South And Central America from Walkabout Books

Very good. 7.25" x 10.25" string-tied photograph album containing 82 images: 76 black and white snapshots ranging in size from 2.25" x 3.25" to 2.75" x 4.5", and six real photo postcards, all glued to album pages. Photos and album in very good condition. This album was compiled by Morris LaMountain (1923-1976) of Westport, New York, while he… Ler mais sobre este item

10.75" x 15.5" post-bound album with 122 original photographs and 5 lithographic prints from photographs affixed to both sides of 24 thick cardstock leaves (some additional blank leaves at the end).  Backstrip of album lacking, boards detached but present. Internals very good.  Contains a mix of professional and competent amateur photographs ranging in size from 9" x 11.5" down… Ler mais sobre este item

Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil, 1933. First Edition. Softcover. Fair. 10.5" x 7.25", pp xxxii, [74], xxxiii-lvi, extensively illustrated, with color folding map ("Planta Geral do Porto do Recife com o Ante-Projecto de Ampliação Para Approveitamento da Bacia de Sto Amaro e Aero-Porto"). Wrappers worn, with some loss and old tape repairs to spine. Binding very delicate, with a few… Ler mais sobre este item

St. Louis: Sam'l F. Myerson Printing Company, 1904. Softcover. Good. 9.75" x 6.5", 160 pp, extensively illustrated, in original embossed wrappers. Spine sunned and chipped at head, soiling to fore edge and first and last pages of text, otherwise clean and tightly bound. Good content on Brazil's natural resources, agricultural and industrial production, imports and exports, and numerous… Ler mais sobre este item

London: John Murray, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. First edition of both volumes: Volume I (published in 1892): pp xxiv, 456, with four maps (3 folding, including one in rear pocket), 20 full-page illustrations and more than 100 additional illustrations in the text, appendices, index. Rebound in green cloth with gilt titles on spine, no illustration or decoration… Ler mais sobre este item

New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 402 pp, with appendix, bibliography, index, and more than 50 illustrations from photographs, in pictorial cloth binding. Spine slanted, corners lightly bumped, binding sound, text clean. Neate C102: "The first major climbing expedition to the area. Conway's party made the first ascent of the south… Ler mais sobre este item

London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 252 pp + publisher's ads, with 27 illustrations and a folding map, in original maroon cloth. Considerable rubbing to edges of boards, corners bumped, slight bleed of cloth color onto top edge of rear endpapers. Binding sound, text clean. Neate C99: After a quick… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: French Press and Information Service, 1945. Softcover. Good. 8.25 x 10.75 in., 16 pp, with six half-tone illustrations showing the Saint-Laurent Penitentiary, political and economic map of French Guiana on back cover. Stapled wrappers. Light staining, edgewear, abrasion to wrappers -- good. Written for an American audience, this booklet seeks to dispel French Guiana's reputation --… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 224 pp, indexded, illustrated with photographs and maps. Top edge slightly dust-soiled, else fine. Dust jacket has just a touch of wear. A record of expeditions made in four successive summer seasons across many of the unclimbed peaks of Tierra del Fuego. Neate S59.

New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 402 pp, with appendix, bibliography, index, and more than 50 illustrations from photographs, in the simplest binding of unadorned grayish-brown cloth. Spine lettering faded but legible. Upper corners lightly bumped, binding sound, text clean. Short ownership inscription ("A.W.B. December 18, 1918") on front free endpaper.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Methuen, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 390 pp, with index, half-tone and photogravure illustrations from photographs by the author and by Arthur E. Lightbody and Stuart Vines, folding panorama, 2 folding maps. Bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering, image of a condor on upper board. Upper corners bumped (visible on text block), spine just… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: G.P. Putnam, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xi, 428 pp + publisher's ads, with two lithographed plates before the title page, showing Rio de Janiero and Catete, Original red cloth binding, with chipping to cloth at base of spine, light wear to edges. Internally sound and clean. Reverend Charles Samuel Stewart (1795-1870) served as missionary… Ler mais sobre este item

New York and New Orleans: George B. Richardson and Bloomfield & Steel, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. iv, 272 pp, with frontis portrait of the author and folding colored map of Brazil and Guyana, in origInal green cloth binding. Minimal external wear, binding sound, but all pages are tanned, some with foxing. Short closed tear to map where… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 8vo, pp xii, 443; viii, 478, [2] (ads), each with engraved frontispiece and title page vignette, folding map in Volume II. Publisher's green cloth ruled in blind, with gilt figure on each front board. Account of Burton's journey from Rio to the rich mining area of Minas… Ler mais sobre este item

[Palo Alto, CA]: Dramatists' Alliance of Stanford University, 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 106 pp, ca. 8.5 x 11 inches, original illustrated wrappers. Moderate handling wear, including creasing to cover resulting from a binding error; very good. Second volume in the Coester Series of Translations from the drama of Southern American states, "issued as a means of… Ler mais sobre este item

Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. x, [13]-386, in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Losses to spine ends, corners rubbed through, slightly shaken, but still a better than average copy of this title, which is often found in poor condition. Hill (1910): The ships made port in Rio de Janierio, Valparaiso, Callao, Paita, the Marquesas,… Ler mais sobre este item

Kraus Reprint Limited, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. xii, 212 pp, with index. Minimal wear to edges, name written on front pastedown; else fine. No dust jacket. Reprint of the 1913 Hakluyt Society edition. Second series, No. XXXI. Please note: the image associated with this listing shows another volume in the same series, but it other than the title… Ler mais sobre este item

Lima, Peru: Instituto Andino de Estudios en Poblacion y Desarrollo, 1981. Softcover. Very Good. 55 pp, with two foldout diagrams, bibliography. Short (1/2 inch) tears at head and foot of spine; light handling wear; contents clean and sound. Text in Spanish. A study of migration patterns within the nation of Peru.

Mexico: Coleccion Distrito Federal, 1988. Softcover. Very good. Text in Spanish. 74 pp, with color illustrations from photographs, in original illustrated wrappers. Gift inscription on front endpaper; else clean and sound with light handling wear.

Gainesville, FL: College of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Florida, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Catalogue of an exhibition shown and documented in conjunction with the special photographic exhibition Machu Picchu of the Inca, with photography by Roy C. Craven Jr. (36) pp, stapled wrappers. Illustrated with 28 b/w photos. Includes introductory essay, bibliography. Minor cover… Ler mais sobre este item