Item 13. Arce, Manuel José. [Guatemala, 8-9-1825]. Broadside. El Presidente de la Republica a los Centro-Americanos. [Begins:] Conciudadanos: se acerca la hora de dejar el reposo; de empuñar la espada que tanto tiempo hace teneis dispuesta, y de prepararos à la defenza de vuestra libertad que comienza à ser amenazada y que sera siempre gloriosa y triunfante. Folio. Attempt to preserve. 1 p.

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.