Antiquities of Mexico
comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden, in the Imperial Library of Vienna, in the Vatican Library, in the Borgian Museum at Rome, in the Library of the Institute at Bologna, and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford : together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix : with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions : the whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts
by Kingsborough, Edward King Viscount
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Antiquities, Art collections, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Bibliothèque nationale (France), Bodleian Library, Codex Fejérváry-Mayer, Codex Telleriano-Remensis, Codex Vaticanus, Ethnology, Facsimiles, History, Indians of Mexico, Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin, Languages, Lost tribes of Israel, Manuscripts, Nahuatl, Nahuatl Manuscripts, Nahuatl language, Nahuatl literature, Writing, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Mexican Manuscripts, Indians of North America, Literature, Aztec, North American Indians, Colecciones de arte, Manuscritos náhuatls, Facsímiles, Etnología, Náhuatl (Lengua indígena), Literatura náhuatl, Indios de México, Antigüedades, Historia, Manuscrits nahuatl, Fac-similés, Ethnologie, Nahuatl (Langue), Littérature nahuatl, Peuples autochtones, Antiquités, Histoire, Art, Private collections, Codex Vaticanus Lat. 3773, Biblioteca Nacional (Francia), Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus 1., Codex Laud, Códice Cospi, Codex Rios, Selden Roll, Codex Selden, Codex Bodley, Codex Mendoza, Códice BoturiniPlaces
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Conquest, 1519-1540, To 1519
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Vols. 1-4: plates; v. 5-9: text.
Vols. 1-7: "In seven volumes"; v. 8-9: "In nine volumes."
Imprints vary: v. 6-7: London : Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor... : Published by Robert Havell ... and Colnaghi, Son, and Co. ..., 1831; v. 8-9: London : Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor ... : Published by Henry G. Bohn ..., 1848.
Printer's statement, v. 7, p. 461, dated 1830.
Vol. X includes p. [1]-60 at end, signed "Vol. X", but with explicit, p. 60, "End of Vol. IX, which concludes the work."
Vols. 5-9 include, in addition to notes on plates, Kingsborough's various notes, and miscellaneous extracts from Spanish authors: "Viages de Guillelmo [i.e. Guillermo] Dupaix sobre las antiguedades Mejicanas" (v. 5, p. [207]-343); "Libro sexto de la retorica y filosofia, moral y teologia, de la gente Mexicana ... por ... Bernardino de Sahagun" (Bk. 6, chap. 1-40, of Sahagun's "Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España"; v. 5, p. [345]-493); "The monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix" (transl. of "Viages ... "; v. 6, p. 421-486); "Historia universal [i.e. general] de las cosas de Nueva España ... por ... Bernardino de Sahagun" (entire work, except Bk. 6, chap. 1-40; v. 7, p. [10], [1]-464--entire vol.); "Historia del origen de las gentes que poblaron la America septentrional que llaman Nueva España ... son autor ... Mariano Fernandez de Echeverria y Veitia" (v. 8, p.[159]-217 (2nd count)).
"Tercera [y cuarta] noticia[s] de la segunda parte de las Noticias historiales de las conquistas de Tierra Firme ... por Fr. Pedro Simon" (v.8, p.[219]-271); "History of the North American Indians ... by James Adair" (1st part of Adair's "History of the American Indians", publ. 1775; v. 8 p.[273]-400); "Cartas ineditas de Hernando Cortes" (v. 8, p.[401]-418) ; "Relaciones ineditas de Fernandez de Oviedo" (v. 8, p. [419]-424) ; "Cronica Mexicana de Fernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc" (v. 9, p. [1]-196) ; "Historia Chichimeca por Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl" (v. 9, p.[197]-316) ; "Relaciones de Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl" (v. 9, p.[317]-468) ; "Ritos antiguos, sacrificios e idolatrias de los Indios de la Nueva Espana y de su conversión à la fée y quienes fueron los que primero la predicaron" (v. 9, p.[1]-60 at end).
WSU MASC copy is: 002-120872940 - 002-120873021.
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