HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU: With a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas
HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU: With a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1847
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Prescott
- Publishers
- Richard Bentley
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION, SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH AND A HANDSOME
- Languages
- English
- First edition
- True
Description
2 volumes. First Edition. With two full-page engraved frontispieces and a page showing the signatures of Francisco Pizarro, coat of arms of Pizarro granted by the Emperor Charles V in gilt at the spine panels of each volume. Tall 8vo, bound in the publisher's original brown cloth, the covers with all-over arabesque designs blocked in blind, the spine blocked in blind and lettered and decorated in gilt. xxxvi, 480; xx, 490, [1] pp. A very handsome set, internally very fresh and clean and crisp, partially unopened, the bindings quite well preserved without chipping or loss to the cloth, mellowed by age, and with a bit of mottling as to be expected, still a very handsome set and scarce in the original cloth.
