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7E-9HYX-ADJ9Fair. Leather wrap 1865. Latin version. It's rough looking but it's all there. Shipping daily. hardcover
0259992577.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0259573051.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1334086850.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ST12668bDNortheastern France probably Arras late 15th century. 146 x 95 mm. 5 3/4 x 3 3/4". Single column 15 lines in a pleasing bâtarde hand. <br/> Rubrics in red one- and two-line initials in brushed gold on a red or blue ground EACH SIDE OF EACH LEAF WITH A BRUSHED GOLD PANEL BORDER WITH VERY PRETTY ILLUSIONISTIC FLOWERS; EACH LEAF WITH ONE SMALL MINIATURE measuring approximately 40 x 25 mm. Headlines written in French in a later 18th century calligraphic hand. ◆Light soiling a couple small stains in margins Trinity leaf with one initial a bit rubbed and a few very tiny chips of paint to miniature otherwise excellent specimens generally clean and smooth with ample margins and attractive decoration.<br/> <br/> From a charmingly decorated 15th century prayer book these lovely leaves offer the opportunity to acquire a miniature with considerable gold ornamentation at an attainable price. One leaf depicts an image of the Trinity in which God the Father holds the body of a crucified Christ in his arms; the other leaf depicts St. James patron saint of Spain shown in bright green and red robes and holding a long staff. For other leaves from this same manuscript please check our website. unknown
SKU1001918National Endowment for the Humanities 1992 Summer Institute for University and College Faculty. Very Good. Spiralbound softcover. This notebook contains reports written by the participants in the 1992 NEH Summer Institute "In the Land of Cortes and Malinche" which was held on the campuses of the University of Texas at Austin and The University of the Americas Puebla-Choula. Gently used with modest show of wear. Free of any markings and no writing. Condition Considered in Pricing. For Additional Information or pictures Please Inquire. National Endowment for the Humanities 1992 Summer Institute for University and College Faculty paperback
1998SKU1116592Coronet Books Inc 1998-08-01. Paperback. Very Good. Stockholm 1997; Italian text; orange paper covers; mild shelf wear; orange jacket with wear at top edge; 8vo 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall; Interior clean and unmarked; 129 pages. Coronet Books Inc paperback
0911437355.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
926418645X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0306365022.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1983__9027230110John Benjamins Pub Co 1983. Hardcover. New. 307 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. John Benjamins Pub Co hardcover
A9789048559510Hardback. New. European cities and towns are considered places with a particular order established by their inhabitants. This volume centres on the authorities groups and individuals who formed the rules for common life in urban communities. It considers the protagonists of urban order between the Middle Ages and modernity: those who were responsible for the common welfare those who produced change and those who caused disorder. The authors focus on the practices that shaped the order of urban communities and in particular on situations in which this order was transformed both socially and spatially. By looking at urban order through this lens the volume sheds light on the complex interplay of interests that can bring about change. hardcover
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227363Editorial de la Universidad de Concepcion Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Nice copy with dust jacket. Just minor shelfwear. Pages of text are clean bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes not envelopes. Editorial de la Universidad de Concepcion Hardcover
1935023212New York: The Viking Pess 1935. First American Edition First Printing . Original Cloth. Near Fine/Good. Photographic Plates. 296 Pp . Beige Cloth Printed In Brown. Book Bright And Clean Hinges Tight. Bookplate Of American Zoologist Charles Atwood Kofoid Elaborately Decorated With A Scholarly And Zoological Theme. A Few Short Pencil Notes On Endpaper Indicate That The Owner Apparently Reviewed The Book For Isis Sending Them The Review 4/20/1936. Dj Clean Chipping At Corners/Edges Including A 1 1/4" Deep V-Chip On The Rear Panel But All Lettering Is Complete And The Other Panels Are Bright Clean Unfaded. Not Price-Clipped No Fading Endpapers Browned. <br/> <br/> The Viking Pess hardcover
1977biblio106<p>This copy on the Equadoran artist's work is very fresh condition. Strikingly beautiful is the book in itself with its poignant imprinted cover portrait but this copy does not appear to have been read and has only very minor exterior fading and the marginal dust jacket shelving wear from the passage of thirty-six years. There are seventy color reproductions in the latter part of the text and commmentary by Pablo Neruda and others.</p><p>Photo on request.</p> Ediciones Nauta hardcover
187916318Little Brown and Company 1879. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. Ninth edition. Revised and brought down to date." Page edges browned and foxed; extensive foxing of front endpapers especially frontispiece and facing title page despite protective rice paper transparency and again on the map facing first page of chapter one - fewer than ten pages are foxed but it is disheartening that it includes two sets of illustrations. There are 150 engravings in all. There is a three inch tear to the foldout map where it is attached to the page. On the verso of the front board is a former owner's bookplate. On the third front endpaper there is a 1886 gift inscription from Alencar Cintra to Colonel Henry B. Davenport. Binding is visibly rounded with rub marks on corners and spine tips otherwise the beveled decorative borders and gilt lettering on green cloth boards and spine are in very good plus condition. There is a three inch split at front pastedown gutter hinge emanating from the tail. <br/> <br/> Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
193815233Carrick & Evans 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Acceptable/No DJ. At one time the DJ had been taped in Mylar which left adhesive residue and browning stains on boards and pictorial map endpapers; half the title page vertical strip on right has been torn out and missing possibly to rid the book of library stamps. There is a library stamp on bottom edge and "salvage" stamped on half title page and back pictorial map endpapers which suffered extensive abrasions and sticker scars from removal of now missing jacket. There was an attempt to rub out call numbers on spine which left a large black splotch. In addition to the library discard issues the spine is bulging and separated from block sunned frayed on edges and split at the back pastedown. There is a mild yellowing of text especially edges. Boards are worn faded and soiled. Text and illustrations are quite readable and this is more than reasonable reading copy of a scarce title. Letter "A' on title info page. <br/> <br/> Carrick & Evans hardcover
6827510Harvard University Press pp. 424 . Hardback. New. Harvard University Press hardcover
19852090502124500312Japan Asia Africa Latin America Solidarity Committee 1985. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 181p Size: 18cm Japan Asia Africa Latin America Solidarity Committee paperback
1849OB922<p>Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co.; Uriah Hunt & Co. Philadelphia; M. W. Dodd NY 1849. Hard Cover. 333 p.; 20 cm. "The Review has far loftier object than those of the historical record. It aims to recommend and enforce the duty of preserving Peace by exhibiting the wickedness the baseness and the calamitous consequences of a victorious War." Sabin 35864. Bound in original blindstamped purple cloth gilt title on spine. Corners top & bottom of spine slightly worn minor splitting along top of front gutter some water discoloring to spine & edges of front and rear covers; scattered light foxing; Good. Stock#OB922.</p> Benjamin B. Mussey & Co.; Uriah Hunt & Co., Philadelphia; M. W. Dodd, NY,. hardcover
2000biblio123831 pages with frontispiece color plates figures tables illustrations appendices bibliography and indexes. Small folio 12" x9 1/2" bound in original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Edited by Moises Franco Mendoza with contributions by J Benedict Brown the "biography of Jeronimo de Alcala"; Heron Perez Martinez "literary art of the Relacion; Jean Marie G Le Clezio "the universality of the Relacion"; Edward Seler "the ancient inhabitants of Michoacan"; Hans Roskamp "the native aspects of the Relacion and the 44 plates of the Relacion; Isabel Teran Elizondo "symbolic and mystic elements"; Claudia Espejel Carbajal " archaeological and geographic guide to the Relacion; and Pedro Marquez Joaquin "significance of certain wording in the Ralacion. Limited to 2000 copies. First edition.<br /><br />Commonly called the codex is Relation of Michoacan reconstructs the early history of Michoacán as it provides first-hand testimony about the development and history of the Tarascan people from their arrival to the territory from Michoacan in the twelfth century until the Spanish conquest. The manuscript whose name Relation covers ceremonies and rites and population and governance of Indians of the province of Michoacan which is preserved in the Royal Library of the Augustinian Monastery of El Escorial in Spain and consists of 153 sheets of 20 x 15cm. accompanied by 44 sheets illustrating passages of the story. Originally in addition to Alcalas prologue the manuscript was composed of three parts of which one is lost and only the second and third are extant. It was written on paper from Italy manufactured flax fiber. The inc used was at lest three type presumably prepared by the Franciscan themselves in Mexico following European and indigenous traditions Pigment colors of the illustrations are from Michoacan. In its original form the text of the "relationship" contained history feasts of the gods the story of the beginning of the kingdom from the arrival of the Chichimecas the first political alliances followed by Tariacuri's history as a founding father and the political and religious organization. The third part contains the arrival of the Spanish the conquest by the Spanish and the arrest and death of Tanganxoan II the last of the Tarascan leader. The 44 leaves distributed throughout the text illustrate by hand passages of the story and in others it is a complement to it. All the illustrations are colored in the Michoacan ratio except that found in folio 108b. The figures were drawn by pen and the shaded and painted with a brush using red blue green yellow brown purple and black dyes derived from vegetable mineral and animal. It was long speculated about the authorship of the List of Michoacan. Some attributed it to Fray Martin de Jesus others Sahagun and some to Maturino Gilberti and even those who awarded it to Broth Paul Beaumont. However thanks to the investigation made by Dr J Warren Benedict over thirty years it was determined that the author was Jeronimo de Alcala a Franciscan friar living in the monastery Tzintzuntzan in the first half of the sixteen century. The manuscript probably was written between 1539 and 1540 and delivered to the Viceroy of New Spain Antonio de Mendoza as illustrated in the first sheet of the codex. For many years this valuable manuscript was ignored by those who dealt with ancient history and the conquest Michoacan. However some elements indicate that at least the Franciscan chronicler Fray Alonso de Rea Isidro Felix Espinosa and Paul Beaumont had access to the testimony and drafts the shaped the relationship especially in referring to the funeral ceremonies concerning death and burial of cazonci chief ruler of the Tarascans.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Condition: A fine copy in like jacket. Due to the size and weight addition postage may be required. El Colegio de Michoacan hardcover
2010H0549348 pages including index. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" bound in original publishes pictorial wrappers. First edition limited to 1000 copies. It can be argued that the Third Mexican Provincial Council of 1585 was one of the most important religious events in the history of Mexico. Summoned by Pedro Moya de Contreras the all-powerful archbishop visitador and later viceroy it was one of many such councils held in Spain and its dominions in the aftermath of the Council of Trent. It not only enacted a comprehensive code of canon law for New Spain but also commissioned important works such as a uniform catechism and ceremonial. One of the most important of these was the directory for confessors a lengthy summary of moral theology canon law and pastoral practice designed to compensate for the poor education of the clergy. It is an invaluable source for the social economic and religious life of sixteenth-century New Spain. Condition: Slight bumps on front edge and top of spine else very good to fine. El Colegio de Michoacán paperback
196816309Alfred A. Knopf 1968. First Thus . Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. Translated to English from the Portuguese and with an introduction by Barbara Shelby. Remainder mark on bottom edge binding not as tight as new separation gap and opens readily to pastedowns bumped/rounded corners otherwise embossed red cloth boards in fine condition as is the interior. DJ is frayed/nicked/creased on all edges with one inch chip at head of spine and a two inch chip at tail unfortunately compromising the cover artwork. There is surface wear on DJ faces and spine but at first glance looks smooth and vivid except for the badly damaged edges. <br/> <br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
