Mexican books on drug plants and the military. Spanish language US imprints. African Americana.
First Edition. A collection of New Testament readings in Spanish, organized by the calendar of the Catholic church. A scarce US Spanish imprint, with a placeholder record in OCLC, but no recorded holdings of this 1928 edition (the book was reprinted in 1958). 200 pages. First edition (first printing). A......
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![Item No: #362643 La verdad catolica. Colección de artículos morales[;] Como...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362643.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678048880)
A rather curious and seemingly unrecorded US Spanish-language imprint which is an anthology of previously published books, excerpts from periodicals, essays, and the like, on religious and other topics. The content is definitely Mexican in orientation. For example, the sections entitled "revista nacional" draws from Mexican periodicals. The organization—chapters of.....
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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. 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
A late example of a Back-to-Africa movement organization. Materials from the African-American Repatriation Association are rather scarce. It may have been a mostly-regional association, but it had some juice. They convinced Representative Robert Nix of Philadelphia to introduce a bill calling for the Repatriation of Americans of African Descent into.....
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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.....
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First Edition. A medical school thesis providing an introductory overview of cannabis, particularly the medical uses of marijuana. Alvarez Tostado notes that cannabis can be used to treat migraines, in gynecology, and as a pain reliever for cancer patients. A scarce and early work on the medical uses of marijuana.....
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First Edition. A significant scientific paper in which Bell, who had already patented the telephone, reports on experiments with Charles Morey's phonoautograph and Thomas Edison's phonograph. Bell was exploring the connection between music and vowels in speech and how recording devices could contribute to a better understanding of human sound.....
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First Edition. A guide to rifles and their use for civilians and soldiers, by a Mexican army general. Illustrated with plates documenting how to hold a rifle and the basics of ballistics. One plate specifically focuses on the use of a Remington rifle. An uncommon US Spanish-language imprint. This copy.....
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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 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.....
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First Edition. A four-part defense of the Freedmen's Bureau and its head, Major General Oliver O. Howard, spurred by a proposed amendment to cut the $5,000 budget for the hospital in Washington, D.C. and a speech accusing the agency of "plundering the public treasuring." The Freedmen's Bureau was a Reconstruction-era.....
Price: $150
First Edition. A Spanish translation of the "best French chronicle of the Revolution [which is] particularly valuable on naval affairs"—Howes US-iana, L169 (also listing this edition). This edition does not have any maps, but consistent with its focus on naval action, it does include a large fold-out table of ships.....
Price: $750
![Item No: #361790 [Candid Photograph, Signed]. Audre Lorde](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/361790.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678048791)
An original black-and-white gelatin silver print photograph of Audre Lorde speaking, pictured in three-quarters profile. Lorde (1934–1992) is an influential and popular writer, a self-described, “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” The image is inscribed on the back (verso) and signed "Audrey Lorde." Printed on 8 by 10 inch Kodak paper.....
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First Edition. A guide to maguey (agave) cultivation and to the production of pulque, based on research conducted by the author. Illustrated with halftone photographs. 160 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in the original wrappers.
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First Edition. An anthology of government documents, laws, and reports on settlement on public lands in Mexico. The book has two lithographic plates and four folding maps: 1) Carta geográfica de Sonora y Baja California... showing steamship lines in northwest Mexico. 8 by 10 inches. 2) Líneas que señalan las.....
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First Edition. A biography of the leader of South American independence movements in the early 19th century. The author's brother succeeded Bolívar as president of Gran Colombia and the author wrote this book in New York following his first term as president of Nueva Granada (he would be elected president.....
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A four-page carbon copy typed letter, hand signed in ink, from the attorney Pauli Murray to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s advisor Stanley Levinson, proposing changes to King's contract with Harper & Bros. for the publication of his first book. This copy was sent to King's literary agent, Marie F. Rodell.....
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First Edition. "Los artículos de costumbres qué el literato venozolano y ciudadano naturalizado de los Estados Unidos D. Simón Camacho, sobrino del Libertador Bolívar, ha publicado en Nueva York, son fieles fotografías de la vida norte-americana, y cuadros acabados que ocupan un lugar distinguido al lado de las ricas producciones.....
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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.....
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First Edition. An uncommon guide to Mexico City for business owners, listing lawyers, banks, cafes, doctors, and government agencies. Information is also provided on telegraph and mail service, railroad lines, shipping options, and steamship lines. This guidebook was published between roughly 1882 and 1888. OCLC locates one copy.....
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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.....
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First Edition. Sarmiento, the Plenipotentiary Minister to the United States from Argentina, "arrived in New York a month after the assassination of the American president. He was moved by the nation’s mourning and resolved to write a biography of the fallen leader. Sarmiento, who believed in biography’s teaching by example.......
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First Edition. A book, in Spanish, on traditional regional Mexican fermented foods and beverages, with chapters on pozol (corn kernels), tesguiño (a beer-like beverage), pulque (a beverage brewed from maguey sap), tuba (fermented palm), colonche (a beverage made from fermented cactus fruit), tepache (a sort of corn beer), and tibicos.....
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