Mexico City. January 9, 1836. Letterpress broadside, 11½ x 8¼ inches. Minor edge wear, light soiling, old folds and creases. Very good. An exceedingly rare Mexican presidential decree authorizing the Mexican federal government to dispose of half of the income of its Departments (i.e. states) while "subsista la guerra provocada.....

San Francisco: John Howell, 1929. xxii,422pp. including numerous in-text decorations and illustrations, plus thirty-six plates, color frontispiece, and two two-page color plates printed on thick card stock, one bound in at the beginning of the text, the other at the rear. Royal octavo. Full red levant, elaborately gilt, spine gilt.....

[Various places in California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and in Europe. 1898-1903]. 251 photographs, nearly all images 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches, mounted to leaves of an album. Some photographs captioned in manuscript Oblong small folio. Contemporary black cloth photo album, front board gilt. Light wear to boards and edges.....

New-Haven: Printed by Joseph Barber, 1812. 300pp., plus frontispiece portrait. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt, gilt morocco label. Head of spine chipped, joints splitting, leather rubbed. Interior tanned and stained, occasional marginal defects. Faint pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Still a good copy overall. One of.....

New Haven: From Sidney's Press for I. Cooke & Co., Booksellers, 1810. 144pp., including frontispiece portrait and titlepage vignette. 12mo. Contemporary half calf and plain paper boards, spine ruled in gilt. Boards stained and worn, spine rubbed with gilding mostly lost, extremities chipping. Front hinge reinforced with paper. Text lightly.....

London: J. Almon, 1767. 22,[1]pp. Modern paper boards, printed paper label. Internally clean. Near fine. In a brown half morocco and cloth folder, spine gilt. An intriguing reprint of two papers drawn up and published by a 1739 association of colonial merchants headed by Sir William Keith, colonial governor of.....

Philadelphia County. 1763-1786. Five manuscript documents totaling [6]pp. Folio. Old folds, minor splitting in places, one item tanned and foxed. One document with a contemporary blindstamp, another with a contemporary paper seal. Very good. A small group of manuscript documents related to the laying of roads on and around Philadelphia.....

Shippensburg, Pa. D.K. and J.C. Wagner, Printers, 1878. 58pp. 16mo. Original paper-backed limp cloth. Cloth a bit discolored, worn at edges. Front free endpaper beginning to tear. Very good. A presentation copy of this scarce work printing the by-laws, muster roll, and history of a significant Pennsylvania cavalry regiment in.....

London: En la casa de Trübner y Compañia, [1857]. [8],208pp. Without the portrait of Ferdinand V, not issued with all copies. Small folio. Original plain green wrappers, later paper spine label. Front wrapper detached (but present), wrappers chipped around the edges and lightly soiled. Very clean internally. Very good overall.....

[New York. 1860]. 32pp., printed in two columns. Dbd. Final leaf detached but present. Evenly tanned, very light foxing. Very good. An early campaign biography of future president Abraham Lincoln, written by John Locke Scripps of the NEW YORK TRIBUNE. Scripps reports on the life of Abraham Lincoln in eight.....

Shelbyville, Mo. November 21, [1862?]. [4]pp., on a folded folio sheet, plus stamped and postmarked envelope. Old folds, minor splitting at cross-folds and along folds. Paper tanned, ink a bit faded. Envelope stained and soiled. Good. A detailed and interesting letter describing skirmishes and violence caused by bushwhackers in Shelbyville.....

New York: National Urban League, August 27, 1945. [3],29pp. Quarto. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Very light general wear. Near fine. A passionate and thoroughly researched memorandum from the National Urban League to President Truman just at the end of World War II, urging the President not to let strides towards.....

Göttingen: Johann Peter Schmid, 1746. 88pp. including woodcut decorations. Titlepage printed in red and black. 12mo. Later stenciled paper-covered boards. Light shelf wear, tape residue on lower portion of spine and boards. Internally clean. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Very good. The first German translation of Benjamin Martyn's important report.....