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Title: [Details of Aztec history, 1510 to 1512]
Creator: Aglio, Agostino, 1777-1857
Contributor: Kingsborough, Edward King, Viscount, 1795-1837
Date Created and/or Issued: 1830
Publication Information: London : A. Aglio
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: Antiquities of Mexico. Plate [48].
Images detail an eclipse in 1510, conquest of Xcpaltepa in 1511, other battles in 1512.
View 1 (2010-5936SUT). Plate -- view 2 (2010-5935SUT). Text.
Lord Kingsborough commissioned artists to reproduce the Meso-American codices found in the collections of various European institutions. He published Antiquities of Mexico in 1831. This volume appears to be either a pre-production sample or a gift containing images from volumes I, III and VI.
Type: image
Format: Facsimiles.
Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 drawing : hand col. ; images 10 x 10 1/8 in. on page 12 3/8 x 14 5/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001487405CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Manuscripts, Nahuatl--Facsimiles
Manuscripts, Mexican--Facsimiles
Aztecs--Antiquities--Pictorial works
Nahuatl language--Writing--Pictorial works
War--Mexico
Mexico--History--To 1519--Pictorial works
Drawings
Time Period: To 1519
Place: Mexico

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