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xxxviii+141 pages with frontispiece, illustrations, appendix, glossary and bibliography. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter green cloth with gilt lettering to spine over orange pictorial boards in original pictorial jacket. Translated with a foreword by Douglas Ballentine. This work paints the origins of the forced marriage of Spanish and Indian cultures. Here in its translation into English is the account of the Conquest which probably reveals the violent encounter more perceptively than any other written at that time. The events are set into perspective in the translator's foreword. Condition: Previous owner's initials on front end paper and name to front pastedown. Jacket edge wear with small chips, spine ends lightly chipped else very good in like jacket.
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Ally of Cortes: Account 13, of the coming of the Spaniards and the beginning of the evangelical law Hardcover - 1969
by Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl
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- Title Ally of Cortes: Account 13, of the coming of the Spaniards and the beginning of the evangelical law
- Author Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 141
- Publisher Texas Western Press, El Paso
- Date 1969
- ISBN 9780874040159
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xxxviii+141 pages with frontispiece, illustrations, appendix, glossary and bibliography. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter green cloth with gilt lettering to spine over orange pictorial boards in original pictorial jacket. Translated with a foreword by Douglas Ballentine. Signed by Carl Hertzog. This work paints the origins of the forced marriage of Spanish and Indian cultures. Here in its translation into English is the account of the Conquest which probably reveals the violent encounter more perceptively than any other written at that time. The events are set into perspective in the translator's foreword. Carl Hertzog (1902-1984) born in France; although he moved to the US early in his childhood he did not come to El Paso, Texas until the early 1920s. While in El Paso he made his mark as a printer, book designer and typographer. Hertzog services were highly sought after and he met and befriended several noteworthy people including Tom Lea, Jose Cisneros, Frank Dobie, J.…
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