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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. W. Langdon Kihn and H.M. Herget and others (illustratore). Dust jacket has edgewear, tape reinforcements. Text is without flaw. 7.25 X 10.25" 431 pages, Weight Over 1 Kg, published 1958. This colourful and heavily illustrated volume stems from the National Geographic Magazine and more than 25 National Geographic Society archaeological and anthropological expeditions ranging from Cape Horn to the Arctic. Many were co-sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. **Bundle up & Save on Postage**.

First Edition. Octavo (25cm); orange cloth-covered boards with titling and decoration stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 185pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and map illustrations throughout. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. A Near Fine copy. Collection of essays presented in 1967 at Dumbarton Oaks, including Robert F. Heizer's "New Observations on la Venta", Tatiana Proskouriakoff's "Olmec and Maya Art: Problems of their Stylistic Relation", and Peter T. Furst's "The Olmec Were-Jaguar Motif in Light of Ethnographic Reaity". [87342].