JUAN DE TOBAR. "Códice Ramirez,"--published by S^r J. M. Vigil, as an anonymous chronicle, in 1878. Also "Historia de los Indios Mexicanos." Original in possession of the Estate of Sir Thomas Phillips, at Cheltenham, England. Copy of a fragment, privately printed, at the Lenox Library, New York. (Written between 1579 and 1589.) DIEGO DURÁN. "Historia de las Indias de Nueva-España, é Yslas de Tierra firme."--(Written between 1579 and 1581, but only the first part of it printed, at Mexico, 1867, by S^r José F^r Ramirez.)--Very important; mentions again Mitla as a settlement inhabited about 1450. "Apéndice" por Alfredo Chavaro, México, 1880. FERNANDO DE ALVARADO TEZOZOMOC. "Crónica mexicana."--Written 1598. Printed for the first time in Vol. IX. of Kingsborough, and again (though not complete) in the "Biblioteca mexicana" of S^r Vigil, with notes by S^r Orozco y Berra.--A French translation has been made by Ternaux-Compans, under the title of "Histoire du Méxique, par Alvarado Tezozomoc," Paris, 1853, 2 vols. It is utterly unreliable. FRAY GERÓNIMO DE MENDIETA. (Copies textually from Motolinia.) FRAY BERNARDINO SAHAGUN. "Historia universal de las Cosas de Nueva-España," in Vols. 6 and 8 of Kingsborough.--The same book, under the title of "Historia general, &c., &c." appeared at Mexico, in 3 vols., 1829, edited by C. M. de Bustamante. Only very slight and casual mention of Oajaca. _Writers of the Seventeenth Century._ AUGUSTIN DÁVILA-PADILLA. JUAN DE TORQUEMADA. (Important.) ANTONIO DE HERRERA. (Important.) GREGORIO GARCIA. (Important.) FRANCISCO DE BURGOA. "Palestra Historiale de Virtudes y Exemplares Apostólicos." México, 1670. "Geográfica Descripcion de la Parte Septentrional del Polo Artico de la América." México, 1674. This work is regarded (especially by such as have not seen it), as the leading work on Oajaca.--I have never even seen it--it is exceedingly rare. _Writers of the Eighteenth Century._ MARIANO VEYTIA. F. X. CLAVIGERO. ANTONIO DE ALCEDO. LORENZO BOTURINI BERNADUCCI. JOSEPH JOAQUIN GRANADOS Y GALVEZ. "Tardes americanas." México, 1778--A work considerably over-estimated,--containing casual mention of Oajaca,--fluently written. _Writers of the Nineteenth Century._ I forbear mentioning here _all_ the writers on Oajaca,--more particularly avoiding all the general works,--those excepted which contain plates of special value. The first who called attention to Mitla was certainly ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. "Vues des Cordilléres et monuments des peuples indigénes de l'Amérique." Paris, 1810. Royal folio.--Same, 2 vols. 8^o Paris, 1816. English version, by Helen M. Williams, London, 1814. "Essai politique sur la Nouvelle-Espagne." (See "Yucatan.") MATHIEU DE FOSSEY. "Le Méxique." Paris, 1857.--Very fair. EDUARD MÛHLENPFORDT. "Versuch einer getreuen Schilderung der Republik Mejico." Hannover, 1844. 2 vols.