Sale 2517 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 26, 2019

326 326 c   (PHOTOGRAPHY.) Rubalcaba, Humberto; editor. Nosotros. Numerous photographic illustrations in color and black and white. [75] leaves. 4to, 11 x 8 1 / 2 inches, original illustrated wrapper, moderate wear; minimal wear to contents. Mexico, 1972 [400/600] A photobook documenting the September 1971 rock concert “Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro”— often called “the Mexican Woodstock.” More than 100,000 jipitecas (the Mexican equivalent of hippies) gathered near scenic Valle de Bravo for a day of music by pioneering Mexican rock bands such as Los Dug Dugs and Three Souls in My Mind. This book features photographs by Jorge Bano, José Pedo Camus, Joel Turok, and Francisco Drohojowski, as well as extensive descriptive text, quotes by Herman Hesse and Henry D. Thoreau, and a closing page on love in the world’s great religions. 327 c   (SAINT BARTÉLEMY.) Group of 5 decrees concerning Sweden’s only long-term overseas possession, plus an earlier Swedish trade document. 6 printed pamphlets, from 3 to 18 pages each, all 4to, disbound, condition generally strong. Stockholm, 1745 and 1805-21 [1,200/1,800] Sweden purchased the West Indies island of St. Barthélemy from France in 1784, and sold it back to France in 1878. It was the only overseas possession ever held by Sweden for more than twenty years. The decrees relate to trade in tobacco, wine, and other goods, and are dated 15 October 1805, 22 May 1805, 6 May 1806, 25 September 1811, and 12 March 1821. All are in Swedish, except for an 1811 decree organizing the island’s government, printed in parallel Swedish and French. Also included in this lot is an earlier German-language pamphlet granting the Arfwedson family a franchise for Swedish trade in the West Indies: “Thro Konigl. Maj:t gnadiges Privilegium zur Einrichtung einer Handlung und Schiffahrt auf America, vor die Kaufleute Abraham und Jacob Arfwedson & Compagnie.” 8 pages. Stockholm, 1745.