Proceso de residencia contra Pedro de Alvarado: ilustrado con ... notas y noticias biográficas críticas y arqueólogicas.
Mexico: Impreso por Valdes y Redondas, 1847. xxiii, 302 pp., [2] leaves + 4 illustrations. Illus. with 1 b/w portrait & 3 colored engravings. 8vo. Later quarter black morocco over stamped brown boards, four raised bands, title and four remaining compartments decorated in gilt, blue marbled endpapers. First edition. Very good or better, boards lightly rubbed, endpapers with old glue lines, faint inked numeral on corner of first blank, ownership blindstamp to title, contents bright, one quire bound out of sequence. Sabin 67646. Palau 246741. Pilling 3175a. Item #44328
Cover title: Procesos de residencia, instruidos contra Pedro de Alvarado y Nuño de Guzman. Includes: "Fragments del proceso de residencia instruido contra Nuño de Guzman, en averiguacion del tormento y muerte que mandó dar a Caltzontzin, rey de Mechoacan; precedidos de una noticia histórica de la vida y hechos de aquel conquistador. Por Jose F. Ramírez: p. [185]-276. Alvarado's trial, on charges of embezzlement and other misconduct in office, took place in 1529.
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