Boletin del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Issue No. 2 (1987)
Santiago de Chile: 1987. Paperback. illustrations, 131p. Softcover in original wrapper. 27cm. More
Pre-Columbian
Boletin del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Issue No. 5 (1991)
Santiago de Chile: 1991. Paperback. illustrations, 85p. Softcover in original wrapper. 27cm. More
Mascara con mosaicos de turquesas: Dictamenes periciales
Mexico: Imprenta del Museo Nacional de Arqueologia, Historia y Etnografia, 1922. illustrations, photos (1 color), iv, 34p. Wrapper. 20cm. Some splitting along backstrip, with chipping at ends. INSCRIBED on front cover by R. Mena (then head of the Museum's Departamento de Arqueologia) and Porfirio Aguirre (discoverer of the mask). Spanish..... More
Maya Research (Mexico and Central America), Vol. II, No. 2 April 1935
New York: Alma Egan Hyatt Foundation, 1935. Paperback. ills, photos, plan, sections, time-charts, [103]- 232p. Wrapper. 27cm. Moderate wear. More
Pre-Columbian Art
New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1983). Hardcover. Translated from the French by I. Mark Paris. ills, photos (some folding), maps, plans, facsimiles, index, 614p. Off-white cloth. dj. 31cm. Comprehensive single-volume work. More
Paleopathology in South American Mummies: Application of Modern Techniques
Richmond: Virginia Commonwealth University, January 1982. Paperback. 3rd ed. photos, 103p. Wrapper. 21cm. More
One Hundred Masterpieces of the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology
Mexico: Jose Bolea, (c. 1969). Hardcover. photos (many color; some double-page; by Constantino Reyes), 25, (102) (plates), xxxip. Yellow-beige cloth. Pictorial dj (lightly rubbed, some soiling). 33cm. Text in Spanish and English. Pre-Columbian works from Mesoamerica: Olmec, Maya, Toltec, Aztec, etc. More
The Ceramic Sculptures of Ancient Oaxaca
South Brunswick, N.J. A. S. Barnes; London: Thomas Youseloff, (c. 1966). Hardcover. ills, photos (some color), index, 488p. Hardcover (off-white cloth). dj. 35cm. Pictorial jacket has some tearing and wrinkling which has been partially repaired with cellophane tape. Bottom edge of front cover soiled. INSCRIBED by Boos to his sister..... More
Das Inka-Reich. Beitrage zur Staats- und Sittengeschichte des kaiserthums Tahuantinsuyu, Nach den altesten spanischen Quellen bearbeitet.
Jena: Fr. Mauke's Verlag, 1885. Hardcover. folding plate, folding map (color), xxxi, 842p. Modern cloth. Most of original front and back covers mounted. 22cm. Backstrip faded. Split at folds on plate and map repaired with tape on back. German text. More
Art and Life in Ancient Mexico
Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, (1948). Hardcover. frontis, ills, photos, map (on front endpaper), 112p. Cloth-backed boards. 25cm. Sound copy. More
Sculpture in the Ancient Maya Plaza: The Early Classic Period
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (c. 1999). 1st ed. Hardcover. map, illustrations, 169p. 28cm. No Jacket. More
Man and Mammoth in Mexico
London: Hutchinson, (1957). 1st ed. in English. Hardcover. color frontis, photos, maps, index, 191p. dj. 23cm. Tape reinforcing strip across head of backstrip. Translated from the German by Alan Houghton Brodrick. An anthropological exploration in Mexico and Guatemala. More
Moche Fineine Painting: Its Evolution and Its Artists
Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, (c. 1999). 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos (some color), index, 319p. Original red boards. dj. Oblong (31 x 23cm.). More
Historia general del arte mexicano: Epoca prehispanica
Mexico: Hermes, (c. 1962). Hardcover. ills, photos (some color), maps, plans, sections, 254p. Beige cloth. Pictorial dj (edge-tears, partially repaired with cellophane tape). 28cm. Yellowing along edges of color-plate leaves. Spanish text. Additional volumes were issued on later periods of Mexican art history. More
Cabezas
Lima: Imprenta del Museo Nacional, 1939. Paperback. photos, 71p. Slightly worn wrapper (small edge-tear). 25cm. Publicaciones del Museo Nacional, Lima-Peru. Escultura Antigua del Peru, No. 1. Spanish text (minimal). Photographic study of sculptural and ceramic representations of heads in pre-Columbian Peruvian art. More
Reich der Inka
Hagen i. W: Folkwang-Verlag, 1922. Hardcover. photos, 60p. plus 96p. plates. Decorated beige cloth. dj. 28cm. Jacket heavily chipped along edges. Hinge papaer cracked. Slight vertical crease on most text-leaves. Schriften-Reihe Kulturen der Erde: Material zur Kultur- und Kunstgeschichte aller Volker, Band I. German text. More
Biologia Centrali-Americana: Archaeology. Appendix: The Archaic Maya Inscriptions.
Printed by Taylor and Francis: [London?], 1897. Paperback. ills, tables, ix, 149, (114)p. Blue wrapper. 33cm. Binding broken in a couple of places. Some insect damage on front cover. Inked title on backstrip. Name on endpaper. A relatively early study of Mayan hieroglyphic writing. Extensive appendices include the "Archaic Annual..... More
The Hieroglyphic Stairway: Ruins of Copan. Report on Explorations by the Museum
Cambridge, Mass. Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 1902. 1st ed. Paperback. illustrations, photos, plans, 38p. plus (20) leaves of plates (2 double-page). Softcover. 36cm. Wrapper browned with a few edge chipped. Tear in lower margin of first 8 leaves. Library bookplate (William Fogg Library). Memoirs of..... More
Los Murales de la Cueva de Oxtotitlan Acatlan Guerrero. Informe sobre las Investigaciones Arqueologicas en Chilapa, Guerrero, noviembre de 1968
Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 1970. Hardcover. Illustrated. 95p. Original wrapper. 27cm. Spanish text. Serie Investigaciones, 23. More
Tarascan Art of Ancient Mexico
Toronto: Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1956. Paperback. 4 tipped illustrations. One sheet folded accordion-style to form a narrow 12-page brochure. 24cm. More
Maya & Mexican Art
1927. Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942. Maya & Mexican Art. London: The Studio, 1927. color frontis, ills, photos, map (on endpapers), plans, section, viii, 191p. Embossed orange cloth. Gilt decorations and lettering on backstrip. dj (some chipping & soil). 22cm. Name on back of frontis. Top edge gilt. More
Peruvian Cumbrous Bowls. [cover title]
Berkeley: U of California, 1930. Paperback. folding leaf of ills, tables, [325]-341p. Original wrapper. 27cm. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 24, No. 6. More
The House of the Governor: A Maya Palace at Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico
1951. Kowalski, Jeff Karl. The House of the Governor: A Maya Palace at Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (c. 1951). 1st ed. photos, xx, 298p. Hardcover in original two-toned binding. dj. 28cm. Fine/Fine. ISBN: 0806120355. More
Art in Ancient Mexico: Selected and Photographed from the Collection of Diego Rivera
New York: Oxford, (c. 1941). Hardcover. frontis, photos, map, xxvi, (180)p. Red and yellow cloth. dj (soiling & some wear). 31cm. Corners bumped. Gift inscription. Contains 259 photos of sculptural and ceramic works from pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico. More
Guide Book to the Ruins of Quirigua
1935. Morley, Sylvanus Griswold. Guide Book to the Ruins of Quirigua. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1935. 2nd printing (1947). ills, photos, maps, plans, diagrams, 205p. Dark green cloth. 22cm. White spotting on back cover. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Supplementary Publication No. 16. Quirigua is a Maya site in eastern..... More