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Bedini, Silvio A., editor
Christopher Columbus And The Age Of Exploration: An Encylopedia
Publisher: N.Y., Da Capo Press, 1998..
xxii, 787 p. The original edition of 1992 was published in two volumes. A comprehensive reference book on the age of European expansion. Published at $40. Stock #27370x. Fine/paperback. American History; Discovery.
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Cortes, Hernan, 1485-1547
Cartas de Relacion (English). Letters From Mexico. Translated and Edited by A.R. Pagden
Publisher: N.Y., Orion Press/ Grossman, 1971.
lxvii, 565 p. 20 illus. 23.5 cm. End-paper maps. Introduction by J.H. Elliott. Letters written by the conqueror of Mexico to Charles V presenting Cortes' case for his insubordination. Stock #29,459.Vg, very slight water stain , can be seen at the top edge of the index, slight munching to an inch of the front cover/ dj. vg, but has rodent munching tolower 2 inches of front hinge.
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Item number: 29459.
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Díaz / Diaz del Castillo, Bernal, 1492-1580/81. Cohen, J. M., translator.
The Conquest of New Spain. Translated with an Introduction by J. M. Cohen.
Publisher: Penguin Books [1963].
412, [4] p., maps. 'Taking as my authoritative text the edition of the Historia verdadera de la conquista de la nueva España of Joaquín Ramirez Cabañas (fifth edition, Editorial Porrua, 1960), I have translated the greater part of Bernal Díaz's first 157 chapters, omitting only certain extraneous incidents (which I have in some cases briefly summarized) and the very frequent repetitions which mar his narrative.' Paper; some pencil underlining; good+. Stock#23165.
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Item number: 23165.
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Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, 1492-1584
The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521 Edited from the only exact copy of the original MS (and published in Mexico) by Genaro García.
Publisher: N.Y., Farrar, Straus & Cudahy [1956]. .
xxxi, [ii], 478 p., index, map; 24.5 cm. Translated with an introduction and notes by A. P. Maudslay. Introduction to the American edition by Irving A. Leonard. Stock #29,457x. Vg/ dj chipped, worn, waterstained; book club edition;
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Item number: 29457.
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Lopez de Gomara (López de Gómara), Francisco, 1510-1560?
La Terza Parte Delle Historie Dell'Indie... [The Third Part of the History of the Indies...]
Publisher: In Venetia, Appresso Giordame Ziletti, al segno della Stella, M.D. LXVI [1566].
Nelloqvale Particolarmente si tratta dello scoprimento della Prouincia di Incatan detta Nuoua Spagna [Which Deals Particularly with the Discovery of the Province of Incatan in New Spain], & delle cose degne di memoria [and of things worthy of remembering], fatte da Spagnuoli nella conquista della grande, & marauigliosa Città di Messico [made by the Spaniards in the conquest of the great and marvellous City of Mexico], & delle altre Prouincie ad essa sottoposte [and of the other provinces, following this]. Nuovamente Tradotta di Lingua Spagnuola [Newly Translated from the Spanish Language], da Lucio Mauro. 8vo. 6 unnumbered leaves, 2 blank leaves, 26 unnumbered leaves, 402 numbered leaves. (*8 {*7-*8 blank}, b-c8, d10, A-Z8, Aa-Zz8, Aaa-Ddd8, Eee2). Bound in contemporary vellum. First line of title-page (La Terza Parte) has been recently snipped off, as though a modern owner had been frustrated or confused by the implication of the phrase La Terza Parte; a small hole in leaf 254 affects 3 words; worming in upper margin of leaves 329-360 affects two words of the inner margin on leaves 329-351; worming on leaves 362-364 affects first line of text on leaf 362. Armorial bookplate of Marius Marefuschus; small red library sticker of the American College in Rome. This work continues uniformly the author's Seconda Parte of 1565, itself a continuation of the Prima Parte of 1560 which is another text, by Pedro de Cieza de León. López de Gómara is the first record of Cortéz's expeditions to the Pacific coast, the Ulloa voyages along the coast of upper California, the preliminary journey to Cibola of Fray Marcos de Niza, and the expedition to the fabled Seven Cities by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado. The second book, and a basic source, for the Southwest of the United States -- Texas, New Mexico, Arizona. This is the first Italian edition of this portion of Gómara's text (the first, i. e. Parte Secondo, first appeared in 1554). Gómara served as Cortés' secretary from 1540, when the conquistador returned to Spain. 'Gomara's history is a good history; he derived his information from the highest sources, and he wrote with an elegant brevity and a sense of arrangement that contrasted favorably with the rambling incoherencies of many of his contemporaries. Small wonder it was a favorite book of the time' (Boies Penrose). Despite the defects noted, this is an attractive copy of an important work, one of 'the two pillars on which the story of the Conquest mainly rests' (Prescott). Wagner (SW) 2Y; Alden 566/23. NUC 205: 255-- RPJCB, ICN, NN, TxHi (badly imperfect). American & Spanish history, colonialism, maritime & Pacific exploration, discovery. NS 0054.
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Item number: NS 0054.
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Prescott, William H.
History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a preliminary view of The Ancient Mexican Civilization and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes (3 volumes).
Publisher: London: Richard Bentley, 1844..
Second Edition Three volumes, hardback octavos in half polished calf on marbled boards, marbled endpapers. Spines with five raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt, labels in red and green morocco, top edges gilt. 442, 439, and 455 pages respectively; folding maps mounted at front of volumes I and II; frontis portraits of Cortes, Montezuma and, again, Cortes, respectively. Still the standard by which later histories are measured, this is a lovely set of the second edition. Prelims a little toned and occasional light soiling in the text. Bindings (marked G.P. Putnam's Sons on verso of front endpapers) are sound and covers very lightly edgeworn. Top couple of inches of back cover of volume I is lightly sunned. Hardcover Hardcover Very good+
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Item number: 9628.
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