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Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Flos Sanctorum (The Flower of the Saints) is a 15th-century book by the Spanish writer Hernando de Villena. The term "flos sanctorum" is Latin for "flower of the saints" and refers to a collection of biographie... More

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Flos Sanctorum (The Flower of the Saints) is a 15th-century book by the Spanish writer Hernando de Villena. The term "flos sanctorum" is Latin for "flower of the saints" and refers to a collection of biographie... More

La política antillana en la metrópoli española

La política antillana en la metrópoli española

Picryl description: Public domain historic political document page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Ecos de la batalla. Artículos periodísticos.  1. ser.

Ecos de la batalla. Artículos periodísticos. 1. ser.

Salvador Brau was a historian, novelist, journalist, and essayist born in the western Puerto Rican town of Cabo Rojo in 1842. This book is a compilation of journalism articles written between 1880 and 1894. T... More

Novisimo arte de cocina - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Novisimo arte de cocina - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congres...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. #ACQ 08-12; vendor, Franklin Gilliam, Rare Books

Historia geográfica, civil y natural de la isla de San Juan Bautista de Puerto-Rico,

Historia geográfica, civil y natural de la isla de San Juan Bautista d...

Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra (1745-1813) was a Spanish-born Catholic priest who became secretary to the bishop of Puerto Rico in 1773 and remained on the island for ten years. Abbad's Historia, originally published ... More

Vida admirable, y penitente de la v. m. sor Sebastiana Josepha de la SS. Trinidad ...

Vida admirable, y penitente de la v. m. sor Sebastiana Josepha de la S...

"Vida admirable, y penitente de la v. m. sor Sebastiana Josepha de la SS. Trinidad" (Admirable and penitent life of the very blessed sister Sebastiana Josefa de la Santísima Trinidad) is a biographical work tha... More

Plano topografico que comprende una parte del Montegrande, el Rio Yacuy, los establecimentos y misiones del Uruguay, los yervales que actualmento poseen los indios guaranias y el curso del mismo Uruguay desde la boca del verdadero Pepiri o Peguiri hasta el paso que llaman de Concepcion /

Plano topografico que comprende una parte del Montegrande, el Rio Yacu...

Shows Uruguay River. Relief shown by shading. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. In upper margin: No. 5o. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

Mapa de parte de los virreynatos de Buenos Aires, Lima, Sta. Fe y capitania gral. de Caracas en la America meridional con las colonias portuguesas limitrofes para acompañar al proyecto y reflexiones sobre la mejor demarcacion de limites entre los dominios de ambas coronas dispuesto y construido /

Mapa de parte de los virreynatos de Buenos Aires, Lima, Sta. Fe y capi...

Shows northwestern South America. "Madrid lo. de marzo de 1796." Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Annotated in pencil on verso: N. 18. Available also through the L... More

Mapa topográfico de la isla de Puerto Rico.

Mapa topográfico de la isla de Puerto Rico.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Muestras para bordados, no. 1 - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

Muestras para bordados, no. 1 - Public domain graphic arts, Library of...

Illustrated cover for a set of embroidery patterns, shows a woman sitting down at a frame, embroidering. De venta en la Tip. de la Test. de A.V. Arroyo. 2a de Santa Teresa 40. México. Gift; Joyce Bailey; 1979; ... More

Emblemas de la libertad y de la humanidad La Cruz Roja, Madre de todas las naciones.

Emblemas de la libertad y de la humanidad La Cruz Roja, Madre de todas...

Poster showing two Red Cross nurses, one, a Madonna figure, cradling in her arms a wounded soldier(?) on a litter, between the flags of Panama and the United States.

Emblemas de la libertad y de la humanidad La Cruz Roja, Madre de todas las naciones.

Emblemas de la libertad y de la humanidad La Cruz Roja, Madre de todas...

Poster showing two Red Cross nurses, one, a Madonna figure, cradling in her arms a wounded soldier(?) on a litter, between the flags of Bolivia and the United States.

Filipe Segvndo, Rey de España - Luis Cabrera de Córdoba

Filipe Segvndo, Rey de España - Luis Cabrera de Córdoba

Illustrated t.p., engr. by P. Perret, 1619. Imprint from colophon. Part 1 (1527-1583) of the work; no more published in this ed. Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 37 Palau y Du... More

Filipe Segvndo, Rey de España - Luis Cabrera de Córdoba

Filipe Segvndo, Rey de España - Luis Cabrera de Córdoba

Illustrated t.p., engr. by P. Perret, 1619. Imprint from colophon. Part 1 (1527-1583) of the work; no more published in this ed. Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 37 Palau y Du... More

La norteña; Los sucesos de la huelga; Mi hombre; y Mi noche triste

La norteña; Los sucesos de la huelga; Mi hombre; y Mi noche triste

Sheet consists of four broadsides (número 2 on lower left and número 1 on lower right; número 4 on upper left and número 3 on upper right) of the penny press "Edición especial." Número 2 has a small masthead il... More

Por finjir [sic] espantos diálogo cómico en un acto

Por finjir [sic] espantos diálogo cómico en un acto

Chapbook cover shows a scene from a play: a man sits on the edge of a bed, hunched over, with his hand in a chamber pot. A child, under the bed, pushes the man's bottom with a broom. There are also two brushes ... More

De este famoso hipodromo en la pista, no faltara ni un solo periodista. La muerte inexorable no respeta ni a los que veis aquí en bicicleta

De este famoso hipodromo en la pista, no faltara ni un solo periodista...

Broadside, on the front, shows calaveras bicycling, with identifying labels, "Voz de México," "Patria," "Universal," "Tiempo," "Partido Liberal," "Gil Blas," names of popular newspapers, and "Siglo XIX," and "S... More

Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero

Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero

Broadside shows portrait of military leader Macario Romero on horseback and Indians wearing feathered headdresses in the background. The text tells of the murder of Romero by his girlfriend's father and speaks ... More

Artículos de don Francisco M. Quiñones publicados por primera vez en "El Liberal" de Mayagüez

Artículos de don Francisco M. Quiñones publicados por primera vez en "...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program : Available from Library of Congress Photoduplication Serv... More

Caricature, Chin! Chun! Chan! Las mujeres!, public domain cartoon image

Caricature, Chin! Chun! Chan! Las mujeres!, public domain cartoon imag...

Broadside shows a serenader and as well as a masthead illustration. The text on the front and verso includes five songs: "Chin! Chun! Chan!," "The women," "Indifference," "What will I do without you?" and "I a... More

Doctrina Christiana, en lengua española y tagala ...

Doctrina Christiana, en lengua española y tagala ...

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1302 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Constitucion federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos sancionada por el Congreso general constituyente el 4 de octubre de 1824

Constitucion federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos sancionada por el...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy 1 has appended at end: Acta constitutiva de la Federación mexicana (1 p. l., 12 p.).

Discursos pronunciados por el Excmo. Sr. D. Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, presidente del Consejo de ministros, con motivo de la discusión del mensaje en el Congreso de los Diputados

Discursos pronunciados por el Excmo. Sr. D. Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, pres...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program : Available from Library of Congress Photoduplication Serv... More

Libro del sabio [et] clarissimo fabulador Ysopu hystoriado [et] annotado

Libro del sabio [et] clarissimo fabulador Ysopu hystoriado [et] annota...

Public domain scan of the book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Suspiros de los angeles - Manuel Manilla

Suspiros de los angeles - Manuel Manilla

Broadside shows masthead with musical instruments, sheet music, and books and two cherubs on recto. The text consist of three love songs: "Angels sighing," "The same as yesterday," and "The zenzontle." On the v... More

Legítimos versos de Lino Zamora traidos del Real de Zacatecas

Legítimos versos de Lino Zamora traidos del Real de Zacatecas

Broadside shows a banderillero (person who wounds a bull with decorated spikes during a bullfight) challenging a bull on recto, and spectators at a bullfight on the verso. The verse conveys the death of Lino Za... More

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Nineteenth century transcript, in two parts, of Juan de Tovar's Historia de la benida de los yndios apoblar a Mexico (the Códice Tovar). The work was possibly based on a history of the Aztecs by the Domincan D... More

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Nineteenth century transcript, in two parts, of Juan de Tovar's Historia de la benida de los yndios apoblar a Mexico (the Códice Tovar). The work was possibly based on a history of the Aztecs by the Domincan D... More

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Nineteenth century transcript, in two parts, of Juan de Tovar's Historia de la benida de los yndios apoblar a Mexico (the Códice Tovar). The work was possibly based on a history of the Aztecs by the Domincan D... More

Tratado dela successio[n] delos reynos de Ierusalen y de Napoles y de Cecilia y delas p[ro]uincias de Pulla y Calabria

Tratado dela successio[n] delos reynos de Ierusalen y de Napoles y de ...

Imprint extracted from colophon. According to F.J. Norton, Printing in Spain, 1501-1520 (Cambridge University Press, 1966), p. 70, Coci was at that time the only printer in Zaragoza and all of Aragon. Signature... More

Señora, su conejito ya no le gusta el zacate, solo quiere chocolate. Qué animal tan picudito!

Señora, su conejito ya no le gusta el zacate, solo quiere chocolate. Q...

Broadside shows two women looking at a rabbit on a table. The ballad conveys, by means of metaphor, disdain of the upper class for living a life of luxury, represented by their attire and their diet. There is a... More

Wilson no quiere guerra en México

Wilson no quiere guerra en México

Newspaper page, on recto, shows an image of a demon, a skeleton, and a huge black bird hovering above a woman, Liberty, who is lying down on the ground, covering her eyes with her arm. The text on the recto con... More

Verdadero retrato del Señor del Santuario de Otatitlán

Verdadero retrato del Señor del Santuario de Otatitlán

Broadside shows the crucified Christ flanked by the Virgin and St. John. The text on the verso tells of a miracle bestowed on Ricardo Martinez upon his execution for being a non-Catholic and a brutal bandit. Hi... More

El mosquito americano - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

El mosquito americano - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

Broadside shows Mexicans running from mosquitos recently arrived from the United States. Includes humorous text on front and back relating to infestation throughout Mexico. Unsigned, attributed to Posada. Imp.... More

Hernán Cortés power of attorney, 1526.

Hernán Cortés power of attorney, 1526.

Power of attorney (DS) appointing agents to act in his interest in a residencia hearing ordered by King Charles as an investigation into his administration. Written at Tenustitlan (Tenochtitlan), Mexico. Govern... More

Una corrida de toros o el amor de Luisa

Una corrida de toros o el amor de Luisa

Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: a woman wearing a shawl makes amorous advances towards a bullfighter dressed in full regalia; a bullfighting stadium is in the background. The script concerns a love tria... More

Atlas mexicano. Historic map, Library of Congress

Atlas mexicano. Historic map, Library of Congress

Running title. Issued in sheets. Maps dated 1884 to 1886; no. 28 and [29] are numbered 28. Phillips 2685 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga36 2007-02-08

La rosa encantada, 1a parte. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

La rosa encantada, 1a parte. 19th century, Library of Congress collect...

Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: a man dressed in the costume of the Renaissance holds a rose. He reacts with surprise as he encounters a beast in a garden. The script concerns the travels of a Marquis w... More

El marqués de la Esperanza, jefe del partido español de Puerto-Rico biografía /

El marqués de la Esperanza, jefe del partido español de Puerto-Rico bi...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program : Available from Library of Congress Photoduplication Serv... More

Echo ya la autoridad garra al malvado Ignacio Parra

Echo ya la autoridad garra al malvado Ignacio Parra

Broadside shows a side-view, facing right of outlaw Ignacio Parra on horseback. The verse conveys the story Ignacio Parra who robbed and killed many in the state of Durango. He, along with his gang of bandits, ... More

Historia de la insurrección de Lares, precedida de una reseña de los trabajos separatistas que se vienen haciendo en la isla de Puerto-Rico desde la emancipación de las demás posesiones hispano-ultramarinas, y seguida de todos los documentos á ella referentes;

Historia de la insurrección de Lares, precedida de una reseña de los t...

The Lares Revolt of 1868 sought the abolition of slavery, freedom of the press and commerce, and the independence of Puerto Rico. Six hundred men, led by liberals, drew up a provisional constitution and declare... More

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Flos Sanctorum (The Flower of the Saints) is a 15th-century book by the Spanish writer Hernando de Villena. The term "flos sanctorum" is Latin for "flower of the saints" and refers to a collection of biographie... More

Ecos de la batalla. Artículos periodísticos.  1. ser.

Ecos de la batalla. Artículos periodísticos. 1. ser.

Salvador Brau was a historian, novelist, journalist, and essayist born in the western Puerto Rican town of Cabo Rojo in 1842. This book is a compilation of journalism articles written between 1880 and 1894. T... More

Puerto Rico y su historia investigaciones críticas /

Puerto Rico y su historia investigaciones críticas /

This is the first important critical analysis of Puerto Rican historiography by a leading historian of Puerto Rico. Brau noted the limitations of earlier historical works on Puerto Rico and sought to correct th... More

Puerto Rico y su historia investigaciones críticas /

Puerto Rico y su historia investigaciones críticas /

This is the first important critical analysis of Puerto Rican historiography by a leading historian of Puerto Rico. Brau noted the limitations of earlier historical works on Puerto Rico and sought to correct th... More

Orinoco ilustrado, historia natural, civil, y geographica, de este gran rio, y de ...

Orinoco ilustrado, historia natural, civil, y geographica, de este gra...

Public domain scan of the book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Novisimo arte de cocina - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Novisimo arte de cocina - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congres...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. #ACQ 08-12; vendor, Franklin Gilliam, Rare Books

Plano de Puerto Belo cituado en la costa del N. de Trra. Firme en la latd. N. de 9 gs. 18 ms. y en longd. de 294 gs. 45 ms. segun el merido. de Tenerife.

Plano de Puerto Belo cituado en la costa del N. de Trra. Firme en la l...

Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermark: D. & C. Blauw. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 665 Available also through the Library of Congress We... More

Plano de la Bahía del Guantánamo en la costa del S. de la ysla de Cuba cituado en la latd. N. de 20 gs. y en longd. de 301⁰27ʹ segn. Tene.

Plano de la Bahía del Guantánamo en la costa del S. de la ysla de Cuba...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north to the left. Watermark: J. Honig & Zoonen. Watermark dated from 1737-1787. Pen-and-ink and green and pink water... More

Plano Depuerto [sic] Caballo y Omoa en la costa de Honduras situado en 16 grs. de latd. N. y 287 grs. 35 mtos. de longd. al meridiano de Tenerife /

Plano Depuerto [sic] Caballo y Omoa en la costa de Honduras situado en...

Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 500 Available also through the Library of Co... More

Plano de la Bahía del Guantánamo en la costa del sur de la ysla de Cuba situdao en la latd. de 20 gros. norte y en la longd. de 301 go. y 27 minutos segun el meridiano de Thenerife.

Plano de la Bahía del Guantánamo en la costa del sur de la ysla de Cub...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north to the right. Watermarks: Cross on top of the characters IHS; and, I. Villedary. Pen-and-ink and pencil. Mounte... More

Plano del desembocadero del Río Misipipi en el seno Mexicano con parte del territorio de la Movila, el qual incluien los Franceses en la provincia que han nombrado, la Luisiana.

Plano del desembocadero del Río Misipipi en el seno Mexicano con parte...

Scale ca. 1:1,550,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolors. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis. Mounted on cloth backing. Printed label describing the map mounted on verso. Order number annotated in pencil i... More

Vista del globo areostatico que se hechò la tarde 12 de agosto. de 1792, en el jardin del buen Retiro el qual por la elevacion que tomo se perdio de vista y cayò en Daganzoas leguas de Madrid

Vista del globo areostatico que se hechò la tarde 12 de agosto. de 179...

Print shows Vincenzo Lunardi riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from Buon Retiro gardens, Madrid, August 12, 1792; the first balloon ascension in Spain. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.) Ti... More

Corrido de Reyes Ruiz. Corrido de Martín Herrera

Corrido de Reyes Ruiz. Corrido de Martín Herrera

Broadside shows simple ornamental border dividing the text which, in verse, consists of two ballads. The "Ballad of Reyes Ruiz," by Epigmenio Gonzales, conveys the killing of Ruiz on the eve of a Dieciseis de S... More

Juego de la oca, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Juego de la oca, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Gameboard shows 63 numbered spaces, or "casillas," each illustrated with people, birds, animals, and objects, arranged in a spiral toward the center. The four corners, outside the game, show scenes of children ... More

[Gran calavera eléctrica] - Print, Library of Congress collection

[Gran calavera eléctrica] - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows large skeleton hypnotizing a group of skulls and a sitting skeleton; an electric street car, with skeletons as passengers, is in the background. This image is identical to the image used in the uppe... More

Muestras para bordados, plancha número 32, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Muestras para bordados, plancha número 32, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Print shows embroidery patterns for large elaborate letters with floral motif ("N" through "Z"). Testamentaría de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. Calle de Santa Teresa Número 40. México, D.F. Gift; Joyce Bailey; 1979; ... More

Muestras para bordados, plancha número 30, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Muestras para bordados, plancha número 30, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Print shows embroidery patterns for elaborate letters ("A" through "Z"), monograms, and decorative flowal motifs, including instructions "for marking undergarments." Testamentaría de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. Cal... More

Como un solo hombre / Arias Bernal.

Como un solo hombre / Arias Bernal.

Propaganda poster showing a stylized armed man with legs emerging from North America and South America.

Lamentos que dirige un huérfano ya desvalido al encontrarse en el mundo sin el dulce abrigo de sus queridos padres

Lamentos que dirige un huérfano ya desvalido al encontrarse en el mund...

Broadside shows a boy placing a wreath on a grave. The text, in verse, conveys the misfortunes befalling any orphan, from the lack of love and kindness to being in the street homeless. A poem titled "Maternal l... More

La calavera del editor popular Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

La calavera del editor popular Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Broadside shows the skeleton of publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo dressed in a bowler hat, dark glasses and a suit and sporting a long beard and mustache, standing in his print shop. Small skeletons work at aspe... More

Viva Pascual Orozco valiente luchador y fiel amante de rasgar la careta del tirano

Viva Pascual Orozco valiente luchador y fiel amante de rasgar la caret...

Broadside, on recto, has a full-length photographic image of Pascual Orozco facing forward. He is a soldier with a rifle at his side. The text, in verse, speaks of Orozco as a true patriot. Orozco was central t... More

Viva Pascual Orozco valiente luchador y fiel amante de rasgar la careta del tirano

Viva Pascual Orozco valiente luchador y fiel amante de rasgar la caret...

Broadside, on recto, has a full-length photographic image of Pascual Orozco facing forward. He is a soldier with a rifle at his side. The text, in verse, speaks of Orozco as a true patriot. Orozco was central t... More

Constitucion federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos sancionada por el Congreso general constituyente el 4 de octubre de 1824

Constitucion federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos sancionada por el...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy 1 has appended at end: Acta constitutiva de la Federación mexicana (1 p. l., 12 p.).

Los celos del negro con D. Folias

Los celos del negro con D. Folias

Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: a man with a gun stoops before a black man who is wearing a sombrero and holding a knife. A policeman runs towards both of them. The script concerns the murders of a blac... More

Libro del sabio [et] clarissimo fabulador Ysopu hystoriado [et] annotado

Libro del sabio [et] clarissimo fabulador Ysopu hystoriado [et] annota...

Public domain scan of the book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Nineteenth century transcript, in two parts, of Juan de Tovar's Historia de la benida de los yndios apoblar a Mexico (the Códice Tovar). The work was possibly based on a history of the Aztecs by the Domincan D... More

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Nineteenth century transcript, in two parts, of Juan de Tovar's Historia de la benida de los yndios apoblar a Mexico (the Códice Tovar). The work was possibly based on a history of the Aztecs by the Domincan D... More

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Nineteenth century transcript, in two parts, of Juan de Tovar's Historia de la benida de los yndios apoblar a Mexico (the Códice Tovar). The work was possibly based on a history of the Aztecs by the Domincan D... More

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Nineteenth century transcript, in two parts, of Juan de Tovar's Historia de la benida de los yndios apoblar a Mexico (the Códice Tovar). The work was possibly based on a history of the Aztecs by the Domincan D... More

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Nineteenth century transcript, in two parts, of Juan de Tovar's Historia de la benida de los yndios apoblar a Mexico (the Códice Tovar). The work was possibly based on a history of the Aztecs by the Domincan D... More

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Nineteenth century transcript, in two parts, of Juan de Tovar's Historia de la benida de los yndios apoblar a Mexico (the Códice Tovar). The work was possibly based on a history of the Aztecs by the Domincan D... More

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Historia de Mexico [with] the Tovar calendar, ca. 1830

Nineteenth century transcript, in two parts, of Juan de Tovar's Historia de la benida de los yndios apoblar a Mexico (the Códice Tovar). The work was possibly based on a history of the Aztecs by the Domincan D... More

Tratado dela successio[n] delos reynos de Ierusalen y de Napoles y de Cecilia y delas p[ro]uincias de Pulla y Calabria

Tratado dela successio[n] delos reynos de Ierusalen y de Napoles y de ...

Imprint extracted from colophon. According to F.J. Norton, Printing in Spain, 1501-1520 (Cambridge University Press, 1966), p. 70, Coci was at that time the only printer in Zaragoza and all of Aragon. Signature... More

Caricature, Los chascos de un licenciado, public domain cartoon image

Caricature, Los chascos de un licenciado, public domain cartoon image

Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: a room in which one man is chasing another with a club and a third man is on the floor with arms raised. The script tells of the misunderstandings between a lawyer and hi... More

La disolución colección de artículos publicados en "La Democracia".

La disolución colección de artículos publicados en "La Democracia".

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program : Available from Library of Congress Photoduplication Serv... More

Pleito de la suegra con su yerno. Ya la vieja de mi suegra nomás quiere regañar, deatiro la corta verde no la deja madurar

Pleito de la suegra con su yerno. Ya la vieja de mi suegra nomás quier...

Broadside shows an angry woman hitting a man with a chair. The room is in disarray with objects scattered. A woman peers around a door. The text concerns a dialog between the mother-in-law and a son-in-law. Bot... More

Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero

Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero

Broadside includes portrait of military leader Macario Romero on horseback and Indians wearing feathered headdresses in the background. The text tells of the murder of Romero by his girlfriend's father and spea... More

Historia de la insurrección de Lares, precedida de una reseña de los trabajos separatistas que se vienen haciendo en la isla de Puerto-Rico desde la emancipación de las demás posesiones hispano-ultramarinas, y seguida de todos los documentos á ella referentes;

Historia de la insurrección de Lares, precedida de una reseña de los t...

The Lares Revolt of 1868 sought the abolition of slavery, freedom of the press and commerce, and the independence of Puerto Rico. Six hundred men, led by liberals, drew up a provisional constitution and declare... More

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Flos Sanctorum (The Flower of the Saints) is a 15th-century book by the Spanish writer Hernando de Villena. The term "flos sanctorum" is Latin for "flower of the saints" and refers to a collection of biographie... More

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Flos Sanctorum (The Flower of the Saints) is a 15th-century book by the Spanish writer Hernando de Villena. The term "flos sanctorum" is Latin for "flower of the saints" and refers to a collection of biographie... More

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Flos Sanctorum (The Flower of the Saints) is a 15th-century book by the Spanish writer Hernando de Villena. The term "flos sanctorum" is Latin for "flower of the saints" and refers to a collection of biographie... More

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Flos Sanctorum (The Flower of the Saints) is a 15th-century book by the Spanish writer Hernando de Villena. The term "flos sanctorum" is Latin for "flower of the saints" and refers to a collection of biographie... More

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Flos Sanctorum (The Flower of the Saints) is a 15th-century book by the Spanish writer Hernando de Villena. The term "flos sanctorum" is Latin for "flower of the saints" and refers to a collection of biographie... More

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Flos Sanctorum (The Flower of the Saints) is a 15th-century book by the Spanish writer Hernando de Villena. The term "flos sanctorum" is Latin for "flower of the saints" and refers to a collection of biographie... More

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Castilian Flos Sanctorum., 15th century, Spain

Flos Sanctorum (The Flower of the Saints) is a 15th-century book by the Spanish writer Hernando de Villena. The term "flos sanctorum" is Latin for "flower of the saints" and refers to a collection of biographie... More

Ecos de la batalla. Artículos periodísticos.  1. ser.

Ecos de la batalla. Artículos periodísticos. 1. ser.

Salvador Brau was a historian, novelist, journalist, and essayist born in the western Puerto Rican town of Cabo Rojo in 1842. This book is a compilation of journalism articles written between 1880 and 1894. T... More

Trilce. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Trilce. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Poems. "Prólogo" by Antenor Orrego. "Se acabo de imprimir este libro en días de primavera del año de 1922"--Colophon. Front paper cover has portrait of the author. LC copy has paper covers bound in. Acquired... More

Trilce. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Trilce. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Poems. "Prólogo" by Antenor Orrego. "Se acabo de imprimir este libro en días de primavera del año de 1922"--Colophon. Front paper cover has portrait of the author. LC copy has paper covers bound in. Acquired... More

Novisimo arte de cocina - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Novisimo arte de cocina - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congres...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. #ACQ 08-12; vendor, Franklin Gilliam, Rare Books

Novisimo arte de cocina - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Novisimo arte de cocina - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congres...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. #ACQ 08-12; vendor, Franklin Gilliam, Rare Books

Historia geográfica, civil y natural de la isla de San Juan Bautista de Puerto-Rico,

Historia geográfica, civil y natural de la isla de San Juan Bautista d...

Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra (1745-1813) was a Spanish-born Catholic priest who became secretary to the bishop of Puerto Rico in 1773 and remained on the island for ten years. Abbad's Historia, originally published ... More

Vida admirable, y penitente de la v. m. sor Sebastiana Josepha de la SS. Trinidad ...

Vida admirable, y penitente de la v. m. sor Sebastiana Josepha de la S...

"Vida admirable, y penitente de la v. m. sor Sebastiana Josepha de la SS. Trinidad" (Admirable and penitent life of the very blessed sister Sebastiana Josefa de la Santísima Trinidad) is a biographical work tha... More

[Mapa del Golfo y costa de la Nueva España : desde el Río de Panuco hasta el cabo de Santa Elena ...].

[Mapa del Golfo y costa de la Nueva España : desde el Río de Panuco ha...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows the coast from the vicinity of the Cape Fear River in North Carolina of the United States, location of Indian settlements, and lakes and rivers in the region to the Pánuco River ... More

Philip II letter, 1578 Dec. 2.

Philip II letter, 1578 Dec. 2.

ALS, written in Madrid, to Pedro Moya de Contreras, Archbishop of Mexico. Philip II complains to the Archbishop of Mexico City about his practice of appointing monolingual priests to Indian benefices. Philip ha... More

[Map of California shown as an island].

[Map of California shown as an island].

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

Plano del puerto del Guárico, cuyo conocimto. y entrada es del modo siguiente.

Plano del puerto del Guárico, cuyo conocimto. y entrada es del modo si...

Scale ca. 1:35,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermark: Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Oriented with north to the bottom. Depths shown by soundings. Mounted on cloth backing LC Luso-Hispanic World, 464 ... More

Plano de Puerto Cavello situado en la costa de Caracs. en lattd. de 10 gs. 26 ms. N. y en la longd. de 308 gs. 37 ms. segun el merido. de Tenerife /

Plano de Puerto Cavello situado en la costa de Caracs. en lattd. de 10...

Shows coast of Venezuela in the region of Puerto Cabello. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Pen-and-ink and brown ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC... More

Plano de Cartagena de Yndyas / - Public domain old map

Plano de Cartagena de Yndyas / - Public domain old map

Shows coast of Colombia in region of Cartagena. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Watermark: D. & C. Blauw. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on c... More

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