Tokyo: Seikyosha, 1914. [2],3,1,18,498,[1]pp., plus forty-six plates (two folding). Text in Japanese. Original blue pebbled cloth, gilt titles stamped on front cover and spine, top edge gilt. Minor shelf wear to boards. Binding a bit cracked at page 80, scattered, mostly minor foxing. An acerbic memoir by Japanese author Toichiro..... More

Habana: Imprenta del Gobierno, 1872. 94pp., plus two folding tables. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt ruled. Light scuffing and wear to boards, a bit heavier at corners; minor fraying and rubbing to spine. Minor tanning and dust soiling, but quite a clean copy, overall. A rare Cuban..... More

Los Angeles: Rafu Shoten, 1949. [8],120,336,[1]pp. Text in Japanese. Original blue textured cloth, front cover and spine stamped in yellow. Minor rubbing and wear to spine and edges. Mild toning to text. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Lacking Errata leaf, facsimile laid in. An extraordinary work by Motomitsu Matsumoto..... More

[Baton Rouge]: 1937. 184,[4]pp., plus four related ephemeral items laid in. Oblong folio. Original yellow illustrated wrappers printed in red and black. Minor edge wear, light dust soiling. Last two leaves detached. An elaborately-produced annual memorializing the Third District of the Civilian Conservation Corps located at Fort Devens, illustrated with..... More

Mexico City: January 13, 1847. Broadside, 18.5 x 11.25 inches. Old folds, unevenly trimmed along left edge, moderate foxing. A rare broadside printing of an important Mexican legal decree involving the raising of funds to continue the Mexican-American War, issued by the Governor of the Mexico City Federal District, Juan..... More

Mexico City: Imprenta del Aguila, 1840. [12]pp. Small quarto. Modern red cloth, front board gilt lettered. Faint dampstaining at lower corners, otherwise quite clean and fresh internally. A scarce decree that reorganized the infantry and cavalry of the Mexican Army following the vicissitudes of the late 1830s. During this period..... More

Mexico City: Imprenta de J.M. Lara, 1850. 192pp. Contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards. Boards worn, heavily so at edges and corners; spine cloth beginning to fray; hinges cracked, but solid. Unobtrusive, slightly later ink stamp at foot of title page. Contemporary manuscript inscriptions throughout; stray pencil marks on several..... More

Dallas: Dallas Litho. Co., [ca. 1905]. Large, double-sided folding map, approximately 28 x 21 inches. Light wear at edges, with a few small chips and short tears; a couple of minor separations along folds and at fold points. Scattered, stray manuscript annotations in pencil and ink. Light toning and dust..... More

Mexico City: 1925-1926. Twenty-four issues, sixteen pages each, bound into contemporary three-quarter brown cloth and textured paper boards. Binding somewhat bumped and edge-worn, minor staining on rear board, some dust soiling. A few leaves with small closed tears or minor chipping, minor scattered foxing and toning, but mostly well preserved..... More

Mexico City: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, [ca. 1913]. Broadside, approximately 16 x 12 inches. A few small nicks at edges; short closed tear near upper left corner. Light toning and dust soiling. A classic and scarce Posada calavera broadside that relates the famous tale of Don Juan and his battle with..... More

[Various places from Chicago to Arizona: ca. 1935]. [42] leaves, illustrated with 116 vernacular photographs in corner mounts, almost all captioned in white ink. Oblong quarto. Contemporary textured limp black cloth, string-tied. Very light edge wear. A few photographs detached. Overall in much better condition than usual. An intriguing collection..... More

San Francisco: 1859. [1]p., with integral blank. Minor edge wear, with a few short closed tears and tiny chips, mild toning. A rare Mexican diplomatic circular announcing the appointment of Jose Marcos Mugarrieta as the first Consul of Mexico to the United States in San Francisco in 1859. Mugarrieta signals..... More

Mexico City: 1825. [2],xxvi,221,xi,[2]pp. 19th-century three-quarter Mexican calf and marbled boards, gilt leather spine label. Some scuffing to the spine, two partially-perished shelf marks on spine, minor rubbing to boards, edges and corners worn. Hinges a bit cracked but holding well, a handful of early leaves with contemporary manuscript notations..... More