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Item #List3721 1861 Letter from Mary Frances Green Lewis in Albuquerque to Her Mother,...

[Civil War – New Mexico Territory] Lewis, Mary Frances Green

1861 Letter from Mary Frances Green Lewis in Albuquerque to Her Mother, Describing Her Husband Martin Van Buren Lewis’s Impatience to Go to War: “He is crazy to get back to the states where there is something to do.”

Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory: May 31, 1861. Single three-page letter measuring 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches, postmarked Santa Fe N.M. A letter from Mary Frances Green (1841–1927) in Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory, to her mother Nancy Howe in North Bloomfield, Ohio. Green had come to New Mexico with her.....

Price: $950.00

[Latin American Authors – Theater – Mexico City] Ávila, Julio Enrique

“El ciego al Teatro Ideal”: 1923 Review of Rivas’ La Mala Ley at the Ideal Theater by Salvadoran Poet Julio Enrique Ávila.

Mexico City: April 1923. Double-sided 8 ½ x 11 inch sheet, handwritten with signature. Julio Enrique Ávila (1892–1968) was a Salvadoran science professor, journalist, and poet. He is best known for his poetry anthology El mundo de mi jardín (1927). Offered here is a review of María Teresa Montoya in.....

Price: $375.00

[Mexico – Catholicism] Unknown

Scrapbook of Material from Our Lady of Guadalupe in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1930s–1960s.

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico: 1930s–1960s. Scrapbook in album with string binding; twenty-two double-sided pages measuring 9 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches with some items not affixed. A scrapbook containing photographs, sacramental cards, programs, and clippings relating to various church functions at the Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in Ciudad Juárez.....

Price: $750.00

[Mexico – Motorcycles – Tourism] Wolfe, Wayne W.

Photo Album of a 1947 Motorcycle Tour Through Mexico.

Mexico and the United States: 1940s–1950s. Scrapbook with approximately fifty-four photos: forty-four affixed measuring 5 x 7 inches and smaller; one loose measuring 5 x 7 inches; and nine loose measuring 8 ½ x 10 inches. With nineteen medium format negatives and six pieces of ephemera from Mexico and the.....

Price: $650.00

[Mexico] [Pastry War] Hersant, M.

Signed manuscript report and chart from Hersant, Consul de France a San Luis Potosí and Tampico, to Comte de Rigny, Minister of the Navy.

Mexico: 1833. First Edition. Mexico: May 23, 1833. Letter and chart on watermarked single folio sheets, approx. 13 x 16-½ inches, letter: [3] pp.; chart: [2] pp.;. Rare first-hand documentation of the growing trade tensions that eventually led to the French-Mexican “Pastry War” of 1838. Consul Hersant’s gossipy report surveys.....

Price: $1,750.00

[Mexico] [Texas] Ortiz, Tadeo

Mexico Considerado Como Nacion Independiente y Libre, o Sean Algunas Indicaciones Sobre Los Deberes Mas Esenciales de Los Mexicanos.

Burdeos [Bourdeaux]: Carlos Lawalle Sobrino, 1832. 8vo, full calf, 598 [2] pp. Chips to head of spine, ex-libris stamp to preliminary page, text block fine, very good to near fine overall. A nice first edition copy of Tadeo Ortiz’s second historical work, written during his time as Consul in Bourdeaux.....

Price: $1,250.00

[Navajo Wars – Fort Defiance – Arizona – New Mexico] Van Bokkelen, Captain William K.

1858 Letter from the Fort Defiance Quartermaster’s Office Requesting Supplies of Corn for Fighting the Navajo.

Fort Defiance, New Mexico (now Arizona): October 1858. Single letter, two 8 x 10 inch pages. A letter from Captain William K. Van Bokkelen (1822–1907) at Fort Defiance to Major James Lowry Donaldson (1814–1885). Van Bokkelen, calculating the amount of bushels of corn consumed each day by the Fort’s horses.....

Price: $850.00

[New Mexico – Homesteading] Upton, Irene

1908 Letter from a Young Woman Homesteading in Rural New Mexico, Including a Description of an Armed Conflict with a Sheriff.

Solano, New Mexico: October 1908. Six page letter measuring 5 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. Envelope with many unrelated manuscript markings. A letter from Irene Upton (1888–1956) in Solano, New Mexico to her friend Carroll B. Benton in Boston. Upton was born in New Hampshire—her father was New Hampshire State.....

Price: $250.00

[Petroleum - Mexico] The Foundation Company

Collection of Photographs and Materials Relating to the Foundation Company's Operations in Tampico, Mexico, 1915-1922.

Mexico: 1915-1922. Various sizes and formats, generally preserved in excellent condition. Founded in 1902, the Foundation Company was a subaqueous concrete construction firm based in New York City. According to the Smithsonian, the company was “a leader in the development of the pneumatic caisson method for the construction of foundations”.....

Price: $1,500.00

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