Latin American History

2 volumes. [xvii]+548+[16 index] pages. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8 1/4") bound in old velum with original string ties still in place. With Historia de la Conquiesta de Mexico, Poblacion, y Progressos de la merica Septentrional, Conocida por el nombre de Nueva Espana, Segunda Parte [38 of 40]+474 pages. Folio (11 1/4" x 8") bound in contemporary tree calf with six raised spine bands in gold leaf and red label in gilt lettering, edges tinted red. From the library of George M Foster. (European Americana 743/197; Medina, BHA 3339; Palau 286883) First editions.Antonio de Solis y Ribadeneyra (1610 - April 19, 1686), Spanish dramatist and historian, was born at Alcala de Henares (less probably, Plasencia). He studied law at Salamanca, where he produced a comedy entitled Amor y obligacion, which was acted in 1627. He became secretary to the count of Oropesa, and in 1654 he was appointed secretary of state as well as private secretary to Philip IV. Later he obtained the lucrative post of chronicler of the Indies,… Read More

xii+436+[6] pages. Octavo (9" x 6") issued in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and embossed decorative stamp to covers. Preface by W H Prescott. From the library of George M Foster. First British edition.She was— it is no exaggeration— Mexico's Tocqueville, but if that ploddingly perceptive Frenchman's Democracy in America is one great boiled sausage of seriousness, Calderón de la Barca's Life in Mexico is a confection as strange and marvelous as Mexico itself. Stranger still in matters of (if literary) haute cuisine: the author was Scottish, née Frances Erskine Inglis. She married the Spanish diplomat Angel Calderón de la Barca in 1838; one year later they sailed for Mexico, where he was to serve as Spain's first ambassador to its still very raw and violent ex-colony. Revolutions, earthquakes, exotic flowers and snow-capped volcanoes: rich ingredients for even the most burn-the-toast kind of chronicler. But Calderón de la Barca is shrewd and skilled as any novelist at stirring in the… Read More

Baltimore: The Maya Society, 1937. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Friar Diego De Landa. A very good - second edition [HAND D83], with solid, sturdy binding and cover. Original blue cloth boards with gilt stamping and Maya Society crest in gilt. The blue cloth is showing heavy spotting on the spine and front cover, and the top front corner is bumped. Pages toned, top edge darkened. Former owner's bookplate. Laid in with a staplebound pamphlet for "Publications in the Field of Archaeology, Anthropology, etc. issued by the Carnegie Institute of Washington... May 1937." Heavily illustrated, includes maps and related documents. 142 pp. Octavo, 6 x 10 inches tall. An important primary source, scarce in this edition "Modern scholars regard Landa with a mixture of frustration and admiration. At the same time he wrote his comprehensive work on Mayan culture, his orders to destroy all icons and hieroglyphics obliterated the Mayan language ..., helping to undermine and destroy the… Read More

Editorial Porrua, Mexico City, 1973; First Edition, Limited; Copy #2385 of a total of 3,000 numbered copies; quarto (9 1/2" x 13 1/2"), 377 pages; illustrated. The 1973 Editorial Porrua 25th anniversary edition of Manuel Touissant’s monumental study of the history, art, and architecture of the Cathedral of Mexico, first published in 1948. Finely bound in 1/4 calf, gray linen, black morocco spine label, gilt titles and decorations, and decorative end papers. Generously illustrated with a wealth of photographs and drawings, including a number of photos by Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida. Text in Spanish. The definitive work on the subject. Fine, clean, crisp, bright, and sharp, all gilt brilliant, in a Near Fine dust jacket, no chips, tears, or price-clipping. A handsome copy of a magnificent book.

1834, Mexico City, Imprenta de la testamentaria de Valdes, a cargo de Jose Maria Gallegos[8]+17+43+[1]+[errata] pages with woodblock on page 43. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 14") bound in quarter leather with four raised spine bands and lettering in gilt to spine and cover. (Viñaza 433; Palau 219254) First edition.The Otomí are an indigenous American tribe residing in the central plateau region of Mexico, most heavily concentrated in the states of Hidalgo, Mexico, Puebla, Veracruz, and Michoacan, and who speak one of four dialects of the Otomí language. In this catechism, Francisco Pérez first gives a detailed explanation in Spanish of the different sounds of the Otomí language and how to pronounce them. However, the language has been noted for the difficulty in reproducing it using Roman letters, and for this reason according to Nicolas Leon, "their few printed texts provoked the censure of the Fourth Mexican Council and serious controversies between the professors of that language of that era." Texts… Read More

Quarter black morocco over marbled boards, boards bent with losses to paper cover, gilt particulars to spine, previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, name stamp to title page, [4], 297, [37(index)], [1(errata)] pp., Spanish text. Very scarce second printing of "Reglamento para el Gobierno de la Provincia de Californias", under which states the laws by which Upper California was governed, until they were superseded by American law in 1850; this second printing of the "Reglamento" occupies pages 121 to 175 and was apparently unknown to Californiana bibliographers. Except for the unprocurable original edition, this was the only form in which the laws were available during their effective period. Wagner cites only the editions of 1784 and 1874; to these Cowan and Zamorano add the Grabhorn reprint. Contains Bennett & Marshall's May 1954 "Californiana" catalogue clipping discussing the rarity of the book, along with a 1946 clipping giving a brief summary of the book. A small Thomas Winthrop Streeter… Read More

8 volumes and atlas. viii+437+3 pages with two frontispieces and index; x+316 pages with frontispiece and index; xii+440 pages with frontispiece and index; viii+308 pages with frontispiece and index; xi+296 with frontispiece, folding map and index; viii+287 pages with frontispiece and index; viii+326 pages with frontispiece and index. With Etat civil, politique et commercant du Bengale; ou histoire des conquetes & de l'administration de la Compagnie Angloise dans ce pays. Pour servir de suite a l'histoire philosophique & politique by William Bolts (1740?-1808) 2 volumes in 1. xxxii+166 pages with frontispiece; 170 pages with frontispiece and index. Atlas 50 engraved maps by Rigobert Bonne, 49 of which double-page and 1 folding, numbered 1-49, and 17 bis, 23 letterpress tables, some of which folding. Period mottled calf, flat spines in six (text) and seven (atlas) compartments, red and brown lettering pieces in the second and fourth, others with repeat decoration in gilt. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4")… Read More

xv+486+[1] pages with folding map, tables and appendix. Octavo (8 3/4"x 5 1/2") bound in half antique dark green calf with five raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. (Howgego p.396; Sabin 46988; Hill 1115) First edition. Henry Lister maw entered the Navy 11 May, 1818; and was for some time Midshipman of the Liffey, bearing the broad pendant in the East Indies of Commodore Charles Grant, by whom, during the expedition to Ava, he was allowed to act as Naval Aide-de-Camp to Sir Alex Campbell, Commander-in-Chief of the troops. While officiating in that capacity he appears to have been employed in surveying the Rangoon river, and to have effected, 25 June, 1824, the destruction of two fire-rafts. In an attack subsequently made on a strong stockade on the Dalla river, it was his misfortune, while cheering on his men, to receive a ball in the head – a circumstance which obliged him to return to England for the benefit of his health. Having all along, however, distinguished… Read More

First edition bound in vellum. Munich, 1647. Condition is Good. Primary condition issue is missing spine. Text block binding remains sound. Vellum boards with Yapp style fore-edges and typical vellum warp. Interior has modern stamp (R151) on interior front pastedown, ffep with pencil notation and older ink info, title page with old library stamp, prior ownership inscription dated 1699, half title has pencil note at bottom. No other interior markings or problems. Quite decent old paper remains supple. Paginates: [24], map, 480, [12] with original blanks. This is a small format book (12 mo) approximately 12.5 x 7 cm. See Alden European American 647/28. A cool old book with a 17th century map of the Americas. Please see images of the book you will receive. Feel free to inquire. Notes: Alden states this is historical fiction based on Gobeo's shipwreck narrative of 1610 (EA 610/115). It does not read like that to me (I observe and make no claim to authority). This is a description of Central and South… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, Inc, 1948. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. First English Edition (published in Spanish as La Amortajada), "In the same delicately haunting style she used in House of Mist, Maria-Luisa Bombal tells the story of a beautiful and violent woman, who sees clearly, only after death, the intricate pattern which her passions made in the lives of those who were close to her" (from the dustjacket). 8 x 5". Original navy cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Letters rubbed, spine and tips of boards lightly bumped, prev. owner's name/date to front pastedown. Tiny pinpoint hole to half-title page. Endpapers and top edge toned. Pictorial dustjacket has very small chips, in protective cover. A very good copy in a very good dustjacket of this elusive title.

197 leaves. Folio (12 ¾" x 8 ¾") bound in half cloth over beige cloth. This book holds all the closed loans in Puebla in the year 1606-1660. All these loans were handled by Convents or Capellanías. It's an interesting and early item that sheds light on how the churched worked in the colonial era, and it also provides a lot of information about properties and life in the XVII century in Colonial Mexico.
This volume records censos finalized in the year 1660, including some which originated as early as 1606. Most documents begin on a piece of sealed paper, extend to approximately 2 to 14 leaves, and conclude with docketing on the verso of the final leaf noting "senso" or "chancelacion."
By the last third of the eighteenth century, the various elements that had permitted the church to flourish economically—crown support, creole largesse, Indian and Black labor—began to come apart. At first, because of the peculiar way in which the church was involved in colonial economy and society, the clergy… Read More

Carnegie Institution, Washington; 1937-1938. Hardcover First Edition 6 volumes, pp xxviii, 465; Vol. II, (xii), 607; Vol.III, (x), 493; Vol. IV, xii, 496; Vol. V, in 2 parts, containing black and white photographic plates, engraved plates (many folding), and folding maps showing ground plans, terrain, cross sections, etc. Folio, green cloth. Excellent condition and as such a rare find ; In Volume 5 part II, three of the plates (214, 215, 216) were neatly cut out, probably for an exhibit, but are re-inserted but loose. No damage of the images. V. IIIs back board has been bumped, as shown. Previous owners name in V. I, as shown. Some underlining on illustration list. Morley's study the Mayan monuments and heiroglyphic inscriptions, the result of nearly forty years of expeditions and research. This is a classic work in remarkable condition and a must for any serious student of Mesoamerica.

Memorias de la sierra maestra la revolucion de fidel castro.libro escrito por arrmando gimenez.y publicado por la editorial lautaro argentina primera edicion 1959 este es quizasuno de los primeros libros escritos sobre la naciente revolucion cubana de 1959 libro testimonio de la victoria con el derribo de fulgencio batista del poder.y un documento vivo de episodios del movimiento 26 de julio.donde el libro recoje los inicios del moviemiento,describe el levantamiento de un pueblo rebelde,en sierra maestra prosusamente ilustrado con emocionantes documentos fotograficos el autor.periodista de enorme capacidad narrativa aborda con profundidad las postulaciones nacidas al calor de la victoria.y que deberan ser cumplidas para garantizar el exito de la revolucion aporta tambien entrevistas con fidel castro y ernesto che guevara el inquieto guerrillero argentino,uno de los arquitectos de su triunfo.

London: Rapp & Whiting, 1968 First printing of the first British Bilingual (English/Spanish) edition. Signed by Robert Bly directly on the title-page. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with a hint of shelf-wear, else fine. A beautiful copy.

historia eclesiastica de cuba,por juan martin leiseca primera edicion original,caratulas originales,obra ilustrada con numerosas fotos de la epoca,historia de la iglesia en cuba.y sus instituciones con prologo del dr mariano aramburo libro muy raro y escaso.