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154719895AB1547. Salamanca Juan de Junta 1547. 315 : 225 cm. 4 unnumbered leaves including woodcut-title 187 off 192 numbered leaves with many woodcuts in the text; 22 numbered leaves including woodcut-title 1 leaf. Vellum binding in contemporary style. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés August 1478 - 1557 commonly known as Oviedo was a Spanish soldier historian writer botanist and colonist. Oviedo participated in the Spanish colonization of the West Indies arriving in the first few years after Christopher Columbus became the first European to arrive at the islands in 1492. Oviedo's chronicle Historia general de las Indias forms one of the few primary sources about it and introduced Europeans to the hammock the pineapple and tobacco as well as creating influential representations of the colonized peoples of the region. It is through the Historia that Europeans came to learn about the hammock pineapple tobacco and barbecue among other things used by the Native Americans that he encountered. The first illustration of a pineapple is credited to him. The Historia though written in a diffuse style furnishes a mass of information collected at first hand. With many interesting woodcuts like canoe o waka differents forms of houses different tools plants fuit-trees different forms of cactus pineapple etc. The second part is: CONQUISTA DEL PERU. Verdadera relacíon dela conquista el Peru y provincia del Cuzco llamada la nueva Castilla. Conquistada por Francisco picarro.Embiada a su magestad por Francisco de Xerez .Fue vista y examinada esta obra por mandado delos señores Inquisidores. With a beautiful title-woodcut complet. - Missing Folios XLVII LXVI LXXI CXXI and CLIII. The numbers for Folio LXXVI and CLXXX used twice. The copy was washed and some pages with small restaurations folio LVII lower right corner supplemented with loose of some letters also the last page. A couple of pages browned and a bit stained. Newly bound with new endpapers. - Even with this defects still a desire-able copy of this extremely rare oeuvre. hardcover
1918List2982Peru and Panama 1918. Approximately 364 photos; album and unmounted photos silver prints cyanotypes and printing-out-paper prints. Photos measure 3 x 4 to 8 x 10 inches with about half measuring 3 x 5 ½ inches. Some with photographer’s hand-stamp or credit in pencil; others with manuscript notations verso or recto; some captions to album pages. Offered in partnership with Daniel / Oliver.<br /> <br /> Rich and extensive photographic archive of Walton T. Burres of Stockton California showing his time in Peru c. 1904 as an amateur explorer and doctor for the Inca Mining and Rubber Company and his later work in Panama c. 1918 with the Rockefeller Foundation’s International Health Division.The collection consists of a large number of loose photos acquired by the gallery in 2021 and a recently discovered photo album showing some of the same subjects and containing a few duplicate images some printed in different sizes or formats as well as hundreds of previously unseen prints. Together this material makes up the largest extant archive of Burres’s photographic work. Though his work was published at the time both in Peruvian and American publications much of it was lost when he dropped it in a river that he was attempting to ford.<br /> <br /> Burres was educated at California’s Cooper Medical College the first school of medicine on the West Coast and was a prominent member of the Stockton community before sojourning to Peru around 1900 to help the Inca Mining and Rubber Company address the deadly diseases endemic to the region such as malaria and yellow fever. To encourage economic infrastructure in remote areas the Peruvian government began granting land concessions to any company that would build roads bridges or river ports. As a result the Inca Mining Company an American outfit based in Tirapata purchased the rights to mine gold along the upper Inambari River in 1896 and soon became the richest gold producer in Peru.<br /> <br /> A large portion of Burres’s Peruvian images document his 1903–1904 excursion from Arequipa 150 miles into “rubber country.†The journeys were well-recounted in U.S. papers and a number of the anecdotes described in print are seen in the present images.<br /> <br /> There are many dynamic views of Burres and his party trekking through the dense jungle and summiting the high mountains as well as shots of flora fauna and native Peruvians. Burres’s travel companions for this trip included the famed adventurer Harriet Chalmers Adams later dubbed “America’s greatest woman explorer†by the New York Times. Adams and her husband Frank both fellow Stocktonians joined up with Burres during their own multi-year expedition through South America. There are a number of portraits of a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Adams though it is possibly another person.<br /> <br /> Other Peruvian material includes numerous views of Cusco Arequipa and the surrounding environs including a beautiful interior of a chapel a Martin Chambi-esque detail shot of a stone wall and portraits of local townspeople some identified as Quechua people. There are a number of lush large-format cyanotypes rich printing-out-paper views and many handsome small-format panoramas. These were printed on Inca Mining Company surplus stationary which speaks to the makeshift nature of photo-development under the circumstances. One particularly striking image shows the top of Misti volcano barely visible above the clouds. This image was reproduced in Burres's account of his travels published in 1909 in Outing magazine.<br /> <br /> The photographs from Burres’s time in Panama document his more serious work as a virologist and health administrator in the area. One interesting photo shows a pair of recently-shot iguanas with a caption noting that “blood of these reptiles was found infected with Haemogregarina.†Another image is that of a new style of privy built from concrete and wire-mesh designed to better keep out rain water. There are also keenly-shot views of main streets and local culture in Los Santos Chiriquà and elsewhere including a number of humanistic group portraits taken at a girl’s school. unknown
17726489Lima: Oficina de la calle de San Jacinto 1772. First Edition — Primera edición. Hardcover — Tapa dura. 190x135mm. 7½x5¼". Lima Oficina de la calle de San Jacinto 1772-1773. 2 volúmenes. En 4º menor 190 x 135mm. -I: 54 2 207 i.e. 133 5 pp. 14 hojas de portadillas. -II: 158 306 i.e. 318 4 pp. 5 hojas de portadillas. Encuadernación en pergamino de época. Primera edición de los cuadernos de desamortización de los bienes de la CompañÃa de Jesús en Perú con motivo de su expulsión según las reglas que prescribe la Real Cédula dada en Madrid a 9 de julio de 1769. Los Jesuitas fueron expulsados de Perú asà como de otras posesiones de España en América por orden de Carlos III en 1767. El libro también incluye las Constituciones de diferentes colegios peruanos que estaban bajo la supervisión de los jesuitas. Obra extraordinariamente rara de encontrar completa de sus dos volúmenes especialmente un ejemplar hermoso como el nuestro. Tiene en total 19 portadillas fuera de la paginación. En España sólo he encontrado completos 2 ejemplares institucionales Ministerio de Justicia y Biblioteca Nacional. Oficina de la calle de San Jacinto hardcover
175943910Lima: En la Imprenta nueva de los Niños huerphanos por P. Gonzales 1759. First edition. Contemporary brown calf embossed boards. A good copy; tissue repairs to backstrip boards edge worn and moderately scuffed bookplate of Félix Francisco Martín y Herrera on front pastedown lacking front endpaper inked notations on front blank reattached and rear endpaper joint cracked title page worn and torn at inner margin with two small stains affecting but not obscuring the text repaired tears on corners of last page of index marginal dampstains mainly to the upper corners and fingersoilings a few wormholes but text is quite good. 2 leaves 84 pp. 5 pp. indice blank. Sm. 4to. Rare first editionxx of coinage ordinances for the mint in Lima modeled on Mexico's published just four years earlier but adapted to the needs of Lima. See Manuel Moreyra: "Apuntes sobre la historia de la moneda colonial en el peru" republished in La moneda colonial en el Perú 1980. Both the later 1788 edition and this first are uncommon: Not at the BN Spain nor in any European Libraries. OCLC locates two copies of the first at NYPL and JCB; there is also one at the BN Chile. Provenance: Felix Francisco Martín y Herrera 1918-2006 Argentinean Lawyer. Palau 203104 1788 edition only. Medina: Lima 1132. López de Azcona: Bibliografía minera hispano americana 1457. Maffei & Figueroa 3596. Moreno 1236. En la Imprenta nueva de los Niños huerphanos, por P. Gonzales hardcover
18680012009Macao Macau China Havana Cuba: Chinese Coolie Ship Manifest. Fair with no dust jacket. 1868. Non-Book. On offer is a tremendous San Salvadorian ship manifest recording the names and information of 622 Chinese men who were transported from the port of Macau to Havana Cuba to complete their indentured servitude as coolies working for Cuban sugar plantation owners. This manifest is for the January 25 1868 sailing of the Peruvian Galley the America. This sailing was captained by Cpt Ferreiro for the Compania Maritima del Peru. This sailing was under the San Salvadorian flag. The ship arrived in Macau on May 20 1868. 610 coolies departed Macau and 607 arrived in Cuba. This manifest was signed on January 241868 by Henrique W. Pearce a Macao-based emigration agent. It was also signed the day before departure on January 241868 by The Consul General of His Majesty José de Alguilar. The America had previously been used as a coolie ship called Red Rose under the British flag and under the Italian flag as the America. The America completed a total of seven coolie voyages transporting a total of 4703 Chinese passengers. The Chinese coolie trade a system of indentured labor that targeted young poor Chinese men operated from 1847-1874. Throughout this period African slavery was slowly being abolished around the world. The coolie trade was initiated by Britain and was eventually dominated by both Britain and the United States of America. Chinese coolie laborers were sent to work in British American and Spanish colonies and the nature of the trade changed throughout its 27-year operation due to social and political pressures. The coolie trade took place in large part between the shipping port in Macao now a part of China then under Portuguese rule and Havana Cuba then under Spanish control. As Macau was under Portugese rule at the time of the coolie trade they transported coolies on their vessels frequently and many of the manifests were written in Portuguese and/or Spanish. To learn more about the Chinese coolie trade and its importance in world history click here to read our in-depth research blog on the topic. This departure manifest measures 8.5x13.5 inches. It contains 18 pages of writing 9 front and back over 10 physical pages. Folded together. Significant bending with some tears at the crease lines. Some pages are fragile with some pages becoming detached from the total document however the document does remain in tact. Legible. Overall Fair. Citation: Asome J. 2020. Coolie ships of the Chinese diaspora 1846-1874. Proverse Hong Kong. ; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author . Chinese Coolie Ship Manifest unknown
16842107010025Impresso en Lima 1684. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. The Administration of 17th Century Peru: the Abuse of Indians by the Clergy Folio. Bound in contemporary vellum. Good binding and cover. Minor foxing and marginal dampstaining but a still an attractive copy. Palau 267; Sabin 41987. <br> Melchor Linan y Cisneros was the Archbishop of Lima for thirty years and served as viceroy of Peru from 1678-1681. He argued for ecclesiastical liberty against the attempts of his successor Melchor de Navarra Duke of Palata's attempts to curtail clergical abuses. Some of the parish priests and friars were exacting oppressive church taxes against the indigenous population. This book's author Juan Luis Lopez served as the Duke of Palata's secretary and attempts to defend the Duke of Palata's curbs on clergical abuses. "The Archbishop of Lima Melchor de Linan y Cisneros had objected to a decree issued by the Viceroy of Peru Melchor de Navarra y Rocalfull Duke de la Palata for the suppression of certain ecclesiastical abuses. The present publication was issued by order of the Viceroy in answer to the Archbishop's objections." - Maggs SPANISH AMERICA AND THE GUIANAS 1935. Subtitle: "despachada por el govierno superior y reducida a ordenanc̜a en el tom. 1. fol. 311. : sobre que en recibir los corregidores deste reyno informaciones secretas de oficio o a instancia de parte en orden a averiguar como observan los curas y doctrineros las disposiciones canonicas synodales cedulas y ordenancas de su magestad que tratan de las obenciones que deben llevar a los indios a fin solo de dar cuenta con ellas a sus prelados y al govierno superior destos reynos paraque lo remedien no se contraviene en cosa alguna a la immunidad de la iglesia. Impresso en Lima hardcover
18305862Various places in Peru 1830. Good. Seven broadsides and bifolia totaling 14pp. with each sheet measuring approximately 11.5 x 7.5 inches. Previously bound with stabholes and residue at left margin. Moderate worming affecting some text but not sense. Minor tanning and soiling. A group of seven highly ephemeral and seemingly unrecorded military broadsides and bifolia reports from Peru dating to the country's war with Gran Colombia from 1828 to 1829 and just after. The conflict stemmed from a border dispute after independence was gained in 1820 and 1821 with the boundary left relatively undefined. The Armistice of Piura formally agreed in September 1829 recognized Guayaquil and its surrounding area as a part of Gran Colombia and accorded Peru recognition of its modern-day northern provinces. The documents present here include an exhortation by Peruvian President Agustin Gamarra to support the prospective peace a report on the state of the Peruvian treasury in Trujillo during the midst of the conflict a bulletin concerning military developments in April 1829 addressed to the armed forces a patriotic broadside printed in Arequipa and a congratulatory address to the army printed on the day of armistice. The titles of these works none of which are individually recorded in OCLC are as follows:<br /> <br /> 1 Gamarra Agustin. El Presidente Provisoria del Peru a los Pueblos de la Republica. Lima: September 1 1829.<br /> 2 Peru. Estado Que Manifiesta las Cantidades Acopiadas por Esta Administracion Pral. del Tesoro Público del Departamento de la Libertad en el Presente Mes de Junio. Trujillo: June 20 1829.<br /> 3 Bermudez Pedro. Ejercito Peruano. Boletin No. IV. Piura: April 1 1829.<br /> 4 Gamarra Agustin. El Presidente de la Republica a los Pueblos. Lima: September 5 1830.<br /> 5 Peru. Queja Que Interpone ante el Respetable Tribunal de la Opinion Pública el Ciudadano Evaristo Encina Capitan Graduado de Ejercito Cóntra José Policarpos Hernandes. Trujillo: Imprenta de la Municipalidad 1829.<br /> 6 Peru. Gratis. Desahogo Patriotico. Arequipa: Imprenta Libre 1829.<br /> 7 Cerdeña Blas. El Comandante en Jefe al Ejercito. Piura: September 9 1829. unknown
DA08C-02495El Comercio. Collectible - Good. Lima: "El Comercio" 1879. 4to hardcover. Green and black marbled boards leather spine with gilt lettering. 125pp. Spanish. Good book. Covers shelfworn and rubbed. Slight dampstaining and small tear to marbled paper of rear cover. Corners bumped. Ink notation to title page and one rear endpage. In polypropylene bag. The congressional records of Peru from 1879 the year Peru entered the War of the Pacific or the Nitrate War 1879-1884. Peru Politics Government Congressional Records Books in Spanish Inquire if you need further information. El Comercio hardcover
186276434Lima: N.p. 1862. Original manuscript title or deed to the Hacienda San Jacinto in the Nerena Valley of Coastal Peru. While the estate is named after a Hispanic saint San Jacinto its origin dates back to pre-Inca times. Evidence of this is the remains of cultural settlements in Punkuri Kiske and Cerro Blanco. The Spanish Crown gave this land to the Jesuits in 1720 who introduced sugarcane as part of the agricultural production in this part of Peru. They also took it away from the Jesuits in 1767.Folio. 151 leaves with manuscript on both sides of each leaf i.e. 352 pp. Each leaf bears the required tax stamp the equivalent of a notary stamp at that time and each leaf is written on paper bearing the same watermark. Each leaf also bears a blind-stamp of a seal in the inner margin of each recto. Written in a numerous hands but all quite legible. Original full brown sheepskin with gilt spine lettering and devices pattern endpapers. Like a ready made binding used for legal purposes as the text block in considerably smaller than the binding. Altogether in very nice condition.This is the original transfer title for an estate of great importance and size in one of the most fertile parts of coastal Peru the Narena Valley. It consisted of 700 fanejadas of land about 1200 acres and all that stood upon it; primarily the sugarcane and alfalfa fields but houses tools farm animals furniture etc. In fact it seems that the original name for the property still bore and can be seen on the first page of this manuscript the word "Canaverales" which is a euphemism for sugarcane. This mammoth 302-page manuscript is basically an inventory of literally everything on those 1200 acres. The detail on the inventory is incredibly extensive; every table horse cow frying pan etc is listed and priced. It was first laid out as a sugarcane plantation in 1720 by the Jesuits. The Jesuits were expelled from the New World lands and missions in 1767 by the Spanish crown with King Charles III ordering their removal from all Spanish territories including the Americas due to growing political pressure against the order; the Franciscans largely took over the operation of the missions after the expulsion. When all their lands were confiscated by the Spanish government as happened throughout Latin America the Hacienda likely went through a number of hands. It was well regarded as a solid and lucrative sugarcane plantation and would have been considered a prize acquisition. We can find no history of the buyer named on this deed Santiago Sanchez but that is likely due to the fact that Spanish people have last names that can be written in a variety of combinations. But we do know that he paid 8697 pesos for it and that was a very considerable sum for the time indeed enough to place someone in a wealthy or influential social position. The most curious thing in the inventory which is lengthy and detailed in the extreme is the list of slaves. Ostensibly President Ramon Castilla y Marquezado declared slavery abolished in 1854 yet here we have a document that clearly affixes values to each and every slave and the prices paid for each by Sanchez. Prices ranged from 0 to 500 pesos. And there were a large number of them. Staring on p. 68 of the inventory we find them all listed and they are broken down into a variety of categories. Indigenous people African people male female young old and & "Inservibles" translates as "useless people". All slaves were examined by Dr. Antonio Manriquez surgeon and the most common reasons for being deemed "inservible" included: old age hernias ulcers and missing limbs. Their value was deemed to be zero. After being examined by physician the value accorded to each was dependent on their ability to work the farm. Surprisingly African slaves were valued less than local peoples this may have been due to the language issue. It should be noted that the slaves constituted a large portion of the total price paid. So it seems that this document gives lie to the previously believed fact that slavery was abolished in Peru in 1854. But we do not find this surprising as the gulf between the monied class and the populace was great and with no ability to enforce decrees from the central government the aristocracy likely just did whatever they pleased. Apparently Santiago Sanchez was ill-equipped to manage so many people and such a large piece of land as we know that in 1868 a Scotsman by the name of Henry Swayne bought the Hacienda San Jacinto an turned it into a profitable enteerpise by his humane attitude towards the farmers. "The hacienda or estate of San Jacinto was anciently one of the largest and finest in the valley of Nepeña; but before its purchase by Mr. Swayne a few years before our visit it had very much run down. It was deserted by the negro slave soon after their emancipation; the dwellings had fallen out of repair" The Fife Post. It remains a very lucrative farming operation to this day.We conferred with a native Spanish speaker and an individual who is fluent in Spanish and this report is the result. We might be incorrect but it is doubtful and in any case it is a fine 19th century manuscript deed to a large and valuable parcel of land in 19th century Peru. N.p. unknown
19124149Senior Class of 1912 Nebraska State Normal School at Peru 1912 A 1912 yearbook from Nebraska's first college first state-supported college. Stiff card boards full dark brown leather gilt front board lettering/decoration bright 10 3/8 x 8 inches 218 pp. Very good modest edgewear/rubbing; pages clean with no marks and binding sound. Rare. K071. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Senior Class of 1912, Nebraska State Normal School at Peru hardcover
19114148Senior Class Nebraska State Normal School at Peru 1911 A 1911 yearbook from Nebraska's first college first state-supported college. Hardcover full brown leather gilt front board lettering and decoration bright 10 1/2 x 8 inches 232 pp. Laid in: a card with a printed Peru poem. Very good modest edgewear; sunning spine; pages clean with no marks and binding tight. Rare. K071. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Senior Class, Nebraska State Normal School at Peru hardcover
1961231231961. Baum Allyn. Peru photo archive a substantial working group of large original photographs and related New York Times material centered on Baum's Peru assignments significant for preserving a photographer's own visual record of Andean and Amazonian travel Indigenous communities village life and editorial circulation within mid twentieth century American newspaper photojournalism. Allyn Baum was a staff photographer for The New York Times from 1957 to 1967. Included is a typed note from New York Bureau Chief Gedeon de Margitay congratulating Baum on the Peru photographs published in the Magazine together with the January 21 1962 New York Times article "Into the Unknown" directly linking the images to their original publication context and to contemporary American visual encounters with Peru's Indigenous regions and frontier geographies. From the estate of Allyn Baum. Peru and New York. 1961-1973.<br /> <br /> Archive of 48 items including 46 large silver gelatin photographs a New York Times article written by Baum and a single-page typed letter regarding publication. Most photographs measure 8" x 10" while 9 larger examples measure 10" x 13". Several are mounted on board and bear Baum's signature or detailed inscriptions such as "Jungle Priest" "Headhunter" and "High Andes Quechua Indians in Peru. Working in home . producing products for sport." Many retain original press captions or handwritten notes on the versos some in Baum's own hand. The photographs document river and jungle travel in the Amazon Basin village and market scenes domestic interiors American aircraft and extensive portrait studies of Andean and Amazonian Indigenous peoples. Indigenous sitters appear weaving spinning wool knitting carrying children traveling by canoe gathered near riverside settlements or posed in both formal and informal portrait settings. Several photographs emphasize textile production and traditional labor practices among Quechua communities in the high Andes while others focus on Amazonian Indigenous groups photographed within thatched settlements and river communities preserving material evidence of architecture clothing subsistence practices and daily life during a period when American newspaper photography increasingly framed Indigenous South America through the lens of exploration modernization and remote access.<br /> <br /> The archive is a strong record of Peru in the early 1960s documenting not only transportation networks settlement patterns and regional travel but also Indigenous cultural continuity across both Andean and Amazonian environments. Baum's photographs repeatedly center Indigenous Peruvians not simply as background figures within landscape photography but as primary subjects whose labor dress craft production domestic life and physical presence structure the visual narrative of the archive. The accompanying New York Times material preserves the editorial framework through which these images entered American mass circulation while the de Margitay note confirms internal recognition of Baum's Peru work within the newspaper itself. The later date range appears to reflect continued press handling reuse and captioning rather than a single production moment giving the archive additional value as a working newspaper photography file shaped over time. Minor edgewear throughout; versos with original handwritten descriptions by Baum and press editors. A cohesive and well-preserved Peru field photography archive documenting Indigenous life regional travel and mid century American photojournalism connected to The New York Times. unknown
17875761Lima 1787. Very good. 23pp. Folio. Light soiling and minor wear. Small worm hole through lower center of text block occasionally affecting a word. Accomplished in a neat secretarial script. Certified copy of a document relating to 13200 ducats due to the monks of the Escorial in Spain promised to them in perpetuity by Philip IV in 1654 and paid from duties collected in colonial Peru. In exchange for this annual subsidy of proceeds from encomiendas in Huaylas Chuquitanta Conchucas and other regions in Peru the monks promised to say masses and to do other certain religious acts for the crown. This document contains specific and detailed accounting numbers for the years 1781 to 1785 inclusive. unknown
1925227551925. Latin America SS Resolute voyage photograph album 1925 documenting a steamship journey through Central and South America during the interwar expansion of international maritime tourism following the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. The photographs record port cities landscapes and civic landmarks encountered along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Latin America during a period when luxury liners increasingly connected North American travelers with destinations across the hemisphere. By the 1920s transisthmian canal travel had reshaped global shipping and passenger routes allowing cruise itineraries to combine Caribbean Pacific and South American destinations within a single voyage. The album preserves visual evidence of these emerging travel circuits while also documenting major urban and cultural centers of the region during a period of modernization and expanding hemispheric exchange.<br /> <br /> Photo album compiled during the 1925 voyage of the steamship SS Resolute containing approximately 150 original silver gelatin photographs mounted to black album leaves and captioned in white ink. Contemporary red leatherette album titled "Photographs" in gilt and bound with red cord. Photographs measure approximately 3 x 4 inches to 4 x 6 inches. The photographs document the vessel's route through Panama and the Canal Zone before continuing along the Pacific coast of South America and returning through the Atlantic basin. Numerous photographs depict Panama City and the Panama Canal including views of the Culebra Cut and Gold Hill major engineering features of the canal project completed little more than a decade earlier. Other sections of the album record urban and harbor scenes in Cartagena Colombia including colonial architecture and waterfront activity. Photographs from Peru show Lima's Plaza de Armas the bullring at Miraflores and rural Andean valleys near Arequipa with terraced agricultural landscapes and local communities. Images from Chile capture the steep hills and harbor districts of Valparaíso along with coastal plazas and naval vessels near El Morro. Additional photographs from Argentina depict major civic spaces in Buenos Aires including Plaza San Martín and Plaza de Mayo documenting the monumental architecture and modernizing urban landscape of the city during the 1920s.<br /> <br /> The steamship SS Resolute operated as a passenger liner serving long distance routes during the interwar expansion of luxury cruising and international tourism. Voyages such as the one recorded in this album reflected the growing accessibility of transcontinental travel made possible by the Panama Canal and by the increasingly global network of commercial steamship lines linking the Americas. Mild toning consistent with age; mounts and binding well preserved. Overall very good condition. The photographs collectively document a hemispheric itinerary connecting canal infrastructure colonial port cities Andean landscapes and rapidly modernizing capitals offering a visual record of the cultural and geographic environments encountered by travelers during the height of the steamship era. unknown
1947ZB705797Callao: 1947. first edition #285-290 297-305 309-320 327-332 349-404 all complete issues or complete years in ten bindings text darkened ex library good working collection. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Callao: unknown
18255658Lima 1825. Very good. CXII523pp. Original blue wrappers. Lightly worn spine worn but sound. Minor foxing to title page internally clean. The second edition of the first constitution of Peru and the first to include the "Discurso con Que la Comision de Constitucion Presento el Proyecto de Ella al Congreso Constituyente." Peru declared its independence from Spain in 1821 in a period in which many of Spain's American colonies threw off the colonial yoke. We locate only a handful of copies in OCLC. unknown
18614525Lima and Callao Peru 1861. Very good. Thirteen autograph letters signed totaling twenty-six pages. Original mailing folds minor wear some fold separations and short tears to a few letters. An informative collection of manuscript letters sent back to the United States by John C. Valencia a businessman working in Peru just before the Civil War. John is writing to his wife Josefina and his Aunt Brunner in New York City and Yorkville New York over roughly a two-year period between February 27 1859 and January 14 1861. Apparently Josefina and their children were living with Aunt Brunner in New York at least for a time while John was trying to conclude business related to Peruvian real estate held by his deceased brother and now owned by his sister-in-law. In one letter he mentions that he working in the sea port in order to raise some amount of money to send home. John misses his wife and family and writes with longing about returning to his wife often mentions the money he is sending back with each letter or plans to send soon sometimes reports on his business activities urges patience from his wife while he tries to make money and more.<br /> <br /> From his first letter John is not having a pleasant time in Peru. Writing from Lima on February 27 1859 John comments that "I am sorry of having proposed such a thing for this country is very corrupt no moral of no kind in those People.I am afraid to be contaminated with the influence of the wicked." He again bemoans the state of Peru in his next letter from Callao: "I hope the Lord will help me in coming home as soon as I can. I am disgusted with the costume of this country. They are so deprived that I can not be happy in this land but with your advice I will remain till I get some money even if I have to stay longer." John would stay almost two more years in the space of the present letters and his business was not concluded when the present letters end. While in Peru John spends some time "in the House of a friend of my Father" which may indicate John was a native Peruvian or Peruvian-American with roots in the country; reports on the process of the mail and his work in the port of Callao; details his deceased brother's real estate holdings and frequently mentions the difficulty he is having with his brother's widow he reports in one of his two short letters to his aunt that he is in a "Law Suit" with the widow. In one letter John makes it perfectly clear how he sees himself among the people of Peru: "I am tired already of this country. There is nothing but rebolution sic that is the principal business of the Perubians sic. As for my part I am American and I am always with them." The conflict John mentions may be a reference to the Ecuadorian-Peruvian War which took place between 1857 and 1860; this may also help explain why real estate issues inside Peru were difficult to conclude at this time. In his penultimate letter John states that he plans to be back in New York by May 1861 but in his last letter he sadly reports that he must remain in Peru longer in order to conclude his business affairs. unknown
1900232171900. Peru glass lantern slide archive documenting Indigenous and rural life in the Perené and Cuzco during a period where the political economy shaped was by export agriculture regional extraction and foreign institutional interest. In this period Peru was governed by a coastal elite tied to export markets and to the expansion of state and commercial control into the interior and images of carriers river craft family groups and gathered communities register how Indigenous people were affected by that process through incorporation into frontier economies while also being recast for North American educational audiences as ethnographic subjects.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 6 black and white glass lantern slide photographs each 3.25" x 4" Peru early 1900s. Issued as lecture materials for the Philadelphia Museum. The group includes a family or community portrait posed before a thatched structure with adults and children wearing brimmed hats layered garments shawls and patterned skirts; a closer seated group of women and children gathered around large ceramic vessels; also includes a large outdoor crowd scene showing a densely gathered public space filled with adults and children; a posed family and community portrait before a rustic structure with men women and children wearing layered garments shawls and broad-brimmed hats; a closer domestic scene centered on seated women and children gathered around large ceramic vessels; a river crossing in the Rio Perené region showing an adult and child standing on a balsa or log raft using poles to navigate the current; an "Indian Carrier" posed beside a railroad car linking Indigenous labor and movement to expanding transportation networks; and a closer portrait of an Indigenous man framed by a larger crowd gathered behind him. Several slides retain typed or manuscript labels including references to "Rio Perene" and "Hutchins Indian in Balsa" while institutional labels read "The Philadelphia Museums" and "Negative by E. Tyson Hutchins / Use restricted to school lectures in museum" establishing the archive as part of a formal educational and interpretive program rather than private travel photography alone.<br /> <br /> The archive is particularly effective because it balances portraiture with broader communal documentation. The large crowd scene family grouping and market or gathering views shift the photographs away from isolated ethnographic "types" and toward visible social environments populated by children laborers families and community members. The railroad image and river crossing additionally place Indigenous Peruvians within the transportation and frontier systems increasingly tied to trade extraction regional movement and outside institutional observation in the early twentieth century. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries regions such as the central selva and Perené valley were increasingly bound to colonization schemes plantation agriculture and extractive enterprise while Indigenous communities faced land pressure labor demands and outside scrutiny from state agents missionaries traders and foreign observers. No cracks or chipping; crowd image lacking its original frame with glass and matte border loose; otherwise very good condition. A concise record of how Indigenous and local Peruvians were photographed within overlapping systems of frontier incorporation and museum interpretation. unknown
18044200Lima 1804. About very good. 66pp. Small quarto. Contemporary limp vellum. Small library label at lower left front wrap; institutional bookplate and small ink stamp to front pastedown. Vellum lightly soiled and curled. Minor worming at lower right corner of text block not affecting text. Otherwise lighting soiling and toning internally. St. Peter Nolasco founded the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary i.e. the Order of Mercy or Mercedarians in 1218. It was quickly successful in its goal of ransoming Christian prisoners from the Crusades and other religious conflicts and the order expanded to other charitable work. A third order of Mercedarians was founded for lay male and female supporters in 1260 and the first Mercedarian convent was established in Lima in 1535 the year of the Spanish founding of the city. This work gives the rules constitutions privileges and indulgences of the third order in Lima on the occasion of its re-establishment at the conventual church of St. Michael. A fine woodcut of the arms of the Mercedarian order surrounded by a typographic border graces the verso of the title page. This is the first edition; the work was reprinted in 1870. OCLC locates four copies at Yale Indiana the BNC and the BNE. unknown
18245668Lima 1824. Good plus. 271pp. Modern paper boards printed spine label. Moderate tanning. Light worming to final leaves repaired slightly affecting text. Scarce printing of correspondence relating to the royalist military campaigns in Peru under Viceroy José de la Serna from the beginning of 1821 to early 1824. La Serna was installed as Viceroy in January 1821 following a petition of top royalist officers. He evacuated Lima and moved the colonial capital inland to Cuzco where he set about rebuilding his army and campaigning to recapture the territory lost by his predecessors. In this he was quite successful and by the beginning of 1824 he had recaptured almost all of Peru and penned in Bolivar at Trujillo. The correspondence included here follows this successful portion of his generalship and provides an important first hand accounting of events. Following this period however La Serna suffered his own military rebellion and was sufficiently weakened until he lost the Battle of Ayacucho and thereby all of Peru in December 1824. OCLC locates only two copies at U.S. institutions Harvard and the JCB.<br /> Medina Lima 3779. Vargas Ugarte 5174. unknown
1726M8945Augsburg & Graz: Heirs of Phillip Martin & Johann Veith 1726. Very Good. Notes: Map of the Jesuit Moxo Mojo missions in Peru with a compass rose and location of settlements missions and forts included. <br> Size : 135x185 mm 5.31x7.28 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps South America Countries; Heirs of Phillip, Martin & Johann Veith unknown
190534084Lima: Imprenta del estado 1905. First editions. Cloth. Very good copies boards and spines rubbed occasional wear some spotting or scuffing to a few boards. 8vo. Ultimately fourteen volumes would be published. Provenance: Note in first volume that it is the copy of Domingo Edwards Matte 1890-1964 Chilean book collector; earlier owner was A. Arroyo with his name in gilt on spine and is most likely the Argentinian diplomat Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Peru Don Agustin Arroyo. Palau 14957. Imprenta del estado hardcover
18805806Lima: Fotografia Central Courret Hermanos 1880. Very good. Carte-de-visite photo 4.25 x 2.75 inches. Minor soiling pencil notation at foot of card. Handsome image of a young Peruvian woman in traditional dress. Pictured in three-quarter length she holds a wide straw hat a printed skirt peeking out of the bottom of the photos beneath a traditional shawl wrapped around her shoulders. Her hair is in two braids and she wears elaborate earrings. The pencil notation at the bottom reads "Native of Peru." The photographer Eugene Courret was a French native who moved to Lima in 1860 to work in a photography studio; he opened his own studio with his brother in 1863 and returned to France in the 1890s. Fotografia Central Courret Hermanos unknown
19881866<p>Nine folded leaves with texts in Spanish and French some are illustrated. 4to 21 x 29.5 cm. Very good. Numbered series with fascicles loose inside a lavender folder front cover is faded to tan with pink ribbon ties. 1866</p><p><em>Issued on the occasion of the 1988 Marché de la Poésie a major international poetry festival held every year in Saint Sulpice Square in Paris this series of bilingual broadsides showcase the talents of Latin American participants. Poets in the sequence include Orlando Jimeno-Grendi Chile José Rosas-Ribeyro Peru Elena Galván United States Jorge Nájar Peru Rubén Bareiro-Saguier Paraguay Carlos Sahakian Uruguay Luisa Futoransky Argentina Gustavo Mujica Chile and Robert Armijo El Salvador. Unrecorded.</em></p> Internationale - MAYA - Assoc. Cultur. / Marché de la Poésie
2011Adhya-9781615207855IGI PUBLISHER 2011. Hardcover. New. IGI PUBLISHER hardcover
