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1828WRCLIT85121Edinburgi: No Publisher 1828. 42791pp. Small octavo. Three quarter black calf and marbled boards gilt label. Mid 19th century ownership inscription gradually receding discoloration in upper forecorner of text block some occasional handsoiling and a few ink x's on title-leaf; a good sound copy. First and evidently only edition of this classics textbook with the minuscule binder's ticket of William Smith 269 High St. Edinburgh on the rear pastedown. The 'Ad Lectorum' is signed at the end 'J.P.' at Edinburgh 1827. OCLC and COPAC locate the same sole copy at Edinburgh University Library. OCLC 606455052. [No Publisher] hardcover books
200190018NY:: Hippocrene Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0781807875 . Text is in Latin. Edited by Susan Schearer. Second printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Hippocrene Books, hardcover books
1986229746<p>First edition thus. 4to. Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Original red cloth with large tan pictorial board for a front cover. Enclosed in the original publisher's red cloth drop box with tan board for a front cover. Fine fresh copy. No signatures or bookplates. Number 11 of 40 numbered copies on handmade paper signed by David M. Guss and Antonio Frasconi on the colophon page. Original publisher's prospectus laid in loose. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket.</p> Turkey Press hardcover books
1976191608n.p.: USLA 1976. 18x24 inch poster sketch of a face with splattered blood streaming from its nose artist identified as "R. Castro" artwork is signed as Berkeley '76 but unknown if the poster was made later. The humorously titled US Senate report "Trotskyite Terrorist International" notes that the USLA was a front of the Socialist Workers Party. USLA unknown books
1934CA0247Description:<br />2 volumes: 427 pages with facsimile title and index; 513 pages with two facsimile pages appendix and index. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 7" bound in three quarter blue leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine. From the library of George M Foster. Second edition.<br /><br />The two chronicles by Francisco de Burgoa easily hold first place for inflated style and bombastic phraseology especially the opening remarks to various chapters. Yet for the important area of Oaxaca and the numerous subjects he treats Burgoa's works are indispensable and irreplaceable sources. Burgoa born in Oaxaca was related to numerous local colonial families. He took his final vows in 1625 and by 1649 was provincial of his Order. In that post he made a special effort to visit various parts of Oaxaca especially seeking notices of Zapotecan antiquities with the aim of writing a history of Oaxaca. Before his death in 1681he did not complete it but left two prolix yet valuable published treatises. The two chronicles are the usually abbreviated Palestra historial and Geográfica descripción. Burgoa conceived of them as a single work but they differ in contents. The Palestra historial is a typical chronicle. It begins with the arrival in 1526 of Dominicans in Mexico City and shortly thereafter their appearance in Oaxaca. Burgoa rehearses the lives of many missionaries already biographized by Davila Padilla but Burgoa emphasizes their apostolate in the Oaxaca areas even before formal establishment of the Province of San Hipolito 1592. These lives are uniformly eulogistic but scattered through them are important bits of information on the numerous Indian groups of Oaxaca. The Geográfica descripción has 80 chapters. They detail the histories of the Monasteries and the work of their friars among the Indians with much less attention to biographical detail than in the Palestra historial. The data run to about mid-17th century in both. Handbook of Middle American Indians<br /><br /> George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br />Some occasional pencil marginalia by Foster. Foster's date of acquired on front paste down of volume one. Some rubbing to extremities else a very good set. Archivo General de la Nacion hardcover books
195347241Concepción: by the Company 1953-4. First Edition. Quarto 27cm. Twelve monthly issues comprising the entire first year of publication. Bound into cloth-backed boards front and rear wrappers retained; each issue 16pp. Moderate external wear; punch-holes in bound margin of each issue else Very Good. A graphically impressive company journal issued by the major Chilean mining and manufacturing firm Compañia de Acero del Pacifico CAP. Founded in 1947 CAP is still one of the largest industrial concerns in all of Latin America. Huachipato a publication aimed toward the company's employees chronicles activities both within the company and in the surrounding apparently vast company town. In addition to industrial and technological achievements the publication documents the social life of the company's workers with much coverage of sporting and cultural events the town's soccer team also called Huachipato was elevated to Chile's primera división as early as 1965. The journal is noteworthy for its graphical sophistication with photo-montaged covers sprightly layouts and a mid-century aesthetic reflecting Latin America's internationalist ambitions during this period. Rare; OCLC 2020 locates just scattered holdings all for three or fewer issues; Texas and Cornell only in North America. by the Company unknown books
1746A0068xxxvi167viii96 pages. Octavo 8 1/4" x 6 1/4" bound in full leather with decorative gilt and lettering to spine. From the library of George M Foster. First edition.<br /><br />Lorenzo Boturini Benaducci born in Italy of noble parentage studied in Milan and lived in Trieste and Vienna. He was a knight of the Holy Roman Empire. Forced to flee Austria because of the war with Spain Boturini arrived in Spain via England and Portugal. In Madrid he met the Condesa de Santibáñez oldest daughter of the Condesa de Moctezuma. The mother authorized him to collect a pension due her as a descendant of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II from the royal treasury in New Spain. Boturini went to New Spain in 1736 where he remained eight years. During those years he assembled a vast collection of paintings maps manuscripts and native codices. He copied more than 500 pre-Columbian inscriptions and made his own drawings of monuments and sculptures and he investigated the history of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe on the hill of Tepeyac. He traveled widely and on his travels brought together the largest collection of Mexican antiquities assembled to that time by a European. Not only did he intend to write the history of the Virgin of Guadalupe but he also had plans to crown her image with a gold crown. For that purpose he sought donations from the bishops and from the public. This brought him to the attention of the colonial government which was suspicious of the motives of a foreigner making this proposal. On June 2 1743 after an investigation the recently arrived viceroy Pedro Cebrián y AgustÃn had him imprisoned and impounded his collection. He was accused of entering New Spain without license from the Council of the Indies and of introducing papal documents without a royal permit. After eight months in prison Boturini was sent to Spain. He fell into the hands of pirates who eventually released him at Gibraltar. From there he traveled to Madrid in miserable conditions. In Madrid he met Mariano Fernández de EcheverrÃa y Veytia another passionate collector of Indian antiquities. Fernández de EcheverrÃa y Veytia offered Boturini a place to live and financial support and got the Council of the Indies to reconsider his case. Boturini was absolved. The king named him royal chronicler of the Indies ordered that his collection be returned to him and extended an invitation for him to return to New Spain. Boturini however declined to return to New Spain and his collection was never restored. It appears that he was granted recompense and a stipend to work on his projected history of the colony. In Madrid he wrote a history of ancient Mexico unpublished at the time of his death in 1753. The library at the BasÃlica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe is named for him. The Boturini Collection was formed between 1735 and 1743 to serve as the basis of a projected Historia de América Septentrional. It consisted of many valuable documents the majority of them of Indian provenance. Among these were hieroglyphic paintings that had belonged to Juan de Alva Ixtlilxochitl a descendant of the rulers of Texcoco. Ixtlilxotchitl bequeathed these documents to Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. The collection was confiscated by Viceroy Pedro Cebrián y AgustÃn at the time of Boturini's arrest in 1743. It was deposited in the office of the secretary of the viceroyalty. The documents were neglected there for years and suffered considerable pilferage. The subsequent viceroy Juan Francisco de Güemes 1st Count of Revillagigedo granted the historian and antiquary Fernández de EcheverrÃa y Veytia Boturini's friend from Madrid the paintings and documents he solicited for his own studies. On Fernández de EcheverrÃa y Veytia's death they passed to Antonio de León y Gama. He died in 1802 and the collection passed to his heirs. Shortly thereafter 16 paintings were obtained by Alexander von Humboldt during his visit to Mexico in 1802-03. He published them in Vues des cordillères et monuments des peuples indigènes d'Amérique. The originals of these are now in the Berlin State Library. Part of the remainder of the collection may have passed to Father José Pichardo an amateur antiquarian. Joseph Alexis Aubin beginning in 1827 or shortly thereafter obtained important parts of the collection from a variety of sources. He sold his collection to Eugène Goupil who was of French and Mexican descent. This part of the collection passed by donation or purchase to the National Library in Paris where it remains under the name Aubin-Goupil Collection.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Lacks frontispiece portrait. Lacks Foster's stamp or date of purchase. some damp stains to end papers neat old marginalia in Spanish to back end paper worm hole ant head and heal of spine going through spine extremities bumped and rubbed old owner's label to front paste down 1" chip at back head hinge and name to front end paper scuffed else a good copy of a rare item. En la Imprenta de Juan de Zuniga hardcover books
19662222024<p>First edition. 4to. 65 tipped-in color plates over 30 line drawings including a folding map. Bibliography. Dust jacket unclipped. Very good. 154 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p> Akademische Druck und Verlagsanstalt hardcover books
191218158Washington DC: Press of Byron S. Adams 1912. 6 x 9.25 inches 72 pp with chromolithograph frontispiece many b/w illustrations from photographs. Near fine with mild edgewear to wrappers. Stamp of the Bolivan Consulate in San Francisco on front endpaper. An attractive informational booklet aimed at potential investors with description of the major cities of Bolivia and details of topography demographics climate natural resources mining the financial system laws and tariffs and transportation. A colored folding map of the country shows forest agricultural areas and mineral locations. Press of Byron S. Adams unknown books
18528235London. Samuel Bagster. 1852. Bound in full blind ruled morocco. Blind ruled spine compartments with raised bands. Gilt titles. a.e.g. 32mo 2" x 3.5". A bit of rubbing to extremities. A Near Fine crisp sweet little copy. Samuel Bagster. hardcover books
1910CA01065 volumes: volume 1 Texto: xx607 pages with frontispiece portraits illustrations facsimiles maps and plates; volume 2 Documentos: 552 pages; volume 3 Vida de Ercilla: 337 pages with portraits illustrations and index; volumes 4-5 Illustrations: 512 pages with facsimile titles to the first publications; 559 pages with facsimile signatures plates and index. Folio 15" x 10 3/4" with original wrappers bound in to cloth binding. Compiled and arranged by Jose Toribio Medina. First edition.<br /><br />La Araucana is an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile by Alonso de Ercilla; it is also known in English as The Araucaniad. It was considered the national epic of the Kingdom of Chile and one of the most important works of the Spanish Golden Age Siglo de Oro. The poem consists of 37 cantos that are distributed across the poem's three parts. The first part was published in 1569; the second part appeared in 1578 when it was published with the first part; the third part was published with the first and second parts in 1589. The poem shows Ercilla to be a master of the octava real the complicated stanza in which many other Renaissance epics in Castilian were written. A difficult eight-line unit of 11-syllable verses that are linked by a tight rhyme scheme the octava real was a challenge few poets met. It had been adapted from Italian only in the 16th century and it produces resonant serious-sounding verse that is appropriate to epic themes. The work describes the initial phase of the Arauco War which was born as a Spanish conquests attempt not at all comparable in importance to those of Hernán Cortés who helped conquer the Aztec empire and Francisco Pizarro who initiated the overthrow the Inca empire. Contrary to the epic conventions of the time however Ercilla placed the lesser conquests of the Spanish in Chile at the core of his poem because the author was a participant in the conquest and the story is based on his experiences there. On scraps of paper in the lulls of fighting Ercilla jotted down versified octaves about the events of the war and his own part in it. These stanzas he later gathered together and augmented in number to form his epic. It was the first poem of its kind written by a participant in the course of the events narrated and the first to immortalize the beginnings of a modern country. In the minds of the Chilean people La Araucana is a kind of Iliad that exalts the heroism pride and contempt of pain and death of the legendary Araucanian leaders and makes them national heroes today. Thus we see Ercilla appealing to the concept of the "noble savage" which has its origins in classical authors and took on a new lease of life in the renaissance - c.f. Montaigne's essay Des Canibales and was destined to have wide literary currency in European literature two centuries later. He had in fact created a historical poem of the war in Chile which immediately inspired many imitations.<br /><br />La Araucana is deliberately literary and includes fantastical elements reminiscent of medieval stories of chivalry. The narrator is a participant in the story at the time a new development for Spanish literature. Influences include Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Also features extended description of the natural landscape. La Araucana's successes—and weaknesses—as a poem stem from the uneasy coexistence of characters and situations drawn from Classical sources primarily Virgil and Lucan both translated into Spanish in the 16th century and Italian Renaissance poets Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso with material derived from the actions of contemporary Spaniards and Araucanians. The mixture of Classical and Araucanian motifs in La Araucana often strikes the modern reader as unusual but Ercilla's turning native peoples into ancient Greeks Romans or Carthaginians was a common practice of his time. For Ercilla the Araucanians were noble and brave—only lacking as their Classical counterparts did the Christian faith. Caupolicán the Indian warrior and chieftain who is the protagonist of Ercilla's poem has a panoply of Classical heroes behind him. His valour and nobility give La Araucana grandeur as does the poem's exaltation of the vanquished: the defeated Araucanians are the champions in this poem which was written by one of the victors a Spaniard. Ercilla's depiction of Caupolicán elevates La Araucana above the poem's structural defects and prosaic moments which occur toward the end when Ercilla follows Tasso too closely and the narrative strays from the author's lived experience. Ercilla the poet-soldier eventually emerges as the true hero of his own poem and he is the figure that gives the poem unity and strength. The story is considered to be the first or one of the first works of literature in the New World cf. Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios—Shipwrecked or Castaways for its fantastical/religious elements it is arguable whether that is a "traveler's account" or actual literature; and Bernal DÃaz del Castillo's Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva España The Conquest of New Spain. La Araucana's more dramatic moments also became a source of plays. But the Renaissance epic is not a genre that has as a whole endured well and today Ercilla is little known and La Araucana is rarely read except by specialists and students of Spanish and Latin American literatures and of course in Chile where it is subject of special attention in the elementary schools education both in language and history. La Araucana makes Chile the only American country that was founded under the lights of an epic poem. <br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Bound in red cloth with original wrappers bound in. Volume one first 15 pages closed tear at heal repaired back page fore edge repaired. A very good set. Imprenta elzeviriana hardcover books
123233Paris: Boudet Desaint et Avignon Merande 1767-1773. 17 vols 4to 33 engraved plates some folding 6 letterpress tables some folding. Contemporary/original mottled calf spines gilt and gilt-lettered. A bit dry and worn but quite sound. § A lovely quarto edition of the Bible in Latin and French also issued in 8vo -- this is much the more preferable version. The plates and maps are outstanding and the physical feat of printing all seventeen volumes in 6 years is astonishing. Complete sets in commerce are surprisingly scarce though widely held by institutions. Brunet I 888: “Ce livre connu sous le nom de Bible de Vence mais qui devrait plutôt porter celui de Rondet son éditeur est fort estiméâ€. Not in Darlow and Moule under Latin or French. Boudet unknown books
1975247782New York; Berkeley: NACLA 1975. Pamphlet. 31p. stapled wraps 8.5x11 inches paper toned else very good condition. Text in Spanish. NACLA unknown books
1975221803New York; Berkeley: NACLA 1975. Pamphlet. 31p. pamphlet 8.5x11 inches paper toned with some foxing. Text in Spanish. NACLA unknown books
197596663New York: New Outlook Publishers 1975. 52p. wraps. Statement issued jointly by the communist parties of various Latin American and Caribbean countries. New Outlook Publishers unknown books
200331672Westport: Greenwood Press. As New. 2003. Hardcover. 0313323941 . First printing. As new in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Greenwood Press hardcover books
1670WRCLIT65539London: excudit Rogerus Nortonus regius in Latinis Græcis & Hebraicis typographus; væneuntque apud Sam. Mearne regium bibliopolam in vico vulgariter dicto Little-Britaine 1670. 382pp. plus preliminary blank leaf. Contemporary speckled calf raised bands spine gilt extra. Upper joint cracked at top and bottom; corners worn shallow loss at crown and toe of spine a few minor marginal smudges front free endsheet nearly loose contemporary ownership inscriptions on endsheets with ink name in margin of title- page but internally a very good copy. Second edition of this version of Book of Common Prayer in Latin for the Anglican Church edited by John Durel who signs the dedication "J.D. Editor." First printed in 1669 this is one of two variants of the 1670 printing noted by ESTC in this case with the imprint in five lines ending with 'Little- Britaine." The translation was initially undertaken by John Earle John Pearson and John Dolben but they withdrew before the work was complete and Durel later Dean of Windsor completed it. ESTC locates four copies of this variant in North America and nine of the four line variant. ESTC R17750. WING B3637B. GRIFFITHS 87.10. excudit Rogerus Nortonus, regius in Latinis, Græcis & Hebraicis typographus; væneuntque apud Sam. Mearne, regium bibliopolam i hardcover books
1755CA011424531 pages with engraved allegorical frontispiece and index. Small folio 11 1/2" x 8 1/2" bound in original full leather with raised spine bands and decorative gilt lettering. Palau 266572. Sabin 70785 First edition.<br /><br />Full of original documents respecting the establishment of the Church in the Indies and the protection of the Indians together with all the bulls referred to from that of Alexander VI to the time of publication. With the additional 24 preliminary leaves not in all printings.<br /><br />The ancestors of Rivadeneira on both sides had served the Crown for centuries in the Reconquista in high positions of Church and State and in the conquests of Mexico and the Darién. Among his relatives is the Marquis de Moncada lieutenant colonel of the Puebla Regiment. Rivadeneira received a bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Law from the University of Mexico. He obtained a scholarship at the Colegio Mayor de Todos Santos on November 11 1731 served in various positions competed for the Chair of Institutes and remained in residence until 1746. The Audiencia de México approved him to practice as a lawyer in 1733. While still in Todos Santos Rivadeneira began serving in various positions. He was an advisor to the mayors of the city and town of Carrión in Valle Atrisco. The interim viceroy-archbishop Juan de Bizarrón appointed him a lawyer for the poor of the Courtroom of the Audiencia in 1739 with similar capacity in the Tribunal del Santo Oficio the city of Puebla and the Agustino Convent of Mexico. In 1744 Rivadeneira became fiscal agent of the room of the Crime. He served as an advisor to the viceroy Duke of the Conquest and was commissioned to settle a dispute over land by his successor the Count of Fuenclara. In 1746 Rivadeneira decided to go to Spain for family businesses and to secure a position. For a payment of 13000 pesos he obtained the appointment as supernumerary judge of the Audiencia de Guadalajara by decree of January 30 and title of February 20 1748. Without occupying this position he obtained the criminal prosecution of the Audiencia de Mexico on December 22 of 1753. He obtained a license to sail to New Spain with the servants José Ostos of Écija; Diego Ibiricu from Cádiz; Antonio de la Cruz from Zacatecas and Manuel Tagle a "free black". Rivadeneira returned to New Spain in 1755 in the same vessel in which the new viceroy Marquis de las Amarillas went and assumed his post on October 30 1755. As a prosecutor he opposed the activities of the Tribunal de Acordada. Assigned to the civil prosecutor's office to replace Luis de Mosquera and Aranda by consultation of April 28 and title of June 21 1760 the following year by consultation of May 14 and title of August 15 was appointed to replace the deceased Francisco López Adán as judge of the Audiencia. He served until his death. While he was an oidor he was denounced for possessing forbidden books. While in Spain in 1752 Rivadeneira published <i>El Pasatiempo for the use of Ex.mo Señor Carvajal and Lancaster a history of the world from creation to Fernando VI</i> in three volumes. This long didactic and religious poem was an effort to obtain a position and Beristain perhaps not knowing of the payment of 13000 pesos by Rivadeneira considered his first appointment of audience due to the sponsorship of José de Carvajal. As a prosecutor in 1755 Rivadeneira wrote the <i>Handbook compendium of the Indian Board of Trustees</i> which traced the royal patronage to the Book of Genesis an achievement for which the Crown gave him 4000 pesos. He also wrote the <i>Defense of Royal Jurisdiction</i> in 1763 <i>the remarkable newspaper of His Excellency Marquise de las Amarillas</i> and the draft of the protest sent to Spain by the City Council of Mexico City in 1771 on a claim of appointments for Americans.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Missing some of spine label small crack along the heal font hinge spine ends chipped light rubbing to extremities with the corners rubbed through internally very nice over all a very good copy. Antonio MarÃn hardcover books
1892A0818265-480 pages with 2 plates illustrations tables. Quarto 11 1/2" x 8 3/4" bound in quarter red leather marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. From the library of Professor George M Foster. Pagination follows its publication in a volume of the Anales del Museo Nacional de Mexico. First edition.<br /><br />Jacinto de la Serna was a 17th-century priest who recorded extensive information regarding the survival of native religious customs. Born in Mexico he gained a doctorate in theology at the University of Mexico of which he was later rector three times. As a young priest he served for 14 years in parishes of the Indians during the same time that Ruiz de Alarcon was making his investigations. He spent most of his later career in Mexico City where he was one of the curates of the cathedral during three periods. He held important offices in the administrations of the archdiocese. He served as visitor general of the archdiocese under two archbishops. In 1656 he composed a work entitled Manual de ministros de indios para el conocimiento de sus idolatrias y extirpacion de ellas first published in 1892 in which he drew together the fruits of his own experience and the results of his studies. The purpose of the work was to acquaint the religious ministers with the superstitions of the Indians so that they could better instruct their Indian charges. The work may be divided into four parts. In chapters 1-5 he traces the history of the efforts to put an end native religious practices. In this section he gives valuable details of his own activities and of those of his predecessors such as Pedro Ponce de Leon and Hernando Ruiz de Alarcon. Chapters 6-11 are a study of the Aztec calendar for which he drew heavily on Martin de Leon. Boturini later used some of his material. Chapters 12-27 treat of religious beliefs and practices of the Indians. Large sections were take directly or in paraphrase from Ruiz de Alarcon including the latter's translations of Indian chants and prayers. Chapters 28-33 propose remedies against the continued practice of the native religions.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Foster's stamp to title. Some extremity rubbing boards slightly bowed else a very good copy. Imprenta del Museo Nacional hardcover books
19811334515Milwaukee: Marquette University Press 1981. Softcover. Octavo; pp 106; G/paperback; black spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth shows some smudges to exterior; slight sticker residue to front; intact panels; text block has light tone to exterior edges; interior clean; illustrated. 1334515. FP New Rockville Stock. Marquette University Press unknown books
1988222Princeton: Princeton University Press 1988. First Edition First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Very good/fine. Very good first printing. Brown cloth under buckram quarter cloth binding. Cream endpapers. Pages are clean and bright. Rear endpaper and page 379 have short tear at bottom. From the private library of Larry Southwick collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. In a fine dust jacket now protected in a clear removable archival cover. Profusely illustrated with photos and drawings. 379 pp. including bibliography and index. Quarto 10 1/2 x 10 inches tall. Large and heavy item billed at actual shipping charges. Princeton University Press hardcover books
193329764Antofagasta: Partido Comunista de Chile 1933. Lithographed postal card ca 19.5cm x 9cm 5-1/4" x 3-1/2". Mild discoloration; corners slightly rounded; Very Good. Recto is a captioned portrait; verso printed for mailing with text providing a brief biography of Anabalon a communist-affiliated college professor who was arrested tortured and killed by Chilean government forces in 1932. A rare memorial of this little-remembered but briefly influential event. [Partido Comunista de Chile] unknown books
1859CA02406 volumes. xxx379index pages; 426index pages; 388index pages; 51620 tables and index pages; 39317 tables and index pages; 39456 tables and index with large fold out map at back and 12 plates. Folio 12 1/4" x 8 1/4" bound in original publisher's dark brown pebbled cloth ruled in blind with front boards with armorial gilt device. New spines with original title in gilt laid on. Palau 95426 Sabin 26119 First editions.<br /><br />These memoirs prepared by ten of the viceroys were intended to apprise each successor of the nature and duties of his post of the distribution of offices and presidencies of the privileges of the natives their hereditary customs and character. The work forms a glorious monument of statesmanship; and it may be conjectured that if the Spaniards had always formed their conduct according to these Memorias they would never had lost their colonies in the New World. Bibliographico-Linguistica 312 part III<br /><br />The series was edited under the direction of the Ministerio de Hacienda.<br /><br />Some foxing in all volumes some water staining varying in degrees in volumes worming to some volumes in varying degrees a few affecting text but all readable. Spine replaced with original spine labels affixed else a good set of a scare colonial item. Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply. Libreria Central de Felipe Baily hardcover books
1997201723Tucson: El Centro Cultural de las Americas & League of United Latin American Citizens 1997. Magazine. 28p 8.5x11 inches biographical sketches and b&w photos of participants resources schedules events ads very good event program in stapled white pictorial wraps. El Centro Cultural de las Americas & League of United Latin American Citizens unknown books
1911CA0100a3 volumes. Volume 1. vi314 with frontispiece and plates; volume 2. 372 pages with frontispiece and plates. volume 3. 518 pages with frontispiece and one plate. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x6 1/4" Bound in quarter leather with gilt lettering to spine and raised spine bands; marbled boards. Preface par M. le Cte de MoüyFirst edition.<br /><br />Mémoires: L'Intervention Française au Mexique by Charles Blanchot. This very rare memoir by Charles Blanchot was aide-de-camp to General Bazaine Supreme Commander of French Forces in Mexico during Mexico's Second Empire. There is so much in here that has never seen light in either Spanish or English for instance: the powerful if behind-the-scenes role of Doña Juliana de Gómez Pedraza widow of Manuel Gómez Pedraza and the vicious if as Blanchot suggests unfounded rumors circulating in Mexico City about Bazaine in 1866-7. Blanchot who married an American of French origin in Mexico City also offers a detailed and lively portrait of Mexico City society at the time.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />First signature of volume one detached with some edge wear along the fore-edges title to volume two detached binding edges and hinges rubbed spines darkened. A good copy of a very rare and scarce work. Librairie Emile Nourry hardcover books
