MEXICO]. Antiquités Mexicaines. Relation des trois expéditions du Capitaine Dupaix, ordonnées en 1805, 1806, et 1807, pour la recherche des antiquités du pays, notamment celles de Mitla et de Palenque. Paris: Au Bureau des Antiquités Mexicaine, 1834. 2 volumes (text and atlas), 2 o (525 x 343 mm). Lithographed title in atlas volume, engraved map and 165 (of 166) lithographed plates after drawings by Luciano Castaneda (lacks the second plate in the fourth part Anciennes fortifications sur le Paint-Creek ). Contemporary red hard-grained half morocco and boards (some wear to spine ends and corners). FIRST EDITION of a pioneering work of Meso-American studies and "an almost indispensable supplement to Humboldt's Voyage en Amerique , as it contains many interesting discoveries not in the latter work" (Sabin). Brunet I:321; Palau I.85; Sabin 40038. [ With ]: [ Viage pintoresco en la Republica Mexicana. ] N.p., n.d. [circa 1840]. Oblong 4 o . (330 x 490 mm). 35 lithographed plates after Lehnert, Lopez and others. (Most plates stained.) Contemporary cloth (defective). (3)
MEXICO]. Antiquités Mexicaines. Relation des trois expéditions du Capitaine Dupaix, ordonnées en 1805, 1806, et 1807, pour la recherche des antiquités du pays, notamment celles de Mitla et de Palenque. Paris: Au Bureau des Antiquités Mexicaine, 1834. 2 volumes (text and atlas), 2 o (525 x 343 mm). Lithographed title in atlas volume, engraved map and 165 (of 166) lithographed plates after drawings by Luciano Castaneda (lacks the second plate in the fourth part Anciennes fortifications sur le Paint-Creek ). Contemporary red hard-grained half morocco and boards (some wear to spine ends and corners). FIRST EDITION of a pioneering work of Meso-American studies and "an almost indispensable supplement to Humboldt's Voyage en Amerique , as it contains many interesting discoveries not in the latter work" (Sabin). Brunet I:321; Palau I.85; Sabin 40038. [ With ]: [ Viage pintoresco en la Republica Mexicana. ] N.p., n.d. [circa 1840]. Oblong 4 o . (330 x 490 mm). 35 lithographed plates after Lehnert, Lopez and others. (Most plates stained.) Contemporary cloth (defective). (3)
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