Sixteenth-Century Mexico: The Work of Sahagun by Munro Sterling Edmonson (1924-2002) [editor] - 1974

xvi+292 pages with map, tables, charts, plates and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with black lettering to spine in original jacket. Foreword by Douglas Schwartz First edition. Contents: "Sahagun and His Times" by Arthur J O Anderson; "The Ethnographic Works of Adres de Olmos, Precursor and Contemporary of Sahagun" by Jefferey K Wilkerson; "The Rhetorical Orations, or Huehuetlatolli Collected by Sahagun" by Thelma D Sullivan; "The Research Method of Fray Bernardino de Sahagun: The Questions" by Alfredo Lopez Austin; "The Treatment of Architecture in the Florentine Codex of Sahagun" by Donald Robertson; "The Last Years of Fray Bernardino Sahagun (1685-90): The Rescue of the Confiscated Work and the Seraphic Conflicts. New Unpublished Documents" by Georges Baudot; "The Sahagun Texts as a Source of Sociological Information" by Edward E Calenk; "Sahagun's Work and the Medicine of the Ancient Nahuas: Possibilities for Study" by Alfredo Lopez Austin; "The Nahualtization of Christianity" by Charles E Dibble; "The Problematic of Sahagun: Certain Topics Needing Investigation" by Miguel Leon-Portilla. Condition: Corners bumped. Jacket with light edge wear, spine lightly sunned, spine ends and hinges rubbed else a better than very good copy in like jacket.