Dahlgren jordan (9 Ergebnisse)

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Zustand: Aceptable. Portada, 303 págs. Ilustraciones. Chamanismo.- Religión Mexica.- Persistencia y transformación.- Ubicación: Cerezo.

Imprenta Universitaria. México D.F. 1954. 399pp. Tirada de 2000 ejemplares. 20 x 15 cm. Rústica.(72.483).

Su cultura e historia prehispanicas. Illustr. México 1954. 400 pages + folding maps. Softcover.[#113218].

303 Láminas en blanco y negro. 22,5 Lamina plegada.

Zustand: Fine. 327, [19], 4 folding tables, 11 illus. . HB. 8vo, handsomely bound in green half morocco, contrasting leather title pieces to spine, marbled boards and endpapers, original printed wrapper retained. Fine. From the library of D. J. Williams (1924-2025), specialist in scale insects (Coccoidea), though without ownership markings. Text Spanish. A pioneering monograph on the history, production, and commerce of cochineal dye in Mexico from the pre-Hispanic and colonial periods onward. Drawing upon archival and ethnographic sources, the author examines the economic importance of the insect-derived red pigment that became one of New Spain's most valuable exports. An important contribution to Mexican economic and material culture history. Title to wrapper: 'Nocheztli. Economía de una región'.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good Only. First edition. A scarce seven-volume collection of highly illustrated botanical and natural history first editions from the Field Museum of Natural History and the United States National Museum. Collection comprised of:1898 The Fishes of North and Middle America: Part II by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann;1927 Citrus Products: Part II by James B. McNair;1931 Flora of the Lancetilla Valley Honduras by Paul C. Standley;1936 The Forests and Flora of British Honduras by Paul C. Standley and Samuel J. Record;1936 Index of American Palms by B. E. Dahlgren, and Fossil Palms by A. C. Noe;1937 The Genus Bidens: Part I by Earl Edward Sherff;1937 The Genus Bidens: Part II by Earl Edward Sherff.All volumes are scarce first editions, bound in the publisher's original soft covers. Excluding The Fishes of North and Middle America: Part II, which is a bulletin of the United States National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, all remaining works are the publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.Citrus Products: Part II contains a frontispiece and sixteen further plates. Flora of the Lancetilla Valley Honduras contains sixty-seven plates to the rear. The Forests and Flora of British Honduras contains sixteen pages of plates to the rear, including the back cover. Both parts of The Genus Bidens are profusely illustrated with 189 plates across the two texts. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original soft covers. Ex-libris copies with archival annotations to the spines and front covers and again to the rear of the front free endpapers. Additional library stamps to title pages and at points throughout texts, for example to the rear of plates. Externally, moderate shelf wear, as can be expected from examples of this age, with several tears and chips to edges, more signficant to the front cover of The Forests and Flora of British Honduras, which also features a chip to the spine tail. Light discolouration, spotting and marking to all works, sunning more prominent to Flora of the Lancetilla Valley Honduras and Index of American Palms. Internally, generally firmly bound, fragile front hinges leading to the occasional delicate page. Bright and clean collection with any spotting mainly contained to the first and last few pages. Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

México 1954. 400 pp. With folding tables. Wrappers. (Cultura Mexicana 11).

First Edition. Softcover. Octavo (24cm); fore- and lower- edges untrimmed; [6],7-669,[3]pp; colorful illustrations, black-and-white photographic halftones, and fold-out illustrations throughout. Some pages of text unopened. Text in Spanish and English. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pencilled notes throughout, and his pictorial bookplate to front flyleaf (with inked price). Shelf-wear and -soil, with 1" tear to crown, and creases to spine and wrapper edges; Good. Contributions includes Alfonso Caso's "Mapa de Santo Tomás Ocotepeque, Oaxaca", Searle Hoogshagen "A Sketch of the Earth's Supernatural Functions in Coatlan Mixe", and Otto Schumann G.'s "Fonemica del Dialecto Xinca de Chiquimulilla". [88011]. …

Mexico, Porrua, 1963. 327 pp. + 4 folding tables, 6 facs. & 4 plates. Wrappers w.dj. (title on dustjacket: Nocheztli. Economía de una región). (Nueva Bibl.Mex.de Obras Historicas 1; uncut; bumped).