Specializing in Hispanic History and Genealogy       Browse Our Catalog SORT BY AUTHOR SORT BY TITLE History & Genealogy HEADLINERS-NEW HISPANIC GENEALOGY GENERAL GENEALOGY SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD MEXICO/LATIN AMERICA SPAIN/PORTUGAL TEXANA/BORDERLANDS OTHER EARLY AMERICANA SEPHARDIC JUDAICA RARE/ONE OF A KIND MAPS SALE-CLEARANCE General Interest REFERENCE HISTORY & CULTURAL STUDIES MILITARY HISTORY CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS FAMILY & LIFESTYLE MISCELLANEOUS Online Catalog Online Sale for Continental U.S. ONLY. All other may purchase by MAIL ORDER. SORT BY AUTHOR SORT BY TITLE A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z SEPHARDIC JUDAICA Item #15083 FAREWELL ESPANA, The World of The Sephardim Remembered. Author: Howard M. Sachar Price: $25.00 Shipping: $3.75 One of the best general accounts available about the story of the Sephardic Jews and their Diaspora from Spain and Portugal told by a most distinguished Jewish historian. In 1492, on the eve of Columbus' voyage, the last professing Jews in Spain were driven from the land that had been their home for centuries, including seven centuries under Islamic rule. Those who left under very tragic circumstances would become the seed of Jewish civilizations that would spring up far-away lands such as Morocco, The Netherlands, Ottoman Turkey, colonial Brazil and the United States. A formidable history that includes Moses Maimonides, Baruch Spinoza, Benjamin Disraeli and even a false messiah. New York, First Vintage Books Ed., 439 Pgs., PB. Quantity: TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS Item #8073HB EARLY TEJANO RANCHING, Daily Life at Rancho San Jose and El Fresnillo Author: Andres Saenz Price: $22.95 Shipping: $3.75 Edited with and Intro. by Dr. Andrés Tijerina. Previously published by the Institute of Texan Cultures in 1999. An excellent. Well-designed & highly readable book profiling the history and activities of these two ranches founded respectively by Jose Antonio Lopez and Eleuterio Saenz in the 1860’s. Dr. Tijerina lays the scene with a historical introduction and the author takes us on a nostalgic tour of South Texas ranching including events and daily life. Contains seven genealogy charts, two maps, many photos, a glossary and who’s who appendices of the families. College Station. TX. 1st Texas A&M Ed., 159 Pgs. HB. Quantity: MEXICO & LATIN AMERICA Item #5064 MEXICO VISTO POR ALGUNOS DE SUS VIAJEROS, SIGLOS XVI Y XVII Author: Berta Flores Salinas Price: $50.00 Shipping: $3.75 Mexico as seen through the eyes of various visitors during the 16th and 17th centuries. Eleven views including those of Robert Tomson, John Hawkins, Samuel Champlain and Tomas Gage. Mexico City, Ediciones Botas 1964 1st Ed., SPTXT, 185 Pgs., HB. Quantity: THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD Item #1937 XIMENEZ DE QUESADA Author: Maria Lucena Salmoral Price: $15.00 Shipping: $3.75 A small but quality booklet on Gonzalo Ximenez de Quesada,conquistador of New Granada (Colombia) and the founder of the city of Bogota. He also searched the swamps of the Orinoco River in vain for El Dorado and wrote a history of the conquest. Illustrated with many color photos. Madrid, 1988 Ediciones Anaya S.A, 1st Ed., Spanish Text, 5&1/2 x 7&1/2, Pictorial Cover, HB. Quantity: CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS Item #28117 BAMBI, Author: Felix Salten Price: $18.00 Shipping: $3.50 An adaptation of the original story by Janet Schulman with paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher.Delightful edition retelling the unfogettable story of the deerling beloved by children. New York, 1999 Atheneum Books for Young Reader's, 1st. Simon and Schuster Ed., 9&1/2 x 11&1/2, 47 Pgs., HB. Quantity: MILITARY HISTORY Item #28173 WISER IN BATTLE, A Soldier's Story Author: Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez Price: $26.95 Shipping: $3.75 With Donald T. Phillips. Lt. General Sanchez was the former Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004. He was the highest ranking Hispanic in the Army when he retired on November 1, 2006, after thirty-three years of service. This is gripping and insightful account of the chaos on the Iraqi battlefield caused by the Bush administration's misguided command of the military. With honest and unflinching candor the author provides an appraisal of the front lines in the global war on terror and relates his own struggle to set the caolition on the path toward victory. We normally do not carry current history but this story of a young man from South Texas who reached the highest levels of the Military with access to the power structure in the United States is a fascinating and poignant narrative that we highly recommend. It inspires our Hispanic heritage and helps us to understand the American military's role of defense in the new century. Illustrated.SIGNED BY LT. GENERAL SANCHEZ. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, 2008 2nd Pr.,6 x 9, 494 Pgs., HB. Quantity: HISPANIC GENEALOGY Item #966 LA CASA DE MENDOZA, Hasta el Tercer Duque del Infantado (1350-1531) Author: Ana Belén Sánchez Prieto Price: $100.00 Shipping: $6.00 IMPORT FROM SPAIN. The Mendoza family was one of the most powerful and wealthy clans in Medeival Spain. This an indepth study of the family in three parts detailing their social political, and economic history. Contains a genealogy of the line, and a chapter on the señorial rents. Good index. Madrid, Spain 2001 1st Ed., 384 Pgs., SPTXT, 6&1/2 x 9&1/2, Trade PB. Quantity: TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS Item #6899 THE CATTLEMEN, From the Rio Grande Across the Far Marias, 2nd Ed. Author: Mari Sandoz Price: $19.95 Shipping: $3.75 NEW BOOK IN STOCK!!! Introduction by Ron Hull. This is the story of the cattle industry in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande into Montana, From the eraly Spanish days to the mid-20th century. It is the second in Sandoz's trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in relation to animal species. Lincoln, NE, 2010 University of Nebraska 2nd paperback Ed., 5 &1/2 x 8, 527 Pgs., PB. Quantity: REFERENCE Item #28076 DICCIONARIO DE MEJICANISMOS Author: Francisco J. Santamaría Price: $85.00 Shipping: $15.00 a massive text indispensible for students of the Spanish language, researchers, translators, etc. consisting of Spanish words with roots in the Americas primarily Mexico and Latin America. Continues the work of Garcia Icazbalceta to the letter Z that was left unfinished at the letter G. First Published in 1959 by Santamaría, 1886-1963, who was from Tabasco. Mexico City 2005 Hnos. Porrua, 7th Ed., Spanish Text, 1,207 Pgs., 8 7&1/4 x 11&1/4, HB. Quantity: SPAIN & PORTUGAL Item #4044 THE CANARY ISLAND ARCHIPELAGO: Crossroads of Journeys and Cultures. (A Trip Through History) Author: Elisa Torres Santana, Ed. Price: $40.00 Shipping: $3.75 A delightful journey through the history of the Canary Islands written in both English and Spanish. The Spanish text is on the left pages and the English text on the right. Contains many great color photos that give the reader a comprehensive view of the Islands, their culture and history. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2007 Cabildo de Gran Canaria 1st Ed., 8 x 8, 228 Pgs., PB. Quantity: THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD Item #2066 MASSACRE AT THE YUMA CROSSING Author: Mark Santiago Price: $37.50 Shipping: $3.75 The history of California and the United States might have been altered dramatically if on July 17, 1781, the quiet dawn had not been rent by the screams of hundreds of painted Mojave warriors, brandishing lances, bows and war clubs, as they attacked the Spanish garrison at Yuma Crossing. The Indians killed every Spaniard they could find. The route from Upper Sonora deserts to the Colorado River, called the Camino del Diablo, was the only way for Spaniards to transport goods overland to California settlements. At the point where the Gila River ran into the Colorado lay the only passable crossing. The Quechuans, who lived there originally welcomed the Spaniards in peace. Their later revolt ended Spanish settlements in the area, dashed the dreams of the mission builders, and limited expansion to California. Tucson, 1998, 1st Ed. 220 Pgs. HB. Quantity: MEXICO & LATIN AMERICA Item #3122 MEXICANS AT ARMS, Puro Federalists and the Politics of War, 1845-1848 Author: Pedro Santoni Price: $32.50 Shipping: $3.75 Sheds new light on Mexican political history during the chaotic period when the young republic was unable to meet the aggressive expansionism of the United States. This much neglected subject focuses on the only Mexican political bloc which wanted war with the United States. These were the radical federalists, led by Valentin Gomez Farias, who in 1846 took the name of Puros. A groundbreaking work. Fort Worth, TX, 1996, 1st Ed. HB, 323 Pgs. Quantity: MISCELLANEOUS Item #27824 PLACES LEFT UNFINISHED AT THE TIME OF CREATION Author: John Phillip Santos Price: $20.00 Shipping: $3.75 An immigration tale and a haunting family story, part treasury of the elders, part elegy, part Book of the Dead. Santos weaves together Mexican mythology and the history of Texas to create the story of how the soul of one Mexican family was passed down, and sometimes nearly lost, across borders and decades, into the present. New York, N.Y. 2000 Penguin Putnam Group 4th Pr., 284 Pgs., 5 x 7&3/4, PB. Quantity: RARE & ONE OF A KIND Item #28219 SILENT HERITAGE, The Sephardim and the Colonization of the Spanish North America Frontier, 1492-1600 Author: Richard G Santos Price: $100.00 Shipping: $6.00 This book is out of print and very scarce. This work is the end product of more than twenty-five years of extensive research. Mr. Santos was one of the first persons in Texas to interested himself in the Jewish Sephardic ancestry of many of the Hispanic settlers of Northern Mexico and Texas. It is a semi-scholarly work useful for serious researchers but a popular orientation makes the subject also helpful to general readers. This is a new book. San Antonio, 2000 New Sepharad Press 1st Ed., 402 Pgs., 6 x 9, PB. Quantity: MEXICO & LATIN AMERICA Item #28125 LOS PRESIDIALES Y LOS TRAIDORES, Una Injusticia de la historia oficial Author: Jesús Santos Landois Price: $30.00 Shipping: $3.75 HISTROICAL FICTION. The author is a passionate writer about Muzquiz, Coahuila history but prefers to write about his extensive research in a novelistic style. This story revolves around the troops of the Presidial Company of Santa Rosa, during the time when the French came to Texas and the rebels arrived at Saltillo. Muzquiz, 1997 Privately Printed 1st Ed., panish Text, 6&1/2 x 8&1/4, 225 Pgs., PB. Quantity: HISPANIC GENEALOGY Item #813 LOS TELARES DEL TIEMPO, Historia y Genealogia de la Familia Santos Author: Maria Elena Santos Mendez Price: $75.00 Shipping: $7.50 This is one of the most qualitative family history/genealogy books we have ever seen. It contains biographies, genealogical charts, profusely illustrated with many pictures printed in sepia tone.Describes origins of the Santos Coi family in Spain, the City of Saltillo and its founding families, public officials, and other interesting persons with eleven appendices. Printed on high quality paper. Saltillo, 2008 Privately printed 1st Ed., SPANISH TEXT, 279 Pgs., 8&1/2 x 11, PB. Quantity: MILITARY HISTORY Item #28134 DICCIONARIO MILITAR Author: Raimundo Sanz Price: $39.50 Shipping: $3.50 IMPORT FROM SPAIN. This book is taken from a work originally written in France in 1749 so the terms therefore reflect the period. Contains an introduction and an alphabetical listing of military terms proper for the art of war. It has explanations, attack methods, defenses its advantages and defects, historical origins, along with arms of different periods. Zaragoza, 2007 Institución Fernando el Catolico, Repr. SPANISH TEXT, 8&1/4 X 12, 142 PGs., PB. Quantity: CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS Item #24704 THE GREAT BIG CAR AND TRUCK BOOK Author: Richard Scarry Price: $15.00 Shipping: $2.75 Large Golden Book showcasing various autos and trucks. VG. Racine, WI, 1977 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Golden Press 22nd Pr., unpaginated, 9&1/2 x 12&1/4, HB. Quantity: CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS Item #24706 RICAHRD SCARRY'S WHAT DO PEOPLE DO ALL DAY Author: Richard Scarry Price: $20.00 Shipping: $3.75 A large size book on occupations and things people do in their daily activities. New York, N.Y. 1979 Random House Abridged Ed., 63 Pgs., 9&1/2 X 12 &1/2, HB. Quantity: OTHER EARLY AMERICANA Item #27946 THE BATTLE FOR NEW YORK, The City at the Heart of the American Revolution Author: Barnet Schecter Price: $30.00 Shipping: $3.75 On September 15, 1776, the British army under General William Howe invaded Manhatten Island, landing at an open field of the East River, just south of where the United Nations stands today. George Washinton's troops, still in disarray after its miraculous escape from the disastrous battle of Brooklyn Heights some two weeks earlier, retreated north to Harlem Heights, leaving New York in British hands. New York was in a strategic position due to its location at the mouth of the Hudson River, becoming the centerpiece for supressing the American rebels, but New York proved to be an albatross that helped strangle the British war effort. Illustrated. New York, N.Y. 2002 Walker Publishing Inc., 1st Ed., 454 Pgs., 6&1/2 x 8&1/2, HB. Quantity: HISPANIC GENEALOGY Item #877 MEXICAN-AMERICAN GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH, Following the Paper Trail to Mexico Author: John Schmal, et al Price: $22.50 Shipping: $3.75 With Donna Morales. This is a reprint of a 2002 edition that brought a new resource into the public eye. The first task, as for any genealogist, is to locate his/her ancestral town. Tips on how to do that with the utilization of information from birth and death certificates, newspaper obituaries, naturalization records, alien registration forms, and funeral records are discussed The authors also illustrate church and civil records from Mexico and show the amazing amount of detail the resarcher will find in such records. Westminster MD. 2007 2nd Ed. 146 Pgs., PB Quantity: HISPANIC GENEALOGY Item #861 A MEXICAN-AMERICAN FAMILY OF CALIFORNIA: In The Service of Three Flags Author: John P. Schmal, et al Price: $25.00 Shipping: $3.75 With Jennifer Vo. Jennifer Vo is a descendant of the Valenzuela, Parra, Feliz and Quintero families from the mining city of Alamos in Sonora. This is the story with a California history sketch, of a family who took part in the founding of Los Angeles (1781) and Santa Barbara (1782). Other branches of the family are Ortega, Tapia, Melendez and Basulto. Maps. Westminster, MD, 2007 Heritage Books 1st Ed., 5&1/2 x 8&12, 239 Pgs., PB. Quantity: HISTORY & CULTURAL STUDIES Item #24573 THE ROOTS OF LO MEXICANO, Self and Society in Mexican Thought, 1900-1934 Author: Henry C. Schmidt Price: $20.00 Shipping: $3.75 From 1900 to 1934 Mexicans made the difficult transition from a culture largely foreign in spirit to one created in the aftermath of the 1910 Revolution, insistently and proudly Mexican. Lo Mexicano became a sacred pharse in the reappraisal of Mexican civilization, a concept analogous to the quest for Mexican authenticity in painting, music, the novel, amd education. The author examines its origins and development. Very Good/VGDJ-some foxing of page edges. College Station, Tx 1978 Texas A&M University Press 1st Ed., 195 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9&1/4, HB. Quantity: RARE & ONE OF A KIND Item #6892 A HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, TEXAS Author: Charles F. Schmidt Price: $200.00 Shipping: $7.00 This is one of those elusive and much-sought-after histories of Texas counties. Has chapters on Background of Washington County, The County, Towns and Communities, and Brenham. Very fine-as new. No dust cover. Name index. San Antonio, 1949 Naylor Company 1st Ed., 5&1/2 x 8&1/2, 160 Pgs., HB. Quantity: THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD Item #1931 BRUTAL JOURNEY, Cabeza de Vaca and the Epic First Crossing of North America Author: Paul Schneider Price: $20.00 Shipping: $3.75 Cabeza de Vaca and three other men survived out of 400 men who landed in Florida in 1528. Eight years and five thousand miles later three Spaniards and a black Moroccan wandered out of the wilderness to the north of the Rio Grande and into Mexico. Their amazing story was later written by Cabeza de Vaca in a report to the King of Spain. The author tells their story using Cabeza de Vaca's account as a source. Some illustrations. New York, 2007 1st Holt Paperbacks Ed., 5&1/2 x 8&1/4, PB. Quantity: THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD Item #1965 BOOK CENSORSHIP IN NEW SPAIN Author: Dorothy Schons Price: $30.00 Shipping: $3.75 World Class Studies, Boook II. The letters and summaries here published are taken from copies of letters preserved in the National Archives in Madrid. Only those sections of the documents dealing with book censorship were extracted. Includes Register of Letters and Disatches of the Supreme Council of the Inquisition. Austin, Texas 1950 1st Ed., 8 X1/2 x 11, 45 Pgs., PB. Quantity: MEXICO & LATIN AMERICA Item #318 DOLLARS OVER DOMINION, The Triumph of Liberalism in Mexican-United States Relations, 1861-1867 Author: Thomas David Schooner Price: $10.00 Shipping: $3.75 The Liberal Party in Mexico and the Republican Party of the United States shared a laissez-faire ideology, which led both countries to recognize the interrelationship of their domestic and foreign policies permitting the U.S. economic penetration of Mexico during this period. Baton Rouge, 1978, 1st Ed., 316 Pgs., HB. Good, slight DJ chip. Quantity: THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD Item #1982 NATIVE RESISTANCE AND THE PAX COLONIAL IN NEW SPAIN Author: Susan Schroeder, Ed. Price: $35.00 Shipping: $3.75 Ethnic rebellions continually disrupted the peace during Spain's 300 year rule over the Native peoples of Mexico. These uprisning were varied in cause, duration,consequence and scale but served as a constant worry for Spanish officials. This book provides both a valuable overview and a stimulating reevaluation of their consequences. Lincoln, 1998 University of Nebraska Press, 1st Ed., 200 Pgs., 6 x 9, PB. Published at $ 55.00 Quantity: MILITARY HISTORY Item #97248 STALINGRAD, The Battle that Changed the World Author: Heinz Schroeter Price: $6.00 Shipping: $1.75 In August 1942 The Nazis hurled one third of a million men at Stalingrad. Hitler boasted it was his. But the city held. Then waves of snow white Russian tanks came in and surrounded the Germans, setting the stage for a battle that was to take more lives than the United States lost in the entire war. Good. New York, N.Y., 1958 Ballantine Books, Inc, 1st English Ed., 253 Pgs., Mass Market Paperback. Quantity: MISCELLANEOUS Item #24114 HOW TO FIX IT Author: Morton J. Schultz Price: $20.00 Shipping: $3.75 an A-B-C black-and white picture primer on how to repair just about everything around the home apartment, car or boat. Good. New York, N.Y., McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971, 1st Ed., 318 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9&1/4, HB. Quantity: MEXICO & LATIN AMERICA Item #27784 THE EMPEROR'S BEARD, Dom Pedro II and the Tropical Monarchy of Brazil Author: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz Price: $30.00 Shipping: $3.75 Translated from the Portuguese by John Gledson. Dom Pedro II was the grandson of the king who sought refuge in Rio de Janeiro from the Napoleanic armies conquering Portugal.In the early 19th century, when many revolutions established republics throughout the continent, Brazilians celebrated Dom Pedro as their emperor and rightful leader. In 1889, when Barzil became a republic, and the emperor fled into exile,,many of the symbols of his royal powere were incorporated into new structures of meaning in the new Brazil. Illustrated. New York, N.Y, 2004 Farrar Straus and Giroux's Hill and Wang 1st American Ed., 437 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9&1/4, HB. Published at $ 35.00. Quantity: THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD Item #7110 FORGOTTEN BATTLE OF THE FIRST TEXAS REVOLUTION, the Battle of Medina, August 18, 1813 Author: Ted Schwarz Price: $24.95 Shipping: $3.75 Ted Schwarz, Robert H. Thonhoff, Ed. & Annotator, Illustrated by Jack Jackson. The biggest and bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas soil and west of the Mississippi took place in a sandy valley in Atascosa County near the Medina River, south of San Antonio. It was the last battle by Spanish troops in Texas as they crushed what in essence was the first Texas Revolution. In American history the rebels were referred to as " The Gutierrez-Magee Expedition." Five nations had a stake in the outcome of this battle in which a young lieutenant named Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna participated, twenty three years before he would march north at the head of Mexican troops to attempt to stop the second Texas Revolution. Austin, 2004, 2nd Ed.PB, 201 Pgs. Quantity: CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS Item #24734 SEARLE'S CATS Author: Ronald Searle Price: $20.00 Shipping: $2.75 The trained cartoonist turns his eye on the feline world producing an amusing and accurate caricature of a man's lap companion. Very Good, VGDJ.Brattleboro, Vermont, 1967 The Stephen Greene Press, 1st Ed., unpaginated, 9&3/4 x 9&1/4, HB. Quantity: MISCELLANEOUS Item #28099 THE HERO SHIP Author: Hank Searls Price: $3.00 Shipping: $2.00 Novel. When " Mustang Officer" Ben Casco assumed command of the flag-ship carrier Shenandoah, the crippled ship was under attack by desperate Kamikazes almost within sight of Tokyo Bay. The story of that great ship's refusal to die-and of Ben's determination to bring her back-is one of the most stirring in naval lore. Good. Upper right cover bent/chipped. New York, 1970 Signet Classics 1st Pr. 238 Pgs., Mass Mkt, PB. Quantity: TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS Item #7030 LEGENDARY WATERING HOLES ,THE SALOONS THAT MADE TEXAS FAMOUS Author: Richard Selcer, editor Price: $29.95 Shipping: $3.75 This is # 10 in the Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series. The author contributes the chapter on the Fort Worth establishment and others contribute stories on San Antonio, El Paso, and Austin saloons with introductory chapters on "Set Em Up" and The Fine Art of Mixology. Illustrated. College Station, Texas A&M University Press 1st ed., 308 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9&1/2, HB. Quantity: MEXICO & LATIN AMERICA Item #50 SANTA CATARINA EN EL TIEMPO Author: Francisco Sepulveda García Price: $30.00 Shipping: $3.75 Another compilation of historical articles about this adjacent Monterrey community. Photos. Monterrey, 1995, 1st Ed. PB, SPTXT, 199 Pgs. Quantity: REFERENCE Item #28120 SPANISH PROVERBS, IDIOMS AND SLANG Author: Juan and Susan Serrano Price: $16.95 Shipping: $3.75 First explores the background and history of proverbs in Spain through examples and analysis of modern slang and exprsssions. The second section discusses the importance of proverbs in Spanish literature and the oral tradition. The last part explains the who, when, and where of many well-known Spanish sayings. New York, 1999 Hippocrene Books 1st Ed., 196 Pgs., 6 x 9, PB. Quantity: THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD Item #2048 FRAY SERVANDO, The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier Author: Fray Servando Price: $17.95 Shipping: $3.75 Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane, Edtd w/intro by Susana Rotker. A portrait of a man in exile and a country struggling for independence. On December 12, 1794 Fray Servando Teresa de Mier preached a sermon in Mexico City that led to his arrest by the Inquisition. Exiled to Spain, he escaped and spent 10 years traveling through Europe posing as a French priest. Provides a glimpse of the European “ Age of Enlightenment.” After 10 years Fray Servando returned to an independent Mexico where he served his country before his death. New York, 1998, 1st English Ed., 242 Pgs. PB. Quantity: HISPANIC GENEALOGY Item #769 SALDIVAR OF SANTANDER JIMENEZ Author: Hilda Saldivar de Shepard Price: $50.00 Shipping: $3.75 NEW BOOK IN STOCK!!! With Gerald Shepard. We are pleased to feature this new item of valuable information on the Saldivar family of Tamaulipas, Mexico and South Texas.Contains opening chapter titled" Villa de Los Cinco Señores" and contains a brief history of Santander. A neighboring town is Cruillas. As part of the Escandon expeditions three Saldivar families came here from the Monterrey area; Don Damaso Zaldivar and his wife Antonia Damiana de León from Guaxuco, Don Jose Zaldivar and his wife Josepha de León, from El Valle del Pilon, and Don Pedro Zaldivar and his wife Maria Luisa Serna, from El Valle de las Salinas. This books lists in generational chart format the descendants of Don Pedro Zaldivar and Maria Luisa Serna. Other major familes noted are Alcala, Caballero, Galvan, Garcia, Garza, Gonzalez,Guajardo, Hinojosa, Leal, Rodrigues, Rosa, Teran, and Ximenez. With Name Index. Yakima, WA, 2010 Privately published 1st Ed., 8 &1/2 x 11, 231 Pgs. HB. Quantity: MILITARY HISTORY Item #97247 BERLIN DIARY Author: William L. Shirer Price: $5.00 Shipping: $1.75 Records-hour-by-hour, day-by-day-the hell that was Hitler's Germany, told by a great reporter who was there and witnessed the events. The story of Hitler building a Nazi Germany into a machine for the destruction of the human spirit. Very Good. New York, N.Y. 1961 Popular Library Ed., 463 Pgs., Mass Market paperback. Quantity: OTHER EARLY AMERICANA Item #24169 THE ISLAND AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD, The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan & the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America. Author: Russell Shorto Price: $25.00 Shipping: $3.75 The Dutch colony centered in Manhattan, predating the original thirteen colonies, played a crucial role in the making of America as it is today. The author uses new data discovered by an archivist in the New York State Library in the late 1960's. He found 12,000 pages of centuries-old correspondence, court cases, legal contracts and reports from a forgotten society. New York, N.Y. 2004 Doubleday 1st Ed., 384 Pgs., 6&1/3 x 9&1/2., HB. Quantity: CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS Item #24610 FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS, And How They Grew Author: Margaret Sidney Price: $30.00 Shipping: $3.75 Popular classic told over ten chapters. Good. Pages are aged and fragile.Flyleaf tearing, edges slightly worn amd back inside cover has crayon lines. Fully illustrated. Boston, 1881 Lothrop Publishimg Company 1st Ed., Unpaginated., 8 X 10, HB. Quantity: HISPANIC GENEALOGY Item #779 BAPTISMS OF EAGLE PASS, TEXAS, OUR LADY OF REFUGE, BOOK II, 1876-1878 Author: Armandina Galan Sifuentes Price: $30.00 Shipping: $3.75 NEW BOOK IN STOCK!!! Includes a short history of Eagle Pass and Our Lady of Refuge Church. Contains over 700 Baptisms plus an index. San Antonio, TX 2009 Los Bexarenos Genealogical Society 1st Ed., 130 Pgs., 8 &1/2 x 11, PB Quantity: HISPANIC GENEALOGY Item #892 DEATHS OF EAGLE PASS, TEXAS OUR LADY OF REFUGE, BOOK I, 1864-1907 Author: Armandina Galan Sifuentes Price: $40.00 Shipping: $3.75 The author was born in Eagle Pass and this is the first book she has contributed to Los Bexareños for publication. Contains an early history of Our Lady of Refuge Church and the Del Rio Deanery. Contains over a thousand death entries for the period with a handy index. San Antonio, 2006 Los Bexareños Genealogical Society 1st Ed., 157 Total Pgs., 8 &1/2 x 11, PB. Quantity: HISPANIC GENEALOGY Item #780 BAPTISMS OF EAGLE PASS, TEXAS, OUR LADY OF REFUGE BOOK II, 1872-1875 Author: Armandina Galan Sifuentes Price: $35.00 Shipping: $3.75 NEW BOOK IN STOCK!!! Includes a short history of Eagle Pass and Our Lady of Refuge Church. Contains over 1,000 baptismal entries plus an Index. San Antonio, 2009 Los Bexarenos Genealogical Society 1st Ed. 181 Pgs., 8 &1/2 x 11, PB. Quantity: THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD Item #2101 THE LAST CONQUISTADOR, Juan de Oñate and the Settling of the Far Southwest Author: Marc Simmons Price: $21.95 Shipping: $3.75 Story of New Mexico's first conquest & settlement, by the son of one of the founders of Zacatecas and its fabulously rich silver mines. Norman, OK, 1991, 1st Ed. 208 Pgs., PB. Quantity: THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD Item #2060 THE SAN SABÁ PAPERS, A Documentary Account of the Founding and Destruction of San Sabá Mission Author: Edtd. with intro. by Lesley Byrd Simpson Price: $18.95 Shipping: $3.75 Translated by Paul D. Nathan, New Forward by Robert S. Weddle. Published in 1959 this is FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK. Contains letters, depositions, petitions and personal statements detailing the massacre of the Apache mission by the Comanches on March 16, 1758,eliminating plans for San Antonio-Santa Fe chain of missions. Dallas ,TX, 1999 Repr., 184 Pgs., PB. Quantity: GENERAL GENEALOGY Item #24257 THE ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICATION OF SCOTTISH SURNAMES, With A Vocabulary of Christian Names Author: Clifford Stanley Sims Price: $15.00 Shipping: $3.75 In Scotland, whoever joined a particular clan, no matter what his position or descent, assumed the surname of the chief, so it does not follow that all who bear the same surname are descended from a comoon ancestor. In addition to the several hundred surnames explained, there is a section on the derivation of Christian Names as well. First published in 1862. VJ/GDJ. New York, N.Y. 1959 Avenel Books, a division of Crown Publishers, reprint. 122 Pgs., 5&3/4 x 8&1/4, HB. Quantity: MEXICO & LATIN AMERICA Item #27927 BRAZIL, Five Centuries of Change Author: Thomas E. Skidmore Price: $25.00 Shipping: $3.75 With a land mass larger than the continental United States, and a unique culture that is part European, African and Indigenous, Brazil has an economy expanding at an extraordinary rate, a very important world nation but one of the least understood. The author notes in this sketch covering 500 years that the country must still grapple with a history of political instability, military rule, a deplorable environmental record, chronic infaltion and international debt. New York, N.Y., 1999 Oxford University Press 1st Ed., 254 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9&1/2, HB. Quantity: MILITARY HISTORY Item #97174 TEN AGAINST THE REICH Author: Stan Smith Price: $7.00 Shipping: $1.75 The smashing of Nazi Germany from within: Fifteen true accounts never published in any book. Very Good. New York, N.Y. 1965 Belmont Books 2nd Printing, 141 Pgs., Mass Market Paperback. Quantity: SPAIN & PORTUGAL Item #4056 HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF SPAIN Author: Angel Smith Price: $49.95 Shipping: $3.75 European Historical Dictionaries, No. 11. The dictionary is the outgrowth of the work of Dr. Smith , a lecturer of Modern Spanish History at Southampton University. He began his career teaching English to Spaniards and wound up teaching Spanish to the English. Provides a broad view of Spain, its history, politics, economoy and other aspects. It presents some of the leading figures of earlier times and today as well as crucial events that shaped the nation. Lanham, MD 1996 Scarecrow Press, Inc. 1st Ed., 435 Pgs., 5 &1/4 x 8&1/2, HB. Published at $ 83.00. Quantity: GENERAL GENEALOGY Item #24486 AMERICAN SURNAMES Author: Elsdon C. Smith Price: $18.95 Shipping: $3.25 The book begins with a discussion of the development of hereditary surnames then divides the subject into six broad categories: Classification of Surnames, Surnames from Father' Nme(Patronymics), Surnames From Occupation of Office, Surnames from Description or Action(nicknames), Surnames from Places, and Surnames not Properly Included Elsewhere. Baltimore. MD., 2003 Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 4th Pr. 370 Pgs., 5&1/2 x 8&1/2, Trade PB. Quantity: THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD Item #2119 CAPTAIN OF THE PHANTOM PRESIDIO, A History of the Presidio de Fronteras, Sonora, New Spain, 1686-1735, including the inspection of Brigadier Pedro de Rivera, 1726 Author: Fay Jackson Smith Price: $37.50 Shipping: $3.75 Gregorio Alvarez Tunon y Quiros was the notoriously corrupt commander of the presidio of Fronteras, until he was stopped in 1726. This book, is part of the popular Spain in the West series. Spokane, WA, 1993, 1st Ed., HB, 217 Pgs. Quantity: MISCELLANEOUS Item #28218 500 SMALL HOUSES OF THE TWENTIES Author: Henry Atterbury Smith, Compiler Price: $22.95 Shipping: $3.75 This outstanding book presents 500 small-home designs of the 1920's as they appeared in a major architectural publication of 1923. Each design is presented in a perspective drawing or photograph,(B&W) along with floor plans and a description of principal features. Many are by leading domestic architects of the period.The bungalow and semi-bungalow were perhaps the biggest design news of the times and are represented here. Because of their practicality many are being revived today. A reprint of the 1923 publication by Home Owners Service Institute of New York. 1,397 illustrations. Mineola, NY 1990 1st Dover Publication, 8 x 11,312 Pgs., PB Quantity: MEXICO & LATIN AMERICA Item #24198 ROCK ART OF THE CHIHUAHUAN DESERT BORDERLANDS Author: Sheron Smith-Savage, et al Price: $25.00 Shipping: $3.75 Edited with Robert J. Mallouf. Includes Papers Presented at the First Trans-Pecos Rock Art Symposium, Alpine Texas February 17-19, 1995. This is Occasional Papers No. 3 by the Center for Big Bend Studies. Includes eight articles with B&W photos & pen and ink sketches. Alpine, TX , 1998 1st Ed., 125 Pgs., 8 &1/2 x 11, PB. Quantity: GENERAL GENEALOGY Item #27955 TRACE YOUR ROOTS WITH DNA, Using Genetic tests to Explore Your Family Tree Author: Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak Price: $20.00 Shipping: $3.25 With Ann Turner. Explains the fascinating new technology that is confirming or denying linkages to the past. This is the first comprehensive guide to this amazing new field. You will find out how the tests work, which ones to use, where to get them, and how to read them. This is the future of genealogy or genetealogy ( Genealogy+Genetics). 2004 Rodale Press 1st Ed., 272 Pgs., 5&1/2 x 8&1/4, PB. Quantity: REFERENCE Item #24611 VOCABULARIO VAQUERO/COWBOY TALK, A Dictionary of Spanish Terms from the American West Author: Robert N. Snead Price: $22.95 Shipping: $3.75 Foreword by Richard W. Slatta,(Professor of History at North Carolina State University), pen and ink illustrations by Ronald Kil (A New Mexico cowboy/artist). This is the first book to assemble a complete listing of Spanish-language terms that pertain to two important activities in the American West-ranching and cowboying-with special reference to American Indian terms that have come through Spanish and were probably known to cowboys and ranchers. In addition to presenting the most accurate definitions available, this A- to-Z lexicon traces the etymology of words and critically reviews and assesses the specialized English sources for each entry. Great refrence work for the general public,researchers and libraries. Norman, OK, 2004 University of Oklahoma Press 1st Ed., 197 Pgs., Trade PB. Quantity: MILITARY HISTORY Item #97289 HITLER AND NAZISM Author: Louis L. Snyder Price: $5.00 Shipping: $1.75 Answers the questions of who was the real Adolf Hitler, what were the forces which shaped this strange man,and how infected a whole nation with his twisted madness. New York, N.Y. 1971 Bantam Books 5th Pr.,151 Pgs., Mass Market PB. Quantity: TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS Item #7036 CAPTAIN JOHN H. ROGERS, TEXAS RANGER Author: Paul N. Spellman Price: $29.95 Shipping: $3.75 John Harris Rogers (1836-1930) served in Texas law enforcement for more than four decades, as a Texas Ranger, Deputy and U.S. Marshall, city police chief, and in the private sector as security agent. He is recognized in history as one of the legendary "Four Captains" of the Ranger force that helped make the transition from the Frontier Battalion days. Rogers was also the man who captured Grogorio Cortez and brought him to trial to close on of the most infamous chases in Texas history. Denton, Texas, 3002 University of North Texas press, 1st Ed., 270 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9&1/4, HB. Quantity: TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS Item #7008 FORGOTTEN TEXAS LEADER, Hugh McLeod and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition Author: Paul N. Spellman Price: $24.95 Shipping: $3.75 McLeod was an important official of his day. He served in the Texas legislature, organized the office of Adjutant General, was an officer in four armies, spurred the growth of Galveston and was a popular public speaker but is remembered ignominiously as the leader of the ill-fated Santa Fe Expedition. College Station, TX, 1999 Texas A&M University Press 1st Ed., 235 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9&1/2, HB. Published at $24.95. Quantity: TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS Item #7034 SOUTH PADRE, The Island and its People Author: Bob St. John Price: $26.95 Shipping: $3.75 This sun-drenched Island at the southern tip of Texas is a place of dreams, both found and lost. It is also a place for people. For more than five hundred years it has drawn all kinds-pirates, explorers, Indians,drifters, shrimpers,builders of sand castles, and countless others seeking an unhurried, uncluttered change of pace.The author has gone beyond the island's rich history to evoke the unique South Padre way of yearning for freedom that few of us follow. Austin, Texas, 1999 Nortex Press 3rd Pr., 273 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9&1/4, HB. Quantity: TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS Item #6935 REFLECTIONS OF THE BRAZOS VALLEY Author: D. Gentry Steele, et al Price: $25.00 Shipping: $3.75 With M. Jimmie Killingsworth. Revealing affectionate reflections in color of the Brazos River and Valley by two adpoted sons who have learned to love its quiet, uncelebrated beauty. This valley was the birthplace of a republic and once the agricultural heart of Texas. A little south of Waco the river get bigger, slower and muddier but it creates a wide swath of bottomlands and prairies where you can find the natural virtues of the place: peaceful glens,watered forests, flowers, birds, and backyard wildlife. College Station, 2007 Texas A&M University Press 1st Ed., 94 Pgs., 10&1/4 x 11&1/4, HB. Quantity: TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS Item #6894 TEXAS, A HISTORICAL ATLAS Author: A. Ray Stephens Price: $39.95 Shipping: $7.00 NEW BOOK IN STOCK!!! The advertising circular states that this book is " an unsurpassed visual exploration of the Lone Star State." It is a stunning expanded edition of The Historical Atlas of Texas, with co-author William M. Holmes. The stunning maps and illustrations are by Carol Zuber-Mallison. Readers learn early on that a dictionary should always be nearby to explore new words. Readers of historical works learn early on that comprehending the narratives is impossible without a handy atlas. This makes the ideal companion and every library should also have a copy. It contains 45 entries with visual depictions of everything from routes of Spanish explorers to empresario grants to cattle trails. Contains 30 B&W illustrations,175 maps, 15 color photos,20 charts and 25 tables. Good coffe table book with great quality at an incredible price. Norman, OK, 2010 University of Oklahoma Press, 448 Pgs., 9 x 12, HB. Quantity: THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD Item #1919 INCA PRINCESSES, Tales of the Indies Author: Stuart Sterling Price: $17.95 Shipping: $3.75 This is the story,set around the Conquest of the Incas, of the princesses who were distributed to the conquering Spaniards as "trophy wives." The degradation of the Inca royal line mirrorerd the destruction of the Inca civilization-one of the last independent civilizations to exist without contact with the outside world. Gloustershire, UK, 2003 Sutton Publishing Company 1st Ed., 230 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9 &1/4, HB. Published at $ 24.95. Quantity: THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD Item #1983 PIZARRO, Conqueror of the Inca Author: Stuart Sterling Price: $29.95 Shipping: $3.75 A compelling biography that brings Pizarro to life against a turbulent background of exploration,discovery empire building, and a clash of cultures. in 1530 at age 54, he set out on his successful and bloody conquest of Peru, thus changing the future of a continent and its peoples forever. The author portrays him as a man of his time, and places his most infamous act-the killing of the Inca king, Atahualpa-within context. Illustrated. Gloustershire, 2005 Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1st Ed., 243 Pgs., 6 x 9, HB. Quantity: OTHER EARLY AMERICANA Item #28142 THE SUMMER OF 1787, The Men Who Invented the Constitution Author: David O. Stewart Price: $27.00 Shipping: $3.75 The successful creation of the United States Constitution is a suspense story. The author takes us to the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that would defins the nation, then and now. It is considereed the greatest document of freedom ever produced by man. George Washington presided and his chairmanship adds another laurel to the man who was truly the father of our country. The drama of this event is staggering and many colorful and passionate characters participated. United States Schools in our opinion should taech a full semester course on this event alone.It is that important to our understanding as citizens of the great freedom we enjoy. Illustrated. New York, 2007 Simon and Schuster Book Club Edition, 349 Pgs., 6 x 9, HB. Quantity: SPAIN & PORTUGAL Item #4058 SPAIN'S STRUGGLE FOR EUROPE, 1598-1668 Author: R.A. STRADLING Price: $39.95 Shipping: $3.75 A collection of essays of the author's work on the history of Spain in the 17th century,focusing on high politics,international strategy and military infrastructure. The author emphasizes 'survival' vs 'decline,' and addresses the quality of leadership,in particular the ralationship of Olivares and Philip IV, the effects of war, and the strain of demands of military provision. London, 1994 The Hambledon Press 1st Ed., 303 Pgs., 6 x 9, Some illustrations, HB. Published at $78.95. Quantity: HISPANIC GENEALOGY Item #762 JOSE FRANCISCO RUIZ, Texas Patriot Author: Walter G. Stuck Price: $30.00 Shipping: $3.75 A rare booklet of early san Antonio history and genealogy. The fascinating story of the life of Col. Jose Francisco Ruiz, his son, Francisco Ruiz and their home. Col. Ruiz was a native Texan and second signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836. Most of their lives were spent at the little adobe house, 420 Dolorosa Street, San Antonio, Texas. The house was later demolished but reconstructed at the Witte Museum. The home had the distinction of being named, in 1803, the first public School House in San Antonio. San Antonio, 1943 Witte Memorial Museum 1st Ed., 6 x 9, unpagimated (18) PB. TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE - PLEASE CHECK BACK OR CONTACT US FOR AVAILABILITY. MEXICO & LATIN AMERICA Item #5085 HISTORIA Y GEOGRAFIA DEL ESTADO DE COAHUILA Author: José María Suárez Sánchez Price: $35.00 Shipping: $3.75 Contains extensive data on Coahuila for the student, researcher or for those generally interested in the state. Covers practicallY every aspect of coahuila history geography and commerce with narratives on six regions and monographs on 40 municiplaities. Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico 2004 Editorial del Valle del Cándamo,4th Ed, 2nd printing, 281 Pgs., SPTXT. 8&1/4 X 10&1/4, PB. Quantity: MEXICO & LATIN AMERICA Item #5087 MI PRIMER DICCIONARIO HISTORICO DE COAHUILA Author: José María Suárez.z Sánchez Price: $35.00 Shipping: $3.75 Described for use in schools but serves as a handy reference for researchers or persons interested in Coahuila history. The first 512 pages contain an encyclopedia on Coahuila while approximately the last quarter of the book is a detailed dictionary/ glossary consisting of 203 Pgs. Excellent basic reference work. LIMITED COPIES. Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico 2004 Editorial del Valle del Cándamo 1st Ed., 715 Total Pgs., SPTXT, 5&1/2 x 8&1/4, PB. Quantity: TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS Item #8128 BATTLE FLAGS OF TEXANS, In the Confederacy Author: Alan K. Sumrall Price: $35.00 Shipping: $3.75 A product of years of original research has produced the most comprehensive reference work on the subject. Covers more than 50 Texas regimental colors from Hood's Texas Brigade to other lesser known units. Each flag contains history and other details such as size, dimensions, colors, and fabrics. Austin, 1995, 1st Ed.,, 2nd. Pr. HB 114 Pgs. Quantity: TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS Item #6930 OFF THE BEATEN TRAIL, VOLS. I, II, & III Author: Ed Syers Price: $35.00 Shipping: $3.75 Newspaper columnist William Edward Syers, a former Navy Commander, graduated from San Antonio's Main Avenue High, St. Mary's University, and The University of Texas at Austin where he simultaneously edited The Daily Texan and Ex-student Alcalde.In 1959 he moved his family to Kerrville's Hill Country and began to travel around the state documenting Texas tall tales. He had an offbeat captivating style to match his off the beaten trail travels. This is his trilogy of over 175 stories sold as a set. Very Good-Vol I has owner's name on inside second page. cover page partially torn. Fort Worth-Stafford Lowden Company, and Ingram Texas-Off The Beaten Trail Press, 1963-1965, 711 Pgs., total, 5 &1/4 x 7&3/4, PB. 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