Search Results: Mexico from William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA

One of 1000 copies of the first edition. Coated paper wraps with images and text. No previous owners' names or other markings. Light wear to wraps. (see image). 6 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail.

Map depicting the Gulf of Mexico with Florida, Louisiana, Mexico, the West Indies and central and northern South America. Outlined modestly in original color. This edition of the map is without the Plans de la Marine stamp and number.
36.5 x 24.75 in

Full recent calf, gilt particulars to spine, five raised bands. Deckle edges, frontispiece portrait of General Porfirio Diaz, President des Etats-Unis du Mexique; 456 pp. Ten (10) engravings including frontispiece. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

Limp vellum. Black dyed spine with title. Initial title page printed in red and black with typographic border. Three individually paginated works in one. A report on the celebrations in Mexico over the coronation of Ferdinand VI, including occasional poems in honor of the event. Spanish text. No previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce (last auctioned in 1986).
6 x 8 in

Sabin 23424. Page 268 purposely adhered to paste down; pp.265/6 with loss to corner & stain to side. Lacks frontis.; 12 mo; 268 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. 10 x 14.4 cm

Publisher's original wrappers, darkened spine.; 8vo; 744 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

Limited to 3,000 copies. Inscribed by the author in Spanish to the half-title page dated 1992 addressed to Ignacio B. Ortiz-Bello, of which Bello's stamp is also on the front endpaper. Vol. I only. Spanish text. Black cloth with gilt title to spine and pictorial pastedown to front cover, along with a silk ribbon. [LXXVI] pages of Mexican stamp examples in color to rear. A scarce tight clean copy.
6 x 8 in

#356 of 2000 copies. Small tear to head of DJ spine. Inked inscription opposite dedication page reads "Para el dilecto amigo Ag [sic] Clemente" dated 2/13/83. A very nice, clean copy.; ix;629;[1] pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

Includes letters and inscription from the author a Venezuelan scholar. Deckle edges.Serie Historia 6. 519. 7 x 9.25 in. xxxviii, 348pp.

Quarter black morocco over marbled boards, boards bent with losses to paper cover, gilt particulars to spine, previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, name stamp to title page, [4], 297, [37(index)], [1(errata)] pp., Spanish text. Very scarce second printing of "Reglamento para el Gobierno de la Provincia de Californias", under which states the laws by which Upper California was governed, until they were superseded by American law in 1850; this second printing of the "Reglamento" occupies pages 121 to 175 and was apparently unknown to Californiana bibliographers. Except for the unprocurable original edition, this was the only form in which the laws were available during their effective period. Wagner cites only the editions of 1784 and 1874; to these Cowan and Zamorano add the Grabhorn reprint. Contains Bennett & Marshall's May 1954 "Californiana" catalogue clipping discussing the rarity of the book, along with a 1946 clipping giving a brief summary of the book. A small Thomas Winthrop Streeter… Read More

Two volumes in one. Full green morocco. Top edge gilt and others gauffered. Gilt particular to spine. Marbled end papers. Nicely bound copy without previous owners' names or markings. 201 pp

Quarter cloth over worn brown paper covered boards. Gilt title to spine. Moderate foxing. Wear to edges. Sabin 16964 (q.v.): "First appearance of the three collected dispatches in English, being a translation from Lorenzana, including a portion of his notes." Bartleby's 1997. xii, 431 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .