A Collection of Thirteen Pre-Columbian Art Books
Sale 1246 - Pre-Columbian & Ethnographic Art
Oct 12, 2023
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Online / Chicago
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Lot Description
A Collection of Thirteen Pre-Columbian Art Books
Comprising:
I. Bernal, et al., The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology (London, Thames and Hudson, Reprinted 1975);
A. Panesso, et al., El Dorado: Museum of Gold Banco de la República Bogotá-Columbia (Bogotá-Columbia, Banco de la República, First English Edition 1975);
E.N. Calderon, et al., Banco Popular Museo Argueológico: Casa del Marqués de san Jorge (Bogotá-Columbia Talleres Graficos Banco Popular 1983);
J.A. Cano, Cerámica Quimbaya y Calima (Bogotá-Columbia, Plaza & Janes 1976) *Contains book mark from Libreria Aldina located in Bogotá, Columbia;
W.H. Prescott, The World of the Aztecs (Genève, Editions Minerva 1974);
W.H. Prescott, The World of the Incas (Genève, Editions Minerva 1974);
L’art Colombien a Travers les Siecles (Petit Palais, Exhibition Catalogue 1975);
J.S. Day, et al., Aztec: The World of Moctezuma (Denver Museum of Natural History, Roberts Rinehart Publishers 1992);
J.S. Day, et al., The Fall of the Aztec Empire (Denver Museum of Natural History, Roberts Rinehart Publishers 1993);
L.R.R. Lamus, El Alfarero (Bogotá-Columbia, Carlos Valencia Editores 1978);
L.A. Parsons, Pre-Columbia Art: The Morton D. May and The Saint Louis Art Museum Collections (Saint Louis Art Museum, First Edition, 1980) *Handwritten note on front page attributing the book as a gift from Olguit/Roberto Goizueta, chairman of the Coca-Cola Company, ca.1980;
Important Tribal Art and Antiquities from the Collection of William A. McCarty-Cooper (New York, Christie’s Auction Catalogue, 1992);
D. Newton, et al., The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection: Masterpieces of Primitive Art (New York, Alfred A. Knopf 1978).
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