Search Results: Titles starting with M from McBride Rare Books

Madison, Ne, 1897. Good plus.. [12]pp. Small newspaper folio. Stitched and folded. Light wear at edges; short separations along fold line from fore-edge. Light tanning. Special twenty-fifth anniversary issue of this small-town Nebraska newspaper. The first four pages contain a history of the paper, but the work is more interesting for its eight-page photographic spread that documents the homes, commercial and municipal buildings, and surrounding scenery of the tiny, rural town of Madison at the end of the 19th century.

[Panama City, 1920. Very good.. 24pp. Original yellow illustrated wrappers, stapled. Moderate dust-soiling, and edge wear to wrappers, price written in blue pencil on front cover. Creases throughout. A seemingly-unrecorded, photographically-illustrated travel guide to the two principal cities in Panama, issued by the owner of a prominent souvenir shop in Panama City. I.L. Maduro operated a souvenir store in Cathedral Plaza, and touted himself as offering "the finest selection of Choice Panama Hats" along with the "largest stock of souvenirs, postal cards, views, maps, Japanese & Chinese silks & curios, and Native curios." The photographs within this pamphlet picture various departments of Maduro's store, the "New Washington Hotel," views of the Panama Canal, a bird's-eye view of Panama City, and a street view of Maduro's store. The pamphlet concludes with a section on how to make Panama hats, and then a fare schedule for travel along the Panama Canal. Interestingly, Panama City and Colon are the two… Read More

[N.p., likely Wyoming, 1880. About very good.. Albumen photograph, 22 x 18 inches. Mat ghosting to edges, verso toned from previous matting and framing. Framed. A gorgeous large-format photograph commonly called the Great Falls of the Yellowstone or Lower Falls of the Yellowstone. The image was likely taken by William Henry Jackson, as it bears the most resemblance to his photograph of the same name taken while part of Hayden's 1871 U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories for the Department of the Interior. The present image is taken slightly closer to the Falls than Jackson's most common image, but bears the hallmarks of Jackson's image much more closely than Jay Haynes's similar images taken from about the same vantage point. The image captures the waterfalls of the Yellowstone River flowing into a canyon inside Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. A wonderful display piece featuring one of the most famous scenes at Yellowstone.

Paris, 1853. Very good.. 15,4pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched as issued. Minor soiling to wraps. Even tanning. The Colombian government forced Archbishop Manuel José Mosquera into exile in 1852 because of his vehement opposition to a series of laws he felt to be government encroachments on his authority over benefices and "internal" church administrative matters. This is his publication while in exile in Paris of a letter of support he received from the clergy of Chile, along with his response to them. OCLC locates five copies.

Mexico: Imprenta del Supremo Gobierno, en Palacio, 1824. Very good.. [2],xvi pp. Folio. Original printed wrappers. Stab holes at gutter margin from prior stitching. Very small dampstain at lower edge. Light tanning and dust soiling. A celebratory manifesto from the newly independent Mexican Congress that announces the completion of the Acta Constitutiva to form a republican government, accompanied by a solemn warning to the people to protect the new republic. After achieving independence from Spain, Agustín de Iturbide briefly ruled as head of the First Mexican Empire, but was overthrown and exiled in March 1823. A constituent congress was eventually convened to decide on a new direction for the fledgling nation, and they ratified the Acta Constitutiva on January 31, 1824. The Acta declared Mexico a federal republic of sovereign states (deliberately modeled after the United States) and provided for an interim government while a permanent constitution was debated. That constitution was created and… Read More

Bogota: Imprenta del Neo-granadino, 1855. Still very good.. 17pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched as issued. Mild dust soiling and dampstaining to wraps. Light biopredation at upper left corner and pin-sized wormhole at right margin, neither affecting text. Occasional faint foxing and minor soiling internally. A rare pamphlet that prints a plea for clemency by Pedro Neira Acevedo, a Colombian politician who was imprisoned for his role in the Golpe de Mela in 1854. In addition to his request for freedom, the pamphlet comprises a rumination on the current form of the government in Colombia and pleas for a return to non-military, non-dictatorial government. According to a footnote on the final page, Neira was freed and then reimprisoned between the writing and publication of this text. OCLC locates only one copy, at the National Library of Chile.

Celaya, Mx, 1939. Very good.. [123]pp., plus photographic plate. Small quarto. Original printed wrappers. Some light wear and soiling. An unrecorded Mexican cook book by Agapito Gomez Orta, a professor of cooking at the Escuela Normal in San Luis Potosi. Gomez Orta, a native of Guanajuato, authored several works on cookery. The present work includes not only recipes but also instruction for making bread dough, heating the oven correctly, and how to make chocolate. Recipes are written in paragraph form and include Empanadas de Salmon, Marqueta Michoacana, Flanes Aurora, and Biscotela de Huevo, among others. With a general index at the end. An unusual imprint, and not in OCLC.

Mexico City: Tipografia de R. Rafael, 1848. Very good.. 295pp. Contemporary Mexican calf, spine gilt with leather label. Light wear to extremities, heavier to corners; label a bit chipped. Light foxing and wear to text. Second edition, after the first of the previous year. A popular manual for hygiene and the diagnosing and curing of diseases. Translated from the French and published in Mexico three subsequent years, the present work provides advice on the means to stay well and prevent disease. Each tidbit of information is helpfully numbered (345 in all), with the opening sections being devoted to health and hygiene with useful suggestions such as avoiding drafts and cold, damp rooms; there follow several sections on various types of diseases with symptoms, causes, and recipes for curatives. The work covers everything from croup in children to heart palpitations to epileptic fits to the flux. The final half of the book is an alphabetical dictionary of afflictions, followed by an index. The author… Read More

Puebla: Tip. de la "Misericordia Cristiana, 1911. Good.. 547pp. 12mo. Contemporary rust-colored cloth, front board stamped in black. Corners and spine ends heavily worn, stamping faded; rear hinge tender. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Text lightly toned, slight wear. Expanded second edition of this Mexican cook book, after the first of 1905. The current edition has been revised, corrected, and updated with more than 300 additional recipes. The verso of the introduction is adorned with a handsome wood cut of an opulent meal at table. The volume is filled with a wide variety of recipes for papas, tortillas, huevos, lenguas, sopas, lomos, salsas, pastels, and more. The recipes here are sorted by subject -- consomes, pescados, carnes, reposteria, etc. -- with an index at the end, also sorted by types of foods. We find fewer than ten copies of this work in OCLC, and only two of the first edition. This volume with the ownership inscription of Guadalupe Perez San Vicente, and… 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.

Celaya: Reimpreso por Guillermo Galvan, 1859. Very good.. Three parts in one. [2], 236, [8]; 93, [1],31pp. Mexican quarto. Contemporary green morocco, gilt ruled and lettered. Internal section of one leaf torn away. Scarce concatenation of Mexican Catholic texts printed in Celaya during 1859. The first is the "Second Mexican Edition," after the first of 1829, of the Manual de Misioneros, a translation of an 1801 guidebook for French priests attempting to re-establish Catholicism in France following the Revolution. This is bound with a contemporary collection of protests and pastoral letters by the Bishop of Michoacán, Clemente de Jesus Munguia, as well as his 1859 "Manifestacion" in defense of political attacks on the Catholic Church. An interesting publication that constituted a response to attempts by the Liberal faction during the Reform War in Mexico to reduce the power of the Church through legislation and the Constitution of 1857, and certainly issued as here -- we locate five institutional… Read More

Mexico City, 1897. Very good.. 109,ii pp., plus folding plate. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine labels. Light wear to edges and spine. Some toning and dust soiling; an occasional fox mark. Unrecorded Mexican translation of an army training and tactics manual by a Russian general. Mikhael Dragomirov was a career military man and a high ranking officer in the Russian army for the entire second half of the 19th century. During his career he authored several works of history, memoir, and instruction. The present version was translated into Spanish for use of the Mexican army by Miguel Ruelas from a later French edition. Not in OCLC.

Starke, Fl: January 7, 1861. Very good.. [1]pp. Quarto. Contemporary lined paper. Old fold lines, light creasing and wear. Mrs. Mahalia Mansell of Starke, Florida in Newriver County writes to Mr. Richard Lenhart asking for money and mentioning that the state has seceded. She writes (with misspellings as present in the document), "I wrot yew a leter to send mee my money but if yew hant started it dont till times get beter fore I am afurd that I might not get it and dont start it till I right again... I have nothing of importance to write times is hard here now they peopl is in a grat fright about they sesesiones and and [sic] afrad of war Florida has seeseid as well as South Carolina..." Starke is located in north central Florida, about halfway between Jacksonville and Gainesville. Its first post office was established just four years earlier, in 1857. It was not incorporated as a town until 1870, and the 1880 census records show a mere 292 inhabitants. Census records of 1860 show Mahalia Stark… Read More

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

Camden, Ar: August 5, 1860. Very good.. [2]pp. on blue lined paper. Old folds, minor edge wear. An interesting pre-Civil War letter sent from Arkansas settler Lawrence P. Speck to his cousin Jennie back in Tennessee. Speck moved from Tennessee to Arkansas to pursue business opportunities, and writes that he "likes it a great deal." He then reports on the "beauty of Arkansaw women.... I am head over heels in love with about a dozen and I have already 'popped the question' to one of the nicest, and most beautiful of those 'unsphered angels'...." He then turns his thoughts to Camden, politics, and his work in the state: "We have a great many balls and parties here in Camden. There are a great many young people here and they always are up to something to enjoy themselves. I am very much pleased with Camden. Political excitement is running very high in this State now. There are two democratic parties in the field and things are getting pretty warm - The Election comes off tomorrow [referring to the… Read More

Mexico City, 1773. Very good.. Manuscript broadside, approximately 12 x 7.75 inches. Light edge wear, minor foxing and staining. Accomplished in a highly legible script. An attractive manuscript transfer of title for a pulqueria in 18th-century Zempoala, northeast of Mexico City and south of Pachuca. Zempoala was the heartland for production of the traditional Aztec fermented beverage, though at the beginning of the 21st century there remained only one producer in the area. The present document transfers ownership of the Hacienda de Tecajete and its Pulqueria de Arbol from Antonio Garcia to his neighbor, Diego Alvares Garcia. The hacienda was established east of Zempoala in the late 16th century, and its grounds and buildings were developed over the next three hundred years until it was one of the country's largest producers of pulque during the Porfiriato (and was owned by one of Diaz's generals). Although the estate is no longer a producer, it is designated a Mexican heritage site for its history… Read More

Gibraltar, 1828. Good.. [3]pp., on a bifolium. Previously folded, with separations. Tanned, somewhat brittle. An interesting example of official communications concerning trade between colonial Cuba and the Spanish mainland. In this manuscript letter, date March 14, 1828, the new Spanish Vice Consul in Gibraltar writes to the Governor General of Cuba concerning several topics. These include the regulation of shipping to Cuba, and by implication the rest of the Caribbean, through Gibraltar, particularly of French ships leaving Mediterranean ports. Also discussed is keeping track of individuals, particularly merchants going to Cuba by means of identification papers and other documents. The consul also reminds the colonial government of the importance of documenting duties and tariffs paid for shipping cargo and goods.

San Augustine, Tx: November 11, 1834. Good.. [4]pp. on two folio sheets, the first sheet on official "Sello Tercero" paper with the printed seal of Coahuila y Tejas at middle. Old folds, minor chipping along two fold lines costing a handful of words in the second leaf, several archival tape repairs to closed tears, moderate foxing and toning. An interesting manuscript land deed documenting the sale of a tract of land in San Augustine, Texas by a mother and daughter named Mary Concesion Sims and Marguerite Latham in 1834. The tract of land is described in detail, situated "on the West side of the Act Bayou having half a mile & five chains front on the Laid Bayou and running backwards three miles and bounded on the North by the lower line of the land sold by Jose Lewis(?) to A.C. Allen, and on the South by the land belonging to Athanase Cerda...." The two women sold the land for $100, and because they could not write, they each signed the document with an "X." The document is also signed by two… Read More

[Cuba], 1879. About very good.. [3]pp., on a small bifolium. Contemporary ink stamps; accomplished in a fairly legible hand. Minor wear. A few small wormholes. Light tanning and dust soiling. Brief, but very interesting manuscript report on the case of a missing Chinese indentured servant in the district of Alagranes, near Matanzas. On February 18, 1879, the owner of the plantation Juanita reports the missing person, stating that there was a fire in his sugar cane field and it is thought that the laborer might have been burned. It seems that the present document serves to register the case with regional authorities in Matanzas, and is a good record of the bureaucracy controlling indentured servitude in Cuba at this time.

Macau: April 6, 1867. Very good.. [6]pp., on large folio partially-printed forms, printed in two columns, completed in manuscript. Old folds with minor losses at a few spots along the horizontal fold. Five hundred and fifty Chinese laborers bound for Cuba aboard the Spanish galley "Cervantes" are listed by name, with their age and town or city of origin given. The laborers hail from several different cities in China, and their ages range from 18 to 36, with the majority of the men in their 20s. The end of the document is signed and dated on the final page by José de Aguilar, the Spanish consul at Macau. The left side of the final page contains two separate lists, one with five numbers and the other with four numbers, keyed to the manifest. The list of five names has an "x" next to each number, perhaps noting that these men did not in fact make the trip to Cuba; each "x" could also signal that these men died during the voyage from Macau to Cuba, which was a common-enough occurrence that it is often… Read More