Mexico.- Shippard (William Henry, Captain, Army officer in the 29th Regiment, friend of George Catlin, 1803-65) [Collection of copies of the art and images of Pre-Columbian Mexico assembled for the putative foundation of a Museum of Mankind in London], c. 65pp., numerous hand-coloured drawings, many with Shippard's autograph notes, most on paper, some on tracing paper, a few printed, taken from various works on Mexico, the Vatican Library etc., some with tears and loss, folds, some creased, also with an incomplete and disbound copy of Catlin's "Letters..." with Shippard's autograph notes comparing the different cultures, v.s., v.d., [1830s].