PRESCOTT, William H. History of the Conquest of Peru, with a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas. New York, Harper, 1847.
Two volumes, 8vo. Original publisher's cloth, spines lettered in gilt and with Pizarro's coat-of-arms, boards ornamented in blind; pp. xl, 527; xix, 547, two steel-engraved portrait frontispieces with toned tissue guards, one map and one facsimile; bindings a little faded and rubbed, internally, apart from light offsetting from endpapers a very clean and fresh copy with contemp[orary ownership inscription to front fly-leaves.
First edition, early printing without printer's name on copyright page. This is the classic masterpice by the first American 'scientific' historian, which was translated into several languages and reprinted many times.
Sabin 65272.
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