The search for the Codex Cardona
Subtitle: on the trail of an sixteenth century mexican treasure
By: Arnold J. Bauer
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780822345961; 9780822346142
Description: "The Search for the Codex Cardona is the story of Arnold J. Bauer's experiences on the trail of a cultural treasure, a Mexican 'painted book' that first came into public view at Sotheby's auction house in London in 1982, nearly four hundred years after it was presumably made by Mexican artists and scribes."--Back cover.
Notes: "On the trail of a sixteenth-century Mexican treasure."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-175) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Crocker lab; title: A world of painted books; title: Early doubts; title: Sotheby's of London; title: The Getty; title: Sloan ranger; title: Nights in the gardens of Coyoacan; title: A mysterious affidavit; title: Seville; title: Christie's of New York; title: El Palacio del Marques; title: Libreria Zocalo; title: An internet posting; title: The architect's studio; title: Pasaje de las Flores; title: The high end; title: Ibiza; title: A Madrid anticuario.