TRIBES AND TEMPLES: A Record of the Expedition to Middle America Conducted by The Tulane University of Louisiana in 1925

New Orleans: The Tulane University of Louisiana, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Among the first scholarly reports on a number of sites associated with the Olmec civilization in the modern-day Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco. Small quarto, two volumes: [vi], v, [1], 237, [1] pp. + [iv], iv, 239-536, [16] pp. with 7 plates, 374 textual illustrations, and 5 maps. Original flexible green cloth bindings, with gilt-stamped titles and yapp edges. Some offsetting to the prefatory and concluding leaves in the second volume. The boards are moderately edgeworn, more so at the corners and tips; otherwise very good. (Inventory #: 78376)