THE STONE AGE OF BURMA by Movius, Hallam L - 1953

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UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest stamped in gilt at center front. A solid copy. Light foxing to endpapers. Toning. Fabric at top of spine missing. RARE/SCARCE.

By Peter Newell, author of "The Hole Book". The Rocket Book, Harper & Brothers Stated October, 1912 First Printing. USED. GOOD+ CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET INCLUDED. 7 1/8 X 8 7/8. Seller's Note: Sadly, (no one is sadder than me) the Front paper paste-down label has been removed from cover. Minor corner-bumps. No titling on spine if printed there originally. Pages are all present, in nice shape, and affixed to binding. HOLE-DRILLED straight through the book. RARE IN THIS FIRST PRINTING.

2 parts: 98 pages with fold out table, map, music scores and plates; 109 pages with map, diagrams, music scores, tables (some folding), plates and appendixes. Royal octavo (9 ½ “ x 6 ½ “ rebound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Original wrappers bound in. From the library of Professor George M Foster. Originally published in Proceedings of Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences volume VIII. 1st thus.This is the notes and reports from the Martin A Ryerson Expedition of 1899 and the Mrs Frank G Logan Expedition of 1900. The reports covered over seventeen tribes, including Aztecs, Huaxtecs, Mayas, Tehuantepecanos (Zapotecs), Zoques, Tzotzils, Tzendals, and Cholas. George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological… Read More

Volume 2 in three parts: Breve Historia de las Divisiones Territoriales by Edmundo O'Gorman: li+261 pages with with index; Mexico y sus Constituciones by Felipe Tena Ramirez: ix+139 pages with tables, bibliography and index; El Sobreseimiento de los Amparos Administrativos en Materia Fiscal by M G Villers: 97 pages. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7 1/2"") bound in half red leather with original wrappers bound in and gilt lettering to spine. Prologue by German Fernandez del Castillo. From the library of George M Foster Volume II of Trabajos Juridicos de Homenaje a la Escuela Libre de Derecho en su XXV Aniversario. From the library of Professor George M Foster. First edition.Volume I of this series was Apuntes para la Historia del Derecho en Mexico by D Toribio Esquivel Obregon. Further volumes were in preparation at the time of this printing. Volume III to be published in four parts. Volume IV in three parts.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18,… Read More

147 pages with frontispiece, tables, plates, illustrations and bibliography. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8 1/2") issued in wrappers. Prologue by Carlos Zolla. Limited to 1000 copies. First edition.This book, Water in the Cosmovision of Indigenous Peoples in Mexico, is a photographic and documentary testimony of the relationship between this important sector of our society and the vital liquid; it is a recognition of their ancestral practices and techniques to rationally use and protect this essential resource. This work represents an important contribution to the diffusion of the different cultures of water in our country. With this, the deep roots of Mexicanness are also strengthened.Condition:Light soiling to wrappers else a very good to fine copy.

xx+377 pages with 86 color photographs, 9 black and photographs, 128 figures, 3 maps, appendices and index. Oblong Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 11") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Contributions by Joseph W Ball, Ronald L Bishop, Virginia M Fields and Barbara MacLeod. Photography by Justin Kerr. Forewords by Michael P Mezzatesta and Linda Schele. First edition.Lavishly illustrated with nearly 400 color images, Painting the Maya Universe is the most thorough study and brilliant display of Classic Maya ceramic painting yet published. Building on twenty years of research and debate, Dorie Reents-Budet and her collaborators Joseph W. Ball, Ronald L. Bishop, Virginia M. Fields, and Barbara MacLeod bring together many perspectives, including the art historical, archaeological, epigraphical, and ethnohistorical, to examine one of the world's great but overlooked painting traditions. With an emphasis on sixth- to eighth-century pottery featuring… Read More

Blending science, sociology, and personal experience, this book is an exploration into how hunger works. It is inscribed and autographed by the author.