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Cortes, Hernan

Cartas de Relacion de la Conquest de la Nueva Espana, 1960

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€ 120 - 140

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€ 141

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Information

Graz, Akademische Druck Verlagsanstalt, 1960. 370 x 270 mm. Half leather and cardboard binding, with decorations and writings on the plates. 

Specialist Notes

Facsimile reproduction of a collection of reports addressed by Americas to Emperor Charles V, including 4 handwritten letters by Hernán Cortés written between 1520 and 1527 which, among other things, describe the arrival on the island of  Cozumel, l 'Aztec architecture and the culture of Tenochtitlán , and the capture of Montezuma II .