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CORTÉS, Hernando (1485-1547) and LORENZANA, Francesco Antonio (1722-1804). Historia del Nueva-España, escrita por su escalarecido conquistador Hernan Cortes. Mexico: Imprenta del Superior Gobierno, del Br. D. Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1770.
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CORTÉS, Hernando (1485-1547) and LORENZANA, Francesco Antonio (1722-1804). Historia del Nueva-España, escrita por su escalarecido conquistador Hernan Cortes. Mexico: Imprenta del Superior Gobierno, del Br. D. Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1770.
The author's own copy of the first edition of this "important and highly esteemed work, containing the celebrated letters of Cortés to the Emperor Charles V” (JCB). Lorenzana collected historical documents during his tenure as Archbishop of Mexico; this work publishes material relating to the early history of New Spain with his commentary. The book is illustrated with numerous engravings depicting the Mexican calendar, the Pyramid of the Sun, and pages from an Aztec codex. One of the maps traces Cortes’s route on his first expedition to Mexico, labeling the Gulf of California as “Mar Roxo de Cortes,” and is only the second map in which the name of Texas appears. The other map is the first printing of a chart made during the 1541 Coronado-Alcaron expedition. Palau 63204; Sabin 16938.
Folio (262 x 193mm). Title in red and black with engraved vignette; engraved frontispiece; 33 engraved plates, one of which folding; 2 engraved folding maps (2 excised stamps affecting text, faint marginal dampstain, discreet repairs to first map). Jansenist red morocco by René Kieffer, with Barbet’s gilt monogram encircled by a surveyor's chain. Provenance: Francisco Antonio Lorenzana (1722-1803, Archbishop of Mexico and then Toledo; note of donation on title) – Spanish library (excised and erased stamps) – Louis-Alexandre Barbet (1850-1931, French railway engineer; note, binding, and discreet blindstamps, his sale Druout, 13 June 1932, lot 282).
The author's own copy of the first edition of this "important and highly esteemed work, containing the celebrated letters of Cortés to the Emperor Charles V” (JCB). Lorenzana collected historical documents during his tenure as Archbishop of Mexico; this work publishes material relating to the early history of New Spain with his commentary. The book is illustrated with numerous engravings depicting the Mexican calendar, the Pyramid of the Sun, and pages from an Aztec codex. One of the maps traces Cortes’s route on his first expedition to Mexico, labeling the Gulf of California as “Mar Roxo de Cortes,” and is only the second map in which the name of Texas appears. The other map is the first printing of a chart made during the 1541 Coronado-Alcaron expedition. Palau 63204; Sabin 16938.
Folio (262 x 193mm). Title in red and black with engraved vignette; engraved frontispiece; 33 engraved plates, one of which folding; 2 engraved folding maps (2 excised stamps affecting text, faint marginal dampstain, discreet repairs to first map). Jansenist red morocco by René Kieffer, with Barbet’s gilt monogram encircled by a surveyor's chain. Provenance: Francisco Antonio Lorenzana (1722-1803, Archbishop of Mexico and then Toledo; note of donation on title) – Spanish library (excised and erased stamps) – Louis-Alexandre Barbet (1850-1931, French railway engineer; note, binding, and discreet blindstamps, his sale Druout, 13 June 1932, lot 282).