(Sao Paulo, Brazil): NP, 1964. Hardcover. 8vo. 156 pp. B&W photo of Pedro Henrique Cesar at rear. Decorated paper boards. With b&w photos, fold-out maps. Lightly foxed to front and back pages, not affecting text. With light wear to cover. Overall, in good condition. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. V, [1], 755, [1]pp. Uncut. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Printer's device on title page. The ever-increasing interest in Hispanic America offers ready acceptance to anything which aims at a wider dissemination of information..... More
Mexico, D.F. Editorial Delfin, 1944. Hardcover. Volume 1 of 2. 8vo. 345pp. Decorated leather with gilt decorated spine. Red title plate with gilt lettering and brown plate with "1" in gilt letter. Abrasion to small area towards head of spine and to part of front and back board. Corners and..... More
New York: Henry Bill, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (2) 771 (5)pp., 25 plates. Original black leather with embossed decorative covers, four compartmentalized gilt vignettes and gilt lettering on red label of spine. Marbled edges and endpaper. Frontispiece lithograph and engraved half-title. Historiated headpieces, decorative initials. Comprises the early discoveries..... More
Cleveland: The Williams Publishing Company, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6 1/4"). XVIII, 9-507, [1]pp. Original black-stamped burgundy cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Decorative endpapers. Three engraved frontispieces. Illustrated with numerous steel engravings, this work tells (in the first ten chapters) the overland journey..... More
New York: W. A. Townsend & Company, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 3/4 x 6 1/2"). 376pp. Original embossed and gilt-stamped full morocco, with gold lettering to spine and covers. All paper edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece. Profusely illustrated with 2 full-page steel engravings, 1 full-page wood engravings (Frontispiece)..... More
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. xv, 865pp. Original lime green cloth with black lettering on spine. Major work on German cultural influences on America from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century covering religion, education, literature and philosophy. This monumental work covers the early influences of German thought..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay, ND (ca 1892). Later edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 1/2 x 6"). 430pp (Vol. 1); 402pp (Vol. 2); 448pp (Vol. 3). Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece in each volume. Originally published..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923. Howard Pyle. First American edition (L-X). Hardcover. Sm. folio. xiii. 346pp. Grey cloth with paste-on color plate in original dust jacket. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Corners rubbed. Head and tail of spine and parts of edges chipped. One by two..... More
Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1977. Hardcover. 4to. xx.; 362pp. Light blue cloth and dark blue writing with dj. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped and rubbed. DJ slightly chipped and rubbed. Previous owner's book plate on inside front cover. Illustrated throughout with b&w photographs and drawings. Overall very good..... More
Mexico: Imp. J. Chavez y Hno. 1919. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 3/4 spotted calf over green cloth with gold lettering and borders on spine. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Original wrappers bound in. Fascinating work on the German intrigues in Mexico during WWI, intended to push the Mexican officials to make..... More
Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1886. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. (1) 31pp., foldout map. Original tan string bound wraps with black lettering on cover. Supplement issue # 82 for "Petermanns Mitteilungen (Petermann's Messages)." An overview of all "Pacific Railways" in operation completed in 1885, before the author fell gravely ill and passed..... More
Philadelphia: Sherman & Co., Printers, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 182 pp. Brown cloth with decorative blind stamped lettering and border on front cover and spine. Blind stamped decorative motife and border on rear cover. Thick ornamental endpapers. Contents include but are not limited to: "Jefferson's Political Animosity," "His..... More
NP, 1888. Softcover. 8vo. 45pp. Front wrapper loose, back wrapper missing. Pulling, sunning, minor staining and few tears on wrapper. Ex-libris of Dr. Norton B. Stern on inside of wrapper. Interesting booklet remembering Washington Bartlett who in 1887 died in office while being Governor of California. Wraps in poor, interior..... More
London: Hackluyt Society, 1993. Hardcover. Folio. xxxi, 229pp. Original blue cloth with gilt-stamped Hackluyt emblem on cover, gilt lettering and ruling on spine, in original dustjacket with blue lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Transcript and facsimile of extensive prospectus of English colonization of North America. "The Hackluyt Society... most important Hakluyt..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 374, 375-762pp. Collector's Edition. Original black leather with gilt-stamped illustrations on cover and spines, gilt lettering on spines; raised bands. Gilt edges. Moiré endpapers. Satin ribbon markers. The Easton Press' leather-bound Library of Military History. Illustrated with b/w drawings of..... More
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1889. New and Revised edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4"). XXIV, [2], 713, [1]pp. Contemporary full calf school binding, with gold lettering and tooling to spine, and seal of the Bedford School in gilt on front cover. Raised bands. Blind-stamped dentelles. Marbled..... More
Santa Fe, N.M. University of Utah, 1961. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 197pp; 197 ill. 1/1000 unnumbered. Salmon cloth with maroon lettering to cover and spine. Endpapers signed by owner Alfred C. Glassell Jr. . Text in English and Aztec. Including - The People, Medicine, Cities. "The Florentine Codex is one..... More
Santa Fe, N.M. University of Utah, 1952. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 68pp; 19 ill. 1/1000 unnumbered. Salmon cloth with maroon lettering to cover and spine. Endpapers signed by owner Alfred C. Glassell Jr. The origins and names of the Gods. Works of Magic.Text in English and Aztec. "The Florentine Codex..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xix, 552pp., 20 plates, 1 folding map. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Frontispiece photograph. Translated from the original Spanish manuscript of Pedro Font, With Anza to California, and edited by Bolton. "The comments on the..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906. Softcover. Lg. 8vo. 58pp. Original printed wrappers. Fifth annual report on the condition and safety of coal mines in the Indian Territory by the Secretary of the Interior, William Cameron. Bottom corner bumped and creased, affecting pages throughout. Creasing, chipping and some tearing to wraps..... More
New York: The Research Publishing Co., 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 118pp (text). Original printed wrappers over cloth, with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Fascinating work sheding a new light on Christopher Columbus and intending to reveal "for the first time the true nationality, religion and name of..... More
Grenoble: CRATerre Editions, 2000. Softcover. Lg. 4to. 156pp. Illustrated wrappers. Minor scuffing to wraps. Frontispiece. A fascinating book looking at the people, customs, architecture and environment of the South American country Guyana. Stunningly illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of photographs, paintings and drawings. Text in French. Fine condition. Rare..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 224 pp. Burgundy cloth binding with dust jacket. With b/w and color illustrations. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped. Dj chipped at corners. A one-eighth inch tear to bottom edge of dj on back cover. Overall, book in near fine..... More
Santiago de Chile: Fondo Histórico y Bibliográfico José Toribio Medina, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [CVIII], 243 pp. Frontispiece of a reproduction of a b/w photograph of José Toribio Medina. Original cloth, title label in green leather with gold lettering. A chronologically listed collection of biographies on Hernán Cortés ranging..... More