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Mi Pais Inventado: Un Paseo Nostalgico por Chile

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rayo: 2003

Seller ID: 2200718

ISBN: 0060545658

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

2nd printing. Signed by author without inscription. Spanish text. Near fine. Near Fine. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 219 pp. Spanish text. El primer recuerdo que Isabel Allende tiene de Chile es el de una casa que nunca conoció: la casa grande y vieja de la calle Cueto, donde nació su madre. Esta casa, evocada por su abuelo con tanta frecuencia que Isabel cree haber vivido allí, se convierte en la protagonista de su primera novela La Casa de los Espíritus. Dicha obra vuelve a aparecer al comienzo de las fascinantes y seductoras memorias, Mi País Inventa...
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Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico (The Texas Pan American series)

By: Aveni, Anthony F.; Gingerich, Owen

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Austin, University of Texas Press: 1980

Seller ID: 2305663

ISBN: 0292775571

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Half-inch tear along jacket spine head. 1980 Large Hardcover. x, 355 pp. Combining as it does the romance of space with the mistery of the past, the study of pre-colombian skywatchers of the new world has drawn increasing scientific and popular attention in recent years...--jacket
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Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology

By: Baldwin, J.D. [John Denison]

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1871

Seller ID: 2305757

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Spine slightly cocked, boards lightly soiled, light stain along top edge, book plate on front paste-down endpaper, ink stamp on first blank. 1871 Hard Cover. xii, 299, 12 pp. Green cloth boards. Includes illustrations. CONTENTS: Ancient America--The Mound-Builders; Antiquity of the Mound-Builders; Who Were the Mound-Builders?; Mexico and Central America; Mexico and Central America; Antiquity of the Ruins; Whence Came This Civilization?; American Ancient History; The Aztec Civilization; Ancient Peru; Peruvian Ancient History; Appendix: A. The Northmen in America - B The Welsh in America - C. An...
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From the Mouth of the Dark Cave: Commemorative Sculpture of the Late Classic Maya

By: Bassie-Sweet, Karen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press: 1991

Seller ID: 2305664

ISBN: 0806123230

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 1991 Large Hardcover. xv, 287 pp. Argues that scenes found on late classic sculpture represent cave rituals performed by the Mayan elite and discusses the Mayan world view and the role caves played in it.
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The Olmec World

By: Bernal, Ignacio; Heyden, Doris; Horcasitas, Fernando

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1973

Seller ID: 2305848

ISBN: 0520015037

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Chips and tears along jacket edges, three duplicate text pages laid in that correct errors in the illustrations of the bound in pages. 1973 Large Hardcover. xiv, 273 pp. According to Arnold Toynbee, a civilization arises in response to a challenge. In Central America - the Mesopotamia of the New World - the challenge was the jungle. The Olmecs were the first people to meet this challenge successfully. The coastal plain of Veracruz and Tabasco, along the southern curve of the Gulf of Mexico, is the birthplace of the first great civilization of the western hemisphere. Between th...
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Lost City of the Incas: The Story of Machu Picchu and Its Builders

By: Bingham, Hiram

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce: 1948

Seller ID: 2305804

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A few small tears and small chips to jacket edges. 1948 Hard Cover. xviii, 263 pp. Hiram Bingham describes the Peruvian expedition to the Inca capitals of Vitcos and Vilcapampa, lost for three centuries under the shadow of Machu Picchu mountain. Here is all that is known about Machu Picchu, its origin, how it came to be lost, and how it was finally discovered.
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Notes on the Botocudus and Their Ornaments (Read before the American Philosophical Society, November 16, 1888)

By: Branner, John C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: .: 1888

Seller ID: 2289505

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Presentation copy. A few small chips to edges of rear wrappers. 1888 Stapled Binding. Read before the American Philosophical Society, November 16, 1888. These Indians live near the Rio Doce, about three hundred miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro. They wear but little clothing; their hair is very black and coarse, and their color a light mulatto. The women do not allow their hair to grow upon any part of the body except the head, and in the illustrations it may be noticed that they have no eyebrows, the hairs all having been pulled out. One of the most striking habits of these people is shown in...
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Montezuma: Lord of the Aztecs

By: Burland, C.A.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnams Sons: 1973

Seller ID: 2305853

ISBN: 039911176X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First American edition. Jacket near fine. Light general wear. 1973 Large Hardcover. 269 pp. Includes 32 color plates and roughly 150 black-and-white illustrations. Drawing on the few surviving contemporary documents of the Aztecs, on Spanish chronicles of the period of the Conquest and on post-Conquest accounts by native aristocrats such as F. de Alva Ixtlilxochilt, the author has vividly recaptured the splendour and complexity of the ill-fated Montezuma. His life is traced from his birth to a minor prince of the ruling family, through his traditional education in the temple and warrior school...
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Cortez; or the Conquest of Mexico. as Related by a Father to His Children, and Designed for the Instruction of Youth.

By: Campe, J.H. [Joachim Heinrich]; Helme, Elizabeth

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Printed for C. Cradock and W. Joy and P. Norbury: 1811

Seller ID: 2201455

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fair

Fold-out map included. Front board loose, spine label absent, corners rubbed with minor loss. We have left the binding as is so the book's next owner can have restorations done to his/her specifications. 1811 Full-Leather. iv, 259, [1] pp. 12mo. Original full tree calf. Translated from the German of J.H. Campe (author of the New Robinson Crusoe) by Elizabeth Helme (author of The History of England, Scotland, Rome, &c. &c.), with the translator's last corrections and improvements. A history of the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortez [Cortez], presented as a dialogue in which a father explains ...
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Mexico: A Study of Two Americas

By: Chase, Stuart; Tyler, Marian

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1944

Seller ID: 2305651

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Boards lightly soiled. 1944 Hard Cover. vii, 338 pp. CONTENTS: Foreword; Mountain Village; Early Americans; Maize Civilization; The Six-Hundred; The Decline of Mexican Civilization I; The Decline of Mexican Civilization II; Machineless Men: Their Food and Drink; Machineless Men: Their Shelter, Clothing and Health; Machineless Men: Their Work; Machineless Men: Their Play; Machineless Men: The Basic Pattern; Cornucopia; The Yankee Invasion; Pistols and Politics; Advice from a Parvenu Cousin; Selected Bibliography: Annotated; Index.
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Aztecs: An Interpretation

By: Clendinnen, Inga

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1991

Seller ID: 2305534

ISBN: 0521400937

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Minor smudge on rear jacket panel otherwise an excellent copy. 1991 Hard Cover. xiii, 398 pp. In August 1521 the city of Tenochtitlan, the magnificent center of the Aztec tribute empire, fell to Spaniards, led by Hernando Cortes, and a shifting coalition of Indian allies. It is the people of that city in their last unthreatened years who are the subjects of this study.
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Mexico's Hope: An Encounter with Politics and History

By: Cockcroft, James D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Monthly Review Press: 1998

Seller ID: 2305808

ISBN: 0853459258

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. 1998 Trade Paperback. viii, 435 pp. Mexico's Hope tells the dramatic story of the making of modern Mexico, treating all the major developments of the past century of Mexican history. Unusually attentive to the contributions of women, Indians, workers, and peasants,Mexico's Hope is informed by the conviction that the country's most promising prospects today lie in the quest of its poorest people for social justice and democracy-from the recent Zapatista uprisings in Chiapas to ongoing electoral efforts on the left.--rear wrapper
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Breaking the Maya Code

By: Coe, Michael D.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Thames & Hudson: 1992

Seller ID: 2305637

ISBN: 0500050619

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 304 pp. Includes 112 illustrations. The author of The Maya and Mexico interweaves the story of the struggle to decipher the complex hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Maya with a close-up look at what is known about the culture of the ancient Maya civilization.
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The Maya

By: Coe, Michael D.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Thames & Hudson: 1980

Seller ID: 2305654

ISBN: 0500020973

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 1980 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 180 pp. With 141 illustrations. For this revised edition, in a new format and with additional illustrations, the author has expanded and updated the text, taking into account the wealth of new information that has come to light... Field research has pushed back the date of the earliest villages by a thousand years and shown that the subsistence base of the Classic Maya was more complex than previously thought; epigraphic discoveries have caused a Classic Maya dynastic history and politics; wh...
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Reading the Maya Glyphs

By: Coe, Michael D.; Van Stone, Mark

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Thames & Hudson: 2001

Seller ID: 2305638

ISBN: 0500051100

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2001 Hard Cover. 176 pp. Includes glyph illustrations throughout. Decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing has reached the point that most Maya textswhether inscribed on the monuments, written in the codices, or painted or incised on ceramicscan now be read with some confidence. The breaking of the Maya code has completely changed our knowledge of this ancient civilization, and has given the Maya people a long and vivid history lacking in other areas of the pre-Columbian New World. In the recent past, a working knowledge of this script h...
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The Toltecs: Until the Fall of Tula (The Civilization of the American Indian Series, Volume 144)

By: Davies, Nigel

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press: 1977

Seller ID: 2305659

ISBN: 0806113944

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket lightly toned. 1977 Hard Cover. xviii, 533 pp. Uses archaeological records and documentary sources to chronicle the history of the Mesoamerican culture from the fall of Teotihuacan to the rise and collapse of Tula.
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Mexican Jewelry

By: Davis, Mary L.; Pack, Greta

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press: 1991

Seller ID: 2305346

ISBN: 0292750730

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Third printing. Sticker on rear wrapper. 1991 Trade Paperback. xv, 262 pp. Mexicos streams give forth cool green jade and rich gold; its shores provide coral and dainty pearls. Its brown hills yield silver and copper and gems whose colors form a dazzling palette for the jeweler. And Mexico has never lacked the artists to mold its abundant jewels into finished pieces of beauty. In this enjoyable volume, Mary L. Davis and Greta Pack show us the splendors of Mexican jewelry. After briefly tracing the history of the jewelry of Mexico, they describe the various types and explain the basic technique...
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One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest

By: Davis, Wade

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks: 1996

Seller ID: 2305788

ISBN: 0684834960

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Address label on front flyleaf. 1996 Trade Paperback. 537 pp. The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South AmericaRichard Evans Schultes and his protg Wade Davisan epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history. In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spent the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970s, he sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorio...
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The Incas of Pedro de Cieza de Leon (The Civilization of the American Indian Series, Volume 53)

By: de Leon, Pedro de Cieza; de Onis, Harriet; von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press: 1960

Seller ID: 2305531

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Second printing. Jacket edges rubbed, closed tear across width of jacket spine, jacket price clipped, top page ridge lightly stained, ink name on front endpaper. 1960 Hard Cover. lxxx, 397 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and four fold-outs. Translated by Harriet de Onis, edited with an introduction by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen. More than four hundred years ago, Pedro de Cieza de Len set out to conduct the readers of his time-- and of subsequent generations--over the Royal Road of the Incas. His chronicles of Peru, published in 1553 and 1880, rank with Bernal Daz del Ca...
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A Dream of Maya: Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon in Nineteenth-Century Yucatan

By: Desmond, Lawrence Gustave; Messenger, Phyllis Mauch; King, Jaime Litvak

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2305656

ISBN: 0826310001

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Spine toned, very minor tear along bottom edge of rear wrapper. 1989 Soft Cover. xxi, 147 pp. Augustus Henry Julian Le Plongeon[1] (May 4, 1826 December 13, 1908) was a British-American archaeologist and photographer who studied the pre-Columbian ruins of America, particularly those of the Maya civilization on the northern Yucatn Peninsula. While his writings contain many notions that were not well received by his contemporaries and were later disproven, Le Plongeon left a lasting legacy in his photographs documenting the ancient ruins. He was one of the earliest proponents o...
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Assassination on Embassy Row: The Shocking Story of the Letelier-Moffitt Murders

By: Dinges, John; Landau, Saul

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill: 1981

Seller ID: 2304680

ISBN: 0070169985

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Faint edge wear. 1981 Trade Paperback. A Chilean exile is assassinated, and the murderer turns out to be an American with CIA contacts. An in-depth investigation of the crime goes over the suspects and the motives.
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Coronados Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest

By: Dobie, J. Frank

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Literary Guild of America: 1931

Seller ID: 2305805

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket edges rubbed and taped on reverse. 1931 Hard Cover. xv, 367 pp. Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard Coronado. These people, Dobie writes in his introduction, no matter what language they speak, are truly Coronado's inheritors.... l have called them Coronado's children. They follow Spanish trails, bu...
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The Well of Sacrifice: The Recovery of the Lost Mayan Treasures of Chichen Itza

By: Ediger, Donald

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Robert Hale & Co.: 1973

Seller ID: 2305774

ISBN: 0709139403

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Half inch tear to bottom edge of front jacket panel, jacket edges rubbed. 1973 Hard Cover. 288 pp. An account of the expedition that probed the depths of the mysterious sacred well of Chichn Itz, in Yucatan, in search of keys to the baffling ancient Mayan civilization.
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Lost Trails, Lost Cities: From His Manuscripts, Letters, and Other Records

By: Fawcett, Colonel P. H.; Fawcett, Brian

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls: 1953

Seller ID: 2305791

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips. 1953 Hard Cover. xvi, 332 pp. A chronicle of adventure and discovery in the green, deadly world of the jungle. This extraordinary first-hand account of seven explorations into the heart of the lost world of the Amazon Basin and its mountain ramparts has been made available for publication after more than a quarter of a centurys silence. On his eighth and final expedition, Colonel P. H. Fawcett vanished into the jungle wilderness; to this day his fate is unknown. Before he began his last trip he...
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Brazilian Adventure

By: Fleming, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1934

Seller ID: 2305528

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. General light wear. 1934 Hard Cover. 412 pp. 'Beyond the completion of a 3,000-mile journey, mostly under amusing conditions, through a little-known part of the world, and the discovery of one new tributary to a tributary to a tributary of the Amazon, nothing of importance was achieved.' Nothing indeed. In 1932, Peter Fleming, a literary editor (and the brother of Ian Fleming), traded his pen for a pistol to engage in the celebrated search for English adventurer Colonel P. H. Fawcett, who had gone missing in the jungles of central Brazil. With meager supplies, faulty maps, and a pac...
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Rediscovering South America: Random Wanderings from Panama to Patagonia and Back, Reviewing a Continent the Author Covered, Mainly on Foot, a Generation Ago.

By: Franck, Harry A.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1943

Seller ID: 2304405

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket edges lighty rubbed. 1943 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 453 pp. 8vo. Franck revisits South America thirty years after the journey that produced his earlier books Vagabonding Down the Andes and Working North from Patagonia. Includes 65 reproductions of photographs, taken mainly by the author. Maps on endpapers.
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Cars of Cuba

By: Garcia, Cristina; Greene, Joshua; Allen, DD

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.: 1995

Seller ID: 2200998

ISBN: 0810926318

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. Very faintly toned. 1995 Soft Cover. 64 pp. Cubans call them cacharros: the gorgeous old American cars of the '40s and '50s that can be found throughout the country. There are classic Chevrolets, Fords, Lincolns, Cadillacs, Packards, Oldsmobiles, Buicks, De Sotos, Dodges, Pontiacs, Studebakers, Thunderbirds, Ramblers, and more, all from Detroit's golden age and all still on the road. Cars of Cuba - with an introduction by Cristina Garcia, author of the novel Dreaming in Cuban, and fifty-three color photographs by Joshua Greene - is a visit to th...
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Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya (The Civilization of the American Indian)

By: Goetz, Delia; Morley, Sylvanus G.; Recinos, Adrian

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press: 1950

Seller ID: 2305636

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. 1950 Hard Cover. xix, 267 pp. Popol Vuh (also Popol Wuj or Popul Vuh or Pop Vuj)[1][2] is a text recounting the mythology and history of the K?iche? people, one of the Maya peoples, who inhabit the Guatemalan Highlands, Mexican Chiapas, Campeche and Quintana Roo states, and areas of Belize. The Popol Vuh is a foundation sacred narrative of the K?iche? people from long before the Spanish conquest of Mexico.[3] It includes the Mayan creation myth, the exploits of the Hero Twins Hunahp and Xbalanqu,[4] and a chronicle of the K?iche? people. The name Popol Vuh translates ...
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

By: Grann, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2009

Seller ID: 2305792

ISBN: 0385513534

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2009 Hard Cover. xi, 339 pp. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century: What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z?
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Admirals of the Caribbean

By: Hart, Francis Russell

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press: 1922

Seller ID: 2302238

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Limited large paper edition, #68 of 200 copies printed on Umbria hand-made paper, released simultaneously with the first trade edition. Hand-numbered on limitation page. Endpapers lightly foxed. 1922 Hard Cover. x, 203, [3] pp. 8vo. Reproductions of maps, harbor plans, and portraits of Sir Francis Drake, Sir Henry Morgan, and others throughout. A history of early navigators during the colonial period, with a focus on the Caribbean.
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