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The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization
by Thompson, John Eric Sidney (1898-1975)
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
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About This Item
288 pages with plates, figures and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering in original jacket. Second edition. This work contains new or expanded material on the beginnings of Maya culture, political and social organization, settlement patterns, commerce, dances, highland site, hieroglyphic writing and the cult of the passage of time. Ever since the discovery of the magnificent ruins of the Maya cities in the Central American jungles, men have speculated about this culture, who developed a brilliant civilization which had already vanished when the Spaniards first set foot in the New World. Condition: Previous owner's name on front end papers; book seller's label on back end paper; corners bumped. Jacket spine ends, head edges and corners chipped; edge wear with some closed tears else a very good copy in like jacket.
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- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS004411
- Title
- The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization
- Author
- Thompson, John Eric Sidney (1898-1975)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz, Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mexico
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- Size
- Octavo
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