PARKER, Matthew.MareMagnum
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20x13. 639p. Fotogr. Trad. C. Aragón, E. Vaqué. Enc. Cart. Ed.
Firenze, 1884, 8vo br. pp. 53 con una carta rip. in fine.
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
124534aafPublished by Vibert and Dixon, Panama, n.d. (ca. 1920), in-8vo, oblong, 32 leaves, all finely illustrated in color, illustrated wrappers, fine copy.
0656680687.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1980F1600-PanamaMorrow New York 1980 New York: William Morrow & Company 1980. First edition. First printing with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth over beige paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering and blue endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on front flap $9.95. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Octavo 203 pages. A psychological novel adapted from an unproduced screenplay by the authors it explores the boundaries between intimacy and deception. Norman Panama 1914-2003 was an American screenwriter film director and producer best known for his long collaboration with Melvin Frank on classic comedies such as "White Christmas" and "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House." Albert E. Lewin 1916-1992 was a New Yorkborn writer for radio television stage and film whose papers are held at UCLA. "The Glass Bed" was their only published novel. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Morrow, New York hardcover
1160747849.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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2010DADAX1160747849Kessinger Publishing 2010-03-19. paperback. New. 8.25x1.10x11.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing paperback
626Some sunning to spine moisture stains over several pages. Good. JBS-626. <p>Panama Rose. The Hashish Cookbook. San Francisco CA: Level Press 1974. Second edition.</p> <br /> <p>Octavo. 20pp. Green wrappers saddle-stapled with black and white illustrations.</p> . unknown
196646055N.p.: Gnaoua Press 1966. Near Fine. N.p.: Gnaoua Press 1966. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 620pp.; halftone photographic frontispiece and illus. throughout. A hint of toning to wrapper margins else Fine. Gnaoua Press unknown
1878z015741Liverpool: Panama Railroad Company/ Royal Mail Steam Packet Company/ Pacific Mail Steam Ship Co 1878. Very Good. Letter of transmittal from a Panama Railroad Company/ Royal Mail Steam Packet Company/ Pacific Mail Steam Ship Co. agent to James M. Lincoln of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. New York. Measures 8 by 10 inches recto only. Very good. Stain and paper repair to top corner letter creased else clean and unmarked. Panama Railroad Company/ Royal Mail Steam Packet Company/ Pacific Mail Steam Ship Co unknown
1391853598.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1396286349.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
20071-1419678957Panama Publishing Inc. 2007. Paperback. New. 174 pages. 8.43x5.43x0.47 inches. Panama Publishing, Inc. paperback
20071-1419678949Panama Publishing Inc. 2007. Paperback. New. 134 pages. 8.30x5.50x0.40 inches. Panama Publishing, Inc. paperback
139008244X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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., books
191610082San Francisco: Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co. Pr. by John Henry Nash 1916. 8vo. 8 187 1 pp. <br><br>First edition of this example of Nash job printing: He printed 5000 copies for the PPIE Company. Nash was of course one of San Francisco's most important and artistically influential printers. He arrived there from Canada in 1895 saw his business destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and subsequent fire but persevered and rose to national prominence.<br>Â Â Â Â A collection of hundreds of letters of praise from prominent individuals who visited the Panama-Pacific International Exposition the 1915 world's fair held in San Francisco; includes letters from Woodrow Wilson William Howard Taft Elihu Root Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt Samuel Gompers and Thomas Edison. The text of each page is surrounded by red ink borders and a printed sidenote summarizes the theme of each letter.<br>Â Â Â Â Prepared by James A. Barr and Joseph M. Cumming and edited by Oscar H. Fernbach. With a preface by Charles C. Moore. Includes index. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Nash Bibliography p. 3. Contemporary quarter cloth over paper boards covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library; soiled and spine with paper title-label with small chip and shelving label. Paper across hinges inside opening but volume strong; one page with short tear at foremargin. Ex-library with bookplate and remnant of another pencilling card pocket and perforation-stamps; dust-soiling but no real staining. A "lesser" copy for sure but one that is not as abused as it may sound and one that is priced according to its faults. Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co. (Pr. by John Henry Nash) hardcover books
59670New-York, American institute of electrical engineers, mars 1928, in-8, oblong, 35 planches, en feuilles sous portefeuille à rabat, papier cartonné marron, lien d'attache (Reliure de l'éditeur), 35 planches en couleurs, représentant des illuminations à la Panama Pacific Exposition, qui s'est tenue à San Francisco en 1915. Celles-ci ont servi à l'illustration d'un article de Walter d'Arcy Ryan, publié en juin 1916 dans les Proceedings of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Petite déchirure sur le bord supérieur du portefeuille. Petit accroc sur le bord d'une planche. Couverture rigide
19156150San Francisco: Robert A. Reid 1915. Very Good. 24 x 32 cm; 31 leaves of plates all color illustrations from photographs with facing text. Title page printed in red and black with tinted floral background. Text within floral borders. Bound in original laced wraps with mounted color illustration from a photograph of the exhibition grounds. Covers a bit uneven torn along part of the upper joint and chipped along edges but internally the album is fine. Robert A. Reid paperback books
191530734Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts 1915. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers. Spine darkened. Modest wear. A VG copy. 351 1 pp. Text in English. Illustrated with sepia plates. 7-1/2" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts unknown books
