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STEPHENS, John Lloyd (1805-1852). Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1843.
2 volumes, 8o (223 x 137 mm). Folding engraved frontispiece and folding map in vol. I, 76 plates, and numerous text engravings all after Frederick Catherwood (some browning, folding map inexpertly repaired on verso). (Some occasional spotting.) 19th-century half straight-grained morocco (front cover of vol. I detaching, joints weak, some wear at corners and edges). Provenance: Bowdoin College Library (library stamps on a few text leaves and folding frontispiece, stamp excised from title-pages); Mabel Choate (bookplate).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Stephens' follow-up to Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. Both books served to establish the field of Mayan archaeology. "Stephens provided accurate, detailed descriptions of the ruins, and he was the first to establish that the many Mayan sites were part of a single civilization that existed up to the time of the Spanish conquest and that the Indians were the direct descendants of that civilization" (ANB). Sabin 91299. (2)
2 volumes, 8
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Stephens' follow-up to Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. Both books served to establish the field of Mayan archaeology. "Stephens provided accurate, detailed descriptions of the ruins, and he was the first to establish that the many Mayan sites were part of a single civilization that existed up to the time of the Spanish conquest and that the Indians were the direct descendants of that civilization" (ANB). Sabin 91299. (2)
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