First Edition. A 19th century Spanish-language imprint from New York comparing South and North American culture. The author was a Venezuelan aristocrat living in exile in the United States. We have "made a comparative study of the two sections of the great American continent," he writes, "and present to our.....
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
Second printing (the first was 1889) A translation into Spanish of Russell's shipwreck adventure, A Sailor's Sweetheart (1880). This is one of a series of novels Appleton published in Spanish translation in the 1880s and 1890s. The translator was an immigrant from Spain who arrived in the US about 1883.....
Price: $75
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 He wrote the poems for his grandchildren and the manuscript remained unpublished when he died in 1910.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 Thus. A rather curious Spanish-language imprint from Massachusetts, and not the more typical Philadelphia and New York. This is a translation of the diplomat Alexander Hill Everett's 1827 book, America: Or, a General Survey of the Political Situation of the Several Powers of the Western Continent, with Conjectures on.....
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First Edition. A very scarce landmark in Latinx historical writing. Francisco de Thomas was the "first Nuevomexicano to narrate New Mexico's Spanish past and to encourage Nuevomexicano pride" and this book was "the first comprehensive Spanish-language history of New Mexico following the American conquest." De Thoma's goal was "to present.....
Price: $650
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.....
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First Edition. An early Spanish-language issue of the annual report of the laws passed by the California legislature in 1857. For several decades after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the governments of the new US states and territories acquired from Mexico printed major government documents in English and Spanish translation.....
Price: $450
First Edition. The American representative of the Comisión Reguladora del Mercado de Henequen [Regulatory Commission of the Sisal Fiber Market] narrates his actions in the US, from 1915 to 1917. The Mexican Revolution broke the US monopoly on sisal fiber cultivation in Yucatán, Mexico, and that led to great wealth.....
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First edition, Spanish-language issue. The laws enacted by the territorial legislature in 1897 and translated into Spanish. A scarce territorial imprint, especially in the Spanish translation. For many decades, the territorial and then the state government of New Mexico published most government reports in both English and Spanish. As artifacts.....
Price: $125
First edition, Spanish-language issue. The laws enacted by the territorial legislature in 1897 and translated into Spanish. A scarce territorial imprint, especially in the Spanish translation. For many decades, the territorial and then the state government of New Mexico published most government reports in both English and Spanish. As artifacts.....
Price: $125
First Edition. A naturalized American citizen, born in Mexico, revises a popular language instruction book for Spanish speakers and contributes an original poem, one of the first Mexican American literary publications. Nicolas Gouin Dufief wrote a very successful guide to learning French that was first published in 1804 and went.....
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First Edition. This is a travelogue of a former Mexican minister of foreign affairs, who went into exile in the US following the assassination of president Francisco I. Madero. The book is presented as a series of letters to the author's aunt, written over a year, beginning in August 1914.....
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Miguel Tacón was a controversial governor of Cuba from 1834 to 1838. He initiated many public works, especially in Havana, but he also repressed dissent, encouraged the traffic in slaves, and was seen by many as a despot. At the end of his appointment, according to the Law of the.....
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First Edition. A collection of essays critical of the Mexican constitution, originally published in the Revista mexicana, a Spanish-language weekly in San Antonio, Texas. Vera Estañol was for a time an education minister in Mexico, during the Huerta administration. He went into exile in Los Angeles for a number of.....
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First Edition. A collection of eight reports from the Virreyes of Nuevo Granada (modern day Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador), compiled by the then-Minister Plenipotentary of Colombia, stationed in Washington, DC. García y García collected these reports in South American and brought them with him to the US. Working with Ignacio.....
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First Edition. The second history of New Mexico written from the perspective of its Latinx residents (following De Thoma's 19th century book) and the first by a native nuevomexicano. This is a very scarce book. The English-language edition, translated by Eleuterio Baca but with significant differences in content (see below).....
Price: $2,250
First Edition. A very scarce Spanish-language issue of the daily minutes of the New Mexican territorial House of Representatives during the 1907 term. For many decades, the government of New Mexico issued publications in both Spanish and English. The role the Spanish translations played in New Mexican government and legal.....
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First edition. The report territorial governor Miguel Otero sent to the legislature as it was about to begin its new session. He was easily the highest ranking Latinx political leader in the 19th and early 20th centuries; in fact, his nine years as governor makes him the longest-serving Latinx governor.....
Price: $750
