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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

New York & Sandusky, Oh, 1923. Very good.. Manuscript diary: 155pp. of manuscript entries, plus numerous clippings and letters tipped in. Octavo. Original full crimson leatherette, blindstamped title on front cover. Scrapbook: 36pp. of mounted items, plus numerous mockups, drafts, letterhead, and more laid in. Folio. Original gray cloth, personalized gilt titles on front cover reading, "Orville Edward Reed." Minor overall wear. A pair of interesting primary source volumes maintained by Orville Edward Reed (1901-1977) focusing on his work as a copywriter in the advertising department of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in New York City and the Matthews Engineering Company of Sandusky, Ohio at the outset of the Roaring Twenties. Reed's work for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company is the most evocative here. He provides candid entries in his diary relating to the working drafts and mockups of advertising campaigns for the firm's prolific display type equipment, which was utilized mainly in newspaper… Read More

[Hardeman County, Tn, 1847. About very good.. [8] leaves. 12mo. Loose leaves, previously stitched, written on rectos only. Light toning and wear. Small notebook containing inventories of enslaved people, as well as the contents of an estate. Though there are three listings of enslaved people, they seem to all relate to each other, with some names appearing on all three lists, sometimes with varying valuations. The first list includes twenty-three names, including four unnamed children. The highest valuations are placed on the young men (aged eighteen to thirty-six) and on the women of childbearing years (aged fifteen to twenty-seven, a seventeen year-old noted as having an infant). The oldest people listed are in their sixties. The other two lists have nineteen and fourteen names respectively, again with values and ages listed. A fourth listing of names does not include ages or values, and would seem to be of white men, since several have last names. The other three pages of the notebook concern the… Read More

Sioux City, Ia, 1866. About good.. [94]pp. Folio. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper-covered boards. Heavy wear to boards, spine mostly perished, front cover, first couple of leaves, and occasional inner leaves detached. Minor toning, light soiling, scattered markings, but highly legible. A handful of pages at front pasted over or partially pasted over with newspaper clippings. A well-traveled ledger, with expected wear from its use on the American frontier. An informative manuscript record of U.S. military involvement in the Old West, spanning May 1864 to February 1866 and containing manuscript Special Orders from the 7th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry during the Indian Wars. Most orders were issued near or from the unit's Headquarters at Sioux City, Iowa, but after May 25, 1865 orders are issued from other locations including "Camp Floyd," "Camp in the Field," "Camp No. 23 near Fort Rice," and "Fort Randall D.T." The ledger contains fairly ordinary orders relating to officer appointments, troop… Read More

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

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

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

[N.p., likely New York]: January 4, 1884. Very good.. [4]pp., written rectos only on four sheets of stationery from the Tehuantepec Ship Railway. Minor wear and discoloration to edges. An informative autograph letter, signed, from Elmer Lawrence Corthell to Lt. John T. Sullivan, US Navy, involving an unusual engineering plan for providing access across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Corthell, a renowned engineer who had been involved in construction projects from Siberia to the Mississippi, was Chief Engineer of an enterprise to connect the Atlantic to the Pacific by way of a 150-mile-long railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico. Corthell's plan was to install powerful hydraulic lifts to raise a ship out of its ocean berth onto a "lift carriage", with locomotives then carrying vessels on a six-track rail line to the Pacific.  His project was in competition with the better-known enterprise to dig an interoceanic canal through Nicaragua across the Isthmus of Panama. Corthell wrote… Read More

[Various locations, including Sprague, Wa.; Vancouver, British Columbia; and Nome, Ak, 1910. Very good.. Thirteen autograph letters, signed, totaling thirty-nine pages, and a few original transmittal envelopes. Original mailing folds, occasional short fold separations, otherwise minor wear. Overall a well-preserved group stored in an antique wooden box from the St. Paul Rubber Company. An interesting collection of manuscript letters written to Fred Lindberg of Hallock, Minnesota by his brother and other individuals participating in the Alaskan and Yukon gold rushes betwen 1897 and 1910. The preponderance of the correspondence relates to the ill-fated experiences of Fred's brother, Albert William Lindberg, who writes four letters while on his way to the Alaskan gold fields before apparently committing suicide in Nome in 1909. Albert William "Willie" Lindberg was a Swedish-American gold prospector from Minnesota who spent significant time in Washington State before trying his luck, albeit… Read More