Volumes I & II (of 3). [6], xx, 277, xxxi, 279-350, [7]; [6], 397, xlvi, [9] pp. Folding engraved plate of a calendar in Vol. I. (8vo) 20.6x14 cm (8¼x5½"), modern half calf & marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt. First Edition.
First edition of this important 16th-century manuscript based on first-hand accounts of pre-Columbian Mexico. "The most authentic history of events transpiring in the New World, before its discovery by Columbus" - Field, page 344. The third volume, not present here, was published in 1830.
