Search Results: South America from Interquarian

Valparaiso: Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso XXIII reprodcutions of early paintings, drawings and photographs illustrating the history of Valparaiso. The loose sheets are accompanied by a 16 page booklet with further illustrations and a chronology. 8 looses sheets reproduce water colours by A Charles Wood, Thomas Sommerscales, Chassin Troubert and John Searle; 8 are copies of photographs from from the 1850's and 1860's and 7 are taken from published illustrations of early travellers. Contained in an illustrated card folder. No date, c. 1970. Soft cover. Good/Good. 23 x 35 Cm.. Book.

Canal Zone: Florida State University Isthmian Anthropology Society, 1969. 23 (x2 dual text in English and Spanish) 20 plates of applique designs and images produced in cloth by the Cunas Indians of the Panama Canal Zone. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". First. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

London: The Travel Book Club 285, with map and short glossary and table, publisher's red cloth, no inscriptions, slight browning of fore edge.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Santiago De Chile, 1903. Two copies of Almanaque Parrochiale for 1903 and 1904, published in Santiago. each bound in the original pictorial wrappers and recased in green cloth with gilt tiles to spine. 1903, 125 pp plus adverts; 1904 (ano VI), 128 pp plus adverts. Pages browned else in very good condition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Belem-Para, Brazil: Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, 1987. 69, Museum Catalogue on an exhibition of Amerindian culture, dual English-Portuguese text 8 x 7 Inches. Soft cover. Good. 8 x 7 Inches. Book.

Sao Paolo: Renig 337, french wrappers, numerous line drawings of plants, animals, native technologies, maps etc 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Third Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

New York: Charles Scribner's, 1927. 129, almost As New, slight foxing of last page and edges, a fine crisp copy. Red cloth, paper title label to spine. First. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

London: Atlantic Books, 2007. 391, black and white photographs throughout, publisher's brown boards, dj intact, very little wear, no inscriptions. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hardcover. Near New/Near New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Buenos Aires: Guillermo Kraft, 1911. 2 vols, vol. I, Antecedentes, text, 447; vol. II, Laminas. 63 folding plans of the construction of the new port of Puerto Nuevo in Buenos Aires; original maroon cloth, rebacked with old spine labels (chipped), matching slipcase, boards with mildew stains. Vol. I contains details of the project specifications and the tenders for the contract, with costs, by a number of leading international companies, Vol.II contains maps and plans of the various projects as outlined in vol. I, many in colour, mounted on tabs, generally in excellent condition, a little browning of edges and minor edge tears. Begun in 1911, the process of building the new port was not completed until 1926. The companies who tendered include Phillip Holzmann y Cia, Sir John Jackson, C.H. Walker y Cia, Topham, Jones and Railton, S.Pearson and Son, Consortium Franco-Argentino, Devoto, Mihanovich, Carena y Cia, Societe des Grands Travaux de Marseille, Constructores de los Puertos Rosario y Montevideo. 3… Read More

Santiago Chile: Banco O'Higgins, 1985. 85 pages with two fold outs and 17 full page colour plates illustrating the costume, headgear and jewllery of the inhabitants of Chile from 1500 BC to 1500 AD with black and white thumbnail phototgraphs of nearly 300 objects included in the exhibition. Map and reconstructions of prehistoric dress, text in English and Spanish. Good condition, crease across corner of front cover. First Edition. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 10 x 11.5 Inches. Book.

1980. 152 pages with images and photographs of Arica from 1712 to 1980. Red binding with gilt titles to front cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Book.

Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Catolica De Chile, 1988. 177, numerous plans, elevations and details of the rural, domestic, industrial and church architecture of the Central Valley of Chile between San Fernando and the Pacific Ocean in the Colonial Period. Presentation copy signed on the fly leaf by Gabriel Guarda O.S.B. to A.D. Charles, Las Condes, Octobre, 1990. Top of spine and adjacent areas of covers worn and marked else near fine.. Signed by Author(s). First Edition of 2,000 Copies. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 36 x 26 cm.. Book.

Brazil: Abril, 1979. 1111, publisher's cream cloth, pictorial eps, dj with slight edge wear. A heavy set, 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Book.

Caracas: Fundacion Eugenio Mendoza, 1977. 260, an illustrated catallogue of 275 Pre-Columbian ceramics in the Eugenio Mendoza Foundation in Caracas with maps, chronological tables, glossary etc. Brown cloth, dj complete, edges nibbled in places and with owner signature on front flap (David Medd, architect/designer). Mild spotting to fore edge . 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. x, 203, the results of fieldwork, a perceptive analysis of sex in modern Brazil. Some minor edge wear. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". First. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Paris: Challamel Ainé, Librarire Coloniale, 1886. xx, 639, with 30 pls, 77 vignettes and 9 polychrome maps and panoramas including a fold-out panorama of the Panama Canal and a large fold out map of Bolivia. Quarter blue cloth, marbled boards, brown label with gilt titles to spine (rubbed). The original thin card pictorial wrappers (somewhat dusty) are bound in. Ink stamps on the right top and bottom of the front wrapper and the title page have been removed leaving unattractive marks.The inscription on the verso of the frontispiece reads "A Monsieur Ed Lockroy, Député de la Serie, Minstre du Commerce & de l'Industrie, Commissionaire Genéral de l'Exposition de 1889. Hommage du plus profond respect de A. Bresson, 30. 7e. de 86". Edouard Lockroy, French radical politician (1838-1913) who served with Garibaldi for 3 years after 1860 is best known for arranging the Paris Exposition of 1889. In his capacity as Commissioner General he published the tender in… Read More

London: Penguin Books, 1993. xiv, 392, as published, pages yellowed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

London: Latin America Bureau Ltd, 1992. 130, of which 129-130 are a list of publisher's books, 2 maps. Hardback,no inscriptions, "An insight into urban violence in Medellin, Colombia's second city. Alsonso Salazar journeys into the jails, hospitals and shanty towns of Colombia's drug capital to interview teenage contract killers, their families, priests and self-defence vigilantes." Corners slightly bumped, alse as new.. Hardcover. As New. Illus. by Translated By Nick Caistor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Brazil: Impresa Des Artes, 1997. 186, numerous colour photographs of scenery, plants, fauna etc in Brazil's National Parks. Publisher's pictorial boards. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Book.

Rio De Janeiro: Livraria Jose Olympio Editora, 1939. xxv, 182, a few plates, the diary of an expedition to Canudos in 1897, some 4 years after the autonomous town in Bahia, northeast Brazil, was founded. Intro by G. Freyre. Published as No 16 in the Colecao Documentos Brasileiros. Publisher's french wrappers, all pages browned, spine chipped 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.