Auction 23

[AGES OF MAN]. Soneto. [With poem below, commencing]: Pídeme de mi mismo el Tiempo Cuenta.... Mexico, 1803. 14 leaves printed on rectos, from 14 copper-engraved plates by N. Cobo (alternately Covo) and Garrido, after artwork by Coronel, Altarriba, Rosi, and Bonet. Printed entirely from engraved plates. 14.6 x 9 cm, original full mottled calf, spine and covers gilt-rolled. Gilt slightly rubbed in a few places, corners lightly bumped. Hinges open, but holding, front flyleaf with closed tear, several plates with short marginal tears cleanly repaired, some plates lightly waterstained, one plate with small ink stain in lower margin. Plate versos strengthened with translucent white wash. Overall a very good copy with strong impressions and in a handsome contemporary binding. An exceedingly rare and interesting illustrated work. Single copy located by OCLC in Biblioteca Nacional España, but engraved title only.

     First edition of one of the earliest entirely engraved Mexican imprints. Not in standard sources. This unusual book is another manifestation in the ancient tradition of “Ages of Man” literature, the best known of which in the English canon is Shakespeare’s “Seven Ages.” The illustrations chronologically trace the human existence from birth to death with three lines of poetry about the particular age of human life. The book moves from year one to year one hundred, with the first five plates bringing the subjects up to twenty years of age and then moving by decade after that. The illustrations show activities or attitudes appropriate to every age (play, school, courtship, soldiering, sickness, death, etc). The final engraving illustrates a man lying in bed while Death, in the form of a skeleton, pulls back the bed curtains and beside the bed is an extinguished candle. The engravings are detailed and exquisite, capturing the modes and mores of the time, without being moralistic. ($4,000-8,000)

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[ALAMO]. UNITED STATES.SECRETARY OF WAR (W.L. Marcy). Memoir Descriptive of the March of a Division of the United States Army, under the Command of Brigadier General John E. Wool, from San Antonio de Bexar, in Texas, to Saltillo, in Mexico. [Washington, 1850]. 31st Congress, 1st Session, Senate Executive Document 32. [1-4] 5-67 [1, blank] pp., 8 lithograph plates (including views of the Alamo from eyewitness drawings by artist Edward Everett), 2 folding lithograph maps. 8vo. Dark brown calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered red leather spine label. Occasional light foxing, otherwise fine.

     First edition of an early U.S. government publication of military affairs in Texas, with the first lithographs of the Alamo made from eyewitness drawings.Garrett & Goodwin, The Mexican-American War, p. 296. Howes H767. Raines, p. 121. Sandweiss, Eyewitness to War, pp. 132-134. Ron Tyler for the following superb notes from his preliminary study of nineteenth-century lithographs of Texas: “In September Everett made his first drawing of the now-famous Alamo, which had been the subject for several other artists, and was then in ruins.... The lithograph of the Alamo façade made after Everett’s watercolor, now in the Amon Carter Museum collection, was not the first published picture of the famous structure, but it was the first to be lithographed from an eye-witness drawing.” ($750-1,500)

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ANSON, George. Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV...Sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas.... London: Printed for Author by John and Paul Knapton, 1748. [34], [1] 2-417 [1, blank], [2] pp. (p. 319 misnumbered 219), 42 copper-engraved plates and maps. 4to, full contemporary mottled calf. Chafed at joints and light shelf wear, light uniform browning and some offsetting, some plates with a few small tears and browning at edges or folds (but generally dark strong impressions and very clean), overall a fine, crisp set in a handsome original condition. Subscriber Rev. John Linton’s copy, with his ink signature on title. Directions to binder not present, as is frequently the case. Preserved in grey linen case.

    First edition, subscribers’ issue(p. 319 misnumbered 219; plates unnumbered) of which 350 copies were printed. Barrett 2592. Borba de Moraes, p. 38. Hill I(1), pp. 317-318: “England, at war with Spain in 1739, equipped eight ships under the command of George Anson to harass the Spaniards on the western coast of South America, for the purpose of cutting off Spanish supplies of wealth from the Pacific area. The Spanish fleet sent out to oppose the British ran into storms, provisions ran out and many ships were wrecked. Anson continued taking prizes during 1741-42 off the Pacific coast, and in June 1743, captured the Manila galleon containing a treasure of £400,000 sterling, thus returning to England much the richer.... This compilation has long occupied a distinguished position as a masterpiece of descriptive travel. Anson’s voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century”; II:1718. National Maritime Museum I:109. Palau 12865. Sabin 1625. Wagner, Northwest Coast 558, 559. ($2,500-5,000)

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[ATLAS]. GARCÍA Y CUBAS, Antonio. Atlas pintoresco é histórico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos.... Mexico: Debray Sucesores, 1885. Lithograph title on maize ground + 13 double-page chromolithograph plates, each of which is a specialized map of Mexico surrounded by individual vignettes corresponding to the map, such as archaeology, botany, rivers, mining, volcanoes and mountains, railroads, costumed ethnographic types, etc. Oblong double elephant folio, original three-quarter navy blue Mexican sheep over royal blue cloth. Binding with very light edge wear and mild to moderate spotting. Interior exceptionally fine except for mild browning of a few corners (due to contact with binding, none near images). Overall, very fine, original condition, in full sheets, as issued, never folded, as is often the case with this oversize atlas. We know of only one other copy in this unfolded state (Antiquariat Forum in 2003). With text: Cuadro geográfico, estadístico, descriptivo é histórico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Obra que sirve de texto al Atlas Pintoresco. Mexico, 1885. Lithograph plate, 3 charts (2 folded), lithograph map (Peregrinación de los Aztecas en el valle de Anahuac). 8vo, contemporary half black sheep. Very good condition. Difficult to find the text and atlas together.

     First edition of one of the most colorful of nineteenth-century Mexican color-plate books, prepared by García y Cubas, known as “el fundador de nuestra geografía como ciencia” (Dicc. Porrúa). Mathes, Mexico on Stone, pp. 44: “Monumental.” Palau 98718 & 98736. Phillips, Atlases 2686. Rumsey 2693: “The maps and illustrations bordering them are superb. García Cubas was the preeminent Mexican cartographer of the nineteenth century.” The atlas contains thirteen maps and over four hundred images. ($8,000-16,000)

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[BAEGERT, Johann Jakob]. Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien.... Mannheim, 1772. 2 copper-engraved images on one folded sheet (man and woman of California) and copper-engraved folded map 8vo, modern half vellum over marbled boards. Three small purple ink spots on map at bottom, otherwise fine. Rare.

     First edition. Barrett 129. JCB (3), Vol. 2 #1817: “A work written to disabuse the public mind as to the ‘rumored mineral riches and pearls of California, which had spread from Mexico to Madrid and Germany.” Graff 137. Hill I, p. 13: “The map is most helpful in giving the location of the many Jesuit missions in Lower California. It also shows the route along the west coast of Mexico followed by Baegert in going to California in 1751, and route out in 1768, after the expulsion of the Jesuits. The two plates which are not found with all copies depict California natives.” Howes B29. Mathes, California Colonial Bibliography 59: “The ex-missionary of San Luis Gonzaga in exile relates his sojourn in California with extensive ethnographic and linguistic details. The volume contains plates of a Guaycura man and woman and a map that follows that of Consag published by Venegas-Burriel. This work appeared in a corrected edition in 1773.” Sabin 4363. Streeter Sale 2442. Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest, pp. 154-155 & #631. Wagner, Spanish Southwest 157. ($4,000-8,000)

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BAERLE, Caspar van. História dos feitos recentemente praticados durante oito anos no Brasil.... Rio de Janeiro, 1940. [i-ix] x-xvi, [1] 2-424, [2, limitation statement] pp., 57 leaves of plates on maize grounds (some folding), portraits, maps, views, etc. Large folio, original printed paper wrappers. Fragile binding with a few tears and minor, otherwise very fine. Very scarce.

First edition in Portuguese of the classic work on the Prince of Nassau’s Dutch Colony in Brazil. This is a translation of the first edition Rerum per octennium in Brasilia published in Latin. Borba de Moraes, p. 81 (citing the present edition): “To commemorate the third century of Dutch rule in Brazil, Gustavo Capanema, Minister of Education at that time, had Baerle’s book translated and printed by his Ministery. 500 copies of this edition were issued on ‘Vergé’ paper and twenty on ‘Ingres’ paper. Another issue, was printed in the same large format.” Sabin 3408 (citing 1647 edition). For over one hundred fifty years the images in Baerle’s book were the primary references to Brazilian landscapes available in Europe. Today the iconography in this work is familiar to Brazilians as the most important example of their pre-national art. ($300-600)

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[BANGS, SAMUEL (printer)]. Original sealed paper for use in Coahuila y Tejas, with caption at top: Sello Cuarto: Una Cuartilla Habilitado Por El Estado De Coahuila Y Texas Para El Bienio De 1828 Y 29. Continued for another year with an ink manuscript certification just below: “Habilitado p^a. el Estado de Coahuila y Texas p^a. el vienio de 1830 y 31. Seanz[?]” and paraph. [Saltillo, 1828]. [2] pp., verso blank. Folio. Except for a few minor stains, fine.

     First edition. Not in Spell or Jenkins. Some type of sealed paper had been required for practically every legal and business transaction in Mexico since 1640. Its sale and use had long been a significant source of income for the Mexican government. Paper could be a precious commodity, however, and shortages were common, probably more so in the hinterlands. Thus, the stratagem involved was to apply an updated manuscript certification, as has been done here. Austin and his colonists hated stamped paper, since it imposed fees that were tantamount to a tax. He requested that the colonists be allowed to pay only the actual value of the paper rather than the tax represented on it. Sealed paper was just another of the expensive insults heaped on the colonists. An excellent example of yet another of the Mexican outrages that eventually led to the Texas Revolution, printed by Texas’ first printer. ($200-400)

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[BIRD’S-EYE VIEW]. GODDARD, George H[enry]. Sonora from the North. [below image] | G.H. Goddard del. [appears as C.H. Goddard, sic] | Entered according to Act of Congress…1853 by G. S. Wells.... | Lith. Britton & Rey, San Francisco. [below title] Published by G. S. Wells, Sonora May 1853. Lithograph town view on blue grey paper, image (not counting title and imprint): 18.1 x 25.2 cm. Framed. Minor creasing and spots, else fine.

    First edition of an early view of Sonora. Reps (417) locates an 1852 birds-eye view of Sonora, also by Goddard, but not this 1853 view. Issued as a letter sheet with a view of Springfield (see following entry herein), but here separated. Baird 257. Peters, California on Stone, p. 78. ($750-1,500)

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[BIRD’S-EYE VIEW]. GODDARD, George H[enry]. Springfield, Tuolumne County [below image] G.H. Goddard del. | Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1853 by G. S. Wells in the Clereks [sic] Office of the Dist^c. Court of the Northern Dist^c. of California | Lith. Britton & Rey, San Francisco [below title] Published by G. S. Wells, Sonora May 1853. Lithograph town view on blue-grey paper, image (not counting title and imprint): 18.1 x 25.2 cm. Framed. Minor creasing and light spotting, otherwise fine.

    First edition of an early view of the mining town of Springfield. Issued as a letter sheet with a view of Sonora (see preceding entry herein), but here separated. Baird 257. Peters, California on Stone, p. 78. Reps 423. ($750-1,500)

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[BIRD’S-EYE VIEW: LAREDO, TEXAS]. [WELLGE, Henry (attributed)]. [Below image] Perspective Map of the City of Laredo, Texas. The Gateway to and from Mexico.... [at top, in image] Presented with the Compliments of the Laredo Real Estate & Abstract Co. W.R. Page, Pres’t. [below image] Copyrighted and Published by the American Publishing Co.... [insets, maps & views] Hotel Hamilton; The Laredo Improvement Co.; Commercial Hotel; Laredo’s Railway Connections; City Hall; Webb County Court House; Opera House; Office Block; Masonic Hall; Continuation of ‘The Heighths’ [sic] from Point A. Milwaukee: American Publishing Co., ca. 1890-1892. Toned lithograph bird’s-eye view with subtle gum arabic highlights in white and pale green toning. Overall sheet size: 61 x 92.5 cm; image and text: 54.5 x 64.7 cm; main view: neat line to neat line: 42.2 x 84 cm. Creased where formerly folded, minor losses at a few folds, small stain at lower left (in image), insect damage at lower right blank margin, light marginal chipping (not affecting image or text), a few small wrinkles, overall very good condition of a very fragile item. Very rare.

    Earliest bird’s-eye view of Laredo listed by Reps (Cities of the American West, Fig. 18.15 & p. 614; Cities on Stone, Plate 48; & p. 94; Views and Viewmakers of Urban America, Plate 70 & 3985 & pp. 55, 85, 215: “By the time this view was published, a new bridge had replaced the more picturesque but less efficient ferry across the river.... Tanneries, brick manufacturing plants, lumber yards and furniture shops, a woolen mill, Fort McIntosh, and a complex of activities associated with railroad maintenance and repair, all provided employment for Laredo’s increasing population.” Henry Wellge “ranks with the most prolific of the city view artists of America” (Reps). See Amon Carter Museum's marvelous exhibit of such views by Ron Tyler. ($5,000-8,000)

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BLANCHARD, [Henri] P[ierre Léon Pharamond], Adrien Dauzats & [Louis] E[ugène] Maissin. San Juan de Ulùa ou relation de l’expédition française au Méxique.... Paris: Chez Gide, Editeur, 1839. [i-v] vi-xii, [1] 2-591 [1, blank] pp., 18 plates engraved on India proof paper and mounted (as issued) with views of the West Indies and Mexico, scenes from the expedition and nautical subjects, numerous text engravings of similar subjects. 4to, contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco over green and black mottled boards, spine gilt-lettered and with raised bands, marbled endpapers. Binding a bit rubbed and corners bumped, upper hinge open, scattered mild to moderate foxing to text and plates.

     First edition, large paper copy. Bancroft, Mexico V, p. 204: “The most exhaustive work on [the Pastry War] episode.” Clark, Old South III:202: “Description of Pensacola Bay, fortifications, and the town, which the ship visited on July 1, 1839.” Graff 323. Howes B507. Palau 30412. Raines, p. 145: “The favorable report of Texas doubtless hastened the recognition of the Republic by France.” Sabin 5832. Streeter 1343: “This narrative is entered because of the account of Texas given by Maissin in Note XIII at pages [522]-572.... The visit of the French officers to Brazoria, Houston, and Galveston in May, 1839, is first described (four pages) and then follows a thoughtful description of the country, its government, commerce, and social customs.” The international incident known as the Pastry War was launched by France on the flimsy pretext that Mexico had not properly paid some money due to a French baker in Tacubaya whose shop was invaded by Mexican army officers who locked him in a back room and devoured all of his pastries. It was independent Mexico’s first brush with a foreign power. The engraved plates printed on thin, high-quality India proof paper are an unusual medium, providing a finer image with more depth than those on ordinary paper. Because the technique of printing on India proof paper is extremely time-consuming, expensive, and challenging, engravings were seldom printed in this way. ($1,000-3,000)

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BOBAN, Eugène & E.-Eugène Goupil. Documents pour servir a l’histoire du Mexique. Catalogue raisonné de la collection de M. E.-Eugène Goupil (ancienne collection J.-M.-A. Aubin).... Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1891. 2 vols. of text with one plate + Atlas with 80 leaves of photolithographic plates. Text: 2 vols., folio, original tan printed wrappers bound in twentieth-century maroon cloth (to match original portfolio) Atlas: Oblong folio, original front and back wrappers and plates laid in original gilt-lettered maroon cloth folding portfolio with original maroon cloth ties. Other than inconsequential wear to portfolio binding, an exceptionally fine, fresh, clean set. The work is rare and difficult to find complete.

     First edition. Chadenat,18970. Glass, p. 31 & p. 13. Griffin 1359: “Catalog of the great Aubin-Goupil collection in Paris, with abundant commentary and transcription and a pictorial atlas. The collection includes some of the foremost extant codical documents.” Palau 31075. Ugarte 661A. ($1,500-3,000)

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[BORDERLANDS]. MEXICO. COMISIÓN PESQUISIDORA DE LA FRONTERA DEL NORTE. Two reports, each having separate title and pagination, plus appendix following second report: Informe de la Comision Pesquisidora de la Frontera del Norte al Ejecutivo de la Union en cumplimiento del Artículo 3^o. de la ley de 30 de setiembre de 1872...; [with] Informe...sobre depredaciones de los indios y otros males que sufre la frontera mexicana; [and] Apéndice.... Mexico: Díaz de León y White, 1874. 3 folding lithograph maps with original outline or shading color. Folio, contemporary brown calf over marbled boards. Outer wear, small repair to title at lower blank margin, maps with a few splits or repairs (no losses). Overall a very good, complete copy. Very rare.

     First edition, followed by various Mexican editions (1875 and 1877) and translations into English (New York, 1875, and Washington, D.C., 1876). One of the most important borderlands reports, which has been compared to the Pichardo treatise for its importance to borderlands history. This book is bibliographically complex—for a number of related works see: Adams, Guns 1108. Adams, Herd 558, 1130 & 2264. Graff 2765 (citing New York, 1875 edition). Howes I32, I33, T14. Palau 119576-7. Reese, Six Score 108 (citing the 1876 U.S. government report): “Important report dealing with cattle theft along the Mexican border. The testimony contains much on rustling problems and on cattle in south Texas generally.” The large-scale folding map delineates the Rio Grande from its mouth to the Big Bend region, with portions of Texas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas. This exceedingly rare map is among the most important for Texas and borderlands history in the nineteenth century. The superb detail includes Mexican and American ranches along the Rio Grande. See Day, Maps of Texas, p. 87. ($1,500-3,000)

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[BORDERLANDS]. MEXICO. MINISTERIO DE RELACIONES EXTERIORES. Memoria que en cumplimiento del precepto constitucional presentó al octavo Congreso de la Union en el primer periodo de sus sesiones Juan de Dios Arais.... Mexico: Imprenta del “Eco de Ambos Mundos,” Hospital Real número 3, 1875. Folio (34.2 x 24.5 cm), recent half brown calf over marbled boards, original upper purple printed wrapper bound in. Very good.

     First edition of a very important, detailed report that reveals much about U.S.-Mexican relations at the time, particularly the Borderlands. Not in Palau or other standard sources, but see Latin America: A Guide to Economic History 2885 (similar imprint, but dated 1874). Included as Anexo 1 is the well-known Borderlands report, Informe de la Comisión Pesquisidora de la Frontera del Noroeste; see: Adams, Guns 1108. Adams, Herd 558 & 2264. Graff 2765. Howes I32. Palau 119576–119578. The report is filled with a litany of troubles that the U.S. wants Mexico to address and some that Mexico wants the U.S. to address. Most troubling are the frequent robberies and killings of U.S. citizens living in Mexico. The old problem of Native American raids into Sonora is addressed, and Mexican cross-border raids from Matamoros into Corpus Christi drew vigorous U.S. protests and even rumors of a U.S. invasion to stop the problem. ($200-400)

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[BORDERLANDS]. MEXICO. SECRETARÍA DE ESTADO Y DEL DESPACHO. SECCIÓN DE AMÉRICA. Cuestion Americana. Negocios Diplomaticos con los Estados Unidos. Notas y Documentos Relativos. Edicion oficial. Guadalajara: Tip. de Banda. Exconvento de Sta. Maria de Gracia, 1878. [3] 4-214 pp. (without title page, as issued). 8vo, original stitching (broken), remains of original green wraps on spine (included is a modern copy of upper wrapper with title in typographical border). Except for light soiling to first leaf, text is very good. Only a handful of copies found in institutions; exceedingly rare in commerce. The last copy we trace in the trade was the Porrúa copy in 1949.

     Second edition (first edition published in Mexico City in 1878). Palau 66044. Porrúa 6548. An omnibus review of the continuing border problems caused by U.S. armed incursions into Mexico in pursuit of various groups, such as Native Americans and bandits, who had crossed into Texas and committed depredations. Included in five sections are: communications between Mexican and U.S. officials, provoked by Mackenzie’s incursion (pp. [3]-50); documents concerning Texas governor Richard Coke’s orders allowing Refugio Benavides’ troops to invade Mexico (pp. 50-64); Leander H. McNelly’s incursion (pp. 64-57); Shafter’s incursion into Piedras Negras (pp. 87-125); General Ord’s order allowing U.S. troops to cross the border (pp. 126-143). The final section contains correspondence between the Mexican Secretario de Relaciones and Washington’s ambassador to Mexico, John W. Foster, principally debating Ord’s order. The period covered is 1873-1878. ($200-400)

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[BORDERLANDS]. MEXICO. SECRETARÍA DE RELACIONES EXTERIORES. Memoranda y notas relativas cambiadas entre el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y el Ministerio Plenipotenciario de los Estados-Unidos. Mexico: Imprenta del Gobierno, 1877. [1-3] 4-45 [1, blank] pp. (text in English and Spanish). 8vo, original green printed wrappers, stitched. Moderately stained with occasional underlining, overall good. Contemporary ink note on upper wrapper, “Paso de la frontera en la persecución de bandidos” (“I go to the frontier to pursue bandits”).

     First edition. Not in standard sources. This bilingual edition sets out the complaints of the U.S. against Mexico in the long-running dispute between Mexico and the U.S. concerning cross border raids resulting in the loss of life and property. An example of U.S. complaints is the murder of seventeen U.S. citizens in Texas by “Indians from Mexico.” William Rufus “Pecos Bill” Shafter is cited, with his terse recommendation to the commission: “The only way to put a stop to the raids is to follow up the delinquents into Mexico [and] attack them in their lairs” (p. 4). The problems covered here were eventually resolved by the gradual spread of law and order in Texas itself, which reduced cattle rustling, and by the eventual conquering by the U.S. of its own Native American population. ($300-500)

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[BORDERLANDS]. MEXICO. SECRETARIO DE ESTADO (Manuel Robles y Pezuela). Memoria del Secretario de Estado y del Despacho de Guerra y Marina, leida en la Camara de Diputados los dias 30 y 31 de enero, y en la de Senadores en 13 de febrero de 1852. Mexico: Imprenta de Vicente G[arcía] Torres, 1852. [1-3] 4-118, [2], 1- 57 [1, blank] pp., 3 folded tables (included in pagination), 2 folding lithograph maps: [Map 1] Cuadro que comprehende la situacion Geográfica y Topográfica de las colonias militares de Sierra Gorda;neat line to neat line; with 7 separate maps around map proper, showing regions and towns; [Map 2] Carta de la Frontera del Norte de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos; neat line to neat line: 16.7 x 55.5 cm; detailed map with hand outline coloring in red showing the border states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Chihuahua, and Sonora as defined by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, including roads and watercourses (i.e., from Brownsville to San Diego), some sites on U.S. side located. 8vo, original black embossed grained cloth extra gilt presentation binding with martial symbols, glossy yellow endpapers. Endpapers slightly discolored, front endpapers and first two leaves lightly chipped at bottom, pp. 43/44 wrinkled at lower right corner. Overall, very fine, the maps superb. Signed presentation. Among the key Borderland reports, this one is among the rarest, and one of the few that concerns the time between the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Treaty of Mesilla.

     First edition. Eberstadt 127:49 (this copy). Howes R381: “Includes material on the boundary between Mexico and the United States, the Gadsden Purchase Territory, etc.” Palau 160989. ($1,500-3,000)

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[BORDERLANDS]. [NATIVE AMERICAN DEPREDATIONS]. MEXICO. MINISTERIO DE GUERRA Y MARINA. [Decree ordering that Mexican states provide levies to strengthen the army, commencing] Antonio De Leon, General De Brigada, Comandante general y Gobernador interino de este Departamento, á sus habitantes hago saber: Que por el ministerio de la guerra y marina se me ha comunicado la suprema órden que sigue.... [Text begins] Con esta fecha...No contentos los aventuros de Tejas con la criminal usurpation de aquel territorio.... Dated in type Mexico, November 11, 1841; followed by decree of Manuel Maria Sandoval, Mexico, November 11, 1841, concerning men to be recruited by each state; followed by decree of Antonio de León, Oaxaca, November 30, 1841, concerning raising the state’s quota, signed in type Antonio de León and José Esperón. Oaxaca: Impreso de I. Rincón, 1841. Broadside (31.8 x 43 cm), in six columns. Creased where formerly folded, minor losses from a few worm holes, light age toning. Overall, a very good copy of a rare decree.

     Rare Oaxaca imprint about perfidious Texans arming Native Americans. Streeter 970.1: “I have not seen a copy of the original publication of this order, and have entered it from the republication at Oaxaca.” Not in other standard sources. Herein Mexico accuses Texans of arming Native Americans and encouraging them to attack Mexico. ($300-600)

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[BORDERLANDS]. [TEXAS MISSIONS]. SPAIN. LAWS, STATUTES (February 14, 1779). [Laws establishing new bishopric to include Texas, with heading] Don Eusebio Bentura Beleña, del Consejo de S.M. y su Alcalde del Crimen de la Real Audiencia de esta Nueva España. [text begins] Desvelado siempre nuestro Rey y Señor Don Carlos Tercero...en proporcionar á sus amados Vasallos, expecialmente á los mas distantes.... Mexico, 1779. Broadside printed in two columns: 57 x 41.5 cm on two joined sheets of laid paper variously watermarked with an escutcheon, a horse, and an equestrian figure. Creased where formerly folded, left lower margin irregularly trimmed, several small worm holes touching some letters but not affecting legibility, faint offsetting at bottom; overall very good. With contemporary ink docket in upper left corner in legible hand summarizing contents, one contemporary ink notation in right margin, two contemporary wood sello quarto stamps on verso. Very rare.

     First edition of a law reorganizing ecclesiastical divisions in the Borderlands, including Texas Missions. Not in Medina, Palau, or Wagner’s Spanish Southwest; no copies on OCLC. See Bancroft, Mexico, Vol. III, p. 693: “In 1777, the pope issued a bull for the erection of the see of Nuevo Leon. In February, 1779, Oidor Beleña defined its territory, which was detached from other dioceses. From that of Guadalajara, the towns in Nuevo Santander, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, and Texas, the villa de Saltillo; from that of Michoacan, the towns of Jaumave, Palmillas, Real de los Infantes, and Tula; from that of Mexico, the town of Santa Bárbara.” Up until this time, the local priests were basically independent, and this was the first bishopric that gained widespread recognition and obedience in the area along the Rio Grande and in Texas. One difficulty that faced the establishment of the new diocese was the inability to define its northern boundary because the area was under the control of Native Americans, as is mentioned in the text. ($400-800)

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BORGET, Auguste. Fragments d’un Voyage Autour du Monde.... Moulins, [France]: C. Desrosiers, Imprimeur-Éditeur, n.d. [ca. 1842-1850]. [2, lithograph pictorial title], [12 leaves of letterpress text printed on rectos only], 12 lithograph plates on original tinted grounds (New York, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, China, Hawaii, Philippines & India). 4to, publisher’s original rose cloth over original tan paper boards affixed to upper cover is full-color chromolithograph. Boards faded and with some water spotting, very minor wear to edges of fragile boards. Slight evidence of label removals from text leaves opposite Plates 5 and 9. Very occasional minor spotting to interior, but overall the text and plates are very fine and bright. This work is difficult to find complete and in decent condition.

     First edition. Berger, Rio de Janeiro, p. 40. Borba de Moraes I, p. 112: “This album is very rare and little known.” Deak, Picturing America 454 (citing the plate of New Jersey-New York windmill plate). Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography, Vol. II, 1766 (citing the plate of Honolulu). Artist and world traveller, Auguste Borget (1808-1877), moved in a circle that included Honoré de Balzac and Charles Baudelaire, the former of whom praised Borget’s artistic talent in the Salon of 1846 (“He has a bright color, easy, and his tones are fresh and pure”) and the latter of whom remarked that “Borget has a style with a little bit of sweet malice that seasons the tale and makes it amusing.” The masterful, elegant, natural style of Borget’s marvelous images is perfectly complemented by his text. ($5,000-10,000)

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BOSSUET, [Jacques-Bénigne]. Vida de Jesucristo.... Mexico: Vicente García Torres, 1842. 21 leaves of lithographs on versos (scenes from the history of Jesus), most signed at lower left “Lit. Calle de la Palma N^o. 4” (i.e., José Mariano Fernández de Lara). Folio, original green printed wrappers, bound in contemporary three-quarter black sheep. Binding faded, corners bumped, lower wrap wrinkled, interior with scattered light foxing, plates separating from the binding. Overall a very good copy of a fragile book.

     First Mexican edition. Mathes, Mexico on Stone, p. 64 (Lara and García Torres). OCLC has two records for the book, one at University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and the other with a note that no copies are located. Each plate is divided thematically into two parts, the upper of which is eighteen boxed lines of explanatory text usually bordered by various abstract elements or imagery, some of it grotesque. The lower half depicts each individual scene, many of them with pronounced late Medieval or early Renaissance themes and dress. The vignettes are extremely detailed, well executed, and confidently drawn and composed, in addition to being beautifully lithographed. One unusually valuable bibliographic aspect of this book is García Torres’ advertisement on the lower wrapper describing his plagiarized edition of Carlos Nebel’s Viage pintoresco y arqueólogico de Megico (see NEBEL herein). ($300-600)

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[CALIFORNIA PIOUS FUND]. MEXICO (Republic). LAWS. [Decree of May 25, 1832, on the Pious Fund, commencing] El Escmo. Sr. Vice-Presidente...se ha servido dirigirme el decreto que sigue. Art. 1. El gobierno procederá al arrendamiento de las fincas rústicas pertenecientes al fondo piadoso de Californias, por término que no pase de siete años.... Mexico, May 25, 1832. [2] pp., with conjugate blank. Folio. One horizontal fold, minor wrinkling, and small hole touching no letters. Otherwise, very good.

     First edition of the decree ordering that the properties in the Pious Fund be rented and the proceeds deposited in the Mexican national treasury for the benefit of the California missions. Streeter Sale 2465. Not in Cowan.Secularization of the missions radically changed California from a monastico-missionary regime to the empresario system. ($250-500)

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[CASTAÑO, Bartolomé]. CATHOLIC CHURCH. CATECHISM. Doctrina Pequeña en Mexicano. Tepiton Teotlatolli. Mexico: Imprenta del ciudadano Alejandro Valdés, 1831. 15 [1, blank] pp. in Nahuatl, uncut sheet of unwatermarked, untrimmed laid paper. Two printings of the same setting of type on a full sheet, printed on both sides and meant to be divided and folded in half sheets. Horizontal fold with a few minor holes (well away from text), overall a very fine copy of an extremely rare survival.

First edition. Bibliografía Mesoamericana, p. 94. León Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli 890: “Un curioso librito.” Palau 74740. Pilling 1056: “Not seen. Title communicated by Sr. Icazbalceta.” Sabin 20420. This unusual imprint in its earliest pre-publication format contains questions and answers about the Trinity and other Church mysteries written in Nahuatl, the Aztec language spoken throughout central Mexico before the Spanish conquest. The catechism was originally written in Spanish by Bartolomé Castaño (1601-1672?) and frequently translated into various Native languages, as is the case here. Castaño, a native of Portugal, spent years in the Jesuit missions of Sinaloa and Sonora after arriving in Mexico. He used the unusual method of music to interest his converts and spoke six Native languages. ($1,000-2,000)

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México y sus alrededores

“The most important work illustrating Mexico City in the nineteenth century” (Mathes)

An introductory essay which provides the general context of the development of this remarkable book and presents detailed examples from seven individual albums of the evolution of specific plates.

CASTRO, Casimiro, et al. México y sus alrededores.... Mexico: Decaen, 1855-1856. [2], [1-3] 4-32 pp. (printed in double columns, 29 lithograph plates: pictorial title, pictorial half title, and 27 plates with captions in English, French, and Spanish (3 full-color, remainder on tinted grounds, some of which are duo-tone), 3 with 2 images on one sheet; total: 32 images on 29 leaves. Folio, contemporary three-quarter tan sheep over mottled boards, red leather spine label. Binding worn and scuffed, label rubbed with loss, spine chipped at bottom, hinges barely starting (but strong). Other than occasional mild foxing and staining to plates (mostly confined to blank margins), fine. This copy has one added untitled plate not associated with Castro’s album, but rather with Michaud y Thomas’ Album pintoresco de la República Mexicana [ca. 1850]. Castro 1. ($4,000-8,000)

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CASTRO, Casimiro, et al. México y sus alrededores.... Mexico: Decaen, 1855-1856. [2], [1-3] 4-37 [1, blank] pp. (printed in double columns), 38 lithograph plates: pictorial title, pictorial half title, and 36 plates with captions in English, French and Spanish (3 full-color, remainder on tinted grounds, some of which are duo-tone), 4 with 2 images on one sheet; total: 42 images on 38 leaves plus lithograph map. Folio, contemporary dark green calf over black and green mottled boards, spine gilt-lettered and gilt-ruled (expertly re-backed, original spine preserved, a skillful job, with matching gilt tooling added at extremities, board coloring refurbished, original endpapers retained). Hinges starting but firmly attached. Text very good except for some very mild browning and a few leaves (16/17 & 28/29) lightly stained at edge (just touching text). La Glorieta plate with old tape repair on lower right verso consolidating a tear, Cathedral of Mexico plate missing upper right corner (supplied in pen facsimile) and with a repaired tear at lower left extending into English caption (no loss), otherwise plates are very fine except for occasional faint marginal staining and very mild foxing. Map very good except lower margin is slightly stained. Nine new plates were added to this album. Castro 2. ($6,000-12,000)

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CASTRO, Casimiro, et al. México y sus alrededores...Seconde édition, augmentée. Mexico: Decaen, 1864. [4], [1] 2-67 [3],[i] ii-v [1, verso blank] pp. (printed in double columns, text in Spanish and French), 46 lithograph plates: full-color pictorial title on gilt ground, and 44 plates with captions in English, Spanish, and French (41 full-color, remainder on tinted grounds, some of which are duo-tone), 4 with 2 images on one sheet; total: 50 images on 46 leaves, plus two lithograph maps. Folio, new antique style three-quarter maroon calf and contemporary burgundy and brown mottled paper over new boards (original gilt-lettered spine label retained), spine with raised bands, new endpapers. Text with uniform browning and mild to moderate foxing to title and half-title. Some plates foxed, but mostly confined to margins. Some of the plates have a tiny pinhole at upper right blank corner of image (a pin was often used during the process of making the image to insure stability and maintain perfect registration of colors). This might seem a fault to some eyes, but we believe these unobtrusive pinholes elucidate the methods used for obtaining correct color registration when the prints were created. Castro 5. ($8,000-12,000)

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CASTRO, Castro, et al. México y sus alrededores...bajo la direccion de V. Debray...Nueva edicion aumentada.... Mexico: Debray, 1869. [4], [1] 2-67 [3], [i] ii-v [1, verso blank] pp. (printed in double columns, text in Spanish and French), 48 lithograph plates: full-color pictorial title on gilt background and 47 plates with captions in English, Spanish, and French (46 full color—including pictorial title on gilt ground—two uncolored), 4 with 2 images on one sheet; total: 52 images on 48 leaves, plus 2 lithograph folded maps. Folio, publisher’s original brown pebble cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover: Mexico y sus alrededores 1870, lower cover gilt-stamped ornament with brown cloth onlay matching binding, original pale yellow clay-coated endpapers. Text with uniform mild browning and foxing, title and half-title with light marginal chipping (no losses), half-title backed. Some plates foxed, especially in blank margins. Overall a good copy.

     Castro 6. This album and the one following each have 48 images but here two of the early images are retained: Plate [2, The City of Mexico taken from a Balloon] and Plate [31, View of the Valley of Mexico, Taken from the heights of Chapultepec]. The only new plate in this album is [24, Cathedral of Mexico], which omits the stage coach and adds a group of French Zouaves. ($7,500-15,000)

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CASTRO, Casimiro, et al. México y sus alrededores...Nueva edicion aumentada.... Mexico: Debray, 1869. [4], [1] 2-67 [3], [i] ii-v [1, verso blank] pp. (printed in double columns, text in Spanish and French), 48 lithograph plates: full-color pictorial title on gilt background and 47 plates with captions in English, Spanish, and French (46 full color—including pictorial title on gilt ground—two uncolored), 4 with 2 images on one sheet; total: 52 images on 48 leaves, plus 2 lithograph folded maps. Folio, publisher’s original dark green pebble cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover: Mexico y sus alrededores 1874, original ivory silk moiré endpapers, original tissue guards. Light binding wear most noticeable at extremities, head and tail of spine lightly chipped. Hinges starting, but holding firmly. Text with uniform mild browning, title and half-title moderately foxed. Some plates heavily to moderately foxed, especially in blank margins. Lower gutter margin lightly water-stained at lower blank corner. Overall a good copy. Castro 7. ($8,000-16,000)

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CATHERWOOD, Frederick. Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. London, 1844. [2], [1] 2-24 pp., decorated lithograph title by Owen Jones, 25 lithograph plates with original color tinting, map. Folio, publisher’s original green morocco over green moiré cloth, title in gilt on spine and upper cover, original pale yellow coated endpapers. Minor shelf wear to text and one snag to cloth on upper cover (no loss, neatly pasted down). Map and most of plates detached from binding, as usual. This copy is as fine a copy as one might expect to acquire, untrimmed, in original binding, the plates exceptionally fresh and bright, tissue guards present.

     First edition, limited edition (300 copies), tinted issue. Hill II:263. Palau 50290. Sabin 11520. Tooley, English Books with Coloured Plates 1790-1860 133. Victor W. Von Hagen, Search for the Maya: The Story of Stephens and Catherwood (Westmead: Saxon House, 1973, pp. 82-77): “In the whole range of literature on the Maya there has never appeared a more magnificent work.” ($25,000-50,000)

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CATHOLIC CHURCH. CATECHISM. [First title page] Catecismo en idioma Mixteco, segun se habla en los curatos de la Misteca Baja.... [Second title] Catecismo en el idioma Mixteco, Montañez, para el uso de los curatos que van señalados en la lista que se inserta.... [Third title] Manual en lengua Mixteca de ambos dialectos Bajo y Montañez. Puebla: Imprenta del Hospital de San Pedro, 1837. [14] 1-21 [1, blank] + [4], 1-20 + [1-2] 3-75, [2] pp. (mostly printed in double and triple column). 8vo, unbound, stitching perished. First title page and final page somewhat chipped and stained (no losses to text), small repair to pp. 3-4 of third part, but otherwise a very good copy.

     Second edition of three works issued together and usually considered as a single publication. According to a note on p. [13] of the first part, the first edition of this work was in 1834; no copies of it are known, however. Of the copies of the present edition listed on OCLC, many of them are microforms, ghosts, or records for only part of the publication. A note on the last page of the second work remarks that the third work will be issued separately for the sake of convenience. Palau 50220. Pilling 676, 677 & 678. Sabin 49770 & 49771. Ugarte 97, 98 & 99. “These three works, although printed separately, form in reality but one, as is shown by the prologue of the first, and from the table of errata which is common to the three. The authors promise an Arte and Vocabulario which I think has not been published. Mention is made in this work of another Catecismo Mixteco printed in 1834 by order of the same bishop. I have not seen it.—Icazbalceta” (quoted in Pilling). According to the statement, the 1834 edition was riddled with errors. ($750-1,500)

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CATHOLIC CHURCH. MISSAL (Mozarabic). Missa Gothica seù Mozarabica.... Puebla de los Angeles: Typis Seminarii Palafoxiani Anno Domini, 1770. 2 parts in one volume, titles and majority of text printed in red and black, second part printed in double columns, 3 full-page copper-engraved plates pasted onto blank pages), half-page engraving after title, 3 smaller text engravings of music, head- and tail-pieces and initials, occasional type ornamentation. Small folio, original Mexican binding in full chestnut calf gilt, a.e.g. Except for a bit of light marginal staining to edges of title (from binding), a bright, beautiful example in a handsome binding. The Salvá copy, with his red morocco gilt book labels on front and rear pastedowns.

     First edition of a monument of colonial Mexican book printing and engraving. Bibliotheca Mejicana 1146: “This edition presents a pure text of the most ancient service book extant.” Jones, Adventures in Americana 179. Medina, Puebla de los Angeles 864. Palau 172923. Riaño, Critical & Bibliographical Notes on Early Spanish Music, pp. 138-141. Sabin 49459. Salvá 3948: “Edición muy rara.” Mathes describes Nava as “extraordinary” (La Ilustración en México colonial, p. 125) and goes on to say (pp. 127-128): “In Puebla, one of the most talented artists and skilled engravers of his time in the Old World and the New, José de Nava, initiated his career. Nava, born about 1735, created and produced plates, most of which were signed, with unusual rapidity and highest quality and workmanship during a long career ended by his death in Puebla on 12 May 1817.... What could well be considered the pinnacle of his career, however, was reached in 1770 with extraordinarily beautiful arms of Cardinal Francisco Ximínez de Cisneros, an allegory of the burning of books by Moslems, mounted horsemen in Saracen garb, a magnificent Crucifixion, and music for the Missa gothica seú mozarabica, et officium itidem gothicum published by the archbishop of Mexico, Francisco Antonio Lorenzana, and printed by the Seminario Palafoxiano.” ($10,000-20,000)

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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Illustrated with Six Coloured Lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Paris: The Black Sun Press, Rue Cardinale, 1930. [6], 1-114, [2] pp., 6 original color lithograph plates by Marie Laurencin printed by Desjobert of Paris. Oblong small 4to, original art vellum wrappers printed in red and black, in original glassine wrapper, publisher’s chemise and slipcase with silver trim. Small portion of glassine slightly browned and wrinkled at upper left, spine of chemise slightly chipped, slipcase with slight edge wear and professionally reinforced. Text and plates very fine, tissue guards present.

     Limited edition (#298 of 350 copies on Rives paper for distribution in the United States). From a total edition of 790 copies, 350 copies for Europe, and 420 for the United States, of which 350 were on Rives paper, 50 on Japanese vellum, and 20 on Hollande Vangelder. Minkoff A39. Monod 2304. ($750-1,500)

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DUBROCA, [Jean]-Louis. Vida de J. J. Dessalines, gefe de los negros de Santo Domingo.... Mexico: Mariano de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1806. [4] 1-10, 1-18, [2] 19-106 pp., frontispiece and 9 copper-engraved plates (portraits and historical scenes) by José Simón de Larrea and Manuel López López. 4to, contemporary full Mexican tree sheep, beige leather spine label, spine gilt. Binding peeling in a few spots and worn at corners, mild shelf wear; interior with light to moderate soiling and a few tears repaired (last leaf with extensive old repair), but overall very good.

First Mexican edition (first edition, Paris, 1804). Mathes, La Ilustración en México colonial 9860. Medina, México 9860. Palau 363023. Romero de Terreros, Grabados y grabadores en la Nueva España, pp. 493-496. Sabin 21029. According to Palau, this edition is preferable to the first edition in Spanish (Madrid, 1805). See John Carter Brown Library “Exhibition of Slavery and Justice” 22 (this edition). The revolt described herein led to the creation of the first independent nation in Latin America. Given the original French source, it goes without saying that the rebellion against French rule is painted in the worst light with no recognition of how momentous an event it was that slaves managed successfully to throw off the yoke of French colonialism and establish a government of any type. As if the text were not graphic enough, some of the illustrations are even worse. The engravers have spared no effort of their burins to depict their subjects literally in the darkest hues, thereby reinforcing in imagery what the text relates. ($3,000-6,000)

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[DUPAIX EXPEDITION]. Antiquités Mexicaines. Relation des trois expéditions du capitaine Dupaix, ordonnées en 1805, 1806, et 1807, Paris: Au Bureau des Antiquités Mexicaines, N^o 55, Quai des Grands Augustins, Imprimiere de Jules Didot l’aîné, N^o 4, Boulevart d’enfer, 1834. 167 lithograph plates on 162 leaves, all mounted on india proof paper. 3 vols. in 2, grand folio, contemporary full tan levant morocco extra gilt. Slight shelf wear to binding, otherwise an exceptionally fine, complete copy, the plates superb, and in a splendid binding.

     First edition of Dupaix’s seminal work on Mexican archaeology, with “the first drawings of Maya architecture to be published” (Wauchope). Brunet I, columns 321-322. Field 468. Leclerc (1878) 1065. Palau 23069. Pilling 4082. Sabin 40038: “An indispensable supplement to Humboldt, as it contains many interesting discoveries not in the latter work.” This massive work contains the collected official reports of Captain Dupaix, one of the first Europeans to observe, describe, and illustrate the archaeological sites and artifacts of Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Yucatan. ($10,000-20,000)

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ELÍZAGA, José Mariano.  Elementos de Musica....  Mexico, 1823. [10], 1-76 pp., numerous text illustrations of music expertly drawn in sepia ink (as issued), plus folded typographic plate at end, with staff and notes accomplished in sepia ink, followed by blank folded sheet meant for another plate; both plate leaves at end measure 21.5 x 14.2 cm. 12mo, contemporary Mexican tree sheep, spine gilt decorated. Spine rubbed with some loss of gilt, upper spine end lightly chipped, binding moderately rubbed with some areas of flaying, corners lightly bumped, hinges starting but strong; wants front flyleaf, except for light scattered foxing, interior very fine. Rare.

     First edition of the first didactic Mexican book on music. Palau 79093. This book introduced into Mexico modern musical theories and practices. Such was the state, however, of publishing in Mexico that the musical examples had to be completed in manuscript, a transitional practice documented here. Jesús C. Romero, José Mariano Elízaga (Mexico, 1934), reports that in one private collection he saw a copy of this book with blank spaces instead of music. Elízaga (1786-1842) founded the Sociedad Filarmónica, establishing the first press in Mexico for printing non-liturgical music, and was characterized by Robert Stevenson as “the first important republican composer in Mexico [and] a major figure in nineteenth-century Mexican music” (Music in Mexico: A Historical Survey, New York, 1952, p. 135). ($750-1,500)

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ELLICOTT, Andrew. The Journal of Andrew Ellicott, Late Commissioner on Behalf of the United States during Part of the Year 1796, the Years 1797, 1798, 1799, and Part of the Year 1800: For Determining the Boundary between the United States and the Possessions of His Catholic Majesty in America.... Philadelphia: Budd & Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, 1803. [i-iii], iv-vii [1, blank], [1] 2-232, 232-299, [1-2] 3-151 [1, blank], [1, errata + 1, blank] pp., 14 copper-engraved folded maps, mostly on heavy laid paper (all untitled, drawn by Ellicott and engraved by Alexander Lawson). 4to, original blue paper boards, original tan paper label with ink lettering. Professionally recased and washed. A few signatures lightly stained at right blank margins, otherwise a fine, untrimmed copy.

     First edition. American Imprints (1803) 4147. Buck 50. Clark II:89. Graff 1230. Howes E94: “First thorough American survey of the lower Mississippi and Gulf Regions.” Rader 1295. Sabin 22217: “One of the earliest books by an American author, which describes the vast regions traversed by the commission, and is indeed the pioneer account of regions then desert, and now teeming with life, activity and civilisation.” Servies, Bibliography of Florida 768. Siebert Sale 607 . Streeter Sale 1531: “The earliest account of West Florida. Ellicott’s report on the area influenced the eventual. U.S. acquisition of the area.” The maps are original contributions to knowledge of the area. The present work was based on U.S. and Spanish surveys following the Treaty of San Lorenzo. Andrew Ellicott (1754-1820) was one of the more important surveyors of his time. He was chosen, for example, to extend the legendary Mason-Dixon Line west, and his survey of the new District of Columbia became the standard for the nation’s new capital, supplanting L’Enfant. He tutored Meriwether Lewis in surveying techniques before the Lewis & Clark expedition. The superb maps were engraved by Alexander Lawson. ($3,000-6,000)

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EMMETT, Chris. Texas Camel Tales Incidents Growing Up Around an Attempt by the War Department of the United States to Foster an Uninterrupted Flow of Commerce Through Texas by the Use of Camels. San Antonio: Naylor, 1932. [i-viii] ix-xvi [1, blank], 1-275 [1, blank] pp., including frontispiece, portraits, scenes (mostly photographic), folded plate of an official document relating to the subject. 8vo, original tan suede, spine lettered in black. Very fine in fine pictorial d.j. (minor chipping to top of spine of d.j.), autographed by author on front flyleaf.

     First edition, with “First Edition” printed on title. Agatha, p. 65. Basic Texas Books 33. Campbell, p. 172. J. Evetts Haley, untitled review in The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1 (July, 1933), pp. 71-72: “The history of what was probably the most unique transportation experiment of Western America, “Jeff Davis’ camels.” But it remained for Chris Emmett not only to point out the inception of the idea and its official trial and results, but to follow the trail of the camels themselves long after the government had surrendered its interest in the project.... Emmett has successfully searched out the camel tales and contributed his share of adventurous incident to the annals of Texas.” ($300-600)

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ESPINOSA, Isidro Félix de. El Peregrino Septentrional Atlante: Delineado en la Exemplarissima Vida del Venerable Padre F. Antonio Margil de Jesús.... Mexico: Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1737. [38], 456 [4] pp., title printed in red and black within typographical border, copper-engraved plate of Margil. 4to, twentieth-century terracotta levant morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Light wear and small hole to blank right margin of title and occasional very light marginal staining at lower margins of text, otherwise a fine copy, the portrait plate of Father Margil in excellent condition, fresh and a strong impression. Rare.

     First edition, the preferred variant with the title page printed in red and black, and ppl. 426-427 not defaced by Inquisition censors. Basic Texas Books 59A. Fifty Texas Rarities 5. Graff 1260. Howes E84. Jones, Adventures in Americana 444. Mathes, La Ilustración en México colonial, Register No. 3461. Medina, México 3461. Palau 82703. Raines, p. 78. Wagner, Spanish Southwest 102: “Antonio Margil is particularly noted in Southwest history for his expedition to Texas in 1716 and the founding of the missions in northeast Texas.” The portrait of Margil is among the earliest engraved portraits of a person outstanding in Texas history. ($2,500-5,000)

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FISHER, George. Printed decree with George Fisher’s holograph translation signed and with his paraph: COAHUILA Y TEJAS (Mexican State). LAWS. [Decree of April 6, 1833, on business laws] ...Art. 1^o. Se deroga el decreto nùmero 183, que prohivó el comercio del menudeo á los no nácidos en la republica. [Monclova, 1833]. Broadside. 8vo. Creased where formerly folded, minor stains on blank verso of conjugate leaf, otherwise fine. With a signed holograph translation into English by George Fisher on pp. [2-3].

     First edition of a rare decree. Not in Streeter. One of only two known copies and the only one with the conjugate blank. Kimball 217. Wilkie, Lilly Texana 73: “By this decree the state repeals its 9 April 1832 decree 183 and again allows non-native Mexicans to operate retail businesses.” The person who wrote and signed the English translation on the decree was George Fisher (1795-1873, born in Hungary of Serbian parents. After a wild ride on the roller coaster of life, Fisher landed in Texas hoping to take over lands formerly held by Haden Edwards. In 1835 Fisher helped organize a failed attempt to start a revolt in the eastern states of Mexico, known as the Tampico Expedition, in which he was accused of being a pirate. By 1850, he migrated to California, staying in Panama long enough to print a newspaper and get into hot water. A year later he landed in San Francisco, where among other important posts, he served on the commission established to administer Spanish and Mexican land titles after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. ($500-1,000)

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[FOLSOM, George]. Mexico in 1842.... New York: Charles J. Folsom; Wiley and Putnam; Robinson, Pratt and Co., 1842. [1-5] 6-256 pp., folding lithograph map, original color (outline coloring of Mexican states and Texas in bright rose; Republic of Texas in yellow). 16mo, original dark brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettering on spine. Head of spine skillfully reinforced, foot of spine slightly worn, overall binding is fine and unfaded. Text with occasional mild foxing, the map is pristine with good color retention. Overall a wonderful copy, the map superb.

     First edition. Graff 1372. Howes F226. Palau 93035. Plains & Rockies IV:91. Rader 1423. Raines, p. 83. Rittenhouse 694. Sabin 24968. Streeter 1413. ($2,000-4,000)

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FORBES, Alexander. California: A History of Upper and Lower California.... London, 1839. 10 uncolored lithograph plates, folding lithographic map of California with 6 insets of ports. 8vo, original green cloth. Spine slightly faded and just a bit of minor shelf wear, occasional foxing to interior (mainly confined to first few leaves), overall very good to fine, map very fine.

    First edition of “the first book in English to relate exclusively to California” (Streeter Sale 2491). Barrett 866. Cowan II, p. 217. Howell 50, California 83. Howes F242. Sabin 24035. Zamorano 80 #38. Gary Kurutz, commentary in Volkmann Zamorano 80 Catalogue: “His book, more than any other, made California known to the English-speaking world and spurred on both European and American interest in controlling this remote Mexican province.” ($750-1,500)

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FROEBEL, Julius. Seven Years’ Travel in Central America, Northern Mexico, and the Far West of the United States. London: Richard Bentley, 1859. [i-v] vi-xiv, [2], [1-3] 4-587 [1, blank] pp., 8 wood-engraved plates of scenes in Central America, Northern Mexico, the borderlands, Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico, engraved text illustrations. 8vo, publisher’s embossed blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered and decorated (neatly rebacked, original spine preserved, new endpapers supplied). Binding shelf slanted and somewhat faded, lower part of spine discolored, corners bumped, and edge wear. Interior with uniform light browning and scattered light staining at lower blank margins; plates very fine. Overall a very good copy, untrimmed.

    First edition in English (first edition, Leipzig, 1857-1858). Clark, Old South III:316: “[Froebel] painted with broad and bold strokes the overall picture of American institutions, with their highlights and shadows of regional exception...rich in materials describing Texas—the early routes of travel to Galveston, San Antonio, and El Paso, the vegetation and wildlife, German settlers, and geological lore.” Cowan, p. 226. Graff 1448. Howes F390. Kelsey, Engraved Prints of Texas 1554-1900, Fig. 4.270. Palau 95117. Pilling 1333. Plains & Rockies IV:292:2: “Camp calls this one of the most interesting books of travel through the southwest.” Raines, p. 85. Rittenhouse 231. Sabin 25992. The first part of the present volume describes Froebel’s travels in Nicaragua in 1850 while investigating a possible canal route; the second describes his trip over the Santa Fe Trail to Chihuahua and his return through Texas; and the third describes his journey in 1853 and 1854 across Texas, through New Mexico and Arizona to California. Froebel’s account is excellent, evincing his keen interest in politics, science, mining, natural history, and archaeology. Froebel gives what is probably the first description of Sally Skull. ($1,000-2,000)

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[GADSDEN PURCHASE]. MEXICO & UNITED STATES. TREATY. Printed announcement by Santa-Anna publishing the Treaty of Mesilla, dated July 20, 1854, by Manuel Díez de Bonilla. [Text begins] S.A.S. el General Presidente se ha servido dirigirme el decreto que sigue: Antonio López de Santa-Anna...Que habiéndose concluido y firmado en esta capital el dia 30 de Diciembre del año próximo pasado de 1853, un Tratado entre la República Mejicana y los Estado-Unidos de América. Mexico, 1854,[8] pp. Folio. Washed and stabilized. Very rare (5 copies located).

     First edition of the treaty that cemented the Gadsden Purchase. Not in standard sources. The treaty for the Gadsden Purchase resolved the problems that arose in the differing interpretations of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The initial-point controversy was settled by the U.S. purchasing the Mesilla Valley from Mexico for $10,000,000, thus providing the United States with enough land for a southern transcontinental railway route. The treaty also abrogated the article of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which made the United States responsible for Native American raids into Mexico. Finally, the Gadsden Purchase modified some articles of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and gave the U.S. rights of transit across Tehuantepec. “With the Gadsden Purchase, the outlines of the continental United States had been drawn and the first phase of the great imperialistic struggle for the West had been completed” (Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire, p. 263). ($10,000-20,000)

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GAZTAÑETA Y ITURRIVALZAGA, José Antonio de. Proporciones de las medidas mas essempciales, dadas por el theniente general da la Armada Real del Mar Occeano [sic] Don Antonio de Gastañeta, de Orden del Rey nuestro Señor, para la fabrica de navios, y fragatas de Guerra.... Madrid, 1720. [10], 31 folios, 1 folded table, 1 copper-engraved folded plate of shipbuilding plan for a seventy-gun war ship. Folio, new vellum. First and last leaves stabilized (no losses), all leaves and plate with small worm holes affecting some letters and image, mild stains in last half of book. Overall, very good. Very rare. Only five copies listed on OCLC, with only two in the United States, and no auction records for the past thirty years.

     First edition of the first Spanish scientific shipbuilding guide. Ensayo de bibliografía marítima española 100. European Americana 1720/100. Palau 100976. The first leaf comprises a royal decree of 13 May 1721, ordering that this book be used throughout the kingdom, including the New World, for the construction of ships and that the directions contained in it be strictly followed. He also orders the book to be published and distributed throughout his domains. The book was written at the King’s express command.An extremely detailed shipbuilding guide, the work is divided into several parts. This is a major eighteenth-century treatise on shipbuilding that guided Spanish warship construction for the better part of the century and set the example for scientific ship construction. Gaztañeta (1656-1728) enjoyed a long, distinguished career in the Spanish navy, first sailing as a young man with his father to Veracruz. Despite the honors and increased rank that devolved on him, he always remained interested in piloting, at which he was expert. ($2,500-5,000)

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GONZÁLEZ CARRANZA, Domingo. A Geographical Description of the Coasts, Harbours, and Sea Ports of the Spanish West-Indies...the Bay of Mexico, and the North Sea of America.... London: Caleb Smith, 1740. 5 folded copper-engraved maps and charts. 8vo, modern full vellum. Very good copy, maps fine.

     First edition? One of two versions that came out in 1740. Apparently no one has yet sorted out which edition came first. European Americana 1740/141. Palau 105157. Sabin 11030, 27899. The work has been questioned as possibly a fabrication published simply to encourage sales of the book, but Lawrence C. Wroth brilliantly deconstructs this intriguing English navigation manual for the Spanish Main in his article “Some American Contributions to the Art of Navigation 1519-1802” (Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 68 October, 1944-May, 1947, pp. 72-112). ($1,500-3,000)

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GOTTFRIED, J.L. & Matthaeus Merian. Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien.... Frankfurt, 1655. [6], 661 [2] pp., engraved allegorical title (Historia antipodum oder Newe Welt...), 5 engraved folded maps and views (including Merian’s revision of John Smith’s epochal map of Virginia), about 175 half-page text engravings (views and maps, including early images of Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, and Drake in California). Folio, full modern calf by Aquarius of London. Other than slight browning and occasional staining and a few old repairs, very good.

     Second edition, augmented, of an important compilation on the exploration, conquest, and colonization of the New World (first edition, 1631). Borba de Moraes, pp. 311-313. BMC, Natural History I, p. 272. JCB (3) II:443. Burden 235n & 251n (map of America) & 219n & 164n (John Smith map of Virginia). European Americana 1655/74). Palau 646. Sabin 50. Michiel van Groesen, “America Abridged: Matthaeus Merian, Johann Ludwig Gottfried, and the Apotheosis of the De Bry Collection of Voyages” in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 41 (2011), pp. 67-92: “A one-volume abridgment of the monumental America series issued by Theodor De Bry and his two sons. Historia Antipodum can be considered the apotheosis of the collection of voyages to the New World. This article argues that Gottfried’s abridgment, rather than the independent publication it is sometimes taken to be, was constructed with the same editorial strategy in mind as earlier De Bry volumes. Heathen beliefs in the western hemisphere were further emphasized, European superiority was visualized more clearly, and the predilection for spectacular images was stronger than ever. In many ways, the modifications Merian and Gottfried made to both texts and illustrations surpassed the changes made for the original volumes of America.” ($5,000-10,000)

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GRAYSON, P.W. Vice Unmasked.... New York, 1830. 8vo, recent three-quarter russet calf over marbled boards, black morocco spine label. Very good copy of an uncommon title.

     First edition. American Imprints (1830) 1661. Possibly the author was the Peter Wagener Grayson (1788-1838), attorney, poet, soldier, legislator, and active in Texas from 1830, where he held several important positions before and after the Revolution (see Handbook of Texas). David Grimsted, “Rioting in its Jacksonian Setting” (American Historical Review, Vol. 77, No. 2, April 1872, pp. 371-372): “Vice Unmasked...presents most coherently the intellectual structure of uneasiness with the law that ran through Jacksonian life.... Grayson was unenthusiastic about law because he considered it the greatest obstacle to the realization of the promise of American life.” ($600-1,200)

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GÜEMES PACHECO DE PADILLA, Juan Vicente de, Second Conde de Revillagigedo (Viceroy of New Spain, 1789-1794). Copper-engraved appointment form completed in manuscript, appointing José de Andrade lieutenant in the Dragoons Regiment of Spain, signed by Revillagigedo and Antonio Bonilla. Mexico City, March 24, 1794. Folio, elaborate border and large image of the Conde’s arms. Creased where formerly folded, with three small professionally closed splits intruding into image (no losses), several small holes in left blank margin, otherwise fine. The appointment is highly legible and the signatures are dark and bold.

     Embodied in this beautifully engraved Viceregal document is a rare conjunction of Mexican figures involved in the settling and organization of Texas The administraton of Revillagigedo (1740-1799) was very progressive, and included exploratory ventures to the Pacific Northwest, and a more enlightened view of missions and presidios in Texas and the Spanish Southwest. The other signer of this document, Antonio Bonilla, was the first historian of Texas. The engravings of Joaquín Fabregat (1748-1807) are considered to this day “magníficos” and embody a refined neo-Classical style. ($250-500)

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HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de. The General History of the Vast Continent and Islands of America, Commonly call’d, The West-Indies...Translated into English by Capt. John Stevens... London: Batley, 1725-1726. 15 copper-engraved plates, all but 2 folding (portraits, scenes from the Conquest, Amerindian life); plus 3 copper-engraved folded maps. 6 vols., complete, 8vo, nineteenth-century three-quarter crimson morocco over marbled boards (signed binding by James MacLehose of Glasgow). Joints rubbed, a few corners lightly bumped, interior fine except for scattered light foxing to text and plates and a few minor instances of slight worming confined to blank margins. A very good set.

     First English edition. Borba de Moraes I, pp. 401-401. JCB (1)III:355. European Americana 1725/95. Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast 529. Wagner, Spanish Southwest 12i. “Contains several portions of interest for the history of California: the first complete account of Cabrillo’s discovery and exploration of the California coast in 1542...; the 1535 voyage of Cortez, who discovered Baja California, and according to Herrera, gave the new territory the name of California; and Ulloa’s famous voyage of 1539, during which he discovered that Baja California was not an island but in fact a peninsula, a claim that was not reconfirmed for more than two hundred years” (Howell, California 50:113). ($3,000-6,000)

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HERRERA, Antonio de. Four separate volumes from Pieter van der Aa’s voluminous compilation Naaukeurige versameling, consisting of 28 vols. in 127 parts. The four volumes we offer are drawn from Herrera’s Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas y tierra firme del mar oceano (1601), translated into Dutch, and illustrated with copper-engraved maps, views, and scenes. The four volumes, which were published in Leyden in 1706-1707, relate to very early voyages, exploration, and conquest in America, particularly Hernán Cortés, and including Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón’s landing in present-day in South Carolina in 1526 and the founding the ill-fated colony of San Miguel de Gualdape, which was the first attempted settlement by Europeans in present-day United States. 29 folded copper-engraved maps and plates. European Americana 1706/117; 1707/67; 1706/111; 1706/111. See our full description for a detailed listing. ($750-1,500)

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HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von. “Tablas geografico-politicas del Reyno de la N. Espa. Que manifiestan su superficie, poblacion, agricultura, frabricas, comercio, minas, rentas y fuerza militar. Por El Baron de Humboldt Presentadas al Sor Virrey del mismo reyno. En el año de 1804.” [112] leaves written in ink on both sides on paper watermarked Elias. 8vo, original plain self wrappers, stitched. Ink highlighted in silver. Dated at end Mexico, 16 July 1804. Pristine in a highly legible professional scribal hand. A very fine, early copy of the entire work.

     Taken as a whole, this pristine manuscript is the first modern statistical analysis of Mexico and the Southwest. The “Tablas” were not completely published completely until 1970, having existed only in partially printed versions or in manuscript versions such as this one. The earliest publication in any form was in vol. 4 of El Diaro de México (1-31 May 1807), wherein appeared the sections on superficie and populación. Publication was probably stopped by the Viceroy because of security concerns. The first book publication was Tablas geográficas políticas (Mexico: Ontiveros, 1822). See Fiedler & Leitner, Alexander von Humboldts Schriften 4.6.9. After Humboldt compiled his statistical tables, he took his original manuscript back to Europe with him but presented a manuscript copy on 3 January 1804 to Viceroy de Iturrigaray in Mexico before his departure. Apparently from that copy other copies such as this were made, and several others are known, dated variously between 1804, the end of the decade, and even later. Despite the overarching, magisterial work that resulted from Humboldt’s research, these tablas reflect the grinding, statistical underpinnings that formed the basis of his vision. Of special Southwest interest are contemporary statistics and conditions for California, New Mexico, and Texas. ($7,500-15,000)

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HUMBOLDT, Alexander von & Aimé Bonpland. Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne.... Paris: Schoell & Stône, 1811. Text: 2 vols., 4to, contemporary full tan calf expertly rebacked, original spines preserved). Atlas: Atlas Géographique et Physique du Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne.... Paris: Schoell & Stône, 1811. 19 leaves of engraved plates. Large folio, modern three-quarter tan calf over marbled boards. Fine, large set.

     First French edition, second issue, preceded by the fascicles issue. Cohen, Mapping the West, pp. 100-101. Fiedler & Leitner, Alexander von Humboldts Schriften 4.6 & 4.6.10. Graff 2009 & 2010n. Howes H786. Jackson, Shooting the Sun #64. Martin & Martin, 23n: “A noteworthy turning point in the cartographic history of Texas.” Miles & Reese, Creating America 23; America Pictured to the Life 45. Palau 116973 (text) & 116974 (atlas). Plains & Rockies IV:7a:3 & 7a:3a:l: “Humboldt’s discussions of California, New Mexico, Texas, and Northern Mexico are detailed and thorough, containing much data that had never before appeared in print.” Sabin 33756 (text & atlas). Schwartz & Ehrenberg, Plate 139 & p. 127: “Humboldt’s map remained the standard map of the Great Basin region until Frémont’s expeditions thirty-five years later.” Streeter 1042 (designates the large map of New Spain as one of the six most desirable maps of Texas). Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, 272*, 274*, 275*, 302*, 304*, 305* & Vol. I, pp. 132-138: “Undoubtedly the most important and most accurate published map that had yet appeared.... A truly magnificent cartographic achievement.” ($20,000-40,000)

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HUMBOLDT, Alexander de. Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain.... New York:I. Riley, 1811. 2 vols. in one, 8vo, full modern grey buckram. Occasional spotting (including Vol. I title) and staining, paper uniformly browned, otherwise good.

     First U.S. edition of preceding entry, printing through Book IV, Chapter IX. The chapters on the provinces of New Mexico, the Californias, and Provincias Internas (including Texas) are covered in these two volumes. American Imprints 23066. Howes H786. Pilling 1874a. Plains & Rockies IV:7a:5. Sabin 33715. Humboldt was highly displeased with Black’s translation and criticism. ($150-300)

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LARRAÑAGA, Bruno Joseph de. Poema heroyco en celebridad de la colocación de la estatua colosal de bronce de Nuestro Católico Monarca el Sr. Don Carlos Quarto, Rey de España y Emperador de las Indias.... Mexico: Mariano de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1804. [6], 1-16, [2], i-vi, [2], 1-10 pp., printed on thick paper, engraved ornamental head- and tail pieces; extra-illustrated with lithograph frontispiece: Estatua Ecuestre de Carlos IV (image size including title: 17.5 x 15.4 cm; the statue is surrounded by an ornamenal iron fence, a well-dressed couple in front looking up at the statue, other figures in the background, unattributed). 4to, contemporary full tree sheep with spine and boards gilt decorated, tinted edges, marbled endpapers. Slightly rubbed, upper cover water stained at right center. Title page with small void at upper right not affecting text. Very good copy.

     First edition. Medina, México 9702. Palau 132066. Sabin 39084. A controversial equestrian statue (familiarly called El Caballito) conceived by Viceroy Branciforte and cast in Mexico City by Manuel Tolsá, head of the Academy of San Carlos. Before it was finished, a wooden model was erected to much fanfare. When the actual bronze statue was finally installed (with Humboldt in attendance) in December, 1803, the ceremony was greeted with renewed festivities. During the Mexican Revolution, controversy over it began, but it was spared destruction through the intervention of Lucas Alamán, who argued for its artistic merit. It remains in Mexico City to this day and is one of the largest bronze statues anywhere. ($400-800)

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LEA, Tom. A Grizzly from the Coral Sea. Conversation and pictures by Tom Lea. [Title verso] Copyright, 1944, by Carl Hertzog, El Paso, Texas. [1-4], [1]-32, [2, colophon Hertzog’s device] Carl Hertzog: Printer, El Paso Texas] pp., title and text illustrations in pale blue and illustrated endpapers by Lea. 8vo, original green cloth without Ursa major decoration on the upper cover. Very fine in very fine d.j.  

     First edition, limited edition of author-artist’s second book (295 copies, type and plates afterwards destroyed). Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Lea) 29. Hinshaw & Lovelace, Lea 65. Lowman, Printer at the Pass 25: “The Scotch-Roman typeface is taut and virile.” Tom Lea (1907-2001), outstanding artist-illustrator, noted American muralist, war correspondent, author, and historian, wrote several classics of southwestern American literature, but in this work of fiction, he draws on his experiences in World War II. From 1941-1946, Tom Lea became an eye-witness reporter for Life, traveling over 100,000 miles to theaters of war where American forces were involved, including the North Atlantic, on board the Hornet in the South Pacific, a trip to China, and landing on Peleliu. Lea spent sixty-six days on the USS Hornet off Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942, and left her just days before she was lost on 26 October in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. ($200-400)

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LEÓN Y GAMA, Antonio de. Descripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras que con ocasion del nuevo empedrado que se está formando en la plaza principal de México Mexico: Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1792. 3 folded copper-engraved plates (Aztec mother goddess and Stone of the Sun). Small 4to, contemporary sprinkled sheep, pale olive green gilt-lettered spine label. Binding slightly rubbed at edges and extremities and peeling in a few places. Except for minor stain to title page and top margins of some pages trimmed close (with a few losses or partial losses of page numbers). Contents fine. Plates very fine, in strong impressions.

     First edition of the first scholarly publication to describe and attempt to explain what has become a national symbol of Mexico. Bernal 3784. Biblotheca Mejicana 934. Dumbarton Oaks, Archaeological Illustration in the Americas: “One of the great early figures in the history of Mexican archaeology, Antonio de León [1735-1802] produced some of the first modern illustrations of Aztec monuments.” Field 908. Medina, México 8204. Palau 135587. Pilling 2257. Sabin 40059. ($4,000-6,000)

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LEÓN Y GAMA, Antonio de. Saggio dell’astronomia cronologia e mitologia degli antichi messicani.... Rome, 1804. [i] ii-xiii 3 copper-engraved plates: pictorial title with Mexican eagle + 2 folded plates: Coatlicue statue and Stone of the Sun. 8vo, contemporary green calf over navy blue and black mottled boards. Spine slightly faded, light edge wear, first signature with mild scattered foxing, otherwise fine, the plates excellent. Uncommon.

     First Italian edition of preceding. Palau 135589. Pilling 2258. Sabin 26486 & 40065. Here the plates have been reduced, and the contoured view of the Stone of the Sun is merged with the line relief view to show the alphabetic key. ($1,000-2,000)

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LEÓN Y GAMA, Antonio de. Descripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras.... Mexico, 1832. 5 folded engraved plates (sculpture of Coatlicue, 2 plates of the Stone of Sun, astronomical diagram used by the Ancient Mexicans, details from a pictorial manuscript). 4to, nineteenth-century half Mexican sheep over marbled boards. Except for browning to title page and first few leaves, very fine, plates excellent.

     Second Mexican edition, the most complete edition, with previously unpublished related work by León y Gama. Editor Carlos M. Bustamante also added a biography of León y Gama and numerous extracts in Náhuatl, and an appendix “Sobre la aritmética de los Mexicanos.” Glass, p. 642. Palau 135588 (noting that for academic work, this is the preferable edition). Pilling 2259. Sabin 40060. ($1,000-2,000)

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LETTS, John M. California Illustrated: Including a Description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes... Second Thousand. New York: R.T. Young, 1853. [i-v] vi-vii, [8-9] 10-224 [16, ads] pp., 48 lithograph plates (including frontispiece) on tinted grounds or duo-tone (views of Mexico, Central America, West Indies, and California, missions, scenes in the Gold Rush, several early town views). 8vo, publisher’s blindstamped gilt-pictorial green cloth. Chipped at extremities with minor losses, slightly shelf-slanted, minor edge wear, top margin of lower cover wrinkled. Interior with very fine, plates very fresh.

     First edition, second printing. Except for minor changes to title page, this version is identical to the first printing. Cowan I, p. 140. Cowan II, p. 390: “There was evidently a deficiency in the supply of engravings prepared, for the number varies greatly.” Graff 246. Hill I, p. 180. Hill II:1015 & 1016 Howes L300. Jones 1281. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 398b: “Drawing on his personal experience, Letts produced one of the best accounts of gambling, violence, and life in the mines.... George V. Cooper, Lett’s traveling companion and New York artist, drew the illustrations that embellish this work. His scenes, reproduced as forty-eight tinted lithographs, document the journey across Panama, San Francisco, Sacramento, life in the mines, and Central America.” Sabin 40722. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 125. ($500-1,000)

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L’HERMITE, Jacques, et al. Iovrnael van de Nassausche Vloot...In de Jaren 1623, 1624, 1625, en 1626. [Amsterdam, ca. 1645-1646]. 1-79, [1, blank] pp. (text printed in black letter in double columns), 5 copper-engraved maps & views (including an early bird’s-eye view of Acapulco and an engraving of Waldbeeck’s 1624 chart, the earliest map to show Cape Horn correctly as an island). 2a-2k4. Oblong 4to, eighteenth-century marbled wrappers, stitched. Front hinge weak at top, otherwise fine, maps very fine.

     This account was first published in Amsterdam in 1626 (European Americana 1626/70); the present edition was published as part of Commelin’s collection of early voyages of the Dutch East India Company (European Americana 1645/36 & 1646/41). The present edition is a reprint of the 1643 edition and includes some accounts not in the first edition, e.g., Pedro Fernándes de Queirós account of his quest to discover “Onbekent Austrialia” (Unknown Australia), which was omitted from the 1648 and subsequent editions. Church 408 (citing original edition of 1626): “One of the most valuable and best written of the early Dutch voyages is the journal of Admiral Jacques l’Hermite’s voyage around the world; 1623-1626. The object of this voyage was to find a better passage than that of Magellan by which the Dutch could reach the Moluccas from the east. By means of this voyage the Dutch were able to establish themselves in the East Indies.” ($750-1,500)

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LINATI, Claudio. Costumes civils, militaires et réligieux du Mexique.... Brussels: Jobard & Sattanino, [1828]. 50 lithograph plates, 2 of which are uncolored, the remaining 48 with original hand coloring. 4to, contemporary three-quarter red sheep over marbled boards. Binding very worn and corners heavily bumped. Text with extremely light uniform browning and occasional mild foxing, a few leaves with very slight water staining at blank lower margins, one leaf of text and one plate missing sections from blank margins at bottom (without touching image or text). Overall a very good, complete copy, the plates fine and bright. This rare book is seldom found complete and in collector’s condition.

    First edition of the first lithograph plate book on Mexico. Colas 1872. Hiler, Bibliography of Costume, p. 545. Lipperheide 1622. Mathes, Mexico on Stone, pp. 8-14: “Immediately became the basis for many other illustrations of Mexico, as well as the principal source for information on the region since Humboldt.” Reese & Miles, The Illustrating Traveler: “Linati’s book followed the popular pattern of European costume books which exhibited national characteristics and typical trades, displaying different Mexican types from Apaches to soldiers.” ($5,000-8,000)

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LINATI, Claudio. Costumes et mœurs de Mexique.... London: Engelmann, Graf Coindet, & Cie, 1830. 33 lithograph plates with original full hand coloring. 4to, contemporary polished brown calf Cambridge style (skillfully rebacked, new spine antique style, new marbled endpapers). Original covers scuffed, interior generally excellent except for a few minor spots to plates and on text leaf with light creasing, otherwise a very fine, complete copy with fresh, bright, vibrant coloring. The British edition is more rare in institutional holdings, as well as in commerce.

    First English edition, preceded by an edition printed in Brussels in 1828. Colas 1873. ($5,000-8,000)

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[LÓPEZ DE SANTA-ANNA, ANTONIO]. Don Antonio siempre el mismo se marcha a San Juan de Ulua. [Colophon] Imprenta de D. Mariano Ontiveros, año de 1821. [Mexico City, 1821]. [4] pp. 8vo, folded sheet, as issued. Light age-toning and some wrinkling. Rare.

     First edition? The work was also published at Puebla the same year. Garritz, Impresos Novohispanos, 1808-1821 #5181. Mathes, La Imprenta en el Imperio Mexicano 1821-1823 #121. Sutro, p. 188. Not in Medina or Palau. This anonymous pamphlet impugns the loyalty of Antonio López de Santa-Anna to the Plan de Iguala and the Mexican Empire, indicating that he is siding with the Spanish still occupying the fort of San Juan de Ulúa in the port of Veracruz. Written in first person replete with satire, Santa-Anna remarks that recent developments towards liberty and democracy have frustrated his imperialistic desires. This event marked a new stage of chameleonic cunning in the young Santa Anna’s rising career. ($100-200)

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[LÓPEZ DE SANTA-ANNA, ANTONIO]. [Text begins] El Secretario de Estado y del despacho de la Guerra y Maritima y el Vice-Presidente de la Junta Cívica suplican á V. se sirva acompañar desde la Alameda hasta el Cementario de Santa Paula.... [Mexico, 1842]. Dated in type, Mexico, September 24, 1842. Broadside with conjugate blank, printed on green wove paper. Creased where formerly folded, lightly wrinkled, left margin uneven and chipped, rust stain in upper left blank margin. Overall a fine copy of a rare survival.

     First edition. Not in standard sources. This is an invitation, dated September 27, 1842, to accompany Santa-Anna’s leg, lost at Veracruz on December 5, 1838, in the Pastry War, from the Alameda to its final resting place in Santa Paula cemetery. The leg was to be deposited in a memorial. As part of the ceremony, a prayer began the procession at 11:00 a.m. and at the monument an orator praised Santa-Anna. The burial took place on Santa-Anna’s orders. Despite Church opposition, the ceremony was held amid grand pomp, concluding with an oration by Ignacio Sierra y Rosa. See Shannon Baker in Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006), pp. 67-70. Santa-Anna had little better luck keeping his replacement cork leg. During the Mexican-American War, it was captured by U.S. troops at Cerro Gordo and taken to Illinois, where it remains in a museum, despite repeated Mexican requests to have it returned. ($600-1,200)

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[LÓPEZ DE SANTA-ANNA, ANTONIO]. MEMORY GAME. [Unattributed lithograph images of Santa Anna with captions containing historical notes on his career]. N.p., n.d. [Mexico, ca. 1855-1860?]. 2 sets of 20 miniature lithograph images each mounted on original heavy card stock. Each card measures approximately 5 x 6 cm. Except for soiling and fading, very good, each card numbered in ink on verso. ¡Excepcionalmente raros y desconocidos! No copies located. We have not seen these miniature lithographs before and doubt we will again.

     This memory game was meant to teach history by events in the life of Antonio López de Santa Anna, the most dominant political figure in Mexico in the nineteenth century. The cards cover the period from 1822 to 1855, beginning with his rebellion against Iturbide and ending with his leaving Mexico in 1855. The images include one of Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto in Texas in 1836 (Santa-Anna derrotado en S. Jacinto 1836) and seven from the Mexican-American War. The Mexican-American War sequence starts with his return to Mexico in 1846 and goes through the Battles of Angostura, Cerro Gordo, and finally, his retreat from Mexico City in 1847. Unlike some publications relating to Santa-Anna, these cards are fairly straight forward and without bias. In memory games all of the cards are laid face down on a surface and one card is flipped face up each turn. The object of the game is to find pairs of matching cards. ($1,000-2,000)

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[LÓPEZ DE SANTA-ANNA, ANTONIO]. Segundo calendario de Pedro Urdimalas para el año de 1857, con un opusculo titulado: Santa-Anna a la faz de sus compatriotas.Adornado de una estampa con veinte cuadros. Mexico: Imprenta á cargo de Leandro J. Valdes, [1856]. [1-27] 28-64 pp., 1 folded lithograph plate: Cuadro histórico del General Santa Anna. 2a. parte. [below neat line] Lito. de Iriarte y Cd. calle de Sta Clara no. 25 (neat line to neat line: 19.5 x 28.7 cm; overall sheet size: 22.5 x 30 cm; twenty vignettes, each 5 x 5.7 cm). 12mo, original printed wrappers, title within architectural border, stitched. Wrappers lightly stained and creased, lower wrapper with minor tears in lower blank margin (not affecting text); interior and plate fine. A rare survival.

     First edition. Not in standard sources. Only one copy of this edition on OCLC, which lists a few scattered copies for other years; no copies at auction in the past thirty-five years. Apparently published for the first time for the year 1856 and for the last time for 1860. The Bulletin of the New York Public Library (1909), “List of Books in the New York Public Library Relating to Mexico,” p. 625 lists 4 issues, Nos. 2-5, from 1856-1859. The article on Santa-Anna is particularly critical of his roles in the loss of Texas and the country’s defeat in the Mexican-American War. The exquisite plate, composed of twenty detailed, finely executed vignettes, shows various important scenes from Santa-Anna’s career, including the Goliad Massacre wherein he is placed at the scene, although he was not actually present. Another vignette shows him signing the Treaty of Velasco. ($500-1,000)

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LORENZANA, Francisco Antonio de. Historia de Nueva-España.... Mexico: Hogal, 1770. [18], i-xvi, 1-175, [2], 177-400, [18, contents] pp., title printed in red and black and with allegorical engraving of America; 34 copper-engraved plates, plus 2 folding maps: Plano de la Nueva España (by Alzate y Ramírez) & Domingo del Castillo Pilota me Fecit en México...MDXLI.... Folio, original full vellum. Text block separating from binding, a few trivial tears to a couple of text leaves (not affecting text). Text between pages 201 and 375 lightly stained at upper blank gutters (affecting majority of text between pp. 282-315, and blank margin of California map), otherwise very fine, original condition.

    First edition of a masterpiece of Mexican colonial printing, with important historical content and superb maps and plates. Barrett 3960. JCB(3)I:1750. Cowan II, p. 396. Glass #368 & 645: “A major source for the study of tribute, place glyphs, and political economy and geography of the Aztecs.” Hill I, pp. 66-69. Hill II #1039: “Included is the voyage of Cortés to Baja California and a report of all of the expeditions to California to the year 1769, the year of the Portolá-Serra expedition to found San Diego and Monterey.” Johnson, The Book in the Americas 26. Medina, México 5380. Sabin 42065. Wagner, Spanish Southwest 152. The general map of New Spain, Texas, and the Borderlands by Alzate y Ramírez is based on his exceedingly rare 1768 prototype map, which is the second printed map of the entire region of the Spanish Southwest to bear the name “Texas.” See Martin & Martin 20 and Wheat, Transmississippi West #149n & Vol. I, p. 87. References to California map: Burrus (Kino and the Cartography of Northwestern New Spain, p. 30), Leighly (California as an Island, p. 13); Mathes in California 49 #2; Wagner (NWC, pp. 31-32), and Wheat (Transmississippi West #3 & Vol. I, p. 19). ($10,000-20,000)

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LUCE, Edward S. Keogh, Comanche and Custer. [St. Louis], 1939. xvii [1, blank], 1-127 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt. Gilt on binding faded and cloth lightly rubbed, else very good. Scarce, privately printed.

     First edition, limited edition (unnumbered). Howes L553. Luther, High Spots of Custer and the Little Big Horn Literature 99 & p. 19: “Three of his appendices add valuable knowledge in regard to the number of recruits in the regiment (much smaller than some historians would lead us to believe) and the killed, the wounded, and the survivors.” The story of the lone four-legged survivor of Custer’s last stand. ($300-600)

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[LUNDY, Benjamin]. The Life, Travels and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy, Including His Journeys to Texas and Mexico; with a Sketch of Cotemporary [sic] Events, and a Notice of the Revolution in Hayti. Compiled [by Thomas Earle] under the Direction and on Behalf of His Children. Philadelphia: William D. Parrish, 1847. [4, blank] [5-9] 10-316 pp. (title mounted on stub), mezzotint frontispiece portrait of Lundy after painting by Anson Dickinson and engraved by William Warner; folded engraved map with original hand coloring: California, Texas, Mexico, and part of the United States [text in Gulf of Mexico] Explanation...the territory in dispute...; neat line to neat line: 21.6 x 25.4 cm. 12mo, original brown blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered. Binding slightly worn at extremities, mild discoloration to cloth which has a few spots and stains, front hinge starting, lacking front free endpaper. Slight to moderate foxing to text, overall a very good copy, the map fine. The Hickory Grove Female Academy & Society-Charles Heartman-William Morrow copy.

     First edition. Clark, Old South III:66. Eberstadt, Texas 162:505. Graff 1195. Howes E10. Matthews, pp. 255-256: “The most traveled of the abolitionists was Lundy, who said he had walked 5,000 miles and had rode another 20,000. He went to nineteen states, Haiti, Canada, Texas, and Mexico.” Rader 2264. Sabin 42693. Sibley, Travelers in Texas, pp. 213 & 179: “Lundy visited all the settled parts of Texas, and his observations are basic to any study of the Texas Negro during the Mexican era.” Streeter 1169n. The map also appeared in Atkinson’s Casket (1836) and subsequently in pocket map format. The present version of the map has added the explanatory text on the disputed border of Texas and Mexico. For variants of the map, see: Graff 4797; Siebert Sale 7315-903; Streeter Sale 286. For a discussion of the map in Atkinson’s Casket as “the first map to show the newly-independent Republic of Texas,” see Matt Walter, “Texas, Mexico and Part of the United States” in The Neatline (February, 2011), p. 5. ($750-1,500)

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LYON, G[eorge] F[rancis]. Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the Year 1826. With Some Account of the Mines of that Country. London: John Murray], 1828. 2 vols., 8vo, late nineteenth-century three-quarter polished green sheep over tan marbled boards. Light shelf wear, hinges split but strong, prelims and terminals foxed, else very good.

     First edition. Griffin 3561: “A wealth of detail on mining and mining revenues as well as sophisticated observations on general social and economic conditions.” Gunn 894. Hill, p. 186. Hill II:1056. Palau 144402. ($250-500)

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[MAP]. COLTON, G.W. & C.B. Colton’s “New Medium” Map of the State of Texas.... New York, 1876. Lithograph map on bank note paper, original pastel wash and bright rose outline of Texas border, ornate border. Neat line to neat line: 44 x 65 cm; border to border: 49.5 x 65.7 cm. Folded into pocket covers, original dark brown embossed cloth, Colton ads affixed to sheet on verso of upper cover.Pocket covers lightly worn at spine extremities. Clean splits at folds (no losses) professionally reinforced on verso. The map has a few small scattered spots, otherwise very fine. Rare. Not in Day, Phillips, etc. Another very detailed and reliable map of Texas from the never-ending stream of nineteenth-century Colton cartographic productions. The map shows an expanding Texas, with some rail lines previously only projected are now shown as completed. ($1,200-2,400)

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[MAP]. COMPAÑÍA COLONIZADORA DE LA MESA DE CORONELES Y METLALTOYUCA EN EL ESTADO DE PUEBLA. Croquis de la terrenos de Metlaltoyuca Conforme al deslinde prartirada [sic] por orden de la Secretaría de Fomento siendo Ministro del Ramo el C^o. Gral. Carlos Pacheco. 1883.... [5 scenes surrounding map, 4 of Company lands, and another showing an archaeological site] Rancho del Tecomate; Sierra de Huachinango; Borde Occidental de la Mesa de Coroneles. Rocas de “D^n. Guillen”; Ruinas Metalaltoyuca; Ranchería del Metalaltoyuca. Border to border: 66 x 93 cm; overall sheet size: 77.3 x 95 cm. Lithograph map on heavy paper, boundaries of colony outlined in red and waterways in blue, folded into contemporary presentation binding, 8vo, full crimson sheep blind embossed, gilt-ruled and decorated, gilt-lettered on upper cover: C. General Rafael Cravioto (1829-1903), prominent participant in Mexican civil wars and later governor of Hidalgo; accompanying text: Compañía Colonizadora de la Mesa de Coroneles y Metlaltoyuca, en el Estado de Puebla. Mexico, 1884. [1-5] 6-32 pp. Spine repaired, light outer wear to binding, interior and map very fine (except for a short splits at map folds; no losses). OCLC lists no copies of text or map.

     First edition. Not in Palau or other sources. This publication and its accompanying impressive map were promotional materials for the Company formed to exploit and develop the natural resources within its concession. The Company’s first project was to develop a logging industry in the area. This is an excellent example of one of the numerous internal development schemes that flourished during the Profiriate. ($750-1,500)

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[MAP]. DELISLE, Guillaume [Insulanus]. Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi.... Paris, 1718. Copper-engraved map with original outline hand coloring (yellow in border around map and mountain ranges; orange and green for roads and settlements); later sympathetic outline hand coloring (coast and waterways in blue and pale green wash applied to land mass); neat line to neat line: 48.8 x 65.2 cm; overall sheet size: 52 x 69 cm. Paper expertly strengthened on verso at center and top margin. Exceptionally fine copy.

     First issue, first state (New Orleans not yet located) of “the first detailed map of the Gulf region and the Mississippi, [and]the first printed map to show Texas”(Tooley, French Mapping of the Americas #43). Cohen, Mapping the West, p. 45. Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, Plate 47, #170. Jackson, Flags along the Coast, Plate 24, pp. 40-45 & footnotes on pp. 123-125 (exceedingly interesting discussion on Delisle’s sources). Karpinski, Maps of Famous Cartographers Depicting North America, pp. 133-134. Kohl 238: “This map is the mother and main source of all the later maps of the Mississippi.” Lowery 288. Luebke, Mapping the North American Plains, p. 10. Martin & Martin 19. Paullin, Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, Plate 24 & p. 24. Phillips, Maps of America, p. 367. Portinaro & Knirsch, The Cartography of North America, 1500-1800, p. 223, Plate CXII. Pritchard & Taliaferro, Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America, figures 95-96 & 97, #20, pp. 118-121: “One of the most significant maps of America ever made.” Rumsey 4764 (presenting an atlas version, in second state). Schwartz & Ehrenberg, pp. 142-43, 146 & plate 84. Streeter Sale 113. Tooley, Landmarks of Mapmaking, p. 229. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West #99; Vol. I, pp. 58-59: “All in all, Delisle’s early eighteenth-century efforts, with their correct course of the Mississippi and many items farther west, are towering landmarks along the path of Western cartographic development”; pp. 66-68. For full treatment of this map, see master’s thesis of Andrew M. Balash, “How Maps Tell the Truth by Lying: An Analysis of Delisle’s 1718 Carte de la Louisiane” (University of Texas at Arlington, December 2008). ($12,000-18,000)

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[MAP]. DELISLE, Guillaume [Insulanus] (after). COVENS, Johannes & Cornelis Mortier (publishers). Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi Dressée sur un grand nombre de Memoires entr’autres sur ceux de M^r. le Maire Par Guill^me. De L’Isle de l’Academie R^le. des Sciences. [below Gulf of Mexico at lower center, key and imprint] Explication des Marques.... A Amsterdam chez Jean Cóvens et Corneille Mortier Géographes. Eschelle de cent lieues Françoises. [inset map at lower right] Carte Particuliere des Embouchures de la Riviere S. Louis et de la Mobile. Amsterdam, [1730 or after]. Copper-engraved map, original outline coloring; neat line to neat line: 43.6 x 59.7 cm; map + title: 44.6 x 60 cm; overall sheet size: 53.5 x 67 cm. Very fine copy, excellent impression.

     This is a re-engraved, slightly reduced version of Delisle’s 1718 map from his revised issue (see preceding herein for the first issue of Delisle’s prototype map, which among other things, was the first appearance of the name Texas in any form on a printed map). Tooley (#43 et seq, pp. 21-22) sets out the sequence, with Delisle’s 1718 map followed by a second, much reduced version in Garcilaso de la Vega’s Histoire de Conquête de la Floride (Amsterdam, 1727; Tooley #44). The present map is the third version, and still credits Delisle (Tooley #45) while incorporating his updates, such as locating New Orleans. The map first appeared in its present form in Covens and Mortier’s Atlas nouveau (Amsterdam, 1730; see Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, first edition, Vol. II, C&M, Category B, Vol. II, pp. 52-62). Tooley notes that the present map is a “re-engraved copy of the original issue [1718]” and “several later editions were issued of the Covens and Mortier Atlas, but the map did not change.” Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps 208. De Renne III:1195-1196. Lowery 269. Martin & Martin, p. 99 & plate 19 (citing 1718 edition). Phillips, America, p. 367. Rumsey 4638.095 (listing a 1730 version found in a 1742 edition of Covens & Mortier’s Atlas Nouveau). Ryhiner Collection Ryh 7814:4. Van Ermen, The United States in Old Maps and Prints, Plate 30 (p. 54). ($1,800-2,400)

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[MAP]. DELISLE, Guillaume [Insulanus]. Carte du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles du Cours et des Environs de la Riviere de Mississipi...Chéz l’Auteur Rue des Canettes.... Paris, 1703. Copper-engraved map on two sheets of laid paper with watermark and countermark (PG with heart); title within cartouche; original outline coloring; neat line to neat line: 47.5 x 64.5 cm; overall sheet size: 55 x 77 cm. Upper blank margin lightly soiled, five small holes in blank margins (likely from much earlier framing), one old closed tear in right blank margin professionally repaired, overall a very good copy with strong color retention.

     First edition, first issue, with Rue des Canettes imprint, first printed map to accurately delineate the Mississippi River. Antochiw, Historia Cartografía de la Peninsula de Yucatan, Color Plate 17 & p. 167. Bornholt, Cuatro Siglos de Expresiones Geográficas del Istmo Centroamericano #60 & p. 120. Cumming, British Maps of Colonial America, pp. 6-12. Cumming, Southeast in Early Maps #137. Day, Maps of Texas, p. 4n. Ehrenberg, Ralph, “Mapping the North Plains” in Luebke, Mapping the North American Plains, pp. 180-181 & #II.5. Karpinski, pp. 118 & 123, #XXXII. Lowery 256. Mapoteca colombiana (Méjico), p. 37, #18. Martin & Martin, p. 50, p. 92-93 & #14. Phillips, America, p. 405. Phillips, Atlases 533 & 641 Reinhartz & Saxon (editors), Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwest Frontier, pp. 14-15 (Mathes). Rumsey 4764.099 (citing a 1708 or later edition in an atlas). Schwartz & Ehrenberg, Plate 82 & pp. 137-138: “Earliest printed map to show an accurate definition of the lower Mississippi River and its delta.” Streeter Sale 110: “One of the most definitive maps of the time, as well as the most influential in the later cartography of North America.” Taliaferro, Cartographic Sources in the Rosenberg Library 99. Tooley, America p. 22 (#48). Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast 474. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 84 & Vol. I, pp. 58-59. ($6,000-12,000)

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[MAP]. DELISLE, Guillaume [Insulanus]. Carte du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles du Cours et des Environs de la Riviere de Mississipi. Dressée Sur un Grand nombre de memoires principalem^t. sur de ceux de M^rs. d’Iberville et le Suere Par Guillaume Del’Isle Geographe de l’Academie Royale des Sciēces A Paris Chéz l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horologe Privilege du Roy põ. 20. ans 1703 [below cartouche] C. Simanneau, fecit. Paris, 1703 [but 1708 or later]. Copper-engraved map on two sheets of laid paper; title at lower left within elaborate cartouche with allegorical figures; original outline coloring; neat line to neat line: 47.4 x 64.4 cm; overall sheet size: 52.3 x 74.5 cm. Creased at center where formerly folded, minor smudges in blank margins, remains of two old mounting tabs on verso, overall a very good copy. Upper right recto and verso in contemporary ink the number 56, and on verso also in contemporary ink XCI. At lower right on face beneath “Tabago,” the word “abandonnée” has been struck through in contemporary ink and the words “aux François” have been added in the margin.

     First edition, early variant issue of the 1703 first issue (see preceding entry), here with the imprint Quai de l’Horológe. noted by Tooley (America), who describes two similar imprints (#49 & #50, p. 23). In this version the words “a la Couronne de Diamans” have been scrubbed, but Renard’s imprint has not been added. Cumming, Southeast in Early Maps, Plate 43 & #137A. Day, Maps of Texas, p. 4. Karpinski, Maps of Famous Cartographers Depicting North America, pp. 118 & 123, #XXXIIn. Martin & Martin, p. 50 (color plate) & p. 92 (black & white plate), p. 93 & #14 (text), citing a Quai de l’Horloge imprint retaining “a la Couronne de Diamans.” Rumsey 4764 (same imprint as present map; Rumsey’s copy is in an undated atlas). Streeter Sale 111. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 84 & Vol. 1, pp. 58-59. ($1,000-2,000)

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[MAP]. DELISLE, Guillaume [Insulanus] (after). COVENS, Johannes & Cornelis Mortier (publishers). Carte du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles. Du Cours des Environs de la Riviere de Mississipi. Dressée Sur un grand nombre de memoires principalment sur ceux Mrs. d’Iberville et le Sueur Par Guillaume De l’Isle Geographe de l’Academie Royale des Sciences. A Amsterdam Chez Iean Covens & Corneille Mortier Avec Privilege 1722. [below cartouche] I. Stemmers Senior Sculp. [additional title across top, above neat line] Tabula Geographica Mexicæ et Floridæ &c. Amsterdam, 1722. Copper-engraved map on two sheets of laid paper; title at lower left within elaborate cartouche with allegorical figures, serpents, cornucopia; original outline coloring; neat line to neat line: 46.7 x 59.6 cm; map with title above: 48.5 x 59.6 cm; overall sheet size: 55 x 64.5 cm; dotted sailing lines showing the route of the Spanish galleons. Professionally backed with thin archival tissue, outer edges of blank margins moderately browned, slight loss to western tip of Cuba due to iron oxidation in original green outline coloring, overall a good copy in strong impression and excellent color retention.

     This is Covens & Mortier’s re-engraved version of Delisle’s influential and long-lived 1703 map Carte du Mexique et de la Floride... (see herein), with an added title in Latin above top border, cartouche by a different engraver, changes to title, addition of routes of and notes on the Spanish galleons, etc. Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps 161. Karpinski, p. 134. Lowery 313. Phillips, America 406. Rumsey 4638.096 (in Covens & Mortier’s Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties su Monde). Tooley, Mapping of America #51, on p. 23. Cf. Wheat, Martin & Martin, et al for references to the 1703 edition. According to Verner’s classification, the present map is an ectype because it is a replica (re-engraving) of Delisle’s original 1703 map, with some bibliographical details changed as noted above. ($600-1,200)

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[MAP]. DELISLE, Guillaume [Insulanus] & Philippe Buache (after). DEZAUCHE [Jean Claude]. Carte du Mexique et des Etats Unis D’Amérique, Partie Méridionale. Dressée sur un grand nombre de Memoires, et sur les meilleures Cartes du Pays. Assujetie aux Observations Astronomiques de M^rs. de l’Acadamie Royale des Sciences Par Guil. De L’Isle I^ers Géogr. de l’Ac. Nouvellement Revuë et Augmentee Par Dezauche Successeur des S^rs. De L’Isle et Phil. Buache premiers Géographes A Paris Rue des Noyers Année 1783. [below cartouche] Avec Privilège d’Auteur 1783. C. Simonneau fecit. [lower right below neat line] Ph. Buache P.G. de R. de l’A.R. de S. Gendre de l’Auteur Avec Privilege. Paris, 1783 [1789 or later]. Copper-engraved map on two sheets of laid paper; title at lower left within elaborate cartouche; original outline coloring; neat line to neat line: 47.6 x 65 cm; overall sheet size: 54.3 x 75.5 cm. One vertical crease where formerly folded, light staining in blank margins, small light water stain at upper center, otherwise fine, with good color. Contemporary ink notation “34” on verso.

     Last issue of the Delisle’s 1703 map (Carte du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles du Cours et des Environs de la Riviere de Mississipi; see herein), with parts re-engraved from the first issue original (as evidenced by additional place names, changes in lettering, etc.); the first and only Delisle map recognizing the newly independent United States, as revised by Jean Claude Dezauche eighty years after the first edition (the Dezauche firm was preceded by the firm of Philippe Buache, son-in-law of Guillaume Delisle). Despite the date on the map, this copy probably issued in 1789 or later and reflects the chilling influence of the French Revolution in the removal of the words “du Roi” in the twelfth line of the cartouche after “Geographes.” The United States extended westward to the Mississippi, boundaries were inserted in color to indicate different possessions: green for the United States, red for England, blue for France, and yellow for Spain (Tooley, America, p. 23 & #53 & pp. 38-39). Lowery 655. Phillips, America, p. 409. Phillips, Atlases 3512 & 5993 (citing atlas appearances of the map, 1769-1824). This map is an early French recognition and depiction of the newly independent United States. ($1,000-2,000)

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[MAP]. INTERNATIONAL & GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD OF TEXAS. Map of the International and Great Northern Railroad.... St. Louis, [1877]. Black & white lithograph map, neat line to neat line: 41 x 38 cm; overall sheet with text: 42.5 x 56.5 cm. Except minor loss at one fold, very fine. The map is folded into, as issued, pamphlet with wrapper title: The Lone Star Guide Descriptive of Counties on the Line of the International and Great Northern Railroad of Texas.... St. Louis: Woodward, Tiernan & Hale, [1877]. 32 pp., 11 wood-engraved text illustrations. 8vo, original green printed wrappers, stitched. Upper wrapper badly torn with loss of some text, lower wrapper lightly chipped and stained, upper right corners of text chipped and dog-eared, but with no loss of text. Very scarce in commerce as well as institutional holdings (OCLC locates five copies).

    First edition. Rumsey 5051: “An early issue.” This extremely detailed map of Texas and the I&GN route no doubt served as a spur and guide to Texas emigration, especially with the I&GN’s bold statements, such as “Reduced Limited First Class Rates,” “Reduced Emigrant Rates,” and effusive descriptions of the land along the route. The pamphlet and map demonstrate the type of promotional literature used to develop towns across Texas and the rest of country by employing tactics to shape the imaginations of emigrants and those wishing to promote a particular town. ($400-800)

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[MAP]. INTERNATIONAL COMPANY OF MEXICO. Map of Colony Carlos Pacheco, including the Ranches Ensenada, Cipres, Maneadero & Puntabanda, Surveyed for the International Company of Mexico. By Rich. Stephens, C.D. [Mexico? International Company of Mexico, 1886]. Lithograph promotional map showing Town of Ensenada, Todos Santos Bay, colony with numbered plots, coastlines and waterways in blue, neat line to neat line: 69 x 78.4 cm; overall sheet size: 73.3 x 82.5 cm. Light wear to blank margins and a few slight separations not affecting map proper. The only copy recorded by OCLC is a photocopy at the Bancroft. An original is in the Orozco y Berra Library in Mexico.

    First edition of the map recording the founding of modern-day Ensenada. Not in standard sources, although Barrett (Baja) records several maps and promotional items relating to the International Company, comprised of U.S. citizens, English, and Mexican investors. David Piñera (American and English Influence on the Early Development of Ensenada Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias, San Diego State University, 1995) gives a good overview of the early development of Ensenada at the time of this map, which is illustrated on p. 91 of his study: “Ensenada’s location, so close to the border between the United States and Mexico, gave this urban development a special dimension. Most importantly, Southern California’s real estate boom of the 1880s reached Ensenada. American land promoters saw the convenience of expanding California’s profitable real estate market south of the border. The border line seemed to disappear in 1886, opening a bi-national zone homogenized by the same economic dynamics.... Along the entire U.S.–Mexican border, there is no other case of such strong American influence in the origins of a Mexican town as can be seen in the example of Ensenada.” ($250-500)

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[MAP]. LLOYD, J[ames] T., Bart[holomew] Bowen & William Bowen. Lloyd’s Map of the Lower Mississippi River from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico.... New York, 1863. Steel-engraved map with transfer lithography, outline of county and parish lines in original bright hand coloring, waterways shaded in blue, mounted on original linen, the lower course of the River shown in five columns (with names of lot owners adjoining the Mississippi and the borders of their lots shown in detail); neat line to neat line: 94.3 x 129.8 cm; verso of map with original white and blue decorated wall paper at lower right panel, folded into original brown cloth covers (25 x 15.5 cm) with white labels on both covers printed in red. A few short, clean splits with minimal losses, otherwise very fine with excellent color retention. Covers split and fair only.

    Second edition (first edition, 1862). Modelski, Railroad Maps of the United States 139 (listing the 1862 edition and mentioning this second edition). Phillips, America, p. 441 (1862 edition). Rumsey 4842 (first edition). Stephenson, Civil War Maps 41. The present edition of the map has changes from the first edition in the text below title. Some changes have been made to the map proper. For example, of particular interest for the Civil War is the addition of “Grants Vicksburg Cut-Off.” Both editions of the map show 1862 Civil War actions along the Mississippi. ($20,000-30,000)

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[MAP]. LOTTER, Tobias Conrad. Mappa Geographica Regionem Mexicanam et Floridam terrasque adjacentes, ut et anteriores Americæ Insulas, cursus itidem et reditus navigantium versus flumen Missisipi et alias colonias ob oculos ponens, cura et sumptibus. Tobiæ Conradi Lotteri, Geographi et Chalcographi Augustæ Vindel. [below distance scale at upper left] Cum gratia et Privil. S.R.I. Vicariatus, in partibus Rheni, Sveviæ, et Juris Franconici. [within border at lower right] Tob. Con. Lotter Sculps. [4 inset coastal charts at upper left]; large scene at lower left (naval battle with people on shore watching while others are engaged in various activities, such as examining a treasure chest, bartering with Natives, etc.). [Augsburg, after 1758?]. Copper-engraved map, original color (outline and wash); neat line to neat line: 47.6 x 57.5 cm; map with title above: 49.6 x 57.5 cm; overall sheet size: 53.2 x 66.5 cm. A few tiny holes at top blank margin (no losses). Remains of original tab on verso. Fine, strong impression, with authentic original color.

     Undetermined Lotter version, with changes to title replacing Seutter’s name with Lotter’s; four inset maps at right (rather than vignettes of ships); retaining the statement “Admiralis Vernon Bachiam intrans d. 21. Novembr. 1739” beneath the inset map entitled “Bahia Portus Belli” (see Lowery 328). The present map is Tobias Conrad Lotter’s re-engraving of Georg Matthäus Seutter’s Latin translation of Delisle’s revised 1722 edition of his original 1703 map entitled Carte du Mexique et de la Floride (see herein). Delisle’s map was the first map to pull together several centuries of disconnected geographical knowledge and present an accurate view of the area including colonial North America and the Caribbean, with the British colonies east of the Appalachian Mountains, France’s dominion through the Mississippi Valley and Florida, and Spain’s possession of Mexico and New Mexico. Martin & Martin, Plate 18. Ryhiner Collection Ryh 7815:14. See also: Cumming, Southeast in Early Maps 137n. Phillips, Atlases 5973. Portinaro & Knirsch, The Cartography of North America, p. 236 & Plate CXX. ($700-$1,400)

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[MAP]. RICHARDSON, Willard & Charles Desilver (publishers) & Heinrich Wickeland (surveyor /engineer). Richardson’s New Map of the State of Texas.... Philadelphia, 1861. Lithograph map with original full coloring. Border to border: 63 x 82 cm; neat line to neat line: 58.2 x 77.5 cm. Very good copy, professionally washed and stabilized. Excellent color.

     This map was an optional purchase with Richardson’s Texas Almanac for 1861 (for more on Texas almanacs and their maps, see Basic Texas Books 172). Phillips, America, p. 846. Winkler 1373x (Vol. I, pp. 271-272). Cf. Winkler 1373 (citing the almanac) notes that the publishers had the map printed in the North because it could not be printed in Texas. Rumsey (5178): “An exceptionally attractive map of Texas on the eve of the Civil War.” ($2,000-4,000)

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[MAP]. UNITED STATES. ARMY. CORPS OF TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS. EMORY, W.H. Map of Texas and the Countries Adjacent.... Washington, 1844. Lithographic map, original pink outline color of Texas borders, neat line to neat line: 53.5 x 83.3 cm. Professionally flattened and deacidified. A few miniscule holes at former folds (no loss of text or image). Faintest pale tanning in a few spots where formerly folded, barely discernable on face of map. Overall very fine.

     First edition, large format edition; a fundamental map in the historical cartography of Texas and the Southwest—the first map published by the United States government officially recognizing the boundaries of the Republic of Texas, thus identifying Texas as a separate political entity. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire, p. 77: “Master map of the Southwest in 1844.” Martin & Martin, #33 & p. 37: “A landmark map.... The map represented the best available topographical description of the region at the time of its publication in 1844.” Rumsey 02620. Streeter 1543. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 478. Emory’s map was part of the annexation treaty between the U.S. and Texas in 1844. The map is a political-legal document of great historical significance. ($7,500-15,000)

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[MAP]. WELLS, J[ohn] G[aylord]. Wells’ New Rail Road and Township Map of Missouri and Eastern Kansas from the Latest Government Surveys. J.G. Wells, 11 Beekman St. New York. 1857. Scale of Miles... Explanation [with symbols] State Capital. County Towns. Rail Roads. Proposed Rail Roads... Lith. V. Keil 181 William St. N.Y. [centered below lower ornamental border] Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by J.G. Wells, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. New York, 1857. Lithograph map of Eastern Kansas, all of Missouri, and parts of Indian Territory, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, and Illinois, printed on bank note paper, full hand coloring, borders in bright rose pink, ornate border of grapes, grape leaves, Native American portrait in oval at each corner; neat line to neat line: 42.8 x 63 cm; border to border: 51 x 71 cm; overall sheet size: 60 x 79 cm; folded into original green embossed cloth, title lettered in gilt on upper cover (Wells’ New Map of Missouri and Eastern Kansas), printed yellow endpaper affixed to inside upper cover (Wells’ List of New Publications). Mild age toning to map, a few stains at top left, clean splits at a few folds (no losses), overall a fine copy with brilliant color. Uncommon (one copy of the 1858 edition located by OCLC, University of Virginia at Charlottesville). Very rare pocket map showing the early stage of railroad development in Missouri and eastern Kansas.

     First edition. Not in Modelski’s railroad bibliographies, or other standard sources. Railroads began to be important in the region in the late 1850s, but ironically, the only railroad shown on this map is the Pacific Railroad Line between St. Louis (“The Gateway to the West”) and Jefferson City, with shorter trunk lines to the north and south of St. Louis. On the other hand, several proposed lines are indicated, such as one from Jefferson City to Kansas City, and another from Keosauqua, Iowa, to Kansas City. The mysterious Wells’ cartographic output was short-lived and vigorous, and all his maps are very rare. ($2,500-5,000)

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[MAP]. WILLIAMS, C.S. Map of Texas from the Most Recent Authorities. Philadelphia: Published by C.S. Williams N.E. corner of Market & 7th. Streets...1845 [inset map at lower left] Texas North of Red River. [Philadelphia, 1846]. Lithograph map with original full coloring of counties and regions, ornate border, border to border: 30.8 x 38.3 cm. Except for light marginal browning, very fine copy of an early county map of Texas in an atlas. ($300-600)

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MATTHEWS, Sallie [Ann] Reynolds. Interwoven, a Pioneer Chronicle. Houston, 1936. x, [2], 234 pp. 8vo, original tan cloth stamped in black. Light wear to edges and joints of binding, front hinge cracked (but holding), ink inscription on front fly leaf: “To Dr and Mrs Wagner from Gile and Gussie (Reynolds) Connell 1936,” in homemade craft paper d.j., else very good.

     First edition. Adams, Guns 1463: “Rare.” Adams, Herd 1454: “Good picture of early Texas ranch life and trail driving.” Basic Texas Books 139. CBC 4060. Dobie & Dykes, 44 & 44 6. Dykes, Western High Spots, pp. 80 & 103. Howes M426. King, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup, p. 17. Reese, Six Score 78: “One of the best portraits of ranch life from a woman’s point of view.” ($600-1,200)

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MAUDSLAY, Anne Cary & Alfred P. Maudslay. A Glimpse at Guatemala, and Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America.... London, 1899. 57 leaves of plates, maps, and plans: Plates: 44 plates (mostly sepia tone photogravures, but including two chromolithographs of textiles and 4 line drawings; Map & plans: 13 maps, elevations, and plans (some double-page and colored or tinted), numerous text illustrations, many of which are photogravures and/or toned (iconography includes scenes, views, plans, archaeology, ethnic types). 4to, original ivory linen over boards. Outer wear and moderate soiling, as usual. The interior is exceptionally fine, the text untrimmed, and all the illustrations pristine. The high-quality photogravures are the most beautiful ever done of Central America.

     First edition. Griffin 1189. Larned 40n: “This volume is easily worth all the other books which have appeared or are likely to be published for many years, as a guide to the things which make Central America of general world interest.” Palau 158504. ($800-1,600)

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MEGARGEE, Lon. The Cowboy Builds a Loop. Pictures by Lon Megargee. Text by Roy George. [Phoenix], 1933. 121 [1, blank] pp., 28 wood block plates. 4to, original stamped tan boards. Light wear to board edges, previous owner’s book plate and ink markings on inside upper board, tape stain on front free end sheet, text unopened, else fine. Personal letter from Lon Megargee affixed to front free end sheet.

     First edition, limited edition. Megargee is considered’s Arizona’s first cowboy artist. ($250-500)

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[MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR]. El Sonorense. Periodico Oficial del Gobierno de Sonora. [At end] Hermosillo, Enero 20 de 1847...Imprenta del Gobierno de Sonora, dirigida por Jesus P. Siqueires, [1847]. Vol. 1, No. 27 (18 February 1847). [1] 2-4 pp., printed in double columns. Folio. Mild overall age toning, small piece missing from upper left corner, two small wormholes at lower right blank margin and one in center (the latter affecting one letter), lower blank margin slightly dusty; overall very good copy of an issue of a rare Borderlands newspaper.

     First edition. About half of this issue is devoted to up-to-the-minute news on the Mexican-American War. Page 4 has a report dated at Encarnacíon January 23, 1847, by General José Vicente Miñon, who was leading one of Santa Anna’s cavalry brigades in the Army of the North and threatening General Taylor’s supply lines. Miñon reports that he has captured an American Army advance column at Encarnación [de Guzmán], a reference to the taking of belligerent Major Solon Borland and his Mounted Arkansas Rifles at an area just south of Saltillo. Two chiefs, four officers, and seventy-six were taken prisoners of war, according to this report. Miguel Galindo, a Mexican who was scouting for the column, was executed on the spot as a traitor. ($300-600)

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[MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR]. Oaxaqueños: El honor de nuestras armas no se ha manchado en Veracruz.... Oaxaca: Ignacio Rincon, 1847. Broadside. Professionally restored. Mild stain at horizontal crease, minor loss of a few letters at center, occasional small wormholes touching a few letters, otherwise a very good copy of a highly unusual statement, and a rare survival.

     This broadside is a Oaxaca printing of a fervent report on the surrender of Mexican forces in Veracruz to General Scott on March 28, 1847. Not in Garrett & Goodwin, or other standard sources; no copies reported on OCLC. The text graphically describes the horrors of the Siege of Veracruz and praises Mexican forces and officials for their conduct during the battle, while criticizing the U.S. for the viciousness of the bombardment. Especially singled out are the Mexican doctors, who stayed at their posts even under heavy shelling. In conclusion, the Mexican conduct under the circumstances filled the writer with admiration. In lofty and furious language, the writer compares the brave Mexican soldiers to the ancient Numantians, and General Scott to Scipio. The Siege of Veracruz was the very first large-scale amphibious assault conducted by U.S. military forces and ended with the surrender and occupation of the city. ($400-600)

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[MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR]. PEÑA Y PEÑA, Manuel de la. Manifiesto del exmo. Sr. Presidente provisional D. Manuel de la Peña y Peña, á la Republica Mejicana publicado á su entrada en la capital del estado soberano de Queretaro el dia 13 de Octobre de 1847 [wrapper title]. [Wrapper imprint]: Queretaro: I. de Frias, [dated at end: October 13, 1847]. [1] 2-8 pp. 12mo, original blue printed wrappers, typographical border, sewn. Aside from small separation at foot of spine, very fine.

     First edition. Garrett & Goodwin, The Mexican-American War, p. 88. Harper 12:365. Palau 217560. After the Mexican government was driven from the capital city by the conquering United States forces, they took refuge in the city of Querétaro, where from then until the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Congress held its sessions. Peña y Peña became president eleven days after the U.S. occupation of Mexico City; Santa Anna relinquished the office on September 16. Peña y Peña presented this inaugural address upon arrival in Querétaro on October 13. ($100-200)

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[MEXICAN PERIODICALS]. ALZATE RAMÍREZ, José Antonio. Gacetas de literatura de Mexico.... Puebla, 1831. Complete, with 28 copper-engraved plates, including map of the Valley of Mexico by Siguënza y Góngora. 4 vols., 8vo, new brown cloth, over marbled boards. Portion of Vol. II title in good facsimile, otherwise excellent, plates and map very fine. Lehigh duplicate with their purple ink stamp and pencil call numbers.

    Second edition of the exceedingly rare original work (1788-1795; Medina, México 7750 & Sabin 989), a reissue of various articles written and edited by Creole polymath Alzate y Ramírez (1737-1799) that appeared primarily in the original Gacetas de literatura de México, but here augmented with material from some other sources and more illustrations. The supplement on the antiquities of Xochicalco, the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, were first brought to European attention by Alzate in a 1791 in a supplement to his Gazeta de Literatura (see Medina, México 8026). Apenes, Mapas antiguos del Valle de Mexico, p. 24n. Palau 10139. Sabin 990. ($1,000-2,000)

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MICHAUD Y THOMAS (publishers). Album pintoresco de la Republica Mexicana. Mexico, [ca. 1850]. [2, uncolored lithograph title] plus 45 lithograph plates, 12 of which are full color with gum arabic highlights, 33 on tinted grounds (views, Mexican-American War battle scenes, costume groups, interiors, pastimes, by Lehnert, Bastin, et al (after Nebel, Gualdi, et al.). Oblong folio, later three-quarter dark green cloth over original green printed boards (recased). Boards chipped and stained, plates with some marginal soiling and neat repairs, plate images superb.

     First edition. The best study of this work is the Condumex reprint edited by W. Michael Mathes in 2000. Hispanic Society Library, Vol. I, p. 200 (dated 1853). Mathes, Mexico on Stone, pp. 28: “Possibly printed outside of Mexico [according to Toussaint]”; 56 (cited in bibliography); 64 (Michaud). Palau 5417. Not in standard Mexican-American War bibliographies, but Ben W. Huseman in the Amon Carter exhibit, Eyewitness to War, p. 127 comments: “The largest single source of printed images based on the Mexican view of the war is contained in Album Pintoresco de la República Méxicana... Of these forty-five lithographed plates...six depict battle scenes from the war.” ($8,000-12,000)

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M’ILVAINE, William, Jr. Sketches of Scenery and Notes of Personal Adventure, in California and Mexico.... Philadelphia, 1850. [2] 3, 5-44 pp., 16 lithograph plates after author’s original art work. 4to, original blind-embossed dark brown cloth, gilt lettered on upper cover. Expertly rebacked in sympathetic cloth, new endpapers. Text and plates gently washed and stabilized. Two minor spots on Acapulco plate. A conserved copy, plates and text fine and fresh. Very rare.

     First edition, limited edition (400 copies) of one of the earliest (and best) publications on the California Gold Rush. Cowan II, p. 408. Graff 2615. Howes M112. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 420. Peters, California on Stone, pp. 162-163: “These plates are of unusually fine workmanship.” Sabin 43328. Streeter Sale 2640. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 134. ($6,000-12,000)

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[MONTANUS, Arnoldus]. Die unbekante Neue Welt, oder Beschreibung des Welt-teils Amerika, und des Süd-Landes.... Amsterdam: Jacob von Meurs, 1673. [6], 1-658, [22] pp., 126 copper engravings (including pictorial title): Pictorial title; 16 folded or double-page maps; 32 folded or double-page city views; 1 double-plate plate of Aztec god; 6 full-page portraits; 70 text illustrations (including 5 city views). The text engravings on pp. 49, 53, and 92 are cancels. Folio, contemporary vellum over boards. Occasional mild foxing, browning, and staining (confined to text), the folding map of America at front with a few early, neat repairs and a very small holes at folds (no losses to image), overall a very good, complete copy.

     First edition in German of the “first encyclopedia of the Americas” (Schwartz & Ehrenberg). The present edition has the same plates as the 1671 Dutch edition, except the map of America with California as an Island has variant cartouche illustrations. An English edition was published by Ogilby in 1671. Borba de Moraes, pp. 245-246: “A classic book on America.” JCB I(3), p. 260. European Americana 673/111. Howes D59 & M773n: “For beauty and wealth of copperplates comparable only to De Bry.” McLaughlin 50. Miles & Reese, America Pictured to the Life 29. Sabin 50087. This compilation provides a wealth of information about the New World in the seventeenth century and the European perception of America. The maps and illustrations, drawn from the most accurate sources of the day, include a large folding map of the Western Hemisphere (depicting California as an island), New Amsterdam about 1645 (considered one of the most handsome early views of Dutch New York), and maps of Mexico, New England, Virginia, Florida, and other parts of North and South America. ($10,000-20,000)

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MONTES DE OCA, José María (engraver). Vida de San Felipe de Jesus protomartir de Japon y patron de su patria Mexico.... Mexico: Montes de Oca, 1801. 29 copper-engraved plates in dark sepia ink (including illustrated title), all with images and text relating to San Felipe de Jesús, patron saint of Mexico. 8vo, modern tan and brown marbled boards and modern endsheets. Bookplates on paste down: Otto Orren Fisher and Ex-Libris José Ramón de Velasco Mexico. Engravings very fine. Some plates have bleed-through to the verso. One plate has a very small wormhole in blank margin. Edges untrimmed.

    First edition of one of the earliest entirely engraved Mexican imprints. Mathes, Illustration in Colonial Mexico, Woodcuts and Copper Engravings in New Spain 1539-1821, Register No. 1802:9461 (title page). Mayer, México ilustrado, pp. 138 & 139 (illustrated). Palau 363045. Romero de Terreros, Grabados y grabadores en la Nueva España, pp. 500-503 (engraved title only, p. 500). Sabin 76028. See also Carrillo y Gariel, Grabados de la colección de la Academia de San Carlos, p. 78. Not in Medina (México). ($3,000-6,000)

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MONTES DE OCA, José María (engraver). [MUNIBE, José María de (attributed)]. Breve resumen de la vida y martyrio del inclyto Mexicano, y proto-martyr del Japon, el beato Felipe de Jesus.... Mexico: La Oficina Madrileña, 1802. [1-2] 3-71 [1, blank] pp., 2 copper-engraved plates in dark sepia ink). 8vo, full Mexican tree sheep, gilt rules on spine, edges tinted yellow. Spine rubbed, otherwise binding is very fine. A few remains of old paper label removed from front pastedown. Front hinge open but holding; first and last leaves (including title and illustrated half-title) with light staining to blank margins due to adhesive migration when bound. Generally a fine, complete copy, plates in good impressions.

     First edition. Although the work is sometimes dated 1801, there is no known 1801 edition, such copies being dated from the engraved half-title. Beristain 2:314. Medina, México 9461. Palau 35446. The poem on p. 16 ends with a comma (the typesetter erred and printed a comma rather than a period). The poem is complete, which comports with Medina’s collation.      This work, which Beristain attributes to José María de Munibe, is a biography of San Felipe de Jesús (De Las Casas, Casas Martínez, or Canales Martínez) (1572-1597). According to statements in the licenses and prefaces this work is intended to replace Baltasar de Medina’s 1683 Vida of the Saint, which was first published in Mexico and reprinted in Madrid in 1751, but which according to the statements has become outdated and of no appeal to current readers. For more on engraver José María Montes de Oca, see the following item herein. Mathes lists the illustrated half-title (La Ilustración en México colonial Register No. 9461). Romero de Terreros Grabados y grabadores en la Nueva España, pp. 500-503 (half-title entered on p. 500). ($2,000-4,000)

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NEBEL, Carl. [Cover title: Viaje pintoresco de Mejico de Carlos Nebel]. No place, no date [Paris and/or Mexico, ca. 1836-1839]. 50 lithograph plates, 39 in full original color with gum arabic highlights (Mexican costumes, types, and activities; city views and rural scenery); 5 tinted in muted shades of grey, bronze, ecru, and maize (archaeology); 5 uncolored (archaeology); 1 uncolored plan. Oblong double folio, original dark green blind-stamped cloth. Cloth rubbed and slightly frayed at edges, spine somewhat loose with small tears, front hinge open, some plates have mended tears, and a few plates are creased (especially first and last plates), slight chipping to some margins (not affecting images, but one touches a neat line), a few plates lightly foxed (mostly archaeological plates). This copy has no printed text, and physically it appears that it never did.

     Nebel’s book first appeared in Paris with French text in 1836: Voyage pittoresque et archéologique dans la partie la plus intéressante du Méxique (see our Auction 23, Lot 453. Subsequently an edition with Spanish text and imprint of Paris and Mexico City came out in 1839: Viaje pintoresco y arqueolojico sobre la parte mas interesante de la Republica Mejicana, en los años transcurridos desde 1829 hasta 1834). Copies of the Spanish-language edition are sometimes found with date of 1840 or no imprint. Bibliographical variations exist between copies and editions of this album, which are compounded by its rarity, immense popularity, various plagiarisms, and method of publication. Brunet, Vol. 4, column 28n. Colas II:24n. Hiler, Bibliography of Costume, p. 645n . Hill I, p. 209n. Lipperheide 1623n (calling for fifty lithos, twenty of which are colored). Miles and Reese, America Pictured to the Life 19. Palau 1888667. Sabin 52178. ($40,000-80,000)

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NEGRETE, Pedro Celestino. Autograph letter signed, in Spanish, to José Antonio Andrade. Lagos [de Moreno, Jalisco], January 22, 1822, and January 25, 1822. 4 pp. on a bifolium of laid paper, 4to. Creased where formerly folded, otherwise very fine. Accompanied by a full translation into English.

     In this rambling, intense letter, Negrete rails to his friend about numerous problems confronting Mexico. Turning first to the visit to California with three ships of Chilean admiral Thomas Cochrane, Negrete denounces the admiral and wishes he would return for another visit so he could teach him a hard lesson by cracking his head. He further laments the relative disorder that swirls about the Mexican province—Indian problems, restless troops who are unpaid, lack of a proper civil authority. Turning to Texas, he avers that the Adams-Onís boundary is correct and that Mexico is firmly seized of Texas (“Tejas es nuestro y una de las 4 Prov. de Oriente”), especially now that the Sabine boundary is fixed a long way from the settled part of Texas. Negrete goes on to discuss Cuban affairs, qualifications of office holders, etc. Negrete (1777-1846) was a prominent Mexican soldier and politician born in Spain. His correspondent is probably the son of Alamo general Juan José Andrade. An interesting letter from an important Mexican military figure addressing many of the concerns and problems that confronted Mexico and its extensive borderlands at the time, including Texas and California. ($200-400)

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NEWMAN, John B. Texas and Mexico, in 1846.... New York: Wellman, 1846. [1-3] 4-32 pp., folding lithograph map with original hand coloring and U.S. flag planted at “Point Isabel” and waving across Texas, which is outlined in yellow: Mexico & Texas in 1846. 8vo, original yellow printed wrappers. Untrimmed copy, wrappers slightly soiled and with marginal chipping, text somewhat foxed and stained (heavier on pp. 12 and 13), map very fine. Rare, and seldom found with map.

     First edition. Howes N122. Vandale 122. The author concludes with a denunciation of the United States as a war-mongering country seeking to pick a fight with a peaceful neighbor for no good reason. The most riveting feature of this work is the unusual and colorful map of Texas and Mexico, with its blatantly jingoistic image of the flag of the United States waving over Texas. ($2,500-5,000)

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NIOX, G[ustave-León]. Expédition du Mexique 1861-1867.... Paris, 1874. Text & atlas, plus offprint relating to the large map of Mexico in the atlas. 8vo & folio, contemporary French morocco over boards. 5 lithograph maps, some with original color. A fine set. Very rare to find together text, offprint, and atlas.  

     First edition of a basic book on the French intervention in Mexico, with a very rare and important large-scale map of Mexico. Palau 191775, 191776, 191777. Phillips, America, p. 414. Phillips, Atlases 18068. ($1,200-2,400)

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OLMEDO Y MARURI, José Joaquín de. La Victoria de Junin Canto a Bolivar, por J.J. Olmedo. Reimpreso en Londres. [title verso & p. 80: Imprenta Española de M. Calero, 17, Frederick Place, Goswell Road], 1826. [1-3] 4-80 pp., 3 engraved plates. 8vo, contemporary three-quarter tan leather over blue and green marbled paper, spine gilt-lettered. Light shelf wear, hinges barely starting. Interior, including plates, fine, with minor stains on frontispiece, original green tissue guards.

     First English edition of the single most important poem of Spanish American Independence, revised and expanded from the original edition. Palau 201000. The first edition was published at Guayaquil in 1825 (Palau 200997: “Primera edición rara”). Palau calls in error for six plates for the present edition. The subject of this epic poem is Bolívar’s defeat of the Spanish cavalry at Junín (present-day Peru) on August 6, 1824, where he outmaneuvered and outfought them. ($750-1,500)

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PAGÈS, Monsieur de [Pierre-Marie-François]. Voyages autour du monde, et vers les deux pôles, par terre et par mer.Paris: Chez Moutard, 1781. 3 folding engraved plates & 7 folding engraved maps. 2 vols., 8vo, publisher’s original blue marbled boards, original printed paper spine labels, uncut and largely unopened, as issued. An extremely fine, desirable copy, in original condition.

     First edition. Clark, Old South I:285: “Describes briefly the physical character of [Texas and the South] and his contacts with Indians and with the Spaniards in Texas.” Graff 3161. Howes P13. Lowery 649 (citing the map Carte d’une partie de l’Amérique Séptentrionale que contient partie de la N^le. Espagne et de la Louisiane, a fairly early map to show the Province of Texas). Sabin 58168. Sibley, Travelers in Texas 217n. Tate, The Indians of Texas 1938: “A source rich in details on the Caddoes and the Lipan Apaches.” Streeter 1027 (citing only the 1795 Philadelphia edition, an abbreviated summary). Wagner, Spanish Southwest 165. The work includes a circumnavigation and two later voyages, one being a search for the Northwest Passage and another a whaling cruise (with a whaling plate). ($1,500-3,000)

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PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de. Constitvciones para la Contaduria de la Iglesia Cathedral de la Puebla de los Angeles.... Puebla de los Angeles: Miguel de Ortega y Bonilla, 1713. [2], 1-114 pp., title within typographical border, title verso with full-page woodcut of the Virgin. 8vo, original full vellum with original rawhide ties. Minor stain to upper cover, front hinge open but holding; some leaves with minor worming in lower margin occasionally touching some catchwords. Despite these minor flaws, a superb copy in exceptional original condition of a very rare book of which all editions are scarce. Two wooden ink stamps of the Secretaría de Cabildo Eclesiástico de la Puebla (pp. 54 and 114) and a few contemporary ink corrections in margins. A significant copy originating from the possession of the organization responsible for administering these rules, which would seem to render the manuscript corrections authoritative.

     Third edition (first edition 1646; second edition 1711). Bibliotheca Mejicana 1314. Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispanica, Vol. 16:3719n. Harper XIV:203: “This important work is one of the best ever prepared on the subject of ecclesiastical finance, of major significance in a country such as colonial Mexico, where the church owned so much land.” Medina, Puebla de los Angeles276. Palau 59982 & 209669. Porrúa 7756: “Apreciada por los datos que aporta en lo que atañe a la administración de los bienes temporales de la Iglesia Mexicana.” Sabin 58287: “Palafox was a second Las Casas in representing to the Spanish Government the wretched condition of the Americans, and in advocating its amelioration.” ($300-600)

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PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de. Reglas y Ordenanzas del choro de esta Santa Iglesia Cathedral de la Pvebla de Los Angeles. Segunda impression. Puebla de los Angeles: Joseph Pérez, 1711. [2], 1-38 pp., title within ornamental border with elaborate woodcut of the Virgin on verso. 8vo, original plain wrappers, original stitching. Except for two small worm holes in lower and right blank margins well away from text, and a minor paper flaw touching a few letters on pp. 3/4, very fine, fresh, original condition. Very rare. Only two other known originals are in the Medina collection in the National Library of Chile and UIUC; no copy of the first edition is known and only three of the third.

     Second edition (first edition Puebla, 1648; third edition Puebla, 1736). Andrade 2662n (listing only the third edition). Medina, Puebla de los Angeles 266. Palau 209707. Sabin 66575n (listing only the third edition). Originally issued August 25, 1648, these rules reflect a sometimes unruly cathedral choir that seems at times to have sunk to the behavior level of eight-year-olds. Apparently this renewed admonishment may not have had the intended result, because the rules were issued again in 1736. The main part of the text (pp. 1-23) consists of 73 rules; the second section (pp. 24-33) relates to the interaction of the choir and various mass celebrants; the third section (pp. 34-36) gives specific dress rules for certain ceremonies; and the final section (pp. 37-38) states the starting times of various services. Palafox issued these rules originally with the obvious intent of regulating the choir that would perform in the new Puebla cathedral, which he saw completed and dedicated on April 18, 1649. ($500-1,000)

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PAUER, Friedrich. Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika, nach Erfolgtem Anschluss der Republik Texas.... Bremen, 1847. [i-iii] iv-viii, [1] 2-256 pp. 8vo, original ornamental tan printed wrappers. Rebacked, upper wrapper chipped (no losses), lower wrapper chipped and wanting a triangular piece from upper right corner, with loss of border and one ornament. Title page lightly stained, a few pages dog-eared, light age toning, scattered light foxing. Overall, a very good copy of a fragile item in almost original condition.

     First edition. Eberstadt, Texas 162:591: “An important guide for German emigrants to the New World, with a section on the new state of Texas.” Howes P125 (aa). In the section on Texas, the author paints a rosy picture of the new state and repeatedly warns his readers against those who claim Texas is inhabited by adventurers, swindlers, robbers, escaped convicts, and crooks of every kind. ($250-500)

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PEÑA Y PEÑA, José Manuel de la. Lecciones de práctica forence mejicana.... Mexico, 1835, 1836, 1839. Vol. I: [i-v] vi-xix [1, blank], [1] 2-536 [2] pp. Vol. II: [1-7] 8-612 pp. Vol. III: [1-5] 6-419 [1, blank] pp. 3 vols. (of 4), 8vo, full contemporary purple Mexican sheep extra gilt, spines gilt-lettered and elaborately tooled, upper and lower covers with central panels decorated in gilt, cream satin endpapers, a.e.g. Spines faded to tan, light shelf wear, very minor foxing to a few leaves, else fine, in an unusual Mexican binding.

     First edition. Not in Palau or Sabin. Bancroft, Mexico, Vol. I, lxxxix (Authorities Quoted). Sutro, p. 707 (with only 82 pp. of Vol. I). The set is rare in commerce. ($500-1,000)

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PEREYRA, Carlos. 2 works on the Texas Problem:

De Barradas á Baudin. Un Libro de Polemica Historial. Mexico: 1904. [6], [1-3] 4-170, 156-232 [1] pp. (text complete). 8vo, contemporary quarter Mexican tan sheep over blue and black mottled boards. Spine very lightly rubbed at head, slight edgewear. Interior fine with manuscript corrections of errata.

     First edition. Garrett, The Mexican-America War, p. 42.Palau 218902. Launching from his reading of Mexican historian Francisco Bulnes’ Las Grandes mentiras de nuestra historia (1904), in which he sees several virtues and vices alike, Pereyra analyzes Mexican history with special emphasis on the Texas problem. Although these chapters all contain heavy criticism of the Texans and the United States, Pereyra does not stint on criticism of his own native country, particularly Santa-Anna, on whom he heaps heavy blame. [With]:

Tejas La Primera Desembración De Méjico. Madrid, [1917?]. [1-7] 8-252, [4, ads] pp. 8vo, original blue ribbed cloth, spine gilt lettered. Spine faded, rubbed, and chipped at foot, covers faded and slightly stained. Interior with age toning, but otherwise fine. Bibliotheca de la juventud hispano-americana, #6.

     First edition. Tutorow 2941. Not in Palau. A history written for children to counter what the author considers American histories that tell only one side of the story. This is a another volume in a long series of works that seek to clarify and correct the historical record. ($200-400)

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PHILLIPS, John. Mexico Illustrated.... London, 1848. [2, title, verso blank], 25 leaves of letterpress text, 26 full original color lithographs on heavy paper (illustrated title, city and landscape views, a few military scenes and interiors). Folio, publisher’s original dark red roan over original red silk moiré cloth, upper cover with gilt illustration of the Mexican eagle, spine lettered in gilt. Professionally recased, binding neatly repaired and with some moderate wear, darkening, and a few stains. Interior with light uniform browning and scattered mild foxing, neat repair to lower blank corner of title, plate images uniformly very fine and fresh. Very rare, especially this issue with all the plates in full color.

     First edition of one of the most beautiful and rare nineteenth-century Mexican plate books, including views of interest for the Mexican-American War. Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 671. Kurutz & Mathes, The Forgotten War, p. 159: “Phillips was in Mexico at the time of the war and three of the prints show Mexican troops.” Palau 224780. Sabin 62498. Sandweiss, Stewart, and Husemen, Eyewitness to War: Prints and Daguerreotypes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848, Nos. 6, 17, 108, 127, 130, 131 & 132; & p. 7; p. 111. Tooley, English Books with Coloured Plates 1790- 1860 369. Tyler, The Mexican War: A Lithograph Record, p. 11. In a time of great turmoil in Mexico, John Phillips presents an elegant, serene view of the country, focusing on the beauties of its topography and its handsome architecture. The oversize plates are colored and executed in a captivating style that engages the viewer. One can still enjoy the vicarious thrill of the armchair traveller. The plates are arranged in the order of the preferred tour of Mexico at the time: beginning on the Gulf of Mexico at Campeche and on to Veracruz. On the road to the grand capital are Xalapa, Orizaba, and Puebla. Gems of Mexican architecture are presented, along with scenes showing the social life of the capital. Finally, the artist takes ones north through San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, the wild and beautiful Sierra Madre mountains, and the journey terminates at the mouth of the Rio Grande, with Matamoros on one side and what would become Brownsville, Texas, on the other. ($25,000-35,000)

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[PHOTOGRAPHY]. [TEXAS OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY]. [SPINDLETOP OILFIELD]. Two photographic images:

[LUCAS GUSHER]. TROST, Francis John (photographer). View of Lucas Gusher with men standing below. Gelatin silver print mounted on card with photographer’s imprint below image: Trost Port Arthur, Texas. Image: 20.3 x 12.9 cm; Card: 27.4 x 19.9 cm. Lettered in white at bottom: Trost. Port Arthur: Trost, [1901]. Image and card moderately rubbed and soiled, image with a few small chips and spots, otherwise good. This photograph is a variant of Trost’s iconic image of the January 10, 1901, Lucas Gusher.

KERR’S STUDIO (photographer). View of fourteen unidentified men posed on and around a partially-constructed wooden oil derrick, large building in background. Gelatin silver print mounted on card with photographer’s blind-embossed imprint below image: Kerr’s Studio. N.p.: Kerr’s Studio, n.d. (ca. 1900-1910). Image: 18.2 x 23.3 cm; Card: 27.9 x 34 cm. Image and card moderately rubbed and soiled, scratches to right margin of image, card heavily chipped with large voids (not affecting image). Despite wear, image is crisp and clear. ($5,000-10,000)

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PICHARDO, José Antonio. Pichardo’s Treatise on the Limits of Louisiana and Texas...Edited and Annotated by Charles Wilson Hackett. Austin: University of Texas, 1931, 1934, 1941, 1946. Vol. I: [i-iv] v-xx, [1-3] 4-630 pp., 4 maps (3 of which are folded) pp.; Vol. II: [i-iv] v-xv [1, blank], [1] 2-618 pp., folded map in envelope at rear; Vol. III: [i-iv] v-xiii [1, blank], [1] 2-514 pp.; Vol. IV: [i-iv] v-xiii [1, blank], [1] 2-512 pp. 4 vols., 8vo, original navy blue ribbed cloth. Other than occasional minimal foxing, an exceptionally fine set, with prospectus and American Historical Review printed slip laid in. Dust jackets not present.

     First edition of a previously unpublished manuscript written 1808-1812. Basic Texas Books 160: “One of the fundamental resources on the early history of Texas.” Clark, Old South I:23. Streeter 270n (discussion of Picardo’s Treatise and Hackett in Puelles report of 1828). Tate, The Indians of Texas 1834. Wagner, Spanish Southwest, pp. 114-15n. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West #276. Eugene C. Barker: “A library of source material on Spanish explorations and missionary settlements in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Kansas.” Jack Jackson: “An important link in the cartographic chain of early Texas.” ($750-1,500)

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PIKE, Z.M. An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and through the Western Parts of Louisiana, to the Sources of the Arkansaw [sic], Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun, Rivers; performed by Order of the Government of the United States during the Years 1805, 1806, and 1807. And a Tour through the Interior Parts of New Spain, When Conducted through these Provinces, by Order of the Captain-General, in the Year 1807. Philadelphia, 1810. [3] 4-5 [1, blank] [2] [1] 2-105 [1, blank] [9] [1, blank] [107] 108-277 [3, blank] [2] [1] 2-65 [1] [1] 2-53 [1, blank] [1] 2-87 [1, blank] pp., stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of Pike, 6 copper-engraved maps, 3 folded tables. 8vo, original full tree calf, tan morocco label (skillfully recased, original spine, label and endpapers preserved). Covers neatly reattached, spine cracked, extremities skillfully mended with sympathetic calf. Less browning and offsetting than usual.

     First edition of the first U.S. government exploration of the Southwest, with the first maps of the American West to display knowledge derived from actual exploration (Wheat). Basic Texas Books 163. Cohen, Mapping the West, pp. 97-99. Graff 3290. Howes P373. Martin & Martin 24. Plains & Rockies IV:9:1. Raines, p. 165. Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, p. 225. Streeter, p. 328 (citing the book as especially desirable for a Texas collection): “A foundation piece.... The account of Texas in the appendix to Pike is the first, in English, for Texas as a whole. Three of its maps show Texas”; 1047. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 297-299 & II, pp. 19-27: “Milestones in the mapping of the American West.” ($10,000-20,000)

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[POINSETT, Joel Roberts]. Notes on Mexico, Made in the Autumn of 1822.... Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1824. [i-v] vi, [2], [1] 2-359 [1 blank] pp., copper-engraved folding map (frontispiece): Map of a part of Mexico Exhibiting the author’s Route from Vera Cruz to Mexico, and thence to Tampico...by H.S. Tanner; neat line to neat line: 45.3 x 58 cm.8vo, original drab blue boards, backed with modern green cloth, original printed paper label preserved, untrimmed. Beinecke bookplate. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on title of Wm. Bayard (1761-1826; New York merchant; see DAB). Boards stained and rubbed, printed paper label rubbed and chipped at lower right. Interior with a few scattered stains. Map very fine. Overall a very good copy.

     First edition of the first detailed description of Mexico published in the U.S. American Imprints 17655. Hill I, p. 540 & Hill II:1368 (citing London edition). Palau 230084. Raines, p. 166: “While in Mexico, 1823, Austin delivered a copy of his Projet to his confidential friend, Ramos Arizpe, for consideration. As chairman of the Committee on the Constitution in the Constitutional Congress, Arizpe reported the Constitution, which was adopted and known as the Constitution of 1824. And this seems to have been but the elaboration of Austin’s Projet, with such changes as were necessary to adapt it to the genius of the Mexicans.” Sabin 63692. As a result of the information set forth in this work, Poinsett recommended that the United States purchase Texas from Mexico for $1,000,000 (a concept which lives in infamy in Mexican history). ($500-1,000)

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POSADA, José Guadalupe. Monografia.... Mexico: Mexican Folkways, Talleres Graficos de la Nacion, 1930. [8, introduction in Spanish and English], 1-208, [6] pp., half-tone photographic print of the artist and his son tipped onto title verso, over 400 prints pulled from Posada’s original plates, most two to a page. Folio, original olive green cloth, upper cloth stamped in red and black with design of a griffin. Slight wear to spine extremities, light age-toning to text due to the type of paper on which the book was printed. Two repaired tears to blank margins of pp. 181-184, overall fine. This book is very difficult to find, especially in collector’s condition like this copy.

     First edition, first posthumous collection of the engravings and etchings of Posada (1852-1913), with all the prints known at the time “that were not worn out, or stolen during the years of the Revolution” (Toor, in introduction). Mayor, Popular Prints of the Americas, pp. 50: “[Posada is] the one true genius among the many strong personalities that mark American popular printmaking.” Palau 233879. Ron Tyler, Posada’s Mexico (Library of Congress & Amon Carter Museum, 1979), pp. 27: “Twentieth-century Mexico is indebted to Posada for a graphic heritage that Mexican artists recall even today in order to create, and for a palpable link between the nineteenth and twentieth century.” ($750-1,500)

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[RAILROAD: PASO DEL NORTE TO GUAYMAS]. MEXICO. President (Antonio López de Santa-Anna). Printed decree issued by Antonio López de Santa-Anna, July 15, 1854, granting concessions to Alejandro José Atoche and his company for the exclusive privilege of building a railroad and telegraph line from Presidio del Norte to Guaymas on the Gulf of California. Mexico, 1854. [4] pp. Folio. Addressed in contemporary manuscript to the Governor of Sonora. Creased where formerly folded, light wrinkling, otherwise in very good condition.

     First edition. The concession granted was for ninety-nine years, and the construction was to be totally at the expense of Alejandro José Atoche, who was involved in negotiations between Santa-Anna and Polk at the end of the Mexican-American War. This was the first attempt to open the region to railroad and telegraphic communication. The Civil War and the reign of Maximilian in Mexico slowed development of a railroad in the region. Following the Civil War, some U.S. entrepreneurs and politicians attempted to revive the project. None of these projects ever came to fruition, and it was not until the 1880s that U.S. capitalists managed to run a line from Guaymas to Nogales, the first instance of U.S. railroad building in Mexico. A line between Guaymas and Ciudad Juárez was never built. ($400-800)

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REMÓN, Alonso. La Vida del siervo de Dios Gregorio Lopez, natural de Madrid: añadida de nuestros milagros, y doctrina suya. Al dulcissimo y santissimo nombre de Iesus.... Madrid: Por la viuda de Aloso Martín, 1617. [8] pp., 1-140 folios, [8] pp., title within woodcut architectural border. 8vo, contemporary limp vellum, remains of rawhide ties, text block separated from binding at upper hinge and slightly split at K1-2, tiny worm hole through first few leaves affecting a few letters. Overall very good. With later ink presentation inscription on front free endpaper.

     First edition of an extremely rare work on a Mexican religious figure, author, and hermit. OCLC locates two copies: Biblioteca Nacional de España (Madrid) and National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh). No records of copies at auction for the past thirty-five years. Alden/Landis 617/126 (locating only Biblioteca Nacional de España copy). Medina, Hispano-Americana (Ampliaciones) 664. Palau 260834. Streit 2:1475. Not in Sabin. This is a standard history of a significant Mexican hermit, an unusual character in the New World, who was known for his piety, miracles, and work among the Chichimecas in the Valley of Atemajac (near present-day Guadalajara), with whom he lived for many years. A Spanish native rumored to be of illegitimate royal descent, he came to Mexico when he was twenty, never returned to Spain, and is best known for his El Tesoro de medicinas (Mexico, 1672), an influential medical work based on native remedies and indigenous plants. His biographer Remón was the author of numerous religious works and histories. That this biography was also published in Spain is some indication of the subject’s interest and importance. It was this publication that introduced López to Europe. López is believed to be the first Mexican hermit. ($3,000-4,000)

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REYES, V[icente]. Onomatología geográfica de Morelos por V. Reyes. Edicion especial mandada publicar por la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografia y Estadistica. Mexico: Imprenta de E. Dublán y Compañía, 1888. [1-3] 4-66 pp., 5 unattributed hand-colored lithograph plates (159 glyphs). 8vo, modern tan three-quarter blind-ruled Mexican sheep over brown linen, raised bands, gilt-lettered red leather spine label. Except for light offsetting from plates and tear in blank margin of 37/38, very good. Very rare in commerce.

     First edition. Palau 265662. Porrúa (1949) 8885. Ugarte 337. Not in Kenneth Croft’s update of Viñaza, “Six Decades of Nahuatl: A Bibliographical Contribution” in International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 19, No. 1 (January, 1953), pp. 57-73. Not in Glass’ entry on Codex Mendoza. The author states: “Es un Catálogo razonado de los nombres geográficos derividos del idioma náhuatl que se conservan en el Estado de Morelos, con expresión de sus etimologías y los geroglífocas que les servían de representación en las pinturas de los antiguos mexicanos” (p. [1]). For each term he gives the word’s etymology and the various forms it might assume; each of the glyph images is numbered for cross-references in the text. For example, he states that Cicatlacotla, a rancho in the Juarez district, comes from the word “tzicatlacotla,” which means a place with many ants. On the whole, a thorough, groundbreaking work on its topic. ($200-400)

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RÍO, Antonio del. Description of the Ruins of an Ancient City, Discovered Near Palenque, in the Kingdom of Guatemala, in Spanish America....London: Henry Berthoud, 1822. 17 uncolored lithograph plates, 2 folded (Mayan deities and artifacts). 4to, nineteenth-century three-quarter brown sheep over marbled boards. Binding expertly restored and repaired, scattered moderate to mild foxing to text and plates. Plates trimmed at lower margin (loss or partial loss of lithographer’s imprint on seven plates). Very rare.

     First edition of the first published eye-witness report on the Maya archaeology, a cornerstone in Mesoamerican studies. Field Sale 1982. Glass, p. 686. Palau 268187. Sabin 71446. Saville, Palenque, pp. 125-6. ($2,000-4,000)

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RIPALDA, Gerónimo de & Ignacio de Paredes (translator). CATHOLIC CHURCH. CATECHISM. Catecismo mexicano, que contiene toda la Doctrina Christiana.... [Second title, in Nahuatl] Christianoyotl mexicanemachtiloni.... Mexico: Biblioteca Mexicana, 1758. [30], 1-17, [2] pp., copper-engraved plate. 12mo, full modern vellum gilt in antique style. Title professionally restored, with a small section of ornamental border supplied in expert pen facsimile. Except for occasional light browning and a few small stains, very good, much better condition than usually found. Plate excellent. Preserved in a fleece-lined slipcase (patterned paper over boards). This book is very difficult to find complete.

     First edition of Ripalda’s catechism in Nahuatl, translated by Ignacio de Paredes (first edition, Burgos, 1591). Field 1305. García Icazbalceta, Lenguas 56. JCB (3), Vol. 3, #1191. JCB online Indian Languages Database. León Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli 2286. Medina, México 4500. Palau 269110. Pilling 2891. Sabin 71488. Sánchez, Doctrina cristiana del Jerónimo de Ripalda 62. Ugarte 290. Henry R. Wagner, “Some Bibliographical Notes Concerning Jeronimo de Ripalda’s ‘Catecismo’“ in California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 4 (December, 1937), pp. 373-375. Jesuit Father Gerónimo de Ripalda (1536?-1618), a native of Spain, is best remembered for this catechism, which was reprinted innumerable times and translated into several languages such as this one in Nahuatl. The small but richly complex engraving by Mexican engraver José Benito Ortuño illustrating Francis Xavier teaching Native American children is cited by both Mathes and Romero de Terreros. ($1,500-3,000)

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RIVA PALACIO, Vicente, Manuel Payno, et al. [Lithograph pictorial title] El Libro rojo. 1520-1867.... Mexico: Diaz de León y White, Editores, 1870. [2, half title], 151 [1, blank] pp., 39 lithographs on tinted grounds (including illustrated title). Folio, late nineteenth or early twentieth-century full Mexican tree sheep, spine with tan leather labels and raised bands, top edges tinted red, marbled endpapers. Light shelf wear, front hinge split (holding strong). Other than faint scattered foxing, the text and plates are very fine.

     First edition. Mathes, Mexico on Stone, pp. 38: “Hernández and Iriarte produced lithographs drawn by Primitivo Miranda for the famous El Libro Rojo by Riva Palacio and Manuel Payno, printed by Díaz de León y White in 1870.” Ramos 614. Sabin 58274. The suite of large lithograph plates dramatically portrays plague, murders, tragedies, and a pantheon of political and religious martyrs in Mexico, from the Conquest to the French Intervention. The plates are superbly executed. Especially dramatic are some of the scenes set at night, with technically superb chiaroscuro. The large size of the lithographs makes them all the more dramatic. El Libro Rojo marks a trend to nationalism in Mexican art. ($1,500-3,000)

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ROSNY, Léon de. Ensayo sobre la interpretación de la escritura hierática de la América Central. Madrid, 1881. [1-8], [i] ii-xxi [1, blank], [3-5] 6-113, [1, Índice ó Guía], [2, Apéndice II], [2, Índice and Tabla de las Láminas] pp., copious text illustrations, 20 plates (lithograph, heliograph, and photogravure), some in color. Folio, contemporary maroon calf over mottled boards. Binding a little worn at extremities, interior with light uniform browning due to the paper on which it was printed, generally fine.

     First edition in Spanish, limited edition #141 of 200 copies), best edition. Glass, pp. 691: “[This edition] adds important data... Added to this edition by the editor (pp. 69-114, pl. 19) is the first complete Spanish edition of Landa’s Relación de las cosas de Yucatán (with all of the drawings except the two maps).” Palau 278865. Sabin 73306. George Stuart, Glyph Drawings from Landa’s Relación: A Caveat to the Investigator (citing Landa’s Relación): “Until the original work of Bishop Diego de Landa comes to light—and all searches for it have so far been in vain—the manuscript in Madrid is the primary copy of our most important single source on Yucatecan Maya culture of the early colonial period” (George Stuart). Valle, Bibliografía Maya, pp. 120-123. Wilkinson Sale 209: “Very important and scarce.” Paradoxically, Landa’s Relación de las cosas de Yucatan, in which he attempted to piece together what he had learned about Maya culture while vigorously annihilating it is the best record extant of Maya culture. ($1,500-3,000)

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SARTORIUS, C[arl Christian Wilhelm] (author) & [Johann] Moritz Rugendas (artist). Mexiko. Landschaftsbilder und Skizzen aus dem Volksleben.... Darmstadt & Paris, [ca. 1855]. [i-v] vi-viii, [1] 2-364, [2] pp.), 18 steel-engraved plates (including pictorial title and frontispiece) depicting views, scenery, archaeology, volcanoes, urban and rural life, etc., after original art work by Rugendas. 8vo, recased in early twentieth-century full black morocco, boards rolled and decorated in gilt, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering and decoration, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g. Front joint weak at top, slightly cocked, text block and plates trimmed when rebound (a few plates with slight loss of caption), text and plates with some light browning and minor water staining along lower edges (not affecting engraved images). 1936 ink gift inscription in German on front flyleaf and a few notes. Overall a very good, complete copy.

     First edition, issue with both Darmstadt and Paris on printed title, and dedication on cancels. The present copy is apparently from the parts issue, which began publication in 1855. Cf. Palau 302683. Sabin 77120. The text and plates are admirably melded; both author and illustrator were strongly influenced by Alexander von Humboldt. The beautiful plates are the work of German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas, who gained fame for his art work depicting ethnographic and landscape subjects in the Americas in the first half of the nineteenth century.”Western art can boast few documentary painters of true distinction. Of those whose lives and works we know in detail, the finest was Rugendas.... His genre was the physiognomy of nature, based on a procedure invented by Humboldt, a kind of artistic geography, an aesthetic understanding of the world, a science of landscape” (César Aria, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter, New York: New Directions Books, 2006). ($600-1,200)

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SARTORIUS, C[arl Christian Wilhelm] (author) & [Johann] Moritz Rugendas (artist). Mexico. Landscapes and Popular Sketches by C. Sartorius. Edited by Dr. Gaspey.... London: Trübner & Co., 1859. [i-v] vi, [2], [1] 2-202 pp., leaf 2 of gathering 13, (pp. 93-94) is a cancel, 18 steel-engraved plates, including illustrated title and frontispiece after original artwork by Rugendas. 4to (29 x 22.7 cm), original gilt decorated blue cloth (Mexican eagle on upper cover, vaquero on horseback with lasso on lower cover), gilt pictorial spine, bevelled edges, a.e.g. Binding rubbed and slightly faded, spinal extremities and corners frayed and worn (chipped at top). Front hinge strengthened, some signatures slightly shaken, text and plates with occasional light uniform browning and mild foxing (plates generally fine and clean), original tissue guards present. Uncommon and very difficult to find in original binding, complete, and acceptable condition.

     First edition in English (originally issued in nine parts), first edition, Darmstadt, 1855. Palau 302686. Sabin 77121. For more on Sartorius and this work, see preceding entry. Editor-translator Thomas W. Gaspey (d. 1871) wrote works on the Rhine, Heidelberg, and linguistics (DNB). All editions contain chapters at the end relating to ranching, vaqueros, horses, and such. Rugendas’ images of these subjects are classics of the genre. Artist Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858) is an outstanding  example of one of Humboldt’s protégés who was ignited by the vision of the towering polymath. Rugendas’ images meld artistic beauty and scientific truth. ($750-1,500)

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SARTORIUS, C[arl Christian Wilhelm] & [Johann] Moritz Rugendas (artist). Mexico. Landskapsbilder och Skizzer ur Folklifvet.... Stockholm: P.A. Huldbergs, 1862. [4] 5-194, [2] pp. (text printed in double columns), 18 steel-engraved plates (most with titles in English, Spanish, and Swedish), including illustrated title (views, scenery, archaeology, urban and rural life, volcanoes). 8vo, contemporary three-quarter dark brown sheep over mottled boards, mottled edges, spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Joints slightly rubbed and minor edge wear, text with light age toning, plates very fine. Overall a fine copy. Scarce.

First Swedish edition. The first edition was printed at Darmstadt in 1855. See preceding entries for German and English editions. The multiple translations of this work attest to its popularity, worth, and aesthetic appeal. Other than a few alterations to title on plates, the work appears to be unchanged. Palau 302687. Sabin notes the Darmstadt and London editions, but not this Swedish edition. Translator Carl Winget translated various works, including Allen’s Hitchcock’s Emanuel Swedenborg Depicted as Hermetic Philosopher (1862); Charles Muller’s Esperanza, or the Young Colony on the Pampas (1861); etc. ($500-1,000)

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SPAIN. LAWS. Memoria de todos los generos, y especies de que se deven pagar diezmo, segun derecho, y costumbre assentada, en este obispado de la Puebla de los Angeles, para que sus Curas, y Vicarios en todo el hagan notorio à todos los Dezmatarios.... [Puebla de los Angeles: Viuda de Juan de Borja y Gandía, 1663]. Folio broadside on laid paper, typographical ornaments at top and between elements of text. Exceptionally fine and large broadside printed by the first woman printer in Puebla de los Angeles.

     First Mexican edition. Medina, Puebla de los Angeles 60. Palau 160687. No copies on OCLC. An elegant reminder to Puebla citizens that they are expected to pay church tithes on their farm products and produce. Two classes of citizens are outlined, (1) Spanish and others who are not Indian; and (2) Indian. The tithes due from Spaniards are extensive and include just about every kind of product imaginable, a real litany of flora and fauna, which gives us a glimpse of the foodstuffs, raw materials, and other products of colonial New Spain. This is a classic example of New World church financing, which does not differ all that much from a Pre-Cortesian tribute roll, except printed words are used instead of painted pictorial elements and glyphs. Printer Inés Vásquez Borja y Gandía was the widow of Juan de Borja y Gandía who began printing in 1654 but died in 1656, after which the printing house was taken over by Inés. The printing shop remained active until 1682, and she died on December 6, 1686, at about 85 years of age. ($500-1,000)

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STEPHENS, John Lloyd. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan...Illustrated by...F. Catherwood...Volume One. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842. Vol. I only, engraved frontispiece, 24 engraved plates, 7 text illustrations, 1 folding engraved map. This copy is extra-illustrated by bibliophile John R. Bartlett after Frederick Catherwood’s original drawings, with Bartlett’s signed note. Extra illustrations include 18 original wash sketches (mostly in sepia) by Bartlett after Catherwood’s drawings of scenery in Guatemala and Central America (see list below), plus 11 prints from contemporary works on Mexico. 8vo, contemporary full black sheep elaborately ornamented in gilt, inner gilt dentelles. Binding rubbed, joints cracked and repaired, first gathering loose, mild to moderate foxing to interior (heavier on tissue guards). ($5,000-8,000)

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TAYLOR, Bayard. Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire.... New York: George P. Putnam; London: Richard Bentley, 1850. 8 tinted lithograph plates after author’s original art work. 2 vols., 12mo, original cloth. Bindings lightly worn and stained, lower hinge of Vol. I repaired with adhesion and discoloration to endpaper. Interior very good except for scattered mild to moderate foxing to text and plates. Overall a very good, complete, untrimmed copy.

     First edition, the American issue. BAL 19638. Cowan II, p. 630. Graff 4073. Hill II:1674. Howes T43. Kurutz, The California Gold Rush 618a. Libros Californianos, pp. 40-41; p. 67. Palau 328474. Peters, California on Stone, pp. 196-97. Sabin 94440. Streeter Sale 2654. Vail, Gold Fever, p. 23. Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 204. Zamorano 80 #73. ($600-1,200)

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TELLECHEA, Miguel. Compendio gramatical para la inteligencia del idioma tarahumar oraciones. Mexico, 1826. [12], 1-9 [1, blank], 1-63, 63, 64-162 [1, blank], i-vi [6] pp. (from p. 63 bis to the end, even page numbers are on rectos), pp. 49-154 printed in double columns, unattributed copper-engraved frontispiece plate (portrait of author giving his book to kneeling Tarahumarans holding a shield adorned with the Mexican symbol of an eagle with a snake in its beak perched on a cactus). 4to, original vellum. Very light old marca de fuego on upper edges. Just about perfect, the plate excellent. Author’s warm, signed inscription to Rafael Sánchez on front free endpaper. Contemporary ink note below imprint.

     First edition. Eberstadt, Arizona-Sonora 163:86. García Icazbalceta, Apuntes 76. Humboldts sprachwissenschaftliche Bibliothek 415-416. Palau 329425. Pilling 3810. Ramírez Sale 830: “Father Tellechea’s is the best known grammar of the dialect which has been published. The author was missionary apostolic of the College of our Lady of Guadalupe de Zacatecas, and ex-President of the Missions to the Tarahumara in Northern Mexico.” Sabin 9461. Although the Tarahumara language is related to other linguistic families in the area (such as Pimi, Yaqui, etc.), it is sufficiently unique that it could be treated in its own separate work, of which this is the second study (the first was by Ivan Ratkaj, 1647–1683). ($1,500-3,000)

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TEMPSKY, G[ustavus] F[erdinand] von. Mitla. A Narrative of Incidents and Personal Adventures on a Journey in Mexico, Guatemala, and Salvador in the Years 1853 to 1855.... London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858. [i-vi] vii-xv [1], [1] 2-436 pp., folded copper-engraved map with original outline coloring, 5 lithograph plates on toned grounds with original hand coloring, one of which is folding, 9 leaves of wood-engraved illustrations, 2 wood-engraved illustrations in text (views, archaeology, ethnological and costume, encounter between ranchero and Native Americans, all by author). 8vo (22.4 x 14.5 cm), full contemporary rose polished calf, spine extra gilt with raised bands and green gilt-lettered spine label, covers and edges of binding rolled in gilt, edges marbled, matching marbled endpapers. Gift inscription in ink dated 1865. Light binding wear (with minor professional restoration), interior fine except for occasional very mild water staining affecting top blank edge of a few plates, one color plate with spot in blank margin. Overall a fine copy of one of the more beautiful nineteenth-century color plate books on Latin America.

     First edition. Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography I:665. Field 1612. Palau 329979. Hill II:1684: “An interesting account of Tempsky’s journey in Mexico, Tehuantepec, and Central America, and his attempt to portray the inhabitants ‘in a life-like manner.’ The text begins with an 1853 sea voyage aboard the French brig Indépendance from San Francisco to Mazatlán, Mexico. The author had spent three years in California (he has been described as John Sutter's personal bodyguard) and gives an interesting account of Joaquin Murieta.” A good deal of the text and several of the plates illustrate Mitla, the Zapotec ruins outside Oaxaca, Mexico. Tempsky's travels in Northern Mexico document in an engaging fashion ranching on a grand scale, rustling, and Comanche and Apache depredations in the Borderlands. ($600-1,200)

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[TEXAS]. ALAMO BOOK PUBLISHING COMPANY. Book of the Alamo: A Guide for Travelers. San Antonio, 1907. First edition of this directory of early twentieth-century Texas and an example of extreme boosterism. A rare survival. ($250-500)

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[TEXAS]. Diario del Gobierno de la Republica Mexicana. Mexico: Imprenta del Águila, 1836. Vol. 6, no. 518, September 29, 1836. [4] pp., printed in three columns, masthead with large woodcut of Mexican eagle with snake. Folio. Creased where formerly folded, lightly wrinkled and age toned, a few tiny holes, otherwise fine.

     First edition. Charno, Latin American Newspapers, pp. 332-333. The Diario, the official periodical of the Mexican government,was established on February 10, 1835, and ran until late 1847. Individual issues are rarely found on the market, and even larger research libraries have only scattered issues. About half the paper is filled with news or other discussions of the Texas Rebellion, for which New Orleans newspapers are clearly major sources. The chief consternation and surprising event is the Texas blockade of Matamoros, which the Louisiana editors condemn as a violation of international law by a “nation” that nobody recognizes. The editor of The Abeille says that the blockade is illegal, although if Texas wanted to invade Mexico, that would be fine since it would not involve international shipping. An interesting glimpse into the Mexican psyche following the shock and anger after the defeat at San Jacinto. ($250-500)

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[TEXAS COLONIZATION: AUSTIN & WILLIAMS COLONY]. Sello Segundo: Doce Reales. Habilitado por el Estado de Coahuila y Texas para el Bienio De 1828 Y 29. Printed form accomplished in manuscript. [San Felipe de Austin: G.B. Cotten, 1829]. [2] pp. with conjugate blank. Folio. Signed with original signatures and dated in ink San Felipe de Austin, 22 October 1835, Robert Peebles, T.H. Borden, and C.C. Givens. Creased where formerly folded, lower right corner wrinkled, light stains along fold lines, otherwise a very good copy of a rare document and imprint.

     First edition. Not in Streeter. Cf. Streeter 13 & 14. A land contract in Spanish deeding John G. Conner one league of land in Stephen F. Austin and Samuel May Williams’ grant (later Robertson’s Colony), between the San Jacinto and Navasota Rivers. This is an example of one of the four basic documents that any immigrant was required to have to settle in Texas. According to Streeter 9, four documents were required for an immigrant: (1) an admission petition; (2) certificate to be presented to a commissioner; (3) an original deed [the present document]; and (4) a promissory note. All copies of any of those documents are rare and mostly in institutional collections. Surviving examples of any of the original deed forms are extremely scarce. An essential document for a collection of Texas history or Texas printing. ($1,500-3,000)

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[TEXAS COLONIZATION: NASHVILLE COMPANY & ROBERTSON COLONY]. COAHUILA Y TEJAS (Mexican State). Manuscript in English, entitled “Translation of the Papers of the Nashville Company.” Translation of Mexican documents originally dated April 26, 1834, April 29, 1834. On p. 3 is a statement of the source of the Spanish (sic) law in the papers of the Archives dated November 21st, 1834, in the hand of and signed by William H. Steele, Land Commissioner of Nashville and Robertson Colony. Docketed on p. 4 as “Exhibit E,” and “Translation by Judge Chambers of Title to The Nashville Colony Texas. Read 18th,” signed by and in the hand of Thomas Jefferson Chambers (land speculator and first Anglo attorney in Texas). Includes a statement about runaway slaves from Texas. 4 pp. on bifolium, folio. Professionally washed, stabilized and repaired.

     This document relates to the struggle to colonize the upper part of the Brazos River, home to some of the fiercest Indians in Texas, and an equally debilitating rivalry between empresarios Sterling C. Robertson and Stephen F. Austin and his partner Samuel May Williams. This manuscript contains some material not published elsewhere, along with the Oath of Allegiance required of the Texas Colonists. ($750-1,500)

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[TEXAS COLONIZATION: ROBERTSON COLONY]. COAHUILA Y TEJAS (Mexican State). LAWS. [Decree of May 18, 1835, concerning Robertson’s colony, with caption heading Gobierno Supremo del Estado libre de Coahuila y Texas. [Text begins] El Gobernador constitucional del Estado de Coahuila y Tejas á todos sus habitantes, sabed:.... Art. 1o. La resolucion de que habló el decreto de 6 de april de 1834 en el asunto que promovió el extrangero D. Sterling Robertson.... [Dated in type] Dado en la capital de Monclova [18] de mayo de 1835. [Monclova, 1835]. Broadside, printed on laid paper, no watermark.  Creased where formerly folded with minor losses of a few letters at folds, margins chipped and torn with loss, lightly stained. Professionally washed, deacidified and backed with thin paper. Overall, a very good, restored copy.

     First edition and the only known copy of this important law. Kimball 318. No copies located on OCLC. Another instance of the tug of war between Stephen F. Austin and Sterling C. Robertson for control of the Upper Colony. ($300-600)

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[TEXAS COLONIZATION & LEGAL AFFAIRS]. Collection of about 20 documents and letters dating from approximately 1825 to 1843, apparently from the files of attorney and statesman Archibald Wynns (1809-1858, Handbook of Texas Online) who settled in Houston in 1837 where he opened a law firm. Most of the papers in the collection concern litigation regarding Texas lands, including the various incarnations of the Robertson Colony. The collection includes several transcriptions of original deeds, grants and three letters to Wynns. Condition varies from very good to poor, although the majority are in acceptable condition. The collection includes examples of signatures of several prominent early Texans, including Samuel May Williams, Martin Wyly, Galveston founder Levi Jones, and others. ($500-1,000)

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[TEXAS RANGERS]. WEBB, Walter Prescott. The Texas Rangers. A Century of Frontier Defense Illustrated with Drawings by Lonnie Rees and with Photographs. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company & The Riverside Press, 1935. [i-viii] ix-<xiv> [1, blank], [1-2] 3-<584> pp., frontispiece plate (“The Rio Grande Guard”), numerous text illustrations (photographs and art work by Rees). 8vo, original red buckram, pictorial d.j. Spine slight faded at extremities, endpapers lightly age toned, a few minor stains to title, overall a very good copy in moderately chipped d.j. Author’s presentation copy written in green ink: “To Charles Wilson Hackett, companion and friend through all the years in which this volume was in the writing. His own industry in research often spurred my lazy spirit. Walter Prescott Webb.” Laid in are prospectus and publisher’s blurb.

     First edition. This is the first issue, with the caption on the photograph on p. 565 incorrectly identifying Ray Miller as the third man from the left. Adams, One-Fifty 145. Adams, Guns 2333. Basic Texas Books 212. Dobie, pp. 58, 60: “The beginning, middle and end of the subject.” Dobie, Big Bend Bibliography, p. 27. Dykes, Kid 210: “Rare.” Dykes, Western High Spots, pp. 119–120 (“Ranger Reading”): “If I had to limit my Texas Ranger reading to just one book, I’d take [this one].” Howes W194. Tate, The Indians of Texas: An Annotated Research Bibliography 2449: “Best delineation of ranger-type forces throughout Texas history and...their point of view on the ‘Indian problem.’” Western Literature Association, A Literary History of the American West, p. 626: “A re-creation of border life as well as the story of Texas’s famous—and sometimes infamous—peace-keeping organization.” ($150-300)

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[TEXAS REVOLUTION]. JUNTA COLECTORA DE DONATIVAS PARA LA GUERRA DE TEJAS. Printed form with blank spaces completed in manuscript: [Text begins] Deseando esta junta corresponder á la confianza que en ella ha depositado el gobierno departamental.... [signed and dated in type] México, [October 23] de 184[2], Manuel Moreno y Jove, Presidente. Manuel Cordero, Secretario. Tranquilimo de la Vega, Vicepresidente, with their ink paraphs. Addressed on final blank page to Domingo Durán, “Representante pr el Depto de Puebla.” Mexico, 1842. Broadside circular letter with integral blank. 4to, green wove paper. Stained at upper corners, which are missing (no text wanting).

     First edition. Not in Streeter, other standard sources, or OCLC. No other copy known. By this circular letter the Junta seeks to enlist the cooperation of other patriots in collecting funds or goods to prosecute the war in Texas. The only other known copy of a similar but different publication is one reported for Zacatecas. (See Wilkie, Lilly Texana, 167.) A very rare survival of an ephemeral publication. ($400-800)

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[TEXAS REVOLUTION]. MEXICO (Republic). LAWS (July 16, 1836). [Decree of July 16, 1836, on opening the port of Matamoros to the importation of provisions during the war with Texas, assigning those provisions to the expeditionary force, and exempting from seizure mules and wagons carrying supplies to that army from within the country]. Mexico, July 16, 1836. [2] pp. with conjugate blank. Folio. Slightly wrinkled and right side lightly stained (not affecting text), otherwise very good, with five-line contemporary ink note at bottom ordering distribution of the decree.

     First edition of a rare Mexican decree concerning the Texas Rebellion. Eberstadt, Texas 162:525. Streeter 880 (locating only his copy). Streeter, Only Located Copies 92. Wilkie, Lilly Texana 137. The port of Matamoros was a strategic conduit for both Mexico and Texas in the uneasy peace following the Battle of San Jacinto. Only July 21, Texas President Burnet proclaimed blockade of the port of Matamoros. ($500-1,000)

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TRAVIS, William Barret. Autograph document in Travis’ hand, San Felipe de Austin, January 15, 1835, legal petition to the court to appoint Isham Thompson as tutor for Jerome & Elizabeth Graves (children of Richard Graves), signed four times by Travis (three times as W.B. Travis as witness, and once as W. Barret Travis in body of document). Other signers include George Ewing, T. Willis Nibb, L. Ramsey, A.B. Paschal, Joseph Halderman, and George Huff. 4 pp. on a bifolium (33.2 x 20.2 cm). Professionally washed and de-acidified, folds strengthened, loss of a few letters at folds, otherwise a very good legible document, free of provenance or authenticity issues. Three other related legal documents are included, signed by David G. Burnet, Robert M. “Three-Legged Willie” Williamson, and others, plus secretarial signature of Travis. ($7,500-15,000)

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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO. BEYE DE CISNEROS Y QUIJANO, Manuel Ignacio. Manuale formarum juramentorum....Mexico, 1759. Copper-engraved frontispiece (academic arms, signed Rodriquez); p. [5] with a remarkably fine text engraving of the Crucifixion. 4to, original limp vellum. A very fine, large copy.

     First edition of an exquisite imprint by the press of Biblioteca Mexicana, one of the most important of eighteenth-century Mexican publishing concerns. Blake 3184: “Of the utmost rarity.” Medina, México 4531. Palau 28851. Sabin 44420. This work contains a compendium of ceremonial oaths for the University of Mexico faculty upon assuming office, and for students during graduation ceremonies. A discussion of the book and its printer are found in H.G. Whitehead’s “An Eighteenth-Century Mexican Book” in The British Museum Quarterly, Vol. 22, Nos. 1/2 (1960), pp. 8-10. ($1,000-2,000)

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URREA, José. José Urrea, Comandante General, y gobernado nombrado de Sonora. Mexico: Imprenta de Torres, calle del Espíritu Santo, No. 2, 1842. [2] pp., folio. Heavily water-stained, edges chipped with some loss of blank margins, worm hole costing a few letters, several tears (some into text). Dated in type: Guaymas, 1842, and signed in ink by Urrea (p. [2]). This unrecorded imprint bears the very rare signature of the one of the key players in the Texas Revolution, and a man deeply involved in major military and political events on Mexico.

     First edition. Not in Streeter or other standard sources. In this statement, Urrea, who had just become governor of Sonora, states that now that the latest period of strife is done, he wants to advance the wellbeing of the state and its citizens. He includes a somewhat resentful, bitter paragraph about the Texans who are seeking to expand into New Mexico (“Mi corazon mexicano palpita al aspecto del orgullo de la llamada república de Tejas”) and calls on his fellow citizens to defend the state’s borders. José Urrea (born at Tucson 1797-1849) is one of the heroes of Mexico, having held a number of political or military positions in Mexico, Texas, and the Borderlands. He served on Santa-Anna's first Mexican expedition to Texas and commanded at the Alamo, Goliad, and San Patricio. He opposed retreating from Texas and after the war published an important work critical of Santa-Anna and defending his role in the Texas Revolution. ($750-1,500)

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VALADÉS, Diego. Rhetorica Christiana.... Perugia: Petrus Jacobus Petrutius, 1579. 27 copperplate engravings (including title): 13 plates (including title page, 3 leaves of which have illustrations on recto and verso), 14 text illustrations (of which 5 are full-page), 1 folded letterpress chart, type ornament head- and tail-pieces, grotesque woodcut tail-pieces, decorative and historiated woodcut initials, including a large initial “C” illustrating the Last Supper on the dedication leaf (a1 recto), printer’s woodcut serpent device on 3D3 verso. 4to, contemporary limp vellum (recased). Fine complete copy.

     First edition of one of the earliest books by a native of Mexico to interpret Mexican culture to Europeans (and vice versa); the first book of Mexican authorship printed in Europe. Adams V18. Bell V6. JCB (3)(1)277-278. European Americana 1579/50: “Manual for instruction of missionaries to Mexico, describing indigenous religious rites and customs, etc.” Medina, Hispano-Americana 259. Mortimer (Italy) 510. Palau 346897. Sabin 98300 & 25934n. ($10,000-20,000)

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VELASQUEZ, Pedro (pseudonym). Illustrated Memoir of an Eventful Expedition into Central America Resulting in the Discovery of the Idolatrous City of Iximaya, in an Unexplored Region; and the Possession of Two Remarkable Aztec Children, Maximo, (the Man), & Bartola, (the Girl), Descendants and Specimens of the Sacerdotal Cast, (Now Nearly Extinct), of the Ancient Aztec Founders of the Ruined Temples of that Country, Described by John L. Stephens, Esq., and Other Travellers. Translated from the Spanish of Pedro Velasquez of San Salvador. [London, ca. 1856]. [i-v] vi-viii, [1] 2-38 pp., 6 lithograph plates of Mesoamerican ethnological fantasia printed in red (including engraved half-title), text figures. 8vo, original red and white lithograph pictorial wrappers, original stitching. Minor wear and light browning to fragile wraps, else fine.

     This London edition has lithograph plates, but the U.S. editions have only the text figures. Printing priority undetermined. The English engraver’s name (George Dorrington, Bénézit III, p. 316) and the prefatory matter make it obvious that the present copy is a London edition, which is extremely rare compared to the U.S. editions. The “second letter” of Humboldt at front is dated 1856, and the table of measurements at back is dated London June 30, 1853. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2227. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 218: “As is hinted in the title, the whole purpose of this hoax, which became a travelling performance, was to capitalize on the extraordinary interest that Stephens’ two books on his discoveries in the Mayan lands had aroused. It can also be classed as ‘Lost Race fiction.’” Palau 357485. Sabin 91301 note & 98812 (Memoir). If Barnum did not write the Memoir and this condensation, he certainly must have commissioned them. ($400-800)

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[VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE]. Album guadalupano.... Mexico: Debray, 1885. 16 lithograph plates on toned grounds, including three-tone title page and map. 8vo, original blind-embossed black cloth, title stamped in gilt on upper cover, publisher’s anagram blind-stamped on lower cover. Both covers stamped “Mexico.” Spine slightly faded, spinal extremities and upper joint expertly repaired, corners lightly bumped, minor shelf wear, hinges just starting at bottom. Lithographs very fine and fresh. Very scarce.

     First edition. Hiersemann-Peñafiel 332. Mathes, Mexico on Stone, 60 (citing book); 63 (lithographer-publisher). Palau 5515. Dicc. Porrúa (1949) 7028. ($1,000-2,000)

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[VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE]. CABRERA Y QUINTERO, Cayetano. Escudo de armas de Mexico.... Mexico: Viuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1746. [34], 1-522, [24] pp., title printed in red and black, copper-engraved frontispiece of the Virgin of Guadalupe saving Mexico City from the epidemic. Folio, contemporary limp vellum. Binding and text block separated, otherwise a fine copy of a handsome and important colonial imprint of Mexico. Very rare.

     First edition of the standard history of Mexico City up to the time of publication, documenting acceptance of the patronage of the Virgin of Guadalupe for all of New Spain. Guerra, Iconografia Medica Mexicana 297. Medina, México 3752. Palau 38956 & 372253. Price, Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute, pp. 63-4: “Eight hundred copies were printed of which 437 were published; the remainder were collected and burned at the order of the first Viceroy Revillagigedo.” Sabin 9817. ($2,500-5,000)

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[VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE]. CATHOLIC CHURCH. LORENZANA Y BUITRÓN, Francisco Antonio. Cartas pastorales....Mexico: Hogal, 1770. [26], 1-229 [1, blank] pp., title printed in red and black. Folio, contemporary vellum over boards. Some soiling to vellum, upper hinge cracked, lower hinge barely starting, interior very fine. Rare in commerce.

     First edition of an important religious work which reveals a great deal on Native Americans and social history. JCB III(1)1749. Medina, México 5379. Palau 142406. Sabin 42062 (quoting Stevens): “Among other things, this volume contains a most minute account of the portrait of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which appeared miraculously on the Tilma or blanket of Juan Diego, a converted Mexican, in the year 1531; and which was solemnly declared by a commission of painters and others, in 1751, not to have been painted by the hand of man. The good Archbishop comes