Search Results: Authors starting with S from McBride Rare Books

Mexico City, 1892. Very good.. 1226,[1]pp. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, leather label. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Title page with small paper flaw at lower right, not affecting text. Light toning throughout; light foxing to initial leaves. A scarce, late-19th-century manual that details the rules and regulations from the Mexican Army Corps of Engineers. The present work contains nearly 600 articles divided into forty-five chapters that cover diverse subjects, such as the organization of the unit across the country, responsibilities during the building of fortifications, obligations while on the march and in battle, contributions to the defense of towns and coasts, and the duties of officers from Sergeant to General. OCLC locates only one copy, at the BNM.

Boston: Imprenta de Munroe y Francis, 1828. Very good.. [4],258,[2]pp. Modern tan quarter cloth and blue paper boards, paper spine label. Text lightly toned with some minor foxing. First edition. Following the success of his 1825 anthology, Colmena Española, Harvard instructor Francisco Sales produced the present compendium of three important Spanish Golden Age plays for use in prep schools and universities in the United States. The three works are Pedro Calderon de la Barca's "El Principe Constante"; Lope de Vega's "Le Estrella de Sevilla"; and Agustin Moreto's "El Desden con el Desden." Several editions followed over the next few decades. Shoemaker 35095.

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 Fund. The notice likewise indicates that the book will be "a permanent historical record of the greatest calamity by Flood, Fire and Tornado in the history of America." With numerous illustrations and photographic reproductions. We find several editions of the sample under various imprints, but only two bearing the imprint of the Universal Book and Bible House, at Northwestern University and the Franklin County Pennsylvania Library.

[Mexico]: Impresa en la Oficina de Doña Maria Fernandez de Jauregui, 1814. About very good.. [27],245,[1],45,[2]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt tooled, leather spine label, edges painted red. Light scuffing to boards, more moderate wear to spine and edges; spine label chipped. Small patches of dampstaining to initial leaves, otherwise light and scattered foxing. "The last gasp of the Spanish Inquisition in America. This plea for re-establishing the Inquisition, which had been gratefully abolished in 1812 by the liberal constitution, was written by the prior of the convent of the Barefoot Carmelites in Mexico. The work contains many contemporary political allusions as well as the religio-legal justification for the Inquisition" -- Nebenzahl. The author, Fray José de San Bertolomé, entered the order of the Discalced Carmelites at the convent in Puebla, and became a lecturer in religious philosophy in their colleges across New Spain until he took up his role as prior in Mexico… Read More

[Manila]: Imprenta Nueva de Don Jose Maria Dayot por T. Oliva, 1832. Good plus.. 919,[1]pp. Small octavo. Contemporary limp vellum, edges sprinkled red; evidence of two lost fore-edge ties. Text block sound, but beginning to loosen from binding. Light worming in lower quadrant of initial and final leaves, slightly affecting text; two small tape repairs to lower corners of title page and front free endpaper. Even tanning and occasional foxing. Only the second edition of this foundational grammar of the Tagalog language by Francisco de San José, first published in 1610. San José was a Dominican priest who arrived in the Philippines in 1595, and is considered to be the father of Tagalog grammarians. He is credited by some to have brought the first printing press onto the islands in 1602, and he is the author of the first book printed in the Philippines with movable type, a Tagalog Rosary in the same year. The 1610 first edition of the present work was only the eighth book printed the Philippines,… Read More

Manila: En la Imprenta del Seminario Eclesiastico, 1783. Very good.. [2],23pp. printed on rice paper. Folio. Modern marbled paper-covered boards, red leather label on front cover stamped in gilt. A few minor paper repairs to edges of a few leaves, a few very small marginal wormholes, not costing any text, typical brown spotting, staining, and minor brittleness peculiar to rice paper. A rare work printed on the fourth press ever in operation in Manila. After consecration and service in Spain, Sancho de Santa Justa arrived in Manila in 1767 to take up his duties as archbishop, which included overseeing the expulsion of the Jesuits. Sancho de Santa Justa was a native of Aragon and a member of the Society of Scholarum Piarum. In the present work, an address on the occasion of Charles III's sixty-seventh birthday, Sancho de Santa Justa expresses himself no friend of many of the Enlightenment's ideas but reiterates his support of the King, his economic policies, and especially of the newly-instituted… Read More

[Xalapa]: Imprenta de Florencio Aburto, 1846. About very good.. Broadsheet, approximately 12.5 x 9 inches. Light dampstaining and dustsoiling. Minor wear at edges. In a gilt lettered, quarter calf and cloth folder. A rare address circulated by Santa Anna shortly after he returned from exile to lead the Mexican military response in the war against the United States. This open letter was written on August 20, 1846, from his personal estate in Xalapa, Veracruz, to his ally General Jose Mariano de Salas. It principally discusses the social, political, and economic problems facing Mexico in the forthcoming struggle and suggests that Santa Anna himself is the best candidate to solve them. He is at pains to state that he has only ever acted (in his view) in the best interests of the nation, and that internecine factionalism amongst political parties has made the country weak. Santa Anna continues that he would be happy to return as the leader of Mexico, but only if called upon by the people and legitimate… Read More

Veracruz: August 16, 1846. Good plus.. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Some dampstaining and dust soiling; minor wear at edges. In a quarter calf and cloth folder, gilt lettered. At the outset of the war with the United States, disgraced former president Santa Anna was living in exile in Cuba. After the Mexicans were defeated at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma in May 1846, the American troops crossed the Rio Grande into Mexican territory. Santa Anna used this emergency to regain the trust of the Mexican government, and returned to Mexico on August 6 to lead the military defense. This message to his fellow citizens announced his return to Veracruz, and attempted to inspire a patriotic resistance to the American incursion. His lengthy address reads, in part: "Compatriotas: nunca ha sido tan difcil la situatcion de de la república: comprometida por un lado su nacionalidad, se aspiraba por otro á someterla al mas duro de los yugos, á una dominacion europea.... Orígen verdadero de la lucha prolongada en que… Read More

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 tambien al Héroe de Anahuac que termoló el pendon tan deseado; pero ¿y D. Antonio? No quiso jurar la Independencia.... Gracias tambien al Héroe Indiana que hizo desaparecer semejantes monstruous; pero ¿y D. Antonio? No ha entrado en la capitulacion.... Gracias á Dios que ahora si se dará la jusiticia á quien la tenga; pero ¿y D. Antonio? No tuvo parte en el Plan de Iguala.... Gracias tambien al digno Gefe del Ejército Trigarante que hizo brillar la luz alcabo de tantas tinieblas; pero ¿y D. Antonio? No… Read More

[Mexico City]: Oficina de Dona Maria Fernandez de Jauregui, 1814. Still very good.. 39pp. Contemporary plain paper wrappers. Several wormholes neatly straight through text, some slight worming in margins. Minor wear and soiling. "A day by day case report of the lengthy but successful drainage of a hydrosarcocele [swollen testes]...it includes an account of the preliminary attempts at a medical cure, and the conferences of physicians headed by Rafael Sagaz. Verses by the grateful and rejuvenated patient, Jose Florencio de Mora Palacios, a householder merchant, close the account" -- Wellcome Catalogue. Medina calls for a portrait, but this is believed to be a ghost as it is not found in the copies at the Wellcome, Huntington, the Bancroft, or the National Library of Medicine. A scarce and rather grim Mexican medical work, with only a handful of copies in OCLC. Medina 10967. Wellcome Medical Americana 192.

Arrow Rock: Published by the Author, 1844. Very good.. 216pp. Later quarter calf and marbled boards, original leather spine label laid down. Minor foxing. An early Missouri imprint, and the first medical book published west of the Mississippi River. Noted as the revised edition, though no copies of any earlier editions are located. Sappington was a Missouri physician who was noted for having invented a quinine pill for the treatment of malarial fevers. This work was published in Sappington's hometown of Arrow Rock. Sabin 76909.

[Santee, Ne, 1904. Very good.. Five pamphlets: 8; 4; 4; 4; 4pp. Each printed on a single sheet, only one folded. Small stain and small area of adhered paper remnants to one pamphlet, others clean. A collection of five small pamphlets printed on the mission press at the Santee Normal Training School on the Santee Reservation in northeastern Nebraska, on the banks of the Missouri River. The Santee Normal Training School was established in 1870 and operated until 1937. Alfred L. Riggs (1837-1916), the founder and principal of the school as well as editor and publisher of the school's newspaper, was a missionary and advocate of Native American education whose goal was to cultivate Native American teachers from among the tribes. The present pamphlets include the text of a speech given by Riggs in 1904, entitled Our Indian Missions, Seventy Years Review, 1834-1904. Riggs delivered the address before the National Council in Des Moines, Iowa. In his address, Riggs enumerates the changes among Native… Read More

Brooklyn: Douglass Howell, 1958. Near fine.. [20] leaves, comprised of a title page, eighteen plates, and colophon leaf. Publisher's brown morocco, gilt, in the original slipcase. Negligible wear. Copy one of sixty, signed by the artist.  This handsome little book is comprised of a letterpress title page and colophon, as well as eighteen miniature etchings printed in various colors.  It is printed on handmade paper by Douglass Howell, a noted paper artisan who worked with such eminent figures as Jasper Johns and Jackson Pollock.  The artist, Aubrey Schwartz, was born in New York City in 1928.  His work garnered many accolades early on, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in creative printmaking.  This is his second published work, after his Predatory Birds, published by Baskin's Gehenna Press in 1957.  A fine example of this New York City artist's book.  We locate two copies in OCLC, at Georgia State University and the University of Manitoba.

Portland, Or, 1950. About very good.. Nine items, totaling [29]pp. Staples, old folds. Minor wear, moderate toning. A very interesting group of reproduced typescript materials, produced and distributed by the pacifist wing of the Christian Scientist Church most in the aftermath of World War II. These documents include a short run of their rare, typescript newsletter, called "Science and Peace," as well as a typescript folio pamphlet entitled "What Mrs. Eddy Says About the Most Vital Question of Our Times." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at the time did not consider conscientious objection to war as an official position of the church. Although it did grant freedom of conscience to its members to object to war on moral grounds, it explicitly advised them against claiming religious exemption to the draft. In fact one of the earliest documents present here, dated March 16, 1944, comprises a response to an inquiry for pacifist material from the presumed collector by the church board that, "There… Read More

Rochester, 1862. About very good.. 132pp. 12mo. Original brown publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Corners bumped, moderate wear to corners and spine ends, cloth lightly soiled. Minor scattered foxing. Poetry written by a woman in Rochester, much of it with a Civil War theme. Among these is a poem entitled "The Volunteer," with lines which describes a fallen son being returned to his mother, her lament reading: "The North, the South, to me, / All places are the same! / My mother-tears have quench'd / The patriotic flame." Other pieces include "The Midnight Dirge" and "The Slave Girl." Relatively uncommon.

Mexico City: F. Neve, 1868. Good plus.. 394,[2]pp. Contemporary quarter sheep and pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Light wear to corners and spine; boards lightly soiled. Front and rear free endpapers town away. Even toning, an occasional fox mark. Scarce Mexican edition of these collected philosophical and political essays and journalism by Spanish author José Selgas y Carrasco. Selgas was principally known for his lyric poetry and short stories, and also authored several full-length novels. He was known as staunch supporter of the Conservative political faction in Spain during the mid-19th century, and served in at least one legislative administration. An interesting appearance of this conservative voice in Mexican print, as the republic under the supposedly liberal Juarez was being restored following the brief reign of Maximilian I. OCLC locates only two copies, at Kansas and UNC.

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 and assassinated Francisco Madero in 1913, Carranza declared himself in rebellion against the new government and established himself as the Primer Jefe of the Constitutionalist Army still in the field. He was not as radical as many of his compatriots, particularly in terms of social and land reform, and was often vilified, as here, for a lack of commitment to full revolution. The present work contains twenty-eight short articles written in the first half of 1914, all… Read More

Mexico City, 1854. About very good.. xxi,381,[1]pp., plus eleven folding plates. Contemporary quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light wear to edges, hinges, and spine ends; boards rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription on first leaf of text. Light toning, scattered foxing. A couple of short, marginal tears and separations along old folds to plates. Uncommon treatise on fortifications, their assault, and defense, originally published in French and ordered to be translated into Spanish by Santa Anna for the use of the Mexican military in the mid-1850s. Jose Ignacio Serrano, an army colonel tasked with producing the text, was also responsible for the translation of several other French military and legal works for Mexican editions during the 1850s. The well executed plates at the rear of the volume contain schematics for fortification design and illustrations of defensive positions.

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 of certain tercieros (sharecroppers bound in servitude through Mexico's feudal hacienda system). Grayson may have threatened legal action against Perez. The letter reads, in part, in rough English translation: "D. Pedro Garcia left ten sharecroppers at my house, the same ones the Mayor Jose Pio Salinas received at my door. These same ten sharecroppers were part of the twenty-one sharecroppers you and Mr. Davis told me the mayor gave to you. You can be sure that if I thought I owed you that I would have asked you… Read More

Mexico City: J.M. Fernandez de Lara, 1835. Very good.. 10pp. Original self-wrappers, stitched. Some minor creasing and edge wear. Light toning and dust soiling. A rare, first preliminary publication of the "Seven Laws," the first Mexican constitution of centralist and conservative order. The seven laws, which would be officially promulgated on October 23, 1835 as the "Basis Law for the New Constitution", concentrated power in the figure of the President of the Republic. This fundamentally altered the organizational structure of Mexico, away from the federal structure established by the Constitution of 1824, thus ending the First Mexican Republic and creating a unitary republic, the Centralist Republic of Mexico. Formalized under President Antonio López de Santa Anna on December 15, 1835, they were enacted in 1836. The aim of the previous constitution was to create a political system that would emulate the success of the United States, but after a decade of political turmoil, economic stagnation,… Read More