CORTES, HERNANDO. Historia de Nueva-España, escrita por su esclarecido conquistador...aumentada con otros documentas y notas, por Francisco Antonio Lorenzano, Mexico City: en la Imprenta del Superior Gobierno, 1770, small folio, nineteenth-century calf, rebacked, original smooth spine with lettering-piece laid down, speckled edges, dampstains, one map repaired, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red & black, engraved title vignette, frontispiece, 32 plates (one folding) depicting "Cordilleras" or tribute rolls, two folding maps. Palau 63204. Sabin 16938. (This copy with the frontispiece bound in between 4q2 and Q1, the errata leaf between A2 and B1, and plate 1 between B1 and B2.) Bookplate of the Logan Library, with duplicate stamp and cancelled shelf-mark label on lower pastedown; modern bookplate of Jose Ramon de Velasco of Mexico City.

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CORTES, HERNANDO. Historia de Nueva-España, escrita por su esclarecido conquistador...aumentada con otros documentas y notas, por Francisco Antonio Lorenzano, Mexico City: en la Imprenta del Superior Gobierno, 1770, small folio, nineteenth-century calf, rebacked, original smooth spine with lettering-piece laid down, speckled edges, dampstains, one map repaired, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red & black, engraved title vignette, frontispiece, 32 plates (one folding) depicting "Cordilleras" or tribute rolls, two folding maps. Palau 63204. Sabin 16938. (This copy with the frontispiece bound in between 4q2 and Q1, the errata leaf between A2 and B1, and plate 1 between B1 and B2.) Bookplate of the Logan Library, with duplicate stamp and cancelled shelf-mark label on lower pastedown; modern bookplate of Jose Ramon de Velasco of Mexico City.

"Contains the second, third, and fourth letters of Cortes, being the second collection of them published to that date." (Sabin).