Deciphering the Maya Script.
Austin: Univ. Texas Press, 1977. xvii, 334 pp. Illus. with 6 b/w folding plates, 1 map, 6 tables, and 114 figures. 4to. Cloth. Second printing. A fine copy. More
Austin: Univ. Texas Press, 1977. xvii, 334 pp. Illus. with 6 b/w folding plates, 1 map, 6 tables, and 114 figures. 4to. Cloth. Second printing. A fine copy. More
Chicago: Lakeside Press / R. R Donnelley & Sons, 1990. lviii, 367 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 16mo. Cloth. Reprint. Lakeside Classic Series. Edited by Clark and Mary Lee Spence. A fine copy. As new. More
Ann Arbor: Univ. Michigan Press, 1942. Frontis, viii, 40 pp. + Plates [27]. Illus. with 1 color & 27 b/w plates. 4to. Cloth. First edition. John Mix Stanley (1814-72), American painter and photographer, accompanied many military expeditions west, traveling from the Dakotas to Hawaii. His daguerreotype collection toured the country..... More
Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952. vi, 71 pp. Illus. with b/w 2 plates and 20 maps. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. Smithsonian Institution Institute of Social Anthropology Publication No. 14. A very good copy. More
New York: Golden Press, (1960). 213 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos and drawings. 4to. Illustrated paper-covered boards. First edition. Based on the author's "A Pictorial History of the American Indian (1956)" A very good copy with a bit of wear to head of spine in a very good..... More
[Washington, D. C.]: n.p., 1833. 138 pp. 8vo. Stitched self wrappers. First edition. 22d Congress, 2d Session. [Doc. No. 137.] Ho. of Reps War Dep't. OCLC shows a copy at the Newberry Lib. Stitching loose else a very good unopened and untrimmed copy with worn edges. American Imprints 4680. More
Bloomington: Lilly Library / Indiana Univ. n.d. 55 pp. Illus. with 19 b/w plates. 4to. Gilt decorated bright red paper wrappers. First edition. 122 items described. A fine copy. More
Austin: Univ. Texas Press, (1994). xviii, 124 pp. Illus. with 69 b/w plates, photos, and drawings. 4to. Cloth with gilt titles. First edition. George E. Stuart, intro. Not until 1859 was the Paris Codex, consisting of twenty-two screen-folded pages of hieroglyphs, painted figures, and calendrical calculations, -all reproduced in this..... More
Santiago de Chile: Fondo historico y bibliografico Jose Toribio Medina, 1952. lxxxvi, 431 pp., [40] illustrated leaves. Illus. with 40 b/w plates. 4to. Stitched paper wrappers. Segunda edición. Introduccion de Carlos Keller R. Very good, partially unopened copy, wrappers lightly soiled and edgeworn, particularly along spine, contents clean. Palau 159466..... More
[University Park]: Penn. State Univ. Press, (1979). viii, 740 pp. Illus. with b/w photos, diagrams and drawings. 4to. Cloth. First edition. Monograph Series on Kaminaljuyu. A very good+ copy with minor shelfwear. More
London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1873 (1872). xx, 220 pp. Illus. with 1 map. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Hakluyt Society, First series: No. 48. An account of the fables and rites of the Yncas by Christobal de Molina; An account of the antiquities of Peru by Juan de Santa..... More
Madrid: Por La Viuda de Ibarra, 1793. xxx, 364 pp. Sm. 4to. Full contemporary tan calf, red morroco lettering piece and gilt bands on spine, marbled endpapers. First edition. Though it "...was undertaken by the especial order of Charles the Third, who demanded of its author a complete history of..... More
[México], Biblioteca Mexicana de Obras Raras y Curiosas, [Offset Vilar]:, 1953. [16] pages, facsim.: 177 leaves. 8vo. Limited edition facsimile of the 1637 edition. Initialed and numbered III of XX copies printed on Hammermill Cockletone of a total run of 120 copies. Biblioteca Mexicana de Obras Raras y Curiosas Volumen..... More
Washington, D.C. N. Peters, Photo-Lithographer, 1884. 30 x 21.5 inches. Detailed color map of the regions intended for the post-Removal Cherokee and later divided among a number of tribes relocated to what would become eastern Oklahoma. Includes "Numeric and chronological schedule of Cherokee cessions" beginning in 1828. Shows Indian settlements..... More
Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1967. ix, 106 pp. Illus. with 3 b/w plates, 4 in-text figures, and 1 folding map. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. Reprint. Publications of the Frederick Webb Hodge Anniversary Publication Fund, Volume IV. Robert H. Lowie, trans. Originally published in 1942. A near fine copy. More
Stockholm, Albert Bonniers Förlag, (1911). 259 pp. Illus. with 153 b/w plates, photos, drawings and folding map. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. A very good ex-lib copy with sunned spine and front board, light scuffing to spine label, accession numbers on spine. More
Göteborg: Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum, 1939. 136 pp. Illus. with 58 b/w photos and in-text figures. 8vo. Paper wrappers. Reprint. Walter Kaudern, ed. Inscribed by the author. Reprinted from Ethnological Studies, 8, 1939 from the Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum. A very good copy, shadow of old tape removal along spine, sunned wrappers..... More
New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1978. x, 197 pp. Illus. with b/w photos, drawings, and maps. Obl. 4to. Cloth. First edition. A very good copy in a very good repaired dust jacket with a few chips. More
Habana: Imprenta la Antilla, 1862. xvii, 281 pp. Sm. 4to. Half black morocco over marbled boards, five raised bands, one comparmtnet titled in gilt, others paneled in blind, gilt decorations to head and tail, marbled endpapers. Tercera edición notablemente aumentada y corregida. First published anonymously, Matanzas, 1832 and again, Matanzas..... More
Habana: Imprenta del Gobierno, Capitania general y Real, 1861. xvii, [1], 281 pp. 8vo. Modern half red morocco over red cloth boards, five raised bands, gilt titles and rules. Tercera edition, notablemente aumentada y corregida. First published anonymously, Matanzas, 1832 and again, Matanzas, 1836 according to Sabin. A good regional..... More
Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1975. v, 57 pp. Illus. with color fronts and b/w plates. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. No. 23 in the series of Keepsakes issued by the Friends of the Bancroft Library for its members. N. Scott Momaday, preface; Robert F. Heizer, "Stephen Powers as..... More
Middlebury: Printed by Ephraim Maxham, 1842. 114 pp. 12mo. Cloth. First edition. From the diary recounting the travels of Chandler in the Lake Superior County among the Ojibwa Indians and at various Michigan missions from 1834 to 1838. Lacking backstrip, boards rubbed and edgeworn, dampstain to top inner corner throughout..... More
Springfield: Phillips Bros., [and] Journal Company, Printers, 1900-1902. 8vo. Cloth. Revised edition. Vol. 9 entitled “Record of the Services of Illinois Soldiers in the Black Hawk War, 1831--32, and in the Mexican War, 1846--48.” Gift to the Commandery from the author, Jasper N. Reese, the Adjutant General. This was the..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1966). xx, 338 pp. Illus. with 18 b/w photos, 1 folding chart, and 1 map. 8vo. Cloth. First printing. Signed by the author. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket but for a tear to the upper edge. More