A Guide to Latin American Special Collections at the GRI

Antigüedades mexicanas; publicadas por la Junta colombina de México en el cuarto centenario del descubrimiento de América [Homenaje a Cristóbal Colón] [1892]

• Related to: Mexico, Aztecs, Cuicatecs (Codex Porfirio Díaz/Códice de Tututepetongo); Maya (Relieves de Chiapas); Mixtecs (Codex Colombiano, Códice Baranda, Códice Dehesa); Tlaxcaltecs (Lienzo de Tlaxcala)
• Relevant Contributors: Alfredo Chavero, Genaro López
• Part of the Gutiérrez Collection of Books
• Color lithographs not digitized

Aubin Codex: Histoire de la nation mexicaine : depuis le départ d'Aztlan jusqu'à l'arrivée des conquérants espagnols, et au delà 1607 : manuscrit figuratif accompagné de texte en langue nahuatl ou mexicaine suivi d'une traduction en français : reproduction du codex de 1576, appartenant à la collection de M.E. Eugène Goupil / par feu J.-M.-A. Aubin ; planches colorées. [1893]

• Related to: Mexico, Aztecs
• Relevant Contributors: Eugène Goupil, Joseph Marius Alexis Aubin, Lorenzo Boturini Benaducci

Codex Becker I: Antiquités mexicaines. Ier fascicule, Le manuscrit du cacique / publiées par Henri de Saussure. [1891]

• Related to: Mexico, Mixtecs
• Relevant Contributor: Phillip Becker

Codex Cospi: Libro del Messico, donato dal Sig. Co. Valerio Zani al Sig. March. Cospi il di XXVI Dicre. MDCLXV. [1898]

• Related to: Mexico, Nahuas 
• Relevant Contributors: Ferdinando Cospi, Valerio Zani

Códice Osuna; Pintura del gobernador, alcaldes y regidores de México : códice en geroglíficos mexicanos y en lenguas castellana y azteca, existente en la biblioteca del Exmo. Señor duque de Osuna / publícase por vez primera con la autorizacion competente. [1878]

• Related to: Mexico, Aztecs
• Relevant Contributors: Jerónimo de Valderrama, Luís de Velasco, Mariano Téllez-Girón

Codex Peresianus: Manuscrit dit mexicain no 2 de la Bibliothèque impériale. [1864]

• Related to: Mexico, Maya
• Relevant Contributors: Juan Pio Pérez, Léon de Rosny
• Not digitized

Manuscrit troano: études sur le système graphique et la langue des Mayas / par m. Brasseur de Bourbourg, ancien administrateur ecclésiastique des indiens de Rabinal (Guatémala), membre de la commission scientifique de Méxique, etc. [1870]

• Related to: Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, Maya
• Relevant Contributors: Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, Juan Tro y Ortolano, Léon de Rosny
• Later edition published in 1878

Mexican Picture-Chronicle of Cempoallan and other States of the Empire of Aculhuacan: Examples of the art of book-illumination during the middle ages: reproduced in facsimile. [1889-1892]

• Related to: Mexico
• Relevant Contributors: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg 
• Section Relevant to Latin America: part IV

Tira de Tepechpan : histoire synchronique et seigneuriale de Tepechpan et de Mexico : exemple d'annales à série chronologique continue rectiligne. [1886]

• Related to: Mexico, Aztecs, Chichimecas, Colhuas
• Relevant Contributors: Eugène Goupil, Joseph Marius Alexis Aubin, Jules Desportes, Lorenzo Boturini Benaducci

Antiquities of Mexico : comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford : together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix, with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions : the whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough ; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio. [1831-1848]

• Related to: Mexico
• Relevant Contributors: Agostino Aglio, Edward King
• French translation published in 1844 (digitized) 
• Not digitized

Ttahuantin-Suyu, or, the Empire of the Yncas : (except Quito and Chile) in its four great divisions of Chincha-Suyu, Cunti-Suyu, Anti-Suyu, Colla-Suyu, with their tribes and ayllus or lineages : also the routes of the Ynca conquerors / by Clements R. Markham. [1880]

• Related to: Peru
• Relevant Contributor: Clements R. Markham
• Not digitized

Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan / by F. Catherwood. [1844]

• Related to: Honduras, Mexico
• Relevant Contributors: Andrew Picken, Henry Warren, Frederick Catherwood, George Belton Moore, John Cooke Bourne, Thomas Shotter Boys, William Parrott

With Illustrations

Due antichi monumenti di architettura messicana : illustrati / da d. Pietro Marquez. [1804]

• Related to: Mexico
• Relevant Contributor: Pietro Marquez

Description of the ruins of an ancient city, discovered near Palenque, in the kingdom of Guatemala, in Spanish America / translated from the original manuscript report of Captain Don Antonio del Rio ; followed by Teatro critico americano, or, a critical investigation and research into the history of the Americans by Paul Felix Cabrera. [1822]

• Related to: Mexico
• Relevant Contributors: Antonio del Río, Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, Paul Felix Cabrera

Estudio arqueológico y jeroglífico del calendario ó gran libro astronómico histórico y cronológico de los antiguos indios / por Dionisio Abadiano. [1889]

• Related to: Mexico
• Relevant Contributor: Dionísio Abadiano

Estudio sobre la antigüedad y el origen de la cabeza colosal de tipo etiópico que existe en Hueyápam del cantón de los Tuxtlas / por el ciudadano José M. Melgar. [1871]

• Related to: Mexico
• Relevant Contributor: José María Melgar y Serrano

Examen comparativo entre los signos simbólicos de las teogonías y cosmogonías antiguas y los que existen en los manuscritos mexicanos publicados por Kingsborough y los altos relieves de una pared de Chichen-Itza / por J.M. Melgar. [1872]

• Related to: Mexico
• Relevant Contributor: José María Melgar y Serrano

The history of ancient Mexico: from the foundation of that empire to its destruction by the Spaniards / By Thomas F. Gordo [1832]

• Related to: Mexico
• Relevant Contributors: Francisco Jaiver Clavijero, Thomas Francis Gordon
• Additional Illustrations: Flora and fauna, people
• Part of the Gutiérrez Collection of Books

Houses and house-life of the American aborigines / by Lewis H. Morgan. [1881]

• Related to: Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico
• Relevant Contributor: Lewis Henry Morgan
• Sections Relevant to Latin America: ch. X and XI

An inquiry into the origin of the antiquities of America / by John Delafield, Jr. ; with an appendix, containing notes, and "A view of the causes of the superiority of the men of the northern over those of the southern hemisphere" by James Lakey, M.D. [1839]

• Related to: Colombia, Mexico, Peru 
• Relevant Contributors: James Arthur Cleveland, John Delafield Jr.

Juicio sobre lo que sirvió de base a las primeras teogonías traducción del manuscrito mayo perteneciente al Señor Miró : observaciones sobre algunos otros datos encontrados en los monumentos y manuscritos mejicanos, que prueban las comunicaciones antiquísimas que existieron entre el viejo y el nuevo mundo / por J.M. Melgar y Serrano. [1873]

• Related to: Mexico
• Relevant Contributor: José María Melgar y Serrano

Kultur und industrie südamerikanischer völker; nach den im besitze des Museums für völkerkunde zu Leipzig befindlichen sammlungen von A. Stübel, W. Reiss und P. Koppel; text und beschreibung der tafeln von Max Uhle [1889-1890]

• Related to: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay
• Relevant Contributors: Alphons Stübel, Max Uhle, Wilhelm Reiss
• Not digitized

Die mexikanischen bilderhandschriften Alexander von Humboldt's in der Königlichen bibliothek zu Berlin; erläutert von d. Eduard Seler. [1893]

• Related to: Mexico
• Relevant Contributors: Alexander von Humboldt, Eduard Seler
• Not digitized

The necropolis of Ancon in Peru : a contribution to our knowledge of the culture and industries of the empire of the Incas being the results of excavations made on the spot / by W. Reiss and A. Stübel ; translated by Professor A.H. Keane ... ; with the aid of the general administration of the Royal Museums of Berlin. [1880-1887]

• Related to: Peru
• Relevant Contributors: Alfred Nehring, Alphons Stübel, Augustus Henry Keane, Ludwig Wittmack, Rudolf Virchow, Wilhelm Greve, Wilhelm Reiss

The stone sculptures of Copán and Quiriguá / drawn by Heinrich Meye ; historical and descriptive text by Dr. Julius Schmidt ; translated from the German by A.D. Savage, late of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. [1883]

• Related to: Guatemala, Honduras
• Relevant Contributors: Heinrich Meye, Julius Schmidt
• Not digitized

Limited or No Illustrations

Descripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras que con ocasión del nuevo empedrado que se está formando en la plaza principal de México, se hallaron en ella el año de 1790 [1832]

• Related to: Mexico
• Relevant Contributors: Antonio de León y Gama, Carlos María de Bustamante

Ensayo de un estudio comparativo entre las pirámides egipcias y mexicanas, que dedica al Sr. Lic. D. Ignacio Ramirez en testimonio de gratitud al ingeniero Antonio García Cubas. [1871]

• Related to: Mexico
• Relevant Contributor: Antonio García Cubas

Monumentos del arte mexicano antiguo : ornamentación, mitología, tributos y monumentos / por Antonio Peñafiel. [1890] 

• Related to: Mexico
• Relevant Contributor: Antonio Peñafiel Berruecos
• Not digitized

Tezcoco en los últimos tiempos de sus antiguos reyes, ó sea, Relación tomada de los manuscritos inéditos de Boturini / redactados por el lic. d. Mariano Veytia ; publicados con notas y adiciones para estudio de la juventud mexicana, Carlos María de Bustamente. [1826]

• Related to: Mexico
• Relevant Contributors: Carlos María de Bustamante, Lorenzo Boturini Benaducci, Mariano Fernández de Echeverría y Veytia