- 160 pages of 100 GSM ivory unlined paper

68 b/w illustrations

“The Getty Conservation Institute has been releasing a series of amazing photo history books and this fabulous recent addition

including such eminent personalities as Alfred Tennyson and Charles Darwin

Translated by Fiona Elliott

Collecting Mesoamerican Art before 1940: A New World of Latin American Antiquities plush - 160 pages of 100Edited by Andrew D. Turner and Megan E. ONeil The untold chronicles of the looting and collecting of ancient Mesoamerican objects. This book traces the fascinating history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. It begins with the pre Hispanic antiquities that first entered European collections in the sixteenth century as gifts or seizures, continues through the rise of systematic collecting in Europe and the Americas during