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Tezcoco en los ultimos tiempos de sus antiguos reyes ó sea relación tomada de los manuscritos inéditos de Boturini; redactados por . . . Mariano Veytia. Publicalos con notas y adiciones para estudio de la juventud mexicana Carlos Maria de Bustamante.
18267538Mexico City: Mariano Galvez Rivera 1826. First edition. Quarto size pp 8 276 8. A history of Texcoco a city built by the Acolhuas a pre-Columbian people of the Náhuatl-speaking group of tribes and once the chief seat of Aztec culture. There is much information on the legendary past and particularly the great king of Texcoco Netzahualcoyotl. It appears that the text is basically that of Veytia based on notes and other material of Boturini with some editorial additions by Bustamante. Boturini 1702-51 educated in Milan and Vienna arrived in Mexico in 1736. Fired with the intention of writing a history of pre-Conquest Mexico he assembled a collection of mss in Náhuatl and Spanish now principally preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris which has never been equalled. Returning to Europe in 1744 Boturini worked on his Idea de una nueva historia general de la América Septentrional fundada sobre material copioso de figuras symbolos caracterer y jeroglÃficos cantares y manuscritos de autores indios ultimamente descubiertos Madrid 1746 which is an inventory of pictorial texts of Spanish-Indian history. In that work he was assisted by Mariano Fernández de EcheverrÃa y Veytia. Veytia 1718 - 80 a native of Puebla was one of the great historians of pre-conquest Mexico of his day along with Clavigero and wrote on that subject as well as a history of his "querida" Puebla. He was a close friend of Boturini whose work in Mexico inspired his own studies. Carlos MarÃa de Bustamante 1774-1848 Mexican patriot politician journalist and pamphleteer was one of the intellectuals of the Insurrection movement. As well as recovering pre-Columbian and colonial mss Bustamante produced a number of historical works the most important of which is his Cuadro histórico de la revolución de la América mexicana 1823-32 which covers the period 1808-21. Ownership inscription on title-page: "Mexico 28 May 1834 J. H. Fritsch". Sabin 6835: Palau 33791. Some copies apparently have a folded map of the lake Texcoco - this copy does not and follows Palau's and Sabin's collation in that respect: further no plates or maps are called for in the index and no copies at auction indicate a map or plates. Contemporary mottled calf; covers decorated with a gilt border; gold-tooled spine; yellow-edged leaves. Very nice copy in excellent condition. <br/><br/> Mariano Galvez Rivera unknown books
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