Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 399

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(MEXICO.) Starr, Frederick. Indians of Southern Mexico: An Ethnographic Album. 141 photogravure plates on heavy paper, each lightly stamped on verso. 32 text pages. Oblong folio, 11 x 13 1/2 inches, publisher's cloth gilt, minor wear; rear free endpaper coming loose; #210 of 560, signed by the author; library markings on backstrip, verso of title page, and front endpapers. Chicago, 1899
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A treasury of portraits, costumes, and village views encompassing 13 tribes. Frederick Starr led the expedition and wrote the comparatively brief text, but the photographs which comprise the bulk of the book were mostly taken by Charles Bryant Lang, with a few by Bedros Tartarian. "Particularly excels when depicting their objects, handicrafts, methods of construction in stone, adobe, and palm, and the simple decorations of their houses"--Debroise, Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico, pages 128-9. Bernal, Arqueología y Etnografía 432; Palau 322064.