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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.
History Of the Conquest Of Peru With a Preliminary View Of the Civilization Of the Incas
by William H Prescott
South America Books & Ephemera
Cnidium venosum. Part of fruit umbel englarged 7x. (Plate 48)
by BLOSSFELDT, Karl
New York: E. Weyhe, 1932. unbound. Botanical print. Black and white photogravure. Image measures 11 3/16" x 8 5/8"<br/> <br/> Delicate perennial magnified 7 times. Published in the first English edition of Blossfeldt's "Art Forms in Nature." <br> <br> Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a botanist who applied artistic principles to the study of plants which resulted in his innovative way of photographing them. Please visit our gallery for more Blossfeldt...
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£121.42
Coleccion de las Leyes dadas por el Congreso Constitucional de la Republica de Colombia en las Sesiones de los Anos 1823-1824
by Colombia. Laws, etc
Bogota: Imprenta de Manuel Maria Viller-Calderon, 1826. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. [2], 361p. Later (20th century) library buckram. 22 cm. Internal library markings (library stamp on title-page; discard stamp on endpaper). Title-page chipped along fore-edge and has an old tape repair of a tear. Leaf preceding title-page mounted along inner margin, chipped along fore-edge, and has a missing corner replaced with later paper which has been taped on. The balance of the contents are sound and clean. Spanish...
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£242.85
![El Hombre de los Destinos [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/139/415/1484415139.0.b.jpg)
El Hombre de los Destinos [caption title]
by [Colombia]
[Popayan]: Imp. Democática por J. Orjuela, 1852. Good plus.. Broadside, approximately 13 x 9 inches. Folded. Light chipping and wear, a few small wormholes, not affewcting text. Even tanning, faint foxing. The anonymous writer of this ephemeral piece accuses Dr. Manuel Bueno of holding too much power and too many titles in Popayan, and wielding both capriciously. Here he is specifically charged with expelling a student, Francisco Ibarra from the "colejio" of which Bueno was the rector for a political...
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£303.56
Historia del Tribunal de la Inquisicion de Lima, 1569-1820
by Medina, Jose Toribio
Santiago de Chile: Fondo Historico y Bibliografico J. T. Medina, 1956. Paperback. Good. 2 vols. xv, 333, 530p. Wrappers. 28cm. Backstrips browned. Back cover browned and soiled on second volume. Stain in lower left corner of bottom margin in last half of second volume; contents otherwise sound and clean. Unopened. Spanish text.
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£101.19
Gomez: The Shame of America: Fragments from the Memoirs of a Citizen of the Republic of Venezuela in the days of Her Decadence
by Pocaterra, Jose Rafael, 1890-1955
Paris: A. Delpeuch, 1929. Paperback. Good. ills, xxi, 255p. Softcover in original wrapper. 18 cm. Browned and somewhat worn. Editions were also published in Spanish and French.
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£24.28
![[Photograph Album Documenting a Army Pilot's Service Time in Natal, Brazil, as Well as in Africa, During World War II]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/655/872/1457872655.0.b.jpg)
[Photograph Album Documenting a Army Pilot's Service Time in Natal, Brazil, as Well as in Africa, During World War II]
by [World War II]. [Brazil]
[Various places including Brazil and Africa], 1944. About very good.. 64 original photos, mostly 3.25 x 4.5 or 4 x 4 inches. Limp calf covers, embossed and printed in red tan and blue. Covers chipped, rubbed, and well-worn, but solid. Photos in corner mounts, with extensive manuscript captioning. A bit of fading and dust soiling to a few images, but quite clean internally, overall. An interesting album of over sixty original photographs of Brazil, Senegal, Morocco, and Ghana during World War I taken by...
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£526.18
Historia de Venezuela
by Guillermo Morón
La figura del Dr. Guillermo Morón (1926-2021) sobresale en las letras venezolanas, sin su presencia la historia de Venezuela estaría incompleta o por escribirse. Por su oficio cotidiano se le reconoce como el historiador venezolano del siglo XX, aunque las generaciones futuras lo recordaran por su monumental Historia de Venezuela en varios tomos.El presente libro, es una Historia abarcadora, espléndidamente sintetizada, escrita con claridad y sin retóricas, que comprende desde los orígenes...
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17 de Octubre: Bolivia Derroto a la Gulf
by BOLIVIA
paperback. good. Illus. 24pp. 8vo, pr. wrs., back wrapper lightly soiled, one page underlined in pencil, pages browned. N.p. (La Paz? Ministerio de Informaciones, Cultura y Turismo), 1969.<br/><br/> Documentos del Gobierno Revolucionario de Bolivia, No. 2.<br/><br/>
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£18.21
Le Perou Dans L'Amerique Meridionale
by FER, Nicolas de
Paris, 1719. Map. Engraving with original hand outline color. Image measures 19 x 23". Sheet measures 20 x 28".<br/> <br/> Unusual map of Peru from the early 18th century. Includes part of Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil, based on Jesuit activity in the area. Amazon rain forest is visualized with a dynamic design. Cartouche describes the mining industry. Nicolas de Fer (1646-1720) was a prolific cartographer, engraver and publisher who took over the family map business from his mother...
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£1,011.88
Legless but Smiling
by Croucher, Norman
St Ives Printing & Publishing Co, undated c.2000?. 1st ed VG no dw pictorial cover. an updated version of his autobiography, includes expeditions to Cho Oyu, Shishapangma, Broad Peak, Everest, Aconcagua, Bolivia
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£10.00
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[Small Volume of Six South American Novenas, Primarily Printed in Ecuador]
by [Ecuador]. [Religion]
[Various locations], 1870. About very good.. Six works bound in one. 16mo. Contemporary calf. Binding lightly rubbed. Edge wear and slight loss to a handful of leaves. Handsome little volume of Ecuadorean novenas, mostly unrecorded. The first piece is without its title page, though we presume it to be of South American extract like its fellows. The second is from Bogota, while the remainder are printed in Ecuador in both Quito and Riobamba, a small town 130 miles due south. A complete listing follows....
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A Thousand Miles' Walk across South America
by Bishop, Nathaniel H
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1875. 3rd edition. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, 310 plus (9) p. adverts. Original green cloth. 20 cm. Minor cover soil. Ends of backstrip frayed. Former owner's circular ownership stamp embossed on lower corner of front free endpaper. Early owner's name on Dedication page. Druggist/bookseller's label from Falls City, Nebraska, on front pastedown.
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£20.24
Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon
by Slater, Candace
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A portrait of rich environmental and cultural heritage of the Amazon, told through oral histories, stories, and published accounts. The author is a Brazil expert at UC Berkeley and did extensive field work in South America. 332 pages. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by the author and her husband, Paul Zingg to...
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£72.86
Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian indians, 1500-1760
by HEMMING, John
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in a very good dustwrapper.
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£60.71
Plano della Citta e Sobborghi di Cartagena
by PAZZI, Giuseppe
Livorno: Marco Coltellini, 1763. VANNI, Violante. Map. Engraving. Image measures 7 1/2" x 10 1/4"<br/> <br/> This detailed map of Cartagena depicts the important port city, showing the city plan and surroundings. A key in the lower left labels important sites and churches, many still in use today, including the Cathedral, the churches of San Domingo and La Trinidad. The bastions, or ramparts surrounding the forted city, as well as the offices of the Inquisition are also labeled....
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Les anciens Patagons: contribution a l'etude des races precolombiennes de l'Amerique du Sud
by Verneau, Rene, 1852-1938
[Monaco]: Imp. de Monaco, 1903. Hardcover. Near Fine. 15 plates, vii, 342p. Boards. 28cm. French text. Collection de memoires et documents pub. par ordre de S.A.S. le prince Albert Ier, prince souverain de Monaco. Interesting and nicely printed volume about the Ancient Patagonians.
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£80.95
Running the Amazon
by KANE, Joe
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second printing. 278pp. Light foxing on page edges, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with spine lightly sunned. The only expedition to run the entire length of the Amazon River.
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£16.19
Uttermost Part of the Earth
by Bridges, E. Lucas
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc, 1950. Special Edition. Hardcover. Very good, with mild external wear; memorial bookplate to front paste-down. Quarto in green cloth; xxi, 558 pages, 50 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some folded), portraits ; 25 cm; index. "Presents the author's birth and youth among the coastal Yaghans in Tierra del Fuego and his adult initiation into the Ona tribe, with descriptions of the extinct Fuegian Indian culture."âPublisher. Ona Indians. Onas...
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£55.05
Americae sive Indiae Occidentalis Tabula Generalis
by LAET, Johannes de
Amsterdam, 1630. Map. Engraving. 11" x 14". In very good condition. Expert wormhole repairs to margins and along original centerfold.<br/> <br/> Important map of the Americas published in 1630, considered the most accurate of the time. Coastlines and islands are labeled in great detail, including archipelagos in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Prioritizing accuracy over conjecture, Laet chose to omit the northwest United States from his map, avoiding the debate over the North...
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£930.92
Amerique du Sud (Partie Septentrionale)
by MIGEON, J
Paris: J. Migeon, 1891. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving with original coloring. Image size 12.25 x 16.25 inches. Sheet size 15.25 x 20.25 inches. Shows some light foxing. In very good condition.<br/><br/> From M.A. Martineau's Nouvel Atlas Illustre Geographie Universelle. Pictorial inset at top right shows Curacao.<br/><br/>
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£242.85
Arando en La Historia: La Experiencia PolÃtica Campesina en Cochabamba
by Gordillo, José M
La Paz, Bolivia: UMSS: Plural Editores: CERES, 1998. Paperback. Very mild foxing to wrap versos and fore-edge; else near fine thus overall.. Oblong quarto in sepia photo illus paper wraps; 171 pages: illustrations ; 18 x 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-171). Uncommon. Signed and inscribed by author-editor. In Spanish. ¶ Contents: Introducción / José M. Gordillo -- Mesa redonda: "La experiencia polÃtica campesina en Cochabamba" -- Pensar el 52 / Fernando Calderón...
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A Good Pair of Legs: Walking the World
by Portway, Christopher
Ramblers Assoc, 1999. 1st ed VG- pb ex library but just one stamp . accounts of a number of trips throughout the world, mainly when leading trips for The Ramblers Assoc, includes expeditions to Greece, Iceland, Peru, Ecuador, USA, Canada
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£8.00
Recentissima Novi Orbis, Sive Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis Tabula
by ALLARD, Carol (1648-1709)
Amsterdam, 1697. Copper-engraved map. Small inset of New Zealand within the cartouche. Rare issue of Allard's map of North and South America, the first to show important corrections to the mapping of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River Valley. "The map of America by Allard is derived from that of Frederick de Wit, c. 1675" (Burden). Significantly, however, Allard corrects the mapping of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley. "The former are entirely re-engraved as are the nearby waterways off...
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£1,457.10
SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS and Other Tales of Adventure.
by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1910. firsst edition. hardover. Good +. Illustrated by Seymour M. Stone, George Gibbs, W.J. Aylward, and J. N. Marchand. Together with reproductions from old prints and portraits. Octavo, tan cloth covers with pictorial design in black and orange. x [2] 342 pages, index. Spine a bit faded, still very good. 061508E
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£8.90
An Introduction to Hispanic American History
by Jones, Tom B
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First edition. Cloth. A very good clean exlib copy with some of the usual markings, sunned spine.. xii, 577 pp. Illus. with 8 b/w photos and 5 maps, 2 of which are folding. 8vo. Presented to the Pan American Society library by Dr. Eduardo Asuola, the Consul General of Costa Rica, in April 1948, with the embassy stamp.
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£8.10
