Search Results: Titles starting with L from McBride Rare Books

Detroit: Bolar Printing & Publishing Co, 1973. Very good.. 62pp. Folio. Original gold-printed blue wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling, contemporary ink ownership inscription on rear cover. Internally clean. Program for the L'Eleganza Beaux Arts Ball, a social fundraiser organized by the Elliottorian Business Women's Club of Detroit. The Club's founding purpose is to "stimulate interest in the field of business and build an educational program to aid in the advancement for leadership in the growing community." The ball was established to further this aim, with proceeds funding scholarships for women of color to attend Wayne State University. The program is full of advertising for local businesses in the African-Americans community, as well as sponsored well-wishes from local persons and businesses. A center spread shows full-length portraits of nine women, labeled as "Models 1973," including Michelle Hunt, "Miss Elliottorian 1973.

Nueva York, 1864. Very good.. 926,[4],304pp. Contemporary Mexican-style calf, elaborately blindstamped covers, spine titles in gilt. Spine sunned and somewhat worn, minor wear to edges, corners a bit rubbed. Occasional minor foxing to text. A Spanish language translation of The Holy Bible printed in New York in the penultimate year of the Civil War, with interesting provenance. The massive work prints both the Old and New Testaments by stereotype, in a version of the text that claims to be "carefully collated with ancient languages." Between the two works are two inserted leaves intended for a "Registro de Familia," though the pages in this copy are blank. This copy was donated to the U.S. Christian Commission, whose bookplate states it is intended for "Reading for Army and Navy," with his gift inscription reading, "With Compliments of Van R.K. Hilliard, New Orleans, La. 1873." At that time, Hilliard was working for the Freedmen's Bureau in New Orleans.

Mexico: Tip. A. Vanegas Arroyo, 1900. About very good.. Broadside, 15 x 11 inches. A couple of small chips at edges; two small losses at upper right, slightly affecting border. Light dust soiling, heavier at foot. Attractive and quite scarce calavera broadside, illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada and published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. This broadside, on the subject of bullfighting, prints a large calavera of a matador, clad in the traditional cap and surrounded by the accoutrements of a bullfighter -- sword, cape, and lances. The remainder of the sheet contains a lengthy verse on the many famous matadors who met their fate in the rings of Mexico, as well as several smaller calaveras surrounding the text. This is the first such broadside, printed in about 1900, to use Posada's matador calavera; a broadsheet printed in 1908 also uses this woodcut, but with a different text and additional material on the verso. Of the present work OCLC locates only two copies, at Notre Dame and the Houston Museum… Read More

Mexico: Imprenta a Su Orden Mesones Num 87, 1931. Good.. 362pp., plus xii pp. of interspersed advertisements. Original tan pictorial boards, misbound with front board at rear. Hinges cracked, spine detaching. Ownership ink stamp on flyleaf, text clean. "Este obra ha sido preparada por el Comite de Servicio Social de la Asociacion de Mexico." Unusual bilingual cook book, with recipes in both Spanish and English. For example, the recipe for "Papas con Jamon" is followed by "Scalloped Ham and Potatoes." Other recipes include "Tortilla Esponjada / Puffy Omelet," "Spaghetti Casserole," "Carlota de Manzana / Apple Charlotte," "Torta de Piña Volteada / Pineapple Up-side-down Cake," and many others. The Spanish recipes use metric measurements, while the English use imperial. Includes an extensive index at the end -- one in Spanish and another in English. With numerous ads interspersed, including on for Piggly Wiggly. Fewer than ten copies in OCLC.

Mexico: Imprenta Rodriguez, 1932. About very good.. [4],127pp. Original tan printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling to wrappers. Contents lightly tanned, a few small chips or edge tears. Second edition of the scarce cook book, first published two years prior in 1930. The work is devised to offer thirty-one daily menus -- one for each day of the month -- to help the cook plan for the household simply and easily. For example, the menu for Day 14 comprises Sopa de Huevo, Mole de Olla, Peneques, Frijoles, Fruta, Crema Envinada, and tea or coffee. Recipes for each day's items follow. We locate only two copies of either edition in OCLC, both editions located at UT San Antonio and the University of New Mexico.

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

Mexico City: Tip. Moderna de Carlos Paz, 1887. About very good.. [2],132pp. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, gilt tooled. Boards scuffed, with some patches of light dampstaining; spine ends and corners worn. Light toning internally. Author's gift inscription on third leaf recto. Scarce, late 19th-century treatise on the national defense of Mexico by the head of the cavalry and prolific military author, Eduardo Paz. The first section of the present work considers the potential strategies and logistics of new invasions by the country's most recent adversaries, France and the United States. In the second section, Paz details his theories for proper defense of the nation, including the make-up of military units, their placement, required support staff and services, and much more. This copy is inscribed by the author to Sosteñes Rocha, an important figure in the Republican army and a confidant of Juarez during the Second French Intervention; at the time of this book's publication, he was the… Read More

Bogotá: Impr. de Bruno Espinosa, por José Ayarza, 1830. About very good.. 104pp., in thirteen parts (of nineteen?). Loose fascicles, cut but untrimmed. Later, small ownership ink stamps on each part. Some wear at edges. Moderate dust soiling and toning. A fascinating publication in parts, comprising a defense of Catholicism as a political entity within the state, and incorporating arguments and quotations concerning religion from Voltaire, Rousseau, Bolingbroke, Monesquieu, and many others throughout this complex and reasoned apology. According to the publisher's note, "Todo lo que dirémos en el presente Periódico es estractado de una obra anónima, publicada en Francia." The actual author, Francisco Margallo y Duquesne was a Jesuit priest in Bogotá most famous for predicting an earthquake in 1827. This cohesive work, published in the guise of a periodical, is incorrectly asserted by Palau to comprise only the present thirteen parts. He clearly saw just this copy, which bears the ink stamps of… Read More

[Popayan, 1853. Good.. Broadside, approximately 12.5 x 8.5 inches. Top edge eaten away, but not affecting text. Light tanning. Scarce broadside from the provincial legislature of Popayan to the people of southwestern Colombia, transmitting its hope that that the new constitution will end "tantos años de contiendas sangrientas, que solo han producido la miseria i el discontento." It concludes by stating that "De oriente á occidente i de norte á sur no se oiga mas que una voz; y que los ecos respondan á los ecos, en nuestros profundos valles i sobre las vumbres de nuestros volcanes, con tanta armonía como la belleza de nuestro horizonte, i con tan inponente voz como el sonoro i retumbante trueno que nos recuerda al Dios que aquí no colocó: PAZ! UNION! FRATERNIDAD!" Not in OCLC.

El Paso, 1933. About very good.. 100,[3]pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrap separating; spine ends chipped. Light wear and minor chipping at edges. Toned. From the early 18th century, Catholics were prohibited from joining Masonic orders, but the popularity of freemasonry in the United States seems to have generated considerable interest among Spanish speakers. At least as early as 1818, publishers in the U.S. issued Spanish-language books explaining, supporting, and critiquing freemasonry. The translation of this extended article, apparently adapted from an encyclopedia, is credited to "el Obispo de Sonora," probably Juan Navarrete, who occupied that post from 1919 to 1968. The work provides an extensive description of masonry, its organization, and activities, with the goal of dispelling any masonic "propaganda" that attempted to portray their groups simply as social and benevolent societies. The final section details the history of Catholic prohibitions against masonry. We locate only one… Read More

Nueva York: D. Appleton, 1892. Very good.. 309pp. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Minor wear to extremities, text lightly toned. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf and title page. A Spanish translation of Russell's shipwreck adventure, A Sailor's Sweetheart, published in 1880. This is one of a series of novels published by Appleton in Spanish translation in the 1880s and 1890s. The translator was an immigrant from Spain who arrived in the States about 1883. In the early 1890s, he wrote several educational works in Spanish for Hubert Howe Bancroft's History Company, with the intent of distributing them throughout California and Latin America. This is an example of his work for Appleton, another American publisher who had an active Spanish-language imprint business in the Americas. Copyrighted in 1889, we find no record of this work in OCLC before the present edition, of which we locate a single copy in Mexico.

Mexico City: Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1729. Good.. 20,[25]pp. Disbound. Lacking final two pages, with three further pages supplied in contemporary manuscript. Some staining and toning, a bit heavier to initial leaves. An extremely scarce Hogal imprint that publishes a sermon given to celebrate a new church building in Zacatecas in the late 1720s. The Chapel of the Virgin del Patrocinio was completed atop the Cerro del Bufo in 1728, and dedicated by the festivities commemorated here on November 21st of that year. The mountain also contained the lucrative Eden gold and silver mine, which was the reason for the city's foundation in the 16th century. The sermon, given by a Franciscan friar named Cosme Borruel, reflects on passages from Luke and Matthew. Both it and the preliminary dedication, written by Don Joseph Bernardez, Conde de Santiago de la Laguna (who also wrote and published a description of Zacatecas in 1732), celebrate the completion of the chapel and the installation of the image of the… Read More

Bogota: Imprenta de Echeverría Hermanos, 1856. Good plus.. 12pp. Removed from a sammelband. Resultant wear at gutter. Some dust soiling and toning. As the 1856 presidential election in Colombia nears, there were three principal candidates. The author of the present pamphlet, Andres Aguilar, here reasons his preference for a second term for Tomas Cipriano Mosquera, who had been president from 1842 to 1845. Mosquera lost the election, and led a successful revolt against the government in 1860. OCLC locates one copy, at the British Library.

[Puebla], 1942. Good plus.. 26pp., plus twenty-one plates. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Some wear to lower edge and spine. Even toning and light dust soiling. Extensively illustrated popular history of Catarina de San Juan, known as La China Poblana. She was brought to Mexico through the Philippines in the early 17th century, converted to Christianity, and became a beata in Puebla, where she was buried in the Jesuit sacristy upon her death in 1688. The text gives the entire historical context of her voyage from Asia to Mexico and a lengthy account of her biography. The leaf following the title page contains a dedication in Chinese and translation into Spanish from the Asociacion Fraterna China de Puebla. In addition to numerous other illustrations, the rear contains eight plates depicting her iconography and status as progenitor of the classic "China Poblana" Mexican fashion.

Topeka, Ks: S.G. Watkins, 1905. Very good.. 15pp. Original printed blue wrappers. Moderate soiling and wear to wrappers. A rare pamphlet designed to foster "an earnest desire to increase interest in the work and knowledge of the Order of Eastern Star." The work was published by and for the Eastern Stars in Topeka, Kansas, and contains instructions for conducting the "Labyrinth," an organization ceremony. The Order of Eastern Star was established in 1850 as an adjunct body to the Freemasons, open to both men and women. The organization's activities were based on the teachings of the Bible, but open to people of all religious beliefs, and regardless of race, though African Americans established a separate organization called the Prince Hall Order of the Eastern Star. The publisher of the present work, S.G. Watkins was the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Colored Masons in Kansas around the turn of the 20th century, so this publication may relate to the Price Hall Eastern Star Order. Apparently not… Read More

San Antonio, Tx, 1956. About very good.. Sepia-toned photographic collage, 10.25 x 7.25 inches. Minor wear and creasing, mounting remnants on verso. A handsomely-arranged photographic roster featuring a handful of officers (including two women) and the seventy-two female members of Squadron 3743, Flight W1 of the United States Air Force while in training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio in 1956. Among the regular soldiers are five African American women who served at a time when few African American women served in any branch of the United States Armed Forces. In alphabetical order, the women are M. Gray, E. Harden, G. Ross, P. Thomas, and V. Washington. OCLC records no individual examples of this roster, though some may reside in larger archival collections.

Indian Territory: January 8, 1907. Good.. Partially-printed document, completed in type, and signed in ink at bottom by several officials. Printed docketing on verso, completed in manuscript. Original folds, some foxing, a few edge nicks and small chips not affecting text. An intriguing document issued to Eliza Ann Williams, a "Chickasaw Freedman," by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations in early 1907. The document grants forty acres of land to Williams in the Chickasaw Nation of Indian Territory (soon thereafter the state of Oklahoma), in accordance with the Curtis Act of 1898 and a supplemental Act of Congress dated July 1, 1902, which granted "inalienable" land rights to the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. The document states that the "Said Commission of the Five Civilized Tribes has certified that the land hereinafter described has been selected by or on behalf of Eliza Ann Williams, freedman, as an allotment." Williams' status as a "freedman" indicates she was the descendant of a person or persons… Read More

[Sandpoint, Id, 1915. Very good.. [24]pp. Oblong octavo. Original pictorial printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling. Internally clean. Work advertising the glories of the lumber industry for those willing to emigrate and work in the northern portion of Idaho, published by the Humbird Lumber Company. With land spread across Bonner, Boundary, and Kootenai counties, the company writes, "We employ hundreds of men the year round, and naturally we will be glad to help our land purchasers with lucrative employment..." and "If you feel that your present work and location will not lead you well on the road to success, you had better investigate Bonner County, Idaho." They include information on the agriculture and climate in the region, illustrated throughout with views of the timbering, orchards and farms, and amenities offered by the town of Sandpoint. We locate a single copy of this work in OCLC dated 1915, at Brigham Young University. Three others, dated 1913 are located at Yale, University of… Read More

[N.p., probably Oklahoma City: Langston University, 1948. Very good.. 16pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Some abrading to the edges, minor soiling, some discoloration to rear wrapper, later three-hole punch throughout. Internally clean. An informative pamphlet touting the educational opportunities at Oklahoma's first and only HBCU, Langston University. The text opens with lists of Oklahoma's regents, state board for vocational education, and the Langston administrative staff, a letter from Governor Roy Turner praising the school for its Trade & Industrial Education program, and a Foreword by Langston President G.L. Harrison. The preponderance of the pamphlet is comprised of photocollages illustrating the various aspects of academic and campus life at Langston, including various campus buildings, classes on the building trades, brick laying and tile setting, a centerfold of over two dozen photos showing "Constructive Activities at Langston That Go Into the Making of Good Citizens," the auto… Read More

[Various locations in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, and Utah, 1935. Very good plus.. Seventy-four leaves, illustrated with 485 photographs and picture postcards, between 2 x 3 inches and 4.75 x 6.75 inches, occasionally annotated in manuscript in white pencil. Oblong folio. Contemporary black textured cloth, string tied. Small stain near right edge of front cover. Internally very clean and well organized. A voluminous collection of photographs picturing the lives and travels of Pat and Marge Williams, centered on their ranch in Colorado. The images capture the landscape and buildings on the ranch, both exterior and interior, as well as the livestock, grain fields, and more. Several photographs capture farming activities including the harvesting of the alfalfa crop and the threshing of the wheat. The album also includes photos of the area around the ranch and within Colorado, in places such as North Park, Estes Park, Cheyenne Plains, Grand Lake, and Fort Collins, with images of Long's Peak,… Read More