Authors starting with V from Margolis & Moss

New York: A. Marrer & Sohn, 1878. 32 pages. With a folding engraving of the Mexican Calendar Stone laid in. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Printed wrappers; some fraying at the spine. With a hand stamp of a historical society on the front wrapper. A talk given in Republican Hall on the Aztec calendar stone, excavated in Mexico City in 1790. Born in Berlin in 1828, Valentini sailed to Costa Rica in 1854 and founded the seaport of Puerto Limon. He traveled extensively throughout Latin America before moving t... more information

Mexico, 1926.. 143 pages + six colored reproductions of book covers. 9 x 6 inches; red calf backed boards; original wrappers bound in; light scuffing to spine. Of special note is 60 pages of type specimens for the publisher Manuel Leon Sanchez. ... more information

Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1919. 692 pages. Portrait. 4to, half-crimson calf; original wrappers bound in; lightly rubbed Later printing of this biography written by Pasteur's son-in-law. Inscribed by the author to Miss Lilian Gilbert, 1925. ... more information

Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1887. 97 pages + book ads. Illustrated from wood-engravings. Octavo, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches. Brown pictorial cloth with a printed paper onlay; stain on cover. Includes the making and pitching of tents, making kites, toys, a simple boat, how to ice skate, making show shoes and much more. ... more information

Buenos Aires: El Nacional, 1876. . 135 pages, lithographed birds-eye view and a long, folding mounted albumen photograph of a new, large penitentiary. The image measures 6 x 11 3/4 inches. Octavo, 8 x 5 1/2 inches. Modern green cloth, with the ownership hand-stamp of Alberto Posse on the title. The lithograph and photograph show the new Carcel Nueva in Buenos Aires, and are credited to "Fotografia y Fotolitografia de la Concepcion, de Emilio Halitzky... Buenos Aires." The first "... more information

Paris: Bernard Freres, circa 1910.. An elegant, six panel folder. Illustrated. 8 x 4 1/2 inches. A bright copy. The cover panel displays various metals awarded to this firm, which was established in 1854. Inside are views of the factories and the various packaging for their products. A beautifully produced advertisement sheet. ... more information

Mexico, 1954-1959. Four volumes. Texts in English and illustrated with full page reproductions of Varona's photographs. 8 x 5 1/2 inches. All with pictorial dust jackets; some minor chipping. Translated from the Spanish by Leonard Cooper. Picturesque renditions of Mexican cities. ... more information

N.p.: Fundacion Polar, 2000. 309 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. 11 1/2 x 9 inches. Stiff, white printed boards. Minor crease at foot of spine. One of 1,000 copies. An incredible array of commercial product labels registered for sale in Venezuela. Reproduced are a couple of hundred labels in color, from the most represented, the United States (195 items) and England (59 items) to to the least, Italy and Denmark, each with 11 items. Each label has a descriptive text. ... more information

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. 604 pages. Illustrated from photographs and with a nice folding map of the railroads of Venezuela. 9 x 5 1/2 inches. Leather backed red cloth; front hinge split at head of spine; some staining to covers. Issued by the House of Representatives, 58th Congress, Doc. No. 145, Part 3. An extensive overview of the country at the opening of the twentieth century. ... more information

n.p.: Creole Petroleum Corporation, 1958.. 30+ pages. Illustrated with facsimiles. Quarto ( 12 x 8 3/4 inches); white printed wrappers over green board portfolio; loose as issued. Light soiling to the covers. Issued on the sesquicentenary of the introduction of printing into Venezuela in 1808. ... more information

Victoria: The Island Blue Print & Map Co., (1944). Folding map, printed in color and measuring 19 1/2 x 15 inches. Folding into printed beige wrappers 8 x 3 1/2 inches. A bright, clean copy. The map is the third edition of "Davenport's Commercial Map of Greater Victoria. ... more information

Mexico: Imprenta Universitaria, 1955. 39 pages of text (including bibliography), 16 plates from delicate drawings and 40 pages of halftone reproductions of photographs by the author. Small folio (12 x 7 3/4 inches); leather backed red cloth; two leather labels; original wrappers bound in. One of 1,500 copies of this interesting book on colonial architectural iron work in Zacatecas, Mexico. The prologue was written by the architect Roberto Alvarez Espinosa. ... more information

Cleveland: Evangelischen Gemeinschaft, 1894. 33 pages of text + 33 pages of photographic reproductions of Japanese missionary life. 6 x 9 inches. Green cloth with gilt lettering; a fine, bright copy. ... more information

New York: Macmillan Company, 1900. 225 pages. Anonymously illustrated in rich photogravure. 9 x 6 1/4 inches. Printed cream colored wrappers; spine worn but sound. A very nice copy, with the bookplate of Alice Lydia Hussey and signed in ink "from Annie Otis Sanders. One of 100 numbered copies, printed on Japanese Vellum, and the first illustrated edition. Elizabeth von Armin (1866-1941) published this work anonymously in 1898. This brooding semi-autobiographic work was so successful it was reprinted t... more information

Hagae-Comitis (The Hague): Adrianum Ulacq, 1658. Title in red and black, [1],315,[19] pages. Small quarto (8 1/4 x 6 inches); contemporary vellum with leather label; vellum sprung with one corner chewed. With the ownership signature of Thomass Farr Pomponius Mela was an important Roman geographer of the first century A.D. His "De Situ Orbis " is the earliest known description of the ancient world written in Latin. ... more information