The Book of the Year: Middle American Calendrical Systems by Munro S. Edmonson - 1988

Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 1988. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Near fine. Munro S. Edmonson. Near fine first edition with unopened pages. Teal blue pictorial boards. Minor rub at base of spine. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia penciled near front hinge. Indices, graphs, tables, and appendices. Heavily illustrated. 313 pp. Large octavo, 7 x 10 1/2 inches tall. Professor Edmonson's extensive and groundbreaking study of the development of a calendric system by Mexican and Guatemalan civilizations, includes descriptions of the calendar in general and a discussion of particular calendars, identifies hieroglyphic writing systems, establishes a calendrical genealogy, and explores the relationship between the Mesoamerican year and solar astronomy.