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[8]+355 leaves+[Venetia 1564 page] with lists of words in Nahuatl: leaves 299-303. Small octavo (5 3/4" x 4") bound18th-century stiff vellum. (European Americana 564/25; Medina BHA 159n; Sabin 27741; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 2v) Early Italian translation of the stand-alone third part of Lopez de Gomara's 1552 landmark History of the West Indies, dedicated to the exploits of Hernán Cortés.Francisco López de Gómara was a Spanish historian who worked in Seville, particularly noted for his works in which he described the early 16th century expedition undertaken by Hernán Cortés in the Spanish conquest of the New World. Although Gómara himself did not accompany Cortés, and had in fact never been to the Americas, he had firsthand access to Cortés and others of the returning conquistadores as the sources of his account. However other contemporaries, among them most notably Bernal Díaz del Castillo, criticized his work as being full of inaccuracies, and one which unjustifiably sanitized the events… Read More
