Latin American Materials in UNT Special Collections: South America

Overview

The sources related to South America are listed below, sorted according to the following categories/countries:

Antiquities - Description and Travel - History - Maps - Argentina - Bolivia - Brazil - Chile - Colombia - Equador - Guiana - Paraguay - Peru - Uruguay - Venezuela

Antiquities

L'archéologie du bassin de l'Amazone by Erland Nordenskiöld
Call Number: 913.8 fN755
Publication Date: 1930

Description and Travel

Voyage to South America, Performed by Order of the American Government, in the Years 1817 and 1818, in the Frigate Congress by H. M. (Henry Marie) Brackenridge
Call Number: 918 B725
Publication Date: 1819
Adventures on the Western Coast of South America, and the Interior of California: Including a Narrative of Incidents at the Kingsmill Islands, New Ireland, New Britain, New Guinea, and Other Islands in the Pacific Ocean by John Coulter
Call Number: 910 C832
Publication Date: 1847
Narrative of a Journey round the World. Comprising a Winter-Passage across the Andes to Chili; with a Visit to the Gold Regions of California and Australia, the South Sea Islands, Java & c by Friedrich Gerstäcker
Call Number: 910.4 G324
Publication Date: 1853-4
Travels in South America: From the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean by Paul Marcoy
Call Number: 918 Sa22
Publication Date: 1875
A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages Travels in All Parts of the World: Many of Which Are Now First Translated into English; Digested on a New Plan by John Pinkerton
Call Number: 910 P655g
Publication Date: 1808-14
The Flowing Road: Adventuring on the Great Rivers of South America by Caspar Whitney
Call Number: F2223 .W62 1912b
Publication Date: 1912

History

Letters on the United Provinces of South America, Addressed to the Hon. Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives in the U. States by Vicente Pazos Kanki
Call Number: 980 P29l
Publication Date: 1819

Maps

L'Amérique meridionale: dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Académie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens by Guillaume de L'Isle
Call Number: G5200 1708 .L5 1722
Publication Date: 1722

Argentina

The Captive in Patagonia, or, Life among the Giants: A Personal Narrative by Benjamin Franklin Bourne
Call Number: F2936 .B79
Publication Date: 1853
Byron's Narrative; Containing an Account of the Great Suffered by Himself and His Companions on the Coasts of Patagonia, from the Year 1740, till Their Arrival in England, 1746. With a Description of St. Iago de Chili, and the Manners and Customs of the I by John Byron
Call Number: 918.2 B996
Publication Date: 1817
La Plata, the Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay; Being a Narrative of the Exploration of the Tributaries of the River La Plata and Adjacent Countries During the Years 1853, '54, '55, and '56, under the Orders of the United States Government by Thomas Jefferson Page
Call Number: 918.2 P145
Publication Date: 1859
La Gloria de don Ramiro, Una Vida en Tiempos de Felipe II by Enrique Rodríguez Larreta
Call Number: 863 L328g
Publication Date: 1933

Bolivia

The Route to Bolivia via the River Amazon. A Report to the Governments of Bolivia and Brazil by George Earl Church
Call Number: 330.984 C473
Publication Date: 1877

Brazil

Travels of His Royal Highness Prince Adalbert of Prussia in the South of Europe and in Brazil, with a Voyage Up the Amazon and Xingú by Prinz von Preussen Adalbert
Call Number: 918.1 Ad12
Publication Date: 1849
A Journey in Brazil by Louis Agassiz
Call Number: 918.1 Ag16
Publication Date: 1868
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil, and Residence There, During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Lady Maria Callcott
Call Number: 918.1 C131
Publication Date: 1824
Brazil, the Home for Southerners: Or, A Practical Account of What the Author, and Others, Who Visited That Country, for the Same Objects, Saw and Did While in That Empire by Ballard S. Dunn
Call Number: 918.1 D922
Publication Date: 1866
A Voyage Up the River Amazon: Including a Residence at Pará by William Henry Edwards
Call Number: 918.1 Ed98
Publication Date: 1847
Life in Brazil, or, A Journal of a Visit to the Land of the Cocoa and the Palm: With an Appendix, Containing Illustrations of Ancient South American Arts in Recently Discovered Implements and Products of Domestic Industry, and Works in Stone, Pottery, Gol by Thomas Ewbank
Call Number: F2513 .E94
Publication Date: 1856
Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands: With the Cape Horn Route to Australia, Including Notices of Lisbon, Madeira, the Canaries and Cape Verds by William Hadfield
Call Number: F2513 .H12
Publication Date: 1854
Brazil and the Brazilians: Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches by Daniel P. (Daniel Parish) Kidder
Call Number: 918.1 K538
Publication Date: 1857
Sketches of Residence and Travels in Brazil, Embracing Historical and Geographical Notices of the Empire and Its Several Provinces by Daniel P. (Daniel Parish) Kidder
Call Number: 918.1 K538s
Publication Date: 1845
Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'interieur de l'Amérique méridionale: depuis la côte de la mer du Sud, jusqu'aux côtes du Brésil & de la Guiane, en descendant la rivière des Amazones, lûe à l'assemblée publique de l'Acdémie des Sciences, le 28. av by Charles-Marie de la Condamine
Call Number: F2546 .L148
Publication Date: 1745
Voyages and Travels into Brasil and the East-Indies by Johannes Nieuhof
Call Number: G160 .N54 1732
Publication Date: 1732
The History of Brazil, from the Period of the Arrival of the Braganza Family in 1808, to the Abdication of Don Pedro the First in 1831. Compiled from State Documents and Other Original Sources. Forming a Continuation to Southey's History of That Country by John Armitage
Call Number: 981 Ar55
Publication Date: 1836
The Histories of Brazil by Pero de Magalhães Gandavo
Call Number: F2526 .G35 1922
Publication Date: 1922
Brazil and the Brazilians: Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches by Daniel P. (Daniel Parish) Kidder
Call Number: 918.1 K538
Publication Date: 1857

Chile

Insurrection at Magellan. Narrative of the Imprisonment and Escape of Capt. Chas. H. Brown, from the Chilian Convicts by Elizabeth Haven Appleton
Call Number: 983 Ap53i
Publication Date: 1854
The Captive in Patagonia, or, Life among the Giants: A Personal Narrative by Benjamin Franklin Bourne
Call Number: F2936 .B79
Publication Date: 1853
Byron's Narrative; Containing an Account of the Great Suffered by Himself and His Companions on the Coasts of Patagonia, from the Year 1740, till Their Arrival in England, 1746. With a Description of St. Iago de Chili, and the Manners and Customs of the I by John Byron
Call Number: 918.2 B996
Publication Date: 1817
Journal of a Residence in Chile, During the Year 1822. And a Voyage from Chile to Brazil in 1823 by Lady Maria Callcott
Call Number: 918.3 C131
Publication Date: 1824
Narrative of a Journey round the World. Comprising a Winter-Passage across the Andes to Chili; with a Visit to the Gold Regions of California and Australia, the South Sea Islands, Java & c by Friedrich Gerstäcker
Call Number: 910.4 G324
Publication Date: 1853-4
Extracts from a Journal, Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822 by Basil Hall
Call Number: 918 H14
Publication Date: 1824
La guerra a muerte. Memoria sobre las últimas campañas de la independencia de Chile, 1819-1924 by Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna
Call Number: 983 V666g
Publication Date: 1868
A Sketch of Chili, Expressly Prepared for the Use of Emigrants, from the United States and Europe to That Country, with a Map, and Several Papers Relating to the Present War between That Country and Spain, and the Position Assumed by the United States The by Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna
Call Number: 983 V666
Publication Date: 1866

Colombia

A Visit to Colombia, in the Years 1822 & 1823, by Laguayra and Caracas, over the Cordillera to Bogota, and Thence by the Magdalena to Cartagena by William Duane
Call Number: 918.6 D85
Publication Date: 1826
An Account of the Expedition to Carthagena: With Explanatory Notes and Observations by Sir Charles Knowles
Call Number: F2272.5 .A15
Publication Date: 1743
Geografía general y compendio historico del estado de Antioquia en Colombia by Manuel Uribe Angel
Call Number: F2281.A6 U7
Publication Date: 1885

Equador

Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator by Edward Whymper
Call Number: F3741.A6 W6 1892b
Publication Date: 1892

Guiana

The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana: With a Relation of the Great and Golden Citie of Manoa (Which the Spanyards Call El Dorado) and of the Provinces of Emeria, Arromaia, Amapaia, and Other Countries, with Their Rivers, Adjoyn by Sir Walter Raleigh
Call Number: E129.R2 A25 1966
Publication Date: 1966

Paraguay

La Plata, the Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay; Being a Narrative of the Exploration of the Tributaries of the River La Plata and Adjacent Countries During the Years 1853, '54, '55, and '56, under the Orders of the United States Government by Thomas Jefferson Page
Call Number: 918.2 P145
Publication Date: 1859

Peru

El arte peruano en la escuela; L'art péruvien à l'école; Peruvian Art in the School by Elena Izcue
Call Number: 745 Iz1a
Publication Date: 1926
Journal of a Voyage to Peru: A Passage across the Cordillera of the Andes in the Winter of 1827, Performed on Foot in the Snow; and a Journey Across the Pampas by Charles Brand
Call Number: 918 B733j
Publication Date: 1828
Extracts from a Journal, Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822 by Basil Hall
Call Number: 918 H14
Publication Date: 1824
Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'interieur de l'Amérique méridionale: depuis la côte de la mer du Sud, jusqu'aux côtes du Brésil & de la Guiane, en descendant la rivière des Amazones, lûe à l'assemblée publique de l'Acdémie des Sciences, le 28. av by Charles-Marie de la Condamine
Call Number: F2546 .L148
Publication Date: 1745
Relation of the Discovery and Conquest of the Kingdoms of Peru by Pedro Pizarro
Call Number: 972 C8181 no.4
Publication Date: 1921
An Account of the Conquest of Peru by Pedro Sancho
Call Number: 972 C8181
Publication Date: 1917

Uruguay

La Plata, the Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay; Being a Narrative of the Exploration of the Tributaries of the River La Plata and Adjacent Countries During the Years 1853, '54, '55, and '56, under the Orders of the United States Government by Thomas Jefferson Page
Call Number: 918.2 P145
Publication Date: 1859

Venezuela

The History of Don Francisco de Miranda's Attempt to Effect a Revolution in South America, in a Series of Letters . . . to Which are Annexed, Sketches of the Life of Miranda, and Geographical Notices of Caraccas by James Biggs
Call Number: 980 B484
Publication Date: 1810

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