Mexico City: Doña Maria Fernandez de Jauregui. 1809.
The Triumphant Mamluks and the Vanquished Paparos is a most peculiar and fabulous anti-Napoleonic satire in the form of an allegorical short story, told from the point of view of a Spanish patriot who encounters a strange scene along his journey on.....
Paris: Brunot-Labbe, 1809.
A very good, uncut and partially unopened copy of C. F. Bertrand’s vade mecum and analytical study of perfume and cosmetics, modeled after earlier manuals. According to perfume historian Edwin T. Morris, “The year 1809 saw the publication of Le Parfumeur Impérial by C. F. Bertrand. There.....
![Gaikoku shashin kagami no zu. [Foreigners employing a camera.]. Mathew BRADY, Yoshikazu UTAGAWA](/pictures/thumb/85.png?v=1613478686)
Edo: 1860.
[BRADY, Mathew, 1822-1896]; Yoshikazu UTAGAWA fl. 1850-1870. Gaikoku shashin kagami no zu. [Foreigners employing a camera.] Ukiyo-e woodblock print produced by the nishiki-e process. [Edo], 11th month: 1860.
A remarkable artefact in the history of photography: an ukiyo-e print featuring Mathew Brady at his camera, produced in November.....
Paris: Claude-François Laurens, 1801.
The great French Enlightenment astronomer Jérôme Lalande must have been busy working on his two most important works—the Histoire Céleste Française, his momumental star chart, and the Bibliographie astronomique—when this little almanac was published around 1801. Lalande's Almanac des physiciens is compelling as representive of a......
![改正增補蠻語箋 [Kaisei zōho Bangosen] [Revised and Supplemented Barbarian-Language...](/pictures/thumb/80.png?v=1612859859)
Edo: Kenjuku kankō, 1848.
A most compelling and complete Dutch-Japanese dictionary and phrasebook, published in Japan in the transitional year between the Kōka and Kaei eras in the years before the Meiji restoration and the end of Japan's isolationist policies. The two-volume dictionary would have been of great value to.....
Puebla and Mexico City: Various, 1831, 1856.
A collection of six uncommon Mexican devotional sheets dedicated to Mary, Virgin of Guadaloupe, all printed in 1831 in Puebla or Mexico City on the occasion of the tricentennial of the series of five Marian apparitions recorded in 1531, plus one additional broadside.....
Mexico City: ZÚÑIGA y ONTIVEROS, Mariano José de, 1804-1820.
ZÚÑIGA y ONTIVEROS, Mariano José de [1749-1825; fl. 1790/5-1825]. CALENDARIO DISPUESTO POR DON MARIANO JOSEPH DE ZUÑIGA Y ONTIVEROS AGRIMENSOR POR S. M. (Q. D. G.) PARA EL AÑO DEL SEÑOR DE 1805 [~1806, 1808, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1814, 1815.....