The history of Mexico
Subtitle: collected from Spanish and Mexican historians from manuscripts, and ancient paintings of the Indians, illustrated by charts, and other copper plates : to which are added critical dissertations on the land, animals, and inhabitants of Mexico
By: by Abbé D. Francesco Saverio Clavigero ; translated from the original Italian by Charles Cullen, Esq. ; in two volumes.
Contributors: Cullen, Charles, tr.; G. G. J. and J. Robinson (Paternoster-Row, London, England),; Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, no. 25 Pater-noster Row
Published: 1787
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Early works to 1800.; Mexico -- History -- To 1519.; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Storia antica del Messico.
Notes: Vol. 1: xxxii, [4], 476 p., [25] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 2: [4], 463, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded).

Translation of Storia antica del Messico.

The frontispiece in each volume is a map. Vol. 1: Anahuac, or the empire of Mexico, the kingdoms of Acolhuacan & Michuacan &c., as they were in 1521; v. 2: Lakes of Mexico.

Sabin 13519

Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.  Includes two bookplates: Francis Reynolds Dickinson, Alice May Dickinson, and Tervoe.