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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Foxing on top, bottom, and fore edge of book.

Hard Cover -. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. Marshall, John, Photographer (illustratore). Third Printing. VG+/VG- DJ. Illustrated in color. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book.

Hardback. Maps By Richard Natkiel (illustratore). 1st. book.

First Edition. First printing (regular issue). Quarto (33cm). Tan cloth hardcover, with gilt spine title and stamped cover decoration in green; xii,47 numbered pages of text followed by 52 unnumbered leaves of color plates (reproducing 137 artworks). Mild dusting to covers, else a tight, clean, Very Good copy; lacking the presumed dustwrapper (no jacketed example has been seen by us). WW2-era collection of American artworks depicting non-combatant medical forces in wartime service. Features work by John Steuart Curry, Fred Shane, Manuel Tolegian, Ernest Fiene, Franklin Boggs, Robert Benney, Joseph Hirsch, Lawrence Beall-Smith, Howard Baer, Francis Criss, Peter Blume, and Marion Greenwood.

Hardcover. Condizione: g to vg. New and Revised edition. Large octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4"). XXIV, [2], 713, [1]pp. Contemporary full calf school binding, with gold lettering and tooling to spine, and seal of the Bedford School in gilt on front cover. Raised bands. Blind-stamped dentelles. Marbled endpapers and paper edges. Publisher's device on title page. Originally published in 1843, "The History of the Conquest of Mexico" is universally considered the author's magnum opus. Indeed, William H. Prescott's sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This new and revised edition of the pioneering study presents a compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day. All the chief actors of Prescott's great historic drama not only live and breathe, but they are as distinctly differentiated as they must have been in life. After a preliminary view of ancient Mexican civilization, Prescott takes the reader in 1519, the year Cortes embarks from Cuba with the aim of claiming Mexico for Spain. Arriving in the capital, he is made welcome by the divine ruler, Montezuma, and the two men become friends. Montezuma comes to believe that Cortes is, in fact, the ancient Aztec god, Quetzalcoatl. Cortes' attempts to convert Montezuma to Christianity fail. He takes his counterpart prisoner, but within chivalrous limits. The arrival of a new body of Spaniards, seeking to overthrow Cortes, whom they see as a vainglorious rebel, revives the tension. Eventually, Montezuma dies and a fierce, bloody battle ensues. Moderate and sporadic rubbing along edges of binding. Binding in overall good to good+, interior in very good condition.