Magic Books From Mexico Author:C. A. Burland There is Magic and magic, and many kinds of books, but only one Mexico. In the kaleidoscopic career of that delightful land no period has been more colourful than that of the Aztecs, no Mexican books so magically beautiful as their pictured histories, and no Magic so grim and fantastic as is to be found in the grimoires of the ancient heathendom... more » of this people.
This small volume includes, with introduction and commentary by C. A. Burland, 16 colour plates from some of the few surviving Aztec codices. The codices represented here are: Telleriano Remensis, Rios, Magliabecchiano, Vindobonensis, Fejervary Mayer, Cospiano, Borgia, Zouche Nuttall, Laud, and Vaticanus 3773.« less