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PRESCOTT, WILLIAM HICKLING. History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization...in Three Volumes. New York: Harper, 1843. 1st American ed. Three portraits, 2 maps, and a. 8vo. Pp. 488, 480, 524. Orig. black cloth, spines gilt. Some wear to ends of spines, but sound and bright. $275.00
BAL 16340, first printing of all volumes. Grolier American Hundred, No. 51. R & B 43-4173. In each volume on the front endsheet is the very early ownership signature of James Van Wyck, dated December 1843.