Things I like that you won't find just anywhere. Or, a list of items that took a long time to research and catalog. I've put off cataloguing some of them for years.
These documents, two manuscript and one printed, concern a dispute over the profit sharing due under a lease of the Skerretts plantation near St. John in Antigua. The lawsuit began in 1809; the last document here, an official handwritten report from the Court at Windsor (10 pages), referring the case.....
Price: $750
First Edition. A beautiful copy of the edition that sparked the Sor Juana revival. In the late 19th century, Sor Juana was a well-known Spanish-language author through the inclusion of samples of her writings in anthologies. According to her bibliographer, Pedro Henriquez Ureña, prior to this collection, edited by the.....
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First Edition. The capstone of Debo's career as one of the scholars who redefined American history in the mid-twentieth century by rewriting Indian history. Debo's survey of Native American history was published when she was 80 and it is still in print after more than fifty years. The Sioux historian.....
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![Item No: #362565 Histoire d’oublier [Unique Artist's Book]. Emilia Faure](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362565.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1754923063)
In Histoire d’oublier (“A Story of Forgetting”), Emilia Faure (1924–?) constructs a tactile meditation on memory and erasure. The work unfolds across 26 hand-assembled fascicles, enclosed within the modified covers of Louis Dimier’s 1926 "Histoire de la peinture française ...1627 à 1690." Faure deliberately incorporates the history of French art.....
Price: $3,500
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.....
Price: $1,500
An apparently unrecorded view book extolling the virtues of California to potential Japanese immigrants. The book surveys the opportunities in agriculture and related industries (e.g., fishing, logging) for each of California's counties and concludes with a short, optimistic account of the "situation" of Japanese residents. The author (1875–1951) immigrated to.....
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First Edition. The memoirs of a soldier in the wars for South American independence from Spain. López joined the guerrillas as a teenager and by the time the war was won, he was an assistant to Simón Bolívar. The book includes folding military situation maps of the battles of Cariaco.....
Price: $400
Third edition of this Spanish reader for advanced students (books one and two were for children). The majority of the writers are from Spain, but there is a section of prose writers ("prosadores") from Latin America, with thirty examples by two dozen writers. The poetry section includes 8 Latin American.....
Price: $125
Third Edition. Featuring a full-page colonial Mexican engraving of the Christ of Ixmiquilpan (the illustrations differed with each edition). The plate is in the "statue painting" style that was popular throughout the Spanish colonies in the eighteenth century. These images depicted particular crucifixes with miraculous powers. The image in this.....
Price: $1,850
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.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. First edition of this very scarce work on the life of Michaela Josepha de la Purificación (1681–1754), a Discalced Carmelite nun at the Convent of Señor San Joseph in the city of Puebla, Mexico (discalced comes from the Latin for shoeless and refers to an entirely contemplative group.....
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One of the best accounts of antebellum Texas, written as a series of letters about life in the slave states, commissioned for the New York Times. This is the second of three volumes (issued separately) in Olmsted's "Our Slave States" series. While not a radical, Olmsted, in sending a copy.....
Price: $850
First Edition. One of the best accounts of antebellum Texas, written as a series of letters about life in the slave states, commissioned for the New York Times. This is the second of three volumes (issued separately) in Olmsted's "Our Slave States" series. While not a radical, Olmsted, in sending.....
Price: $3,000
First Edition. A work on law and politics by one of the most important Venezuelan legal scholars of the 19th century. Sanojo helped codify the country's civil law in the 1870s and wrote several important legal references. In this book he provides a view of the interaction between the law.....
Price: $200
First Edition. A moralistic novel of Chinatown written by the founder of a Christian mission for boys and dedicated to Donaldina Cameron, the founder of a mission dedicated to supporting Chinese prostitutes. This copy, however, has an interesting provenance. The novelist and playwright Frank Chin describes this book as the.....
Price: $300
First Edition. One of the most important American music books of the nineteenth century, a landmark cross-genre survey that gave equal attention to sacred and secular as well as popular and classical music. "This volume stands as the very first survey of American music published in this country" ("Black Scholars.....
Price: $1,250
