Search Results: Titles starting with D from McBride Rare Books

Lima: April 24, 1811. About very good.. Broadside, approximately 17 x 15.75 inches. Printed on two joined sheets. Some worming, affecting a few words of text; larger losses reinforced with tissue on blank verso. Light toning and scattered, small patches of staining. Contemporary manuscript rubric at foot. A scare, late Spanish colonial broadside, regarding appointments and alterations to administrative councils that had authority over Peru, particularly the Supreme Council of the Indies. The text of this decree, issued by Viceroy José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa in Lima on April 24, 1811, promulgates orders from the King-in-exile, Ferdinand VII, and the Supreme Central Council that concerned the appointment of new officers and members of the Council of the Indies and several other government positions in the Spanish American colonies. The Supreme Central Council was a body that administered Spanish interests for the King during a six-year period following his abdication forced by Napoleon. OCLC… Read More

Camp Carson, Co: Die PW-Woche, 1944. Very good.. Fifty-two leaves, all but the title page printed rectos only, with the half title page printed in red and blue. Oblong octavo. Original tan paper-covered boards, gray cloth backstrip, front cover decorated with block-printed illustration and the printed title, "Da Lacht der Pikes Peak." Minor staining, foxing, and edge wear to covers, corners worn. Original censorship stamp on rear flyleaf, minimal foxing to fore-edge of text block, otherwise clean internally. A very rare collection of comic strips produced by the German prisoners of war incarcerated at Camp Carson, Colorado during World War II. The title translates roughly to "Laughs of Pikes Peak: A Funny Little Book." According to the website for Camp Carson (now Fort Carson): "Camp Carson was also home to nearly 9,000 Axis prisoners of war - mostly Italians and Germans. The internment camp at Camp Carson opened on the first day of 1943. These POWs alleviated the manpower shortage in Colorado by… Read More

New Orleans: The Daily Item, 1899. About very good.. 600pp. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Extremities worn, covers rubbed and lightly soiled. Some slight worming, heavier at front of text. Light tanning and wear. A rare New Orleans almanac full of facts and figures on a wide array of subjects ranging from Queen Victoria's income to information on the Texas petroleum industry. With numerous advertisements for businesses across the country, including a woodcut depicting the publisher's premises. The publication appears to have been rather short-lived, appearing from 1897 to 1900. An interesting and eclectic volume, designed to be an all-purpose ready reference for the average man. OCLC locates four serial holdings for this title, all in the South.

Topeka, 1900. About very good.. 112pp. plus two leaves of ads and folding map. 12mo. Original blue wrappers printed in silver, stapled. Light wear and soiling, upper corner of front cover torn away. Small closed tear at gutter margin of map. Light wear and soiling to text. A handbook produced for use at Washburn College in Topeka, "Containing many facts about Washburn and Topeka, which are of interest to students." The foreword notes, "We, the members of the Gamma Sigma Literary Society, feeling the need of a Washburn College Handbook for the use of the friends, faculty and students of Washburn, offer the following pages in the hope that they will fill this need." The little volume is filled with handy information about the sports activities, clubs and organizations, local churches and museums, a list of faculty, space for taking notes, and numerous advertisements for local businesses. There are also several views around campus, as well as a map of Topeka. Obviously ephemeral, providing a snapshot… Read More

Dallas, Or: Observer Printing Co, 1911. Very good.. 32pp. Oblong octavo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. A couple of creased and very short closed tears to wraps. Otherwise minor wear and dust soiling, even toning. Scarce, early 20th-century promotional for the other, less famous Dallas, located in the central Willamette Valley of Oregon, west of Salem. This booklet touts the town's lumber mills, pomiculture, agriculture, live stock and poultry farming, and several other industries. Advertised as well are the ample amenities of the town, its prospects for growth, the surrounding natural resources, and easy availability of land. With numerous reproductions of photographs, depicting fruit farms, prize-winning farm animals, logging mills, town buildings, and local scenes. OCLC locates only copy, at Yale.

[Dawson City, 1901. Very good.. Five photographs, each measuring 11 x 14 inches, forming an 11 x 70 inch panoramic view of Dawson City. Each photograph with different gradations of toning (the central panel with excellent contrast, the rest with varying degrees of fading), minor wear. A substantial turn-of-the-century panoramic photograph of Dawson City, in five sheets, viewed from the west side of the Yukon River. The photograph was produced by H.J. Goetzman, who worked as a commercial photographer in the Yukon from 1897 until 1904, recording the scenery, life and activity of the route to the gold fields through Alaska and Canada, Dyea, the Chilkoot Trail, White Pass Canyon, Bennett, Dawson, and the Klondike gold fields. He ran Goetzman's Photographic Studio in Dawson from 1898 to 1904. The Yukon Archives holds another example of this set, and their catalog record offers the following details on the content: "The panorama stretches from north of Dawson to south of the Klondike River. Many streets,… Read More

Mexico City: Imprenta del Aguila, 1840. Very good plus.. [12]pp. Small quarto. Modern red cloth, front board gilt lettered. Faint dampstaining at lower corners, otherwise quite clean and fresh internally. A scarce decree that reorganized the infantry and cavalry of the Mexican Army following the vicissitudes of the late 1830s. During this period Mexico lost Texas, rebuffed the French occupation of Veracruz, faced independence movements from the southern states of Yucatan and Chiapas, and put down two military rebellions against Santa Anna after his return from exile. The present decree follows an 1839 order that called for the formation of nine new regiments of infantry and six of cavalry. Only three infantry units and four cavalry units could be raised, and this order positioned them in states across central Mexico, makes provisions for their organization and command structure, and also includes redeployments of existing units to address the threats of ongoing unrest. OCLC locates four copies is… Read More

[Omaha]: Ceskeho Historickeho Klubu v Nebrasce, 1928. About very good.. 471,[1]pp. plus folding plate. With errata slip laid in. Illustrated in text. Original blue cloth, gilt. Light wear to binding, extremities rubbed. Light scattered soiling to text. Errata with old folds and a few tears. A history of the Czech community in Nebraska, extensively illustrated with portraits and scenes. The folding plate depicts the state of Nebraska with counties outlined. Written entirely in Czech.

[Newberry, S.C., 1948. Very good.. 4pp., on a single folded sheet. Evenly toned. A contentious and racially-motivated political campaign leaflet in which Alan Johnstone, a white candidate for U.S. Senate in South Carolina, lambasts James M. Hinton, secretary of the Negro Citizens' Committee of South Carolina for pointing out recent comments made by Johnstone criticizing the appointment of federal court judge Julius Waties Waring, who was sympathetic to African American Democrats. Hinton himself was an African American Democrat, which Johnstone does not seem to welcome. Johnstone reprints two letters sent to him by Hinton interspersed with his own commentary criticizing Hinton, with certain bold-faced, all-caps phrases such as "THIS STATE MAY NOT BE INVADED" and "CARPETBAG GOVERNMENT," pointing out that "Hinton was born and educated in NEW YORK." Johnstone also writes that he believes the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution "were adopted in violation of the Declaration of… 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

San Francisco: Edward Denny & Co, 1904. Very good.. Folding map, 26.5 x 17 inches. Original printed wrappers. Some wear and creasing to wrappers. Light dust soiling and scattered faint foxing. A rare pocket map of Lake County, California, published by Edward Denny in 1904. The map is printed in blue ink and is divided into townships, with Guenoc and Gallayomi Ranchos identified near the foot of the map area, and major roads through the county delineated. Clear Lake, the county's namesake, is prominently depicted at center and numerous springs are located and named in its vicinity. The present edition of this map is the first, with revised editions published in 1907 and 1910. All are quite rare, but the 1904 edition is particularly so, with only one copy located by OCLC, at the Bancroft Library.

New York: Amerikanischen Traktat-Gesellschaft, 1850. Very good plus.. 64pp. In German. 16mo. Original dark green limp cloth. Light wear and soiling. Small marbled-paper bookplate on inside front cover, pencil ownership signature on front flyleaf from "Ellen S. Kem." A pocket-sized edition of Legh Richmond's The African Servant, printed in German by the American Tract Society. The work purports to tbe an authentic narrative of the Christian conversion of a free Black man named William, whom Richmond met while serving as a priest on the Isle of Wight, but the work is troubling to modern sensibilities. The work attempts to shift the focus from William's experiences as a slave to his conversion process. When William travels to the United States, his experiences there make him thankful for his time as a slave and makes him "regard his home in Africa as a place of spiritual darkness." According to the entry on Legh Richmond on Documenting the American South: "In The Negro Servant, Richmond presents… Read More

Mexico City: Alejandro Valdes, 1821. Still very good.. 8pp. Small quarto. Removed from a sammelband. Light wear at gutter fold. Minor dampstaining and dust soiling at edges. Light tanning. Fascinating and very scarce pamphlet concerning the right of Mexico to elect an emperor, published anonymously just after the country was granted independence by Spain in 1821. The first several years of independence in Mexico were fraught by political division concerning the form that the new government should take. The Plan of Iguala, which was promulgated by Agustin de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero and authorized in the Treaty of Cordoba with Spain, called for a constitutional monarchy. However, there was a strong desire in many quarters for a more liberal form of government, such as a constitutional republic, as well as some calls, as from the present work, for a more authoritarian style of rule. The author here argues that Mexico was political heir of the pre-conquest empire of Moctezuma, and therefore had… Read More

London: Printed by J. and C. Adlard, 1825. Very good plus.. 12pp., plus large folding plate. Contemporary plain paper wrappers, sewn, with manuscript title on front wrapper reading, "View of Mexico." Front wrapper partially separated, moderate edge wear and soiling to wrappers. Light foxing to text, previous ownership inscription dated in the year of publication on title page. Untrimmed. The very rare first edition of Robert Burford's interpretation of William Bullock's "View of the City and Valley of Mexico, from Tacubaya in 1822," which Burford adapted as a panoramic exhibited at Leicester Square in London in 1825. Burford's original painting of Mexico City is now lost, but the folding plate, measuring 12.5 x 19 inches, recreates the painting in two sections. The folding plate, titled, "Explanation of a View of the City of Mexico, exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester Square," memorializes the city from Calles Platoros to the Regina Coeli Convent Church. The scene is keyed to seventy-one locations… Read More

Centreville, Tx: June 30, 1866. Very good.. [4]pp., on a single folded folio sheet of lined paper. Minor discoloration, mild wear. An interesting view of immediate-post-Civil-War rural Texas, specifically Centreville in Leon County. Centreville became the county seat of Leon County in 1850, and was the home of numerous members of the Burkhalter family. Nine Burkhalters are buried in Leon County's Concord Cemetery, but P.H. Burkhalter is not among them. In the present letter, P.H. Burkhalter reports to a friend on the challenging state of farming in the area, referencing the impact of freed slaves on Texas agriculture three times: "Mr Currie, I have nothing of an interesting character to communicate. The crops in Leon are sorry, we have the sorryest prospect that we ever had since we have been in the State. I think it was partly owing to bad management, and great floods of rain. I have never experienced such a spring in life to farm. Last spring was nothing to compare with this, and you know it was… Read More

Jackson, Ms: Surveyor's Office, 1845. Very good.. Lithographic map, 18.25 x 11.5 inches. Old folds and creases, minor foxing, very short split along one fold line. A rare survey map depicting Choctaw and Chickasaw cessions after the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and showing the changes wrought by the ensuing fifteen years of land speculation in the area.  The map itself centers on land in the Mississippi Territory south of the "Boundary Line Between the Choctaw and Chickasaw Cessions" down to the Gulf of Mexico, bounded in the west by the Mississippi River and in the east by the Alabama state line. The various areas within the body of the map are defined as "Choctaw District," "Choctaw Boundary of 1822," "Choctaw Cession of 1830," "Old Choctaw Boundary," as well as the "District West of Pearl River" and "District East of Pearl River." The map was first issued in 1838, then again in 1841 and 1843 as development and land ownership within the territory changed. Ultimately the map is an intermittent… Read More

Nueva York: Jose Desnoues, 1831. Very good.. 156pp. 12mo. Contemporary full calf presentation binding by C. Brown of New York (binder's ticket at top of front pastedown), spine gilt extra, boards bordered in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled edges and endpapers, presentation inscription on front board reading, "El Ciudadano Jose M. Tornel al Ciudadano Rafael Mangino." Minor wear and light scuffing to extremities. Substantial foxing throughout. First Spanish edition of Joutel's landmark Journal Historique de Dernier Voyage Que Feu M. la Sale Fit dans le Golf de Mexique (Paris, 1713), translated for the Mexican market by Jose Maria Tornel, veteran of Mexico's war of independence and former secretary to Santa Anna. This copy was presented by Tornel to his relative and fellow Mexican government official Rafael Mangino y Mendivil, president of the congress who crowned Iturbide in 1822 and who later served as chancellor of the exchequer. Joutel's original work was praised by Howes as the "most reliable… Read More

[Cook Inlet, Ak.], 1896. Very good.. Pocket diary, [64]pp. of entries; two "Notices of Location" for Wiswell's claims in the Turnagain Arm Mining District, with two related Power of Attorney documents; a manuscript letter addressed to Wiswell at "Hope City, Cook's Inlet, Alaska;" and a receipt for Wiswell's return passage to Seattle; all dated "1896." A historically-significant collection of materials documenting George E. Wiswell's experiences during the little-known Kenai Peninsula Gold Rush (1895-98), which started a year earlier than the famous Klondike Gold Rush and, in some ways, became its forerunner. Gold had been found in the Kenai River already in 1849, but major interest in the area started only in the 1880s, with more discoveries in the neighboring creeks. The 1894 gold discoveries in the Bear and Palmer Creeks flowing to the Turnagain Arm led to the rush of local prospectors to the Resurrection Creek basin. The major discovery on the Mills Creek in 1895 caused the next year's largest… Read More

Huntsville, Tx, 1921. Good.. [96]pp., comprised of [61]pp. of manuscript diary entries (approximately 8,000 words) plus fifty-seven items of ephemera pasted in, one photograph pasted to the inside of the front wrapper, and thirty-three small trimmed portrait photographs pasted to the inside rear wrapper. Contemporary plain green wrappers. Considerable wear and soiling to wrappers, bottom of spine chipped, newspaper clippings on rear wrapper. Small chips to lower edge of first few leaves costing a few words, a few small stains and some dust-soiling to text. A wonderful illustrated diary kept by Velma Sandlin, a student at the Sam Houston Normal Institute (SHNI) in Hunstville, Texas at the outset of the Roaring Twenties. Sandlin's writing style is quite evocative, reflecting the moods and whims of a creative young woman and providing insight into the day-to-day activities of students at the first state-funded public school to train teachers in Texas. Velma Sandlin and her sister Levy, from Kosse,… Read More

[Stanwood, Wa.], 1896. Very good.. Small, wallet-style commercial diary, with [370]pp. of entries and notes. Contemporary dyed calf, gilt lettered; wallet flap folded over from right edge. Light wear to covers, heavier along flap spine. Light tanning and minor dust soiling internally. Accomplished in a slightly crude, but quite legible script. A manuscript pocket diary for 1896 kept by an unnamed man who ran a small logging and pile driving operation along the Stillaguamish River, in and around the town of Stanwood on the coast of Snohomish County, Washington, approximately fifty miles north of Seattle. Although the diarist does not identify himself, the preponderance of locations where he worked and stayed throughout the year are meticulously tracked, and several of the named individuals with whom interacts socially and professionally correspond to historical records for the region and period. Entries in the present account are typically brief, extending to four or five sentences at most, but also… Read More