2vols. Two books authored by Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo (1663-1743), a Peruvian poet, astronomer, scholar, and polygraph who taught at the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos and partner of the Paris Academy of Sciences. Additionally, he was an important courtly and baroque poet. Peralta Barnuevo was a regular character in official..... More
Large format printing signed by the mayor of Lima Jorge Escobedo on the 10th of May 1786. Decree on the free trade of mules to boost the economy. Fine. No holdings on WorldCat. More
Spanish imprint from Madrid dated 1793. 6 pages. Decrees the free trade of silk and silkworms in all kingdoms, including Occidental and Oriental Indies. Before this decree, the silk trade suffered from extensive bureaucratic regulation which stifled the industry in the 18th century. No holdings on WorldCat. More
Ciudad de México: Editorial Planeta Mexicana, 2021. First edition. Paperback. [212p.], maps, photos, wrps. This volume contains an extraordinary collection of photographs, maps, lithographs, paintings, travel chronicles, songs, and memories of Mexico City from the mid-19th century. More
Lima: Mitin Editores, 2020. First edition. Paperback. 262p., wrps. Unexpectedly, an epidemic breaks out. The authorities are unable to contain it and scientists are puzzled. The epidemic claims thousands of lives. Borders are closed, strict quarantines are ordered, business life stops. What seems like an apocalyptic sci-fi movie script is..... More
México, D.F. La Ratona Cartonera, 2021. First Edition. Cardboard Covers. 50p., photos, illus., stab-bound in cardboard. A handmade quarterly publication featuring poetry, fiction, critical essays, and photography. Distributed by La Ratona Cartonera. This issues has been limited to 100 copies. More
Cuernavaca, Morelos: Cascarón Artesanal, Ediciones Clandestino, 2021. First edition. Cardboard Covers. 108p., photos, illus., string bound cardboard covers. A compendium of micro-biographies of unsubmissive women, including writers, revolutionaries, artists, and social activists. Limited edition of 45+54 copies. Photography by Alberto Korda and Laura Bekker. Each copy bears a different layout..... More
Madrid: Mandala Ediciones, 2018. First edition. Paperback. 192p., photos, illus., graphics, indices, wrps. "What is S.A.N.P. (Pudendal Nerve Entrapment Syndrome)? It is a very unknown cause of dysfunction that exerts power over the vegetative nervous system in uro-genital functions. The person who suffers from it refers to itching on palpation in..... More
Sopó: Secretaría de Cultura, Unidad Creativa Colombia, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. [150p.], photos, illus., boards. This volume contains the artistic work of 37 artists from the town of Sopó in Colombia. some of them are: Javier Buitrago, Luis Carlos Acosta, Cristian Rativa, Felipe Pascagaza, Alexandra Galvis, Lisandro Sarmiento, Héctor Salamanca..... More
ViaGiulia: Gangemi Editore Spa, 2021. First edition. Paperback. 125p., color plates, indices, wrps. Italian Spanish language edition of this work commemorating the hundred year anniversary of the cineast's work, well illustrated. More
Buenos Aires: Bellas Artes, 2019. First edition. Paperback. 152p., color plates, wrps. Artist Carlos Alonso (b. Argentina 1929). Carlos Alonsoœs work is marked by the violence of our recent history. In that work, he alludes to those dark years through images that recall a dreadful and ominous past. Carlos Alonso..... More
Lima: Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2021. First edition. Paperback. 445p., photos, wrps. This book offers an alternative path: understanding the social bases of sports entertainment, and the creation of information strategies for the media. The author reviews the construction of identities (urban, regional and national) and the..... More
Lima: Sinco Editores, 2020. First edition. Paperback. 245p., color plates, photos, indices, boards, wrps. Ana María Gálvez Barrera, an anthropologist born in Chincha, has managed to decipher the worldview of the Andean culture related to the presence of the Chuqui Chinchay, as a deity of water. western. Much of what..... More
Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2021. First edition. Paperback. 185p., color plates, indices, boards, dust jacket, wrps. This publication presents the analysis of two series of canvases that tell the story of the life of Saint Augustine, which were made by Cusco artists, in..... More
Lima: Máquina Purísima, 2021. First edition. Paperback. 97p., bibl., wrps. Edition by Nathanael PEralta Luis. Italian translation by Ricardo Badini. The book of poetry is Cecilia Podestá's "First Annunciation", which was published fourteen years ago and at the time caused great controversy due to the destruction of the biblical myth..... More
Lima: Edición del autor, 2021. First edition. Paperback. 269p., photos, facsimiles, indices, wrps. In this work, the Eguren family's journey begins in the 19th century with the arrival of the first member, Don Andrés, to Peru and ends in the 20th century. Based on historical information and unpublished iconography, transcendental..... More
Buenos Aires: Ciudad Auto´noma de Buenos Aires] : Asociacio´n Amigos del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2021. First edition. Paperback. 231p. "El canon accidental: Woman artists in Argentina (1890-1950)" presents a wide selection of works produced by women artists in Argentina from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. By..... More
Buenos Aires: Argentina Asociación Amigos del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2019. First edition. Paperback. 119p., color plates, wrps. The exhibition reveals a unique artist, creator of a mythology of the Río de la Plata expressed through 30 oils, watercolors and drawings by the great master Pedro Figari (Uruguayan 1861-1938)..... More
Buenos Aires: Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2020. First edition. Paperback. 315p., color plates, indices, wrps. With curatorship of Lucrecia Palacios, this is the first anthological exhibition dedicated to the work of Sergio De Loof (Buenos Aires, 1962), as a tribute to his legacy in local culture, emphasizing..... More
Buenos Aires: Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 2021. First edition. Paperback. 123p., color plates, wrps. Nicanor Aráoz is a central artist in the panorama of contemporary Argentine sculpture. For Solid Dream, a site-specific project created especially for the rooms of the Museo Moderno with the curatorship of Lucrecia Palacios, Aráoz..... More
Madrid: Sílex, (Silex universidad), 2021. First edition. Paperback. 168p., photos, tables, graphics, wrps. This work is the result of the project "La familia Fort: de Elizondo a América en siglo XIX", declared of social interest and awarded the MECNA seal. More
Lima: Fondo Editorial Pucp, 2021. First edition. Paperback. 124p., facsimiles, tables, wrps. AIDS and fear is a great contribution to the history of epidemics and health in Peru in the 1980s. Its main contribution is to show how there was a gap between medical knowledge about HIV/ AIDS at that..... More
Buenos Aires: Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2016. First edition. Paperback. 480p., color plates, wrps. The edition is probably the more comprehensive book on Alberto Greco (b. Argentina 1931-1965) that has been published to date, comprising texts from different authors, letters, photographs, unpublished documents and a series of..... More
Buenos Aires: Asociación Amigos del Museo Nacional Bellas Artes, 2019. First edition. Paperback. 169p., color plates, indices, wrps. Curated by the artistic director of fine arts, Mariana Marchesi, the exhibition comprises a hundred paintings, drawings, watercolors and prints, some of them never exhibited, highlighting the early work of the great..... More
Buenos Aires: Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 2021. First edition. Paperback. 119p., color plates, indices, wrps. More
