Description: History of The Conquest Of Mexico, With a Preliminary Veiw of the Ancient Mexican Civilation, and The Life of The Conqueror, Hernando Cortez. In Three Volumes. Author: Prescott, William H. 8vo.(5.5" x 8.75") 1865. Prescott, William H. Philadelphia. J.B. Lippincott. Three volumes complete. Half tan calf with corners, triple blindstamp rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title to gilt rule framed brown leather in second compartment, gilt author to gilt rule framed black leather in third, all others with gilt rule frame with fancy gilt corners and a large gilt floral device centered to each compartment, fancy gilt rule to head and foot of spine. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to some tips, extremities scuffed and rubbed including spine and leather to boards. Illustrated with 3 frontispieces, 2 folding maps and 1 pg. of ms. facsimile. Overall, a good-looking set of books. From Wiki: William Hickling Prescott (May 4, 1796 - January 28, 1859) was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian. Despite having serious visual impairment, which at times prevented him from reading or writing for himself, Prescott became one of the most eminent historians of 19th century America. He is also noted for his eidetic memory, also called "Photographic Memory".After an extensive period of study, during which he sporadically contributed to academic journals, Prescott specialized in late Renaissance Spain and the early Spanish Empire. His works on the subject, The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic (1837), The History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843), A History of the Conquest of Peru (1847) and the unfinished History of the Reign of Phillip II (1856-1858) have become classic works in the field and have had a great impact on the study of both Spain and Mesoamerica. During his lifetime, he was upheld as one of the greatest living American intellectuals and knew personally many of the leading political figures of the day, in both the United States and Britain. Prescott has become one of the most widely translated American historians and was an important figure in the development of history as a rigorous academic discipline. Historians admire Prescott for his exhaustive, careful, and systematic use of archives, his accurate recreation of sequences of events, his balanced judgments and his lively writing style. He was primarily focused on political and military affairs, largely ignoring economic, social, intellectual, and cultural forces that in recent decades historians have focused on. Instead, he wrote narrative history, subsuming unstated causal forces in his driving storyline. We are currently putting all 5000+ titles online, but if there is a specific title you are looking for, please reach out to sidekerbookselleratgmail.com, we may just have it! Free shipping via USPS for United State purchaser within the continental U.S., International shipping determined using USPS Priority Express, DHL, FedEx, or Parcel Monkey. Sonny Ideker Bookseller is located within City Antiques in Historic Roswell, Georgia at 700 Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell, GA. 30076. We would love to have you visit or email us at sidekerbookselleratgmail.com for specific wants or needs, thanks! Find Us On: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Sonny-Ideker-Bookseller-Rare-Antiquarian-Leather-Vellum-Bound-Books-100068669041560/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SonnyIdekerBookseller/about Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonny_ideker_bookseller Flickr: https://flic.kr/ps/2v6pn4 Website: https://sonnyideker.weebly.com/ Antique Books, Old Leather Book, Old Vellum Book, Decorative Binding, Antiquarian Book, Vintage decorative, Ancient Leather, Rare Books, Decorative Books, Decorative Leather, Beautiful Decorative Book That Rare Book Guy Sonny Ideker City Antiques & Interior Arts Georgia Antiquarian Booksellers Association Colette French Pastries
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