Andean Countries

CEP 465

1969 Mexican comic book Santa Rosa de Lima (Peru).

Price: $100.00

CEP 455

Early Mexican comic book Tupac Amaru, El Leon Descuartizado.

Price: $100.00

Note: Túpac Amaru (1545 – 24 September 1572) was the last monarch (Sapa Inca) of the Neo-Inca State, the remnants of the Inca Empire in Vilcabamba, Peru. He was executed by the Spanish following a months-long pursuit after the fall of the last stronghold of the Neo-Inca State.

CEP 415

1893 French illustration of the British expedition to Colombia, showing Goagires and Arhuaques Indians, the environs of Rio Hacha and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marcha, and the bell tower at San Sebastian. B

Price: $20.00

CEP 436

1965 Mexican comic book on Andres Bello (Venezuela). B

Price: $60.00

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Three stock certificates for Peruvian companies: La Azufrera Sechura, issued in Lima in 1906; Banco Central hipotecario del Peru, issued in Lima in 1975; Sociedad de Beneficencia del Callao, issued in Callao in 1926. B

Price: $120.00

CEP 414

1906 article on the invitation by Bolivia for Great Britain to intervene to settle the border dispute with Brazil over the headwaters of the Purus and Madeira Rivers. B

Price: $20.00

CEP 413CEP 413

1855 illustration of Arequipa and Islay in Peru, with text on the revolution in Peru. Also an 1855 text on the Conibos Indians of Peru and a tribute to the late British Consul at Arica. B

Price: $40.00

MOB 043MOB 043

Homogeneous photo collection from a missionary in Lima Peru named Maria Amparo. She is with the MSCJ - (Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus). The collection spans her first arrival in 1951, through the 1970's. there are a couple photos of her back in Spain with her family in the late 90's, and her reunion with other sisters back in the Mission in Peru in 1999. She is mainly based in the mission station at Santa Maria de Nieva, but also at other missions. Much on her work in the jungle villages. Shown are vocational training for the children, local native habits, children playing and working, interactions between clergy and local natives, providing medical help to locals, photos with other sisters of the Misionera de Corazon de Jesus in Lima, travelling by canoe, taking sacrement in the jungle, first communion, military helicopter, more. There are more than 150 photos, many well captioned

NOTE: From the book MAKING WAVES, by Mario Vargas Llosa, he describes the Mission at Santa Maria de Nieva as follows: "It was in Santa Maria de Nieva, a small village where a mission had been set up in the 1940s. The nuns opened a school for girls of the tribes. But because they would not attend voluntarily, they were brought in with the help of the Civil Guard. After a spell in the mission, some of the girls lost all contact with their family world and could not go back to the life that they had been taken from. What happened to them, therefore? They were entrusted to the representatives of 'civilization' who came through Santa Maria de Nieva -- engineers, soldiers, traders -- who took them as servants. What was really extraordinary was that the missionary nuns did not realize the consequences of the whole operation, and that, furthermore, they demonstrated true heroism in order to carry it out. The conditions in which they lived were very difficult and they were almost totally isolated in the months when the river rose. That with the best intentions in the world, and at a cost of limitless sacrifice, they could cause so much damage is a lesson that I have never forgotten. It has taught me how vague the line is that separates good from evil and how prudent one must be in judging human actions and deciding the answers to social problems if one is to avoid the cure being worse than the illness."

Price: $500.00