AGUA FUERTE: FOTOGRAFÍAS DE SYLVIA OSSOT
Caracas: EDELCA, 1988. color plates, d.j. Superb full page color photos of Venezuelas water systems, including hydro-electric installations.
Natural History
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AGUA MANSA: FOTOGRAFÍAS DE SYLVIA OSSOTT
Caracas: Editorial ExLibris, 1990. color plates, maps, bibl., color pict. d.j. Fine colored photos of Caroni river basin parks. ENGLISH/SPANISH TEXT.
CAMINO INCA A MACHU PICCHU: LA AVENTURA DE LA HISTORIA
Lima: Petróleos del Perú, Ediciones Cope, 2000. color plates, maps, tbls., glos., bibl., ind., illus. endpapers, color pict. d.j., paper slipcase. History of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu from Precolumbian to contemporary. Good chapter on the fauna currently along the trail.
PARQUES DE VENEZUELA. PRIMER CONCURSO FOTOGRÁFICO.
Caracas: Ministerio del Ambiente y de los Recursos Naturales Renovables/Inst. Nac. de Parques, 1982. color and b/w plates, wrps. Juried photographic contest of Venezuelan national parks. Includes black and white and color work of winning entries.
PLANTAS MEDICINALES DE LA GENTE DE HACHA.; Editado por: Juan Alvarado Echeverri. Hernando Andoque Andoque...[et al.]
Roma, Italia; Popayán, Cauca, Colombia; Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia: Resguardo indígena Andoque de Aduche; Cooperazione Italiana allo Sviluppo; Centro Orientamento Educativo; Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Amazonia, Instituto Amazonico de Investigaciones -IMANI, 2009. color & b/w plates, ports., chts., grphs., maps, apens., bibls (p. 120-123), color pict. fldg. wrps. OCLC: 722820011.....
PROPIEDADES DE VEINTE MUESTRAS DE ARENAS DE LAS MAS USADAS EN LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO.; Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas, Boletín Num. 4, Serie D-1, Abril de 1921
México: Sec. de Comun. y Obras Públicas, Direcc. de Talleres Gráficos, 1921. plus b/w illus., and graphs, tbls. (fldg.), wrps. (Wrps. scotch taped). Unusual study of Mexican sand used in construction projects in Mexico City.
REGRESO DE HUMBOLDT: EXPOSICION EN EL MUSEO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA
Bogotá: Museo Nacional de Colombia, março - mayo del 2001. b/w and color plates, ports., facs., maps, chron., tbl., cat., color pict. wrps. Major exhibition of famous 19th century traveler, scientist, explorer and artist in celebration of his travel and work to Colombia (1801). Includes 20 essays on the various.....
TEXTAMENTOS DE DN. JOSE CELESTINO MUTIS
Bogotá: Colombia Archivo General de la Nacion; Universidad de Bogotá: Jorge Tadeo Lozano, 2008. color & b/w plates, ports., illus., facs., cat., color pict. wrps. Catalogue of the exhibition of 30 original documents belonging to José Celestino Mutis (b. Spain 1732-1808) in commemoration of the bicentennial of his death. The.....
VIAGEM AO BRASIL DE ALEXANDRE RODRIGUES FERREIRA. A EXPEDIÇÃO PHILOSOPHICA PELAS CAPITANIAS DO PARÁ, RIO NEGRO, MATO GROSSO E CUYABÁ; Documentos do Museu bocage de Lisboa. Introdução por Carlos Almaça. Notícia sobre Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira e su obra por José Pereira da Silva. A Iconografia da "Viagem Philosophica", Transcrição e Comentários por Dante Martins Teixeira & Nelson Papavero. Volume I e II.
São Paulo: Kapa Editorial, 2002. color plates, facs., color pict. fldg. wrps., color pict. cardboard slipcase. Handsome facsimile, with transcriptions and study, of the scientific voyage in 1790/91 of Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (b. Salvador 1756, d. 1815) to Pará, Rio Negro, Mato Grosso and Cuiabá. One of the results was.....
NATUREZA, CIÊNCIA E ARTE NA VIAGEM PELO BRASIL DE SPIX E MARTIUS 1817-1820.; Textos Alda Heizer [and nine others]
Rio de Janeiro: Andrea Jakobsson Estúdio, 2018. bibliographical references. Commemorative edition of the 200th anniversary of the Austrian Expedition to Brazil (Österreichische Brasilien-Expedition) of Johann Baptist von Spix (Germany 1781-1826), the first zoologist of Munich and the first researcher of the Amazons and botanist and explorer Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.....
ZACAPA.; Haroldo Rodas, et al. Fotografías de Ricardo Mata. Colección Guatemala
Guatemala, Barcelona: Bancafé, (2004). ind., tbl., map, color plates, ports., illus. endpapers, color pict. boards, d.j. An illustrated survey of the city of Zacapa, a district in Guatemala, presenting portraits of political and social present key personages, beautiful images of unique flora and fauna of the desert region, the architecture.....
MEGABIODIVERSIDADE BRASIL.
Rio de Janeiro: Sextante Artes, GMT Editores, 2001. b/w and color plates, tinted frontis., color pict. d.j. Idenfication with sumptuous color plates of the areas of Brazil where unusual environmental conditions permit a high degree of biological diversity. ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE TEXT.
CERROS SAGRADOS: ROAGUIA "HIERVE EL AGUA", GUIARU, YEGOYAICHE, CERRO RABO CULEBRA, SAN LORENZO ALBARRADAS
Oaxaca, Mexico. UPIO, Unión de Pueblos Indios del Estado de Oaxaca, 2000. ind., b/w and color plates, map, color pict. fldg. wrps. Protection of natural and cultural patrimony of the state of Oaxaca in Mexico presenting transcriptions of mixe stories, as told by local "notables" about the natural water springs.....
TERRA DA IBIRAPITANGA
Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa Nacional, 1939. plus b/w plates, maps, facs., tbls., (some fldg.), plus apd., binding is leather and wooden boards. Fascinating work on Brazilian wood with much information on natural history.
BOTICA DE LOS POBRES Y DE BOTICAS Y FARMACIAS
Santafé de Bogotá: Museo del Siglo XIX, Fondo Cult. Cafetero, Nov. 1991. b/w plates, facs., bibl., pict. wrps. Folio. F. The "Botica de los Pobres" in Ocaña, Colombia was the home of the pharmacist, Alejandro Prince. This exhibit of brochures, advertising, broadsides and treatises having to do with 19th century.....
REVELANDO UM ACERVO; Coleçao Brasiliana
Sao Paulo: BEI EDITORA, Lei de Incentivo a Cultura, Ministerio da Cultura, Fundacao Rank-Packard/Fundacao Estudar, 2000. b/w and color plates (some fldg.), ind., cat., pict. endpapers, color pict. wrps. Diverse collection of drawings, sketches, and paintings on 19th century Brazil by both famous (such as Jules Marie Vincent de Sinety.....
NOTICIAS DE NUTKA.; Manuscrito de 1793. De Su Descubrimiento, Situación y Producciones Naturales; sobre las costumbres de sus habitantes, gobierno, ritos, cronología, idioma, musica, poesía, pesca, caza y comercio de la peletería; con la relación de los viajes hechos por europeos. Especialmente Españoles y del convenio ajustado entre estos y los Ingleses. Añadase un ensayo del diccionario de la lengua de los nutkenses. Ilustrado todo con láminas. Por el Botánico naturalista de la Real Expedición de Nueva España y de limites al Norte de California.
México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1998. frontis, maps, port., plus 25 b/w and gray toned plates loose as issued together in decorated cloth portfolio with ribbon tie. Both vols. together in clam shell decorated blue cloth box. Introductory study by Xavier Lozaya. History of an 18th century expedition to.....
FLORES Y FRUTOS SILVESTRES AUSTRALES. UNA MIRADA POR TIERRA DEL FUEGO.
Argentina: Graciela Ramacciotti, 1996. color plates, illus., maps, ind., bibl., color fldg. pict. wrps. Guide to the fruits and flowers of the Ushiah region of Tierra del Fuego. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT.
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