![Item #4072 [OTOMI MANUSCRIPT ON AMATE BARK "PAPER"]. Tratamiento de una ofrenda para pedir la...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4072.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696975670)
San Pablito Pahuatlán in Puebla state, Mexico: 1978. Handmade and handbound codex (18 x 14 cm), folded accordion style, handwritten text in black in on amate bark paper. 28 numbered leaves plus covers, two pair of cloth snap enclosures, with 21 amate bark paper cut-out illustrations + 2 on the..... More
S.l. s.n., n.d. (19th-century, after 1835). Collection of seven Chinese gouache paintings on pith paper (sizes vary: ca. 300 x 220 mm, some blank areas in fragile pith paper cracked or with loss, not affecting gouache paintings -- SEE IMAGES), a few retaining their original blue silk border edges. Each..... More
[Washington]: GPO, 1866. First Edition. 8vo. 47, [1] pp. (final page blank), textblock browned. Modern sympathetic wrappers, upper cover with title in manuscript. SECOND FRENCH INTERVENTION OF MEXICO, A MAGNIFICENT FAILURE. This fascinating document contains abundant diplomatic correspondence and translations of strictly contemporary foreign newspaper reports; in it United States..... More
![Item #3960 [1820 SPANISH ELECTION SCANDAL - CORTES OF CÁDIZ]. Manifiesto sobre la nulidad de las...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3960.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681227149)
Mexico City: Impreso en Madrid en la imprenta de Vega y compañia, y reimpreso en México en la de D. Alejandro Valdés, en dicho año, 1820. Second edition. Small 4to. 26 pp., a little age toning. Recent drab wrappers lettered in manuscript. REPUBLICAN SPAIN COLLAPSES, ERODING SPANISH DOMINION OVERSEAS: A...... More
![Item #3474 [MANUSCRIPT]. Certification of the Nobility of Don Manuel Silbestre Joseph de Herrera...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3474.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681226929)
Madrid: 1727-1728. Manuscript on paper. Folio. 38 ff. (tears and wear along fore-edges, smaller tears along top and bottom of leaves, persistant waterstains, fol. 1 damaged with loss). Top portion of final leaf excised, but the text is continuous (see below). Recent sympathetic wrappers. With faults, and priced correctly. EXCELLENT..... More
![Item #2358 [FIRST FEMINIST MANIFESTO OF THE NEW WORLD, 1700]. Fama y Obras Posthumas del Fenix de...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2358.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681226897)
Madrid: Ruiz de Murga, 1700. First Edition. Small 4to (204 x 146 mm). Bound in contemporary Spanish sprinkled calf, red spine label (extremities somewhat rubbed but perfectly sound). 71 ff. including title-page printed in red and black + 210 pp. + 3 ff. Signatures: [pi]² [par.]⁴ 2[par.]⁴ 2[par.]⁴ 3[par.]⁴ 4[par.]⁴..... More
