Historia de la conquista de México, población y progressos de la América Septentrional, conocida por el nombre de Nueva España

Solís y Ribadeneyra, Antonio de, 1610-1686

Historia de la conquista de México, población y progressos de la América Septentrional, conocida por el nombre de Nueva España

Historia de la conquista de México

Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra

Por Don Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Secretario de Su Magestad y su Coronista Mayor de las Indias

Madrid

Bernardo de Villa-Diego

Not identified

En la Imprenta de Bernardo de Villa-Diego, impressor de la Reyna N. S. y de la Santa Cruzada

1684

First Madrid edition of the seventeenth century; copy probably rebound during the nineteenth century

Madrid: en la Imprenta de Bernardo de Villa-Diego, impressor de la Reyna N. S. y de la Santa Cruzada, 1684

Spanish

Spanish

Not identified

[16], 548, [44] pages; frontispiece or illustrated preliminary leaf possibly lacking

Possible absence of engraved frontispiece or preliminary plate

Folio

Large folio

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Laid rag paper with visible chain lines and laid lines under transmitted light

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Hand press printing with perceptible impression; double-column text; irregular inking characteristic of Baroque hand press printing

Later half-leather rebinding, probably nineteenth century

Black and dark brown

Spine with raised bands and gilt decoration; marbled endpapers

Half leather with wear and small losses; solid and functional structure

Marbled

No visible decoration

Fundamental historical chronicle on the conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés and the organisation of New Spain. Considered one of the major Spanish Baroque historiographical works on America, combining military narrative, political interpretation and literary exaltation of the Spanish conquest

Covers the principal stages of the conquest of Mexico, the fall of Tenochtitlan and the consolidation of Spanish rule in New Spain

History of the conquest of Mexico; Spanish America; Hernán Cortés; Baroque historiography; Spanish Empire

Possible absence of the original engraved frontispiece

Observed material characteristics suggest a high probability of period authenticity

The copy presents authentic laid paper visible under transmitted light

Printing shows typographic impression and irregular pressure compatible with seventeenth-century hand press printing

Frontispiece or some preliminary leaves may be lacking

Copy probably rebound later while preserving the original seventeenth-century text block

The possible absence of the frontispiece or illustrated preliminaries significantly affects the final market valuation of the copy

History of the conquest of Mexico

Spanish America; Hernán Cortés; Baroque historiography; New Spain; Spanish colonisation; colonial chronicles; Spanish Empire

2000

Good; normal wear to binding; scattered stains and oxidation; interior stable and structurally sound

Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis

Not observed in the supplied images

Copy probably authentic seventeenth-century example later rebound in half leather