Recueil de pièces relatives à la conquête du Mexique

First edition, forming the tenth volume of Voyages, Relations et Mémoires Originaux pour servir à l'Histoire de la Découverte de l'Amérique, published by H. Ternaux-Compans (cf. Sabin, 94854).

Some foxing, front board tending to detach, minor losses to the spine and at the corners of the boards.

This volume contains the Itinerary of the Voyage of the Fleet of the Catholic King to the Island of Yucatan, undertaken in 1518 under the command of Captain General Juan de Grijalva, first published in Italian in Venice in 1522.

It is followed by 19 other previously unpublished pieces relating to the history of Mexico, including: A Brief Account of New Spain and the Great City of Temixititan Mexico; Letters from Pedro Alvarado to Hernán Cortés; On the Order of Succession Observed by the Indians Regarding Their Lands; Report by Don Antonio de Mendoza, Viceroy of New Spain; Petition from Several Indian Chiefs of Atitlan to Philip II; Gold Shipments Made by the Governors and Viceroys of Mexico, etc.