2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, 2 engraved frontispiece portraits, map of Peru, and facsimile with Pizarro's signatures and rubrica. (Spotting, offsetting from frontispiece tissue guards.) Publisher's tan cloth, blind tooling, gilt lettering and Pizzaro's coat of arms to spine (darkening of boards, a few pencil marks, very light rubbing to spine ends, some soiling to endpapers). Provenance: Francis Sales (presentation inscription); Roxbury Latin School (embossed seal on titles, bookplates removed, a few notes to titles).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY PRESCOTT on front free endpaper: "Francis Sales Esq. from his friend the Author." Francis Sales (1771-1854) was a professor of Spanish and French at Harvard University from 1816-1854. Sabin 65272.