New York. 1875-78. Five volumes. Cloth, leather labels. Very good. A later printing of one of the classics of American Indian history. Still useful as a reference, here in a very serviceable set.
London. 1887. xxxii,514pp. plus folding map, many engraved plates and in-text illustrations. Frontispiece portrait. Tall octavo. Contemporary gilt morocco. a.e.g. Some minor edge rubbing. Old English school-prize bookplate. Some tape repairs on verso of map, else near fine. The English translation of Charnay's account of his travels and adventures in.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. x,[2],289pp. plus eighty-two illustrations (many in color). Frontis. Original green gilt pictorial cloth, gilt pictorial spine, t.e.g. Very good. A history and overview of Egypt, using the Hebraic word, "daleth" (meaning "door"), as a point of departure. The color plates illustrate a variety of Egyptian.....
Washington. 1975. 30pp. text, 16 folio color plates of vase roll-outs. Cloth portfolio, stamped in gilt, fine. An important publication by the noted scholar and author.
Paris: Chez David, 1780-1781. Six volumes consisting of I, II, IIII, V, VI, and VII (without volumes III and VIII). With hundreds of illustrations. Contemporary mottled French calf, neatly rebacked in matching style, spines gilt extra, leather labels stamped in gilt. A bit of light scattered foxing, but generally quite.....
Berkeley: California Book Company, [ 1953]. [2],xviii,995pp., including numerous illustrations with nine maps (some folding). Original red cloth, gilt stamped cover and spine. Near fine. A reprint of the important 1925 BULLETIN 78 of the BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY of the Smithsonsian Institution.
Washington. 1896. [2],pp.239-593 plus plates. Original cloth. Ex-lib. with shelf label, withdrawal stamps, and gilt stamp on bottom of front cover, some scattered foxing and tanning, else quite good. An extensive study into the garb worn by primitive peoples to protect and aid them in their travels, as well as.....
London. 1889-1902 [1974]. Six volumes bound in four. Two large oblong folios. Two quarto text volumes. Plates. Original blue cloth. Fine condition. Reprint edition of one of the great monuments in the history of Mayan studies, Alfred Maudslay's photographs and drawings of a number of the major Mayan sites, such.....
London: John Murray, 1899. [2],xvii,[3],289pp., copiously illustrated with in-text illustrations, plus fifty plates (six of them double-page) and a large chromolithographic folding map. Large quarto. Original orange cloth and illustrated paper-covered boards, spine gilt. Some shelf wear, boards a bit scuffed, hinges cracked, but holding. Folding map beginning to split.....
New York. 1883. 18pp. of text plus twenty photogravure plates. Large folio. Modern half morocco and cloth. Very good. A quite rare late 19th-century work on Mayan iconography, predating the work of Maudslay. Meye and Schmidt evidently investigated the southern Maya sites of Copan and Quirigua in 1877, and first.....
[London: Printed for C. Davis, Printer to the Royal Society, 1753]. [18],438,438-39,439-571,[17]pp. plus twenty- one folding plates. Lacks the titlepage, which is present in fine facsimile. Quarto. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, gilt leather labels. Light wear and dustsoiling to first few and final leaves.....
New York. 1847. 38pp. Original printed wrappers. Wraps chipped, else very good. Schoolcraft, one of the foremost authorities of his day on the American Indian, calls for more intensive study of pre-Columbian America and its inhabitants.
Washington. 1885. ix,[1],458pp. plus plates. Original cloth. Cloth somewhat sunned and dampstained, else very good. Of importance for the pioneering appearance of Otis T. Mason's first study on the basketry of the North American Indians, as well as a work by Mason on Indian throwing sticks.
Washington. 1885. Three works in one: xiv,xviii,342;v,96;iii,30pp. Plus 8 fine lithographic plates. Thick quarto. Library stamps on titlepage and versos of plates. Otherwise a fine copy. A handsomely produced compendium of important anthropological and archeological works put out by the Smithsonian Institution. Includes the following works: Rau, Charles: PREHISTORIC FISHING.....
New York: D. Appleton, 1860. [3] preliminary leaves, thirty-one photo- lithographic plates (most with two tints), twenty-one floor plans. Oblong folio. Original gilt-lettered cloth, rebacked in three-quarter calf. New endsheets. Minute wear to extremities. First two leaves creased, titlepage creased with vertical repair through center, occasional marginal tears. Minute foxing.....
