Apr 07, 2022 - Sale 2600

Sale 2600 - Lot 316

Price Realized: $ 358
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MEXICO--HISTORY.) Antonio de Solis y Ribadeneyra. Historia de la conquista de Mexico. 2 maps, 5 (of 12) mostly folding plates, text illustrations. [20], "604" [302], [18] pages. Folio, later vellum-backed marbled boards, minor wear; hinges split, minor foxing; title page in red and black; bookseller's tag on front pastedown, later owner's small inked stamp on title page. Brussels, 1704 [i.e. 1705]

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Third Spanish edition of this important narrative, enlarged with the biography of Solis by Juan de Goyeneche. With extra 6-page Indice de los Capitulos and 2-page censura not called for in Palau. European Americana 705/159; Palau 318604; Sabin 86447a.