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New York: Routledge, 2002. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x0x9. First printing. Spine base bumped. 2002 Trade Paperback. 328 pp. In this innovative volume, leading historians of the early modern Americas examine the subjects of early modern, continuing colonization, and the relations between established colonies and frontiers of settlement. Their original essays about centers and peripheries in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British America invite comparison.

New York: Osprey, 2012. 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 7x0x9. Embleton, Gerry & Samuel. First printing. Minor general wear. 2012 Soft Cover. 48 pp. From humble beginnings, in the course of three centuries the Portuguese built the world's first truly global empire, stretching from modern Brazil to sub-Saharan Africa and from India to the East Indies (Indonesia). Portugal had established its present-day borders by 1300 and the following century saw extensive warfare that confirmed Portugal's independence and allowed it to aspire to maritime expansion, sponsored by monarchs such as Prince Henry the Navigator. Intent on finding a sea route to the source of the lucrative spice trade, the Portuguese discovered a route down Africa's western coast, employing the innovative caravel, a vessel that could be sailed closer to the wind than any other in use at the time. In 1488 Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope and ten years later Vasco da Gama reached India. In 1500 Pedro… Read More

London: Macmillan, 2014. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 9x6x1. First paperback printing. An exceptional copy. 2014 Trade Paperback. xxviii, 447 pp. Includes two sections of color and black-and-white reproductions of illustrations and maps. "Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria onto what is today San Salvador, in the Bahamas, and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire’s Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson traces the story of this coveted area from the northern rim of South America up to Cuba, and from discovery through colonialism to today, offering a vivid, panoramic view of this complex region and its rich, important history. After that fateful landing in 1492, the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, and even the Swedes, Scots, and Germans sought their fortunes in the islands for the next two centuries.… Read More

Naples, ID: Meadowcreek Press, 2012. 1 volume, chiefly illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980. 59 pages, all illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "61 works over period of 35 years. Bulls, nudes, myth, artists, actors, all in the purest lithographic line." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: Time-Life Books, 1969. 192 pages, illustrations (some colour), map, portraits (some colour); 31 cm. Revised 1972. Issued in a slipcase. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Slipcase with light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. Hardcover. Fine. Folio.

New York: Shorewood Publishers; Drawings of the Masters Series, 1964. Cloth, 141 pages illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Slipcase with moderate shelfwear.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Rizzoli, 1991. Cloth, 191 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corner/front board lightly bumped. Age toning. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 14th Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. Fourteenth printing. Rear cover creased, remainder mark. 2010 Trade Paperback. viii, 199 pp. This work of comparative history explores the array of ceremonies that the English, the Spanish, the French, the Portuguese and the Dutch performed to enact their taking possession of the New World. The book develops the historic cultural contexts of these ceremonies, and tackles the implications of these histories for contemporary nation-states of the post-colonial era.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1989. xxii, 551 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "This is the first full-scale biography of Lorca, world-famous poet and playwright, martyr to the fascists in the Spanish Civil War, and secret homosexual." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1976. 109 pages, chiefly illustrations; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First American edition. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Photographs of Picasso's studio in Mougins on the French Riviera.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Madrid: Galeria Juana Mordo, 1975. [39] pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour), portrait; 24 cm. Exhibition held at the Galeria Juana Mordo, Madrid, 2 to 26 April, 1975. Wraps with moderate shelfwear. Clean inside copy. Age toning. Abstract paintings by Spanish artist Jose Guerrero (1914-1991).. 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Cologne: Benedikt Taschen, 1996. 224 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour); 30 cm. Text in Spanish/Texto en espanol. COMO NUEVO. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1969. Cloth, 237 pages, illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, portraits (some colour); 29 cm. Ribbon book mark. First English Edition. Translated from the Portuguese. Firm binding, clean text. Light foxing/endpapers. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Cologne: Taschen, 2004. 224 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Vitoria, Spain: Aldeasa, 1993. 61 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. The great pilgrimage cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, Spain. . Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Guidebook.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. 400 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "An interpretive biography of Picasso's life and work as a young man, discussing the influence of his first great love, Fernande Olivier." - Publisher. CONTENTS: I, the king; Paris; Fernande; Pablo and Fernande; Apollinaire; Gertrude Stein; The brothel; The suicide and the banquet; Cubism; The Mona Lisa; The decorator.. 1st.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 2002. 274 pages; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark/tail edge. Stated First Printing: November 2002. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "On April 26, 1937, the Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain was bombed by Hitler's Luftwaffe in the midst of a bloody civil war on behalf of Francisco Franco's rebel forces. Twenty-four hours later, the village lay in ruins, its population decimated. This act of terror and unspeakable cruelty--the first large-scale attack against civilians in modern warfare-outraged the world, and one man in particular. Pablo Picasso, an expatriate living in Paris, responded to the devastation in his homeland by beginning work on Guernica, a painting that many today consider the greatest artwork of the twentieth century. Weaving themes of politics, art, war, and morality, and featuring some of the twentieth century's most memorable and infamous figures, Martin follows this renowned… Read More

London: Phaidon Press Limited; Colour Library Ser., 1995. 126 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. 2001 reprint. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973. Cloth, 248 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards. Browning. Stated First Printing. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. A near-fine copy of the first printing. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.