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Best.-Nr. A9789210032858Paperback / softback. New. Examining international and regional trade dynamics the account untangles major economic trends and structural shifts that redefine global commerce. It spotlights key growth sectors and explores how evolving trading patterns and market forces reshape regional economic landscapes. paperback
Best.-Nr. A9789211221022Paperback / softback. New. paperback
Best.-Nr. A9789211221305Paperback / softback. New. Analyses the complex conditions facing the region's trade in 2023 marked by weak global demand falling commodity prices and the growing interconnections between trade and geopolitics. It also gives an overview of trade relations with China in recent decades which remains characterized by the exchange of raw materials for manufactures. paperback
Best.-Nr. PE22Oblong Folio album ca. 285x37 cm 11 ¼ x 14 ¾ in. 50 black paper leaves 22 blank. With 218 mounted gelatin silver photos from ca. 8x135 cm 3 x 5 ¼ in to ca. 6x8 cm 2 ¼ x 3 ¼ in. No captions. With 15 loosely inserted photos including 5 duplicates: three large images ca. 22x34 cm 8 ½ x 13 ¼ in ten photos ca. 1520 cm 6x8 in and two smaller images. Period maroon full sheep album with a gilt-lettered title on the front cover. Binding rubbed on extremities the first leaf detached from the stub and loosely inserted several images slightly faded two large loosely inserted photos with creases and tears on extremities but overall a very good album. Interesting collection of original snapshot gelatin silver photos taken by an American or British family in the early 19th century which includes about 112 lively images of Bermuda and its people. The photos of Bermuda include a series of views of the Town of St. George showing the harbour with the Ordnance Island a graveyard with a pink Salvation Army church in the background St. Peter’s church and clock tower the oldest surviving Anglican church in continuous use outside of British Isles Stewart Hall city streets and historical houses &c. The identified views of Hamilton the territorial capital show the Princess Hotel taken from the harbour and city wharf. The other pictures of Bermuda show streets roads harbours with sailboats and naval ships coastal views private city houses and countryside residences portraits of local cart drivers local children the album’s compiler and his companions scenes on board a passenger steamer &c. The second half of the album with over a hundred photos depicts the compiler’s family life and their travels around Europe and the United States. The identified images show the “Peacock Hotel” Rowsley Derbyshire the Cliff Palace 11th-12th-century cliff dwelling in Montezuma County Colorado and the Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs. A portrait of an elderly lady features a sign that says “Cave of the Winds Pleases Everybody” most likely referring to the Cave of the Winds in the Pikes Peak region of Colorado. The other photos include scenes from an auto trip coastal views family portraits views of European cities likely in France &c. The loosely inserted photos are mostly views of the exterior and interior of a manor most likely in England. Overall an interesting collection of original snapshot photos of Bermuda in the early 20th century. unknown
Best.-Nr. PD19Oblong Folio album ca. 285x36 cm. 49 black paper album leaves. With ca. 260 mounted gelatin silver photographs of various size including ca. 20 large photos from ca. 245x32 cm 9 ½ x 12 ½ in to ca. 155x225 cm 6 x 8 ¾ in and 21 panoramas ca. 85x29 cm 3 ¼ x 11 1 /2 in or slightly smaller. The rest of the photos are from ca. 12x17 cm 4 ¾ x 6 ¾ in to ca. 4x6 cm 1 ½ x 2 ¼ in; most photos are ca. 8x14 cm 3 ¼ x 5 ½ in. No captions. About twenty photos with period ink notes “D.K.M. 10” in the corners. Period style black half morocco with cloth boards; decorative gilt-tooled borders on both boards and spine. Album leaves brittle several with tears and losses on extremities two large photos with tears and losses on extremities two small photos with losses of one corner each one photo has been apparently previously removed a few photos smildly faded or with mild silvering but overall a very good album of interesting photos. Historically significant album with lively amateur snapshots and original studio photos taken and collected by a family of American tourists during a Caribbean cruise in the early 1910s onboard the steamship “Moltke” of the Hamburg America Line Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft or HAPAG. Launched in 1901 S.S. “Moltke” went on regular cruises around the Caribbean and the Mediterranean until it was seized by Italy in 1915 in the course of WW1. Her Caribbean or West Indies cruises departed from New York and included stops in Cuba Puerto Rico Jamaica Panama Canal Venezuela Trinidad Barbados Martinique St. Thomas Dutch West Indies Bermuda & Bahamas. The album opens with several large views and panoramas of Havana harbour and waterfront featuring Castillo del Morro the iconic building of Lonja del Comercio commodities and stock exchange and S.S. “Moltke.” The other photos show Havana streets and passers-by the interior of a Catholic church &c. Over twenty photos are the views of the city and harbour of Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas Island – then the capital of the Danish West Indies since 1917 the U.S. Virgin Islands. The images show the city harbour from the distance and close-up a sign of “St. Thomas Bay & Rum Co.” is seen on one of the photos the statue of King Christian IX erected in the Emancipation Garden in 1909 removed in 2021 streets residential neighbourhoods on sloping hills a local market an official residence with the waving Danish flag garden of a Catholic convent with one of the monks posing alone and with a young tourist &c. Over thirty identified views of Puerto Rico a U.S. colony since 1898 a Commonwealth controlled by the U.S. since 1952 show San Juan: Plaza de Armas with the City Hall completed in 1842 Palacio de la Real Independencia now housing the Department of State of Puerto Rico Castillo San Felipe del Morro in the San Juan Bay Plaza Colon with Christopher Columbus monument San Juan harbour city streets and shops building of the “Hotel y Banos” a passenger train with the travellers walking at the front native cart drivers passers-by &c. A large group of photos ca. sixty depict the French Island of Martinique with a series of views of Fort-de-France: statues of Empress Josephine erected in 1859 destroyed in 2020 and Victor Schloelcher erected in 1904 removed in 2020 St. Louis Cathedral with the spire still under construction city streets and harbour “Hotel de l’Europe” distinctive cliffs on the coast near Fort-de-France &c. The views of Martinique include over twenty images of the ill-fated town of St. Pierre which perished during Mount Pelee’s eruption in May 1902. The photos include one view of St. Pierre before the destruction as well as general views of the ruins and desolation with posing tourists. Several images show the ruins of the Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of Assumption the downtown core with a grid of destroyed buildings and charred trees wrecked ships in the harbour a surviving bridge and the remains of the victims. A couple of images feature the top of Mount Pelee with a distinctive lava spine or the “Needle of Pelee” which was formed in October 1902 and collapsed in March 1903. Among the identified photos of Nassau Bahamas are the views of the famous silk cotton tree St. Matthews Anglican church completed in 1802 and the interior of Fort Charlotte. The other images show sugar cane plantations and native workers Caribbean residences streets and markets ports the American coastal steamer “Colonia” a series of scenes from a street carnival procession portraits of local market goers families diving children &c. Several images portray the tourists on board the S.S. Moltke including a group portrait with a lifebuoy of “Moltke Hamburg”. Overall a historically significant visual source on the history of American tourism to the Caribbean in the early 20th century with interesting views of the aftermath of the destruction of St. Pierre by the volcanic eruption. hardcover
Best.-Nr. RH-E6DW-G983Fair. Instrumentos basicos de integracion economica en America Latina y el Caribe Spanish Edition 1992 Paperback. Ex-University Library. Tight binding unmarked text moderate cover wear. FAST Daily Shipping! I-4 paperback
1941pp. xi, 498 + folding map. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn. Hardbound. Second printing. LATIN AMERICA BOX 1.
1984Best.-Nr. 119122New York - London, Norton 1984 Livre en anglais. In-12 broché 19,5 cm sur 13. 378 pages. Très bon état d’occasion.
1948Best.-Nr. 394954London : Caribbean Commission 1948. 1st edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copies; edges slightly dulled and edge-nicked. Bright and clean internally. The set remains particularly well-preserved overall. Date is suggested. Physical description: 3 v. : tables part fold. ; 33 cm. Subjects: Industries West Indies British; Industries Belize; Industries Guyana; Official reports; British Colonies Reports. London : Caribbean Commission paperback
1957Best.-Nr. 002949New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good /very good-. 4to. xvi 360 xviii 2 pp. Bound in quarter black cloth over natural cloth stamped in gilt and silver on cover and spine in illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated with full-color plates black and white in-text illustrations and black and white photographs. Includes bibliography and index. First Edition stated on copyright page. This is the second volume in what was to be a three-volume work on the aboriginal arts of the Americas but Covarrubias passed away in 1957 and the third volume covering South America was never completed. Very Good previous owner's name in ink to front free pastedown otherwise internally clean and sharp hinges tight and square binding has minor age-toning and wear to extremities but is otherwise bright and clean in Very Good- dust jacket with a 1-1/2" tear to upper edge of front cover near spine three long scuff marks to lower half of front cover sunning to spine and upper half of front cover overall age-toning and light soiling. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1863306p. Decorated title page. Lacks front fly leaf. Mildly age stained. 12mo. Original full green publisher's cloth binding. Embossed in blind and stamped with publisher's device. Gilt decorated and lettered spine. Slightly worn at extremities. Hardbound. First Edition. Fabens (1821-1875) went to the Island of Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic and Haiti) to farm. He gives us a wonderful account of: his efforts to profitably grow fruit and vegetables; his relations with his neighbors; general conditions on the island; etc. Sabin 34420. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/7
1968Chipping & small closed tears to price clipped DJ ; An American writer of Cuban descent favors the reader with a personal, engaging narrative of a three-month trip to Cuba in 1967 ; 8vo; 307 pages
1975A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Bumped corners. Tears on edge worn dust jacket. 274 pages.
1820Later wrappers, 8vo. 219, 16 pages, 20 cm. In Hebrew. Personal copy of Rabbi Jacques J. Lyons with his stamp. Jacques Judah Lyons (1814-1877) was an American rabbi. He was born and educated in Surinam, but ultimately left for America in 1837. He was the rabbi at Congregation Beth Schalom in Virginia and from 1839 onward, was the elected rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in NYC. He helped found Mount Sinai Hospital (Wikipedia, 2019) . SUBJECTS: Humash. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (Ets Haim, U. Library Amsterdam, Bamberg) . Vinograd Roedelheim, 71. Lacks wrappers. Has been trimmed down with some minor loss of text to title page. (RAB-66-11)
Best.-Nr. 1408520834.Gbundle. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
Best.-Nr. 21962740like new. unknown
2014Best.-Nr. x-1408520834Oxford Univ Pr 2014. Paperback. New. paperback/cd-rom st edition. 188 pages. 10.25x7.75x0.50 inches. Oxford Univ Pr paperback
1991Best.-Nr. 1246Altwerger and Mandel Publishing Company 1991. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Dustjacket and cover have some wear. First printing. Altwerger and Mandel Publishing Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 129618aafParis, Ernest Flammarion, 1929, in-8vo, 259 p., grand-papier, un des 160 ex. sur Hollande nº 231, en préparation pour la reliure (non finie), couverture orig. cons.
Best.-Nr. 13983408Paris: Flammarion, 1929 in-12, 250 pages. Broché, couv. très lég. défr., dos bien carré, bon état. Edition originale Un des 400 ex. sur vergé pur fil Lafuma.
1854Best.-Nr. 21221Boston: Phillips Sampson and Company. Very Good-. Early edition. Hardcover. Boards with moderate wear to extremities. Minute tears to spine ends. Spine a bit slanted. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. The slightest of foxing to the first and last few pages.; "Being a political historical and statistical amount of the island from it first discovery to the present time". Author Ballou was from Boston and later worked as the first editor for the Boston Globe. He was an extensive traveler and this book was his second one on Cuba and his second travel book. Before he wrote travel books he had a career as a fiction writer.; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; viii 230 10 pages . 1854. Phillips, Sampson and Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. PF38Quarto album ca. 282x175 cm 11 x 7 in. 24 card stock leaves. With 94 mounted original gelatin silver photographs ca. 9x115 cm 3 ¾ x 4 ½ in. Ca. 77 photos with period English ink captions on the mounts. Period hunter green full-cloth album with the gilt-tooled sunburst motif and the generic title “Photographs” on the front cover. Paper inventory label and pencil trances on the front cover worn edges two photos missing but otherwise a very good album with strong interesting photographs. Historically interesting album with excellent original photographs apparently taken by a British tourist during a voyage from England to present-day India the Mediterranean and the Caribbean at the turn of the twentieth century. The album follows a wide-ranging journey that begins in Calcutta then the capital of British India and continues through Varanasi Lucknow Agra and Delhi capturing the movement of the travelers across northern India. From there the route turns south to Madras and Colombo in Sri Lanka where the party embarked on a long sea passage. Traveling by steamer through the Suez Canal with recorded stops at Port Said and Malta the voyage gradually leads to the Caribbean. The final portion of the album centers on their time in Havana and is especially notable for its firsthand visual record of the aftermath of the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée which devastated the city of Saint-Pierre on Martinique. The album contains ninety-four well-executed photographs with most images of colonial India. About thirty early vibrant views portray iconic landmarks of Calcutta Tagore Castle Varanasi Monkey Temple Manikarnia Ghat Jaipur temples Agra exterior and entrance of Taj Mahal Delhi Sixty-four pillars interior the Great Mosque Jama Masjid jumping wells city gates Lucknow Gate of Kaiser Bagh the Residency Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple and Madras the Great Pagoda Parthasarathy Temple. Especially interesting are over twenty candid urban scenes showing a snake charmer playing pungi an elephant transporting passengers boys gathering coal near railway tracks steamer passengers crossing the Ganges at embarkation point and dozens of Indians strolling through native markets guiding ox carts or gathered for communal prayer. The rest of the Indian photos comprise excellent nature and street views as well as a portrait of the apparent well-dressed compiler posing by his/her companion at a Bombay Harbor. About fifteen lively vernacular photos from Sri Lanka include views of the Galle Road Maligakane Temple the Galle Face Hotel and vibrant street scenes with locals in traditional attire strolling through the bustling thoroughfares. The Caribbean series contains over twenty-five excellent photos with the most interesting images documenting the infamous 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée and the ruins of Saint-Pierre Martinique. Other important identified photographs feature the sunken USS Maine in Havana Harbor an event that helped prompt the Spanish–American War as well as views of Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro Havana Wharf and Havana street scenes. The series also includes views of Kingston Harbor in Jamaica together with other lively candid scenes. The collection further contains several photographs of Port Said and Valetta mostly showing harbor and sea views. Overall a historically interesting album with excellent original gelatin silver photographs taken during a voyage from British India to the Mediterranean Sea and the Caribbean at the turn of the twentieth century. hardcover
Madrid, 1946 - 1947 ("Biblioteca de Autores Españoles"). Dos volúmenes en 4to. mayor; XXI pp., 599 pp., 1 h. y 574 pp.,1 h. Encuadernación en media piel.
1844Best.-Nr. PHO-1491Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1844, in-8, 2 volumes, LXXI-771-[2] pp. en numérotation continue, 20 diagrammes hors texte, demi-chagrin rouge, dos à faux nerfs, monogramme "J.M.C." doré en pied des dos, Rousseurs, quelques auréoles, l'une assez large en tête du second tome.
1844Best.-Nr. PHO-2506Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1844, in-8, 2 volumes, LXXI-771-[2] pp. en numérotation continue, 20 diagrammes hors texte. Veau époque, dos lisse avec auteur, titre et tomaison. Manque aux dos, charnières fendues, quelques rousseurs, cachet aux titres.
