The history of Mexico : Collected from Spanish and Mexican historians, from manuscripts and ancient paintings of the Indians. Illustrated by Charts and other copper plates. To which are added, critical dissertations on the land, the animals, and inhabitants of Mexico: Volume 1

Volume 1 of a translation of the work by Francesco Saverio Clavigero) (September 9, 1731 - April 2, 1787), a Novohispano Jesuit teacher, scholar and historian. At the Colegio de San Gregorio, he had the opportunity to examine dearly documents relating to the native peoples of Mexico and the era of the Spanish conquest, upon which he based an important history of early Mexico and its people