![Item #2799 [CATHOLIC MISSION TO THE FLATHEAD INDIANS OF MONTANA]. "Berichte der...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2799.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1567818175)
Vienna: 1842. First Edition. 8vo. (200 x 130 mm). 88 pp. + 1 folding letterpress table recording donations. Original blue printed wrappers. In this unassuming and almost completely unknown journal are many communications from Catholic missionaries to North America, including is a forgotten 25-page letter from Pierre Jean De Smet..... More
![Item #3654 [EUROPEAN AMERICANA / ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY]. Bibliophile Americain: Catalogue de...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3654.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1641721143)
Paris: Librairie Ch. Chadenat, 1889-1898. First Edition. Together 21 catalogues in two volumes, numbered 2-22 (no. 1 "does not exist" - see below), all original wrappers bound in (mostly folded vertically in half, some chipped or a little soiled). Contemporary blue half calf over blue cloth boards (extremities rubbed but..... More
![Item #3616 [FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF PERU, 1817 - UNRECORDED EDITION]. Les incas ou la destruction de...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3616.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1637016960)
Paris: Guillaume et Companie, Libraire, rue Hautefeuille, no. 14, 1817. 2 vols., small 12mo. 233, [3]; 250, [4] pp. With 2 engraved frontispieces. Contemporary French mottled sheep (extremities worn and bumped; back cover of vol. 2 abraided with loss, leather on front hinge quite worn but the board is quite..... More
![Item #3609 [EUROPEAN AMERICANA 1681]. Recit de l’Estat present des celebres colonies. Charles...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3609.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1637016891)
Amsterdam: Reinier Leers, 1681. First Edition. [4], 5-43, [1] pp. (age toned, paper stock a little weak, some fraying to outer edges, lower gutter margin with evidence of dampstaining - SEE IMAGES). Preceded by two early binder's blanks (outer edge fraying, browned and brittle): blank fol. 1 (recto and verso)..... More
Madrid: Antonio de Sancha, 1783-1784. 2 vols., quarto (255 x 200 mm). L (i.e. 50) pp. + [8] pp. (Subscribers), 489 pp.; [4], viii, 460 pp. Illustrated with 2 engraved portraits (one of Cortes, the other of the author) + 24 full-page engraved plates after designs by Titian (sic), Josef..... 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&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
