Ridge's poems were collected posthumously and are here published by his widow, with a mounted albumen photograph of the author for the frontispiece; the preface includes a detailed account of the assassination of his father, John Ridge. The book was printed by Edward Bosqui & Co., considered San Francisco’s finest 19th-century printer.

Binding:  Chestnut-brown morocco presentation binding with bevelled edges, covers framed in black rules, with author and title in gilt in nice frames on each board (gilt stamping the same as seen on the cloth binding). Binding by Bosqui, with that firm’s ticket.

•  Cowan p. 533; Graff 3504; Kurutz, California Books Illustrated with Original Photographs 1856–1890, 43; Miles & Reese, Creating America, 122; Norris 3270.   Binding as above; rebacked, original spine somewhat unartfully reapplied, sides scuffed. Scratched markings on pastedowns; title-page and a few others with old stains. A very decent copy, with the presentation binding copies being rare.  (39603)

The Bibliotheca Mexicana was the private press of the great bibliographer, writer, and secular cleric Juan Jose de Eguiara y Eguren.

Provenance:  Bookplate of the great 19th-century Mexican collector J.M. Andrade.

•  Garcia Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 56; Viñaza 341; H. de León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli, 2286; Palau 269110; Medina, Mexico, 4500; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VI, 210–211; Sutro 15; Sabin 71488; Leclerc 2334; JCB 1191.   Mid-19th-century Mexican quarter calf with marbled paper sides; lacks the portrait (as often is the case). Front joint (outside) with small, excellent repair; last line of the the bookseller's advertisement on the verso of the last leaf slightly cropped by the binder, with a few catchwords being shaved also and parts of two decorative borders just touched (not taken). A very decent copy of an important work with a distinguiished provenance. (41150)

Provenance:  Bookplate of Samuel X. Radbill (Philadelphia book collector, bookplate collector, and medical doctor).

•  VD18 11231777 for the first title; second title not in VD18; Blake, NLM 18th Century, p. 394.   Contemporary German pastepaper over boards; binding very worn. Interior very good.  (39953)

Binding:  Publisher's brown cloth, front cover with black-stamped hunting scene and title framed in gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title.

•  Binding as above, corners and spine head lightly rubbed. Ex–social club library: call number on endpaper, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Pages clean.  (27113)

Provenance: “Miss Carrie G. Skinner, Fort Ann Village, NY.”

•  American Imprints 43-4820; Sabin 93131.   Publisher's violet cloth, covers blind-stamped with central gilt-stamped urn vignettes, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorations; cloth sunned especially at edges and spine, corners bumped, front joint with small spots of old insect damage. Front free endpaper with early pencilled ownership inscription, as above. Foxed; a few poems with early pencilled annotations (brief) — one is, simply, “Splendid.”  (27650)

•  Viñaza 355; García Icazbalceta, Apuntes, 73; Medina, Mexico, 5187; Sabin 94355; Palau 327486; Maggs, Bibl. Amer., 4678; Newberry Library, Ayer Indians, Huastec, 15; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 3801.   Contemporary limp vellum lacking the leather ties. An attractive, crisp copy and only the fourth complete copy of this work we have seen on the market in 35 years.  (33590)

The treaty states that the United States will pay each family thirty dollars annually for twenty years for their decisions to “withdraw from the route overland already established,” ceasing all warfare with other groups, and to settle future disputes by using the president as an arbitrator. The government promises that it will provide protection from “annoyance or molestation on the part of whites or Indians” should members of the group settle permanently to engage in agricultural pursuits, and offers further incentives for their doing so.

It was ratified 5 March 1866 and later proclaimed by President Johnson on March 17.

•  Eberstadt 130.   Folded sheets, light age-toning, gently chipped along edges; light pencilling on upper margin of title-page.  (36650)

The treaty states that the United States will pay each family thirty dollars annually for twenty years for their decisions to “withdraw from the route overland already established,” ceasing all warfare with other groups, and to settle future disputes by using the president as an arbitrator. The government promises that it will provide protection from “annoyance or molestation on the part of whites or Indians” should members of the group settle permanently to engage in agricultural pursuits, and offers further incentives for their doing so.

It was ratified 5 March 1866 and later proclaimed by President Johnson on March 17.

•  Eberstadt 130.   Folded sheets, light age-toning, gentle chipping along edges; light pencilling on upper margin of title-page, bottom corner of same chipped away.  (36651)

This broadside also importantly marks the end of the 40-year ban on the use of Nahuatl in official publications. Venegas adds (in translation): “And so every one may know the king's desires, and so they may be realized, we order this decree be promulgated everywhere in the Mexican language, the Otomí language, and every other Indian language.” No examples of its publication in those other indigenous languages have been found.

The broadside was not intended to be read by the natives, most of whom were illiterate, but rather was to be read by Nahuatl-speaking town criers.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only four U.S. libraries (UC-San Diego, Lilly, John Carter Brown, and Cushing at Texas A&M) reporting ownership.

•  Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 914; Medina, Mexico, 10533; Torres Lanzas 2609; Ugarte, Obras escritas en lenguas indigenas de Mexico, 421; H. de León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolll, 2812. See also: Mark Morris, “Language in Service of the State: The Nahuatl Counterinsurgency Broadsides of 1810,” in Hispanic American Historical Review 87:3 (2007), pp. 433–70.   Removed from a bound volume, printed on pale blue paper. Two tears in text area with old repair.The bottom margin shows the faintly visible transfer from another copy of the broadside while wet and stacked in the print shop!  (41014)

Bedmar y Narvaez printed the title-page in black and red and the text is in double-column format. This copy bears both the engraved “frontispiece” and the black and red title-page, but, as usual, not the very rare colophon.

Although touted as “Primera parte” on the title-page, there were no further parts; this Historia is complete, “all published.”

•  Palau 366681; Medina, Biblioteca hispano-americana, 2051; Sabin 99643; Leclerc 1546; Salvá 3422; Heredia 3407; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 701/262. On Villagutierre, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica, fiche 1019, frames 213–16. 19th-century Spanish sheep (“pasta española”), covers abraded and with pinhole-type worming to spine; loss of lower inch of spine leather to insects. Browning to text due to impurities in water during paper manufacture. Small insect damage to margins of first four leaves, not touching any text; similar small damage in inner margins of last four leaves. Over all, a decent copy of a scarce work.  (13286)

•  Palau 95528. Original printed wrappers with a little tattering and a small chip from the base of the spine; light waterstaining in the outside margins of some leaves and title-page with some staining in the inside margin, not affecting printed area. Wrappers, edges, first and last leaves with smoke discoloration; many upper margins with intrusion of same. (3312)

•  Sabin 106302n.   Publisher's textured cloth in a brick color, hinges (inside) cracked; ex-library with a bookplate, no stamps. Clipping about this “quaint” dictionary affixed to a blank, with offsetting to endpaper verso opposite; interior clean.  (31960)