MESOAMERICA Edited by Richard E.W. Adams and Murdo J. MacLeod. CUP 2000.
1st Eds. Vol. 2, complete in 2 parts. [xvi] + 571pp. + [v] + [xvi] + 455pp. + [i]. 99 figures, 51 maps and 17 tables. Ownership inscription, otherwise good in d/ws.
Volume II, Complete with Parts I and II. Complete set in Three volumes.
£50.00 [ref: 291296]
THE NATURALIST ON THE RIVER AMAZONS, A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel. John Murray 1863.
1st Ed. 2 vols. ix + 351pp. + 32pp. publ. catalogue. + vi + 423pp.
9 plates, 33 ills., folding map. Some light browning, bookplates, volume 2 with crudely taped hinges, original gilt lettered cloth with gilt ills. to upper boards, chipped spines with repair across tail of spine of vol. 2 with minor split to tail of upper joint, corners frayed.
Moraes vol. 1. pp.77.
Darwin ‘It is a grand book, and, whether or not it sells, it will last.
ODNB ‘... a major contribution to the knowledge and literature of Amazonia. Bates had spent longer on the Amazon than any of his European predecessors, and the book was an immediate success and has become a travel classic ... it provides a fascinating record of the natural environment and wildlife of Amazonia before the major impact of the rubber boom. There are also detailed descriptions of the way of life and customs of Amerindian groups Bates encountered on his travels ...’
£750.00 [ref: 251414]
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ABIPONES, An Equestrian Peoples of Paraguay. From the Latin of ... [By Sara Coleridge]. John Murray 1822.
1st English Ed. 3 vols. Ex.-libris Lord Stanley the Earl of Derby, inscription to front f.e.ps., some light browning, contemporary double gilt rule edged intricately tooled calf, sl. rubbed to extremities, gilt lettered title labels to sl. discoloured spines, tail of upper joint of vol. 3. sl. split though firm, handsome set.
Sabin 20413 “Highly eulogized by Coleridge, Southey, Charles Lamb, Lowndes, and Brunet. It is almost the only work relating to this almost unknown tribe of Indians, and is a memorial of nearly eighteen years of suffering and toil amongst a most savage race.”
Moraes vol. 1., pp.228.’The work was held in high regard by Southey, who made much use of it. Brunet claims that the English translation was made by ‘Miss Southey’. He is mistaken, the translation was incontestably made by Sarah Coleridge (see Maggs, Voy. & Tr. volume 5-822).
Sara Coleridge’s translation was judged by Samuel Coleridge to be ‘unsurpassed for pure[?] mother English by anything I have read for a long time.’
The author went as a missionary to South America where for eleven years he worked in the Guarany Reductions before spending seven years in the four colonies of the Abipones. Giving many details of their 'manners, customs, superstitions, military discipline, slaughters inflicted and received, political and economical regulations, together with the vicissitudes of the recent colonies...' He frequently takes occasion to refute and expose the erroneous statements of other writers respecting the Jesuits in Paraguay.
With a contemporary review of the work (The Quarterly Review, January 1822, pp.277-324, volume CCVI, No LII).
£250.00 [ref: 251458]
THE LAND OF TO-MORROW A Mule-Back Trek Through the Swamps and Forests of Eastern Bolivia. H F & G Witherby 1927.
1st Ed. vi + 224pp. 6 plates, folding map. E.ps. and edges sl. browned, gilt lettered purple, spine faded and sl. spotted.
Henry Myers Grey (1867–1937) English adventurer, journalist and author of travel literature.
£35.00 [ref: 292108]
EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL, Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822. Edinburgh ... Archibald Constable and Co. 1824.
3rd Ed. 2 vols. Sm. 8vo. xx + 379pp. + xii + 304pp. + 71pp. Folding frontis. map (offset). Ex.-libris Earl of Harrowby (bookplates offset), some light browning, contemporary calf boards, some wear and marking, rebacked in modern calf with gilt tooled raised bands and gilt lettered labels to spines.
Sabin 29718.
£150.00 [ref: 279848]
CELEBRATING LATINO FOLKLORE. An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions. ABC-Clio 2012.
3 vols. Royal 8vo. Profusely illus. from photos. As new in original coloured pictorial boards sealed in clear plastic shrink-wrap.
£75.00 [ref: 252238]
CODEX BODLEY. A Painted Chronicle from the Mixtec Highlands, Mexico. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford 2005.
1st Ed. Sm. Slim Folio. 95pp. + [i]. Profusely illus. mainly in colour, colour illus. chapter headings, map. Ownership signature, otherwise very good in d/w.
Treasures from the Bodleian Library, 1.
£40.00 [ref: 289823]
AFRO-CUBAN RELIGIOUS ARTS. Popular Expressions of Cultural Inheritance in Espiritismo and Santeria. University Press of Florida 2014.
1st Ed. xx + 174pp. + [xiv] blank. 28 colour plates, 20 figures, 4 tables. Good in lightly rubbed brown lettered coloured pictorial cream boards.
Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture.
£25.00 [ref: 285736]
THE OLMEC WORLD. Ritual and Rulership. With essays by Michael D. Coe, Richard A. Diehl, David A. Freidel, Peter T. Furst, F. Kent Reilly III, Linda Schele, Carolyn E. Tate and Karle A Taube. Art Museum, Princeton University/Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1996.
1st Cloth Ed. Sq. 4to. [xii] + 344pp. 567 ills., including 282 plates in colour. Dec. e.ps., good in d/w.
£25.00 [ref: 288094]
THE PARIS CODEX. Handbook for a Maya Priest. With an Introduction by George E. Stuart. Austin: University of Texas Press 1994.
1st Ed. Sm. Slim 4to. xviii + 124pp. 22 b/w. plates, numerous b/w. text ills. Good in d/w. faded to spine.
£25.00 [ref: 288009]