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1836réf. 52758Mexico City: Palacio del Gobierno Nacional 1836. Fine. Official printed government notice of Mexico's continuing efforts to maintain control over Texas immediately after the loss at San Jacinto - here working with privateers to harass Texans at sea. When Mexico finally won its independence from Spain in 1821 its territory included modern-day Texas settled by a mix of Tejano Mexican and Texian Anglo-American populations in addition to indigenous tribes and enslaved African Americans. Tensions between the Tejano and Texian factions increased and finally erupted into full-scale violence in 1835 beginning what is now called the Texas Revolution. Its most famous battle at the Alamo occurred a few months before this broadside was issued. The decisive battle of the war San Jacinto occurred on 21 April a Mexican defeat that led to the formation of the Republic of Texas. While the Mexican general Santa Anna negotiated a surrender the Mexican government deposed him for it and refused to recognize an independent Texas. After San Jacinto Mexico avoided pitched battles but continued to take action to undermine and antagonize the new Texas nation. This broadside was one such effort issued just over a week after the defeat at San Jacinto. It announces the formal employment in the navy of private ships to aid in attacking Texans at sea and forming a blockade "para terminar la guerra con los colonos de Tejas é impedir el contrabando en los puertos y costas de la República". Privateers were necessary because the Mexican government did not yet have a robust navy a weakness that the United States would later exploit in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. Ephemeral broadsides like this survive in few numbers; many of this era during José Justo Corro's interim presidency show only two or three institutional holdings via OCLC. This particular imprint shows three institutional holdings in the US Baylor Texas A&M and Brigham Young. A rare piece of Texana. 12'' x 8.25''. Single letterpress broadside printed recto only. A bit of faint wrinkling. Crisp and bright. Palacio del Gobierno Nacional unknown books
1883réf. 4665New York: Imprenta y Libreria de N. Ponce de Leon 1883. Very good. vii53pp. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards spine gilt. Inscribed by the author on verso of title page. Manuscript pencil numbering to top corner of each page. Minor foxing. One of the most important and intriguing 19th century Cuban-American imprints featuring two Socialist 'morality tales' that while lauding the quest for social and economic equally also decry the risks posed by human nature and totalitarianism upon the practical application of Marxism. It was written by the prominent Cuban émigré Rafael de Castro Palomino and features a famous prologue by his close friend and colleague José Martí. From the 1870s to 1890s New York City was the heart of the Cuban community in exile. During the Ten Years' War 1868-1878 a wave of Cuban dissidents many being highly educated and with financial resources arrived in New York forming a vibrant and politically active community. There they had almost unfettered freedom to publish raise money and buy arms to support the struggle in the homeland especially since the U.S. Government hoped to exploit instability in Cuba for its own imperialistic advantage. From 1881 until 1895 José Martí 1853-1895 the brilliant author philosopher poet and journalist who was the 'Apostle of Cuban Independence' often made New York his home. Upon Martí's arrival in New York in 1881 he was greatly assisted by Rafael de Castro Palomino a long-established Cuban resident of the city. Palomino was a prominent Socialist writer and journalist being the author of numerous articles and short books. Even though his name comes up frequently much of Palomino's biography remains hazy. We do know that he was considerably older than Martí hailed form an affluent Havana family and had been educated in France. Like Martí he was deeply concerned about the potential excesses and pitfalls of Marxism as applied on the real world. Notably Martí and Palomino were close friends of Néstor Ponce de León y de la Guardia 1837-1899. An exiled Cuban lawyer and bibliophile he founded the Imprenta y Librería de N. Ponce de León in the early 1870s a Spanish-language printing house and bookstore that became the intellectual center of the New York Cuban émigré community. As an interesting side note he possessed the largest Spanish language private library in New York featuring more than 1700 titles which he made openly available to his colleagues such as Martí and Palomino. The work is relatively rare and particularly so in commerce. We locate four copies in OCLC at the University of Florida's Cuban collection Harvard Yale and the University of Chicago. An important work from the Cuban exile community. Imprenta y Libreria de N. Ponce de Leon unknown books
1674réf. 23439Rome: Jo. Jacobus de Rubeis Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi 1674. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Oblong folio. 13 by 18 inches. Engraved title/dedication to and with portrait of Queen Christina followed by an engraved depiction of Raphael who died in 1520. These are followed by 52 etchings which reproduce Raphael's paintings and which were executed by Cesare Fantetti or Pietro Aquila. Page edges are toned with age but the etchings are in fine condition. The title'dedication has a small right margin restoration else it is in near fine condition. Bound to style in quarter morocco gilt spine title printed paper boards. Overall a verygood to near fine examplar. Text in Latin. . Jo. Jacobus de Rubeis (Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi) hardcover books
2002réf. 47106London: Phaidon 2002. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. The first comprehensive monograph on Soriano's architectural work illustrated with the photographs of Soriano's friend and associate Julius Schulman. 8.25'' x 8.25''. Original pale green boards. In original black and white dust jacket. 224 pages. Trace shelfwear. Else bright and sharp. (Phaidon) unknown books
1670réf. 18794Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi 1670. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong folio of engravings. The first work has 43 numbered plates beginning with a dedication: "Eminentissimo ac reuerendissimo Principi Camillo Maximo S.R.E. Cardinali amplissimo." The 43 plates were engraved by Pietro Santo Bartoli and are complete. Bound with: "D. Nicolao Simonello picturae omiumque bonarum artium cultori eximio." 15 engraved plates complete. Bound with: "Serenissimo Principi Medices Leonis X admirandae virtutis imagines ab Hetruriae legatione ad Pontificatum a Raphaeli Urbinata ad vivum et ad miraculum expressas in Aulaeis Vaticanis." 15 engraved plates complete. The dedicatee of the first work Carlo Cardinal Massimo was created a cardinal in 1670; he died in 1677. This helps date the present work. The engravings are printed on one side only of each leaf. The leaves are bound along the left side in a contemporary or near contemporary binding of quarter leather gilt spine rules decorated paper boards. Edges corners and hinges are scuffed and worn small spine repair else this is very good with the engravings in fine condition. The engravings of each work are complete and rare thus. Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi hardcover books
1894réf. 227381894. Mexico Anthropology Delorme Salto Rafael. Los aborígenes de América: disquisiciones acerca del asiento origen historia y adelanto en la esfera científica de las sociedades precolombinas. Madrid: Librería de Fernando Fé / Habana: La Propaganda Literaria 1894. First edition. With a prologue by General D. Vicente Riva-Palacio y Guerrero Mexican Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain. 8vo. Finely bound in later full red morocco with gilt rules and spine lettering marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Text in Spanish. A scarce anthropological treatise exploring pre-Columbian civilization through the lens of 19th-century scientific humanism authored by Spanish scholar Rafael Delorme Salto. Los aborígenes de América situates Indigenous American societies within a framework of comparative anthropology and early evolutionary theory attempting to reconcile European Enlightenment models of progress with Mesoamerican and Andean achievements in astronomy architecture and mathematics. Delorme writes admiringly of the "inteligencia" and "fuerza reflexiva" of early American peoples treating the Americas not as derivative cultures but as civilizations of independent scientific advancement. The work's prologue by Vicente Riva-Palacio a liberal general novelist and diplomat associated with Mexican nation-building intellectuals frames the book within transatlantic dialogue on indigeneity and modernity offering rare evidence of late 19th-century Spanish and Mexican collaboration in re-evaluating the legacies of conquest and colonial knowledge. Mild toning to some pages a 2" loss to the introduction page and mild foxing to margins else clean and tightly bound. Overall very good condition. A rare volume highlighting the intersection of Iberian anthropology and Mexican nationalism in the intellectual reappraisal of Indigenous America at the close of the 19th century. unknown books
1971réf. 592129Ithaca New York: Cornell University Center for International Studies Peace Studies Program 1971. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Chapter paginated individually. Illustrated with one map. Light wear and soil spine a bit sunned very good or better. An expanded version was published by Beacon Press in 1972. Cornell University Center for International Studies, Peace Studies Program unknown books
1587réf. 68909London: H. Denham 1587. Full description: HOLINSHED Raphael. The First and second volumes of Chronicles comprising 1 The Description of England 2 The Description and Historie of Ireland 3 The Description and Historie of Scotland: First collected and published by Raphael Holinshed William Harrison and others: now newlie augmented and continued with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie to the year 1586 by John Hooker alias Vowell Gent and others. London: at the expenses of John Harrison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke 1587. Together with: HOLINSHED Raphael. The Third volume of Chronicles beginning at duke William the Norman commonlie called the Conqueror; and descending by degrees of yeares to all the kings and queenes of England in their orderlie successions. London: at the expenses of John Harrison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke 1587. Second edition of the true Shakespeare edition. Three volumes bound in four. Four folios 13 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches; 353 x 232 mm. viii 250 iv 202 27 table 1 blank; 8 9-61 1 blank; 121 183 1 blank 10 table; 431 437-438 431-432 438-464 16 table; viii 132 135-798; 799-1080 1080-1189 1191-1192 1192-1371 1371-1592 58 table. Seven title pages within engraved woodcut borders McKerrow and Ferguson 147a148 122 and 138 numerous ornamental intials head- and tailpieces. Black letter double column. Index to Vols I and II divided and bound at end of each section. The History of Scotland is bound after the two parts of the History of Ireland in Volume II as in Lowndes. Complete but with many of the usual excised leaves apparently supplied from 18th-century printings as is commonly found and mostly in the third volume. Full 18th-century tan calf. Boards ruled and stamped in gilt. Spines ruled and lettered in gilt. Board edges ruled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Green silk page-markers. Some rubbing and repairs along outer joints. Title-page for History of Ireland with a small marginal tear not affecting engraving. Vol III part I: Title-page is trimmed and mounted. There is some staining to inner margin. Volume III part II with the penultimate leaf with repairs and the final leaf being cut down and mounted to verso. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Still overall a very good clean copy. Holinshed's Chronicles was the source for many of Shakespeare's plays including Richard II Richard III the Henry Plays Macbeth and Cymbeline. The first edition of the Chronicles was originally thought to be Shakespeare's source but the work of Boswell-Stone and Anders established this second edition as the true Shakespeare edition. The Chronicles were always politically sensitive. This 'newlie augmented' edition contained several passages which were brought to the attention of Queen Elizabeth I. These were mainly concerned with Anglo-Scottish affairs Mary Queen of Scots the Babington conspiracy and Leicester's campaign in the Low Countries. Elizabeth ordered the Archbishop of Canterbury to recall the book which resulted in the numerous cancels to be found in volumes II and III. "In 1587 a second edition of Holinshed's Chronicles appeared. It was a substantial undertaking. The colophon to this text indicates that it was printed cum privilegio that is under a royal privilege by Henry Denham at the sign of The Star in Aldersgate at the expense of John Harrison George Bishop Ralph Newbury and Thomas Woodcocke. Holinshed's Chronicles of 1587 were castrated and reformed in three stages. The hands of Randolph Killigrew and Hammond clearly dictated the earliest stage of censorship evident in the earliest revised state of the text. Their work removed passages in the continuation of the Scottish history that might jeopardize Anglo-Scottish relations especially those concerned with English intervention in Scottish factional politics. In the continuation of the 'History of England' their reforms enhanced the stature of Leicester distanced England from the duc d'Alençon who had recently offended the Dutch and polished accounts of English legal practice to insist that trials and executions in England were administered fairly and according to due process of law. The censors apparently acted with the speed required by the privy council's order since the first stage of the censorship was probably completed during the first week of February. This can be detected in one cancel in the 'History of Scotland' containing revised text that refers to the 'now imprisoned queene of Scotland' p. 443 sig. A6-7. Since the page with this reference was reset the initial review and reformation including the resetting of the cancel leaves must have taken place within a week of the initial order for censorship and before Mary's execution on 8 February 1587. Then once the text had been reformed to meet Killigrew's Randolph's and Hammond's requirements it was fine-tuned probably by Whitgift since at this stage censorship eliminated much of a long history of the archbishops of Canterbury. All the castrations and cancels appear in the sections of the 1587 Chronicles that extended Holinshed's earlier histories of Scotland and England. Besides the few extant copies of the Chronicles that escaped castration and reformation some copies exist that contain variant cancels together with more original leaves than the state of the text described in the STC. Without a census of extant copies of Holinshed's 1587 Chronicles it is unclear how many copies reflect each successive state of the text. Since the sale was stayed and the subsequent reformations made within a month of the book's completion and initial publication copies with a fully uncensored text appear to be very rare. And although a particular copy may predominantly reflect a given state of the text of 1587 two circumstances may produce yet more variation. It is possible that in any one copy where leaves should have been castrated and replaced with cancels the site none the less may have been overlooked and the castration not made. Thus original leaves in one site or more may coexist in a copy with cancels elsewhere. Conversely a castration may have been made but the cancel not added. As a further complication besides the variations that may have been produced in the sixteenth-century printing house some copies of the Chronicles result from changes produced by antiquarian interests in the eighteenth century. Between 1723 and 1728 three facsimile reprints of the castrated leaves were sold with the clear intention that they should be sophisticated into existing copies of the Chronicles to replace cancels and missing leaves. Consequently many copies of the 1587 edition have eighteenth-century leaves sophisticated at one or more of the castration sites." Oxford DNB. Lowndes p1086; Pforzheimer 1577 9 first edition; STC 13569. HBS 68909. $27500. H. Denham unknown books
1919réf. 553065München: Delphin-Verlag 1919. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. 127pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Text is in German. Decorated papercovered boards with a clothcovered spine with gilt. Very good with the pages age toned the front hinge starting and sunning to the spine lacking the dust jacket. With publisher's bookmark laid in. Delphin-Verlag hardcover books
1960réf. 541938San Francisco: Galley Sail Publications 1960. Softcover. Very Good. Periodical. Small octavo. 35pp. Very good or better with toning to the edges and some creasing to the spine. Contributors include Charles Bukowski Diane Wakoski John Barkely Hart Zack Walsh and Charles Angoff among many others. Galley Sail Publications unknown books
1981réf. 538718Santo Domingo Dominican Republic: Luna Cabeza Caliente 1981. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Cover by Felix Berroa. Narrow octavo. 66pp. Text in Spanish. Illustrated with a portrait of the author. Modest wear and toning spine base gently bumped throughout very good. Briefly Inscribed to Cuban author Edmundo Desnoes on the front blank. Luna Cabeza Caliente unknown books
réf. 468730New York no date. Hardcover. Good. Portfolio 11 ½" x 14 ½". Contains thirteen loose plates: one mounted letterpress plate: "Key to Raphael's Hours" and 12 mounted sepia toned reproductive photographs of the famous set of 12 allegorical engravings circa 1803-06 after Raphael's Six Hours of the Day and Six Hours of the Night. The portfolio is bound in contemporary red cloth over beveled boards title lettered in gold on spine interior silk moire endpapers and flaps. Wear and dust soiling to the edges of the boards a few small tears and fraying to the flaps the letterpress plate is moderately toned good overall with all 12 photographic plates in very good condition. As noted by printmaker James Brust: "The twelve images represent the first six phases of the day and night respectively. Each has an allegorical figure of a beautiful woman draped in a gown and holding an object or animal floating gracefully across a dark background. A narrow strip along the bottom of each plate shows various animals with symbolic meaning also against a dark background." An attractive scarce set of 12 sepia toned photographs 5 ¾" x 8 ¾" mounted on thick cardboard plates 11" x 14". OCLC records three copies of only one similar portfolio published in New York by "Stroefer & Kirchner 1870s.". hardcover books
1945réf. 467895New York: American Artists Group 1945. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 16mo. Cloth and illustrated papercovered boards. Small dampstain on endpapers good only with ownership stamp and signature of noted American psychologist and anthropologist Henry Guze a founder of the American Academy of Psychotherapists the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and co-founder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex on the title page. American Artists Group hardcover books
1997réf. 459297Northvale New Jersey: Jason Aronson 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 158pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Jason Aronson hardcover books
1952réf. 461737New York: The Citadel Press 1952. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Ownership stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly else fine in about fine dustwrapper. The Citadel Press hardcover books
réf. 421277Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada 1944. Softcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. Wrappers. Cheap paper is toned else near fine in near fine dustwrapper.Fine in near fine dustwrapper with spine lightly faded and short tears along the edges. Editorial Losada unknown books
1979réf. 415299Austin TX: University of Texas Press 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint of the 1881 edition with additions. Octavo. 203pp. Addenda edited by John M. Carroll. Foreword by Robert M. Utley. Four large folding charts in rear pocket. Original blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. Page edges lightly foxed near fine. In a single documented reference volume Thian traced the confusing mutations through which the divisions departments and districts that defined the Army's command structure had evolved since 1813. University of Texas Press hardcover books
1969réf. 403039New York: Vintage Books 1969. Softcover. Near Fine. First Vintage Books edition. Printed wrappers. Near fine with rubbing. Vintage Books unknown books
1969réf. 403050New York: Random house 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a near fine distwrapper with rubbing. Random house hardcover books
1969réf. 386931New York: October House 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. The author's first book of poems. October House hardcover books
1780réf. 374868Roma: Volpato et Morghen Sculp. et Vend 1780. Unbound. Good. Copperplate engraving. Measures approximately 12.5" x 11.25" to the plate mark. Engraved by the famous Italian printmakers Raphael Morghen and Giovanni Volpato after a painting by Pier Francesco Mola. This scene of an infant satyr raising a glass of wine filled to the brim illustrates a passage in the 6th elegy of Tibullus Book 3. Morghen a child prodigy and student of Volpato established himself as one of Europe's most famous engravers by the age of twenty. Old dampstain on the upper left corner that pervades only about an inch into the image a few small tears to the edges else good or better. Halsey 19. Volpato et Morghen Sculp. et Vend unknown books
1960réf. 374333Barcelona: Editorial Noguer 1960. Softcover. Very Good. Fourth edition. Wrappers. Illustrated. Spine toning slight creasing and edgewear else very good. Editorial Noguer unknown books
1960réf. 322947San Francisco: Galley Sail Publications 1960. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. 40pp. Very good or better in toned stiff wrappers slightly rubbed with some wear along the spine and a few scattered spots. Signed or Initialed by William Carlos Williams Cid Corman Philip Lamantia Max Finstein as well as several other poets we could not definitively identify. It's additionally signed by Betty Boop John Paul Jones and Napoleon though we have reason to believe these are not genuine given that one is a cartoon character and the other two had been dead for more than 100 years at the time of this issue's publication. These were done fictitiously by one of the contributors. Nevertheless an interesting and possible unique copy of this poetry magazine. Galley Sail Publications unknown books
1989réf. 292369Upperville Virginia: Oak Spring Garden Library 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dustwrapper. Oak Spring Garden Library hardcover books
1990réf. 91969El Paso Texas: Vergin Press 1990. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Cover art by Randy Moore. Spine a bit sunned otherwise a fine copy in pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by Locklin. OCLC locates eight copies. Vergin Press unknown books
