History: Western Hemisphere from The Owl at the Bridge

"From the mysterious cave drawings at Altamira to the explosive graffiti on the walls of East Los Angeles, images of Spain and the Americas speak to us of the great variety of Spanish culture. ...Combining a sophisticated perspective on world events and a novelist's eye for irony and metaphor, he weaves a historical narrative of dazzling color and vibrancy" (dust… Saber más sobre este artículo

"This catalogue is devoted to material on Indians of the Americas, primarily North, but with some notable Central and South American material as well. Included are good samplings of Indian language material, Indian captivity narratives, ethnological data, and first hand accounts of Indian-White contacts." 531 items, a few illustrtions; Good. Stock#ofc0225.

Documents, Legislative Journals, Manuscripts, HistoricalWritings; Description, travel, agriculture, commerce, industry, colonial policy, religion, literature, medicine, legal treaties, periodicals, British West Indies Press, foreign West Indian newspapers. viii, 725 pages; well used, carefully rebacked; bookplate of Sam Hough; Good. Stock#ofc0139.

Roma: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1990. Hard Cover. Two volumes, 5 color folding plates (maps); 32 cm. Volume I of Nuova Raccolta Colombiana (English). Introduction and notes by Paolo Taviani and Consuelo Varela. At head of title: Ministry of Cultural and Environmental Assets ; National Commission for the Celebration of the Quincentennial of the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Milano/ Napoli, Riccardo Ricciardi, MCMLV. [1955]. First Edition. The "dispute" of the century and a half of polemics was whether the New World was healthy or not, whether its life forms were inferior, whether Europeans who came here degenerated because of the climate. Gerbi's themes have now been taken up by many other authors. Hard Cover. x, 783… Saber más sobre este artículo

Roma: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello stato, c1992. Hard Cover. 507 pages; 32 cm. Edited by Ernesto Lunardi, Elisa Magioncalda, Rosanna Mazzacane; translated into English by Felix Azzola; revised by Luciano F. Farina. Volume II of Nuova Raccolta Colombiana (English). At head of title: Ministry of Cultural and Environmental Assets, National Commission for the Celebration of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Providence, Brown University Press, 1975. Hard Cover. xx, 235 p.; 26.5 cm. All forty-eight Blathwayt maps, which form what has been called the first atlas of the British Empire, are discussed in the Commentary. Assembled by English colonial administrators, for whom they were working tools, these maps show the area of English overseas colonial and commercial interest, especially in… Saber más sobre este artículo

1949, Departamento de Imprensa Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. Ministerio da Agricultura. Conselho Nacional de Proteção aos índios. Publicação No. 5 da Comissão de Linhas Telegráficas Estratégicas de Mato-Grosso ao Amazonas (Comissão Rondon). Anexo No. 2. First published 1910; second edition 1945; this is the third edition. In Portuguese. An account of the expedition led by Cándido Mariano da Silva Rondon… Saber más sobre este artículo