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ANTIQUITIES OF MEXICO : 



Comprising Fac-similes of the 



ANCIENT MEXICAN PAINTINGS AND HIEROGLYPHICS, 



Preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden ; in the Imperial Library 



of Vienna ; in the Borgian Museum ; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna ; 



in ihe Vatican Library ; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 



TOGETHER WITH 



THE MONUMENTS OF NEW SPAIN, 



With their respective scales of admeasurement and accompanying description. 



By GUILLELMO DUPAIX, 



Never before published. 



The whole illustrated bv most curious ikedited manuscripts, from the Originals, 



By AUGUSTIN AGLIO, ESQ. 



Op all the various important objects of Antiquity, there are none which appear io have 

 been less known and explored than those of Mexico. On the conquest of that country by 

 the Spaniards, a considerable portion of the Monuments and Records which might have led 

 to the most correct and valuable historical information, were either mutilated or destroyed. 

 Until a recent period, none but subjects of ihe Crown of Spain, who were engaged in com- 

 mercial pursuits, or those who were sent there by command of the Spanish Government, 

 have had access to the Mexican territory ; and whether from religious bigotry, or from 

 contracted views in politics, it has uniformly been the custom of that Government to 

 interdict the publication of whatever might in any way relate to their American Empire. 

 Owing to these causes, the world at large has been very little informed as to the ancient 

 slate of this interesting part of the globe ; and it has been generally supposed, that the 

 original Mexicans consisted of bands of uncultivated savages, who owed all their improve- 

 ment to their conquerors ; but this error no longer exists ; and it is now well known that 

 Mexico, and the adjacent states, possessed arts and sciences, religion and laws, and that 

 they were rich and popiiloas, and had made considerable progress in acquiring the ideas, 

 and adopting the institutions which belong to polished societies. 



