[Viages ... sobre las antigüedades mejicanas], 1805-1807.

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[Viages ... sobre las antigüedades mejicanas], 1805-1807.

One volume contains accounts of three expeditions throughout Mexico conducted between 1805 and 1807 to inventory monuments predating the Conquest, as commanded by the King of Spain. The other volume contains sketches of the monuments found by Dupaix.

2 v. (365 p.).

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Dupaix, Guillermo

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Guillermo Dupaix was an officer in the Mexican dragoons. From the description of [Viages ... sobre las antigüedades mejicanas], 1805-1807. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 86138591 Archaeological explorer, military captain, and writer. Born circa 1750 in Austria-Hungary; died circa 1818, probably in Mexico City. Joined the military at the age of fourteen. Became capitan of the Regiment of Dragones de Almansa in 1790 and was sent to Mexico, where...