Mexico City: October 10, 1882. [1]pp. Folio. Minor wear, faint fold lines. An exceedingly rare decree from President Manuel González of Mexico, announcing the yearly wage for the Mexican delegate to the American consulate in Tombstone, Arizona. The $1,500 allocated to this position was meant to be in addition to..... More

Mexico City: 1786. 29pp. Original plain wrappers. Light soiling to wraps. Internally quite clean, but for some very faint dampstaining at upper corners. A scarce, late 18th-century printing of the offices of St. Camillus de Lellis, founder of the the Order of Cleric Regular, Servants of the Sick. With St..... More

[Puebla?]: 1925. [97]pp. Quarto. Original half cloth and marbled boards. Extremities lightly worn. Contents mostly clean, in a neat and uniform hand. Handsome manuscript cook book volume created by Evelia Marroquin in Mexico. A very modern-looking work, each recipe lists measured ingredients followed by instructions. Written in a highly legible..... More

Puebla: Tip. de Narciso Bassols, 1881-1882. Two volumes. 435; 331pp. Small octavo. Original maroon publisher's cloth, spines gilt. Light wear and staining, cloth rubbed and worn at edges, heavier to rear boards. Contemporary pencil notations to front flyleaf of first volume. Some light toning and soiling to text. "Novisimo manual..... More

Puebla: Tip. de la "Misericordia Cristiana" 1911. 547pp. 12mo. Contemporary rust-colored cloth, front board stamped in black. Corners and spine ends heavily worn, stamping faded; rear hinge tender. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Text lightly toned, slight wear. Expanded second edition of this Mexican cook book, after the first..... More

Mexico City: Manuel Leon Sanchez, 1911. 175,[6],179-208pp. Contemporary blue cloth, gilt. Spine heavily sunned and faded, light wear and soiling, hinges tender. Contents clean. Scarce Mexican cook book from the turn of the century. The work opens with a suggested month of menus, followed by more than 200 recipes, ranging..... More

Mexico City: Imprenta del Gobierno Federal, 1909. [2],14pp. Original printed wrappers, sewn. Minor wear and dust soiling. A rare collection of "laws, decrees, regulations, and agreements" relating to immigration into the United States of Mexico at the end of the first decade of the 20th century. The various laws and..... More

Mexico City: 1833. Broadside, 6.25 x 8.5 inches. Very minor soiling and wear. Cholera was a genuine scourge in 19th-century Mexico, and the present work comes out of the epidemic that broke out in August of 1833. According to parish records, it is estimated that a total of five percent..... More

Toluca: Imprenta por el C. Alejandro Valdes, 1833. 16pp. Folio. Original drab wrappers; rear cover lacking. Light wear and soiling, a bit rumpled. Scarce work concerning the confiscation and nationalization of the assets of the Duke of Monteleone y Terranova. The Duke, actually a Sicilian noble, was also the Marquess..... More

Mexico City: Manuel Antonio Valdes, [1811]. [4],52pp. Plain wrappers, stitched. Lacks the engraved plan. Lightly soiled. This publication explains a new system for policing the capital, established by the viceroy following Father Hidalgo's rebellion. Though called for in bibliographies, this work is almost always lacking the engraved plan. Medina Mexico..... More

Mexico City: 1823. [4]pp., on a half-sheet bifolium. Removed from a sammelband, with resultant light wear at gutter fold slightly affecting text. Light dust soiling and toning. In response to the pocket rebellion in Oaxaca in 1823, Minister Lucas Alaman explains the nature and necessity of the rule of law..... More

Mexico City: April 17, 1837. 10pp. Small folio. 20th-century buckram, front board gilt lettered. Minor creasing and occasional offsetting. Rare and extensive decree that sets forth the administration and regulation of agriculture and related taxes by the federal government in the individual states and departments of Mexico, promulgated on April..... More

Mexico City: 1875. 79,[46],69,22,[8],38,[1]pp. plus four folding tables. Large folio. Modern quarter morocco and black cloth, gilt leather label. Original front wrapper bound in. Moderate wear to wrapper, text clean. Partially unopened. Untrimmed. Scarce Mexican report issued by the Office of Foreign Affairs, with significant content on the borderlands. Early..... More