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History of the Americas
There 9 books available for adoption.
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Archæological Researches in Costa RicaPreserve for the Future - $550 Considered a publication of exceptional value, this thorough study of Costa Rican archaeology investigates graves and burial mounds, pottery vessels, and buildings. The author spent over a year working in the field, both on the Atlantic coast and the interior of the country. The volume is...Read More |
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BahiaPreserve for the Future - $750 Carlos Páez Vilaró (1923-2014), born in the vibrant, multicultural city of Montevideo, Uruguay, was a self-taught, tirelessly creative painter, potter, sculptor, composer, architect/builder, and writer. He began his artistic career at age 16, sketching nightlife in the bars and cabarets of Buenos...Read More |
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Codex CortesianusBuild and Access the Collection - $2,250 Léon de Rosny, a French ethnologist of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wrote this volume describing a Native Central American object in the collection of a Spanish museum. In the 1860s, two fragments of ancient Mayan language surfaced in Spain. Léon de Rosny was one of the first...Read More |
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Codex NuttallPreserve for the Future - $550 This 1902 facsimile is one of a small number of codices of native pictography from Mexico dating to pre-Hispanic times. The original is a screenfold manuscript comprised of 47 leaves of deer skin now in the British Museum. It uses a kind of picture writing to relate two narratives...Read More |
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The Gold Diggings of Cape HornPreserve for the Future - $500 John Randolph Spears (b. 1850) was a well-traveled journalist at turn of the century, eventually writing nearly a dozen books, primarily on nautical and maritime themes. This early title is about the land, sea, flora, fauna, and cultures of South America’s southernmost region. The “gold diggings”...Read More |
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The History of the MaroonsBuild and Access the Collection - $1,000 Robert Charles Dallas (1754-1824), a British writer, was born in Jamaica and returned there after an education in England and Scotland. In the West Indies, runaway slaves who formed communities independent from white society (often with American Indians) were called “Maroons.” Those in...Read More |
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Land Where Time Stands StillBuild and Access the Collection - $300 In 1941, Max Miller financed an expedition the length of the Baja Peninsula with two natural history scientists from the San Diego Natural History Museum, Frank Gander and Laurence Huey. Miller mentions briefly and ominously of the Japanese submarine presence in Magdalena Bay on the Baja...Read More |
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Lienzo de TlaxcalaPreserve for the Future - $1,300 This 1939 reproduction of a Tlaxcala codex was originally developed in the 16th century. The Lienzo de Tlaxcala uses detailed drawings to depict the time of contact and conflict between Hernando Cortez and various people groups in and around the Tlaxcala region of Mexico. The Lienzo de Tlaxcala is...Read More |
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Revista de Costa Rica en el Siglo XIXPreserve for the Future - $600 This volume was commissioned by the president of Costa Rica and published in 1902. The Comisión Conmemorativa de Costa Rica en el Siglo XIX worked with various authors to highlight the social history, local customs, and artistic contributions of Costa Rica during the 19th century. The book also...Read More |
