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Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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Nov 8, 2022
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SOLIS Y RIBADENEYRA, Antonio de (1610-1686). The History of the Conquest of Mexico.... London: for T. Woodward, J. Hooke and J. Peele, 1724.
Five parts in one volume, folio (345 x 221 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, 2 engraved maps (one folding), 6 folding engraved plates. (Old repair to blank margin of title, a few leaves with soiling.) Contemporary English panelled calf (rebacked preserving old endpapers, hinges repaired, some light wear). Provenance: John Alexander Dowie (1847-1907), Scottish-Australian evangelist and faith healer (note indicating sale by A. C. McClurg & Co. to); Ramsay (note, 14 February 1910).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Townsend's translation. De Solis, dramatist and historiographer to Philip IV of Spain, produced this "highly esteemed work" in 1684 (Brunet). Alden & Landis 724/165; ESTC T135491; Hill 1601; Palau 318693; Sabin 86487.
Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota