Beschreibung
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 jeroglíficos, 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 Echeverría 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 María 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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7538
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