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

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

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. First Edition. Large framed map (30 x 50 cm). Contemporary hand-coloring with blue wash, creasing where formerly folded. Evidence of repaired tear on right margin affecting border but not the map itself (not examined outside frame). Scale ca. 1:13,000,000. Scarce and important map, framed..... More

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

San Antonio: Billo Smith Studios / The Order of the Alamo, 1971. 21 color photographs measuring 7" x 5". Generally good but all are CURLED or curling (SEE IMAGES), six photos with scattered faint stains; three with more moderate staining. Program: 4to. [28] pp., illustrated with reproductions of photographs. Original..... More

San Pablito Pahuatlan in Puebla state, Mexico: 1981 (after). Crown 8vo (18 x 14 cm). Original handmade paper wrappers with muñeco illustration on front, with manuscript title, place, date of original composition, and the genuine signature of Alfonso Garcia Tellez. Handmade and handbound codex, folded accordion style, red ribbon ties..... More

S.l. 1899 (after; likely early 1900s). Six (6) original photographs, each image is slightly sepia toned, unmounted (7 x 5 inches). Some images crinkled; versos dusty. SMALL BUT VERY INTERESTING GROUP OF CONTEMPORARY, ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF BATTLE SITES AND MONUMENTS OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN-WAR, APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED. These photographs were likely taken..... More

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