Mexico City: 1759-1941. Altogether 33 items (plus 14 duplicate pieces of religious ephemera). Includes 5 monographs dating from 1759-1941, various bindings, various conditions (see below). INTRIGUING "COLECCION RELIGIOSA MEXICANA" totalling 33 items (of which 5 are monographs dating from 1759, 1833, 1857, 1933, and 1941), with a goodly quantity of..... More
![Item #3672 [MEXICAN AND CUBAN THEATER EPHEMERA 1905-1932 - Six items]. Mexican, Cuban Theater...](/pictures/thumb/3672.jpg?v=1642868043)
Mexico City and Havana: 1905-1932. Various sizes (8vo to large 4to), together six items. All original wrappers, various wear. ΒΆ 1-4. Programs from "The Little Theatre" of Mexico City (1931-1932). NONE ARE LISTED IN OCLC / FIRSTSEARCH. THIS THEATER SEEMS TO HAVE FADED INTO OBLIVION. But judging by the number..... More
![Item #3668 [MEXICAN PAPER - REVIEW COPY]. The Aztec and Maya Papermakers. Victor Wolfgang von Hagen](/pictures/thumb/3668.jpg?v=1642868763)
New York: J.J. Augustin, 1944. First Trade Edition. Small 4to. [10], 120 pp., color frontispiece of the Dresden Codex, 39 plates. Original cloth, original dust-jacket protected by Brodart. Apart from minor wear, an unspoiled copy in very good state: dust-jacket NOT price-clipped, NOT ex-library! First Trade Edition, Review copy, with..... More
![Item #3634 [A SOLDIER IN TEXAS AND MEXICO 1847]. The Twelve Months Volunteer; or, Journal of a...](/pictures/thumb/3634.jpg?v=1639677201)
Cincinnati: J.A. & U.P. James, Walnut Street, 1848. First Edition. 1848. [i-v] vi-xi [1, blank]. [13] 14-640 pp., 1 folded map (A New Map of Mexico, California & Oregon; 33.5 x 24.5 cm; first state, with date present), 3 plates, 4 full-page woodcut maps (text illustrations), 14 full-page woodcut scenes..... More
![Item #3632 [MEXICAN SOCIALIST ANTI-FASCIST BROADSIDE, 1930s] "Atencion Mexicanos" Union General...](/pictures/thumb/3632.jpg?v=1639666804)
Broadsheet (297 x 200 mm). Printed in red on inferior paper (creased, frayed at margins). Preserved in a mylar sleeve. RARE MEXICAN SOCIALIST ANTI-FASCIST / ANTI-FALANGE BROADSIDE, PRINTED ON THE CHEAPEST PAPER POSSIBLE, INEXPLICABLY PRESERVED FOR AT LEAST 80 YEARS. The dating of the broadside can be determined by the..... More
![Item #3633 [ILLUSTRATED BY LADY WARD]. Mexico in 1827. H. G. WARD, Henry George](/pictures/thumb/3633.jpg?v=1639662902)
London: Henry Colburn, 1828. First Edition. Vol. I: xix [1], 591 [1] pp.; Vol. II: viii, 730 pp. (lacking Colburn's 2-page ads). With 11 (of 13) plates after original artwork by Lady Emily Elizabeth Swinburne Ward, 5 of which are folded (8 aquatints of which one is hand colored, and..... More
![Item #3623 [CONTEMPORARY MADRID BINDING BY FRANCISCO CIFUENTES, 1821]. Siglo de oro en las selvas...](/pictures/thumb/3623.jpg?v=1638895443)
Madrid: Ibarra, Impresor de Camara de S.M., 1821. 8vo (183 x 125 mm). [1] f., xvi, 240, 99, [1] pp. With an engraved portrait of the author. Title-page with 6 inexplicable pin-sized wormholes, front flyleaf with one (present nowhere else in the volume). Contemporary Madrid binding by Francisco Cifuentes: sheep..... More
Cincinnati: Chase & Hall, 1875. First Edition. 8vo. 199 pp. Bound in original green publisher's cloth, title in gilt on spine with gilt floral ornament and triple ornamental roll in gilt at head and foot of spine. Corners slightly bumped, cloth rubbed away in bottom right corner of front cover..... More
![Item #3564 [PRESENTATION COPY]. My Winter in Cuba. W. M. L. Jay, pseud. of Julia Louisa Matilda...](/pictures/thumb/3564.jpg?v=1631807480)
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1871. First Edition. 8vo. 296 pp. + 4 pp. ads at end ("New Books to be Published in the Fall of 1871" which also includes the present title). Original publisher's green cloth, blocked and gilt, abrasions on front fore-corner and upper joint, affecting cloth, other binding..... More
![Item #3476 [1592 GUATEMALA MANUSCRIPT - AUCTION OF QUICHE MAYA LANDS]. Testimonio del titulo...](/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
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
![Item #3483 [FETISHIZING BREASTS IN MEXICO 1918]. Manzanas Del Paraiso. Libro de Pasion y de...](/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
![Item #3464 [SPANISH- AND PORTUGUESE-AMERICAN TREATISES 1493 ET SEQ.] Coleccion completa de los...](/pictures/thumb/3464.jpg?v=1619493003)
Paris: Durand, 1862. First Edition. Together 13 vols. (from a total of 16). 8vo. Contemporary French quarter morocco over marbled boards, worn (see images), ownership stamps from various sources, various defects, the most egregious being some worming to the outside of the binding of the last volume (not affecting text..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. First Edition. Large framed map (30 x 50 cm). Contemporary hand-coloring with blue wash, creasing where formerly folded. Not examined outside frame. Scale ca. 1:13,000,000. Scarce and important map, framed, and suitable for exhibition and study. The map shows sailing routes through the West..... More
![Item #3435 [1625 MAP OF WESTERN MEXICO, extracted from Purchas His Pilgrims]. "Hispania Nova" /...](/pictures/thumb/3435.jpg?v=1615903354)
London: William Stansby, 1625. Folio (32 x 22 cm). Single leaf (pp. 871/872), unmatted, unframed. Letterpress text on both sides (short tear in upper margin, touching a few letters). Engraved map (14 x 18 cm) in excellent state. ORIGINAL engraved map, not a reproduction! Early engraved of the Pacific coast..... More
![Item #3366 [MEXICAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE / SPIRAL PRESS]. Casa Manana. Elizabeth Morrow, William...](/pictures/thumb/3366.jpg?v=1614720302)
Croton Falls, NY: The Spiral Press, 1932. First Edition. 72 pp. Folio. Bound in original navy blue buckram, title gilt on front cover and spine, trifle wear along board edges, covers slightly scuffed, patterned blue and red endpapers. As is true in all copies, the textblock has a faint yellow/brown..... More
