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NEW ~ Mexican legal dictionary in 4 volumes. In some senses more of an encyclopedia--each entry is numerous paragraphs long and includes information such as etymology of the term or concept, its origin and historical usage, as well as examples of contemporary applications and legal interpretations. A brief bibliography follows each entry. A total of 3,272pp. A recommended reference for legal scholars as well as historians, journalists, politicians, diplomats, etc. Examples: "Conciliacion," "Dignidad de la personal humana," "Enfiteusis," "Poder ejecutivo," "Territorio bajo tutela," "Razon de Estado." En espanol / Spanish. 9684522347 In stock. Usually ships in three days. Heavy weight and multiple volumes will necessitate increased international shipping charges.

NEW ~ Three scholarly collections of important prehispanic sixteenth-century documents (codices) relating to the indigenous and colonial history of Mexico and Guatemala in three volumes. Introductory essays, transcriptions, and facsimile photographs in color with descriptions. Bibliographies. Indices. Vol I, 307pp. with color photographs; Vol II consists of 515pp. text and separate book with the color facsimile of the Codice Mendoza (Bodleiana de Oxford) edited by Jose Ignacion Echeagaray 114pp.; Vol III, 286pp. En espanol / Spanish. Volumes are unused; some shelf wear. Vol. I cover worn with vertical creases, other Vols in fine condition. Very hard to find. No ISBN. Imported. In stock. Usually ships in three days. Weight and multiple volumes will necessitate additional shipping charges.

NEW ~ Blacks in the formation of Peruvian popular music in a small 119pp. booklet with accompanying CD by Susana Baca, all in a folding artesanal burlap cover. Published for the 1492-1992 Quinto Centenario. Released by the Biblioteca Nacional, Lima, Peru. In original sealed plastic and stamped by the Biblioteca, number 162. En espanol / Spanish. Rare! In stock. Second photograph shows interior of a different copy. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Boxed set of 110 booklets on the history of Mexico for young readers, with 440 illustrations designed by the remarkable Jose Guadalupe Posada. Edicion facsimilar. Originally published between 1899-1901. Includes an Estudio Introductorio by Helia Emma Bonilla Reyna and Marie Lecouvey. "Los 110 pequenos fasciculos que constituyen la serie Biblioteca del Nino Mexicano narran de forma panoramica, apasionada, novelesca y aun fantasiosa la historia del pais." Published on the occasion of the Centenario Luctuoso 1913-2013, 100 Anos Posada. En espanol / Spanish. Brand new. Purchased directly from the publisher. Hard to find! In stock. Usually ships in three days.

Legends of the Indigenous Ona of Tierra del Fuego researched by Chiloe native Nicasio Tangol -- anthropologist and poet. 125pp. Map. Photographs accompany this mythology of the tall hunting and fishing Ona. En espanol / Spanish. We acquired the book from FCE for Alla inventory. The book is unused, but the paper has yellowed significantly, cover rubbed, bend to back upper corner & erasure on front end paper. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Boxed set: Anthology of Spanish-language visual poems by literary figures in colonial New Spain printed individually on seventeen folded-page inserts (approx. 12.5 x 9.5"), accompanied by 83pp. book with prologo y notas by Jorge Gutierrez Reyna (approx. 6 x 4.5"), both set in a maroon and tan clam-shell box (with ribbons). A jewel for any aficionado of visual poetry. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Hardcover English edition. Beautifully illustrated essays analyzing Indigenous and European views of the natural world, centering on Francisco Hernandez' sixteenth-century expedition to New Spain. Period illustrations from sources such as The Herbarium, Florentine Codex, Cruz-Badiano Codex, and other such manuscripts. 255pp. Quality production. Color illustrations throughout, printed on textured paper. Brand new, removed from plastic to access publication information. Minor dents to dust jacket. In stock. Usually ships in three days. Heavy volume will incur additional international shipping charges.

NEW ~ Richly-illustrated, high-quality publications in Spanish documenting the traveling art exhibition "Great Masters of Iberoamerican Folk Art: The Fomento Cultural Banamex Collection." The collection includes some 450 artisans from 22 countries in Latin America--representing cultural expressions in ceramics, textiles, metals, and other materials, of the highest aesthetic and technical standards, produced within diverse social contexts. A three-volume set plus the Directorio de artesanos. Each of the three large tomos are hardcover with sewn binding in a slip cover box. The Directorio de artesanos is a separate hard cover book. ISBN: tomo I, 9786077612568; tomo II, 9786077612605; tomo III, 9786077612902. OCLC 934189293. New oversize volumes in publisher's original plastic wrap. En espanol / Spanish text. Gorgeous reference work for museum and university libraries. In stock. Usually ships in three days. Weighs ~30 lbs. (roughly 7" linear shelf space), which will incur additional international shipping charge…Read more

NEW ~ Trilingual Spanish-English-Japonese tribute to the great Mexican graphic artist Jose Guadalupe Posada. Color images throughout on antique-color paper recalling the late-nineteenth, early-twentieth century heyday of Posada's broadside images and prolific production for publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. 282 pp. Chronology. Indices. Bibliography. CONACULTA ISBN: 9786075161938. Brand new book purchased from the publisher in Mexico. Weight and size may incur additional international shipping charges. In stock. Usually ships in 3 days.

NEW ~ A six-volume collection covering the portrayal of Mexico in twentieth-century international film by Emilio Garcia Riera, a prolific scholar of Mexican cinema. Vol. I 1894-1940, 288 pp, 1987; Vol. II 1906-1940 Filmografia, 216 pp, 1987; Vol. 3 1941-1969, 238 pp, 1988; Vol. 4 1941-1969 Filmografia, 252 pp, 1988; Vol. 5 1970-1988, 190 pp, 1990; Vol. 6 1970-1988 Filmografia, 223 pp, 1990. Illustrations. Purchased in Mexico from the publisher as a set in 1991. Minor shelf wear: covers slightly rubbed. Weight may incur additional shipping charges. In stock. Usually ships in 3 days.

NEW ~ Museum catalogue from exhibit at the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares in Coyoacan, Mexico, documenting nineteenth-century industries in Mexico. Eleven essays cover mining, manufacturing, transportation, and the like, with accompanying photographs and bibliographies. Introduction by Victoria Novelo. The essays cover the historical background of each topic -- glass, textile, and paper factories, mining, railroads, electricity, iron works, sugar mills, and more; poignant black-and-white photographs by Adrian Bodek Stavenhagen, Carlos Contreras de Oteyza, Agustin Estada de Pavia, and David Maawad Velazquez document abandoned machinery, ruined and overgrown factories. 274pp. Ilus. Minor shelf wear, scuffed cover. In stock. Usually ships within three days.

NEW ~ Harcover, large-format, beautifully-illustrated catalogue of the Palacio de Cultural Banamex exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of this Mexican Modernist's birth. Essays in Spanish with images from the exhibit. Bibliography. Ils. Col. 245 p. Edition of 3000 / 3000 ejemplares. 4.5 lbs. will incur additional international shipping charges.

NEW ~ A richly-illustrated history of nineteenth-century Cuban lithography--technology, individual lithographers, and the subject matter of the images, from maps to costumbrismo to political commentary to cigar box labels. Prologo: Eliseo Diego. 217 p. Il. map. fot. Minor shelf wear."La historia de la litografia en la Cuba colonial, sus iniciales balbuceos y su posterior articulacion al acontecer economico, politico y cultura de la isla, son abordados con amena minuciosidad en el presente volumen, que rinde tributo a quienes plasmaron en las piedras litograficas un capitulo imprescindible de la memoria de la nacion." Publicaciones de la Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana.

NEW ~ 2 Vols. Hardcover with dust jackets. Vol. I, Kuntursuyo: 2a edicion, 354 pp; Vol. II, Uturunkusuyo: 1a edicion, 361 pp. Articulos publicados originalmente en el diario El Comercio, de Lima. The essays in these hefty volumes cover both major national parks and lesser-known sacred sites of ecological conservation in Peru in all geographical regions--coastal, Andean, and Amazonian. En espanol / Spanish. Brand new--removed from original plastic to access publishing information. Weight over 8 lbs may result in additional shipping charges.

NEW ~ Premio Nezahualcoyotl de Literatura en Lengas Indigenas 2000. Cuentos Raramuri oseriwara (Escritos raramuri). Bilingual Raramuri - Espanol. Edition of 1000. 190 pp.

NEW ~ 644pp. Brief preface by Zacarias Marquez Terrazas, Departamento de Investigacion Historica de la Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua, 2010. David Brambila, S.J. colaboracion de Jose Vergara Bianchi, S.F. Preface to first ed. Norogachi, 1953. Eighty chapters with an appendix.

NEW ~ Uncut pages. Transcription and facsimile. Introduction with a biographical sketch of Fray Gabriel de Vergara by Lino Gomez Canedo, Academy of American Franciscan History. Apendice: Material linguistico del Confesionario de Indios que no figura en el Manual del Padre Garcia. (Fray Gabriel de Vergara wrote the "Cuadernillo" at la Mision de la Purisima Concepcion del Rio de San Antonio (Tejas [Texas]) in 1732.) Publicaciones del Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. Serie: Historia 3. Materiales para la Etnohistoria del Noroeste de Mexico 1. Edition of 500 / Tiraje de 500 ejemplares. Minor shelf wear. 86 pp.

NEW ~ 307 pp. Illus. Over a century of Mexican film posters from the late nineteenth-century to the early twenty-first. Presentacion: Carlos Bonfil. Eight essays: "Los primeros anos de la promocion filmica," Federico Davalos Orozco; "Historias de la cartelistica de la Epoca de Oro," Francisco Peredo; "La obra de los artistas espanoles para el cine mexicano," Rogelio Agrasanchez jr.; "Cuando Cabral es la estrella de la pelicula," Rafael Barajas Duran El Fisgon; y mucho mas! 1000 ejemplares / edition of 1000. 2.5 lbs.

NEW ~ Near Fine. First three hefty volumes of five--an anthology of Peruvian theatrical works. Vol. I, 581 pp. #504; Vol. II, 581 pp. #349; Vol III in plastic wrap. SPANISH / ESPANOL 7 lbs. Weight may result in additional shipping charges.

NEW ~ Cayapa language in Ecuador. First edition in two volumes: 254 pp.; 302 pp. Near Fine. Alla stamp on front endpaper. No ISBN. En espanol. 3.5 lbs. Weight may result in an increase to international shipping charges.

NEW ~ Fine. 711 pp. Hard to find! 2.5 lbs. In stock. Imported by Alla. Usually ships within three days.

NEW ~ Fine. Two volumes in excellent condition. Vol. 1, 495 pp.; Vol. 2, 428 pp. Illus. Maps, plans, color photographs, drawings, charts. No ISBN. 1500 ejemplares / edition of 1500. SPANISH / ESPANOL Twenty-three scholars present the results of their archaeological investigations of Moche sites in Peru. Each essay is accompanied by an extensive bibliography. Rare.

NEW ~ Spectacular Baroque religious architecture in Guanajuato, Mexico. Dust jacket shelf worn. 483 pp. Illustrations. "Guia para el lector" insert with floor plan and erratas. 2000 ejemplares. En espanol.

NEW ~ Remarkably hard-to-find book given the worldwide significance of this modern architect. Architectural projects by Jose Luis Ezquerra de la Colina, well known for Las Hadas in Manzanillo, Mexico; Amphitrite Palace Hotel in Skhirat, Morocco; and Kea Lani Hotel in Maui, Hawaii. 231 pp. Illus. Color photographs, architectural drawings. Dust jacket very minor chipping at spine. In English.