Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 343

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MEXICO.) Sahagun, Bernardino de. Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España. Folding plate. 3 volumes. Small 4to, later 1/2 calf, moderate wear; titles and final leaves worn and soiled, minor dampstaining and worming. Mexico, 1829-30

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first edition of this important 16th-century manuscript based on first-hand accounts of pre-Columbian Mexico. "The most authentic history of events transpiring in the New World, before its discovery by Columbus"--Field, page 344. Does not include Libro XII, issued separately but sometimes found bound into Volume III. Palau 284994; Sabin 74950.