Conquista de Méjico. Tomo II

López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1566

Conquista de Méjico. Tomo II

Por Francisco López de Gómara

Barcelona

Daniel Cortezo y C.ª

Biblioteca Clásica Española

Establecimiento tipográfico-editorial de Daniel Cortezo y C.ª

1888

Barcelona: Biblioteca Clásica Española, Daniel Cortezo y C.ª, editores, 1888

Spanish

Edition from the Biblioteca Clásica Española collection

Approximately 300-350 pages

None

8vo

20 cm

Not indicated

Late nineteenth-century industrial paper

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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

Continuation of the chronicle of the conquest of Mexico; includes episodes following the fall of Tenochtitlan, complementary campaigns, organisation of the territory and accounts of the conquistadors

Nineteenth-century edition of one of the most influential sixteenth-century chronicles

Volume II completes the narrative begun in volume I

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

Copy with original publisher’s binding appreciated by collectors

Part of the Biblioteca Clásica Española collection

Historical chronicle of the conquest and consolidation of Spanish rule in Mexico

Organisation of the territory after the fall of Tenochtitlan; subsequent pacification and expansion campaigns; relations between conquistadors, authorities and indigenous peoples; Eurocentric vision of Cortés; ethnographic and geographical descriptions; colonial historiography; chronicles of the Indies

1451

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