Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 334

Price Realized: $ 5,520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(MEXICO.) Leon y Gama, Antonio. Descripcion Histórica y Cronológica de las dos Piedras . . . en la Plaza Principal de México. 3 folding plates. 4to, contemporary calf, moderate wear; plates with slight separations at folds but complete, second plate mounted on stub covering far left edge, no free endpapers, minor foxing, early annotations on tables. Mexico, 1792
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first edition. The first detailed study of the Aztec calendar stones discovered in 1790. JCB 3535; Palau 135587; Sabin 40059. No others known at auction since the Phillipps copy in 1986.