Buenos Aires: Centro de Arte y Comunicacion, 1977. Paperback. [40] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Cover title: Museo de Ciencias y Arte de Mexico: Veintiun Artistas Argentinos. Scarce. In Near Fine Condition: edges rubbed; clean and tight. More
Lima, Peru: Continental Gallery, 1977. Paperback. [1], 4-10 p.: black-and-white illustrations; 21 cm. White card cover printed in black; stapled. Cover title: Video Arte." Includes a list of participants by country. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: cover is slightly soiled; pages are clean and tight... More
London: Thomas Baskett and the assigns of Robert Baskett, 1753. Title continued: "and for Regulating the Election of the Governors and Directors of the said Company." [2], 279-280 p.; 33 cm. (folio). Three stab-holes, but no other evidence that this was ever bound. Edges are untrimmed. Title page reads "Anno..... More
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. 187 p.; 22 cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket, as issued. First published in 1901. Contents: The Natives of Hawaii: A Study of Polynesian Charm by Titus Munson Coan -- The Races of the Phlippines: The Tagals by the..... More
Buenos Aires: Center of Art and Communication, 2978. Paperback. 23, [1] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Cover title: Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro. Text is in English. Scarce. In Near Fine Condition: edges rubbed; clean and tight. More
New York: William B. Dana, 1864. Paperback. [13], 258-336, [4] p.: tables, illustrated advertisements; 23 cm. Illustrated salmon wrapper. Front wrapper stamped: "Transferred from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania." Contents: The National Debt and National Resources -- The Commercial Progress and Resources of Central British America -- The Sandwich Islands..... More
Quito, Ecuador: Colegio de Arquitectos del Ecuador, 1996. Hardcover. 147, [1] p.: color and black-and-white illustrations, plans; 27 cm. Hardback. Presents the competitors in an architectural competition held in 1994 in Quito, Ecuador. Text is in Spanish. Scarce. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. More
Paris: Ambrose Dupont et Cie. 1828. Hardcover. Volume 11 only (of 16 volumes): [4], 525 p.: tables; 21 cm. Contemporary calf spine with gilt-tooled spine title; marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers. Running title: Chronologie Historique de l'Amérique. This volume covers the history of Chile and Argentina from 1770 to..... More
Paris: A.J. Dénaina, 1834. Hardcover. Volume 15 only of 16 volumes: [4], 536 p.: tables (1 folded); 21 cm. Contemporary calf spine with gilt-tooled spine title; marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers. Running title: Chronologie Historique de l'Amérique. The folded table is not included in pagination. This volume covers the..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1990. Hardcover. A Bulfinch Press Book. xv, [1], 711 p.: illustrations; 30 cm. Orange-red cloth with gilt spine title. Front endpapers are decorated. Illustrated dust jacket. Page 711 (final page of index) is the back fixed endpaper. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Metropolitan..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Papelaria Uniao, 1909. Paperback. 83 p.: tables; 15 cm. Maroon paper covers with gilt cover title and coat of arms of the First Brazilian Republic; publisher on back cover within Art Moderne decoration. Presents the arrangement of the Brazilian army following the reorganization of 1908. Very scarce..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1968. Paperback. [74] p.: illustrations; 11 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Primarily consists of a facsimile of an early 19th-century catechism in the pictographic writing of the Otomi people of Mexico. The manuscript is now in the possession of Princeton University. Described in the introduction..... More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1971. Paperback. [6], 25, [25] p.: black-and-white photographs; 26 cm. Paperback; stapled. Owned by Richard Lidz of Princeton, N.J., who made notes on the lots in which he was interested on the back cover. Does not include prices realized. He also made a note about an..... More
New York: Munn & Co., 1895. Paperback. 16 pages (paginated [1], 16408-16422 p.): illustrations; 41 cm. Contains illustrated articles about the insurrection in Cuba; digestion in plants by J. Pentland-Smith; the Waterloo and City electrical underground railway, London; and Maxim's flying machine. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: lightly creased; front..... More
S.l. s.n., 1990. Paperback. [64] p.: illustrations; 30 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. With: the card of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari attached to the lower right corner of the front cover and a green, white, and red ribbon attached to the left side of the front cover. Carlos Salinas..... More
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Fotografía Manon, 1916. 15 5-x-7-inch black-and-white photographs: 8 of the USS Memphis (wrecked by a tidal wave on the coast of the Dominican Republic on 29 Aug. 1916); 1 of the memorial service for sailors who drown when the Memphis was wrecked; and 6 of American..... More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1965. vii, [5], 244 p.; 21.5 cm. Grey cloth, with black-stamped spine title. Orange and black dust jacket. Although the author endorses the objectives of the Alliance for Progress, "he is, nevertheless convinced, as a Mexican, that the United States has failed to take the..... More
Moscow: Editorial Progreso, 1977. Hardcover. 258, [6] p.: tables; 21 cm. Light grey cloth with black stamped spine and cover titles; green stamped author's name and publisher's emblem? on front cover. No dust jacket. Translation of Latinskaia Amerika by M. Jusainov. This Spanish translation of Boyko's work on imperialism and..... More
Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1970. Hardcover. xiv, 319 p.: 2 charts and 2 tables; 24 cm. Black cloth with silver-stamped spine title and with silver stamped cover acronym ILAS. Green and yellow dust jacket. Latin-American Monographs #21, Institute of Latin American Studies, The University of Tesas at Austin..... More
1823. 1 handwritten letter, dated 6 March 1823, from Lord Thomas Cochrane to Captain David Porter of the U.S. Navy expressing condolences over the death of Lt. Cocke, who was killed when the Spanish commander in San Juan fired to warn the American ships from entering the port. Lord Thomas..... More
Menasha, WI: American Anthropological Association, 1961. Paperback. Memoir 90 -- Vol. 63, no. 5, part 2, Oct. 1961. x, 171, [1] p., 3 leaves of folded maps: illustrations, tables; 24 cm. Orange wrapper; black spine and cover titles and cover illustration. Includes Appendix A: Wild Plants from the Hispanic Records..... More
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. Hardcover. x, [2], 387, [1] p.: illustrations, tables, drawings; 28 cm. Dark green cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket, in mylar cover. Stated First Edition. The authors "describe the sites area by area, stela by stela, making this book the perfect..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1983. Hardcover. 614 p.: color illustrations (some foldout), diagrams, maps, charts; 32 cm. White cloth with gilt spine title; color pastedown on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. The definitive book on pre-Columbian art. A very heavy book; for international shipping, it will have..... More
New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1847. Paperback. [1], 4-34 p.; 22 cm. Lacking wrapper. Disbound from a nonce volume. In an old hand at head of first page: "#11. Peace with Mexico By Hon. Albert Gallatin." Publication information supplied from Worldcat records. Former Congressman and Secretary of the Treasury Gallatin..... More
Mexico: Libreria de Manuel Porrua, 1964. Paperback. 32 p.; 20 cm. Card cover printed in red and black; stapled. Series list of Publicaciones del I. y N. Colegio de Abogados de Mexico on back cover. In Very Good Condition: sunning along edges of front cover; otherwise, clean and tight... More