The Art of the Maya: November 15th to December 15th, 1937
Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1937. Paperback. frontis (map), photos, (36)p. Wrapper. 27cm. Exhibition Catalog.
Pre-Columbian
Boletin del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Issue No. 2 (1987)
Santiago de Chile: 1987. Paperback. illustrations, 131p. Softcover in original wrapper. 27cm.
Boletin del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Issue No. 5 (1991)
Santiago de Chile: 1991. Paperback. illustrations, 85p. Softcover in original wrapper. 27cm.
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...
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.
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.
Paleopathology in South American Mummies: Application of Modern Techniques
Richmond: Virginia Commonwealth University, January 1982. Paperback. 3rd ed. photos, 103p. Wrapper. 21cm.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.).
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.
La Escultura Arquitectonica de Uxmal
Mexico: Imprenta Universitaria, 1965. Hardcover. illustrations, 207p. dj. 23cm. Foxing on endpapers (and some on jacket). Spanish text.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.