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Adair, James, approximately 1709-1783
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Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
Date: 1831-1848- Books
The history of the American Indians: particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia. Containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure ; with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. ; also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country / by James Adair.
Adair, James, approximately 1709-1783.Date: 1775