"Prescott (william Hickling) - History Of The Conquest Of Mexico. Firmin Didot, 1863, Bound."
PRESCOTT (William Hickling) - History of the conquest of Mexico. With a Preliminary Table of the Ancient Mexican Civilization and the Life of Fernand Cortès. Paris, Firmin Didot Brothers, 1863; in-8, XLVI-XVI-367 + 388 + 358 pp., bottle green half-shagreen bindings, spine with 5 raised bands. The 3 volumes. New edition published in French by Amédée Pichot. Complete with 44 plates. William Hickling Prescott, born in 1796 and died in 1859, was an American historian specializing in the history of the Hispanic world. This text is constantly republished.