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The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization
by John Eric Sidney Thompson (1898-1975)
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0806103019
- ISBN 13
- 9780806103013
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About This Item
xvi+328 pages with illustrations, figures, site plans, maps, plates and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with black label to spine in silver and white lettering in original pictorial jacket. Fourth printing.
This work contains new or expanded material on the beginnings of Maya culture, political and social organization, settlement patterns, commerce, dances, highland site, hieroglyphic writing and the cult of the passage of time. Ever since the discovery of the magnificent ruins of the Maya cities in the Central American jungles, men have speculated about this culture, who developed a brilliant civilization which had already vanished when the Spaniards first set foot in the New World.
Condition: Ted Estrada, author of xvi+328 pages with illustrations, figures, site plans, maps, plates and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with black label to spine in silver and white lettering in original pictorial jacket. Fourth printing.
This work contains new or expanded material on the beginnings of Maya culture, political and social organization, settlement patterns, commerce, dances, highland site, hieroglyphic writing and the cult of the passage of time. Ever since the discovery of the magnificent ruins of the Maya cities in the Central American jungles, men have speculated about this culture, who developed a brilliant civilization which had already vanished when the Spaniards first set foot in the New World.
Condition: Signed by xvi+328 pages with illustrations, figures, site plans, maps, plates and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with black label to spine in silver and white lettering in original pictorial jacket. Fourth printing.
This work contains new or expanded material on the beginnings of Maya culture, political and social organization, settlement patterns, commerce, dances, highland site, hieroglyphic writing and the cult of the passage of time. Ever since the discovery of the magnificent ruins of the Maya cities in the Central American jungles, men have speculated about this culture, who developed a brilliant civilization which had already vanished when the Spaniards first set foot in the New World.
Condition: Signed by Ted Estrada author of Mexica Gold to front end paper. Jacket with light edge wear, small chips to spine else a very good in like jacket.
This work contains new or expanded material on the beginnings of Maya culture, political and social organization, settlement patterns, commerce, dances, highland site, hieroglyphic writing and the cult of the passage of time. Ever since the discovery of the magnificent ruins of the Maya cities in the Central American jungles, men have speculated about this culture, who developed a brilliant civilization which had already vanished when the Spaniards first set foot in the New World.
Condition: Ted Estrada, author of xvi+328 pages with illustrations, figures, site plans, maps, plates and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with black label to spine in silver and white lettering in original pictorial jacket. Fourth printing.
This work contains new or expanded material on the beginnings of Maya culture, political and social organization, settlement patterns, commerce, dances, highland site, hieroglyphic writing and the cult of the passage of time. Ever since the discovery of the magnificent ruins of the Maya cities in the Central American jungles, men have speculated about this culture, who developed a brilliant civilization which had already vanished when the Spaniards first set foot in the New World.
Condition: Signed by xvi+328 pages with illustrations, figures, site plans, maps, plates and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with black label to spine in silver and white lettering in original pictorial jacket. Fourth printing.
This work contains new or expanded material on the beginnings of Maya culture, political and social organization, settlement patterns, commerce, dances, highland site, hieroglyphic writing and the cult of the passage of time. Ever since the discovery of the magnificent ruins of the Maya cities in the Central American jungles, men have speculated about this culture, who developed a brilliant civilization which had already vanished when the Spaniards first set foot in the New World.
Condition: Signed by Ted Estrada author of Mexica Gold to front end paper. Jacket with light edge wear, small chips to spine else a very good in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A2240
- Title
- The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization
- Author
- John Eric Sidney Thompson (1898-1975)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0806103019
- ISBN 13
- 9780806103013
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Place of Publication
- Norman
- Date Published
- 1973
- Pages
- xvi+328 pages with illustrations, figures, site plans, maps, plates and index.
- Size
- Royal octavo
- Keywords
- Mexico
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
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