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Stockholm: The Ethnological Museum of Sweden, 1948. First Edition, one of 700 copies only. A copy with fine provenance, the Shattuck copy. Profusely illustrated throughout from photographs and facsimiles, and with 13 large folding maps of which 11 show parts of the original map of 1550, and each of these key maps is provided with a diagram showing where the section lies on the large plane. The 12th map depicts the area in 1947. The 13th map, very large and folding is a coloured facsimile of the original 1550 map and is housed in a sleeve at the end of the book. Large 4to, publisher's original buff linen, the spine with two contrasting red and green morocco labels gilt lettered. xv, [1], 220, [2] pp. A very fine copy, near as pristine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS BEAUTIFUL RECREATION OF THE FAMOUS MEXICO CITY MAP OF 1550. THE LARGE FOLDING FACSIMILE MAP IN COLOURS IS ESPECIALLY NOTEWORTHY. And with a fine and extensive essay on the area depicted in the map with photographs showing elements of…
Read More Map of Mexico City and Valley. by MEXICO - MEXICO CITY) Merida, Carlos (mapmaker) - 1935.
by MEXICO - MEXICO CITY) Merida, Carlos (mapmaker)
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Mexico.: Frances Toor Studios.. 1935.. Color pictographic / pictorial street map, 19 3/4 x 25 inches on sheet size 20 1/2 x 26 inches, professionally mounted on linen. Light wear to folds, tears to mid right map now visible only on close examination. Brightly colored pictorial map designed by the Guatemalan artist Carlos Merida (1891-1984) showing a street plan of central Mexico City with pictographs of many buildings and a numbered "Business Directory" of 21 places in the cartouche, referencing numbers on the map. A note under the map states that "the motifs of the border consist of Aztec and colonial symbols of the names of suburban places." At the lower centre of the map is an inset map of the valley surrounding Mexico City. A wonderful example of the "translation" of the twentieth century decorative map that MacDonald Gill pioneered, here with a Hispanic sensibility. .
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- Date Published 1935.
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EL VALLE Y LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO EN 1550. Relación histórica fundada sobre un mapa geográfico, que se conserva en la biblioteca de la Universidad de Uppsala, Suecia. [The Valley and Mexico City in 1550
Historical account based on a geographical map, kept in the library of the University of Uppsala, Sweden]
by [Mexico; Mexico City]; Linné S
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