Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 383

Price Realized: $ 1,950
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(MEXICO--1770.) Cortes, Hernando; and Francesco Lorenzana. [Historia de Nueva-España.] 2 folding maps, 33 (of 34) plates. [18] (of 20), xvi, 400, [18] pages. Folio, contemporary 1/2 calf, crudely rejointed; lacking title page and calendar plate, some other plates laid down or remounted; later bookplate of Grace Nicholson on front pastedown, small inked "MM" stamps on verso of first leaf and page 52. [México: Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1770]
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"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, México 5380; Palau 142408; Pilling 898; Sabin 16938.