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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Jorge Flores (illustrator). Edition Not Stated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Quarto, mildly soiled paper covers, xx, 266 pp., b/w photos and drawings "Preface: La Gota Cava la Piedra," Eloise Quiñones Keber. "Introduction: A Tribute to Arthur J.O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble," Huey Tlamatinime. Articles are "Looking Back to the Beginnings of the Florentine Codex Project," Arthur J.O. Anderson, "Working on the Florentine Codex," Charles E. Dibble, "Publiswhing the Florentine Codex," Norma B. Mikkelson, "Sahagun's Early Years in Tlatelolco," Miguel Leon-Portilla, "Sahagun and the Florentine Codex: An Example of the Non-Discovery of Aztec Writing," Marc Thouvenot, "Olmos and Sahagun," Chraig A. Hanson, "'All the Ways to Guatemala': Sahagun's 'Sermonio' of 1548," Barry D. Sell, "Sahagun's 'Pslamodia': Christina Love and Domination in Sixteenth Century Mexico," John W. Keber, "The 1531 Codex of Huexotzinco," Xavier Noguez, "The Provenience of Zorita's Data on the Social Organization of Ancient Mexico," Pedro Carrasco, "Looking Back at the Conquest: Nahua Perceptions of Early Encounters from the Annals of Chimalpahin," Susan Schroeder, "Don Bartolome de Alva, Nahuatl Scholar of the Seventeenth Century," John Frederick Schwaller, "Nahuatl and Mixtec Writing in Sixteenth-Century Oaxaca," Kevin Terraciano, "'The Document Shall be Seen': Yucatec Maya Literacy," Matthew Restall, "Homshuk: A Thematic Analysis of the Narrative," Alfredo Lopez Austin, "Trees and Wood in Life and Death," Doris Heyden, "Birds and Beasts in Nahua Thought," Frances F. Berdan, "The Other Quetzalcoatl," John Kaufman, "The Aztec Craftsman and the Economy," Jacqueline de Durand-Forest, "Nahua Presence on the Mesoamerican Gulf Coast," S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson, "?Lengua o Diosa? The Early Imaging of Malinche," Jeannette Favrot Peterson, "Nahuatl Accounts of Our Lady of Guadalupe," Stafford Poole, "Acolhuacan in the Matricula and Mendocino," Luz Maria Mohar Betancourt, "Texcoc 1515-1519: The Ixtilxochitl Affair," Frederick Hicks, "Aztec Craft Production in Otumba, 1470-1570: Reflections of a Changing World," Thomas Charlton & Cynthia Otis Charlton, "Gonzalo de Salazar, 'Encomendero' of Tepetlaoztoc," Perla Valle, and "Gonzalo de Salazar, 'Encomendero' : Sinner or Saint?" H.R. Harvey.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, frontispiece portrait, xl, 256 pp., b/w illustrations from the 1656 edition. Text is in Spanish. Edited and with an Introduction by Moshe Lazar.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, frontispiece photo, xii, 75 pp., b/w drawings, glossary, index.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Quarto, paper covers, frontispiece photo, xliv, 211 pp., b/w photos and drawings, a few maps, bibliography of Doris Heyden, two fold-out charts depicting Mesoamerican Clothing: Male and Female Garments laid-in. A brand new copy in the original shrink-wrap. If another bookseller is selling this book for a few pennies less and uses weasel words in their description like may or might maybe you should think about paying an extra $.09 in order to be sure that the book that you get is in decent condition. "Introduction: Precious Greenstone, Precious Quentzel Feather," be Keber. "A Tribute to Doris Heyden," by Alfredo Lopez Austin. "Doris Heyden: Mujer-Diosa," David Carrasco. "An Interview with Doris Heyden," Michel Besson. Articles are "Un Chicomostoc en Teotihuacan? The Contribution of the Heyden Hypothesis to Mesoamerican Cave Studies," James E. Brady, "Mexico's Maddening Plants of the Sixteenth Century According to the Florentine Codex," Robert Bye and Edelmira Linares, "Xochiquetzal and the Lunar Cult of Central Mexico," Susan Milbrath, "Water, Mountain, Sky: The Evolution of Site Orientations in Southestern Mesoamerica," Anthony Aveni and Horst Hartung, "Guides for Living: The Divinatory Codices of Mexico," Elizabeth Hill Boone, "The Almanac on Pages 10b-11b of the Madrid Codex and the Burner Cycle of the Maya," Merideth Paxton, "The Home Town of the Rulers of the Codex Muro," Mary Elizabeth Smith, "Tlaloc and the Sources: Problems and Possibilities of Interpreting Indigenous Worlds within Colonial Texts," Philip P. Arnold, "Hugh Thomas' 'Conquest': Observations on the Coverage of Indigineous Cultures," H.B. Nicholson, "The Flayed God and the Holy Trinity: Fray Diego Duran and Spanish Visual Vocabulary," Jill Leslie McKeever Furst, "Ancestors in Limbo: Christ's Descent to Hell in Nahua-Christian Literature," Louise M. Burkhart, "Sex, War, and Rulers: Mexica Royal Images of Boundary Breaking and Making," Kay Almere Read, "The Imperial Subversion of Aztex Xaltocan, "Three Thousand Years of Mesoamerican Clothing," Patricia Rieff Anawalt, "D.H. Lawrence's Third Visit to Casa Alvarado," Ross Parmenter.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 380pp.

Softcover. Zustand: Very good. 266 pp. Studies of prehispanic and Colonial Mexico. b/w photos and drawings. Originating with the annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory held in Salt Lake City in 1992, this fitting tribut to the lifetime achievements of the tow Scholars with rare perseverence indeed-Arthur J.O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble-honors the tenth anniversary of the completion of the English-Nahuatl translation and edition of Bernardino De Sahagun's Florentine Codes: General History of the Things of New Spain (1950-1982). Constructing the Nahua World Before and After the Conquest: Recovering Texcoco: History and Archaeology.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Quarto, paper covers, xx, 231 pp., references, biographical sketch, bibliography of Robert Carmack Articles are "Solar Metaphors in K'iche' Political Organization and History," John W. Fox, "Ancestor Veneration in Protohistory K'iche' Society," Weeks, "Ethnohistory, Archaeology, and the K'iche' Maya: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Political Economy," Susan M. Norris, "Pedro de Alrarado and the Conquest of Guatelmala, 1522-1524," W. George Lovell and Christopher H. Lutz, "Mixe and Maya: A Comparative Demographic History of the Native Populations of Soconusco and Suchitepequez," Janine Gasco, "Social Organization and Architectural Context: A Comparison of Nim Li Punit and Xnaheb," Thopmas R. Jamison, "Segmentary P{olitical Cycles and Elite Migration Myths in the Postclassic Archaeology of Nothern Belize," Marilyn Masson, "Charter Myths and Status Groups in Momostenango, Guatemala," Garrett W. Cook, "The See-Saw of Production: Socioeconomic Mobility in Petty Capitalist Workshops of Highland Guatemala," Liliana R. Goldin, "The Politics of Guatemala 'Overpopulation' Through the Ch'orti' Case," Brent Metz, "Souls as Memory in Cancuc, Chiapas," Pedro Patarch, "Disruption of People's Health and Social Order: 'La Canicula' Among the Yucatec Maya," Alicia Re Cruz, "Territorializing Town and Country: A Political Topography of Nation/State, Piste, Yucatan, Mexico," Quetzil Casteñada.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Quarto, paper covers, color frontispiece illustration, xviii, 134 pp., b/w photos and drawings, glossary of Nahuatl terms, bibliography, references to the Nicholson article, indexes to both sections.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Quarto, paper covers, xx, 266 pp., b/w photos and drawings "Preface: La Gota Cava la Piedra," Eloise Quiñones Keber. "Introduction: A Tribute to Arthur J.O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble," Huey Tlamatinime. Articles are "Looking Back to the Beginnings of the Florentine Codex Project," Arthur J.O. Anderson, "Working on the Florentine Codex," Charles E. Dibble, "Publiswhing the Florentine Codex," Norma B. Mikkelson, "Sahagun's Early Years in Tlatelolco," Miguel Leon-Portilla, "Sahagun and the Florentine Codex: An Example of the Non-Discovery of Aztec Writing," Marc Thouvenot, "Olmos and Sahagun," Chraig A. Hanson, "'All the Ways to Guatemala': Sahagun's 'Sermonio' of 1548," Barry D. Sell, "Sahagun's 'Pslamodia': Christina Love and Domination in Sixteenth Century Mexico," John W. Keber, "The 1531 Codex of Huexotzinco," Xavier Noguez, "The Provenience of Zorita's Data on the Social Organization of Ancient Mexico," Pedro Carrasco, "Looking Back at the Conquest: Nahua Perceptions of Early Encounters from the Annals of Chimalpahin," Susan Schroeder, "Don Bartolome de Alva, Nahuatl Scholar of the Seventeenth Century," John Frederick Schwaller, "Nahuatl and Mixtec Writing in Sixteenth-Century Oaxaca," Kevin Terraciano, "'The Document Shall be Seen': Yucatec Maya Literacy," Matthew Restall, "Homshuk: A Thematic Analysis of the Narrative," Alfredo Lopez Austin, "Trees and Wood in Life and Death," Doris Heyden, "Birds and Beasts in Nahua Thought," Frances F. Berdan, "The Other Quetzalcoatl," John Kaufman, "The Aztec Craftsman and the Economy," Jacqueline de Durand-Forest, "Nahua Presence on the Mesoamerican Gulf Coast," S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson, "?Lengua o Diosa? The Early Imaging of Malinche," Jeannette Favrot Peterson, "Nahuatl Accounts of Our Lady of Guadalupe," Stafford Poole, "Acolhuacan in the Matricula and Mendocino," Luz Maria Mohar Betancourt, "Texcoc 1515-1519: The Ixtilxochitl Affair," Frederick Hicks, "Aztec Craft Production in Otumba, 1470-1570: Reflections of a Changing World," Thomas Charlton & Cynthia Otis Charlton, "Gonzalo de Salazar, 'Encomendero' of Tepetlaoztoc," Perla Valle, and "Gonzalo de Salazar, 'Encomendero' : Sinner or Saint?" H.R. Harvey.

Softcover. Zustand: near fine. First edition. Quarto. (vii) 178pp. Yellow printed wrappers, with black text on front cover and spine. Illustration on back cover. The publication presents the work and scholarship presented at the symposium of the same name. Featuring contributions from Luis O. Arata, Ramon Arzapalo Marin, Walden Browne, Hector A. Canonge, Dale Davis, Ruth Gubler and Monica Barnes, among numerous others. Mesoamerican and South American subjects discussed include, The Popol Vuh, the literary and religious language of the Maya, Olmec sculpture, animal imagery and colonial Andean literature. Text in English and Spanish. Wrappers and interior in overall near fine condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: vg. First edition in One Volume. Quarto. xxi,ix,[1],320pp. Brown cloth with black lettering on spine. "English Translations of German Papers from Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur Amerikanischen Sprach- und Alterthumskunde.With Major Additional Translations from the German by Theodore E. Gutman and assisted by Ingeburg Meinung Nagel. Edited by Frank E. Comparato." Includes all the articles on Middle (or Meso-) America and North and South America, with all their figures, tables, and photographs. Illustrations are b/w photographic reproductions. As new.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, illustrated paper covers, frontispiece map, viii, 108 pp., b/w drawings, bibliography, Calendar of the Aztecs.

194pp. Frontis. Lrg. 4to. Wraps. (back-cover torn).

Softcover. Zustand: New in publisher's shrink wrap. Revised Version. Small Quarto. 573 pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Revised edition of Moshe Idel's "The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia" (trans. by J. Chipman) and "Language, Torah, and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia" (trans. by M. Kallus) by Moshe Lazar: "I have preserved the integrity of their work, but have corrected a good number of misprints, completed certain blank spots, particularly in the footnotes, and I have also unified the system of transliteration of Hebrew words into Roman script according to the norms we have followed in all the previous volumes of "Sephardica." Includes 190pp. with detailed notes of Moshe Lazar's transcriptions, a bibliography and indexes.

Hardcover. Zustand: vg. Limited Edition. 1/300. 4to. xxxii,[4],266pp. Gold-stamped green cloth with silver lettering on spine. "I am offering in the present publication of the Sephardic Classical Library the first edition of the oldest Ladino Prayer Book pre-dating the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. It is also the only specific Woman's Prayer Book preserved from the Sephardic tradition.The Ladino translation of this condensed version of the traditional Hebrew Prayer Book seems to be the work of an individual who undertook to select and translate those portions of the ritual most useful to a woman for her personal daily use at home and occasionally for the Sabbath and the festive days in the synagogue. in many places, the translator has altered verbs in the plural to singular as well as some masculine nouns to feminine in order to adapt the text to the individual female worshipper. The handwriting does not represent the work of a professional scribe, or that of a skilled medieval translator of the Scriptures, nor is his translation a copy of a previous written model. The manuscript represents a literal and spontaneous translation from the Hebrew, seemingly often from memory, in a spoken and dialectal language that reflects a much older Spanish-Jewish oral tradition." (M. Lazar). Volume 10 of the series "The Sephardic Classical Library." Text in Hebrew, with some Spanish and English. Fine condition. Scarce.

Softcover. Zustand: vg. First edition. 8vo. XXXII, 907, 78 pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Photographic frontispiece of Henry J. Leir. Fourth volume in the "Henry J. Leir Library of Sephardica: Text and Studies" series. The entire religious plays, secular dramas and dramatized dialogues written by Miguel de Barrios, the most fruitful poet and author among all the Spanish-Portuguese Jews of his time (c. 1625-1701). Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions, most relating to Jewish life in Amsterdam, where Barrios died. English translation of "Contra la verdad no hay fuerza" in rear appendix. Introduction in English with some Hebrew; text in Spanish; Appendix in English. Book in fine condition. ASIN: B0047UUM3O.

Softcover. Zustand: vg. Second printing. 8vo. XIV, 327 pp. Original illustrated wraps. Photographic frontispiece of Henry J. Leir. First volume in the "Henry J. Leir Library of Sephardica: Text and Studies" series. A collection of papers presented at the international symposium "Jews of Spain and the Expulsion of 1492" held in April of 1992 at the University of Southern California, some of which were rewritten and expanded for this publication. The 14 works compiled in this book are: Coexistence and confrontation: Jews and Christian in medieval Spain, written by Norman Roth; The vicissitudes of Kabbalah in Catalonia, by Moshe Idel; A Crisis of categories: Kabbalah and the rise of Apostasy in Spain, by José Faur; The socio-economic structure of the Jewish Aljamas in the Kingdom of Aragon (1391-1492), by Miguel Angel Motis Dolader; The Jewish community in Murviedro, by Mark D. Meyerson; Jews, Castilian conversos, and the Inquisition (1482-1492), by Carlos Carrete Parrondo; Anti-Jewish and Anti-Converso propaganda: Confutatio libri talmud and Alboraique, by Moshe Lazar; The expulsion of the Jews as social process, by Stephen Haliczer; Facing crisis: The Catholic sovereigns, the expulsion and the Columbian expedition, by Marvin Lunenfeld; News about the Jewish community upon its departure, by Luis Suarez Fernandez Bilbao; Jews and Conversos in the region of Soria and Almazan: Departures and returns, by John Edwards; The urban Conversos in Spain after the expulsion, by Jaime Contreras; Dubious crimes in 16th century Italy: Rethinking the relations between Jews, Christians and Conversos in pre-modern Europe, by Roberto Bonfil; The theme of Spain in the Sephardic Haskalah's literature, by Elena Romero. Profusely illustrated with numerous b/w reproductions of drawings and charts. Book in fine condition.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Quarto, paper covers, b/w frontispiece photo, x, 201 pp., b/w photos and drawings, references cited Articles are "The Setting and Maya Maritime Trade," Gudjerjan, "The Settlement Patterns and Survey Data," Guderjan, "Excavations and Architecture of San Juan, Chuc Balam, and Ek Luum:" "Part 1. Excavations and Architecture at San Jaun," Guderjan, "Part 2. Chac Balam: Excavations and Architecture of a Formal Plaza Group," W. David Driver, "Part 3. Excavations and Architecture at Ek Luum," Guderjan and Lisa L. Brody-Foley, "Skeletal Biology of the Prehistoric Maya of Northern Ambergis Caye," David M. Glassman, "Ceramics from Nothern Ambergris Caye Sites," Fred Valdez, Jr., Lauren A. Sullivan, and Guderjan, "The Artifacts," James F. Garber, "The Lithics of Amergris Caye," Weston Hult and Thomas R. Hester," "The Role of Northern Ambergris Caye in Maya Obsidian Trade: Evidence from Visual Sourcing and Blade Technology," Heather McKillop, "Analysis of Faunal Materials from Ek Luum," Leslie C. Shaw, "Maya Trade, Settlement, and Populations of Ambergris Caye," Guderjan and Garber.

Softcover. Zustand: near fine. First edition. Large Quarto. 97pp. Printed blue wrappers with black lettering on front cover and spine, illustrated back cover. The publication is a holistic examination of the post-classical cosmology of the K'iche Maya people, through the lens of social-cultural, ecological and historical factors. Constellations, astronomical tools and data calculations are discussed in detail, bringing the scientific and observational astronomy aspects into focus. Illustrated throughout with star charts, constellations, and b&w reproductions of diagrams, illustrations and maps of archaeological sites, petroglyphs and temples relating to the subject. Index of constellation names in multiple languages, and detailed bibliography are at the back. Wrappers and interior in near fine condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: New in publisher's shrink wrap. First edition. Small Quarto. xiv, 234 (3)pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Unique and important early writer of modern Hebrew literature prior to Israeli statehood. Shami's characters were either Arabs or Sephardic Jews residing in Palestine. The Palestinian scholar and writer Issa Boullata sees in Shami's works evidence of a coexistence that vanished. "Of the seven classic Modern Hebrew stories in this volume, three deal with Arabs, four with Sephardic Jews. In the major story of this collection, "The Vengeance of the Fathers," we follow the course of the hero, Nimmer Abu al-Shawarib, the designated leader of the Nablus Muslims, on their annual pilgrimage to the grave of Nebi Mussa (Moses( in the Jordan valley. His joy is marred by his rivalry with the Hebron leader, Abu Faris, who repeatedly tries to snub him. Overcome by rage and indignation, Nimmer kills his rival and flees the area of the shrine. (Arnold J. Band, introduction).

softcover. Zustand: New in publisher's shrink wrap. First American edition. Softcover Quarto, 240 pp., b/w photos and drawings, Foreword by George F. Andrews. Originally published in Spanish as Los Estilos Rio Bec, Chenes y Puucen en la Arquitectura Maya (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, 1983. This is the first English printing. Copyright 1998 by Marcela Uribe de Gendrop. Brief Summary of the Explorations Undertaken in these Regions of the Yucatan Peninsula. Background and Observations. Architecture of the Rio Bec Region and its association with other areas. Historical Summary, The Environment. Stylistic Analysis, Background Considerations, Principal types of Buildings. The Zoomorphic Entrances and Related Themes. Wholly Zoomorphic Entrances, Partially Zoomorphic entrances and the Cascading Profile Masks. Iconographic Considerations. Sacred Caves, Two-Headed Monsters and Serpentine Jaws. An Attempt to Classify the Known Zoomorphic Entrances. The Architecture of the PUUC Region. Antecedents of the Fully Developed Puuc Style. The "Early Puuc" Phase and the Evolution of Entrances with Columns. The Use of Colonnettes and Masks in Puuc Architecture. The Late Phases of the Fully Developed Puuc Style. General Observations. Types of Chenes Style. New in publishers shrinkwrap. Glossy Photos on front and rear covers.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Quarto, paper covers, xiv, 274 pp., indexes.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Occasional bumps and creases to covers and spine. Clean and unmarked contents mostly. Otherwise, in good overall condition. xiv, 327 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; ISBN: 0911437681. ISBN/EAN: 9780911437683. Add. Inventory No: 251008REB0106375.

Hardcover. Zustand: vg. Limited edition. 4to. XVIII, [4], 727 pp. on acid-free paper. Original smyth-sewn purple clothbound with silver illustration on front board and gold lettering on spine. Fourteenth volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. The Middle Ages witnessed a growing interest of Jewish readers in "Jewish" epic and romance narratives. The Book of Yosippon, written originally in the second half of the 11th century in southern Italy, dominates the horizon of medieval literary historiography. Except for its first two chapters, which succinctly chronicle the generations stemming from Adam's children, the book focuses essentially on the historical events of the Second Temple period and subsequent upheavals. Its author has adapted Latin versions of the works of Flavius Josephus and other historiographers, and was also influenced by the contemporary literary models among Christian writers. Abraham Assa's Ladino version of Yosippon, the first in that language, was published in Constantinople in 1743/44. Except for its introductory and concluding sections, both found at the rear of Lazar's edition, it is without doubt derived and adapted from the first printed Hebrew edition printed in Venice (1544). Avraham Assa's Ladino adaptation from the Hebrew is masterfully executed and articulated in a beautiful readable style. The Venice 1544 edition is marred by many printing errors, some corrected in later editions. The Hebrew manuscripts contain similar scribal errors. Asa's own text also suffers from a continuous misreading of homonyms and toponyms found in non-biblical sources; these have been corrected in Lazar's work, following the critical text established by Flusser. Introduction, Notes, Bibliography in English; text in romanized Ladino facing Ladino in Hebrew script, Appendix in Hebrew-script Ladino. Book in fine condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: New in publisher's shrink wrap. Limited edition. 1/300. 4to. XXXII, [4], 266 pp. on acid-free paper. Original teal smyth-sewn clothbound with silver illustration on front cover and silver lettering on spine. Tenth volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. A critical edition of the oldest Ladino prayer book, predating the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. It is also the only stand-alone woman's prayer book preserved from the Sephardic tradition. The text survived as a pocket-size manuscript in the holdings of the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris and includes those portions of the traditional Hebrew prayer book most useful to a woman for her personal daily use at home and for the occasional use on the Sabbath and festival days in the synagogue. In many places, the translator has altered verbs in the plural to singular, as well as some masculine nouns to feminine, in order to adapt the text to the individual female worshipper. The manuscript is both a literal and spontaneous translation from the Hebrew, in a spoken and dialectal language that reflects a much older Spanish-Jewish oral tradition. Preface, Introduction, Bibliography, Notes and Commentaries in English; text in romanized Ladino facing Ladino in Hebrew characters. Binding and interior in fine condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: vg. First edition. Quarto. xxi,240,[5]pp. Brown cloth with black lettering on spine. "Eduard Seler's Die Alten Ansiedlungen von Chaculá im Distrikte Nentón des Departements Huehuetenango der Republik Guatemala was published in 1901 by the publishing house of Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen). The volume is a report on investigations conducted in northwestern Guatemala during an 1895-1897 expedition to Central America funded by the Duc de Loubat." This is the English translation of that work. Edited by John M. Weeks. "With all 50 Original Photographic Plates, 262 Line Illustrations and Plans, and 2 Maps." Contents: Foreword by John M. Weeks. Dedication to His Excellency Duke Joseph Florimond de Loubat. I: Historical and General. II: The Uaxac Canal Valley. III: The Hill Country Near Finca Chaculá. IV: The Forests of Yalam Bohoch. V: The Caves of Los Pajaros, El Cimarrón, and Piedra Redonda. VI: Pueblo Viejo Quen Santo, The Ancient Settlement above the Caves of Quen Santo. VII: The Casa del Sol: The Sun Temple of Quen Santo. VIII: The Caves of Quen Santo. IX: The Promontory: Tepancuapam, Zapaluta, Comitán. X: Some Linguistic Notes. Plates. references. Index. Map of the Department of Huehuetenango and Adjacent Chiapas. Map of Guatemala. As new. Scarce.

Softcover. Zustand: vg. Second printing. 8vo. XVI, 967 pp. Original illustrated wraps. Second volume in the "Henry J. Leir Library of Sephardica: Text and Studies" series. The first comprehensive reader of Ladino literature, covering a wide range of texts from the 15th to the early decades of the 20th century, most of them originally written or printed in Ladino using Hebrew typeface. The editor's aim is to open a window on the cultural heritage, which the Iberian Jewish exiles carried with them to Italy and the Ottoman Empire. The Ladino Reader presents a broad spectrum of poetic and prose writings, some of which were written before the expulsion. Most of the Ladino texts in Hebrew characters face transliterated versions; a few are present only in Hebrew typeface or in romanized transliteration. As traditional Ladino texts, particularly those dealing with religious and ethical matters contain a great number of Hebrew and Aramaic words or expressions, a succinct glossary is provided; the same for Turkish words found in later Ladino texts. Text in romanized and Hebrew-font Ladino with introductions in English. Wraps and interior in fine condition.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. JUDAICAFirst volume in the "Henry J. Leir Library of Sephardica: Text and Studies" series. A collection of papers presented at the international symposium "Jews of Spain and the Expulsion of 1492" held in April of 1992 at the University of Southern California, some of which were rewritten and expanded for this publication. The 14 works compiled in this book are: Coexistence and confrontation: Jews and Christian in medieval Spain, written by Norman Roth; The vicissitudes of Kabbalah in Catalonia, by Moshe Idel; A Crisis of categories: Kabbalah and the rise of Apostasy in Spain, by Josà Faur; The socio-economic structure of the Jewish Aljamas in the Kingdom of Aragon (1391-1492), by Miguel Angel Motis Dolader; The Jewish community in Murviedro, by Mark D. Meyerson; Jews, Castilian conversos, and the Inquisition (1482-1492), by Carlos Carrete Parrondo; Anti-Jewish and Anti-Converso propaganda: Confutatio libri talmud and Alboraique, by Moshe Lazar; The expulsion of the Jews as social process, by Stephen Haliczer; Facing crisis: The Catholic sovereigns, the expulsion and the Columbian expedition, by Marvin Lunenfeld; News about the Jewish community upon its departure, by Luis Suarez Fernandez Bilbao; Jews and Conversos in the region of Soria and Almazan: Departures and returns, by John Edwards; The urban Conversos in Spain after the expulsion, by Jaime Contreras; Dubious crimes in 16th century Italy: Rethinking the relations between Jews, Christians and Conversos in pre-modern Europe, by Roberto Bonfil; The theme of Spain in the Sephardic Haskalah's literature, by Elena Romero. Profusely illustrated with numerous b/w reproductions of drawings and charts.Fourteen specialists in medieval Spanish history used the incredible Spanish archives - still in existence - to describe the political, social, and economic affairs leading to the extraordinary edict forcing thousands of Jews to leave Spain.pp. xiv, 327 #120724(Note: Faint damp stains to bottom edge of first 20 pages, gift inscription to fep) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

Softcover. Zustand: vg. First edition. Quarto. [8], 380 pp. Original illustrated wraps. Photographic frontispiece of Henry J. Leir. Eighth volume in the "Henry J. Leir Library of Sephardica: Text and Studies" series. Fascinating work published in 2004 on the eve of commemorating the 800th anniversary of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon's death and presenting the English version of a volume of folktales about Maimonides which has been published in Spanish by Tamar Alexander and Elene Romero in 1985 on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of his birth in Cordoba. Accompanied by a foreword by Moshe Lazar. This work is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w photographic reproductions of documents. Book in fine condition. R. Moses Maimonides (Rambam) was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure, both during his lifetime and after his death, but generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba, Spain but fled as a child due to Almohad persecution of Jews. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi, physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah, his only work not in Arabic, still carries canonical authority, particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community, as the codification of Talmudic law. His other work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj, Kitab al-Fara'I, a book on precepts, and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin, known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim, The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge and explaining away anthropomorphic and antropopathic terms in the Bible. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages.