[Halftone plates in Sacred mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 years ago]

Item Information

Title:
[Halftone plates in Sacred mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 years ago]
Description:
"17 half-tone plates, the frontispiece, a portrait of the author, the remainder photographs of Mayan temples and bas-relief...[this copy] is one of the earliest half-tone books in the United States. John Moss's method of half-tone was a secret one and was not patented."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 88
Contributor:
Le Plongeon, Augustus, 1826-1908. Sacred mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 years ago : their relation to the sacred mysteries of Egypt, Greece, Chaldea and India : Free masonry in times anterior to the temple of Solomon : illustrated
Contributor:
Moss, John Calvin, 1838-1892
Contributor:
Kurtz, William, 1833-1904
Date:
1886
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Halftones
Relief halftones
Location:
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Collection (local):
David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
Subjects:
Mayas
Maya architecture
Maya sculpture
Quiches
Yucatan (Mexico : State)--Antiquities
Chichen Itza Site (Mexico)
Places:
Mexico
Extent:
17 photomechanical prints : halftones ; 23 x 14 cm
Link to Item:
http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll1,1344
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
New York : R. Macoy, 1886
Language:
English
Notes:
Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
Plates are "from drawings and photographs made by the author and engraved by the Moss Engraving Co., by the new process of Mr. John C. Moss"--p.xvi, Sacred mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches -- In: Sacred mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 years ago : their relation to the sacred mysteries of Egypt, Greece, Chaldea and India : Free masonry in times anterior to the temple of Solomon : illustrated / by Augustus Le Plongeon. New York : R. Macoy, 1886 -- Title supplied by cataloger
Identifier:
D.A.H.Cat., 1886:19
NE2698 L433s