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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The Conflict with Spain. A History of the War
by [Salesman's Samples]. Keenan, Henry F.
Philadelphia & Chicago: P.W. Ziegler & Co, 1898. Good.. [136]pp., in various paginations, plus forty plates and four blank subscription leaves. Original quarter sheep and stamped cloth. Spine somewhat worn, boards slightly scuffed; corners bumped, minor edge wear. Text block cracked and loosening. Contemporary ownership inscriptions in front endpapers. Light tanning and dust soiling. Attractive salesman's sample for this contemporary, nationalistic account of the Spanish-American War in both Cuba and the Philippines by Henry F. Keenan. Keenan was... Read More
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The True Story of Our National Calamity by Flood, Fire, and Tornado..
by [Salesman's Dummy]. Marshall, Logan
Philadelphia: Universal Book and Bible House, 1913. Good.. [100]pp. Extensively illustrated. Original orange publisher’s cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Lightly sunned, corners bumped and lightly worn, lightly soiled. Light soiling and wear internally. Subscribers’ lists torn away at rear. Salesman’s sample of this work on doomsday calamities endured by various parts of the nation, with a notice at the front claiming that a portion of the profits from sales of the book will benefit the National Relief... Read More
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![Special Bargains. 522,000 Acres of Farming, Pasture and Mineral Lands... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/462/693/1290693462.0.l.jpg)
Special Bargains. 522,000 Acres of Farming, Pasture and Mineral Lands... [caption title]
by [Texas]. [Land Sales]
[San Antonio: Martin & Co, 1890. Very good.. Small broadsheet, approximately 8.5 x 6 inches. Printed on pink paper. Two small, marginal perforation. Light dust soiling. A busy broadsheet flyer with numerous offers of Texas lands from San Antonio agents Martin & Co. Among the advertised deals are over 500,000 acres of farming and ranch land around Waco, nearly 200,000 acres in far West Texas mining country, a 10,000 acre dairy farm in Karnes City, a 3,000,000 acre... Read More
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![Señor D. Ancelmo España. Mui Señor Mio: Como de la Imprenta Que Es a Su Cargo Se Ha Dado a Luz un Anonimo Titulado, Aviso a lso Señores Guatemaltecos... [caption title and first line of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/462/644/1684644462.0.l.jpg)
Señor D. Ancelmo España. Mui Señor Mio: Como de la Imprenta Que Es a Su Cargo Se Ha Dado a Luz un Anonimo Titulado, Aviso a lso Señores Guatemaltecos... [caption title and first line of text]
by [El Salvador]
San Salvador: May 25, 1843. Very good.. Small broadside, approximately 8.5 x 6.5 inches. Minor creasing and soiling. Small broadside that asks for the revelation of the author of an anonymous, offending pamphlet and letter addressed to Isidro Viteri in San Salvador. Beyond the insults that must be corrected in the public record, Viteri says that since the author calls him a "antiguo amigo mio," it is only fair that the identity of the provocateur be made known.... Read More
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![Ministerio General del Gobierno del Estado del Salvador. (Decreto Num. 8) Al C. Gefe Politico del Departamento de... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/453/644/1684644453.0.l.jpg)
Ministerio General del Gobierno del Estado del Salvador. (Decreto Num. 8) Al C. Gefe Politico del Departamento de... [caption title]
by [El Salvador]
San Salvador, 1833. Good plus.. Small broadside, 8.5 x 6.25 inches. Disbound, with small stab hole at gutter margin. Light wear and worming; two, slightly larger worm holes in lower margin, repaired with tape. Later bibliographical annotations in pencil. In this early Salvadoran broadside decree, the government nullifies the appointment of Atanacio Urrutia to the Supreme Court and elevates Jose Felix Quiros in his stead. Printing seems to have arrived in El Salvador during the mid-1820s, placing the... Read More
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Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror
by [Salesman's Samples]
[Chicago, 1906. Good plus.. [88]pp. Original blue pebbled cloth, gilt stamped, front board with black-and-white illustration. Light wear and scuffing to boards. Light tanning internally. A salesman's dummy for a lurid and extremely popular contemporary history of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. This copy exemplifies the "fine cloth" version of the book, available for $1.50 from the canvasser (as opposed to $2.00 for half morocco). It contains forty-five pages of illustrations and well as a scattering of the... Read More
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Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War Including the Tragic Destruction of the Lusitania..
by [Salesman's Sample]
Philadelphia: P.W. Ziegler Company, 1915. Very good.. Various paginations. Contemporary light blue cloth, stamped in black and red, pictorial medallion on front cover. Light wear and soiling. Internally clean. A salesman's dummy for this work commemorating the horrors of World War I. The work is extensively illustrated, occasionally in color, with sample chapters and a contents list. The rear cover is stamped with the exemplar spine, denoting the size and style of the volume. The ad at the... Read More
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Sermon, Que en la Santa Iglesia Catedral de Guadalajara...En Que Se Solemnizó el Juramento de la Gloriosa Independencia Americana Bajo los Auspicios del Exército de la Tres Garantías
by San Martin, Jose
Guadalajara: En la Oficina de Don Mariano Rodriguez, 1821. Very good.. [6],18,22pp. Disbound, with later gutter staples. Very faint staining to title page. Two pin-sized worm holes at lower right margin, not affecting text. Minor foxing. An enthusiastic sermon given in the Cathedral of Guadalajara on June 23, 1821, in support of Mexican independence and the Army of the Three Guarantees. In February of that year, Iturbide and Guererro had joined forces against the Spanish crown and promulgated... Read More
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![Tedeun Profano o Memorias de Don Antonio [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/717/427/1483427717.0.l.jpg)
Tedeun Profano o Memorias de Don Antonio [caption title]
by [Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de]
Mexico: D.J.M. Benavente y Socios, 1821. Very good.. 3pp., on a half-sheet bifolium. Minor wear at edges. Light tanning. A stinging satire of Santa Anna, questioning his loyalty to the cause of Mexican independence and laying bare his absence from many of the important events and accomplishments of the revolution. The pamphlet repeatedly thanks God and the heroes of the independence movement for its significant achievements and then compares them to the commitment of Santa Anna: "Gracias... Read More
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![Informe Secreto al Pueblo Soberano, con Puntas de Consejos, Sobre Asuntos Que Atañen a Sus Regalias [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/680/110/1700110680.0.l.jpg)
Informe Secreto al Pueblo Soberano, con Puntas de Consejos, Sobre Asuntos Que Atañen a Sus Regalias [caption title]
by [Santa Maria, Miguel]
Mexico: Imprenta Dirigida por Tomas Uribe y Alcalde, 1833. Very good.. 23,[1]pp. Small quarto. Removed from a sammelband. Minor wear and soiling. Light toning. This "Secret Report to the Sovereign People," which the author claims to have found in a mailbox, "Between ten and eleven last Wednesday night," was in fact written by Miguel Santa Maria, a liberal republican politician who had been a supporter of and minister under Bolivar in South America and was influential in the... Read More
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Correspondence. Albermarle County, Jan, 12, 1861. Wm. C. Rives and V.W. Southall, Esq.'s..
by [Virginia]. [Secession]
Albermarle County, Va: January 12, 1861. Good plus.. 3pp., on a small bifolium. Light wear at edges. Some toning and dust soiling. Minor foxing along gutter. An interesting, pre-secession Virginia imprint, in which over five hundred citizens of Albermarle County nominate politicians William Cabell Rives and Valentine Southall to be their representatives at the upcoming Secession Convention, and in which Rives refuses their request. Rives was a long-serving politician, having been a member of the Virginia House of... Read More
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Ratas y Ratones o Carranza y los Carrancistas
by Serrano, T. F., & C. Del Vando
El Paso, Tx, 1914. About very good.. x,120pp., including a photographic portrait of the authors. Small quarto. Original printed wrappers. Spine perishing; small, personal shelf label at foot of spine. Light dampstaining and minor chipping to wraps. Text somewhat browned, but not brittle. Final gathering bound in upside-down. A fabulously scathing attack on Mexican revolutionary and eventual president, Venustiano Carranza, and his supporters, the "rats and mice," published in El Paso, Texas, in 1914. After Victoriano Huerta overthrew... Read More
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![[Cedula, or Identification Document, for a Chinese Indentured Servant in Cuba during the 1850s]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/290/861/1701861290.0.l.jpg)
[Cedula, or Identification Document, for a Chinese Indentured Servant in Cuba during the 1850s]
by [Cuba]. [Indentured Servitude]
[Havana, 1857. Good plus.. Small broadside form, approximately 8.5 x 12.5 inches. Previously folded, with some separation and minor loss along vertical fold. Completed in manuscript, with additional manuscript docketing on blank verso. Ink burn, causing additional minor loss in a few small areas. Light edge wear; some staining and offsetting; light tanning. A 19-century Cuban identification form, known as a cedula, filled out in manuscript to authorize the travel of an Asian indentured servant between plantations in... Read More
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![[Manuscript Letter, Signed, from a Local Mexican Business Associate to a Texas Merchant Who Supplied the American Army During the Mexican-American War]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/770/592/1513592770.0.l.jpg)
[Manuscript Letter, Signed, from a Local Mexican Business Associate to a Texas Merchant Who Supplied the American Army During the Mexican-American War]
by [Mexican-American War]. [Indentured Servitude]
Carmago, Mexico: June 21, 1847. Very good.. [2]pp., in Spanish, on a single folded sheet, verso of integral leaf addressed on verso. Original mailing folds, mild wrinkling, minor toning to address panel, small chip to outer blank portion of integral leaf. A hand-carried letter from a Mexican merchant or lawyer named Francisco Perez to Benjamin S. Grayson, a Texas associate in Carmago, Mexico during the Mexican-American War. Perez writes to Grayson about some legal actions and the transfer... Read More
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El Sol Increado Dios Trino y Uno, y la Grande Excelencia de Su Culto y Devocion
by Feliciano de Sevilla
Mexico City: D. Felipe de Zuñiga y Ontiveros, 1790. Very good.. [20],464pp. Quarto. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt extra. Marbled endpapers, all edges red. Minor wear to edges, rubbing to boards. A few gatherings a bit shaken, light occasional foxing. The first Mexican edition of a scarce work originally published in Spain in 1702. The work, centered on God and the Holy Trinity, emanates from the pen of a Capuchin from Seville - hence his religious name. Feliciano... Read More
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Golden Thoughts
by Shannon, Stephen
Davis, Ok: John W. Williams, 1910. Very good plus.. [14]pp. Narrow octavo. Original grey printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear; discrete ink stamp on rear cover and verso of title page. Internally clean. "Golden Thoughts" by "The Oklahoma Poet." This slim volume contains eight poems, most of them with a prayerful or religious theme. The most striking is a piece entitled "Murdered by Mama" wherein the author sees an angel child who tells a tragic story of having been... Read More
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![View from the West Side of the Plaza, Marysville [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/457/676/1467676457.0.l.jpg)
View from the West Side of the Plaza, Marysville [caption title]
by [California Pictorial Letter Sheets]
[N.p., possibly Marysville]: R.A. Eddy, 1850. Very good.. Single folded quarto sheet on blue wove paper, with a large engraved street scene on one page, a later pencil drawing of a floral embellishment on an interior page, with the remainder blank. Slightly trimmed with minor loss to sky section, minor creasing and dust soiling, a handful of short repaired closed edge tears. An unusually obscure Gold Rush-era pictorial letter sheet, featuring a detailed scene of a crowded Marysville... Read More
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Korea and Shantung Versus the White Peril ... The Anti-Japanese Agitation in California
by Sherrill, Charles H. Irish, John P.
Seoul: The Seoul Press, 1920. About very good.. [2],36,[2]pp. Original grey printed wrappers. Moderate wear and soiling with some loss to text on covers. Minor soiling at edges of text block. A pair of articles reprinted by the English-language newspaper The Seoul Press, operating in Japanese-occupied Korea. The first article praises the Japanese efforts to maintain control over and civilize Korea and Shandong in China. The second is an opinion piece against the anti-Japanese sentiment in California --... Read More
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![[Partially-Printed Notice, Completed in Manuscript, With Two Photographs, Detailing the Disappearance of a German-American Woman and Her Son Who Perished Aboard the Ocean Liner Elbe When It Sank in the North Sea]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/113/415/1484415113.0.l.jpg)
[Partially-Printed Notice, Completed in Manuscript, With Two Photographs, Detailing the Disappearance of a German-American Woman and Her Son Who Perished Aboard the Ocean Liner Elbe When It Sank in the North Sea]
by [Shipwreck]. [Germany]. Rhodes, Sophie and Eugene
Washington DC: April 2, 1895. Good.. [4]pp. on a single folded sheet, with two small photographs tipped in. In German. Quarto. Old folds, some separation along central horizontal fold, small chip to first leaf, minor soiling. One photograph chipped. A sad document detailing the plight of a mother and son who perished in the sinking of the German transatlantic ocean liner, Elbe on January 30, 1895. The document seeks to detail exactly the times of death of the... Read More
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Representacion Dirigida al Soberano Congreso General por el Ciudadano
by Sierra y Rosso, Ignacio
Mexico City: M. Castro, 1851. Good.. 28pp. Small octavo. Removed from a sammelband. Leave just about loose; small stab holes at gutter. Light, even tanning. A political "casualty" of the Mexican-American War addresses his "amigos" in the Mexican Congress. Ignacio Serra y Rosso was a sycophant of Santa Anna, who gave the eulogy at the state funeral for the dictator's amputated leg, lost in the Pastry War. During the Mexican-American War, he was Secretary of the Interior during... Read More
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Informe Que Sobre la Presa de la Constancia, Comenzada en el Rancho de S. José..
by Siliceo, José M. [Water]
San Louis Potosi: Tip. de Abraham Exiga, 1863. About very good.. [2],22,[1]pp., plus two folding plans. Disbound. Oringal printed front wrapper, rear lacking. Some soiling to front wrap, wear at gutter where removed. Short closed tear and small loss at left edge of second plate. Light tanning and foxing internally. Scarce pamphlet boosting the construction of the Constancia Dam near San Luis Potosi in the early 1860s, by the engineer in charge of the project, José M. Siliceo.... Read More
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![[Cuban Manuscript Document Noting the Death of a Chinese Laborer]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/714/253/1490253714.0.l.jpg)
[Cuban Manuscript Document Noting the Death of a Chinese Laborer]
by [Cuba]. [Slavery]
Havana, 1872. Very good.. Manuscript form, approximately 8.5 x 6.25 inches. Minor wear at edges; a few small worm holes. Contemporary ink stamp. Light tanning and offsetting. This 1872 manuscript form from a Havana jail, the Celaduria de la Punta, notes the death there of an "Asiatico," a Chinese indentured servant, with the given name of Juan Macao, and orders the transfer of the body to the mortuary for cremation. Indentured servants found themselves jailed for several reasons,... Read More
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![[Manuscript File of Legal Documents Concerning Cuban Manumission Cases in the Late 1870s]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/494/315/1738315494.0.l.jpg)
[Manuscript File of Legal Documents Concerning Cuban Manumission Cases in the Late 1870s]
by [Cuba]. [Slavery]
[Various places in Cuba, 1878. Overall good.. [29] leaves, varying sizes. In contemporary, ad hoc selfwrappers, loosely stitched. Rear wrap tattered. Varying degrees of toning and wear. Scattered offsetting throughout. Fascinating gathering of documents and letters that present several cases of Cuban slaves applying for their own freedom in 1878. The gradual abolition of slavery on the island was enacted by Spain in 1880, but prior to this, there were several bureaucratic mechanisms by which enslaved people could... Read More
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![[Partially Printed Form, Completed in Manuscript, Detailing a Bill of Sale for Slaves in Cuba]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/751/668/1692668751.0.l.jpg)
[Partially Printed Form, Completed in Manuscript, Detailing a Bill of Sale for Slaves in Cuba]
by [Cuba]. [Slavery]
Havana, 1809. Good.. [1]p. on a bifolium. Printed form completed in manuscript. Previously folded. Small portion of upper left corner torn away and some scattered worming, neither affecting text. Upper right of blank conjugate leaf clipped. Some scattered staining and offsetting, with even tanning. An early 19th-century bill of sale for four slaves in Havana. The form, completed in manuscript, approves the sale by Doña Dolores Hernandez of "quatros negros" who had been brought from the coast of... Read More
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