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186633997New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co. Printers 1866. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Lacking rear wrapper front wrapper soiled else very good. 46 pp. 8vo. Contains 12 documents including: Decree approving and ordering the ratification of the Peru-Chilean Treaty of Alliance; Declaration of War against the Spanish Government; Naturalization of Foreigners serving in Peruvian and Chilean Vessels; 9 more. Biblioteca Peruana 1208. Basadre I 4935. Wm. C. Bryant & Co., Printers unknown
186742235Lima: Imprenta Liberal 1867. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy tear to front blank wrapper later silver cloth spine most likely extracted from a pamphlet binder owner's stamp on title. 35 pp. 12mo. Juan Antonio Pezet 1809-1879 was President of Peru during the Spanish-Peruvian -Chilean war over the Chincha Islands which contained vast deposits of Guano. He was forced to flee to Europe when his treaty with the Spanish was found wanting. Provenance: Francisco Pérez de Velasco his stamp former Peruvian Consul to New York a dealer who sold to Hiram Bingham an "unprecedented cache of. very early colonial Peruvian. documents and whose remaining collection on Peru was in "Cátalogo de la Biblioteca Peruana Propiedad de Dn. Francisco Perez de Velasco" Lima 1918. Scarce. OCLC reports only microfiche copies but it is part of the Yale series of Latin American pamphlets and BN Peru also has a copy. Imprenta Liberal 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
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
19004112Lima 1900. Very good. 210pp. Oblong quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled paper-covered boards. Minor rubbing and scuffing to edges and boards. Handsome bookplate to front pastedown occasional very minor foxing. A delightful viewbook and commercial directory of Peru published in Lima at the turn of the 20th century. The monotone and sepia-toned photographs and photocollages picture numerous buildings interiors street scenes storefronts and more mostly in Lima but also in Callao Chorrillos Barranco and Miraflores. An Index of the "Vistas de Lima" provides a description for the photographs though almost all of the photographs are captioned beneath the image. The photographs are printed on the rectos of the work while most of the versos of each leaf contain full-page advertisements for a wide variety of businesses in the various cities including banks mercantile firms importers breweries milers and numerous others. A healthy percentage of the versos are printed with a commercial directory of Lima as well as the membership list of the Bolsa Comercial providing a snapshot of the economic life of Peru at the time. No copies in American institutions.<br /> <br /> OCLC records just two copies worldwide one in Peru and the other in France. 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
18113541Lima: April 24 1811. About very good. Broadside approximately 17 x 15.75 inches. Printed on two joined sheets. Some worming affecting a few words of text; larger losses reinforced with tissue on blank verso. Light toning and scattered small patches of staining. Contemporary manuscript rubric at foot. A scare late Spanish colonial broadside regarding appointments and alterations to administrative councils that had authority over Peru particularly the Supreme Council of the Indies. The text of this decree issued by Viceroy José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa in Lima on April 24 1811 promulgates orders from the King-in-exile Ferdinand VII and the Supreme Central Council that concerned the appointment of new officers and members of the Council of the Indies and several other government positions in the Spanish American colonies. The Supreme Central Council was a body that administered Spanish interests for the King during a six-year period following his abdication forced by Napoleon. OCLC locates one other copy at the John Carter Brown Library; Medina adds only his own example.<br /> Medina Lima 2596. Vargas Ugarte 3572. April 24 unknown
1770280241770. Very good condition. A copper engraving of the city layout of Lima and the Port of Callao below. At lower margin are numbered images describing the Llama Vicogn Huanaco Calash used at Lima Mestizo woman on horseback Lady of Lima Spaniard in Peruvian dress Lady of Lima in riding dress Mulatto woman and a Negro servant.<br /> Plate VI page 30 from an unknown book. 8 x 10 5/8" original folds slt offsetting marks otherwise very clean. unknown
177521549Paris 1775. Very good condition. Large detailed copper engraved map of the west coast of South America from Peru showing "Pays des Amazones" down to "Chily" or Chile. Very detailed coast line with towns and rivers named showing the Amazon and tributaries. With decorative cartouche. From Prevost's "L'Histoire Generale des Voyages".<br /> <br /> Bellin 1703 - 1772 one of the most noted French mapmakers of the 18th century was named the hydrographer chief cartographer to the French Navy and later the Official Hydrographer to the French King.<br /> <br /> Folding 8 1/2 x 15 1/4". Strong impression very clean. A bit ruffled at left margin; short crease at cartouche. unknown
18292505Arequipa 1829. 4pp. on a bifolium. Removed from a bound volume. A few small areas of worming slightly affecting text. Light toning and scattered faint foxing. An unrecorded and indignant diatribe concerning a mud-slinging match in the Peruvian town of Arequipa in the late 1820s which begins "Bien ruidosa ha sido la causa de los libelos famosos que corrieron ahora pocos meses en esta capital contra personas las mas notables de ella." The rest of the bifolium gives an account of the convoluted events that apparently involve several episodes of clear libel by several individuals for which their victims are having difficulty in obtaining legal remedy with the result that scandalous lies are now being spread with impunity. The author concludes by pleading for more swift reliable justice and equality before the law from authorities in Arequipa:<br /> <br /> "Si os mostrais débiles y preferis la inaccion sereis indignos de los destinos que ocupais. Patriotas y no patriotas todos son iguales ante la ley y no debeis permitir nunca que triunfe la impunidad: gloriaos en fin de padecer por la justicia pues asi dais el debido lleno à vuestros cargos."<br /> <br /> Surviving printing from Arequipa during this period is very scarce. unknown
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
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
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
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
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
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
184734109London: David Bogue 1847. First Edition. Lithographic frontispiece and engraved illustrated title-page. Tall 8vo publisher's original green cloth the spine lettered in gilt and decorated in blind the covers blocked in all over designs in blind. xii 506 2 pp. A fine copy beautifully preserved with little evidence of age near as pristine internally. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THIS NOTED WORK ON PERU. Johann Jakob von Tschudi 25 July 1818 – 8 October 1889 was a Swiss naturalist explorer and diplomat. He is known for his travels in South America his scientific contributions to zoology and anthropology and his diplomatic service for Switzerland. In 1838 Tschudi travelled to Peru where he remained for five years exploring and collecting plants in the Andes. In 1845 he described 18 new species of South American reptiles. Between 1857 and 1859 he visited Brazil and other countries in South America.<br> In 1860 Tschudi was appointed Swiss ambassador to Brazil a position he held until 1868. During this period he continued to explore the country and collected plants for the museums of Neuchâtel Glarus and Freiburg. In 1868 he was appointed Swiss minister to Vienna. <br> Tschudi is commemorated in the scientific names of several animals including a species of venomous South American coral snake Micrurus tschudii the montane guinea pig Cavia tschudii and the Tschudi's yellow-shouldered bat. Birds named after him include the Tschudi's tapaculo Tschudi's nightjar and the Tschudi's woodcreeper. David Bogue hardcover
0428198953.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
18512007AG1851. London & New York J & F. Tallis 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Plate Size: 24.7 cm x 33.8 cm. Sheet Size: 27.4 cm x 37.5 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. John Tallis 7 November 1817 3 June 1876 was an English cartographic publisher. His company John Tallis and Company published views maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846 and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858 selling it for £1370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. Wikipedia The most important project John Tallis undertook was the 'Illustrated Atlas' from 1851. The original map we offer here was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it contained are still today considered as the last reminder of an era of lavish map production. Tallis worked the project together with John Rapkin 1815-1876 and it was Rapkin's style and talent that we have to thank for when we marvel at these maps today. What makes these maps so special is the detail of engraved vignettes that surround the map and often show indigenous scenes people in their environment and even more so historical buildings or historical views of towns and cities architecture and landscape. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia 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
0267348584.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1989Q-0688089267William Morrow & Co 1989-07-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! William Morrow & Co hardcover
201220310BCP 2012. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Hardcover with dust jacket in slipcase. Light shelfwear to case. Book and contents clean and tight. 397 pages notes bibliography color photos and illus. Includes essays by 22 Peruvian and Bolivian academics. BCP hardcover
193117960Lima 1931. Hardcover. Good. 93p. index later cloth. Product of the Kemmerer Mission forced on Perú by the world bank interests and their governments. Lima hardcover
026665696X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
