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Mexico, America, Mexico City (Mexico), Gulf of MexicoTimes
Conquest, 1519-1540Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Translation, by Nicolò Liburnio Pietro Savorgnano's Latin edition of Cortés' second letter printed under title "Praeclara Ferdina[n]di. Cortesii de noua maris oceani Hyspania narratio sacratissimo. ac inuictissimo Carolo Romanoru[m] Imperatori semper Augusto, Hyspaniaru[m], [etc] Regi Anno Domini. M.D.XX. transmissa", printed in Nuremberg, 1524; it was first printed under title: Carta de relacio[n] e[m]biada a Su. S. Majestad del e[m]p[er]ador n[uest]ro señor in Seville, 1522.
Another issue printed in Venice by G.A. Nicolini da Sabbio, for G.B. Pederzano, has a cancel title page (European Americana, 524/7)
Includes a woodcut map of Tenochtitlán and the Gulf of Mexico.
Signatures: [cross]⁴ A-Q⁴ R⁶ (R5 verso, R6 recto blank)
Harrisse, H. Bibliotheca americana vetustissima, 129.
Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), 86n.
Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 55.
Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1:91.
European Americana 524/6.
Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 55
Digital version of map available In Luna Imaging.
Purchase; 1846; 0236.
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