(MEXICO) Cortes Hernando; and Francesco Lorenzana Historia d

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(MEXICO.) Cortes, Hernando; and Francesco Lorenzana. Historia de Nueva-España. 2 folding maps, 34 plates, and illustrated title page. Folio, 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches, contemporary vellum; hinges split; very minor intermittent foxing and a bit of ink spotting on edges; bookplates on front endpapers from an early seminary library, Francis Bayard Rives, Otto Oren Fisher, and Alberto Parreño. In 1/4 morocco slipcase with minor wear and fading. Mexico, 1770

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An attractive copy with few flaws. "An important and highly esteemed work, containing the celebrated letters of Cortez to the Emperor Charles V . . . illustrated with copious notes and documents, together with facsimiles of the Mexican mode of representing the tributes paid by the different towns in Mexico"--JCB III:1750. Medina, Cortes 73; Medina, Mexico VI:5380; Palau 142408; Sabin 16938.