An 18th century Mexican devotional illustrated with an anonymous woodcut of Pontius Pilate condemning Jesus to death (the first station of the cross). The woodcut is printed on the recto (front) of leaf 04 and inside a frame of fleur-de-lis type ornaments. The cut depicts Pilate in the upper right.....
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A book by the first Hispanic American author and one of the first published writers born in what is now the United States. The book describes the visitation of the Archangel Michael (San Miguel) to Diego Lazaro, a Mayan Indian, in 1631 and the establishment of a sanctuary at San.....
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First Edition. An inscribed copy of the first book by a Spanish poet who won the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1971. [1–14] 15–83 [84–88] pages. Prologue by Francisco Montero Galvache. 4-9/16 by 6-1/8 inches. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in the original printed wrappers; top edge.....
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First Edition. English translation of the title: The fantastical plants of Mexico: Introduction to the pharmacology of teonanácatl mushrooms, marijuana, cinnamon, chicalote (prickly poppy), poppy, colorín (coral tree), locoweed, peyote, sinicuiche (loosestrife), cozticzapotl, ololiuqui (morning glory), camotillo, toloache (datura), coca, ayahuasca, and cohombrillo (squirting cucumber). A well-known survey of the.....
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First Edition. A very scarce Mexican spiritualism book, collecting the transcripts of six communications from the spirit world. The medium was the Mexican psychic Francisco Urgel, who worked with Refugio I. Gonzalez's spiritualist circle, La Luz (the light), in Mexico City in 1878 (though not published until eleven years later).....
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36 pages. 7 by 10-1/2 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección Venablos. Three essays about the actor Sarah Bernhardt in Cuba, published in conjunction with the city historian of Matanzas. Photocopied on various types of paper. Designed and illustrated by Enrique Ramos Vargas with reproductions of photographs of Bernhardt. OCLC.....
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First Edition. The first book on economics written by a Spaniard and published in Spain (a critical edition was published by the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales in 1989). Elementos was an official university textbook for a generation, drawing on the work of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and K. H. Rau.....
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