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
By: the whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts by Lord Kingsborough ; the drawings, on stone, by Augustine Aglio.
Contributors: Aglio, Agostino, 1777-1857.; Dupaix, Guillermo.; Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557.; Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.; Sahagún, Bernardino de, d. 1590.; Simón, Pedro, b. 1565.; Alvarado Tezozómoc, Fernando, fl. 1598.; Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Fernando de, 1578-1650.; Adair, James, ca. 1709-1783.; Veytia, Mariano, 1718-1780?; Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Published by Robert Havell ... and Colnaghi, Son, and Co....; Printed by James Moyes ...
Published: 1831
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Boturini Benaducci, Lorenzo, -- 1702-1751 -- Art collections; Biblioteca apostolica vaticana; Bibliothèque nationale (France); Bodleian Library; Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek; Codex Telleriano-Remensis; Codex Fejérváry-Mayer; Codex Vaticanus; Manuscripts, Nahuatl -- Facsimiles; Ethnology -- Mexico; Nahuatl language; Nahuatl literature; Indians of Mexico; Mexico -- Antiquities; Mexico -- History -- To 1519; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540
Genres: Facsimiles.
Notes: Vols. 6 and 7 were "printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, 1831."  Vols. 8 and 9 have imprint: Published by Henry G. Bohn ... : Printed by Richard and Joh E. Taylor ..., 1848.

"In seven volumes"--Vols. 1-7, t.p.  "In nine volumes"--Vols. 8 and 9, t.p.

LC copy has hand colored plates. Quarter bound in green morocco over marbled paper boards. Raised bands and gold tooling on spine. All edges gilt. Incomplete: vol. 9 wanting.

Brunet vol. 3, col. 663

Graesse vol. 4, p. 19

Sabin, vol. 9, p. 484-485, item 37800

Texts in English, Spanish, French and Italian.

Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation. Has inscription in each vol: Alice D. Laughlin, 1935. Vol. VII has bookplate: G.P. Morosini, New York.
Table of contents: title: 1. Copy of the Collection of Mendoza, Bodleian Library, 73 p.; title: Copy of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, Royal Library at Paris, 93 p.; title: Facsimile of a Mexican hieroglyphic painting from the collection of Boturini, 23 p.; title: Facsimile of an original Mexican painting, collection of Sir Thomas Bodley, Bodleian Library, 40 p.; title: Facsimile of an original Mexican painting, Selden Collection of Mss. in the Bodleian Library, 20 p.; title: Facsimile of an original Mexican hieroglyphic painting, Selden Collection, 1 roll.  2. Copy of a Mexican ms. in the Vatican Library, 149 p.; title: Facsimile of an original Mexican painting given to Oxford University by Archbishop Laud, Bodleian Library, 46 p.; title: Facsimile of an original Mexican painting, Imperial Library at Vienna, 66 p.; title: Facsimiles of original Mexican paintings deposited in the Royal Library at Berlin by Baron De Humboldt, and of a Mexican bas-relief, Royal Cabinet of Antiques; title: 3. Facsimile of an original Mexican painting, Borgian Museum, College of Propaganda, Rome, 76 p.; title: Facsimile of an original Mexican painting, Royal Library at Dresden, 74 p.; title: Facsimile of an original Mexican painting in the possession of M. De Féjérvary, at Pess, Hungary, 44 p.; title: Facsimile of an original Mexican painting, Vatican Library, 96 p.  4. Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix, from the original drawings [black and white lithographs] executed by order of the King of Spain; in three parts; title: Specimens of Mexican sculpture in the possession of M. Latour Allard, Paris; title: Specimens of Mexican sculpture, British Museum; title: Plates copied from the Giro del Mondo of Gemelli Careri, with an engraving of a Mexican cycle from a painting formerly in the possession of Boturini; title: Specimen of Peruvian Quipus; title: 5. Extrait de l'ouvrage de M. De Humboldt sur les monumens de l'Amérique (p. [1]); title: Esplicacion de la colección de Mendoza (p. [37]); title: Explicación del Codex Telleriano-Remensis (p. [127]); title: Codice mexicano, che si conserva nella Biblioteca Vaticana, al No. 3738 MS. (p. [159]); title: Viages de Guillelmo Dupaix sobre la antiguedades mejicanas (p. [207]); title: Libro sexto de la retórica y filosofia, moral y teologia, de la gente mexicana / Frayle Bernardino de Sahagún (p. [345]).  6. Appendix: [Kingsborough's] Interpretation of the hieroglyphical paintings of the Collection of Mendoza; title: Explanation of the hieroglyphical paintings of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis; title: Translation of the explanation of the Mexican paintings of the Codex Vaticanus [incl. copious notes]; title: The Monuments of New Spain / by M. Dupaix [translation of Viages de Guillelmo Dupaix] (p. 421); title: Notes; title: 7. Historia universal de las cosas de Nueva España / por Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún.  8. Supplementary notes; title: Supplementary extracts from Spanish authors:  [excerpts from] La Monarquía Indiana de Torquemada [on Indian customs and practices, with notes in English]; title: [excerpts from] Sobre el origen de los Indios / Garcia; title: Historia del origen de las gentes que poblaron la America septentrional / Mariano Fernández de Echevarría y Veitia (p. [159]); title: Tercera [y cuarta] noticia[s] de la segunda parte de las Noticias historiales de las conquistas de Tierra Firme / Fr. Pedro Simon (p. [219]); title: History of the North American Indians, their customs, &c. / James Adair (p. [273]); title: Cartas inéditas de Hernando Cortés (p. [401]); title: Relaciones inéditas de Fernández de Oviedo (p. [419]); title: 9. Crónica Mexicana de Fernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc (p. [1]); title: Historia Chichimeca por Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl (p. [197]); title: Relaciones de Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl (p. [317]); title: Ritos antiguos, sacrificios e idolatrias de los Indios de la Nueva España y de su conversión à la fée y quienes fueron los que primero la predicaron (p. [1]-60 at end).