Mexico: Imprenta y Fototipia de la Secretaria de Fomento, 1912. 518pp., plus large folding map. Contemporary half dyed sheep and marbled boards. Minor wear to edges, board rubbed, spine a bit scuffed. A very interesting report on the colonization of Mexico, of particular interest for containing José Covarrubias’s report on..... More
![Item #3066 [Cuban Manuscript Document Noting the Death of a Chinese Laborer]. Cuba, Slavery](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3066.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1661272626)
Havana: 1872. Manuscript form, approximately 8.5 x 6.25 inches. Minor wear at edges; a few small worm holes. Contemporary ink stamp. Light tanning and offsetting. This 1872 manuscript form from a Havana jail, the Celaduria de la Punta, notes the death there of an "Asiatico," a Chinese indentured servant, with..... More
![Item #3319 First Time Here. Mexico at War and Peace. Moving Pictures [caption title]. Film,...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3319_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1663336690)
San Francisco: Francisco Valentine Co., [ca. 1914]. Large broadside, 28 x 21 inches. Previously folded. Light chipping at edges; one small puncture along old fold line. Some toning, but quite solid. An attractively printed and fairly large poster advertising a nickelodeon-era film depicting scenes and events in Mexico during its..... More
Guatemala: 1839. Broadsheet, approximately 12.25 x 8.5 inches. Unevenly trimmed. Small chips at top edge and lower right corner, repaired with tape. Light dampstain across most of sheet. A rare, short-lived treaty of alliance between Guatemala and the short-lived Republic of Los Altos. The nation was created from parts of..... 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: Imprenta de la Testamentaria de Ontiveros, 1828. 4pp. Folio. Untrimmed. Scattered, very faint foxing and light dust soiling. Scarce printing of an early independent Mexican judicial opinion that the rights of inheritance and succession do not apply to aliens and foreign residents, particularly those of an enemy country..... More
[Various places]: 1925-1932. Seventy-five items, plus six small notebooks and one folio scrapbook. Some wear and soiling to a few items, but condition generally clean and quite good. Extensive archive of transit information for the cities of Lima, Peru, and Santiago, Chile, compiled by traffic expert M.T. Montgomery of Lancaster..... More
![Item #3104 Panteon de Menudencias [caption title]. Jose Guadalupe Posada](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3104.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1650972843)
Mexico City: 1919. Large broadside, approximately 23.5 x 16 inches. Previously folded. Light wear and minor chipping at edges. A pair of conjugate wormholes, slightly affecting text. Somewhat browned, though not brittle. A fantastic and scarce broadside "newspaper" published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo just after World War I. The supposed..... More
Mexico City: F. Neve, 1868. 394,[2]pp. Contemporary quarter sheep and pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Light wear to corners and spine; boards lightly soiled. Front and rear free endpapers town away. Even toning, an occasional fox mark. Scarce Mexican edition of these collected philosophical and political essays and journalism by Spanish..... More
Mexico: Imprenta de I. Cumplido, 1881. 120pp. In Spanish. Original printed wrappers, bound into later polished calf, gilt ruled and lettered. Minor toning to text. An unrecorded Mexican governmental report containing a section about the United States, with interesting information about the borderlands. The report begins by stating that the..... More
Toluca: June 18, 1836. Large folio broadside, 17 x 12.25 inches, printed in two columns in Spanish and English. Old folds, small stain near beginning of text, otherwise bright and clean. An exceedingly rare Toluca bando printing of the long-lingering 1828 Treaty of Limits between the United States and Mexico..... More
[Venezuela]: 1937-1938. 97 silver gelatin photographs measuring 6.75 x 4.5 and 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Oblong quarto. Original red half cloth and boards, manuscript label on front cover. Photos affixed at corners to thin paper leaves. Photo captions printed on versos of images, visible through mounting leaf. An interesting album..... More