Mexico in 1827
London: Printed by S. and R. Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street, 1828. First Editiion. One of the most... Read More
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Indian Art of Mexico & Central America.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition. A most important study of Pre-Columbian art from Mexico written by a pioneer of aesthetic appreciation of ancient Native American art. Read More
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Recepción hecha en Toluca al Illmo. y Rmo. Sr. D. fray Ramón M. de San José, obispo "in partibus" de...
Mexico: Imprenta de la “Voz de México”, 1874. Read More
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A Trip to Mexico, Being Notes of a Journey from Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and Back with an Appendix.
Toronto: Willing and Williamson, 1880. First edition. Read More
Price: $750
Portrait photograph of Adolfo Best-Maugard.
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
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Life in Mexico during a residence of two years in that country.
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 her... Read More
Price: $300
With an Original Drawing
Mexico South: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Number 32 of 100 copies. With an Original Drawing. With an original drawing of a young gaucho signed by Covarrubias. An outstanding production by Knopf of Covarrubias' study of the culture, peoples, and history of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The poems and songs were... Read More
Price: $2,750
The True History of the Conquest of Mexico by Captain Bernal Diaz del Castillo, One of the Conquerors. Written in...
Salem, Mass: Printed at London: Reprinted at Salem, by Joshua Cushing for Cushing & Appleton, 1803. First American edition. Read More
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Disertación que manifiesta la propiedad que los eclesiásticos tienen en sus bienes.
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 la anuencia... Read More
Price: $650
Border States of Mexico: Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango...A Complete Description of the Best Regions for the Settler, Miner, and...
San Francisco: Bacon & Company, 1881. 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 on mining... Read More
Price: $375
A Trip to the City of 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
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Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican: A historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of that country from the period of...
Hartford: S. Drake and Company, 1853. First edition. Read More
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Message from the President of the United States, to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the First...
Washington, D.C: Printed by Wendell and van Benthuysen, 1847-1848. United States Congress (30th, 1st Session); Senate Ex. doc. no. 1. Read More
Price: $800
Report of the Select Committee of the Senate in Relation to the Proceedings of the Board of Commissioners on the...
Washington: Beverly Tucker, 1854. First edition, Senate issue. Investigation of the spurious claims of Gardiner and Mears for alleged destruction of Mines in San Luis Potosi during the Mexican War. Read More
Price: $125
HENRY SMITH PRITCHETT'S COPY
Appleton's Guide to Mexico, including a Chapter on Guatemala and an English-Mexican Vocabulary.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1884. Second edition, revised. HENRY SMITH PRITCHETT'S COPY. HENRY SMITH PRITCHETT'S COPY with his signature, Washington University, St. Louis, 1885 July on endpaper. Pritchett, the eminent American astronomer was at this time the Professor and Observatory Director at Washington University where he remained until... Read More
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Face to Face with the Mexicans.
New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1887. First edition. Read More
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History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a preliminary view of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the...
London: Ricahrd Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1844. Second edition. Read More
Price: $600
History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a preliminary view of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the...
Paris: Baudry's European Library, No. 3, Quai Malaquais, 1844. First French edition. From Baudry's Collection of ancient and western British Authors Nos. 395 to397. Read More
Price: $300
WITH ALS
The History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a preliminary view of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of...
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1843. First edition. WITH ALS. With laid in 1 page ALS to Messrs. Carey & Hart, dated March 25, '47, "You are quite welcome to make any use you please of the note which I wrote to Mr. Griswold..." Read More
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The Lost Empires of the Itzaes and Mayas: An American Civilization, Contemporary with Christ, Which Rivaled the Culture of Egypt.
Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1933. First edition, one of 1006 copies. Read More
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Nuevo Prontuario de lo más esencial de la Ordenanza : que contiene una recopilación de las leyes penales adiccionadas con...
Mejico: Imprenta de Altamirano, Calle de las Escalerillas num. 11, 1832. A very rare book in a very early linen Mexican binding. Read More
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War without Fighting.
New York: The Derrydale Press, Christmas, 1928. First Edition, number 7 of 100 copies. "On June 19th, 1916, the National Guard was called into Active Service with the prospect of being sent into Mexico. I was...a member...in the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry." This copy has bookstamp of George C.... Read More
Price: $1,750
History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a preliminary view of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the...
Paris: Baudry's European Library, No. 3, Quai Malaquais, 1844. First French edition. From Baudry's Collection of ancient and western British Authors Nos. 395 to397. Read More
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Twenty Years Among the Mexicans, A Narrative of Missionary Labor.
Cincinnati: Chase & Hall, Publishers, 1875. First edition. Rankin (1811-1888) was a missionary teacher from New Hampshire who opened the first Protestant mission in Mexico after being a missionary in Texas. Read More
Price: $150
Presentation Copy with Original Photograph
The Frescoes of Diego Rivera.
New York: Harcourt Brace, [1929]. First edition. Presentation Copy with Original Photograph. SIGNED by Rivera on the front free endpaper for "Senorita Vail" in memory of a visit to her home, dated 13 November 1931. Laid in loose is a vintage photograph (3 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches) of Laurence... Read More
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Proletariat Poems. Inscribed to Famous Collector
Las Masas Mexicanas, Sus Poetas, Cantos De Los Hombres Que Han Hecho Experimentar a Las Multitudes El Valor Estetico De...
Mexico: Editorial "Avante" 1930. First edition. Proletariat Poems. Inscribed to Famous Collector. Inscribed "A Salo Hale, de Alma de artista, con grande ---R. Salazar Mex. 1930" Salomón Hale was a Polish Jewish art collector based in Mexico City. Protest poems from left wing Mexican poets including Fernando Celada, German List Arzubide... Read More
Price: $450