BAUDEZ, Claude, JEAN-FREDERIC WALDECK, Pientre Le Premier Explorateur
des Ruinas Mayas, w/63 drawings & paintings of Maya carvings and
fanciful landscapes & people, glossy pages, Hardcover. 200 p., $120.
No. 6039
BENSON, Elizabeth (editor) CITY STATES OF THE MAYA: ART AND ARCHITECTURE
with articles on
El Mirador by Ray Matheny, Tikal by Peter Harrison,
Uxmal by Jeff Kowalski, Copan by Mary Miller,
Palenque by Linda Schele, 171 pages, features color architectural drawings
of El Mirador, a map of El Mirador, and color photographs of Copan, $25,
out of print, but we have copies in stock. Available for immediate shipment.
No. 6043
BENSON, Elizabeth and David Joralemon, PRE-COLUMBIAN ART FROM MESOAMERICA
& ECUADOR: Selections from Distinguished Private Collections.
32 p., Color & B+W photos of Olmec and Maya art not published anywhere
else. $40 No. 6046
BERJONNEAU, Gerald and Jean-Louis Sonnery, REDISCOVERED MASTERPIECES
OF MESOAMERICA, foreword by Michael Coe, who called this "the
most beautiful book yet produced on Mesoamerican art" handsomely printed
in Switzerland, hardcover, filled with hundreds of photographs (including
by Justin Kerr, some by Nicholas Hellmuth), lavish layout, large page size,
287 pages of outstanding ancient art, $400 for now (will rise to $500 shortly).
No. 6147
CHOUINARD, Jeffrey, MOUTHS OF STONE: Stories of the Ancient Maya, 1995,
covers art and archaeology of the ancient Maya, features drawings of
Linda Shele, Barbara Fash & others, hardcover coffee table book with
Beautiful cover photograph by Nicholas Hellmuth-F.L.A.A.R. Photo Archive.,
242 p., $80. No. 6069
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
GRIFFIN, GILLETT (Introduction), SCHATTEN UIT DE NIEUWE WERELD, (In
German), 11 articles of precolumbian new world, 20 pages showing chronology
of cultures and city states with maps of where these people lived in North,
Central & South America and the Carribean, 475 color plates of artifacts
from cultures of the americas with descriptions and provenances, including
92 from precolombian Mexico, from Maya (Mexico, Guatemala & Honduras)
52 color plates. 484 glossy pages, $400. No. 6124
HABERLAND, Wolfgang, American Indian Art / Die Kunst des Indianischen
Amerika (in English and in German), Museum Rietberg, Zurich. Maya, Veracruz
ballgame sculpture, Preclassic figurines, West Coast Mexico, plus Peruvian
textiles. Maya section features vases, Jaina figurines and stelae. 408 p,
and lots of maps, hardcover, printed with Swiss quality. $100. No. 6128
HELLMUTH, N., MONSTERS AND MEN, the complete German/English bilingual
edition coffee-table version, printed in Graz, Austria, with 727 illustrations
including lots of color photographs. Most of the Maya art herein has never
previously been published.
Leather (real leather, hand bound), $200, autographed by the author,
edition listed to 100 copies, each copy hand numbered. No. 6140
Hand bound, cover imbossed with Maya design, $150. autographed by
the author, edition limited to 100 copies, each copy numbered. No. 6140a
Regular edition, hardcover, $120 (this edition sold out) No. 6140b
This Graz edition has several advantages over the Ph.D. version, lots in
color, lots not in the Ph.D. version, and additional text. Although the
Graz edition is primarily in German, ALL CAPTIONS to all illustrations ARE
IN ENGLISH. Most people buy both the Ph.D. version to get the complete text
in English, then buy the Graz additional also to get all the color plus
the updates (the additional data). If you buy both together, $200 (gives
you three volumes, namely two volumes in English (Ph.D. version), plus one
volume bilingual with color, Graz Monster and Men)
HELLMUTH, N., TIKAL COPAN: A General Introduction to Maya Art, Architecture
& Archaeology includes travel information. Revised edition (1978),
214 p, hundreds of photographs, easily the most popular book Hellmuth has
written, which has taken the book into Out of Print status; a few copies
left, $50 while they last. Lots of photos of MAYA POTTERY, most of which
is not anywhere else published. Covers more than 20 sites w/ history and
maps of areas. No. 6136
HELLMUTH, N., CATALOG OF TZAKOL PERIOD MAYA ART IN SITE REPORTS AND IN
MUSEUMS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS: Guatemala, Mexico, USA, Canada and Europe,
Vol. II: Maya Cylindrical Tripods. This is the only catalog of all known
Early Classic cylindrical tripods from the museums and private collections
throughout the world. Sections include stuccoed-and-painted, polychrome
painted, negative painted, etc. Lists all hieroglyphic inscriptions. Pots
in private collections are compared and contrasted with all known examples
excavated from Chiapas, Peten, Belize, Honduras, and the highlands especially
with tripods from Tikal and Uaxactun. 7 full page photographs, 247 pages
of cogent description. Hardcover (library binding), $60; softcover, $40.
No. 6137
HILDSHEIM, DIE WELT DER MAYA, (in German), 264 color plates of precolombian artifacts with full page in depth analyses, descriptions and provenances, 14 articles in 284 pages w/175 beautiful color photographs of sites, stelae, codices, murals and artifacts. The authors of the articles are: Herbert Wilhelmy, Juan Antonio Valdes, Robert J. Sharer, Nicholas P. Dunning, Wolfgang W. Wurster, Oscar Quintana, Stephan D. Houston & David Stuart, David A. Freidel, Ted Leyenaar & Gerald W. van Bussel, Linda Schele, Nicholai Grube, T. Patrick Culbert, Diane & Arlene Chase, and Carolyn Tate. 636 p., $150. No. 6142
KANO, Chiaki, TAKAHASHI COLLECTION, The Americas, materials on the Americas from the Takahashi collection, 96 p., Peru, Columbia, Costa Rica, MAYA, ballgame hacha, palma, polychrome vases, plates, bowls, eccentric flints (stela cache), eccentric obsidian, preclassic pottery, figurines, Maya polychrome enema scene, outstanding glyphs on giant Peten Maya plate. $100 because we had to fly to Japan to track down this book (attempting to do it by mail did not work). No. 6155
KELKER, Nancy (ed), AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS: Pre-Columbian Art in the Collection of the San Antonio Museum Association. Articles by Peter Furst, Hasso von Winning, Gordon McEwan. 132 p. including lots of photographs of pre-Columbian art not pictured in any other catalog. $45, covers Maya art, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Aztec, Jalisco, Nayarit, Colima, Chupicuaro, Guerrero, Michoacan, Oaxaca plus Peruvian ceramics as well. No. 6153
KING, Elizabeth (ed) ART & ENVIRONMENT IN
NATIVE AMERICA, eight articles, includes: HALLUCINOGENS IN PRE-COLUMBIAN
ART by Peter Furst, CLIMATE & ICONOGRAPHY IN PALENQUE SCULPTURE by George
Kubler, and articles on Mexican and Peruvian art, 169 p. $40. No. 6157
MUSEE BARBIER-MUELLER, ART DE L'AMERIQUE PRECOLOMBIENNE, Olmec, Veracruz
hacha, Teotihuacan mask & mural, Monte Alto (Guatemala Preclassic),
Tlatilco, Aztec, Huaxtec, 3 maps, 30 full page photographs of artifacts,
covers North and South America, Antilles and Mesoamerica, 50 p., $40. No.
6194
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
PROSKOURIAKOFF, Tatiana, MAYA HISTORY, Hardcover, about 150 pages w/glyphs and descriptions and chronology of art of Classic period (250-900AD), 14 line drawings of monuments, more than 300 original glyphs drawings, 211 p., $45. No. 6225
ROBICSEK, Francis, THE SMOKING GODS: TOBACCO IN MAYA ART, HISTORY, AND RELIGION, foreword by Michael Coe. 233 p., 234 illustrations (including photographs by Nicholas Hellmuth), 265 outstanding color plates, $230, used, out of print and hard to find. No. 6230
SCHELE, Linda & FREIDEL, David, A FOREST OF KINGS -The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya, w/16 color plates, photographic rollouts of Maya vase & pottery drawings, hardcover, 542 p. $30. No. 6242
SCOTT, John F. ANCIENT MESOAMERICA:Selections
from the Gallery Collection, 48 photos, 1 map, 60 p., Maya and
other art not previously published, $21. No. 6244