Mexico: Imp. de I. Cumplido, 1870. First edition. 8vo. 31 pp. The first constitution of the Mexican state of Hidalgo which was created January 15, 1869. In 1861 a plan to create the new state of Hidalgo out of parts of the state of Mexico was advanced by Federal deputies;..... More
(1) Report on the Gold Mine called Morro da Gloria, in the Province of Minas Gerais, Brazil, by Ferdinand Drutzch, for many years reduction officer at Morro Velho (folio, 7 pp., 26 March 1867); (2) Report on the Morro da Gloria Mine, by Capt. James Esleck, in charge of the..... More
Chicago, IL: Press of the Courrier de Chicago (for the Department of Public Works), 1893. First edition. 8vo. 39 pp. Caption title: Descriptive Account of the Geographical, Statistical, and Other Institutions of the Republic of Guatemala, Central America. Promotional prepared for Chicago’s 1893 World Columbian Exposition. Rather widely held in..... More
New York: West Coast Rubber Co. (James T. White & Co., Financial Agent), (1907). First edition. 4to. (8) pp. [printed double-column]. Illustrated from photographs, full-page map of the property, with inset of the location in Guatemala, tables. Includes a pitch for investment and description of the property and rubber cultivation..... More
(New York): United Fruit Company Passenger Service, effective December 17, 1938. Broadsheet, 9 x 16 inches, folded to narrow 8vo, recto with the wrapper panels, a brief description of the country, and suggestions for an 8-day tourist’s itinerary, verso with various 12 to 26 day trips from New York and..... More
(Lima, Peru: Ministry of Encouragement, 1902). First edition in English. 12mo. 53 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, maps and plans, one folding. “Official Publication” at head of front wrapper. Rather uncommon (OCLC locates 15 copies). Original illustrated yellow wrappers (some storage soiling). Very good. More
(Panama Canal: 1926). Small 4to (21 cm). 28 unnumbered pages. Profusely illustrated from well-captioned photographs, double page map. Thorough promotional for hotels Tivoli and Washington, featuring outdoor life, hunting & fishing, baseball, golf, architecture, the canal, scenery, etc. OCLC locates two similar titles, one a broadsheet from 1924, the other..... More
New York: United Fruit Co., Steamship Service, nd [1920s]. Promotional. Small 4to (23 cm) folded to narrow 8vo. 11, (1) pp. Illustrated from photographs, maps, one showing auto routes through the country. Includes descriptions of Guatemala City and the Highlands, with suggested trip itineraries. Apparently unrecorded on OCLC. Original illustrated..... More
(Washington, DC?), 1879. 8vo. 8pp. Original self-wrappers (soiled). An unattributed printing of the twelve-part act, as passed by the United States Senate and House of Representatives, proposing construction of a canal through Nicaragua to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. No effort to build a canal through Nicaragua ever progressed..... More
Washington, (DC): GPO, 1908. First edition, this volume only. 8vo. 550 pp. Folding map (for another article). Also includes articles on the Pacific railroads, California and the Civil War, and relations between the U.S. and Latin America. Original blue cloth, gilt spine title; some soiling and foxing, but a good..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1843. First British edition. 8vo. xii, 436 pp. 24-page publisher's catalogue, dated September, 1846. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown and blind stamp on title page. Sabin 9889 (quoting Edinburgh Review): " A more genuine book, in air, as well as in reality, it would be..... More
Photo album, 13 x 11 1/2 in., bound in light brown buckram, with vertical stripes on the covers. Carter's detailed record of his trip to the Colombian and Venezuelan oil fields, including photos, postcards, letters, receipts, an itinerary of the number of miles traveled, and a map of his route..... More
Dublin: P. & W. Wilson [and others], 1769. 8vo. 2 volumes: vii, 463; viii, 415 pp. Contemporary flame calf (joints cracked and a little eroded), leather spine labels (rubbed). A solid copy. First Dublin edition, originally published in French in 1757; the first edition in English appeared in London in..... More
Buenos Aires: np, 1904. Second edition ("Latest Data"). Tan textured paperwraps (short tears along spine, at head and foot of joints; chipping to spine ends). 8vo.; 136, (4) pp. Folding map tipped in to rear wrapper. Illustrated with photos, charts, and 4 additional folding maps. Small previous owner's name stamp..... More
Paris: Librairie d'Emler Frères, 1827. First edition. 16mo. 2 volumes: (4), iv, 382; (4), 375 pp. Half-title to each volume. Sabin 21124. Later navy cloth-backed marbled boards, leather spine labels. Very good. (1933). More
Mexico: Reimpreso en la oficina del ciudadano, Alejandro Valdes, 1823. 12mo. 93, (3) pp. An unrecorded edition of an etiquette book for young men. Full leather binding; gilt decorations on spine. Blank front endpaper lacking; small pin hole through upper outer corner of leaves, not affecting text. Not recorded on..... More
Amsterdam: Paul Marret, 1695. . Later edition in French (first published in Paris, 1676; the work first published in English in London, 1648). 12mo. 2 volumes bound as one: (24), 200, 178; (14), 318 pp. Extra engraved title pages to each volume, 16 folding maps and plates. Sabin 26304. Hill..... More
Weimar: Im Verlag des Industrie Comptoirs, 1800. A re-issue, with additions and corrections, of Gussefeld's original 1795 map. Engraved map of the West Indies, 17 x 24 inches, showing South Florida, the Caribbean, and the coastlines of Central America in great detail, hand colored in outline. A key at the..... More
Paris: Guillaumin et Cie, Libraries ... 14, Rue de Richeli, 1851. 8vo. 60 pp. Quarter green leather and marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound in. Some older pencil annotations scattered throughout. Very good. OCLC lists following copies in US: NYP, YUS, UIU, LRU, HLS, RBN. More
NY: The Cortes Society, 1922. 1st thus. 1 of 250. 2 vols. Small 8vo. 60, 96; 266pp. [errata page]. Frontis., & illus. Vol. 1 a facsimile reprint of the 1576 Portuguese original, Vol. 2 the translation. Very good in quarter cloth and paper covered boards. Paper labels on covers &..... More
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(Mobile, AL: The company, 1905]. 4to. (3) pp. Letter to stockholders from the president of the company explaining the company’s situation in its dispute with the Costa Rican government’s “interference with the company’s operations in Panama,” citing statements from President Roosevelt concerning the legitimacy of the Panamanian government. Apparently not..... More
Guatemala: Establecimiento Tipografico de ‘El Progresso’, 1879-1882. First edition. Tall 8vo. 2 volumes (three further volumes, written by other historians, were issued into the 20th century): lxxv, (3, blank), 342, 13, (1, errata); (2), iv, [3]-389, 22 pp. Ownership signature in volume one “Philip Brown / U.S. Legation / Guatemala”;..... More
Washington: Thursday, May 2, 1822. Single sheet, 56 x 40 cm., [2] pp., printed in 5 columns. Some overall toning to text, a few spots, else very good. Printing a message from Pres. James Monroe transmitting "sundry papers relative to the Recognition of the Independence of the South American Colonies,"..... More
London: Printed for J. M. Richardson and J. Hatchard and Sons, 1825. 8vo. viii, 229pp., errata. Original marbled boards with recent brown leather period style spine, rules in gilt, black leather title and author label stamped in gilt. The first compilation of determining the best route across the Isthumus. Goldsmith-Kress..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1847. 8vo; xl, 527 pp (Vol. I); xix, 547 pp. (Vol. II). First edition, first issue (period lacking after "integrity) on p. 467 in Vol. II). Very good in original black cloth, yellow coated endpapers (foxed), gilt lettering on spine (faded). Foxing throughout. Some fraying..... More
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