Search Results: Authors starting with J from WILLIAM ALLISON BOOKS

[Texas Revolution] Lino J Alcorta. Reglamento del estado mayor del ejército que debe operar sobre Téjas. México: Imprenta de J.M. Lara. 1844. Tan printed wraps. 20.8 cm. 11 pp. Light stain to cover. Very good.
OCLC shows 14 holdings, five in Texas (UC-Berkeley; Yale; Indiana Univ.; BYU-Provo; Newberry; Univ. Penn.; Brown; SMU; Univ. Houston; UT-Arlington; UT-Austin; UT-SA; Inst. Tech. de Estudios Sup. & British Lib.) Streeter, Texas 1002. Eberstadt 162:11. "This Reglamento is dated July 20, 1844, and is signed by Alcorta and Valentin Canalizo, then general en gefe del ejercito del Norte. It was presented by Canalizo to the president, Santa Anna, and approved by him." - Streeter. A very important work on the regulations and organization of the Mexican army of the North that was to invade and reconquer Texas. Between Texas independence and the U. S. annexation, expeditions against the province became a common aspiration for the Mexican government; the lack of a stable government and funds kept… Read More

Jackson, Jack. Shooting the Sun. Cartographic Results of Military Activities in Texas, 1689-1829. Lubbock: Book Club of Texas. 1998. Reddish brown cloth in matching slipcase. Two volumes in clip case. Limited edition. One of 325 numbered copies. 40 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 544-564) and index. Pp. xi, 3, 275 + [3], 279-582 + colophon leaf in each volume. Inscribed by the author. Minor rubbing to the slipcase, both volumes are near fine, gift quality copies.
OCLC shows 47 holdings. Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research, 1999. Designed and printed by Wind River Press, Austin. 110 maps printed in black & white. This book focuses on the cartographic history of the Texas interior. "The two-volume work concentrates on the maps them-selves and the history they reveal. Jackson's intention in writing the book was to give the reader a 'useful survey of Texas maps and mapmakers from the time Europeans first set foot on the land until the era of the Texas Revolution'… Read More

1). [Texas] President James K. Polk. Land Grant to a member of the Texas Mounted Riflemen, for service in the Mexican American War. Printed broadside 25 x 39.5 cm on vellum. Washington, December 1, 1848, countersigned by the Recorder of the General Land Office ("S. H. Laughlin") and with embossed paper seal of that Office. Folded, else near fine.
Printed document secretarially signed. Granting land to John Wilson, a private in Captain McCulloch's Company, Texas Mounted Riflemen, and to his assignees. They were also unofficially known as Hay's Texas Rangers. Captain Ben McCulloch's Gonzales Company was an experienced Texas Ranger frontier company and served with distinction in the Mexican American War.

[New Mexico] H. B. Hening; E Dana Johnson. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Chief city of a new empire in the great Southwest. Albuquerque, N.M.: Press of the Albuquerque Morning Journal. 1908. Tan pictorial wraps. 28 x 21 cm. Illustrated. [43] pp. Cover wear, edge chips; interior very good.
OCLC shows 14 holdings. Compiled by H.B. Hening and E. Dana Johnson and published with the endorsement of the City Government of Albuquerque and the Albuquerque Commercial Club and with the approval of the New Mexico Bureau of Immigration. Great photographs including two large panoramas of Albuquerque and the Santa Fe train station.

[Nebraska] Charles Jonathan Freeman. Early History of Central Nebraska and Old Plum Creek, now Lexington. [Lexington, Neb.]: [Lexington Clipper] 1956. Tan printed wraps. 13 x 28 cm. [7] pp. Corner bump, else very good.
OCLC shows four holdings (Autry Mus.; Denver Pub. Lib.; Univ. Okla. & BYU-Provo). Cover title: A Short Story of Plum Creek (Lexington). Text runs parallel with back of cover. Reproduced, 2 columns to each leaf, from newsprint. This area is in southern Nebraska along the Platte River. Early days in the Nebraska Territory, interactions with Native Americans, including Sitting Bull.

[Texas] [Reconstruction] M. St. Johns, Register.
Elector Certificate and Oath. New Orleans: Peter O'Donnell, Stationer [1867]. Partially printed form with manuscript insertions. One sheet 22.5 x 28 cm printed on both sides. Has been folded. Some chips and small splits to one edge. Very good.
OCLC shows two holdings for similar forms in Louisiana (Tulane [2]). A Reconstruction Era form for elections in the former Confederated States. St. Johns certified that , a resident of Carthage, Panola County, Texas was registered as a qualified elector of the Panola County. On the back was an oath, signed by Jones, who declared that he had "not been disenfranchised for participating in any rebellion or civil war against the United States" never participated in "insurrection and rebellion against the United States" nor "held any executive of judicial office in any State and afterwards engages in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, and given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof" and will… Read More

[African Americans] Negroes in the United States. Washington: Government printing Office. 1916. Second edition. Green printed wraps. 31 cm. Illustrated. Maps. Charts. 207 pp. Other title: United States Bureau of the Census. Bulletin 129. Covers chipped and stained. Interior very good.
OCLC shows only two holdings in Texas (Univ. North Texas & Texas Tech Univ.) Scarce today. Originally published in 1915 and reprinted the following year. Prepared in the Division of revisions and results under the general supervision of Dr. Joseph A. Hill, expert special agent. The statistical tables were planned and arranged by ... Charles E. Hall, William Jennifer, and Robert A. Pelham. Much useful information.

[Women] John Joseph Floherty. Your Duty Ashore … His Afloat. SPARS Apply Nearest Coast Guard Office. [Washington, D.C.?][No publication information] [Circa 1944] Color lithograph. 26.5 x 35 cm. Thumbtack holes at corners, not affecting image. Folds and light edge wear.
OCLC shows 15 holdings. Second World War recruitment poster issued by the U.S. Coast Guard. Poster shows a woman in Coast Guard uniform holding binoculars with an image of a soldier holding a weapon behind her. On Nov. 23, 1942, legislation was approved creating the U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve, also known as the SPARs from the motto - Semper Parus, "Always Ready."

[Voyages] Juan Rodríguez de Albuerne Altamira, MarqueÌs de. Puntos de Parecer que el Sr. Marques de Altamira Expusiera al Excelentísimo Señor Virrey Conde de Fuenclara el 4 de Jjulio de 1744, con motivo de su viaje a las Provincias Internas. Mexico: Vargas Rea. 1943. Pictorial wraps. 24 cm. Folding map. No. 100 of 100 copies. [33] pp. Light soiling, bumping to covers, small tear to top of spine.
OCLC shows 14 holdings (Stanford; UC-Berkeley; LOC; U. Miami; Indiana U.; Tulane; UT-Austin; UTEP; Wash. St. U.; U. Wisc.; Biblio. Nat. Mexico; CSIG-Spain; U. Comp. de Madrid & Instit. Tech. Estudios) Hand colored head-piece and initial. "En el Archivo general de la nación, Sección de historia, vol. 28, exp. 13 se encuentra el manuscrito ... La versión que publico fué hecha por competentes paleógrafos del archivo."--Page [3].

[Fishing] Berners, Dame Juliana. The Treatyse Of Fysshynge With An Angle From the Boke Of St Albans, An American Edition. New York: Geo. W. Van Siclen. 1875. Rust colored cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt. 18 cm. Illustrated. 118 pp. Bookplate on front pastedown indicating it purchased in 1880 and had a value of $100. Light wear to spine ends else very good.
This edition is dedicated to the Willewemoc Club. This is the 3rd edition of the treatise, preceded only by the Wynken de Worde edition of 1496; and the 1827 Pickering edition. This edition contains the Pickering preface, a new preface by Van Siclen and a glossary.

TRADE REORGANIZATION CAUSED BY THE REVOLT IN TEXAS
[Texas Revolution][California] José Justo Corro.
De los Puertos para el Comercio Extranjero y de Cabotage y clasificación de Aduanas Marítimas y Fronterizas. Mexico: [Ministerio de Hacienda?] 1837. Self-wraps. 32 cm. Text begins: El Exmo. Sr. Presidente interino de la República se ha servido dirigirme el decreto que sigue ... At head of title: Ministerio de Hacienda. Dated at end: México á 17 de febrero de 1837. Signed: J.M. Cervantes. 9 leaves, 17 printed pages. Near fine condition.
OCLC shows 3 holdings (UC-Berkeley; UC-SD & Brown Univ.) Not in Streeter, Texas. An informative document describing in detail the Mexican customs system during the Texas Revolution. This decree lists all Mexican ports, classifies them, and prescribes the staff, salaries, etc., for each. Among the ports listed are: Matamoros, Galvezton (sic) [Texas], San Diego, San Francisco and Monterey [California]. Land frontier ports of entry are also treated, including… Read More