Historia de la conquista de Méjico : con un bosquejo preliminar de la civilización de los antiguos mejicanos, y la vida del conquistador Hernando Cortés / escrita en inglés por Guillermo H. Prescott ; traducida al castellano por José María González de la Vega y anotada por Lucas Alamán.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859.

Contributor:

González de la Vega, José María.

Alamán, Lucas, 1792-1853

Robert Dechert Americana Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

History of the conquest of Mexico. Spanish

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540.

Mexico.

History.

Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.

Cortés, Hernán.

Penn Provenance:

Gonzalez, Miguel (stamp) (Dechert copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations (1 color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Méjico : V.G. Torres, 1844.

Notes:

Translation of: History of the conquest of Mexico.

Pagination: t. 1: xii, 468 p., [30] leaves of plates (some fold.) ; t. 2: 406 p., [18] leaves of plates (1 fold.)

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Robert Dechert Americana Book Fund.

Dechert copy: t. 1 has modern ms. bookseller's note in pencil on front free endpaper; some ms. marks and underlines in pencil in text; a few ms. underlines in blue pencil in text; ms. paper slip laid in.

Dechert copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2017 from Plaza Books.

Dechert copy: t. 1: blue ink stamp ("Miguel Gonzalez") on title leaf and p. 1; blue ink stamp ("Miguel Gonzalez") in a different font at head of p. 1.

Dechert copy: t. 2: blue ink stamp ("Miguel Gonzalez") on title leaf and p. 1; blue ink stamp ("Miguel Gonzalez") in a different font on p. 401.

Dechert copy: t. 2: 2 newspaper clippings with headline "Como se ha derramado la sangre humana" laid in; cancelled five-centavo Mexican stamp (with portrait of Miguel Hidalgo; first issued 1910) laid in.

OCLC:

5755703