Before Cortes: Sculpture of Middle America
by Easby, Elizabeth Kennedy, and Scott, John F. (John Fredrik) (Catalogue by)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0870990179
- ISBN 13
- 9780870990175
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1970. Cloth, 322 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 29 cm. A centennial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 30, 1970 through January 3, 1971. Firm binding, unmarked. Edges moderately soiled, expected browning. Dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Relative chronology of Middle America; colour illustrations; 1. High cultures of Middle America; 2. The beginnings of sculpture; 3. Olmec leaders, sculptors, and lapidaries; 4. Post-Olmec and Izapan art; 5. The Western fringe; 6. Urban Teotihuacan; 7. Gulf Coast sculpture in clay and stone; 8. Zapotec tombs and offerings; 9. The Maya Realm; 10. The wealth of the Indies; 11. Toltec imperial art and its heirs; 12. The Aztecs: the last empire.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 099279
- Title
- Before Cortes: Sculpture of Middle America
- Author
- Easby, Elizabeth Kennedy, and Scott, John F. (John Fredrik) (Catalogue by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0870990179
- ISBN 13
- 9780870990175
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Pre-Columbian / Aztec; Pre-Columbian / Other (except U.S.); Pre-Columbian / Mayan; Pre-Columbian / Olmec;
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