Nueva York: Imprenta de "El Correo de Nueva York" 1874. [4],xi,430,[1]pp., plus five plates (three folding). Early-20th century quarter black calf and blue textured cloth, gilt spine titles, by Mexican binder Saul A. Alva with his binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper. Edges and spine ends scuffed, minor soiling..... More
Nueva York: Imprenta del Novo Mundo y la America Ilustrada, [1874]. [4],142,[1]pp., plus three plates. Small quarto. Contemporary quarter calf and purple marbled boards, spine gilt. Rubbing and wear to spine ends and corners. Minor soiling to title page, but otherwise clean and fresh internally. An introduction to the construction..... More
Nueva York: 1864. 926,[4],304pp. Contemporary Mexican-style calf, elaborately blindstamped covers, spine titles in gilt. Spine sunned and somewhat worn, minor wear to edges, corners a bit rubbed. Occasional minor foxing to text. A Spanish language translation of The Holy Bible printed in New York in the penultimate year of the..... More
Boston: Munroe y Francis, 1827. 288pp. Original calf; rebacked with spine laid down. Some light foxing and soiling, light dampstaining to last few leaves. Some notes and annotations, particularly to endleaves. The first American printing of any of Cadalso's works. This edition was created specifically for American students, "con notas..... More
New York: Nathaniel Currier, 1851. Large-format stone lithograph, 23.5 x 38 inches. Old folds, with some wear and separation along fold lines, minor soiling, moderate staining, minor edge wear. An extraordinary lithograph illustrating an obscure and unfulfilled engineering project in South America - a proposed mole to be built at..... More
Nueva York: Por Don Jorge W. Halsey, y Hermanos, 1838. ix,14pp., plus thirty-five engraved plates. Oblong quarto. Original half calf and patterned cloth, spine and front board gilt. Hinges cracking, with some separation at head of front joint; foot of spine chipped. Light wear and soiling to boards. Moderate toning..... More
![Item #3034 Constitucion Politica del Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua [cover title]. Mexico](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3034.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1651852390)
El Paso, Tx. 1921. 48pp. Narrow octavo. Original printed self-wrappers, stapled. Lightly and evenly tanned, paper brittle with several small chips or tears. Ownership ink stamp of Chihuahua newspaper editor Silvestre Terrazas on first and least leaf. A 1921 edition of the 1887 constitution of the state of Chihuahua, published..... More
Nueva York: Imprenta de S.W. Benedict, 1853. 105,56pp. Small quarto. Contemporary red calf and cloth boards, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed, spine ends chipped, corners bumped. Light soiling and fraying to cloth. Later ink ownership inscription at head of title page. Text modestly foxed. A biography of Bolivar, the leader of..... More
![Item #3019 El Problema Religioso de Mexico Durante los Años de 1926 a 1929 [caption title]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3019_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1661175724)
El Paso: 1938. 16pp. 20th-century buckram, front board gilt lettered. Minor wear to corners and spine ends. Text block toned, with heavier tanning at edges. Unrecorded treatise on the causes and events of the Cristero War in Mexico during the 1920s, focusing on the role of the clergy in the..... 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
[N.p. ca. early 1900s]. Broadside on cloth, 10.5 x 8 inches. Mild creasing, light spotting, tiny hole in upper left margin. A dual-language cloth form retained by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company for use in making warning signs for farm and ranch gates. The text is printed..... More
Boston: Imprenta de Munroe y Francis, 1828. [4],258,[2]pp. Modern tan quarter cloth and blue paper boards, paper spine label. Text lightly toned with some minor foxing. First edition. Following the success of his 1825 anthology, Colmena Española, Harvard instructor Francisco Sales produced the present compendium of three important Spanish Golden..... More
El Paso, Tx. 1914. x,120pp., including a photographic portrait of the authors. Small quarto. Original printed wrappers. Spine perishing; small, personal shelf label at foot of spine. Light dampstaining and minor chipping to wraps. Text somewhat browned, but not brittle. Final gathering bound in upside-down. A fabulously scathing attack on..... More
Nueva York: D. Appleton, 1883. 80,[4]pp. Contemporary mustard cloth, stamped in black. Light wear to extremities, corners bumped, minor soiling. Contemporary ownership inscription at head of text. Light toning and scattered foxing. A slim volume comprising an answer key to exercises for the Ollendorff method of learning to read, write..... More
Marpha, Tx. 1930. [3]-377,[3]pp. Modern quarter red leather and marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt. Minor dust-soiling to title page and last leaf of text, small tape stain to penultimate leaf. A scarce Spanish-language novel purportedly published in the far-west Texas town of Marfa in 1930. The novel was written by..... More
Nueva York: Jose Desnoues, 1831. 156pp. 12mo. Contemporary full calf presentation binding by C. Brown of New York (binder's ticket at top of front pastedown), spine gilt extra, boards bordered in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled edges and endpapers, presentation inscription on front board reading, "El Ciudadano Jose M. Tornel..... More
Nueva York: D. Appleton y Compañía, 1872. [xii],368,4pp., plus four plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's green pebbled cloth, boards blind stamped, spine gilt. Light rubbing and and wear to cloth, slightly heavier at corners and spine ends. Hinges cracked but sturdy. Faint tide line across top edge; light toning..... More
New York: C.G. Crawford Press, [ca. 1892]. 149pp., in English and Spanish. 16mo. Original maroon pebbled cloth, gilt titles stamped on front cover. Minor staining and edge wear, corners bumped. Hinges starting and a bit tender, front free endpaper detached but present, minor even toning to text, circular ink stamp..... More