Latin America
From The Path Between the Seas to Thy Will Be Done, from Inside Latin America to The Voice Of Latin America, we can help you find the latin america books you are looking for. As the world's largest independent marketplace for new, used and rare books, you always get the best in service and value when you buy from Biblio.co.nz, and all of your purchases are backed by our return guarantee.
Top Sellers in Latin America
The Path Between the Seas
by David McCullough
Describes all the events and personalities involved in the monumental undertaking which precipitated revolution, scandal, economic crisis, and a new Central American republic Bibliography: p. 655-669.
Includes index.
Includes index.
I, Rigoberta Menchu
by Rigoberta Menchu
Rigoberta Menchú received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for her efforts to end the oppression of indigenous peoples in Guatemala.
Open Veins Of Latin America
by Eduardo Galeano
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (in Spanish Las venas abiertas de América Latina) is an essay written by Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano in 1971.
Brazilian Adventure
by Peter Fleming
Brazilian Adventure is a book by Peter Fleming about his search for the lost Colonel Percy Fawcett in the Brazilian jungle. Fawcett along with his son and another companion had disappeared while searching for the Lost City of Z in 1925. Fleming was working as literary editor for The Times when he answered a small ad asking for volunteers to join an expedition to find out what had happened to Fawcett. The story of Fleming's 1932 expedition is told in Brazilian Adventure.
Latin America Books & Ephemera
Bibliografia Yucateca
by Teixidor, Felipe
Merida: Museo Arqueologico e Historico de Yucatan, 1937. First edition. Paper wrappers. Soil spots on front wrapper, half title detached, else a very good copy with scattered pencil marginalia.. 263 pp. 8vo. No. 256 of 500 copies printed. Lists 239 items on the Maya language, 38 manuscripts, and 1400 titles including history, literature, and science. Palau 329011. Jones 2522.
Item Price
NZ$212.42
The Los Morales Hacienda, XXX Anniversary (Mexico)
by Valle, Gabriel Brena
San Miguel Amantla: Grupo Azabache, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 500 copies printed. Quarto in dust jacket, book very good, jacket also very good, light edgewear. 127 pp, illustrated. Text mainly in English.
Item Price
NZ$59.48
Album Historico del Uruguay para Los Ninos, Tomos I, II, III: 3 volumes bound into 1
by Soriano, Roberto Abadie
Montevideo: Casa A. Barreiro y Ramos, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. Good +. No date, ca. 1925-1935. Three softcover volumes with vibrant color wrappers, bound into printed paper boards with cloth spine. Oblong 4to, ca. 48p each. Tinted illustrations. A generally good + to very good copy with rubbing wear and some spotting to extremities. Japanese paper repair to hinges, chipping to the corner of the front flyleaf and creasing to the flyleaf and first page. Still a handsome copy of a very scarce...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$76.47
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914.
by McCULLOUGH, David.-
Simon & Schuster, 1977, New York.. 24x16. Tela editorial con sobrecubierta. 698 pgs. Texto en ingles. Numerosas fotos b/n fuera del texto. 693394
Item Price
NZ$14.57
Ordenanzas para el govierno de la labor de monedas de oro, y plata que se fabricaren en la Real casa de Lima. Formadas por las establecidas para la de Mexico, en lo que son adaptables, y arregladas, en lo que no lo son, à lo resuelto por Su Magestad en real cedula de 11. de noviembre de 1755. Impresas de orden del Excmo. Sor. Don Joseph Antonio Manso de Velasco, conde de Superunda ... virrey, governador, y capitan general de estas provincias de el Perù, y Chile
by [Peru, Viceroyalty of] Manso de Velasco, José A
[Lima]: En la Imprenta nueva de los Niños huerphanos, por P. Gonzales, 1759. First edition. Contemporary brown calf, embossed boards. A good copy; tissue repairs to backstrip, boards edge worn and moderately scuffed, bookplate of Félix Francisco Martín y Herrera on front pastedown, lacking front endpaper, inked notations on front blank, reattached, and rear endpaper, joint cracked, title page worn and torn at inner margin, with two small stains affecting, but not obscuring the text, repaired tears on...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$5,523.05
El Bibliófilo Chileno. Organo de la Sociedad de Biblófilos Chilenos. Año II agosto de 1948, No. 4
by Sociedad de Bibliófilos Chilenos
Santiago de Chile: Sociedad de Bibliófilos Chilenos, Imprenta Universitaria, 1948. First edition. Self wrappers. A very good unopened (uncut) copy.. [33-54] pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. Sm. 4to. One of two hundred copies. Most of the issue is devoted to a catalogue of Claudio Gay's Atlas de La Historia Fisica y Politica de Chile. Also a lead article by Irving Leonard: Un envio de libros para Concepcion de Chile, 1620.
Item Price
NZ$84.97
Diccionario biográfico, Histórico y Geográfico Argentino El Ateneo
by Librería "El Ateneo" Editorial
Buenos Aires: El Ateneo, 1997. First edition. Paper wrappers. Shelfwear else near fine.. 425 pp. Illus. with in-text b/w photos and reproductions. 8vo.
Item Price
NZ$25.49
![KINDER FUN DER ZUN: ESEYEN [INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/377/905/913905377.0.b.jpg)
KINDER FUN DER ZUN: ESEYEN [INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR]
by Tenenbaum, Shea
Mexico, El Libro Perfecto, 1942. Paperback. 1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 372 pages ; 19 cm. In Yiddish. Warmly inscribed by the author on the first inside page. Title translates into English as, "Children of the Sun: Essays. " Shea Tenenbaum (1910-1989) was a 20th century Yiddish author. Also includes a printed drawing of Tenenbaum. OCLC lists 27 copies worldwide. Some edgewear and paper is browning. Good condititon. (AMR-49-48).
Item Price
NZ$169.94
THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS, THE CREATION OF THE PANAMA CANAL 1870-1914
by David McCullough
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. first edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; clean, minimal shelf wear. Binding tight, text unmarked. Hist. Stax.
Item Price
NZ$42.48
Ensaios Semioticos Linguisticos
by Cidmar Teodoro Pais
Petropolis, RJ, Brasil: Global Editora, 1984. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Second edition published in 1984. Spine cracked at back wrap, binding still tight. Mild surface wear. Bookstore on FFEP. Text in Portuguese, clean and unmarked.
Item Price
NZ$18.22
Las Raices Torcidas De America Latina / Twisted Roots
by Carlos Alberto Montaner
Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A, 2001. First Edition. Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. interior pages tanned on edges, text cleanListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental U.S. FOR International orders under 5 lbs please use asendia for...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$10.20
La Utopia Desarmada
by Castaneda, Jorge
Joaquin Mortiz, 1995-11-01. Spanish. Paperback. Good+/no dust cover. 8x5x0. light cover wear, interior vg, clean tight, 579 pp, index in rearListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental U.S. FOR International orders under 5 lbs...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$12.75
The Maya
by Michael D. Coe
Thames & Hudson, 1997. Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.). Very Good. Lightly rubbed at the tips of the wrappers otherwise a very well presented copy.. Paperback. Physically 9½” x 6½” (0.9 kg); 224pp; Index; Bibliography; 5th (revised) edition, 2nd printing, [First Published: 1966] Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Chronological Tables; Black & White Drawings; Maps; ISBN: 0500277168 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$23.37
![[Manuscript Document calling for the people of Tehuantepec to join the revolt. Beginning] "El ciudadano José Gregorio Melendez Gral. de Division y Comandante en jefe de las fuerzas de Juchitan. A los Tehuantepecanos...."](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/898/096/969096898.0.b.jpg)
[Manuscript Document calling for the people of Tehuantepec to join the revolt. Beginning] "El ciudadano José Gregorio Melendez Gral. de Division y Comandante en jefe de las fuerzas de Juchitan. A los Tehuantepecanos...."
by Melendez, José Gregorio
[Juchitan / Chiapas, Mexico], 1850. A very good copy, tiny tear at one edge, minor creasing, fold, old stab marks at margin.. Broadside. Folio. 33 x 23 cm (13 x 19 inches). Jose Gregorio Melendez (1793-1853) was long a leader in the Zapotec peoples' rebellions against the state government's control of local resources including land and salt, with uprisings in 1827, 1834, 1844-45, 1847, and finally in 1850-53 during which period this call for support was issued. Though Benito Juarez, who was interim...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$1,019.64
Los copistas
by Hernández Benítez, Leticia
Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigía, 2016. 73 pages plus an audio CD. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. An edition of 200 copies. Colección Andante. An artist's book celebrating music copyists, who are hired to produce neat copies from a composer's or arranger's manuscript, interpreting the composer's intentions. Among the Matanzas musicians highlighted are Sigfrido Anastasio Tortoló Carrillo; Sergio Pichardo López; Rafael Somavilla; Betsy C. de la Victoria Macón; y Marta Valdés. Examples of their work are also...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$254.91
![[Broadside to Expand the Vote] Fernando S. Ibarra, Gobernador Substituto Interino del Estado Libre y Soberano de Nayarit, a los habitantes del mismo hago saber: Que el H. Congreso del Estado, se ha servido dirigirme el siguiente Decreto Numero 23](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/093/440/1451440093.0.b.jpg)
[Broadside to Expand the Vote] Fernando S. Ibarra, Gobernador Substituto Interino del Estado Libre y Soberano de Nayarit, a los habitantes del mismo hago saber: Que el H. Congreso del Estado, se ha servido dirigirme el siguiente Decreto Numero 23
by [Voting Rights. Mexico] Ibarra, Fernando S
Tepic, Mexico: Palacio del Poder Ejecutivo del Estado de Nayarit, 1919. First edition. Good only, split down the center fold, some other small tears at folds, ight edge chipped, browned, fragile.. 1 sheet. 24"x 18" (60.9 cm x 45.7 cm). The right to vote in local elections was expanded to no longer exclude people would could neither read nor write. This decree deleted the last section of Article 17 in Section I of the Constitution of Nayarit, which stated: "In order to vote and be voted in local...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$254.91
Urban Brazil: Visions, Afflictions, and Governance Lessons
by Ivani Vassoler
Cambria Press, 2007. Hard cover. Good/No jacket. Spine is shaken but secure. Cover is lightly worn. Back cover page is lightly smudged. Inside is marked in pen.
Item Price
NZ$127.46
![Primer Congreso del Pensamiento Politico Latinoamericano 29 de Junio- 2 de Julio - 1983. Tomo I & Tomo II [Two volumes in Ten]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/038/493/881493038.0.b.jpg)
Primer Congreso del Pensamiento Politico Latinoamericano 29 de Junio- 2 de Julio - 1983. Tomo I & Tomo II [Two volumes in Ten]
by [Velásquez, Ramón J.]
Caracas: Congreso de la República, 1984. First edition. Gold paper wrappers. Very good ex-lib copies, yellow stickers taped to lower spine, small chips on a few edges, some rubbing, book sale stickers on verso of wrappers, contents clean.. 8vo. Ediciones del bicentenario del natalicio del Libertador Simón Bolívar series. Conference papers and proceedings of this first congress on Latin American politics and government. Tomo II is in nine volumes and has the subtitle: Ponencias y debates.
Item Price
NZ$169.94
LA INDEPENDENCIA MEXICANA Y LA PRENSA INSURGENTE
by J. M. Miquel i Verges
Mexico: Colegio de Mexico, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 343p. Ex-library book; rebound in green cloth. Old library markings on spine and some inside. Otherwise text clean and book tight. Text in Spanish. Paper slightly yellowed.
Item Price
NZ$59.48
Bibliografia Cubana 1960
by Peraza Sarausa, Fermin
Gainesville: Ediciones Anuario Bibliografico Cubana, 1962. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy.. 144 pp. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to the book dealer and Latin American scholar Maury Bromsen.
Item Price
NZ$42.48
Bibliografia de bibliografias Argentinas 1807-1970
by Geoghegan, Abel Rodolfo
Buenos Aires: Casa Pardo S.A., 1970. Preview edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with a slight spine roll and faint soiling on wrappers.. 130 pp. Sm. 8vo. In Spanish.
Item Price
NZ$59.48
Bohemia, Revista Semanal, La Habana, January 7, 1962
by (Cuba) Ernrique de la Osa, ed
La Habana / Havanna: Edicio Bohemia, 1962. Very Good. 12 inches tall, color covers, 130 pp, illustrated with photos, cartoons, etc. Single issue of this magazine that began printing in Cuba in 1908, with articles on Cuban politics, sports, culture, travel, events, etc. Paper this is printed on is low quality, tans easily.
Item Price
NZ$42.48
The Purple land; being the narrative of one Richard Lamb's adventures in the Banda Orientál in South America
by Hudson, W.H. (William Henry)
New York: AMS Press, 1968. Reprint. Cloth, with gilt titles. A fine copy.. Frontis, vii, 366 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w portrait. 8vo. Reprint of the second edition.
Item Price
NZ$16.99
Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Ameriques. Résumé général de tous les voyages de Colomb, Las-Casas, Oviedo, Gomara, Garcilazo de la Vega, Acosta, Dutertre, Labat, Stedman, La Condamine, Ulloa, Humboldt, Hamilton, Cochrane, Mawe, Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, Max. de Neuwied, Spix et Martius, Rengger et Longchamp, Azara, Fresier, Molina, Miers, Poeppig, Antonio del Rio, Beltrami, Pike, Long, Adair, Chastellux, Bartram, Collot, Lewis et Clarke, Bradbury, Ellis, McKenzie, Franklin, Parry, Back, Phipps, etc., etc.
by Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines d', ed
Paris: Chez L. Tenré... et Chez Henri Dupuy, 1836. First edition. Modern dark green polished calf, five raised bands ruled in gilt, two compartments red, lettered in gilt, four decorated in gilt, edges beveled, new end-papers, silk book mark sewn in. A very handsome copy, contents very good or better, foxing to frontis and title, scattered to contents, maps worn at edges and folds with some repairs, in a fine modern binding.. xvi, 568 pp., [135 lvs of plates]. Illus. with 268 copperplate and steel...
Read more about this item
Item Price
NZ$1,019.64
Bring "Em Back Petrified
by Brown, Lillian
New York City Ny: Dodd, Mead, 1956. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Viii, 277 Pp. Green Cloth Lettered In Yellow. First Printing. Near Fine, Pages Crisp, No Marks. Dust Jacket Priced $4.00, Light Wear.
Item Price
NZ$42.48
