A 'MINIATURE STELA' FROM TIKAL, Expedition, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1962,
$10. No. 6291
BAUDEZ, Claude, MAYA SCULPTURE OF COPAN - THE ICONOGRAPHY, 116 B&W
photos, 135 drawings of monuments and stelae, 3 tables, 1 map, Hardcover,
300 p., $60. No. 6038
BENSON, Elizabeth and Gillett Griffin (eds), MAYA
ICONOGRAPHY, articles by Lee Parsons, David Freidel, Linda Schele, John
Justeson, Norman Hammond, Nicholas Hellmuth, David Stuart, Michael Coe,
Barbara and Justin Kerr, Francis Robicsek and Donald Hales, John Carlson,
Mary Miller, Karl Taube and others, over 500 drawings and photographs, listed
elsewhere at up to $150. Discusses discoveries in Maya art and hieroglyphic
decipherment. No. 6045
BRUCE, Roberto, GRAMATICA DEL LACANDON, INAH, Mexico City, 152 p,
includes art and archaeology with photographs and drawings of Lacandon incense
burners never before published. This is far more than a grammar, it is a
complete ethnography, especially rich in mythology an ideal source for interpreting
polychrome Maya vases. A book such as this is essential for iconographers.
Long out of print, we have a few new copies available, $50. No. 6057
BRUCE, Roberto, LACANDON TEXTS AND DRAWINGS
FROM NAHA,' 1976, 158 p, INAH, lots of illustrations of importance to
Maya iconography and religion, $50. Long out of print but we just found
one. No. 6058
CACAXTLA, CACAXTLA: Proyecto de investigacion y conservacion. Gobierno
del Estado de Tlaxcala, 1990. With articles by several archaeologists, Sergio
de la V. Vergara Berdejo, Ramon Sanchez Flores, etc. The value of this book
for archaeology, iconography, and art history is in the accurate line drawings,
especially of the God L as merchant, Frog-Toad, Maize God, and Jaguar-Turtle,
murals; 98 pages, photos (color and B+W). These particular mural segments
are in no other book on Cacaxtla, and are not in the National Geographic
article on Cacaxtla either. We have never seen this book offered elsewhere;
it is virtually impossible to find even in the city of Tlaxcala, and was
sold- out at Cacaxtla itself about three years ago. 98 p. Hence its value,
$150. No. 6060
CARDOS, de Mendez, Amalia, Estudio de la COLECCION DE ESCULTURA MAYA
del MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA, INAH. 167 photos, 190 small
p.. Not a coffee table book but nonetheless "the" definitive corpus
of all Maya sculpture not only on exhibit but also in the warehouses of
INAH in Mexico City. A basic reference for the curator, epigrapher, iconographer,
or individual who wishes to see the entire scope of Maya sculpture. $120.
No. 6062
CLANCY, Flora S. & HARRISON, Peter, VISION & REVISION IN MAYA
STUDIES, Hardcover, 25 pages of bibliography, 16 maps, 17 layouts and
more than 70 drawings of glyphs, figures and murals, 5 photos, 248 p., $42.
No. 6071
FONCERRADA DE MOLINA, Marta, CACAXTLA: La iconografia
de los Olmeca-Xicalanca, 1993, the best book yet published on the
iconography of the battle murals and Maya style jambs of Cacaxtla--by
far the most profusely illustrated book ever to appear on Cacaxtla.
Covers all the hieroglyphs, warfare attire and attributes, costumes, deities,
iconography--everything FULLY ILLUSTRATED with complete color
"roll-outs" of all the war/sacrifice murals, in addition to 182
informative drawings.191 p., $150. No. 6104
GREENE ROBERTSON, Merle (ed), PRIMERA MESA REDONDA DE PALENQUE, Vol.
II, Merle Greene Robertson ed. 143 pages, drawings and description of
art, Maya architecture, iconography, decipherment. $120. No. 6122
GREENE, Merle (general editor), SEVENTH PALENQUE ROUND TABLE, vol IX,
1989, articles on Olmec and Maya art and archaeology by ANDREWS, BARDSLEY,
BENSON, BRICKER, CHASE, CLANCY, CLOSS, FASH, GOLDSTEIN, GRUBE, HARRISON,
JONES, KERR, KURJACK, McGOVERN, REILLY, SCHELE, STUART, TATE, WREN, and
more, 295 p., $80 for this latest volume on iconography. No. 6123
GUDERJAN, Thomas, ANCIENT MAYA TRADERS OF AMBERGRIS CAYE, Belize,
41 p., nicely illustrated with drawings and photographs of remarkable polychrome
Maya vases - an essential book for anyone attempting to study iconography
of Maya vases. $35. No. 6125
HELLMUTH, N., THE SURFACE OF THE UNDERWATERWORLD: Iconography of the Gods of Early Classic Maya Art in Peten, Guatemala. 2 volumes. Due to more demand for the original edition (it sold out even at $300), we reprinted 30 copies. Spiral bound. $120 for the set. Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful line drawings. Twelve artists worked for years to produce these drawings. Over a decade of photography around the world went into the photographs from which the drawings were taken. These two volumes are the English original of Hellmuth's Ph.D. dissertation, the fancy edition printed in Graz, Austria. No. 6139
ICHON, Alain & Marie Charlotte Arnauld,
LE PROTOCLASSIQUE A LA LAGUNITA EL QUICHE, GUALEMALA. 257 p, filled
with photographs and drawings of early Maya pottery art. For anyone working
on the development of ceramic art, on iconography, on Maya symbolism, and
on the evolution from Preclassic to Protoclassic, this book is a standard
reference work. Actually, this is the most important book ever published
on Holmul I-style pottery--has ten times more pots than then the original
Holmul monograph. Thus long out of print, but we have one copy left, $250.
No. 6145
(INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS) XLI CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE AMERICANISTAS,
Mexico 1974, Crammed with information (English, Spanish), $100 all
three volumes together. Vol. I, 600 p, Vol. II, 679 p, Vol. III, 808
p, covers OLMEC, Maya, Teotihuacan, Aztec, Bilbao (Cotzumalhuapa) art, iconography,
archaeology, Tikal, Monte Alban, Belize, articles by HELLMUTH, Hammond on
Belize, Merle Greene Robertson on Palenque, and scores of others. Kekchi
myths, ballgame goal sculptures, The following reports are all in this volume
of the International Congress of Americanists, Geneva. No. 6151
D. Heydon, "What is the Significance of the Mexica Pyramid"
Hasso Von Winning, Mexican Figurines Attached to Pallets and Cradles"
E. Pasztory, "The Gods of Teotihuacan"
Gordon Ekholm, "The Archaeological Significance of Mirrors in the New
World"
Mary King, "A Textile Technique from Oaxaca, Mexico"
Norman Hammond, "Maya Settlement Patterns"
Lee Parsons, "Iconographic Notes on a new Izapan Stela from Abaj Takalik,
Guatemala"
Sabloff and Rathje, "Changing pre-Columbian Commercial Patterns on
the Island of Cozumel, Mexico"
Arthur Miller, "The Mural Painting at Tancah and in Structure 5 at
Tulum: Implications of their Style and Iconography"
A. Digby, "Evidence in Mexican Glyphs and Sculpture for an unrecognized
Astronomical Instrument"
F. Hochleitner, "The Correlation between the Mayan and the Julian Calendar"
R. Fry, "The Archaeology of Southern Quintana Roo: Ceramics"
Peter Harrison, "The Lintels of Tzibanche, Quintana Roo"
(all of these articles together, $80,) bound together with another dozen
arti- cles (total, 509 pages crammed with illustrations). This is Vol. I
of the International Congress of Americanists. No. 6151
MAYER, K. H., MAYA MONUMENTS: SCULPTURES OF
UNKNOWN PROVENANCE IN EUROPE, This useful reference work provides
a full-page photograph and a complete iconographic discussion of all the
stelae, lintels, altars, and other monumental sculpture in museums of Switzerland,
Germany, and France. Includes sculptures not yet published by Ian Graham.
$40. No. 6184
MAYER, Karl Herbert, MAYA MONUMENTS: SCULPTURES OF UNKNOWN PROVENANCE
IN THE UNITED STATES, based on extensive research to find ancient Maya
bas relief sculptures which were not already published by Ian Graham or
Proskouriakoff. This book is essential reading for Maya art and iconography,
and helps the reader learn the various regional Maya styles. $43. No.
6183
MEADE, Joaquin, EL ADOLESCENTE, complete iconography of an important Huastec Maya sculpture, Univ. Autonoma de Tamaulipas, $40, edition limited to 1000 copies, long out of print. No. 6186
MOHOLY-NAGY, H., A TLALOC STELA FROM TIKAL Describes the discovery and iconography of Stela 32 - together with - "TIKAL: PROBLEMS OF A FIELD DIRECTOR" by Edwin SHOOK, diary of how an actual archaeological project operates in the jungle. Interesting reading for anyone who has visited Tikal, Expedition, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1962, $8. No. 6290
MOSER, Christopher, NUINE WRITING AND ICONOGRAPHY OF THE MIXTECA BAJA 246 p. including 76 plates, $100. Out of print; this is our last copy. No. 6191
NAVARRETE, Carlos and MARTINEZ, Edwardo, CUEVA
DE LOS ANDASOLOS, UNACH, 19 pages of illustrations with descriptions
of figurines, 40 pages of photographs of figurines and site, (illustrates
the most important and exotic Jaguar God of the Underworld incensario ever
found in the entire Maya area). This book is an essential reference for
iconographers. 130 p., $42. No. 6198
NIEDERBERGER Betton, Christine, Paleopaysages et Archeologie pre-Urbaine
du Bassin de Mexico, 2 large volumes. Complete review of Preclassic
iconography (figurines and pottery) in general and Olmec iconography in
particular (jades and sculpture). I have not seen this title offered in
other catalogs; they are probably long out of print. The complete set of
two for $160 (853 pages of educational information including 237 drawings,
269 photos, plus 209 charts/ maps/tables). No. 6200
PARSONS, L. et al., THE FACE OF ANCIENT AMERICA: THE ZOLLMAN COLLECTION OF PRECOLUMBIAN ART, Foreword by Michael Coe, rollout photographs by Justin Kerr, includes abundant iconographic data from Nicholas Hellmuth and others; "scholarship with outstanding photographs," plenty of color photos of Maya art, $80. No. 6208
PASCUAL SOTO, Arturo, ICONOGRAFIA ARQUEOLOGICA
DE EL TAJIN, all the great sculpture of El Tajin, including several
reliefs not in Kampen's monograph, so many hundreds of illustrations we
lost count, hardcover too, 324 p., $80. No. 6209
Primer Simposio Mundial sobre EPIGRAFIA MAYA, with articles by Clemency
Coggins, Christopher Jones on decipherment of inscriptions at Tikal as well
as the only published illustrations of the just discovered incredible early
architectural facade masks of Uaxactun much nicer sculpture than the famous
E- VII-sub! Includes complete epigraphy and iconography of the remarkable
Teotihuacan style portable ballcourt marker recently found at Tikal Early
with lots of glyphs. Only 500 copies ever printed, $60 (we could find just
3 copies in all Guatemala). No. 6017
RHODES, Rilley, THE WORLD BEYOND, MAYA TOMB CERAMICS. Essential reading for Maya iconography as this rare publication illustrates outstanding works of Maya art from ancient Guatemala not included in the books of either Coe or of Robicsek. Impressive giant burial urns, unusual Early Classic incensarios "a goddess giving birth," pottery statues of the Sun God, and one of only three known Maya Teotihuacan-related censors from the Peten. The Tiquisate masterpieces are the most exotic of their kind in the world. 50 impressive photographs. $40. No. 6227
ROBICSEK, Francis, THE MAYA BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE CERAMIC CODEX, hundreds and hundreds of Justin Kerr photographs of Maya vases, deities, iconography, decipherment of hieroglyphs especially Primary Standard Sequence, $200, used only. No. 6231
RUIZ, Sonia Lombardo, et al., CACAXTLA: EL LUGAR DONDE MUERE LA LLUVIA EN LA TIERRA, over 1000 drawings (many in color), 240 photographs (several in color), fold out maps, fold out drawings of the entire mural sequence - the complete battle scene. It took 4 years to find these last copies. Monumental iconographic report on the Teotihuacan, Xochicalco, and Maya style murals of Cacaxtla, the most important find of the 1970's, 554 p., Hardbound, $200. No. 6235
SOTELO SANTOS, Laura Elena, YAXCHILAN, 190 thick pages with 57 color photographs of a quality better than in any other publication on Yaxchilan. These particular photographs far exceed those in any book on Yaxchilan printed in the USA or Europe, and are even better than Maler's or Maudslay's photographs in part because they are in color. This particular Mexican photographer was clearly a pro. $160. No. 6251
UNAM, MEMORIAS DEL PRIMER COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE MAYANISTAS, 1985. 56 maps, 242 figs, 1146 p. They never print enough of these important books to go around, so when this book goes out of print it will fetch $150 and up. Now just $100 for over one thousand pages. This is the most comprehensive set of articles on recent discoveries in Maya art, iconography, epigraphy, and archaeology to appear in recent years. Includes Tikal, Tulum, Belize, Cacaxtla, and two new sculptures just discovered at Bonampak. No. 6268
VILLACORTA & VILLACORTA, CODICES MAYAS,
the three main Maya codices (Paris, Madrid, and Dresden), in handsome line
drawings. Most epigraphers use these drawings rather than the color facsimiles,
since the details of the gods and glyphs are so much clearer. We have the
actual Guatemalan printing, not a fuzzy reprint or fuzzy xerox (where it
is hard to see the iconographic details). This book is long out of print,
even in Guatemala. $100, while they last. No. 6273
Von Winning, Hasso, TWO MAYA MONUMENTS IN YUCATAN, The Palace of the
Stuccoes at Acanceh & the Temple of the Owls at Chichen Itza, 99
B&W photos, drawings and illustrations, 95 p., $15. No. 6279
WILKERSON, S. Jeffrey, EL TAJIN, 79 pages,
filled with color photographs, maps, line drawings of stelae, ballcourt
panels. The most complete book available on El Tajin. Considering that El
Tajin is crucial for understanding the ballgame, is the home for yokes,
hachas, and palmas, and influenced the entire Maya area, this is an essential
book for Maya iconography. $30. No. 6280