1922 2Vols The Conquest of Mexico

Description

Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

In the publisher's original red cloth binding with gilt. 

Complete in two volumes.

Profusely illustrated with period engravings, maps, and historical illustrations. 

This is one of the great classics of 19th-century historical writing, chronicling the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire under Hernán Cortés. 

First published in 1843, it established Prescott as one of America’s foremost historians, admired for his literary style, meticulous scholarship, and balanced judgment.

Prescott draws on Spanish and Aztec sources, showing unusual sympathy for Indigenous culture for his time, while maintaining a critical perspective on Spanish imperial ambition.