History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization; and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
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History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization; and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
William Hickling Prescott; John Foster Kirk
London : Bickers, 1899
Bound in contemporary full leather. Rebacked, with renewed spine. All edges marbled. Marbled end sheeets. xxiv, 713 pages : facs., map ; 25 cm. Armorial bookplate of Karl Kup. Karl Kup, was an art historian and curator of the Spencer Collection of illustrated books, manuscripts and fine bindings at the New York Public Library. Includes a presentation note from Wellington College (in Latin), dated 1901 to Cecil John Griffith Coward.