South & Central America

Anderson, Isabel. Circling South America. Boston: Marshall Jones, 1928. 214 pages. Photographs. Circling South America from New York on the R.M.S. Laconia, the tourist-author account includes descriptions of traveling through the Panama Canal and the Straits of Magellan. Very good hardcover in soiled dust jacket. #10077. $7.50
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Black, Harman. The Real 'Round South America. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1924. 244 pages. Photographs. Frontispiece. Travel and description in Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador. Decorated buckram. Very good, spine sunned. #10328. $12.50
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Dell, Anthony. Llama Land, East and West of The Andes in Peru. With illustrations from photographs by the author. New York: Doran, 1927. 1st printing. 4to (large book). 248 pages. Photographs. Frontispiece. Front endpaper map. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. #10943. $25
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Martin, Percy F. Peru of The Twentieth Century. London: Arnold, 1911. 348 pages. Photographs. Map in rear pocket. Good hardcover. #13443. $30
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Mortimer, W. Golden. Peru -- History of Coca: 'The Divine Plant' of the Incas, with an Introductory Account of the Incas, and of the Andean Indians of To-Day. With One Hundred and Seventy-Eight Illustrations. New York: J. H. Vail & Co., 1901. xxxi, 576 pages. Index & Glossary. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographic reproductions. Frontispiece (from an aquarelle by Robida). 'Centuries before the introduction of cocaine to anaesthetic uses, the world had been amazed by accounts of the energy creating properties ascribed to a plant intimately associated with the rites and customs of the ancient Peruvians, and first made known through the chroniclers of Spanish conquest in America. The history of this plant, known as Coca, is the history of the Incan race and is entwined throughout the association of the vast socialistic Empire of those early people of Peru.' - Preface, ix. Maroon cloth with blind rules on front and rear covers. Top-edge gilt, gilt front cover medallion, and gilt spine title and designs. Some minor water stains on front cover. Top and bottom of backstrip slightly worn. Ink name inside front cover. Very good, tight volume. #20249. $400
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Starr, Frederick. In Indian Mexico: A Narrative of Travel and Labor. Chicago: Forbes & Company, 1908. Small 4to (medium-large book). xi, 425 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Frontispiece. 'An eminent anthropologist gives a first-hand, reliable picture of one part of Indian Mexico after another, until the reader begins to feel at home among all the peoples who are described. An outstanding work, depicting culture traits clearly.' - Emory Bogardus, 'The Mexican Immigrant: An Annotated Bibliography (Los Angeles: The Council on International Relations, 1929, p.1). Good hardcover, edges slightly worn. Former owner's name in ink and stamp on blank front flyleaf. Some photographs slightly torn, others have frayed and worn edges; tears in pp.173/74, 175/76, 329/30, and 339/40. #23860. $100
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Van Sinderen, Adrian. From the Canal to the Horn: The Story of South America. New York: Privately Printed, 1953. 1 of 650 copies. 141 pages. Photographs. Pictorial endpaper. Folding map laid in. The Printing-Office of the Yale University Press. Very good hardcover. #17017. $10
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Van Sinderen, Adrian. A Voyage through The Azure Seas. New York: Privately Printed, 1958. 1 of 750 copies. 170 pages. Photographs. Map in rear pocket. The Printing-Office of the Yale University Press. Designed by Carl Purington Rollins. Cloth-covered hardcover. Edges slightly worn. Dampstain on rear cover and in upper part of some of the rear pages. Else Good. #17020. $15
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Views of the Panama Canal. Views of the Panama Canal. Postal Card Mailer. No Place: No Publisher, 1913? This is a postal mailer. An outside wrapper with closing flap, with 'History and Description of the Panama Canal' inside. 11 accordion-folded cards with colored and identified views on both sides. Total of 22 views of the building of the Canal in 1912 and many other views of the Canal and buildings and sights in the area. Very pictorial postal mailer. No writing or stamps. #22477. $75
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Waszkis, Helmut. Tales of Peru. Volume II: The Sierra. Great Neck, New York: Author, 1981. 1st printing. 344 pages. Signed and dated by the author. Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. #17124. $25
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