Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 407

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MEXICO.) Lopez de Gomara, Francisco. Historia de la Conquista de Hernando Cortes. 2 volumes. Small 4to, contemporary 1/4 calf, moderate wear; quite nice internally; small embossed stamps of Gonzalo A. Esteva on title pages, with his faint inked stamp on front free endpapers. Bound with the 39-page supplement dated 1827, as usual. Mexico, 1826
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This unusual edition purports to have been translated into Nuahatl and then back into Spanish. Quaritch asserted in his January 1873 catalogue that "the editor's notes are copious and valuable." Palau 141149; Sabin 27753.