Archaeology

Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1973, 1st . Hardcover . NF/none. Bit of edgwear; red remainder-type mark bottom pageblock; very light bumping on top/bottom edge of spine; one tiny bump front edge.

Berlin, Stettin, Nicolaische buchhandlung, 1829. Hard Cover. viii, 191, [1] p.; 25.5 cm. Westphal, a German astronomer, lived and worked in Italy during much of his short life. This book accompanied two folding maps-- missing from this copy, as the 19th-century cloth binding does not provide for them. Stock#OB1044. Good+, lacks maps.

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