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2753ALS. 3pg. 8†x 10â€. July 20 1913. Balboa. An autograph letter signed “James†to his mother. James was working on the Panama Canal: “…We are having real nice weather here in Balboa. I got up rather early this morning and it is now 6:30 A.M. – and the thermometer is just 76 so that it is really comfortable – as you can imagine. Some of the boys that are new-comers here want me to go across the canal to a native village with them as I talk Spanish and they thought I could guide them a little better as I know the culture and language of the natives. One man is sort of a horticulturist and agriculturist from one of the western states just came here to work on the docks & terminals and he is very much interested in plant and jungle life here. I have told him about none of the…that I have found along rivers and in swamps and he is so much interested in finding some himself but they are a little hard to find that is you usually find them when you least expect to run into them…there is such little duty into Panama really – if any…we had a shake up in organization and fortunately I came out with the survivors – and have a real nice job. Am still on the permanent town site works and terminals and like that work so much…â€. The letter has the usual mailing folds but is in very fine condition otherwise. unknown books
191519357San Francisco: The Argentine Commission Of The Panama-Pacific-Exposition 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown leather lettered in gilt. Near fine. 88 pages. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. "The Commission of the Argentine Republic takes pleasure in offering this volume descriptive of the growth and position of the Argentine Republic as a souvenir of the Panama-Pacific-exposition of 1915." Clean copy back cover damp stained. The Argentine Commission Of The Panama-Pacific-Exposition hardcover books
1910369Panama: I.L. Maduro 1910. Good plus. Folding map 18 x 24 inches. Original printed wrappers. Light wear and sunning to wrapper edges. A few short separations along folds one of which repaired with tape none affecting text of map image. Attractive promotional for the construction of the Panama Canal issued by a local souvenir store. One side of the sheet are an overhead view of the canal route with locations of the proposed canal locks and other unfinished construction and two smaller maps one of Panama as a whole and a topographical profile of necessary excavations along the route. The other side prints a "History of Isthmian Canal" accompanied by eleven photographic reproductions depicting work sites and other views related to the construction. I.L. Maduro unknown books
192385579Mount Hope C. Z.: Panama Canal Press 1923. Revised 1923. Hardcover. Fair. 185p. Original cloth. 23cm. Pages yellowed. Cover rubbed and rather worn. Numerous short tears and soil marks. Lacks rear free endpaper. A heavily used copy. According to the Preface this was a revision of a book first published in 1921. OCLC locates only a 1949 edition 1 holding at the University of Illinois. <br/><br/> Panama Canal Press hardcover books
182626002Washington: Gales & Seaton 1826. House Executive Document 129 19th Congress 1st Session. 89 1 blank pp. Couple of ink spots in blank margins occasional light tanning else Very Good in modern cloth bookplate on front pastedown with gilt-stamped spine title. Gales & Seaton unknown books
192642118México: Publicaciones de la Secretria de relaciones exteriores 1926. First edition. Rebound in red cloth with gilt titles. A very good copy a few institutional markings and blind stamp spine rubbed from label removal. No dust jacket. xxvii 262 1 pp. 8vo. Archivo Histórico Diplomático Mexicano. no. 19. Antonio de la Peña y Reye. The Congress of Panama organized by Simon Bolivar with the intention to create a unified Latin America against Spanish aggression and a working treaty organization met with failure. The U.S. did not send any delegates as the South was incensed over the inclusion of Haiti. Publicaciones de la Secretria de relaciones exteriores hardcover books
1927538Panama: Imprenta Nacional 1927. Very good. 6911pp. plus three folding maps. 12mo. Original green printed wrappers. Light soiling and wear. Internally clean. Handsome little guide to Panama printed in Spanish and English on facing pages. Includes notable sights to see together with a history of the Canal and a commercial directory. Imprenta Nacional unknown 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
191438258New York: Wittenberg Coal Company 1914. 8vo. 36pp. Early cloth backed boards original wrappers bound in.<br/> <br/>Provenance: Marinens Bibliotek old inked stamps; deaccessioned by the Garnisions Biblioteket in 2017<br/> <br/>Among the earliest directions for sailing through the Panama Canal.<br/> <br/>The Panama Canal opened to shipping traffic on August 15 1914. This work issued as a promotional piece by an American coal company prints Wilson's July 9 1914 Executive Order number 1990 which detailed the rules and regulations for ships passing through the canal. Unrecorded in OCLC. Wittenberg Coal Company unknown books
199246911Panamá: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Octubre-Noviembre 1992. 25cm. 112 pages color plates biographies catalogue index wrappers Inaugral catalogue for the National Panamian Bienal. Winning artists include: Brooke Alfaro Julio Clemente Gabriel Chaves Flores Marco Gateño José Luis Herrera Antonio Madrid Museo de Arte Contemporaneo unknown books
1916166958San Francisco: San Francisco Art Association 1916. Softbound. Fair parts of thin spine paper missing contents loose but complete and clean. Sold as a reading copy. Brown wraps. 6 viii 5 112 p. 64 full-page BW plates; 6 additional illustrations in text accompanying Pedro Lemos' article. Lists 4979 works by American artists living and deceased. A total of 7025 works listed index at rear to all artists. Also lists members of the San Francisco Art Association. San Francisco Art Association paperback books
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
1967132479London: Warner-Pathe Distributors 1967. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1967 UK release of the 1966 US film. <br/><br/>Set during the Korean War about an Italian nurse Lisi who falls in love with two fighter pilots Curtis and Scott. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. A vertical crease to the middle else Near Fine. Warner-Pathe Distributors unknown books
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
38814n. p. n. d. Ca 1877. Bit of discoloration at top. Adhesive residue along verso edges. Period date of "5/18/77" in recto lower margin. A VG copy. Pale blue card stock printed both sides. Typographical border. Card verso with departure dates for Japan Hong Kong Sydney Auckland & PNW ports. 5-13/16" x 3-1/4" <br/><br/>The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was founded in 1848 as a joint stock company under the laws of the State of New York. The company founders had acquired the right to transport mail under contract from the United States Government from the Isthmus of Panama to California. The company initially believed it would be transporting agricultural goods from the West Coast but just as operations began gold was discovered in California and business boomed almost from the start. During the California Gold Rush in 1849 the company was a key mover of goods and people and played a key role in the growth of San Francisco California. In 1867 the company launched the first regularly scheduled trans-Pacific steamship service with a route between San Francisco Hong Kong and Yokohama and extended service to Shanghai. This route led to an influx of Japanese and Chinese immigrants bringing additional cultural diversity to California. A rare survivor from the era documenting the firm's Far East routes. unknown books
1930WRCAM55194San Antonio: E.O. Goldbeck National Photo & News Service 1930. Two panoramic photographs 10 x 48 1/2 inches and 10 x 34 1/2 inches. Minor edge wear and creasing. Very good. An interesting pair of panoramic photographs relating to the Panama Canal Zone around 1930. The photographs were produced by the prolific panoramist E.O. Goldbeck during one of his many jaunts to record American military installations in exotic locales. One is dated June 1930 but it is reasonable to assume Goldbeck photographed both subjects around the same time since the Panama Canal Zone is no short trip from San Antonio. The pair of panoramas include: <br> <br> 1 CULEBRA CUT - PANAMA CANAL ZONE. 10 x 48 1/2 inches. A well-composed image showing a steamship rounding a corner of the Culebra Cut an artificial valley cutting through the Continental Divide in Panama and one of the greatest engineering projects of the late- 19th and early-20th centuries. Begun in 1881 by the French and not finished until 1913 by the United States the Culebra Cut known for most of its life as the Gaillard Cut is an eight-mile-long artificial channel forming part of the Panama Canal. It connects Gatun Lake to the Gulf of Panama providing a link from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Culebra Cut resulted from the blasting and excavation of the Culebra mountains by 6000 workers employing hundreds of steam drills and shovels 60 million pounds of dynamite and thousands of trains loaded with debris and bound for landfill dumps. The present image captures the awesome scope of the project completed less than twenty years earlier. <br> <br> 2 FT. AMADOR. C.Z. JUNE 1930. CAPT. R.J. VAN BUSKIRK. COMDG. 10 x 34 1/2 inches. A panoramic photograph featuring Company B of the 65th Air Defense Artillery Regiment of the United States Army. The 65th regiment was active in providing air defense in the Panama Canal Zone from July 1924 to April 1932. Fort Amador was primarily an infantry and artillery support base providing air defense to American merchant ships traveling through the Pacific side of the Panama Canal. The image captures over eighty members of Company B ranged on each side of their trophies and their regimental guidon. <br> <br> A complementary pair of panoramic photographs highlighting the scale of the project in the Culebra Cut and American military interests in the Panama Canal Zone in the interwar period. E.O. Goldbeck, National Photo & News Service unknown books
10696PA CTY PCIO 1964. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD-FINE. F. PA CTY, PCIO, 1964 unknown books
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 books
2003132100Burlington VT: ACERCA 2003. 48p. wraps very good. Spanish version of the pamphlet "Plan Puebla Panama: Battle Over the Future of Southern Mexico and Central America " issued simultaneously by the same organization. Not in OCLC. ACERCA unknown books
1916153763San Francisco: Woman's Board of the Panama Pacific International Exposition 1916. Hardcover. xvii 193p with over 100 tipped-in photos mostly portraits; first edition original cloth brown boards tan spine with title/author label printed in black that is very worn because of the style of casing-in. Edges show a little card slight foxing to endsheets general signs of handling but not quite "as is" the stiff feel of the opened book was built in at the bindery. Flowery record of California elite women who raised funds for and managed their contributions of entertainment receptions for dignitaries Traveller's Aid and fair coordination to San Francisco's Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Woman's Board of the Panama Pacific International Exposition hardcover books
201299446Salvador: Secretaría de Cultura de la Presidencia Dirección de Publicaciones e Impresos 2012. 23.5 cm. Edición Conmemorativa del Bicentenario del Primer Grito de Independencia 1811-2011 Volumen 5 388p color plates bibliographical references p. 375-379 ind. color pict. wrps. OCLC: 786443423 Marks the troubled relationship between artists and the power in a survery of art and artists in El Salvador from 1821 to the 1990s. An important reference for the history of art. "The central objective of this book is to give the reader a closer look on the artwork of Salvadoran artists that have been protagonists in the development of plastic arts in the 20th century a time period immersed in chronological aesthetic generational and thematic strains and the prevalence of the phenomena that defines the paradigms of our modern visual culture"--P. 1. Contents: Prologo / Ricardo Lindo - Introducción -- Capítulo 1. Precedentes decimonónicos 1821-1900 -- Capítulo 2. Inicios del siglo XX 1900-1921 -- Capítulo 3. En búsqueda de identidad Los años 20 -- Capítulo 4. La impronta mexicana -- Capítulo 5. La primera vanguardia salvadoreña de siglo XX -- Capítulo 6. Atmosfera y contexto sociocultural de los años 30 -- Capítulo 7. Primera generación de la Academia de Dibujo y Pintura de Valero Lecha -- Capítulo 8.La institucionalización del arte -- Capítulo 9. Los independientes y la función social del arte -- Capítulo 10. Autoconocimiento psíquico y ancestral -- Capitulo 11. El simbolismo y el surrealismo de las décadas de los años 60 y 70 -- Capitulo 12. Reforma educativa del siglo XX -- Capitulo 13. Guerra civil de los años 80 1980-1992 -- Capitulo 14. Contexto cultural de la década de los 90 -- Epílogo. Arte Salvadoreño contemporáneo Secretaría de Cultura de la Presidencia, Dirección de Publicaciones e Impresos unknown books
191326706Tegicigalpa: Tipografia Nacional 1913. Wraps. Good. 26 pages. Printed yellow wrappers. 7 3/4 x 11 inches. Browned paper uncut and unopened. Dampstaining near spine in several places throughout. A scarce publication. Wraps. Rough english translation: "Regulation of the Honduras Section at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco California 1915: approved by supreme agreement of May 28 1913 . followed by the Regulations and Rules for Reporting and Guidance of Those Who Claim to Participate in she dictated by the President of The Expresada Exposicon And Corrected And Approved By The Same Tipografia Nacional unknown books
193185580Mount Hope C. Z.: Panama Canal Press 1931. Revised September 1 1931. Paperback. Fair. 20p. Small softcover pamphlet in original wrapper. 23cm. Soiled and well-used. A small pink broadside labeled "Supplement Number 1" and dated 2/27/36 is attached to the back cover with a very rusty paperclip. A typed revision or explanation of the section on turning dynamite boxes twice monthly is pasted inside the front cover. OCLC locates three copies of later editions Stanford Indiana State Library and Wisconsin Historical Society. <br/><br/> Panama Canal Press paperback books
1947400631947. PANAMA. SANCOCHO Stories and Sketches of Panama. Translated by Evelyn Moore. Drawings by Jan Koerber. The Star & Herald Co. 1947. Second printing. By various authors. 8vo. red cloth-backed red & yellow illustrated paper-covered boards. Back board slightly soiled corner bumped. Otherwise a very good copy of this attractive book. unknown books
44502First editions unless noted. Paper wrappers. Very good. 1. Pan American Union. PANAMA. GENERAL DESCRIPTIVE DATA. Washington D.C.: Pan American Union 1916. 31 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. A very good copy. 2. Pan American Union. PANAMA. LATEST REPORTS FROM PANAMAN OFFICIAL SOURCES. FOREIGN TRADE SERIES NO. 102 1932 WITH NO. 113 1933 WITH NO. 126 1934 WITH NO. 144 1936. FOREIGN TRADE OF NICARAGUA FOR 1930 1932 AND 1935. THREE ISSUES. Washington D.C.: Pan American Union 1932-1936. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. Very good copies. 3. Pan American Union. PANAMA. FOREIGN TRADE SERIES NO. 182 1941. FOREIGN TRADE OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA FOR THE YEARS 1938 AND 1939. Washington D.C.: Pan American Union 1939-1943. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. A very good copy. unknown books
