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1778_Correspondance de Fernand Cortès avec l'Empereur Charles-Quint, sur la conquête du Mexique
OB-00317
Correspondance de Fernand Cortès avec l'Empereur Charles-Quint, sur la conquête du Mexique.
Descrizione
a Paris, Chez Cellot & Jombert, Fils jeune, Libraires, rue Dauphine, la seconde porte cochere à droite, Au fond de la Cour.
s.d., (1778), - in-12, [2]-XXVI-508-[4]
Signatures: pi² a¹² b¹ A-V¹² X⁸ Y⁴ chi¹.
Signature errors: a⁶ mis-signed a⁷. N³ unsigned.
Woodcuts: Title vignette; printer's head-pieces.
Translation and abridgement of: Historia de Nueva-España / Hernando Cortes ; compiled with notes by Francisco Antonio Lorenzana y Butron. Mexico : Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1770.
Contains Cortes' 2nd, 3rd, and 4th letters, here designated the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd letters.
Book in full leather, important restoration on the back and zippers to compensate for lost parts of leather, keeping the remaining parts of the back.