Search Results: Authors starting with S from Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB

Morelia: Tip. de Alfonso Aragon, 1903. First Mexican edition. Later gray card covers with brown cloth spine. Rebound in plain gray boards with cloth spine, title from original wrappers laid down on front board, leaves cropped closely at lower edge but with no loss, images printed off center, a few trimmed closely with a bit of loss at the edges, contents lightly browned, a few marginal tears, overall a good solid copy.. 301 pp. + [42] leaves of plates. Illus. with b/w plates. 12mo. The work, commonly known as the Relación de Michoacán, containing a list of the Mexican rulers and their conquests, was commissioned by the first Viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza. It was first printed in Madrid in 1875 from the original manuscript (attributed to Fray Jerónimo de Alacalá) which is preserved in the Biblioteca del Escorial. The present reprint is from the Madrid edition, compared with an ancient copy of the Relación in the Library of Congress. Quite rare in the trade in any edition; we could… Read More

Framed in mahogany and matted. A fine model beautifully framed and matted.. Framed size: 8 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches; image size: 5 1/2 x 19 inches. Laser cut relief. Manufactured by RC Models, San Pedro California. The S.S. Norway began life in 1960 as the SS France, built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique; later purchased and refitted by the Norwegian Cruise Line, she was decommissioned in 2004 and scrapped in 2008.

[Washington, D.C.]: [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1866. First edition. Three quarter morocco over marbled boards, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, gilt title. Front joint torn at head else very good. A handsome copy.. xliii, 850 pp. 8vo. Pages 356-850 relate to Mexico. Palau 211790. Sabin 58468.

Buenos Ayres: En la Real Imprenta de Niños Expósitos, 1810. First edition. 1 folded leaf. A very good copy, soiling on lower margin.. 3 pp. Sm. 8vo. (20 cm). Dated 11 de Junio de 1810. Resolution of the Junta which directed a search for the perpetrators of an assault on the Fiscal del Crimen (the city prosecutor), Don Antonio Gaspe. According to Bartolomé Mitré, Gaspe had been attacked by 35 armed men (Historia de Belgrano y de la independencia argentina, V. 1, p. 571). Fearful of anarchy, the Junta directed the Mayors to take the necesssary actions to limit crime, to arrest those with weapons, to limit gatherings, etc. "La Junta os recuerda estos sencillos principios que jurasteis al tiempo de su instalación; porque ayer noche han sido violados escandalosamente.... 1. Que el Sr. Alcalde de 2. voto de esta Capital se encargue de una inquisicion prolija contra los autores de aquel exceso, procediendo á la prision de los culpados, con allanamiento de todo fuero, debiendo remitir el sumario á… Read More

Santiago de Chile: Imprenta de la Opinion, n.d.. First edition. Modern marbled paper wrappers. A very good copy.. 143 pp. 12mo. Briseño: V.2: 238.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. Ex-lib copy with the usual markings, otherwise very good+ crisp, clean, and bright in a very good+ dust jacket.. Frontis, x, 317 pp. Illus. 8vo. Dwight's Journal of Music was the first significant American music journal.

Buenos Aires: Marymar, 1978. Tercera edición corregida y aumentada. Paper wrappers. Wrapper detached and scuffed, else a very good clean copy.. 351 pp. + index [26 pp]. 8vo. Roberto Juarroz, prefacio.

Washington, D.C.: Pan American Union, 1956. Offprint. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy.. [116-120] pp. Sm. 4to. Reprinted from the Inter-American Review of Bibliography, Vol. VI, 2, April/June 1956.

Rio de Janeiro: Typographia Nacional, Kraus Reprint. Reprint. Cloth. A fine copy. As new.. 8vo. Volume 7 includes Indice alphabetico do Diccionario bibliographico brasileiro de Sacramento Blake, compilado pelo dr. Jango Fischer in 1937. Facsimile reprint of the edition of 1883-1902 with the addition of the Index. Blake was inspired by Innocencio Francisco da Silva's Diccionario bibliographico portuguez. "The best bibliography of Brazilian authors from colonial times to the end of the nineteenth century," Borba de Moraes. Borba de Moraes, I, p.94. Griffin 145. Jones 978.

n.p.: n.p., n.d.. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Minor foxing on map else fine.. [1], 18 leaves. Illus. with 1 color map and 20 b/w photos. 8vo.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996. First edition. Cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. As new.. 175 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos. Sq. 8vo.

Paris: En la Libreria de Arthus Bertrand, 1838. First edition. Quarter cloth over paper covered boards. Wear to corners, original morrocco label on spine, one laid in loose, foxing to plates, else contents very good.. 144, 56 pp., + plates. Illus. with 8 plates and additional charts. Folio. An incomplete copy of this scarce work with the original two volumes by Ramon de la Sagra. Originally published in parts. This copy bound up containing parts from the first two volumes: from Volume I the Geografia and Clima sections including the charts, as well as the first eight of the eleven plates (primarily maps); and from volume II, sections I-LXXXX of the Appendice. Provenance: Copy of Albert J. Parreño, with his bookplate on front pastedown (Swann Parreño sale, 13 April 1978, lot 1349). Palau 284796. Trelles 2, p. 180. Parreño sale,1349.

[Washington, D.C.]: Oxford Univ. Press, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1991. First edition. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy.. 64 pp. Illus. with color and b/w photos and map. Sm. 4to. Articles: Voices of the Ancestors or Internationalism? The Dilemma of the Indonesian Artist, by Helen Ibbotson Jessup; Balinese Performace as Festive Offering, by David Harnish; Traditional Dramatic Performances of Indonesia, by Edi Sedyawati; A Single Indonesian Art World? Continuities Across the Archipelago, by Susan Rodgers.

New York: Grand Street Publications, 1987. First printing. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy with slightly sunned spine.. Illus. with b/w photos. Trade format. Edward W. Said on The Imperial Spectacle, "Aida;" and work by James Merrill (Three Cavafy Poems), William Trevor, Noam Chomsky (on Reinhold Niebuhr), Amy Wilentz (On Voodoo in Haiti), Amy Clampitt, Steven Millhauser, George Economou, Richard Howard and others.

Paris: Jean Charpentier, 1935. First edition. Cloth. Light scuff marks to spine ends, faint browning of leaves along edges, a else near fine copy.. 88 pp. + plates. Illus. with 44 b/w plates, 2 of which are folding. 4to. 193 objects described. Knoedler 1393.

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1862. First edition. Removed. A very good copy, scattered foxing.. [129]-144 pp. Illus. with 16 b/w steel engravings and 1 map. 4to. This last section covers Sweden and Lapland.

Paris: Libreria de Garnier Hermanos, 1863. First Spanish Language edition. Publisher's dark green cloth, heavily decorated in gilt, violet, green, orange, and red; all edges gilt. Boards rubbed, extremities worn with minor loss, hinges starting, small booksellers label to front pastedown, remnants of tissue guard on frontis, owner's name stamped in blind on title, small puncture to top margin of first few leaves, scattered toning, contents lightly foxed and soiled, but clean overall.. 404 pp., [3] pp. Illus. with 12 engraved portraits with tissue guards. 4to. Contents: Margarita, reina de Navarra; María Estuardo; Madama de Motteville; La duquesa de Montpensier; Magdalena de Scudéry; Madama Enriqueta, duquesa de Orleans; Madama de Sévigné y Madama de Maintenon; Madama de Caylus; La duquesa de Borgoña; La duquesa de Maine; Madama de Lambert; Madama Necker; Madama Geoffrin; Maria Antonieta; Goethe y Bettina; Madama Recamier; Madama Emilio de Girardin; Madama de Tracy; Eugenia de Guerin; La duquesa… Read More

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1862. First edition. Removed. A very good copy, scattered foxing.. [401]- 416 pp. Illus. with 11 b/w steel engravings. 4to. Covers the English expedition to the sources of the Nile, the great German expedition directed by Munzinger was to explore Eastern Sudan "The project was abandoned because the king of Darfur denied authorization to go further in Sudan than Darfur. The Gatha put their hopes in Mr. de Beurmann who's plan was to arrive in Quadây by the western side of the country. Mr. de Heuglin accompanied by Mr. Shubert and doctor Steudner reached Gondar after an expedition through the Simen mountains. Mr. Livingston explored the Shire river which can be reached via the Zambézi river who's water empties into the strait that separates Madagascar from the African continent. The provinces on the side of Nyanga lake in which the Shire river enters are populated by the Maravi on the West side and on the North side by the Marimba, the Matoumboka, the Makousa and the… Read More

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1862. First edition. Removed. Removed from a larger volume else a very good copy, scattered foxing with owner's stamp on last page.. [417]- 424 pp. 4to.

Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1960. First printing. Paper-covered boards. A very good copy with minor edgewear and a repaired tear to one piece of mounting film.. 30 pp. Illus. with 24 color origami and paper cut-outs. 4to. Kuzuhiko Sono, illus.