Crónica de Michoacán

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Author: Beaumont, Pablo de la Purisima Concepcion (c1710-c1780) from the library of professor George M Foster Year: 1932 Publisher: Talleres Graficos de la Nacion Place: Mexico City Description: 3 volumes. xxix-574 pages with 4 folding maps; 466 pages with folding coats of arms, 6 folding native illustrations and map; 469 pages with 2 coats of arms (one folding) and 6 folding native illustrations. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7") bound in half blue leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine. Introduction by Rafael Lopez. From the library of George Foster . Publicaciones del Archivo General de la Nacion volume XVII, XVIII and XIX. There are only meager biographical data about Pablo de la Purisima Concepcion Beaumont, whose work is a major source on Michoacan. Despite its title "Chronicle of the Holy Apostles St Peter and St Paul of Michoacan," Beaumont's work in fact spans a much greater area, including much of western Mexico, northward to New Mexico, and tending toward a general history. It provides details to 1565. Beaumont divided his total work into two major parts, the first, or Aparato , intended to be introductory to the second or the Cronica proper. the first seems complete, but the second was never finished. The Aparato takes up fully a third of the extant Beaumont work, although nominally introductory. It deals with the discovery of America and the conquest of Mexico to the year 1521. It was twice published before appearance of the total work. Far more val

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