Description of Yucatan : no. 26. 1834-1835.

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Description of Yucatan : no. 26. 1834-1835.

Waldeck's transcription of his notes on his travels and research in the Yucatán between 1834 and 1835 (There are other journals).

[133] p., bound : ill. ; 28 cm.

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Waldeck, Frédéric ˜deœ 1766-1875

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French traveller, artist, engraver, and Americanist. Waldeck, of German or Austrian origin, may have been born in Prague, Paris, or Vienna, in 1766. He travelled to Mexico in 1825 to work for a silver mining company, and later lived in Mexico City where he gave classes in painting and drawing. Throughout his travels in Mexico, he made drawings of the Indian antiquities and ruins, especially in Palenque and Uxmal between 1832 and 1835, and in 1837, back in Paris, where he...