Search Results: Authors starting with T from McBride Rare Books

Wien, 1825. Good.. [1],140pp. Original printed wrappers, lacking front wrap and spine nearly perished. Light foxing and dust soiling. An abridged German translation of Talbot's narrative detailing his life in Canada and travels therein. Talbot's work was originally published in London the previous year as Five Years' Residence in the Canadas: Including a Tour through Part of the United States of America, in the Year 1823. "[Talbot] asserted the industrious poor who were willing to spend five or six years of hardship would be well rewarded [emigrating to Canada], but there was little inducement for the gentleman. The work was a financial loss to the family since sales were limited and no royalties were received from the pirated translations which appeared soon after in France and Germany" - Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online). Rare in American institutions, and scarce generally.

[Mexico: En la Imprenta de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1767. Fair.. 4 [of 10]pp. of preliminaries, 84 [of 128]pp. of text. Quarto. Late-19th-century quarter Mexican green sheep and marbled-paper covered boards, gilt spine titles. Spine faded, some abrading to the edges, small library label on front cover. Occasional minor foxing to text, with numerous marginal pencil markings to last several leaves. This copy lacks the following: title page (supplied in manuscript facsimile); two leaves of preliminaries, namely the "Dedicatoria a don Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana" and "Al estudiante aplicado" (both also supplied in manuscript facsimile); pp.59-62 in the dictionary section; and pp.89-128 (the catechism). An admittedly defective, but substantial portion of an exceedingly-rare and important Mexican linguistic work with a distinguished provenance. Huastec is the northernmost dialect of the Mayan language. In the 17th and 18th centuries, it was spoken in Puebla, Veracruz, and San Luis Potosi; it is… Read More

Tokyo: Salesian Orphanage, 1949. Very good.. 84pp. Original pictorial printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Second edition. Written by a Catholic priest, this work reports on the efforts of the Church and others to assist with the orphans and other wandering persons, particularly children, displaced in the wake of World War II. It particularly highlights the work of the Salesian Orphanage, where it was printed. The work is illustrated with images of the orphans, their caretakers, and the various facilities of the orphanage. This second edition includes a section on the inauguration of the new orphanage building and the continued rise in vagrant children on the streets of Tokyo. One copy of a 64pp. edition published in 1948, presumably the first, located at Columbia University. We find no copies of this lengthier, second edition.

Mexico City, 1847. About very good.. [4]pp. Folio. 20th-century dyed calf, front board gilt lettered. Previously folded, with some creasing and small separation at old horizontal fold. Light tanning, scattered staining and soiling. Very scarce Spanish translation of General Zachary Taylor's official report to the United States Army on the Battle of Buena Vista. The account comprises a concise, blow-by-blow narrative of the engagement, with additional remarks on maneuvers and decisions made by Taylor and on the opposing Mexican forces. This translation, printed on a newspaper press in Mexico City at the end of May 1847, approximately two months after the battle took place, was used by supporters of Santa Anna to counteract claims of cowardice and insufficient zeal in the Mexican army by his domestic detractors. Indeed, Taylor devotes a good portion of his report to the desperate fighting at the American center and right flanks, and a postscript by one of Santa Anna's aides, Manuel Maria Gimenez,… Read More

San Francisco: Tipografia de A.L. Bancroft y Ca, 1883. Very good.. Letterpress broadside, printed on cardstock in red and green, with decorative borders and cornerpieces. Old horizontal center fold, couple of short closed tears, moderate soiling, several old tape reinforcements to verso. A wonderful relic from the early years of the invention of the telephone, issued by the Mexican Pacific Telephone Company in an effort to secure telephone service from Spanish-speaking residents of San Francisco. The form is not filled out, but includes lines for fifty subscribers to sign up, with a calendar printed at the center for the year 1883. At the bottom of the form, the company prints instructions in Spanish, beginning, "Direcciones para llamar." Translated into English, the instructions read: "Directions to call. Turn the handle on the right side of the device three times, and without removing the Receiver Telephone that is on the hook, wait for a response; if this is not given, the call will be repeated… Read More

Boston: Stanley & Usher, Printers, 1887. Very good.. 12pp. Original printed self wrappers, sewn. Minor dust-soiling and edge wear. Soft vertical crease throughout. Internally clean. Very good. [with:] Annual Report of the Mexican Telephone Company. 1890-1891. Boston: E.W.S. Jones, Stationer and Printer, [1891]. 11pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers somewhat toned, small chip at each corner, short vertical closed tear and some discoloration to front wrapper. Soft vertical crease throughout. Internally clean. An informative pair of rare and early reports from the Mexican Telephone Company, a subsidiary of American Bell Telephone Company that sought to establish a national telephone network across Mexico during the 1880s. The Mexican Telephone Company began operations in 1882 using equipment from Western Electric and other supplies harvested from local Mexican markets, specifically Mexican trees for telephone poles. At first, the company met with success, but over the course of the next… Read More

Washington, D.C., 1870. Good.. [4]pp. Small quarto. Chips and short closed tears at edges; leaves separated. Slightly later ink stamp and manuscript annotation on first leaf recto. Paper browned, somewhat brittle. Memorial presented by attorney Bethel Coopwood to the United States and Mexican Commission, describing Capt. James Callahan and the Texas Rangers' sacking and burning of Piedras Negras in October 1855, and specifically the losses of Margarito Teposte, who was seeking redress from the United States government. Callahan ostensibly crossed the border into Mexico in pursuit of a band of Apaches, but ended up attacking the local citizenry and destroying the Mexican border town. The Rangers then, "drove your memorialist from his home and compelled him to flee to the woods with all of his family, where he wandered for three days, exposed to death under the tomahawk of the barbarous Indians, who frequented said woods at that time, suffering from hunger and thirst in a degree almost insupportable,… Read More

[Knoxville, Tn: George Roulstone, 1794. About very good.. Partially-printed broadside, 6.5 x 8 inches, completed in manuscript, docketed on verso in ink manuscript noting the summons was served. Modest marginal chipping, evenly tanned, old folds. An early and decidedly rare imprint from pre-statehood Tennessee, when it was known as the "Territory south of Ohio." According to the description for the copy at Middle Tennessee State (one of only two known institutional copies), the work was "Probably printed by George Roulstone in Knoxville, who was printer to the territory in at least 1794 and 1795, and printer to the state of Tennessee from 1796 to 1803." The present document was completed in manuscript on June 3, 1794. The clerk, Charles McClung, signed the bottom of the document in ink, "Chas. McClung, Ck." McClung was a surveyor who, among other activities, drew the original plat of Knoxville in 1791. He also served as the first clerk of Knox County. The present document is a court summons for two… Read More

Fort Randall, D.T.: February 12, 1862. Very good.. [4]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor soiling and wear. An interesting letter addressed to the governor of Iowa signed by seven officers of the 14th Iowa Infantry stationed at Fort Randall in the Dakota Territory. Fort Randall was charged with keeping peace with the Sioux, and the 14th Iowa Volunteers had made a difficult winter march to their post in order to guard the civilians in the territory. In their missive, they lay out complaints against the territorial governor, as well as the postmaster who is accused of secessionist sentiments. The soldiers include Captain George H. Wolfe and Dr. Samuel N. Pierce, the company's surgeon, as well as four lieutenants and a sergeant major. They write: "We the undersigned, would like your advice on certain points connected with our welfare, and (we might say) that of the state which we have the honor to serve. ... Soon after our arrival at this post there were vague rumors afloat to the… Read More

Dallas, 1878. Very good plus.. [49]-64pp. Folio. Gathered signatures of newsprint. Old central horizontal fold, old ink stain to upper margin of last few leaves. A very nice example. An interesting single issue of a short-lived Dallas monthly newspaper "Devoted to the Agricultural, Industrial, Immigration and Educational Interests of Texas." The publisher and editor of the work is listed as H.S. Hyatt, with the corresponding editor and solicitor named as S.H. Sayer. The newspaper is a thinly-veiled promotional for the advantages offered by Texas's cities, railways, climate, natural resources, agricultural conditions, and business environment. The first two pages are taken up with a lead article titled, "Why Come to Texas?" Other sections of the issue print a Dallas business directory, a city of Ennis business directory, an article on the lack of yellow fever in Texas, favorable provisions of the Texas state constitution attractive to emigrants and investors, and much more. The centerfold of the… Read More

Austin, 1916. Very good.. Two documents, totaling three pages, and two printed envelopes. Minor wear and creasing, old folds. A small collection of materials pertaining to a campaign by the prohibitionists of Travis County, Texas, calling for votes against the "enemy of civilization, home, life and property, the SALOON...the greatest menace to Christianity and civilization by all clean thinking people...." The documents include a printed letter from the Chairman of the Travis County Local Option Campaign Committee, Austin, Texas, to campaign workers, asking them to contact voters on the enclosed list and check off those who were prohibitionists; a two-page carbon typescript, on two sheets of thin typing paper, listing voters in Webberville Voting Precinct No. 1, with their occupations (some names are checked off, but there is a pencil notation "Disregard all checks"); printed envelope to return the annotated list (unused); and an envelope in which the material was sent by the Committee to H.L. Manor… Read More

Brooklyn: The Albertype Company, 1925. Near fine.. [16] leaves, printed recto only. Oblong quarto. Original grey illustrated wrappers, string-tied. Minor wear and soiling. Internally clean. A handsome promotional work depicting the city of El Paso, produced by the El Paso Chamber of Commerce. The first leaf gives a brief synopsis of the location, industry, and climate of the region. The remaining fifteen leaves contain views of the city and the surrounding area. These include San Jacinto Plaza, the high school, county court house, Mesa Avenue, Washington Park, Loretto College, the El Paso Smelter Works, and the College of Mines and Metallurgy, among others. The front cover shows the railway station and the rear cover depicts Elephant Butte Dam. We locate four copies of this work in OCLC, all in Texas libraries.

Austin: General Land Office, 1910. Very good.. Large format blueprint map, 53 x 38.5 inches. Some fraying and minor chipping to edges, moderate staining, a smattering of small, mostly marginal wormholes. Rolled. A substantial blueprint cadastral map showing the state of land ownership in Live Oak County in 1910. Live Oak County is located in far-south Texas, just about seventy miles from Corpus Christi. The plots within the county on the present map are noted with hundreds of owners, a mixture of Anglo-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and various school lands. Hundreds of smaller plots of farmland are organized in the western portion of the county, which had been divided up by various land speculators looking to cash in on the fertility of the soil. Cotton was the main product of these farms in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Portions of the Atascosa, Frio, and Nueces rivers flow through the county, past the then-county seat of Oakville, and southward from there. "Between 1900 and 1930 Live… Read More

Brownsville: Bishop's Print Shop, 1920. Good.. [4]pp. Small bifolium, 6 x 3 inches. Light wear, some slight loss to paper. An ephemeral piece of Texana, handed out by the Eagle Pharmacy in Brownsville. The front page contains the title and a cut of an eagle, while the back advertises the pharmacy's wares: "See us for -- Stationery, post cards, tooth powders and pastes, tooth brushes, safety razors, blades, etc. Try our fountain and luncheonette service; it will PLEASE YOU. If we don't have what you want we'll get it." Inside there are two poems, "Hell in Texas" and what seems to be a responding piece, "Texas a Paradise." The first piece closes with choice words about the spiciness of Mexican cooking.

Waco: Texas Telephone Company, 1919. Good.. [4],132pp. Original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Covers worn and chipped, some annotation. Text lightly worn, several corners torn away, not affecting text. An unrecorded phone book for Waco, Texas, issued by the Texas Telephone Co. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in Waco, the Texas Telephone Company merged five smaller exchanges and served more than thirty cities and towns across Texas. The company was purchased by Southwestern Bell at the end of 1927. The volume provides an alphabetical directory of residences and businesses, with two leaves at the start of numbers arrived "Too Late to Classify." Each leaf has ads for local businesses. Likely used to death and discarded -- a rare survival from this important Texas company.

Galveston: Gustav Feist Co, 1906. Good.. [17] leaves. Original pictorial wrappers, chipped and separated along spine. Leaves evenly tanned, with an occasional fox mark. Rare photographic promotional for Galveston, Texas, published only a few years after the 1900 hurricane devastated the city. The work contains sixteen Albertypes of city views, concentrated on marine and harbor scenes. In addition views of the docks, wharves, and accompanying commercial and private boats, there are several depictions of the Galveston Seawall, which commenced construction in 1902 and of which the initial segment was completed in 1904. Other views include significant city architecture and a bird's eye view of the town over the Ball High School. An ephemeral photographic record of Galveston in the years after the hurricane. We locate one copy of a similar publication (with a different publisher on the title page), at Yale.

Chicago: South and West Land Company, 1906. About very good.. 15pp. Quarto. Original green printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers lightly faded, light soiling and wear. Minor internal soiling, some rust from staples, leaves loosening. Promotional work for the South and West Land Company with a map of the railroad routes spreading out across Kansas to northern Texas. Statistics are given as to the climate, soil, precipitation, and the wealth of agriculture in the region. The work is illustrated with half tones of scenes in the countryside including cattle, crops, and farming. The work outlines the advantages of homesteading in Texas -- its fine schools, the lost cost of land, the advantages of the location, and the beauty of the countryside. Five copies located in OCLC, all in Texas institutions.

[Pampa?], 1910. Very good.. 24pp. 12mo. Original blue printed wrappers, stapled. Clean and fresh. One signature loosening. A lovely little promotional for Pampa, Texas, "a growing town of 500 inhabitants located on the Santa Fe Railroad." The work is illustrated throughout, highlighting the towns businesses and residences. Rare -- we locate three copies in OCLC, all in Texas institutions.

Fort Worth: T.P. Martin, Jr. & Co, 1886. Very good.. Vol. 1, No. 1. [4]pp. on a folded sheet. Light wear, a few small chips at edges. The first issue of this short-lived Texas periodical on stamps and stamp collecting, edited by B.G. Chaney. The feature article is titled "Advice of a Collector," which includes such practical advice as "beware lest you should undertake too much and your collection become a task instead of a pleasure." There is also an article on counterfeits which claims that the rate of disreputable dealers is on the rise, which will lead to disgust and discouragement among young collectors. The final two pages is comprised almost entirely of advertisements for stamp dealers and collecting agents. Rare and ephemeral -- we locate issues at the University of Texas at Austin and Dallas, and the British Library. None in auction records.

Topeka: Highway Map Co, 1929. About very good.. Folding map, 14 x 12.5 inches on a sheet 28 x 17 inches, folded to 8.5 x 4.5 inches. Printed in blue ink. Light wear and minor soiling, some slight separation and minor loss at a few folds. Early road map of Texas, showing highways throughout the state. One side of the sheet is printed with the map and an extensive alphabetical listing of towns which indicates, "Reliable Service and Road Information May Be Had at Any of These Stations." The other side of the sheet contains numerous local advertisements, including two for competing funeral homes which advertise "Quick Ambulance Service." Relatively scarce, as is normal for such an item; we locate three copies in OCLC, at Stanford, SMU, and the University of Houston.