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003 DLC
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010 $a 26002503
035 $a(OCoLC)25257198
040 $aDLC$cMBAt$dDLC
042 $apremarc
050 00 $aF1434$b.V432
100 1 $aVelasquez, Pedro.
245 10 $aMemoir of an eventful expedition in Central America :$bresulting in the discovery of the idolatrous city of Iximaya, in an unexplored region; and the possession of two remarkable Aztec children, descendants and specimens of the sacerdotal caste, (now nearly extinct,) of the ancient Aztec founders of the ruined temples of that country, described by John L. Stevens, esq., and other travellers /$ctranslated from the Spanish of Pedro Velasquez, of San Salvador.
260 $aNew York :$bPrinted by J.W. Bell,$c1850.
300 $a35 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aTitle page within ornamental border.
500 $aAn apocryphal production.
505 0 $a"Profile illustrations from Central American ruins, of ancient races still existing in Iximaya": p. [3]-4 -- "Memoir of a recent eventful expedition in Central America [purporting to be an abridgment with translated extracts of the journal kept by Velasquez, who accompanied Huertis and Hammond, the promoters of the expedition]": p. [5]-35.
500 $a"Iximaya" is claimed to be the traditional Indian city referred to by John L. Stephens' "Incidents and travel in Central America ..." New York, 1841, v. 2, p. 195-197.
651 0 $aCentral America$xAntiquities.
651 0 $aIximaya.