HONDURAS

 

MURPHY, Francis, DRAGON MASK TEMPLES IN CENTRAL YUCATAN, 82 large format pages, hardcover, published in Hong Kong with stunningly beautiful full page photographs of Chenes and Rio Bec palaces and temples. Covers Hochob, Tabasqueno, Dzibilnocac, Chicanna, Hormiguero, Santa Rosa Xtampak as well as CHENES temples at Uxmal and Copan. This rare book just got rarer since the warehouse storing them all (in Hong Kong) was destroyed. DRAGON MASKS is the most attractive book on RIO BEC Maya architecture of Campeche yet printed. Only $300 for one of the few copies of this exquisite book which exist in the United States. No. 6193

NAKAMURA, Seiichi, Kazuo Aoyama, and Eiji Uratsuji, Investigaciones Arqueologicas en la Region de La Entrada, 3 volume report of the Japanese archaeological expedition northeast of Copan: ceramics, artifacts, sculpture, hieroglyphs (decipherments by Linda Schele). $150 for the set of all three volumes (but order now since we have only two sets and cannot get more at present). No. 6371

PROSKOURIAKOFF, Tatiana, A STUDY OF CLASSIC MAYA SCULPTURE, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pub. 593, original edition, not the reprint with fuzzy 2nd-hand illustrations. Paper version (original Carnegie edition still in CIW binding), oxidized cover, $450--first-come, first-served for this rare edition of the most important reference book on Maya sculpture ever published. No. 6223

SANDERS, William, EXCAVACIONES EN EL AREA URBANA DE COPAN, Vol. I, 152 architectural drawings, 157 photos, 10 fold out drawings, 391 p., $70. No. 6238

STONE, Doris, ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE NORTH COAST OF HONDURAS, Peabody Museum, Memoirs, Vol. IX, No. 1, 1941, original edition, NEW, not used, not a reprint. This is, to our knowledge, the only new and unused example of this book available in the world. $320. No. 6254

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