Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 296

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(GUATEMALA.) Villagutierre Sosomayor, Juan de. Historia de la Conquista de la Provincia de el Itza, Reduccion, y Progresso de la de el Lacandon, y otras Naciones de Indios Barbaraos, de la Mediacion de el Reyno de Guatimala, a las Provincias de Yucatan. Frontispiece plate. Folio, later tree calf, boards stained; dampstaining throughout, colophon leaf and lower left corner of frontispiece in skillful manuscript facsimile. [Madrid, 1701]
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First edition, volume one (all published). First issue, with incorrect "gla" catchword on leaf f2. The story of the Itza people in what is now northern Guatemala, who finally succumbed to Spanish forces in 1697. European Americana 701/262; Field 1605 ("has from its extreme rarity remained almost unknown"); Medina, BHA 2051; Palau 366681; Sabin 99643.