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Title: The despatches of Hernando Cortes, the conqueror of Mexico:
addressed to the emperor Charles V, written during the conquest,
and containing a narrative of its events.Author: Hernan
CortesPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph
Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana,
1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and
other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to
the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of
discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the
U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans,
slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana
offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04369800CollectionID:
CTRG03-B481PublicationDate: 18430101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Contains his 2nd, 3rd and 4th letters. "The first
letter appears not to have been printed; at least no trace of it
has been found, either in print or manuscript, in Spain or in
Germany ... ."--Pref., p. iii]Collation: xii, 431 p.: ill., map; 25
cm
Hernan Cortes's Cartas de Relacion, written over a seven-year
period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative
account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal
town of Veracruz until Cortes's journey to Honduras in 1525.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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