Apr 07, 2022 - Sale 2600

Sale 2600 - Lot 314

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MEXICO--HISTORY.) Francisco Lopez de Gomara. Historia, di Don Ferdinando Cortes, marchese della Valle, capitano valorosissimo. Illustration on title page. [8], 355 leaves. 8vo, 18th-century stiff vellum, moderate wear and soiling, 19th-century shelf label at base of backstrip; title page soiled with an early inscription incised and verso reinforcement, lacking leaf 1 following the table of contents, cropped with a few headlines and page numbers trimmed, minor foxing, title inscribed on lower edge; early inscriptions on title page, later owner's signature on front free endpaper. Venice: Giovanni Bonadio, 1564
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An early Italian translation of the stand-alone third part of Lopez de Gomara's 1552 landmark History of the West Indies, dedicated to the exploits of Hernán Cortés. European Americana 564/25; Medina BHA 159n; Sabin 27741; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 2v.