Breve Compendio de la Reglas, Constituciones, Privilegios, Gracias e Indulgencias, de la Real Tercera Orden de Nra. Sra. de la Merced, Nuevamente Restablecida en la Iglesia del Convento Grande de S. Miguel de Lima..
by [Peru]. [Religion]
Lima, 1804. About very good.. [66]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary limp vellum. Small library label at lower left front wrap; institutional bookplate and small ink stamp to front pastedown. Vellum lightly soiled and curled. Minor worming at lower right corner of text block, not affecting text. Otherwise, lighting soiling and toning internally. St. Peter Nolasco founded the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary (i.e., the Order of Mercy, or Mercedarians) in 1218. It was quickly successful in its goal... Read More
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![Paz y Justicia [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/660/968/1582968660.0.l.jpg)
Paz y Justicia [caption title]
by [Mexican Revolution]
Mexico City: [Antonio Vanegas Arroyo], 1913. About very good.. Broadsheet, approximately 16.75 x 11.75 inches. Old folds. One small loss at edge, not affecting printed area, a few small edge tears. Light toning. Broadsheet published in the wake of the coup d'etat of 1913, in which Felix Diaz overthrew Francisco Madero. Diaz was the nephew of deposed president Porfirio Diaz, who was forced out of office in 1911 and fled the country. The younger Diaz stayed behind, leading... Read More
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Fiesta Floral [caption title]
by [Mexican Revolution]
Mexico: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1911. Very good.. Broadside, approximately 14 x 9.5 inches. Light toning and dust soiling. A celebratory political broadside published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo in the wake of victories by Francisco Madero and his revolutionary generals over Porfirio Diaz in 1911. The broadside prints four separate verses, the first of which, under the heading "Fiesta Floral," imagines an allegory in which the people and the country are showered with flowers and wrapped in... Read More
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The Mexican Situation, Showing Location of American Fleet and Border Forts
by [Mexican Revolution]
Chicago: Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, 1914. Very good plus.. Folding map, 13.25 x 19 inches. Original patriotic card wrappers. Very minor wear and dust soiling to wraps. Small separation from top edge, repaired with tape on blank verso. An odd and scarce map that details American understanding of the situation in Mexico during the Revolution of the 1910s. Starting with a garden-variety Rand-McNally map of the country, an entrepreneurial employee has made extensive use of red... Read More
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State of Mexico and Surrounding Country [caption title]
by [Mexican Revolution]
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1913. About very good.. Color printed map, approximately 16 x 22 inches. Previous folded, lacking card wrappers (with some residue on otherwise blank verso). Two contemporary ink stamps. Light toning. An odd and scarce map that details American understanding of the situation in Mexico during the Revolution of the 1910s. Starting with a garden-variety Rand-McNally map of the country, an entrepreneurial employee has made extensive use of red overprinting to show the "chief centers of... Read More
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![Nos el Dr. D. Manuel de Flores, Inquisidor Apostólico, Contra la Herética y Apostasía en la Ciudad de México, Estados y Provincias de Esta Nueva España, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Islas Filipinas, Sus Distritos y Jurisdicciones, por Autoridad Apostólica, Real y Ordinaria &.... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/958/940/1663940958.0.l.jpg)
Nos el Dr. D. Manuel de Flores, Inquisidor Apostólico, Contra la Herética y Apostasía en la Ciudad de México, Estados y Provincias de Esta Nueva España, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Islas Filipinas, Sus Distritos y Jurisdicciones, por Autoridad Apostólica, Real y Ordinaria &.... [caption title]
by [Inquisition]. [Mexican Revolution]
Mexico: 8 de Julio, 1815. Very good.. Double-sheet broadside, measuring 23.75 x 17 inches. Old fold lines, some slight rumpling. Minor soiling and wear. A fascinating and rare broadside in which the Inquisition attempts to prohibit pro-independence publications, including the 1814 Constitution of Apatzingán, during the midst of the Mexican Revolution. Dated July 8, 1815, this proclamation of the Inquisition first reiterates a blanket prohibition on what it labels seditious and anti-Catholic publications, that is to say, anything... Read More
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![Secretaria de Hacienda... "El Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana, a los Habitantes de Ella Sabed: Que el Congreso General Ha Decretado Lo Siguiente. 1o. Durante la Guerra con los Sublevados de Tejas..." [caption title and part of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/617/632/1630632617.0.l.jpg)
Secretaria de Hacienda... "El Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana, a los Habitantes de Ella Sabed: Que el Congreso General Ha Decretado Lo Siguiente. 1o. Durante la Guerra con los Sublevados de Tejas..." [caption title and part of text]
by [Mexico]. [Texas Revolution]
Mexico City: July 16, 1836. Very good.. Broadside, 12.25 x 8.5 inches. One light fold down middle, minor loss to lower corners. A rare broadside that promulgates a decree from the Mexican federal government, ordering that foreign goods be allowed into the port of Matamoros in order to supply the army in the war against Texas. It further states that only foreign provisions imported for the support of the expeditionary force, as well as mules and wagons to... Read More
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Photo-Gravures of Picturesque Puerto Rico
by [Puerto Rico]
San Juan: Hardie Bros, 1899. Very good.. 72pp. Oblong octavo. Original card wrappers, front cover printed in gilt, string-tied at gutter. Minor soiling and edge wear to wrappers. Light toning, otherwise internally clean. A rare, photo-illustrated promotional pamphlet that details the people, places, and activities of Puerto Rico in 1899, the year after it became a United States territory as a result of the Spanish-American War. These "Views of Puerto Rico" begins with a brief, one-page history of... Read More
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Wiconi Tawoonspe
by Riggs, Alfred
Santee, Ne: Santee Normal Training School, 1911. Very good.. 15,[1]pp. Original green printed wrappers, stitched. Lower corner of rear cover lacking, minor soiling. Internally clean. Short digest of significant lines from the New Testaments on an array of religious subjects, as well as the Lord's Prayer, translated into the Dakota language by long-serving Santee missionary Alfred L. Riggs. Printed on the mission press of the Santee Normal Training School on the Santee Reservation in northeastern Nebraska, on the... Read More
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Reminiscences for My Children, by Elias Riggs, Missionary of the A.B.C.F.M. in Greece and Turkey. (Not Published). 1891
by Riggs, Elias
[N.p., likely Constantinople, 1891. Good plus.. 38pp. Original printed wrappers. Dampstaining to front wrapper, some dust-soiling to wrappers, moderate edge wear, a few small chips. Mild, even toning to text, but otherwise clean. A personal memoir, written for his four children, by Elias Riggs, missionary and director of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Greece and Turkey. Elias Riggs (1810-1901) was an important Presbyterian minister and missionary, and also a noted linguist. While serving in... Read More
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Woyazanska-Tuberculosis
by Riggs, Theodore
Santee, Ne: Santee Normal Training School, 1908. Fine.. 11pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched as issued. Light toning. A short, early 20th-century pamphlet printed entirely in Dakota Sioux intended to educate the Santee Reservation population on the dangers of tuberculosis. The present work is one of the few medical publications issued by the press of the Santee Normal Training School, which was established in 1870 to train native teachers. Relatively scarce institutionally, with OCLC locating only a small handful... Read More
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Catecismo Mexicano.... : Christianoyotl Mexicanemachtiloni...
by Ripalda, Geronimo. Paredes, Ignacio, trans
Mexico: En la Imprenta de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1758. Good plus.. [34],170,[6]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary limp vellum, printed waste endpapers. Light wear, wrinkling to vellum. Frontispiece and leaf Z1 in facsimile. Dual title-pages in Spanish and Nahuatl; two leaves from gathering I duplicated at rear before index leaf. Small areas of worming at gutter margin and fore-edge of initial leaves, affecting a couple of letters near the gutter. Intermittent light dampstaining along fore-edge, occasional light foxing. First edition... Read More
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Catecismo y Exposicion Breve de la Doctrina Christiana
by Ripalda, Geronimo
Puebla: Pedro de la Rosa, 1784. Very good.. [28],188pp., plus two leaves of plates. Small quarto. Contemporary tree calf, gilt tooled. Light wear and scuffing to boards. Remains of small leather label on front pastedown. Occasional light foxing. A later, but evidently first Mexican, edition of the Catholic catechism and exposition of Christian doctrine by the Spanish Jesuit scholar of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Geronimo Ripalda. The text contains the basic Catholic beliefs and prayers,... Read More
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A Memorial to Congress to Secure an Adequate Appropriation for a Prompt and Thorough Improvement of the Mississippi River with an Appendix by Sylvester Waterhouse, of Washington University
by [Mississippi River]
St. Louis, 1877. Good.. [2],39pp. Original limp cloth covers, gilt. Light fading and wear. Library ink stamp on title page. Minor wear to contents. Memorial submitted to Congress by the members of the River Improvement Convention held in St. Paul, advocating for an allocation of government funds to improve the flow and path of the Mississippi River to better accommodate trade along the water route.
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North Dakota Highway Bulletin
by [North Dakota]. [Roads]
[Bismarck, N.D.], 1929. Very good.. Six issues (one duplicate), each 16pp. Pictorial self-wrappers, stapled. Vertical folds, minor wear. Light dust soiling and toning. Scarce periodical with all the news concerning highway construction during the late 1920s in The Peace Garden State. Present here are issues from December 1927, October-December 1928, and February 1929. Each contains articles on recent and ongoing construction, and a plethora of tables, maps, and photographs that chronicle the development of the state highway system... Read More
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![[Prospectus for:] Rockwell's Spanish and Mexican Law. A Compilation of Spanish and Mexican Law in Relation to Mines and Titles to Real Estate, in Force in California and New Mexico... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/022/173/1582173022.0.l.jpg)
[Prospectus for:] Rockwell's Spanish and Mexican Law. A Compilation of Spanish and Mexican Law in Relation to Mines and Titles to Real Estate, in Force in California and New Mexico... [caption title]
by Rockwell, John A.
[New York: John S. Voorhies, 1852. Very good.. 2pp., printed in two columns, on rectos only, of a single folded sheet of thin blue paper. Minor wear and creasing. A scarce prospectus for John A. Rockwell's A Compilation of Spanish and Mexican Law in Relation to Mines and Titles to Real Estate, in force in California and New Mexico, and in the Territories acquired under the Louisiana and Florida treaties when annexed to the United States (1851). The prospectus reprints letters of recommendation from American... Read More
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Resumen de las Cuestiones Relativas al Ferrocarril Ynteroceanico y Estado Actual Que Guarda el Negocio
by Rosecrans, William S.
Mexico City: Imprenta de I. Escalante, 1873. Good plus.. 83pp. Original printed wrappers. Two wrapper corners chipped away. Otherwise light wear and dust soiling. Contemporary ownership inscription on front wrapper. A scarce summation of W.S. Rosecrans' arguments for the construction under his concession of cross-country railroad and telegraph lines from a point near Tampico, on the Gulf of Mexico, to a point between San Blas and Zacatulca, both on the Pacific Ocean. The concession was first granted in... Read More
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Sermon Que en la Solemne Funcion con Que Se Dio Principio a la Real Congregacion del Alumbrado y Vela Continua del Santisimo Sacramento del Altar..
by Ruiz de Conejares, Jose
Mexico City: Por Don Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros, 1793. Still very good.. [18],xlvi,xxvi,[4]pp. Small quarto. Light dust soiling and toning. Faint tide line across foot of text block. Second Mexican edition of this official account of the funeral and ceremonies for the death of Bishop Felipe Bertran, the Inquisitor General of Spain.
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![[Autograph Letter, Signed, from a Gold Seeker to His Wife, Detailing His Mixed Luck in California]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/019/173/1582173019.0.l.jpg)
[Autograph Letter, Signed, from a Gold Seeker to His Wife, Detailing His Mixed Luck in California]
by [California Gold Rush]
Grass Valley, Ca: September 17, 1855. Very good.. [4]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines, minor wear. An intimate letter from a gold seeker in Nevada County, California. Theodore Shaw writes to his wife about mixed luck in California, a terrible fire, his concern for their children, and his great anxiety about the future. He writes, in part: "I have property here that is worth at least $1000 but not a cent in my pocket but... Read More
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![[Autograph Letter, Signed, from George Chamberlain to His Father in Massachusetts, Regarding His Mining Activities in California]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/018/173/1582173018.0.l.jpg)
[Autograph Letter, Signed, from George Chamberlain to His Father in Massachusetts, Regarding His Mining Activities in California]
by [California Gold Rush]
Mokilomni Hill, Ca: April 3, 1852. Very good.. [2]pp. plus integral address leaf. Quarto on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines, minor wear. In a highly legible script. An interesting letter from a disillusioned fortune-seeker in Calaveras County advising his father not to come west, as all the easy pickings are gone. He writes, "Times are pretty dull here now and as I have been doing nothing for the last two weeks I am getting rather sick... Read More
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![[Small Collection of Manuscript Letters from the California Gold Fields, Involving the Business of L.D. Davis]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/670/968/1582968670.0.l.jpg)
[Small Collection of Manuscript Letters from the California Gold Fields, Involving the Business of L.D. Davis]
by [California Gold Rush]
[Eldorado & Iowa Hill, 1860. Good.. Four manuscript documents, including three letters, totaling six pages. Old folds, moderate toning, minor edge wear, a few tears, a small hole in one letter. A neat group of four manuscript letters and documents all related to the mining activities of L.D. Davis of Georgia over a four-year period during the latter years of the California Gold Rush. Davis appears to be a lawyer living somewhere back east, and may have been... Read More
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![[Manuscript Letter from a Gold Miner to His Brother Back Home in New York State]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/449/644/1684644449.0.l.jpg)
[Manuscript Letter from a Gold Miner to His Brother Back Home in New York State]
by [California Gold Rush]
Live Oak City, Ca: January 27, 1855. Still very good.. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Previously folded, with manuscript docketing on lower half of second leaf verso. Minor wear along old folds, with a couple of short separations. Minor soiling and dampstaining, somewhat heavier to addressed area. A detailed, mid-1850s California Gold Rush letter from Elias Hunt Jr. to his brother in the tiny of Poolville, New York, southeast of Hamilton. Hunt was camped in Live Oak, north of... Read More
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![[Autograph Letter, Signed, from J.C. Martin to A.M. Bell Regarding Mining Claims and Local Events]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/067/847/1655847067.0.l.jpg)
[Autograph Letter, Signed, from J.C. Martin to A.M. Bell Regarding Mining Claims and Local Events]
by [California Gold Rush]
Elk Hill, Ca: December 17, 1853. Very good.. [3]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old folds, light wear and soiling. With original mailing envelope. An informative letter sent from a miner in Gold Rush-era California to a friend in Tuolumne County, primarily concerning a mining claim, but also providing many interesting local details. The author writes, "I managed to keep a claim for you which is joining to mine, in this way, it is one that my partner... Read More
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Report of the Deputation of the American Branch of the Evangelical Alliance, Appointed to Memorialize the Emperor of Russia in Behalf of Religious Liberty. Document VI
by [Russia]
New York, 1871. Good.. 32pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor dust-soiling and spotting to wrappers. Some marginal insect damage to lower right corner not costing any text. Faint dampstain to upper margin of most leaves. A scarce work in which an "Evangelical Alliance" of American and British religious leaders petition Tsar Alexander II to grant religious freedom to Catholics and Protestants in 1871. The report begins with some background on the "Evangelical Alliance and Religious Liberty," religious persecution in... Read More
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El Sacerdote Instruido en los Ministerios de Predicar y Confesar en Dos Cartas de S. Francisco de Sales Obispo de Ginebra..
by Sales, Francisco de. Gomez Galvan, Lino Nepomuceno, trans
Mexico: Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1771. Good.. [16],144pp. Small octavo. Title page in red and black. Lacks two leaves of text, D1-D2. Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title, edges sprinkled red. Vellum with minor soiling, light wear to edge and spine ends, plus two flaws in rear cover. Front free endpaper loosening. A few minor wormholes; light tanning and scattered foxing. Scarce Mexican translation of Catholic works by St. Francis de Sales, 16th- and 17th-century Swiss theologian. Sales was... Read More
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