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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 respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions : the whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts, by Augustine Aglio

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Title: 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 respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions : the whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts, by Augustine Aglio
Creator: Kingsborough, Edward King, Viscount, 1795-1837
Contributor: Dupaix, Guillermo
Aglio, Agostino, 1777-1857
Date Created and/or Issued: 1830
Publication Information: London : A. Aglio
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: "In seven volumes."
This unique volume appears to be either a pre-production sample or a gift. Parts which would appear in vols. I, III, and VI are included. The t.p. and entire text are handprinted and the illustrations are hand drawn and hand colored. Most of the text and all of the illustrations are on single leaves. Dupaix's contributions are two pencil sketches.
Copy of the Collection of Mendoza, preserved in the Selden Collection of Manucripts, in the Bodleian Library at Oxford : (12 out of) 73 pages, marked Arch Seld A 1. Cat MSS Angl 3134. -- Copy of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, preserved in the Royal Library at Paris : 3 out of 93 pages, marked 14 Reg 1616. -- Copy of a Mexican manuscript, preserved in the Library of the Vatican : (68 out of) 149 pages, marked No 3738. -- Aztec chronology. -- Two monuments of New Spain. -- Supposed Peruvian quipus.
Type: text
Format: Language material
Extent: 1 vol. : col. ill. ; 57 cm
Identifier: (C)000544937CSL01-Aleph
RLINCCSG90-B7807
(DRA)ACS-6137
LC call number: F1219 .K5 1830
Language: English
Subject: Manuscripts, Nahuatl--Facsimiles
Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian)--Facsimiles
Mexico--Antiquities
Mexico--History--To 1519
Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540
Aztecs--Antiquities
Indians of Mexico--Antiquities
Indians of Mexico--Languages--Writing
Ethnology--Mexico
Time Period: To 1519
Conquest, 1519-1540
Place: Mexico

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