Verano yanqui: novela
[Chile: Ediciones de Obsidiana, 1985]. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 12mo, pp. 141, [10]; original red pictorial wrappers printed in silver and red; about fine. More
[Chile: Ediciones de Obsidiana, 1985]. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 12mo, pp. 141, [10]; original red pictorial wrappers printed in silver and red; about fine. More
New York: Macmillan [and] the American Museum of Natural History, [c1936]. 4to, 2 volumes; 16 color plates after paintings, 72 plates after photographs, and illus., charts, and maps throughout text; very good in original green buckram gilt, lightly rubbed; generally very good. A comprehensive work based upon the ground-breaking ornithological..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1862. 12mo, pp. 273, [3]; 33 wood-engraved text illustrations, most full page; original blindstamped blue cloth, gilt title on spine; spine slightly cocked, light rubbing and a few spots on cover, text clean and sound. Presentation copy to "Miss G. K. Otis, with affectionate regards..... More
Mexico: Oficina Tip. de la Secretaria de Fomento, 1885. First edition, folio, 2 volumes in 1, pp. 260, [4]; plus an Atlas with a color lithograph half-title and title page and 39 color lithograph plates depicting Nahuatl pictographs; illustrations in the text throughout; slightly later quarter sheep over marbled boards;..... More
Paris: Ernesto Leroux, 1897. 8vo, pp. 32; unopened, green printed wrappers; edges faded and lightly rubbed, very good. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate with release stamp inside front cover. "Chocoe" refers to the Choco language family of Panama and Columbia, which is currently spoken by around 60,000 people. More
New York: Harper, 1847. First American edition, published the same year as the English, 8vo, 2 volumes, vol. I with frontis portrait & 1 map, vol. II with frontis portrait and facsimile; original green cloth, gilt spine, spine ends chipped and with tear across bottom of vol. II spine, scattered..... More
Napoli: [Gennaro Morelli], 1750. First edition, 4to, pp. [14], 320, [14]; text partially in black letter, engraved vignette (device of the Accademia della Crusca) on title page printed in sanguine, title page otherwise printed in 4 colors; 3 hand-colored folding plates of the quipus (1 also printed in red and..... More
London: Published by Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society, 2006. Large 8vo, pp. xcvii, [1], 360; frontispiece, maps and illustrations throughout; original cloth in blue printed dust jacket; about fine. Hakluyt Society, Series III, Volume 15. More
London: Published by Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society, 2006. First edition, Vol. I (of two) only, pp. xiii, [1], 406; black and white portrait frontispiece, text maps and illustrations; original cloth in blue printed dust jacket; about fine. Hukluyt Society, Series III, Vol. 16. More
London: published by Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society, 2006. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 406; xii, [2], 266; 2 portrait frontispieces, 23 illustrations in the text, 5 full-page maps, 1 double-page map; fine copies in fine dust jackets. Issued as nos. 16 and 17 in the Society's..... More
Venezia: Silvestro Gatti, 1794. Third Italian edition, 4 vols. in 2, 8vo, pp. [20], 207; 292; 308; 235, [1]; 4 engraved portraits, 4 engraved folding maps, 1 folding plate; full contemporary vellum, gilt lettering direct on spines; occasional spotting and foxing, some soiling of the vellum but generally good and..... More
[Arlington, VA]: 1922. 8vo, pp. [1], 44-60, [2]; text in Maya and English; original blue printed wrappers, bound in stiff paper boards backed in blue cloth, gilt title on spine; very good. Reprinted from the American Anthropologist, vol. 24, no. 1, Jan.-March, 1922. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with a bookplate..... More
Cambridge: published by the Museum, 1913. 8vo, pp. [4], 225-258; original printed wrappers bound nto library card binding, printed paper label on spine; near fine. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate with a Newberry bookplate and a Newberry release stamp onside the front cover. Harvard University's Peabody Museum of American Archaeology &..... More
Mexico: Tip. de la Oficina impresora del timbre Palacio Nacional, 1897. Folio, pp. [4], 40; 10 plates, 1 folding; original tan paper wrappers; light chips to edges and spine, very good. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with their release stamp on verso of title page. An account of Cortes's conquest, with..... More
London: Longman, Hurst [et al.], 1825. First edition, 12mo, pp. xviii, [2], 199, [1]; 2 engraved plates by Westall after Heath; orig. drab paper-covered boards, spine partially perished, else good and the binding remains reasonably sound. More
Pernambuco, [Brazil]: typ. de Geraldo Henrique de Mira & C., 1861. 16mo, pp. [2], ii, 543; bound with: Supplemento do almanak ou colleccÔes de documentos officiaes e informacoes uteis, Pernambuco: typographia de Geraldo Henrique de Mira, 1860, pp. 87, [1], 14 (index), [20] ads printed on blue and yellow paper..... More
Mexico, D. F. Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia, 1941. Large 8vo, pp. 57, [3]; 32 folding maps, many in color, depicting language and racial divisions within Mexico, 3 large folding maps in back envelope, 8 pages of illustrations; original tan paper wrappers, text in red and black on cover;..... More
Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd, 1965. First English edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 176; black & white photographic plates, maps; fine in original red cloth, dust-jacket with some wear. More
[SucĂșa, Ecuador]: Mundo Shuar, 1983. 8vo, pp. 192; text in Spanish; facsimile title pages; green printed paper wrappers, light rubbing to wrappers, text clean and sound, very good. A bibliography of literature on the Shuar people of Ecuador and Peru. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1852. First edition, 8vo, pp. 295, [1]; lithograph frontispiece, large folding map, two charts, and 13 lithograph plates; full green blindstamped cloth; spine and edges toned, top of spine chipped, ex-library with spine label, bookplates and blindstamps, closed tear to folding map along gutter..... More