Gesammelte abhandlungen zur Amerikanischen sprach- und altertumskunde

Eduard Seler (1849-1922) did more than any other person to advance aboriginal Mexican and Mayan studies in accordance with modern scientific scholarship. He wrote no single major work, but his Gesammelte Abhandlungen (5 vols., Berlin, 1902-1923) remains as a monumental record of a lifetime of research. Seler shed light on every subject he examined. His specialties were the languages, codices, and calendars of Middle America. For years it has been almost impossible to obtain Seler’s collected writings and all students will rejoice to know that they are now being reissued in facsimile by the Akademisehe Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt in Graz. The first volume, here under review, corresponds in every way to the original first volume of 1902. It contains 23 articles, including the well-known studies of Codex Borgia and the Humboldt codices in Berlin, and studies of calendar and glyphs, together with clear reproductions of the original illustrations.