Narrative of some things of New Spain and of the great city of Temestitan, Mexico / written by the anonymous conqueror, a companion of Hernan Cortes ; translated into English and annotated by Marshall H. Saville.

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1917
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New York : The Cortes Society, 1917.

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93 pages ; 21 cm.

Notes

"Edition limited to 250 copies of which ten are on Kelmscott paper. This copy is number 16."
The original Spanish text is lost. An Italian translation by G. B. Ramusio was published in his "Terzo volvme delle navigationi et viaggi ... Venetia, 1556." It was translated from the Italian into Spanish by Joaquin García Icazbalceta, and published in his "Coleccion de documentos para la historia de Mexico," v. 1, Mexico, 1858. The present English translation is from this Spanish text. cf. Introd., p. 11-13.

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