Baltimore: The Maya Society, 1937. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Friar Diego De Landa. A very good - second edition [HAND D83], with solid, sturdy binding and cover. Original blue cloth boards with gilt stamping and Maya Society crest in gilt. The blue cloth is showing heavy spotting on the spine and front cover, and the top front corner is bumped. Pages toned, top edge darkened. Former owner's bookplate. Laid in with a staplebound pamphlet for "Publications in the Field of Archaeology, Anthropology, etc. issued by the Carnegie Institute of Washington... May 1937." Heavily illustrated, includes maps and related documents. 142 pp. Octavo, 6 x 10 inches tall. An important primary source, scarce in this edition "Modern scholars regard Landa with a mixture of frustration and admiration. At the same time he wrote his comprehensive work on Mayan culture, his orders to destroy all icons and hieroglyphics obliterated the Mayan language ..., helping to undermine and destroy the civilization he so vividly described. Yet his book, which was not printed until 1864, provided a phonetic alphabet that made it possible to decipher about one-third of the Mayan hieroglyphs, and many of the remainder have since been deciphered." - Britannica

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Librería: Uncommon Works (US)
Inventario del vendedor #: 203
Título: Yucatan Before and After the Conquest
Autor: Friar Diego De Landa; Wm. Gates, trans
Ilustrador: Friar Diego De Landa
Formato/Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Estado del libro: Usado - Very good
Cantidad disponible: 1
Edición: Second Edition
Editorial: The Maya Society
Lugar de publicación: Baltimore
Fecha de publicación: 1937
Peso: 0.00 libras
Palabras clave: Maya, missions, temple, pyramid, Mexico, glyphs, language, archaeology, anthropology, yucatan, tula, tulum, chichen, aztec, toltec, conquistador, exploration, discovery, americas, pre-columbian
Catálogos del vendedor: Spanish Conquest;

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