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South American History Books & Ephemera
SOUTH AMERICA Social, Industrial and Political
by Carpenter, Frank G
G. M. Smith. Very Good-. 1900. Hardcover. ; Navy cloth cover is frayed at corners and spine caps with a few scuffs and loss to spine title but overall in very good- condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and in very good condition. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographic images. .
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£29.39
The Governor Eyre Controversy
by Semmel, Bernard
London: Macgibbon & Kee. 1962. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ has monor stain to base of spine & is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to front free endpaper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 189 pages. In October 1865, an uprising of local peasantry took place on the island colony of Jamaica. The uprising was speedily suppressed by...
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£31.62
The Buccaneers of America Comprising a pertinent and truthful description of the principal acts of depredation and inhuman cruelty committed by English and French Buccaneers against the Spanish in America
by Exquemelin, A. O
London: The Folio Society. 1972. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. No Slipcase. Bound in quarter blue leather, wood-veneer boards with a design in black by John Westwood. Leather spine is rubbed at edges. Illustrated with black and white plates and maps. Endpaper maps. Translated by Alexis Brown. Introduction by Jack Beeching. 194 pages. The author 'of nexessity, was present at all these acts of plunder'. Originally published in 1678 in Amsterdam. Robust,...
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£9.49
Three Asses in Bolivia
by PORTMAN, Lionel
Mifflin, 1922-01-01. Hardcover. Good-. //Fair. GOOD-/Fair. Light brown jacket, dust jacket in archival plastic protector, approx. 9'' x 6'', 236pp., 1.5'' x 1'' portions of top and bottom of jacket spine torn away, spine has faded but has turned darker brown with age, small tears, several scratch marks and 3 spots of tape repair to spine, chips and creases to edges and corners of jacket, tape repair to both top corners and bottom front corner of jacket, a 1.5''...
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£72.86
The Happy Captive
by Bascunan, Francisco Nunez de Pineda Y
London: The Folio Society. 1977. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in a Good Slipcase. Leather spine with gilt decoration and titles. Slipcase worn at rear with some cracking to paper. Translated from the Spanish by William C. Atkinson. Illustrated with black & white vinyl-cuts by John Lawrence. Maps to endpapers. 155 pages. Spanish Bascunan sepnt 6 months in captivity in Arauco, Chile in 1629. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st...
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£9.49
Chile and Easter Island, Carolyn Hubbard, Brigitte Barta and Jeff Davis (2003)
by Hubbard, Barta & Davis
Australia: Lonley Planet, 2004. 6. Paperback. used-good condition, some cover scuffing. 5x7.75. “Chile and Easter Island,” by Carolyn Hubbard, Brigitte Barta and Jeff Davis (2003) is a travel guidebook offering travel advice and background information about the history and culture of Chile, and the world’s most remote island — Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. From pristine Patagonian glaciers to the arid Atacama Desert, Chile offers breath-taking landscapes. Whether looking to scale an...
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£0.82
Vassouras A Brazilian Coffee County 1850-1890: The Roles of Planter and Slave in a Changing Plantation Society
by STEIN, Stanley J
New York: Atheneum. 1974. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Sticky-tape marks to inside of covers. Corners very lightly rubbed. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. [xv] 314pages.. . 2nd Printing. Softcover.
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£13.18
Learning to Listen A Personal Journey to the Lightning People
by Lee, David M
United Kingdom: Learning To Listen Press. Good+. 2015. First Printing. Paperback. Extremely hard to find. Stated first printing. Good paperback with tight binding and minimal wear to edges and corners of covers and spine. Light pencil marks to the first 23 pages; the rest of the text appears to be clean. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pages .
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£61.21
Aircraft of the Chaco War: 1928-1935
by Hagedorn, Dan; Sapienza, Antonio L
USA: Schiffer Publishing, 1997. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1997. Firmly bound and very carefully read. Both book & unclipped jacket are in excellent clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. Illustrated with over 150 photos in b/w.
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£25.00
All You Really Need to Know About Prayer You Can Learn From The Poor
by Perrotta, Louise; Forward by Ferdinand G. Mahfood
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Servant Publications, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. Trade paperback in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. Text block unmarked. Contains black and white photos by Gina Fontana throughout. Appears unread.
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£8.57
Amazon Up Close - the Passionate Adventurer's Guide to the Brazilian Amazon & the Pantanal
by Bloom, Pamela
Hunter Publishing, 1997. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Paperback book. Illustrated in b/w. VG clean and sound condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. Carefully read..
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£7.00
An Encyclopaedia of North and South America, 1786
by Fenning, Daniel; Collyer, Joseph
Unwin Bros, 1976. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Facsimile reprint of the original edition of 1786. Thick card covers. original two tone illustrations & maps. VG clean and sound condition. Description of the countries of the world published in two volumes under the title of 'A New System of Geography,' London 1785-6. The section reproduced is Book 4 pages 625-782.
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£7.50
Lamport & Holt
by Heaton, P.M
P.M.Heaton Publishing, 1986. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1986. Firmly bound and very carefully read. Both book & unclipped jacket are in excellent clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. Appendices with Fleet lists. Illustrated with b/w photos. .
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£13.50
Havana Dreams A Story of Cuba
by Gimbel, Wendy
London: Virago Press. 1998. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 212 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.
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£7.90
Che Guevara
by Sandison, David
London: Bounty Books. 2008. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards in a near fine dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 160 pages. . Reprint. Hardback.
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£13.18
Peru in Two Volumes: Volumes I and II (Nations of the World Series)
by Prescott, William H
New York, New York USA: Peter Fenelon Collier and Son, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Peter Fenelon Collier and Son, 1900. Hardback Two Volume History of Peru by the renown historian W.H.Prescott. Hardcover Books In Very Good Condition--in remarkably good condition. No dust jackets. Illustrated. Very clean and unmarked red cloth binding w/bright and sharp gilt titles. Slight rubbing of corners. Tight, solid, square, with sewn binding. Interior also very clean and...
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£20.41
The Hacienda: A Memoir
by Teban, Lisa St. Aubin de
USA: Little, Brown and Company, 1997. Paperback. used-markings inside cover. 5.5x8.25. Description: Married at sixteen to a man twenty years her senior who spoke no English, she was taken to his ancestral home and estate where she found herself living in the most primitive of conditions, isolated and alone in Venezuela. St. Aubin de Teran ended up virtually running the plantation that belonged to her increasingly demented husband but enjoyed learning the mores and magic of a place that had remained...
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£2.44
The Maya
by Laughton, Timothy
New York: Barnes & Noble, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. This book is only an introduction to Mayan culture, a subject too complicated to cover in 135 pages, but the color photographs give the reader an impression of the Mayan world. The photographs are gorgeous, some spanning two pages, and covering some of the ruins, figurines, pottery, murals and other artifacts. Book is in fine condition in a near fine dust jacket with slightest bumping to back upper edge.
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£4.08
The Brazilians
by Page, Joseph A
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated: First Printing: June1995. Complete number line with number one. Hard cover in very good condition. Black boards with deep purple spine cloth containing gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight with only markings noted are two or three small unobtrusive underlining / paragraph brackets on about the first ten or so pages. Does not interfere with...
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£11.84
Eva Peron A Biography
by Ortiz, Alicia Dujovne (translated by Shawn Fields)
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket;. 1996. 4th Printing. Hardcover. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 303 pages; Clean, tight and bright. DJ spine tail lightly rubbed otherwise little wear. Mylar cover. Book solid and tight. Photos illustrate throughout,. Text block clean and pages tight. .
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£13.67
THE CONQUEST OF PUERTO RICO
by Captain Gonzalo Fernandez De Oviedo Y Valdes & Illustrated by Jack and Irene Delano
Limited Editions Club. Fine+. 1975. Hardcover. ; Quarter vellum cover with orange cloth is pristine. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and pristine. This is number 1516 of a limited edition of only 2000 and signed by illustrators. Publisher's monthly newsletter in original envelope laid-in. Slipcase has light wear to extremities and modest scuffing but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. ; Signed by Illustrator .
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£122.46
Latin America New World, Third World
by Clissold, Stephen
London: Pall Mall Press. 1972. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 394 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£14.76
THE LAND OF THE INCA (MINIATURE BOOK)
by Carol Cunningham
Mill Valley, CA: Sunflower Press. Fine+. 1985. Hardcover. ; Purple pictorial cloth cover. Illustrated plates throughout in color, gilt, and b&w. Signed on colophon. This is copy number 43 of a limited edition of 85. 2.6" x 2.85". .
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£134.71
MASKS, MUMMIES AND MAGICIANS
by Waisbard, Roger and Simone
Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd. Good in Good dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library book with usual ex-lib type markings. Light edge and corner wear, scuffing of jacket which is attached to book, moderate soiling outer edge of pages. Interior pages clean and tight. B/w photos. The authors describe the way of life of this culture which preceeded that of the Incas by 15 centuries, before its people were absorbed by the Incas or reduced to slavery. Discusses the discovery of...
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£10.57
Readings in Hispanic History
by N. Andrews N. Cleven, PH.D
Ginn And Company, 1927-01-01. Hardcover. Good. GOOD. Green cloth-bound boards, approx. 8.25'' x 6'', 791pp., slight discoloration to spine, bumps to spine edges and corners of covers, small bump (dent) to bottom edge of front cover, few light scratch marks and small dark gray stains to back cover, inside covers, first few pages and last few pages have turned brown with age, personal library sticker to fly page..<p> Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks...
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£21.39
