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Cortes, Hernán
This fine sammelband comprises the first Latin Editions of Cortes's 2nd and 3rd Letters, bound together in the early 17th century, along with Italian translations of Cortes's Second and Third Letters excerpted from Ramusio's 1606 Navigatione et Viaggi, and with Porcacchi's 1605 Isolario.
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Four works bound in one, folio, (297 x 203 mm). Full contemporary (ca. 1610) vellum over boards, five raised spine bands, leather on spine partly chipped away, exposing cords, spine lettered in ink, minor rubbing to edges, several tiny wormholes on outer surface of vellum. Collation: Porcacchi: [24], 211 pp., engraved allegorical title page and numerous engraved maps in the text, early inscription in fore-edge margin, inked over; Ramusio extract: 225-296, [2] ff. (woodcut plan of Tenochtitlan on leaf qq3r and full-page illustration of Aztec pyramid on leaf qq4v); Cortes 2nd letter: [4], 49, [1 blank ff.], 12 ff., full-page woodcut imperial coat of arms on verso of title page; woodcut of Pope Clement VII within a medallion on verso of leaf a4; Cortes 3rd letter: [4], 51, [1, errata] ff., title with woodcut portrait on recto and full-page woodcut imperial coat of arms on verso, 2 supplied leaves from another copy, with some expert paper restoration and minimal facsimile work: Hh2 & Hh9, i.e. folios XLIIII and [LI]). The errata leaf at end (fol. [LII] or Hh10) with watermark of bull's head and a cross or pilgrim's staff, as in the Streeter copy. Woodcut plan of Tenochtitlan, not present as usual.
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