Mexico City: 1870. 479,[3]pp., plus two plates including frontispiece portrait. Contemporary half calf and pebbled cloth, spine gilt, boards blind stamped. Light wear to spine ends and bands, corners bumped. Contemporary binder's ink stamp on front pastedown; unobtrusive contemporary manuscript annotation on title page. Light tanning and foxing; a few..... More
San Antonio: [ca. 1916]. Ten original photographs, plus two real photo postcards. Most 3 x 5 inches, one smaller. Occasional, very minor wear. Images generally crisp and clean. A collection of ten photographs that depict activities of F Troop of the 13th U.S. Cavalry Regiment on the border with Mexico..... More
Mexico City: Imprenta de Ignacio Escalante, 1887. vi,216pp., plus folding plate. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. Spine and edges somewhat worn; boards scuffed. Even tanning, occasional faint foxing. Folding plate with some heavier toning in places. Uncommon medical manual on military hygiene by Alberto Escobar, a 19th-century Mexican army..... More
[Various locations in Mexico: ca. 1915]. 196 photographs on forty-nine leaves. Sixteen photographs loose on remnant leaves. Oblong octavo. Covers lacking. Several leaves loose, some chipped. Images mostly clean, some lightly faded. An interesting vernacular photograph album of what appear to be vacation photographs taken at the turn of the..... 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
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1904. Folding map, approximately 21 x 27.5 inches. Original, wallet-style printed wrappers. Light wear to wraps; a few short separations along fold lines. Light tanning. Uncommon cartographic promotional for this early 20th-century mining company with operations near Cananea and Magdalena in the Northern Mexican state of Sonora..... More
Mexico City: 1817. Broadside, approximately 16.75 x 12 inches. Previously folded. Minor wear at edges. Light toning and an occasional small fox mark. Contemporary manuscript annotations at foot; contemporary ink stamps on blank verso. A rare broadside decree issued in January 1817 by Juan Ruiz de Apodaca y Eliza, the..... More
Mexico City: Imprenta de I. Escalante, 1873. 83pp. Original printed wrappers. Two wrapper corners chipped away. Otherwise light wear and dust soiling. Contemporary ownership inscription on front wrapper. A scarce summation of W.S. Rosecrans' arguments for the construction under his concession of cross-country railroad and telegraph lines from a point..... More
[Mexico]: Impresa en la Oficina de Doña Maria Fernandez de Jauregui, 1814. [27],245,[1],45,[2]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt tooled, leather spine label, edges painted red. Light scuffing to boards, more moderate wear to spine and edges; spine label chipped. Small patches of dampstaining to initial leaves, otherwise light and..... More
[Various locations in Texas: 1917-1918]. Fifteen leaves, illustrated with fifty-five mounted photographs, and a few ephemeral clippings identifying locations. Oblong octavo. Contemporary black cloth, string-tied. Light soiling to covers. Minor wear to some photographs, but overall a handsome selection. A unique collection of vernacular photographs collected by a soldier in..... More