Filadelfia: Imprenta de Guillermo Stavely, 1830. 59pp. Stitched as issued. Some light soiling and foxing. On the 16th of May 1826, Don Pablo Obregón, envoy to the United States on behalf of the Republic of Mexico, signed a contract with Samuel Chew for the construction and outfitting of a war..... More
Havana: 1930. 63pp. Small quarto. Original green cloth, front board lettered in silver. Cloth and pastedowns separating from boards. Boards lightly rubbed, some wear to corners and spine. Scarce issue of the constitution and by-laws of the Havana Country Club, printed in Spanish and English on facing pages, published in..... More
Havana: 1916. Eight parts in two volumes. Original half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Calf scuffed at spine ends; light wear to corners and edges; boards rubbed. Rear board with a dime-sized chip at lower fore-edge. Slightly later pencil ownership inscriptions to initial title pages of each volume. Small..... More
Mexico City: April 20, 1848. [2]pp., plus docketing, on a quarto bifolium. Previously folded. Some separation along fold lines. Four-inch tear from opening, repaired with tape. Light tanning and a couple of fox marks. In a neat, legible script. Writing on April 20, 1848, to his cousin Edward Moulton in..... More
Guanabacoa: Imprenta, 1864. 73,[2]pp. Small octavo. Contemporary red quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Corners and spine ends lightly worn, binding rubbed. Internally clean. Rare volume of poetry by Antonio Hurtado del Valle (1842-1875), journalist and poet of the Cuban independence movement during the mid-19th century. He wrote for..... More
Puebla: March 5, 1847. Broadside, 12.5 x 8.5 inches. Minor foxing and toning. An unrecorded broadside that prints the thanks and admonitions of the Governor of Puebla, Domingo Ibarra, following an attempted insurrection there in late February and March 1847 during the Mexican-American War. The uprising was a part of..... More
Zacatecas: March 12, 1836. Broadside, 12 x 8.5 inches. Stab holes along left margin where previously bound. Small, contemporary manuscript annotation at center of top margin. Mild tanning. A scarce bando printed in Zacatecas, to promulgate a February 26, 1836, decree regarding the ongoing war with Apache tribes in northern..... More
[Mexico City]: B. Lara, 1891. Broadside, 23.75 x 7.75 inches. Previously folded. Light wear along old folds. Printed on weak paper with several imperfections. An attractively printed broadside advertisement for a bullfight taking place on February 22, 1891, at the Plaza de Toros del Paseo Nuevo, the principal site for..... More