Mexico
Acosta, José de: Historia Natural y Moral de las Yndias. Seville, 1580.
Alzate y Ramirez: Descripcion de las Antiguedades de Xochicalco. 1791.
Bancroft, H. H.: [Native Races of the Pacific States of America]. 1875. A compilation of historical matter relating to aboriginal America, given almost without comment. Useful to beginners.
Boturini Benaduci, L.: Idea de una Nueva Historia General de la America Septentrional. Madrid, 1746. Contains a number of valuable original manuscripts.
Bourbourg, Abbé Brasseur de: Histoire des Nations Civilisées du Mexique et de l’Amérique Centrale. Paris, 1857–59. The Abbé possessed much knowledge of the peoples of Central America and their ancient history, but had a leaning toward the marvellous which renders his works of doubtful value.
Charnay, Désiré: [Ancient Cities of the New World]. London, 1887. This translation from the French is readable and interesting, and is of assistance to beginners. It is, however, of little avail as a serious work of reference, and has been superseded.
Chevalier, M.: Le Mexique Ancien et Moderne. Paris, 1886.
Clavigero, Abbé: Storia Antica del Messico. Cesena, 1780. English translation, London, 1787. Described in text.
Diaz, Bernal: Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de Nueva España. 1837. An eye-witness’s account of the conquest of Mexico.
Enock, C. Reginald: Mexico, its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, &c. London, 1909.
Gomara, F. L. de: Historia General de las Yndias. Madrid, 1749.
Herrera, Antonio de: Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano. 4 vols. Madrid, 1601.
Humboldt, Alex. von: Vues des Cordillères. Paris, 1816. English translation by Mrs. Williams.
Ixtlilxochitl, F. de Alva: Historia Chichimeca; Relaciones. Edited by A. Chavero. Mexico, 1891–92.
Kingsborough, Lord: Antiquities of Mexico. London, 1830.
Lumholtz, C.: [Unknown Mexico]. 1903.
MacNutt, F. C.: Letters of Cortés to Charles V. London, 1908.
Nadaillac, Marquis de: Prehistoric America. Translation. London, 1885.
Noll, A. H.: A Short History of Mexico. Chicago, 1903.
Nuttall, Zelia: [The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilisations]. 1901.
Payne, E. J.: History of the New World called America. London, 1892–99. By far the best and most exhaustive work in English upon the subject. It is, however, unfinished.
Peñafiel, F.: Monumentos del Arte Mexicano Antiguo. Berlin, 1890.
Prescott, W. H.: History of the Conquest of Mexico. Of romantic interest only. Prescott did not study Mexican history for more than two years, and his work is now quite superseded from a historical point of view. Its narrative charm, however, is unassailable.
Sahagun, Bernardino de: Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España. Mexico, 1829.
Seler, E.: Mexico and Guatemala. Berlin, 1896.
Serra, Justo (Editor): Mexico, its Social Evolution, &c. 2 vols. Mexico, 1904.
Spence, Lewis: The Civilization of Ancient Mexico. A digest of the strictly verifiable matter of Mexican history and antiquities. All tradition is eliminated, the author’s aim being to present the beginner and the serious student with a series of unembellished facts.
Starr, F.: The Indians of Southern Mexico. 1899.
Thomas, Cyrus, and Magee, W. J.: The History of North America. 1908.
Torquemada, Juan de: Monarquia Indiana. Madrid, 1723.
Bulletin 28 of the Bureau of American Ethnology contains translations of valuable essays by the German scholars Seler, Schellhas, Förstemann, &c.
Many of the above works deal with Central America as well as with Mexico proper.