Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest

Description

Editor: Grube, Nikolai

Publisher: Könemann

Pub Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Without dust jacket.  Previous owner’s name and mark on upper corner title page near spine head.  Date written above publisher.  Upper corner bumped, chipped.  Lower front cover corner at spine foot bumped.

Notes: Originally published in Germany in 2000,  translated into English in 2001.  If there were such a thing as a Maya encyclopedia, this might be it.  Habitat, hieroglyphs, bark paper books, astronomy, mathematics, politics, architecture, art, jade, religion, the colonial period, Maya today.  Lots of color photos, maps, art.  Beautiful book, but you better have a small boy to help you carry it.