History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a preliminary view of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortés

by William H. Prescott

$400 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First American edition, second printings of each volume. Frontispiece portraits, signature plate, maps. 3 vols. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, blocked in blind, spotting and staining, spines faded, repair at head of vol. 1, other wear. Toning, foxing to the endpapers. Sabin 65262, BAL 16340; Grolier American 51; Hill 1383. Item #369474 William Hickling Prescott was an American historian and Hispanist who

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