Mexico City: 1849. 35pp. Original brown printed wrappers. Very minor wear, slight discoloration along fore-edge of rear wrapper. The slightest faint dampstain along the extreme outer margin of first two leaves, else internally clean. Untrimmed. One of the most influential works on civil rights in Mexico, setting the basis of..... More
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
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
Guadalajara: Imp. del Orfanatorio del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, 1892. 472pp. Small quarto. Contemporary half sheep and paper boards, spine gilt. Corners heavily worn, binding rubbed. Contemporary bookseller's stamp on title page; contemporary pencil ownership notation on verso of title page; some old staining and toning to text. Rare cook..... More
Filadelfia: Besserer y Kienast, [1852]. 324pp., including two plates and an extensive index. 12mo. Contemporary sheep, spine gilt-ruled with small leather label. Binding rubbed and lightly worn. Text lightly soiled at edges, leaves toned. An American printing of the first Mexican cook book, published two decades after the first edition..... More
[San Antonio Zoyatzingo: 1807-1818]. [95] leaves. Small folio sheets, likely disbound. Lacking three disparate, internal leaves. Scattered light foxing and dust soiling, slightly heavier to outer leaves. Accomplished several highly legible secretarial hands. A fascinating and lengthy manuscript that documents hundreds of indigenous marriages in a parish southeast of Mexico..... More
[N.p.]: 1925. 21,[1]pp. 12mo. Original printed self-wrappers, stapled. Front cover tearing at gutter margin, faintly creased. An illustrated promotional booklet for an indigenous Mexican theater festival. Grupo Ariel was an organization devoted to promoting indigenous culture in Mexico. In addition to information about the Grupo Ariel, a program of events..... More
Mexico: Impreso en la Oficina del C. Alejandro Valdés, 1831. 245,[5],xviii pp., including two woodcuts. 16mo. Contemporary sheep, spine gilt, partial leather label. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt ruled with leather label. Moderate wear and scuffing to leather, remnants of period printed label on front board. Later ownership stencil on..... More
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Mexico City: Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1715. [24]pp. 12mo. Contemporary plain wrappers, sewn. Small stain to upper margin of first leaf, light foxing. Two pairs of leaves not wholly opened along top edge. An attractive and quite scarce early Mexican novena produced by the noted Mexico City printer Francisco de..... More
Boston: Stanley & Usher, Printers, 1887. 12pp. Original printed self wrappers, sewn. Minor dust-soiling and edge wear. Soft vertical crease throughout. Internally clean. Very good. [with:] Annual Report of the Mexican Telephone Company. 1890-1891. Boston: E.W.S. Jones, Stationer and Printer, [1891]. 11pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers somewhat toned, small..... More
Brownsville, Tx. 1916. 64pp. Original printed tan wrappers, stapled. Minor chipping around staples, moderate bumping and wear to wrappers, textblock detached. A rare pocket guide to colloquial Spanish intended to be used along the Texas-Mexico borderlands during the time of the Mexican Revolution and the Texas Border War. The author..... More