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Mesoamerican/Pre-Columbian Archaeology Book List

Bransford, John Francis.  Archaeological Researches in
Nicaragua.  Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 383. 
Washington City: Smithsonian Institution, 1881. $90.00  
	[2, iii-v, 96 p. illus. (incl. plan) 2 pl. 33 cm., no DJ,
softbound]

Burland, Cottie A.  The Selden Roll.  An Ancient Mexican
Picture Manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 
Bibliography compiled by Gerdt Kutscher.  Monumenta Americana.
 Herausgegeben von der Ibero-Amerikanischen Bibliothek zu
Berlin Schriftleitung: Gerdt Kutscher II.  Berlin: Verlag
Gebr. Mann, 1955. $60.00
[50, [1] p. col. front. 32 cm., DJ, book plate; Facsimile
reproduction of the roll (folded) inserted./ "Die Selden
Rolle; eine altmexikanische Bilderhandschrift in der Bodleian
Library zu Oxford. Gekürzt aus dem Englischen übersetzt von
Gerdt Kutscher" (15 p. 21 cm.) inserted./Bibliography: p.
43-[51], very good condition]

Caso, Alfonso.  Interpretacion del Codice Selden 3135 (A.2). 
Mexico: Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia, 1964. $350.00
	[100 p. facsims. (part col.) geneal. tables. 32 cm.; Issued
in wooden case with
continuous strip color facsimile reproduction of codex, 29 x
588 cm. folded to 29
x 30 cm. forming 20 p. 37 cm.]

Caso Alfonso.  Interpretation of the Codex Bodley 2858. 
Mexico: Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia, 1960.  $425.00
	[87 p. facsims., geneal. tables. 33 cm.; Issued in wooden
case with continuous
strip color facsimile reproduction of codex, 29 x 624 cm.
fold. to 29 x 34 cm.
forming 40 p. 37 cm.] 

Coe, Michael D.  Classic Maya Pottery at Dumbarton Oaks. 
Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1975. $130.00
	[1 portfolio (30 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. (some
col.)) ; 45 cm., hardcover]

Coe, Michael D.  The Maya Scribe and His World.  New York: The
Grolier Club, 1973. $600.00
	[Limited Edition, 1 of 1000, 160 p. illus. 29 x 43 cm., no
DJ, excellent condition]

Coe, Michael D. and Gordon Whittaker.  Aztec Sorcerers in
Seventeenth Century Mexico.  The Treatise on Superstitions by
Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón.  Institute for Mesoamerican Studies,
Publication No. 7.  Albany, NY: Institute for Mesoamerican
Studies, 1982.  $50.00  
	[xviii, 329 p. : ill. ; 28 cm., softbound, no DJ]  

Covarrubias, Miguel.  The Eagle, the Jaguar, and the Serpent.
 Indian Art of the Americas.  North America: Alaska, Canada,
the Unites States.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.  $45.00  
	[xviii, 314, xi p. illus., plates (part col.) maps. 28 cm.,
no DJ, book plate]

Olson, Charles.  Mayan Letters.  Edited by Robert Creeley
[Palma de Mallorca]: The Divers Press, 1953.  $250.00 
	[89 p., 1 l. illus. 22 cm., softbound, DJ, book plate, very
good condition]

Dibble, Charles E.  Codex Hall.  An Ancient Mexican
Hieroglyphic Picture Manuscript.  Includes “With a Silk Screen
Facsimile Reproduction of the Codex”, by Louie H. Ewing. 
Monographs of the School of American Research No. 11.  Santa
Fe: The University of New Mexico Press, 1947.  $25.00  
	[Limited Edition, 1 of 1500, 16 p. illus., col. facsim. 29
cm., no DJ, softcover,
very good]

Dockstader, Frederick J.  Indian Art of Central America. 
London: Cory, Adams & Mackay, 1964.  $75.00
	[221 p. illus. (part col., part mounted) maps. 29 cm.; DJ]

Dockstader, Frederick J.  Indian Art in South America. 
Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society Publishers Ltd., 1967.
 $75.00
	[222 p. illus. (part col.), maps. 29 cm.; DJ]

Dockstader, Frederick J.  Indian Art in America.  Greenwich,
CT: New York Graphic Society, 1961.  $75.00
	[224 p. illus. (part mounted col.), map. 29 cm.; DJ, book plate]

Furst, Jill Leslie.  Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I: A
Commentary.  Preface by Mary Elizabeth Smith.  Institute for
Mesoamerican Studies, Publication No. 4.  Albany, NY:
Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, 1978. $100.00
	[xxx, 366 p. : ill. ; 28 cm., softbound, no DJ]

Green, Merle.  Ancient Maya Relief Sculpture.  Rubbings by
Merle Green.  Introduction and Notes by J. Eric S. Thompson. 
New York: The Museum of Primitive Art, 1967.  $25.00  
	[1 v. (unpaged) map, plates, 32 cm.; softbound, cardboard
slipcase, no DJ]

Marquino, Ignacio.  Estudio Arquitectonico Comparativo de los
Monumentos Arquelogicos de Mexico.  Mexico: Talleres Graficos
de la Nacion, 1928. $400.00
	[4 p. l., 86 p., 1 l. illus., plates (part col., part fold.)
plans (part fold.) diagrs. 28 x
40 cm., no DJ, good condition internally with wear on binding]

Morris, Earl H., et al.  The Temple of the Warriors at Chichen
Itzá, Yucatan.  Carnegie Institution of Washington,
Publication No. 406.  Volumes 1 and 2 (plates).  Washington:
Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1931.  $1,500.00
	[2 v. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.; Vol. 1, 484 pages; Vol. 2, 170
plates, hand colored
plates, no DJ, book plate, hardcover, very good condition]

Palacios, Enrique Juan.  En los Confines de la Selva
Lacandona.  Exploraciones en el
Estado de Chipas.  Mayo-Agosto 1926.  Contribucion de Mexico
al XXIII Congreso de Americanistas.  Mexico: Talleres Graficos
de la Nacion, 1928.  $165.00
	[215 p., [4] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (4 col.),
maps ; 35 cm., no DJ, good
plus condition]

Rivero, Mariano Edward and John James von Tschudi.  Peruvian
Antiquities.  Translated by Francis L. Hawks.  New York:
George P. Putnam & Co., 1853.  $120.00
	[xxii, 306 p. illus., music, plans. 23 cm.; no DJ, book
plate, good plus condition]

Proskouriakoff, Tatiana.  An Album of Maya Architecture. 
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication 558. 
Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1946. 
$230.00
	[Facsimile Edition 1958, Limited Edition, #658 of 1,100, xxi,
142 p. : ill., map ;
23 x 30 cm., no DJ]

Robertson, Merle Greene.  The Sculpture of Palenque.  Volume
1: The Temple of the Inscriptions.  Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1983.  $350.00
	[xxix, 115 p., [256] p. of plates (some folded) : ill. (some
col.), 1 map, plans ; 32
cm.; DJ, excellent condition, as new]

Salisbury, Jr., Stephen, compiler.  “The Mexican Calender
Stone” by Philipp J.J. Valentini. (From the German.); “Terra
cotta figure from Isla Mujeres, northeast coast of Yucatan” by
Stephen Salisbury, Jr.; “Archaeological communication on
Yucatan” by Alice D. Le Plongeon.  Privately printed.  From
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, of April 24
and October 21, 1878.  Worcester: Press of Charles Hamilton,
1879.  $140.00
	[98 p. illus., 26 cm.; no DJ, loose binding, signed by the
authors]  

Salisbury, Jr., Stephen.  “The Mayas, The Sources of their
History” and “Dr. le Plongeon in Yucatan, his account of
discoveries”.  Privately printed.  From Proceedings of the
American Antiquarian Society, of April 26, 1876 and April 25,
1877.  Worcester: Press of Charles Hamiton, 1877.  $150.00
	[103 p. front. (double map) 3 pl. 25 cm., no DJ, signed by
the author]

Thompson, J. Eric S.  A Commentary on the Dresden Codex.  A
Maya Hieroglyphic Book.  Memoirs of the American Philosophical
Society Volume 93.  Philadelphia: American Philosophical
Society, 1972. $200.00
	[156 p. : col. facsims. ; 29 x 39 cm., DJ, very good]

Tozzer, Alfred M.  Chichen Itza and its Cenote of Sacrifice. 
A Comparative Study of Contemporaneous Maya and Toltec. 
Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Harvard University, Volumes XI and XII.  Cambridge, Mass:
Peabody Museum, 1957. $400.00
	[2 v. (1-230; 231-316 p.+ illus., map, plans, tables.) 36
cm., no DJ, excellent
condition, hardbound in library binding]  

Valentini, Philipp J.J.  “Mexican Copper Tools: The Use of
copper by the Mexicans before the Conquest” and “The Katunes
of Maya History, a chapter in the Early History of Central
America, with special reference to the Pio Perez Manuscript.”
 Translated by Stephen Salisbury, Jr.  Proceedings of American
Antiquarian Society, April 29, and October 21, 1879. 
Worcester Mass: Press of Charles Hamilton, 1880.  $150.00
	[102 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm., no DJ, remarkably fine condition]

Studies in Pre-Columbian Art & Archaeology, Dumbarton Oaks
Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C., 1966-1989. 
$15.00 each.
No. 1.  Coe, Michael D. An Early Stone Pectoral from
Southeastern Mexico.
No. 2.  Coe, Michael D. and Elizabeth P. Benson.  Three Maya
Relief Panels at Dumbarton Oaks.
No. 3.  Field, Frederick V.  Thoughts on the Meaning and Use
of Pre-Hispanic Mexican Sellos.
No. 4.  Kubler, George.  The Iconography of the Art of
Teotihuacán.
No. 5.  Nicholson, H.B. and Rainer Berger.  Two Aztec Wood
Idols: Iconographic And Chronologic Analysis.
No. 6.  Grove, David C.  The Olmec Paintings of Oxtotitlan
Cave Guerrero, Mexico.
No. 7.  Joralemon, Peter David.  A Study of Olmec Iconography.  
No. 8.  Benson, Elizabeth P.  An Olmec Figure at Dumbarton Oaks.
No. 9.  Badner, Mino.  A Possible Focus of Andean Artistic
Influence in Mesoamerica.  
No. 10.  Quirarte, Jacinto.  Izapan-Style Art.  A Study of its
Form and Meaning.
No. 12.  Wilbert, Johannes.  The Thread of Life.  Symbolism of
Miniature Art from Ecuador.  
No. 13.  Roe, Peter.  A Further Exploration of the Rowe Chavín
Seriation and its Implications for North Central Coast Chronology.
No. 14.  Benson, Elizabeth P.  A Man and a Feline in Mochica Art.
No. 15.  Pasztory, Esther.  The Iconography of the Teotihuacan
Tlaloc.
No. 16.  Lechtman, Heather, Lee A. Parsons, and William J.
Young.  Seven Matched Hollow Gold Jaguars from Peru’s Early
Horizon.
No. 17.  Linares, Olga F.  Ecology and the Arts in Ancient
Panama.  On the Development of Social Rank and Symbolism in
the Central Provinces.  
No. 18.  Kubler, George.  Aspects of Classic Maya Rulership on
Two Inscribed Vessels.  
No. 19.  Scott, John F.  The Danzantes of Monte Albán.  2
vols.  (Part I: Text, Part II: Catalogue).  
No. 20.  Townsend, Richard Fraser.  State and Cosmos in the
Art of Tenochtitlan.
No. 21.  Donnan, Christopher B. and Donna McClelland.  The
Burial Theme in Moche Iconography.
No. 23.  Milbrath, Susan.  A Study of Olmec Sculptural
Chronology.    
No. 29.  Webster, David, ed.  The House of the Bacabs, Copan,
Honduras.
	
A. Asa Eger
Ph.D Candidate
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
University of Chicago