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Rand, Silas Tertius. A first reading book in the Micmac language: comprising the Micmac numerals, and the names of the different kinds of beasts, birds, fishes, trees, &c. of the maritime provinces of Canada. Also, some of the Indian names of places, and many familiar words and phrases, translated literally into English. Halifax: Nova Scotia Printing Company, 1875. 16mo (17 cm, 6.5"). 108 pp. [also bound in] Bible. N.T. Matthew. Micmac. Rand. 1871. Pela Kesagunoodumumkawa tan tula uksakumamenoo westowoolkw Sasoogoole Clistawit ootenink. Megumoweesimk. Chebooktook: Megumagea Ledakun-weekugemkawa moweome, 1871. 126 pp.
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Provenance: Presentation copy from Rand: “To the Library of [the] Theological Institution Newton Center from the Compiler S.T.R.” With the blind pressure-stamps of the Newton Theological Institution (properly deaccessioned; i.e., rare book collection sold).
• Reading: Pilling, Proof-sheets, 318; Sabin 67755. Matthew: Darlow & Moule 6788; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2931; Sabin 67760. Publisher's plain quarter black leather with stone pattern paper sides. Front board expertly reattached. Some age-toning, but very good. (40058)
“Yellow Bird's” English Poetry — Morocco Presentation Binding by BosquiRidge, John Rollin. Poems. San Francisco: H. Payot & Company, 1868. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). Frontis. port., 137, [1] pp.
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among the first published books of poetry by a U.S. native (i.e., indigenous) American in the English language. The author was the son of a chief of the Cherokee, who, with his white wife, went west with other dispossessed Indians in 1850, hoping to strike pay dirt in the gold fields — but didn't. Instead, he settled in San Francisco and launched a writing career with a series of articles on crossing the plains for the New Orleans True Delta. He later contributed many articles and poems for the Golden Era and the Hesperian under the pen name of “Yellow Bird,” the literal translation of his Indian name. Additionally he “owned or edited ten different papers, including the Sacramento Daily Bee, the Marysville Califonria Express, the Grass Valley Daily National, and the San Francisco Herald” (Reese & Miles). Today, Ridge is remembered primarily for his Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta [1854], which transformed the Mexican bandit into a noble Robin Hood.
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)
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First Edition in Nahuatl — Andrade ProvenanceRipalda, Gerónimo.; Ignacio de Paredes (trans.). Catecismo mexicano. Mexico: Imprenta de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1758. 12mo. [16] ff., 170 pp., [1] f.
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one of the most important Nahuatl scholars of the period. 
intended to persuade Indians in particular to read and learn this catechism. In addition to the basic catechism, the work contains fellow Jesuit Bartome Castaño's “Doctrina pequeña” on pp, 143–70.
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)
Hand-Printed, Hand-Colored, Hand-SIGNEDNative-American + Jewish Traditions Rothenberg, Jerome. Seneca journal I. A poem of beavers. Mt. Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press, 1973. 8vo (26.8 cm, 10.5"). [4] pp., 6 ff., [4] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.Perishable Press, spent five months crafting this edition; according to his colophon, “all of these various Japanese text papers were used because 1) we were not in production of our own Shadwell at starting time & 2) it was very difficult to get any good handmade in quantity & thus the edition is small . . . The title-page is hand-colored mostly on whim and was impossible to make more than one alike.”This is numbered copy 71 of only 97 hand-printed on several different types of Japanese paper; it wassigned by the poetacross from Marta Anderson's hand-colored drawing on the title-page. The poem is bound in Shadwell textured cream-grey wrappers printed with “Old Man Beaver's Blessing Song “ (calligraphed by Bettye Lou Bennett) in brown on the front and with the title in cream on the back.
• Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 58. Binding as above. A clean, fresh copy. (41059)
An American Medical Doctor's Observations . . . Rush, Benjamin. Medicinische Untersuchungen und Beobachtungen. Leipzig: In der Weidmannschen Buchhandlung, 1792. 8vo (22.5, 8.75"). [6], 358 pp.; 2 folded leaves of tables. [with his] Neue Medicinische Untersuchungen und Beobachtungen. Nurnberg: in der Raspeschen Buchhandlung, 1797. 8vo (22.5, 8.75"). ix, [1], 302 pp.
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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)
REALLY, Isn't “Rustlings in the Rockies” a GREAT Title?? Shields, G.O. Rustlings in the Rockies: Hunting and fishing by mountain and stream. Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1883. 8vo. Frontis., xvi (vii/viii bound in after xvi),9–306, [6 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. encounters with the Cheyenne and Sioux, all illustrated with numerous full-page and in-text steel engravings. The author (a.k.a. Coquina) was president of the League of American Sportsmen and a frequent contributor to American Field.
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)
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A Bespoke Cedulario forUse in New Spain & Guatemala (Spanish Royal Decrees). An assemblage of 43 manuscript and printed royal and viceroyal decrees and some 25 related documents. Barcelona, Madrid, Valldolid (Spain), Aranjuez, Mexico City, & elsewhere: 1701–79. Small 4to, folio, & larger. Approximately 135 ff.
Click the images for enlargements. specific issues peculiar to one person, place, institution, or event, and such specificity is not included in the recopilaciones, though the royal decrees provided good, useful precedents to cite.
Indians, commodities, dress codes, bigamy, and other social matters in the regions of Mexico, New Galicia, and Guatemala. Of the 43 items, 22 are printed decrees (all but one printed in Spain) and the remaining 21 are manuscript. Fifteen bear true (rather than stamped) royal signatures: six are signed by Felipe V, and nine are by Ferdinand VI. Of the 28 documents not signed by a king, 17 are printed and 11 are manuscript.
A sound and interesting collection. (34851)
For MANUSCRIPTS of HISPANIC INTEREST, click here. For MANUSCRIPTS generally, click here. For COMMERCE / TRADE /
Poetry by an American Journalist Stuart, Carlos D. Ianthe: and other poems. New York: C.L. Stickney & J.C. Wadleigh, 1843. 12mo. Added engr. title-page; 222, [2] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. two Native American-themed pieces.
“Contain[ing] several poems of historical interest,” according to
Sabin, this bears on its added engraved title-page a lovely vignette in romantic
melancholy style signed, “J.N. Gimbrede.” The general title given
above this, interestingly, is not “Ianthe” as on the printed title
but “Greenwood” — that being one of the “other poems”
in Stuart's volume.
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)
The NorthernmostMAYAN Dialect — Two “Firsts”Tapia Zenteno, Carlos de. Noticia de la lenguaHUASTECA ... con cathecismo, y doctrina christiana para su instruccion ... enchiridion sacramental para su administracion, con todo lo que parece necessario hablar en ella los neoministros y copioso diccionario para facilitar su inteligencia. Mexico: En la Imprenta de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1767. 4to (20 cm, 7.785"). [5] ff., 128 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. the first surviving published grammar and the first dictionary. The catechism is bilingual (Spanish and Huastec) as is the doctrine. Both are important for the study of moral and doctrinal concerns by the clergy among the indigenous population. 
• 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“O'Gallala” Trade Warfare for Farming?
United States. Treaties, etc. 1865–1869 Johnson. Treaty between the United States of America and the O'Gallala band of Dakota or Sioux Indians. Concluded October 28, 1865. Ratification advised, with amendment, March 5, 1866. Proclaimed March 17, 1866. [Washington: publisher not identified, 1866]. Folio (29.6 cm; 11.625"). 6, [2] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Oglala Lakota signed in print by Newton Edmunds (governor of the Dakota Territory), Edward B. Taylor (superintendent of Indian affairs for the northern superintendency), Gen. H.H. Sibley, Tan-tan-ka-has-ka (Chief Long Bull), Ma-lo-wa-ta-khe (The Charging Bear), Pa-ha-to-ne-je (The Man that Stands on a Hill), and others at Fort Sully, Dakota Territory, on 28 October 1865.
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)
“A Treaty Was Made & Concluded at Fort Sully”United States. Treaties, etc. 1865–1869 Johnson. Treaty between the United States of America andthe Sans Arcs band of Dakota or Sioux Indians. Concluded October 20, 1865. Ratification advised, with amendment March 5, 1866. Proclaimed March 17, 1866. [Washington: publisher not identified, 1866]. Folio (31.4 cm; 12.375"). 6, [2] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. 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)
One of the FewBROADSIDES Printed in NAHUATL Venegas, Francisco Javier. Broadside, begins: Don Francisco Xavier Venegas ... Teniente General de los Reales Exercitos, Virey, Gobernador ... de esta N. E. ... Ayamo moyolpachihuitia in Totlatocatzin Rey D. Fernando VII. [Mexico: No publisher/printer, 1810]. Folio (42.3 cm, 16.25"). [1] p.
Click the image for an enlargement.The notable exception to the rule were the broadside decrees that were published for promulgation to the Indians during the war of independence. Two were issued by Viceroy Venegas in 1810 shortly after he arrived in New Spain: They were an effort to quell the recently declared Hidalgo revolt. The present one, which alludes to the revolt, announces an end to the required payment of tribute by Mexico's Indians and is a printing in Mexico of a decree that the Regency had issued in Spanish on 26 May. At the same time it is a plea for donations from the Indians to fight the French!
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)
FIRST Accounts of a Conquest & an Attempted ConquestThe Itza Maya & the Lacandón!Villagutierre Sotomayor, Juan de. Historia de la conquista de la provincia de el Itza, reduccion, y progressos de la de el Lacandon, y otras naciones de indios barbaros, de la mediacion de el reyno de Guatimala, a las provincias de Yucatan, en la America septentrional. Madrid: Lucas Antonio de Bedmar y Narvaez, 1701. Folio (28.5 cm; 11.5"). Engr. “frontispiece,” [32] ff., 660 pp., [17] ff.
Click any image above for an enlargement. This is the first published book dedicated solely to the history of the Yucatán and the Maya, here offered in its first edition, first issue (with the incorrect catchword “gla” at the foot of the recto of the 22nd preliminary leaf).
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)
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The ENDURING LAWS of theVISIGOTHS Visigoths. Laws, statutes, etc. Fuero juzgo en latín y castellano, cotejado con los más antiguos y preciosos códices por la Real Academia Española. Madrid: Por Ibarra, 1815. Folio (34.2 cm, 13.5"). [7] ff., pp. [iii], iv–liv, [2] ff., X, 162 pp., [2] ff., XVI, 231, [1] pp.
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an important element in the formation of the legal status of the Indians of America under the Spanish rule. The verso of the seventh unnumbered leaf at the beginning of this edition has an engraved facsimile of a page from the Codex murcianus of the Fuero juzgo.
• 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)
A Polyglot Dictionary ofAmerican Indian Languages
Zeisberger, David. Zeisberger's Indian dictionary: English, German, Iroquois — The Onondaga, and Algonquin — The Delaware. Cambridge: John Wilson & Son, 1887. 4to (27.5 cm; 11"). v, [1 (blank), 236 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. here printed for the first time. Edited by Eben Norton Horsford.
• 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)
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