CRL owns two parts of this series of imprints covering a vast range of topics.

Latin American history and culture : an archival record. Series 4, The Mexican rare monograph collection, 1548-1861 (Sutro Library, California State Archives). [Guide]

Collection of more than 400 printed works from colonial Spanish America, including catechisms, devotional works, hagiographies, religious biographies, orders, sermons, and more. The majority of works are from Mexico and Peru.

This collection features expedition records, original letters and maps of exploration and colonization, and "diaries of discoveries" from South America, from narratives of Columbus' first voyage (at Sloane Ms 1709) to the end of Colonial Spanish rule. The set covers European exploitation, evangelization, and botanical and geographical exploration in South America from Texas to Tierra del Fuego, and features maps, scrolls, descriptions of voyages by sea and river, terrain, flora and fauna, settlement posts, plantations and mines, missionary activities, and "diaries of discoveries."

This series, also called Hispanic books printed before 1601, is based on the bibliographies listed below and covers early books printed in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America 

This set contains microfilm copies of titles in Medina's bibliography and represents a history of the Spanish-speaking peoples of the western hemisphere. CRL holds 185 reels of the set intended to eventually include over 8,000 titles.

Titles cataloged individually (not comprehensively), with occasional reference to the numeric citation in the bibliography (seven-volume set digitized by HathiTrust). See records by series title.