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136 pages with photographs, figures and bibliography. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial wrappers. First edition. They stand on a hilltop in the mountains of Minas Gerais in Brazil twelve dramatic figures, twelve Old Testament prophets soundlessly crying their warnings to mankind. There they have stood for over two centuries, masterpieces by that strange, unhappy sculptor, Antonio Francisco Lisboa or, as he is better known, Aleijadinho, "The Little Cripple." Condition: Jacket corners, spine ends and edges chipped with closed tears and small loss to spine ends and edges, price clipped quarter inch chip to back head edge else very good in like jacket.

v+448 pages with maps, photographs and appendices. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's beige clot with gilt lettering to spine in original publisher's pictorial jacket. First edition. Between 1892 and 1894, 258 monuments were erected and photographed along the Mexican border between El Paso and the Pacific Ocean. Their original purpose was to serve as unalterable evidence in the boundary and rights-of-acess disputes that periodically arose between the United States and Mexico, but Professor Humphrey has found a contemporary application for this border survey project. By comparing the original photographs with his own repeat photographs of the monuments made approximately ninety years later, he has been able to determine the kinds of and amount of vegetation changes that have occurred over this relatively long period. Condition: Corners bumped. Jacket spine sunned, points rubbed else a very good to fine copy in like jacket.

147 pages with index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's yellow cloth with black lettering to spine. Reissue of the 1924 printing. Mary Drew (née Gladstone; 23 November 1847–1 January 1927), was a political secretary, writer and hostess. She was the daughter of the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, and achieved notability as his adviser, confidante and private secretary. She also attained a fair degree of political influence by controlling access to him. Condition: Previous owner's name on front pasted down, light soiling else a very good copy.

xii+259 pages with maps, drawings, illustrations, plates, diagrams, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial wrapper. Second edition. The Italian and Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic present an unrivaled mixture of jewel-like islands and fascinating, historic towns, with Venice the pearl oat its head. At a time when it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to cruise far afield, this area is steadily increasing in attraction. Condition: Underlining through out. Jacket with closed tears to head edges else very good in like jacket.

v+199 pages with bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine and cover. First edition. This work examines both predominately black newspapers in general and four in particular--the Chicago Defender, the Pittsburgh Courier, the Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City), and the Jackson (Mississippi) Advocate--and their coverage of national events. The beginnings of the black press are detailed, focusing on how they reported the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. Their coverage of the migration of blacks to the industrial north in the early twentieth century and World War I are next examined, followed by the black press response to World War II and the civil rights movement. The survival techniques used by the editors, how some editors reacted when faced with threats of physical harm, and how the individual editorial policies affected the different newspapers are fully explored. Condition: Fine.

166 pages with plates, maps, facsimiles, bibliographies and index. Octavo (9" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Second edition limited to 500 copies. This covers a portion of Mexican society, whose ancestors arrived in limited partnership and developed control of the black market. These successors from Africa through inter marriage left a deep imprint on the lineage and culture of the Mexican West. Condition: Points bumped else a near fine copy.

xv+236 pages with map, photographs, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. The henequen plantations of Mexico's Yucatan are large agroindustrial estates producing twine for the United State Market. In 1910 on the eve of the Mexican Resolution, Yucatan was one of the wealthiest states in Mexico. By 1970 it had become the poorest state in the Mexican union, characterized as rich n population growth and poor in capital and technical resources. The intervening years had witnessed the social experiments initiated during the Mexican Revolution. Mexico's federal government by 1970 exercised almost total control over the henequen industry. Brannon and Baklanoff analyze the development and performance of Yucatan's henequen industry after the implementing of land tenure reforms. Condition: Corners gently bumped. Jacket corners lightly chipped and rubbed; spine ends rubbed else very good to fine in… Read More

555-570 pages with chart and tables. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXIII, Number 4 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Reflection on the Asian Scene by J K Galbraith; The Humanistic Disciplines: Will Sinology Do? by Joseph R Levenson; Chinese History and the Historical Vocation by Mary C Wright; What the Study of China Can Do for Social Science by G William Skinner; What Social Science Can do for Chinese Studies by Maurice Freedman; The Case for the Integrity of Sinology by Frederick W Mote; Discussant Remarks by Rhoades Murphey; The Fetish of the "Disciplines" by Benjamin Schwartz; Zaibatsu, Prewar and Zaibatsu, Postwar by Kozo Yamamura; Area Planning in Rajasthan by David C Potter; A Note on Historical Periodicals of Twentieth-Century China by Pin-Kuen Yu; Note: Reflections on Chinese Language Study by Federick W Mote. Condition: Edge wear, comers and spine ends bumped else very good.

503-536 pages with photographs. Quarto (10" x &")Bound in original publisher's wrappers. The National Geographic Magazine, Volume LXXXII, number 4 whole issue. First edition. A National Geographic reporter spots, vast resources which the Republic's war declaration adds to strength of United Nations. The article was published two months after Brazil had broken diplomatic relations with the Axis powers and officially declared war on Germany and Italy, on August 22, 1942. Brazil was particularly import to the United States in 1942 on two accounts; her rich deposits of natural resources and the military and strategic significance of her protruding southeastern coastline, which was considered vulnerable to Nazi military attack. Condition: Lacking spin, front wrapper detached and lacking back wrapper, lightly soiled. Whole issue Volume LXXXII, number 4 and lacks the map of South America else very good.

[2 ad]+440+[12 ad] pages with frontispiece portrait. Duodecimo (6 /4" x 4 1/2") bound in leather. First edition. Condition: Re-bound, damp stained, foxing else about very good.

University of Chicago Press 1971 Chicago, 1971 Vg/VG+ 1st HB 8vo xii,239 DW corners, hinges and spi8ne ends lightly rubbed, lightly soiled.. Hardcover.

ix+207 pages with frontispiece map, illustrations and index. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to sine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Few characters in American past furnish the biographical material offered by John Smith. He was an Elizabethan adventurer whose career spanned tow hemispheres and whose role in the creation of the English colonies in New World can justly be called central. One cannot treat the early history of Virginia or New England without attention to Smith's activities. But Smith was more than a maker of history. He was also a maker of historical sources, and historians have been his captives ever since. Surely his reputation must test on his extraordinary talent as a formulator of the historical past. Some had doubted the Smith version of early colonial history, just as some contemporaries opposed his policies in Virginia. But since the formidable defense of Smith's truthfulness presented by Philip Barbour the issue has… Read More

ix+279+7 foldout tables with additional table of which two are fold out. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") bound half black blue leather with gilt lettering to spine and blue cloth boards. From the library of George M Foster. First edition.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America, and worldview. The quantity, quality, and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the… Read More

Child and Peterson 1856 Philadelphia, 1856 Better than good 1st Hardbound Tall 8vo 2 Volumes Hinges cracked, spine ends chipped, corners bumped and rubbed through, previous owner's anme on front end paper.. Hardcover.

2 parts in slipcase. 21 pages; folding map, 60 plans (some folding). Folio (13" x 9 1/2") housed in a fold slipcase. First edition.The Historic Centre of Morelia is located in central Mexico, at the foot of the Sierra Madre Occidental and near the agricultural valley of Morelia-Querendaro. Built in the 16th century according to a "checkerboard" layout, Morelia is an outstanding example of urban development combining town planning theories of Spain and the Mesoamerican experience. Well suited to the slopes of the central hill of the valley, its streets follow the original layout. The city has major axes, numerous urban squares, of which the vast rectangular Zocalo Plaza, and gardens that create an open, airy ensemble with magnificent vistas of the surrounding hills.The central part of the Historic Centre of Morelia includes 249 monuments of prime importance, of which 21 churches and 20 civil constructions, which crystallize the architectural history of the city. The sobriety of the urban townscape is… Read More

xiii+402 pages with plates, maps, appendix, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's sea-green cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Pal Kelemen writes with the freshness and enthusiasm of first-hand experience, emphasizing the aesthetic qualities of his examples. This volume--featureinh 338 striking photographs many hitherto unpublished--covers newly discovered archaeological sites and less familiar colonial works. The general reader, as well as student of archaeology, art, history and sociology, will welcome this definitive new work by the distinguished art historian. Condition: Light rubbing to spine ends. Jacket price clipped, spine head rubbed, head hinges chipped else a very good copy in like jacket.

512 pages with frontispiece, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. From the library of Professor Donald E Worcester. First edition. This volume discloses no important new factors in the situation which led up to the Mexican movement for independence, but provides abundant and hitherto unused document to attest the existence factors that have already recognized. Donald E. Worcester (1915-2003) was an American historian who specialized in Southwestern United States and Latin American history. He was president of the Western History Association from 1974-1975. Worcester graduated from Bard College in 1939. He received an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1941. He then served in the US Naval Reserve in World War II. He received a PhD. from Berkeley in 1947. From 1947 until 1963 he was a professor at the University of Florida. He then was a professor at Texas Christian University and history… Read More

cliii+400+[i] pages with frontispiece, plates, tables, appendices, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering and insignia to spine. Publications of the Champlain Society Toronto Series Volume XII (13). First edition limited to 1300 copies of which this is number 815.The Bank of Upper Canada played a major role in government financial affairs. Its relations with other banks and its British financial agents reveal the interconnectedness of the 19th century financial world. This book takes a look at a financial institution during the profound transition from a commercial to an industrial era.Condition: Unread with pages uncut else near fine.

2 volumes. x+682+[6 subscribers] pages with frontispiece, map, plates, tables and appendices. 1136 pages with plates, tables and index. Quarto (11 3/4" x 8 1/2") bound in quarter leather over brown cloth with five raised spine bands decorated in gilt with red label in gilt lettering. First edition. Barcelona was founded by the Romans who set up a colony called Barcino at the end of the 1st century BC. The colony had some thousand inhabitants and was bounded by a defensive wall, the remains of which can still be seen in the old town. For over 200 years, Barcelona was under Muslim rule, and, following the Christian reconquest, it became a county of the Carolingian Empire and one of the main residences of the court of the Crown of Aragon. The fruitful medieval period established Barcelona's position as the economic and political center of the Western Mediterranean. The city's Gothic Quarter bears witness to the splendor enjoyed by the city from the 13th to the 15th centuries. From the 15th to 18th… Read More

155-184 pages. Quarto (10" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Asian Studies Volume XXIII, Number 2 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Some Fundamental Issues in the History of Chinese Painting by Max Loehr; Aspects of the Power of Darkness in Lu Hsun by T A Hsia; Japanese Writers and the Great East Asia War by Donald Keene; Wrongful Treatment of Prisoners: A Case Study of Ch'ing Legal Practice by Judy Feldman Harrison; Unity and Diversity of Russian and Chinese Industrial Wage Policies by Peter Schran; Muslim Legislators in India: Profile of a Minority Elite by Theodore P Wright, Jr. Condition: Spine heal bumped, chipped and split, edge wear, corners bumped and creased else very good.