Buenos Aires: Editorial Guardacostas, 2007. Paperback. 96p., color photos, illus., tables, wrps, tall 8vo. This issue features the following articles: "Dia de la Prefectura Naval Argentina", "La Aviación de la Perfectura en la Guerra de Malvinas" and "Buques Deficientes". Printed on semi-glossy coated stock. More
Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa Nacional, 1917. Hardcover. Octavo, boards, 237 p. (mild foxing). Compiled documents pertaining to Brazil's involvement in World War I. Custom bound in quarter leather boards. More
n.p. (Brazil?): Edições Maria da Fonte, (Colecção "Documentos", 4), 1974. Paperback. Octavo, wraps, 163 p., notes. (Wraps rubbed, small vvvvvvvvv v bookstore stamp to ffep.). Chapter titles: Desenvolver a luta ideológica e fortalecer a unidade do Partido, O Partido Comunista do Brasil na luta contra a ditadura militar, Preparar o...... More
Buenos Aires: Eudeba, 2004. Paperback. Octavo, wraps, 293 p., b/w illus., bibl, index, errata. Guide for the diagnosis and treatment in toxicology. With sections on alcohols, metals, analgesics, vitamins, minerals, venomous animals, plants and food toxins. More
Popayan, Colombia: Editorial Universidad, [circa 1930-1950's]. Paperback. Small octavo, 27pp., photos, illus. Universidad del Cauca Popayan guide to the Museos de la Casa Mosquera in the Arte Colonial e Historia section of the musuem with a variety of photos; a short entry for each exhibit piece. More
Bogotá: Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá/Instituto Distrital de Cultura y Turismo/Corporación La Candelaria, 2004. 1st ed. Paperback. 8vo, wrps, 198 pp., photo plates, illus., fldg. plans, bibl., index. Guide to the Trapecio sector of the Central Cemetery of Bogotá. Features the following commentaries: "Cementerios contemporáneos, Apuntes sobre su evolución" and "El..... More
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Instituto de Documentação: Editora da Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil, Instituto de Direito Público e Ciência Política, 1979. 1st ed. Paperback. Octavo, wraps, 99 p., photos. Archival material on Brazil's politics and government from 1945-1954. Edited by Paulo..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Winston Editora, 1986. Hardcover. 4to cloth w/ dj; 139 p.; illus. (mainly col. plates); chron. + bibl. Edited by Sandra Quintella, Umberto and Ronaldo do Valle Simoes. Dall'Ara(1865-1923) was an Italian painter based in Brazil. More
Bogotá: Banco de la República / Museo de Oro, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 191; 126p., color photo plates, illus., bibl., wrps, 4to (bound dos-a-dos). Two expositions that explore the tradition of body modification in Colonial and Indigenous Colombia. The first puts on display a variety of religious sculptures, paintings and..... More
Bogotá: Imprenta del Estado Mayor General, 1942. Boards. 519p., photo plates, illus., index, newly rebound black cloth boards, 4to (original wrappers bound-in, front cover foxed around edges, minor edge wear, spine yellowing). 100 brief biographies of Colombian Chancellors, includes an alphabetical index of names, and a list of treaties and..... More
Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia: , Academa Boyacense he Historia, 1948. Paperback. 318, (1)p., wrps (soiled, pages yellowing, front cover lightly foxed, pencil inscription to page inside of cover, soil to front and back covers, no. 15 written in marker at top right corner of cover). 3rd volume of a total 4..... More
Santiago de Chile: La Nación, 1994. [First Edition]. Hardcover. 3vols., color plates, photos, illus., tables, boards, large 4to. 35 issues of a supplement of "La Nación" bound in three tomes providing a profusely illustrated history of Argentine soccer performances in the FIFA World Cup, spanning 1893-1953 with numerous period photos..... More
São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, (Brasiliana "Grande Formato," Seria 5a, vol. 10), 1962. 4th ed. Pamphlet. Octavo, boards, 475 p., [14] leaves of plates (some col.), diags., tables, charts, maps, notes, indices. Economic history of colonial Brazil, with several plate illustrations and maps, two of which are folio sized and..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Editora Rio, (Coleção Memoria do Brasil), 1973. Hardcover. 4to, boards, 253 p., b/w illus. Chiefly reprints of contemporary newspaper clippings on the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état against President João Goulart. More
Rio de Janeiro: Fundaçao Oswaldo Cruz, 1995. Paperback. Octavo, wraps, 182 p., illus., bibl. Brazilian journal published thrice yearly. Articles in this issue include: "Os objetos tem historia? Encontro de Pasteur com Whitehead num banho de acido lactico" by Bruno Latour, "Depoimento: François Jacob, savant et historien de la science"..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Fundaçao Oswaldo Cruz, 1995. Paperback. Octavo, wraps, 154 p., illus., bibl. Brazilian journal published thrice yearly. Articles in this issue include: "Imagens: A Igreja Positivista e literaria nas biografias," "Historia natural e as ideias de geraçao e herança no secula XVIII: Buffon e Bonnet" and "Da higiene..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Fundaçao Oswaldo Cruz, 1996. Paperback. Octavo, wraps, 192 p., illus., bibl. Brazilian journal published thrice yearly. Articles in this issue include: "Relatorio portugues do seculo XVI descreve mapa-mundi antigo de origem Javanesa," "Humores e odores: ordem corporal e ordem social no Rio de Janeiro, seculo XIX" and..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Fundaçao Oswaldo Cruz, 1996. Paperback. Octavo, wraps, 206 p., illus., bibl. Brazilian journal published thrice yearly. Articles in this issue include: "Imagens: A documentaçao fotografica das obras de engenharia do seculo XIX" by Maria Inez Turazzi, "A produçao e o desenvolvimento de vacinas no Brasil" and "O..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Fundaçao Oswaldo Cruz, 1996. Paperback. Octavo, wraps, p. 217-376, illus., bibl. Brazilian journal published thrice yearly. Articles in this issue include: "Imigraçao e epidemias no estado de Sao Paulo," "A inventiva brasileira na virada do seculo XIX para o XX Coleçao Privilegios Industriais do Arquivo Nacional" and..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Fundaçao Oswaldo Cruz, 1997. Paperback. Octavo, wraps, p. 391-562, illus., bibl. Brazilian journal published thrice yearly. Articles in this issue include: "A geopolitica simbolica da sifilis: um ensaio de antropologia historica, "Liçoes para a historia das ciencias no Brasil: Instituto Pasteur de Sao Paulo" and "Imagens: Revisitando..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Fundaçao Oswaldo Cruz, 1997. Paperback. Octavo, wraps, 202 p., illus., bibl. Brazilian journal published thrice yearly. Articles in this issue include: "A face visivel de Aids"--photographs by Dilene Raimundo do Nascimento, "Uma ilha d ecompetencia: historia do Instituto de Quimica Agricola na memoria de seus cientistas" and..... More
Sevilla , España: Publicaciones E.E.H.A. Serie 1a., Anuario, Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas), 1977. 1st ed. Paperback. Octavo, wraps, 402 p., bibl. Periodical on historiography and bibliography of the Americas. Contents include: "El perfil del negro en la narrativa Rioplatense" by John F. Garganico and "Excavaciones..... More
Mexico: Cinequanon, 1986. DVD. 105 minutes. Directed by Eliseo Subiela. "A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is..... More
Lima: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, 1991. Paperback. 384, (2)p., photos, tables, bibl., wrps. A collection of studies on epistemological, social and clinical facets of psychiatry. In homage to renowned Peruvian writer and Psychiatrist Javier Mariátegui Chiappe, (b. 1928) in Lima. Features the following esssays: "Electropsicología cognitiva: Un modo de implementar..... More
Buenos Aires: Hoy Arte Hoy, 2007. 1st ed. Paperback. 62p., color photo plates, illus., wrps, oblong. Explores numerous facets of contemporary Argentine art. This issue contains the following articles: "Intervenciones Urbanas", "La Casa de Japón" and "Un pionero del arte conceptual". Features works by Miriam Rojas, Bruno Nacif, Sebastián Perinotti..... More
