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The World on Fire Including Splendors and Horrors of the Volcanic Eruptions of the Lesser Antilles...
Book ID: 42055More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50
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TO CUBA AND BACK: a vacation voyage
Edition: First Edition
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. ; 12mo
Book ID: 51141More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00 -
TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN MANY LANDS. With Twelve Illustrations by Maximillian von Poosch.
Edition: First UK edition
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.
Book ID: 33384More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
VOYAGING SOUTHWARD FROM THE STAIT OF MAGELLAN
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1968. "Revised edition", with new Kent Preface (first was in 1924). Blue-green cloth, endpaper maps. pp (xx), 184, [4]. Numerous excellent drawings. Damp stains to upper inner corners of covers with some colour bleed to interior of jacket but no external evidence. Nice clean and unworn VG+ copy otherwise. Gold jacket has mild rubbing to spine ends and one small chip, VG otherwise. ; Quarto
Book ID: 55330More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
WOMAN ON THE FRONT LINES. Translated by Pamela Carmell.
Edition: First US Edition
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.; Octavo 0877752028
Book ID: 17267More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
YESTERDAY IN MEXICO: A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919-1936
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; Octavo
Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 26350More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
ZAPOTECAN ANTIQUITIES and the Paulson Collection in the Ethnographical Museum of Sweden. With 27 Text Figures and 32 Plates
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.
Book ID: 25881More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50