Mexican and Central American Antiquities, Calendar Systems, and History (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 28)

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Former library copy, usual marks. Front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1904 Hard Cover. 682 pp. Black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and fold-outs throughout text, comprising 49 plates and 134 figures. A study of Latin American cultures focusing on ancient artefacts. Contents include: The Mexican Chronology, with Special Reference to the Zapotec Calendar; Ancient Mexican Feather Ornaments; Antiquities of Guatemala; Alexander von Humboldt's Picture Manuscripts in the Royal Library at Berlin; The Bat God of the Maya Race; The Wall Paintings of Mitla; The Significance of the Maya Calendar for Historic Chronology; The Temple Pyramid of Tepoztlan; The Venus Period in the Borgian Codex Group; Aids to the Deciphering of the Maya Manuscripts; Maya Chronology; Time Periods of the Mayas; Maya Hieroglyphs; The Central American Calendar; The Pleiades; The Central American Tonalamatl; Recent Maya Investigations; The Inscription on the Cross of Palenque; The Day Gods of the Mayas; From the Temple of Inscriptions at Palenque; Three Inscriptions of Palenque; Comparative Studies in the Field of Maya Antiquities; The Independent States of Yucatan; Two Vases from Chama.