Description:
Codex Laud. Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1966. Publisher's quarto box, with leather spine, housing an introductory pamphlet by C.A. Burland, three pre-publication notices, and the facsimile itself, housed in the original shipping box, 10 x 7 3/4 in. overall.
The Codex Laud is a pictorial manuscript from Central Mexico consisting of twenty-four leaves, produced before the Spanish conquest, and similar in content to Codex Bodley and Codex Borgia.
Estimate $200-300
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