Bouillon & Paris: Aux Dépens de la Sociéte Typographique & De L'Imprimerie de d'Houry, 1771. vi, [7]-220; [viii], 120 pp. 16mo. Full calf, spine decorated with gilt florals, brown morocco lettering piece, boards ruled in gilt, gilt turn ins, all edges red, marbled endpapers. First editions. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704) was..... More

London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1868. 3, xvi, 156 pp. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Hakluyt Society, First series: No. 40. The letter is dated 1526. The Spanish text was first printed in the “Documentos Ineditos,” 1864, IV. 8--167, and this is the first English translation. The supplementary material consists..... More

London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1862. 3, xxv, 168 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w drawing. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Hakluyt Society, First series: No. 29. Includes accounts of travel in Europe and Peru. The supplementary material includes the 1862 annual report. Spine sunned, head of spine rubbed, small institutional..... More

San Francisco: California State Library, 1940. [81-179] pp. printed on rectos only. 4to. Red morocco, raised bands, gilt decorations, spine ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers. First edition. Occasional Papers. Mexican History Series No. 2, Part I. Sutro Branch. California State Library. The second of two volumes produced by the WPA..... More

Montevideo: Imprenta Nacional, 1943. 343 pp. Illus. with 6 color and b/w plates. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. Most of the issues is taken up with Mateo J. Magariños de Mello: La misión de Florencio Varela a Londres (1843-1844), which would be separately published the following year; other contents..... More

Habana: P. Ferández y Cía, 1950. 135 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Pages 59-72 and 73-121 are devoted to the work and a bibliography of the manuscripts of Anselmo Suárez y Romero (1818–1878) the important Cuban writer known best for this novel "Francisco," the first anti-slavery novel in the..... More

München: Hugo Schmidt, (1919). 66 pp. Illus. with 61 b/w plates. Folio. Full dark brown morocco, four raised bands, compartments paneled and decorated in gilt, gilt titles, front board decoratively paneled in blind and gilt, rear board decoratively paneled in blind, top edge gilt. First edition. Umdichtung von Curt Moreck..... More

Montevideo: Tipografía de la Escuela de Artes y Oficios, 1884. 60 pp. 16mo. Blind stamped maroon cloth. First edition. Thirteen essays by various writers at the School of Arts and Crafts for the birthday of Máximo Benito Santos Barbosa (1847-1889), President of Uruguay from 1882 until 1886 in an administration..... More

Guatemala: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 1982. 27 pp. Sm. 4to. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. José Milla y Vidaurre (1822-1882) was one of the leading Guatemalan writers in the 19th century. Near fine with "Cortesia de Biblioteca Cesar Brañas" stamp on title. More

Berlin [and] Paris: G. Reimer [and] J. Correard, 1840 [and] 1847. 75 pp.; 68 pp. Illus. with 16 b/w drawings on 2 folding plates. 8vo. Three quarter calf over marbled boards, red morocco label, all edges marbled. First edition and first French edition. Wittich's original work on fortification and defense..... More