Search Results: Authors starting with E from McBride Rare Books

Mexico City, 1885. Good plus.. vii,519,[1]pp. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, edges sprinkled red. Rear joint beginning to split at foot. Moderate wear at edges, boards rubbed. Light toning and scattered foxing. "Segunda edicion" of this Mexican French lesson book based on the "Ollendorf method," a manner of teaching languages with an emphasis on practice rather than theory promoted by German linguist Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff. The method became popular in France, England, and the United States during the latter half of the 19th century, but has less of a track record in Mexico. We locate only one copy of the present edition, at the BNM, and none of the first.

[Natchez, Ms.?], 1839. Very good.. Broadside, 13 x 15.75 inches. Printed in four columns; central vertical fold. Light wear and toning. In the present broadside, The trustees of Jefferson College announce that they are once again prepared to admit students in 1839 following a reorganization, and give their mission statement, courses of study, faculty list, tuition fees, and more. The school, located in Washington, Mississippi, just north of Natchez, opened in 1811, and was the first college in the Mississippi Territory. In the text of this broadside, one can clearly see sentiments and dispositions that would bring the Civil War to fruition. The first two columns are chiefly dedicated to a description fo the new faculty and their skills, but also new measures put in place during the reorganization of the school. In place of gymnastics a daily military drill was substituted, and a military police was to be established, "for the preservation of good order and regularity." The remainder of the broadside… Read More

[New York, 1940. Very good.. Seven pamphlets, plus two duplicates. Some staples, with minor oxidation. Otherwise minor wear and dustsoiling; a few scattered patched of browning. A group of eight uncommon pamphlets issued by the Committee on Militarism Education to disseminate their arguments against military training in schools. The group was established in 1925 by three pacifist ministers, the Quaker E. Raymond Wilson, the Episcopalian John Nevin Sayre, and the Presbyterian Norman Thomas to campaign against compulsory military training at universities and all military programs for children. The organization remained in operation until 1940. The works present here are focused on ROTC programs and compulsory training; titles are as follows: 1) The People Say "No!" 2) The War Department and Compulsory Military Training 3) The Morrill Act and Compulsory Military Training 4) 17 Significant Victories Against Militarism in American Education... 5) Read What a Civilian, a Minister, a Doctor, and a College… Read More

[New York: Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1932. Very good plus.. 12pp., on a single folded quarto sheet of green paper. Illustrated. Minor wear. A very rare promotional pamphlet issued by the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, touting their missionary work amongst the school-age children in Mexico. The author, Dorothy Detweiler, writes about the schools supported by the society, the state of "Baptist Work in Mexico," and includes sections on the Virgin of Guadalupe, Christian Leaders in Mexico, the "Anti-Religious Movement" in the country, and a rather tone-deaf section on the "False Gods" worshipped by some of the indigenous peoples in Mexico ("There are Tarascan Indians in certain parts of Michoacan who believe that God is the sun, and who daily hail its rising with an invocation"). There are six monochrome photographs reproduced in the text, five of which picture Baptist school students, such as "Girls at Colegio Howard Dressed as Indian Women with Decorated Gourds,"… Read More

[Various locations around New York City: Chester Studios and others, 1960. Very good.. Eighty-eight black-and-white photographs, most approximately 8 x 10 inches, with five in slightly smaller format. Minor wear, some with adhesive remnants on versos, a few with editorial markings in the image area, most with photo credits and other information on versos. An informative collection of midcentury press photographs capturing the state of mostly public education in New York City. A little more than a dozen images capture young students in the classroom, in the mist of class instruction, studying and writing at their desks or at the chalkboard, presenting "new Safety Posters" to the class, and more. A particularly interesting aspect of the youth education photographs is in showing that classes in New York were well integrated by this time. One image shows a starkly-decorated classroom of just seven students and a teacher amidst a few benches at the Talmud School. About half of the photographs feature… Read More

Lucena City: Garcia's, 1969. Very good plus.. Fifteen sepia-toned photographs, most 5 x 7 inches, a couple slightly smaller, all but one captioned in the negative. Minor wear, otherwise very nice condition. A collection of fifteen photographs featuring the participants in the 1968 Division Science Workshop in the Philippine city of Lucena. The workshop appears to have concentrated on teacher training for instructors from grades 1 through 11. The present images capture the various training classes during instruction, broken out by grade level, with classes of Filipino men and women taught in English by two white men. Information on chalk boards can be seen in a couple of images. Six of the photographs feature group photographs featuring either the entire population of teacher-trainees or individual grade-level classes. One image features a Division Science Seminar for District Science Coordinator. An interesting assortment of photographs capturing teacher training in a notable Filipino city at the… Read More

[N.p., but most likely Newark, N.J., 1864. Good plus.. Letterpress broadside, printed in two columns, 16.5 x 10 inches. Old folds, small chip to top outer margin, two tiny holes affecting just a few letters. A very rare Unionist broadside supporting the re-election of Abraham Lincoln in the critical presidential contest of 1864. The present broadside was authored in early June 1864 by New Jersey Republican Party stalwart Horace N. Congar, an editor, diplomat, and politician who was at that time serving as U.S. consul to Hong Kong. In this rather stirring broadside, which Congar writes from his position in Hong Kong, he lauds "the thousands of earnest, faithful men, who are giving freely of their blood and treasure to the suppression of this infamous rebellion" and "the noble daring, the undaunted courage, and the determined valour of our brave soldiers of Freedom," and urges that, "in November, New Jersey will stand in the unbroken rank of States giving their verdict for the Party of Union." He also… Read More

[Tyler, 1872. Very good.. Small handbill, approximately 6.75 x 3 inches. Minor wear. Light soiling and tanning. An excellent ephemeral item from the election of 1872 in Texas, comprising the Democratic ticket for the Third Congressional District, then composed of eastern and central portions of the state. The candidate for the Democratic Party was DeWitt Clinton Giddings, a lawyer from Brenham and a veteran of the Confederate Texas Cavalry. Giddings had won his seat in a controversial and violent special election in 1871. Although he carried the initial count by 135 votes over William T. Clark, the Republican Governor E.J. Davis manage to reverse the result citing violence and intimidation against Black voters in a number of counties. Giddings appealed directly to the U.S. House of Representatives who eventually decided in his favor. The present ticket also presents the slate of eight electors for Liberal Republican and Democratic presidential candidate in 1872, Horace Greeley, as well as state… Read More

Continental, Oh: Curtiss Showprint, 1930. Good.. Illustrated broadside, 24 x 9 inches. Old folds, minor toning, moderate edge wear, some chipping to edges, a handful of closed edge tears, a few repaired on verso. A rare broadside advertising a "tent show" performance by Texas Ella and her traveling Wild West show in Ohio. Texas Ella's troupe included the trick roper named the Texas Kid, January the "Famous Bucking Mule," a singer named Arizona Rose, and a blackface comedian named "Red Head Willie from Tail Holt, Texas," and a string band, all of whom are mentioned on the broadside. Interestingly, Red Head Willie is the only performer pictured here, in his typical blackface costume. Apropos to the times, but certainly incongruous to the modern day, the show is advertised as "A Clean Entertainment for the Whole Family." Possibly a unique survival, advertising an obscure 20th-century Wild West troupe, with no copies in OCLC.

[New Orleans: ca. December 24, 1862. Very good.. [3]pp. on a single folded sheet. Minor creasing, a couple of short closed edge tears, light fraying to bottom edge, three small tape repairs to inner fold. An extraordinary document issued by General Nathaniel Banks in New Orleans on Christmas Eve, 1862, in which he announces the intentions of the forthcoming Emancipation Proclamation, provides instructions to the people of Louisiana for its implementation, and prints the text of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation -- perhaps the first government printing of any part of the Emancipation Proclamation west of the Mississippi River, about a week before the issuance of the Final Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. General Nathaniel Banks arrived in New Orleans in mid-December 1862 to relieve the command of controversial General Benjamin Butler. One of his first official acts is encapsulated in the present document, in which he provides almost two pages of instructions and clarifications… Read More

Cincinnati, 1875. Very good.. Broadside, 11 x 8 inches. Slight worming at edges, minor wear. Contemporary ink stamp on lower corner. Broadside advertising the services of George A. Knight, ticket agent for the Ohio & Mississippi Railway. "Bear in mind the fact, the Ohio & Mississippi is the only line that runs its entire trains through from Cincinnati to St. Louis with NO MIDNIGHT CHANGES!" The broadside bears the ink stamp advertisement of Henry H. Hannan, Land and Emigration Agent based in Swan Creek, Ohio. A nice, ephemeral piece. OCLC records three institutional copies, at the University of Missouri, the Hagley Library, and Southern Methodist University.

[Various locations, including California, Hawaii, and the Philippines, 1942. Very good.. [85]pp., mostly folio sheets. Some light wear, a few sheets torn with no loss. Some with manuscript signatures or small notations. Archive of papers relating to the military career of Colonel Alva F. Englehart, spanning two World Wars and the entirety of his career from enlistment to retirement. Col. Englehart (1895-1945) was a native of Missouri. He enlisted in the Coast Artillery Corps of the Army as a Second Lieutenant in March 1917, near the end of World War I. He served in a wide variety of locales, as evidenced by the present archive. Through this series of military orders, one can trace Col. Englehart's career which begins in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and carries him to the Philippines, San Francisco, Hawaii, Virginia, and Washington state. Most of the orders relate to relocations of assignment, promotions, and leaves of absence or furlough. While stationed in Manila in 1923, one of Englehart's leaves… Read More

New York: Published for the Board of Missions, 1868. Very good.. [829]-864,xii,119,[1]pp. Original green printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling, a few small chips to wrappers; contemporary paper label on front cover. Internally clean. Monthly periodical published by the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church documenting their work at home and abroad, with a dedicated section for their Freedmen's Commission. The section on foreign missions includes reports on missions in Africa, China, Japan, Greece, Haiti, and Mexico, while the Freedmen's section contains information on establishing schools to train Black teachers. There are also reports from bishops stationed in the West, with information on the church's work in Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and in Nebraska and the Dakotas among the Native Americans. Of particular interest for its information on missionary focus on education in the South during Reconstruction.

Mexico City, 1898. Good plus.. [6],[18]-190,[7]pp. 16mo. Original cloth-backed printed boards. Edges and spine ends worn; hinges cracked. Contemporary ownership stamps on front free endpaper, title page, and first leaf recto. Light tanning and dust soiling. Scarce edition of the Episcopal Church Hymnal printed in Mexico. An interesting survivor of non-Catholic Mexican worship in the late-19th century. OCLC returns one copy, at Drew University.

[Onawa, Ia, 1871. About very good.. [88]pp. Handmade journal comprised of forty-four lined sheets, folded and stitched with twine. Outer leaves detached, minor wear at upper corner. In a somewhat cramped but legible hand. Manuscript diary and account book for 1870 and 1871 of Harlow Erskine, a farmer and lumberman in the small town of Onawa, in western Iowa near the Missouri River and the border with Nebraska. Erskine appears on the rolls of the 15th Iowa Regiment and apparently returned home to make his living after the conclusion of the Civil War. Approximately the first half of this handmade consists of his terse but frequent diary entries for 1870, which entail his daily farming, logging and milling activities. His entries also contain notes on events in town that year, many of which deal with school issues; Erskine was elected to the local school board in this year and it seems no less fraught than present-day iterations. In the latter half of the journal, Erskine kept a record for 1870-1871 of… Read More

Mexico City: Imprenta de Ignacio Escalante, 1887. Good plus.. vi,216pp., plus folding plate. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. Spine and edges somewhat worn; boards scuffed. Even tanning, occasional faint foxing. Folding plate with some heavier toning in places. Uncommon medical manual on military hygiene by Alberto Escobar, a 19th-century Mexican army doctor and faculty member of two teaching hospitals in Mexico City. In addition to correct personal care, the volume also contains sections on care for uniform and other army clothing, proper food storage and preparation, water and alcohol consumption, and a comparison of hygiene practices during peace and war times. The folding plate at the rear contains an amalgam of nineteen figures referenced in the text. OCLC locates three copies, at Dartmouth, UT Austin, and the BNM.

Buenos Ayres: Imprenta Niños Expositos, 1808. About very good.. [3]pp., on a small quarto bifolium. Removed from a sammelband, with later manuscript pagination at top edge. Some separation along gutter from top edge; minor loss at lower inner corner. Light toning and soiling. An interesting publication from the Niños Espósitos press in Buenos Aires, announcing the invasion of Spain by Napoleon in 1808. The text comprises a letter from Spanish authorities in Galicia to the Viceroy of Rio de la Plata, Santiago de Liniers, informing him of state of war exists between France and Spain and introducing him to Joaquin Somoza de Monsoriu, the captain of the frigate charged with bearing the news of the situation in Spain to South America. The missive goes on to say the Somoza has been charged with returning to Spain with royal funds from the Viceroyalty to aid in the war effort, and continues to solicit financial aid and military volunteers from the residents of the Rio de la Plata. Scarce, OCLC locates… Read More

Cincinnati, 1946. Very good.. Twelve notebooks, [358]pp. total. 12mo. Stapled sheets, stapled at top edge. No covers. Some light wear and soiling, but generally clean and in a legible hand. World War II-era manuscript log books kept by Cincinnati, Ohio police officer Elmer Winder Eubanks (1913-2012). Eubanks began his career in law enforcement as a recruit in 1942 when he was issued badge number 325. He then walked the beat and rode in a patrol car in the city of Cincinnati until he was promoted to sergeant. The archive consists of twelve manuscript notebooks, each covering a single month of time during 1943 to 1946, in which patrolman Eubanks chronicles his daily activities early in his law enforcement career. Herein he investigates crimes and complaints, serves warrants and subpoenas, apprehends suspects, makes arrests and court appearances, transports suspects and property, monitors traffic, interacts with businesses and citizens, etc. Numerous local businesses and Cincinnati landmarks can be… Read More

Victoria de Durango: Imprenta del Gobierno a cargo de Manuel Gonzalez, 1841. Very good plus.. Broadsheet, approximately 13 x 9 inches. Printed in two columns. Old horizontal fold; small chip at upper left edge. Otherwise, only minor edge wear and very light toning. In a custom cloth slipcase and chemise. An extremely rare broadside that provides an account of the initial capture of the Texan Santa Fé Expedition in New Mexico to the citizens of Durango by Manuel Armijo, the military commander of the Mexican state. The expedition was an overly optimistic endeavor whose goal was to establish a trade route through Texas to New Mexico and, if possible, to establish Texas jurisdiction over Santa Fé, a right that had been claimed since the revolution. To this end, a motley group of 321 traders, merchants, soldiers, and politicians, the "Santa Fé Pioneers," were assembled and departed Austin in June 1841. The party struggled through the deserts of west Texas and New Mexico for several months before being… Read More

New York, 1893. Fair.. [32],138,[40]pp., plus two folding plates. Pagination a bit irregular. Illustrated. With dual text in English and Spanish. 12mo. Original blue publisher's cloth, stamped in black; spine perished, boards loose. Light toning to exterior leaves, internally clean. A bilingual guide to the World's Fair in Chicago. The text is printed with English on the upper half of the page and Spanish below. Illustrated with scenes of the fabulous buildings on the grounds, and obviously sponsored by "Knox the Hatter," with ads for the haberdasher throughout, on the covers, and at each end of the main text. A slightly sad copy, and obviously used at the event. Still, a rare and interesting survivor.