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In the same year there was a further division, dividing what remained of Salford into Upper and Lower Salford townships.

This copy, with the paper and wax seal of the Court of Quarter Sessions, bears the autograph certification of authenticity of Hilary Baker, Jr., of that Court, and was made specifically for Andrew Ohl, as per the note on verso of the integral blank leaf.

•  Written in a very clear legal hand. Fold tears as typical. Old paper repairs on verso and one spot of brown discoloration from one of those repairs. Old price and dealer’s code (Sessler’s) in pencil in lower margin.

The letter begins: Dear Pinutoyi Istsimokan: Your letter of January 24, about Joe Butch (Henkel). Yes, he is an old timer, but terribly unreliable.” (Unreliable though Henkel may have been, he, too, had a mountain named for him.)

Schultz goes on to tell Grinnell that he is currently writing a story “whenever a lessening of neuritis pain permits.” There are two paragraphs about Eli Guardipee, a Métis, who has been with him for a month helping him with the Blackfeet language. He writes, “I gave him a very pleasant time of it, good room and meals, plenty of good beer, and sent him to a motion picture show nearly every evening. . . . He knows the Blackfeet language better than any mixed blood or white man I ever knew, and loves to dig into the real meaning of its words and expressions.” Other topics include his study of Nahwatosis (or Blackfeet tobacco) and his desire to be called before a Congressional Committee investigating the Indian Bureau.

Grinnell was an anthropologist, naturalist, and significant writer/editor as to the American West; he actually discovered the Montana glacier that bears his name.

•  As it was sent, with some later folds; slight chipping at edges.  (24631)

•  Pebbled cloth, lightly worn. Leaves with minor cockling, some staining and offsetting. Some pages with portions excised; one leaf excised entirely.

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This map depicts the parishes of San Francisco Tlapanzingo, Tlachichilco, and Ygualtepec in the Mixtec region of Puebla, Mexico, extending north into the current state of Mexico. The map also shows various still-extant towns (including Huehuetitlán), others then-extant and gone now, various ranchos or haciendas, a number of smaller villages, and the now extinct river Guacapa (a pestilential black water canal in modern times). The map is accomplished in red, green, yellow, brown, and grey. The lettering is precise and the whole very appealing.

•  Very good condition. Two small abrasions in map area with minuscule loss. Clearly once tipped into a volume of manuscripts or other documents.

The manuscript is exquisitely calligraphedentirely on fine quality vellum in black ink with some words and phrases in red, gold, blue, and sometimes combinations of the same all in one word. Each page of text is indited within a red triple-ruled frame which is itself enclosed in another red triple-ruled frame; large, swirled blue corner devices “connect” the ruled elements. Elegantly ornamented and illuminated“subtitles,” all different, introduce sections of the argument, and there are14 large historiated and illuminated initials (1.5" x 1.5"), each offering as background a landscape–architectural image accomplished in brown, red, blue, green and cream colors.

There are additionally four other family coats of arms skillfully rendered in color and illuminated here, these being the coats of arms of ancestors whose purity of blood is used to prove Don Juan Antonio's. The manuscript ends with the granting of the arms and a full explanation of each of their elements and the significance of their colors.

Binding: Contemporary full crimson goat, round spine with “spine compartments” defined by triple gilt fillets; each compartment with the central device of an urn. Covers with a gilt double-fillet outer border and a gilt floral-roll border within; turn-ins with a gilt roll of a rope design. Each full-page illumination and all coats of arms with salmon-colored silk guards, beautifully intact. All edges gilt.

•  Excellent condition on all points. Interestingly, this Spanish document in a Spanish morocco binding, recording the social apotheosis of a Basque whose fortunes grew via Mexican connections, is housed in a somewhat tattered and slightly broken contemporary pull-off-the-topgilt calf slipcase of Mexican workmanship.  (24671)

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•  Written in a clear hand and with the integral blank leaf. Paper good and document attractive.  (21767)

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In the document at hand, Whitcomb in his capacity of justice of the peace attests on the verso of the leaf to the authenticity of the document on the recto. His attestation is approximately 1.5" high by 8" wide, with a clear signature.

The document on the recto is a printed legal form by which Artemus How of Boton, Worcester County, Massachusetts Bay Province, sells 50 acres of land to Bezeleel Hale. Interestingly, both Artemus and his wife Abigail signed the instrument of sale.

•  On Whitcomb, see: Appleton’s Cyclopaedia. Good/Good+ condition: short fold tears. Three small areas of discoloration from old tape used to tip item into an album. With old pencilled dealer’s code (Sessler’s).