Las Artes Industriales en la Nueva Espana
Author: Romero de Terreros y Vinent, Manuel (1880-1968) from the library of Professor George M Foster
Year: 1923
Publisher: Libreria de Pedro Robredo
Place: Mexico City
Description:
221 pages with plates and bibliography. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") issued in light brown with gilt lettering to spine and embossed gilt lettering to cover. From the library of George M Foster. First edition.
Manuel Romero de Terreros studies in England at Stonyhurst College, run by the Jesuits and then passed his exams at the Cambridge and Oxford. He returned to mexico when he was 20 and served as professor at the School for Advanced Studies and later at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Was also Academician and Director of the Mexican Academy of History, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, and the Academy of Fine Arts and Historical Sciences of Toledo, and Academician of the Academy of Rome. The majority of studies was devoted to the history of art, primarily Mexican, and social history of nineteenth-century New Spain.
George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America, and worldview. The quantity, quality, and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.
Condition:
Foster's stamp to half title, his date and place of acquiry on front end paper, light rubbing to extremities else a very good to fine copy.
Kemper
Year: 1923
Publisher: Libreria de Pedro Robredo
Place: Mexico City
Description:
221 pages with plates and bibliography. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") issued in light brown with gilt lettering to spine and embossed gilt lettering to cover. From the library of George M Foster. First edition.
Manuel Romero de Terreros studies in England at Stonyhurst College, run by the Jesuits and then passed his exams at the Cambridge and Oxford. He returned to mexico when he was 20 and served as professor at the School for Advanced Studies and later at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Was also Academician and Director of the Mexican Academy of History, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, and the Academy of Fine Arts and Historical Sciences of Toledo, and Academician of the Academy of Rome. The majority of studies was devoted to the history of art, primarily Mexican, and social history of nineteenth-century New Spain.
George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America, and worldview. The quantity, quality, and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.
Condition:
Foster's stamp to half title, his date and place of acquiry on front end paper, light rubbing to extremities else a very good to fine copy.
Kemper
