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Popenoe, Dorothy Hughes

Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala

1935

29,14 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1935
Lugar de impresión
Cambridge. Harvard University Press
Autor
Popenoe, Dorothy Hughes
Materia
Travel - Central America & West Indies
Idiomas
Inlgés

Descripción

8vo [24 x 16.5 cm]; xvii, 74 pp, frontis (portrait), plates from drawings, folding city plan, index. original gilt ruled green cloth, gilt spine title lettering, partly unopened, spine lightly faded, clean near fine condition. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The introduction by Thomas Barbour provides a biography of the author and is followed by a lengthy letter about the author by Maray Alexander Whitehouse, who describes the author's premature and tragic death just after writing this book. Although the title is in Spanish, the book is in English, describing the conquest, Almolonga, the first Guatemalan capital, Panchoy, etc, based on letters which Alvarado wrote to Cortes, with the attractive drawings by the author showing buildings, views.