?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Solís y Rivadeneira, Antonio de (1610-1686) Historia de la Conquista de Mexico.
Madrid: Bernardo de Villa-Diego, Impressor de su Magestad, 1684.
First edition, folio, lacking engraved title (supplied in modern photocopy facsimile), title page printed within border of typographical ornaments, two ownership signatures to title and one small blind stamp, text printed in double columns, generally a crisp copy with some marginal water staining, bound in full contemporary limp parchment, 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.
"Solís's account [...] drew upon earlier narratives, and in a larger sense [...] represent[s] a perspective on the conquests of Mexico and Peru that was rooted in the accounts of the Spanish invaders themselves, reinforced during the centuries of colonial rule, reified by William Prescott's nineteenth-century epics (still in print), and perpetuated in various ways through the twentieth century. [...] [In] the Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, Matthew Restall argues that Spanish conquests in the Americas can mostly be explained by a combination of three factors working together-- epidemic disease, native disunity or micropatriotism, and metal weapons (but not necessarily guns and horses.)" (cf. Oudijk, Michel R. Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica. United States, University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.)
