[Honduras]: Imprenta de J.M. Sanchez, 1852. [2],16pp. Small quarto. Later marbled wrappers. A couple of minor edge chips to title page. Moderate, even tanning and light dust soiling. A rare report on foreign affairs and trade by Honduran prime minister Francisco Alvarado to the national legislature, delivered in 1852. In..... More
Paris: 1859. 102,[1]pp., plus three folding maps. Original printed wrappers. Spine perished, stitching nearly so. Light wear at edges. Light toning and dust soiling. Extensive proposal and recommendation, translated into German from the French, for a canal route across Nicaragua, one of several 19th-century Central American canal projects that never..... More
Guatemala: 1888. Broadside, 13.25 x 10.25 inches. Printed in gold. Old folds, slight separation, some chipping and wear at right edge. Unusual broadside souvenir printed by a Guatemalan hospital, thanking three bullfighters for fundraising efforts on their behalf. The Hospital General San Juan de Dios de Guatemala was founded in..... More
Tegucigalpa: 1889. 186,[1]pp. Large octavo. Contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards. Light scuffing and wear to edges and corners. Some dampstaining to initial and final leaves, much lighter at rear. Internal tear to final leaf, slightly affecting text. Even tanning. Uncommon collection of documents from the Third Congress of Central..... More
San Salvador: 1833. Small broadside, 8.5 x 6.25 inches. Disbound, with small stab hole at gutter margin. Light wear and worming; two, slightly larger worm holes in lower margin, repaired with tape. Later bibliographical annotations in pencil. In this early Salvadoran broadside decree, the government nullifies the appointment of Atanacio..... More
San Salvador: May 25, 1843. Small broadside, approximately 8.5 x 6.5 inches. Minor creasing and soiling. Small broadside that asks for the revelation of the author of an anonymous, offending pamphlet and letter addressed to Isidro Viteri in San Salvador. Beyond the insults that must be corrected in the public..... More
[San Salvador?]: 1863. 4pp., on a bifolium. Folio. Portion of lower margin torn away, otherwise light edge wear. A fascinating and rather lengthy anti-Barrios address by his conservative opponents and would-be deposers in El Salvador. José Gerardo Barrios Espinoza was elected president of El Salvador in 1860, following several stints..... More
[Chalchuapa, El Salvador: 1876]. [3]pp., on a bifolium. Folio. Crinkling and minor wear at edges. Faint dampstain to upper right corner. The president of Guatemala, Justo Rufino Barrios, invaded El Salvador in 1876, following the presidential election there. Barrios suspected that both the elected and former presidents had been harboring..... More
Guatemala: Imprenta de Joachin de Arevalo, 1756. [23]pp. Small quarto. Later marbled wrappers. Very light dampstaining at fore-edge, otherwise minor toning and dust soiling. A quite rare, mid-18th-century Guatemalan imprint, comprising a pastoral letter by Francisco José de Figueredo y Victoria, the Archbishop of Guatemala, that advises immediate and intense..... More
Guatemala: 1855. [3]pp., on a bifolium. Small folio. Leaves no longer integral. Heavy chipping and wear at edges, quarter-sized hole through upper center of both leaves, but only a small amount of text actually affected. Moderate tanning and soiling. A scarce 1855 broadside in which Guatemalan caudillo Rafael Carrera addresses..... More
Chiquimila: 2 Agosto, 1853. Small broadside, approximately 8.25 x 6.5 inches. Trimmed a bit raggedly. Small wormhole at lower left, affecting one letter. Light tanning. An otherwise unrecorded 1853 broadside, in which Rafael Carrera addresses the army and people of Guatemala concerning the ongoing strife with Honduras. He writes, in..... More
Guatemala: 1867. Broadside, approximately 13 x 8 inches. Trimmed a bit unevenly. Light tanning. An early 1867 broadside in which Vicente Cerna, President of Guatemala, announces that Mariscal de Campo Serapio Cruz has raised a rebellion in the jurisdiction of Sanarate for purely personal reasons and not for any that..... More
Guatemala: 1839. Broadsheet, approximately 12 x 8.25 inches. Untrimmed, with a couple of small chips at edges, not affecting text. Some dampstaining, with vertical tideline through center of sheet. A very scarce broadsheet, dated April 18, 1839 in which Conservative Mariano Rivera Paz addresses the Guatemalan people only five days..... More
[Guatemala]: Imprenta de la N.A. de Estudios, 1839. Small broadsheet, approximately 12 x 8 inches. Unevenly trimmed, small piece of upper right corner torn away. Vertical tideline through center of sheet. Beginning in 1838, the Federal Republic of Central America was torn apart by civil wars pitting Liberal against Conservative..... More
[Guatemala: 1850]. 12pp. Folio, stitched as issued. A couple of very minor chips along lower edge. Light dust soiling and minor foxing. A scarce treaty of friendship and trade between Guatemala and the free, northern German cities of Bremen, Hamburg, and Lubeck, former leading members of the medieval Hanseatic League..... More
Guatemala: 1839. Broadsheet, approximately 12.25 x 8.5 inches. Unevenly trimmed. Small chips at top edge and lower right corner, repaired with tape. Light dampstain across most of sheet. A rare, short-lived treaty of alliance between Guatemala and the short-lived Republic of Los Altos. The nation was created from parts of..... More
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Guatemala: December 31, 1853. Broadsheet, approximately 13 x 8.5 inches. Two very short, closed tears at upper left margin. Light tanning and dust soiling, faint foxing. A scarce, anti-Cabañas screed penned by his political rival in Honduras, José Santos Guardiola. José Trinidad Cabañas was at this time president of the..... More
[Gracias, Honduras: 1855]. Broadsheet, approximately 12.5 x 8.5 inches. A few small chips and short, closed tears at edges. Light, even tanning. Scarce appeal by the conservative Honduran military leader Juan Lopez directed to the country's citizens to throw off the rule of liberal president José Trinidad Cabañas. A few..... More
Panama: Jose Maria Goytia, 1823. Broadsheet handbill, 8.5 x 6 inches. Minor creasing. Faint dampstaining at right edge. An extremely rare statement by Spanish general Melchor Aymerich following his final defeat in Ecuador by Antonio José Sucre and subsequent flight to Panama in 1822. Aymerich, the "Mariscal de Campo de..... More
Guatemala: Imprenta Mayor - Casa Porras, 1828. 51,[18]pp. 19th-century quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt. A detailed address, with numerous supporting documents, by Guatemalan Colonel Guillermo Perks concerning events that caused him to quit his post as Chief of Staff of the army of the Central American Republic in..... More
[Various places in South America, ca.1928]. Sixty-six original photographs, most 35. x 5.75 inches. Small, oblong folio album, string tied. Photos mounted directly to tan, heavy card stock. Contemporary manuscript captions throughout and small return address label affixed to rear cover. A number of card leaves coming or fully detached..... More