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329 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in quarter black paper over with red gilt lettering to spine over purple boards in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition.After turning a film student's directorial debut into a hit movie, New York mobster and movie fanatic Vinnie Callabrese takes off for the bright lights of Hollywood, where he begins a new life as Michael Vincent, Producer. A natural born wheeler-dealer, he lands not only a major studio deal, but also a gorgeous actress girlfriend. It isn't long before Michael Vincent is one of the most successful producers in town, given his knack for bringing in films under budget -- not too difficult when you're willing to lie, seduce, intimidate, and even kill to get what you want. But some of the people from his past have long memories and a far reach, and now it's Michael's turn to watch his back. Because even in the land of make-believe certain enemies -- and their bullets -- are very real.Condition: Signed on the title.… Read More

151 pages with diagrams and index. Duo decimo (7" x 4 1/2") bound in brown cloth with original wrappers and spine laid on. Inscribed to C S Kipping. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 2971) First edition. Gabriel Authier, a French composer, wrote with Tivadar Kardos and Roger Diot 275 problemes d'echecs du genre mutate: en deux coups. He wrote a deep study of dual avoidance L'antidual in 1953. He edited the problem column of the magazine L'Echiquier de France from 1953 until 1956 and became its managing director. He was also a Science Fiction writer ("La machine" in Fiction no.16 or "L'Eclipse" in L'Echiquier de Paris no.30/1950). He was also an International Judge for two-movers. He invented the fairy condition Bicolour chess. Cyril Henry Stanley Kipping (10-10-1891 - 17-02-1964), British composer and International Master, was an International Judge. He composed more than 7,000 problems, most of which were three movers (he sometimes used the pseudonyms C. Stanley, S. Henry and S. Mere). He… Read More

5 volumes: volume 1 Texto: xx+607 pages with frontispiece, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, maps and plates; volume 2 Documentos: 552 pages; volume 3 Vida de Ercilla: 337 pages with portraits, illustrations and index; volumes 4-5 Illustrations: 512 pages with facsimile titles to the first publications; 559 pages with facsimile signatures, plates and index. Folio (15" x 10 3/4") with original wrappers bound in to cloth binding. Compiled and arranged by Jose Toribio Medina. First edition.La Araucana is an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile, by Alonso de Ercilla; it is also known in English as The Araucaniad. It was considered the national epic of the Kingdom of Chile and one of the most important works of the Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro). The poem consists of 37 cantos that are distributed across the poem's three parts. The first part was published in 1569; the second part appeared in 1578, when it was published with the first part; the third part was published with the… Read More

96 pages with maps and illustrations. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. The Battle of Monte de las Cruces was one of the pivotal battles of the early Mexican War of Independence, in October 1810. It was fought between the insurgent troops of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and Ignacio Allende against the New Spain royalist troops of General Torcuato Trujillo, in the Sierra de las Cruces mountains between Mexico City and Toluca. The battle marks the furthest advance of the first rebel campaign, before Hidalgo decided to retreat towards Guadalajara, and not attack Mexico City, despite the fact that he won the battle. The battle marks the end of the first offensive in the Mexican War of Independence, which began with the Grito de Dolores. Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla was the parish priest of Dolores, Guanajuato, involved with one of a number of conspiracies against the colonial government in the early 19th century. A particular conspiracy was… Read More

54 pages with 5 photographic pages of original leaves. Includes Reproducción del texto original español impreso en Barcelona (Pedro Posa, 1493). Transcripción y reconstitución del mismo, con notas críticas. Historia del impreso y de su influencia en la Historia Universal by Carlos Sanz. Folio (14" x 10") bound in original pictorial wrappers. Columbus's letter on the first voyage is the first known document announcing the results of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus that set out in 1492 and reached the Americas. The letter was ostensibly written by Columbus himself, on February 15, 1493, aboard the caravel Niña, while still at sea, on the return leg of his voyage. A post-script was added upon his arrival in Lisbon on March 4, 1493, and it was probably from there that Columbus dispatched two copies of his letter to the Spanish court. The letter was instrumental in spreading the news throughout Europe about Columbus's voyage. Almost immediately after Columbus's arrival in Spain, printed… Read More

439 pages with numerous plates in both black and white and color and appendixes. Folio (12 3/4" x 8 3/4") bound in original wrappers. Introduction by Clara Bargellini, photographs by Vincente Guijosa, coordinator Nelly Sigaut. First edition limited to 3000 copies.Morelia Cathedral is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic cathedral located in the center of the city of Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Morelia. Construction of the church building, using local pink stone, began in 1660, but was only completed in 1744, after 84 years. The interior is bedecked with both baroque and neoclassical decoration. The church interior displays an elaborate 18th-century baroque altar frame titled Manifestador de la Plata (Silver-Manifestation). The Baptismal Font (Pila Bautismal), also of silver, was built in a neoclassical-style. The monumental organ, imported from Germany in 1905, was the largest organ in the Western Hemisphere at the time. An icon titled the Señor de la… Read More

127-140 pages with plates. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7) bound in original publishes wrappers. Offset from Anales de Antropologia volume IV. Ceramics held a key importance in the Mesoamerican rituals. As the child grows, they are exposed to and participate in multiple rituals that interact and relate to their life cycles. Those very rituals – politically based, sacrifices, death and funerary- also incorporate ceramic usage in their own procedures. Through the use of ceramics, the rituals take on a substantive and tangible quality formed from the human imagination due to their man-made creations and interaction. Condition: Corners bumped, light edge wear else a very good copy.

209-238 pages with figures. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. First edition in separate publication. First published in Revista Mexicana de Estudios Antropologicos.

José García Payón he was distinguished as the head of the Department of Archaeology of the government of the State of Mexico in 1929. He began archaeological explorations in Tecaxic- Calixtlahuaca between the years of 1930 and 1938, paying special attention to monumental architecture. He made excavations in Matlatzinca and Malinalco and later in the Center of Veracruz, particularly in Cempoala , El Tajín and Huaxteca , to mark the paths of future archaeological research in those regions, by establishing the theoretical basis of their cultural development to the extent that Today a photo library bears his name. Condition: Light edge wear, unread with pages still to be opened else better than very good. File: A

412 pages with tables (some foldout), illustrations, figures (some foldout), plates, drawings and bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's aqua cloth with gilt lettering in black spine label and gilt pictorial ceramic on cover in original jacket. (Instituto de Historia, Primera Serie, 86) First edition limited to 2000 copies.This is a wonderful overview of the ceramics of the cultures of Mesoamerica. They include all aspects of pottery from utilitarian uses to ceremonial. Most of the cultural groups are represented as well as time lines for development. A very useful tool for those interested in perusing an in depth study of this area.Condition:Corners gently bumped else a near fine copy in a fine jacket.

31+[31 plate] pages with errata slip tipped in. Royal octavo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Instituto de Arqueologia, Linguistica y Folklore publicaciones VI. First edition: Condition: Offset darkening to wrappers, edge wear else very good.

171 pages with plates, appendices and bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7") bound in original publisher's wrappers in original pictorial jacket. First edition.The Aztec medicine concerns the body of knowledge, belief and ritual surrounding human health and sickness, as observed among the Nahuatl-speaking peoples in the Aztec realm of central Mexico. The Aztecs knew of and used an extensive inventory consisting of hundreds of different medicinal herbs and plants. A variety of indigenous Nahua and Novohispanic written works survive from the conquest and later colonial periods that describe aspects of the Aztec system and practice of medicine and its remedies, incantations, practical administration, and cultural underpinnings. Elements of traditional medicinal practices and beliefs are still found among modern-day Nahua communities, often intermixed with European or other later influences. As with many other Mesoamerican cultures, the Aztec system recognized three main causes of illness and… Read More

221-231 pages with map. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Revista Mexicana de Sociologia Volume XXVII (23) Number 1 complete issue. From the library of Robert V Kemper. First edition. Contents: Max Weber y ka Sicuikigua de hoy by Juan Carlos Aguilla; Max Weber: Una Apreciacion Critica de su obra by Paul Hoenisheim; Algunas Reflexiones sobre la Importancia de la Fuerza en la Sociedad by Talcott Parsons; Una Critica del Modelo Estructural Procesalmente Estructurado by Jiri Kolaja and M Jay Crowe; El Concepto de "Sistema Social" en Sociologia Industrial by John B Knox; Analisis Funcional de la "Guelaguetza Agricola" (Una prueba empirica del paradigma de Merton) by Jorge Martinez Rios; Ideologia, Valor y Beneficencia en Perspectiva Sociologica by Ernest Landauer; Los Valores y la Teoria Social by Jose de Jesus Montoya; Sobre la Familia Uruguaya by Isaac Ganon; Una Teoria General de los Determinantes de la Edad de Casarse by Judith Blake Davis; La Prensa y la Radio en… Read More

viii+308 pages with errata. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/2") bound in quarter leather with blue boards and gilt lettering to raised spine bands. Originally issued in wrappers which are bound in. Biblioteca de Historia Hispano-Americana. First edition.Founded in 1680 by Portugal as Colonia do Sacramento, the colony was later disputed by the Spanish who settled on the opposite bank of the river at Buenos Aires. The colony was conquered by Jose de Garro in 1680, but returned to Portugal the next year. It was conquered again by the Spanish in March 1705 after a siege of five months, but given back in the Treaty of Utrecht. Another attack during the Spanish-Portuguese War, 1735-1737, failed. It kept changing hands from crown to crown due to treaties such as the Treaty of Madrid in 1750 and the Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1777, until it remained with the Spanish. It then transferred to Portuguese control again, being later incorporated into Brazil after 1816, when the entire Banda Oriental (Uruguay) was seized by… Read More

3 volumes. 404 pages with tables (one folding), maps (one folding), figures, charts, illustrations, bibliography and index. 343 pages with plates, charts, maps, bibliography and index. 341 pages with plates, tables (some folding), charts, maps, bibliography and index. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/4") bound in original pictorial wrappers in original pictorial jackets. First edition limited to 1500 copies.Contents: Reciprocidad y Parentesco en las Culturas de Oaxaca by Alicia M Barabas and Miguel A Bartolome; Las Formas del Intercambio Jerarquia Reciprocidal en el Istimo de Tenhuantepec by Saul Millan; Ser Zoque, Nombrar lo Zoque: Las Dificultades de la Clasificacion Social by Miguel Lisbona Guillen; Solares, Rumbos y Pueblos: Organizacion Social de los Mayas Peninsulares by Ella Fanny Quintal, Juan Ramon Bastarrachea, Fidencio Briceno, Martha Medina, Renee Petrich, Lourdes Rejon, Beatriz Repetto and Margarita Rosales; Presencias Nahuas en Morelos by Miguel Morayta M, Catharine Good E, Ricardo Melgr B, Alfredo… Read More

Mexico City: INAH, 1982 168 pages with tables, figures, illustrations, bibliography, appendix and fold out pocket maps in packet. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8") issued in wrappers. INAH Coleccion Cientifica, Prehistoria numero 111. Limited to 1000 copies. 1st edition. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped, lightly soiled, else a very good copy.. First Edition. Orignial Wrappers. Very Good.

92 pages with pictorial title, tables, photographs (some in color), drawings, illustrations and figures. Folio (12 3/4" x 9") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Artes de Mexico, number 173. First edition. The duality was both, a universal and particular vehicle. Universal because it appears through the cultural history of the world, particularly because it corresponds to a precise epoch. During the formative period two-headed or twin-faced beings appear in Mexico. These suggest tha the concept of duality had already entered the religious thought of these people. Whatever the reason may be, we designate duality as a sculptural representation of the different aspects of life. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped, front signature loose else about very good.

[xxx]+268+[12] pages with red and black title and index. Small folio (12" x 8 1/4") bound in original leather with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Third edition.The first edition of the La Florida was published by Pedro Crasbeeck at Lisbon. A reprint of this edition with emendations was made at Madrid in 1723 under the editorship of Andres Gonzalez Baria Carballido y Zuniga, which was quickly sold out and a third edition was published that same year with out the fold out map.Born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, in Cusco, Peru, in 1539, he was the illegitimate son of a Spanish aristocrat and a royal Inca mother. He was born during the early years of the Spanish conquest. His father was Spanish captain and conquistador Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega y Vargas. His mother was an Inca princess, Palla Chimpu Ocllo, who was baptized after the fall of Cuzco as Isabel Suárez Chimpu Ocllo. She was descended from Inca nobility, a daughter of Túpac Huallpa and a granddaughter of the powerful Inca Tupac… Read More

52 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. (Cuadernos, Serie historica Numero 12) Second edition limited to 1500 copies. Encomienda was a labor system in Spain and its empire. It rewarded conquerors with the labor of particular groups of subject people. It was first established in Spain during the Roman period, but used also following the Christian conquest of Muslim territories. It was applied on a much larger scale during the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the Philippines. Conquered peoples were considered vassals of the Spanish monarch. The Crown awarded an encomienda as a grant to a particular individual. In the conquest era of the sixteenth century, the grants were considered to be a monopoly on the labor of particular groups of Indians, held in perpetuity by the grant holder, called the encomendero, and his descendants. Condition: Lightly soiled else very good.

176 pages with facsimiles, errata laid in. Small quarto (10 1/4" x 7") bound in original wrappers. University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Volume XV, number 3.Bernardo de Balbuena (c1561-1627) was a Spanish poet. He was the first of a long series of Latin American poets who extolled the special beauties of the New World. Born in Valdepenas, Spain around 1561, Balbuena came to the New World as a young adult and lived in Guadalajara, Jalisco and Mexico City, where he studied theology. In 1606 he returned to Spain and earned the degree of Doctor of Theology, and rose within the Church to become Abbot in Jamaica (1610) and one of the early Bishops of Puerto Rico (1620). Despite his priestly duties, he found time to write long and elegant verses which are excellent examples of the Baroque tendency to heavily load (and sometimes overload) poetry with highly detailed descriptions. Unfortunately, many of his manuscripts and his library were burned by Dutch pirates during a 1625 attack on… Read More

2 volumes. "La Guerra de Independicia" 282 pages with maps, facsimiles (many in color), figures, illustration, plates (many in color), bibliography and index. "Vientos de Rebelion" 315 pages with maps, figures, photographs (some in color), illustrations (many in color), plates (many in color), facsimiles, and indices. Square quarto (11" x 11 1/2") bound in original publisher leatherette covers. First edition. These two volumes follow the history of Michoacan from Independence through the Mexican Revolution and has over twenty five contributors for the rich history of that period. During the entire colonial period, the economy was concentrated in the hands of the Spanish-born, who held vast lands and haciendas. They also held the rights over minerals mined in places such as Tlalpujahua, Angangueo and Huetamo. Indigenous peoples were exploited for their work, and slavery was not uncommon. Education was restricted for only those born in Spain and their descendants and was controlled by the Church. One… Read More