Antiquities of Mexico
Subtitle: 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: by Lord Kingsborough ; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
Contributors: Aglio, Agostino, 1777-1857, ill.; Dupaix, Guillermo.; Sahagún, Bernardino de, d. 1590.; Veytia, Mariano, 1718-1780?; Simón, Pedro, b. 1565.; Adair, James, ca. 1709-1783.; Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.; Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557.; Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Fernando de, 1578-1650.; Alvarado Tezozómoc, Fernando, fl. 1598.
Publisher: Printed by James Moyse ...; Published by Robert Havell ... and Colnaghi, Son, and Co. ...
Published: 1831
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Manuscripts, Nahuatl -- Facsimiles; Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Writing; Lost tribes of Israel; Ethnology -- Mexico; Indians of Mexico; Nahuatl language; Nahuatl literature; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540; Mexico -- History -- To 1519; Mexico -- Antiquities
Genres: Facsimiles.
Notes: 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.