Search Results: Authors starting with M from WILLIAM ALLISON BOOKS

Mandat-Grancey, Edmond, Baron de. La Brèche aux Buffles par le Baron e. de Mandat-Grancey. Un Ranch Français dans le Dakota. Paris: Librairie Plon, Nourrit et Cie., Imprimeurs-éditeurs. 1889. First edition. Contemporary half morocco. Preface. Illustrations. Table of Contents at end. 292 [4] pp. Inscribed by the Baron. Some foxing, soil to page edges, front hinge with small splits at edges. Very good. Unusual signed.
OCLC shows two holdings (Biblio. Nat. de France & BCU Dorigny.) Adams, Herd 1436: "Rare." Howes M-245: "aa." Dykes, Kid 19: "Rare." Adams, Six Guns 1437: "Rare." Graff 2668. Dobie p. 100. The title roughly translates to Buffalo Gap, a possible reference to a South Dakota town of the same name where the Baron's ranch was located. Calamity Jane, Black Hills, ranching, Billy the Kid. There is a brief summary of Billy the Kid's exploits in the Lincoln County War on pp. 76-81. Unlike his famous Dans les Montagnes Rocheuses, this work did not see contemporary translation into… Read More

[Texas] Highway map and guide of Texas for service [logo of Authorized Guide & Map Service of Texas] follow this sign. Authorized service from coast to coast. [Panel title] Aurora, Mo.: Mid-West Map Co. [Circa 1925?] Map 48 x 44 cm, folded to 22 x 14 cm. A few stains and folds, else very good.
OCLC shows two holdings of this map. (Yale & UT-Arlington). This map is undated. Inset map: "Western Section" of Texas and advertisements for the Herring Hotel in Amarillo and Treasure Island in Galveston. Index and list of "Authorized Guide and Map stations of Texas" on verso.

General Arista's Call to Suppress The Revolt Along the Rio Grande
[Texas] Mariano Arista. El Ciudadano Mariano Arista, General en Gefe de la Division Auxiliar del Norte a los habitantes de los Departamentos de Tamaulipas, Coahuila y Nuevo Leon. [Saltillo]: [No publication information] 1839. Broadside 31 x 21.7 cm. In a custom cloth chemise case and modern morocco-backed slipcase lettered in gilt. Faint age-toning to paper, some minor creasing and wear along edges; near fine.
OCLC shows 3 holdings (Yale; Brown & Baylor). Streeter, Texas 943. Yale Exhibition 116. "This is a savage attack on the 'traitor Canales' and his followers who, Arista says, are 'robbers, barbarians, criminals, and worse.' It ends with a call on the inhabitants to support the government forces then under Arista's command to suppress the revolt along the Rio Grande." – Streeter. Since 1835, with the ascension of Antonio López de Santa Anna - then a Centralist - to the presidency of Mexico, Federalist leaders throughout the… Read More

[Mexican War] Verdadero Alcance al Semanario politico del jueves 8 de Mayo de 1845. [Monterrey]: Imprenta del gobierno, á cargo de Froila y Mier, [1845]. Broadside in three columns (43 x 31.5 cm). Creased where formerly folded, small burn hole.

OCLC shows no holdings. No auction records. Jóse de Jesús Dávila y Prieto Jóse Maria Martinez were Congressional representatives for Nuevo Leon in 1845. Here are printed a series of letters they wrote regarding their inability to travel to attend the 1845 session of Congress without payment of their travel expenses as they were promised. Reflective of the turmoil in Mexico during this period immediately prior to the start of Mexican War. Prieto was later named the first Mayor of Monterrey and in 1847 published a book on astronomy.

[Texas] [Dallas] [Masons] Samuel Poyntz Cochran. An Honored Citizen, a Christion Gentleman and a True Freemason. [Dallas?]: [No publication information] [Circa 1920] Stiff leather wraps. 24.5 cm. Frontispiece is an original photograph of the statue dedicated to Cochran. Decorative initial capitals. [21 leaves,] Cover shows some wear. Original glassine dustjacket present but in pieces. A few light stains. Very good.
OCLC shows no holdings. "Printed for private circulation only." Cochran was born in 1855 in Lexington, Kentucky. He was deputy United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 1878 until 1880. He moved across the Ohio River to Cincinnati for a brief period in 1881 and worked as an agent for the Lancashire and the Phoenix insurance companies. That year he moved to Dallas, Texas, where the Phoenix Company employed him as an itinerant agent. After three years of traveling the state by stagecoach, Cochran joined the insurance firm of Dargan and Trezevant in Dallas. In 1884, he… Read More

[Women] Mayalaine May Slade. Manuscript Poetry Book with Pressed Flowers. Ellington, Connecticut. 1912-1919. In The American Series blank book, published by the New York Blank Book Company. 52 pp. Very good.
Begun when she was 11 years old and continued until she was 18. A combination of original verse, published quotations, including from Henri Frederic Amiel and Phillips Brooks, among others; and published poetry and memory book/botanical, recording where the 10 pressed flowers were collected. A charming young woman's work from the early 20th Century.

[Mexico][Jesuits] Francisco Mendizábal; Luis Abadiano y Valdés. Representación que al Soberano Congreso dirije el presbítero Francisco Mendizabal. México: Imprenta de Luis Abadiano y Valdes, 1841. Bound in new leather with gilt printing. Original wraps bound in. 17.5 cm. 26 pp. Initials and bookplate of J.R.H. Very good.
OCLC shows 10 holdings. (Univ. Ariz.; Fuller Theol. Sem.; Tulane; [2]; Univ. NM; SMU; UT-Austin; Biblio. Natl. de Chili; Biblio. Nat. de Espana; & Instit. Tech. de Estudios Sup.) The Jesuits established missions in North America early in the 17th Century. They disappeared during the suppression of the Society of Jesus around 1763. In this pamphlet Mendizába advocates to Congress for the return of the Jesuits. He talks about his unjust expulsion, and how they could once again occupy an important place in Mexican society. Of special interest is his mention of the important work they could do on the northern border, exploring and establishing missions, and evangelizing the… Read More

[New Mexico] Fifth Annual Report of the Cattle Sanitary Board of the Territory of New Mexico. Las Vegas, N.M.: Stock Grower Print. 1891. Tan printed wraps. 22 cm. 18 pp. Has been folded, else very good.
Not in Adams, Herd. OCLC shows three holdings (NY Pub. Lib.; NM St. Lib. & Univ. NM). Contains reports to Governor Bradford Prince on the state of the cattle industry in the Territory and reprints circulars on shipping cattle, etc.

FRANCE DECLARES WAR ON SPAIN
Gaceta Extraordinaria del Gobierno Supremo de Mexico. Tom. 1 Num. 56. Del Domingo 27 de Abril de 1823. One sheet, 19.5 x 29 cm., printed letterpress on laid paper. Disbound. Edge tear not affecting text. Very good.
OCLC shows 4 holdings for this newspaper (Yale; LOC; Indiana & UT-Austin). This issue covers the declaration of war by France against Spain. After the downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte, King Ferdinand VII of Spain refused to adopt the liberal Spanish Constitution of 1812 and in 1820 faced a rebellion in favour of a constitutional monarchy, led by Rafael del Riego y Nuñez. The King was captured and detained at Cádiz, where the Cortes, the Spanish parliament assembled. Alarmed by these events, the other European powers convened in October 1822 at the Congress of Verona and authorized France to intervene in the conflict and restore the rule of Ferdinand, with only Britain abstaining from that decision. On 17 April 1823, French forces led by Louis-Antoine, Duke of… Read More

[Texas][San Antonio de Béxar] Handwritten Report. September 3, 1825. One sheet of laid paper. 22 cm. Very good.Handwritten report addressed to the Minister of War stating that the recipient, probably an officer in Texas, has received a list of deserters from the Battalion #12 based in Bejar [Béxar] He informs the Minister he has given orders for the arrest of the deserters. The Minister of War at this time was Gomez Pedraza. San Antonio de Béxar Presidio, the center of Spanish defense in western Texas, was founded by Martín de Alarcón on May 5, 1718, on the west side of the San Antonio River. Aside from Indian defense, Béxar Presidio became involved in hostilities during the Mexican and Texan wars of independence. Ousted for the first time from the city as a result of Gen. Martín Perfecto de Cos's defeat by Texan forces in December 1835, the garrison was briefly reinstated after the fall of the Alamo in March 1836. The presidio formally ceased to exist with the garrison's acknowledgment of… Read More

[Abolition] [Slavery] [Millard Fillmore]. Message of the President of the United States, Communicating The Correspondence in Relation to the Claim of the Owners of the Amistad for Compensation, on Account of the Liberation of the Negroes on Board that Vessel. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1851. First edition. Publisher's original self-wrappers. 23 cm. 31st Congress, 2d session, Senate, no. 29. Some creasing and chipping to edges. Some light age toning. Very good.
OCLC shows eight holdings (Yale; Williams Col.; US Coast Guard Acdy.; Queens Borough Pub. Lib.; Univ. S. Maine; TAMU; Texas Southern Univ.) Contains the correspondence from Calderon de la Barca (in English translation) the Minister of Spain to the US Secretaries of State in 1844 - 1851 and the replies of the US Government. In February of 1839, Portuguese slave hunters abducted a large group of Africans from Sierra Leone and shipped them to Havana, Cuba, a center for the slave trade. Two Spanish plantation… Read More

[Mexico] Hacienda of San Isidro. Plan of Farm Lands. Surveyed by C. W. Mills, C.S. Jan 1889. Manuscript map. 190 cm x 75 cm. Hand color. Has been folded else very good.
OCLC shows no holdings for this Hacienda. The Hacienda San Isidro, Chihuahua, Mexico is listed in Cochran, The Haciendas of Mexico (1886) p. 22. This is "a list of plantations and principal farms in the Republic of Mexico …." Proprietor: Senor Avellano. Post Office Huejuquilla. The map shows 1500 acres farm lands. 350 acres new farm and ranch land. San Jose Farm of 474 acres. New lands opened in 1888 equal 150 acres. As the map is in English, the owners were likely American. The famous Hearst ranch Babicora was also in Chihuahua, Mexico. Nineteenth Century hacienda maps are rare.

[Railroad] Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company. The M K and T. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co. [Circa 1891-92]. Color outline map. 59 x 61 cm folded to 21 x 10 cm. Vignette of the Texas Capitol Building on panels. Panel title: Description of the state of Texas traversed by the MK and T. Where in a perfect climate, may be found cheap homes for a million people. Stains and splits at fold. Good.
OCLC shows three holdings of this map (SMU; UT-Arlington & Univ. Missouri-St Louis.) References 1890 population and agricultural statistics and the forthcoming World's Columbian Exposition which was head in 1893. "List of the cities, towns, and stations located on the line of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway in Texas" and historical information on select Texas counties. Also covers Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, and parts of Tennessee, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico, but not the southernmost tip of Texas.

TEXAS PROMO WITH FOLDING ROUTE MAP
[Texas] The Texas Riviera. The Beautiful Gulf Coast and the Winter Resort Cities Houston and Galveston. Chicago: Poole Bros., Railway Printers for the Passenger Traffic Department, Iron Mountain Route. [Circa 1912]. Pictorial color wraps with title in raised gilt letters on front wrapper. 23 cm. Illustrated with photos (one copyrighted 1910, by F.J. Schlueter, Houston; another is copyrighted 1912, by M.E. Verkin) interspersed with drawings in pale green and pink. Folding map tipped in at rear. 32 pp. A very good copy.
OCLC shows three holdings (Baylor, UT-Arlington & Univ. of Oklahoma.) Map dated in lower margin 11-4-'12. In the text, mention is made of the New Rice Hotel "on the historic location of the old hostelry of the same name, [which] will be one of the largest and most magnificent hotels in the South." [This hotel opened in 1913]. A very good copy.

H. Muenzenberger. Del Rio, Val Verde County, Texas. Del Rio: H. Muenzenberger. 1900. Tan pictorial wraps. 12 cm. Illustrated. 48 pp. Pencil mark through date of 1800 on cover, else near fine.
OCLC shows two holdings (Texas Tech & UT-Austin). Rare today. Rare Book Hub shows no auction or catalog listings. Morrison, Nineteenth Century Texana shows no listings. The first copy I have seen. Many local advertisements. Compiled and published by H. Muenzenberger. Rather crudely printed, with typo on the date and the "z" in Muenzenberger failing to print on the cover. A rare survivor.

[Montana] Myers, Cora Bosworth Glasier. (Mrs. Peter M.) The Coming of the White Men. [Chicago]: [Milwaukee Land Co. (Poole Bros.)] 1910. Pictorial wraps. 23 cm. Illustrated. [40] pp. Very good.
Adams, Six Guns 1588: "Scarce." OCLC shows nine holdings (Autrey Mus.; UCLA; Yale; Mont. Hist. Soc.; Mont. St. U.; Mont. Tech; UT-SA; Spokane Pub. Lib.; & Wis. Hist. Soc.) "The story of early Montana with some material on the road agents of Henry Plummer's gang and on the vigilantes." - Adams. Written by Cora R. Myers, wife of Peter Myers, second vice-president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway. Her best known literary work was this booklet. It includes brief histories of the Louisiana Purchase ("Bargain Day for the United States"), the Lewis & Clark Expedition and Sacajawea, the Vigilante period, and the transition from Montana territory to state and several other topics. Includes photography, drawings and poetry. She describes staying in Three Forks, "to waken each morning to the… Read More