Amsterdam: Isaak Tirion, 1765. Copper-engraved map with full original color. Sheet size: 16 x 19 inches. In excellent condition. A very attractive and map of the American Southwest and Baja California, by a respected Amsterdam cartographer. This highly detailed map, with beautiful full original color, embraces the area from what.....
[Sioux City, Ia. Haley & Lang Company, ca. 1875]. Small chromolithograph broadside, 8 x 6 inches. Vellum, elaborately adorned with gilt. Near fine. A small vellum cover to a cigar box, adorned with the striking color portrait of Gen. Juan Almonte, the noted Mexican minister plenipotentiary to Washington, compatriot of.....
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, [ 1926]. xi,[3],270,[2]pp. including advertisements, plus illustrations. Frontis. Green cloth. Spine slightly sunned, else very good. Remnants of the dust jacket laid in. Richard B. Townshend, an Englishman turned rancher, wrote two other books about his ranching life in Colorado and New Mexico.....
New York. 1926. 270pp. Frontis. Photos. Original cloth. Very good. Townshend, an Englishman turned rancher, wrote two other books about his ranching life in Colorado and New Mexico.
London. [ 1923]. xiii,282pp. plus plates and advertisements. Half title. Frontis. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Very good. First British edition of the first of Townshend's three works regarding his experiences as a rancher in Colorado and New Mexico. "The pleasantly written recollections of an English rancher...all are good reading".....
Mexico: Imprenta de I. Cumplido, 1848. 55pp., printed on facing pages in parallel Spanish and English. Original printed wrappers bound into modern Mexican calf, spine gilt, gilt inner dentelles. A few light fox marks, else near fine. The official Mexican printing of the final text of the landmark Treaty of.....
[Washington. 1848]. 384pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Occasional minor foxing and some toning. Very good. The first American printing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War and adding California and much of the Southwest to the United States. The treaty between the.....
[Washington. 1848]. 74pp. Dbd. Very good. The U.S. Congressional printing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the House issue, ending the Mexican War and giving the United States all of the present Southwest.
Denver. 1909. 394pp. Plates. Original gilt cloth, pictorial onlay. Very minor light dampstaining to foredge margin of most leaves. Else very good. An important work of New Mexico history for the Mexican War period throught the establishment of a regular Territorial government.
[N.p. ca. 1923]. 63pp. including illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. Very good.
[Np. 1944]. 147pp. Frontis. Illus. Quarto. Pictorial cloth. Fine. In torn dust jacket. Number 7 in the Indian Handcraft series, nicely illustrated.
[Mexico. 1840]. [4]pp., printed in double-column format in parallel English and Spanish. Folio. Folded sheet. Fine. This treaty marks a major step in the development of U.S.- Mexican relations before the Mexican War. It deals with the claims of U.S. citizens on Mexico, which were such a major cause of.....
[Mexico. 1832]. 5pp., printed in double columns in parallel English and Spanish. Folio. Red morocco in antique style. Minor worming to front fly leaves, not affecting text. Minor foxing to first leaf. Very good. This document reprints the 1828 "treaty of limits" between the United States and Mexico, which set.....
Mexico. 1936. 315pp. Printed wrappers. Faint foxing to prelims and terminals blanks, else fine. A detailed biographical account of Santa Anna's career, focusing largely on the conflict between Texas and Mexico.
New York. 1886. 233pp. Cloth. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine, otherwise very good. The first of this author's lyrical and interesting books on California and the Southwest, this one almost wholly enthusiastic about the area.
Paris. 1767. Three volumes. xxii,360pp. plus folding map; viii,375; viii,354,[2]pp. Half titles. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spines gilt extra, leather labels. Front free endsheet in first and second volumes excised, an occasional trace of foxing, first several leaves in first volume dampstained in margin. Else a very nice, crisp set. The.....
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1929. 350pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original red cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Spine slightly worn. About very good. Salvatierra was instrumental in the founding of the first missions in California, now located south of the Mexican border, and helped Spain gain a foothold on the California peninsula.....
London. 1759. Two volumes. [20],455pp. plus folding map and two plates including frontispiece; [8],387pp. plus two plates including frontispiece. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. An occasional hint of light foxing or tanning, but quite a nice set, in very good condition. The first English edition.....
New York. 1946. 50pp. Map. Illus. Color pictorial wrappers. Small chip along top edge. Very good. Excellent concise account of the history and route of the Santa Fe Trail.
[Mexico City. March 26, 1840]. Broadside, 8 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches. Faint horizontal crease line through center, minute edge wear. Very good. The present broadside establishes two squadrons of troops for the Department of Durango "to take care of the security of the frontier" in light of Indian hostility.....
[Waco, Tx. 1970]. 208pp. Illus. Quarto. Cloth. Fine in rubbed dust jacket.
Albuquerque: The Quivira Society, 1937. Two volumes. 7-270; 275-553pp. plus illustrations and map. Frontis. Quarto. Original white quarter cloth, gilt- stamped cover and spine. Minor soiling on covers. Overall very good, second volume untrimmed. A classic work on the literature of the Spanish Southwest.
[Houston. Feb. 23, 1865]. Broadside, 8 x 4 3/4 inches. Small, closed tear in upper margin. Minor foxing. Small institutional stamp ("withdrawn") on verso. Good. A scarce Confederate imprint, reporting the details of the attempted desertion of Private Antone Richers of Degé's Light Battery. Richers deserted on December 10, 1864.....
[N.p. N.d., 1907]. Unpaginated, [46]pp. Illustrated with twelve plates from photographs. Stitched. Titlepage verso with repair along spine, else very good. In a morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. Privately printed account of a Texas hunt, in late December 1906 and early January 1907, out of Houston, organized by oilman John S......
Washington. 1844. 32pp. Dbd. Foxed and dampstained. This letter, published originally in the Washington GLOBE of Feb. 3, 1844, is credited by Streeter with being the start of the debate on the annexation of Texas. Walker attempted to reassure the North that annexation would mean more commerce and an ultimate.....
