Category: Latin America

Handbook of Latin American Studies: 1946.

By: Aguilera, Francisco and Charmion Shelby, eds.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949. Handbook of Latin American Studies, No. 12.

Seller ID: 4262gl

Octavo, silver stamped navy blue cloth, [v], 167 pp. Illus., map endpapers. Former-owner signature; otherwise Near-Fine in dust jacket with mylar protector.
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Reis Door Suriname: Beschrijving van de Nederlandse bezittingen in Guyana. Een vertaling van de oorspronkelijke uitgave Voyage A Surinam met honderd tekeningen in kleur bewerkt door Chris Schriks. Voorzien van een samenvatting in de Engelse taal door Dr. Silvia W. De Groot. Summary [In English] With Annotations, by Silvia W. De Groot.

By: Benoit, P. J.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: De Walburg Pers, (1983).

Seller ID: 2617qsl

Quarto, tan cloth (hardcover), 160 pp. Near-Fine, with a hint of foxing to endpapers; in a Fine dust jacket. Text in Dutch and English. Illustrated with numerous full-color plates.
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Dialogues of the Great Things of Brazil (Dialogos das grandezas do Brasil). Attributed to Ambrosio Fernandes Brandao. Tranlsated and Annotated by Frederick Arthur Holden Hall, William F. HArrison, and Dorothy Winters Welker.

By: Brandao, Ambrosio Fernandes. Translated and annotated by Frederick Arthur Holden Hall, William F. Harrison, and Dorothy Winters Welker.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. This publication has been supported by the Newberry Library's Lester J. Cappon Fund and by the National Endowment for the Humanities.(1987). First Edition.

Seller ID: 9323gcs

Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv, 385 pp. First Edition. From dust jacket: Dialogues of the Great Things of Brazil, an inestimable contribution to Brazilian history and literature, is the first English translation of the 1618 Portuguese work Dialogos das grandezas do Brasil. As the late Frederick Holden Hall, Luso-Brazilian bibliographer for the Newberry Library and initiator of the project, once remarked: ÒThe Dialogues are the equivalent for Brazil of the writings of Captain Smith for Virginia.Ó Evidently written to encourage immigration, the Dialogues describe the hi...
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Soldiering on the Job. Illustrated by Anne Cordts McKeown.

By: Core, Sue.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: North River Press, 1942.

Seller ID: 18145scs

Square octavo, illus. red cloth (hardcover), 60 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner inscription and bumped corners. ÔThis jingling tale which deals in rhyme/With militaristic topics,/Is a little bow to the uniform/Our Army in the tropics!
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Land of Far Distance. With Sketches by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge.

By: Craig, Black Bill. [Baldridge, Cyrus LeRoy, illus.]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934.

Seller ID: m1454

1st edition. Octavo, back cloth, viii, 299 pp. Illus., illustrated endpapers. Very Good; head of spine a bit frayed.
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Historia Naturalymoral de las Indias: En Que Se Tratan De Las Cosas Notables del Cielo/Elementos/Metales/Plantas y Animales Dellas/Y Los Ritos/Y Ceremonias/Leyes Y Gobierno de Los Indios. Compuesto Por El P. Joseph de Acosta, Religioso de La Compania de Jusus. Edicion Preparada Por Edmundo O'Gorman con un prologo, tres apendices y un indice de materias.

By: de Acosta, El P. Joseph..

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, (1962). Segunda edicion, revisada.

Seller ID: 13362scs

Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xcv, 444 pp. Fine, in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket with slightly darkened spine. From jacket: La Historia natural y moral de las Indias del padre Jose de Acosta se publico por primera vez en espanol en 1590. El exito que obtuvo de inmediato sobrepaso el de cualquier otra obra del genero, como lo demuestran sus numerosas ediciones y sus traducciones al italiano, frances, aleman, ingles, holandes y latin, a lo largo de los siglos XVII y XVIII. En ella, el padre Acosta se propuso abrir al mundo cultural europeo el misterio de la flor...
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Zeelandia: De Geschiedenis van een Fort. Suriname en Zijn Historie.

By: Fontaine, Jos.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 1972. Suriname en Zijn Historie, No. 1. First Edition.

Seller ID: 5543fd

Quarto, cloth, 192 pp. Illustrated. Fine in a slightly chipped dust jacket.
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Order and Progress: Brazil from Monarchy to Republic. Edited and Translated from the Portuguese by Rod W. Horton.

By: Freyre, Gilberto.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First American Edition, stated.

Seller ID: 9444gcs

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to spine, decoration blind-stamped to upper cover, uncut, l pp, 422 pp, xxxiv pp. Near-Fine in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear that includes chipping. From dust jacket: This volume continues the great study of Brazilian civilization by Gilberto Freyre, Latin America's most distinguished social historian, which began with The MAsters and the Slaves and was followed by The Mansions and the Shanties. Whereas in the earlier books Freyre described the rural patriarchy of Brazil duirng its flourishing years as...
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The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization. Translated from the Portuguese by Samuel Putnam.

By: Freyre, Gilberto.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American Edition, stated.

Seller ID: 9440gcs

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to spine, decoration blind-stamped to upper cover, uncut, lxxi pp, 537 pp, xliv pp. Near-Fine in a Very Good,mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear that includes chipping. From dust jacket: This is the long-awaited translation into English of Gilberto Freyre's masterpiece, Casa-Grande & Senzala. With astonishing erudition, with a sense of style, and with a towering gift for gripping narrative, Senhor Freyre has applied all the modern techniques of social study to the remarkably successful melting-pot culture of ÒmedievalÓ ...
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Guatemala, Central America: Condensed Information.

By: Guatemala Tourist Commission.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Guatemala City: Guatemala Tourist Commission, n.d. [ca. 1970].

Seller ID: 51157fd

Single sheet, 9 x 16 inches, printed both sides and folded to eight panels. Photographs, map. Fine.
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Of Gods and Men: The Heritage of Ancient Mexico.

By: Gyles, Anna Benson and Sayer, Chloe.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1980]. First U.S. Edition, As Stated.

Seller ID: 005008scs

Royal octavo, black cloth (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, 232 pp. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. Illus. with b&w photos. Ò...Gives a fascinating overview of the ancient civilization of pre-Hispanic Mexico (Olmec, Toltec, Maya, Zapotec, Aztec and others), showing how certain ancient customs and beliefs still survive among Mexican Indians today...Ó
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Pangoan Diary.

By: Harkness, Ruth.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York: Creative Age Press, (1942). First Edition.

Seller ID: 51297fd

Octavo, cloth (hardcoveR), x + 295 pp. Photographs. Fine in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket with sunned spine.
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Archaeology of the Rivas Region, Nicaragua. With a Foreword by Gordon R. Wiley, and a Chapter on Rivas Fauna by Mary Pohl and Paul F. Healy.

By: Healy, Paul F.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, (1980). First Edition.

Seller ID: 4702bd

Royal octavo, tan cloth (hardcover), xxix, 382 pp. Foldout chart in rear pocket, maps, plans, photos. Near-Fine.
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Calalogo de Las Consultas del Consejo de Indias. Por Antonia Heredia Herrera. Tomo I.

By: Herrera, Anonia Heredia.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Madrid: Direccion General de Archivos y Bibliotecas, 1972.

Seller ID: es2019

Octavo, paperbound (stiff blue & white wrappers), 761 pp. Good+, with edgewear to covers that includes several small hairline tears.
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Central America Early Maps up to 1860.

By: Kapp, Capt. K. S.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: North Bend, Ohio: K. S. Kapp Publications, (1974).

Seller ID: 9446gcs

Octavo, paperbound (tan, map illus. wrappers), 64 pp + xviii Plates. Fine. From Author's Preface: A spirited curiosity and a fascination for Central America has inspired the author to conduct research and travel into remote parts of this land, to explore the coast and direct hydrographic surveys in the Bay Islands and off the Mosquito coast. This bibliography is intended to list, as completely as possible, the printed general maps of Central America, including detailed plans of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Salvador, Guatemala, British Honduras and Yucatan. Geographically, Central Amer...
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The Early Maps of Colombia up to 1825. No. 77.

By: Kapp, Capt. Kit S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: North Bend, Ohio: K. S. Kapp Publications, 1971.

Seller ID: 9445gcs2

Octavo, softbound (stiff red map illus. upper cover with white spine and lower cover), 32 pp + x plates. Fine. From Author's Preface: This bibliography is intended to list as completely as possible the earliest printed maps of Colombia to 1860... The author is both a collector and a student of antiquarian maps of the Americas. He has been engaged in cartographic and exploratory studies in the Republic of Colombia during the past ten years and has therefore taken keen interest in searching for original material of the area in both Europe and America. The research undertaken for the project...
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The Early Maps of Colombia up to 1825. No. 77.

By: Kapp, Capt. Kit S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: North Bend, Ohio: K. S. Kapp Publications, 1971.

Seller ID: 9445gcs3

Octavo, softbound (stiff red map illus. upper cover with white spine and lower cover), 32 pp + x plates. Fine. From Author's Preface: This bibliography is intended to list as completely as possible the earliest printed maps of Colombia to 1860... The author is both a collector and a student of antiquarian maps of the Americas. He has been engaged in cartographic and exploratory studies in the Republic of Colombia during the past ten years and has therefore taken keen interest in searching for original material of the area in both Europe and America. The research undertaken for the project...
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The Early Maps of Colombia up to 1825. No. 77.

By: Kapp, Capt. Kit S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: North Bend, Ohio: K. S. Kapp Publications, 1971.

Seller ID: 9445gcs4

Octavo, softbound (stiff red map illus. upper cover with white spine and lower cover), 32 pp + x plates. Fine. From Author's Preface: This bibliography is intended to list as completely as possible the earliest printed maps of Colombia to 1860... The author is both a collector and a student of antiquarian maps of the Americas. He has been engaged in cartographic and exploratory studies in the Republic of Colombia during the past ten years and has therefore taken keen interest in searching for original material of the area in both Europe and America. The research undertaken for the project...
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Zes Jaren In Suriname: 1836-1842, schetsen en taferelen. met een inleiding van Ir. Frans C. Bubberman. En voorzien van een samenvatting in de Englese taal door Mevr. Chris Johnson. With: Six Years in Suriname: Sketches and Scenes of the Community and Military Life in this Colony, Summary by Chris Johnson.

By: Kappler, August.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: De Walburg Pers, (1983).

Seller ID: 2616qsl

Quarto, tan cloth (hardcover), 160 pp. Near-Fine, with a hint of foxing to endpapers; in a Fine dust jacket.
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Preclassic Maya Pottery at Cuello, Belize. Anthropological Papers of The University of Arizona, No. 47.

By: Kosakowsky, Laura J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1987.

Seller ID: 4311gls

Quarto, softbound, v, 99 pp. Map, illus. Very Good.
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Category: Latin America