Search Results: History: South America from Leaf and Stone Books

Para: Musee Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia. Fair with no dust jacket. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. 1900-1906 four parts bound as one, 44 [7] 40 ff with black and white and sepia photographic plates, 4 title pages. Royal forto with 3/4 cloth, black cloth spine with gilt, black corners the cloth has disappeared, paper hard boards with a modernist design in green, black and brown. Spine is worn, joints starting, interior end papers with an Amerindian inspired design, front end paper has some small chips. Text pages have some small thumbing marks but otherwise clean and unmarked, paper a bit aged and toned but in nice condition. Interior in good condition, cover in fair-good condition. A scarce copy of the major work by French botanist Jaques/Jakob Huber, who went to the Amazon in the late 1890s. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

York, SC: Spanish Literature Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0938972081 . KB32...xiv, 143 pp. Illustrated with a few b/w photos. Octavo. Green cloth with gilt to front cover, black and gilt spine label, minor wear to covers. Interior has a gift inscription from the author to a professor, along with an inscribed Post-It Note. Otherwise clean and unmarked. In English with some Spanish. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 143 pages; Signed by Author .

Paris: P. Bertrand. Fair with no dust jacket. 1856. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. p. 25-87, [9] leaves of plates. Memoire accompagne de neuf planches lithographiees. Extrait de la Zoologie de l'Expedition dans les parties centrales de l'Amerique du Sud, pubnliee sous la direction de M. le comte Francis de Castelnau. Original green hard paper boards are worn and aged, spine perished, corners of boards rubbed and chipped, small lack at bottom front joint. Interior first page has old institution impressed stamp, paper thinned and partly missing at top and bottom gutter margin, otherwise clean and unmarked. Pages 72-87 heavily browned, fore-edges somewhat chipped. Plates have some foxing but otherwise clean (starts with Plate 7 as called for), plate 15 has another institutional embossure. Needs to be resewn. Aged but complete, very scarce.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall .

Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan. Good in Good dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0333551842 . xv, 243 pp. Index. Glossary. Illustrated with plates, charts and figures. White dust jacket with blue has a few small curls and edge chips, interior clean and unmarked, except for a gift inscription signed "Jeremy" on the first blank. ; St Antony's Series; 260 pages; Signed by Author .

San Salvador: Universitaria De Jujuy. Fair. 1992. First Edition. Softcover. 9505540981 . 141 pp. Notes at rear. Spanish text. Red softcover. Covers have wear along edges and spine. Front cover slightly faded, and has faint rippling. Interior is clean with no marks. ; Vol. 2 .

Montevideo: Dornaleche Y Reyes. Good with no dust jacket. 1903-1904. Hardcover. 246 and 238 + indices and plates. In Spanish. Handsome 1/2 leather, with black leather and gilt spine, dark marbled hard boards, with minor wear, scar to front cover. Interior normal library marks with no pocket, paper a little age darkened but otherwise clean and unmarked, a very handsome copy, complete two volumes in one, very hard to find. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 084440697X . xiii + 1060 pp. Index. Illustrated with maps, tables and many plates. In English and Spanish. Large and heavy book with black leather spine, dark red cloth covers, with gilt is clean, small bump/chip at front cover fore-edge, smaller at back cover. Interior has Library of Congress stamp on title page, otherwise clean and fresh. Surprisingly scarce. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

Havana: Casa de las Americas. Good with no dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 199pp + 3 unnumbered pages. Spanish language, references, index. Book has black and brown paper hardcover with white text on front cover and spine, illustration on covers. As is. Water damage on covers and fore-edge of textblock. Text is clear and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 202 pages .

Rio DE Janeiro: Topbooks, Univercidade Editora. Good. 2000. Second Edition. Softcover. 8574750166 . 549 pps. Bibliography and index at rear. Portuguese text. Tan softcover. Book is in good conditional, very minimal wear along edges. Very clean with no marks, exterior or interior. 2 rear fly pages have folds in lower left corners. ; 9.02 X 6.10 X 1.18 inches; 549 pages .

University Press of Florida. Good with no dust jacket. 2011. Hardcover. 0813037360 . + (16) 388 pages +(4) contains photographs, illustrations, appendix, bibliography and index, blue covers with white and blue text and photograph on front cover, minor wear to head, tail and corners, pages clear and unmarked ; New World Diasporas; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 388 pages .