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Pioneering description & maps of the Americas, printed by Elzevier

LAET, Johannes de. Nieuwe wereldt ofte beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, wt veelderhande schriften ende aen-teeckeninghen van verscheyden natien by een versamelt.
Leiden, Isaac Elzevier, 1625. Folio. With large woodcut printers mark on title page, 10 double-page engraved maps (plate size 28.5 x 36 cm), woodcut decorative initial letters from two series, and a wide variety of printing types. Early 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine. [24], 510, [16] pp. Full description

€ 48,000

Brazil Canada & Greenland Mexico Middle America North America South America WIC West Indies

Catholic doctrine in 920 mnemonic poems, printed in Mexico

LOZANO, Francisco Xavier. Verdades eternas, confirmadas con la Sagrada Escritura, y expuestas en decimas castellanas para conservarlas facilmente en la memoria.
Mexico, Heirs of Joseph de Jauregui, 1794. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a full-page engraving of San Ignacio de Loyola by Aguera and several woodcut borders and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. XIV, 168; 172, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Education & Pedagogy Jesuits Latin America Literature Mexico Religion (18th Century)

Treaty between The Netherlands and the United States of Mexico

[MEXICO]. Traktaat van vriendschap, scheepvaart en handel, tusschen de Nederlanden, en de Vereenigde Staten van Mexico. | Traité d'amitié, de navigation et de commerce, conclu entre le Roi des Pays-Bas, et les États-Unis du Mexique.
[Brussels], November 1828. 8vo. Sewn. 27, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 500

Economic History & Trade Latin America Law & Politics Mexico Middle America

One of the foundational texts for the 1824 Mexican Constitution

[MEXICO - José María BOCANEGRA]. Discurso del diputado Bocanegra. Pronunciado el 10 de enero de 1823, y reproducido por escrito el 6 de febrero del mismo año en sesiones publicas, sobre el proyecto de reglamento politico de gobierno para el imperio Mexicano, presentado a la junta nacional instituyente por su comision especial.
Mexico City, Imprenta del Suprema Gobierno, 1823. 4to. Stitched through 3 holes. 10, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,250

Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Latin America Law & Politics Mexico Middle America

On British herbs and the American aloe

MUNTING, Abraham. De vera antiquorum herba Britannica, eiusdemque efficacia contra stomacaccen, seu scelotyrben, Frisiis & Batavis de scheurbuyck. Dissertatio historico-medica.
Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1681.
With: (2) MUNTING, Abraham. Aloidarium, sive Aloës Mucronato Folio Americanae Majoris, Aliarumque ejusdem specie historia. In qua Floridi illius temporis, loci, naturae, culturae, nec non qualitatum ratio paucis enarratur.[Amsterdam], [Hieronymous Sweerts], 1680. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a finely engraved allegorical frontispiece, a full-page engraved portrait of Hendrik Casimier of Nassau, and 24 finely engraved plates with flowering plants in the Herba, and 8 finely engraved plates with various aloës in the Aloidarium. Further with several woodcut decorated initials and tailpieces. Modern half green morocco, marbled paper sides, red morocco spine label lettered in gold, with gold decorations in 5 compartments. [28], 231, [1 blank]; 33, [19] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Caribbean Islands Herbals & Medical Botany Latin America Mexico Middle America North America UK - United Kingdom

Mexico's industry and commerce, dedication copy by the author

ROUTIER, Gaston. Le Mexique[.] Limites géographiques. Orographie. Hydrographie. L' agriculture, la flore, la faune et les mines. L' industrie et le commerce.
Paris, H. Le Soudier, 1891. 8vo. With a lithographed folding map of Mexico (34.5 x 46 cm). Contemporary half red morocco, gold-tooled spine. XVII, 110 pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Agriculture Earth Sciences Economic History & Trade Faunas & General Zoology Floras & General Botany Horticulture Latin America Mexico Middle America Technology Tobacco

Extremely rare complete series of maps, plans and illustrations
of the most extensive Dutch historical, geographical and anthropological description of the world

SALMON, Thomas, Matthias van GOGH, Jan WAGENAAR and others. Hedendaagsche historie of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren.
Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion and his widow, and other places and publishers, 1729-1803. 44 volumes. 8vo. With 35 (of 36) engraved allegorical title pages as published in the 44 volumes and the complete set of 386 engraved maps, plans, views, portraits, tables and other illustrations. Vols. 1-33: contemporary sprinkled calf; vols. 34-37: half calf; vols. 38-41: half calf; vol. 42: contemporary half sprinkled calf; vol. 43: contemporary half calf; vol. 44: contemporary blind-tooled sprinkled calf. All volumes with a a black title label. Full description

€ 22,500

Amsterdam Anthropology & Ethnography Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Balkan & Greece Belgium Brazil Canada & Greenland Caribbean Islands Central Africa Central Asia Central Europe Chile China City Plans, Topography & Views East Africa Eastern Europe Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus France Germany Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Iran / Persia Italy Japan & Far East Latin America Mediterranean Regions Mexico Middle America Netherlands North Africa North America Philippines Poland & Baltic Scandinavia & Arctic South America Southeast Asia Southern Africa Spain Surinam Switzerland Turkey & Ottoman Empire UK - United Kingdom USA - United States of America West Indies

The Mexican devil's claw drawn by a Dutch master naturalist painter

[SCHOUMAN, Aert]. [Proboscidea louisianica].
[Netherlands, 2nd half of the 18th-century]. Watercolour on laid paper (40.5 x 27 cm) of a flowering Proboscidea louisianica, with fruit and a horned seedpod on the ground. In passepartout (55 x 40 cm). Full description

€ 12,500

Drawings & Watercolours Flowering Plants Latin America Mexico Middle America North America

A famous history of the conquest of Mexico

SOLÍS Y RIBADENEYRA, Antonio de. Histoire de la conqueste du Mexique, ou de la Nouvelle Espagne par Fernand Cortez.
Paris, Compagnie des Libraires, 1730. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 14 engraved maps, views and plates (12 folding). Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. [32], 606, [26]; [12], 560, [22] pp. Full description

€ 950

Latin America Mexico Middle America Military History (18th Century) North America

Scarce broadside praising the Virgin of Guadalupe for delivering independence to the Mexican people in 1821

[SONNET - MEXICO]. [drop title:] Soneto. ¿Quién sino tú, dulcísima Maria ... ?
[Mexico, ca. 1821]. Ca. 21.5 x 15.5 cm. The text is set within a decorative woodcut border, together with a woodcut illustration of the Virgin of Guadalupe. [1] leaf. Full description

€ 1,800

Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Latin America Literature Mexico Middle America Religion (19th Century)

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