Michael Douglas Coe (16 results)

Condition: acceptable. Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Item may be missing bundled media.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 304 clean, unmarked pages/index; 2nd Printing.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good, like new.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 31 pages with three fold out diagrams. bibliography and figures including frontispiece. Quarto (10 1/2" x 7 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology number 2. First edition. A small relief panel in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection is of limestone and measures 65 cm by 63.5 cm. The sculpture has been sawn vertically in two pieces, and the smaller, righthand piece has a diagonal break near the upper corner. The panel has been cut down from its original size by sawing on all four sides. There is red color on much of the surface. The stone is so eroded that it is difficult to interpret many of the details. This monograph gives a complete discussion of the Relief Panels. Condition: Near fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 597-611 pages with figures and bibliography. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 59 Number 4. complete issue. First edition. Michael Douglas Coe was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, epigrapher, and author. He is known for his research on pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, particularly the Maya, and was among the foremost Mayanists of the late twentieth century. Condition: Edge wear with gently bumped corners, spine sunned else very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 363-393 pages with figures and cited references. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 62 Number 3 complete issue. First edition. The excavations at La Victoria were carried out under the auspices of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University and the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala. Work was made possible by a generous grant from the Penrose Fund of the American Philosophical Society. I would like to express my gratitude to Emilio Estrada of the Museo Arqueológico Victor Emilio Estrada and to Clifford Evans and Betty J. Meggers of the United States National Museum, who supplied much valuable information and all of the photographs of Ecuadorian material illustrated in this paper. Junius B. Bird of the American Museum of Natural History helped in the analysis of some of the special decorative techniques described in this paper. Condition: Edge wear with gently bumped corners, spine sunned else very good.

Condition: Very good.

Wrappers. Condition: Fine Condition. 158 pages with 150 illustrations 10 in color. Foreword by Thomas T. Solley, Director. Preface by Patricia Darish, Acting Curator.

hardcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Quarto. 157pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over with blind stamped publisher's logo and gilt lettering on cover and spine. Light brown endpapers. General framework for each geographic region with renowned authorities contributing to describe the examples into their respective cultural context. Profusely illustrated with five color and numerous b/w photographs, drawings and maps. Slight yellowing in margins of book block not affecting text or images. DJ, binding and interior in overall very good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 304 pages with tables, figures, plates, glossary, bibliography, appendices and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original wrappers. Inscribed by by Michael Coe First paperback edition. Michael Coe's book tells the story of the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script of the ancient Maya, builders of grand and monumental city-states in the forest lands of central America during the period about 250 BC to 800 AD. Mayan is the latest great decipherment, to be set alongside the two great classics, Champollion's reading of Egyptian hieroglyphics in 1822, and Ventris & Chadwick's discovery in 1952 that the Linear B tablets of Minoan Crete were in an archaic Greek. And it will also, be the last great decipherment. Other ancient scripts are undeciphered, or only partly deciphered; but they promise few, short, or less than thrilling texts. The Linear B tablets are clerical records of commodities logged into Minoan store-houses, and the undeciphered and preceding Linear A promises more of the same. Mayan is grander stuff, monumental inscriptions of strangely-titled kings and princes, of the complexities of their lineage and descent, and of the exact chronology of their lives and reigns. The story of Mayan decipherment is longer, odder and more compelling than most. It is told here with great vigor by Professor Michael Coe, who was himself involved; he offers an insider's story with strong views of the personalities, competence and abilities of some colleagues. The texts are carved on stelae, on objects of jade and shell, and on panels set into ceremonial buildings. Many of these have been, in modern times, looted and sold on the art market, often sawn up into fragments. Other texts are painted on walls and on pottery, and on the pages of folding books made of fig bark. They do not immediately look like writing; they are miniature and not-so miniature pictures, called hieroglyphs by analogy with ancient Egyptian, also a form of picture-writing. Many decipherments depend on some kind of bilingual text that sets the unknown script alongside the same words in a known language. For Mayan this had to be patched together from the very few documents ¿ 'codices' ¿ that survived the holocaust of Maya learning after the Spanish conquest, and from fragmentary transcriptions in some early Spanish sources of the immediate contact period. The most important is a transliterated Maya alphabet by Diego de Landa, the man most notorious for the auto-da-fes that burnt the hieroglyphic books. Elements had been in place for years, and so had some wrong expectations. Quite suddenly, some pieces of the jigsaw fell into position, some new approaches were tried, and as one reading made possible another, the decipherment became a rush. Key contributions were made by a group of Russian researchers in Leningrad (as St Petersburg was then called); unable in those pre-glasnost days to travel abroad, they had never seen the places and inscriptions their working careers were devoted to. One of the Americans was a teenager, David Stuart, who got involved by being taken to Maya sites by his father, who worked for National Geographic. Condition Inscribed on half title else a fine copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is a ONE OF A KIND listing of major publications released in 2003, featuring an author signed copy of the 2003 International Festival of Authors Program. In addition to the Program which is signed by ALL the listed authors, signed copies of the following are included; ORYX & CRAKE (Canadian First Edition and First Printing - signed by Margaret Atwood), THE KITE RUNNER (Canadian First Edition and First Printing - signed by Kaled Hosseini), ELLE (Canadian First Edition and First Printing - signed and Lined by Douglas Glover, Governor General's Literary Award Winner), DANCER (USA First Edition and First Printing - signed by Colum McCann), THE CUTTING ROOM (Canadian First Edition and First Printing - signed by Louise Welsh) and THE IN-BETWEEN WORLD OF VIKRAM LALL (Canadian First Edition and First Printing - signed by M. G. Vassanji, Giller Prize Winner). The International Festival of Authors 2003 Program is signed by Fourty (40) plus authors at their respective program biography, as listed, including; Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje (on cover), Kaled Hosseini, Colum McCann, Louise Welsh, William Gibson, Shirley Hazzard, Douglas Coupland, Jasper Fjord, Sebastian Barry, A.S. Byatt, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Hugo Hamilton, David Guterson, Emma Donoghue, Peter Robinson. Ali Smith and M.G. Vassanji. A "One Of A Kind" listing. Images of the 2003 IFOA Program are attached; additional images upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Bon. In4 relié sous jaquette en bon état, 240 pages, 1997 (ancien livre de bibliothèque : tampons bibliothèque, porte fiche en fin d'ouvrage, légères marques verticales sur la hauteur gauche du verso de la jaquette, bon exemplaire). Envoi soigné.

Condition: Good. Folio. 30 pp. Portfolio bound in red cloth with a soft cover booklet inside and 16 loose color plates. Very Good; inside pocket for booklet is ripped on on one side. Features prints of Mayan pottery. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1986 , 157 pp 165 photos with Artifacts in it Essays by : Roy Sieber, Douglas Newton, Michael D. Coe Indiana University Art Museum Organized by : Patricia Darish Hard Cover Bibliothèque Alain Guisson.

Fogli Sciolti. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Coe, Michael Douglas (1929¿) Classic Maya Pottery at Dumbarton Oaks Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks , 1975 30 pages with 17 color loose plates. Elephant folio (17 1/2" x 12") issued in hard bound slipcase. 1st edition. The Center for Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks is fortunate to have in its collection an outstanding group of ceramics from the Classic Maya civilization, which flourished from about AD 300 to 900 in southern Mexico and Central America. Seventeen of these are illustrated and described in this catalog. Those few vases not shown are (1) already published in sufficient detail, (2) of slight artistic or iconographic interest, or (3) so much restored as to show little of the Maya artist's intention. It was believed that publishing these magnificent works of art in the fullest form possible, a contribution will be made to the study of this extraordinary native American civilization. Condition: A very good to fine set. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good to Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall - Language : English text Size: Folio.