- Lot 1
Natural History of the New World
José de Acosta, 1589
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 5,000Closed - Lot 2
Petition of Early Spanish Governor of Coahuila and Texas
Marqués de Aguayo, c.1718
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 2,750Closed - Lot 3
The Conquest of the New World
Peter Martyr Anghiera, 1574
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 2,250Closed - Lot 4
Early Dictionary of Nahuatl
Francisco de Ávila, 1717
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed - Lot 5
Rare Spanish Medical Text
Bravo de Sobremonte, 1651
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,000Closed - Lot 6
Nahuatl grammar, second edition
Oracio Carochi, 1759
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 875Closed - Lot 7
Six of Nine Indian Tracts in English
Bartolomé de las Casas, 1699
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 2,500Closed - Lot 8
The Third Indian Tract
Bartolomé de las Casas, 1552
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 9
Iconic Plate Book on the Ancient Maya
Frederick Catherwood, 1844
EstimateUSD 18,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 32,500Closed - Lot 10
The Ashendene Press Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes, 1927-28
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 5,250Closed - Lot 11
The letters of Hernando Cortés
F.A. Lorenzana, 1770
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 5,250Closed - Lot 12
Ordinances regulating the Council of the Indies
Madrid, 1681
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed - Lot 13
Journal of the Beagle Voyage
Charles Darwin, 1839
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 20,000Closed - Lot 14
First Edition Origin of Species
Charles Darwin, 1859
EstimateUSD 100,000 - 150,000Price realisedUSD 200,000Closed - Lot 15
British and Foreign Orchids
Charles Darwin, 1862
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 4,000Closed - Lot 16
The First All-Embracing Hypothesis of Evolution
Erasmus Darwin, 1794-96
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 2,750Closed - Lot 17
Posthumous Poems
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 1714
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed - Lot 18
Robinson Crusoe, the First English Novel
Daniel Defoe, 1719-20
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 3,250Closed - Lot 19
Most important work on the conquests of Cortés
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, 1632
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 9,375Closed - Lot 20
First Edition of Great Expectations
Charles Dickens, 1861
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 9,375Closed - Lot 21
The Search for Ancient Palenque and Mitla
Dupaix & Lenoir, 1834 & 1844
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 5,250Closed - Lot 22
Manuscript copy of Historia de las Indias
Diego Durán, c. 1830s
EstimateUSD 18,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 52,500Closed - Lot 23
China and the Philippines
Fernández de Navarrete, 1676
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed - Lot 24
Conversion of the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico
Jean Focher, 1574
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 27,500Closed - Lot 25
Early English Account of Colonial Mexico
Thomas Gage, 1648
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 2,250Closed - Lot 26
The Origins of Americans
Gregorio García, 1729
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 1,125Closed - Lot 27
Literary Dialogue between Indian and Spaniard
Granados y Gálvez, 1778
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 3,250Closed - Lot 28
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Inscribed by Francisco Madero
Querétaro, 1848
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 5,250Closed - Lot 30
The Mexican Treasury
Francisco Hernandez, 1628
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 30,000Closed - Lot 31
Description of the West Indies
Herrera y Tordesillas, 1726-30
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 6,250Closed - Lot 32
Colored Issue of Antiquities of Mexico
Viscount Kingsborough, 1830-48
EstimateUSD 80,000 - 120,000Price realisedUSD 81,250Closed - Lot 33
Bilingual Nahuatl Catechism
Martín de León, 1611
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 6,250Closed - Lot 34
Discovery of the Aztec Sun Stone and Coatlicue Statue
Antonio de León y Gama, 1792
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 9,375Closed - Lot 35
Second Expanded Edition of León y Gama's Treatise on the Aztecs
Antonio de León y Gama, 1832
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 750Closed - Lot 36
Lyell's Principles of Geology
In original boards, 1830-33
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 12,500Closed - Lot 37
Early Lithographic Plate Book on Mexico
George Francis Lyon, 1827
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 4,000Closed - Lot 38
Franciscans in Jalisco and Northern Mexico
Franciscans, 1831
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 1,500Closed - Lot 39
First Mexican Color Plate Book
Michaud & Thomas, c.1850
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 8,750Closed - Lot 41
Origins of the Peoples of the Americas
F.X.A. de Orrio, 1763
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 1,500Closed - Lot 42
Ancient Mezcala Stone Scuptures
Pen and ink drawings, 1966-87
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 10,625Closed - Lot 43
Ancient Chalcatzingo in Mexico
Pen and Ink Drawings, c.1960s-71
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed - Lot 44
Ceramic Figures from Preclassic Mexico
Pen and Ink Drawings, 1966-73
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 5,000Closed - Lot 46
Deciphering Mayan Hieroglyphics
Léon de Rosny, 1876
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 3,250Closed - Lot 48
Travels into Chile and the Andes Plate Book
Peter Schmidtmeyer, 1824
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 1,875Closed - Lot 49
Popular Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Antonio Solís y Ribadeneyra, 1684
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 2,375Closed - Lot 51
History of the Yucatan
Villagutierre Soto-Mayor, 1701
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 5,250Closed