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Historia de Nueva España

 
HOLLIS Number
Contributors
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547; Lorenzana, Francisco Antonio, 1722-1804
Publication
En México: en la imprenta del Superior Gobierno, del Br. D. Joseph Antonio de Hogal en la Calle de Tiburcio, Año de 1770

Description

Digital Facsimile

[22], xvi, 176-400, [18] p., [36] leaves of plates (3 folded)

"Con las licencias necesarias."

Title in red and black; engraved vignette with motto: Opibus clara, religione nobilior.

The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th letters of Cortes with notes and additional material by Lorenzana.

Signatures: pi² [par.]-3[par.]² A² chi1 ²[par.]-4[par.]² B-5O²(-5O2) (pi1 and pi2 versos blank).

Maps: (1) Plano de la Nueva España ... dispuesto por J. A. de Alzate y Ramirez, 1769; (2) reproduction of map, representing the coast of the "Mar de el sur", designed by Domingo del Castillo, piloto, Mexico, 1541.

Between pages 176 and 177 are inserted [32] leaves, the first of which has a printed title on the recto: Cordillera de los pueblos ... (verso is blank). Following are [31] leaves of plates illustrative of a Mexican codex; the first 13 plates unnumbered, the remaining 18 plates are numbered 15-32.

Errata statement: p. [21], 1st group (chi1 recto (1st alphabet)).

Plates by José Mariano Navarro and Manuel de Villavicencio.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

 

Language

Spanish
 

Subject

Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Writing -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, Mexican -- Facsimiles -- Early works to 1800.; Matrícula de tributos.; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800.; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540 -- Early works to 1800.; History.; Sources.