(GUATEMALA) Antonio del Río Description of the Ruins of an A

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(GUATEMALA.) Antonio del Río. Description of the Ruins of an Ancient City, Discovered near Palenque, in the Kingdom of Guatemala. 17 plates. xiii, 128 pages. 4to, original cloth-backed boards, lacking backstrip; moderate foxing; uncut. London, 1822

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"Captain Del Río discovered and examined the now famous ruins of Palenque in 1787, but his manuscript report remained in the provincial archives of Guatemala until a short time prior to their translation and publication in the present form"--Sabin 71446. Includes a longer appendix, Paul Felix Cabrera's "Teatro Critico Americano; or A Critical Investigation and Research into the History of the Americas." Field 231; Palau 268187.