AZTEC

 


MEXICO

- CULTURE & RELIGION


BARLOW, Robert H., TLATELOLCO: RIVAL DE TENOCHTITLAN. 29 figs of codices and old maps, paperbound, 164 p., $30. No. 6035

CARRASCO, David (editor), TO CHANGE PLACE: Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes, 16 articles on religion & culture of Aztec world, 253 p., $30. No. 6064

CARRASCO, David & MATOS MOCTEZUMA, Eduardos, MOCTEZUMA'S MEXICO - Visions of the Aztec World, Hardcover coffee table book with beautiful dustcover, more than 120 color plates, text in English, 188 p., $45. No. 6063

DAHLGREN, Barbo (ed), HISTORIA DE LA RELIGION EN MESOAMERICA, includes Aztec and Teotihuacan iconography, 303 p., $30. No. 6082

DAY, Jane S. AZTEC - The World of Moctezuma, all glossy pages, 62 photos, 15 paintings & 41 drawings (all in color), depicts history & lives of the Aztec and their empire until its last days. 88 p., $20. No. 6084

KUBLER, George, ARENSBERG COLLECTION PRE-COLUMBIAN SCULPTURE lots of yokes, palmas, hachas, plus Aztec, West Coast Mexico, Maya (vases also), 197 handsome photographs, virtually all full page size, $50. Hardcover. No. 6159

LEYENAAR and Lee PARSONS, ULAMA, THE BALLGAME OF THE MAYAS AND AZTECS with text also by H.B. Nicholson. 227 informative pages with lots of illustrations (inc. color) of all Mesoamerican games. Outstanding coverage of yokes, hachas, palmas, polychrome Maya vases, a female Jaina ballplayer. This is the most recent book produced anywhere in the world on the ballgame. $150. No. 6168

LEYENAAR, Ted, Gerald van BUSSEL and Paul van DONGEN (eds), THE MESOAMERICAN BALLGAME. Outstanding contributions by Norman Hammond, Ted Leyenaar, Nicholas Hellmuth, Lee Parsons, Merle Greene Robertson, and many others. Unfortunately, a limited printing (only 500 copies!). Price is sure to rise to $250 when copies run out. Now, $150, In stock ready for immediate shipment. 300 informative pages, 173 educational illustrations. No. 6170

PARSONS, L., PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA: THE ART & ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTH, CENTRAL AND MIDDLE AMERICA. Jaina figurines, ballgame sculpture, incense burners, Preclassic, Aztec, West Coast Mexico, 193 p. $25. No. 6207

RUL, Francisco Gonzalez, LA CERAMICA EN TLATELOCO, INAH. 55 figs, 7 maps, 5 tables, 36 diagrams, 262 p., $40. No. 6236

SERRA PUCHE, Mari Carmen & Felipe SOLIS OLGUIN, Cristales y OBSIDIANA prehispanicos, 1994, lavish coffee table book, the largest and must luxurious ever created on obsidian and rock crystal of the OLMEC, TEOTIHUACAN, MAYA, AZTEC and MIXTEC. Includes the only photographs of mahogany-colored obdidian I have ever seen. 232 large and attractively printed pages, $250. No. 6241

SOLIS OLGUIN, Felipe, CATALOGO DE LA ESCULTURA MEXICA DEL MUSEO DE SANTA CECILIA ACATITLAN, 91 monumental Aztec sculptures illustrated and described, $30. No. 6250

TALADOIRE, Eric, LES TERRAINS DE JEU DE BALLE, 815 p, the most complete book ever written on ballcourts of Mexico (as well as of the Hohokam of Arizona); illustrates hundreds of ballcourts as well as art which depicts ancient athletes; Shows all the Aztec and Mixtec ballcourts of the codice, OUT OF PRINT, $300. No. 6257