Arquitectura Prehispanica (Pre-Hispanic Architecture)
Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia E Historia. Secretaria de Educacion Publica, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. xix, 970 [1]pp., plates. Original light blue cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on cover and spine, in original color-illustrated dustjacket with blue lettering and ruling on spine. Inside covers and endpapers illustrated with maps on heavy gray paper. Title page printed in red and blue with indigenous plaque. Report published with support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Viking Fund, Inc.
Comprehensive report and Pre-Hispanic Architecture in the Americas, beautifully illustrated with b/w photographs, drawings and plans, including twelve color reproductions of architectural drawings, one emblem, pottery, three of them folding, and one folding plate with a comparative table indicating the dates of development. With general index and index of illustrations at rear.
Text in Spanish. "Winfield Scott Wellington, 1952," penciled to top of inside front cover. Wellington was an American architect, designer and educator. Dustjacket with some light wear along edges and lightly rubber. Binding with light wear and sunning along edges and spine. Lightly starting at page 351 and likely missing folding plate Cuarto No. 1. Folding plates Nos. 2 and 3 present. Good to very good condition. Item #55335
Price: $250.00