Search Results: Latin American / South American from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Caracas, Venezuela: Susana Amundarain, 1990. 1 volume (unpaged), illustrations (some colour); 17 cm. Edition of 1000 copies. Text in English and Spanish. MUY BIEN. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author, with a personalized inscription. Wraps lightly soiled. Drawings by Venezuelan-born American artist Susana Amundarain.. SIGNED. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo. Collectible.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2012. xii, 465 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last thirty years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong. In a book that startles and persuades, Mann reveals how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques came to previously unheard-of conclusions. Among them: In 1491 there were… Read More

Buenos Aires: Zurbaran Ediciones, 1995. Cloth, 107 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour): 23 cm. English Edition. Translation by Alfredo Cernadas Quesada. Exhibition held October 20 to December 2, 1993 at the IMF Visitors' Center, Washington, D.C. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Last 4 leaves dogeared. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Sao Paulo: Caixa Cultura Sao Paulo, 2008. 43 pages, colour illustrations; 25 cm. Text in Portuguese. Catalogue of an exhibition held June 3 to July 13, 2008 at Caixa Cultural Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers; Discoveries Ser., 1992. 191 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 18 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers; Discoveries Ser., 1992. 191 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 18 cm. Tight, clean copy. One leaf dogeared. Age toning. Another copy available.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo.

Eugene, OR: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, 2009. 96 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. Issued in connection with the exhibition Amazonia, held January 17 to May 2, 2010, at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon; and June 11 to August 31, 2010, at Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, Virginia. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Madrid: ERISA; Ediciones y Reproducciones Internacionales, 1982. 167 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Text in Spanish/Texto en espanol. Por los mas modernos exploradores, Carlos Wiener, Doctor Crevaux, D. Charnoy, et al. Reproduccion facsimil de la parte grafica de la ed. de: Barcelona: Montaner y Simon, 1884. MUY BIEN. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: Viaje al Rio de las Amazonas y a las Cordilleras, por Carlos Wiener; De Cayena a los Andes, por Julio Crevaux; Mis descubrimientos en Mexico y en la America Central, por Desire Charnay; America equinoccial: (Colombia-Ecuador).. 3rd. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Indianaopolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.; Library of Liberal Arts, 1939. Cloth, 336 pages, frontispiece, illustrations, portrait, folded map; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards, expected browning. Stated First Edition. A solid copy, lacking the DJ.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. 8vo.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1954. Cloth, 186 pages, [5] leaves of plates, 209 illustrations (some colour), maps; 27 cm. Exhibition Catalogue. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. Another copy available. The Inca and others. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers; Monuments of Civilization Ser., 1977. Cloth, 189 pages, illustrations (some colour); 33 cm. First published, 1972, under title: Civilta andine. Translated from the Italian. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket, age toned, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. An attractive copy.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio. Collectible.

Washington D.C.: National Geographic Insight, 2001. Cloth, 159 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm .Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with title faded on spine (?), protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "In 1995, Pablo Corral Vega began a journey that would take him the entire length of the Andes, the 5,000-mile chain of mountain ranges that extend from Patagonia to the shores of the Caribbean. For Corral Vega, who grew up in the shadow of the mountains in Ecuador, the journey was more than an adventureit was a quest for identity. Corral Vega presents the Andes and South America as a continent of geographic extremes and remarkable human diversity, and his journal entries--in which he describes his encounters with the inhabitants of Spanish America who live on the Andes slopes--imbue these photographs with even greater depth. Readers are granted rare insight into the peoples who live by the grace… Read More

Hato Rey, Puerto Rico; Panama City, Panama: La Casa del Arte; Arteconsult, 2004. 12 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Text in Spanish/Texto en espanol. MUY BIEN. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Title page clipped/top right corner. Argentine artist.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Buenos Aires: Manrique Zago, 2001. Cloth, 157 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour); 32 cm. Text in Spanish and English; Edicion bilingue: espanol-ingles. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: This is how Argentina was formed; Ten thousand years of cultural sequences; Northwest and Puna; National parks; Northeast and Mesopotamia; Central Argentina and the Andes; Cuyo and the central Andes; Route 40, northern section; Thermal springs and mineral waters; Winter sports; Buenos Aires, Delta and the Atlantic coast; Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Antarctica; Route 40, southern section.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio.

Buenos Aires: Argentine Association of Art Critics, 1978. 31 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Text in English. Edition of 3000 copies. Published on the occasion of XIII Congress of the International Association of Art Critics, AICA, Switzerland, August to September 1978. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Includes: "Art Criticism in Argentina" by Horacio Safons; "Organizational Aspects of Art in Argentina" by Fermin Fevre; and "Theory of Institutions" by Jorge Glusberg.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books; Pelican History of Art Series, 1959. Cloth, xxviii, 445 pages, illustrations, 192 plates, maps, plans; 27 cm. Reprint 1969. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. xxii, 361 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Catalogue for an exhibition held at the South Bank Centre, London, in July 1989 and other venues. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Independence and its heroes; Academies and historical painting; Traveller-reporter artists and the empirical tradition in post-independence Latin America, by Stanton Loomis Catlin; Nature, science and the picturesque; Jose Maria Velasco; Posada and the popular graphic tradition; Modernism and the search for roots; The Taller de grafica popular; Indigenism and social realism; Private worlds and public myths; Arte madi/arte concreto-invencion; A radical leap, by Guy Brett; History and identity.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Museum of Primitive Art, 1964. 56 pages, [87] illustrations, maps; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held November 20, 1963 through February 2, 1964 at the Museum of Primitive Art, New York. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New Haven and Austin, TX: Yale University Art Gallery; University of Texas Art Museum,, 1966. xiv, 246 pages, 118 plates (some colour); 22 x 22 cm. Revised Edition, February 1966. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Front cover & top edge lightly soiled. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 2nd. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York and London: Thames and Hudson; World of Art Ser., 1996. 224 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Spine slightly cocked/lean. Age toning. Another copy available. "An examination of the wealth of art and architecture created by the different cultures of the ancient Andes. Illustrating the varied examples of sculpture, textiles and other media, the book discusses how the art provides a wider knowledge of the people that created it." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Early and Chavin art; Paracus and Nasca; Moche art and architecture; Tiwanaku and Wari imperial styles; late intermediate period styles; Inca art and architecture.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.