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(art precolombien) . ART ANTIQUE ART PRECOLOMBIEN; ART PRIMITIF
Paris Nov. 1973, Mars 1974, Juin 1974. Three auction catalogues, in French. Octavos, about 25pp. each, photo illustrations, original wraps. VG. Three catalogues (a79515)
$34.00 Durand-Forest, Jacqueline de . SURVIVANCE DE QUELQUES TECHNIQUES PRECOLOMBIENNES DANS LE MEXIQUE MODERNE i. LE TISSAGE
Paris 1966. In French. Octavo, pp. 525-561 with 9 figures and photo plates, removed from the Journal de la Societe des Americanistes and rebound in later wraps. VG plus. (a79506)
$25.00 Poindexter, Miles . THE AYAR-INCAS 2 VOLUMES (COMPLETE)
NY 1930 1st Liveright. 2 Volumes. 8vo., 274pp., 359pp., photos illustrations, index, red cloth. Author was fomer U.S. Senator and Ambassador to Peru. VG, one tiny closed tear at head of spine in Volume 1, in Fair DJs, worn and chipped. 2 volumes. (a77719)
$45.00 (art) . AMERICAN SOURCES OF MODERN ART
NY 1933 1st Museum of Modern Art. Exhibition Catalogue, New York City, Museum of Modern Art, May - June 1933. Sm.4to., 50pp. of text, 224 monochrome plates (some several per page), original wraps. VG. (a71751)
$35.00 Arroyo, Miguel et al . ARTE PREHISPANICO DE VENEZUELA
Caracas 1971 Fundacion Eugenio Mendoza. In Spanish. 4to., 260pp., moncohrome illustrations, hardcover. VG. long crack in paper on spine, in Good DJ, worn. (a68497)
$145.00 Kelsey, Albert . YUCATECAN SCENES AND SOUNDS, AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE NUMISMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia 1919 The Society. Yucatan art. Sm.4to., 40pp. photo illustrations, drawing, hardcover. Signed: Compliments of the Author. VG. (a68318)
$30.00 Covarrubias, Miguel . MASCARAS MEXICANAS, EXPOSICION DE LA SOCIEDAD DE ARTE MODERNO
Mexico 1945 1st Secretaria de Educacion Publica. Mexican masks. 4to., 83pp., color and monochrome photo illustrations, wraps. VG, light wear, spine faded. (a68248)
$85.00 Holmes, William H. . POTTERY OF THE ANCIENT PUEBLOS
c. 1886 Smithsonian Institution. 4to., pp. 257-360, illustrations, later wraps. VG (a66239)
$35.00 Holmes, William H. . ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF FORM AND ORNAMENT IN CERAMIC ART
c. 1886 Smithsonian Institution. 4to., pp. 439-464, illustrations, later wraps. VG (a66238)
$33.00 (sculpture) . CEREMONIAL SCULPTURE OF ANCIENT VERACRUZ
Brookville 1988. Exhibition Catalogue for Hillwood Art Gallery, C. W. Post, Brookville, New York. Octavo, 96pp. color plates, numerous monochrome photo illustrations, maps, original wraps. VG. (a65890)
$25.00 Marquina, Ignacio . ESTUDIO ARQUITECTONICO COMPARATIVO DE LOS MONUMENTOS ARQUEOLOGICOS DE MEXICO
Mexico 1928 1st Talleres Graficos de la Nacion. Scholarly, heavily detailed tex in Spanish. Chapters include: La Cultura Arcaica, La Cultura Nahua, La Cultura Olmeca; Ciudades Arcaicas, Oaxaca, Toltecas, Mayas del Golfo, Mayas del Usumacinta, Mayas del Peten, Mayas de Centroamerica; Edificios Cuicuilco, Yacatas de Michoacan, Edificios Nahuas, Olmecas, Totonacos, Toltecas, Editifcio Mayas, Edificios Zapotecas, Aztecas. Oblong Lg.Folio, many diagrams, charts, drawings, color plates of artworks and artifacts, quite a few large foldout plates, leather spine with paper covered boards, fancy green patterned end papers. Good, corners worn, cover and spine a bit warped. (a58418)
$300.00 Bennett, Wendell C. . ANCIENT ARTS OF THE ANDES
NY 1954 Museum of Modern Art. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 168pp., illustrations, cloth. VG in Good DJ, some closed tears, chipping and light soiling on dj. (a53261)
$24.00 Ashton, D. . ABSTRACT ART BEFORE COLUMBUS
NY 1957 Andre Emmerich Gallery. 4to., 47pp., monochrome photo illustrations, decorated boards with new paper backstrip. VG, no DJ. (a50543)
$25.00 Ubbelhode-Doering, Heinrich . KUNST IN REICHE DER INCA
Tuebingen 1952. 4to., 58pp. of text in German plus 240 photo plates (4 in color, remainder monochrome), decorated cloth. Good, cloth worn on corners and small sections of edges, no DJ. (a46742)
$75.00 Sangines, Carlos Ponce . LA CIUDAD DE TIWANAKU
La Paz n.d. (c.1970). Separately published from Arte y Arquelogia, Numero 1. In Spanish. Sq.8vo, 32pp., illustrations, wraps. VG, light wear. (a46589)
$35.00 (mexico travel guides) . OFICIAL GUIDE GUIA OFICIAL 10 GUIDES
Collection of 10 travel guides to Mexico published by Istituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia. c. 1950. 8 guides in English; 2 in Spanish. Titles: Palenque, Calixtlahuaca, Monte Alban Mitla, Tula, El Tajin, Mayan Hall, Teotihuacan, Copilco-Cuicuilco, Templo Mayor de Mexico. Essential for serious traveller in Mexico. 12mo., photo illustrated, diagrams, maps, wraps. VG. Collection of 10 guides. (a46175)
$45.00 Fernandez, Justino . ESCULTURA PREHISPANICA DE MEXICO
Mexico no date (c. 1968). Sm.4to., 36pp., color illustrations wraps. VG. (a45757)
$30.00 Spinden, H.J. . THE POPULATION OF ANCIENT AMERICA
NY 1928. Removed from the Geographical Review. 8vo., 20pp., illustrations, foldout map, rebound in later wraps. Good, light wear. (a44399)
$23.00 Fought, John G. . CHORTI (MAYAN) TEXTS (I)
Philadelphia 1972 1st University of Pennsylvania. Edited by Sarah S. Fought. Hardcover. Octavo, 566pp., cloth. Fine in VG DJ. (a43498)
$35.00 Peterson, Frederick . ANCIENT MEXICO AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRE-HISPANIC CULTURES
NY 1961 2nd Putnam. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 313pp., photo illustrations, drawings by Jose Luis Franco, maps, cloth. VG in Good DJ. (a43167)
$24.00 Arias-Larreta, Abraham . LITERATURAS ABORIGENES DE AMERICA AZTECA INCAICA MAYA QUICHE
San Jose 1976 Decima ed. Author. In Spanish. Hardcover. Octavo, 736pp., hardcover. VG, no DJ. (a43094)
$45.00 Fuhrmann, Ernst . MEXIKO III
Hagen und Darmstadt 1922 2nd ed. Folkwang. In German, 4to., monochrome photo illus. Hood, new paper backstrip. (a42678)
$45.00 Verut, Dominique D. MD . PRECOLUMBIAN DERMATOLOGY AND COSMETOLOGY IN MEXICO
1973 Schering Corporation. Translated from Spanish by B. Andrade. 4to., about 60pp., illustrated with fine full color photo illus., boards. VG, small bit of water staining on lower spine end affecting end papers at lower inner corner which stuck together and then were pulled apart leaving small torn areas, in VG DJ. (a39455)
$25.00 (latin america) . JOURNAL DE LA SOCIETE DES AMERICANISTES TOME LXXVIII-I
Paris 1992. Articles on archeology and folklore in Latin America. In French. Lg.8vo., 2155pp., illus., wraps. VG, light siling. (a37456a)
$25.00 Kelemen, Paul . MEDIEVAL AMERICAN ART MASTERPIECES OF THE NEW WORLD BEFORE COLUMBUS
NY 1956. One volume edition. Lg.4to., 414pp., 270 photo illustrations (several per page) on glossy stock, index, hardcover. VG, no DJ. (a32024)
$20.00 Sangines, Carlos Ponce . EL TEMPLETE SEMISUBTERRANEO DE TIWANAKU
La Paz 1969. In Spanish. Octavo, 129pp., photo illustrations, plates and large foldup maps in rear pocket, wraps. VG. (a31458)
$79.00 Burland, Cottie; Nicholson, Irene and Harold Osborne . MYTHOLOGY OF THE AMERICAS
London 1970. Hardcover. 4to., 407pp., illustrations, index, cloth. VG in VG DJ. (a28309)
$23.00 Kellemen, Pal . MEDIEVAL AMERICAN ART VOLUME I
NY 1943 1st Macmillan. Pre-Columbian art and architecture. Hardciover. 4to., 414pp., red buckram with gilt lettering. Fine, no DJ. Volume 1 only. (a28061)
$24.00 Schmidt, Erich F. . TIME-RELATIONS OF PREHISTORIC POTTERY TYPES IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA
NY 1928. Offprint from American Museum of Natural History, Volume XXX Part V. 8vo., pp. 249-302, photo illustrations, map, wraps. VG. (a27341)
$22.00 Saville, M. H. . AN ANCIENT FIGURE OF TERRA COTTA FROM THE VALLEY OF MEXICO; A SHELL GORGET FROM HUASTECA, MEXICO (signed)
NY 1897, 1900. Two offprints from the American Museum of Natural History: Octavo, pp. 221-224, 2 photo plates, wraps; octavo, pp. 99-103, illustrations, wraps. **Signed presentation copy from Saville. Good, covers a bit frayed. Pair: (a27340)
$43.00 Weaver, Muriel Porter . THE AZTECS, MAYA AND THEIR PREDECESSORS ARCHAEOLOGY OF MESOAMERICA
NY 1972 Seminar. Hardcover. 4to., 347pp., illustrations, cloth. VG, no DJ.. (a27148)
$23.00 Sansores, Manauel Cirerol . GUIA DE USHMAL
Merida 1956 2nd Yucatan. Mayan ruins. In Spanish. 8vo., 149pp., 114 line illustrations, wraps. VG, light wear. (a25154)
$34.00 Hyams, Edward and George Ordish . LAST OF THE INCAS THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN EMPIRE
NY 1963 Simon and Schuster. Hardcover. Octavo, 294pp., photo illustrations, index, cloth. Fine in Good DJ, worn and some tears. (a11164)
$24.00 Bennett, Wendell . ANCIENT ART OF THE ANDES
NY 1954 Museum of Modern Art. Sm.4to., hardcover. VG, no DJ. (a10246)
$20.00 Verut, Dominique D. MD . PRECOLUMBIAN DERMATOLOGY AND COSMETOLOGY IN MEXICO
1973 Schering Corporation. Translated from Spanish by B. Andrade. 4to., about 100pp., color plates, boards. VG in VG DJ. (a10018)
$26.00 von Hagen, Victor W. . DESERT KINGDOMS OF PERU
London 1965 1st Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Sq.sm.4to., 291pp., monochrome and color photo illustrations, index, hardcover. Owner bookplate. VG in Fair DJ, worn. (a7508)
$20.00 Spinden, Herbert J. . ANCIENT CIVILIZATION OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA
NY 1928 3rd, revised. American Museum of Natural History Handbook Series No. 3. Sm.8vo., 271pp., illustrations, foldout chart, hardcover. Museum bookplate. VG. (a7070)
$22.00 Schezen, Roberto . VISIONS OF ANCIENT AMERICA
NY 1990 Rizzoli. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 216pp., beautiful photos of ruins of ancient peoples of Mesoamerica, cloth. Fine in Fine DJ. (a6097)
$25.00 Batres, Leopoldo . VISITA A LOS MONUMENTOS ARQUELOGICOS DE LA QUEMADA ZACATECAS
Mexico 1903 Diaz de Leon. Detailed, scholarly, archeological study. In Spanish. 4to. 43pp. of text plus 26 photo plates on glossy stock, one color plate and 5 maps and plans (4 of which are foldout), wraps. Ink title handwritten on spine. Good, cover worn, spine faded. Original book, not a reprint. (a6021)
$120.00 Palacios, Enriqaue Juan . CULTURA TOTONACA EL TOTNACAPAN Y SUS CULTURAS PRECOLOMBINAS
Mexico 1941 El Nacional. In Spanish. 8vo., 196pp., wraps. Fair, printed on very cheap paper, very browned. (a5941)
$20.00 D'Harnoncourt, Rene . EL ARTE DEL INDIO EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
Washington 1943 National Indian Institute. Octavo, 22pp., monochrome photo illustrations, wraps. Good, a few small stains, light wear on spine. (a5481)
$20.00 (pre-columbian art) . TRESORS D'ART PRECOLOMBIEN
Paris 1959 Galerie Charpentier. In French. Sq.8vo., text plus 4 mounted color plates and numerous monochrome plates, wraps. Good. (a5374)
$23.00 Kelemen, Pal . MEDIEVAL AMERICAN ART 2 VOLUMES (COMPLETE)
NY 1943 1st Macmillan. Pre-Columbian art and architecture. 2 volumes. 4to., 414pp., 33pp., 306 photo plates on glossy stock, index, red buckram with gilt lettering. VG, no DJ's. Set of two volumes: (a5328)
$29.00 Emmerich, Andre . SET OF THE SUN AND TEARS OF THE MOON GOLD AND SILVER IN PRE-COLUMBIAN ART (signed)
NY 1977 Hacker. Sm.4to., 216pp., many monochrome and color photo illustrations, index, hardcover. **Inscribed and signed by Emmerich. Fine in Fine DJ. (a5295)
$60.00 Soustelle, Jacques and Ignacio Bernal . MEXIKO. PR�KOLUMBIANISCHE WANDMALEREIEN
1958 NY Graphic Society. Large folio (13x19 inches), 20pp. of text in German. 5 monochrome photo illustrations, 32 very large color photo illustrations of pre-Columbian art, hardcover. Good plus, leaves very slightly wrinkled, cover has a few stains, corners gently worn, in Fair DJ, worn, some tears and chips. (a5244)
$42.00 Snook, Barbara . EMBROIDERY DESIGNS FROM PRE-COLUMBIAN ART
NY 1975 1st Scribners. Hardcover 4to., 135pp., monochrome and color illustrations, cloth. Fine in VG DJ. (a5232)
$29.00 Basler, Adolphe. . L'ART PRECOLOMBIEN (HARDCOVER)
Paris 1928 Librairie de France. In French. Hardcover. 4to., 64pp. of text, 190pp. of photo illustrations, 22pp of tables, index, boldly decorated orange cloth. VG, light wear, in later protective glassine jacket. Attractive book. (f18)
$95.00 Bergsoe, Paul . THE METALLURGY AND TECHNOLOGY OF GOLD AND PLATINUM AMONG THE PRE-COLUMBIAN INDIANS
Kobenhavn 1937 1st Ingeniorvidenskabelige Skrifter. English translation by F. C. Reynolds. Sm.4to., 44pp., 4 photo plates, original wraps. VG, light wear. (a81370)
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