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Mexico: Imprenta de la “Voz de México”, 1874. Read More Item Details for Recepción hecha en Toluca al Illmo. y Rmo. Sr. D. fray Ramón M. de San José, obispo "in partibus" de eumenia y vicario apostólico de la Baja California Add to Wish List
Item #226651
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New York: Printed for the Author by C. Vinten, 63 Vesey Street, 1841. First Edition. Includes several pages of observations on slavery in Kentucky, along these lines: "one cannot imagine, unless one sees them, how merry they are" (page 126). Also discusses the challenges faced by the Republic of Texas..... Read More Item Details for A Voyage to Mexico and Havanna; including some general observations on the United States. By an Italain Add to Wish List
Item #353462
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Toronto: Willing and Williamson, 1880. First edition. Read More Item Details for A Trip to Mexico, Being Notes of a Journey from Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and Back with an Appendix Add to Wish List
Item #241546
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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 Item Details for Portrait photograph of Adolfo Best-Maugard Add to Wish List
Item #56179
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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 Item Details for Life in Mexico during a residence of two years in that country Add to Wish List
Item #248247
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Mexico: May 23, 1835. A broadside decree issued by Migual Barragan, giving city status to Pueblo de Nuestra Se ora la Reina de Los Angeles and naming it the provisional capital rather than Monterey. The Mexican congress declares: “The town of Los Angeles of Alta California is elevated to the..... Read More Item Details for Primera Secretaria de Estado ... Se erige en ciudad el pueblo de los Angeles de la Alta California, y será para lo sucesivo la capital de este territorio Add to Wish List
Item #377678
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[Mansfield, Ohio: M.A. Pollock, 1905, i.e., 1906]. First edition, with 6 in date corrected in ink. Interesting account of an early twentieth century hunt in northern Mexico after deer and wild turkey (no luck on the turkey). Copies have been seen with the printer’s date 1905, or as here, with..... Read More Item Details for Hunting Big Game in the Sierras of Chihuahua Add to Wish List
Item #352487
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New York: Sheed & Ward, 1950. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Art-Making in Merico Add to Wish List
Item #329689
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Basel: Adam Petri, 1521. First edition. Peter Martyr's De nuper repertis insulis (On the islands recently discovered) is the first substantial printed account of the first three expeditions to Mexico and the discovery of the Mayan and Aztec civilizations. Including information from the lost first Cortés letter, it is a...... Read More Item Details for De nuper sub D. Carolo Repertis insulis, simulatque incolarum moribus...Enchiridion Add to Wish List
Item #374992
![Item #374975 Praeclara ferdina[n]di. Cortesii de Nova maris Oceani Hyspania Narratio...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/374975.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1770059860)
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Nuremberg: Fridericus Peypus, 1524. First Latin edition. The first Latin edition of Cortés' second letter: the first major announcement of the discovery of major civilizations in the New World, and as such is a work of surpassing importance. Cortés' second letter provides a vivid account of the people he encountered..... Read More Item Details for Praeclara ferdina[n]di. Cortesii de Nova maris Oceani Hyspania Narratio Sacratissimo. ac Inuictissimo Carolo Romanoru[m] Imperatori semper Augusto, Hyspniaru[m], & ċ Regi Anno Dominii M.D.XX… Add to Wish List
Item #374975
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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 Item Details for The Republic of Mexico in 1876. A Political and Enthnographical Division of the Population, Character, Habits, Costumes and Vocations of its Inhabitants. Translated into English by George F. Henderson Add to Wish List
Item #248248
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Madrid: en la Imprenta del Reyno, [1632]. The classic account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico by, as the titlepage identifies the author, "uno de sus Conquistadores." Written in response to Lopez de Gomara's laudatory biography of Cortés, in which "El Marques" sometimes seems to have conquered the Aztec empire..... Read More Item Details for Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España Add to Wish List
Item #374979
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Mexico: Imprenta de Ignacio Cumplido, 1849. First Cumplido Edition. "This is the best account by a Mexican contemporary of the American conquest of Texas. Eugene C. Barker called it 'the only comprehensive history of the colonization of Texas and the Texas Revolution from the most important sources on Texas from..... Read More Item Details for Memorias para la Historia la Guerra de Tejas Add to Wish List
Item #370865
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Hacienda Rosendal, Tantojón, Pánuco, V[era].C[ruz], Mexico: January 17, 1896. A charming tribute with subtle overtures from three Swedish bachelors living in Mexico to three California sisters whose hunting prowess was described in an article in the "Mexican Herald." Headlined "Three California Dianas. They Kill Bears and Panthers, and Olive in..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed by Guido de Voltaire, Edward Thimgren & A. Rahm, to the sisters Olive, Gussie and Addie Manchester, of Ukiah, California, in response to an article about the latter's prowess at hunting Add to Wish List
Item #315329
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Portland, Maine: The Mosher Press, 1931. First edition. 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. Bennett and..... Read More Item Details for Hunters of the Moon Add to Wish List
Item #317206
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1938. First edition. A journey from California to Mexico by Dana & Ginger Lamb in a hand-built boat in the 1930s. Read More Item Details for Enchanted Vagabonds Add to Wish List
Item #317500
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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 Item Details for The Rambler in Mexico Add to Wish List
Item #241548
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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 Item Details for A Trip to the City of Mexico Add to Wish List
Item #241468
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New York: Paine & Burgess, 62 John Street, 1845. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Montezuma; The Last of the Aztec. A Romance Add to Wish List
Item #334747
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London: R. H. Porter, February 1889 - August 1902. First edition. 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 Mayan ruins in Guatemala in 1880..... Read More Item Details for Biologia Centrali-Americana; Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America. Edited by F. Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin ... Archaeology Add to Wish List
Item #323372
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Hartford: S. Drake and Company, 1853. First edition. Read More Item Details for Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican: A historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of that country from the period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the present time; with a view of the ancient Aztec empire and civilization; a historical sketch of the late war; and notices of New Mexico and California Add to Wish List
Item #241608
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Mexico: 1881. Depicts the route of a railroad from Mexico City to Puente de Ixtla, then north west to Toluca and west to Tancitaro, with proposed transecting routes to connect the railroad from Pazo (on the Atoyac River) to Gihuatenejo on the Pacific coast. Pawel Primer evidently served as an..... Read More Item Details for Croquis del ferro-carril de la Mesa central entre Mexico y Gihuatanejo [manuscript title] Add to Wish List
Item #372908
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London: Ricahrd Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1844. Second edition. The Conquest of Mexico, beautifully written in a style which Prescott had labored for years to perfect, and based on the most searching inquiry into the original sources, set a new standard for the narrative type of history.” — Grolier One..... Read More Item Details for History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a preliminary view of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortés Add to Wish List
Item #221560
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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 Item Details for History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a preliminary view of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortés Add to Wish List
Item #244617
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San Augustin de las Cuevas [Tlalpan]: Imprenta del Gobierno, 1827. Congress began its activities on February 24 and closed on June 2 of the same year, 1827. Among the earliest items printed by the government of the State of Mexico. Read More Item Details for Coleccion de Decretos y Ordenes del Primer Congreso Constitutional de Mexico. Tomo Ie Add to Wish List
Item #55021