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$ 450.00
A Collection of the 33 Ordinances Enacted by the Governor of Mauritius with the Advice and Consent of the Council of Government Port Louis, 1876. 211 pp. [with] A Collection of Proclamations and Government Notices Published at Mauritius during the Year 1876, iv + 49 pp. [with] Index of Government Notices of 1876, xxxiii + Government Notices + 343 pp. Mauritius: G.H. Griffiths, Government Printer, 1876.
$ 1500.00
A Collection of the over 100 Bound-up Original Ordinances, issued by the Government of Mauritius during the years 1857 - 1867. [Port Louis] 1857-1867.
$ 525.00
Original Two-part Gelatin Silver Photograph Panorama of Port Louis, Mauritius. Ca. 1890.
$ 1250.00
Album of 91 Albumen Photographs Showing Algeria (Fort National, Algiers, Oran, Tizi Ouzou), Gibraltar, and Morocco (Tangiers), as well as France, England, and Portugal. Ca. 1880-1882.
$ 2250.00
Maison Bonfils (fl. ca. 1860s-1839); Zangaki Brothers (fl. ca. 1880s-1890s); Hakim, S. (fl. ca. 1880s-1890s). Album of 50 Albumen Studio Photographs Showing a Trip Around the Eastern Mediterranean, Including Jerusalem (Church of Mary Magdalene, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Mosque of Omar, City Views), Bethlehem (Pilgrims Entering the City on Christmas), Baalbek (Temple of Bacchus), and Damascus (Sulaymaniyya Takiyya, Maktab Anbar, City Views) and Views of Spain (Alhambra), the Canary Islands (Las Palmas and La Atalaya on Gran Canaria; Santa Cruz on Tenerife), Madeira (Funchal), and Egypt (Alexandria). Ca. 1887, 1893-94.
Album with Thirty-Seven Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of an Early Cruise from New York to the Mediterranean, Showing the Holy Land (Jerusalem, Tiberias, Nazareth), Egypt (Cairo, Giza), Algiere (Algiers), Greece (Athens), Portugal (Lisbon), Spain (Seville), Italy (Venice, Rome), Gibraltar, and Monte Carlo; titled: Photographs. 1926.
$ 750.00
McKenna, Mike. Historically Interesting Letter Signed by an American Soldier in an Agua Prieta Hospital, Talking about a Rebel Paranoid about Being Poisoned, a Half-Paralyzed Yaqui's Dire Condition, and the Deaths of Local Patients (a Federal & a Yaqui Mayo). Agua Prieta, Sonora: 5 November 1912.
$ 950.00
[McCall, George Archibald] (1802-1868); McCall, Mary Dickinson (1799-1881). Autograph Letter Signed from Mary Dickinson McCall to her Renowned Brother, Captain of the 4th US Infantry Regiment George McCall, Talking about His Recent Heroism during the Battle of Palo Alto, the Occupation of Matamoros, the Regiment’s Possible Move to Monterrey, the Anecdote about General Winfield Scott and a “Plate of Soup,” and Mentioning Several American Public Figures, Including John Cadwalader, Joseph R. Ingersoll, William L. Marcy, John M. Read Jr., and others. Philadelphia: 15 & 16 June [1846].
$ 1250.00
Wingate, B., Corp. A Historically Important Original Autograph Manuscript Letter Written by an American Soldier and Participant of the Mexican-American War the Very Same Day the Siege of Veracruz Ended With Mexico’s Surrender, Triumphantly Writing to His Folks Back Home in Indiana about “One of the Greatest Battles Ever Won by American Arms,” Talking about Mexican Soldiers Begging General Zachary Taylor, the Next US President, for Something to Eat, Fiercely Stating that Mexico City “Must Hear the Barking of Our Buldogs [i.e. Bulldogs] Before Walls,” and Enthusiastically Predicting the Near End of the Warfare After the American Capture of the “Third Strong Place in the World;” Also Mentioning General Winfield Scott Whose Heroism “Must Gane [i.e. Gain] for the Commander the Name that Will Last for Ages to Come.” Veracruz, 29 March 1847.
$ 1250.00
Dorrance, William T (Ca. 1804 - ?). A Historically Important Original Autograph Manuscript Letter Written by 1st Sergeant of the 7th US Infantry Regiment, William T Dorrance, from Occupied Mexico City and Signed to His Cousin Edward Moulton in Willimantic, Connecticut, Sharing Breaking News of the Arrival of Two US Commissioners “Empowered to Settle the Terms” of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Heatedly Arguing about the Possible Need of Marching to San Luis Potosi and Giving the Mexicans “A Drubbing” There, Decisively Claiming That “The Question of Peace or War Rests Now Entirely with Mexico,” and Mentioning Several American Political Figures, Including Nicholas Trist, Nathan Clifford, and Ambrose Sevier. Mexico City, 20 April 1848.
$ 750.00
Williams, Thomas. General Orders No. 54, announcing victory at Buenavista. Document Signed as aide-de-camp to General Winfield Scott. One page, 9 1/2 x 8 inches, with docketing on verso; faint mount remnants along on edge on verso. Vera Cruz, Mexico, 15 March 1847.
$ 1250.00
Slocum, Wilkes Almy (ca. 1824-1848). Original Autograph Letter by Wilkes Slocum, a Boatman Near Vera Cruz, Sharing with “Dear Mother” the Hot News of the Mexican Defeat in the Vera Cruz Battle and Writing about the Minimal Casualties Suffered by the American Forces. Vera Cruz: 29 March 1847.
$ 3250.00
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Historically Significant Archive of Eight Original Manuscripts and Documents, Regarding the Siege of Fort Texas and the Service of Texas Rangers during the Mexican-American War, Including Reports of the Use of Tents for Making Sand Bags, and Return Forms for Personnel, Forage and Fuel. [Mexico], 1846-1848.
$ 1500.00
Collection of Ninety-Four Original Gelatin Silver Stereoview Photographs of Mexico, Showing Chihuahua, Moneterey, Zacatecas, Aguas Calientes, Guanajuato, Guadalajara, Juanacatlan, Mexico City, Santa Anita, Guadalupe, Amecameca, Cholulua, Popocatapetl, Ixtaccihuatl, Orizaba, Cordoba, Omealca, Vera Cruz, Jalapa, Tehuantepec, Aztec villages, Portraits of Natives on the Markets and In Their Trades, Including Native Indian Fair, Strawberry Fields and Farming Activities, Interior of the Local Cathedrals and Houses, Bull-fighting, Calendar Stone and Other Remarkable Objects in Local Museums, Factory Scenes, Scenes at the Cotton Mill, Primary School in Jalapa, Photos Relating To Coffee Production and Extracting Pulque From the Maguey Plant. Ca. 1900.
$ 575.00
Coverley-Price, A. Victor (British, 1901-1988). A Grisaille Watercolour Signed "V. Coverley-Price" Titled: Bivouac on Ixtaccihuatl (16,200 feet), Mexico. Ca. 1925.
$ 850.00
Historically Interesting Album with Forty-Four Original Photographs of Mexico, Showing the Portraits of Local Dancers, Musicians, Women & Children, Street Merchants, &; also, with the Photos of Ancient Landmarks of Mexico City, Chiapas, and Tlaxcala; titled: Photographs. Ca. 1940s.
$ 750.00
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Otte, Pauline (1919-2005). Album of 59 Original Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photographs of a 1944 Tour of Mexico Taken by an American Woman, Showing Mexico City (Hotel Reforma, Metropolitan Cathedral, Palace of Fine Arts, House of Tiles), Cuernavaca, Desert of the Lions National Park, a Bull Fight in Xochimilco, Teotihuacan, etc. With Over 15 Pieces of Ephemera from the Tour. Ca. 1944.
McCrackan, Rev. John Henry (1856-1906); [Rondthaler, Rev. Edward, Bishop] (1842-1931). Historically Significant Journal with 59 Original Albumen Snapshot Photographs, Nine Printed Postcards, and Over a Dozen Specimens of Dried Flowers and Plants, Illustrating a Travel of an American Episcopal Clergyman John McCrackan and a Moravian Pastor from North Carolina Edward Rondthaler around Palestine in April – May 1889.
$ 1750.00
Ferâizcizâde, Mehmed Sa'it Efendi (d. 1835). Tarih-i Gülşen-i Maarif [The History of Knowledge]. Istanbul: Dar üt-Tıbaat ül-Amire [Court Typ.], 1252 H. [1836].
Salname-i Nezaret-i Hariciye[A Yearbook of the Ottoman Foreign Ministry]. Constantinople [Istanbul]: Imp. Eb-uz-zia, 1302 H [1884].
$ 525.00
An Interesting Early Letter from a Settler in Boonville (Likely, in Missouri) Who Was Planning to “Engage in the Drug Business in or near Elgin” (One in Missouri or Possibly Oregon), Telling the Addressee that He is “Extremely Desirous of Having you as a Partner” and Remembering “of Your Intention of Going West with me to Look out a Suitable Place for Business”. Boonville, 8 August 1854.
$ 525.00
Historically Significant Collection of Eleven Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and One Printed Postcard, Showing Life in Kansas City Just Months before the 1918 Great Flu Pandemic; with the Photos of the Now-Demolished Westgate Hotel, Newman Theatre, Union Station Depot, Children’s Mercy Hospital, and Various Local Stores with Clearly Visible Signs. 1918.
$ 2500.00
[Buchan-Hepburn of Smeaton], Sir Archibald Banister] (1852-1929). Album with Nine Original Watercolours, and Sixty-Four Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Made on a Mountaineering Trip to Montenegro and Albania, with Interesting Views of the Komovi Mountains of the Dinaric Alps (Andrijevica Village, Kucki Kom Peak, Tara River), Durmitor Mountain Range, Podgorica, Kolasin, Niksic, Zabljak, Cetinje; Lake Skatar, Kir River and Shkodër City in Albania, and Others; With: Seven Watercolour Views of Rural France at Rear. 1908.
$ 5250.00
[Whitaker, Ewen Adar] (1922-2016). Historically Significant Collection of ca. 409 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Moon (Views from Space, Closer Images of the Lunar Surface and Craters), Taken by Several NASA Spacecrafts - Ranger VII (1964), Surveyor I (1965), Ranger VIII ad IX (1965), Lunar Orbiter III and IV (1967), and by Apollo 15 Mission (1971). Ca. 1960s – 1970s.
$ 525.00
Westermarck, Edward Alexander (1862-1939). Two Autograph Letters Signed‚ Discussing Publication of a Chapter from his Latest Book, Apparently, “The Origin and Development of Moral Ideas” (London, 1906-1908, 2 vols.), and Mentioning His Recent Return from Morocco. Two letters: London‚ 10 October 1908; Helsingfors‚ 26 April 1909.
