Histoire de la conqueste du Mexique, ou de la Nouvelle Espagne, par Fernand Cortez
By: traduite de l'Espagnol de dom Antoine de Solis, par l'auteur du Triumvirat
Contributors: Broë, S. de, seigneur de Citry et de La Guette, active 17th century; Hoverland, Adriaan
Edition: Quatriéme edition.
Publisher: La Compagnie des Libraires.
Published: 1714
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Catalogs, Booksellers'; History
Other titles: Histoire de la conquête du Mexique, ou de la Nouvelle Espagne, par Fernand Cortez,
Work titles: Historia de la conquista de México
Notes: Translation, by S. de Broë, of: Historia de la conquista de Mexico, first printed Madrid, 1684; first French translation first printed Paris, 1691.

There are four other French editions printed in Paris in the same year, which have the same sheets with new title pages, listed by European Americana.

Verso of the title page lists eleven booksellers at which this title may be had.

Pagination: v. 1: [36], 537, [19] p., [12] leaves of plates (10 folded); v. 2: [16], 494, [18] p., [3] folded leaves of plates.

Signatures: v. 1: pi² (pi1 blank) ã⁸ ẽ⁴ ĩ⁴ A-2Z⁸⁻⁴ 3A²; v. 2: pi² (pi1 blank, pi2 verso blank) ã⁶ A-2T⁸⁻⁴ 2V⁴

Includes indexes.

Bookseller's advertisements: v. 1, p. [35-36], 1st count; v. 2, p. [15-16], 1st count.

Engraved printer's ornaments on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Arocena, L.A. Antonio de Solís, 20.

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 318678.

European Americana 714/130.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full speckled calf.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Biblioteca Adriani Hoverlant 1806: ms. autograph on title pages.