•  Palau 141001; Sabin 14210.   Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of ties, front joint (inside) starting to open. Scattered foxing, including on title-page; short tear, repaired, in title; some staining in early margins and into text; without the preliminaries or the added engraved title. Doodling in many margins; ink stains from a careless quill user on several pages. John Carter Brown's stamped signature on p. 1. A less than perfect copy that yet does not “feel” maimed; a copy with a distinguished provenance to match the distinction of the work.  (27561)

After her husband's death in battle (1885), Sra. Barrios moved toNew York City where she presided over a notable salon. According to author Francisco Goldman, though we cannot confirm the anecdote, “The stallion her husband was riding when he was killed in battle, she had brought up to New York, and she used to ride it in Central Park. It was like the world of One Hundred Years of Solitude coming to the world of Edith Wharton!”

No copy is located via WorldCat, NUC, COPAC, CCILA, or Metabase, but we know of one at Tulane.

•  Not in Valenzuela. For Goldman's note (and much more equally unconfirmed), see: <http://bombsite.com/issues/88/articles/2665>.   Very good, clean and whole. “1881" in ballpoint pen in right margin, recto.  (31041)

Provenance:  With ownership stamp of early 20th-century American archaeologist Harry Evelyn Dorr Pollock on front free endpaper.

Binding: Navy blue publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and blind ruling on spine, decorative foliate frames on covers in blind. Binder's label of Edmonds & Remnants, London, on rear pastedown.

•  Palau 21943; Sabin 2771; Nicaraguan National Bibliography 1476.   Binding as above: gently rubbed with tiny tissue patches applied to weak areas of bookcloth, text slightly cocked, front hinge repaired and a few preliminary leaves reattached with long–fiber tissue and wheat starch paste. Light age-toning with some foxing, most notably around plates; one leaf with small marginal hole, a few corners creased, some leaves with evidence in margins of hasty opening.  (36298)

In this work of canon law and Catholic Church customs and practices, Baquero studies the privilege that the Bull of the Holy Crusade granted the Spanish nation regarding oratories in private residences; it applied not only to Spain but tocolonies as well.

The first of three, this edition was published by “un amigo del author.” The other editions appeared in 1781 AND 1861.

Only one U.S. library reports ownership of either the 1777 or 1781 edition. It should be noted that there is NO 1771 edition, despite Palau and online cataloguing; cataloguers have simply failed to look at the last page of the supposed 1771 edition to see that the colophon is dated 1777.

This offers one very pretty large initial and some modestly nice work with type ornaments.

•  Palau 23499 (giving wrong date of publication).   Contemporary limp vellum, a bit missing from back cover; evidence of ties, and binding with light dust-soiling. Lacking rear free endpaper. A clean, nice copy.  (29596)

•  Flake 9216a (for the House issue); Howes U33.   Bound as above, rubbed with gilt faded (still legible) and free endpapers missing; interior clean, lightly age-toned, pleasant.  (23684)

This rebellion was the first of two that Cruz led against the government of Cerna, the heir of Carrera regime. The second one in 1869 led to Cruz's death in battle.

Searches of NUC, and WorldCat locateonly two copies in U.S. libraries.

•  As issued.  (33990)

Signed by the crown with a wooden stamp, “Yo el Rey.”

This copy sent to Santiago, Chile, and docketed there.

•  Removed from a nonce volume. Clean and untattered.  (25817)

A mixed set in mixed bindings: all volumes except 11 are first editions, the exception being a 1966 reprint. Many original wrappers bound in. Volumes 1–10 in early quarter cloth, 11–42 in modern full cloth.

•  Griffin, Latin America: A guide to the historical literature, 2063; Palau 56442.   Bindings as above: Vols. 1–10 with abrasion/discoloration to spines, otherwise minor wear; moderate foxing, and some early annotations. Vols. 11–42, cloth bright; mostly clean internally, last 2 pages of last volume supplied in facsimile. Vol. 38 lacking fascicles 3, 4, 5, and 6.  (25828)

Cuadra was a noted lawyer who lived sometimes in Nicaragua and other times in Costa Rica but apparently eventually settled in Costa Rica.

No copy located via WorldCat, NUC, COPAC, CCILA, or Metabase.

•  Not in Valenzuela; not in Nicaraguan National Bibliography.   Very good condition.  (31045)

No copy traced via WorldCat, COPAC, CCILA, or METABASE.

•  Light waterstain criscrossing text; one pin-type wormhole in left margin and many, very small ones in lower margin, occasionally into lower four lines of text not costing any words. Good++ copy.  (30891)

Printing seems to have arrived in El Salvador in 1825, placing this in the first decade of that art there.

Apparently rare: We trace no copy via NUC Pre-1956, WorldCat, CCILA, or METABASE.

•  Removed from a nonce volume. A few small holds from insect damage, a few of the few repaired with archival tissue. Old bibliographical notations in pencil in margins. Light waterstaining in upper outer corner.  (25791)

Interest in learning Spanish increased in the U.S. in the 1790s as commerce with Mexico, Central America, Cuba, and even Spain became a practical matter after Spain opened some ports to foreign commerce.

Searches of WorldCat and ESTC locate fewer than 10 U.S. institutions reporting ownership of this work. Needless to say, early school books suffered at the hands of children, one of the great enemies of books.

•  Not in Parsons. Evans 33731; ESTC W13901.   Publisher’s sheep; back cover damaged with loss of leather; text foxed and stained, with dampstaining. Far from a pristine copy but acceptable for such a scarce book.  (31031)

The vast bulk of this work attempts to convince the English to support the Scots' enterprise and cites political, religious, social, and economic reasons for doing so; clearly, the Scots knew that English naval might in particular would be essential for the success of the scheme. Beyond this, however, a section (pp. 42 to 51) addresses the natural history, native population, agricultural commodities, and indigenous industry of the region; and the work ends with an account of the Scots' settlement, the buildings erected there, and its intercourse with the indigenous people.

Authorship of this work is problematic: It is signed “Philo-Caledon” at the end of the dedication and three other names have have been proposed as possible authors in addition to Foyer's — George Ridpath, Andrew Fletcher, and John Hamilton (2nd Baron Belhaven). Added to the conundrum of authorship, the work was produced in four editions in the same year, each having different numbers of pages, each with a different signature scheme, none with a publisher, and this one without even a place of publication!

•  Wing (rev. ed.) F2047; Sabin 78211; Alden & Landis 699/9; ESTC R18505 ; and Halkett & Laing II:32.   20th-century half dark brown crushed morocco with brown linen sides. This copy has all the hallmarks of having once been through a British bookseller's “hospital”: all leaves are dust-soiled or age-toned; all leaves are uncut but some have been extended and others not, and some leaves with torn margins (but not all) have had lost paper restored; all such repairs and extensions are within the first six leaves, meaning these were probably supplied from another copy. Top of title-leaf trimmed with loss of “A” of the title; another leaf with a tear to the top margin with loss costing tops of several letters of words on one page, and two leaves with the running head guillotined by a binder; some stray stains. An interesting copy for its probable if problematic history and condition.  (34130)

This document is one of the very few printed in the temporary capital of Mixco, a press having been salvaged from the ruins in the former capital. Thus, Mixco was the second city/town to have a press in Central America, and then, for only a short time—appoximately two years.

In addition to being important for its contents and in the realm of printing history, the González Bustillo report is uncommon: We trace only half a dozen copies in U.S. libraries.

•  Medina, Guatemala, 384; Palau 105113; Sabin 27811. Modern full calf, very plain style. Without the final leaf with one erratum on it.  (13841)

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC fail to locate any copies.

•  On Carrera as president for life, see: Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr., Rafael Carrera and the Emergence of the Republica of Guatemala, pp. 274–331.   Fine, as issued.  (35741)

Minister Aycinena announces that he will assume the presidential powers until a new leader can be appointed.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, CICLA, and Metabase locate only one library copy worldwide — in the U.S.

•  Valenzuela, VI, 119.   As issued; one small piece of blank paper torn from lower outer corner. Overall age-toning.  (31054)

The state of Los Altos came into being because of political differences and tensions between Guatemala City and Quetzaltenango and other parts of western Central America.

No copy traced via WorldCat, COPAC, CCILA, or METABASE; there is no OPAC at the Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala to be searched.

•  Almost-overall waterstain giving the paper an aged look. Upper margin with small area eaten by vermin and repaired with archival tissue; lower foremargin damaged with loss and repaired with undetermined tape. Overall good+.  (30884)

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, CICLA, and Metabase locate only two copies, both in the U.S. However, we do know of a third copy at Tulane.

•  Not in Valenzuela.   Folded and stitched as issued; minor chipping in lower margins. Scattered faint foxing. A very good copy.  (31053)

•  The 1870s saw changes in the printing industry in Guatemala; printing could be done on thinner paper and this collection bears witness to that, with some chipping at edges, some brittleness over all, and some items damp-damaged with loss of blank areas (only). Over all, good to very good condition, with a very few exceptions.  (36863)

Finally, the printers are the usual admirable suspects: Bracamonte, Beteta, and Arevalo. It is interesting to see them represented by such UNusual ephemera!

•  Medina, Guatemala, 761; 814; 852; 1523; 1525; 1557; 1577; 1580; 1596; 1613, 1626; 1758 1898; 1806; 1918; 2138.   All items are in very good condition, in Mylar sleeves, the entire collection in a quarter morocco clamshell case.  (33845)

This is a 180-degree turn-around stance from that of 12 November 1859 when the town published a decree fully supporting Barrios.

Pres. Carrera of Guatemala, a Conservative with ambitions to control all of Central America, did unseat Barrios and in October of 1863 installed Francisco Dueñas as president.

The meeting at which this document was drafted occurred on 27 February 1863, months prior to the Guatemalan invasion, but this first printed version did not appear until after the fall of Barrios and the installation of the Conservative government. It is dated 11 November 1863.

A postscript to the “Pronunciamiento” states “esta acta no se pudo dar a luz en su oportunidad por haber sido persequidos, encarcelados y confiscados los firmantes.” The names of the signers are present (in type) above the postscript.

Searches of WorldCat, COPAC, CCILA, and Metabase locate no copies.

•  Top margin crumpled and with a few tears and some small loss of paper, but not of text. One horizontal fold.  (31068)

The author was the cosmographer and historiographer of the Dutch East India Company as well as the Dutch royal family's official translator.

This is one of the scarcest volumes in commerce of the Elzevirs' series of histories in the Respublica series. It is only the fourth copy we have had in our 30+ years in the antiquarian book business.

Provenance: Faded 17th-century inscription on title-page indicating the volume was a gift of P. Dupre to a school whose name we do not decipher.

•  Willems 313; Rahir 284; European Americana 629/79; Palau 129562; Sabin 38560; Borba de Moraes (2nd ed.), Bibliographia brasiliana, I, 450.   Contemporary Dutch vellum over paste boards, all edges red with that dye sometimes spilling into margins. A clean, very good copy of this nice little book.  (33584)

The work is handsomely printed (although erratic in its pagination and signature markings), in double-column format, featuring title-pages in black and red with an engaging small engraved vignette of a ship between pillars reading “Plus” and “Ultra.”

Provenance:  Ownership stamp of Carlos Sanz in several places.

•  Sabin 40053; Palau 135738; Alden & Landis 737/135; Medina, BHA, 3071; Borba de Moraes, II, 150; LeClerc 872.   Contemporary vellum over pasteboards, a little soiled especially to spnes, retaining button and loop closures; hinges (inside) open in a few places but bindings strong. Occasional waterstain or other sign of exposure to dampness; a few gutter margins (only) of first volume with a short wormtrack; some cockling of paper.  (34810)

The Historia general de las Indias (first published in 1552) is divided into two parts which stand on their own although clearly written as two parts of a whole. Part I is a history of events concerning the discovery and conquests of the New World exclusive of those involving Cortés. Part II is entirely dedicated to the telling of Cortés's role in the conquest of Mexico and subsequent discoveries.

In this Italian translation from the pen of Agostino di Cravaliz (first published with title Historia di Mexico, et quando si discoperse la nuoua Hispagna [Roma: appresso Valerio & Luigi Dirici fratelli, M.D.L.V]), López's “all-Cortés” volume stands as part III of the three-volume Historia, delle nuove Indie Occidentali, with parts I and II being translations of Cieza de Leon's Historia, over Cronica del gran regno del Peru and the previously mentioned part I of Gómara's Historia general de las Indias.

The text here is printed in italic type except the capitals, which are roman. Leaves 292–96 containa brief study of Nahuatl and include lists of numbers, months, days, and years in that language.

Binding:  American signed binding by Coombs of Providence, R.I., for John Carter Brown (ca. 1865), with his binder's ticket. Full red morocco, round spine, raised bands; author, title, place and date of publication in gilt on spine; gilt roll on board edges; gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. Gilt supra-libros of John Carter Brown on front cover.

Provenance:  Ownership stamp of John Carter Brown on first leaf of preliminaries, supra-libros as above. On his death to his son John Nicholas Brown (1861–1900). On his death deeded to the John Carter Brown Library. Deaccessioned 2008.

•  Alden & Landis 560/28; Sabin 27739; Wagner, Spanish Southwest, 2t; Medina, BHA, 159n. This edition not in H. de León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli, but see 1692.   Binding as above. Lacks the title-leaf; (therefore) first leaf of preliminaries with a John Carter Brown's personal ownership stamp and his bookplate on front pastedown. Waterstaining, barely visible in many margins and lightly across text in last half. Four leaves with very old scribbling (pen trials?) in margins. A treasure with a distinguished provenance, presenting itself in the classic fashion of a 19th-century “collector's copy.”  (28914)

•  Vicaire, Manuel de l'amateur de livres du XIXème, I, 772. Uncut, mostly unopened copy. Publisher's wrappers, printed in black and red; front one off, with expectable chipping and with soiling. Some pages lightly spotted; mostly, clean. Now housed in a simple acid-free phase-box.  (14356)

•  Late 19th-century quarter red morocco, plain style, with marbled–paper covered boards. Leather lightly scuffed in places. All edges marbled to match endpapers. Occasional pencilling.  (24596)

•  ESTC T113762; Wellcome Catalogue, IV, 412; Graesse, Trésor de Livres Rares, V, 398; Alden & Landis 725/158; Pritzel 7258n; Hunersdorff & Hasenkamp, Coffee, 1177– 1179; Hunt Botanical Catalogue 428; Johnson, Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections, 328.   Contemporary reverse calf, covers framed and panelled in blind rolls; leather rubbed with small cracks near extremities. Title-page with early inked ownership inscription, lined through. Front pastedown and free endpaper as above; plates (and first few leaves, as above) institutionally pressure-stamped, generally unobtrusively. Plates trimmed closely at upper edges, occasionally touching caption or very uppermost edge of image. Pages faintly age-toned with scattered small smudges or tiny spots. A solid, more than serviceable copy with nice provenance.  (34556)

On 1 March 1842 President Santa Anna granted José de Garay (1801–58) a concession “para construir una vía de comunicación en el Istmo de Tehuantepec.” But as with all of these canal schemes, politics, money, nature, and technology posed insurmountable obstacles until the 20th century. This pamphlet of 1852 lays out the case that the Ministry of Foreign Relations presented to the public and the investors in the Tehuantepec project for cancelling Garay's concession and thus nullifying the investment in it by U.S. citizens and banks. One suspects that the terms of Santa Anna's pre–gold rush grant looked to be a major obstacle to the Mexican government's maximally benefitting from the proposed link between the oceans once many, many more people and much more cargo were travelling west; hence the obvious expediency of nullifying Santa Anna's generosity — not that any alternative plan came quickly to fruition.

•  Sabin 26547.   Contemporary blue stone–pattern marbled paper wrappers. Light wear, light to very light waterstain across upper outer corner not approaching text, old library markings/docketings to title-page. Very good.  (37057)

The Yucatecans were perhaps encouraged by the Tejanos and their successful separation from Mexico in 1836.

The four manuscript documents, two broadsides, and nine newspapers in this collection date from the period of the first Mexican invasion of the peninsula and the central government's failed attempt to quell what it saw as a rebellion — an invasion that was not repelled until April, 1843. Included here are: 1) A pair of letters dated Merida 17 and 24 January 1843, from Juan de Regil to Mauricio de Santelices of Havana regarding the political situation. 2) A printed broadside proclamation by President Miguel Barbachano (Mérida, 2 December 1842), imposing a heavy tax on and forced loans from the nation's industrialists, merchants, and professionals. 3) A manuscript extract from a letter (Merida, 21 December 1842) from an unknown Spanish national to Santelices, requesting assistance in leaving Yucatan due to the oppressive new tax, but also giving first-hand information aboutmilitary operations. 4) An Autograph Letter Signed, Campeche, 17 February 1843, from Geronimo Ferrer y Valls (Spanish commercial agent in Yucatan) to the Captain General of Cuba in Havana, expressing concern for the safety of Spanish nationals in the Yucatan and containing details ofmurders and summary military executions. 5) A printed broadside entitled Opinion General, Verdaderas ideas y convicciones de las secciones del ejército del Estado acampadas extramuros de esta Ciudad (Campeche: José M. Peralta, 1843).  And, 6) Nine issues of the Boletin del Espiritu del Siglo dated January to June 1843, most withexcellent content on Yucatecan resistance to the invasion by Mexico.

The Boletin del Espiritu del Siglo (published in Campeche by Jose Maria Peralta) is quite scarce, with only Yale reporting ownership of a very good but incomplete run. Present here are issues from 1843: 43 (7 January), 46 (13 January), 48 (15 January), 52 (19 January), 53 (20 January), 63 (30 January), 144 (22 April), 148 (26 April), and 189 (6 June).

Primary source material on the Republic of the Yucatan is rare.

•  Neither broadside is found in WorldCat, CCILA, or Palau. Boletin del Espiritu del Siglo is not listed in Charno, Latin American Newspapers, nor in CCILA.   Some newspaper issues and one broadside are browned or partially so. Overall condition is good or better.  (37063)

Searches of WorldCat, COPAC, CCILA, and METABASE locate no copies. Tthere is no OPAC at the Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala to be searched.

•  Valenzuela, III, 579.   Light to tea-colored waterstains in margins. A good copy.  (30889)

WorldCat locates only the copy in the Chilean National Library; no copy traced via COPAC, CCILA, or METABASE; there is no OPAC at the Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala to be searched.

•  Irregular inner margin. Light to quite noticeable waterstain running longitudinally top to bottom in one half of the leaf. Lower outer corner damaged with loss of paper due to exposure to moisture away from text.  (30886)

Provenance:  Booklabel of Raymond Clavreuil on front pastedown of vol. I.

•  ESTC T78965; Sabin 71973.   Brown speckled calf, two gilt leather spine labels, double rules accenting raised bands and covers framed in gilt fillets, all edges speckled red; bindings lightly rubbed and one cover with (limited) old stain to top. Marked as above, light age-toning; very small amount of pencilling on endpapers and off-setting to early/late leaves from turn-ins; a few tears in folded maps artfully repaired from back, folds strong. A handsome, sturdy set of a classic. (36140)

The Liberals installed Gen. Carlos Salazar in January, 1839, as provisional president of Guatemala replacing Conservative Mariano Rivera Paz. This was during a brief period of peace between the two factions. Here in a decree dated 20 March 1839 Salazar offers to act as mediator for any effort at a lasting peace.

No copy traced via WorldCat, COPAC, CCILA, or METABASE; there is no OPAC at the Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala to be searched.

•  Irregular margins, tea-colored waterstain running longitudinally top to bottom in one half of the leaf, date in faded old ink in top margin. A good+ copy.  (30885)

•  Palau 137466; Sabin 68390. Victorian acid-stained sheep with gilt spines extra. Marbled edges. Tape adhered to one title-page at inner margin. Ownership signatures on title-page. A nice set.  (3584)

Searches of NUC and WorldCat findno copies.

•  Not in Medina, BHA.   Folded as issued; lower margin irregular with mild damp damage.  (33489)

Thirty-nine Books and Broadsides describes works that well represent the earliest Mexican printing, the rarities including 14 New World incunabula, 9 the only known surviving copies (3 described for the first time), several second known and several more earliest known copies, and a number of works with woodcut illustrations — all from a major private collection.

All entries are illustrated and provide exact collations; notably, the bibliography provides the very first accurate system of description for 16-century New World broadsides. Limited to 250 copies. Each item fully described bibliographically and illustrated as well.

•  Publisher's cloth. New.  (36766)

•  Viñaza 355; García Icazbalceta, Apuntes, 73; Medina, Mexico, 5187; Sabin 94355; Palau 327486; Maggs, Bibl. Amer., 4678; Newberry Library, Ayer Indians, Huastec, 15; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 3801.   Contemporary limp vellum lacking the leather ties. An attractive, crisp copy and only the fourth complete copy of this work we have seen on the market in 35 years.  (33590)

Bedmar y Narvaez printed the title-page in black and red and the text is in double-column format. This copy bears both the engraved “frontispiece” and the black and red title-page, but, as usual, not the very rare colophon.

Although touted as “Primera parte” on the title-page, there were no further parts; this Historia is complete, “all published.”

•  Palau 366681; Medina, Biblioteca hispano-americana, 2051; Sabin 99643; Leclerc 1546; Salvá 3422; Heredia 3407; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 701/262. On Villagutierre, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica, fiche 1019, frames 213–16. 19th-century Spanish sheep (“pasta española”), covers abraded and with pinhole-type worming to spine; loss of lower inch of spine leather to insects. Browning to text due to impurities in water during paper manufacture. Small insect damage to margins of first four leaves, not touching any text; similar small damage in inner margins of last four leaves. Over all, a decent copy of a scarce work.  (13286)

17th-century Mexican imprints are ever increasingly difficult to find, and those produced in Puebla (as opposed to Mexico City) are the most difficult of all. This important treatise isonly the second complete copy we have had in our stock in more than 30 years of dealing in Mexicana.

Curiously, there are two issues of this sole edition. After the work was printed but before all copies were sold or distributed, a two-leaf insert was printed that begins “Copia de carta escrita por . . . Don Fray Francisco Nunez obispo de Chiapa” and concerns idolatry in the Yucatan. Some few copies (e.g., those at Library of Congress and New York Public) have these added two leaves. Medina did not know of them and they are not present in the copies at the John Carter Brown, the Bancroft, Tulane, or Beinecke Libraries. Offered here isa complete copy of the first issue, i.e., without the later added letter.

Provenance: Marca de fuego on closed bottom edges of the Hospital de Convalecientes de Nuestra Señora Belén de Puebla.

•  Medina, Puebla, 153; Sabin 99693; Palau 368931; Viñaza 232; León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli, 2827; Ugarte, Lenguas indigenas de Mexico, 427; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 4038; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 164.   Contemporary limp vellum, lacking the ties, modern lettering in ink (old style) on spine; binding a little small for the textblock. Worming at inner margins, occasionally into text, touching and occasionally costing letters but no whole words; waterstaining sometimes barely noticeable, other times like a tea stain. We'd rate it good++. Complete, with the sometimes missing full-page woodcut of the Cruxifixion.  (34384)

After a brief respite back in the U.S., where he was welcomed as a hero, Walker, the quintessential filibusterer, returned to Central America wanting to capture Honduras. He died there trying.

The map (14" x 16") is in four colors and is titled “Colton's Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, San Salvador & Costa Rica.

•  Publisher's brick colored textured cloth stamped in blind. Top and bottom of spine pulled and frayed. Some foxing at front and rear. Newspaper articles at front and rear of volume. Some added owner's notes about Walker on blanks. Clean.  (21372)