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Originally written in the Aztec language, this 16th-century codex was the first herbal and medical text compiled in the New World. It contains ancient remedies for myriad ailments-boils, hair loss, cataracts, insomnia hiccoughs, and gout, to name a few. An extraordinarily rare and valuable document; amazing in its scope, detail, careful observation, and accurate description. Analytical Index to Plants. New Introduction. Over 180 b/w illus. 38 color illus.
This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical
literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles
have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades.
The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to
promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a
TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the
amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series,
tredition intends to make thousands of international literature
classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
Title: Minnesota year book.Author: Le Duc, William GatesPublisher:
Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed
bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926
contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works
about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early
1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery
and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil
War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP05173502CollectionID:
CTRG05-S12PublicationDate: 18510101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Volumes for 1851-1852 have on t.-p.: by W.G. Le Duc.
Publisher's statement varies. "Indian treaties" accounts of
treaties negotiated with the Dakota Indians at Traverse des Sioux
and Mendota, June 30-Aug. 5, 1851]: 1852, p. 23-87.Collation: 5 v.;
22 cm
Title: Proceedings of a general court martial, held for the trial
of Major William Gates ...Author: William GatesPublisher: Gale,
Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed
bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926
contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works
about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early
1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery
and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil
War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP01314100CollectionID:
CTRG94-B2979PublicationDate: 18370101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Title from caption on p. iii].Collation: 43 p., 1]
folded leaf of plates: plan
Title: Minnesota year book.Author: Le Duc, William GatesPublisher:
Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed
bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926
contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works
about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early
1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery
and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil
War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP05173503CollectionID:
CTRG05-S12PublicationDate: 18510101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Volumes for 1851-1852 have on t.-p.: by W.G. Le Duc.
Publisher's statement varies. "Indian treaties" accounts of
treaties negotiated with the Dakota Indians at Traverse des Sioux
and Mendota, June 30-Aug. 5, 1851]: 1852, p. 23-87.Collation: 5 v.;
22 cm
Title: Minnesota year book.Author: Le Duc, William GatesPublisher:
Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed
bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926
contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works
about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early
1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery
and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil
War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP05173501CollectionID:
CTRG05-S12PublicationDate: 18510101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Volumes for 1851-1852 have on t.-p.: by W.G. Le Duc.
Publisher's statement varies. "Indian treaties" accounts of
treaties negotiated with the Dakota Indians at Traverse des Sioux
and Mendota, June 30-Aug. 5, 1851]: 1852, p. 23-87.Collation: 5 v.;
22 cm
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
In 1562, de Landa conducted an 'Auto de fe' in Mani where in
addition to 5000 'idols, ' he burned 27 books in Maya writing. This
one act deprived future generations of a huge body of Mayan
literature. He culturally impoverished the descendents of the
Mayas, and left only four codices for scholars to puzzle over. The
document translated here is de Landa's apology, and one of the few
remaining contemporary texts which describe pre-conquest Mayan
society, science, and art in detail. As such it must be read in
context. The translator and editor, the distinguished Americanist
William Gates, provides plenty of background on de Landa, the
decline of the Maya, and what is today known about their ancient
culture. Landa's Relacion de las cosas de Yucatan also created a
valuable record of the Mayan writing system, which despite its
inaccuracies was later to prove instrumental in the later
decipherment of the writing system. Landa asked his informants (his
primary sources were two Maya individuals descended from a ruling
Maya dynasty, literate in the script) to write down the glyphic
symbols corresponding to each of the letters of the (Spanish)
alphabet, in the belief that there ought to be a one-to-one
correspondence between them. The results were faithfully reproduced
by Landa in his later account, although he recognised that the set
contained apparent inconsistencies and duplicates, which he was
unable to explain. Later researchers reviewing this material also
formed the view that the "de Landa alphabet" was inaccurate or
fanciful, and many subsequent attempts to use this transcription
remained unconvincing. It was not until much later, in the
mid-twentieth century, when it was realised and then confirmed that
it was not a transcription of an alphabet, as Landa and others had
originally supposed, but was rather a syllabary. Confirmation of
this was only to be established by the work of Russian linguist
Yuri Knorozov in the 1950s, and the succeeding generation of
Mayanists. Relacion de las cosas de Yucatan was written by Diego de
Landa Calderon circa 1566 shortly after his return to Spain after
serving as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatan in
the sixteenth century. In it, de Landa catalogues a partial
explanation of written and spoken language that proved vital to
modern attempts to decipher the language 1] as well as Maya
religion and the Mayan peoples' culture in general. It was written
with the help of local Maya princes, and contains the famous
translation of "I do not want to." The original manuscript has been
lost, although many copies still survive. Currently available
English translations include William E. Gates's 1937 translation,
has been published by multiple publishing houses under the title
Yucatan Before and After the Conquest
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
1932. The dictionary of Maya glyphs includes a concordance and
analysis of their relationship. Line drawings of all glyphs are
included. Contents: Day signs; Month signs; Calendric signs;
Cardinal points: historical review; Numerals; Colors; Face signs;
Quasi-facial forms; Animal figures; Conventional forms:
pictographic objects; Eclipse and constellation band; Minor
elements; Reference key table; Glyph studies. Reprinted from "The
Maya Society Quarterly."
1932. The dictionary of Maya glyphs includes a concordance and
analysis of their relationship. Line drawings of all glyphs are
included. Contents: Day signs; Month signs; Calendric signs;
Cardinal points: historical review; Numerals; Colors; Face signs;
Quasi-facial forms; Animal figures; Conventional forms:
pictographic objects; Eclipse and constellation band; Minor
elements; Reference key table; Glyph studies. Reprinted from "The
Maya Society Quarterly."
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
The dictionary of Maya glyphs includes a concordance and analysis
of their relationship. Line drawings of all glyphs are included.
Contents: Day signs; Month signs; Calendric signs; Cardinal points:
historical review; Numerals; Colors; Face signs; Quasi-facial
forms; Animal figures; Conventional forms: pictographic objects;
Eclipse and constellation band; Minor elements; Reference key
table; Glyph studies. Reprinted from "The Maya Society Quarterly."
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