South-America from D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)

Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, [1995]. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. pp. xv, [1], 415, [1]. text maps & illus. biblio. index. wrs. dola2735

London: Printed for Jonah Bowyer, 1717. First Edition of the English Translation. The author, a French military engineer, was sent to South America to inspect and construct Spanish fortifications for defence against English and Dutch attacks. He was instructed by the French government to chart the Pacific coast of South America for possible French military use at a… Read more about this item

London: Printed For Richard Phillips, By J.G.Barnard, 1807. Abridged Edition of the English Translation, issued without a map. The author, formerly chief assayer of the mines and mint at Cracow in Poland, was appointed director of mines and metallurgy in Peru. Sabin 31265. 8vo. pp. viii, [9]-92. modern wrs. elala5901

London: Chapman And Hall, Ltd., 1912. First Edition. Chapters on Caraios or Caraïbes, Brazilian coastal tribes, Tapuyas, south-western Amazonia, lowland Amazonia, eastern slopes of the Andes, Chiriguanos, tribes of the Gran Chacu, Abipones and southern tribes. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 314, [1]. frontis. portrait & folding coloured map. index. original cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed (spot on upper cover, bit rubbed,… Read more about this item

London: Richard Bentley And Son, 1871. First Edition of the English Translation by Charles S.Cheltnam. 8vo. pp. x, 375. lithographed frontis. map. title in red & black. contemporary half morocco (rubbed, several library stamps, bookplate & name on lower spine, title cut down & tipped in & with small hole in blank portion)

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907. First American Edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 379. folding colour map, frontis. portrait & 60 other illus. on 57 plates (4 colour). original gilt-stamped cloth (recased, several library blindstamps, rubberstamp on title, label on rear paste-down, some discolouration to spine & lower front joint, occasional light foxing)

London: Henry G.Bohn, 1852. cfSabin 33744. 3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xxii, 505, [1]; vi, 521, [1]; vi, 442. lacking half-title in Vol. I? untrimmed in original blind-stamped cloth (some chipping to joints & extremities, occasional foxing & browning, several gatherings sprung in Vol. III)

New York: The Century Co., 1923. 8vo. pp. xxi, 612. folding colour map & 96 plates (3 folding). library buckram (ex-lib., repairs to map folds)

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873. First Edition. In 1870 the British diplomat and physician was appointed Consul at Calláo, arriving in April of 1871. Most of his work in Peru was concerned with shipping, in particular with the problems of crimping by ship captains. The present work describes his travels throughout the country (Cuzco, Arequipa, Chincha… Read more about this item

London: Argonaut Press, 1928. Limited to 975 numbered copies on Japon Vellum. “This is the best critical edition of the classic account of El Dorado, the lost empire of the Incas, and Raleigh’s attempt to find it. The introduction [by Harlow] deals with the Elizabethan period in England and is of interest in a study of that era. This… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. First Edition. The author was a member of the 1849 U.S. astronomical expedition to Chile commanded by Lt. James M.Gillis. In 1853 Smith resigned and set out from Concepción on the tour of central and southern Chile described in the present work, which also includes detailed observations on the manners, customs, and condition… Read more about this item

8vo. pp. 120, [4]index. folding engraved map (frontis.). modern bds. (foxing to map & a few leaves). Second Edition, abridged from the first of 1807.An historical and descriptive account of the English colonies of Berbice, Demerara and Essequibo, later called British Guiana, which had been annexed from the Dutch in 1803.Bolingbroke, who was a deputy vendue master at Surinam, was… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1914. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 304 + 31(ads). with half-title. 21 illus. map on front endleaves. original cloth (front joint & corners bit frayed, stain on upper cover, short marginal tear to 1 plate)

London: Edward Stanford, 1865. First Edition. Including chapters on Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, San Pedro, Rosario, Paraná, Esperanza, the Salado Valley, the Chaco, Cordova, Santiago, Tucuman, the Argentine republic and its constitution, cotton cultivation, sheep farming, emigration to Argentina, sale and rent of land, the Chaco Indians, &c. The author was the British consul in Rosario in the province… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann (R. Thienemann’s Verlag), [c1870]. 12mo. pp. 1 p.l., 178. 4 lithographs by Gustave Bartsch, printed in colour & finished by hand. later half cloth (worn & shaken, spine partly defective, some browning & soiling to margins, light foxing to frontis. & first few leaves)

Brussels: Société Des Beaux-Arts - Gérants: De Wasme Et Laurent, 1839., 1839. folio. pp. 2 p.l., 76. with half-title. text in double columns. 100 illus. on 50 lithographed plates (incl. additional title). contemporary half chagrin, gilt back (rubbed, some foxing throughout). laid in 8vo. 10-leaf list of plates in wrs. First Edition. Benoit describes Surinam's history, geography, population, commerce, diseases,… Read more about this item

Paris: Hachette Et Cie., 1893., 1893. large 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., iii, 614, [1 leaf]. 98 text illus. (18 full-page, incl. frontis. portrait). lacking the folding map. contemporary half morocco, top edge gilt, others untrimmed (rubbed, corners worn, small rubberstamp on title partly erased). First Edition.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

[Madrid]: En La Imprinta Real, 1674., 1674. 8vo. ff. [10], 139 [ie. 137], [1]. text in double columns. lacking frontis. portrait. later marbled calf (closely cropped with some running titles, catchwords, foliation or signature marks shaved, short split in upper front joint, small wormhole in blank portion of title (with old repair) & in second leaf, tear in P1 repaired… Read more about this item

London: Printed For The Hakluyt Society [Second Series: No. 60], 1928., 1928. 8vo. pp. xii, 191, [1]. with half-title. 3 folding maps. largely unopened in original blind & gilt-stamped cloth. dw. (dw. little chipped at edges). Cox II 256. Howgego H23. National Maritime Museum I 299.. Hardcover.

Paris: Maradan, [1800]., 1800. 8vo. pp. 269, [25] + 11(ads). with half-title. Uncut & unopened in original wrs., rebacked in paper preserving original printed spine label (spine chipped). First Edition. A description of the colony for political exiles at Cayenne in French Guiana and account of the author's own banishment there as a royalist in 1798 and subsequent escape. Included… Read more about this item