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HISTORIA DE YUCATHAN
by Lopez de Cogolludo, Diego
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Madrid: Juan Garcia Infanzon, 1688.. [2],760,[31]pp. Lacks engraved half title and thirteen preliminary leaves. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of ties. Front hinge broken. Scattered foxing including on titlepage, short tear in titlepage repaired, some staining in early margins and into text. Doodling in many margins, ink stains from a careless quill user on several pages. John Carter Brown and John Carter Brown Library (see below). A good plus copy, lacking the engraved half title and thirteen preliminary leaves. In this account of the conquest and Spanish settlement of the Yucatan, Lopez de Cogolludo, a Franciscan missionary and administrator originally from Alcal de Henares, presents a sought-after account. He had access to a manuscript version of Bishop Landa's work and consulted such important printed sources as Torquemada. He also presents his personal eye-witness accounts of events during his thirty years among the Maya (1634-65).
Robert Patch says in the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE that Lopez de Cogolludo wrote this history in the 1650s and that it is "a major source not only for the history of Yucatan but also for the study of Maya culture."
This was John Carter Brown's copy, with his stamped signature on p.1, and also contains the small book label of "Marchio Regaliae D.D. 1741." John Carter Brown (1797-1874) purchased this from Henry Stevens in 1845/1846; on his death it passed to his son, John Nicholas Brown (1861-1900), and after his death was deeded to the John Carter Brown Library and deaccessioned in 2008. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 688/151. MEDINA, BHA 1821. PALAU 141001. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE III, p.458.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCAM41449
- Title
- HISTORIA DE YUCATHAN
- Author
- Lopez de Cogolludo, Diego
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Juan Garcia Infanzon
- Place of Publication
- Madrid
- Date Published
- 1688.
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William Reese Company
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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