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Indian Art of Mexico and Central America
by Covarrubias, Miguel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Item Price
£72.86£51.00
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About This Item
New York: Borzoi Books / Alfred A. Knopf. Good in Good dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Pp xvi, 360, xvii. Color plates and line drawings by the author: 12 color plates, 146 figures in text and 64 photographs. Map. Black cloth spine over cream textured cloth. Board edges toned. All edges dust soiled. The dust Jacket is price clipped, the spine sunned, and there are closed tears along the edge. Now in archival cover. Published posthumously. With the same factual and scholarly approach of previous works, Covarrubias examines Middle America "the intellectual and artistic focus of Indian civilization. Middle America (Mexico and Central America) was the scene of great turbulence, of ever-flourishing and ever-waning cultures; each one different from the other yet attesting to the diffusion, communication, and continuity between them, both temporally and geographically. In detail the types of architecture, jewelry, pottery, sculpture of the Mayans, Aztecs, Toltecs, ""Olmecs"", Zapotecs, Tarascans and others…" Kirkus review. ; 4to .
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- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4872
- Title
- Indian Art of Mexico and Central America
- Author
- Covarrubias, Miguel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Borzoi Books / Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Pre-Columbian Art, Mexican American, Mexico - Art History, Indian art - Mexico, Indian art - Central America, Mexico- Antiquities
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art & Design; Native American; History;
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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