Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
July 1885
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/39
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    12/160 page 2900
    —— Azrsc Painted Recorps —continued. in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute of Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford; together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix; illustrated by many valuable inedited MSS. 9 vols. impl. folio, contammg upwards of 1000 large plates embracing the remains of Mexican Architecture, Art, Religion, etc. coloured (pub. £175.), Lf. morocco, gilt tops, £60. 1830-48 Most of the copies of this magnificent work are now “disposed of, and safely placed away in libraries, from which they are not likely to emerge again in any quantity. As a necessary consequence, there will be a considerable augmentation in the value of such odd copies as may occasionally come forward, when collections of books are thrown into the auction market. : “ Cet ouvrage de la plus grande magnificence, a été executé aux frais de Lord Kingsborough, qui ena fait homage a plusieurs bibliothéques publiques du continent, particulitrement a la Bibliotheque royale a Paris, et 4 celle de l’Institut de France. Le prix de chaque exemplaire était de 175 livres (2000 fr. | Klaproth). Les quatre premiers volumes renferment les planches lithographiées, au nombre de plus de.1000; les trois autres contiennent l’explication des planches et plusieurs mémoires inédits, écrits en différentes langues, ainsi que des appendices en anglais. Le septiéme volume est entierement rempli par un ouvrage important quia pour titre :—Hist. de las cosas de Nueva Hspana, por el M. L. R. P. Fr. Bernardino de Sahagun.”— Brunet. After an interval of seventeen years two more volumes of this extraordinary work were published, in every respect uniform with the preceding, consisting: 1. of Supplementary Notes in Wnglish and Spanish; 2. of extracts from the works of Torque- mada, Acosta, and Garcia, illustrating the last portions of the Mexican paintings, contained in the collection of Mendoza, and showing the correspondence which exists between many of the Mexican and Hebrew laws; 3. Adair’s History of the North American Indians, their customs and descent from the Jews; 4. Cartas ineditas de Hernando Cortez; 5. Cronica Mexicana de Tezozomoc ; 6. Historia Chichimeca y Relaciones per Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl. “When, some four centuries ago, the enterprise of Spanish navigators opened the vast continent of America to the admira- tion of Kurope, the civilization of the New World was found to be concentrated in two spots, and two only, of that enormous territory. One of these favoured regions was Peru; the other was Mexico, It was tv MEXICO ESPECIALLY THAT ART, POLITICS AND SCIENCE HAD RECEIVED THEIR GREATEST DEVELOPMENT. All
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