Later printing. Fifty-eight cocktails and ninety-two recipes for hors d'oeuvres, named and identified by number. The cocktails are mostly based on European spirits—gin, cognac, whisky—but in unusual combinations. The champagne cocktail (no. 101) combines champagne, 8 drops of nocino (licor de nueces verdes), Cointreau, lemon peel, a pinch of nutmeg.....
Price: $100
The most successful Mexican cookbook of the 19th century, first published in Mexico in three volumes as El cocinero mexicano in 1831. This is one of many editions following the text of the 1845 revision of the book into alphabetical order. The author has not been identified. [6: blank; frontispiece;.....
Price: $300
First Edition. An early book of poems (her third or fourth?), published in an edition of 300 copies. Castellanos was a major Mexican literary figure in the 20th century, part of the Generación de los 50. She died in 1974, at 49 years old, while serving as the Mexican ambassador.....
Price: $600
First Edition. One of the first, if not the first, book published in Mexico and devoted to gymnastics. This is a translation of a book prepared by the French military, Instruction pour l'enseignement de la gymnastique dans les corps de troupes et les établissements militaires. The book offers written descriptions.....
Price: $500
First Edition. A court filing in one of the countless legal cases that embroiled Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, in his later years. This proceeding seems to involve a statute of limitations issue for a case accusing Pico of misappropriating funds. An uncommon, early Los Angeles imprint. The.....
Price: $250
A biography of Jesus for young readers published in Spanish in San Antonio, Texas, in the 1920s. The author was born in Mexico but lived in the United States off and on for a number of years. He was a politician and a writer who started a magazine in San.....
Price: $150
First Edition. The author's last and perhaps best book, published just six days before he died. "Considered by some to be his masterpiece, Golondrina was the second of Torres’s novels to explore the effects of large-scale Mexican immigration to the United States. In Golondrina, Torres painted the picture of the.....
Price: $200
A manuscript catalog of a career Mexican military officer's library, totalling more than about 650 works in 600 volumes, numbered and organized by subject. The list includes the title, author, and in some cases observations on each book, along with their series and identification numbers. Not surprisingly, the largest section.....
Price: $500
First Edition. A Mexican edition of a history of the Haitian revolution, written from the perspective of the French, who were ousted from the island following a particularly brutal and bloody conflict. The book is predictably critical of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the revolution and the first ruler of.....
Price: $8,000
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.....
Price: $750
First Edition. A collection of religious and devotional poems by a 19th century Mexican poet. He wrote the poems for his grandchildren and the manuscript remained unpublished when he died in 1910. This is one of the most attractive books, printed in yellow and black, from Casa Editorial Lozano, which.....
Price: $250
First Edition. Two bound volumes of the first two years of this scarce Mexican military periodical. According to the masthead, the magazine was published with the approval (aprobación) of the Mexican Secretary of the Army and Navy. According to the introduction, the goal of Mexico Militar was to promote the.....
Price: $1,000
Two sammelband volumes, in similar bindings, of pamphlets on military subjects, all but one published in Mexico. Three are not recorded in OCLC; a fourth is recorded only in a much later edition; a fifth is only in microfilm. Volume 1: 1. Moral Militar. Libro de los deberes del soldado.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. This agricultural and industrial report covers many topics, including silk, paper, wax, ceramics, cacao, and other crops and natural resources. It also includes a relatively early mention of mezcal (mescal), which is described as an important product in many parts, especially in Jalisco and the Tequila region. José.....
Price: $350
First Edition. A Spanish translation of Great European Conflict. Franco-Prussian War: Chassepot - Rifle vs. Zundnadelgewehr, or the Needle Gun: Real Cause of the Struggle by a Mexican army general. 208 pages plus four inserted lithographic portraits of the leaders of the conflict (including Napoleon III and Otto von Bismarck).....
Price: $400
First Edition. A fortune-telling system "fixed to the meridian of Mexico" [Arreglado al meridiano de México]. Ca. 71 pages. 5-1/4 by 3-5/16 inches. Corner missing from front cover, not affecting any text, but generally very good.
Price: $75
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).....
Price: $500
First Edition. A scarce Mexican book with about 300 cocktail recipes published at the beginning of the 1960s by a noted cookbook author. A handful of the recipes reflect Mexican ingredients, like the Tequila Cocktail, which combines tequila, grenadine, a few drops of absinthe, lemon juice, and an olive garnish.....
Price: $350
First Edition. The first book by Pacheco, an important Mexican poet. This, however, is a short story, published in a thin chapbook in tan wrappers illustrated with a drawing of a unicorn head printed in red-orange ink. One of 400 copies. Series edited by Juan José Arreola. First edition (first.....
Price: $250
First Edition. Volume III of the Nuevos documentos ineditos o muy raros para la historia de México, second series. Doblado was a native of Guanajuato and an active participant in the Reform War on the side of Benito Juárez. This volume prints transcriptions of letters written to Doblado. The Nuevos.....
Price: $250
First Edition. An early hardcover novel from MacDonald. This stand-alone book is a comic novel set in an art school in Cuernavaca, Mexico. According to Firsts Magazine (Nov. 2002), only 3000 copies were sold. First edition (stated first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The.....
Price: $500
First Edition. A commemorative volume collecting Sabines's poetry, texts about the writer by others, and reproductions of many family photographs and Sabines's publications. Text in Spanish. 356 pages. 9-3/4 by 12-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $50
An illustrated edition of the noted Chiapan poet's first book, with color reproductions of paintings by Manuel Monroy along with the first English-language translation, by Asa Zatz, of the book, in identical format. 112 and 110 pages. 9-3/8 by 12-1/4 inches. Ojo was issued in an edition of 2000 copies; Eye.....
Price: $60
First Edition. An illustrated juvenile history of Mexico from the days of the Aztecs to the 1950s. Illustrated by Lynd Ward: "The drawings for this book were drawn directly on stone by the artist and the book was lithographed in four colors by George C. Miller." While this book was reprinted.....
Price: $200
First Edition. The music that the Mexican composer wrote for poems by well-known Spanish-language poets, including Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Xavier Villaurrutia, and Octavio Paz. 100 pages. 9-3/4 by 13 inches. First edition of this collection. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Price: $75
