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Subject Terms Mexico -- Antiquities.

1. Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique.

Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique.

Creator:: Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769–1859
Date:: 1810 [that is, 1813?]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (xvi, 350 pages, 69 leaves of plates) : 69 illustrations (engraving, aquatint, some color) ; 59 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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 Lord Kingsborough ; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.

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 Lord Kingsborough ; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.

Creator:: Kingsborough, Edward King, Viscount, 1795–1837
Date:: 1831-1848
Physical Description:: 9 v. : ill., facsims. (most col.) ; 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Rambles by land and water, or, Notes of travel in Cuba and Mexico : including a canoe voyage up the river Panuco, and researches among the ruins of Tamaulipas, &c. / by B.M. Norman ; author of Rambles in Yucatan, etc.

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Creator:: Norman, Benjamin Moore, 1809–1860
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: [3], vi-xvii, [4], 22-216 pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Researches, concerning the institutions & monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America, with descriptions & views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! / written in French by Alexander de Humboldt & translated into English by Helen Maria Williams.

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Creator:: Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769–1859
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts