Mexican Architecture of the Sixteenth Century [2 Vols.]

by George Kubler 

First edition, two volumes.  New Haven, CT:  Yale University Press, 1948  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD+ condition.

• Teal buckram covers are mostly clean, with gilt title at spine.  Corners are sharp. 
• Spine has gilt text, somewhat dimmed, and is darkened with firm ends.
• Binding is tight. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some staining along gutter. 
• Foldout maps are present.
• Frontispiece is present.
• Illustrations, black and white photographic reproductions, are bright and clear.  
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• PS2026.0514

574 pages. 7 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches

First Edition.  Two volumes.  Publisher's teal buckram boards with gilt titles to the spines.  Housed in slipcase of tan cardboard with descriptive labels affixed.  A handsome set in Very Good Plus condition, with a little exposure to the spines and some darkening at the inner edges of the pastedowns.   

From the Preface:  "In Mexico the architecture of the sixteenth century needs no justification from final causes, compelling as these may be.  The accomplished mastery of European building crafts, manifested by native builders as early as 1560, and the originality of many Mexican forms of structure and ornament at this early period, are striking enough for detailed study without reference to later events in national history." 

Profusely illustrated throughout the two volumes with a total of 468 images including b/w photographs, architectural drawings and plans, charts and a large 29x 33" folding map at the rear of Volume 1 indicating the locations of the foundations of the Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian Mendicant Orders throughout Mexico circa 1580.  

George Alexander Kubler (1912–1996) was an American art historian and among the foremost scholars on the art of pre-Columbian America and Ibero-American Art.

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