Author: DEVERDUN, ALFRED LOUIS
Title: The True Mexico Mexico
Description: Menasha WI: Priv. pub. by the author, 1938. First English Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Color Frontispiece. Signed by Author; Green cloth covered boards show wear to extremities, head of spine frayed, wear to tail of spine, library marking on spine and title page, missing FFEP, discard stamp on front pastedown. ; Signed by author on half-title page. Gilt titles on front and spine, coloured pastedown illustration on front board ; Ex-Library; B&W Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages; "Tenochtitlan was a Nahua city-state located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. Founded in 1325, it became the capital of the expanding Mexica Empire in the 15th century until it was captured by the Spanish in 1521. At its peak, it was the largest city in the Pre-Columbian Americas. When paired with Mexico the name is a reference to Mexica, the people of the surrounding Aztec heartland. Today the ruins of Tenochtitlan are located in the central part of Mexico City.". Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: Mexico History Latin America tenochtitlan Americas Latin America
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Title: The True Mexico Mexico
Description: Menasha WI: Priv. pub. by the author, 1938. First English Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Color Frontispiece. Signed by Author; Green cloth covered boards show wear to extremities, head of spine frayed, wear to tail of spine, library marking on spine and title page, missing FFEP, discard stamp on front pastedown. ; Signed by author on half-title page. Gilt titles on front and spine, coloured pastedown illustration on front board ; Ex-Library; B&W Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages; "Tenochtitlan was a Nahua city-state located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. Founded in 1325, it became the capital of the expanding Mexica Empire in the 15th century until it was captured by the Spanish in 1521. At its peak, it was the largest city in the Pre-Columbian Americas. When paired with Mexico the name is a reference to Mexica, the people of the surrounding Aztec heartland. Today the ruins of Tenochtitlan are located in the central part of Mexico City.". Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: Mexico History Latin America tenochtitlan Americas Latin America
Price: US$ 18.50 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 10566
- Book number: 10566
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