BOOK
Title:
Travels in Peru, on the coast, in the sierra, across the Cordilleras & the Andes, into the primeval forests
Creator:
Tschudi, Johann Jakob von, 1818-1889
Publication:
Barnes, New York, 1854.
Extent:
xi, 354 p. : 2 pl. ; duodecimo.
BOOK
Title:
A true and particular relation of the dreadful earthquake which happen'd at Lima, the capital of Peru, and the neighbouring port of Callao, on the 28th of October, 1746: with an account likewise of every thing material that passed there afterwards to the end of November following
Publication:
Printed for T. Osborne, London, 1748.
Notes:
The bulk of the work, including the description of Peru and its cities and the scientific observations, is a compilation from various authors, made, not by the translator, but "by another hand" -- Pref., p. xiii. Readex Microprint edition.
Extent:
Front., xxiii p., pl.II , 341 p., [3] p. : Front. (fold. map), 5 fold. pls., 3 fold. plans.
BOOK
Title:
The seacoast and islands of Peru
Creator:
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-
Publication:
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, 1920-1922.
Notes:
Eleven parts, clipped from the Brooklyn Museum Quarterly vols. 7-9, bound in 1 volume.
Extent:
1 v. (various pagings) : illus., maps ; 25 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Las Misteriosas islas del Peru
Creator:
Alayza Paz Soldán, Luis, b. 1883
Publication:
Talleres Graficos de la Editorial Lumen S.A, Lima, 1951.
Notes:
Obra dedicada a la Conferencia de Ciencias Antropológicas organizada por la Escuela de Altos Estudios.
Extent:
213 p. : illus., plates, map ; 26 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
La figure de la terre déterminée par les observations faites au Pérou
Creator:
Bouguer, (Pierre)M, 1698-1758
Publication:
C.A. Jombert], Paris, 1749.
Notes:
Landmarks of Science.
Extent:
[24] p., cx p., fold. pl., [1] p. ., 394 p., VII fold. pls., [2] p. : Fold. pls.
BOOK
Title:
La figure de la terre: déterminée par les observations de Messieurs Bouguer & de La Condamine, ... pour observer aux environs de l'equateur : avec une relation abregée de ce voyage qui contient la description du pays dans lequel les opérations ont été faites
Creators:
Bouguer, (Pierre)M, 1698-1758 | La Condamine, Charles-Marie de, 1701-1774
Publication:
Chez Charles Antoine Jombert, A Paris, 1749.
Notes:
"Relation abrégée du Voyage fait en Perou" -- p. [i]-cx. Includes bibliographical references.
Extent:
[24], cx, [2], 394, [2] p., [18] folded leaves of plates : ill., map ; 26 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Bird islands of Peru: the record of a sojourn on the west coast
Creator:
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-
Publication:
G. P. Putnam's sons, New York & London, 1925.
Notes:
Illustrated lining-papers. Based on the results of an expedition under the auspices of the Brooklyn museum, September, 1919, to February, 1920. cf. Pref. "List of the principal literature consulted during the preparation of this book": p. 347-352.
Extent:
xx, 362 p. front., illus. (maps) plates, diagrs. 24 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Peru: incidents of travel and exploration in the land of the Incas
Creator:
Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888
Publication:
Harper & Brothers, New York, 1877.
Notes:
Includes index. Title on added t.p.
Extent:
xx, 599 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., front., maps ; 24 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Joannis Bisselii è Societate Jesu, Argonauticon Americanorum, sive historiae periculorum Petri de Victoria ac sociorum ejus : libri XV
Alt. Title:
Naufragio y peregrinacion. Latin
Creator:
Bissel, Johann, 1601-1682
Publication:
prostant apud aegidium Janssonii à Waesberge, Gedani [i.e. Danzig], M.D.C.LXXXXVIII [1698]
Notes:
Addes engraved title page. Includes index. Translation of: Naufragio y peregrinacion de Pedro Gobeo de Vitoria; from a German version of the original, published Seville, 1610.
Extent:
[32], 405, [15] p., [2] leaves of plates : map ; 14 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Travels of Ruiz, Pavón, and Dombey in Peru and Chile (1777-1788)
Creators:
Ruiz, Hipólito, 1754-1816 | Barreiro, Agustín, 1865-1936 | Dahlgren, B. E. (Bror Eric), 1877-1961
Publication:
Chicago], 1940.
Notes:
With reproductions of title-page of the first published Spanish edition: ... Relación del viaje hecho a los reynos del Perú y Chile por los botánicos y dibuxantes enviados para aquella expedición, extractado de los diarios por el orden que llevó en estos su autor don Hipólito Ruiz ... Madrid, 1931. One of the maps is accompanied by transparent leaf with "Itinerary of Ruiz and companions of Peru." Bibliography included in epilogue.
Extent:
372 p. : 2 maps ; 24 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The East and West Indian mirror: being an account of Joris van Speilbergen's voyage round the world (1614-1617), and the Australian navigations of Jacob Le Maire
Creators:
Spilbergen, Joris van, 1568?-1620 | Le Maire, Jacques, 1585-1616 | De Villiers, John Abraham JacobSir, 1863-1931 | Hakluyt Society
Publication:
Printed for the Hakluyt Society, London, 1906.
Notes:
Plates 2-25 accompanied by a leaf with letterpress. Translation of the Dutch edition "Oost ende West-Indische spiegel ..." Leyden, 1619. The title-page, plates and maps and various passages of the original edition, the title-page of the edition Amsterdam 1621, and Le Maire's portrait in the Dutch edition 1622 of A. de Herrera's Indias Occidentales are reproduced in facsimile. "Description of the government of Peru, compiled by ... Pedro de Madriga, a native of Lima": p.86-99. "The kingdom of Chili and its circumstances" by Jacob Dirickszoon van Purmerlant: p.100-101. "A discourse by the very renowned Apoloni Schot, a native of Middelburgh in Zeeland [on the Molucca islands]" : p.133-149. "A short description of the number and position of the forts ... in the service of the general company in the Indies under the rule of ... the States general of the United Netherlands and of his Pr. Ex. Maurice of Nassau, prince of Orange, July, 1616": p.154-160. Bibliography: p. [233]-251 and Index by B. H. Soulsby.
Call #:
910.6 H125W SER.2, NO.18
Extent:
lxi p., 3 l., 272 p. : facsims. (incl. port., maps, plan) ; 23 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
Voyage of a naturalist: northern Chile and Peru
Alt. Title:
Journal of researches
Parent:
A century of nature stories
Creators:
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Robertson Scott, J. W. (John William), 1866-1962
Publication:
Hutchinson & Co, London, [n.d.]
Call #:
VAL 508.3 D25v.Sco3
Extent:
95-138 p. ; 22 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
The "Great wall of Peru" and other aerial photographic studies by the Shippee-Johnson expedition
Parent:
Smithsonian institution. Annual report, 1932
Publication:
Smithsonian institution, Washington, 1933.
Notes:
"Reprinted ... from the Geographical review, vol.22, no.1, January, 1932."
Call #:
506.73 SM6AN 1932
Extent:
p.461-473 : illus. (map) 10 pl. on 5 l. ; 23 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Pacific shores from Panama
Creator:
Peixotto, Ernest C., 1869-1940
Publication:
C. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1913.
Notes:
Illustrations on lining papers.
Extent:
xiv, 285 pages, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud aux côtes du Chily et du Perou: fait pendant les années 1712, 1713 & 1714
Creator:
Frézier, Amédée Francois, 1682-1773
Publication:
Chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon,...Etienne Ganeau,... Jacque Quillau, A Paris, 1716.
Notes:
"Ouvrage enrichi de quantité de planches en taille-douce." Decorative head and tail pieces, and initials.
Extent:
xiv, 298, [2] p., [37] leaves of plates : ill., maps, music, plans ; 26 cm.
BOOK
Title:
A voyage to the South-sea, and along the cost of Chili and Peru, in the years 1712, 1713 and 1714: particularly describing the genius and constitution of the inhabitants, as well Indians as Spaniards: their customs and manners; their natural history, mines, commodities, traffick with Europe, &c
Alt. Title:
Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux côtes du Chili, du Pérou, et du Brésil, fait pendant les années 1712, 1713, & 1714. English
Creators:
Frézier, Amédée Francois, 1682-1773 | Frézier, Amédée François, 1682-1773 | Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742
Publication:
Printed for Jonah Bowyer, London, 1717.
Notes:
Postscript, [3] p. at end, pages [1-2] damaged. Translated from the French.
Extent:
319, [3] p., [36] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, music, plans ; 24 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Three years in the Pacific: including notices of Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Peru
Creator:
Ruschenberger, W. S. W. (William Samuel Waithman), 1807-1895
Publication:
Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1834.
Extent:
xi, [1], [9]-441 p. ; octavo.
BOOK
Title:
A true and particular relation of the dreadful earthquake which happen'd at Lima, the capital of Peru, and the neighbouring port of Callao, on the 28th of October, 1746: with an account likewise of every thing material that passed there afterwards to the end of November following
Creator:
Lozano, Pedro, 1697-1752
Publication:
Printed for T. Osborne, London, 1748.
Notes:
"A true and particular relation of the dreadful ruin in which Lima ... was involved" (p. 131-199) is a translation by Henry Johnson of the "Individual, y verdadera relacion de la extrema ruyna pue padeciò ... Lima," first published at Lima in 1746. Cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 30, p. 14. "Appendix. A full account of the late dreadful earthquake at Port-Royal in Jamaica; in two letters written by the minister of that place [Rev. E. Heath] from a-board the Granada in Port-Royal harbour [1692]": p. [326]-334. Includes bibliographical references.
Extent:
xxiii, 341, [3] p., [8] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Peru: incidents of travel and exploration in the land of the Incas
Creator:
Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888
Publication:
Harper & brothers, New York, 1877.
Extent:
xx, 599 p. incl. illus., front. : pl., plans ; 23 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Travels in South America from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean
Creators:
Marcoy, Paul. | Marcoy, Paul. | Rich, Elihu, 1819-1875
Publication:
Scribner, New York, 1875.
Notes:
Translated from the French by Elihu Rich. Originally published serially in Le Tour du Monde; t. 6-16, 1862-67. Reissued, Paris, 1869. 2 v. Translator's preface dated London, 1874.
Extent:
2 v. : ill., maps. ; 33 cm.
