americano [cover title]
by [Mexico]. [American Football]. Contreras, Francisco
Mexico City, 1936. Very good.. 83pp. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Some tanning to covers and text, minor edge wear, minor marginal chipping to top of first text leaf. Presentation copy of a rare work printing the rules and regulations of American football, compiled by the founder of La Federacion de Futbol Americano, Dr. Francisco Contreras. The author includes a full-page inscription on the inside of the front wrapper, signed "Coach Dr. Panche," dated September 22, 1935. The... Read More
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![Don Francisco Xavier Venegas de Saavedra...Habiendo Tenido los Rebeldes Cura Don Jose Maria Cos y Prebendado Don Francisco Velasco et Atrevimiento de Dirigir a Esta Superioridad y a Algunos Cuerpos Respetables...[caption title and beginning of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/826/069/1603069826.0.l.jpg)
Don Francisco Xavier Venegas de Saavedra...Habiendo Tenido los Rebeldes Cura Don Jose Maria Cos y Prebendado Don Francisco Velasco et Atrevimiento de Dirigir a Esta Superioridad y a Algunos Cuerpos Respetables...[caption title and beginning of text]
by [Mexico]. Venegas de Saavedra, Francisco Xavier
Mexico City: April 7, 1812. Very good.. Letterpress broadside, 16.75 x 12.25 inches, signed by Venegas with his mark below his printed name, and signed by his secretary at bottom right. Stamped on verso with the arms of Ferdinand VII, dated 1812-13. Old folds, a few small wormholes, minor edge wear. Untrimmed. A rare broadside issued by the Viceroy of New Spain, Francisco Xavier Venegas de Saavedra, in colonial Mexico at the outset of the second phase of... Read More
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![Don Francisco Xavier Venégas de Saavedra...Habiendo Ilegado à Mis Manos un Periódico Sedicioso Intitulado "Ilustrador Nacional"... [caption title & first lines of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/026/173/1582173026.0.l.jpg)
Don Francisco Xavier Venégas de Saavedra...Habiendo Ilegado à Mis Manos un Periódico Sedicioso Intitulado "Ilustrador Nacional"... [caption title & first lines of text]
by [Mexico]. [Censorship]. Venegas de Saavedra, Francisco Xavier
Dado en el Real Palacio de Mexico: June 1, 1812. Very good.. Broadside, 17 x 12.25 inches. Printed in two columns. Paper stamped on verso with the arms of Ferdinand VII, dated 1812-1813. Signed by Venegas with his mark after his printed name, as the viceroy of Spain, and signed in full by his secretary. Old folds, two short work tracks in right column affecting a handful of letters but not readability. A very rare broadside printed in... Read More
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![Ligerísimo Bosquejo de la Vida de Francisco [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/812/919/1581919812.0.l.jpg)
Ligerísimo Bosquejo de la Vida de Francisco [caption title]
by [Mexico]. [Religion]. [Gordillo, Francisco]
Mexico City, 1807. Very good.. Letterpress broadside illustrated with large engraving, 12 x 8.25 inches. Minor wear and foxing, engraving printed slightly off register. An evocative and rare Mexican broadside relating the story of Italian Jesuit Francesco de Geronimo (1642-1716). The portrait was executed by Francisco Gordillo, also the chief assayer of the Mexico City mint. This broadside was produced the year following Francesco's beatification in 1806; he was later canonized as a saint in 1839. This "Very... Read More
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Map of Sinaloa with Statistical and Geological Notes
by [Mexico]. Weidner, Frederick G.
San Francisco, 1882. About good.. Folding map, 36.5 x 29.25 inches, plus 19pp. text. Map backed with linen, in original brown publisher's cloth covers. Spine partially perished, covers worn with loss to cloth; title page detached and text laid in. Map lightly toned, contemporary hand coloring. With several related items laid in. Large and handsome map of the Mexican state of Sinaloa printed in San Francisco. The map is based on surveys made by Frederick G. Weidner, a... Read More
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