Nov 29, 2001 - Sale 1916

Sale 1916 - Lot 191

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(MEXICO.) Sahagun, Bernardino de. Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva Espana.<> 1 engraved folding plate. 3 volumes. 8vo, later tree calf; browning to preliminaries, dampstaining in volume 3, old catalogue description mounted to front blank of volume 1; ex-library, with an ink stamp on each title. Sabin 74950; Palau 284994; Field, page 344; LeClerc 1260. Mexico, 1829-30

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"This wonderful work, to which the entire life of Father Sahagun was devoted, is beyond question the most important, as it is the most authentic history of events, transpiring in the New World, before its discovery by Columbus"--Field.<