SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
BOOKS ON MEXICO
AUTHORITIES ON THE ANCIENT HISTORY, CUSTOMS,
AND RELIGION OF MEXICO
"Historia Natural y Moral de las Yndias," by José de Acosta. Seville. 1580.
"Descripcion de las Antiguedades de Xochicalco," by Alzate y Ramirez. 1791.
"Native Races of the Pacific States of America," by H. H. Bancroft. 1875.
"Idea de una Nueva Historia General de la America Septentrional," by L. Boturini Benaduci. Madrid, 1746.
"Storia Antica del Messico," by the Abbé Clavigero. Cesena, 1780. English translation, London, 1787.
"Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de Nueva España," by Bernal Diaz. 1837.
"Historia General de las Yndias," by F. L. de Gomara. Madrid, 1749.
"Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firma del Mar Oceano," by Antonio de Herrera. 4 vols. Madrid, 1601.
"Vues des Cordilleres," by Alex. von Humboldt. Paris, 1816. English translation by Mrs. Williams.
"Historia Chichimeca:" "Relaciones," by F. de Alva Ixtlilxochitl. Edited by A. Chavero. Mexico, 1891-92.
"Antiquities of Mexico," by Lord Kingsborough. London, 1830.
"Letters of Cortes to Charles V," by F. C. MacNutt. London, 1908.
"The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations," by Zelia Nuttall. 1901.
"History of the New World called America," by E. J. Payne. London, 1892-99.
"Monumentos del Arte Mexicano Antiguo," by F. Penafiel. Berlin, 1890.
"Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España," by Bernardino de Sahagun. Mexico, 1829.
"The Civilization of Ancient Mexico," by Lewis Spence. London, 1911; "Myths of Mexico and Peru." London, 1913.
"Monarquia Indiana," by Juan de Torquemada. Madrid, 1723.
Bulletin 28 of the Bureau of American Ethnology contains translations of valuable essays by the German scholars Seler, Schellhas Forstemann, etc.
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