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LOS RESTOS DE COLON EN SANTO DOMINGO
Edition: First edition.
Santo Domingo: Garcia Hermanos, 1878. Octavo, original green printed wrappers. pp 75, [3] + folding illustration; a few illustrations in text. Inner margin of covers and spine repaired neatly with a paper strip; shallow chips and short tears to fore margins of covers; fingernail-size chip at top of title leaf (no text affected); else a VG clean copy. Rare in first edition. There was a second edition, much enlarged, in 1926. A claim that the bones of Columbus lie in Santo Domingo, R.D., by the great Dominican patriot.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 30393More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
LOST CITY OF THE INCAS: the story of Machu Picchu and its builders. Introduction by John Hemming
Edition: First of this edition
London: Folio Society, 2004. Black decorated cloth in photographic card slipcase. pp (xxvi), 266, [2] + photos. Fine copy. Slipcase has minor soiling, VG and unworn generally. Slight emendations, new bibliography, and new Introduction to the text of the 1951 original. 1.25 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52648More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
MANIFESTO TO THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC, which Brigadier General José Figueroa, Commandant and Political Chief of Upper California, presents on his conduct and on that of José María de Hijar and José María Padrés as Directors of Colonization in 1834 and 1835.
Edition: First edition.
Berkeley: University of California Press, (c.1978). Brown boards. (x), 156 pp, indexed. Adhesive remnants from removed bookplate on front pastedown, else a near fine copy. Dust jacket price-clipped with small sticker shadow to front, VG otherwrise.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 23922More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
MEMORIA HISTORICA Y DESCRIPTIVA DE LA PROVINCIA DE TUCUMAN.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 11288More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
Mexico and the United States in the Oil Controversy, 1917-1942, Translated by Muriel Vasconcellos
Edition: First printing
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977. Brick cloth. Removed label shadow inside front cover; private owner name on front free endpaper whited out; else a VG clean and uworn jacketless copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42054More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
MEXICO AT THE BAR OF PUBLIC OPINION: a survey of editorial opinion in newspapers of the western hemisphere
Edition: First Edition
New York: Mail and Express Publishing Company, 1939. Blue cloth. pp [2], (2), viii, 320. Index, illustrations in text. A bit of darkening to inner margins of endpapers from binding materials, else a VG unworn jacketless copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43826More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
MICHOACÁN EN EL SIGLO DE LAS LUCES
Edition: First edition.
Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 1973. Illustrated card covers. pp (xii), 146. Text paper slightly toned, else a VG unworn copy, no owner marks. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 26381More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
NARRATIVE OF A FIVE YEARS' EXPEDITION AGAINST THE REVOLTED NEGROES OF SURINAM in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America from the Years 1772 to 1777. Elucidating the History of that Country...
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52139More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
NUNO DE GUZMAN and the Province of Panuco in New Spain 1518-1533
Edition: First Edition
Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1967. Tall octavo, maroon cloth. pp 322 + sepia-toned reproductions of old documents, one map in text, deckle fore edges. Minor rubbing to spine tips and outer corners, corner crease to map leaf, spine very lightly sunned, VG+ jacketless copy otherwise, no owner names. Páuco is on the Gulf coast of Southern Mexico just north of Veracruz. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 27199More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
OUTLINES OF ST. LUCIA'S HISTORY
St. Lucia, West Indies: St. Lucia Archaeological & Historic Society, 1962. Second edition. Octavo, pp 61 + ads front and rear + double-sided plates inclyding map, stapled in cream card covers. Sunning to inner margin of covers, else fine. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45709More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
PIONEERING IN BOLIVIA
D.E. Hatt / Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board. Octavo, cream card covers. pp (12), (246), [2]. Many photos in text, some full-page. Very small tear to front cover, book has a musty odor (no damp stains, will dissipate in time), else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names. A report on Canadian Baptist missionary activity in the country, with much on the land, inhabitants, Indians, etc.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 43365More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
PIONEERING IN SOUTH BRAZIL. Three years of forest and prairie life in the Province of Paraná
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46446More details Price: USD $350.00 USD $315.00 -
SECOND LOOK AT CUBA
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Fair Play for Cuba Committee, 1963. Octavo, pp 28 stapled in card covers. Price rubber stamp to lower outer corner of front cover, else fine. "A series of articles that appeared in the Vancouver SUN from May 28 to June 7, 1963" by a Sun feature writer. With an introduction by Bert Herridge, NDP M.P. A assessment made to counter the lies Americans have been told, and believed, about Cuba for 60 years. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47057More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
South America and the First World War: The Impact of the War on Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile
Edition: First printing
Cambridge University Press, 1988. Red boards. pp 388. Notes, bibliography, index. Ink owner name, page edges yellowed, text paper a little yellowed, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47960More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Southern Exposure: Canadian Promoters in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1896-1930
Edition: First printing
University of Toronto Press, 1988. Brown cloth. pp (xvi), (376). Includes numerous photos and an index. Fine in fine jacket. "Beginning just before the turn of the century, Canadian businessmen channelled huge investments into the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and later Spain, mainly into urban public utilities. The authors follow the intriguing trail of Canadian financiers, including Sir William Van Horne, William Mackenzie, Max Aitken, and James Dunn, into the major cities of Latin America and the great merchant banks of Europe. By transferring Canadian and European capital and hydroelectric technology to Latin America, these Canadians carved out an important entrepreneurial niche and enormous fortunes for themselves."
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49567More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare
Edition: First printing
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Cloth & boards. pp xxvi, 430. Photos, bibliography, index. Remainder stripe to bottom edges, else fine in fine jacket. Untreated disease in the Orinico Delta of Eastern Venuzuela. 1.5 kg
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46773More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
STRANDED IN MEXICAN REVOLUTION 1923-1924.
Edition: First edition.
Wilton, Connecticut: Author, 1969. Octavo. Textured burgundy boards. [4], (viii), (114), [2, blank] pp + photos on plates, map endpapers. VG copy, no owner names. White dust jacket is yellowed, slightly soiled, short tears, about VG otherwise. Georgia author, 35 years with the Vick Chemical Company, tells of the time he was stranded in the Yucatan during the Revolution of 1923-24.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 24461More details Price: USD $17.50 USD $15.75 -
THE AMAZON AND MADEIRA RIVERS: Sketches and Descriptions from the Note-book of an Explorer
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50679More details Price: USD $350.00 USD $315.00 -
The Audiencia New Galicia in the Sixteenth Century. A Study in Spanish Colonial Government
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1968. Black cloth. pp (xii), (205), indexed. Fine in lightly tanned jacket, no owner names. Northern Mexico. Previously published in 1948.
Condition: Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 27193More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
The Birds of South America: Volume 1: The Oscine Passerines
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Fifth printing. Red cloth, endpaper maps. pp xvi, 516 + colour plates. Maps, bibliography, index. Fine in fine jacket. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46180More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96