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Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea
by Daniel Finamore (1961- ) and Stephen D Houston (editors)
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300161379
- ISBN 13
- 9780300161373
- Seller
-
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
328 pages with 99 plates including frontispiece, diagrams, bibliography and index. Small folio (12 1/4" x 10") bound in dark grey cloth with white lettering to spine and front cover. Signed by David Stuart on page 41. First edition..
Contents: The worlds of the ancient Maya and the worlds they made by Mary E Miller and Megan O'Neil; The wide waters of Palenqaue by David Stuart and signed by him; Living waters and wondrous beasts by Stephen D Houston; Symbols of water management at Copan, Honduras by Barbara W Fash; The music of shells by Marc Zender; Navigating the Maya world by Daniel Finamore; The dark lord of Maya trade by Simon Martin; The Maya ports Isla Cerritos and Uaymil by Rafael Cobos; Where earth and sky meet: The sea and sky in ancient and contemporary Maya cosmology by Karl A Taube; Offerings to the rain gods: The archaeology of Maya caves by James E Brady; Objects cast into cenotes by Luis Alberto Martos Lopez; Coda: The sea and art by Daniel Finamore.
Condition:
A near fine copy in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A0574
- Title
- Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea
- Author
- Daniel Finamore (1961- ) and Stephen D Houston (editors)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0300161379
- ISBN 13
- 9780300161373
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 328 pages with 99 plates including frontispiece, diagrams, bibliography and index
- Size
- Small folio
- Keywords
- ARCHAEOLOGY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
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