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1972ZB1162017Lima 1972. 361 pp. paperback library markings else text clean & binding tight. - 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. Lima paperback
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11952Nevill Hotel Newcastle; Yarmouth Roads; Ship Alice Walton; Stanley Harbour Falkland Islands; Callao Lima Peru. Dating from between November 1864 and October 1865. Eight items totalling 3pp. 4to; 19pp. 12mo. All are all addressed to 'Dear Sam'. All in good condition on lightly-aged paper. 'I never had such weather or suffered so much as I have this voyage from one thing and another' declares the author and this series of eight letters provides a vivid account by the captain of a Victorian cargo ship of a voyage packed with misfortune. As mishap is heaped upon mishap the author's spelling deteriorates. ONE. Neville Hotel Newcastle. Undated late 1864. Among other news he writes that the Alice Walton is 'a good little ship' on which he will be 'very comfortable . I think she will sail well.' TWO. Newcastle. 6 November 1864. Newcastle is 'a wretched place to me . I have no acquaintance and I cannot afford do go to any amusements. . I wish you could spare time to come up here if it was not so expensive travelling it would just suit Mother and Harriett for it is a nice ride in a steam boat down the river and you are on the sea shore at once.' He writes critically of 'Master John Abell' who has 'gone to Liverpool'. THREE. Yarmouth Roads. 3 December 1864. 'Dear Sam Here we are only about 200 miles from where we started. I have had most fearfull sic weather since we have been out and we lost most of our sails and forced to put in here for more. I sent a telegraph to Liverpool and they have sent one back to say that I am to wait here till I receive new sails so it will be Monday before I get away . I will write per the Pilot when he leaves'. FOUR. He gives more details of his misfortunes after leaving Newcastle on 18 November. 'The main Topsail blew away and on the 24th. we had a terrific Gale and nearly all our sails blew away leaving us compleatly sic helpless on a dead lea shore. Sam I have seen some Gales of winds since I have been travelling the Salt Sea but I think I was in as great danger as ever I was in for we were surrounded by sands but we managed to put the Ship before the wind and run clean into Hasborourgh Roads were sic we had to remain 5 days repairing sails but could not get on Shore There was a fishing Boat came along side but he asked me 5£ to land me and bring me back After we had repeared sic our sails we made another start and we got down as far as Orfordness Lights but the wind again increased again sic to a strong Gale and I was obliged to run into Yarmouth Roads were sic I am waiting for Sails from Liverpool which I expect tomorrow.' He is sending his brother 'a newspaper were sic you will see the dreadful wrecks there as sic been on and about this coast close to where I was and the Loss of life there was on the 24th 25 &c'. FIVE. Ship Alice Walton. 16 December 1864. Docketed 'Letters from John whilst Master of "Alice Walton"'. He gives a further description of the gale: 'The wind came a little fair the night before we started there several vessels started to go away one got stuck altogether another got on the sands and became a complete wreck another during the night ran on shore and filled with water I can assure you Sam this has been a fearfull Time about here for wrecks gales and destruction to Shipping'. SIX. Ship Alice Walton Stanley Harbour Falkland Islands. He begins: 'Dear Sam You will think by this time that I am lost but no not lost but very near it . We arrived off the Cape Horn on the 20th. of February when we had some of the most terrific weather and Gales of wind I ever experienced we had these one after another till the 2nd. March when I was off the pitch of the Horn one of those terrific Seas came on board carring sic away the Bulwarks stauncheons the Cabin and nearly all its contents Wheel &c taking nearly all the Clothes and Nautical Instruments that was in the Cabin belonging to myself and officers leaving us destitute and a complete wreck three men was washed overboard but we recovered them again one man killed one with his leg Broken and 4 or 5 more or less injured got the Ship before the Wind and the remainder of the crew came aft to me twice asking me to bear up for some Port for they were nearly done up I at last bore up for this port and arrived on the 6th. March'. He continues by describing his plans for the resumption of the voyage. SEVEN. Stanley Harbour Falkand Islands. 18 April 1865. 'I can assure you Sam I never had such weather or suffered so much as I have this voyage from one thing and another I have nearly lost all my clothes and will have to buy a few here to get along with I wrote in my last all about the accidance. sic My repears sic for the ship cost £594. 5. 5 it is a very bad job for me but I can say that I have done my duty and have been as carefull sic as I possible sic can.' EIGHT. Callao. 10 October 1865. He reports that he is 'starting for home . I came back from the Islands yestereday and will start from hear sic today but I am so busy that I have not a moment to spare & I have been verry sic ill with Fever but I am now better'. Nevill Hotel, Newcastle; Yarmouth Roads; Ship Alice Walton; Stanley Harbour, Falkland Islands; Callao, Lima, Peru. Dating from b hardcover
H-489-027Skol Vreizh. Very Good. Former library book. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. Skol Vreizh unknown
ria9781138628922_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global policy-making institutions and elites; paperback
026665696X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
200022991Lima Perú:: Biblioteca Nacional Del Peru. VG/NONE. 2000. Softcover. Softbound copy with bright crisp covers; spine uncreased. Pages clean unmarked. ; . Biblioteca Nacional Del Peru, paperback
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
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
1989Q-0688089267William Morrow & Co 1989-07-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! William Morrow & Co hardcover
0267348584.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
