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Historia de la conquista de México : con una ojeada preliminar sobre la antigua civilizacion de los Mexicanos, y con la vida de su conquistador, Fernando Cortés / escrita en ingles por W. Prescott y traducida al español por Joaquín Navarro.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dechert Collection F1230 .P936618 1844b t.1-3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859.
- 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:
- Mexico. Departamento de Salubridad Pública. Servicio de Desinfeccion (stamp) (Dechert copy)
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits (1 color) ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Volume 3 has title: Esplicacion de las laminas pertenecientes a la Historia antigua de México y a la de su conquista, que se han agregado a la traduccion mexicana de la de W.H. Prescott, publicada por Ignacio Cumplido
- Place of Publication:
- México : Ignacio Cumplido, 1844-1846.
- Notes:
- Volumes 1-2 each has added color-illustrated title leaf.
- Volume 3 has color-illustrated title leaf only, which reads: Esplicacion de las laminas pertenecientes a la Historia antigua de México y a la de su conquista, que se han agregado a la traduccion mexicana de la de W.H. Prescott, publicada por Ignacio Cumplido. Mexico. Emprenta lito. p tipo. del editor, 1846.
- Pagination: t. 1: viii, 563 p., [24] leaves of plates ; t. 2: 489, xx, 124 p., [5] leaves of plates ; t. 3: iv, 154 p., [48] leaves of plates (some fold.)
- "Notas y esclarecimientos a la Historia de la conquista de México del Señor W. Prescott, por José F. Ramirez, ciudadano mexicano": Vol. 2, p. v-xx, 1-124 (second count).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Robert Dechert Americana Book Fund.
- Dechert copy: t. 3: ms. note ("N27") in pencil at head of plate [28]; some plates and a few pages have ms. scribbles in pencil.
- Dechert copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2017 from The Brick Row Book Shop.
- Dechert copy: each volume has affixed paper slip with oval stamp ("DEPARTAMENTO DE SALUBRIDAD PUBLICA SERVICIO DE DESINFECCION") dated "OCT 24 1922". In t. 1 and 3 it is affixed to back pastedown; in t. 2, to front pastedown.
- Dechert copy: each volume bound in full contemporary Mexican tree calf; boards and spine tooled in gold; gold-stamped brown morocco spine label ("PRESCOTT CONQUISTA DE MEXICO."); volume number and initials "J.G." stamped in gold on spine; marbled edges.
- Dechert copy: t. 1: front free endpaper wanting ; t. 2: most leaves dampstained in tail margin.
- OCLC:
- 13493704
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