The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters from a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in ...

Includes a text volume ([4], vii-lx, 219, [1] p. : ill. ; 45 cm.), a notarized colophon sheet ([4] p. : 1 ill., 2 facsims. ; 45 cm.), a facsimile of the recto and verso of a sheet of figure studies ...

Plan accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Ortellius' map of Mexico, 1579, on lining-paper at end of v. 2. "The Mendoza codex is a Mexican pictographic manuscript prepared on the ...

When an ancient Mayan scribe put paint to fig bark sometime around the turn of the 13th century, he hardly could have imagined that his bark sheets would ultimately make their way around the world — ...