![Resources of San Joaquin County, California. A Review of Its Agricultural, Manufacturing and Commercial Interests [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/741/427/1483427741.0.l.jpg)
Resources of San Joaquin County, California. A Review of Its Agricultural, Manufacturing and Commercial Interests [cover title]
by [California]. Ellis, Wilson R.
San Francisco: Bacon & Company, 1886. Good plus.. 64pp., plus two folding plates. Original printed wrappers. Spine and wrapper corners chipped; relatively sympathetic tape repairs to spine. Contemporary ownership inscription on front wrapper. Plates separating at folds. Even tanning, scattered foxing. Scarce, 1886 promotional pamphlet for San Joaquin County and its county seat of Stockton, "Addressed particularly to the stranger who wishes to know in what portion of California he may find combined those advantages in climate, location... Read More
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Proyecto de Revolucion
by Campero Leyes, Narciso
Sucre: Imprenta de Beeche, 1857. Very good.. [8, i.e. 10],105pp. Original printed wrappers. Small quarto. Later, vaguely obtrusive manuscript additions in pencil to front wrapper. A few small nicks and minor wear to wraps. Internally quite clean. An ambitious design for a "Gran Escuela Central" for all in Bolivia, including native South Americans. The author was Narciso Campero Leyes, who enjoyed a long, successful career in the military and politics, capped by his tenure as President of Bolivia... Read More
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Nociones Historia y Estadistica de la Ciudad de Guadalajara (Jalisco)..
by Campos, Zenon
Guadalajara: Tipografía de la Escuela de Artes y Oficios, 1903. About very good.. [2],23pp. Original printed green wrappers. Two staples in gutter margin; wrappers faded at edges. Minor dampstaining at top edge; even tanning. A small, apparently unrecorded, pamphlet with details of the history of Guadalajara and statistics regarding the city's population. The text is written in dialogue, almost catechistic, form, "Para los alumnos de las Escuelas de Instrucción Primaria del Estado de Jalisco." This was evidently the... Read More
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The Story Paper Collector
by [Amateur Newspapers]. [Canada]
Transcona, Mb: Wm. H. Gander, 1941. Very good.. Three issues. 16mo. Lightly toned, minor wear. The first three issues of this amateur periodical. This charming work has a very meta vibe, with at least these first three issues being a newspaper about other newspapers and journals. The first issue focuses on The Boys' Friend, while the other two concern "The Magnet Library", "The Empire Library", the "Thri'penny Libraries", and some former boys' writers. The topic must have been... Read More
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Carta Sobre la Historia Primitiva de la Fiebre Amarilla
by Carillo y Ancona, Crescencio
Merida de Yucatan: Imprenta Mercantil de Ignacio L. Mena y Ca, 1892. Good plus.. 26pp. Original printed wrappers, bound into 20th-century buckram, with numerous blank filler leaves at the rear. Scattered small chips and short, closed tears; one early tissue repair. Some dust soiling and toning; an occasional fox mark. Scarce response by the Bishop of the Yucatan to a Cuban doctor's short work on the history of yellow fever. The author, Crescencio Carillo y Ancona, was of... Read More
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![[Printed Circular Regarding the Disruption of the 1836 Cotton Crop Due to the Indian Wars in the Southeast and the Texas Revolution]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/977/107/1699107977.0.l.jpg)
[Printed Circular Regarding the Disruption of the 1836 Cotton Crop Due to the Indian Wars in the Southeast and the Texas Revolution]
by [Texas]. [Cotton]. [South Carolina]
Charleston, S.C.: William C. Duke's & Co., August 6, 1836. Very good.. [1]p. of text, with integral address leaf, addressed to Edward Broughton, Esq. of Fulton, South Carolina, docketed on address leaf. Original mailing folds, small marginal chip from removal of wax seal, minor toning, some spotting. Five-line contemporary manuscript note in bottom margin. An apparently unrecorded circular from South Carolina in which a commission merchant in Charleston communicates that the Texas Revolution, the Indian wars in Florida,... Read More
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![Lincoln Park. Offering to the Colored People for the First Time, the Finest Home Sites in North Carolina [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/554/143/1741143554.0.l.jpg)
Lincoln Park. Offering to the Colored People for the First Time, the Finest Home Sites in North Carolina [caption title]
by [African Americana]. [North Carolina]
[Asheville, N.C., 1948. Good plus.. Large broadside, measuring 14 x 22 inches, printed on card. Upper left and lower right corners chipping. Some dampstaining, creasing, and mild wear. The years following World War II saw a significant economic expansion in the United States. Part of this expansion was a massive boom in suburban housing development, made possible by federal programs such as the Federal Housing Administration’s mortgage financing and the GI Bill. However, these programs’ implementation purposefully excluded... Read More
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![Hurrah Hurrah This Is the Last Opportunity That a Colored Man Will Have on Earth to Buy a Lot on Smith Street... [caption title and first part of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/101/666/1545666101.0.l.jpg)
Hurrah Hurrah This Is the Last Opportunity That a Colored Man Will Have on Earth to Buy a Lot on Smith Street... [caption title and first part of text]
by [African Americana]. [Real Estate]. [South Carolina]
[Mullins, S.C., 1914. Good.. Broadside, printed in black on green paper stock, 12 x 8.75 inches. Old folds, minor loss to edges and crossfolds, noticeable soiling and staining. An unrecorded broadside advertising land for sale specifically to African American residents on Smith Street in the city of Mullins, South Carolina in the early-20th century. The broadside was printed at a time of seismic industrial changes in the American South. At the turn of the century even the rural... Read More
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Breve Estudio de la Educacion del Caracter. Tesis Presentada por la Alumna Carmen M. Castillo en Su Examen Profesional
by Castillo, Carmen M.
Puebla, 1894. About very good.. 23pp. Original printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling. Thesis publication of Carmen M. Castillo on the "Necesidad de la educacion del caracter y medios que deben emplearse para realizarla" (translated as, the need for character education and the means to achieve it). The author posits that most families completely neglect the instillation of moral fiber in their children, and therefore it is up to the education system to remedy this issue. Not located... Read More
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Espejode Exemplares Obispos Trasumpto Moderno de los Antiguos Prelados de la Primitiva Yglesia Historiado, y Discurrido..
by Castilla, Miguel de
Mexico: Por los Herederos de la Viuda de Bernardo Calderon, 1698. Good.. [12] 297 pages. Quarto. Contemporary vellum, moderate wear; lacking endpapers, scattered worming and wear, slightly affecting text; minor dampstaining. Scattered contemporary manuscript annotations; early owner's signature on title page and notes on rear flyleaf. The first and only edition of this life of Garabito, a Mexican cleric who was one of very few colonial administrators to physically spend time in the "barbarous" provinces of Coahuila (at... Read More
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![Gobierno Eclesiastico del Arzobispo de Mexico. A Nuestros Respetables Coadjutores los Parrocos de Esta Ciudad y Distrito [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/278/854/1486854278.0.l.jpg)
Gobierno Eclesiastico del Arzobispo de Mexico. A Nuestros Respetables Coadjutores los Parrocos de Esta Ciudad y Distrito [caption title]
by [Mexican-American War]. [Catholicism]
Mexico City: November 17, 1847. About very good.. Broadside, approximately 12 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded, two small tape repairs on blank verso. Small chip at upper left corner. Contemporary manuscript rubrics. Light toning and dust soiling. This scarce order was issued by the Archbishop of Mexico two months after the capture of Mexico City by the United States Army. It contains six articles that detail instructions for administering the last rites and orders for several other difficult... Read More
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Representacion Que los Habitantes de Zamora Dirigen al Soberano Congreso Constituyente, Pidienole Que No Se Permita en la Republica la Libertad de Cultos Que Establece el Articulo 15 del Proyecto de Constitucion, Presentado por la Comision Respectiva el Dia 16 de Junio de 1856
by [Mexico]. [Catholicism]
Mexico City: Imprenta de M. Murguia, 1856. Good plus.. 28pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Paper reinforcement on blank verso of front wrapper. Some edge wear; moderate dust soiling and toning. Scarce plea by the inhabitants of Zamora, directed to the Constituent Congress, asking it not to allow in the Republic the freedom of worship proposed mid-1850s revision of the Mexican Constitution. The liberal constitution re-established a parliamentary federal government, and formally enshrined the abolition of slavery and important... Read More
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![Al Episcopado, Clero y Catolicos de Mexico [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/627/328/1700328627.0.l.jpg)
Al Episcopado, Clero y Catolicos de Mexico [caption title]
by [Texas]. [Catholicism]
San Antonio, Tx: Incarnate Word, 1934. Good.. [4]pp. Folio. Previously folded, with some separation at fore-edge from central horizontal fold. Chipping at edges, affecting some text at corners and fore-edge. Browned, and a somewhat brittle. A scarce diatribe against the secular Mexican government, issued by Leopoldo Ruiz, the Archbishop of Morelia, from the safety of the Catholic University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio during late 1934. The text demonstrates the ongoing tensions and conflict between religious... Read More
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Los Tres Siglos de Mejico Durante el Gobierno Español Hasta la Entrada del Ejercito Trigarante
by Cavo, Andres
Mexico City, 1852. Very good.. vi,415,[1]pp. Quarto. Contemporary blind-embossed calf, with gilt floral borders on the boards and gilt spine titles. Marbled endpapers and ell edges marbled. Minor edge wear and rubbing. Occasional foxing and toning. An important study by two notable Latin American historians. The first part of the work was written in Rome by Father Andrés Cavo, a member of the Jesuit order, who served as a missionary with the Nayar Indians until 1767 and who... Read More
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![Manas Viejas Tarde Se Olivan [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/349/025/1770025349.0.l.jpg)
Manas Viejas Tarde Se Olivan [caption title]
by [Mexico]. [Censorship]
Mexico, 1820. About very good.. [4]pp., on a small quarto bifolium. Removed from a sammelband, with remnants of old stitching still present. A bit rough along gutter, with some minor losses not affecting text. Otherwise, light tanning and dust soiling. A Mexico City bookseller, Manuel Recio, here comically describes an undercover visit by a government censor to his bookshop, who sought to confiscate a publication recently proscribed by the Inquisition. Recio sold, published, and wrote pamphlets relating to... Read More
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New and Correct Map of the Great Rock Island Route... Between Chicago and Council Bluffs, Kansas City, Leavenworth, Atchison, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and All Points East, West, South-West, and North-West
by [Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railway]
Chicago: Geo. F. Cram, 1885. Good plus.. Large folding pamphlet, approximately 20 x 41.5 inches. A few small chips and short closed tears at edges; several short separations and very minor losses along folds. Contemporary agent's ink stamp on cover panel. Tape repair across portion of horizontal fold; one panel with patches of light staining. A scarce, colorful promotional for the Rock Island Route, as well as its national and international connections, with a fascinating stamp of an... Read More
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Yr American, ve Hwn Sydd yn Cynnwys Nodauar Daith o Ddyffryn Ohio i Gymru, Golwg ar Dalaeth Ohio..
by Chidlaw, Benjamin
Llanrwst: John Jones, 1840. About very good.. 48pp. Original printed wrappers. Lower half of spine perished; a couple of closed tears to wraps; upper corner chipped. Otherwise, light wear at edges; tanned, some dust soiling, scattered foxing. "An early narrative in Welsh describing travels and experiences all over Ohio but notably in the Paddy's Run region" -- Eberstadt. "The text comprises short descriptive paragraphs about cities and areas, principally in Ohio, preceded by a general description of the... Read More
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Informe del Gobernador Interino Constitucional, C. Jose Maria Sanchez
by [Mexico]. [Chihuahua]
Chihuahua, 1910. Good plus.. 35pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Moderate wear to corners and spine. Light tanning. An evidently unrecorded "state of the state" report by the governor of Chihuahua to its state legislature on the 100th anniversary of the Mexican declaration of independence and the eve of the Mexican revolution. The document covers budgetary issues, developments in public education, industrial growth, construction of transportation and communication, and more, including the establishment of an emigration office in Ciudad... Read More
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An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
by Child, Lydia Maria
Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1833. About very good.. [6],232pp. Lacks frontispiece. 12mo. Contemporary green publisher's cloth, printed paper label on spine. Light soiling and discoloration to spine, head and foot lightly chipped, rubbed. Corners bumped. Contemporary ownership inscription on front endpapers. Light foxing. A notable work by suffragist and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, being the first abolitionist work published in book form in the United States. Child (1802-1880) was an advocate for women's rights, the rights of Native... Read More
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![[File of Manuscript Documents Concerning 19th-Century Voyages of the French Cargo Ship Charles et Adolphe to Valparaiso]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/475/925/1695925475.0.l.jpg)
[File of Manuscript Documents Concerning 19th-Century Voyages of the French Cargo Ship Charles et Adolphe to Valparaiso]
by [Chile]
[Valparaiso & Santiago, 1831. Good plus.. [31]pp. Varying size sheets, but mostly small folio. Two sections of material sewn and bradded together. Moderate wear at edges. Scattered contemporary ink stamps. Some tanning and occasional soiling. In Spanish and French; accomplished in several, mostly legible hands. An interesting group of documents that provide details of a late 1820s voyage from Callao to Valparaiso made by a French cargo ship called the Charles et Adolphe. The preponderance consists of accounts,... Read More
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![[Certificado de Nacionalidad from the Chinese Consulate in Cuba]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/269/983/1449983269.0.l.jpg)
[Certificado de Nacionalidad from the Chinese Consulate in Cuba]
by [Cuba]. [China]
Havana: September 8, 1880. Very good.. Partially-printed broadside, 6.5 x 8.25 inches, completed in manuscript in Spanish and Chinese. Small marginal wormhole, mild edge wear, light toning. Ink stamp of the Consulado General at bottom-center. A scarce certificate issued in 1880 by the Chinese Consulate in Havana, authenticating the registration and details of a Chinese laborer in Cuba. The printed form is completed in manuscript with the name of the recipient, his age, place of origin, occupation, and... Read More
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![[Typed Letter, Signed, Written to Missionary Friends, Reporting on Travels in China, Including Visits to Hospitals]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/095/440/1594440095.0.l.jpg)
[Typed Letter, Signed, Written to Missionary Friends, Reporting on Travels in China, Including Visits to Hospitals]
by [China]. [Travel]. Goodnow, Minnie
Peiping, China: June 4, 1936. About very good.. [2]pp. Folio. Old fold lines, minor wear, a few contemporary annotations. Letter written by a nurse visiting China, relating her itinerary in China which includes numerous trips to local hospitals and leper colonies. Minnie Goodnow was a registered nurse who served in France during the Great War. After her return to the U.S., she was a nursing administrator in several hospitals before embarking on this journey. She writes: "I am... Read More
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![[Mimeographed Letter, Signed, from an American Missionary in China, Regarding Continued Contributions Despite the Chinese Civil War, and Forwarding a Lucky-Charm Woodblock Print]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/476/877/1700877476.0.l.jpg)
[Mimeographed Letter, Signed, from an American Missionary in China, Regarding Continued Contributions Despite the Chinese Civil War, and Forwarding a Lucky-Charm Woodblock Print]
by [Missionaries]. [China]
Shanghai, China: February 24, 1928. Very good.. [1]p. plus colored woodblock print, 21.5 x 12.5 inches. With original envelope. Old folds, minor wear. Mimeographed fundraising letter sent by Reverend H.G.C. Hallock to a supporter in Vermont. Henry Galloway Comingo Hallock (1870-1951) was a West Virginia native who studied at Princeton Theological Seminary. He moved to China as a Presbyterian missionary and teacher in 1905, where he taught Sunday School, served as a pastor, and also taught theology at... Read More
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Statuta Ecclesiae Mexicanae Necon Ordo in Choro Servandus Curante Vallisolentanae Ecclesiae Capitulo Sumptus Suppeditante
by [Mexico]. [Catholic Church]
Mexici: Apud Marianum Zunnigam, 1797. Good plus.. [2],140,[4]pp. Small folio. Contemporary vellum over printer's waste paste boards. Moderate wear and some dampstaining to vellum. Light worming, heavier to initial leaves, affecting some text but not sense. Fray Antonio de San Miguel, the bishop of Michoacan, reprints the statutes on choir organization promulgated by the Third Mexican Provincial Council of 1585 and the "Ordo Servandus in Choro" of Archbishop Alonso de Montúfar (fl. 1512-1570). The archbishop originally established these... Read More
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![Circular. The Trustees of the New-York Protestant Episcopal Press, Having Completed the Necessary Preparatory Measures, Have Opened Their Printing and Binding Establishment, Sake Depository, and Office... [caption title and first line of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/560/713/1617713560.0.l.jpg)
Circular. The Trustees of the New-York Protestant Episcopal Press, Having Completed the Necessary Preparatory Measures, Have Opened Their Printing and Binding Establishment, Sake Depository, and Office... [caption title and first line of text]
by [New York]. [Printing]. New York Protestant Episcopal Church
New York: [New York Protestant Episcopal Press], 1829. Very good.. Broadside, 10.5 x 9 inches. Old folds, foxing, creasing, and toning, with substantial but irregularly-trimmed margins. An unrecorded New York broadside advertising the opening of the New York Protestant Episcopal Press (NYPEP) and related activities at No. 46 Lumber Street in New York City in 1829. The text states that "PRINTING of every description will be executed for Churches, Bible and Common Prayer-Book Societies, Tract Societies, Missionary or... Read More
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