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Record of a Hunting Trip to Alaska, 1889-1890

Random Sketches on a Hunting Trip through Mexico, the Western States, and Alaska T.G. B. May 4/89 to Apl 3/90...

V.p: 1889-90. Record of a Hunting Trip to Alaska, 1889-1890. Album of drawings and photographs by an accomplished amateur artist, Thomas Gilbert Bowick, during a hunting trip in Oregon and Alaska with his brother John Robie Bowick in 1889 and 1890. The brothers, apparently of English extraction, were part owners... Read More about Random Sketches on a Hunting Trip through Mexico, the Western States, and Alaska T.G. B. May 4/89...

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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 about Portrait photograph of Adolfo Best-Maugard

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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 about Life in Mexico during a residence of two years in that country

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Presente Amistoso Dedicado a las Señoritas Mexicanas.

Mexico, 1851. Text by: Félix María Escalante, Francisco Zarco, F. Gonzales Bocaanrgra, Marcos Arroniz, Francisco Granados Maldonado, Emilio Rey, Fernando Orozco y Berra, José T. de Cuéllar, Guillermo Prieto, Francisco González Bocanegra (Autor de los versos del himno nacional mexicano), and others. Read More about Presente Amistoso Dedicado a las Señoritas Mexicanas

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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 about Disertación que manifiesta la propiedad que los eclesiásticos tienen en sus bienes

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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 about Border States of Mexico: Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango...A Complete Description of the...

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The Rambler in Mexico.

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

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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 about A Trip to the City of Mexico

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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 about Appleton's Guide to Mexico, including a Chapter on Guatemala and an English-Mexican Vocabulary

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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 about The History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a preliminary view of the Ancient Mexican...

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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 about War without Fighting

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