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
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[Casilda, Cuba: January, 1898]. [130]pp. Small folio sheets, mostly manuscript with several typed forms completed in manuscript, string tied. Contemporary ink and blind stamps. Light foxing and staining to outer leaves, otherwise minor edge wear and toning. A fascinating and detailed encapsulation of the situation at the Casilda-Trinidad Spanish military..... 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
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[Various places in Cuba, mostly Matanzas, Havana, Colon & Bejucal: 1865-1871]. Thirty-four broadside and broadsheet forms, completed in manuscript. Old folds, scattered wear and occasional worming at edges. Contemporary ink and blind stamps. Accomplished in various, quite legible scripts. A group of nearly three dozen contracts for Chinese indentured laborers..... More
Bogota: Tipografia de Bruno Espinosa, 1832. [8],lvii,[1]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary calf, manuscript paper label on front cover. Spine perished, corners heavily worn, slight worming. Contents clean with some slight worming. Official printing of the first Colombian constitution, published after the dissolution of the Republic of Gran Colombia and the two..... 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
Nagano: Shinano Overseas Colony, 1927. [2],3,[1],6,316,[2]pp., plus seven folding leaves reproducing calligraphy, fifty-two pages of inserted halftone portraits, and five folding maps (one quite large) printed in two colors. Original cream cloth printed with a map of South America on front cover. In original printed cardboard slipcase. Noticeable but faint..... 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
Habana: 1943. Broadside, 8.75 x 6 inches. Minor toning, creasing and foxing, date stamp and pencil markings to upper corner, a few short closed edge tears. A rare Yiddish language broadside published in Havana, Cuba, announcing a meeting of Jewish youth to be held at the Centro Israelita De Cuba..... More
Nueva York: Imprenta de Hallet y Breen, 1870. Two volumes: xvi,576; [2],488,vii pp., plus engraved portrait frontispiece and one additional plate in volume one. Original green pebbled cloth, blindstamped boards, spines stamped in gilt. Small shelf label on each spine. Minor edge wear, spine ends a bit frayed, corners worn..... More
[Mostly Florence and Tucson, Az. 1924-1926]. Approximately 315 letters and documents, mostly one-page typed letters, but a handful longer, and a small percentage handwritten. Mostly written in Spanish, with a significant portion written on AHA letterhead. Old folds, some paper stock tanned and somewhat brittle, occasional mostly minor chipping or..... More
Nueva York: Roe Lockwood & Son, [ca. 1855]. xxvii,479pp. In Spanish. 12mo. Contemporary quarter calf and pebbled tan cloth, spine elaborately stamped in gilt. Modest rubbing and soiling, some edge wear. Hinges a bit tender, small bookplate on verso of half title, scattered minor foxing. Second edition, "correjida y aumentada,"..... More