Complete and unabridged, with 10 full-page plates by Matteo Giovanetti, Bernardo Daddi and Master of San Torpè. The gods and legends of the Aztec and Inca worlds, told from the Spanish chronicles and the surviving codices: the feathered serpent, the sun temples, the accounts the conquerors wrote down of what they were destroying. Spence produced a shelf of such books and this is among the most used. Its 64 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.