Papeles de Nueva Espana. Segunda Serie. Geografia y Estadistica. Tomo VII

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Author: Paso y Troncoso, Francisco del (1842-1916) Year: 1906 Publisher: Establecimiento tipografia Place: Madrid Description: 29 pages with five fold out plates and index. Royal Octavo (9 1/2" x 7"). Issued in original wrappers. Volume seven, Relaciones Geograficas de la Diocesis de Mexico y de la de Michoacan . Manuscript of the National Library of Madrid and of the Indies in Sevilla, Years 1579-1582. First Edition. Modern scholarship continues to be deeply indebted to the labors of Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, less for any extended completed studies or synthesis than for a lifetime of collecting historical materials of the greatest importance to continuing investigation. His activities in Europe during the 23 years he spent searching out, copying and preparing for publication a vast store of prime documentary materials for the pre-Conquest and colonial history of Mexico have been abundantly documented. Paso y Troncoso saw his prime mission as twofold. First, he proposed to gather and publish as complete a corpus of Sahagun documents as possible. His interest in the great Franciscan had stemmed from the days when Paso y Troncoso as a young man had helped Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta prepare the latter's Bibliografia mexicana del siglo XVI. Second, he expected to copy documentary source materials related to colonial Mexico, an elaborate group of varied papers which he generically called "Papeles de Nueva Espana." In a letter from Madrid, Paso y Troncoso outlined to the Secre

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