These 81 in folio plates depicted around six hundred objects from a variety of sources: a Mexican museum, the Philadelphia Philosophical Society, the private collections of the Count of Peñasco, a Mexican landowner, Luciano Castañeda Dupaix's draughtsman and the English merchants Rich, Exeter and Marshall, resident in Mexico Warden 1831; Franck 1831; Waldeck 1833, 1835a, 1835b.
Se trataba de 81 láminas in folio, representando unos seiscientos objetos de distinta procedencia: museo de México, Sociedad Filosófica de Filadelfia, las colecciones privadas del conde de Peñasco, propietario mexicano, de Luciano Castañeda el dibujante de Dupaix y los comerciantes ingleses Rich, Exeter y Marshall, residentes en México Warden, 1831; Franck, 1831; Waldeck, 1833, 1835a, 1835b.