Bruce E Byland (9 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good. First publication of remarkable repainting of outstanding Mexican codex -- priceless original is in Vatican Library -- thought to have originated in the Cholula area, ca. AD 1400. 76 large full-color plates show an astounding array of gods, kings, warriors, mythical creatures, and abstract designs. A work of rare power and beauty. Introduction. First republication of remarkable repainting of great Mexican codex, dated to ca. AD 1400. 76 large full-color plates show gods, kings, warriors, mythical creatures, and abstract designs. Introduction.

Paperback. pp. xxxii, 77. 4to. Colour illustrations. Wear to spine, corners thumbed, crease and small sticker to rear cover; very good-.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. v leaves, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. OCLC 11435542 ISBN: 9780935462227, 0935462228 ; LCCN 85118542 LC PM4145 .E78 1984 Dewey 497.6 illustrated yellow and black stiff paper wrappers with designs ; Contents: Introduction -- Otomanguean linguistic prehistory -- Archaeology of the Otomanguean area -- Boundary recognition in the Mexteca Alta -- Mixtec dialectology: inferences from linguistics and ethnohistory -- Proto-Mixtec reconstructions and forms attested in 16th and 17th century documents -- The Mixtec literary tradition -- Catalogo de documentos mixtecos de la epoca colonial ; repair to first page, else VG. Book.

Condition: Good. Good++; Hardcover, Missing Jacket; Very light wear to the boards; A couple of tiny spot-marks to the right textblock edge, otherwise unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; Nice except for the missing jacket; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75" - 10.75" tall); 1.9 lbs; Orange cloth covers with title in gold lettering on a black background along spine; 1994, University of Oklahoma Press; 448 pages; "In the Realm of 8 Deer: The Archaeology of the Mixtec Codices," by Bruce E. Byland, et al.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library with stamps, spine label, etc. Cloth boards- no dust jacket. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations to the text. [xx], 292 pp.

Condition: Fine/Near Fine. 1st. 8vo. 292pp. Scarce item.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. Quarto (oversize). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Name and address of former owner. Prof. Jeff Parsons, on flyleaf. 292 p. w/ illustrations, maps, index, extensive bibliography, and appendices on calendars. An important work on the empire of a native Mexican people, the Mixtec of Oaxaca. Only a few of their records survived the Spanish, and the authors use one of those records to trace the life and rise to power of Lord 8 Deer, supplementing the text with archaeological and anthropological investigations of the region. Uncommon.