Andes
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Vega, Garcillasso de la [El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega]
Histoire des Yncas, Rois du Perou. Contenant leur origine, depuis le premier Ynca Manco Capac, leur etablissement, leur idolatrie, leurs sacrifices, leurs loix, leurs conquêtes; les merveilles du Temple du Soleil; & tout l'etat de ce grand empire, avant que les Espagnols s'en rendissent maîtres. Avec une description des animaux, des fruits, des mineraux, des plantes, &c. Traduit de l'Espagnol de l'Ynca Garcillasso de la Vega, par J. Baudoin.
Amsterdam, Gerard Kuyper, 1704. Two volumes in two. 12mo (15.8 x 9.9 cm). Engraved frontispieces and titles in red and black. [xx], 512; [viii], 492, [xxxviii] pp.; one large, folded, engraved map and three engraved plates, of which one is larger, folded. Contemporary full calf. Spines with five raised bands, compartments with gilt vignettes and morocco labels with gilt title and volume number. Boards with gilt dentelles. Edges speckled red.
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Philippi, R. A.
Los fósiles terciarios i cuartarios de Chile.
Santiago de Chile, Gobierno de Chile, 1887. Large 4to (31.3 x 26.4 cm). 256 pp.; 58 fine lithographic plates. Publisher's embossed black cloth; boards with rich gilt-ornamented borders and title. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with gilt vignettes and title. Inner dentelles. Endpapers with floral pattern. All edges marbled.
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Dusén, P. et al. [W. B. Scott (ed.)]
Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia 1896-1899. Volume VIII, 1-2. Botany. I-IX. [Complete].
Princeton, NJ, Princeton University, [AND] Stuttgart, Schweizerbart (E. Nägele), 1903-1906. Nine parts (two volumes) in three. Large 4to (32.1 x 25.1 cm). 982 pp.; 106 text figures, 31 lithographed plates, of which several in chromolithography. Uniform early 20th-century pebbled black half cloth over green linen boards. Gilt title on the spines.
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Reinburg, [M. J. G.] P.
Mission officielle commanditée par le Ministère de l'Instruction Publique pour un voyage d'étude en Amérique latine (1909-1913).
Paris, unpublished, 1909-1913. 266 framed glass positives (including colour positives), 9.9 x 8.5 cm with handwritten descriptive labels (positive size 7.0 x 7.0 cm); preserved in one wooden box (28.5 x 11.0 x 11.1 cm) and 25 contemporary cardboard boxes, mostly with pictorial printed labels.
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Hammer, M.
Investigations on the oribatid fauna of the Andes Mountains. I. The Argentine and Bolivia. II Peru. III. Chile. IV. Patagonia. [Complete].
København, Ejnar Munksgaard, 1958-1962. Large 8vo (27.0 x 21.0 cm). 419 pp. [129; 157; 96; 37] pp., 118 [34; 43; 30; 11] plates. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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