Washington. 1848. 132pp. plus twenty-four lithographed plates and folding map. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light foxing. Closed tear in left margin of map (just intruding into image) neatly repaired on verso. Very good. One of the great southwestern government- sponsored explorations, here in its earliest form.....
[Boston: Published at the Emancipator Office, 1842]. 35,[1]pp. Dbd. Old ownership signature on titlepage. Else very good. Adams' speech on the situation with Mexico, the question of annexing Texas, and on the potential escalation of conflict to include the United States and England on opposing sides. Also prints speeches by.....
Mexico. 1844-1849. Three volumes. [4],vii,[1],270,[2],30,[4],226,8; [4],325,[1],22,[1],138,13,[2]; [4],392,116,[1]pp., plus thirty-seven plates (one colored), three folding facsimiles, and a double-page map. Half title in each volume. Contemporary half green calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Boards edgeworn, hinges rubbed. Scattered light foxing. With the bookplate of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana on the front.....
Mexico: Imprenta de Ignacio Cumplido, 1852. 31pp. plus folding map; 12pp. PROYECTOS: Original printed green wrappers. Wrappers slightly edgeworn, glue residue on spine. Text and map detached from wrappers and loosely laid in. Light soiling along lower margin of text throughout, very good overall. DICTAMEN: Original printed blue wrappers. Near.....
Mexico City. 1856. 480,[4]pp. Several errors in pagination. Small quarto. Contemporary red half sheep and boards, spine gilt. Boards and extremities rubbed. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Light toning and minor foxing. Very good. An extremely valuable compilation which gives detailed data, including route, scenery, and other key information, about.....
Livorno: Marco Coltellini, 1763. Three volumes. xxiii,216,[1]; 256,[1]; 253,[2]pp. Seventy-eight engraved maps and plates (twenty-four of them folding). Frontis. Half title in first volume. Large quarto. Contemporary vellum, spines gilt. Some wear and light staining to boards, spine ends of first and third volumes repaired, spines a bit darkened. Occasional.....
Mexico. 1827. 77pp. Dbd. Near fine. The defense set forth by Capt. Luis Antepara against charges of treason brought against him by Gen. José Gregorio Arana. The charges stemmed from an attempted coup in the turbulent politics of post-Iturbide Mexico. OCLC locates two copies. Rare.
Mexico: Pedro Balli, 1575. 268 [of 288]pp., also lacking initial [12]pp. of preliminaries and leaves I1, I8, and R1. Small quarto. 19th-century cloth with calf spine; spine gilt, boards stamped in blind. Light wear to spine, corners bumped. With the bookplate of noted bibliographer Henry R. Wagner. Leaf A1 with.....
[Mexico City. October 18, 1830]. Broadside, 8 x 12.5 inches. Slight edge wear, faint browning. Very good. An early printing of this important Mexican government decree, dividing the former state of Sonora y Sinaloa into separate states of Sonora and Sinaloa. At this point, the new state of Sonora comprised.....
[New York]. 1855. 80pp. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt leather label. Minor shelf wear. Scattered soiling. Very good. Very scarce work regarding unresolved financial issues as a result of the Mexican- American War. After the war Arrangoiz was commissioned by Santa Anna to act as a "special agent," filling orders and.....
Mexico City: Imprenta del Gobierno, en Palacio, 1873. 43pp., plus folding map. Later half red calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Minor edge wear. Soft vertical crease to text, minor toning, short tape repair to verso of map at binding stub. Very good. A report on a project for the.....
New York: Casper C. Childs, 1850. 35pp. Illus. Dbd. Some light tanning. Small stains to first three leaves. Minor paper loss to top of last page, not affecting text. Very good. English translation, from the original Spanish, of Velasquez' supposed memoir, actually a concoction dreamed up to draw attention to.....
Mannheim: Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1772. [16],358,[1]pp. plus two engraved plates (on one sheet) and folding map. Small octavo. Modern half vellum and marbled boards, spine gilt. A bit of light age toning, an occasional light fox mark. Three small purple ink spots in lower portion of map. Near fine. First.....
Mannheim: Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1773. [16],358pp. plus two engraved plates and folding map. Contemporary black half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities lightly worn, small paper label at foot of spine. Small ink stamp on titlepage and verso of map. Minor scattered foxing. Very good. Second issue with some.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875-1878. Five volumes including in-text illustrations, plus several folding maps. Modern cloth, gilt morocco labels. Light foxing and tanning. A near fine set. A later printing of one of the classics of Native American history. In addition to the natives of the United States.....
New York. 1852. 295pp. plus 14 tinted lithograph plates (including frontispiece) and folding chart. Original blindstamped cloth. Spine ends frayed. Very good. Detailed work prepared for the Tehuantepec Railroad Company of New Orleans, concerning railroad and maritime communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via the Isthmus of Tehauntepec. The.....
Mexico. 1886. [32],[7]-86,[6]pp. Quarto. Contemporary three quarter pebbled calf. Binding a bit scuffed, small chips at head and toe of spine, internally about fine. First issued in 1714. This modern edition features corrections and additions by Dr. A. Penafiel. Basalenque was a late 16th to mid- 17th century Augustinian serving.....
New York: Burr Printing House, 1887. viii,167pp. Original green publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt on front cover. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Front inner hinge starting. Internally clean. Very good. Printed for private distribution. With descriptions of various locales in Mexico, as well as scenes from California, including San Francisco's.....
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Mexico: Jose Maria Alva, 1828. [6]pp. Quarto. Original printed wrappers, pictorial vignettes on front wrapper. Old horizontal fold, later repair to last leaf and rear wrapper at gutter, small closed tear to front wrapper. Slight separation at edges of folds, a few small chips. Inscribed by Beauchamp on p.[1]. Very.....
[Montréal. 1888]. 36pp. Original printed wrappers, detached, gatherings loose. Tanned, but clean. Good. An animated, brief memoir of a soldier fighting around Monterrey in 1866 as a part of the French army supporting Maximilian in Mexico during his attempted reign. After Maximilian announced the withdrawal of French forces from Mexico.....
Paris. 1839. 40pp. Dbd. Light dampstains in gutter, not affecting text; light scattered foxing. Overall very good. A scarce pamphlet on Mexican government debts owed to the French, written during a period of protracted Mexican political turmoil. These debts led to the so-called "Pastry War," in which the French used.....
Paris: A. Hennuyer, [ 1884]. [4],291,[9]pp. including illustrations and advertisements, plus thirteen engraved plates. Frontis. Titlepage vignette. Original red pictorial cloth, gilt, a.e.g. Cloth a bit toned, corners bumped. Spine slightly sunned, worn at head and toe. Contemporary gift inscription on front fly leaf, ink ownership signature on half title.....
Venice: Nicolo Zoppino, 1528. [10],73 leaves, including four double-page maps and two single-page maps, and numerous woodcut maps and plans in the text. A few leaves misnumbered. Small folio. 18th-century vellum, spine gilt, leather label. Boards and spine moderately soiled, leather label abraded. Titlepage printed in red and black with.....
New York. 1869. 344pp. Original cloth. Bit chipped at head and toe of spine, faint stain to couple of leaves, else a very good, tight copy. The second edition, employing the same sheets as the first edition of 1861 but with a new titlepage supplied. An interesting and well written.....
[Austin, Tx. 1905]. [8],258pp. manuscript. Folio. Light soiling, confined primarily to exterior leaves. Some light age toning. With authorial corrections throughout. Very good. In a brown half morocco box. Original draft of the novel, written when Clint Brown was an undergraduate at the University of Texas. Brown's conceit is that.....
