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Great White Fleet Photo Album, 1907-1909
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10.75" x 15.5" post-bound album with 122 original photographs and 5 lithographic prints from photographs affixed to both sides of 24 thick cardstock leaves (some additional blank leaves at the end). Backstrip of album lacking, boards detached but present. Internals very good. Contains a mix of professional and competent amateur photographs ranging in size from 9" x 11.5" down… Read more about this item Item Price
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Porto do Recife, Publicação de Propaganda das Docas do Porto do Recife, Anno 1, 1933, Numero 1
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- 1933
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Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil, 1933. First Edition. Softcover. Fair. 10.5" x 7.25", pp xxxii, [74], xxxiii-lvi, extensively illustrated, with color folding map ("Planta Geral do Porto do Recife com o Ante-Projecto de Ampliação Para Approveitamento da Bacia de Sto Amaro e Aero-Porto"). Wrappers worn, with some loss and old tape repairs to spine. Binding very delicate, with a few… Read more about this item Item Price
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Brazil at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904
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St. Louis: Sam'l F. Myerson Printing Company, 1904. Softcover. Good. 9.75" x 6.5", 160 pp, extensively illustrated, in original embossed wrappers. Spine sunned and chipped at head, soiling to fore edge and first and last pages of text, otherwise clean and tightly bound. Good content on Brazil's natural resources, agricultural and industrial production, imports and exports, and numerous… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator [with] Supplementary Appendix to Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/404/677/1564677404.0.m.0.jpg)
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Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator [with] Supplementary Appendix to Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator
by Whymper, Edward
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- 1892
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London: John Murray, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. First edition of both volumes: Volume I (published in 1892): pp xxiv, 456, with four maps (3 folding, including one in rear pocket), 20 full-page illustrations and more than 100 additional illustrations in the text, appendices, index. Rebound in green cloth with gilt titles on spine, no illustration or decoration… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Bolivian Andes, A Record of Climbing and Exploration in the Cordillera Real in the Years 1898 and 1900
by Conway, Martin
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- 1901
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New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 402 pp, with appendix, bibliography, index, and more than 50 illustrations from photographs, in pictorial cloth binding. Spine slanted, corners lightly bumped, binding sound, text clean. Neate C102: "The first major climbing expedition to the area. Conway's party made the first ascent of the south… Read more about this item Item Price
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Aconcagua and Tierra del Fuego. A Book of Climbing, Travel, and Exploration
by Conway, Sir Martin
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- 1902
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London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 252 pp + publisher's ads, with 27 illustrations and a folding map, in original maroon cloth. Considerable rubbing to edges of boards, corners bumped, slight bleed of cloth color onto top edge of rear endpapers. Binding sound, text clean. Neate C99: After a quick… Read more about this item Item Price
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French Guiana, Liquidation of the Penal Settlement
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- 1945
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NZ$150.27
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New York: French Press and Information Service, 1945. Softcover. Good. 8.25 x 10.75 in., 16 pp, with six half-tone illustrations showing the Saint-Laurent Penitentiary, political and economic map of French Guiana on back cover. Stapled wrappers. Light staining, edgewear, abrasion to wrappers -- good. Written for an American audience, this booklet seeks to dispel French Guiana's reputation --… Read more about this item Item Price
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Land of the Tempest, Travels in Patagonia 1958-1962
by Shipton, Eric
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- 1963
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New York: E.P. Dutton, 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 224 pp, indexded, illustrated with photographs and maps. Top edge slightly dust-soiled, else fine. Dust jacket has just a touch of wear. A record of expeditions made in four successive summer seasons across many of the unclimbed peaks of Tierra del Fuego. Neate S59. Item Price
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The Bolivian Andes, A Record of Climbing and Exploration in the Cordillera Real in the Years 1898 and 1900
by Conway, Martin
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- 1901
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New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 402 pp, with appendix, bibliography, index, and more than 50 illustrations from photographs, in the simplest binding of unadorned grayish-brown cloth. Spine lettering faded but legible. Upper corners lightly bumped, binding sound, text clean. Short ownership inscription ("A.W.B. December 18, 1918") on front free endpaper.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Highest Andes, A Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina, and the Exploration of the Surrounding Valleys
by Fitz Gerald, E.A. [Edward Arthur FitzGerald]
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- 1899
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NZ$292.20
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London: Methuen, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 390 pp, with index, half-tone and photogravure illustrations from photographs by the author and by Arthur E. Lightbody and Stuart Vines, folding panorama, 2 folding maps. Bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering, image of a condor on upper board. Upper corners bumped (visible on text block), spine just… Read more about this item Item Price
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Brazil and La Plata: The Personal Record of a Cruise
by Stewart, C.S.
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- 1856
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New York: G.P. Putnam, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xi, 428 pp + publisher's ads, with two lithographed plates before the title page, showing Rio de Janiero and Catete, Original red cloth binding, with chipping to cloth at base of spine, light wear to edges. Internally sound and clean. Reverend Charles Samuel Stewart (1795-1870) served as missionary… Read more about this item Item Price
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Brazil, the Home for Southerners: Or a Practical Account of What the Author, and Others, Who Visited that Country for the Same Objects, Saw and Did While in that Empire
by Dunn, Ballard S.
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- 1866
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New York and New Orleans: George B. Richardson and Bloomfield & Steel, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. iv, 272 pp, with frontis portrait of the author and folding colored map of Brazil and Guyana, in origInal green cloth binding. Minimal external wear, binding sound, but all pages are tanned, some with foxing. Short closed tear to map where… Read more about this item Item Price
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Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil, With a Full Account of the Gold and Diamond Mines. Also, Canoeing Down 1500 Miles of the Great River Sao Francisco, From Sabara to the Sea
by Burton, Richard F.
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- 1869
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NZ$2,003.64
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London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 8vo, pp xii, 443; viii, 478, [2] (ads), each with engraved frontispiece and title page vignette, folding map in Volume II. Publisher's green cloth ruled in blind, with gilt figure on each front board. Account of Burton's journey from Rio to the rich mining area of Minas… Read more about this item Item Price
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Short Plays of the Southern Americas: Brief Plays by Writers of Chile, Cuba, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Uraguay, Colombia, and Peru
by Jones, Willis Knapp (Translator)
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- 1944
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[Palo Alto, CA]: Dramatists' Alliance of Stanford University, 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 106 pp, ca. 8.5 x 11 inches, original illustrated wrappers. Moderate handling wear, including creasing to cover resulting from a binding error; very good. Second volume in the Coester Series of Translations from the drama of Southern American states, "issued as a means of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Wandering Sketches of People and Things in South America, Polynesia, California, and Other Places Visited, During a Cruise on Board of the U.S. Ships Levant, Portsmouth, and Savannah
by Wood, William Maxwell
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- 1849
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NZ$417.42
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Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. x, [13]-386, in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Losses to spine ends, corners rubbed through, slightly shaken, but still a better than average copy of this title, which is often found in poor condition. Hill (1910): The ships made port in Rio de Janierio, Valparaiso, Callao, Paita, the Marquesas,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Information about Bolivia
by [LATIN AMERICA] Bolivian Legation
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- 1912
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Washington, DC: Press of Byron S. Adams, 1912. 6 x 9.25 inches, 72 pp, with chromolithograph frontispiece, many b/w illustrations from photographs. Near fine, with mild edgewear to wrappers. Stamp of the Bolivan Consulate in San Francisco on front endpaper. An attractive informational booklet aimed at potential investors, with description of the major cities of Bolivia and details of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The War of Quito by Pedro de Cieza de Leon and Inca Documents
by de Cieza de Leon, Pedro; Markham, Sir Clements R. (Translator, ed)
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- 1991
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Kraus Reprint Limited, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. xii, 212 pp, with index. Minimal wear to edges, name written on front pastedown; else fine. No dust jacket. Reprint of the 1913 Hakluyt Society edition. Second series, No. XXXI. Please note: the image associated with this listing shows another volume in the same series, but it other than the title… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Migraciones Internas, Perspectivas Teoricas Y Metodologicas [Cover title: Migracion Interna en El Peru]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/356/672/791672356.0.m.jpg)
Migraciones Internas, Perspectivas Teoricas Y Metodologicas [Cover title: Migracion Interna en El Peru]
by Aramburu, Carlos E.
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- 1981
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Lima, Peru: Instituto Andino de Estudios en Poblacion y Desarrollo, 1981. Softcover. Very Good. 55 pp, with two foldout diagrams, bibliography. Short (1/2 inch) tears at head and foot of spine; light handling wear; contents clean and sound. Text in Spanish. A study of migration patterns within the nation of Peru. Item Price
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Mexico y Cusco, Ciudades Hermanas, 1987-1988
by Vidargas, Fracisco
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- 1988
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Mexico: Coleccion Distrito Federal, 1988. Softcover. Very good. Text in Spanish. 74 pp, with color illustrations from photographs, in original illustrated wrappers. Gift inscription on front endpaper; else clean and sound with light handling wear. Item Price
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Pre-Columbian Pottery of Peru, From the Collection of the University Gallery (University Gallery Bulletin 1, No. 1, 1975)
by Gordon, Elizabeth K.
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- 1975
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Gainesville, FL: College of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Florida, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Catalogue of an exhibition shown and documented in conjunction with the special photographic exhibition Machu Picchu of the Inca, with photography by Roy C. Craven Jr. (36) pp, stapled wrappers. Illustrated with 28 b/w photos. Includes introductory essay, bibliography. Minor cover… Read more about this item Item Price
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