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"Services
Rendered" — 1835, '36
Dakal,
G.M. Two Autograph Notes Signed. No places, 19 September 1835 and 29
June 1836. One sheet 8vo, one 4to with integral address leaf. 
• Both long folded, the bill apparently into an "envelope" (with direction to Mrs. Hofmaster); receipt with some tears and tatters not affecting text.
Beautiful & Absorbing De Hamel, Christopher. A history of illuminated manuscripts. Boston: David R. Godine, 1986. Folio. 256 pp.
First American edition. The illustrations are different than those in the second and later editions, but the same as in the first English edition.
• Publisher's cloth with illustrated dust jacket. As new. (22335)
Comunero Revolt Echauri, Martín José. Document Signed. In Spanish, on paper. San Miguel (Argentina): 14 May 1735. Folio (31 cm x 12.25"). [1] p.
Click the image for an enlargement. The Comunero Revolt in Argentina (ca. 1723–35) was a prolonged episode of uprising against the colonial government by residents in northeastern Argentina (Corrientes) and an adjacent part of Paraguay who felt marginalized by the Jesuit domination of the Guarani Indian labor pool and the Society of Jesus’s near monopoly of the yerba mate and tobacco trade with Buenos Aires.
• Very good condition. Margins a little irregular; paper a little rumpled. Written in a clear, easy to read hand. (24647)
CLOTHING His Majesty’s ForcesFitzroy, Charles; Alured Clarke; Thomas Trigge; & Harry Burrard. Autograph Letters Signed. “Know all Men by these Presents ...” [London], 1810. Folio (32.5 cm, 12.75"). [2] ff.
• Creased along folds; spine reinforced with later cloth tape bearing inked identification annotation. First page with British governmental pressure-stamp, second page with folded paper mount from now-absent seal.
The Lady Had a
LOT
of PROJECTS!(French Laborers). Manuscript on paper, in French. “L’an mille huit cent Sept. le vingt Juilliette....” Paris, 1800. Folio (37 cm, 14.5"), 28 pp.
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the image to the left • Sewn. Some edges ragged; worming to upper margins of last few leaves, touching two letters.
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Washable Recipes — No Staining, No Page-Turning Frisbie, L. Tested recipes on washable tablets: Ten entrees.
No place: no publisher/printer, 1897. 16mo (12.7 cm, 5"). [10] ff.
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Scarce: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 report only one holding — NYPL. Neither Bitting nor Brown describes this intriguing item, which is clearly American though no place of publication (or publisher) is given on it.
• Not in Bitting, not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's oilcloth-covered boards, front cover with title and vignette stamped in cadet blue; covers lightly to moderately soiled and scuffed. Page boards with edges faded and occasional small scuffs from rotating page design; four boards with pencilled additions as above. (24482)
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