Conquista de Méjico. Tomo I

López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1566

Conquista de Méjico. Tomo I

Por Francisco López de Gómara

Barcelona

Daniel Cortezo y C.ª

Biblioteca Clásica Española

Establecimiento tipográfico-editorial de Daniel Cortezo y C.ª

1887

Barcelona: Biblioteca Clásica Española, Daniel Cortezo y C.ª, editores, 1887

Spanish

Edition from the Biblioteca Clásica Española collection

1 volume (approximately 300 pages)

None

8vo

20 cm

Not indicated

Late nineteenth-century industrial paper

Not visible in the supplied images

Clear typography in the characteristic editorial composition of Cortezo

Stamped publisher’s cloth binding

Red and black

Gilt ornamentation and publisher’s emblem

Spine decorated with gilt and black stamping

First part of the Historia de la conquista de México, based on testimonies of conquistadors and on Francisco López de Gómara’s personal account of the campaigns of Hernán Cortés and the fall of the Mexica Empire

Nineteenth-century edition of one of the most influential sixteenth-century chronicles on the conquest of Mexico

Controversial work in its own time; banned by Charles V for its exaltation of Hernán Cortés

Fundamental text for the historiography of the conquest and the Spanish vision of the New World

Part of the Biblioteca Clásica Española collection

Preserves original decorative publisher’s binding

Historical chronicle of the conquest of Mexico from the sixteenth-century Spanish perspective

Expeditions of Hernán Cortés; fall of the Mexica Empire; encounter between cultures; military and religious narrative of the conquest; Eurocentric vision of Cortés; first descriptions of indigenous territories and customs; colonial historiography; chronicles of the Indies

1450

Good; solid publisher’s binding; moderate wear from use and slight usual paper oxidation

Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis

Copy with decorative publisher’s binding