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
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
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
Newa-Orleans: En la Imprenta de Bayon, 1837. 28pp. Original printed wrappers. Moderate foxing, light soiling and creasing to wrappers. Light foxing to first couple of leaves, otherwise clean internally. Untrimmed. A screamingly-rare U.S. Spanish-language imprint concerning the liberal former governor of Santiago, Cuba, produced in New Orleans in 1837. Manuel..... 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](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3034.jpg?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
Washington, D.C. Powell y Ginck, 1872. [bound with:] Administracion de Justicia en Puebla. Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Mexico: 1875. 71,26pp. Contemporary quarter red calf and marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt. Spine chipped and heavily rubbed, corners and edges noticeably worn, minor rubbing to boards. Faint thin dampstain to margins of..... More
![Item #3019 El Problema Religioso de Mexico Durante los Años de 1926 a 1929 [caption title]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3019_01.jpg?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
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
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
Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1822. 272pp. Contemporary quarter calf over tan paper-covered boards, spine stamped in gilt. Heavy wear to board edges, minor chipping with slight loss of paper on front board, moderate rubbing and light soiling to boards. Free endpapers excised, ownership wax seal reading, "Jesus R...... More
Chicago: Publicada por Poole Hermanos, 1893. 79pp., plus seven pages of maps. 12mo. Original red cloth, front cover stamped in gilt. Minor stains to boards, light edge wear. Mild even toning to text. A rare Spanish-language guide to the Chicago World's Fair, the famous World's Colombian Exposition of 1893 in..... More