MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES, CALENDAR SYSTEMS, AND HISTORY: Twenty-Four Papers/Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 28 (Twenty-Eight)
by Seler, Eduard; Forstemann, E.; Schellhas, Paul; Sapper, Carl; Dieseldorff, E. P. (Papers)/Bowditch, Charles P. (Translator)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1904. 682 pp. Original olive green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly rubbed; corners bumped. Spine a bit sunned. Small tear to top of front inner hinge. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Illust. w/ b/w plates, figures, and fold-outs.. Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Shoemaker Booksellers
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- 23664NA
- Title
- MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES, CALENDAR SYSTEMS, AND HISTORY: Twenty-Four Papers/Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 28 (Twenty-Eight)
- Author
- Seler, Eduard; Forstemann, E.; Schellhas, Paul; Sapper, Carl; Dieseldorff, E. P. (Papers)/Bowditch, Charles P. (Translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D. C.
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- NATIVE AMERICANS INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA MEXICAN ANTIQUITIES CENTRAL AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES MAYAS INDIANS MEXICO CENTRAL AMERICA CALENDAR SYSTEMS TRAVEL WORLD HISTORY RACIAL HISTORY ETHNIC HISTORY ETHNOLOGY AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES NONFICTION GENERAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Indian; Indians;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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