Search Results: History: South America and Carib from The Owl at the Bridge

Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1974. Hard Cover. xi, 272 p.; 24 cm. "The first dispassionate and thorough study of the political consequences of United States-owned enterprise in a small, developing country." ISBN (10): 674248309. Stock#NEU301. Very Good in VG dust jacket.

OFFPRINT, pages 61-90; 25.5 cm. From The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, vol. 37 no. 1 (June 1950). The British used soldiers from the colonies to fight the Spanish, where a sense of European / America developed. Vg /offprint. Stock#47402/h.

The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1967. 'Distributed by New York Graphic Society Ltd., Greenwich, Connecticut'. Soft Cover. 'Lowland Maya sculpture, which underwent spectacular developments during the first millennium AD, constitutes one of the great art styles of ancient America. Complexities of style, degrees of weathering, and problems of effective field photography make many of the Maya monuments difficult to appreciate or study in satisfactory detail. [Merle Greene's] rubbings represent a new dimension in the reproduction of Maya images' (Robert L. Rands in his Foreword). Rubbings are of Kaminaljuyú (2), Uaxactún, Tikal (8), Palenque (31), Piedras Negras (2), Yaxchilan (3), Bonampak (5), Dzibilchaltún, Santa Lucia Cotzumalhuapa (2), Chichén Itzá (4) and Uxmal and are dated from circa AD 1 to circa AD 1100. Square 4to, 31 x 28 cm.; [9],… Read More

Lisboa, 1952. Soft Cover. Separata [offprint] da Revista Brotéria Vol. LV, fasc. 4, Outubro de 1952. 10 p.; 22.5 cm. On Antonio Rodrigues, the first schoolteacher in Sao Paulo. Stock#30032. VG/ wrappers.

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, 1978. Soft Cover. pp. [361]-372, 25cm. Publishes eleven manuscript letters from the collection. Cover title and caption title. "Off-printed from The National Library of Wales Journal, vol. XX, no. 4, Winter 1978" Stock# 40,701. Vg/ offprint.

D. Van Nostrand [c1951]. 'Second Edition'. Hard Cover. Includes The Boat (Fitting Out; Planning the Cruise); Sailing Routes and Instructions; The Berry Islands; Grand Bahama Island; Nassau, New Providence Island and Adjacent Cays; Eleuthera; Andros; The Exuma Cays; Galliot Cut to Great Exuma; Cat Island (& 20 other locations); Crooked Island (& 5+ other locations); The Pilot's Pleasures (Shooting & Fishing, Flats Fishing, Trolling, Reef Fishing, Bahama Cooking (incl. recipes)). 168 p., plates, maps (1 folding); 26 cm.; blue cloth covers stamped in black & gold; covers scuffed, spine faded, ink owner's name; good+. 30395.

Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press, 1965. In three sections: 1) The Other Treasure from the Indies: The Histories Written by Spaniards on their New World; 2) [biography of the author]; 3) The History Described. An Appendix. The chapter headings of the Historia. This copy was given to an advisor of the project. Hard Cover. xiv, 81 pages, 4 facsimiles; 33 cm. Vg / dj good+, slight (2 cm.) tear on front of dj. Stock#L-350.

Gainesville, Fla. UP [1994]. First Edition. A large and interesting and fully indexed catalogue of 945 books, 604 manuscripts, 37 maps, and 62 prints, drawings and paintings, built over a long relationship between Walter Beinecke and the Motts. Hard Cover. xi, 414 pages, index, plates; 29 cm. Color pictorial dj; new from publisher. Stock#21060x/h.

Sao Paulo, Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, 1969. Hard Cover. xxii, 437 p., illus. (facsims.), index, 22.5 cm. Bibliography of the Brazilian Colonial Period. An annotated catalog of books by authors born in Brazil and published before the year 1808. There are are probably over two thousand entries fully described. The subjects range from religion to poetry to economics. This reveals how great a contribution to Portuguese culture the colonial Brazilians made. Very good hard cover copy. No dj. 101904.

Kingston, Institute of Jamaica, 1909; facsimile reprint Martino 1998. Hard Cover. 197 p. 22 cm. Describes over 3000 works on the West Indies-- excluding Jamaica-- including sections on Florida, Honduras, Nicaragua, slavery, buccaneers, the sugar trade. Stock# 34880x/h. New copy..

Macmillan, NY, 1945.. 80 p., illus.; 31 cm.; pictorial dj torn in several places; good. Shows 1940s Brazilian architecture, people, places. stock#27762o. Brazilian culture

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. Hard Cover. 399 p., illus. (some color); 27 cm. "In his introduction to this passionate history of Spain and the Spanish-speaking peoples of the Americas, Carlos Fuentes asks the necessary question: What do we really have to celebrate on the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's historic voyage to the New World? After all, the quincentennial of the "discovery of America" finds the Latin American republics in a state of deep crisis, with inflation, unemployment, and excessive foreign debt threatening their still precarious economic and political institutions." ISBN (10): 0395479789. Stock#46920. Vg, gift inscription / dj vg.

J. J. Augustin, Locust Valley, NY [1952]. Includes The Southern Coast of Brazil (Effects of Coffee Production on Trade and Population); The History (Slave Trade and Piracy; Over Water Trading Expeditions; Emigration to Vitória Island); Pattern of Settlement (Canoe Shelters); Agriculture; Fishing; Collecting; Hunting; Handicrafts; Cash Income; The Labor Regimen; The Family; The Community; The Supernatural; Entertainment; Behavior Patterns; Buzios as a Creole Culture. Hard Cover. viii, 116 pages, glossary, illus., charts, maps; green cloth covers, spine faded; VG+. stock#25671.

[Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil] Editora da Unicamp, 1996. Soft Cover. 373 p. illus. [16] pages of plates, maps, 21 cm. A sociolinguistic study of a rural village 150 km from Sao Paulo, showing how the African influences on the Portuguese spoken reflects their society. Stock 28,361. Vg/wrappers.

Caracas, Ediciones de la Presidencia de la República. 1972. Soft Cover. xviii, 239 p., facsims.; 23 cm. Half title: Kingston, 6 de setiembre de 1815. Text in English & Spanish. Expresses his hopes for a federation of Hispanic American states. Vg / soft cover. Stock#47390.

Rio de Janeiro, J. Olympio, 1958. Freyre's classic study of Brazilian colonial social life and the condition of slaves, which he pronounces better than in Anglo-America. Soft Cover. Two volumes: ci, 389; 391-776 pages, illus. (incl. portraits, plans), folding plate, diagram; 23 cm. Vg, largely uncut / soft cover. Stock#45702.

[Port-au-Prince?] Editions de l'An 2000, 1972. First Edition. "Ces textes ont paru dans le journal 'Panorama' en 1967 et 1968." Soft Cover. 320 pages; 21 cm. Author's inscription to Florence and Raphael Urciolo. Very Good. Stock#47177.

Petrópolis: Museu Imperial, 1957. Soft Cover. 233 p., [39] leaves of plates (1 folded), illus.; 27 cm. "The town's name ("city of Peter") honors Emperor Pedro II, the nation's second monarch and son of Pedro I. The city was the summer residence of the Brazilian emperors and aristocrats in the 19th century, and was the official capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro between 1894 and 1903." Stock#46004. Vg / soft cover.

Madrid, Instituto Cervantes, Pabellón de España, Biblioteca Nacional, 1992. Soft Cover. xxxi, 631 p., index, 24 cm. Bibliography, pp. XXIX-XXXI. Facsimile reproduction of the Madrid, 1893 edition. The Congress was a significant assessment of Hispanic culture. Stock#36857a. Vg in vg slipcase.

Santiago de Chile, MCMLXVI [1966]. Soft Cover. [Chronicle and abundant & true relation of the Kingdoms of Chile] hecha por [written by] Geronimo De Bibar natural de [native of] Burgos M D L VIII. Transcripcion paleográfica del [paleographic transcription by] Prof. Irving A. Leonard según el manuscrito original [from the original manuscript], propiedad de [property of] The Newberry Library... Introduccion de [Introduction by] Guillermo Feliu Cruz. Tomo II. Texto [Volume Two. Text]. Edicion Facsimilar y a Plana del Fondo Historico y Bibliográfico José Toribio Medina, Facsimile of an 18th-century manuscript with a transcription by Irving A. Leonard on facing pages. Folio; 4 p. l., 231 {1-214 duplicated} p., 16 b/w plates lettered A-P, 2 color plates, indexes; paper; unopened; covers lightly worn, else fine. Stock# 39,051. Chile, history.