New York: June 4, 1964. Aldolfo Best-Maugard (1891-1964) was a Mexican painter and author of “An Approach to Creative Design” (1925). He established and promoted a new drawing teaching method, based on popular art elements and on the study of pre-Columbian forms, that was part of the nationalistic environment of..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Adolfo Best-Maugard

Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1843. First American edition. "Eyewitness account of life in early independent Mexico"---Griffin 4174 (later edition) Edited for publication and with a preface by W.H. Prescott.  The author was the Scottish wife of the Spanish minister to the U.S., who includes an account of..... Read More about Life in Mexico during a residence of two years in that country

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1950. First Edition. Read More about Art-Making in Merico

Mexico: "La Ensenanza" Printing Office, 1876. An English translation of this account of Mexico's political structure, history, ethnography, agriculture, commerce, and mining.  With unusual full-page color plates, depicting local costume. The map shows the ethnographic makeup of Mexico The lithography was done by V. DeBray y Co. The 8 color costume..... Read More about The Republic of Mexico in 1876. A Political and Enthnographical Division of the Population,...

Mexico: 1834. WITH: Rentas eclesiásticas : o sea, impugnacion de la disertacion que sobre la materia se ha publicado de orden del honorable Congreso de Zacatecas. Guadalajara : T. Cruz-Aedo, 1834 2. Disertación sobre la restitución de los bienes eclesiasticos necesaria para la salvación de los que han adquirido sin..... Read More about Disertación que manifiesta la propiedad que los eclesiásticos tienen en sus bienes

San Francisco: Bacon & Company, 1881. First edition. This is the scarce first edition of Hamilton's study of the Mexican states that run along the border of the United States.  Apparently, he hoped that this region would be settled by the "advance guard of American civilization."  Contains much useful information..... Read More about Border States of Mexico: Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango...A Complete Description of the...

Portland, Maine: The Mosher Press, 1931. First edition. Explorers Club. Crawford Johnson had just been elected the youngest member of the Explorers Club when he died in a motorcyle crash at 20 years old. The intrepid young man had just returned from an expedition to the Yucatan with Robert R...... Read More about Hunters of the Moon

London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1836. First edition. Charles Latrobe (1801-1875) was born in London and came to America in 1832. After visiting the chief cities in the States, he sailed down the Mississippi to New Orleans, and, in company with Washington Irving, struck out across the prairies..... Read More about The Rambler in Mexico

Boston: Putnam, Messervy & Co, Bankers, 60 State Street, 1885. First edition. A party of 30 (mostly Bostonians and new members of the Board of this newly completed Railroad) on the Mexican Central (Railroad) Excursion. "This story ... in the form of a diary entry of events, is made up..... Read More about A Trip to the City of Mexico

London: R. H. Porter, February 1889 - August 1902. First edition. The Foundation Work for Mayan Studies. Although the Mayan ruins of Central America were made famous by Stephens's and Catherwood's early explorations, scientific and serious archaeological study began with Alfred Maudslay. A Cambridge polymath who became intrigued by the..... Read More about Biologia Centrali-Americana; Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and...

Washington, D.C: Printed by Wendell and van Benthuysen, 1847-1848. United States Congress (30th, 1st Session); Senate Ex. doc. no. 1. Read More about Message from the President of the United States, to the Two Houses of Congress at the...