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 r...
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Physical description:
9 volumes, leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations (most in color) ; 55 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Place:
Mexico
Date:
1831
1848
1831-1848
Conquest, 1519-1540
To 1519
Notes:
Volumes 1-4: plates; volumes 5-9: text.
In English, Italian, and Spanish.
Volumes 1-7: "In seven volumes"; volumes 8-9: "In nine volumes."
Imprints vary: volumes 6-7: London : Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor : Published by Robert Havell and Colnaghi, Son, and Co., 1831; volumes 8-9: London : Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor : Published by Henry G. Bohn, 1848.
Printer's statement, volume 7, page 461, reads: Londres, en la oficina de Ricardo Taylor, 1830.
Volume 9 includes pages [1]-60 at end, signed "Vol. X", but with explicit, pages 60, "End of Vol. IX, which concludes the work." No more published.
Volumes 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" (volume 5, pages [207]-343); "Libro sexto de la retorica y filosofia, moral y teologia, de la gente Mexicana ... por ... Bernardino de Sahagun" (Book 6, chapters 1-40, of Sahagun's "Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España"; volume 5, pages [345]-493); "The monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix" (transl. of "Viages ..."; volume 6, pages 421-486); "Historia universal [i.e. general] de las cosas de Nueva España ... por ... Bernardino de Sahagun" (entire work, except Book 6, chapters 1-40; volume 7, pages [10], [1]-464); "Historia del origen de las gentes que poblaron la America septentrional que llaman Nueva España ... son autor ... Mariano Fernandez de Echeverria y Veitia" (volume 8, pages [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" (volume 8, pages [219]-271); "History of the North American Indians ... by James Adair" (1st part of Adair's "History of the American Indians", publ. 1775; volume 8 pages [273]-400); "Cartas ineditas de Hernando Cortes" (volume 8, pages [401]-418) ; "Relaciones ineditas de Fernandez de Oviedo" (volume 8, pages [419]-424) ; "Cronica Mexicana de Fernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc" (volume 9, pages [1]-196) ; "Historia Chichimeca por Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl" (volume 9, pages [197]-316) ; "Relaciones de Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl" (volume 9, pages [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" (volume 9, pages [1]-60 at end).
Sabin 37800
Graesse t. 4, p. 19
Brunet t. 3, col. 663
Also available online.
SCNHRB and CHMNKRB have one copy each.
The SCNHRB copy of volume 4 (39088004441598) is extra-illustrated with type-written labels mounted on some of the plates.
The CHMNKRB copy has accession numbers 6078 through 6086.
The CHMNKRB copy has bookplate: Presented by Mrs. J.W. Roosevelt, November 1910, Cooper Union Museum Library.
The CHMNKRB copy has old gilt-tooled black leather binding with marbled paper boards; raised bands; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.
