Presented by Adam Douglas, Senior Rare Book Specialist at Peter Harrington. First edition, limited to 300 copies. Stephens met Catherwood in 1836 and the two had a mutual interest in the ancient ruins of the near east. They decided to travel to Central America after reading an account of the ruins of Copan.
Their travels resulted in three titles written by Stephens and illustrated by Catherwood, but this is the only volume published as a folio. Although many of the views and subjects appeared in his work with John L. Stephens, the large-scale lithographs here reveal detail and beauty lost in the smaller format. Many of Catherwood’s original drawings and paintings were destroyed when a building in which he was exhibiting his work caught fire. “In the whole range of literature on the Maya there has never appeared a more magnificent work than Views of Ancient Monuments” (V. W. von Hagen, Frederick Catherwood Archt. ).
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