ACANFORA, M. Ornella et al.,
IL MUSEO PIGORINI. Covers all primitive arts of the world.
Lavish publication on the best pre-Columbian collection in Italy (Rome).
Outstanding color of mosaic masks, covers all pre-Columbian cultures, including
Maya polychrome vases not widely published elsewhere. 428 p, 586 photographs
including 122 in full color. $300. This book is not sold elsewhere. No.
6001
AOYAGI, Masaki & OKI, Yoshio, NEW HISTORY OF WORLD ART - World Art
Complete Collection, The Prehistoric Art and Central & South American
Art, most lavish Japanese Mesoamerican coffee table book, over 800 photographs,
90% of Mesoamerican section taken by Nicholas Hellmuth and his F.L.A.A.R.
crew. All photos have both English and Japanese descriptions with provenances
indicated. This book is not sold anywhere else outside of Japan. $340.
No. 6025
G & T FOUNDATION, PIEZAS MAESTRAS MAYAS, Patrimondo del Museo
Nacional de Arquelogia y Etnologia de Guatemala, GALARIA GUATEMALA III,
15.5" x 11.5" hardcover coffee table book, Spanish & English
parallel text, 28 articles covering ecology, geography & development
of technology of ancient Maya, as well as Preclassic, Classic, Postclassic
& Spanish contact periods with the effects of interaction by different
cultures. Discusses infrastructures, commerce, war, religion, art, architecture
& cultures of Maya. 2 page chart of chronology of major sites. Beautiful
photography to illustrate artifacts & culture of the Maya,10 B&W
& 150 color photographs plus 35 full page color plates, 249 p., $320.
No. 6307
GRAHAM, Mark Miller (Editor), REINTERPRETING PREHISTORY OF CENTRAL AMERICA,
9 articles, covers art and cultures of Mesoamerica, photos of pottery, hardcover,
336 p., $35. No. 6119
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
HELLMUTH, N., BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 16TH-20TH CENTURY MAYA OF THE SOUTHERN
LOWLANDS: CHOL, CHOL LACANDON, YUCATEC LACANDON, QUEJACHE, ITZA, AND
MOPAN. Hellmuth's first publication! 114 p. Actually this is one
of the best introductions to the Lacandon Maya available. If you believe
that the Lacandon are the descendants of the Maya who built Bonampak, Yaxchilan
or Palenque, then you need to read Hellmuth's Introduction in this standard
reference work on Lacandon ethnography and ethnohistory. Only $25. Includes
a review of Maya ethnohistory and problems of ethnographic analogy in Maya
archaeology. No. 6135
ICHON, Alain & DOUZANT-ROSENFELD, Denise & USSELMANN, Pierre, ARCHEOLOGIE
DE SAUVETAGE 6, La Vallee Moyenne du Rio Chixoy (Guatemala) - Occupation
Prehispanique et problemes actuels, 110 maps, B&W photos and illustrations,
covers Preclassical (800BC-100AD), Protoclassical-Classical (100-600AD),
Late Classical (600-900AD), Epiclassical (900-1100AD), Postclassical (1100-1500AD),234
p., $60. No. 6149
LARRALDE de SAENZ, Jacqueline, CRONICAS EN BARRO Y PIEDRA, Arte prehispanico
de Mexico en la Coleccion Saenz - El Periodo Formativo, more
than 500 B&W photographs of figurines, 19 full page color plates - all
with descriptions, covers periods 1800-1000BC, 1000-500BC and 500BC - 100AD.,
8 maps, includes a chronology of influences of cultures and city states
from 1800BC to 1500AD., hardcover, 250 p., $400. No. 6162
LEON-PORTILLA, Miguel, Tiempo y realidad en el pensamiento maya, 2 maps, 7 B&W photos of glyphs and sculptures, 37 drawings of figures & glyphs, 214 p., $35. No. 6167
MATOS MOCTEZUMA, Eduardo, REFLEXIONES EN EL TIEMPO, Una mirada al arte prehispanico, (in Spanish), 3 articles, 14 color plates and 67 B&W photos of artifacts, hardcover, 190 p., $200. No. 6179
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
NICHOLSON, H. B., PRE-COLUMBIAN ART FROM THE LAND COLLECTION based in part on consultation with Nicholas Hellmuth and others, all Mesoamerican cultures handsomely illustrated with pieces not published elsewhere. $40. No. 6199
PEREZ GALAZ, Juan de Dios, CAMPECHE EN LA CULTURA MAYA. 90 p., covers preclassic through Spanish contact. Here is a book your library is missing, $23. No. 6212
RUL, Francisco Gonzalez, LA CERAMICA
EN TLATELOCO, INAH. 55 figs, 7 maps, 5 tables, 36 diagrams, 262 p.,
$40. No. 6236
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
SHAO, Paul, ASIATIC INFLUENCES IN PRE-COLUMBIAN
AMERICAN ART, 11" X 14", compares photographs of contemparary
Asian and Mesoamerican figures to reach his conclusions., 195 p., $80. No.
6245
TEDLOCK, Dennis (translator), POPUL VUH, The Definitive Edition of the
Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings, 126
pages of descriptive references, 27 page glossary of names & terms,
index of 64 illustrations, 388 p., $15. No. 6258
TSURUMOTO, Shozo, TREASURES OF THE ANCIENT
MAYA EXHIBITION - Searching the Rise and Fall Mystery, (in Japanese),
maps of expeditions of Columbus, spheres of influences of some
Maya city states known, locations of city states, 128 color photographs
of Maya artifacts on black back-ground plates, 112 p., $100. No. 6267
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
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