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1. Codex Mendoza, the Mexican manuscript known as the Collection of Mendoza and preserved in the Bodleian library, Oxford
- Published / Created:
- 1938.
- Call Number:
- 2007 +198
- Container / Volume:
- 1
- Image Count:
- 12
- Alternative Title:
- Codex Mendoza
- Description:
- BEIN 2007 +198: Case mutilated., Plan accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress., Ortellius' map of Mexico, 1579, on lining-paper at end of v.2., "The Mendoza codex is a Mexican pictographic manuscript prepared on the authority of Don Antonio de Mendoza, the first viceroy of New Spain, for Charles V ... A Spanish priest, familiar with the Nauatl, or Mexican language, was employed by the viceroy to set down in Spanish the explanations of the glyphs as interpreted by the Mexicans themselves."--v.1, p.3., The facsimile includes the original pictographs in colors and the Spanish explanations., and Issued in case.
- Publisher:
- Waterlow & Sons, Limited
- Subject (Geographic):
- Mexico
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Mexican, Indians of Mexico, Languages, Writing, Antiquities, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Codex Mendoza, the Mexican manuscript known as the Collection of Mendoza and preserved in the Bodleian library, Oxford
2. Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834
- Creator:
- Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782-1867, author
- Published / Created:
- 1839-1841.
- Call Number:
- ZZc20 839wi 1
- Image Count:
- 55
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- The work documents the travels of Maximilian Prinz zu Wied and Karl Bodmer, primarily in the Missouri River Valley, 1832-1834, with descriptions and depictions of the Indigenous people of the region, including the Mandan, Hidatsa, Assiniboine, Dakota, and Cree
- Alternative Title:
- Title of volume 3, on printed wrappers
- Description:
- BEIN ZZc20 839wi copy 1: Plates are colored., BEIN ZZc20 839wi copy 2: Plates are uncolored. Bookplate: From the library of Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, 1863-1935, Chicago. Acquired with: Wied, Maximilian. ALS to [Samuel G. Morton]. Neuwied : 1841 Feb. 20. 2 L., and a transcript in an unidentified hand, 2 L. (WA MSS S-2144;W634)., BEIN 2003 Folio 86: Unbound sheets; plates are uncolored. With 8 original printed wrappers for text, for Hefts 3-4, 5, 6-7, 12-13, 14, 15-17, 18, 19-20; Heft numbers written on wrappers in ms. All plates (both Kupfern and Vignetten) unbound in 10 original printed wrappers for Hefts 1-2, 3-4, 5, 6-7, 8-11, 12-13, 14, 15-17, 18, 19-20; Heft numbers written on wrappers in ms.; number of plates in each wrapper also written in ms.; printed title on wrappers is: Kupfer zu Prinz Maximilians von Wied Reise durch Nord-Amerika. Bookplate of Paul Mellon., Includes 81 plates, largely in aquatint, after drawings by Karl Bodmer, each bearing his blind stamp. Vignettes I-XXXIII are bound in with the text; tableaux 1-48 are bound in the third (atlas) volume, along with the folding map., "Verzeichniss der resp. Herren Subscribenten"--Volume 2, pages [v]-xvi., "Sprachproben verschiedener Völkerstämme des nord-westlichen Americas"--Volume 2, pages [455]-653., Includes bibliographical references., and BAC Folio B 2023 4: Plates are hand-colored. Includes the plan of Fort Clark, the table of temperatures at the fort, the folding map showing the route of the expedition, and the key plate to tab. 21 (all often lacking). From the library of Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, with his ink stamp. Bound in contemporary black quarter calf and black cloth, with the original printed wrappers of volume 3 (the atlas volume) bound in.
- Publisher:
- Bei J. Hoelscher and Gedruckt bei Dubois und Werle
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States, Missouri River Valey, Great Plains., Missouri River Valley., and United States.
- Subject (Topic):
- Description and travel, Mandan Indians, Hidatsa Indians, Assiniboine Indians, Dakota Indians, Cree Indians, Indians of North America, Languages, and Natural history
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834
