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The Best Edition — “The Livy of Mexico” 
Torquemada,
Juan de. Primera [segunda, tercera] parte de los veinte i unlibros rituales i monarchia indiana, con el origen y guerras, de los indios occidentales, de sus poblaciones, descubrimeinto, conquista, conversion, y otras cosas maravillosas de la mesma tierra. Madrid: Nicolás Rodríguez Franco, 1723. Small folio (29.5 cm; 11.5" ). 3 vols. I: [19] ff., 768, 71 pp., fold. map. II: [6] ff., 623 pp., [23] ff. III: [5] ff., 4, 634 pp., [21] ff.
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With some justice, Lucas Alamán called Torquemada, “The Livy of Mexico.”
Each
volume here begins with a sumptuous and highly baroque engraved title-page and vol. I has a large engraved folding map of the New World and the Pacific Ocean, to the China coast.
Provenance: Late 18th-century ownership stamp (in two margins) of Joaquin Antonio de Medina.
• Sabin 96212; Wagner, Spanish Southwest, 18A; Alden & Landis 725/195; Medina, BHA, 2491; Barrett, Baja California, 2420; Hill (2003 ed.), Pacific Voyages, 1707; Harper, XVI, 518; Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe, III, 308; Palau 335033. Recased in original limp vellum, a few tears to edges of vellum; one volume repaired at joints. A few leaves extruded and a little ragged at edges as a consequence. In vol I, old moisture damage to endpapers (only); title-page and preliminaries of vol. II supplied from a different copy and a bit smoke damaged.
An attractive, solid set.
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