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The book is bound in blue cloth with a vignette of Magellan's ship, the Victoria, stamped in gilt at the center of the front cover. The spine is badly sun faded, and there is minor fading across the top inch of the back cover. There is a small bookplate (blank) at the top left corner of the first paste-down page. Text is otherwise clean with no extraneous writing or marks. "The Fifth Letter" is No. 40 in the first series of publications by the Hakluyt Society between 1847 and 1873. It includes not only the letter from Cortes, dated 1526, but the society's 1868 annual report.
Discusion del proyecto de decreto sobre el Tribunal de la Inquisicion by SPANISH CORTES - 1813
by SPANISH CORTES
Discusion del proyecto de decreto sobre el Tribunal de la Inquisicion
by SPANISH CORTES
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Cadiz: Imprenta Nacional, 1813. 1/4 Leather. Good+. 4to (21 cm, 8.3 in). [4], 694 pp., lacks frontis.
First edition: The Spanish Inquisition was established in the 13th-century. The power of the Spanish Inquisition wavered over the centuries and was limited to the censorship of books and free speech by the early 1800s; this censorship was abolished in 1812. Here is a discussion regarding its potential reinstatement by the Spanish Cortes (1810-1813) and their decision against it in 1813.
Palau 74471. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Columbia Encyclopedia. Contemporary quarter speckled leather with gilt tooling on the spine and marbled paper over boards on sides, the binding shows age and handling, plus wear to joints and fore-edge corners. Red-speckled edges with top edge dusty. As usual, lacks the frontispiece. Scattered light foxing. Well-preserved, tight, and square.
First edition: The Spanish Inquisition was established in the 13th-century. The power of the Spanish Inquisition wavered over the centuries and was limited to the censorship of books and free speech by the early 1800s; this censorship was abolished in 1812. Here is a discussion regarding its potential reinstatement by the Spanish Cortes (1810-1813) and their decision against it in 1813.
Palau 74471. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Columbia Encyclopedia. Contemporary quarter speckled leather with gilt tooling on the spine and marbled paper over boards on sides, the binding shows age and handling, plus wear to joints and fore-edge corners. Red-speckled edges with top edge dusty. As usual, lacks the frontispiece. Scattered light foxing. Well-preserved, tight, and square.
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- Publisher Imprenta Nacional
- Place of Publication Cadiz
- Date Published 1813
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The Fifth Letter of Hernan Cortes to the Emperor Charles V: Containing an Account of HIs Expedition to Honduras
by Hernan Cortes, translated from the Spanish by Don Pascual De Gayangos
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The Fifth Letter of Hernan Cortes to the Emperor Charles V, containing an Account of his Expedition to Honduras
by CORTES, Hernan, translated from the Spanish by Don Pascual de Gayangos;
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London, The Hakluyt Society, 1868, First edition in English. . contemporary half calf, matching marbled boards, endpapers and edges, gilt title lettering on black leather spine labels, rear joint repaired, edges bit rubbed, else a near fine copy, interior is clean and unmarked. . 8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xvi, 156, 3 [publisher's report for 1868] pp, index, blank pages have been bound in at the end. . Cox ii, 242. Markman 70. Spain and Spanish America II, 123. Motivated by an easy passage to the Indian Ocean and the spice islands, Cortes left Mexico in 1524 with about 400 Spaniards and three thousand local people, passing through southern Mexico, possibly near Palenque and through what is now Guatemala, Honduras, etc, destroying towns and temples as he went. A detailed account with a historical introduction. Published in the first series of the Hakluyt Society. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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