Mexico City: Vanegas Arroyo, [ca. 1905]. Broadsheet, 11.25 x 8 inches. Printed on yellow paper. Left edge a bit raggedly trimmed. Minor wear and soiling. Scarce, Posada-illustrated broadsheet commemorating the deaths by suicide of Maria Fuentes and Guadalupe Ortiz. The two friends discovered they were both being courted by the..... More

Mexico City: 1926. 37,[1]pp. Original orange printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear, text lightly tanned. An enthusiastic guide for Spanish emigrants to Mexico, with the author extolling the country's virtues at every turn. Fewer than ten copies in OCLC, only three of them in the United States -- UC Berkeley, the..... More

[Mexico? 1827]. [113]pp. Later marbled wrappers. Light foxing to text. A contemporary manuscript copy of the original state constitution for Mexico (the state surrounding Mexico City, not the country itself), published in February 1827. The federal constitution of Mexico was established in 1824, following the collapse of the short-lived first..... More

Mexico City: 1898. 117pp., plus eight plates. Original grey cloth, front board printed in black. Light wear to edges and spine ends; cloth rubbed and somewhat soiled. Front free end paper separating. A few contemporary annotations and geometric doodles scattered throughout, heaviest on front endpapers. Two contemporary ink stamps and..... More

Mexico City: 1892. 1226,[1]pp. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, leather label. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Title page with small paper flaw at lower right, not affecting text. Light toning throughout; light foxing to initial leaves. A scarce, late-19th-century manual that details the rules and regulations from the..... More

Mexico City: 1888. 210,[6]pp. Contemporary quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt. Spine leather scuffed in places, corners and edges with some moderate wear. Even toning and occasional foxing. First Mexican edition of this realist novel by Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós, published in 1888. Miau tells the story of..... More

Puebla: 1892. xii,123,[1]pp., plus twenty plates, of which nine folding. Contemporary quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Moderate wear to spine leather, edges, and corners; some scuffing to boards. Light toning and dust soiling. Borderline phrenological late-19th-century study of Mexican criminals by a pair of Pueblan army doctors, Francisco..... More

Mexico City: Tipografia de Gonzalo A. Esteva, 1879. 742pp. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. Spine stained; head of spine chipped. Moderate wear to edges and corners; boards rubbed. Light tanning. Spanish translation and only Mexican edition of the extensive group of military studies by French general Jules Louis Lewal..... More

Mexico City: Imprenta, 1900. 82pp., plus two folding tables; 92pp. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Leather somewhat worn, boards rubbed. Contemporary binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper; author's gift inscription on initial text leaf of first work. Fairly even tanning; scattered underlining. A pair of ephemeral..... More

Mexico City: 1869. Four volumes in two. 339,[3]; 315,[3]; 313,[2]; 268,[2]pp. Contemporary quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt. Edges and spine ends somewhat worn; boards scuffed. Even toning and occasional foxing. Scarce contemporary Spanish translation and Mexican edition of this historical novel by French author Arsène Houssaye. Despite the..... More

Mexico City: 1869-1870. Two volumes in one, as issued. 291,[4]pp., plus thirteen plates and frontispiece portrait; 183,[1]pp., plus six plates. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt and lined in black. Corners heavily worn, spine and edges less so; boards rubbed. Even tanning, occasional foxing and soiling internally. Relatively..... More

Mexico City: Imprenta de I. Cumplido, 1873. xi,701,[1]pp., plus frontispiece portrait, engraved dedication leaf, and two plates. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Spine and edges worn, boards scuffed. Light, even tanning, occasional light dampstaining. Uncommon Mexican edition of this lengthy treatise on the education, conduct, and moral..... More

[Pachuca: 1774-1776]. 62pp. Small folio, tax stamped sheets, sewn at gutter. Light dust soiling and wear at edges. Accomplished in multiple Spanish secretarial hands, with varying degrees of legibility. A fascinating Mexican manuscript decree and attending manuscript attestations and confirmations that provide extraordinary power and authority to the owners of..... More