(LATIN AMERICA) López y Gómara Francisco [Hispania Victrix]

Sale 2174 - Lot 350

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(LATIN AMERICA.) López y Gómara, Francisco. [Hispania Victrix.] Woodcut of buffalo on leaf I:117, illustrated second title. 2 volumes in one. 4to, 18th-century 1/4 calf, joints rubbed, worn at extremities; hinges cracked, early manuscript annotations throughout, leaf I:6 stained, short tears on 6 leaves, only one affecting text, worm holes on inner margins of several pages, some just brushing text, a bit of faint dampstaining on final pages; bookplate of Otto Orren Fisher on front pastedown. lacking several leaves: free endpapers, first title, leaves I:1-5, I:12, I:17, II:127-139, and colophon, with leaves 12 and 17 supplied in early manuscript. [Medina del Campo, Spain, 1553]

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Second (?) edition of Historia General de las Indias, issued in the same year with similar collation. A very important early history of the Spanish conquest of Peru and Mexico. "The first printed accounts of the Cortés expedition to California . . . It seems probable that the [Medina del Campo] edition . . . was an unauthorized or pirate edition"--Wagner, Spanish Southwest 2b and pages 84-86. European Americana 553/31; JCB I:176; Medina BHA 159; Palau 141136; Sabin 27725; Swann Parreño sale, 9 March 1978, lot 566.