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.

London: Deutsch, 1962. Dark olive boards. 264 pp + plates/. Damp stain to upper outer corner of rear cover, scarcely visible externally, hidden internally by the jacket flap, else fine, no owner names. Bright yellow dust jacket has a 1/4 inch tear tear to front panel; minor rubbing, light soiling; damp stain to upper outer rear panel and rear flap; VG+ otherwise, chips or clips, colours bright, flap price intact. Much scarcer than the 1961 US first edition.

London: Museum Press, 1961. Orange boards. pp 248. Notes, index, good illustrations in text. Page edges tanned, just a mite leaned, else fine. Attractive dust jacket (art by E. Byfield) has a bit of yellowing to spine, else fine, flap price intact. An explanation of ecosystems, comparing a rain forest with a tropical sea. Bates was an important American zoologist. A nice copy of this ecological classic.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Octavo, brown cloth without jacket, as issued. pp xvi, 259, (3). Frontispiece map. Fine copy.

London: Richard Bentley, 1871. Original orange decorated cloth stamped in black, spine gilt lettered, black endpapers. pp x ,375 + frontispiece map. With the bookplate of adventurer and book collector Steve Fossett. Spine very lightly darkened; yellowing to page edges; else a fine copy, unopened at the page edges. Sabin 29272. Guinnard's "narrative of personal adventure and experience in a little-known region of the earth... [among] a race of the fiercest and most revolting savages in existence... The materials composing it were collected under circumstances of difficulty and peril, precluding the possibility of strictly methodical observation or scientific precision of detail..." - translator's Preface. A scarce book.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1859. Brown pebble grain cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt lettered, brown endpapers. pp [2], viii, (9)-288, 16 May, 1859, ads, [2]. Just a little leaned, text paper a little toned, tiny chip to fore edge of front free endpaper, else a fine copy. BAL 44417. In 1859, while the U.S. Senate was considering whether the United States should try to annex the Spanish possession of Cuba, Dana traveled there and visited Havana, a sugar plantation, a bullfight, and various churches, hospitals, schools, and prisons, a trip documented in his book To Cuba and Back." - Wikipedia.

London: Methuen, 1926. Octavo, red cloth. (xii), (296), (8, ads) pp. + 12 plates. Bit of fraying at head of slightly sunned spine; yellowing to pag edges; tidy ink name at front; VG jacketless copy otherwise. Most of the book pertains to South America - Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala. The author was formerly a British government envoy to Bolivia.

Greensboro, NC: Unicorn Press, 1987. Natural linen cloth. [8], iv, (73) pp. Light tanning to margins of light blue endpapers, else a near fine jacketless copy. Translation, with Spanish and English text on facing pages, of JUEGO DE DAMAS. Cuban poetry.

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1967. Red cloth. pp xvi, 805; photos and maps in text. Fine copy, no marks in text. Red dust jacket spine is sunned to pink, with minor wear at head; VG otherwise. The best account available of the period of dominance of the Sonoran dynasty. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required

Aktiebolaget Thule, 1938. The Ethnological Museum of Sweden, Stockholm, New Series Publication No.4. Quarto. Cream card covers. pp 196, plates and figures in text. Short tears at spine tips neatly repaired; a VG+ copy otherwise, no owner names, clean, tight & unworn. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.