The Aztec Templo Mayor
- Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1987
Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1987. First Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's maroon cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. 513pp. Light edgewear and scuffing to spine ends and extremities, strong and bright; internally clean and fresh. A very good, clean copy indeed.
From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator, and anthropologist, bearing his bookplate. An academic collection of pieces presented during a 1983 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, examining the ethnohistorical data relating to the Tenochitlan Templo Mayor (amongst other Aztec cultural pieces), destroyed by Cortez in the 1520's.
From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator, and anthropologist, bearing his bookplate. An academic collection of pieces presented during a 1983 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, examining the ethnohistorical data relating to the Tenochitlan Templo Mayor (amongst other Aztec cultural pieces), destroyed by Cortez in the 1520's.