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A Sand County Almanc. First Edition in dust jacket

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : 1949

Seller ID: 116708

LEOPOLD, Aldo. The Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There. Illustrated by Charles W. Schwartz. New York : Oxford University Press, 1949. First Edition. "Printed in the United States of America". Pp (6),vii–xiii,3–226. 8vo (145 x 220 mm), mid-green cloth boards, with black lettering to front & spine, with birds on front. Aldo Leopold (b. January 11, 1887, Burlington, Iowa – d. April 21, 1948, Baraboo, Wisconsin) was an American author, philosopher, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best ...
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Adrift Among Geniuses : Robert McAlmon, Writer and Publisher of the Twenties. First Edition in dustjacket

By: SMOLLER, Sanford J. McALMON, Robert).

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park and London, 1975, ISBN:0271011734

Seller ID: 106285

SMOLLER, Sanford J. Adrift Among Geniuses : Robert McAlmon, Writer and Publisher of the Twenties. University Park and London : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (1975). First Edition. Pp (14),[1]-389,(3). Illustrated. Index. 8vo, black cloth, silver lettering to spine. "The Kansas-born son ofa Presbyterian minister, Robert Menzies McAlmon became a central figure of the Lost Generation. After marrying the English poet and novelist Bryher, McAlmon expatriated to Paris, where his friendship with Joyce, Stein, Hemingway, and other young Left Bank writers led him to begin publishing Cont...
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Adventures of the "Lady Jane". pb.

By: SPROCK, Merle and Janie

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Sprock Publishing, 1995,

Seller ID: 34101

SPROCK, Merle and Janie. Adventures of the "Lady Jane". (Auburn, Ca.: Sprock Publishing), [1995?]. Pp 338. 8vo, ill. card covers. An account of a California couple's cruising adventures in Mexico, the Caribbean, and along the eastern seaboard of the United States. Slightly rubbed, else vg. 30.00
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Alaska - Mexico : La grande-route transcontinentale panaméricaine d'Anchorage en Alaska a Oaxaca au Mexique méridional. in dustjacket

By: ANNAHEIM, Hans GOHL, Heinrich, photos

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Editions Mondo, Lausanne, 1969,

Seller ID: 105280

ANNAHEIM, Hans. Alaska - Mexico : La grande-route transcontinentale panaméricaine d'Anchorage en Alaska a Oaxaca au Mexique méridional. Photos Heinrich Gohl. Texte Prof. Dr Hans Annaheim. (Lausanne) : Editions Mondo, (1969). Pp (7),8-[180]. Illustrated with 74 tipped-in colour plates. Maps. 4to, green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, and gilt compass to front board. Text inFrench. ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGES WILL BE REQUIRED FOR ORDERS OUTSIDE CA NADA DUE TO ITS WEIGHT. Mino r spotting to edges, else very good in edge-browned dustjacket. 40.00
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Alexander Mackenzie, Explorer : The Hero Who Failed. First Edition in dustjacket.

By: MACKENZIE, Alexander Smith, James K.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto , 1973, ISBN:0070776199

Seller ID: 1309

(MACKENZIE, Alexander). SMITH, James K. Alexander Mackenzie, Explorer: The Hero Who Failed. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1973. First Edition.Pp (10).1-190.Illustrated. Maps. 8vo, brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine . "Alexander Mackenzie, the first man known to have reached the Pacific coast overland north of Mexico, is almost a legendary figure. A bold, inspiring leader of men, he twice led small groups of voyageurs on dangerous expeditions into the North American wilderness. In 1789, searching for a trade route to the Pacific coast, he explored the river that now bears his name...
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América Latina y el Derecho del Mar.

By: VARGAS CARREÑO, E.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 1973, ISBN:9685801495

Seller ID: 103543

VARGAS CARREÑO, E. América Latina y el Derecho del Mar. México : Fondo de Cultura Económica (Sección de Obras de Política y Derecho), (1973). Pp. (6),7-167,(1). 8vo, illustrated green cardcovers. Papadakis and Glassner, International Law of the Sea and Marine Affairs: A Bibliography: Supplement 9763. Edmundo Vargas Carreño (b. April 22, 1937, Viña del Mar, Chile) Chilean jurist, politician and diplomat. Contents : 1. El debate en torno al Derechodel Mar. 2. Desarrollo de la posicio´n latinoamericana sobre Derecho del M ar. 3. Ame´rica Latina y el problema de la extensio´n del mar territorial. ...
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América Profunda 1992

By: MARTINEZ, Eniac, and Francisco Mata ROSAS

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico Ciudad de Mexico, 0, ISBN:9686524363

Seller ID: 95336

MARTINEZ, Eniac, and Francisco Mata ROSAS. América Profunda 1992. (Mexico) : Ciudad de Mexico, (1992). First Edition. Pp (108). Illustrated. Folio, black cloth, blindstamped to front board. A collection of portrait photographs of Mexico's indigenous people on the 500th anniversary of the “discovery”of the New World by Christopher Columbus. ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGES WILL BE REQUIRED DUE TO ITS WEIGHT. Edges faded, else very good in edgeworn and torn dustjacket. 75.00
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Anthropological Pespectives on Rural Mexico. First Edition in dustjacket

By: HEWITT DE ALCANTARA, Cynthia

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1984, ISBN:0710099231

Seller ID: 106862

HEWITT DE ALCANTARA, Cynthia. Anthropological Pespectives on Rural Mexico. London, Boston, Melbourne and Henley : Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1984). First Edition. Pp (8),[ix]-xiv,[1]-224,(2),[1]-15,(1). Index. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. "Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara examines me?social and political forces surrounding the practice of anthropology at ditterent periods in the history of Mexico since 1917. She does this by analysing and tracing the development of competing anthropological perspectives, from ethnographic particularism and tunctionalism through indigenismo, cultural ...
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Anza Conquers the Desert : The Anza Expeditions from Mexico to California and the Founding of San Francisc 1774 to 1776. in dj

By: ANZA, Juan Bautista de]. POURADE, Richard F. POURADE, Richard F.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Copley Press, 1971, ISBN:0378028510 : 1971

Seller ID: 64804

ISBN-13: 9780378028516

[ANZA, Juan Bautista de]. POURADE, Richard F. Anza Conquers the Desert : The Anza Expeditions from Mexico to California and the Founding of San Francisco 1774 to 1776. San Diego : The Copley Press, (1971). First Edition. Pp. (6),vii-viii,(2),3-216. Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo, rose cloth with small pictoral onlay to front, gilt lettering to front and spine. With map end-papers. Richard (Frederick?) Pourade (b. ca 1909, Mexico), historian, editor emeritus of The San Diego Union. Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto (b. July 6/7, 1736, Fronteras, Sonora, Mexico - d. December 19, 1788, A...
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Archaeological Reconnaissance into Mexico in the year 1881. 2nd ed.

By: BANDELIER, Adolph Francis

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Cupples and Hurd, Publishers; The Algonquin Press, Boston, 1885,

Seller ID: 73514

BANDELIER, A(dolph) F(rancis). An Archaeological Reconnaissance into Mexicoin the year 1881 . With many illustrations. Boston: Cupples and Hurd, Publ ishers; The Algonquin Press, [n.d. - mid-1880s?]. Second Edition. Pp. (4),[i]-x,[1]-326,(26) of ads at rear, frontis., + 25 p. of plates (1 of which is folding). Includes many textual illustrations. 8vo, red pebbled cloth with bevelled edges, gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g. An account of the Swiss-born American archaeologist's excurision into Mexico in the early part of the 1880s, beginning at the mouth of the Rio Grande near the city of Tampico,...
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Archaeology of Colonial Encounters : Comparative Perspectives. First Edition, paperback

By: STEIN, Gil J. (ed.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: School of American Resraech Press / James Currey, Santa Fe / Oxford, 2005, ISBN:1930618441

Seller ID: 113611

STEIN, Gil J. (ed.). Archaeology of Colonial Encounters : Comparative Perspectives.. Santa Fe : School of American Resraech Press / Oxford : James Currey, (2005). First Editon. Pp (8),ix-xii,(2),3-445,(7). Maps. Index. 8vo, illustrated white card covers, letteed in blue, black and white. "Colonialism and its legacies have emerged as one of the most important research topics in anthropology. Indeed, we now understand that colonialism gave rise to and shaped the discipline. However, the understanding of colonization in anthropology, history, and other fields derives largely from studies of E...
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Archaeology of Contact in Settler Societies. First Edition, Paperback

By: MURRAY, Tim, (ed.) KLIMKO, Olga DELGADO, James P. ACHESON, Steven

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press,, Cambridge , 2004, ISBN:0521796822

Seller ID: 114947

HUNTER, John, and Ian RALSTON, (eds.). The Archaeology of Britain : An Introduction from Earliest Times to the Twenty-first Century. Second Edition. (Cambridge) : Cambridge University Press, (2004). Pp (4),v-xviii,1-454,(8). Some illustrations, diagrams, tables in the text. Maps. 8vo, photo-illustrated black & yellow cardcovers, lettered in white, black spine, yellow and white lettering to spine.. "Several decades of research into the archaeologyof contact in North America have laid the foundations for the global explo ration of the archaeology of European colonization. It is significant, ...
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Art and Life in Ancient Mexico. in dj

By: BURLAND, C.A. HOUSTON, James, from library of

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Bruno Cassirer, Oxford , 1948,

Seller ID: 28229

BURLAND, C.A. Art and :ife in Ancient Mexico. With 47 Halftone Illustrations and many Line drawings. Oxford : Bruno Cassirer, (1948). Pp 112. Illustrated. Lg 8vo, rust cloth spine, illustrated grey boards. Name, else vg in worn and chipped dj. From the library of James Houston. 40.00
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Artes de Mexico. no. 81/82, 1966, bound.

By: Mexican Art] OBREGON, Gonzalo. CASTRO, Efrain. VILLASENOR, Francisco.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Artes de Mexico, 1966,

Seller ID: 39321

[Mexican Art]. Artes de Mexico Numero 81/82, Año 1966, 2a. Epoca. Tercera Edicion. Mexico: Artes de Mexico, 1966. Pp 176, plates. 4to, ill. card covers bound in pressed cloth. English text. Vg. 65.00
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Artist of Isleta Paintings in Pueblo Society

By: GOLDFRANK, Esther S. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology No. 5 LENTE, Joe B.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Smithsonian Press, 1967,

Seller ID: 57535

GOLDFRANK, Esther S. The Artist of "Isleta Paintings in Pueblo Society". Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology Number 5. Washington: Smithsonian Press, 1967. Pp. 227, including nearly 200 pp. of facsimile pages of the letters of the artist, Joe B. Lente. Double column. 4to, blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Owner's name inked to front paste-down, else vg. 25.00
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Avifauna of the Sierra Del Carmen of Coahuila, Mexico.

By: MILLER, Alden H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: 1955,

Seller ID: 80564

MILLER, Alden H. The Avifauna of the Sierra Del Carmen of Coahuila, Mexico.Reprinted from The Condor, Volume 57, May-June, 1955, Number 3, pp. (1),15 4-178,(2). Illustrated. Large 8vo, yellow stapled card covers. Waterstain throughout to bottom corner at spine (not affecting text), pencilled notes and underlining, else good. 15.00
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Aztec Arrangement : The Social History of Pre-Spanish Mexico. First Editionin dustjacket.

By: VAN ZANTWIJK, Rudolph. LEON-PORTILLA, Miguel, foreword. Civilization of the American Indian seres, 167.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1985, ISBN:0806116773

Seller ID: 114666

VAN ZANTWIJK, Rudolph. The Aztec Arrangement : The Social History of Pre-Spanish Mexico. Foreword by Miguel Leon-Portilla. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, (1985). First Printing. Pp. (6),vii-xxv,(3),3-345,(5). Illustrated, with maps. 8vo, green cloth with gilt lettered black title block to spine, in full green jacket. Civilization of the American Indian series, number 167. "In a major departure from the usual approaches to pre-Conquest Aztec culture, Rudolph van Zantwijk offers here a new interpretation of the origins and development of Aztec society. The Aztecs are usually viewed a...
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Barragan : The Complete Works. Revised Edition, First Printing in dustjacket.

By: WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd). BARRAGAN, Luis TOCA, Antonio SIZA, Alvaro

Price: $190.00

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2003, ISBN:1568983220

Seller ID: 105051

RISPA, Paul, (ed.). Barragan : The Complete Works. (New York) : Princeton Architectural Press, (2003). First Printing. Pp [1]-232. Illustrated. 4to, illustrated white paper covered boards, blue and grey lettering to spine. “Mexican architect Luis Barragan (1902-88) was one of the twentieth century'smost creative designers and one of its best-known architects. Winner of, a mong other awards, the Pritzker Prize in 1980 and the Premo America in 1987, he achieved international renown for his remarkable personal artistic vision. This revised edition of Barragan : The Complete Works covers his compl...
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Beothucks and Other Primitive Peoples of Newfoundland : A Review

By: WHITBY, Barbara Anthropological Journal of Canada, 5:4) LEE, Thomas E., ed. RUSSELL, George E.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Anthropological Association of Canada, Ottawa, 1967,

Seller ID: 77404

WHITBY, Barbara. "The Beothucks and Other Primitive Peoples of Newfoundland: A Review" . An article in the Anthropological Journal of Canada : Quarte rly Bulletin of the Anthropological Association of Canada, volume 5, number4, 1967, pp. 2-19. Journal edited by Thomas E. Lee. Ottawa: Anthropologica l Association of Canada, 1967. Pp. [1]-32. Illustrated. 8vo, illustrated stapled cream card covers. Also includes: Robert Heine-Geldern's "A Roman Find From Pre-Columbian Mexico"; George E. Russell's "Projectile Point Sequences in the Southeast"; M.D.W. Jeffreys's "Funera...
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Best Canadian Stories 88

By: HELWIG, David and Maggie HELWIG, eds. SHIELDS, Carol MISTRY, Rohinton FINDLEY, Timothy

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Oberon Press, 1988, ISBN:0887507255

Seller ID: 96766

HELWIG, David and Maggie HELWIG, eds. Best Canadian Stories 88 . Edited by David Helwig & Maggie Helwig. [N.pl.]: (Oberon Press, 1988). Pp. (6),7-214,(2). 8vo, illustrated white card covers. "If the short story is alive and well in Canada today that could be because the Oberon annual, now in its eighteenth year, has provided a home for the growing number of writers who seein the story an appropriate form for this particular time and place. Once again we have the work of some relative newcomers (Genni Gunn, Susan Swan) as well as that of some old hands (Jane Rule, Joyce Marshall).And Timoth...
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