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Mexico - Architecture:

Cervantes, Enrique A. . SANTIAGO DE QUERETARO EN EL ANO DE MIL NOVECIENTOS TREINTA Y CUATRO
Mexico 1935 1st Bajo la Direccion del Autor, imprimio Manuel Casas. Cervantes was important Mexican engineer, photographer, architect and architectural restorer. Limited edition: Copy No. 205 of 300. 4to., (11.5 x 8. 5 inches), 11pp. of text in Spanish with 50 very fine original photographs (Cervantes hand stamp on verso of each) of buildings, public places, streets, cathedral doors, monuments and fine architectural details, most exterior views, a few interiors, and are artistically mounted on heavy card stock with black paper background, loose as issued in plaid cloth covered folder with black string ties. Folder has printed paper labels on front board and spine. Beautiful views. Near Fine, extremely light wear. Scarce. (a52003)
$750.00 Marquina, Ignacio . ESTUDIO ARQUITECTONICO COMPARATIVO DE LOS MONUMENTOS ARQUEOLOGICOS DE MEXICO
Mexico 1928 1st Talleres Graficos de la Nacion. Scholarly, heavily detailed tex in Spanish. Chapters include: La Cultura Arcaica, La Cultura Nahua, La Cultura Olmeca; Ciudades Arcaicas, Oaxaca, Toltecas, Mayas del Golfo, Mayas del Usumacinta, Mayas del Peten, Mayas de Centroamerica; Edificios Cuicuilco, Yacatas de Michoacan, Edificios Nahuas, Olmecas, Totonacos, Toltecas, Editifcio Mayas, Edificios Zapotecas, Aztecas. Oblong Lg.Folio, many diagrams, charts, drawings, color plates of artworks and artifacts, quite a few large foldout plates, leather spine with paper covered boards, fancy green patterned end papers. Good, corners worn, cover and spine a bit warped. (a58418)
$300.00 Pereznieto Castro, Fernando . LA CIUDAD DE QUERETARO
Mexico 1975 1st Presentacion de Juan Jose Arreola. Copy No. 198 of 2000. Lg.4to., 39 full page drawings with accompanying text in English and in Spanis, hardcover. Signed by Pereznieto Castro. Fine in Near Fine DJ, two small snags on one edge.) (a58598)
$35.00 Sanford, Trent Elwood . STORY OF ARCHITECTURE IN MEXICO INCLUDING THE WORK OF THE ANCIENT INDIAN CIVILIZATIONS AND THAT OF THE SPANISH COLONIAL EMPIRE WHICH SUCCEEDED THEM, TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE BACKGROUND IN SPAIN AND A GLIMPSE AT THE MODERN TREND
NY 1947 first edition Norton. Hardcover. Octavo, 363pp., index, cloth. VG, no DJ. (a11378)
$22.00 Vega Bolanos, Luis . CATALOGO DER CONSTRUCCIONES RELIGIOSAS DEL ESTADO DE YUCATAN
Mexico 1945 Talleres Graficos de la Nacion. Recopilacion de Justino Fernandez. Notas de J. Ignacio Rubio Mane, Jose Garcia Preciat and Alfredo Barrera Vazquez. In Spanish. Two volumes. 4to., 844pp., wraps, many drawings, diagrams, floorplans, maps, 56 photo plate, original wraps. Good, wraps frayed on edges, some soiling and wear. 2 volumes. (a20275)
$195.00