THE ANCIENT MAYA (3rd Edition)

3rd Edition, 3rd Printing of 1963. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated beige linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. Map to endpapers. Frontispiece: The Young Corn God, Copan, Honduras. Classic well illustrated study on the rich pre-Columbian Maya civilization. First published 1946; this is the 3rd Revised Edition of 1956 with a concluding chapter by Betty Bell, editorial assistant to George Bainerd whose untimely death prevented him from seeing the work to its end. 12 chapters: I, The Country; II, The People; III, The Origin of the Maya Civilization; IV, The Classic State; VI, The Spanish Conquest of Yucatan; VII, The Spanish Conquest of Peten; VIII, Agriculture; IX, Government & Social Organization; X, Life of the Common People; XI, Religion & Deities; XII, Hieroglyphic Writing, Arithmetic & Astronomy; XIII, Architecture; XIV, Sculpture & Modeling; XV, Ceramics; XVI, Miscellaneous Arts & Crafts; and, XVII, An Appraisal of the Maya Civilization by Betty Bell, followed by the Appendix: Correlation of Maya & Christian Chronologies. Fine copy less dust jacket. …