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Title: Antiquités mexicaines. Relation des trois expéditions ordonnées par le Roi d'Espagne en 1805, 1806, et 1807, pour la recherche des antiquités antérieures a la découverte du Mexique, notamment celles de Mitla et de Palenque
Identifier(s): text:370; APSimg6492; Goodman Number: 254; 973 C683 No. 271
Description: Prospectus for a work published in French in 1834. In addition to Barb_re, contributors to the work include: Charles Farcy, [David B.] Warden, and Alexander Lenoir.; See also Goodman #253 for Spanish-language version of this prospectus.
Creator: Baradère, H. (Henri)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities & archaeological sites; Expeditions & surveys
Date: ca. 1833

Title: Antiguedades Mejicanas. Relacion de las tres expediciones hechas por mando del Rey de España en 1805, 1806, y 1807, con el objeto de investigar las antiguedades anteriores al descubrimiento de Mejico
Identifier(s): text:1120; local: APSimg6654; local: 253
Description: Prospectus for a work published in French in 1834. In addition to Baradère, contributors to the work include: Charles Farcy, [David B.] Warden, and Alexander Lenoir. For French-language version of this same prospectus see Goodman #254 (973 C683, no. 271).; Item call number: Pam. v. 455, no. 10. Copies of the broadside are also available at: Pam. v. 454, no. 8; 500 Pam. v. 3, no. 27.
Creator: Baradère, H. (Henri)et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities & archaeological sites; Expeditions & surveys
Date: ca. 1833

Title: Notice sur la belle copie en marbre blanc du zodiaque circulaire de Denderah
Identifier(s): text:602; APSimg6613; Goodman Number: 262
Description: Offers for sale a marble copy of the zodiac from the Temple of Denderah executed by J.-J. Castex. The original, found during the French expedition to Egypt at the turn of the eighteenth century, was considered as "un des monumens les plus précieux des connaissances astronomiques des Egyptiens."
Creator: Michaux, André, 1746-1802
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a/apsmc.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities & archaeological sites; Temples; Zodiac
Date: ca. 1819

Title: Proposals for printing, by subscription, An Historical and philosophical inquiry into the original [sic], nature, and design of various remains of antiquity, which have been discovered in America
Identifier(s): text:692; APSimg6566; Goodman Number: 255
Description: Originally enclosed with letter from B. S. Barton to Thomas Pennant, August 30, 1790. This work, like several others proposed by Barton, was apparently never published.
Creator: Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Source: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B284d-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Antiquities & archaeological sites; Indians of North America
Date: 1789