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Livres anciens et modernes

Cortes, Hernan, Translated From The Spanish By Don Pascual De Ga, Yangos

The Fifth Letter of Hernan Cortes to the Emperor Charles V, containing an Account of his Expedition to Honduras

1868

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Détails

Année
1868
Lieu d'édition
London. The Hakluyt Society
Auteur
Cortes, Hernan, Translated From The Spanish By Don Pascual De Ga, Yangos
Edition
First edition in English.
Thème
Travel - Central America & West Indies Hakluyt Society
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xvi, 156, 3 [publisher's report for 1868] pp, index, blank pages have been bound in at the end. contemporary half calf, matching marbled boards, endpapers and edges, gilt title lettering on black leather spine labels, rear joint repaired, edges bit rubbed, else a near fine copy, interior is clean and unmarked. A picture of this book is available upo Cox ii, 242. Markman 70. Spain and Spanish America II, 123. Motivated by an easy passage to the Indian Ocean and the spice islands, Cortes left Mexico in 1524 with about 400 Spaniards and three thousand local people, passing through southern Mexico, possibly near Palenque and through what is now Guatemala, Honduras, etc, destroying towns and temples as he went. A detailed account with a historical introduction. Published in the first series of the Hakluyt Society.