Item 1. Ganiza, Gavino. [Guatemala, 2-21-1822]. Broadside. [drop-title] El Serenisimo Sr. Generalisimo Almirante, en oficio de 23 de Enero proximo pasado, que he recibido hoy, se sirve comunicarme haberse dignado disponer la Serenisima Regencia Gobernadora del Imperio, que por ahora, y mientras no se disponga otra cosa, continùe yo con el mando que obtengo en esta Provincia en calidad de Capitan General interino. Folio. 1p.

Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, beginning with the heyday of nation formation from 1776 to 1815 and ending with the building of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century. Many of the documents are original government publications such as constitutions, decrees, or presidential... and congressional messages, and broadsides and pamphlets serving as public statements regarding the political and social events of the time. Other items of note include George F. Dunham's "A Journey to Brazil on the Good Ship Montpelier," an 1853 first hand description of slavery and plantation life in Brazil, and the first Mexico City printing (1821) of Augustin de Iturbide's Plan de Iguala.