Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 291

Price Realized: $ 15,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CORTES, HERNANDO. Praeclara . . . de Nova Maris Oceani Hyspania Narratio. 2 full-page woodcut illustrations (arms and Pope Clement VII); lacks map and plan. [4], 49, 12 leaves. Folio (11 3/4 inches), later 1/2 vellum, minor wear; wide margins, small marginal hole on C1, very minor soiling, lacks blank leaf H8; John Carter Brown inked signature stamp on first page and bookplate on front pastedown with release stamp. (JCB) Venice, 1524
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first edition in latin of Cortes's famed second letter, with (as sometimes seen) Peter Martyr's De Rebus et Insulis as an appendix. Church 53; European Americana 524/5; JCB I:90; Palau 63190; Sabin 16947.