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(MEXICO.) Solís y Ribadeneyra, Antonio de. The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. 2 maps, engraved frontispiece portrait of Hernan Cortes, 6 plates. [18], 163, 252, 152 pages. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, contemporary calf, moderate wear, rebacked; frontispiece with repaired tear running its length, bright later coloring applied to plates as well as some tailpieces and initials, bottom edge of folding Lake Tezcuco plate cropped; bookplate on front pastedown. London: Woodward, Hooke & Peale, 1724
First English edition of what Hill calls "an authoritative and extremely popular history of Mexico" with "an abundance of data concerning the intimate lives of the Indians." European Americana 724/165; Hill 1601; Palau 318693; Sabin 86487.
