[Various locations in Puerto Rico: 1941-1943]. [50] leaves, illustrated with approximately 270 vernacular silver gelatin photographs, most about 4.5 x 3.75 inches, plus numerous real photo postcards, and many dozens of ephemeral items mounted throughout. Folio. Contemporary decorative brown cloth with color illustration of a guitarist serenading in a courtyard..... More

Mexico; Montana: 1922-1926. Approximately 200 documents and letters, totaling more than 250pp. Old folds, light wear and soiling, heavier to a few items. Significant archive of correspondence documenting the activities of the La Lluvia gold mine in Sinaloa, primarily consisting of correspondence from J.H. Pankey, the mine supervisor. The Mexican..... More

Havana: Establecimiento Tipografico de Barcina, 1850. 173,[2, blank],10pp. Contemporary presentation binding of full orange calf, spine gilt extra, boards with elaborate gilt floral borders, stamped in gilt on front board, reading "Escmo. S.D. Francisco Armero y Penaranda." All edges gilt. Spine lightly sunned, boards a bit rubbed, light wear to..... More

[New York? ca. 1820s]. Narrow folio broadside, 20.25 x 8.75 inches, printed in two columns. Old folds, moderate foxing and staining, a few tiny areas of loss at crossfolds. A lovely letterpress broadside printing a narrative poem of forty-two four-line stanzas, arranged in two columns inside simple typographical borders comprised..... More

Mexico: Imprenta de Doña Maria Fenandez de Jauregui, 1815. [xii],40,[3]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine and edges of boards gilt tooled; contemporary marbled endpapers. Minor wear and rubbing to spine and boards; scattered foxing and occasional light soiling internally. Scarce concatenation of epic, allegorical, political, and religious poetry concerning..... More

Havana: August 3, 1867. [7]pp. on pre-printed folio forms completed in manuscript. Later staple. Moderate tanning and edge wear, short separations along some folds. A manuscript manifest listing of 285 Chinese field hands, who undoubtedly signed up as indentured laborers in their quest to escape the hardships of China in..... More

[Various locations]: 1937. [18] leaves, illustrated with eighty silver gelatin photographs in mounting corners, measuring between 1.5 x 2 inches and 3.5 x 4.5 inches, all captioned in white pencil on the album leaves. Oblong slim quarto. Contemporary textured brown paper-covered boards, string tied. Moderate edge wear and rubbing to..... More

Nueva York: A.B. Allen & Co., 1849. [4],114,[2]pp. Profusely illustrated with in-text illustrations. Original printed wrappers bound into modern quarter black calf and green cloth, gilt morocco spine label. Light wear and dust-soiling to boards. Some discoloration to front wrapper, minor creasing to rear wrapper. Small typed name label added..... More

Sao Paulo, Brazil: Yamashita Hiroto, 1959. [4],768,[44]pp. Original green cloth, gilt titles to front cover and spine. In original issue orange cardboard slipcase, black titles on front cover and spine. Minor edge wear, some fading to spine titles, light wear to joints. Occasional light foxing, mostly to endpapers and text..... More

San Luis Potosi, Mx. 1925-1930. Six folio volumes: 23; [70]; 100; 82; [66]; 29pp., plus a packet of fifteen additional pages of documents laid into the final volume. Uniformly bound in contemporary Mexican half sheep and marbled paper-covered boards (the first five by San Potosi binder Arnoldo Kaiser and the..... More