Conquest of New Spain: 1585 Revision. Reproductions of Boston Public Library Manuscript and the Carlos Maria de Bustamante 1840 edition. by Fray Bernardino De Sahagun; Howard F. Cline, trans - 1989

Salt Lake City: University of of Utah Press, 1989. First Thus. Cloth. Fine. Fine. Yellow cloth boards with brown title stamping. Facsimile of Spanish language copies of Sahagun's monumental work, with an English translation. 1672 pp. Thick octavo, 6 x 9 inches tall, 2 inches thick. Sahagún is perhaps best known as the compiler of the Historia general de las cosas de la Nueva España (in English): General History of the Things of New Spain (hereinafter referred to as Historia General). The most famous extant manuscript of the Historia General is the Florentine Codex. It is a codex consisting of 2400 pages organized into twelve books, with approximately 2,500 illustrations drawn by native artists using both native and European techniques. The alphabetic text is bilingual in Spanish and Nahuatl on opposing folios, and the pictorials should be considered a third kind of text. It documents the culture, religious cosmology (worldview), ritual practices, society, economics, and history of the Aztec people, and in Book 12 gives an account of the conquest of Mexico from the Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco point of view. In the process of putting together the Historia general, Sahagún pioneered new methods for gathering ethnographic information and validating its accuracy. The Historia general has been called "one of the most remarkable accounts of a non-Western culture ever composed," and Sahagún has been called the father of American ethnography." ---wikipedia Sabin notes that Bustamante may have taken editorial liberties with his 1840 edition. This work is Book XXII in the aforementioned Historia General.