Mexico City: Imprenta Imperial de D. Alejandro Valdes, 1823. 4,[2]pp. Loose sheets, neatly removed from a sammelband. Uneven left edge. Light dust soiling. An important and scarce document that seeks to ensure public support for the installation of a federal congress as part of a representative government in independent Mexico..... More

Bogotá: Imprenta del Neo-Grandina, 1855. 65pp. Large octavo. Original printed wrappers, rear lacking. Final leaf detached; Moderate creasing and wear at edges. Contemporary bookseller's ink stamp inside front wrapper. Light tanning and scattered foxing. In this scarce pamphlet, the suspended governor of Cartagena, Juan Jose Nieto, defends himself against charges..... More

Havana: 1912. 196pp. Original printed front wrapper bound into 20th-century faux leather, paper boards, spine and front board gilt lettered. Contemporary ownership inscription and bookseller's ink stamp on title page. Lower corners of initial and final leaves repaired with tissue. Even tanning, occasional foxing, heavier to initial leaves. A scarce..... More

Guatemala: Imprenta de Joachin de Arevalo, 1756. [23]pp. Small quarto. Later marbled wrappers. Very light dampstaining at fore-edge, otherwise minor toning and dust soiling. A quite rare, mid-18th-century Guatemalan imprint, comprising a pastoral letter by Francisco José de Figueredo y Victoria, the Archbishop of Guatemala, that advises immediate and intense..... More

Mexico City: January 5, 1829. Broadside, 12 x 8.25 inches. Light wear, center horizontal fold, pinholes along left edge. A rare decree issued by Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil, Governor of the Federal District, attempting to regulate the disbursement and possession of guns in Mexico in 1829. Tornel notes that..... More

Mexico: Imprenta del Supremo Gobierno, en Palacio, 1824. [2],xvi pp. Folio. Original printed wrappers. Stab holes at gutter margin from prior stitching. Very small dampstain at lower edge. Light tanning and dust soiling. A celebratory manifesto from the newly independent Mexican Congress that announces the completion of the Acta Constitutiva..... More

Huesca: Juan Nogues, 1645. [4],311,[15] leaves. Small quarto. Contemporary limp vellum, ties lacking, manuscript spine title. Later manuscript ownership inscription and drawing on front flyleaf; outer portion of title page torn away and repaired, not affecting text.. Text block trimmed closely at bottom edge, lower corner dampstained, tanned. Half of..... More

[Mexico City: ca. 1921]. Large broadside, approximately 23.5 x 15.75 inches. Printed in red and black. Previously folded. A couple of small chips at edges, short interior closed tears, and one dime-sized area of loss, slightly affecting text. Even tanning. A scarce, and large, broadside news sheet published by the..... More

Mexico: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, [1892?]. Broadside, approximately 15.5 x 12 inches. Light edge wear and a few small chips. Light toning and dust soiling. A scarce popular news broadside, illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada, that relates the "ultimas noticias" concerning the imprisonment and impending execution of Jesús Bruno Martinez, a...... More

Mexico: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, [1905?]. Broadsheet, approximately 15 x 11.75 inches. Trimmed slightly close at foot. A few scattered, small wormholes, not affecting text. Light toning and dust soiling. Scarce broadsheet that features a large, wood-engraved illustration of St. Jude (Judas Thaddeus) by José Guadalupe Posada and published..... More

Mexico: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, [ca. 1912]. Broadsheet, approximately 12x8 inches. A couple of small nicks and one short, closed tear at edges, plus minute wormhole in upper left margin, none affecting printed area. Even tanning. A scarce, sensationalist popular newssheet with three illustrative cuts by Posada. The text memorializes, in..... More

Mexico City: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, [1911]. Broadsheet, 12 x 8 inches. A few very short, closed tears at edges. Even toning. A scarce corrido that centers on events during the Battle of Cuernavaca, an important inflection point of the Mexican Revolution. During the period, Emiliano Zapata and Otilio Montaño Sanchez..... More

Mexico City: Por Don Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros, 1793. [18],xlvi,xxvi,[4]pp. Small quarto. Light dust soiling and toning. Faint tide line across foot of text block. Second Mexican edition of this official account of the funeral and ceremonies for the death of Bishop Felipe Bertran, the Inquisitor General of Spain..... More