Mexico City: Imprenta del Lic. D. Joseph de Jauregui, 1778. [32]pp. 16mo. Later marbled wrappers. Spine heavily worn, wrappers chipped. Light wear and soiling to text. Novena composed by Fr. Jose de la Torre, meditating on Clement of Ancyra, martyred in A.D. 312 by the Romans. We locate three records..... More

Mexico City: Viuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1745. [10],264pp. Narrow 12mo. Contemporary vellum. Text block separating but still stable. Title page lightly chipped and soiled, partially detached. Light worming to lower half of volume; text otherwise clean. Contemporary manuscript notations to rear endleaves. A book of prayers and..... More

Mexico City: 1898. [6],[18]-190,[7]pp. 16mo. Original cloth-backed printed boards. Edges and spine ends worn; hinges cracked. Contemporary ownership stamps on front free endpaper, title page, and first leaf recto. Light tanning and dust soiling. Scarce edition of the Episcopal Church Hymnal printed in Mexico. An interesting survivor of non-Catholic Mexican..... More

[Mexico: ca. 1770]. Small broadside, approximately 12.25 x 8.25 inches. Minor wear, a couple of small chips at edges. Light toning and dust soiling. This single-page production, printed in double-column format in Roman and italic types, shows a mid-18th-century change to the Catholic marriage service, and is essentially a cancel..... More

Mexico City: En la Imprenta de D. Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros, 1775. [6],118pp. Contemporary limp vellum. Fore-edges binding and text block darkened by smoke, with markings creeping into margins of several leaves including title page. Light dampstaining along lower edge, somewhat heaver on final leaves. An unusual Mexican religious..... More

[Mexico City]: Imprenta de M. Murguia y Ca. [ca. 1852]. Broadsheet, 12.75 x 9.25 inches. Previously folded. One very short separation and minor loss along horizontal fold line. Very light dust soiling and toning. A rare broadsheet presenting the efforts and goals of the Bishop of Nancy to Mexican Catholics..... More

Mexico City: 1775, 1796, 1805-1832. Twelve works in one, with various paginations as noted below. 16mo. Later 19th-century embossed red morocco, gilt tooled. Light wear and scuffing to boards and spine ends. Light toning and dust soiling internally. An attractive bound volume of twelve scarce Mexican devotional booklets from the..... More

[Mexico City: [1824-1876]. Twenty-four pamphlets in one volume, with paginations as noted below. 16mo. Rebound in modern pebbled calf, with original gilt leather spine laid down. Moderate tanning and some dust soiling. Five works lacking title pages. An extensive sammelband of nearly twenty-five scarce novenas, triduas, prayer books, and other..... More

Mexico City: 1746. [2],22pp. Folio. Contemporary plain paper wrappers. An occasional fox mark. Scarce revision of the laws and orders governing silversmithing in colonial Mexico. The guild of silversmiths was one of the oldest and most powerful in New Spain, and ordinances governing the fashioning and decoration of silver go..... More

Durango, Mx. October, 1793. Broadside, 12 x 8.5 inches, printed in two columns, with a central woodcut headpiece, all within a handsome ornamental border. Old folds, minor foxing, light edge wear, eight pinpoint wormholes not affecting readability of text. Completed in ink, with ink docketing on verso. Signed and rubricated..... More