Amsterdam: Willem Blaeu, 1638. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 16.25" x 21" This intriguing 1638 map depicts Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago off the southernmost tip of South America that is separated from Patagonia by the Straits of Magellan. Discovered in 1520 by its namesake, this narrow strip of water attracted significant European attention as the fastest connection between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Enticing, but not easy: as the illustration of seven ships in the lower..... More

Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1823. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 15" x 9", image plus text measure 16.75" x 20.5". Beautiful map of Chili from 1823. Includes information pertaining to history, climate and culture. From "A Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas..." of 1822. Run by Henry Carey (1793-1879) and Isaac Lea (1792-1886), the company worked with both books and maps, specializing particularly in political commentary. Their "Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas," first published..... More

Venice: 1688. Map, diptych gore sheets. Uncolored copper plate engraving. Each page measures about 19 5/8" x 13 3/8". Beautiful pair of gore sheets from Coronelli's 110 cm diameter globe. Shows the southern part of the Pacific Ocean including the Tropic of Capricorn and the western coast of South America. Features a nicely engraved cartouche , architectural elements, cherubs, a mermaid and space for two other portraits or text, here left blank. Includes beautifully rendered ships and denotes the path..... More

New York: Pantheon, 1980. Illustrated in black and white. xvii, 411 pages. Thick 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering, d.w. (edgeworn, price clipped). New York: Pantheon, (1980). Cloth dampstained at lower edge, internally clean and tight. Very good(-) in a very good(-) dust wrapper. The story of the assassination of Orlando Letelier. More

Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1855. 556 pages. 4to, 1/2 brown calf, marbled boards; quite rubbed and with some repairs & reinforcements. Extensively illustrated with 7 lithographs (6 tinted, 1 hand colored) and 7 maps (3 folding but loose in front of book). The hand colored lithographic plate is a "Portrait of an Araucanian chief." One of the tinted lithographs is the nine panel folding plate (one section partially detached at a fold), "Panoramic view from Santa Lucia." Washington, D.C.: A.O.P. Nicholson..... More

8vo, cloth. Yale UP, (1944). vg. More

New York: Putnam, 1924. Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. 4to, handsomely rebound in 3/4 yellow morocco, balck & white patterned boards. New York: Putnam, 1924. First Edition. Spine and edges are slightly sun-darkened, else a fine copy. More

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973. 8vo, black cloth, d.w. lightly soiled and lightly dampstained on spine portion. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, (1973). Account of the an Uruguayan Air Force plane that crashed in the Andes in 1972. More

8vo, cloth, d.w. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, (1973). vg. More

London: 1671. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Measures 12.25 x 14.24". Includes the Andes Mountains and the names of many islands and points on the Chilean coast. Fantastic commodities cartouche of Indigenous people mining gold. Margins trimmed but otherwise in good condition. John Ogilby (1600--1676) is often noted in the literature for his wide ranging pursuits--dancer, actor, translator, tutor, among others--that, more often than not, ended in failure. But rather than thinking of these pursuits as unsuccessful, they might be..... More

London: Cadell & Davies, 1812. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 27.75" x 20". Beautiful large map of South America encompassing the southern tip of Peru, the northern half of Chile, parts of Bolivia and Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and much of Argentina including Buenos Aires. Extensive geographical, historical and ethnographic details. Published in "Pinkerton's Modern Geography". A few small tears to top and bottom margins. More

New York: Pantheon, 1989. Translated by Diane Wachtell. xvi + 245 pages, 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Pantheon Books, (1989). A very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. Review copy. More

Barcelona: Contrapunto, 2001. Text in Spanish. Color and black & white photographic illustrations. 95 pages. Thin square 4to, glossy pictorial wrappers. Barcelona: Contrapunto/Blume, (2001). First edition. A fine copy. "Relatives of the victims of the 'death caravan' executed in Cauquenes La Serena, Copiapo, Antofagasta and Calama remember their 27 years of hell. The shadow of his own horror haunts former dictator Augusto Pinochet." More