Search Results: Pre-Columbian / Other (except U.S.) from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers; Discoveries Ser., 1992. 191 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 18 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1954. Cloth, 186 pages, [5] leaves of plates, 209 illustrations (some colour), maps; 27 cm. Exhibition Catalogue. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. Another copy available. The Inca and others. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Indianaopolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.; Library of Liberal Arts, 1939. Cloth, 336 pages, frontispiece, illustrations, portrait, folded map; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards, expected browning. Stated First Edition. A solid copy, lacking the DJ.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. 8vo.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.; Art of the World Ser., 1961. Cloth, 274 pages, illustrations (part mounted colour), maps; 24 cm. Translation of Alt-Amerika; die Hochkulturen der Neuen Welt. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear, protected in a mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1992. Cloth, 240 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Museum of Cultural History, 1978. 12 pages, illustrations, map; 28 cm. UCLA Museum of Cultural History pamphlet series, vol. 1, no. 2. Exhibited at the UCLA Museum of Cultural History, Fall, 1978. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: Bevat: The pre-Inca cultures, by Lynn Cordner; The Inca empire and the colonial period, by Terry Le Vine; Contemporary Peru, by Nancy Bloch.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. 222 pages, [34] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards. Dust jacket nicked once, with a creased back flap. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995. 160 pages, illustrations (some colour), map; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "In this informative and spectacularly photographed volume, Mo Fini and Lucy Davies have drawn upon their extensive research into the traditional handicrafts of South America and the artisans who create them. Combining historical perspectives and cultural insights with descriptions of present-day techniques, the authors examine the full range of this vast area's indigenous arts and crafts: contemporary pottery inspired by ancient cultures, such as the Moche; jewelry and metal work in a multitude of forms; enduring textile traditions of the Wayuu, Aymara, and Kuna Indians; painting on clay, leather, and glass; wood carving and decoration of dried gourds; and other extraordinary crafts from around the continent. Full-color photography illustrates each of the crafts described, and a comprehensive reference section offers detailed advice on collecting and conserving these… Read More

New York: Seminar Press, 1972. Cloth, xvi, 347 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

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.

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2000. xiv, 257 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "The Nasca Lines are one of the world's great enigmas. Who etched the more than 1,000 animal, human, and geometric figures that cover 400 square miles of barren pampa in southern Peru? How did the makers create lifelike images of monkeys, birds, and spiders without an aerial vantage point from which to view these giant figures that stretch across thousands of square yards? Most puzzling of all, why did the ancient Nasca lay out these lines and images in the desert? These are the questions that pioneering archaeoastronomer Anthony Aveni seeks to answer in this book. Writing for a wide public audience, Aveni begins by establishing the Nasca Lines as a true wonder of the ancient world. He describes how viewers across the centuries have tried to interpret the lines and debunks the wilder theories. Then he vividly recounts his own years of exploration at Nasca in collaboration with other… Read More

Los Angeles, CA: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992. 128 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 29 cm. Exhibition of ancient Peruvian ceramics in the Fowler Museum of Cultural History. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998. Cloth, 240 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, clean text. A gently browsed, clean copy, from a private library, with ownership markings on the front free endpaper only. First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, University of California, 1983. 127 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour map; 28 cm. Exhibited at the Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, October 11 to November 27, 1983. Sponsored by the Museum of Cultural History, UCLA. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. CONTENTS: The development of West Mexican cultures, 1500 B.C. to A.D. 900; Colima; Jalisco; Nayarit.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. Cloth, xxi, 527 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Photographs by Jerry Kelly and by the author; drawings and maps by the author. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, foreedge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Wien; Vienna: Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1965. xix, 56 pages, [72] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), map; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Caracas, Venezuela: Fundacion Bigott, 1990. 183 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Issued in a slipcase. Text in Spanish/Texto en espanol. MUY BIEN+. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Fine DJ. Slipcase with light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. El Barro Figureado = The Figured Clay.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1964. 79 pages, illustrations, map; 25 cm. Presented by the Los Angeles County Museum in association with the Science and History Alliance of the Los Angeles County Museum and the Center of Latin American Studies of the University of California at Los Angeles, March 19 to May 15, 1964. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: American Museum of Natural History; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1979. [70] pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 41 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, November, 1979. Featuring photographs by Lee Boltin; Preface by Thomas Nicholson. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Includes Pre-Columbian artifacts from the Museo del Oro (Banco de la Republica), in Colombia.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Elephant Folio.

Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, 1963. xi, 78 pages, [55] leaves of plates, illustrations, maps; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.