INDIAN ART OF MEXICO & CENTRAL AMERICA
by Covarrubias, Miguel
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
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About This Item
New York, NY: Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Miguel Covarrubias (Author-Illustrator). Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Embossed beige linen boards w/black backstrap/NF w/trace push to upper front corner. Illustrated (Red jaguar throne of Chichén-tzá) DJ/VG; intact w/nips, chips, losses, faint creasings to edges & rubs, losses to surface; under mylar. Upper text edge dyed red. Art History. Survey of native arts of the Maya, Aztecs, Olmecs, Toltecs, Tarascan, Mixtecs. Written and illustrated (color plates & line drawings) by the many talented Mexican born artist, ethnologist and historian José Miguel Covarrubias (1904 - 1957). Text in 3 parts and 10 chapters: Part I, The Early Horizon: The Pre-Classic Cultures: Chapter I, The First Agriculturists; II, The "Olmec" Problem; III, The Art Cultures of Western Mexico. Part II: The Classic Period: The Great Theocracies: IV, Teotihuacán - Home of the Gods; V, The Valley of Oaxaca; VI, The "Rubber Land": The Gulf Coast; VII, The Maya. Part III, The Historical Period, VIII, The Toltec Renaissance; IX, The Mextecs; and, X, Tenochtitlán - Seat of the Aztec Empire. Fine copy in lesser dust jacket.
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- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007982
- Title
- INDIAN ART OF MEXICO & CENTRAL AMERICA
- Author
- Covarrubias, Miguel
- Illustrator
- Miguel Covarrubias (Author-Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Art History/Indian Art/Mexico/Central America/Guatemala/Belize/Honduras/El Salvador/Nicaragua
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arts & Crafts; Anthropology/Ethnology;
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