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[BRIENNE (Etienne-Charles de Loménie de)]Livre Rare Book

Compte rendu au Roi. au mois de mars 1788, et publié par ses ordres

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Histoire des nations civilisées du Mexique et de l'Amérique-centrale durant les siècles antérieurs à Christophe Colomb écrite sur des documents originaux et entièrement inédits puisés aux anciennes archives des indigènes History of the Civilized Nations of Mexico and Central America during the Centuries preceding Christopher Columbus written from original and entirely unpublished documents drawn from the ancient archives of the indigenous peoples

185790485Paris: Claude Arthus Bertrand 1857. Fine. Claude Arthus Bertrand Paris 1857-1859 16 x 24.5 cm 4 volumes reliés First edition illustrated with a map of the Mexican states at the time of the Conquest in 1521 by Malte-Brun see Sabin 7429 Leclerc 1079 Brasseur de Bourbourg Bibliothèque Mexico-Guatémalienne p. 27 Numa Broc Amérique pp. 45-47. Originally engraved by Erhard Schieble this map is presented here as an early facsimile likely produced by the publisher to complete his copies. Bound in half havana shagreen spines with four raised bands decorated with gilt tooling and gilt panels and fillets orange shagreen title labels minor rubbing to spines marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns twentieth-century bindings. Waterstains mainly affecting volumes III and IV. This foundational work on the history of Mexico is divided as follows: I: Heroic Times and History of the Toltec Empire. II: History of Yucatan and Guatemala; with that of Anahuac during the Aztec Middle Ages up to the establishment of the monarchy in Mexico. III: History of the States of Michoacan and Oaxaca and of the Anahuac Empire up to the arrival of the Spanish. Astronomy religion sciences and arts of the Aztecs etc. IV: Conquest of the Mexican and Guatemalan States etc. Establishment of Spanish government and the Catholic Church. Ruin of idolatry decline and subjugation of the indigenous race. A former professor at the Quebec Seminary and later Vicar General in Boston Abbé Étienne Charles Brasseur de Bourbourg 18141874 traveled as a missionary to Mexico and Central America. He developed a keen interest in vanished civilizations and was appointed official archaeologist of the French expedition to Mexico in 1864. ""By turns archaeologist ethnologist historian and linguist Brasseur de Bourbourg alongside Désiré Charnay was one of the founders of Americanist studies in France in the mid-nineteenth century"" Numa Broc. Claude Arthus Bertrand hardcover

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