Description
- Notes:
- Traduite de l'Espagnol de Dom Antoine de Solis, par l'auteur du Triumvirat.
- Translation of: Historia de la conquista de Mexico, first printed Madrid, 1684; French translation first printed Paris, 1691.
- Translated by S. de Broë, seigneur de Citry et de La Guette.
- Three other editions printed in Paris in 1704: one by Jean and Michel Guignard, another by Charles Osmont, and another by Pierre Auboüin; all editions have same sheets, plates, and typography with reissued title pages.
- Volume 2 has different setting of title page: Histoire de la conquête du Mexique, ou de la nouvelle Espagne. Par Fernand Cortez, Traduite de l'Espagnol de Dom Antoine de Solis, par l'auteur du Triumvirat; title page ornament different from that of volume 1 title page.
- Pagination: v. 1: [36], 412, [20] p., [10] leaves of plates (8 folded); v. 2: [12], 380 [i.e., 379], [17] p., [4] folded leaves of plates.
- Signatures: v. 1: ã⁸ ẽ⁴ ĩ⁶ (ĩ2 missigned 2O2) A-2N⁸⁻⁴; v. 2: pi⁶ A-2I⁸⁻⁴ 2K⁶ (2K6 blank)
- Includes indexes.
- Woodcut printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.
Citation
"Histoire de la conqueste du Mexique ou de la nouvelle Espagne, par Fernand Cortez"
(1704).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:730847/
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