RARE album of Mexican history with numerous color and b&w illustrations, photographs, engravings, maps and schematics, depicting ancient (pre-European) customs and life, maps and landscape, portraits of great Mexican personalities, Mexican and pre-Mexican religious art, and depictions of rural life at various points in history by Mexican artists. Also includes 12 fold-out maps from various eras of Mexican history, on special paper. Inner cover illustrated with 15th-century map of the Caribbean and central America. Printed on special watermarked 150-gram double-stucco paper. Fold-outs printed on paper especially hand-made from local Mexican wood by natives of the Sierra de Puebla region of Mexico. 345x265mm. 349 pages. Beige cloth gilt Hardcover with brown leather spine. Brown and beige specially-textured paper pasted on front cover. Gilt spine, with lavish ornate gilt/red emblem and illustrations of cherubs on front cover. In very good condition.