Examples of Maya Pottery in the Museum and Other Collections.

Gordon, George B. and John A. Mason (Eds.).

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Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1925 -1928. First edition, in two volumes, unpaginated. Elephant folio (53 cm), portfolio in original brown cloth over gray paper covered boards, black titles to front cover; two brown paper wrappers each with 25 large, vivid collotype plates illustrative of Maya pottery found at various sites across Central America (e.g., Copan, Honduras and Chamas, Guatemala). Originally planned as a series of four issues, each comprising twenty-five plates showing virtually every example of publicly held Maya potters work in natural size and precise detail, the second issue was nearly complete when G. B. Gordon, the editor, suddenly died. Mason, whose special interest was North American indigenous cultures, oversaw the completion of the second series, but his efforts did not extend beyond the publication in 1943 of an abbreviated third series comprising sixteen plates (not represented here). To be fair, it should be pointed out that as German institutions held various examples of Maya pottery, securing their images no doubt became increasingly difficult as the Second World War grew near. George Byron Gordon (not to be confused in Google searches with the English romantic poet) became head of Harvard s Peabody Museum s explorations at Copan, Honduras, with the death from fever (probably typhus) in 1892 of his predecessor John G. Owens. His work directing the Peabody project, which focussed on the hieroglyphic stairway, continued with some interruption through 1900 when the project at Copan was brought to a halt by political turmoil in the country. Gordon went on to a career as director for some twenty years of the University of Pennsylvania Museum where he was an aggressive collector of native North American artefacts at a time when they were being eagerly bought by collectors such as George G. Heye whom Gordon counted as a friend. (An image of Gordon at Copan Ruinas in his Indiana Jones regalia accompanies this listing.) The principal illustrator for the publication was M. Louise Baker who drew and coloured all but a handful of the plates in a style characteristically precise and vivid. An appreciation of Baker s work by Elin Danien, an associate of the Museum, Paintings in Maya Pottery: the Art and Career of M. Louise Baker, appeared in 2006 (FAMSI). Some few others in the two sets were the work of Annie Hunter, W. v. d. Steinem, and Gordon himself. Most of the plates show cups and bowls, some intact and some others as reconstructed from fragments, and succeed as photographs could not in capturing the images out of the round so that the narrative images are more easily discerned and connected. Notes on the location of each of the pottery pieces, together with notes on their use, etc., serve as a table of contents for each of the issues. Fine examples of Maya pottery are housed, among other places, at Copan, Honduras, where the Museo Regional de Arqueologia Maya located off the Parque Central and the Sculpture Museum at the principal archaeological site, Copan Ruinas, exhibit the work of Maya artists. The portfolio itself has worn corners, some superficial soiling, and the ties are perished. Each of the forty-five colour and five black and white plates is clean and bright. B & w plate XLVIII is creased along the bottom 1/4 but otherwise, like the other forty-nine, fine. This series of illustrative plates was published in quite small editions intended to be sold by subscription and, while held by a number of libraries, is scarce in the market.

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T�tulo: Examples of Maya Pottery in the Museum and Other Collections.
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TRILLIUM ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS OUR COLLECTIONS Trillium's Catalogue of Antiquarian Books comprises several collections-- Country Life, Natural History, Canadiana, Literature, Images, and Curiosities. The Trillium Antiquarian Catalogue always will be of a modest size, but I hope it always will be worthy of your interest. You can explore our collections when you visit our web site at www.trilliumbooks.ca. COUNTRY LIFE One way or another, these antiquarian books address the need 'to be versed in country things'. You will find, for example, English farming books from the 18th century, books for anglers, whether by fly or worm, dating almost back to Walton, gardening and horticulture books, studies of apiculture and classic landscape design. Almost any part of the world will do, so long as there are flowers or fish or bees. Because I am someone who has tried his hand at farming, you may find a special antiquarian book on barns or cattle raising or you may find early seed catalogues or herbals with cures and potions which sometimes worked. ANTIQUARIAN NATURAL HISTORY Almost any part of the world will do, too, when it comes to early studies of Natural History. My earliest interest is ornithology, birds and bird books, and so, while you are unlikely to find an elephant folio Audubon in the collection, Alexander Wilson's bird books likely will be on offer or Bewick's or Morris's. Look for early geographies and look for botanical studies of native North American and European plants published on either side of the eighteenth- nineteenth century divide. I do not shrink from some Latin here. Much of our early scientific, as distinct from mythic, zoology (botany, too) originated with the observations of travelers and explorers (that, after all, is where Darwin came in), and therefore you will find journals and memoirs of those who journeyed in the name of science or merely out of curiosity to the Arctic, the Yucatan, or the outskirts of Philadelphia. CANADIANA COLLECTION Our Canadiana collection cuts across all the other categories and some others to boot. It certainly includes interesting editions of the work of early settlers in this part of English Canada-- the Strickland sisters, Susannah Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill, and later arrivals such as Robertson Davies; but you will find as well works on the Canadian arctic and the commentaries of British visitors or wandering Americans, together perhaps with the only Golden Cockerel publication of a Canadian title. LITERATURE COLLECTION Our Literature Collection casts a wide net and catches sermons, novels, essays, poems, letters, and satiric sketches. You may find a 17th century translation of The Consolation of Philosophy or a copy of The Catcher in the Rye in just the right dust wrapper. As someone who started out as a middle American and not an Upper Canadian, I am always on the lookout for an early Mark Twain or something unusual by the other kid from Newark, Stephen Crane. ANTIQUE IMAGES, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, MAPS If you examine under magnification a Bewick wood-engraving (even a tail-piece at a chapter end), you will begin to understand something about the relation of image and text. Sometimes the images collected here still reside with their texts, as in the illustrated books you will find here, but sometimes they have been separated (courtesy of the book-breaker or simple entropy) and are offered in this collection as separate maps, lithographs, wood-engravings, or wood-cuts of interest in their own right. A COLLECTION OF CURIOSITIES I find an illustrated technical monograph on cockroaches or a treatise on water dowsing by a German count hard to resist and therefore have decided not to. Look for intriguing oddities such as these in this collection-- a commercial fisher would call them the by-catch and pitch them into the sea from whence they came, but these are too good to throw back. BOOK

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