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Bibliotheca hispano-americana. A catalogue of Spanish books printed in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, the Antilles, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru,

Bibliotheca hispano-americana. A catalogue of Spanish books printed in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, the Antilles, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru,

Paperback

General ReferenceSouth American History

ISBN10: 9353703743
ISBN13: 9789353703745
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 20 2019
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A map of lost print. Bibliotheca hispano-americana opens the doors of early Latin American publishing, tracing Spanish and Portuguese books produced from Mexico to the southern cone, and from the Antilles to Brazil. Built as a bibliographical catalogue reference, this work gathers the evidence of presses and paper trails across Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, and the Argentine Republic, alongside brazilian portuguese imprints. It is both a complete latin american bibliography in spirit and a practical book collector research tool: names, places, and editions arranged to support identification, comparison, and provenance work. Especially valuable is the appended aboriginal american languages bibliography, a focused record of scholarship on Indigenous languages that deepens its value for the history of the book and for anyone working in hispanic studies reference. For librarians and researchers, it functions as a steady librarian acquisition reference; for collectors, it is a rare book reference collection that helps situate colonial latin american imprints within the wider story of transatlantic print culture and the mexico peru brazil presses. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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