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Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the Archaeological, Historical and Artistic Collections of Eufemio Abadiano Desirous that the monuments of American antiquity that are found scattered throughout the continent, many of which are now ready to be lost sight of, may be better known and studied by the scientific world, we have formed the project of gathering together in one grand collection their exact reproductions, along with everything in the way of publications and explanations relati'e thereto. The only records left us by the primitive races of this continent are their monuments, the archaeological value of the study of which needs not to be dwelt upon. They reveal to us the degree of scientific and artistic culture to which some of these peoples, apart entirely from all con tact with the old world, had arrived. Our present collee tion, brought together under innumerable difficulties and at great cost, while it is composed of the most valuable of American antiquities (comprising the most notable posses sions of the National Museum of Mexico and monuments from various parts of that republic) is not yet as complete as we would desire, and will be added to in the future as opportunity may present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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