![Gobierno Supremo del Estado de Sonora. El Gobernador del Estado de Sonora a Todos Sus Habitantes Sabed: Que el Congreso del Mismo Estado, Ha Dectretado Lo Que Sigue... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/715/253/1490253715.0.l.jpg)
Gobierno Supremo del Estado de Sonora. El Gobernador del Estado de Sonora a Todos Sus Habitantes Sabed: Que el Congreso del Mismo Estado, Ha Dectretado Lo Que Sigue... [caption title]
by [Mexico]. [Tobacco]
Arizpe: November 24, 1834. Very good.. [4]pp., on a small bifolium. Untrimmed. Minor soiling and toning. Scarce 1834 decree of the Sonoran state government concerning the regulation of tobacco cultivation and sale. The first two articles read that the state legislature, "Se declara estancado por ahora el Tabaco en el Estado, y por consiguente como una renta propria y exclusiva de él.... En consecuencia niguno podrá cultivar este fruto sin expresa licencia adquirida en los terminos que detallará... Read More
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Diario Historico del Ultimo Viaje Que Hizo M. de la Sale para Descrubrir el Desembocadero y Curso del Missicipi...Traducio al Espanol por el Coronel Jose Maria Tornel, Ministro de Mejico en los Estados Unidos
by [Tornel, Jose Maria]. Joutel, Henri
Nueva York: Jose Desnoues, 1831. Very good.. 156pp. 12mo. Contemporary full calf presentation binding by C. Brown of New York (binder's ticket at top of front pastedown), spine gilt extra, boards bordered in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled edges and endpapers, presentation inscription on front board reading, "El Ciudadano Jose M. Tornel al Ciudadano Rafael Mangino." Minor wear and light scuffing to extremities. Substantial foxing throughout. First Spanish edition of Joutel's landmark Journal Historique de Dernier Voyage Que... Read More
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![White Caps Sight-Seeing Tours of Mexico [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/814/787/1385787814.0.l.jpg)
White Caps Sight-Seeing Tours of Mexico [cover title]
by [Mexico]. [Tourism]
[Mexico City, 1938. About very good.. 80pp. plus folding map. Original pictorial printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling. A few leaves creased, minor soiling to text. Tourism guide for Mexico, outlining specific tours. With extensive ads and illustrations. Five copies in OCLC.
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![Miguel la Grua Talamanca y Branciforte... El Rey Nuestro Señor (Que Dios Guarde) por Efecto del Amor y Vigilancia Paternal Que Todos Sus Vasallos le Debemos, Permitio la Entrada en la Plaza de la Havana de las Harinas y Otros Viveres a los Anglos-Americanos... [caption title and first line of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/790/139/1625139790.0.l.jpg)
Miguel la Grua Talamanca y Branciforte... El Rey Nuestro Señor (Que Dios Guarde) por Efecto del Amor y Vigilancia Paternal Que Todos Sus Vasallos le Debemos, Permitio la Entrada en la Plaza de la Havana de las Harinas y Otros Viveres a los Anglos-Americanos... [caption title and first line of text]
by [Cuba]. [Trade]
Mexico City: May 13, 1796. About very good.. Broadside, 17 x 12.25 inches. Old fold lines. Slight separation and loss at center fold, slightly affecting a few letters. Minor wear else. Proclamation made by the Viceroy of New Spain authorizing trade between Cuba and the United States. The Caribbean was in tumult in the 1790s, with Toussaint L'Ouverture overthrowing the French colonial government and outlawing slavery. Likewise, in Cuba there was a similar revolt against slavery, demanding abolition... Read More
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![[Manuscript Letter, Signed, from the Spanish Consulate in Gibraltar to the Governor General of Cuba Discussing Cargo and Shipping]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/264/854/1486854264.0.l.jpg)
[Manuscript Letter, Signed, from the Spanish Consulate in Gibraltar to the Governor General of Cuba Discussing Cargo and Shipping]
by [Cuba]. [Trade]
Gibraltar, 1828. Good.. [3]pp., on a bifolium. Previously folded, with separations. Tanned, somewhat brittle. An interesting example of official communications concerning trade between colonial Cuba and the Spanish mainland. In this manuscript letter, date March 14, 1828, the new Spanish Vice Consul in Gibraltar writes to the Governor General of Cuba concerning several topics. These include the regulation of shipping to Cuba, and by implication the rest of the Caribbean, through Gibraltar, particularly of French ships leaving Mediterranean... Read More
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Analisis de la Memoria del Gobierno Presentado al H.C. de Guanajuato el Año de 1828
by [Mexico]. [Trade]
Guanajuato: Imprenta del Supremo Gobierno a Cargo del C.J.M. Caranco, 1828. Good plus.. [2],29pp., plus folding chart. Disbound. Minor foxing and wear. Apparently unrecorded pamphlet that publishes an early statistical and narrative account of the economical and governmental situation in early Guanajuato. The work was printed four years after the adoption of the federal constitution and the organization of the Mexican states. It furnishes an account of agriculture, industry, government, and haciendas, and well as statistics on population... Read More
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Reglamento para el Tribunal Mercantil
by [Mexico]. [Trade]
Puebla: Imprenta Antigua en el Portal de las Flores, 1844. About very good.. 20pp. Original printed wrappers. Light dampstaining and spotting. Even toning. Scarce pamphlet containing rules and regulations for the tribunal that adjudicated commercial and trade disputes in Puebla just prior to the Mexican-American War. The texts articulates the jurisdiction and power of the court, its form and function, and the responsibilities of its officers and appointees. In attractive, printed yellow wrappers; OCLC records this imprint, but... Read More
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Memoria de Estatuto. Idea de la Riqueza Que Daban á la Masa Circulante de Nueva España Sus Naturales Producciones en los Años de Tranquilidad y Su Abatimiento en las Presentes Commociones..
by [Mexico]. [Trade]
Veracruz, 1817. Good plus.. [2],30pp., plus folding plate. Disbound. Light staining from removed wrappers. Later ownership inscription at foot of title page. Trimmed close, affecting initial page numbers. Light dampstaining and tanning internally. An interesting, contemporary tract concerning the fall off in agricultural, industrial, and mineral production in New Spain during the War for Independence. The author, José Maria Quiros, was a bureaucrat at the Spanish colonial consulate in Veracruz, and is therefore particularly attentive to shipping and... Read More
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Treaty Between Her Majesty and the Oriental Republick of the Uruguay, for the Abolition of the Traffick in Slaves, Signed at Monte-Video, July 13, 1839
by [Uruguay]. [Slave Trade]
London: T.R. Harrison, 1842. Near fine.. 38pp. stitched. Very minor bumps to top edge of first leaf, light dust-soiling to outer leaves. A very rare treaty between Queen Victoria’s Britain and the “Oriental Republick of the Uruguay,” printed in both English and Spanish in two parallel columns throughout. According to the text, the parties were “mutually animated by a sincere desire to co-operate for the utter extinction of the barbarous Traffick in Slaves...for the special purpose of immediately... Read More
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![San Francisco Subway. Double Traffic Paved Vehicular Driveway Below Tidewater Level. Planned and Constructed by California Harbor Commission 1924 [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/137/114/1379114137.0.l.jpg)
San Francisco Subway. Double Traffic Paved Vehicular Driveway Below Tidewater Level. Planned and Constructed by California Harbor Commission 1924 [cover title]
by [California]. [Transit]
Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1925. Good plus.. 32pp. Oblong octavo. Original brown printed wrappers, stapled. Light soiling, lightly dampstained along lower edge of text and rear cover. Pamphlet published by the Harbor Commission on the construction of an underground motorway beneath the Ferry Building, designed to alleviate traffic and congestion in that busy section of San Francisco. The work includes a history and description of the Ferry Building and the harbor area, as well as information on... Read More
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![[Small Archive of Publications from a Cruise Aboard the S.S. Aleutian to Alaska]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/325/870/1603870325.0.l.jpg)
[Small Archive of Publications from a Cruise Aboard the S.S. Aleutian to Alaska]
by [Alaska]. [Travel]
[Seattle & Aboard S.S. Aleutian, 1933. About very good.. [31]pp. total. A few staples and other metal fastenings. Light wear and toning. An interesting group of promotional and shipboard material produced for an Alaska cruise undertaken by members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce in June 1933. Material present here includes two issues of the shipboard newspaper, "Midnight Sun," daily itineraries authored by the captain of the S.S. Aleutian, a series of three pre-cruise bulletins distributed by the... Read More
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![U.S. Circumference Tour. July 10 -- August 20, 1948. Traveled by John M. Hubbard and Brad Randall Jr. [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/820/157/1613157820.0.l.jpg)
U.S. Circumference Tour. July 10 -- August 20, 1948. Traveled by John M. Hubbard and Brad Randall Jr. [caption title]
by [Travel]. [Automobiles]. Hubbard, John M.
[New York?], 1948. Very good.. 23pp. of typescript on rectos only. Minor wear, inner margins punched with two holes for storage in an album or folder. "The purpose of this Tour around the United States was to fulfill a suppressed desire to see our country while we were still young and free." So begins this original typescript of a 1948 trip around the country by two young Connecticut men, John M. Hubbard and Brad Randall, Jr. in a... Read More
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What to Do, What to See, Where and How Jan. 13-19 / Que Ver, Que Hacer, Donde y Como Ene. 13-19
by [Mexico]. [Travel]
Mexico City, 1968. Very good.. 79,[1]pp. Printed self-wrappers. Light tanning, very minor wear. A nice example of this bilingual guidebook to Mexico, with listings of events for a mid-January week in in 1968, and suggestions and advice on travel, restaurants, sights, hotels, markets, and other attractions, and includes information for many smaller cities and towns beyond Mexico City. The cover art promotes Villahermosa, in the state of Tabasco.
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Gates' Tenth Annual Mexico Tour
by [Mexico]. [Travel]
Cleveland: Winn & Judson, 1903. About very good.. 64pp. Original color printed wrappers. Light wear to wraps, spine chipping at foot. Light toning internally. An extensively detailed and well illustrated promotional for the Winter 1903 Gates Tour of Mexico with optional itineraries for the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, and California. A 1904 article in the National Magazine lauded Gates as a "world-renowned manager of Mexican tours," stating that no one should contemplate touring Mexico with anyone else. Traveling... Read More
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![Ministerio de Hacienda. ... "El Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana, a los Habitantes de Ella, Sabed: Que Usando de la Autorizacion Que Me Concede el Decreto del Congreso General de 20 de Septiembre Ultimo, He Tenido a Bien Decretar Lo Siguiente"... [caption title and part of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/890/698/1691698890.0.l.jpg)
Ministerio de Hacienda. ... "El Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana, a los Habitantes de Ella, Sabed: Que Usando de la Autorizacion Que Me Concede el Decreto del Congreso General de 20 de Septiembre Ultimo, He Tenido a Bien Decretar Lo Siguiente"... [caption title and part of text]
by [Mexico]. [Treasury]
Mexico City: April 17, 1837. Very good.. 10pp. Folio. Modern blue cloth, front board gilt. Contents clean. An extensive Mexican decree issued the year after the Texas Revolution dealing with the organization and operation of the national Treasury Department. Its main innovation was the installation of federal heads of each department's branch of the Ministeria de Hacienda to administer taxes to and distributions from the national treasury. They also assumed duties regarding the oversight of payments for military... Read More
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![Rafael Carrera, Presidente de la Republica de Guatemala... Tratado de Amistad, Comercio y Navegacion entre la Republica de Guatemala y las Ciudades Libres de Lubeck, Bremen y Hamburgo [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/805/362/1440362805.0.l.jpg)
Rafael Carrera, Presidente de la Republica de Guatemala... Tratado de Amistad, Comercio y Navegacion entre la Republica de Guatemala y las Ciudades Libres de Lubeck, Bremen y Hamburgo [caption title]
by [Guatemala]. [Treaties]
[Guatemala, 1850. Very good plus.. 12pp. Folio, stitched as issued. A couple of very minor chips along lower edge. Light dust soiling and minor foxing. A scarce treaty of friendship and trade between Guatemala and the free, northern German cities of Bremen, Hamburg, and Lubeck, former leading members of the medieval Hanseatic League, and in the mid-19th century, members of the loose German Confederation. The agreement, dated June 7, 1850, is quite extensive, and printed in two columns... Read More
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![Tratado de Amistad y Allianza Entre los Estados de Guatemala y los Altos. Los Gobiernos de los Estados de Guatemala y los Altos, Deseando Afianzat Sobre Bases Solidas y Estables la Paz y Amistad... [caption title and first line of text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/752/240/1455240752.0.l.jpg)
Tratado de Amistad y Allianza Entre los Estados de Guatemala y los Altos. Los Gobiernos de los Estados de Guatemala y los Altos, Deseando Afianzat Sobre Bases Solidas y Estables la Paz y Amistad... [caption title and first line of text]
by [Guatemala]. [Treaties]
Guatemala, 1839. Good plus.. Broadsheet, approximately 12.25 x 8.5 inches. Unevenly trimmed. Small chips at top edge and lower right corner, repaired with tape. Light dampstain across most of sheet. A rare, short-lived treaty of alliance between Guatemala and the short-lived Republic of Los Altos. The nation was created from parts of what are now Chiapas and northwestern Guatemala, and declared its independence on February 2, 1838. The separation arose from political differences between Conservative leaders in the... Read More
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Refutacion del Manifiesto del Exmo. Señor Don Ignacio Comonfort, por el General Angel Trias en la Parte Que le Concierne
by Trias, Angel
Orizava: Imprenta de Ramon Lopez, 1858. Good plus.. 21pp. Original printed wrappers. Haphazardly trimmed at lower margin, but not affecting text. Light soiling and wear to wraps; some splitting at spine ends. Light toning and occasional foxing internally. An evidently unrecorded riposte in a Liberal top-brass blame fight over the loss of Mexico City to Conservative forces during the Reform War. This manifesto by Liberal General Angel Trias refutes the claims of the then-deposed Liberal President, Ignacio Comonfort,... Read More
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![[Manuscript Accounting of Colonial Support for the Spanish Royal Retreat, El Escorial]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/681/110/1700110681.0.l.jpg)
[Manuscript Accounting of Colonial Support for the Spanish Royal Retreat, El Escorial]
by [Peru]. [Tribute]
[Lima, 1787. Very good.. [23]pp. Folio. Light soiling and minor wear. Small worm hole through lower center of text block, occasionally affecting a word. Accomplished in a neat, secretarial script. Certified copy of a document relating to 13,200 ducats due to the monks of the Escorial in Spain, promised to them in perpetuity by Philip IV in 1654, and paid from duties collected in colonial Peru. In exchange for this annual subsidy of proceeds from encomiendas in Huaylas,... Read More
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Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65. Part VIII
by [Civil War]. [United States Colored Troops]
Washington DC, 1867. Good.. [8],411,[1],[1]pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and brown pebbled cloth, leather label on front cover stamped in gilt. Spine mostly perished, with three portions of original spine (which include the gilt-stamped spine titles) re-attached with cello tape. Corners worn, mild rubbing. Both boards also holding by cello tape. Internally clean. The highly-desirable eighth volume of the records of volunteers in the United States Army during the years of the Civil War. Volume eight of the Official... Read More
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![[Handsome Photograph Album of California Scenes, Including Images of San Francisco's Chinatown]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/480/584/1470584480.0.l.jpg)
[Handsome Photograph Album of California Scenes, Including Images of San Francisco's Chinatown]
by Tyler, William B.
San Francisco, 1889. About very good.. Twenty-seven original photographs, approximately 3.5 x 5.75 inches. Small quarto album. Contemporary pebbled cloth, boards blind stamped. Light wear to spine, boards with minor scuffing, corners bumped. Two album leaves loose, several more beginning to separate at gutter. Photos mounted directly to leaves, with contemporary manuscript captions. Occasional minor soiling and wear to prints, including one short, closed tear and one tear at corner mounting; album leaves evenly tanned. A well composed... Read More
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![Hawai Inshoki [Impressions of Hawaii]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/888/733/1525733888.0.l.jpg)
Hawai Inshoki [Impressions of Hawaii]
by Uehara, Keiji
Tokyo: Shinkosha, 1924. Very good, overall.. [2],4,[2],4,[26],192,[4]pp., plus three folding maps at rear. Original printed cloth boards, with contemporary glassine wrapper affixed to pastedowns; in original cardstock box with printed paper labels. Minor fading and soiling to cloth. Early ownership inscription and owner's ink stamps on rear pastedown. Light toning internally. Moderate wear and a couple of repaired tears to card box, but still a nice example. "A guidebook for Hawaii based on personal impressions, with notes on... Read More
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El Pensador del Peru
by Unanue, Jose Hipolito
Lima, 1815. Very good.. 196,[1]pp. Small quarto. Modern blue paper boards, printed spine label. Minor scattered foxing. Translated as "The Thinker of Peru," this work seeks to defend the conduct of Viceroy Jose Abascal during the war for independence in Peru. The author, Jose Hipolito Unanue (1755-1833), was a Peruvian physician, naturalist, and professor. He was later active in Peruvian politics, playing a roll in the independence movement and serving as Peru's first Minister of Finance. Medina, Lima... Read More
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Discurso Sobre el Panteon Que Esta Construyendo en el Convento Grande de San Francisco de Esta Capital
by Unanue, José Hipolito
Lima, 1803. Good.. [6],24,[1]pp. Disbound; lacks folding plate. Light tanning and scattered staining, slightly heavier to outer leaves. Small area of loss at head of title page, not affecting text. First of two editions, both issued in 1803. The author, José Hipolito Unanue was the head of the main Franciscan monastery in Lima at this time. Here, he proffers a written description, including measurements and siting details, of the large mausoleum being erected there for the burial of... Read More
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Tercero Congreso Centro-Americano. Pacto de Union Provisional Celebrado en San Salvador..
by [Central America]. [Unification]
Tegucigalpa, 1889. Good.. 186,[1]pp. Large octavo. Contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards. Light scuffing and wear to edges and corners. Some dampstaining to initial and final leaves, much lighter at rear. Internal tear to final leaf, slightly affecting text. Even tanning. Uncommon collection of documents from the Third Congress of Central America, which took place in San Salvador during the Autumn of 1889. The text presents the daily work of the congress toward an agreement to reunify Honduras,... Read More
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