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1938158618N.p.: N.p. 1938. Archive of 64 vintage photographs including 53 matte-finish and eleven glossies documenting reconstruction of the Panama Canal's Dock 15 in Balboa. Most photographs with technical captions and dates from the negative on the rectos. Additionally included with the photographs is a collection of four booklets dated between 1919 and 1943 discussing various aspects of the canal's construction and improvements during that time as well as an original shipping envelope addressed from the Panama Canal Metal Trades Council. <br /> <br /> With Europe on the verge of war in the early 1930s the US government became increasingly concerned about its ability to move naval warships between oceans. The canal locks would be susceptible to bombing in the event of war the canal defenses were deemed inadequate and the locks already had difficulty accommodating large US battleships. As a result Congress passed a resolution on May 1 1936 authorizing a study of and subsequent improvements to the canal's defenses existing structure and vessel capacity. <br /> <br /> Originally constructed in 1911 Dock 15 was weakened by gradual earth movement necessitating its replacement. With the exception of the construction of the Madden Dam between 1930 and 1936 the $1220000 reconstruction of Dock 15 was one of the largest canal projects after the close of the construction era. <br /> <br /> Photographs: 61 photographs 10 x 8 inches 3 photographs 5 x 4 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased overall. <br /> <br /> Pamphlets: From 8 x 10.5 inches to 9 x 12 inches. Generally Very Good plus to Near Fine some with scattered foxing and edgewear. N.p. unknown
193459934Panama: I.L. Maduro Jr. ca. 1934. 8vo. 4.5 x 9.25 in. with large colour birds-eye map of Panama canal on recto unfolding to 18 x 24 in. w/ text & photo illustrations in columns on verso. Colour-illustrated softcovers yapp fore-edges cover art of steamship sailing through Canal on front cover Panama armorial on rear minor edgewear rubbing repaired closed tear to text below map still VG- copy. Early printing of this nicely executed birds-eye map of the Panama Canal detailing the sites and scenes a visitor would view while sailing through the Panama Canal with inset maps of Ancon Balboa Panama Colon and elevation tracing the excavation statistics for French and the U.S. across the isthmus. I.L. Maduro, Jr., paperback
19365953Balboa Panama Canal Zone 1936. Very good. Eighty-four black-and-white or sepia-toned photographs each about 8 x 10 inches many with typed or manuscript captions on verso plus thirty-two typed documents some signed. Moderate edge wear occasional minor marginal chipping to photographs. Mostly minor wear to documents. A striking collection of photographs picturing construction of the Panama Canal during the years of the First World War. Many of the photographs are dated between 1914 and 1916 and almost all capture construction of the Panama Canal mainly around Dry Dock #1 at the Balboa and Pacific Terminals. Many of the photographs are captioned either typed or in manuscript on the verso providing valuable information on the settings of these images. Most of the images were taken from an elevated viewpoint from area towers offering unusual detail of the construction sites in the Balboa area "before flooding" of the canal with some images showing the canal "ready to be flooded;" the images taken at ground level also exhibit the sheer size and depth of the project with human figures dwarfed by the canal walls.<br /> <br /> A healthy number of images feature local workers of African descent engaged in manual labor on the walls and in the flat bottom of the canal. These workers are managed by a coterie of white subjects. In fact one of the more striking images speaks volumes about the literal separation between the managers and laborers in the Canal Zone. The photograph is a group shot featuring seventeen white managers standing in the foreground in front of a group of twenty-two Black workers.<br /> <br /> A sampling of the settings and activity revealed in the captions for the photographs include "Dy Dock #1 -- Entrance" "Placing granite in the hollow quoin -- Dry Dock No. 1 Balboa" "General view of Dry Dock #1 -- from the boom of Unloader Tower" "Progress of concrete in south wall as of Oct. 20 1914" "Head wall of Dry Dock #1" "Reinforcing around the suction chamber Dry Dock #1" "Dry Dock looking from the head wall west towards the sea" "D.D. excavation looking eastward toward headwall of the dock from the Coffer Dam" "Reinforcement in and around cross culverts at the west and end of Dry Dock #1" "Dry Dock #1 one month after commencing concrete work in the south wall" "Dry Dock No. 1 Pumping Plant -- Erecting 54-inch Check Valves -- Looking west" "General view of construction progress around pump well and discharge culvert -- Dry Dock" "Dry Dock Gate -- South Leaf -- Heel casting after wedges have been placed and rivets driven" "Reinforced concrete pontoons -- Preparing to pour concrete in No. 2 pontoon" and "Placing the last girder on dock gate Dry Dock No. 1 Balboa."<br /> <br /> The photographs are accompanied by a group of more than thirty military documents relating to the service of Major William C. Foote in the mid-1930s. Most of the documents concern Major Foote's assignment to the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Amador in the Canal Zone in Balboa. Both the photographs and documents were found in a large envelope marked "Personal File Major William C. Foote." Finding the Panama Canal photographs along with Major Foote's later paperwork indicate that he probably acquired the photographs while serving in the Canal Zone and the material stayed together all these years. unknown
193851354Panama Canal: Hotel Tivoli & Hotel Washington 1938. 4to. 12 pp unpaginated. Printed in green & red throughout numerous green-tinted photos large double-page centerfold map of the Panama Canal showing the locations of the Hotels on the Caribbean and Pacific sides a couple smaller maps. Self-printed illustrated softcovers slight soiling very minor center creasing from fold still VG copy. First edition early printing of this scarce work extolling the virtues of vacationing at the famed Hotels Tivoli & Washington by the Panama Canal in the 1930s. The Hotel Washington was constructed and opened in 1913 and operated by the Panama Railroad Company by order of the Secretary of War to be operated for the Government. Built of concrete and cement blocks it was constructed in a modified Spanish Mission style that made it very comfortable and had a very large pool. The Tivoli Hotel was opened in November 1906 and served as the centerpiece of Canal Zone society until it closed in 1971 and President Roosevelt is considered the first person to have “officially†stayed at the Tivoli. Hotel Tivoli & Hotel Washington, paperback
192328406Mount Hope CZ: Panama Canal Press 1923. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy some sunning to the wrappers small tear along the fore edge of back wrapper and a few leaves. 12 pp. 8vo. A note states: "This information is provided for a handy reference and style guide for machine operators proof readers and reviewers employed at the Panama Canal Press." Includes ship names dimensions tonage etc. Scarce. OCLC shows no copies. Panama Canal Press unknown
184323353London: Printed and Published by D. M. Aird. Good with no dust jacket. 1843. First Edition. Softcover. Some foxing. Some small tears and chips to margins of some leaves. Stamp on first page: "New Zealand Journal / Newspaper / One Penny". ; Single issue of this newspaper. 241-252 pages. 12 pages in total. Page dimensions: 338 x 210mm. Text in double columns. This issue has a long article about the proposal for a Panama Canal on page 241-244. The article includes a wood-cut map showing "Course of projected Canal". The map measures 151 x 124mm. Contents: Panama; Emigration versus Charity; Systematic Preparation; Resume of Instructions fo Gathering and Packing Seeds in New Zealaad; Summery; Wellington; Nelson; New Plymouth; Auckland; Home News; The Middle Island; Advertisements. "In February 1840 under the influence of E. G. Wakefield Henry Samuel Chapman began publishing the 'New Zealand Journa'l as proprietor-editor. The newspaper was the unofficial organ of the New Zealand Company which subsidised it. It was published fortnightly for the next three years." - entry on Henry Samuel Chapman Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. . Printed and Published by D. M. Aird paperback
197729315New Haven:: Simon & Schuster 1977. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats tremendous medical accomplishments political power plays heroic successes and tragic failures. Applying his remarkable gift for writing lucid lively exposition McCullough weaves the many strands of the momentous event into a comprehensive and captivating tale. Simon & Schuster, unknown
194160340Panama City Panama & New York NY: The Panama National Tourist Commission 1941. Four pieces. 1st - 4to. 8 x 9 in. 80 pp. Photo illustrations maps text illustrations throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers center fold crease as issued minor tidemark at center in lower part of brochure mostly in last half still G- copy; 2nd - 8vo. 4 x 9 in. 8 pp unpaginated. in leporello accordion-style format printed in green & black photo illustrations map minor creasing VG; 3rd - 12mo. 3.5 x 6.25 in. 20 pp unpaginated. printed in green & black which unfolds to 12 x 17.25 in. broadside on verso photo illustrated NF; 4th - 12mo. 3.5 x 6.5 in. 20 pp unpaginated. printed in red & black illustrated which unfolds to 17.5 x 12.8 in. broadside on verso self-printed softcovers NF. First editions of this scarce series of well-illustrated travel brochures to Panama and the Panama Canal Zone on the eve of World War II. The photos depict Panama folk dances churches and shopping districts as well as indigenous Panamanian peoples jewelry pottery woven textiles and more available for sale. The Panama National Tourist Commission, paperback
191362167New York: The Century Co. 1913. 8vo. 314 pp. plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Photo frntsp. numerous photo plates facsimile TLS on front pastedown. Pictorial green publisher’s cloth silhouette map illust. of Panama and the Canal front cover black lettering front cover & spine minor dustsoiling shelfwear still VG copy. First edition of this author’s memoir of his time working as a policeman on the Panama Canal Zone in 1912 while they conducted a census of the nationalities and citizens all residing during construction. He comments frequently on the “Jim Crow†laws preventing the mixing of White personnel with Indigenous peoples or West Indies-African workers and the continued struggle to negotiate quarters as well as make accurate count. The Century Co., hardcover
3734374<p>New York: Wm. R. Robinson Co. 1911. 16pp. Half tone illustrated wrappers. 7¼ x 4¾ inches. Near fine condition.</p> <p>Well-illustrated trade catalog of handwoven Panama hats for the 1911 season issued by the Panama Hat Company of New York City. Halftone illustrations depict 19 hat styles both blocked and unblocked offered at a range of prices according to fineness of weave and trimmings. Additional images show male and female weavers making hats or carrying them to market along with a view of the company’s Broadway headquarters. Unrecorded in OCLC which notes only one other catalog from this firm. Not in Romaine.</p> unknown
1911100851Souvenir pamphlet 8vo colored printed pictorial wrappers illustrated 16 pp. Folded and creased down the middle with a little wear at the fold some minor rubbing to wrappers normal aging; otherwise very good. This is a scarce piece of ephemera commemorating the 1911 groundbreaking ceremony by President William H. Taft for the exhibition in the Golden Gate Park. While the purpose of the exhibition was to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal it seemed to function more as a worlds fair held in San Francisco. It took over three years to construct and the exhibition ran from February through December 1915. There are a number of black and white photographs in the booklet including a double page panoramic view of the city of San Francisco. The activities of the ceremony are recorded in this pamphlet which feature speakers songs marches and what they had for dinner Blair-Murdock Co.,
191558381San Francisco: C.T. Co. Artgravure 1915. Oblong 4to. 10.25 x 8.25 in. 48 pp unpaginated. Colour-tinted photogravures throughout including panoramic centerfold birds-eye view by the Cardinell-Vincent Co. Embossed brown softcovers embossed raised gilt lettering yapp edges mounted colour photo front cover w/ original mailing envelope tears rubbing chipping F/G- copy. First edition of this nicely printing souvenir photographic record of the Exposition. The interior is excellent in this piece giving views of many of the pavilions fountains and courts. C.T. Co., Artgravure, paperback
18521338Original manuscript. 1852-1854. Folio 38 x 27cm. Full contemporary reverse calf with gilt morocco titles labels to the spine "Rough Sales Book / S & L / B". Marbling to page edges. Marbled endpapers with engraved label for "Baily Brothers Booksellers Stationers Account Book Manufacturers" London to the front pastedown. 172pp. of manuscript text in ink on red-ruled laid paper watermarked "W. King / 1850" followed by c.160pp. blank with a handful of pages torn out following the conclusion of the manuscript text section and another within the text. The majority of entries are in English with some in Spanish mostly written in the same hand. Condition is very good the binding firm with marking to the boards chipping to the head of the spine and a little wear to the extremities. The contents with a 3cm tear to the head of the first text page and two pages partially cut/torn away at the bottom are otherwise in good order. The ledger of a British sales agents operating in Panama during the mid-nineteenth century detailing the importation and sale of a wide variety European and South American goods into the country.</p><p>The manuscript meticulously records the origin city/country importer ship the goods received and sold and the charges entailed for each shipment. A typical entry for example records the arrival of "gunpowder received per "Alexander" and sold on behalf of the Kames Gunpowder Company Glasgow" followed by details of the subsequent purchasers "J. D. Cordova" etc. and the charges/commissions taken by the agent including fees for landing expenses and "carriage to arsenal". </p><p>Many of the entries describe large diverse cargoes combining both essential and luxury goods including: alpacas; chocolate pots; "41 cases of pickles and mustard"; lavender water; rocking chairs; a "copying machine"; cinnamon; scissors razors; bone buttons; horse brushes; compasses; gin; hatchets; bedsteads; looking glasses; children's toys; cloves; muslins; kegs of shot; cups and saucers; tobacco; machetes; claret; playing cards rat traps; "Aqua de Colonia" cologne; silk gloves; saddles; blunderbusses; padlocks; lace; pantaloons; "Jamaica rum"; almonds; vinegar; bonnets; sausages; gold frames; water closets; wash stands; champagne; mosquito nets; and much else besides.</p><p>The origin ports include major European trade centres such as Liverpool and Glasgow but also include many South American ports such as Guayaquil Equador carrying beans cocoa coffee sugar and quinoa amongst other things; Buenaventura Colombia; Callao Peru carrying candlesticks coffee mills and bayonets; Lima Peru "bottled fruits" and cherry cordial; and Valparaiso Chile; as well as San Francisco and New York to the north. The importers themselves are also a mixture of British and Panamanian companies.</p><p>A fascinating detailed insight into Panama's transatlantic and South American trade during the mid-nineteenth century. [Original manuscript]. hardcover
201807020London, Syndicte Publishing company, 1913 ; in-4, 414 -1 carte, cartonnage de l'éditeur. Reliure salis usagée, texte en bel état qlq rousseurs rare.
1931797821931 Paris, NRC, Editions de la Nouvelle Critique (Collection "Le Sphinx"), 1931, in 12 broché, 286 pages.
197785023Guatemala: Editorial Landívar 1977. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 21.75cm; pictorial card wrappers; 67-942pp; text is entirely in Spanish. This copy is from the library of to Puerto Rican editor translator and literary critic Roberto Marquez inscribed to him by the author signing off with his pseudonym "Cubena" on the title page: "para la profesora Roberto Marquez / Paz Amor Justicia / Cubena / 77/ Los Angeles." Some wear to extremities a few creases to corners; contents clean; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Collection of a dozen short stories by the Afro-Panamanian author and scholar Carlos Guillermo Wilson 1941-2016 whose work written chiefly under the pseudonym "Cubena" was centered around the lives and struggles of Afro-Panamanians. Uncommon in commerce especially inscribed. Editorial Landívar unknown
18235754Panama: Jose Maria Goytia 1823. Very good plus. Broadsheet handbill 8.5 x 6 inches. Minor creasing. Faint dampstaining at right edge. An extremely rare statement by Spanish general Melchor Aymerich following his final defeat in Ecuador by Antonio José Sucre and subsequent flight to Panama in 1822. Aymerich the "Mariscal de Campo de los Ejercitos Españoles" and "Jeneral en Jefe de las Armas Españolas" states that he and his family traveled lodged and ate at their own expense following his defeat at Pichincha by Sucre and subsequent capitulation. No money or provision of any kind was provided to them by the Republic of Gran Colombia. He continues to declare that they traveled from Quito to Guayaquil and thence to Panama and would soon be departing for Havana. While in Panama he was the guest of the Commandant of the Isthmus Colonel José Maria Carreno and he thanks the Colonel and his family for their generosity and assistance. Although the caption title of this broadsheet states that it is an "Addicion" to a lengthier "Manifiesto" this prior work does not seem to have survived.<br /> <br /> The present handbill is a very early Panamanian imprint. There is no evidence of there having been printing in Panama during its colonial period and exactly when the first press was introduced there is unclear. OCLC locates a single copy of a call for independence in New Spain published by the present printer José Maria Goytia in 1821 and vanishingly few issues of two newspapers established in 1822. Medina traces an 1822 sermon as printed in Panama and we locate a smattering of other imprints from this period including the present handbill of which OCLC notes a single copy at the John Carter Brown Library; we know of one other at the New York Public Library. Jose Maria Goytia unknown
191463524Boston: The Page Company 1914. Thick 8vo. xv 1 559 1 pp. Frontisp. colour map of the Republic of Panama & profile of the Canal 1 large folding map of Central America numerous plates engravings maps. Dark green pictorial publisher’s cloth white blue gilt & red illustration front cover gilt lettering & ruling t.e.g. minor light uniform interior toning occasional edgewear rubbing to fore-edges slight scuffing still VG bright copy. Second edition of this excellent history of Central America and promotion of Panama upon the completion of the Canal and in conjunction with Page Company incorporating this title into the “See America First†series issued for over two decades. Not only has author presented a concise history of the Spanish exploration and exploitation of the West Indies and Central America but also included specific sections on privateers such as Sir Francis Drake as well as pirates in the Caribbean including the account of the sack of Old Panama City by Henry Morgan. The Page Company, 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
9779Annales de l'Extrême-Orient et de l'Afrique, n° 123. Paris, Challamel, septembre 1888. In-4, broché.
1370392Paris: Musée de l'Homme, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 1970 in-4, 72 pages, nombreuses illustrations. Broché, bon état, cachet. Sommaire: Philip FRY: ESSAI SUR LA STATUAIRE MUMUYE. - Alain ICHON: Vases funéraires d'El Indio (District de Tonosi, Panama). - Monique ROUSSEL DE FONTANES: "Roumanie 69", Monette RIBEYROL: Une collecte de pains rituels en Bulgarie. - Henri LHOTE: Mission au Tassili (mai-juin 1969) - Jacques MILLOT: Une précieuse donation turque. - Jacqueline DELANGE et Philip FRY: L'exposition "Oeuvres africaines nouvelles".
1893806821893 Paris, Charles, 1893, in 12 broché, 186 pages.
1943LFA-126735002Une revue de 56 pages, format 165 x 245 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état
187946867London The Economist Office 1879. Small folio. Bound in comtemporary half cloth. Entire volume 37 July - December 1879 of The Economist. Minor wear to extremities and a few repairs to a few leaves otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 761-1504. <br/><br/><em>Original printing of The Economist - the most important and influential economic journal worldwide - from the year 1879. The initial planning of the Panama Canal began in 1879. The enormous endeavor of digging the Canal was reflected in The Economist: "The canal proposed by M. de Lesseps and intended to pierce the Isthmus of Panama is in many respects a bolder enterprise even than the Suez Canal. The engineering difficulties are far greater the climate is a much more serious obstacle to labour and especially to that of Europeans and finally the possibility of a rival plan being carried out is much greater." </em> hardcover
1964LFA-126728723Revue mensuelle de 72 pages, format 140 x 210 mm, illustrée, brochée, Impr. de Sceaux, bon état
