![POLITICIZING THE VIRGIN DE GUADALUPE]. Defensa guadalupana. Manuel GOMEZ MARIN](/pictures/thumb/3479.jpg?v=1622764083)
Mexico City: Valdes, 1819. First Edition. 12mo. [10], 55 pp. Recent sympathetic wrappers. POLITICIZING THE VIRGIN DE GUADALUPE. The text of this scarce Mexican pamphlet is unusual. In it, the author Gomez Marin seeks to refute an attack on the plausibility of the apparition of the Virgin de Guadalupe, written..... More
![1863 AFRICAN SLAVES IN MEXICO]. Message of the President of the United States, Communicating, In...](/pictures/thumb/3500.jpg?v=1622658243)
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1863. First Edition. [3] pp. (final page blank). Extracted from a larger volume. Preserved in a mylar sleeve backed with lig-free board. Little-known report to Congress, referencing the estimated 450 Negro Egyptians who were rounded up off the streets, beaten and forced onto a French..... More
![1592 MANUSCRIPT: AUCTION OF QUICHE MAYA LANDS IN GUATEMALA]. Testimonio del titulo venta......](/pictures/thumb/3476.jpg?v=1622608382)
Coatepeque (i.e. Guatemala): 1592. Folio (320 x 200 mm). 6 fols. + near contemporary wrappers, stitched, front wrapper with all pertinent information in cursive. Formerly folded four times, creating 16 small panels, two of the leaves have clean tears along horizontal folds from fore-edge to gutter margin, others with shorter..... More
![RARE SIGNED COPY]. American Indian Stories. Zitkala-Sa, Gertrude Bonnin](/pictures/thumb/3522.jpg?v=1622505575)
Washington: Hayworth Publishing House, 1921. First Edition. 8vo. 195 pp. Bound in pictorial cloth, printed black and red pattern with title on front cover, same pattern on back cover, title and publisher information printed in black on spine (edges slightly worn, headcap frayed, spine palm soiled, covers less so, front..... More
![1691 CADIZ MANUSCRIPT]. Letter Dr. Francisco de Velasco to the Duke of Sessa, presenting Dr. Abel...](/pictures/thumb/3473.jpg?v=1622505571)
Cadiz: 1691. Single sheet, folded once. Pencil inscription at top with small black stamp, folded along vertical and horizontal crease, another later fold along spinal edge, small dirt stains along spine and foreedge. Visible watermark on 2f. Letter address on verso of 2f. This is a letter of recommendation /..... More
![ALBUM OF 136 ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ENGRAVINGS 1750-1800, PRINCIPALLY AMERICANA]. "A Collection of...](/pictures/thumb/3466.jpg?v=1622505550)
London and New York: 1750-1800. Royal 4to album. CONTENTS: Letterpress title-page, 68 engraved portraits, 3 engraved caricatures, 37 satirical prints, 5 engraved views, 22 engraved maps and charts, 1 letterpress cutting (describing an accompanying engraving). TOTAL = 136 items, each meticulously ruled around the edges and carefully affixed on 59..... More
![MEXICAN OTOMI MANUSCRIPT ON AMATE BARK "PAPER" - PROTECTION FROM WITCHCRAFT]. Historia de la...](/pictures/thumb/3520.jpg?v=1622428683)
San Pablito, Puebla, Mexico: 1978 (but later). Square format, original amate bark covers with overlay, cloth spine. 18 x 14 cm. 28 numbered "pages," all but three featuring cutouts of deities as issued. This copy is tape-bound with single leaves and created in probably created after 1978. Red ink on..... More
Washington DC: 1850. First Edition. Large folding lithograph map with U.S. Army routes in red (659 x 500 mm). Splits at folds on left where attached to text, light browning. Text: 8vo (224 x 140 mm). 14, [2] pp. (including final blank leaf), extracted from a larger volume and repaired..... More
![PALESTINIAN HERBARIUM / ALBUM COMPOSED OF PRESSED FLOWERS]. Wild Flowers from Palestine. Flowers...](/pictures/thumb/3516.jpg?v=1622333227)
Lowell, Mass. [The Author], n.d. (ca. 1910). Oblong 8vo. (125 x 170 mm). 13 pp. text, with 17 pasted-on pressed flowers, each with descriptive text opposite. Original publisher's green and white cloth (1/3 cream cloth, 2/3 green cloth with title gilt on front cover), some abraisons / discoloration to binding..... More
![COLOR: TRADE CATALOGUE]. "Colorants Soudan": Colorants en Poudre Solubles dans les huiles et...](/pictures/thumb/3515.jpg?v=1622327702)
Frankfurt: I.G. Farbenindustrie AG, n.d. (ca. 1926). First Edition in French. Slim 8vo. Original publisher's yellow pictorial card wrappers. [8] pp. + 4 sample cards displaying 24 color samples, original acetate tissue guards present. Light shelf wear, wrappers very slightly soiled and toned. Easily the most attractive I.G. Farben catalogue..... More
![CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT]: The Harper and Other Fables. By Aesop. Lawrence Aesop . Zimmerman,...](/pictures/thumb/3514.jpg?v=1622322783)
New York: Transcribed and Illustrated at Cooper Union, 1952. Small folio (261 x 167 mm). Calligraphic manuscript on paper. [2], 8 pp. Loosely inserted ink and watercolor drawing. Original hand-sewn blue wrappers; stitched to upper wrapper is a paper label lettered in manuscript: "The Harper and Other Fables." Old scribbles..... More
![DISABILITY LITERATURE]. Snatched from the Jaws of Death: A Thrilling Story of Modern Japan....](/pictures/thumb/3513.jpg?v=1622322109)
Philadelphia: Avil Printing Co. [for the Author], 1895. First Edition. 16mo. Engraved title-page (reproduced on front wrapper), 62 pp. including title-page with reproduction of a photograph of "Mary Anne, the Young Amanuensis" (slightly torn at the staples). Lacking wrappers. Worn, spine partially defective). Contemporary ownership inscription in pencil: "Benj[amin] Smith..... More
![RUSSIAN MANUSCRIPT ON BLUE PAPER]. Psalter + Troparia + Prayers. Russian - Psalms Bible](/pictures/thumb/3511.jpg?v=1622240823)
Russia: 1820-1830 (ca.). Small 4to (textblock: 210 x 165 mm. Binding: 215 x 175 x 80 mm). Bound in contemporary Russian calf (?) over wooden boards, catch on upper cover, portion of leather strap preserved, clasp lacking. Binding and text VERY WORN (see the 53 images on our website) and..... More
![METHODIST MISSIONARY'S VOYAGE TO INDIA, TYPESCRIPTS 1920-1921]. "Travel Letters August 1920 -...](/pictures/thumb/3507.jpg?v=1622050311)
1921. Quarto (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches). 46 leaves, including 4-page "Circular Letter" to friends (detached) and 1-page text "What Drought Means in India" (detached, text incomplete). With a few handwritten corrections and additions. WITH: Autograph letter signed: Deaville Walker to his son, written from Ceylon, dated Sept. 20..... More
![SPANISH SAMMELBAND 1766-1787]. Sammelband of decrees, provisions, and ordinances issued by the...](/pictures/thumb/3470.jpg?v=1622047862)
Spain (majority in Valencia): 1766-1787. Folio. 178 ff., numbered in 18th-century manuscript. Bound in contemporary vellum (worn), water stained along edges (including textblock), cracked hinges, spine slightly detached from textblock, small tears in vellum on covers and along spine. Ink inscription on front cover reads: "Yo Jose Fuentes" with the..... More
![MANUSCRIPT LABORATORY NOTEBOOK / ANIMAL HEALTH / FOOD SAFETY]. Project 00215: PCP feeding study...](/pictures/thumb/3506.jpg?v=1621888563)
Washington, D.C. David Firestone, US Food & Drug Administration, 1978. Unpublished. 4to. 200 pp., on ruled paper, written in manuscript in pen & pencil, numerous charts tipped-in, some w/ multi-coloured graphs & ink, highlights circled in red. Mustard-coloured cloth, black lettering stamped on front cover (some rubbing, edgewear, dustsoiling), w/..... More
![MINIATURE "BLOOK" BOX MADE OF SILVER]. Creazioni Orafe Sacchetti, Gianfranco Sacchetti](/pictures/thumb/3505.jpg?v=1621869963)
Arezzo, Italy: Sacchetti, n.d. Miniature silver "blook" (28 x 22 x 7 mm), with blue enamel "covers" and red enamel "spine labels," hinged at front cover which opens to reveal a tiny compartment, edges of "textblock" appropriately striated, and the latch on the "fore-edge" in perfect working order. Excellent, and..... More
![1770 SPANISH "CAT'S PAW" BINDING]. Kolouthou lukopolitou thebaion peri tes Elenes arpages...](/pictures/thumb/3498.jpg?v=1621298342)
Madrid: Antonio Marin, 1770. First Edition. 4to. (230 x 156 mm). [22], 174, [1] pp. Contemporary Spanish "cat's paw" patterned calf with gilt spine, very light wear to corners and joints, front flyleaf has been pasted to pastedown, making the first blank the new flyleaf. Contents extremely fresh and clean..... More
![TEXAS VS. MEXICO IN 1843]. Message from the President of the United States, to the Two Houses of...](/pictures/thumb/3482.jpg?v=1621279383)
Washington DC: Blair and Rives, 1843. First Edition. 8vo. 48 pp., stitched in original self-wraps, edges untrimmed. Final gathering browned on account of the inferior paper stock (in common with at least one other copy known to us), final leaf particularly browned and brittle (chipped), and with two paper repairs..... More
![MEXICAN REVOLUTION: IMPORTANT 1815 BROADSIDE DECLARING AMNESTY TO ALL INSURGENTS]. Don Felix...](/pictures/thumb/3496.jpg?v=1621215542)
Broadside (593 x 430) composed of 2 folio sheets conjoined horizontally across the center, printed in two columns. Dated and signed in type at end: "Dado en el Real Palacio de Mexico a 22 de diciembre de 1815. Felix Calleja." With the MS cypher of Viceroy Calleja, and the complete..... More
![EUROPEAN AMERICANA]. [NORSE DISCOVERIES]. Antiquitates americanae sive scriptores septentrionales...](/pictures/thumb/3492.jpg?v=1620908703)
Copenhagen: Typis Officinae Schultzianae, 1837. First Edition. Large thick 4to. xliv, 479 [6, genealogical tables] [1] pp., 18 engraved plates, maps and facsimiles (6 doublepage, 8 manuscript facsimiles on colored papers with rubrications in colors). Original quarter cloth over drab boards, printed paper spine label, boards shelf worn particularly along..... More
![MAPPING THE WEST - COMPLETE SET IN PERFECT CONDITION]. Mapping the Transmississippi West,...](/pictures/thumb/3491.jpg?v=1620871636)
San Francisco: Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-1963. First Edition. Together five vols. in six. Large folios (355 x 260 mm). Original publisher's dark green buckram over gray linen, spines gilt-stamped. ONE OF THE GREAT WORKS OF CARTOGRAPHIC HISTORY -- easily the most important work on Western American maps from 1540..... More
![FIRST FOLIO]. Comedies and Tragedies [...] Never printed before. [BOUND WITH]: The Wild-Goose...](/pictures/thumb/3489.jpg?v=1620517100)
London: Ad 1: Printed for Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley, 1647; Ad 2: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1652, 1647. First Edition. Folio. Each play paginated separately. Collation: A4 a-c4 d-e2 f4 g2 B-K4 L2 2A-2S4 3A-3X4 4A-4I4 5A-5R4 5S6 5T-5X4 6A-6K4 6L6 7A-7C4 7D2 7E-7G4 8A-8C4 *8D2 8D-8F4, COMPLETE. With..... More
![HAWAII 1822]. Instructions to the Missionaries about to Embark for the Sandwich Islands; and to...](/pictures/thumb/3486.jpg?v=1620152942)
Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1823. First Edition. 8vo. 21 pp. (title-page detached). Extracted from a larger volume; even browning; short tear in upper margin of title-page. Preserved in a mylar sleeve. Little-known moral "Instructions" for the Second Company of ABCFM missionaries to Hawaii. Although not specified in the text, included..... More
![MAMMOPHILIA]. Manzanas Del Paraiso. Libro de Pasion y de Placer, escrito en elogio de los Senos,...](/pictures/thumb/3483.jpg?v=1620152711)
Mexico City: [Escalante], 1918. Second edition. 8vo. [14], 11-61, [2] pp. Contemporary neat green cloth, with the monogram "J.R.R." (Jose Ruben Romero) at the foot of spine. Lacking wrappers. Text evenly browned, upper margins of a few leaves with short tears (not affecting text). NOT ex-library! Scarce and little-known erotic..... More
