Medieval American Art, A Survey ...

Hardback. Very Good. MacMillan, New York, 1946; two volumes, quarto, pp xiv, [i], 1-414 and [vi], 306, 33 (being an index and a register of museums and collections). Red buckram, covers gilt, spines and cover edges slightly lightened but otherwise a very good copy. This copiously illustrated work consists of one volume of general explanatory and descriptive text and a second volume of 306 plates with each plate having between one and four images. The content and plates are divided into sections: Architecture, Sculpture, Pottery, Weaving, Metal-Work, Jade and other semiprecious stones, Murals and Manuscripts, Miscellaneous applied arts, and Facets of daily life. NOTE: the volumes weigh some 3.2kg in total and therefore there needs to be a supplement charged on the default postage costs shown, the exact amount depending on destination and form of carriage. The front end papers of volume II comprise a map of the area covered - not the whole of America, of course, but essentially the pre-Columbian area running from just north of Taos, AZ, in the US through Mexico and on to La Paz in Bolivia focusing on the west to centre in the north, a relatively narrow western strip in the south and taking in the whole of the central part. This is the third printing of a detailed and scholarly work first published in 1943 and appears to be a photolitho copy of the original text. Many of the plates have never before been published (by 1943, not specifically in this printing).